cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Strategic Implications of Global Warming
Creators: name: Steinbruner, John
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2012
Subjects: strategic implications
global warming
paleoclimate record

description: At least to the frontline climate scientists, it is becoming increasingly evident that the process of global warming presents a threat to human societies of essentially unprecedented proportions. They know beyond any reasonable doubt that the thermal impulse now being imparted to the earth’s ecological system by aggregate human activity is occurring at a rate greater than any that has been documented in the entire 65 million year paleoclimate record. The current rate of CO2  accumulation in the atmosphere is ten times higher than at any time over the past 400,000 years for which annual estimates have been made based upon ice core data.  For earlier periods estimates are made for longer time periods, but the natural rate of CO2 accumulation that 50 million years ago drove atmospheric concentrations and deep ocean temperatures to the highest estimated levels on record was a factor of 20,000 less than the current rate.  That distant process occurred over millions of years. At the higher rates currently prevailing, the inexorable process of reestablishing energy equilibrium will occur over a time span that will certainly be much shorter and will certainly affect the operating conditions of human societies, but the exact character, magnitude, timing, or location of the consequences cannot yet be determined.
Personal information self-management: A survey of technologies supporting administrative services
Creators: name: Marillonnet, Paul
name: Laurent, Maryline
name: Ates, Mikaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a survey of technologies for personal data self-management interfacing with administrative and territorial public service providers. It classifies a selection of scientific technologies into four categories of solutions: Personal Data Store (PDS), Identity Manager (IdM), Anonymous Certificate System and Access Control Delegation Architecture. Each category, along with its technological approach, is analyzed thanks to eighteen identified functional criteria that encompass architectural and communication aspects, as well as user data lifecycle considerations. The originality of the survey is multifold. First, as far as we know, there is no such thorough survey covering such a panel of a dozen of existing solutions. Second, it is the first survey addressing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) management for both administrative and private service providers. Third, this paper achieves a functional comparison of solutions of very different technical natures. The outcome of this paper is the clear identification of functional gaps of each solution. As a result, this paper establishes the research directions to follow in order to fill these functional gaps.
Close Pairs as Proxies for Galaxy Cluster Mergers
Creators: name: Wetzel, Andrew R.
name: Schulz, A. E.
name: Holz, Daniel E.
name: Warren, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy cluster merger statistics are an important component in understanding the formation of large-scale structure. Unfortunately, it is difficult to study merger properties and evolution directly because the identification of cluster mergers in observations is problematic. We use large N-body simulations to study the statistical properties of massive halo mergers, specifically investigating the utility of close halo pairs as proxies for mergers. We examine the relationship between pairs and mergers for a wide range of merger timescales, halo masses, and redshifts (0
description: 12 pages, 9 figures; Accepted for publication in ApJ. Significant additions to text and two figures changed. Added new findings on the universality of pair mergers and added analysis of the effect of FoF linking length on halo mergers
Additional file 3 of GEOlimma: differential expression analysis and feature selection using pre-existing microarray data
Creators: name: Liangqun Lu
name: Townsend, Kevin A.
name: Daigle, Bernie J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Percentage of genes in common from applying Limma and GEOlimma to 10 random data subsets across four differential expression comparisons. The x-axis indicates the number of top selected DE genes, while the y-axis indicates Percentage of genes in common.
The Participation of Japanese Military Forces in U.N. Peacekeeping Operations
Creators: name: Leitenberg, Milton
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1996
Subjects: Japanese military forces
United Nations
Cambodia
UNTAC
Maryland/Tsukuba Project

description: In September 1992, the first Japanese military forces were committed to participation in a U.N. peacekeeping mission, the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). This occurred under new Japanese legislation enacted in June 1992. It was followed by other short-term deployments with U.N. contingents in Mozambique in May 1993, in Zaire in 1994, and most recently with U.N. Peacekeeping forces on the Golan Heights in 1996. In September 1994, the Japanese Socialists reversed their policies of decades, accepting all that they had opposed before in regard to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF), including its basic constitutionality and legitimacy. However, the constitutional question has always been a proxy for a less symbolic and more basic issue: How can the Japanese public and political leadership  guard against a resurgence of "militarism," the accretion of both forces and political power that would permit the use of Japanese military forces for aggressive purposes?

