cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scaling dimensions of monopole operators in the $\mathbb{CP}^{N_b - 1}$ theory in $2+1$ dimensions
Creators: name: Dyer, Ethan
name: Mezei, Márk
name: Pufu, Silviu S.
name: Sachdev, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study monopole operators at the conformal critical point of the $\mathbb{CP}^{N_b - 1}$ theory in $2+1$ spacetime dimensions. Using the state-operator correspondence and a saddle point approximation, we compute the scaling dimensions of these operators to next-to-leading order in $1/N_b$. We find remarkable agreement between our results and numerical studies of quantum antiferromagnets on two-dimensional lattices with SU($N_b$) global symmetry, using the mapping of the monopole operators to valence bond solid order parameters of the lattice antiferromagnet.
description: 29 pages + Appendices, 3 figures; v2 corrected an important minus sign error and made various improvements
Transfer of optical signals around bends in two-dimensional linear photonic networks
Creators: name: Nikolopoulos, Georgios M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ability to navigate light signals in two-dimensional networks of waveguide arrays is a prerequisite for the development of all-optical integrated circuits for information processing and networking. In this article, we present a theoretical analysis of bending losses in linear photonic lattices with engineered couplings, and discuss possible ways for their minimization. In contrast to previous work in the field, the lattices under consideration operate in the linear regime, in the sense that discrete solitons cannot exist. The present results suggest that the functionality of linear waveguide networks can be extended to operations that go beyond the recently demonstrated point-to-point transfer of signals, such as blocking, routing, logic functions, etc.
An alternate view of complexity in k-SAT problems
Creators: name: Krishnamurthy, Supriya
name: Sumedha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The satisfiability threshold for constraint satisfaction problems is that value of the ratio of constraints (or clauses) to variables, above which the probability that a random instance of the problem has a solution is zero in the large system limit. Two different approaches to obtaining this threshold have been discussed in the literature - using first or second-moment methods which give rigorous bounds or using the non-rigorous but powerful replica-symmetry breaking (RSB) approach, which gives very accurate predictions on random graphs. In this paper, we lay out a different route to obtaining this threshold on a Bethe lattice. We need make no assumptions about the solution-space structure, a key assumption in the RSB approach. Despite this, our expressions and threshold values exactly match the best predictions of the cavity method under the 1-RSB assumption. Our method hence provides alternate interpretations as well as motivations for the key equations in the RSB approach.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected
Purity Monitors for the single-phase ProtoDUNE
Creators: name: Morris, Casandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: In large-scale liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPC), such as those to be used in DUNE far detector, measuring and maintaining the purity of the liquid argon is crucial for obtaining a high signal-to-noise ratio. ProtoDUNE-SP is a prototype of the modules for the DUNE far detector with full-scale components. The purity monitors in ProtoDUNE-SP (and the future DUNE) are mini TPCs that make use of the photoelectric effect to create electrons and measure their lifetime within the LArTPC which is used to measure the purity of the argon, all while keeping them electrically isolated from the rest of the detector. This poster will give an introduction to the design and performance of these monitors within ProtoDUNE-SP during its test beam run at CERN in late 2018
A Flow-Based Approach to Vehicle Detection and Background Mosaicking in Airborne Video
Creators: name: Hulya  Yalcin
name: Hebert, Martial
name: Collins, Robert
name: Black, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we address the detection of vehicles in a video stream obtained from a moving airborne platform. We propose a Bayesian framework for estimating dense optical flow over time that explicitly estimates a persistent model of background appearance. The approach assumes that the scene can be described by background and occlusion layers, estimated within an expectation-maximization framework. The mathematical formulation of the paper is an extension of the work in (H. Yalcin et al., 2005) where motion and appearance models for foreground and background layers are estimated simultaneously in a Bayesian framework.
Japan-Thai Collaboration to Address the Challenges of an Ageing Society: The dynamics of policy transfer
Creators: name: ROBSON, NALANDA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Public policy
Japanese language
Literature in Japanese

description: The ageing of the human population is one of the most significant social transformations facing the world. As Thailand’s population begins to age, it looks towards Japan to adopt policy ideas and best practices. The current study investigates how Thailand adopts measures, policies and programs from Japan, in order to address the challenges faced by Thailand’s rapidly ageing society. It presents findings based on the case study of S-TOP, a healthcare program, transferred by a Japanese government agency called the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) into Ratchaphiphat Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.
A Free Market Architecture for Distributed Control of a Multirobot System
Creators: name: M. Bernardine  Dias
name: Stentz, Anthony
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The coordination of a large group of robots to solve a specified task is a difficult problem.
Centralized approaches can be computationally intractable, brittle, and unresponsive to change.
