cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
3D microstructure characterization of Cu 25Cr solid state sintered alloy using X-ray computed tomography and machine learning assisted segmentation
Creators: name: Varoto, Lucas
name: Blandin, Jean-Jacques
name: Lhuissier, Pierre
name: Roure, Sophie
name: Papillon, Anthony
name: Chosson, Mélissa
name: Martin, Guilhem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cu-Cr-based alloys with Cr content from 5 to 50 wt.% are widely used as electrical contacts for vacuum interrupters for medium voltage applications because of their excellent combination of mechanical, thermal, and electrical conductivity. Cu-Cr electrical contacts are usually processed by sintering or casting processes. For solid-state sintered Cu-Cr materials, the physical properties vary as a function of the Cr content, phase morphology and porosity volume fraction. Some studies have investigated the effect of the microstructural characteristics of Cu-Cr alloys with different Cr content and morphology on their properties. However, the porosity characterization and Cr spatial distribution and how they affect these alloys' physical properties are not as well documented. In this study, we report an in-depth 3D characterization of the porosity and Cr-phase of solid-state sintered Cu-25Cr alloys with three final relative densities using X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT). An image analysis algorithm assisted by a machine learning-based segmentation method has been specifically developed. Results show that for Cu-25Cr solid sintered alloys there are mainly two types of pores, pores located at the Cu/Cr interfaces, and pores within the Cu matrix. The interfacial porosity represents the larger volume fraction, over 75% of the total porosity for all cases, forming a large network of interconnected pores. With the increase of final density, the Cu-matrix becomes nearly fully dense while interfacial pores still represent the largest fraction decreases in size and volume. These interfacial pores networks are believed to be formed due to poor filling and packing of Cu around the percolated Cr-phase. These observations might be helpful to optimize the functional properties of Cu-Cr sintered alloys.
title: Liste de mots en chru lue par un locuteur né à Điom A - Đơn Dương en 1957
Creators: name: Brunelle, Marc
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Chru

description: Social Sciences and humanities Research Council of Canada 435-2017-0498: Voicing and its transphonologization: the initiation and actuation of a sound change in Southeast Asia
An updated MILES stellar library and stellar population models
Creators: name: Falcón-Barroso, J.
name: Sánchez-Blázquez, P.
name: Vazdekis, A.
name: Ricciardelli, E.
name: Cardiel, N.
name: Cenarro, A. J.
name: Gorgas, J.
name: Peletier, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Aims) We present a number of improvements to the MILES library and stellar population models. We correct some small errors in the radial velocities of the stars, measure the spectral resolution of the library and models more accurately, and give a better absolute flux calibration of the models. (Methods) We use cross-correlation techniques to correct the radial velocities of the offset stars and the penalised pixel-fitting method, together with different sets of stellar templates, to re-assess the spectral resolution of the MILES stellar library and models. We have also re-calibrated the zero-point flux level of the models using a new calibration scheme. (Results) The end result is an even more homogeneously calibrated stellar library than the originally released one, with a measured spectral resolution of ~2.5Å, almost constant with wavelength, for both the MILES stellar library and models. Furthermore, the new absolute flux calibration for the spectra excellently agrees with predictions based on independent photometric libraries. (Conclusions) This improved version of the MILES library and models (version 9.1) is available at the project's website (http://miles.iac.es).
description: 7 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics (Research Note)
Making mentoring meaningful
Creators: name: Morris, Robert
name: Fern, Rebecca
name: Rasab, Usman
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2022

