cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mechanical properties and damage tolerance of aerospace composite materials containing CVM sensors
Creators: name: Kousourakis, Asimenia
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The PhD thesis evaluates the mechanical properties and damage tolerance of aerospace carbon/epoxy laminates containing long, narrow interlaminar galleries. The term 'galleries' refers to thin and long holes in a laminate used for the installation of small measuring devices, such as structural health monitoring (SHM) sensors. The galleries considered in this study are similar to those used in a novel SHM system known as 'Comparative Vacuum Monitoring (CVM)'. CVM was developed by the Australian company - Structural Monitoring Systems (SMS) - for damage detection in aircraft structures. CVM is a SHM system that utilises pressure differentials between a parallel series of galleries at atmospheric or low pressure to detect damage initiation and propagation. Thus far, CVM has been used for the monitoring of surface cracks in metallic structures using surface mounted sensors. Recent research has also demonstrated that it may be possible to monitor damage along the bond-line of both metallic and composite joints usi ng CVM. The ability of CVM sensors to detect delamination damage inside composite structures is less well understood. It is envisaged that CVM can be used for the through-life health monitoring of composite aircraft structures prone to delamination damage. However, a major concern with applying CVM to composite laminates is the open-hole design of the galleries that may initiate damage growth under external loading. Material property data, structural tests, and models for predicting the properties of laminates containing galleries is needed before CVM technology can be certified for use in aircraft composite structures.

The primary objectives of this PhD thesis are the development of an optimum process method for introducing multiple interlaminar CVM galleries in composite laminates; the development of a validated model for calculating changes to the mechanical properties of laminates containing CVM galleries; and the determination of optimum CVM gallery shape, size and orientation combinations for minimising the effect of the galleries on the mechanical properties of laminates.

The effects of the shape, size and orientation of CVM galleries on the mechanical properties of carbon/epoxy laminates are evaluated by an extensive experimental research program, and the results are presented in the thesis. The properties investigated include the in-plane tensile and compressive properties, tensile and compressive fatigue life, through-thickness tensile strength, interlaminar shear strength, mode I and mode II interlaminar fracture toughness, and impact damage resistance. The results from tensile tests on lap-joints and T-joints containing CVM galleries are also presented.
Additional file 2 of The upregulation of VGF enhances the progression of oral squamous carcinoma
Creators: name: Chou, Chung-Hsien
name: Yen, Chun-Han
name: Liu, Chung-Ji
name: Tu, Hsi-Feng
name: Lin, Shu-Chun
name: Chang, Kuo-Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Embodied Design for Enhanced Flipper-Based Locomotion in Complex Terrains
Creators: name: Chikere, Nnamdi
name: McElroy, John
name: Ozkan-Aydin, Yasemin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robots are becoming increasingly essential for traversing complex environments such as disaster areas, extraterrestrial terrains, and marine environments. Yet, their potential is often limited by mobility and adaptability constraints. In nature, various animals have evolved finely tuned designs and anatomical features that enable efficient locomotion in diverse environments. Sea turtles, for instance, possess specialized flippers that facilitate both long-distance underwater travel and adept maneuvers across a range of coastal terrains. Building on the principles of embodied intelligence and drawing inspiration from sea turtle hatchings, this paper examines the critical interplay between a robot's physical form and its environmental interactions, focusing on how morphological traits and locomotive behaviors affect terrestrial navigation. We present a bio-inspired robotic system and study the impacts of flipper/body morphology and gait patterns on its terrestrial mobility across diverse terrains ranging from sand to rocks. Evaluating key performance metrics such as speed and cost of transport, our experimental results highlight adaptive designs as crucial for multi-terrain robotic mobility to achieve not only speed and efficiency but also the versatility needed to tackle the varied and complex terrains encountered in real-world applications.
Women's lived experiences of emotional and psychological abuse in heterosexual relationships: behaviours, effects, awareness and support
Creators: name: Lykhina, Alissa
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Unlike physical and sexual violence, less is known about emotional and psychological abuse in intimate relationships. In relation to the latter, there is no consensus on the definition, the methods of measurement, and the behaviours that constitute emotional and psychological abuse. The goal of this study is to contribute to the understanding of intimate partner violence by considering emotional and psychological abuse within heterosexual intimate relationships from the perspective of self-identified, abused women. More specifically, I analyse the behaviours that women consider to be emotionally and psychologically abusive, and the negative effects of that abuse. I examine how women became aware of such abuse in their intimate relationships and what type of support they received from formal and informal sources in response to their experiences. Using a feminist, phenomenological qualitative approach, I gathered this information through 20 in-depth interviews and questionnaires.
