cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: opportunities for interventions and control
Creators: name: BM Althouse
name: EA Wenger
name: Miller, Joel
name: SV Scarpino
name: A Allard
name: L Hebert-Dufresne
name: H Hu
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020 Althouse et al. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease, has moved rapidly around the globe, infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. The basic reproduction number, which has been widely used appropriately and less appropriately to characterize the transmissibility of the virus, hides the fact that transmission is stochastic, often dominated by a small number of individuals, and heavily influenced by superspreading events (SSEs). The distinct transmission features of SARS-CoV-2, e.g., high stochasticity under low prevalence (as compared to other pathogens, such as influenza), and the central role played by SSEs on transmission dynamics cannot be overlooked. Many explosive SSEs have occurred in indoor settings, stoking the pandemic and shaping its spread, such as long-Term care facilities, prisons, meat-packing plants, produce processing facilities, fish factories, cruise ships, family gatherings, parties, and nightclubs. These SSEs demonstrate the urgent need to understand routes of transmission, while posing an opportunity to effectively contain outbreaks with targeted interventions to eliminate SSEs. Here, we describe the different types of SSEs, how they influence transmission, empirical evidence for their role in the COVID-19 pandemic, and give recommendations for control of SARS-CoV-2.
La presenza di Papiniano e Paolo nella formazione giuridica offerta dalle scuole tardo antiche e giustinianee
Creators: name: Giomaro, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche
Year: 2016

description: “e il poeta, fin che non muoia l’inno, vive, immortale” (Pascoli, Solon). La voce e il pensiero dei grandi giuristi del passato più o meno risalente, di Gaio, di Papiniano, di Paolo, si immortala in “lezione” nelle scuole di diritto fin dall’epoca pregiustinianea, attraverso l’insegnamento (la recitatio) delle loro opere, o forse, prima ancora, attraverso la loro stessa voce magistra. Per arrivare fino alle soglie dei secoli delle codificazioni.

Prendendo a modello l’esperienza antica il saggio vuole riflettere sui due modi di tradizione del sapere individuale, quello orale, diretto, voce magistra appunto, e quello indiretto, scritto, formato attraverso lo studio e l’utilizzo delle opere dei maestri.

“e il poeta, fin che non muoia l’inno, vive, immortale” (Pascoli, Solon). Voices and thoughts of the jurists of the past, Gaius, Papinian, Paul, became “lessons” in the law schools since the pre-Justinian period, through the teaching (recitatio) of their works or their own voice magistra.

The essay brings to light the two models of trasmission of individual knowledge: the oral model based on the voce magistra and the indirect model formed through the study and use of the works of the Masters.
description: Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche, Vol 67, N° 1-2 (2016)
Princess of Nanaimo port and starboard rotor repairs
Creators: name: Canadian Pacific Railway. British Columbia Coast Steamship Service
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Correspondence with photographs regarding the starboard propeller. Photographs are stored in Box Number: PHOTO-0018, Accession Number: CC-PHOTO-00151. Note that Photographs 7 and 8 belong to correspondence dated, June 28th, 1961.
What is the size of Australia’s sexual minority population?
Creators: name: T Wilson
name: J Temple
name: Lyons, Anthony
name: F Shalley
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020, The Author(s). Objectives: The aim is to present updated estimates of the size of Australia’s sexual minority adult population (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and other sexual minority identities). No estimate of this population is currently available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and very little is available from other sources. We obtained data on sexual minority identities from three data collections of two national surveys of recent years. Combining averaged prevalence rates from these surveys with official Estimated Resident Population data, we produce estimates of Australia’s sexual minority population for recent years. Results: According to percentages averaged across the three survey datasets, 3.6% of males and 3.4% of females described themselves with a minority sexual identity. When applied to Estimated Resident Populations, this gives a sexual minority population at ages 18 + in Australia of 599,500 in 2011 and 651,800 in 2016. Population estimates were also produced by sex and broad age group, revealing larger numbers and higher sexual minority percentages in the younger age groups, and smaller numbers and percentages in the oldest age group. Separate population estimates were also prepared for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority identities.
Prime osservazioni a proposito di revisione delle forme contrattuali e sicurezza sul lavoro
Creators: name: Lazzari, Chiara
Publisher: name: Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche
Year: 2016

description: Il saggio mira a verificare come la revisione delle forme contrattuali, realizzata dal decreto legislativo n. 81/2015 emanato in attuazione della legge n. 183/2014, incida sulle questioni relative alla tutela della salute e sicurezza sul lavoro, soffermando in particolare l’attenzione sulle criticità prodotte dal recente intervento legislativo e sulla sua conformità rispetto all’ordinamento comunitario.

