cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
$\mathcal{PT}$-breaking threshold in spatially asymmetric Aubry-Andre Harper models: hidden symmetry and topological states
Creators: name: Harter, Andrew K.
name: Lee, Tony E.
name: Joglekar, Yogesh N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aubry-Andre Harper (AAH) lattice models, characterized by reflection-asymmetric, sinusoidally varying nearest-neighbor tunneling profile, are well-known for their topological properties. We consider the fate of such models in the presence of balanced gain and loss potentials $\pm iγ$ located at reflection-symmetric sites. We predict that these models have a finite $\mathcal{PT}$ breaking threshold only for {\it specific locations} of the gain-loss potential, and uncover a hidden symmetry that is instrumental to the finite threshold strength. We also show that the topological edge-states remain robust in the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry broken phase. Our predictions substantially broaden the possible realizations of a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric system.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Implementation of the GAA ‘healthy clubs project’ in Ireland: a qualitative study using the consolidated framework for implementation research
Creators: name: Van Hoye, Aurelie
name: Regan, C
name: Lane, A
name: Vuillemin, Anne
name: WOODS, CATHERINE
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description:

The sports clubs’ role in promoting health has been acknowledged by policy makers and researchers, but there is little evidence on how sports clubs implement health-related interventions. The present article investigates the Gaelic Athletic Association Healthy Club Project (HCP) implementation process (mechanisms, barriers, leverages) over a 10-year timeframe. A case study design helped to produce and compare a data synthesis for five clubs involved since 2013. A qualitative iterative data collection, including document analysis was conducted through 20 focus groups with Healthy Club Officers, coaches, participants and members. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research was used in the deductive analysis process, conducted by the first author. Results have shown the success of the HCP in placing health promotion on the agenda of sports clubs leading to informal policy for health promotion, even if activities and recognition are directed toward and coming from the community. This study also underlines the virtuous cycle of the settings-based approach in enhancing membership and volunteer recognition through health promotion actions, and the importance of social good and corporate social activities for sports clubs. Nevertheless, the HCP still relies on limited human resources, is not recognized by competitive oriented adult playing members. and acknowledged as a resource by some coaches, limiting its rootedness in the core business of sports clubs. Future research should empower the HCP community to focus on organizational changes and develop outcomes for individuals, for the club as a whole as well as for the local community.
The Optimal Distance Measure for Object Detection
Creators: name: Shyjan  Mahamud
name: Hebert, Martial
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We develop a multi-class object detection framework whose core component is a nearest neighbor search over object part classes. The performance of the overall system is critically dependent on the distance measure used in the nearest neighbor search. A distance measure that minimizes the misclassification risk for the 1-nearest neighbor search can be shown to be the probability that a pair of input image measurements belong to different classes. In practice, we model the optimal distance measure using a linear logistic model that combines the discriminative powers of more elementary distance measures associated with a collection of simple to construct feature spaces like color, texture and local shape properties. Furthermore, in order to perform search over large training sets efficiently, the same framework was extended to find hamming distance measures associated with simple discriminators. By combining this discrete distance model with the continuous model, we obtain a hierarchical distance model that is both fast and accurate. Finally, the nearest neighbor search over object part classes was integrated into a whole object detection system and evaluated against an indoor detection task yielding good results.
Subdimensional Expansion for Multirobot Path Planning
Creators: name: Wagner, Glenn
name: Choset, Howie
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Planning optimal paths for large numbers of robots is computationally expensive. In this paper, we introduce a new framework for multirobot path planning called subdimensional expansion, which initially plans for each robot individually, and then coordinates motion among the robots as needed. More specifically, subdimensional expansion initially creates a one-dimensional search space embedded in the joint configuration space of the multirobot system. When the search space is found to be blocked during planning by a robotrobot collision, the dimensionality of the search space is locally increased to ensure that an alternative path can be found. As a result, robots are only coordinated when necessary, which reduces the computational cost of finding a path. We present the M* algorithm, an implementation of subdimensional expansion that adapts the A* planner to perform efficient multirobot planning. M* is proven to be complete and to find minimal cost paths. Simulation results are presented that show that M* outperforms existing optimal multirobot path planning algorithms
A study on the similarities of Deep Belief Networks and Stacked Autoencoders
Creators: name: Giorgio, Andrea De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Deep Learning
Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Stacked Autoencoders
Stacked Denoising Autoencoders
Machine Learning

description: Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and autoencoders have been used-in several variants-for similar tasks, such as reducing dimensionality or extracting features from signals. Even though their structures are quite similar, they rely on different training theories. Lately, they have been largely used as building blocks in deep learning architectures that are called deep belief networks (instead of stacked RBMs) and stacked autoencoders. In light of this, the student has worked on this thesis with the aim to understand the extent of the similarities and the overall pros and cons of using either RBMs, autoencoders or denoising autoencoders in deep networks. Important characteristics are tested, such as the robustness to noise, the influence on training of the availability of data and the tendency to overtrain. The author has then dedicated part of the thesis to study how the three deep networks in exam form their deep internal representations and how similar these can be to each other. In result of this, a novel approach for the evaluation of internal representations is presented with the name of F-Mapping. Results are reported and discussed.