 I identified 35 emotionally and psychologically abusive behaviours and 22 negative effects, mostly consistent with previous research findings, but much more extensive than Australian domestic and family violence legislation. My findings indicate that emotional and psychological abuse needs more acknowledgment publicly. It needs to be identified in a more consistent manner in legislation and other related policy. My findings may help educate women and the general public on what constitutes emotional and psychological abuse in a more organised and clear manner. In relation to practice implications, my research suggests that there is a need for further training of formal and informal sources of support through professional and community education. This would include information with an emphasis on the harmful effects that emotional and psychological abuse can have on women’s mental, emotional and physical wellbeing, including social and financial impacts.
Direct measurement of the viscocapillary lift force near a liquid interface
Creators: name: Zhang, Hao
name: Zhang, Zaicheng
name: Jha, Aditya
name: Amarouchene, Yacine
name: Salez, Thomas
name: Guérin, Thomas
name: Misbah, Chaouqi
name: Maali, Abdelhamid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lift force of viscous origin is widespread across disciplines, from mechanics to biology. Here, we present the first direct measurement of the lift force acting on a particle moving in a viscous fluid along the liquid interface that separates two liquids. The force arises from the coupling between the viscous flow induced by the particle motion and the capillary deformation of the interface. The measurements show that the lift force increases as the distance between the sphere and the interface decreases, reaching saturation at small distances. The experimental results are in good agreement with the model and numerical calculation developed within the framework of the soft lubrication theory.
Cosmological dynamics of interacting dark energy and dark matter in $f(Q)$ gravity
Creators: name: Gadbail, Gaurav N.
name: Arora, Simran
name: Channuie, Phongpichit
name: Sahoo, P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we explore the behavior of interacting dark energy and dark matter within a model of $f(Q)$ gravity, employing a standard framework of dynamical system analysis. We consider the power-law $f(Q)$ model incorporating with two different forms of interacting dark energy and dark matter: $3αHρ_m$ and $\fracα{3H}ρ_m ρ_{DE}$. The evolution of $Ω_m, Ω_r, Ω_{DE}, q$, and $ω$ for different values of the model parameter $n$ and the interaction parameter $α$ has been examined. Our results show that the universe was dominated by matter in the early stages and will be dominated by dark energy in later stages. Using the observational data, the fixed points are found to be stable and can be represented the de Sitter and quintessence acceleration solutions. We discover that the dynamical profiles of the universe in $f(Q)$ dark energy models are influenced by both the interaction term and the relevant model parameters.
description: v2: 18 pages, many figures
Designing an orrery of the universe: the creation of new chamber music through algorithmic composition
Creators: name: Yee, Adam
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The main focus of my research has been to investigate a number of ways to extend my practice as a composer. In response to a detailed analysis of the technical means and aesthetic intentions of my music during the decade preceding this research (a music fundamentally derived from Hebrew language and grammatical structures), together with consideration of broader cultural trends in 20th century musical modernism, I have designed a detailed process for creating ambitious musical works. This process has been explored in the composition of two chamber music projects - a flute solo and a piano trio - both of which are documented as musical scores and audio recordings. Computer technology is utilized at a number of key points: the melodic life of the projects is characterized by the development of themes through the agency of six discrete transformational algorithms, all of which can be applied simultaneously and independently controlled. This aspect of the process was achieved using IRCAM’s software Openmusic and a rhythmic search engine of my own design. The success of these projects is considered against the principles that informed their creation and through expert peer responses and critical reception. The exegesis concludes with a detailed list of possible future directions for musical composition, some of which extend and refine the role of algorithms, and some that propose diametrically opposed strategies that respond to some probable limits of algorithmic composition I have identified through this research.
Additional file 2 of Association between inflammatory bowel disease and cancer risk: evidence triangulation from genetic correlation, Mendelian randomization, and colocalization analyses across East Asian and European populations
Creators: name: Liu, Di
name: Cao, Meiling
name: Wang, Haotian
name: Cao, Weijie
name: Zheng, Chenguang
name: Li, Yun
name: Wang, Youxin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Mendelian randomization model. Solid arrows = causal effects; dashed arrows = causal effects prohibited by MR assumptions II and III. Assumption I: Genetic instruments are associated with exposures; Assumption II: Genetic instruments are independent of confounding factors; Assumption III: Genetic instruments affect outcomes only through exposures. IVW: inverse-variance-weighted.
