cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comparing Website Identification for Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Abortion Clinics
Creators: name: Swartz, Jonas
name: Rowe, Carly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background: Prior research demonstrates that crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) use deceptive practices to dissuade women with unwanted pregnancies from abortion. CPCs often appear in internet searches for abortion clinics. To date, no studies have assessed whether these websites have the potential to divert women from their intended health center.

Objectives: Our primary objective was to assess whether women are able to use screenshots from real websites to differentiate between CPCs and abortion clinics.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of English- and Spanish-speaking women aged 18-49 in the United States. We enrolled members of the GfK Knowledge Panel, a probability-based online sample. Participants were presented with screenshots from five CPC and five abortion clinic websites and asked if they thought an abortion could be obtained at that center. Correct answers were scored based on clinic type. Our primary outcome was score for correctly identifying CPCs. Our secondary outcome was score for correctly identifying abortion clinics. 

Results: Among 2223 women contacted, 1057 (48%) completed the survey. Women correctly identified CPCs 41% of the time while they correctly identified abortion clinics 76% of the time. Based on their websites, women thought CPCs performed abortion 28% of the time. Women performed worse if they had low health literacy, were Spanish-speaking, or had not heard of CPCs.. 

Conclusions: When asked about what health centers provide abortion, websites of CPCs were more difficult for women to correctly identify than those of abortion clinics.
The Laws that go Unnoticed: A Survey of Knowledge of State Abortion Laws and Abortion Myths Among a Nationally-representative Sample of Reproductive-age Women
Creators: name: Swartz, Jonas
name: Rowe, Carly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Objectives: We investigated women’s knowledge of laws regulating abortion in their state of residency. 

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of English- and Spanish-speaking women aged 18-49 in the United States. We enrolled members of the GfK KnowledgePanel, a probability-based, nationally-representative online sample. Our primary outcome was the proportion of correct answers to 12 questions about laws regulating abortion in a participant’s state.

Results: Of 2223 women contacted, 1057 (48%) completed the survey. On a scale from 0-100%, our sample had a mean proportion of correct answers to the 12 questions of 18.3% (95% CI 17.1-19.7%). The most frequent answer was, “Don’t know/not sure” for questions on state laws and myths. For 3 of 5 assessed myths, women reported believing myths about abortion over facts.

Conclusions: Women have low levels of knowledge about state abortion laws and commonly endorse abortion myths.
Impact of quantum noise on the training of quantum Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Borras, Kerstin
name: Chang, Su Yeon
name: Funcke, Lena
name: Grossi, Michele
name: Hartung, Tobias
name: Jansen, Karl
name: Kruecker, Dirk
name: Kühn, Stefan
name: Rehm, Florian
name: Tüysüz, Cenk
name: Vallecorsa, Sofia
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 530
subject: noise: quantum
subject: readout: error
subject: correction: error
subject: network
subject: performance

description: 20th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, ACAT 2021, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of, 29 Nov 2021 - 3 Dec 2021; Journal of physics / Conference Series -, - (2021).
description: Current noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices suffer from various sources of intrinsic quantum noise. Overcoming the effects of noise is a major challenge, for which different error mitigation and error correction techniques have been proposed. In this paper, we conduct a first study of the performance of quantum Generative Adversarial Networks (qGANs) in the presence of different types of quantum noise, focusing on a simplified use case in high-energy physics. In particular, we explore the effects of readout and two-qubit gate errors on the qGAN training process. Simulating a noisy quantum device classically with IBM's Qiskit framework, we examine the threshold of error rates up to which a reliable training is possible. In addition, we investigate the importance of various hyperparameters for the training process in the presence of different error rates, and we explore the impact of readout error mitigation on the results.
description: Published by IOP Publ., Bristol
Optimal investment with intermediate consumption under no unbounded profit with bounded risk
Creators: name: Chau, Huy N.
name: Cosso, Andrea
name: Fontana, Claudio
name: Mostovyi, Oleksii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91G10, 93E20

