cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The relationship of biogenetic predisposition, personality and familial characteristics to adolescent anorexia nervosa: A risk model
Creators: name: Lyon, Maureen Ellen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: This study examined the relative risk of family history of affective disorder, family history of eating disorder, perceptions of family environment as low in independence and the personality variables of feelings of ineffectiveness, model child and interoceptive awareness in predicting whether adolescents had anorexia nervosa, restricting type. Loglinear analyses were used to identify a model that best fit the data. This method permits a multivariate view of the data as well as identification of interactions among variables. Univariate analyses were also calculated. The sample consists of 49 patients with anorexia nervosa, restricting type, and their parents, as well as 259 noneating disordered adolescents and 109 of their parents. Controls were junior high and high school students from public and private schools. Subjects were administered the EAT, EDI, FES, Perfect Child Questionnaire and Family History Questionnaire. The model that best fit the data was family history of depression, feelings of ineffectiveness, poor interoceptive awareness, and the interaction between feelings of ineffectiveness and poor interoceptive awareness. The relative risk for anorexia nervosa was four times more likely for adolescents with a family history of depression and three times more likely for adolescents with poor interoceptive awareness. A feeling of ineffectiveness was a relatively weak variable contributing little to the relative risk of anorexia nervosa. The risks between the factors interoceptive awareness and feelings of ineffectiveness may not be well distinguished. These results failed to support a model with the variables "model child", family history of eating disorders, or family with low independence. Thus, the model which best fit the data was a simple one, confirming Bruch's theory that one important risk factor for anorexia nervosa was poor interoceptive. The mechanism of relative risk for anorexia nervosa in families with a history of depression remains to be explicated. The multidimensional nature of anorexia nervosa was confirmed empirically.
Additional file 2 of Fecal microbiota transplantation to maintain remission in Crohn’s disease: a pilot randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Sokol, Harry
name: Landman, Cecilia
name: Seksik, Philippe
name: Berard, Laurence
name: Montil, Mélissa
name: Nion-Larmurier, Isabelle
name: Bourrier, Anne
name: Gall, Guillaume Le
name: Lalande, Valérie
name: Rougemont, Alexis De
name: Kirchgesner, Julien
name: Daguenel, Anne
name: Cachanado, Marine
name: Rousseau, Alexandra
name: Élodie Drouet
name: Rosenzwajg, Michelle
name: Hagege, Hervé
name: Dray, Xavier
name: Klatzman, David
name: Marteau, Philippe
name: Beaugerie, Laurent
name: Tabassome Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2. Screening measures for donors.
Colonial domination and the origins of state capitalism: The case of Algeria. An economic and sociopolitical analysis of colonialism and its impact on the emergence of a bureaucratic-military oligarchy in independent Algeria (1962-1965)
Creators: name: Rabah, Nourredine
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This dissertation analyzes the relationships which exist between the colonial social formation and the rise of state capitalism in independent Algeria (1962-1965). This dissertation does not intend to analyze all aspects of state capitalism in Algeria, but rather it focuses on the historical conditions that set in motion the processes of class and state formations. The theories of dependency, non-capitalist way and state capitalist development failed to give a viable approach that explain the socio-political and economic nature of the colonial mode of production and its impact on the formation of the state. Therefore, we propose an alternative approach which consist of analyzing the type of capitalism introduced in Algeria and its impact on the formation of the state and the rise of a bureaucratic-military oligarchy. To materialize our approach, we started by identifying the prevalent socio-political and economic structure of precolonial Algeria. We discovered that the state was relatively dominant, but not to the extent of controlling the communitary socio-economic organization which proved to be an obstacle for the complete and rapid development of colonial capitalism. Second, we approached the question of the development of capitalism in dividing it into two distinct periods, i.e, the periods of primitive capital accumulation, and capital accumulation. In the first period, capitalism established the conditions for its development through the process of expropriations (1830-1880). Then, capitalism developed exclusively in agriculture, and especially with the production of wine and citrus fruits. We demonstrate that the type of articulation that took place between the precapitalist and the capitalist modes of production resulted in a radical transformation of the social structure, and created the conditions for the rise of the national movement of liberation. Finally, we analyze the process of class struggle among the different factions of the bureaucracy and the military, and we conclude with the analysis of self-management arguing that state capitalism is the product of class conflict. In other words, the process of class struggle determined the type of development presently pursued in Algeria, which is capitalist development in form and essence.
