cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SonoUno web: an innovative user centred web interface
Creators: name: De La Vega, Gonzalo
name: Dominguez, Leonardo Martin Exequiel
name: Casado, Johanna
name: García, Beatriz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sonification as a complement of visualization is been under research for decades as a new ways of data deployment. ICAD conferences, gather together specialists from different disciplines to discuss about sonification. Different tools as sonoUno, starSound and Web Sandbox are attempt to reach a tool to open astronomical data sets and sonify it in conjunction to visualization. In this contribution, the sonoUno web version is presented, this version allows user to explore data sets without any installation. The data can be uploaded or a pre-loaded file can be opened, the sonification and the visual characteristics of the plot can be customized on the same window. The plot, sound and marks can be saved. The web interface were tested with the main used screen readers in order to confirm their good performance.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, HCII2022 conference, Supported by the Project REINFORCE (GA 872859) with the support of the EC Research Innovation Action under the H2020 Programme SwafS-2019-1the REINFORCE (https://www.reinforceeu.eu)
Teaching mechanics with individual exercise assignments and automated correction
Creators: name: Gfrerer, Michael H.
name: Marussig, Benjamin
name: Maitz, Katharina
name: Bangerl, Mia M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solving exercise problems by yourself is a vital part of developing a mechanical understanding. Yet, most mechanics lectures have more than 200 participants, so the workload for manually creating and correcting assignments limits the number of exercises. The resulting example pool is usually much smaller than the number of participants, making verifying whether students can solve problems themselves considerably harder. At the same time, unreflected copying of tasks already solved does not foster the understanding of the subject and leads to a false self-assessment. We address these issues by providing a scalable approach for creating, distributing, and correcting exercise assignments for problems related to statics, strength of materials, dynamics, and hydrostatics. The overall concept allows us to provide individual exercise assignments for each student. A quantitative survey among students of our recent statics lecture assesses the acceptance of our teaching tool. The feedback indicates a clear added value for the lecture, which fosters self-directed and reflective learning.
New Limits on Bosonic Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation, and Electron Decay from the Majorana Demonstrator
Creators: name: Chan,
name: Buuck,
name: Giovanetti,
name: Detwiler,
name: Green,
name: Jasinski,
name: Ejiri,
name: Shanks,
name: Goett,
name: Howe,
name: Trimble,
name: Howard,
name: White,
name: Yakushev,
name: Kouzes,
name: Xu,
name: Barabash,
name: Avignone,
name: Massarczyk,
name: Cuesta,
name: Arnquist,
name: Rielage,
name: O'Shaughnessy,
name: Elliott,
name: Dunagan,
name: Kidd,
name: Wiseman,
name: Radford,
name: Bradley,
name: Chu,
name: Busch,
name: Lopez,
name: Robertson,
name: Konovalov,
name: Vetter,
name: Guinn,
name: Haufe,
name: Yumatov,
name: Guiseppe,
name: Rager,
name: Yu,
name: Zhitnikov,
name: Efremenko, Yu.
name: Vorren,
name: Keeter,
name: Martin,
name: Tedeschi,
name: Meijer,
name: Caldwell,
name: Gilliss,
name: Shirchenko,
name: Henning,
name: Suriano,
name: Abgrall,
name: Macmullin,
name: Bertrand,
name: Gruszko,
name: Hoppe,
name: Zhu,
name: Mertens,
name: Poon,
name: Reine,
name: Vasilyev,
name: Wilkerson,
name: Varner,
name: Brudanin,
name: Christofferson,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Here, we present new limits on exotic keV-scale physics based on 478 kg d of Majorana Demonstrator commissioning data. Constraints at the 90% confidence level are derived on bosonic dark matter (DM) and solar axion couplings, Pauli exclusion principle violating (PEPV) decay, and electron decay using monoenergetic peak signal limits above our background. We set our most stringent DM constraints for 11.8 keV mass particles, limiting g A e < 4.5 × 10 -13 for pseudoscalars and ( α ' / α ) < 9.7 × 10 -28 for vectors. We also report a 14.4 keV solar axion coupling limit of g$$eff\atop{AN}$$ × g A e < 3.8 × 10 -17 , a 1/2 β 2 < 8.5 × 10 - 48 limit on the strength of PEPV electron transitions, and a lower limit on the electron lifetime of τ e > 1.2 × 1 0 24 yr for e - → invisible.
How can it be like that?
Creators: name: Bub, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Richard Feynman famously said that nobody understands quantum mechanics and cautioned against asking: "But how can it be like that?" Something about the conceptual foundations of the theory is profoundly puzzling, but just what is so disturbing is not easy to pin down. Three books by Olival Freire (The Quantum Dissidents), Adam Becker (What is Real?), and Philip Ball (Beyond Weird) are about rival attempts to say how it can be like that and, in the case of the Freire and Becker books, about the hostility between opposing camps, which sometimes had devastating consequences for the professional careers of the protagonists. I review the issues raised in the three books, and I discuss what Bohr could have meant by the statement (attributed to Bohr by Aage Petersen) that "there is no quantum world," along the lines of a neo-Bohrian, non-representational interpretation of quantum mechanics. (Originally published, with minor changes, as a review article "Interpreting the quantum world: old questions and new answers.")
description: 11 pages
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cape Peninsula Hospital Bend A Bottom soil moisture station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Fynbos Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Cape Peninsula
Hydrological
Soil Moisture Probe
Soil moisture
soil temperature

