cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
V892 Tau: A tidally perturbed circumbinary disc in a triple stellar system
Creators: name: Alaguero, Antoine
name: Cuello, Nicolás
name: Ménard, François
name: Ceppi, Simone
name: Ribas, Álvaro
name: Nealon, Rebecca
name: Vioque, Miguel
name: Izquierdo, Andrés
name: Miley, James
name: Macías, Enrique
name: Price, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: V892 Tau is a young binary star surrounded by a circumbinary disc which show hints of interaction with the low-mass nearby star V892 Tau NE. The goal of this paper is to constrain the orbit of V892 Tau NE and to determine the resulting circumbinary disc dynamics. We present new ALMA observations of the V892 Tau circumbinary disc at a twice higher angular and spectral resolution. We model the data with V892 Tau as a triple system and perform a grid of hydrodynamical simulations testing several orbits of the companion. The simulation outputs are then post-processed to build synthetic maps that we compare to the observations. The 12CO emission of the disc shows clear non-Keplerian features such as spiral arms. When comparing the data with our synthetic observations, we interpret these features as ongoing interactions with the companion. Our simulations indicate that an eccentricity of 0.5 of the companion is needed to reproduce the observed disc extent and that a mutual inclination of approximately 60° with the inner binary reproduces the measured disc tilt. In order to explain most of the features of the circumbinary disc, we propose that V892 Tau NE follows a misaligned eccentric orbit, with an eccentricity between 0.2 and 0.5 and a mutual inclination between 30° and 60°. Such a misaligned companion suggests the disc is oscillating and precessing with time, stabilising in an intermediate plane with a non-zero mutual inclination with the inner binary. Given that orbital configuration, we show that the stability of future planets is compromised in the second half of the disc once the gas has dissipated.
description: Published in A&A, 29 pages, 15 figures
Tests on asymmetry for ordered categorical variables
Creators: name: Klein, Ingo
name: Doll, Monika
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Skewness is a well-established statistical concept for continuous and, to a lesser extent, for discrete quantitative statistical variables. However, for ordered categorical variables, limited literature concerning skewness exists, although this type of variables is common for behavioral, educational, and social sciences. Suitable measures of skewness for ordered categorical variables have to be invariant with respect to the group of strictly increasing, continuous transformations. Therefore, they have to depend on the corresponding maximal-invariants. Based on these maximal-invariants, we propose a new class of skewness functionals, show that members of this class preserve a suitable ordering of skewness and derive the asymptotic distribution of the corresponding skewness statistic. Finally, we show the good power behavior of the corresponding skewness tests and illustrate these tests by applying real data examples.
La congregazione vallombrosana: promozione della santità e culto delle reliquie tra Medioevo e Età moderna
Creators: name: CODA, CATERINA GIOVANNA
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: santità; agiografia; vallombrosani; culto; reliquie; congregazioni; reliquiari
subject: santità
subject: agiografia
subject: vallombrosani
subject: culto
subject: reliquie
subject: congregazioni
subject: reliquiari

description: 18. ciclo
A critical examination of the protection level for primary producers in the first tier of the aquatic risk assessment for plant protection products
Creators: name: Brendel, Stephan
name: Duquesne, Sabine
name: Hönemann, Linda
name: Konschak, Marco
name: Pieper, Silvia
name: Solé, Magali
name: Wogram, Jörn
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Kalibrierung
Algen
Makrophyten

description: Background The aim of environmental risk assessment (ERA) for pesticides is to protect ecosystems by ensuring that specific protection goals (SPGs) are met. The ERA follows a prospective tiered approach, starting with the most conservative and simple step in risk assessment (RA) (so-called tier 1) using the lowest available appropriate endpoint derived from ecotoxicological tests. In 2015, for the tier 1 RA of aquatic primary producers, the recommendation was changed from using the lowest of the 50% inhibition (EC50) values based on biomass (area under the curve-EbC50), increase in biomass (yield- EyC50) or growth rate (ErC50) to only using the growth rate inhibition endpoint (ErC50) because it is independent of the test design and thus more robust. This study examines the implications of this such on the level of conservatism provided by the tier 1 RA and evaluates whether it ensures a suitable minimum protection level. Results Our analysis shows that replacing the lowest endpoint with the growth rate inhibition endpoint while maintaining the assessment factor (AF) of 10 significantly reduces the conservatism in the tier 1 RA. Comparing protection levels achieved with different endpoints reveals that the current assessment is less protective. To maintain the previous level of protection, and since the protection goals have not changed, we recommend to multiply