cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development and characterization of gamma ray and EMS induced mutants for powdery mildew resistance in blackgram
Creators: name: Tamilzharasi, Murugesan
name: Kumaresan, Dharmalingam
name: Thiruvengadam, Venkatesan
name: Souframanien, Jegadeesan
name: Latha, T. K. S.
name: Boopathi, N. Manikanda
name: Jayamani, Palaniappan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
classificationCode: 60506
subject: Virology

description: During post-rainy and rice fallow cropping seasons, popular blackgram varieties are severely affected by powdery mildew leading to severe yield loss. The lack of natural genetic variability for powdery mildew resistance in blackgram germplasm warrants mutation breeding. Hence, in this study, blackgram cultivar CO6 was mutagenized with gamma ray and ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS) to create variability for powdery mildew resistance. Seeds of blackgram CO6 were irradiated with three doses of gamma ray (200 Gy, 300 Gy and 400 Gy) followed by two doses of ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS; 20 and 30 mM) to achieve six combination treatments. Selected resistant mutants of M2 generation were characterized for agronomic, histological, enzyme and biochemical traits along with powdery mildew resistant LBG 17 and susceptible CO6 checks. Molecular variability was studied using 72 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. In the M2 generation, 60 powdery mildew resistant mutants were identified and a total of 25 high yielding mutants were evaluated further to confirm powdery mildew resistance and yield. Nine resistant mutants (PM 13, PM 20, PM 21, PM 42, PM 53, PM 54, PM 56, PM 57 and PM 60) and the resistant check (LBG17) showed significantly higher values for leaf density, trichome density, SOD, CAT, POX, PPO, total phenols, phytic acid and silica content. SSR markers viz., CEDG154, CEDG290, CEDG139, CEDG259, CEDG191, CEDG024, CEDG 282, CEDG 166, CEDG 232 and CEDG 088 were found polymorphic between resistant mutants and the parent CO6. The study has demonstrated that sufficient variability was induced in the blackgram for powdery mildew resistance. The elevated levels of SOD, CAT, POX, PPO, total phenols, phytic acid, and silica content observed in selected mutants may be attributed to powdery mildew resistance. The superior mutants identified in this study may be used as donors for the development of powdery mildew resistant lines or released as a new variety.
Radiation-induced increases in cancer mortality result from an earlier onset of the disease in mice and atomic bomb survivors
Creators: name: Nakamura, Nori
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 29999
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: It has long been thought that the carcinogenic effect of radiation is due to the induction of oncogenic mutations, which means that a fraction of the irradiated individuals will be affected in a dose-dependent manner. This dogma was recently challenged because it was found that the model does not properly explain the life shortening effect of radiation which is seen as a parallel shift of mouse survival curves toward younger ages following an exposure to radiation. Specifically, according to the mutation induction theory, an irradiated mouse or human population evolves into two subpopulations with different mean lifespans, which would lead to a wider distribution of individual lifespans, and hence to a shallower slope in the survival curve, which is not what is observed. Instead, the parallel shift indicates that a large fraction of the irradiated mice are affected (but there are exceptions). Thus, it was thought important to pursue how the excess risk for cancer develops following an exposure to radiation. In the present study, cancer mortality data from mice and atomic-bomb survivors is presented to understand the increasing patterns of cancer risks. In both species, it was found that cancer mortality starts to increase earlier in the exposed group. The results are consistent with the notion that in many irradiated organs (but not all) radiation-induced tissue damage can lead to the development of an altered microenvironment (most probably inflammation), which is favorable to the growth of spontaneously arising tumor cells and can lead to an earlier onset of the diseases or to an apparently increased risk of cancer.
Determinacy and Domestic Incentives: Success of International Conditionality in Serbia
Creators: name: White, Isaac Preston
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Instances of international organizations pursuing their political and economic interests in Serbia have proliferated since the ousting of former President Slobodan Milosevic in 2001. However, the successes of international organizations in pursuing these political and economic interests have varied. This thesis examines three cases of international conditionality in Serbia since 2001: the International Monetary Fund's efforts to persuade Serbian elites to adopt austerity measures, the European Union's pursuit of its energy interests and the European Union's attempts to induce full judicial reform. The thesis posits that in order to understand the varied success of these three initiatives, one should identify both the determinacy of the policy and Serbian elites' cost-benefit analyses.
