cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Posterior Cerebral Artery Infarct with Haemorrhagic Transformation
Creators: name: Cham KM
name: J, Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Diseases

description: A 65-year-old female presented with visual disturbances a week following surgical breast biopsy and stopping eliquis. A diagnosis of a perioperative posterior cerebral ischemic stroke with haemorrhagic transformation, in the setting of eliquis cessation, was made. Despite several features in this case suggesting a posterior cerebral artery cardio embolic ischemic stroke, differentials such as infarctions of the anterior circulation and middle cerebral artery, other possible causes of posterior circulation stroke, acute peripheral vestibular dysfunction, intracranial or subarachnoid haemorrhage, neoplasms, basilar migraine, toxic or metabolic disturbances, neuro-inflammatory or chronic infectious conditions, and ocular vascular disorders should be considered. Prompt detection and diagnosis of cardio embolic cerebral infarction is crucial to initiate long-term anti-coagulant therapy for secondary prevention. Clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for the signs and symptoms of stroke. Apart from a detailed history, a complete neurological examination with appropriate imaging will aid clinicians in detection, diagnosis and prevention of stroke with appropriate referral and management.
Human activity recognition using wearable devices
Creators: name: Lu, Jianchao
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Human activity recognition (HAR) is a key application on wearable devices in the areas of fitness tracking, healthcare and elder care support. However, inaccurate recognition results may cause an adverse effect on users or even an unpredictable accident. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the accuracy of human activity recognition.This thesis aims to provide effective and efficient HAR methods to address main challenges of HAR, which can be divided into the following three contributions. The first contribution is a novel feature extraction and selection algorithm that addresses the interclass similarity problem in the confounding activity recognition. The second contribution is a novel approach of leveraging local and global features, which addresses both the intraclass variability and interclass similarity problems in HAR. The third contribution is a multiscale feature engineering approach, which leverages local and global features and addresses the negative effect on HAR caused by users' different habits. For the proposed approaches, extensive experiments have been conducted on real datasets or real scenarios. The experiments have demonstrated the proposed methods are superior to the state of the art.
Max-Pooling Loss Training of Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting
Creators: name: Sun, Ming
name: Raju, Anirudh
name: Tucker, George
name: Panchapagesan, Sankaran
name: Fu, Gengshen
name: Mandal, Arindam
name: Matsoukas, Spyros
name: Strom, Nikko
name: Vitaladevuni, Shiv
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a max-pooling based loss function for training Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for small-footprint keyword spotting (KWS), with low CPU, memory, and latency requirements. The max-pooling loss training can be further guided by initializing with a cross-entropy loss trained network. A posterior smoothing based evaluation approach is employed to measure keyword spotting performance. Our experimental results show that LSTM models trained using cross-entropy loss or max-pooling loss outperform a cross-entropy loss trained baseline feed-forward Deep Neural Network (DNN). In addition, max-pooling loss trained LSTM with randomly initialized network performs better compared to cross-entropy loss trained LSTM. Finally, the max-pooling loss trained LSTM initialized with a cross-entropy pre-trained network shows the best performance, which yields $67.6\%$ relative reduction compared to baseline feed-forward DNN in Area Under the Curve (AUC) measure.
Estrogen Ameliorates Photoreceptor Cell Loss In Light-Induced Retinal Degenerated Balb/C Mice
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay M
name: O'Quinn E
name: Seidman L
name: Rohrer B
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: Estrogen or 17β-estradiol (17β-E2) is known to act as an antioxidant and has neuroprotective effects. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of estrogen and estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) on photoreceptor cell structure and function in an experimental model for light-induced photoreceptor degeneration. Methods: 3-5 months old Balb/c mice were exposed to constant light of ~1500 lux. Mice were divided into four groups and treated via intraperitoneal injections with vehicle, 17β-E2, the ERβ inhibitor [4-(2-phenyl-5,7-bis(trifluoromethyl) pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-3-yl)phenol, (PHTPP), or a combination of 17β-E2 and PHTPP. Retinal function was evaluated by electroretinogram (ERG), and eyes were assessed by histology and immunohistochemistry. Results: Light damage resulted in a loss of the number of photoreceptor nuclei in the outer nuclear layer (ONL), a loss of UV cone opsin immunoreactivity and a reduction in rod- and cone-mediated ERG signals. 17β-E2 treatment significantly increased the ONL cell count and increased the rod-driven a-wave in the ERG. PHTPP alone had no effect, but PHTPP eliminated the protective effect of exogenously applied estrogen. Likewise, 17β-E2 significantly increased the amount of UV cone opsin immunoreactivity, an effect that was negated by co-administration of PHTPP. Conclusions: Estrogen supplementation was found to reduce rod and cone photoreceptor cell damage in this light-induced photoreceptor degeneration mouse model, an effect that was mediated via ERβ activation.
title: ADCO, Premier cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesmes (XIIe siècle), Cart. 142 (7 H 6), 128 pages, f. 0028v-bis
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2009
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Premier cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesmes (XIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 142 (7 H 6), 128 pages, f. 0028v-bis, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Premier cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesmes (XIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 142 (7 H 6), 128 pages, f. 0028v-bis, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Molesme
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q334044
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb137389344
The corporatized Australian port system: are there legislative constraints upon the effective operation of the model?
Creators: name: Pettitt, Tabatha Michelle
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Many of Australia’s government-owned port corporations operate under legislation thatcreates a corporatized business framework which aims to distance government from the daily operations of ports. Effective corporatization requires legislation which creates a framework that will allow government-owned port corporations to emulate the commercial conduct of private sector firms and be competitive and profitable. There is no uniform port corporatization framework existing in Australia because the frameworks in place have been customized to the needs of the governments in each particular case. As a result, a number of different versions have been implemented across the jurisdictions of Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory. Whilst each state and the Northern Territory has enacted its own legislation and created its own port governance frameworks, these are all variations of two models: the Statutory State-Owned Company (SSOC) and the Government-Owned Company (GOC). SSOC port corporations are subject to the requirements of the specific legislation that created them. GOC port corporations are created subject to the requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) which regulates Australian corporations. The SSOC and GOC models differ in the extent of the powers granted to each port corporation and its Board of Directors, as well as the role and degree of influence permitted to shareholding government Ministers. Under the SSOC model the responsibilities of government are embedded within the legislation and potentially allow more scope for political interference than with the GOC model where the scope for overtpolitical interference is generally minimal. There has been little research undertaken from a legal or empirical perspective evaluating and measuring the function and role of government upon the operation of Australian ports. There is a real need to examine whether there are any constraints imposed by the legislation on port corporations. This thesis fills the gap by investigating whether the legislation in place has provided an appropriate framework that will enable each port corporation's business and commercial objectives to be fully realized.
Almost Hadamard matrices with complex entries
Creators: name: Banica, Teodor
name: Nechita, Ion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss an extension of the almost Hadamard matrix formalism, to the case of complex matrices. Quite surprisingly, the situation here is very different from the one in the real case, and our conjectural conclusion is that there should be no such matrices, besides the usual Hadamard ones. We verify this conjecture in a number of situations, and notably for most of the known examples of real almost Hadamard matrices, and for some of their complex extensions. We discuss as well some potential applications of our conjecture, to the general study of complex Hadamard matrices.
description: 42 pages
CBT for anxious children with comorbid ADHD
Creators: name: Gould, Karen L.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Attention-de ficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and anxiety are the most common psychiatric disorders of childhood and are highly comorbid. While cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has demonstrated general efficacy in treating paediatric anxiety, it is not clear whether ADHD comorbidity impacts treatment response. While some previous studies have found a negative impact of comorbidity, others have found no difference, and the role of ADHD subtype has never been assessed. We examined ADHD diagnosis as a predictor of treatment response and remission in a study of 842 children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years undergoing group-based CBT for primary anxiety. A subsample of 94 children met criteria for comorbid, mild-to-moderate ADHD, mostly comprising Predominantly Inattentive(n = 61) and Combined (n = 27) subtypes. Neither ADHD diagnosis nor subtype predicted response or remission rates for children's primary anxiety disorders. Children with ADHD also showed modest yet significant improvements in ADHD symptoms after CBT treatment for anxiety. Our findings strongly support the suitability of manualised group-based CBT for anxiety treatment in children with non-primary ADHD . Further research should examine whether the positive outcomes reported can be extended to children with primary or severe ADHD.
p53 Expression in Pterygium Amongst Natives of High Versus Low Altitude
Creators: name: Anthwal D
name: Gupta M
name: Dasgupta S
name: Tyagi R
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: To evaluate and compare the p53 gene expression in pterygia excised from natives of high and low altitudes. Methods: This prospective randomised interventional study, including 40 eyes (40 pterygia) of 40 patients, was conducted at our tertiary care institute for a period of 21 months. Patients admitted indoors were randomly selected for the study. Pterygium excision with conjunctival autografting was the standard procedure done. Pterygia and controls (normal conjunctiva) excised from both high (≥ 1500 m) and low altitude (< 1500 m) groups were analyzed immunohistochemically for p53 gene expression. Results: Overall, 29 (72.5%) pterygium specimens stained positive for p53 gene expression (p-value = 0.0001). 15 (75%) pterygia from high altitude (p-value = 0.0002) and 14 (70%) pterygia from low altitude group (p-value = 0.0003) stained p53 positive. Mean mutant p53 immunoreactivity was 31.03 ± 18.19%. However, the difference in incidence of p53 positivity (p-value = 1) or mean p53 immunoreactivity (p-value = 0.53) between the two study groups was not significant. All normal conjunctiva specimens stained p53 negative. Conclusions: Notwithstanding the difference in ultraviolet irradiation, the altitudinal variation in p53 gene expression in pterygium was found insignificant in our study. However, significantly high rate of mutant p53 positivity suggests pterygium to be a disorder of cell proliferation. Despite remaining unaffected by altitude, such alarmingly high incidence of p53 positivity warrants further randomised multicentric studies to rule out pterygium premalignancy and to investigate other possible mechanism(s) of p53 mutation in pterygium, besides those mediated by ultraviolet radiation.
On a reconstruction procedure for special spherically symmetric metrics in the scalar-Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet model: the Schwarzschild metric test
Creators: name: Ernazarov, K. K.
name: Ivashchuk, V. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 4D gravitational model with a real scalar field $φ$, Einstein and Gauss-Bonnet terms is considered. The action contains the potential $U(φ)$ and the Gauss-Bonnet coupling function $f(φ)$. For a special static spherically symmetric metric $ds^2 = (A(u))^{-1} du^2 - A(u) dt^2 + u^2 dΩ^2$, with $A(u) > 0$ ($u > 0$ is a radial coordinate), we verify the so-called reconstruction procedure suggested by Nojiri and Nashed. This procedure presents certain implicit relations for $U(φ)$ and $f(φ)$ which lead to exact solutions to the equations of motion for a given metric governed by $A(u)$. We confirm that all relations in the approach of Nojiri and Nashed for $f(φ(u))$ and $φ(u)$ are correct, but the relation for $U(φ(u))$ contains a typo which is eliminated in this paper. Here we apply the procedure to the (external) Schwarzschild metric with the gravitational radius $2 μ$ and $u > 2 μ$. Using the ``no-ghost'' restriction (i.e., reality of $φ(u)$), we find two families of $(U(φ), f(φ))$. The first one gives us the Schwarzschild metric defined for $u > 3 μ$, while the second one describes the Schwarzschild metric defined for $2 μ< u < 3 μ$ ($3 μ$ is the radius of the photon sphere). In both cases the potential $U(φ)$ is negative.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, LaTex, 2 typos are eliminated in last bracket of (2.5), two brackets are added into (2.6), and relation \mu = 1 is inserted into the sentence before (4.50)
Some Clarifications on the Duration of Inflation in Loop Quantum Cosmology
Creators: name: Bolliet, Boris
name: Barrau, Aurélien
name: Martineau, Killian
name: Moulin, Flora
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The prediction of a phase of inflation whose number of e-folds is constrained is an important feature of loop quantum cosmology. This work aims at giving some elementary clarifications on the role of the different hypotheses leading to this conclusion. We show that the duration of inflation does not depend significantly on the modified background dynamics in the quantum regime.
Perfectionism, difficulties in emotion regulation, and gender in dysmorphic concern
Creators: name: Cunningham, Mitchell
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Perfectionism and emotion regulation difficulties are widely implicated in the etiology and maintenance of a range of psychopathologies. However, research on the role of these constructs is both inconsistent and limited in the domain of dysmorphic concern and BDD. To address these issues, the thesis firstly examined the associations that perfectionism and emotion dysregulation have with dysmorphic concern over and above generally internalising factors such as depressive symptoms and neuroticism, and secondly explored whether gender interacted with these observed relationships. An online survey was completed by a sample of university students and community participants (N = 233), with results showing that socially prescribed perfectionism was a unique predictor of dysmorphic concern over and above important covariates. However, emotion regulation difficulties were not shown to be uniquely associated with dysmorphic concern. Results also revealed that gender interacted the relationship between dysmorphic concern and socially prescribed perfectionism, and post hoc meditational analyses showed that difficulties in emotion regulation mediated the relationships that both depressive symptoms and neuroticism had with dysmorphic concern. A number of implications are discussed in light of the findings, such as the need to direct attention to the appearance concerns in males.
Factors Influencing the Success of Treatment in Anisometropic Amblyopia
Creators: name: Sedarous F
name: Musewe T
name: AJ, Mao
name: Makar I
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: To examine factors influencing successful resolution of amblyopia in children with hyperopic and astigmatic anisometropia presenting to a pediatric ophthalmology practice in London, Ontario. Methods: A retrospective chart review was conducted to identify children treated for hyperopic and astigmatic anisometropia from 2008-2016. 39 children ages 12 years and under with hyperopic and astigmatic anisometropia were included. Information regarding referral pattern, presenting findings and outcomes was collected. Presenting degree of anisometropia, compliance, age at presentation and initial visual acuity (VA) were all statistically analyzed to determine effect on final VA. Results: The mean age at referral to pediatric ophthalmology was 5.2 years. 47% presented with dense amblyopia, with the poorer eye having a VA of 6/30 or worse. 51% of children were successfully treated, with a final VA of 6/9 or better in the worse eye, and 5% of children had residual dense amblyopia. Presenting magnitude of anisometropia was the only factor found to have a significant effect on successful treatment, as for every one diopter decrease in magnitude of anisometropia, there was a 40% higher odds of achieving a final VA of 6/9 or better (point estimate 0.62, 95% CI 0.39-0.97, p=0.03). Age at presentation, presenting VA and compliance to treatment all had no significant outcome on treatment success. Conclusions: Magnitude of anisometropia was found to be the only significant factor that influences the final visual acuity of children, confirming the necessity for early detection of amblyogenic refractive errors.
Hyperuniform disordered phononic structures
Creators: name: Gkantzounis, George
name: Amoah, Timothy
name: Florescu, Marian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the existence of large phononic band gaps in designed hyperuniform (isotropic) disordered two-dimensional (2D) phononic structures of Pb cylinders in epoxy matrix. The phononic band gaps in hyperuniform disordered phononic structures are comparable to band gaps of similar periodic structures, for both out-of-plane and in-plane polarizations. A large number of localized modes is identified near the band edges, as well as, diffusive transmission throughout the rest of the frequency spectrum. Very high-Q cavity modes for both out-of-plane and in-plane polarizations are formed by selectively removing a single cylinder out of the structure. Efficient waveguiding with almost 100% transmission trough waveguide structures with arbitrary bends is also presented. We expand our results to thin three-dimensional layers of such structures and demonstrate effective band gaps related to the respective 2D band gaps. Moreover, the drop in the Q factor for the three-dimensional structures is not more than three orders of magnitude compared to the 2D ones.
Electromagnetic Field and Cylindrical Compact Objects in Modified Gravity
Creators: name: Yousaf, Z.
name: Bhatti, M. Zaeem-ul-Haq
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we have investigated the role of different fluid parameters particularly electromagnetic field and $f(R)$ corrections on the evolution of cylindrical compact object. We have explored the modified field equations, kinematical quantities and dynamical equations. An expression for the mass function has been found in comparison with the Misner-Sharp formalism in modified gravity, after which different mass radius diagrams are drawn. The coupled dynamical transport equation have been formulated to discuss the role of thermoinertial effects on the inertial mass density of the cylindrical relativistic interior. Finally, we have presented a framework, according to which all possible solutions of the metric $f(R)$-Maxwell field equations coupled with static fluid can be written through set of scalar functions. It is found that modified gravity induced by Lagrangians $f(R)=αR^2,~f(R)=αR^2-βR$ and $f(R)=\frac{αR^2-βR}{1+γR}$ are likely to host more massive cylindrical compact objects with smaller radii as compared to GR.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Novel Retinal Imaging Technologies
Creators: name: Y, Li
name: X, Xia
name: YM, Paulus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Diseases

description: Newly-developed imaging techniques show extensive promise and potential to improve early detection, accurate diagnosis, and management of retinal diseases. Optical coherernce tomography angiography (OCTA), photoacoustic imaging (PAI), and molecular imaging (MI) are all new and promising imaging modalities. As these imaging instruments have advanced, they have enabled visualization of the retina at an unprecedented resolution. Published studies have established the efficacy of these modalities in the assessment of common retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal vascular occlusions. Each of these systems is built upon different principles and all have different limitations. In addition, the three imaging modalities have complementary features and thus can be integrated in to a multimodal imaging system, which will be more powerful in future.
A Comparison Of Topographic and Refractive Effects from Arcuate Incisions in Keratoplasty: Deep Anterior Lamellar Vs. Penetrating
Creators: name: Alshaarawy AM
name: MH, Ahmed
name: AA, Zaki
name: MY, Sayed Saif
name: MA, Terry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: To compare the topographic and refractive effects from the arcuate relaxing incisions in treating post-keratoplasty astigmatism after deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK), penetrating keratoplasty (PKP). Setting: A one center study: Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon, USA. Design: Retrospective review of consecutive cases. Methods: The study is divided into two groups: DALK and PKP group. Each group contains 20 eyes with residual astigmatism more than 4 Diopters (D) 3 months after full suture removal. Subjects underwent arcuate relaxing incision at 90% depth of the thinnest point at the steepest hemi-meridian. The corneal and refractive astigmatism, spherical equivalent, refraction and BCSVA were compared preoperative and 3 months postoperative. Results: Topographic astigmatism improved by 3.5 ± 3.18 D in PKP, and 3.89 ± 4.92 D in DALK group (p-value = 0.051), Refractive astigmatism improved in DALK group by 2.9 ± 3.08 D and in PKP by 1.6 ± 2.64 D, (p-value = 0.163). The mean spherical equivalent changed by -0.72 ± 1.5 D in PKP, and -1.99 ± 2.45 D in DALK group, (p-value = 0.206). The Difference Vector in DALK group was 8.44 ± 13.54 D, and in PKP, it was 4.7 ± 2.12 D. Conclusion: The arcuate relaxing incision is an effective procedure for reducing post-keratoplasty astigmatism. There was a variation of response that may be due to the biomechanics of the healed graft; future studies should be using a Femtosecond laser in an extensive series of eyes with equivalent levels of astigmatism. This may also allow for a lower, tighter range of effect in both groups.
Multi-agent assignment via state augmented reinforcement learning
Creators: name: Agorio, Leopoldo
name: Van Alen, Sean
name: Calvo-Fullana, Miguel
name: Paternain, Santiago
name: Bazerque, Juan Andres
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 93E35

description: We address the conflicting requirements of a multi-agent assignment problem through constrained reinforcement learning, emphasizing the inadequacy of standard regularization techniques for this purpose. Instead, we recur to a state augmentation approach in which the oscillation of dual variables is exploited by agents to alternate between tasks. In addition, we coordinate the actions of the multiple agents acting on their local states through these multipliers, which are gossiped through a communication network, eliminating the need to access other agent states. By these means, we propose a distributed multi-agent assignment protocol with theoretical feasibility guarantees that we corroborate in a monitoring numerical experiment.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, 6th Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control
Édit du roi qui ordonne que toutes les causes en action personnelle , réelle par Saisie ou Arrêt,comme aussî pour le possessoire des Bénéfices situés dans le Ressort, seront jugées au conseil Souverain, sans que les sujets puissent être traduits en autre Juridiction pour quelque cause que ce soit, non pas même sous prétexte de Committimus expédiés en la gran­de Chancellerie
Creators: name: Limelette, Renaud
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Source: http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39373083t.public
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
Across the frontier and around the fringe: Baptist growth in America and in Australia
Creators: name: Petras, Michael John
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines why Baptists in America from their origin in 1639 to the post-Civil War period have prospered to the extent they have while in Australia since Baptist beginnings in the early 1830s they have remained relatively small. Baptists in America during this period were affected by the two Great Awakenings, the Revolutionary War, westward migration known as the frontier movement, the Civil War and the emergence of African American churches containing ‘freedmen’ or emancipated slaves. The story of Baptists in Australia has proved to be much less spectacular. In many ways it was a constant struggle with limited resources and faced with a much smaller, more sparsely-settled population. In assessing all reasons for what assisted or militated against growth and expansion this study examines a wide range of factors: population size, migration to these countries, the denominational affiliation of the population, characteristics of Baptist preachers in both countries, notably those deeply moved by the First Great Awakening. It also looks at significant individuals and the development of church organization. It takes into account the cultural differences between the two countries such as individualism and collectivism in Baptist activity and the Australian reliance upon English assistance and the retention of English practices and traditions. The thesis looks at these reasons for growth and expansion with reference to the Baptist ministry, the constitution, location and expansion of new churches, the importance of evangelism and revivalism and the methods employed and finally, the issue of Baptist church governance or Baptist polity relating to church organisation and united church action. Connected to this have been issues relating to the conditions of church membership.
The additional-mode garden of RR Lyrae stars
Creators: name: Molnár, L.
name: Plachy, E.
name: Klagyivik, P.
name: Juhász, Á. L.
name: Szabó, R.
name: D'Alessandro, Z.
name: Kratz, B.
name: Ortega, J.
name: Kanbur, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Space-based photometric missions revealed a surprising abundance of millimagnitude-level additional modes in RR Lyrae stars. The modes that appear in the modulated fundamental-mode (RRab) stars can be ordered into four major categories. Here we present the distribution of these groups in the Petersen diagram, and discuss their characteristics and connections to additional modes observed in other RR Lyrae stars.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of the Joint TASC2-KASC9-SPACEINN-HELAS8 Conference "Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars 2016", to be published in EPJ WoC
Experimental confirmation of the transversal symmetry breaking in laser profiles
Creators: name: Carvalho, Silvânia A.
name: De Leo, Stefano
name: Oliveira-Huguenin, José A.
name: da Silva, Ladário
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Snell phase effects on the propagation of optical beams through dielectric blocks have been matter of recent theoretical studies. The effects of this phase on the laser profiles have been tested in our experiment. The data show an excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions confirming the axial spreading modification and the transversal symmetry breaking. The possibility to set, by rotating the dielectric blocks, different configurations allows to recover the transversal symmetry. Based on this experimental evidence, dielectric blocks can be used as alternative optical tools to control the beam profile.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Japanese nationalism in divergence: contemporary expressions
Creators: name: Yeak, Chy Vi
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Many analyses have articulated the change in Japan's nationalist tone in militarist terms, categorising Japanese nationalism as a resurgence of prewar imperialist values. Nevertheless, the contemporary character of Japan's nationalist expressions is indicating a breakaway from its pacifist past and a tilt towards a more conservative virtue. A theoretically and historically informed examination of the most significant internal and external factors aims to explain Japan's current shift in nationalist tone. Critical applications of nominated frameworks seek to provide new understandings of contemporary Japanese nationalism beyond the pervasive miltarist narrative. A more promising approach selectively draws on the rich literature on nationalism that has developed over the past three decades. Applied to Japanese nationalism, these theories and concepts offer a corrective to the militarist lens. This study employed theories of recurrent renovationist nationalism, relationalism and norm constructivism with the nation and nationalism conceived through notions of imagination and plural discourses. All these elements form the theoretical framework to analyse the salient features of Japanese nationalism. Research into contemporary Japanese nationalism reveals a new conservative strand of nationalism is challenging the pacifist orthodox and is being presented as a viable ideology in the light of the prevailing atmosphere. Conservative nationalism is ascending and is seeking dominance in Japan's nationalist discourse.
Short-Term Study Of IOL Position Changes using Ultrasound Biomicroscopy in High Myopia
Creators: name: Fayed AAE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Diseases

description: Aim: To study the performance of the implanted both one-piece and three-piece IOLs in relation to the enlarged diameters of the capsular bags of the highly myopic eyes. Subjects and Methods: Patient were randomly divided into two groups; group (A), included 25 eyes that underwent phacoemulsification with implantation of one-piece IOLs, Group (B) included 25 eyes that underwent phacoemulsification with implantation of three-piece IOLs. All patients include in this study were high myopes with axial length greater than 26.5 mm. All eyes were planned for clear lens extraction or cataract extraction. Results: In group (A), a statistically significant negative correlation was found between the diameters of the capsular bags and the diameters of the implanted on – piece IOLs. The correlation coefficient (r) is – 0.56. In group (B), a statistically significant positive correlation was found between the diameters of the capsular bags and the diameters of the implanted three-piece IOLs. The correlation coefficient (r) is 0.88. Conclusion: The study of this correlation is to help in answering an important question, that is, does one diameter IOL fit every capsular bag? The statistical analyses in both groups point to statistically significant correlation between the diameters of the capsular bags and the diameters of the implanted IOLs i.e. focuses to the divergence between the size of the IOLs and that of the capsular bag.
Artificial spin ice and vertex models
Creators: name: Cugliandolo, Leticia F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In classical and quantum frustrated magnets the interactions in combination with the lattice structure impede the spins to order in optimal configurations at zero temperature. The theoretical interest in their classical realisations has been boosted by the artificial manufacture of materials with these properties, that are of flexible design. This note summarises work on the use of vertex models to study bidimensional spin-ices samples, done in collaboration with R. A. Borzi, M. V. Ferreyra, L. Foini, G. Gonnella, S. A. Grigera, P. Guruciaga, D. Levis, A. Pelizzola and M. Tarzia, in recent years. It is an invited contribution to a J. Stat. Phys. special issue dedicated to the memory of Leo P. Kadanoff.
description: 17 pages, 8 figs., J. Stat. Phys. special issue
Integration of Data Reduction and Near Real-Time Archiving into the Keck Observing Model
Creators: name: Brodheim, Max
name: O'Meara, John
name: Mader, Jeffrey A.
name: Berriman, G. Bruce
name: Brown, Matthew
name: Furhman, Lucas
name: Tucker, Tyler
name: Gelino, Christopher R.
name: Lynn, Meca S.
name: Swain, Melanie A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The W. M. Keck Observatory is welcoming a new era where data reduction and archiving are tightly integrated into our observing model, under the auspices of the Observatory's Data Services Initiative (DSI) project. While previously the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) archived minimally processed, raw science data the day after observing, Keck is transitioning to a model in which it archives both raw frames and reduced data in near real-time. These data will be made available to observers and collaborators immediately upon ingestion through a dedicated new interface that will support collaboration and sharing among teams, as well as stream data directly to personal computers without access to WMKO's internal networks. Both the raw and science-ready data products will be made publicly available upon the expiration of data protections.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022
Applied Blind Hiring @ ZHAW
Creators: name: Menzi, Chantal
name: Frau, Daniela
name: Heimann, Michael
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: 658.3: Personalmanagement

description: Das Projekt «Applied Blind Hiring @ ZHAW» hatte zum Ziel, einen Piloten zu anonymen Bewerbungsverfahren an der ZHAW durchzuführen. Damit schliesst das Projekt an das 2022 durchgeführte Projekt «Digital und divers. Das Bewerbungsverfahren der ZHAW neu denken» an.
Um einen ersten Piloten zu testen, wurde ein Feldexperiment durchgeführt. Hierzu wurde eine ausgeschriebene Stelle an der School of Management and Law ausgewählt. Die eingereichten Dossiers wurden anonymisiert. In einem ersten Schritt bewerteten die vier Mitglieder der Findungskommission diese anonymisierten Dossiers. In einem zweiten Schritt bewerteten sie die vollständigen nicht-anonymisierten Dossiers der Kandidat:innen. Jeweils direkt anschliessend an die beiden Schritte wurden Nachbefragungen durchgeführt.
Auf Basis der Bewertungen sowie der Nachbefragungen wurden Handlungsempfehlungen für den Einsatz von Blind Hiring an der ZHAW formuliert. Erstens wird empfohlen, sowohl die Bewertungskriterien (ABC) sowie die Muss-Kriterien pro ausgeschriebene Stelle klar zu definieren. Zweitens könnten Zusatzdokumente (z. B. Motivationsschreiben) fakultativ eingeholt werden, da diese gemäss Aussagen der Proband:innen für die Bewertung nicht entscheidend sind. Drittens empfiehlt sich eine differenzierte Diskussion dazu, welche Merkmale bei einer Umsetzung von Blind Hiring anonymisiert werden sollen und welche nicht. Beispielsweise wären Gehaltsvorstellungen und ein möglicher Stellenantritt für die Proband:innen relevant gewesen, während Abschlussnoten irrelevant waren. Viertens gilt es zu diskutieren, ob Blind Hiring für eine erste Grobbewertung, nicht aber für die finale Bewertung zum Einsatz kommen könnte. Gemäss den Proband:innen war eine solche erste Bewertung anhand weniger Informationen effizient und steigerte danke der einheitlichen Struktur die Vergleichbarkeit. Fünftens gilt festzuhalten, dass eine manuelle Anonymisierung der Dossiers zu aufwändig ist. Es müssten KI-Tools zum Einsatz kommen.
Zusammengefasst wäre eine Applikation für eine erste Blinde Phase der Lebensläufe zu empfehlen. Möglich wäre, dass die Kandidat:innen darüber informiert werden würden und daher zuerst die wichtigsten Information in einer Applikation eintragen würden. So könnte die Einheitlichkeit der Informationen und die Festlegung der blinden Merkmale von Beginn an gefördert werden.
Limitationen umfassen unter anderem die kleine Stichprobengrösse und die Tatsache, dass lediglich die Lebensläufe, nicht aber Motivationsschreiben oder andere Zusatzdokumente, anonymisiert wurden. Auch waren nicht alle gewünschten Informationen komplett anonymisierbar. Beispielsweise lassen Jahreszahlen von Schulabschlüssen Rückschlüsse auf das Alter zu.
Rahmendokument zur Analyse der Kostenentwicklung in der obligatorischen Krankenpflegeversicherung
Creators: name: Wieser, Simon
name: Stucki, Michael
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: 360: Soziale Probleme und Sozialversicherungen

description: Die steigenden Kosten in der obligatorischen Krankenpflegeversicherung (OKP) sind eine grosse und zunehmende finanzielle Belastung für viele Haushalte. In der gesundheitspolitischen Diskussion werden eine Vielzahl von Kostentreibern genannt, fundierte Erkenntnisse zum Beitrag einzelner Kostentreiber fehlen aber weitgehend.
Das vorliegende Rahmendokument soll aufzeigen, 1) welche Treiber für das Wachstum der Gesundheitskosten in der Schweiz verantwortlich sein könnten, 2) welcher Anteil des Wachstums auf demographische Faktoren zurückzuführen ist, 3) welche Erkenntnisse eine aktuelle Studie zum Wachstumsbeitrag einzelner Kostentreiber liefert und 4) welche zukünftigen Analysen zu einem besserem Verständnis der Kostentreiber in der OKP beitragen könnten.
Grundsätzlich können sowohl steigende Preise wie steigende Mengen von Gesundheitsleistungen pro Kopf der Bevölkerung zu steigenden OKP-Kosten führen. Die meisten Preise werden im Rahmen von komplexen Tarifstrukturen zwischen Versicherern und Leistungserbringern ausgehandelt, wobei die Preise tendenziell den durchschnittlichen Kosten bei effizienter Produktion entsprechen sollten. Daneben spielen Bund und Kantone eine wichtige Rolle, da sie die Tarife genehmigen müssen und die Preise vieler Gesundheitsgüter direkt vom Bund festgelegt werden. Die Menge der in Anspruch genommenen Gesundheitsleistungen wird von einer Vielzahl von Faktoren bestimmt, wie der Demographie, der Gesundheit der Bevölkerung, dem Stand der Medizin, dem Einkommen, dem Zugang zu Gesundheitsleistungen und den (Fehl-) Anreizen für die Leistungserbringer, Patientinnen und Versicherten.
Die neue Studie zum Wachstumsbeitrag einzelner Kostentreiber in der Schweiz basiert auf einer detaillierten Zerlegung der gesamten Gesundheitsausgaben nach Krankheiten, Leistungen, Alter und Geschlecht in den Jahren 2012 und 2017. Die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse zur Zunahme der Kosten pro Kopf sind: 1) Die Preise hatten keinen Einfluss, da sie tendenziell sogar gesunken sind. 2) Ein Drittel der Zunahme lässt sich durch die Alterung der Bevölkerung und die Zunahme von Erkrankungen erklären. 3) Die verbleibenden zwei Drittel der Zunahme sind auf eine Zunahme der Leistungen pro Erkrankten zurückzuführen.
Zukünftige Analysen sollten vor allem untersuchen, welche Ursachen für die Zunahme der Leistungen pro Erkrankten verantwortlich sind. Es geht darum zu verstehen, wie gross der Beitrag des medizinischen Fortschritts ist, da dieser wesentlich zur Verbesserung der Gesundheit beitragen kann, und wie gross der Beitrag von eigentlich unnötigen Leistungen ist.
The secret life of hackathon code where does it come from and where does it go?
Creators: name: Imam, Ahmed
name: DEY, TAPAJIT
name: Nolte, Alexander
name: Mockus, Audris
name: Herbsleb, James D.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4612
subject: Software engineering

description: Background: Hackathons have become popular events for teams to collaborate on projects and develop software prototypes. Most existing research focuses on activities during an event with limited attention to the evolution of the code brought to or created during a hackathon. Aim: We aim to understand the evolution of hackathon-related code, specifically, how much hackathon teams rely on pre-existing code or how much new code they develop during a hackathon. Moreover, we aim to understand if and where that code gets reused, and what factors affect reuse. Method: We collected information about 22,183 hackathon projects from DEVPOST– a hackathon database – and obtained related code (blobs), authors, and project characteristics from the WORLD OF CODE. We investigated if code blobs in hackathon projects were created before, during, or after an event by identifying the original blob creation date and author, and also checked if the original author was a hackathon project member. We tracked code reuse by first identifying all commits containing blobs created during an event before determining all projects that contain those commits. Result: While only approximately 9.14% of the code blobs are created during hackathons, this amount is still significant considering time and member constraints of such events. Approximately a third of these code blobs get reused in other projects. The number of associated technologies and the number of participants in a project increase reuse probability. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates to what extent pre-existing code is used and new code is created during a hackathon and how much of it is reused elsewhere afterwards. Our findings help to better understand code reuse as a phenomenon and the role of hackathons in this context and can serve as a starting point for further studies in this area.
Transconjunctival Lower Lid Blepharoplasty Made Easy by Everting the Eyelid
Creators: name: Raus, Peter PM
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: To evaluate the transconjunctival lower lid blepharoplasty using a Desmarres lid retractor to evert the eyelid. Design: Prospective study. Methods: Twenty-one cases of inferior blepharoplasty in 11 patients, performed through a transconjunctival approach are reported. The author describes the surgical technique with Radio Frequency surgery, the use of a Desmarres lid retractor to evert the eyelid and the results. Results: Radio Frequency surgery and the use of a Desmarres lid retractor appear to give excellent results in transconjunctival lower lid blepharoplasty. Everting instead of retracting the eyelid provides excellent access to the fat pockets in the lower lids with less bleeding thanks to the traction on the eyelid. The transconjunctival approach has a lower complication rate than the classic transcutaneous approach, with no visible scar and less risk of postoperative scleral show or ectropion. Conclusion: Radiosurgically assisted transconjunctival blepharoplasty of the lower lid with the use of a Desmarres lid retractor is associated with a good functional and cosmetic outcome.
Neutrino Mass Sum Rules and Symmetries of the Mass Matrix
Creators: name: Gehrlein, Julia
name: Spinrath, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino mass sum rules have recently gained again more attention as a powerful tool to discriminate and test various flavour models in the near future. A related question which was not yet discussed fully satisfactorily was the origin of these sum rules and if they are related to any residual or accidental symmetry. We will address this open issue here systematically and find previous statements confirmed. Namely, that the sum rules are not related to any enhanced symmetry of the Lagrangian after family symmetry breaking but that they are simply the result of a reduction of free parameters due to skillful model building.
description: 10 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in European Physical Journal C