cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Report on the governance of European fisheries in international and SFPA waters
Creators: name: Kvalvik, Ingrid
name: Rodriguez, Alexandre
name: Arias-Hansen, Juliana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: SFPA - Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements
CFP - Common Fisheries Policy
Fisheries management

description: This report is the third deliverable of Task 3.1 within the FarFish project, which focuses on analysing the governance of the EU external fishing fleet, that is industrial vessels over 24m LOA flagged in EU Member States operating most of its time outside EU waters. In the previous deliverable of this task, D3.10, the development of the monitoring and control of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements (SFPAs) providing fisheries access in other coastal states’ EEZ was analysed. In this deliverable, FarFish analyses fisheries on the high seas, more precisely the fisheries taking place in the Southwest Atlantic high seas and highlights the lack of an adequate regional framework with a set of rules to effectively manage and control the fisheries taking place in this area. The deliverable is a manuscript for a scientific journal. It briefly describes the fisheries in the area, and given the lack of obligations for coastal and port states, it is mainly focused on the obligations of the flag states to manage the fisheries and to cooperate to that end. Finally, it presents a number of reasons that might explain why there is not binding conservation and management measures in place on the Southwest Atlantic high seas fisheries.
 Chapter 2 contains the paper/manuscript.
Per fare un albero ci vuole... un romano? un napoletano?
Creators: name: Salvador, Silvano
Publisher: name: Knowledge Commons
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cartography

description: Scarsa, quasi nessuna, attenzione è stata riservata alle essenze arboree che compaiono nella Tabula Peutingeriana. Eppure questo apparentemente innocuo dettaglio, che interessa in tutto tre aree della Tabula (le Silvae Vosagus e Marciana e la vignetta di Antiochia), potrebbe essere...
Supplementary document for Identification of new endoplasmic reticulum formation mechanism by multi-parametric, quantitative super-resolution imaging - 5570654.pdf
Creators: name: Qian, Shuhao
name: Meng, Jia
name: Liu, Wenjie
name: Yang, Lu
name: Wang, Chuncheng
name: Jiang, Rushan
name: Liu, Xu
name: Kuang, Cuifang
name: Ding, Zhihua
name: liu, Zhiyi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Opioid Agonist Therapy Engagement and Crystal Methamphetamine Use : The Impact of Unregulated Opioid Use in Vancouver, Canada
Creators: name: Cui, Zishan
name: Bach, Paxton
name: Ti, Lianping
name: Hayashi, Kanna
name: Morgan, Jeffrey
name: Milloy, M-J
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Background: Crystal methamphetamine use has substantially increased among people who use opioids in recent years, yet the impact of opioid agonist therapy (OAT) on crystal methamphetamine use remains poorly characterized. Therefore, we sought to examine the relationship between OAT engagement and crystal methamphetamine use and to assess if this relationship differs according to the ongoing use of unregulated opioids. Methods: Data was collected from two harmonized ongoing prospective cohorts of people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada, between December 2005 and March 2020. We employed multivariable generalized estimating equations to study the relationship between OAT engagement and crystal meth use stratified by ongoing unregulated opioid use. Results: Of 1742 participants who reported frequent opioid use at baseline, the median age was 42 years, and 61.3% were male. Multivariable analyses showed that compared to those who had not received OAT for at least one year: in the absence of ongoing unregulated opioid use, individuals who recently discontinued (adjusted Odds Ratio [aOR] = 0.47, 95% CI = 0.27-0.79), newly initiated (aOR = 0.52, 95% CI = 0.31-0.89), or were retained on OAT (aOR = 0.48, 95% CI = 0.31-0.72) reported a lower frequency of crystal methamphetamine use; in the presence of ongoing unregulated opioid use, individuals who newly initiated OAT reported a greater crystal methamphetamine use frequency (aOR = 1.24, 95% CI = 1.02-1.51). Conclusions: We demonstrated a differential relationship between OAT engagement and crystal methamphetamine use that was conditional on the ongoing use of unregulated opioids. Our findings highlight the complexity of OAT implementation and suggest that polysubstance use patterns should be an important consideration for care providers when devising comprehensive treatment strategies and prognosticating treatment effects.
Supplementary document for Spectral pedestal during kilowatt-level amplification of random fiber laser operating near lasing threshold - 5570705.pdf
Creators: name: Qi, Tiancheng
name: Li, Dan
name: Wang, Zehui
name: Tian, Jiading
name: Yu, Weilong
name: Wu, Yulun
name: Yan, Ping
name: gong, mali
name: Xiao, Qirong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Detailed properties of individual random seed and fixed-cavity seed
Executable science: reproducing neuroscience analyses through collaborative open source tools and practices.
Creators: name: Kristijan, Armeni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: fMRI
reproducibility
replication
research software engineering
RSE

