cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of political shocks on international trade: evidence from China and major partners, 1998-2018
Creators: name: Agarwal, Vishesh
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of political cooperation and conflict between countries on international trade in the context of China's rapid emergence as a global economic and trading power. The study develops a game-theoretical framework in which a bi-directional relationship exists between trade and conflict. The theoretical framework is used as a basis to identify the short- and long-term effects of moderate shocks in political conflict on merchandise goods trade between China and major trading partners between 1998-2018 using vector-auto-regression (VAR) models. The analysis is complemented by an examination of the effects of political shocks on trade disaggregated by product-type. The results suggest that although trade ties are not independent of conflict, they have not been affected by conflict significantly in this period, and the effects of political conflict on trade vary by product-type. The maintenance of a combination of healthy trade and low levels of conflict requires continued rules-based engagement between China and its trading partners to mitigate the extent to which political conflict has spill over consequences on trade ties.
Determining Visual Motion in the Deep Learning Era
Creators: name: Jiang, Shihao
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: Determining visual motion, or optical flow, is a fundamental problem in computer vision and has stimulated continuous research interests in the past few decades. Other than pure academic pursuit, the progress made in optical flow research also has applications in many fields, including video processing, graphics, robotics and medical applications. Traditionally, optical flow estimation has been formulated as solving an optimisation problem, often by minimising an energy function. The energy function is designed based on the brightness constancy assumption, which often fails in real-world scenarios due to lighting changes, shadows and occlusions, resulting in the failure of traditional algorithms. Another weakness of traditional optimisation approaches is the slow runtime, since iterative methods are often employed when solving for the optical flow, which can take as long as a few seconds to a minute. This becomes problematic in real-world applications. The recent surge of deep learning techniques has enabled the formulation of optical flow estimation as a learning problem. Recent papers have shown significant performance improvements compared to traditional approaches as well as significantly faster runtime. Despite the recent progress in the learning approaches for optical flow, there still remain challenging cases where current approaches fail, such as occlusions, featureless regions (the aperture problem), and large motions for small objects. Current methods are also limited by the large consumption of GPU memory. An intermediate representation named cost volume is often employed which scales quadratically with the number of pixels. This 4D representation acts as a memory bottleneck for modern optical flow approaches, which prevents scaling up to high-resolution images. In this PhD thesis, we show long-range modelling and sparse representations are important cornerstones for modern optical flow estimation. We first show regularising flow prediction with an estimated essential matrix can improve flow prediction performance in mostly rigid scenes, particularly challenging cases such as featureless regions and motion blur. We then demonstrate that a sparse cost volume can just be as effective as a dense cost volume, with significantly less memory consumption. This brings hope for future optical flow research where image resolutions are further increased. Finally, we show that incorporating a self-attention module to globally aggregate motion features helps improve state-of-the-art flow prediction. Modelling long-range connections are particularly helpful for dealing with occlusions.
Iran's Inclusion in the SCO: Implications and Regional Significance
Creators: name: Abu Zafar
Publisher: name: Vivekananda International Foundation
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Iran
subject: SCO
subject: Eurasia
subject: International relations

description: Iran has become 9th full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in its 23rd summit held in virtual mode in the first week of July under the presidentship of India. After reproachment with Saudi Arabia it is another good news for Tehran for its economic growth, regional connectivity, and political ambitions. Other member states are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, China, India, Pakistan, and Russia.
Identifying the sources of complexity in the Urban Train project in Puerto Rico
Creators: name: Quevedo, Antonio Gonzalez
name: Lopez Del Puerto, Carla
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The metropolitan area of San Juan in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has the highest concentration of vehicles per mile of paved road in the world. In order to improve the public transit system and decrease automobile dependency, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico decided to embark on a major infrastructure project, which consisted on the design and construction of a heavy rail train to serve the Metropolitan Area of San Juan. The first phase of the project consisted of a 10.69 mile segment with 16 stations. This paper uses a five dimensional project management (5DPM) model and develops a complexity map to identify the sources of complexity in the project. The 5DPM model includes the following dimensions: cost, schedule, technical, context and finance. The results indicate that the major source of complexity in this project was the technical dimension which was complex due to variable site conditions and the owner’s the lack of experience managing a project of this magnitude. Due to its scope and significance, the Urban Train project (Tren Urbano) provided an opportunity to train a group of young professionals who would later assume leadership positions in public projects in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. A structured professional development program was created in a partnership between the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The professional development program consisted of 6 key elements: (1) MIT short course in public transportation in Boston, (2) UPR Winter short course on the Urban Train and Transportation in Puerto Rico, (3) Student research project, (4) Professional Practicum (summer work internship) (5) Site visit to an operating transit system, and (6) Possible employment opportunities with contractor or consultant. The paper concludes that including a professional development component in the project benefited the students and faculty who were involved. It also concludes that the professional development program contributed to managing complexity in the technical dimension for future projects and in the context dimension for this project by increasing public support to the project through marketing and dissemination efforts. This paper contributes to the body of knowledge by increasing our understanding on how to manage complexity in large transit projects and how to develop and implement a professional development program that contributes to project success.
PetriScape - A plugin for discrete Petri net simulations in Cytoscape
Creators: name: Almeida, Diogo
name: Azevedo, Vasco
name: Silva, Artur
name: Baumbach, Jan
Publisher: name: Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany
Year: 2016