The essay aims at verifying how the review of contractual arrangements, made by the Legislative Decree n. 81/2015 issued in application of the law n. 183/2014, is affecting the protection of health and safety at work, focusing particularly on the critical issues produced by the recent legislative intervention and its compliance with Community law.
description: Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche, Vol 67, N° 1-2 (2016)
La dignità della persona tra inviolabilità dei diritti fondamentali e dovere di solidarietà, nel quadro del pluralismo delle fonti nazionali e sovranazionali
Creators: name: Morelli, Mario Rosario
Publisher: name: Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche
Year: 2016

description: Il testo riproduce la conferenza tenuta nell’Aula Magna dell’Università di Urbino dal Giudice Costituzionale Mario Rosario Morelli il 29 ottobre 2015, in occasione di una Sua presenza urbinate durante la quale, oltre alla lezione universitaria, il giorno seguente ha dato lustro all’incontro di studio organizzato dalla Camera Civile costituita presso l’Ordine degli Avvocati di Urbino, sul tema “Diritti fondamentali e meccanismi di tutela”, relatori il prof. Mario Rosario Morelli (“La tutela sistemica dei diritti fondamentali della persona nell’ordinamento costituzionale italiano”) e il prof. Francesco Antonio Genovese (“Madre innominata, e dell’accesso del figlio alle sue origini”).

The text reproduces the conference held at the University of Urbino on 29 October 2015, by Mario Rosario Morelli, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy, on the occasion of his presence in Urbino where, in addition to the university lecture, he participated to the Symposium organized by the Civil Chamber of the Professional Association of Lawyers on “Fundamental Rights and mechanisms for their protection” (lectures of Professor Mario Rosario Morelli on “Systemic protection of fundamental rights in the Italian Constitutional System” and Professor Francesco Antonio Genovese on “Unnamed mother and access of the child to his roots”).
description: Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche, Vol 67, N° 1-2 (2016)
Postulati teologici, diversità di interpretazioni e di norme nella chiesa d’Occidente ed in quella d’Oriente, nel corso dei secoli
Creators: name: Parlato, Vittorio
Publisher: name: Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche
Year: 2016

description: Nel saggio viene preso in considerazione il diverso sviluppo e la differente attuazione di alcuni brani scritturistici, dovuti a molteplici circostanze storico politiche e culturali, relativi al primato pontificio ed alla collegialità episcopale, specie nel secondo millennio; da ultimo si pone l’accento sull’influenza, anche politica, che il papato romano ed il patriarcato bizantino hanno avuto, ed hanno, nei loro territori e nella politica internazionale, anche alla luce dell’azione sinergica del governo russo ed del patriarcato di Mosca, la terza Roma.

The essay considers the different development and the different implementation of certain scriptural passages, due to various historical, political and cultural circumstances, related to papal primacy and episcopal collegiality, especially in the second millennium. It also underlines the influence of the Roman papacy and Byzantine Patriarchate on their territories and the international politics.
description: Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche, Vol 67, N° 1-2 (2016)
Effect of rotation and magnetic field in the gyroscopic precession around a neutron star
Creators: name: Nath, Kamal Krishna
name: Mallick, Ritam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the overall spin precession frequency of a test gyroscope around a neutron star. The precession of the test gyroscope gives the signatures of the general relativistic effects that are present in the region of strong gravity of an NS. Using a numerical code, we find the precession of the test gyroscope for a rotating and a strongly magnetized neutron star. The magnetic field distribution inside the neutron star is assumed either to be poloidal or toroidal. The overall spin precession rate is obtained by setting the orbital frequency of the gyroscope to a non-zero value but restricted to a time-like observer. The gyro frequency differs depending on the central object being a black hole or a neutron star. For neutron star, the gyro precession can even be calculated inside the star. We find that the gyroscope precession frequency depends on the stars mass, rotation rate, and magnetic field configuration.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures
I tirocini negli Uffici giudiziari di cui all’art. 73 del d.l. n. 69/2013. Il progetto marchigiano e il ruolo delle Università
Creators: name: Pascucci, Paolo
Publisher: name: Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche
Year: 2016

description: Questo scritto costituisce la rielaborazione dell’intervento presentato in occasione del Convegno su “Ufficio per il processo, Tirocini formativi e buone prassi. Il modello marchigiano”, organizzato da Regione Marche, Corte di Appello delle Marche, Tar Marche, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Università di Macerata, Università di Camerino, Università Politecnica delle Marche, e svoltosi ad Urbino presso il Palazzo Ducale il 18 dicembre 2015. L’intervento è stato presentato a nome dei Dipartimenti di Giurisprudenza di Urbino e di Macerata, della Scuola di Giurisprudenza di Camerino e del Dipartimento di Management di Ancona, quali parti integranti del progetto presentato in occasione del Convegno.

