cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Telomere maintenance as a therapeutic target
Creators: name: Henderson, Rachel Anne
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: Telomere maintenance is essential for long term cell survival, with two mechanisms contributing to telomere maintenance: telomeric DNA elongation by telomerase and a capping mechanism contributing to telomere stability. Several therapeutic approaches targeting telomeres have been explored but many rely on a lag period of telomere degradation before anti-proliferation occurs. Two strategies presented here aim to disrupt telomere maintenance while eliminating the lag period. First, telomerase was inhibited using antisense oligonucleotides targeting its RNA subunit (hTR). The goal of this study was to both prevent active holoenzyme assembly and induce degradation of the protein subunit (hTERT) thought to be associated with anti-apoptotic activity. Additionally, a fluorescence polarization assay was designed for the identification of small molecule inhibitors of telomeric repeat binding factor 2 (TRF2), a key capping protein involved in prevention of chromosomal end fusions and ultimately cellular apoptosis.
I Viaggi di Bernard Rudofsky e la collezione di immagini
Creators: name: Como, Alessandra
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bernard Rudofsky
Journey
Collection
Images

description: Bernard Rudofsky (1905-1988) had founded his life on the practice of travelling. It was from his journeys that he developed his abiding interest in vernacular architecture, enshrined in the famous text Architecture without Architects (1964). The book, a worldwide best-seller, was the catalogue of the eponymous exhibition of the same name held in 1964 at the MoMA in New York, then rearranged in no fewer than 80 other venues during the next 11 years. His journeys moulded his ideas, recounted in the articles, in the various books and in further exhibitions, and evolved in his design work, mainly houses. The Journey is for Rudofsky the practice of travelling. It is refined over time and is anchored to the experience of immersion in the places and to the collection of images, an immense visual inventory from which the architect seems to draw precise and consistent topics, then practiced in the design projects through a work of de-contextualization and association of images.
Box products in nilpotent normal form theory: The factoring method
Creators: name: Murdock, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34C20

