cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Patients undergoing colorectal surgery at a Veterans Affairs Hospital do not experience racial disparity in length of stay either before or after implementing an enhanced recovery pathway
Creators: name: Rentas, C.
name: Baker, S.
name: Goss, L.
name: Richman, J.
name: Knight, S. J.
name: Key, C.
name: Morris, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. ERP Adherence Rates.
title: Schritte zur vollständigen Bestimmung der Geometrie zweier Speere im Raum
Creators: name: Barut, Sinan
name: Bongardt, Bertold
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Kurzfassung des Tagungsbeitrags.
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Potential market of Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL) and Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) in Indonesia
Creators: name: Iskandar, Andre M
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The purpose of this thesis is to explore the market potential of the two engineered-wood products, i.e., the Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL) and Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) in Indonesia. An introduction to the wood products processing sector, with a definition of wood products will be laid out. A detailed product description of the two main wood products in question will then be identified. This research will show the demand and supply of PSL and LVL as well as its application in the world, such as Australia, the United States and other countries. Indonesia will be the major topic of this research. A small introduction of the country and its connection to wood industry will be stated. To conclude, a distinct analysis will be drawn in relation to what the market potential of PSL and LVL is in Indonesia.
Ising phase transitions and thermodynamics of correlated fermions in a two-dimensional spin-dependent lattice potential
Creators: name: Xie, Zhuotao
name: Song, Yu-Feng
name: He, Yuan-Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a {\it numerically exact} study of the Hubbard model with spin-dependent anisotropic hopping on the square lattice using auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method. At half filling, the system undergoes Ising phase transitions upon cooling, leading to the formation of Ising-type antiferromagnetic order for repulsive interactions and charge-density wave order for attractive interactions at finite temperatures. By elegantly implementing the sign-problem-free condition and Hubbard-Stratonovich transformations, we achieve significant improvements in precision control of the numerical calculations and obtain highly accurate results of the transition temperatures from weak to strong interactions across representative anisotropies. We further characterize the system by examining the temperature dependence of various thermodynamic properties, including the energy, double occupancy, specific heat and charge susceptibility. Specifically, we provide unbiased numerical results of the entropy map on temperature-interaction plane, the critical entropy, and the spin, singlon and doublon correlations, all of which are directly measurable in optical lattice experiments. Away from half filling, we explore the behavior of the sign problem and investigate the possible emergence of stripe spin-density wave order in the system with repulsive interaction.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures
title: Untersuchung des Kapsel-Bandapparates in endoprothetisch versorgten humanen Kniegelenken mit Hilfe eines Gelenksimulators
Creators: name: Kleist, Eric
name: Henke, Paul
name: Kebbach, Märuan
name: Woernle, Christoph
name: Bader, Rainer
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Kurzfassung des Tagungsbeitrags.
description: IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, vol. 2022Achte IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2022: 24./25. Februar 2022, Online-Konferenz
Additional file 1 of Examining the role of person-to-person transmission during a verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli outbreak in Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Hovdey, Roksolana
name: Sargeant, Jan M.
name: Fisman, David N.
name: Greer, Amy L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Plot of the Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) outbreak in Ontario, Canada. Arrows indicate relevant dates during the outbreak.
3D non-LTE Ca II line formation in metal-poor FGK stars. I. Abundance corrections, radial velocity corrections, and synthetic spectra
Creators: name: Lagae, Cis
name: Amarsi, Anish M.
name: Lind, Karin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ca II resonance doublet (HK) and the near-infrared triplet (CaT) are among the strongest features in stellar spectra of FGK-type stars. These spectral lines remain prominent down to extremely low metallicities and are thus useful for providing stellar parameters via ionisation balance and as radial velocity diagnostics. However, the majority of studies that model these lines in late-type stars still rely on one dimensional (1D) hydrostatic model atmospheres and the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). We present 3D non-LTE radiative transfer calculations of the CaT and HK lines in an extended grid of 3D model atmospheres of metal-poor FGK-type. We investigate the impact of 3D non-LTE effects on abundances, line bisectors and radial velocities. We used a subset of 3D model atmospheres from the recently published STAGGER-grid to synthesize spectra in 3D (non-)LTE. For comparison, similar calculations were performed in 1D (non-)LTE using models from the MARCS grid. Abundance corrections for the CaT lines relative to 1D LTE range from +0.1 to -1.0 dex, with more severe corrections for strong lines in giants. With fixed line strength, the abundance corrections become more negative with increasing effective temperature and decreasing surface gravity. Radial velocity corrections relative to 1D LTE based on cross-correlation of the whole line profile range from -0.2 km/s to +1.5 km/s, with more severe corrections where the CaT lines are strongest. The corrections are even more severe if the line core alone is used to infer the radial velocity. The line strengths and shapes, and consequently the abundance and radial velocity corrections, are strongly affected by the chosen radiative transfer assumption, 1/3D (non)-LTE. We release grids of theoretical spectra that can be used to improve the accuracy of stellar spectroscopic analyses based on the Ca II triplet lines.
Period-Luminosity Relations for Galactic Type II Cepheids in the Sloan bands
Creators: name: Narloch, W.
name: Hajdu, G.
name: Pietrzynski, G.
name: Wielgorski, P.
name: Smolec, R.
name: Gieren, W.
name: Zgirski, B.
name: Gorski, M.
name: Karczmarek, P.
name: Graczyk, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Type II Cepheids (T2Ceps), alongside RR Lyrae stars, serve as important distance indicators for old population II stars due to their period-luminosity (PL) relations. However, studies of these relations in the Sloan photometric system are rather limited in the literature. Our goal is to calibrate PL relations (and their counterparts in Wesenheit magnitudes) in the Sloan-Pan-STARRS gP1rP1iP1 bands for Galactic T2Ceps located in the vicinity of the Sun. We collected data for 16 T2Ceps of the BLHer type and 17 of the WVir type using 40 cm telescopes of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. Geometric parallaxes were adopted from Gaia Data Release 3. We have calibrated PL and period-Wesenheit relations for Milky Way BLHer and WVir stars in the solar neighborhood, as well as for a combined sample of both types. The relationships derived here will allow to determine the distances to T2Ceps that will be discovered by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time survey and, in turn, to probe the extended halo of the Milky Way, as well as the halos of nearby galaxies. To the best of our knowledge, the relations derived in this study are the first for Milky Way T2Ceps in the Sloan bands.
description: Comments: 20 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, Accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 2 of Examining the role of person-to-person transmission during a verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli outbreak in Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Hovdey, Roksolana
name: Sargeant, Jan M.
name: Fisman, David N.
name: Greer, Amy L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Table describing the two different scenarios that represent possible explanations for the observed outbreak data.
title: Charakterisierung der Interlimbkoordination aus kurzen Gangmessungen zur klinischen Beurteilung von Schlaganfallpatienten
Creators: name: Maibaum, Joey
name: Geu Flores, Francisco
name: Raab, Dominik
name: Siebler, Mario
name: Kecskeméthy, Andrés
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Kurzfassung des Tagungsbeitrags.
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title: Effiziente Sensitivitätsanalyse flexibler Mehrkörpersysteme für einen Kurbeltrieb mit 3D-Balkenelemente
Creators: name: Gufler, Veit
name: Wehrle, Erich
name: Vidoni, Renato
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Kurzfassung des Tagungsbeitrags.
description: IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, vol. 2022Achte IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2022: 24./25. Februar 2022, Online-Konferenz
Surface brightness-color relations for red giant branch stars using asteroseismic radii and Gaia distances (the ARD method)
Creators: name: Xiong, Jianping
name: Cheng, Qiyuan
name: Chen, Xiaodian
name: Li, Jiao
name: Zhang, Xiaobin
name: Han, Zhanwen
name: Chen, Xuefei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. Asteroseismic radius and Gaia distance (ARD) method has been proposed to establish the SBCRs for late-type stars. Methods. We select Kepler RGB stars with high-precision asteroseismic radii (uncertainties < 1%) and cross-match them with 2MASS, APASS, and Gaia to obtain Johnson-B, Johnson-V, G, J, H, and Ks-band photometric data. After applying selection criteria, we obtain 626 RGB stars to build the SBCR. Among these, 100 RGBs are used as independent validation for the distance, and the remaining samples are used to fit the SBCR. Results. First, using 526 targets with asteroseismic radii and Gaia distances, nine SBCRs are proposed based on 2MASS (J, H, Ks), APASS (Johnson-B, Johnson-V), and Gaia (G) photometry. The average rms scatter in these relations is 0.075 mag, which corresponds to an uncertainty of approximately 3.5% in distance. These relations are further validated using 100 independent samples with Gaia distances, showing no bias, with a dispersion of approximately 3%. Compared to interferometric measurements, a systematic underestimation of 2.3% was observed, and the discrepancy decreases as the angular diameter increases. Additionally, the distances of eclipsing binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud obtained using our SBCRs are generally consistent with those measured in the literature, with a dispersion of 1% and a slight overestimation of 1% to 2.5%. Conclusions. The ARD method capitalizes on two key advantages for precise stellar distance determination: a statistically robust sample of homogeneous RGB stars with low observational costs, and independent distance verification through Gaia data. Such SBCRs can be further calibrated and expanded more efficiently and effectively.
Determinants of tree susceptibility to attack by the red alder bark beetle, Alniphagus aspericollis (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)
Creators: name: Takaro, Tristan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The immeasurable effect that bark beetles can have on forest ecosystems provides justification for the close study of bark beetle populations. Bark beetles that attack hardwoods have not been as extensively studied as those that attack coniferous species, and the red alder bark beetle in particular has received very little attention. Alniphagus aspericollis is a bivoltine “secondary” bark beetle that specializes on red alder. In this observational study in Vancouver, British Columbia several tree characteristics are assessed for their relationship with the likelihood of the tree being attacked by the bark beetle using logistic regression analysis. It was found that diameter at breast height (DBH) did not significantly affect the likelihood of attack, and that the level of injury of a tree is a good predictor of its likelihood of being attacked by the bark beetle.
Additional file 3 of Examining the role of person-to-person transmission during a verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli outbreak in Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Hovdey, Roksolana
name: Sargeant, Jan M.
name: Fisman, David N.
name: Greer, Amy L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Characteristic of the observed outbreak data, compared to the two simulated model scenarios and the “no intervention” simulation.
A Unified Approach to Enforce Non-Negativity Constraint in Neural Network Approximation for Optimal Voltage Regulation (preprint)
Creators: name: Wu, Jiaqi
name: Yuan, Jingyi
name: Weng, Yang
name: Wang, Guangwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Power system voltage regulation is crucial to maintain power quality while integrating intermittent renewable resources in distribution grids. However, the system model on the grid edge is often unknown, making it difficult to model physical equations for optimal control. Therefore, previous work proposes structured data-driven methods like input convex neural networks (ICNN) for "optimal" control without relying on a physical model. While ICNNs offer theoretical guarantees based on restrictive assumptions of non-negative neural network parameters, can one improve the approximation power with an extra step on negative duplication of inputs? We show that such added mirroring step fails to improve accuracy, as a linear combination of the original input and duplicated input is equivalent to a linear operation of ICNN's input without duplication. While this design can not improve performance, we propose a unified approach to embed the non-negativity constraint as a regularized optimization of the neural network, contrary to the existing methods, which added a loosely integrated second step for post-processing on parameter negation. Our integration directly ties back-propagation to simultaneously minimizing the approximation error while enforcing the convexity constraints. Numerical experiments validate the issues of the mirroring method and show that our integrated objective can avoid problems such as unstable training and non-convergence existing in other methods for optimal control.
description: Submitted to the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-58)
title: Verfahren zur automatisierten Erkennung planarer Mechanismen in Videosequenzen
Creators: name: Lawrence, Kai
name: Gössner, Stefan
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Es wird untersucht, welche Informationen anhand der Unterschiede einzelner< Bilder in einer Videosequenz gewonnen werden können, um einen sich darin befindlichen planaren Mechanismus zu rekonstruieren. Es wird sich zunächst auf planare Mechanismen mit vier Gelenken bezogen. Die Ermittlung der Pole geschieht über Betrachtung der Bewegung einzelner Glieder, auch auf jene mit Schubgelenken. Die dafür durchgeführten Versuche sind mit gängigen Webtechnologien implementiert, um ein besonders einfaches erstellen von Versuchen zu ermöglichen und die Ergebnisse schnell visuell darstellbar zu machen. Außerdem werden Mittel gesucht, um die unterschiedlichen Glieder eines Mechanismus zu trennen, so dass diese einzeln untersucht werden können. Schlussendlich werden die daraus ermittelten Pole der ebenen Bewegung genutzt, um mithilfe des Dreipolsatzes ein Modell des Ausgangsmechanismus zu rekonstruieren.
description: It is investigated what information can be obtained from the differences of single frames in a video sequence to reconstruct a planar mechanism located in it. Initially, planar mechanisms with four joints are referred to. The determination of the poles is done by observing the motion of individual links, including those with thrust joints. The experiments carried out for this purpose are implemented with common web technologies to allow a particularly simple creation of experiments and to make the results quickly visually presentable. In addition, means are sought to separate the different links of a mechanism so that they can be examined individually. Finally, the resulting poles of the plane motion are used to reconstruct a model of the initial mechanism using the three-pole theorem.