Phytotoxic activity of Ulex europaeus, an invasive plant on Chilean ecosystems: separation and identification of potential allelochemicals
Creators: name: López-Rodríguez, Ariadna
name: Hernández, Martha
name: Carrillo-Galvez, Adrian
name: Becerra, José
name: Hernández, Víctor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Despite its worldwide relevance as an invasive plant, there are few studies on Ulex europaeus (gorse) and its allelopathic activity is almost unexplored. The allelochemical profile of gorse was analysed through methanolic extract of pods and roots, and its phytotoxic effects on Lactuca sativa germination. The methanolic extract of pods had no effect in germination, while extract of roots resulted in a U-shaped dose-response curve: reducing the germination at concentration 0.5 mg mL−1. GC-MS analysis detected compounds with proven antimicrobial and antioxidant activities in the pods and cytotoxic compounds in the roots, which could explain the bioassay results. The quinolizidine alkaloids (QAs) composition was evaluated to predict possible biological functions. It showed the presence of QAs in gorse that are absent in their native range, indicating broad defense strategies against bacteria, fungi, plants, and insects in the Chilean ecosystem. This could explain the superiority of gorse in the invaded areas.
The Importance of the Magnetic Field from an SMA-CSO-Combined Sample of Star-Forming Regions
Creators: name: Koch, Patrick M.
name: Tang, Ya-Wen
name: Ho, Paul T. P.
name: Zhang, Qizhou
name: Girart, Josep Miquel
name: Chen, Huei-Ru Vivien
name: Frau, Pau
name: Li, Hua-bai
name: Li, Zhi-Yun
name: Liu, Hauyu Baobab
name: Padovani, Marco
name: Qiu, Keping
name: Yen, Hsi-Wei
name: Chen, How-Huan
name: Ching, Tao-Chung
name: Lai, Shih-Ping
name: Rao, Ramprasad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Submillimeter dust polarization measurements of a sample of 50 star-forming regions, observed with the SMA and the CSO covering pc-scale clouds to mpc-scale cores, are analyzed in order to quantify the magnetic field importance. The magnetic field misalignment $δ$ -- the local angle between magnetic field and dust emission gradient -- is found to be a prime observable, revealing distinct distributions for sources where the magnetic field is preferentially aligned with or perpendicular to the source minor axis. Source-averaged misalignment angles $\langle|δ|\rangle$ fall into systematically different ranges, reflecting the different source-magnetic field configurations. Possible bimodal $\langle|δ|\rangle$-distributions are found for the separate SMA and CSO samples. Combining both samples broadens the distribution with a wide maximum peak at small $\langle|δ|\rangle$-values. Assuming the 50 sources to be representative, the prevailing source-magnetic field configuration is one that statistically prefers small magnetic field misalignments $|δ|$. When interpreting $|δ|$ together with an MHD force equation, as developed in the framework of the polarization-intensity gradient method, a sample-based scaling fits the magnetic field tension-to-gravity force ratio $\langleΣ_B\rangle$ versus $\langle|δ|\rangle$ with $\langleΣ_B\rangle = 0.116 \cdot \exp(0.047\cdot \langle|δ|\rangle)\pm 0.20$ (mean error), providing a way to estimate the relative importance of the magnetic field, only based on measurable field misalignments $|δ|$. The force ratio $Σ_B$ discriminates systems that are collapsible on average ($\langle Σ_B\rangle <1$) from other molecular clouds where the magnetic field still provides enough resistance against gravitational collapse ($\langle Σ_B\rangle >1$) (abridged).
description: 43 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ
The TechBridge World Initiative: Broadening Perspectives in Computing Technology Education and Research
Creators: name: M. Bernardine  Dias
name: G. Ayorkor  Mills-Tettey
name: Mertz, Joseph
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The growing demand for technological innovation to empower
developing communities and enable sustainable development
requires new and creative educational initiatives. Thus, well
designed higher educational initiatives geared towards appropriate
technology for developing communities can have a significant
global impact. This paper presents the challenges and benefits of a
higher education initiative, TechBridgeWorld, at Carnegie Mellon
University that focuses on innovating and implementing relevant
technology for developing communities. The authors examine the
potential intersections of computing technologies with education
and sustainable development. Several programs launched through
the TechBridgeWorld initiative are described, and results of a
pilot study carried out in Ghana for one of the TechBridgeWorld
programs, Project Kané, are presented. The paper concludes with
an analysis of lessons learned by the authors through launching
the TechBridgeWorld initiative, and other related experiences.
The Clustering Evolution of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies
Creators: name: Cowley, William I.
name: Lacey, Cedric G.
name: Baugh, Carlton M.
name: Cole, Shaun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present predictions for the clustering of galaxies selected by their emission at far infra-red (FIR) and sub-millimetre wavelengths. This includes the first predictions for the effect of clustering biases induced by the coarse angular resolution of single-dish telescopes at these wavelengths. We combine a new version of the GALFORM model of galaxy formation with a self-consistent model for calculating the absorption and re-emission of radiation by interstellar dust. Model galaxies selected at $850$ $μ$m reside in dark matter halos of mass $M_{\rm halo}\sim10^{11.5}-10^{12}$ $h^{-1}$ M$_{\odot}$, independent of redshift (for $0.2\lesssim z\lesssim4$) or flux (for $0.25\lesssim S_{850μ\rm m}\lesssim4$ mJy). At $z\sim2.5$, the brightest galaxies ($S_{850μ\rm m}>4$ mJy) exhibit a correlation length of $r_{0}=5.5_{-0.5}^{+0.3}$ $h^{-1}$ Mpc, consistent with observations. We show that these galaxies have descendants with stellar masses $M_{\star}\sim10^{11}$ $h^{-1}$ M$_{\odot}$ occupying halos spanning a broad range in mass $M_{\rm halo}\sim10^{12}-10^{14}$ $h^{-1}$ M$_{\odot}$. The FIR emissivity at shorter wavelengths ($250$, $350$ and $500$ $μ$m) is also dominated by galaxies in the halo mass range $M_{\rm halo}\sim10^{11.5}-10^{12}$ $h^{-1}$ M$_{\odot}$, again independent of redshift (for $0.5\lesssim z\lesssim5$). We compare our predictions for the angular power spectrum of cosmic infra-red background anisotropies at these wavelengths with observations, finding agreement to within a factor of $\sim2$ over all scales and wavelengths, an improvement over earlier versions of the model. Simulating images at $850$ $μ$m, we show that confusion effects boost the measured angular correlation function on all scales by a factor of $\sim4$. This has important consequences, potentially leading to inferred halo masses being overestimated by an order of magnitude.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures, Accepted by MNRAS
Rover Design for Polar Astrobiological Exploration
Creators: name: Pedersen, Liam
name: Wettergreen, David
name: Apostolopoulos, Dimitrios
name: McKay, Chris
name: DiGoia, Matthew
name: Jonak, Dominic
name: Heys, Stuart
name: Teza, James
name: Wagner, Michael
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: LORAX is a robotic mission to characterize the
distribution of microbes in Antarctica’s ice sheets.
Robotic platform requirements include navigational
autonomy and clean, sustainable power systems to
operate unattended for a month without introducing
contamination that would affect the results. This paper
details the LORAX investigation, the navigational
autonomy development and testing, and an analysis of
wind and solar power to accomplish this mission.
