cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Methods for Personalized and Evidence Based Medicine
Creators: Shahn, Zach
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Evidence-based medicine
subject: Medical care--Statistics
subject: Personalized medicine
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: There is broad agreement that medicine ought to be `evidence based' and `personalized' and that data should play a large role in achieving both these goals. But the path from data to improved medical decision making is not clear. This thesis presents three methods that hopefully help in small ways to clear the path.
      Personalized medicine depends almost entirely on understanding variation in treatment effect. Chapter 1 describes latent class mixture models for treatment effect heterogeneity that distinguish between continuous and discrete heterogeneity, use hierarchical shrinkage priors to mitigate overfitting and multiple comparisons concerns, and employ flexible error distributions to improve robustness. We apply different versions of these models to reanalyze a clinical trial comparing HIV treatments and a natural experiment on the effect of Medicaid on emergency department utilization.
      Medical decisions often depend on observational studies performed on large longitudinal health insurance claims databases. These studies usually claim to identify a causal effect, but empirical evaluations have demonstrated that standard methods for causal discovery perform poorly in this context, most likely in large part due to the presence of unobserved confounding. Chapter 2 proposes an algorithm called Ensembles of Granger Graphs (EGG) that does not rely on the assumption that unobserved confounding is absent. In a simulation and experiments on a real claims database, EGG is robust to confounding, has high positive predictive value, and has high power to detect strong causal effects.
      While decision making inherently involves causal inference, purely predictive models aid many medical decisions in practice. Predictions from health histories are challenging because the space of possible predictors is so vast. Not only are there thousands of health events to consider, but also their temporal interactions. In Chapter 3, we adapt a method originally developed for speech recognition that greedily constructs informative labeled graphs representing temporal relations between multiple health events at the nodes of randomized decision trees. We use this method to predict strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation using data from a Medicaid claims database.
      I hope the ideas illustrated in these three projects inspire work that someday genuinely improves healthcare. I also include a short `bonus' chapter on an improved estimate of effective sample size in importance sampling. This chapter is not directly related to medicine, but finds a home in this thesis nonetheless.
Perfect State Transfer in a Spin Chain without Mirror Symmetry
Creators: name: Coutinho, Gabriel
name: Vinet, Luc
name: Zhan, Hanmeng
name: Zhedanov, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81P45, 33C45

description: We introduce an analytical $XX$ spin chain with asymmetrical transport properties. It has an even number $N+1$ of sites labeled by $n=0,\cdots N$. It does not exhibit perfect state transfer (PST) from end-to-end but rather from the first site to the next to last one. In fact, PST of one-excitation states takes place between the even sites: $n\leftrightarrow N-n-1$, $n=0,2,\cdots, N-1$; while states localized at a single odd site undergo fractional revival (FR) over odd sites only. Perfect return is witnessed at double the PST/FR time. The couplings and local magnetic fields are related to the recurrence coefficients of the dual -1 Hahn polynomials.
description: 6 pages; corrected some typos and added a few references based on collegial comments
A Medieval Gate in the Earthworks Surrounding the 'Little Park' Arundel, West Sussex
Creators: name: Place, Chris
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 130, 130-139
description: Limited excavations were undertaken by the Field Archaeology Unit after storm damage to the earthworks on the north side of the Arundel Cricket Club revealed a masonry structure. This proved to be the remains of a gateway through the town defences. The gate consisted of two walls, either side of a 'roadway '. Made of mortared chalk rubble they are about 2.40 metres wide, 1O metres long and have stepped reveals of dressed Caen stone at both ends. The overall width of the gate is JO metres. On stylistic grounds a late 11th- to early 12th-century date is suggested. The majority of parallels are from castles, for example Sherbourne, Tickhill and Castle Acre. Few medieval town gates still survive in the southeast and Arundel, although ruinous, is a welcome addition. It is possible that the gate was arched, though this is only suggested by analogy. Likewise, the presence of guard chambers can only be postulated. It is suggested that the gate was inserted into existing burh defences, itself replacing another defended burh in the Arun valley at Burpham. It is suggested that the gate went out of use in the late I1th century with the building of new defences and a change in the alignment of the High Street.
Reframing transitions to school as continuity practices
Creators: name: Marie Therese (Tess) Boyle
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This thesis, "Reframing transitions to school as continuity practices" reports the findings of a cross-sectorial critical participatory action research study investigating the question 'How might shared understandings of practices enhance continuity during transitions to school?' the findings indicate that when educators in early childhood centres and primary schools are afforded the time and opportunity for sustained critically reflective cross-sectorial collaborations, shared understandings of site-based transitions to school practices can be negotiated. These relationships and shared understandings can establish 'common ground' to co-construct transitions practices and policies that seek to enhance continuity as children move from one sector to the other.
Archival Theory and Black Feminist Thought: The Role of Black Women Archivists
Creators: name: Clinton, Miranda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description: While Black feminist thought is not a new concept, its applications to archival theory have not been fully explored. It is with this position that this paper aims to consider how the defining characteristics of Black feminist thought can be applied to transform traditional archival theory and disrupt its systematic power as a white prioritizing space. Through this analysis, the overall question of this paper is asking what is the role of Black women in the archives? More than a researcher, what does it mean for a Black woman to be taking part in the archival process, appraising, accessioning, collection processing, and making available records for the public. It is with this framework that this paper will historicize the material presence and working actions of Black women in the archives and what that may possibly look like for the future of LIS.
Methods for handling measurement error and sources of variation in functional data models
Creators: Cai, Xiaochen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Error analysis (Mathematics)
subject: Analysis of covariance
subject: Biometry
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The overall theme of this thesis work concerns the problem of handling measurement error and sources of variation in functional data models. The first part introduces a wavelet-based sparse principal component analysis approach for characterizing the variability of multilevel functional data that are characterized by spatial heterogeneity and local features. The total covariance of the data can be decomposed into three hierarchical levels: between subjects, between sessions and measurement error. Sparse principal component analysis in the wavelet domain allows for reducing dimension and deriving main directions of random effects that may vary for each hierarchical level. The method is illustrated by application to data from a study of human vision. The second part considers the problem of scalar-on-function regression when the functional regressors are observed with measurement error. We develop a simulation-extrapolation method for scalar-on-function regression, which first estimates the error variance, establishes the relationship between a sequence of added error variance and the corresponding estimates of coefficient functions, and then extrapolates to the zero-error. We introduce three methods to extrapolate the sequence of estimated coefficient functions. In a simulation study, we compare the performance of the simulation-extrapolation method with two pre-smoothing methods based on smoothing splines and functional principal component analysis. The third part discusses several extensions of the simulation-extrapolation method developed in the second part. Some of the extensions are illustrated by application to diffusion tensor imaging data.
title: From framework to industrial implementation : the digital twin in process planning
Creators: name: Wagner, Sarah
name: Gonnermann, Clemens
name: Wegmann, Marc
name: Listl, Franz
name: Reinhart, Gunther
name: Weyrich, Michael
Publisher: name: Universität Stuttgart
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 004

