cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Forschungspaket SERFOR : Teilprojekt TP1 Forschung Humanfaktoren und Synthese
Paquet de recherche SERFOR : sous-projet TP1 La recherche sur les facteurs humains et synthèse
Research package SERFOR : sub-project TP1 research on human factors and synthesis
Creators: name: Schüller, Hagen
name: Hackenfort, Markus
name: Diener, Sarah
name: Cordin, Christian
name: Ghielmetti, Marco
Publisher: name: Bundesamt für Strassen ASTRA
Year: 2023
Subjects: Verkehrssicherheit
Verkehrspsychologie
Self-explaining roads
Forgiving roads
158: Angewandte Psychologie
380: Verkehr

description: Forschungsprojekt SVI 2016/006 auf Antrag der Schweizerischen Vereinigung der Verkehrsingenieure und Verkehrsexperten (SVI)
Titelangabe und Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch, Text auf Französisch
description: Das Forschungspaket SERFOR (Self Explaining (Roads) and FOrgiving Roads) behandelt das Thema der selbsterklärenden und fehlerverzeihenden Strasse. Mit dem Forschungspaket verfolgt das Bundesamt für Strassen das Ziel, konkrete und praxistaugliche Massnahmenansätze für selbsterklärenden und fehlerverzeihenden Strassengestaltung und -signalisierung bereitzustellen. Anhand von drei Teilprojekten (TP) sollen ausgehend von verkehrspsychologischen Erkenntnissen auch der Handlungsbedarf für Innerorts- und Ausserortsstrassen in der Schweiz aufgezeigt werden.
Im TP 1 (vorliegender Bericht) werden zuerst die inhaltlichen Grundlagen der Humanfaktoren aus Sicht der Psychologie beschrieben. Im Anschluss werden dann in zwei Teilprojekten (TP2: Innerortsstrassen und TP3: Ausserortsstrassen) die Humanfaktoren aus Sicht der Projektierung (konkrete Umsetzungen) sowie deren Verbreitung im Bestandsnetz untersucht. Abschluss bilden dann Empfehlungen zum ggf. notwendigen Anpassungsbedarf für die derzeitige Praxis der Strassenprojektierung. Im Rahmen einer Synthese (auch TP1) werden dann die Ergebnisse aus den beiden Teilprojekten zusammengeführt und Handlungsempfehlungen daraus abgeleitet.
PISA: Pixelwise Image Saliency by Aggregating Complementary Appearance Contrast Measures with Edge-Preserving Coherence
Creators: name: Wang, Keze
name: Lin, Liang
name: Lu, Jiangbo
name: Li, Chenglong
name: Shi, Keyang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68U10

description: Driven by recent vision and graphics applications such as image segmentation and object recognition, computing pixel-accurate saliency values to uniformly highlight foreground objects becomes increasingly important. In this paper, we propose a unified framework called PISA, which stands for Pixelwise Image Saliency Aggregating various bottom-up cues and priors. It generates spatially coherent yet detail-preserving, pixel-accurate and fine-grained saliency, and overcomes the limitations of previous methods which use homogeneous superpixel-based and color only treatment. PISA aggregates multiple saliency cues in a global context such as complementary color and structure contrast measures with their spatial priors in the image domain. The saliency confidence is further jointly modeled with a neighborhood consistence constraint into an energy minimization formulation, in which each pixel will be evaluated with multiple hypothetical saliency levels. Instead of using global discrete optimization methods, we employ the cost-volume filtering technique to solve our formulation, assigning the saliency levels smoothly while preserving the edge-aware structure details. In addition, a faster version of PISA is developed using a gradient-driven image sub-sampling strategy to greatly improve the runtime efficiency while keeping comparable detection accuracy. Extensive experiments on a number of public datasets suggest that PISA convincingly outperforms other state-of-the-art approaches. In addition, with this work we also create a new dataset containing $800$ commodity images for evaluating saliency detection. The dataset and source code of PISA can be downloaded at http://vision.sysu.edu.cn/project/PISA/
description: 14 pages, 14 figures, 1 table, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Alternative Methoden zur Messung lokaler Verkehrssicherheit
Méthodes alternatives pour mesurer la sécurité du trafic local
Alternative methods for measuring local traffic safety
Creators: name: Steiner, Rolf
name: Leitner, Jakob
name: Hackenfort, Markus
name: Benedek, Gisela
name: Doerfel, Marion
name: Lüthi, Beat
Publisher: name: Bundesamt für Strassen ASTRA
Year: 2023
Subjects: Verkehrssicherheit
Videoanalyse
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Sicherheitsmessung
006: Spezielle Computerverfahren
380: Verkehr