Kernel Methods for Accurate UWB-Based Ranging with Reduced Complexity
Creators: name: Savic, Vladimir
name: Larsson, Erik G.
name: Ferrer-Coll, Javier
name: Stenumgaard, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate and robust positioning in multipath environments can enable many applications, such as search-and-rescue and asset tracking. For this problem, ultra-wideband (UWB) technology can provide the most accurate range estimates, which are required for range-based positioning. However, UWB still faces a problem with non-line-of-sight (NLOS) measurements, in which the range estimates based on time-of-arrival (TOA) will typically be positively biased. There are many techniques that address this problem, mainly based on NLOS identification and NLOS error mitigation algorithms. However, these techniques do not exploit all available information in the UWB channel impulse response. Kernel-based machine learning methods, such as Gaussian Process Regression (GPR), are able to make use of all information, but they may be too complex in their original form. In this paper, we propose novel ranging methods based on kernel principal component analysis (kPCA), in which the selected channel parameters are projected onto a nonlinear orthogonal high-dimensional space, and a subset of these projections is then used as an input for ranging. We evaluate the proposed methods using real UWB measurements obtained in a basement tunnel, and found that one of the proposed methods is able to outperform state-of-the-art, even if little training samples are available.
description: published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
Un libro, un evento. A proposito di Francesca Ghedini, Lo sguardo degli antichi. Il racconto nell’arte classica, Roma, Carocci, 2022
Creators: name: Ciani, Maria Grazia
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ghedini
Lo sguardo degli antichi
Iconography
Iconology
Images

description: Review of Francesca Ghedini’s book “Lo sguardo degli antichi. Il racconto nell’arte classica”, published by Carocci. Ghedini presents a hermeneutic interpretation of images and the power they had for the ancients. The author makes images and words interact by comparing iconographies and iconologies with sources and material testimonies that have come down to our days. She shows the ancient world as crowded by vibrant images which became the channels of a culture that not only “saw” and “looked” at life, but also created a language endowed with intense force.
Reexamination of the mean-field phase diagram of biaxial nematic liquid crystals: Insights from Monte Carlo studies
Creators: name: Latha, B. Kamala
name: Jose, Regina
name: Murthy, K. P. N.
name: Sastry, V. S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Investigations of the phase diagram of biaxial liquid crystal systems through analyses of general Hamiltonian models within the simplifications of mean-field theory (MFT), as well as by computer simulations based on microscopic models, are directed towards an appreciation of the role of the underlying molecular-level interactions to facilitate its spontaneous condensation into a nematic phase with biaxial symmetry. Continuing experimental challenges in realising such a system unambiguously, despite encouraging predictions from MFT for example, are requiring more versatile simulational methodologies capable of providing insights into possible hindering barriers within the system, typically gleaned through its free energy dependences on relevant observables as the system is driven through the transitions. The recent brief report from this group [B. Kamala Latha, et. al., Phys. Rev. E 89, 050501 (R), 2014] summarizing the outcome of detailed Monte Carlo simulations carried out employing entropic sampling technique, suggested a qualitative modification of the MFT phase diagram as the Hamiltonian is asymptotically driven towards the so-called partly-repulsive regions. It was argued that the degree of the (cross) coupling between the uniaxial and biaxial tensor components of neighbouring molecules plays a crucial role in facilitating, or otherwise, a ready condensation of the biaxial phase, suggesting that this could be a plausible f actor in explaining the experimental difficulties. In this paper, we elaborate this point further, providing additional evidences from curious variations of free-energy profiles with respect to the relevant orientational order parameters, at different temperatures bracketing the phase transitions.
description: 31 pages, 13 figures
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Risk Factors for Stress Fracture Among Collegiate Cross Country Runners
Creators: name: Saimeri, Taylor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The research to date explored a combination of factors that may put high level athletes at risk for bone stress injuries (BSIs) such as dietary intake, menstrual disturbances, training volume, body composition, and biomechanical variables. The primary purpose of this study was to determine which risk factors play a role in BSIs in collegiate cross-country athletes. Two independent samples t-test assessed baseline bone quality and muscle quality measures between athletes with stress fracture history and those without. A multivariate logistic regression model assessed risk factors for incident BSI over the athlete’s competitive season. Athletes with stress fracture history had higher baseline bone mineral content and lower echo intensity values when compared to athletes without stress fracture history. Athletes with a lower bone mineral density (z-score -1.5 or below) were at a higher risk for incident BSI adjusting for stress fracture history, sex and leg lean mass.