description: In today’s fast-paced market, companies are challenged to meet increasing customer demands and shorter product life cycles. To successfully respond to these demands, companies must produce a wide variety of different products. This requires the determination of necessary processes and resources for each product, which can be difficult for process engineers due to the high manual effort and expertise involved. The current state of research has not yet provided explicit definitions of the necessary knowledge and has not fully achieved complete process planning automation. To address this challenge, a digital twin is a valuable tool for automating and understanding process planning. This paper presents a digital twin concept for process planning. It automatically analyzes the product, determines production processes, and selects appropriate resources by linking information about products, resources, and processes. The effectiveness of the digital twin concept is demonstrated through verified and validated use cases, including the production of a compressor element.
Kritik symbolischer Macht. Zum (politischen) Störpotential der Soziologie
Creators: name: Meyer, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: keine Angabe
subject: Machtmechanismen
subject: Neoliberalismus
subject: symbolische Gewalt
subject: Politik
subject: --

description: ‚Das Private ist politisch‘ - mit dieser bekannten Parole propagierte die Frauenbewegung, dass das Private politisch sei und problematisierte damit die vermeintlich klare Grenze zwischen dem ‚Privaten‘ und dem ‚Öffentlichen‘. Vormals für ‚persönlich‘ erklärte Fragen des privaten Alltags wurden so zu einem legitimen Gegenstand von Politik- und Machtfragen. Damit war ein Prozess der Neubestimmung und Entgrenzung des Politischen eingeleitet, der dessen konventionelle Beschränkung auf den Staat und seine Institutionen, ein Ende bereitete. Aber nicht nur das, zugleich erhielt die Macht in modern-aufgeklärten Gesellschaft im Allgemeinen und in der Sozialen Arbeit im Besonderen den Ruch des Anstößigen und Rechtfertigungsbedürftigen; umso wichtiger ist es, die Allgegenwärtigkeit und das Beharrungsvermögen von Machtprozessen, die alle Ebenen der Gesellschaft und alle sozialen Beziehungen durchdringen, herauszuarbeiten.
A Fully Magnetizing Phase Transition
Creators: name: Contucci, Pierluigi
name: Kleban, Peter
name: Knauf, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82B26

description: We analyze the Farey spin chain, a one dimensional spin system with effective interaction decaying like the squared inverse distance. Using a polymer model technique, we show that when the temperature is decreased below the (single) critical temperature T_c=1/2, the magnetization jumps from zero to one.
description: 19 pages
Tegolophus oblatus Xue, Cheng & Hong 2011
Creators: name: XUE, XIAO-FENG
name: GUO, JING-FENG
name: HONG, XIAO-YUE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Tegolophus
Tegolophus oblatus