Learning-Based Fuzzing of IoT Message Brokers
Creators: name: Aichernig, Bernhard K.
name: Muškardin, Edi
name: Pferscher, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The number of devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) immensely grew in recent years. A frequent challenge in the assurance of the dependability of IoT systems is that components of the system appear as a black box. This paper presents a semi-automatic testing methodology for black-box systems that combines automata learning and fuzz testing. Our testing technique uses stateful fuzzing based on a model that is automatically inferred by automata learning. Applying this technique, we can simultaneously test multiple implementations for unexpected behavior and possible security vulnerabilities.
 We show the effectiveness of our learning-based fuzzing technique in a case study on the MQTT protocol. MQTT is a widely used publish/subscribe protocol in the IoT. Our case study reveals several inconsistencies between five different MQTT brokers. The found inconsistencies expose possible security vulnerabilities and violations of the MQTT specification.
SpookyNet: Learning force fields with electronic degrees of freedom and nonlocal effects
Creators: name: Unke, Oliver T.
name: Chmiela, Stefan
name: Gastegger, Michael
name: Schütt, Kristof T.
name: Sauceda, Huziel E.
name: Müller, Klaus-Robert
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
subject: chemical physics
subject: cheminformatics
subject: computational chemistry
subject: method development
subject: quantum chemistry

description: Machine-learned force fields combine the accuracy of ab initio methods with the efficiency of conventional force fields. However, current machine-learned force fields typically ignore electronic degrees of freedom, such as the total charge or spin state, and assume chemical locality, which is problematic when molecules have inconsistent electronic states, or when nonlocal effects play a significant role. This work introduces SpookyNet, a deep neural network for constructing machine-learned force fields with explicit treatment of electronic degrees of freedom and nonlocality, modeled via self-attention in a transformer architecture. Chemically meaningful inductive biases and analytical corrections built into the network architecture allow it to properly model physical limits. SpookyNet improves upon the current state-of-the-art (or achieves similar performance) on popular quantum chemistry data sets. Notably, it is able to generalize across chemical and conformational space and can leverage the learned chemical insights, e.g. by predicting unknown spin states, thus helping to close a further important remaining gap for today’s machine learning models in quantum chemistry.
Colonial domination and the origins of state capitalism: The case of Algeria. An economic and sociopolitical analysis of colonialism and its impact on the emergence of a bureaucratic-military oligarchy in independent Algeria (1962-1965)
Creators: name: Rabah, Nourredine
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation analyzes the relationships which exist between the colonial social formation and the rise of state capitalism in independent Algeria (1962-1965). This dissertation does not intend to analyze all aspects of state capitalism in Algeria, but rather it focuses on the historical conditions that set in motion the processes of class and state formations. The theories of dependency, non-capitalist way and state capitalist development failed to give a viable approach that explain the socio-political and economic nature of the colonial mode of production and its impact on the formation of the state. Therefore, we propose an alternative approach which consist of analyzing the type of capitalism introduced in Algeria and its impact on the formation of the state and the rise of a bureaucratic-military oligarchy. To materialize our approach, we started by identifying the prevalent socio-political and economic structure of precolonial Algeria. We discovered that the state was relatively dominant, but not to the extent of controlling the communitary socio-economic organization which proved to be an obstacle for the complete and rapid development of colonial capitalism. Second, we approached the question of the development of capitalism in dividing it into two distinct periods, i.e, the periods of primitive capital accumulation, and capital accumulation. In the first period, capitalism established the conditions for its development through the process of expropriations (1830-1880). Then, capitalism developed exclusively in agriculture, and especially with the production of wine and citrus fruits. We demonstrate that the type of articulation that took place between the precapitalist and the capitalist modes of production resulted in a radical transformation of the social structure, and created the conditions for the rise of the national movement of liberation. Finally, we analyze the process of class struggle among the different factions of the bureaucracy and the military, and we conclude with the analysis of self-management arguing that state capitalism is the product of class conflict. In other words, the process of class struggle determined the type of development presently pursued in Algeria, which is capitalist development in form and essence.
