cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
From Bugs to Benefits: Improving User Stories by Leveraging Crowd Knowledge with CrUISE-AC
Creators: name: Schwedt, Stefan
name: Ströder, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.1

description: Costs for resolving software defects increase exponentially in late stages. Incomplete or ambiguous requirements are one of the biggest sources for defects, since stakeholders might not be able to communicate their needs or fail to share their domain specific knowledge. Combined with insufficient developer experience, teams are prone to constructing incorrect or incomplete features. To prevent this, requirements engineering has to explore knowledge sources beyond stakeholder interviews. Publicly accessible issue trackers for systems within the same application domain hold essential information on identified weaknesses, edge cases, and potential error sources, all documented by actual users. Our research aims at (1) identifying, and (2) leveraging such issues to improve an agile requirements artifact known as a "user story". We present CrUISE-AC (Crowd and User Informed Suggestion Engine for Acceptance Criteria) as a fully automated method that investigates issues and generates non-trivial additional acceptance criteria for a given user story by employing NLP techniques and an ensemble of LLMs. CrUISE- AC was evaluated by five independent experts in two distinct business domains. Our findings suggest that issue trackers hold valuable information pertinent to requirements engineering. Our evaluation shows that 80-82% of the generated acceptance criteria add relevant requirements to the user stories. Limitations are the dependence on accessible input issues and the fact that we do not check generated criteria for being conflict-free or non-overlapping with criteria from other user stories.
description: Accepted at the 2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Final version at https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE55347.2025.00217
I-trustworthy Models. A framework for trustworthiness evaluation of probabilistic classifiers
Creators: name: Vashistha, Ritwik
name: Farahi, Arya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As probabilistic models continue to permeate various facets of our society and contribute to scientific advancements, it becomes a necessity to go beyond traditional metrics such as predictive accuracy and error rates and assess their trustworthiness. Grounded in the competence-based theory of trust, this work formalizes I-trustworthy framework -- a novel framework for assessing the trustworthiness of probabilistic classifiers for inference tasks by linking local calibration to trustworthiness. To assess I-trustworthiness, we use the local calibration error (LCE) and develop a method of hypothesis-testing. This method utilizes a kernel-based test statistic, Kernel Local Calibration Error (KLCE), to test local calibration of a probabilistic classifier. This study provides theoretical guarantees by offering convergence bounds for an unbiased estimator of KLCE. Additionally, we present a diagnostic tool designed to identify and measure biases in cases of miscalibration. The effectiveness of the proposed test statistic is demonstrated through its application to both simulated and real-world datasets. Finally, LCE of related recalibration methods is studied, and we provide evidence of insufficiency of existing methods to achieve I-trustworthiness.
description: Accepted at AISTATS 2025 Conference
Closterotomus fulvomaculatus
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Closterotomus
Closterotomus fulvomaculatus

description: Closterotomus fulvomaculatus (De Geer, 1773)
 Material. Kurai Mts, Teranjik and Right Kubadru Rivers, 50°21′ N, 87°55′ E, H = 2200–2600 m, 29.07– 02.08.2019, 1 ♂.
 Distribution. Holarctic. First record from Altai Republic.
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 28, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
Compact, widely tunable ultrashort burst pulse generator using four mirrors
Creators: name: Tanaka, Rikako
name: Shimada, Keitaro
name: Ishijima, Ayumu
name: Kobayashi, Etsuko
name: Mikami, Hideharu
name: Sakuma, Ichiro
name: Nakagawa, Keiichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultrashort burst laser pulses serve as powerful tools for precise laser processing, broadband ultrafast spectroscopy, and high-speed laser-scanning microscopy. However, the performance of conventional burst pulse generators is limited by constraints in the pulse time interval variability, pulse energy variability, pulse number variability, and overall system complexity. Here, we present a compact burst pulse generator that offers a broad tuning range for pulse time intervals, along with control over the number of pulses and pulse energies within the burst. It consists of four mirrors, two of which are parallel to each other, and outputs pulses that are equally spaced both temporally and spatially. We demonstrated the generation of a burst laser pulse by shaping a single ultrashort laser pulse into six pulses with time intervals ranging from femtoseconds to nanoseconds. The pulse time intervals and energies were consistent with theoretical results.
Additional file 2 of Progressive pulmonary fibrosis in a murine model of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
Creators: name: Abudi-Sinreich, Shachar
name: Bodine, Steven P.
name: Yokoyama, Tadafumi
name: Tolman, Nathanial J.
name: Tyrlik, Michal
name: Testa, Lauren C.
name: Han, Chen G.
name: Dorward, Heidi M.
name: Wincovitch, Stephen M.
name: Anikster, Yair
name: Gahl, William A.
name: Cinar, Resat
name: Gochuico, Bernadette R.
name: Malicdan, May Christine V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. RNA Scope mask parameters. Magnified images of blue (DAPI, left, 405 channel), green (TGF-β, center, 488 channel), and red (IL-1β, right, 555 channel) signals of bleomycin-challenged mouse lung tissue sections. Zen Blue 3.1 software was used to identify and quantify number of signals. Areas outlined in yellow, orange, and turquoise represent areas that were determined to be nuclei, TGF-β, or IL-1β, respectively. Areas outlined in white were determined to be background staining or autofluorescence and were excluded from quantification of nuclei and transcripts. Fluorescence in each channel is pseudo-colored in white to make fluorescent areas easily visible. Scale bar = 10 μm.
Lygidea illota
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Lygidea
Lygidea illota

description: Lygidea illota (Stål, 1858)
 Material. Kurai Mts, Kuraika River: 50°19′19′′ N, 87°58′23′′ E, H = 2150–2200 m, 26– 27.07.2019, 1 ♀; 50°20′37′′ N, 87°56′51′′ E, H = 2500–2800 m, 27– 29.07.2019, 1 ♀.
 Distribution. Siberia, south of the Far East of Russia, Mongolia, China. This species living on willow (Salix) in South Siberia known from north (upper sources of the Taz River) and Kuznetsk Alatau (Vinokurov & Golub 2007). First record from Altai Republic.
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 28, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
Systematic investigation of dynamic nuclear polarization with boron vacancy in hexagonal boron nitride
Creators: name: Nakamura, Yuki
name: Nishimura, Shunsuke
name: Iwasaki, Takuya
name: Nakaharai, Shu
name: Ogawa, Shinichi
name: Morita, Yukinori
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Sasaki, Kento
name: Kobayashi, Kensuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) using the boron vacancy ($\mathrm{V_B^-}$) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has gained increasing attention. Understanding this DNP requires systematically investigating the optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) spectra and developing a model that quantitatively describes its behavior. Here, we measure the ODMR spectra of $\mathrm{V_B^-}$ in $\mathrm{h}^{10}\mathrm{B}^{15}\mathrm{N}$ over a wide magnetic field range, including the ground state level anti-crossing (GSLAC), and compare them with the results of the Lindblad-based simulation that considers a single electron spin and three neighboring $^{15}\mathrm{N}$ nuclear spins. Our simulation successfully reproduces the experimental spectra, including the vicinity of GSLAC. It can explain the overall behavior of the magnetic field dependence of the nuclear spin polarization estimated using the Lorentzian fitting of the spectra. Despite such qualitative agreement, we also demonstrate that the fitting methods cannot give accurate polarizations. Finally, we discuss that symmetry-induced mechanisms of $\mathrm{V_B^-}$ limit the maximum polarization. Our study is an essential step toward a quantitative understanding of DNP using defects in hBN and its quantum applications.
Comparative analysis of plant carbohydrate active enZymes and their role in xylogenesis
Creators: name: Pinard, Desre
name: Mizrachi, Eshchar
name: Hefer, Charles A.
name: Kersting, Anna R.
name: Joubert, Fourie
name: Douglas, Carl J.
name: Mansfield, Shawn D., 1969-
name: Myburg, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Carbohydrate metabolism is a key feature of vascular plant architecture, and is of particular importance in large woody species, where lignocellulosic biomass is responsible for bearing the bulk of the stem and crown. Since Carbohydrate Active enZymes (CAZymes) in plants are responsible for the synthesis, modification and degradation of carbohydrate biopolymers, the differences in gene copy number and regulation between woody and herbaceous species have been highlighted previously. There are still many unanswered questions about the role of CAZymes in land plant evolution and the formation of wood, a strong carbohydrate sink. Results: Here, twenty-two publically available plant genomes were used to characterize the frequency, diversity and complexity of CAZymes in plants. We find that a conserved suite of CAZymes is a feature of land plant evolution, with similar diversity and complexity regardless of growth habit and form. In addition, we compared the diversity and levels of CAZyme gene expression during wood formation in trees using mRNA-seq data from two distantly related angiosperm tree species Eucalyptus grandis and Populus trichocarpa, highlighting the major CAZyme classes involved in xylogenesis and lignocellulosic biomass production. Conclusions: CAZyme domain ratio across embryophytes is maintained, and the diversity of CAZyme domains is similar in all land plants, regardless of woody habit. The stoichiometric conservation of gene expression in woody and non-woody tissues of Eucalyptus and Populus are indicative of gene balance preservation.
