cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist
Creators: name: Mirzayi, Chloe
name: Waldron, Levi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: microbiome
subject: checklist
subject: reporting standards
subject: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C68564

description: This record provides editable versions of the STORMS checklist and analytical sample size flow charts as they are updated over time. Version 1.03 was the version as of publication. To cite, please use: Mirzayi, C. et al. Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist. Nat. Med. 1–8 (2021) doi:10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x
description: Supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (5R01CA230551 to Levi Waldron)
description: {"references": ["Mirzayi, C. et al. Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist. Nat. Med. 1\u20138 (2021) doi:10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x"]}
Novel anomalous diffusion phenomena of underdamped Langevin equation with random parameters
Creators: name: Chen, Yao
name: Wang, Xudong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diffusion behavior of particles moving in complex heterogeneous environment is a very topical issue. We characterize particle's trajectory via an underdamped Langevin system driven by a Gaussian white noise with a time dependent diffusivity of velocity, together with a random relaxation timescale $τ$ to parameterize the effect of complex medium. We mainly concern how the random parameter $τ$ influences the diffusion behavior and ergodic property of this Langevin system. Besides, the comparison between the fixed and random initial velocity $v_0$ is conducted to show the effect of different initial ensembles. The heavy-tailed distribution of $τ$ with finite mean is found to suppress the decay rate of the velocity correlation function and promote the diffusion behavior, playing a competition role to the time dependent diffusivity. More interestingly, a random $v_0$ with a specific distribution depending on random $τ$ also enhances the diffusion. Both the random parameters $τ$ and $v_0$ influence the dynamics of the Langevin system in an non-obvious way, which cannot be ignored even they has finite moments.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures
Physical Properties and HI-to-H2 Transition Across Taurus Linear Edge
Creators: name: Tang, Ningyu
name: Miao, Feihang
name: Luo, Gan
name: Li, Di
name: Wang, Junzhi
name: Du, Fujun
name: Wu, Donghong
name: Liu, Shu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studying the atomic-to-molecular transition is essential for understanding the evolution of interstellar medium. The linear edge of Taurus molecular cloud, clearly identified in the $^{13}$CO(1-0) intensity map, serves as an ideal site for investigating this transition. Utilizing the Arizona Radio Observatory Sub-Millimeter Telescope, we obtained mapping observations of CO(2-1), $^{13}$CO(2-1), and CO(3-2) across this linear edge. The intensity ratio between CO(2-1) and $^{13}$CO(2-1) indicates a lower limit of the $^{12}C/^{13}C$ ratio of $54\pm 17$. Based on multi-transition observations of CO and $^{13}$CO, we performed Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) fit of the physical properties across this edge using non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium analysis with the RADEX code, based on the Large velocity Gradient (LVG) assumption. The number density profile exhibits a pronounced jump coinciding with the H$_2$ infrared emission peak. The cold HI gas within the molecular cloud, manifested as HI-Narrow Self-Absorption (HINSA) features, is detected along the cloud edge. Our quantitative comparison with numerical simulations provides tentative evidence that shocks induced by colliding gas flows may contribute to the atomic-to-molecular phase transition observed along the linear edge.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, accepted by ApJ
Eta Carinae with Fermi-LAT: Two full orbits and the third periastron
Creators: name: Martí-Devesa, G.