Distributed approaches are not as prone to these problems, but they can be highly sub-optimal. This
work introduces a novel economic approach for coordinating robots based on the free market system.
The free market approach defines revenue and cost functions across the possible plans for executing a
specified task. The task is accomplished by dividing it into sub-tasks and allowing the robots to bid
and negotiate to carry out these sub-tasks. Cooperation and competition emerge as the robots
execute the task while trying to maximize their personal profits. Initial simulation results indicate the
approach is successful at producing effective global plans for a team of several robots performing an
interior sensing task.
A Needs Assessment Study of the Educational Technology Needs of English Literacy Students and Teachers in Qatar and the U.S.
Creators: name: Soudy, Nada
name: Ermine A. Teves
name: M.  Beatrice  Dias
name: Pessoa, Silvia
name: M. Bernardine  Dias
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents the results of a needs assessment study that was conducted to investigate the educational technology needs of several schools and literacy programs located in two different countries, Qatar and the United States. Relying on observations, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups with students and their teachers, this paper documents and analyzes the variety of educational technology needs and preferences of five organizations that span three different populations of English language learners: children with special needs/learning disabilities, postsecondary English as a Foreign Language students, and adult learners. Results indicate that among all three populations, educational technology has the potential to encourage student interaction with educational material as well as facilitate class planning and content creation for teachers. Furthermore, our needs assessment results provide suggestions for future educational technology developed for these populations.
Additional file 1 of Drivers of polar bear behavior and the possible effects of prey availability on foraging strategy
Creators: name: Togunov, Ron R.
name: Derocher, Andrew E.
name: Lunn, Nicholas J.
name: Auger-Méthé, Marie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Contains supplementary figures, tables, methods, and results. The file contains hypotheses and predictions associated with each covariate used in modelling (Table A1), description of all data sources used in analysis (Table A2), methods and results for t correction and tidal integration (Section B), methods and results for satellite-ice-drift-based sea ice drift correction (Section C), methods and results of HMM without drift correction (Section D.1), HMM using wind and tidal integration (Section D.2), HMM using satellite-based drift correction (Section D.3), and HMM using wind-based drift correction and tidal integration (Section D.4), comparison of different drift correction and integration approaches and discussion of results (Sections D.5 and D.6), structure of pseudo-design matrices used to formulate HMM emission probabilities (Section E), effect of hour and month on state frequency (Figure F1), and distribution and frequency of predicted states in Hudson Bay (Figure G1).
Bounds on secret neutrino interactions from high-energy astrophysical neutrinos
Creators: name: Charlote Rosenstrom
name: Bustamante, Mauricio
name: Tamborra, Irene
name: Shashank Shalgar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Neutrinos offer a window to physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, with TeV-PeV energies, may provide evidence of new, "secret" neutrino-neutrino interactions that are stronger than ordinary weak interactions. During their propagation over cosmological distances, high-energy neutrinos could interact with the cosmic neutrino background via secret interactions, developing characteristic energy-dependent features in their observed energy distribution. For the first time, we use a rigorous statistical analysis to look for signatures of secret neutrino interactions in the diffuse flux of high-energy astrophysical, based on 6 years of publicly available IceCube High Energy Starting Events (HESE). We find no significant evidence for secret neutrino interactions, but place competitive upper limits on the coupling strength of the new mediator through which they occur, in the mediator mass range of 1-100 MeV.
EXO-200 and the Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay
Creators: name: Daniels, Tim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The detection of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) would confirm the Majorana nature of neutrinos and shed light on the neutrino mass scale. The EXO-200 experiment employs 110 kg of active xenon enriched to 80.6% in isotope 136 in a liquid-phase time-projection chamber (TPC) in a 0νββ search. Located underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) outside Carlsbad, NM, the experiment collected data in two phases between May 2011 and December 2018. Analysis of the resulting 234.1 kg-yr dataset results in an upper limit on the 0νββ half-life of 3.5 x 10$^{25}$ yr at the 90% confidence level. The sensitivity of this low-background experiment is enhanced by the TPC technique, which exploits the anticorrelation of the ionization and scintillation signals and uses topological information to discriminate between beta-like signal events and gamma-ray backgrounds.
LSTM: A Search Space Odyssey
Creators: name: Greff, Klaus
name: Srivastava, Rupesh Kumar
name: Koutník, Jan
name: Steunebrink, Bas R.
name: Schmidhuber, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.2.7; I.5.1; H.5.5
subject: 68T10

description: Several variants of the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture for recurrent neural networks have been proposed since its inception in 1995. In recent years, these networks have become the state-of-the-art models for a variety of machine learning problems. This has led to a renewed interest in understanding the role and utility of various computational components of typical LSTM variants. In this paper, we present the first large-scale analysis of eight LSTM variants on three representative tasks: speech recognition, handwriting recognition, and polyphonic music modeling. The hyperparameters of all LSTM variants for each task were optimized separately using random search, and their importance was assessed using the powerful fANOVA framework. In total, we summarize the results of 5400 experimental runs ($\approx 15$ years of CPU time), which makes our study the largest of its kind on LSTM networks. Our results show that none of the variants can improve upon the standard LSTM architecture significantly, and demonstrate the forget gate and the output activation function to be its most critical components. We further observe that the studied hyperparameters are virtually independent and derive guidelines for their efficient adjustment.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
The Gibbs “volume” entropy is incorrect
Creators: name: Swendsen, Robert
name: Wang, Jian-Sheng
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 20399 Classical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the expression for the equilibrium thermodynamic entropy contains an integral over a surface in phase space, and in so doing, we confirm that negative temperature is a valid thermodynamic concept. This demonstration disproves the claims of several recent papers that the Gibbs entropy, which contains an integral over a volume in phase space, is the correct definition and that thermodynamics cannot be extended to include negative temperatures. We further show that the Gibbs entropy fails to satisfy the postulates of thermodynamics and that its predictions for systems with nonmonotonic energy densities of states are incorrect.
Additional file 1 of Genotype by environment interaction analysis for Fusarium head blight response and yield performance of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mengesha, Getachew Gudero
name: Abebe, Shiferaw Mekonnen
name: Tsakamo, Yisahak Tsegaye
name: Issa, Bilal Temmam
name: Lera, Zerhun Tomas
name: Shertore, Misgana Mitku
name: Fedilu, Kedir Bamud
name: Tadesse, Yosef Berihun
name: Mekonnen, Asaminew Amare
name: Esho, Abate Gebremikael
name: Dojamo, Tariku Simion
name: Halengo, Muluneh Mekiso
name: Mena, Gedyon Tamru
name: Adamo, Wondimu Adila
name: Cheleko, Dizgo Chencha
name: Woldesilassie, Agdew Bekele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1: Correlation coefficients between disease scores of Fusarium head blight and yield-related traits of wheat genotypes across locations in southern Ethiopia during the 2019 main cropping season. Table S2: Descriptions of the tested bread wheat genotypes for Fusarium head blight across locations in southern Ethiopia during the 2019 main cropping season.
Jank and Meyer's Guiding Questions for Didaktik Translated and Adapted for Higher Edcuation
Creators: name: Tasler, Nathalie
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 390102
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development

description: Jank and Meyer (2019) developed a set of nine questions to guide educators in thinking about their course design in a practical and sequential way. I translated them from German, and adapted these for the Higher Education context. So if you are planning to redesign a module, course or program; these guiding questions might be useful prompts for reflection and development of your curriculum.
 PS: Didaktik in German refers to the educational sub-field: Science of Teaching Methods which includes curriculum design as one aspect
A Human-Assisted Approach for a Mobile Robot to Learn 3D Object Models using Active Vision
Creators: name: Zwinderman, Matthijs
name: Rybski, Paul E.
name: Koostra, Gert
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we present an algorithm that allows a human to naturally and easily teach a mobile robot how to recognize objects in its environment. The human selects the object by pointing at it using a laser pointer. The robot recognizes the laser reflections with its cameras and uses this data to generate an initial 2D segmentation of the object. The 3D position of SURF feature points are extracted from the designated area using stereo vision. As the robot moves around the object, new views of the object are obtained from which feature points are extracted. These features are filtered using active vision. The complete object representation consists of feature points registered with 3D pose data. We describe the method and show that it works well by performing experiments on real world data collected with our robot. We use an extensive dataset of 21 objects, differing in size, shape and texture.
Additional file 2 of Genotype by environment interaction analysis for Fusarium head blight response and yield performance of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mengesha, Getachew Gudero
name: Abebe, Shiferaw Mekonnen
name: Tsakamo, Yisahak Tsegaye
name: Issa, Bilal Temmam
name: Lera, Zerhun Tomas
name: Shertore, Misgana Mitku
name: Fedilu, Kedir Bamud
name: Tadesse, Yosef Berihun
name: Mekonnen, Asaminew Amare
name: Esho, Abate Gebremikael
name: Dojamo, Tariku Simion
name: Halengo, Muluneh Mekiso
name: Mena, Gedyon Tamru
name: Adamo, Wondimu Adila
name: Cheleko, Dizgo Chencha
name: Woldesilassie, Agdew Bekele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2. Figure S1. Total rainfall (mm), mean monthly minimum and maximum temperatures (oC), and relative humidity (%) in Adiyo (a), Bonke (b), Chencha (c), Gedeb (d), Hulbareg (e), North Ari (f), and Sodo Zuriya (g) districts of southern Ethiopia during the 2019 cropping season.
Weak convergence rates for Euler-type approximations of semilinear stochastic evolution equations with nonlinear diffusion coefficients
Creators: name: Jentzen, Arnulf
name: Kurniawan, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Strong convergence rates for time-discrete numerical approximations of semilinear stochastic evolution equations (SEEs) with smooth and regular nonlinearities are well understood in the literature. Weak convergence rates for time-discrete numerical approximations of such SEEs have been investigated since about 12 years and are far away from being well understood: roughly speaking, no essentially sharp weak convergence rates are known for time-discrete numerical approximations of parabolic SEEs with nonlinear diffusion coefficient functions; see Remark 2.3 in [A. Debussche, Weak approximation of stochastic partial differential equations: the nonlinear case, Math. Comp. 80 (2011), no. 273, 89-117] for details. In the recent article [D. Conus, A. Jentzen & R. Kurniawan, Weak convergence rates of spectral Galerkin approximations for SPDEs with nonlinear diffusion coefficients, arXiv:1408.1108] the weak convergence problem emerged from Debussche's article has been solved in the case of spatial spectral Galerkin approximations for semilinear SEEs with nonlinear diffusion coefficient functions. In this article we overcome the problem emerged from Debussche's article in the case of a class of time-discrete Euler-type approximation methods (including exponential and linear-implicit Euler approximations as special cases) and, in particular, we establish essentially sharp weak convergence rates for linear-implicit Euler approximations of semilinear SEEs with nonlinear diffusion coefficient functions. Key ingredients of our approach are applications of a mild Itô type formula and the use of suitable semilinear integrated counterparts of the time-discrete numerical approximation processes.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1408.1108
Jank and Meyer's Guiding Questions for Didaktik Translated and Adapted for Higher Edcuation
Creators: name: Sheridan, Nathalie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: This is an adaptation of a set of questions Jank and Meyer (Jank, W., & Meyer, H. (2019). Didaktische Modelle (13th ed.). Berlin: Cornelsen Verlag GmbH.) suggested are at the core of Didaktik. I realised that these might be helpful to support colleagues teaching in higher education to adapt their teaching for the 2020/21 academic year with predominantly online or hybrid teaching.
Geometric characterization of Lyapunov exponents for Riemann surface laminations
Creators: name: Nguyen, Viet-Anh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 37A30, 57R30, Secondary: 58J35, 58J65, 60J65

description: We characterize geometrically the Lyapunov exponents of a cocycle (of arbitrary rank) with respect to a harmonic current defined on a hyperbolic Riemann surface lamination. Our characterizations are formulated in terms of the expansion rates of the cocycle along geodesic rays.
description: Dedicated to the memory of Gennadi M. Henkin. To appear in the Henkin volume of the Journal of Geometric Analysis. In this fourth version, the exposition has been thoroughly improved
Disformal invariance of curvature perturbation
Creators: name: Motohashi, Hayato
name: White, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that under a general disformal transformation the linear comoving curvature perturbation is not identically invariant, but is invariant on superhorizon scales for any theory that is disformally related to Horndeski's theory. The difference between disformally related curvature perturbations is found to be given in terms of the comoving density perturbation associated with a single canonical scalar field. In General Relativity it is well-known that this quantity vanishes on superhorizon scales through the Poisson equation that is obtained on combining the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints, and we confirm that a similar result holds for any theory that is disformally related to Horndeski's scalar-tensor theory so long as the invertibility condition for the disformal transformation is satisfied. We also consider the curvature perturbation at full nonlinear order in the unitary gauge, and find that it is invariant under a general disformal transformation if we assume that an attractor regime has been reached. Finally, we also discuss the counting of degrees of freedom in theories disformally related to Horndeski's.
description: 15 pages; Improved Sec. IV, added Appendix B and discussion on the invertibility of the disformal transformation in Sec. II; Improved discussion in Secs. II and IV, matches published version in JCAP
Teleportation based on control of anisotropic Ising interaction in three dimensions
Creators: name: Delgado, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Possibly, teleportation is the most representative quantum algorithm in the public domain. Nevertheless than this quantum procedure transmits only information than objects, its coverage is still very limited and easily subject to errors. Based on a fine control of quantum resources, particularly those entangled, the research to extend its coverage and flexibility is open, in particular on matter based quantum systems. This work shows how anisotropic Ising interactions could be used as natural basis for this procedure, based on a sequence of magnetic pulses driving Ising interaction, stating results in specialized quantum gates designed for magnetic systems.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1410.5891
A quantified study of facial asymmetry in 3D faces
Creators: name: Yanxi  Liu
name: Palmer, Jeff
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "With the rapid development of 3D imaging technology, the wide usage of 3D surface information for research and applications is becoming a convenient reality. This study is focused on a quantified analysis of facial asymmetry of more than 100 3D human faces (individuals). We investigate whether facial asymmetry differs statistically significantly from a bilateral symmetry assumption, and the role of global and local facial asymmetry for gender discrimination."
title: Safe and Pleasurable Human Machine Interfaces for Automobile
Creators: name: Bruder, Ralph
name: Abendroth, Bettina
name: Didier, Muriel
name: Schreiber, Michael
name: Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Margeritta von
Publisher: name: Society of Automative Engineers (SAE)
Year: 2023

description: As a consequence of the integration of additional systems to support and entertain drivers and passengers the interactions with those systems become more and more time consuming and distracting. It is therefore a basic requirement for the design of HumanMachine-Interfaces to minimize the distraction from driving when interacting with those new assistance and entertainment systems. Whereas the safety is a Must-be for the design of HMI for automobiles the joy-of-use is an important aspect for the excitement of drivers. To fulfil the sometimes conflicting demands for safety and pleasure a human centred design approach for HMI design is needed.
A Versatile and Efficient Novel Approach for Mendelian Randomization Analysis with Application to Assess the Causal Effect of Fetal Hemoglobin on Anemia in Sickle Cell Anemia
Creators: name: Li, Yun
name: Liyanage, Janaka S. S.
name: Takemoto, Clifford M.
name: Kang, Guolian
name: DeBaun, Michael R.
name: Rashkin, Sara R.
name: Estepp, Jeremie H.
name: Cui, Yuehua
name: Sheehan, Vivien A.
name: Burgess, Stephen
name: Hankins, Jane S.
name: Srivastava, Kumar
name: Mori, Motomi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Mendelian randomization (MR) is increasingly employed as a technique to assess the causation of a risk factor on an outcome using observational data. The two-stage least-squares (2SLS) procedure is commonly used to examine the causation using genetic variants as the instrument variables. The validity of 2SLS relies on a representative sample randomly selected from a study cohort or a population for genome-wide association study (GWAS), which is not always true in practice. For example, the extreme phenotype sequencing (EPS) design is widely used to investigate genetic determinants of an outcome in GWAS as it bears many advantages such as efficiency, low sequencing or genotyping cost, and large power in detecting the involvement of rare genetic variants in disease etiology. In this paper, we develop a novel, versatile, and efficient approach, namely MR analysis under Extreme or random Phenotype Sampling (MREPS), for one-sample MR analysis based on samples drawn through either the random sampling design or the nonrandom EPS design. In simulations, MREPS provides unbiased estimates for causal effects, correct type I errors for causal effect testing. Furthermore, it is robust under different study designs and has high power. These results demonstrate the superiority of MREPS over the widely used standard 2SLS approach. We applied MREPS to assess and highlight the causal effect of total fetal hemoglobin on anemia risk in patients with sickle cell anemia using two independent cohort studies. A user-friendly Shiny app web interface was implemented for professionals to easily explore the MREPS.
Use of X-Ray and Neutron Scattering Methods with Volume Measurements to Determine Lipid Bilayer Structure and Number of Water Molecules/Lipid.
Creators: name: Tristram-Nagle, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 20399 Classical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this chapter I begin with a historical perspective of membrane models, starting in the early twentieth century. As these membrane models evolved, so did experiments to characterize the structure and water content of purified lipid bilayers. The wide-spread use of the X-ray gravimetric, or Luzzati method, is critically discussed. The main motivation of the gravimetric technique is to determine the number of water molecules/lipid, n(W), and then derive other important structural quantities, such as area/lipid, A(L). Subsequent experiments from the Nagle/Tristram-Nagle laboratory using X-ray and neutron scattering, first determine A(L) and then calculate n(W), using molecular lipid V(L) and water V(W) volumes. This chapter describes the details of our volume experiments to carefully measure V(L). Our results also determine n(W)', the steric water associated with the lipid headgroup, and how our calculated value compares to many literature values of tightly-associated headgroup water.
Luminar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Creators: name: Redazione Di Engramma
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2006
Subjects: Luminar 4
Internet
Umanesimo
Web
Contemporary art
Museum
Cambellotti
Hillman

description: Engramma issue no. 45 “Materiali Luminar 4 | Presentazione Luminar 5” includes contributions by Redazione Engramma, Maria Bergamo, Monica Centanni, Nadia Mazzon, Claudia Daniotti, Simona Dolari, Daniela Sacco.
Engramma presents in this monographic issue-Luminar the review of the annual conferences on "Internet and Humanism" held since 2002, and in particular the materials collected on the occasion of the Luminar 4 study days. Internet and Humanism: Sources and on-line resources. The method of historical-humanistic sciences, which were held in Venice on 4 and 5 February 2005 at the Querini Stampalia Foundation.
Monopoles, Dirac operator and index theory for fuzzy ${SU(3)}/({U(1)\times U(1)})$
Creators: name: Acharyya, Nirmalendu
name: Díez, Verónica Errasti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intersection of the 10-dimensional fuzzy conifold $Y_F^{10}$ with $S^5_F \times S^5_F$ is the compact 8-dimensional fuzzy space $X_F^8$. We show that $X_F^8$ is (the analogue of) a principal $U(1)\times U(1)$ bundle over fuzzy ${SU(3)}/({U(1) \times U(1)}) \left(\equiv\mathcal{M}^6_F\right)$. We construct $\mathcal{M}_F^6$ using the Gell-Mann matrices by adapting Schwinger's construction. The space $\mathcal{M}_F^6$ is of relevance in higher dimensional quantum Hall effect and matrix models of $D$-branes. Further we show that the sections of the monopole bundle can be expressed in the basis of $SU(3)$ eigenvectors. We construct the Dirac operator on $\mathcal{M}_F^6$ from the Ginsparg-Wilson algebra on this space. Finally, we show that the index of the Dirac operator correctly reproduces the known results in the continuum.
description: 14 pages
Myiase nasale à Lucilia sp. chez un patient intubé : à propos d’un cas au Maroc
Creators: name: BOUIKHIF, Manal
name: EL KETTANI, Yasmine
name: LYAGOUBI, Mohamed
name: AOUFI, Sarra
Publisher: name: MTSI
Year: 2022

description: Introduction. Les myiases sont des infections parasitaires accidentelles ou obligatoires des animaux et de l’homme par les larves de mouches ou asticots. Les myiases en milieu hospitalier restent exceptionnelles. Observation. Un patient de 72 ans a été admis au service de réanimation pour la prise en charge d’un choc septique compliquant une péritonite secondaire. Le patient a été intubé. Quelques jours après, des larves mobiles de couleur blanche ont été découvertes dans les cavités nasales du patient et ont été adressées au laboratoire de parasitologie pour identification. L’étude microscopique des larves a permis de diagnostiquer une myiase à Lucilia sp. Discussion/Conclusion. Les myiases des unités de soins intensifs restent exceptionnelles et touchent préférablement les patients intubés ou présentant des lésions infectées ou nécrosées. Le traitement est l’extirpation en totalité des larves. La prévention de cette infection repose sur tous les moyens physiques et chimiques permettant d’éliminer les mouches dans le milieu hospitalier. Nasal myiasis due to Lucilia sp. in intubated patient: about one case in Morocco Introduction. Myiasis is the infestation of living bodies of animals and humans with fly larvae or maggots. These accidental or obligatory parasites grow in three stages in the host while feeding on his tissues. Myiasis in a hospital area is a rare situation when flies accidentally lay their eggs on patients, mostly in open wounds or cavities. Case presentation. We report a case of a 72-year-old patient admitted to a general surgery department for peritonitis, then to an intensive care unit (ICU) for septic shock where he was intubated. Some maggots were seen moving in his nasal cavity a few days after his admission and were sent to our laboratory for examination. The larvae were identified as the third larval stage of Lucilia sp. They were removed entirely after intense nasal washing. A checking examination of his nasal cavities revealed no evidence of further infestation. After nasal washing, no other larvae were seen but unfortunately, the patient died of septic shock a few days later. Discussion. Few cases of nasal myiasis in hospitalized patients were reported. ICU myiasis, extremely rare, is caused by the patient’s inability to fend off the flies because of their conscious state, presence of blood or odors caused by infections, and the warm humid environment. Conclusion. Myiasis in intensive care unit is a delicate situation that might be underreported. Preventing this infection is directly related to the control of the flies.
description: MTSI, Vol. 2 No 3 (2022): MTSI-Revue
3-D Measurements From Imaging Laser Radars: How Good Are They?
Creators: name: Hebert, Martial
name: Krotkov, Eric
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The authors analyze a class of imaging range finders-amplitude-modulated continuous-wave laser radars-in the context of computer vision and robotics. The analysis develops measurement models from the fundamental principles of laser radar operation, and identifies the nature and cause of key problems that plague measurements from this class of sensors. They classify the problems as fundamental (e.g. related to the signal-to-noise ratio), as architectural (e.g. limited by encoding distance by angles (0.2π)), and as artifacts of particular hardware implementations (e.g. insufficient temperature compensation). Experimental results from two different scanning laser range finders designed for autonomous navigation illustrate and support the analysis
Additional file 1 of Neurocognitive patterns across genetic levels in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: a multiple single cases study
Creators: name: Santamaría-García, Hernando
name: Ogonowsky, Natalia
name: Baez, Sandra
name: Palacio, Nicole
name: Reyes, Pablo
name: Schulte, Michael
name: López, Andrea
name: Matallana, Diana
name: Ibanez, Agustín
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
3-D Vision Techniques for Autonomous Vehicles
Creators: name: Hebert, Martial
name: Kanade, Takeo
name: Kweon, In So
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A mobile robot needs an internal representation of its environment in order to accomplish its mission.
Building such a representation involves transforming raw data from sensors into a meaningful geometric
representation. In this paper, we introduce techniques for building terrain representations from range data
for an outdoor mobile robot. We introduce three levels of representations that correspond to levels of
planning: obstacle maps, terrain patches, and high resolution elevation maps. Since terrain representations
from individual locations are not sufficient for many navigation tasks, we also introduce techniques for
combining multiple maps. Combining maps may be achieved either by using features or the raw elevation
data. Finally, we introduce algorithms for combining 3-D descriptions with descriptions from other
sensors, such as color cameras. We examine the need for this type of sensor fusion when some semantic
information has to be extracted from an observed scene and provide an example application of outdoor
scene analysis. Many of the techniques presented in this paper have been tested in the field on three
mobile robot systems developed at CMU.
Fermion localization in higher curvature spacetime
Creators: name: Choudhury, Sayantan
name: Mitra, Joydip
name: SenGupta, Soumitra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fermion localization in a braneworld model in presence of dilaton coupled higher curvature Gauss-Bonnet bulk gravity is discussed. It is shown that the lowest mode of left handed fermions can be naturally localized on the visible brane due to the dilaton coupled higher curvature term without the necessity of any external localizing bulk field.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity
A 1 mG lateral CMOS-MEMS accelerometer
Creators: name: Luo, Hao
name: Fedder, Gary K.
name: L. Carley
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper reports a lateral CMOS-MEMS accelerometer with a measured noise floor of 1 mG/√(Hz) and a dynamic range larger than 13 G. The accelerometer is fully compatible with conventional CMOS processes enabling the integration of most of the conditioning circuits. It is fabricated in a three metal layer 0.5 μm CMOS process followed by a two-step dry etch release. An improved curl matching technique is utilized to solve the out-of-plane curl problem. A new differential amplifier is used for the capacitive sensing interface. The CMOS micromachining process used in this project is described. The design of accelerometer, system schematic applying force-balance feedback and experimental test results are presented
Additional file 1 of Pan-cancer surveys indicate cell cycle-related roles of primate-specific genes in tumors and embryonic cerebrum
Creators: name: Ma, Chenyu
name: Li, Chunyan
name: Ma, Huijing
name: Yu, Daqi
name: Zhang, Yufei
name: Zhang, Dan
name: Su, Tianhan
name: Wu, Jianmin
name: Wang, Xiaoyue
name: Zhang, Li
name: Chen, Chun-Long
name: Zhang, Yong E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Characterization of primate-specific genes (PSGs). Figure S2. Pan-cancer upregulation of PSGs. Figure S3. Factors underlying up- or downregulation of genes in tumors. Figure S4. Survival, hallmark enrichment and cell line screening data analyses. Figure S5. Functional characterization of DDX11 in cancer samples or cell lines. Figure S6. Evolution of DDX11. Figure S7. Additional analyses of genes expressed during the development.
A review of research literature on bilateral negotiations
Creators: name: Cuihong  Li
name: Giampapa, Joseph
name: Sycara-Cyranski, Katia
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "Automated bilateral negotiations are an important mechanism to realize efficient distributed matching in the Navy detailing system, and the presence of outside options is an outstanding feature of the negotiations. In this report we provide an extensive literature review on the research of bilateral negotiations in the fields of Economics and Artificial Intelligence. Three important dimensions are described to identify the negotiation environment and to build a research model. Preliminary considerations and suggestions are given in these dimensions on modelling the system. The review suggests that negotiations with outside options is a new and important research problem, yet it can be addressed, based on the existing work."
Adaptive Sampling for Multi-Robot Wide Area Prospecting
Creators: name: Low, Kian Hsiang
name: Gordon, Geoffrey J.
name: Dolan, John M.
name: Khosla, Pradeep K.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Prospecting for in situ mineral resources is essential for establishing settlements on
the Moon and Mars. To reduce human effort and risk, it is desirable to build robotic
systems to perform this prospecting. An important issue in designing such systems is
the sampling strategy: how do the robots choose where to prospect next? This paper argues
that a strategy called Adaptive Cluster Sampling (ACS) has a number of desirable
properties: compared to conventional strategies, (1) it reduces the total mission time
and energy consumption of a team of robots, and (2) returns a higher mineral yield
and more information about the prospected region by directing exploration towards areas
of high mineral density, thus providing detailed maps of the boundaries of such
areas. Due to the adaptive nature of the sampling scheme, it is not immediately obvious
how the resulting sampled data can be used to provide an unbiased, low-variance
estimate of the regional mineral density. This paper therefore investigates new mineral
density estimators, which have lower error than previously-developed estimators;
they are derived from the older estimators via a process called Rao-Blackwellization.
Since the efficiency of estimators depends on the type of mineralogical population sampled,
the population characteristics that favor ACS estimators are also analyzed. The
ACS scheme and our new estimators are evaluated empirically in a detailed simulation
of the prospecting task, and the quantitative results show that our approach can yield
more minerals with less resources and provide more accurate mineral density estimates
than previous methods.
Modelling Pattern Formation in Dip-Coating Experiments
Creators: name: Wilczek, Markus
name: Tewes, Walter B. H.
name: Gurevich, Svetlana V.
name: Köpf, Michael H.
name: Chi, Lifeng
name: Thiele, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q35, 65Z05

description: We briefly review selected mathematical models that describe the dynamics of pattern formation phenomena in dip-coating and Langmuir-Blodgett transfer experiments, where solutions or suspensions are transferred onto a substrate producing patterned deposit layers with structure length from hundreds of nanometres to tens of micrometres. The models are presented with a focus on their gradient dynamics formulations that clearly shows how the dynamics is governed by particular free energy functionals and facilitates the comparison of the models. In particular, we include a discussion of models based on long-wave hydrodynamics as well as of more phenomenological models that focus on the pattern formation processes in such systems. The models and their relations are elucidated and examples of resulting patterns are discussed before we conclude with a discussion of implications of the gradient dynamics formulation and of some related open issues.
Enhancement of salt tolerance of transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana by Zostera japonica DnaJ gene
Creators: name: Chen, Siting
name: Qiu, Guanglong
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Soil salt damage has become one of the main biological stresses affecting plant seed germination, crop growth and yield. Salt damage can lead to the accumulation of superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl free radicals in plants, and a large amount of accumulated reactive oxygen species will cause the oxidation of lipids, proteins and nucleic acids and then cause cell damage. In this experiment, the seedlings and adult plants of transgenic Arabidopsis with overexpression of Zostera japonica (Z. japonica) DnaJ gene ZjDjB1 were used as materials. Wild-type and transgenic ZjDjB1 Arabidopsis were treated with 100 mM and 200 mM NaCl and root length, fresh weight, leaf water content and dry weight, physiological indexes and antioxidant system enzyme activities were measured. The results showed that overexpression of Z. japonica DnaJ gene ZjDjB1 could significantly alleviate the damage caused by salt stress to transgenic ZjDjB1 Arabidopsis seedlings and adult plants. The results showed that overexpression of Z. japonica DnaJ gene ZjDjB1 could reduce the content of MDA and O2-, increase the content of proline and activate the enzyme activity of antioxidant system under salt stress, to reduce the damage of salt stress to plants.
On semi-finite hexagons of order $(2, t)$ containing a subhexagon
Creators: name: Bishnoi, Anurag
name: De Bruyn, Bart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51E12, 05B25

description: The research in this paper was motivated by one of the most important open problems in the theory of generalized polygons, namely the existence problem for semi-finite thick generalized polygons. We show here that no semi-finite generalized hexagon of order $(2,t)$ can have a subhexagon $H$ of order $2$. Such a subhexagon is necessarily isomorphic to the split Cayley generalized hexagon $H(2)$ or its point-line dual $H^D(2)$. In fact, the employed techniques allow us to prove a stronger result. We show that every near hexagon $\mathcal{S}$ of order $(2,t)$ which contains a generalized hexagon $H$ of order $2$ as an isometrically embedded subgeometry must be finite. Moreover, if $H \cong H^D(2)$ then $\mathcal{S}$ must also be a generalized hexagon, and consequently isomorphic to either $H^D(2)$ or the dual twisted triality hexagon $T(2,8)$.
description: 21 pages; new corrected proofs of Lemmas 4.6 and 4.7; earlier proofs worked for generalized hexagons but not near hexagons