Lygus rugulipennis Poppius 1911
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Lygus
Lygus rugulipennis

description: Lygus rugulipennis Poppius, 1911
 Material. Kurai Mts: Kuraika River, 50°19′19′′ N, 87°58′23′′ E, H = 2150–2200 m, 26– 27.07.2019, 1 ♀; Teranjik and Right Kubadru Rivers, 50°21′ N, 87°55′ E, H = 2200–2600 m, 29.07– 02.08.2019, 1 ♀; Kurai steppe, 50°15′ N, 87°54′ E, H = 1600–1650 m, 8.08.2019, 3 ♂.
 Distribution. Holarctic. First record from Altai Republic of one of the most common species in the Palaearctic Region.
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 28, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
Aerial Seeding: An Effective Forest Restoration Method in Highly Degraded Forest Landscapes of Sub-Tropic Regions
Creators: name: Xiao, Xin
name: Wei, Xiaohua
name: Liu, Yuanqiu
name: Ouyang, Xunzhi
name: Li, Qinglin
name: Ning, Jinkui
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Carbon stock is an important indicator of cumulative ecosystem productivity. Using this indicator, and based on field sampling data, this paper compared the long-term difference in carbon stocks between aerial seeding (AS) and natural regeneration (NR) forests of Pinus massoniana in sub-tropic forests, China, in order to assess the effectiveness of AS in a highly degraded forest landscape. The results showed that the carbon stocks of stems, branches, roots, and trees (including stems, branches, leaves, and roots) were 140%, 85%, 110%, and 110%, significantly higher (p < 0.05) in the NR forests than those in the AS forests at the ages of 11–20 years, respectively. In addition, the carbon stocks of understory, litter and soil were also 176%, 151%, and 77%, significantly higher (p < 0.05) in the NR forests than those in the AS forests at the same age range, respectively. However, with increasing age (i.e., >21 years), those differences became statistically insignificant (p > 0.05). The total carbon stocks of the two forest types also showed a similar pattern. Those results clearly demonstrate that AS was an effective mean for restoring carbon stocks in highly degraded areas, even though their early growth was lower than the NR forests, and thus can be applied in the regions where the areas with limited seed sources and road accessibility.
Description of di-hadron saturation signals within a universal nuclear parton distribution function approach
Creators: name: Perepelitsa, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Di-hadron and di-jet correlation measurements in proton-nucleus ($p$+A) and electron--nucleus collisions are widely motivated as sensitive probes of novel, non-linear QCD saturation dynamics in hadrons, which are particularly accessible in the dense nuclear environment at low values of Bjorken-$x$ ($x_\mathrm{A})$. Current measurements at RHIC and the LHC observe a significant suppression in the per-trigger yield at forward rapidities compared to that in proton-proton collisions, nominally consistent with the "mono-jet" production expected in a saturation scenario. However, the width of the azimuthal correlation remains unmodified, in contradiction to the qualitative expectations from this physics picture. I investigate whether the construction of these observables leaves them sensitive to effects from simple nuclear shadowing as captured by, for example, universal nuclear parton distribution function (nPDF) analyses. I find that modern nPDF sets, informed by recent precision measurements sensitive to the shadowing of low-$x_\mathrm{A}$ gluon densities in LHC and other data, can describe all or the majority of the di-hadron/jet suppression effects in $p$+A data at both RHIC and the LHC, while giving a natural explanation for why the azimuthal correlation width is unmodified. Notably, this is achieved via a $(x_\mathrm{A},Q^2)$-differential suppression of overall cross-sections only, without requiring additional physics dynamics which alter the inter-event correlations.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, final version as published
Lygus wagneri Remane 1955
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Lygus
Lygus wagneri

description: Lygus wagneri Remane, 1955
 Material. Kurai Mts: Kuraika River, 50°19′21′′ N, 87°58′28′′ E, H = 2150–2200 m, 2– 4.08.2019, 1 ♀; Teranjik and Right Kubadru Rivers, 50°21′ N, 87°55′ E, H = 2200–2600 m, 29.07– 02.08.2019, 1 ♂.
 Distribution. Euro-Siberian. In West Siberia known from Kuznetsk Alatau (Zolotarev 2003). First record from Altai Republic.