description: IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, vol. 2022Achte IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2022: 24./25. Februar 2022, Online-Konferenz
Diverting landfill waste : understanding the barriers to using recycled concrete aggregate in Metro Vancouver
Creators: name: Ammerlaan, Jason
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Due to the slowing end-­‐use market for recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) in Metro Vancouver concrete recycling facilities are at limited capacity to accept concrete waste. As a result of this, concrete waste is not being recycled and re-­‐uesd. Instead, it is being stockpiled at recycling facilities, and may be ending up in landfills outside the region. With concrete waste making up about one-­‐third of Vancouver's total waste, this is an issue that needs to be addressed. This report first identifies what the main barriers are to increasing the market demand of RCA in Metro Vancouver, and second recommends a number of actions that will help alleviate the identified barriers. This information is intended to help Metro Vancouver develop policy which will increase the use of RCA, and ultimately eliminate any concrete from entering landfills. The extent of this study has been limited due to the fact that there were no interviews conducted with municipal or provincial government representatives. However, this further highlights a common complaint from industry representatives: that communication with these levels of government, on this issue, is difficult to establish. Future research into how these communication networks can be strengthened would serve both the industry and different levels of government well.
Additional file 4 of Examining the role of person-to-person transmission during a verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli outbreak in Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Hovdey, Roksolana
name: Sargeant, Jan M.
name: Fisman, David N.
name: Greer, Amy L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. Results of the Latin hypercube sensitivity analysis for all parameters in the model, represented as partial rank correlation coefficients (PRCCs). The PRCCs represent the effect of varying each parameter on the final outbreak size.
Conversation-Based Multimodal Abuse Detection Through Text and Graph Embeddings
Creators: name: Cecillon, Noé
name: Labatut, Vincent
name: Dufour, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abusive behavior is common on online social networks, and forces the hosts of such platforms to find new solutions to address this problem. Various methods have been proposed to automate this task in the past decade. Most of them rely on the exchanged content, but ignore the structure and dynamics of the conversation, which could provide some relevant information. In this article, we propose to use representation learning methods to automatically produce embeddings of this textual content and of the conversational graphs depicting message exchanges. While the latter could be enhanced by including additional information on top of the raw conversational structure, no method currently exists to learn whole-graph representations using simultaneously edge directions, weights, signs, and vertex attributes. We propose two such methods to fill this gap in the literature. We experiment with 5 textual and 13 graph embedding methods, and apply them to a dataset of online messages annotated for abuse detection. Our best results achieve an F -measure of 81.02 using text alone and 80.61 using graphs alone. We also combine both modalities of information (text and graphs) through three fusion strategies, and show that this strongly improves abuse detection performance, increasing the F -measure to 87.06. Finally, we identify which specific engineered features are captured by the embedding methods under consideration. These features have clear interpretations and help explain what information the representation learning methods deem discriminative.
H0 tension in Tsallis and Renyi statistics
Creators: name: Sadeghnezhad, Naser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent attempts to study the implications of Tsallis and Renyi statistics in gravitational, cosmological, and astrophysical systems, the possible relationships between H0 tension and generalized statistics are explored. It is obtained that, in the light of H0 tension, the energytime uncertainty relations in Tsallis and Renyi statistics constrain the values of Tsallis and Renyi parameters. Hence, the way to find the footprints of non-extensivity in the universe is paved.
Visualization of high-intensity laser-matter interactions in virtual reality and web browser
Creators: name: Matys, Martin
name: Thistlewood, James P.
name: Kecová, Mariana
name: Valenta, Petr
name: Žáková, Martina Greplová
name: Jirka, Martin
name: Hadjisolomou, Prokopis
name: Špádová, Alžběta
name: Lamač, Marcel
name: Bulanov, Sergei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Virtual Beamline (VBL) application, an interactive web-based platform for visualizing high-intensity laser-matter interactions using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, with future potential for experimental data visualization. These interactions include ion acceleration, electron acceleration, $γ$-flash generation, electron-positron pair production, and attosecond and spiral pulse generation. Developed at the ELI Beamlines facility, VBL integrates a custom-built WebGL engine with WebXR-based Virtual Reality (VR) support, allowing users to explore complex plasma dynamics in non-VR mode on a computer screen or in fully immersive VR mode using a head-mounted display. The application runs directly in a standard web browser, ensuring broad accessibility. VBL enhances the visualization of PIC simulations by efficiently processing and rendering four main data types: point particles, 1D lines, 2D textures, and 3D volumes. By utilizing interactive 3D visualization, it overcomes the limitations of traditional 2D representations, offering enhanced spatial understanding and real-time manipulation of visualization parameters such as time steps, data layers, colormaps. Users can interactively explore the visualized data by moving their body or using a controller for navigation, zooming, and rotation. These interactive capabilities improve data exploration and interpretation, making VBL a valuable tool for both scientific analysis and educational outreach. The visualizations are hosted online and freely accessible on our server, providing researchers, the general public, and broader audiences with an interactive tool to explore complex plasma physics simulations. By offering an intuitive and dynamic approach to large-scale datasets, VBL enhances both scientific research and knowledge dissemination in high-intensity laser-matter physics.
description: 24 pages 8 figures
YOUTH PROBLEMS IN THE MODERN FAMILY
Creators: name: Zaretdinova, N.Q.
name: Turdibekova, D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article highlights the issues of identifying and solving the main socio-economic problems of young families. Particular attention is paid to expanding the legislative and legal framework for the development of assistance to young families, as well as the need for a systematic approach to the issue of comprehensive support for young families.
Sequence data analysis and the clinical genomics database
Creators: name: Letaw, John
name: Beadling, Carol
name: Julja Burchard
name: Dahl, Charles
name: Hadd, Andrew
name: Keck, Jamie
name: King, Douglas
name: Moore, William
name: Tanaya Neff
name: Terrill, Mandy
name: Thanner, Jane
name: Press, Richard
name: Richards, Sue
name: Corless, Christopher
name: Barney, Oscar
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Clinical laboratories have begun to offer a range of next-generation sequencing services to bring precision medicine to patients. Delivering secure, cost-effective, timely, clinically informative results from precision medicine assays requires an end-to end integrated system. At Oregon Health and Science University, we have designed such a system and reduced it to practice. We describe here the system, the steps of its implementation, and selected use cases spanning from the sequencing of a patient sample to the creation of a report that is handed off to the physician. The first step in the process is properly validating a single invocation of a clinical sequencing analysis workflow against known results. Second, these sequencing analyses are documented and certified, in accordance with CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) and CAP (College of American Pathologists) regulations. Third, we engineered a robust process to encapsulate the certified analyses using the Galaxy platform as a workflow engine. Fourth, a team from our ITG (Information Technology Group) built a Clinical Genomics Database (CGD) that allows us to collect, annotate, and report genomic variation from automated, Galaxy-managed, CLIA/CAP certified pipelines to clinicians, in a convenient and organized manner. The CGD also collects and disseminates all current and relevant clinical genomics knowledge to provide decision support to our physicians and geneticists. The CGD has been successful in streamlining sequence data analysis, partnered with the Galaxy platform. We illustrate the benefits of our system to patients, clinicians, and researchers.
Additional file 1 of Negative mood induction effects on problem-solving task in women with eating disorders: a multi-method examination
Creators: name: French, Elan N.
name: Eneva, Kalina
name: Arlt, Jean M.
name: Yiu, Angelina
name: Chen, Eunice Y.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file1: Fig. S1a. Systematic reviewsearch criteria of studies assessinginterpersonal problem-solving in eating disorder samples. Fig. S1b. PRISMA flow diagram of studies assessing interpersonal problem-solvingin eating disorder samples. Table S1c.Summary of IncludedStudies in Systematic Review. Table S2.Skin Conductance Responses at: (1) Baseline, (2) Negative Mood Induction, (3)Means End Problem Solving (MEPS) Scenario 1: Binge-eating, (4) MEPS Scenario 2:Job Performance, (5) MEPS Scenario 3: Friends, (6) MEPS Scenario 4: Significantother, and (7) Recovery. Table S3.Mean and Standard Deviations of TonicSkin Conductance Level at: (1) Baseline, (2) Negative Mood Induction, (3) MeansEnd Problem Solving (MEPS) Scenario 1: Binge-eating, (4) MEPS Scenario 2: JobPerformance, (5) MEPS Scenario 3: Friends, (6) MEPS Scenario 4: Significantother, and (7) Recovery.
On the Bottom of the Multicultural Totem Pole: A History of Cultural Assimilation, Appropriation, and Marginalization in Canada
Creators: name: Oledzki, Daniel Eric
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Canada’s contemporary multiculturalism is unstably founded on an incomplete dominant historical narrative. The discrepancy between the actual narrative and Canadian historical consciousness is perpetuated by the federal government’s production of a dominant historical narrative that serves a sense of a multicultural national identity, the success of immigration policies, and the security of a Canadian polity. By specifically studying totem poles, this thesis seeks to highlight the depth and complexity of culture that existed in pre-colonial Canada. This thesis will also highlight the historical cultural clash between Indigenous and colonial worldviews, appropriation of elements compatible with federal multiculturalism, and historiographical marginalization of those elements that proved problematic. This historical discussion concludes by presenting the resulting issues, as well as proactive solutions to help create a contemporary ethos of equality in Canada based on a solid historical foundation, both within and outside of the academic sphere.
Characterising the Atmosphere of 55 Cancri e: 1D Forward Model Grid for Current and Future JWST Observations
Creators: name: Zilinskas, Mantas
name: van Buchem, Christiaan
name: Zieba, Sebastian
name: Miguel, Yamila
name: Sandford, Emily
name: Hu, Renyu
name: Patel, Jayshil
name: Bello-Arufe, Aaron
name: Janssen, Leoni
name: Tsai, Shang-Min
name: Dragomir, Diana
name: Zhang, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent JWST observations with NIRCam and MIRI of the ultra-short-period super-Earth 55 Cancri e indicate a possible volatile atmosphere surrounding the planet. Previous analysis of the NIRCam spectra suggested potential absorption features from CO2 or CO and significant sub-weekly variability. The MIRI low-resolution spectrum does not contain substantial features but was found to be consistent with effective heat redistribution models. In this work, we computed a grid of over 25000 self-consistent 1D forward models incorporating H-N-O-C-S-P-Si-Ti equilibrium chemistry and assessed plausible atmospheric compositions based on the current JWST data. Despite exhaustive analysis, the composition and properties of the atmosphere remain elusive. While our results statistically favour a global, hydrogen-free, nitrogen-dominated atmosphere enriched in PO and CO2, various alternative compositions, including H2O-,CO-, PH3-, or Si-bearing remain viable explanations. Unconstrained heat redistribution efficiency and absolute NIRCam flux are among the largest sources of uncertainty in our analysis. We also find that the heat redistribution factor and surface pressure are highly degenerate with atmospheric composition, and that these parameters cannot be independently constrained using current JWST observations. Furthermore, we show that the observed variability may arise from dynamic interactions between the atmosphere and an underlying magma ocean, driving rapid shifts in atmospheric chemistry and thermal emission. Our results highlight the importance of using self-consistent forward models when analysing novel JWST spectra with limited signal-to-noise ratios -- such as those of 55 Cancri e -- as it allows for a more comprehensive evaluation of potential atmospheric scenarios while also being less sensitive to subtle spectral differences than retrievals...
description: Accepted version
Trace element systematics of zircon from granophyres of the Archean Stillwater Complex, Montana, USA.
Creators: name: Ver Hoeve, Thomas James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The ca. 2.7 Ga Stillwater Complex, an 8 km-thick mafic-ultramafic layered intrusion in southwestern Montana, contains a suite of granophyres hosted within plagioclase-rich cumulates of the Banded Series that are interpreted as late-stage magmatic differentiates. The granophyres occur as discordant bodies ranging from cm-thick veins to bodies tens to hundreds of meters in thickness. The incompatible element-enriched granophyres contain accessory U-Th-Pb-bearing minerals (zircon, titanite, rutile) that yield similar ages to the mafic cumulates for low-U minerals that have remained closed since crystallization. High-U zircon (>1000 ppm) in the granophyres is variably metamict due to self-irradiation and the metamict zones have been altered during subsequent hydrothermal activity resulting in open-system U-Pb systematics. In this study, the consequences of elemental redistribution during alteration of zircon from four granophyres from the Stillwater Complex have been investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). SEM imaging reveals strongly contrasting zonation and internal structure of zircon. A granitic pegmatite core from the Lower Banded Series contains pristine igneous low-U zircon (37-154 ppm) with no evidence for metamictization or alteration (e.g., no measurable Ca). The other three samples from the Middle Banded Series and Upper Banded Series contain high-U zircon (358-12,440 ppm) that is partially to completely metamict. Non-stoichiometric Ca (up to 37,800 ppm) characterizes the metamict zones or grains, which also show significant gains in Ti, Nb, rare earth elements, and nearly complete loss of Li in the most altered zircon. Ti-in-zircon thermometry from the pristine zircon of the low-U granophyre yields temperatures of 701 to 799°C (mean = 752°C) that are interpreted as the temperatures of crystallization of these late, fractionated melts. Thermometry from altered zircon produces highly variable results (584-1065°C) reflecting the addition of Ti during alteration. The long-term stability of zircon in the geological record makes it a powerful geochronological, isotopic (e.g., O, Hf, Nd, Li), and geochemical tool, however, the results of this study demonstrate the potential for significant open-system behavior and elemental mobility within zircon depending on the relative state of metamictization and extent of hydrothermal alteration in these damaged zones.
Cosmic rays, gas and dust in the Central Molecular Zone I -- $X_{CO}$ factors, cosmic-ray densities and dust opacities
Creators: name: Ren, H. X.
name: Remy, Q.
name: Ravikularaman, S.
name: Bouyahiaoui, M.
name: Conte, F.
name: Djuvsland, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our goal is to estimate the total gas mass in the direction of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), quantify the various uncertainties associated, and discuss the implications for the estimates of CR energy densities and dust opacities. The $H_{\rm{I}}$ 21 cm line and the carbon monoxide isotopes ($^{12}\rm{CO}$, $^{13}\rm{CO}$ and $\rm{C}^{18}\rm{O}$) line emission maps are used to derive the total gas column density. The gas in the CMZ is separated from the disk contribution in position and velocity thanks to its different properties in term of velocity dispersion and brightness ratio of CO isotopes. The variations of the $X_{\rm{CO}}$ factors are modelled relying on both theoretical trends from simulations and empirical corrections. We use the new gas column density estimated together with gamma-ray and dust emission measurements to derive the CR energy density and dust opacities, respectively. The $X_{\rm{CO}}$ values in the CMZ range from $(0.32 - 1.37) \ \times$ $10^{20}$ cm$^{-2}$ K$^{-1}$ km$^{-1}$ s, with a distribution that is highly asymmetric and skewed. The median value is $ \rm{\overline{X}_{CO}^{CMZ}} = 0.39 \ \times$ $10^{20}$ cm$^{-2}$ K$^{-1}$ km$^{-1}$ s. The total gas mass in the CMZ is estimated to be $2.3_{-0.3}^{+0.3}\times10^{7} \; \rm{M_{\odot}}$ with $\sim 10 \%$ contribution from the atomic phase. Without removing the disk contamination the total mass is about twice higher, and the atomic gas fraction increases to $\sim30\%$. The cosmic-ray (CR) energy density in the CMZ, assuming a 1/r profile, is higher by a factor of two compared to the previous calculations at TeV energies. Using molecular gas tracers which probes only the densest molecular cores leads to an overestimation of the CR energy density, while ignoring the foreground/background contribution leads to an underestimation of the CR energy density in the CMZ.
title: Laserscanbasierte Navigation durch Monokulturen im Rahmen des Field Robot Events
Creators: name: Bauer, Benedict
name: Böker, Moritz
name: Hufnagel, Timo
name: Schramm, Dieter
name: Wittenberg, Carsten
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Diese Veröffentlichung behandelt einen rein laserscanbasierten Ansatz für die Navigation von kleinen mobilen Robotern durch Monokulturen. Die vorgestellte Methode verzichtet hierbei auf weitere Sensorik, wie einem GPS oder einer IMU. Dieser Ansatz wurde im Rahmen der Teilnahme des Teams der Hochschule Heilbronn am Field Robot Event 2021 entwickelt und getestet. Der Ansatz besticht hauptsächlich durch seine Einfachheit.
description: This paper discusses a laserscan based approach for the navigation of small mobile robots through monocultures. The presented method does not use any other sensors, such as GPS or IMU. This approach was developed and tested during the participation of the Heilbronn University team at the Field Robot Event 2021. The approach mainly impresses by its simplicity
description: IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, vol. 2022Achte IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2022: 24./25. Februar 2022, Online-Konferenz
Additional file 1 of Inference following multiple imputation for generalized additive models: an investigation of the median p-value rule with applications to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry and Colorado COVID-19 hospitalization data
Creators: name: Bolt, Matthew A.
name: MaWhinney, Samantha
name: Pattee, Jack W.
name: Erlandson, Kristine M.
name: Badesch, David B.
name: Peterson, Ryan A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1: Appendix.
title: Functional Analysis of the Swing Leg Catapult in Human Walking
Creators: name: Buchmann, Alexandra
name: Kiss, Bernadett
name: Renjewski, Daniel
name: Badri-Spröwitz, Alexander
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: push-off
subject: energy storage
subject: power amplification
subject: catapult
subject: locomotion
subject: biomechanics
subject: 620

description: Abstract of the conference presentation.
description: IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz, vol. 2022Achte IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2022: 24./25. Februar 2022, Online-Konferenz
Convergence study of ambipolar diffusion in realistic simulations of magneto-convection
Creators: name: Khomenko, E.
name: Vitas, N.
name: Collados, M.
name: Modestov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this paper is to improve our understanding of the heating mechanisms of the solar chromosphere via realistic three-dimensional (3D) modeling of solar magneto-convection, considering the fact that solar plasma contains a significant fraction of neutral gas. For that we performed simulations of the same physically volume of the Sun, namely 5.76x5.76x2.3 Mm^3 (with 1.4 Mm being above the optical surface), at three different resolutions: 20x20x14, 10x10x7 and 5x5x3.5 km^3. At all three resolutions we compare the time series of simulations with/without ambipolar diffusion, as the main non-ideal heating mechanism due to neutrals. We also compare simulations with three different magnetizations: (1) case of a small-scale dynamo; (2) an initially implanted vertical magnetic field of 50 G; (3) an initially implanted vertical field of 200 G, though not all of them are available at all resolutions. We obtain that the average magnetization of the simulations increases with improving resolution. So does the average magnetic Poynting flux, meaning that there is more magnetic energy in the simulation box at higher resolutions. Ambipolar diffusion operates at relatively large scales, which can be actually numerically resolved with the grid scale of the highest resolution simulations as the ones reported here. We consider two ways of evaluating where the ambipolar scales are numerically resolved: (i) a method to evaluate the numerical diffusion of the simulations and compare it to the physical ambipolar diffusion; (ii) an order of magnitude comparison of spatial scales given by the ambipolar diffusion to our grid resolution. At the resolved locations we compare the average temperature in the simulations with/without ambipolar diffusion, and conclude that the plasma is on average about 600 K hotter after 1200 sec of simulation time when the ambipolar diffusion is included.
description: Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
AI-powered CCTV cameras are the future of security and surveillance, How Presear Softwares deliver advanced CCTV video analytics softwares as a hybrid software package minimizing your cost
Creators: name: Tripathy, Abhijit
name: Singh, Vedangini
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Everybody knows that the normal CCTV cameras provide one of the best security and surveillance systems, with some manual work to be done like appointing someone in front of your computer screen 24 x 7 to check the security and a manual alert system with less accuracy. But the question is, how can Artificial Intelligence(AI) enhance the quality of your entire surveillance system. AI-powered CCTV cameras deliver advanced analytical functions like theft detection, vehicle detection, face detection, person detection, people counting, traffic counting, license plate recognition (LPR), weapons detection and behavioural analytics. Advanced video analytics software is built into the camera and recorder, which then enables artificial intelligence functions. The prepared AI model can be integrated further into a hybrid system which can be installed on desktops, android applications, iOS applications and even in smartwatches.
Hydraulic characterization and removal of metals and nutrients in an aerated horizontal subsurface flow “racetrack” wetland treating primary-treated oil industry effluent
Creators: name: Mozaffari, Mohammad hosein
name: Wallace, Scott
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90799 Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 90701 Environmental Engineering Design
subject: 90403 Chemical Engineering Design
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Constructed wetlands (CW) are an attractive technology due to their operational simplicity and low life- cycle cost. It has been applied for refinery effluent treatment but mostly single-stage designs (e.g., vertical or horizontal flow) have been tested. However, to achieve a good treatment efficiency for industrial ef- fluents, different treatment conditions (both aerobic and anaerobic) are needed. This means that hybrid CW systems are typically required with a respectively increased area demand. In addition, a strong aero- bic environment that facilitates the formation of iron, manganese, zinc and aluminum precipitates cannot be established with passive wetland systems, while the role of these oxyhydroxide compounds in the further co-precipitation and removal of heavy metals such as copper, nickel, lead, and chromium that can simplify the overall treatment of industrial wastewaters is poorly understood in CW. Therefore, this study tests for the first time an innovative CW design that combines an artificially aerated section with a non-aerated section in a single unit applied for oil refinery wastewater treatment. Four pilot units were tested with different design (i.e., planted/unplanted, aerated/non-aerated) and operational (two different hydraulic loading rates) characteristics to estimate the role of plants and artificial aeration and to identify the optimum design configuration. The pilot units received a primary refinery effluent, i.e., after passing through a dissolved air flotation unit. The first-order removal of heavy metals under aerobic conditions is evaluated, along with the removal of phenols and nutrients. High removal rates for Fe (96–98%), Mn (38– 81%), Al (49–73%), and Zn (99–100%) generally as oxyhydroxide precipitates were found, while removal of Cu (61–80%), Ni (70–85%), Pb (96–99%) and Cr (60–92%) under aerobic conditions was also observed, likely through co-precipitation. Complete phenols and ammonia nitrogen removal was also found. The first-order rate coefficient (k) calculated from the collected data demonstrates that the tested CW rep- resents an advanced wetland design reaching higher removal rates at a smaller area demand than the common CW systems