cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Progenitor Systems of Classical Novae in M31
Creators: name: Abelson, C. S.
name: Badenes, Carles
name: Chomiuk, Laura
name: Williams, Benjamin F.
name: Breivik, Katelyn
name: Galbany, Lluís
name: Palau, Cristina Jimenez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first characterization of the statistical relationship between a large sample of novae in M31 and their progenitor stellar populations in the form of a delay time distribution. To this end, we leverage the spatially resolved stellar age distribution of the M31 disk derived from deep HST photometry by the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) survey and a large catalog of novae in M31. Our delay time distribution has two statistically significant detections: one population of nova progenitors, ages between 2 and 3.2 Gyr, with an unnormalized rate of ($3.7^{+6.8}_{-3.5} \pm 2.1) \cdot 10^{-9}$ events / $M_{\odot}$, and another of ages between 7.9 Gyr and the age of the Universe with ($4.8^{+1.0}_{-0.9} \pm 0.2) \cdot 10^{-9}$ events / $M_{\odot}$ (uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively). Together with the upper limits we derive at other time bins, these detections are consistent with either a constant production efficiency or a higher production efficiency of novae at earlier delay times.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures. Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal
title: Von prekären und „guten“ Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnissen: Politiken der Ent_Prekarisierung in pandemischen Zeiten
Creators: name: Wimbauer, Christine
name: Motakef, Mona
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2021, no. 49, p. 54
title: Über „… spöttische situationistische Interventionen und groben zivilen Ungehorsam“ (N. Fraser): Feministische Kämpfe um Reproduktion zwischen Aufstand und Streik
Creators: name: Stutz, Constanze
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2021, no. 49, p. 57
title: Das ‚Gute Leben für Alle‘ durch Waldbesetzungen?: Bedürfnisse erkunden zwischen Klimakrise und commonistischer Utopie
Creators: name: Vanagas, Annette
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2021, no. 49, p. 60
Enhancements to Galaxy for delivering on NIH Commons
Creators: name: Madduri, Ravi K
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The Big Data for Discovery Science (BDDS) Center is one on the NIH BD2K centers. In BDDS, we are building tools to move, share, analyze, discover and publish big biomedical data. These tools constitute the BDDS platform. We are leveraging the platform to enable data-driven discovery across our center and are also working with other BD2K centers, both directly and through the Commons initiative, to build standard interfaces for various data management activities. Galaxy is an integral part of our platform and we are enhancing Galaxy to support working with Digital object identifiers (DoIs), analyze data at scale using identified docker containers, publish results in to Globus Publication services thus providing an end-to-end framework for reproducible research in support of the NIH Commons vision.
title: Im Zeitalter des Postfeminismus?: Feministische Bewegungen zwischen Subversion, Neoliberalismus und Digitalisierung
Creators: name: André, Fabienne
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2021, no. 49, p. 69
Automated Analysis of Logically Constrained Rewrite Systems using crest
Creators: name: Schöpf, Jonas
name: Middeldorp, Aart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present crest, a tool for automatically proving (non-)confluence and termination of logically constrained rewrite systems. We compare crest to other tools for logically constrained rewriting. Extensive experiments demonstrate the promise of crest.
description: Accepted at the 31st International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS) 2025
Mr imaging of facial rerve in a case of Bell's palsy
Creators: name: Chaudhry, Sahil
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Inflammation

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 28 years
description: Clinical History: A 28 year old lady presented with acute history of sagging of angle of mouth on left side with difficulty in eating food.Patient was diagnosed as Lower Motor Neuron type Facial nerve palsy on left side clinical examination.No antecedent cause for the same... Final Diagnosis: IDIOPATHIC FACIAL NERVE NEURITIS
Supplementary document for interferometric Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy imaging with an electronically variable time-of-flight filter - 6151308.pdf
Creators: name: Zhao, Mingjun
name: Zhou, Wenjun
name: Aparanji, Santosh
name: Mazumder, Dibbyan
name: Srinivasan, Vivek
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplement 1 (11/12)
On the addition technique for Betti and Poincaré polynomials of plane curves
Creators: name: Pokora, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H50, 32S25, 14N20

description: Using the addition technique, we present polynomial identities for the Betti and Poincaré polynomials of reduced plane curves.
description: 7 pages, the second extended version with some new examples, to appear in Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences - Mathematics
Organic waste diversion : how can the Vancouver International Airport best adopt an organic waste diversion program?
