cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Non-invasive brain stimulation improves the effects of resistance exercise in the neural system of elders with Alzheimer's disease
Creators: name: Teixeira De Pinho, Silvia
name: Garcez Militão, Angeliete
name: Gomes Teixeira, Tatiane
name: Calomeni, Mauricio
name: Almeida Marinho, Daniel
name: Furtado Da Silva, Vernon
Publisher: name: Motricidade
Year: 2024

description: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease (Raskin et al., 2015). Noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) is another form of cognitive therapy that has received attention recently (Xu et al., 2019; Calomeni et al., 2017). To investigate whether a combination of Physical Exercise (PMED) and non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) can minimize some of the neurobiological impairments caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD). Eighty-eight older adults were divided into four groups (n=22), named GAE (AD receiving PMED plus NIBS), GCP (AD receiving PMED), GCN (AD receiving NIBS), and GCS (control. No intervention). Binaural beats are used in NIBS and PMED. BDNF and Tau proteins were determined from blood samples. Check alpha band and SMR rhythms by EEG. All surveys were blinded. Nonparametric tests with 5% significance and size effect tests were performed before and after the intervention. For GCS (p>0.05), no differences were found for all variables, and GCN and GCS showed no improvement in inhibitory control (p>0.05) or working memory (p>0.05). GCP and GAE increased executive function (p<0.05), decreased dementia symptoms (p<0.05), exhibited brain wave modulation (p<0.05), increased BDNF (p<0.0001) and decreased TAU (p<0.05). <0.0001) outperforms GAE. Physical activity benefits various aspects of cognition, such as executive function, working memory, and learning, and may stimulate structural and functional plasticity in the brain (Müller et al., 2020). Previous studies have shown that regular physical activity can reduce neurological risk factors such as Parkinson's disease (Silva et al., 2022), frailty (Silva et al., 2022), and AD (Macpherson et al., 2017) which improve the quality of life. Increased expression, secretion, and downstream signalling of neurotrophic factors (BDNF, VEGF, IGF-1) are some of the mechanisms that could explain exercise-induced neuroplasticity. This study showed that exercise-induced neuroplasticity is associated with BDNF (Murawska-Cialowicz; Wojna; Zuwala-Jagiello, 2015). In rodents, pharmacological blocking of BDNF signalling attenuates the neuroplasticity effects of physical exercise on the brain (Vaynman et al., 2004). In addition, exercise can affect brain wave patterns associated with regional activity and directly participate in cognitive and motor processes. NIBS plus PMED improves cognitive function and minimises dementia symptoms in older adults with AD, results which may be mediated by modulating brain waves, increasing BDNF, and reducing TAU.
description: Motricidade, Vol. 20 No. S1 (2024): CIDESD International Congress 2023
Beyond the charge radius: the information content of the fourth radial moment
Creators: name: Reinhard, P. -G.
name: Nazarewicz, W.
name: Ruiz, R. F. Garcia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of atomic transitions in different isotopes offer key information on the nuclear charge radius. The anticipated high-precision experimental techniques, augmented by atomic calculations, will soon enable extraction of the higher-order radial moments of the charge density distribution. To assess the value of such measurements for nuclear structure research, we study the information content of the fourth radial moment $\rf$ by means of nuclear density functional theory and a multiple correlation analysis. We show that $\rf$ can be directly related to the surface thickness of nuclear density, a fundamental property of the atomic nucleus that is difficult to obtain for radioactive systems. Precise knowledge of these radial moments is essential to establish reliable constraints on the existence of new forces from precision isotope shift measurements .
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
THE DOMESTIC WELFARE EFFECTS OF U.S. WHEAT EXPORT CONTROLS
Creators: name: Shei, Shun Yi
name: Thompson, Robert L.
name: Shei, Shun Yi
name: Thompson, Robert L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A framework is developed to evaluate the domestic welfare effect of export controls. By imposing export restrictions on wheat in a short crop year the U.S. could gain sizable short run welfare benefits, export earnings could be substantially increased, and unless the government intervenes, exporters reap most of the benefits.
