cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Targeting strategies of antenatal balanced energy and protein supplementation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: study protocol for a randomized effectiveness study
Creators: name: Wang, Dongqing
name: Shifraw, Tigest
name: Costa, Janaina Calu
name: Abdelmenan, Semira
name: Tsegaye, Sitota
name: Berhane, Yoseph
name: Gulema, Hanna
name: Berhane, Hanna
name: Fasil, Nebiyou
name: Workneh, Firehiwot
name: Tarekegn, Workagegnhu
name: Wang, Molin
name: Menzies, Nicolas A.
name: Worku, Alemayehu
name: Berhane, Yemane
name: Fawzi, Wafaie W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Magnetic properties of van der Waals layered single crystals DyOBr and SmOCl
Creators: name: Pan, Feihao
name: Xu, Daye
name: Sun, Songnan
name: Huang, Jiale
name: Shang, Chenglin
name: Shi, Bingxian
name: Gui, Xuejuan
name: Qin, Jianfei
name: Wang, Hongliang
name: Hao, Lijie
name: Wang, Jinchen
name: Liu, Juanjuan
name: Zhang, Hongxia
name: Cheng, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional van der Waals single crystals DyOBr and SmOCl have been grown by flux method and their anisotropic magnetic properties are reported. DyOBr orders antiferromagnetically at T$_{N}$=9.5 K with magnetic moments lying along $a$-axis, similar as DyOCl. Its magnetic susceptibility shows an anomaly at T$^{*}$=30 K possibly due to the crystal field effect. Furthermore a 1/3 magnetization plateau is clearly observed under H$\parallel$a and H$\parallel$[110], which might be a field-induced spin-flop phase or some exotic quantum magnetic state. On the other hand, isostructural SmOCl undergoes an antiferromagnetic transition at T$_{N}$=7.1 K and exhibits a contrasting Ising-like perpendicular $c$-axis magnetic anisotropy, which could be well explained by our crystal field calculations. Both DyOBr and SmOCl are insulators with band gap of $\sim$5 eV, our results suggest they are promising in building van der Waals heterostructures and applications in multifunctional devices.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Formation of Highly Tunable Periodic Plasmonic Structures on Gold Films Using Direct Laser Writing
Creators: name: Vilkevičius, Kernius
name: Tsibidis, George D.
name: Selskis, Algirdas
name: Stratakis, Emmanuel
name: Stankevičius, Evaldas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direct laser writing method is a promising technique for the large-scale and cost-effective fabrication of periodic nanostructure arrays exciting hybrid lattice plasmons. This type of electromagnetic mode manifests a narrow and deep resonance peak with a high dispersion whose precise controllability is crucial for practical applications in photonic devices. Here, the formation of differently shaped gold nanostructures using the direct laser writing method on Au layers of different thicknesses is presented. The resonance peak is demonstrated to be highly dependent on the shape of the structures in the array, thus its position in the spectra, as well as the quality, can be additionally modulated by changing the morphology. The shape of the structure and the resonance itself pertain not only on the laser pulse energy but also on the grating period. This overlapping effect occurring at distances smaller than the diameter of the focused laser beam is studied in detail. By taking advantage of the highly controllable plasmonic resonance, the fabricated gratings open up new opportunities for applications in sensing.
description: 25 pages, 11 figures, 4 supplementary figures
Symplectic quantization III: Non-relativistic limit
Creators: name: Gradenigo, Giacomo
name: Livi, Roberto
name: Salasnich, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First of all we shortly illustrate how the symplectic quantization scheme [Gradenigo and Livi, 2021] can be applied to a relativistic field theory with self-interaction. Taking inspiration from the stochastic quantization method by Parisi and Wu, this procedure is based on considering explicitly the role of an intrinsic time variable, associated with quantum fluctuations. The major part of this paper is devoted to showing how the symplectic quantization scheme can be extended to the non-relativistic limit for a Schrödinger-like field. Then we also discuss how one can obtain from this non-relativistic theory a linear Schrödinger equation for the single-particle wavefunction. This further passage is based on a suitable coarse-graining procedure, when self-interaction terms can be neglected, with respect to interactions with any external field. In the Appendix we complete our survey on symplectic quantization by discussing how this scheme applies to a non-relativistic particle under the action of a generic external potential.
description: 9 pages, to be published in "Foundation of Physics"
TA-RNN: an Attention-based Time-aware Recurrent Neural Network Architecture for Electronic Health Records
Creators: name: Olaimat, Mohammad Al
name: Bozdag, Serdar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motivation: Electronic Health Records (EHR) represent a comprehensive resource of a patient's medical history. EHR are essential for utilizing advanced technologies such as deep learning (DL), enabling healthcare providers to analyze extensive data, extract valuable insights, and make precise and data-driven clinical decisions. DL methods such as Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) have been utilized to analyze EHR to model disease progression and predict diagnosis. However, these methods do not address some inherent irregularities in EHR data such as irregular time intervals between clinical visits. Furthermore, most DL models are not interpretable. In this study, we propose two interpretable DL architectures based on RNN, namely Time-Aware RNN (TA-RNN) and TA-RNN-Autoencoder (TA-RNN-AE) to predict patient's clinical outcome in EHR at next visit and multiple visits ahead, respectively. To mitigate the impact of irregular time intervals, we propose incorporating time embedding of the elapsed times between visits. For interpretability, we propose employing a dual-level attention mechanism that operates between visits and features within each visit.