description: Modern science relies on computational tools. In this interdisciplinary convergence, researchers are increasingly expected to share reproducible analysis code. In this talk, we argue that open source software practices are invaluable for reproducible science. We share experience and lessons learned from a small-scale reproducibility project in an academic neuroscience lab. The goal of the project was two-fold: i) to reproduce a set of published results in computational neuroscience ii) to do so while adopting a set of software development practices and using a suite of open-source analysis and publishing tools. We f irst outline the components of our workflow (the Python scientific stack, collaborative version control, code formatting, automatic code documentation parsing, code packaging, publishing interactive reports via Myst Markdown). We then discuss the main takeaways from our reproducibility attempt. First, while we succeeded in reproducing aspects of original results, discrepancies remained. The code and data, despite being openly available, were lacking documentation in critical parts, forming a barrier to understanding and thus reproducibility. Second, software development practices and tools, when adopted, are tightly coupled with scientific work; we frequently found ourselves reconsidering core analytical choices due to specific stages of our development workflow (e.g. deploying code documentation). Third, we find that choosing the right workflow tools, balancing the trade off between sophistication and achievability, is an important skill. In conclusion, certain software development practices should be an integral part of scientific analysis and publication workflows to equip researchers with the ability to deliver on open science promises.
Coethnic Concentration and Asians’ Perceived Discrimination across U.S. Counties during COVID-19
Creators: name: Lee, Rennie
name: Qian, Yue
name: Wu, Cary
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Aggregate figures unequivocally depict an increase in anti-Asian sentiment in the United States and other Western countries since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is limited understanding of the contexts under which Asians encounter discrimination. The authors examine how coethnic concentration shapes Asians’ experiences of discrimination across U.S. counties during COVID-19 and also assess whether county-level context (e.g., COVID-19 infection rates, unemployment rates) could help explain this relationship. The authors analyze the Understanding Coronavirus in America tracking survey, a nationally representative panel of American households, along with countylevel contextual data. The authors find an n-shaped relationship between coethnic concentration and Asians’ perceived discrimination. This relationship is explained largely by county-level COVID-19 infection rates. Together, the context of medium Asian concentration and high COVID-19 cases created a particularly hostile environment for Asians during COVID-19.
title: East Asia before 'diplomacy': the transformation of China and Japan's foreign policy-making, 1858-1881
Creators: name: Sawai, Isami
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2021

description: The evolution of East Asian international relations in the nineteenth century has traditionally been regarded as a transformation from the Chinese world order to the modern Western international order. This dissertation rethinks this framework by focusing on the East Asian perspectives on their own foreign policy-making. In the 1860s-70s, Chinese documents used the term zhongwai jiaoshe[Sino-foreign negotiation], and Japanese documents used the term gaikoku kōsai [foreign intercourse] rather than the term ‘diplomacy.’ This implies Chinese and Japanese concepts of foreign relations were fundamentally differed from each other’s and those of Western diplomats. Relying on East Asian primary sources, this dissertation compares Chinese and Japanese foreign policy-making from the difference between Chinese and Japanese conceptions of foreign relations. In China, Prince Gong’s group intended to establish a centralised system to secretly manoeuvre the foreign powers, resulting in failure due to the huge geographical distances involved. Prince Gong’s group included high-ranking local officials in the foreign policy-making process, which led to the rise of Li Hongzhang in Tianjin, who coordinated negotiations with the foreign powers. In Japan, the Tokugawa Bakufu’s foreign policy-making was rapidly transformed through the political struggle between Edo and Kyoto, and Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu succeeded in taking control of foreign relations through his manoeuvre. Although the Meiji government initially regarded the foreign relations as pure ‘intercourse’ with other countries, the Gaimushō (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) gradually found a way to pursue its goals through trial and error. The nature of their communications with Western powers in the late 1870s eventually reflected key differences between China and Japan’s foreign policy making; that is, the relationship between the central governments and foreign legations by telegraphy, and their contrasting attitudes towards the establishment of the ‘standard of civilisation’ in international law.
Supplementary document for Coherent Doppler wind lidar with real-time wind processing and low signal-to-noise ratio reconstruction based on a convolutional neural network - 5571172.pdf
Creators: name: Kliebisch, Oliver
name: Uittenbosch, Hugo
name: Thurn, Johann
name: Mahnke, Peter
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Hyperparameters of the described model for neural network training
title: Research on Undergraduate Mathematics Education in Afghanistan: How Students Understand and Learn the Concept of “Function”
Creators: name: Mowahed, Ahmad Khalid
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Balkh University
subject: Afghanistan
subject: Undergraduates
subject: Perception
subject: Function
subject: Curriculum
subject: David Tall
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
subject: Higher Education
subject: Science and Mathematics Education