Fuzzing Frameworks for Server-side Web Applications: A Survey
Creators: name: Dharmaadi, I Putu Arya
name: Athanasopoulos, Elias
name: Turkmen, Fatih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There are around 5.3 billion Internet users, amounting to 65.7% of the global population, and web technology is the backbone of the services delivered via the Internet. To ensure web applications are free from security-related bugs, web developers test the server-side web applications before deploying them to production. The tests are commonly conducted through the interfaces (i.e., Web API) that the applications expose since they are the entry points to the application. Fuzzing is one of the most promising automated software testing techniques suitable for this task; however, the research on (server-side) web application fuzzing has been rather limited compared to binary fuzzing which is researched extensively. This study reviews the state-of-the-art fuzzing frameworks for testing web applications through web API, identifies open challenges, and gives potential future research. We collect papers from seven online repositories of peer-reviewed articles over the last ten years. Compared to other similar studies, our review focuses more deeply on revealing prior work strategies in generating valid HTTP requests, utilising feedback from the Web Under Tests (WUTs), and expanding input spaces. The findings of this survey indicate that several crucial challenges need to be solved, such as the ineffectiveness of web instrumentation and the complexity of handling microservice applications. Furthermore, some potential research directions are also provided, such as fuzzing for web client programming. Ultimately, this paper aims to give a good starting point for developing a better web fuzzing framework.
description: Under review in the International Journal of Information Security
Dynamical phase transitions in two-dimensional Brownian Matter
Creators: name: Silvano, Nathan O
name: Barci, Daniel G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate collective behavior of a system of two-dimensional interacting Brownian particles in the hydrodynamic regime. By means of the Martin-Siggia-Rose-Jenssen-de Dominicis formalism, we built up a generating functional for correlations functions. In the continuum limit, we uncover an exact symmetry under area-preserving diffeomorphism transformations that characterizes a liquid state. This symmetry leads to the conservation of local vorticity. By computing the generating functional within the saddle-point plus Gaussian fluctuations approximation, we reveal the emergence of a $U(1)$ gauge symmetry that allows us to describe the dynamics of density fluctuations as a gauge theory. We solve the corresponding equations of motion for short as well as long ranged interactions showing up the presence of multiple dynamical regimes and associated dynamical phase transitions, even for pure repulsive interactions.
description: 35 pages, 1 figure. Final version as appears in Physica A
Is My Data in Your Retrieval Database? Membership Inference Attacks Against Retrieval Augmented Generation
Creators: name: Anderson, Maya
name: Amit, Guy
name: Goldsteen, Abigail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2; K.6.5

description: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have shown great promise in natural language processing. However, their reliance on data stored in a retrieval database, which may contain proprietary or sensitive information, introduces new privacy concerns. Specifically, an attacker may be able to infer whether a certain text passage appears in the retrieval database by observing the outputs of the RAG system, an attack known as a Membership Inference Attack (MIA). Despite the significance of this threat, MIAs against RAG systems have yet remained under-explored. This study addresses this gap by introducing an efficient and easy-to-use method for conducting MIA against RAG systems. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our attack using two benchmark datasets and multiple generative models, showing that the membership of a document in the retrieval database can be efficiently determined through the creation of an appropriate prompt in both black-box and gray-box settings. Moreover, we introduce an initial defense strategy based on adding instructions to the RAG template, which shows high effectiveness for some datasets and models. Our findings highlight the importance of implementing security countermeasures in deployed RAG systems and developing more advanced defenses to protect the privacy and security of retrieval databases.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Stability Analysis of a Diffusive SVIR Epidemic Model with Distributed Delay, Imperfect Vaccine and General Incidence Rate
Creators: name: Zinihi, Achraf
name: Tahiri, Mostafa
name: Ammi, Moulay Rchid Sidi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this chapter, we consider a reaction-diffusion SVIR infection model with dis-tributed delay and nonlinear incidence rate. The wellposedness of the proposed model is proved. By means of Lyapunov functionals, we show that the disease-free equilibrium state is globally asymptotically stable when the basic reproduction number is less or equal than one, and that the disease endemic equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable when the basic reproduction number is greater than one. Numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the obtained theoretical results.