description: Systems biology plays a central role for biological network analysis in the post-genomic era. Cytoscape is the standard bioinformatics tool offering the community an extensible platform for computational analysis of the emerging cellular network together with experimental omics data sets. However, only few apps/plugins/tools are available for simulating network dynamics in Cytoscape 3. Many approaches of varying complexity exist but none of them have been integrated into Cytoscape as app/plugin yet. Here, we introduce PetriScape, the first Petri net simulator for Cytoscape. Although discrete Petri nets are quite simplistic models, they are capable of modeling global network properties and simulating their behaviour. In addition, they are easily understood and well visualizable. PetriScape comes with the following main functionalities: (1) import of biological networks in SBML format, (2) conversion into a Petri net, (3) visualization as Petri net, and (4) simulation and visualization of the token flow in Cytoscape. PetriScape is the first Cytoscape plugin for Petri nets. It allows a straightforward Petri net model creation, simulation and visualization with Cytoscape, providing clues about the activity of key components in biological networks.
description: Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics - JIB
Ethical Perspectives of Chinese and United States Physicians at Initiation of a Research Collaborative
Creators: name: Grondin, Christopher
name: Cong, Yali
name: Keshavarzi, Nahid
name: Geisser, Michael E.
name: Kolars, Joseph C.
name: Hutchinson, Raymond J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Variances in perceived standards regarding research integrity appear to exist between China and the U.S. An established joint institute for translational and clinical research between one Chinese and one U.S. health system provides a valuable venue in which to evaluate these perceptions better. We therefore undertook a survey of 209 physicians at the two institutions in 2013–14. The vast majority of physicians from both institutions understood the necessity of obtaining informed consent from research participants, the need to provide a description of the risks of participation, and the voluntary nature of research participation. However, there were differences in responses between the two sites in willingness to report plagiarism (U.S. 95.65% vs. Chinese 40.21%; p
Analysing parties' behaviors on mediating building management cases
Creators: name: Cheung, Sai On
name: Yiu, Tak Wing
name: Chan, Tsz Yeung
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Although mediation is a topical research topic in construction management studies, building management dispute mediation is rarely reported in academic community. This study was conducted in the light of marked increase in the number of building management dispute settled by mediation. Within the context that the parties’ behaviours during the course of the mediation would influence the outcome, the focus of the study is to examine the behaviours adopted by mediators and disputants. Data was collected with specially designed questionnaire and Relative Importance Index (RII) was used to rank the significance of the behaviours. The findings reveal that disputants often adopt aggressive approach to push their counterparts in defending their case as well as pressing for concessions. Mediators moreover, prefer establishing a trusting relationship with the disputants. In this regard, mediators seldom criticise and challenge disputants’ point of view and argument. Instead, they would attempt to establish a harmonious environment by engendering heartfelt feeling and rational understanding. Mediators would refrain from responding inappropriately to the pressing behaviours of disputants. The research findings also suggest further research in building management disputes mediation would further provide insight to the public at large in understanding how building management disputes can be settled more effectively through mediation.
Spin physics highlights from PHENIX
Creators: name: Loomis, Devon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: ghp25
phenix
spin
spin physics
gluon
helicity
longitudinal spin asymmetry
transverse spin asymmetry
p+p
forward-rapidity
mid-rapidity
photon
direct photon
pion
W
η
π0
heavy flavor
hadron
p+au
p+al
neutron

