cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Sequential Two-Step Algorithm for Fast Generation of Vehicle Racing Trajectories
Creators: name: Kapania, Nitin R.
name: Subosits, John
name: Gerdes, J Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of maneuvering a vehicle through a race course in minimum time requires computation of both longitudinal (brake and throttle) and lateral (steering wheel) control inputs. Unfortunately, solving the resulting nonlinear optimal control problem is typically computationally expensive and infeasible for real-time trajectory planning. This paper presents an iterative algorithm that divides the path generation task into two sequential subproblems that are significantly easier to solve. Given an initial path through the race track, the algorithm runs a forward-backward integration scheme to determine the minimum-time longitudinal speed profile, subject to tire friction constraints. With this fixed speed profile, the algorithm updates the vehicle's path by solving a convex optimization problem that minimizes the resulting path curvature while staying within track boundaries and obeying affine, time-varying vehicle dynamics constraints. This two-step process is repeated iteratively until the predicted lap time no longer improves. While providing no guarantees of convergence or a globally optimal solution, the approach performs very well when validated on the Thunderhill Raceway course in Willows, CA. The predicted lap time converges after four to five iterations, with each iteration over the full 4.5 km race course requiring only thirty seconds of computation time on a laptop computer. The resulting trajectory is experimentally driven at the race circuit with an autonomous Audi TTS test vehicle, and the resulting lap time and racing line is comparable to both a nonlinear gradient descent solution and a trajectory recorded from a professional racecar driver. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method is a viable option for online trajectory planning in the near future.
title: Braunschweigische Heimat, 33. Jahrgang 1942
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Braunschweigischer Landesverein für Heimatschutz
Year: 1942
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Landeskunde
subject: 900

description: Braunschweigische Heimat, vol. 33. 1942
Neusticurus rudis Boulenger 1900
Creators: name: Barrio-Amorós, César L.
name: Brewer-Carías, Charles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gymnophthalmidae
Neusticurus
Neusticurus rudis

description: Neusticurus rudis Boulenger 1900
Lagartijo acuatico rudo
EBRG 4165 (adult male, field number L-1319) and 4168 (subadult male, field number L-1323).
 The presence of a third species of Neusticurus in Sarisariñama is not surprising, as some localities in the Guiana Shield harbor two or three sympatric taxa. At Sierra de Lema, in a locality like Paso el Danto, La Escalera region, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela, N. bicarinatus, N. racenisi and N. rudis occur sympatrically (Fig. 16). McDiarmid and Paolillo (1988) reported N. medemi and Neusticurus sp. from Neblina.
 The most widespread and common species, however, are N. racenisi and N. rudis, which are commonly seen sympatrically in many other sites, like Auyan-tepui (Avila-Pires 1995; Uzzell 1966) and Guaiquinima (Donnelly and Myers 1991). Neusticurus rudis is most likely a complex of two or more species (Donnelly and Myers 1991).
 Material examined. Neusticurus rudis.— VENEZUELA: Estado Bolivar, Paso el Danto, Sierra de Lema, CVULA 6510–11; Urutany tepui, MBUCV 669. Auyan-tepui, MBUCV 3066; Guaiquinima, MBUCV 7046 (formerly AMNH 136198), MBUCV (formerly AMNH 136204), MBUCV 7048 (formerly AMNH 136199), MBUCV 7049 (formerly AMNH 136208), and MBUCV 7050 (formerly AMNH 136207); Cerro Santa Rosa, Serranía del Supamo, FA 266–67 (slides in the collection of Fundación AndígenA, Mérida).
description: Published as part of Barrio-Amorós, César L. & Brewer-Carías, Charles, 2010, Venezuelan Guayana, with the description of five new species, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 1942 on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.195474
Classical orbit bifurcation and quantum interference in mesoscopic magnetoconductance
Creators: name: Blaschke, J.
name: Brack, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetoconductance of electrons through a mesoscopic channel with antidots. Through quantum interference effects, the conductance maxima as functions of the magnetic field strength and the antidot radius (regulated by the applied gate voltage) exhibit characteristic dislocations that have been observed experimentally. Using the semiclassical periodic orbit theory, we relate these dislocations directly to bifurcations of the leading classes of periodic orbits.
description: 4 pages, including 5 figures. Revised version with clarified discussion and minor editorial changes
On the multipole expansion of the gravitational field
Creators: name: Blanchet, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper constructs the multipole expansion (in general relativity) of the gravitational field generated by a slowly-moving isolated source. We introduce some definitions for the source multipole moments, valid to all orders in a post-Newtonian expansion, and depending in a well-defined way on the total stress-energy pseudo-tensor of the material and gravitational fields. Previously obtained expressions of the source multipole moments are recovered in the appropriate limits. The source moments parametrize the linearized approximation of the gravitational field exterior to the source, as computed by means of a specific post-Minkowskian algorithm defined in a previous work. Since the radiative multipole moments parametrizing the radiation field far from the source can be obtained as non-linear functionals of the source moments, the present paper permits relating the radiation field far from a slowly-moving source to the stress-energy pseudo-tensor of the source. This should be useful when comparing to theory the future observations of gravitational radiation by the LIGO and VIRGO experiments.
description: 45 pages, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav
title: Abschied von Annie Abegg-Stockar
title: A. Abegg-Stockar
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Abegg-Stockar
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: 27. August 1868 bis 9. Januar 1969 : Abdankung im Grossmünster von Pfarrer Rudolf Gradmann
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Abegg-Stockar, Annie

description: Umschlagtitel: A. Abegg-Stockar
description: Abdankung: 13. Januar 1969
title: Braunschweigische Heimat, 34. Jahrgang 1943
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Braunschweigischer Landesverein für Heimatschutz
Year: 1943
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Landeskunde
subject: 900

description: Braunschweigische Heimat, vol. 34. 1943
The action of long strings in supersymmetric field theories
Creators: name: Solberg, Tomer
name: Yutushui, Mykhailo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long strings emerge in many Quantum Field Theories, for example as vortices in Abelian Higgs theories, or flux tubes in Yang-Mills theories. The actions of such objects can be expanded in the number of derivatives, around a long straight string solution. This corresponds to the expansion of energy levels in powers of 1/L, with L the length of the string. Doing so reveals that the first few terms in the expansions are universal, and only from a certain term do they become dependent on the originating field theory. Such classifications have been made before for bosonic strings. In this work we expand upon that and classify also strings with fermionic degrees of freedom, where the string breaks D=4 N=1 SUSY completely. An example is the confining string in N=1 SYM theory. We find a general method for generating supersymmetric action terms from their bosonic counterparts, as well as new fermionic terms which do not exist in the non-supersymmetric case. These terms lead to energy corrections at a lower order in 1/L than in the bosonic case.
Additional file 6: of Evaluation of the impact of single-nucleotide polymorphisms on treatment response, survival and toxicity with cytarabine and anthracyclines in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Taynah Puty
name: Sarraf, Jonathan
name: Tabata Do Carmo Almeida
name: Filho, Valter
name: Carvalho, Luis
name: Fonseca, Fernando
name: Adami, Fernando
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Cochrane Clinical Trials database. (DOCX 17 kb)
Digital Switching in the Quantum Domain
Creators: name: Tsai, I. M.
name: Kuo, S. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present an architecture and implementation algorithm such that digital data can be switched in the quantum domain. First we define the connection digraph which can be used to describe the behavior of a switch at a given time, then we show how a connection digraph can be implemented using elementary quantum gates. The proposed mechanism supports unicasting as well as multicasting, and is strict-sense non-blocking. It can be applied to perform either circuit switching or packet switching. Compared with a traditional space or time domain switch, the proposed switching mechanism is more scalable. Assuming an n-by-n quantum switch, the space consumption grows linearly, i.e. O(n), while the time complexity is O(1) for unicasting, and O(log n) for multicasting. Based on these advantages, a high throughput switching device can be built simply by increasing the number of I/O ports.
description: 24 pages, 16 figures, LaTeX
title: Oesophagocutaneous fistula after removal of anterior cervical fusion hardware
Creators: name: Zaki-Metias, Kaitlin
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Head & neck imaging
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Head and neck
subject: Fistula
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 63-year-old male with a history of anterior cervical spinal fusion initially presented with dysphagia. Imaging revealed displacement of the anterior plate and a screw, prompting the decision to remove the hardware. A surgical drain was left in place postoperatively. Two days following surgery, milky discharge was noted in the drainage catheter after the patient had ingested milk.

description: 63 years, male
Averaging in Cosmology
Creators: name: Boersma, Jelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we discuss the effect of local inhomogeneities on the global expansion of nearly FLRW universes, in a perturbative setting. We derive a generic linearized averaging operation for metric perturbations from basic assumptions, and we explicify the issue of gauge invariance. We derive a gauge invariant expression for the back-reaction of density inhomogeneities on the global expansion of perturbed FLRW spacetimes, in terms of observable quantities, and we calculate the effect quantitatively. Since we do not adopt a comoving gauge, our result incorporates the back-reaction on the metric due to scalar velocity and vorticity perturbations. The results are compared with the results by other authors in this field.
description: 24 pages, Latex, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Small-scale turbulent dynamo
Creators: name: Chertkov, M.
name: Falkovich, G.
name: Kolokolov, I.
name: Vergassola, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kinematic dynamo theory is presented here for turbulent conductive fluids. We describe how inhomogeneous magnetic fluctuations are generated below the viscous scale of turbulence where the spatial smoothness of the velocity permits a systematic analysis of the Lagrangian path dynamics. We find analytically the moments and multi-point correlation functions of the magnetic field at small yet finite magnetic diffusivity. We show that the field is concentrated in long narrow strips and describe anomalous scalings and angular singularities of the multi-point correlation functions which are manifestations of field's intermittency. The growth rate of the magnetic field in a typical realization is found to be half the difference of two Lyapunov exponents of the same sign.
description: 4 pages, no figures
Unlocking the eight standards for mathematical practice for students with mathematical learning disabilities and cognitive deficits in executive functioning
Creators: Lechner, Heather K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Special education
Mathematics--Study and teaching (Elementary)
Learning disabled children--Education (Elementary)

description: The Common Core Standards for Math (CCSM) require a fundamental shift in what is expected of students with and without disabilities. Computation and finding correct answers are no longer sufficient. Students need to articulate the basis of their understanding and extend it. Teachers of students with a mathematical learning disability (MLD) are challenged in meeting the immediate academic needs of their students as well as the expectations outlined by the new standards. Students identified as having MLD with a deficit in executive functioning (EF) are expected to utilize the Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMP) to access the CCSM as their general education peers do. Yet, when the three main brain functions of EF (working memory, mental flexibility, and self-control) are considered, deficits in these areas hinder access to the SMP. A compromise in any one of these functions may inhibit the students’ ability to master the standards. This study examined which of the 11 identified EF skills are perceived deficiencies of students with MLD and deficits in EF, as well as what tools and resources are needed to support and develop EF skills in relation to the SMP. The focus was on the SMP and their use by K-5 teachers who serve students with MLD, coupled with cognitive deficits in EF. A manual was created specifically for this study, which found that the perceived deficit areas did not always align with the actual need areas by users of the manual. Respondents consistently identified resources aligned with EF skills associated with behavioral skills as most necessary, though survey results identified cognitive skills as most required to access the SMP. From a practical teaching perspective, these results are not surprising, as research has shown that a strong classroom culture (which directly correlates to internalization and use of behavioral executive functioning skills) is necessary for learning to take place, regardless of content. Participants indicated that the manual’s skills and strategies were beneficial for both the target population and general education students. Recommendations to expand the target audience of the manual and develop a training companion were crucial next steps.
Unpacking Assessment: Understanding Teacher Agency in the Creation and Use of Local Assessments
Creators: Wilson, Duncan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Education
Teachers--Training of
Educational tests and measurements
Educational tests and measurements--Evaluation
Teachers

description: Current research into data use suggests that the intersection of assessment, reform, and public accountability and their impact on teacher practice are under-conceptualized and not well researched, especially when the data are derived from assessments that are locally produced by teachers. This qualitative case study investigates the development and use of local assessments in public schools in order to better understand how the act of creating local assessments and using data derived from local assessments influences teacher practice within the current state accountability policy environment. The conceptual frame and methodology of the study draw from existing literature on data use, teacher agency, as well as sense making theory. In particular, data use literature and sense making theory view teacher practice and teacher agency as situated in social and institutional contexts. Data for this study are derived from a year-long study of small groups of teachers in one suburban New York district who are engaged in professional development to develop and use assessments to inform their practice. The teams were trained through the Performance Assessment Design Initiative (PADI) where they developed learning objectives, rubrics as well as pre- and post-assessments based on state and local standards. The data in the study include assessment materials, non-participant observations, and individual interviews of teachers and team facilitators.
Path Tracking of Highly Dynamic Autonomous Vehicle Trajectories via Iterative Learning Control
Creators: name: Kapania, Nitin R.
name: Gerdes, J. Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Iterative learning control has been successfully used for several decades to improve the performance of control systems that perform a single repeated task. Using information from prior control executions, learning controllers gradually determine open-loop control inputs whose reference tracking performance can exceed that of traditional feedback-feedforward control algorithms. This paper considers iterative learning control for a previously unexplored field: autonomous racing. Racecars are driven multiple laps around the same sequence of turns while operating near the physical limits of tire-road friction, where steering dynamics become highly nonlinear and transient, making accurate path tracking difficult. However, because the vehicle trajectory is identical for each lap in the case of single-car racing, the nonlinear vehicle dynamics and unmodelled road conditions are repeatable and can be accounted for using iterative learning control, provided the tire force limits have not been exceeded. This paper describes the design and application of proportional-derivative (PD) and quadratically optimal (Q-ILC) learning algorithms for multiple-lap path tracking of an autonomous race vehicle. Simulation results are used to tune controller gains and test convergence, and experimental results are presented on an Audi TTS race vehicle driving several laps around Thunderhill Raceway in Willows, CA at lateral accelerations of up to 8 $\mathrm{m/s^2}$. Both control algorithms are able to correct transient path tracking errors and improve the performance provided by a reference feedforward controller.
Additional file 1 of The impact of a nursing spiritual care module on nursing competence: an experimental design
Creators: name: Abusafia, Ali H.
name: Khraisat, Adam Mahmoud Salameh
name: Tableb, Ola K.
name: Al-Mugheed, Khalid
name: Alabdullah, Amany Anwar
name: Abdelaliem, Sally Mohammed Farghaly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Temporal variation of Earth-based gravitational constant measurements
Creators: name: Mbelek, Jean Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As one knows, strong discrepancies are found between the different precise measurements of the gravitational constant carried out in Earth-based laboratories. While the precision are increasing in different laboratories and with various methods, these measurements are even more and more discordant. We have shown since 2002 that an improved 5D Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory may provide a satisfactory explanation to these discrepancies by referring to the geomagnetic field as a possible cause. Here we take advantage of different precise measurements performed at the same location but at different epoch to address the temporal variation of the gravitational constant measurements.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, 9 tables
Wesbrook Place : University of British Columbia : a case study in sustainable neighbourhood design
Creators: name: Girling, Cynthia L., 1952-
name: Gocova, Anezka
name: Goldgrub, Vanessa
name: Sylvia, Nicole
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Wesbrook Place, a new development at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada is notable for bringing a residential neighborhood to a commuter campus and concurrently committing to developing a sustainable, community. This report looks at Wesbrook Place nine years after construction began and six years after the first residents moved in relative to its goals to establish a vibrant, compact, complete and walkable community which limits impacts on local streams and the adjacent forest. By August, 2014, the neighbourhood was 25% built. It performs very well relative to measures of population diversity, land use mix, density, walkability, access to parks and services and to good transit services. A buffer of forest was preserved around the perimeter of the neighbourhood, however few mature trees were saved on site. Several important indicators could not evaluated due to a lack of data, such as building energy performance, transportation mode share by residents, stormwater runoff quantity and quality, residents’ satisfaction with quality of life. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Gravitational-wave bursts from soft gamma-ray repeaters: Can they be detected?
Creators: name: Cuesta, H. J. Mosquera
name: de Araujo, J. C. N.
name: Aguiar, O. D.
name: Horvath, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we suggest a scenario for simultaneous emission of gravitational-wave and $γ$-ray bursts (GRBs) from soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs). we argue that both of the radiations can be generated by a super-Eddington accreting neutron stars in X-ray binaries. In this model a supercritical accretion transient takes back onto the remnant star the disk leftover by the hydrodynamic instability phase of a low magnetized, rapidly rotating neutron star in a X-ray binary system. We estimate the rise timescale $Δt_c = 0.21 ms$, minimum mass accretion rate needed to trigger the $γ$-ray emission, $\dot{M}_λ= 4.5 \times 10^{28} g$, and its effective associated temperature $T_{eff} = 740 keV$, and the timescale for repeating a burst of $γ$-rays $Δτ_R = 11.3 yr$. Altogether, we find the associated GW amplitude and frequency to be $h_c = 2.7 \times 10^{-23}/{(Hz)}^{1/2}$ and $f_{gw} = 966 Hz$, for a source distance $\sim 55 kpc$. Detectability of the pulses by t he forthcoming GW anntenas is discussed and found likely.
description: 5 pages, [prl]{revtex}, 1 PS figure included. To appear in Physical Review Letters
Unoriented skein relations for grid homology and tangle Floer homology
Creators: Wong, C.-M. Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Floer homology

description: Grid homology is a combinatorial version of knot Floer homology. In a previous thesis, the author established an unoriented skein exact triangle for grid homology, giving a combinatorial proof of Manolescu’s unoriented skein exact triangle for knot Floer homology, and extending Manolescu’s result from Z/2Z coefficients to coefficients in any commutative ring.
      In Part II of this dissertation, after recalling the combinatorial proof mentioned above, we track the delta-gradings of the maps involved in the skein exact triangle, and use them to establish the Floer-homological sigma-thinness of quasi-alternating links over any commutative ring.
      Tangle Floer homology is a combinatorial extension of knot Floer homology to tangles, introduced by Petkova–Vertesi; it assigns an A-infinity-(bi)module to each tangle, so that the knot Floer homology of a link L obtained by gluing together tangles T_1, ..., T_n can be recovered from a tensor product of the A-infinity-(bi)modules assigned to the tangles T_i. Currently, tangle Floer homology has only been defined over Z/2Z. Part III of this dissertation presents a joint result with Ina Petkova, establishing an analogous unoriented skein relation for tangle Floer homology over Z/2Z, and tracking the delta-gradings involved.
Unmediated Interaction: Communicating with Computers and Embedded Devices as If They Are Not There
Creators: Smith, Brian Anthony
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Computer science
Data mining
Human-computer interaction
User-centered system design
Embedded computer systems

description: Although computers are smaller and more readily accessible today than they have ever been, I believe that we have barely scratched the surface of what computers can become. When we use computing devices today, we end up spending a lot of our time navigating to particular functions or commands to use devices their way rather than executing those commands immediately. In this dissertation, I explore what I call unmediated interaction, the notion of people using computers as if the computers are not there and as if the people are using their own abilities or powers instead. I argue that facilitating unmediated interaction via personalization, new input modalities, and improved text entry can reduce both input overhead and output overhead, which are the burden of providing inputs to and receiving outputs from the intermediate device, respectively. I introduce three computational methods for reducing input overhead and one for reducing output overhead. First, I show how input data mining can eliminate the need for user inputs altogether. Specifically, I develop a method for mining controller inputs to gain deep insights about a players playing style, their preferences, and the nature of video games that they are playing, all of which can be used to personalize their experience without any explicit input on their part. Next, I introduce gaze locking, a method for sensing eye contact from an image that allows people to interact with computers, devices, and other objects just by looking at them. Third, I introduce computationally optimized keyboard designs for touchscreen manual input that allow people to type on smartphones faster and with far fewer errors than currently possible. Last, I introduce the racing auditory display (RAD), an audio system that makes it possible for people who are blind to play the same types of racing games that sighted players can play, and with a similar speed and sense of control as sighted players. The RAD shows how we can reduce output overhead to provide user interface parity between people with and without disabilities. Together, I hope that these systems open the door to even more efforts in unmediated interaction, with the goal of making computers less like devices that we use and more like abilities or powers that we have.
Probing the Accretion Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs in Millisecond Pulsars
Creators: name: Taani, Ali
name: Khasawneh, Awni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates the progenitors of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) with a distribution of long orbital periods (P_orb > 2 d), to show the link between white dwarf (WD) binaries and long orbits for some binary MSPs through the Accretion Induced Collapse (AIC) of a WD. For this purpose, a model is presented to turn binary MSPs into wide binaries and highly circular orbits (e < 0.1) through the asymmetric kick imparted to the pulsar during the AIC process, which may indicate a sizeable kick velocity along the rotation of the proto-neutron star. The results show the effects of shock wave, binding energy, and mass loss (0.2M_sun). The model shows the pulsar systems are relevant to AIC-candidates.
description: Published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Unpaid care work and women’s economic empowerment from a rights-based approach: A case study of the Dominican Republic
Creators: Dominguez Cisneros, Lucia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Human rights
Unpaid labor
Caregivers
Working mothers

description: This qualitative case study documents the hardships that women micro entrepreneurs face in the Dominican Republic regarding their double roles as primary providers for their households as well as primary caretakers in their families. By carrying out 14 interviews and a focus group to women participants of an economic empowerment program in the province of Valverde, the goal is to document the drivers behind women engaging in economic activity, and specifically micro entrepreneurship, and to understand the challenges that they face regarding unpaid care work as single heads of household. A rights-based approach is applied to the analysis of the data, laying out how women’s income-earning responsibilities, coupled with their role as unpaid care workers can hinder their human rights. The research shows that the women are responsible of earning an income for their families while often working more than one job, and that their children and other women in their community bear the burden of unpaid work when the participants are overwhelmed. Analyzed through a rights-based approach, the data illustrates how the second shift to which these women are subjected hinders their human rights to equality and non discrimination, health, decent work, education and social security. However, the women micro entrepreneurs are very active in their communities, which contradicts the idea that the women are relegated exclusively to the private sphere. The research has shown a need to elaborate policies that transform the gender roles that generate an expectation of women as sole care providers in the household, as well as to elaborate programming that actively works to dismantle this structure.
Bridging the gap between correlation entropy functionals in the mean spherical and the hypernetted chain approximations: a field theoretic description
Creators: name: Frusawa, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correlation entropy as a functional of radial distribution function $g(r)$ (or the total correlation function $h(r)=g(r)-1$) in classical fluids has been obtained from the second Legendre transform of the grand potential. We focus on the correlation entropy difference between the two typical functionals in the mean spherical approximation (MSA) and the hypernetted chain (HNC) approximation. While the entropy functional difference between these approximations is of a simple form, the diagrammatic approaches in the liquid state theory are quite different from each other. Here we clarified the gap between the MSA and HNC functionals by developing a field theoretic description of the correlation functional theory that combines the variational principle of lower bound free energy, the conventional saddle-point approximation of a reference system to be optimized based on the variational principle, and the hybrid treatment of the saddle-point approximation and the fugacity expansion for modifying the primary optimization. Our formulation demonstrates that the MSA functional is reproduced by the first maximization of the variational functional in the saddle-point approximation, and that the HNC functional is obtained from the improved maximization of the virial term due to the fugacity expansion around the MSA functional. The virial term leads to the modification of a reference system interacting via the direct correlation function, thereby creating the correlation entropy difference.
description: to be published in J. Phys. A
Additional file 4: of Evaluation of the impact of single-nucleotide polymorphisms on treatment response, survival and toxicity with cytarabine and anthracyclines in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Taynah Puty
name: Sarraf, Jonathan
name: Tabata Do Carmo Almeida
name: Filho, Valter
name: Carvalho, Luis
name: Fonseca, Fernando
name: Adami, Fernando
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Scopus database. (DOCX 16 kb)
Relation between classical communication capacity and entanglement capability for two-qubit unitary operations
Creators: name: Berry, Dominic W.
name: Sanders, Barry C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-qubit operations may be characterized by their capacities for communication, both with and without free entanglement, and their capacity for creating entanglement. We establish a set of inequalities that give an ordering to the capacities of two-qubit unitary operations. Specifically, we show that the capacities for entanglement creation and bidirectional communication without entanglement assistance are at least as great as half the bidirectional communication capacity with entanglement assistance. In addition, we show that the bidirectional communication that can be performed using an ensemble may be increased via a two-qubit unitary operation by twice the operation's capacity for entanglement.
description: 12 pages, published version plus minor corrections
EFFECTIVENESS OF PRANAYAMA ON BLOOD PRESSURE AMONG HYPERTENSIVE CLIENTS IN A SELECTED HOSPITAL AT CUTTACK
Creators: name: Chadayan, Chinna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111002 Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative)
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111003 Clinical Nursing: Secondary (Acute Care)
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified

description: EFFECTIVENESS OF PRANAYAMA ON BLOOD PRESSURE AMONG HYPERTENSIVE CLIENTS IN A SELECTED HOSPITAL AT CUTTACK
Modeling Food Stamp Participation In The Presence Of Reporting Errors
Creators: name: Bollinger, Christopher R.
name: David, Martin H.
name: Bollinger, Christopher R.
name: David, Martin H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Validation study of reported program participation by Marquis and Moore (1990) reveals a bias due to net under-reporting of Food Stamp Program participation of 13% (Wave 1-2 data from the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation). We extend that analysis conditioning on demographic and economic covariates. The resulting model of over- and under-reporting is included in MLE of the probability of Food Stamp Program participation (David and MacDonald 1992). Survey response and administrative data are aggregated to families in this analysis. Response error associated with screening questions is partitioned from response errors in questions contingent on the screener. Under-reporting is modeled by probit analysis on demographic and economic variables using conceptual insights from cognitive research and economic theory. Aggregation of reports to families eliminates apparent errors associated with discrepancies in identifying the individual certified to receive Food Stamps and multiple reporting of recipiency for a family group. The probability of under-reporting Food Stamp recipiency increases with family income normalized by family size. Other results are less stable across interviews, and have greater sampling errors. Women are better reporters than men, and married couples are more reliable than single householders.
Additional file 1 of Clinical application of a three-dimensional-printed model in the treatment of intracranial and extracranial communicating tumors: a pilot study
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiang-heng
name: Li, Jiahao
name: He, Zhenqiang
name: Wang, Dikan
name: Liao, Guiqing
name: Zhang, Si-en
name: Duan, Hao
name: Mou, Yonggao
name: Liang, Yujie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary figures and table.
Additional file 2: of Evaluation of the impact of single-nucleotide polymorphisms on treatment response, survival and toxicity with cytarabine and anthracyclines in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Taynah Puty
name: Sarraf, Jonathan
name: Tabata Do Carmo Almeida
name: Filho, Valter
name: Carvalho, Luis
name: Fonseca, Fernando
name: Adami, Fernando
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Genes and drugs. (DOCX 25 kb)
Additional file 3: of Evaluation of the impact of single-nucleotide polymorphisms on treatment response, survival and toxicity with cytarabine and anthracyclines in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Taynah Puty
name: Sarraf, Jonathan
name: Tabata Do Carmo Almeida
name: Filho, Valter
name: Carvalho, Luis
name: Fonseca, Fernando
name: Adami, Fernando
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: MEDLINE database. (DOCX 19 kb)
Proton-Irradiation-Immune Electronics Implemented with Two-Dimensional Charge-Density-Wave Devices
Creators: name: Geremew, A.
name: Kargar, F.
name: Zhang, E. X.
name: Zhao, S. E.
name: Aytan, E.
name: Bloodgood, M. A.
name: Salguero, T. T.
name: Rumyantsev, S.
name: Fedoseyev, A.
name: Fleetwood, D. M.
name: Balandin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Proton radiation damage is an important failure mechanism for electronic devices in near-Earth orbits, deep space and high energy physics facilities. Protons can cause ionizing damage and atomic displacements, resulting in device degradation and malfunction. Shielding of electronics increases the weight and cost of the systems but does not eliminate destructive single events produced by energetic protons. Modern electronics based on semiconductors - even those specially designed for radiation hardness - remain highly susceptible to proton damage. Here we demonstrate that room temperature (RT) charge-density-wave (CDW) devices with quasi-two-dimensional (2D) 1T-TaS2 channels show remarkable immunity to bombardment with 1.8 MeV protons to a fluence of at least 10^14 H+cm^2. Current-voltage I-V characteristics of these 2D CDW devices do not change as a result of proton irradiation, in striking contrast to most conventional semiconductor devices or other 2D devices. Only negligible changes are found in the low-frequency noise spectra. The radiation immunity of these "all-metallic" CDW devices can be attributed to their two-terminal design, quasi-2D nature of the active channel, and high concentration of charge carriers in the utilized CDW phases. Such devices, capable of operating over a wide temperature range, can constitute a crucial segment of future electronics for space, particle accelerator and other radiation environments.
description: 18 pages, 2 display items
Engagement in greenhouse gas emission reduction : survey of best practices programs in engaging students, faculty and staff in behaviour change strategies
Creators: name: Nematifar, Mania
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: This report seeks to identify best practices in engaging faculty and staff in GHG emission reduction. As most of the energy used on campus is used to heat and cool buildings, this report explores programs that can facilitate further engagement of staff, faculty members, researchers and students in green initiatives aimed at behaviour change. To explore this question, the top 20 universities that have decreased their emissions, based on the Princeton Review’s Guide to 352 Green Colleges (The Princeton Review, 2015), featured case studies at ASHEE resource website (Campus Sustainability Case Studies), and best practices featured in Climate Action Planning (Us Environmental Protection Agency, 2010) report were surveyed. Through the survey it was found that most universities and campuses that have reduced their GHG emissions have student peer mentoring programs, structured green certification programs and various opportunities for staff and students to design and participate in peer mentoring projects. To analyze which of these programs suits UBC and what can be learned from them, a matrix was developed to analyze the programs offered at each university. Overall it was found that having a strong communication strategy and peer-mentoring programs influence the degree by which students are able to change their behaviour. The three sections below illustrate the programs that either build on what UBC has been doing or have specific features that suit UBC. The first section focuses on programs for students living in residences, while the second focuses on programs for faculty, staff and researchers and the third section focus on specific behaviour of saving hot water. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Analytical solution and entanglement swapping of a double Jaynes-Cummings model in non-Markovian environments
Creators: name: Zou, Hong-Mei
name: Fang, Mao-Fa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analytical solution and entanglement swapping of a double Jaynes-Cummings model in non-Markovian environments are investigated by the timeconvolutionless master equation method. We obtain the analytical solution of this model and discuss in detail the influence of atom-cavity coupling, non-Markovian effect and initial state purity on entanglement dynamics. The results show that, in the non-Markovian environments, the entanglement between two cavities can be swapped to other bipartite subsystems by interaction between an atom and its own cavity. Due to the dissipation of environment, the entanglements of all bipartite subsystems will eventually decay to zero when the atom couples weakly to its cavity and the non-Markovian effect is also weak. All bipartite subsystems can tend to steady entanglement states if and only if there is the strong atom-cavity coupling or the strong non-Markovian effect. The steady state of the subsystem composed of an atom and its own cavity is independent on the purity but the steady states of other bipartite subsystems are dependent on the purity.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures,
Campuloclinium macrocephalum DC.
Creators: name: Pereira Cabral, Márcia R.
name: Cecchetto, Mariana
name: Batista, João M.
name: Batista, Andrea N. L.
name: Foglio, Mary Ann
name: Tasca Gois Ruiz, Ana Lúcia
name: Barrotto do Carmo, Marta R.
name: Ferreira da Costa, Willian
name: Baldoqui, Débora C.
name: Sarragiotto, Maria H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Campuloclinium
Campuloclinium macrocephalum

description: The plant material (aerial parts) of
 Campuloclinium macrocephalum (Less.) DC., Asteraceae,
 was collected in Campos Gerais National Park (25 ◦ 08 ′ 46 ′′ S, 049 ◦ 057 ′ 025 ′′ W), Parana´State, Brazil on March 2012 and identified by Dr. Marta Regina Barrotto do Carmo (Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa). A voucher specimen (HUPG, 18905) has been deposited at the at the HUPG herbarium.
description: Published as part of Pereira Cabral, Márcia R., Cecchetto, Mariana, Batista, João M., Batista, Andrea N. L., Foglio, Mary Ann, Tasca Gois Ruiz, Ana Lúcia, Barrotto do Carmo, Marta R., Ferreira da Costa, Willian, Baldoqui, Débora C. & Sarragiotto, Maria H., 2020, Cytotoxic sesquiterpene lactones from Campuloclinium macrocephalum (= Eupatorium macrocephalum), pp. 112469 in Phytochemistry 179 on page 7, DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2020.112469, http://zenodo.org/record/6945039
Measuring Physical Activity of Older Adults via Smartwatch and Stigmergic Receptive Fields
Creators: name: Alfeo, A. L.
name: Cimino, M. G. C. A.
name: Vaglini, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Physical activity level (PAL) in older adults can enhance healthy aging, improve functional capacity, and prevent diseases. It is known that human annotations of PAL can be affected by subjectivity and inaccuracy. Recently developed smart devices can allow a non-invasive, analytic, and continuous gathering of physiological signals. We present an innovative computational system fed by signals of heartbeat rate, wrist motion and pedometer sensed by a smartwatch. More specifically, samples of each signal are aggregated by functional structures called trails. The trailing process is inspired by stigmergy, an insects' coordination mechanism, and is managed by computational units called stigmergic receptive fields (SRFs). SRFs, which compute the similarity between trails, are arranged in a stigmergic perceptron to detect a collection of micro-behaviours of the raw signal, called archetypes. A SRF is adaptive to subjects: its structural parameters are tuned by a differential evolution algorithm. SRFs are used in a multilayer architecture, providing further levels of processing to realize macro analyses in the application domain. As a result, the architecture provides a daily PAL, useful to detect behavioural shift indicating initial signs of disease or deviations in performance. As a proof of concept, the approach has been experimented on three subjects.
description: mail: luca.alfeo@ing.unipi.it