Additional file 1 of Delivering synaptic protein mRNAs via extracellular vesicles ameliorates cognitive impairment in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Cai, Huimin
name: Pang, Yana
name: Ren, Ziye
name: Fu, Xiaofeng
name: Jia, Longfei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Cutoff values of CSF biomarkers to determine AD. Fig. S2. RNA yield and purity of the EVs and HEK293T cells. Fig. S3. Effect of different dosages of EV-TNGS treatment on the mRNA levels of Gap43 and Snap25. Fig. S4. Neuronal-derived EV levels of synaptic proteins in healthy controls. Fig. S5. CSF levels of synaptic proteins in healthy controls. Fig. S6. Reduction of GAP43 and SNAP25 levels in the hippocampus of 5×FAD mouse brain. Fig. S7. Stability of EVs after 30 days of storage. Fig. S8. Distribution of engineered EVs in the mice. Fig. S9. Levels of Caspase 3 in different preparations of EVs. Fig. S10. Increase in dendritic spine density in 5×FAD mouse brains treated with EVs-TNGS. Fig. S11. Levels of Aβ42 and Aβ40 in the mouse brains after EV treatment measured using Simoa assay. Fig. S12. Levels of Aβ42 and Aβ40 in the mouse brains after EV treatment measured using MSD assay. Table S1. Real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) primers. Table S2. Correlation between MTA score with cognitive performance. Supplementary Methods. Protocol of real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) analysis.
Partial yet definite emergence of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang class in isotropic spin chains
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Kazumasa A.
name: Takasan, Kazuaki
name: Busani, Ofer
name: Ferrari, Patrik L.
name: Vasseur, Romain
name: De Nardis, Jacopo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Integrable spin chains with a continuous non-Abelian symmetry, such as the one-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg model, show superdiffusive transport with little theoretical understanding. Although recent studies reported a surprising connection to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class in that case, this view was most recently questioned by discrepancies in full counting statistics. Here, by combining extensive numerical simulations of classical and quantum integrable isotropic spin chains with a framework developed by exact studies of the KPZ class, we characterize various two-point quantities that remain hitherto unexplored in spin chains, and find full agreement with KPZ scaling laws without adjustable parameters. This establishes the partial emergence of the KPZ class in integrable isotropic spin chains. Moreover, we reveal that the KPZ scaling laws are intact in the presence of an energy current, under the appropriate Galilean boost required by the propagation of spacetime correlation.
description: 8+6 pages, 6+2 figures, 1 table
sj-pdf-4-cix-10.1177_11769351231177269 – Supplemental material for Chemical Complementarity of Breast Cancer Resident, T-Cell Receptor CDR3 Domains and the Cancer Antigen, ARMC3, is Associated With Higher Levels of Survival and Granzyme Expression
Creators: name: Pakasticali, Nagehan
name: Chobrutskiy, Andrea
name: Patel, Dhruv N.
name: Hsiang, Monica
name: Zaman, Saif
name: Cios, Konrad J.
name: Blanck, George
name: Chobrutskiy, Boris I.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-cix-10.1177_11769351231177269 for Chemical Complementarity of Breast Cancer Resident, T-Cell Receptor CDR3 Domains and the Cancer Antigen, ARMC3, is Associated With Higher Levels of Survival and Granzyme Expression by Nagehan Pakasticali, Andrea Chobrutskiy, Dhruv N. Patel, Monica Hsiang, Saif Zaman, Konrad J. Cios, George Blanck and Boris I. Chobrutskiy in Cancer Informatics
Positive-Unlabelled Learning for identifying new candidate Dietary Restriction-related genes among Ageing-related genes
Creators: name: Paz-Ruza, Jorge
name: Freitas, Alex A.
name: Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo
name: Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dietary Restriction (DR) is one of the most popular anti-ageing interventions; recently, Machine Learning (ML) has been explored to identify potential DR-related genes among ageing-related genes, aiming to minimize costly wet lab experiments needed to expand our knowledge on DR. However, to train a model from positive (DR-related) and negative (non-DR-related) examples, the existing ML approach naively labels genes without known DR relation as negative examples, assuming that lack of DR-related annotation for a gene represents evidence of absence of DR-relatedness, rather than absence of evidence. This hinders the reliability of the negative examples (non-DR-related genes) and the method's ability to identify novel DR-related genes. This work introduces a novel gene prioritisation method based on the two-step Positive-Unlabelled (PU) Learning paradigm: using a similarity-based, KNN-inspired approach, our method first selects reliable negative examples among the genes without known DR associations. Then, these reliable negatives and all known positives are used to train a classifier that effectively differentiates DR-related and non-DR-related genes, which is finally employed to generate a more reliable ranking of promising genes for novel DR-relatedness. Our method significantly outperforms (p<0.05) the existing state-of-the-art approach in three predictive accuracy metrics with up to 40% lower computational cost in the best case, and we identify 4 new promising DR-related genes (PRKAB1, PRKAB2, IRS2, PRKAG1), all with evidence from the existing literature supporting their potential DR-related role.