description: Let $N$ be a nilpotent matrix and consider vector fields $\dot\bx=N\bx+\bv(\bx)$ in normal form. Then $\bv$ is equivariant under the flow $e^{N^*t}$ for the inner product normal form or $e^{Mt}$ for the $\ssl_2$ normal form. These vector equivariants can be found by finding the scalar invariants for the Jordan blocks in $N^*$ or $M$; taking the {\it box product} of these to obtain the invariants for $N^*$ or $M$ itself; and then {\it boosting} the invariants to equivariants by another box product. These methods, developed by Murdock and Sanders in 2007, are here given a self-contained exposition with new foundations and new algorithms yielding improved (simpler) Stanley decompositions for the invariants and equivariants. Ideas used include transvectants (from classical invariant theory), Stanley decompositions (from commutative algebra), and integer cones (from integer programming). This approach can be extended to covariants of $\ssl_2^k$ for $k>1$, known as SLOCC in quantum computing.
How Do Global Audiences Take Shape? The Role of Institutions and Culture in Patterns of Web Use
Creators: name: Taneja, Harsh
name: Webster, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study investigates the role of both cultural and technological factors in determining audience formation on a global scale. It integrates theories of media choice with theories of global cultural consumption and tests them by analyzing shared audience traffic between the world's 1000 most popular Websites. We find that language and geographic similarities are more powerful predictors of audience overlap than hyperlinks and genre similarity, highlighting the role of cultural structures in shaping global media use.
description: Suggested Citation: Taneja. H & Webster. J.G. (In Press). How Do Global Audiences Take Shape? The Role of Institutions and Culture in Shaping Patterns of Web Use. Journal of Communication
Bulge Formation via Mergers in Cosmological Simulations
Creators: name: Brooks, Alyson M.
name: Christensen, Charlotte R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The latest generation of cosmological simulations are on the verge of being able to resolve the structure of bulges for the first time. Hence, we review the current state of bulge formation in cosmological simulations, and discuss open questions that can be addressed in the near future by simulators, with a particular focus on merger-driven bulge growth. Galaxy mergers have long been assumed to produce classical bulges in disk galaxies. Under this bulge-formation model, though, the high rates of mergers in Cold Dark Matter galaxy formation theory predict many more classical bulges than are observed. Furthermore, simulations of galaxy formation continue to generally produce too massive of bulges. Feedback offers a promising avenue for reducing merger-driven bulge growth by maintaining high gas fractions in galaxies and ejecting low-angular momentum gas driven to the centers of galaxies. After reviewing the results of relevant research that has been published to date, we use cosmological simulations to explore the ability of feedback to reduce or even prevent bulge growth during mergers. In dwarf galaxies, mergers actually reduce the central concentration of galaxies as the induced burst of star formation drives out low angular momentum material. This result shows the potential for feedback to reduce central mass growth. However, we also demonstrate that it is very difficult for current stellar feedback models to reproduce the small bulges observed in more massive disk galaxies like the Milky Way. We argue that feedback models need to be improved, or an additional source of feedback such as AGN is necessary to generate the required outflows.
description: The first 5 sections are review, but Section 6 introduces new analysis. We demonstrate that mergers prevent bulge formation in low mass galaxies. Approximately 15 pages in MNRAS format
High Conductance Ratio in Molecular Optical Switching of Functionalized Nanoparticle Self-Assembled Nanodevices
Creators: name: Viero, Yannick
name: Copie, Guillaume
name: Guerin, David
name: Krzeminski, Christophe
name: Vuillaume, Dominique
name: Lenfant, Stephane
name: Cleri, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-assembled functionalized nano particles are at the focus of a number of potential applications, in particular for molecular scale electronics devices. Here we perform experiments of self-assembly of 10 nm Au nano particles (NPs), functionalized by a dense layer of azobenzene-bithiophene (AzBT) molecules, with the aim of building a light-switchable device with memristive properties. We fabricate planar nanodevices consisting of NP self-assembled network (NPSANs) contacted by nanoelectrodes separated by interelectrode gaps ranging from 30 to 100 nm. We demonstrate the light-induced reversible switching of the electrical conductance in these AzBT NPSANs with a record on/off conductance ratio up to 620, an average value of ca. 30 and with 85% of the devices having a ratio above 10. Molecular dynamics simulation of the structure and dynamics of the interface between molecular monolayers chemisorbed on the nano particle surface are performed and compared to the experimental findings. The properties of the contact interface are shown to be strongly correlated to the molecular conformation which in the case of AzBT molecules, can reversibly switched between a cis and a trans form by means of light irradiations of well-defined wavelength. Molecular dynamics simulations provide a microscopic explanation for the experimental observation of the reduction of the on/off current ratio between the two isomers, compared to experiments performed on flat self-assembled monolayers contacted by a conducting cAFM tip.
description: pdf files : publication and supporting information
Junk in the trunk: evaluating the relationship between body-mass index and interracial dating for white adolescent females
Creators: name: Polimis, Kivan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Increasing racial diversity in the United States coupled with changing cultural norms toward interracial dating fuels the growth in interracial couples. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influence heterosexual interracial adolescent dating, specifically the link between an adolescent's body mass index (BMI) and the likelihood of that individual entering an interracial relationship. I hypothesize that white adolescent women with BMI levels that align with the body type preferences of black men will date interracially at higher rates than their peers with BMI levels that are not consistent with preferences common among black men. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), I estimate the effects of BMI on the likelihood of an individual entering an interracial relationship through binomial logistic regression analysis. I find that for white female adolescents, as BMI increases the likelihood of dating black men increases as well.
Automated tangential-flow diafiltration device
Creators: name: Lüken, Arne
name: Wessling, Matthias
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Laboratory and Basic Science Research Life Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Membrane Science
subject: Engineering
subject: Chemical Engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Supporting files for building a tangential-flow diafiltration device. Find the manuscript for further details on HardwareX.
The cultivation of friendship: French and German cultural cooperation, 1925-1954
Creators: name: Passman, Elana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Through a series of case studies of French-German friendship societies, this dissertation investigates the ways in which activists in France and Germany battled the dominant strains of nationalism to overcome their traditional antagonism. It asks how the Germans and the French recast their relationship as hereditary enemies to enable them to become partners at the heart of today's Europe. Looking to the transformative power of civic activism, it examines how journalists, intellectuals, students, industrialists, and priests developed associations and lobbying groups to reconfigure the French-German dynamic through cultural exchanges, bilingual or binational journals, conferences, lectures, exhibits, and charitable ventures. As a study of transnational cultural relations, this dissertation focuses on individual mediators along with the networks and institutions they developed; it also explores the history of the idea of cooperation. Attempts at rapprochement in the interwar period proved remarkably resilient in the face of the prevalent nationalist spirit. While failing to override hostilities and sustain peace, the campaign for cooperation adopted a new face in the misguided shape of collaborationism during the Second World War. The push toward cooperation continued into the postwar period in two vastly different directions. Some invoked the idea of cooperation as an allegedly new way to overcome the Franco-German antagonism and achieve lasting peace in a European community. But former Nazis and collaborators also harnessed this notion of cooperation after the war; they recast their wartime behavior in the more positive light of long-term efforts toward European cooperation. This study helps reshape the way we look at cooperation in 20th century Europe. It underscores the role of intellectual and cultural efforts in fostering healthier international relations. By arguing that the quest for cooperation was not simply a postwar venture, but that it emerged from the Locarno era, this study shows how advocates of cooperation persisted in their work even during the most marked periods of hostility. Ultimately, I contend that interwar efforts for cooperation helped shape both Vichy-era collaboration and postwar reconciliation.
Qualitative data sharing practices in clinical trials in the UK and Ireland: Towards the production of good practice guidance
Creators: name: houghton, catherine
name: McCarthy, Megan
name: Gillies, Katie
name: Rousseau, Nikki
name: Wade, Julia
name: Gamble, Carrol
name: Toomey, Elaine
name: Matvienko-Sikar, Karen
name: Sydes, Matt
name: Dowling, Maura
name: Bryant, Val
name: Biesty, Linda
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Protocol extended files
Speed Versus Accuracy Instructions in the Response Time Concealed Information Test
Creators: name: Lubczyk, Till
name: Lukács, Gáspár
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The Response Time Concealed Information Test (RT-CIT) can reveal that a person recognizes a relevant item (probe) among other, irrelevant items, based on slower responding to the probe compared to the irrelevant items. Thereby, if this person is concealing knowledge about the relevance of this item (e.g., recognizing it as a murder weapon), this deception can be unveiled. In the present paper, we examine the impact of a speed versus accuracy instruction: Examinees are either presented with instructions emphasizing a focus on speed, with instructions emphasizing a focus on accuracy, or with no particular speed or accuracy instructions at all. Based on previous findings, we expect larger RT differences and, thus, a clearer interpretation of the deception detection results for accuracy instructions compared to speed instructions. We also expect participants with no particular speed or accuracy instructions to respond in a pattern more closely to those receiving accuracy instructions than to those receiving speed instructions.
Processing issues of Germanium MOS devices on silicon substrates
Creators: name: Joshi, Sachin Vineet
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2004
Subjects: Germanium film
MOS devices
Thermal stability