the default AF of 10 by an extra factor of minimum 2.4 in the tier 1 RA based on ErC50. Independently of the endpoint selected in tier 1 RA, several issues in the general RA of pesticides contribute to uncertainties when assessing the protection levels, e.g., lack of appropriate comparison of the higher tier experimental studies (i.e., best achievable approximation of field situation, so-called surrogate reference tier) with field conditions or the regulatory framework's failure to consider realistic conditions in agricultural landscapes with multiple stressors and pesticide mixtures. Conclusions We advise to consider adjusting the risk assessment in order to reach at least the previous protection level for aquatic primary producers. Indeed continuing using an endpoint with a higher value and without adjustment of the assessment factor is likely to jeopardize the need of halting biodiversity loss in surface waters. © The Author(s) 2023
Monitoring of zero-inflated binomial processes with a DEWMA control chart
Creators: name: Alevizakos, Vasileios
name: Koukouvinos, Christos
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Control charts are widely used for monitoring quality characteristics of high-yield processes. In such processes where a large number of zero observations exists in count data, the zero-inflated binomial (ZIB) models are more appropriate than the ordinary binomial models. In ZIB models, random shocks occur with probability θ, and upon the occurrence of random shocks, the number of non-conforming items in a sample of size n follows the binomial distribution with proportion p. In the present article, we study in more detail the exponentially weighted moving average control chart based on ZIB distribution (ZIB-EWMA) and we also propose a new control chart based on the double exponentially weighted moving average statistic for monitoring ZIB data (ZIB-DEWMA). The two control charts are studied in detecting upward shifts in θ or p individually, as well as in both parameters simultaneously. Through a simulation study, we compare the performance of the proposed chart with the ZIB-Shewhart, ZIB-EWMA and ZIB-CUSUM charts. Finally, an illustrative example is also presented to display the practical application of the ZIB charts.
A finite element-based physics-informed operator learning framework for spatiotemporal partial differential equations on arbitrary domains
Creators: name: Yamazaki, Yusuke
name: Harandi, Ali
name: Muramatsu, Mayu
name: Viardin, Alexandre
name: Apel, Markus
name: Brepols, Tim
name: Reese, Stefanie
name: Rezaei, Shahed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a novel finite element-based physics-informed operator learning framework that allows for predicting spatiotemporal dynamics governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). The proposed framework employs a loss function inspired by the finite element method (FEM) with the implicit Euler time integration scheme. A transient thermal conduction problem is considered to benchmark the performance. The proposed operator learning framework takes a temperature field at the current time step as input and predicts a temperature field at the next time step. The Galerkin discretized weak formulation of the heat equation is employed to incorporate physics into the loss function, which is coined finite operator learning (FOL). Upon training, the networks successfully predict the temperature evolution over time for any initial temperature field at high accuracy compared to the FEM solution. The framework is also confirmed to be applicable to a heterogeneous thermal conductivity and arbitrary geometry. The advantages of FOL can be summarized as follows: First, the training is performed in an unsupervised manner, avoiding the need for a large data set prepared from costly simulations or experiments. Instead, random temperature patterns generated by the Gaussian random process and the Fourier series, combined with constant temperature fields, are used as training data to cover possible temperature cases. Second, shape functions and backward difference approximation are exploited for the domain discretization, resulting in a purely algebraic equation. This enhances training efficiency, as one avoids time-consuming automatic differentiation when optimizing weights and biases while accepting possible discretization errors. Finally, thanks to the interpolation power of FEM, any arbitrary geometry can be handled with FOL, which is crucial to addressing various engineering application scenarios.
Impact of Coaching Behaviors on Athletic Performance
Creators: name: Scott, Candra Danae
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of coaching styles on an athlete’s performance. A survey was given to Goucher College’s men and women’s basketball teams assessing their coaches’ styles of coaching, democratic/instructional or authoritarian/directive. This study used a quasi-experimental design to assess the relationship between athlete’s performance throughout the season and their coaches’ style of coaching. There was no significant relationship found between the coaching style and the athletes’ performance throughout the basketball season. However, additional studies are recommended involving more athletes over a longer period of time in order to gain knowledge on the role of coaching styles on improving athletic performance.
Supplementary document for A freeform hyperspectral imager design in CubeSat format - 5486268.pdf
Creators: name: Liu, Yuxuan
name: Bauer, Aaron
name: Viard, Thierry
name: Rolland, Jannick
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
A stereographic test of spherical uniformity
Creators: name: Fernández-de-Marcos, Alberto
name: García-Portugués, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G10, 62H11

description: We introduce a test of uniformity for (hyper)spherical data motivated by the stereographic projection. The closed-form expression of the test statistic and its null asymptotic distribution are derived using Gegenbauer polynomials. The power against rotationally symmetric local alternatives is provided, and simulations illustrate the non-null asymptotic results. The stereographic test outperforms other tests in a testing scenario with antipodal dependence between observations.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Progetto nazionale per la PREvenzione del carcinoma della cervice uterina nelle GIOvani donne (PREGIO): indagine conoscitiva, prevalenza dell’infezione da papilloma virus umano (HPV) e fattibilità dell’offerta della vaccinazione anti-HPV
Creators: name: GIAMBI, CRISTINA
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: human papillomavirus (HPV); young women; HPV types prevalence; HPV vaccination; vaccination acceptance; KAP survey
subject: human papillomavirus (HPV)
subject: young women
subject: HPV types prevalence
subject: HPV vaccination
subject: vaccination acceptance
subject: KAP survey

description: 22. ciclo
Detecting Gait Abnormalities in Foot-Floor Contacts During Walking Through Footstep-Induced Structural Vibrations
Creators: name: Dong, Yiwen
name: Wu, Yuyan
name: Noh, Hae Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gait abnormality detection is critical for the early discovery and progressive tracking of musculoskeletal and neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's and Cerebral Palsy. Especially, analyzing the foot-floor contacts during walking provides important insights into gait patterns, such as contact area, contact force, and contact time, enabling gait abnormality detection through these measurements. Existing studies use various sensing devices to capture such information, including cameras, wearables, and force plates. However, the former two lack force-related information, making it difficult to identify the causes of gait health issues, while the latter has limited coverage of the walking path. In this study, we leverage footstep-induced structural vibrations to infer foot-floor contact profiles and detect gait abnormalities. The main challenge lies in modeling the complex force transfer mechanism between the foot and the floor surfaces, leading to difficulty in reconstructing the force and contact profile during foot-floor interaction using structural vibrations. To overcome the challenge, we first characterize the floor vibration for each contact type (e.g., heel, midfoot, and toe contact) to understand how contact forces and areas affect the induced floor vibration. Then, we leverage the time-frequency response spectrum resulting from those contacts to develop features that are representative of each contact type. Finally, gait abnormalities are detected by comparing the predicted foot-floor contact force and motion with the healthy gait. To evaluate our approach, we conducted a real-world walking experiment with 8 subjects. Our approach achieves 91.6% and 96.7% accuracy in predicting contact type and time, respectively, leading to 91.9% accuracy in detecting various types of gait abnormalities, including asymmetry, dragging, and midfoot/toe contacts.
description: The 14th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM)
Pseudospin density wave instability in two-dimensional electron bilayers
Creators: name: Zhu, Jihang
name: Cookmeyer, Tessa
name: Sarma, Sankar Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the instability of layer pseudospin paramagnetic (PSP) state to the formation of pseudospin density wave (PSDW) in two-dimensional (2D) electron bilayers, analogous to the formation of Overhauser spin density wave (SDW) in a single-layer 2D electron gas (2DEG) with spin 1/2. Our comprehensive study on phase diagrams, based on the self-consistent Hartree-Fock (HF) theory, reveals that the PSDW has a lower energy than both PSP and pseudospin ferromagnetic (PSF) states near the PSP-PSF phase transition boundary. When the two layers are populated by the same number of electrons, the PSDW momentum $Q_c \sim 2k_F$ near the PSP-PSDW boundary, where $k_F= (2πn)^{1/2}$ is the Fermi momentum characterized by the density in one of the two layers, and $Q_c$ decreases as the system transitions to the PSF regime. Extending the HF study to the case of unequal layer densities, the PSP phase is unstable to PSDW for small density imbalances, with momentum $Q_c \sim k_{F,t} + k_{F,b}$, where $k_{F,t}$ and $k_{F,b}$ are Fermi momenta of top and bottom layers, respectively. In PSDW regime, the ground state stability, defined by the energy difference between PSDW and the second lowest-energy state, is one order of magnitude lower than that in PSF regime, and decreases with increasing layer separation $d$. Furthermore, incorporating RPA static screening with the Hubbard-type local field correction leads to disappearance of both SDW and PSDW phases, and pushes the phase boundaries of paramagnetic to ferromagnetic transitions to larger $r_s$ values. Our study on PSDW in 2D electron bilayers is equally applicable to 2D hole bilayers. The idea of pursuing PSDW is, in general, relevant across various 2D bilayer systems, not limited to the parabolic model that we investigate in this paper, and provides a new possibility of exploring novel coherent phases.