This paper is an elaboration and reworking of the speech presented at the Conference on “Ufficio per il processo, Tirocini formative e buone prassi. Il modello marchigiano”, organized by the Marche Region, the Court of Appeals of the Marche Region, the Regional Administrative Court of the Marche Region, the Universities of Urbino, Macerata and Camerino, the Marche Polytechnic University, and held at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, December 18, 2015. The speech has been presented on behalf of the Law Departments of Urbino and Macerata, the Law School of Camerino and the Department of Management of Ancona, as parts of the project presented at the same Conference.
description: Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche, Vol 67, N° 1-2 (2016)
La politica industriale tra Stato e Mercato
Creators: name: Carnazza, Paolo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
Year: 2016
Subjects: innovazione, politica industriale

description: This paper aims to analyze the role of industrial policy, in Italy, trying to identify the perspectives either in the short or in medium-long term. After having illustrated the main results of a recent research on the effectiveness of industrial policy, the analysis compares two different approaches: the first aimed at attributing to the State an important role in defining a set of structural economic and industrial measures; the second finalized to minimize the State intervention in  support of the productive system.  Moreover,  the research focuses on the more recent measures of industrial policy adopted in Italy especially for increasing innovation and new firms with high technological content: these interventions appear to outline a real philosophy of industrial policy and can be considered in between the two different visions. In the conclusions, some thoughts are developed in order to indicate the  future and desirable trends of industrial policy to be placed inside a Project-Country and shared with medium - long term objectives
description: Argomenti, N° 4 (2016): maggio - agosto
Geometric anomaly detection in data
Creators: name: Stolz, Bernadette J
name: Tanner, Jared
name: Harrington, Heather A
name: Nanda, Vidit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57N80

description: This paper describes the systematic application of local topological methods for detecting interfaces and related anomalies in complicated high-dimensional data. By examining the topology of small regions around each point, one can optimally stratify a given dataset into clusters, each of which is in turn well-approximable by a suitable submanifold of the ambient space. Since these approximating submanifolds might have different dimensions, we are able to detect non-manifold like singular regions in data even when none of the data points have been sampled from those singularities. We showcase this method by identifying the intersection of two surfaces in the 24-dimensional space of cyclo-octane conformations, and by locating all the self-intersections of a Henneberg minimal surface immersed in 3-dimensional space. Due to the local nature of the required topological computations, the algorithmic burden of performing such data stratification is readily distributable across several processors.
Labour coefficients reduction and working time reduction
Creators: name: Fadda, Sebastiano
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Technological Unemployment, Working Time