description: The purpose of this study was to explore undergraduate students’ conception of the concept of function in the education faculty of Balkh University, Afghanistan. In particular, the focus was to see what difficulties they had in learning the concept and to determine those factors that impeded/facilitated the learning of the concept in the curriculum. The research methodology was an exploratory approach where both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyze the data. The theoretical basis for the study was David Tall’s theory which focuses on understanding one’s knowledge and learning. David Tall’s theory was used to analyze qualitative data and descriptive statistics, t – test for two independent samples, and ANOVA were used to present the results of the qualitative data and to test the hypothesis developed after analyzing the qualitative data. Twenty fourth year undergraduate students worked on a questionnaire which was developed based on different aspects of the concept of function and were interviewed to elaborate their written work on the questionnaire. The participants completed the questionnaire and participated in in-depth interviews to reveal their understanding of the concept of function. The major finding was that those who had a good conceptual understanding of the concept could do better in various representations of the concept than those who did not. Also, the set – theoretic definition of the concept helped some of the students to be successful in dealing with various representations of the concept, but it challenged the majority of the students to comprehend this definition and apply it in certain situations. In addition, the concept was not taught with its theoretical aspects and through applied examples in Algebra and Calculus courses where the concept was introduced using two different approaches.
Inability to contact opioid agonist therapy prescribers during the COVID‑19 pandemic in a Canadian setting : A cross‑sectional analysis among people on opioid agonist therapy
Creators: name: Moallef, Soroush
name: DeBeck, Kora
name: Fairbairn, Nadia
name: Cui, Zishan
name: Brar, Rupinder
name: Wilson, Dean
name: Johnson, Cheyenne
name: Milloy, M-J
name: Hayashi, Kanna
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent public health response may have undermined key responses to the protracted drug poisoning crisis, including reduced access to opioid agonist therapy (OAT) among people with opioid use disorder. Our study objectives were to estimate the prevalence of and identify factors associated with inability to contact OAT prescribers when in need among people on OAT in a Canadian setting during the dual public health crises. Methods: Survey data were collected from three prospective cohort studies of community-recruited people who use drugs between July and November 2020, in Vancouver, Canada. A multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to identify potential factors associated with inability to contact OAT prescribers among patients who accessed OAT in the past 6 months. Results: Among 448 respondents who reported accessing OAT in the past 6 months, including 231 (54.9%) men, 85 (19.0%) reported having been unable to contact OAT prescribers when needed, whereas 268 (59.8%) reported being able to talk to their prescriber when needed, and 95 (21.2%) reported that they did not want to talk to their medication prescriber in the previous 6 months. Among those who reported inability to contact prescribers, 45 (53.6%) reported that their overall ability to contact prescribers decreased since the start of the pandemic. In multivariable analyses, factors independently associated with inability to talk to OAT prescribers included: chronic pain (Adjusted Odds Ratio [AOR] = 1.82; 95% Confidence Interval [CI] 1.02, 3.27), moderate to severe symptoms of depression or anxiety (AOR = 4.74; 95% CI 2.30, 9.76), inability to access health/social services (AOR = 2.66; 95% CI 1.41, 5.02), and inability to self-isolate or socially distance most or all of the time (AOR = 2.13; 95% CI 1.10, 4.14). Conclusions: Overall, approximately one fifth of the sample reported inability to contact their OAT prescribers when needed, and those people were more likely to have co-occurring vulnerabilities (i.e., co-morbidities, inability to access health/social services) and higher vulnerability to COVID-19. Interventions are needed to ensure optimal access to OAT and mitigate the deepening health inequities resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the escalating drug poisoning crisis.
Supplementary document for Coherent Doppler wind lidar with real-time wind processing and low signal-to-noise ratio reconstruction based on a convolutional neural network - 5571172.pdf
Creators: name: Kliebisch, Oliver
name: Uittenbosch, Hugo
name: Thurn, Johann
name: Mahnke, Peter
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Hyperparameters of the described model for neural network training
title: Recent Developments in Global Semiconductor Industry
Creators: name: Jones, Lin
name: Lotze, Nathan
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: This executive briefing summarizes recent developments in the global semiconductor (“chips”) industry. In 2022, global
semiconductor sales reached an all-time high at $574 billion. It is projected to surpass $1 trillion by 2030, driven by demands from computing and data storage, wireless communication, and automotive electronics. China is the largest downstream user of semiconductors, as Chinese manufacturers incorporate semiconductors into a range of electronic products that are consumed domestically or exported globally. The United States still captures the largest share of value created in the semiconductor industry, though it is no longer the biggest producer. Global semiconductor manufacturing, instead, is concentrated in four Asian economies—South Korea (S. Korea), Taiwan, China, and Japan. Recognizing the importance of semiconductors for the economy and national security, major economies around the world have recently stepped up efforts to boost investment and expand domestic semiconductor production capacity.
LECTAUREP Contemporary French Model (Administration)
Creators: name: Chagué, Alix
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: kraken_pytorch
HTR
transcription model
recognition model
French
Contemporary French

description: Description The model was trained from the ground truth produced by the LECTAUREP Project (Inria & Archives Nationales) between 2019 and 2022. The training dataset contained many handwriting examples taken from French administrative documents produced between 1742 and 1928. Training and Testing datasets The data was collected from LECTAUREP's ground truth repositories:
 - lectaurep-bronod v0.0.1
 - lectaurep-mariages-et-divorces v.1.0
 - lectaurep-repertoires v2.0 12 pages were kept aside to create a test set. The training dataset contained:
 - 308 files
 - 19 364 lines
 - 329 270 characters The test dataset contained:
 - 12 files
 - 962 lines
 - 15 243 characters Transcription standards The transcriptions were created with eScriptorium. They respect what is written (abbreviations are not developed, capitalization follows 19th century practices). Superscripted portions of text are signaled by `^` and many signatures are transcription with ¥. Training The model was trained using the NFD normalization. Credits The model was trained by Alix Chagué using data created by Aurélia Rostaing, Françoise Limon-Bonnet, Nathalie Denis and Marc Durand. Additional information - more information on the LECTAUREP Project can be found at https://lectaurep.hypotheses.org/
 - more information on the model can be found at https://github.com/lectaurep/lectaurep_base_model
title: CAMIO Transcription Languages
Creators: name: Arrigo, Michael
name: Strassel, Stephanie
name: Caruso, Christopher
Publisher: name: Linguistic Data Consortium
Year: 2022

description: Introduction

CAMIO Transcription Languages was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium and contains nearly 70,000 images of machine printed text with corresponding annotations and transcripts in the following 13 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Russian, Tamil, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

This corpus is a subset of data created for a broader effort to support the development and evaluation of optical character recognition (OCR) and related technologies for 35 languages across 24 unique script types. The CAMIO (Corpus of Annotated Multilingual Images for OCR) collection was designed to address gaps in language and script coverage from existing corpora and to support future evaluation of OCR capabilities through a systematically constructed data set.

Data

Most images were annotated for text localization, resulting in over 2.3M line-level bounding boxes. For the 13 languages represented in this release, 1250 images per language were also annotated with orthographic transcriptions of each line plus specification of reading order, yielding over 2.4M tokens of transcribed text. The resulting annotations are represented in a comprehensive XML output format defined for this corpus.

The script for each language is indicated in parentheses: Arabic (Arabic), Chinese (Simplified), English (Latin), Farsi (Arabic), Hindi (Devanagari), Japanese (Japanese), Kannada (Kannada), Korean (Hangul), Russian (Cyrillic), Tamil (Tamil), Thai (Thai), Urdu (Arabic), and Vietnamese (Latin).

Data for each language is partitioned into test, train or validation sets.

 

Samples

Please view these samples:

Image Sample (png.ldcc)

Annotation Sample (xml)

Updates

None at this time.
Developmental Emergence of Cortical Neurogliaform Cell Diversity
Creators: name: Gomez Teijeiro, Lucia
Publisher: name: (:null)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Q Science (General)
R Medicine (General)
RZ Other systems of medicine
T Technology (General)

description: GABAergic interneurons are key inhibitory regulators of cortical circuit function. Among the dozens of reported transcriptionally distinct types of cortical interneurons, neurogliaform cells (NGCs) are unique: they are the primary source of ‘slow’ cortical inhibition and are recruited by long-range excitatory inputs. Despite their functional importance, the developmental emergence and cellular diversity within this cell type remain unclear. Here, combining single- cell transcriptomics, genetic fate-mapping, electrophysiological characterization and morphological reconstruction, we show that discrete molecular subtypes of NGCs emerge from a common progenitor domain in the embryonic preoptic area (POA). Moreover, using in-utero electroporation, we show that the different NGC subtypes are generated in the POA at E14.5. By reconstructing NGC molecular architecture across development, we demonstrate that newborn NGCs and their postnatal progeny harbor shared molecular features and that the transcription factor Tox2 constitutes an identity hallmark for the different members of the NGC family. Subsequently, using CRISPR-mediated genetic loss-of-function, we reveal that the transcription factor Tox2 is critical for the development of these cells: POA-born cells lacking Tox2 fail to differentiate into NGCs. Together, these results indicate that the different NGC subtypes are born from a spatially restricted pool of POA progenitors, after which subtype signatures are gradually acquired through development via diverging molecular programs and reach a stabilization plateau at early postnatal stages.
Diasporic Hallyu : The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture
Creators: name: Yoon, Kyong, 1974-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular culture. By examining the Korean Wave as diasporic cultural practices rather than the diffusion of national cultural products, the book reveals the diversified ways in which cultural flows are negotiated by audiences who take up relatively ambivalent reception positions between two or more national and cultural contexts. This book expands the scope of transnational audience studies and youth cultural studies by focusing attention on the diasporic media practices of young people.
What to do about borderline hyperglycemia?
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Background: Therapeutics Letter 140 discusses the issue of borderline hyperglycemia, a condition where blood sugar levels are slightly elevated but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. This condition is becoming increasingly common and is associated with a higher risk of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other health problems. Methods: Current research on the management of borderline hyperglycemia was reviewed, including lifestyle interventions such as diet and exercise, as well as pharmacological interventions. The limitations of current diagnostic criteria for diabetes and the need for more accurate methods of identifying individuals at risk for the disease were also discussed. Results: The authors concluded that lifestyle interventions are the first-line treatment for individuals with borderline hyperglycemia, and that pharmacological interventions should be reserved for those who are at higher risk of developing diabetes or who have other risk factors. Available evidence suggests large RCTs combining lifestyle interventions with newer drugs such as GLP-1 agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors could potentially identify more promising treatments. Conclusions: Many people with borderline hyperglycemia will not progress to type 2 diabetes. Borderline hyperglycemia is associated with adverse health outcomes, but other risk factors for cardiovascular disease may be more important. Borderline hyperglycemia can be used as a “wake up call”: an opportunity to discuss options. Emphasize lifestyle optimization with improved diet and physical activity.
MAHALLA MA'NAVIY QADRIYATLARNI ASRAB-AVAYLASH VA RIVOJLANISH MASKANI
Creators: name: Madraximov, Jahongir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada mahallaning ma'naviy qadriyatlarni asrab-avaylash va rivojlantirishdagi o'rni tahlil qilinadi. Mahalla tizimining milliy an'analar va urf-odatlarni saqlashdagi ahamiyati, shuningdek, zamonaviy jamiyatdagi roli o'rganiladi. Tadqiqot natijalari mahalla orqali ma'naviy qadriyatlarni yangi avlodga o'rgatishning samarali usullarini ko'rsatadi.
Enhancing Clinical Documentation with Synthetic Data: Leveraging Generative Models for Improved Accuracy
Creators: name: Biswas, Anjanava
name: Talukdar, Wrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate and comprehensive clinical documentation is crucial for delivering high-quality healthcare, facilitating effective communication among providers, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. However, manual transcription and data entry processes can be time-consuming, error-prone, and susceptible to inconsistencies, leading to incomplete or inaccurate medical records. This paper proposes a novel approach to augment clinical documentation by leveraging synthetic data generation techniques to generate realistic and diverse clinical transcripts. We present a methodology that combines state-of-the-art generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), with real-world clinical transcript and other forms of clinical data to generate synthetic transcripts. These synthetic transcripts can then be used to supplement existing documentation workflows, providing additional training data for natural language processing models and enabling more accurate and efficient transcription processes. Through extensive experiments on a large dataset of anonymized clinical transcripts, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in generating high-quality synthetic transcripts that closely resemble real-world data. Quantitative evaluation metrics, including perplexity scores and BLEU scores, as well as qualitative assessments by domain experts, validate the fidelity and utility of the generated synthetic transcripts. Our findings highlight synthetic data generation's potential to address clinical documentation challenges, improving patient care, reducing administrative burdens, and enhancing healthcare system efficiency.
Unusual presentation of pectus excavatum with anomalous right coronary artery course
Creators: name: Reddy, Bhairavi
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Congenital

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 63 years
description: Clinical History: The patient was referred to rapid access clinic for left sided chest pain and investigated. An exercise tolerance test was performed and it was negative. He was having marked pectus excavatum. He was advised to undergo coronary CT angiography. Final Diagnosis: Pectus excavatum with anomalous intra atrial right coronary artery course.
Formulating Impactful Recommendations
Creators: name: Gobis, Barbara
name: Ziemczonek, Adrian
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Written medication recommendations are an important tool for communication between pharmacists and healthcare providers. Recommendations are formulated to optimize a patient’s medications, resolve drug therapy problems, share next steps in the care plan and much more. This episode explores the elements that are needed to formulate meaningful and effective recommendations, including factors that draw attention, triggering quick action and implementation.
title: Checklisten für die Untersuchung und Beurteilung des Zustandes von Anlagen mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen und Zubereitungen
title: Anlagenbezogener Gewässerschutz: Handlungsleitfaden
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
name: Platkowski, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Gewässerschutz
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Leitfaden
subject: anlagenbezogen
subject: Wasserverschmutzung
subject: Wasserschadstoffe
subject: Checkliste
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Basierend auf den Empfehlungen der internationalen Flussgebiets- und Gewässerkommissionen wurde ein Checklisten-Konzept entwickelt, welches eine effiziente Beurteilung des Zustandes von Anlagen mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen und Zubereitungen ermöglicht. Es enthält eine Übersicht  über potentielle Handlungsfelder sowie spezielle Checklisten, welche nach Funktionseinheiten, Branchen und Risikobereichen aufgeteilt sind.
title: Efficient estimation of present-value distributions for long-dated contracts and functionals in the multivariate case
Creators: name: Tsimbalyuk, Alexandra
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2020

description: The first chapter of this thesis focuses on the problem of estimating the joint law of a discrete-time perpetuity and underlying factors which govern the cash ow rate, in an ergodic Markovian environment. Our approach is based upon the so-called time-reversal technique which allows us to identify the joint law as a stationary distribution of an ergodic multidimensional Markov chain. Furthermore, a central limit theorem (CLT) for an estimator of the joint law is provided for a specific example of the perpetuity. Our proof of the CLT rests upon the geometric ergodicity property, which is also provided and is of independent interest. We further provide a justification for the Monte Carlo methods for approximating the joint law by sampling a single path of the reversed process. The second chapter of this thesis deals with the estimation of linear functionals in multidimensional spaces. We consider two ubiquitous statistical models: a regression model with one-sided errors and a Poisson point process (PPP) model. We consider two estimation approaches: a block-wise approach, when the estimator is an aggregate of local estimators, and a maximum likelihood approach. First, we assume the regularity of the underlying function in both models to be known. We combine the block-wise approach with martingale stopping time arguments and the PPP geometry to derive the unbiased estimators. We show that the rates of convergence of the mean squared risks match the lower bounds for the risks in both models, which are also provided and are of independent interest. In the PPP model, we show that the maximum likelihood estimator is unbiased with minimal variance among all unbiased estimators. Finally, we sketch ideas for a proof of the CLT for the estimator in the PPP model in multidimensional case and provide illustrative simulations.
Analysis of risks and opportunities of linking emissions trading systems
Creators: name: Tänzler, Dennis
name: Santikarn, Marissa
name: Stelmakh, Kateryna
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Emissionshandel
subject: Bewertungsverfahren
subject: Kohlenstoffmarkt
subject: Weltmarkt
subject: Europäisches Emissionshandelssystem
subject: Ökologische Wirksamkeit
subject: Wettbewerbseffekt
subject: Verteilungseffekt
subject: Wirtschaftsentwicklung
subject: Wirtschaftspolitik
subject: Internationaler Vergleich
subject: Linking
subject: emissions trading
subject: economic model
subject: design elements of ETS
subject: ETS
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Within the frame of this project, a structured system for evaluating the risks and opportunities of linking emissions trading schemes was developed. To this end, economic, ecological and political objectives for linking were identified, relations and interdependencies were investigated and assessment criteria and indicators were defined. The report also includes an overview on economic models that can be used for analyzing linking effects. Another focus is the relevance of differences in the design of emission trading schemes and critical design features that would need to be potentially adjusted to ensure the proper functioning of a linked carbon market. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Within the frame of this project, a structured system for evaluating the risks and opportunities of linking emissions trading schemes was developed. To this end, economic, ecological and political objectives for linking were identified, relations and interdependencies were investigated and assessment criteria and indicators were defined. The report also includes an overview on economic models that can be used for analyzing linking effects. Another focus is the relevance of differences in the design of emission trading schemes and critical design features that would need to be potentially adjusted to ensure the proper functioning of a linked carbon market.
The Real Reason Love Doesn't Last: Till Ego Do Us Part
Creators: name: Patrick Carodine
Publisher: name: Unified Theistic Naturalism
Year: 2025

description: Love, once viewed as sacred and enduring, now fades under the weight of personal demands, unmet needs, and shifting identities. Relationships that begin with passion often end in quiet disconnection or emotional chaos. This white paper offers a new lens through Unified Theistic Naturalism (UTN), revealing why love does not last. We explore the core illusion behind most relationships—the belief in a forever shaped by ego—and examine the true dynamics between the sufferer, seeker, and seer.

Before we begin, it’s important to clarify UTN’s precise understanding of ego. Unlike traditional psychological or spiritual models, UTN recognizes three distinct phases of ego:

The material ego defines the sufferer—one who fully identifies with thought, emotion, and unmet need.

The illusionary ego marks the seeker—one who sees the trap but still believes effort or clarity will resolve it.

For the seer, there is no ego—only oscillation when communion is broken. Ego disappears when one is in perfect cadence with the Divine.

