cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Is the measurement of noxious stimulus-evoked EEG activity a reliable, valid, and interpretable tool to assess analgesic efficacy in neonates? Protocol for a systematic review and individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis
Creators: name: Massaro, An
name: Matthews, Danielle
name: Edress Darsey
name: Hovinga, Collin
name: Allegaert, Karel
name: Ward, Robert
name: Gunawan, Patricia Yulita
name: Van Den Anker, John
name: Kanwaljit Singh
name: Bhatt, Aomesh
name: Vivas, Norma
name: Van Der Vaart, Marianne
name: Slater, Rebeccah
name: Davis, Jonathan M
name: Baxter, Luke
name: Sheppard, James
name: Turner, Mark
name: Discenza, Deb
name: Mehta, Varsha
name: Cobo, Maria M.
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Developmental Neuroscience
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Medical Sciences
subject: reliability
subject: COSMIN
subject: nociception
subject: electroencephalography
subject: neonate
subject: pain
subject: biomarker
subject: validity
subject: EEG
subject: interpretability

description: This protocol outlines details for an IPD meta-analysis on the measurement properties and interpretability of a brain-based response biomarker of infant acute somatic nociceptive pain. This registration occurred prior to individual participant data collection and analysis.
Inclusive Communication in Citizen Science....leaving no one behind.
Creators: name: Gold, Margaret
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This talk was given as part of the ECSA webinar: 'Inclusive Communication in Citizen Science' to share ideas and experiences on how to make citizen science projects as inclusive as possible, focusing in this case on the concepts of 'Leave No One Behind' that are being explored in the CitiObs project
On regular Stein neighborhoods of a union of two totally real planes in $\mathbb{C}^2$
Creators: name: Starčič, Tadej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we find regular Stein neighborhoods for a union of totally real planes $M=(A+iI)\mathbb{R}^2$ and $N=\mathbb{R}^2$ in $\mathbb{C}^2$ provided that the entries of a real $2 \times 2$ matrix $A$ are sufficiently small. A key step in our proof is a local construction of a suitable function $ρ$ near the origin. The sublevel sets of $ρ$ are strongly Levi pseudoconvex and admit strong deformation retraction to $M\cup N$.
Genetic predictions used to mitigate disease and increase profitability
Creators: name: Spare, Randall K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Veterinarians have much opportunity to add value to services by having a robust understanding of EPDs (Expected Progeny Differences) in beef cattle. As producers work to increase profitability, sustainability and transparency, veterinarians, as trusted members of the management team, are positioned to consult in the area of genetics. Management practices that decrease disease risk, increase growth, modify temperament, and increase the quality of the carcass at harvest are all influenced by the genetic makeup of each animal.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Knowledge-enabled parameterization of whole-body control strategies for compliant service robots
Creators: name: Leidner, Daniel Sebastian
name: Dietrich, Alexander
name: Beetz, Michael
name: Albu-Schäffer, Alin
Publisher: name: Fachbereich 03: Mathematik/Informatik (FB 03)
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Whole-Body Control
subject: AI Reasoning Methods
subject: Task Knowledge
subject: Humanoid Robots
subject: Mobile Manipulation
subject: 0

description: Compliant manipulation is one of the grand challenges for autonomous robots. Many household chores in human environments, such as cleaning the floor or wiping windows, rely on this principle. At the same time these tasks often require whole-body motions to cover a larger workspace. The performance of the actual task itself is thereby dependent on a large number of parameters that have to be taken into account. To tackle this issue we propose to utilize low-level compliant whole-body control strategies parameterized by high-level hybrid reasoning mechanisms. We categorize compliant wiping actions in order to determine relevant control parameters. According to these parameters we set up process models for each identified wiping action and implement generalized control strategies based on human task knowledge. We evaluate our approach experimentally on three whole-body manipulation tasks, namely scrubbing a mug with a sponge, skimming a window with a window wiper and bi-manually collecting the shards of a broken mug with a broom.