description: Tegolophus oblatus Xue, Cheng & Hong, 2011 Tegolophus oblatus Xue, Cheng & Hong, 2011b: 330–332. Material examined. 4 females and 1 male (slide number NJAUAcariEriH8), from Syringa oblata Lindl. (Oleaceae), Jiagedaqi, Heilongjiang Province, P. R. China, 50°24'27''N, 124°06'43''E, elevation 365m, 17 July 2008, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue, Zhen Wang & Zi-Wei Song. Host. Syringa oblata Lindl. (Oleaceae). Relation to host. Vagrant. Distribution. China (Heilongjiang).
description: Published as part of XUE, XIAO-FENG, GUO, JING-FENG & HONG, XIAO-YUE, 2013,   Eriophyoid mites from Northeast China (Acari: Eriophyoidea) , pp. 1-123 in Zootaxa 3689 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3689.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6031216
description: {"references": ["Xue, X. - F., Cheng, L. - S. & Hong, X. - Y. (2011 b) Four new species of Tegolophus Keifer from China (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae). Systematic & Applied Acarology, 16, 319 - 335."]}
Chichester Workhouse
Creators: name: Dangerfield, M
name: Marshall, O
name: Stringer, E
name: Welch, V
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 79, 131-167
description: THERE were in the possession of the Governors of Chichester Workhouse six volumes of Court Books, covering the period 1753 to 1847.1 These were, during the years 1926-9, made the subject of a series of detailed studies by members of the Special Method History Classes of the Bishop Otter Training College, under the supervision of Miss Stella Westaway. The fol1owing general account of the administration of the workhouse is compiled by M. E. Dangerfield, 0. Marshall, E. R. Stringer, and V. E. Welch from the first two volumes, which extend from 2 July 1753 to 19April1816, and will be found to throw valuable light upon the administration of the poor law during that period and to bring out points of both economic and human interest.
Additional file 3 of Molecular characterization of the viral structural protein genes in the first outbreak of dengue virus type 2 in Hunan Province, inland China in 2018
Creators: name: Guan, Jiaoqiong
name: He, Zhanlong
name: Qin, Meng
name: Deng, Xialin
name: Chen, Jun
name: Duan, Suqin
name: Gao, Xiaojun
name: Pan, Yue
name: Chen, Junying
name: Yang, Yaping
name: Feng, Shijun
name: Sun, Qiangming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Reference sequences for phylogenetic analysis.
Policy Briefing: The Effects of Access and Accessibility on Public Transport Users’ Attitudes
Creators: name: Subeh Chowdhury
name: Zhai, Kasey
name: Khan, Asif
name: Woodward, Suzanne
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120506 Transport Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160514 Urban Policy

description: Heavy reliance on private road transport is linked with greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, noise pollution, and congestion (and associated economic losses to businesses). With trip-making behaviour growing in complexity in terms of purpose and spatial destinations, challenges arise in providing an attractive public transport (PT) system.
Risks and Benefits of Using a Commercially Available Ventricular Assist Device for Failing Fontan Cavopulmonary Support: A Modeling Investigation
Creators: name: Farahmand, Masoud
name: Kavarana, Minoo N.
name: Kung, Ethan O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Fontan patients often develop circulatory failure and are in desperate need of a therapeutic solution. A blood pump surgically placed in the cavopulmonary pathway can substitute the function of the absent sub-pulmonary ventricle by generating a mild pressure boost. However, there is currently no commercially available device designed for the cavopulmonary application; and the risks and benefits of implanting a ventricular assist device (VAD) originally designed for the left ventricular application on the right circulation of failing Fontan patients is not yet clear. Moreover, further research is needed to compare the hemodynamics between the two clinically-considered surgical configurations (Full Support and IVC Support) for cavopulmonary assist, with Full and IVC Support corresponding to the entire venous return or only the inferior venous return, respectively, being routed through the VAD. In this study, we used a numerical model of the failing Fontan physiology to evaluate the Fontan hemodynamic response to a left VAD during the IVC and Full supports. We observed that during the Full support the VAD improved the cardiac output while maintaining blood pressures within safe ranges, and lowered the IVC pressure to <15mmHg; however, we found a potential risk of lung damage at higher pump speeds due to the excessive pulmonary pressure elevation. IVC support the other hand, did not benefit the hemodynamics of the example failing Fontan patients, resulting in the superior vena cava pressure increasing to an unsafe level of >20 mmHg. The findings in this study may be helpful to surgeons for recognizing the risks of a cavopulmonary VAD and developing coherent clinical strategies for the implementation of cavopulmonary support.
Aulacothyris pala
Creators: name: Sulser, H.
name: Hostettler, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Brachiopoda
Rhynchonellata
Terebratulida
Zeilleriidae
Aulacothyris
Aulacothyris pala

description: Aulacothyris pala (Buch, 1835)
Fig. 10b
 1835. Terebratula pala Buch: 134, Taf. 3, Fig. 44.
 1849. Terebratula Chauviniana d’Orbigny: Nr. 248.
 1857. Terebratula pala Buch. – Oppel: Fig. 19-20.
 1857. Terebratula (Waldheimia) Geisingensis Oppel: 573- 574, Nr. 91.
 1857. Terebratula (Waldheimia) Sandbergeri Oppel: 574.
 1859a. Terebratula (Waldheimia) pala (Buch).– Eudes-Deslongchamps: 37-38.
 1859b. Terebratula (Waldheimia) pala (Buch).– Eud.-Desl.: 30-33, Taf. 3, Fig. 13 -23.
 1871. Terebratula pala Buch. – Quenstedt: 354-355, Taf. 47, Fig. 71-83.
 1919. Aulacothyris pala Buch. – Rollier: 354.
 1919. Aulacothyris Chauviniana d’Orb. – Rollier: 354-355.
 1919. Aulacothyris parallela Rollier: 353.
 1919. Aulacothyris Geisingensis (Oppel).– Rollier: 353-354.
 1919. Aulacothyris Sandbergeri (Oppel).– Rollier: 355.
 1934. Aulacothyris pala Buch. – Moiseev: 154, Taf. 19, Fig. 64-67.
 1968. Aulacothyris pala Buch. – Prosorovskaia: 128, Taf. 20, Fig. 2.
 1973. Aulacothyris pala Buch. – Kamyschan & Babanova: 144-145, Taf. 18, Fig. 1-4.
 Material: Mehrere Ex., Tunnel du Graitery, frühes Callovien, Herveyi-Zone.
 Beschreibung (Fig. 10b): Schale glatt, Umriss längsoval bis andeutungsweise gerundet-pentagonal, seitlich zusammengedrückt, vorne gestutzt. Ventralklappe stärker aufgebläht als Dorsalklappe, diese in der vorderen Hälfte verflacht und eine breite, seichte Einbuchtung bildend. Schnabel eingekrümmt, mit kleinem Stielloch, Areakanten ziemlich scharf. Langes, über die Schalenmitte reichendes, durchscheinendes Dorsalseptum.
 Bemerkungen: A. pala ist eine weit verbreitete und häufig zitierte Art, aber im neueren, zumal europäischen Schrifttum nur spärlich bearbeitet worden. Es muss deshalb dahingestellt bleiben, ob eine kritische Haltung, die Art enger aufzufassen, gerechtfertigt erscheint. Dies betrifft u.a. A. parallela, A. gesingensis, A. sandbergeri, A. chauviniana (siehe dazu Rollier, 1919; Kamyschan & Babanova, 1973). Jedenfalls ist A. pala recht formkonstant und stellt ein brauchbares Leitfossil für das Callovien dar. Von ähnlichen Aulacothyriden aus dem Dogger mit der typischen Verflachung und Einsenkung der Dorsalklappe – etwa A. meriani (Oppel), A. alveata (Quenstedt) – ist A. pala durch ihre schlanke Gestalt leicht zu unterscheiden. Am nächsten steht ihr A. hypocirta, die anschliessend beschrieben wird.
 Bisher bekannte Vorkommen: Callovien von Frankreich (Dép. Orne, Sarthe, Saône-et-Loire, Yonne, Lozère, Jura), Süddeutschland, Schweiz (nördlicher und nordwestlicher Jura), Tirol (Vilser Alpen), Tauern-Gebiet (Capruntal), Kaukasus, Krim.
description: Published as part of Sulser, H. & Hostettler, Bernhard, 2014, Die Brachiopoden des Callovien im zentralen Nordwestschweizer Jura, pp. 39-65 in Revue de Paléobiologie 33 (1) on pages 55-57, DOI: 10.7892/boris.70817, http://zenodo.org/record/6448479
Policy Briefing: Climate, Housing and Health Profiling: Promoting housing quality to improve health and wellbeing
Creators: name: Chang-Richards, Alice
name: Wang, Kevin I-Kai
name: Bapon Fakhruddin
name: Ho, Elsie
name: Woodward, Suzanne
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120503 Housing Markets, Development, Management
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 160508 Health Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 50101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 160514 Urban Policy
subject: 120104 Architectural Science and Technology (incl. Acoustics, Lighting, Structure and Ecologically Sustainable Design)
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 160510 Public Policy

description: New Zealand’s existing housing stock is subject to rapid aging and deteriorated conditions, due to the low replacement rate and lack of maintenance. Dampness conditions such as mould are visible in nearly half of all houses, with a slightly higher prevalence in rental properties. The overall indoor air quality of houses is potentially harmful to the health of household occupants.
Soil productivity and forest regeneration success on reclaimed oil and gas sites in the Dawson Creek Forest District
Creators: name: Bulmer, Charles Ernest
name: Krzic, Maja, 1963-
name: Green, Korey
name: Suderman, Dale
name: Radchenko, Garry
name: Gevatkoff, Paul
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: We visited 27 reclaimed oil and gas well sites in northeast BC that were decompacted and planted with lodgepole pine between 1994 and 1999. The reclamation work was carried out as part of an effort to gain experience with reforestation as a potential strategy for improving abandoned oil and gas sites. Reclamation techniques included decompaction either with a winged subsoiler or a ripper, seeding a cover crop, fertilizing, and planting to lodgepole pine, which has previously been successful in reclamation of forestry disturbances. Of the 27 sites, three (11.1 percent) had been re-used by drilling rigs, and an additional site was re-used as a forest landing. We evaluated tree growth on 19 of the well sites, and collected detailed information on vegetation cover, ecological and soil conditions. Clay content for the sampled sites ranged from 0 to 40 percent and bulk density from 594 to 1803 kg/m³. Soil chemical properties (C, N, available P, pH) were very similar to conditions found on nearby forest plantations and rehabilitated landings. Values of soil mechanical resistance in the rooting zone during July exceeded values that are expected to be growth-limiting on several plots, but values in June were below the threshold of 2500 kPa. Approximately 50 percent of the plots had stocking levels above 600 stems per hectare. Subplots with subhydric, hygric and subhygric moisture regime appeared to have generally lower stocking levels than subplots with mesic and submesic moisture regime. Average stocking levels for well sites were lower than for rehabilitated forest landings and undisturbed plantations on similar sites in the BWBS, and the trees on the well sites were smaller than trees planted on landings that had similar site conditions. Field observations suggested that factors such as competition from seeded cover crops, moisture regime, selection of tree species, and well site construction / rehabilitation techniques affected seedling survival and growth on individual sites. Where soil and site conditions are suitable, tree planting appears to be a useful technique that would enhance environmental values over the long term. To obtain the maximum benefit from reforestation efforts on well sites, a targeted approach is suggested, where efforts are directed at sites with the highest likelihood of success. This operational reforestation work has provided some key lessons that can be used to improve reforestation success on reclaimed oil and gas sites in the future.
Improving Human Activity Recognition in Smart Healthcare with Ensemble Deep Learning
Creators: name: Soni, Vaibhav
name: Yadav, Himanshu
name: Semwal, Vijay Bhaskar
name: Tripathi, Sudhakar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Human activity recognition (HAR) leverages sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes to discern human physical activities, offering transformative insights for smart healthcare applications, from Parkinson's disease monitoring to diabetes management. While deep learning (DL) methods have emerged as frontrunners in HAR using wearable sensors, they often struggle with challenges stemming from long-term dependencies in sequential data and intricate feature extraction from expansive datasets. Addressing these gaps, this paper introduces a novel ensemble-based deep neural network that seamlessly integrates four distinct classifiers: CNN-LSTM, LSTM-CNN, CNN-BiLSTM, and BiLSTM-CNN. This combination enhances feature extraction and captures the detailed long-term patterns that have been challenging for traditional HAR models. By also using ensemble learning, our model becomes more consistent and reliable in its predictions. Benchmark evaluations on mHealth, UCI-HAR, and WISDM datasets validate the model's superiority, with accuracy scores of 99.91%, 98.10%, and 99.48% respectively. Further, the k-fold cross-validation technique is used to assess the performance results in terms of the mean F1-score, mean accuracy at k = 5. These compelling results underscore the model's capacity to address the inherent limitations of existing HAR systems, positioning it as a groundbreaking tool for advanced human activity recognition in smart healthcare scenarios.
ASIC and FPGA Implementation of an Adaptive Convolutional Encoder and Viterbi Decoder
Creators: name: Kamath, Saksham
name: Mundada, Rohit
name: Gupta, Naveen
name: Sharma, Varun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: This paper introduces a novel approach and proposes an enhanced microarchitecture for implementing a high-frequency convolutional encoder and Viterbi decoder using both application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and field programmable gate array (FPGA) technologies. The design of the encoder and decoder is adaptive and capable of processing variable lengths of input bit streams in a message signal. This means our circuit exhibits message width independence, resulting in a constant effective delay per bit for the proposed implementation. Furthermore, an adaptive (2, 1, 3) convolutional encoder is developed to allow customization of connection vectors. The circuit implementation utilizes conventional logic gates and sequential circuit elements, ensuring complete tolerance to single-bit errors and a satisfactory level of multi-bit error tolerance. To evaluate the proposed design, Cadence generic process design kits 45 nm technology (GPDK45) are employed to synthesize the circuit, providing area, power, and timing reports for further analysis. The proposed Viterbi decoder can operate up to a frequency of 580.046 MHz and consumes 632.358 µm2 area with a power dissipation of 68.0313 µW. The circuit implementation is validated using Xilinx FPGA boards through Xilinx Vivado 2020.2 across diverse product families and operating frequencies. The obtained results are meticulously compared to determine the most suitable FPGA for different frequency ranges. It's crucial to highlight that all results presented in this paper are validation-based, meaning they were generated using software tools.
Methods in functional data analysis and functional genomics
Creators: Backenroth, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biometry
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Functional analysis
subject: Functional genomics

description: This thesis has two overall themes, both of which involve the word functional, albeit in different contexts.  The theme that motivates two of the chapters is the development of methods that enable a deeper understanding of the variability of functional data.  The theme of the final chapter is the development of methods that enable a deeper understanding of the landscape of functionality across the human genome in different human tissues.
      The first chapter of this thesis provides a framework for quantifying the variability of functional data and for analyzing the factors that affect this variability.  We extend functional principal components analysis by modeling the variance of principal component scores.  We pose a Bayesian model, which we estimate using variational Bayes methods.  We illustrate our model with an application to a kinematic dataset of two-dimensional planar reaching motions by healthy subjects, showing the effect of learning on motion variability.
      The second chapter of this thesis provides an alternative method for decomposing functional data that follows a Poisson distribution.  Classical methods pose a latent Gaussian process that is then linked to the observed data via a logarithmic link function.  We pose an alternative model that draws on ideas from non-negative matrix factorization, in which we constrain both scores and spline coefficient vectors for the functional prototypes to be non-negative.  We impose smoothness on the functional prototypes.  We estimate our model using the method of alternating minimization.  We illustrate our model with an application to a dataset of accelerometer readings from elderly healthy Americans.
      The third chapter of this thesis focuses on functional genomics, rather than functional data analysis.  Here we pose a method for unsupervised clustering of functional genomics data.  Our method is non-parametric, allowing for flexible modeling of the functional genomics data without binarization.  We estimate our model using variational Bayes methods, and illustrate it by calculating genome-wide functional scores (based on a partition of our clusters into functional and non-functional clusters) for 127 different human tissues.  We show that these genome-wide and tissue-specific functional scores provide state-of-the-art functional prediction.
History, Memory, and the Archival Record; Afterlives of the Greensboro Massacre
Creators: name: Thornquist, Wylie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents a thematic analysis of data from interview transcripts with researchers who have worked with archival collections in Wilson Library related to the 1979 Greensboro Massacre. Five researchers from a variety of disciplines and academic backgrounds were interviewed to gather information about how and why they decided to do research on this historical event using archival sources. In these interviews, participants shared reflections about the ethical considerations and affective and emotional responses that arose in their engagement archival documentation of this historical event.  Interviews were guided by a series of questions: 1) How are researchers impacted by their interactions with archival records related to the Greensboro Massacre? 2) Why and how do researchers seek out archival sources to generate new scholarship on this event? 3) What insights do archival collections related to this history offer that are not found in other places? Considering archives as a site of ongoing contestation of historical narratives and memory, this study presents information about how archival users have disseminated information from archival collections to develop new knowledge about the Greensboro Massacre through their research.
Additional file 3 of Maternal overweight but not paternal overweight before pregnancy is associated with shorter newborn telomere length: evidence from Guangxi Zhuang birth cohort in China
Creators: name: Wei, Bincai
name: Shao, Yantao
name: Liang, Jun
name: Tang, Peng
name: Mo, Meile
name: Liu, Bihu
name: Huang, Huishen
name: Tan, Hui Juan Jennifer
name: Huang, Dongping
name: Liu, Shun
name: Qiu, Xiaoqiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Restricted cubic spline analysis of the correlation between parental BMI and newborn telomere length. (Relative average telomere lengths were expressed as the ratio of telomere copy number to single-copy gene number (T/S ratio). c. Maternal BMI (knots = 3). d. Paternal BMI (knots = 6).
Gavelinella scrobiculata
Creators: name: Ismail, Ahmed A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Foraminifera
Globothalamea
Rotaliida
Gavelinellidae
Gavelinella
Gavelinella scrobiculata

description: Gavelinella scrobiculata (SCHWAGER, 1883)
 Pl. III, fig. 28
 1883. Anomalina scrobiculata SCHWAGER, p. 129, pl. 29, fig. 18.
 1956. Valvulineria scrobiculata (S CHWAGER).- SAID & KENAWY, p. 147, pl. 4, fig. 42.
 1985. Gavelinella scrobiculata (SCHWAGER).- LUGER, p. 112, pl. 9, figs. 9, 10.
 Remarks: This species may be recognized by scattered nodes on the umbilical depression.
 Stratigraphic distribution: It is recorded in the Esna Shale (Paleocene) of the Maqfi Section by LE ROY (1953). It is found in the Paleocene ( Morozovella uncinata Zone) of the Esh El Mallaha area.
description: Published as part of Ismail, Ahmed A., 2012, Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene benthic foraminifera from Esh El Mallaha area, Egypt, pp. 15-50 in Revue de Paléobiologie 31 (1) on page 41
Policy Briefing: Competitiveness, Sustainability and the Environment
Creators: name: Bowler-Smith, Mark
name: Woodward, Suzanne
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150107 Taxation Accounting
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 160507 Environment Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160510 Public Policy

description: How might domestic firms enjoy profitability and international competitiveness with fewer harmful environmental impacts? Private firms that either produce material goods or use physical inputs in supplying services can improve their profitability by increasing their resource productivity. Not only does a positive change in resource productivity mean increased profitability for the individual firm, but it also means a dramatic improvement in the impact of business on the environment, particularly with regards to climate change and the depletion of natural resources.
Anomalina scrobiculata NAKKADY 1950
Creators: name: Ismail, Ahmed A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Foraminifera
Globothalamea
Rotaliida
Anomalinidae
Anomalina
Anomalina scrobiculata

description: Anomalina scrobiculata NAKKADY, 1950
 Pl. III, fig. 25
 1950. Anomalina scrobiculata NAKKADY, p. 691, p1. 90, figs. 33, 34.
 Remarks: The last chambers of this species are large size and the dorsal side is slightly convex.
 Stratigraphic distribution: It was originally described from the Esna Shale of the Luxor and Wadi Mallaha areas by NAKKADY (1950). It is found in the Maastrichtian and Paleocene sediments of the Esh El Mallaha area.
description: Published as part of Ismail, Ahmed A., 2012, Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene benthic foraminifera from Esh El Mallaha area, Egypt, pp. 15-50 in Revue de Paléobiologie 31 (1) on page 40
Field Theory for Coherent Optical Pulse Propagation
Creators: name: Park, Q-Han
name: Shin, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new notion of "matrix potential" to nonlinear optical systems. In terms of a matrix potential $g$, we present a gauge field theoretic formulation of the Maxwell-Bloch equation that provides a semiclassical description of the propagation of optical pulses through resonant multi-level media. We show that the Bloch part of the equation can solved identically through $g$ and the remaining Maxwell equation becomes a second order differential equation with reduced set of variables due to the gauge invariance of the system. Our formulation clarifies the (nonabelian) symmetry structure of the Maxwell-Bloch equations for various multi-level media in association with symmetric spaces $G/H$. In particular, we associate nondegenerate two-level system for self-induced transparency with $G/H=SU(2)/U(1)$ and three-level $Ł$- or V-systems with $G/H = SU(3)/U(2)$. We give a detailed analysis for the two-level case in the matrix potential formalism, and address various new properties of the system including soliton numbers, effective potential energy, gauge and discrete symmetries, modified pulse area, conserved topological and nontopological charges. The nontopological charge measures the amount of self-detuning of each pulse. Its conservation law leads to a new type of pulse stability analysis which explains nicely earlier numerical results.
description: 43 pages, Latex, some comments and references are added. postscript file containing 10 figures can be obtained at http://photon.kyunghee.ac.kr/~qhpark/
Deep Learning Based Super Resolution Network for Channel Estimation
Creators: name: Madhuri, Bendi
name: Agrawal, Sachin
name: Joshi, Sandeep
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This paper proposes and investigates a deep learning-based channel estimation scheme for wireless communication system. In this approach, the channel response in pilot positions is considered a low-resolution image, which is further converted into a high-resolution image using the super-resolution (SR) network. It is observed that the proposed model shows an improvement of 50% and 42.5% as compared to the ChannelNet and super-resolution convolutional neural network, respectively, in the case of 16 pilots. The novelty of the proposed SR model is its low complexity, as it uses one model instead of two for channel estimation. Besides, the proposed SR model uses fewer pilots for channel estimation, making it bandwidth-efficient and fast. Furthermore, the proposed model is compared using extensive simulations for benchmarking.
Forschung zum guten Aufwachsen von Pflegekindern und Praxis. Was hat die Praxis von der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Forschung?
Creators: name: Wolf, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: keine Angabe
subject: Soziale Dienste
subject: Pflegekinderdienst
subject: Pflegekinderwesen
subject: Herkunftsfamilie
subject: --

description: Zum Pflegekinderwesen werden in der Praxis sehr unterschiedliche Überzeugungen über die Bedeutung der Herkunftsfamilie oder die Trennung von Geschwisterkindern vertreten, und diese führen zu einer gänzlich unterschiedlichen Praxis manchmal benachbarter Pflegekinderdienste. Die jeweils eigenen Prinzipien werden dann oft ohne Selbstzweifel und ohne Irritation durch die konträren Positionen andernorts – ganz zu schweigen von Veröffentlichungen – als Glaubenssätze vertreten. Das kann man als Indikator für ein problematisch niedriges Niveau der Professionalisierung interpretieren, da sich hier private Alltagstheorien zu fundamentalen Überzeugungen verdichten, die zwar Bekenntnisse hervorbringen, aber alle irritierenden wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen ausblenden und die Lernfähigkeit der Organisation ruinieren.
A tensor form of the Dirac equation
Creators: name: Marchuk, N. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81T99

description: We prove the following theorem: the Dirac equation for an electron (invented by P.A.M.Dirac in 1928) can be written as a tensor equation. An equation is called a tensor equation if all values in it are tensors and all operations in it take tensors to tensors.
description: LaTeX, 23 pages I correct mistyping in the third line of the formula on page 18
Black hole-neutron star mergers from triples
Creators: name: Fragione, Giacomo
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mergers of black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) binaries are expected to be observed by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years. Until now, LIGO has only set an upper limit on this merger rate. BH-NS binaries are expected to merge in isolation, as their formation is suppressed in star clusters by the mass segregation and the strong heating by BHs in the cluster core. Another viable scenario to BH-NS mergers is in triple systems. In this paper, we carry out a systematic statistical study of the dynamical evolution of triples comprised of an inner BH-NS binary by means of high-precision $N$-body simulations, including Post-Newtonian (PN) terms up to 2.5PN order. We start from the main sequence massive stars and model the supernovae (SN) events that lead to the formation of BHs and NSs. We adopt different prescriptions for the natal velocity kicks imparted during the SN processes and illustrate that large kicks lead to more compact and massive triples that merge on shorter timescales. We also show that BH-NS merging in triples have a significant eccentricity in the LIGO band, typically much larger than BH-NS merging in isolated binaries. Finally, we estimate a rate of $Γ_\mathrm{BH-NS}\approx 1.0\times 10^{-3}-3.5\times 10^{-2} \ \mathrm{Gpc}^{-3}\ \mathrm{yr}^{-1}$, for non-zero velocity kicks, and $Γ_\mathrm{BH-NS}=19 \ \mathrm{Gpc}^{-3}\ \mathrm{yr}^{-1}$, for no natal kicks. Our rate estimate overlaps with the expected BH-NS rate in isolated binaries and within the LIGO upper limit.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted by MNRAS
Gavelinella rubiginosa
Creators: name: Ismail, Ahmed A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Foraminifera
Globothalamea
Rotaliida
Gavelinellidae
Gavelinella
Gavelinella rubiginosa

description: Gavelinella rubiginosa (CUSHMAN, 1926)
 Pl. III, fig. 27
 1926. Anomalina rubiginosa CUSHMAN, p. 207, pl. 11, fig. 6.
 1962. Gavelinella rubiginosa (CUSHMAN).- HILLEBRANDT, p. 102, pl. 8, fig. 1.
 1976. Gavelinella danica BROTZEN. -AUBERT & BERGGREN, p. 433, pl. 11, fig. 5; pl. 12, fig. 1.
 1985. Gavelinealla rubiginosa (CUSHMAN).- LUGER, p. 112, pl. 9, fig. 6.
 Stratigraphic distribution: It is one of the important benthic species in the Paleocene. In this study, it is recorded in the Paleocene and continues to the Early Eocene. This species appears to evolve into another species which the majority of workers have identified as Gavelinella grasserugosa (SAID & KENAWY, 1956; BERGGREN & AUBERT, 1975).
description: Published as part of Ismail, Ahmed A., 2012, Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene benthic foraminifera from Esh El Mallaha area, Egypt, pp. 15-50 in Revue de Paléobiologie 31 (1) on page 41
Wechsel der Lebenswelten – Wie nehmen Pflegekinder den Übergang in die Pflegefamilie wahr?
Creators: name: Sandmeir, Gunda
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: keine Angabe
subject: Pflegekinderwesen
subject: Herkunftsfamilie
subject: Pflegekinderhilfe in Deutschland
subject: Fürsorge
subject: --

description: Das Pflegekind verlässt beim Übergang in die Pflegefamilie die vertraute Lebenswelt seiner Herkunftsfamilie. Die Pflegefamilie ist für das Kind zunächst eine fremde Welt. Milieu und Lebensstil, Kommunikations- und Umgangsformen der Pflegefamilie unterscheiden sich meist stark von der Herkunftsfamilie. Häufig sind Pflegekinder mit völlig anderen Bedingungen als in der Herkunftsfamilie konfrontiert.
Efficient Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Computing Using Hybrid Algorithm
Creators: name: Tewari, Aakanksha
name: Goyal, Namisha
name: Awasthi, Lalit Kumar
name: Priyanka
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: In recent years, cloud computing has increasingly embraced a pay-per-use model, offering dynamic, virtualized resources via the internet. The central challenge in this domain is efficiently scheduling workflows, considering deadlines and budgets while optimizing task allocation to virtual machines (VMs). Our study hypothesizes that improved scheduling can reduce energy consumption, streamline process execution, and lower operational costs. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a comparative analysis of two optimization techniques: Genetic Algorithm with Multiple Particle Swarm Optimization (GA + MPSO) and Genetic Algorithm with Bat Algorithm (GA + BAT). The analysis reveals that the combination of Genetic Algorithm and Bat Algorithm (GA + BAT) excels in optimizing cloud computing workflow scheduling. GA + BAT demonstrated superior performance by significantly reducing energy consumption, shortening process execution times, and decreasing operational costs. These findings validate our hypothesis, underscoring that optimizing cloud computing workflow scheduling can deliver substantial benefits. Consequently, by adopting GA + BAT, cloud service providers can enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and foster a more sustainable and responsive cloud infrastructure.