Creators: name: Jaswal, Natasha
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The Vancouver International airport(YVR) is currently implementing an organic waste diversion system to divert organic materials from its waste stream. The current waste stream at the airport is 59% compostable, indicating the large potential YVR has to remove organics from its waste stream (MJ Waste Solutions, 2012). The research question looks at how the airport should go about adopting an organic waste diversion program. This report also explores the challenges that may arise with running the program, as well as how to promote public and employee participation. This question has been broken down into three different sections: current organic diversion initiatives within Metro Vancouver are discussed, explaining how YVR’s waste stream will be affected by regional initiatives, followed by a discussion of how to foster an environmental behavior change and how to best promote an organics program. Finally case studies and interviews are presented, analyzing challenges that have previously been faced by facilities where organic waste diversion systems have been implemented. Below is a list of recommendations that were found from the research. Research Recommendations: -- To encourage public participation, have signs on bins indicating waste types • Signs should have very little text, with large clear visuals • Signs should be placed on both table tops as well as directly on the bins to have the most effective outcome. • Have the signs in different languages to accommodate the diverse population • Educate the public about what organic waste is, why it is necessary and how to separate waste • Compostable lining for the waste bins • Smaller bins for the individual food stalls • Host training sessions for employees • Monitors in the public areas above the waste bins, illustrating which type of waste goes where.
title: “Transgendered, castrated, effeminate“?: Gender and Ambiguity in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Creators: name: Plummer, Patricia
name: Kazmi, Syed
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2021, no. 49, p. 74
title: Wissenschaftler*innen als Sorgende Angehörige: Befunde, Desiderata und Bedarfe an Hochschulen
Creators: name: Lind, Inken
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2021, no. 49, p. 80
Bayesian Model Selection for Network Discrimination and Risk-informed Decision Making in Material Flow Analysis
Creators: name: Liao, Jiankan
name: Huan, Xun
name: Cooper, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Material flow analyses (MFAs) provide insight into supply chain level opportunities for resource efficiency. MFAs can be represented as networks with nodes that represent materials, processes, sectors or locations. MFA network structure uncertainty (i.e., the existence or absence of flows between nodes) is pervasive and can undermine the reliability of the flow predictions. This article investigates MFA network structure uncertainty by proposing candidate node-and-flow structures and using Bayesian model selection to identify the most suitable structures and Bayesian model averaging to quantify the parametric mass flow uncertainty. The results of this holistic approach to MFA uncertainty are used in conjunction with the input-output (I/O) method to make risk-informed resource efficiency recommendation. These techniques are demonstrated using a case study on the U.S. steel sector where 16 candidate structures are considered. Model selection highlights 2 networks as most probable based on data collected from the United States Geological Survey and the World Steel Association. Using the I/O method, we then show that the construction sector accounts for the greatest mean share of domestic U.S. steel industry emissions while the automotive and steel products sectors have the highest mean emissions per unit of steel used in the end-use sectors. The uncertainty in the results is used to analyze which end-use sector should be the focus of demand reduction efforts under different appetites for risk. This article's methods generate holistic and transparent MFA uncertainty that account for structural uncertainty, enabling decisions whose outcomes are more robust to the uncertainty.
description: 17 pages of main paper and 26 pages of supporting information
Tunable superconductivity coexisting with the anomalous Hall effect in 1T'-WS2
Creators: name: Hossain, Md Shafayat
name: Zhang, Qi
name: Graf, David
name: Iraola, Mikel
name: Müller, Tobias
name: Mardanya, Sougata
name: Tu, Yi-Hsin
name: Lai, Zhuangchai
name: Soldini, Martina O.
name: Li, Siyuan
name: Yao, Yao
name: Jiang, Yu-Xiao
name: Cheng, Zi-Jia
name: Litskevich, Maksim
name: Casas, Brian
name: Cochran, Tyler A.
name: Yang, Xian P.
