cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A universal characterization of noncommutative motives and secondary algebraic K-theory
Creators: name: Mazel-Gee, Aaron
name: Stern, Reuben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide a universal characterization of the construction taking a scheme $X$ to its stable $\infty$-category $\text{Mot}(X)$ of noncommutative motives, patterned after the universal characterization of algebraic K-theory due to Blumberg--Gepner--Tabuada. As a consequence, we obtain a corepresentability theorem for secondary K-theory. We envision this as a fundamental tool for the construction of trace maps from secondary K-theory.
 Towards these main goals, we introduce a preliminary formalism of "stable $(\infty, 2)$-categories"; notable examples of these include (quasicoherent or constructible) sheaves of stable $\infty$-categories. We also develop the rudiments of a theory of presentable enriched $\infty$-categories -- and in particular, a theory of presentable $(\infty, n)$-categories -- which may be of intependent interest.
description: Minor revisions and improvements. Accepted for publication in Annals of K-Theory. (Numberings here differ from those in the published version.)
title: Christian Schmidt, Dekorationsmaler und Restaurator
title: Ein Beitrag zur Schweizerischen Restaurierungsgeschichte
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Jullien, Mirjam
Publisher: name: Hochschule der Künste Bern
Year: 2005
Subjects: Conservation history

description: Der aus Kiel stammende Dekorationsmaler Friedrich Christian Schmidt gründete 1882 die Firma Christian Schmidt in Zürich. Gemeinsam mit seinem Sohn Christian Jakob Schmidt interessierte er sich für die Keim’schen Mineralfarben, und die Firma übernahm die Schweizer Vertretung derselben. In diesem Zusammenhang restaurierte Christian Jakob Schmidt seine erste Wandmalerei, die Fassade des „Weissen Adlers“ in Stein am Rhein. Der Erfolg dieser Arbeit führte zu weiteren, und die Restaurierung wurde zu einem festen Geschäftszweig der Firma Christian Schmidt, später Christian Schmidt und Söhne. Christian Jakob Schmidt arbeitete an den bedeutendsten Wandmalereien der gesamten Schweiz.
Data-driven early fault detection framework for biomass auger reactors
Creators: name: Mozafari, Ghazaleh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Effective early detection of mechanical faults in biomass reactors is crucial for preventing unscheduled downtime, material loss, and safety hazards. However, fault prediction in this domain remains highly challenging due to the nonlinear, dynamic, and stochastic nature of auger-based feeding systems, which are further influenced by heterogeneous feedstock properties (e.g., particle size, moisture content) and fluctuating operational conditions. This thesis presents a data-driven early fault detection framework tailored to biomass auger reactors, aiming to support proactive maintenance by identifying potential faults before they escalate. The framework establishes an end-to-end workflow, beginning with advanced data preprocessing that transforms raw auger motor torque signals into structured, labeled time-series samples suitable for machine learning (ML) models. A range of baseline models is evaluated, and a hybrid deep learning architecture is proposed, combining bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) networks with systematically engineered time-series features. This hybrid model, referred to as TSF-BiLSTM, is designed to enhance predictive performance, particularly in scenarios with limited fault data availability. The approach is validated using real-world data from field-deployed biomass reactors processing diverse feedstock types. Compared to conventional BiLSTM, LSTM, and classical ML classifiers, the proposed method demonstrates improved early fault detection capability. Statistical analyses confirm its generalizability across varying operational conditions and feedstock characteristics. Real-time visualizations further demonstrate the model’s potential for integration into online process monitoring systems, supporting more sustainable and reliable biomass energy operations.
Improving and Indexing OA  Journals from the Arab World in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Creators: name: Kamel Belhamel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Indexing
DOAJ
open access journals
Arab World

description: this was presented at the 4th Arab Congress for Open Access ( ACOA4) held on 25-27 October 2024 on how to Improve and Index OA  Journals from the Arab World in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
title: Sunitinib added to FOLFIRI versus FOLFIRI in patients with chemorefractory advanced adenocarcinoma of the stomach or lower esophagus
title: a randomized, placebo-controlled phase II AIO trial with serum biomarker program
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Moehler, Markus
name: Gepfner-Tuma, Irina
name: Maderer, Annett
name: Thuss-Patience, Peter C.
name: Ruessel, Joern
name: Hegewisch-Becker, Susanna
name: Wilke, Hansjochen
name: Al-Batran, Salah-Eddin
name: Rafiyan, Mohammad-Reza
name: Weissinger, Florian
name: Schmoll, Hans-Joachim
name: Kullmann, Frank
name: Von Weikersthal, Ludwig Fischer
name: Siveke, Jens T.