Review of commercially available genomic technologies in cattle
Creators: name: Osterstock, Jason B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Genetic testing can be a key component of a beef cattle management program. Available tests can help inform parentage, selection for simple traits like coat color or polled, management of genetic defects in breeding populations, and estimating the genetic merit of individual animals for economically relevant traits. Increasingly, comprehensive genotyping arrays that assess tens of thousands of genetic markers are being used to inform selection in cattle populations.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Phonon-assisted indirect transitions in angle-resolved photoemission spectra of graphite and graphene
Creators: name: Ayria, Pourya
name: Tanaka, Shin-ichiro
name: Nugraha, Ahmad R. T.
name: Dresselhaus, Mildred S.
name: Saito, Riichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Indirect transitions of electrons in graphene and graphite are investigated by means of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) with several different incident photon energies and light polarizations. The theoretical calculations of the indirect transition for graphene and graphite are compared with the experimental measurements for highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite and a single-crystal of graphite. The dispersion relations for the transverse optical (TO) and the out-of-plane longitudinal acoustic (ZA) phonon modes of graphite and the TO phonon mode of graphene can be extracted from the inelastic ARPES intensity. We find that the TO phonon mode for $k$ points along the $Γ$-$K$ and $K$-$M$-$K'$ directions in the Brillouin zone can be observed in the ARPES spectra of graphite and graphene by using a photon energy of about 11.1 eV. The relevant mechanism in the ARPES process for this case is the resonant indirect transition. On the other hand, the ZA phonon mode of graphite can be observed by using a photon energy of about 6.3 eV through a nonresonant indirect transition, while the ZA phonon mode of graphene within the same mechanism should not be observed.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
Computationally efficient phase-field studies combining simulation sampling and statistical analysis
Creators: name: Schwarze, Christian
name: Kamachali, Reza Darvishi
name: Kühbachb, Markus
name: Mießen, Christian
name: Tegeler, Marvin
name: Barrales-Mora, Luis
name: Steinbach, Ingo
name: Gottstein, Günter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The trade-off between accuracy and computational cost as a function of the size and number of simulation boxes was studied for large-scale phase-field simulations. For this purpose, a reference simulation box was incrementally partitioned. We have considered diffusion-controlled precipitation of delta prime in a model Al-Li system from the growth stage until early ripening. The results of the simulations show that decomposition of simulation box can be a valuable computational technique to accelerate simulations without substantial loss of accuracy. In the current case study, the precipitate density was found to be the key controlling parameter. For a pre-set accuracy, it turned out that large-scale simulations of the reference domain can be replaced by a combination of smaller simulations. This shortens the required simulation time and improves the memory usage of the simulation considerably, and thus substantially increases the efficiency of massive parallel computation for phase-field applications.
Influence of deformation and annealing twinning on the microstructure and texture evolution of face-centered cubic high-entropy alloys
Creators: name: Haase, Christian
name: Barrales-Mora, Luis A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the physical mechanisms activated during deformation and annealing on the microstructure and texture evolution as well as on the mechanical properties in the equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy (HEA) were investigated. A combination of cold rolling and annealing was used to investigate the HEA in the deformed, recovered, partially recrystallized, and fully recrystallized states. Detailed microstructure and texture analysis was performed by electron backscatter diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. The mechanical properties were evaluated using uniaxial tensile testing. A specific focus of this investigation was put on studying the influence of deformation and annealing twinning on the material behavior. It was substantiated that during cold rolling deformation, twinning facilitates the transition from the Cu-type to the Brass-type texture, whereas annealing-twinning leads to a strong modification of the texture formed during recrystallization. The formation of specific twin orientations and the randomization of the recrystallization texture were proven by experiments as well as by cellular automaton simulations. During tension of the cold-rolled and annealed material high work-hardenability was observed. We attribute this behavior primarily to the dominance of planar dislocation slip and reduced tendency for dynamic recovery, since deformation twinning was observed to activate only in the non-recrystallized grains and thus, contributed minimally to the overall plasticity. The correlation between deformation/annealing twinning and the material behavior was discussed in detail.