name: Reimer, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Colliding-wind binaries are massive stellar systems featuring strong, interacting winds. These binaries may be actual particle accelerators, making them variable gamma-ray sources due to changes in the wind collision region along the orbit. However, only two of these massive stellar binary systems have been identified as high-energy sources. The first and archetypical system of this class is Eta Carinae, a bright gamma-ray source with orbital variability peaking around its periastron passage. Aims. The origin of the high energy emission in Eta Carinae is still unclear, with both lepto-hadronic and hadronic scenarios being under discussion. Moreover, the gamma-ray emission seemed to differ between the two periastrons previously observed with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Continuing observations might provide highly valuable information for the understanding of the emission mechanisms in this system. Methods. We have used almost 12 years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. We studied both low and high energy components, searching for differences and similarities between both orbits, and made use of this large dataset to search for emission from nearby colliding-wind binaries. Results. We show how the energy component above 10 GeV of Eta Carinae peaks months before the 2014 periastron, while the 2020 periastron is the brightest to date. Additionally, upper limits are provided for the high-energy emission in other particle-accelerating colliding-wind systems. Conclusions. Current gamma-ray observations of Eta Carinae strongly suggest that the wind collision region of this system is perturbed from orbit to orbit affecting particle transport within the shock.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Robustness of ferromagnetism in van der Waals magnet Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$ to hydrostatic pressure
Creators: name: Wang, Yonglin
name: Zeng, Xu-Tao
name: Li, Bo
name: Su, Cheng
name: Hattori, Takanori
name: Sheng, Xian-Lei
name: Jin, Wentao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional van der Waals ferromagnet Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$ (FGT) holds a great potential for applications in spintronic devices, due to its high Curie temperature, easy tunability, and excellent structural stability in air. Theoretical studies have shown that pressure, as an external parameter, significantly affects its ferromagnetic properties. In this study, we have performed comprehensive high-pressure neutron powder diffraction (NPD) experiments on FGT up to 5 GPa, to investigate the evolution of its structural and magnetic properties with hydrostatic pressure. The NPD data clearly reveal the robustness of the ferromagnetism in FGT, despite of an apparent suppression by hydrostatic pressure. As the pressure increases from 0 to 5 GPa, the Curie temperature is found to decrease monotonically from 225(5) K to 175(5) K, together with a dramatically suppressed ordered moment of Fe, which is well supported by the first-principles calculations. Although no pressure-driven structural phase transition is observed up to 5 GPa, quantitative analysis on the changes of bond lengths and bond angles indicate a significant modification of the exchange interactions, which accounts for the pressure-induced suppression of the ferromagnetism in FGT.
description: 6 figures
A Generative Adversarial Framework for Optimizing Image Matting and Harmonization Simultaneously
Creators: name: Ren, Xuqian
name: Liu, Yifan
name: Song, Chunlei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image matting and image harmonization are two important tasks in image composition. Image matting, aiming to achieve foreground boundary details, and image harmonization, aiming to make the background compatible with the foreground, are both promising yet challenging tasks. Previous works consider optimizing these two tasks separately, which may lead to a sub-optimal solution. We propose to optimize matting and harmonization simultaneously to get better performance on both the two tasks and achieve more natural results. We propose a new Generative Adversarial (GAN) framework which optimizing the matting network and the harmonization network based on a self-attention discriminator. The discriminator is required to distinguish the natural images from different types of fake synthesis images. Extensive experiments on our constructed dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. Our dataset and dataset generating pipeline can be found in \url{https://git.io/HaMaGAN}
description: Extension for accepted ICIP 2021
On The Orbital Separation Distribution and Binary Fraction of M Dwarfs
Creators: name: Susemiehl, Nicholas
name: Meyer, Michael R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new estimate for the binary fraction (the fraction of stars with a single companion) for M dwarfs using a log-normal fit to the orbital separation distribution. We use point estimates of the binary fraction (binary fractions over specific separation and companion mass ratio ranges) from four M dwarf surveys sampling distinct orbital radii to fit a log-normal function to the orbital separation distribution. This model, alongside the companion mass ratio distribution given by Reggiani & Meyer (2013), is used to calculate the frequency of companions over the ranges of mass ratio (q) and orbital separation (a) over which the referenced surveys were collectively sensitive - [0.60 $\leq$ q $\leq$ 1.00] and [0.00 $\leq$ a $\leq$ 10,000 AU]. This method was then extrapolated to calculate a binary fraction which encompasses the broader ranges of [0.10 $\leq$ q $\leq$ 1.00] and [0.00 $\leq$ a < $\infty$ AU]. Finally, the results of these calculations were compared to the binary fractions of other spectral types. The binary fraction over the constrained regions of [0.60 $\leq$ q $\leq$ 1.00] and [0.00 $\leq$ a $\leq$ 10,000 AU] was calculated to be $0.229 \pm 0.028$. This quantity was then extrapolated over the broader ranges of q (0.10 - 1.00) and a (0.00 - $\infty$ AU) and found to be $0.462^{+0.057}_{-0.052}$. We used a conversion factor to estimate the multiplicity fraction from the binary fraction and found the multiplicity fraction over the narrow region of [0.60 $\leq$ q $\leq$ 1.00] and [0.00 $\leq$ a $\leq$ 10,000 AU] to be $0.270 \pm 0.111$. Lastly, we estimate the multiplicity fractions of FGK, and A stars using the same method (taken over [0.60 $\leq$ q $\leq$ 1.00] and [0.00 $\leq$ a $\leq$ 10,000 AU]) and find that the multiplicity fractions of M, FGK, and A stars, when considered over common ranges of q and a, are more similar than generally assumed.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Fine-Grained Adversarial Semi-supervised Learning
Creators: name: Mugnai, Daniele
name: Pernici, Federico
name: Turchini, Francesco
name: Del Bimbo, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we exploit Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) to increase the amount of training data to improve the performance of Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). This problem has not been investigated in the past in spite of prohibitive annotation costs that FGVC requires. Our approach leverages unlabeled data with an adversarial optimization strategy in which the internal features representation is obtained with a second-order pooling model. This combination allows to back-propagate the information of the parts, represented by second-order pooling, onto unlabeled data in an adversarial training setting. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the combined use by conducting experiments on six state-of-the-art fine-grained datasets, which include Aircrafts, Stanford Cars, CUB-200-2011, Oxford Flowers, Stanford Dogs, and the recent Semi-Supervised iNaturalist-Aves. Experimental results clearly show that our proposed method has better performance than the only previous approach that examined this problem; it also obtained higher classification accuracy with respect to the supervised learning methods with which we compared.