Assessing the impact of spatial resolution of UAS-based remote sensing and spectral resolution of proximal sensing on crop nitrogen retrieval accuracy
Creators: name: Hassani, Kianoosh
name: Gholizadeh, Hamed
name: Taghvaeian, Saleh
name: Natalie, Victoria
name: Carpenter, Jonathan
name: Jacob, Jamey
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Foliar nitrogen (N) plays a central role in photosynthetic machinery of plants, regulating their growth rates. However, field-based methods for monitoring plant N concentration are costly and limited in their ability to cover large spatial extents. In this study, we had two objectives: (1) assess the capability of unoccupied aerial system (UAS) and non-imaging spectroscopic data in estimating sorghum and corn N concentration and (2) determine the impact of spatial and spectral resolution of reflectance data on estimating sorghum and corn N concentration. We used a UAS and an ASD spectroradiometer to collect canopy- and leaf-level spectral data from sorghum and corn at experimental plots located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S. We also collected foliage samples in the field and measured foliar N concentration in the lab for model validation. To assess the impact of spectral scale on estimating N concentration, we resampled our leaf-level ASD data to generate datasets with coarser spectral resolutions. To determine the impact of spatial scale on estimating N concentration, we resampled our UAS data to simulate five datasets with varying spatial resolutions ranging from 5 cm to 1 m. Finally, we used a suite of vegetation indices (VIs) and machine learning algorithms (MLAs) to estimate N concentration. Results from leaf-level ASD spectral data showed that the resampled data matching the spectral resolution of our UAS-based data at five spectral bands ranging from 360 to 900 nm provided sufficient spectral information to estimate plot-level sorghum and corn N concentration. Regarding spatial resolution, canopy-level UAS data resampled at multiple pixel sizes, ranging from 1 cm to 1 m were consistently capable of estimating N concentration. Overall, our findings indicate the possibility of developing monitoring instruments with optimal spectral and spatial resolution for estimating N concentration in crops.
Additional file 2 of A draft Diabrotica virgifera virgifera genome: insights into control and host plant adaption by a major maize pest insect
Creators: name: Coates, Brad S.
name: Walden, Kimberly K. O.
name: Lata, Dimpal
name: Vellichirammal, Neetha Nanoth
name: Mitchell, Robert F.
name: Andersson, Martin N.
name: McKay, Rachel
name: Lorenzen, Marcé D.
name: Grubbs, Nathaniel
name: Wang, Yu-Hui
name: Han, Jinlong
name: Xuan, Jing Li
name: Willadsen, Peter
name: Wang, Huichun
name: French, B. Wade
name: Bansal, Raman
name: Sedky, Sammy
name: Souza, Dariane
name: Bunn, Dakota
name: Meinke, Lance J.
name: Miller, Nicholas J.
name: Siegfried, Blair D.
name: Sappington, Thomas W.
name: Robertson, Hugh M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Figure S1. Analysis of the 31-nucleotide k-mer distribution among short paired-end reads from 0.5 kb Diabrotica virgifera virgifera genomic insert libraries (SRA accessions: SRR6985753 to SRR6985756). Distributions shown for A) linear and B) log plots. These provided minimum (min) and maximum (max) estimates for genome haploid (1N) length and proportions comprising unique and repeated sequences. Estimated mean heterozygosity and duplication level was 0.448% and 0.331%, respectively. Low coverage area <10 under the red curve indicative of sequence error.
Assessing the impact of spatial resolution of UAS-based remote sensing and spectral resolution of proximal sensing on crop nitrogen retrieval accuracy
Creators: name: Hassani, Kianoosh
name: Gholizadeh, Hamed
name: Taghvaeian, Saleh
name: Natalie, Victoria
name: Carpenter, Jonathan
name: Jacob, Jamey
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 80699
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Foliar nitrogen (N) plays a central role in photosynthetic machinery of plants, regulating their growth rates. However, field-based methods for monitoring plant N concentration are costly and limited in their ability to cover large spatial extents. In this study, we had two objectives: (1) assess the capability of unoccupied aerial system (UAS) and non-imaging spectroscopic data in estimating sorghum and corn N concentration and (2) determine the impact of spatial and spectral resolution of reflectance data on estimating sorghum and corn N concentration. We used a UAS and an ASD spectroradiometer to collect canopy- and leaf-level spectral data from sorghum and corn at experimental plots located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S. We also collected foliage samples in the field and measured foliar N concentration in the lab for model validation. To assess the impact of spectral scale on estimating N concentration, we resampled our leaf-level ASD data to generate datasets with coarser spectral resolutions. To determine the impact of spatial scale on estimating N concentration, we resampled our UAS data to simulate five datasets with varying spatial resolutions ranging from 5 cm to 1 m. Finally, we used a suite of vegetation indices (VIs) and machine learning algorithms (MLAs) to estimate N concentration. Results from leaf-level ASD spectral data showed that the resampled data matching the spectral resolution of our UAS-based data at five spectral bands ranging from 360 to 900 nm provided sufficient spectral information to estimate plot-level sorghum and corn N concentration. Regarding spatial resolution, canopy-level UAS data resampled at multiple pixel sizes, ranging from 1 cm to 1 m were consistently capable of estimating N concentration. Overall, our findings indicate the possibility of developing monitoring instruments with optimal spectral and spatial resolution for estimating N concentration in crops.