description: As conventional scaling approaches its limits, novel materials are increasingly being explored for continuing the exponential growth predicted by Moore's law. Germanium and high K gate dielectrics are currently the subject of extensive study. This work is an initial report about the challenges and opportunities in the integration of compressively strained Germanium films and high k gate dielectrics onto conventional silicon substrates for faster MOS devices. A novel MOS device structure with a thin, meta-stable Ge film in the channel region and a high k gate dielectric material is explored for its thermodynamic instability.
Observation of Cavity Rydberg Polaritons
Creators: name: Ningyuan, Jia
name: Georgakopoulos, Alexandros
name: Ryou, Albert
name: Schine, Nathan
name: Sommer, Ariel
name: Simon, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate hybridization of optical cavity photons with atomic Rydberg excitations using electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). The resulting dark state Rydberg polaritons exhibit a compressed frequency spectrum and enhanced lifetime indicating strong light-matter mixing. We study the coherence properties of cavity Rydberg polaritons and identify the generalized EIT linewidth for optical cavities. Strong collective coupling suppresses polariton losses due to inhomogeneous broadening, which we demonstrate by using different Rydberg levels with a range of polarizabilities. Our results point the way towards using cavity Rydberg polaritons as a platform for creating photonic quantum materials.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, references added
Epidemiology of Emerging Viral Infections in India: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Bernaitis L*
name: Menaka M
name: Rajarajeswari T
name: Karkuzhali K
name: Anitha K
name: Pradeesha M
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Emerging diseases, Nipah virus, Zika virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Kyasanur Forest disease, Public health preparedness.