description: We consider the problem of optimal investment with intermediate consumption in a general semimartingale model of an incomplete market, with preferences being represented by a utility stochastic field. We show that the key conclusions of the utility maximization theory hold under the assumptions of no unbounded profit with bounded risk (NUPBR) and of the finiteness of both primal and dual value functions.
description: 10 pages, revised version, to appear in the Applied Probability Journals
A Stronger Foundation, a Different Trajectory? Experimental Evidence on Medium- Term Impacts of Full-Day Preschool
Creators: name: Atteberry, Allison
name: Evidence Based Policy Team, Arnold Ventures
name: Buck, Stuart
name: Wong, Vivian
name: bassok, daphna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Summary: This study extends the follow-up of a randomized controlled trial (RCT), comparing full-day preschool to half-day preschool, and will provide policymakers and parents the most rigorous evidence to-date on the relative effectiveness of full-day versus half-day preschool in preparing children for elementary school. The study is taking place in Westminster Public Schools (WPS), a school district in suburban Denver. Since full-day preschool slots are limited in WPS, families interested in full-day preschool are randomly assigned through a lottery each fall to either be offered (i) a full-day preschool slot (the treatment group for this study) or (ii) a half-day preschool slot (the control group for this study). Students in full-day preschool spend 30 hours per week in their classrooms, whereas students in half-day preschool only receive 12 hours of classroom time per week. The study’s sample includes families who participated (or will participate) in the lotteries for the 2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2018-2019 school years. Across all three lotteries, the researchers anticipate a total sample of approximately 800 predominantly low-income, minority students. For the students who participated in the 2016-2017 lottery, the study has already found that full-day preschool produced promising impacts on measures of early literacy in the fall of kindergarten (the average treatment group student scored higher than 64% of control group students, an effect size of 0.34 standard deviations). The study will measure sample students’ reading and math achievement (i) in kindergarten, using the district’s standardized assessment and (ii) in third grade, using Colorado’s state test.
title: Quels sont les effets des jardins thérapeutiques sur la diminution de l’agitation et le rehaussement de la qualité de vie de personnes âgées démentes fréquentant un établissement médico-social ?
title: Quels sont les effets des jardins thérapeutiques sur la diminution de l’agitation et le rehaussement de la qualité de vie de personnes âgées démentes fréquentant un établissement médico-social ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Gollut, Léane
name: Schnydrig, Arnaud
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Démence
subject: Médecine complémentaire
subject: Interventions non pharmacologiques
subject: Rôle infirmier

description: Les différents types de démence peuvent entrainer des conséquences biopsychosociales importantes liées à l’apparition de symptômes comme par exemple l’agitation, les hallucinations ou encore l’apathie. Toute la symptomatologie liée à la démence a un impact non négligeable sur les personnes qui en sont atteintes et engendre une altération de leur qualité de vie. Cela représente un réel enjeu au sein des prises en charge infirmières et bien souvent le recours à la médication devient nécessaire. C’est pourquoi la mise en place d’interventions non-pharmacologiques en complément des soins usuels peut être nécessaire afin de diminuer certains des symptômes indésirables liés à la maladie, mais également améliorer la qualité de vie de ces personnes. Dans cette perspective, les interventions nonpharmacologiques proposées par le Green Care, telles que les jardins thérapeutiques offrent la possibilité d’élargir le panel thérapeutique tout en faisant la promotion d’une approche individualisée.
Density of states in gapped superconductors with pairing-potential impurities
Creators: name: Bespalov, Anton
name: Houzet, Manuel
name: Meyer, Julia S.
name: Nazarov, Yuli V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the density of states in disordered s-wave superconductors with a small gap anisotropy. Disorder comes in the form of common nonmagnetic scatterers and pairing-potential impurities, which interact with electrons via an electric potential and a local distortion of the superconducting gap. A set of equations for the quasiclassical Green functions is derived and solved. Within one spin sector, pairing-potential impurities and weak spin-polarized magnetic impurities have essentially the same effect on the density of states. We show that if the gap is isotropic, an isolated impurity with suppressed pairing supports an infinite number of Andreev states. With growing impurity concentration, the energy-dependent density of states evolves from a sharp gap edge with an impurity band below it to a smeared BCS singularity in the so-called universal limit. If a gap anisotropy is present, the density of states becomes sensitive to ordinary potential disorder, and the existence of of Andreev states localized at pairing-potential impurities requires special conditions. An unusual feature related to the anisotropy is a nonmonotonic dependence of the gap edge smearing on impurity concentration.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
Network Psychiatry: Using Network Science to Advance Our Understanding of Post-Bereavement Psychopathology
Creators: name: Toner, Emma
name: Robinaugh, Donald
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Bereavement
subject: Grief
subject: Network Analysis
subject: Network Science

description: This is a Mentored Career Development Award (K23) funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. The overarching aim of this K23 award is to use the tools of network science to investigate how mental disorders operate as complex systems. The primary research project supported by this award aims to use network analyses to examine how individual elements of the affiliation, attachment, and loss RDoC constructs cohere to form the bereavement-specific syndrome complicated grief.
212.11 LT23 Preservation of Scalar-based works
Creators: name: Kreymer, Ilya
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ad hoc
subject: Ad Hoc: Lightning Talks
subject: ipres2018