X-ray induced bio-acoustic emissions from cultured cells
Creators: name: Matarèse, Bruno F.E.
name: Rahmoune, Hassan
name: Vo, Nguyen T. K.
name: Seymour, Colin B.
name: Schofield, Paul N.
name: Mothersill, Carmel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
classificationCode: 29999
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose: We characterise for the first time the emission of acoustic waves from cultured cells irradiated with X-ray photon radiation. Methods and materials: Human cancer cell lines (MCF-7, HL-60) and control cell-free media were exposed to 1 Gy X-ray photons while recording the sound generated before, during and after irradiation using custom large-bandwidth ultrasound transducer. The effects of dose rate and cell viability were investigated. Results: We report the first recorded acoustic signals captured from a collective pressure wave response to ionising irradiation in cell culture. The acoustic signal was co-terminous with the radiation pulse, its magnitude was dependent on radiation dose rate, and live and dead cells showed qualitatively and quantitatively different acoustic signal characteristics. The signature of the collective acoustic peaks was temporally wider and with higher acoustic power for irradiated HL-60 than for irradiated MCF-7. Conclusions: We show that X-ray irradiation induces two cultured cancer cell types to emit a characteristic acoustic signal for the duration of the radiation pulse. The rapid decay of the signal excludes acoustic emissions themselves from contributing to the inter-organism bystander signal previously reported in intact animals, but they remain a potential component of the bystander process in tissues and cell cultures. This preliminary study suggests that further work on the potential role of radiation induced acoustic emission (RIAE) in the inter-cellular bystander effect is merited.
Failure Mitigation in Linear, Sesquilinear and Bijective Operations On Integer Data Streams Via Numerical Entanglement
Creators: name: Anam, Mohammad Ashraful
name: Andreopoulos, Yiannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new roll-forward technique is proposed that recovers from any single fail-stop failure in $M$ integer data streams ($M\geq3$) when undergoing linear, sesquilinear or bijective (LSB) operations, such as: scaling, additions/subtractions, inner or outer vector products and permutations. In the proposed approach, the $M$ input integer data streams are linearly superimposed to form $M$ numerically entangled integer data streams that are stored in-place of the original inputs. A series of LSB operations can then be performed directly using these entangled data streams. The output results can be extracted from any $M-1$ entangled output streams by additions and arithmetic shifts, thereby guaranteeing robustness to a fail-stop failure in any single stream computation. Importantly, unlike other methods, the number of operations required for the entanglement, extraction and recovery of the results is linearly related to the number of the inputs and does not depend on the complexity of the performed LSB operations. We have validated our proposal in an Intel processor (Haswell architecture with AVX2 support) via convolution operations. Our analysis and experiments reveal that the proposed approach incurs only $1.8\%$ to $2.8\%$ reduction in processing throughput in comparison to the failure-intolerant approach. This overhead is 9 to 14 times smaller than that of the equivalent checksum-based method. Thus, our proposal can be used in distributed systems and unreliable processor hardware, or safety-critical applications, where robustness against fail-stop failures becomes a necessity.
description: Proc. 21st IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS 2015), July 2015, Halkidiki, Greece
Navigating the CrossRoads of Development From Childhood to Adolescence: Through the transitional stages of communication that resolutes Self-Identity with the symbiocosm of communitization that challenges the conscience of the child and Adolescent mind
Creators: name: Warrick, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Child Abuse
subject: Child & Adolescent Community Development
subject: Child & Adolescent Development
subject: Child Protective Services
subject: Childrens & Youth psychoanality
subject: Childrens and Adolescents Libertations
subject: Childrens PsycheSocialization
subject: Community Youth Projects
subject: Family Development
subject: Juvenile Criminology
subject: Juvenile Delinquency
subject: Juvenile patterns of communication
subject: Parental psychoanality
subject: Schematic representation with analytical patternization of categorical activity with Juvenile Delinquency
subject: The Identification of Deposing Family Dynamics
subject: The Identification of positive Family Dynamics
subject: The route of Special Education dilemmas for children & youth

description: ABSTRACT: This Manuscript is a compilation of collected research analysis applied to Theory that sequesters on the who, what, where, when, why, and how that is determinate of the outcomes with the factoring of Development perusary with Childhood and Adolescense. This query of Relativity poses for contemplation as to what direction taken will qualify the identification of the Self for children and adolescents with the decisions they make that will circumnavigate the course to the Route objective for establishing a symbiotic pattern of communication that will channel the personification of the Conscience with the youth mind. This is made possible whether the CrossRoads toward achieving Self-Actualization be guided by constructive or destructive forms of methodological assimilation into a community of attachment and security that equates with a psyche-somatic sense of belonging and assimbio-spheric communitization. This is made adherent in order for the systemic processing of Self-Actualization is to be plausibly transversive by methods of a transpositing binary symbiocodum formalization of a socio-linguistic communication; that is circum-navigational and the route course to achieving Self-Egosive relativity intunement with childrens and adolescents assimbiocodum relations to their associate community environments. From which many children and adolescents have successfully or contraindicatively transcended through; having pinnacled the Pre:Pubescent stages of Absolutionary Development in Childhood and Adolescence.