description: Talk presented at the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics 2025 workshop
Evolutionary stable strategy for post-disaster insurance : a game theory approach
Creators: name: Eid, Mohamed S.
name: El-Adaway, Islam H.
name: Coatney, Kalyn T.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Natural disasters leave the impacted regions with financial burdens both on the individual and governmental levels. Thus, the goal of the associated stakeholders is to maximize the host communities’ welfare through minimizing their post-disaster financial burdens. Accordingly, this paper attempts to find a post-disaster insurance plans equilibrium so as to mitigate the financial impacts associated with the natural disasters. Utilizing an evolutionary game theory approach, the equilibrium is investigated between three different players including: resident families purchasing insurance plans; insurance companies offering different insurance plans; and the government agency that implements post disaster relief financial plans. The authors determined a set of decision actions as well as utility functions for the aforementioned stakeholders. Moreover, the authors created a hypothetical sample of 1,000 heterogeneous income level resident families, three insurance companies offering three unique and different insurance plans per company and two post disaster financial relief plans to be utilized by the government agency. The proposed model was implemented on NetBeans IDE 7.4 platform using JAVA programming language on the hypothetical case study simulating resident family evolutionary learning process in reaching an equilibrium. The results indicate that: (1) resident families tend to prefer insurance plans with the least premium value and coverage; (2) insurance plans with the most comprehensive coverage received the least demand; and (3) the evolutionary stable strategy path oscillates between chosen plans and insurers over time as a result of the stochastic and dynamics nature of the factors associated with disaster management. Currently, the authors are working to develop the model further to better account for simultaneous actions by all stakeholders (not only resident families), population growth and changes in financial and income standards. Ultimately, this evolutionary game theory model will be tested on real post natural disasters data representing physical damages in coastal Mississippi Counties post Katrina, so as to determine the significant increase in the host community welfare.
Homomorphism Tensors and Linear Equations
Creators: name: Grohe, Martin
name: Rattan, Gaurav
name: Seppelt, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.1; G.2.2
subject: 05C60, 05C76, 05C05, 05C38, 05C50, 05E10, 20M32

description: Lovász (1967) showed that two graphs $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic if and only if they are homomorphism indistinguishable over the class of all graphs, i.e. for every graph $F$, the number of homomorphisms from $F$ to $G$ equals the number of homomorphisms from $F$ to $H$. Recently, homomorphism indistinguishability over restricted classes of graphs such as bounded treewidth, bounded treedepth and planar graphs, has emerged as a surprisingly powerful framework for capturing diverse equivalence relations on graphs arising from logical equivalence and algebraic equation systems.
 In this paper, we provide a unified algebraic framework for such results by examining the linear-algebraic and representation-theoretic structure of tensors counting homomorphisms from labelled graphs. The existence of certain linear transformations between such homomorphism tensor subspaces can be interpreted both as homomorphism indistinguishability over a graph class and as feasibility of an equational system. Following this framework, we obtain characterisations of homomorphism indistinguishability over several natural graph classes, namely trees of bounded degree and graphs of bounded pathwidth, answering a question of Dell et al. (2018), and graphs of bounded treedepth.
CURLoRA: Leveraging CUR Matrix Decomposition for Stable LLM Continual Fine-Tuning and Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation
Creators: name: Fawi, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial intelligence
subject: Large Language Models
subject: Low-Rank Approximation
subject: Catastrophic Forgetting
subject: CUR Matrix Decomposition

description: This paper introduces CURLoRA, a novel approach to fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) that leverages CUR matrix decomposition in the context of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Our method addresses two critical challenges in LLM fine-tuning: mitigating catastrophic forgetting during continual learning and reducing the number of trainable parameters. We propose a unique modification to the CUR decomposition process, utilizing inverted probabilities for column and row selection, which acts as an implicit regularization. Through experiments on multiple datasets, we demonstrate that CURLoRA outperforms standard LoRA in maintaining model stability and performance across tasks while significantly reducing the number of trainable parameters. Our results show that CURLoRA achieves superior accuracy and perplexity scores compared to LoRA, particularly in scenarios with limited fine-tuning data.
CURLoRA: Leveraging CUR Matrix Decomposition for Stable LLM Continual Fine-Tuning and Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation
Creators: name: Fawi, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial intelligence
subject: Large Language Models
subject: Low-Rank Approximation
subject: Catastrophic Forgetting
subject: CUR Matrix Decomposition