 Results: The results of the experiments conducted on Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) datasets indicated superior performance of proposed models for predicting Alzheimer's Disease (AD) compared to state-of-the-art and baseline approaches based on F2 and sensitivity. Additionally, TA-RNN showed superior performance on Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC-III) dataset for mortality prediction. In our ablation study, we observed enhanced predictive performance by incorporating time embedding and attention mechanisms. Finally, investigating attention weights helped identify influential visits and features in predictions.
title: Solvency II und die Auswirkungen auf den österreichischen Versicherungsmarkt
Creators: name: Gluszko, Christoph Emanuel
Year: 2009

description: Diese Magisterarbeit behandelt zentral die aufsichtsrechtlichen Bestimmungen für Versicherungen unter Solvency II, die derzeit auf europäischer Ebene entwickelt und auch in Österreich gültig sein werden. Solvency I war von Anfang an nur als Überganslösung gedacht und soll möglichst bald durch flexiblere und risikoadäquate Bestimmungen ersetzt werden. Dabei kommt ein Drei-Säulen-System, ähnlich dem von Basel II, zum Einsatz, das die Eigenmittelausstattung, das Risikomanagement und Publizitätsbestimmungen der Versicherungen an die nationalen Aufsichtsbehörden regelt. Um dieses Modell zu testen wurden bereits 4 Feldstudien, die Quantitative Impact Studies, durchgeführt. Einige Unternehmen haben noch Probleme mit den Änderungen in der Ermittlung des Solvenzkapitals, des Mindestkapitalbedarfs und einiger neuer Bewertungsvorschriften. Auf Österreichischer Ebene gibt das FMA den heimischen Versicherungsmarkt bis zur Durchführung einer möglichen 5. Feldstudie eine weitere Möglichkeit sich auf die umfangreichen Umstellungen vorzubereiten. Dieser Versicherungsmarkt unterscheidet sich von anderen in der EU deshalb, weil es viele kleine und mittelgroße Versicherungen gibt, die geringe Marktanteile halten und denen Solvency II möglicherweise Nachteile bringt.
description: This Master Thesis deals with Solvency II, the future regulatory requirements for insurance companies operating in the European Union, which are being presently developed and which will also be valid in Austria. From the very beginning Solvency I was never intended to be more than an interim solution. It should get replaced by a model which deals with risk adequately and which is more flexible than the existing one. This will be ensured by using a system which is based upon the three pillars capital requirements, risk management and disclosure requirements, similar to the Basel II approach. Four Quantitative Impact Studies were conducted in order to test this model. One of the conclusions is, that many companies are facing problems in calculating the capital requirements with the new methods and that they have difficulties in the valuation of their assets. In Austria the regulatory authority FMA offers domestic insurers to take part in another study which is another opportunity to prepare for the upcoming adjustments. The local insurance market differs from other markets in the EU because of the high number of small- and medium-sized companies which have minor market share. These companies may get in trouble and Solvency II could be a drawback to the domestic market.
Charged spherically symmetric black holes in the Lyra geometry and a preliminary investigation on the overcharging process
Creators: name: Sobrero, Felipe
name: Valadão, E. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83D05 (Primary) 53Z05, 85A99 (Secondary) 78A25

description: This paper aims to investigate charged spherically symmetric static black holes in the Lyra geometry, in which a scale function naturally arises in the metric and affine structure of these type of manifolds. In particular, it is utilized the appropriate generalization of General Relativity, the recently proposed Lyra Scalar-Tensor Theory (LyST). The simplest generalization of Maxwell electrodynamics for Lyra manifolds is considered. It is presented an analytic solution for the line element of a Reissner-Nordström LyST generalization. It is shown that, due to the natural presence of a scale radius, it is possible to have three different extremal charges for positive or negative charge intervals. As a consequence, in natural units, the equality of the mass and charge defined on Lyra manifolds does not give rise to an extremal black hole, which allows the existence of solutions in which the charge is greater than the mass. An analysis with charged test particles indicates that a finite positive Lyra scale radius possibly allows for a violation of the weak cosmic censorship on Lyra manifolds, it is shown that an extremal black hole can be overcharged to the point that the emergence of a naked singularity becomes possible. The same behavior is observed for negative values of the Lyra radius if its absolute value is greater than four times the black hole mass. Notably, this investigation also shows that an eternal black hole can exist for any charge increase if the Lyra scale radius is sufficiently close to some critical values.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
PipeNet: Question Answering with Semantic Pruning over Knowledge Graphs
Creators: name: Su, Ying
name: Zhang, Jipeng
name: Song, Yangqiu