High-performance magnetostatic wave resonators through deep anisotropic etching of GGG substrates
Creators: name: Tiwari, Sudhanshu
name: Ashok, Anuj
name: Devitt, Connor
name: Bhave, Sunil A.
name: Wang, Renyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Microscale resonators are fundamental and necessary building blocks for modern radio communication filters for mobile devices. The resonator's Q factor ($Q$) determines the insertion loss while coupling ($K_t^2$) governs the fractional bandwidth. The product $k_t^2 \times Q$ is widely recognized as the definitive figure of merit for microresonators. Magnetostatic wave resonators based on Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) are a promising technology platform for future communication filters. They have shown considerably better performance in terms of $Q$ when compared to the commercially successful acoustic resonators in the $>$7 GHz range. However, the coupling coefficients of these resonators have been limited to $<$3 %, primarily due to the restricted design space imposed by microfabrication challenges related to the patterning of gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG), the substrate material used for growing single crystal YIG. This paper reports novel resonator designs enabled by breakthrough bulk micromachining technology for anisotropic etching of GGG, leading to coupling >8 % in the 6-20 GHz frequency range. We use the same technology platform to show resonant enhancement of effective coupling, reaching up to 23 \% at 10.5 GHz. The frequency of resonant coupling can be tuned by design during the fabrication process. The resonant coupling results in an unprecedented $k_t^2 \times Q$ figure of merit of 191 at 10.5 GHz and 222 at 14.7 GHz. The technology platform presented in this paper supports both tunable filter architecture and switched filter banks that are currently being used in consumer mobile devices.
Supplemental Material - “Doing Distance”: The Role of Managers’ Enactment of Psychological Distance in Leader–Follower Relationships
Creators: name: Anisman-Razin, Moran
name: Kark, Ronit
name: Ashforth, Blake E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental Material for “Doing Distance”: The Role of Managers’ Enactment of Psychological Distance in Leader–Follower Relationships by Moran Anisman-Razin, Ronit Kark, and Blake E. Ashforth in Group & Organization Management
Additional file 2 of Delivering synaptic protein mRNAs via extracellular vesicles ameliorates cognitive impairment in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Cai, Huimin
name: Pang, Yana
name: Ren, Ziye
name: Fu, Xiaofeng
name: Jia, Longfei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Date file. Original blot images.
sj-docx-1-fst-10.1177_10820132231176875 - Supplemental material for Influence of hydrocolloids and natural emulsifier in the physical stability of UHT oat beverage
Creators: name: Zhang, Youhui
name: Kong, Yu
name: Yan, Yanjun
name: Gao, Feng
name: Ma, He
name: Liu, Changjin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-fst-10.1177_10820132231176875 for Influence of hydrocolloids and natural emulsifier in the physical stability of UHT oat beverage by Youhui Zhang, Yu Kong, Yanjun Yan, Feng Gao, He Ma and Changjin Liu in Food Science and Technology International
GazeNoter: Co-Piloted AR Note-Taking via Gaze Selection of LLM Suggestions to Match Users' Intentions
Creators: name: Tsai, Hsin-Ruey
name: Chiu, Shih-Kang
name: Wang, Bryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Note-taking is critical during speeches and discussions, serving not only for later summarization and organization but also for real-time question and opinion reminding in question-and-answer sessions or timely contributions in discussions. Manually typing on smartphones for note-taking could be distracting and increase cognitive load for users. While large language models (LLMs) are used to automatically generate summaries and highlights, the content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) may not match users' intentions without user input or interaction. Therefore, we propose an AI-copiloted augmented reality (AR) system, GazeNoter, to allow users to swiftly select diverse LLM-generated suggestions via gaze on an AR headset for real-time note-taking. GazeNoter leverages an AR headset as a medium for users to swiftly adjust the LLM output to match their intentions, forming a user-in-the-loop AI system for both within-context and beyond-context notes. We conducted two user studies to verify the usability of GazeNoter in attending speeches in a static sitting condition and walking meetings and discussions in a mobile walking condition, respectively.
