cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Integrated optical addressing of an ion qubit
Creators: name: Mehta, Karan K.
name: Bruzewicz, Colin D.
name: McConnell, Robert
name: Ram, Rajeev J.
name: Sage, Jeremy M.
name: Chiaverini, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The long coherence times and strong Coulomb interactions afforded by trapped ion qubits have enabled realizations of the necessary primitives for quantum information processing (QIP), and indeed the highest-fidelity quantum operations in any qubit to date. But while light delivery to each individual ion in a system is essential for general quantum manipulations and readout, experiments so far have employed optical systems cumbersome to scale to even a few tens of qubits. Here we demonstrate lithographically defined nanophotonic waveguide devices for light routing and ion addressing fully integrated within a surface-electrode ion trap chip. Ion qubits are addressed at multiple locations via focusing grating couplers emitting through openings in the trap electrodes to ions trapped 50 $μ$m above the chip; using this light we perform quantum coherent operations on the optical qubit transition in individual $^{88}$Sr$^+$ ions. The grating focuses the beam to a diffraction-limited spot near the ion position with a 2 $μ$m 1/$e^2$-radius along the trap axis, and we measure crosstalk errors between $10^{-2}$ and $4\times10^{-4}$ at distances 7.5-15 $μ$m from the beam center. Owing to the scalability of the planar fabrication employed, together with the tight focusing and stable alignment afforded by optics integration within the trap chip, this approach presents a path to creating the optical systems required for large-scale trapped-ion QIP.
LOVTRAP: an optogenetic system for photoinduced protein dissociation
Creators: name: Danuser, Gaudenz
name: Schlichting, Ilme
name: Hahn, Klaus M.
name: Kuhlman, Brian
name: Tarnawski, Miroslaw
name: Wang, Hui
name: Vilela, Marco
name: Winkler, Andreas
name: Yumerefendi, Hayretin
name: Liu, Rihe
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Here we introduce LOVTRAP, an optogenetic approach for reversible, light-induced protein dissociation. LOVTRAP is based on protein A fragments that bind to the LOV domain only in the dark, with tunable kinetics and a >150-fold change in Kd. By reversibly sequestering proteins at mitochondria, we precisely modulated the proteins’ access to the cell edge, demonstrating a naturally occurring 3 mHz cell edge oscillation driven by interactions of Vav2, Rac1 and PI3K.
title: Duality in the writing of Thomas Carlyle and Charles Kingsley
Creators: name: Collins, Carol
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1999