name: Zhang, Tong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is well acknowledged that incorporating explicit knowledge graphs (KGs) can benefit question answering. Existing approaches typically follow a grounding-reasoning pipeline in which entity nodes are first grounded for the query (question and candidate answers), and then a reasoning module reasons over the matched multi-hop subgraph for answer prediction. Although the pipeline largely alleviates the issue of extracting essential information from giant KGs, efficiency is still an open challenge when scaling up hops in grounding the subgraphs. In this paper, we target at finding semantically related entity nodes in the subgraph to improve the efficiency of graph reasoning with KG. We propose a grounding-pruning-reasoning pipeline to prune noisy nodes, remarkably reducing the computation cost and memory usage while also obtaining decent subgraph representation. In detail, the pruning module first scores concept nodes based on the dependency distance between matched spans and then prunes the nodes according to score ranks. To facilitate the evaluation of pruned subgraphs, we also propose a graph attention network (GAT) based module to reason with the subgraph data. Experimental results on CommonsenseQA and OpenBookQA demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted to *SEM 2024
Nanomechanically-induced nonequilibrium quantum phase transition to a self-organized density wave of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Radonjić, Milan
name: Mixa, Leon
name: Pelster, Axel
name: Thorwart, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a nonequilibrium quantum phase transition (NQPT) in a hybrid quantum many-body system consisting of a vibrational mode of a damped nanomembrane interacting optomechanically with a cavity, whose output light couples to two internal states of an ultracold Bose gas held in an external quasi-one-dimensional box potential. For small effective membrane-atom couplings, the system is in a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) steady state, with no membrane displacement. Depending on the transition frequency between the two internal atomic states, either one or both internal states are occupied. By increasing the atom-membrane couplings, the system transitions to a symmetry-broken self-organized BEC phase, which is characterized by a considerably displaced membrane steady-state and density-wave-like BEC profiles. This NQPT can be both discontinuous and continuous for a certain interval of transition frequencies and is purely discontinuous outside of it.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Supplemental material—Integrated analysis of the genomic and transcriptional profile of gliomas with isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 and tumor protein 53 mutations.
Creators: name: Liu, Han-Qing
name: Li, Wei-Xin
name: An, Ya-Wen
name: Wu, Tao
name: Jiang, Guang-Yu
name: Dong, Yu
name: Chen, Wei-Xin
name: Wang, Jian-Chun
name: Wang, Cheng
name: Song, Shuo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Aged Health Care
subject: Paediatrics
subject: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Respiratory Diseases
subject: Veterinary Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material for integrated analysis of the genomic and transcriptional profile of gliomas with isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 and tumor protein 53 mutations by Han-Qing Liu, Wei-Xin Li, Ya-Wen An, Tao Wu, Guang-Yu Jiang, Yu Dong, Wei-Xin Chen, Jian-Chun Wang, Cheng Wang, and Shuo Song in the International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology.
title: Coalgebraic Similarity
title: Coalgebraische Similarität
Creators: name: Zarrad, Mehdi
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: Congruence
Kongruenz, Pullback
Pullbacks
Coalgebra
Data processing, Computer science
Informatik
Bisimulation
Coalgebra, Bisimulation

description: We knew that each functor would
      preserve weak pullbacks if every congruence is a difunctional
      bisimulation. In chapter 3 we found equivalent statements for
      weak kernel preservation and the preimage preservation.
      Additionally, we defined a functor modification, which we
      called preimage correction. The resulted functor preserves
      preimages. The idea was inspired by the transformation, which
      result is a sound functor. The resulted functor has the
      advantage, that its subfunctors are precisely the subfunctors
      which preserves preimages. In chapter 4 we showed that the
      monotonic separable boxes provide a correct and complete
      modal logic. Interestingly the preimage correction of the
      general neighborhoodfunctor provides a functor, that
      preserves weak pullbacks.
description: Bereits bekannt erhält jeder
      Funktor genau dann schwache Pullbacks, wenn jede Kongruenz
      eine difunktionale Bisimulation ist. In Kapitel 3 fanden wir
      äquivalente Aussagen für die schwache Kerpaarerhaltung und
      die Urbilderhaltung. Ausserdem definierten wir eine
      Funktorabänderung, die wir Urbildbereinigung nannten. Der
      resultierende Funktor erhält Urbilder. Die Idee war
      inspiriert von der Transformation, so dass daraus ein
      gesunder Funktor entsteht. Der Urbilder erhaltende Funktor
      hat auch den Vorteil, dass seine Unterfunktoren genau die
      Urbilder erhaltende Unterfunktoren des ursprünglichen
      Funktors sind. In Kapitel 4 zeigten wir, dass die monotonen
      trennbaren Boxen eine korrekte und vollständige Modallogik
      liefern. Interessant ist, dass die Urbild-Bereinigung des
      allgemeinen Nachbarschaftsfunktors einen Funktor liefert, der
      schwache Pullbacks erhält.