Magnetization switching by microwaves initially rotating in opposite direction to precession
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A common understanding of magnetization switching in microwave-assisted magnetization reversal is that the rotation direction of the microwaves should be the same with the precession direction of the magnetization. In this letter however, we show that microwaves initially rotating opposite to the magnetization precession destabilize the magnetization at an equilibrium and induces the switching more efficiently, when the microwave frequency depends on time. This argument is analytically deduced from energy balance equation. We also establish a model satisfying this condition, and confirm magnetization switching solely by microwaves by using numerical simulation.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Baby Box Schemes To Improve Infant Health and Wellbeing: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Ayyaz, Nashmeeya
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Maternal and Child Health
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: baby box
subject: infant mortality
subject: infant sleep box
subject: scoping review
subject: SIDS

description: A scoping review of the literature on the use of infant sleep boxes as interventions to improve infant health and wellbeing
Coherent coupling of a single spin to microwave cavity photons
Creators: name: Viennot, J. J.
name: Dartiailh, M. C.
name: Cottet, A.
name: Kontos, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron spins and photons are complementary quantum-mechanical objects that can be used to carry, manipulate and transform quantum information. To combine these resources, it is desirable to achieve the coherent coupling of a single spin to photons stored in a superconducting resonator. Using a circuit design based on a nanoscale spin-valve, we coherently hybridize the individual spin and charge states of a double quantum dot while preserving spin coherence. This scheme allows us to achieve spin-photon coupling up to the MHz range at the single spin level. The cooperativity is found to reach 2.3, and the spin coherence time is about 60ns. We thereby demonstrate a mesoscopic device suitable for non-destructive spin read-out and distant spin coupling.
description: minor differences with published version
Argilla. Storie di Viaggi. Un itinerario scientifico e didattico fra mari e millenni. Presentazione della mostra, Gallerie d’Italia, Vicenza (dal 29 settembre 2022 al 8 giugno 2023)
Creators: name: A Cura Di Monica Salvadori, Monica Baggio E Luca Zamparo
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Argilla Storie di viaggi
Intesa Sanpaolo
Greek ceramics

description: Argilla. Storie di viaggi is the title of a new exhibition and the second part of an in-depth study whose first edition was entitled Argilla. Storie di vasi. Thanks to the inspiration provided by the Intesa Sanpaolo vase collection, the exhibition brings non specialists closer to the archaeological ceramic heritage by highlighting those aspects of it which are still relevant today. This scientific-educational project – curated by Monica Salvadori, Monica Baggio, and Luca Zamparo, with installation design by Michele Franzina – reflects on the aggregating function of Greek ceramics in the Mediterranean basin. Greek ceramics were not only a source of inspiration, exchange, and development for new vascular production in Southern Italy, but also a medium to channel ideas, cultural and social practices, as well as economic relations.
Dynamic navigation in Endodontics : A systematic review
Creators: name: Langaliya, Akshayraj
name: Sekar, Mahalaxmi
name: SHAH, AARSHVI
name: Shah, Jinali
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Dynamic Navigation

description: The introduction of the Dynamic Navigation system has been facilitating to increase in the accuracy of the positioning of dental implants. The system takes into consideration, surgical instrumentation and radiographic images generated by patients’ computed tomography and integrates it with an optical positioning device which is directly controlled by computerized software. It uses a stereoscopic tracking camera to guide the clinician’s instrument to the correct location. The main purpose of this technology is to reduce the unintentional injury to nearby anatomic structures and to perform easily a clear, precise, minimally invasive surgery which may reduce pain and post-operative discomfort to the patients and further improves the post-operative healing of the patients. As a part of endodontic consideration, this system has been used in the localization of calcified canals, conservative and precise access opening with orthograde endodontics, surgical endodontics including root-end resection surgeries along bone trephination for apicoectomy surgeries.