description: This paper introduces CURLoRA, a novel approach to fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) that leverages CUR matrix decomposition in the context of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Our method addresses two critical challenges in LLM fine-tuning: mitigating catastrophic forgetting during continual learning and reducing the number of trainable parameters. We propose a unique modification to the CUR decomposition process, utilizing inverted probabilities for column and row selection which acts as an implicit regularization, and initializing the U matrix as a zero matrix, and only fine-tuning it. Through experiments on multiple datasets, we demonstrate that CURLoRA outperforms standard LoRA in mitigating catastrophic forgetting maintaining model stability and performance across tasks while significantly reducing the number of trainable parameters. Our results show that CURLoRA achieves superior accuracy and perplexity scores compared to LoRA, particularly in scenarios with limited fine-tuning data.
Presentation material from the Policy Brief writing workshop in Lao PDR (OCT2024)
Creators: name: Sridharan, Vignesh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This Zenodo repository contains the presentation material that has been developed to support the policy brief writing workshop held in Lao PDR in October 2024. The policy briefs developed in this worklshop will be added at a later stage after peer review.
Structuring the adoption and implementation of BIM and integrated approaches to project delivery across the Canadian AECO industry : key drivers from abroad
Creators: name: Tahrani, Souha
name: Poirier, Erik A.
name: Aksenova, Gulnaz
name: Forgues, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The architecture, engineering, construction and owners (AECO) industry plays a vital role in a country’s economy, and has a great impact on its society and on the local and global environment. Focussing on the performance and the impact of their respective AECO industries, government bodies around the world are increasingly pushing to transform current practices to maximise the value generated by this industry. Recent innovative approaches, notably building information modeling (BIM), integrated approaches (either integrated project delivery (IPD) or integrated design processes (IDP)) and Lean construction, show promise in providing many improvements. However, many challenges and obstacles are hindering the deployment of these approaches; a lack of strong client demand chiefly among them. In response to this, many countries have developed strategies to encourage and accelerate the pace of adoption of these innovative approaches. This often is prompted by requirements for suppliers to implement one or more of these innovations on all their publicly procured projects. The various levels of governments in Canada however have yet to follow suit in this regard. As a consequence, the Canadian AECO industry is seen to be lagging in its adoption of BIM and integrated approaches to project delivery. While certain projects have emerged as beacons of enlightened practice in the Canadian context, it remains that the vast majority of projects are still being delivered in a traditional fashion, with the well-known limitations this entails. This paper investigates the contextual challenges in adoption and implementation of BIM and integrated approaches in the Canadian AECO industry. The objective is to identify challenges and opportunities to create favourable context that ensures that the Canadian AECO industry remain competitive in the face of increasing global competition by leveraging the potential significant benefits of these innovative approaches. This paper is based on a review of the literature of various initiatives around the world. The paper lays out six key factors, which are seen as drivers for the adoption and implementation of BIM and integrated approaches in other countries, and discusses their implication in the Canadian context. Notably, the need for a national policy that structures the adoption and implementation BIM and integrated approaches; the need for leadership from the public sector; the importance of constituent organizations acting as a voice for industry; and the need for investments in research and development.
A framework of organization performance assessment in the construction industry using fuzzy approach
Creators: name: Rathore, Zenith
name: Elwakil, Emad
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Organizations have been trying to increase their efficiency and improve their performance in order to achieve their goals. The organizational success is determined by various factors that impact organization's performance. The ability to predict construction organization performance will enable practitioners to identify the weak points and in searching solutions to improve, thus leading to better efficiency and increase profit. Previous research works have focused on measuring project success and in the process the importance and evaluation of organization's performance in non-financial aspects has received little attention. Uncertainty and uniqueness of projects are inherent characteristics of this industry. Hence, developing an effective construction performance assessment model has been very difficult. Therefore, the objective of the present research is to identify and study the success factors and to propose a performance prediction model(s) for construction organizations. The potential success factors are collected from literature and shortlisted based on construction expert’s opinion. A questionnaire is prepared and sent to evaluate the effect of these potential success factors on organizational performance. The collected data will be analyzed using Fuzzy modelling approach to build a prediction model, which will show robust results when verified and tested. The proposed research/model will benefit both researcher and practitioners to predict accurate company performance.
QISHLOQ XO'JALIK SOHASIDAGI TASHQI ALOQALAR VA UNING TARIXIY TAJRIBASI (ANDIJON VILOYATI MISOLIDA)
Creators: name: Sodiqova, Muhabbat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada qishloq xo‘jaligi sohasidagi tashqi aloqalar, ularning shakllanishi va rivojlanish yo‘nalishlari tahlil qilinadi. Ilk tarixiy davrlardan boshlab, bu soha dunyo mamlakatlari o‘rtasida resurlar, texnologiyalar, o‘simlik va hayvonot navlarini almashinuvini ta’minlashda muhim o‘rin tutgan. Maqolada turli mamlakatlar bilan amalga oshirilgan eksport-import munosabatlari, ilmiy-tadqiqot hamkorliklari hamda zamonaviy davrda xalqaro tashkilotlarning roli ko‘rib chiqiladi. Shu bilan birga, tashqi aloqalarda yuz berayotgan muammolar va ularni bartaraf etish yo‘llari haqida fikr yuritiladi.
RES4CITY Case Study: Urban smart manufacturing with carbon sequestration (Short version)
Creators: name: University of Coimbra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: university-industry partnerships
renewable energy
energy efficiency
coimbra
case study
decarbonisation
competitiveness