name: Weusmann, Jens
name: Kanzler, Stephan
name: Schimanski, Carl Christoph
name: Otte, Melanie
name: Schollenberger, Lukas
name: Koenig, Jochem
name: Galle, Peter R.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemorefractory advanced gastric cancer
subject: Tyrosine kinase inhibitor
subject: Sunitinib
subject: FOLFIRI
subject: VEGF
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten

description: Background As a multi-targeted anti-angiogenic receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor sunitinib (SUN) has been established for renal cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumors. In advanced refractory esophagogastric cancer patients, monotherapy with SUN was associated with good tolerability but limited tumor response. Methods This double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter, phase II clinical trial was conducted to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of SUN as an adjunct to second and third-line FOLFIRI (NCT01020630). Patients were randomized to receive 6-week cycles including FOLFIRI plus sodium folinate (Na-FOLFIRI) once every two weeks and SUN or placebo (PL) continuously for four weeks followed by a 2-week rest period. The primary study endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Preplanned serum analyses of VEGF-A, VEGF-D, VEGFR2 and SDF-1α were performed retrospectively. Results Overall, 91 patients were randomized, 45 in each group (one patient withdrew). The main grade ≥3 AEs were neutropenia and leucopenia, observed in 56 %/20 % and 27 %/16 % for FOLFIRI + SUN/FOLFIRI + PL, respectively. Median PFS was similar, 3.5 vs. 3.3 months (hazard ratio (HR) 1.11, 95 % CI 0.70–1.74, P = 0.66) for FOLFIRI + SUN vs. FOLFIRI + PL, respectively. For FOLFIRI + SUN, a trend towards longer median overall survival (OS) compared with placebo was observed (10.4 vs. 8.9 months, HR 0.82, 95 % CI 0.50–1.34, one-sided P = 0.21). In subgroup serum analyses, significant changes in VEGF-A (P = 0.017), VEGFR2 (P = 0.012) and VEGF-D (P
The role of risk assessment in pre-sentence reports: Perceptions and experiences of judges and probation officers
Creators: name: Jesseman, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the opinions of judges and probation officers on the inclusion of risk assessment information in pre-sentence reports. This thesis analyzes data related to opinions on risk obtained through interviews, questionnaires, and pre-sentence reports. This data was collected within a national project examining the overall use of pre-sentence reports in Canada. The introduction also provides a brief overview of the role of pre-sentence reports in the Canadian judicial system, the role of risk in criminal justice, and experience in England and Wales, New Zealand, and Australia relating to the implementation of guidelines for the use of actuarial risk assessments by probation offices. Results indicate that both judges and probation officers strongly endorse the importance of information on an offender's risk of recidivism in the sentencing process, particularly in cases involving violence. Both judges and probation officers also expressed a preference for a narrative assessment process in interviews. However, actuarial assessments were used and identified as important in the majority of pre-sentence reports examined. Despite agreement as to its importance, there is currently a great deal of variation in the presentation of risk information across Canada. This thesis concludes with recommendations on how to improve the use of risk information in pre-sentence reports.
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Understanding the wavelength dependence of galaxy structure with bulge-disc decompositions
Creators: name: Kennedy, Rebecca
name: Bamford, Steven P.
name: Häußler, Boris
name: Baldry, Ivan
name: Bremer, Malcolm
name: Brough, Sarah
name: Brown, Michael J I
name: Driver, Simon
name: Duncan, Kenneth
name: Graham, Alister
name: Holwerda, Benne W.
name: Hopkins, Andrew M.
name: Kelvin, Lee S.
name: Lange, Rebecca
name: Phillipps, Steven
name: Vika, Marina
name: Vulcani, Benedetta
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: With a large sample of bright, low-redshift galaxies with optical-near-IR imaging from the GAMA survey we use bulge-disc decompositions to understand the wavelength-dependent behaviour of single-Sersic structural measurements. We denote the variation in single-Sersic index with wavelength as N{script}, likewise for effective radius we use „›. We find that most galaxies with a substantial disc, even those with no discernable bulge, display a high value of N{script}. The increase in Sersic index to longer wavelengths is therefore intrinsic to discs, apparently resulting from radial variations in stellar population and/or dust reddening. Similarly, low values of „› (< 1) are found to be ubiquitous, implying an element of universality in galaxy colour gradients. We also study how bulge and disc colour distributions vary with galaxy type. We find that, rather than all bulges being red and all discs being blue in absolute terms, both components become redder for galaxies with redder total colours. We even observe that bulges in bluer galaxies are typically bluer than discs in red galaxies, and that bulges and discs are closer in colour for fainter galaxies. Trends in total colour are therefore not solely due to the colour or flux dominance of the bulge or disc.
title: The effect of diurnal distribution of carbohydrates and fat on glycaemic control in humans
title: a randomized controlled trial
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kessler, Katharina
name: Hornemann, Silke
name: Petzke, Klaus J.
name: Kemper, Margrit
name: Kramer, Achim
name: Pfeiffer, Andreas F. H.