name: Kim, Byunghoon
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Chowdhury, Sugata
name: Bansil, Arun
name: Zhang, Hua
name: Chang, Tay-Rong
name: Fischer, Mark
name: Neupert, Titus
name: Balicas, Luis
name: Hasan, M. Zahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transition metal dichalcogenides are a family of quasi-two-dimensional materials that display a high technological potential due to their wide range of electronic ground states, e.g., from superconducting to semiconducting, depending on the chemical composition, crystal structure, or electrostatic doping. Here, we unveil that by tuning a single parameter, the hydrostatic pressure P, a cascade of electronic phase transitions can be induced in the few-layer transition metal dichalcogenide 1T'-WS2, including superconducting, topological, and anomalous Hall effect phases. Specifically, as P increases, we observe a dual phase transition: the suppression of superconductivity with the concomitant emergence of an anomalous Hall effect at P=1.15 GPa. Remarkably, upon further increasing the pressure above 1.6 GPa, we uncover a reentrant superconducting state that emerges out of a state still exhibiting an anomalous Hall effect. This superconducting state shows a marked increase in superconducting anisotropy with respect to the phase observed at ambient pressure, suggesting a different superconducting state with a distinct pairing symmetry. Via first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that the system concomitantly transitions into a strong topological phase with markedly different band orbital characters and Fermi surfaces contributing to the superconductivity. These findings position 1T'-WS2 as a unique, tunable superconductor, wherein superconductivity, anomalous transport, and band features can be tuned through the application of moderate pressures.
DOCENCIA, INVESTIGACIÒN Y COMPETENCIAS - La evaluación de los aprendizajes: concepciones, enfoques y funciones en las distintas modalidades de la educación superior (pagina 188 -211)
Creators: name: Figueroa Mendoza, Nelson
name: Hernandez, Helmer Muñoz
name: Hernandez, Nestor Arrieta
name: Guzman, Javier Dario Canabal
name: Pertuz, Leonardo Diaz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: El presente trabajo pretende hacer una interpretación de la evaluación de los aprendizajes a partir de conceptos y planteamientos a cerca de la importancia e influencia que presenta la evaluación en el desarrollo del proceso enseñanza aprendizaje, desde una perspectiva de la educación superior, teniendo en cuenta diversos contextos.
title: Geschlechterinklusive Sprache an Hochschulen fördern: Handreichung
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Studien des Netzwerks Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 36
title: Framing the Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights: Bericht zur Mid-term-Konferenz der Forschungsgruppe Global Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights vom 24. bis 26. März 2021 am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) in Bielefeld
Creators: name: Leonhardt, Nina
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2021, no. 48, p. 74
The quantum relative entropy of the Schwarzschild black-hole and the area law
Creators: name: Bianconi, Ginestra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The area law obeyed by the thermodynamic entropy of black holes is one of the fundamental results relating gravity to statistical mechanics. In this work we provide a derivation of the area law for the quantum relative entropy of the Schwarzschild black-hole for arbitrary Schwarzschild radius. The quantum relative entropy between the metric of the manifold and the metric induced by the geometry and the matter field has been proposed in G. Bianconi "Gravity from entropy", Phys. Rev. D (2025) as the action for entropic quantum gravity leading to modified Einstein equations. The quantum relative entropy generalizes Araki entropy and treats the metrics between zero-forms, one-forms, and two-forms as quantum operators. Although the Schwarzschild metric is not an exact solution of the modified Einstein equations of the entropic quantum gravity, it is an approximate solution valid in the low coupling, small curvature limit. Here we show that the quantum relative entropy associated to the Schwarzschild metric obeys the area law for large Schwarzschild radius. We provide a full statistical mechanics interpretation of the results.
description: (7 pages,2 figures)
Oh Fortuna - ensayo literario sobre la función del cuento feudal y la poesía provenzal
Creators: name: Londoño Galvis, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: 200514 Literature in Spanish and Portuguese
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Este ensayo literario se presenta como una aproximación a la obra provenzal y al profundo significado moral que tiene el conde Lucanor, se aborda de forma resumida algunos indicios del texto que demuestran su carácter ético. Para terminar, se aborda un pequeño examen de la razón del poeta provenzal y su relación con la imposibilidad de amor de su amada. Es un ensayo literario que no se presenta en clave académica, por lo que la bibliografía está incluida en el texto mismo y varias ideas se abordan por el escritor mismo
Stability and Nucleation of Dipole Strings in Uniaxial Chiral Magnets
Creators: name: Kuchkin, Vladyslav M.
name: Kiselev, Nikolai S.