description: Mentoring is most often defined as a professional relationship in which an experienced person assists another in developing specific skills and knowledge that will enhance the less-experienced person’s professional and personal growth. The Master of Pharmacy teaching team has developed a near-peer mentoring framework that encourages Level 6 students to support Level 4 students and Level 7 students to support Level 5 students. This aimed to put students at the heart of the scheme. A small number of volunteers piloted the scheme and made suggestions on how it could be rolled out across the Pharmacy Programme. Care was taken to ensure staff only needed a small amount of input to allow the scheme to operate. Some general mentoring information was provided to all students and some leadership techniques were introduced to mentors. Engagement was encouraged by inclusion in a professional development portfolio assessment and was recorded by short Canvas quizzes. Quiz responses generated feedback to students. The scheme has been in place since September 2019 and students have reported a substantial number of positive outcomes. Unsurprisingly mentees appreciate support with course related matters but also have indicated benefits relating to stress management and confidence. Mentors have reported several personal development benefits when acting as mentors. We plan to outline the structure of the scheme and indicate some of the benefits as well as a few difficulties. We will outline the way we structured the Canvas quizzes to provide feedback Students will present some of their individual experiences of mentoring. We believe similar mentoring arrangements could be useful to students on other Programmes. We believe this mentoring demonstrates the LJMU value of being Student Focused and also has encouraged an inclusive culture on the MPharm that would be beneficial to other disciplines
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2022: Students at the Heart Conference
Optimized Self-Similar Borel Summation
Creators: name: Gluzman, S.
name: Yukalov, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The method of Fractional Borel Summation is suggested in conjunction with self-similar factor approximants. The method used for extrapolating asymptotic expansions at small variables to large variables, including the variables tending to infinity, is described. The method is based on the combination of optimized perturbation theory, self-similar approximation theory, and Borel-type transformations. General Borel Fractional transformation of the original series is employed. The transformed series is resummed in order to adhere to the asymptotic power laws. The starting point is the formulation of dynamics in the approximations space by employing the notion of self-similarity. The flow in the approximation space is controlled, and ``deep'' control is incorporated into the definitions of the self-similar approximants. The class of self-similar approximations, satisfying, by design, the power law behavior, such as the use of self-similar factor approximants, is chosen for the reasons of transparency, explicitness, and convenience. A detailed comparison of different methods is performed on a rather large set of examples, employing self-similar factor approximants, self-similar iterated root approximants, as well as the approximation technique of self-similarly modified Pade - Borel approximations.
description: 39 pages, 10 tables
Molecular Dynamics Studies on the Structural Stability of Wild-Type Rabbit Prion Protein: Surface Electrostatic Charge Distributions
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiapu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Prion diseases cover a large range of neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals, which are invariably fatal and highly infectious. By now there have not been some effective therapeutic approaches or medications to treat all prion diseases. Fortunately, numerous experimental experiences have showed that rabbits are resistant to infection from prion diseases isolated from other species, and recently the molecular structures of rabbit prion protein and its mutants were released into protein data bank. Prion diseases are "protein structural conformational" diseases. Thus, in order to reveal some secrets of prion diseases, it is amenable to study rabbits by techniques of the molecular structure and its dynamics. Wen et al. (PLoS One 5(10) e13273 (2010), Journal of Biological Chemistry 285(41) 31682-31693 (2010)) reported the surface of NMR RaPrPC(124-228) molecular snapshot has a large land of continuous positive charge distribution, which contributes to the structural stability of rabbit prion protein. This is just the property at one snapshot. This paper confirms a large land of positive charge distribution has still been reserved during the long molecular dynamics of 30 nanoseconds in many environments, but the continuous of the land has not been always reserved yet. These results may be useful for the medicinal treatment of prion diseases.
description: Invited book-chapter for book: Bioinformatics Research: New Developments (Professor Jean-Michel VERDIER Eds.), Nova Science Publishers, 2011
Parameter Exchange for Robust Dynamic Domain Generalization
Creators: name: Lin, Luojun
name: Shen, Zhifeng
name: Sun, Zhishu
name: Yu, Yuanlong
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Chen, Weijie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Agnostic domain shift is the main reason of model degradation on the unknown target domains, which brings an urgent need to develop Domain Generalization (DG). Recent advances at DG use dynamic networks to achieve training-free adaptation on the unknown target domains, termed Dynamic Domain Generalization (DDG), which compensates for the lack of self-adaptability in static models with fixed weights. The parameters of dynamic networks can be decoupled into a static and a dynamic component, which are designed to learn domain-invariant and domain-specific features, respectively. Based on the existing arts, in this work, we try to push the limits of DDG by disentangling the static and dynamic components more thoroughly from an optimization perspective. Our main consideration is that we can enable the static component to learn domain-invariant features more comprehensively by augmenting the domain-specific information. As a result, the more comprehensive domain-invariant features learned by the static component can then enforce the dynamic component to focus more on learning adaptive domain-specific features. To this end, we propose a simple yet effective Parameter Exchange (PE) method to perturb the combination between the static and dynamic components. We optimize the model using the gradients from both the perturbed and non-perturbed feed-forward jointly to implicitly achieve the aforementioned disentanglement. In this way, the two components can be optimized in a mutually-beneficial manner, which can resist the agnostic domain shifts and improve the self-adaptability on the unknown target domain. Extensive experiments show that PE can be easily plugged into existing dynamic networks to improve their generalization ability without bells and whistles.
description: Accepted by ACM MM 2023. Source code: https://github.com/MetaVisionLab/PE
MetaFBP: Learning to Learn High-Order Predictor for Personalized Facial Beauty Prediction
Creators: name: Lin, Luojun
name: Shen, Zhifeng
name: Yin, Jia-Li
name: Liu, Qipeng
name: Yu, Yuanlong
name: Chen, Weijie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Predicting individual aesthetic preferences holds significant practical applications and academic implications for human society. However, existing studies mainly focus on learning and predicting the commonality of facial attractiveness, with little attention given to Personalized Facial Beauty Prediction (PFBP). PFBP aims to develop a machine that can adapt to individual aesthetic preferences with only a few images rated by each user. In this paper, we formulate this task from a meta-learning perspective that each user corresponds to a meta-task. To address such PFBP task, we draw inspiration from the human aesthetic mechanism that visual aesthetics in society follows a Gaussian distribution, which motivates us to disentangle user preferences into a commonality and an individuality part. To this end, we propose a novel MetaFBP framework, in which we devise a universal feature extractor to capture the aesthetic commonality and then optimize to adapt the aesthetic individuality by shifting the decision boundary of the predictor via a meta-learning mechanism. Unlike conventional meta-learning methods that may struggle with slow adaptation or overfitting to tiny support sets, we propose a novel approach that optimizes a high-order predictor for fast adaptation. In order to validate the performance of the proposed method, we build several PFBP benchmarks by using existing facial beauty prediction datasets rated by numerous users. Extensive experiments on these benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed MetaFBP method.
description: Accepted by ACM MM 2023. Source code: https://github.com/MetaVisionLab/MetaFBP
University walking classrooms: is there potential to maximise engagement, academic outcomes and holistic health in students?
Creators: name: Starkey, Sally-Ann
name: Johnston, Wendy
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2022

description: Following recent COVID-19 related restrictions and changes to working and studying practices, it has been noted that student (and staff) wellbeing, mental health, engagement in teaching and learning (online and F2F) may have been negatively impacted upon. All of which could have potential implications for current and future academic outcomes. Wellbeing (physical, mental and social), cognitive performance, attention, concentration and engagement have been shown to increase and improve during and following time spent outdoors and/or with exposure to natural spaces, in both children and older students. Walking classrooms and seminars, where students are tasked to complete curriculum-based activity away from desks and outside, have also been shown to have positive health and/or academic related outcomes. This is contrary to traditional indoor teaching spaces (online and F2F), where students are often sedentary for extended periods and dependent on teaching and learning styles may allegedly disengage or lose focus after just 10 minutes Whilst most walking classroom work has been undertaken with children, recent research has suggested that academic and holistic health related benefits could also be seen in and accrued by HE students. It is also recognised as an area of work that requires further investigation within an HE setting to examine viability and potential outcomes Session purpose: • To provide an overview of walking classrooms and current research findings (10 mins) • To engage the audience in a workshop task to ascertain their (students and staff) thoughts, perceptions and feelings (positive and negative) about the use of and participating in walking classrooms at university. (15 minutes) • To utilise collated information to design and deliver walking classroom activity and related impact measurement in the 22/23 academic year.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2022: Students at the Heart Conference
A blended integrated-learning approach for career-oriented student success
Creators: name: Henney, Neil
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2022

description: The pharmacy degree programme has for the past 6 years run with a 120 credit ‘module’ structure. More recently, in partnership with our students, we chose to permanently convert most of what used to be didactic lecture content into asynchronous structured “study packs” to allow students greater flexibility and autonomy in learning underpinning course content. And in return we are focusing our on-campus teaching and learning activities almost exclusively on the application of knowledge and skills, rather than knowledge acquisition, in small group teaching. Aside from professional obligations, our reasons stem from a desire to offer student-centred learning and skills development by allowing students to take greater responsibility for and ownership of their education, and to better integrate the curriculum content across the science and practice spectrum so that students understand how all aspects of their learning interconnect and relate to professional practice. This has proved to be a success in changing how students learn and prepare themselves for their professional careers, but it hasn’t been without its challenges. In this talk, we want to share our honest experiences of challenging the norms to develop a student-centred approach to teaching and learning that allows greater student freedom, autonomy and inclusivity, with the goal of delivering a rewarding, community-oriented and professionally focused student experience. Others may find our experiences of interest when thinking about the design of programme structures when aiming to provide a tailored career-oriented student experience.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2022: Students at the Heart Conference
Determining Graphene Adhesion via Substrate-regulated Morphology of Graphene
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhao
name: Li, Teng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the adhesion between graphene and other materials is crucial for achieving more reliable graphene-based applications in electronic devices and nanocomposites. The ultra-thin profile of graphene, however, poses significant challenge to direct measurement of its adhesion property using conventional approaches. We show that there is a strong correlation between the morphology of graphene on a compliant substrate with patterned surface and the graphene-substrate adhesion. We establish an analytic model to quantitatively determine such a strong correlation. Results show that, depending on the graphene-substrate adhesion, number of graphene layers and substrate stiffness, graphene exhibits two distinct types of morphology: I) graphene remains bonded to the substrate and corrugates to an amplitude up to that of the substrate surface patterns; II) graphene debonds from the substrate and remains flat on top of the substrate surface patterns. The sharp transition between these two types of graphene morphology occurs at a critical adhesion between the graphene and the compliant substrate material. These results potentially open up a feasible pathway to measuring the adhesion property of graphene.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
Using the virtual learning environment to build an inclusive learning development service
Creators: name: Beaumont, Casey
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2022

description: Prior to the pandemic, the library’s Academic Achievement Team provided learning development support in predominantly face-to-face forms. This was supplemented by a range of self-study resources made available on the library webpages and in a number of self-enrol Canvas courses. In response to disruptions to student access and experience in 2020, and to address increased barriers to learning and understanding of study and assessment practices, a new Academic Achievement Canvas course was created that specifically focuses on student transition and the development of assessment literacy. The course includes a range of asynchronous videos, presentations and quizzes which scaffold development of academic and digital literacy and self-efficacy. These resources are complemented by a live webinar series, regular chats, discussions, and virtual drop-ins, which further aim to support students’ understanding of academic practice. The course was designed in five iterations aligning to the university faculties, both to foster a sense of belonging and development of learning communities at that level, and in recognition of the distinct learning and assessment practices across subject areas. In an approach that seeks to normalise learning development support, and to reduce barriers to engagement, the course was made automatically available to students using a SIS-integration Canvas enrolment method. This was trialled in 2020 with all first-year students, and led to increased levels of engagement, particularly by Access and Participation Plan target groups. In 2021, enrolment was expanded to include students at all levels of study and the course now appears automatically on all student Canvas dashboards. This session will explore how an assessment-literacy, faculty-based, automatic-enrolment approach can enhance both student engagement and inclusive learning support practices. It will also provide an overview of how the Academic Achievement Canvas courses can be used within faculties and academic programmes, for example as part of formative assessment, and as a resource to support individual students’ learning development.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2022: Students at the Heart Conference
Decolonising the Curriculum Workshop
Creators: name: Koyama, Nicola
name: Hie, Maire
name: Maclennan, Sarah
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2022

description: The call to begin decolonising UK university curricula is widespread and recommended by many organisations, including the Office for Students, Advance HE, Higher Education Policy Institute, and Universities UK. Evidence is now available from several universities that this approach is effective in narrowing the ethnicity awarding gap. Decolonising the curriculum is a long-term process involving continual self-reflection. The LJMU Decolonising The Curriculum Working Group was established in March 2021 to coordinate activity across LJMU and whilst it is apparent that all Schools are initiating or developing activity, progress is at early stages. This workshop provides an opportunity to reflect on the breadth of activities, and some of the current challenges, including what decolonising the curriculum means, our positionality and goals, how to engage staff with simple efficient steps whilst avoiding the tokenistic action and what progress is being made. After three lightning presentations, there will be the opportunity for reflection of where we are now, main challenges and discussion of next steps. The 5 minute talks will provide a brief overview of activity across the university, staff perspectives, from the Faculties of Science and Arts, Professional & Social Studies, and a student perspective, to stimulate discussion: • Dr Nicola Koyama, Chair of the Decolonising The Curriculum Working Group, Faculty of Science • Miss Marie Hie, Black Asian & Minority Ethnic Student Officer (and Incoming 2022-23 JMSU President), John Moores Student Union • Dr Sarah Maclennan, Associate Dean for Education, Faculty of Arts, Professional & Social Studies The talks will be followed by open discussion groups to allow attendees to freely exchange information and ideas. Wherever support and/or resource needs are identified, these will be gathered, shared and fed back to the Decolonising The Curriculum Working Group to help us continue our journey towards decolonising the curriculum.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2022: Students at the Heart Conference
Creativity for inclusion: empowering the margins
Creators: name: Matthews-Jones, Lucinda
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2022

description: Assessments are often the most important part of a module for students, dominating their attention throughout. As practitioners, we need to create inclusive assessment practices if we want to dismantle the social and cultural barriers that prevent students from achieving. With this in mind, I developed a creative independent project that allows students with a diversity of non-traditional historical skills to showcase their talents. For the past eight years, students in my final year nineteenth-century British urban history module, ‘Victorian Cities’, have taken charge of their assessments to either produce a faux primary source or independent project. This follows the North American assessment model of the ‘unessay’. Little did I know that I would be marking assessments in the form of board games, radio shows, sewing projects, creative writing projects, and interactive exhibition boards when I first embarked on this assessment model. These creative outputs are not normally the staple form of student assessment in history / humanities teaching. In this paper I will introduce you to the creative independent project. I will show how this assessment model disrupts the standard norms of historical pedagogy to give power to the student, which in turn creates an authentic assessment experience. After all, the student chooses what form their output takes and utilizes skills usually developed beyond the classroom. Finally, I will discuss the ways in which this assessment model empowers marginalised students and staff.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2022: Students at the Heart Conference
Fission of 215Fr studied with gamma spectroscopic methods
Creators: name: Miernik, K.
name: Korgul, A.
name: Poklepa, W.
name: Wilson, J. N.
name: Charles, G.
name: Czajkowski, S.
name: Czyż, P.
name: Fijałkowska, A.
name: Fraile, L. M.
name: Garczyński, P.
name: Hauschild, K.
name: Hiver, C.
name: Kurtukian-Nieto, T.
name: Lebois, M.
name: Llanos, M.
name: Lopez-Martens, A.
name: Treasa, K. M. Deby
name: Ljungvall, J.
name: Matea, I.
name: Mielczarek, J.
name: Murias, J. R.
name: Pasqualato, G.
name: Skruch, A.
name: Solak, K.
name: Stoyachev, K.
name: Tsekhanovich, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: Asymmetric fission is known to occur in two regions, the actinides and sub-lead, and is dependent on the fissioning system excitation energy. Experimental evidence in the sub-lead region show that this mode is surprisingly persistent with increasing energy and its origin is not fully understood. Purpose: To experimentally study the fusion-fission reaction of $^{215}$Fr at moderate excitation energy and determine previously unknown independent fission yields and other properties. Method: The compound nucleus was formed in the reaction $^{18}$O + $^{197}$Au. The prompt gamma-rays emitted during the reaction were measured with the high efficiency and high granularity $ν$-ball2 spectrometer. Independent fission yields of even-even nuclei were determined by detecting triple-gamma cascades in the fission fragments. Results: The observed yields, although dominated by a symmetric peak, show maxima for heavy fragment of $Z \approx 54-56$, which is consistent with the known results in the actinide region but unexpected for the nuclide of interest, and at the studied excitation energy. Conclusions: The mode of asymmetric fission is present even at relatively high excitation energies in the system studied. This observation matches experimental findings in the sub-lead region, contrary to the actinides, and so far there is no well-developed explanation of this phenomenon.
title: Liste de mots en chru lue par un locuteur né à Điom A - Đơn Dương en 1996
Creators: name: Brunelle, Marc
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Chru

