cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Why has the USA never elected a female president?
Creators: name: Mosashvili, Gia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Gender studies
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The United States of America is a super state in the world, which supports other countries to protect human rights, build international relations, avoid gender discrimination and achieve economic development. Surprisingly, a country where more than 50 percent of population is woman has never elected a female president. This issue constantly draws attention because from the first presidential elections in 1789 to present, Americans have being distrusted to woman candidate. The first reason of women’s underrepresentation in American politics was historical inequality between men and women (the Anglo-Indian gender frontier). The history of Native Americans demonstrates a huge division between the roles of males and females. Secondly, after the foundation of the US Constitution, legal gender discrimination took place. For example, founder women were excluded from the list of Founding Fathers. Thirdly, men are more interested in politics than women and this is fundamental reason of women’s underrepresentation in politics. The level of political ambition is important for running for office - men tend to have it women do not. The fourth reason is that Americans still are not ready to elect a woman for office. Several poll experiments have shown that citizens of the United States would vote for a qualified woman but they do the opposite in elections. The fifth reason is that beside official constitutional requirements for president, many other unofficial requirements exist too (prior political experience, name recognition, party support, adequate funding and etc.), which complicates running for office especially for a woman candidate.The aim of this paper is to introduce fundamental reasons, why the United States has not elected a female president during 231 years, when women can perform as well as men in running for office. The paper includes five parts: introduction, observations, findings, conclusion and bibliography. In findings, with qualitative and quantitative research methods, primary and secondary documents are analyzed and several tendencies are identified: exclusion of women from the list of Founding Fathers, the use of masculine pronouns ‘he’ and ‘his’ in the US Constitution, extension of the deadline of ERA’s ratification and pregnancy discrimination, which still remains impeding factor for American women.
The origins and evolution of the Journal of Aging and Social Policy
Creators: name: Bass, Scott A.
name: Caro, Francis G.
name: Miller, Edward Alan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In this essay the current and previous editors discuss the history of the Journal of Aging & Social Policy. In reviewing the past thirty years of publishing the Journal, one can see three phases: Phase 1 took pace during the first decade (1989–1997), Phase 2 covered the next decade and a half or so (1998–2015), and Phase 3 reflects the past five years, a period of continuing growth and success (2016-Present). Despite its inevitable challenges, the Journal of Aging & Social Policy overcame each and has arrived. Today, it is a well-respected Journal that attracts excellent scholarship from around the world, that is well-cited, and that has earned the Journal a commendable impact factor. The editors are proud of that evolution. However, success is never final. The Journal will require continued effective stewardship as it looks to the next thirty years and beyond.
Nucleation of superconductivity in Al mesoscopic disk with magnetic dot
Creators: name: Golubovic, D. S.
name: Pogosov, W. V.
name: Morelle, M.
name: Moshchalkov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the nucleation of superconductivity in a mesoscopic Al disk wit a Co/Pd magnetic dot placed on the top by measuring the normal superconducting phase boundary Tc(B). The measurements have revealed a pronounced asymmetry with respect to the direction of the applied magnetic field, indicating an enhancement of the critical field when an applied magnetic field is oriented parallel to the magnetization of the magnetic dot. The theoretical Tc(B) curve is in a good agreement with the experimental data.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. To be published in Applied Physics Letters
Comparison of area spectra in loop quantum gravity
Creators: name: Gour, G.
name: Suneeta, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare two area spectra proposed in loop quantum gravity in different approaches to compute the entropy of the Schwarzschild black hole. We describe the black hole in general microcanonical and canonical area ensembles for these spectra. We show that in the canonical ensemble, the results for all statistical quantities for any spectrum can be reproduced by a heuristic picture of Bekenstein up to second order. For one of these spectra - the equally-spaced spectrum - in light of a proposed connection of the black hole area spectrum to the quasinormal mode spectrum and following hep-th/0304135, we present explicit calculations to argue that this spectrum is completely consistent with this connection. This follows without requiring a change in the gauge group of the spin degrees of freedom in this formalism from SU(2) to SO(3). We also show that independent of the area spectrum, the degeneracy of the area observable is bounded by $C A\exp(A/4)$, where $A$ is measured in Planck units and $C$ is a constant of order unity.
description: 8 pages, Revtex 4, version to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity
An investigation into the UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences Impact Media Wall
Creators: name: Ceravolo, Eduardo
name: Simon, Nico
name: Tariq, Razana
name: Kazemi, Riza
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The Impact Media Wall (IMW) is a rear-projection based exhibit designed to be a prestigious part of the recently built state-of-the-art Pharmaceutical Sciences building. The six-projector design, accompanied with incapable graphics hardware reduces user experience, consumes high energy and is expensive to maintain. This report proposes two solutions to the currently flawed implementation by considering social, economic and environmental indicators to investigate alternative Media Wall configurations. The first solution reduces the number of required projectors by utilizing short-throw projectors. Having only two projectors instead of six increases the performance while reducing the cost of maintenance. The second solution replaces the projectors with an array of eighteen 55” LED displays. With the implementation of LED displays the visual quality improves greatly. In addition, LED displays are more energy efficient than the current setup. With the presence of two options, the stakeholders are able to decide between paying the premium for high quality LED displays and decreasing the number of projectors for economic benefit. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
The origins and evolution of the Journal of Aging and Social Policy
Creators: name: Bass, Scott A.
name: Caro, Francis G.
name: Miller, Edward Alan
Publisher: name: Journal of Aging and Social Policy
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: In this essay the current and previous editors discuss the history of the Journal of Aging & Social Policy. In reviewing the past thirty years of publishing the Journal, one can see three phases: Phase 1 took pace during the first decade (1989–1997), Phase 2 covered the next decade and a half or so (1998–2015), and Phase 3 reflects the past five years, a period of continuing growth and success (2016-Present). Despite its inevitable challenges, the Journal of Aging & Social Policy overcame each and has arrived. Today, it is a well-respected Journal that attracts excellent scholarship from around the world, that is well-cited, and that has earned the Journal a commendable impact factor. The editors are proud of that evolution. However, success is never final. The Journal will require continued effective stewardship as it looks to the next thirty years and beyond.
Timed electrodeposition of PEDOT:Nafion onto carbon fiber-microelectrodes enhances dopamine detection in Zebrafish retina
Creators: name: Cho, Whirang
name: Liu, Favian A.
name: Hendrix, Aaron
name: McCray, Brazil
name: Asrat, Thomas
name: Connaughton, Victoria
name: Zestos, Alexander
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Carbon fiber-microelectrodes (CFMEs) are one of the standards for the detection of neurotransmitters such as dopamine (DA). In this study, we demonstrate that CFMEs electrodeposited with poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) in the presence of Nafion exhibit enhanced sensitivity for DA detection. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed the smooth outer surface morphologies of polymer coatings, which filled in the ridges and grooves of the bare unmodified carbon electrode and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) confirmed PEDOT:Nafion incorporation. PEDOT:Nafion coated CMFEs exhibited a statistically enhanced two-fold increase in DA sensitivity compared to unmodified microelectrodes, with stability and integrity of the coated microelectrodes maintained for at least 4 h. A scan rate test revealed a linear relationship with peak DA oxidative current (5 μM), indicating adsorption control of DA to the surface of the PEDOT:Nafion electrode. As proof of principle, PEDOT:Nafion coated electrodes were used to detect potassium chloride (KCl)-induced DA release in zebrafish (Danio rerio) retinal tissue ex vivo, thus illustrating their applicability as biosensors.
Timed electrodeposition of PEDOT:Nafion onto carbon fiber-microelectrodes enhances dopamine detection in Zebrafish retina
Creators: name: Cho, Whirang
name: Liu, Favian A.
name: Hendrix, Aaron
name: McCray, Brazil
name: Asrat, Thomas
name: Connaughton, Victoria
name: Zestos, Alexander
Publisher: name: Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Carbon fiber-microelectrodes (CFMEs) are one of the standards for the detection of neurotransmitters such as dopamine (DA). In this study, we demonstrate that CFMEs electrodeposited with poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) in the presence of Nafion exhibit enhanced sensitivity for DA detection. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed the smooth outer surface morphologies of polymer coatings, which filled in the ridges and grooves of the bare unmodified carbon electrode and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) confirmed PEDOT:Nafion incorporation. PEDOT:Nafion coated CMFEs exhibited a statistically enhanced two-fold increase in DA sensitivity compared to unmodified microelectrodes, with stability and integrity of the coated microelectrodes maintained for at least 4 h. A scan rate test revealed a linear relationship with peak DA oxidative current (5 μM), indicating adsorption control of DA to the surface of the PEDOT:Nafion electrode. As proof of principle, PEDOT:Nafion coated electrodes were used to detect potassium chloride (KCl)-induced DA release in zebrafish (Danio rerio) retinal tissue ex vivo, thus illustrating their applicability as biosensors.
Performance Analysis and Enhancement of Multiband OFDM for UWB Communications
Creators: name: Snow, C.
name: Lampe, L.
name: Schober, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we analyze the frequency-hopping orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system known as Multiband OFDM for high-rate wireless personal area networks (WPANs) based on ultra-wideband (UWB) transmission. Besides considering the standard, we also propose and study system performance enhancements through the application of Turbo and Repeat-Accumulate (RA) codes, as well as OFDM bit-loading. Our methodology consists of (a) a study of the channel model developed under IEEE 802.15 for UWB from a frequency-domain perspective suited for OFDM transmission, (b) development and quantification of appropriate information-theoretic performance measures, (c) comparison of these measures with simulation results for the Multiband OFDM standard proposal as well as our proposed extensions, and (d) the consideration of the influence of practical, imperfect channel estimation on the performance. We find that the current Multiband OFDM standard sufficiently exploits the frequency selectivity of the UWB channel, and that the system performs in the vicinity of the channel cutoff rate. Turbo codes and a reduced-complexity clustered bit-loading algorithm improve the system power efficiency by over 6 dB at a data rate of 480 Mbps.
description: 32 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Sep. 28, 2005). Minor revisions based on reviewers' comments (June 23, 2006)
Strain induced magnetic transition in CaMnO$_3$ ultra thin films
Creators: name: Pedroso, A. López
name: Barral, M. A.
name: Graf, M. E.
name: Llois, A. M.
name: Aguirre, M. H.
name: Steren, L. B.
name: Di Napoli, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of high tensile strain and low dimensionality on the magnetic and electronic properties of CaMnO$_3$ ultrathin films, epitaxially grown on SrTiO$_3$ substrates, are experimentally studied and theoretically analyzed. By means of ab initio calculations, we find that, both, the high strain produced by the substrate and the presence of the free surface contribute to the stabilization of an in-plane ferromagnetic coupling, giving rise to a non-zero net magnetic moment in the ultrathin films. Coupled with this change in the magnetic order we find an insulator-metal transition triggered by the quantum confinement and the tensile epitaxial strain. Accordingly, our magnetic measurements in 3nm ultrathin films show a ferromagnetic hysteresis loop, absent in the bulk compound due to its G-type antiferromagnetic structure.
Additional file 1 of DEGnext: classification of differentially expressed genes from RNA-seq data using a convolutional neural network with transfer learning
Creators: name: Kakati, Tulika
name: Bhattacharyya, Dhruba K.
name: Kalita, Jugal K.
name: Norden-Krichmar, Trina M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Comparison of ROC scores of DEGnext with other ML methods for general learning and transfer learning.
The effects of corrective information about disease epidemics and outbreaks : evidence from Zika and yellow fever in Brazil
Creators: name: Carey, John Michael
name: Chi, Victoria
name: Flynn, D.J.
name: Nyhan, Brendan
name: Zeitzoff, Thomas
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Disease epidemics and outbreaks often generate conspiracy theories and misperceptions that mislead people about the risks they face and how best to protect themselves. We investigate the effectiveness of interventions aimed at combating false and unsupported information about the Zika epidemic and subsequent yellow fever outbreak in Brazil. Results from a nationally representative survey show that conspiracy theories and other misperceptions about Zika are widely believed. Moreover, results from three preregistered survey experiments suggest that efforts to counter misperceptions about diseases during epidemics and outbreaks may not always be effective. We find that corrective information not only fails to reduce targeted Zika misperceptions but also reduces the accuracy of other beliefs about the disease. In addition, although corrective information about the better-known threat from yellow fever was more effective, none of these corrections affected support for vector control policies or intentions to engage in preventive behavior.
The effects of corrective information about disease epidemics and outbreaks : evidence from Zika and yellow fever in Brazil
Creators: name: Carey, John Michael
name: Chi, Victoria
name: Flynn, D.J.
name: Nyhan, Brendan
name: Zeitzoff, Thomas
Publisher: name: Science Advances
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Disease epidemics and outbreaks often generate conspiracy theories and misperceptions that mislead people about the risks they face and how best to protect themselves. We investigate the effectiveness of interventions aimed at combating false and unsupported information about the Zika epidemic and subsequent yellow fever outbreak in Brazil. Results from a nationally representative survey show that conspiracy theories and other misperceptions about Zika are widely believed. Moreover, results from three preregistered survey experiments suggest that efforts to counter misperceptions about diseases during epidemics and outbreaks may not always be effective. We find that corrective information not only fails to reduce targeted Zika misperceptions but also reduces the accuracy of other beliefs about the disease. In addition, although corrective information about the better-known threat from yellow fever was more effective, none of these corrections affected support for vector control policies or intentions to engage in preventive behavior.
The cerebellar cognitive affective/Schmahmann syndrome : A task force paper
Creators: name: Argyropoulos, Georgios P.D.
name: Dun, Kim van
name: Adamaszek, Michael
name: Leggio, Maria
name: Manto, Mario Ubaldo
name: Masciullo, Marcella
name: Molinari, Marco
name: Stoodley, Catherine
name: van Overwalle, Frank J.
name: Ivry, Richard B.
name: Schmahmann, Jeremy Dan
Publisher: name: Cerebellum
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences

description: Sporadically advocated over the last two centuries, a cerebellar role in cognition and affect has been rigorously established in the past few decades. In the clinical domain, such progress is epitomized by the “cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome” (“CCAS”) or “Schmahmann syndrome.” Introduced in the late 1990s, CCAS reflects a constellation of cerebellar-induced sequelae, comprising deficits in executive function, visuospatial cognition, emotion–affect, and language, over and above speech. The CCAS thus offers excellent grounds to investigate the functional topography of the cerebellum, and, ultimately, illustrate the precise mechanisms by which the cerebellum modulates cognition and affect. The primary objective of this task force paper is thus to stimulate further research in this area. After providing an up-to-date overview of the fundamental findings on cerebellar neurocognition, the paper substantiates the concept of CCAS with recent evidence from different scientific angles, promotes awareness of the CCAS as a clinical entity, and examines our current insight into the therapeutic options available. The paper finally identifies topics of divergence and outstanding questions for further research.
Evolutionary Generation of Random Surreal Numbers for Benchmarking
Creators: name: Roughan, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: There are many areas of scientific endeavour where large, complex datasets are needed for benchmarking. Evolutionary computing provides a means towards creating such sets. As a case study, we consider Conway's Surreal numbers. They have largely been treated as a theoretical construct, with little effort towards empirical study, at least in part because of the difficulty of working with all but the smallest numbers. To advance this status, we need efficient algorithms, and in order to develop such we need benchmark data sets of surreal numbers. In this paper, we present a method for generating ensembles of random surreal numbers to benchmark algorithms. The approach uses an evolutionary algorithm to create the benchmark datasets where we can analyse and control features of the resulting test sets. Ultimately, the process is designed to generate networks with defined properties, and we expect this to be useful for other types of network data.
description: To appear in short form in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '25), 2025
Multidimensional synthetic chiral-tube lattices via nonlinear frequency conversion
Creators: name: Wang, Kai
name: Bell, Bryn
name: Solntsev, Alexander S.
name: Neshev, Dragomir N.
name: Eggleton, Benjamin J.
name: Sukhorukov, Andrey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geometrical dimensionality plays a fundamentally important role in the topological effects arising in discrete lattices. While direct experiments are limited by three spatial dimensions, the research topic of synthetic dimensions implemented by the frequency degree of freedom in photonics is rapidly advancing. The manipulation of light in such artificial lattices is typically realized through electro-optic modulation, yet their operating bandwidth imposes practical constraints on the range of interactions between different frequency components. Here we propose and experimentally realize all-optical synthetic dimensions involving specially tailored simultaneous short- and long-range interactions between discrete spectral lines mediated by frequency conversion in a nonlinear waveguide. We realize triangular chiral-tube lattices in three-dimensional space and explore their four-dimensional generalization. We implement a synthetic gauge field with nonzero magnetic flux and observe the associated multidimensional dynamics of frequency combs, all within one physical spatial port. We anticipate that our method will provide a new means for the fundamental study of high-dimensional physics and act as an important step towards using topological effects in optical devices operating in the time and frequency domains.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
РАЗВИТИЕ  РЕЧИ  УЧАЩИХСЯ  НАЧАЛЬНОЙ ШКОЛЫ С ПОМОЩЬЮ ДИДАКТИЧЕСКИХ ИГР
Creators: name: Хакимова Комила  Анваровна Студент 1курса магистратуры по направлению «Теоретическая методология и обучения (начальное образование)» Азиатского международного университета города Бухары
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В данной статье рассматриваются методы с помощью которых мы будем развивать речь учащихся и также обсудим возникновения  проблем с речью в младших классах.

Ключевые слова: развитие речи, родной язык, произведение,  метод ,игры,проблемы.
Label-Efficient Learning on Point Clouds using Approximate Convex Decompositions
Creators: name: Gadelha, Matheus
name: RoyChowdhury, Aruni
name: Sharma, Gopal
name: Kalogerakis, Evangelos
name: Cao, Liangliang
name: Learned-Miller, Erik
name: Wang, Rui
name: Maji, Subhransu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problems of shape classification and part segmentation from 3D point clouds have garnered increasing attention in the last few years. Both of these problems, however, suffer from relatively small training sets, creating the need for statistically efficient methods to learn 3D shape representations. In this paper, we investigate the use of Approximate Convex Decompositions (ACD) as a self-supervisory signal for label-efficient learning of point cloud representations. We show that using ACD to approximate ground truth segmentation provides excellent self-supervision for learning 3D point cloud representations that are highly effective on downstream tasks. We report improvements over the state-of-the-art for unsupervised representation learning on the ModelNet40 shape classification dataset and significant gains in few-shot part segmentation on the ShapeNetPart dataset.Code available at https://github.com/matheusgadelha/PointCloudLearningACD
description: First two authors had equal contribution. ECCV'20 version. 19 pages, 5 figures
The cerebellar cognitive affective/Schmahmann syndrome : A task force paper
Creators: name: Argyropoulos, Georgios P.D.
name: Dun, Kim van
name: Adamaszek, Michael
name: Leggio, Maria
name: Manto, Mario Ubaldo
name: Masciullo, Marcella
name: Molinari, Marco
name: Stoodley, Catherine
name: van Overwalle, Frank J.
name: Ivry, Richard B.
name: Schmahmann, Jeremy Dan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Sporadically advocated over the last two centuries, a cerebellar role in cognition and affect has been rigorously established in the past few decades. In the clinical domain, such progress is epitomized by the “cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome” (“CCAS”) or “Schmahmann syndrome.” Introduced in the late 1990s, CCAS reflects a constellation of cerebellar-induced sequelae, comprising deficits in executive function, visuospatial cognition, emotion–affect, and language, over and above speech. The CCAS thus offers excellent grounds to investigate the functional topography of the cerebellum, and, ultimately, illustrate the precise mechanisms by which the cerebellum modulates cognition and affect. The primary objective of this task force paper is thus to stimulate further research in this area. After providing an up-to-date overview of the fundamental findings on cerebellar neurocognition, the paper substantiates the concept of CCAS with recent evidence from different scientific angles, promotes awareness of the CCAS as a clinical entity, and examines our current insight into the therapeutic options available. The paper finally identifies topics of divergence and outstanding questions for further research.
my research paper.pdf
Creators: name: Sanjana Venkatesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The main reason for conducting this survey is to find: 1. How students are exposed to the use of modern gadgets and applications. 2. How technology is used in academic zones (Higher education institutions). 3. How students use technology to fulfill their academic needs. 4. How teachers are using technology inside and outside the classrooms. 5. The expectations of students in adopting technology in classroom teaching and learning.
Additional file 2 of DEGnext: classification of differentially expressed genes from RNA-seq data using a convolutional neural network with transfer learning
Creators: name: Kakati, Tulika
name: Bhattacharyya, Dhruba K.
name: Kalita, Jugal K.
name: Norden-Krichmar, Trina M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2. Readme.
Preliminary study of extracorporeal shock wave alleviating joint capsule fibrosis caused by internal bleeding of knee joint in rats
Creators: name: Huo, Lei
name: Zhang, Quan-Bing
name: Zhu, De-Ting
name: Wang, Kui
name: Du, Zun-Yu
name: Li, Xue-Ming
name: Mao, Jing
name: Kan, Xiu-Li
name: Zhang, Run
name: Zhou, Yun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Joint contracture is a common disease in clinical practice, joint bleeding is an important factor affecting the progression of joint contracture. This study aimed to explore the effect of extracorporeal shock wave on alleviating joint capsule fibrosis caused by intra-articular hemorrhage in rats. Forty two SD rats were randomly divided into seven groups. Perform simple fixation and fixation after blood injection separately. Measure the range of motion of each group’s knee joints and calculate the corresponding degree of contraction. Use HE staining and Masson staining to detect the number of anterior joint capsule cells and collagen deposition. Detection of changes in Wnt1, β-catenin protein expression in joint capsule using Western blotting. Compared to group C, the degree of knee joint contracture in M1 and M2 groups of rats increased, and collagen deposition, cell number and Wnt1, β-catenin protein expression also increased accordingly. Compared to M1 and M2 groups, the degree of knee contraction in E1 and E2 groups were reduced, while collagen deposition, cell number and Wnt1, β-catenin protein expression were decreased, and the degree of joint contracture in NR1 and NR2 groups showed no significant improvement. Compared to NR1 and NR2 groups, the degree of knee contraction in E1 and E2 groups were reduced, while collagen deposition, cell number and Wnt1, β-catenin protein expression were decreased. Both rat models of knee joint contracture were successful, and joint bleeding can exacerbate joint contracture. Extracorporeal shock waves alleviate joint capsule fibrosis caused by intra-articular bleeding in rats.
Hippocampal-dependent appetitive control is impaired by experimental exposure to a Western-style diet
Creators: name: Stevenson, Richard J.
name: Francis, Heather M.
name: Attuquayefio, Tuki
name: Gupta, Dolly
name: Yeomans, Martin R.
name: Oaten, Megan J.
name: Davidson, Terry
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Animals fed a Western-style diet (WS-diet) demonstrate rapid impairments in hippocampal function and poorer appetitive control. We examined if this also occurs in humans. One-hundred and ten healthy lean adults were randomized to either a one-week WS-diet intervention or a habitual-diet control group. Measures of hippocampal-dependent learning and memory (HDLM) and of appetitive control were obtained pre- and post-intervention. HDLM was retested at three-week follow-up. Relative to controls, HDLM performance declined in the WS-diet group (d = 0.43), but was not different at followup. Appetitive control also declined in the WS-diet group (d = 0.47) and this was strongly correlated with HDLM decline (d = 1.01). These findings demonstrate that a WS-diet can rapidly impair appetitive control in humans-an effect that could promote overeating in consumers of a WS-diet. The study also suggests a functional role for the hippocampus in appetitive control and provides new evidence for the adverse neurocognitive effects of a WS-diet.
Detection of 3D Bounding Boxes of Vehicles Using Perspective Transformation for Accurate Speed Measurement
Creators: name: Kocur, Viktor
name: Ftáčnik, Milan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Detection and tracking of vehicles captured by traffic surveillance cameras is a key component of intelligent transportation systems. We present an improved version of our algorithm for detection of 3D bounding boxes of vehicles, their tracking and subsequent speed estimation. Our algorithm utilizes the known geometry of vanishing points in the surveilled scene to construct a perspective transformation. The transformation enables an intuitive simplification of the problem of detecting 3D bounding boxes to detection of 2D bounding boxes with one additional parameter using a standard 2D object detector. Main contribution of this paper is an improved construction of the perspective transformation which is more robust and fully automatic and an extended experimental evaluation of speed estimation. We test our algorithm on the speed estimation task of the BrnoCompSpeed dataset. We evaluate our approach with different configurations to gauge the relationship between accuracy and computational costs and benefits of 3D bounding box detection over 2D detection. All of the tested configurations run in real-time and are fully automatic. Compared to other published state-of-the-art fully automatic results our algorithm reduces the mean absolute speed measurement error by 32% (1.10 km/h to 0.75 km/h) and the absolute median error by 40% (0.97 km/h to 0.58 km/h).
description: Submitted to Machine Vision and Applications
Quark propagator and vertex: systematic corrections of hypercubic artifacts from lattice simulations
Creators: name: Boucaud, Ph.
name: de Soto, F.
name: Leroy, J. P.
name: Yaouanc, A. Le
name: Micheli, J.
name: Moutarde, H.
name: Pène, O.
name: Rodríguez-Quintero, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the first part of a study of the quark propagator and the vertex function of the vector current on the lattice in the Landau gauge and using both Wilson-clover and overlap actions. In order to be able to identify lattice artifacts and to reach large momenta we use a range of lattice spacings. The lattice artifacts turn out to be exceedingly large in this study. We present a new and very efficient method to eliminate the hypercubic (anisotropy) artifacts based on a systematic expansion on hypercubic invariants which are not SO(4) invariant. A simpler version of this method has been used in previous works. This method is shown to be significantly more efficient than the popular ``democratic'' methods. It can of course be applied to the lattice simulations of many other physical quantities. The analysis indicates a hierarchy in the size of hypercubic artifacts: overlap larger than clover and propagator larger than vertex function. This pleads for the combined study of propagators and vertex functions via Ward identities.
description: 14 pags., 9 figs
title: An alternative climate change levy scheme for manufacturing industries
Creators: name: Ramsell, Philip G.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2003

description: The threat of global wanning from an enhanced greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of greenhouse gases in the earth's upper atmosphere, could be one of the biggest concerns for international governments for the foreseeable future. The threat has led to the commitment of most developed countries, with the notable exception of the USA, to reduce their emissions of these gases in an attempt to stabilise atmospheric concentrations. Under an agreement reached at a United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, (the Kyoto Protocol), the United Kingdom government has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8% below 1990 levels for 2008-2012, and additionally committed to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2010.

As the combustion of fossil fuels is the greatest source of CO2 emissions, reducing their use is an important step for meeting the targets. To encourage lower energy use by business, a climate change levy is being applied to business energy. The levy will increase industry's energy costs but to mitigate its adverse competitive effects in energy intensive sectors, a levy discount scheme is available. However, since in its existing form, many firms do not qualify, the scheme will be costly to administer, many firms have not taken up the discount, and it will be burdensome for those that have.

Like many of the energy intensive industries, the aluminium casting sector is under severe global competitive pressure and needs to reduce specific energy consumption to meet its sector target. This must be achieved without increasing production costs.

The aims of the research was to find the specific energy consumption of aluminium casting processes and identify the scope for energy saving. In order to achieve these aims, the research investigated the aluminium casting sector of the foundry industry through the use of structured interviews with foundry managers, a questionnaire, and case studies. The data from these sources was then used as the basis for the construction of an alternative incremental levy scheme. Building and running a model using the research data with various levy rates and modes of application then tested this alternative strategy.

As a result, it was possible to draw three major conclusions. First, that the sector could meet its energy reduction targets set by the government. Second, an incrementally applied levy, (without reduced National Insurance contributions as now), could drive energy efficiency without raising costs. Third, an incremental levy would encourage energy efficiency in all business sectors.
Hippocampal-dependent appetitive control is impaired by experimental exposure to a Western-style diet
Creators: name: Stevenson, Richard J.
name: Francis, Heather M.
name: Attuquayefio, Tuki
name: Gupta, Dolly
name: Yeomans, Martin R.
name: Oaten, Megan J.
name: Davidson, Terry
Publisher: name: Royal Society Open Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences

description: Animals fed a Western-style diet (WS-diet) demonstrate rapid impairments in hippocampal function and poorer appetitive control. We examined if this also occurs in humans. One-hundred and ten healthy lean adults were randomized to either a one-week WS-diet intervention or a habitual-diet control group. Measures of hippocampal-dependent learning and memory (HDLM) and of appetitive control were obtained pre- and post-intervention. HDLM was retested at three-week follow-up. Relative to controls, HDLM performance declined in the WS-diet group (d = 0.43), but was not different at followup. Appetitive control also declined in the WS-diet group (d = 0.47) and this was strongly correlated with HDLM decline (d = 1.01). These findings demonstrate that a WS-diet can rapidly impair appetitive control in humans-an effect that could promote overeating in consumers of a WS-diet. The study also suggests a functional role for the hippocampus in appetitive control and provides new evidence for the adverse neurocognitive effects of a WS-diet.
Magnetic twist profile inside magnetic clouds derived with a superposed epoch analysis
Creators: name: Lanabere, V.
name: Dasso, S.
name: Démoulin, P.
name: Janvier, M.
name: Rodriguez, L.
name: Masías-Meza, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic clouds (MCs) are large-scale interplanetary transient structures in the heliosphere that travel from the Sun into the interplanetary medium. The internal magnetic field lines inside the MCs are twisted, forming a flux rope (FR). This magnetic field structuring is determined by its initial solar configuration, by the processes involved during its eruption from the Sun, and by the dynamical evolution during its interaction with the ambient solar wind. One of the most important properties of the magnetic structure inside MCs is the twist of the field lines forming the FR (the number of turns per unit length). The detailed internal distribution of twist is under debate mainly because the magnetic field (B) in MCs is observed only along the spacecraft trajectory, and thus it is necessary to complete observations with theoretical assumptions. Estimating the twist from the study of a single event is difficult because the field fluctuations significantly increase the noise of the observed B time series and thus the bias of the deduced twist. The superposed epoch applied to MCs has proven to be a powerful technique, permitting the extraction of their common features, and removing the peculiarity of individual cases. We apply a superposed epoch technique to analyse the magnetic components in the local FR frame of a significant sample of moderately asymmetric MCs observed at 1 au. From the superposed profile of B components in the FR frame, we determine the typical twist distribution in MCs. The twist is nearly uniform in the FR core (central half part), and it increases moderately, up to a factor two, towards the MC boundaries. This profile is close to the Lundquist field model limited to the FR core where the axial field component is above about one-third of its central value.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
Consequences of Analytic Boundary Conditions in AdS
Creators: name: Horowitz, Gary T.
name: Wang, Diandian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of an analytic boundary metric for smooth asymptotically anti-de Sitter gravitational solutions. The boundary dynamics is then completely determined by the initial data due to corner conditions that all smooth solutions must obey. We perturb a number of familiar static solutions and explore the boundary dynamics that results. We find evidence for a nonlinear asymptotic instability of the planar black hole in four and six dimensions. In four dimensions we find indications of at least exponential growth, while in six dimensions, it appears that a singularity may form in finite time on the boundary. This instability extends to pure AdS (at least in the Poincare patch). For the class of perturbations we consider, there is no sign of this instability in five dimensions.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
Postscript : A theory of access revisited
Creators: name: Peluso, Nancy Lee
name: Ribot, Jesse
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The articles in this volume conceptually and empirically engage and extend our ‘theory of access’ (Ribot and Peluso 2003) through theoretically informed grounded analysis. The articles nuance our repertoire of access mechanisms, suggesting ways to think more deeply and broadly with the concept. They provide an array of new applications and scales at which the analysis of access pertains under changing political economic and environmental circumstances. This helps clarify the origins of environmental problems and conflicts. Several show how the analysis of access helps us understand patterns of resource distribution, sites of struggle over power and authority, and ways that our notion of “webs of power” could be more effectively structured and defined. In this essay we reflect on how this special issue expands our thinking on power and authority, access maintenance and control, distinctions between access and property, and scales of analysis.
Inflaton as the Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis Field in Hilltop Supernatural Inflation
Creators: name: Lin, Chia-Min
name: Kohri, Kazunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the parameter space in the framework of hilltop supernatural inflation in which the inflaton field can play the role of Affleck-Dine field to produce successful baryogenesis. The suitable value of reheating temperature could coincide with the reheating temperature required to produce lightest supersymmetric particle dark matter. The baryon isocurvature perturbation is shown to be negligible. We consider $p=3$, $p=4$, and $p=6$ type III hilltop inflation and discuss how to connect the models to supersymmetric theories.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Physical Review D
Boundary regularity of conformally compact Einstein metrics
Creators: name: Chrusciel, Piotr T.
name: Delay, Erwann
name: Lee, John M.
name: Skinner, Dale N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C25

description: We show that C^2 conformally compact Riemannian Einstein metrics have conformal compactifications that are smooth up to the boundary in dimension 3 and all even dimensions, and polyhomogeneous in odd dimensions greater than 3.
description: Latex2e, 25 pages. This is the final version accepted for publication in the Journal of Differential Geometry
Postscript : A theory of access revisited
Creators: name: Peluso, Nancy Lee
name: Ribot, Jesse
Publisher: name: Society and Natural Resources
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: The articles in this volume conceptually and empirically engage and extend our ‘theory of access’ (Ribot and Peluso 2003) through theoretically informed grounded analysis. The articles nuance our repertoire of access mechanisms, suggesting ways to think more deeply and broadly with the concept. They provide an array of new applications and scales at which the analysis of access pertains under changing political economic and environmental circumstances. This helps clarify the origins of environmental problems and conflicts. Several show how the analysis of access helps us understand patterns of resource distribution, sites of struggle over power and authority, and ways that our notion of “webs of power” could be more effectively structured and defined. In this essay we reflect on how this special issue expands our thinking on power and authority, access maintenance and control, distinctions between access and property, and scales of analysis.
Fifty years of The Financial Review : A bibliometric overview
Creators: name: Baker, H
name: Kumar, Satish Vinoth
name: Pattnaik, Debidutta
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Financial Review (FR) is a highly regarded journal publishing original empirical, theoretical, and methodological research in all areas of financial economics. It celebrated its golden jubilee year in 2018. Using bibliometric techniques, we analyze the journal's impact, prominent topics, most prolific authors, and their affiliated institutions and countries. Our analysis also identifies the most often cited articles at different points in the journal's history. Using textual data analytics, we identify the most frequent themes discussed between 1969 and 2018 by decade.