Augmented Reality Interface for Smart Home Control using SSVEP-BCI and Eye Gaze
Creators: name: Putze, Felix
name: Weiss, Dennis
name: Vortmann, Lisa-Marie
name: Schultz, Tanja
Publisher: name: Fachbereich 03: Mathematik/Informatik (FB 03)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Smart homes
subject: Gaze tracking
subject: Electroencephalography - EEG
subject: Task analysis
subject: Robots
subject: Augmented reality interface
subject: Brain-computer interfaces
subject: 0

description: In this paper, we investigate the integration of eyetracking and a Brain-Computer Interface into an Augmented Reality system to control a smart home environment. Through a head-mounted display, we present context-dependent control elements which the user selects by directing attention towards them. We show that the combination of both modalities leads to the most robust detection of selections and an interface which is accepted by its users.
Basics of genetic variation and the use of genomic technologies in cattle
Creators: name: Osterstock, Jason B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Genetic variation is an important factor in determining phenotypic variation in cattle. This variation arises in large part from differences in the genetic composition among animals. Genomic technologies can help to describe this variation and expected phenotypic impacts in part associated with differences in coding regions of the genome affecting protein structure and function, and by characterizing similarities among animals at the molecular level that can help inform prediction of genetic merit among genomically similar animals. When applied in this manner, genomic technologies help to provide more accurate estimation of genetic merit for more traits than can often be effectively measured phenotypically much earlier in life. This improves and accelerates decision making, thus optimizing production efficiency.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Strain-controlled fundamental gap and structure of bulk black phosphorus
Creators: name: Guan, Jie
name: Song, Wenshen
name: Yang, Li
name: Tomanek, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the structural and electronic response of layered bulk black phosphorus to in-layer strain. Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the strain energy and interlayer spacing display a strong anisotropy with respect to the uniaxial strain direction. To correctly describe the dependence of the fundamental band gap on strain, we used the computationally more involved GW quasiparticle approach that is free of parameters and superior to DFT studies, which are known to underestimate gap energies. We find that the band gap depends sensitively on the in-layer strain and even vanishes at compressive strain values exceeding about 2%, thus suggesting a possible application of black P in strain-controlled infrared devices.
description: Phys. Rev. B (2016)
New era of parasite control
Creators: name: Navarre, Christine B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Control of gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) may have economic and health impacts in beef cattle operations. In the past several decades, GIN control has relied almost exclusively on the use of anthelmintics. With the increase in anthelmintic resistance (AR) new strategies must be developed. Knowledge of GIN biology and epidemiology in the region based on climate and weather, and specific information from the ranch, such as quantitative fecal egg counts, estimates of AR through fecal egg count reduction tests, ages of the cattle and pasture management are necessary to develop GIN control programs. Control programs should integrate grazing management, management of the immune system so cattle can resist infection, and anthelmintic use.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Demonstration of a general fault-tolerant quantum error detection code for (2n+1)-qubit entangled state on IBM 16-qubit quantum computer
Creators: name: Singh, Ranveer Kumar
name: Panda, Bishvanwesha
name: Behera, Bikash K.
name: Panigrahi, Prasanta K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum error detection has always been a fundamental challenge in a fault-tolerant quantum computer. Hence, it is of immense importance to detect and deal with arbitrary errors to efficiently perform quantum computation. Several error detection codes have been proposed and realized for lower number of qubit systems. Here we present an error detection code for a (2n+1)-qubit entangled state using two syndrome qubits and simulate it on IBM's 16-qubit quantum computer for a 13-qubit entangled system. The code is able to detect an arbitrary quantum error in any one of the first 2n qubits of the (2n+1)-qubit entangled state and detects any bit-flip error on the last qubit of the (2n+1)-qubit entangled state via measurements on a pair of ancillary error syndrome qubits. The protocol presented here paves the way for designing error detection codes for the general higher number of entangled qubit systems.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures,
Dynamic Autoregressive Liquidity (DArLiQ)
Creators: name: Hafner, Christian M.
name: Linton, Oliver B.
name: Wang, Linqi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: We introduce a new class of semiparametric dynamic autoregressive models for the Amihud illiquidity measure, which captures both the long-run trend in the illiquidity series with a nonparametric component and the short-run dynamics with an autoregressive component. We develop a generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator based on conditional moment restrictions and an efficient semiparametric maximum likelihood (ML) estimator based on an iid assumption. We derive large sample properties for our estimators. Finally, we demonstrate the model fitting performance and its empirical relevance on an application. We investigate how the different components of the illiquidity process obtained from our model relate to the stock market risk premium using data on the S&P 500 stock market index.