name: Haller, Andreas
name: Liščák, Štefan
name: Michels, Andreas
name: Schmidt, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the stability of the magnetic dipole string (DS), a three-dimensional magnetic texture formed by two coupled Bloch points with opposite topological charges, separated by an equilibrium distance. Previous studies demonstrated the stability of such configurations through geometric confinement or coupling with local perturbations in the magnetization field, such as skyrmion strings or dislocations in helical modulations. Here, we show that, in uniaxial chiral magnets, an isolated DS remains stable in an unperturbed vacuum, thus representing a true three-dimensional soliton. The phase diagram illustrates the stability of the DS embedded in the conical or helical phases across a broad range of material parameters and external magnetic fields. Using the geodesic nudged elastic band method applied to a regularized micromagnetic model, we demonstrate that isolated DSs are protected from collapse by an energy barrier. Stochastic spin-lattice simulations demonstrate that DSs can spontaneously nucleate during in-field annealing. This work aims to stimulate the experimental observation of DSs and further exploration of uniaxial chiral magnets.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
title: (Ge)Schlechte(r) Religionswissenschaft? Multidisziplinäre Ansätze einer kritischen Genderforschung zu Religion: Bericht zur Gründungstagung des Arbeitskreises Gender und Religion in der Deutschen Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaften am 01. und 02. März 2021 am MaJaC der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Creators: name: Schmidt, Uta
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2021, no. 48, p. 78
The KGHM Ajax Mine proposal : policy analysis and brief
Creators: name: Runkle, Quinn
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The Green Party of British Columbia (GPBC) uses its “Ten Green Principles” as a filter to determine its support or opposition to any given policy or project proposal. This report utilizes the Ten Principles to determine the GPBC stance on the proposed KGHM Ajax Mine (KAM) project in Kamloops, BC. KGHM International Ltd. operates in Canada, the USA, and Mexico and is pursuing a 25 square-kilometre gold-copper mine in Kamloops, a city of 87,000 in BC’s South-Central Interior. This report recommends that the GPBC oppose the KAM proposal because it meets only two of the Ten Principles. Given that a New Democratic Party majority government is likely after the upcoming BC Provincial Election, the GPBC should consider possible political concessions to pursue if the NDP were to support the KAM project. The NDP has yet to state its formal position. These concessions include the following: firstly, a greater percent of profits should be shared locally; secondly, local residents should receive sufficient job training so as to be able to gain employment offered by the mine; and thirdly, further research must be conducted into the possible human health and environmental impacts of the mine. More importantly, the GPBC Kamloops-North Thompson candidate (who, as of submission, is yet to be determined) should use his/her political leverage to assist local community members in opposing the mine. The GPBC should pursue investments in sustainable development projects as an economic alternative to such projects.
Experiments and modeling of dust particle heating resulting from changes in polarity switching in the PK-4 microgravity laboratory
Creators: name: McCabe, Lori S.
name: Williams, Jeremiah
name: Thakur, Saikat Chakraborty
name: Konopka, Uwe
name: Kostadinova, Evdokiya
name: Pustylnik, Mikhail
name: Thomas, Hubertus
name: Thoma, Markus
name: Thomas, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the presence of gravity, the micron-sized charged dust particles in a complex (dusty) plasma are compressed into thin layers. However, under the microgravity conditions of the Plasma Kristall-4 (PK-4) experiment on the International Space Station (ISS), the particles fill the plasma, allowing us to investigate the properties of a three-dimensional (3D) multi-particle system. This paper examines the change in the spatial ordering and thermal state of the particle system created when dust particles are stopped by periodic oscillations of the electric field, known as polarity switching, in a dc glow discharge plasma.
 Data from the ISS is compared against experiments performed using a ground-based reference version of PK-4 and numerical simulations. Initial results show substantive differences in the velocity distribution functions between experiments on the ground and in microgravity. There are also differences in the motion of the dust cloud, in microgravity there is an expansion of the dust cloud at the application of polarity switching which is not seen in the ground-based experiments. It is proposed that the dust cloud in microgravity gains thermal energy at the application of polarity switching due to this expansion. Simulation results suggest that this may be due to a modification in the effective screening length of the dust at the onset of polarity switching, which arises from a configuration energy between the charged particles. Experimental measurements and simulations show that an extended time (much greater than the Epstein drag decay) is required to dissipate this energy.
2020 AARP Delirium and Brain Health Survey: Healthcare Providers
Creators: name: American Association Of Retired Persons (AARP)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Awareness and incidence of post-operative delirium (5); health care workers (5); physicians (10); brain health or mental sharpness (10); diseases, conditions, or illnesses (5); brain fog (3); sudden confusion and inability to pay attention (1); delirium and hospitalization (10); friend or loved one experience with delirium (10); strategies to prevent delirium (5); symptoms of delirium (3); prevention and/or treatment of delirium (5); long-term effects from delirium (2).
title: Geschlechter(dis)kontinuitäten und Corona – auch ein Thema der Sozialen Arbeit: Bericht zur Tagung im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe „Und jetzt? Die Covid-19-Pandemie und die Konsequenzen aus der Sicht von Sozialer Arbeit, Gesundheitswesen und Bildungsarbeit“ am 23. April 2021 an der Katholischen Hochschule NRW, Abt. Aachen
Creators: name: Breuer-Nyhsen, Julia
name: Klomann, Verena
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2021, no. 48, p. 81
Leveraging three-dimensionality for navigation in bluff-body wakes
Creators: name: Godavarthi, Vedasri
name: Krishna, Kartik
name: Brunton, Steven L.
name: Taira, Kunihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Biological flyers and swimmers navigate in unsteady wake flows using limited sensory abilities and actuation energies. Understanding how vortical structures can be leveraged for energy-efficient navigation in unsteady flows is beneficial in developing autonomous navigation for small-scale aerial and marine vehicles. Such vehicles are typically operated with constrained onboard actuation and sensing capabilities, making energy-efficient trajectory planning critically important. This study finds that trajectory planners can leverage three-dimensionality appearing in a complex unsteady wake for efficient navigation using limited flowfield information. This is revealed with comprehensive investigations by finite-horizon model-predictive control for trajectory planning of a swimmer behind a cylinder wake at Re=300. The navigation performance of three-dimensional (3D) cases is compared to scenarios in a two-dimensional (2D) wake. The underactuated swimmer is able to reach the target by leveraging the background flow when the prediction horizon exceeds one-tenth of the wake-shedding period, demonstrating that navigation is feasible with limited information about the flowfield. Further, we identify that the swimmer can leverage the secondary transverse vortical structures to reach the target faster than is achievable navigating in a 2D wake.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Piecewise Ruled Approximation for Freeform Mesh Surfaces
Creators: name: Pan, Yiling
name: Xu, Zhixin
name: Wang, Bin
name: Deng, Bailin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A ruled surface is a shape swept out by moving a line in 3D space. Due to their simple geometric forms, ruled surfaces have applications in various domains such as architecture and engineering. In the past, various approaches have been proposed to approximate a target shape using developable surfaces, which are special ruled surfaces with zero Gaussian curvature. However, methods for shape approximation using general ruled surfaces remain limited and often require the target shape to be either represented as parametric surfaces or have non-positive Gaussian curvature. In this paper, we propose a method to compute a piecewise ruled surface that approximates an arbitrary freeform mesh surface. We first use a group-sparsity formulation to optimize the given mesh shape into an approximately piecewise ruled form, in conjunction with a tangent vector field that indicates the ruling directions. Afterward, we utilize the optimization result to extract seams that separate smooth families of rulings, and use the seams to construct the initial rulings. Finally, we further optimize the positions and orientations of the rulings to improve the alignment with the input target shape. We apply our method to a variety of freeform shapes with different topologies and complexity, demonstrating its effectiveness in approximating arbitrary shapes.
description: The definitive Version of Record was published in ACM Transactions on Graphics, https://doi.org/10.1145/3730866
title: 25 Jahre Pekinger Erklärung und fünf Jahre Agenda 2030: Fortschritte im Politikfeld Geschlechtergleichstellung in Japan und Deutschland: Bericht zum virtuellen Symposium am 04. und 05. März 2021 in Berlin
Creators: name: Auerbach, Susanne
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2021, no. 48, p. 85
Does Functional Package Management Enable Reproducible Builds at Scale? Yes
Creators: name: Malka, Julien
name: Zacchiroli, Stefano
name: Zimmermann, Théo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reproducible Builds (R-B) guarantee that rebuilding a software package from source leads to bitwise identical artifacts. R-B is a promising approach to increase the integrity of the software supply chain, when installing open source software built by third parties. Unfortunately, despite success stories like high build reproducibility levels in Debian packages, uncertainty remains among field experts on the scalability of R-B to very large package repositories. In this work, we perform the first large-scale study of bitwise reproducibility, in the context of the Nix functional package manager, rebuilding 709 816 packages from historical snapshots of the nixpkgs repository, the largest cross-ecosystem open source software distribution, sampled in the period 2017-2023. We obtain very high bitwise reproducibility rates, between 69 and 91% with an upward trend, and even higher rebuildability rates, over 99%. We investigate unreproducibility causes, showing that about 15% of failures are due to embedded build dates. We release a novel dataset with all build statuses, logs, as well as full ''diffoscopes'': recursive diffs of where unreproducible build artifacts differ.
AARP Survey of Retail Investors about Advisor-Client Relationships and Fees
Creators: name: American Association Of Retired Persons (AARP)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Retirement/investment savings accounts (3); financial institutions, advisors managing investment accounts (2); fees, expenses for investment accounts (2); knowledge about investments (1); amount of money in savings and investments (1); professional financial advisors (11); Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulation Best Interest (2); membership in various groups (3).
title: Ausgabe 01/2021: Feedback-Methodenbar 2.0
Creators: name: Auferkorte-Michaelis, Nicole
name: Hintze, Annette
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 3
subject: 370

description: Feedbackmethoden geben Lehrenden die Möglichkeit, Rückmeldungen von den Studierenden zur Gestaltung des Lehr-/Lernprozesses einzuholen und selbst Feedback zum Lernerfolg der Studierenden zu geben. Der Einsatz von Feedbackmethoden trägt dazu bei, Lehren und Ler-nen aufeinander abzustimmen und Lehrveranstaltungsentwicklung teilnehmendenorientiert zu gestalten.
description: Diversität konkret: Handreichung für das Lehren und Lernen an Hochschulen
The effects of ground-based harvesting on coastal British Columbia soils : mitigating the negative consequences
Creators: name: Trommel, Steve
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The recent downturn in British Columbia’s coastal forest industry, together with an increased proportion of timber harvest from second growth stands has increased pressure on harvest operations to reduce costs. Using ground-based harvest methods, primarily with skidders and hoe-chuckers, harvest operations can lower costs compared to cable yarding. Skidders and hoe-chuckers have the potential to negatively affect future site productivity and natural hydrological processes. The complexity of factors influencing the amount of soil disturbance resulting from skidder and hoe-chucker use makes the interpretation of research results difficult. The strongest factors are soil moisture at time of harvest and soil texture. Short term research on seedling growth has found a decrease in growth on machine trails of 20 to 53 percent (Senyk & Craigdallie, 1997). The difference in growth between machine trails and undisturbed areas decreases over time. Increased growth on the margins of machine trails has been shown to partially offset losses to growth on trails. Direct hydrological impacts from ground-based machinery have not been researched in great depth as hydrological processes are also complex. Case studies have shown the potential of ground-based harvesting to change water flow patterns resulting in mass wasting and drainage structure failures. The negative of consequences of ground-based harvesting can be mitigated by reducing harvest during very wet periods and through the use of designated trails, rehabilitating trails, proper equipment choice and operator training.
Wood frame design and construction
Creators: name: Li, Junyi
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Wood has been discovered as an important construction material since prehistoric time. As time goes, the technology of wood frame construction is developed. Today, it is widely used in many North American and European countries. Wood is a much more sustainable construction material than steel or concrete. During its production, less green house gases are produced. Wood is also a very durable material. Some old wood frame buildings are still used. History has proved the durability and strength of wood structures. In the recent days, in order to achieve stronger and more durable building structures, wooden building components production technology and wood framing technology are further developed. As a result of these developments, I-joists, metal plate connected wood trusses, structural composite lumber, platform framing and plank and beam framing are widely applied in either individual house construction or heavy industrial construction. The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed explanation of how wood can be a good material for building homes. This paper introduces the methods of moisture and termite protection for wood material, wood and concrete foundation construction, as well as the different types of wood frame constructions and construction processing details. This paper may help to open markets by changing the mind of people who are not used building home with wood to accept wood frame building.
Supplementary document for Effects of optical aberrations on localization of MINFLUX super-resolution microscopy - 6151527.pdf
Creators: name: He, Chenying
name: Zhan, Zhengyi
name: Li, Chuankang
name: Sun, Xiaofan
name: Liu, Yong
name: Kuang, Cuifang
name: Liu, Xu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA EN CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y ADMINISTRATIVAS
Creators: name: Figueroa Mendoza, Nelson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150202 Financial Econometrics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology

description: II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA EN CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y ADMINISTRATIVAS
Predicting Workload in Virtual Flight Simulations using EEG Features (Including Post-hoc Analysis in Appendix)
Creators: name: Verkennis, Bas
name: van Weelden, Evy
name: Marogna, Francesca L.
name: Alimardani, Maryam
name: Wiltshire, Travis J.