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 28, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
Polymerus unifasciatus
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Polymerus
Polymerus unifasciatus

description: Polymerus unifasciatus (Fabricius, 1794)
 Material. Kurai Mts: Kuraika River: 50°16′44′′ N, 87°57′12′′ E, H = 1750–1800 m, 4– 7.08.2019, 1 ♂, 2 ♀; 50°19′19′′ N, 87°58′23′′ E, H = 2150–2200 m, 26– 27.07.2019, 1 ♀; Teranjik and Right Kubadru Rivers, 50°21′ N, 87°55′ E, H = 2200–2600 m, 29.07– 02.08.2019, 2 ♂, 2 ♀.
 Distribution. Holarctic. Recorded from Altai Republic (Kiritshenko 1910b).
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 29, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
Additional file 3 of Progressive pulmonary fibrosis in a murine model of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
Creators: name: Abudi-Sinreich, Shachar
name: Bodine, Steven P.
name: Yokoyama, Tadafumi
name: Tolman, Nathanial J.
name: Tyrlik, Michal
name: Testa, Lauren C.
name: Han, Chen G.
name: Dorward, Heidi M.
name: Wincovitch, Stephen M.
name: Anikster, Yair
name: Gahl, William A.
name: Cinar, Resat
name: Gochuico, Bernadette R.
name: Malicdan, May Christine V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Table S1: RNAScope Image Analysis Routine.
The Irrelevance of Primordial Black Hole Clustering in the LVK mass range
Creators: name: Crescimbeni, F.
name: Desjacques, V.
name: Franciolini, G.
name: Ianniccari, A.
name: Iovino, A. J.
name: Perna, G.
name: Perrone, D.
name: Riotto, A.
name: Veermäe, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in realistic models where primordial black holes are formed due to the collapse of sizeable inflationary perturbations, their initial spatial clustering beyond Poisson distribution does not play any role in the binary mergers, including sub-solar primordial black holes, responsible for the gravitational waves detectable by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. This is a consequence of the existing FIRAS CMB distortion constraints on the relevant scales. This conclusion might not hold for lighter masses potentially accessible by future gravitational wave observations.
description: 14 pages, 1 appendix, 4 figures. v2: JCAP version
title: Urban digital twins, morphology and open data : an initial analysis in Madrid
Creators: name: Guerton, Javier Barros
name: Domínguez, José María Ezquiaga
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The concept of digital twins first appeared in engineering and has more recently been introduced in the realm of smart city methodologies. The aim to achieve a high degree of integration of an increasingly large array of different information sources scattered among the different public and private agents is usually driven by an engineering efficiency goal. This is undoubtedly relevant as it can become a tool for more sustainable cities. The intersection of that approach with the open data policies is relevant, as these are meant to allow a more transparent city management. As a working hypothesis, an urban digital twin should be transparent in its inputs, and the analytical methodology used should also be open as it is a tool for public policy. This paper shows that the current data infrastructure in Madrid, given its granularity and consistency, can become a foundation for a future urban digital twin.
Euryopicoris nitidus
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Euryopicoris
Euryopicoris nitidus

description: Euryopicoris nitidus (Meyer-Dur, 1843)
 Material. Kurai Steppe, 50°15′ N, 87°54′ E, H = 1600–1650 m, 8.08.2019, 1 ♂, 1 ♀.
 Distribution. Euro-Siberian. Recorded from Altai Republic (Kiritshenko 1910b; Vinokurov & Golub 2007).
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 29, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
title: Learning urban morphology from emergencies
Creators: name: Gregori, Ludovica
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Architecture, specifically open space design, can be a healing tool in trauma recovery after a disaster. Open space is the connective tissue of urban systems, bearer of identity and collective life. It compensates for personal difficulties by promoting community strength. Thanks to its better transformation's capacity than the built environment’s one, open space design strategies can become resilient tools for sociality. The study of fragile post-emergency settlements, including temporary ones, provides new inputs to create time-sensitive resilient urban answers to foster social liveliness in every situation. In emergency scenarios, the functionalist approach prevails. Emergency regulatory freedom is an opportunity for unprecedented spatial configurations oriented to sociality: there is a need for social approach and focus on open spaces. This shift’s results can be then further developed in the wider urban morphology research field. To design in a social perspective necessitates theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary research. Proxemics, Urban Sociology, Sustainability Psychology and Environmental Psychology give significant contributions. Participatory processes identify socially relevant features in the present and past urban forms. Urban planners can translate these into design inputs for future outcomes. Time-consciousness in place-making in these scenarios trains architects and planners to identify tools in a more precise and fast way, creating fair and efficient methods to be replicated in other urban forms, especially in socially complex contexts. The result is intended as a design able to create opportunities for appropriation and alteration of space (affordance concept) and to be bettered, ensuring inclusion and accessibility over time, as in a post-emergency evolution. Strategies from post-emergencies can also prevent damage to social systems. Simple and tested tools are the new vocabulary: user-friendly guidelines provided to next-generation policymakers, architects, and citizens. The wider scientific community can use the method of analysis, selection, and interpretation of space to enhance sociality in any urban form.