Analysing Mixed Initiatives and Search Strategies during Conversational Search
Creators: name: Aliannejadi, Mohammad
name: Azzopardi, Leif
name: Zamani, Hamed
name: Kanoulas, Evangelos
name: Thomas, Paul
name: Craswel, Nick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information seeking conversations between users and Conversational Search Agents (CSAs) consist of multiple turns of interaction. While users initiate a search session, ideally a CSA should sometimes take the lead in the conversation by obtaining feedback from the user by offering query suggestions or asking for query clarifications i.e. mixed initiative. This creates the potential for more engaging conversational searches, but substantially increases the complexity of modelling and evaluating such scenarios due to the large interaction space coupled with the trade-offs between the costs and benefits of the different interactions. In this paper, we present a model for conversational search -- from which we instantiate different observed conversational search strategies, where the agent elicits: (i) Feedback-First, or (ii) Feedback-After. Using 49 TREC WebTrack Topics, we performed an analysis comparing how well these different strategies combine with different mixed initiative approaches: (i) Query Suggestions vs. (ii) Query Clarifications. Our analysis reveals that there is no superior or dominant combination, instead it shows that query clarifications are better when asked first, while query suggestions are better when asked after presenting results. We also show that the best strategy and approach depends on the trade-offs between the relative costs between querying and giving feedback, the performance of the initial query, the number of assessments per query, and the total amount of gain required. While this work highlights the complexities and challenges involved in analyzing CSAs, it provides the foundations for evaluating conversational strategies and conversational search agents in batch/offline settings.
description: Accepted in CIKM 2021
Turbulent bubbly channel flows: Effects of soluble surfactant and viscoelasticity
Creators: name: Ahmed, Zaheer
name: Izbassarov, Daulet
name: Costa, Pedro
name: Muradoglu, Metin
name: Tammisola, Outi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interface-resolved direct numerical simulations are performed to examine the combined effects of soluble surfactant and viscoelasticity on the structure of a bubbly turbulent channel flow. The incompressible flow equations are solved fully coupled with the FENE-P viscoelastic model and the equations governing interfacial and bulk surfactant concentrations. The latter coupling is achieved through a non-linear equation of state which relates the surface tension to the surfactant concentration at the interface. The two-fluid Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a front-tracking method, augmented with a very efficient FFT-based pressure projection method that allows for massively parallel simulations of turbulent flows. It is found that, for the surfactant-free case, bubbles move toward the wall due to inertial lift force, resulting in formation of wall layers and a significant decrease in the flow rate. Conversely, a high-enough concentration of surfactant changes the direction of lateral migration of bubbles, i.e., the contaminated bubbles move toward the core region and spread out across the channel. When viscoelasticity is considered, viscoelastic stresses counteract the Marangoni stresses, promoting formation of bubbly wall-layers and consequently strong decrease in the flow rate. The formation of bubble wall-layers for combined case depends on the interplay of the inertial and elastic, and Marangoni forces.