Portfolio balance approach to international capital movements: A case of Chile, 1975-1985
Creators: name: Charoenwattana, Jariya
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation argues that net capital flows in Chile during 1975-85 were influenced by the differential between the interest rate on net foreign assets and the foreign interest rate, by institutional factors such as capital controls, and by risk factors. In addition, the presence of capital controls contributed to the effectiveness of monetary policy in stabilizing the economy. This dissertation employs a macroeconomic portfolio balance model of international capital movements. The model integrates the goods and financial assets markets together with the net capital flows equation in order to capture the effect of the real and monetary variables on the net capital flows. These effects are presented in a comparative static analysis of asset portfolio adjustments in response to changes in the capital controls, changes in risk factors associated with net capital flows, the real interest rate, and real income in a general equilibrium framework. The model is tested against the monthly data of Chile during 1975-85. The estimated results of the structural equation confirm that net capital flows were affected by the portfolio adjustments, resulting from interest rate differential, by a capital control variable, and risk factors. The dissertation, therefore, suggests that monetary policy was effective in the short-run due to the presence of capital controls and that substitutions of the base money and domestic assets for net foreign assets generated net capital flows. The dissertation evaluates the outcomes of an alternative exchange rate policy and timing of liberalization of the capital account by simulating historical values of these policy outcomes. It concludes that the fixed exchange rate policy during June 1979-June 1982 constituted a policy mistake, but that the timing of liberalization of the capital account in Chile was correct.
The influence of twin boundaries on the Flux Line Lattice structure in YBaCuO: a study by Small Angle Neutron Scattering
Creators: name: Simon, Ch.
name: Pautrat, A.
name: Poulain, G.
name: Goupil, C.
name: Leblond-Harnois, C.
name: Chaud, X.
name: Brulet, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of Twin Boundaries (TB) on the Flux Line Lattice(FLL) structure was investigated by Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS). YBaCuO single crystals possessing different TB densities were studied. The SANS experiments show that the TB strongly modify the structure of the FLL. The flux lines meander as soon as the magnetic field makes an angle with the TB direction. According to the value of this angle but also to the ratio of the flux lines density over the TB density, one observes that the FLL exhibits two different unit cells in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field. One is the classical hexagonal and anisotropic cell while the other is affected by an additional deformation induced by the TB. We discuss a possible relation between this deformation and the increase of the critical current usually observed in heavily twinned samples.
description: accepted for publication in Phys Rev B
Анализ влияния нарушения правил дорожного движения на дорожно-транспортные происшествия в Узбекистане
Creators: name: Qudratilla Azizov
name: Quvonchbek Musulmonov
name: Abdunazarov, Jamshid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Статья посвящена проблемам анализа обеспечения безопасности дорожного движения в крупных городах Узбекистана. В статье рассматривается вопросы возникновения и анализ статистики дорожно-транспортных происшествий. Целью статьи является исследование взаимосвязи между нарушениями правил дорожного движения и возникновения дорожно-транспортных происшествий в Узбекистане.
Portfolio balance approach to international capital movements: A case of Chile, 1975-1985
Creators: name: Charoenwattana, Jariya
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation argues that net capital flows in Chile during 1975-85 were influenced by the differential between the interest rate on net foreign assets and the foreign interest rate, by institutional factors such as capital controls, and by risk factors. In addition, the presence of capital controls contributed to the effectiveness of monetary policy in stabilizing the economy. This dissertation employs a macroeconomic portfolio balance model of international capital movements. The model integrates the goods and financial assets markets together with the net capital flows equation in order to capture the effect of the real and monetary variables on the net capital flows. These effects are presented in a comparative static analysis of asset portfolio adjustments in response to changes in the capital controls, changes in risk factors associated with net capital flows, the real interest rate, and real income in a general equilibrium framework. The model is tested against the monthly data of Chile during 1975-85. The estimated results of the structural equation confirm that net capital flows were affected by the portfolio adjustments, resulting from interest rate differential, by a capital control variable, and risk factors. The dissertation, therefore, suggests that monetary policy was effective in the short-run due to the presence of capital controls and that substitutions of the base money and domestic assets for net foreign assets generated net capital flows. The dissertation evaluates the outcomes of an alternative exchange rate policy and timing of liberalization of the capital account by simulating historical values of these policy outcomes. It concludes that the fixed exchange rate policy during June 1979-June 1982 constituted a policy mistake, but that the timing of liberalization of the capital account in Chile was correct.
Bayesian inference for link travel time correlation of a bus route
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaoxu
name: Cheng, Zhanhong
name: Sun, Lijun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Estimation of link travel time correlation of a bus route is essential to many bus operation applications. Link travel time on a bus route could exhibit complex correlation structures, such as long-range correlations, negative correlations, and time-varying correlations. This paper develops a Bayesian Gaussian model to estimate the link travel time correlation matrix of a bus route using smart-card-like data. Our method overcomes the small-sample-size problem in correlation matrix estimation by borrowing/integrating those incomplete observations from other bus routes. We first conduct a synthetic experiment and results show that the proposed method produces an accurate estimation for correlations with credible intervals. Next, we perform experiments on a real-world bus route with in-out-stop record data; results show that both local and long-range correlations exist on this bus route. Finally, we demonstrate an application of using the estimated covariance matrix to make probabilistic forecasting of link and trip travel time.
