cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
α-Synuclein pathology in Parkinson disease activates homeostatic NRF2 anti-oxidant response
Creators: name: Delaidelli, Alberto
name: Richner, Mette
name: Jiang, Lixiang
name: Van Der Laan, Amelia
name: Bergholdt Jul Christiansen, Ida
name: Ferreira, Nelson
name: Nyengaard, Jens R.
name: Vægter, Christian B.
name: Jensen, Poul H.
name: Mackenzie, Ian
name: Sorensen, Poul H.
name: Jan, Asad
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Circumstantial evidence points to a pathological role of alpha-synuclein (aSyn; gene symbol SNCA), conferred by aSyn misfolding and aggregation, in Parkinson disease (PD) and related synucleinopathies. Several findings in experimental models implicate perturbations in the tissue homeostatic mechanisms triggered by pathological aSyn accumulation, including impaired redox homeostasis, as significant contributors in the pathogenesis of PD. The nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor (NRF2/Nrf2) is recognized as ‘the master regulator of cellular anti-oxidant response’, both under physiological as well as in pathological conditions. Using immunohistochemical analyses, we show a robust nuclear NRF2 accumulation in post-mortem PD midbrain, detected by NRF2 phosphorylation on the serine residue 40 (nuclear active p-NRF2, S40). Curated gene expression analyses of four independent publicly available microarray datasets revealed considerable alterations in NRF2-responsive genes in the disease affected regions in PD, including substantia nigra, dorsal motor nucleus of vagus, locus coeruleus and globus pallidus. To further examine the putative role of pathological aSyn accumulation on nuclear NRF2 response, we employed a transgenic mouse model of synucleionopathy (M83 line, expressing the mutant human A53T aSyn), which manifests widespread aSyn pathology (phosphorylated aSyn; S129) in the nervous system following intramuscular inoculation of exogenous fibrillar aSyn. We observed strong immunodetection of nuclear NRF2 in neuronal populations harboring p-aSyn (S129), and found an aberrant anti-oxidant and inflammatory gene response in the affected neuraxis. Taken together, our data support the notion that pathological aSyn accumulation impairs the redox homeostasis in nervous system, and boosting neuronal anti-oxidant response is potentially a promising approach to mitigate neurodegeneration in PD and related diseases.
Computing Traffic Accident High-Risk Locations Using Graph Analytics
Creators: name: Maduako, Iyke
name: Ebinne, Elijah
name: Uzodinma, Victus
name: Okolie, Chukwuma
name: Chiemelu, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Analysis of the dynamic relationship between traffic accident events and road network topology based on connectivity and graph analytics offers a new approach to identifying, ranking and profiling traffic accident high risk-locations at different levels of space and time granularities. Previous studies on traffic accident hot spots have mostly adopted spatial statistics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) where spatial point patterns are discovered based only on spatial dependence with no recognition of the temporal dependence of the events. A limitation arises from the fact that the results are either under or over-estimated because of the temporal aggregation of the events to an absolute time point. Furthermore, the existing methods apart from the Network Kernel Density Estimation (NETKDE), consider traffic accident events as events randomly on a 2-D geographic space. However, traffic accident events are network constrained events that happens majorly on the road network space. Therefore, in this paper, we adopt the connectivity of graph on a network space approach that identifies accident high risk-locations based on space-time-varying connectivity between traffic accident events and the road network geometry. A simple but extensible traffic accident space time-varying graph (STVG) model is developed and implemented for this study. Traffic accident high risk-locations are identified and ranked in space and time using time-dependent degree centrality and PageRank centrality graph metrics respectively through time-incremental graph queries. This study offers urban traffic accident analysts with a new and efficient approach to identify, rank and profile accident-prone areas in space and time at different scales.
The Effects of Air Pollution on COVID-19 Related Mortality in Northern Italy
Creators: name: Coker, Eric
name: Cavalli, Laura
name: Fabrizi, Enrico
name: Guastella, Gianni
name: Lippo, Enrico
name: Parisi, Maria Laura
name: Pontarollo, Nicola
name: Rizzati, Massimiliano
name: Varacca, Alessandro
name: Vergalli, Sergio
name: Coker, Eric
name: Cavalli, Laura
name: Fabrizi, Enrico
name: Guastella, Gianni
name: Lippo, Enrico
name: Parisi, Maria Laura
name: Pontarollo, Nicola
name: Rizzati, Massimiliano
name: Varacca, Alessandro
name: Vergalli, Sergio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: COVID-19
subject: Mortality
subject: Pollution
subject: Italy
subject: Municipalities