TESS unveils the phase curve of WASP-33b. Characterization of the planetary atmosphere and the pulsations from the star
Creators: name: von Essen, C.
name: Mallonn, M.
name: Borre, C. C.
name: Antoci, V.
name: Stassun, K. G.
name: Khalafinejad, S.
name: Tautvaivsiene, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the detection and characterization of the full-orbit phase curve and secondary eclipse of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b at optical wavelengths, along with the pulsation spectrum of the host star. We analyzed data collected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in sector 18. WASP-33b belongs to a very short list of highly irradiated exoplanets that were discovered from the ground and were later visited by TESS. The host star of WASP-33b is of delta Scuti-type and shows nonradial pulsations in the millimagnitude regime, with periods comparable to the period of the primary transit. These completely deform the photometric light curve, which hinders our interpretations. By carrying out a detailed determination of the pulsation spectrum of the host star, we find 29 pulsation frequencies with a signal-to-noise ratio higher than 4. After cleaning the light curve from the stellar pulsations, we confidently report a secondary eclipse depth of 305.8 +/- 35.5 parts-per-million (ppm), along with an amplitude of the phase curve of 100.4 +/- 13.1 ppm and a corresponding westward offset between the region of maximum brightness and the substellar point of 28.7 +/- 7.1 degrees, making WASP-33b one of the few planets with such an offset found so far. Our derived Bond albedo, A_B = 0.369 +/- 0.050, and heat recirculation efficiency, epsilon = 0.189 +/- 0.014, confirm again that he behavior of WASP-33b is similar to that of other hot Jupiters, despite the high irradiation received from its host star. By connecting the amplitude of the phase curve to the primary transit and depths of the secondary eclipse, we determine that the day- and nightside brightness temperatures of WASP-33b are 3014 +/- 60 K and 1605 +/- 45 K, respectively. From the detection of photometric variations due to gravitational interactions, we estimate a planet mass of M_P = 2.81 +/- 0.53 M$_J.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures
Coordination of interdependent natural gas and electricity systems based on information gap decision theory
Creators: name: Sohrabi, Farnaz
name: Jabari, Farkhondeh
name: Mohammadi-Ivatloo, Behnam
name: Soroudi, Alireza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The interactions of the natural gas (NG) network and the electricity system are increased by using gas-fired generation units, which use NG to produce electricity. There are various uncertainty sources such as the forced outage of generating units or market price fluctuations that affect the economic operation of both NG and electricity systems. This study focuses on the steady-state formulation of the integrated NG transmission grid and electricity system by considering the uncertainty of electricity market price based on information gap decision theory. The higher and lower costs than the expected cost originated from the fluctuations of electricity market price are modelled by the robustness and opportunity functions, respectively. The objective is to minimise the cost of zone one while satisfying the constraints of two interdependent systems, which can obtain revenue from selling power to its connected zones in short-term scheduling. The capability of the proposed method is demonstrated by applying it on a 20-node NG network and IEEE RTS 24-bus. The proposed short-term coordination between NG and electricity infrastructures is solved and discussed.
IMPACT OF CROP SELECTION ON THE COSTS OF WASTEWATER LAND TREATMENT
Creators: name: Bradley, Edward B.
name: Bradley, Edward B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1976
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Crop production can be an integral part of land treatment. Net treatment costs are simulated for systems growing corn, alfalfa, and reed canary grass. Growing reed canary grass minimizes net treatment costs, due to its longer irrigation season. If an 85 percent cap !ta I subsidy is provided, growing corn grain .minimizes local costs.
Emergence of Writing Systems Through Multi-Agent Cooperation
Creators: name: Verma, Shresth
name: Dhar, Joydip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Learning to communicate is considered an essential task to develop a general AI. While recent literature in language evolution has studied emergent language through discrete or continuous message symbols, there has been little work in the emergence of writing systems in artificial agents. In this paper, we present a referential game setup with two agents, where the mode of communication is a written language system that emerges during the play. We show that the agents can learn to coordinate successfully using this mode of communication. Further, we study how the game rules affect the writing system taxonomy by proposing a consistency metric.
description: Under Review as Student Abstract at AAAI'20
EQUITY AND EFFICIENCY IN PRICING LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES: THE CASE OF WASTEWATER
Creators: name: Peterson, David H.
name: Bromley, Daniel W.
name: Peterson, David H.
name: Bromley, Daniel W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1976
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Much has been written in the economic literature about pricing local public services. If a public service is defined as a public enterprise, or public utility, the management is often charged by statute to operate the enterprise in an economically efficient manner and to provide equitable service to all users. Locally provided wastewater service is an example of such a public enterprise. Given the range of constraints imposed on local officials by state and federal guidelines, standards, local institutional structures, one of the most effective tools for shaping local public enterprise policy and achieving efficient and equitable service can be the tool of price making for the local public service.
