cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Αλληλεπίδραση γειτονικών κατασκευών σε κτίρια ιστορικών πόλεων
title: Interaction of adjacent structures in historical cities
Creators: name: Περυσινακη Παρασκευη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: Σκοπός της της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η μελέτη του προβλήματος αλληλεπίδρασης κτιρίων από φέρουσα τοιχοποιία που ανήκουν σε ένα συνεχές σύστημα δόμησης όπως τα κτίρια σε ιστορικά κέντρα καθώς και η επίδραση συγκεκριμένων τεχνικών παρεμβάσεων στη δυναμική συμπεριφορά των κατασκευών που ανήκουν σε συσσωμάτωμα κτιρίων, στην απόκρισή τους σε μελλοντικούς σεισμούς. Σε πολλές ιστορικές πόλεις συναντώνται γειτονικές κατασκευές φέρουσας τοιχοποιίας ως συσσωμάτωμα κτιρίων. Αυτή η σύνδεση των κτιρίων, που σε κάποιες περιπτώσεις είναι πολύ ισχυρή λόγω των κοινών τοίχων, επηρεάζει τη δυναμική συμπεριφορά του κάθε κτιρίου. Έρευνες [Stavroulaki, M. (2019), Carocci, C. F. (2012), Formisano et al. (2014)] έχουν δείξει ότι η ακαμψία του κάθε κτιρίου συνεισφέρει στην ακαμψία ολόκληρου του συγκροτήματος κτιρίων και εντέλει στη δυναμική συμπεριφορά του κτιρίου που ανήκει στο συσσωμάτωμα ενώ από την εμπειρία έχει αποδειχθεί ότι η δυναμική συμπεριφορά των κτιρίων συσσωματώματος σε αρκετές περιπτώσεις επηρεάστηκε θετικά από την ύπαρξη αυτών των παρακείμενων κατασκευών, παρά τη χαμηλή ποιότητα υλικού τους. Επίσης οι εφαρμογή μεθόδων ενίσχυσης σε ένα κτίριο του συγκροτήματος θα μπορούσε να οδηγήσει σε αλλαγές στη μάζα και την ακαμψία αυτού του κτιρίου, κάτι το οποίο επηρεάζει την απόκριση των γειτονικών δομών.
    παρούσα εργασία γίνεται επέκταση της υπάρχουσας έρευνας που παρουσιάστηκε από Stavroulaki, M. (2019), εισάγοντας νέες παραμέτρους στην ανάλυση όπως είναι κτίρια με λιγότερους ή περισσότερους ορόφους (π.χ. μονώροφα και τριώροφα) ενώ διερευνάται η επίδραση μιας συνήθους παρέμβασης όπως είναι η αντικατάσταση ξύλινου πατώματος με πλάκα οπλισμένου σκυροδέματος. Πραγματοποιείται ανάλυση με τη μέθοδο των πεπερασμένων στοιχείων (FEA) του διώροφου κτιρίου και των αντίστοιχων μονώροφου και τριώροφου καθώς και συσσωματωμάτων κτιρίων που προκύπτουν τοποθετώντας τα μεμονωμένα κτίρια σε διαφορετικούς συνδυασμούς ως προς την θέση (αλλαγές στη διάταξή τους). Τα προαναφερθέντα μοντέλα μελετήθηκαν με το πρόγραμμα ΜSC/MARC. Από την ανάλυση των μοντέλων σε στατικά και δυναμικά φορτία σεισμού προέκυψαν συμπεράσματα σχετικά με την επίδραση της τεχνικής παρέμβασης που μελετήθηκε, μια τεχνική που επιδρά στην ακαμψία της δομής του κάθε κτιρίου και κατ’ επέκταση στην δυναμική συμπεριφορά και των γειτονικών δομών.
Analytical, in vitro and in vivo metabolic studies of short chain cyclic polyester oligomers (lactones) from polyurethane laminating adhesives
Creators: name: Zhang, Nan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Polyurethane (PU) laminating adhesive for food packaging is often formulated with polyester polyol to impart soft chain segments for the material’s flexibility. Polyester polyol synthesis results in undesirable, low molecular weight cyclic oligomer by-products which are commonly observed in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) migration studies. Currently, only a few cyclic polyester migrants were identified and published, many other possible structures are still to be characterized. There is also a lack of information regarding the prevalence and toxicology of these migrants.   From the migration study data reports of 518 industrial laminates, we were able to identify 23 new short chain cyclic polyesters and 4 linear chain esters from PU adhesives. A tabulated summary on the frequency of occurrence for all cyclic polyester migrants that we have identified so far reveals that diethylene glycol adipate cyclic diester (DEG-AA), diethylene glycol isophthalate cyclic diester (DEG-IPA), neopentyl glycol adipate cyclic diester (NPG-AA) and di-neopentyl glycol adipate cyclic diester (NPG-AA 2+2) to be the migrants for our initial metabolism studies.  We hypothesize that the mammalian non-specific esterase would hydrolyze these cyclic oligomers into their corresponding monoester and monomer precursors.  Our metabolism studies focused on the hydrolysis of cyclic oligomers with porcine liver esterase (PLE). We used a combination of GC-MS and GC-FID with trimethylsilyl derivatization methods for analysis. We also investigated the hydrolysis of cyclic oligomers with human liver S9 fraction, a complex enzyme system which is often used in the Ames test to assess a substance’s mutagenic potential. Finally, we collaborated with other labs to analyze for the in vivo metabolites of NPG-AA 2+2 from mouse plasma.   The results show stepwise enzymatic conversion of cyclic oligomers to their open ring monoesters followed by the complete hydrolysis to monomers. Different types of cyclic polyester migrants showed different resistance to enzyme hydrolysis under the same test conditions. Experimental parameters such as substrate levels, incubation time, enzyme concentration and surfactant addition were found to influence the degree of hydrolysis. Also, NPG-AA 2+2 was found to rapidly and completely break down in mice. All of the information is useful for future safety assessment investigations.
