cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pairwise comparison of treatment levels in functional analysis of variance with application to erythrocyte hemolysis
Creators: name: Vsevolozhskaya, Olga
name: Greenwood, Mark
name: Holodov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motivated by a practical need for the comparison of hemolysis curves at various treatment levels, we propose a novel method for pairwise comparison of mean functional responses. The hemolysis curves - the percent hemolysis as a function of time - of mice erythrocytes (red blood cells) by hydrochloric acid have been measured among different treatment levels. This data set fits well within the functional data analysis paradigm, in which a time series is considered as a realization of the underlying stochastic process or a smooth curve. Previous research has only provided methods for identifying some differences in mean curves at different times. We propose a two-level follow-up testing framework to allow comparisons of pairs of treatments within regions of time where some difference among curves is identified. The closure multiplicity adjustment method is used to control the family-wise error rate of the proposed procedure.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOAS723 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Transmission spectral properties of clouds for hot Jupiter exoplanets
Creators: name: Wakeford, Hannah R.
name: Sing, David K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clouds have an important role in the atmospheres of planetary bodies. It is expected that, like all the planetary bodies in our solar system, exoplanet atmospheres will also have substantial cloud coverage, and evidence is mounting for clouds in a number of hot Jupiters. In order to better characterise planetary atmospheres we need to consider the effects these clouds will have on the observed broadband transmission spectra. Here we examine the expected cloud condensate species for hot Jupiter exoplanets and the effects of various grain sizes and distributions on the resultant transmission spectra from the optical to infrared, which can be used as a broad framework when interpreting exoplanet spectra. We note that significant infrared absorption features appear in the computed transmission spectrum, the result of vibrational modes between the key species in each condensate, which can potentially be very constraining. While it may be hard to differentiate between individual condensates in the broad transmission spectra, it may be possible to discern different vibrational bonds, which can distinguish between cloud formation scenarios such as condensate clouds or photochemically generated species. Vibrational mode features are shown to be prominent when the clouds are composed of small sub-micron sized particles and can be associated with an accompanying optical scattering slope. These infrared features have potential implications for future exoplanetary atmosphere studies conducted with JWST, where such vibrational modes distinguishing condensate species can be probed at longer wavelengths.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
People who inject drugs in metropolitan Chicago: A meta-analysis of data from 1997-2017 to inform interventions and computational modeling toward hepatitis C microelimination
Creators: name: Boodram, Basmattee
name: Mackesy-Amiti, Mary
name: Khanna, Aditya
name: Brickman, Bryan
name: Dahari, Harel
name: Ozik, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Progress toward hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination in the United States is not on track to meet targets set by the World Health Organization, as the opioid crisis continues to drive both injection drug use and increasing HCV incidence. A pragmatic approach to achieving this is using a microelimination approach of focusing on high-risk populations such as people who inject drugs (PWID). Computational models are useful in understanding the complex interplay of individual, social, and structural level factors that might alter HCV incidence, prevalence, transmission, and treatment uptake to achieve HCV microelimination. However, these models need to be informed with realistic sociodemographic, risk behavior and network estimates on PWID. We conducted a meta-analysis of research studies spanning 20 years of research and interventions with PWID in metropolitan Chicago to produce parameters for a synthetic population for realistic computational models (e.g., agent-based models). We then fit an exponential random graph model (ERGM) using the network estimates from the meta-analysis in order to develop the network component of the synthetic population.
Self-propulsion of a spherical electric or magnetic microbot in a polar viscous fluid
Creators: name: Felderhof, B. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The self-propulsion of a sphere immersed in a polar liquid or ferrofluid is studied on the basis of ferrohydrodynamics. In the electrical case an oscillating charge density located inside the sphere generates an electrical field which polarizes the fluid. The lag of polarization with respect to the electrical field due to relaxation generates a time-independent electrical torque density acting on the fluid causing it to move. The resulting propulsion velocity of the sphere is calculated in perturbation theory to second order in powers of the charge density.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Sensitive Determination of Moxifloxacin HCl in Pharmaceuticals or Human Plasma Using Luminescence or Eye Vision
Creators: name: Khairy, Gasser M.
name: Abd El-Naby, Zaitona A.
name: Elgindy, Alaa M. A.