Synchronization of active rotators interacting with environment
Creators: name: Song, Taegeun
name: Kim, Heetae
name: Son, Seung-Woo
name: Jo, Junghyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiple organs in a living system respond to environmental changes, and the signals from the organs regulate the physiological environment. Inspired by this biological feedback, we propose a simple autonomous system of active rotators to explain how multiple units are synchronized under a fluctuating environment. We find that the feedback via an environment can entrain rotators to have synchronous phases for specific conditions. This mechanism is markedly different from the simple entrainment by a common oscillatory external stimulus that is not interacting with systems. We theoretically examine how the phase synchronization depends on the interaction strength between rotators and environment. Furthermore, we successfully demonstrate the proposed model by realizing an analog electric circuit with microelectronic devices. This bio-inspired platform can be used as a sensor for monitoring varying environments, and as a controller for amplifying signals by their feedback-induced synchronization.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Creators: name: Edwards, Clark
name: Edwards, Clark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1976
Subjects: Public Economics

description: The rural and urban sectors of the economy are strongly interlinked. Growth in one sector impacts on the other. The growth process does not appear to be an equilibrium one in which marginal adjustments to opportunity costs eliminate disparities. The ·two sectors grow in an unbalanced way. So far, the economic advantages appear to have favored the urban sector.
Geniates Kirby 1819
Creators: name: Jameson, Mary Liz
name: Hawkins, Shauna Joy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Geniates

description: GENIATES Kirby, 1819: 401  [Gender: Masculine]
39 species
description: Published as part of Jameson, Mary Liz & Hawkins, Shauna Joy, 2005, Synopsis of the genera of Geniatini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae with an annotated catalog of species), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 874 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.874.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5046175
Formalism for the Subhalo Mass Function in the Tidal-limit Approximation
Creators: name: Lee, Jounghun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical formalism by which the global and the local mass functions of dark matter substructures (dark subhalos) can be analytically estimated. The global subhalo mass function is defined to give the total number density of dark subhalos in the universe as a function of mass, while the local subhalo mass function counts only those subhalos included in one individual host halo. We develop our formalism by modifying the Press-Schechter theory to incorporate the followings: (i) the internal structure of dark halos; (ii) the correlations between the halos and the subhalos; (iii) the subhalo mass-loss effect driven by the tidal forces. We find that the resulting (cumulative) subhalo mass function is close to a power law with the slope of ~ -1, that the subhalos contribute approximately 10 % of the total mass, and that the tidal stripping effect changes the subhalo mass function self-similarly, all consistent with recent numerical detections.
description: revised version, accepted by ApJ Letters, estimate of the local subhalo mass function included, 10 pages, 1 figure
ADAPTING SHIFT-SHARE ANALYSIS TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
Creators: name: Marousek, Gerald
name: Marousek, Gerald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1976
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Citizen planning groups, as well as appointed and elected public officials are faced with giving direction to economic growth and. development efforts in rural communities. Several approaches are typically taken to focus attention on the development potential of the community. Among these a:te economic base-studies and promotional campaigns to attract new industries.
Geniates affinis Camerano 1878
Creators: name: Jameson, Mary Liz
name: Hawkins, Shauna Joy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Geniates
Geniates affinis

description: G. affinis Camerano, 1878: 237
BRAZIL
description: Published as part of Jameson, Mary Liz & Hawkins, Shauna Joy, 2005, Synopsis of the genera of Geniatini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae with an annotated catalog of species), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 874 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.874.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5046175
Applying Information Theory to Design Optimal Filters for Photometric Redshifts
Creators: name: Kalmbach, J. Bryce
name: VanderPlas, Jacob T.
name: Connolly, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we apply ideas from information theory to create a method for the design of optimal filters for photometric redshift estimation. We show the method applied to a series of simple example filters in order to motivate an intuition for how photometric redshift estimators respond to the properties of photometric passbands. We then design a realistic set of six filters covering optical wavelengths that optimize photometric redshifts for $z <= 2.3$ and $i < 25.3$. We create a simulated catalog for these optimal filters and use our filters with a photometric redshift estimation code to show that we can improve the standard deviation of the photometric redshift error by 7.1% overall and improve outliers 9.9% over the standard filters proposed for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). We compare features of our optimal filters to LSST and find that the LSST filters incorporate key features for optimal photometric redshift estimation. Finally, we describe how information theory can be applied to a range of optimization problems in astronomy.
description: 29 pages, 17 figures, accepted to ApJ
The nature of close companions of the BL Lac Objects 1ES 0502+675 and 1ES 1440+122
Creators: name: Giovannini, G.
name: Falomo, R.
name: Scarpa, R.
name: Treves, A.