description: This package contains supporting information for the hydrological data collected at Cape Peninsula's Hospital Bend A Bottom soil moisture station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Super-Resolution Community Detection for Layer-Aggregated Multilayer Networks
Creators: name: Mucha, Peter J.
name: Caceres, Rajmonda S.
name: Taylor, Dane
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Applied network science often involves preprocessing network data before applying a network-analysis method, and there is typically a theoretical disconnect between these steps. For example, it is common to aggregate time-varying network data into windows prior to analysis, and the trade-offs of this preprocessing are not well understood. Focusing on the problem of detecting small communities in multilayer networks, we study the effects of layer aggregation by developing random-matrix theory for modularity matrices associated with layer-aggregated networks with N nodes and L layers, which are drawn from an ensemble of Erdős–Rényi networks with communities planted in subsets of layers. We study phase transitions in which eigenvectors localize onto communities (allowing their detection) and which occur for a given community provided its size surpasses a detectability limit K*. When layers are aggregated via a summation, we obtain K∗∝O(NL/T), where T is the number of layers across which the community persists. Interestingly, if T is allowed to vary with L, then summation-based layer aggregation enhances small-community detection even if the community persists across a vanishing fraction of layers, provided that T/L decays more slowly than 𝒪(L−1/2). Moreover, we find that thresholding the summation can, in some cases, cause K* to decay exponentially, decreasing by orders of magnitude in a phenomenon we call super-resolution community detection. In other words, layer aggregation with thresholding is a nonlinear data filter enabling detection of communities that are otherwise too small to detect. Importantly, different thresholds generally enhance the detectability of communities having different properties, illustrating that community detection can be obscured if one analyzes network data using a single threshold.
Association between expression of ZBP1, AIM2, and MDA5 genes and severity of COVID-19
Creators: name: Arefinia, Nasir
name: Ramezani, Amin
name: Farokhnia, Mehrdad
name: Arab Zadeh, Ali Mohammad
name: Yaghobi, Ramin
name: Sarvari, Jamal
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: ZBP1
AIM2
MDA5
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
severity of COVID-19

description: Antiviral and inflammatory responses following the detection of the virus genome by nucleic acid sensors play a vital role in the pathogenesis and outcome of diseases. In this study, we investigated the ZBP1, AIM2, and MDA5 expression levels in COVID-19 patients with different intensities of the disease. 75 quantitative Real-Time PCR (qRT-PCR)-confirmed COVID-19 patients were included consecutively and divided into 3 groups of mild, severe, and critical based on the severity of the disease. Also, 25 healthy volunteer subjects were included. PBMCs were collected from the whole blood, and RNA was extracted using commercial kit. The expression of ZBP1, AIM2, and MDA5 genes was investigated using qRT-PCR technique. The mean age of the patients and healthy volunteers was 52.73±13.78 and 49.120±12.490, respectively. In each group, 13 out of 25 participants were male. The expression levels of ZBP1 (P=0.001), AIM2 (P=0.001), and MDA5 (P= 0.003) transcript were significantly higher in COVID-19 patients than the control group. The results also revealed that the expression levels of ZBP1, AIM2, and MDA5 were significantly higher in the critical and severe COVID-19 patients compared to those with mild disease (P<0.05). Moreover, regarding the gender, the expression levels of AIM2 and MDA5 were significantly elevated in male severe (P=0.04 and P=0.003, respectively) and critical (P=0.005 and P=0.0004, respectively) patients than the female ones. The results indicated that ZBP1, AIM2, and MDA5 genes might have an important role in the severity of COVID-19 disease. Moreover, the severity of COVID-19 disease in male and female patients might be related to AIM2, and MDA5 expression levels. More studies are recommended to be conducted to clarify this issue.
description: EXCLI Journal; 21:Doc1171; ISSN 1611-2156
Properties of Dark Subhaloes from Gaps in Tidal Streams
Creators: name: Erkal, Denis
name: Belokurov, Vasily
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cold or Warm, the Dark Matter substructure spectrum must extend to objects with masses as low as $10^7 M_\odot$, according to the most recent Lyman-$α$ measurements. Around a Milky Way-like galaxy, more than a thousand of these subhaloes will not be able to form stars but are dense enough to survive even deep down in the potential well of their host. There, within the stellar halo, these dark pellets will bombard tidal streams as they travel around the Galaxy, causing small but recognizable damage to the stream density distribution. The detection and characterization of these stream ruptures will allow us to constrain the details of the subhalo-stream interaction. In this work, for the first time, we will demonstrate how the properties of a subhalo, most importantly its mass and size, can be reliably inferred from the gap it produces in a tidal stream. For a range of realistic observational setups, mimicking e.g. SDSS, DES, Gaia and LSST data, we find that it is possible to measure the {\it complete set} of properties (including the phase-space coordinates during the flyby) of dark perturbers with $M>10^7 M_\odot$, up to a 1d degeneracy between the mass and velocity.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures. Minor corrections. Accepted to MNRAS
A New Approach to Sonification of Astrophysical Data: The User Centred Design of SonoUno
Creators: name: Casado, Johanna
name: García, Beatriz
name: Gandhi, Poshak
name: Díaz-Merced, Wanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Even when actual technologies present the potential to augment inclusion and the United Nations has been stablished the digital access to information as a human right, people with disabilities continuously faced barriers in their profession. In many cases, in sciences, the lack of accessible and user centred tools left behind researches with disabilities and not facilitate them to conduct front-line research by using their respective strengths. In this contribution, we discuss some hurdles and solutions relevant for using new technology for data analysis, analysing the barriers found by final users. A focus group session was conducted with nine people with and without visual impairment, using the tool sonoUno with one linear function and an astronomical data set downloaded from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. As a result of the focus group study, incorporating data analysis using sonification, we conclude that functionally diverse people require tools to be autonomous, thereby enabling precision, certainty, effectiveness and efficiency in their work, resulting in enhanced equity. This can be achieved by pursuing a user-centred design approach as integral to software development, and by adapting resources according to the research objectives. Development of tools that empower people with wide-ranging abilities to not only access data using multi-sensorial techniques, but also address the current lack of inclusion, is sorely needed.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Workforce Projections 2010-2020: Annual Supply and Demand Forecasting Models for Physical Therapists Across the United States
Creators: name: Coulson, Elizabeth
name: Freburger, Janet
name: “Bud” Wessman, Henry C
name: Sinnott, Patricia L.
name: Johnson, Michael P.
name: Smith, Megan H.
name: Goldstein, Marc
name: Katz, Richard
name: Hack, Laurita M.
name: Landry, Michel D.
name: Kerwin, Joanne
name: Venskus, Diana G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: Health human resources continue to emerge as a critical health policy issue across the United States.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to develop a strategy for modeling future workforce projections to serve as a basis for analyzing annual supply of and demand for physical therapists across the United States into 2020.

DESIGN: A traditional stock-and-flow methodology or model was developed and populated with publicly available data to produce estimates of supply and demand for physical therapists by 2020.

METHODS: Supply was determined by adding the estimated number of physical therapists and the approximation of new graduates to the number of physical therapists who immigrated, minus US graduates who never passed the licensure examination, and an estimated attrition rate in any given year. Demand was determined by using projected US population with health care insurance multiplied by a demand ratio in any given year. The difference between projected supply and demand represented a shortage or surplus of physical therapists.

RESULTS: Three separate projection models were developed based on best available data in the years 2011, 2012, and 2013, respectively. Based on these projections, demand for physical therapists in the United States outstrips supply under most assumptions.

LIMITATIONS: Workforce projection methodology research is based on assumptions using imperfect data; therefore, the results must be interpreted in terms of overall trends rather than as precise actuarial data-generated absolute numbers from specified forecasting.

CONCLUSIONS: Outcomes of this projection study provide a foundation for discussion and debate regarding the most effective and efficient ways to influence supply-side variables so as to position physical therapists to meet current and future population demand. Attrition rates or permanent exits out of the profession can have important supply-side effects and appear to have an effect on predicting future shortage or surplus of physical therapists.
Analysis by metagenomic next-generation sequencing of the lung virome during mechanical ventilation
Creators: name: Do Vale, Julien
name: Bridier-Nahmias, Antoine
name: Roux, Damien
name: Salmona, Maud
name: Mercier-Delarue, Séverine
name: Ranger, Noémie
name: Zucman, Noémie
name: Ricard, Jean-Damien
name: Le Goff, Jérôme
name: Fromentin, Mélanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The script used to generate the SURPI analysis of virome data.
Multi-Spacecraft Measurement of Turbulence within a Magnetic Reconnection Jet
Creators: name: Osman, K. T.
name: Kiyani, K. H.
name: Matthaeus, W. H.
name: Hnat, B.
name: Chapman, S. C.
name: Khotyaintsev, Yu. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relationship between magnetic reconnection and plasma turbulence is investigated using multipoint in-situ measurements from the Cluster spacecraft within a high-speed reconnection jet in the terrestrial magnetotail. We show explicitly that work done by electromagnetic fields on the particles, $\mathbf{J}\cdot\mathbf{E}$, has a non-Gaussian distribution and is concentrated in regions of high electric current density. Hence, magnetic energy is converted to kinetic energy in an intermittent manner. Furthermore, we find the higher-order statistics of magnetic field fluctuations generated by reconnection are characterized by multifractal scaling on magnetofluid scales and non-Gaussian global scale invariance on kinetic scales. These observations suggest $\mathbf{J}\cdot\mathbf{E}$ within the reconnection jet has an analogue in fluid-like turbulence theory in that it proceeds via coherent structures generated by an intermittent cascade. This supports the hypothesis that turbulent dissipation is highly nonuniform, and thus these results could have far reaching implications for space and astrophysical plasmas.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters
Leucadendron microcephalum in Kogelberg State Forest - Bobbejaankop amphitheatre, site 3418BD/11
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Leucadendron microcephalum
Kogelberg
Kogelberg State Forest
Bobbejaankop amphitheatre

description: This is a scanned copy of a document on Leucadendron microcephalum in Kogelberg State Forest - Bobbejaankop amphitheatre, site 3418BD/11. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
The Fermi-LAT Light Curve Repository: A resource for the time-domain and multi-messenger communities
Creators: name: Valverde, Janeth
name: Kocevski, D.
name: Negro, M.
name: Garrappa, S.
name: Brill, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For over 15 years the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has been monitoring the entire high-energy gamma-ray sky, providing the best sampled 0.1 -- $>1$ TeV photons to this day. As a result, the Fermi-LAT has been serving the time-domain and multi-messenger community as the main source of gamma-ray activity alerts. All of this makes the Fermi-LAT a key instrument towards understanding the underlying physics behind the most extreme objects in the universe. However, generating mission-long LAT light curves can be very computationally expensive. The Fermi-LAT light curve repository (LCR) tackles this issue. The LCR is a public library of gamma-ray light curves for 1525 Fermi-LAT sources deemed variable in the 4FGL-DR2 catalog. The repository consists of light curves on timescales of days, weeks, and months, generated through a full-likelihood unbinned analysis of the source and surrounding region, providing flux and photon index measurements for each time interval. Hosted at NASA's FSSC, the library provides users with access to this continually updated light curve data, further serving as a resource to the time-domain and multi-messenger communities.
description: Proceedings for the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023)
Otago Exercise Program in the United States: Comparison of 2 Implementation Models
Creators: name: Smith, Matthew L.
name: Goto, Lavina
name: Shubert, Tiffany E.
name: Jiang, Luohua
name: Ory, Marcia G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Author(s): Shubert, TE; Smith, ML; Goto, L; Jiang, L; Ory, MG
title: Missed and Lately Diagnosed Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome Causing Bilateral Popliteal Artery Occlusion: A Case Report
Creators: name: Gezmis, Esin
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Extremities
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Vascular
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To remind a rare cause of bilateral popliteal artery occlusion in young adults: popliteal artery entrapment syndrome and to emphasize the importance of early...
Additional file 1 of A qualitative study of experiences among young adults who increased their cannabis use during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Struik, Laura L.
name: Armasu, Alexia
name: Fortin, Genevieve
name: Riglea, Teodora
name: Kalubi, Jodi
name: Ferlatte, Olivier
name: Naja, Mounia
name: O’Loughlin, Jennifer
name: Sylvestre, Marie-Pierre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
MPEC 2023-F27 : 2023 FD
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FD

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The Power of Both Choices: Practical Load Balancing for Distributed Stream Processing Engines
Creators: name: Nasir, Muhammad Anis Uddin
name: Morales, Gianmarco De Francisci
name: García-Soriano, David
name: Kourtellis, Nicolas
name: Serafini, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the problem of load balancing in distributed stream processing engines, which is exacerbated in the presence of skew. We introduce Partial Key Grouping (PKG), a new stream partitioning scheme that adapts the classical "power of two choices" to a distributed streaming setting by leveraging two novel techniques: key splitting and local load estimation. In so doing, it achieves better load balancing than key grouping while being more scalable than shuffle grouping. We test PKG on several large datasets, both real-world and synthetic. Compared to standard hashing, PKG reduces the load imbalance by up to several orders of magnitude, and often achieves nearly-perfect load balance. This result translates into an improvement of up to 60% in throughput and up to 45% in latency when deployed on a real Storm cluster.
description: 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2015
Extremality of loci of hyperelliptic curves with marked Weierstrass points
Creators: name: Chen, Dawei
name: Tarasca, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The locus of genus-two curves with n marked Weierstrass points has codimension n inside the moduli space of genus-two curves with n marked points, for n<=6. It is well known that the class of the closure of the divisor obtained for n=1 spans an extremal ray of the cone of effective divisor classes. We generalize this result for all n: we show that the class of the closure of the locus of genus-two curves with n marked Weierstrass points spans an extremal ray of the cone of effective classes of codimension n, for n<=6. A related construction produces extremal nef curve classes in moduli spaces of pointed elliptic curves.
description: 10 pages. To appear in Algebra & Number Theory
title: When the hindfoot is out of order - five types of fracture-dislocations of the hindfoot including the ankle which shouldn´t be missed
Creators: name: Grieser, Thomas
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Education and training
subject: Perception image
subject: Education
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Trauma
subject: Musculoskeletal joint

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: 1) hindfoot joint dislocations represent severe ligamentous injuries which substantially compromize both foot stability and integrity; 2) familiarity with peritalar dislocations of the hindfoot is crucial to avoid potentially devastating sequelae...
Ground-to-Aerial Person Search: Benchmark Dataset and Approach
Creators: name: Zhang, Shizhou
name: Yang, Qingchun
name: Cheng, De
name: Xing, Yinghui
name: Liang, Guoqiang
name: Wang, Peng
name: Zhang, Yanning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.5.4; I.4.8

description: In this work, we construct a large-scale dataset for Ground-to-Aerial Person Search, named G2APS, which contains 31,770 images of 260,559 annotated bounding boxes for 2,644 identities appearing in both of the UAVs and ground surveillance cameras. To our knowledge, this is the first dataset for cross-platform intelligent surveillance applications, where the UAVs could work as a powerful complement for the ground surveillance cameras. To more realistically simulate the actual cross-platform Ground-to-Aerial surveillance scenarios, the surveillance cameras are fixed about 2 meters above the ground, while the UAVs capture videos of persons at different location, with a variety of view-angles, flight attitudes and flight modes. Therefore, the dataset has the following unique characteristics: 1) drastic view-angle changes between query and gallery person images from cross-platform cameras; 2) diverse resolutions, poses and views of the person images under 9 rich real-world scenarios. On basis of the G2APS benchmark dataset, we demonstrate detailed analysis about current two-step and end-to-end person search methods, and further propose a simple yet effective knowledge distillation scheme on the head of the ReID network, which achieves state-of-the-art performances on both of the G2APS and the previous two public person search datasets, i.e., PRW and CUHK-SYSU. The dataset and source code available on \url{https://github.com/yqc123456/HKD_for_person_search}.
description: Accepted by ACM MM 2023
Minibeam radiotherapy with small animal irradiators; in-vitro and in-vivo feasibility studies
Creators: name: Zhou, Otto
name: Bazyar, Soha
name: O'Brian, E Timothy
name: Inscoe, Christina R
name: Lee, Yueh Z
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Minibeam radiation therapy (MBRT) delivers an ultrahigh dose of x-ray (≥100 Gy) in 200–1000 µm beams (peaks), separated by wider non-irradiated regions (valleys) usually as a single temporal fraction. Preclinical studies performed at synchrotron facilities revealed that MBRT is able to ablate tumors while maintaining normal tissue integrity. The main purpose of the present study was to develop an efficient and accessible method to perform MBRT using a conventional x-ray irradiator. We then tested this new method both in vitro and in vivo. Using commercially available lead ribbon and polyethylene sheets, we constructed a collimator that converted the cone beam of an industrial irradiator to 44 identical beams (collimator size ≈ 4 × 10 cm). The dosimetry characteristics of the generated beams were evaluated using two different radiochromic films (beam FWHM = 246 ± 32 µm; center-to-center = 926 ± 23 µm; peak-to-valley dose ratio = 24.35 ± 2.10; collimator relative output factor = 0.84 ± 0.04). Clonogenic assays demonstrated the ability of our method to induce radiobiological cell death in two radioresistant murine tumor cell lines (TRP = glioblastoma; B16-F10 = melanoma). A radiobiological equivalent dose (RBE) was calculated by evaluating the acute skin response to graded doses of MBRT and conventional radiotherapy (CRT). Normal mouse skin demonstrated resistance to doses up to 150 Gy on peak. MBRT significantly extended the survival of mice with flank melanoma tumors compared to CRT when RBE were applied (overall p < 0.001). Loss of spatial resolution deep in the tissue has been a major concern. The beams generated using our collimator maintained their resolution in vivo (mouse brain tissue) and up to 10 cm deep in the radiochromic film. In conclusion, the initial dosimetric, in vitro and in vivo evaluations confirmed the utility of this affordable and easy-to-replicate minibeam collimator for future preclinical studies.
Control-Tree Optimization: an approach to MPC under discrete Partial Observability
Creators: name: Phiquepal, Camille
name: Toussaint, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a new approach to Model Predictive Control for environments where essential, discrete variables are partially observed. Under this assumption, the belief state is a probability distribution over a finite number of states. We optimize a \textit{control-tree} where each branch assumes a given state-hypothesis. The control-tree optimization uses the probabilistic belief state information. This leads to policies more optimized with respect to likely states than unlikely ones, while still guaranteeing robust constraint satisfaction at all times. We apply the method to both linear and non-linear MPC with constraints. The optimization of the \textit{control-tree} is decomposed into optimization subproblems that are solved in parallel leading to good scalability for high number of state-hypotheses. We demonstrate the real-time feasibility of the algorithm on two examples and show the benefits compared to a classical MPC scheme optimizing w.r.t. one single hypothesis.
description: 6 pages, 10 figures
title: Non-traumatic Lesions of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament on MRI: an Updated Review
Creators: name: Melloni, Pietro
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal joint

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To describe the MRI findings for non-traumatic lesions of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and their relevance in distinguishing among pathological...
Hienach hebt an ein wunderberlicher tractat... von dem ende der weltt; [14]86
Creators: name: Vincentius Ferrerius
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: Bibliogr. Nachweis: Goff F125; HC 7022*; Pell 11595; IBP 5659; Sajó-Soltész 1313; Voull (B) 139; Martín Abad V-53; Hubay (Augsburg) 805; Walsh 577; Pr 1700; BMC II 352
title: Tumor Like Lesions of the Sacrum
Creators: name: Örgüç, Ihsan Sebnem
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: We will discuss general features of various sacral lesions mimicking tumors of the sacrum, including some relatively common entities as well as samples of very rare...
Anatomy of molecular structures in  20 Ne
Creators: name: Yao,
name: Zhou,
name: Ring,
name: Li,
name: Meng,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: We present a beyond mean-field study of clusters and molecular structures in low-spin states of 20Ne with a multireference relativistic energy density functional, where the dynamical correlation effects of symmetry restoration and quadrupole–octupole shapes fluctuation are taken into account with projections on parity, particle number and angular momentum in the framework of the generator coordinate method. Both the energy spectrum and the electric multipole transition strengths for low-lying parity-doublet bands are better reproduced after taking into account the dynamical octupole vibration effect. Consistent with the finding in previous studies, a rotation-induced dissolution of the α+O16 molecular structure in 20Ne is predicted.
Line intercept in Hottentots Holland, Grabouw State Forest, site 3419AA/9
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Hottentots Holland
Grabouw State Forest

description: This is a scanned copy of a line intercept in Hottentots Holland, Grabouw State Forest, site 3419AA/9. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Distributed Extended Object Tracking Using Coupled Velocity Model from WLS Perspective
Creators: name: Li, Zhifei
name: Liang, Yan
name: Xu, Linfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This study proposes a coupled velocity model (CVM) that establishes the relation between the orientation and velocity using their correlation, avoiding that the existing extended object tracking (EOT) models treat them as two independent quantities. As a result, CVM detects the mismatch between the prior dynamic model and actual motion pattern to correct the filtering gain, and simultaneously becomes a nonlinear and state-coupled model with multiplicative noise. The study considers CVM to design a feasible distributed weighted least squares (WLS) filter. The WLS criterion requires a linear state-space model containing only additive noise about the estimated state. To meet the requirement, we derive such two separate pseudo-linearized models by using the first-order Taylor series expansion. The separation is merely in form, and the estimates of interested states are embedded as parameters into each other's model, which implies that their interdependency is still preserved in the iterative operation of two linear filters. With the two models, we first propose a centralized WLS filter by converting the measurements from all nodes into a summation form. Then, a distributed consensus scheme, which directly performs an inner iteration on the priors across different nodes, is proposed to incorporate the cross-covariances between nodes. Under the consensus scheme, a distributed WLS filter over a realistic network with ``naive'' node is developed by proper weighting of the priors and measurements. Finally, the performance of proposed filters in terms of accuracy, robustness, and consistency is testified under different prior situations.
description: Corrected Version
TBAM: Towards An Agent-Based Model to Enrich Twitter Data
Creators: name: Anjum, Usman
name: Zadorozhny, Vladimir
name: Krishnamurthy, Prashant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Twitter (one example of microblogging) is widely being used by researchers to understand human behavior, specifically how people behave when a significant event occurs and how it changes user microblogging patterns. The changing microblogging behavior can reveal patterns that can help in detecting real-world events. However, the Twitter data that is available has limitations, such as, it is incomplete and noisy and the samples are irregular. In this paper we create a model, called Twitter Behavior Agent-Based Model (TBAM) to simulate Twitter pattern and behavior using Agent-Based Modeling (ABM). The generated data from ABM simulations can be used in place or to complement the real-world data toward improving the accuracy of event detection. We confirm the validity of our model by finding the cross-correlation between the real data collected from Twitter and the data generated using TBAM.
title: Application of Vertebral Fracture Assessment in Patients with Kyphoplasty
Creators: name: Balanika, Alexia
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry
subject: Observer performance
subject: Screening
subject: Osteoporosis

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Imaging of the spine is of paramount importance for the recognition of vertebral fractures (VFs). Standard radiography (SR) of the spine is the reference method for identifying VFs but is not used routinely because of the cost and radiation exposure...
Widdringtonia Cederbergensis survey, Grootland, site 3219AC/14
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Widdringtonia cedarbergensis
Widdringtonia wallichii
Grootland

description: This is a scanned copy of a document, including a map, of a Widdringtonia Cedarbergensis survey, Grootland, site 3219AC/14. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape.   SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Phenomenology of a Long-Lived LSP with R-Parity Violation
Creators: name: Csaki, Csaba
name: Kuflik, Eric
name: Lombardo, Salvator
name: Slone, Oren
name: Volansky, Tomer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the leading experimental constraints on supersymmetric models with R-parity violation (RPV) and a long-lived lightest superpartner (LSP). We consider both the well-motivated dynamical RPV scenario as well as the conventional holomorphic RPV operators. Guided by naturalness, we study the cases of stop, gluino, and higgsino LSPs with several possible leading decay channels in each case. The CMS displaced dijet and the ATLAS multitrack displaced vertex searches have been fully recast, with all cuts and vertex reconstruction algorithms applied. Heavy charged stable particle searches by CMS are also applied. In addition, we consider representative bounds for prompt LSP decays that are directly applicable. Our main results are exclusion plots in the $m_{\rm LSP}-τ_{\rm LSP}$ plane for the various scenarios. We find that the natural parameter space ($m_{\tilde{t}} <800$ GeV, $m_{\tilde{g}}<1500$ GeV, $m_{\tilde{H}}<800$ GeV) is excluded for a long-lived LSP ($τ_{\rm LSP} \gtrsim 1$ mm).
description: 25 pages, 8 figures
title: TBS Usability Study for the evaluation of vertebral compression fracture risk osteopenic patients with spinal disorders
Creators: name: Choi, Juyoung
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Osteoporosis

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Compare with Osteoporosis, there is no sufficient proactive prevention and treatment to Osteopenia which has a relatively wide range (T-score -1.0 ~ -2.5). Especially, despite the Osteopenic patient with spinal disorder has high vertebral...
title: INTERFEROME: the database of interferon-regulated genes
Creators: name: Gearing, Jamie
name: Hertzog, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
Innate immunity

description: THE DATABASE OF INTERFERON-REGULATED GENES This database is an upgrade of the original Interferome database and contains type I, II and III interferon-regulated genes, manually curated from publicly available microarray datasets. INTRODUCTION Interferons (IFNs) were identified as antiviral proteins more than 50 years ago and since then have been shown to regulate cell proliferation, survival, migration and specialised functions. Consequently they are involved in numerous homeostatic and pathological processes including infections, cancer, autoimmunity, inflammation and metabolic disorders. These cytokines are also used as therapeutics in diseases such as chronic viral infections, cancer and multiple sclerosis. IFNs potentially regulate the transcription of up to 2000 genes in an IFN subtype, dose, cell type and stimulus dependent manner. This database of IFN-regulated genes is an attempt at integrating information from high-throughput experiments to gain a detailed understanding of the various IFN-activated pathways that regulate subsets of genes to enhance our understanding of pathophysiological processes. DEFINITIONS IFN-regulated genes (IRGs) were identified from experiments where cells or organisms were treated with an IFN. Genes that were significantly up- or down-regulated relative to control samples were defined as IRGs, annotated and uploaded into the database. We have set a default limit of 2-fold change in expression for searches because this is a commonly accepted parameter; although the option remains to change this when implementing a search. DATABASE SCOPE This database will enable the reliable identification of an individual IRG or IRG signatures from high-throughput data sets (i.e., microarray, RNA-seq, proteomic data, etc.). It will also assist in identifying regulatory elements, chromosomal location and tissue expression of IRGs in human and mouse. This upgraded version, Interferome v2.0, has quantitative data, more detailed annotation and search capabilities and can be queried for one gene or thousands, as in a gene list from am RNA-seq experiment.
Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to b bbar
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A first search is reported for a standard model Higgs boson (H) that is produced through vector boson fusion and decays to a bottom-quark pair. Two data samples, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.8 inverse femtobarns and 18.3 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV were selected for this channel at the CERN LHC. The observed significance in these data samples for a H to b bbar signal at a mass of 125 GeV is 2.2 standard deviations, while the expected significance is 0.8 standard deviations. The fitted signal strength mu = sigma/sigma[SM] = 2.8 + 1.6 - 1.4. The combination of this result with other CMS searches for the Higgs boson decaying to a b-quark pair, yields a signal strength of 1.0 +/- 0.4, corresponding to a signal significance of 2.6 standard deviations for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV.
description: Replaced with published version