Synthesis and new skin-relevant properties of the salicylic acid ester of bakuchiol
Creators: name: Quijas, Geovani
name: Haliński, Łukasz P.
name: Gobis, Katarzyna
name: Bojanowski, Ryszard
name: Bojanowski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Bakusylan (bakuchiol salicylate) is a bipartite compound obtained by merging two skin-active entities with complementary bioactivities—bakuchiol and salicylic acid—for the purpose of generating a new class of functional retinoids with enhanced skin benefits. Here, we describe its preparation process and report that pure bakusylan exhibits potential for an improved permeation through the stratum corneum, enhances type IV collagen gene expression in organotypic skin substitutes containing both epidermal and dermal layers, and upregulates this protein in adult human dermal fibroblast cultures. The mechanism of action underlying these effects appears to involve the components of the IP3K/Akt signaling pathway selectively implicated in the maintenance of skin integrity, further underlying the suitability of this ester for skin care applications requiring enhanced cutaneous permeation targeting the dermal-epidermal junction.
Critical Analysis of Laws relating to Women Prisoners
Creators: name: Ramesh, Prof. (Dr.)
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440509
subject: Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)

description: Right is an interest or claim recognized, guaranteed and protected by the state. state is an organization which fulfills the legitimate expectation of the people. It is because of this reason the state is under an obligation to protect the rights of its people within its territory. Article 14 of the Indian Constitution ensures equality before the law and equal protection of law. The concept of equality means equality amongst the equals and not amongst the unequal‘s. Hence, when a women enters as prisoner/inmates to the prison maintained by the state (as prison is state subject in India) the state should take care of her with special attention after considering mandate under various provisions of the constitution especially under the Article 15 (3) of Indian Constitution. However, in practical the rights of the women prisoners are violating by the state authority itself. In this article an attempt is made to evaluation the various rights of women prisoners.
Robust entanglement-based magnetic field sensor beyond the standard quantum limit
Creators: name: Tanaka, Tohru
name: Knott, Paul
name: Matsuzaki, Yuichiro
name: Dooley, Shane
name: Yamaguchi, Hiroshi
name: Munro, William J.
name: Saito, Shiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, there have been significant developments in entanglement-based quantum metrology. However, entanglement is fragile against experimental imperfections, and quantum sensing to beat the standard quantum limit in scaling has not yet been achieved in realistic systems. Here, we show that it is possible to overcome such restrictions so that one can sense a magnetic field with an accuracy beyond the standard quantum limit even under the effect of decoherence, by using a realistic entangled state that can be easily created even with current technology. Our scheme could pave the way for the realizations of practical entanglement-based magnetic field sensors.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
title: Driver Condition Detection
Creators: name: Langer, Ingmar
name: Abendroth, Bettina
name: Bruder, Ralph
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2023

description: This following chapter deals with driver condition detection. After delineating the factors relevant to detecting a driver’s condition and discussing the reasons for addressing the subject in terms of accident risk and the corresponding potentials and challenges (Sect. 1), three potential uses of driver condition detection are examined: detection of inattentiveness (Sect. 2), detection of drowsiness (Sect. 3), and detection of medical emergencies (e.g., a heart attack; Sect. 4). The respective driver conditions are defined, relevant measuring variables and their corresponding measuring procedures present, and selected applications expanded upon. Section 5 addresses driver condition monitoring systems currently available on the market and names the measuring variables and procedures used by those systems, before giving a short overview of the problem of potential false alarms in Sect. 6.
Tracking transformative agreements through open metadata
Creators: name: Sondervan, Jeroen
name: de Jonge, Hans
name: Kramer, Bianca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Open Access
Transformative Agreements
Open Metadata
OpenAlex
Crossref

description: Poster presented at the 17th Berlin Open Access Conference. 