name: Urry, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on deep radio images and optical spectroscopy of two BL Lac objects that have very close compact companions. The two targets, 1ES 0502+675 and 1ES 1440+122, were selected from the HST imaging survey of 110 BL Lacs as candidates for possible gravitational lensing. The new observations clearly demonstrate that the companion objects are not secondary images of the active nuclei but, in spite of the relatively low chance projection probability, foreground Galactic stars. Gravitational lensing appears to be unimportant to the BL Lac phenomenon. We discuss the radio properties of the BL Lac objects in the context of standard beaming models, and show they are as expected for beamed FRI radio galaxies.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, ApJ in press
A comparison of on-curricular and off-curricular activities in enterprise education for postgraduate students
Creators: name: Phillips, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship

description: A comparison of the effectiveness of two educational activities are carried out; a standard on-curricular postgraduate unit and an off-curricular school activity. The taught area for both is the theme of enterprise and entrepreneurship. They share similar intended learning outcomes, equipping participants with the same skills, knowledge and tools to set up their own business start-up. Another similarity is the number of contact hours with the students, however the main difference is the span these two activities take place; over a full semester or over a week. A survey was designed to be used in post teaching sessions to evaluate the effectiveness and impact the activities had on the students in the area of enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and Physical Exercises with High Cognitive Demand Delayed the Effects of Mild Cognitive Decline
Creators: name: Garcez Militão, Angeliete
name: Teixeira De Pinho, Silvia
name: Gomes Teixeira, Tatiane
name: Calomeni, Mauricio
name: Almeida Marinho, Daniel
name: Furtado Da Silva, Vernon
Publisher: name: Motricidade
Year: 2024

description: Studies have revealed the efficacy of non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions in slowing or delaying the onset and evolution of symptoms. Among them is physical and cognitive stimulation (Ferretti, 2016; Hernandez, Coelho, Gobbi, & Stella, 2010), which, in turn, prevent motor inactivity through the practice of physical and cognitive exercises through the activation of specific neurological functions. So, the non-invasive brain activity modulation associated with the practice of physical exercises may improve elderlies' functional autonomy and cognition. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of non-invasive brain activity modulation technique, associated with the practice of physical exercises with high cognitive demand on the functional autonomy and cognitive variables of the elderly with mild cognitive impairments. The study was registered with the Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (UTN Number: U1111-1249-0494). One hundred and forty elderly diagnosed with MCI, aged 60 or over, of both sexes, were divided into two groups. A control group (CG, n = 68, = 74.6, and an experimental group (EG, n=70,  = 71.4 ) were formed. The cognitive and functional variables of participants were measured. Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) and physical exercises with high cognitive demand were used for intervention. The CG participants remained with their normal activities, which included participation in the memory workshop activities. The EG had sessions once a week, with a mix of NIBS protocol and practice exercises with high cognitive demand. Both groups got a 7-week period between the evaluations. Although we did not find significant differences in all assessed variables (figure 1), the EG group had better functional development. In our study, there was no strict control as to the intensity of motor tasks and no addition of overload in order to actually stimulate physiological mechanisms responsible for promoting gains in physical variables. The intervention promoted a reduction of dementia effects, despite the lack of statistical significance, the EG obtained more positive results when compared to the CG.
description: Motricidade, Vol. 20 No. S1 (2024): CIDESD International Congress 2023
Cost-utility analysis of home-based cardiac rehabilitation as compared to usual post-discharge care: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Bakhshayesh, Samaneh
name: Hoseini, Benyamin
name: Bergquist, Robert
name: Nabovati, Ehsan
name: Gholoobi, Arash
name: Mohammad-Ebrahimi, Shahab
name: Eslami, Saeid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Determining cost-utility differences between home-based cardiac rehabilitation (HBCR) on the one hand, and usual post-discharge care (UC) on the other, can improve resource-allocation in healthcare settings. In June 2019, PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Cochrane library were searched for randomized controlled HBCR trials. Standardized mean differences (SMDs) of cost and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) between HBCRs and UCs were calculated using random effect models. Heterogeneity was assessed by inconsistency index (I2) and publication bias by funnel plot and Egger’s regression test. Thirteen articles, representing 2,992 participants, were deemed representative for final analysis. In the meta-analysis, a significant difference with respect to QALYs favored HBCR, while no significant cost difference was observed between HBCR and UC. However, subgroup-analysis of trials with different follow-up durations revealed somewhat different results, and HBCR was found to be significantly better with regard to both cost and QALYs for patients with heart failure. Cost-utility analysis categorizing interventions as ‘dominant’, ‘effective’, ‘doubtful’, and ‘dominated’, found HBCRs dominant. Although HBCR tended to be superior compared to UC in this review, larger and more robust trials addressing specific patients groups are needed for definitive results.
