cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Using Neural Networks to Sanitize Compton Camera Simulated Data through the BRIDE Pipeline for Improving Gamma Imaging in Proton Therapy on the ada Cluster
Creators: name: Chen, Michael O.
name: Hodge, Julian
name: Jin, Peter L.
name: Protz, Ella
name: Wong, Elizabeth
name: Obe, Ruth
name: Shakeri, Ehsan
name: Cham, Mostafa
name: Gobbert, Matthias
name: Barajas, Carlos A.
name: Jiang, Zhuoran
name: Sharma, Vijay R.
name: Ren, Lei
name: Mossahebi, Sina
name: Peterson, Stephen W.
name: Polf, Jerimy C.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)

description: Precision medicine in cancer treatment increasingly relies on advanced radiotherapies, such as proton beam radiotherapy, to enhance e?cacy of the treatment. When the proton beam in this treatment interacts with patient matter, the excited nuclei may emit prompt gamma ray interactions that can be captured by a Compton camera. The image reconstruction from this captured data faces the issue of mischaracterizing the sequences of incoming scattering events, leading to excessive background noise. To address this problem, several machine learning models such as Feedfoward Neural Networks (FNN) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) were developed in PyTorch to properly characterize the scattering sequences on simulated datasets, including newly-created patient medium data, which were generated by using a pipeline comprised of the GEANT4 and Monte-Carlo Detector E?ects (MCDE) softwares. These models were implemented using the novel 態ig-data REU Integrated Development and Experimentation� (BRIDE) platform, a modular pipeline that streamlines preprocessing, feature engineering, and model development and evaluation on parallelized GPU processors. Hyperparameter studies were done on the novel patient data as well as on water phantom datasets used during previous research. Patient data was more di?cult than water phantom data to classify for both FNN and RNN models. FNN models had higher accuracy on patient medium data but lower accuracy on water phantom data when compared to RNN models. Previous results on several di?erent datasets were reproduced on BRIDE and multiple new models achieved greater performance than in previous research.
Pachyrhynchus naokii Yoshitake 2012
Creators: name: Rukmane, Anita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Pachyrhynchus
Pachyrhynchus naokii

description: 80. P. naokii Yoshitake, 2012
[Philippines, Mindanao]
description: Published as part of Rukmane, Anita, 2018, Anannotated Checklist Of Genuspachyrhynchus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Pachyrhynchini), pp. 63-68 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10601943
Identifying Unique Coding Strategies Between Mossy Fibre and Interneuron Synapses
Creators: name: Ma, Yishan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: CA3
DG
stratum lucidum interneurons
SLIN
hippocampus
spatial navigation
DG-CA3 dynamics
coding

description: Animals use spatial navigation to move about their environment and the hippocampus is the centre of processing of spatial information. We want to understand how the mossy fibre (MF) of the hippocampus (HPC) decodes inputs from the entorhinal cortex (EC) and contributes to spatial memory processing. MF terminals have unique anatomical features that connect dentate gyrus granule cells (DG; DGGC) to CA3 pyramidal cells (CA3PC), along with single release site extensions that synapse onto CA3 stratum lucidum interneurons (SLIN). Using whole-cell patch-clamp electrophysiology, we recorded from MF-CA3PC synapses and stimulated patterns that differed in frequency, but the number of stimuli remained the same. We discovered a novel coding strategy, termed AP Counting. AP Counting happens when the synapse responds to the number of stimuli, irrespective of their frequencies. It remains unknown whether this is a uniform feature of presynaptic elements or of various postsynaptic elements. Therefore, is the same coding strategy, AP Counting, preserved between MF-SLINs? Preliminary findings revealed that MF-SLIN coding strategies to be different from the ones employed at MF-CA3PCs. Thereby, we separated the three populations by coding strategy and named them SLIN population 1 (SLIN1), SLIN population 2 (SLIN2) and SLIN population 3 (SLIN3). SLIN1 and SLIN3 employed a rate coding strategy, while SLIN2 was insensitive to different frequencies. In conclusion, MF-SLINs utilise distinct coding from MF-CA3PCs, namely, rate coding, and frequency insensitivity. These two different ways of processing (EC) contribute to the complexity of the neural dynamics of the DG-CA3 network. In order to understand the greater impact of these two types of synapses, we would use computational modelling to study the dynamics of the DG-CA3 network.
title: GPS-Health: A Novel Analytic Infrastructure for Capturing, Visualizing, and Analyzing Multi-Level, Multi-Domain Geographically Distributed Social Determinants of Health
Creators: name: Huang, Shuo Jim
name: Davis, Esa M.
name: Nguyen, Thu T.
name: Brooks, Justin R.
name: Abaku, Olohitare
name: Chun, Se Woon
name: Akintoye, Oluwadamilola
name: Aktay, Sinan
name: Chin, Matthew
name: Bandos, Matthew
name: Pateel, Sunil
name: Gohimukkula, Vineeth
name: Felix, Victor
name: Mahurkar, Anup A.
name: McCoy, Rozalina G.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2025