Joint Learning On The Hierarchy Representation for Fine-Grained Human Action Recognition
Creators: name: Leong, Mei Chee
name: Tan, Hui Li
name: Zhang, Haosong
name: Li, Liyuan
name: Lin, Feng
name: Lim, Joo Hwee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fine-grained human action recognition is a core research topic in computer vision. Inspired by the recently proposed hierarchy representation of fine-grained actions in FineGym and SlowFast network for action recognition, we propose a novel multi-task network which exploits the FineGym hierarchy representation to achieve effective joint learning and prediction for fine-grained human action recognition. The multi-task network consists of three pathways of SlowOnly networks with gradually increased frame rates for events, sets and elements of fine-grained actions, followed by our proposed integration layers for joint learning and prediction. It is a two-stage approach, where it first learns deep feature representation at each hierarchical level, and is followed by feature encoding and fusion for multi-task learning. Our empirical results on the FineGym dataset achieve a new state-of-the-art performance, with 91.80% Top-1 accuracy and 88.46% mean accuracy for element actions, which are 3.40% and 7.26% higher than the previous best results.
description: Camera ready for IEEE ICIP 2021
(H)DPGMM: A Hierarchy of Dirichlet Process Gaussian Mixture Models for the inference of the black hole mass function
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Stefano
name: Del Pozzo, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce (H)DPGMM, a hierarchical Bayesian non-parametric method based on the Dirichlet Process Gaussian Mixture Model, designed to infer data-driven population properties of astrophysical objects without being committal to any specific physical model. We investigate the efficacy of our model on simulated datasets and demonstrate its capability to reconstruct correctly a variety of population models without the need of fine-tuning of the algorithm. We apply our method to the problem of inferring the black hole mass function given a set of gravitational wave observations from LIGO and Virgo, and find that the (H)DPGMM infers a binary black hole mass function that is consistent with previous estimates without the requirement of a theoretically motivated parametric model. Although the number of systems observed is still too small for a robust inference, (H)DPGMM confirms the presence of at least two distinct modes in the observed merging black holes mass function, hence suggesting in a model-independent fashion the presence of at least two classes of binary black hole systems.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures
Additional file 10 of SIGIRR deficiency contributes to CD4 T cell abnormalities by facilitating the IL1/C/EBPβ/TNF-α signaling axis in rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Teng, Xiu
name: Mou, Da-Chao
name: Li, Hui-Fang
name: Jiao, Ling
name: Wu, Sha-Sha
name: Pi, Jin-Kui
name: Wang, Yan
name: Zhu, Meng-Li
name: Tang, Meng
name: Liu, Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 10: Table S3. Characteristics of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients and Healthy Cohorts.
TeV emission from FSRQs: the first systematic and unbiased survey
Creators: name: Patel, Sonal R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) have been detected at TeV energies by ground-based atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes mainly during flaring states. VERITAS is carrying out the first systematic and unbiased search for TeV emissions from a set of FSRQs. Fermi-LAT-detected FSRQs with positive declinations and extrapolated fluxes from the 3FHL catalog exceeding 1$\%$ Crab at >200 GeV after correcting for EBL absorption were selected for this survey, resulting in eight targets. Additionally, four FSRQs that were already detected at TeV energies are also included in this survey. In an unbiased fashion, the observations of 12 FSRQs, even without detection, will provide the first constraints on their duty cycle of TeV emission. We report the results from four of the 12 FSRQs observed during 2020-21 season in this work. For these sources, we also show the results from nearly simultaneous \textit{Fermi}-LAT observations.
description: Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)
The Role of Communication in Project Performance in Mogadishu Somalia- A Case Study of Gredo Mogadishu, Somalia.
Creators: name: Mohamed, Osman Wehlie
Publisher: name: Accord University
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Accord University,
subject: Mohamed Osman Wehlie,
subject: Project Management,
subject: Communication,
subject: Research

description: Globally, in the late 1970s and early 1980s managers and scholars became interested in the topic

of “communication on project performance. Communication has been long recognized as a

significant factor in organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation and as a foundation

for organization’s management system and practices (Perrow, 2010)
Inverse RL Scene Dynamics Learning for Nonlinear Predictive Control in Autonomous Vehicles
Creators: name: Grigorescu, Sorin
name: Zaha, Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces the Deep Learning-based Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller with Scene Dynamics (DL-NMPC-SD) method for autonomous navigation. DL-NMPC-SD uses an a-priori nominal vehicle model in combination with a scene dynamics model learned from temporal range sensing information. The scene dynamics model is responsible for estimating the desired vehicle trajectory, as well as to adjust the true system model used by the underlying model predictive controller. We propose to encode the scene dynamics model within the layers of a deep neural network, which acts as a nonlinear approximator for the high order state-space of the operating conditions. The model is learned based on temporal sequences of range sensing observations and system states, both integrated by an Augmented Memory component. We use Inverse Reinforcement Learning and the Bellman optimality principle to train our learning controller with a modified version of the Deep Q-Learning algorithm, enabling us to estimate the desired state trajectory as an optimal action-value function. We have evaluated DL-NMPC-SD against the baseline Dynamic Window Approach (DWA), as well as against two state-of-the-art End2End and reinforcement learning methods, respectively. The performance has been measured in three experiments: i) in our GridSim virtual environment, ii) on indoor and outdoor navigation tasks using our RovisLab AMTU (Autonomous Mobile Test Unit) platform and iii) on a full scale autonomous test vehicle driving on public roads.