description: Social Sciences and humanities Research Council of Canada 435-2017-0498: Voicing and its transphonologization: the initiation and actuation of a sound change in Southeast Asia
Chandra/ACIS-I study of the X-ray properties of the NGC 6611 and M16 stellar population
Creators: name: Guarcello, M. G.
name: Caramazza, M.
name: Micela, G.
name: Sciortino, S.
name: Drake, J. J.
name: Prisinzano, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mechanisms regulating the origin of X-rays in YSOs and the correlation with their evolutionary stage are under debate. Studies of the X-ray properties in young clusters allow to understand these mechanisms. One ideal target for this analysis is the Eagle Nebula (M16), with its central cluster NGC6611. At 1750 pc from the Sun, it harbors 93 OB stars, together with a population of low-mass stars from embedded protostars to disk-less Class III objects, with age <= 3Myrs. We study an archival 78 ksec Chandra/ACIS-I observation of NGC6611, and two new 80ksec observations of the outer region of M16, one centered on the Column V, and one on a region of the molecular cloud with ongoing star-formation. We detect 1755 point sources, with 1183 candidate cluster members (219 disk-bearing and 964 disk-less). We study the global X-ray properties of M16 and compare them with those of the Orion Nebula Cluster. We also compare the level of X-ray emission of Class II and Class III stars, and analyze the X-ray spectral properties of OB stars. Our study supports the lower level of X-ray activity for the disk-bearing stars with respect to the disk-less members. The X-ray Luminosity Function (XLF) of M16 is similar to that of Orion, supporting the universality of the XLF in young clusters. 85% of the O stars of NGC6611 have been detected in X-rays. With only one possible exception, they show soft spectra with no hard component, indicating that mechanisms for the production of hard X-ray emission in O stars are not operating in NGC 6611.
description: Accepted in ApJ
An analysis of the fragmentation of observing time at the Muztagh-ata site
Creators: name: Wen-bo, Gu
name: Jing, Xu
name: Guo-jie, Feng
name: Xuan, Zhang
name: Le-tian, Wang
name: Xin-liang, Wang
name: Esamdin, Ali
name: li-xian, Shen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cloud cover plays a pivotal role in assessing observational conditions for astronomical site-testing. Except for the fraction of observing time, its fragmentation also wields a significant influence on the quality of nighttime sky clarity. In this article, we introduce the function Gamma, designed to comprehensively capture both the fraction of available observing time and its continuity. Leveraging in situ measurement data gathered at the Muztagh-ata site between 2017 and 2021, we showcase the effectiveness of our approach. The statistical result illustrates that the Muztagh-ata site affords approximately 122 nights of absolute clear and 205 very good nights annually, corresponding to Gamma greater than or equal 0.9 and Gamma greater than or equal 0.36 respectively.
description: 8pages, 5 figures
Development and pilot-testing of a method to assist instructional designers elicit unfamiliar content from subject matter experts
Creators: name: Keppell, Michael J.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: LB 1028.38 K46 1997
subject: Additional copy: 370 EDC 1997 KEP
subject: Instructional systems - Design
subject: Lesson planning

description: Bibliography: p. 154-163.
Building respectful environments through enhanced understanding
Creators: name: Turnbull, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2022

description: How can we embed respect into all that we do in support of the student experience? Having greater knowledge of the roles that others play in the student experience can help our ability to understand their role (and by association our own). Through this round table session, colleagues should come prepared to talk about their role in the university for a couple of minutes and be prepared to listen to others. Participants should expect to come away at the end of the session with refreshed knowledge and (hopefully) increased respect for the work that our colleagues across the institution carry out.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2022: Students at the Heart Conference
title: Camerisier Bleu :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Blue Honeysuckle
Honeyberry

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
Common dependence on stress for the statistics of granular avalanches and earthquakes
Creators: name: Hatano, Takahiro
name: Narteau, Clément
name: Shebalin, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistical properties of avalanches in a dissipative particulate system under slow shear are investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that the magnitude-frequency distribution obeys the Gutenberg-Richter law only in the proximity of a critical density and that the exponent is sensitive to the minute changes in density. It is also found that aftershocks occur in this system with a decay rate that follows the Modified Omori law. We show that the exponent of the magnitude-frequency distribution and the time constant of the Modified Omori law are decreasing functions of the shear stress. The dependences of these two parameters on shear stress coincide with recent seismological observations [D. Schorlemmer et al. Nature 437, 539 (2005); C. Narteau et al. Nature 462, 642 (2009)].
description: 4 pages
title: Liste de mots en chru lue par un locuteur né à Điom A - Đơn Dương en 1969
Creators: name: Brunelle, Marc
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Chru

description: Social Sciences and humanities Research Council of Canada 435-2017-0498: Voicing and its transphonologization: the initiation and actuation of a sound change in Southeast Asia
HERA-data in the light of small x evolution with state of the art NLO input
Creators: name: Kuokkanen, Janne
name: Rummukainen, Kari
name: Weigert, Heribert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Both total and diffractive cross sections from HERA are successfully confronted with JIMWLK evolution equations in the asymptotic pseudo-scaling region. We present a consistent, simultaneous description of both types of cross sections that includes NLO corrections in the form of running coupling and energy conservation corrections. The inclusion of energy conservation corrections allows to match all available data with x below .02 i.e. up to Q^2 of 1200 GeV^2. We discuss the effects of quark masses including charm, contrast asymptotic and pre-asymptotic fit strategies, and survey non-perturbative uncertainties related to impact parameter dependence.
description: 61 pages, 27 figures
title: Liste de mots en chru lue par un locuteur né à Ka Đơn - Đơn DƯơng en 1979
Creators: name: Brunelle, Marc
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Chru

description: Social Sciences and humanities Research Council of Canada 435-2017-0498: Voicing and its transphonologization: the initiation and actuation of a sound change in Southeast Asia
On the Long-term Health Care Crisis. A Possible Eradication Scenario
Creators: name: Isea, Raul
name: Bai, Er W.
name: Lonngren, Karl E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The purpose of the present essay is to suggest a possible model to describe the worldwide healthcare crisis, where diseases that have been considered to be eradicated or under our control are re-emerging today.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, 10 references
‘Tell me about a time when...’ articulating LJMU’s nine employability skills through the curriculum
Creators: name: Standish, Angela
name: Coney, Keren
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2022

description: The development of employability skills and mindset are a major element of a student’s LJMU experience, and part of the LJMU’s Student Employability, Enterprise & Employment Strategy which sets out a ‘shared institutional approach’ to improving employment outcomes for graduates. From February 2022 programmes undergoing Validation and Periodic Programme Review are mapping the most valued skills by employers and embedding shared institutional language to help students understand skills such as communication, team working and problem solving are inherent to their core learning rather than an ‘add on’. Student Futures is working in partnership to help develop the progressive development of skills throughout programmes, reinforcing and developing skills and introducing new ways that captures students modelling employability skills ‘in the moment’. This session aims to highlight good and innovative practice of inclusive embedded employability and we’ll hear from LJMU graduates about how their experience of modules, assessments and placements contributed to securing their graduate level jobs. “..It [the programme] taught me valuable skills in groupwork, particularly when and when not to rely on others and how to manage a team effectively”. Harry “I was invited in for a second interview in which I had to do a dreaded presentation. I didn't panic too much as University had forced me into doing numerous group presentations’. Adam The session is student focussed in helping students identify and articulate employability skills gained throughout their degree, enabling them to talk confidently about their skills to employers and giving them a competitive edge within the recruitment process. It also supports their confidence and helps them flourish in their early years career goals. We’ll be introducing a new Employability Tool, Skills Checker (ooh!).
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2022: Students at the Heart Conference
A sparse coding model with synaptically local plasticity and spiking neurons can account for the diverse shapes of V1 simple cell receptive fields
Creators: name: Zylberberg, Joel
name: Murphy, Jason Timothy
name: DeWeese, Michael Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sparse coding algorithms trained on natural images can accurately predict the features that excite visual cortical neurons, but it is not known whether such codes can be learned using biologically realistic plasticity rules. We have developed a biophysically motivated spiking network, relying solely on synaptically local information, that can predict the full diversity of V1 simple cell receptive field shapes when trained on natural images. This represents the first demonstration that sparse coding principles, operating within the constraints imposed by cortical architecture, can successfully reproduce these receptive fields. We further prove, mathematically, that sparseness and decorrelation are the key ingredients that allow for synaptically local plasticity rules to optimize a cooperative, linear generative image model formed by the neural representation. Finally, we discuss several interesting emergent properties of our network, with the intent of bridging the gap between theoretical and experimental studies of visual cortex.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures. To appear in PLoS Computational Biology. Some of these data were presented by author JZ at the 2011 CoSyNe meeting in Salt Lake City
Some statistical remarks on GRBs jointly detected by Fermi and Swift satellites
Creators: name: Pinter, Sandor
name: Balazs, Lajos G.
name: Bagoly, Zsolt
name: Toth, L. Viktor
name: Racz, Istvan I.
name: Horvath, Istvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We made statistical analysis of the Fermi GBM and Swift BAT observational material, accumulated over 15 years. We studied how GRB parameters (T$_{90}$ duration, fluence, peak flux) that were observed by only one satellite differ from those observed by both. In the latter case, it was possible to directly compare the values of the parameters that both satellites measured. The GRBs measured by both satellites were identified using the knn() k-nearest neighbour algorithm in the FNN library of the R statistical package. In the parameter space we determined the direction in which the jointly detected GRBs differ most from those detected by only one of the instruments using the lda() in MASS library of R. To get the strength of the relationship between the parameters obtained from the GBM and BAT, a canonical correlation was performed using the cc() procedure in the CCA library in R. The GBM and BAT T$_{90}$ distributions were fitted with a linear combination of lognormal functions. The optimal number of such functions required for fit is two for GBM and three for BAT. Contrary to the widely accepted view, we found that the number of lognormal functions required for fitting the observed distribution of GRB durations does not allow us to deduce the number of central engine types responsible for GRBs.
description: Submitted to MNRAS
Embracing change: nurturing equity, diversity, inclusivity and respect within the postgraduate community
Creators: name: Greenway, Elysia
name: Bryde, Mollie
name: Pizzolato, Martina
name: Enrile, Deniah
name: Wharton, Emily
name: Watson, Phebie
name: Howdan, April
name: Rowan, Bryony
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2022

description: Equity, diversity, inclusivity and respect (EDIR) are essential to the development of a welcoming, educational environment where all students can flourish. However, at the doctoral level there is a significant lack of formal EDIR training, which members of the postgraduate researcher (PGR) community find problematic. Inclusion of EDIR training at this level would be highly beneficial to the institution, students, staff and non-academic partners. Firstly, to train PGRs in the value and importance of EDIR would align with LJMU’s new vision and values. Student experience could be improved through the embracing and respecting of diversity and through the increased visibility and representation of under-represented and marginalised groups. Moreover, the introduction of EDIR training would contribute to research excellence with the view that current doctoral students are future academics and leaders. Therefore, instilling the importance of EDIR early in the academic journey will help in the development of responsible, global citizens. This is essential as it prepares our community to address societal problems, which is integral to achieving social sustainability. Demonstrably, EDIR should not be an afterthought. Instead, EDIR should be firmly embedded within the institutional culture to enable a non-judgemental platform for dialogue: a dialogue that involves individuals and communities in the decisions that impact them. Thus, work needs to be done to encourage societal change through advocating autonomy and enabling students to become active agents of change. To achieve this aim, a cross-faculty collaborative of students approached the doctoral academy with the ambition to improve EDIR practices. This has led to the co-creation of a new EDIR PGR workshop, which is in the preliminary stages of development. It is hoped that this workshop will be the beginning of a novel and exciting initiative that uses student voices to embrace change and shape our futures.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2022: Students at the Heart Conference
title: Liste de mots en chru lue par un locuteur né à Proh - Đơn Dương en 1958
Creators: name: Brunelle, Marc
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Chru

description: Social Sciences and humanities Research Council of Canada 435-2017-0498: Voicing and its transphonologization: the initiation and actuation of a sound change in Southeast Asia
What would a more holistic model for supporting students with disabilities look like?
Creators: name: Chidlow, Stewart
name: Dunne, Sian
Publisher: name: Student Experience Proceedings
Year: 2022

description: Students with disabilities at LJMU may receive support from many different services, as well as from academic staff that support learning in their specific subject area. However, the different services and staff that are involved in providing support rarely speak to each other and may not even know of each other’s involvement. In this lightning talk, we explore some of the potential benefits that a more holistic model of support may bring to students with disabilities. We have some ideas of what such a model should look like, but the primary purpose of this talk will be to open a dialogue with interested members of staff and discuss how such a model could be brought to life.
description: Student Experience Proceedings, 2022: Students at the Heart Conference