description: Commenting on the view that literary work may pose an easy alternative to running a monastery, Thomas Carlyle, in Past and Present, points out that 'literature too is a quarrel, an internecine duel with the whole World of Darkness that lies without and within one'. Crucial to the 'quarrel' within the work of Carlyle and Kingsley is the theme of the dualism of body and soul. For instance, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus has as its central character the dualistic Diogenes Teufelsdrockh (meaning 'god-born devil's-dung') and, in The Saint's Tragedy, Kingsley, aghast at the rise of asceticism exemplified in the Tractarian movement, deals with a German medieval martyr-'s conflict between earthly love and religious calling. Like many writers of his time, Kingsley was greatly influenced by Carlyle, and this thesis seeks to remedy the dearth of criticism on Kingsley's debt to Carlyle, and on the dualism within the writing of both, by examining how both men use a rhetoric designed to explore the relationship between the body and soul. As their writing is so deeply concerned with the condition of their society (Carlyle's treatment of social problems appealed to Kingsley who wished to reconnect the church with social concerns), I consider this theme within a cultural context. I maintain that, due to social changes within the nineteenth century, dualistic ideas had a particular resonance for Carlyle and Kingsley, and my reading of their work involves research into such areas as sexuality, religion, science, health, disease and politics. This study is arranged chronologically to show how Kingsley's work developed under the influence of Carlyle, whose career was well-established when Kingsley began to write. In chapter one I provide a contextual background by examining philosophical and religious views of the body and soul and consider dualistic notions within Victorian society. Chapter two examines Carlyle's dualism, providing a context within which to read Kingsley's work. In chapters three, four and five, 1 then explore the decade 1840-1850 when Carlyle's career was at its zenith and Kingsley began to write. Chapter three considers both writers attitudes to the body and soul in relation to sexuality and marriage. Chapter four looks at their attitudes towards the machine and mechanistic views of man. Chapter five extends this exploration of science to look at how real and figurative disease, and sanitary reform, have implications for the question of whether man is a creation of God or of his environment. Finally, in chapter six, I examine Kingsley's continuing interest in the relationship between body and soul in the 1850s and 1860s, when Carlyle had all but abandoned this concern. I conclude that, although there is an evident similarity in their desires to find a solution to the problem of man's dual nature, Kingsley's project is to produce a unified view of man, while Carlyle recognises the necessary dualism which is inherent in the human condition.
title: Exploring the Sources of Japanese University Students’ EFL Speaking Self-Efficacy: A Mixed Methods Study
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Dawn
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Self-efficacy is situated within Bandura's social cognitive theory of human agency over behaviour (1997). Defined as "peoples' beliefs in their capabilities to succeed in a specific task" (Bandura, 2006), it is formed through the interpretation of four sources: mastery experiences, social modelling, social persuasion, and physiological states. Self-efficacy has been shown to be a predictor of academic success in subject domains such as mathematics and science in predominantly Western settings. The sources of self-efficacy remain a relatively under-researched field in Japan, especially in English foreign language (EFL) speaking. Consequently, this study aims to explore Japanese university students' low self-efficacy to speak English through their sources of EFL speaking self-efficacy experiences at junior and senior high school (12-18 years old). The issue is important because the ability to communicate effectively in English provides access to global education and employment opportunities. However, Japanese people have one of the lowest English proficiency levels in Asia. The study uses a sequential, exploratory, mixed methods design. In the first stage, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 second-year university students. The transcripts were analysed with hybrid thematic analysis to yield seven themes: the four sources (mastery, social modelling, social persuasion, physiological states), goals for studying English, attitude to studying English, and desired second language (L2) self. The themes were then used to develop an inventory of sources of EFL speaking self-efficacy. This was administered to a larger sample of Japanese university students (N=353) to see whether the results of the first interview stage could be generalised to the larger sample. The results showed that Japanese university students had not encountered enough self-efficacy forming experiences. The unique findings of this study were that positive physiological states and social persuasion appear to be more influential for Japanese students than mastery experiences. The study's theoretical implications are that students' desired second language self is potentially an additional source of self-efficacy and that the four sources may act differently due to cultural and domain contexts. The practical implications are that teachers at university will need to provide targeted self-efficacy forming activities to develop students' speaking proficiency.
title: Implementing Change in a Public Organisation: An Action Research Inquiry of Information Technology Implementation and Adoption
Creators: name: Usoro, Iniobong
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: FERMA a government organisation introduced the Geographic Information System (GIS) to support the monitoring of the entire network of federal roads in Nigeria. However, six years after implementation, the initiative was not ready for use as a management tool to aid decision-making. The purpose of this study was to explore the lack of adoption of the GIS in FERMA. An adapted technology acceptance model provided the initial understanding of the GIS phenomenon. It offered a path of tracing the impact of the external factors of leadership characteristics and management practices on attitudes and intentions. Action research was used to conduct a qualitative inquiry, where semi-structured interviews and observations were embedded appropriately in the cycles of action research. It emerged that the GIS was more than a stand-alone product as was earlier assumed. It was found to be part of a much wider system where everything was connected to something else, and one part could not be removed without consequences to the other.
Nonexistence of sharply covariant mutually unbiased bases in odd prime dimensions
Creators: name: Zhu, Huangjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mutually unbiased bases (MUB) are useful in a number of research areas. The symmetry of MUB is an elusive and interesting subject. A (complete set of) MUB in dimension $d$ is sharply covariant if it can be generated by a group of order $d(d+1)$ from a basis state. Such MUB, if they exist, would be most appealing to theoretical studies and practical applications. Unfortunately, they seem to be quite rare. Here we prove that no MUB in odd prime dimensions is sharply covariant, by virtue of clever applications of Mersenne primes, Galois fields, and Frobenius groups. This conclusion provides valuable insight about the symmetry of MUB and the geometry of quantum state space. It complements and strengthens the earlier result of the author that only two stabilizer MUB are sharply covariant. Our study leads to the conjecture that no MUB other than those in dimensions 2 and 4 is sharply covariant.
description: 4.2 pages; to appear in PRA
Salpichlaena volubilis Hook., J. Bot.
Creators: name: Smith, Alan R.
name: Kessler, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Blechnaceae
Salpichlaena
Salpichlaena volubilis