sj-docx-1-sel-10.1177_17585732221132545 - Supplemental material for Physical therapy intervention versus corticosteroid injection for lateral elbow tendinopathy. Does slow and steady win the race? – A systematic review
Creators: name: Sharma, Shivam
name: Berwal, Prerana
name: Verma, Nishank
name: Pandey, Avaneesh Kumar
name: Saxena, Somya
name: Gamad, Nanda
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-sel-10.1177_17585732221132545 for Physical therapy intervention versus corticosteroid injection for lateral elbow tendinopathy. Does slow and steady win the race? – A systematic review by Shivam Sharma, Prerana Berwal, Nishank Verma, Avaneesh Kumar Pandey, Somya Saxena and Nanda Gamad in Shoulder & Elbow
Arbeiten, Aber Bitte Gesund! Eine Qualitative Forschungsarbeit Zur Wirkung Betrieblicher Gesundheitsförderung Auf Mitarbeitende In Der Stationären Behindertenhilfe
Creators: name: Imfeld, Martina
name: Savary, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: „Arbeiten, aber bitte gesund!“ ist eine qualitative Forschungsarbeit zur Umsetzung betrieblicher Gesundheitsförderung bei Mitarbeitenden in der stationären Behindertenhilfe. Ziel dieser Arbeit war es herauszufinden, wie Massnahmen der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung in Betrieben der stationären Behindertenhilfe auf die Mitarbeitenden wirken. Mitarbeitende der stationären Behindertenhilfe sind durch ihre Arbeit verschiedenen Belastungen ausgesetzt. Einerseits sind das betriebliche Belastungen (z.B. Arbeitsorganisation und betriebliche Strukturen) und anderseits sind das arbeitsbezogene Belastungen (z.B. Quantität der Aufgaben, emotionale Inanspruchnahme). Ausserdem haben aktuell finanzpolitisch bedingte Sparmassnahmen einen Einfluss auf die Belastungen der Mitarbeitenden in der stationären Behindertenhilfe. Die Aufgabe der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung ist es, durch Massnahmen verschiedener Natur, sowohl die Gesundheit der Mitarbeitenden zu schützen, als auch die Qualität der Arbeit zu sichern. Um herauszufinden ob die Massnahmen der Betriebe den Bedürfnissen der Mitarbeitenden entsprechen, haben wir mittels Leitfadeninterviews sowohl Mitarbeitende, als auch verantwortliche Personen für betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung befragt. Durch die in drei Betrieben geführten Leitfadeninterviews zeigte sich, dass die Institutionen bezüglich der Umsetzung der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung verschieden weit entwickelt sind. Für eine erfolgreiche Gesundheitsförderung im Betrieb, scheinen besonders Weiterbildungen, das unmittelbare Arbeitsumfeld und die Partizipation der Mitarbeitenden von grosser Bedeutung zu sein.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basp be 2018 + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialpädagogik, 2018 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA201809
sj-doc-3-pmj-10.1177_02692163221137106 – Supplemental material for Living experiences of people with advance cancer with low socioeconomic status: A systematic review of qualitative evidence
Creators: name: Meng, Xianmei
name: An, Zifen
name: Xu, Yuying
name: Du, Jiayi
name: Tan, Lanhui
name: Yu, Huidan
name: Yu, Liping
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-doc-3-pmj-10.1177_02692163221137106 for Living experiences of people with advance cancer with low socioeconomic status: A systematic review of qualitative evidence by Xianmei Meng, Zifen An, Yuying Xu, Jiayi Du, Lanhui Tan, Huidan Yu and Liping Yu in Palliative Medicine
Supplemental Material - Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring for Intradural Extramedullary Spinal Tumours
Creators: name: Baig Mirza, Asfand
name: Vastani, Amisha
name: Syrris, Christoforos
name: Boardman, Timothy
name: Ghani, Imran
name: Murphy, Christopher
name: Gebreyohanes, Axumawi
name: Vergani, Francesco
name: Mirallave-Pescador, Ana
name: Lavrador, Jose P.
name: Kailaya Vasan, Ahilan
name: Grahovac, Gordan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplementary Material for Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring for Intradural Extramedullary Spinal Tumours by Asfand Baig Mirza, Amisha Vastani, Christoforos Syrris, Timothy Boardman, Imran Ghani, Christopher Murphy, Axumawi Gebreyohanes, Francesco Vergani, Ana Mirallave-Pescador, Jose P. Lavrador, Ahilan Kailaya Vasan, and Gordan Grahovac in Global Spine Journal.