Mass Spectra of Heavy Quarkonia and B_{c} Decay Constant for Static Scalar-Vector Interactions with Relativistic Kinematics
Creators: name: Ikhdair, Sameer M.
name: Sever, Ramazan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reproduce masses of the self-conjugate and non-self-conjugate mesons in the context of the spinless Salpeter equation taking into account the relativistic kinematics and the quark spins. The hyperfine splittings for the ${\rm 2S}$ charmonium and ${\rm 1S}$ bottomonium are also calculated. Further, the pseudoscalar and vector decay constants of the $B_{c}$ meson and the unperturbed radial wave function at the origin are also calculated. We have obtained a local equation with a complete relativistic corrections to a class of three attractive static interaction potentials of the general form $V(r)=-Ar^{-β}+κr^β+V_{0},$ with $β=1,1/2,~3/4$ decomposed into scalar and vector parts in the form $V_{V}(r)=-Ar^{-β}+(1-ε)κr^β$ and $V_{S}(r)=εκr^{β}+V_{0};$ where $0\leq ε\leq 1.$ We have used the shifted large-N-expansion technique (SLNET) to solve the reduced equation for the scalar $(ε=1),$ equal mixture of scalar-vector $(ε=1/2),$ and vector $(ε=0)$ confinement interaction kernels. The energy eigenvalues are carried out up to the third order approximation.
description: 35 pages
15 Gb/s index-coupled distributed-feedback lasers based on 1.3 μm InGaAs quantum dots
Creators: name: Stubenrauch, Mirko
name: Stracke, Gernot
name: Arsenijević, Dejan
name: Strittmatter, André
name: Bimberg, Dieter
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: emission spectroscopy
subject: optical fibers
subject: telecommunications engineering
subject: integrated optics
subject: static properties
subject: quantum dots
subject: semiconductors
subject: laser materials
subject: wavelength division multiplexing
subject: data processing

description: This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 011103 (2014) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4887063.
description: The static properties and large-signal modulation capabilities of directly modulated p-doped quantum-dot distributed-feedback lasers are presented. Based on pure index gratings the devices exhibit a side-mode-suppression ratio of 58 dB and optical output powers up to 34 mW. Assisted by a broad gain spectrum, which is typical for quantum-dot material, emission wavelengths from 1290 nm to 1310 nm are covered by the transversal and longitudinal single-mode lasers fabricated from the same single wafer. Thus, these lasers are ideal devices for on-chip wavelength division multiplexing within the original-band according to the IEEE802.3ba standard. 10 Gb/s data transmission across 30 km of single mode fiber is demonstrated. The maximum error-free data rate is found to be 15 Gb/s.
Decentralization and project success: Analysis of agricultural development projects in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Cornelius, Christine E.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: This research investigates the relationship between organization structure and institutional effectiveness. It tests the impact of the level of decentralization of the organization, or the relative proximity of an organizational sub-unit to the nexus of overall decision-making, on the rate of return achieved by development projects. The context of this research is agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa and the unit of analysis is the development project, specifically 156 World Bank projects. This dissertation assesses the impact of the level of decentralization of project management on the success of World Bank agricultural projects. The hypothesis is that the level of decentralization has an affect on the success of the project and that projects with more decentralized project management will be more successful in achieving their development goals. The method for assessment is a statistically-based analysis, including multivariate regression analysis. The key causal focus, the level of decentralization, is specified by using a typology consisting of the five major forms of decentralization found in developing country governments. The success of the project is measured by the rate of return on project investment. Other variables, representing other important explanatory factors, are used as control variables. Confirming the research hypothesis, it was found that projects with more decentralized management structures (devolved, delegated, and privatized management) are more successful than projects with more centralized management structures (centrally-managed and deconcentrated management). Centrally-managed projects had an average rate of return six percentage points lower than projects with decentralized management. This dissertation lends credence to general organization theories that assert a relationship between organization structure and effectiveness as well as specific propositions from development literature that favor decentralized management. The dissertation also calls into question the use of centralized management in African countries which have decentralized traditions.