description: Forschungsprojekt SVI 2018/002 auf Antrag der Schweizerischen Vereinigung der Verkehrsingenieure und Verkehrsexperten (SVI)
Titelangabe und Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch, Text auf Deutsch
description: Bislang wird die lokale Verkehrssicherheit in der Schweiz im Wesentlichen anhand des tatsächlichen Unfallgeschehens beurteilt. Statistisch betrachtet kommen Unfallereignisse in Relation zum gesamten Verkehrsaufkommen nur selten vor und deshalb liegt dieser Methode eine gewisse Unschärfe zugrunde. Zusätzlich kann die Analyse erst im Nachhinein erfolgen und lässt nicht immer konkrete Rückschlüsse auf die Defizite der Infrastruktur zu.
Um dem Ziel einer objektiven Bewertung der Sicherheit von beispielsweise einer Strasse, Kreuzung oder Querungsstelle näher zu kommen, wurde im Rahmen dieses Forschungsprojektes nach Sicherheitsindikatoren und Methoden zu deren Messung recherchiert. Schliesslich wurde eine geeignete Methode definiert, welche anschliessend in Feldversuchen an insgesamt acht Untersuchungsorten mit unterschiedlichen Eigenschaften getestet wurde. Die Messergebnisse der angewendeten alternativen Methode (Videoanalyse) wurden einer objektiven Prüfung unterzogen und den Resultaten der Begleituntersuchungen sowie der Unfallanalysen gegenübergestellt. Das methodische Vorgehen ist in diesem Bericht ebenso dokumentiert wie die Möglichkeiten und Limitationen der Methode sowie die aus den Erkenntnissen der Feldversuche ableitbaren Empfehlungen hinsichtlich ihrer Anwendbarkeit.
title: The use of superior hypogastric nerve block (SHNB) for pain control during uterine artery embolisation (UAE)
Creators: name: Bonera, Giulia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To explain the requirement for adjunctive analgesia during uterine artery embolisation (UAE). To provide a systematic description of performing a superior hypogastric nerve block (SHNB) in women undergoing UAE for the treatment of symptomatic...
The Logarithms of John Napier and Henry Briggs: A Presentation at the 11th International Leibniz Conference in Hannover, Germany, July 31 - August 4, 2023
Creators: name: Raugh, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: John Napier, Henry Briggs, History of logarithms, Early analysis, Bernoulli numbers, 11th International Leibniz Conference in Hannover 2023

description: This record contains PDFs I used for my presentation at the 11th International Leibniz Conference in Hannover, Germany, July 31 - August 4, 2023. It also contains the (large) 210 MB mp4 movie file of the presentation. I interpret John Napier's definition of a logarithm to show in modern terms how closely his arithmetic methods foreshadowed elements of differential and integral calculus, and I include a related iteration used by Henry Briggs to compute his first base-10 logarithms; the algebraic structure of the iteration yields an algorithm for computing natural logarithms using Bernoulli numbers. This work is based on my more detailed study, which includes an extensive bibliography and acknowledgement of the sources I have used: "John Napier and Henry Briggs at the Threshold of Analysis", available as an open preprint at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6402702. The files in this record are: the slides for the presentation, a complementary text, the Short Description, with embedded software that can be copied and executed in Casio's online Keisan Calculator while reading the text, and the movie of the presentation — a 210 MB mp4 file. The essay contributed for the proceedings of the Leibniz Conference can be seen starting on page 153 at https://doi.org/10.15488/14330. Its title is John Napier, Henry Briggs, and Their Methods of Arithmetic and Concepts anticipating Modern Calculus.
Germline mutations in an intermediate chain dynein cause primary ciliary dyskinesia
Creators: name: Minnix, S.
name: Sannuti, A.
name: Carson, J.L.
name: Knowles, M.R.
name: Noone, P.G.
name: Leigh, M.W.
name: Zariwala, M.
name: Hazucha, M.
name: Zhou, Z.
Publisher: name: American Lung Association
Year: 2001

