cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(501086) Marjorie Conduit
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
D’Annunzio e l'arte contemporanea europea
Creators: name: Damigella, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The essay considers three different aspects of Gabriele d’Annunzio’s encounters with artists and trends in contemporary foreign figurative arts in the early 1900s and during his stay in Paris, connected to the novel Il fuoco and the city of Venice, and new interests in scenography and theatre. They concern the famous German portraitist Franz von Lenbach and the image of Eleonora Duse, and the Art Nouveau decorative arts, in particular the glass vases by Emile Gallé that d’Annunzio saw and admired with the guide of his friend Robert de Montesquiou and the batik fabrics by the Dutch Agathe Wegerif-Gravestein. The topics are part of a large overall study on d’Annunzio and European contemporary arts from 1883 to 1915.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Relations among emotional clarity, emotion differentiation, and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents
Creators: name: Polack, Reuma Gadassi
name: Hohensee, Nicola
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We conduct a secondary analysis of data from an extensive ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study adressing the relations among emotional clarity, emotion differentiation, and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents.
A Pilot, Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of Intra-Articular Administration of a Caninized TNF Receptor Fc Fusion Protein as a Treatment for Osteoarthritis-Associated Joint Pain
Creators: name: Allen, Julie
name: Enomoto, Masataka
name: Lascelles, B. Duncan X.
name: Gearing, David
name: Nakanishi, Aoi
name: Case, Beth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is a potential target for osteoarthritis (OA) treatment. In several recent clinical studies in human OA, anti-TNF-α therapy showed promising results; however, these were open-label and based on patient-reported outcome measures. In this study, we developed a caninized TNF-α receptor-Fc (caTNFR-Fc) fusion protein and conducted a non-randomized, open-label, pilot study in dogs with OA using objectively measured ground reaction forces and activity. The aims of the study were to assess the efficacy of the intra-articular (IA) injection of the caTNFR-Fc fusion protein as a treatment for OA pain, and additionally to evaluate TNF concentrations in synovial fluid (SF) between joints with/without OA in dogs. Dogs (n = 12) with single-limb lameness due to single joint appendicular OA were recruited. All dogs received caTNFR-Fc fusion protein injection into the affected joint under sedation. Objective kinetic gait analysis using force plate was performed prior to (baseline), and at 14- and 28-days following treatment. Additionally, SF samples were collected from OA joints (n = 69) and non-OA joints (n = 79) in a different cohort of dogs and TNF-α were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. No significant treatment effects on the limb use, activity, and the questionnaire were found. The concentration of TNF-α was significantly higher in OA joints than in healthy joints (p = 0.0019), but TNF-α was detected in only 10/69 OA samples. The IA injection of caTNFR-Fc fusion protein provided no benefit in terms of objective limb use and activity data in dogs with OA in this pilot study. Although the SF concentration of TNF-α was significantly higher in OA joints, few OA joints had measurable TNF-α. Collectively, the data indicate TNF-α may not be a good therapeutic target in canine OA.
Maximum sustainable yields from a spatially-explicit harvest model
Creators: name: Takashina, Nao
name: Mougi, Akihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Spatial heterogeneity plays an important role in complex ecosystem dynamics, and therefore is also an important consideration in sustainable resource management. However, little is known about how spatial effects can influence management targets derived from a non-spatial harvest model. Here, we extended the Schaefer model, a conventional non-spatial harvest model that is widely used in resource management, to a spatially-explicit harvest model by integrating environmental heterogeneities, as well as species exchange between patches. By comparing the maximum sustainable yields (MSY), one of the central management targets in resource management, obtained from the spatially extended model with that of the conventional model, we examined the effect of spatial heterogeneity. When spatial heterogeneity exists, we found that the Schaefer model tends to overestimate the MSY, implying potential for causing overharvesting. In addition, by assuming a well-mixed population in the heterogeneous environment, we showed analytically that the Schaefer model always overestimate the MSY, regardless of the number of patches existing. The degree of overestimation becomes significant when spatial heterogeneity is marked. Collectively, these results highlight the importance of integrating the spatial structure to conduct sustainable resource management.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Mixed modes in red giants: a window on stellar evolution
Creators: name: Mosser, B.
name: Benomar, O.
name: Belkacem, K.
name: Goupil, M. J.
name: Lagarde, N.
name: Michel, E.
name: Lebreton, Y.