Critical assessment of the methods used for the analysis of reinforced concrete slab systems
Creators: name: Binh, Do Van.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
First-Principles Correlated Approach to the Normal State of Strontium Ruthenate
Creators: name: Acharya, Swagata
name: Laad, M. S.
name: Dey, Dibyendu
name: Maitra, T.
name: Taraphder, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay between multiple bands, sizable multi-band electronic correlations and strong spin-orbit coupling may conspire in selecting a rather unusual unconventional pairing symmetry in layered Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$. This mandates a detailed revisit of the normal state and, in particular, the $T$-dependent incoherence-coherence crossover. Using a modern first-principles correlated view, we study this issue in the actual structure of Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ and present a unified and quantitative description of a range of unusual physical responses in the normal state. Armed with these, we propose that a new and important element, that of dominant multi-orbital charge fluctuations in a Hund's metal, may be a primary pair glue for unconventional superconductivity. Thereby we establish a connection between the normal state responses and superconductivity in this system.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Parasite resistance trends and practical implementation of fecal egg counts
Creators: name: Edmonds, J. D.
name: Edmonds, M. D
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Anthelmintic resistance in the United States has recently gained the attention of the veterinary and livestock communities. The rapid rise in resistance to 2 new drug classes shortly after approval outside the United States calls for new strategies and recommendations for maintaining an effective anthelmintic program even as new drugs become available. The development of resistance is product-dependent, with observable differences between classes. Methods used to test anthelmintic efficacy allow the veterinary practitioner to make informed treatment decisions; however, the results should be interpreted carefully due to the limitations for the fecal egg count procedure.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Assessing the efficacy of autogenous vaccines in bovine diseases
Creators: name: O'Connor, Annette M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Vaccination is an important tool for preventing disease. In human medicine and veterinary health, the eradication of smallpox and rinderpest are stellar examples of how effective vaccinations can be. Other outstanding examples include vaccines against measles, mumps, and rubella in humans. In animal health, most vaccines are marketed broadly for use on multiple animals and farms. However, autogenous vaccines, which are intended for use on a single farm, are also common in livestock health worldwide. For this presentation, I discuss concepts related to assessing the efficacy of vaccines and provide a summary of the publicly available evidence from the scientific literature regarding the efficacy of autogenous vaccines.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Nonlinear response of metallic acGNR to an elliptically-polarized terahertz excitation field
Creators: name: Wang, Yichao
name: Andersen, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical description of the nonlinear response induced by an elliptically-polarized terahertz beam normally-incident on intrinsic and extrinsic metallic armchair graphene nanorib- bons. Our results show that using a straightforward experimental setup, it should be possible to observe novel polarization-dependent nonlinearities at low excitation field strengths of the or- der of 10 4 V/m. At low temperatures the Kerr nonlinearities in extrinsic nanoribbons persist to significantly higher excitation frequencies than they do for linear polarizations, and at room tem- peratures, the third-harmonic nonlinearities are enhanced by 2-3 orders of magnitude. Finally, the Fermi-level and temperature dependence of the nonlinear response is characterized.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
On Toric Orbits in the Affine Sieve
Creators: name: Kontorovich, Alex
name: Lagarias, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B39, 11D09, 11J70, 11N37, 11N35

description: We give a detailed analysis of a heuristic model for the failure of "saturation" in instances of the Affine Sieve having toral Zariski closure. Based on this model, we formulate precise conjectures on several classical problems of arithmetic interest, and test these against empirical data.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Bovine respiratory disease modeling
Creators: name: Lechtenberg, Kelly F.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: The bovine respiratory disease (BRD) complex involves the classic components of the disease triad: host factors, pathogen factors, and environmental factors. The multiple components included in each of these categories have the potential to overwhelm the immune system of cattle and become recognized as “the cause” of the disease. However, it is the net effect of multiple factors that comprise a final result that we recognize as “disease” (BRD). This presentation discusses how these interrelated factors can be managed in the development of disease models to assess the efficacy of product. Mitigating or managing the sources of animal to animal variation creates more robust and dependable models, but also creates populations that may be different than the population for which we are evaluating an intervention.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Semantic Information G Theory and Logical Bayesian Inference for Machine Learning