title: Fokusgruppenkorpus "Personenreferenz im Dialekt"
Creators: name: Dammel, Antje
name: Schweden, Theresa
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 400 Language
subject: 300 Social sciences, Anthropology

description: Die hier gesammelten Transkripte sind aus dem DFG-Projekt "s Bachmanns Anna und de Schmidte Karl. Grammatik und Soziopragmatik inoffizieller Personennamen in Dialekten des Deutschen" (WWU Münster, Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Antje Dammel) entstanden. Die Fokusgruppen stellten eine von vier direkten Erhebungsmethoden dar und bildeten jeweils den Abschluss einer Erhebung. Aufgrund des gemeinsamen Aushandelns von Positionen zu Verwendungskontexten und pragmatischen Steuerungsfaktoren verschiedener Namenvarianten durch die Gewährspersonen weisen sie eine hohe Datengüte auf. Sie eignen sich unter anderem dazu, gruppeninterne Kommunikation und das Konstruieren von Narrativen zum gruppenspezifischen Sprachgebrauch zu untersuchen. Der situationssensitive Leitfaden für die Fokusgruppen generierte sich aus der datengeleiteten Auswertung einer Freitextfrage im Onlinefragebogen. Klarnamen in den Transkripten wurden anonymisiert. Transkriptionssystem: GAT2 (Minimaltranskripte mit zusätzlichen prosodischen Ergänzungen)
Instrumental distortions in quantum optimal control
Creators: name: Rasulov, Uluk
name: Kuprov, Ilya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum optimal control methods, such as gradient ascent pulse engineering (GRAPE), are used for precise manipulation of quantum states. Many of those methods were pioneered in magnetic resonance spectroscopy where instrumental distortions are often negligible. However, that is not the case elsewhere: the usual jumble of cables, resonators, modulators, splitters, amplifiers, and filters can and would distort control signals. Those distortions may be non-linear, their inverse functions may be ill-defined and unstable; they may even vary from one day to the next, and across the sample. Here we introduce the response-aware gradient ascent pulse engineering (RAW-GRAPE) framework, which accounts for any cascade of differentiable distortions within the GRAPE optimisation loop, does not require filter function inversion, and produces control sequences that are resilient to user-specified distortion cascades with user-specified parameter ensembles. The framework is implemented into the optimal control module supplied with versions 2.10 and later of the open-source Spinach library; the user needs to provide function handles returning the actions by the distortions and, optionally, parameter ensembles for those actions.
Labops burmeisteri Reuter 1904
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Labops
Labops burmeisteri

description: Labops burmeisteri Reuter, 1904
 Material. Kurai Mts, Teranjik and Right Kubadru Rivers, 50°21′ N, 87°55′ E, H = 2200–2600 m, 29.07– 02.08.2019, 1 ♀.
 Distribution. Holarctic. Recorded from Altai Republic (Vinokurov & Golub 2007).
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 29, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
title: Typology, topography, tectonics. Urban forms in transition
Creators: name: Gugliotta, Rossella
name: Trisciuoglio, Marco
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The form of 21st cities isn't comparable with the urban form of Alnwick or Venice, but the legacy of the urban morphology's masters stays also in considering the continuous dynamics of urban settlements' configurations, the real value of tradition as interplay of permanencies and permutations, the transitions of urban forms to different orders. Six years after the publication of "Cities in transition" (2015) and starting from the basic keywords "typology", "topography" and "tectonics", the "transitional" paradigm is expressed as a conceptual tool to understand the developments to future forms of Western and Asian cities in order to inform future urban policies and practices. This paradigm is preparatory for broader research on urban morphology. The round table hosted at ISUF 2021 on Wednesday 30 June was an occasion to bring on the desk the above described issues. Michela Barosio (Politecnico di Torino, "Transitional Morphologies" Joint Research Unit) presented the movie "FUTURE IN THE PAST. The form of contemporary urban settlements in Europe and Asia" (produced by the PhD Program "Architecture. History and Project" at Politecnico di Torino in 2021). Marco Trisciuoglio and BAO Li (Directors of Transitional Morphologies Joint Research Unit) launched the international conference "TOPOGRAPHY, TECTONICS, TYPOLOGY. Urban Morphologies in transition. Nanjing 2023: an International Forum on Urban Forms".
When Less is More: Evolutionary Dynamics of Deception in a Sender-Receiver Game
Creators: name: Vieira, Eduardo V. M.
name: Fontanari, José F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The spread of disinformation poses a significant threat to societal well-being. We analyze this phenomenon using an evolutionary game theory model of the sender-receiver game, where senders aim to mislead receivers and receivers aim to discern the truth. Using a combination of replicator equations, finite-size scaling analysis, and extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the long-term evolutionary dynamics of this game. Our central finding is a counterintuitive threshold phenomenon: the role (sender or receiver) with the larger difference in payoffs between successful and unsuccessful interactions is surprisingly more likely to lose in the long run. We show that this effect is robust across different parameter values and arises from the interplay between the relative speeds of evolution of the two roles and the ability of the slower evolving role to exploit the fixed strategy of the faster evolving role. Moreover, for finite populations we find that the initially less frequent strategy of the slower role is more likely to fixate in the population. The initially rarer strategy in the less-rewarded role is, paradoxically, more likely to prevail.
title: Multi-scale gridded urban morphometrics for settlement classification and population mapping
Creators: name: Jochem, Warren C.
name: Tatem, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Urban areas are expanding rapidly around the world, and much of this growth is expected in low- and middle-income countries. Policy makers, researchers, and those implementing development projects need up-to-date and consistent information on cities in order to plan and track progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. Yet in many places experiencing rapid growth, information on urban areas and their population is lacking, outdated or incomplete. In recent years, increasing availability of very high spatial resolution imagery (<1 m resolution) and computing power is enabling sets of building footprint polygons to be automatically extracted from the imagery and mapped for whole countries. These building footprint datasets provide a unique resource to study urban morphometrics in places which may lack other local data. This paper demonstrates the use of a spatial grid to classify urban fabric into settlement types. This unit of analysis is in contrast to plots or parcels which are more commonly used in urban morphology studies, and a case study in Southampton, UK is used to explore the sensitivity of the results to varying the parameters used to define the size of the grid. These initial results suggest that multiple scales of observation windows can be combined to identify key patterns across space and that multiple grid resolutions can give relatively consistent classification results. Future work is needed to explore the use of grids to study urban form in other settings.
title: Urban morphology within architecture and urban planning curricula : the case of educational programs in Turkey and Northern Cyprus
Creators: name: Hoskara, Sebnem
name: Comert, Nevter Zafer
name: Koc, Ozge Selen
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Cities are the settlements where the physical, social and natural structures that make up their formal diversity come together. Urban patterns created by the combination of urban areas (streets, squares), parcels and buildings, which are the basic physical components of the city, form the shapes of the cities. Urban morphology can be defined as the study of urban form in the most general sense. According to the definition of Whitehand (2001), urban morphology forms a basis for generating ideas to produce urban form in the future, while examining the cyclical nature of urban growth, adaptation, and redevelopment processes in the production of urban forms and the effects of different actors. The main basis of this study is that urban morphological studies will provide important inputs to the design and planning processes for architects, urban designers, and urban planners, who are the leading actors in the shaping of urban spaces. In this context, the main purpose of this study is to reveal and explore the scope and methodologies of teaching/learning urban morphology within the architecture and urban planning programs in Turkey and Cyprus, both at undergraduate and graduate levels. For this purpose, the curricula of architecture and urban planning undergraduate and graduate programs in Turkey and Northern Cyprus will be analyzed separately, to locate the position of “urban morphology” within the whole program layout. Additionally, a survey will be conducted with scholars who teach urban morphology in relevant programs. With the findings to be obtained at the end of the study, it is expected to make predictions about the context in which urban morphological studies are handled in architecture and urban planning education and how this will be reflected in architecture and planning practices.
Economic evaluation of Community Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) in South Asian and African countries: a study protocol
Creators: name: Khowaja, Asif R
name: Mitton, Craig, 1972-
name: Bryan, Stirling
name: Magee, Laura A
name: Bhutta, Zulfiqar A
name: Von Dadelszen, Peter
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Globally, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, particularly pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, are the leading cause of maternal and neonatal mortality, and impose substantial burdens on the families of pregnant women, their communities, and healthcare systems. The Community Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) Trial evaluates a package of care applied at both community and primary health centres to reduce maternal and perinatal disabilities and deaths resulting from the failure to identify and manage pre-eclampsia at the community level. Economic evaluation of health interventions can play a pivotal role in priority setting and inform policy decisions for scale-up. At present, there is a paucity of published literature on the methodology of economic evaluation of large, multi-country, community-based interventions in the area of maternal and perinatal health. This study protocol describes the application of methodology for economic evaluation of the CLIP in South Asia and Africa. Methods A mixed-design approach i.e. cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and qualitative thematic analysis will be used alongside the trial to prospectively evaluate the economic impact of CLIP from a societal perspective. Data on health resource utilization, costs, and pregnancy outcomes will be collected through structured questionnaires embedded into the pregnancy surveillance, cross-sectional survey and budgetary reviews. Qualitative data will be collected through focus groups (FGs) with pregnant women, household male-decision makers, care providers, and district level health decision makers. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio will be calculated for healthcare system and societal perspectives, taking into account the country-specific model inputs (costs and outcome) from the CLIP Trial. Emerging themes from FGs will inform the design of the model, and help to interpret findings of the CEA. Discussion The World Health Organization (WHO) strongly recommends cost-effective interventions as a key aspect of achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG)-5 (i.e. 75 % reduction in maternal mortality from 1990 levels by 2015). To date, most cost-effectiveness studies in this field have focused specifically on the diagnostic and clinical management of pre-eclampsia, yet rarely on community-based interventions in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). This study protocol will be of interest to public health scientists and health economists undertaking community-based trials in the area of maternal and perinatal health, particularly in LMICs. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01911494
title: Nonlinear relationship between the urban form and street vitality : a data informed approach involving twelve Chinese cities
Creators: name: Han, Yun
name: Ye, Yu
name: Qin, Chunpeng
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The relationship between the urban form and urban vitality has been widely discussed over the past few decades. Nevertheless, due to the limitation of available fine-scale urban data and analytical methods, previous empirical studies have mainly focused on mesoscale urban morphological characteristics within the scope of a single city, while microscale analyses among different cities are rare. In addition, most researchers adopt traditional linear or pre-defined regression models while ignoring the nonlinear effects of urban form characteristics. To address these two gaps, this study examines multi-source big data to measure multidimensional urban form characteristics from both the top-down and human-scale perspectives. Taking the streets of 12 Chinese city old districts as samples, this study uses a gradient promotion decision tree model to examine the irregular association between the urban form and street vitality. The explanations for the model indicate that: (1) Compared with the functional and human-scale morphological characteristics, the mesoscale morphological characteristics, especially the street intersection density, block size, street density, building density, and floor area ratio are dominant contributors to street vitality; (2) There is a nonlinear relationship between some urban morphological characteristics and street vitality and their associations change drastically past some thresholds of urban form attributes.
title: A taxonomy of towns : an unsupervised machine learning approach to classify towns in England and Wales
Creators: name: Krenz, Kimon
name: Penn, Alan
name: Varoudis, Tasos
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: In 2019, the UK Government pledged to focus on levelling up the UK’s underperforming regions. As part of this effort, the Government recognised towns as a vital component in the hierarchical network of regional urban systems. Towns not only link cities to the wider hinterland but can also be places of innovation in their own right. Yet struggling towns, due to their dependence on cities and the surrounding region, often lack the fundamentals to support a strong local economy. Such towns face major socio-economic challenges once economic trajectories decline, including ageing population; lack of existing skills necessary to attract new firms; lack of education; less direct investments; and hindering spatial configurations. Given this context, the aim of this paper is to establish a classification of towns to understand their similarities to support targeted investment and to offer comparative characteristics for policy evaluation. To this end, this study develops a new classification of all towns in England and Wales across a variety of socio-spatial and economic domains. The analysis includes 1,178 urban areas with a population between 5,000 and 225,000. Specifically, we employ 105 workplace-based and residence-based demographic and economic variables of the 2011 Office for National Statistics Census for England and Wales and combine these with newly developed spatial variables on network similarities on the basis of network topology, geometry and centrality metrics. These variables are aggregated on boundaries of the built-up area of towns utilising centroid-based ONS lookup tables. We account for differences in distribution and scale through data transformation and standardisation. We then employ a K-means unsupervised cluster algorithm to establish a two-tier class system, of which the first is presented in this paper. The result is 6 distinctive Supergroups of towns. We further provide descriptive characterisations of each Supergroup and insights into the importance of individual variables.
