cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Incorporating learning mechanisms into the Dual-Route Cascaded (DRC) model of reading aloud and word recognition
Creators: name: Pritchard, Stephen C.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The dual-route cascaded (DRC) model of reading aloud and word recognition has achieved considerable success. Despite this, it has faced ongoing criticism for being a static model of skilled reading that does not describe reading acquisition. This PhD research focused on incorporating learning mechanisms into DRC. Work was divided into two broad areas: orthographic learning within DRC's lexical route, and grapheme-phoneme correspondence learning in DRC's sublexical route. To model orthographic learning, a “learning DRC” (L-DRC) was created. L-DRC provides a computational account of the self-teaching hypothesis, and in accordance with this, models orthographic learning as being self-driven via phonological recoding, with context supporting irregular word learning. L-DRC effectively modelled self-teaching and orthographic learning, and suggested mechanisms for the difficulties children may face when self-teaching difficult words like potentiophones or heterophonic homographs. To model sublexical learning, a grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) Learning Model was created and tested. This model effectively demonstrated GPC learning, especially when trained on an input corpus limited to mono-morphemic words presented once each. However, it experienced difficulties when trained on more realistic input corpuses. The model's performance suggests that sublexical route learning is sensitive to morpheme structure, and to type-based rather than token-based features in written material. The investigation of sublexical-route learning was preceded by a comparison of the sublexical routes of two competing dual-route models, the DRC and connectionist dualprocess (CDP+) models. These were assessed against new empirical data on how people pronounce nonwords. While neither model provided a good match to the human data, DRC performed significantly better than CDP+, or its successor CDP++.
Entropy production and fluctuation theorems for active matter
Creators: name: Mandal, Dibyendu
name: Klymko, Katherine
name: DeWeese, Michael R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active biological systems reside far from equilibrium, dissipating heat even in their steady state, thus requiring an extension of conventional equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. In this Letter, we have extended the emerging framework of stochastic thermodynamics to active matter. In particular, for the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model, we have provided consistent definitions of thermodynamic quantities such as work, energy, heat, entropy, and entropy production at the level of single, stochastic trajectories and derived related fluctuation relations. We have developed a generalization of the Clausius inequality, which is valid even in the presence of the non-Hamiltonian dynamics underlying active matter systems. We have illustrated our results with explicit numerical studies.
Aceites esenciales y sus componentes como una alternativa en el control de mosquitos vectores de enfermedades
Creators: name: Ochoa, Sergio Andrade
name: Luvia E. Sánchez-Torres
name: Nevárez-Moorillón, Guadalupe Virginia
name: Camacho, Alejandro D.
name: Nogueda-Torres, Benjamín
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 30402 Biomolecular Modelling and Design
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30502 Natural Products Chemistry
subject: 30499 Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Más de la mitad de la población humana está expuesta a contraer infecciones transmitidas por mosquitos. El cambio climático y la aparición de cepas resistentes a los insecticidas tradicionalmente utilizados han motivado la búsqueda de nuevos agentes capaces de controlar las poblaciones de mosquitos. Los aceites esenciales han resultado ser eficaces agentes repelentes y larvicidas.El objetivo de este trabajo fue revisar las investigaciones llevadas a cabo en los últimos años sobre la actividad larvicida de los aceites esenciales y sus componentes contra mosquitos de los géneros Aedes, Anopheles y Culex, así como los últimos reportes sobre su posible mecanismo de acción.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defects
Creators: name: Lieu, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field equations sourced by a topological defect, \ie~a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localised gravitational field capable of driving flat rotation (\ie~Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is mitigated, at least in part.
description: 7 pages, 40 equations. Accepted by MNRAS (see DOI link below)
Optical colours and spectral indices of $z=0.1$ EAGLE galaxies with 3D dust radiative transfer code SKIRT
Creators: name: Trayford, James W.
name: Camps, Peter
name: Theuns, Tom
name: Baes, Maarten
name: Bower, Richard G.
name: Crain, Robert A.
name: Gunawardhana, Madusha L. P.
