cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sensible heat has significantly affected the global hydrological cycle over the historical period
Creators: name: Myhre, Gunnar
name: Samset, Bjørn Hallvard
name: Hodnebrog, Øivind
name: Andrews, Timothy
name: Boucher, Olivier
name: Faluvegi, Gregory S.
name: Fläschner, Dagmar
name: Forster, Piers
name: Kasoar, Matthew
name: Kharin, Viatcheslav V.
name: Kirkevåg, Alf
name: Lamarque, Jean-Francois
name: Olivié, Dirk
name: Richardson, Tom
name: Shawki, Doaa
name: Shindell, Drew
name: Shine, Keith
name: Stjern, Camilla W.
name: Takemura, Toshihiko
name: Voulgarakis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Atmosphere--Latent heat release
Climatic changes
Global warming
Hydrologic cycle

description: Globally, latent heating associated with a change in precipitation is balanced by changes to atmospheric radiative cooling and sensible heat fluxes. Both components can be altered by climate forcing mechanisms and through climate feedbacks, but the impacts of climate forcing and feedbacks on sensible heat fluxes have received much less attention. Here we show, using a range of climate modelling results, that changes in sensible heat are the dominant contributor to the present global-mean precipitation change since preindustrial time, because the radiative impact of forcings and feedbacks approximately compensate. The model results show a dissimilar influence on sensible heat and precipitation from various drivers of climate change. Due to its strong atmospheric absorption, black carbon is found to influence the sensible heat very differently compared to other aerosols and greenhouse gases. Our results indicate that this is likely caused by differences in the impact on the lower tropospheric stability.
Implementation of electroweak corrections in the POWHEG BOX: single W production
Creators: name: Barze', L.
name: Montagna, G.
name: Nason, P.
name: Nicrosini, O.
name: Piccinini, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a fully consistent implementation of electroweak and strong radiative corrections to single W hadroproduction in the POWHEG BOX framework, treating soft and collinear photon emissions on the same ground as coloured parton emissions. This framework can be easily extended to more complex electroweak processes. We describe how next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak corrections are combined with the NLO QCD calculation, and show how they are interfaced to QCD and QED shower Monte Carlo. The resulting tool fills a gap in the literature and allows to study comprehensively the interplay of QCD and electroweak effects to W production using a single computational framework. Numerical comparisons with the predictions of the electroweak generator HORACE, as well as with existing results on the combination of electroweak and QCD corrections to W production, are shown for the LHC energies, to validate the reliability and accuracy of the approach
description: 31 pages, 7 figures. Minor corrections, references added and updated. Final version to appear in JHEP
Selection of tuning parameters in bridge regression models via Bayesian information criterion
Creators: name: Kawano, Shuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62J05, 62G05, 62F15

description: We consider the bridge linear regression modeling, which can produce a sparse or non-sparse model. A crucial point in the model building process is the selection of adjusted parameters including a regularization parameter and a tuning parameter in bridge regression models. The choice of the adjusted parameters can be viewed as a model selection and evaluation problem. We propose a model selection criterion for evaluating bridge regression models in terms of Bayesian approach. This selection criterion enables us to select the adjusted parameters objectively. We investigate the effectiveness of our proposed modeling strategy through some numerical examples.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
title: Intelligent Production Optimization in Real-Time by Implementing Hybrid Data-Physics Simulation
Creators: name: Matoorian, Raya
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Production Optimization
subject: Production Forecasting
subject: Hybrid Data-Physics
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Real-Time
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Artificial Intelligence

description: This research introduces a novel approach to overcoming key challenges in applying machine learning (ML) for production forecasting and performance evaluation in conventional and unconventional reservoirs. By leveraging a hybrid data-physics architecture (HDP), this approach addresses limitations such as poor generalizability, the need for extensive training datasets, and discrepancies between model outputs and physical principles. The HDP integrates physical equations such as decline curves into a deep neural network, enabling the two to function together during forward and backward propagation. The training data includes various factors influencing production rates, encompassing information that may not readily conform to conventional physical equations. This hybridization enables the inclusion of supplementary data that influence production. These data points help derive the model's physical parameters, leading to more accurate production rate calculations, and improving production forecasts. An extensive assessment was conducted using publicly available data, including Duvernay formation, SPE-RTA well data, and Volve oil field. Three different methodologies were used to compute future production rates: traditional decline curves, ML, and HDP modeling. The results compared with different statistical metrics, demonstrated that HDP model consistently exhibited superior precision in production forecasting. A key advantage of HDP is its ability to generate accurate predictions without extensive training samples (physics acts as a constraint and helps the network to train faster), beneficial for newly established wells with limited production histories. The predictive outcomes align well with fundamental physical models, validating their applicability for short-term and long-term production forecasting. For a real-world case, horizontal wells in Duvernay were used (featuring different well designs, drilling, and completion parameters) to build different predictive models and then generate thousands of scenarios. These scenarios are used to find an optimized solution for drilling and hydraulic fracturing operations. Afterward, the best scenario was selected using multi-criteria decision-making and decision tree methodologies. The applicability of HDP was extended to generate reliable sweet spot maps for new drilling targets. Finally, this research advances production performance evaluation by bridging the gap between data-driven and physics-based approaches and enhances the accuracy and reliability of production forecasts and optimization, offering a robust tool for both operators and researchers.
Cramér-Rao Bounds for Polynomial Signal Estimation using Sensors with AR(1) Drift
Creators: name: Kar, Swarnendu
name: Varshney, Pramod K.
name: Palaniswami, Marimuthu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We seek to characterize the estimation performance of a sensor network where the individual sensors exhibit the phenomenon of drift, i.e., a gradual change of the bias. Though estimation in the presence of random errors has been extensively studied in the literature, the loss of estimation performance due to systematic errors like drift have rarely been looked into. In this paper, we derive closed-form Fisher Information matrix and subsequently Cramér-Rao bounds (upto reasonable approximation) for the estimation accuracy of drift-corrupted signals. We assume a polynomial time-series as the representative signal and an autoregressive process model for the drift. When the Markov parameter for drift ρ<1, we show that the first-order effect of drift is asymptotically equivalent to scaling the measurement noise by an appropriate factor. For ρ=1, i.e., when the drift is non-stationary, we show that the constant part of a signal can only be estimated inconsistently (non-zero asymptotic variance). Practical usage of the results are demonstrated through the analysis of 1) networks with multiple sensors and 2) bandwidth limited networks communicating only quantized observations.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, This paper will appear in the Oct/Nov 2012 issue of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
MOESM3 of Comprehensive Transcriptomic Analysis of Mouse Gonadal Development Involving Sexual Differentiation, Meiosis and Gametogenesis
Creators: name: Wang, Jian
name: Tian, Geng
name: Zheng, Zhuxia
name: Li, Bo
name: Xing, Qinghe
name: Wu, Ji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. The list of male-biased expressed genes. (DOCX 15 kb)
title: Choosing the Right Model of Care Together: Informing an Equitable, Patient-Oriented Decision Aid for In-Person vs Virtual Care of Pediatric Chronic Pain
Creators: name: Marbil, Mica Gabrielle Aragon
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: pediatric chronic pain
subject: virtual care
subject: shared decision-making
subject: decision aid
subject: reflexive thematic analysis
subject: Psychology--Clinical

description: Background. Pediatric chronic pain management can occur virtually or in-person, but youth with chronic pain and their families may not be involved in decisions about treatment delivery. Decision aids can supplement shared decision-making, a collaborative decision-making approach between patients and health professionals, and promote patient involvement. To inform the development of a decision aid for in-person versus virtual pediatric chronic pain care, this study sought to understand decision-making practices for in-person versus virtual care (part A) and glean desired decision aid features (part B) from patients’ (youth and caregivers) and health professionals’ experiences. Methods. In part A, an online survey on virtual care and decision-making practices was sent to international pediatric pain clinics. Main findings were descriptively summarized. In part B, patients and health professionals completed an online demographics survey and a semi-structured interview on virtual care decision-making experiences to inform decision aid features. Reflexive thematic analysis described common themes. Results. In part A, 67 clinic responses were included. Virtual care constituted <25% of overall pediatric chronic pain management. Families were reported to play the largest role in decisions. Top factors influencing decision-making included new referrals, patient demographics and location, and patient values and preferences. Most clinics did not evaluate in-person versus virtual care decisions. In part B, 11 patients (5 youth, 6 caregivers) and 15 health professionals participated. Four main themes were generated from health professionals, suggesting that the decision aid should: 1) contextualize the individual patient; 2) promote patient engagement and adherence to care; 3) support clinician characteristics and values; and 4) contextualize the decision-making encounter. Three themes created from patient perspectives guide the decision aid to: 1) communicate patient needs and preferences; 2) facilitate navigation of the healthcare system; and 3) build partnership in a paternalistic system. Discussion. Decision-making for in-person versus virtual pediatric chronic pain management is not always shared. Patients and health professionals have individual preferences for decision-making processes. The future decision aid prototype should consider the unique contexts surrounding health professionals and patients to best support decision-making needs.
Systematic reconstruction of autism biology from massive genetic mutation profiles
Creators: name: Luo, Weijun
name: Zhang, Chaolin
name: Jiang, Yong-Hui
name: Brouwer, Cory R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Mutation (Biology)
Developmental genetics
Autism--Research
Autism spectrum disorders--Genetic aspects
Systems biology

description: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects 1% of world population and has become a pressing medical and social problem worldwide. As a paradigmatic complex genetic disease, ASD has been intensively studied and thousands of gene mutations have been reported. Because these mutations rarely recur, it is difficult to (i) pinpoint the fewer disease-causing versus majority random events and (ii) replicate or verify independent studies. A coherent and systematic understanding of autism biology has not been achieved. We analyzed 3392 and 4792 autism-related mutations from two large-scale whole-exome studies across multiple resolution levels, that is, variants (single-nucleotide), genes (protein-coding unit), and pathways (molecular module). These mutations do not recur or replicate at the variant level, but significantly and increasingly do so at gene and pathway levels. Genetic association reveals a novel gene + pathway dual-hit model, where the mutation burden becomes less relevant. In multiple independent analyses, hundreds of variants or genes repeatedly converge to several canonical pathways, either novel or literature-supported. These pathways define recurrent and systematic ASD biology, distinct from previously reported gene groups or networks. They also present a catalog of novel ASD risk factors including 118 variants and 72 genes. At a subpathway level, most variants disrupt the pathway-related gene functions, and in the same gene, they tend to hit residues extremely close to each other and in the same domain. Multiple interacting variants spotlight key modules, including the cAMP (adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate) second-messenger system and mGluR (metabotropic glutamate receptor) signaling regulation by GRKs (G protein–coupled receptor kinases). At a superpathway level, distinct pathways further interconnect and converge to three biology themes: synaptic function, morphology, and plasticity.
Hidden Black: Coherent Enhancement of Absorption in Strongly-scattering Media
Creators: name: Chong, Y. D.
name: Stone, A. Douglas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a weakly absorbing, strongly scattering (white) medium can be made very strongly absorbing at any frequency within its strong-scattering bandwidth by optimizing the input electromagnetic field. For uniform absorption, results from random matrix theory imply that the reflectivity of the medium can be suppressed by a factor ~(l_a/lN^2), where N is the number of incident channels and l,l_a are the elastic and absorption mean free paths respectively. It is thus possible to increase absorption from a few percent to > 99%. For a localized weak absorber buried in a non-absorbing scattering medium, we find a large but bounded enhancement.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
title: Design and Feasibility of a Behavioural Weight Loss Treatment for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Obesity referred to Cardiac Rehabilitation
Creators: name: Williamson, Tamara Marie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: obesity
subject: weight loss
subject: atrial fibrillation
subject: cardiac rehabilitation
subject: behavioural weight loss treatment
subject: Health Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Background: Moderate weight loss (i.e., ≥10%) reduces symptom burden and disease progression among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and co-morbid obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2). Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves AF risk factors (e.g., hypertension, cardiorespiratory fitness, lipids) and thus represents an ideal multidisciplinary setting for AF management. Yet, few CR programs include targeted behavioural weight loss treatment (BWLT) for patients with cooccurring obesity. Evidence-based approaches to integrating BWLT into CR are needed to encourage sustainable weight loss in this patient group. Purpose: The purpose of this dissertation was to adapt and establish the acceptability of a Small Change BWLT that could be integrated into an existing CR program for patients with AF and obesity prior to efficacy testing in a randomized clinical trial (RCT). Methods: Chapter 2 was a qualitative descriptive exploration of patients’ preferences, barriers, and enablers to participating in a Small Change BWLT in CR. Chapter 3 was a pre-post feasibility study to adapt the BWLT to patients with AF and obesity, and establish the acceptability of the modified program. Chapter 4 was a protocol for an RCT comparing the efficacy of the BWLT + CR in terms of 12-month weight loss relative to the traditional CR program. Results: Barriers and enablers identified in Chapter 2 were used to adapt the BWLT program and included changes to patient education materials and discussion of AF risk factors. In Chapter 3, patients reported strong liking of the adapted program, however weight loss at 6 months was not clinically or statistically significant. The BWLT was further refined using the findings from Chapter 3 to inform the protocol in Chapter 4, which is currently recruiting patients (NCT05230823). Conclusion: While the benefits of a Small Changes BWLT + CR for weight loss among patients with AF and obesity relative to CR-only remain to be seen, the results of this dissertation provide important acceptability and feasibility evidence suggesting that program uptake, adherence, and completion may be favourable in the RCT. Future directions including the potential addition of adjunct pharmacotherapy to BWLT and additional therapeutic BWLT components (e.g., values-based behaviour change, self-compassion) are discussed.