description: 21 pages, 14 figures, journal paper
Canadian Gallup Poll # 903-1
Creators: name: Inc., The Canadian Gallup Poll
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Federal election vote intent(1); past federal elections vote(1); greatest problem facing Canada(1); federal government job performance(1); health services in the province(2); US cruise missile tests in Canada(1); economic sanctions against South Africa(3); acid rain(2); cost of products and services(5); right to strike(2); labor unions(10); labor productivity in Canada(2); Note: Standard demographics(17).
Coexistence of parallel and series current paths in parallel-coupled double quantum dots in nonlinear transport regime
Creators: name: Hatano, Tsuyoshi
name: Kubo, Toshihiro
name: Amaha, Shinichi
name: Tokura, Yasuhiro
name: Tarucha, Seigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the electron transport properties of parallel-coupled double quantum dot (DQD) devices under magnetic fields. When a low magnetic field was applied, electron tunneling through parallel-coupled DQDs was observed. Under a high magnetic field, we observed both electron tunneling through parallel- and series-coupled DQDs under nonlinear transport conditions. In addition, the Pauli spin blockade was observed, indicating tunneling through the series-coupled DQDs. We attribute these behaviors to the magnetic-field-induced changes in the tunnel-couplings that allow the coexistence of the current paths of the parallel and series configurations.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
MINA XIII showreel trailer
Creators: name: Schleser, Max
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3605
subject: Screen and digital media

description: MINA is the longest running film festival in the Southern Hemisphere dedicated to mobile and smartphone filmmaking with a focus on moving-image arts, documentary, community engaged film productions, experimental films and emerging screen production forms and formats, such as mobile AI, MoJo, drone videos, mobile AR and mobile cinematic VR. The 13th edition was presented at ACMI on the 8th November 2024.
Additional file 1 of Perceptions of education quality and influence of language barrier: graduation survey of international medical students at four universities in China
Creators: name: Li, Wen
name: Liu, Chang
name: Liu, Shenjun
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Shi, Rong-gen
name: Jiang, Hailan
name: Ling, Yi
name: Sun, Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Graduation Survey for International Medical Students.
Certain aspects of the Dutch influence on Papiamentu
Creators: name: Bouscholte, Jacoba Elisabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The subject of this study is the influence which Dutch has had on Papiamentu. The first chapter deals with the history of the Benedenwindse Eilanden of the Netherlands Antilles in order to explain the reason for the "mixed" nature of the language. The second chapter is devoted to the influence which the various component parts of the population have had or may have had on the language. It further shows how Papiamentu developed from a pidgin into a Creole and subsequently into an independent language. This growth is demonstrated by statements from writers on the language. The third chapter concerns in particular the Dutch element in Papiamentu. After a short description of the various categories in which Dutch influence is apparent, an analysis is made of the presence of words and expressions from those categories in Ora Solo Baha, a collection of children's stories by Pierre Antoine Lauffer. In this analysis attention is given to the lexicon as well as to syntactic caiques. Words and expressions have been explained not only on the basis of present-day Dutch, but, as far as possible, also in the light of their occurrence in earlier forms of Dutch, the seventeenth-century language, or in the West Frisian and Zealandic dialects, as well as in colloquial Dutch.
The CRIS of the future OR the future of the CRIS?
Creators: name: Fest, Ellen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: research information management
research evaluation

description: The academic libraries play an important role in the registration of and reporting on the Research Information of the institutions. In the Netherlands two major changes in academia will affect the way we register and use Research Information. The first change is the transition to Open Science (www.openscience.nl). One of the pillars of Open Science is its diversity of research outputs, e.g. open data, research software and preprints. Are our CRIS systems prepared for this diversification? And are they able to link the output to one another? The second policy development is the change of the recognition and rewards system within the universities and funders. The Dutch Universities (VSNU), academic medical centres (NFU) funders (NWO, ZonMW) and the Royal Academy of Sciences (KNWA) published a position paper in November 2019 “Room for everyone’s talent” (https://www.nwo.nl/en/position-paper-room-everyones-talent). Meanwhile, all universities are working on this transformation. Important changes that are brought forward are 1) assess quality instead of quantity and 2) assess both individual specialisms and team performance. To continue the work of academic libraries on Research Information and support our institutions with the right information and services, the UKB Coordination point Research Impact and Dutch Pure User Group started a project to find out which role the CRIS will or can play in this changing academic world. The key question is “Which role can or must the CRIS have in an academic world without counting, and with a huge diversity of research outputs.” In this study we seek collaboration with the Dutch Recognition and Rewards program as well as the local programs at the universities. In this talk we will present the early findings of this project, such as: How can the CRIS support a narrative CV for evaluation purposes? What do we need to support the diversity of research output? How can academic libraries maintain a future proof CRIS and related services?
Cahn-Hilliard Equations and Phase Transition Dynamics for Binary Systems
Creators: name: Ma, Tian
name: Wang, Shouhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process of phase separation of binary systems is described by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The main objective of this article is to give a classification on the dynamic phase transitions for binary systems using either the classical Cahn-Hilliard equation or the Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with entropy, leading to some interesting physical predictions. The analysis is based on dynamic transition theory for nonlinear systems and new classification scheme for dynamic transitions, developed recently by the authors.
description: To appear in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-B
Numerical simulations of compressively driven interstellar turbulence: I. Isothermal gas
Creators: name: Schmidt, Wolfram
name: Federrath, Christoph
name: Hupp, Markus
name: Kern, Sebastian
name: Niemeyer, Jens C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed numerical simulations of supersonic isothermal turbulence driven by mostly compressive large-scale forcing, using both a static grid and adaptive mesh refinement with an effective resolution N=768^3. After a transient phase dominated by shocks, turbulence evolves into a steady state with an RMS Mach number about 2.5, in which cloud-like structures of over-dense gas are surrounded by highly rarefied gas. The index of the turbulence energy spectrum function beta = 2.0 in the shock-dominated phase. As the flow approaches statistical equilibrium, the spectrum flattens, with beta = 1.9. For the scaling exponent of the root mean square velocity fluctuation, we obtain gamma = 0.43 from the velocity structure functions of second order. These results are well within the range of observed scaling properties for the velocity dispersion in molecular clouds. Calculating structure functions of order p=1,...,5, we find for all scaling exponents significant deviations from the Kolmogorov-Burgers model proposed by Boldyrev. Our results are very well described by a general log-Poisson model with a higher degree of intermittency, which implies an influence of the forcing on the scaling properties. Contrary to previous numerical results for isothermal turbulence, we obtain a skewed probability density function of the mass density fluctuations that is not consistent with log-normal statistics and entails a substantially higher fraction of mass in the density peaks than implied by the Padoan-Nordlund relation between the variance of the density fluctuations and the Mach number. In conclusion, it seems necessary to account for the production mechanism of turbulence in the ISM.
description: 20 pages, 18 figures, submitted to A&A
On strong solutions for positive definite jump-diffusions
Creators: name: Mayerhofer, Eberhard
name: Pfaffel, Oliver
name: Stelzer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G51, 60H10, 60J60, 60J75

description: We show the existence of unique global strong solutions of a class of stochastic differential equations on the cone of symmetric positive definite matrices. Our result includes affine diffusion processes and therefore extends considerably the known statements concerning Wishart processes, which have recently been extensively employed in financial mathematics. Moreover, we consider stochastic differential equations where the diffusion coefficient is given by the alpha-th positive semidefinite power of the process itself with 0.5
description: version to appear in Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, 2011
Predictive maintenance of critical HVAC components to reduce biological risk in public buildings
Creators: name: Argento, Giacomino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this document is to provide the employer with guidelines for preventive maintenance, specifically practical recommendations necessary to ensure that the air treatment system does not transmit pathogens to those exposed within office environments for 7-8 hours daily.

Workers may experience symptoms related to their exposure to poorly sanitized HVAC terminals, such as rhinitis, dermatitis, asthma, etc. Therefore, it is crucial to provide the employer with clear guidance on the sanitization or cleaning of air treatment systems.

In this discussion, we will focus on maintenance in terms of biological risk, addressing only the components that meet water and humidity.
KernelHaven -- An Experimentation Workbench for Analyzing Software Product Lines
Creators: name: Kröher, Christian
name: El-Sharkawy, Sascha
name: Schmid, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Systematic exploration of hypotheses is a major part of any empirical research. In software engineering, we often produce unique tools for experiments and evaluate them independently on different data sets. In this paper, we present KernelHaven as an experimentation workbench supporting a significant number of experiments in the domain of static product line analysis and verification. It addresses the need for extracting information from a variety of artifacts in this domain by means of an open plug-in infrastructure. Available plug-ins encapsulate existing tools, which can now be combined efficiently to yield new analyses. As an experimentation workbench, it provides configuration-based definitions of experiments, their documentation, and technical services, like parallelization and caching. Hence, researchers can abstract from technical details and focus on the algorithmic core of their research problem. KernelHaven supports different types of analyses, like correctness checks, metrics, etc., in its specific domain. The concepts presented in this paper can also be transferred to support researchers of other software engineering domains. The infrastructure is available under Apache 2.0: https://github.com/KernelHaven. The plug-ins are available under their individual licenses.
description: Video: https://youtu.be/IbNc-H1NoZU
Quasi-cycles in a spatial predator-prey model
Creators: name: Lugo, Carlos A.
name: McKane, Alan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that spatial models of simple predator-prey interactions predict that predator and prey numbers oscillate in time and space. These oscillations are not seen in the deterministic versions of the models, but are due to stochastic fluctuations about the time-independent solutions of the deterministic equations which are amplified due to the existence of a resonance. We calculate the power spectra of the fluctuations analytically and show that they agree well with results obtained from stochastic simulations. This work extends the analysis of these quasi-cycles from that previously developed for well-mixed systems to spatial systems, and shows that the ideas and methods used for non-spatial models naturally generalize to the spatial case.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
Are mergers responsible for universal halo properties?
Creators: name: Wang, Jie
name: White, Simon D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: N-body simulations of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) have shown that, in this hierarchical structure formation model, dark matter halo properties, such as the density profile, the phase-space density profile, the distribution of axial ratio, the distribution of spin parameter, and the distribution of internal specific angular momentum follow `universal' laws or distributions. Here we study the properties of the first generation of haloes in a Hot Dark Matter (HDM) dominated universe, as an example of halo formation through monolithic collapse. We find all these universalities to be present in this case also. Halo density profiles are very well fit by the Navarro et al (1997) profile over two orders of magnitude in mass. The concentration parameter depends on mass as $c \propto M^{0.2}$,reversing the dependence found in a hierarchical CDM universe. However, the concentration-formation time relation is similar in the two cases: earlier forming haloes tend to be more concentrated than their later forming counterparts. Halo formation histories are also characterized by two phases in the HDM case: an early phase of rapid accretion followed by slower growth. Furthermore, there is no significant difference between the HDM and CDM cases concerning the statistics of other halo properties: the phase-space density profile; the velocity anisotropy profile; the distribution of shape parameters; the distribution of spin parameter, and the distribution of internal specific angular momentum are all similar in the two cases. Only substructure content differs dramatically. These results indicate that mergers do not play a pivotal role in establishing the universalities, thus contradicting models which explain them as consequences of mergers.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Analysis of extensional fault linkages, Gulf of Aden, Yemen
Creators: name: Fracassi, Umberto
name: McClay, Ken R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1997

description: The southern region of Yemen forms part of a rifted continental margin bordering the Gulf of Aden. Along the central Yemen coast, the prominent tectonic features of the margin north of Mukalla (Masila Block) are due to a system of major border faults, trending 100˚ to 120˚. These faults downthrow towards north with maximum slip of 500 m and heave up to 8 km. A considerable amount of extension is accompanied by anti-clockwise block rotation of 85˚ north of Ghayl Ba Wazir, in the N of the studied area. Transfer zones generally trend 030˚, in accordance with values reported in previous studies. This trend is related to the system of transform faults pertaining to the Sheba Ridge in the Gulf of Aden. Transfer zones consist mainly of relay ramps, occurring at all scales especially S and SW of Wadi Arf Border Fault, in the SE part of the area. These structures are locally associated together with transfer faults, in which case connecting fault splays are linked by a rider structure. Minor accommodation zones are displayed at small scale (less than 2 km). A subset of the Masila Block, the hanging-wall and the footwall of the Wadi Arf Border Fault, has been chosen for statistical analyses of fault populations and associated linkage geometries detected on the satellite imagery. The mean trend for the hanging wall is 080˚, with average fault spacing of 1 km. Crestal collapses immediately north of the Wadi Arf Border Fault trend 080˚ and show very close fault spacing (down to 50 m). In the footwall, the trend rotates to 095˚, and relative spacing between single faults increases considerably up to 4 km. Accordingly, maximum fault heave reaches 800m/1000 m, whereas in the hanging wall this value decreases to 500m. The statistical methods applied to the recognition of fault parameters shows that the South Mhadi Pass Fault determines the position of fault populations over an area of approximately 30 x 60 km. Fault spacing indicates a remarkable symmetry in the displacement distribution between populations in the hangingwall and in the footwall. Three-dimensional cross-sections based on the sampled dataset provide a visual insight into the geographical changes in the displacement distribution. The sampling procedure, coupled with appropriate imaging techniques, has proven to yield accurate results, on the basis of the systematical collection of fault parameters over a georeferenced grid using satellite images. The techniques adopted here are recommended as a statistical tool that can be applied to the study of extensional settings in map view. The technique suits data arising from either remotely sensed imagery or from 3D seismic surveys.