Creators: name: Lu, Chenguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.1.1; F.4.1; I.2.3; I.2.6; I.5.2; I.5.3
subject: 03B42, 03B48, , 03B52, 03B65, 62F15, 68P30, 94F15, 68T27, 68T37, 68T50

description: An important problem with machine learning is that when label number n>2, it is very difficult to construct and optimize a group of learning functions, and we wish that optimized learning functions are still useful when prior distribution P(x) (where x is an instance) is changed. To resolve this problem, the semantic information G theory, Logical Bayesian Inference (LBI), and a group of Channel Matching (CM) algorithms together form a systematic solution. A semantic channel in the G theory consists of a group of truth functions or membership functions. In comparison with likelihood functions, Bayesian posteriors, and Logistic functions used by popular methods, membership functions can be more conveniently used as learning functions without the above problem. In Logical Bayesian Inference (LBI), every label's learning is independent. For Multilabel learning, we can directly obtain a group of optimized membership functions from a big enough sample with labels, without preparing different samples for different labels. A group of Channel Matching (CM) algorithms is developed for machine learning. For the Maximum Mutual Information (MMI) classification of three classes with Gaussian distributions on a two-dimensional feature space, 2-3 iterations can make mutual information between three classes and three labels surpass 99% of the MMI for most initial partitions. For mixture models, the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is improved and becomes the CM-EM algorithm, which can outperform the EM algorithm when mixture ratios are imbalanced, or local convergence exists. The CM iteration algorithm needs to combine neural networks for MMI classifications on high-dimensional feature spaces. LBI needs further studies for the unification of statistics and logic.
description: 32 Pages, 14 figures
Rare Earth Doping and Effective Band-Convergence in SnTe for Improved Thermoelectric Performance
Creators: name: Acharya, Somnath
name: Dey, Dibyendu
name: Maitra, Tulika
name: Soni, Ajay
name: Taraphder, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermoelectric performance of SnTe has been found to enhance with isovalent doping of alkaline and transition metal elements where most of these elements have solubility of less than 13%. We propose a strategy of doping rare earth element Yb to enhance the thermoelectric performance of SnTe. With heavy atomic mass and strong spin-orbit coupling, even the mild doping of Yb (~ 5%) is enough to create a degeneracy via band-convergence which enhances the density of states near Fermi level and improve overall performance. Our transport data and first-principles calculations corroborate that nearly 5% Yb is an efficient dopant to achieve thermoelectric response which is equivalent to 9% of Mn doping. The results are useful for understanding the environment-friendly thermoelectric SnTe.
Centrality in Modular Networks
Creators: name: Ghalmane, Zakariya
name: Hassouni, Mohammed El
name: Cherifi, Chantal
name: Cherifi, Hocine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Identifying influential nodes in a network is a fundamental issue due to its wide applications, such as accelerating information diffusion or halting virus spreading. Many measures based on the network topology have emerged over the years to identify influential nodes such as Betweenness, Closeness, and Eigenvalue centrality. However, although most real-world networks are modular, few measures exploit this property. Recent works have shown that it has a significant effect on the dynamics on networks. In a modular network, a node has two types of influence: a local influence (on the nodes of its community) through its intra-community links and a global influence (on the nodes in other communities) through its inter-community links. Depending of the strength of the community structure, these two components are more or less influential. Based on this idea, we propose to extend all the standard centrality measures defined for networks with no community structure to modular networks. The so-called "Modular centrality" is a two dimensional vector. Its first component quantifies the local influence of a node in its community while the second component quantifies its global influence on the other communities of the network. In order to illustrate the effectiveness of the Modular centrality extensions, comparison with their scalar counterpart are performed in an epidemic process setting. Simulation results using the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model on synthetic networks with controlled community structure allows getting a clear idea about the relation between the strength of the community structure and the major type of influence (global/local). Furthermore, experiments on real-world networks demonstrate the merit of this approach.
Effect of nonsinusoidal waveforms on power measurements and energy meters and proposed solution
Creators: name: Khalsa, Harnaak Singh.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Finding and defining your success
Creators: name: Willingham, Callie D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Success is often viewed as an endpoint, a goal, or a final destination, the 1 big thing. In reality, success is more of a cycle with phases of growth that are fueled by your experiences. Failure, while uncomfortable, is an integral part of success. Google dictionary defines success as “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose; the attainment of popularity or profit; a person or thing that achieves desired aims or attains prosperity.” Ultimately, however, you must create your own definition of success, recognizing that it will likely change over time.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
A systematic review of risky-choice framing effects
Creators: name: Kühberger, Anton
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: choice
framing
prospect theory
risk

description: Classic decision theory requires that rational agents show description invariance: which description is chosen should not matter for judgments, preferences, or choices given the descriptions are co-extensive. Framing research has amply demonstrated a failure of description invariance by showing that the choice of the description has a systematic effect on judgments, preferences, and choices. Specifically, framing research has shown that linguistically different descriptions of seemingly equivalent options frequently lead to preference reversals. I summarize the research on framing in situations entailing risk. This includes the characterization of different research designs used, the size and robustness of the framing effects reported for those designs, and the theoretical accounts put forward to explain framing effects. The theoretical accounts are evaluated with respect to their merits, empirically and theoretically. I end by providing the implications of framing research. My central point is that the existence of framing effects points to the adaptiveness of the processes underlying human judgment and choice rather than simply showing human irrationality.
description: EXCLI Journal; 22:Doc1012; ISSN 1611-2156
You got it wrong!
Creators: name: Grooms, Daniel L.
name: Juelsgaard, Stephen G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Success can be defined in so many different ways. If you don’t believe me, just Google “What Does Success Look Like” and see how many different opinions you get. In my humble opinion, success ultimately comes down to how you define it in your own mind. It may be based on financial targets, career progression, work-life balance, family, health, your golf game score, or a combination of any of these plus many more variables that we don’t have time to explore.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Sharp Constants of Approximation Theory. I. Multivariate Bernstein-Nikolskii Type Inequalities
Creators: name: Ganzburg, Michael I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 41A17, 41A63, Secondary 26D05, 26D10

description: We prove limit relations between the sharp constants in the multivariate Bernstein-Nikolskii type inequalities for trigonometric polynomials and entire functions of exponential type with the spectrum in a centrally symmetric convex body.
description: 20 pages, corrected typos, added references
Cold and Hot Nuclear Matter Effects on Charmonium Production in p+Pb Collisions at LHC Energy
Creators: name: Chen, Baoyi
name: Guo, Tiecheng
name: Liu, Yunpeng
name: Zhuang, Pengfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study cold and hot nuclear matter effects on charmonium production in p+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\text{NN}}=5.02$ TeV in a transport approach. At the forward rapidity, the cold medium effect on all the $c\bar c$ states and the hot medium effect on the excited $c\bar c$ states only can explain well the $J/ψ$ and $ψ'$ yield and transverse momentum distribution measured by the ALICE collaboration, and we predict a significantly larger $ψ'$ $p_\text{T}$ broadening in comparison with $J/ψ$. However, we can not reproduce the $J/ψ$ and $ψ'$ data at the backward rapidity with reasonable cold and hot medium effects.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
California Poll # 6704
Creators: name: Institute, The Field
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Job performances of: Governor Reagan, Senator Murphy; things approved and disapproved about Governor Reagan; Vietnam War--vis-a-vis China, morality of war, tactics for ending; urban riots in U.S.; poverty programs and racial tensions; opportunities for Black people vis-a-vis expenditures on war; Shirley Temple Black as congressional candidate; movie personalities as political figures; 1968 Republican presidential nominee preference; 1968 Democrat senatorial nominee preference; Republican senatorial nominee preference (Kuchel-Rafferty); 1968 presidential candidate trial heats with and without Alabama Governor Wallace; 1968 senatorial trial heats.
