cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thinking qualitatively: doing intersectionality
Creators: Dorow, Sara;
Mayan, Maria;
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

SSHRC application for Connection Grant awarded in 2022. Qualitative researchers in social science and health fields have increasingly adopted an intersectional approach that foregrounds the interactive effects of race, gender, sexuality, class, and other social relations. Intersectional research

addresses social and health equality by illuminating interlocking forms of oppression and identifying context-specific solutions to disparities. However, deeper engagement with intersectionality as an analytic framework is needed if this body of research is to have robust and effective outcomes. It is imperative to advance knowledge in the "doing" of intersectional qualitative research, and to support and prepare the next generation of diverse health and social science researchers and practitioners for this complex work.

Thinking Qualitatively: Doing Intersectionality (TQ:DI) addresses this need in two interrelated ways: an Event, and follow-up Outreach. Outreach from this project will include the development of a global scholarly network in intersectional qualitative research, an academic article on mentoring in intersectional qualitative health research, and four publicly available keynote addresses. In addition to these, the major form of outreach is a series of five bilingual training modules in intersectional qualitative research. Following the event, TQ:DI workshop materials will be re-developed, piloted, and refined for ongoing use among academic and non-academic learners. These modules will include introductory, intermediate, and health-related modules aimed at graduate student and experienced community users, and will be made available through relevant UAlberta institutes

and initiatives.
Simultaneous ultra-high contrast imaging and determination of time-dependent, non-common path aberrations in the presence of detector noise
Creators: name: Frazin, Richard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground-based ultra-high contrast imaging, as required for direct imaging of exoplanets and other solar systems, is limited by difficulty of separating the planetary emission from the effects of optical aberrations that are not compensated by the adaptive optics (AO) system, so-called "non-common path aberrations" (NCPAs). Simultaneous ($\sim$ millisecond) exposures by the science camera and the AO system enable the use of "phase diversity" to estimate both the NCPAs and the scene via a processing procedure first described by the author (R. Frazin 2013, ApJ, 767, article id. 21). This method is fully compatible with more standard concepts used in long-exposure high-contrast imaging, such as angular differential imaging and spectral deconvolution. Long-exposure methods find time-dependent NCPAs, such as those caused by vibrations, particularly challenging. Here, an NCPA of the form of $α\cos(k \cdot r - ωt + \vartheta)$ is considered. It is shown that, when sampled at millisecond time-scales, the image plane data are sensitive to $\mbox{arg}(α)$, $\vartheta$ and $ω$, and, therefore such NCPAs can be simultaneously estimated with the scene. Simulations of observations with ms exposure times are reported. These simulations include substantial detector noise and a sinusoidal NCPA that places a speckle exactly at the location of a planet. Simulations show that the effects of detector noise can be mitigated by mixing exposures of various lengths, allowing estimation of the planet's brightness.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Proc. SPIE
The Research Reference Files. The Committee on Drinking Behavior. The Society for the Study of Social Problems
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1963

description: Description and correspondence of what later became the Ralph G. Connor Alcohol Research Reference Files (CARRF), a unique collection of approximately 700 questionnaires, interview schedules and survey instruments used in alcohol research with additional reference to articles that used the survey.
Surabhāratīvaraṇārthamahārṇavabinduḥ ॥ सुरभारतीवरणार्थमहार्णवबिन्दुः ॥
Creators: name: Seneviratne, Rohana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Indian literature
Indian languages

description: Surabhāratīvaraṇārtha-mahārṇavabinduḥ svopajñayā rohaṇottejanīsamākhyayā laghuvyākhyayā samullasitaḥ” [a short poem of 35 verses in Śārdūlavikrīḍita metre) with self-commentary titled Rohaṇottejanī].
Hydrodynamic Limit of mean zero condensing Zero Range Processes with sub-critical initial profiles
Creators: name: Stamatakis, Marios-Georgios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove the hydrodynamic limit of mean zero condensing Zero Range Processes with bounded local jump rate, for sub-critical initial profiles. The proof is based on H.T. Yau's relative entropy method and is made possible by a generalisation of the One Block Estimate.
Monocrepidius prionurus Candeze 1859
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Monocrepidius
Monocrepidius prionurus