description: Background Health disparities across a range of conditions and outcomes exist across the life course and are driven by the uneven geographic distribution of multidimensional social determinants of health (SDOH). Previous multidimensional measures of SDOH (e.g. Area Deprivation Index, Social Vulnerability Index, Social Deprivation Index) collapse multiple measures into a single summary value applied to everyone living within a predefined map unit, engendering construct and internal validity issues.Methods We present a new SDOH data approach: the Geographic Patterns of Social Determinants of Health (GPS-Health). We use a theoretical framework weaving together kyriarchy, intersectionality, and structural violence to select SDOH domains that can elucidate how individuals experience multidimensional spatial distributions of SDOH. We apply the approach to Maryland.Results Our dataset includes 2,369,365 property parcels, from which we calculate distances to 8 types of SDOH exact locations.Discussion GPS-Health will aid in the understanding of how the SDOH influence individual health outcomes.
An Analysis of Efficiency of Data Communicating: Exploring the Impact of Data Types on the Consumers’ Comprehension Scope
Creators: name: Cai, Yunping
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: data literacy
data in news
data communication
data journalism
quantitative reasoning
consumer reception
path analysis
scientific reporting
eye tracker

description: This study (N = 46) employed a multimodal approach, combining surveys and eye-tracking technology, to explore factors influencing audiences’ comprehension of data found in a news article. The study sought to investigate the connections among participants' dispositions, the presentation methods of data types, audience attention spans, and the comprehensiveness of audience understanding. Leveraging Gal's (2002) data literacy model, the research explored the integration of literacy and dispositional elements and their impact on data literacy within the context of print news. Findings indicated a significant positive correlation between motivation, career aspirations, and data comprehension levels, suggesting a future-oriented pattern in consuming data in news. Additional findings further illuminate the gender gap in numeracy with respect to dispositional factors: while men excel in mental calculation, women are more adept at graph reading and information retrieval. These dispositional factors also contribute to the observed gender differences: motivational factors significantly influence men's perception of difficulty, whereas career aspirations play a pivotal role in enhancing women's comprehension abilities, leading them to perform better than men. The study highlights the need to consider evidence-based best practices for designing quantitative information in news, considering how audience disposition may influence the complexity, types, and organization of this information to enhance communication effectiveness. Such strategic presentation can significantly empower audiences, fostering informed decision-making and enhancing the quality of rational public discourse.
A Comparison of the Impact of Two Social Prescribing Patient Navigation Models on Health Care Utilization
Creators: name: Mahbub, Adiba
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: epidemiology
social prescribing
health care utilization

description: Objectives: This study compared the effects of two lay patient navigation models (ARC in-person primary care-based navigation vs. Ontario-211 provincially funded remote navigation) within a social prescribing program on health care utilization in Ontario. Methods: We conducted comparative analyses of patients who participated in the larger-scale ARC-211 RCT, using study data linked to health administrative data housed at ICES. Changes in outpatient care use between pre and post intervention periods and post-intervention acute care use were compared between study arms. Results: There was a trend towards a greater decrease in number of outpatient visits in the post-intervention period in the ARC arm compared to the 211 arm, and a trend of greater odds of at least one acute care episode in the 211 arm. These results were not statistically significant. Conclusions: The ARC in-person patient navigation approach may be beneficial in reducing health care utilization and warrants further investigation.
Noisy Production
Creators: name: Hyowon Gweon
name: Frank, Michael C.
name: Chuey, Aaron
name: Qing, Catherine
name: Rondeline M. Williams
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study explores how children adjust their own speech production when their auditory experience differs from someone else’s. The purpose of this study is to understand how children flexibly adapt their communication strategies under varied auditory access.
Pachyrhynchus negrosensis Schultze 1924
Creators: name: Rukmane, Anita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Pachyrhynchus
Pachyrhynchus negrosensis

description: 81. P. negrosensis Schultze, 1924
[Philippines, Negros]
description: Published as part of Rukmane, Anita, 2018, Anannotated Checklist Of Genuspachyrhynchus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Pachyrhynchini), pp. 63-68 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10601943
title: Millihertz Oscillations Near the Innermost Orbit of a Supermassive Black Hole
Creators: name: Masterson, Megan
name: Kara, Erin
name: Panagiotou, Christos
name: Alston, William N.
name: Chakraborty, Joheen
name: Burdge, Kevin
name: Ricci, Claudio
name: Laha, Sibasish
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Arcodia, Riccardo
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
name: Fabian, Andrew C.
name: Garc韆, Javier A.
name: Giustini, Margherita
name: Ingram, Adam
name: Kosec, Peter
name: Loewenstein, Michael
name: Meyer, Eileen T.
name: Miniutti, Giovanni
name: Pinto, Ciro
name: Remillard, Ronald A.
name: Sadaula, Dev R.
name: Shuvo, Onic Islam
name: Trakhtenbrot, Benny
name: Wang, Jingyi
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