ChainSplitter: Towards Blockchain-based Industrial IoT Architecture for Supporting Hierarchical Storage
Creators: name: Wang, Gang
name: Shi, Zhijie Jerry
name: Nixon, Mark
name: Han, Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The fast developing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies provide a promising opportunity to build large-scale systems to connect numerous heterogeneous devices into the Internet. Most existing IIoT infrastructures are based on a centralized architecture, which is easier for management but cannot effectively support immutable and verifiable services among multiple parties. Blockchain technology provides many desired features for large-scale IIoT infrastructures, such as decentralization, trustworthiness, trackability, and immutability. This paper presents a blockchain-based IIoT architecture to support immutable and verifiable services. However, when applying blockchain technology to the IIoT infrastructure, the required storage space posts a grant challenge to resource-constrained IIoT infrastructures. To address the storage issue, this paper proposes a hierarchical blockchain storage structure, \textit{ChainSplitter}. Specially, the proposed architecture features a hierarchical storage structure where the majority of the blockchain is stored in the clouds, while the most recent blocks are stored in the overlay network of the individual IIoT networks. The proposed architecture seamlessly binds local IIoT networks, the blockchain overlay network, and the cloud infrastructure together through two connectors, the \textit{blockchain connector} and the \textit{cloud connector}, to construct the hierarchical blockchain storage. The blockchain connector in the overlay network builds blocks in blockchain from data generated in IIoT networks, and the cloud connector resolves the blockchain synchronization issues between the overlay network and the clouds. We also provide a case study to show the efficiency of the proposed hierarchical blockchain storage in a practical Industrial IoT case.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain) 978-1-7281-4693-5/19/$31.00 \c{opyright}2019 IEEE
Kaon Interferometry at KLOE: Present and Future
Creators: name: KLOE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interferometry with neutral kaons at KLOE is reviewed. The preliminary results on phi->KS KL->pi+pi- pi+pi- and decoherence parameter are presented. The impact of C-even background and regenerators is shortly discussed and updated. Finally KLOE perspectives on interferometry at DAPHNE and expectations at a new higher luminosity phi-factory are briefly illustrated.
description: Invited talk at the Workshop on e+e- in the 1-2 GeV range, Alghero, Italy, September 2003 (eConf C0309101)
Walk or be walked by the dog? The attachment role
Creators: name: Martins, Catarina Freitas
name: Silva, Luís
name: Soares, Jorge
name: Pinto, Graça Sofia Monteiro
name: Abrantes, Catarina
name: Gomes, Francisca
name: Cardoso, Luís
name: Pires, Maria Dos Anjos
name: Mota, Maria Paula
Publisher: name: Motricidade
Year: 2024

description: The recruitment of dogs as a source of encouragement and motivation for physical activity (PA) has garnered increased scientific attention (Christian et al., 2016; Morrison et al., 2014; Soares et al., 2015; Westgarth et al., 2014). Accelerometers are a valuable instrument for quantifying PA and energy expenditure in both humans and dogs (Montoye et al., 2020; Yam et al., 2011). However, a recent meta-analytical study (Martins et al., 2023) has suggested the relevance of studying the possible influence of the human-animal bond on PA levels. The objectives of this study are to verify the relationship between the PA levels of owners and their dogs in the at-home environment and to analyse the attachment to pets to the levels of owners' PA. Sociodemographic data, the Subjective Perceptive Health Scale (SPHS), and the Lexington Pet Attachment Scale (LAPS) were assessed. PA was measured in both the owner and the dog using an Actigraph GT3X accelerometer. A total of 38 owner participants were included, with 66% females, 43.11 ± 16.57 years, and a BMI of 24.51 ± 5.19 kg/m². Significant correlations were found between the owners' light-level PA, the pet's METS (rho = 0.35) and the pet's vigorous-level PA (rho = 0.45). The owners' SPHS scores were significantly correlated with their pets' weight (rho = 0.39). Furthermore, the importance of the pets' health and the LAPS subscales, namely proximity and attachment, were related to taking the pet for a walk (rho = 0.46, rho = 0.36, rho = 0.34, respectively). Our study contributes to filling one of the gaps identified in the literature. Indeed, our results highlight that the presence of a pet is associated with a higher level of owner PA, depending on the strength of the human-animal bond and not solely on having a dog. These findings also indicate that owners who are more concerned about their pets' health are more likely to be concerned about their pets' health and take them for walks. As a result, the PA levels of the owner and the pet increased. Consequently, proposing pet ownership as a strategy to increase owner PA levels may be ineffective if there is no strong bonding relationship.