Impact of Social Rejection on Motivation for and Experience of Solitude Survey Study
Creators: name: Ryan, William
name: Weinstein, Netta
name: Nguyen, Thuy-vy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: A cross-sectional study examining the impact of past experiences of rejection on motivation for and experiences during solitude.
Re-examining the role of Southern Democrats: an analysis of the southern advantage in Congress between 1947 and 1992 and its effect on conditional party government
Creators: name: Johnson, Adam A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The traditional story of the Congressional literature tells us that institutional forces shaped the shift in power between Northern and Southern Democrats in the 1970s. Specifically, past work suggests that Democratic Party reforms weakened the Southern Democrats by depriving them of leadership positions. This paper argues that electoral replacement was much more likely the engine of change. Northern Democrats did take control of the Congressional Committees in the 1970s, but that transition was a quarter decade long transition in the making rather than a skilled political maneuver. A secondary analysis contributes to our understanding of the Democratic Caucus in the House by examining how Southern Democrats came to establish their base of power prior to the 1960s. Using an Event History Analysis, the conclusion here is that Southern Democrats enjoyed a substantially more favorable electoral environment which contributed to their enhanced seniority over time.
Tying Process Model Quality to the Modeling Process: The Impact of Structuring, Movement, and Speed
Creators: name: Claes, Jan
name: Vanderfeesten, Irene
name: Reijers, Hajo A.
name: Pinggera, Jakob
name: Weidlich, Matthias
name: Zugal, Stefan
name: Fahland, Dirk
name: Weber, Barbara
name: Mendling, Jan
name: Poels, Geert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In an investigation into the process of process modeling, we examined how modeling behavior relates to the quality of the process model that emerges from that. Specifically, we considered whether (i) a modeler's structured modeling style, (ii) the frequency of moving existing objects over the modeling canvas, and (iii) the overall modeling speed is in any way connected to the ease with which the resulting process model can be understood. In this paper, we describe the exploratory study to build these three conjectures, clarify the experimental set-up and infrastructure that was used to collect data, and explain the used metrics for the various concepts to test the conjectures empirically. We discuss various implications for research and practice from the conjectures, all of which were confirmed by the experiment.
Transverse cracking in embankment dams resulting from cross-valley differential settlements
Creators: name: He, Ke
name: Fell, Robin
name: Song, Chongmin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This article investigates transverse cracking in embankment dams resulting from cross-valley differential settlements during and post-construction, in which concentrated leak erosion may initiate. Based on case studies and numerical analyses, it is shown that valley profiles with a step in the upper part of the abutment and subject to large post-construction settlements within the embankment, or within compressible soil in the foundation, are most likely to be subject to cracking. Estimated localised strains at the crest > 1%, and in particular >2%, are likely to be indicative of conditions conducive to transverse cracking. Smaller strains but greater than about 0.25% may also result in cracking but they are likely to be narrower and shallower. The article also gives general guidance on the likely width and depth of cracking. The information presented is only suitable for preliminary dam safety assessments. For detailed dam safety assessments and risk assessments where decisions are to be made on whether risks are tolerable, or upgrades required, site-specific cross-valley numerical analyses should be carried out. These detailed analyses should model the cross-valley profile accurately, material parameters more rigorously than has been done in the parametric studies reported in this article.
LETTER OF REQUEST TO THE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR OF ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Creators: name: Rapisura, Alfie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified

description: LETTER OF REQUEST TO THE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR
  OF ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Theory of mind in dysphoric and non-dysphoric adults: An ERP study of true- and false-belief reasoning
Creators: name: Mangardich, Haykaz
name: Tollefson, Nicholas
name: Harkness, Kate
name: Sabbagh, Mark
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We examined differences between dysphoric and non-dysphoric adults in their pattern of event-related potentials (ERPs) while reasoning about true- and false-beliefs.