Correction: The long and short non-coding RNAs modulating EZH2 signaling in cancer
Creators: name: Mirzaei, Sepideh
name: Gholami, Mohammad H.
name: Hushmandi, Kiavash
name: Hashemi, Farid
name: Zabolian, Amirhossein
name: Canadas, Israel
name: Zarrabi, Ali
name: Nabavi, Noushin
name: Aref, Amir R.
name: Crea, Francesco
name: Wang, Yuzhuo, Ph.D.
name: Ashrafizadeh, Milad
name: Kumar, Alan P.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

Abstract
Exoplanets around LISA Verification Binaries
Creators: name: Haberland, Marcus
name: Soyuer, Deniz
name: Zwick, Lorenz
name: Heisenberg, Lavinia
name: Prasenjit Saha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Recent years have seen the investigation of a novel detection method for exoplanets around gravitational wave (GW) emitting binary star systems. This technique proposed by Danileski & Tamanini (2020) is conceptually similar to that of radial velocity measurements, where the orbital motion of an exoplanet induces a detectable Doppler shift in the GW frequency of the binary system, rather than its electromagnetic spectrum. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to be up and running in 2030s, and will be sensitive to GWs in the mHz band. Dozens of galactic binaries have been identified as so called "LISA verification binaries"; loud, galactic, ultracompact GW sources with electromagnetic counterparts. We investigate whether the presence of an exoplanet could leave a detectable imprint for LISA measurements in the GW emission of verification binaries. We recover the uncertainties for a measurement of a hypothetical exoplanet’s period and minimum mass by means of a Fisher Matrix analysis, and constrain the parameter space of detectable exoplanets separately for each LISA verification binary. We find that Jupiter-like planets could be detectable by LISA for every verification binary with an SNR over ~50, provided that their period does not exceed the mission lifetime of 4 years. While this method is limited to a few possible targets, it is sensitive to a wide range of planetary masses, periods and inclinations.
Exoplanet Science with Intensity Interferometry
Creators: name: Zwick, Lorenz
name: Soyuer, Deniz
name: Scheaffer, Timothée
name: Cuissa, Roberto
name: Prasenjit Saha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: While the transit method has been a fruitful technique for detecting exoplanets, it is not suited for spatially resolving their features. The largest exoplanets detected have angular sizes of <0.1 mas, far below the spatial resolution limits of modern telescopes. Some transiting hot Jupiters show evidence of lopsided structures on scales of order 10 μas: asymmetric atmospheric molecular abundances and very strong zonal winds reaching up to orders of ~10km/s. Imaging such features is beyond the limits of conventional imaging techniques. However, intensity interferometry, a technique that involves spatially cross-correlating the photons from pairs of telescopes, offers the prospect of angular resolution on such scales at optical wavelengths. In the optical band around wavelengths of 350 nm, it can achieve resolutions of <10 μas, in the near-infrared band around wavelengths of 1050 nm, it can achieve resolutions of <30 μas, with a telescope baseline of 5km. Suggestively, the former range overlaps with the iron absorption lines in WASP-76b, a hot-Jupiter that has an asymmetric atmospheric iron abundance. The latter overlaps with the He I triplet line in HD 189733b, a hot-Jupiter that has an evaporating atmosphere. We explore the prospects of detecting such hot-Jupiter features using various telescope combinations like the next-generation atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). We calculate the interferometric signal from the above exoplanets and their asymmetric atmospheric features using these setups.
Efficient experimental design for dose response modelling
Creators: name: O’Brien, Timothy E.
name: Silcox, Jack
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: The logit binomial logistic dose response model is commonly used in applied research to model binary outcomes as a function of the dose or concentration of a substance. This model is easily tailored to assess the relative potency of two substances. Consequently, in instances where two such dose response curves are parallel so one substance can be viewed as a dilution of the other, the degree of that dilution is captured in the relative potency model parameter. It is incumbent that experimental researchers working in fields including biomedicine, environmental science, toxicology and applied sciences choose efficient experimental designs to run their studies to both fit their dose response curves and to garner important information regarding drug or substance potency. This article provides far-reaching practical design strategies for dose response model fitting and estimation of relative potency using key illustrations. These results are subsequently extended here to handle situations where the assessment of parallelism and the proper dose-scale are also of interest. Conclusions and recommended strategies are supported by both theoretical and simulation results.
D12.1 Data Management Plan
Creators: name: National Research Council
name: University of Palermo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Plan detailing how to make data FAIR – findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable, including what data RESILIENCE manages, whether and how it is made accessible for verification and re-use, and how it will be curated and preserved. The deliverable will cover at least the following topic:● FAIR Data○ Making data findable○ Making data openly accessible○ Making data interoperable● Increase data re-use● Costs and allocation of resources● Data security● Ethical & legal aspects
Reject inference methods in credit scoring
Creators: name: Ehrhardt, Adrien
name: Biernacki, Christophe
name: Vandewalle, Vincent
name: Heinrich, Philippe
name: Beben, Sébastien
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The granting process is based on the probability that the applicant will refund his/her loan given his/her characteristics. This probability, also called score, is learnt based on a dataset in which rejected applicants are excluded. Thus, the population on which the score is used is different from the learning population. Many “reject inference” methods try to exploit the data available from the rejected applicants in the learning process. However, most of these methods are empirical and lack of formalization of their assumptions, and of their expected theoretical properties. We formalize such hidden assumptions in a general missing data setting for some of the most common reject inference methods. It reveals that hidden modelling is mostly incomplete, thus prohibiting to compare existing methods within the general model selection mechanism (except by financing “non-fundable” applicants). So, we assess performance of the methods on both simulated data and real data (from CACF, a major European loan issuer). Unsurprisingly, no method seems uniformly dominant. Both these theoretical and empirical results not only reinforce the idea to carefully use the classical reject inference methods but also to invest in future research works for designing model-based reject inference methods (without financing “non-fundable” applicants).
Instantons in $ϕ^4$ Theories: Transseries, Virial Theorems and Numerical Aspects
Creators: name: Giorgini, Ludovico T.
name: Jentschura, Ulrich D.
name: Malatesta, Enrico M.
name: Rizzo, Tommaso
name: Zinn-Justin, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss numerical aspects of instantons in two- and three-dimensional $ϕ^4$ theories with an internal $O(N)$ symmetry group, the so-called $N$-vector model. Combining asymptotic transseries expansions for large argument with convergence acceleration techniques, we obtain high-precision values for certain integrals of the instanton that naturally occur in loop corrections around instanton configurations. Knowledge of these numerical properties are necessary in order to evaluate corrections to the large-order factorial growth of perturbation theory in $ϕ^4$ theories. The results contribute to the understanding of the mathematical structures underlying the instanton configurations.
description: 11 pages; RevTeX
Reverse Innovation
Creators: name: Ulrich, Alina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Stadtverkehr
subject: Nachhaltige Mobilität
subject: Urbaner Umweltschutz
subject: Nachhaltiger Verkehr
subject: Verkehr

description: Die gemeinsame ⁠UBA⁠-GIZ Broschüre “Reverse Innovation – Stadtverkehr neu denken durch globales Lernen“ untersucht das Potenzial von Reverse Innovation für den Stadtverkehr. Zehn interessante Innovationen aus Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern wurden ausgesucht um deutschen Kommunen wichtige Impulse zu liefern. Neben technischen Innovationen wurden auch soziale und regulatorische Innovationen berücksichtigt wie auch neuartige Geschäftsmodelle. All diese Innovationen können dabei helfen, die Vision des UBA "Stadt für Morgen“ Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen.
A Triumvirate of AI Driven Theoretical Discovery
Creators: name: He, Yang-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of the usage of AI algorithms in pure mathematics and fundamental sciences such as theoretical physics. This is perhaps counter-intuitive since mathematical sciences require the rigorous definitions, derivations, and proofs, in contrast to the experimental sciences which rely on the modelling of data with error-bars. In this Perspective, we categorize the approaches to mathematical discovery as "top-down", "bottom-up" and "meta-mathematics", as inspired by historical examples. We review some of the progress over the last few years, comparing and contrasting both the advances and the short-comings in each approach. We argue that while the theorist is in no way in danger of being replaced by AI in the near future, the hybrid of human expertise and AI algorithms will become an integral part of theoretical discovery.
description: 14 pages, under consideration for Nature Review Physics
The first superconducting final focus quadrupole prototype of the FCC-ee study
Creators: name: Thabuis, A.
name: Koratzinos, M.
name: Kirby, G.
name: Liebsch, M.
name: Petrone, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A single aperture Canted-Cosine-Theta (CCT) quadrupole magnet, made of NbTi superconductors, has been developed for the final focus region of the FCC-ee study. The conductor layout is optimised to mitigate edge effects on one of the two sides of the magnet that typically lead to undesired higher-order multipoles. Experimental results of a prototype, including paraffin wax impregnation and cryogenic temperature measurements, are presented. The magnet exhibits no training behaviour, surpassing the nominal current during the initial ramp. Field quality is excellent, with higher-order multipoles below $1\times 10^{-4}$ units, consistent with simulations and room temperature tests. These findings confirm the potential of superconducting CCT magnets to offer compact solutions for applications demanding stringent field quality.
description: The published paper had mistakes. The values in Table 2 for the Warm & Center measurements were wrongly reported. They have been corrected here
The Effect of Self-Assessment on Multiplication Fact Fluency in Fourth Grade Students
Creators: name: Ruppenkamp, Michael
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether a self-assessment strategy would improve the multiplication fact fluency performance of selected fourth grade students. Student performance was measured using a series of six weekly tests consisting of 25 single digit multiplication problems with digits ranging from zero to nine. The weekly tests consisted of a pre-test, four consecutive weekly tests, and a post test. Improved performance was evident in both the intervention and control groups from pre-test to post test. These performance improvements cannot be attributed to the self-assessment measure as other factors may have influenced results. Further research in self-assessment and improvement of basic fact fluency should continue as both are vital to the development of students at early ages.
The Effect of Direct Instruction and Repeated Reading to Improve Oral Reading Fluency on DIBELS
Creators: name: Krause, Ashley E.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see the paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of implementing fluency
strategies, Direct Instruction and Repeated Reading, as a way to improve students’ Oral Reading
Fluency on the DIBELS assessments. The measurement tool was the Oral Reading Fluency
subtest on the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills assessment. This study
involved the use of a pretest/posttest design to compare data from January 2012 (before the
intervention was administered) to data from March 2012 (after the intervention was complete).
The fluency intervention group consisted of eight students with average reading levels. The
achievement gains were significant and consistent with the prior research on this topic; however,
the results could be questionable because of small sample size and lack of a comparison group in
this study.
The Impact of Student Behavior on Student Achievement
Creators: name: Beaumont, Katie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to determine whether a relationship exists between students’ behavior in school and their academic achievement. The measurement tools used determine students’ achievement were the Anne Arundel County Public Schools Language Arts Benchmark Assessments. Discipline data were collected at the school through the School Wide Information System (SWIS) data collection program. Results from the study suggest that while some students with a high number of discipline referrals have lower mean test scores than students with a low number of referrals, overall there was no significant correlation between the number of referrals a student received and the student’s achievement on the benchmark assessments. Further studies will need to be conducted using larger, more representative groups to gain more conclusive information about the relationship between students’ achievement and their behavior in the school setting.
title: Analisi di stabilità di cavità scavate a modesta profondità in rocce tenere
title: Stability analysis of cavities excavated at shallow depth in soft rocks
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Screpanti, Silvio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: volte; pilastri; rocce piroclastiche; rocce tenere; camere e pilastri; cavità; stabilità
subject: volte
subject: pilastri
subject: rocce piroclastiche
subject: rocce tenere
subject: camere e pilastri
subject: cavità
subject: stabilità

description: 19. ciclo
description: 0. Sommario 1. Posizione del problema 2. Modelli costitutivi del comportamento meccanico delle rocce tenere 3. Analisi agli elementi finiti del sistema camere - pilastri 4. Stati di tensione e deformazione indotti dallo scavo delle cavità 5. Analisi numerica parametrica della resistenza dei pilastri 6. Analisi numerica parametrica della resistenza delle volte 7. Una relazione analitica originale per la stima della resistenza dei pilastri 8. Una relazione analitica originale per la stima della resistenza dei pilastri 9. Applicazione ad un caso 10. Conclusioni Bibliografia
Relative-belief inference in quantum information theory
Creators: name: Teo, Y. S.
name: Shringarpure, S. U.
name: Jeong, H.
name: Prasannan, N.
name: Brecht, B.
name: Silberhorn, C.
name: Evans, M.
name: Mogilevtsev, D.
name: Sanchez-Soto, L. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the framework of Bayesian relative belief that directly evaluates whether or not the experimental data at hand supports a given hypothesis regarding a quantum system by directly comparing the prior and posterior probabilities for the hypothesis. In model-dimension certification tasks, we show that the relative belief procedure typically chooses Hilbert spaces that are never smaller in dimension than those selected from optimizing a broad class of information criteria, including Akaike's criterion. As a concrete and focused exposition of this powerful evidence-based technique, we apply the relative belief procedure to an important application: state reconstruction of imperfect quantum sources. In particular, just by comparing prior and posterior probabilities based on data, we demonstrate its capability of tracking multiphoton emissions using (realistically lossy) single-photon detectors in order to assess the actual quality of photon sources without making ad hoc assumptions, thereby reliably safeguarding source integrity for general quantum-information and communication tasks with Bayesian reasoning. Finally, we discuss how relative belief can be exploited to carry out parametric model certification and estimate the total dimension of the quantum state for the combined (measured) physical and interacting external systems described by the Tavis--Cummings model.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, companion letter in arXiv:2401.01562
Taguchi based Case study in the automotive industry: nonconformity decreasing with use of Six Sigma methodology
Creators: name: Gerger, Atakan
name: Firuzan, Ali Riza
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: In this study, we applied a conceptual Six Sigma/design of experiment hybrid framework that aims to integrate the Taguchi method and Six Sigma for process improvement in a complex industrial environment. In this context, the Six Sigma methodology was employed on a company operating within the automotive industry to improve a manufacturing process which caused a customer complaint within the company. Studies employing the Taguchi experiment design usually focus on a single variable and neglect the effects of adjustments on remaining quality characteristics. In this study, a multi-response Taguchi design of experiment was preferred, and all of the quality characteristics were taken into account. In our study, define, measure, analysis, improve and control phases were used to reduce the nonconformity rate from 23.940 percent (baseline) to 0.049 percent. As a result of implementing Six Sigma, the sigma level increased from 2.21 (baseline) to 4.80.
Essays on banking in Italy
Creators: name: STACCHINI, MASSIMILIANO
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2008

description: 16. ciclo
description: The monitoring and certification roles of bankers on industrial boards - What’s risk got to do with it ? An analysis of interest rates in the Italian consumer credit market - Why is the volume of bank loans low in some countries and high in others ? The role of government debt
The Effects of Classroom Placement on Special Education Students’ Algebra Benchmark Scores
Creators: name: Coates-Jiggetts, Lisa
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether classroom placement has an effect on special education students’ algebra benchmark scores. This quasi-experimental study examined whether first year Algebra I special education students in a self-contained classroom performed better on the algebra benchmark than those in an inclusive classroom. The participants included 20 students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) from both classroom settings. The classes were taught using a common course curriculum that was developed by Anne Arundel County Public Schools. The instructors in the two classes followed the IEPs as written for each student. Data was compiled from both the first and second quarter benchmark tests. The results do not support the hypothesis and showed that there was no significant difference between the two classrooms.
Self-Esteem and Female Collegiate Athletes
Creators: name: Ditmore, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see the paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference between selfesteem
levels of female collegiate athletes on sports teams, depending on whether their team had
a corresponding male team or not. The study utilized a causal comparative design to test
differences in self-esteem in female sports when there is not a male team. Self-esteem was
measured by participants rating a 16 item self esteem survey rated from Strongly Agree to
Strongly Disagree. The study includes 27 female college athletes, in the age range of 18-22. Data
regarding student’s self-esteem was collected and interpreted by the researcher. The study
hypothesized that self-esteem will be higher in female collegiate athletes with a corresponding
male team than in female athletes without a corresponding male team. The hypothesis was
rejected. It was concluded that no difference was found between female athletes on teams with
and without a corresponding male team. The results of this study help to support research
involving the relationship between female collegiate athletes and self-esteem. Recommendations
for future research include using a larger sample size, selecting teams with identical participant
numbers, and using teams currently on the same season schedule.
Gap Completion in Point Cloud Scene occluded by Vehicles using SGC-Net
Creators: name: Feng, Yu
name: Xu, Yiming
name: Xia, Yan
name: Brenner, Claus
name: Sester, Monika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advances in mobile mapping systems have greatly enhanced the efficiency and convenience of acquiring urban 3D data. These systems utilize LiDAR sensors mounted on vehicles to capture vast cityscapes. However, a significant challenge arises due to occlusions caused by roadside parked vehicles, leading to the loss of scene information, particularly on the roads, sidewalks, curbs, and the lower sections of buildings. In this study, we present a novel approach that leverages deep neural networks to learn a model capable of filling gaps in urban scenes that are obscured by vehicle occlusion. We have developed an innovative technique where we place virtual vehicle models along road boundaries in the gap-free scene and utilize a ray-casting algorithm to create a new scene with occluded gaps. This allows us to generate diverse and realistic urban point cloud scenes with and without vehicle occlusion, surpassing the limitations of real-world training data collection and annotation. Furthermore, we introduce the Scene Gap Completion Network (SGC-Net), an end-to-end model that can generate well-defined shape boundaries and smooth surfaces within occluded gaps. The experiment results reveal that 97.66% of the filled points fall within a range of 5 centimeters relative to the high-density ground truth point cloud scene. These findings underscore the efficacy of our proposed model in gap completion and reconstructing urban scenes affected by vehicle occlusions.
The Effects of Using Positive Reinforcement with Male College Basketball Players to Increase Basketball Fundamentals
Creators: name: Fox, Morgan J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see the paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects that positive reinforcement had on
the fundamental performance of male college basketball players. This study was conducted
using a quasi-experimental design with a simple random sample, then treatment, observation,
and post-measure. The study includes 12 African American males and 2 Caucasian male college
basketball players between the ages of 18-23. Data collected during the observation regarding
the players’ fundamental performance was collected and analyzed by the researcher. The study
hypothesized that there will be no significant difference between the experimental and control
groups. The results showed that the experimental group and the control group differed
significantly. This study’s results help to support research that involves implementing positive
reinforcement to improve basketball fundamentals. Important recommendations for future
research involve using an observer that is not affiliated with the team, using a larger sample with
multiple college basketball teams, and using proven instruments.
Statistical inference for distributions with one Poisson conditional
Creators: name: Arnold, Barry C.
name: Manjunath, B. G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: It will be recalled that the classical bivariate normal distributions have normal marginals and normal conditionals. It is natural to ask whether a similar phenomenon can be encountered involving Poisson marginals and conditionals. However, it is known, from research on conditionally specified models, that Poisson marginals will be encountered, together with both conditionals being of the Poisson form, only in the case in which the variables are independent. In order to have a flexible dependent bivariate model with some Poisson components, in the present article, we will be focusing on bivariate distributions with one marginal and the other family of conditionals being of the Poisson form. Such distributions are called Pseudo-Poisson distributions. We discuss distributional features of such models, explore inferential aspects and include an example of applications of the Pseudo-Poisson model to sets of over-dispersed data.
Crestal Bone Changes in Different Implants Designs: A Prospective Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Caetano, Gustavo M
name: Pauletto, Patrícia
name: Mezzomo, Luis A
name: Rivaldo, Elken G
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: Abstract
Objective Several modifications, such as changes in the implant–abutment connection, have been suggested in studies on dental implants to better preserve the peri-implant bone level. The aim of this study was to prospectively compare crestal bone level changes between two different implant designs—tissue level (TL) and bone level (BL).
Materials and Methods The sample comprised 18 patients, on whom a total of 30 hydrophilic tissue- and bone level implants were placed (SLActive, Straumann Institut AG, Basel, Switzerland), in the posterior region of the maxilla or the mandible. Impressions were taken after 45 days of healing. Then, cemented-retained metalloceramic crowns were fabricated and installed. Marginal bone level changes were assessed by the paralleling technique of periapical radiographies, on both mesial and distal aspects of each implant, at the moment of the implant placement and after 1 year of loading. Photoshop software was used to perform linear measurements by a single and calibrated examiner.
Statistical Analysis The Mann–Whitney test at a 5% significance level was used to compare the bone changes among the implants assessed.
Results A significantly lower (p = 0.048) bone remodeling was observed on bone level implants (0.05 mm), when compared to tissue level implants (0.47 mm; p = 0.048). The average marginal bone level changes at the distal aspect did not show any statistically significant difference (p = 0.325).
Conclusions Tissue level implants presented greater bone loss in the mesial surface than bone level implants. Both designs presented stable and clinically acceptable bone crests.