Additional file 6 of Irradiation pretreatment enhances the therapeutic efficacy of platelet-membrane-camouflaged antitumor nanoparticles
Creators: name: Chen, Yin
name: Shen, Xue
name: Han, Songling
name: Wang, Tao
name: Zhao, Jianqi
name: He, Yongwu
name: Chen, Shilei
name: Deng, Shengqi
name: Wang, Cheng
name: Wang, Junping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6. Histogram showing the tumor weight at day 21.
Updated analytic plan for: The effects of intentional positive memory retrieval on social repair of ruptured needs following exclusion
Creators: name: Hudd, Taylor
name: Moscovitch, David A
name: Powell, Adrienne Richter
name: Ho, Jolie TK
name: Kudryk, Sophie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This registration includes updates to our analytic plan for a pre-registered study. Please refer to the original study pre-registration for details regarding hypotheses, design, sampling, and measured variables: Powell, A. R., Moscovitch, D. A., Hudd, T., & Kudryk, S. (2023, April 6). The effects of intentional positive memory retrieval on social repair of ruptured needs following exclusion. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/D3ZHF
Topological Anti-Topological Fusion in Four-Dimensional Superconformal Field Theories
Creators: name: Papadodimas, Kyriakos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present some new exact results for general four-dimensional superconformal field theories. We derive differential equations governing the coupling constant dependence of chiral primary correlators. For N=2 theories we show that the Zamolodchikov metric on the moduli space and the operator mixing of chiral primaries are quasi-topological quantities and constrained by holomorphy. The equations that we find are the four-dimensional analogue of the tt* equations in two-dimensions, discovered by the method of "topological anti-topological fusion" by Cecotti and Vafa. Our analysis relies on conformal perturbation theory and the superconformal Ward identities and does not use a topological twist.
description: 43 pages (29 pages + 4 appendices), 2 figures, harvmac, v2: fixed typos, improved some derivations, numerical coefficients in tt* equations corrected
Volume and taper estimation systems pinus patula and cupressus lusitanica growing in Kenya forest plantations
Creators: name: Gor-Kesiah, John Odhiambo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Volume and taper studies in Pinus patula and Cupressus lusitanica trees growing in Kenya forest plantations are discussed. The ultimate objective of the study was to find suitable models for estimating volumes and taper rates using two approaches for each parameter (i.e. volume and taper). These included producing volume models in the traditional way and by integrating taper models. Taper models derived from the best of the volume models were compared to the taper models produced from taper data in the traditional way to find out the efficiency of each approach. Data from the two species were used to fit a few popular volume and taper models. Trials were also made to develop new models. Of the popular volume models tested the logarithmic volume model was found to be giving very good estimates. Weighted models conditioned through the origin, by a technique proposed in the study, were also giving similar good estimates. Models weighted by current approach were, however, giving relatively poor estimates. Volume-based taper models were found to be giving biased diameter estimates along the tree profiles. However, when integrated for total volume, the volume estimates given seemed to be better than those given by the other taper models tested. Because of their bias in estimating the diameters and other points along the tree profile, volume-based taper models are not recommended for estimating volumes to any other points along the tree profiles. Other popular taper models were also giving biased diameter estimates. They lacked inflection points. When integrated for volumes, they were giving very poor estimates. Two fairly simple taper models have been proposed which have most of the characteristics needed in a taper model to give proper profile description. They have been recommended for constructing the inside volume tables and taper tables for the two species. They should also apply well in other conifers. One model describes profiles of trees with butt swell while the other describes trees with smooth stem forms.