Has the discussion of this question been realistic? Could such a process any longer take place without the approval and direction of the government? Is any incremental step toward the involvement and integration of the Japanese military in international collaborative activities, such as U.N. peacekeeping, the initiation of unavoidable and inevitable military independence, and the loss of control over the military by Japanese civil society and government? What would be the most desirable policies to follow so that the Japanese military behaved in accordance with international norms for the indefinite future? Is the most likely inhibitor of its misbehaving in the long term its integration with the military forces of other Asian and worldwide militaries, after 50 years of isolation, or attempting to maintain that total isolation indefinitely? And what does the question of a thoroughgoing and heretofore essentially absent Japanese national understanding of the practices of its armies in Asia between 1931 and 1945 have to do with these questions?
Resonance order-dependent plasmon-induced transparency in orthogonally-arranged nanoscale cavities
Creators: name: Ichiji, Naoki
name: Kubo, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we investigate plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) in a resonator structure consisting of two orthogonally-arranged metal-insulator-metal (MIM) nanocavities with the aim of spectral modulation of a specific resonant order of the resonator. Our FDTD simulations demonstrate that when both cavities in this structure resonate at the same frequency, the PIT effect can be used to induce spectral modulation. This spectral modulation depends on the resonance order of the cavity coupled directly to the external field, occurring when first-order resonance is exhibited, but not with second-order resonance. We confirmed that this behavior is caused by the discrepancies between odd-order and even-order resonances using classical mechanical models analogous to the nanocavities. By tuning the resonance frequency and resonance order of the cavities, one can modulate the spectrum of the resonator structure in an order-selective manner.
Cooper Pairs with Broken Time-Reversal, Parity, and Spin-Rotational Symmetries in Singlet Type-II Superconductors
Creators: name: Dutta, Omjyoti
name: Lebed, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that singlet superconductivity in the Abrikosov vortex phase is absolutely unstable with respect to the appearance of a chiral triplet component of a superconducting order parameter. This chiral component, p_x + i p_y, breaks time-reversal, parity, and spin rotational symmetries of the internal order parameter, responsible for a relative motion of two electrons in the Cooper pair. We demonstrate that the symmetry breaking Pauli paramagnetic effects can be tuned by a magnetic field strength and direction and can be made of the order of unity in organic and high-temperature layered superconductors.
description: Submitted to Physical Review Letters on May 9th 2008
Paradigm of the Siwi verb lməd "learn"
Creators: name: Souag, Lameen
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Siwi

description: Paradigm of the Siwi verb əlməd "learn" conjugated in all persons and numbers in the perfective ("preterite"), imperative, prohibitive (negative imperative), irrealis ("aorist"), and imperfective ("intensive"), by Sherif Bougdoura. Elicited through Arabic by Lameen Souag. Recorded on 14 May 2012 in Siwa to a file named STE-009.wav.
Non-compact QED3 at finite temperature: the confinement-deconfinement transition
Creators: name: Fiore, Roberto
name: Giudice, Pietro
name: Papa, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The confinement-deconfinement phase transition is explored by lattice numerical simulations in non-compact (2+1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with massive fermions at finite temperature. The existence of two phases, one with and the other without confinement of fractional charges, is related to the realization of the Z symmetry. The order parameter of this transition can be clearly identified. We show that it is possible to detect the critical temperature for a given value of the fermion mass, by exploiting suitable lattice operators as probes of the Z symmetry. Moreover, the large-distance behavior of the correlation of these operators permits to distinguish the phase with Coulomb-confinement from the Debye-screened phase. The resulting scenario is compatible with the existence of a Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. Some investigations are presented on the possible relation between chiral and deconfinement transitions and on the role of ``monopoles''.
description: 30 pages, 25 figures; version 2 accepted for publication in JHEP, a few clarifications added and typos corrected
Silvi Mägi välipäevik nr 55
Creators: name: Mägi, Silvi
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1981
Subjects: Eesti
Ordoviitsium
puuraugud

description: Ordoviitsiumi läbilõike kirjeldus Eesti puursüdamikes.
Silvi Mägi välipäevik nr 56
Creators: name: Mägi, Silvi
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1984
Subjects: Eesti
Ordoviitsium
paljandid

description: Ordoviitsiumi läbilõike kirjeldus Jägala joa paljandis.
Massifying Stem Education in Africa
Creators: name: Fomunyam, Dr. Kehdinga George
Publisher: name: Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT)
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: The world is on the brink of a technological revolution, which will change the way of life as we know it. This study identifies science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, as a valid response from the educational sector to these global changes. There are a plethora of comparative indicators, which illustrates how Africa lags behind other continents of the world, in scientific productivity and knowledge systems. This study proposes the massification of STEM education as a countermeasure, to enable Africa meet up with the global competition, and prepare for the future. Massifying STEM education in Africa involves creating access via several strategies, resulting in the increase of student enrollment in STEM fields. This paper concludes that massifying STEM education boarders on creating access, ensuring quality and relevance of STEM education across Africa. Recommendations made include the active involvement of all stakeholders in promoting STEM fields, and the availability of STEM education across all age groups, and gender in Africa.
Cosmic Evolution of Black Holes and Spheroids. II: Scaling Relations at z=0.36
Creators: name: Treu, Tommaso
name: Woo, Jong-Hak
name: Malkan, Matthew A.
name: Blandford, Roger D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine Hubble Space Telescope images of a sample of 20 Seyfert galaxies at z=0.36 with spectroscopic information from the Keck Telescope to determine the black hole mass - spheroid luminosity relation (M-L), the Fundamental Plane (FP) of the host galaxies and the M-sigma relation. Assuming pure luminosity evolution, we find that the host spheroids had smaller luminosity and stellar velocity dispersion than today for a fixed M. The offsets correspond to Delta log L_B,0=0.40+-0.11+-0.15 (Delta log M = 0.51+-0.14+-0.19) and Delta log sigma = 0.13+-0.03+-0.05 (Delta log M = 0.54+-0.12+-0.21), respectively for the M-L and M-sigma relation. A detailed analysis of known systematic errors and selection effects shows that they cannot account for the observed offset. The data are inconsistent with pure luminosity evolution and the existence of universal and tight scaling relations. To obey the three local scaling relations by z=0 the distant spheroids have to grow their stellar mass by approximately 60% (Δlog M_sph=0.20+-0.14) in the next 4 billion years. The measured evolution can be expressed as M/ M_sph ~ (1+z)^{1.5+-1.0}. Based on the disturbed morphologies of a fraction of the sample (6/20) we suggest collisional mergers with disk-dominated systems as evolutionary mechanism.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
title: A scoping review of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions to treat chronic ocular pain
Creators: name: De Lott, Lindsey
name: Khan, Noreen
name: Shea, Annie
name: Saylor, Kate
name: Galor, Anat
name: Digre, Kathleen
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Opthalmology and Vision Sciences
subject: Health Sciences

description: Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and evidence for both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments to address chronic ocular pain (COP). We aim to summarize the evidence for COP therapeutics and highlight gaps in the current evidence to help direct both evidence-based clinical care and future research efforts. Introduction: COP is disabling and a common reason for referral to neuro-ophthalmologists. Many patients with COP suffer from amplified or dysfunctional pain processing in the central nervous system, rather than a problem with the eye itself. The extent and evidence for therapeutic interventions targeting pain processing in the CNS among patients suffering from COP is unknown. Methods: We will perform a search of Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, and Clinicaltrials.gov. We will limit our search to English language articles published since 2015. We will include observational and experimental studies of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions (e.g., vagal nerve stimulation) used in adults 18 years or older with COP for at least 3 months. Studies will be included if impact on pain intensity, functioning, or quality of life are measured as primary, secondary, or exploratory outcomes. All articles will be independently screened by two team members for inclusion. Data extraction will be performed independently by two team members. Any disagreements during the screening and data extraction process will be adjudicated by a third team member and discussed as a group. Results and Conclusion: The results will be reported using the PRISMA-ScR checklist and submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
Silvi Mägi välipäevik nr 57
Creators: name: Mägi, Silvi
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1985
Subjects: Eesti
Leningradi oblast
Pihkva oblast
Ordoviitsium
puuraugud

description: Ordoviitsiumi läbilõike kirjeldus Eesti, Leningradi ja Pihkva oblasti puursüdamikes.
STUDY OF BIOPHARMACEUTICAL PROPERTIES OF ANTISPASMODIC TABLETS
Creators: name: Yunusova, Kholida
name: Ismailova, Muhayyo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The study of biopharmaceutical properties of antispasmodic tablets is crucial for understanding their effectiveness, bioavailability, and overall therapeutic impact. This research focuses on evaluating the key characteristics of antispasmodic tablets, such as dissolution rate, absorption, pharmacokinetics, and stability. The biopharmaceutical profile helps in determining the appropriate formulation and dosage form to ensure optimal therapeutic outcomes for patients suffering from various gastrointestinal disorders. Various tests, including in vitro dissolution tests and in vivo absorption studies, were conducted to assess the release profile and the pharmacodynamic effects of the tablets. Results suggest that the biopharmaceutical properties significantly influence the clinical efficacy of antispasmodic medications, with implications for improving drug design and personalized medicine. Through these evaluations, we seek to provide insights into how different formulations can impact the clinical efficacy of antispasmodic medications, thereby contributing to better drug design and patient care. This study highlights the importance of assessing the biopharmaceutical properties to enhance drug development and patient care.
Silvi Mägi välipäevik nr 59
Creators: name: Mägi, Silvi
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1986
Subjects: Eesti
Ordoviitsium
paljandid

description: Ordoviitsiumi läbilõike kirjeldus Eesti paljandites.
The On The Fly Imaging Technique
Creators: name: Mangum, J. G.
name: Emerson, D. T.
name: Greisen, E. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The On-The-Fly (OTF) imaging technique enables single-dish radio telescopes to construct images of small areas of the sky with greater efficiency and accuracy. This paper describes the practical application of the OTF imaging technique. By way of example the implementation of the OTF imaging technique at the NRAO 12 Meter Telescope is described. Specific requirements for data sampling, image formation, and Doppler correction are discussed.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures, accepted A&A
Gamma-ray emission from massive star forming regions
Creators: name: Araudo, A. T.
name: Romero, G. E.
name: Bosch-Ramon, V.
name: Paredes, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent radio observations support a picture for star formation where there is accretion of matter onto a central protostar with the ejection of molecular outflows that can affect the surrounding medium. The impact of a supersonic outflow on the ambient gas can produce a strong shock that could accelerate particles up to relativistic energies. A strong evidence of this has been the detection of non-thermal radio emission coming from the jet termination region of some young massive stars. In the present contribution, we study the possible high-energy emission due to the interaction of relativistic particles, electrons and protons, with the magnetic, photon and matter fields inside a giant molecular cloud. Electrons lose energy via relativistic Bremsstrahlung, synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton interactions, and protons cool mainly through inelastic collisions with atoms in the cloud. We conclude that some massive young stellar objects might be detectable at gamma-rays by next generation instruments, both satellite-borne and ground based.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted to be published in the International Journal of Modern Physics D, proceedings of HEPRO meeting, held in Dublin, in September 2007
Networks of quantum nanorings: programmable spintronic devices
Creators: name: Foldi, Peter
name: Kalman, Orsolya
name: Benedict, Mihaly G.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An array of quantum rings with local (ring by ring) modulation of the spin orbit interaction (SOI) can lead to novel effects in spin state transformation of electrons. It is shown that already small (3x3, 5x5) networks are remarkably versatile from this point of view: Working in a given network geometry, the input current can be directed to any of the output ports, simply by changing the SOI strengths by external gate voltages. Additionally, the same network with different SOI strengths can be completely analogous to the Stern-Gerlach device, exhibiting spatial-spin entanglement.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Nano Letters
The Imitation Game: Exploring Brand Impersonation Attacks on Social Media Platforms
Creators: name: Acharya, Bhupendra
name: Lazzaro, Dario
name: Lopez-Morales, Efren
name: Oest, Adam
name: Saad, Muhammad
name: Cinà, Antonio Emanuele
name: Schönherr, Lea
name: Holz, Thorsten
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: The rise of social media users has led to an increase in customer support services offered by brands on various platforms. Unfortunately, attackers also use this as an opportunity to trick victims through fake profiles that imitate official brand accounts. In this work, we provide a comprehensive overview of such brand impersonation attacks on social media.

We analyze the fake profile creation and user engagement processes on X, Instagram, Telegram, and YouTube and quantify their impact. Between May and October 2023, we collected 1.3 million user profiles, 33 million posts, and publicly available profile metadata, wherein we found 349,411 squatted accounts targeting 2,625 of 2,847 major international brands. Analyzing profile engagement and user creation techniques, we show that squatting profiles persistently perform various novel attacks in addition to classic abuse such as social engineering, phishing, and copyright infringement. By sharing our findings with the top 100 brands and collaborating with one of them, we further validate the real-world implications of such abuse. Our research highlights a weakness in the ability of social media platforms to protect brands and users from attacks based on username squatting. Alongside strategies such as customer education and clear indicators of trust, our detection model can be used by platforms as a countermeasure to proactively detect abusive accounts.
Strong Imbalanced Turbulence
Creators: name: Beresnyak, A.
name: Lazarian, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider stationary, forced, imbalanced, or cross-helical MHD Alfvenic turbulence where the waves traveling in one direction have higher amplitudes than the opposite waves. This paper is dedicated to so-called strong turbulence, which cannot be treated perturbatively. Our main result is that the anisotropy of the weak waves is stronger than the anisotropy of a strong waves. We propose that critical balance, which was originally conceived as a causality argument, has to be amended by what we call a propagation argument. This revised formulation of critical balance is able to handle the imbalanced case and reduces to old formulation in the balanced case. We also provide phenomenological model of energy cascading and discuss possibility of self-similar solutions in a realistic setup of driven turbulence.
description: this is shorter, 5 page version of what is to appear in ApJ 682, Aug. 1, 2008
Proper motions of field L and T dwarfs -II
Creators: name: Casewell, S. L.
name: Jameson, R. F.
name: Burleigh, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using images taken with WFCAM on UKIRT and SofI on the NTT and combining them with 2MASS we have measured proper motions for 126 L and T dwarfs in the dwarf archive. Two of these L dwarfs appear to have M dwarf common proper motion companions, and 2 also appear to be high velocity dwarfs, indicating possible membership of the thick disc. We have also compared the motion of these 126 objects to that of numerous moving groups, and have identified new members of the Hyades, Ursa Major and Pleiades moving groups. These new objects, as well as those identified in Jameson et al. (2008) have allowed us to refine the L dwarf sequence for Ursa Major that was defined by Jameson et al. (2008).
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 10 pages, 3 figures
Silvi Mägi välipäevik nr 60
Creators: name: Mägi, Silvi
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1986
Subjects: Eesti
Ordoviitsium
paljandid

description: Ordoviitsiumi läbilõike kirjeldus Eesti paljandites.
The role of α₂macroglobulin the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Bridges, Michael Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Following reports by Shapira et al. that α₂Macro-globulin (α₂M) is abnormal in cystic fibrosis (CF), the author set out to examine the properties of α₂M isolated from the plasma of children with CF and from the plasma of age/sex matched controls. To do so, a technique capable of isolating pure, physiologically "active" α₂M from small plasma samples had to be developed. By a two-step chromatographic technique, involving Cibacron Blue Sepharose chromatography and immuno-adsorption, the author was able to isolate "active" CF and control α₂M of at least 98 percent purity from 5 ml of plasma, regardless of plasma haptoglobin type. Having accomplished this, comparative studies of CF and control α₂M were undertaken. Four parameters were investigated: (1) the molar protease binding of α₂M (2) the interaction of α₂M -bovine cationic trypsin (BCT) complexes with the low molecular weight substrate BAEE, (3) the stability of formed α₂M-BCT complexes, and (4) the subunit structure of α₂M. Contrary to the reports of Shapira and his colleagues, this author found no differences between the subunit structure of CF and control α₂M nor between the abilities of CF and control α₂M to interact with BCT. Based upon these findings, the author believes that no firm evidence exists to implicate an α₂M defect in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis.
Additional file 4 of GEOlimma: differential expression analysis and feature selection using pre-existing microarray data
Creators: name: Liangqun Lu
name: Townsend, Kevin A.
name: Daigle, Bernie J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. Gene-wise false positive rate (FPR) and false negative rate (FNR) distributions for Limma and GEOlimma resulting from a simulation study.
Silvi Mägi välipäevik nr 61
Creators: name: Mägi, Silvi
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1986
Subjects: Eesti
Leningradi oblast
Ordoviitsium
paljandid

description: Ordoviitsiumi läbilõike kirjeldus Eesti ja Leningradi oblasti paljandites.
SSRF vs. Developers: A Study of SSRF-Defenses in PHP Applications
Creators: name: Wessels, Malte
name: Koch, Simon
name: Pellegrino, Giancarlo
name: Johns, Martin
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: Server-side requests (SSR) are a potent and important tool for modern web applications, as they enable features such as link preview and web hooks. Unfortunately, naive usage of SSR opens the underlying application up to Server-Side Request Forgery – an underappreciated vulnerability risk. To shed light on this vulnerability class, we conduct an in-depth analysis of known exploitation methods as well as defenses and mitigations across PHP. We then proceed to study the prevalence of the vulnerability and defenses across 27,078 open-source PHP applications. For this we perform an initial data flow analysis, identifying attacker-controlled inputs into known SSR functions, followed up by a manual analysis of our results to gain a detailed understanding of the involved vulnerabilities and present defenses. Our results show that defenses are sparse. The hypermajority of our 237 detected data flows are vulnerable. Only two analyzed applications implement safe SSR features.

Since known defenses are not used and detected attacker-controlled flows are almost always vulnerable, we can only conclude that developers are still unaware of SSR abuses and the need to defend against them. Consequently, SSRF is a present and underappreciated danger in modern web applications.
Deep Learning Based Resource Assignment for Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Kim, Minseok
name: Lee, Hoon
name: Lee, Hongju
name: Lee, Inkyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper studies a deep learning approach for binary assignment problems in wireless networks, which identifies binary variables for permutation matrices. This poses challenges in designing a structure of a neural network and its training strategies for generating feasible assignment solutions. To this end, this paper develop a new Sinkhorn neural network which learns a non-convex projection task onto a set of permutation matrices. An unsupervised training algorithm is proposed where the Sinkhorn neural network can be applied to network assignment problems. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in various network scenarios.
description: to appear in IEEE Communications Letters
Additional file 5 of GEOlimma: differential expression analysis and feature selection using pre-existing microarray data
Creators: name: Liangqun Lu
name: Townsend, Kevin A.
name: Daigle, Bernie J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5. AUC improvement of GEOlimma with shuffled DE prior probabilities over Limma for the A) Asthma vs Non-asthma comparison, B) Nonleukemia vs AML comparison, C) Nonleukemia vs MDS comparison, D) AML vs MDS comparison.
Electronic coherence and coherent dephasing in the optical control of electrons in graphene
Creators: name: Heide, Christian
name: Eckstein, Timo
name: Boolakee, Tobias
name: Gerner, Constanze
name: Weber, Heiko B.
name: Franco, Ignacio
name: Hommelhoff, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic coherence is of utmost importance for the access and control of quantum-mechanical solid-state properties. Using a purely electronic observable, the photocurrent, we measure an electronic coherence time of 22 +/- 4 fs in graphene. The photocurrent is ideally suited to measure electronic coherence as it is a direct result of quantum path interference, controlled by the delay between two ultrashort two-color laser pulses. The maximum delay for which interference between the population amplitude injected by the first pulse interferes with that generated by the second pulse determines the electronic coherence time. In particular, numerical simulations reveal that the experimental data yield a lower boundary on the electronic coherence time and that coherent dephasing masks a lower coherence time. We expect that our results will significantly advance the understanding of coherent quantum-control in solid-state systems ranging from excitation with weak fields to strongly driven systems.
Additional file 6 of GEOlimma: differential expression analysis and feature selection using pre-existing microarray data
Creators: name: Liangqun Lu
name: Townsend, Kevin A.
name: Daigle, Bernie J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. AUC standard curves for estimating effective sample sizes. A) Asthma vs Non-asthma comparison, B) Nonleukemia vs AML comparison, C) Nonleukemia vs MDS comparison, D) AML vs MDS comparison.
Microwave Rectification by a Carbon Nanotube Schottky Diode
Creators: name: Cobas, Enrique
name: Fuhrer, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carbon nanotube Schottky diodes have been fabricated in an all-photolithographic process using dissimilar contact metals on high-frequency compatible substrates (quartz and sapphire). Diodes show near-ideal behavior, and rectify currents of up to 100 nA and at frequencies up to 18 GHz. The voltage and frequency dependence is used to estimate the junction capacitance of ~10-18 F and the intrinsic device cut-off frequency of ~400 GHz.
description: To appear in Applied Physics Letters
title: „Ich bin verbunden einfach“
title: Bedeutung transnationaler Praktiken für togoische Migrant_innen in Deutschland
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Marklein, Annika
Publisher: name: Universität Osnabrück
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Transnationalismus
subject: transnationale Praktiken
subject: Togo
subject: Migration
subject: togoische Migrant_innen
subject: Bedeutung
subject: 300 - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Dieses Working Paper widmet sich einer bisher wenig beleuchteten Perspektive der geführten Debatten um Transnationalismus: Es untersucht die Rolle, die transnationale Netzwerke und Praktiken für togoische Migrant_innen in Deutschland haben. Grundlage der Untersuchung ist eine qualitative Inhaltsanalyse von elf Interviews, die mit togoischen Migrant_innen in Deutschland geführt wurden. Es handelt sich bei den Forschungsergebnissen entsprechend um die individuellen Perspektiven dieser Personen und die Bedeutungen, die diese ihren Praktiken zuschreiben. Neben den oft diskutierten finanziellen Rücküberweisungen stehen dabei weitere Praktiken wie die transnationale Kommunikation, Mobilität und Vereinsaktivitäten im Vordergrund. Die Interviewpersonen stellen insbesondere ihre Verbundenheit und das ‚Füreinander-Da-Sein‘ als wichtige Bedeutungen der Praktiken dar – eine Perspektiverweiterung, die vor allem für politische Debatten um den Zusammenhang zwischen Migration und Entwicklung relevant sein kann.
À la recherche de tous les vrais bugs
Creators: name: Correnson, Arthur
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: Pour assurer le bon fonctionnement des logiciels, il est crucial de les tester pendant leur développement. Pour faciliter cette tâche, de nombreuses méthodes de test automatique existent et permettent de détecter rapidement des erreurs de programmation. Pour être efficace et sûr, un détecteur de bugs automatique se doit d’être aussi précis et exhaustif que possible : il ne doit détecter que des vrais bugs et, si possible, être capable de détecter tous les bugs. Dans cet article, nous présentons un détecteur automatique de bugs formellement vérifié en Coq. En particulier nous prouvons que, sous certaines hypothèses, notre détecteur est précis et exhaustif.
Constraints on the merging timescale of luminous red galaxies, or, where do all the halos go?
Creators: name: Conroy, Charlie
name: Ho, Shirley
name: White, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the LCDM cosmology dark matter halos grow primarily through the accretion of smaller halos. Much of the mass in a halo of 10^14Msun comes in through accretion of ~10^13Msun halos. If each such halo hosted one luminous red galaxy (LRG) then the accretion of so many halos is at odds with the observed number of LRGs in clusters unless these accreted LRGs merge or disrupt on relatively short timescales (~2Gyr). These timescales are consistent with classical dynamical friction arguments, and imply that 2-3 LRGs have merged or disrupted within each halo more massive than 10^14Msun by z=0. The total amount of stellar mass brought into these massive halos by z=0 is consistent with observations once the intracluster light (ICL) is included. If disrupted LRGs build up the ICL, then the hierarchical growth of massive halos implies that a substantial amount of ICL should also surround satellite LRGs, as suggested by recent observations of the Virgo cluster. Finally, we point out that these results are entirely consistent with a non-evolving clustering strength and halo occupation distribution, and note that observations of the latter in fact support the hypothesis that merging/disruption of massive galaxies does indeed take place at late times.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, final version, to appear in MNRAS
title: The story of the Prophet Salih
Creators: name: Souag, Lameen
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Siwi

description: A retelling in Siwi by Sherif Bougdoura of part of the story of the prophet Salih, based on a short text in Arabic (and including a quote in Arabic from Qur'an 23:145), but far from a literal translation. Recorded by Lameen Souag in Siwa on 19 May 2012, in a file named STE-033.wav. An earlier edition of the transcription was published in Souag 2013:264-267 (_Berber and Arabic in Siwa (Egypt): A Study in Linguistic Contact_. Berber Studies Vol. 37. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.).
Large Binocular Telescope observations of new six compact star-forming galaxies with [NeV] 3426A emission
Creators: name: Izotov, Y. I.
name: Thuan, T. X.
name: Guseva, N. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of [NeV]3426 emission, in addition to HeII4686 emission, in six compact star-forming galaxies. These observations considerably increase the sample of eight such galaxies discovered earlier by our group. For four of the new galaxies, the optical observations are supplemented by near-infrared spectra. All galaxies, but one, have HII regions that are dense, with electron number densities of ~300-700 cm-3. They are all characterised by high Hbeta equivalent widths EW(Hbeta)~190-520A and high O32=[OIII]5007/[OII]3727 ratios of 10-30, indicating young starburst ages and the presence of high ionization radiation. All are low-metallicity objects with 12+logO/H=7.46-7.88. The spectra of all galaxies show a low-intensity broad component of the Halpha line and five out of six objects show Wolf-Rayet features. Comparison with photoionization models shows that pure stellar ionization radiation from massive stars is not hard enough to produce such strong [NeV] and HeII emission in our galaxies. The [NeV]3426/HeII4686 flux ratio of ~1.2 in J1222+3602 is consistent with some contribution of active galactic nucleus ionizing radiation. However, in the remaining five galaxies, this ratio is considerably lower, <0.4. The most plausible models are likely to be non-uniform in density, where HeII and [NeV] lines are emitted in low-density channels made by outflows and illuminated by harder ionizing radiation from radiative shocks propagating through these channels, whereas [OIII] emission originates in denser regions exposed to softer stellar ionizing sources.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Political capital as the hallmark of engineering education in Africa
Creators: name: Fomunyam, Dr. Kehdinga George
Publisher: name: Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT)
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: When a political actor or a government delivers on its promises, whether on provision of infrastructure or favourable policies, it automatically earns political capital as a reward and as a bargaining chip for future purposes. This study explores the intricacies of political capital and its impacton engineering education in Africa. It examines political leverage as a key indicator of a functioning education system and the effect of engineering education on politics in turn. Political capital enables political players use their connections to secure compliance especially in terms of advocating for and pushing forward policies that ensure growth in engineering education, which is an essential part of overhauling and restructuring the African economy. The study also suggests yet-to-be-explored routes that could further advance engineering education in Africa.
มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลพระนคร กับการดำเนินงานด้านประกันคุณภาพการศึกษา
Creators: name: ดวงสุดา เตโชติรส
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลพระนคร
Year: 2010
Subjects: การประกันคุณภาพการศึกษา

description: 2, 4, วารสารวิชาการและวิจัย มทร.พระนคร
Early Stopping Byzantine Agreement in $(1+ε)\cdot f$ Rounds
Creators: name: Elsheimy, Fatima
name: Loss, Julian
name: Pamanthou, Charalampos
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, we present two early stopping Byzantine agreement protocols in the authenticated setting against a corrupt minority t < n/2, where t represents the maximum number of malicious parties. Early stopping protocols ensure termination within a number of rounds determined solely by the actual number of malicious nodes f present during execution, irrespective of t.
Our first protocol is deterministic and ensures early stopping termination in (d + 5) · ([f /d] + 2) + 2 rounds, where d is a fixed constant. For example, for all d ≥ 6, our protocol runs in at most (1 + ϵ) · f rounds (where 0 < ϵ < 1), improving (for large f) upon the best previous early stopping deterministic broadcast protocol by Perry and Toueg [1], which terminates in min(2f+4, 2t+2) rounds. Additionally, our second protocol is randomized, ensuring termination in an expected constant number of rounds and achieving early stopping in (d + 9) · ([f /d] + 1) + 2 rounds in the worst case. This marks a significant improvement over a similar result by Goldreich and Petrank. [2], which always requires an expected constant number of rounds and O(t) rounds in the worst case, i.e., does not have the early stopping property.
Inference in neural networks using conditional mean-field methods
Creators: name: Poc-López, Ángel
name: Aguilera, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We extend previous mean-field approaches for non-equilibrium neural network models to estimate correlations in the system. This offers a powerful tool for approximating the system dynamics as well as a fast method to infer network parameters from observations. We develop our method in an asymmetric kinetic Ising model and test its performance on 1) synthetic data generated by an asymmetric version of the Sherrington Kirkpatric model and 2) recordings of in vitro neuron spiking activity from the mouse somatosensory cortex. We find that our mean-field method outperforms previous ones in estimating networks correlations and successfully reconstructs network dynamics from data near a phase transition showing large fluctuations.
A new equation for the mid-plane potential of power law discs. II. Exact solutions and approximate formulae
Creators: name: Huré, J. -M.
name: Hersant, F.
name: Carreau, C.
name: Busset, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) that describes the mid-plane gravitational potential in flat finite size discs in which the surface density is a power-law function of the radius R with exponent s (Huré & Hersant 2007) is solved exactly in terms of infinite series. The formal solution of the ODE is derived and then converted into a series representation by expanding the elliptic integral of the first kind over its modulus before analytical integration. Inside the disc, the gravitational potential consists of three terms: a power law of radius R with index 1+s, and two infinite series of the variables R and 1/R. The convergence of the series can be accelerated, enabling the construction of reliable approximations. At the lowest-order, the potential inside large astrophysical discs (s ~ -1.5 +/- 1) is described by a very simple formula whose accuracy (a few percent typically) is easily increased by considering successive orders through a recurrence. A basic algorithm is given. Applications concern all theoretical models and numerical simulations where the influence of disc gravity must be checked and/or reliably taken into account.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A, 13 pages, 8 figures
title: Limping and lower limb deformity in a child
Creators: name: Vassalou, Evangelia
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 7-year-old boy presented with left-sided limping for the past 6 months, without a history of trauma. Clinical examination revealed lower limb-length discrepancy of more than 2 cm and mild left genu valgus deformity. Routine lab investigations were normal. Past medical and family history were otherwise unremarkable

description: 7 years, male
Additional file 1 of Tuberculosis (TB) in the refugee camps in Ethiopia: trends of case notification, profile, and treatment outcomes, 2014 to 2017
Creators: name: Tsegay Legesse
name: Goitom Admenur
name: Selemawit Gebregzabher
name: Eyob Woldegebriel
name: Bexabeh Fantahun
name: Yemane Tsegay
name: Abeyot Bayssa
name: Berihu Darge
name: Yidnekachew Denbu
name: Hayelom Michalel
name: Kibebew Abera
name: Alemayeh, Abraham
name: Dejene Kebede
name: Kasa, Desta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1:. Distribution of the notified TB case in the seven refugee areas and 25 refugee health facilities/camps in Ethiopia (2014–2017).