Additional file 10 of Fecal microbiota transplantation to maintain remission in Crohn’s disease: a pilot randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Sokol, Harry
name: Landman, Cecilia
name: Seksik, Philippe
name: Berard, Laurence
name: Montil, Mélissa
name: Nion-Larmurier, Isabelle
name: Bourrier, Anne
name: Gall, Guillaume Le
name: Lalande, Valérie
name: Rougemont, Alexis De
name: Kirchgesner, Julien
name: Daguenel, Anne
name: Cachanado, Marine
name: Rousseau, Alexandra
name: Élodie Drouet
name: Rosenzwajg, Michelle
name: Hagege, Hervé
name: Dray, Xavier
name: Klatzman, David
name: Marteau, Philippe
name: Beaugerie, Laurent
name: Tabassome Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 10. Clinical efficacy of FMT is associated with colonization by the donor microbiota. Flare-free survival of patients in the FMT and the Sham groups.
Shiraishi functor and non-Kerov deformation of Macdonald polynomials
Creators: name: Awata, H.
name: Kanno, H.
name: Mironov, A.
name: Morozov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a further generalization of the hypergeometric-like series due to M. Noumi and J. Shiraishi by substituting the Pochhammer symbol with a nearly arbitrary function. Moreover, this generalization is valid for the entire Shiraishi series, not only for its Noumi-Shiraishi part. The theta function needed in the recently suggested description of the double-elliptic systems, 6d N=2* SYM instanton calculus and the doubly-compactified network models, is a very particular member of this huge family. The series depends on two kinds of variables, $\vec x$ and $\vec y$, and on a set of parameters, which becomes infinitely large now. Still, one of the parameters, $p$ is distinguished by its role in the series grading. When $\vec y$ are restricted to a discrete subset labeled by Young diagrams, the series multiplied by a monomial factor reduces to a polynomial at any given order in $p$. All this makes the map from functions to the hypergeometric-like series very promising, and we call it Shiraishi functor despite it remains to be seen, what are exactly the morphisms that it preserves. Generalized Noumi-Shiraishi (GNS) symmetric polynomials inspired by the Shiraishi functor in the leading order in $p$ can be obtained by a triangular transform from the Schur polynomials and possess an interesting grading. They provide a family of deformations of Macdonald polynomials, as rich as the family of Kerov functions, still very different from them, and, in fact, much closer to the Macdonald polynomials. In particular, unlike the Kerov case, these polynomials do not depend on the ordering of Young diagrams in the triangular expansion.
description: 17 pages
Decentralization and project success: Analysis of agricultural development projects in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Cornelius, Christine E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research investigates the relationship between organization structure and institutional effectiveness. It tests the impact of the level of decentralization of the organization, or the relative proximity of an organizational sub-unit to the nexus of overall decision-making, on the rate of return achieved by development projects. The context of this research is agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa and the unit of analysis is the development project, specifically 156 World Bank projects. This dissertation assesses the impact of the level of decentralization of project management on the success of World Bank agricultural projects. The hypothesis is that the level of decentralization has an affect on the success of the project and that projects with more decentralized project management will be more successful in achieving their development goals. The method for assessment is a statistically-based analysis, including multivariate regression analysis. The key causal focus, the level of decentralization, is specified by using a typology consisting of the five major forms of decentralization found in developing country governments. The success of the project is measured by the rate of return on project investment. Other variables, representing other important explanatory factors, are used as control variables. Confirming the research hypothesis, it was found that projects with more decentralized management structures (devolved, delegated, and privatized management) are more successful than projects with more centralized management structures (centrally-managed and deconcentrated management). Centrally-managed projects had an average rate of return six percentage points lower than projects with decentralized management. This dissertation lends credence to general organization theories that assert a relationship between organization structure and effectiveness as well as specific propositions from development literature that favor decentralized management. The dissertation also calls into question the use of centralized management in African countries which have decentralized traditions.
Cassida brevis
Creators: name: Nadein, Konstantin S.
name: Ahmed, Zubair
name: Sergeev, Maxim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Cassida
Cassida brevis

description: Cassida brevis (WEISE, 1884)
 New record:
Central Afghanistan, Bamyan Province, Banda-Amir, 2900 m, 5 exx.