description: I will present a lightning talk on a newly released prototype which combines automated web archiving, web browser emulation, and web server emulation to create an automated system to preserve projects built on the Scalar digital publishing platform. The talk will include a quick demo of the prototype, available at: https://scalar.webrecorder.net/ and explore a new approach for preservation at the intersection of web archiving and software emulation. This prototype extends the work done in Webrecorder and oldweb.today in archiving high-fidelity web sites and emulating web browsers, and adds the emulation of the web server as a final component. The talk will cover the use of containerization in aiding the preservation of well-defined, bounded web platforms and publications. This system provides a novel approach that unifies the preservation of the web client (browser), web archive data (stored in WARC files), and web server software (Scalar software running on Apache/PHP). The system demonstrates how emulated servers can be integrated with a WARC-based web archive replay system, and how containers can be used to facilitate the archiving process, resulting in a one-click automated archiving solution for Scalar-based works.
Frustrating Brexit? Ireland and the UK’s conflicting approaches to Brexit negotiations
Creators: name: Dooley, Neil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: While Ireland and Northern Ireland barely featured during the 2016 referendum campaign, they have been central to Brexit negotiations. For some, Ireland’s prominence in talks represents core EU values of solidarity and peace. For others, Ireland has been ‘used’ as a bargaining chip to ‘frustrate Brexit’. In contrast, this paper shows how conflicting policy styles had an impact on the outcome of Brexit negotiations on the border in Ireland. Drawing on the literatures on Brexit negotiations, British policy style, and new intergovernmentalism, it shows that Ireland pursued a deliberative approach, contributing to its negotiating success. This is contrasted with three, relatively ineffectual, British approaches to Ireland, ‘lack of engagement’, ‘magical thinking’, and ‘delayed deliberation’. The paper draws on original interviews conducted with Irish politicians during negotiations, and interviews with senior British political figures contained in the UK in a Changing Europe Witness Archive.
MPEC 2023-Q107 : 2007 RR17
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
A computational approach to quantum noise in time-dependent nanoelectronic devices
Creators: name: Gaury, Benoit
name: Waintal, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive simple expressions that relate the noise and correlation properties of a general time-dependent quantum conductor to the wave functions of the system. The formalism provides a practical route for numerical calculations of quantum noise in an externally driven system. We illustrate the approach with numerical calculations of the noise properties associated to a voltage pulse applied on a one-dimensional conductor. The methodology is however fully general and can be used for a large class of mesoscopic conductors.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
From forced collapse to H ii region expansion in Mon R2: Envelope density structure and age determination with Herschel
Creators: name: Didelon, P.
name: Motte, F.
name: Tremblin, P.
name: Hill, T.
name: Hony, S.
name: Hennemann, M.
name: Hennebelle, P.
name: Anderson, L. D.
name: Galliano, F.
name: Schneider, N.
name: Rayner, T.
name: Rygl, K.
name: Louvet, F.
name: Zavagno, A.
name: Konyves, V.
name: Sauvage, M.
name: Andre, Ph.
name: Bontemps, S.
name: Peretto, N.
name: Griffin, M.
name: Gonzalez, M.
name: Lebouteiller, V.
name: Arzoumanian, D.
name: Benedettini, M.
name: Di Francesco, J.
name: Menshchikov, A.
name: Minier, V .
name: Luong, Q. Nguyen
name: Bernard, J. -P.
name: Palmeirim, P.
name: Pezzuto, S.
name: Rivera-Ingraham, A.
name: Russeil, D.
name: Ward-Thompson, D.
name: White, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The surroundings of HII regions can have a profound influence on their development, morphology, and evolution. This paper explores the effect of the environment on H II regions in the MonR2 molecular cloud. We aim to investigate the density structure of envelopes surrounding HII regions and to determine their collapse and ionisation expansion ages. The Mon R2 molecular cloud is an ideal target since it hosts an H II region association. Column density and temperature images derived from Herschel data were used together to model the structure of HII bubbles and their surrounding envelopes. The resulting observational constraints were used to follow the development of the Mon R2 ionised regions with analytical calculations and numerical simulations. The four hot bubbles associated with H II regions are surrounded by dense, cold, and neutral gas envelopes. The radial density profiles are reminiscent of those of low-mass protostellar envelopes. The inner parts of envelopes of all four HII regions could be free-falling because they display shallow density profiles. As for their outer parts, the two compact HII regions show a density profile, which is typical of the equilibrium structure of an isothermal sphere. In contrast, the central UCHii region shows a steeper outer profile, that could be interpreted as material being forced to collapse. The size of the heated bubbles, the spectral type of the irradiating stars, and the mean initial neutral gas density are used to estimate the ionisation expansion time, texp, 0.1Myr,for the dense UCHII and compact HII regions and 0.35 Myr for the extended HII region. The envelope transition radii between the shallow and steeper density profiles are used to estimate the time elapsed since the formation of the first proto stellar embryo, Tinf : 1Myr, for the ultra-compact, 1.5 / 3Myr for the compact, and greater than 6Myr for the extended HII regions.
description: 25pages A&A sous presse
MathArt Stream #8 ~ William Blake and Active Inference
Creators: name: Friedman, Daniel Ari
Publisher: name: Active Inference Institute
Year: 2024

description: Slides for: MathArtStream 8 ~ 9/6/2024 at 17 UTC Shanna Dobson, Daniel Friedman"William Blake, Kierkegaard, Gothic"https://www.youtube.com/live/yIS0OW2o18s
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from Carojova et al. (2020)
Creators: name: Somo, Angela
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We selected the claim that more scientifically sophisticated people can better evaluate which information is more likely to be true and what are conspiracy theories. This reflects the following statement from the paper’s abstract: “Scientific reasoning predicted generic pseudoscientific and conspiracy beliefs related to health and also conspiracy beliefs related specifically to COVID-19.” The claim was tested by a correlation among scientific reasoning and specific conspiracy beliefs. This analysis revealed that scientific reasoning correlated negatively with coronavirus-specific conspiracy beliefs (from Table 2: correlation coefficient = -0.44, p < 0.001).
The politicisation of the European Central Bank and its emergency credit lines outside the Euro Area
Creators: name: Spielberger, Lukas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Is the European Central Bank (ECB) increasingly acting on political – rather than technocratic – considerations? This question is of a central concern to students of European Union (EU) political economy. This article contributes to this debate by studying the ECB’s credit lines to the central banks of EU member states outside the Euro Area during the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 crisis. Both times the ECB accorded selectively better borrowing conditions to some central banks. The article finds that its selection of who gets favourable borrowing terms has indeed become more political. In 2008, the ECB decided the credit terms based on technocratic criteria, but twelve years later, it granted better lending conditions to countries that were close to adopting the euro. How the ECB balances its mandate for price stability in the Euro Area and its role as a supranational EU institution decides whether it will become more politicised.
Complex Organic and Warm Carbon Chain Molecules in Class 0/I Proto-brown dwarfs
Creators: name: Riaz, Basmah
name: Thi, W.-F.
name: Machida, M. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: (stars:) brown dwarfs
stars: formation
stars: evolution
astrochemistry
ISM: abundances
ISM: molecules

description: A study of complex organic and warm carbon-chain molecules in the earliest Class 0/I stage of star-formation is essential to probe the initial conditions of star and planet formation. These organic molecules have been observed toward high- and low-mass protostars yet have never been detected among the Class 0/I proto-brown dwarfs (proto-BDs). We have conducted the first deep molecular line survey of organic chemistry in proto-BDs. Several transition lines of the fundamental complex organic molecule, methanol, are detected at upper state energy levels of ~7-49 K probing critical densities of 10^5 to 10^9 cm^-3. The median methanol column density for the proto-BDs is a factor of ∼3 higher than the median for low-mass protostars. In addition, various carbon-chain molecules have been detected for the first time in a proto-BD, with abundances comparable to low-mass protostars. The detection in the high-excitation lines of these molecules provides strong evidence of the presence of a warm corino in proto-BDs, as predicted by brown dwarf formation models.
Electron-phonon coupling in suspended graphene: supercollisions by ripples
Creators: name: Laitinen, Antti
name: Oksanen, Mika
name: Fay, Aurélien
name: Cox, Daniel
name: Tomi, Matti
name: Virtanen, Pauli
name: Hakonen, Pertti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using electrical transport experiments and shot noise thermometry, we find strong evidence that "supercollision" scattering processes by flexural modes are the dominant electron-phonon energy transfer mechanism in high-quality, suspended graphene around room temperature. The power law dependence of the electron-phonon coupling changes from cubic to quintic with temperature. The change of the temperature exponent by two is reflected in the quadratic dependence on chemical potential, which is an inherent feature of two-phonon quantum processes.
description: 11 + 4 pages, 2 + 3 figures
Systematic review of the metabolic syndrome and its components in immigrants in the USA
Creators: name: Paixão, Talita
name: Siqueira, Carlos
name: Cozendey-Silva, Eliana Napoleão
name: Silveira, Martha
name: Teixeira, Liliane
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Emigrants and Immigrants
subject: Metabolic Syndrome
subject: Sleep-wake disorders
subject: USA

description: This is a systematic review protocol on metabolic syndrome and its components in Latin American immigrants in the United States. The review question is: "How is metabolic syndrome and its components manifested in Latin American immigrants in the USA, in relation to the U.S. native born population?".
Isoparametric hypersurfaces in complex hyperbolic spaces
Creators: name: Diaz-Ramos, Jose Carlos
name: Dominguez-Vazquez, Miguel
name: Sanmartin-Lopez, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We classify isoparametric hypersurfaces in complex hyperbolic spaces.
description: Minor changes, 46 pages
Ökumene: Katholische Antwort auf die Rechtfertigungserklärung
Creators: name: Ruh, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Herder Korrespondenz
Year: 1970

description: Herder Korrespondenz, Bd. 52 Nr. 8 (1998): Herder Korrespondenz, Band 52, Heft 8
ASSESSMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES IN TENDAHO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT S.C, AFAR REGIONAL STATE.
Creators: name: Yiha, Osman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007

description: Background: Occupational injuries pose a major public health and development problem. At present the problem of occupational injuries in work place is increasing in many developing countries including Ethiopia, mainly caused by unsafe work environments or human factors. Objectives: This study was aimed to determine the magnitude of occupational injuries and identifying factors related to this injury among workers. Methods: Cross-sectional study design was employed to assess occupational injuries among Tendaho Agricultural Development S.C workers, Afar Regional State. The enterprise was first stratified by working departments and working sections. A total of 810 workers were involved in the study based on proportional allocation to size. Study subjects were selected using simple random sampling technique. Data collection was made using pre-tested questionnaire. Work environment observation, physical examination, and reviewing injury records were also employed to complement self reported information.
Fairness and Trust in Human Bot Interaction - Amendment
Creators: name: Makovi, Kinga
name: Li, Wendi
name: Rahwan, Talal
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We are filing an amendment to the pre-analysis plan (egap.org, \#20190912AD), from now on PAP, after the analyses of the outcome data. In the attached document first, we discuss the motivation for this amendment, then, we discuss the content of the amendment. We do not restate the particulars of the experiment, conditions and procedures here, as no change have been made to the particulars of the experiment, or its procedures.
Gaussian Process Model for Extrapolation of Scattering Observables for Complex Molecules: from Benzene to Benzonitrile
Creators: name: Cui, Jie
name: Li, Zhiying
name: Krems, Roman V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a problem of extrapolating the collision properties of a large polyatomic molecule A-H to make predictions of the dynamical properties for another molecule related to A-H by the substitution of the H atom with a small molecular group X, without explicitly computing the potential energy surface for A-X. We assume that the effect of the $-$H $\rightarrow$ $-$X substitution is embodied in a multidimensional function with unknown parameters characterizing the change of the potential energy surface. We propose to apply the Gaussian Process model to determine the dependence of the dynamical observables on the unknown parameters. This can be used to produce an interval of the observable values that corresponds to physical variations of the potential parameters. We show that the Gaussian Process model combined with classical trajectory calculations can be used to obtain the dependence of the cross sections for collisions of C$_6$H$_5$CN with He on the unknown parameters describing the interaction of the He atom with the CN fragment of the molecule. The unknown parameters are then varied within physically reasonable ranges to produce a prediction uncertainty of the cross sections. The results are normalized to the cross sections for He - C$_6$H$_6$ collisions obtained from quantum scattering calculations in order to provide a prediction interval of the thermally averaged cross sections for collisions of C$_6$H$_5$CN with He.
description: 7 figures
Of devils, angels and brokers: how social network positions affect misperceptions of political influence
Creators: name: Gronow, Antti
name: Satoh, Keiichi
name: Ylä-Anttila, Tuomas
name: Weible, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Misperceiving political opponents as more influential and evil than they are has been described as the devil shift. More recently, the opposite phenomenon known as the angel shift has been recognised where political allies are misperceived as more influential and virtuous than they are. However, research on the devil and angel shifts has been hampered by the lack of measures that separate these mechanisms analytically. We analyse the misperception of influence and differentiate between the devil and angel shifts. Furthermore, previous research has failed to take notice of how social network positions contribute to these phenomena. We argue that conceptualising the different roles that brokers play between advocacy coalitions helps explain the occurrence of the devil and angel shifts. Our findings demonstrate that the devil and angel shifts are not dyadic but triadic phenomena between advocacy coalitions and that network factors accentuate both ‘shifts’.
Design of Mott and topological phases on buckled 3d-oxide honeycomb lattices
Creators: name: Doennig, David
name: Baidya, Santu
name: Pickett, Warren E.
name: Pentcheva, Rossitza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perovskite bilayers with (111)-orientation combine a honeycomb lattice as a key feature with the strongly correlated, multiorbital nature of electrons in transition metal oxides. In a systematic DFT+$U$ study of (111)-oriented (La$X$O$_3$)$_2$/(LaAlO$_3$)$_4$ superlattices, we establish trends in the evolution of ground states versus band filling in (111)-oriented (La$X$O$_3$)$_2$/(LaAlO$_3$)$_4$ superlattices, with $X$ spanning the entire $3d$ transition metal series. The competition between local quasi-cubic and global triangular symmetry triggers unanticipated broken symmetry phases, with mechanisms ranging from Jahn-Teller distortions, to charge-, spin-, and orbital-ordering. LaMnO$_3$, where spin-orbit coupling opens a sizable gap in the Dirac-point Fermi surface, emerges as a topological Chern insulator.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
FACTORS AFFECTING AUDIT QUALITY: THE CASE OF OFFICE OF FEDERAL AUDITOR GENERAL, ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: TARIKU ABERA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This paper focuses on factors affecting audit quality in Office of the Federal Auditor General of Ethiopia as a case study. The general objective implied factors affecting financial and performance audit quality in OFAG. The independent variables of audit quality are motivation, independence, training, auditor’s qualifications and proficiency, quality control and assurance, evidence and audit time budget. The study used descriptive and inferential statistics research design with mixed qualitative and quantitative methods where primary data was collected using Likert-scale questionnaires distributed and collected.
Selecting the Best Traffic Scheme for the Bicutan Roundabout: A Microsimulation Approach with Multiple Driver-Agents
Creators: name: Tataro, Merly F.
name: Arada, Marian G.
name: Pabico, Jaderick P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present the result of our microsimulation study on the effects of six traffic schemes $T=\{t_0, t_1, \dots, t_5\}$ on the mean total delay time ($Δ$) and mean speed ($Σ$) of vehicles at the non-signalized Bicutan Roundabout (BR) in Upper Bicutan, Taguig City, Metro Manila, with $t_0$ as the current traffic scheme being enforced and $t_{i>0}$ as the proposed ones. We present first that our simulation approach, a hybridized multi-agent system (MAS) with the car-following and lane-changing models (CLM), can mimic the current observed traffic scenario $C$ at a statistical significance of $α=0.05$. That is, the respective absolute differences of the $Δ$ and $Σ$ between $C$ and $t_0$ are not statistically different from zero. Next, using our MAS-CLM, we simulated all proposed $t_{i>0}$ and compared their respective $Δ$ and $Σ$. We found out using DMRT that the best traffic scheme is $t_3$ (i.e., when we converted the bi-directional 4-lane PNR-PNCC road into a bi-directional 1-lane PNR-to-PNCC and 3-lane PNCC-to-PNR routes during rush hours). Then, we experimented on converting BR into a signalized junction and re-implemented all $t_3$ with controlled stops of $S=\{15s, 45s\}$. We found out that $t_3$ with a 15-s stop has the best performance. Finally, we simulated the effect of increased in vehicular volume $V$ due to traffic improvement and we found out that $t_3$ with 15-s stop still outperforms the others for all increased in $V=\{10\%, 50\%, 100\%\}$.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Twists and resonance of L-functions, II
Creators: name: Kaczorowski, J.
name: Perelli, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M41

description: We continue our investigations of the analytic properties of nonlinear twists of L-functions developed in [4],[5] and [7]. Given an L-function of degree d, we first extend the transformation formula in [5], relating a twist with leading exponent > 1/d to its dual twist. Then we combine the results in [7] with such a transformation formula to obtain the analytic properties of new classes of nonlinear twists. This allows to detect several new cases of resonance of the classical L-functions.
description: 19 pages
On the overlap distribution of branching random walks
Creators: name: Jagannath, Aukosh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study the overlap distribution and Gibbs measure of the Branching Random Walk with Gaussian increments on a binary tree. We first prove that the Branching Random Walk is 1 step Replica Symmetry Breaking and give a precise form for its overlap distribution, verifying a prediction of Derrida and Spohn. We then prove that the Gibbs measure of this system satisfies the Ghirlanda-Guerra identities. As a consequence, the limiting Gibbs measure has Poisson-Dirichlet statistics. The main technical result is a proof that the overlap distribution for the Branching Random Walk is supported on the set $\{0,1\}$.
description: Final Version available at Elect. Jour. Probab
energy.instrat.pl
Creators: name: Hetmanski, Michal
name: Czyzak, Pawel
name: Stepien, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Oil, Gas, and Energy
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Energy and Utilities Law
subject: Power and Energy
subject: Energy Systems
subject: Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
subject: Energy Policy
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Electrical and Computer Engineering
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Engineering
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: energy
subject: just transition
subject: open data
subject: open energy
subject: Poland
subject: Poland's energy sector
subject: Polish coal

description: First Polish open energy data hub
The domestic sources of sub-state foreign policymaking: determinants of subnational development cooperation across European regions
Creators: name: Reinsberg, Bernhard
name: Dellepiane, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Subnational governments have come to challenge the foreign policymaking monopoly of national governments. An increasingly salient area of sub-state foreign policymaking is international development cooperation, but systematic knowledge about the drivers of such activities is limited. We argue that subnational governments develop capacities for international development cooperation for domestic region-building purposes, geared toward advancing political claims for regional autonomy that can take institutional, political, and cultural representations. To test this argument, we construct a new dataset of 195 politically relevant European regions which maps the autonomous engagement of regions in international development cooperation. Large-N regression analysis establishes that regions are significantly more likely to be engaged in international development cooperation where they have greater constitutional autonomy, cultural-linguistic distinctiveness, and a regionally-based party to advance the regional agenda. These results have important implications for our understanding of sub-state foreign policy actors and their role in the global governance of development.
Perceptions, practices, and beliefs of transparency of qualitative research in HCI
Creators: name: Wacharamanotham, Chat
name: Avellino, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Open Science
subject: Transparency

description: This project aims to collect and present empirical data on the perceptions, practices, and beliefs surrounding the concept of “transparent research” among researchers in qualitative paradigms. We believe that the findings from our study will provide a basis to advance the conversation on research transparency and will contribute to improve research practices in and beyond HCI.
Current intervention treatments for Addictive Overeating : A systematic review
Creators: name: Leary, Mark
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This systematic review will review the effectiveness of a broad range of treatment interventions of adolescents and adults with Food Addiction indicated by the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) on eating behaviours.
Polaritonic states in a dielectric nanoguide: localization and strong coupling
Creators: name: Haakh, Harald R.
name: Faez, Sanli
name: Sandoghdar, Vahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Propagation of light through dielectrics lies at the heart of optics. However, this ubiquitous process is commonly described using phenomenological dielectric function $\varepsilon$ and magnetic permeability $μ$, i.e. without addressing the quantum graininess of the dielectric matter. Here, we present a theoretical study where we consider a one-dimensional ensemble of atoms in a subwavelength waveguide (nanoguide) as fundamental building blocks of a model dielectric. By exploring the roles of the atom-waveguide coupling efficiency, density, disorder, and dephasing, we establish connections among various features of polaritonic light-matter states such as localization, super and subradiance, and strong coupling. In particular, we show that coherent multiple scattering of light among atoms that are coupled via a single propagating mode can gives rise to Rabi splitting. These results provide important insight into the underlying physics of strong coupling reported by recent room-temperature experiments with microcavities and surface plasmons.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
title: Optimal operation of refrigerated container ships with electric propulsion
title: Βέλτιστη λειτουργία ηλεκτροκίνητων πλοίων μεταφοράς ψυχόμενων εμπορευματοκιβωτίων
Creators: name: Κουμανιωτης Επαμεινωνδας
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: In this diploma thesis, a case study of an electrically propelled containership with refrigerated containers is presented. The electric power generation system is made by generator sets, while the propulsion system is full electric. Ships implementing electric propulsion along with a well programmed energy management system can show significant fuel consumption reduction and at the same time compliance with the environmental constraints. The goal is for the ship to conclude a predefined voyage, while keeping the inner temperature of every refrigerated container in the ship bounded as well as to do that while the total operation cost is minimized. The ship must also complete the voyage at a predefined time, and maintain the emissions below a certain limit, that is indicated by some standard for the maritime industry indexes (EEOI, CII). A Multi Agent System  (MAS) was formulated so that refrigerated container temperatures remain bounded and the environmental and  technical constraints hold. Various operational scenarios were examined to obtain the minimum total cost. The most economical scenario proved to be the one that minimizes the cost of electricity generation, through the parallel regulation of the ship's speed and the electric power consumption of the refrigerated containers, in an optimal way.
description: Σε αυτήν την εργασία, παρουσιάζεται η μελέτη ενός ηλεκτροκίνητου φορτηγού πλοίου το οποίο μεταφέρει ψυχόμενα εμπορευματοκιβώτια. Το σύστημα παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας αποτελείται από ηλεκτροπαραγωγά ζεύγη, ενώ το προωστήριο σύστημα είναι πλήρως εξηλεκτρισμένο. Πλοία  που εφαρμόζουν την ηλεκτροπρόωση σε συνδυασμό με ένα άρτια προγραμματισμένο σύστημα διαχείρισης ενέργειας μπορούν να εμφανίσουν σημαντική μείωση στην κατανάλωση καυσίμου και την ίδια χρονική στιγμή συμμόρφωση με τους περιβαλλοντικούς περιορισμούς. Ο στόχος είναι το πλοίο να διεκπεραιώσει ένα προκαθορισμένο ταξίδι, διατηρώντας παράλληλα την εσωτερική θερμοκρασία κάθε ψυχόμενου εμπορευματοκιβωτίου εντός ορίων, ενώ το συνολικό κόστος λειτουργίας να ελαχιστοποιείται. Το πλοίο πρέπει επίσης να ολοκληρώσει το ταξίδι σε προκαθορισμένο χρονικό διάστημα και να διατηρήσει τις εκπομπές κάτω από ένα συγκεκριμένο όριο, το οποίο υποδεικνύεται από κάποιους συνηθισμένους για την ναυτιλιακή βιομηχανία δείκτες (EEOI,CII). Ένα Πολυπρακτορικό Σύστημα (MAS) δημιουργήθηκε ούτως ώστε οι θερμοκρασίες των ψυχόμενων εμπορευματοκιβωτίων να παραμένουν εντός ορίων και οι περιβαλλοντικοί και τεχνικοί περιορισμοί να καλύπτονται. Εξετάστηκαν διάφορα λειτουργικά σενάρια για την εύρεση του ελάχιστου συνολικού κόστους. Το οικονομικότερο σενάριο αποδείχθηκε αυτό που ελαχιστοποιεί το κόστος παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας, μέσω της παράλληλης ρύθμισης της ταχύτητας του πλοίου και της κατανάλωσης ηλεκτρικής ισχύος των ψυχόμενων εμπορευματοκιβωτίων, με βέλτιστο τρόπο.
Individual-based approach to epidemic processes on arbitrary dynamic contact networks
Creators: name: Rocha, Luis E C
name: Masuda, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of contact networks and epidemics of infectious diseases often occur on comparable time scales. Ignoring one of these time scales may provide an incomplete understanding of the population dynamics of the infection process. We develop an individual-based approximation for the susceptible-infected-recovered epidemic model applicable to arbitrary dynamic networks. Our framework provides, at the individual-level, the probability flow over time associated with the infection dynamics. This computationally efficient framework discards the correlation between the states of different nodes, yet provides accurate results in approximating direct numerical simulations. It naturally captures the temporal heterogeneities and correlations of contact sequences, fundamental ingredients regulating the timing and size of an epidemic outbreak. Using real-life data, we show that the static network model overestimates the reproduction number but underestimates the infection potential of super-spreading individuals. The high accuracy of our approximation further allows us to detect the index individual of an epidemic outbreak.
Joint Local Relational Augmentation and Global Nash Equilibrium for Federated Learning with Non-IID Data
Creators: name: Liao, Xinting
name: Chen, Chaochao
name: Liu, Weiming
name: Zhou, Pengyang
name: Zhu, Huabin
name: Shen, Shuheng
name: Wang, Weiqiang
name: Hu, Mengling
name: Tan, Yanchao
name: Zheng, Xiaolin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that needs collaboration between a server and a series of clients with decentralized data. To make FL effective in real-world applications, existing work devotes to improving the modeling of decentralized data with non-independent and identical distributions (non-IID). In non-IID settings, there are intra-client inconsistency that comes from the imbalanced data modeling, and inter-client inconsistency among heterogeneous client distributions, which not only hinders sufficient representation of the minority data, but also brings discrepant model deviations. However, previous work overlooks to tackle the above two coupling inconsistencies together. In this work, we propose FedRANE, which consists of two main modules, i.e., local relational augmentation (LRA) and global Nash equilibrium (GNE), to resolve intra- and inter-client inconsistency simultaneously. Specifically, in each client, LRA mines the similarity relations among different data samples and enhances the minority sample representations with their neighbors using attentive message passing. In server, GNE reaches an agreement among inconsistent and discrepant model deviations from clients to server, which encourages the global model to update in the direction of global optimum without breaking down the clients optimization toward their local optimums. We conduct extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets to show the superiority of FedRANE in enhancing the performance of FL with non-IID data.
description: To appear in ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM23)