description: Recent discoveries from time-domain surveys are defying our expectations for how matter accretes onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The increased rate of short-timescale, repetitive events around SMBHs, including the newly-discovered quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), are garnering further interest in stellar-mass companions around SMBHs and the progenitors to mHz frequency gravitational wave events. Here we report the discovery of a highly significant mHz Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) in an actively accreting SMBH, 1ES 1927+654, which underwent a major optical, UV, and X-ray outburst beginning in 2018. The QPO was first detected in 2022 with a roughly 18-minute period, corresponding to coherent motion on scales of less than 10 gravitational radii, much closer to the SMBH than typical QPEs. The period decreased to 7.1 minutes over two years with a decelerating period evolution ($\ddot{P} > 0$). This evolution has never been seen in SMBH QPOs or high-frequency QPOs in stellar mass black holes. Models invoking orbital decay of a stellar-mass companion struggle to explain the period evolution without stable mass transfer to offset angular momentum losses, while the lack of a direct analog to stellar mass black hole QPOs means that many instability models cannot explain all of the observed properties of the QPO in 1ES 1927+654. Future X-ray monitoring will test these models, and if it is a stellar-mass orbiter, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) should detect its low-frequency gravitational wave emission.
Neuroprotective Screening of Natural Phenolics in an MPTP-Induced Model of Parkinson’s Disease Using Zebrafish Larvae
Creators: name: Hedayatikatouli, Fatemeh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: Parkinson's Disease (PD)
Zebrafish model
Dopaminergic neurons
MPTP induction
Natural Phenolics

description: This study investigates the neuroprotective effects of Ascorbic Acid (AA), Vanillic Acid (VA), and Ferulic Acid (FA) in a zebrafish model of Parkinson's Disease (PD), induced by MPTP. The research focuses on dopaminergic neurons, assessing responses to these compounds in terms of gene expression, mitochondrial dynamics, cellular stress responses, and cardiac health. Using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and Immunohistochemistry (IHC), this study examines the influence of AA, VA, and FA on dopaminergic function and neuronal health. AA was found to enhance dopaminergic function, indicated by upregulation of the dopamine transporter (DAT) gene and an increase in eGFP+ dopaminergic cells, suggesting improved dopamine reuptake and potential neuroprotection. AA also positively affected mitochondrial dynamics and stress response pathways, countering MPTP-induced dysregulation. VA influenced dopaminergic pathways and showed a nuanced effect on mitochondrial dynamics, though its impact on cardiac abnormalities was limited. FA displayed significant neuroprotective effects through modulation of gene expression related to dopaminergic neurons and mitochondrial dynamics, with extended benefits to cardiac health. These findings suggest that AA, VA, and FA may serve as potential protective interventions for Parkinson's Disease, reflecting various beneficial effects at the molecular and cellular levels. However, the translation of these results to practical clinical applications requires further investigation. This study contributes to the understanding of neuroprotective strategies in neurodegenerative diseases, highlighting the need to consider interactions between physiological systems. The direct applicability of these results in clinical PD settings warrants extensive future research.
title: Multi-wavelength observations of a jet launch in real time from the post-changing-look Active Galaxy 1ES 1927+654
Creators: name: Laha, Sibasish
name: Meyer, Eileen T.
name: Sadaula, Dev R.
name: Ghosh, Ritesh
name: Sengupta, Dhrubojyoti
name: Masterson, Megan
name: Shuvo, Onic Islam
name: Guainazzi, Matteo
name: Ricci, Claudio
name: Begelman, Mitchell C.
name: Philippov, Alexander
name: Mbarek, Rostom
name: Hankla, Amelia M.
name: Kara, Erin
name: Panessa, Francesca
name: Behar, Ehud
name: Zhang, Haocheng
name: Pacucci, Fabio
name: Pal, Main
name: Ricci, Federica
name: Villani, Ilaria
name: Bisogni, Susanna
name: Franca, Fabio La
name: Bianchi, Stefano
name: Bruni, Gabriele
name: Oates, Samantha
name: Hahn, Cameron
name: Nicholl, Matt
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
name: Chattopadhyay, Sabyasachi
name: Gonzalez, Josefa Becerra
name: Acosta-Pulido, J. A.
name: Rakshit, Suvendu
name: Svoboda, Jiri
name: Gallo, Luigi
name: Ingram, Adam
name: Kakkad, Darshan
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
subject: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

description: We present results from a high cadence multi-wavelength observational campaign of the enigmatic changing look AGN 1ES 1927+654 from May 2022- April 2024, coincident with an unprecedented radio flare (an increase in flux by a factor of $\sim 60$ over a few months) and the emergence of a spatially resolved jet at $0.1-0.3$ pc scales (Meyer et al. 2024). Companion work has also detected a recurrent quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the $2-10$ keV band with an increasing frequency ($1-2$ mHz) over the same period (Masterson et al., 2025). During this time, the soft X-rays ($0.3-2$ keV) monotonically increased by a factor of $\sim 8$, while the UV emission remained near-steady with $<30\%$ variation and the $2-10$ keV flux showed variation by a factor $\lesssim 2$. The weak variation of the $2-10$ keV X-ray emission and the stability of the UV emission suggest that the magnetic energy density and accretion rate are relatively unchanged, and that the jet could be launched due to a reconfiguration of the magnetic field (toroidal to poloidal) close to the black hole. Advecting poloidal flux onto the event horizon would trigger the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism, leading to the onset of the jet. The concurrent softening of the coronal slope (from $\Gamma= 2.70\pm 0.04$ to $\Gamma=3.27\pm 0.04$), the appearance of a QPO, and low coronal temperature ($kT_{e}=8_{-3}^{+8}$ keV) during the radio outburst suggest that the poloidal field reconfiguration can significantly impact coronal properties and thus influence jet dynamics. These extraordinary findings in real time are crucial for coronal and jet plasma studies, particularly as our results are independent of coronal geometry.
title: The Anthropocene Confirms Human Transformation of the Earth System
Creators: name: Kaplan, Jed O.
name: Ellis, Erle C.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024

description: Human influences in the Earth System are now as important as variations in Earth抯 orbit around the sun and plate tectonics in controlling climate and many other Earth System processes, at least on societally relevant timescales. Humans move sediment, affect plant and animal populations, and emit greenhouse gases with magnitudes and rates that are well above preanthropogenic backgrounds, even compared to periods of abrupt change visible in geologic time. Traces of human activity are detectable in all major planetary spheres, from the lithosphere to the atmosphere, in the deep oceans, and in every terrestrial ecosystem. While geologists chose not to define the anthropocene as a geologic epoch, it remains a critical concept in the Earth sciences for recognizing the increasingly powerful influence of human societies in shaping the Earth System. Viewing the anthropocene as a complex and heterogeneous event that began gradually with the emergence of modern humans and continues to accelerate to the present acknowledges the way human societies have altered this planet, first locally and eventually globally, both inadvertently and intentionally. This deeper history of human-environment interactions is apparent from current evidence.
Representing ‘Native Speakers’ on English Language Teaching (ELT) Websites in China
Creators: name: Qin, Lanqing
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: native speakers
English language teaching (ELT)
Whiteness
representation
China
deconstruction

description: The ‘native speaker’ has been haunting the ELT profession for a long time. As I describe in my literature review, many recent debates about this term have revolved around problematic political meanings and effects derived from Chomsky’s construct of the ‘ideal monolingual native speaker.’ It persists in our field and continues to exert materialized impacts on both ‘non-native’ and ‘native’ professionals. My study is contributing to a group of critical scholarship which dismantle the stability of the ‘native speaker.’ Drawing on the theoretical framework of poststructuralism, particularly through the perspective of representation (Hall, 1997), my study examined the ways in which ‘native speakers’ were represented on a purposeful sample of ELT websites in contemporary China, where English education has been a significant part of the country’s modernization project. Through a critical discourse analysis of 8 ELT websites filtered from a corpus of 34 websites, I have worked to deconstruct the formation process of the category of ‘native speakers’ and reveal the power relations at work. I have looked at the “languages,” such as texts, images, linguistic uses, videos and physicality, being employed by these websites, which indicated to the audience who a ‘native speaker’ is and what they looked like. My analysis suggested that overall, the ELT websites saturated the term ‘native speaker’ with a hegemonic representation of young, gorgeous White English teachers of European and North American origins who speak in either British or American accent. These ‘native speakers’ were perceived to embody a certain way of thinking and performing the English language and represented a posh and fancy global world outside China. I showed that, at times, White male bodies were exploited as commodities to sell to students and projected with a hint of Occidental romanticism. I argue that Whiteness and accent are complexly entangled issues which have significant implications for understanding the native speaker construct in contemporary China, and that beyond this the websites are articulating the cultural hegemony of the English language. My analysis also shed light on a group of Filipino ‘non-native speaking’ English teachers represented as legitimate ELT professionals, which countered the White dominance and challenged the absolute authority of ‘native speakers’ as the ideal of English language teaching. My study calls for critical attention to the craze for standard accent in ELT and the British/American cultural hegemony behind this craze, as well as to the connection between Whiteness and the English language.
title: Temperature-Dependent Properties of Atomic Layer Deposition-Grown TiO2 Thin Films
Creators: name: Chowdhary, Nimarta Kaur
name: Gougousi, Theodosia
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: electrical properties
subject: secondary reaction pathways
subject: optical properties
subject: titanium oxynitride
subject: titanium oxide
subject: atomic layer deposition
subject: UMBC Materials Physics Lab

description: This study investigates the presence of titanium oxynitride bonds in titanium dioxide (TiO2) thin films grown by atomic layer deposition (ALD) using tetrakis dimethyl amino titanium (TDMAT) and water at temperatures between 150 and 350 癈 and its effect on the films� optical and electrical properties. Compositional analysis using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) reveals increased incorporation of oxynitride bonds as the process temperature increases. Furthermore, depth profile data demonstrates an increase in the abundance of this type of bonding from the surface to the bulk of the films. Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV-vis) measurements correlate increased visible light absorption for the films with elevated oxynitride incorporation. The optical constants (n, k) of the films show a pronounced dependence on the process temperature that is mirrored in the film conductivity. The detection of oxynitride bonding suggests a secondary reaction pathway in this well-established ALD process chemistry, that may impact film properties. These findings indicate that the choice of process chemistry and conditions can be used to optimize film properties for optoelectronic applications.
Design and Evaluation of a Powered Four-Bar Prosthetic Hip Joint
Creators: name: Botros, Michael
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: biomechanics
engineering design
evaluation
hip disarticulation
hemipelvectomy
powered hip
prosthesis
four-bar linkage

description: Hip-level amputees face challenges in ambulation due to the lack of residuum musculature and prosthetic hip actuator power. A powered four-bar hip, providing augmenting hip flexion-extension moments, was successfully designed, prototyped, and tested. The powered hip contains the Össur Power Knee 2 harmonic drive DC motor, providing up to 96 N-m of torque. Additionally, the powered hip contains a four-bar linkage to guide hip flexion-extension, and a torque transmission linkage to convert motor torque to a hip flexion-extension moment. Link lengths were optimized to balance size, weight, range of motion, mechanical advantage, and component forces. The powered hip prototype has mostly met the design criteria and has passed all ISO 15032:2000 A100 static compression tests. Furthermore, three able-bodied individuals, with an average weight of 96 kg, walked successfully with the powered hip by means of a hip-knee-ankle-foot prosthesis simulator. No prototype cracking or deformation were observed during testing. The powered hip would benefit from a supplementary bearing to reduce output bearing loading. Moreover, future design optimization could reduce device weight, improve cosmesis, and provide more mechanical advantage at larger hip flexion angles to improve device performance beyond level walking. Future powered hip evaluation with hip-level amputees will further inform device performance.
Pachyrhynchus neoabsurdus Rukmane 2017
Creators: name: Rukmane, Anita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Pachyrhynchus
Pachyrhynchus neoabsurdus

description: 82. P. neoabsurdus Rukmane, 2017
[Philippines, Mindanao]
description: Published as part of Rukmane, Anita, 2018, Anannotated Checklist Of Genuspachyrhynchus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Pachyrhynchini), pp. 63-68 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10601943
ARCHIVE - 11 July 2023 (Day 2) CERN – NASA Open Science Summit Sketch Notes
Creators: name: Seibold, Heidi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: CERN/NASA “Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science”, from July 10th-14th at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1254282/

11 July 2023 (Day 2) Open Data Sharing
Anoplodactylus spurius Stock 1992
Creators: name: Lucena, Rudá Amorim
name: Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Pycnogonida
Pantopoda
Phoxichilidiidae
Anoplodactylus
Anoplodactylus spurius

description: Anoplodactylus spurius Stock, 1992
Anoplodactylus spurius Stock, 1992: 132-134, figures 65–75.
Diagnosis: See Stock (1992).
Distribution: Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro (Stock, 1992).
Depth: From 19 to 220 m deep.
description: Published as part of Lucena, Rudá Amorim & Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, 2018, Anoplodactylus (Pycnogonida: Phoxichilidiidae) from Brazil, new records and two new species, pp. 372-388 in Turkish Journal of Zoology 42 (4) on page 380, DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1712-1, http://zenodo.org/record/10973843
Pachyrhynchus niisatoi Yoshitake 2017
Creators: name: Rukmane, Anita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Pachyrhynchus
Pachyrhynchus niisatoi

description: 83. P. niisatoi Yoshitake, 2017
[Philippines, Luzon]
description: Published as part of Rukmane, Anita, 2018, Anannotated Checklist Of Genuspachyrhynchus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Pachyrhynchini), pp. 63-68 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10601943
title: Stakeholder Perspectives on Providing Person-Centered Dementia Care in Low-Resource Long-Term Care Settings
Creators: name: Holmes, Sarah D
name: Rataj, Alison
name: Kusmaul, Nancy
name: Wang, Jing
name: Kim, Yoon Chung
name: Murray, Briana
name: Davie, Laura
name: Lepore, Michael
name: Corazzini, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description: Background There is a growing number of residents living with dementia (RLWD) in long-term care (LTC) settings, but dementia care access and quality are more limited in communities with fewer health resources and these limitations are exacerbated by current dementia care workforce shortages. Low-resource LTC settings, including poorer urban and rural settings, serve older adults who are at high risk for health inequities in dementia care. These settings can experience barriers in providing quality dementia care due to their limited ability to capture pertinent information about residents� needs and preferences and ensuring that information is known by dementia care staff. Although there is evidence about the consequences of care inequities for RLWD in low-resource LTC settings, less is known about stakeholders� perspectives about key issues and opportunities for improving dementia care. This study describes stakeholder perspectives regarding the collection and sharing of information about RLWD for supporting quality dementia care in low-resource LTC settings. Method This was a community-based, participatory research study in four low-resource LTC settings (two rural, two urban) in the United States. All four settings were in medically underserved areas with two rural settings in New Hampshire and two urban settings in Maryland. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of participants (8 administrators/leaders, 20 care staff, 20 RLWD, and 20 care partners). Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and thematically analyzed in NVivo12. Result Themes were identified in four core topic areas: 1) identifying information about RLWD to support quality care; 2) finding and accessing information by the care team; 3) sharing information with RLWD; and 4) describing quality measures most relevant for RLWD. Within each theme, subthemes were identified providing greater detail of the process for identifying, collection, and sharing information for supporting quality dementia care. Conclusion This study revealed complexities in providing care for RLWD in diverse low-resource communities and generates directions for addressing dementia care inequities. The findings shed light on practical strategies used by low-resource LTC settings and motivate future research on measuring dementia care quality and advancing capacity among RLWD, their families, and care staff for inclusive, person-centered dementia care.
title: Use of Design Thinking to Develop Approaches to Collect and Use Person-Centered Dementia Care Measures in Low-Resource Long-Term Care Settings
Creators: name: Corazzini, Kirsten
name: Lepore, Michael
name: Kusmaul, Nancy
name: Wang, Jing
name: Rataj, Alison
name: Kim, Yoon Chung
name: Murray, Briana
name: Davie, Laura
name: McConnell, Eleanor S
name: Holmes, Sarah D
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description: Background Low-resource residential long-term care (LTC) settings, including settings located in medically underserved and health professional shortage communities, have fewer environmental resources to support high-quality, robust data collection and use of measures to support person-centered dementia care (PCC). Further, such settings are more likely to serve older adults from populations that have experienced historic harms related to misuse of personal data, including low-income and minoritized populations. Design thinking engages community-members to understand a problem from the end-user抯 perspective (empathize and define), brainstorm new solutions (ideate), and develop proposed solutions (prototype and test). This study describes the development of user-design workshops to co-develop, with residents living with dementia (RLWD), their family members and care staff, a person-centered measurement collection and data sharing infrastructure in low-resource residential dementia care settings. Methods The overall approach is a multi-method, community-based, participatory research study with design thinking principles. Stakeholders in each of four low-resource LTC settings provided in depth perspectives on collecting and sharing data about RLWD to support PCC. Results from qualitative thematic analysis informed the development of user-design workshops to co-design feasible and acceptable data collection and use protocols. Results Residents, relatives, and staff community members (N = 68 participants) were recruited from 4 low-resource residential LTC settings (N = 2 rural, 2 urban settings). Journey maps were developed to capture community-member perspectives by drawing upon themes in each of four key areas: identifying information for care; accessing information for care; sharing information for care; and prioritizing information for care. Journey maps provided the structure to develop co-design workshop protocols to re-engage community-members to empathize, define, ideate, and prototype acceptable and feasible data collection and data sharing protocols of PCC measures. Conclusion Findings from this study capture multiple facilitators and barriers to robust data collection and use protocols in resource-constrained LTC environments. However, findings also demonstrate the potential for user-centered design approaches to generate novel solutions in ways that honor the perspectives of RLWD, their family members, and the staff who care for them. Ultimately, such approaches contribute to the growth of inclusive research infrastructure to grow capacity for high quality, person-centered dementia care.
Anoplodactylus typhlops Sars 1888
Creators: name: Lucena, Rudá Amorim
name: Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Pycnogonida
Pantopoda
Phoxichilidiidae
Anoplodactylus
Anoplodactylus typhlops

description: Anoplodactylus typhlops Sars, 1888
Anoplodactylus typhlops Sars, 1888: 341-342, plate 2, figures 3a–3c; Sars, 1891: 29-31, plate II, figures 3a–3e; Carpenter, 1905: 175, plate III, figures 12–19; Stephensen, 1933: 44-45, figure 12; Hedgpeth, 1948: 228-229, figures 29a–29c; Stock, 1955: 235-236, figure 12a; Turpaeva, 1973: 181-183, plate I, figures 1–8; Stock, 1991: 207, figure 55.
Anoplodactylus neglectus Hoek, 1898: 293-295, figures 7–10.
Anoplodactylus pelagicus Flynn, 1928: 25-27, figures 14a–14b; Barnard, 1954: 128, figures 19a– 19g.
Diagnosis: See Barnard (1954).
Distribution: Brazil (off Pernambuco), Bermuda, northwest coast of Africa, South Africa, Spain, Ireland, Norway, from Prince Edward to Crozet Islands, Tasman Sea, Costa Rica (Cocos Ridge), Gulf of Alaska (Hedgpeth, 1948; Child, 1992; Müller, 1993; Raiskiy and Turpaeva, 2006).
Depth: From 900 to 3620 m deep.
description: Published as part of Lucena, Rudá Amorim & Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, 2018, Anoplodactylus (Pycnogonida: Phoxichilidiidae) from Brazil, new records and two new species, pp. 372-388 in Turkish Journal of Zoology 42 (4) on page 381, DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1712-1, http://zenodo.org/record/10973843
Pachyrhynchus nitcisii Rukmane & Barsevskis 2016
Creators: name: Rukmane, Anita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Pachyrhynchus
Pachyrhynchus nitcisii

description: 84. P. nitcisii Rukmane & Barševskis, 2016
[Philippines, Mindanao]
description: Published as part of Rukmane, Anita, 2018, Anannotated Checklist Of Genuspachyrhynchus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Pachyrhynchini), pp. 63-68 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10601943
title: KGIF: Optimizing Relation-Aware Recommendations with Knowledge Graph Information Fusion
Creators: name: Jeon, Dong Hyun
name: Sun, Wenbo
name: Song, Houbing
name: Liu, Dongfang
name: Alvaro, Velasquez
name: Xie, Yixin Chloe
name: Niu, Shuteng
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Science - Machine Learning
subject: Computer Science - Information Retrieval
subject: UMBC Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory (SONG Lab)

description: IEEE Big Data 2024
description: While deep-learning-enabled recommender systems demonstrate strong performance benchmarks, many struggle to adapt effectively in real-world environments due to limited use of user-item relationship data and insufficient transparency in recommendation generation. Traditional collaborative filtering approaches fail to integrate multifaceted item attributes, and although Factorization Machines account for item-specific details, they overlook broader relational patterns. Collaborative knowledge graph-based models have progressed by embedding user-item interactions with item-attribute relationships, offering a holistic perspective on interconnected entities. However, these models frequently aggregate attribute and interaction data in an implicit manner, leaving valuable relational nuances underutilized. This study introduces the Knowledge Graph Attention Network with Information Fusion (KGIF), a specialized framework designed to merge entity and relation embeddings explicitly through a tailored self-attention mechanism. The KGIF framework integrates reparameterization via dynamic projection vectors, enabling embeddings to adaptively represent intricate relationships within knowledge graphs. This explicit fusion enhances the interplay between user-item interactions and item-attribute relationships, providing a nuanced balance between user-centric and item-centric representations. An attentive propagation mechanism further optimizes knowledge graph embeddings, capturing multi-layered interaction patterns. The contributions of this work include an innovative method for explicit information fusion, improved robustness for sparse knowledge graphs, and the ability to generate explainable recommendations through interpretable path visualization.
ARCHIVE - 12 July 2023 (Day 3) Opening: Open-Source for Open Science
Creators: name: Naim, Kamran
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: CERN/NASA “Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science”, from July 10th-14th at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1254282/

12 July 2023 (Day 3) Open-Source for Open Science

Watch the recording of this contribution here: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2864994
title: Non-stop Variability of Sgr A* using JWST at 2.1 and 4.8 micron Wavelengths: Evidence for Distinct Populations of Faint and Bright Variable Emission
Creators: name: Yusef-Zadeh, F.
name: Bushouse, H.
name: Arendt, Richard
name: Wardle, M.
name: Michail, J. M.
name: Chandler, C. J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
subject: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

description: We present first results of JWST Cycle 1 and 2 observations of Sgr A* using NIRCam taken simultaneously at 2.1 and 4.8 micron for a total of ~48 hours over seven different epochs in 2023 and 2024. We find correlated variability at 2.1 and 4.8 micron in all epochs, continual short-time scale (a few seconds) variability and epoch-to-epoch variable emission implying long-term ( ~days to months) variability of Sgr A*. A highlight of this analysis is the evidence for sub-minute, horizon-scale time variability of Sgr A*, probing inner accretion disk size scales. The power spectra of the light curves in each observing epoch also indicate long-term variable emission. With continuous observations, JWST data suggest that the flux of Sgr A* is fluctuating constantly. The flux density correlation exhibits a distinct break in the slope at ~3 mJy at 2.1 micron. The analysis indicates two different processes contributing to the variability of Sgr A*. Brighter emission trends towards shallower spectral indices than the fainter emission. Cross correlation of the light curves indicates for the first time, a time delay of 3 - 40 sec in the 4.8 micron variability with respect to 2.1 micron. This phase shift leads to loops in plots of flux density vs spectral index as the emission rises and falls. Modeling suggests that the synchrotron emission from the evolving, age-stratified electron population reproduces the shape of the observed light curves with a direct estimate of the magnetic field strengths in the range between 40-90 G, and upper cutoff energy, E_c, between 420 and 720 MeV.
ARCHIVE - 12 July 2023 (Day 3) Summit Keynote: Towards a software pillar for open science: from policy to implementation
Creators: name: Di Cosmo, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: CERN/NASA “Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science”, from July 10th-14th at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1254282/