Previously reported from Afghanistan from Ghazni, Oruzgan, Ghor, and Bamyan Provinces (Medvedev 1985; Gruev 1988). Widely distributed in south-east Europe, Transcaucasus, and West Asia (Löbl & Smetana 2010).
description: Published as part of Nadein, Konstantin S., Ahmed, Zubair & Sergeev, Maxim, 2012, Distributional notes on Chrysomelidae from Pakistan and Afghanistan (Coleoptera), pp. 225-233 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 on page 232, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.1.225-233, http://zenodo.org/record/4779481
Dirac's Footsteps and Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Ramond, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One hundred years after its creator's birth, the Dirac equation stands as the cornerstone of XXth Century physics. But it is much more, as it carries the seeds of supersymmetry. Dirac also invented the light-cone, or "front form" dynamics, which plays a crucial role in string theory and in elucidating the finiteness of N=4 Yang-Mills theory. The light-cone structure of eleven-dimensional supergravity (N=8 supergravity in four dimensions) suggests a group-theoretical interpretation of its divergences. We speculate they could be compensated by an infinite number of triplets of massless higher spin fields, each obeying a Dirac-like equation associated with the coset $F_4/SO(9)$. The divergences are proportional to the trace over a non-compact structure containing the compact form of $F_4$. Its nature is still unknown, but it could show the way to $M$-theory.
description: Invited Talk at Dirac's Centennial Symposium, Tallahasse, Florida, Dec 2002
Test Automation with Grad-CAM Heatmaps - A Future Pipe Segment in MLOps for Vision AI?
Creators: name: Borg, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Machine Learning (ML) is a fundamental part of modern perception systems. In the last decade, the performance of computer vision using trained deep neural networks has outperformed previous approaches based on careful feature engineering. However, the opaqueness of large ML models is a substantial impediment for critical applications such as in the automotive context. As a remedy, Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) has been proposed to provide visual explanations of model internals. In this paper, we demonstrate how Grad-CAM heatmaps can be used to increase the explainability of an image recognition model trained for a pedestrian underpass. We argue how the heatmaps support compliance to the EU's seven key requirements for Trustworthy AI. Finally, we propose adding automated heatmap analysis as a pipe segment in an MLOps pipeline. We believe that such a building block can be used to automatically detect if a trained ML-model is activated based on invalid pixels in test images, suggesting biased models.
Spontaneous divergence of disease status in an economic epidemiological game
Creators: name: Colman, Ewan
name: Hanley, Nicholas
name: Kao, Rowland R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We introduce a game inspired by the challenges of disease management in livestock farming and the transmission of endemic disease through a trade network. Success in this game comes from balancing the cost of buying new stock with the risk that it will be carrying some disease. When players follow a simple memory-based strategy we observe a spontaneous separation into two groups corresponding to players with relatively high, or low, levels of infection. By modelling the dynamics of both the disease and the formation and breaking of trade relationships, we derive the conditions for which this separation occurs as a function of the transmission rate and the threshold level of acceptable disease for each player. When interactions in the game are restricted to players that neighbour each other in a small-world network, players tend to have similar levels of infection as their neighbours. We conclude that success in economic-epidemiological systems can originate from misfortune and geographical circumstances as well as by innate differences in personal attitudes towards risk.
Additional file 1 of Fecal microbiota transplantation to maintain remission in Crohn’s disease: a pilot randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Sokol, Harry
name: Landman, Cecilia
name: Seksik, Philippe
name: Berard, Laurence
name: Montil, Mélissa
name: Nion-Larmurier, Isabelle
name: Bourrier, Anne
name: Gall, Guillaume Le
name: Lalande, Valérie
name: Rougemont, Alexis De
name: Kirchgesner, Julien
name: Daguenel, Anne
name: Cachanado, Marine
name: Rousseau, Alexandra
name: Élodie Drouet
name: Rosenzwajg, Michelle
name: Hagege, Hervé
name: Dray, Xavier
name: Klatzman, David
name: Marteau, Philippe
name: Beaugerie, Laurent
name: Tabassome Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Study design.