name: Duerkop, Axel
name: Abdel Hameed, Eman A.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: probes; lanthanide complexes; moxifloxacin HCl; luminescence; fluorescence; HPLC
subject: 540 Chemie
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: A new probe based on the complex of 1,2 dihydro-2-oxoquinoloine-4-carboxylic acid (DOCA) as a ligand with Europium (III) ion was developed for the quantitation of Moxifloxacin HCl (Moxi.HCl) in pharmaceuticals and human plasma using a luminescence method. The metal to ligand ratio of the complex is 1:2 as determined by a Job plot. The determination of Moxi.HCl is based on static quenching of the luminescence of the probe upon coordination of Moxi.HCl. The negative value for ΔG proves that this reaction is spontaneous. The calibration curve was constructed based on a Stern–Volmer equation and the quantitation range was 0.05–80 µg mL−1. This is low enough to determine the drug in blood plasma, even hours after administration, which is not feasible with the methods published so far. The LOD was 15 ng mL−1. The accuracy of the method was demonstrated by good recoveries of spiking experiments in tablets, ophthalmic eyedrops and human blood plasma, where the mean recovery was 99% with RSDs below 5%. The method was validated by closely matching concentrations of the drug found in all these real samples by HPLC. Additionally, Moxi.HCl can be assessed semi-quantitatively by eye vision upon excitation with a UV lamp at 365 nm by a gradual color shift from red to blue with increasing concentrations of Moxi.HCl.
ARFI-эластометрия печениу здоровых добровольцев: стандартизация методики
Creators: name: Изранов Владимир Александрович
name: Степанян Ирина Андраниковна
name: Мартинович Мирослав Владимирович
Publisher: name: Вестник Балтийского федерального университета им. И. Канта. Серия: Естественные и медицинские науки
Year: 2016
Subjects: УЛЬТРАЗВУКОВАЯ ЭЛАСТОМЕТРИЯ
ARFI-ЭЛАСТОМЕТРИЯ ПЕЧЕНИ
ULTRASOUND ELASTOMETRY
ARFIELASTOMETRY OF THE LIVER

description: Предложенная в литературе методика определения скорости распространения сдвиговой волны при проведении ARFI-эластометрии печени и нормативы чрезвычайно противоречивы. В связи с этим цельнашей работы заключалась в стандартизации методики проведения и разработки протокола ARFI-эластометрии печени.В результате исследования были определены основные методические подходы для ARFI-эластометрии печени: оптимальное положение пациента при исследовании, доступ и зону исходной эластрографической оценки.
Multi-field modeling and simulation of fiber-reinforced polymers
Creators: name: Schulte, Jonathan
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2023
Subjects: duktiler Bruch
faserverstärkte Materialien
Verbundwerkstoff
Phasenfeld
Plastizität
ductile fracture
fiber-reinforced materials
composite
phase-field
plasticity

description: This work proposes a new numerical approach for analyzing the behavior of fiber-reinforced materials, which have gained popularity in various applications. The approach combines theories and methods to model the fracture behavior of the polymeric matrix and the embedded fibers separately, and includes a modified plasticity model that considers the temperature-dependent growth of voids. Tests are conducted to explore different types and sequences of failure in long fiber-reinforced polymers.
Periodic Subsystem Density-Functional Theory
Creators: name: Genova, Alessandro
name: Ceresoli, Davide
name: Pavanello, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By partitioning the electron density into subsystem contributions, the Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) formulation of subsystem DFT has recently emerged as a powerful tool for reducing the computational scaling of Kohn--Sham DFT. To date, however, FDE has been employed to molecular systems only. Periodic systems, such as metals, semiconductors, and other crystalline solids have been outside the applicability of FDE, mostly because of the lack of a periodic FDE implementation. To fill this gap, in this work we aim at extening FDE to treat subsystems of molecular and periodic character. This goal is achieved by a dual approach. On one side, the development of a theoretical framework for periodic subsystem DFT. On the other, the realization of the method into a parallel computer code. We find that periodic FDE is capable of reproducing total electron densities and (to a lesser extent) also interaction energies of molecular systems weakly interacting with metallic surfaces. In the pilot calculations considered, we find that FDE fails in those cases where there is appreciable density overlap between the subsystems. Conversely, we find FDE to be in semiquantitative agreement (but still within chemical accuracy) with Kohn--Sham DFT when the inter-subsystem density overlap is low. We also conclude that to make FDE a suitable method for describing molecular adsorption at surfaces, kinetic energy density functionals that go beyond the GGA level must be employed.