description: Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetically heterogeneous, autosomal recessive disorder caused by abnormal ciliary ultrastructure and function, characterized clinically by otosino-pulmonary disease. Mutations in an intermediate chain dynein (DNAI1: IC78) have recently been described in PCD patients, with outer dynein arm (ODA) defects. The aims of the current study were to test for novel DNAI1 mutations in 13 PCD patients with ODA defects (from 7 unrelated families) and to assess genotype/phenotype correlations in patients and family members. A previously reported mutation (219+3insT) was detected in three PCD patients from two families. The opposite allele had the novel missense mutation G1874C (W568S) in both affected individuals from one family, and a nonsense mutation G1875A (W568X) in an affected individual from another family. The tryptophan at position 568 is a highly conserved residue in the WD-repeat region, and a mutation is predicted to lead to abnormal folding of the protein and loss of function. None of these mutations were found in 32 other PCD patients with miscellaneous ciliary defects. Mutations in DNAI1 are causative for PCD with ODA defects, and are likely the genetic origin of clinical disease in some PCD patients with ultrastructural defects in the ODA.
title: Infective endocarditis: What can we see with cardiac computed tomography?
Creators: name: Petkovic, Ana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Infection
subject: Prostheses
subject: Aneurysms

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To depict which morphologic entities may be visualized in patients with infective endocarditis (IE) of native and prosthetic valves with cardiac computed tomography...
Hawking Radiation of Massive Vector Particles From Warped AdS$_3$ Black Hole
Creators: name: Gursel, H.
name: Sakalli, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hawking radiation (HR) of massive vector particles from a rotating Warped Anti-de Sitter black hole in 2+1 dimensions (WAdS$_{\text{3}}$BH) is studied in detail. The quantum tunneling approach with the Hamilton-Jacobi method (HJM) is applied in the Proca equation (PE), and we show that the radial function yields the tunneling rate of the outgoing particles. Comparing the result obtained with the Boltzmann factor, we satisfactorily reproduce the Hawking temperature (HT) of the WAdS$_{\text{3}}$BH.
description: 5 pages. Some typos are corrected. To be appeared in Can. J. Phys
Integrability and conformal data of the dimer model
Creators: name: Morin-Duchesne, Alexi
name: Rasmussen, Jorgen
name: Ruelle, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The central charge of the dimer model on the square lattice is still being debated in the literature. In this paper, we provide evidence supporting the consistency of a $c=-2$ description. Using Lieb's transfer matrix and its description in terms of the Temperley-Lieb algebra $TL_n$ at $β= 0$, we provide a new solution of the dimer model in terms of the model of critical dense polymers on a tilted lattice and offer an understanding of the lattice integrability of the dimer model. The dimer transfer matrix is analysed in the scaling limit and the result for $L_0-\frac c{24}$ is expressed in terms of fermions. Higher Virasoro modes are likewise constructed as limits of elements of $TL_n$ and are found to yield a $c=-2$ realisation of the Virasoro algebra, familiar from fermionic $bc$ ghost systems. In this realisation, the dimer Fock spaces are shown to decompose, as Virasoro modules, into direct sums of Feigin-Fuchs modules, themselves exhibiting reducible yet indecomposable structures. In the scaling limit, the eigenvalues of the lattice integrals of motion are found to agree exactly with those of the $c=-2$ conformal integrals of motion. Consistent with the expression for $L_0-\frac c{24}$ obtained from the transfer matrix, we also construct higher Virasoro modes with $c=1$ and find that the dimer Fock space is completely reducible under their action. However, the transfer matrix is found not to be a generating function for the $c=1$ integrals of motion. Although this indicates that Lieb's transfer matrix description is incompatible with the $c=1$ interpretation, it does not rule out the existence of an alternative, $c=1$ compatible, transfer matrix description of the dimer model.
description: 54 pages. v2: minor corrections
Role of vermicomposting for smallholder farmers in wondo-genet woreda, Sidama region, Ethiopia: a success story
Creators: name: Mulugeta Fola
name: Genet Getachew
name: Mulugeta Fola
name: Genet Getachew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Crops
subject: Earthworms
subject: Success-story
subject: Vermicomposting

description: Both organic and chemical fertilizers play a vital role in enhancing crop productivity and maintaining soil health. However, inflated prices of chemical fertilizers also reduced their rate of application, hence, reducing crop productivity in Ethiopia. Therefore, to sustain the productivity of lands and crops, there is an urgent need to promote the use of organic fertilizers. Vermicomposting is one method of preparing enriched compost with the use of earthworms. With the support of the second phase of the Agricultural Growth Program (AGP-II), the introduction and promotion of vermicomposting technology were conducted. However, the production status and role of vermicomposting for smallholder farmers in the area are unclear. Therefore documenting the achievement and progress of vermicomposting is necessary. Both primary and secondary data (2018-2021) were collected by using snowball sampling techniques. The descriptive statistics reveal that in addition to potato production, farmers are using vermicompost for chat, enset, coffee, forage and vegetable production. Accordingly, the production, utilization, and sale trend of vermicompost increased from 2018 to 2021. In addition, vermicomposting created an opportunity for farmers to participate in earthworms and vermicompost selling. Due to this, those who had vermicompost in their home garden do not use inorganic fertilizers for any crop production during the last four years. In addition, the average cultivated cropland coverage by vermicompost-based production also increased from 2018 to 2021. Its preparation procedure is also consistent with the manual provided to them. Therefore expanding vermicomposting technology in the area has the potential to enhance sustainable crop and land productivity.
Isolation and characterization of p19INK4d, a p16-related inhibitor specific to CDK6 and CDK4
Creators: name: O'Keefe, C.L.
name: Guan, K.-L.
name: Noh, S.
name: Matera, A.G.
name: Wu, X.
name: Li, Y.
name: Jenkins, C.W.
name: Xiong, Y.
name: Zariwala, M.
Publisher: name: American Society for Cell Biology
Year: 1996

description: Cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 are complexed with many small cellular proteins in vivo. We have isolated cDNA sequences, INK4d, encoding a 19-kDa protein that is associated with CDK6 in several hematopoietic cell lines. p19 shares equal similarity and a common ancestor with other identified inhibitors of the p16/INK4 family. p19 interacts with and inhibits the activity of both CDK4 and CDK6 and exhibits no detectable interaction with the other known CDKs. p19 protein is present in both cell nuclei and cytoplasm. The p19 gene has been mapped to chromosome 19p13.2, and the level of its mRNA expression varies widely between different tissues. In contrast to p21 and p27 whose interaction with CDK subunits is dependent on or stimulated by the cyclin subunit, the interaction of p19 and p18 with CDK6 is hindered by the cyclin protein. Binary cyclin D1-p18/p19 or cyclin D1-CDK6 complexes are highly stable and cannot be dissociated by excess amounts of cyclin D1 or p19/p18 proteins, suggesting that p16 inhibitors and D cyclins may interact with CDKs 4 and 6 in a competing or potentially mutually exclusive manner.
(101565) Frederick Phillips
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Outcome of Achilles tendinopathy ultrasound guided intervention in the Nuffield Orthopaedics center, Oxford.
Creators: name: Elzein Mohamed, Ahmed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Extremities
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Athletic injuries

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The Achilles tendon (tendo calcaneus) is the strongest and thickest tendon in the body and serves to attach the triceps surae (soleus and the two heads of gastrocnemius) to the calcaneus. The two muscles act as the two main flexors of the ankle. (1)...
De Novo Mutations in FOXJ1 Result in a Motile Ciliopathy with Hydrocephalus and Randomization of Left/Right Body Asymmetry
Creators: name: Frank, D.
name: Pennekamp, P.
name: Wöste, M.
name: Knowles, M.R.
name: Atkinson, J.
name: Dutcher, S.K.
name: Krenz, H.
name: Thiele, H.
name: Altmüller, J.
name: Zariwala, M.A.
name: Brentrup, A.
name: Cindric, S.
name: Ferkol, T.
name: Aprea, I.
name: Kaiser, T.
name: Davis, S.D.
name: Carr, S.B.
name: Ahrens, F.
name: Omran, H.
name: Vogelberg, C.
name: Morris-Rosendahl, D.J.
name: Nöthe-Menchen, T.
name: Shoemark, A.
name: Mitchison, H.M.
name: Olbrich, H.
name: Dougherty, G.W.
name: Leigh, M.W.
name: Wallmeier, J.
name: Loges, N.T.
name: Hogg, C.
Publisher: name: Cell Press
Year: 2019

description: Hydrocephalus is one of the most prevalent form of developmental central nervous system (CNS) malformations. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow depends on both heartbeat and body movement. Furthermore, it has been shown that CSF flow within and across brain ventricles depends on cilia motility of the ependymal cells lining the brain ventricles, which play a crucial role to maintain patency of the narrow sites of CSF passage during brain formation in mice. Using whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing, we identified an autosomal-dominant cause of a distinct motile ciliopathy related to defective ciliogenesis of the ependymal cilia in six individuals. Heterozygous de novo mutations in FOXJ1, which encodes a well-known member of the forkhead transcription factors important for ciliogenesis of motile cilia, cause a motile ciliopathy that is characterized by hydrocephalus internus, chronic destructive airway disease, and randomization of left/right body asymmetry. Mutant respiratory epithelial cells are unable to generate a fluid flow and exhibit a reduced number of cilia per cell, as documented by high-speed video microscopy (HVMA), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and immunofluorescence analysis (IF). TEM and IF demonstrate mislocalized basal bodies. In line with this finding, the focal adhesion protein PTK2 displays aberrant localization in the cytoplasm of the mutant respiratory epithelial cells.
Weighted pseudo-almost periodic functions on time scales with applications to cellular neural networks with discrete delays
Creators: name: Li, Yongkun
name: Zhao, Lili
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34K14, 34K20, 92B20, 34N 05

description: In this paper, we first propose a concept of weighted pseudo-almost periodic functions on time scales and study some basic properties of weighted pseudo-almost periodic functions on time scales. Then, we establish some results about the existence of weighted pseudo-almost periodic solutions to linear dynamic equations on time scales. Finally, as an application of our results, we study the existence and global exponential stability of weighted pseudo-almost periodic solutions for a class of cellular neural networks with discrete delays on time scales. The results of this paper are completely new.
description: 25 pages
(101567) John Phillips
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Mammography, US and MRI: review of normal anatomy and variants
Creators: name: Carmona, Maria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Normal variants
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To thoroughly describe the breast anatomy and its correlation in the different imaging...
Geometric control using the state-dependent Riccati equation: Application to aerial-acrobatic maneuvers
Creators: name: Nekoo, Saeed Rafee
name: Acosta, José Ángel
name: Ollero, Anibal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Acrobatic flip is one of the most challenging representatives of aggressive maneuvers to test the performance of an aerial system’s capability or a controller. A variable-pitch rotor quadcopter generates thrust in both vertical directions for the special design of the rotor’s actuation mechanism. Flip maneuver sets the rotation matrix of the copter in a singularity that makes the action impossible for common designs based on the hovering dynamics model. Sudden flip was a solution to pass the singularities though that imposes an agile maneuver and excessive energy consumption. This research proposes two possible solutions for the flip: a regulation solution based on the geometric control approach; and tracking a predefined optimal smooth trajectory covering a turnover. The first solution uses a geometric control approach that is immune to singular points since the rotation matrix is integrated into another manifold on SO(3). . The second solution proposes an optimal trajectory generation for flip maneuver using open-loop optimal control, two-point boundary value problem (TPBVP) approach. Since generated open-loop state information is not applicable without a controller, the state-dependent differential Riccati equation (SDDRE) is chosen for trajectory tracking. The backward integration method is employed to provide a solution to the SDDRE with a final boundary condition. The dynamics equation of the variable pitch rot was considered in the simulation to compute the angle of the blades and thrust coefficients. The flip maneuver has been successfully implemented and the optimal trajectory for the maneuver has been obtained and tracked by the nonlinear closed-loop optimal controller. For the regulation case, the geometric control resulted in a smoother flip rather than the abrupt turning of the conventional design.
ASSESSMENT IN LEARNING WITH A NEW PARADIGM
Creators: name: Setiawan, David Firna
name: Yunus, Mahmud
name: Wardhana, Buyung Kusuma
name: Wuryandini, Endang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: APPI PT PGRI
PGRI
ICDESS2022

description: This material was presented in ACT +1 activities and International Conference on Digital Education and Social Science as a presenter
Corporate debt, firm size and financial fragility in emerging markets
Creators: name: Asis, G.
name: Chari, A.
name: Panizza, U.
name: Alfaro, L.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2019

description: The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a surge in corporate leverage in emerging markets and a number of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman's Z-score). Firm size plays a critical role in the relationship between leverage, firm fragility and exchange rate movements in emerging markets. While the relationship between firm-leverage and distress scores varies over time, the relationship between firm size and corporate vulnerability is relatively time-invariant. All else equal, large firms in emerging markets are more financially vulnerable and also systemically important. Consistent with the granular origins of aggregate fluctuations in Gabaix (2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the negative impact of exchange rate shocks has a more acute impact on the sales growth of the more highly levered large firms.
The real effects of capital controls: Firm-level evidence from a policy experiment
Creators: name: Kanczuk, F.
name: Alfaro, L.
name: Chari, A.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2017

description: This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in cumulative abnormal returns consistent with an increase in the cost of capital for Brazilian firms following capital control announcements. Large firms and the largest exporting firms appear less negatively affected compared to external-finance-dependent firms, and capital controls on equity inflows have a more negative announcement effect on equity returns than those on debt inflows. Overall, the findings have implications for macro-finance models that abstract from heterogeneity at the firm level to examine the optimality of capital control taxation.
title: Radiogenomic characteristics of glioblastoma in long-term survivors : ROI-based analysis of MR Perfusion imaging in correlation with molecular subtypes
Creators: name: Moon, Won-Jin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To compare perfusion characteristics of glioblastomas, measured by using contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) perfusion studies, between long-term and short-term survivors and investigate its association with molecular subtypes of glioblastoma...
Effects of estimated community-level health literacy on treatment initiation and preventive care among older adults with newly diagnosed diabetes
Creators: name: Emch, M.
name: Martin, L.T.
name: Bailey, S.C.
name: Annis, I.E.
name: Paasche-Orlow, M.K.
name: Brookhart, M.A.
name: Wolf, M.S.
name: Fang, G.
name: Farris, K.B.
Publisher: name: Dove Medical Press Ltd.
Year: 2020

description: Purpose: Individual measures of health literacy are not feasible for administration on a large scale, yet estimates of community-level health literacy in the US recently became available. We sought to investigate whether community-level health literacy estimates are associated with the initiation of oral antihyperglycemic agents (OHA) and the use of standard preventive care services among older adults with newly diagnosed diabetes. Patients and methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 169,758 patients, ≥65 years old with hypertension and newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes using 2007–2011 data from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Chronic Conditions Warehouse. We examined the relationship between community-level health literacy estimates and initiation of OHA, receipt of flu shots, eye exams, Hemoglobin A1c tests, and lipid tests within 12 months post diabetes diagnosis. Results: Patients living in communities with above basic health literacy (vs. basic/below basic) were 15% more likely to initiate OHA (Hazard Ratio=1.15; 95% CI 1.12 to 1.18). After classifying the health literacy distribution as quintiles, the analysis revealed a dose– response relationship with OHA initiation that plateaued at the third and fourth quintiles and declined at the fifth quintile. Individuals residing in communities with higher health literacy were more likely to participate in preventive care services (relative risk ranged from 1.09 for lipid test [95% CI 1.07–1.11] to 1.43 for flu shot [95% CI 1.41–1.46]). Conclusion: Community-level health literacy estimates were associated with the initiation of OHA and uptake of standard preventive care services in older adults. Community-level health literacy may help to inform targeted diabetes education and support efforts.
Participatory demonstration of newly recommended nitrogenous fertilizer application rate on maize and evaluation of its effect on maize Productivity case of Halaba zone SNNPR, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Merknehi Bekele
name: Zerihun Dotora
name: Mekonen Debara
name: Merknehi Bekele
name: Zerihun Dotora
name: Mekonen Debara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Fertilizer application rate
subject: Maize
subject: Nitrogenous fertilizer
subject: Participatory demonstration

description: Nutrient deficiency is one of among major problems constraining the development of economically successful agriculture. Specifically, this resulted from lower crop performance. To enhance crop performance, the application of the newly recommended fertilizer rate is among the necessary measures. Hence, this pre-extension demonstration of the newly recommended fertilizer rate on maize and evaluated the change in its profitability. The demonstration was conducted at two farmers’ training centers and ten beneficiary farmers’ fields. Partial budget analysis was employed to evaluate the change in profitability from the new recommended rate. Based on the result, the average yield performances that were obtained from farmer's fields were 40.0 Q ha-1, 29.4 Q ha-1 of the new rate, and blanket recommendation rate, respectively. In addition, the yields obtained from the farmers’ training center were 47.0 Q ha-1 and 33 Q ha-1 of the new recommendation rate and blanket recommendation rate, respectively. This might be due to the effective monitoring and follow-ups in the farmers' training center than the farmers’ field. The result of the partial budget analysis revealed that adopting of newly recommended rate increases the overall profit, which is 8680 ETB per hectare. Therefore, it is better if increase the adoption rate of the newly recommended fertilizer rate on maize to improve the production and productivity of maize producers.
title: Anal MRI: Perianal Fistulas and Beyond
Creators: name: Balci, Sinan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Fistula

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate MRI findings of perianal fistulas with regard to St James’s University Hospital classification and less commonly encountered entities such as anal canal carcinoma, hidradenitis suppurativa, pilonidal sinus tracts, postoperative...
Evaluation of yield performance of early maturing soybean (Glycine max L. Merill) genotypes in Ethiopia by using GGE Biplot model
Creators: name: Wondimu Yonas
name: Abush Tesfaye
name: Sentayehu Alamere
name: Wondimu Yonas
name: Abush Tesfaye
name: Sentayehu Alamere
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environment
subject: Genotype
subject: GGE Biplot
subject: Interaction
subject: Mega Environment