description: Abstract: - This review offers an in-depth analysis of the current state of emerging and re-emerging viral diseases in India, with a focus on recent outbreaks and their implications for public health. It examines critical viral pathogens including Zika virus, Nipah virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), and Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), exploring their epidemiology, clinical features, and control measures. The review emphasizes the rising incidence of these infections due to factors such as environmental changes and zoonotic transmission. By synthesizing recent research and outbreak data, the review aims to improve understanding and preparedness for these infectious threats. It highlights the importance of effective surveillance, timely diagnostics, and public health strategies to mitigate the impact of these diseases.
Defect calculations in semiconductors through a dielectric-dependent hybrid DFT functional: the case of oxygen vacancies in metal oxides
Creators: name: Gerosa, Matteo
name: Bottani, Carlo Enrico
name: Caramella, Lucia
name: Onida, Giovanni
name: Di Valentin, Cristiana
name: Pacchioni, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the behavior of oxygen vacancies in three different metal-oxide semiconductors (rutile and anatase TiO2, monoclinic WO3, and tetragonal ZrO2) using a recently proposed hybrid density-functional method in which the fraction of exact exchange is material-dependent but obtained ab initio in a self-consistent scheme. In particular, we calculate charge-transition levels relative to the oxygen-vacancy defect and compare computed optical and thermal excitation/emission energies with the available experimental results, shedding light on the underlying excitation mechanisms and related materials properties. We find that this novel approach is able to reproduce not only ground-state properties and band structures of perfect bulk oxide materials, but also provides results consistent with the optical and electrical behavior observed in the corresponding substoichiometric defective systems.
description: Accepted for publication in J. Chem. Phys
Thermally-driven spin torques in layered magnetic insulators
Creators: name: Bender, Scott A.
name: Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermally-driven spin-transfer torques have recently been reported in electrically insulating ferromagnet$|$normal-metal heterostructures. In this paper, we propose two physically distinct mechanisms for such torques. The first is a local effect: out-of-equilibrium, thermally-activated magnons in the ferromagnet, driven by a spin Seebeck effect, exert a torque on the magnetization via magnon-magnon scattering with coherent dynamics. The second is a nonlocal effect which requires an additional magnetic layer to provide the symmetry breaking necessary to realize a thermal torque. The simplest structure in which to induce a nonlocal thermal torque is a spin valve composed of two insulating magnets separated by a normal metal spacer; there, a thermal flux generates a pure spin current through the spin valve, which results in a torque when the magnetizations of the layers are misaligned.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Internet Users' Non-Use of Online News
Creators: name: Reiss, Michael
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Communication
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: automated text analysis
subject: computational social science
subject: news avoidance
subject: news consumption
subject: survey data
subject: web tracking

description: This projects assesses the share of non-users of online news based on tracked online data, web data and survey data. Two methods to identify non-use of online news are compared and factors that influence the non-use of online news are investigated.
Holistic Public Defense Study
Creators: name: Faith-Slaker, April
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This study will evaluate the impact of including social workers on the public defense team as well as making referrals to civil legal aid attorneys. To evaluate this, historical data from a three-year time frame (from approximately January 2016 to February 2019) will be drawn from three jurisdictions in Alaska: Bethel, Nome, and Dillingham. These data will create three comparison groups of public defense clients: 1) individuals who received a social worker, 2) individuals who received a social worker and a referral to civil legal services, and 3) individuals who received neither a social worker or a referral to civil legal services. The primary outcome will be recidivism.
Protocol for a Systematic Overview of Meta-Analyses on Racial Discrimination and Health in Childhood and Adolescence
Creators: name: Morris, Kamryn
name: Yoo, Joyce
name: Korous, Kevin
name: Causadias, José
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: racial discrimination; adverse childhood experience; health; meta-analyses

description: A growing body of meta-analytic evidence shows that experiencing racial discrimination in childhood and adolescence is associated with the development of negative health outcomes like depression. However, less is known about where racial discrimination ranks compared to other well-documented adverse childhood experiences, including child abuse/maltreatment, parental separation or divorce, and bullying. In this study, we will systematically review meta-analyses on the link between racial discrimination and negative health, identify the most reliable estimates of these associations, and compare them to the relation between other adverse childhood experiences and negative health. Our goal is to determine where racial discrimination ranks, in terms of magnitude of effect size, across multiple adverse childhood experiences. This evidence could inform the decision to include racial discrimination as another adverse childhood experience.
Teaching guomin: meanings of citizenship and (un)popular education in late Qing China
Creators: name: Smith, Zachary Philip
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: Following the Qing government's decision to abolish the civil-service examination system in 1905, education reformers writing for Jiaoyu zazhi [The Chinese Educational Review] set about establishing a new system of public education under the banner of educating citizens, or guomin. This essay looks critically at various reform proposals expressed in Jiaoyu zazhi during its first year of publication (1909) in an effort to better characterize the possibilities and tensions inherent in late Qing notions of guomin. While almost all of the contributors professed the need to popularize education for guomin, this shared vocabulary obscures key differences among the visions of citizenship each reformer espoused, as well as among potential students targeted by reform. These differences indicate that while notions of citizenship would become more uniform throughout the Republican period, the final years of the Qing dynasty were a time in which multiple meanings of citizenship were still possible.
High-Mobility Holes in Dual-Gated WSe$_2$ Field-Effect Transistors
Creators: name: Movva, Hema C. P.
name: Rai, Amritesh
name: Kang, Sangwoo
name: Kim, Kyounghwan
name: Fallahazad, Babak
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Tutuc, Emanuel
name: Banerjee, Sanjay K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate dual-gated $p$-type field-effect transistors (FETs) based on few-layer tungsten diselenide (WSe$_2$) using high work-function platinum source/drain contacts, and a hexagonal boron nitride top-gate dielectric. A device topology with contacts underneath the WSe$_2$ results in $p$-FETs with $I_{ON}$/$I_{OFF}$ ratios exceeding 10$^7$, and contacts that remain Ohmic down to cryogenic temperatures. The output characteristics show current saturation and gate tunable negative differential resistance. The devices show intrinsic hole mobilities around 140 cm$^2$/Vs at room temperature, and approaching 4,000 cm$^2$/Vs at 2 K. Temperature-dependent transport measurements show a metal-insulator transition, with an insulating phase at low densities, and a metallic phase at high densities. The mobility shows a strong temperature dependence consistent with phonon scattering, and saturates at low temperatures, possibly limited by Coulomb scattering, or defects.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, 7 supporting figures, ACS Nano 2015
Technically assisted rehabilitation
Creators: name: Stieglitz, Thomas
name: Niemann, Hildegard
name: Kraft, Marc
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin, Gesundheit

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
Software Analytics to Software Domains: A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Abdelltif, Tamer Mohamed
name: Capretz, Luiz Fernando
name: Ho, Danny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software Analytics (SA) is a new branch of big data analytics that has recently emerged (2011). What distinguishes SA from direct software analysis is that it links data mined from many different software artifacts to obtain valuable insights. These insights are useful for the decision-making process throughout the different phases of the software lifecycle. Since SA is currently a hot and promising topic, we have conducted a systematic literature review, presented in this paper, to identify gaps in knowledge and open research areas in SA. Because many researchers are still confused about the true potential of SA, we had to filter out available research papers to obtain the most SA-relevant work for our review. This filtration yielded 19 studies out of 135. We have based our systematic review on four main factors: which software practitioners SA targets, which domains are covered by SA, which artifacts are extracted by SA, and whether these artifacts are linked or not. The results of our review have shown that much of the available SA research only serves the needs of developers. Also, much of the available research uses only one artifact which, in turn, means fewer links between artifacts and fewer insights. This shows that the available SA research work is still embryonic leaving plenty of room for future research in the SA field.
description: pp. 30-36
Physically Implied Surfaces
Creators: name: Little, Patrick
name: Firestone, Chaz
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is a registration prior to publication of Little, P. C. & Firestone, C. (2021). “Physically Implied Surfaces”. Psychological Science.
André Ravéreau architetto viaggiatore. Scoperta, indagine e proiezione dell’‘altro Mediterraneo’
Creators: name: Ruggeri, Daniela
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Andre Ravereau
Discovery
Transposition
Imagination
Sahara
Mediterranean Architecture

description: The travel experiences proposed in this essay were made by an architect, André Ravéreau, who, motivated by the search for differences between the architectures of the world, arrives at the discovery of a “formless dust that crosses the Continents”. The analogies and differences between the cities visited by Ravéreau are fuelled and conveyed by his mental projection through his work. André Ravéreau (Limoges 1919-Aubenas 2017), a French architect virtually unknown in Italy, travelled along the Mediterranean coasts as far as the Sahara Desert, looking for opportunities to establish himself in his profession. From the 1960s he moved to Algeria, where he worked for about twenty years, also holding important positions: from 1965 to 1973, he was ‘Architecte en chef des monuments historiques d’Algérie’ (Architect in charge of the superintendence for the architectural and historical heritage of Algeria). This essay aims to highlight how Ravéreau’s numerous journeys correspond to important moments of discovery and acquisition of a plurality of information and images of the places he visited. These were reinterpreted and transferred into his projects and theoretical work.
GaN-Based Modular Multilevel Converter for Low-Voltage Grid Enables High Efficiency
Creators: name: Kiehnle, Philip
name: Himmelmann, Patrick
name: Hiller, Marc
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Year: 2022

description: Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors with low inductance packages enable low switching losses and high efficiency. In this paper we present a compact arm PCB design with low loop inductance, allowing for fast and efficient switching. The PCB includes four full-bridge cells for a 7 kW Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) for low-voltage grid applications.
Associations Between Biochemical Markers of Cartilage Metabolism and Gait Biomechanics in Healthy Participants
Creators: name: Davis, Hope
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Mechanical loading is associated with cartilage breakdown in people with knee osteoarthritis (KOA); it is unknown if this association exists in healthy young individuals. Purpose: Determine associations between biomarkers of collagen turnover (synthesis:breakdown) and peak vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) in healthy young individuals. Methods: Resting serum samples and walking gait kinetics were collected from 24 healthy, young individuals. Type II collagen synthesis (Collagen type II C- propeptide; CPII) and breakdown (Collagen type II cleavage product; C2C) were examined via enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). Gait kinetics were assessed during walking trials. Pearson product (r) moment correlations were used to determine associations between transformed (base-10 log scale) collagen turnover and peak vGRF. Results: 24 subjects (age=20±2 years, BMI=23.4±3.0) completed this study. There was a moderate association between CPII:C2C ratios and peak vGRF approaching significance (r= 0.363, p=0.081). Discussion: Higher loading in gait may increase collagen synthesis-to-degradation ratio in healthy young subjects.
Going Deeper in Facial Expression Recognition using Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Mollahosseini, Ali
name: Chan, David
name: Mahoor, Mohammad H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has remained a challenging and interesting problem. Despite efforts made in developing various methods for FER, existing approaches traditionally lack generalizability when applied to unseen images or those that are captured in wild setting. Most of the existing approaches are based on engineered features (e.g. HOG, LBPH, and Gabor) where the classifier's hyperparameters are tuned to give best recognition accuracies across a single database, or a small collection of similar databases. Nevertheless, the results are not significant when they are applied to novel data. This paper proposes a deep neural network architecture to address the FER problem across multiple well-known standard face datasets. Specifically, our network consists of two convolutional layers each followed by max pooling and then four Inception layers. The network is a single component architecture that takes registered facial images as the input and classifies them into either of the six basic or the neutral expressions. We conducted comprehensive experiments on seven publically available facial expression databases, viz. MultiPIE, MMI, CK+, DISFA, FERA, SFEW, and FER2013. The results of proposed architecture are comparable to or better than the state-of-the-art methods and better than traditional convolutional neural networks and in both accuracy and training time.
description: To be appear in IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2016 {Accepted in first round submission}
2D convolutional stochastic configuration networks
Creators: name: Li, Junqi
name: Wang, Dianhui
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4603
subject: Computer vision and multimedia computation
classificationCode: 490510
subject: Stochastic analysis and modelling
classificationCode: 4602
subject: Artificial intelligence
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 4605
subject: Data management and data science
classificationCode: 4611
subject: Machine learning

description: Deep stochastic configuration networks (DeepSCNs), as a kind of randomized learner model, have the capability to generate a learning representation quickly and efficiently. Based on DeepSCNs, convolutional stochastic configuration networks (ConSCNs) demonstrated superiority in spectroscopic data analytics by utilizing 1D convolutional and pooling operations. However, directly employing 1D ConSCNs in image data analytics could potentially lead to the loss of spatial information in images and poor generalization performance. This paper extends the original ConSCNs to a 2D version, termed 2DConSCNs, aiming at rapidly constructing randomized learners with 2D input shapes. Empirical results on eight benchmark datasets demonstrate the proposed 2DConSCNs outperform several existing randomized learner models and show good potential for image data analytics.
MindTrails GIDI CBM-I Study: Moderation effect of anxiety tied to COVID-19
Creators: name: Larrazabal, Maria
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This registration describes the analyses I will be performing using MindTrails GIDI data in 2021
ประสิทธิผลขององค์การ
Creators: name: ณัฐวัชร จันทโรธรณ์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2563
Subjects: ประสิทธิผล
กลยุทธ์
คุณค่า

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 9, 2, 1-9
กลยุทธ์การพัฒนางานวิจัยของนักศึกษาสู่ความสำเร็จ
Creators: name: สุนันท์ ศลโกสุม
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2563
Subjects: กลยุทธ์การพัฒนางานวิจัยสู่ความสำเร็จ
วิจัยของนักศึกษาบัณฑิตศึกษา

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 9, 2, 10-17
ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างทำนองเสียงตกกับเจตนาในการสื่อสาร ด้วยสติ๊กเกอร์ไลน์ภาษาไทย
Creators: name: จอมขวัญ สุทธินนท์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2563
Subjects: ทำนองเสียงตก
เจตนาในการสื่อสาร
สติ๊กเกอร์ไลน์ภาษาไทย

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 9, 2, 18-25
ความต้องการจำเป็นของการบริหารงานสัมพันธ์ชุมชนของโรงเรียนขยายโอกาสตำบลแพรกษา จังหวัดสมุทรปราการ ตามแนวคิดการเสริมสร้างพลังอำนาจชุมชน
Creators: name: ชลธิต สมความคิด
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2563
Subjects: การบริหารงานสัมพันธ์ชุมชน
โรงเรียนขยายโอกาส
การเสริมสร้างพลังอำนาจชุมชน

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 9, 2, 26-37
“Food for thought”. Il viaggio lento da Venezia all’India di Dolf Schnebli (1928-2009)
Creators: name: Isotta Forni, Luisa Smeragliuolo Perrotta
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Dolf Schnebli
Arthur W Wheelwright travelling fellowship
East Travel
Photosketches
Fotoskizzen
ETH

description: Dolf Schnebli was an important Swiss architect and professor at ETH Zurich. In 1955 he won the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship organised by the Harvard School of Design and this allowed him to travel for a year outside the United States. The following year he set off with his wife Clarissa for a slow and long journey to the East that deeply affected his professional life and his future teaching experience. The journey started in Venice, then they travelled eastwards through Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. The last city visited before coming back to Europe was Chandigarh, built by Le Corbusier, still under construction. During the journey, he used to take photos of places and people. Some years later he called his photographs photoschetches to emphasise their synthetic nature in framing places and special conditions of spaces. The memories of his journey have remained unknown for fifty years. It was only in 2009 that he reorganised the photoschetches to publish them. The book, One Year from Venice to India by the Land Route, is a collection of photos with short texts. In the postscript Schnebli wrote that their slow journey to India still provides, after more than fifty years, "food for thought", underlining the value of travel as nourishment. The ideas and suggestions about places and different spaces visited in that year became important references for his architecture. The Wheelwright gave him the opportunity to travel to another world and discover very different cultures. The experience also contributed to build a personal imaginary world that the architect used continuously and creatively in his works.
Diagrammatic description for the categories of perverse sheaves on isotropic Grassmannians
Creators: name: Ehrig, Michael
name: Stroppel, Catharina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E10, 14M15, 17B10, 17B45, 55N91, 20C08

description: For each integer $k\geq 4$ we describe diagrammatically a positively graded Koszul algebra $\mathbb{D}_k$ such that the category of finite dimensional $\mathbb{D}_k$-modules is equivalent to the category of perverse sheaves on the isotropic Grassmannian of type ${\rm D}_k$ or ${\rm B}_{k-1}$, constructible with respect to the Schubert stratification. The algebra is obtained by a (non-trivial) ``folding'' procedure from a generalized Khovanov arc algebra. Properties like graded cellularity and explicit closed formulas for graded decomposition numbers are established by elementary tools.
description: This is an extended and generalized version of the first part of the previous paper entitled "Diagrams for perverse sheaves on isotropic Grassmannians and the supergroup SOSP(m|2n).", see arXiv:1306.4043 It also contains an an extra examples section
รูปแบบการบริหารการจัดกิจกรรมแนะแนวเพื่อเสริมสร้างความเป็นพลเมืองดิจิทัล ของนักเรียนในโรงเรียนสังกัดกรุงเทพมหานคร
Creators: name: ฑิวาวรรณ สุวานิโช
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2563
Subjects: การบริหารการจัดกิจกรรมแนะแนว
ความเป็นพลเมืองดิจิทัล

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 9, 2, 38-47
title: Vers l’utilisation de plantes de service pour contribuer à la santé des cultures horticoles. Acquis opérationnels issus d’expérimentation en conditions de production. Expérimentation issue du projet AgroEcoTOM – IT2 Guadeloupe
Creators: name: Courteille, Adriana
name: Alidor, Lina
name: Diman, Jean-Louis
name: Julianus, Philippe
name: Latchman, Christophe
name: Chave, Marie
name: Lefèvre, Amélie
Publisher: name: INRAE
Year: 2022

description: Il s'agit de l'une des fiches produites pour valoriser les acquis opérationnels produits lors de l’expérimentation agronomique en conditions proches de la production. Cet ensemble de fiches porte sur l’utilisation de plantes de service pour la gestion de la santé des cultures en productions horticoles en milieu tempéré et tropical.
AGM2015: Antineutrino Global Map 2015
Creators: name: Usman, Shawn M.
name: Jocher, Glenn R.
name: Dye, Stephen T.
name: McDonough, William F.
name: Learned, John G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Every second greater than $10^{25}$ antineutrinos radiate to space from Earth, shining like a faint antineutrino star. Underground antineutrino detectors have revealed the rapidly decaying fission products inside nuclear reactors, verified the long-lived radioactivity inside our planet, and informed sensitive experiments for probing fundamental physics. Mapping the anisotropic antineutrino flux and energy spectrum advance geoscience by defining the amount and distribution of radioactive power within Earth while critically evaluating competing compositional models of the planet. We present the Antineutrino Global Map 2015 (AGM2015), an experimentally informed model of Earth's surface antineutrino flux over the 0 to 11 MeV energy spectrum, along with an assessment of systematic errors. The open source AGM2015 provides fundamental predictions for experiments, assists in strategic detector placement to determine neutrino mass hierarchy, and aids in identifying undeclared nuclear reactors. We use cosmochemically and seismologically informed models of the radiogenic lithosphere/mantle combined with the estimated antineutrino flux, as measured by KamLAND and Borexino, to determine the Earth's total antineutrino luminosity at $3.4^{+2.3}_{-2.2} \times 10^{25} \barν_e$. We find a dominant flux of geo-neutrinos, predict sub-equal crust and mantle contributions, with $\sim1\%$ of the total flux from man-made nuclear reactors.
description: Additional online content available at http://www.ultralytics.com/agm2015
How do Subjective Social Status and Objective Neighborhood Resources Relate to Adolescent Depression?
Creators: name: Mirhashem, Rebecca
name: Ahuvia, Isaac
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: A study to assess how youth-reported subjective socioeconomic and social status correlate with objective neighborhood opportunity.
Exact sampling of diffusions with a discontinuity in the drift
Creators: name: Papaspiliopoulos, Omiros
name: Roberts, Gareth O.
name: Taylor, Kasia B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce exact methods for the simulation of sample paths of one-dimensional diffusions with a discontinuity in the drift function. Our procedures require the simulation of finite-dimensional candidate draws from probability laws related to those of Brownian motion and its local time and are based on the principle of retrospective rejection sampling. A simple illustration is provided.
description: 13 pages
In viaggio nella mia Africa Intrecci, corrispondenze, luoghi e tempi
Creators: name: Vaccher, Flavia
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Travel traces
Metissage
Reinvention
Alternative gaze
Senegal
Benin
Togo
Demas N Nwoko
Patrick Dujarric
Alan Vaughan Richards

description: Palinsesto africano is the title of the picture introducing this short text, a intertwinement of some journeys I made as an architect and researcher in sub-Saharan Africa between 2012 and 2017 on the trail of the journeys and studies by Patrick Dujarric and Alan Vaughan-Richards (both European architects, though African by adoption), and by Demas N. Nwoko, a Nigerian architect-artist. Still active today, Nwoko was influenced by his cultural exchanges with Europe and America in the early 1960s. These architects share a sense of otherness as compared with the Modern Movement, with which they have however confronted themselves and tried to interpret it – within the specific context of the individual countries – in possible modern architectures hybridised with tradition. ‘Other’ and ‘elsewhere’ are terms that often appear in the contribution to underline not only, and not so much, the geographical distance of these places, but also implicitly the need to find alternative interpretations for them. In the cases examined, travelling required a continuous effort to recognise the plurality of different cultures that overlapped and intertwined, thus mixing different architectures, places, and times. By discovering and tracing resonances, analogies, subtle correspondences or reinventions, some travel fragments have been recomposed.
ประสิทธิภาพในการบริหารการจัดเก็บภาษีบำรุงท้องที่ของเทศบาลตำบลพรหมบุรี อำเภอพรหมบุรี จังหวัดสิงห์บุรี
Creators: name: ณัฐชุนันท์ สิริพรวุฒิ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2563
Subjects: ประสิทธิภาพ
การบริหาร
การจัดเก็บภาษีบำรุงท้องที่

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 9, 2, 48-56
การประเมินการใช้หลักสูตรภาษาญี่ปุ่น โรงเรียนสารวิทยา สังกัดสำนักงานเขตพื้นที่การศึกษามัธยมศึกษา เขต 2 กรุงเทพมหานคร
Creators: name: นกแก้ว คล้ายสอน
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2563
Subjects: การประเมิน
หลักสูตรภาษาญี่ปุ่น
แนวคิดเชิงระบบ

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 9, 2, 57-70
Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a $Z$ boson in proton--proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Journal of high energy physics 1, 35 (2017).
description: The production of a top quark in association with a $Z$ boson is investigated. The proton--proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015 and 2016 at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13 \mathrm{TeV}$ are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $36.1 \mathrm{fb}^{-1}$. Events containing three identified leptons (electrons and/or muons) and two jets, one of which is identified as a $b$-quark jet are selected. The major backgrounds are diboson, $t\bar{t}$ and $Z\mathrm{+jets}$ production. A neural network is used to improve the background rejection and extract the signal. The resulting significance is $4.2\sigma$ in the data and the expected significance is $5.4\sigma$. The measured cross-section for $tZq$ production is $600 \pm 170 \mathrm{(stat.)} \pm 140 \mathrm{(syst.)} \mathrm{fb}$.
description: Published by Springer, Berlin