This poster presents a method for calculating which articles have been covered by transformative agreements by using exclusively open metadata sources. The sources used are the Journal Checker Tool as developed by cOAlition S in combination with corresponding institution data from OpenAlex. The openness of this data allows everyone interested to determine from a given corpus of publications whether or not they were likely covered by a transformative agreement, without having access to the actual publisher’s data. To demonstrate the potential use of the method, we have applkies it to a dataset of publications funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and its sister council for health research ZonMw.

We have validated this method using the actual publisher data provided to the Dutch Library Consortium UKB, showing that this open method accurately identified 89% of the publications covered by transformative agreements, while the 11% false positives shed an interesting light on the limitations of this method. In the absence of hard, openly available article‐level data on transformative agreements, we provide researchers and institutions with a powerful tool to critically track and evaluate the impact of these agreements.
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Creators: name: Ramesh, Prof. (Dr.)
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440509
subject: Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)

description: Right is an interest or claim recognized, guaranteed and protected by the state. state is an organization which fulfills the legitimate expectation of the people. It is because of this reason the state is under an obligation to protect the rights of its people within its territory. Article 14 of the Indian Constitution ensures equality before the law and equal protection of law. The concept of equality means equality amongst the equals and not amongst the unequal‘s. Hence, when a women enters as prisoner/inmates to the prison maintained by the state (as prison is state subject in India) the state should take care of her with special attention after considering mandate under various provisions of the constitution especially under the Article 15 (3) of Indian Constitution. However, in practical the rights of the women prisoners are violating by the state authority itself. In this article an attempt is made to evaluation the various rights of women prisoners.
Scattering of Stringy States in Compactified Closed Bosonic String
Creators: name: Maharana, Jnanaveda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present scattering of stringy states of closed bosonic string compactified on d-dimensional torus. We focus our attention on scattering of moduli and gauge bosons. These states appear when massless excitations such as graviton and antisymmetric tensor field of the uncompactified theory are dimensionally reduced to lower dimension. The toroidally compactified theory is endowed with the T-duality symmetry, O(d,d). Therefore, it is expected that the amplitude for scattering of such states will be $T$-duality invariant. The formalism of Kawai-Llewelen-Tye is adopted and appropriately tailored to construct the vertex operators of moduli and gauge bosons. It is shown, in our approach, that N-point amplitude is T-duality invariant. We present illustrative examples for the four point amplitude to explicitly demonstrate the economy of our formalism when three spatial dimensions are compactified on three dimensional torus. It is also shown that if we construct an amplitude with a set of 'initial' backgrounds, the T-duality operation transforms it to an amplitude associated with another set backgrounds. We propose a modified version of KLT approach to construct vertex operators for nonabelian massless gauge bosons which appear in certain compactification schemes.
description: 25 pages
The search for regularity : four aspects of scientific discovery
Creators: name: Langley, Patrick W.
name: Zytkow, Jan
name: Simon, Herbert Alexander
name: Bradshaw, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robotics Institute
Replacing the Singlet Spinor of the EPR-B Experiment in the Configuration Space with two Single-Particle Spinors in Physical Space
Creators: name: Gondran, Michel
name: Gondran, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, for spinless non-relativistic particles, Norsen, Marian and Oriols show that in the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation it is possible to replace the wave function in the configuration space by single-particle wave functions in physical space. In this paper, we show that this replacment of the wave function in the configuration space by single-particle functions in the 3D-space is also possible for particles with spin, in particular for the particles of the EPR-B experiment, the Bohm version of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, accepted in Foundations of Physics 2016
Using cylindrical algebraic decomposition and local Fourier analysis to study numerical methods: two examples
Creators: name: Takacs, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Local Fourier analysis is a strong and well-established tool for analyzing the convergence of numerical methods for partial differential equations. The key idea of local Fourier analysis is to represent the occurring functions in terms of a Fourier series and to use this representation to study certain properties of the particular numerical method, like the convergence rate or an error estimate. In the process of applying a local Fourier analysis, it is typically necessary to determine the supremum of a more or less complicated term with respect to all frequencies and, potentially, other variables. The problem of computing such a supremum can be rewritten as a quantifier elimination problem, which can be solved with cylindrical algebraic decomposition, a well-known tool from symbolic computation. The combination of local Fourier analysis and cylindrical algebraic decomposition is a machinery that can be applied to a wide class of problems. In the present paper, we will discuss two examples. The first example is to compute the convergence rate of a multigrid method. As second example we will see that the machinery can also be used to do something rather different: We will compare approximation error estimates for different kinds of discretizations.