Prioritizing the needs of children in a changing climate
Creators: name: Stanberry, Lawrence Raymond
name: Thomson, Madeleine C.
name: James, Wilmot Godfrey
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Children--Health and hygiene
Climatic changes--Health aspects
Environmental health
Pediatrics
Medicine
Communicable diseases--Prevention

description: Young children have no direct control over the environment they live in. They cannot control the quality of the air they breathe, the fluids they drink, the food they eat, or their exposure to contaminants or infectious diseases. Children are therefore far more vulnerable to climate-related disasters, and their care and protection from harm is more complicated. The onus is on adults to provide the protection and safety that children need. Here, we set out some specific challenges associated with the impacts of climate change on the world’s 2.3 billion children and suggest ways to address their underprioritized needs.
MOESM1 of CD40 polymorphisms were associated with HCV infection susceptibility among Chinese population
Creators: name: Tian, Ting
name: Huang, Peng
name: Wu, Jingjing
name: Wang, Chunhui
name: Fan, Haozhi
name: Zhang, Yun
name: Yu, Rongbin
name: Wu, Chao
name: Xia, Xueshan
name: Fu, Zuqiang
name: Li, Jun
name: Yue, Ming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Probes and primers of investigated TNFRSF5 SNPs for TaqMan assay.
Spectrally and Spatially Configurable Superlenses for Optoplasmonic Nanocircuits
Creators: name: Boriskina, Svetlana V.
name: Reinhard, Bjoern M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Energy transfer between photons and molecules and between neighboring molecules is ubiquitous in living nature, most prominently in photosynthesis. While energy transfer is efficiently utilized by living systems, its adoption to connect individual components in man-made plasmonic nanocircuits has been challenged by low transfer efficiencies which motivate the development of entirely new concepts for energy transfer. We introduce herein optoplasmonic superlenses that combine the capability of optical microcavities to insulate molecule-photon systems from decohering environmental effects with the superior light nanoconcentration properties of nanoantennas. The proposed structures provide significant enhancement of the emitter radiative rate and efficient long-range transfer of emitted photons followed by subsequent re-focusing into nanoscale volumes accessible to near- and far-field detection. Optoplasmonic superlenses are versatile building blocks for optoplasmonic nanocircuits and can be used to construct "dark" single molecule sensors, resonant amplifiers, nanoconcentrators, frequency multiplexers, demultiplexers, energy converters and dynamical switches.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures + 6 pages of Suppl. Info & 5 Suppl. Figures
Penalized maximum likelihood estimation and variable selection in geostatistics
Creators: name: Chu, Tingjin
name: Zhu, Jun
name: Wang, Haonan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the problem of selecting covariates in spatial linear models with Gaussian process errors. Penalized maximum likelihood estimation (PMLE) that enables simultaneous variable selection and parameter estimation is developed and, for ease of computation, PMLE is approximated by one-step sparse estimation (OSE). To further improve computational efficiency, particularly with large sample sizes, we propose penalized maximum covariance-tapered likelihood estimation (PMLE$_{\mathrm{T}}$) and its one-step sparse estimation (OSE$_{\mathrm{T}}$). General forms of penalty functions with an emphasis on smoothly clipped absolute deviation are used for penalized maximum likelihood. Theoretical properties of PMLE and OSE, as well as their approximations PMLE$_{\mathrm{T}}$ and OSE$_{\mathrm{T}}$ using covariance tapering, are derived, including consistency, sparsity, asymptotic normality and the oracle properties. For covariance tapering, a by-product of our theoretical results is consistency and asymptotic normality of maximum covariance-tapered likelihood estimates. Finite-sample properties of the proposed methods are demonstrated in a simulation study and, for illustration, the methods are applied to analyze two real data sets.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOS919 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Supplementary document for 100-mJ class, sub-two-cycle, carrier-envelope phase-stable dual-chirped optical parametric amplification - 5859216.pdf
Creators: name: Xu, Lu
name: Xue, Bing
name: Ishii, Nobuhisa
name: Itatani, Jiro
name: Midorikawa, Katsumi
name: Takahashi, Eiji
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: it includes the figure of experimental setup and the figure of HHG yield dependence on backing gas pressure
title: Ancient Celtic Religion and Western Projections of Indigeneity: A Genealogical Methodology
Creators: name: Riel, Monique Donna Lee
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ancient Celtic Religion
subject: Iron Age Celtic Religion
subject: Critical Indigenous perspective
subject: Genealogical methodology
subject: Indigenous onto-epistemologies
subject: History--Ancient
subject: History--European
subject: Native American Studies
subject: Education--Social Sciences
subject: Religion

description: This thesis is a methodological tracing of the ways in which Indigenous peoples and knowledges have been used in studies on ancient Celtic religion from the sixteenth century to the present. Anthropological, sociological, postcolonial, and ontological approaches in the construction of ancient Celtic religious pasts result in popular ideas about ancient Celtic peoples that are drawn from Indigenous peoples but are rarely reflected upon critically. Thus, this work serves as a critical intervention in the way that studies on ancient Celtic religion engage with Indigenous peoples and knowledges. I conclude that: (1) Indigenous practices and knowledges are often filtered through Western onto-epistemology, resulting in Western projections of indigeneity onto ancient Celtic peoples; (2) distinct peoples are continuously collapsed into homogeneity to facilitate the construction of ancient Celtic religious knowledges and practices, and (3) the field should endeavour to move toward relational praxis if we are to continue to draw from Indigenous peoples and knowledges for ancient Western European religious pasts. This genealogical method traces the appropriation and misrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the field of ancient Celtic religion in particular, but it could be applied in other historical and religious fields wherein Indigenous peoples and practices are used uncritically.
Fan, splint and branching rules
Creators: name: Laykhovsky, Vladimir
name: Nazarov, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B10, 17B22, 20F55

description: Splint of root system for simple Lie algebra appears naturally in studies of (regular) embeddings of reductive subalgebras. Splint can be used to construct branching rules. We demonstrate that splint properties implementation drastically simplify calculations of branching coefficients.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures, submitted to "Zapiski Nauch. Sem. POMI". In version 2 type 2-2 case revised, general results unchanged
Are water markets globally applicable?
Creators: name: Endo, Takahiro
name: Kakinuma, Kaoru
name: Yoshikawa, Sayaka
name: Kanae, Shinjiro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Water-supply--Management
Water--Law and legislation
Economics
Conservation of natural resources
International economic relations

description: Water scarcity is a global concern that necessitates a global perspective, but it is also the product of multiple regional issues that require regional solutions. Water markets constitute a regionally applicable non-structural measure to counter water scarcity that has received the attention of academics and policy-makers, but there is no global view on their applicability. We present the global distribution of potential nations and states where water markets could be instituted in a legal sense, by investigating 296 water laws internationally, with special reference to a minimum set of key rules: legalization of water reallocation, the separation of water rights and landownership, and the modification of the cancellation rule for non-use. We also suggest two additional globally distributed prerequisites and policy implications: the predictability of the available water before irrigation periods and public control of groundwater pumping throughout its jurisdiction.
MOESM4 of Comprehensive Transcriptomic Analysis of Mouse Gonadal Development Involving Sexual Differentiation, Meiosis and Gametogenesis
Creators: name: Wang, Jian
name: Tian, Geng
name: Zheng, Zhuxia
name: Li, Bo
name: Xing, Qinghe
name: Wu, Ji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S2. The list of female-biased expressed genes. (DOCX 16 kb)
Austrotinodes bibu Cartwright, 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Cartwright, David I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Ecnomidae
Austrotinodes
Austrotinodes bibu

description: Austrotinodes bibu sp. nov. Figs 25–27 Diagnosis. Austrotinodes bibu can be separated from other group members as the dorso-basal processes near base of the inferior appendages (phallic guides) are relatively straight, and the inferior appendages are slender, with length about 4 times width. This species is somewhat atypical of this group and shares some of the characters of the A. varus and A. yalga groups. Description. Head, body and wings brown; wings similar to A. yalga (Fig. 14). Forewing length about 3.1–3.3 times width: male 5.3 mm. Forewing fork 2 long, with footstalk, footstalk length about twice length of cross-vein r-m, length fork about same length as fork 3; fork 3 long, length about 1.9 times length footstalk, footstalk length about 2.8 times length cross-vein m. Hindwing length about 3 times width; fork 2 footstalk length about 1.7 times length cross-vein r-m, fork length about same length of fork 3. Male. Tergum X membranous with a pair of small mesal processes (Fig. 27). Superior appendages in lateral view, tapered gradually apically, length about 2.5 times width, with pair of short ventral processes with short apical hairs (Fig. 25); in dorsal view, robust, length about 2 times width, with small subapico-mesal process (Fig. 27). Phallus robust, generally tube-like, with embedded pair of long spines; with a pair of straight, slender processes (phallic guides) arising from near the base of the inferior appendages (Fig. 25). Inferior appendages in ventral view, slender, paired processes, length about 4 times width, bases widely separated (Fig. 26); in lateral view, length about twice width, with pointed apex (Fig. 25). Female. Unknown. Holotype male (specimen CT-441 figured): New South Wales, Gloucester Tops (about 32°03'S, 151°25'E), el. 1280 m, 4–30 Dec 1988, malaise, D. Bickel (NMV, T- 20372). Etymology. Bibu - New South Wales Aboriginal word for mountain (type locality- Gloucester Tops). Remarks. Known from only one male specimen recorded from the type locality in north-eastern New South Wales (latitude 32°03’S).
description: Published as part of Cartwright, David I., 2009, Austrotinodes Schmid, a South and Central American caddisfly genus, newly recorded in Australia, with the description of new species (Trichoptera: Ecnomidae), pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 2142 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2142.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5320938
Low resource FPGA-based Time to Digital Converter
Creators: name: Balla, A.
name: Beretta, M.
name: Ciambrone, P.
name: Gatta, M.
name: Gonnella, F.
name: Iafolla, L.
name: Mascolo, M.
name: Messi, R.
name: Moricciani, D.
name: Riondino, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time to Digital Converters (TDCs) are very common devices in particles physics experiments. A lot of "off-the-shelf" TDCs can be employed but the necessity of a custom DAta acQuisition (DAQ) system makes the TDCs implemented on the Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) desirable. Most of the architectures developed so far are based on the tapped delay lines with precision down to 10 ps, obtained with high FPGA resources usage and non-linearity issues to be managed. Often such precision is not necessary; in this case TDC architectures with low resources occupancy are preferable allowing the implementation of data processing systems and of other utilities on the same device. In order to reconstruct gamma-gamma physics events tagged with High Energy Tagger (HET) in the KLOE-2 (K LOng Experiment 2), we need to measure the Time Of Flight (TOF) of the electrons and positrons from the KLOE-2 Interaction Point (IP) to our tagging stations (11 m apart). The required resolution must be better than the bunch spacing (2.7 ns). We have developed and implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA a 32 channel TDC with a precision of 255 ps and low non-linearity effects along with an embedded data acquisition systems and the interface to the online FARM of KLOE-2.
description: I would like to withdraw this paper due to copyright problem
title: Probing Galactic Magnetism near the Galactic Center with THOR-GC
Creators: name: Weatherhead, Kierra
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Galactic magnetism
subject: Galactic magnetic field
subject: Galactic center
subject: Interstellar medium
subject: Radio astronomy
subject: Polarization
subject: Faraday Rotation
subject: Transient sources
subject: Astronomy and Astrophysics

description: The Galactic magnetic field (GMF) permeates the entire Milky Way and plays an important role in the dynamics of the Galaxy. An understanding of the GMF is required to create a comprehensive model of the Galaxy. As the GMF does not radiate, it must be observed indirectly by studying the polarization properties of light. This thesis presents the polarization calibration of the Galactic center extension of the HI/OH/Radio Recombination Line Survey of the Milky Way (THOR-GC). THOR-GC covers the Galactic center, a complex region where the GMF is poorly understood. Polarization observations in THOR-GC can aid in uncovering the nature of the GMF in this region. As well, analysis of a highly polarized transient source identified in THOR-GC reveals that its variability is much larger than previously found and that the source may be a fast-moving neutron star in an extreme environment.
Continual Model of Medium III: Calculation of analytical gradients of parameters of surface meshes on the molecular surfaces over atomic coordinates
Creators: name: Kupervasser, Oleg
name: Wanner, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of finding of analytical gradients (derivatives over atoms coordinates) of solvation energies can be decomposed on two subtasks: at the first stage we search for parameters of the superficial devices (three coordinates, three components of normal vector and square) and their derivatives; at the second stage we differentiate energy and we express it through derivative of the matrixes featuring a problem. But these derivatives of matrix elements can be expressed through derivatives of parameters of surface meshes of SES (solvent excluded surface) or SAS (solvent accessible surface). The purpose of the given paper is finding of these analytical gradients of the parameters of the surface meshes.
description: 35 pages, 10 figures paper in English and in Russian
title: Protocol: Drug-induced Depression, An Updated Systematic Review to Inform Clinical Practice
Creators: name: Patten, Scott Burton
name: McClurg, Caitlin
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Despression
subject: Depressive disorders
subject: etiology
subject: substance-induced mood disorders
subject: drug-induced depression
subject: systematic review

description: This is a systematic review protocol. It will be linked to PROSPERO and OSF.
description: Background: The etiology of depression is biopsychosocial, with therapeutic drugs often listed as potential risk factors. However, the role of drugs and medications in depression etiology remains unclear. The objective of this review is to summarize existing evidence etiologically linking therapeutic drugs to depression. Methods: A systematic review will be conducted in a series of stages. As the goal of the review is to assess etiological evidence, issues of confounding (e.g. by illness or by illness severity) and temporality are of paramount importance. Therefore, the review will focus on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and high-quality prospective cohort studies. With guidance from an academic librarian (CM), a literature search will be conducted in three stages. The first search will be a screening review of published review articles combined with a grey-literature search. The stage I search will be used to develop a list of drugs commonly implicated in depression etiology. A stage II search will cross-reference these drugs against methodological search terms to identify relevant RCTs. This stage will enable identification of a subset of drugs etiologically linked to depression. Finally, this subset of drugs will be included in the third stage of the literature search, which will cross-reference these specific drugs with search terms for prospective cohort studies, allowing of clinically salient observations on the course of drug-induced depression. Covidence will be used to organize and summarize eligibility assessment initially in screening for relevance, subsequently in selection of studies for full text review and finally in data extraction. The Cochrane RoB-2 and Robins-E tools will be used for quality assessment of included studies. Meta-analysis will be used, as appropriate, in analysis of the stage II studies whereas narrative description will be the main strategy for data synthesis of the stage III studies. The review will be reported using PRISMA standards. Discussion: This systematic review will identify three subsets of drugs that may be linked to depression: (1) a set of drugs frequently implicated in causing depression, (2) a subset of this list consisting of drugs etiologically linked to depression according to reasonable standards of evidence, and (3) a summarization of evidence concerning diagnosis and clinical management of drug-induced depression. Such evidence will inform clinical practice by supporting risk-benefit decisions in treatment selection and by providing a better understanding of the side-effect profiles of medical drugs.
Intertwining to fit in : a grounded theory study of caregivers with school-aged children with FASD
Creators: name: Swart, Suretha
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: My study aimed to explain how caregivers of school-aged children with FASD manage their children’s schooling. Symbolic interactionism served as the guiding theoretical perspective. I used a Glaserian approach to grounded theory to develop a substantive theory: intertwining to fit in. I collected data through interviews, participant observation, and document analysis. I completed 30 in-depth interviews and 25 hours of participant observation with children’s caregivers between February 2009 and November 2009. I used constant comparative analysis to construct my substantive theory. Intertwining to fit in is a dynamic cycle caregivers of elementary school-aged children with FASD use to resolve their main concerns, which are preventing their children from failing academically and in social interactions and preventing themselves from being regarded as “bad” parents. To intertwine to fit in parents used two strategies, orchestrating schooling and keeping up appearances, while they were regulating the relationships with their children. Caregivers used the strategies to try to achieve academic and social success for their children and to be regarded as “good” parents. Using the strategies successfully reduced the amount of time parents spent regulating their relationships with their children and permitted children more independence. Conditions caregivers encountered, for example key workers, influenced how caregivers used the strategies and related tactics. Using the strategies resulted in caregivers encountering two critical junctures: hitting rock bottom and reaching islands of calm. When hitting rock bottom neither of the strategies were working, children were not succeeding, and caregivers were focused on regulating relationships with their children. Reaching islands of calm occurred when strategies were successful and parents could invest more time in themselves. During critical junctures, caregivers re-engaged with the school system. Short-term outcomes associated with critical junctures affected the long-term outcomes caregivers were trying to achieve. “Intertwining to fit in,” contributes to literature on attachment and parenting and extends explanations about caregivers’ advocacy for their children. The substantive theory has implications for school psychology practice, training, and research, as well as school personnel. The theory is also important in illuminating approaches to managing for the caregivers of school-aged children with FASD.
Harmonically trapped dipolar fermions in a two-dimensional square lattice
Creators: name: Gadsbolle, Anne-Louise
name: Bruun, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider dipolar fermions in a two-dimensional square lattice and a harmonic trapping potential. The anisotropy of the dipolar interaction combined with the lattice leads to transitions between phases with density order of different symmetries. We show that the attractive part of the dipolar interaction results in a superfluid phase which is suppressed by density order. The trapping potential is demonstrated to make the different phases co-exist, forming ring and island structures. The phases with density and superfluid order can overlap forming regions with supersolid order.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
MOESM1 of Comparative transcriptomic analysis and endocuticular protein gene expression of alate adults, workers and soldiers of the termite Reticulitermes aculabialis
Creators: name: Rasheed, Humaira
name: Ye, Chenxu
name: Meng, Yufeng
name: Ran, Yuehua
name: Li, Jing
name: Su, Xiaohong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1. Unigenes length distribution of the R. aculabialis unigenes.
title: An Exploration of Causality in Social Media Data with Knowledge Graphs
Creators: name: Ravi, Rahul
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Science

description: This study explores the integration of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) with Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform causal analysis on text-based social media data. The objective is to uncover the underlying causes and sentiments driving discussions around emergency management scenarios such as the Israel-Palestine conflict, thereby providing critical insights for decision-making. The research focuses on advanced techniques to effectively represent text as KGs and retrieve the most suitable context of information to analyse. Various methods are evaluated across different datasets. The proposed model, PRAGyan, combines LLMs and KGs under the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) framework. It utilizes the Neo4J Graph Database to handle continuous real time data and GPT-3.5 Turbo LLM for causal reasoning. This yields more accurate results compared to the baseline model (GPT-3.5 Turbo LLM without KG). Quantitative analysis using metrics such as BLEU and cosine similarity show an improvement by 10%.
title: Calibration of Two Factor Vasicek and Hull-White Models with Contemporary Data
Creators: name: Vithanalage, Wathsala Chamodi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Education--Business
subject: Education--Finance

description: The calibration attempts to understand the intricacies of interest rate dynamics by evaluating the effectiveness of three models: the Two-Factor Vasicek, the One-Factor Hull-White, and the Two-Factor Hull-White. Information from the U. S. Department of the Treasury was used for the estimation of the Two-Factor Vasicek model while the Hull-White models used Bloomberg data. The Vasicek model, based on two factors, is useful with regard to long-term movements in the rate but exhibits certain problems with regard to the calibration of convergence. The Hull-White model, with one-factor, is relatively good at short-term expectations. In contrast, the two-factor Hull-White model is a more sophisticated model that gives a more detailed picture of the behavior of interest rates at different maturities, but the calibration of which involves volatilities is difficult. Hence, regardless of the fact that simpler models may be adequate for some specific purposes, the results show that more complex models can indeed be more accurate if properly fine-tuned. This implies that the selection of a particular model depends on the type characteristics of the data and the application needs; thus, this work highlights the fact that financial modeling is a dynamic process.
Minimizing the population extinction risk by migration
Creators: name: Khasin, Michael
name: Meerson, Baruch
name: Khain, Evgeniy
name: Sander, Leonard M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many populations in nature are fragmented: they consist of local populations occupying separate patches. A local population is prone to extinction due to the shot noise of birth and death processes. A migrating population from another patch can dramatically delay the extinction. What is the optimal migration rate that minimizes the extinction risk of the whole population? Here we answer this question for a connected network of model habitat patches with different carrying capacities.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PRL, appendix contains supplementary material
Instance Space Analysis of Search-Based Software Testing
Creators: name: Neelofar, Neelofar
name: Smith-Miles, Kate
name: Munoz, Mario Andres
name: Aleti, Aldeida
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Search-based software testing (SBST) is now a mature area, with numerous techniques developed to tackle the challenging task of software testing. SBST techniques have shown promising results and have been successfully applied in the industry to automatically generate test cases for large and complex software systems. Their effectiveness, however, is problem-dependent. In this paper, we revisit the problem of objective performance evaluation of SBST techniques considering recent methodological advances -- in the form of Instance Space Analysis (ISA) -- enabling the strengths and weaknesses of SBST techniques to be visualized and assessed across the broadest possible space of problem instances (software classes) from common benchmark datasets. We identify features of SBST problems that explain why a particular instance is hard for an SBST technique, reveal areas of hard and easy problems in the instance space of existing benchmark datasets, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of state-of-the-art SBST techniques. In addition, we examine the diversity and quality of common benchmark datasets used in experimental evaluations.