Quantifying Ionic Liquid Affinity and Its Effect on Phospholipid Membrane Structure and Dynamics
Creators: name: Sharma, V. K.
name: Gupta, J.
name: Srinivasan, H.
name: Hitaishi, P.
name: Ghosh, S. K.
name: Mitra, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we examine the impact of imidazolium based ILs on the viscoelasticity, dynamics, and phase behavior of two model membrane systems, (i) lipid monolayers and (ii) unilamellar vesicles composed of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Our findings demonstrate that both ILs induce significant disorder in lipid membranes by altering the area per lipid molecule, thereby modulating their viscoelastic properties. ILs with longer alkyl chains show stronger interactions with membranes, causing more pronounced disorder. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy indicates that IL incorporation shifts the membrane main phase transition to lower temperatures and introduces gauche defects, signifying increased structural disorder. This effect is amplified with longer alkyl chains and higher IL concentrations. Quasielastic neutron scattering studies highlight that ILs markedly enhance the lateral diffusion of lipids within the membrane leaflet, with the extent of enhancement determined by the membrane physical state, IL concentration, and alkyl chain length. The most pronounced acceleration in lateral diffusion occurs in ordered membrane phase with higher concentrations of the longer chain IL. Molecular dynamics simulations corroborate these experimental findings, showing that longer chain ILs extensively disrupt lipid organization, introduce more gauche defects, increase the area per lipid, and consequently enhance lateral diffusion. This increase in lipid fluidity and permeability provides a mechanistic basis for the observed higher toxicity associated with longer chain ILs.
Globiceps fulvicollis Jakovlev 1877
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Globiceps
Globiceps fulvicollis

description: Globiceps fulvicollis Jakovlev, 1877
 Material. Kurai Steppe, 50°15′ N, 87°54′ E, H = 1600–1650 m, 8.08.2019, 1 ♂.
 Distribution. From Europe to mountains of Middle Asia and Mongolia. First record from Altai Republic.
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 29, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
title: Urban landscape in relation to building cycles and bid-rent curves
Creators: name: Kristjánsdóttir, Sigríður
name: Elíasson, Lúðvík
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Conzen (1960) mentions that fringe belts may form when city growth is halted. Whitehand (1972) uses bid-rent curve analysis to show that different types of development take place beyond the current city edge during building cycle upswings than during downturns. He divided Glasgow into belts of fixed width and derived the proportion of the area at each distance where new development for houses and institutions took place. The study period was split into several sub-periods, each conforming to a particular boom or slump in the housing market. Whitehand found that the development of Glasgow did largely follow the predictions of the bid-rent theory. This theory is tested in Reykjavík, Iceland. As the city of Reykjavík expands from its core on a peninsula towards the mainland, the centre of growth of new building and development moves ever further away from the city centre. Although economic fluctuations appear to be echoed in the building cycle, periods of economic downturn at most slow down the rate of the expansion of Reykjavík (Kristjánsdóttir 2007). This paper expands on previous studies by adding twenty years of data covering turbulent times in the global and local economies, showing a stronger coherence with predictions of the bid-rent theory than previously recorded. In the wake of the global financial crisis the economy experienced its first housing slump since immediately following the Great Depression. This gives an opportunity to revisit the application of bid-rent theory and housing slumps in explaining the relative share of residential housing in new developments. Here this is done by looking at time series for the volume of housing construction.
title: Camillo and Siegfried Sitte – a father-son relationship in urban planning theory
Creators: name: Kubin, Stefan Johannes
name: Psenner, Angelika
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Siegfried Sitte (1876–1945) is a little-known character in the architectural scene of the late 19th and first half of the 20th century. His work is overshadowed by his father's oeuvre: Camillo Sitte's pamphlet "Der Städtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen" published in 1899, which clearly is a milestone in urban theory. But until now, little light has been shed on how close the relationship between Camillo and his son Siegfried actually was. The research is based on a hitherto unpublished collection of materials; which is currently being processed as part of the dissertation on an apparently planned-but not compiled-second volume of Camillo Sitte's "Der Städtebau nach seinen wissenschaftlichen Grundsätzen". Studying this new collection allows us to realise on the extent to which the work of the two generations of architects is intertwined and how far the father's unfinished plans had an influence on the son's works. The first-born son of Camillo Sitte followed his father in his profession-not only as a planner but also as a teacher at the so called "Staatsgewerbeschule". The detailed study of the Sitte generation's heritage in the archives of TU Wien clearly provides evidence that Siegfried worked in his father's studio and continued or completed the urban planning and architectural projects after his father's sudden death in 1903. Siegfried himself later engaged intensively in the theoretical foundations of urban planning and published several writings on the subject. However, his own main work, "Das Wirtschaftsbild", only appeared posthumously. In it, he took up themes that his father had already dealt with and that he evidently had wanted to discuss in the second volume. Thus, this article is the first to explore the relationship between father and son in terms of the theoretical debate on urban planning by giving insights to the new findings on the topics Siegfried's father had already in mind to discuss in his sequel.