Epistemic Exploration for Generalizable Planning and Learning in Non-Stationary Settings
Creators: name: Karia, Rushang
name: Verma, Pulkit
name: Speranzon, Alberto
name: Srivastava, Siddharth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces a new approach for continual planning and model learning in relational, non-stationary stochastic environments. Such capabilities are essential for the deployment of sequential decision-making systems in the uncertain and constantly evolving real world. Working in such practical settings with unknown (and non-stationary) transition systems and changing tasks, the proposed framework models gaps in the agent's current state of knowledge and uses them to conduct focused, investigative explorations. Data collected using these explorations is used for learning generalizable probabilistic models for solving the current task despite continual changes in the environment dynamics. Empirical evaluations on several non-stationary benchmark domains show that this approach significantly outperforms planning and RL baselines in terms of sample complexity. Theoretical results show that the system exhibits desirable convergence properties when stationarity holds.
description: To appear at ICAPS-24
Supplemental Material - The Political Legacy of Forced Migration: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany
Creators: name: Menon, Anil
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material for The Political Legacy of Forced Migration: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany by Anil Menon in Comparative Political Studies
Additional file 5 of Developing a platform for secretion of biomolecules in Mycoplasma feriruminatoris
Creators: name: Gonzalez-de-Miguel, Javier
name: Montero-Blay, Ariadna
name: Ciampi, Ludovica
name: Rodriguez-Arce, Irene
name: Serrano, Luis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 5
Asymptotic Weak Gravity Conjecture in M-theory on K3 $\times$ K3
Creators: name: Charkaoui, M.
name: Sammani, R.
name: Saidi, E. H
name: Laamara, R. Ahl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Asymptotic WGC has been proposed as a special case of the tower WGC that probes infinite distances in the moduli space corresponding to weakly coupled gauge regimes. The conjecture has been studied in M-theory on Calabi-Yau threefold (CY3) with finite volume inducing a 5D effective QFT. In this paper, we extend the scope of the previous study to encompass lower dimensions, particularly we generalise the obtained 5D asymptotic WGC to the effective field theory $EFT_{3D}$ coupled to 3D gravity that descends from M-theory compactified on Calabi-Yau fourfold with an emphasis on K3 x K3. We find that the CY4 has three fibration structures labelled as line Type-$T^2$, surface Type-$S$ and bulk Type-$V$. The emergent $EFT_{3D}$ is shown to have 2+2 towers of states occupied by light and heavy BPS as well as non BPS particles. To ensure the viability of the 3D Asymptotic WGC, we give explicit calculations to thoroughly test the swampland constraint for both the weakly and strongly gauge coupled regimes. Additional aspects, including the gauge symmetry breaking and duality symmetry are also investigated.
sj-docx-1-asn-10.1177_17590914221142360 - Supplemental material for Rab11 and Its Role in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Creators: name: Sultana, Pinky
name: Novotny, Jiri
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-asn-10.1177_17590914221142360 for Rab11 and Its Role in Neurodegenerative Diseases by Pinky Sultana and Jiri Novotny in ASN Neuro
Supplemental Material - Democracy’s Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism
Creators: name: Hand, Ashlyn W.
name: Saiya, Nilay
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220104 Human Rights and Justice Issues
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material for Democracy’s Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism by Ashlyn Hand and Nilay Saiya in Journal of Conflict Resolution
Additional file 1 of Community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia in ICU: a multicenter retrospective study
Creators: name: Grosjean, Vincent
name: Gressens, Simon B.
name: Pham, Tài
name: Gaudry, Stéphane
name: Ait-Oufella, Hafid
name: De Prost, Nicolas
name: Mayaux, Julien
name: Guerot, Emmanuel
name: Leflon-Guibout, Véronique
name: Mayer, Noémie
name: Bert, Frédéric
name: Gault, Nathalie
name: Massonnaud, Clément R.
name: Roux, Damien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Morning glory disc anomaly
Creators: name: Stavride, Eliza
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Eyes
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 6 months
description: Clinical History: A six-month old boy was referred to our hospital with strabismus. There were no cranial facial abnormalities and the neurological examination did not reveal pathological findings. Final Diagnosis: Morning glory disc anomaly
The Sigma-1 Receptor as a Atypical Kv1.2 Auxiliary Subunit
Creators: name: Abraham, Madelyn Jean
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sigma-1 receptor
Kv1.2
amytrophic lateral sclerosis
KvB2
electrophysiology
apFRET

description: Delayed-rectifier potassium channels comprised of the Kv1.2 subunit are critical in maintaining appropriate neuronal excitability and determining the threshold for action potential firing. This is attributed in part to the interaction of the Kv1.2 subunit with an unidentified molecule that confers bimodal channel activation gating, allowing neurons to adapt to repetitive trains of stimulation and protecting against hyperexcitability. It is well established that the Sigma-1 receptor (Sig-1R) regulates members of the Shaker K+ channel family at baseline and upon Sig-1R ligand-activation. While an interaction between Kv1.2 and Sig-1R has been previously demonstrated, the biophysical nature of this interaction has not been elucidated. We hypothesized that Sig-1R may regulate the Kv1.2 biophysical properties and may further act as the unidentified modulator of Kv1.2 activation gating. To explore the interaction between Kv1.2 and Sig-1R, whole-cell voltage-clamp electrophysiology and apFRET imaging experiments were performed in recombinant HEK293 cells transiently transfected with Kv1.2 and Sig-1R. It was found that ligand-activation of Sig-1R decreases Kv1.2 current amplitude, likely due to a ligand-dependent change in Sig-1R activity rather than increased association of Sig-1R with Kv1.2. Further, we show that Sig-1R interacts with Kv1.2 in baseline conditions to modulate bimodal activation gating. We show that Sig-1R modulation of Kv1.2 is abolished both in the presence of Kvβ2, a known auxiliary subunit of Kv1.2, and following expression of the Sig-1R mutation underlying ALS16 (Sig-1R-E102Q). These data respectively suggest that Kvβ2 physically occludes the interaction of the Sig-1R with Kv1.2, and that E102 may be a residue critical for efficient Sig-1R modulation of Kv1.2. Taken together, this data provides novel insights regarding the modulation of neuronal delayed-rectifier potassium channels by Sig-1R. This work provides a new role for Sig-1R in the regulation of neuronal excitability and introduces a mechanism of pathophysiology in Sig-1R dysfunction.
