cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: ›Personen‹ ohne Subjekt, Individuen auf der Suche nach ihrem Authentischen Wer
title: Widersprüche des Person‑Seins unter Bedingungen moderner technischer Welt
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Adolphi, Rainer
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie
subject: Moderne
subject: Modernisierung
subject: Subjektivität
subject: Wirklichkeit
subject: Sprache

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
High Level Dollar Exports Boost Total Exports of U. S. Farm Products for Second Consecutive Fiscal Year
Creators: name: DeBlois, Eleanor N.
name: DeBlois, Eleanor N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: Excerpts from the report: U.S. agricultural exports reached a fiscal year total of $6,096 million in 1964-65, slightly above the previous record of $6,067 million a year earlier. The 1964-65 record was achieved despite stronger competition from foreign exporters and a weakening of demand for some major commodities. Dollar sales amounted to $4,426 million in 1964-65, only 1 percent below the record amount a year earlier. Commercial exports of oilseeds and products, feed grains, and animals and products, including dairy products, set fiscal year records. Substantial declines took place in dollar exports of wheat, cotton, and tobacco. Exports under Government-financed programs totaled $1,670 million, 5 percent higher than in 1963-64. The greatest increase was in long-term supply and dollar credit sales under Title IV, which were over 3 times the year earlier total. Title I sales for foreign currency increased moderately and made up two-thirds of program shipments.
description: Reprinted from Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States December 1965
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1151
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1425 col. 26. Philodemus, De poematis 5
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
Optimization of Markov process violates detailed balance condition
Creators: name: Takahashi, Kazutaka
name: Ohzeki, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the optimization of Markovian dynamics to pursue the fastest convergence to the stationary state. The brachistochrone method is applied to the continuous-time master equation for finite-size systems. The principle of least action leads to a brachistochrone equation for the transition-rate matrix. Three-state systems are explicitly analyzed, and we find that the solution violates the detailed balance condition. The properties of the solution are studied in detail to observe the optimality of the solution. We also discuss the counterdiabatic driving for the Markovian dynamics. The transition-rate matrix is then divided into two parts, and the state is given by an eigenstate of the first part. The second part violates the detailed balance condition and plays the role of a counterdiabatic term.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, published as "Conflict between fastest relaxation of a Markov process and detailed balance condition"
Erkenntnis statt Erbauung: Hegels Begriff des naturwissenschaftlichen Gesetzes
Creators: name: Borzeszkowski, Horst-Heino Von
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie
subject: Moderne
subject: Postmoderne
subject: Hegel
subject: Wissenschaftsbegriff
subject: Naturwissenschaft

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
Human factor Engineering and model development for safe construction operations in Nigerian Oil and Gas industry
Creators: name: Nwaichi, Eucharia Oluchi
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Engineering
subject: #humanfactorengineering #oilandgasconstructioncompany #safetyperformance

description: This provides relevant raw data on a study focusing on Human factor Engineering and model development for safe construction operations in Nigerian Oil and Gas industry
On Scottish Book Problem 157
Creators: name: Beanland, Kevin
name: Humke, Paul
name: Richards, Trevor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A24

description: This paper describes our hunt for the solver of Problem 157 in the Scottish Book, a problem originally posed by A.~J. (Gus) Ward in 1937. We first make the observation that a theorem of Richard O'Malley from 1975 yields an immediate positive solution. A further look at O'Malley's references revealed a 1970 paper by Donald Ornstein that we now believe contains the first solution of {\em SB 157}. We isolate the common elements in the machinery used by both Ornstein and O'Malley and discuss several consequences. We also examine an example function given by Ornstein. There are some difficulties with this function but we provide a fix, and show moreover that functions of that kind are typical in the sense of the Baire category theorem.
description: 12 pages
Fast and accurate mock catalogue generation for low-mass galaxies
Creators: name: Koda, Jun
name: Blake, Chris
name: Beutler, Florian
name: Kazin, Eyal
name: Marin, Felipe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an accurate and fast framework for generating mock catalogues including low-mass halos, based on an implementation of the COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration (COLA) technique. Multiple realisations of mock catalogues are crucial for analyses of large-scale structure, but conventional N-body simulations are too computationally expensive for the production of thousands of realisations. We show that COLA simulations can produce accurate mock catalogues with a moderate computation resource for low- to intermediate- mass galaxies in $10^{12} M_\odot$ haloes, both in real and redshift space. COLA simulations have accurate peculiar velocities, without systematic errors in the velocity power spectra for k < 0.15 h/Mpc, and with only 3-per-cent error for k < 0.2 h/Mpc. We use COLA with 10 time steps and a Halo Occupation Distribution to produce 600 mock galaxy catalogues of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. Our parallelized code for efficient generation of accurate halo catalogues is publicly available at github.com/junkoda/cola_halo.
Why the Reasons That Parents Give for Socializing Gratitude in Their Children Matter
Creators: name: LaSpina-Williams, Olivia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Research suggests that gratitude in adults is associated with many positive outcomes (e.g., lower
psychopathology, higher levels of happiness and well-being). However, little research has been
conducted on gratitude in children, and no research has examined the ways that parents socialize
gratitude in their young children. I examined how the reasons for gratitude socialization among
parents relate to their socialization behaviors and children’s gratitude behaviors. Parents (n=101)
reported on their reasons for gratitude socialization in a baseline survey and then seven-days of
online diaries about their gratitude socialization behaviors and their children’s gratitude
behaviors. Structural equation modeling was used to examine if parents’ reasons for gratitude
socialization directly predicted children’s gratitude behaviors and if this association was
mediated by parents’ gratitude socialization behaviors. Results suggest that parents who socialize
gratitude for social conformity reasons (e.g., to teach children social norms and manners) may
have children who display fewer gratitude behaviors compared to those who have weaker social
conformity reasons; there was no direct effect of morally-motivated reasons for gratitude
socialization (e.g., to teach social responsibility and promote social justice) on children’s
gratitude behaviors. A marginally significant meditational pathway was found wherein parents
who had stronger morally-motivated reasons for socialization engaged in more gratitude
socialization behaviors, and parents who engaged in more socialization behaviors had children
who engaged in more gratitude-related behaviors. These findings provide a basis for
understanding how parents’ different reasons for socialization influence the development of
gratitude in children, which may have implications for children’s socio-emotional well-being.
Nietzsche's Evolving Dionysus: From a Dialectic of Tragedy to a Philosophy of Becoming
Creators: name: Laird, Mark
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Out of all the philosophers of the 20th century, Nietzsche stands out through his influence and his originality. There was no other thinker in his day that so forcefully challenged prevailing customs and traditions in thought and everyday life. There was perhaps no other thinker in his time with such a startling influence on the modern world. Nietzsche possessed a tremendous scope. He was one of the first existentialists. He was also a philologist, a scholar of Ancient Greece, well versed in the Christian religion, and deeply knowledgeable about the current, philosophical thought of his day. Though recognized by many at first for his potential, his first book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was met with great disdain. In a typical Nietzschean fashion, it stood out from the crowd. The Birth of Tragedy was a challenge against the popular philosophical idealism of his day (Anderson). In this work, Nietzsche began his investigation into the Dionysian and Apollonian conflicts in tragedy. Though he later loses a significant interest in Apollo, Nietzsche’s first book is still an intriguing insight into his thought on art and Greek life and Dionysus. It is necessary to begin with The Birth of Tragedy if one wishes to know better the Dionysian heart in Nietzsche’s work. It is my aim in this thesis to look at the evolution of Dionysus in Nietzsche’s thought. The Dionysian element of Nietzsche’s thinking was chosen for the significant influence it has on the philosopher’s ever-changing perspectives. In his last works, Nietzsche desires to do nothing less than recover the Dionysian in German life, and perhaps for the world itself. In order to know Nietzsche better through Dionysus, I first investigated a compelling and beautifully written work, Dionysus at Large, by Marcel Detienne on Dionysus’s role in Ancient Greek life, and how the Greeks saw and interacted with him. This Dionysus is not different from Nietzsche’s Dionysus. Nietzsche, always admiring the life of the pre-Socratic Greeks, stayed loyal to the nature of the original Dionysus in his work. His Dionysus is therefore not something novel as it is unique in its place in a philosophical system. Nietzsche, being one of the most creative and ingenious philosophers of his time, and indeed after his time, resurrects the Dionysian from ancient Greek life in a way few other philosophers could ever imagine doing.
title: Von der Lebensphilosophie zurück zum transzendentalen Idealismus
title: Eine fundamentalanthropologische Perspektive auf den Theoriebegriff des ›Lebens‹ beim späteren Fichte
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Adolphi, Rainer
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie
subject: Fichte
subject: Transzendentaltheorie
subject: Wirklichkeit
subject: Bewusstsein

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms and Service Overlay Networks
Creators: name: Kellerer, Wolfgang
name: Magedanz, Thomas
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: telecommunication
subject: Service Delivery Platforms
subject: SDP
subject: network

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1152
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1425 col. 13. Philodemus, De poematis 5
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
Local Temperature Redistribution and Structural Transition During Joule-Heating-Driven Conductance Switching in VO2
Creators: name: Kumar, Suhas
name: Pickett, Matthew D.
name: Strachan, John Paul
name: Gibson, Gary
name: Nishi, Yoshio
name: Williams, R. Stanley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Joule-heating induced conductance-switching is studied in VO2, a Mott insulator. Complementary in-situ techniques including optical characterization, blackbody microscopy, scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) and numerical simulations are used. Abrupt redistribution in local temperature is shown to occur upon conductance-switching along with a structural phase transition, at the same current.
Understanding Insurgent Behaviors: The Effect of External Support on Insurgent Violence in Civil Conflicts
Creators: name: Alkoutami, Sandy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Civil wars, though defined at the intrastate level, rarely remain a conflict between insurgents and their government adversaries. Civil wars provide a platform for larger international tensions and dynamics that transcend state boundaries. Often, foreign states intervene to support a particular group’s trajectory in the conflict. This assistance can range from direct monetary funding, military advising, to the provision of training, funds, safe havens, intelligence, weapons, and additional critical resources for warring actors. The thesis examines the interaction between foreign support and insurgent behaviors. Specifically, it pursues the following question: how does foreign sponsorship affect insurgent treatment of civilians in civil conflicts? In addressing this question, the thesis employs a mixed-methodology analysis, pairing a quantitative study using the Strategies and Tactics in Armed Conflict (STAC) Dataset with exploratory cases from insurgents in El Salvador and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The quantitative analysis estimates a logistic regression and does not find a significant relationship between external support and insurgent-led civilian abuses, despite controlling for various insurgent, government, and conflict characteristics. From the case studies, the thesis finds the rebel forces that committed fewer civilian abuses all share a common characteristic: a strong political wing and aim. The thesis concludes that the relationship between external support and insurgent violence is insignificant, and that politically-legitimate rebel groups are more prone to show restraint toward civilians. Nonetheless, these findings are not definitive, and further research must be done to continue understanding and contributing to the topic of insurgent behaviors in times of civil conflict.
Open Soil Atlas - Citizen Science Project for Testing and Measuring Soil Fertility in Berlin
Creators: name: Busnardo, Sara
name: Volkmann, Fabio
name: Ferrari, Elena
name: Verones, Anna
name: Purinton, Ben
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, we analyzed the result from 77 datasets were collected by citizen scientists. In a final analysis, it was concluded that mostly all sites that are not being actively regenerated show a certain amount of soil degradation. As soil samples were taken only at specific points, they are still not representative of the overall state of soils of Berlin. Further testing is needed and the possibility for scaling up the results achieved in this 6-months accelerator is promising.
The Role of Dynorphin Signaling in the Central Amygdala on Binge-like Drinking and Anxiety-like Behaviors.
Creators: name: Desai, Shivani
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: According to the Centers for Disease Control, excessive alcohol use cost the United States nearly 249 billion dollars in 2010 and binge drinking accounted for 77% of these costs. Repeated episodes of binge drinking may increase the risk of alcohol use disorder and thus, it is important to understand the neurobiological changes that occur with excessive alcohol drinking. Individuals struggling with alcohol substance-use disorder have an upregulation of the neuropeptide, dynorphin, in the hippocampus. Dynorphin, the endogenous ligand for the Kappa Opioid Receptor, is known to produce negative affective states in humans. Due to the likely presence of dynorphin upregulation following binge drinking, alcohol drinking experiments were conducted via the drinking in the dark (DID) paradigm. Dynorphin knockout was performed in a model of binge-like drinking to gain insight on the role of dynorphin in mediating alcohol consumption behaviors. Since a history of alcohol drinking can increase anxiety, and knockout animals consumed less ethanol than control animals, an elevated plus maze (EPM) was used to examine whether the knockout alters anxiety-levels in ethanol treatment and naïve (non-drinking) animals. The results demonstrate the effects of dynorphin knockout on ethanol consumption behaviors. Experiments demonstrated that the dynorphin knockout cohort had lower ethanol consumption levels. In addition, the ethanol treatment mice did not demonstrate significant changes in anxiety-like behavior compared to the naïve mice. Understanding these neurobiological changes can help advance the range of pharmaceutical medications for substance-use disorders.
Dionysian cosmology
Creators: name: Neves, J. C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Nietzschean philosophy, the concept of force from physics is important to build one of its main concepts: the will to power. The concept of force, which Nietzsche found out in the Classical Mechanics, almost disappears in the physics of the XX century with the Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity. Is the Nietzschean world as contending forces, a Dionysian cosmology, possible in the current science?
description: 11 pages, published in "Cadernos Nietzsche", text in Portuguese
Stability of the tangent bundle of G/P in positive characteristics
Creators: name: Biswas, Indranil
name: Chaput, Pierre-Emmanuel
name: Mourougane, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M17, 14G17, 14J60

description: Let $G$ be an almost simple simply-connected affine algebraic group over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p > 0$. If $G$ has type $B_n$, $C_n$ or $F_4$, we assume that $p > 2$, and if $G$ has type $G_2$, we assume that $p > 3$. Let $P \subset G$ be a parabolic subgroup. We prove that the tangent bundle of $G/P$ is Frobenius stable with respect to the anticanonical polarization on $G/P$.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1153
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1425 col. 14. Philodemus, De poematis 5
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
Regular expressions for decoding of neural network outputs
Creators: name: Strauß, Tobias
name: Leifert, Gundram
name: Grüning, Tobias
name: Labahn, Roger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 49L20, 90C39, 82C32

description: This article proposes a convenient tool for decoding the output of neural networks trained by Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) for handwritten text recognition. We use regular expressions to describe the complex structures expected in the writing. The corresponding finite automata are employed to build a decoder. We analyze theoretically which calculations are relevant and which can be avoided. A great speed-up results from an approximation. We conclude that the approximation most likely fails if the regular expression does not match the ground truth which is not harmful for many applications since the low probability will be even underestimated. The proposed decoder is very efficient compared to other decoding methods. The variety of applications reaches from information retrieval to full text recognition. We refer to applications where we integrated the proposed decoder successfully.
description: 21 pages, 8 (+2) figures, 2 tables
Classification of sports
Creators: name: Terwiel, Sophia
name: Luhmann, Maike
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The aim of the study is to develop a classification system of different sports that expands existing classification systems by including psychologically relevant dimensions (e.g. effects of sport on subjective well-being or mood). To identify relevant dimensions, a systematic literature review on existing classification systems is combined with a qualitative data analysis of open-ended descriptions of specific sports. For each of the identified dimensions, items will be developed that will be further tested empirically in subsequent studies not outlined here.
Drawing the Horton Set in an Integer Grid of Minimum Size
Creators: name: Barba, Luis
name: Duque, Frank
name: Fabila-Monroy, Ruy
name: Hidalgo-Toscano, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In 1978 Erd\H os asked if every sufficiently large set of points in general position in the plane contains the vertices of a convex $k$-gon, with the additional property that no other point of the set lies in its interior. Shortly after, Horton provided a construction---which is now called the Horton set---with no such $7$-gon. In this paper we show that the Horton set of $n$ points can be realized with integer coordinates of absolute value at most $\frac{1}{2} n^{\frac{1}{2} \log (n/2)}$. We also show that any set of points with integer coordinates combinatorially equivalent (with the same order type) to the Horton set, contains a point with a coordinate of absolute value at least $c \cdot n^{\frac{1}{24}\log (n/2)}$, where $c$ is a positive constant.
Homespun Heart
Creators: name: Bourne, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Contents: Philosophy Graduate Student; Missing; Deaf Gossip; My Great Uncle Who Barks; Inside the dream catcher; Ricky; Camouflage; Kationary; Hey Austin; Your Local Jobs; Bad Word; New Renter Agreement; Hobert Lee Frank; The Evicted Remains; Bringing Down the House; Dear Grandma Frank; #InstaGrief; I confess to the murder; Duckzilla; Binge; Double Exposure; Closed Doors; Stay; Leaving Welcome, NC
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1154
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1425 col. 15. Philodemus, De poematis 5
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
title: Vehicular Communication for Collective Perception : Adaptive and Communication-Efficient Vehicular Perception Mechanisms
Creators: name: Khalil, Ahmad
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: The global road safety report for 2023 highlights a worryingly high number of 1.19 million road traffic fatalities per year.
Notably, European road accidents, predominantly caused by human errors, highlight the urgent necessity for advanced vehicle automation to supplement or replace human driver control.
Effective autonomous driving systems rely on reliable vehicular perception, crucial for vehicles to accurately perceive their surroundings.
Vehicular perception must deliver consistently reliable results across diverse scenarios and conditions.
Various methods, such as object detection models realize vehicular perception.
Presently, deep neural networks dominate object detection in vehicular contexts due to their superior performance.
However, the conventional approach of centrally training object detection models involves transferring vehicle data to central servers, which raises concerns about privacy and bandwidth usage.
Furthermore, this method leads to models (situation-agnostic) that perform poorly in specific conditions such as adverse weather or complex traffic scenarios.

To address these challenges, the first contribution of this thesis introduces the Situation-aware Collective Perception (SCP) framework which provides two-stage perception.
Environmental situations are initially detected, and then the situation-aware object detection models are employed based on the detection situation.
This framework enables transitioning from conventional situation-agnostic to situation-aware object detection.
When integrated with V2X communication, our framework supports collaborative and online model training directly in vehicles.
Evaluations under diverse environmental conditions demonstrate that using situation-aware models notably improves detection performance.

Moreover, a notable finding emerging from our first contribution highlights the negative impact of increased data heterogeneity on the performance of the object detection models.
To effectively mitigate the adverse influence of data heterogeneity, the second contribution focuses on mitigating data heterogeneity by introducing two novel methods that leverage both data characteristics and model parameters to enable an optimized training process. 
Evaluation of our methods using camera data from the vehicular field demonstrates a remarkable enhancement in model training convergence and detection performance compared with state-of-the-art approaches.

Lastly, the third contribution introduces the Adaptive Resource-aware Clustered Federated Learning (AR-CFL) framework.
By integrating with the collaborative and online perception model training paradigm of our SCP framework, AR-CFL optimizes communication efficiency through the creation of efficient vehicle clusters for localized model training.

Overall, the proposed approaches are promising for increasing vehicular perception by enabling adaptive perception while considering communication efficiency.
title: Cryptocurrencies and Capital Flows: Evidence from El Salvador’s Adoption of Bitcoin
Creators: name: Goldbach, Stefan
name: Nitsch, Volker
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: This paper explores a monetary experiment, the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador in 2021, to analyze the impact of digital currencies on international capital flows. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that, instead of making transfers easier, El Salvador’s official cross-border financial activity has decreased after the monetary change. This finding may reflect an increase in uncertainty. However, it is also in line with findings that link digital assets to illegal activity as previously officially recorded financial transfers may have been replaced by unrecorded activities.
ZNN - A Fast and Scalable Algorithm for Training 3D Convolutional Networks on Multi-Core and Many-Core Shared Memory Machines
Creators: name: Zlateski, Aleksandar
name: Lee, Kisuk
name: Seung, H. Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Convolutional networks (ConvNets) have become a popular approach to computer vision. It is important to accelerate ConvNet training, which is computationally costly. We propose a novel parallel algorithm based on decomposition into a set of tasks, most of which are convolutions or FFTs. Applying Brent's theorem to the task dependency graph implies that linear speedup with the number of processors is attainable within the PRAM model of parallel computation, for wide network architectures. To attain such performance on real shared-memory machines, our algorithm computes convolutions converging on the same node of the network with temporal locality to reduce cache misses, and sums the convergent convolution outputs via an almost wait-free concurrent method to reduce time spent in critical sections. We implement the algorithm with a publicly available software package called ZNN. Benchmarking with multi-core CPUs shows that ZNN can attain speedup roughly equal to the number of physical cores. We also show that ZNN can attain over 90x speedup on a many-core CPU (Xeon Phi Knights Corner). These speedups are achieved for network architectures with widths that are in common use. The task parallelism of the ZNN algorithm is suited to CPUs, while the SIMD parallelism of previous algorithms is compatible with GPUs. Through examples, we show that ZNN can be either faster or slower than certain GPU implementations depending on specifics of the network architecture, kernel sizes, and density and size of the output patch. ZNN may be less costly to develop and maintain, due to the relative ease of general-purpose CPU programming.
Genotype Imputation and Evaluation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in 437 Women of East Asian Descent
Creators: name: Mei, Wenwen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: As a result of increasing interests in discovering single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated complex diseases and high cost of existing sequencing technology, genotype imputation is developed as a statistical method to overcome the limitations of current sequencing technology and to increase the power of the association method of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS). In this paper, genotype imputation is conducted on Tianjin sample with two reference panels; the 1000 Genomes reference panel and the TOPMed reference panel. First, pre-imputation quality control is applied to remove individuals or genetic markers that may induce high error rates when conducting imputation. Principal component analysis was conducted to show the East Asian ancestry of the sample. Using Minimac3, imputation was performed on a sample of 437 individuals with 499,148 genetic variants after haplotype inference with Eagle software from Illumina 660W. Approximately 47 million and 88 million genetic variants were imputed using 1000G and TOPMed reference panels respectively. The estimated squared Pearson's correlation (R2) was used to determine which of the imputed SNPs passed the post-imputation quality control. Approximately 9.5 million imputed SNPs from the 1000G reference panel and 11 million imputed SNPs from the TOPMed reference panel exceeded the R2 threshold. To assess imputation quality, imputation was again performed on the original 437 individuals, but with 5% of the directly genotyped genetic variants randomly masked. The imputed variants for chromosomes 1, 11, and 21 were selected to calculate the true squared Pearson's correlation; and the masking results for the two reference panels were compared to determine which reference panel is more suited for this sample. Overall, the imputation provides an accurate set of genetic markers that can be used in the downstream GWAS analysis to explore SNPs associated with lung cancer.
Statistical analysis of air pollution data in Beijing, China
Creators: name: Chen, Yang
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Deskriptive Datenanalyse
subject: Explorative Datenanalyse
subject: Autokorrelation
subject: Faktorenanalyse
subject: Diskontinuitätstest
subject: Descriptive Data Analysis
subject: Exploratory Data Analysis
subject: Seasonal Analysis
subject: Autocorrelation
subject: Factor Analysis
subject: Discontinuity Test
subject: 310 Sammlungen allgemeiner Statistiken

description: Luftverschmutzung ist eine der schwerwiegendsten negativen Nebenwirkungen im Prozess der Industrialisierung. China, spielt seit Ende des letzten Jahrhunderts eine führende Rolle der Industrialisierung in der Welt, ist schon bewusst, wie wichtig es ist, die Luftverschmutzung zu erkennen, zu identifizieren und zu reduzieren. Diese Arbeit verwendet sekundäre Datensätze von Feinstaub (PM5), die durch Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center in Peking (BJMEMC) gesammelt wurden, um die Muster zu untersuchen und den potentiellen Trend der Luftverschmutzung im Großraum Peking im Zeitraum von 2013 bis 2017 zu identifizieren mittels deskriptiver und explorativer Datenanalyse. Analyse zeigt, dass das Großraum Peking unter starker Verschmutzung der Feinstaub leidet, aber in den Daten ist ein deutlicher Rückgang zu beobachten. Das Ergebnis des Diskontinuitätstests zeigt keine Hinweise auf eine massive Diskontinuität an den Grenzwerten.
description: Air pollution is one of the most serious negative side effects in the process of industrialization. China, standing in the leading position of manufacturing and industrial production since the end of last century, has realized the importance of recognizing, identifying and reducing air pollution. This paper uses secondary data sets of suspended particulate matter(PM5) collected from Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center(BJMEMC), to examine the patterns and identify the potential trend of air pollution in broadly Beijing area in the time period from 2013 to 2017 by doing descriptive and exploratory data analysis. The analysis shows that the great Beijing area is under severe particulate matters pollution but there is an obvious trend of decreasing shown in the data. Discontinuity test result shows no evidence consistent with a massive discontinuity at the cut-offs.
High Spatial Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of the IC443 Pulsar Wind Nebula and Environs
Creators: name: Swartz, Douglas A.
name: Pavlov, George G.
name: Clarke, Tracy
name: Castelletti, Gabriela
name: Zavlin, Vyacheslav E.
name: Bucciantini, Niccolò
name: Karovska, Margarita
name: van der Horst, Alexander J.
name: Yukita, Mihoko
name: Weisskopf, Martin C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deep Chandra ACIS observations of the region around the putative pulsar, CXOU J061705.3+222127, in the supernova remnant IC443 reveal an ~5$^{\prime\prime}$-radius ring-like structure surrounding the pulsar and a jet-like feature oriented roughly north-south across the ring and through the pulsar's location at 06$^{\rm h}$17$^{\rm m}$5.200$^{\rm s}$ +22$^{\circ}$21$^{\prime}$27.52$^{\prime\prime}$ (J2000.0 coordinates). The observations further confirm that (1) the spectrum and flux of the central object are consistent with a rotation-powered pulsar, (2) the non-thermal spectrum and morphology of the surrounding nebula are consistent with a pulsar wind and, (3) the spectrum at greater distances is consistent with thermal emission from the supernova remnant. The cometary shape of the nebula, suggesting motion towards the southwest, appears to be subsonic: There is no evidence either spectrally or morphologically for a bow shock or contact discontinuity; the nearly circular ring is not distorted by motion through the ambient medium; and the shape near the apex of the nebula is narrow. Comparing this observation with previous observations of the same target, we set a 99% confidence upper limit to the proper motion of CXOU J061705.3+222127 to be less than 44 mas/yr (310 km/s for a distance of 1.5 kpc), with the best-fit (but not statistically significant) projected direction toward the west.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
"Midwife with a Capital M": Professional Identities of Midwives in England and Scotland
Creators: name: Williams, Maggie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: In the United Kingdom, a majority of babies are delivered by midwives, whereas in the United
States, midwives attend less than ten percent of births. As the standard of maternity care in the
U.K., midwives practice in all birth settings, ranging from hospitals to homebirths. This thesis
explores how practicing in a variety of settings within the context of a nationalized healthcare
system affects midwives’ professional practice and interpersonal relationships. Thematic analysis
from twenty-nine interviews provides insight into midwives’ nuanced perspectives on
relationships to institutions, the effects of dissimilar practice settings, and relationships to other
healthcare providers. Through analysis of midwives’ professional experiences, this thesis will
reveal the heterogeneity in the field of midwifery, despite the typically homogenizing effects of
professionalization. Upon examination, this diversity among midwives may strengthen the
profession amidst ongoing challenges.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1155
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1425 col. 16. Philodemus, De poematis 5
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1156
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1425 col. 19. Philodemus, De poematis 5
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
Genome-wide CRISPR screens reveal genetic essentialities in EP300 truncated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Creators: name: 杨茗羽(Mingyu Yang)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Monoisolate

description: background: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of aggressive lymphoid malignancy and a highly heterogeneous disease. Methods: In this study, we performed whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing and a genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screen to study an activated B-cell like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) cell line (RC-K8). Targeted genes were validated by single- gene knockout and inhibitor assays. We have furthermore re-analyzed the published CRISPR-Cas9 screens from a pan-cancer study and sets of DLBCL lines. Results: Using a summarizing method optimized to address the complexity introduced by the time course design, we identified a distinct pattern of genetic essentialities in RC-K8, including a dependency on CREBBP and MDM2, shown at early time points and a gradually increased dependency on oxidative phosphorylation-related genes. The dependency on CREBBP is associated with the corresponding genetic alterations identified in this cell line, i.e., a balanced translocation involving EP300, which results in a truncated form of the protein that lacks the critical bromodomain and the histone acetyltransferase (HAT) domain. We further evaluated the previously published CRISPR-Cas9 screens and identified a genetic essentiality of the CREBBP or EP300 gene in a small set of cancer cell lines, including several DLBCL cell lines that are highly sensitive for EP300 knockout and with CREBBP mutations or copy number loss. The dependency of the remaining HAT function in the CREBBP and/or EP300-deficient genotype was validated by testing the HAT domain inhibitor A-485. Conclusions: Our study suggests that integration of the unbiased functional screen results with genomic and transcriptomic data can identify druggable vulnerability in individual or subgroups of tumours, which may help to develop more effective therapeutic strategies for cancers that are genetically highly heterogeneous, such as DLBCL.
Matsubara trajectory study of centroid molecular dynamics
Creators: name: Prada, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Matsubara dynamics, first proposed in 2015, is a theory that combines classical dynamics with quantum statistics. It has helped to explain the theoretical basis for other quantum molecular dynamics methods including centroid molecular dynamics (CMD). It has been observed that for the one-dimensional q-TIP4P/F potential under the Feynman-Kleinert approximation, CMD and Matsubara trajectories follow each other at short times. In this work we show that there is a systematic clustering of Matsubara trajectories around the CMD trajectory, given a correct sampling of the non-centroid modes. We were also able to conclude that this is not due to weak coupling of the non-centroid modes with the centroid. Post-averaging of Matsubara trajectories gives a good agreement with CMD, which suggests that an expansion of the fluctuation force around the centroid force may help to explain CMD.
On Scale-Dependent Cosmic Shear Systematic Effects
Creators: name: Kitching, T. D.
name: Taylor, A. N.
name: Cropper, M.
name: Hoekstra, H.
name: Hood, R. K. E.
name: Massey, R.
name: Niemi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the impact that realistic scale-dependence systematic effects may have on cosmic shear tomography. We model spatially varying residual ellipticity and size variations in weak lensing measurements and propagate these through to predicted changes in the uncertainty and bias of cosmological parameters. We show that the survey strategy - whether it is regular or randomised - is an important factor in determining the impact of a systematic effect: a purely randomised survey strategy produces the smallest biases, at the expense of larger parameter uncertainties, and a very regularised survey strategy produces large biases, but unaffected uncertainties. However, by removing, or modelling, the affected scales (l-modes) in the regular cases the biases are reduced to negligible levels. We find that the integral of the systematic power spectrum is not a good metric for dark energy performance, and we advocate that systematic effects should be modelled accurately in real space, where they enter the measurement process, and their effect subsequently propagated into power spectrum contributions.
description: 14 pages. Submitted to MNRAS
D5.3 - Citizen Science Projects on High-Energy Physics
Creators: name: Miller, Grant
name: Hemming, Gary
name: Kourkoumelis, Christine
name: Vourakis, Stelios
name: Angelidakis, Stylianos
name: Fassouliotis, Dimitris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This document is designed to report on REINFORCE deliverable D5.3 ‘Citizen Science Projects on HEP’. Deliverable D5.3 is focused on the construction and delivery of the WP5 demonstrator project as described in task T5.3 (outlined below).
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1157
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1425 col. 20. Philodemus, De poematis 5
Drawing by Gennaro Casanova
CFP: THE SACRED, THE SPIRITUAL AND THE RELIGIOUS IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL SOCIETIES
Creators: name: Lefrançois, Frédéric
name: Désert, Gérald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: seligion
subject: spirituality
subject: sacred
subject: anthropology
subject: society
subject: culture
subject: arts
subject: aesthetics
subject: psychology
subject: philsophy
subject: transdisciplinary studies
subject: cultural studies
subject: https://nakanjournal.com/le-sacre-le-spirituel-et-le-religieux/

description: This Call for Papers issued by NaKaN Learned Society straightens out the aggregative connections between three notions that have profoundly impacted the transformation of human societies throughout history: the sacred, the religious, and the spiritual. Their interactions can be better understood on the basis of a core investigation into their actual resonance in our contemporary times. Contributions from diverse academic and disciplinary, or cross-disciplinary, viewpoints are welcome. For further information, read the attached document.
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