Driven tracers in narrow channels
Creators: name: Cividini, J.
name: Mukamel, D.
name: Posch, H. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Steady state properties of a driven tracer moving in a narrow two dimensional (2D) channel of quiescent medium are studied. The tracer drives the system out of equilibrium, perturbs the density and pressure fields, and gives the bath particles a nonzero average velocity, creating a current in the channel. Three models in which the confining effect of the channel is probed are analyzed and compared in this study: the first is the simple symmetric exclusion process (SSEP), for which the stationary density profile and the pressure on the walls in the frame of the tracer are computed. We show that the tracer acts like a dipolar source in an average velocity field. The spatial structure of this 2D strip is then simplified to a one dimensional SSEP, in which exchanges of position between the tracer and the bath particles are allowed. Using a combination of mean field theory and exact solution in the limit where no exchange is allowed, gives good predictions of the velocity of the tracer and the density field. Finally, we show that results obtained for the 1D SSEP with exchanges also apply to a gas of overdamped hard disks in a narrow channel. The correspondence between the parameters of the SSEP and of the gas of hard disks is systematic and follows from simple intuitive arguments. Our analytical results are checked numerically.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures
A system to measure pulse transit time
Creators: name: Bommarito, Valerie.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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On normal forms of complex points of small $\mathcal{C}^{2}$-perturbations of real $4$-manifolds embedded in a complex $3$-manifold
Creators: name: Starčič, Tadej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this paper is to give a better understanding of complex points up to quadratic terms of real codimension $2$ submanifolds embedded in a complex $3$-manifold. We answer the question how a normal form of a pair of one arbitrary and one symmetric $2\times 2$ matrix with respect to a certain linear group action changes under arbitrarily small perturbations. This result is then applied to describe the quadratic part of normal forms of complex points of small $\mathcal{C}^{2}$-perturbations of real $4$-manifolds embedded in a complex $3$-manifold.
Palliative care in the treatment of women with breast cancer: a scoping study protocol
Creators: name: Yanez, Romel
name: Lopes-Júnior, Luís Carlos
name: Fernandes, Ana
name: Mattos, Samuel
name: Moreira, Thereza
name: Castro, Régia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Breast cancer
subject: Palliative care
subject: Scoping study
subject: Women

description: This protocol article, entitled "Palliative care in the treatment of women with breast cancer: a scoping study protocol," arose from a need to provide practitioners with an overview of the current role of palliative care in breast cancer. A previous literature search to review similar studies found none, so the topic generated interest to be investigated. On the other hand, this protocol is intended to be a scoping study and not just a review, meaning it will include a consultation phase with interested parties. Therefore, it is a mixed-methods design that meets all of the Joanna Briggs Institute's methodological recommendations, for both the review and the consultation. The results of this study will provide an up-to-date evidence map of PC in breast cancer and will be useful in identifying existing knowledge gaps and shaping future research in this area. Indirectly, our results may also help PC professionals reflect on the role that PC plays in the treatment of women with breast cancer and encourage the search for the best evidence to guide their care. It is important to emphasize that stakeholder consultation is a strength of the study, as it provides a more realistic view of the phenomenon and allows it to be compared with existing evidence.
Investigating the rotational evolution of very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in young clusters using Monte Carlo simulations
Creators: name: Vasconcelos, M. J.
name: Bouvier, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Very low-mass (VLM) stars and brown dwarfs (BDs) present a different rotational behaviour from their solar mass counter-parts. Aims. We investigate the rotational evolution of young VLM stars and BDs using Monte Carlo simulations under the hypothesis of disk locking and stellar angular momentum conservation. Methods. We built a set of objects with masses ranging from 0.01 Mo to 0.4 Mo and considered models with single- and double- peaked initial period distributions with and without disk locking. An object is considered to be diskless when its mass accretion rate is below a given threshold. Results. Models with initial single-peaked period distributions reproduce the observations well given that BDs rotate faster than VLM stars. We observe a correlation between rotational period and mass when we relax the disk locking hypothesis, but with a shallower slope compared to some observational results. The angular momentum evolution of diskless stars is flatter than it is for stars with a disk which occurs because the moment of inertia of objects less massive than 0.2 Mo remains pratically constant for a time scale that increases with decreasing stellar mass. Conclusions. Comparing our results with the available observational data we see that disk locking is not as important in the low-mass regime and that the rotational behaviour of VLM stars and BDs is different from what is seen in their solar mass counterparts.
description: 14 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Band-limited mimicry of point processes by point processes supported on a lattice
Creators: name: Lagarias, Jeffrey C.