description: 22 pages, 19 figures
Managing supplier relationship: case studies of small and medium asian grocery retailers in Melbourne
Creators: name: Tran, Hoa Tran
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Despite its recognition by both practitioners and academics as a standard purchasing portfolio model, the Kraljic matrix, or its variants, has not included power as one of its framing dimensions. Mainstream literature on supplier relationship management has repeatedly pointed to the role of power in shaping supplier management posture of large buying firms. In comparative terms, not only are there fewer studies on how small buyers manage their relationships with suppliers, sharp contradictions also exist among findings on supplier management practices of small retailers. This study addresses the question: “How do small and medium Asian grocery retailers (SMAGRs) manage their relationships with suppliers in relation to their power positions under different circumstances?” Using the Kraljic matrix as its analytical base, this study incorporates power relations, in addition to the strategic importance and supply risks of the items purchased, as a third dimension to examine the relationship management strategies SMAGRs used to deal with different suppliers. Based on a multiple case study of eight SMAGRs in Melbourne, this study found that SMAGRs used a mix of supplier relationship management strategies simultaneously to deal with the same supplier group for different purchase items. SMAGRs also displayed creativity in leveraging on trade exchanges and relationship management to generate transactional and relational power to augment their market power, bolstering their bargaining power in trade negotiations. The findings led to the development of nine working propositions and seven sub-propositions. The theoretical and practical implications of these working propositions were discussed and directions for further studies recommended.
Market Reactions to ECB Policy Innovations: A Cross-Country Analysis
Creators: name: Pacicco, Fausto
name: Vena, Luca
name: Venegoni, Andrea
Publisher: name: Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC
Year: 2017
Subjects: Monetary Policy Transmission
European Monetary Union
Financial Markets
Event Study

description: Università Cattaneo Working Papers no. 4, 2017
description: Financial markets vest an important role both in conveying monetary policy innovations to the real economy and in shaping business cycle’s fluctuations. Hence, it becomes crucial to assess whether the ECB is able to wield homogeneous reactions in the main Eurozone stock markets and to quell their
turbulences. The empirical analysis shows that conventional policy rate shifts affect unevenly the equity indices of the countries analysed, generating asymmetries between their business cycles. Moreover, the ECB stance proved unable to weather the storm and trigger an economic recovery. This calls for a refinement of ECB conduct and justifies the extensive employment of unconventional measures to revive the economy.
A Learned Generalized Geodesic Distance Function-Based Approach for Node Feature Augmentation on Graphs
Creators: name: Azad, Amitoz
name: Fang, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Geodesic distances on manifolds have numerous applications in image processing, computer graphics and computer vision. In this work, we introduce an approach called `LGGD' (Learned Generalized Geodesic Distances). This method involves generating node features by learning a generalized geodesic distance function through a training pipeline that incorporates training data, graph topology and the node content features. The strength of this method lies in the proven robustness of the generalized geodesic distances to noise and outliers. Our contributions encompass improved performance in node classification tasks, competitive results with state-of-the-art methods on real-world graph datasets, the demonstration of the learnability of parameters within the generalized geodesic equation on graph, and dynamic inclusion of new labels.
description: Accepted at KDD 2024 Research Track
sj-pdf-1-jrn-10.1177_17449871221144899 – Supplemental material for The association between Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care Scores and quality of life in type 2 diabetes patients
Creators: name: Akan, Gülçin
name: Kartal, Asiye
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jrn-10.1177_17449871221144899 for The association between Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care Scores and quality of life in type 2 diabetes patients by Gülçin Akan and Asiye Kartal in Journal of Research in Nursing
Additional file 1 of P2X7 receptor antagonists modulate experimental autoimmune neuritis via regulation of NLRP3 inflammasome activation and Th17 and Th1 cell differentiation
Creators: name: Xie, Yuhan
name: Han, Ranran
name: Li, Yulin
name: Li, Weiya
name: Zhang, Shichao
name: Wu, Yu
name: Zhao, Yuexin
name: Liu, Rongrong
name: Wu, Jie
name: Jiang, Wei
name: Chen, Xiuju
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 1
Visualising the impact of water quality on the energy performance of closed looped heating systems using IR thermography diagnostics
Creators: name: Suliman, Amr
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 339999
subject: Other built environment and design not elsewhere classified

description: Visualising the impact of water quality on the energy performance of closed looped heating systems using IR thermography diagnostics
Thermodynamics of photoelectric devices
Creators: name: Jacob, Samuel L.
name: Lacerda, Artur M.