description: The research was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): J3362-N25
Improving Water Efficiency in the Beverage Industry with the Internet of Things
Creators: name: Jagtap, Sandeep
name: Skouteris, George
name: Vilendra Choudhari
name: Rahimifard, Shahin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90899 Food Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 90805 Food Processing
subject: 90802 Food Engineering

description: Food and beverage industry is one of the most water-intensive sectors, with water required for various processes, e.g. washing, cooking, cleaning, at almost every stage of the production, as well as being an essential constituent in many food and drink products. Therefore, a real-time efficient water management strategy is imperative, and the novel Internet of Things (IoT)-based technologies can be of significant help in developing it. This paper presents the architecture of IoT-based water-monitoring system followed by the demonstration of a case study of a beverage factory wherein the monitoring system helped to understand the detailed water usage as well as finding solutions and addressing overconsumption of water during the manufacturing processes. The successful deployment of IoT helped reduce the annual water consumption by 6.7%, monitor water usage in real-time, and improve it. This work, for the first time, has demonstrated that application of IoT-based technologies to the beverage industry can significantly improve its water efficiency.
title: Who Cares? Scotland : 25 years and still moving forward....
Creators: name: Watson, Deirdre
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2003

description: Who Cares? Scotland was established in 1978 to act as the consumer voice of young people in care. Initially, the organisation provided the opportunity for young people to comment on the care services they received. For the first ten years, Who Cares? Scotland operated on an entirely voluntary basis. 'Supportive adults', mainly employed in social work and residential care, worked with young people to set up a network of groups bringing young people together. These groups enabled young people to comment on care services and the adults to promote their views to relevant people in the Scottish Office and Regional Councils.
Time-extended Multi-robot Coordination for Domains with Intra-path Constraints
Creators: name: E. Gil Jones
name: M. Bernardine  Dias
name: Stentz, Anthony
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many applications require teams of robots to cooperatively execute complex tasks. Among these domains are those where successful coordination solutions must respect constraints that occur on the intra-path level. This work focuses on multi-agent coordination for disaster response with intra-path constraints, a compelling application that is not well addressed by current coordination methods. In this domain a group of fire trucks agents attempt to address a number of fires spread throughout a city in the wake of a large-scale disaster. The disaster has also caused many city roads to be blocked by impassable debris, which can be cleared by bulldozer robots. A high-quality coordination solution must determine not only a task allocation but also what routes the fire trucks should take given the intra-path precedence constraints and which bulldozers should be assigned to clear debris along those routes. This work presents two methods for generating time-extended coordination solutions -- solutions where more than one task is assigned to each agent -- for domains with intra-path constraints. While a number of approaches have employed time-extended coordination for domains with independent tasks, few approaches have used time-extended coordination in domains where agents'schedules are interdependent at the path planning level. Our first approach uses tiered auctions and two heuristic techniques, clustering and opportunistic path planning, to perform a bounded search of possible time-extended schedules and allocations. Our second method uses a centralized, non-heuristic, genetic algorithm-based approach that provides higher quality solutions but at substantially greater computational cost. We compare our time-extended approaches with a range of single task allocation approaches in a simulated disaster response domain.
On the relationship between the non-local clustering mechanism and preferential concentration
Creators: name: Bragg, Andrew D.
name: Ireland, Peter J.