name: Rodgers, Brad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We say that one point process on the line $\mathbb{R}$ mimics another at a bandwidth $B$ if for each $n \ge 1$ the two point processes have $n$-level correlation functions that agree when integrated against all bandlimited test functions on bandwidth $[-B, B]$. This paper asks the question of for what values $a$ and $B$ can a given point process on the real line be mimicked at bandwidth $B$ by a point process supported on the lattice $a\mathbb{Z}$. For Poisson point processes we give a complete answer for allowed parameter ranges $(a,B)$, and for the sine process we give existence and nonexistence regions for parameter ranges. The results for the sine process have an application to the Alternative Hypothesis regarding the scaled spacing of zeros of the Riemann zeta function, given in a companion paper.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure. Companion paper to arXiv:1905.12123. Incorporates referee suggestions
Asymptotically Euclidean metrics without conjugate points are flat
Creators: name: Guillarmou, Colin
name: Mazzucchelli, Marco
name: Tzou, Leo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C22, 58E10

description: We prove that any asymptotically Euclidean metric on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with no conjugate points must be isometric to the Euclidean metric.
description: 45 pages
Spatially Homogeneous Entanglement for Matter-Wave Interferometry Created with Time-Averaged Measurements
Creators: name: Cox, Kevin C.
name: Greve, Graham P.
name: Wu, Baochen
name: Thompson, James K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a method to generate spatially homogeneous entangled, spin-squeezed states of atoms appropriate for maintaining a large amount of squeezing even after release into the arm of a matter-wave interferometer or other free space quantum sensor. Using an effective intracavity dipole trap, we allow atoms to move along the cavity axis and time average their coupling to the standing wave used to generate entanglement via collective measurements, demonstrating 11(1) dB of directly observed spin squeezing. Our results show that time averaging in collective measurements can greatly reduce the impact of spatially inhomogeneous coupling to the measurement apparatus.
description: Supplemental material included. 13 pages, 4 figures
Semiparametric Inference for Non-monotone Missing-Not-at-Random Data: the No Self-Censoring Model
Creators: name: Malinsky, Daniel
name: Shpitser, Ilya
name: Tchetgen, Eric J Tchetgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the identification and estimation of statistical functionals of multivariate data missing non-monotonically and not-at-random, taking a semiparametric approach. Specifically, we assume that the missingness mechanism satisfies what has been previously called "no self-censoring" or "itemwise conditionally independent nonresponse," which roughly corresponds to the assumption that no partially-observed variable directly determines its own missingness status. We show that this assumption, combined with an odds ratio parameterization of the joint density, enables identification of functionals of interest, and we establish the semiparametric efficiency bound for the nonparametric model satisfying this assumption. We propose a practical augmented inverse probability weighted estimator, and in the setting with a (possibly high-dimensional) always-observed subset of covariates, our proposed estimator enjoys a certain double-robustness property. We explore the performance of our estimator with simulation experiments and on a previously-studied data set of HIV-positive mothers in Botswana.
description: 50 pages. This version has been updated to correct an error. An erratum has also been published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2021.2016421
Polynomial-Time Data Reduction for Weighted Problems Beyond Additive Goal Functions
Creators: name: Bentert, Matthias
name: van Bevern, René
name: Fluschnik, Till
name: Nichterlein, André
name: Niedermeier, Rolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C27

description: Dealing with NP-hard problems, kernelization is a fundamental notion for polynomial-time data reduction with performance guarantees: in polynomial time, a problem instance is reduced to an equivalent instance with size upper-bounded by a function of a parameter chosen in advance. Kernelization for weighted problems particularly requires to also shrink weights. Marx and Végh [ACM Trans. Algorithms 2015] and Etscheid et al. [J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 2017] used a technique of Frank and Tardos [Combinatorica 1987] to obtain polynomial-size kernels for weighted problems, mostly with additive goal functions. We characterize the function types that the technique is applicable to, which turns out to contain many non-additive functions. Using this insight, we systematically obtain kernelization results for natural problems in graph partitioning, network design, facility location, scheduling, vehicle routing, and computational social choice, thereby improving and generalizing results from the literature.