description: Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutant concentrations is known to cause chronic lung inflammation, a condition that may promote increased severity of COVID-19 syndrome caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). In this paper, we empirically investigate the ecologic association between long-term concentrations of area-level fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and excess deaths in the first quarter of 2020 in municipalities of Northern Italy. The study accounts for potentially spatial confounding factors related to urbanization that may have influenced the spreading of SARS-CoV-2 and related COVID-19 mortality. Our epidemiological analysis uses geographical information (e.g., municipalities) and negative binomial regression to assess whether both ambient PM2.5 concentration and excess mortality have a similar spatial distribution. Our analysis suggests a positive association of ambient PM2.5 concentration on excess mortality in Northern Italy related to the COVID-19 epidemic. Our estimates suggest that a one-unit increase in PM2.5 concentration (μg/m3) is associated with a 9% (95% confidence interval: 6% - 12%) increase in COVID-19 related mortality.
The modified fundamental equations of quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Wang, Huai-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Schrodinger equation, Klein-Gordon equation (KGE), and Dirac equation are believed to be the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics. Schrodinger's equation has a defect in that there are no negative kinetic energy (NKE) solutions. Dirac's equation has positive kinetic energy (PKE) and NKE branches. Both branches should have low-momentum, or nonrelativistic, approximations: One is the Schrodinger equation, and the other is the NKE Schrodinger equation. The KGE has two problems: It is an equation of the second time derivative so that the calculated density is not definitely positive, and it is not a Hamiltonian form. To overcome these problems, the equation should be revised as PKE- and NKE-decoupled KGEs. The fundamental equations of quantum mechanics after the modification have at least two merits. They are unitary in that all contain the first time derivative and are symmetric with respect to PKE and NKE. This reflects the symmetry of the PKE and NKE matters, as well as, in the author's opinion, the matter and dark matter of our universe. The problems of one-dimensional step potentials are resolved by utilizing the modified fundamental equations for a nonrelativistic particle.
description: 30 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables
What do MDL leaders do?: evidence from leadership appointment orders
Creators: name: Noll, David L.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Multidistrict litigation
MDL
Civil procedure
Complex litigation
Attorneys
Lead attorneys
Judicial administration
1407

description: In federal multidistrict litigation (MDL), district courts regularly appoint attorneys to manage the litigation of cases that are transferred to a single district court for coordinated pretrial proceedings. Orders appointing MDL leaders serve as a constitution or charter for a particular MDL, reallocating functions that otherwise would be performed by individually retained plaintiff’s attorneys to court-appointed leaders. As such, they perform a crucial role in the “MDL model” of aggregate litigation and settlement. Yet in spite of their importance, knowledge of these orders is mostly folk wisdom. This Article, prepared for the Pound Civil Justice Institute symposium on "Class Actions, Mass Torts, and MDLs: The Next 50 Years," presents preliminary findings from a study of leadership appointment orders in all MDLs pending in the federal courts in June 2019. The principal finding is that, while leadership appointment orders are a standard feature of contemporary MDL, they vary significantly in how they structure plaintiff’s leadership, the functions they assign to court-appointed leaders, and how orders conceive of the relationships among court-appointed leaders, non-lead attorneys, and MDL plaintiffs. These findings shed light on debates over the nature of contemporary MDL, the duties court-appointed leaders owe to non-client plaintiffs, and the costs and benefits of MDL’s dependence on decentralized, ad hoc procedure-making.
title:  Le nuove norme in materia di remuneration policies, tra costi di agenzia ed esigenza di contenimento del rischio
Creators: name: Gaizo, Angela
name: Rotili, Marco
name: Gaizo, Angela
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Il saggio  affronta il tema delle nuove norme in materia di remuneration policies alla luce dell’applicazione della ‘Direttiva 2013/36/UE (c.d. CRD IV).
description: Workers’ buyout Corporate Governance e sistemi di controllo
Optimizing queries for coarse grain parallelism
Creators: name: Ganguly, Sumit
name: Wang, Weining
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1990

description: We consider the problem of optimizing select-project-join relational queries for minimum response time on parallel machines. The design of the optimizer is based on three ideas: (1) the concept and quantification of degree of coarse grain parallelism for an execution tree, (2) the design of a parallelizing scheduler for a tree of coarse grain operations which is provably near optimal, and (3) the analysis of the scheduling algorithm to obtain a cost formula for parallel execution time. The search algorithm of the optimizer is presented as a multi-dimensional dynamic programming algorithm. We present two three- dimensional search algorithms for the case when placement of relations in the parallel machine do not overlap. We propose the tree placement strategy and demonstrate, by means of examples, how the number of dimensions in the search can be significantly reduced, thereby increasing the efficiency of the search algorithm.
Distinctive ionic transport of freshly excised human epileptogenic brain tissue
Creators: name: Emin, David
name: Fallah, Aria
name: Salamon, Noriko
name: Mathern, Gary
name: Akhtari, Massoud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Epileptogenic lesions have higher concentrations of sodium than does normal brain tissue. Such lesions are palpably recognized by a surgeon and then excised in order to eliminate epileptic seizures with their associated abnormal electrical behavior. Here we study the frequency-dependent electrical conductivities of lesion-laden tissues excised from the brains of epilepsy patients. The low-frequency (< 1000 Hz) conductivity of biological tissue primarily probes extracellular solvated sodium-cations traveling parallel to membranes within regions bounded by blockages. This conductivity rises monotonically toward saturation as the frequency surpasses the rate with which diffusing solvated sodium cations encounter blockages. We find that saturation occurs at dramatically higher frequencies in excised brain tissue containing epileptogenic lesions than it does in normal brain tissue. By contrast, such an effect is not reported for tumors embedded in other excised biological tissue. All told, epileptogenic lesions generate frequency-dependent conductivities that differ qualitatively from those of both normal brain tissues and tumors.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Unpacking clinical supervision in transitional and permanent supportive housing: scrutiny or support?
Creators: name: Choy-Brown, Mimi
name: Stanhope, Victoria
name: Tiderington, Emmy
name: Padgett, Deborah
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Mental health recovery
Qualitative
Supervision
Supportive housing

description: Behavioral health organizations use clinical supervision to ensure professional development and practice quality. This qualitative study examined 35 service coordinators' perspectives on supervision in two distinct supportive housing program types (permanent and transitional). Thematic analysis of in-depth interviews yielded three contrast themes: support versus scrutiny, planned versus impromptu time, and Housing First versus Treatment First. Supervisory content and format resulted in differential perceptions of supervision, thereby influencing opportunities for learning. These findings suggest that unpacking discrete elements of supervision enactment in usual care settings can inform implementation of recovery-oriented practice.
Fabrication du tambourin provençal : choix des motifs et sculpture dans la structure de l'instrument
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Interactive Model Cards: A Human-Centered Approach to Model Documentation
Creators: name: Crisan, Anamaria
name: Drouhard, Margaret
name: Vig, Jesse
name: Rajani, Nazneen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T01

description: Deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP) are increasingly adopted and deployed by analysts without formal training in NLP or machine learning (ML). However, the documentation intended to convey the model's details and appropriate use is tailored primarily to individuals with ML or NLP expertise. To address this gap, we conduct a design inquiry into interactive model cards, which augment traditionally static model cards with affordances for exploring model documentation and interacting with the models themselves. Our investigation consists of an initial conceptual study with experts in ML, NLP, and AI Ethics, followed by a separate evaluative study with non-expert analysts who use ML models in their work. Using a semi-structured interview format coupled with a think-aloud protocol, we collected feedback from a total of 30 participants who engaged with different versions of standard and interactive model cards. Through a thematic analysis of the collected data, we identified several conceptual dimensions that summarize the strengths and limitations of standard and interactive model cards, including: stakeholders; design; guidance; understandability & interpretability; sensemaking & skepticism; and trust & safety. Our findings demonstrate the importance of carefully considered design and interactivity for orienting and supporting non-expert analysts using deep learning models, along with a need for consideration of broader sociotechnical contexts and organizational dynamics. We have also identified design elements, such as language, visual cues, and warnings, among others, that support interactivity and make non-interactive content accessible. We summarize our findings as design guidelines and discuss their implications for a human-centered approach towards AI/ML documentation.
description: To appear at ACM FAccT'22
title:  L’efficacia dell’Occupational Health and Safety Risks Management Control System (OHS MCS) per la prevenzione dei reati ex art. 25-septies del D.Lgs. 231/2001
Creators: name: Demartini, Paola
name:  De Simone, Eleonora
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Il saggio si concentra sul  ruolo del Management Control System for Occupational Health and Safety Risk, sistema deputato alla tutela della salute e della sicurezza dei lavoratori importante per la prevenzione dei reati richiamati dall’art. 25-septies del D.Lgs. 231/2001.
description: Workers’ buyout Corporate Governance e sistemi di controllo
Codes for error correction in high speed memory systems
Creators: name: Srinivasan, Chitoor V.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1965

description: Part I. Correction of Cell Defects in Integrated Memories: This paper introduces two schemes to correct bit errors caused by defective memory cells in high speed, random access memory systems. The schemes are addressed to word-organized memories produced by the integrated technologies. One of the two schemes calls for encoding of input information, and the other does not. The schemes are simple, economical for the technologies concerned, and exhibit a regularity, which makes it possible to fabricate the necessary additional hardware within the same technology. Part II. Correction of Temporary and Catastrophic Errors: A few classes of codes, suitable for error correction in high-speed memory systems, are presented. The codes have relatively simple parallel decoding nets. The codes may be used both for the correction of temporary and catastrophic errors.
A hybrid model using MaLSTM based on recurrent neural networks with support vector machines for sentiment analysis
Creators: name: Srinidhi H
name: Siddesh GM
name: KG, Srinivasa
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Recurrent Neutral Networks (RNN)
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
Sentiment analysis
Support Vector Machines (SVM)
MaLSTM

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 47, 3, 232-240
Development and feasibility of a modified Fugl-Meyer lower extremity assessment for telerehabilitation: a pilot study
Creators: name: Peters, Sue
name: Botero, Marcela
name: Evers, Allison
name: Fong, Brianna
name: Jakab, Botond
name: Petter, Emily
name: Eng, Janice
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background The majority of stroke survivors experience motor impairment which benefits from rehabilitation treatment. Telerehabilitation, remote delivery of rehabilitation services, is a possible solution providing access to rehabilitation for stroke survivors living in rural areas or in situations like the COVID-19 pandemic where face-to-face treatment may be risky. However, valid and reliable motor impairment measures have not yet been established over a telerehabilitation platform. The Fugl-Meyer (FM) lower extremity assessment is widely used clinically and in research. Thus, the aim was to develop a modified FM for telerehabilitation (FM-tele) and assess the feasibility and preliminary agreement of FM-tele scores with the FM. Methods Three phases were employed: phase 1 development, phase 2 feasibility, and phase 3 preliminary agreement. Literature review and consultation with clinicians were employed to develop the FM-tele. Community-dwelling individuals with stroke and FM evaluators were consulted to provide feedback via questionnaires on the feasibility of the FM-tele. To assess the preliminary agreement of the FM-tele, individuals with stroke participated in two sessions, one in-person and one via telerehabilitation. The standard version of the FM was administered during the in-person session. The FM-tele was administered in both sessions. Results From phase 1, clinician consultation identified the following key principles: safety of the client, clear lower extremity visualization, and minimization of position changes which guided FM-tele development (n = 7). Feasibility was established in phase 2 where participants with stroke indicated that they felt safe and experienced ease following the standardized instructions, despite some technological concerns (n = 5). FM evaluators agreed that participants were safe and indicated effective standardized instructions. Phase 3 (n = 5) indicated preliminary agreement of the FM-tele compared with the FM. Conclusions Participants with stroke and clinical consultation indicated the FM-tele developed for telerehabilitation is feasible. A lower extremity motor assessment tool for telerehabilitation is urgently needed for stroke survivors living in rural areas or when face-to-face visits are impossible. This pilot study provides preliminary support for a future study.
Gender-based comparison of students' academic performance using regression models
Creators: name: Aderibigbe Israel Adekitan
name: Olamilekan Shobayo
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Teaching and learning strategies
Data mining algorithms
Educational data mining
Machine learning
Knowledge discovery
Performance evaluation methodologies

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 47, 3, 241-248
Gammarus lasaensis , Barnard & Dai 1988
Creators: name: Hou, Zhong-E
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Gammaridae
Gammarus
Gammarus lasaensis