description: Salpichlaena volubilis (Kaulf.) Hook., J. Bot. (Hooker) 4: 168. 1841.
 Range:— Lesser Antilles; Nicaragua to Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, SC) and southern Brazil.
 Ecology:— Common; twining climber, to ca. 20 m into trees, in humid forests; to 1900 m.
description: Published as part of Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXIII. Blechnaceae, pp. 99-117 in Phytotaxa 334 (2) on page 114, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721528
Modeling and Analysis of SiNW FET-Based Molecular Communication Receiver
Creators: name: Kuscu, M.
name: Akan, O. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Molecular Communication (MC) is a bio-inspired communication method based on the exchange of molecules for information transfer among nanoscale devices. MC has been extensively studied from various aspects in the literature; however, the physical design of MC transceiving units is largely neglected with the assumption that network nodes are entirely biological devices, e.g., engineered bacteria, which are intrinsically capable of receiving and transmitting molecular messages. However, the low information processing capacity of biological devices and the challenge to interface them with macroscale networks hinder the true application potential of nanonetworks. To overcome this problem, recently, we proposed a nanobioelectronic MC receiver architecture exploiting the nanoscale field effect transistor-based biosensor (bioFET) technology, which provides noninvasive and sensitive molecular detection while producing electrical signals as the output. In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive model for silicon nanowire (SiNW) FET-based MC receivers by integrating the underlying processes in MC and bioFET to provide a unified analysis framework. We derive closed-form expressions for noise statistics, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the receiver output, and symbol error probability (SEP). Performance evaluation in terms of SNR and SEP reveals the effects of individual system parameters on the detection performance of the proposed MC receiver.
title: Implications of “Institutional Massification” for Academic Practices: A Qualitative study on the Perspectives and Experiences of Academics at a Public University in Kenya Conducted in light of Social-Practice Theory
Creators: name: Mosomi, Mariah
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2022

description: Comprised of Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), state funding for higher education (HE) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a low priority. Despite the increased pressure on higher education institutions (HEIs) to meet national development needs and the demands of rapid youth population growth, existing public institutions and their academic communities face major challenges in addressing the low participation rates. This study sets out a social practice approach to conceptualise the perception of rapid enrolment expansion experienced by academic staff in public higher education institutions. It is situated within a multifaceted phase of public higher education in Kenya which is characterised by ‘institutional massification’, that is, where the increasing pressure for student access is applied to existing institutions with inadequate capacity for requisite resources. The study looks at how academics reshaped their understandings and academic practices to incorporate new practices in the context of enrolment expansion. Using a qualitative descriptive research design data was generated from semi-structured interviews with twenty (20) academic staff at a public university in Kenya conducted in 2018. The analysis indicates that academics linked material-cultural and social-political dimensions with teaching, research, assessment, and supervision practices during enrolment. Of particular importance to scholarship of higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa, were the participants’ perceptions that important governance and policy changes in the sector were sometimes imposed in ways that were divorced from the context of practice and its social realities. However, the study found that amidst tight working conditions academic staff were able to adopt new innovate coping practices. By applying the tenets of social practice theory to analyse the perceptions of academics, the findings of this research will contribute to massification discourse with the view of enhancing policies and practices in public institutions of higher learning while helping higher education stakeholders connect with the participants’ perceptions and experiences in order to reflect on how being an academic in a public university has been impacted by massification at the institutional level. The study further contributes to the discourse on broadening of Trow’s dominantly accepted definition of massification that is mostly applicable to the national level prevalent to countries with more resources but less so in LMIC contexts. It is anticipated that the findings of this research will contribute to and enrich the on-going debate on massification in higher education in SSA.
OHEJP BIOPIGEE Deliverable D-JRP21-WP6.28 "Workshop 4 completed"
Creators: name: Niine, Tarmo
name: Viltrop, Arvo
name: Smith, Richard
name: Burow, Elke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: biosecurity
slaughterhouse
pigs
Salmonella
HEV

description: This is the deliverable D-JRP21-WP6.28 "Workshop 4 completed" of the OHEJP BIOPIGEE project produced in WP6, task 6.3.
title: Factors that increase or decrease first-year university students’ levels of academic self-efficacy and negative emotional states in Chile
Creators: name: Zapata, Silvina
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: First-year university students experience a transition from school to college, involving new academic demands (Cole, 2017). Some researchers have focused on the relevance of cognitive ability (Wai & Rindermann, 2017). Others have argued that it does not guarantee academic achievement (Nabizadeh et al., 2019). Students also require other resources, such as their beliefs in their capacity to perform a task (Bandura, 1977). Emotions and negative emotional states influence students’ cognitive development and performance (Pekrun et al., 2002) and their judgments of academic self-efficacy (ASE) (Bandura, 2010). This study explores factors that positively or negatively influence first-year university students’ levels of ASE and negative emotional states (i.e., stress, anxiety, and depression) over 6 months while attending a Higher Education Institution (HEI) in Chile. I collected longitudinal data from a convenient sample of 311 first-year students in the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences enrolled in 2019 at a large university in Chile. HEIs have to become alert of the factors that influence negative emotional states and threats or opportunities that undermine or facilitate students’ ASE to understand how to help them, especially when they experience academic challenges to advance in college successfully.
The effect of industry delocalization on global energy use: A global sectoral perspective
Creators: name: Forin, Silvia
name: Radebach, Alexander
name: Steckel, Jan Christoph
name: Ward, Hauke
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: energy use
subject: delocalization
subject: index decomposition analysis
subject: input-output data
subject: roduction technology

description: Sectoral production technologies differ largely across countries, so do sectoral energy intensities. Hence, shifts in production locations within global sectors, possibly caused by environmental regulations, are likely to have an impact on aggregated energy usage and emissions. Applying a Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index decomposition we decompose changes of sectoral energy use from 2001–2011 into three effects: (sectoral) value added, energy efficiency and delocalization, which in this paper is conceived as a structural effect within sectors, between regions. Our results show that although economic activity and technological progress dominate global energy use developments, for most sectors a delocalization towards less efficient production places is ongoing. It contributes to annual increases in energy use in the range of 1–6%. Especially, manufacturing sectors, which are among the most energy consuming sectors, reveal significant increases in energy usage due to delocalization since 2004. This development is accompanied by declining energy intensity improvement rates, indicating that delocalization induces second order effects.
Truncation Error Estimates in Process Life Cycle Assessment Using Input‐Output Analysis
Creators: name: Ward, Hauke
name: Wenz, Leonie
name: Steckel, Jan Christoph
name: Minx, Jan
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: truncation error estimate
subject: process life-cycle assessment
subject: input-output (IO) analysis
subject: system boundary
subject: service sectors

description: Process life cycle assessment (PLCA) is widely used to quantify environmental flows associated with the manufacturing of products and other processes. As PLCA always depends on defining a system boundary, its application involves truncation errors. Different methods of estimating truncation errors are proposed in the literature; most of these are based on artificially constructed system complete counterfactuals. In this article, we review the literature on truncation errors and their estimates and systematically explore factors that influence truncation error estimates. We classify estimation approaches, together with underlying factors influencing estimation results according to where in the estimation procedure they occur. By contrasting different PLCA truncation/error modeling frameworks using the same underlying input‐output (I‐O) data set and varying cut‐off criteria, we show that modeling choices can significantly influence estimates for PLCA truncation errors. In addition, we find that differences in I‐O and process inventory databases, such as missing service sector activities, can significantly affect estimates of PLCA truncation errors. Our results expose the challenges related to explicit statements on the magnitude of PLCA truncation errors. They also indicate that increasing the strictness of cut‐off criteria in PLCA has only limited influence on the resulting truncation errors. We conclude that applying an additional I‐O life cycle assessment or a path exchange hybrid life cycle assessment to identify where significant contributions are located in upstream layers could significantly reduce PLCA truncation errors.
Circolo Filologico di Firenze. Il presidente Ubaldino Peruzzi a Luigi Ridolfi (24 maggio 1876)
Creators: name: Peruzzi, Ubaldino
name: Ridolfi, Luigi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Accademia dei Georgofili
Peruzzi, Ubaldino
Ridolfi, Luigi
Lettera
Letter
Carteggio
Correspondence
1876

description: Lettera di Ubaldino Peruzzi a Luigi Ridolfi del 24 maggio 1876. Segnatura dell’unità documentale: Archivio storico dell’Accademia dei Georgofili, Carteggio, Busta 37, 4962. Natura: manoscritto. Consistenza: cc. 2
description: Digitalizzato come parte della Mostra virtuale: Ubaldino Peruzzi : un percorso in rete : in occasione del bicentenario della nascita https://www.georgofili.it/contenuti/ubaldino-peruzzi-un-percorso-in-rete/17485
A mouse model for MERS coronavirus-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome
Creators: name: Cockrell, Adam S.
name: Tang, Xian-Chun
name: Douglas, Madeline
name: Jensen, Kara
name: Beall, Anne
name: Yount, Boyd L.
name: Scobey, Trevor
name: Marasco, Wayne A.
name: Heise, Mark T.
name: Baric, Ralph S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a novel virus that emerged in 2012, causing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), severe pneumonia-like symptoms, and multi-organ failure, with a case fatality rate of ~36%. Limited clinical studies indicate that humans infected with MERS-CoV exhibited pathology consistent with late stages of ARDS, which is reminiscent of disease observed in patients infected with SARS coronavirus. Models of MERS-CoV-induced severe respiratory disease have been difficult to achieve, and small animal models traditionally used to investigate viral pathogenesis (mouse, hamster, guinea pig, and ferret) are naturally resistant to MERS-CoV. Therefore, we used CRISPR/Cas9 to modify the mouse genome to encode two human amino acids (288 and 330) in the dipeptidyl peptidase 4 receptor, making mice susceptible to MERS-CoV replication. Serial MERS-CoV passage in these engineered mice was then used to generate a mouse-adapted virus that replicated efficiently within the lungs, and evoked symptoms indicative of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), including decreased survival, extreme weight loss, decreased pulmonary function, pulmonary hemorrhage, and pathological signs indicative of end stage lung disease. Importantly, therapeutic countermeasures comprising MERS-CoV neutralizing antibody treatment or a MERS-CoV spike protein vaccine protected engineered mice against MERS-CoV-induced ARDS.
An Ontology based Expert System for Diagnosis and Recommendation in Hemodialysis Patient
Creators: name: จุฑามาศ เทียนสอาด
Publisher: name: Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Mahanakorn University of Technology
Year: 2012
Subjects: Expert System
Ontology
Forward Chaining
Recommendation in Hemodialysis Patients