name: Dubi, Yonatan
name: Goold, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nonequilibrium steady state thermodynamics of a photodevice which can operate as a solar cell or a photoconductor, depending on the degree of asymmetry of the junction. The thermodynamic efficiency is captured by a single coefficient of performance. Using a minimal model based on a two-level system, we show that when the Coulomb interaction energy matches the transport gap of the junction, the photoconductor displays maximal response, performance, and signal-to-noise ratio, while the same regime is always detrimental for the solar cell. Nevertheless, we find that the Coulomb interaction is beneficial for the solar cell performance if it lies below the transport gap. Our work sheds important light on design principles for thermodynamically efficient photodevices in the presence of Coulomb interactions.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures. Published in Physical Review Research
Two-dimensional Brownian motion with dependent components: turning angle analysis
Creators: name: Balcerek, Michał
name: Pacheco-Pozo, Adrian
name: Wyłomanska, Agnieszka
name: Burnecki, Krzysztof
name: Krapf, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Brownian motion in one or more dimensions is extensively used as a stochastic process to model natural and engineering signals, as well as financial data. Most works dealing with multidimensional Brownian motion consider the different dimensions as independent components. In this article, we investigate a model of correlated Brownian motion in $\mathbb{R}^2$, where the individual components are not necessarily independent. We explore various statistical properties of the process under consideration, going beyond the conventional analysis of the second moment. Our particular focus lies on investigating the distribution of turning angles. This distribution reveals particularly interesting characteristics for processes with dependent components that are relevant to applications in diverse physical systems. Theoretical considerations are supported by numerical simulations and analysis of two real-world datasets: the financial data of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard and Poor's 500, and trajectories of polystyrene beads in water. Finally, we show that the model can be readily extended to trajectories with correlations that change over time.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
Additional file 2 of P2X7 receptor antagonists modulate experimental autoimmune neuritis via regulation of NLRP3 inflammasome activation and Th17 and Th1 cell differentiation
Creators: name: Xie, Yuhan
name: Han, Ranran
name: Li, Yulin
name: Li, Weiya
name: Zhang, Shichao
name: Wu, Yu
name: Zhao, Yuexin
name: Liu, Rongrong
name: Wu, Jie
name: Jiang, Wei
name: Chen, Xiuju
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 2
Alone together: investigating time experienced physically in the context of contemporary communication technologies
Creators: name: Bakker, Jeremy
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This project will investigate how daily encounters with digital technologies and the sense of rapid comprehension that they require can be used to make tactile and contemplative visual artwork. Completed over 3 years, studio work will be undertaken with the goal of making art that engages with a physical experience of time in terms of the range of technologically complex and disembodied ways of communicating today.
Towards a Holistic Framework for Multimodal Large Language Models in Three-dimensional Brain CT Report Generation
Creators: name: Li, Cheng-Yi
name: Chang, Kao-Jung
name: Yang, Cheng-Fu
name: Wu, Hsin-Yu
name: Chen, Wenting
name: Bansal, Hritik
name: Chen, Ling
name: Yang, Yi-Ping
name: Chen, Yu-Chun
name: Chen, Shih-Pin
name: Lirng, Jiing-Feng
name: Chang, Kai-Wei
name: Chiou, Shih-Hwa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have been given free rein to explore exciting medical applications with a primary focus on radiology report generation. Nevertheless, the preliminary success in 2D radiology captioning is incompetent to reflect the real-world diagnostic challenge in the volumetric 3D anatomy. To mitigate three crucial limitation aspects in the existing literature, including (1) data complexity, (2) model capacity, and (3) evaluation metric fidelity, we collected an 18,885 text-scan pairs 3D-BrainCT dataset and applied clinical visual instruction tuning (CVIT) to train BrainGPT models to generate radiology-adherent 3D brain CT reports. Statistically, our BrainGPT scored BLEU-1 = 44.35, BLEU-4 = 20.38, METEOR = 30.13, ROUGE-L = 47.6, and CIDEr-R = 211.77 during internal testing and demonstrated an accuracy of 0.91 in captioning midline shifts on the external validation CQ500 dataset. By further inspecting the captioned report, we reported that the traditional metrics appeared to measure only the surface text similarity and failed to gauge the information density of the diagnostic purpose. To close this gap, we proposed a novel Feature-Oriented Radiology Task Evaluation (FORTE) to estimate the report's clinical relevance (lesion feature and landmarks). Notably, the BrainGPT model scored an average FORTE F1-score of 0.71 (degree=0.661; landmark=0.706; feature=0.693; impression=0.779). To demonstrate that BrainGPT models possess objective readiness to generate human-like radiology reports, we conducted a Turing test that enrolled 11 physician evaluators, and around 74% of the BrainGPT-generated captions were indistinguishable from those written by humans. Our work embodies a holistic framework that showcased the first-hand experience of curating a 3D brain CT dataset, fine-tuning anatomy-sensible language models, and proposing robust radiology evaluation metrics.