Trace analysis of clenbuterol using supercritical fluid extraction and gas chromatographic techniques
Creators: name: Guyer, Charles Greg
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Clenbuterol is a veterinary drug approved for use in Europe in horses as a bronchial dilator and tocolytic agent. However, it may be being used in an unapproved manner in the Unites States for growth-promoting purposes in cattle. Therefore, a method is needed to monitor for this illegal use. The use of gas chromatography (GC) with electron-capture detection has been shown to be very effective in quantitating clenbuterol at trace concentrations. The procedure was quantitative down to 0.75 $\eta$g of clenbuterol, and it was determined that three structurally similar compounds; cimaterol, salbutamol, and ractopamine, did not interfere. For confirmation of clenbuterol, two different modes of GC-mass spectrometry (MS) were employed. The first mode, which utilized an electron impact ionization source, produced mass spectra containing a weak molecular ion and four characteristic daughter ions. The second mode employing negative ion chemical ionization (NCI) better identified the molecular ion and characteristic chlorine isotope peaks. The threshold pressures for clenbuterol from bovine liver tissue by supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) were established. When clenbuterol was extracted with pure CO$\sb2$, 95% CO$\sb2$:5% MeOH, and 90% CO$\sb2$:10% MeOH, the threshold pressures were approximately 150, 150, and 100 atm, respectively. The effect of temperature on the extraction efficiency of clenbuterol from bovine liver was investigated from 35$\sp\circ$C to 85$\sp\circ$C, and as temperature was increased, the overall recover of clenbuterol from the tissue increased. Water content was determined to play a critical role in the SFE efficiency of clenbuterol from bovine liver. An unaltered tissue sample when extracted produced a recovery of 90%, as compared to 25% and 12% for heat dried and freeze dried samples, respectively. A two-fraction scheme produced an excellent off-line SFE-GC procedure in which 50 ppb of clenbuterol could be quantitatively extracted from bovine liver with a recovery of 76%. After attempting many different on-line SFE-GC schemes, it was determined that due to the high concentration of endogenous compounds present in the liver, on-line SFE-GC analysis of any trace compound in liver would be extremely difficult, if achievable at all.
DASNet: Dual attentive fully convolutional siamese networks for change detection of high resolution satellite images
Creators: name: Chen, Jie
name: Yuan, Ziyang
name: Peng, Jian
name: Chen, Li
name: Huang, Haozhe
name: Zhu, Jiawei
name: Liu, Yu
name: Li, Haifeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Change detection is a basic task of remote sensing image processing. The research objective is to identity the change information of interest and filter out the irrelevant change information as interference factors. Recently, the rise of deep learning has provided new tools for change detection, which have yielded impressive results. However, the available methods focus mainly on the difference information between multitemporal remote sensing images and lack robustness to pseudo-change information. To overcome the lack of resistance of current methods to pseudo-changes, in this paper, we propose a new method, namely, dual attentive fully convolutional Siamese networks (DASNet) for change detection in high-resolution images. Through the dual-attention mechanism, long-range dependencies are captured to obtain more discriminant feature representations to enhance the recognition performance of the model. Moreover, the imbalanced sample is a serious problem in change detection, i.e. unchanged samples are much more than changed samples, which is one of the main reasons resulting in pseudo-changes. We put forward the weighted double margin contrastive loss to address this problem by punishing the attention to unchanged feature pairs and increase attention to changed feature pairs. The experimental results of our method on the change detection dataset (CDD) and the building change detection dataset (BCDD) demonstrate that compared with other baseline methods, the proposed method realizes maximum improvements of 2.1\% and 3.6\%, respectively, in the F1 score. Our Pytorch implementation is available at https://github.com/lehaifeng/DASNet.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures, 5 tables
Trace analysis of clenbuterol using supercritical fluid extraction and gas chromatographic techniques
Creators: name: Guyer, Charles Greg
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3401
subject: Analytical chemistry

description: Clenbuterol is a veterinary drug approved for use in Europe in horses as a bronchial dilator and tocolytic agent. However, it may be being used in an unapproved manner in the Unites States for growth-promoting purposes in cattle. Therefore, a method is needed to monitor for this illegal use. The use of gas chromatography (GC) with electron-capture detection has been shown to be very effective in quantitating clenbuterol at trace concentrations. The procedure was quantitative down to 0.75 $\eta$g of clenbuterol, and it was determined that three structurally similar compounds; cimaterol, salbutamol, and ractopamine, did not interfere. For confirmation of clenbuterol, two different modes of GC-mass spectrometry (MS) were employed. The first mode, which utilized an electron impact ionization source, produced mass spectra containing a weak molecular ion and four characteristic daughter ions. The second mode employing negative ion chemical ionization (NCI) better identified the molecular ion and characteristic chlorine isotope peaks. The threshold pressures for clenbuterol from bovine liver tissue by supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) were established. When clenbuterol was extracted with pure CO$\sb2$, 95% CO$\sb2$:5% MeOH, and 90% CO$\sb2$:10% MeOH, the threshold pressures were approximately 150, 150, and 100 atm, respectively. The effect of temperature on the extraction efficiency of clenbuterol from bovine liver was investigated from 35$\sp\circ$C to 85$\sp\circ$C, and as temperature was increased, the overall recover of clenbuterol from the tissue increased. Water content was determined to play a critical role in the SFE efficiency of clenbuterol from bovine liver. An unaltered tissue sample when extracted produced a recovery of 90%, as compared to 25% and 12% for heat dried and freeze dried samples, respectively. A two-fraction scheme produced an excellent off-line SFE-GC procedure in which 50 ppb of clenbuterol could be quantitatively extracted from bovine liver with a recovery of 76%. After attempting many different on-line SFE-GC schemes, it was determined that due to the high concentration of endogenous compounds present in the liver, on-line SFE-GC analysis of any trace compound in liver would be extremely difficult, if achievable at all.
Diffusion Limited Aggregation with Power-Law Pinning
Creators: name: Hentschel, H. G. E.
name: Popescu, M. N.
name: Family, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using stochastic conformal mapping techniques we study the patterns emerging from Laplacian growth with a power-law decaying threshold for growth $R_N^{-γ}$ (where $R_N$ is the radius of the $N-$ particle cluster). For $γ> 1$ the growth pattern is in the same universality class as diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) growth, while for $γ< 1$ the resulting patterns have a lower fractal dimension $D(γ)$ than a DLA cluster due to the enhancement of growth at the hot tips of the developing pattern. Our results indicate that a pinning transition occurs at $γ= 1/2$, significantly smaller than might be expected from the lower bound $α_{min} \simeq 0.67$ of multifractal spectrum of DLA. This limiting case shows that the most singular tips in the pruned cluster now correspond to those expected for a purely one-dimensional line. Using multifractal analysis, analytic expressions are established for $D(γ)$ both close to the breakdown of DLA universality class, i.e., $γ\lesssim 1$, and close to the pinning transition, i.e., $γ\gtrsim 1/2$.
description: 5 pages, e figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Cornell potential in Kalb-Ramond scalar QED via Higgs mechanism
Creators: name: Smailagic, Anais
name: Spallucci, Euro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we derive the Cornell confining potential in a theory of interacting Abelian gauge vector and massive Kalb-Ramond tensor. The Kalb-Ramond mass is instrumental to obtain the linear confining behavior of the potential at large distances. The same model can be described via interaction with Higgs fields, alternatively, providing mass to the vector, or to the tensor fields. In the first case, the photon acquires mass, while the tensor remains massless. The resulting interaction potential is a screened Coulomb one. In the second case, the photon remains massless while Kalb-Ramond tensor acquires mass and the resulting potential is of the Cornell type with the mass parameter determining the slope of the linear part.
description: 12 pages; no figures; to be published in PLB
AutoKG - An Automotive Domain Knowledge Graph for Software Testing: A position paper
Creators: name: Kesri, Vaibhav
name: Nayak, Anmol
name: Ponnalagu, Karthikeyan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Abstract—Industries have a significant amount of data in
 semi-structured and unstructured formats which are typically
 captured in text documents, spreadsheets, images, etc. This is
 especially the case with the software description documents
 used by domain experts in the automotive domain to perform
 tasks at various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle
 (SDLC). In this paper, we propose an end-to-end pipeline to
 extract an Automotive Knowledge Graph (AutoKG) from textual
 data using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques with
 the application of automatic test case generation. The proposed
 pipeline primarily consists of the following components: 1)
 AutoOntology, an ontology that has been derived by analyzing
 several industry scale automotive domain software systems, 2)
 AutoRE, a Relation Extraction (RE) model to extract triplets
 from various sentence types typically found in the automotive
 domain, and 3) AutoVec, a neural embedding based algorithm
 for triplet matching and context-based search. We demonstrate
 the pipeline with an application of automatic test case generation
 from requirements using AutoKG.
Variational Monte Carlo study of the ground state properties and vacancy formation energy of solid para-H2 using a shadow wave function
Creators: name: Operetto, Francesco
name: Pederiva, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Shadow Wave Function (SWF) is employed along with Variational Monte Carlo techniques to describe the ground state properties of solid molecular para-hydrogen. The study has been extended to densities below the equilibrium value, to obtain a parameterization of the SWF useful for the description of inhomogeneous phases. We also present an estimate of the vacancy formation energy as a function of the density, and discuss the importance of relaxation effects near the vacant site.