Additional file 2 of Community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia in ICU: a multicenter retrospective study
Creators: name: Grosjean, Vincent
name: Gressens, Simon B.
name: Pham, Tài
name: Gaudry, Stéphane
name: Ait-Oufella, Hafid
name: De Prost, Nicolas
name: Mayaux, Julien
name: Guerot, Emmanuel
name: Leflon-Guibout, Véronique
name: Mayer, Noémie
name: Bert, Frédéric
name: Gault, Nathalie
name: Massonnaud, Clément R.
name: Roux, Damien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
sj-pdf-1-ctj-10.1177_17407745231175919 – Supplemental material for Use of comprehensive recruitment strategies in the glycemia reduction approaches in diabetes: A comparative effectiveness study (GRADE) multi-center clinical trial
Creators: name: Cherrington, Andrea L
name: Krause-Steinrauf, Heidi
name: Aroda, Vanita
name: Buse, John B
name: Fattaleh, Basma
name: Fortmann, Stephen P
name: Hall, Stephanie
name: Hox, Sophia H
name: Kuhn, Alexander
name: Killean, Tina
name: Loveland, Amy
name: Phillips, Lawrence S
name: Jackson, Analyn Uy
name: Waltje, Andrea
name: McKee, M Diane
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ctj-10.1177_17407745231175919 for Use of comprehensive recruitment strategies in the glycemia reduction approaches in diabetes: A comparative effectiveness study (GRADE) multi-center clinical trial by Andrea L Cherrington, Heidi Krause-Steinrauf, Vanita Aroda, John B Buse, Basma Fattaleh, Stephen P Fortmann, Stephanie Hall, Sophia H Hox, Alexander Kuhn, Tina Killean, Amy Loveland, Lawrence S Phillips, Analyn Uy Jackson, Andrea Waltje, M Diane McKee and the GRADE Research Group in Clinical Trials
title: Wissenschaftskritik anhand eines Fallbeispiels
Creators: name: Kreuch, Gerhard
Year: 2009

description: Ausgehend vom epistemologischen Spannungsfeld zwischen Reduktionismus und Holismus untersucht diese Arbeit ein sozialwissenschaftliches Fallbeispiel: Die soziale Netzwerkanalyse stellt den erkenntnistheoretischen Anspruch, sich in der „Mitte“ dieser Pole zu positionieren (These 1). Diese Arbeit formuliert zwei wissenschaftstheoretische Hauptkritikpunkte, die es nahe legen, von einer „reduktionistischen Schlagseite“ der diskutierten Forschungsströmung zu sprechen: Ihre mathematisch-formale Methodik und ihre ökonomisch-instrumentelle Ausrichtung setzen den epistemologischen Anspruch aufs Spiel (These 2). Jüngere Entwicklungen um den Netzwerkanalytiker Harrison C. White lassen jedoch ein Denken vermuten, das nicht nur die erkenntnistheoretische Mitte wieder erreichbar macht, sondern auch als Teil einer „neuen“ Philosophie um zeitgenössische Philosophen wie Jacques Derrida und Niklas Luhmann verstanden werden kann: Diese könnte sich durch ihren dezidiert interdisziplinären Ansatz, die zentrale Berücksichtigung von Wechselwirkungen und nicht-linearer Kausalität sowie die Annahme einer Differenz als metaphysischer Ausgangspunkt charakterisieren lassen (These 3).
description: Starting from the epistemological controversy between reductionism and holism this paper investigates a case in the social sciences: Social network analysis claims a position in the “middle” of these two poles (thesis 1). In this paper I provide two main arguments drawn from the philosophy of science which suggest to identify a “reductionist tilt” of the research trend under discussion. Its mathematical-formalistic methodology and its economic-instrumentalist approach challenge the epistemological claim (thesis 2). However, recent developments around the network theorist Harrison C. White seem to provide for a way of thinking that does not only bring the epistemological “middle” into reach again but can also be understood as part of a “new” philosophy including contemporary philosophers like Jacques Derrida and Niklas Luhmann: This thinking could be characterized by its decidedly interdisciplinary approach, its consideration of reciprocity and non-linear causality as well as the assumption of a difference as a metaphysical origin (thesis 3).
Partially Robotic Selection of Aptamers to Red Blood Cell Protein Glycophorin A
Creators: name: Bushnik, Evan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Aptamer
Glycophorin
Blood
Emulsion

description: Aptamers are small DNA ligands that have been manually selected to strongly and specifically bind a target of interest. These molecules may prove superior to modern antibodies in a number of ways including price and reproducibility. One of the major advantages of using aptamers as opposed to antibodies is the relative speed of development. This, coupled with the repetitive nature of aptamer selection, means that the entire process is a possible target for automation. In the following experiments, a ssDNA aptamer is developed against the human red blood cell protein glycophorin A, partially through the novel use of a robotized benchtop. The process also utilizes an adapted protocol for emulsion PCR to further increase the efficiency of the selection process. After 11 rounds of selection, the DNA pools were sequenced leading to the generation of 14 potential aptamers. These aptamers were tested with the isolated protein and with human red blood cells resulting in several of the aptamers being deemed potential binders. Further work with these identified sequences could result in aptamers that can be reliably used to tag and delicately separate red blood cells from other cells of interest within blood, such as stem cells. The novel approaches to selection used in this work may also lead to quicker and more efficient generation of future aptamers.
Cultural Commonsense Knowledge for Intercultural Dialogues
Creators: name: Nguyen, Tuan-Phong
name: Razniewski, Simon
name: Weikum, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite recent progress, large language models (LLMs) still face the challenge of appropriately reacting to the intricacies of social and cultural conventions. This paper presents MANGO, a methodology for distilling high-accuracy, high-recall assertions of cultural knowledge. We judiciously and iteratively prompt LLMs for this purpose from two entry points, concepts and cultures. Outputs are consolidated via clustering and generative summarization. Running the MANGO method with GPT-3.5 as underlying LLM yields 167K high-accuracy assertions for 30K concepts and 11K cultures, surpassing prior resources by a large margin in quality and size. In an extrinsic evaluation for intercultural dialogues, we explore augmenting dialogue systems with cultural knowledge assertions. Notably, despite LLMs inherently possessing cultural knowledge, we find that adding knowledge from MANGO improves the overall quality, specificity, and cultural sensitivity of dialogue responses, as judged by human annotators. Data and code are available for download.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, 10 tables, accepted at CIKM '24
Dynamics of Blast Wave and Cellular H2-Air Flame Interaction in a Hele-Shaw Cell
Creators: name: La Flèche, Maxime
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Combustion
Cellular flame
Shock-flame interaction
Blast wave

description: The present thesis investigates the interaction of a shock wave with a cellular flame and the ensuing mechanisms on the dynamics of the subsequent flame deformation. The inter- action is known to disrupt the flame surface through the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability, hence potentially enhancing the local combustion rates. This study aims to clarify the evolution of a flame when perturbed head-on by a shock wave. Two novel series of experiments were conducted in a vertically-oriented Hele-Shaw cell, which could successfully isolate a quasi-bidimensional cellular flame structure at ambient conditions. In the first configuration, the passage of the shock wave arising in the burned products of a deflagration wave was investigated, while both waves propagated in the same outward direction. In the other configuration, the shock wave centrally emerged in the unburned gases and collided with a cellular flame front traveling in the opposite direction. The event was captured using a Z-type Schlieren imaging system to visualize the growth of the flame cells. Shock characterization was determined in the Hele-Shaw apparatus to estimate the strength of the blast wave generated by energy deposition using a high-voltage igniter or by decoupled detonation from a detonation tube. A combustion study was also performed to determine the laminar flame speed in a mixture of hydrogen-air according to different equivalence ratios in the apparatus. The experiments revealed that inherent cellular flame instabilities are well developed in the observation scale of the Hele-Shaw geometry. The shock-flame complex was therefore analyzed experimentally for selected mixtures. As the shock wave traversed the interface separating the burned and unburned gases, the flame became more corrugated. Following the interaction, the flame cusps were stretched and/or flattened. At later times, the wrinkled interface was reversed and developed finer scales. A time scale analysis was performed to identify the contribution of the competing effects of Richtmyer-Meshkov and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities on the flame interface deformation. For the case of a shock wave traversing the flame interface from the unburned to the burned side, the early perturbations were mainly governed by the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. Finally, Rayleigh-Taylor instability resulted from the decaying pressure profile of the blast wave and tended to stabilize the perturbed interface to eventually reverse the cellular structure. Experimental and inert numerical results on the flame cell’s amplitude growth were found to be in good agreement.