name: Stello, D.
name: Vrard, M.
name: Barban, C.
name: Bedding, T. R.
name: Deheuvels, S.
name: Chaplin, W. J.
name: De Ridder, J.
name: Elsworth, Y.
name: Montalban, J.
name: Noels, A.
name: Ouazzani, R. M.
name: Samadi, R.
name: White, T. R.
name: Kjeldsen, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of oscillations with a mixed character in subgiants and red giants allows us to probe the physical conditions in their cores. With these mixed modes, we aim at determining seismic markers of stellar evolution. Kepler asteroseismic data were selected to map various evolutionary stages and stellar masses. Seismic evolutionary tracks were then drawn with the combination of the frequency and period spacings. We measured the asymptotic period spacing for more than 1170 stars at various evolutionary stages. This allows us to monitor stellar evolution from the main sequence to the asymptotic giant branch and draw seismic evolutionary tracks. We present clear quantified asteroseismic definitions that characterize the change in the evolutionary stages, in particular the transition from the subgiant stage to the early red giant branch, and the end of the horizontal branch.The seismic information is so precise that clear conclusions can be drawn independently of evolution models. The quantitative seismic information can now be used for stellar modeling, especially for studying the energy transport in the helium-burning core or for specifying the inner properties of stars entering the red or asymptotic giant branches. Modeling will also allow us to study stars that are identified to be in the helium-subflash stage, high-mass stars either arriving or quitting the secondary clump, or stars that could be in the blue-loop stage.
description: Accepted In A&A (Letter) 5 pages
Schallschutz verständlich - Beispielhafte Fragestellungen bei Zubau und Sanierung
Creators: name: Teibinger, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: BIGWOOD INTERREG
timber constructions
multi-storey timber buildings
sanierung
RETROFITTING
acoustic

description: Schallschutz verständlich - Beispielhafte Fragestellungen bei Zubau und Sanierung
Out of the Box: Multimodal Book club Toolkits for Young Adult Librarians
Creators: name: Jeffers, Meredith
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Young adult services librarian
Literature in libraries
Book clubs
Young adult literature
Literacy

description: My project addresses the ways in which youth librarians can engage with young adult literature within a framework that encourages activism, expands what counts as a “text,” and creates an environment for young patrons to tell their stories in their own voices. For this project, I created a website repository for a number of young adult (YA) books to serve as a toolkit for youth librarians. The information provided in this toolkit can be used in the school or public library setting as either one-off sessions or recurring series with patrons, and the format will provide youth librarians with the opportunity to create their own programs.
Cabiria, opera d'arte autonoma
Creators: name: Santoli, Carlo
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

Cabiria is ‘an autonomous work of art’, between aesthetical and stylistic peculiarities. In order to legitimately recognise these specificities, we should not exalt the high level of the technical cleverness mixed with ‘tricks’ or mechanisms of technological artificiality. On the contrary, we should – first and foremost – be aware of the identity of the movie, expression of the figurative art which combines painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre and cinematograph, constitutive nucleus of a poetics of the marvellous, created by d’Annunzio’s fervid fantasy and by the director Pastrone, invention – though in a real historical context – precise as regards the chronological limits, of forms, visible signs, allegories and symbols of the Jungian ‘collective subconscious’. Visions of a tangible reality, concrete, recovered by the truth, but raised to the realm of dream, in the oneiric atmosphere of the unreal, conquer the human sensibility. It is like the idea by de Chirico, who thinks the picture as a mental theatre, stage and ideal container of a moving drama that conveys the familiarity of the represented environment with figurative clarity. Thus, the work of the master-director-demiurge becomes an organic solution of all the arts between innovation and modernity.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Childhood Maltreatment Influences Autonomic Regulation and Mental Health in College Students
Creators: name: Dale, Lourdes P.
name: Johonnot, Karli
name: Kolacz, Jacek
name: Mazmanyan, Jennifer
name: Porges, Stephen W.
name: Leon, Kalie G.
name: Bossemeyer Biernacki, Nadia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Childhood maltreatment history may influence autonomic reactivity and recovery to stressors. Hypothetically, the maltreatment history may contribute to a retuned autonomic nervous system that is reflected in a novel metric, vagal efficiency (VE), designed to assess the functional efficiency of vagal cardioinhibitory pathways on heart rate. We explored whether VE mediates the well-documented relationship between maltreatment history and psychiatric symptoms. We also investigated the relationship between measures of autonomic regulation in response to the physical and emotional challenges and psychiatric symptoms. Participants (n = 167) completed self-report measures of psychiatric symptoms and had continuous beat-to-beat heart rate monitored before, during, and after physical and emotional stressors. Participants with maltreatment histories exhibited lower VE, which mediated the association of maltreatment history and the psychiatric symptoms of anxiety and depression. Consistent with prior literature, there were significant associations between maltreatment history and autonomic reactivity (i.e., heart rate and respiratory sinus arrhythmia) during emotional and physical challenges; however, when VE was entered as a covariate these associations were no longer statistically significant. Blunted VE may reflect a neural pathway through which maltreatment retunes autonomic regulation and provides a neurophysiological platform that increases mental health risk.
Deciding the value 1 problem for probabilistic leaktight automata
Creators: name: Fijalkow, Nathanaël
name: Gimbert, Hugo
name: Kelmendi, Edon
name: Oualhadj, Youssouf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The value 1 problem is a decision problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: given a probabilistic automaton, are there words accepted with probability arbitrarily close to 1? This problem was proved undecidable recently; to overcome this, several classes of probabilistic automata of different nature were proposed, for which the value 1 problem has been shown decidable. In this paper, we introduce yet another class of probabilistic automata, called leaktight automata, which strictly subsumes all classes of probabilistic automata whose value 1 problem is known to be decidable. We prove that for leaktight automata, the value 1 problem is decidable (in fact, PSPACE-complete) by constructing a saturation algorithm based on the computation of a monoid abstracting the behaviours of the automaton. We rely on algebraic techniques developed by Simon to prove that this abstraction is complete. Furthermore, we adapt this saturation algorithm to decide whether an automaton is leaktight. Finally, we show a reduction allowing to extend our decidability results from finite words to infinite ones, implying that the value 1 problem for probabilistic leaktight parity automata is decidable.
JOINT SPACE NARROWING CLASSIFICATION BASED ON HAND X-RAY IMAGE
Creators: name: Wang, Fakai
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer engineering
subject: attention model
subject: convolutional neural network
subject: fusion model
subject: joint space narrowing
subject: Rheumatoid Arthritis

description: X-ray images have been widely used by radiologists for disease diagnosis. For Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Joint Space Narrowing (JSN) is one major symptom that can be read from X-ray images. In this thesis, we investigate the JSN classification for RA diagnosis in terms of methodology, data analysis, neural network models, performance analysis. First, we perform the statistical analysis of X-ray data and design a baseline convolutional neural network (CNN). We show algorithms to extract joint patches. Then we conduct prediction analysis. Second, we design the fusion model to harness the correlation between the same type of joints. Sharing information within one X-ray image would increase the prediction performance. We also compare unified classifiers and separate classifiers. Third, we design the attention map model for joints with complex contexts, which filters out unrelated surroundings. We conclude that our models give good JSN prediction for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Community-driven projects: Lessons no one talks about
Creators: name: Boram Kimhur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen science, community-driven research, co-projects

description: Upon joining TU Delft as a PhD researcher at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Boram Kim recognized the need for a discussion and guidance for PhDs interested in participatory research. In her presentation she discussed her involvement in participatory research (Citizen Science) as an activist, community member and researcher. She led the development and implementation of a seminar based on her practical experience in the field. Boram shared lessons learned from the field and the PhD seminar, followed by an interesting Q&A discussion. The presentation was the first in the CS Lunch series.
Pour la douce France: un progetto editoriale
Creators: name: Castagnola Rossini, Raffaella
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

Pour la douce France is the title of a painting by Romaine Brooks, an American artist who lived in France during World War I, who became a close friend of D’Annunzio at the times of La Capponcina. The newspaper Le Figaro published a picture of the painting in its May 5, 1915 issue together with several poetical texts of D’Annunzio. These materials were then included into an elegant folder, put on sale the same year in order to raise funding for the Red Cross. However, that volume remained a project: the publication was supposed to bring together his other texts and lectures on war to be subsequently edited and published by the librarian and bibliophile Édouard Champion. The project eventually produced only some drafts, which are now preserved in a private collection in Switzerland.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Simultaneous Momentum and Position Measurement and the Instrumental Weyl-Heisenberg Group
Creators: name: Jackson, Christopher S.
name: Caves, Carlton M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The canonical commutation relation, $[Q,P] = i\hbar$, stands at the foundation of quantum theory and the original Hilbert space. The interpretation of $P$ & $Q$ as observables has always relied on the analogies that exist between the unitary transformations of Hilbert space and the canonical (a.k.a. contact) transformations of classical phase space. Now that the theory of quantum measurement is essentially complete (this took a while), it is possible to revisit the canonical commutation relation in a way that sets the foundation of quantum theory not on unitary transformations, but on positive transformations. This paper shows how the concept of simultaneous measurement leads to a fundamental differential geometric problem whose solution shows us the following: The simultaneous $P$ & $Q$ measurement (SPQM) defines a universal measuring instrument, which takes the shape of a 7-dimensional manifold, a universal covering group we call the Instrumental Weyl-Heisenberg Group, IWH. The group IWH connects the identity to classical phase space in unexpected ways that are significant enough that the positive-operator-valued measure (POVM) offers a complete alternative to energy quantization. Five of the dimensions define processes that can be easily recognized and understood. The other two dimensions, the normalization and phase in the center of IWH, are less familiar. The normalization, in particular, requires special handling in order to describe and understand the SPQM instrument.
description: 53 pages, 0 figures (so sorry), v2 updates references and affiliation
Treatment Eligibility Criteria Assessment in Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Prevalence Studies in Kenya.
Creators: name: Downs, Louise
name: Campbell, Cori
name: Githinji, George
name: Ansari, Azim
name: Matthews, Philippa
name: Etyang, Anthony O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: Genetics

description: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an international public health threat, and ambitious elimination targets have been set to reduce incidence, prevalence, morbidity and mortality by the year 2030. A disproportionate burden of HBV infection and disease is borne by the WHO Africa region, however guidelines for assessment and treatment of people living with HBV involve complex algorithms based on parameters often not available in low income settings.
 In parallel with a systematic review of serosurveillance studies for HBV in Kenya, we collated data to determine the extent to which individuals with HBV in Kenya meet current eligibility criteria.
 We reviewed clinical and laboratory data necessary to make HBV treatment decisions based on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), National South African and Kenyan guidelines on the management of chronic hepatitis B.
 For each study reporting factors involved in treatment decisions, we reviewed the information available and compared it to the treatment guidelines. We then reviewed the proportion of study participants who would meet treatment criteria by each of these guidelines.
States of the Possibility. Meinong’s Theory of Dispositions and the Epistemology of Education
Creators: name: Freyberg, Sascha
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The article deals with Alexius Meinong’s concept of disposition and its role in education. It introduces the newly translated text General Remarks on the Theory of Dispositions and contextualises this late work by Meinong. Taking the lead from Meinong’s definition of disposition as Zweckkönnen, the underlying assumptions are presented and put into the context of the German discourse on Bildung. The remarks of Eduard Martinak are taken into account as a point of reference, since they directly address Meinong’s theory in the context of pedagogy. Finally, it is asked how the idea of forming dispositions might contribute to a historical epistemology of education.

description: JOLMA
Bioenergetic Phenotyping of DEN-Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Reveals a Link Between Adenylate Kinase Isoform Expression and Reduced Complex I-Supported Respiration
Creators: name: Wooten, Ashley R.
name: Fisher-Wellman, Kelsey H.
name: Montgomery, McLane M.
name: Nelson, Margaret A.M.
name: Vohra, Nasreen A.
name: Hagen, James T.
name: McLaughlin, Kelsey L.
name: Zeczycki, Tonya N.
name: Coalson, Hannah S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of liver cancer worldwide. Increasing evidence suggests that mitochondria play a central role in malignant metabolic reprogramming in HCC, which may promote disease progression. To comprehensively evaluate the mitochondrial phenotype present in HCC, we applied a recently developed diagnostic workflow that combines high-resolution respirometry, fluorometry, and mitochondrial-targeted nLC-MS/MS proteomics to cell culture (AML12 and Hepa 1-6 cells) and diethylnitrosamine (DEN)-induced mouse models of HCC. Across both model systems, CI-linked respiration was significantly decreased in HCC compared to nontumor, though this did not alter ATP production rates. Interestingly, CI-linked respiration was found to be restored in DEN-induced tumor mitochondria through acute in vitro treatment with P1, P5-di(adenosine-5′) pentaphosphate (Ap5A), a broad inhibitor of adenylate kinases. Mass spectrometry-based proteomics revealed that DEN-induced tumor mitochondria had increased expression of adenylate kinase isoform 4 (AK4), which may account for this response to Ap5A. Tumor mitochondria also displayed a reduced ability to retain calcium and generate membrane potential across a physiological span of ATP demand states compared to DEN-treated nontumor or saline-treated liver mitochondria. We validated these findings in flash-frozen human primary HCC samples, which similarly displayed a decrease in mitochondrial respiratory capacity that disproportionately affected CI. Our findings support the utility of mitochondrial phenotyping in identifying novel regulatory mechanisms governing cancer bioenergetics.