Visualizing the Process of Process Modeling with PPMCharts
Creators: name: Claes, Jan
name: Vanderfeesten, Irene
name: Pinggera, Jakob
name: Reijers, Hajo A.
name: Weber, Barbara
name: Poels, Geert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the quest for knowledge about how to make good process models, recent research focus is shifting from studying the quality of process models to studying the process of process modeling (often abbreviated as PPM) itself. This paper reports on our efforts to visualize this specific process in such a way that relevant characteristics of the modeling process can be observed graphically. By recording each modeling operation in a modeling process, one can build an event log that can be used as input for the PPMChart Analysis plug-in we implemented in ProM. The graphical representation this plug-in generates allows for the discovery of different patterns of the process of process modeling. It also provides different views on the process of process modeling (by configuring and filtering the charts).
Change a Light, Change the World Bus Tour: A Communication Audit
Creators: name: McGinnis, Ann E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: A communications audit of the Change a Light, Change the World Bus Tour was conducted to evaluate its ability to influence the media's agenda on energy efficiency. The audit includes a description of the Tour's history, a document analysis of its information subsidies, interviews with staff, and an overall analysis of the Change a Light campaign's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The document analysis determined that the Tour's primary message frames were easy and effective, consumer financial benefits, and environmental benefits. These frames were compared with the frames that emerged from the resulting print media and blogger coverage. Contrary to campaign expectations, the information subsidies were used far more frequently by bloggers than print journalists. The communication audit concludes with a list of recommendations for future campaign endeavors and a discussion of how the audit's results contribute to the fields of public relations and nonprofit communication.
A visual analysis of the process of process modeling
Creators: name: Claes, Jan
name: Vanderfeesten, Irene
name: Pinggera, Jakob
name: Reijers, Hajo A.
name: Weber, Barbara
name: Poels, Geert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The construction of business process models has become an important requisite in the analysis and optimization of processes. The success of the analysis and optimization efforts heavily depends on the quality of the models. Therefore, a research domain emerged that studies the process of process modeling. This paper contributes to this research by presenting a way of visualizing the different steps a modeler undertakes to construct a process model, in a so-called process of process modeling Chart. The graphical representation lowers the cognitive efforts to discover properties of the modeling process, which facilitates the research and the development of theory, training and tool support for improving model quality. The paper contains an extensive overview of applications of the tool that demonstrate its usefulness for research and practice and discusses the observations from the visualization in relation to other work. The visualization was evaluated through a qualitative study that confirmed its usefulness and added value compared to the Dotted Chart on which the visualization was inspired.
Synchronising the chronologies of the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant and Egypt: a radiocarbon dating perspective
Creators: name: Webster, Lyndelle
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The framework and absolute dating of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in the southern Levant has long been heavily based upon Egyptian chronology. While New Kingdom chronology is robust, the dating of local strata relies on material culture connections that are limited in number, indirect in nature, and often imprecise. Radiocarbon (14C) dating provides a means to develop a local chronology and independently check external synchronisms at a time when Egyptian and Levantine histories are particularly closely intertwined. The method has been applied with good effect to the Early-Middle Bronze and Iron Ages, and this research seeks to fill a gap by applying radiocarbon and Bayesian analysis to LBA chronology.
The thesis comprises case studies of three key LBA sites, followed by region-wide evaluations of the two major chronological debates that mark the start and end of the LBA. The case studies present new 14C datasets from the Shephelah sites of Lachish, Gezer and Azekah, re-evaluate their site histories and check specific synchronisms with Egypt. The region-wide studies systematically evaluate new and published data on an individual site-by-site basis, reviewing the transition processes and comparing them to Egyptian history.
This study uses a multi-pronged approach, with sampling of old and new excavation areas to efficiently develop long 14C sequences that can be developed into robust Bayesian chronological models using stratigraphic constraints. As far as possible, the analysis is kept independent from conventional pottery-based relative dating, relying on models of single sites or excavation areas.
Outcomes of the thesis include: 1) a nuanced understanding of the destruction process marking the onset of the MBA-LBA transition; 2) identification of substantial early LBA settlements based on the re-dating of strata, with consequent improved agreement between text and archaeology; 3) a re-shuffling of remains attributable to the Amarna period at case study sites; 4) evaluation of the timeline by which the Canaanite city-state system collapsed and Egypt lost control of the region; and 5) clarification of radiocarbon implications for Philistine chronology.