description: 6 figures, 5 supplementary figures, 8 supplementary tables
Skin Effect of Nonlinear Optical Responses in Antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Zhou, Hang
name: Xiao, Rui-Chun
name: Zhang, Shu-Hui
name: Gan, Wei
name: Han, Hui
name: Zhao, Hong-Miao
name: Lu, Wenjian
name: Zhang, Changjin
name: Sun, Yuping
name: Li, Hui
name: Shao, Ding-Fu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear optics plays important roles in the research of fundamental physics and the applications of high-performance optoelectronic devices. The bulk nonlinear optical responses arise from the uniform light absorption in noncentrosymmetric crystals, and hence are usually considered to be the collective phenomena of all atoms. Here we show, in contrast to this common expectation, the nonlinear optical responses in antiferromagnets can be selectively accumulated near the surfaces, representing a skin effect. This is because the inversion symmetry, despite being broken globally by magnetism, is barely violated locally deeply inside these antiferromagnets. Using A-type layered antiferromagnets as the representatives, we predict that the spatial-dependent nonlinear optical responses, such as bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) and second harmonic generation (SHG), are notable in the top- and bottom-most layers and decay rapidly when moving away from the surfaces. Such a phenomenon is strongly associated with the antiferromagnetism and exists in a broad range of antiferromagnets composed of centrosymmetric sublattices, offering promising device applications using these antiferromagnets. Our work uncovers a previously overlooked property of nonlinear optical responses and opens new opportunities for high-performance antiferromagnetic optospintronics.
sj-docx-2-jiv-10.1177_08862605221127207 – Supplemental material for The Application of Bystander Intervention Scripts: Implications for Guardianship in Action
Creators: name: Butler, Leah C.
name: Graham, Amanda
name: Fisher, Bonnie S.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-jiv-10.1177_08862605221127207 for The Application of Bystander Intervention Scripts: Implications for Guardianship in Action by Leah C. Butler, Amanda Graham and Bonnie S. Fisher in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Cryptic species in a colorful genus: integrative taxonomy of the bush robins (Aves, Muscicapidae, Tarsiger) suggests two overlooked species
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: Wei, Chentao
name: Sangster, George
name: Olsson, Urban
name: Rasmussen, Pamela
name: Svensson, Lars
name: Yao, Cheng-te
name: Carey, Geoff
name: Leader, Paul
name: Zhang, Ruiying
name: Chen, Guoling
name: Song, Gang
name: Lei, Fumin
name: Wilcove, David
name: Alström, Per
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: passerines
Multilocus phylogeny
body morphometrics
acoustic
disjunct distribution
Sino-Himalayas

description: Several cryptic avian species have been validated by recent integrative taxonomic efforts in the Sino-Himalayan mountains, indicating that avian diversity in this global biodiversity hotspot may be underestimated. In the present study,we investigated species limits in the genus Tarsiger, the bush robins, a group of montane forest specialists with high species richness in the Sino-Himalayan region. Based on comprehensive sampling of all 11 subspecies of the six currently recognized species, we applied an integrative taxonomic approach by combining multilocus, acoustic, plumage and morphometric analyses. Our results reveal that the isolated north-central Chinese populations of Tarsiger cyanurus, described as the subspecies albocoeruleus but usually considered invalid, is distinctive in genetics and vocalisation, but only marginally differentiated in morphology. We also found the Taiwan endemic T. indicus formosanus to be distinctive in genetics, song and morphology from T. i. indicus and T. i. yunnanensis of the Sino-Himalayan mountains. Moreover, Bayesian species delimitation using BPP suggests that both albocoeruleus and formosanus merit full species status. We propose their treatment as 'Qilian Bluetail' T. albocoeruleus and 'Taiwan Bush Robin' T. formosanus, respectively.
description: NA=Missing value in Supplementary filesFunding provided by: Swedish Research Council
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004359
Award Number: 2019-04486Funding provided by: Jornvall Foundation*
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Award Number: Funding provided by: Mark and Mo Constantine*
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Award Number: Funding provided by: China Postdoctoral foundation Grant*
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Award Number: 2020A1515010887Funding provided by: Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002855
Award Number: 2014FY210200
Additional file 4 of Identification of potential cell death-related biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis
Creators: name: Li, Mingliang
name: Wang, Xue
name: Guo, Mingbo
name: Zhang, Wenlong
name: Li, Taotao
name: Zheng, Jinyang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 4