name: Collins, Lance R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: `Preferential concentration' (\emph{Phys. Fluids} \textbf{A3}:1169--78, 1991) refers to the clustering of inertial particles in the high-strain, low-rotation regions of turbulence. The `centrifuge mechanism' of Maxey (\emph{J. Fluid Mech.} \textbf{174}:441--65, 1987) appears to explain this phenomenon. In a recent paper, Bragg \& Collins (\emph{New J. Phys.} \textbf{16}:055013, 2014) showed that the centrifuge mechanism is dominant only in the regime ${St\ll1}$, where $St$ is the Stokes number based on the Kolmogorov time scale. Outside this regime, the centrifuge mechanism gives way to a non-local, path-history symmetry breaking mechanism. However, despite the change in the clustering mechanism, the instantaneous particle positions continue to correlate with high-strain, low-rotation regions of the turbulence. In this paper, we analyze the exact equation governing the radial distribution function and show how the non-local clustering mechanism is influenced by, but not dependent upon, the preferential sampling of the fluid velocity gradient tensor along the particle path-histories in such a way as to generate a bias for clustering in high-strain regions of the turbulence. We also show how the non-local mechanism still generates clustering, but without preferential concentration, in the limit where the timescales of the fluid velocity gradient tensor measured along the inertial particle trajectories approaches zero (such as white-noise flows or for particles in turbulence settling under strong gravity). Finally, we use data from a direct numerical simulation of inertial particles suspended in Navier-Stokes turbulence to validate the arguments presented in this study.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Trajectory Generation with Curvature Constraint based on Energy Minimization
Creators: name: H.  Delingette
name: Hebert, Martial
name: Ikeuchi, Katsushi
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The trajectory generation problem for mobile robots consists in providing a set of trajectories that are `smooth' and meet certain boundary conditions. The authors present a method to generate curvature continuous trajectories for which the curvature profile is a polynomial function of arc length. An algorithm based on the deformation of a curve by energy minimization allows one to solve general geometric constraints which was not possible by previous methods. Furthermore, it is able to take into account the limitation of radius of curvature of the robot by controlling the extrema of curvature along the path
Violation of human rights of women prisoners in Indian: A critical analysis
Creators: name: Ramesh, Prof. (Dr.)
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 480307
subject: International humanitarian and human rights law
classificationCode: 440402
subject: Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding
classificationCode: 480403
subject: Law and humanities

description: Human rights are the basic rights available to everyone across the world irrespective of the fact they are citizen or non citizen in any country for the matter. However, the State by not fulfilling the basic objectives and the requirements of the human rights is violating the same. This is very evident in respect of the women and women prisoners. Despite many committee reports followed by various enactment since the British Raj administration and till today the violation of human rights of the women prisoners are still unabated. The only relief is the direction given and compensation awarded by the Human rights commission both at the Central and State level in India. As the Constitution of India provided for the Judicial review the Judiciary is also taken the cognizance of human rights violations and given the decision infavor of the victims.
Collisional Formation and Modeling of Asteroid Families
Creators: name: Michel, Patrick
name: Richardson, Derek C.
name: Durda, Daniel D.
name: Jutzi, Martin
name: Asphaug, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last decade, thanks to the development of sophisticated numerical codes, major breakthroughs have been achieved in our understanding of the formation of asteroid families by catastrophic disruption of large parent bodies. In this review, we describe numerical simulations of asteroid collisions that reproduced the main properties of families, accounting for both the fragmentation of an asteroid at the time of impact and the subsequent gravitational interactions of the generated fragments. The simulations demonstrate that the catastrophic disruption of bodies larger than a few hundred meters in diameter leads to the formation of large aggregates due to gravitational reaccumulation of smaller fragments, which helps explain the presence of large members within asteroid families. Thus, for the first time, numerical simulations successfully reproduced the sizes and ejection velocities of members of representative families. Moreover, the simulations provide constraints on the family dynamical histories and on the possible internal structure of family members and their parent bodies.
description: Chapter to appear in the (University of Arizona Press) Space Science Series Book: Asteroids IV
The Best Laid Plans of Robots and Men
Creators: name: Koes, Mary
name: Sycara, Katia
name: Illah Nourbakhsh
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The best laid plans of robots and men often go awry. In dangerous and uncertain environments initial plans must be revised as robots fail, additional robots join the team, robots discover inconsistencies in their model of the problem, etc. Communication failures hamper this replanning. We introduce fractured subteams as a novel formalism for modeling breakdowns in communication. We present a hybrid approach that employs distributed coordination mechanisms to provide robustness to these communication breakdowns and exploits opportunistic centralization. By modeling the problem as a mixed integer linear programming problem, we are able to apply constraint optimization techniques to efficiently find optimal or near optimal solutions to the difficult class of time critical tight coordination team planning problems. We then demonstrate that explicitly reasoning about communication failures through the incorporation of selective disruption minimization significantly improves team performance.
Intersection sets, three-character multisets and associated codes
Creators: name: Aguglia, Angela
name: Giuzzi, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B25, 51E20, 51D20

description: In this article we construct new minimal intersection sets in ${\mathrm{AG}}(r,q^2)$ sporting three intersection numbers with hyperplanes; we then use these sets to obtain linear error correcting codes with few weights, whose weight enumerator we also determine. Furthermore, we provide a new family of three-character multisets in ${\mathrm{PG}}(r,q^2)$ with $r$ even and we also compute their weight distribution.
description: 17 Pages; revised and corrected results