MONEYBaRL: Exploiting pitcher decision-making using Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Sidhu, Gagan
name: Caffo, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This manuscript uses machine learning techniques to exploit baseball pitchers' decision making, so-called "Baseball IQ," by modeling the at-bat information, pitch selection and counts, as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). Each state of the MDP models the pitcher's current pitch selection in a Markovian fashion, conditional on the information immediately prior to making the current pitch. This includes the count prior to the previous pitch, his ensuing pitch selection, the batter's ensuing action and the result of the pitch.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOAS712 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
D6.13 Report of the third CPD module in One Health - Rapid Diagnostics and Harmonisation of Diagnostic Tests
Creators: name: Eves, Caroline
name: Pikka Jokelainen
name: Benedetti, Guido
name: Boisen, Nadia
name: Hendriksen, Rene
name: Poirier, Aurore
name: Cantlay, Jennifer
name: Campling, Elaine
name: La Ragione, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: education and traning
diagnostics
One Health surveillance

description: The third One Health European Joint Programme (OHEJP) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) module 2022 was held on 2nd – 4th November 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark and was hosted by the Statens Serum Institut and the Technical University of Denmark, National Food Institute. The theme of the module was rapid diagnostics and the harmonisation of diagnostics tests with a special focus on One Health surveillance (OHS). The overall concept for this CPD module was to bring microbiologists and epidemiologists together in the laboratory and at the desk to emphasise the importance of harmonised diagnostics in an outbreak setting. The module was delivered in a hybrid format; those participating in person worked together in and out of the laboratory to perform a case study of an E. coli outbreak and online participants worked independently on a case study regarding an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis among veterinary students. The module began with introductory lectures from the invited keynote speaker as well as several experts from the hosting OHEJP partner institutes and ended with a common restitution session. A key highlight of the CPD module was the hands-on microbiological analyses that the in person participants conducted in the laboratory as a part of the E. coli case study. All of the participants, including those with a microbiology background, were curious and engaged during the laboratory work and reported learning something new during these exercises. Participants were able to collaborate and work through various exercises and analyses together, making the lab work exciting and interactive. Another key success was the writing and design of both case studies utilised in the module, which were created in line with the teaching objectives of this CPD.
Vapor-deposited non-crystalline phase vs ordinary glasses and supercooled liquids: evidence for significant thermodynamic and kinetic differences
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Deepanjan
name: Sadtchenko, Vlad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vapor deposition of molecules on a substrate often results in glassy materials of high kinetic stability and low enthalpy. The extraordinary properties of such glasses are attributed to high rates of surface diffusion during sample deposition, which makes it possible for constituents to find a configuration of much lower energy on a typical laboratory time scale1,2,7. The exact structure of the resulting phase is often assumed to be identical to that obtained by aging of ordinary glass over exceedingly long times. Using Fast Scanning Calorimetry technique, we show that out-of-equilibrium relaxation kinetics and possibly the enthalpy of vapor-deposited films of toluene, an archetypical fragile glass former, are distinct from those of ordinary supercooled phase even when the deposition takes place at temperatures above the glass softening. These observations provide support to the conjecture that the vapor-deposition may result in formation of non-crystalline phase of unique structural, thermodynamic, and kinetic properties.
Beyond word order: Rangi in comparative perspective
Creators: name: Gibson, Hannah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Languages of Tanzania
Tanzanian Rift Valley Area
Bantu
Rangi
Linguistic Typology

description: Rangi has come to the attention of linguists due to a number of features which are unusual from a comparative perspective, a typological perspective, or both. Features which have received in-depth examination to date include the verb-auxiliary word order (Mous 2000, Stegen 2002, Dunham 2005, Gibson 2019) and negation (Gibson and Wilhelmsen 2015). A number of other features have also been identified, i.e. the presence of deictic particles and the inclusive/exclusive distinction (Gibson and Marten 2019). The present talk combines the in-depth examination of a number of these features, with a broader comparative approach made possible by the Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation (BMV) database. The BMV (Marten et al. 2018) contains data points relating to 142 surface-level parameters of morphosyntax for over 100 languages, with 80%+ coverage for approximately 40 languages. Using this as a comparative tool, the talk examines the ‘position’ of Rangi within a broader comparative perspective and seeks to gain a better understanding of the markedness of these features and the language more broadly.
description: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Gibson, Hannah. 2020. Beyond word order: Rangi in comparative perspective. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Webinar Series. 04/11/2020
Evolution of Spacetime arises due to the departure from Holographic Equipartition in all Lanczos-Lovelock Theories of Gravity
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Sumanta
name: Padmanabhan, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the case of general relativity one can interpret the Noether charge in any bulk region as the heat content $TS$ of its boundary surface. Further, the time evolution of spacetime metric in Einstein's theory arises due to the difference $(N_{sur}-N_{bulk})$ of suitably defined surface and bulk degrees of freedom. We show that this thermodynamic interpretation generalizes in a natural fashion to all Lanczos-Lovelock models of gravity. The Noether charge, related to time evolution vector field, in a bulk region of space is equal to the heat content $TS$ of the boundary surface with the temperature $T$ defined using local Rindler observers and $S$ being the Wald entropy. Using the Wald entropy to define the surface degrees of freedom $N_{sur}$ and Komar energy density to define the bulk degrees of freedom $N_{bulk}$, we can also show that the time evolution of the geometry is sourced by $(N_{sur}-N_{bulk})$. When it is possible to choose the foliation of spacetime such that metric is independent of time, the above dynamical equation yields the holographic equipartition for Lanczos-Lovelock gravity with $N_{sur}=N_{bulk}$. The implications are discussed.
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Physicochemical, Textural, Rheological and Sensory Properties of Chia Seed-Cashew Nut Spread
Creators: name: Olaleye, Hannah T.
name: Oresanya, Tolulope O.
name: Bello, Biola Z.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plasma Physics
subject: Plant Biology

description: The spread making potential of chia seed and cashew nuts was investigated. Chia seeds and Cashew nuts were processed into spread in ratios: 95:5% (CAC), 90:10% (CSF), 85:15% (SOD), 80:20% (TPS), and 100% (BAM). Physicochemical (over 4 weeks), rheological and sensory analysis of the spread was determined. Physicochemical analysis showed that SOD (85:15%) had the lowest chemical composition in terms of peroxide, acid, iodine and saponification values, which indicated that Chia seed can be used to control oxidation in nut spreads. Rheological analysis demonstrated that the spread blends had good rheological properties similar to the control sample. Sensory analysis revealed that acceptable spread can be produced up to 10% substitution level. Conclusively, nut spread with good chemical and rheological properties can be produced from chia seed and cashew nut pastes which can increase utilization of these crops.
Dirac spectrum of one-flavor QCD at θ=0 and continuity of the chiral condensate
Creators: name: Verbaarschot, J. J. M.
name: Wettig, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive exact analytical expressions for the spectral density of the Dirac operator at fixed θ-angle in the microscopic domain of one-flavor QCD. These results are obtained by performing the sum over topological sectors using novel identities involving sums of products of Bessel functions. Because the fermion determinant is not positive definite for negative quark mass, the usual Banks-Casher relation is not valid and has to be replaced by a different mechanism first observed for QCD at nonzero chemical potential. Using the exact results for the spectral density we explain how this mechanism results in a chiral condensate that remains constant when the quark mass changes sign.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
A model of magneto-electric multipoles
Creators: name: Lovesey, S. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An ancient Hamiltonian of electrons with entangled spin and orbital degrees of freedom is re-examined as a model of magneto-electric multipoles. In the model, a magnetic charge and simple quantum rotator are tightly locked in action, some might say they are enslaved entities. It is shown that magneto-electric multipoles almost perfectly accord with those inferred from an analysis of magnetic neutron diffraction data on a ceramic superconductor (YBCO) in the pseudo-gap phase. Nigh on perfection between Stone's model and inferred magneto-electric multipoles is achieved by addition to the original model of a crystal-field potential appropriate for the magnetic space-group used in the published data analysis
Outdoor activities in the time of COVID-19 and its implications for exposure to vector-borne diseases in the United States
Creators: name: Fernandez, M. Pilar
name: Gebbiena M. Bron
name: Kache, Pallavi A.
name: Tsao, Jean I.
name: Bartholomay, Lyric C.
name: Paskewitz, Susan M.
name: Hayden, Mary H.
name: Ernst, Kacey C.
name: Berry, Kevin
name: Diuk-Wasser, Maria A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Inadvertent consequences of governmental and individual responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to be fully realized. Changes in people's outdoor activities in response to COVID-19, can lead to changes in vector-borne disease risk. This study's objectives were compare outdoor activity patterns and exposure to tick vectors between 2019 and 2020, and to assess the association of 2020 outdoor activity patterns with government-initiated mobility restrictions and individual perceived impacts of COVID-19. We used self-reported data collected from daily surveys available in The Tick App, a smartphone application designed as a tool to identify activity patterns in relation to tick exposure, during the spring and summer of 2019 and 2020. We focused on highly endemic regions for tick-borne diseases in the United States (the Midwest and the Northeast). Participants included any adult over 18 years old was eligible. In 2019, 994 users completed 7,597 surveys and in 2020, 1,329 users completed 9,380 surveys (9.6% were returning users). We found that the daily proportion of users reporting any type of outdoor activity, including peridomestic activities, showed a two-fold increase in 2020 vs. 2019, while recreational activities in green spaces decreased by 70%. These changes in daily activity patterns were associated to statewide stay-at-home orders in 2020 and persisted despite changes in the county-level Shelter in Place Index (i.e., proxy for mobility changes). By contrast, individual self-reported impacts on outdoor activities (any impact vs. no impact) were positively associated with the Shelter in Place Index and if the participant lived in an urban area. Self-reported tick encounters significantly increased by 30% in 2020 compared to 2019, and were mainly associated to doing outdoor activities and living in a rural county. Obtaining granular information on activity patterns proved useful in gaining insights about potential changes in the risk of tick-borne diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings suggest that public health response should address competing hazards from COVID-19 related outdoor exposure and the increasing risk of tick- and other vector-borne diseases.
description: This is a preliminary working paper. It has not been peer reviewed.
External constraints on optimal control strategies in molecular orientation and photofragmentation: Role of zero-area fields
Creators: name: Sugny, D.
name: Vranckx, S.
name: Ndong, M.
name: Atabek, O.
name: Desouter-Lecomte, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new formulation of optimal and local control algorithms which enforces the constraint of time-integrated zero-area on the control field. The fulfillment of this requirement, crucial in many physical applications, is mathematically implemented by the introduction of a Lagrange multiplier aiming at penalizing the pulse area. This method allows to design a control field with an area as small as possible, while bringing the dynamical system close to the target state. We test the efficiency of this approach on two control purposes in molecular dynamics, namely, orientation and photodissociation.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Geometrical variables with direct thermodynamic significance in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Sumanta
name: Padmanabhan, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown in an earlier work [arXiv:1303.1535] that there exists a pair of canonically conjugate variables $(f^{ab},N^a_{bc})$ in general relativity which also act as thermodynamically conjugate variables on any horizon. In particular their variations $(f^{bc}δN^a_{bc}, N^a_{bc}δf^{bc})$, which occur in the surface term of the Einstein-Hilbert action, when integrated over a null surface, have direct correspondence with $(SδT,TδS)$ where $(T,S)$ are the temperature and entropy. We generalize these results to Lanczos-Lovelock models in this paper. We identify two such variables in Lanczos-Lovelock models such that (a) our results reduce to that of general relativity in the appropriate limit and (b) the variation of surface term in the action, when evaluated on a null surface, has direct thermodynamic interpretation as in the case of general relativity. The variations again correspond to $SδT$ and $TδS$ where $S$ is now the appropriate Wald entropy for the Lanczos-Lovelock model. The implications are discussed.
description: v2, References Modified
On the right multiplicative perturbation of non-autonomous $L^p$-maximal regularity
Creators: name: Augner, Björn
name: Jacob, Birgit
name: Laasri, Hafida
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K45, 35K90, 47D06

description: This paper is devoted to the study of $L^p$-maximal regularity for non-autonomous linear evolution equations of the form \begin{equation*}\label{Multi-pert1-diss-non} \dot u(t)+A(t)B(t)u(t)=f(t)\ \ t\in[0,T],\ \ u(0)=u_0. \end{equation*} where $\{A(t),\ t\in [0,T]\}$ is a family of linear unbounded operators whereas the operators $\{B(t),\ t\in [0,T]\}$ are bounded and invertible. In the Hilbert space situation we consider operators $A(t), \ t\in[0,T],$ which arise from sesquilinear forms. The obtained results are applied to parabolic linear differential equations in one spatial dimension.
description: 23 pages
title: Dowry Abuse Decision Tree: A Guide to Support Clients Impacted by Dowry Abuse
Creators: name: Dune, Tinashe
name: Juliana, Nkrumah
name: Sharmila, Falzon
name: Kittu, Randhawa
name: Ritesh, Chimoriya
Publisher: name: Western Sydney University
Year: 2022

description: This decision tree is to aid case workers, support services or clinical professionals in their client's journey from dowry abuse recovery.
Algoritmo de Previsão do Mercado de Capitais Utilizando Análise de Sentimentos em Notícias Financeiras
Creators: name: Espeschit, G. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mercado Financeiro
Análise de Sentimentos
Redes Neurais
LSTM
Séries Temporais Nebulosas

description: O mercado de capitais é definido por muitos profissionais do setor como sendo objetivo e regido pela análise. No entanto, é impossível remover a parcialidade humana das atividades do mercado. Sendo assim, propôs-se investigar o impacto no desempenho de algoritmos de aprendizado de máquina na previsão do mercado financeiro quando se introduz a análise sentimental de notícias no modelo. Utilizando um léxico para língua portuguesa, obteve-se a polaridade de textos extraídos de um site popular de notícias. As médias diárias das polaridades das notícias foram calculadas e agrupadas com uma série temporal contendo os preços de fechamento do índice Ibovespa daquele mesmo dia. Esse conjunto de dados multivariados foi utilizado para treinar dois algoritmos de aprendizado de máquina. Os resultados alcançados foram comparados aos obtidos quando se utiliza somente os preços de fechamento para treinar o modelo. Em ambos os casos, observou-se que o uso de uma série temporal multivariada, contendo os preços de fechamento e a polaridade das notícias do dia, teve um desempenho superior ao uso somente de uma série contendo os preços de fechamento. Quando submetidos a uma estratégia de investimento simples, observou-se um desempenho semelhante para os dois tipos de dados nos dois algoritmos. Porém, quando comparados com uma estratégia de buy and hold, ambos obtiveram um desempenho vastamente superior. O estudo demostra que o uso de algoritmos de aprendizado de máquina são uma forma eficiente para realizar a previsão do mercado financeiro e que a introdução de dados exógenos ao modelo pode melhorar ainda mais seu desempenho. Nesse estudo, a utilização da polaridade diária de notícias se provou uma das variáveis exógenas que pode ser utilizada para aprimorar a performance do algoritmo.
Pathfinding for Mobile Robot Navigation by Exerting the Quarter-Sweep Modified Accelerated Overrelaxation (QSMAOR) Iterative Approach via the Laplacian Operator
Creators: name: Dahalan, A'qilah Ahmad
name: Saudi, Azali
name: Sulaiman, Jumat
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: Mobile robots are often in a situation where they need to find a bump-free path or navigation in their environment from any starting to a specific target point. Within this study, improving the navigation problem of a mobile robot iteratively by using a numerical method based on the potential field method is one of the main aims. This potential field will lean on the use of Laplace’s equation to restrain the formation of a potential function across regions within the mobile robot configuration area. The present paper proposed a Quarter-Sweep Modified Accelerated Overrelaxation (QSMAOR) approach to improve the pathfinding of mobile robots in a given environment. The experiment shows that, by using a finite difference method, it is capable of producing an optimal path and creating a smooth path between the starting and target point. The results of the simulation also show that this numerical approach works more rapidly and provides a smoother/clearer direction than the previous study.
Tides of the changing same : race, class, gender and school choice in neoliberal times
Creators: name: Mott, Michelle Lea
name: 0000-0002-4187-1924
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Gentrification
School choice
Neoliberalism
Race
Class
Gender
Social reproduction of inequalities
School-family relationships
Privitization
Neoliberal governmentality

description: In many public school districts across the nation, the policy of allowing parents to select the school their child attends is gaining greater popularity. Advocates for this policy argue that it enables the public sector to function more like the private sector, putting the onus of success and high achievement on the schools directly. As the theory goes, the market-based policies of competition and tethering funding to performance incentivizes school improvement that will benefit the educational needs and outcomes for all students. Critics of this policy argue that this neoliberal model exacerbates existing inequities in the distribution of economic resources and educational attainments. In this dissertation, I use ethnographic methods to explore what happens when school choice policies and practices intersect with neoliberal urbanism. The research for this project was conducted in an urban school that adopted specialized bilingual English-Spanish immersion programming as both a means to thwart declining student enrollment resulting from neighborhood gentrification and to serve the existing population of working class and low-income, predominately Latinx, students. As the school and the dual-language programming gain greater popularity, and as the neighborhood continues to see higher costs for housing, the school population becomes increasingly middle-class. Basing my study in a two-way dual language immersion school in a rapidly gentrifying urban area, I explore questions of belonging, equity, and resource allocation in neoliberal times. This study looks at the ways that teachers, administrators, and parents of disparate racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, national, and linguistic subjectivities interact and respond to school integration and (re)segregation. In the end, I argue that as the modes for securing middle-class advantages are part and parcel of our educational structure, they work alongside and through other mechanisms of (re)producing social inequalities along racialized, classed, and gendered lines.
ТРУДОГОЛИЗМ КАК ФОРМА АДДИКТИВНОГО ПОВЕДЕНИЯ
Creators: name: Мамаджонова, Шохиста
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Трудоголизм является формой аддиктивного поведения, которая проявляется в непомерном и неконтролируемом стремлении к работе и постоянном занятии трудовыми делами. Данная аннотация представляет краткий обзор данного понятия, его симптомов и последствий, а также описывает некоторые факторы, способствующие развитию трудоголизма.
Resonant activation in 2D and 3D systems driven by multi-variate Lévy noises
Creators: name: Szczepaniec, Krzysztof
name: Dybiec, Bartlomiej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonant activation is one of classical effects demonstrating constructive role of noise. In resonant activation cooperative action of barrier modulation process and noise lead to the optimal escape kinetics as measured by the mean first passage time. Resonant activation has been observed in versatilities of systems for various types of barrier modulation processes and noise types. Here, we show that resonant activation is also observed in 2D and 3D systems driven by bi-variate and tri-variate $α$-stable noises. Strength of resonant activation is sensitive to the exact value of the noise parameters. In particular, the decrease in the stability index $α$ results in the disappearance of the resonant activation.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Making sense in uncertain times : school district leaders' racial sensemaking of immigration enforcement and policy
Creators: name: Sikes, Chloe Elizabeth
name: 0000-0002-4629-1726
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Immigration
Leadership
School board members
Sensemaking
Election

description: Following the 2016 presidential election, school districts across the country issued resolutions affirming that all students are welcome in and legally protected to attend public schools, regardless of immigration status. Although the 1982 Supreme Court case, Plyler v. Doe, already disallows schools from inquiring into students’ immigration status, the resolutions bely deeper issues of race, immigration, and citizenship. However, the processes that district leaders use to understand race in immigration policy changes remain underexplored. To address these gaps, this study examines the following research questions: (1) How do district leaders respond to the current anti-immigration political climate? (2) How do district leaders’ identities mediate their understanding of the role of race and immigration? (3) How do district leaders negotiate response decisions within the current political context? This study draws from literature on critical race theory in education, civil rights legal history, the impacts of immigration enforcement on children, and organizational studies on sensemaking theory and educational leaders. Findings reveal that district leaders’ responses to immigration issues are deeply embedded in their perspectives on leadership, their racialized personal and professional identities, and their contested notions of political engagement. This study extends research on racial sensemaking among district leaders, particularly school board members. It concludes with implications for theory, practice, policy, and future research.
Leniolisib treatment for people with activated PI3K delta syndrome (APDS): a plain language summary of the phase 3 study
Creators: name: Kulm, Elaine
name: Webster, Sharon
name: Šedivá, Anna
name: Plebani, Alessandro
name: Schuetz, Catharina
name: Conlon, Niall
name: Dalm, Virgil A.S.H.
name: Körholz, Julia
name: Lougaris, Vassilios
name: Luscombe, Jo
name: Bradt, Jason
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This is a plain language summary of an article originally published in Blood. Leniolisib is a drug developed to treat activated PI3K delta syndrome (APDS). APDS is a rare disease in which the immune system does not work correctly. People with APDS have a wide range of symptoms including infections, certain organs associated with the immune system becoming larger, and worse quality of life. This summary reports the results from a clinical study that aimed to understand if leniolisib is effective at treating people with APDS. The study showed that leniolisib improved the amounts of immune cells and antibodies (proteins that help the immune system to function). Leniolisib also reduced the size of participants' enlarged organs, and lowered the activity of the protein that causes APDS. There were no major safety concerns for participants who took leniolisib. These results indicate that leniolisib helps the immune system to work in a way that is closer to those without APDS. By helping the immune system, leniolisib may be able to improve the lives of people with APDS by making them feel better. Leniolisib may also prevent difficulties in completing activities in the daily lives of people with APDS. Clinical Trial Registration:NCT02435173 (ClinicalTrials.gov)
Standing-wave-excited multiplanar fluorescence in a laser scanning microscope reveals 3D information on red blood cells
Creators: name: Amor, Rumelo
name: Mahajan, Sumeet
name: Amos, William Bradshaw
name: McConnell, Gail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standing-wave excitation of fluorescence is highly desirable in optical microscopy because it improves the axial resolution. We demonstrate here that multiplanar excitation of fluorescence by a standing wave can be produced in a single-spot laser scanning microscope by placing a plane reflector close to the specimen. We report that the relative intensities in each plane of excitation depend on the Stokes shift of the fluorochrome. We show by the use of dyes specific for the cell membrane how standing-wave excitation can be exploited to generate precise contour maps of the surface membrane of red blood cells, with an axial resolution of ~90 nm. The method, which requires only the addition of a plane mirror to an existing confocal laser scanning microscope, may well prove useful in studying diseases which involve the red cell membrane, such as malaria.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures; changed the discussion of narrow-band detected fringes (Fig. 3) to describe the phenomenon as a moire pattern between the excitation and emission standing-wave fields, rather than a beats pattern; added DiI(5)-labelled red blood cell in Fig. 4 to show that standing-wave fringes are present even when the dye excitation wavelength is outside the haemoglobin absorption band
DARK SKIES ASTROTOURISM OUTREACH - Light Pollution and Dark Skies Preservation, Hidden in Darkness
Creators: name: Jiwaji, Noorali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Dark Skies, Light Pollution, Quality Lighting, Sky Glow, Light Trespass, Glare, Energy Saving

description: Africa needs to focus on preserving its dark skies resources. Understanding scrouge of light pollution afflicting the developing world allows us to understand the importance of preserving dark skies in our countries.
description: {"references": ["Cheung, S. (2018) Light Pollution, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO), Published by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan"]}
Open Science promotion and EOSC implementation activities @Alma Mater
Creators: name: Forni Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: EOSC, Open Science, AAP, University of Bologna

description: This presentation depicts the Additional Activities that University of Bologna perform to promote Open Science within the community and to foster the EOSC implementation, and was given at the  EOSC- Symposium 2022 in Prague.
Netzdienlicher Betreib von Wärmepumpen durch modellprädiktive Regelung
Creators: name: Tomás, Leroy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ziel der vorliegenden Projetks ist das netzdienliche Betreiben einer Wärmepumpe mit modellprädiktiver Regelung (MPC). Die Python-Skripte sind die einzelnen Module, die für die MPC Regelung notwendig sind. Um den MPC Regler auszuführen muss die ZIP-Datei extrahiert werden und die Optimizer_SCIP.py Datei ausgeführt werden. In der protocol.txt Datei wird dann ein Protokoll des Optimierungsprozesses geschrieben. Die LaststeuerungWP.txt Datei enthält dann die Schaltbefehle für die nächsten 24 Stunden.
Effects of stellar evolution and ionizing radiation on the environments of massive stars
Creators: name: Mackey, Jonathan
name: Langer, Norbert
name: Mohamed, Shazrene
name: Gvaramadze, Vasilii V.
name: Neilson, Hilding R.
name: Meyer, Dominique M. -A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss two important effects for the astrospheres of runaway stars: the propagation of ionizing photons far beyond the astropause, and the rapid evolution of massive stars (and their winds) near the end of their lives. Hot stars emit ionizing photons with associated photoheating that has a significant dynamical effect on their surroundings. 3D simulations show that HII regions around runaway O stars drive expanding conical shells and leave underdense wakes in the medium they pass through. For late O stars this feedback to the interstellar medium is more important than that from stellar winds. Late in life, O stars evolve to cool red supergiants more rapidly than their environment can react, producing transient circumstellar structures such as double bow shocks. This provides an explanation for the bow shock and linear bar-shaped structure observed around Betelgeuse.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, conference proceedings in "Wind Bubbles, Astrospheres and the Heliosphere: Environments and Cosmic Rays", Bochum, Germany (Nov 2013). Published in ASTRA proceedings, an Open Access Journal for Refereed Proceedings in Extraterrestrial Research
An optimization algorithm for multimodal functions inspired by collective animal behavior
Creators: name: Cuevas, Erik
name: Gonzalez, Mauricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Interest in multimodal function optimization is expanding rapidly since real world optimization problems often demand locating multiple optima within a search space. This article presents a new multimodal optimization algorithm named as the Collective Animal Behavior (CAB). Animal groups, such as schools of fish, flocks of birds, swarms of locusts and herds of wildebeest, exhibit a variety of behaviors including swarming about a food source, milling around a central location or migrating over large distances in aligned groups. These collective behaviors are often advantageous to groups, allowing them to increase their harvesting efficiency to follow better migration routes, to improve their aerodynamic and to avoid predation. In the proposed algorithm, searcher agents are a group of animals which interact to each other based on the biological laws of collective motion. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is capable of finding global and local optima of benchmark multimodal optimization problems with a higher efficiency in comparison to other methods reported in the literature.
description: 18 Pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1405.5164
Introduction ot Asteroseismology
Creators: name: Goupil, Mjo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: stars: stellar oscillations; stars: asteroseismology

description: This lecture gives an introduction to theoretical asteroseismology. It is neither a review nor is exhaustive. It attends to give to Master and PhD students an idea on why we are able to interpret asteroseismic observations in terms of internal structure and evolutionary stages of the stars. The fundation and basic understanding of asteroseismology rely on well-known physical principles and mathematical tools. Nervetheless there are many issues that still ought to be elucidated. This resquires data of higher and higher quality for an increasing number of stars. This is the goal of future space missions to provide with such data sets.