Pan-cancer Histopathology WSI Pre-training with Position-aware Masked Autoencoder
Creators: name: Wu, Kun
name: Jiang, Zhiguo
name: Tang, Kunming
name: Shi, Jun
name: Xie, Fengying
name: Wang, Wei
name: Wu, Haibo
name: Zheng, Yushan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large-scale pre-training models have promoted the development of histopathology image analysis. However, existing self-supervised methods for histopathology images primarily focus on learning patch features, while there is a notable gap in the availability of pre-training models specifically designed for WSI-level feature learning. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised learning framework for pan-cancer WSI-level representation pre-training with the designed position-aware masked autoencoder (PAMA). Meanwhile, we propose the position-aware cross-attention (PACA) module with a kernel reorientation (KRO) strategy and an anchor dropout (AD) mechanism. The KRO strategy can capture the complete semantic structure and eliminate ambiguity in WSIs, and the AD contributes to enhancing the robustness and generalization of the model. We evaluated our method on 7 large-scale datasets from multiple organs for pan-cancer classification tasks. The results have demonstrated the effectiveness and generalization of PAMA in discriminative WSI representation learning and pan-cancer WSI pre-training. The proposed method was also compared with 8 WSI analysis methods. The experimental results have indicated that our proposed PAMA is superior to the state-of-the-art methods. The code and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/WkEEn/PAMA.
Leptocythere Sars 1925
Creators: name: Meisch, Claude
name: Smith, Robin J.
name: Martens, Koen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Cytherideidae
Leptocythere

description: Leptocythere Sars, 1925
Type species: Leptocythere pellucida (Baird, 1850) Sars, 1925 (marine species)
Leptocythere baltica Klie, 1929: PA
Leptocythere bacuana (Livental, 1938) Mandelstam 1962: PA
Cythere bacuana Livental, 1938
Leptocythere castanea (Sars, 1866) Sars 1925: PA
Cythere castanea Sars, 1866
Leptocythere darbyi Keyser, 1976: NA
Leptocythere devexa Schornikov, 1966: PA
Leptocythere (Leptocythere) devexa Schornikov, 1966
Leptocythere fluviatilis Klie, 1939: PA
Leptocythere gracilloides Schornikov, 1964: PA
Leptocythere histriana Caraion, 1964: PA
Leptocythere (Leptocythere) histriana Caraion, 1964
Leptocythere lacertosa (Hirschmann, 1912) Klie 1929: PA
Cythere lacertosa Hirschmann, 1912
Leptocythere lacustris De Deckker, 1981: AU
Leptocythere lopatici Schornikov, 1964: PA
Leptocythere nitida Schornikov, 1966: PA
Leptocythere (Leptocythere) nitida Schornikov, 1966
Leptocythere ostrovskensis Petkovski & Keyser, 1992: PA
Leptocythere pediformis Schornikov, 1966: PA
Leptocythere (Leptocythere) pediformis Schornikov, 1966
Leptocythere polymorpha Schornikov, 1974: PA
Leptocythere pseudoproboscidea Karanovic & Petkovski, 1999: PA
Leptocythere relicta Schornikov, 1964: PA
Leptocythere reticulata Schornikov, 1966: PA
Leptocythere (Leptocythere) reticulata Schornikov, 1966
Leptocythere triangulata (Löffler, 1959) Griffiths et al. 2001: PA
Cythere triangulata Löffler, 1959
description: Published as part of Meisch, Claude, Smith, Robin J. & Martens, Koen, 2024, An updated subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea), pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 974 on pages 72-73, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.974.2767, http://zenodo.org/record/14500383
Additional file 1: of In-vitro characterization of canine multipotent stromal cells isolated from synovium, bone marrow, and adipose tissue: a donor-matched comparative study
Creators: name: Bearden, Robert
name: Huggins, Shannon
name: Cummings, Kevin
name: Smith, Roger
name: Gregory, Carl
name: Saunders, William
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplemental Materials & Methods containing a complete/comprehensive description of the materials and methods, which are summarized in the primary manuscript. (DOCX 60Â kb)
Combustion characterization and kinetic modeling in reactive flow simulations
Creators: name: Zhang, Shuliang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The primary objective of this research is to characterize fuel combustion in reactive flow simulations using advanced kinetic modeling and mechanism reduction tools. Since incorporating detailed chemical kinetic model in the realistic reactive flow simulations is a computationally challenging task due to the large size of detailed kinetic mechanism, it is of great interest to develop approaches for simplifying the kinetic models and reducing computational costs in reactive flow simulations. In this dissertation, we first extend the previously developed on-the-fly reduction approach to the characterization of complex biodiesel combustion using detailed biodiesel surrogate mechanism. Major combustion characteristics such as ignition, emission, as well as engine performance for biodiesel compared with conventional fossil fuels are studied. Although the incorporation of detailed biodiesel combustion mechanism in complex reactive flow simulation is enabled, the simulation is still highly time-consuming. To further alleviate the computational intensity, a hybrid reduction scheme coupling the on-the-fly reduction with global quasi-steady-state approximation (QSSA) is developed. The proposed hybrid reduction scheme is demonstrated in various reactive flow simulations including zero-dimensional PFR model, multidimensional HCCI engine CFD model, and realistic gas phase injector CFD simulations. A flux-based quasi-steady-state (QSS) species selection procedure is introduced to facilitate the demonstration of hybrid scheme. Finally, a novel computational framework integrating automated mechanism generation and on-the-fly reduction is proposed and implemented using a stepwise integration. The proposed framework is then demonstrated in methane oxidation case studies and shows a new way of conducting reactive flow simulation without having an actual mechanism before the simulation starts. The integration of automated mechanism generation and on-the-fly reduction is a promising technique to perform reactive flow simulations and has the potential to reduce the computational cost of the simulations. The work in this dissertation provides powerful tools and important insight for the incorporation of detailed chemical kinetics in the reactive flow simulations.
title: Revealing Researcher’s Positionality and Perception
Creators: name: Knight, Wanda B.
name: Keifer-Boyd, Karen
Publisher: name: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Published in Transdisciplinary Inquiry, Practice, and Possibilities in Art Education: Proceedings from The Penn State Seminar @50; https://doi.org/10.26209/arted50
Atlantic surfclam larval transport, population connectivity, and physical drivers on the Middle Atlantic Bight and Georges Bank
Creators: name: Zhang, Xinzhong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The Atlantic surfclam, Spisula solidissima, is one of the most commercially important species along the Northeast U.S. coast. Similar to many other benthic invertebrates, surfclam life history includes a dispersive larval stage. Larval dispersal plays a key role in determining connectivity among geographically distinct populations, and is further influenced by physical dynamics and larval behavior. In this graduate work, a coupled modeling system combining a physical circulation model of the Middle Atlantic Bight (MAB), Georges Bank (GBK) and the Gulf of Maine (GoM), and an individual-based surfclam larval model has been implemented to study surfclam larval transport pathways, inter-population connectivity patterns, as well as the associated physical mechanisms.    Model results show a mean along-shore connectivity pattern from the northeast to the southwest among the surfclam populations. High-frequency (periods of 2~10 days) variation in larval along-shore drift is found to be due to along-shore surface wind stress variation, with the seasonal variation speculated to be driven mainly by changes in the across-shelf density gradient. Surfclam across-shelf larval movement is also highly correlated with the along-shore surface wind stress as mediated by coastal upwelling and downwelling episodes. This correlation is further dependent on larval vertical distribution with respect to the thermocline, which is a direct result of the mutual interaction of the physical environment and larval behavior.     Water temperature is found to play a dominant role in larval settlement patterns. In the vertically integrated time-mean heat balance regulating water temperature on the MAB shelf, surface air-sea heat flux and horizontal heat advection are the two most important terms. Seasonal variation of water temperature is mainly controlled by the seasonally varying surface heat fluxes. Across-shore horizontal heat advection variations associated with different coastal across-shore circulation patterns contribute water temperature variations on shorter time scales from days to weeks. The long-term (e.g., decadal or longer) variation of water temperature is likely due to the variation of along-shore heat advection from the mean along-shore barotropic current acting on the mean along-shore temperature gradient, related to the large-scale coastal current system running from Labrador in the north to Cape Hatteras in the south.
Zinc oxide-based resistive switching devices
Creators: name: Zhang, Yang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Recently, resistive switching (RS) memory devices have attracted increasing attentions due to their potential applications in the next-generation nonvolatile memory. Zinc Oxide (ZnO) - based RS devices possess promising features, such as well-controlled switching properties by in-situ doping and alloying, low-temperature fabrication processes, superior radiation hardness, and low cost. The goal of the research is to study the feasibility of using the transitional metal (TM) doped ZnO for making RS devices.   The Fe-doped ZnO (FeZnO) is used to make the bipolar and unipolar RS. The FeZnO is grown through MOCVD. Fe is a deep-level donor in ZnO, and Fe doping leads to better device thermal stability and larger value at the high resistance state (HRS) for switching. For the Ag/FeZnO/Pt bipolar RS structures, the ratio of the HRS over the low resistance state (LRS) of 3.8×10^2 is achieved. The dominant conduction mechanisms are attributed to the Poole-Frenkel emission at the HRS and Ohmic behavior at the LRS, respectively. A FeZnO/MgO bi-layer (BL) is used to replace the FeZnO single layer (SL) to form an Ag/FeZnO/MgO/Pt bipolar RS structure. This BL device demonstrates a higher RHRS/RLRS ratio (~106) than the SL counterpart. For the Au/FeZnO/MgO/Pt unipolar RS device, the RHRS/RLRS ratio of 2.4×10^6 at 1V is achieved.  In order to reduce the processing temperature, the Ni-doped ZnO/MgO BL structure is adapted to make the RS devices using the sputtering - MOCVD hybrid deposition. The Ni doping enhances the compensation of oxygen deficiency in ZnO, resulting in larger HRS values. By controlling the compliance current during the “SET” process, three different reversible RS modes, i.e. threshold switching, volatile switching, and memory switching are obtained. Compared with the memory switching, the volatile switching possesses lower power consumption and better HRS stability. Furthermore, the different compliance currents lead to the different LRS values, which could be used for the multi-level per storage cell applications. The electrical characteristics and microstructure analysis suggest that the compliance current setting affects the formation and rupture of the metallic filaments, leading to the conversion of different switching modes.   The FeZnO switching resistor (R) is vertically integrated with a ZnO diode (D) to form the 1D1R structure, which overcomes the cross-talk in the 1R-based crossbar switching matrix. The 1D1R exhibits high RHRS/RLRS ratio, excellent rectifying characteristics, and robust retention. The new ZnO RS technology presents great impact on the future classes of memory devices for applications such as switching matrix, multi-level storage, and 3D non-volatile memory architecture.
Leucocythere Kaufmann 1892
Creators: name: Meisch, Claude
name: Smith, Robin J.
name: Martens, Koen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Limnocytheridae
Leucocythere

description: Leucocythere Kaufmann, 1892
Leucocythere algeriensis Martens, 1990: PA
Leucocythere dorsotuberosa Huang, 1982: PA
Leucocythere dorsotuberosa var. postilirata Pang, 1985
Syn.: Leucocythere postilirata Pang, 1985 (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Leucocythere helenae Martens, 1991: AT
* Leucocythere mirabilis Kaufmann, 1892: PA
Syn.: Limnocythere baltica Diebel, 1965 (fide Fuhrmann 2012)
Leucocythere baltica (Diebel, 1965) Fuhrmann 2012
description: Published as part of Meisch, Claude, Smith, Robin J. & Martens, Koen, 2024, An updated subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea), pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 974 on page 73, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.974.2767, http://zenodo.org/record/14500383
Investigating tidal heating in neutron stars via gravitational Raman scattering
Creators: name: Saketh, M. V. S.
name: Zhou, Zihan
name: Ghosh, Suprovo
name: Steinhoff, Jan
name: Chatterjee, Debarati
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scattering amplitude formalism to study the tidal heating effects of nonspinning neutron stars incorporating both worldline effective field theory and relativistic stellar perturbation theory. In neutron stars, tidal heating arises from fluid viscosity due to various scattering processes in the interior. It also serves as a channel for the exchange of energy and angular momentum between the neutron star and its environment. In the interior of the neutron star, we first derive two master perturbation equations that capture fluid perturbations accurate to linear order in frequency. Remarkably, these equations receive no contribution from bulk viscosity due to a peculiar adiabatic incompressibility which arises in stellar fluid for non-barotropic perturbations. In the exterior, the metric perturbations reduce to the Regge-Wheeler (RW) equation which we solve using the analytical Mano-Suzuki-Takasugi (MST) method. We compute the amplitude for gravitational waves scattering off a neutron star, also known as gravitational Raman scattering. From the amplitude, we obtain expressions for the electric quadrupolar static Love number and the leading dissipation number to all orders in compactness. We then compute the leading dissipation number for various realistic equation-of-state(s) and estimate the change in the number of gravitational wave cycles due to tidal heating during inspiral in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) band.
description: 28 pages, 2 tables, 1 appendix, journal version
Tetraschalis ochrias Meyrick 1907
Creators: name: Pathania, Prakash C.
name: Das, Apurva
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Tetraschalis
Tetraschalis ochrias

description: 100. Tetraschalis ochrias Meyrick, 1907
Tetraschalis ochrias Meyrick, 1907; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1907: 475.
TL: India.
Distribution: India, Indonesia, Kei Island, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines.
Host: Larvae feed on shoots of Leea indica (Leeaceae).
Illustrations: Wing venation, male and female genitalia (Gielis 1993: figs 109, 172, 233).
description: Published as part of Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, Catalogue of superfamily Pterophoroidea Kuznetsov & Stekolnikov (Lepidoptera) of India, pp. 201-236 in Zootaxa 4915 (2) on page 222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4454312
New Jersey bald eagle project, 2014
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program (ENSP) biologists, Conserve Wildlife Foundation (CWF) staff, and volunteer observers located and monitored bald eagle nests and territories. One hundred fifty-six nest sites were monitored during the nesting season, of which 146 were documented to be active (with eggs) and ten were territorial or housekeeping pairs. Twenty-five new eagle pairs were found this season, eleven in the south, three in central and eleven in northern NJ. One hundred fifteen nests (79%) of the 145 known-outcome nests produced 201 young, for a productivity rate of 1.39 young per active and known-outcome nest. Twenty-nine (20%) nests failed to fledge young. The Delaware Bay region remained the state’s eagle stronghold, with 43% of all nests located in Cumberland and Salem counties.The state’s eagle population would not be thriving without the efforts of the dedicated eagle volunteers who observe nests, report sightings, and help protect critical habitat.
The 2011 osprey project in New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The New Jersey osprey population had another amazing year and recorded an average of 2.07 young per active nest, a new record. While we have not done a statewide census since 2009, when we documented 486 nesting pairs, new pairs found in the last few years would put the statewide population above 500 pairs. This is a gratifying recovery of a majestic bird that was decimated by chemical accumulation in the DDT period of 1946-1972. We credit the early recovery efforts, environmental and water-quality improvements, and efforts by concerned groups and citizens who work to accommodate ospreys across their range in the state.
Food knowledge, preference and intake behaviors among hispanic and black preschoolers from low-income families before and after the All 4 Kids© program
Creators: name: Zhang, Youjie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Objectives: To evaluate the potential influence of the All 4 Kids©: Healthy, Happy, Active, Fit program (hereafter referred to as the All 4 Kids© program) on preschoolers’ snack food knowledge, stated healthy snack preference, snack food intake, and fruit and vegetable availability at home.  Design: Pre- and post-intervention comparison.  Setting: Preschool classrooms.  Participants: A total of 45 three to five year-old Hispanic and Black preschoolers and their caregivers from low-income families.  Intervention: The All 4 Kids© was a healthy eating and active living program that consisted of 24 interactive classroom lessons (lasting 30- to 45-minutes each), which were taught three times per week for eight weeks. The program also included weekly information packets for the families and three family events.  Measurements: Demographic (age, race/ethnicity, gender, education, federal assistance program participation) and anthropometric (height, weight, body fat percent) characteristics; preschoolers’ snack food knowledge (ability to identify 18 snack foods and to distinguish healthy and unhealthy snack foods); stated healthy snack preference among nine snack pairs; fruit and vegetable availability and preschoolers’ caregiver-reported snack food intake frequency at home.  Analyses: Spearman correlation analysis; independent and paired sample t-, McNemar’s, Wilcoxon signed-rank, Chi-square, Mann-Whitney U, Fisher’s exact, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests.  Results: After participating in the program, preschoolers showed improvements in snack food identification, healthy snack identification and stated healthy snack preference (p<0.001). The snack food identification and healthy snack identification sum scores varied by race/ethnicity and age. Healthy snack identification and stated healthy snack preference sum scores were positively correlated before and after the intervention (p<0.05). Most caregivers reported high levels of fruit and vegetable availability and intake frequencies at home before and after the intervention. More than half of the caregivers reported that their preschoolers ate candy or chips at least 1 to 2 times per day before and after the intervention.  Conclusion: The All 4 Kids© program was linked to positive outcomes on preschoolers’ snack food knowledge and stated healthy snack preference but was not related to changes in the availability of fruits and vegetables and preschoolers’ food intake at home.
Leucocytherella Huang 1982
Creators: name: Meisch, Claude
name: Smith, Robin J.
name: Martens, Koen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Limnocytheridae
Leucocytherella

description: Leucocytherella Huang, 1982
Syn.: Limnocytherellina Pang, 1985 (fide Fürstenberg et al. 2015)
* Leucocytherella sinensis Huang, 1982: PA
Syn.: Leucocytherella trinoda Huang, 1982 (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Syn.: Leucocytherella glabra You & Huang, 1982 (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Syn.: Leucocytherella bispinosa (Pang, 1985) (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Limnocytherellina bispinosa Pang, 1985
Syn.: Leucocytherella biechinata Huang, 1985 (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Syn.: Leucocytherella kunlunensis (Pang, 1985) (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Limnocytherellina kunlunensis Pang, 1985
Syn.: Leucocytherella quadriechinata Yang, 1985 (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Syn.: Leucocytherella quinquechinata Huang, 1985 (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Syn.: Leucocytherella subtriechinata Huang, 1985 (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Syn.: Leucocytherella triechinata Huang, 1985 (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Syn.: Leucocytherella trinoda Huang-Huang et al., 1985 (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Syn.: Leucocytherella trispinosa (Pang, 1985) (fide Wrozyna et al. 2009)
Limnocytherellina trispinosa Pang, 1985
description: Published as part of Meisch, Claude, Smith, Robin J. & Martens, Koen, 2024, An updated subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea), pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 974 on pages 73-74, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.974.2767, http://zenodo.org/record/14500383
Cetonia (Cetonia) aurata
Creators: name: Sergeeva, E. V.
name: Stolbov, V. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Cetonia
Cetonia aurata

description: Cetonia (Cetonia) aurata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cetonia aurata: КоΛосов 1914, 23 (ЯΛуторовск); Ситников 1992, 210 (Червишевский з-к, оз. Αукашинское, Упоровский р-н); Збанацкий, СтоΛбов 1998, 2 (Тюменская обΛ.); ОбогреΛов и Αр. 2002, 350 (р. ОΛьховка); БухкаΛо и Αр. 2011, 174 (ТобоΛьск); Герасимов, Герасимова, Субботин 2015, 63 (с. Батово).
МатериаA. АЮ: Ярковский р-н (окр. с. Δубровное, окр. оз. ПетигуΛь), Нижнетавдинский р-н (окр. оз. Кучак, Гузенеевский з-к), Тюмень, Тюменский р-н (окр. оз. АнΑреевское, окр. с. Червишево, окр. Α. КривоΑанова), Исетский р-н (с. РафайΛово), Заводоyковский р-н (окр. с. ГиΛёво), Упоровский р-н (Α. Шашова), Сладковский р-н (Кабанский з-к).
Распространение. Европа, Китай. Россия: европейская часть страны, ЗапаΑная Сибирь.
description: Published as part of Sergeeva, E. V. & Stolbov, V. A., 2021, The fauna of lamellicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) of the Tyumen Region, pp. 124-145 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 136, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-124-145, http://zenodo.org/record/11362092
LB-SCAM: a learning-based SCAM tuner (code)
Creators: name: Guo, Jiaxu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460602
subject: Concurrent/parallel systems and technologies
classificationCode: 460999
subject: Information systems not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 370199
subject: Atmospheric sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This project contains LB-SCAM, a learning-based tuner for SCAM.
Development of an autonomous plant-robot hybrid system for plant-human-environment studies
Creators: name: Zhang, Yicheng
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The goal of this project is to develop a plant-robot hybrid system as a platform to enable and enhance the studies of plant-environment and plant-human interactions. To achieve this goal, an autonomous robot is designed, built, and integrated to the plant to achieve functions including sunlight searching, water source searching, and pet-like interaction with human. In order to realize the multi-functionality of this hybrid system, an autonomous vehicle based on omni-wheel and Arduino microprocessor is developed. The solar panel battery maintainer, and infrared receiver module are utilized as the light sensor and target sensor, respectively to achieve sunlight searching and water source seeking functionality. Moreover, the Pixy optical sensor has been integrated to graphical tracking function. The motion planning algorithms based on omni-wheel control and algorithms to coordinate the sensor signals with robotic motion control are developed and implemented to the robot platform. For the software part, functions including omni-wheel motion, obstacle avoidance, sunlight searching, infrared signal source searching and visual sensing have been developed. This plant-robot hybrid system provides a platform to study the plant-environment and plant-human interaction. Multiple plant-robot hybrid systems can be integrated together via wireless communication to form a network. Also, more sensing functions can be introduced into the system and opens to other applications, for example, applying gas sensors to acquire environment gas mapping.
Lost and Found: Overcoming Detector Failures in Online Multi-Object Tracking
Creators: name: Vaquero, Lorenzo
name: Xu, Yihong
name: Alameda-Pineda, Xavier
name: Brea, Victor M.
name: Mucientes, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-object tracking (MOT) endeavors to precisely estimate the positions and identities of multiple objects over time. The prevailing approach, tracking-by-detection (TbD), first detects objects and then links detections, resulting in a simple yet effective method. However, contemporary detectors may occasionally miss some objects in certain frames, causing trackers to cease tracking prematurely. To tackle this issue, we propose BUSCA, meaning `to search', a versatile framework compatible with any online TbD system, enhancing its ability to persistently track those objects missed by the detector, primarily due to occlusions. Remarkably, this is accomplished without modifying past tracking results or accessing future frames, i.e., in a fully online manner. BUSCA generates proposals based on neighboring tracks, motion, and learned tokens. Utilizing a decision Transformer that integrates multimodal visual and spatiotemporal information, it addresses the object-proposal association as a multi-choice question-answering task. BUSCA is trained independently of the underlying tracker, solely on synthetic data, without requiring fine-tuning. Through BUSCA, we showcase consistent performance enhancements across five different trackers and establish a new state-of-the-art baseline across three different benchmarks. Code available at: https://github.com/lorenzovaquero/BUSCA.
description: Accepted at ECCV 2024. Code available at https://github.com/lorenzovaquero/BUSCA
title:  Sartre e l’antisemitismo. Note in margine a Réflexions sur la question juive
Creators: name: Petrarca, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Le “Réflexions sur la question juive” (1946) di Jean-Paul Sartre è un'opera significativa sull'antisemitismo, anche se presenta notevoli limiti nelle scelte tematiche e nella struttura. L'idea di Sartre dell'antisemitismo come “passione” e dell'antisemita come una “passione” e l'antisemita come una persona guidata dalla “passione” è problematica, in quanto rischia di dipingere l'antisemitismo come un fenomeno metafisico. Inoltre, la rappresentazione che Sartre fa degli ebrei, plasmata interamente da opinioni antisemite, trascura la loro individualità storica e culturale. Nonostante questi problemi, il contributo di Sartre e il suo impegno contro l'antisemitismo contemporaneo rimangono fondamentali. Questo articolo si propone di analizzare alcuni degli aspetti più importanti del contributo di Sartre alla discussione sull'antisemitismo.

Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Réflexions sur la question juive” (1946) is a significant work on antisemitism, though it has notable limitations in thematic choices and structure. Sartre’s idea of antisemitism as a “passion” and the antisemite as someone driven by “passion” is problematic, as it risks portraying antisemitism as a metaphysical phenomenon. Additionally, Sartre’s depiction of Jews, shaped entirely by antisemitic views, overlooks their historical and cultural individuality. Despite these issues, Sartre’s contribution and his engagement against contemporary antisemitism remains crucial. This paper aims to analyze some of the most important aspects of Sartre’s contributions to the discussion about antisemitism.
description: Studi Sartriani – XVIII/2024 – Antisemitismo e pensiero ebraico in Sartre
First-principles modeling of functional perovskite materials and superlattices
Creators: name: Zhou, Qibin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This thesis discusses first-principles modeling of functional perovskite oxides and perovskite superlattices. In the past few decades, first-principles density functional theory has driven tremendous advances in the theoretical study of materials. However, it does not give us a conceptual understanding of the physics of these materials, which makes the first-principles modeling necessary.    In the first project, we use the first-principles method to study the epitaxial strain-induced ferroelectricity in the orthorhombic CaTiO$_3$ structure and construct the energy expansion from first principles to illustrate the mechanism of the induced ferroelectricity. We also discover an unexpected polar phase of CaTiO$_3$ with in-plane polarization under compressive strain. Symmetry analysis shows that this phase is a realization of a new mechanism of geometric ferroelectricity. In the second project, we collaborate with an experimental group at SUNY Stony Brook to study the perovskite superlattices PbTiO$_3$/BaTiO$_3$. A variety of properties, including electric polarization, tetragonality, piezoelectricity and dielectric constant, have been studied from first principles. We also construct a slab model, in which different constituents are treated as bulk-like materials with appropriate electrostatic constraints, to investigate the origin of the enhanced piezoelectricity in PTO/BTO superlattices. The third project is our first-principles study of the BaTiO$_3$/CaTiO$_3$ superlattices, in which the oxygen octahedron rotations play a substantial role. We observe the phase transitions among three competing phases and enhanced piezoelectricity in all of the three phases at intermediate BaTiO$_3$ concentration. The slab models of BTO/CTO superlattices consistently underestimate the polarization, which indicates the interfacial enhancement of polarization.
Understanding humans’ strategies in maze solving from eye-hand coordination
Creators: name: Zhao, Min
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Navigating through an overhead visual maze is a demanding task. It relies on the strategic use of eye movements to select and identify the route. Maze solving also makes demands on memory and vision, and requires frequent decision and plans. When solving a maze, there are trade-offs between spending time exploring to the environment and spending time learning from errors. The current study examined strategies used to solve novel and familiar mazes that were viewed from above and traversed by a mouse cursor. Recorded eye and mouse movements revealed two modes that almost never occurred concurrently: exploration and guidance. Analyses showed that people learned mazes and were able to devise and carry out complex, multi-faceted strategies that traded-off visual exploration against active motor performance. The results challenge the previous findings that people prefer to use the external world as an external memory and minimize the use of the own short-term memory. Instead, people balanced the use of memory and the access to the external world, and this balance varied among different individuals. Overall, strategies of maze-solving took into account available visual information, memory, confidence, the estimated cost in time for exploration, and tolerance for error. Maze-solving provides an environment in which people have to continuously make decisions and plan paths in real time. By modeling the strategies people use, it is possible to draw inferences about many aspects of cognitive processes, such as the real-time decision making, the usage of memory in natural tasks and eye-hand coordination. The understanding of the strategies in maze solving may also benefit applications, such as designing navigation assistive devices and the development of methods to coordinate the interaction between human and machines (including robots) in road guidance.
Lichnocythere Hart & Hart 1967
Creators: name: Meisch, Claude
name: Smith, Robin J.
name: Martens, Koen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Lichnocythere

description: Lichnocythere Hart & Hart, 1967
Lichnocythere synethes Hart & Hart, 1967: AU
Lichnocythere tubrabucca Hart & Hart, 1967: AU
* Lichnocythere victoria Hart & Hart, 1967: AU
description: Published as part of Meisch, Claude, Smith, Robin J. & Martens, Koen, 2024, An updated subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea), pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 974 on page 74, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.974.2767, http://zenodo.org/record/14500383
Protaetia (Liocola) marmorata
Creators: name: Sergeeva, E. V.
name: Stolbov, V. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Protaetia
Protaetia marmorata

description: Protaetia (Liocola) marmorata (Fabricius,
1792) (= Liocola lugubris (Herbst, 1786))
Potosia lugubris: Ситников 1992, 211 (Тюменский и Упоровский р-ны, Α. Мазурова).
Liocola lugubris: БухкаΛо и Αр. 2011, 175 (НИС «Миссия», ТобоΛьск).
МатериаA. АЮ: Нижнетавдинский р-н (окр. оз. Кучак, оз. КуΛтыбайка), Ярковский р-н (с. Δубровное, окр. оз. ПетигуΛь), Тюмень, Тюменский р-н (окр. Α. КривоΑанова), Викyловский р-н (окр. с. ВикуΛово), Исетский р-н (ПП «Марьино ущеΛье»), Ишимский р-н (ПП «Согры»).
Распространение. Европа, ПереΑняя Азия, Казахстан, МонгоΛия. Россия: европейская часть страны, ЗапаΑная Сибирь.
description: Published as part of Sergeeva, E. V. & Stolbov, V. A., 2021, The fauna of lamellicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) of the Tyumen Region, pp. 124-145 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 136, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-124-145, http://zenodo.org/record/11362092
Identifying features of legible manipulation paths
Creators: name: Zhao, Min
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This work performs an experimental study on the legibility of paths executed by a manipulation arm available on a Baxter robot. In this context, legibility is defined as the ability of people to effectively predict the target of the arm's motion. Paths that are legible can improve the collaboration of robots with humans since they allow people to intuitively understand the robot's intentions. Each experimental trial in this study reproduces manipulator motions to one of many targets in front of the robot. An appropriate experimental setup was developed in order to collect the responses of people in terms of the perceived robot's target during the execution of a trajectory by Baxter. The objective of the experimental setup was to minimize the cognitive load of the human subjects during the collection of data. The extensive experimental data provide insights into the features of motion that make certain paths more legible for humans than other paths. For instance, motions where the end-effector is oriented towards the intended target appear to be better in terms of legibility than alternatives.
Cultural Reflections in Virtual Reality: The Effects of User Ethnicity in Avatar Matching Experiences on Sense of Embodiment
Creators: name: Do, Tiffany D.
name: Benjamin, Juanita
name: Protko, Camille Isabella
name: McMahan, Ryan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Matching avatar characteristics to a user can impact sense of embodiment (SoE) in VR. However, few studies have examined how participant demographics may interact with these matching effects. We recruited a diverse and racially balanced sample of 78 participants to investigate the differences among participant groups when embodying both demographically matched and unmatched avatars. We found that participant ethnicity emerged as a significant factor, with Asian and Black participants reporting lower total SoE compared to Hispanic participants. Furthermore, we found that user ethnicity significantly influences ownership (a subscale of SoE), with Asian and Black participants exhibiting stronger effects of matched avatar ethnicity compared to White participants. Additionally, Hispanic participants showed no significant differences, suggesting complex dynamics in ethnic-racial identity. Our results also reveal significant main effects of matched avatar ethnicity and gender on SoE, indicating the importance of considering these factors in VR experiences. These findings contribute valuable insights into understanding the complex dynamics shaping VR experiences across different demographic groups.
description: In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 7408-7418, Nov. 2024
Limanocypris Schornikov 1961
Creators: name: Meisch, Claude
name: Smith, Robin J.
name: Martens, Koen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Cyprididae
Limanocypris

description: Limanocypris Schornikov, 1961
* Limanocypris lurida Schornikov, 1961: PA
description: Published as part of Meisch, Claude, Smith, Robin J. & Martens, Koen, 2024, An updated subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea), pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 974 on page 74, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.974.2767, http://zenodo.org/record/14500383
Manage demand uncertainty with cost-for-deviation retail pricing
Creators: name: Zhu, Jianmin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The current types of rate structures for the electricity retailing create a disconnection between retail and wholesale markets. The rate structures expose utility providers to the full risks of wholesale markets, while prohibiting the response of end-use customers to market dynamics. This disconnection is considered to be the primary cause of unusual volatility in electricity markets. In this dissertation, the author proposes a Cost-for-Deviation (CfD) retail pricing scheme, which is designed to minimize the demand uncertainty of individual customers. A series of experiments demonstrate that CfD pricing is able to reduce the demand uncertainty by 10%, as measured by the root mean squared deviation of the demand. Consequently, the community’s cost of hedging the quantity risk in the real-time market is reduced by 38%. This dissertation also demonstrates the formulation and solution techniques for the day-ahead planning and real-time tracking optimizations that each customer faces under CfD. An efficient and robust approach, called Optimal Strategy Pool (OSP), is introduced to solve simulation-based on-line planning problems; and dynamic programming is adopted in neural network model-based predictive control. Both centralized and distributed mechanisms are studied for customers to reduce CfD charges via collaborative demand management. Overall, CfD pricing effectively reduces the demand uncertainty by promoting a predictable consumption behavior.