description: Gammarus lasaensis, Barnard & Dai, 1988
 Gammarus lasaensis Barnard & Dai, 1988: 85-112, figs. 11-13.
 Material examined. – 21 males, 21 female and 2 juveniles, Lhasa, Tibet, China, collected by Mr. Yinheng Han (IZCAS), 21 May.1980.
 Diagnosis. – Gnathopods: propodus of gnathopods 1 and 2 with 2 and 3 median palmar spines, respectively. Epimeral plates: epimeral plates 2 and 3 with moderate tooth on posterodistal corners. Uropod 3: inner ramus reaching about 75% of article 1 of outer ramus, both inner and outer rami armed with plumose setae.
 Distribution. – Lhasa, Tibet, China.
description: Published as part of Hou, Zhong-E & Li, Shuqiang, 2004, Gammarus Species From Tibet Plateau, China (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridae), pp. 147-170 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244319
Biometric Signature Verification Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Creators: name: Tolosana, Ruben
name: Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben
name: Fierrez, Julian
name: Ortega-Garcia, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Architectures based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been successfully applied to many different tasks such as speech or handwriting recognition with state-of-the-art results. The main contribution of this work is to analyse the feasibility of RNNs for on-line signature verification in real practical scenarios. We have considered a system based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) with a Siamese architecture whose goal is to learn a similarity metric from pairs of signatures. For the experimental work, the BiosecurID database comprised of 400 users and 4 separated acquisition sessions are considered. Our proposed LSTM RNN system has outperformed the results of recent published works on the BiosecurID benchmark in figures ranging from 17.76% to 28.00% relative verification performance improvement for skilled forgeries.
VIZANTIYA IMPERIYASINING MAXFIY QUROLI: YUNON OLOVI VA ZAMONAVIY INTELLEKTUAL MULK
Creators: name: Ubaydullayev, Shoxruxbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada Vizantiya imperiyasining harbiy texnologiyalaridan biri – Yunon olovi misolida sirli ixtiro va uning strategik ahamiyati yoritiladi. Maqola Yunon olovining yaratilish tarixi, uning tarkibi va qo‘llanilishi, shuningdek, uni himoya qilish mexanizmlarini zamonaviy intellektual mulk huquqi, xususan tijorat siri va nohau (know-how) tushunchalari bilan bog‘laydi. Vizantiyaliklarning texnologiyani maxfiy saqlash strategiyasi hozirgi kompaniyalar tomonidan qo‘llanilayotgan yuridik mexanizmlar – maxfiylik shartnomalari, axborotga cheklangan kirish tizimi va jazolash siyosati bilan o‘xshash jihatlarga ega ekani tahlil qilinadi. Bu tarixiy yondashuv bugungi kunda intellektual mulkni boshqarishdagi muhim tamoyillar bilan bevosita bog‘liqligini ko‘rsatadi.
Prognostic Association between Common Laboratory Tests and Overall Survival in Elderly Men with De Novo Metastatic Castration Sensitive Prostate Cancer: A Population-Based Study in Canada
Creators: name: Wallis, Christopher J. D.
name: Shayegan, Bobby
name: Morgan, Scott C.
name: Hamilton, Robert J.
name: Cagiannos, Ilias
name: Basappa, Naveen S.
name: Ferrario, Cristiano
name: Gotto, Geoffrey T.
name: Fernandes, Ricardo
name: Roy, Soumyajit
name: Noonan, Krista
name: Niazi, Tamim
name: Hotte, Sebastien J.
name: Saad, Fred
name: Hew, Huong
name: Chan, Katherine F. Y.
name: Park-Wyllie, Laura
name: Malone, Shawn
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: De novo cases of metastatic prostate cancer (mCSPC) are associated with poorer prognosis. To assist in clinical decision-making, we aimed to determine the prognostic utility of commonly available laboratory-based markers with overall survival (OS). In a retrospective population-based study, a cohort of 3556 men aged ≥66 years diagnosed with de novo mCSPC between 2014 and 2019 was identified in Ontario (Canada) administrative database. OS was assessed by using the Kaplan–Meier method. Multivariate Cox regression analysis was performed to evaluate the association between laboratory markers and OS adjusting for patient and disease characteristics. Laboratory markers that were assessed include neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), albumin, hemoglobin, serum testosterone and PSA kinetics. Among the 3556 older men with de novo mCSPC, their median age was 77 years (IQR: 71–83). The median survival was 18 months (IQR: 10–31). In multivariate analysis, a statistically significant association with OS was observed with all the markers (NLR, PLR, albumin, hemoglobin, PSA decrease, reaching PSA nadir and a 50% PSA decline), except for testosterone levels. Our findings support the use of markers of systemic inflammation (NLR, PLR and albumin), hemoglobin and PSA metrics as prognostic indicators for OS in de novo mCSPC.
COMMUNICATION, MARKETING & STAKEHOLDERS ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY
Creators: name: Pittonet, Sara
name: Garavelli, Sara
name: Willems, Marieke
name: Muscella, Silvana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: RDA, Research Data Alliance, RDA Europe Communication Strategy, RDA Europe Stakeholder Engagement

description: Consistent and content-rich communication is strategic to showcasing the results and impact of the objectives and goals within RDA Europe 4.0. As the project involves considering global RDA guiding principles, this report ensures that the efforts in place, in the European plan, work in synergy with this overarching objective. All of the results that the project aims to attain require a thoroughly detailed dissemination plan for Europe, which calls for both physical and online engagement. This plan presents the activities to be put in place by the consortium during the 27 months of the project. This plan has been built on a series of communication and promotional campaigns for the main RDA Europe assets, primarily: RDA Outputs and recommendations, the financial support offered to Europeans through the cascading grant system, the evolution and delivery of the established and new National node Networks, the opportunities for individuals and the events and webinars organised
 within the project timeframe. Four (4) different communication and promotional campaigns are presented in this plan, listed below, with detailed timelines presenting the activities that will be put in place. These campaigns and timelines will be followed throughout the project lifetime to ensure that RDA Europe 4.0’s mission and vision is spread to the target audience through traditional, online and social communication and marketing activities, with the aim of ensuring proper engagement, uptake and visibility of RDA Europe
 4.0 results.
An Iterative Strategy for Learning Metrical Stress in Optimality Theory
Creators: name: Tesar, Bruce
Publisher: name: Cascadilla Press
Year: 1997
Subjects: Metrical stress
Accents and accentuation
Constraint demotion
Language Acquisition

description: One of the major challenges of language acquisition is the fact that the auditory signal received by a child can underdetermine the structural description of the utterance. This paper presents an approach to the problem via an idea borrowed from statistical learning theory, an approach that depends critically upon the optimizing structure of Optimality Theory. The learner starts with an initial hypothesized ranking of the constraints. It uses that ranking to make a best guess at the full structural description of an observed overt form. The learner then treats this full description as correct, and uses it to refine its ranking hypothesis. The full description and the ranking are alternately refined, each with respect to the other, in iterative fashion. Success is achieved when, despite starting from an incorrect hypothesis ranking, the learner is able to iteratively converge upon the correct ranking, and thus also assign the correct descriptions to observed overt forms. This paper presents some results of simulations applying this approach to an OT system for metrical stress grammars, including quantity sensitivity. The degree of success achieved by a simple implementation of this strategy, which is applicable to OT systems generally, is presented as evidence that the optimizing structure inherent in OT has an important role to play in an overall account of language learning.
Quality Assessment of the 20m SPOT DEM in Nigeria
Creators: name: Nwilo, Peter
name: Onyegbula, Johanson
name: Okolie, Chukwuma
name: Daramola, Olagoke
name: Abolaji, Oluwatimileyin
name: Arungwa, Ikenna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The 20m SPOT DEM (Digital Elevation Model) was acquired by the Office of the Surveyor-General of the Federation (OSGoF) in Nigeria for use in topographic mapping. A localized assessment of the DEM is needed to validate its stated accuracies as it is well known that the vertical accuracy of global DEMs varies in different landscape contexts. Hence, this study assessed the quality of the DEM in variable land cover types by comparing its heights against 780 Ground Control Points (GCPs) in Lagos State and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria. The pattern of distribution of the height differences was analysed using spatial autocorrelation analysis, including other accuracy metrics employed. In the general accuracy assessment, the DEM yielded root mean square errors of 2.33m in Lagos and 3.69m in the FCT. It was shown that heights over the bare lands were the most accurately represented on the DEM while heights over built-up areas are the least accurate at both locations. Despite this, the SPOT DEM accuracies in the varying land cover types surpassed its stated global accuracy. While the spatial distribution of low and high height differences in Lagos State showed clustering, the converse was the case in the FCT. Following this assessment, it is recommended that the country should extend the application scope of the DEM in order to exploit its utility to the maximum.
The HIX Galaxy Survey - How Hi eXtreme galaxies maintain their Hi reservoir
Creators: name: Lutz, Katharina A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Our sun is one of one hundred billion stars in the Milky Way and there are billions of galaxies like the Milky Way in the universe. One main objective of modern day astronomy is to understand how these galaxies form and evolve in an attempt to understand the origin of the universe. An important part of galaxy evolution is the formation of stars, for which galaxies need to contain gas. This thesis investigates how galaxies that contain more gas than expected acquire and maintain their gas reservoir.
Accessibility, Transportation Cost, and Regional Growth: A Case Study for Egypt
Creators: name: Elshahawany, Dina N.
name: Haddad, Eduardo A.
name: Lahr, Michael L.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Spatial computable general equilibrium (SCGE)
Transportation infrastructure
Economic growth
Accessibility
Development corridor
Interregional CGE model
Network analysis
Egypt

description: This paper focuses on a proposed development corridor in Egypt, a main component of which is a desert-based expansion of the current highway network. The main beneficial features of this proposed transport investment are travel time reductions and improved accessibility. We use a spatial computable general equilibrium (SCGE) model to estimate the economic impacts of changes in transportation costs from this new roadway. To effect this, we integrate the model with a stylized geo-coded transportation network to estimate the spatial distribution of changes in transportation costs. Ignoring the cost of the infrastructure itself, we employ a series of simulations to estimate the likely structural economic impacts that such a large investment in transportation could enable through a series of simulations. Results show the Corridor’s causes the economic tide to rise for the economies of all Egyptian governorates. Gains in efficiency are particularly strong for those regions that are presently most isolated, namely those located to the southern and western extremes of the country. This suggests that the project will lessen regional disparities across Egypt’s governorates. We therefore show that integrated SCGE models can be useful in estimating the potential economic benefits of transportation projects in developing nations like Egypt. Moreover, it is clear that interregional economic models can be vital in examining the varied spatial distribution of the benefits that derive from geographically targeted government spending.
The Evolving Landscape of Software Performance Engineering
Creators: name: Kudrjavets, Gunnar
name: Thomas, Jeff
name: Nagappan, Nachiappan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Satisfactory software performance is essential for the adoption and the success of a product. In organizations that follow traditional software development models (e.g., waterfall), Software Performance Engineering (SPE) involves time-consuming experimental modeling and performance testing outside the actual production environment. Such existing SPE methods, however, are not optimized for environments utilizing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) that result in high frequency and high volume of code changes. We present a summary of lessons learned and propose improvements to the SPE process in the context of CI/CD. Our findings are based on SPE work on products A and B conducted over 5 years at an online services company X. We find that (a) SPE has mainly become a post hoc activity based on data from the production environment, (b) successful application of SPE techniques require frequent re-evaluation of priorities, and (c) engineers working on SPE require a broader skill set than one traditionally possessed by engineers working on performance.
description: 2 pages. To be published in The International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering 2022 (EASE 2022), June 13-15, 2022, Gothenburg, Sweden
A computational comparison of the first nine members of a determinantal family of rootfinding methods
Creators: name: Kalantari, Bahman
name: Park, Seungyoung
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Polynomial zeros
Order of convergence

description: For each natural number m greater than one, and each natural number k less than or equal to m, there exists a rootfinding iteration function, B (k) m defined as the ratio of two determinants that depend on the first m − k derivatives of the given function. This infinite family is derived in [4] and its order of convergence is analyzed in [5]. In this paper we give a computational study of the first nine rootfinding methods. These include Newton, secant, and Halley methods. Our computational results with polynomials of degree up to 30 reveal that for small degree polynomials B (k−1) m is more efficient than B (k) m , but as the degree increases, B (k) m becomes more efficient than B (k−1) m . The most efficient of the nine methods is B (4) 4, having theoretical order of convergence equal to 1.927. Newton’s method which is often viewed as the method of choice is in fact the least efficient method.
Approximate Convex Decomposition for 3D Meshes with Collision-Aware Concavity and Tree Search
Creators: name: Wei, Xinyue
name: Liu, Minghua
name: Ling, Zhan
name: Su, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Approximate convex decomposition aims to decompose a 3D shape into a set of almost convex components, whose convex hulls can then be used to represent the input shape. It thus enables efficient geometry processing algorithms specifically designed for convex shapes and has been widely used in game engines, physics simulations, and animation. While prior works can capture the global structure of input shapes, they may fail to preserve fine-grained details (e.g., filling a toaster's slots), which are critical for retaining the functionality of objects in interactive environments. In this paper, we propose a novel method that addresses the limitations of existing approaches from three perspectives: (a) We introduce a novel collision-aware concavity metric that examines the distance between a shape and its convex hull from both the boundary and the interior. The proposed concavity preserves collision conditions and is more robust to detect various approximation errors. (b) We decompose shapes by directly cutting meshes with 3D planes. It ensures generated convex hulls are intersection-free and avoids voxelization errors. (c) Instead of using a one-step greedy strategy, we propose employing a multi-step tree search to determine the cutting planes, which leads to a globally better solution and avoids unnecessary cuttings. Through extensive evaluation on a large-scale articulated object dataset, we show that our method generates decompositions closer to the original shape with fewer components. It thus supports delicate and efficient object interaction in downstream applications. We will release our implementation to facilitate future research.
description: SIGGRAPH 2022 (journal track)
A longitudinal assessment of relationship characteristics that predict new parents’ relationship satisfaction
Creators: name: Estlein, Roi
name: Weber, Kirsten M.
name: Theiss, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Transition to parenthood
Marital Satisfaction
Uncertainty
Interdependence
Interference from partners
Relational uncertainty
Relationship satisfaction
Relational turbulence model

description: Drawing on the relational turbulence model, this study queries whether it is the amount of relational uncertainty and partner interference in a relationship, or the magnitude of an increase in these mechanisms over time, that accounts for decreased relationship satisfaction for new parents. To test these competing hypotheses, we conducted a longitudinal study of 78 couples in which both partners completed surveys about their relationship at four time points during the transition to parenthood. Multi-level modeling revealed that the amount and the increase of relational uncertainty and partner interference were negatively associated with relationship satisfaction when considered separately, but when evaluated in combination, the magnitude of an increase in these variables was the stronger predictor of relationship satisfaction.
Mood disorders in familial epilepsy: A test of shared etiology
Creators: name: Insel, Beverly  J.
name: Ottman, Ruth
name: Heiman, Gary A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Mood
Familial
Shared etiology
Epilepsy

description: Objective: Mood disorders are the most common comorbid conditions in epilepsy but the cause remains unclear. One possible explanation is a shared genetic susceptibility to epilepsy and mood disorders. We tested this hypothesis by evaluating lifetime prevalence of mood disorders in relatives with and without epilepsy in families containing multiple individuals with epilepsy, and comparing the findings with rates from a general population sample. Methods: The Composite International Diagnostic Interview was administered to 192 individuals from 60 families, including 110 participants with epilepsy of unknown cause (50 focal epilepsy [FE], 42 generalized epilepsy [GE], 6 FE and GE, 12 unclassifiable) and 82 relatives without epilepsy (RWOE). Odds ratios (ORs) for lifetime prevalence of mood disorders in participants with versus without epilepsy were computed through logistic regression, using generalized estimation equations to account for familial clustering. Standardized prevalence ratios (SPRs) were used to compare prevalence in family members with general population rates. Results: Compared with RWOE, ORs for mood disorders were significantly increased in participants with FE (OR = 2.4, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.1 - 5.2) but not in those with GE (OR = 1.0, 95% CI = 0.4 - 2.2). In addition, prevalence of mood disorders was increased in individuals with epilepsy who had ≥1 relative with FE. Compared with general population rates, mood disorders were significantly increased in individuals with FE but not in those with GE. Rates were also increased in RWOE, but not significantly so (SPR = 1.4, P = 0.14). Significance: These findings are consistent with the hypothesis of shared genetic susceptibility to epilepsy and mood disorders, but suggest (1) the effect may be restricted to FE, and (2) the shared genetic effect on risk of mood disorders and epilepsy may be restricted to individuals with epilepsy, that is, to those in whom the genetic risk for epilepsy is “penetrant.”
Putting Density Functional Theory to the Test in Machine-Learning-Accelerated Materials Discovery
Creators: name: Duan, Chenru
name: Liu, Fang
name: Nandy, Aditya
name: Kulik, Heather J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accelerated discovery with machine learning (ML) has begun to provide the advances in efficiency needed to overcome the combinatorial challenge of computational materials design. Nevertheless, ML-accelerated discovery both inherits the biases of training data derived from density functional theory (DFT) and leads to many attempted calculations that are doomed to fail. Many compelling functional materials and catalytic processes involve strained chemical bonds, open-shell radicals and diradicals, or metal-organic bonds to open-shell transition-metal centers. Although promising targets, these materials present unique challenges for electronic structure methods and combinatorial challenges for their discovery. In this Perspective, we describe the advances needed in accuracy, efficiency, and approach beyond what is typical in conventional DFT-based ML workflows. These challenges have begun to be addressed through ML models trained to predict the results of multiple methods or the differences between them, enabling quantitative sensitivity analysis. For DFT to be trusted for a given data point in a high-throughput screen, it must pass a series of tests. ML models that predict the likelihood of calculation success and detect the presence of strong correlation will enable rapid diagnoses and adaptation strategies. These "decision engines" represent the first steps toward autonomous workflows that avoid the need for expert determination of the robustness of DFT-based materials discoveries.
Preserving the electroacoustic music legacy: A case study of the SalMar Construction at the University of Illinois
Creators: name: Cuervo, Adriana P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Sound recordings--Conservation and restoration
Electronic composition
Music and technology
Electronic musical instruments
Martirano, Salvatore
Computer Music

description: In the summer of 2008 the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign acquired the papers of Salvatore Martirano (1927-1995), avant-garde composer, faculty member, and performer. This case study examines how the new electroacoustic compositional techniques present in Martirano's papers and his ground-breaking electronic music instrument, the Sal-Mar Construction, dramatically challenged the archivists to explore access and preservation practices for this unique cultural record. Context plays a key role in the preservation of electroacoustic compositions and instruments, considering that these tend to become ephemeral works of art once the composer ceases to maintain them in working order.
Glass-patternable notch-shaped microwave architecture for on-chip spin detection in biological samples
Creators: name: Oshimi, Keisuke
name: Nishimura, Yushi
name: Matsubara, Tsutomu
name: Tanaka, Masuaki
name: Shikoh, Eiji
name: Zhao, Li
name: Zou, Yajuan
name: Komatsu, Naoki
name: Ikado, Yuta
name: Takezawa, Yuka
name: Kage-Nakadai, Eriko
name: Izutsu, Yumi
name: Yoshizato, Katsutoshi
name: Morita, Saho
name: Tokunaga, Masato
name: Yukawa, Hiroshi
name: Baba, Yoshinobu
name: Teki, Yoshio
name: Fujiwara, Masazumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a notch-shaped coplanar microwave waveguide antenna on a glass plate designed for on-chip detection of optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) of fluorescent nanodiamonds (NDs). A lithographically patterned thin wire at the center of the notch area in the coplanar waveguide realizes a millimeter-scale ODMR detection area (1.5 x 2.0 mm^2) and gigahertz-broadband characteristics with low reflection (about 8%). The ODMR signal intensity in the detection area is quantitatively predictable by numerical simulation. Using this chip device, we demonstrate a uniform ODMR signal intensity over the detection area for cells, tissue, and worms. The present demonstration of a chip-based microwave architecture will enable scalable chip integration of ODMR-based quantum sensing technology into various bioassay platforms.