description: Monocrepidius prionurus Candèze, 1859
Monocrepidius prionurus Candèze, 1859: 226.
Type depository. Unknown.
Type locality. “De Ceylan et du sud de l’Hindoustan”.
Distribution. India: “South India ” (Exact distribution unknown).
Literature. Candèze (1859: 226): original description.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
D5.2 - Formulation of "Open Science and Open Innovation & Entrepreneurship training" joint strategic goals and relevant key performance criteria and perspectives
Creators: name: Sušanj, Zoran
name: Zubić, Nikoleta
name: Golob, Boris
name: Gerbin, Ani
name: Zelenika, Saša
name: Kersschot, Margaux
name: Krooi, Matthijs
name: Hörner, Tanja
name: Schmidt, Björn Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Doctoral training, transferable skills, entrepreneurship, innovation, Open Science, graduate tracking

description: In order to better adapt to the highly unpredictable labor market, the importance of acquiring transversal (also referred to as 'generic') skills and competences is increasingly emphasized, alongside the development of different research-specific skills. Accordingly, the main aim of DIOSI - Developing and Implementing hands-on training on Open Science and Open Innovation for Doctoral Candidates (DCs) and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) is to develop a common model for doctoral learning that integrates transferable skills as equally valuable as research-specific skills among the institutional partners of the project.
 The main goal of the DIOSI project’s Work Package (WP) 5 is to provide a measurable and actionable assessment of the impact of the DIOSI model for doctoral learning in general, and training on Open innovation and Entrepreneurship and Open Science in particular, through the development of the DIOSI Impact and Graduate Tracking Framework.
 The Framework will include two time perspectives and three levels of tracking: short-term perspective, implying the individual graduate tracking level and long-term perspective, implying the overall training level and the level of stakeholders and impact on society.
 This report focuses on defining the key performance criteria of Open Science and Open Innovation & Entrepreneurship training sessions. To that aim, the key areas for improvement across all four levels of the framework (reaction, learning, behavior and outcomes) are determined and specified in the report.
Lycoris: Large Area Telescope
Creators: name: Krämer, Uwe
name: Behnke, Ties
name: Stanitzki, Marcel
name: Diener, Ralf
name: Wu, Mengqing
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018

description: DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2018, Würzburg, DESY, University of Hamburg, Germany, 19 Mar 2018 - 23 Mar 2018
Exploring Word Representations on Time Expression Recognition
Publisher: name: University of Virginia
Year: 2020

description: Time expression extraction has attracted longstanding interest over time, due to its great importance in many downstream tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR). Although current approaches, either rule-based or learning-based, can achieve impressive performance in major datasets, they usually rely heavily on handcrafted rules or task-speciﬁc pre-tagging features. Recent advances in pretrained word representations motivate us to explore semisupervised approaches for this task. We ﬁrst show that simple neural architectures built on top of pre-trained word representations perform competitively and efﬁciently on time expression recognition. Then we further propose a neural model of jointly learning to identify and type time expression.
Factorisation of soft gluons in multiparton scattering
Creators: name: Diehl, Markus
name: Nagar, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: factorization
scattering
gluon
Drell-Yan process
Ward identity
Wilson loop
decoupling
nonabelian
Collins

description: We show that soft gluons exchanged between the two colliding protons in multiparton scattering processes can be decoupled, such that their effects are described by the vacuum expectation values of Wilson lines. Our argument relies on nonabelian Ward identities and generalises the proof of factorisation for single Drell-Yan production given by Collins, Soper and Sterman.
Virginia Coast Reserve LTER Field Guide to Benthic Macrofauna
Publisher: name: University of Virginia
Year: 2020
Subjects: Virginia Coast Reserve
oyster reef
benthic macrofauna

