cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Phylogenetic classification of long read sequences
Creators: name: Chan, Kevin Chin-Wei
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: TreeSAPP (Tree-based Sensitive and Accurate Protein Profiler) is an analysis pipeline designed to functionally and taxonomically classify protein and nucleotide sequences using marker genes and phylogenetic methods. Currently, TreeSAPP supports short read sequencing data (e.g. Illumina), but does not support long reads from newer sequencing platforms (e.g. Nanopore). Therefore, ten isolate datasets sequenced using Oxford Nanopore Technologies were aligned to reference sequences of five single-copy phylogenetic marker genes. Of the four aligners tested (minimap2, GraphMap, LAST and SNAP), minimap2 performed the best when judged by raw and weighted averages of taxonomic distance of alignments to their optimal placements, which is crucial for phylogenetic inference. Minimap2 was subsequently integrated into the long read workflow of TreeSAPP, and was tested on the same datasets and a mock community. While the workflow performed well with isolate datasets, poor recall was demonstrated with the mock community, suggesting required improvements in TreeSAPP’s linear model for taxonomic inference, or for higher resolution nucleotide reference packages. Importance Short read sequencing information pose several challenges for downstream bioinformatic analyses, such as sequencing error, non-uniform coverage of samples, computational time complexity and resolving repetitive regions. With the advent of cost-effective long read sequencing technologies, many of these problems are alleviated through contiguous sequences encoding full length open reading frames. Despite this benefit, relative to short reads, long reads have high error and insertion/deletion rates, with the potential to limit their utility in marker gene classification. To resolve this dilemma, TreeSAPP requires a separate workflow for long read sequences.
School is for Everyone – Phase 1: Student Perspectives – Summary of findings
Creators: name: Graham, Anne
name: Canosa, Antonia
name: Anderson, Donnah L
name: Simmons, Catharine
name: Boyle, Tess
name: Truscott, Julia
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2023

description: This version has been replaced by https://doi.org/10.25918/misc.424.
Bioinformatics in the chalet: a Swiss learning experience
Creators: name: Robinson-Rechavi, Marc
name: Palagi, Patricia M.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Specifically targeting PhD students in bioinformatics, biology and computational biology, and inspired by the success of similar initiatives in evolutionary biology, we have initiated the “Bioinformatics in the Chalet” workshops. This workshop differs from most other training events in that the participants are isolated in a high mountain chalet with a few faculty members and asked to work in pairs with a single aim: to come up with an original research project.

Throughout the week, the students are guided towards the writing process, first alone then in pairs, with daily deadlines, and with faculty mentoring all along. Every evening there is an “armchair” talk, where a faculty presents a research story without slides or preparation. These informal talks are specifically appreciated in the students’ feedback, for the insight into how science works and the opportunity to discuss differently with leading bioinformaticians.

The working environment and cosy setting provide a unique opportunity to promote networking of students and faculty from diverse areas converging to bioinformatics, and to develop students’ skills such as expressing scientific ideas, thinking critically, writing and defending a proposal. It is especially relevant for PhD students to lead them to reflect on, and immediately apply, the main criteria for a successful project in bioinformatics. The learnt skills and competencies will be useful all through their research careers.

This workshop is offered every two years as one of the SIB PhD Training Network activities. It is part of the SIB Training courses’ portfolio, which can be found at www.sib.swiss/training.
School is for Everyone – Phase 1: Staff Perspectives – Summary of findings
Creators: name: Graham, Anne
name: Canosa, Antonia
name: Simmons, Catharine
name: Boyle, Tess
name: Truscott, Julia
name: Anderson, Donnah L
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2023

description: This version has been replaced by https://doi.org/10.25918/misc.423.
Dichotomy versus continuum: evidence for a more complex agency model of visual object categorisation
Creators: name: Contini, Erika
name: Williams, Mark
name: Grootswagers, Tijl
name: Goddard, Erin
name: Carlson, Thomas
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The neuroscience of visual object categorisation has revealed a number of spatially and temporally distinct neural representations of objects in the human brain, though has yet to sufficiently account for what factors or features the brain uses to delineate object subcategories. The animate/inanimate dichotomy is well established as an overarching organisational principle in neural object categorisation. Some have further suggested a representational continuum, specifically that groups objects based on similarities between biological classes (Connolly et al., 2012; Sha et al., 2014). While the latter may account for variability between animate subcategories, there has been limited evaluation of category structure within the inanimate domain. The neural representations of inanimate objects that exhibit animate features (e.g. human/animal-like robots or toys) have yet to be fully explored, and raise questions as to the potential contribution of more complex factors related to agency and experience which are known to influence human perception of these types of objects (Gray, Gray, & Wegner, 2007). Using magnetoencephalography and multivariate pattern analyses, we mapped the time course of object categorisation for 120 images across 12 object categories (6 animate, 6 inanimate). We evaluated the efficacy of both dichotomy and continuum models of object categorisation, as well as newly generated models based on agency and experience. Our results indicate that low-level image properties and the presence of faces best account for the representation of object categories early in the time course, around the time of peak decoding (peak at 105 ms post stimulus onset), whereas later representations (peak around 245 ms) appear best explained by more complex factors related to the object’s perceived similarity to humans. These findings call for a re-evaluation of models of object categorisation, to include more complex human-centred factors relating to agency and experience in the emerging representation of object categories in the human brain.
Difficult lessons learned fromQM-NBB & pKa calculations in SAMPL5
Creators: name: Pickard, Frank
name: Koenig, Gerhard
name: Brooks, Bernard
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The computation of distribution coefficients between polar and apolar phases requires both an accurate characterization of transfer free energies between phases and proper accounting of ionization and protomerization. We present a protocol for accurately predicting partition coefficients between two immiscible phases, and then apply it to 53 drug-like molecules in the SAMPL5 blind prediction challenge. Our results combine implicit solvent QM calculations with classical MD simulations using the non-Boltzmann Bennett free energy estimator. The OLYP/DZP/SMD method yields predictions that have a small deviation from experiment (RMSD = 2.3 log D units), relative to other participants in the challenge. Our free energy corrections based on QM protomer and pKa calculations increase the correlation between predicted and experimental distribution coefficients, for all methods used. Unfortunately, these corrections are overly hydrophilic, and fail to account for additional effects such as aggregation, water dragging and the presence of polar impurities in the apolar phase. We show that, although expensive, QM-NBB free energy calculations offer an accurate and robust method that is superior to standard MM and QM techniques alone.

One of the themes of the meeting, and indeed a major point of my presentation was to highlight the difficulty computational chemists face when attempting to model drug compounds that may readily undergo one or more of the following chemical processes: ionization (from a titratable group), protomerization and aggregation.  This talk described a protocol for performing free energy calculations on small drug-like molecules, and then evaluating their accuracy by comparing our blind predictions with distribution coefficient data from the most recent SAMPL5 free energy challenge.

Our initial partition coefficient (log P) predictions did not attempt to incorporate the non-ideal behavior described above, and were based on a combination of quantum mechanical (QM) and molecular mechanical (MM) calculations.  Going beyond partitioning, we then explicitly include the effects of ionization and protomerization in an attempt to make accurate distribution (log D) predictions using QM calculations.  For all theoretical models tested, our corrections from log D to log P increase the rank correlation between our predictions and the experimental data.  The full details of these calculations have been submitted for publication in an upcoming SAMPL5 special issue of the "Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design".
Place-Based Learning (PBL) at Riley Park : An Outdoor Educational Tool for BC Schools
Creators: name: Iqbal, Lisa
name: Kapoor, Tyreen
name: Park, Richard
name: Singh, Ganimul
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: In 2017 the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Education implemented a new BC curriculum (New Curriculum) that places an importance on participatory learning experiences. Place-Based Learning is a growing pedagogy that focuses on participatory learning experiences such that students apply in-class curriculum content while engaging in relevant tasks outside the classroom to connect their learning to the real world. As the New Curriculum was updated recently (2017), there is a lack of Place-Based Learning resources for educators due to existing instructional tools having been designed around the old curriculum. A Soil Workshop at Riley Park, Vancouver has been developed to provide BC educators with a Place-Based Learning tool that supplements the BC New Curriculum. The workshop incorporates interactive activities that use local park soils as a medium for learning the arts, sciences, and social studies. The Soil Workshop is designed for Grade 6 & 7 students with minimal background knowledge of soils and takes 90 to 120 minutes to complete.
title: "Aller Ehre werth und nicht leicht zu ersetzen ..." : Verlorene und gefundene Schätze: Zwölftes Symposion der AEET am 23. Februar 2024
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 000

description: Im Rahmen der Kooperation zwischen der Familie v. Platen und der Arbeitsstelle Edition und Editionstechnik (AEET) der Universität Duisburg-Essen werden seit 2009 die Bestände des gräflichen Privatarchivs systematisch digitalisiert, transkribiert und erschlossen, um sie für wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen und für Anliegen der Heimatforschung bereitzustellen. Der vorliegende Band der Schriftenreihe der AEET versammelt die Vorträge des zwölften Symposions in Hansühn, das am 23. Februar 2024 stattgefunden hat.
description: Schriftenreihe der Arbeitsstelle für Edition und Editionstechnik (AEET), vol. 12
Supplementary document for Digitally balanced detection scheme in multiple reference optical coherence tomography - 6182062.pdf
Creators: name: A, Anand
name: Neuhaus, Kai
name: Alexandrov, Sergey
name: Leahy, Martin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We have uploaded a supplimental document to support our manuscript.
Classification of Lepton Tracks in the J-PARC/E36 Segmented Scintillating Fibre Target.
Creators: name: Salgado, Alan Vilchis
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: The E36 Experiment at J-PARC was designed to obtain a precise measurement of the relative branching ratio Γ(K⁺ → e⁺v)/Γ(K⁺ → μ⁺v), using a stopped K⁺ beam. For this paper, a Convolutional Neural Network was used to analyze both the data obtained in the experimental and the simulated data. The purpose of this network is to identify instances where there is more than one particle track in the 256 multi-fibre kaon stopping target. These extra tracks may be produced when a positron collides with an electron (creating a delta ray). Identifying these extra tracks is crucial to calculating and adjusting the energy and momentum of the high energy lepton track leaving the target. Although the presented Neural Network provides very accurate results while classifying simulation data, its reliability for the experimental data remains unclear. Furthermore, its scope makes it too limited to replace the current methods used in this stage of the data analysis.
title: 11. IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2025: 20./21. Februar 2025, FH Kärnten, Villach
Creators: name: IFToMM D-A-CH
name: Universität Duisburg-Essen
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 620

description: IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, vol. 2025
Strip tillage: a method to limit the time needed for soil tillage in diversified crop systems: An example in sugar beet
Creators: name: Duval, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: DiverIMPACTSPA
Cropping system
Field

description: Problem Diversified cropping systems can be time consuming for the farmer, finding techniques that can save farmers time is therefore a key goal. For the Syppre experiment in the Champagne region, France, crop diversification involves the use of diverse cover crops, to protect the soil, improve soil fertility, and store carbon. The planting of crops and cover crops must be always done under favourable conditions, and some crops such as sugar beet need deep soil loosening. This means more time spent for soil tillage and drilling, with possible conflicts between primary interventions and risks of emergence failure. Solution Strip tilling to loosens soils layers in 25cm wide rows that are to be drilled, and keeps the 45cm wide inter-rows untouched. It simplifies soil tillage, reduces work time and energy consumption, and protects the soil by keeping a living cover crop or residues on the surface. It is applied in the Syppre innovative system on light chalky soils, for both sugar beet and rapeseed.
title: Challenge and Opportunity: China inside the WTO and EU-China Relations
Creators: name: Jungbluth, Cora
Publisher: name: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Year: 2021
Subjects: Trade relations
Economic relations

description: December 11, 2021, marks the 20th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade
Organization (WTO). This policy brief argues that China’s integration into the multilateral
trading system has brought about considerable benefits for the EU, but the challenges in
mutual relations now threaten to outweigh the opportunities. Without giving up on
multilateralism, the EU should focus on promoting and protecting its economic openness
through new and refreshed policy instruments – and the willingness to deploy them.
Towards Efficient Flash Caches with Emerging NVMe Flexible Data Placement SSDs
Creators: name: Allison, Michael
name: George, Arun
name: Gonzalez, Javier
name: Helmick, Dan
name: Kumar, Vikash
name: Nair, Roshan
name: Shah, Vivek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: NVMe Flash-based SSDs are widely deployed in data centers to cache working sets of large-scale web services. As data centers face increasing sustainability demands, such as reduced carbon emissions, efficient management of Flash overprovisioning and endurance has become crucial. Our analysis demonstrates that mixing data with different lifetimes on Flash blocks results in high device garbage collection costs, which either reduce device lifetime or necessitate host overprovisioning. Targeted data placement on Flash to minimize data intermixing and thus device write amplification shows promise for addressing this issue.
 The NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP) proposal is a newly ratified technical proposal aimed at addressing data placement needs while reducing the software engineering costs associated with past storage interfaces, such as ZNS and Open-Channel SSDs. In this study, we explore the feasibility, benefits, and limitations of leveraging NVMe FDP primitives for data placement on Flash media in CacheLib, a popular open-source Flash cache widely deployed and used in Meta's software ecosystem as a caching building block. We demonstrate that targeted data placement in CacheLib using NVMe FDP SSDs helps reduce device write amplification, embodied carbon emissions, and power consumption with almost no overhead to other metrics. Using multiple production traces and their configurations from Meta and Twitter, we show that an ideal device write amplification of ~1 can be achieved with FDP, leading to improved SSD utilization and sustainable Flash cache deployments.
description: This is a pre-print version of the paper that will appear at Eurosys 2025
title: Mode Shape Optimisation of a Plate in the Ultrasonic Frequency Range
Creators: name: Bolk, Johannes
name: Mirz, Christian
name: Kirk, Eric
name: Corves, Burkhard
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Summary of the conference contribution.
description: IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, vol. 202511. IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2025: 20./21. Februar 2025, FH Kärnten, Villach
Constructing an iterative method for predicting protein O-glycosylation sites glycosylated by different GalNAc-transferase isoforms
Creators: name: Mohl, Jonathon
name: Gerken, Thomas
name: Ming-Ying Leung
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: O-Glycosylation is a posttranslational protein modification that occurs by adding a N-acetyl-galactosamine (GalNAc) to a Threonine or Serine residue by GalNAc transferases within the Golgi. O-glycosylation occurs in a wide range of biological species and has an equally wide range of biological functions such as protection in the stomach by forming a mucosal layer.  The GalNAc transferases are differentially expressed throughout the tissues of the body, and changes in their mRNA expression have been associated with a range of cancers and other diseases such as diabetes. There are 20 known human GalNAc transferases and each transferase has a preferred recognition sequence, including preference for residues that have already been glycosylated.  Ten of the twenty GalNAc-transferases preferences, or enhancement values, were experimentally determined using random peptide substrate libraries.  Calculated enhancement value products (EVP) are then used to reflect the prospect/propensity of a site to be O-glycosylated by a particular GalNAc transferase.  ISOGlyP, a python web application found at isoglyp.utep.edu, is a program that uses GalNAc transferase specific enhancement values to predict whether a Threonine or Serine site within a protein will be O-glycosylated.

This work reports the creation of an iterative method of ISOGlyP to account for changes in regions where multiple sites can be glycosylated by incorporating results from similar random peptide containing GalNAc already within the +/-5 region.  The program tries to mimic a biological process of selecting the most preferred sites and glycosylating them, and then repeating the prediction process until some desired EVP threshold is reached.
title: Conceptualising corporate philanthropy and measuring its effects on employee-based brand equity
Creators: name: Liu, Haoran
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores the evolving role of corporate philanthropy (CP) in forming and developing employee-based brand equity (EBBE), set against the backdrop of increasing global disruptions and the growth of philanthropic contributions. There is a need to refine the understanding and clarify the conceptual ambiguities of CP nowadays, particularly its impact on business management and societal engagement. Additionally, the potential of linking corporate philanthropic activities with the perspectives of internal stakeholders has been insufficiently recognised.

Addressing these gaps, this research aims to redefine CP within a business context, distinguishing it from general philanthropic efforts and similar concepts such as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Focusing on the ‘unintentional reciprocal’ nature of CP, where benefits flow between the corporation and society, this study particularly examines how philanthropic involvement in the workplace influences the development of employeebased brand equity. It seeks to understand CP’s role not just as an altruistic practice but as a capable tool of enhancing corporate brand strength through employees’ active roles.

The research employs a mixed-methods approach with a sequential exploratory design. It begins with semi-structured interviews to get insights about employees’ perceptions, feelings, and actions towards CP and their corporate brands by thematic analysis, followed by an online survey with a representative UK employee sample to empirically test the proposed EBBE model. Supported by Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative (fsQCA) Analysis, it enables a nuanced examination of the complex dynamics between CP and EBBE.

Building on Keller’s Brand Equity Model, this thesis contributes to the theoretical landscape by offering a refined understanding of CP’s integration within corporate branding and how this drives brand equity from an employee-centric perspective and a new focus on taking employee-based brand equity as a process with complex nature. The practical implications of this research are that it provides a diagnostic tool for practitioners to enhance their internal branding practices and strengthen employee-based brand equity effectively through CP initiatives. This research bridges theoretical gaps and enhances practical understanding, paving the way for more informed brand management and philanthropic involvement.
Industrial Applications of Neutrinos
Creators: name: Natti, Giovanna Takano
name: Natti, Érica Regina Takano
name: Natti, Paulo Laerte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a review of the current and future industrial applications of neutrinos. We address the industrial applications of neutrinos in geological and geochemical studies of the Earth's interior, in monitoring earthquakes, in terrestrial communications, in applications for submarines, in monitoring nuclear power plants and fusion reactors, in the management of fissile materials used in nuclear plants, in tracking nuclear tests, among other applications. We also address future possibilities for industrial applications of neutrinos, especially concerning communications in the solar system and geotomography of solar system bodies.
description: 14 pages
Damping Torque Through Mechanical Torque Control From Secondary Power System Stabilizer
Creators: name: Lau, Andy Yu Ho
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: This paper presents an alternative method to add damping torque to synchronous generators (e.g. hydro generators) through a secondary power system stabilizer (PSS). Traditionally, a single PSS is used to add damping torque through controlling the field excitation system to change the electrical torque. When the PSS provides a sufficient amount of compensation to produce an electrical torque in phase with speed deviation, rotor oscillations will damp. There are two factors of speed deviation—electrical torque and mechanical torque. The traditional (primary) PSS acts on the electrical torque. In this paper, an alternative (secondary) PSS is designed to act on the mechanical torque. A power system study is conducted to evaluate the independent and combined use of the two PSS’s after introducing a disturbance. The results from comparing the independent use of the primary and secondary PSS show an improved damping of rotor oscillations compared to a system without any PSS. When operating two PSS’s in parallel (i.e. both primary and secondary PSS enabled), the damping of rotor oscillations are further reduced. However, with the parallel use of PSS’s, the speed deviation took longer before reaching a steady state compared to solely using the primary PSS.
Supplementary document for High-performance All-inorganic CsPbBr₃ Quantum Dots with a Low-Threshold Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Lasing - 6182416.pdf
Creators: name: Ning, Shuya
name: Duan, Fan
name: zhang, naming
name: Dai, Kang
name: He, Jiajia
name: Liu, Zhihui
name: Wang, Shuo
name: Zhang, Fanghui
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Clean supporting information:Figure S1,PLQY.Figure S2, Emission spectra
EDEA: Efficient Dual-Engine Accelerator for Depthwise Separable Convolution with Direct Data Transfer
Creators: name: Chen, Yi
name: Lou, Jie
name: Wabnitz, Malte
name: Loh, Johnson
name: Gemmeke, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Depthwise separable convolution (DSC) has emerged as a crucial technique, especially for resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a dual-engine for the DSC hardware accelerator, which enables the full utilization of depthwise convolution (DWC) and pointwise convolution (PWC) processing elements (PEs) in all DSC layers. To determine the optimal dataflow, data reuse, and configuration of the target architecture, we conduct a design space exploration using MobileNetV1 with the CIFAR10 dataset. In the architecture, we introduce an additional non-convolutional unit, which merges the dequantization, batch normalization (BN), ReLU, and quantization between DWC and PWC into a simple fixed-point multiplication and addition operation. This also reduces the intermediate data access between the DWC and PWC, enabling streaming operation and reducing latency. The proposed DSC dual-engine accelerator is implemented using the 22nm FDSOI technology from GlobalFoundries, occupying an area of 0.58 $mm^2$. After signoff, it can operate at 1 GHz at TT corner, achieving a peak energy efficiency of 13.43 TOPS/W with a throughput of 973.55 GOPS with 8-bit precision. The average energy efficiency of all DSC layers on MobileNetV1 is 11.13 TOPS/W, demonstrating substantial hardware efficiency improvements for DSC-based applications.
Potential protein isoforms reveal additional information on biomarkers obtained from RNA-Seq data
Creators: name: Alshehri, Manal
name: Rezaeian, Iman
name: Alkhateeb, Abed
name: Rueda, Luis
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Translation, as the second step of central dogma in molecular biology, is a process for transforming mRNAs into amino acid chains. An open reading frame (ORF) is a continuous sequence of codons that begins with a start codon and ends with a one of the stop codons. Finding ORFs corresponding to a given mRNA transcript, is an important step in reconstructing protein isoforms, which is vital for better understanding of RNA alternative splicing effects in diseases like cancer.

In our approach, we developed a tool for finding all six frames corresponding to a given mRNA sequence and identifying finding the corresponding ORFs from RNA-Seq data.  The ability to process several transcripts in batch mode, makes this tool an ideal software, when dealing with protein isoform prediction for a large number of transcripts. Moreover, the proposed tool is able to find both known and novel protein isoforms from RNA-Seq data.
title: Umsetzung einer Automotive Security Architecture für Nebenaggregate in Software
Creators: name: Bumberger, Leon
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Landshut
Year: 2022

description: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, dem Leser einen Überblick über Hardware Security Modules (HSM) im Allgemeinen und konkret auf einem Aurix TriCore Mikroprozessor der zweiten Generation zu verschaffen. Die Funktionalitäten und Anwendungsbereiche des Moduls werden erläutert. Die Arbeit erfolgt im Rahmen eines Projekts der Silver Atena GmbH. Ziel des Projekts ist die Entwicklung eines Steuergeräts für die Energieversorgung eines elektrisch betriebenen Fahrzeugs. Der verwendete Mikroprozessor findet Anwendung in Automobil-Steuergeräten, wobei das HSM kryptografische Aufgaben übernimmt. Die Arbeit wird die einzelnen Funktionen der Krypto-Hardware aufzeigen und im Wesentlichen detailreicher erläutern. Zuletzt soll die Integration des HSM in ein Softwareprojekt dargestellt werden.
Characterization of CHIME0s Complex Gain Using New Transits of CygA and CasA
Creators: name: Hertig, Emilie Marie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: This work aims to improve the calibration of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a new radiotelescope built in Penticton (BC) and inaugurated in 2017. CHIME’s main goal is to observe baryon acoustic oscillations in order to probe the evolution of the universe at redshifts between 0.8 and 2.5, in the period where the standard model of cosmology predicts that dark energy started to dominate over matter and radiation. Accurate expansion measurements during this period would provide tighter constraints on the Hubble parameter and the dark energy equation of state. This would lead to invalidation or further verification of our current cosmological theories, therefore improving our understanding of the nature of dark energy. It has been observed that the the steel structures of the telescope, as well as the cables and antennae have temperature-dependent behaviour, which affects the quality of the data. Previous attempts of characterizing this dependency weren’t successful; therefore, this works aims to explore an innovative method based on new direct sky observations and allowing to determine the influence of external temperature on CHIME’s complex gain. Thermal susceptibilities are obtained from analyzing observations of bright radiosources, mainly CygA and CasA, and calculating linear fits of the gain fractional variation as a function of external temperature. A correction for the nonlinear behaviour of antennae, based on laboratory experiments, is included in later stages of the analysis, as well as a detailed investigation and treatment of outliers. This project is a step towards the making of a full thermal model that could be included in CHIME’s calibration algorithm in order to significantly improve the quality of cosmological data.
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Military and Its Advantages
Creators: name: Abdulrahman Y. A.
name: Umar F. M.
name: Firuze AK
name: Muhammad A. B
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: This document presents an assisted operation system of a robotic arm for positioning near an explosive device selected by the user through the visualization of the cameras on the screen. Two non-converging cameras mounted on the robotic arm in camera-in-hand configuration provide the three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of the object being tracked, using a 3D reconstruction technique with the help of the continuously adaptive mean shift (CAMSHIFT) algorithm for object tracking and feature matching. The inverse kinematics of the robot is implemented to locate the end effector close to the explosive so that the operator can perform the operation of grabbing the grenade more easily. Inverse kinematics is implemented in its geometric form, thus reducing the computational load. Tests conducted with various explosive devices verified the effectiveness of the system in locating the robotic arm in the desired position.
Study of the Decay π0 → vv using Data from CERN Experiment NA62
Creators: name: Feiler, Simon
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: This project is part of the NA62 p0 !n ¯ n analysis and is run on the 2016 datasets. Parts covered in this project, include the trigger efficiency which after variations in the beginning (runs 6300-6350) maintained a value of around 0.1. The combined trigger and filter efficiency was found to be f = 1.507+0.117−0.108×10−⁴ @99%CL for all runs combined. A study of a possible muon contamination of the signal region was conducted. The combined muon acceptance of the RICH, Calo PID, missing mass requirement of the signal region and the MUV was found to be ≈ 10−¹³. A muon contamination of the signal region can be ruled out.
1. review cultural anthropology Claude Levi-Strauss 2. Review Argonauts Of the Western Pasific Bronislaw Malinawski
Creators: name: Fatra Khairani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: 1. Review buku Cultural anthropology Claude Levi-Strauss

Lévi-Strauss menyimpulkan bahwa kebudayaan manusia dapat dipahami sebagai sistem struktur tanda dan simbol yang serupa dengan bahasa, yang terdiri dari relasi dan oposisi biner.

 

2. Review buku Argonauts Of the Western Pasific Bronislaw Malinawski

Menggambarkan kehidupan sosial dan ekonomi masyarakat Trobriand, dengan fokus pada praktik pertukaran Kula yang melibatkan ritual dan tradisi. Karya ini menyoroti hubungan antara ekonomi, budaya, dan kekuatan magis dalam masyarakat tersebut.
Physics-based simulation ontology: an ontology to support modelling and reuse of data for physics-based simulation
Creators: name: Cheong, Hyunmin
name: Butscher, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The current work presents an ontology developed for physics-based simulation in engineering design, called Physics-based Simulation Ontology (PSO). The purpose of the ontology is to assist in modelling the physical phenomenon of interest in a veridical manner, while capturing the necessary and reusable information for physics-based simulation solvers. The development involved extending an existing upper ontology, Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), to define lower-level terms of PSO. PSO has two parts: PSO-Physics, which consists of terms and relations used to model physical phenomena based on the perspective of classical mechanics involving partial differential equations, and PSO-Sim, which consists of terms used to represent the information artefacts that are about the physical phenomena modelled with PSO-Physics. The former terms are used to model the physical phenomenon of interest independent of solver-specific interpretations, which can be reused across different solvers, while the latter terms are used to instantiate solver-specific input data. A case study involving two simulation solvers was conducted to demonstrate this capability of PSO. Discussion around the benefits and limitations of using BFO for the current work is also provided, which should be valuable for any future work that extends an existing upper ontology to develop ontologies for engineering applications.
Pydar Street Redevelopment, Truro, Cornwall - Archaeological Evaluation
Creators: name: Gossip, J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service unpublished report series, 1
description: Cornwall Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook a programme of archaeological evaluation in advance of proposed redevelopment of the Pydar Street Car Park, Truro and surrounding areas in July 2020. Two areas were investigated - the site of an 18th century 'Poor House', later converted to a hospital for infectious diseases and the site of its associated mortuary. Walls and floors of both structures were found to survive buried beneath rubble overburden. Finds include domestic rubbish, predominantly from the 18th and 19th centuries and objects associated with the isolation hospital.
Defenses for main memory systems using memory controllers
Creators: name: Wang, Bolin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Main memories are a key shared resource within modern computing systems. This thesis shows that memory controllers are prone to side/covert-channel vulnerabilities. The first vulnerability, called Drip-R, exploits the fact that row-buffer hits and misses incur different latency for the memory controller. The second vulnerability, called Drip-Q, leverages the read queue contention within the memory controller to fabricate differential latency. These differential latencies act as side/covert –channels and can be used to leak or receive data from other processes. To overcome these vulnerabilities, this thesis proposes two secure and high performance scheduling policies called Plumber-R and Plumber-Q, respectively. These policies work on the insight that request scheduling can be split into isolated epochs. We show that epochs can prevent the creation of side-channels within the memory controller and prohibit the attacker processes from leaking or receiving data using side-channels. Furthermore, within each isolated epoch, the memory requests can take advantage of row-buffer hits and improve performance. Our experiments show that, on average, Plumber-R and Plumber-Q provide 29% and 41% speedup over the prior state-of-the-art scheduling policies Close Page and Fixed Service.
Forecasting Empty Container availability for Vehicle Booking System Application
Creators: name: Gouabou, Arthur Cartel Foahom
name: Al-Kharaz, Mohammed
name: Hakimi, Faouzi
name: Khaled, Tarek
name: Amzil, Kenza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Container terminals, pivotal nodes in the network of empty container movement, hold significant potential for enhancing operational efficiency within terminal depots through effective collaboration between transporters and terminal operators. This collaboration is crucial for achieving optimization, leading to streamlined operations and reduced congestion, thereby benefiting both parties. Consequently, there is a pressing need to develop the most suitable forecasting approaches to address this challenge. This study focuses on developing and evaluating a data-driven approach for forecasting empty container availability at container terminal depots within a Vehicle Booking System (VBS) framework. It addresses the gap in research concerning optimizing empty container dwell time and aims to enhance operational efficiencies in container terminal operations. Four forecasting models-Naive, ARIMA, Prophet, and LSTM-are comprehensively analyzed for their predictive capabilities, with LSTM emerging as the top performer due to its ability to capture complex time series patterns. The research underscores the significance of selecting appropriate forecasting techniques tailored to the specific requirements of container terminal operations, contributing to improved operational planning and management in maritime logistics.
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Creators: name: Ebner, Martin
Publisher: name: Graz University of Technology
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Educational sciences
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Keynote für die  Abschlusstagung des Projekts „INTER-DI-KO – Unterrichtskonstellationen vor dem Anspruch von Digitalisierung und Medienbildung“ (2021-2025) an der PH Salzburg
title: A Hybrid Educational Platform for Medical Robotics: Bridging Simulation and Real-World Hardware
Creators: name: Martin-Rodriguez, Ruben
name: Karnam, Murali
name: Thieringer, Florian
name: Rauter, Georg
name: Gerig, Nicolas
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Summary of the conference contribution.
description: IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, vol. 202511. IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2025: 20./21. Februar 2025, FH Kärnten, Villach
Exploring ozone production sensitivity to NOₓ and VOCs in the New York City airshed in the spring and summers of 2017–2019
Creators: name: Sebol, Abby E.
name: Canty, Timothy P.
name: Wolfe, Glenn
name: Hannun, Reem
name: Ring, Allison M.
name: Ren, Xinrong
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024
Subjects: NO
Ozone production
Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS)
VOCs
Framework for 0-D atmospheric modeling (F0AM)
Air quality

description: Reducing ozone in the New York City (NYC) region requires understanding the nonlinearity of ozone production (PO₃) and its sensitivity to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOₓ = NO₂ + NO). Using observations from the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) in the late spring and summers of 2017–2019 and a 0-D box model, we test the sensitivity of PO₃ to ozone precursors. PO₃ is greater in the morning than the afternoon due to increased concentrations of NO₂ and VOC. This diurnal variation in PO₃ is enhanced in the late summer. Based on the model response of PO₃ to changes in initial NO₂, 14% of samples are within a VOC-limited regime. The metric LROₓ/LNOₓ, which compares the radical loss rates via self-reaction to their reaction with NO₂, indicates an additional 17% of samples are in transition between NOₓ and VOC-limited regimes (0.30 <= LROₓ/LNOₓ <= 1). We often find PO₃ to be VOC-limited in NYC and along the Connecticut coastline (I-95 corridor). In these samples, PO₃ is most sensitive to isoprene, propene, and isopentane, and individual VOCs have strong diurnal and seasonal variations. We further compare PO₃ calculations using the near explicit Master Chemical Mechanism (MCMv3.3.1) and Carbon Bond 6 revision 2 (CB6r2) for a more direct link to regulatory air quality models. Modeled PO₃ is 20% greater in MCMv3.3.1, due largely to the speciation of VOC and organic peroxy radicals, however the bounds of LROₓ/LNOₓ used to determine the transition range between PO₃ regimes remain the same.
Effects of Physical Activity on Poststroke Cognitive Function
Creators: name: Oberlin, Lauren E.
name: Waiwood, Aashna
name: Cumming, Toby B.
name: Marsland, Anna L.
name: Bernhardt, Julie
name: Erickson, Kirk I.
Publisher: name: American Heart Association
Year: 2017

description: Background and Purpose—Despite the social, health, and economic burdens associated with cognitive impairment poststroke, there is considerable uncertainty about the types of interventions that might preserve or restore cognitive abilities. The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the effects of physical activity (PA) training on cognitive function poststroke and identify intervention and sample characteristics that may moderate treatment effects.Methods—Randomized controlled trials examining the association between structured PA training and cognitive performance poststroke were identified using electronic databases EMBASE and MEDLINE. Intervention effects were represented by Hedges’ g and combined into pooled effect sizes using random- and mixed-effects models. Effect sizes were subjected to moderation analyses using the between-group heterogeneity test.Results—Fourteen studies met inclusion criteria, representing data from 736 participants. The primary analysis yielded a positive overall effect of PA training on cognitive performance (Hedges’ g [95% confidence interval]=0.304 [0.14–0.47]). Mixed-effects analyses demonstrated that combined aerobic and strength training programs generated the largest cognitive gains and that improvements in cognitive performance were achieved even in the chronic stroke phase (mean=2.6 years poststroke). Positive moderate treatment effects were found for attention/processing speed measures (Hedges’ g [confidence interval]=0.37 [0.10–0.63]), while the executive function and working memory domains did not reach significance (P>0.05).Conclusions—We found a significant positive effect of PA training on cognition poststroke with small to moderate treatment effects that are apparent even in the chronic stroke phase. Our findings support the use of PA training as a treatment strategy to promote cognitive recovery in stroke survivors.
title: The Role of OSINT in Criminal Investigations: Leveraging Open-Source Data to Combat Cybercrime and Organized Criminal Activities
Creators: name: Vaughan, Azariah
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: In today's modern age driven by digital innovations, the widespread adoption of technology has transformed criminal activities, leading to the emergence of cybercrime as a significant challenge for law enforcement agencies globally. Cybercrime acts have left a considerable dent on criminal activities and nowadays that we are halfway into the subsequent technological era stands as one of the most crucial issues for law enforcement agencies all around the globe. The aim of this work is to discuss the relationship between cybercrime and organized crime and the importance of OSINT within criminal investigations in supporting law enforcement itself. Particularly, due to the current amount of data available online, law enforcement has access to crucial information concerning important matters in criminal cases, therefore OSINT has offered an advantageous opportunity to law enforcement agencies to investigate criminals. Through research on literature and real-life case studies in the public sector, this work provides information about the clearest indication, yet that OSINT offers a comprehensive range of accordance to the criminal investigative needs of modern law enforcement. The paper dives into the necessary relationships between law enforcement and private companies as well as how OSINT can offer important benefits to organizations about enhancing their cybersecurity.
Analysis of Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) Spawn Populations in False Creek
Creators: name: Basok, Lal Deniz
name: Ji, Chunchen
name: Lovett, Meg
name: Yan, Carey
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Introduction Prior to the development of False Creek by European settlers, False Creek supported a rich and diverse ecosystem. The creek was five times the area it is presently, surrounded by dense temperate rainforest with a large tidal mudflat in the east end. The shallow areas of the creek were home to large eelgrass beds which supported substantial marine biodiversity and in turn, attracted predators such as migratory birds. However, over the past hundred years industrialization has resulted in False Creek becoming desolate of such biodiversity (Fraser Riverkeeper, 2018).