In this paper, the word ego will be used for readability, but always with this UTN framework in mind. What most people call ego is either the material or illusionary ego. Where there is presence, communion, and stillness—there is no ego at all.
title: Expérimentation d'un jeu de rôle didactique et ses effets sur l'apprentissage de la chimie au secondaire II
title: Expérimentation d'un jeu de rôle didactique et ses effets sur l'apprentissage de la chimie au secondaire II
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Calanca, Manuela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: jeu de rôle
subject: jeu formatif
subject: serious game
subject: jeu sérieux
subject: ludopédagogie
subject: edutainment
subject: edu‐game
subject: chimie
subject: secondaire II
subject: lycée
subject: jeu d’enquête
subject: jeu collaboratif
subject: formation des adolescents
subject: approche transformative
subject: outil interdisciplinaire

description: Nous avons expérimenté ici la mise en place, la réalisation et les effets d’un jeu de rôle d’enquête dirigé vers l’apprentissage de la chimie, appliqué à une classe de première maturité (seconde de lycée, 15‐16 ans). Le thème en est la loi d’Avogadro, un chapitre phare de l’étude de la branche, que les élèves ont redécouvert dans les conditions scientifiques de l’époque. Les bénéfices du jeu de rôle formatif en tant que serious game y sont explicités d’un point de vue pédagogique. Suite à ce jeu, les élèves ont été évalués pour mesurer d’une part l’ancrage des enseignements et d’autre part leur perception de cette nouvelle forme d'apprentissage, ainsi que les compétences transversales et sociales mobilisées. Ce jeu et son matériel seront ensuite diffusés pour être à disposition des enseignants souhaitant l’utiliser.
title: Molecular detection of cosaviruses in a patient with acute flaccid paralysis and in sewage samples in Germany
title: Molecular detection of cosaviruses in a patient with acute flaccid paralysis and in sewage samples in Germany
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schneider, Julia
name: Engler, Matthias
name: Hofmann, Jörg
name: Selinka, Hans-Christoph
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Umweltmonitoring
Abwasser

description: Cosaviruses (CoSV) were first identified in stool samples collected from non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases and their healthy contacts in Pakistan in 2003. The clinical importance of CoSV remains unclear as data on epidemiology are scarce and no routine diagnostic testing is done. In this study, we characterized human CoSV (HCoSV) in a child with non-polio AFP and in sewage samples collected in Berlin, Germany. Using unbiased high-throughput sequencing and specific PCR, we characterized a HCoSV-D in stool samples of a three-year-old child hospitalized in Germany with non-polio AFP and travel history to Pakistan. The shedding pattern and absence of other relevant pathogens suggests that HCoSV-D may have been involved in the genesis of AFP. The HCoSV-RNA concentration was high, with 2.57 * 106 copies per mL fecal/suspension, decreasing in follow-up samples. To investigate the possibility of local circulation of HCoSV, we screened Berlin sewage samples collected between 2013 and 2018. Molecular testing of sewage samples has shown the presence of CoSV in several parts of the world, but until now not in Germany. Of our sewage samples, 54.3 % were positive for CoSV, with up to three viral species identified in samples. Phylogenetically, the German sequences clustered intermixed with sequences obtained globally. Together, these findings emphasize the need for further clinical, epidemiological, environmental, pathogenicity and phylogenetic studies of HCoSV. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
Innovation in Pharmacy : Enticing or Intimidating?
Creators: name: Gobis, Barbara
name: Yuen, Jamie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Innovation is the action or process of creating something new, or making changes to something established. No matter where you work or practice, there are opportunities to innovate. However, change can either be enticing or intimidating. This episode explores the unique ways that we incorporate innovation into our pharmacy practice, both in the way we work and the way we think.
Cognitive Architectures and Human–AI Coevolution: Pathways, Dynamics, and Alignment
Creators: name: Alpay, Faruk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Human–AI Coevolution
Cognitive Architectures
Alignment Dynamics
Human–AI Interaction
Coevolutionary Systems
Adaptive Intelligence
Ethical AI
Emergent Cognition
Recursive Learning
Cognitive Systems Evolution

description: This document presents an original theoretical framework for understanding the coevolutionary dynamics between biological and artificial cognitive architectures. Authored by Faruk Alpay, the study proposes a systematic exploration of how cognitive systems—both human and AI—can evolve in tandem through structured interaction pathways, dynamic feedback loops, and emergent alignment mechanisms.

The framework introduces conceptual models describing reciprocal influence patterns, adaptive learning convergence, and alignment stabilization over iterative cycles of coevolution. By formalizing these interaction dynamics, the study provides a foundational schema for designing future human–AI ecosystems that are mutually reinforcing, ethically sustainable, and strategically aligned with human development trajectories.