description: Genotype main effect and genotype by environment interaction biplot analysis is the best fit model for which-won-where pattern analysis, genotype, and test environment evaluation. Hence, the aim of this study was to identify stable and high-yielding soybean genotypes for production in diverse environments by using the genotype main effect and genotype by environment biplot stability model. Eighteen soybean genotypes were evaluated across six environments during the 2019 cropping season by using a randomized complete block design with four replications. Among evaluated environments and genotypes, Tiro-afeta gave the highest yield (3.71 t ha -1); while Humera gave the lowest yield (1.37 t ha-1), and genotype JM-HAR/PR142-15-SB gave the highest mean grain yield of 2.9 t ha -1 across the six locations. Based on the information generated from the GGE biplot, Tiro Afeta and Areka were identified as ideal environments, whereas genotypes PR-143-(14), JM-HAR/G99-15-SD-2 and JM-HAR/PR142-15-SB were ideal genotype. The ‘which won where’ biplot of the GGE analysis revealed that the six environments grouped into three different mega-environments with different winning genotypes. Among the testing environments, Areka, Sirinka and Humera grouped into one mega environment; while Tiro afeta grouped into the second mega environment and Jimma and Hawasa were classified into the third mega environment with the winning genotypes JM-HAR/PR142-15-SB, PR-143-(14) and KS4895 for each mega environment, respectively. Based on the GGE biplot stability model used in the study, JM-HAR/G99-15-SD-2, JM-HAR/PR142-15SB, and PR-143-(14) were high yielder and stable genotypes. Hence, these genotypes were recommended for variety verification and release after additional evaluation for more seasons.
title: Oral cavity cancer: Tips and tricks for radiological staging
Creators: name: Duarte, Rosa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Sampling
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review and illustrate the anatomy, dissemination pathways and staging of primary malignancies of the oral cavity. To understand the advantages and limitations of different imaging techniques currently used for tumor staging US, CT, MRI and...
CAMP: A Context-Aware Cricket Players Performance Metric
Creators: name: Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib
name: Ullah, Naimat
name: Ali, Sarwan
name: Khan, Imdad Ullah
name: Awais, Mian Muhammad
name: Khan, Muhammad Asad
name: Faizullah, Safiullah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cricket is the second most popular sport after soccer in terms of viewership. However, the assessment of individual player performance, a fundamental task in team sports, is currently primarily based on aggregate performance statistics, including average runs and wickets taken. We propose Context-Aware Metric of player Performance, CAMP, to quantify individual players' contributions toward a cricket match outcome. CAMP employs data mining methods and enables effective data-driven decision-making for selection and drafting, coaching and training, team line-ups, and strategy development. CAMP incorporates the exact context of performance, such as opponents' strengths and specific circumstances of games, such as pressure situations. We empirically evaluate CAMP on data of limited-over cricket matches between 2001 and 2019. In every match, a committee of experts declares one player as the best player, called Man of the M}atch (MoM). The top two rated players by CAMP match with MoM in 83\% of the 961 games. Thus, the CAMP rating of the best player closely matches that of the domain experts. By this measure, CAMP significantly outperforms the current best-known players' contribution measure based on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method.
(101563) Lewis Charles Payne
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Case reduction and cost-effectiveness of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine alongside bed nets in Lilongwe, Malawi
Creators: name: Tegha, G.
name: Kamthunzi, P.
name: Mvalo, T.
name: Bell, G.J.
name: Mofolo, I.
name: Loop, M.
name: Juliano, J.J.
name: Topazian, H.M.
name: Hudgens, M.
name: Bailey, J.A.
name: Hoffman, I.
name: Emch, M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2020

description: Background: RTS,S/AS01, the most advanced vaccine against malaria, is now undergoing pilot implementation in Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya where an estimated 360,000 children will be vaccinated each year. In this study we evaluate RTS,S/AS01 alongside bed net use and estimate cost-effectiveness. Methods: RTS,S/AS01 phase III trial and bed net prevalence data were used to determine the effect of vaccination in the urban/periurban and rural areas of Lilongwe, Malawi. Cost data were used to calculate the cost-effectiveness of various interventions over three years. Findings: Since bed nets reduce malaria incidence and homogeneous vaccine efficacy was assumed, participants without bed nets received greater relative benefit from vaccination with RTS,S/AS01 than participants with bed nets. Similarly, since malaria incidence in rural Lilongwe is higher than in urban Lilongwe, the impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccine interventions is increased in rural areas. In rural Lilongwe, we estimated that vaccinating one child without a bed net would prevent 2·59 (1·62 to 3·38) cases of malaria over three years, corresponding to a cost of $10·08 (7·71 to 16·13) per case averted. Alternatively, vaccinating one child with a bed net would prevent 1·59 (0·87 to 2·57) cases, corresponding to $16·43 (10·16 to 30·06) per case averted. Providing RTS,S/AS01 to 30,000 children in rural Lilongwe was estimated to cost $782,400 and to prevent 58,611 (35,778 to 82,932) cases of malaria over a three-year period. Joint interventions providing both vaccination and bed nets (to those without them) were estimated to prevent additional cases of malaria and to be similarly cost-effective, compared to vaccine-only interventions. Interpretation: To maximize malaria prevention, vaccination and bed net distribution programs could be integrated. Funding: Impacts of Environment, Host Genetics and Antigen Diversity on Malaria Vaccine Efficacy (1R01AI137410-01)
Adaptation of recently released improved orange flesh sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) varieties in Southwestern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Fikadu Ejigu
name: Wondimu Yonas
name: Asaminew Amare
name: Andualem Gadisa
name: Fikadu Ejigu
name: Wondimu Yonas
name: Asaminew Amare
name: Andualem Gadisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Adaptation
subject: Orange fleshed
subject: Sweet potato
subject: Variety

description: Most sweet potato varieties currently grown by farmers are poorly adapted, have low root yields, less nutritive and white fleshed which have no beta carotene, a precursor to vitamin “A”. However, among the cheapest and richest sources of vitamin A; orange fleshed sweet potato varieties were rich in beta carotene are well accepted by young children. Hence the aim of this research project was conducted to evaluate the adaptability and performance of improved orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties on yield and other yield related traits during the 2020 main cropping season in southwest Ethiopia. The varieties used were Tulla, Kulfo, Guntutie, Vita, Kabode, Alamura and Dilla. The experiment was carried out using a randomized block design with three replications. The analysis of variance over locations depicted significant differences (p ≤0.05) among varieties for most of the studied traits. In this study, Alamura (31.42 t ha-1) and Dilla (27.8 t ha-1) varieties give a high yield among seven evaluated orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties. Based on farmer test preference, the first and second rank of test preference was recorded from Alamura and Dilla variety. Therefore, by considering both farmer’s test preference and the yield potential of the variety, Alamura and Dilla were selected as high yields and have the best test preference. Therefore, to fill the gap vitamin “A” deficiency at the community level Alamura and Dilla were selected as the best orange fleshed variety that has the best test preference with the highest yield in the humid tropics of Southwestern Ethiopia and these two varieties were recommended for production. Finally, since the result of this finding was based on data gathered from two locations and only one cropping season to test adaptability. So, one more additional season evaluation is necessary and also further studies are required to generate more reliable information on performance, nutrition and resistance to disease.
Randomization inference with general interference and censoring
Creators: name: Ali, M.
name: Clemens, J.D.
name: Hudgens, M.G.
name: Loh, W.W.
name: Emch, M.E.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Interference occurs between individuals when the treatment (or exposure) of one individual affects the outcome of another individual. Previous work on causal inference methods in the presence of interference has focused on the setting where it is a priori assumed that there is “partial interference,” in the sense that individuals can be partitioned into groups wherein there is no interference between individuals in different groups. Bowers et al. (2012, Political Anal, 21, 97–124) and Bowers et al. (2016, Political Anal, 24, 395–403) consider randomization-based inferential methods that allow for more general interference structures in the context of randomized experiments. In this paper, extensions of Bowers et al. that allow for failure time outcomes subject to right censoring are proposed. Permitting right-censored outcomes is challenging because standard randomization-based tests of the null hypothesis of no treatment effect assume that whether an individual is censored does not depend on treatment. The proposed extension of Bowers et al. to allow for censoring entails adapting the method of Wang et al. (2010, Biostatistics, 11, 676–692) for two-sample survival comparisons in the presence of unequal censoring. The methods are examined via simulation studies and utilized to assess the effects of cholera vaccination in an individually randomized trial of 73 000 children and women in Matlab, Bangladesh.
Failure of the Volume Function in Granular Statistical Mechanics and an Alternative Formulation
Creators: name: Blumenfeld, Raphael
name: Amitai, Shahar
name: Jordan, Joe F.
name: Hihinashvili, Rebecca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We first show that the currently accepted statistical mechanics for granular matter is flawed. The reason is that it is based on the volume function, which depends only on a minute fraction of all the structural degrees of freedom and is unaffected by most of the configurational microstates. Consequently, the commonly used partition function underestimates the entropy severely. We then propose a new formulation, replacing the volume function with a ${\it connectivity}$ function that depends on all the structural degrees of freedom and accounts correctly for the entire entropy. We discuss the advantages of the new formalism and derive explicit results for two- and three-dimensional systems. We test the formalism by calculating the entropy of an experimental two-dimensional system, as a function of system size, and showing that it is an extensive variable.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures