cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bovine Event Detection : Analysis of Bovine Data and Cycles
Creators: name: Medema, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Agriculture is a vast industry that has the potential for fascinating data analysis and research. However, a lot of data collected by farms and researchers goes to waste as it is inaccessible or focused on monetary gain rather than the interests of researchers or farmers. In an age of big data and data-driven development, it is unfortunate that a majority of the data collected within agriculture is stored within local or proprietary files and thus a daunting analysis task. Ensuring this data is accessible and performing an analysis that is understandable would be a major step forward for the agricultural academia and industry environment. Filling this gap of open-sourced data analysis will allow for a more customized analysis to be performed on bovine data, widening the potential research avenues utilizing sensor data. We have transferred the data provided from CSV files to a DBMS hosted on the cloud, in this case, MySQL on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu Server through a generic, customizable script that reads and uploads all of the data. We then utilized Machine Learning models, specifically k-means, K Nearest Neighbours (KNN), and Isolation Forests, to detect outliers and inform our exploration into event detection. Through our transfer of data and analysis, we can see that having accessible data allows for the development of new detection models and a new understanding of the data itself.
Madame va a teatro. Scene da un teatro all’italiana in due romanzi di metà Ottocento
Creators: name: Belloni, Laura
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2016

description: La serata a teatro è un momento ricorrente in diversi romanzi. In ambito narrativo, il luogo teatrale serve a mettere in evidenza non solo la relazione fra gli spettatori e la scena ma anche, in alcuni casi, i rapporti particolari che nascono al di là della scena, tra gli spettatori stessi. La spazialità del teatro, visto come luogo di incontro e di raccolta della comunità, aiuta il lettore a ragionare in senso più ampio e, letteralmente, visivo sul senso di identità individuale e di identità sociale. Questo studio si concentra sulla presenza del cosiddetto “teatro all’italiana” in due romanzi chiave di metà Ottocento, più volte associati per le molteplici assonanze, Madame Bovary di Gustave Flaubert e Anna Karenina di Lev Tolstoj. Le serate di Emma e di Anna all’Opera richiamano il ruolo del teatro come luogo cittadino e strumento di rafforzamento dell’identità sociale. Spostandosi poi su un piano simbolico, rimandano a una semiotica della messa in scena e della rappresentazione ricordando, in due scene emblematiche, che il teatro è per eccellenza il cuore dell’inganno, è la celebrazione della metafora e della sostituzione. È, infine, nei due romanzi, l’emblema dell’illusione e del disinganno, sostanza di cui si alimentano le vite delle due eroine letterarie.
description: ACME, Vol 69, No 1 (2016)
Pinch-off of bubbles in a polymer solution
Creators: name: Rajesh, Sreeram
name: Peddada, Sumukh S
name: Thiévenaz, Virgile
name: Sauret, Alban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of gas bubbles in a liquid occurs in various engineering processes, such as during foam generation or agitation and mixing in bubbly flows. A challenge in describing the initial formation of a gas bubble is due to the singular behavior at pinch-off. Past experiments in Newtonian fluids have shown that the minimum neck radius follows a power-law evolution shortly before the break-up. The exponent of the power-law depends on the viscosity of the surrounding Newtonian liquid, and ranges from 0.5 for low viscosity to 1 for large viscosity. However, bubble formation in a viscoelastic polymer solution remains unclear, and in particular, if the evolution is still captured by a power-law and how the exponent varies with the polymer concentration. In this study, we use high-speed imaging to analyze the bubble pinch-off in solutions of polymers. We characterize the time evolution of the neck radius when varying the concentration and thus the characteristic relaxation time and describe the influence of viscoelasticity on the bubble pinch-off. Our results reveal that the presence of polymers does not influence the thinning until the latter stages, when their presence in sufficient concentration delays the pinch-off.
Supplementary document for Evolution of optical vortices in gradient media and curved spaces - 6196806.pdf
Creators: name: Yin, Yuhang
name: Duan, Qilin
name: Li, Jing
name: Qiu, Chengwei
name: Chen, Huanyang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics

description: Supplemental Document
Fault-Tolerant Preparation of Quantum Polar Codes Encoding One Logical Qubit
Creators: name: Goswami, Ashutosh
name: Mhalla, Mehdi
name: Savin, Valentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper explores a new approach to fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC), relying on quantum polar codes. We consider quantum polar codes of Calderbank-Shor-Steane type, encoding one logical qubit, which we refer to as $\mathcal{Q}_1$ codes. First, we show that a subfamily of $\mathcal{Q}_1$ codes is equivalent to the well-known family of Shor codes. Moreover, we show that $\mathcal{Q}_1$ codes significantly outperform Shor codes, of the same length and minimum distance. Second, we consider the fault-tolerant preparation of $\mathcal{Q}_1$ code states. We give a recursive procedure to prepare a $\mathcal{Q}_1$ code state, based on two-qubit Pauli measurements only. The procedure is not by itself fault-tolerant, however, the measurement operations therein provide redundant classical bits, which can be advantageously used for error detection. Fault-tolerance is then achieved by combining the proposed recursive procedure with an error detection method. Finally, we consider the fault-tolerant error correction of $\mathcal{Q}_1$ codes. We use Steane error correction, which incorporates the proposed fault-tolerant code state preparation procedure. We provide numerical estimates of the logical error rates for $\mathcal{Q}_1$ and Shor codes of length $16$ and $64$ qubits, assuming a circuit-level depolarizing noise model. Remarkably, the $\mathcal{Q}_1$ code of length $64$ qubits achieves a logical error rate very close to $10^{-6}$ for the physical error rate $p = 10^{-3}$, therefore, demonstrating the potential of the proposed polar codes based approach to FTQC.
William Faulkner, Lena Grove e Elio Vittorini. Dal personaggio al traduttore
Creators: name: Colombo, Myriam
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2016

description: Il confronto tra il capolavoro di William Faulkner Light in August, pubblicato nel 1932, e la traduzione italiana offerta da Elio Vittorini nel 1939, Luce d’Agosto, permette di evidenziare alcune discrepanze tra le due versioni, dovute a una difficoltà o a un imbarazzo del traduttore nella relazione con il testo originale. Il presente studio si pone dunque l’obiettivo di proporre una breve panoramica delle dinamiche traduttive messe in atto da Vittorini nel rapportarsi a Light in August, prendendo le mosse dal comportamento del traduttore nei confronti di uno dei personaggi più importanti del romanzo, dal punto di vista contenutistico e strutturale, Lena Grove.
A fronte del riconoscimento delle occorrenze in cui l’intervento di Vittorini si distanzia in maniera più significativa dal testo dell’autore americano, si accennerà un’osservazione sulle ragioni alla base delle decisioni del traduttore. Il giudizio non potrà infatti prescindere dalla considerazione delle difficoltà tecniche in cui Vittorini si trovò ad operare, relative nello specifico alla competenza della varietà di lingua inglese utilizzata da Faulkner, il quale attinge dal bacino linguistico degli abitanti più umili del Mississippi. Inoltre, sarà utile sottolineare il contesto storico e culturale di riferimento, in cui la minacciosa incombenza della censura operata dal ministero della cultura popolare fascista spinse i traduttori di quegli anni a intervenire sui testi originali per renderli il più possibile conformi alle norme stilistiche e contenutistiche proposte dal regime.
description: ACME, Vol 69, No 1 (2016)
Guerra vs comunità: la «Trilogia dell’Altipiano» di Mario Rigoni Stern
Creators: name: Di Benedetto, Sergio
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2016

description: La Trilogia dell’Altipiano di Mario Rigoni Stern può essere considerata un’opera coerente per diversi motivi: le tre storie raccontate hanno una comune ambientazione geografica, la piana di Asiago, che presenta un legame molto forte con la popolazione locale; le vicende narrate si pongono in consequenzialità cronologica e mostrano figure che tornano in tutti e tre i testi, comprendendo anche personaggi della famiglia dell’autore. Tale coerenza narrativa si riflette nel messaggio della Trilogia, che è un messaggio di pace e di denuncia della guerra come elemento di distruzione della comunità umana, raffigurata emblematicamente dall’allegoria del ciliegio che torna in tutte e tre le narrazioni. Finita la guerra, alla comunità e alla natura si oppone il consumismo moderno, che cancella le tracce dell’antica civilità alpina e contro cui Rigoni Stern si impegna come custode della memoria attraverso la parola narrata.
description: ACME, Vol 69, No 1 (2016)
Magnetic Field Independent SERF Magnetometer
Creators: name: Dikopoltsev, Mark
name: Levy, Uriel
name: Katz, Or
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SERF magnetometers based on dense ensembles of alkali-metal spins are precision quantum sensors that hold the record of measured and projected sensitivity to magnetic fields, in the $μ\textrm{G}-m\textrm{G}$ range. At geomagnetic fields however, these sensors quickly lose their magnetic sensitivity due to spin decoherence by random spin-exchange collisions. Here we discover that atoms with nuclear spin $I=1/2$ can operate in the Spin-Exchange Relaxation Free (SERF) regime but for any magnitude of the magnetic field. We counter-intuitively show that frequent collisions between a dense and optically-inaccessible $(I=1/2)$ gas with another optically-accessible spin gas ($I>1/2$) improve the fundamental magnetic sensitivity of the latter. We analyze the performance of a dual-specie potassium and atomic hydrogen magnetometer, and project a fundamental sensitivity of about $10\,\mathrm{aT}\sqrt{\mathrm{cm}^3/\mathrm{Hz}}$ at geomagnetic fields for feasible experimental conditions.
Postille
Creators: name: Esposito, Edoardo
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2016

description: Le postille di questo numero trattano dei seguenti volumi (fra parentesi il nome del recensore):

Philip K. Dick, L’esegesi, a cura di Pamela Jackson - Jonathan Lethem, traduzione di Maurizio Nati, Roma, Fanucci Editore, 2015, pp. 1300; Giulia Iannuzzi, Distopie, Viaggi Spaziali, Allucinazioni. Fantascienza Italiana Contemporanea, prefazione di Pierpaolo Antonello, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2015, pp. 355 (Carlo Pagetti)

Mario Mancini, Stilistica filosofica, Roma, Carocci, 2015, pp. 196 (Carlo Di Alesio)

Józef Czapski, Proust a Grjazovec, a cura di Giuseppe Girimonti Greco, con un saggio di Wojciech Karpiński, Milano, Adelphi, 2015, pp. 125 (Eleonora Sparvoli)

Vittorio Sereni, Il dubbio delle forme. Scritture per artisti, a cura e con un saggio di Gianni Contessi, Torino, Aragno, 2015, pp. cviii-135 (Antonio Loreto)
description: ACME, Vol 69, No 1 (2016)
Pervious Material Made from Landslide Debris for Road Base Construction
Creators: name: Hung-Jiun Liao, Chin-Lung Chiu
Publisher: name: Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Landslide debris,
Road base
Previous material
CLSM

description: The Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, 48, 3, 82-86
A. Bernard Shea Invitation to Stony Brook Music Festival, May 30, 1956
Creators: name: Shea, A. Bernard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1956
Subjects: Stony Brook
Concert halls
Concerts
Amphitheaters
Correspondence
Music festivals
Tickets
Medical personnel

description: This letter is written by A. Bernard Shea on May 30, 1956, inviting doctors to purchase their tickets for the 1956 Stony Brook Music Festival in advance because of the positive response from medical professionals in the past year.
Deep Smart Contract Intent Detection
Creators: name: Huang, Youwei
name: Fang, Sen
name: Li, Jianwen
name: Tao, Jiachun
name: Hu, Bin
name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, research in software security has concentrated on identifying vulnerabilities in smart contracts to prevent significant losses of crypto assets on blockchains. Despite early successes in this area, detecting developers' intents in smart contracts has become a more pressing issue, as malicious intents have caused substantial financial losses. Unfortunately, existing research lacks effective methods for detecting development intents in smart contracts.
 To address this gap, we propose \textsc{SmartIntentNN} (Smart Contract Intent Neural Network), a deep learning model designed to automatically detect development intents in smart contracts. \textsc{SmartIntentNN} leverages a pre-trained sentence encoder to generate contextual representations of smart contracts, employs a K-means clustering model to identify and highlight prominent intent features, and utilizes a bidirectional LSTM-based deep neural network for multi-label classification.
 We trained and evaluated \textsc{SmartIntentNN} on a dataset containing over 40,000 real-world smart contracts, employing self-comparison baselines in our experimental setup. The results show that \textsc{SmartIntentNN} achieves an F1-score of 0.8633 in identifying intents across 10 distinct categories, outperforming all baselines and addressing the gap in smart contract detection by incorporating intent analysis.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, conference
Advances in Numerical Modelling of Different Ground Improvement Techniques
Creators: name: E. Heins, K.-F. Seitz
Publisher: name: Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ground improvement
Numerical modeling
Mathematical optimization
Deep vibration compaction
Vibro replacement stone columns
Dynamic compaction
Vibratory rollers

description: The Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, 48, 3, 87-94
Fight the power : redressing displacement and building a just city for Black lives in Vancouver : [infographic]
Creators: name: Tan, Aden
name: Niquidet, Aleia
name: Stark, Kendyl
name: Posthumus, Lara
name: Virani, Sarina
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This infographic is based on the following publication: Allen, S. (2019). Fight the power: Redressing displacement and building a just city for Black lives in Vancouver. Master’s Thesis, Simon Fraser University. Summit. This undergraduate student work is a product of a collaboration between the Making Research Accessible initiative (MRAi), researchers, Dr. Evan Mauro and the students of ASTU 100 at UBC. This student work has been reviewed by the lead author of the original item. Revisions provided by the lead author have been incorporated into the student work with support from the UBC Learning Exchange and members of the MRAi. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student research project/report and is not an official document of UBC.
Insertion algorithms for Gelfand $S_n$-graphs
Creators: name: Marberg, Eric
name: Zhang, Yifeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The two tableaux assigned by the Robinson--Schensted correspondence are equal if and only if the input permutation is an involution, so the RS algorithm restricts to a bijection between involutions in the symmetric group and standard tableaux. Beissinger found a concise way of formulating this restricted map, which involves adding an extra cell at the end of a row after a Schensted insertion process. We show that by changing this algorithm slightly to add cells at the end of columns rather than rows, one obtains a different bijection from involutions to standard tableaux. Both maps have an interesting connection to representation theory. Specifically, our insertion algorithms classify the molecules (and conjecturally the cells) in the pair of $W$-graphs associated to the unique equivalence class of perfect models for a generic symmetric group.
description: 35 pages, 4 figures; v2: some corrections and reorganization; v3: many corrections and improved exposition, a proof is now given for Conjecture 2.14
Chromatic Alpha Complexes
Creators: name: di Montesano, Sebastiano Cultrera
name: Draganov, Ondřej
name: Edelsbrunner, Herbert
name: Saghafian, Morteza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 55N31, 62R40

description: Motivated by applications in the medical sciences, we study finite chromatic sets in Euclidean space from a topological perspective. Based on the persistent homology for images, kernels and cokernels, we design provably stable homological quantifiers that describe the geometric micro- and macro-structure of how the color classes mingle. These can be efficiently computed using chromatic variants of Delaunay and alpha complexes, and code that does these computations is provided.
description: 26 pages; v4 contains minor reviews and clarifications; v3 only updates the title; v2 brings many changes over v1, most notably adds a proof that the chromatic radius function is generalised discrete Morse
ANÁLISE BIBLIOMÉTRICA: O uso da palavra-chave “vulnerabilidade”
Creators: name: BATISTA, NATHALIA
name: Bahia Gomes da Silva Faria, Jonathan
name: Angela Casaes e Silva, Jaqueline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461006
subject: Library studies
classificationCode: 461099
subject: Library and information studies not elsewhere classified

description: This article presents a bibliometric analysis of the use of the keyword "vulnerability" in the scientific production of the faculty members at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) during the period from 1990 to 2024. Vulnerability is a concept widely applied across various fields of knowledge, including social, environmental, economic, and informational spheres. Using databases such as Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus, the research employs an exploratory quantitative approach to identify trends, gaps, and areas of interest among the institution's researchers. The analysis was conducted using the R software (version 4.4.0) and Zotero. The results demonstrate the relevance of the theme within UNIRIO's scientific landscape, identifying the most prolific authors and the main research lines associated with vulnerability.
"Powell Street is Dead" : Nikkei loss, commemoration, and representations of place in the settler-colonial city : [infographic]
Creators: name: Livingston, Sara
name: Sharma, Riya
name: Spehar, Sarah
name: Cochrane, Cata
name: Rizvi, Jenna
name: Liu, Vivian
name: Fiddes, Lucas
name: Nquyen, Nathan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This infographic is based on the following article : Yakashiro, N. (2021). “Powell street is dead”: Nikkei loss, commemoration, and representations of place in the settler colonial city. Urban History Review, 48(2), 32-55. This undergraduate student work is a product of a collaboration between the Making Research Accessible initiative (MRAi), researchers, Dr. Evan Mauro and the students of ASTU 100 at UBC. This student work has been reviewed by the lead author of the original item. Revisions provided by the lead author have been incorporated into the student work with support from the UBC Learning Exchange and members of the MRAi. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student research project/report and is not an official document of UBC.
The impact of amplification on differential expression analyses by RNA-seq
Creators: name: Parekh, Swati
name: Ziegenhain, Christoph
name: Vieth, Beate
name: Enard, Wolfgang
name: Hellmann, Ines
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Currently, quantitative RNA-seq methods are pushed to work with increasingly small starting amounts of RNA that require amplification. However, it is unclear how much noise or bias amplification introduces and how this affects precision and accuracy of RNA quantification. To assess the effects of amplification, reads that originated from the same RNA molecule (PCR-duplicates) need to be identified. Computationally, read duplicates are defined by their mapping position, which does not distinguish PCR- from natural duplicates and hence it is unclear how to treat duplicated reads. Here, we generate and analyse RNA-seq data sets prepared using three different protocols (Smart-Seq, TruSeq and UMI-seq). We find that a large fraction of computationally identified read duplicates are not PCR duplicates and can be explained by sampling and fragmentation bias. Consequently, the computational removal of duplicates does improve neither accuracy nor precision and can actually worsen the power and the False Discovery Rate (FDR) for differential gene expression. Even when duplicates are experimentally identified by unique molecular identifiers (UMIs), power and FDR are only mildly improved. However, the pooling of samples as made possible by the early barcoding of the UMI-protocol leads to an appreciable increase in the power to detect differentially expressed genes.
Investigating the Impact of Direct Punishment on the Emergence of Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Nayana
name: Musolesi, Mirco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Solving the problem of cooperation is fundamentally important for the creation and maintenance of functional societies. Problems of cooperation are omnipresent within human society, with examples ranging from navigating busy road junctions to negotiating treaties. As the use of AI becomes more pervasive throughout society, the need for socially intelligent agents capable of navigating these complex cooperative dilemmas is becoming increasingly evident. Direct punishment is a ubiquitous social mechanism that has been shown to foster the emergence of cooperation in both humans and non-humans. In the natural world, direct punishment is often strongly coupled with partner selection and reputation and used in conjunction with third-party punishment. The interactions between these mechanisms could potentially enhance the emergence of cooperation within populations. However, no previous work has evaluated the learning dynamics and outcomes emerging from Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) populations that combine these mechanisms. This paper addresses this gap. It presents a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the behaviors and learning dynamics associated with direct punishment, third-party punishment, partner selection, and reputation. Finally, we discuss the implications of using these mechanisms on the design of cooperative AI systems.
description: 50 pages, 19 figures
ANÁLISE BIBLIOMÉTRICA_ O uso da palavra-chave “vulnerabilidade”.pdf
Creators: name: BATISTA, NATHALIA
name: Bahia Gomes da Silva Faria, Jonathan
name: Angela Casaes e Silva, Jaqueline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461006
subject: Library studies
classificationCode: 461099
subject: Library and information studies not elsewhere classified

description: This article presents a bibliometric analysis of the use of the keyword "vulnerability" in the scientific production of the faculty members at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) during the period from 1990 to 2024. Vulnerability is a concept widely applied across various fields of knowledge, including social, environmental, economic, and informational spheres. Using databases such as Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus, the research employs an exploratory quantitative approach to identify trends, gaps, and areas of interest among the institution's researchers. The analysis was conducted using the R software (version 4.4.0) and Zotero. The results demonstrate the relevance of the theme within UNIRIO's scientific landscape, identifying the most prolific authors and the main research lines associated with vulnerability.
Into the Archive : Vancouver's missing women commission of inquiry : [infographic]
Creators: name: Haq, Aleena
name: Bal, Kyra
name: Cleland-Zarb, Lucia
name: Mitchell, Megan
name: Kim, Jinah
name: Wong, Sarah
name: Manson, Jay
name: Day, Jazz
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This infographic is based on the following article : Collard, J. (2015). Into the archive: Vancouver’s missing women commission of inquiry. Environment and Planning. D, Society & Space, 33(5), 779- 795. This undergraduate student work is a product of a collaboration between the Making Research Accessible initiative (MRAi), researchers, Dr. Evan Mauro and the students of ASTU 100 at UBC. This student work has been reviewed by the lead author of the original item. Revisions provided by the lead author have been incorporated into the student work with support from the UBC Learning Exchange and members of the MRAi. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student research project/report and is not an official document of UBC.
This Intestine Does Not Exist: Multiscale Residual Variational Autoencoder for Realistic Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Image Generation
Creators: name: Diamantis, Dimitrios E.
name: Gatoula, Panagiota
name: Koulaouzidis, Anastasios
name: Iakovidis, Dimitris K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Medical image synthesis has emerged as a promising solution to address the limited availability of annotated medical data needed for training machine learning algorithms in the context of image-based Clinical Decision Support (CDS) systems. To this end, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been mainly applied to support the algorithm training process by generating synthetic images for data augmentation. However, in the field of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE), the limited content diversity and size of existing publicly available annotated datasets, adversely affect both the training stability and synthesis performance of GANs. Aiming to a viable solution for WCE image synthesis, a novel Variational Autoencoder architecture is proposed, namely "This Intestine Does not Exist" (TIDE). The proposed architecture comprises multiscale feature extraction convolutional blocks and residual connections, which enable the generation of high-quality and diverse datasets even with a limited number of training images. Contrary to the current approaches, which are oriented towards the augmentation of the available datasets, this study demonstrates that using TIDE, real WCE datasets can be fully substituted by artificially generated ones, without compromising classification performance. Furthermore, qualitative and user evaluation studies by experienced WCE specialists, validate from a medical viewpoint that both the normal and abnormal WCE images synthesized by TIDE are sufficiently realistic.
description: 10 pages
Microwave amplification via interfering multi-photon processes in a half-waveguide quantum electrodynamics system
Creators: name: Aziz, Fahad
name: Lin, Kuan Ting
name: Wen, Ping Yi
name: Samina
name: Lin, Yu Chen
name: Wiegand, Emely
name: Lee, Ching-Ping
name: Cheng, Yu-Ting
name: Chen, Ching-Yeh
name: Chien, Chin-Hsun
name: Hsieh, Kai-Min
name: Huang, Yu-Huan
name: Hou, Ian
name: Chen, Jeng-Chung
name: Lin, Yen-Hsiang
name: Kockum, Anton Frisk
name: Lin, Guin Dar
name: Hoi, Io-Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the amplification of a microwave probe signal by a superconducting artificial atom, a transmon, strongly coupled to the end of a one-dimensional semi-infinite transmission line. The end of the transmission line acts as a mirror for microwave fields. Due to the weak anharmonicity of the artificial atom, a strong pump field creates multi-photon excitations among the dressed states. Transitions between these dressed states, Rabi sidebands, give rise to either amplification or attenuation of the weak probe. We obtain a maximum amplitude amplification of about 18 %, higher than in any previous experiment with a single artificial atom, due to constructive interference between Rabi sidebands. We also characterize the noise properties of the system by measuring the spectrum of spontaneous emission.
Supportive Housing and Surveillance : [infographic]
Creators: name: Abubakar, Carima
name: Aldash, Roua
name: Berman Alcocer, Enya
name: Ponce, Rebeca
name: Rohleder, Sarah
name: Rosser, Keirra
name: Sablan, Jacob
name: Singh, Sofia
name: Sukhum, Prin
name: Warburton, Joy
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This infographic is based on the following article : Boyd, J., Cunningham, D., Anderson, S., & Kerr, T. (2016). Supportive housing and surveillance. International Journal of Drug Policy, 34, 72-79. This undergraduate student work is a product of a collaboration between the Making Research Accessible initiative (MRAi), researchers, Dr. Kirby Mania and the students of ASTU 100 at UBC. This student work has been reviewed by the lead author of the original item. Revisions provided by the lead author have been incorporated into the student work with support from the UBC Learning Exchange and members of the MRAi. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student research project/report and is not an official document of UBC.
A stacky approach to identifying the semistable locus of bundles
Creators: name: Weissmann, Dario
name: Zhang, Xucheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the semistable locus is the unique maximal open substack of the moduli stack of principal bundles over a curve that admits a schematic moduli space. For rank $2$ vector bundles it coincides with the unique maximal open substack that admits a separated moduli space, but for higher rank there exist other open substacks that admit separated moduli spaces.
description: Theorem A now includes the case of semistable principal bundles and the characteristic can be arbitrary in Theorem B and C. To appear in Algebraic Geometry (AG)
Supplementary document for 20 dB improvement utilizing custom-designed 3D-printed terahertz horn coupler - 6196974.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Qigejian
name: Shah, Syed Daniyal Ali
name: Li, Haisu
name: Kuhlmey, Boris
name: Atakaramians, Shaghik
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 20 dB improvement utilizing custom-designed 3D-printed terahertz horn coupler: supplemental document
Nyström $M$-Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion
Creators: name: Kalinke, Florian
name: Szabó, Zoltán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; H.1.1
subject: 46E22, 94A17

description: Kernel techniques are among the most popular and powerful approaches of data science. Among the key features that make kernels ubiquitous are (i) the number of domains they have been designed for, (ii) the Hilbert structure of the function class associated to kernels facilitating their statistical analysis, and (iii) their ability to represent probability distributions without loss of information. These properties give rise to the immense success of Hilbert-Schmidt independence criterion (HSIC) which is able to capture joint independence of random variables under mild conditions, and permits closed-form estimators with quadratic computational complexity (w.r.t. the sample size). In order to alleviate the quadratic computational bottleneck in large-scale applications, multiple HSIC approximations have been proposed, however these estimators are restricted to $M=2$ random variables, do not extend naturally to the $M\ge 2$ case, and lack theoretical guarantees. In this work, we propose an alternative Nyström-based HSIC estimator which handles the $M\ge 2$ case, prove its consistency, and demonstrate its applicability in multiple contexts, including synthetic examples, dependency testing of media annotations, and causal discovery.
description: Add missing tildes
Thai national mental health survey 2013: methodology and procedure and 13th Annual International Mental Health Conference at The empress international convention center & Hotels Chiang Mai , August 6 th, 2014
Creators: name: พันธุ์นภา กิตติรัตนไพบูลย์
name: วรวรรณ จุฑา
name: กมลวรรณ จันทรโชติ
name: สาธิดา แรกคำนวณ
name: ชุรีภรณ์ เสียงล้ำ
name: ทิพย์ภาภร พงค์สุภา
name: กลมลักษณ์ มากคล้าย
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2016

description: 1, 24, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
title: Widening Literacy: A Training Manual for Managers of Adult Literacy Learning Programs
Creators: name: Rogers, Alan
name: Cohen-Mitchell, Joanie
name: Manandhar, Udaya
Publisher: name: Center for International Education, UMass Amherst
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Adult and Continuing Education Administration
subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education
subject: Educational Administration and Supervision
subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

description: This training manual has been developed to serve two purposes: To be used as the basis of a training program and to be read independently of a training program as a tool for self-directed learning. To this end, some remarks are addressed to the independent reader. Both sets of users may of course use this manual in whichever way they prefer, starting where they wish to start and finishing where they wish to finish. But we recommend that looking at the introduction before beginning to work on any section which touches upon your current interest. This training manual is intended for all those persons at middle level of management in government or non-governmental or private voluntary organizations (NGOs or PVOs) who have responsibility for designing and managing adult literacy learning programs in the context of developing societies. The manual then is a management tool. It is not a training of trainers' manual or a facilitators' manual dealing with the classroom situation, rather it is about how to organize the program and how to facilitate the facilitator. To begin, we may wish to reflect on our role as a middle level manager. We may see ourselves as a bridge between, on the one hand, the local communities in which to adult literacy learning program is located (the facilitators and local support group, the participants, their families, and the groups they belong to, if any) and on the other hand the senior managers in our organization, and the national (and international) sponsoring agencies who may be supporting our program. Part of our task is to help these two groups to interact. We will need to see the program through the eyes of these different groups -- to bring the voice of the local communities in to the headquarters building, to represent their interests, and at the same time to bring the facilities and resources of the center out into the community. We will need to speak with at least two voices, while at the same time remaining true to ourselves, our own commitments and visions.
Pathways to criminalization for street involved youth who use illicit substances : [infographic]
Creators: name: Bay, Samantha
name: Barriere, Brynne
name: Chan, Farrah
name: Mackenzie, Rhiannon
name: MacLaren, Marleigh
name: An, Lea
name: Chung, Edmund Sheung Hang
name: Richard, Lucie
name: Saluja, Rhythm Kaur
name: Warburton, Will
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This infographic is based on the following article : Boyd, J., Fast, D., & Small, W. (2016). Pathways to criminalization for street-involved youth who use illicit substances. Critical Public Health, 26(5), 530–541. This undergraduate student work is a product of a collaboration between the Making Research Accessible initiative (MRAi), researchers, Dr. Kirby Mania and the students of ASTU 100 at UBC. This student work has been reviewed by the lead author of the original item. Revisions provided by the lead author have been incorporated into the student work with support from the UBC Learning Exchange and members of the MRAi. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student research project/report and is not an official document of UBC.
Deflated HeteroPCA: Overcoming the curse of ill-conditioning in heteroskedastic PCA
Creators: name: Zhou, Yuchen
name: Chen, Yuxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper is concerned with estimating the column subspace of a low-rank matrix $\boldsymbol{X}^\star \in \mathbb{R}^{n_1\times n_2}$ from contaminated data. How to obtain optimal statistical accuracy while accommodating the widest range of signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) becomes particularly challenging in the presence of heteroskedastic noise and unbalanced dimensionality (i.e., $n_2\gg n_1$). While the state-of-the-art algorithm $\textsf{HeteroPCA}$ emerges as a powerful solution for solving this problem, it suffers from "the curse of ill-conditioning," namely, its performance degrades as the condition number of $\boldsymbol{X}^\star$ grows. In order to overcome this critical issue without compromising the range of allowable SNRs, we propose a novel algorithm, called $\textsf{Deflated-HeteroPCA}$, that achieves near-optimal and condition-number-free theoretical guarantees in terms of both $\ell_2$ and $\ell_{2,\infty}$ statistical accuracy. The proposed algorithm divides the spectrum of $\boldsymbol{X}^\star$ into well-conditioned and mutually well-separated subblocks, and applies $\textsf{HeteroPCA}$ to conquer each subblock successively. Further, an application of our algorithm and theory to two canonical examples -- the factor model and tensor PCA -- leads to remarkable improvement for each application.
description: accepted to Annals of Statistics
A duality result about special functions in Drinfeld modules of arbitrary rank
Creators: name: Ferraro, Giacomo Hermes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G09

description: In the setting of a Drinfeld module $ϕ$ over a curve $X/\mathbb{F}_q$, we use a functorial point of view to define $\textit{Anderson eigenvectors}$, a generalization of the so called "special functions" introduced by Anglès, Ngo Dac and Tavares Ribeiro, and prove the existence of a universal object $ω_ϕ$. We adopt an analogous approach with the dual Drinfeld module $ϕ^*$ to define $\textit{dual Anderson eigenvectors}$. The universal object of this functor, denoted by $ζ_ϕ$, is a generalization of Pellarin zeta functions, can be expressed as an Eisenstein-like series over the period lattice, and its coordinates are analytic functions from $X(\mathbb{C}_\infty)\setminus\infty$ to $\mathbb{C}_\infty$. For all integers $i$ we define dot products $ζ_ϕ\cdotω_ϕ^{(i)}$ as certain meromorphic differential forms over $X_{\mathbb{C}_\infty}\setminus\infty$, and prove they are actually rational. This amounts to a generalization of Pellarin's identity for the Carlitz module, and is linked to the pairing of the $A$-motive and the dual $A$-motive defined by Hartl and Juschka. Finally, we develop an algorithm to compute the forms $ζ_ϕ\cdotω_ϕ^{(i)}$ when $X=\mathbb{P}^1$, and prove a conjecture of Gazda and Maurischat about the invertibility of special functions for Drinfeld modules of rank $1$.
description: This version of the manuscript has been published by Res. Math. Sci. under the licensing agreement CC BY 4.0. 48 pages
Flat bands and multi-state memory devices from chiral domain wall superlattices in magnetic Weyl semimetals
Creators: name: Rogers, Vivian
name: Chaudhary, Swati
name: Nguyen, Richard
name: Incorvia, Jean Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel analog memory device utilizing the gigantic magnetic Weyl semimetal (MWSM) domain wall (DW) magnetoresistance. We predict that the nucleation of domain walls between contacts will strongly modulate the conductance and allow for multiple memory states, which has been long sought-after for use in magnetic random access memories or memristive neuromorphic computing platforms. We motivate this conductance modulation by analyzing the electronic structure of the helically-magnetized MWSM Hamiltonian, and report tunable flat bands in the direction of transport in a helically-magnetized region of the sample for Bloch and Neel-type domain walls via the onset of a local axial Landau level spectrum within the bulk of the superlattice. We show that Bloch devices also provide means for the generation of chirality-polarized currents, which provides a path towards nanoelectronic utilization of chirality as a new degree of freedom in spintronics.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. Originally presented at NVMTS 2022, updated at APS March Meeting 2023
Visually Wired NFTs: Exploring the Role of Inspiration in Non-Fungible Tokens
Creators: name: La Cava, Lucio
name: Costa, Davide
name: Tagarelli, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fervor for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) attracted countless creators, leading to a Big Bang of digital assets driven by latent or explicit forms of inspiration, as in many creative processes. This work exploits Vision Transformers and graph-based modeling to delve into visual inspiration phenomena between NFTs over the years. Our goals include unveiling the main structural traits that shape visual inspiration networks, exploring the interrelation between visual inspiration and asset performances, investigating crypto influence on inspiration processes, and explaining the inspiration relationships among NFTs. Our findings unveil how the pervasiveness of inspiration led to a temporary saturation of the visual feature space, the impact of the dichotomy between inspiring and inspired NFTs on their financial performance, and an intrinsic self-regulatory mechanism between markets and inspiration waves. Our work can serve as a starting point for gaining a broader view of the evolution of Web3.
description: Accepted for publication with ACM Trans. on the Web, Jan 2025. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3703411
Importância do Autocuidado e a Comunicação Estética do Sorriso: Uma Análise Profunda com Ponte para Lissa Sandiego
Creators: name: Sandiego, Lissa
Publisher: name: AstaraX Mind & Life — Foundational Release under Creative Commons License (BY-NC 4.0)
Year: 2025