description: The present path and nature of technological innovation is such as to reduce dramatically the labour coefficients in the production processes nearly in every sector and surely in the productive system taken as a whole. This issue, which is linked to the concept of “technological unemployment” evoked by Keynes,  is considered both under a theoretical and an empirical perspective, and it leads to explore the most viable way out of the problem of this kind of unemployment, which is the shortening of the working time. The paper explores the complexity, the technical problems and some policy implications of this solution. Finally, some intermediate, less radical, measures in this direction are considered.
description: Argomenti, N° 4 (2016): maggio - agosto
Overparameterized Neural Networks Implement Associative Memory
Creators: name: Radhakrishnan, Adityanarayanan
name: Belkin, Mikhail
name: Uhler, Caroline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Identifying computational mechanisms for memorization and retrieval of data is a long-standing problem at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience. Our main finding is that standard overparameterized deep neural networks trained using standard optimization methods implement such a mechanism for real-valued data. Empirically, we show that: (1) overparameterized autoencoders store training samples as attractors, and thus, iterating the learned map leads to sample recovery; (2) the same mechanism allows for encoding sequences of examples, and serves as an even more efficient mechanism for memory than autoencoding. Theoretically, we prove that when trained on a single example, autoencoders store the example as an attractor. Lastly, by treating a sequence encoder as a composition of maps, we prove that sequence encoding provides a more efficient mechanism for memory than autoencoding.
Direct discrimination of structured light by humans
Creators: name: Sarenac, D.
name: Kapahi, C.
name: Silva, A. E.
name: Cory, D. G.
name: Thompson, B.
name: Pushin, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict and experimentally verify an entoptic phenomenon through which humans are able to perceive and discriminate structured light with space-varying polarization. Direct perception and discrimination is possible through the observation of distinct profiles induced by the interaction between the polarization gradients in a uniform-intensity beam and the radially symmetric dichroic elements that are centered on the foveola in the macula of the human eye. A psychophysical study was conducted where optical states with coupled polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM) were directed onto the retina of participants. The participants were able to correctly discriminate between two states, differentiated by OAM =\pm7, with an average success probability of 77.6 % (average sensitivity d^\prime=1.7, t(9) = 5.9, p = 2\times 10^{-4}). These results enable new methods of robustly characterizing the structure of the macula, probing retina signalling pathways, and conducting experiments with non-separable optical states and human detectors.
Effectiveness of non-surgical interventions for rotator cuff calcific tendinopathy: a systematic review
Creators: name: M SIMPSON
name: Pizzari, Tania
name: T COOK
name: S WILDMAN
name: J LEWIS
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020 Foundation for Rehabilitation Information. All rights reserved. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of non-surgical interventions for rotator cuff calcific tendinopathy. Data sources: Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Register of Clinical Trials, PEDro and SPORTDiscus from inception to March 2018, and accompanying reference lists. Peer-reviewed randomized clinical trials of non-surgical interventions for adults with rotator cuff calcific tendinopathy were included. Data extraction: The same 2 reviewers independently evaluated eligibility, extracted data and evaluated risk of bias of the included randomized clinical trials. A system to resolve any disagreements was established a priori. Short-term, medium-term and long-term outcomes for pain, shoulder function and calcific morphology related to rotator cuff calcific tendinopathy were extracted. Due to diversity in outcome measures a meta-analyses was not conducted. Data synthesis: Of the 2,085 articles identified, 18 met the inclusion criteria, all of which had high risk of bias. Five non-surgical interventions were identified (extracorporeal shockwave therapy, ultrasound- guided percutaneous intervention, pulsed ultrasound, acetic acid iontophoresis, and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation). Conclusion: There was moderate evidence for the benefit of high energy extracorporeal shockwave therapy over low energy extracorporeal shockwave therapy for pain and function between 3 and 6 months follow-up, and benefit over placebo for improved function at up to 6 months follow-up. There was moderate evidence for the benefit of ultrasound-guided percutaneous intervention over medium/high-energy extracorporeal shockwave therapy for reduced pain and calcific morphology when followed up over a one-year period. Methodological concerns preclude definitive recommendations.
Autonomics: In Search of a Foundation for Next Generation Autonomous Systems
Creators: name: Harel, David
name: Marron, Assaf
name: Sifakis, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The potential benefits of autonomous systems have been driving intensive development of such systems, and of supporting tools and methodologies. However, there are still major issues to be dealt with before such development becomes commonplace engineering practice, with accepted and trustworthy deliverables. We argue that a solid, evolving, publicly available, community-controlled foundation for developing next generation autonomous systems is a must. We discuss what is needed for such a foundation, identify a central aspect thereof, namely, decision-making, and focus on three main challenges: (i) how to specify autonomous system behavior and the associated decisions in the face of unpredictability of future events and conditions and the inadequacy of current languages for describing these; (ii) how to carry out faithful simulation and analysis of system behavior with respect to rich environments that include humans, physical artifacts, and other systems,; and (iii) how to engineer systems that combine executable model-driven techniques and data-driven machine learning techniques. We argue that autonomics, i.e., the study of unique challenges presented by next generation autonomous systems, and research towards resolving them, can introduce substantial contributions and innovations in system engineering and computer science.
Una politica industriale e tecnologica per l’Italia
Creators: name: Lucchese, Matteo
name: Nascia, Leopoldo
name: Pianta, Mario
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Politica industriale, Innovazione, Italia / Industrial policy, Innovation, Italy

description: The crisis started in 2008 has accelerated the decline of Italy’s industry. An analysis of the current tools used in Italy’s industrial and innovation policy shows that they are not able to support a revival of production and investment in Italy and to reduce Italy’s gap in technological activities. A strong recovery depends on the development of a more ambitious industrial policy plan, combining Italian and European initiatives.
description: Argomenti, N° 4 (2016): maggio - agosto
Supplementary document for Fiber-optic frequency comb generation using low-seed power FWM and Brillouin-assisted power equalization - 6463515.pdf
Creators: name: Paul, Aritra
name: MISHRA, TANOOJA
name: Krishnamurthy, Pradeep Kumar
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary document
Global stability of fluid flows despite transient growth of energy
Creators: name: Fuentes, Federico
name: Goluskin, David
name: Chernyshenko, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 76E05, 76D05, 35Q35, 90C22, 37M99

description: Verifying nonlinear stability of a laminar fluid flow against all perturbations is a central challenge in fluid dynamics. Past results rely on monotonic decrease of a perturbation energy or a similar quadratic generalized energy. None show stability for the many flows that seem to be stable despite these energies growing transiently. Here a broadly applicable method to verify global stability of such flows is presented. It uses polynomial optimization computations to construct non-quadratic Lyapunov functions that decrease monotonically. The method is used to verify global stability of 2D plane Couette flow at Reynolds numbers above the energy stability threshold found by Orr in 1907. This is the first global stability result for any flow that surpasses the energy method.
description: 6 pages + 4-page supplement, 3 figures
Contrast Trees and Distribution Boosting
Creators: name: Friedman, Jerome H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Often machine learning methods are applied and results reported in cases where there is little to no information concerning accuracy of the output. Simply because a computer program returns a result does not insure its validity. If decisions are to be made based on such results it is important to have some notion of their veracity. Contrast trees represent a new approach for assessing the accuracy of many types of machine learning estimates that are not amenable to standard (cross) validation methods. In situations where inaccuracies are detected boosted contrast trees can often improve performance. A special case, distribution boosting, provides an assumption free method for estimating the full probability distribution of an outcome variable given any set of joint input predictor variable values.
description: 18 pages, 20 figures
The impacts of knowledge, risk perception, emotion and information on citizens' protective behaviors during the outbreak of COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in China
Creators: name: Ning, Liangwen
name: Niu, Jinyu
name: Bi, Xuejing
name: Yang, Chao
name: Liu, Ze
name: Wu, Qunhong
name: Ning, Ning
name: Liang, Libo
name: Liu, Aishu
name: Hao, Yanhua
name: Gao, Lijun
name: Liu, Chaojie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4202
subject: Epidemiology
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Abstract: Background
 Individual protective behaviors play an important role in the control of the spread of infectious diseases. This study aimed to investigate the adoption of protective behaviors by Chinese citizens amid the COVID-19 outbreak and its associated factors.

 Methods
 An online cross-sectional survey was conducted from 22 January to 14 February 2020 through Wenjuanxing platform, measuring their knowledge, risk perception, negative emotion, response to official communication, and protective behaviors in relation to COVID-19. A total of 3008 people completed the questionnaire, of which 2845 were valid questionnaires.

 Results
 On average, 71% of respondents embraced protective behaviors. Those who made no error in the knowledge test (AOR = 1.77, p < 0.001) perceived the high severity of the epidemic (AOR = 1.90, p < 0.001), had high negative emotion (AOR = 1.36, p = 0.005), reported good health (AOR = 1.94, p < 0.001), paid high attention to the governmental media (AOR = 4.16, p < 0.001) and trusted the governmental media (AOR = 1.97, p < 0.001) were more likely to embrace protective behaviors after adjustments for variations in potential confounding factors. Women and older people were also more likely to embrace protective behaviors. No regional or educational differences were found in the adoption of protective behaviors.

 Conclusion
 The majority of Chinese citizens embraced protective behaviors. Higher levels of protective behaviors are associated with higher knowledge, perceived severity, negative emotion, and attention to and trust in the official governmental media. Official governmental communication is the largest single predictor of protective behaviors.
The impacts of knowledge, risk perception, emotion and information on citizens’ protective behaviors during the outbreak of COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in China
Creators: name: Ning, Liangwen
name: Niu, Jinyu
name: Bi, Xuejing
name: Yang, Chao
name: Liu, Ze
name: Wu, Qunhong
name: Ning, Ning
name: Liang, Libo
name: Liu, Aishu
name: Hao, Yanhua
name: Gao, Lijun
name: Liu, Chaojie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020

description: Abstract: Background
 Individual protective behaviors play an important role in the control of the spread of infectious diseases. This study aimed to investigate the adoption of protective behaviors by Chinese citizens amid the COVID-19 outbreak and its associated factors.

 Methods
 An online cross-sectional survey was conducted from 22 January to 14 February 2020 through Wenjuanxing platform, measuring their knowledge, risk perception, negative emotion, response to official communication, and protective behaviors in relation to COVID-19. A total of 3008 people completed the questionnaire, of which 2845 were valid questionnaires.

 Results
 On average, 71% of respondents embraced protective behaviors. Those who made no error in the knowledge test (AOR = 1.77, p < 0.001) perceived the high severity of the epidemic (AOR = 1.90, p < 0.001), had high negative emotion (AOR = 1.36, p = 0.005), reported good health (AOR = 1.94, p < 0.001), paid high attention to the governmental media (AOR = 4.16, p < 0.001) and trusted the governmental media (AOR = 1.97, p < 0.001) were more likely to embrace protective behaviors after adjustments for variations in potential confounding factors. Women and older people were also more likely to embrace protective behaviors. No regional or educational differences were found in the adoption of protective behaviors.

 Conclusion
 The majority of Chinese citizens embraced protective behaviors. Higher levels of protective behaviors are associated with higher knowledge, perceived severity, negative emotion, and attention to and trust in the official governmental media. Official governmental communication is the largest single predictor of protective behaviors.
Aquatic macroinvertebrate community changes downstream of the hydropower generating dams in Myanmar–Potential negative impacts from increased power generation
Creators: name: Suter, Phillip
name: Nyein Ko
name: Conallin, John
name: Rutten, Martine
name: Bogaard, Thomas
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research concentrates on the impact of dams on macroinvertebrate communities downstream of two hydropower dams on tributaries of the upper Ayeyarwady River basin (Myitnge and Chaungmagyi Rivers) in Myanmar.
Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China
Creators: name: S Cao
name: Y Gan
name: C Wang
name: M Bachmann
name: S Wei
name: J Gong
name: Y Huang
name: T Wang
name: L Li
name: K Lu
name: Jiang, Heng
name: Y Gong
name: H Xu
name: X Shen
name: Q Tian
name: C Lv
name: F Song
name: X Yin
name: Z Lu
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020, The Author(s). Stringent COVID-19 control measures were imposed in Wuhan between January 23 and April 8, 2020. Estimates of the prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions could inform post-lockdown pandemic management. Here, we describe a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening programme between May 14 and June 1, 2020 in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated. No new symptomatic cases and 300 asymptomatic cases (detection rate 0.303/10,000, 95% CI 0.270–0.339/10,000) were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases. 107 of 34,424 previously recovered COVID-19 patients tested positive again (re-positive rate 0.31%, 95% CI 0.423–0.574%). The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan was therefore very low five to eight weeks after the end of lockdown.
Influência da modulação da frequência de passada sobre frequência cardíaca e comprimento de passada na corrida de 400 metros
Creators: name: Ferreira, Wesley Albano
name: Rico-Bini, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Influence of stride frequency modulation on heart rate and stride length in the 400-meter run: an experimental study.
Continuous and automatic mortality risk prediction using vital signs in the intensive care unit: a hybrid neural network approach
Creators: name: Baker, Stephanie
name: Xiang, Wei
name: Atkinson, Ian
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Mortality risk prediction can greatly improve the utilization of resources in intensive care units (ICUs). Existing schemes in ICUs today require laborious manual input of many complex parameters. In this work, we present a scheme that uses variations in vital signs over a 24-h period to make mortality risk assessments for 3-day, 7-day, and 14-day windows. We develop a hybrid neural network model that combines convolutional (CNN) layers with bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) to predict mortality from statistics describing the variation of heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, blood oxygen levels, and temperature. Our scheme performs strongly compared to state-of-the-art schemes in the literature for mortality prediction, with our highest-performing model achieving an area under the receiver-operator curve of 0.884. We conclude that the use of a hybrid CNN-BiLSTM network is highly effective in determining mortality risk for the 3, 7, and 14 day windows from vital signs. As vital signs are routinely recorded, in many cases automatically, our scheme could be implemented such that highly accurate mortality risk could be predicted continuously and automatically, reducing the burden on healthcare providers and improving patient outcomes.
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Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Evaluating a landscape-scale daily water balance model to support spatially continuous representation of flow intermittency throughout stream networks
Creators: name: S Yu
name: H Xuan Do
name: AIJM Van Dijk
name: Bond, Nicholas
name: P Lin
name: MJ Kennard
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020 Author(s). There is a growing interest globally in the spatial distribution and temporal dynamics of intermittently flowing streams and rivers, and how this varies in relation to climatic and other environmental factors. However, biases in the distribution of stream gauges may give a misleading impression of spatialoral variations in streamflow intermittency within river networks. Here, we developed an approach to quantify catchment-wide streamflow intermittency over long time frames and in a spatially explicit manner, using readily accessible and spatially contiguous daily runoff data from a national-scale water balance model. We examined the ability of the water balance model to simulate streamflow in two hydro-climatically distinctive (subtropical and temperate) regions in Australia, with a particular focus on low-flow simulations. We also evaluated the effect of model time step (daily vs. monthly) on flow intermittency estimation to inform future model selection. The water balance model showed better performance in the temperate region characterised by steady baseflow than in the subtropical region with flashy hydrographs and frequent cease-to-flow periods. The model tended to overestimate low-flow magnitude mainly due to overestimation of gains (e.g. groundwater release to baseflow) during low-flow periods. Modelled patterns of flow intermittency revealed highly dynamic behaviour in space and time, with cease-to-flow events affecting between 29 and 80 % of the river network over the period of 1911-2016, using a daily streamflow model. The daily flow model did not perform better than the monthly flow model in quantifying flow intermittency at a monthly time step, and model selection should depend on the intended application of the model outputs. Our general approach to quantifying spatiooral patterns of flow intermittency is transferable to other parts of the world, and it can inform hydro-ecological understanding and management of intermittent streams where limited gauging data are available.
Spontaneous formation of geysers at only one pole on Enceladus' ice shell
Creators: name: Kang, Wanying
name: Flierl, Glenn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ice shell on Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, exhibits strong asymmetry between the northern and southern hemispheres, with all known geysers concentrated over the south pole, even though the expected pattern of tidal-rotational deformation should be symmetric between the north and south poles. Using an idealized ice evolution model, we demonstrate that this asymmetry may form spontaneously, without any noticeable a priori asymmetry (such as a giant impact or a monopole structure of geological activity), in contrast to previous studies. Infinitesimal asymmetry in the ice shell thickness due to random perturbations are found to be able to grow indefinitely, ending up significantly thinning the ice shell at one of the poles, thereby allowing fracture formation there. Necessary conditions to trigger this hemispheric symmetry breaking mechanism are found analytically. A rule of thumb we find is that, for Galilean and Saturnian icy moons, the ice shell can undergo hemispheric symmetry breaking only if the mean shell thickness is around 10-30~km.
Genome analyses reveal the hybrid origin of the staple crop white Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata)
Creators: name: Sugihara, Yu
name: Kwabena Darkwa
name: Yaegashi, Hiroki
name: Natsume, Satoshi
name: Shimizu, Motoki
name: Abe, Akira
name: Hirabuchi, Akiko
name: Ito, Kazue
name: Oikawa, Kaori
name: Muluneh Oli
name: Ohta, Atsushi
name: Matsumoto, Ryo
name: Paterne Agre
name: Koeyer, David De
name: Babil Pachakkil
name: Yamanaka, Shinsuke
name: Muranaka, Satoru
name: Takagi, Hiroko
name: White, Ben
name: Asiedu, Robert
name: Innan, Hideki
name: Asrat Asfaw
name: Adebola, Patrick
name: Terauchi, Ryohei
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: White Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata) is an important staple tuber crop in West Africa. However, its origin remains unclear. In this study, we resequenced 336 accessions of white Guinea yam and compared them with the sequences of wild Dioscorea species using an improved reference genome sequence of D. rotundata. In contrast to a previous study suggesting that D. rotundata originated from a subgroup of Dioscorea praehensilis, our results suggest a hybrid origin of white Guinea yam from crosses between the wild rainforest species D. praehensilis and the savannah-adapted species Dioscorea abyssinica. We identified a greater genomic contribution from D. abyssinica in the sex chromosome of Guinea yam and extensive introgression around the SWEETIE gene. Our findings point to a complex domestication scenario for Guinea yam and highlight the importance of wild species as gene donors for improving this crop through molecular breeding.
KI-Kompetenzen für Lehrende und Lernende. Aus der Praxis für die Praxis – eine adaptierbare Basis
Creators: name: Alles, Susanne
name: Falck, Joscha
name: Flick, Manuel
name: Schulz, Regina
Publisher: name: VK:KIWA
Year: 2025
Subjects: KI-Kompetenzen
AI Leadership
Kompetenzmodell
generative KI
Bildungspraxis
Künstliche Intelligenz
Schule
Bildungssystem

description: Mit dem vorliegenden Beitrag soll ein KI-Kompetenzmodell aus der Praxis für die Praxis vorgeschlagen werden. Mit den Bereichen Verstehen, Anwenden, Reflektieren und Mitgestalten fokussiert es vier zentrale Kompetenzfelder, die in drei Progressionsstufen entwickelt werden können. Im Zentrum des gemeinsamen Kreismodells für Lehrende und Lernende steht AI-Leadership als zentraler Bezugspunkt.
Superconductivity in Undoped BaFe2As2 by Tetrahedral Geometry Design
Creators: name: Kang, J. H.
name: Kim, J. -W.
name: Ryan, P. J.
name: Xie, L.
name: Guo, L.
name: Sundahl, C.
name: Schad, J.
name: Campbell, N.
name: Collantes, Y. G.
name: Hellstrom, E. E.
name: Rzchowski, M. S.
name: Eom, C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fe-based superconductors exhibit a diverse interplay between charge, orbital, and magnetic ordering1-4. Variations in atomic geometry affect electron hopping between Fe atoms5,6 and the Fermi surface topology, influencing magnetic frustration and the pairing mechanism through changes of orbital overlap and occupancies7-11. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a systematic approach to realize superconductivity without chemical doping in BaFe2As2, employing geometric design within an epitaxial heterostructure. We control both tetragonality and orthorhombicity in BaFe2As2 through superlattice engineering, which we experimentally find to induce superconductivity when the As-Fe-As bond angle approaches that in a regular tetrahedron. This approach of superlattice design could lead to insights into low dimensional superconductivity in Fe-based superconductors.
Experimental protection of quantum coherence by using a phase-tunable image drive
Creators: name: Bertaina, Sylvain
name: Vezin, Hervé
name: De Raedt, Hans
name: Chiorescu, Irinel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The protection of qubit coherence is an essential task in order to build a practical quantum computer able to manipulate, store and read quantum information with a high degree of fidelity. Recently, it has been proposed to increase the operation time of a qubit by means of strong pulses to achieve a dynamical decoupling of the qubit from its environment. We propose and demonstrate a simple and highly efficient alternative pulse protocol based on Floquet modes, which increases the decoherence time in a number of materials with different spin Hamiltonians and environments. We demonstrate the regime $T_2\approx T_1$, thus providing a route for spin qubits and spin ensembles to be used in quantum information processing and storage.
description: Supplementary informations at the end of the file
A framework for identifying influential people by analyzing social media data
Creators: name: Md Sabbir Al Ahsan
name: Arefin, Mohammad Shamsul
name: A S M Kayes
name: Hammoudeh, Mohammad
name: Aldabbas, Omar
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In this paper, we introduce a new framework for identifying the most influential people from social sensor networks. Selecting influential people from social networks is a complicated task as it depends on many metrics like the network of friends, followers, reactions, comments, shares, etc. (e.g., friends-of-a-friend, friends-of-a-friend-of-a-friend). Data on social media are increasing day-by-day at an enormous rate. It is also a challenge to store and process these data. Towards this goal, we use Hadoop to store data and Apache Spark for the fast computation of the data. To select influential people, we apply the mechanisms of skyline query and top-k query. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to apply the Apache Spark framework to identify influential people on social sensor network, such as online social media. Our proposed mechanism can find influential people very quickly and efficiently on the data pattern of Facebook.
Stable homotopy groups of spheres
Creators: name: Isaksen, Daniel C.
name: Wang, Guozhen
name: Xu, Zhouli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 55Q45, Secondary 14F42, 55T15