Engineering-Based FE Approach to Appraise Slender Structures Affected by Alkali-Aggregate Reaction (AAR)
Creators: name: Vilela Gorga, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Alkali-aggregate reaction
Concrete
Finite element
Prognosis
Diagnosis

description: Alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR) is one of the most harmful distress mechanisms affecting the performance of aging reinforced concrete structures worldwide. Although several prediction models have been developed to assess the chemical reaction, a thorough and comprehensive approach with the capabilities to correlate important parameters that affect AAR and the mechanical properties of deteriorated materials, as well as the abilities to describe the current damaged state of AAR-affected structures (diagnosis) and predict the potential of further damage (prognosis) is still lacking. Such information is essential in selecting efficient remedial/rehabilitation actions for existing structures in the field. This project aims to develop a practical, yet accurate engineering-based finite element (FE) model for assessing AAR damage and predicting the future behaviour of affected infrastructure. The model is validated through three analyses. First, its capability to accurately simulate sound concrete under mechanical loading is verified by successfully simulating different beam failure mechanisms and cracking patterns, as well as predicting the members’ full force-deflection curves. Next, AAR anisotropic expansion under different stress-state (confinement) conditions is accurately simulated and verified by correlation with laboratory tests. Lastly, an AAR-affected slender reinforced concrete structure (Robert-Bourassa/Charest overpass) is successfully simulated by performing a condition assessment based on several tests performed prior to its demolition.
Advancements in Point Cloud-Based 3D Defect Detection and Classification for Industrial Systems: A Comprehensive Survey
Creators: name: Rani, Anju
name: Ortiz-Arroyo, Daniel
name: Durdevic, Petar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, 3D point clouds (PCs) have gained significant attention due to their diverse applications across various fields, such as computer vision (CV), condition monitoring (CM), virtual reality, robotics, autonomous driving, etc. Deep learning (DL) has proven effective in leveraging 3D PCs to address various challenges encountered in 2D vision. However, applying deep neural networks (DNNs) to process 3D PCs presents unique challenges. This paper provides an in-depth review of recent advancements in DL-based industrial CM using 3D PCs, with a specific focus on defect shape classification and segmentation within industrial applications. Recognizing the crucial role of these aspects in industrial maintenance, the paper offers insightful observations on the strengths and limitations of the reviewed DL-based PC processing methods. This knowledge synthesis aims to contribute to understanding and enhancing CM processes, particularly within the framework of remaining useful life (RUL), in industrial systems.
description: 27 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables, review paper
Owings-like theorems for infinitely many colours or finite monochromatic sets
Creators: name: Fernández-Bretón, David J.
name: Rosales, Eliseo Sarmiento
name: Vera, Germán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 03E05, Secondary 05D10, 05E16

description: Inspired by Owings's problem, we investigate whether, for a given an Abelian group $G$ and cardinal numbers $κ,θ$, every colouring $c:G\longrightarrowθ$ yields a subset $X\subseteq G$ with $|X|=κ$ such that $X+X$ is monochromatic. (Owings's problem asks this for $G=\mathbb Z$, $θ=2$ and $κ=\aleph_0$; this is known to be false for the same $G$ and $κ$ but $θ=3$.) We completely settle the question for $κ$ and $θ$ both finite (by obtaining sufficient and necessary conditions for a positive answer) and for $κ$ and $θ$ both infinite (with a negative answer). Also, in the case where $θ$ is infinite but $κ$ is finite, we obtain some sufficient conditions for a negative answer as well as an example with a positive answer.
description: 14 pages. Some proofs (especially in Section 2) omit various details at the request of the referee; to see more detailed proofs the reader should refer to v2
Spin-dependent interactions in orbital-density-dependent functionals: non-collinear Koopmans spectral functionals
Creators: name: Marrazzo, Antimo
name: Colonna, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of spin-orbit coupling or non-collinear magnetic spin states can have dramatic effects on the ground-state and spectral properties of materials, in particular on the band structure. Here, we develop non-collinear Koopmans-compliant functionals based on Wannier functions and density-functional perturbation theory, targeting accurate spectral properties in the quasiparticle approximation. Our non-collinear Koopmans-compliant theory involves functionals of four-component orbitals densities, that can be obtained from the charge and spin-vector densities of Wannier functions. We validate our approach on four emblematic non-magnetic and magnetic semiconductors where the effect of spin-orbit coupling goes from small to very large: the III-IV semiconductor GaAs, the transition-metal dichalcogenide WSe$_2$, the cubic perovskite CsPbBr$_3$, and the ferromagnetic semiconductor CrI$_3$. The predicted band gaps are comparable in accuracy to state-of-the-art many-body perturbation theory and include spin-dependent interactions and screening effects that are missing in standard diagrammatic approaches based on the random phase approximation. While the inclusion of orbital- and spin-dependent interactions in many-body perturbation theory requires self-screening or vertex corrections, they emerge naturally in the Koopmans-functionals framework.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables + supplementary material (5 pages): added simulations and discussion for ferromagnetic bulk CrI3, added references, fixed typos