Vectors of Locally Aggregated Centers for Compact Video Representation
Creators: name: Abbas, Alhabib
name: Deligiannis, Nikos
name: Andreopoulos, Yiannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a novel vector aggregation technique for compact video representation, with application in accurate similarity detection within large video datasets. The current state-of-the-art in visual search is formed by the vector of locally aggregated descriptors (VLAD) of Jegou et. al. VLAD generates compact video representations based on scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) vectors (extracted per frame) and local feature centers computed over a training set. With the aim to increase robustness to visual distortions, we propose a new approach that operates at a coarser level in the feature representation. We create vectors of locally aggregated centers (VLAC) by first clustering SIFT features to obtain local feature centers (LFCs) and then encoding the latter with respect to given centers of local feature centers (CLFCs), extracted from a training set. The sum-of-differences between the LFCs and the CLFCs are aggregated to generate an extremely-compact video description used for accurate video segment similarity detection. Experimentation using a video dataset, comprising more than 1000 minutes of content from the Open Video Project, shows that VLAC obtains substantial gains in terms of mean Average Precision (mAP) against VLAD and the hyper-pooling method of Douze et. al., under the same compaction factor and the same set of distortions.
description: Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2015, Torino, Italy
Investigating the Etiology of the Short Root Anomaly
Creators: name: Hill, Ashley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: Short Root Anomaly (SRA) is an emerging clinical problem but the clinical features and etiology are poorly understood. In order to test the hypothesis that one or more genes contribute to the SRA phenotype, we aimed to 1) characterize the SRA phenotype and its associated risk for orthodontically induced external apical root resorption (OIEARR) and 2) complete mutational analysis. Methods: The affected teeth and presence of other dental anomalies was assessed. PCR based mutational analysis was completed for 9 SRA samples for BMP4, BMP2, NFI-C and PTH1R. Pre- and post-treatment panoramic radiographs for 7 patients were evaluated for incidence and severity of OIEARR of SRA affected maxillary central incisors. Results: We identified 3 broad types of SRA and 5 SNPs. OIEARR was observed in 64% of affected maxillary central incisors. Mild resorption was observed in 50%, moderate resorption was observed in 7% and severe resorption was observed in 7% of teeth. Conclusions: SRA can present as three distinct phenotypes. SRA affected maxillary central incisors are not more susceptible to OIEARR or severe root resorption.
Measurement of the Drell-Yan triple-differential cross section in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Journal of high energy physics 1, 81 (2017).
description: This paper presents a measurement of the triple-differential cross section for the Drell--Yan process $Z/\gamma^*\rightarrow \ell^+\ell^-$ where $\ell$ is an electron or a muon. The measurement is performed for invariant masses of the lepton pairs, $m_{\ell\ell}$, between $46$ and $200$ GeV using a sample of $20.2$ fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions data at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012. The data are presented in bins of invariant mass, absolute dilepton rapidity, $|y_{\ell\ell}|$, and the angular variable $\cos\theta^{*}$ between the outgoing lepton and the incoming quark in the Collins--Soper frame. The measurements are performed in the range $|y_{\ell\ell}|<2.4$ in the muon channel, and extended to $|y_{\ell\ell}|<3.6$ in the electron channel. The cross sections are used to determine the $Z$ boson forward-backward asymmetry as a function of $|y_{\ell\ell}|$ and $m_{\ell\ell}$. The measurements achieve high-precision, below the percent level in the pole region, excluding the uncertainty in the integrated luminosity, and are in agreement with predictions. These precision data are sensitive to the parton distribution functions and the effective weak mixing angle.
description: Published by Springer, Berlin
A randomized controlled trial on the effect of the VIPP-SD in parents of school-aged twins: A replication of the preschooler twin study
Creators: name: Runze, Jana
name: Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian
name: Oosterman, Mirjam
name: van IJzendoorn, Marinus
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Intervention
subject: Parental Sensitivity
subject: Positive Discipline
subject: RCT
subject: Replication Study
subject: Twin Study
subject: VIPP

description: This project contains a word document registering a research project that uses an existing dataset.