description: Resumo

O autocuidado transcende a mera manutenção física; é uma estratégia de comunicação estética que diferencia celebridades de "meros mortais".

O sorriso, em particular, é um magnetismo primal que cativa o subconsciente, ativando gatilhos emocionais como acolhimento, provocação, sedução ou sarcasmo.

Este artigo disseca o sorriso como uma ciência exata, explorando microexpressões, impacto emocional e a dentição perfeita como estratégia de posicionamento e conquista de atenções por encantamento.

Com base em casos reais de 2020–2025 (ex.: Tom Cruise, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Ronaldo Fenômeno, Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez), usamos o Índice de Magnetismo Estético (IME) e cálculos originais para quantificar seu poder.

Filosoficamente, ancoramos em Nietzsche (vontade de poder); sociologicamente, em Bourdieu (capital estético); antropologicamente, em Geertz (símbolos); psicologicamente, em Ekman (microexpressões); e tecnologicamente, em IA de reconhecimento facial.

Lissa Sandiego, após um grave acidente, emerge como a Cinderela N´Red que reconstrói seu sorriso para "intoxicar" audiências com legitimidade, sarcasmo e sedução.
Systematic Review on Learning-based Spectral CT
Creators: name: Bousse, Alexandre
name: Kandarpa, Venkata Sai Sundar
name: Rit, Simon
name: Perelli, Alessandro
name: Li, Mengzhou
name: Wang, Guobao
name: Zhou, Jian
name: Wang, Ge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Spectral computed tomography (CT) has recently emerged as an advanced version of medical CT and significantly improves conventional (single-energy) CT. Spectral CT has two main forms: dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) and photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT), which offer image improvement, material decomposition, and feature quantification relative to conventional CT. However, the inherent challenges of spectral CT, evidenced by data and image artifacts, remain a bottleneck for clinical applications. To address these problems, machine learning techniques have been widely applied to spectral CT. In this review, we present the state-of-the-art data-driven techniques for spectral CT.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures
Validity of Thai Diagnostic Interview for psychiatric disorders in Child and Adolescents-Revised (T-DICA-R): Adolescent version
Creators: name: Suparat Ekasawin
name: Chomsurang Phothisut
name: Rossukon Chomcheun
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2016
Subjects: adolescent,diagnosis,DICA-R,interview,psychiatry

description: 1, 24, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
Examining factors that shape use and access to diverted prescription opioids during an overdose crisis : a qualitative study in Vancouver, Canada : [infographic]
Creators: name: Porteous-Clur, Chloe
name: Steinke, John
name: Nakai, Nayu
name: Dameshghi, Yashar
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This infographic is based on the following article : Bardwell, G., Ivsins, A., Socías, M. E., & Kerr, T. (2021). Examining factors that shape use and access to diverted prescription opioids during an overdose crisis: A qualitative study in Vancouver, Canada. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 130, 108418. This undergraduate student work is a product of a collaboration between the Making Research Accessible initiative (MRAi), researchers, Dr. Evan Mauro and the students of ASTU 100 at UBC. This student work has been reviewed by the lead author of the original item. Revisions provided by the lead author have been incorporated into the student work with support from the UBC Learning Exchange and members of the MRAi. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student research project/report and is not an official document of UBC.