description: Motricidade, Vol. 20 No. S1 (2024): CIDESD International Congress 2023
Geniates bituberculatus Camerano 1878
Creators: name: Jameson, Mary Liz
name: Hawkins, Shauna Joy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Geniates
Geniates bituberculatus

description: G. bituberculatus Camerano, 1878: 235
 G. bituberculata Camerano (unjustified emendation by Blackwelder 1944: 249) BRAZIL
description: Published as part of Jameson, Mary Liz & Hawkins, Shauna Joy, 2005, Synopsis of the genera of Geniatini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae with an annotated catalog of species), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 874 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.874.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5046175
A Comparison of students’ attitudes and attainment on an enterprise module for scientists and engineers
Creators: name: Phillips, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: We compared data from an enterprise course aimed at scientists and engineers using the Unit Evaluation Questionnaire, coursework marks and qualitative feedback quotes with the aim of identifying any issues for embedding enterprise and entrepreneurship units in science and engineering degrees. Enterprise courses in many universities are often offered as units within other degree programmes which fulfill chartered bodies requirements for enterprise education and for employability. Whilst broadly accepted to be successful, others have reported students views on enterprise education be mixed as they feel its out of their comfort zone, and some are not open to studying units outside of their main subject, however we found student results and satisfaction to be at least as good as faculty and departmental norms. Qualitative comments suggest despite initial misgivings, they enjoy applying their subject knowledge to entrepreneurial issues and appreciate it not being a generic course. Students were not adversely affected by different assessment techniques and performed similarly to departmental/faculty averages. We found that it was key for courses to be tailored to science and engineering students such as by allowing a company from their subject area for their assignments and giving science examples which gave better engagement and feedback.
From Pro-Suffrage to Anti-ERA: Fear and Women’s Rights in the Mormon Church
Creators: name: Hawkins, Athena
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: religion
women’s rights
feminism
mormonism
Utah
women’s suffrage
ERA
Signature Course Information Literacy Award

description: This project won second place in the 2021 Signature Course Information Literacy Award. The award recognizes exemplary student work that achieves the learning outcomes of the Signature Course information literacy requirement, that students will be able to create and execute a research strategy, critically evaluate information, and navigate the scholarly conversation. The paper was nominated by Alex Beasley and completed in his Fall 2020 Signature Course, “Emotions in US History.” Athena Hawkins' project was chosen for her interesting argument, bolstered by primary and secondary sources pertaining to multiple eras. Dr. Beasley supported this project by saying "[Athena Hawkins] innovatively argued that "people are more likely to support liberty and equality when it propels them into a position of societal acceptance, and more likely to fear this type of change when it removes their institution or group from the hegemonic culture’s warm embrace." She marshaled an impressive range of primary and secondary sources to make her case, including pamphlets and newspapers from the 19th century and 1970s.”
Hyper-parameters for the models used for the experiments in the paper "Multimodal analysis of the predictability of hand-gesture properties"
Creators: name: Kucherenko, Taras
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80103 Computer Graphics
subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Those files contain the complete list of hyper-parameters of the different models used for the gesture-properties prediction experiments in the AAMAS 2022 paper "Multimodal analysis of the predictabilityof hand-gesture properties".
Half-Integer Shapiro Steps in a Short Ballistic InAs Nanowire Josephson Junction
Creators: name: Ueda, Kento
name: Matsuo, Sadashige
name: Kamata, Hiroshi
name: Sato, Yosuke
name: Takeshige, Yuusuke
name: Li, Kan
name: Samuelson, Lars
name: Xu, Hongqi
name: Tarucha, Seigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on half-integer Shapiro steps observed in an InAs nanowire Josephson junction. We observed the Shapiro steps of the short ballistic InAs nanowire Josephson junction and found anomalous half-integer steps in addition to the conventional integer steps. The half-integer steps disappear as the temperature increases or transmission of the junction decreases. These experimental results agree closely with numerical calculation of the Shapiro response for the skewed current phase relation in a short ballistic Josephson junction.
Synergies of low-carbon technologies and land-sparing in Brazilian regions
Creators: name: Zanetti De Lima, C.
name: Gurgel, A.
name: Teixeira, E.C.
name: Zanetti De Lima, C.
name: Gurgel, A.
name: Teixeira, E.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The Low-carbon Agriculture Plan in Brazil (ABC Plan) tries to conciliate sustainable growth of agricultural production and minimize the environmental impacts promoted by land-use changes. The agriculture, florest and other land uses (AFOLU) sector is the main source of GHG emissions reaching in 2015 67% (1,310 Mt CO2eq) of total emissions. The implementation of pasture recovery and integrated systems technologies are therefore seen as a promising strategy for sustainable agricultural intensification, since they can increase the organic matter in the soil, sequester carbon, as well as increase the production per hectare. This article analysis the relationship between these technologies and the land-sparing concept. Under ABC Plan's economic concepts the outcomes suggest the interaction of both technologies promotes land-sparing effect in the country as a whole. There is an increase of natural and forest areas, specially those inside the private rural establishments. However, the regional results show a different dynamic in the agricultural frontier. These regions intensify the pasture use to the detriment of native vegetation and forest areas. Acknowledgement :
Association between suicidal ideation and acoustic parameters of university students’ voice and speech: a pilot study
Creators: name: Saavedra, Carla Figueroa
name: Hernández, Tamara Otzen
name: Godoy, Camila Alarcón
name: Pérez, Arlette Ríos
name: Salinas, Damaris Frugone
name: Hernández, Roberto Lagos
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Purpose: At a worldwide level, suicide is a public health problem that, despite displaying downward trends in several areas of the world, in many countries these rates have increased. One of the elements that contributes to its prevention is an early and dynamic evaluation. Due to this, the objective is to determine the association between acoustic parameters of voice and speech (F0, F1, F2, F3, dB, and Jitter) and suicidal ideation arousal amongst some university students from the city of Temuco, Chile. Methods: Attending to this issue, a cross-sectional design study was conducted through a non-probabilistic sampling of sixty 18- and 19-year-old adolescents from the city of Temuco, that went through an acoustic evaluation of their voice and speech after taking a test to determine suicidal ideation. Afterwards, data were analyzed through IBM SPSS version 23.0 software (IBM SPSS Statistics, Armonk, NY), by means of exploratory, descriptive, and inferential statistics taking the variable’s levels of measurements and the types of distributions into account. Results: The results point out that 30% of the adolescents, from both genders, displayed suicidal ideation. Taking into account the acoustic results of their voice, it is possible to recognize that the fundamental frequency (F0), the formants (F1, F2), and Jitter, are the ones that majorly link to the presence of suicidal ideation, both in women and men (p p Conclusions: It is concluded that the acoustic parameters of voice and speech differ in adolescents with suicidal behavior, opening the possibility of representing a useful tool in the diagnosis of suicide.
High-speed Autonomous Drifting with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Cai, Peide
name: Mei, Xiaodong
name: Tai, Lei
name: Sun, Yuxiang
name: Liu, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Drifting is a complicated task for autonomous vehicle control. Most traditional methods in this area are based on motion equations derived by the understanding of vehicle dynamics, which is difficult to be modeled precisely. We propose a robust drift controller without explicit motion equations, which is based on the latest model-free deep reinforcement learning algorithm soft actor-critic. The drift control problem is formulated as a trajectory following task, where the errorbased state and reward are designed. After being trained on tracks with different levels of difficulty, our controller is capable of making the vehicle drift through various sharp corners quickly and stably in the unseen map. The proposed controller is further shown to have excellent generalization ability, which can directly handle unseen vehicle types with different physical properties, such as mass, tire friction, etc.
Seasonal variations in physical activity, sleep patterns, and depressive symptoms in older adults living alone in a rural area
Creators: name: Martins, Catarina Freitas
name: Carneiro, Lara
name: Silva, Luís
name: Mota, Maria P.
Publisher: name: Motricidade
Year: 2024

description: Physical Activity (PA) and human mental health seem to be influenced by seasons (Arnardottir et al., 2017; Martinez, 2018). However, little is known about how these parameters vary in elderlies living alone in rural areas, especially those in social isolation (SI). Moreover, it is still unclear how seasonality influences sleep patterns in this population. This study explores seasonal variations in PA, depressive symptoms, and sleep patterns among older adults living alone in a rural area. Fifty-nine participants (80.07±6.31 years) who lived alone in rural areas of Vila Real were included. Sociodemographic data and Lubben Social Network Scale-6 (LSNS-6), were assessed. PA and sleep patterns were measured using a GT9X accelerometer, and depressive symptoms were assessed through the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). Sleep parameters included the clock time of in-bed time and get-up time, total minutes spent in bed, total sleep time (TST), wake after sleep onset (WASO), and total counts. Seasonal variations were analysed by considering weather factors, including average temperature, precipitation levels, daylight duration, sunset time, and sunrise time. In summer, participants engaged in significantly higher levels of light physical activity (t =-2.15, p=0.04), moderate-vigorous physical activity (t=4.17, p=0.00), and daily steps (t=2.78, p=0.00). In contrast, winter was associated with more sedentary behaviour (t=-2.56, p=0.01). Depressive symptoms were found to be lower during the summer (t=0.99, p=0.00), while a significant correlation was observed between depression symptoms and winter precipitation (rho=0.34). On the other hand, SI was lower in the summer, showing a correlation with the longer period of daylight (rho=-0.39), sunrise time (rho=-0.44), and sunset time (rho=0.39). The sleep patterns indicated that during winter, these older adults went to bed earlier (t=-6.49, p=0.00) and got up later (t=2.02, p=0.04), had more total minutes in bed (t=-6.69, p=0.00), and exhibited longer TST (t=-7.41, p=0.00). During winter, sleep increased (p=0.02), and the temperature was correlated with total minutes in bed (rho=0.32), TST (rho=0.30), and bedtime (rho=-0.33). However, during winter, sunrise and sunset time correlated with WASO (rho=-0.33, rho=0.33, respectively), and total counts (rho=-0.32, rho=0.32, respectively). In conclusion, this study highlights the influence of seasonal variations, including weather factors, on physical activity, depressive symptoms, and sleep patterns in older adults living alone in rural areas. The findings emphasise the importance of considering these seasonal dynamics in designing tailored interventions to promote physical activity, improve mental well-being, and enhance sleep quality in this vulnerable population.
description: Motricidade, Vol. 20 No. S1 (2024): CIDESD International Congress 2023
Comparative study of dimer vacancies and dimer-vacancy lines on Si(001) and Ge(001)
Creators: name: Ciobanu, C. V.
name: Tambe, D. T.
name: Shenoy, V. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although the clean Si(001) and Ge(001) surfaces are very similar, experiments to date have shown that dimer-vacancy (DV) defects self-organize into vacancy lines (VLs) on Si(001), but not on Ge(001). In this paper, we perform empirical-potential calculations aimed at understanding the differences between the vacancies on Si(001) and Ge(001). We identify three energetic parameters that characterize the DVs on the two surfaces: the formation energy of a single DV, the attraction between two DVs in adjacent dimer rows, and the strain sensitivity of the formation energy of DVs and VLs. At the empirical level of treatment of the atomic interactions (Tersoff potentials), all three parameters are favorable for the self-assembly of DVs on the Si(001) surface rather than on Ge(001). The most significant difference between the defects on Si(001) and on Ge(001) concerns the formation energy of single DVs, which is three times larger in the latter case. By calculating the strain-dependent formation energies of DVs and VLs, we propose that the experimental observation of self-assembly of vacancies on clean Ge(001) could be achieved by applying compressive strains of the order of 2%.
description: 3 tables, 4 figures, to appear in Surface Science
Subnational Prioritization for Biofortification Interventions in Nigeria
Creators: name: Herrington, C.
name: Funes, J.
name: Lividini, K.
name: Moursi, M.
name: Taleon, V.
name: Asare-Marfo, D.
name: Birol, E.
name: Herrington, C.
name: Funes, J.
name: Lividini, K.
name: Moursi, M.
name: Taleon, V.
name: Asare-Marfo, D.
name: Birol, E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Globally, two billion people suffer from micronutrient malnutrition. Biofortification, the process of breeding staple food crops to have higher micronutrient content, has proven to be efficacious and cost-effective in addressing micronutrient malnutrition. To determine where and in which crop-micronutrient combinations to invest, a global Biofortification Prioritization Index (BPI) was developed (Asare-Marfo et al., 2013). While a country s rank in the global context is useful, it is not granular enough to develop strategies within heterogenous countries. Therefore, this paper utilizes methodology to develop a subnational-level BPI for Nigeria, a country which shows promise for biofortified crops. The subnational BPI is based on three sub-indices: production, consumption, and micronutrient deficiency. In addition, targeted areas are classified as areas of: (1) impact and intervention, (2) impact, or (3) intervention. Sensitivity analyses tested the robustness of BPI results on single sub-index parameters. For vitamin A maize s introduction, the North East and North West zones offer the most promise while the southern zones generate the greatest impact for the introduction of vitamin A cassava. Concentrating vitamin A sweet potato investments in the North Central zone is the most effective while focusing in the North West is the most promising strategy for iron pearl millet. Acknowledgement : The authors would sincerely like to thank Dr. Erick Boy, Head of the HarvestPlus Nutrition Research Unit, and Ms. Amarachi Utah for their consultation and support of this research.
Weak spin-orbit interactions induce exponentially flat mini-bands in magnetic metals without inversion symmetry
Creators: name: Fischer, I.
name: Rosch, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In metallic magnets like MnSi the interplay of two very weak spin-orbit coupling effects can strongly modify the Fermi surface. In the absence of inversion symmetry even a very small Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction of strength delta<<1 distorts a ferromagnetic state into a chiral helix with a long pitch of order 1/delta. We show that additional small spin-orbit coupling terms of order delta in the band structure lead to the formation of exponentially flat minibands with a bandwidth of order exp(-1/sqrt(delta)) parallel to the direction of the helix. These flat minibands cover a rather broad belt of width sqrt(delta) on the Fermi surface where electron motion parallel to the helix practically stops. We argue that these peculiar band-structure effects lead to pronounced features in the anomalous skin effect.
description: 7 pages, minor corrections, references added