Highly charged ions for atomic clocks and search for variation of the fine structure constant
Creators: name: Dzuba, V. A.
name: Flambaum, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review a number of highly charged ions which have optical transitions suitable for building extremely accurate atomic clocks. This includes ions from Hf$^{12+}$ to U$^{34+}$, which have the $4f^{12}$ configuration of valence electrons, the Ir$^{17+}$ ion, which has a hole in almost filled $4f$ subshell, the Ho$^{14+}$, Cf$^{15+}$, Es$^{17+}$ and Es$^{16+}$ ions. Clock transitions in most of these ions are sensitive to variation of the fine structure constant, $α$ ($α= e^2/\hbar c$). E.g., californium and einsteinium ions have largest known sensitivity to $α$-variation while holmium ion looks as the most suitable ion for experimental study. We study the spectra of the ions and their features relevant to the use as frequency standards.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, based on talk presented at TCP2014 conference, Takamatsu, Japan, 4 Dec. 2014
Organizing Cooperative Learning Activities in Conjunction with the GeoGebra Program That Promotes Algebraic Thinking and Geometric Thinking Levels
Creators: name: Bodeeson Anuchat
Publisher: name: DR.KEN Institute of Academic Development and Promotion.
Year: 2023
Subjects: Organizing Cooperative Learning Activities
GeoGebra Program
Algebraic Thinking
Geometric Thinking Level

description: Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 3, 5, 625-646
Conductance signatures of electron confinement induced by strained nanobubbles in graphene
Creators: name: Bahamon, D. A.
name: Qi, Zenan
name: Park, Harold S.
name: Pereira, Vitor M.
name: Campbell, David K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the impact of strained nanobubbles on the conductance characteristics of graphene nanoribbons using a combined molecular dynamics - tight-binding simulation scheme. We describe in detail how the conductance, density of states, and current density of zigzag or armchair graphene nanoribbons are modified by the presence of a nanobubble. In particular, we establish that low-energy electrons can be confined in the vicinity or within the nanobubbles by the delicate interplay between the pseudomagnetic field pattern created by the shape of the bubble, mode mixing, and substrate interaction. The coupling between confined evanescent states and propagating modes can be enhanced under different clamping conditions, which translates into Fano resonances in the conductance traces.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Dynamic Interactive Relation Capturing via Scene Graph Learning for Robotic Surgical Report Generation
Creators: name: Wang, Hongqiu
name: Jin, Yueming
name: Zhu, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For robot-assisted surgery, an accurate surgical report reflects clinical operations during surgery and helps document entry tasks, post-operative analysis and follow-up treatment. It is a challenging task due to many complex and diverse interactions between instruments and tissues in the surgical scene. Although existing surgical report generation methods based on deep learning have achieved large success, they often ignore the interactive relation between tissues and instrumental tools, thereby degrading the report generation performance. This paper presents a neural network to boost surgical report generation by explicitly exploring the interactive relation between tissues and surgical instruments. We validate the effectiveness of our method on a widely-used robotic surgery benchmark dataset, and experimental results show that our network can significantly outperform existing state-of-the-art surgical report generation methods (e.g., 7.48% and 5.43% higher for BLEU-1 and ROUGE).
Una suggestione archilochea ne La Città Morta?
Creators: name: Bisanti, Armando
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

This note proposes the hypothesis that in La città morta, Act II, sc. I, d’Annunzio used a fragment of Archilochus, sent to us by Plutarch and Athenaeus.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Cultural Diplomacy in the European Union. State and relationship with the EU strategic autonomy
Creators: name: Santiago, Fidel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: cultural diplomacy
eu
strategic autonomy
cultural policy
foreign policy

description: This thesis is the culmination of my Master Studies on Cultural Management at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the University of Girona. It presents a critical analysis of the European Union's cultural diplomacy and its relationship with the thesis of strategic autonomy. By focusing on the institutional register and analysing EU supranational policy narrative and design, this study bridges the theoretical gap between cultural diplomacy and strategic autonomy. It is structured along three axes: what is culture and how does EU foreign cultural policy relate to it, who is involved and in what role, and what are the practical actions (funding) that support EU policies on cultural diplomacy.
Unique Molecular Identifier based High-resolution HLA Typing and Transcript Quantitation using Long-Read Sequencing
Creators: name: Montgomery, Maureen
name: Cornaby, Caleb
name: Liu, Chang
name: Weimer, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: HLA typing provides essential results for stem cell and solid organ transplants, as well as providing diagnostic benefits for various rheumatology, gastroenterology, neurology, and infectious diseases. It is becoming increasingly clear that understanding the expression of patient HLA transcripts can provide additional benefits for many of these same patient groups. Our study cohort was evaluated using a long-read RNA sequencing methodology to provide rapid HLA genotyping results and normalized HLA transcript expression. Our assay used NGSEngine to determine the HLA genotyping result and normalized mRNA transcript expression using Athlon2. The assay demonstrated an excellent concordance rate of 99.7%. Similar to previous studies, for the class I loci, patients demonstrated significantly lower expression of HLA-C than HLA-A and -B (Mann–Whitney U, P value = 0.0065 & P value = 0.0154, respectively). In general, the expression of class II transcripts was lower than that of class I transcripts. This study demonstrates a rapid high-resolution HLA typing assay using RNA-Seq that can provide accurate HLA genotyping and HLA allele-specific transcript expression in 7 to 8 hours, a timeline short enough to perform the assay for deceased donors.
The Experiences of Religious/Spiritual Jewish Therapists Working with Religious/Spiritual Jewish Clients
Creators: name: Gerstenblith, Judith Ann
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Counseling psychology
subject: Judaism
subject: psychotherapy process
subject: religion
subject: spirituality
subject: therapist interventions

description: We used Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR; Hill, 2012) to investigate the experiences of eleven religious/spiritual (R/S) Jewish therapists working with R/S Jewish clients in psychotherapy. R/S concerns involved struggles with Jewish identity, relationships, and the Jewish community. Therapists used R/S and non-R/S interventions to help with R/S concerns, although therapists explicitly discussed Jewish laws, beliefs, and practices more in successful than in unsuccessful cases. Therapists in both cases experienced R/S countertransference, but therapists in unsuccessful cases more often expressed uncertainty and regret regarding their clinical decisions. Therapists perceived that effective therapeutic interventions led to client improvement. Factors associated with success included therapists’ effective use of a shared R/S identity, ability to overcome tensions raised by R/S differences, and countertransference management; and clients’ openness, stability, and motivation. Implications include therapists developing an approach that is sensitive to R/S identity and researchers investigating therapeutic dyads with cultural and value-based similarities and differences.
(501083) Ernest Trevor Conduit
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Investigation of Cognitive and Linguistic Effects of Exercise on Older Adults
Creators: name: Crossman, Claire Marjorie
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Speech therapy

description: This study examines the effect of a single session of exercise on response speed, inhibitory control, and lexical processing in older adults. A prior study in college-aged adults found faster responses in domain general processing and lexical recognition after exercise, but not in inhibitory control or lexical retrieval. We hypothesized older adults would show a greater exercise benefit with slower overall response times. This study found that, relative to a sedentary control condition, there were no changes in any experimental condition. Older adults showed practice effects in the exercise and control conditions. This study shows the effects of acute exercise in older adults are negligible compared to those in younger adults, at least in the paradigm used in this study. Findings highlight the importance of using a control task and are consistent with meta-analyses that highlight small effect sizes associated with acute exercise and the role of other mediating variables.
(501080) Elsie Gilmore Riley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Benchmarking Robustness of AI-Enabled Multi-sensor Fusion Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Creators: name: Gao, Xinyu
name: Wang, Zhijie
name: Feng, Yang
name: Ma, Lei
name: Chen, Zhenyu
name: Xu, Baowen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-Sensor Fusion (MSF) based perception systems have been the foundation in supporting many industrial applications and domains, such as self-driving cars, robotic arms, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Over the past few years, the fast progress in data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) has brought a fast-increasing trend to empower MSF systems by deep learning techniques to further improve performance, especially on intelligent systems and their perception systems. Although quite a few AI-enabled MSF perception systems and techniques have been proposed, up to the present, limited benchmarks that focus on MSF perception are publicly available. Given that many intelligent systems such as self-driving cars are operated in safety-critical contexts where perception systems play an important role, there comes an urgent need for a more in-depth understanding of the performance and reliability of these MSF systems. To bridge this gap, we initiate an early step in this direction and construct a public benchmark of AI-enabled MSF-based perception systems including three commonly adopted tasks (i.e., object detection, object tracking, and depth completion). Based on this, to comprehensively understand MSF systems' robustness and reliability, we design 14 common and realistic corruption patterns to synthesize large-scale corrupted datasets. We further perform a systematic evaluation of these systems through our large-scale evaluation. Our results reveal the vulnerability of the current AI-enabled MSF perception systems, calling for researchers and practitioners to take robustness and reliability into account when designing AI-enabled MSF.
description: To appear in ESEC/FSE 2023
Differential Attention Functioning in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease
Creators: name: Hooper, Stephen R.
name: Gipson, Debbie S.
name: Duquette, Peter J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Objective To compare specific attention functions for school-age children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) to those of a typically developing control group. Methods A cross-sectional study examined attention dimensions for children and adolescents with CKD (n = 30) in comparison to a typically developing control group (n = 41). The CKD group consisted of those receiving maintenance dialysis (n = 15) and those with mild/moderate CKD treated conservatively (n = 15). Measures aligning with Mirsky’s conceptual multidimensional model of attention were selected to compare groups across five dimensions of attention: Focus/Execute, Sustain, Stability, Shift, and Encode. Results Significant group differences were revealed, with the CKD group performing worse than controls on the Focus/Execute, Sustain, and Encode dimensions. The CKD group also had a larger proportion of children with scores one standard deviation or more below the mean on the Shift and Encode domains, suggesting an at-risk level of functioning in these dimensions. Secondary analyses showed disease severity to be correlated with worse attention functions for children with CKD. Conclusion Children with CKD may be vulnerable to subtle, specific deficits in numerous attention dimensions relative to their typically developing peers, particularly for those with more severe disease.
Adolescent-Parent Discrepancies in Reports of Parental Monitoring: Links with Adolescents’ Social Anxiety with Unfamiliar Peers
Creators: name: Keeley, Lauren
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Clinical psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Adolescents commonly experience social anxiety, an impairing set of fears of unfamiliar social situations. Yet, we know little about factors implicated in how adolescents maintain these concerns. One factor robustly implicated in adolescents’ externalizing behavior involves parental awareness of adolescents’ whereabouts and activities (i.e., parental monitoring). Not only do we know little about the links between parental monitoring and social anxiety, but also parents and adolescents often provide discrepant reports about such monitoring. Prior work indicates that these discrepant reports facilitate understanding adolescent externalizing behaviors. I explored whether these reporting discrepancies also predict adolescents’ social anxiety, within a controlled laboratory paradigm that measured adolescents’ reactions to interacting with unfamiliar peers. The interaction between low levels of adolescent-reported parental monitoring and high levels of parent-reported parental monitoring related to increased adolescent anxiety during these interactions. These findings inform how to use parental monitoring assessments when assessing and treating adolescent social anxiety.
Leveraging Open Electronic Health Record Data and Environmental Exposures Data to Derive Insights Into Rare Pulmonary Disease
Creators: name: Morton, Kenneth
name: Ahalt, Stanley C.
name: Leigh, Margaret
name: Yi, Hong
name: Wang, Max
name: Pfaff, Emily
name: Krishnamurthy, Ashok
name: Knowles, Michael
name: Fecho, Karamarie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Research on rare diseases has received increasing attention, in part due to the realized profitability of orphan drugs. Biomedical informatics holds promise in accelerating translational research on rare disease, yet challenges remain, including the lack of diagnostic codes for rare diseases and privacy concerns that prevent research access to electronic health records when few patients exist. The Integrated Clinical and Environmental Exposures Service (ICEES) provides regulatory-compliant open access to electronic health record data that have been integrated with environmental exposures data, as well as analytic tools to explore the integrated data. We describe a proof-of-concept application of ICEES to examine demographics, clinical characteristics, environmental exposures, and health outcomes among a cohort of patients enriched for phenotypes associated with cystic fibrosis (CF), idiopathic bronchiectasis (IB), and primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD). We then focus on a subset of patients with CF, leveraging the availability of a diagnostic code for CF and serving as a benchmark for our development work. We use ICEES to examine select demographics, co-diagnoses, and environmental exposures that may contribute to poor health outcomes among patients with CF, defined as emergency department or inpatient visits for respiratory issues. We replicate current understanding of the pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of CF by identifying co-diagnoses of asthma, chronic nasal congestion, cough, middle ear disease, and pneumonia as factors that differentiate patients with poor health outcomes from those with better health outcomes. We conclude by discussing our preliminary findings in relation to other published work, the strengths and limitations of our approach, and our future directions.
Simultaneous Measurements of Noncommuting Observables. Positive Transformations and Instrumental Lie Groups
Creators: name: Jackson, Christopher S.
name: Caves, Carlton M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate a general program for [...] analyzing continuous, differential weak, simultaneous measurements of noncommuting observables, which focuses on describing the measuring instrument autonomously, without states. The Kraus operators of such measuring processes are time-ordered products of fundamental differential positive transformations, which generate nonunitary transformation groups that we call instrumental Lie groups. The temporal evolution of the instrument is equivalent to the diffusion of a Kraus-operator distribution function defined relative to the invariant measure of the instrumental Lie group [...]. This way of considering instrument evolution we call the Instrument Manifold Program. We relate the Instrument Manifold Program to state-based stochastic master equations. We then explain how the Instrument Manifold Program can be used to describe instrument evolution in terms of a universal cover[,] the universal instrumental Lie group, which is independent [...] of Hilbert space. The universal instrument is generically infinite dimensional, in which situation the instrument's evolution is chaotic. Special simultaneous measurements have a finite-dimensional universal instrument, in which case the instrument is considered to be principal and can be analyzed within the [...] universal instrumental Lie group. Principal instruments belong at the foundation of quantum mechanics. We consider the three most fundamental examples: measurement of a single observable, of position and momentum, and of the three components of angular momentum. These measurements limit to strong simultaneous measurements. For a single observable, this gives the standard decay of coherence between inequivalent irreps; for the latter two, it gives a collapse within each irrep onto the canonical or spherical phase space, locating phase space at the boundary of these instrumental Lie groups.
description: 47 pages, 1 figure
(501081) Phyllis A. Riley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Deformation of a flexible fiber in a viscous flow past an obstacle
Creators: name: Lopez, H. M.
name: Hulin, J-P
name: Auradou, H.
name: D'Angelo, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the deformation and transport of elastic fibers in a viscous Hele-Shaw flow with curved streamlines. The variations of the global velocity and orientation of the fiber follow closely those of the local flow velocity. The ratios of the curvatures of the fibers by the corresponding curvatures of the streamlines reflect a balance between elastic and viscous forces: this ratio is shown experimentally to be determined by a dimensionless {\it Sperm number} $Sp$ combining the characteristic parameters of the flow (transverse velocity gradient, viscosity, fiber diameter/cell gap ratio) and those of the fiber (diameter, effective length, Young's modulus). For short fibers, the effective length is that of the fiber; for long ones, it is equal to the transverse characteristic length of the flow. For $S\_p \lesssim 250$, the ratio of the curvatures increases linearly with $Sp$; For $S\_p \gtrsim 250$, the fiber reaches the same curvature as the streamlines.
OPERATOR ADVANCES INTO BRUSH AT FULL THROTTLE
Creators: name: Kunkel, Jeremy Thomas
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Art criticism

description: I am compelled by the underlying conflicts that feed conditions into the contemporary landscape. Conflicts stemming absurdities such as abuse and neglect by fostering a false sense of disconnect into the sedentary individual. Structures of power, progression and control are hegemony framed as ideology that demands a mass and momentum; Like sedatives, dulling cognizant intuition, codified rhetoric is seductively buried into objects, digital feeds, and other means. This pulls the individual away from the reality of the world, creating a false landscape and redesigning individual habitus to align with a given narrative, or purpose, outside of the self. As these conflicts evolve in broad strokes through society into conditions, I am compelled to look beneath the surface, distilling the foundational corruption that I perceive. My work collides with and disrupts this momentary intersection, where objects and other processes, imbued with the language of society, are apprehended by individual intuition.