description: This case study underscores the promise of partnerships between universities and industries to propel the shift towards cleaner energy, reduced carbon emissions, and intelligent manufacturing. These collaborative efforts extend beyond just financial feasibility, bringing a range of advantages such as enhanced energy reliability, competitiveness, and diminished emissions.
Occupational career attainment during modernization. A study of Dutch men in 841 municipalities between 1865 and 1928
Creators: name: Schulz, Wiebke
name: Maas, Ineke
name: Van Leeuwen, Marco
Publisher: name: Sage
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Careers
subject: Modernization
subject: Status attainment
subject: Industrialism
subject: 300

description: This paper addresses the effects of modernization processes on occupational career attainment. We ask whether modernization processes increased the success of occupational careers, and whether the effect of social background varies by regional level of modernization. We analyse a unique data set with information about the careers of around 7000 men who were active in the labour market in the Netherlands between 1865 and 1928. Modernization processes are measured at the municipality level (e.g. presence of post office and train station, educational expansion). The results of cross-classified multilevel growth models show that in municipalities with more advanced modernization, men enjoy higher social status at the beginning of their career, but that their status grows more slowly over the course of their career. The effect of social background hardly varies in response to modernization processes. Our results indicate that regional modernization processes have had restricted impact on individual mobility outcomes.
El naipe de Cáceres y Orteguilla ¿Un tarot novohispano? Estudio sobre el juego de cartas en la Nueva España, 1577-1591
Creators: name: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
name: Luis Angel, Hernández Cuevas
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tarot
Alonso Martínez de Orteguilla
Novohispano

description: La presente investigación toma como objeto de estudio a la Prueba de Impresión de Naipes Cáceres-Orteguilla (PIN-CO), actualmente resguardada en el Archivo General de Indias en Sevilla, España. Esta prueba de impresión ha sido comentada por múltiples archivistas e historiadores desde finales del siglo XIX, sin haberse presentado estudios críticos al respecto de su naturaleza y dimensión cultural. Tomando como eje la historiografía sobre el mazo de tarot, al ser este el concepto contemporáneo con el que ha sido definida esta prueba se realiza una investigación que hace una revisión por el contexto lúdico, social, cultural y artístico del objeto; revalorizando su significado cultural a finales del siglo XVI en la Nueva España
Occupational Career Attainment of Single Women During Modernization: The Logic of Industrialism Thesis Revisited
Creators: name: Schulz, Wiebke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Career mobility
subject: Modernization
subject: Status attainment
subject: Single women
subject: Growth-curve analysis
subject: 300

description: Modernization processes are said to have caused major changes in individual social mobility outcomes. Whether the predictions of the logic of industrialism thesis hold for the careers of women is unclear however. This study provides the first systematic account of how regional modernization processes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced the careers of the female working population. Unlike research focusing on specific occupational groups and localities, this study models and makes predictions relating to the careers of a random sample of the single female labour force nationwide. We use an excellent source for studying women’s careers in different regions and over time. The Historical Sample of The Netherlands provides information about the occupational careers of 1148 single women active on the labour market between 1865 and 1928. To include regional modernization processes, we have collected a set of theoretical indicators, such as communication, transport, and social values, which are measured at the level of municipalities and which may vary yearly. Over historical time, as well as over the course of their careers, the status of women increased. Apart from the emergence of bureaucratic organizations and the expansion of the teaching sector, contextual modernization processes had hardly any influence on women’s status. We conclude that the logic of industrialism thesis only partly captures the effect of societal changes on the career success of women. Further research might focus on the role of the emergence of bureaucratic organizations and restrictive practices for the career success of women during modernization.
Discovering dynamic laws from observations: the case of self-propelled, interacting colloids
Creators: name: Ruiz-Garcia, Miguel
name: G., C. Miguel Barriuso
name: Alexander, Lachlan C.
name: Aarts, Dirk G. A. L.
name: Ghiringhelli, Luca
name: Valeriani, Chantal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active matter spans a wide range of time and length scales, from groups of cells and synthetic self-propelled particles to schools of fish, flocks of birds, or even human crowds. The theoretical framework describing these systems has shown tremendous success at finding universal phenomenology. However, further progress is often burdened by the difficulty of determining the forces that control the dynamics of the individual elements within each system. Accessing this local information is key to understanding the physics dominating the system and to create the models that can explain the observed collective phenomena. In this work, we present a machine-learning model, a graph neural network, that uses the collective movement of the system to learn the active and two-body forces controlling the individual dynamics of the particles. We verify our approach using numerical simulations of active brownian particles, considering different interaction potentials and levels of activity. Finally, we apply our model to experiments of electrophoretic Janus particles, extracting the active and two-body forces that control the dynamics of the colloids. Due to this, we can uncover the physics dominating the behavior of the system. We extract an active force that depends on the electric field and also area fraction. We also discover a dependence of the two-body interaction with the electric field that leads us to propose that the dominant force between these colloids is a screened electrostatic interaction with a constant length scale. We expect that this methodology can open a new avenue for the study and modeling of experimental systems of active particles.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Construction productivity model using fuzzy approach
Creators: name: Elwakil, Emad
name: Zayed, Tarek
name: Attia, Tarek
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Productivity is one of the most important elements to manage construction projects especially with regards to the prediction of the activities’ durations. Uncertainty is an entrenched characteristic of most construction projects. Most research works in simulating construction productivity have focused predominantly on modeling and have neglected to study the effect of subjective variables on productivity of construction process. The unique nature of construction projects and uncertainty of the construction processes lead to a need of new generation of models that utilizes the historical data. The presented research develops, using Fuzzy approach, a model to utilize, analyze, extract and find the hidden patterns of the project data sets to predict the construction process productivity. The engine depends on finding the relation between quantitative and qualitative variables, which affect the construction processes, and productivity. The methodology of this research consists of six steps: (1) Investigate the factors affecting the productivity (2) select the critical factors that affect the productivity; (3) build Fuzzy sets; (4) generate Fuzzy rules and models; (5) build Fuzzy knowledge base; and (6) validate the effectiveness of the built model to predict the construction process productivity. The developed model is validated and verified using case study with sound and satisfactory results, 90.65 % average validity percent. The developed research/engine benefits both researchers and practitioners because it provides robust model for construction processes and a tool to predict the productivity of construction processes.
title: Portainjertos de Prunus :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Prunus Rootstocks
Group identity.
New Varieties of Plants

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Supplementary document for Synergistically Designed Antireflective Cover for Improving Wide-Angle Photovoltaic Efficiencies - 6113028.pdf
Creators: name: Kim, Jae-Hyun
name: Cho, Jin-Woo
name: Jeon, Injun
name: Jeong, Kyung Taek
name: Kang, Hyuk-Jun
name: Choi, Dae-Geun
name: Kim, Jae
name: Kim, Sun-Kyung
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary document for Synergistically Designed Antireflective Cover for Improving Wide-Angle Photovoltaic Efficiencies
Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Yang, Jinyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70201 Animal Breeding
subject: FOS: Animal and dairy science

description: Supplementary Figure 1 | Genes that presented three types of AS events (CCDC51, PIK3CG, MCEMP1, STRADA, and ATP2A3). Supplementary Figure 2 | SNP annotation results from ensemble VEP. Supplementary Table 1 | Information of healthy cows and subclinical mastitis cows. Supplementary Table 2 | The list of DEGs and DELs. Supplementary Table 3 | Pathway of DEGs and DELs. Supplementary Table 4 | Target genes of lncRNAs. Supplementary Table 5 | Co-expression network of LncRNAs, target genes, and key pathways. Supplementary Table 6 | The list of DELs adjacent to SCC, SCS, and white blood cell count QTLs. Supplementary Table 7 | all AS events. Supplementary Table 8 | The list of 1,621个DSGs. Supplementary Table 9 | DSGs involved pathways. Supplementary Table 10 | AS SNPs from VEP annotator.
Cloud based BIM solution for tender estimation regarding mechanical electrical and plumbing (MEP) trades
Creators: name: Rajabi, Milad
name: Bigga, Thomas
name: Bartl, Mathias A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Currently, Microsoft Excel is used in many leading construction companies to prepare tenders regarding Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) trades. Normally, 2D drawings with reference to MEP parts are read and the quantities of such articles are taken off manually. The reached quantities are imported into Excel sheets and following, the unit cost per each article is imported as well. Subsequently, the tender regarding MEP equipment is prepared. Obviously, this method is not accurate and transparent. Moreover, when a drawing is updated, the complete process should be repeated. Furthermore, there is a countless number of articles in MEP industry and without an integrated platform, it’s not possible to manage them. Storing such amount of information (local storage) will lead to many operational problems for the used software solutions. So it’s desirable to use cloud based BIM firstly to improve the transparency and accuracy within tender estimation phase and secondly to increase the operation speed of the related software solutions. For this study, a pilot project in cooperation with Max Boegl group, RIB and StabiPlan was implemented. StabiPlan provides a platform to create a 3D model with the exact properties information for most MEP articles. Then the created 3D-model is imported into RIB iTWO to prepare the tender. Moreover, a server is established to store properties information regarding each article. Following iTWO MM (material management) and iTWO TX (tender exchange) modules are going to come into account. They will create an e-platform to transfer sub-tenders between main contractor, subcontractors and wholesalers.
Conference paper: "Large Language Models in Power Engineering Education: A Case Study on Solving Optimal Dispatch Coursework Problems"
Creators: name: Hickey, Alan
name: Ó Faoláin, Cathal
name: Cuffe, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: This is the author's copy of this paper which was presented at:

IEEE International Conference on IT in Higher Education and Training in Paris, France November 2024.
Note Illustrative della Carta geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000, F. 058 Monte Adamello, Servizio Geologico d'Italia - ISPRA
Creators: name: Brack, P.
name: Baroni, C.
name: Carton, A.
name: Nardin, M.
name: Pellegrini, G.B.
name: Pennacchioni, G.
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2008

description: Note illustrative redatte per il Foglio geologico n. 058 Monte Adamello della Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000. 144 pp.
An approach to automatic batch production systems: via a general problem-solving system
Creators: name: Hayhurst, George
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 91399 Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: This work is concerned with an analysis of those problems encountered within the production sphere which fall into the class of scheduling problems. These form a subset of the wider class of decision making and optimisation problems. The thesis is aimed at developing a quantifiable and mathematically manipulable system for the solution of scheduling problems. In particular, static scheduling problems are examined in detail. The method which is developed is illustrated by means of computer programs, written in a high-level language (Fortran IV) to show its applicability to automatic operation.
Application of prospect theory to management decisions under risk on construction projects
Creators: name: Fiolet, Jean-Charles
name: Haas, Carl T.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Working on a construction project requires making important decisions quickly and frequently. Most of these decisions are made under risk in that the outcomes are not known, but their probabilities and impacts can be estimated, however imprecisely. Deciding to pave, given temperature predictions, is an example of such a decision. When the impacts are aggregated, they can represent a non-negligible amount compared to project budgets. Understanding project leaders’ behaviour when they make such decisions under risks may create opportunities to avoid future losses that result from suboptimal choices. As those decisions are numerous on a construction project, it might be difficult for the project leaders to always make the best choice. By using a questionnaire referring to potential construction project situations, this study shows how some behavioural tendencies can influence the choices of construction leaders. This paper mainly focuses on one aspect of the study, which is the impact of the certainty effect on projects leaders’ decision making. It demonstrates how project leaders are sensitive to the behavioural tendency associated with the certainty effect. This observation leads to the question of how to detect those problems and, how to correct them so as to avoid non-negligible loss of money for construction projects
Rational homology ribbon cobordism is a partial order
Creators: name: Friedl, Stefan
name: Misev, Filip
name: Zentner, Raphael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that ribbon rational homology cobordism is a partial order within the class of irreducible 3-manifolds. This makes essential use of the methods recently employed by Ian Agol to show that ribbon knot concordance is a partial order.
description: 10 pages. v2: Misleading typo corrected in the proof of Theorem 1.2
Semisimple random walks on the torus
Creators: name: He, Weikun
name: de Saxcé, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 37A17, 11B75, Secondary 37A45, 11L07, 20G30

description: We study linear random walks on the torus and show a quantitative equidistribution statement, under the assumption that the Zariski closure of the acting group is semisimple.
description: To appear in ETDS
CHARACTERIZING MESOSCALE FEATURES IN PBX 9501 WITH WITNESS PLATES
Creators: name: Koeblitz, Austin David
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340602
subject: Chemical thermodynamics and energetics

description: The effects of geometric features on detonation behavior have been well documented and demonstrated through examples spanning large-scale shaped charges to microscale “hot spots”. While extensive research has characterized interactions at either of these extremes – the macroscale (> 1 mm) and the microscale (< 0.1 μm) – the mesoscale (0.1 μm to 1 mm) remains less understood due to historical difficulties associated with producing and studying mesoscale features. Recent advancements in additive manufacturing have begun to change this by enabling the ability to precisely generate structures with such features, generating significant research interest. Experimental studies are hindered, however, by a dependence on diagnostic techniques that have high equipment costs, significant infrastructure requirements, and rely on sophisticated timing techniques, all of which inhibit progress. This work demonstrates the use of witness plates to characterize mesoscale features in a more cost and time-efficient way, speeding up experimentation while maintaining repeatability. The results reveal that mesoscale features cause unique damage that can be easily interpreted with tests conducted at optimal standoff distances. Non-optimal standoff distances can cause this damage to be obscured by the formation of a large underlying crater or significant surface texturing caused by the bulk explosive.
Pastclim examples (code and input data)
Creators: name: Leonardi, Michela
name: Hallett, Emily
name: Manica, Andrea
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Code and input data for the applied examples 1 and 2 of the preprint:
 M. Leonardi, E. Y. Hallett, R. Beyer, M. Krapp, A. Manica (2022) pastclim: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions, bioRxiv 2022.05.18.492456 https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.18.492456
 website of the package: https://evolecolgroup.github.io/pastclim/index.html
title: An Experimental Research into Inhabitable Theories
Creators: name: Westermann, Claudia
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Inhabitable
subject: Poiesis
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Poetics
subject: Transdisciplinary
subject: Practice based
subject: Inhabitable theories

description: The file(s) associated with this record are no longer available. [JC][04.02.2013]
description: Full version unavailable due to 3rd party copyright restrictions.
description: This thesis has been written in partial fulfilment of the requirements for obtaining the degree of a Doctor of Philosophy at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts (CAiiA), Planetary Collegium, School of Art and Media, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth, UK. The research was begun in the summer of 2003 as practice based research, and undertaken on a part-time basis. Its First Supervisor was Prof. Roy Ascott, and its Second Supervisor Prof. Mike Phillips. The thesis research is situated within the field of Architecture. Its principle objective is the articulation of arguments for a new theory of architecture as an architectural poetics, and related to this, a new form of discourse as poetry of an architectonic order. The research was initiated through a series of questions that architects confront when asked to create and to speak about what can be understood to be(come) frameworks for (unknown) life. It thus deals with the question of the unknown and, related to this, the question of open form. It develops on the idea that a concept of inhabitation may be feasible exclusively on the basis of a theory that extends the well known two-valued logic that has been dominant in the Western world since the times of classical metaphysics. Rooted in philosophy, the research extends contemporary architectural and critical theory, notions from poets such as Paul Celan, Marguérite Duras and Samuel Beckett, and research in second order cybernetics – the latter with an emphasis on Gotthard Günther’s writings on Non-Aristotelean logic. The text’s focus is on the notion of Architecture as a transcendental concept. It advances the understanding of Architectural Design as a performative process that creates borders rather than borderlines, limits rather than limitations and, is therefore, a discipline of radical communication that always seeks to extend itself towards an Other – the unknown – addressing it without previously quantifying it to render it provable. The research furthers the field of Architecture by contributing to it a new theory in the form of an architectural poetics. It addresses questions of design with a procedural framework in which critical engagement is an intrinsic principle, and offers an alternative to existing discourses through a poetry of architectonic order that is open to the future.
Limited Impact of Music Therapy on Patient Anxiety with the Large Loop Excision of Transformation Zone Procedure - a Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Chompunoot Kongsawatvorakul, Chuenkamon Charakorn
Publisher: name: APJCP
Year: 2016
Subjects: Thai female patients, colposcopy, LLETZ, anxiety, music therapy

description: 6, 17, Asian Pacific Journal  of Cancer Prevention