description: Journal of Information Science and Technology, 3, 2, 22-30
New-physics signals of a model with a vector-singlet up-type quark
Creators: name: Alok, Ashutosh Kumar
name: Banerjee, Subhashish
name: Kumar, Dinesh
name: Sankar, S. Uma
name: London, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The VuQ model involves the addition of a vector isosinglet up-type quark to the standard model. In this model the full CKM quark mixing matrix is 4 X 3. Using present flavor-physics data, we perform a fit to this full CKM matrix, looking for signals of new physics (NP). We find that the VuQ model is very strongly constrained. There are no hints of NP in the CKM matrix, and any VuQ contributions to loop-level flavor-changing b -> s, b -> d and s -> d transitions are very small. There can be significant enhancements of the branching ratios of the flavor-changing decays t -> u Z and t -> c Z, but these are still below present detection levels.
description: 30 pages, no figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1402.1023
Autofocusing System using Matching Blurry measure and Working Distance for industrial application
Creators: name: พิพัฒน์ ณรงค์วณิชย์
Publisher: name: Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Mahanakorn University of Technology
Year: 2012
Subjects: autofocusing
blurry measure
high magnification visual inspection
Point Spread Function estimation

description: Journal of Information Science and Technology, 3, 1, 43-52
La  Démocratie suisse : journal rédigé par une réunion de citoyens genevois
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: La Démocratie suisse
Year: 1863

description: Année 1, no 1(6 janvier 1863) - année 5, no 104(28 décembre 1867)
description: A pour édition du dimanche: Genève-guide
Genomic inference of the metabolism of cosmopolitan subsurface Archaea, Hadesarchaea
Creators: name: Baker, Brett J.
name: Hinrichs, Kai-Uwe
name: Lind, Anders E.
name: Teske, Andreas P.
name: Saw, Jimmy H.
name: Lazar, Cassandre Sara
name: Ettema, Thijs J.G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Genomic reconstruction from hot spring sediment metagenomes show that 'Hadesarchaea' have streamlined yet metabolically versatile genomes, with genes involved in CO and H2 oxidation, with potential coupling to nitrite reduction to ammonia.
Implementation of RSSI-Based 3D Indoor Localization using Wireless Sensor Networks Based on ZigBee Standard
Creators: name: Thanapong Chuenurajit
Publisher: name: Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Mahanakorn University of Technology
Year: 2012
Subjects: Wireless sensor networks
3D indoor localization
ZigBee
Min-Max algorithm

description: Journal of Information Science and Technology, 3, 2, 1-6
DCTNet : A Simple Learning-free Approach for Face Recognition
Creators: name: Ng, Cong Jie
name: Teoh, Andrew Beng Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: PCANet was proposed as a lightweight deep learning network that mainly leverages Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to learn multistage filter banks followed by binarization and block-wise histograming. PCANet was shown worked surprisingly well in various image classification tasks. However, PCANet is data-dependence hence inflexible. In this paper, we proposed a data-independence network, dubbed DCTNet for face recognition in which we adopt Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) as filter banks in place of PCA. This is motivated by the fact that 2D DCT basis is indeed a good approximation for high ranked eigenvectors of PCA. Both 2D DCT and PCA resemble a kind of modulated sine-wave patterns, which can be perceived as a bandpass filter bank. DCTNet is free from learning as 2D DCT bases can be computed in advance. Besides that, we also proposed an effective method to regulate the block-wise histogram feature vector of DCTNet for robustness. It is shown to provide surprising performance boost when the probe image is considerably different in appearance from the gallery image. We evaluate the performance of DCTNet extensively on a number of benchmark face databases and being able to achieve on par with or often better accuracy performance than PCANet.
description: APSIPA ASC 2015
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the VASI HPV LOWER station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Vasi
Hydrological
Pressure transducer
Ground Water level

description: This package contains supporting information for the hydrological data collected at VASI's HPV LOWER station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
title: Financial Behavior of Members of a US-Based Ghanaian Church Community - Seeking Strategies for Improvement
Creators: name: Afriyie, Joyce
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: ABSTRACT This research thesis seeks to better understand the financial behavior of members of an Immigrant Ghanaian church community in the United States, by inquiring into the reasons behind their behavior. The enhanced understanding gained is then leveraged to find, develop and enact appropriate financial strategies to effectively manage members’ financial behavior toward improved financial behavior and wellbeing of members and the church organization as a whole. Unlike extant immigrant financial behavior literature, none of which has explored immigrants’ financial behavior in a holistic and systematic way, this present thesis takes an encompassing approach to examining immigrants’ financial behavior. It does this by exploring all key financial behavior aspects including: spending, savings, cash flow management, debt management, risk management and investment. The present research takes a further step to seek, develop and enact appropriate financial strategies to improve identified flawed aspects of participants’ financial behaviors. This is done with the aim of enhancing their financial behavior and wellbeing. Also, through this research, two key financial behavior models (Financial Health Model by Huston (2015) and Conceptual Model of Young Adults’ Financial Capability by Serido et al. (2013)) are leveraged to develop a ‘New Proposed Conceptual Model of Financial Behavior and Well-being’. This new proposed model, which has been leveraged and validated in the present study, combines key variables of the two above mentioned existing models and introduces an important variable - cultural factors – which has been silenced in the earlier models, but which is critical to managing financial behavior, especially for a culture-sharing group. This study leverages an action research strategy that employs two research methods (ethnographic research and action research methods). The ethnographic research acts as a precursor leading into the conduct of the action research. Thus, the first ethnographic research phase addresses the study’s first two research questions concerning describing the financial behavior of members of the church community and why they behave the way they do. The second action research phase leverages the understanding gleaned from the first research phase to addresses the third and final research question relating to iteratively seeking, developing, and enacting appropriate financial strategies to facilitate improved financial behavior and wellbeing of members and the church organization as a whole.
Applying Web Services to integrate LMS Moodle and Student Registration System
Creators: name: พีระศักดิ์ เพียรประสิทธิ์
Publisher: name: Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Mahanakorn University of Technology
Year: 2012
Subjects: Service Oriented Architecture
Moodle version 2
Web services
Windows Workflow Foundation

description: Journal of Information Science and Technology, 3, 2, 31-37
Antigen-capturing nanoparticles improve the abscopal effect and cancer immunotherapy
Creators: name: Zhang, Longzhen
name: Min, Yuanzeng
name: Desimone, Joseph M.
name: McKinnon, Karen P.
name: Wang, Andrew Z.
name: Caster, Joseph M.
name: Herring, Laura E.
name: Zhang, Tian
name: Tian, Shaomin
name: Chai, Shengjie
name: Vincent, Benjamin G.
name: Roche, Kyle C.
name: Tepper, Joel E.
name: Eblan, Michael J.
name: Serody, Jonathan S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Immunotherapy holds tremendous promise for improving cancer treatment1. Administering radiotherapy with immunotherapy has been shown to improve immune responses and can elicit an “abscopal effect”2. Unfortunately, response rates for this strategy remain low3. Herein, we report an improved cancer immunotherapy approach that utilizes antigen-capturing nanoparticles (AC-NPs). We engineered several AC-NPs formulations and demonstrated that the set of protein antigens captured by each AC-NP formulation is dependent upon NP surface properties. We showed that AC-NPs deliver tumor specific proteins to antigen-presenting cells and significantly improve the efficacy of αPD-1 treatment using the B16F10 melanoma model, generating up to 20% cure rate as compared to 0% without AC-NPs. Mechanistic studies revealed that AC-NPs induced an expansion of CD8+ cytotoxic T cells and increased both CD4+/Treg and CD8+/Treg ratios. Our work presents a novel strategy for improving cancer immunotherapy with nanotechnology.
title: Revisiting Mindset Theory: Insights from EFL Students in Japanese Higher Education
Creators: name: Berg, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Despite the marked impact they have been shown to have in the classroom, growth/fixed mindsets are an under-researched area of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) studies (Lou & Noels, 2016; Mercer & Ryan, 2009). How these mindsets interface with students’ EFL proficien-cy, as well as linguistic and social environments (demographic information such as where students grew up; to what extent English was used and study was encouraged; how much exposure students had to native English-speaking foreigners etc.) were examined in order to illuminate some trends regarding how Japanese university students perceive and approach their language learning journey. In this study approximately 850 Japanese students from two municipal universities were surveyed to identify their language learning mindsets, EFL proficiency and social/educational histories. Sub-sequent statistical correlations were sought, and follow-up interviews were undertaken for a more in-depth understanding of the relationships that exist. It was discovered that despite the impact mindset theory has had on a host of learning domains, its relevance in helping to make sense of EFL learning within a Japanese university context was minimal with respect to growth mindsets, and negligible with respect to fixed. As well it was discovered the tool used to measure mindsets (Lou & Noels’ Language Mindset Index) had a limited fit within a Japanese context prompting a four- (rather than six- and three-) factor model. Rather than mindsets, it appeared students strug-gled far more markedly with a host of affective hinderances; such as a lack of confidence and fear of making mistakes which stemmed from an overfamiliarity with the still prominent grammar-translation (yakudoku) teaching methods prevalent within secondary, as well as “cram” schools (jukus). The overcoming of these affective hindrances appeared to be requisite to becoming a “more proficient” student (as defined in this study). Finally, from a practitioner’s perspective the author makes the case for positive psychology within the Japanese EFL classroom.
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cape Agulhas Waskraalvlei station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Fynbos Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Cape Agulhas
Hydrological
Solinst depth and temperature logger
water level
water temperature

description: This package contains supporting information for the hydrological data collected at Cape Agulhas's Waskraalvlei station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Understanding the formation of bulk- and surface-active layered (oxy)hydroxides for water oxidation starting from a cobalt selenite precursor
Creators: name: Hausmann, Jan Niklas
name: Mebs, Stefan
name: Laun, Konstantin
name: Zebger, Ingo
name: Dau, Holger
name: Menezes, Prashanth W.
name: Drieß, Matthias
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 690 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk
subject: oxygen evolution reaction
subject: in situ
subject: catalyst
subject: catalytic characterization
subject: transformation conditions

description: The urgent need for a stable, efficient, and affordable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst has led to the investigation of a vast amount of transition metal materials with multiple different anions. In situ and post catalytic characterization shows that most materials transform during the harsh OER conditions to layered (oxy)hydroxides (LOH). Several open questions concerning these in situ formed LOH remain such as: an explanation for their strongly varying activities, or the effect of the precatalyst structure, leaching anions, and transformation conditions on the formed LOH. Herein, we report on a cobalt selenite precursor, which, depending on pH and potential, transforms irreversibly into two different LOH OER catalysts. Combining multiple electrochemical and analytical methods ex and in situ, we prove that one of these products is near-surface catalytically active and the other one throughout the bulk with an in situ average cobalt oxidation state of 3.2. We deduce a detailed structural model explaining these differences and propose general concepts relating both the precatalyst structure and the transformation conditions to the final catalyst. Further, we apply these models to the most promising non-noble metal catalyst, NiFe LOH.
On methods of estimating cosmological bulk flows
Creators: name: Nusser, Adi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore similarities and differences between several estimators of the cosmological bulk flow, $\bf B$, from the observed radial peculiar velocities of galaxies. A distinction is made between two theoretical definitions of $\bf B$ as a dipole moment of the velocity field weighted by a radial window function. One definition involves the three dimensional (3D) peculiar velocity, while the other is based on its radial component alone. Different methods attempt at inferring $\bf B$ for either of these definitions which coincide only for a constant velocity field. We focus on the Wiener Filtering (WF, Hoffman et al. 2015) and the Constrained Minimum Variance (CMV,Feldman et al. 2010) methodologies. Both methodologies require a prior expressed in terms of the radial velocity correlation function. Hoffman et al. compute $\bf B$ in Top-Hat windows from a WF realization of the 3D peculiar velocity field. Feldman et al. infer $\bf B$ directly from the observed velocities for the second definition of $\bf B$. The WF methodology could easily be adapted to the second definition, in which case it will be equivalent to the CMV with the exception of the imposed constraint. For a prior with vanishing correlations or very noisy data, CMV reproduces the standard Maximum Likelihood (ML, Kaiser 1988) estimation for $\bf B$ of the entire sample independent of the radial weighting function. Therefore, this estimator is likely more susceptible to observational biases that could be present in measurements of distant galaxies. Finally, two additional estimators are proposed.
description: 7 pages
Using Quad Priority Queues and Coordinate Offset for Finding Street Name from Bangkok Map Database
Creators: name: อิฐอารัญ ปิติมล
Publisher: name: Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Mahanakorn University of Technology
Year: 2012
Subjects: GPS Coordinates
Map Database
Offset Coordinates

description: Journal of Information Science and Technology, 3, 2, 47-54
Gene expression elucidates functional impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia
Creators: name: Mahajan, Milind C
name: Oh, Edwin C
name: Stahl, Eli A
name: Bennett, David A
name: Katsanis, Nicholas
name: Hamamsy, Tymor
name: De Jager, Philip L
name: Cicek, A Ercument
name: Johnson, Jessica S
name: Mangravite, Lara M
name: Shah, Hardik R
name: Fullard, John F
name: Peters, Mette A
name: Zhu, Jun
name: Domenici, Enrico
name: Hahn, Chang-Gyu
name: Buxbaum, Joseph D
name: Topol, Aaron
name: Derry, Jonathan M J
name: Readhead, Ben
name: Klei, Lambertus L
name: Roeder, Kathryn
name: Purcell, Shaun M
name: Lu, Cong
name: Haroutunian, Vahram
name: Dudley, Joel T
name: Perumal, Thanneer M
name: Xie, Lu
name: Lewis, David A
name: Talbot, Konrad
name: Ruderfer, Douglas M
name: Brennand, Kristen J
name: Chess, Andrew
name: Kramer, Robin
name: Schadt, Eric E
name: Lipska, Barbara K
name: Wang, Ying-Chih
name: Pinto, Dalila
name: Gur, Raquel E
name: Raj, Towfique
name: Browne, Andrew
name: Sieberts, Solveig K
name: Zhang, Bin
name: Dang, Kristen K
name: Kavanagh, David H
name: Logsdon, Benjamin A
name: Gümüş, Zeynep H
name: Hemby, Scott E
name: Hirai, Keisuke
name: Shinobu, Leslie A
name: Parvizi, Mahsa
name: Sullivan, Patrick F
name: Xiao, Jianqiu
name: Devlin, Bernie
name: Sklar, Pamela
name: Fromer, Menachem
name: Roussos, Panos
name: Toyoshiba, Hiroyoshi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Over 100 genetic loci harbor schizophrenia associated variants, yet how these variants confer liability is uncertain. The CommonMind Consortium sequenced RNA from dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of schizophrenia cases (N = 258) and control subjects (N = 279), creating a resource of gene expression and its genetic regulation. Using this resource, ~20% of schizophrenia loci have variants that could contribute to altered gene expression and liability. In five loci, only a single gene was involved: FURIN, TSNARE1, CNTN4, CLCN3, or SNAP91. Altering expression of FURIN, TSNARE1, or CNTN4 changes neurodevelopment in zebrafish; knockdown of FURIN in human neural progenitor cells yields abnormal migration. Of 693 genes showing significant case/control differential expression, their fold changes are ≤ 1.33, and an independent cohort yields similar results. Gene co-expression implicates a network relevant for schizophrenia. Our findings show schizophrenia is polygenic and highlight the utility of this resource for mechanistic interpretations of genetic liability for brain diseases.
Zapline‐plus: A Zapline extension for automatic and adaptive removal of frequency‐specific noise artifacts in M/EEG
Creators: name: Klug, Marius
name: Kloosterman, Niels A.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: artifact removal
subject: filter
subject: gamma oscillations
subject: line noise
subject: M/EEG
subject: preprocessing
subject: principal component analysis
subject: signal processing
subject: spectral analysis

description: Removing power line noise and other frequency‐specific artifacts from electrophysiological data without affecting neural signals remains a challenging task. Recently, an approach was introduced that combines spectral and spatial filtering to effectively remove line noise: Zapline. This algorithm, however, requires manual selection of the noise frequency and the number of spatial components to remove during spatial filtering. Moreover, it assumes that noise frequency and spatial topography are stable over time, which is often not warranted. To overcome these issues, we introduce Zapline‐plus, which allows adaptive and automatic removal of frequency‐specific noise artifacts from M/electroencephalography (EEG) and LFP data. To achieve this, our extension first segments the data into periods (chunks) in which the noise is spatially stable. Then, for each chunk, it searches for peaks in the power spectrum, and finally applies Zapline. The exact noise frequency around the found target frequency is also determined separately for every chunk to allow fluctuations of the peak noise frequency over time. The number of to‐be‐removed components by Zapline is automatically determined using an outlier detection algorithm. Finally, the frequency spectrum after cleaning is analyzed for suboptimal cleaning, and parameters are adapted accordingly if necessary before re‐running the process. The software creates a detailed plot for monitoring the cleaning. We highlight the efficacy of the different features of our algorithm by applying it to four openly available data sets, two EEG sets containing both stationary and mobile task conditions, and two magnetoencephalography sets containing strong line noise.
Dipolar Rydberg-atom gas prepared by adiabatic passage through an avoided crossing
Creators: name: Wang, Limei
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Zhang, Linjie
name: Li, Changyong
name: Yang, Yonggang
name: Zhao, Jianming
name: Raithel, Georg
name: Jia, Suotang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The passage of cold cesium 49S$_{1/2}$ Rydberg atoms through an electric-field-induced multi-level avoided crossing with nearby hydrogen-like Rydberg levels is employed to prepare a cold, dipolar Rydberg atom gas. When the electric field is ramped through the avoided crossing on time scales on the order of 100~ns or slower, the 49S$_{1/2}$ population adiabatically transitions into high-\emph{l} Rydberg Stark states. The adiabatic state transformation results in a cold gas of Rydberg atoms with large electric dipole moments. After a waiting time of about $1~μ$s and at sufficient atom density, the adiabatically transformed highly dipolar atoms become undetectable, enabling us to discern adiabatic from diabatic passage behavior through the avoided crossing. We attribute the state-selectivity to $m$-mixing collisions between the dipolar atoms. The data interpretation is supported by numerical simulations of the passage dynamics and of binary $m$-mixing collisions.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures