cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The execution of judgements of the European Court of Human Rights: limits and ways ahead
Creators: name: Forst, Deborah
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: European Court of Human Rights
judgement

description: Second semester University: KU Leuven.
description: This thesis deals with the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (“the Court”) by states, and its supervision by the main institutions of the Council of Europe, particularly after the entry into force of Protocol No. 14. After an analysis of the existing system of execution of the Court’s judgments (1), through the examination of the obligations and practices of states, and the study of the current system of supervision by the institutions of the Council of Europe, this thesis discusses proposals made both at national and European levels to ensure state’s compliance with the judgments of the Court (2). Thus, the aim of the thesis will be to contribute to the reflection on the reform of the Convention mechanism with a particular focus on the implementation of judgments, because it is assumed that non- or partial-compliance with the Court’s judgments prevents individuals from enjoying their Convention’s rights, and threatens the sustainability of the Convention system.
When Paris Met Bohemia: Discovering the Czech Nation Through its Art, 1900-1938
Creators: name: Miller, Meredith G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This thesis explores how a small group of French artists and intellectuals based in
Paris ‘discovered’ the Czech nation through its modern art and history in the years leading to
World War I through the interwar period. I will argue that these Frenchmen at first praised
the ‘Frenchness’ of Czech modernism and history to celebrate their own liberal values and
employed art in their justifications for the establishment of a sovereign Czechoslovak state.
Soon after World War I had begun, these and other Frenchmen advocated for an
independent Czechoslovak state not only because the Czechs’ refined art and history
demonstrated its own European value, but also to ensure that a representative of Western
European values was firmly situated in the heart of East-Central Europe. In their writings,
these Frenchmen intertwined Czech and French modern art and history to pull Czech
culture into the ‘Western European fold’ and defined Czech culture in opposition to that of
Germany and Austria-Hungary. World War I also created the context for these Frenchmen
to begin to understand Czech art as ‘Czech’ after independence from Austria-Hungry in
1918. These historic, artistic, and political connections solidified a lively dialogue, albeit an
unequal one, between French artists and intellectuals and their Czech counterparts. This
dialogue would flourish through the interwar years.
Interactome dynamics of BRAF-RAF1 monomers and dimers
Creators: name: Iglesias-Martinez, Luis
name: Rauch, Nora
name: Wynne, Kieran
name: McCann, Brendan
name: Kolch, Walter
name: Rauch, Jens
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Proteomics and intermolecular interactions (excl. medical proteomics)

description: Using quantitative proteomics we mapped the interactomes of RAF1 monomers, RAF1-BRAF and RAF1-BRAFV600E dimers identifying and quantifying >1,000 proteins. In addition, we examined the effects of vemurafenib and sorafenib, two different types of clinically used RAF inhibitors.Differential interactors identified and quantified by log fold change are reported in the table “Differential interactors identified and quantified by log fold change”. The results of the linear regression and contrast analysis are shown in the table “Contrast analysis” (proteins differentially interacting between RAF1 monomers and dimers formed with BRAF and BRAF upon A/C dimerizer treatment; proteins differentially interacting between BRAF and BRAFV600E transfected samples; and the influence of sorafenib and vemurafenib treatments on the RAF interactome).
Nonsymmetric Askey-Wilson polynomials and $Q$-polynomial distance-regular graphs
Creators: name: Lee, Jae-Ho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In his famous theorem (1982), Douglas Leonard characterized the $q$-Racah polynomials and their relatives in the Askey scheme from the duality property of $Q$-polynomial distance-regular graphs. In this paper we consider a nonsymmetric (or Laurent) version of the $q$-Racah polynomials in the above situation. Let $Γ$ denote a $Q$-polynomial distance-regular graph that contains a Delsarte clique $C$. Assume that $Γ$ has $q$-Racah type. Fix a vertex $x \in C$. We partition the vertex set of $Γ$ according to the path-length distance to both $x$ and $C$. The linear span of the characteristic vectors corresponding to the cells in this partition has an irreducible module structure for the universal double affine Hecke algebra $\hat{H}_q$ of type $(C^{\vee}_1, C_1)$. From this module, we naturally obtain a finite sequence of orthogonal Laurent polynomials. We prove the orthogonality relations for these polynomials, using the $\hat{H}_q$-module and the theory of Leonard systems. Changing $\hat{H}_q$ by $\hat{H}_{q^{-1}}$ we show how our Laurent polynomials are related to the nonsymmetric Askey-Wilson polynomials, and therefore how our Laurent polynomials can be viewed as nonsymmetric $q$-Racah polynomials.
description: 38 pages, 3 figures
Micromagnetic textures in exchange coupled-ferromagnetic multiferroic films
Creators: name: Gareeva, Z. V.
name: Shulga, N. V.
name: Zvezdin, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: A.m

description: The development of new computing technologies has given a new stimulus in the study of multiferroics. The use of multiferroics allows the realization of competitive energy efficient scalable logic and storage devices. The low-power consumption in Magneto Electric-Spin Orbital logics and Magnetic Random Access Memory components is provided by magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic based systems using a low-energy electric field. Our work concerns the modelling of the Magneto Electric-Spin Orbital elements with an emphasis on the magnetoelectric component and simulation of magnetization reversal processes in a model system. The use of the proposed approach makes it possible to analyze the influence of dimensional factors (film thicknesses, transverse dimensions, sample shape) affecting the magnetic states of multiferroic nanoelements; taking into interfacial interactions (magnetic anisotropy and interlayer exchange); energy-efficient external influences that allow switching magnetic states using magnetic and electric fields.
description: 7 pages, 1 Table
Financial Impact of Reimbursing Critical Access Hospital Swing Bed Days Using the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System
Creators: name: Broussard, Drake
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Purpose: Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) utilize swing beds for inpatient and post-acute care. For services provided in swing beds, CAHs are reimbursed by Medicare based on reasonable costs incurred while providing care. Post-acute care that occurs outside of CAHs is reimbursed based on the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (SNF PPS), which pays less than cost-based reimbursement. Policymakers have considered changing CAH swing bed reimbursement to the SNF PPS in recent years to decrease Medicare spending. This study aims to measure the impact of this change in reimbursement on CAHs.Methods: This study uses cost report data from 2015-2017 to estimate the change in operating margin that CAHs would have experienced if this change in reimbursement occurred. Multivariate regression analysis is conducted to determine if certain CAHs are disproportionately impacted based on certain characteristics. Lastly, community characteristics were analyzed for the CAHs most and least affected by the change.Results: The median change in operating margin for all CAHs in 2016 is estimated to be -2.16 percentage points. The vast majority of CAHs would experience a negative change in operating margin. The change would disproportionately impact CAHs that are smaller, more rural, located in the South, and rely more heavily on swing beds. Additionally, the CAHs more adversely impacted serve communities with higher percentages of racial/ethnic minorities and poorer overall health outcomes. Discussion: Changing Medicare CAH swing bed reimbursement would have a significant impact on CAH financial viability. Considering the rising number of rural hospital closures in the past decade, this change could put more financial stress on hospitals that are already struggling. Policymakers should consider these impacts when designing reimbursement models.
Η πώληση ναρκωτικών ουσιών στο αρ.20 του ν.4139/2013
Creators: name: Χιόνη-Χότουμαν, Χαρά Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Πώληση ναρκωτικών ουσιών
Ν. 4139/2013
Διακίνηση
Sale of narcotics
Law 4139/2013
Drug trafficking

description: Στην εργασία αυτή εξετάζεται η πώληση ως τρόπος τέλεσης του αδικήματος της διακίνησης ναρκωτικών ουσιών που προβλέπεται στο αρ.20 του ν.4139/2013. Αναλύονται τα βασικά χαρακτηριστικά της πώλησης ναρκωτικών ουσιών, με εξέταση των διαφορετικών απόψεων που έχουν διατυπωθεί στη θεωρία, ενώ στη συνέχεια γίνεται αναφορά στα βασικές παραδοχές της νομολογίας σχετικά με τον προσδιορισμό για την καταδίκη για πώληση ναρκωτικών ουσιών της λήψης αντιτίμου, της ταυτότητας του πωλητή και του αγοραστή, του χρόνου τέλεσης της πράξης, καθώς και του είδους και της ποσότητας των ναρκωτικών ουσιών. Προκειμένου να προσδιοριστεί η αρχή εκτέλεσης στην περίπτωση της πώλησης ναρκωτικών ουσιών γίνεται διεξοδική αναφορά στο αρ.42 ΠΚ υπό τον ισχύοντα ΠΚ και επιχειρείται να καταδειχθεί με παραδείγματα πότε εκκινεί η απόπειρα υπό τον νέο ΠΚ στην περίπτωση της υπό εξέταση μορφής διακίνησης. Παρουσιάζονται, ακόμη, περιπτώσεις προπαρασκευαστικών πράξεων, ενώ ειδικότερα εξετάζεται και το ζήτημα της δοκιμής ναρκωτικών ουσιών στο πλαίσιο διαπραγματεύσεων. Ξεχωριστά αναλύεται και η περίπτωση της πώλησης ναρκωτικών ουσιών σε αστυνομικά όργανα ή πρόσωπα που συνεργάζονται με τις αρχές. Τέλος, αναλύονται ζητήματα συμμετοχής, με το βάρος να δίδεται στο να καταδειχθεί η ανάγκη να εξετάζεται τυχόν αυτουργική ευθύνη του συνεργού στην πώληση για άλλη μορφή διακίνησης και ερευνάται η περίπτωση που ο δράστης έχει τελέσει πριν την πώληση και άλλες πράξεις που υπάγονται στο αρ.20 του ν.4139/2013.
description: This thesis examines the sale as a form of drug trafficking offense under Article 20 of Law 4139/2013. The basic characteristics of the sale of drugs are analysed, examining the different views expressed in theory, followed by a reference to the main assumptions of jurisprudence. Particular focus is placed on the case law's standpoints on payment receipt, the identity of the seller and buyer, the time of the transaction, and the type and quantity of drugs. Article 42 of the new Greek Criminal Code is discussed in length, and examples are provided for the examination of attempted drug sales under the new Code. Cases of preparatory acts are also presented, while the issue of testing drugs in the context of sale negotiations is specifically addressed. The sale of drugs to police officers or those who collaborate with the authorities is also examined. Finally, issues of participation are addressed, with a particular emphasis on demonstrating the need to investigate any accomplice's responsibility in the sale for another form of trafficking.
description: Συνεργαζόμενα Τμήματα, Πανεπιστήμιο Λευκωσίας (Κύπρος)
Rapid gravitational wave parameter estimation with a single spin: Systematic uncertainties in parameter estimation with the SpinTaylorF2 approximation
Creators: name: Miller, Brandon
name: O'Shaughnessy, Richard
name: Littenberg, Tyson B.
name: Farr, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reliable low-latency gravitational wave parameter estimation is essential to target limited electromagnetic followup facilities toward astrophysically interesting and electromagnetically relevant sources of gravitational waves. In this study, we examine the tradeoff between speed and accuracy. Specifically, we estimate the astrophysical relevance of systematic errors in the posterior parameter distributions derived using a fast-but-approximate waveform model, SpinTaylorF2 (STF2), in parameter estimation with lalinference_mcmc. Though efficient, the STF2 approximation to compact binary inspiral employs approximate kinematics (e.g., a single spin) and an approximate waveform (e.g., frequency domain versus time domain). More broadly, using a large astrophysically-motivated population of generic compact binary merger signals, we report on the effectualness and limitations of this single-spin approximation as a method to infer parameters of generic compact binary sources. For most low-mass compact binary sources, we find that the STF2 approximation estimates compact binary parameters with biases comparable to systematic uncertainties in the waveform. We illustrate by example the effect these systematic errors have on posterior probabilities most relevant to low-latency electromagnetic followup: whether the secondary is has a mass consistent with a neutron star; whether the masses, spins, and orbit are consistent with that neutron star's tidal disruption; and whether the binary's angular momentum axis is oriented along the line of sight.
description: Submitted to PRD. (12 pages, 9 figures)
AngioMoCo: Learning-based Motion Correction in Cerebral Digital Subtraction Angiography
Creators: name: Su, Ruisheng
name: van der Sluijs, Matthijs
name: Cornelissen, Sandra
name: van Zwam, Wim
name: van der Lugt, Aad
name: Niessen, Wiro
name: Ruijters, Danny
name: van Walsum, Theo
name: Dalca, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cerebral X-ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the standard imaging technique for visualizing blood flow and guiding endovascular treatments. The quality of DSA is often negatively impacted by body motion during acquisition, leading to decreased diagnostic value. Time-consuming iterative methods address motion correction based on non-rigid registration, and employ sparse key points and non-rigidity penalties to limit vessel distortion. Recent methods alleviate subtraction artifacts by predicting the subtracted frame from the corresponding unsubtracted frame, but do not explicitly compensate for motion-induced misalignment between frames. This hinders the serial evaluation of blood flow, and often causes undesired vasculature and contrast flow alterations, leading to impeded usability in clinical practice. To address these limitations, we present AngioMoCo, a learning-based framework that generates motion-compensated DSA sequences from X-ray angiography. AngioMoCo integrates contrast extraction and motion correction, enabling differentiation between patient motion and intensity changes caused by contrast flow. This strategy improves registration quality while being substantially faster than iterative elastix-based methods. We demonstrate AngioMoCo on a large national multi-center dataset (MR CLEAN Registry) of clinically acquired angiographic images through comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analyses. AngioMoCo produces high-quality motion-compensated DSA, removing motion artifacts while preserving contrast flow. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/RuishengSu/AngioMoCo.
Male rape: a neglected phenomenon? : the analysis of male rape from legal and institutional perspectives in the context of the European Union
Creators: name: Csokán, Babett
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: male rape
European Union

description: Second semester University: Lund University.
description: Male rape is an under-researched topic1 and is considered to be a taboo.2 This thesis aims to explore this issue in the context of the European Union (EU). The research questions analyse at three different levels to what extent male rape is neglected in the EU. First, the Concluding Observations of the United Nations (UN) treaty bodies are analysed to explore whether there are references to male rape and sexual violence against men at the UN level. Then the national level is analysed through the examination of the rape laws in the EU Member States to see whether the laws are gender neutral. Thirdly, interviews were conducted with organisations that offer support services for male rape victims in order to analyse the level of civil society. This design contributes to the understanding of how male rape is perceived at different levels and how the theory (rape laws) is translated into practice (support services). The methods of the thesis are qualitative text analysis and interviews. The research materials are 389 Concluding Observations, 28 rape laws, and 8 interviews.The results show that none of the analysed levels neglect men completely, however, there are major challenges that need to be overcome in order to obtain full acknowledgement of male rape. Key words: male rape, EU-28 rape laws, Concluding Observations
Communicability Angles Reveal Critical Edges for Network Consensus Dynamics
Creators: name: Estrada, Ernesto
name: Vargas-Estrada, Eusebio
name: Ando, Hiroyasu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the question of determining how the topological structure influences a consensus dynamical process taking place on a network. By considering a large dataset of real-world networks we first determine that the removal of edges according to their communicability angle -an angle between position vectors of the nodes in an Euclidean communicability space- increases the average time of consensus by a factor of 5.68 in real-world networks. The edge betweenness centrality also identifies -in a smaller proportion- those critical edges for the consensus dynamics, i.e., its removal increases the time of consensus by a factor of 3.70. We justify theoretically these findings on the basis of the role played by the algebraic connectivity and the isoperimetric number of networks on the dynamical process studied, and their connections with the properties mentioned before. Finally, we study the role played by global topological parameters of networks on the consensus dynamics. We determine that the network density and the average distance-sum -an analogous of the node degree for shortest-path distances, account for more than 80% of the variance of the average time of consensus in the real-world networks studied.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Pluralisation of identities: shifting citizenship conceptions, national narratives and European education going global? : the case of BNE in Germany
Creators: name: Lange, Pia Marleen
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: citizenship
collective identity
education
European Union
Germany
globalisation
national identity
pluralism
sustainable development

description: Second semester University: University of Ljubljana.
description: In times defined as uncertain, ‘liquid’, ‘flat’, globally interdependent and ‘post-national’ traditional national citizenship and citizenship education concepts are shifting and turning into transformative forces to activate, react and counter global challenges based on universal values such as human rights, democracy, social justice, diversity, equality, tolerance etc.. This paper approaches citizenship and education from a perspective of transcendence of traditional political and social structures through an additional global dimension that is slowly finding its way into European education systems. In Western countries like Germany, that have been struggling with their national identities for decades a global dimension in (citizenship) education could instead of constituting a threat for replacing national narratives establish a complementary aspirational, individual- and future-oriented perspective. I argue that similar to its support for European citizenship and European identity, a global focus could be realizable and beneficial for the individual citizens with their competences at the core as well as a solidary, sustainable, international-oriented and responsible community. The implementation of initiatives and programmes such as Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education in the last decade in the German education and school system are analysed focusing on common universal and transferable skills, values and attitudes as well as national, European and global notions. Keywords: citizenship and global education; identity; transformation; Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE)
Sorghum, Soil, and Sovereignty: Nourishing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Coharie Community Garden
Creators: name: Dunne, Sierra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This thesis examines the impact of the Coharie tribal community garden on the community it serves through different modes of activism so that the reader can better understand how food justice systems can impact and/or improve the quality of life in rural Native communities. It attempts to examine the structural context in which food and cultural identity coincide, specifically through an analysis of how an industrial agriculture system built on inequalities of race and class have influenced Native culture and ways of life for members of the Coharie Tribe. This work uses interviews and oral histories from members of the tribe to understand the garden’s impact as well as the community’s deep historical ties to agriculture, with a focus on the 1930s to present day. It also uses secondary sources in Southern food studies, Native and Southern history, and sociology. Through my analysis of interviews and secondary sources, I have mapped the garden’s impact through three main modes of activism: food justice, food sovereignty, and cultural preservation. Each of these has contributed to the access of healthy, affordable food to local tribal members, the ability of tribe to collectively decide what & how much is produced, and the preservation of Native foods, traditions, creativity, & community ties. This work reveals how practices in indigenous food sovereignty can help to alleviate historical trauma and rebuild community through shared cultural identity.
Search for new phenomena in events with at least three photons collected in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of a search for new phenomena in events with at least three photons are reported. Data from proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{-1}$, were collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The observed data are well described by the Standard Model. Limits at the 95% confidence level on new phenomena are presented based on the rate of events in an inclusive signal region and a restricted signal region targeting the rare decay $Z\to 3γ$, as well as di-photon and tri-photon resonance searches. For a Standard Model Higgs boson decaying to four photons via a pair of intermediate pseudoscalar particles ($a$), limits are found to be $σ\times {\text {BR}}(h \rightarrow aa) \times {\text {BR}}(a \rightarrow γγ)^{2} < 10^{-3} σ_{\text{SM}}$ for 10 GeV $< m_{a} $ 125 GeV, and for a $Z'$ decaying to three photons via $Z' \rightarrow a+γ\rightarrow 3γ$. Additionally, the observed limit on the branching ratio of the $Z$ boson decay to three photons is found to be BR$(Z \rightarrow 3γ) < 2.2 \times 10^{-6}$, a result five times stronger than the previous result from LEP.
description: 20 pages plus author list + cover pages (37 pages total), 5 figures, 5 tables, submitted to EPJC; all figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2013-24/
Calamus gracilis subsp. vietnamensis Henderson & Nguyen Quoc Dung 2018, subsp. nov.
Creators: name: Henderson, Andrew
name: Dung, Nguyen Quoc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Arecales
Arecaceae
Calamus
Calamus gracilis
Calamus gracilis subsp. vietnamensis henderson & nguyen quoc dung

description: Calamus gracilis subsp. vietnamensis Henderson & Nguyen Quoc Dung subsp. nov.
 Type:— VIETNAM. Annam, prov. du Kontum, entre les villages de Takha et Dakto, 13 March 1941, E. Poilane 32312 (holotype P!, isotype K!). Fig. 3.
 It differs from subsp. gracilis in its longer rachises, higher number of pinnae, and narrower middle pinnae.
Rachises 44.4(32.0–60.0) cm long; pinnae 23(18–29) per side of rachis; middle pinnae 1.2(0.7–1.8) cm wide.
 Distribution and habitat:—Central and southern Vietnam in lowland or montane forest at 733(555–1130) m elevation.
 Additional specimens examined. VIETNAM. Thua Thien-Hue: A Luoi District, Sao La NR, 16.04, 107.30, 1823 ft., Bui Van Thanh et al. SL06 (NY); A Luoi District, Sao La Nature Reserve, non-limestone area, 16.115 N, 107.426 E, 666 m, 9 Mar 2009, Henderson et al. 3554 (HN, NY); A Luoi District, Sao La Nature Reserve, non-limestone area, 16.072 N, 107.498 E, 575 m, 8 Mar 2009, Henderson et al. 3546 (HN, NY). Quang Nam: Nam Giang District, Song Tanh Nature Reserve, Ho Chi Minh Highway near border with Kon Tum province, 15.253 N, 107.733 E, 701 m, 15 Mar 2009, Henderson et al. 3584 (HN, NY). Kon Tum: Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve, near Ho Chi Minh Highway, 15.267 N, 107.727 E, 603 m, 18 Mar 2009, Henderson et al. 3592 (HN, NY). Khanh Hoa: road from Nha Trang to Da Lat, km 57, 12.198N, 108.734E, 1130 m, 10 July 2014, Henderson & Nguyen Quoc Dung 3945 (NY, VFM). Lam Dong: Di Linh District, road from Di Linh to Phan Thiet, 11°28’N 108°04’E, ca. 900 m, 14 October 2016, Henderson & Nguyen Quoc Dung 4134 (VFM).
description: Published as part of Henderson, Andrew & Dung, Nguyen Quoc, 2018, New species and subspecies of Calamus (Arecaceae) from Vietnam, pp. 251-262 in Phytotaxa 347 (4) on pages 255-257, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.347.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13707821
Cost-Sensitive Best Subset Selection for Logistic Regression: A Mixed-Integer Conic Optimization Perspective
Creators: name: Knauer, Ricardo
name: Rodner, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A key challenge in machine learning is to design interpretable models that can reduce their inputs to the best subset for making transparent predictions, especially in the clinical domain. In this work, we propose a certifiably optimal feature selection procedure for logistic regression from a mixed-integer conic optimization perspective that can take an auxiliary cost to obtain features into account. Based on an extensive review of the literature, we carefully create a synthetic dataset generator for clinical prognostic model research. This allows us to systematically evaluate different heuristic and optimal cardinality- and budget-constrained feature selection procedures. The analysis shows key limitations of the methods for the low-data regime and when confronted with label noise. Our paper not only provides empirical recommendations for suitable methods and dataset designs, but also paves the way for future research in the area of meta-learning.
description: German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (K\"unstliche Intelligenz)
Developing a Versatile Exposure System for the Analysis of the Effects of Electronic Cigarettes
Creators: name: Nipp, Grace
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) has proliferated in recent years. However, there remains little consensus on e-cigs’ health effects. With the plethora of devices, e-liquids, and flavorings available, a controlled yet flexible exposure system is needed, allowing for comparisons between e-cig devices at varying settings. This study developed and optimized a versatile e-cig exposure system and performed initial exposures to determine biological effects associated with specific e-cig chemical constituents. Mock exposures using a fourth-generation e-cig device were performed to determine exposure chamber parameters, which yield homogeneous aerosol deposition. Initial exposures of human bronchial epithelial cells to vaped propylene glycol (PG) and glycerin (GLY) were conducted at PG:GLY ratios of 100:0, 55:45, and 0:100. IL-6 and IL-8 transcript and protein levels were analyzed following acute exposure. Results indicate that this exposure system will allow for a controlled, replicable exposure to aerosols generated by a variety of e-cig devices and settings.
Tomada de decisão aplicada a gestante e puérpera em casos de COVID-19: scoping review
Creators: name: Costa, Thatiane
name: Dantas, Joyce
name: Rodrigues, Wilma
name: de Carvalho, Jovanka
name: Dantas, Rodrigo
name: Dantas, Daniele
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Identificar as evidências científicas acerca das principais condutas realizadas em pacientes gestantes e puérperas diagnosticadas com COVID-19. Trata-se de uma revisão de escopo de acordo com a metodologia do Instituto Joana Briggs e protocolo PRISMA. Realizado processo de busca em cinco bases de dados e em outras fontes. Dois revisores independentes realizaram análise, extração e síntese dos dados.
Correlation between SNP rs604723 in GRAF3 and hypertension
Creators: name: Doshi, Noopur
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Patients with hypertension (high blood pressure) have increased risk for cardiovascular
diseases, stroke, myocardial infarction, diabetes, and kidney failure. Only 51.8% of
hypertensive patients have their blood pressure (BP) under control, and control is
difficult to achieve since so little is known about the molecular and genetic regulation of
BP. A thorough understanding of the pathways that regulate BP can lead to more
effective and personalized antihypertensive therapies.
Revitalizing education through ict: a short overview of japan's current landscape
Creators: name: Fujita, Takaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The domain of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education has garnered significant consideration in recent times. However, several challenges are inherent to this area of study, including monetary expense, temporal factors, pedagogical environment, teacher training programs, incentive, syllabus design, and health-related concerns. This paper presents an analysis of the difficulties encountered in the realm of ICT education in Japan, taking into account ten different perspectives. A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists "Fujita, T. (2023). REVITALIZING EDUCATION THROUGH ICT: A SHORT OVERVIEW OF JAPAN'S CURRENT LANDSCAPE. European Journal of Social Sciences Studies, 8(5)."
Towards a human right to residence security : a comparative case study of settled irregular migrants' social and legal situation in Italy and Germany
Creators: name: Riecken, Anja
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: asylum seekers
Germany
Italy
domestic and comparative politics
irregular migrations
social integration
social security

description: Second semester University: Åbo Akademi University
description: It seems a common view in European political discourse the state enjoys a broad sovereign right to exclude irregular immigrants, who reside on its territory without formal consent, from the enjoyment of any membership-specific rights. This thesis will question that view, arguing that over time immigrants become members of the social communities they settled in, even if they did so without official authorisation. Focusing on the social and legal situation of rejected asylum seekers in Italy and Germany, it will address the complex interplay between states’ sovereign right to control immigration, and settled migrants’ claims for social membership. First, patterns of exclusion, and the human rights concerns they entail, will be analysed. Following the assumption that status insecurity is the main factor, which fosters irregular migrants' marginalisation, two different pathways into regularity will then be compared: the Italian approach of implementing large scale one-off regularisation programmes for informally employed undocumented migrants, and the German system of granting a right to remain in individual hardship cases. The two systems will be critically assessed for their compatibility with existing human rights standards, their moral substance, and their socio-economic and political impacts.
Disentangling geometric and dissipative origins of negative Casimir entropies
Creators: name: Umrath, Stefan
name: Hartmann, Michael
name: Ingold, Gert-Ludwig
name: Neto, Paulo A. Maia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dissipative electromagnetic response and scattering geometry are potential sources for the appearance of a negative Casimir entropy. We show that the dissipative contribution familiar from the plane-plane geometry appears also in the plane-sphere and the sphere-sphere geometries and adds to the negative Casimir entropy known to exist in these geometries even for perfectly reflecting objects. Taking the sphere-sphere geometry as an example, we carry out a scattering-channel analysis which allows to distinguish between the contributions of different polarizations. We demonstrate that dissipation and geometry share a common feature making possible negative values of the Casimir entropy. In both cases there exists a scattering channel whose contribution to the Casimir free energy vanishes in the high-temperature limit. While the mode-mixing channel is associated with the geometric origin, the transverse electric channel is associated with the dissipative origin of the negative Casimir entropy. By going beyond the Rayleigh limit, we find even for large distances that negative Casimir entropies can occur also for Drude-type metals provided the dissipation strength is sufficiently small.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Trigonometric version of quantum-classical duality in integrable systems
Creators: name: Beketov, M.
name: Liashyk, A.
name: Zabrodin, A.
name: Zotov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the quantum-classical duality to the trigonometric (hyperbolic) case. The duality establishes an explicit relationship between the classical N-body trigonometric Ruijsenaars-Schneider model and the inhomogeneous twisted XXZ spin chain on N sites. Similarly to the rational version, the spin chain data fixes a certain Lagrangian submanifold in the phase space of the classical integrable system. The inhomogeneity parameters are equal to the coordinates of particles while the velocities of classical particles are proportional to the eigenvalues of the spin chain Hamiltonians (residues of the properly normalized transfer matrix). In the rational version of the duality, the action variables of the Ruijsenaars-Schneider model are equal to the twist parameters with some multiplicities defined by quantum (occupation) numbers. In contrast to the rational version, in the trigonometric case there is a splitting of the spectrum of action variables (eigenvalues of the classical Lax matrix). The limit corresponding to the classical Calogero-Sutherland system and quantum trigonometric Gaudin model is also described as well as the XX limit to free fermions.
description: 14 pages
Gromov hyperbolicity in lexicographic product graphs
Creators: name: Carballosa, Walter
name: de la Cruz, Amauris
name: Rodríguez, José M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C69, 05A20, 05C50

description: If $X$ is a geodesic metric space and $x_1,x_2,x_3\in X$, a {\it geodesic triangle} $T=\{x_1,x_2,x_3\}$ is the union of the three geodesics $[x_1x_2]$, $[x_2x_3]$ and $[x_3x_1]$ in $X$. The space $X$ is $δ$-\emph{hyperbolic} $($in the Gromov sense$)$ if any side of $T$ is contained in a $δ$-neighborhood of the union of the two other sides, for every geodesic triangle $T$ in $X$. If $X$ is hyperbolic, we denote by $δ(X)$ the sharp hyperbolicity constant of $X$, i.e. $δ(X)=\inf\{δ\ge 0: \, X \, \text{ is $δ$-hyperbolic}\}.$ In this paper we characterize the lexicographic product of two graphs $G_1\circ G_2$ which are hyperbolic, in terms of $G_1$ and $G_2$: the lexicographic product graph $G_1\circ G_2$ is hyperbolic if and only if $G_1$ is hyperbolic, unless if $G_1$ is a trivial graph (the graph with a single vertex); if $G_1$ is trivial, then $G_1\circ G_2$ is hyperbolic if and only if $G_2$ is hyperbolic. In particular, we obtain the sharp inequalities $δ(G_1)\le δ(G_1\circ G_2) \le δ(G_1) + 3/2$ if $G_1$ is not a trivial graph, and we characterize the graphs for which the second inequality is attained.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1410.2938
Gender behind bars: human rights violations in women’s prisons : applying a feminist criminology approach to the case of Paraguay
Creators: name: González Inchausti, Lucía
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: women
feminism
prison
criminology
human rights violations
Paraguay

description: Second semester University: New University of Lisbon
description: The particularities of Human Rights violations that women in prison have suffered are often overshadowed by those of their male counterparts. This research underscores how gender plays into a systematic form of oppression and has a major impact on the aforementioned Human Rights violations. To better understand this correlation, six areas were analysed: (1) excessive pretrial detention, (2) physical conditions, (3) mental healthcare, (4) education, (5) sexual and reproductive rights and (6) sexual Abuse. Paraguay was chosen as a case study, where interviews with women deprived of their liberty together with criminal justice system professionals were conducted. The results show how gender interacts with Human Rights violations at different levels and to varying degrees. Moreover, the notion that gender is an explanatory variable of these violations from a structural perspective can always be inferred. The implication of this conclusion is clear, more effort should be made to uncover the mechanisms through which gender is playing a major role in the occurrence of Human Rights violations of women in prison, so as to tackle the problem from its roots. Key words: Human Rights, women in prison, gender, feminist criminology, Paraguay
Taking It All Off: A Content Analysis Study of ESPN's Body Issue, 2009-2013
Creators: name: Hanson, Mary Paige
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This thesis explores relationships between gender, nudity, and provocativeness in the photographs in
The Body Issue of ESPN The Magazine, released yearly from 2009 to 2013. The Body Issue was launched
to boost revenue through increased advertising and readership. The Body Issue contains photographs
of male and female professional athletes in varying states of nudity, to pay homage to the daily
sacrifices athletes make to keep their bodies in incredible shape for maximum performance. The
method of research used in this thesis was a content analysis study. The goal of my research was to
be able to objectively analyze various aspects of the photographs across the five-­‐year period.
I designed the content analysis study to code the 141 total photographs for 19 variables clearly
defined in a coding sheet. The purpose of the coding process was to be able to quantify the
photographs so that trends and patterns among variables could be determined. Although 19 variables
were coded for each photograph, my research was primarily focused on examining the relationships
between gender and race, gender and exposure/nudity rating, and gender and provocative level.
Overall, I hypothesized that over the five-­‐year period, the exposure rating and provocative
level would gradually increase for both genders to be a majority of fully nude ratings and high
provocative levels, yet there would be a difference in when these shifts occurred between genders.
Through my content analysis study, I found that there was a shift to full nudity for both genders
after 2009. Regarding provocative level, females shifted almost immediately to a majority of high
provocative level after 2009, while males shifted to a majority of medium provocative level
throughout the five-­‐year period. These findings reflect societally constructed gender
stereotypes that are sustained through the media.
Coupling and an application to level-set percolation of the Gaussian free field
Creators: name: Sznitman, Alain-Sol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K35, 60G15, 60J27, 60J80, 82B43

description: We consider a general enough set-up and obtain a refinement of the coupling between the Gaussian free field and random interlacements recently constructed by Titus Lupu in arXiv:1402.0298. We apply our results to level-set percolation of the Gaussian free field on a $(d+1)$-regular tree, when $d \ge 2$, and derive bounds on the critical value $h_*$. In particular, we show that $0 < h_* < \sqrt{2u_*}$, where $u_*$ denotes the critical level for the percolation of the vacant set of random interlacements on a $(d+1)$-regular tree.
description: 28 pages, appeared in the Electronic Journal of Probability
Food dignity : international law, community, and the environment
Creators: name: Furrow, Nicholas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: right to food

description: Second semester University: University of Helsinki
description: Food politics is divided into many camps. The legal advocates of the right to food focus on starvation in poor countries while public health professionals are concerned with rising obesity and diabetes in rich countries. At the same time, peasant movements and local and seasonal advocates are challenging industrial agriculture and searching for a more holistic relationship between farmers and community. This thesis is an attempt to bring together the food problems of rich and poor alike through the unifying idea of food dignity. The concept of food dignity starts with a broad range of values that set a standard against which any individual or overall public policy decision can be judged. This is in contrast to the standard macroeconomic approach to food production and distribution. Founded on the principles of international human rights law, respect for the political and philosophical importance of community, and understanding the importance of a balanced relationship between humanity and the environment, a core set of values emerges. A food dignity standard built on these core values of labor, health, education, self-determination, community, and respect for the environment can be applied to some of the most important food policy debates of the day.
title: kunsttexte.de - Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Nr. 2 (2023): Kunsttexte
title: Kunsttexte
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kunsttexte.De-Journal Für Kunst- Und Bildgeschichte
Publisher: name: kunsttexte.de - Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte
Year: 2023

description: Livid Glamour...1-5 Synchronie in Basel Abbas’ und Ruanne Abou-Rahmes And yet my mask is powerful...1-7 Temporalität in New Scenarios Jurrasic Paint...1-11 Unplayable Games: Time and Digital Culture...1-9 The Geological Metaphor and Multiplicity of Time in Aby Warburg's Thinking and the Postwar Era...1-9 The 'now' and the 'then': Temporal implications of anachronic art history and presentism...1-8 Einleitung: Temporalität und Gegenwartskunst...1-5
The effects of temperature and greenup on the timing of arthropod abundance and avian migration
Creators: name: Hayes, Tracie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Migratory bird species must coordinate their migration and breeding to coincide with a period of peak resource availability in the location where they raise their young. Recent evidence suggests that migratory birds have been responding to climate change at different rates than their arthropod food sources. This can lead to a phenological mismatch, where the timing of resource availability produced by a lower trophic level does not align with the timing of resource need of a higher trophic level. Migratory bird species are unable to feed their hatchlings, inhibiting reproductive success. We characterized the seasonal variation of foliage arthropods over the summers of 2015 and 2016 at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, NC and the Prairie Ridge Ecostation in Raleigh, NC. Timing and magnitude of peaks in occurrence varied with arthropod order, year, and survey method. Caterpillars and orthopterans had peaks of greater intensity than combined orders of arthropods that represent “bird food.” Timing of peaks were then compared to spring greenup and temperature. Later greenup corresponded with later arthropod peak occurrence with one survey method at both sites, but this was not true for the other survey method or for arthropod peak occurrence comparisons to temperature. The arrival of some bird species aligned with temperature, greenup, and arthropod peak occurrence. These findings help to improve the characterization of arthropod phenology in future studies, and they also demonstrate the importance of testing a network of phenological variables when considering how communities are affected by climate change.
The density of primes dividing a term in the Somos-5 sequence
Creators: name: Davis, Bryant
name: Kotsonis, Rebecca
name: Rouse, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G05

description: The Somos-5 sequence is defined by $a_{0} = a_{1} = a_{2} = a_{3} = a_{4} = 1$ and $a_{m} = \frac{a_{m-1} a_{m-4} + a_{m-2} a_{m-3}}{a_{m-5}}$ for $m \geq 5$. We relate the arithmetic of the Somos-5 sequence to the elliptic curve $E : y^{2} + xy = x^{3} + x^{2} - 2x$ and use properties of Galois representations attached to $E$ to prove the density of primes $p$ dividing some term in the Somos-5 sequence is equal to $\frac{5087}{10752}$.
description: 15 pages