description: This field guide serves as supplementary material to my senior thesis, conducted at the Virginia Coast Reserve during the period July 2019-October 2019. This guide contains pictures and morphological descriptions of all species collected in the study.
Millimetre spectral indices of transition disks and their relation to the cavity radius
Creators: name: Pinilla, P.
name: Benisty, M.
name: Birnstiel, T.
name: Ricci, L.
name: Isella, A.
name: Natta, A.
name: Dullemond, C. P.
name: Quiroga-Nuñez, L. H.
name: Henning, T.
name: Testi, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transition disks are protoplanetary disks with inner depleted dust cavities and excellent candidates to investigate the dust evolution under the existence of a pressure bump. A pressure bump at the outer edge of the cavity allows dust grains from the outer regions to stop their rapid inward migration towards the star and efficiently grow to millimetre sizes. Dynamical interactions with planet(s) have been one of the most exciting theories to explain the clearing of the inner disk. We look for evidence of the presence of millimetre dust particles in transition disks by measuring their spectral index with new and available photometric data. We investigate the influence of the size of the dust depleted cavity on the disk integrated millimetre spectral index. We present the 3mm photometric observations carried out with PdBI of four transition disks: LkHa330, UXTauA, LRLL31, and LRLL67. We use available values of their fluxes at 345GHz to calculate their spectral index, as well as the spectral index for a sample of twenty transition disks. We compare the observations with two kind of models. In the first set of models, we consider coagulation and fragmentation of dust in a disk in which a cavity is formed by a massive planet located at different positions. The second set of models assumes disks with truncated inner parts at different radius and with power-law dust size distributions, where the maximum size of grains is calculated considering turbulence as the source of destructive collisions. We show that the integrated spectral index is higher for transition disks than for regular protoplanetary disks. For transition disks, the probability that the measured spectral index is positively correlated with the cavity radius is 95%. High angular resolution imaging of transition disks is needed to distinguish between the dust trapping scenario and the truncated disk case.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A, including language edition
Pachyderes bengalensis Candeze 1889
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Pachyderes
Pachyderes bengalensis

description: Pachyderes bengalensis Candèze, 1889
Pachyderes bengalensis Candèze, 1889: 24.
Type depository. Unknown.
Type locality. Actual locality not clearly known.
Distribution. India: West Bengal, Tripura (Chakraborty and Chakrabarti, 2006).
Literature. Candèze (1889: 24): original description; Biswas and Chakraborty (2000: 102): faunistics; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2006: 131): records of the zoological survey of India, occasional paper no. 254.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
Always spring in the commune (公社春常在)
Creators: name: Peasant Ma Zhenlong 马振龙
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agriculture
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/801355
subject: Agricultural productivity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/801250
subject: Greenhouses
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/947749
subject: Communes (China)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/869875
subject: Greenhouse Cultivation
subject: Agriculture
subject: Hu County Peasant Painting

description: Created by the Cultural Centre, Hu county. Price: 14 fen
Peripheral elastic and inelastic scattering of 17,18O on light targets at 12 MeV/nucleon
Creators: name: Al-Abdullah, T.
name: Carstoiu, F.
name: Gagliardi, C. A.
name: Tabacaru, G.
name: Trache, L.
name: Tribble, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study of interaction of neutron rich oxygen isotopes $^{17,18}$O with light targets has been undertaken in order to determine the optical potentials needed for the transfer reaction $^{13}$C($^{17}$O,$^{18}$O)$^{12}$C. Optical potentials in both incoming and outgoing channels have been determined in a single experiment. This transfer reaction was used to infer the direct capture rate to the $^{17}$F(p,$γ$)$^{18}$Ne which is essential to estimate the production of $^{18}$F at stellar energies in ONe novae. The success of the asymptotic normalization coefficient (ANC) as indirect method for astrophysics is guaranteed if the reaction mechanism is peripheral and the DWBA cross section calculations are warranted and stable against OMP used. We demonstrate the stability of the ANC method and OMP results using good quality elastic and inelastic scattering data with stable beams before extending the procedures to rare ion beams. The peripherality of our reaction is inferred from a semiclassical decomposition of the total scattering amplitude into barrier and internal barrier components. Comparison between elastic scattering of $^{17}$O, $^{18}$O and $^{16}$O projectiles is made.
description: 14 pages, 19 figures
Making it Personal: The Ways in Which We Communicate Sustainability, and How to Target the Individual Using Effective Language
Publisher: name: University of Virginia
Year: 2020
Subjects: sustainability
communication
cultural cognition
narrative structure
individual behavior
environment
GSVS
GSVScapstone
GSVS2020

description: This paper will provide a detailed review of tactics that should be employed in sustainability communication with the final goal of targeting individual behavior change. Three major areas of communication are to be examined: 1) using an individual’s cultural identity as an access point to sustainability education on a values-based level, 2) navigating scientific language and the social role one must fill to understand it, and 3) the advantages of a narrative-based approach in sustainability communication. These three areas may seem divided, but through applied research I hope to make a case for their interconnectedness. Ultimately, I will prove that through a strategic synthesis of each area discussed, we can improve the language used to communicate sustainability and elicit tangible results from the individuals who listen to it. This work was completed in completion of the Global Sustainability and Environments distinguished major in Spring 2020 under the guidance of Professor Willis Jenkins.
Basement Architecture of the North Australian Craton
Creators: name: KUMWENDA, JOEL PATSON
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370511
subject: Structural geology and tectonics
classificationCode: 370601
subject: Applied geophysics

description: The research aims to understand the hidden basement geology of the North Australian Craton’s interior and its interaction with overlying basin structures. The study identifies five distinct crustal elements separated by generally northwest-oriented boundaries using gravity, magnetics, seismic, isotopic, geochronological, and geochemical datasets. The identified crustal elements are Pine Creek, Arnhem, North Tennant Creek, Tennant Creek and Tanami-Altjawarra domains. The research reveals the composite nature of the craton’s interior, characterised by varying gravity and magnetic lineament trends. The study improved our understanding of the craton’s internal architecture and its impact on basin development.
Social Processing in Borderline Personality and Substance Use Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Approach
Creators: name: HANEGRAAF, LAUREN ELISE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Behavioural neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience

description: Difficulties with social processing have been associated with numerous disorders including Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Emerging evidence indicates that personality trait profiles may contribute to different social processing abilities, and new dimensional models of psychopathology provide frameworks for investigating traits (AMPD) and social processing (RDoC) separately. To date, there has been no systematic attempt to integrate these frameworks and investigate the overlap between trait and social processing dimensions. Therefore, the broad aim of this thesis was to utilise these models to explore trait and social processing heterogeneity in individuals with BPD and SUD.
Lycoris: Large Area Telescope
Creators: name: Krämer, Uwe
name: Behnke, Ties
name: Stanitzki, Marcel
name: Diener, Ralf
name: Wu, Mengqing
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018

description: International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders, LCWS, Arlington, Texas, DESY, University of Hamburg, USA, 22 Oct 2018 - 26 Oct 2018
BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES, THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES AND THE SOFTWARE PRESERVATION NETWORK IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER, Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.
Publisher: name: University of Virginia
Year: 2020
Subjects: Supreme Court
fair use
software
copyright
copyright eligible subject matter
17 USC 102(b)
17 USC 107
interoperability

description: The Court’s decision in this case could affect far more than the reuse of software interfaces. The transformative use jurisprudence that has evolved in the quarter century since Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994), has enabled a wide range of technology-dependent uses, ranging from search engines to user-generated content. This new understanding of fair use is particularly critical to research, education, and librarianship in the Twenty-First Century. If the Court takes up the issue of whether Google’s use in this case was fair (and especially if it considers the scope and meaning of transformative use), amici urge that it exercise great care to ensure that its reasoning in no way jeopardizes amici’s transformative uses in support of research, teaching, and learning.
Bio-adaptive yarns for infant sleep environments
Creators: name: Pai, Geethanjali
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401611
subject: Wearable materials

description: Infants sleep nearly two-thirds of the day. During sleep, clothing can induce SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), or trigger and provoke pre-existing conditions of Atopic dermatitis. Sleep environments should provide complete comfort and promote growth in the sleeping infant. Fabric-based sleep environments are adept at monitoring the infant’s body temperature, skin humidity, and capable of rendering optimal thermo physiological condition. Tactile comfort will adequately support and guarantee the overall well-being of the infant. Over the past few decades, the medical and military sectors have been exploring numerous possibilities in wearable technology. The need for integrating wireless technology into e-textiles has led to the miniaturization of electronic devices. However, there lies a challenge in unifying electronic parts into textile materials. This project aims to develop a textile-based sensor that can monitor the infant’s skin temperature in the presence and absence of sweat, send data signals to the parent or carer, and provide extensive comfort to the sleeping infant.
Microscopic Estimation of Arterial Vehicle Positions in a Low Penetration Rate Connected Vehicle Environment
Publisher: name: Transportation Research Board
Year: 2014

description: Wireless communication among vehicles and roadside infrastructure, known as connected vehicles, is expected to provide higher-resolution real-time vehicle data, which will allow more efficient traffic monitoring and control. Adoption of connected vehicle technology among the vehicle fleet may be gradual or limited, with many drivers unable or unwilling to participate. Additionally, many connected vehicle mobility applications requiring individual vehicle location data need a minimum of 20-30% of roadway vehicles participating to experience benefits. In an effort to improve the performance of connected vehicle applications at low connected vehicle penetration rates, we propose a novel technique to estimate the positions of non-communicating (unequipped) vehicles based on the behaviors of communicating (equipped) vehicles along a signalized arterial. Unequipped vehicle positions are estimated based on observed gaps in a stopped queue, and the forward movement of these estimated vehicles are simulated microscopically using a commercial traffic simulation software package. Based on the effective penetration rate metric, the algorithm makes more correct than incorrect estimates at an accuracy of approximately 7 meters. When applied to a previously-developed connected vehicle traffic signal control strategy, the location estimation algorithm produced small improvements in delays, stops, and stopped delay when compared to an equipped vehicle-only scenario at penetration rates of 25% or less. The location estimation algorithm is generic, and could be applied to other connected vehicle applications to improve performance at low penetration rates.
Cosmological Perturbations in Unimodular Gravity
Creators: name: Gao, Caixia
name: Brandenberger, Robert H.
name: Cai, Yifu
name: Chen, Pisin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study cosmological perturbation theory within the framework of unimodular gravity. We show that the Lagrangian constraint on the determinant of the metric required by unimodular gravity leads to an extra constraint on the gauge freedom of the metric perturbations. Although the main equation of motion for the gravitational potential remains the same, the shift variable, which is gauge artifact in General Relativity, cannot be set to zero in unimodular gravity. This non-vanishing shift variable affects the propagation of photons throughout the cosmological evolution and therefore modifies the Sachs-Wolfe relation between the relativistic gravitational potential and the microwave temperature anisotropies. However, for adiabatic fluctuations the difference between the result in General Relativity and unimodular gravity is suppressed on large angular scales. Thus, no strong constraints on the theory can be derived.
Cluster analysis of weighted bipartite networks: a new copula-based approach
Creators: name: Chessa, Alessandro
name: Crimaldi, Irene
name: Riccaboni, Massimo
name: Trapin, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we are interested in identifying clusters of "positional equivalent" actors, i.e. actors who play a similar role in a system. In particular, we analyze weighted bipartite networks that describes the relationships between actors on one side and features or traits on the other, together with the intensity level to which actors show their features. The main contribution of our work is twofold. First, we develop a methodological approach that takes into account the underlying multivariate dependence among groups of actors. The idea is that positions in a network could be defined on the basis of the similar intensity levels that the actors exhibit in expressing some features, instead of just considering relationships that actors hold with each others. Second, we propose a new clustering procedure that exploits the potentiality of copula functions, a mathematical instrument for the modelization of the stochastic dependence structure. Our clustering algorithm can be applied both to binary and real-valued matrices. We validate it with simulations and applications to real-world data.
Lycoris: Large Area Telescope - News on KPiX & Tracker
Creators: name: Krämer, Uwe
name: Behnke, Ties
name: Stanitzki, Marcel
name: Diener, Ralf
name: Wu, Mengqing
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018

description: International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders, LCWS, Arlington, Texas, DESY, University of Hamburg, USA, 22 Oct 2018 - 26 Oct 2018
Device-independent randomness extraction for arbitrarily weak min-entropy source
Creators: name: Bouda, Jan
name: Pawlowski, Marcin
name: Pivoluska, Matej
name: Plesch, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Expansion and amplification of weak randomness plays a crucial role in many security protocols. Using quantum devices, such procedure is possible even without trusting the devices used, by utilizing correlations between outcomes of parts of the devices. We show here how to extract random bits with an arbitrarily low bias from a single arbitrarily weak min-entropy source in a device independent setting. To do this we use Mermin devices that exhibit super-classical correlations. Number of devices used scales polynomially in the length of the random sequence $n$. Our protocol is robust, it can tolerate devices that malfunction with a probability dropping polynomially in $n$ at the cost of a minor increase of the number of devices used.
description: 5 pages + 3 pages supplementary material
Effect of Signal Control on Bimodal Travel Time Distributions
Publisher: name: University of Virginia
Year: 2017

description: Vehicles traveling along interrupted flow facilities often exhibit travel times with bimodal distributions. The characteristics of these distributions have been studied extensively in the literature, yet the effect of signal control on bimodality have received little attention. Most researchers theorize that the slower group experiences signal delay while the faster group does not. We investigate the effect of signal control on bimodal distributions, specifically the difference between average travel times of two groups of vehicles. Testing is performed in simulation and compared against field results of both sampled data using Bluetooth sensors as well as non-sampled data from the NGSIM vehicle trajectories. In coordinated corridors with platooning, we find that red time is a strong indicator of gap between average travel times.
Ethical Decision Making in Automated Vehicles During Unavoidable Crashes
Publisher: name: University of Virginia
Year: 2013

description: Automated vehicles have received much attention recently, particularly the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Urban Challenge vehicles, Google’s self-driving cars, and various others from auto manufacturers. These vehicles have the potential to reduce crashes and improve roadway efficiency significantly by automating the responsibilities of the driver. Still, automated vehicles are expected to crash occasionally, even when all sensors, vehicle control components, and algorithms function perfectly. If a human driver is unable to take control in time, a computer will be responsible for precrash behavior. Unlike other automated vehicles, such as aircraft, in which every collision is catastrophic, and unlike guided track systems, which can avoid collisions only in one dimension, automated roadway vehicles can predict various crash trajectory alternatives and select a path with the lowest damage or likelihood of collision. In some situations, the preferred path may be ambiguous. The study reported here investigated automated vehicle crashing and concluded the following: (a) automated vehicles would almost certainly crash,
(b) an automated vehicle’s decisions that preceded certain crashes had a moral component, and (c) there was no obvious way to encode complex human morals effectively in software. The paper presents a 
 three-phase approach to develop ethical crashing algorithms; the approach consists of a rational approach, an artificial intelligence approach, and a natural language requirement. The phases are theoretical and should be implemented as the technology becomes available.
The dynamic role of the bone marrow in B-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia
Creators: name: PRITCHARD, CLAIRE LOUISE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cancer cell biology
Haematology

description: Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) remains the most common childhood cancer with drug resistance continuing to plague patients. Leukaemic cells inhabit the bone marrow, influencing their surrounding environment to support disease expansion and resistance to therapeutic targeting. This thesis examines the location of ALL cells, describing new interactions between the leukaemic cells and the bone marrow that support disease progression. Continuing to investigate novel interactions between ALL cells and the bone marrow is critical for improving clinical treatments to eliminate drug resistant cells, minimising relapse.
Probability of Secondary Crash Occurrence on Freeways with the Use of Private-Sector Speed Data
Publisher: name: University of Virginia
Year: 2017

description: A percentage of crashes on freeways are suspected to be caused in part by congestion or distraction from earlier incidents. Identification and prevention of these secondary crashes are major goals of transportation
agencies, yet the characteristics of secondary crashes—in particular the probability of their occurrence—are poorly understood. Many secondary crashes occur when a vehicle encounters nonrecurring congestion, yet previous efforts to identify incident queues and their secondary crashes have relied either on deterministic queuing theory or on data from uniformly spaced dense loop detectors. This study is the first analysis of secondary crash occurrence to integrate incident timelines and traffic volumes with widely available and legally obtained private-sector speed data. Analysis found that 9.2% of all vehicle crashes were secondary to another incident and that 6.2% of these crashes were tertiary to another primary incident. Secondary crashes occurred on average once every 10 crashes and 54 disabled vehicles. The findings support a fast incident response, because the probability of a secondary crash occurrence increases approximately 1 percentage point for every additional 2 to 3 min spent on the scene in high-volume scenarios.
On the lack of influence of contact area on the solid-liquid lateral retention force
Creators: name: de la Madrid, Rafael
name: Gregory, Caleb
name: Luong, Huy
name: Stuck, Tyler
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally show that, unlike the solid-solid frictional force, the solid-liquid retention force is determined by interactions at the triple line rather than over the solid-liquid contact area, as predicted by theory. We have prepared drops whose triple line enclosed a uniform surface, a hydrophobic island, and topographical inhomogeneities, and measured the same retention force for all three cases. We have also studied the retention force on drops whose initial triple line was non-circumferential and measured different retention forces for different shapes, also as predicted by theory. The experiments with non-circumferential drops provide (1) another way to show that the retention force is not proportional to the contact area, and (2) a manner to falsify a recent theory on drop depinning.
Multiple double-metal bias-free terahertz emitters
Creators: name: McBryde, Duncan
name: Gow, Paul
name: Berry, Sam A.
name: Aghajani, Armen
name: Barnes, Mark E.
name: Apostolopoulos, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate multiplexed terahertz emitters that exhibits 2 THz bandwidth that do not require an external bias. The emitters operate under uniform illumination eliminating the need for a micro-lens array and are fabricated with periodic Au and Pb structures on GaAs. Terahertz emission originates from the lateral photo-Dember effect and from the different Schottky barrier heights of the chosen metal pair. We characterize the emitters and determine that most terahertz emission at 300 K is due to band-bending due to the Schottky barrier of the metal.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Car-following Characteristics of Adaptive Cruise Control from Empirical Data
Publisher: name: Transportation Research Board
Year: 2020

description: Computer-driven vehicles are expected to have profound impacts on transportation modeling, yet many transportation agencies rely on car-following models based on human drivers who have different sensory and control capabilities than computers. Car-following models will need to be updated to reflect automation of the driving task. This paper investigates characteristics of a commercially available adaptive cruise control system driven in real traffic. Four attributes were measured directly: standstill distance, startup time, unimpeded acceleration profile, and maximum desired deceleration. The Intelligent Driver Model was compared to the empirical data, and the test vehicle was found to decelerate less severely than predicted by the model. Finally, guidance for simulating adaptive cruise control in the microscopic simulation software VISSIM was provided through recommended values for ten parameters in the Wiedemann 99 car-following model.
Absence of the Fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein alters response patterns to sounds in the auditory midbrain
Creators: name: Sibille, Jérémie
name: Kremkow, Jens
name: Koch, Ursula
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: inferior colliculus
subject: Fragile X syndrome
subject: auditory processing
subject: auditory hypersensitivity
subject: spike pattern
subject: autism spectrum disorder
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Among the different autism spectrum disorders, Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability. Sensory and especially auditory hypersensitivity is a key symptom in patients, which is well mimicked in the Fmr1 -/- mouse model. However, the physiological mechanisms underlying FXS’s acoustic hypersensitivity in particular remain poorly understood. Here, we categorized spike response patterns to pure tones of different frequencies and intensities from neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC), a central integrator in the ascending auditory pathway. Based on this categorization we analyzed differences in response patterns between IC neurons of wild-type (WT) and Fmr1 -/- mice. Our results report broadening of frequency tuning, an increased firing in response to monaural as well as binaural stimuli, an altered balance of excitation-inhibition, and reduced response latencies, all expected features of acoustic hypersensitivity. Furthermore, we noticed that all neuronal response types in Fmr1 -/- mice displayed enhanced offset-rebound activity outside their excitatory frequency response area. These results provide evidence that the loss of Fmr1 not only increases spike responses in IC neurons similar to auditory brainstem neurons, but also changes response patterns such as offset spiking. One can speculate this to be an underlying aspect of the receptive language problems associated with Fragile X syndrome.
Lanelater andamanensis Chandran and Dubey 2021
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Lanelater
Lanelater andamanensis

description: Lanelater andamanensis Chandran and Dubey, 2021
Lanelater andamanensis Chandran and Dubey, 2021: 241.
Type depository. Holotype (ZSI, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair).
Type locality. Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Little Andaman).
Distribution. India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Literature. Chandran and Dubey (2021: 241): original description.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
One Dimensional Resistivity Sounding for Resolving Gem-bearing Gravel Layer: A Comparison of Schlumberger with Wenner Techniques at Bo Rai, Eastern Thailand
Creators: name: Piyaphong Chenrai
Publisher: name: Department of Geology, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2010
Subjects: sounding resistivity, gem-bearing gravel layer, Wenner, Schlumberger

description: Bulletin of Earth Sciences of Thailand (BEST), 3, 1, 7-Jan
Dating Ancient Remains by Thermoluminescence: Implications of Incompletely Burnt Bricks
Creators: name: Pailoplee, Santi
Publisher: name: Department of Geology, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Thermoluminescence dating, TL, brick, Thung Tuk, archaeological site, southern Thailand

description: Bulletin of Earth Sciences of Thailand (BEST), 3, 1, 16-Aug
Historical and current distribution and movement patterns of large herbivores in the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique
Creators: name: Roque, Dionísio Virgílio
name: Macandza, Valério António
name: Zeller, Ulrich
name: Starik, Nicole
name: Göttert, Thomas
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: large herbivores
subject: historical distribution
subject: movement patterns
subject: species collapse
subject: species restoration
subject: ecological corridors
subject: Limpopo National Park
subject: current distribution
subject: 333.7 Landflächen, Naturräume für Freizeit und Erholung, Naturreservate, Energie

description: This study provides a first attempt to describe the historical distribution and movement patterns of selected large herbivore (LH) species in Limpopo National Park (LNP), an area in Mozambique today connected to a network of transboundary conservation areas. Between 1976 and the early 2000s, most LH species were absent in this area following the civil war in Mozambique followed by intense poaching due to weak law enforcement capacity. Through the reconstruction of the historical and current distribution and movement patterns of seven LH species in five periods, we investigate possible changes in distribution and movement patterns over time. Data collection is based on a systematic literature search, censuses reports, online databases, dung count transects, and camera trap surveys. We mapped all LH observations and movements using ArcGIS 10.1. Our results reveal a dramatic collapse of LH populations between the peak of the colonial period and the post-colonial/civil war period (1800–2001), followed by a slight recovery from the post-proclamation of Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park to the current period (2002–2021). While LH population decline applied to all seven species, there are species-specific differences in the process of restoration: African elephant (Loxodonta africana), African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), and plains zebra (Equus quagga) appear to recover to a greater extent than giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), eland (Tragelaphus oryx), blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), and white rhino (Ceratotherium simum). We found evidence of the functioning of proposed wildlife corridors in the LNP. The results give reason to assume that restoration of populations of LH is still in a very early and vulnerable state and that further efforts are necessary to strengthen the slowly increasing populations of LH. Our results highlight the importance of combining past and current data as a guide for the restoration of threatened species in African savannas impacted by human activities.
Geomorphology and Ground Penetrating Radar Profiles of Holocene Coastal Dune, Western Coastal Plain of the Gulf of Thailand
Creators: name: Weeraya Lertnok
Publisher: name: Department of Geology, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Coastal dune, dune formation, Holocene, GPR

description: Bulletin of Earth Sciences of Thailand (BEST), 3, 1, 17-27
Large eddy simulation requirements for the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
Creators: name: Olson, Britton J.
name: Greenough, Jeffrey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The shock induced mixing of two gases separated by a perturbed interface is investigated through Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS). In a simulation, physical dissipation of the velocity field and species mass fraction often compete with numerical dissipation arising from the errors of the numerical method. In a DNS the computational mesh resolves all physical gradients of the flow and the relative effect of numerical dissipation is small. In LES, unresolved scales are present and numerical dissipation can have a large impact on the flow, depending on the computational mesh. A suite of simulations explores the space between these two extremes by studying the effects of grid resolution, Reynolds number and numerical method on the mixing process. Results from a DNS are shown using two different codes, which use a high- and low-order numerical method and show convergence in the temporal and spectral dependent quantities associated with mixing. Data from a coarse LES are also presented and include a grid convergence study. A model for an effective viscosity is proposed which allows for an a posteriori analysis of the simulation data that is agnostic to the LES model, numerics and the physical Reynolds number of the simulation. An analogous approximation for an effective species diffusivity is also presented. This framework can then be used to estimate the effective Reynolds number and Schmidt number of future simulations, elucidate the impact of numerical dissipation on the mixing process for an arbitrary numerical method and provide guidance for resolution requirements of future calculations
The impact of shift work on sleep, alertness, and performance in high-risk work environments.
Creators: name: G, SARANEA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Behavioural neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience

description: My thesis examines the impact of shift work on sleep, alertness and performance in high-risk work environments. Shift workers from three different high-risk work environments were examined. Multiple high-risk periods for impairments in alertness and performance have been identified and the potential countermeasures which can be used to help enhance alertness and performance during these high-risk periods have been detailed in this thesis. In summary, this thesis provides a fundamental understanding of night shift work impairment in high-risk work settings, also highlighting that sleep-wake, and circadian phase information are key to understanding impairments during shift work operations. This thesis also emphasizes that shift rotation patterns, shift start and end timings, and the duration of time off between shifts should all be considered when designing shift work rotas.
Fundamental Characteristics of Wi-Fi and Wireless Local Area Network Re-identification for Transportation
Publisher: name: Transportation Research Board
Year: 2016

description: Many transportation agencies use re-identification technologies to identify vehicles at multiple points along the roadway as a way to measure travel times and congestion. Examples of these technologies include license plate readers, toll tag transponders, and media access control (MAC) address scanners for Bluetooth devices. Recent advancements have allowed for the detection of unique MAC addresses from Wi‑Fi and wireless local area network enabled devices. This study represents one of the first attempts to measure the fundamental characteristics of Wi‑Fi re-identification technology as it applies to transportation data collection. Wi‑Fi sampling rates, re-identification rates, range, transmission success rates, and probability of discovery of sensors and mobile devices were measured, and a model of probability of detection is presented. Field tests found that mobile phones routinely experienced significant time gaps between Wi‑Fi transmissions. The study recommends that Wi‑Fi sensors be deployed at low-volume, low-speed roadways, with sensors positioned near intersections where vehicles are likely to slow or stop. Due to Wi‑Fi's relatively low probability of discovery, the technology may produce poor results in applications that require re-identifying vehicles over multiple consecutive sensors.