Key contributions include:- A novel characterization of coevolutionary feedback processes between human cognition and artificial cognitive architectures.- The introduction of "alignment dynamics" as an emergent phenomenon rather than a static goal.- A proposed pathway-based model for recursive adaptation between biological and synthetic intelligence agents.

This theoretical construction challenges static views of AI alignment by modeling it as a dynamic, co-evolving process rather than a one-time objective. It offers early structural proof that human and AI cognition can, under certain pathways and stability conditions, converge toward ethically aligned cooperative evolution.

Note:The full document is currently under restricted access to ensure responsible dissemination. Only the descriptive metadata is publicly visible at this time. Unauthorized commercial use and derivative modifications are prohibited under the selected Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

Publication Date: 2025-04-29Author: Faruk Alpay (ORCID: 0009-0009-2207-6528)  Correspondence: contact@lightcap.ai
Additive Manufacturing of Tungsten & Tungsten Alloys for High Temperature Applications
Creators: name: Karra, Amaranth
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 4016
subject: Materials engineering
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: This study examines the microstructure, cracking defects, and mechanical properties of pure tungsten (W) and W alloys fabricated by additive manufacturing (AM) methods such as Directed Energy Deposition - Laser Beam (DED-LB) and Powder Bed Fusion - Laser Beam (PBF-LB). In DED-LB, cubes were deposited on a refractory metal baseplate in ambient air and an inert atmosphere. Severe microcracking and porosity were observed in all samples when building in ambient air and alloys were selectively oxidized. Under inert atmospheres, pure W was manufactured with no bulk microcracking and 1.7% porosity. Alloying with tantalum led to decreased porosity and increased hardness with again no microcracking observed. The lack of cracking in the inert atmosphere was attributed to the increase in build temperature and reduced oxidation. Micrographs also showed grain refinement with increasing Ta content and a cell structure for W - Ta alloys. W - Refractory Multi Principal Element Alloys (RMPEAs) fabricated by this process were also used to explore the effect of build sequence on the unmelted powder particles and 2000 ◦C strength properties. Results show that for the same energy density, build sequence shows a direct correlation with unmelted particles, where the particles decrease with an increase in the build sequence showing an effect of the baseplate preheat. Furthermore, high-temperature bend tests of the alloy show that the alloy shows a higher strength in comparison with pure W in wrought conditions, although variability and grain boundary contamination from carbon and oxygen are observed. Alternative cracking mechanisms using PBF-LB are explored, where centerline cracking and keyhole cracking are observed. Future work includes decoupling the effect of oxygen and process parameters on centerline cracking in pure W using in-situ radiography studies.
Compartilhamento e reuso de dados na gestão de Unidades de Conservação
Creators: name: CORREA, PEDRO LUIZ P
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Presented during I Simpósio Online de e-Science para Sustentabilidade no Nordeste Brasileiro on 21-22 March 2022. This virtual meeting aims to bring to the scientific community discussions on topics involving e-Science issues and scientific data management. SESSÃO 4. e-Science e Políticas Públicas de Sustentabilidade https://youtu.be/zcFZI8n51Js?t=3057
description: Acknowledgments: * The PARSEC project is funded by the Belmont Forum, Collaborative Research Action on Science-Driven e-Infrastructures Innovation
SMS Spam Detection and Classification to Combat Abuse in Telephone Networks Using Natural Language Processing
Creators: name: Oyeyemi, Dare Azeez
name: Ojo, Adebola K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the modern era, mobile phones have become ubiquitous, and Short Message Service (SMS) has grown to become a multi-million-dollar service due to the widespread adoption of mobile devices and the millions of people who use SMS daily. However, SMS spam has also become a pervasive problem that endangers users' privacy and security through phishing and fraud. Despite numerous spam filtering techniques, there is still a need for a more effective solution to address this problem [1]. This research addresses the pervasive issue of SMS spam, which poses threats to users' privacy and security. Despite existing spam filtering techniques, the high false-positive rate persists as a challenge. The study introduces a novel approach utilizing Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning models, particularly BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), for SMS spam detection and classification. Data preprocessing techniques, such as stop word removal and tokenization, are applied, along with feature extraction using BERT. Machine learning models, including SVM, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, Gradient Boosting, and Random Forest, are integrated with BERT for differentiating spam from ham messages. Evaluation results revealed that the Naïve Bayes classifier + BERT model achieves the highest accuracy at 97.31% with the fastest execution time of 0.3 seconds on the test dataset. This approach demonstrates a notable enhancement in spam detection efficiency and a low false-positive rate. The developed model presents a valuable solution to combat SMS spam, ensuring faster and more accurate detection. This model not only safeguards users' privacy but also assists network providers in effectively identifying and blocking SMS spam messages.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables