cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 236.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 10.10.2011, 08:30, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 1.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Robust Beam Search for Encoder-Decoder Attention Based Speech Recognition without Length Bias
Creators: name: Zhou, Wei
name: Schlüter, Ralf
name: Ney, Hermann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: As one popular modeling approach for end-to-end speech recognition, attention-based encoder-decoder models are known to suffer the length bias and corresponding beam problem. Different approaches have been applied in simple beam search to ease the problem, most of which are heuristic-based and require considerable tuning. We show that heuristics are not proper modeling refinement, which results in severe performance degradation with largely increased beam sizes. We propose a novel beam search derived from reinterpreting the sequence posterior with an explicit length modeling. By applying the reinterpreted probability together with beam pruning, the obtained final probability leads to a robust model modification, which allows reliable comparison among output sequences of different lengths. Experimental verification on the LibriSpeech corpus shows that the proposed approach solves the length bias problem without heuristics or additional tuning effort. It provides robust decision making and consistently good performance under both small and very large beam sizes. Compared with the best results of the heuristic baseline, the proposed approach achieves the same WER on the 'clean' sets and 4% relative improvement on the 'other' sets. We also show that it is more efficient with the additional derived early stopping criterion.
description: accepted at INTERSPEECH2020
Optimal Sewer Network Design for Cities in Hilly Regions
Creators: name: Saldarriaga, Juan
name: Herrán, Juana
name: Iglesias-Rey, Pedro L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 80699
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: This paper proposes a method to include drop manholes in the optimal design of sewer networks. These structures dissipate energy and reduce flow velocity, which is important in hilly regions where high slopes induce velocities that exceed the maximum allowable. The methodology proposed here introduces a new type of arc to represent drop manholes in a model that uses graph theory to achieve the minimum cost design of a sewer network. Also, for the estimation of drop manhole costs, a new cost function is developed based on pipe and manhole cost equations proposed in the literature. The methodology was tested in eight different series of pipe configurations, as well as a real sewer network located in Colombia, varying the pipe material and the land slope. The results demonstrated that the proposed methodology allows for the optimal design of sewer networks in hilly regions while satisfying all hydraulic and commercial constraints.
A Classification Scheme for Young Stellar Objects Using the WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER AllWISE Catalog: Revealing Low-Density Star Formation in the Outer Galaxy
Creators: name: Koenig, Xavier
name: Leisawitz, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an assessment of the performance of WISE and the AllWISE data release in a section of the Galactic Plane. We lay out an approach to increasing the reliability of point source photometry extracted from the AllWISE catalog in Galactic Plane regions using parameters provided in the catalog. We use the resulting catalog to construct a new, revised young star detection and classification scheme combining WISE and 2MASS near and mid-infrared colors and magnitudes and test it in a section of the Outer Milky Way. The clustering properties of the candidate Class I and II stars using a nearest neighbor density calculation and the two-point correlation function suggest that the majority of stars do form in massive star forming regions, and any isolated mode of star formation is at most a small fraction of the total star forming output of the Galaxy. We also show that the isolated component may be very small and could represent the tail end of a single mechanism of star formation in line with models of molecular cloud collapse with supersonic turbulence and not a separate mode all to itself.
description: 53 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Performance Assessment Method for Small- and Medium-Sized Urban Water Systems: Development and Implementation
Creators: name: Pokhrel, Sarin Raj
name: Chhipi-Shrestha, Gyan
name: Mian, Haroon
name: Hewage, Kasun
name: Sadiq, Rehan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Performance assessment of Small and Medium-Sized Water Systems (SMWSs) is important for operational, tactical, and strategic decision-making. In this study, a performance assessment method has been developed and applied to five drinking water, three wastewater, and two stormwater utilities using 39, 30 and 27 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in a semi-arid region. The KPIs were aggregated to determine a performance index using a Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution method. K-nearest neighbors and penalty methods were used to estimate missing KPIs data. The results indicated that only two drinking water utilities and one wastewater utility had been rated as ‘high’ performance. None of the utilities in stormwater performance was rated as ‘high’. The developed method can assist decision-makers in evaluating SMWSs performance holistically, build operational management strategies, and identify necessary interventions in overcoming water systems challenges across each urban water system component.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 41.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 26.02.2011, 09:30, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Relative hyperbolicity of hyperbolic-by-cyclic groups
Creators: name: Dahmani, François
name: S, Suraj Krishna M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 20E36, 20E08, 20F67

description: Let $G$ be a torsion-free hyperbolic group and $α$ an automorphism of $G$. We show that there exists a canonical collection of subgroups that are polynomially growing under $α$, and that the mapping torus of $G$ by $α$ is hyperbolic relative to the suspensions of the maximal polynomially growing subgroups under $α$.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure. v2: Incorporates referee comments
Emulating Quantum Interference with Generalized Ising Machines
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Shuvro
name: Camsari, Kerem Y.
name: Datta, Supriyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The primary objective of this paper is to present an exact and general procedure for mapping any sequence of quantum gates onto a network of probabilistic p-bits which can take on one of two values 0 and 1. The first $n$ p-bits represent the input qubits, while the other p-bits represent the qubits after the application of successive gating operations. We can view this structure as a Boltzmann machine whose states each represent a Feynman path leading from an initial configuration of qubits to a final configuration. Each such path has a complex amplitude $ψ$ which can be associated with a complex energy. The real part of this energy can be used to generate samples of Feynman paths in the usual way, while the imaginary part is accounted for by treating the samples as complex entities, unlike ordinary Boltzmann machines where samples are positive. Quantum gates often have purely imaginary energy functions for which all configurations have the same probability and one cannot take advantage of sampling techniques. However, if we can use suitable transformations to introduce a real part in the energy function then powerful sampling algorithms like Gibbs sampling can be harnessed to get acceptable results with far fewer samples and perhaps even escape the exponential scaling with $nd$. This algorithmic acceleration can then be supplemented with special-purpose hardware accelerators like Ising Machines which can obtain a very large number of samples per second through a combination of massive parallelism, pipelining, and clockless mixed-signal operation made possible by codesigning circuits and architectures to match the algorithm. Our results for mapping an arbitrary quantum circuit to a Boltzmann machine with a complex energy function should help push the boundaries of the simulability of quantum circuits with probabilistic resources and compare them with NISQ-era quantum computers.
A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION, FAMILIARITY, CONSTRAINT, IMAGE AND TRAVEL INTENTION OF CHINESE NON-VISITORS TO THAILAND
Creators: name: Zhong, Sheng
Publisher: name: University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Year: 2015
Subjects: Huangshan
Sustainable Tourism
Tourist Attitude
Eco Tourism
Ecosystems
Tourist Typology

description: UTCC International Journal of Business and Economics, 7, 1, 75-92
A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF RELIGIOUS TOURIST MOTIVATION, TOURISM IMAGE, SATISFACTION AND LOYALTY - A CASE STUDY OF TOURISTS VISITING JING'AN TEMPLE, CHINA
Creators: name: Zhong, Xi
Publisher: name: University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Year: 2015
Subjects: Jing'An temple
Religious Tourism
Tourist
Religious Tourism Motivation
Tourism Image
Satisfaction
Loyalty

description: UTCC International Journal of Business and Economics, 7, 1, 93-110
Waiting time distribution of solar energetic particle events modeled with a non-stationary Poisson process
Creators: name: Li, Chuan
name: Zhong, Sijia
name: Wang, Linghua
name: Su, Wei
name: Fang, Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the waiting time distributions (WTDs) of solar energetic particle (SEP) events observed with the spacecraft $WIND$ and $GOES$. Both the WTDs of solar electron events (SEEs) and solar proton events (SPEs) display a power-law tail $\sim Δt^{-γ}$. The SEEs display a broken power-law WTD. The power-law index is $γ_{1} =$ 0.99 for the short waiting times ($$100 hours). The break of the WTD of SEEs is probably due to the modulation of the corotating interaction regions (CIRs). The power-law index $γ\sim$ 1.82 is derived for the WTD of SPEs that is consistent with the WTD of type II radio bursts, indicating a close relationship between the shock wave and the production of energetic protons. The WTDs of SEP events can be modeled with a non-stationary Poisson process which was proposed to understand the waiting time statistics of solar flares (Wheatland 2000; Aschwanden $\&$ McTiernan 2010). We generalize the method and find that, if the SEP event rate $λ= 1/Δt$ varies as the time distribution of event rate $f(λ) = A λ^{-α}exp(-βλ)$, the time-dependent Poisson distribution can produce a power-law tail WTD $\sim Δt^{α- 3}$, where $0 \leq α< 2$.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 45.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 04.03.2011, 08:30, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
A transdisciplinary approach for assessing the potential feasibility of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems: case study, Bogotá, Colombia
Creators: name: Sandoval, A. D. Ortega
name: Sánchez, J. P. Rodríguez
name: Bharati, L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology

description: Rapid population growth and urban sprawl have expanded built-up areas, affecting flood patterns in cities. Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) have gained significant attention by attempting to replicate natural pre-development drainage conditions. This paper presents a new transdisciplinary methodology for assessing the potential feasibility of 12 different SUDS typologies by considering physical restrictions and six types of contextual barriers. The approach integrates input from academic and non-academic actors, fuzzy logic, geographic information system tools, and multi-criteria decision analysis. A neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia, was selected as the unit of analysis, framing a relevant case study for highly urbanized areas. The findings demonstrate the differential impact of local context constraints and emphasize the importance of comprehensive approaches to SUDS planning that consider criteria other than technical. The methodology is a tool to support architects, engineers, urban planners, and urban water decision-makers in the planning of sustainable and flood-resilient cities.
Scienza divina e soteriologia in John Wyclif. Studio sull’inedito De sciencia dei
Creators: name: Campi, Luigi
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Ccc
subject: Wyclif
subject: Teologia
subject: Edizione

description: 2009 - 2010
description: The thesis («Divine Knowledge and Soteriology in John Wyclif. An Essay on the unpublished tract De sciencia dei») contains the established text of the wycliffian inedited tract De sciencia dei and a doctinal essay. In the introduction are given many historical, codicological and philological details about the unpublished tract and about the Summa de ente, the academic collection of writings to whom it belongs. In the first chapter are exposed the main contents of the tract pertaining Wyclif’s theory of divine knowledge, considered also in the light of other passages of his works where the same topic is developped. In the second chapter is detected Wyclif’s doctrine of salvation, which is firstly and widely formuled in the De sciencia dei; then, is shown that the soteriology emerging in Wyclif’s later De dominio divino is close to the De sciencia dei’s. Lastly, in the third chapter is suggested an ermeneutical proposal on Wyclif’s theology based on some textual evidencies – including those where the interesting notion of esse intencionale can be seen at work– which show Wyclif’s attempt to safe his theology and philosophy from the risk of determinism and panteism. [edited by Author]
description: La tesi, dal titolo Scienza divina e soteriologia in John Wyclif. Studio sull’inedito «De sciencia dei» presenta il testo stabilito del trattato inedito wycliffiano De sciencia dei, preceduto da uno studio dottrinale. Nell’introduzione, sono fornite le principali informazioni di natura storica, codicologica e filologica circa il trattato oggetto di studio e circa la raccolta di scritti accademici cui appartiene, la Summa de ente. Nel primo capitolo si ripercorrono i principali contenuti del trattato per quanto concerne la dottrina wycliffiana della scienza divina, considerata anche alla luce di altri luoghi della produzione dell’autore nei quali si trovano trattazione parallele. Nel secondo capitolo si è ricostruita la teoria della salvezza di Wyclif, che trova nel De sciencia dei la prima ampia e articolata esposizione; si è proceduto poi a segnalare le linee di continuità dottrinale con il De dominio divino, trattato composto da Wyclif successivamente al completamento della sua raccolta accademica. Infine, nel terzo capitolo si è avanzata un’ipotesi interpretativa più ampia del magistero teologico di Wyclif, muovendo da alcuni spunti rinvenibili nel trattato in esame e negli altri scritti della Summa de ente: si è tentato di mettere in luce il tentativo di Wyclif di affrancare il proprio pensiero dal rischio del determinismo e del panteismo, in particolar modo con rifermento alla nozione di esse intencionale, che sembra introdotta al proposito. [a cura dell'Autore]
A transdisciplinary approach for assessing the potential feasibility of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems: case study, Bogotá, Colombia
Creators: name: Sandoval, A. D. Ortega
name: Sánchez, J. P. Rodríguez
name: Bharati, L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology

description: Rapid population growth and urban sprawl have expanded built-up areas, affecting flood patterns in cities. Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) have gained significant attention by attempting to replicate natural pre-development drainage conditions. This paper presents a new transdisciplinary methodology for assessing the potential feasibility of 12 different SUDS typologies by considering physical restrictions and six types of contextual barriers. The approach integrates input from academic and non-academic actors, fuzzy logic, geographic information system tools, and multi-criteria decision analysis. A neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia, was selected as the unit of analysis, framing a relevant case study for highly urbanized areas. The findings demonstrate the differential impact of local context constraints and emphasize the importance of comprehensive approaches to SUDS planning that consider criteria other than technical. The methodology is a tool to support architects, engineers, urban planners, and urban water decision-makers in the planning of sustainable and flood-resilient cities.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CROSS-CULTURAL BUSINESS INTERACTION AMONGST OFFICE AND MANAGERIAL STAFF IN THAILAND
Creators: name: Epifanova, Sofya
Publisher: name: University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Year: 2015
Subjects: CONTEMPORARY
CROSS-CULTURAL
BUSINESS
OFFICE
MANAGERIAL STAFF
THAILAND

description: UTCC International Journal of Business and Economics, 7, 1, 131-146
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 198.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 28.08.2011, 10:00, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 225.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 29.09.2011, 07:30, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Anisotropy of spin-orbit induced electron spin relaxation in [001] and [111] grown GaAs quantum dots
Creators: name: Segarra, C.
name: Planelles, J.
name: Climente, J. I.
name: Rajadell, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a systematic study of the spin relaxation anisotropy between single electron Zeeman sublevels in cuboidal GaAs quantum dots (QDs). The QDs are subject to an in-plane magnetic field. As the field orientation varies, the relaxation rate oscillates periodically, showing ``magic'' angles where the relaxation rate is suppressed by several orders of magnitude. This behavior is found in QDs with different shapes, heights, crystallographic orientations and external fields. The origin of these angles can be traced back to the symmetries of the spin admixing terms of the Hamiltonian. In [001] grown QDs, the suppression angles are different for Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit terms. By contrast, in [111] grown QDs they are the same, which should facilitate a thorough suppression of spin-orbit induced relaxation. Our results evidence that cubic Dresselhaus terms play a critical role in determining the spin relaxation anisotropy even in quasi-2D QDs.
description: 8 pages, 6 figs, submitted to PRB on 07/30/14
Renormalisation from non-geometric to geometric rough paths
Creators: name: Bruned, Yvain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Hairer-Kelly map has been introduced for establishing a correspondence between geometric and non-geometric rough paths. Recently, a new renormalisation on rough paths has been proposed in (arxiv 1810.12179), built on this map and the Lyons-Victoir extension theorem. In this work, we compare this renormalisation with the existing ones such as BPHZ and the local products renormalisations. We prove that they commute in a certain sense with the Hairer-Kelly map and exhibit an explicit formula in the framework of (arxiv 1810.12179). We also see how the renormalisation behaves in the alternative approach in ( arXiv:1712.01965) for moving from non-geometric to geometric rough paths.
Potential Use of Silica Nanoparticles for the Microbial Stabilisation of Wine: An In Vitro Study Using Oenococcus oeni as a Model
Creators: name: Pachnowska, Kamila
name: Cendrowski, Krzysztof
name: Stachurska, Xymena
name: Nawrotek, Paweł
name: Augustyniak, Adrian
name: Mijowska, Ewa
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche
subject: silica nanospheres
subject: antibacterial agents
subject: stirring
subject: Oenococcus oeni
subject: process stabilisation

description: The emerging trend towards the reduction of SO2 in winemaking has created a need to look for alternative methods to ensure the protection of wine against the growth of undesired species of microorganisms and to safely remove wine microorganisms. This study describes the possible application of silica nanospheres as a wine stabilisation agent, with Oenococcus oeni (DSM7008) as a model strain. The experiment was conducted firstly on model solutions of phosphate-buffered saline and 1% glucose. Their neutralising effect was tested under stirring with the addition of SiO2 (0.1, 0.25, and 0.5 mg/mL). Overall, the highest concentration of nanospheres under continuous stirring resulted in the greatest decrease in cell counts. Transmission electron microscope (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analyses showed extensive damage to the bacterial cells after stirring with silica nanomaterials. Then, the neutralising effect of 0.5 mg/mL SiO2 was tested in young red wine under stirring, where cell counts were reduced by over 50%. The obtained results suggest that silica nanospheres can serve as an alternative way to reduce or substitute the use of sulphur dioxide in the microbial stabilisation of wine. In addition, further aspects of following investigations should focus on the protection against enzymatic and chemical oxidation of wine.
Research progress on the role and mechanism of action of exosomes in autoimmune thyroid disease
Creators: name: Chen, Yuping
name: Dong, Bingtian
name: Huang, Lichun
name: Zhou, Jingxiong
name: Huang, Huibin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Exosomes are widely distributed extracellular vesicles (EVs), which are currently a major research hotspot for researchers based on their wide range of sources, stable membrane structure, low immunogenicity, and containing a variety of biomolecules. A large number of literatures have shown that exosomes and exosome cargoes (especially microRNAs) play an important role in the activation of inflammation, development of tumor, differentiation of cells, regulation of immunity and so on. Studies have found that exosomes can stimulate the immune response of the body and participate in the occurrence and development of various diseases, including autoimmune diseases. Furthermore, the potential of exosomes as therapeutic tools in various diseases has also attracted much attention. Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) is one of the most common autoimmune diseases, mainly composed of Graves’ disease (GD) and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT), which affects the health of many people and has a genetic predisposition, but its pathogenesis is still being explored. Starting from the relevant biological characteristics of exosomes, this review summarizes the current research status of exosomes and the association between exosomes and some diseases, with a focus on the situation of AITD and the potential role of exosomes (including substances in their vesicles) in AITD in combination with the current published literature, aiming to provide new directions for the pathogenesis, diagnosis or therapy of AITD. Supplemental data for this article is available online at
Hypergeometric functions of type $BC$ and standard multiplicities
Creators: name: Narayanan, E. K.
name: Pasquale, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C67 (Primary) 43A32, 43A90 (Secondary)

description: We study the Heckman-Opdam hypergeometric functions associated to a root system of type $BC$ and a multiplicity function which is allowed to assume some non-positive values (a standard multiplicity function). For such functions, we obtain positivity properties and sharp estimates which imply a characterization of the bounded hypergeometric functions. As an application, our results extend known properties of Harish-Chandra's spherical functions on Riemannian symmetric spaces of the non-compact type $G/K$ to spherical functions over homogeneous vector bundles on $G/K$ which are associated to certain small $K-$types.
description: The present paper subsumes and extends the results of the preprint arXiv:1705.00277. With respect to arXiv:2008.00337: Corrected Proposition 3.5. Some computations added in Appendix B
THE WELL-BEING OF FOREIGN TEACHERS IN BANGKOK SCHOOLS AND ITS IMPACT ON QUALITY TEACHING
Creators: name: Boateng, James Nyame
Publisher: name: University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Year: 2015
Subjects: well-being
career
social
physical activity
quality
exercise
stress
workload

description: UTCC International Journal of Business and Economics, 7, 1, 147-172
A potential outcomes approach to selection bias
Creators: name: Kenah, Eben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 93D30, 62D20

description: We propose a novel definition of selection bias in analytic epidemiology using potential outcomes. This definition captures selection bias under both the structural approach (where conditioning on selection into the study opens a noncausal path from exposure to disease in a directed acyclic graph) and the traditional definition (where a given measure of association differs between the study sample and the population eligible for inclusion). It is nonparametric, and selection bias under this approach can be analyzed using single-world intervention graphs both under and away from the null hypothesis. It allows the simultaneous analysis of confounding and selection bias, it explicitly links the selection of study participants to the estimation of causal effects using study data, and it can be adapted to handle selection bias in descriptive epidemiology. Through examples, we show that this approach provides a novel perspective on the variety of mechanisms that can generate selection bias and simplifies the analysis of selection bias in matched studies and case-cohort studies.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures
Analysing Scientific Mobility and Collaboration in the Middle East and North Africa
Creators: name: El-Ouahi, Jamal
name: Robinson-Garcia, Nicolas
name: Costas, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study investigates the scientific mobility and international collaboration networks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region between 2008 and 2017. By using affiliation metadata available in scientific publications, we analyse international scientific mobility flows and collaboration linkages. Three complementary approaches allow us to obtain a detailed characterization of scientific mobility. First, we uncover the main destinations and origins of mobile scholars for each country. Results reveal geographical, cultural and historical proximities. Cooperation programs also contribute to explain some of the observed flows. Second, we use the academic age. The average academic age of migrant scholars in MENA was about 12.4 years. The academic age group 6-to-10 years is the most common for both emigrant and immigrant scholars. Immigrants are relatively younger than emigrants, except for Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and Turkey. Scholars who migrated to Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Jordan and Morocco were in average younger than emigrants by 1.5 year from the same countries. Third, we analyse gender differences. We observe a clear gender gap: Male scholars represent the largest group of migrants in MENA. We conclude discussing the policy relevance of the scientific mobility and collaboration aspects.
description: 37 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 31.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 11.02.2011, 09:15, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
THE COMPETENCY OF HUMAN RESOURCES PERSONNEL IMPACTING A HIGH PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATION IN THAILAND
Creators: name: Suthira Anantachart
Publisher: name: University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Year: 2015
Subjects: Competency
Human Resource Competency
High Performance Organization
Sustainable Organization
Thailand
Qualitative Research

description: UTCC International Journal of Business and Economics, 7, 1, 173-196
Resonant mode conversion in the waveguides with an unbroken and broken PT-symmetry
Creators: name: Vysloukh, Victor A.
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study resonant mode conversion in the PT-symmetric multimode waveguides, where symmetry breaking manifests itself in sequential destabilization (appearance of the complex eigenvalues) of the pairs of adjacent guided modes. We show that the efficient mode conversion is possible even in the presence of the resonant longitudinal modulation of the complex refractive index. The distinguishing feature of the resonant mode conversion in the PT-symmetric structure is a drastic growth of the width of the resonance curve when the gain/losses coefficient approaches a critical value, at which symmetry breaking occurs. We found that in the system with broken symmetry the resonant coupling between exponentially growing mode with stable higher-order one effectively stabilizes dynamically coupled pair of modes and remarkably diminishes the average rate of the total power growth.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Relatively hyperbolic groups with strongly shortcut parabolics are strongly shortcut
Creators: name: Hoda, Nima
name: S, Suraj Krishna M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 20F67

description: We show that a group that is hyperbolic relative to strongly shortcut groups is itself strongly shortcut, thus obtaining new examples of strongly shortcut groups. The proof relies on a result of independent interest: we show that every relatively hyperbolic group acts properly and cocompactly on a graph in which the parabolic subgroups act properly and cocompactly on convex subgraphs.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 202.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 01.09.2011, 10:30, erstellt von Michele Bianda
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Research progress on the role and mechanism of action of exosomes in autoimmune thyroid disease
Creators: name: Chen, Yuping
name: Dong, Bingtian
name: Huang, Lichun
name: Zhou, Jingxiong
name: Huang, Huibin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Exosomes are widely distributed extracellular vesicles (EVs), which are currently a major research hotspot for researchers based on their wide range of sources, stable membrane structure, low immunogenicity, and containing a variety of biomolecules. A large number of literatures have shown that exosomes and exosome cargoes (especially microRNAs) play an important role in the activation of inflammation, development of tumor, differentiation of cells, regulation of immunity and so on. Studies have found that exosomes can stimulate the immune response of the body and participate in the occurrence and development of various diseases, including autoimmune diseases. Furthermore, the potential of exosomes as therapeutic tools in various diseases has also attracted much attention. Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) is one of the most common autoimmune diseases, mainly composed of Graves’ disease (GD) and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT), which affects the health of many people and has a genetic predisposition, but its pathogenesis is still being explored. Starting from the relevant biological characteristics of exosomes, this review summarizes the current research status of exosomes and the association between exosomes and some diseases, with a focus on the situation of AITD and the potential role of exosomes (including substances in their vesicles) in AITD in combination with the current published literature, aiming to provide new directions for the pathogenesis, diagnosis or therapy of AITD. Supplemental data for this article is available online at
Online network monitoring
Creators: name: Malinovskaya, Anna
name: Otto, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The application of network analysis has found great success in a wide variety of disciplines; however, the popularity of these approaches has revealed the difficulty in handling networks whose complexity scales rapidly. One of the main interests in network analysis is the online detection of anomalous behaviour. To overcome the curse of dimensionality, we introduce a network surveillance method bringing together network modelling and statistical process control. Our approach is to apply multivariate control charts based on exponential smoothing and cumulative sums in order to monitor networks determined by temporal exponential random graph models (TERGM). This allows us to account for temporal dependence, while simultaneously reducing the number of parameters to be monitored. The performance of the proposed charts is evaluated by calculating the average run length for both simulated and real data. To prove the appropriateness of the TERGM to describe network data, some measures of goodness of fit are inspected. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach by an empirical application, monitoring daily flights in the United States to detect anomalous patterns.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 133.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 14.06.2011, 08:00, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 82.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.04.2011, 09:30, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 292.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 27.12.2011, 09:45, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Generalised intermediate dimensions
Creators: name: Banaji, Amlan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A80 (Primary), 28A78 (Secondary)

description: We introduce a family of dimensions, which we call the $Φ$-intermediate dimensions, that lie between the Hausdorff and box dimensions and generalise the intermediate dimensions introduced by Falconer, Fraser and Kempton. This is done by restricting the relative sizes of the covering sets in a way that allows for greater refinement than in the definition of the intermediate dimensions. We also extend the theory from Euclidean space to a wider class of metric spaces. We prove that these dimensions can be used to 'recover the interpolation' between the Hausdorff and box dimensions of compact subsets for which the intermediate dimensions are discontinuous at $θ=0$, thus providing finer geometric information about such sets. We prove continuity-like results involving the Assouad and lower dimensions, which give a sharp general lower bound for the intermediate dimensions that is positive for all $θ\in (0,1]$ for sets with positive box dimension. We also prove Hölder distortion estimates, a mass distribution principle, and a Frostman type lemma, which we use to study dimensions of product sets.
description: 36 pages, 0 figures. Improved exposition of paper, resulting in it becoming shorter and some numbering changes. Strengthened results in Section 3 by incorporating the lower dimension. To appear in Monatshefte f\"ur Mathematik
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 251.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 01.11.2011, 09:15, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2011

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)