Can radiotherapy empower the host immune system to coun-terattack neoplastic cells? A systematic review on tumor mi-croenvironment radiomodulation
Creators: name: Iori, Federico
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Immunotherapy (IT) diffusion has changed the management of cancer treatment, especially in the case of metastatic disease. However, IT alone has reported limited efficacy in patients affected by so called “cold tumors”, due to a typically immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). Since TME immune status may dynamically change due to radiation therapy (RT), RT im-munomodulatory effect on TME has been used to enhance IT response. In this systematic re-view, we examine current evidence regarding radio modulation schedules that can increase re-sponse to IT and create an effective host immune reaction against cancer cells, converting a hostile TME into a favorable one
Modeling Styles in Business Process Modeling
Creators: name: Pinggera, Jakob
name: Soffer, Pnina
name: Zugal, Stefan
name: Weber, Barbara
name: Weidlich, Matthias
name: Fahland, Dirk
name: Reijers, Hajo A.
name: Mendling, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Research on quality issues of business process models has recently begun to explore the process of creating process models. As a consequence, the question arises whether different ways of creating process models exist. In this vein, we observed 115 students engaged in the act of modeling, recording all their interactions with the modeling environment using a specialized tool. The recordings of process modeling were subsequently clustered. Results presented in this paper suggest the existence of three distinct modeling styles, exhibiting significantly different characteristics. We believe that this finding constitutes another building block toward a more comprehensive understanding of the process of process modeling that will ultimately enable us to support modelers in creating better business process models.
The Need for Transformation to a Post-Growth Health and Economic System
Creators: name: Van de Pas, Remco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Post-Growth Economy
Planetary Health
Public Health

description: The German, and most European health systems are part of an economic system that lacks intrinsic sustainability outcomes, with respect to society, health or ecology. The German health care sector is responsible for 5.2% of the national greenhouse gas emissions.51 out of 1,000 patients with diabetes are hospitalised, and this is one of the highest European admission rates for a condition that can be avoided by proper preventive measures in ambulatory care. Since 2013, the share of foreign nurses in the German nursing workforce has increased from 5.8% to 11%, and can arguable be regarded as a form of braindrain from the Global South. These examples are interrelated, as will be clarified in this think piece by Dr. Remco van de Pas.
Muscle Activation and Range of Motion Patterns of Individuals who Display a Lateral Hip Shift during an Overhead Squat
Creators: name: Peterson, Kerry
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: Kinesiology

description: Objective: Movement dysfunction increases lower extremity injury risks. This study identified modifiable factors (neuromuscular control [EMG] and ranges of motion) that contribute to dysfunctional movement (lateral hip shift) during an overhead squat. Methods: Participants were assigned to the hip shift or control groups based on overhead squat performance. Gluteal and hip adductor EMG was sampled during the overhead squat. Hip internal and external rotation, hip abduction, knee extension, and dorsiflexion ranges of motion were assessed. Mixed-Model ANOVAs analyzed differences. Results: The hip shift group had less hip abduction and gluteus medius activation in the limb shifted toward compared to the control group. No other differences were observed. Conclusion: The EMG and range of motion measurement differences between groups may further increase the hip shift group's injury risk. The differences observed may increase injury risk of both the limb shifted toward as well as the contralateral limb.
Expressiveness and Understandability Considerations of Hierarchy in Declarative Business Process Models
Creators: name: Zugal, Stefan
name: Soffer, Pnina
name: Pinggera, Jakob
name: Weber, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hierarchy has widely been recognized as a viable approach to deal with the complexity of conceptual models. For instance, in declarative business process models, hierarchy is realized by sub-processes. While technical implementations of declarative sub-processes exist, their application, semantics, and the resulting impact on understandability are less understood yet-this research gap is addressed in this work. In particular, we discuss the semantics and the application of hierarchy and show how sub-processes enhance the expressiveness of declarative modeling languages. Then, we turn to the impact on the understandability of hierarchy on a declarative process model. To systematically assess this impact, we present a cognitive-psychology based framework that allows to assess the possible impact of hierarchy on the understandability of the process model.
Observation of Fermi Arcs in non-Centrosymmetric Weyl Semi-metal Candidate NbP
Creators: name: Xu, D. F.
name: Du, Y. P.
name: Wang, Z.
name: Li, Y. P.
name: Niu, X. H.
name: Yao, Q.
name: Dudin, P.
name: Xu, Z. -A.
name: Wan, X. G.
name: Feng, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the surface electronic structure of niobium phosphide NbP single crystal on (001) surface by vacuum ultraviolet angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Combining with our first principle calculations, we identify the existence of the Fermi arcs originated from topological surface states. Furthermore, the surface states exhibit circular dichroism pattern, which may correlate with its non-trivial spin texture. Our results provide critical evidence for the existence of the Weyl Fermions in NbP, which lays the foundation for further investigations.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures