cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of narratives and popularity cues on signing online petitions in two advanced democracies
Creators: name: Porten-Cheé, Pablo
name: Kunst, Marlene
name: Vromen, Ariadne
name: Vaughan, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Online petitions have become a widespread vehicle for contemporary political participation. While research tends to focus on individual factors for potential petitioners that influence signing, less attention has been paid to the influence of the actual text of petitions. This paper uses data from an original web-based survey experiment in Australia and Germany to test the influence of content factors: narratives (i.e., stories based on individual experiences and emotions) and popularity cues (i.e., high numbers of signatures) across two issues: climate change and welfare policy. We find that narratives within petition texts involve readers through the mechanism of transportation and motivate them to sign petitions, as do popularity cues. The effects of narratives were found across both countries but tended to be stronger in Germany than in Australia. We argue that our novel framework can be used for future research on how the presentation of issues shape contemporary political participation.
Micro-Electromechanical Affinity Sensor for the Monitoring of Glucose in Bioprocess Media
Creators: name: Theuer, Lorenz
name: Lehmann, Micha
name: Junne, Stefan
name: Neubauer, Peter
name: Birkholz, Mario
Publisher: name: Basel : Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Affinity assay
subject: Bacterial culture media
subject: Bioprocess
subject: Concanavalin A
subject: Glucose monitoring
subject: Viscometer
subject: 570
subject: 540

description: An affinity-viscometry-based micro-sensor probe for continuous glucose monitoring was investigated with respect to its suitability for bioprocesses. The sensor operates with glucose and dextran competing as binding partner for concanavalin A, while the viscosity of the assay scales with glucose concentration. Changes in viscosity are determined with a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) in the measurement cavity of the sensor probe. The study aimed to elucidate the interactions between the assay and a typical phosphate buffered bacterial cultivation medium. It turned out that contact with the medium resulted in a significant long-lasting drift of the assay’s viscosity at zero glucose concentration. Adding glucose to the medium lowers the drift by a factor of eight. The cglc values measured off-line with the glucose sensor for monitoring of a bacterial cultivation were similar to the measurements with an enzymatic assay with a difference of less than ±0.15 g·L−1. We propose that lectin agglomeration, the electro-viscous effect, and constitutional changes of concanavalin A due to exchanges of the incorporated metal ions may account for the observed viscosity increase. The study has demonstrated the potential of the MEMS sensor to determine sensitive viscosity changes within very small sample volumes, which could be of interest for various biotechnological applications.
Thermally Driven Imbibition and Drainage Induced by Terraced Nanostructures
Creators: name: Colosqui, Carlos E.
name: Teng, Teng
name: Rahmani, Amir M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical analysis and fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations reveal a Brownian ratchet mechanism by which thermal fluctuations drive the net displacement of immiscible liquids confined in channels or pores with micro- or nanoscale dimensions. The thermally-driven displacement is induced by surface nanostructures with directional asymmetry and can occur against the direction of action of wetting or capillary forces. Mean displacement rates in molecular dynamics simulations are predicted via analytical solution of a Smoluchowski diffusion equation for the position probability density. The proposed physical mechanisms and derived analytical expressions can be applied to engineer surface nanostructures for controlling the dynamics of diverse wetting processes such as capillary filling, wicking, and imbibition in micro- or nanoscale systems.
The effect of cochlear implant and bimodal stimulation on tinnitus: a multinational survey
Creators: name: Quaranta, Nicola
name: Baguley, David
name: Fanizzi, Piero
name: Murri, Alessandra
name: Pontillo, Vito
name: Cutler, Jodie Michelle
name: Cavallaro, Giada
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Tinnitus is a frequent symptom in cochlear implant (CI) patients. Many studies have shown that a CI leads to a significant change in the perception of tinnitus. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of CI on tinnitus in patients with Unilateral Cochlear Implant (UCI), Bilateral Cochlear Implant (BCI), and Bimodal Stimulation (BMS). A survey was administered online to CI patients. The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) score was calculated. Emotional, functional, and catastrophic subscales scores were calculated. The intensity and annoyance of tinnitus were graded using a scale from 1 to 10. 130 participants represented the study group; the Average THI score was 38.3 (SD: 26.3) in UCI, 32.4 (SD 25.8) in BCI users, and 42.5 (SD 28.2) in BMS: no significant difference was found among the three groups. CI users for less than 1 year showed significantly higher THI scores compared to CI users for more than 5 years (p = .0275). The intensity and annoyance of tinnitus significantly decreased with the CI on compared to the CI off condition. Taken together, our findings support CI’s efficacy in reducing the perception of tinnitus. No significant differences were evident between unilateral and bilateral electrical stimulation in terms of tinnitus improvement.
Playground Soil Contamination with Heavy Metals and Associated Health Risks of Children in Schools Locatedin the Sunyani-East Municipality of Ghana
Creators: name: Doku, Emmanuel Tetteh
name: Adjei-Hinneh, George
name: Aning Justice
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2023
Subjects: Heavy metals
Children
Playgrounds
Health risks
Pollution

description: EnvironmentAsia, 16, 1, 73-86
Baryonic Matter Onset in Two-Color QCD with Heavy Quarks
Creators: name: Scior, Philipp
name: von Smekal, Lorenz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the cold and dense regime in the phase diagram of two-color QCD with heavy quarks within a three-dimensional effective theory for Polyakov loops. This theory is derived from two-color QCD in a combined strong-coupling and hopping expansion. In particular, we study the onset of diquark density as the finite-density transition of the bosonic baryons in the two-color world. In contrast to previous studies of heavy dense QCD, our zero-temperature extrapolations are consistent with a continuous transition without binding energy. They thus provide evidence that the effective theory for heavy quarks is capable of describing the characteristic differences between diquark condensation in two-color QCD and the liquid-gas transition of nuclear matter in QCD.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures
Reconfiguration Dynamics in folded and intrinsically disordered protein with internal friction: Effect of solvent quality and denaturant
Creators: name: Samanta, Nairhita
name: Chakrabarti, Rajarshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a phantom chain model of polymer with internal friction in a harmonic confinement and extend it to take care of effects of solvent quality following a mean field approach where an exponent $ν$ is introduced. The model termed as "Solvent Dependent Compacted Rouse with Internal Friction (SDCRIF)" is then used to calculate the reconfiguration time of a chain that relates to recent Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) studies on folded and intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and can account for the effects of solvent quality as well as the denaturant concentration on the reconfiguration dynamics. Following an ansatz that relates the strength of the harmonic confinement ($k_c$) with the internal friction of the chain ($ξ_{int}$), SDCRIF can convincingly reproduce the experimental data and explain how the denaturant can change the time scale for the internal friction. It can also predict near zero internal friction in case of IDPs. In addition, our calculations show that the looping time as well as the reconfiguration time scales with the chain length $N$ as $\sim N^α$, where $α$ depends weakly on the internal friction but has rather stronger dependence on the solvent quality. In absence of any internal friction, $α=2ν+1$ and it goes down in presence of internal friction, but looping slows down in general. On the contrary, poorer the solvent, faster the chain reconfigures and forms loop, even though one expects high internal friction in the collapsed state. However, if the internal friction is too high then the looping and reconfiguration dynamics become slow even in poor solvent.
Effects of Sodium Phytate on the Phytotoxicity and Arsenic (V) Absorption Performances of Water Hyacinth Grown in the Synthetic Wastewater as Acid Mine Drainage from Gold Mining
Creators: name: Wannipa Guayjarernpanishk
name: Pantawat Sampanpanish
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2023
Subjects: Arsenic
Copper
Sodium phytate
Water hyacinth
Acid mine drainage

description: EnvironmentAsia, 16, 1, 87-98
Evaluation Report of the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Program of Partners in Health in Haiti
Creators: name: Boigris, Anne-Christele
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The purposes of the research were to assess the trends in non-enrollment in treatment of female patients testing positive for HIV and to conduct an evaluation to understand why the patients testing positive choose not to enroll in the program. Various data sources were used in order to complete this evaluation. These include program and administrative reports, informal interviews with clinical and administrative staff, observation from the field, as well as a questionnaire for the women in the program created by the student. For the first objective, I will present the results and summary of the characteristics of the survey participants based on the data collected from the PMTCT program. For the second objective, I present the lessons learned during program implementation and management This report is divided into seven sections. The executive Summary is Section I. Following is Section II, the Introduction. Section III describes the PMTCT program and the overall scope of program. Section IV presents the methodology and the approach used to assess the program. Section V presents the findings. Section VI discusses the findings of the program. Finally, Section VII provides some recommendations to improve the program.
DUSP3 maintains genomic stability and cell proliferation by modulating NER pathway and cell cycle regulatory proteins
Creators: name: Russo, Lilian Cristina
name: Farias, Jessica Oliveira
name: Forti, Fabio Luis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The DUSP3 phosphatase regulates cell cycle, proliferation, apoptosis and senescence of different cell types, lately shown as a mediator of DNA repair processes. This work evaluated the impact of DUSP3 loss of function (lof) on DNA repair-proficient fibroblasts (MRC-5), NER-deficient cell lines (XPA and XPC) and translesion DNA synthesis (TLS)-deficient cells (XPV), after UV-radiation stress. The levels of DNA strand breaks, CPDs and 6-4-PPs have accumulated over time in all cells under DUSP3 lof, with a significant increase in NER-deficient lines. The inefficient repair of these lesions increased sub-G1 population of XPA and XPC cells 24 hours after UV treatment, notably marked by DUSP3 lof, which is associated with a reduced cell population in G1, S and G2/M phases. It was also detected an increase in S and G2/M populations of XPV and MRC-5 cells after UV-radiation exposure, which was slightly attenuated by DUSP3 lof due to a discrete increase in sub-G1 cells. The cell cycle progression was accompanied by changes in the levels of the main Cyclins (A1, B1, D1 or E1), CDKs (1, 2, 4 or 6), and the p21 Cip1 inhibitor, in a DUSP3-dependent manner. DUSP3 lof affected the proliferation of MRC-5 and XPA cells, with marked worsening of the XP phenotype after UV radiation. This work highlights the roles of DUSP3 in DNA repair fitness and in the fine control of regulatory proteins of cell cycle, essential mechanisms to maintenance of genomic stability.
Speed limit in internal space of domain walls via all-order effective action of moduli motion
Creators: name: Eto, Minoru
name: Hashimoto, Koji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that motion in internal moduli spaces of generic domain walls has an upper bound for its velocity. Our finding is based on our generic formula for all-order effective actions of internal moduli parameter of domain wall solitons. It is known that the Nambu-Goldstone mode $Z$ associated with spontaneous breaking of translation symmetry obeys a Nambu-Goto effective Lagrangian $\sqrt{1 - (\partial_0 Z)^2}$ detecting the speed of light ($|\partial_0 Z|=1$) in the target spacetime. Solitons can have internal moduli parameters as well, associated with a breaking of internal symmetries such as a phase rotation acting on a field. We obtain, for generic domain walls, an effective Lagrangian of the internal moduli $ε$ to all order in $(\partial ε)$. The Lagrangian is given by a function of the Nambu-Goto Lagrangian: $L = g(\sqrt{1 + (\partial_με)^2})$. This shows generically the existence of an upper bound on $\partial_0 ε$, i.e. a speed limit in the internal space. The speed limit exists even for solitons in some non-relativistic field theories, where we find that $ε$ is a type I Nambu-Goldstone mode which also obeys a nonlinear dispersion to reach the speed limit. This offers a possibility of detecting the speed limit in condensed matter experiments.
description: 5 pages + 20 pages, 6 figures
Hazard Analysis of Environmental Incidents in Coastal Areas: A Case Study in the Southeastern Coastal Region of Vietnam
Creators: name: Tan, Cuong Le
name: Van, Phuoc Nguyen
name: Hong, Quan Nguyen
name: Thu, Huyen Do Thi
name: Diem, Loan Tran Thi
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2023
Subjects: Group bestworst method
Multiple-criteria decision-making
Hazard
Environmental incidents
Coastal areas

description: EnvironmentAsia, 16, 1, 99-110
Inferring causal impact using Bayesian structural time-series models
Creators: name: Brodersen, Kay H.
name: Gallusser, Fabian
name: Koehler, Jim
name: Remy, Nicolas
name: Scott, Steven L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An important problem in econometrics and marketing is to infer the causal impact that a designed market intervention has exerted on an outcome metric over time. This paper proposes to infer causal impact on the basis of a diffusion-regression state-space model that predicts the counterfactual market response in a synthetic control that would have occurred had no intervention taken place. In contrast to classical difference-in-differences schemes, state-space models make it possible to (i) infer the temporal evolution of attributable impact, (ii) incorporate empirical priors on the parameters in a fully Bayesian treatment, and (iii) flexibly accommodate multiple sources of variation, including local trends, seasonality and the time-varying influence of contemporaneous covariates. Using a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for posterior inference, we illustrate the statistical properties of our approach on simulated data. We then demonstrate its practical utility by estimating the causal effect of an online advertising campaign on search-related site visits. We discuss the strengths and limitations of state-space models in enabling causal attribution in those settings where a randomised experiment is unavailable. The CausalImpact R package provides an implementation of our approach.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOAS788 in the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Design and analysis of 80-W wideband asymmetrical Doherty amplifier
Creators: name: Bathich, Khaled
name: Böck, Georg
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
subject: power amplifiers and linearizers
subject: circuit design and applications

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: This paper presents the analysis and design of a wideband asymmetrical Doherty amplifier. The frequency response of the output combining network of the Doherty amplifier with arbitrary back-off level configuration is analyzed. Other bandwidth-limiting factors were discussed and analyzed as well. A number of performance enhancement techniques were taken into consideration to obtain high and flat back-off efficiency over the amplifier design band of 1.7–2.25 GHz. The designed Doherty amplifier had, at 8.0–9.9 dB output back-off, a minimum efficiency of η = 50% [power-added efficiency of 45%], measured near 40 dBm of output power, and over 28% bandwidth. Using digital predistortion (DPD) linearization, an adjacent-channel leakage ratio (ACLR) of −43 dBc was obtained for a single-carrier W-CDMA signal, at 40.9 dBm and 46% of average output power and drain efficiency, respectively. The designed amplifier represents the first wideband Doherty amplifier reported over extended power back-off range.
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Particulate Matter (PM10) in Urban-Industrial Environment during Episodic Haze Events in Malaysia
Creators: name: Izzati Amani Mohd Jafri
name: Norazian Mohamed Noor
name: Rahim, Nur Alis Addiena A
name: Ul-Saufie, Ahmad Zia
name: Zulkarnain Hassan
name: Gy?Rgy Deak
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2023
Subjects: Air quality
Air quality modeling
Haze
Particulate Matter (PM10)
Pearson correlation

description: EnvironmentAsia, 16, 1, 111-125
DUSP3 maintains genomic stability and cell proliferation through modulation of the NER pathway and cell cycle regulatory proteins
Creators: name: Russo, Lilian Cristina
name: Farias, Jessica Oliveira
name: Forti, Fabio Luis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The DUSP3 phosphatase regulates cell cycle, proliferation, apoptosis and senescence of different cell types, lately shown as a mediator of DNA repair processes. This work evaluated the impact of DUSP3 loss of function (lof) on DNA repair-proficient fibroblasts (MRC-5), NER-deficient cell lines (XPA and XPC) and translesion DNA synthesis (TLS)-deficient cells (XPV), after UV-radiation stress. The levels of DNA strand breaks, CPDs and 6-4-PPs have accumulated over time in all cells under DUSP3 lof, with a significant increase in NER-deficient lines. The inefficient repair of these lesions increased sub-G1 population of XPA and XPC cells 24 hours after UV treatment, notably marked by DUSP3 lof, which is associated with a reduced cell population in G1, S and G2/M phases. It was also detected an increase in S and G2/M populations of XPV and MRC-5 cells after UV-radiation exposure, which was slightly attenuated by DUSP3 lof due to a discrete increase in sub-G1 cells. The cell cycle progression was accompanied by changes in the levels of the main Cyclins (A1, B1, D1 or E1), CDKs (1, 2, 4 or 6), and the p21 Cip1 inhibitor, in a DUSP3-dependent manner. DUSP3 lof affected the proliferation of MRC-5 and XPA cells, with marked worsening of the XP phenotype after UV radiation. This work highlights the roles of DUSP3 in DNA repair fitness and in the fine control of regulatory proteins of cell cycle, essential mechanisms to maintenance of genomic stability.
EFFECTIVENESS OF BALANCE TRAINING ON PAIN AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES IN KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS- A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Prabhakar, Ashish
name: R, Shruthi
name: Thomas, Dias
name: Nayak, Pradeepa
name: Joshua, Abraham
name: Prabhu, Srikanth
name: Kamat, Yogeesh
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: knee osteoarthritis, balance assessment, proprioception, exercise therapy, visual reality.

description: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a predominant musculoskeletal disorder that causes pain and increasing loss of function, resulting in reduced proprioceptive accuracy and balance. Therefore, the goal of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to evaluate the effectiveness of balancing training on pain and functional outcomes in people with knee OA.
Antecedents of need satisfaction in solitude during self-isolation
Creators: name: Weinstein, Netta
name: Nguyen, Thuy-vy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Solitude

description: Please see attached pre-registration document outlining background, recruitment approach, study hypotheses, summary of measures, and analytic strategy.
Learning and Planning Towards AI for Social Good
Creators: name: Shi, Zheyuan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: AI for Social Good (AI4SG) is a research theme that uses and advances AI to im?prove the well-being of society. We introduce three lines of work that center around learning and planning to address real-world challenges in cybersecurity, food waste and security, and environmental conservation. For cybersecurity, we provide a learning and planning pipeline for generic cyber deception and an algorithm to counter watering-hole attacks. In food waste and food security, we develop a pre?dictive model for the rescue claim status and an online learning and planning algo?rithm for volunteer engagement through push notifications. We also ran a random?ized controlled trial for our algorithm to show significant improvement in the real world. For environmental conservation, we develop a natural language processing?based media content monitoring system to provide early warning of infrastructure projects that might pose harm to conservation efforts. The system leverages ac?tive learning and learning with noisy labels algorithms to address challenges in applied learning and planning applications. The tool has been deployed in multi?ple places around the world, monitoring over 60,000 conservation sites worldwide since February 2022. Distilling lessons learned from these projects, we propose ban?dit data-driven optimization, the first iterative learning and planning framework to rigorously address the pain points in practical prediction-prescription workflows in lots of social good projects across application domains
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF EXPERIENCES OF INTERSECTIONALITY (RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND HISTORY) AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AMONG AFRO-BRAZILIAN WOMEN IN THE STATE OF BAHIA, BRAZIL
Creators: name: Fernandez, Jennifer Yvette (Eva)
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: My project explores the reproductive health manifestations of intersectionality among Afro-Brazilian women of childbearing age in Bahia, Brazil. Intersectionality, for the purposes of this analysis, includes race, class, gender, and history (RCGH) as mutually constitutive social identities. Preliminary findings indicate that the fundamental determinants of race, class, and gender influence access to the key resource of reproductive health services. This project draws from a qualitative study on the public health implications of intersectional oppression for African-descendant women in both Brazil and the United States. Jointly conducted by Professors Vijaya Hogan, Kia Caldwell, and Edna de Araújo, this qualitative study represents a partnership between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS). I thank these scholars and their respective institutions for allowing me to access their research.
Eotomaria Ulrich & Scofield 1897
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurotomariida
Eotomariidae
Eotomaria

description: Eotomaria Ulrich & Scofield, 1897 Australian Carboniferous species. Eotomaria umbilicata n.sp., from 'Marohn'. Remarks. Eotomaria resembles somewhat Mourlonia de Koninck (1883), but differs in that Mourlonia has a taller, more globular shell with minute umbilicus. Eotomaria was previously recorded as having the range from Ordovician to Silurian. If it is correctly placed, this record may extend to early Carboniferous.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
description: {"references": ["Koninck, L. G. de, 1883. Faune du calcaire Carbonifere de la Belgique. Gasteropodes. Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique Annales 8: 1 - 240."]}
Factors Influencing Safe Managed Decentralized Wastewater in Citarum Watershed
Creators: name: Hastuti, Elis
name: Joy, Benny
name: Unang Supratman
name: R Pamekas
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2023
Subjects: Domestic wastewater
Fecal sludge
Communal
Community
Principal component

description: EnvironmentAsia, 16, 1, 126-137
Parental listening outcomes in adolescents
Creators: name: Weinstein, Netta
name: Itzchakov, Guy
name: Huo, Andrew
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Pre-registration for experimental study to better understand parental listening following adolescent self-disclosures. Documents describe confirmatory hypotheses, methods and materials, and analytic approach.
Atomic and molecular complex resonances from real eigenvalues using standard (hermitian) electronic structure calculations
Creators: name: Landau, Arie
name: Haritan, Idan
name: Kaprálová-Žďánská, Petra Ruth
name: Moiseyev, Nimrod
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complex eigenvalues, resonances, play an important role in large variety of fields in physics and chemistry. For example, in cold molecular collision experiments and electron scattering experiments, autoionizing and pre-dissociative metastable resonances are generated. However, the computation of complex resonance eigenvalues is difficult, since it requires severe modifications of standard electronic structure codes and methods. Here we show how resonance eigenvalues, positions and widths, can be calculated using the standard, widely used, electronic-structure packages. Our method enables the calculations of the complex resonance eigenvalues by using analytical continuation procedures (such as Padé). The key point in our approach is the existence of narrow analytical passages from the real axis to the complex energy plane. In fact, the existence of these analytical passages relies on using finite basis sets. These passages become narrower as the basis set becomes more complete, whereas in the exact limit, these passages to the complex plane are closed. As illustrative numerical examples we calculated the autoionization resonances of helium, hydrogen anion and hydrogen molecule. We show that our results are in an excellent agreement with the results obtained by other theoretical methods and with available experimental results.
Successes and Challenges of the Ethiopian Health Extension Program from an Implementation Perspective
Creators: name: Woldekiros, Tekleab Mekbib
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Objectives: a) To use a logic model to identify gaps in the implementation of the Ethiopian Health Extension Program (HEP); b) To identify the implementation challenges and successes of the HEP; and c) To provide recommendations, which would strengthen the HEP. Methods: Documents from the Federal Ministry of Health (MOH), published evaluation materials and relevant reports were reviewed and synthesized. Challenges and successes of HEP were identified and fidelity to the interventions and packages delivered was examined. Results: The HEP improved access to services, and expanded coverage and utilization of reproductive health and immunization services. Challenges in infrastructure development, provision of equipment, drugs and supplies, working conditions, supervision, coaching, and technical support were observed. These barriers affect quality, utilization of services and program sustainability. Conclusion: Success of the HEP depended on having the desired inputs and the appropriate service delivery quality, but lack of resources and poor implementation led to poor utilization and low program reach and therefore affected outcomes. The most important contribution of the HEP is in the area of outreach services, which enabled the HEP to achieve better outcomes in prevention and control of communicable diseases such as TB, malaria and HIV. Implementation research is critical in determining the effectiveness of different health services packages to provide evidence for decision making.
Ethidium Bromide Waste Treatment with Activated Charcoal
Creators: name: Novania, Siska
name: Adhana Riyadani Putri Widagdo
name: Prihatiningrum, Dita Meilia
name: Shifa Fauziyah
name: Teguh Hari Sucipto
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ethidium bromide
Chemical waste
Activated charcoal
Waste treatment
Adsorption

description: EnvironmentAsia, 16, 1, 138-145
Experimental Investigation of Hot Alkaline Treatment on Strength Characteristics of Cantala Fiber Reinforced Composites and Microcrystalline Cellulose
Creators: name: Sakuri Sakuri
name: T. D. Susanto
name: Bambang Sugiantoro
name: M. Agus Shidiq
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2023
Subjects: Hot Alkali
Cantala Fiber
Microcrystalline Cellulose
Composite

description: EnvironmentAsia, 16, 1, 146-156
Automatically Annotating Decompiled Code with Meaningful Names and Types
Creators: name: Lacomis, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 80309
subject: Software Engineering

description: Software reverse engineering is the problem of understanding the behavior of a program without access to its source code. Since there is no source code, analysts must use the binary directly. A primary tool used by reverse engineers is the decompiler, which attempts to reverse the process of compilation. Although decompilers generate abstractions that improve code readability, the act of compilation irreversibly destroys information contained in the source code including comments, control flow abstractions, user-defined types, and identifier names, all of which are provably impossible to reconstruct. However, software is natural: programmers tend to write the same code to perform the same tasks. While it is technically impossible to generate the original code, it is possible to train a model to automatically generate more meaningful identifier names and types. Treating code augmentation as an instance of translation allows the application of tools and techniques originally developed for natural language translation to the problem of identifier renaming and retyping. The goal of the work presented in this thesis is to automatically augment the output of decompilers with more meaningful names and user-defined types under the hypothesis that this will decrease the cognitive burden of reasoning about their generated code. We hope that this will have several advantages: first, we believe that this will save reverse engineers valuable time that could be spent reasoning about the higher-level functionality of the code, second, we believe it will flatten the learning curve, allowing more novices to enter the field. My core thesis statement is: Exploiting structure inherent in code, together with its naturalness, enables the application of machine translation techniques to useful transformations of decompiled code. These techniques can be used to meaningfully rename and retype variables in decompiled code. To support this thesis I present two automated techniques for automatically renaming and retyping decompiled code. I demonstrate how these techniques are effective at making decompiled code more approachable through metrics developed as a proxy for human understanding and through a user study designed to measure the performance of the techniques in real-world applications.
The Double Ring Illusion - experiment 1
Creators: name: Bai, Dawei
name: Strickland, Brent
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: physics
subject: solidity
subject: visual illusion

description: One basic physical law of our world is “solidity”: objects do not run through each other. Is solidity embedded in the visual processing? More precisely, when viewing ambiguous motion displays, does our visual system automatically use solidity to compute motion?
Ameliorative and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Thuja occidentalis in Phenytoin-Induced Hepatic and Renal Dysfunctions in Male Albino Rats
Creators: name: El-Sayed, Abdel-Aziz A. A.
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2023
Subjects: Phenytoin
Thuja occidentalis
Hepatotoxicity
Nephrotoxicity
Cytokines

description: EnvironmentAsia, 16, 1, 157-168
Training Schrödinger's cat: quantum optimal control
Creators: name: Glaser, Stefffen J.
name: Boscain, Ugo
name: Calarco, Tommaso
name: Koch, Christiane P.
name: Köckenberger, Walter
name: Kosloff, Ronnie
name: Kuprov, Ilya
name: Luy, Burkard
name: Schirmer, Sophie
name: Schulte-Herbrüggen, Thomas
name: Sugny, D.
name: Wilhelm, Frank K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is control that turns scientific knowledge into useful technology: in physics and engineering it provides a systematic way for driving a system from a given initial state into a desired target state with minimized expenditure of energy and resources -- as famously applied in the Apollo programme. As one of the cornerstones for enabling quantum technologies, optimal quantum control keeps evolving and expanding into areas as diverse as quantum-enhanced sensing, manipulation of single spins, photons, or atoms, optical spectroscopy, photochemistry, magnetic resonance (spectroscopy as well as medical imaging), quantum information processing and quantum simulation. --- Here state-of-the-art quantum control techniques are reviewed and put into perspective by a consortium uniting expertise in optimal control theory and applications to spectroscopy, imaging, quantum dynamics of closed and open systems. We address key challenges and sketch a roadmap to future developments.
description: 31 pages; this is the starting point for a living document - we welcome feedback and discussion
Tail event probability for di erent distribution functions: A comparison
Creators: name: Moser, Caspar
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Maßtheorie
subject: Warscheinlichkeitstheorie
subject: Warscheinlichkeitsverteilung
subject: Tail Risiko
subject: Measure Theory
subject: Distribution Theory
subject: Probability Distribution
subject: Tail Event
subject: Tail Risk
subject: 519 Wahrscheinlichkeiten, angewandte Mathematik

description: Diese Arbeit hat zum Ziel die Warscheinlichkeit von Tail Events für verschiedene stetige Warscheinlichkeitsverteilungen zu untersuchen und zu vergleichen. Notwendige mathematische Grundlagen werden hergeleitet. Mit deren Hilfe werden die jeweiligen Warscheinlichkeiten berechnet. Wir berechnen, dass das Tail Risk von der uniformen Verteilung Null, das von Normalverteilung kleiner als ein Prozent ist und dass die der Laplace- und der Exponentialverteilung jeweils unter zwei Prozent liegen. Wir interpretieren die Ergebnisse.
description: Aim of this paper is to discuss and compare tail risk for a small variety of continuous distributions. Necessary mathematical foundations from measure theory and probability theory as well as the mathematic definition of tail events are introduced. With these at hand the probability of the tail events, the tail risk is calculated for each distribution function. We find that the tail risk of uniform distribution is zero, that the tail risk of a normal distributions is well below one percent and that the exponential distribution and the Laplace distribution both have tail risk below two percent. We evaluate our findings and contextualize them.
title: The Role of Explainability in Collaborative Human-AI Disinformation Detection
Creators: name: Schmitt, Vera
name: Villa-Arenas, Luis-Felipe
name: Feldhus, Nils
name: Meyer, Joachim
name: Spang, Robert P.
name: Möller, Sebastian
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: collaborative disinformation detection
subject: XAI
subject: transparent AI systems
subject: expert and lay people evaluation

description: Manual verification has become very challenging based on the increasing volume of information shared online and the role of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thus, AI systems are used to identify disinformation and deep fakes online. Previous research has shown that superior performance can be observed when combining AI and human expertise. Moreover, according to the EU AI Act, human oversight is inevitable when using AI systems in a domain where fundamental human rights, such as the right to free expression, might be affected. Thus, AI systems need to be transparent and offer sufficient explanations to be comprehensible. Much research has been done on integrating eXplainability (XAI) features to increase the transparency of AI systems; however, they lack human-centered evaluation. Additionally, the meaningfulness of explanations varies depending on users’ background knowledge and individual factors. Thus, this research implements a human-centered evaluation schema to evaluate different XAI features for the collaborative human-AI disinformation detection task. Hereby, objective and subjective evaluation dimensions, such as performance, perceived usefulness, understandability, and trust in the AI system, are used to evaluate different XAI features. A user study was conducted with an overall total of 433 participants, whereas 406 crowdworkers and 27 journalists participated as experts in detecting disinformation. The results show that free-text explanations contribute to improving non-expert performance but do not influence the performance of experts. The XAI features increase the perceived usefulness, understandability, and trust in the AI system, but they can also lead crowdworkers to blindly trust the AI system when its predictions are wrong.
Unmasking Government Competence: Study 2, Endpoint and Primacy Biases
Creators: name: Matthews, Scott
name: Hart, Austin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: American Politics
subject: Comparative Politics
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We study how participants respond to a stream of information regarding the performance of a hypothetical factory worker. Our design incorporates experimental manipulations that vary the order in which periodic performance information is presented.
Mixed model and estimating equation approaches for zero inflation in clustered binary response data with application to a dating violence study
Creators: name: Fulton, Kara A.
name: Liu, Danping
name: Haynie, Denise L.
name: Albert, Paul S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The NEXT Generation Health study investigates the dating violence of adolescents using a survey questionnaire. Each student is asked to affirm or deny multiple instances of violence in his/her dating relationship. There is, however, evidence suggesting that students not in a relationship responded to the survey, resulting in excessive zeros in the responses. This paper proposes likelihood-based and estimating equation approaches to analyze the zero-inflated clustered binary response data. We adopt a mixed model method to account for the cluster effect, and the model parameters are estimated using a maximum-likelihood (ML) approach that requires a Gaussian-Hermite quadrature (GHQ) approximation for implementation. Since an incorrect assumption on the random effects distribution may bias the results, we construct generalized estimating equations (GEE) that do not require the correct specification of within-cluster correlation. In a series of simulation studies, we examine the performance of ML and GEE methods in terms of their bias, efficiency and robustness. We illustrate the importance of properly accounting for this zero inflation by reanalyzing the NEXT data where this issue has previously been ignored.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOAS791 in the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: Elucidating the permeation mechanisms of the TRPV and TRPM ion channels using in silico electrophysiology
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Ives, Callum Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Dundee
Year: 2023

description: Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels are a super family of ion channels that have been implicated in the aetiology of a number of medical conditions. TRP channels conduct cations, and most members of this superfamily are described as being non-selective between cation types. However, a number of channels in the TRPV and TRPM subfamilies exhibit remarkable selectivity for Ca2+ or monovalent ions, respectively. In this thesis, the atomistic mechanisms underpinning selective cation permeation in the TRPV and TRPM subfamilies were investigated using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations.

Specifically, it was found that the mechanism of Ca2+-selectivity in the TRPV5 and TRPV6 channels is underpinned by a three site knock-on mechanism between adjacent ion binding sites; each of which possesses greater affinity for Ca2+ binding over Na+.

Moreover, it was established that the mechanism of monovalent-selective permeation mechanism in the TRPM5 channel is based upon a two site knock-on mechanism for monovalent cations. By contrast, one of the two cation binding sites is abolished for Ca2+ within the TRPM5 pore cavity, which explains the channel's impermeability to Ca2+ ions.

Finally, a systematic comparison was conducted between the two main methodologies used to create bio-mimetic, transmembrane voltages in atomistic molecular dynamics simulations on the basis of the TRPV3 channel. These comparisons formed an effort to identify any differences that should be taken into account when designing in silico electrophysiology experiments.

Overall, the research presented in this thesis substantially advances the understanding of the selective permeation mechanisms within two classes of ion channels of significant pharmaceutical interest.
Factors Related to Club Cell Protein 16 (CC16) and Quality of Life in Northern Thailand
Creators: name: Sawitree Nangola
name: Sakesun Thongtip
name: Somphot Saoin
name: Chiraphat Kloypan
name: Sittichai Pimonsree
name: Kraichat Tantrakarnapa
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2023
Subjects: Club cell protein16 (CC16)
Air pollution
PM10
PM2.5
Quality of life (QoL)

description: EnvironmentAsia, 16, 1, 169-183
Modal crash types for intermittent computing
Creators: name: Derakhshan, Farzaneh
name: Dotzel, Myra
name: Surbatovich, Milijana
name: Jia, Limin
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 80308
subject: Programming Languages

description: Intermittent computing is gaining traction in a number of application domains, e.g., Energy Harvesting Devices (EHDs) that experience arbitrary power failures during program execution. To make progress, programs require system support to checkpoint state and re-execute after power failure by restoring the last saved state. This re-execution should be ``correct/consistent", i.e., simulated by a continuously-powered execution. We study the logical underpinning of intermittent computing and model checkpoint, crash, restore, and re-execution operations as computation on Crash types. We draw inspiration from adjoint logic and define Crash types by introducing two adjoint modality operators to model persistent and transient memory values of partial (re-)executions and the transitions between them caused by checkpoints and restoration. We define a Crash type system for a core calculus. We prove the correctness of intermittent systems by defining a novel logical relation for Crash types.