name: Pivovarova, Olga
name: Rudovich, Natalia
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nutrition
subject: Randomized controlled trials
subject: Type 2 diabetes
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Diurnal carbohydrate and fat distribution modulates glycaemic control in rodents. In humans, the optimal timing of both macronutrients and its effects on glycaemic control after prolonged consumption are not studied in detail. In this cross-over trial, 29 non-obese men were randomized to two four-week diets: (1) carbohydrate-rich meals until 13.30 and fat-rich meals between 16.30 and 22.00 (HC/HF) versus (2) inverse sequence of meals (HF/HC). After each trial period two meal tolerance tests were performed, at 09.00 and 15.40, respectively, according to the previous intervention. On the HF/HC diet, whole-day glucose level was increased by 7.9% (p = 0.026) in subjects with impaired fasting glucose and/or impaired glucose tolerance (IFG/IGT, n = 11), and GLP-1 by 10.2% (p = 0.041) in normal glucose-tolerant subjects (NGT, n = 18). Diet effects on fasting GLP-1 (p = 0.009) and PYY (p = 0.034) levels were observed in IFG/IGT, but not in NGT. Afternoon decline of glucose tolerance was more pronounced in IFG/IGT and associated with a stronger decrease of postprandial GLP-1 and PYY levels, but not with changes of cortisol rhythm. In conclusion, the HF/HC diet shows an unfavourable effect on glycaemic control in IFG/IGT, but not in NGT subjects. Consequently, large, carbohydrate-rich dinners should be avoided, primarily by subjects with impaired glucose metabolism.
Quality and availability of the Standard Telephone Service
Creators: name: Gadir, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Australia’s elaborate legislative guarantees around fixed-line phone service availability are evidence of the historic social consensus that access to a phone is a universal right and an essential feature of an industrialised society. It would be unfortunate if the construction of a new access network in the form of the National Broadband Network (NBN), designed to enhance Australia’s technological prowess in the digital age, were to have the effect of reducing the quality or availability of the basic fixed-line phone service, which remains today the taken-for-granted service.
Supplementary document for Wireless THz link with optoelectronic transmitter and receiver - 3967053.pdf
Creators: name: Harter, Tobias
name: Ummethala, Sandeep
name: Blaicher, Matthias
name: Muehlbrandt, Sascha
name: Wolf, Stefan
name: Weber, Marco
name: Adib, Md Mosaddek Hossain
name: Kemal, Juned
name: Merboldt, Marco
name: Boes, Florian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: Supplementary Information
Use of PC12 cells to characterize PAFR-GPCR-mediated activity in neural precursors.
Creators: name: Brewer, Cynthia.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biology, Neuroscience.

description: Platelet activating factor (PAF: 1-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) is a biologically active phospholipid mediator produced by neurons and glial cells. In adult central nervous system (CNS), physiological concentrations of PAF have been shown to mediate long-term potentiation, the purported cellular basis of mammalian learning and memory. Elevated levels of PAF are implicated in the pathophysiology of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, ischemia-reperfusion injury, human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) associated dementia, and the developmental brain disorder Miller-Dieker Syndrome (MDS). Three neuropathologies are associated with sustained PAF exposure. It is not clear how these PAF-mediated effects are initiated in CNS. A seven transmembrane G-protein coupled receptor (PAFR-GPCR) has been cloned and mRNA is expressed in CNS. In addition, distinct intracellular receptor isoforms (iPAFRs) in rodent cortical extracts have been characterized pharmacologically. It is not known which of these PAF binding proteins initiate PAF-mediated neuropathology. Our ability to detect PAF receptors is further hindered by a lack of commercial PAF antibodies. To address these issues, in this thesis, I sought to: (1) Identify a neural precursor cell line capable of differentiating between PAFR-GPCR and PPAFR-initiated biological activity, (2) Determine the effect of PAFR-GPCR activation on differentiation of neural precursors to a neuronal phenotype, and (3) Characterize a new PAFR-GPCR antibody to facilitate localization of protein in CNS and CNS cell lines. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Effect of glenoid concavity loss on shoulder stability- a case report in a professional wrestler
Creators: name: Moroder, Philipp
name: Haniel, Franziska
name: Quirchmayr, Michael
name: Schulz, Eva
name: Eppel, Manfred
name: Matis, Nicholas
name: Auffarth, Alexander
name: Resch, Herbert
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Bony Shoulder Stability Ratio
subject: Bony Bankart repair
subject: Shoulder instability
subject: Glenoid defect
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Current glenoid defect measurement techniques only quantify bone loss in terms of defect diameter or surface. However, the glenoid depth plays an important role in shoulder stabilization by means of concavity compression. Case presentation We present a case of a professional wrestler who suffered from anterior shoulder instability after sustaining a bony Bankart lesion without loss of glenoid surface area but flattening of the concavity due to medialization of the fragment. The patient’s glenoid concavity was reconstructed arthroscopically by reduction and percutaneous screw fixation of the bony fragment along with a capsulo-ligamentous shift. Changes of the glenoid concavity with according alterations in the Bony Shoulder Stability Ratio (BSSR) were analyzed on pre-op, post-op, and follow-up CT scans. Postoperative CT scans revealed a deepened concavity (3.3 mm) and improved BSSR (46.1 %) compared to pre-op scans (0.7 mm; 11.3 %). Follow-up CT scans showed a slight remodeling of the glenoid concavity (3.2 mm) with steady BSSR (44.7 %). Conclusion This case shows that the passive stabilizing effect of the glenoid can be compromised by loss of concavity despite the absence of loss of articular surface. Therefore, addressing the concavity loss and resulting reduction of the BSSR is recommended in these cases. Bony Bankart repair was successful in restoring the BSSR of the patients shoulder as determined by mathematical calculations based on CT scans.
Geographic ratemaking with spatial embeddings
Creators: name: Blier-Wong, Christopher
name: Cossette, Hélène
name: Lamontagne, Luc
name: Marceau, Etienne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spatial data is a rich source of information for actuarial applications: knowledge of a risk's location could improve an insurance company's ratemaking, reserving or risk management processes. Insurance companies with high exposures in a territory typically have a competitive advantage since they may use historical losses in a region to model spatial risk non-parametrically. Relying on geographic losses is problematic for areas where past loss data is unavailable. This paper presents a method based on data (instead of smoothing historical insurance claim losses) to construct a geographic ratemaking model. In particular, we construct spatial features within a complex representation model, then use the features as inputs to a simpler predictive model (like a generalized linear model). Our approach generates predictions with smaller bias and smaller variance than other spatial interpolation models such as bivariate splines in most situations. This method also enables us to generate rates in territories with no historical experience.
3990773.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Dongfang
name: Fallahi, Arya
name: Hemmer, Michaël
name: Ye, Hong
name: Fakhari, Moein
name: Hua, Yi
name: Cankaya, Huseyin
name: Calendron, Anne-Laure
name: Zapata, Luis
name: Matlis, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary material
Carbomagnesium mediated reactions: A versatile tool in organic synthesis.
Creators: name: Forgione, Pat.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: Magnesium-mediated carbometallation has been employed as a route to a diverse range of organic synthons. The original carbometallation procedure has been optimized by a solvent study, which indicates that cyclohexane can be used in most cases, to improve the yields and consistency of the reaction. A wide-range of polysubstituted furans (232) were obtained when the reaction intermediate (144) was quenched with either dimethylformamide or benzonitrile. The use of carbon dioxide as an electrophile, provided a short (two-steps) synthesis of the Merck anti-inflammatory drug, Vioxx RTM (231). The reaction was also extended to a direct one-step synthesis of the ene-diyne chromophore (186). Additional research afforded a versatile route from 144 to dienophiles for intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions. An expedient route to the Taxol A/B-ring system (329) was developed. This ring system underwent a facile enone accelerated Cope rearrangement to generate a bicylco[2.2.2]octanone ring system (330). Finally, the dienophiles prepared from the carbomagnesiation reaction were employed as key steps in the preparation of tether controlled intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions. The reactions were shown to be more facile when cis-isopropylidene acetals ( 386) were employed in the tether. The trans-isopropylidene acetal tether (385b) was also prepared for a direct comparison. As anticipated the cycloaddition occurred at a much slower rate.* *Please refer to dissertation for diagrams.
The CALIFA and HIPASS Circular Velocity Function for All Morphological Galaxy Types
Creators: name: Bekeraite, S.
name: Walcher, C. J.
name: Wisotzki, L.
name: Croton, Darren
name: Falcón-Barroso, J.
name: Lyubenova, M.
name: Obreschkow, D.
name: Sánchez, S. F.
name: Spekkens, K.
name: Torrey, P.
name: Ven, G. Van De
name: Zwaan, M. A.
name: Ascasibar, Y.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Delgado, R. González
name: Husemann, B.
name: Marino, R. A.
name: Vogelsberger, M.
name: Ziegler, B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The velocity function (VF) is a fundamental observable statistic of the galaxy population that is similar to the luminosity function in importance, but much more difficult to measure. In this work we present the first directly measured circular VF that is representative between 60> vcirc > 320 km s-1 for galaxies of all morphological types at a given rotation velocity. For the low-mass galaxy population (60 > vcirc > 170 km s-1), we use the HI Parkes All Sky Survey VF. For the massive galaxy population (170> vcirc > 320 km s-1), we use stellar circular velocities from the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Survey (CALIFA). In earlier work we obtained the measurements of circular velocity at the 80% light radius for 226 galaxies and demonstrated that the CALIFA sample can produce volume-corrected galaxy distribution functions. The CALIFA VF includes homogeneous velocity measurements of both late and early-type rotation-supported galaxies and has the crucial advantage of not missing gas-poor massive ellipticals that HI surveys are blind to. We show that both VFs can be combined in a seamless manner, as their ranges of validity overlap. The resulting observed VF is compared to VFs derived from cosmological simulations of the z = 0 galaxy population. We find that dark-matter-only simulations show a strong mismatch with the observed VF. Hydrodynamic simulations fare better, but still do not fully reproduce observations.
Using Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Resource Orchestration in a Network Slicing Scenario
Creators: name: Mason, Federico
name: Nencioni, Gianfranco
name: Zanella, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Network Slicing (NS) paradigm enables the partition of physical and virtual resources among multiple logical networks, possibly managed by different tenants. In such a scenario, network resources need to be dynamically allocated according to the slices' requirements. In this paper, we attack the above problem by exploiting a Deep Reinforcement Learning approach. Our framework is based on a distributed architecture, where multiple agents cooperate towards a common goal. The agents' training is carried out following the Advantage Actor Critic algorithm, which allows to handle continuous action spaces. By means of extensive simulations, we show that our approach yields better performance than both a static allocation of system resources and an efficient empirical strategy. At the same time, the proposed system ensures high adaptability to different scenarios without the need for additional training.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables. This paper is under review at IEEE Transaction on Networking. Copyright IEEE 2021
3990773.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Dongfang
name: Fallahi, Arya
name: Hemmer, Michaël
name: Ye, Hong
name: Fakhari, Moein
name: Hua, Yi
name: Cankaya, Huseyin
name: Calendron, Anne-Laure
name: Zapata, Luis
name: Matlis, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary material
Biochemistry of Belief: Towards a Pharmacology of Perception
Creators: name: GORBOVTSOVA, ANASTASIIA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Neuroscience, Psychoneuroimmunology, Neurochemistry, Belief, Perception, Placebo, Immune system, Pharmacology of perception, Mind-body connection, Biohacking, Cognitive therapy, Virtual reality, Self-programming, Neurotherapy

description: This paper introduces the concept of a ‘pharmacology of perception’—a framework in which beliefs, expectations, and subjective experiences are understood as active biochemical agents capable of modulating physiological states. Drawing upon neurochemistry, psychoneuroimmunology, and recent advances in self-programming technologies, the paper outlines how cognitive states can initiate hormonal, immunological, and regenerative responses. We explore how belief operates not as a passive psychological variable, but as a measurable biological signal that can aid or hinder healing. This interdisciplinary approach reframes perception as an internally administered therapeutic agent, opening new possibilities for personalized medicine, neurotherapy, and biohacking.
title: A Model of Academic Program Review for Program Improvement
Creators: name: Muradov, Azat
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
subject: Educational Methods

description: The purpose is to develop a model of academic program review for program improvement and determine the implications of this model for institutionalization at Turkmen higher education institutions. The study builds on the communalities in institutional approaches relative to designing, conducting and using program review at selected public universities in the United States. The study is primarily concerned with institutional approaches that are oriented towards improving academic programs. Communalities in improvement-oriented academic program reviews share earlier findings in the research. In the reviewed documents, the key role belonged to the program individuals. Other characteristics included facilitating faculty participation in all aspects of the review process, using primarily academic criteria, involving diverse group of constituents, inquiring about program's self-direction and correction, and linking results for institutional decision-making. It is suggested that program review can be integrated into current administrative practices in higher education institutions in Turkmenistan. The proposed model views both the process and results of review as essential contributions to program improvement. The implications of the proposed model are diverse. These implications involve institutional environment, its size and structure, communication mechanisms, and leadership of key personnel. The study proposes relevant strategies to address these implications. Major proposed strategies include collaboration stimulated by leadership, management training, and instituting new mechanisms of communication for continued dialogue among key constituents.
Inhaled nitric oxide protects against hyperoxia-induced apoptosis in the rat lung.
Creators: name: Howlett, Clare E.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) is frequently administered in combination with hyperoxic gas mixtures to effect pulmonary vasodilation in patients with pulmonary hypertension. NO was recently shown to have a protective effect against the injurious consequences of prolonged hyperoxia. The present study investigated the possibility that this protective effect may be attributable to the ability of NO to block apoptosis. Rats exposed to 100% O2 for 60 h developed severe lung injury consisting of pronounced vascular leak and alveolar apoptosis, as inferred from the presence of DNA fragmentation (positive ISEL staining and DNA ladders in agarose gels), and a decrease in constitutive pro-caspase-3 levels. However, the inclusion of NO (20 ppm) in the hyperoxic gas mixture significantly attenuated both the vascular leak and apoptosis. NO reversed the hyperoxia-associated changes in the activity of the redox-sensitive transcription factors NF-kappaB, AP-1 and Sp1 after 24 h. This protective effect was accompanied by a decrease in the level of the proinflammatory protein ICAM-1 and an increase in the cellular antioxidant glutathione. This study shows for the first time that NO can protect against both hyperoxia-induced apoptosis and vascular leak. The data suggest that the protection may occur at the transcriptional and caspase activation level.
Ubiquitäre Schadstoffe - Eintragsinventare, Umweltverhalten und Eintragsmodellierung
Creators: name: Fuchs, Stephan
name: Rothvoß, Shari
name: Toshovski, Snezhina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Bestandsaufnahme
subject: PAK
subject: Benzo[a]pyren
subject: ubiquitäre Stoffe
subject: MoRE
subject: Stoffeintragsmodellierung
subject: Schwermetall
subject: Regionalisierte Pfadanalyse
subject: Gewässergütemodellierung
subject: Wasser

description: Durch anthropogene Nutzungen ist eine Vielzahl von Stoffen ubiquitär in der Umwelt verteilt. Um festgelegte Umweltziele zu erreichen sind wirksame Maßnahmen umzusetzen. Voraussetzung ist die Kenntnis der wichtigsten Quellen und Eintragspfade. Modelle sind hier wichtige Werkzeuge. Dabei sind Modellaussagen unter anderem auf Grund von Daten- und Wissenslücken oft mit erheblichen Unsicherheiten behaftet. Um diese zu reduzieren, wurden basierend auf dem Umweltverhalten der Stoffe, ein systematischer Plausibilisierungsansatz für Modelleingangsdaten erarbeitet und Empfehlungen für zukünftige Arbeiten formuliert. Darüber hinaus wurde eine bundesweite Abschätzung der Einträge von Benzo(a)pyren umgesetzt.
Evaluating Water Use for Agricultural Intensification in Southern Amazonia Using the Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment
Creators: name: Lathuillière, Michael J.
name: Coe, Michael T.
name: Castanho, Andrea
name: Graesser, Jordan
name: Johnson, Mark S.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: We performed a Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment (WFSA) in the Xingu Basin of Mato Grosso (XBMT), Brazil, with the objectives of (1) tracking blue (as surface water) and green water (as soil moisture regenerated by precipitation) consumption in recent years (2000, 2014); and (2) evaluating agricultural intensification options for future years (2030, 2050) considering the effects of deforestation and climate change on water availability in the basin. The agricultural sector was the largest consumer of water in the basin despite there being almost no irrigation of cropland or pastures. In addition to water use by crops and pasture grass, water consumption attributed to cattle production included evaporation from roughly 9463 ha of small farm reservoirs used to provide drinking water for cattle in 2014. The WFSA showed that while blue and green water consumptive uses were within sustainable limits in 2014, deforestation, cattle confinement, and the use of irrigation to increase cropping frequency could drive water use to unsustainable levels in the future. While land management policies and practices should strive for protection of the remaining natural vegetation, increased agricultural production will require reservoir and irrigation water management to reduce the potential threat of blue water scarcity in the dry season. In addition to providing general guidance for future water allocation decisions in the basin, our study offers an interpretation of blue and green water scarcities with changes in land use and climate in a rapidly evolving agricultural frontier.
Rhythmic Degradation Explains and Unifies Circadian Transcriptome and Proteome Data
Creators: name: Lück, Sarah
name: Thurley, Kevin
name: Thaben, Paul F.
name: Westermark, Pål O.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: The rich mammalian cellular circadian output affects thousands of genes in many cell types and has been the subject of genome-wide transcriptome and proteome studies. The results have been enigmatic because transcript peak abundances do not always follow the peaks of gene-expression activity in time. We posited that circadian degradation of mRNAs and proteins plays a pivotal role in setting their peak times. To establish guiding principles, we derived a theoretical framework that fully describes the amplitudes and phases of biomolecules with circadian half-lives. We were able to explain the circadian transcriptome and proteome studies with the same unifying theory, including cases in which transcripts or proteins appeared before the onset of increased production rates. Furthermore, we estimate that 30% of the circadian transcripts in mouse liver and Drosophila heads are affected by rhythmic posttranscriptional regulation.
Consistent ultrafinitist logic
Creators: name: Gajda, Michał J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.1; F.1.1
subject: 03A05, 03D10, 03D25, 03F40, 03F50, 03F55

description: Ultrafinitism postulates that we can only compute on relatively short objects, and numbers beyond certain value are not available. This approach would also forbid many forms of infinitary reasoning and allow to remove certain paradoxes stemming from enumeration theorems. However, philosophers still disagree of whether such a finitist logic would be consistent. We present preliminary work on a proof system based on Curry-Howard isomorphism. We also try to present some well-known theorems that stop being true in such systems, whereas opposite statements become provable. This approach presents certain impossibility results as logical paradoxes stemming from a profligate use of transfinite reasoning.
description: Under review
Supplementary document for Spectral and temporal evidence of robust photonic bound states in the continuum on terahertz metasurfaces - 3991133.pdf
Creators: name: Sanchez-Gil, Jose
name: Abujetas, Diego Romero
name: van Hoof, Niels
name: Huurne, Stan ter
name: Rivas, Jaime
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: Numerical simulations of off-normal transmittance spectra; scattering efficiencies of isolated rods and dimers, along with polarizibilities; coupled detuned-dipole formulation.
The Role of Customer Service in the Success of Heritage Hotels: A Critical Review
Creators: name: Budholia, Bharti
name: Yadav, Dr. Santosh Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study explores the significance of service quality in heritage hotels and its impact on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Heritage hotels hold cultural and historical value, making service quality a critical factor in shaping guest experiences. The review analyzes various dimensions of service quality, including responsiveness, reliability, and ambiance, which influence customer perceptions. It also highlights the role of modern technology in enhancing efficiency while maintaining personalized service. The findings suggest that a balance between tradition and innovation is crucial for heritage hotels to remain competitive. Marketing strategies, staff training, and digital engagement play key roles in improving guest experiences and fostering long-term loyalty. The study concludes that continuous improvement in service quality is necessary for heritage hotels to sustain their reputation and meet evolving customer expectations.
Statistical and computational tools to model the structural and functional heterogeneity of skeletal muscle during regeneration
Creators: name: Coccimiglio, Ian Francisco
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Skeletal muscle is the largest organ in the body, and is responsible for numerous critical biological functions, including locomotion, breathing, and environmental interaction. Though muscle fibers make up the majority of the skeletal muscle mass, there are many other cells that are essential to its regulation, maintenance, and regeneration. In this work, I focus on leveraging computational and statistical tools to understand the heterogeneity of cells in skeletal muscle, how its variation contributes to regeneration, and develop software to accelerate the work of future researchers through the creation of open-source programs. Finally, I explore how modern deep-learning tools can present fundamental challenges for scientific reproducibility. My first project is in using statistical analysis to estimate the clonal diversity of a population of regenerating fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs). To this end, I have created a model of regeneration based on estimating a probability distribution of clonal diversity. I used a likelihood function constructed from a multinomial distribution, and used Monte Carlo simulation to create estimators of heterogeneity. In this work, I found that the clonal diversity of FAPs is compromised upon damage and progressively worsens upon repeated damage, and the effect is not explainable by ageing. My second project is to develop a novel, open-source skeletal muscle imaging software tool called FiberSight and use it to help quantify the regenerative and structural state of skeletal muscle. I built FiberSight on the widely-used open-source imaging software Fiji/ImageJ to address the challenge of analyzing diverse muscle morphologies on whole-slide tissue sections. This program features 3 major functionalities --- stain-specific Cellpose models for segmenting skeletal muscle fibers and estimating morphology, automatic quantification the central nucleation state of segmented muscle fibers, and finally robustly categorizing continuous signals of muscle fiber type based on immunofluorescence staining.
Together we can find telecommunication solutions for people with complex communication needs
Creators: name: Garrett, Rob
name: Nguyen, Toan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: People with complex communication needs are limited in their ability to speak and type. This makes it difficult for them to express their specific needs and to gain access to the telecommunications solutions currently available. This paper describes the development of the community-based Newell Network (www.newell.org.au), a Web 2.0 site centred on empowering individuals with complex communication needs, their carers and support organisations. The site enables users to add information on available telecommunication solutions and be directed to known applicable resources. Reflections on the project development, process undertaken and issues identified are discussed.
THE 3D-HST SURVEY: HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE WFC3/G141 GRISM SPECTRA, REDSHIFTS, and EMISSION LINE MEASUREMENTS for ∼100,000 GALAXIES
Creators: name: Momcheva, Ivelina G.
name: Brammer, Gabriel B.
name: Van Dokkum, Pieter G.
name: Skelton, Rosalind E.
name: Whitaker, Katherine E.
name: Nelson, Erica J.
name: Fumagalli, Mattia
name: Maseda, Michael V.
name: Leja, Joel
name: Franx, Marijn
name: Rix, Hans Walter
name: Bezanson, Rachel
name: Lima Da Cunha, Elisabete
name: Dickey, Claire
name: Schreiber, Natascha M Förster
name: Illingworth, Garth
name: Kriek, Mariska
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Lange, Johannes Ulf
name: Lundgren, Britt F.
name: Magee, Daniel
name: Marchesini, Danilo
name: Oesch, Pascal
name: Pacifici, Camilla
name: Patel, Shannon G.
name: Price, Sedona
name: Tal, Tomer
name: Wake, David A.
name: Van Der Wel, Arjen
name: Wuyts, Stijn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present reduced data and data products from the 3D-HST survey, a 248-orbit HST Treasury program. The survey obtained WFC3 G141 grism spectroscopy in four of the five CANDELS fields: AEGIS, COSMOS, GOODS-S, and UDS, along with WFC3 H140 imaging, parallel ACS G800L spectroscopy, and parallel I814 imaging. In a previous paper, we presented photometric catalogs in these four fields and in GOODS-N, the fifth CANDELS field. Here we describe and present the WFC3 G141 spectroscopic data, again augmented with data from GO-1600 in GOODS-N (PI: B. Weiner). We developed software to automatically and optimally extract interlaced two-dimensional (2D) and one-dimensional (1D) spectra for all objects in the Skelton et al. (2014) photometric catalogs. The 2D spectra and the multi-band photometry were fit simultaneously to determine redshifts and emission line strengths, taking the morphology of the galaxies explicitly into account. The resulting catalog has redshifts and line strengths (where available) for 22,548 unique objects down to JHIR ≤ 24 (79,609 unique objects down to JHIR ≤ 26). Of these, 5459 galaxies are at z > 1.5 and 9621 are at 0.7 < z < 1.5,, where Hα falls in the G141 wavelength coverage. The typical redshift error for JHIR ≤ 24 galaxies is σz ≈ 0.003 × (1 + z), i.e., one native WFC3 pixel. The 3σ limit for emission line fluxes of point sources is 2.1 × 10-17 erg s-1 cm-2. All 2D and 1D spectra, as well as redshifts, line fluxes, and other derived parameters, are publicly available.
FairBalance: How to Achieve Equalized Odds With Data Pre-processing
Creators: name: Yu, Zhe
name: Chakraborty, Joymallya
name: Menzies, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This research seeks to benefit the software engineering society by providing a simple yet effective pre-processing approach to achieve equalized odds fairness in machine learning software. Fairness issues have attracted increasing attention since machine learning software is increasingly used for high-stakes and high-risk decisions. Amongst all the existing fairness notions, this work specifically targets "equalized odds" given its advantage in always allowing perfect classifiers. Equalized odds requires that members of every demographic group do not receive disparate mistreatment. Prior works either optimize for an equalized odds related metric during the learning process like a black-box, or manipulate the training data following some intuition. This work studies the root cause of the violation of equalized odds and how to tackle it. We found that equalizing the class distribution in each demographic group with sample weights is a necessary condition for achieving equalized odds without modifying the normal training process. In addition, an important partial condition for equalized odds (zero average odds difference) can be guaranteed when the class distributions are weighted to be not only equal but also balanced (1:1). Based on these analyses, we proposed FairBalance, a pre-processing algorithm which balances the class distribution in each demographic group by assigning calculated weights to the training data. On eight real-world datasets, our empirical results show that, at low computational overhead, the proposed pre-processing algorithm FairBalance can significantly improve equalized odds without much, if any damage to the utility. FairBalance also outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches in terms of equalized odds. To facilitate reuse, reproduction, and validation, we made our scripts available at https://github.com/hil-se/FairBalance.
description: 16 pages. Accepted by TSE
It means inclusion: a creative approach to disability and telecommunications policy in Australia
Creators: name: Ellis, Katie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Christopher Newell was both optimistic and sceptical regarding the potential of digital technologies and advanced telecommunications to assist individuals with disability (Newell 1998, Goggin & Newell 2000, Goggin & Newell 2003). With Newell's body of work in mind, this paper considers current policy issues which intersect disability, telecommunications and participation that have garnered government and public attention in Australia in recent years. Three important case studies are offered-the national broadband network, digital television and mobile telephones. I demonstrate the tangible benefits innovative use of these telecommunications technologies can deliver, in assisting individuals with disabilities, while cautioning their potentially disabling elements. Using an ethos of 'accessibility 2.0' (Ellis & Kent 2011), the paper takes the policy discussion beyond the provision of infrastructure to consider issues of accessibility and usability, relevant to disabled users and, by extension, us all (Goggin 2008b). This paper recommends a reformulation of telecommunications policy to recognise different accessibility requirements are needed for different impairments and that these may benefit the mainstream community which is interested in customising its digital technologies (Jaeger 2006). An extraordinary value lies in using telecommunications-such as the NBN, digital television and mobile telephones-to connect people with disability who are physically and socially marginalised.
Self-supervised Audiovisual Representation Learning for Remote Sensing Data
Creators: name: Heidler, Konrad
name: Mou, Lichao
name: Hu, Di
name: Jin, Pu
name: Li, Guangyao
name: Gan, Chuang
name: Wen, Ji-Rong
name: Zhu, Xiao Xiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many current deep learning approaches make extensive use of backbone networks pre-trained on large datasets like ImageNet, which are then fine-tuned to perform a certain task. In remote sensing, the lack of comparable large annotated datasets and the wide diversity of sensing platforms impedes similar developments. In order to contribute towards the availability of pre-trained backbone networks in remote sensing, we devise a self-supervised approach for pre-training deep neural networks. By exploiting the correspondence between geo-tagged audio recordings and remote sensing imagery, this is done in a completely label-free manner, eliminating the need for laborious manual annotation. For this purpose, we introduce the SoundingEarth dataset, which consists of co-located aerial imagery and audio samples all around the world. Using this dataset, we then pre-train ResNet models to map samples from both modalities into a common embedding space, which encourages the models to understand key properties of a scene that influence both visual and auditory appearance. To validate the usefulness of the proposed approach, we evaluate the transfer learning performance of pre-trained weights obtained against weights obtained through other means. By fine-tuning the models on a number of commonly used remote sensing datasets, we show that our approach outperforms existing pre-training strategies for remote sensing imagery. The dataset, code and pre-trained model weights will be available at https://github.com/khdlr/SoundingEarth.
description: Published Journal Version