cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Barriers and drivers to service delivery in global mental health projects
Creators: name: Qureshi, Onaiza
name: Endale, Tarik
name: Ryan, Grace
name: Miguel-Esponda, Georgina
name: Iyer, Srividya N.
name: Eaton, Julian
name: De Silva, Mary
name: Murphy, Jill K.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Research in global mental health (GMH) has previously documented how contextual factors like political instability, poverty and poorly-funded health infrastructure continue to compromise effective and equitable mental health service delivery. There is a need to develop more feasible and evidence-based solutions through implementation research. This paper, one in a series pertaining to implementation in GMH projects worldwide, focuses on implementation factors influencing mental health service delivery. Methods: This is a qualitative study carried out as part of a Theory of Change-driven evaluation of Grand Challenges Canada’s (GCC’s) Global Mental Health portfolio. Purposive sampling was used to recruit twenty-nine GCC grantees for interviews. A semi-structured interview schedule was used to guide the interviews which were recorded and subsequently transcribed. Transcripts were double-coded and analyzed in NVivo 11 using framework analysis. This paper reports results related to detection and treatment of mental illness, mental health promotion and prevention of mental illness. Results: Key barriers included: lack of appropriate human resources and expertise for service delivery; lack of culturally appropriate screening tools and interventions; and difficulties integrating services with the existing mental health system. Formative research was a key driver facilitating the cultural adaptation of mental health detection, treatment, promotion and preventative approaches. Recruiting local providers and utilizing mHealth for improving screening, monitoring and data management were also found to be successful approaches in reducing workforce burden, improving sustainability, mental health literacy, participant engagement and uptake. Conclusions: The study identifies a number of key barriers to and drivers of successful service delivery from the perspective of grantees implementing GMH projects. Findings highlight several opportunities to mitigate common challenges, providing recommendations for strengthening systems- and project-level approaches for delivering mental health services. Further, more inclusive research is required to inform guidance around service delivery for successful implementation, better utilization of funding and improving mental health outcomes among vulnerable populations in low-resource settings.
Deep Iterative Phase Retrieval for Ptychography
Creators: name: Welker, Simon
name: Peer, Tal
name: Chapman, Henry N.
name: Gerkmann, Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the most prominent challenges in the field of diffractive imaging is the phase retrieval (PR) problem: In order to reconstruct an object from its diffraction pattern, the inverse Fourier transform must be computed. This is only possible given the full complex-valued diffraction data, i.e. magnitude and phase. However, in diffractive imaging, generally only magnitudes can be directly measured while the phase needs to be estimated. In this work we specifically consider ptychography, a sub-field of diffractive imaging, where objects are reconstructed from multiple overlapping diffraction images. We propose an augmentation of existing iterative phase retrieval algorithms with a neural network designed for refining the result of each iteration. For this purpose we adapt and extend a recently proposed architecture from the speech processing field. Evaluation results show the proposed approach delivers improved convergence rates in terms of both iteration count and algorithm runtime.
description: \copyright{} 2022 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works
Rhysida longipes subsp. afghanistana Loksa 1971
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae
Rhysida
Rhysida longipes
Rhysida longipes afghanistana loksa, 1971

description: 8. Rhysida longipes afghanistana Loksa, 1971
Type locality: in einer unbenannten Höhle bei Qual'éh- Malik, neben Barinah (Sorkhab) (Loksa 1971).
Fig. 8.
 Rhysida longipes afghanistana Loksa 1971: 105.
 Rhysida longipes afghanistana – Lewis 2002: 88.
 Previous records. Nangarhar province: [Nan5] (Loksa 1971).
 Habitat records. Cave (Loksa 1971).
 Distribution. Afghanistan.
 Remarks. Material is in SMF. Known from the type locality only.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 15, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
Charakteristik, Potenzial und Kosten regelbarer Lasten in der energieintensiven Industrie
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: Wie hoch ist das Flexibilitätspotenzial regelbarer Lasten? Ein vom Umweltbundesamt initiiertes Forschungsprojekt hat zu dieser Frage umfangreiche Informationen aus neun energieintensiven Branchen der deutschen Industrie zusammengetragen. Die Studie basiert auf einer detaillierten Bottom-up-Analyse mit umfangreichen Unternehmensbefragungen. Neben den ausführlichen Darstellungen der Prozessbeschreibungen und der Einflussfaktoren für die einzelnen Branchen liegen als zentrale Ergebnisse detaillierte qualitative und quantitative Informationen über das Flexibilitätspotenzial für die Vermarktung in unterschiedlichen Stufen des Strommarktes vor. Im Ergebnis wird deutlich, dass das Lastmanagement eine bedeutende Rolle innerhalb des Strommarktes einnehmen kann.Quelle: http://www.et-energie-online.de
Scolopendra Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae
Scolopendra

description: Genus Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758
 Type species: Scolopendra morsitans Linnaeus, 1758 (Schileyko et al. 2020).
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 16, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
title: Assessing Stakeholders Perceptions on Private Tuition in Zanzibar
Creators: name: Khamis, Mshauri Abdulla
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Perceptions
subject: Education
subject: Stakeholders
subject: Zanzibar
subject: Private Tuition
subject: Advantages
subject: Disadvantages
subject: Access
subject: Ministry of Education and Vocational Training
subject: Accessibility
subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Education Economics

description: This study investigated the perceptions of key education stakeholders on the issue of private tuition in Zanzibar. The key stakeholders invited to participate in this study were parents, head teachers, Advanced School Students (ASSs) and Senior Education Officer from the Ministerial level. The study sought their perceptions on factors that influence the growth of and access to private tuition, its advantages and disadvantages. The purpose of this chapter is to present a general overview of the study. The chapter has seven sections: the motivation and rationale for conducting this study; the context of the study including my personal working experience with the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) Zanzibar; the research aims, objectives and research questions; significance of the study; methodological framework; the organization of the research study; and summary of the main issues articulated in this chapter.
Magnetism on the stretched diamond lattice in lanthanide orthotantalates
Creators: name: Kelly, Nicola D.
name: Yuan, Lei
name: Pearson, Rosalyn L.
name: Suard, Emmanuelle
name: Orench, Inés Puente
name: Dutton, Siân E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic Ln$^{3+}$ ions in the fergusonite and scheelite crystal structures form a distorted or stretched diamond lattice which is predicted to host exotic magnetic ground states. In this study, polycrystalline samples of the fergusonite orthotantalates $M$-LnTaO$_4$ (Ln = Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er) are synthesized and then characterized using powder diffraction and bulk magnetometry and heat capacity. TbTaO$_4$ orders antiferromagnetically at 2.25 K into a commensurate magnetic cell with $\vec{k}=0$, magnetic space group 14.77 ($P2_1$$'/c$) and Tb moments parallel to the $a$-axis. No magnetic order was observed in the other materials studied, leaving open the possibility of exotic magnetic states at $T<2$ K.
Donor–Recipient Story in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Creators: name: Kum, Elena
name: Jagelaviciute, Gabriele
name: Li, Edward
name: Williams, Kenneth
name: Thyagu, Santhosh
name: Fingrut, Warren
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Patients with a variety of blood, immune, and metabolic disorders may require an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant as part of their treatment. However, over 70% of these patients do not have a matched sibling donor and require an alternative donor, such as a matched unrelated donor. We present a multi-part story of a Canadian stem cell recipient who underwent transplantation for treatment of refractory chronic myelogenous leukemia, and the matched unrelated donor who saved his life. The story segments feature excerpts from interviews with the donor and the recipient, along with representative images of both storytellers. The excerpts were optimized for publication on social media and were arranged to build a story arc that parallels the journey of the donor and recipient together. This donor-recipient story may serve as a resource to help raise awareness about stem cell donation and to encourage eligible individuals to register as donors. The story is one of several developed by Why We Swab, a library of stories in stem cell donation in Canada (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram; @WhyWeSwab) to support the recruitment of committed unrelated donors.
Lithobius (Ezembius) paghmanensis Eason 1986
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Lithobiomorpha
Lithobiidae
Lithobius
Lithobius paghmanensis

description: 13. Lithobius (Ezembius) paghmanensis Eason, 1986
Type locality: Paghman v. Kabul (Eason 1986b).
Fig. 12.
 Lithobius (Ezembius) paghmanensis Eason 1986b: 54.
 Previous records. Kabul province: [Kab10] (Eason 1986b).
 Habitat records. Absent.
 Distribution. Afghanistan.
 Remarks. Material is in ZMUC. Known from the type locality only.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 19, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
Integrating Statistical Uncertainty into Neural Network-Based Speech Enhancement
Creators: name: Fang, Huajian
name: Peer, Tal
name: Wermter, Stefan
name: Gerkmann, Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Speech enhancement in the time-frequency domain is often performed by estimating a multiplicative mask to extract clean speech. However, most neural network-based methods perform point estimation, i.e., their output consists of a single mask. In this paper, we study the benefits of modeling uncertainty in neural network-based speech enhancement. For this, our neural network is trained to map a noisy spectrogram to the Wiener filter and its associated variance, which quantifies uncertainty, based on the maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference of spectral coefficients. By estimating the distribution instead of the point estimate, one can model the uncertainty associated with each estimate. We further propose to use the estimated Wiener filter and its uncertainty to build an approximate MAP (A-MAP) estimator of spectral magnitudes, which in turn is combined with the MAP inference of spectral coefficients to form a hybrid loss function to jointly reinforce the estimation. Experimental results on different datasets show that the proposed method can not only capture the uncertainty associated with the estimated filters, but also yield a higher enhancement performance over comparable models that do not take uncertainty into account.
description: \copyright 2022 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works
Lithobius (Ezembius) pappi Eason 1986
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Lithobiomorpha
Lithobiidae
Lithobius
Lithobius pappi

description: 14. Lithobius (Ezembius) pappi Eason, 1986
Type locality: Prov. Kabul: Kotal-e Khair-khana, 8 km NW from Kabul (Eason 1986b).
Fig. 12.
 Lithobius (Ezembius) pappi Eason 1986b: 55.
 Previous records. Kabul province: [Kab11] (Eason 1986b).
 Habitat records. Overgrazed stony area with sparse vegetation on 2100 m (Eason 1986b).
 Distribution. Afghanistan.
 Remarks. Material is in HNHM. Known from the type locality only.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 19, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
МЕТОБОЛИЧЕСКИЙ СИНДРОМ  У ЖЕНЩИН РЕПРОДУКТИВНОГО ВОЗРАСТА
Creators: name: Фозилова, Сарвиноз
name: Бекчанова, Махфуза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Метоболический синдром – это комплекс рачличных метаболических нарушений. МС у женщин репродуктивного возраста часто является причиной причной бесплодия и потерь беремености. Патогенез МС. Диагностика МС. Лечение МС у женщин репродуктивного возраста.
Map++: Towards User-Participatory Visual SLAM Systems with Efficient Map Expansion and Sharing
Creators: name: Zhang, Xinran
name: Zhu, Hanqi
name: Duan, Yifan
name: Zhang, Wuyang
name: Shangguan, Longfei
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Ji, Jianmin
name: Zhang, Yanyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Constructing precise 3D maps is crucial for the development of future map-based systems such as self-driving and navigation. However, generating these maps in complex environments, such as multi-level parking garages or shopping malls, remains a formidable challenge. In this paper, we introduce a participatory sensing approach that delegates map-building tasks to map users, thereby enabling cost-effective and continuous data collection. The proposed method harnesses the collective efforts of users, facilitating the expansion and ongoing update of the maps as the environment evolves.
 We realized this approach by developing Map++, an efficient system that functions as a plug-and-play extension, supporting participatory map-building based on existing SLAM algorithms. Map++ addresses a plethora of scalability issues in this participatory map-building system by proposing a set of lightweight, application-layer protocols. We evaluated Map++ in four representative settings: an indoor garage, an outdoor plaza, a public SLAM benchmark, and a simulated environment. The results demonstrate that Map++ can reduce traffic volume by approximately 46% with negligible degradation in mapping accuracy, i.e., less than 0.03m compared to the baseline system. It can support approximately $2 \times$ as many concurrent users as the baseline under the same network bandwidth. Additionally, for users who travel on already-mapped trajectories, they can directly utilize the existing maps for localization and save 47% of the CPU usage.
description: 15 pages, 15 figures. Accepted by MobiCom 2024
Gravitational-wave echoes from numerical-relativity waveforms via space-time construction near merging compact objects
Creators: name: Ma, Sizheng
name: Wang, Qingwen
name: Deppe, Nils
name: Hébert, François
name: Kidder, Lawrence E.
name: Moxon, Jordan
name: Throwe, William
name: Vu, Nils L.
name: Scheel, Mark A.
name: Chen, Yanbei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new approach toward reconstructing the late-time near-horizon geometry of merging binary black holes, and toward computing gravitational-wave echoes from exotic compact objects. A binary black-hole merger spacetime can be divided by a time-like hypersurface into a Black-Hole Perturbation (BHP) region, in which the space-time geometry can be approximated by homogeneous linear perturbations of the final Kerr black hole, and a nonlinear region. At late times, the boundary between the two regions is an infalling shell. The BHP region contains late-time gravitational-waves emitted toward the future horizon, as well as those emitted toward future null infinity. In this region, by imposing no-ingoing wave conditions at past null infinity, and matching out-going waves at future null infinity with waveforms computed from numerical relativity, we can obtain waves that travel toward the future horizon. In particular, the Newman-Penrose $ψ_0$ associated with the in-going wave on the horizon is related to tidal deformations measured by fiducial observers floating above the horizon. We further determine the boundary of the BHP region on the future horizon by imposing that $ψ_0$ inside the BHP region can be faithfully represented by quasi-normal modes. Using a physically-motivated way to impose boundary conditions near the horizon, and applying the so-called Boltzmann reflectivity, we compute the quasi-normal modes of non-rotating ECOs, as well as gravitational-wave echoes. We also investigate the detectability of these echoes in current and future detectors, and prospects for parameter estimation.
Thereuonema Verhoeff 1904
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scutigeromorpha
Scutigeridae
Thereuonema

description: Genus Thereuonema Verhoeff, 1904
 Type species: Cermatia tuberculata Wood, 1862 (by subsequent designation) (Bonato et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 20, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337
Electronic properties of twisted multilayer graphene
Creators: name: Nguyen, V. Hung
name: Hoang, Trinh X.
name: Charlier, J. -C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Twisted bilayer graphene displays many fascinating properties that can be tuned by varying the relative angle (also called twist angle) between its monolayers. As a remarkable feature, both the electronic flat bands and the corresponding strong electron localization have been obtained at a specific "magic" angle ($\sim 1.1^{\circ}$), leading to the observation of several strongly correlated electronic phenomena. Such a discovery has hence inspired the creation of a novel research field called twistronics, i.e., aiming to explore novel physical properties in vertically stacked 2D structures when tuning the twist angle between the related layers. In this paper, a comprehensive and systematic study related to the electronic properties of twisted multilayer graphene (TMG) is presented based on atomistic calculations. The dependence of both the global and the local electronic quantities on the twist angle and on the stacking configuration are analyzed, fully taking into account atomic reconstruction effects. Consequently, the correlation between structural and electronic properties are clarified, thereby highlighting the shared characteristics and differences between various TMG systems as well as providing a comprehensive and essential overview. On the basis of these investigations, possibilities to tune the electronic properties are discussed, allowing for further developments in the field of twistronics.
description: 34 pages, 17 figures, submitted
pySeqRNA: an automated Python package for RNA sequencing data analysis
Creators: name: Duhan, Naveen
name: Kaundal, Rakesh
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: With the advent of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies, numerous data is being generated every day, however, analysis remains a big hurdle to efficiently use the technology as this data requires complex multi-step processing and demands computational expertise from the user. A large number of algorithms, statistical methods, and software tools have been developed in recent years to perform the individual analysis steps of various NGS applications. Some NGS applications data analysis procedures are therefore very complex, requiring several program tools for their various processing steps. As a result, there is a strong need for scalable computing environments that link the individual software components to automated workflows to efficiently and reproducibly conduct complex genome-wide analyses. The Python programming language currently only has inadequate general-purpose NGS workflow solutions. Therefore, for theoretical and analytical scientists who use Python for NGS data processing, a workflow system for federating NGS applications from within Python would have many benefits. To conquer this limitation, we have developed a Python package (pySeqRNA) which is capable of running the NGS data analysis from start to finish reproducibly and efficiently. This package provides a uniform workflow interface and support for running python, and stand-alone tool on the High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) as well as on local computers. This is a flexible pipeline that can handle complex experiments and samples, and whether a reference genome is available or not. It is an extensible environment written in Python for performing end-to-end analysis with automated report generation for various NGS applications like RNA-Seq, VAR-Seq, ChiP-Seq, Single Cell RNA-Seq, dual RNA-Seq, etc. To simplify the analysis of these applications, the package provides pre-configured analysis and report templates. More analysis templates will be added in the coming future. pySeqRNA workflow consists of quality check and pre-processing of raw sequence reads, accurate mapping of millions of short sequencing reads to a reference genome including the identification of splicing events, quantifying expression levels of genes, transcripts, and exons in three ways: (i) Uniquely mapped reads, (ii) Multi-mapped reads to the same gene, and (iii) Multi-mapped groups, and Differential analysis of gene expression among different biological conditions, biological interpretation of differentially expressed genes, including functional enrichment analysis. This package accelerates the retrieval of reproducible results from NGS experiments. By integrating several command-line tools and custom Python scripts, it allows an effective use of existing software and tools with newly written scripts in Python without restricting users to a collection of pre-defined methods and environments. pySeqRNA is freely available at http://bioinfo.usu.edu/pySeqRNA/.
Hellinsia kaweri Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kovtunovich, Vasiliy N.
name: Ustjuzhanin, Petr.
name: Streltzov, Alexander N.
name: Ustjuzhanina, Anna K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Hellinsia
Hellinsia kaweri

description: Hellinsia kaweri Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin sp. nov.
http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3B230EF2-D00B-4EC3-9F80-5F20A31F708E
(Figs. 1-2)
 Type material: Holotype male, (ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1981) Uganda, Mubende District, Kaweri Coffee Plantation, 19-29.X.2015, Sz. Safian & Gy. Ludanyi leg.
 External characters. Head, thorax and tegulae with clinging yellow scales. Labial palpi brown, straight, twice shorter than longitudinal eye diameter. Antennae light-brown. Scapus thickened. Wingspan 16,5 mm. Fore wings light-yellow. Small transverse brown spot of scales in front of cleft. Small elongated brown spot on first lobe distally along inner edge. Also, similar but a little longer spot on second lobe distally. All five lobes on all wings apically ending with small brown spots. Hind wings of the same color as fore wings.
 Male genitalia. Valves asymmetric. Saccular process on left valve long, almost reaching top of valve, arched, apically acute. Uncus narrow, relatively long. Saccus arched. Anellus arms wide, apically slightly extended. Aedeagus wavy, almost twice shorter than valve, with cluster of tiny cornuti.
 Female unknown.
 Diagnosis. The new species is close to Hellinsia punctata Gielis, 2009 (Gielis 2009:251), from which it differs in the long saccular process on the left valve, absence of the saccular process on the right valve, wide anellus arms and the wavy aedeagus, while in H. punctata, the saccular process on the left valve is short, almost reaching the middle of valve in length, there is a process on the right valve, the aedeagus is not wavy but only curved basally and distally.
 Distribution: Uganda.
 Flight period: October.
 Etymology. Toponymic name.
description: Published as part of Kovtunovich, Vasiliy N., Ustjuzhanin, Petr., Streltzov, Alexander N. & Ustjuzhanina, Anna K., 2022, New data on the Pterophoridae fauna (Lepidoptera) of Uganda with description of a new species, pp. 52-55 in Ecologica Montenegrina 50 on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.50.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13240397
Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). III. Morphology of the Planetary Radius Valley as a Function of Stellar Age and Metallicity in the Galactic Context Revealed by the LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler Sample
Creators: name: Chen, Di-Chang
name: Xie, Ji Wei
name: Zhou, Ji-Lin.
name: Yang, Jia-Yi
name: Dong, Subo
name: Zhu, Zi
name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Liu, Chao
name: Zong, Weikai
name: Luo, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radius valley, a dip in the radius distribution of exoplanets at ~1.9 Earth radii separates compact rocky Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes with lower density. Various hypotheses have been put forward to explain the radius valley. Characterizing the radius valley morphology and its correlation to stellar properties will provide crucial observation constraints on its origin mechanism and deepen the understanding of planet formation and evolution. In this paper, the third part of the Planets Across the Space and Time (PAST) series, using the LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler catalog, we perform a systematical investigation into how the radius valley morphology varies in the Galactic context, i.e., thin/thick galactic disks, stellar age and metallicity abundance ([Fe/H] and [alpha/Fe]). We find that (1) The valley becomes more prominent with the increase of both age and [Fe/H]. (2) The number ratio of super-Earths to sub-Neptunes monotonically increases with age but decreases with [Fe/H] and [alpha/Fe]. (3) The average radius of planets above the valley (2.1-6 Earth radii) decreases with age but increases with [Fe/H]. (4) In contrast, the average radius of planets below the valley (R < 1.7 Earth radii) is broadly independent on age and metallicity. Our results demonstrate that the valley morphology as well as the whole planetary radius distribution evolves on a long timescale of giga-years, and metallicities (not only Fe but also other metal elements, e.g., Mg, Si, Ca, Ti) play important roles in planet formation and in the long term planetary evolution.
description: Accepted for pubilication in AJ, 20 Pages, 10 figures, 2 Tables (Appendix: 13 Figures)
A collocation IGA-BEM for 3D potential problems on unbounded domains
Creators: name: Falini, Antonella
name: Giannelli, Carlotta
name: Kanduc, Tadej
name: Sampoli, Maria Lucia
name: Sestini, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper the numerical solution of potential problems defined on 3D unbounded domains is addressed with Boundary Element Methods (BEMs), since in this way the problem is studied only on the boundary, and thus any finite approximation of the infinite domain can be avoided. The isogeometric analysis (IGA) setting is considered and in particular B-splines and NURBS functions are taken into account. In order to exploit all the possible benefits from using spline spaces, an important point is the development of specific cubature formulas for weakly and nearly singular integrals. Our proposal for this aim is based on spline quasi-interpolation and on the use of a spline product formula. Besides that, a robust singularity extraction procedure is introduced as a preliminary step and an efficient function-by-function assembly phase is adopted. A selection of numerical examples confirms that the numerical solutions reach the expected convergence orders.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
Customizable End-to-end Optimization of Online Neural Network-supported Dereverberation for Hearing Devices
Creators: name: Lemercier, Jean-Marie
name: Thiemann, Joachim
name: Koning, Raphael
name: Gerkmann, Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work focuses on online dereverberation for hearing devices using the weighted prediction error (WPE) algorithm. WPE filtering requires an estimate of the target speech power spectral density (PSD). Recently deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used for this task. However, these approaches optimize the PSD estimate which only indirectly affects the WPE output, thus potentially resulting in limited dereverberation. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end approach specialized for online processing, that directly optimizes the dereverberated output signal. In addition, we propose to adapt it to the needs of different types of hearing-device users by modifying the optimization target as well as the WPE algorithm characteristics used in training. We show that the proposed end-to-end approach outperforms the traditional and conventional DNN-supported WPEs on a noise-free version of the WHAMR! dataset.
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Guia Prático: Como Usar a Tecnologia para Incentivar a Atividade Física
Creators: name: Malaquias, Angelo Telesforo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: tecnologia
subject: atividade física
subject: saúde
subject: inclusão digital
subject: Gamification
subject: educação em saúde
subject: extensão universitária

description: Este guia prático, produzido no âmbito do Projeto Globalizar da UNIRIO, apresenta ferramentas e estratégias baseadas em Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TICs) para incentivar a prática de atividades físicas, especialmente em contextos de vulnerabilidade social. O material reúne aplicações práticas, propostas de uso de aplicativos, gamificação, chatbots e boas práticas para inclusão digital, visando melhorar a adesão e o acesso à saúde por meio do exercício físico.
Land, labor and the logic of Zionism: a critical engagement with Gershon Shafir
Creators: name: Lockman, Zachary
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: From roughly the 1930s into the 1970s, labor-Zionist ideology, parties and institutions played a central role in the Zionist movement in Palestine, and then from 1948 in the State of Israel, manifesting one crucial way in which the Zionist project differed from other comparable settler colonial enterprises. Gershon Shafir's 1989 book 'Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914' argued forcefully that it was labor Zionism's encounter with the land and labor markets in late-Ottoman Palestine, rather than abstract ideology, that led it to adopt a strategy based on the exclusion of indigenous Arab labor and economic separatism. This trajectory, he argued, also ultimately conduced to most Zionists' acceptance of territorial compromise in 1948. Shafir thereby offered a powerful alternative to idealist and romanticised approaches to early Zionism in Palestine. However, using as a foil a comparison that a leading labor-Zionist thinker drew in the late 1920s between the Jews of Palestine and the white minority in South Africa, it is possible to see what Shafir's prioritisation of labor Zionists' adaptation to local conditions in Palestine and his depiction of the pre-1914 period as crucially formative for Zionist/Israeli history elides, particularly the central role of coercion and state violence (by the Zionist movement and Israel but also by the British colonial state and, later, the United States) in making possible the attainment and perpetuation of a Jewish state that now dominates all of Palestine and continues to subordinate the indigenous population. From this perspective, the period of labor-Zionist 'moderation' can be seen not as the norm from which post-1967 Israel has regrettably departed, but as one phase in a longer history frequently characterised by a logic of dispossession, expansion and domination.
Bulk and shear viscosities in multicomponent 2D electron system
Creators: name: Levin, A. D.
name: Gusev, G. M.
name: Chitta, V. A.
name: Jaroshevich, A. S.
name: Bakarov, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated magnetotransport in mesoscopic samples containing electrons from three different subbands in GaAs triple wells. At high temperatures, we observed positive magnetoresistance, which we attribute to the imbalance between different types of particles that are sensitive to bulk viscosities. At low temperatures, we found negative magnetoresistance, attributed to shear viscosity. By analyzing the magnetoresistance data, we were able to determine both viscosities. Remarkably, the electronic bulk viscosity was significantly larger than the shear viscosity. Studying multicomponent electron systems in the hydrodynamic regime presents an intriguing opportunity to further explore the physics in systems with high bulk viscosity.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
title: A primary radiation standard based on quantum nonlinear optics
Creators: name: Lemieux, Samuel
name: Giese, Enno
name: Fickler, Robert
name: Chekhova, Maria V.
name: Boyd, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2024

description: The black body remains the most prominent source of light for absolute radiometry. Its main alternative, synchrotron radiation, requires costly and large facilities. Quantum optics offers a new radiometric source: parametric down-conversion (PDC), a nonlinear optical process, in which pairwise photon correlations enable absolute calibration of photodetectors. Since the emission rate crucially depends on the brightness of the electromagnetic field, quantum-mechanical fluctuations of the vacuum7 can be seen as a seed of spontaneous PDC, and their amplitude is a natural radiometric standard. Thus, they allow for the calibration of the spectral radiance of light sources by measuring the ratio between seeded and unseeded PDC. Here, we directly use the frequency spectrum of the electromagnetic vacuum to trigger spontaneous PDC and employ the generated light to infer the spectral response of a spectrometer over a broad spectral range. Then, we deduce the absolute quantum efficiency from the spectral shape of PDC in the high-gain regime, without relying on a seed or reference detector. Our results compare well with the ones obtained with a reference lamp, demonstrating a promising primary radiation standard.
Structured and Unstructured Teams for Research Software Development at the Netherlands eScience Center
Creators: name: Martinez-Ortiz, Carlos
name: Bakhshi, Rena
name: Dzigan, Yifat
name: Renaud, Nicolas
name: Diblen, Faruk
name: Weel, Berend
name: van Meersbergen, Maarten
name: Drost, Niels
name: van der Burg, Sven
name: Fakhereh
name: Alidoost
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.9; K.7.2

description: This paper presents the types of teams that are currently in place at the Netherlands eScience Center. We categorize our teams into four different types: Project Teams, Collectives, Agile Teams and Scrum Teams. We provide a brief description of each team type and share stories from teams themselves to reflect on the strengths and shortcomings of each model. From our observation, we conclude that the type of team that is most suitable for each project depends on the specific needs of that project. More importantly, different types of teams are suitable for the different types of people working at the Netherlands eScience Center.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, 1 info panel, to appear in IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering
Vacancy-mediated suppression of phase separation in a model two-dimensional surface alloy by the difference of the atomic jump rates
Creators: name: Khenner, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A vacancy-mediated collective diffusion model is used to compute a thermally-induced (spinodal) phase separation in a typical fcc bi-metallic surface alloy at low median concentration of vacancies, focusing on the effect of the ratio, $Γ=Γ_A/Γ_B$, of the jump rates to the vacant sites of the two types of atoms. The model is formulated for the diffusion of one atomic species and vacancies, employing the kinetic transport coefficients derived by Moleko \emph{et al.} (Phil. Mag. A 59, 141 (1989)). It is demonstrated that for A$_{0.7}$B$_{0.3}$ alloy, $Γ\sim 50$ results in suppression of phase separation, whereas very small $Γ$ values result in mild phase separation (i.e., the suppression is incomplete).
Where are the magnetar binary companions? Candidates from a comparison with binary population synthesis predictions
Creators: name: Chrimes, A. A.
name: Levan, A. J.
name: Fruchter, A. S.
name: Groot, P. J.
name: Jonker, P. G.
name: Kouveliotou, C.
name: Lyman, J. D.
name: Stanway, E. R.
name: Tanvir, N. R.
name: Wiersema, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well established that magnetars are neutron stars with extreme magnetic fields and young ages, but the evolutionary pathways to their creation are still uncertain. Since most massive stars are in binaries, if magnetars are a frequent result of core-collapse supernovae, some fraction are expected to have a bound companion at the time of observation. In this paper, we utilise literature constraints, including deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging, to search for bound stellar companions to magnetars. The magnitude and colour measurements are interpreted in the context of binary population synthesis predictions. We find two candidates for stellar companions associated with CXOU J171405.7-381031 and SGR 0755-2933, based on their J-H colours and H-band absolute magnitudes. Overall, the proportion of the Galactic magnetar population with a plausibly stellar near-infrared counterpart candidate, based on their magnitudes and colours, is between 5 and 10 per cent. This is consistent with a population synthesis prediction of 5 per cent, for the fraction of core-collapse neutron stars arising from primaries which remain bound to their companion after the supernova. These results are therefore consistent with magnetars being drawn in an unbiased way from the natal core-collapse neutron star population, but some contribution from alternative progenitor channels cannot be ruled out.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
ENHANCING SPEAKING SKILLS IN EFL CLASSES: STRATEGIES AND METHODS
Creators: name: Saparbaeva, N.J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In the realm of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education, fostering effective speaking skills is pivotal. The ability to communicate fluently and confidently in English is a key outcome of EFL instruction, yet it often poses a challenge for both students and educators. To bridge this gap, a variety of methods can be employed to generate and facilitate speaking skills. This thesis explores several effective strategies for enhancing speaking proficiency in EFL classrooms.
Hybrid ISTA: Unfolding ISTA With Convergence Guarantees Using Free-Form Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Zheng, Ziyang
name: Dai, Wenrui
name: Xue, Duoduo
name: Li, Chenglin
name: Zou, Junni
name: Xiong, Hongkai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: It is promising to solve linear inverse problems by unfolding iterative algorithms (e.g., iterative shrinkage thresholding algorithm (ISTA)) as deep neural networks (DNNs) with learnable parameters. However, existing ISTA-based unfolded algorithms restrict the network architectures for iterative updates with the partial weight coupling structure to guarantee convergence. In this paper, we propose hybrid ISTA to unfold ISTA with both pre-computed and learned parameters by incorporating free-form DNNs (i.e., DNNs with arbitrary feasible and reasonable network architectures), while ensuring theoretical convergence. We first develop HCISTA to improve the efficiency and flexibility of classical ISTA (with pre-computed parameters) without compromising the convergence rate in theory. Furthermore, the DNN-based hybrid algorithm is generalized to popular variants of learned ISTA, dubbed HLISTA, to enable a free architecture of learned parameters with a guarantee of linear convergence. To our best knowledge, this paper is the first to provide a convergence-provable framework that enables free-form DNNs in ISTA-based unfolded algorithms. This framework is general to endow arbitrary DNNs for solving linear inverse problems with convergence guarantees. Extensive experiments demonstrate that hybrid ISTA can reduce the reconstruction error with an improved convergence rate in the tasks of sparse recovery and compressive sensing.
description: 109 pages, 16 figures; this is a draft and the final version has been accepted by TPAMI (DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3172214)
title: Influence of pump coherence on the quantum properties of spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Creators: name: Giese, Enno
name: Fickler, Robert
name: Zhang, Wuhong
name: Chen, Lixiang
name: Boyd, Robert W.
Publisher: name: IOP Science
Year: 2024

description: The correlation properties of the pump field in spontaneous parametric down-conversion are crucial in determining the degree of entanglement of generated signal and idler photons. We find theoretically that continuous-variable entanglement of the transverse positions and momenta of these photons can be achieved only if the coherence of the pump beam is sufficiently high. The positions of signal and idler photons are found to be correlated, even for an incoherent pump. However, the momenta of the signal and idler photons are not anti-correlated, even though transverse momentum is conserved.
Reconciling relationships with physical activity: a qualitative study of women’s postnatal physical activity decision-making
Creators: name: Liva, Sarah J
name: Hall, Wendy A.
name: Oliffe, John Lindsay
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Challenges with engaging in postnatal physical activity can negatively affect the health of women and their families. This study investigated women’s physical activity decision-making processes and strategies to support their physical activity as part of a healthy postpartum transition. Methods: Thirty healthy women with infants aged 2.5–12 months completed 3-day activity diaries and an individual interview. Using Glaser and Charmaz’s grounded theory methodology, the core category, reconciling relationships with physical activity, was constructed, which explained women’s processes of postnatal physical activity decision-making. Results: Through reconciling relationships with physical activity, women discerned the types of physical activity they were comfortable pursuing at various points in the postpartum transition. Based on the meaning physical activity held for participants and their views about risks, supports, and resources, women gauged their capacity and the workability of their physical activity desires. Most women were uncertain of their capacity (physical, emotional) to return to physical activity and viewed the achievement of several or all of their desired physical activities as unworkable. Only a small group of women fully pursued the desirable physical activities they viewed as important for their well-being. Women adjusted the strategies they used to achieve physical activity when their expectations of capacity and workability did not align with their experiences. Some women lacked access to resources or supportive messaging about postpartum physical activity and downgraded their physical activity pursuit after negative personal physical or childcare experiences. Conclusions: Women can benefit from discussions about physiological birth recovery and navigating community and peer resources to support physical activity access and the safe return to physical activity following birth.