description: We discuss the current state of knowledge of stable homotopy groups of spheres. We describe a new computational method that yields a streamlined computation of the first 61 stable homotopy groups, and gives new information about the stable homotopy groups in dimensions 62 through 90. The method relies more heavily on machine computations than previous methods, and is therefore less prone to error. The main mathematical tool is the Adams spectral sequence.
Crustal properties beneath the northeastern United States shaped by past tectonic processes
Creators: name: Bourke, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 370609
subject: Seismology and seismic exploration

description: Crustal properties beneath the northeastern United States shaped by past tectonic processes: Bourke et al. (2025): Bourke, James R; Long, Maureen D; Link, Frederik; Karabinos, Paul; Webb, Laura; Luo, Yantao; Espinal, Kimberly; Arce, Roberto Masis; Li, Yiran: Geological Society, London, Special Publications: SP557-2024-30: Volume 557
Evaluating traditional Chinese medicine interventions on chronic low back pain using goal attainment scaling
Creators: name: Zhang, Xinyu
name: Ren, Jianping
name: Liu, Chaojie
name: He, Mengyan
name: Ren, Lixian
name: Lv, Zhen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3214
subject: Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4208
subject: Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine

description: Background. Extensive studies have been conducted to evaluate the pain relief effect of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) interventions on patients with low back pain, including in China. However, there is a dearth in the literature documenting the diverse goals of TCM interventions, let alone the overall effect of such interventions. In this study, the goal attainment scaling (GAS) method was adopted to evaluate individualised TCM interventions on chronic low back pain. Methods. A pre-post intervention study was conducted on patients with chronic low back pain who received individualised TCM interventions in community health services. The study was undertaken in three community health centres in Hangzhou of China. A total of 165 eligible patients were invited, and 150 participated in the study, including 136 who completed both pre- and postintervention surveys. Each participant was asked to identify three to five intended goals from a pool of 26 outcome indicators and their corresponding expectations of these goals prior to the TCM interventions. Their conditions were rated against the selected indicators on a self-report five-point Likert scale before and after the TCM interventions, respectively. Gaps between the actual conditions and the expected goals were summed up for each participant and converted into a standardised GAS score, with a higher score indicating higher achievements, and 50 indicting patient expectations were met. Linear regression models were established to determine the factors associated with the pre-post GAS changes after adjustment for variations in other variables. Results. On average, an increase of 14.99 (SD = 9.81) in the GAS scores was achieved. This resulted in a mean GAS score of 48.33 (SD = 9.74) after the TCM interventions, falling slightly short (<2) of patient expectations. The multivariate linear regression models revealed that local residents, the retired, and those who perceived lower professional competency of their attending doctors had a smaller increase in the GAS scores after adjustment for variations in other variables. Conclusion. The individualised TCM interventions can help patients with low back pain to achieve their expected goals as measured by the GAS. Further studies are needed to better understand how patients set up their goals and the professional competency requirements to meet patient expectations.