12 July 2023 (Day 3) 2023 Summit Keynote

Watch the recording of this contribution here: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2865004
Pachyrhynchus nobilis Heller 1912
Creators: name: Rukmane, Anita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Pachyrhynchus
Pachyrhynchus nobilis

description: 85. P. nobilis Heller, 1912
[Philippines]
description: Published as part of Rukmane, Anita, 2018, Anannotated Checklist Of Genuspachyrhynchus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Pachyrhynchini), pp. 63-68 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10601943
title: Human-Readable Adversarial Prompts: An Investigation into LLM Vulnerabilities Using Situational Context
Creators: name: Das, Nilanjana
name: Raff, Edward
name: Gaur, Manas
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
subject: UMBC Ebiquity Research Group
subject: UMBC Discovery, Research, and Experimental Analysis of Malware Lab (DREAM Lab)
subject: UMBC Interactive Robotics and Language Lab (IRAL Lab)
subject: Computer Science - Computation and Language

description: Previous research on LLM vulnerabilities often relied on nonsensical adversarial prompts, which were easily detectable by automated methods. We address this gap by focusing on human-readable adversarial prompts, a more realistic and potent threat. Our key contributions are situation-driven attacks leveraging movie scripts to create contextually relevant, human-readable prompts that successfully deceive LLMs, adversarial suffix conversion to transform nonsensical adversarial suffixes into meaningful text, and AdvPrompter with p-nucleus sampling, a method to generate diverse, human-readable adversarial suffixes, improving attack efficacy in models like GPT-3.5 and Gemma 7B. Our findings demonstrate that LLMs can be tricked by sophisticated adversaries into producing harmful responses with human-readable adversarial prompts and that there exists a scope for improvement when it comes to robust LLMs.
Mislocatus ealensis Vanschuytbroeck 1951
Creators: name: Papp, László
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sphaeroceridae
Mislocatus
Mislocatus ealensis

description: Mislocatus ealensis (Vanschuytbroeck, 1951)
Material studied: 1 male paratype: 1) Congo-belge, Eala— 24-V-1935, J. Ghesquière, 527; 2) P. Vanschuytbroeck det. 1951 “ Ceroptera ealensis Vansch. ” [Vanschuytbroeck’s handwriting]; 3) [red] Para-type; 4) cf. Bull. Inst. Sc. Nat. Belg. “T. XXVII, no. 33, 1951, p. 11”. 1 male (BMSA) 1 female (HNHM, abdomen and genitalia prepared and kept in a plastic microvial with glycerol): Malaise traps, broad-leafed deciduous woodland—RSA, KZN, Ndumi Game R., main camp at: 26° 54.652’ S, 32° 19.719’ E, 27–30.xi.2009, A. H. Kirk-Spriggs.
Description. Measurements in mm: body length 1.26 (paratype male), 1.20 (male), 1.47 mm (female), wing length 1.23 (paratype male), 1.10 (male), 1.32 mm (female), wing width 0.54, 0.52, 0.66 (female).
Legs (see Papp 2008, p. 62). Mid tibia with 2 antero-dorsals at 5/16 and 3/4, 1 dorsal seta at 13/16, 1 posterodorsal at 25/32, i.e. slightly distal to distal 3/4 of tibia.
Wing membrane greyish yellow, all veins ochreous. Fringe on the first section of costal vein not much longer than on its second section 0.03–0.032 mm). Second costal section much shorter than third (0.29 mm vs 0.60 mm). Costal vein long overruns apex of R4+5. Vein R4+5 concave, apex slightly bent up. Intra-crossvein of M1+2 0.14 mm, M-M crossvein 0.11 mm. Lower edge of discal cell slightly more than 90. M1+2 although faint, traceable to wing margin. M3+4 appendage longer than crossvein. Anal vein lengthened to the level of R-M. Alula small and narrow.
Female. Abdominal tergite 1+2 0.25 long, tergite 2 0.40 mm long, longest marginal setae on tergite 2 0.17– 0.18 mm, 8–9 such long setae present. Tergite 3 0.26–0.27 mm broad, also weakly sclerotised, appearing bipartite, trapezoid in all. Tergite 4 0.20 * 0.10 mm with a pair of 0.08 mm long marginal setae. Sternites broad, setae sparse (e.g. only 6 long marginal caudal setae on sternite 4), membrane between tergites and sternites with long setae. Epandrium with at least 5 very long lateral pairs of setae, up to 0.12 mm.
Remarks. Although only 1 species in the new genus Mislocatus is known at present, I think, the shape and the number of pegs on its process of male sternite 5, the shape of cercus, the shape and armature of surstylus, the shape of postgonite are characteristic for a species only. That is, if one finds a second species, we may expect different shapes and setae in those structures. I described them in the characterisation of the genus, but I would stress only those features which permit a safe separation from the related genera.
description: Published as part of Papp, László, 2014, New genera of Afrotropical limosinine sphaerocerids (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae), pp. 101-130 in Zootaxa 3764 (2) on page 116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3764.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/227668
Pachyrhynchus nobilis subsp. yamianus Kano 1929
Creators: name: Rukmane, Anita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Pachyrhynchus
Pachyrhynchus nobilis
Ssp. yamianus kano, 1929

description: ssp. yamianus Kano, 1929
[Taiwan]
description: Published as part of Rukmane, Anita, 2018, Anannotated Checklist Of Genuspachyrhynchus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Pachyrhynchini), pp. 63-68 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10601943