name: Louwerse, Max M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Effective cognitive workload management has a major impact on the safety and performance of pilots. Integrating brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) presents an opportunity for real-time workload assessment. Leveraging cognitive workload data from high-fidelity virtual reality (VR) flight simulations allows for dynamic adjustments to training scenarios. While prior studies have predominantly concentrated on EEG spectral power for workload prediction, delving into intra-brain connectivity may yield deeper insights. This study assessed the predictive value of EEG spectral and connectivity features in distinguishing high vs. low workload periods during simulated flight in VR and Desktop conditions. Using an ensemble approach, a stacked classifier was trained to predict workload from the EEG signals of 52 participants. Results showed that the mean accuracy of the model incorporating both spectral and connectivity features improved by 28% compared to the model that solely relied on spectral features. Further research on other connectivity metrics and deep learning models in a large sample of pilots is essential to validate the potential of a real-time workload-prediction BCI. This could contribute to the development of an adaptive training system for safety-critical operational environments.
title: Stabilität der Beschäftigung im Alter in Betrieben mit und ohne Tarifbindung
Creators: name: Keck, Max
name: Brussig, Martin
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Je älter Beschäftigte sind, desto länger ist auch ihre mittlere Betriebszugehörigkeitsdauer. Sind Personen nach dem Renteneintrittsalter beschäftigt, fällt die Betriebszugehörigkeitsdauer wesentlich kürzer aus. Hier spielen vor allem Neueinstellungen nach Rentenbeginn eine Rolle. Die mittlere Betriebszugehörigkeit der Älteren ist aufgrund höherer Neueinstellungsraten und einer gestiegenen Frauenerwerbstätigkeit seit 2010 gesunken. Viele ältere Beschäftigte sind erst kurz im Betrieb tätig – diesgilt vor allem in Betrieben ohne Tarifbindung. Kürzere Betriebszugehörigkeitsdauer geht in hohem Maße mit atypischer Arbeit einher. Höherqualifizierte Tätigkeiten, aber auch Tarifverträge führen zu mehr Stabilität in der Beschäftigung. Mit zunehmender Betriebszugehörigkeitsdauer ist atypische Arbeit vor allem ein Geschlechterphänomen: Frauen arbeiten dann primär atypisch.
description: Altersübergangs-Report, vol. 2021, no. 02
title: Effects of Retail Health Clinic Entry on Wait Times 2014-2018
Creators: name: Jamaludin, Amalia
name: M. Koumpias, Antonios
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Health policy
subject: Retail health clinics
subject: Healthcare
subject: Economics

description: This study investigates the impact of retail health clinic (RHC) entry on hospital wait times between 2014 and 2018. With the increasing popularity of RHCs as an alternative to traditional healthcare settings, understanding their influence on patient flow in hospitals is crucial. This research addresses key questions about whether the introduction of RHCs alleviates congestion in emergency departments and outpatient services by offering more accessible care options. An empirical analysis was conducted utilizing a comprehensive dataset that included wait times, patient demographics, and RHC penetration rates across various regions. The findings indicate that the entry of RHCs significantly reduced wait times in hospitals, particularly in urban areas, suggesting that RHCs play a vital role in enhancing healthcare efficiency and accessibility. These results underscore the importance of integrating RHCs into healthcare systems to optimize service delivery and improve patient outcomes.
title: Victim Perceptions of Technology-Facilitated Sex Trafficking
Creators: name: Slone, Bethany
name: Darcy, Kathleen
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cybercrime
subject: Technology
subject: Criminal justice
subject: Sexual violence
subject: Gender-based violence

description: Technology-facilitated sex trafficking refers to the exploitation of individuals for sexual purposes through the use of digital platforms and technologies to recruit, exploit, and further harm victims. We geared our project on the following question: How does technology contribute to ongoing harm and retraumatization experienced by technology facilitated sex-trafficking victims? Initial findings lead to how technology significantly exacerbates the retraumatization of victims in sex trafficking cases, causing ongoing harm.
Wireless diagnostics Android Application
Creators: name: Zhang, Minqi
name: Li, Hao (Neil)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This project sought to design and test an Android Application capable of communicating wirelessly with the Titanoboa snake to display numerical data graphically. The Titanoboa snake will broadcast data through a wireless modem located in the head of the snake and be received by the Android Application which will then be displayed. Ultimately, the application is intended to be an efficient diagnostics tool to help the Titanoboa team display important values when showcasing the snake in various locations. Motivation behind the design of the application will be to display numerical values such as battery voltage levels, motor speed, and pressure values in a graphical and intuitive way on a smart-phone. The smart-phone and Wi-Fi modem was provided by the Titanoboa team. The code was written in Java on the Eclipse IDE with the Android SDK. The Snake consists of four modules (major break points of the snake) and each module consists of five vertebras. Within each module consists of its own Arduino Mega and battery. Each module communicates with the rest of the snake through a RS232 serial that enables movement in a side-winding manner. The head of the Titanoboa has an additional Ethernet shield that is connected to a Wi-Fi modem. After the Android device establishes connection with the modem’s network, the App will be able to receive and transmit data. Pre-hand testing will be done through a simulator provided by the Titanoboa team that projects simulated data though a Wi-Fi network and then received by the smart-phone. Most of the Android coding functions and classes were found through the Android Development website by Google Inc. Final tests will be conducted with the actual snake that will project its real physical data onto the application.
title: Games and Simulations in Literacy Training
Creators: name: Evans, David R.
Publisher: name: Center for International Education
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Basic Education; literacy; games; simulations; participatory learning

description: A monograph on “instructional technology” which presents innovative teaching-learning possibilities through games and simulations. Geared toward literacy workers and learners, it describes a variety of games and simulations from planning and design to implementation. Discussions of participatory learning and learner-control of these instructional technologies are interwoven in the text.
CLEAR: Cue Learning using Evolution for Accurate Recognition Applied to Sustainability Data Extraction
Creators: name: Bentley, Peter J.
name: Lim, Soo Ling
name: Ishikawa, Fuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.1.6; I.2.10
subject: 68W50, 68T07

description: Large Language Model (LLM) image recognition is a powerful tool for extracting data from images, but accuracy depends on providing sufficient cues in the prompt - requiring a domain expert for specialized tasks. We introduce Cue Learning using Evolution for Accurate Recognition (CLEAR), which uses a combination of LLMs and evolutionary computation to generate and optimize cues such that recognition of specialized features in images is improved. It achieves this by auto-generating a novel domain-specific representation and then using it to optimize suitable textual cues with a genetic algorithm. We apply CLEAR to the real-world task of identifying sustainability data from interior and exterior images of buildings. We investigate the effects of using a variable-length representation compared to fixed-length and show how LLM consistency can be improved by refactoring from categorical to real-valued estimates. We show that CLEAR enables higher accuracy compared to expert human recognition and human-authored prompts in every task with error rates improved by up to two orders of magnitude and an ablation study evincing solution concision.
description: 9 pages plus 2 pages of supplemental material
Enhanced Broadcast Control for Coverage Tasks of Multi-agent Systems
Creators: name: DARMARAJU, SHALINI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Broadcast Control (BC) is a new paradigm for the control of multi-agent systems. BC is advantageous because it greatly decreases the communication volume of the whole system. This thesis proposed enhancements to the existing BC schemes. The enhanced BC schemes are twofold; Multi-step BC (MBC) and Receding Horizon based BC (RHBC). The proposed enhanced schemes prove to be the best performing BC schemes to date for the coverage task of multi-agent systems that deal with deploying physical agents to optimise surveillance of a domain of interest.
Prescribed burning case study : evaluating the success of using prescribed fire for the restoration of Douglas-fir grasslands Banff National Park
Creators: name: Francis, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Prescribed burning has a variety of uses throughout the forest industry. It is utilized as a tool within parks as well as within industry. There are many steps to planning and implementing a prescribed burning program in order to effectively achieve goals while preventing adverse results and keeping the entire program safe. Many pre-burn steps must be completed before moving towards the burning stage. Prescribed burning implementation is a lengthy process and includes numerous resources and personnel. Before burning occurs, managers follow a series of steps as a tool to mitigate risks and safety issues and to attempt to achieve the set goals and objectives of the project. Without proper planning, prescribed burning would not be a viable tool within the forestry sector. Within Parks Canada, prescribed burning is widely used for a number of reasons including habitat enhancement, restoration, and research. In 2003 a prescribed burn was completed with a variety of pre-treatments and ignition methods. The goal of the program was to evaluate how effective prescribed burning was in restoring Douglas Fir forests within Banff National Park. The prescribed burn evaluated a number of plots immediately after burning in 2004 to see which treatments and ignition methods had the most survival in the overstory of Douglas-fir. In order to look at the midterm fire effects, the study was revisited in 2011 and information was gathered again. By reviewing the project a second time, lag effects could be seen as well as changes in patterns between the post fire and the midterm. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the planning process associated with implementing a prescribed burn. As a secondary objective, analysis and evaluation of data from a prescribed burn is presented. Conclusions and results from these findings as well as comparison from earlier data is also completed.