name: Schaller, Matthieu
name: Schaye, Joop
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present mock optical images, broad-band and H$α$ fluxes, and D4000 spectral indices for 30,145 galaxies from the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation at redshift $z=0.1$, modelling dust with the SKIRT Monte Carlo radiative transfer code. The modelling includes a subgrid prescription for dusty star-forming regions, with both the subgrid obscuration of these regions and the fraction of metals in diffuse interstellar dust calibrated against far-infrared fluxes of local galaxies. The predicted optical colours as a function of stellar mass agree well with observation, with the SKIRT model showing marked improvement over a simple dust screen model. The orientation dependence of attenuation is weaker than observed because EAGLE galaxies are generally puffier than real galaxies, due to the pressure floor imposed on the interstellar medium. The mock H$α$ luminosity function agrees reasonably well with the data, and we quantify the extent to which dust obscuration affects observed H$α$ fluxes. The distribution of D4000 break values is bimodal, as observed. In the simulation, 20$\%$ of galaxies deemed `passive' for the SKIRT model, i.e. exhibiting D4000 $> 1.8$, are classified `active' when ISM dust attenuation is not included. The fraction of galaxies with stellar mass greater than $10^{10}$ M$_\odot$ that are deemed passive is slightly smaller than observed, which is due to low levels of residual star formation in these simulated galaxies. Colour images, fluxes and spectra of EAGLE galaxies are to be made available through the public EAGLE database.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 33 pages, 21 figures, 3 Tables
Enfermedades Transmitidas por Vectores y Cambio Climático
Creators: name: Ochoa, Sergio Andrade
name: Chacón-Vargas, Karla Fabiola
name: Rivera-Chavira, Blanca Estela
name: Luvia Enid Sánchez-Torres
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 50101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 40104 Climate Change Processes

description: Los cambios socioeconómicos y las intervencionessanitarias han mejorado la salud de la poblaciónmundial en las últimas décadas. Sin embargo,han empezado a presentarse modificaciones enla distribución de ciertas enfermedades debidas,principalmente, a lo que se conoce como cambioclimático y que es una consecuencia más deldeterioro del medio ambiente.
Una de las preocupaciones derivadas de loanterior es la redistribución o nueva geolocalizaciónde las enfermedades transmitidas por vectores(ETV), ya que los vectores que las transmiten estánencontrando nuevos nichos ecológicos en los cualesestablecerse y multiplicarse. El objetivo de la presenterevisión fue conjuntar la evidencia científica en tornoal cambio climático y sus efectos en las ETV.
Structure constants at wrapping order
Creators: name: Basso, Benjamin
name: Goncalves, Vasco
name: Komatsu, Shota
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider structure constants of single trace operators in planar $\mathcal{N}$ = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory within the hexagon framework. The standard procedure for forming a three point function out of two hexagons develops divergences when the effects of virtual particles wrapping around the operators are taken into account. In this paper, we explain how to renormalize these divergences away and obtain definite predictions, at the leading wrapping order, for some of the structure constants that parameterize the OPE of two chiral primaries. We test our method at weak coupling against the four loop planar correction to the BPS-BPS-Konishi OPE coefficient, derived recently in the field theory. At strong coupling, we compare our expressions with the structure constants obtained in string theory for three semiclassical strings.
description: 69 pages
Labouring for breath: lived experience of chronic breathlessness in rural Bangladesh
Creators: name: Roy, Anupom
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This ethnography explores experiences of chronic illness in a rural Bangladeshi village, examining the factors that contribute to people’s experiences of unending illness. Anthropologists have mainly studied chronic illness in wealthy countries, or in contexts where formal medical care was readily available. However, far less ethnographic attention has been directed toward the ways individuals living with excruciating poverty experience chronic illness. This thesis examines poor people’s discourses of chronic breathlessness in rural Bangladesh, seeking to explore the lived experience of people who not only suffer from extreme poverty but also lack access to trained medical practitioners. The thesis argues that these rural sufferers of chronic breathlessness do not experience the illness itself as chronic. Rather, what dominated their illness experiences was a social situation characterised by the chronic presence of poverty, frustration, and disappointment. In this context, any illness, including chronic breathlessness, appeared as an episodic intensification or additional layer of suffering. Cultural and social norms also intensify the stigma surrounding chronic breathlessness, and this is particularly true in the case of vulnerable groups including women, the elderly, the landless, and those who lack supportive kin networks. Understanding the experience of chronic illness in rural Bangladesh demands that the illness experience is understood holistically. This means situating chronic breathlessness within the context of local cultural norms and social networks, as well as the broader local and national politics that produce a system of biomedical care that is beyond the reach of most poor villagers.
Version control with Git
Creators: name: den Heijer, Kees
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Data Stewardship
Git
Version control
data management
Research Data Management
RDM
FAIR

description: Introductory presentation on the use of Git version control for reproducibility in research practice held at VU Amsterdam. The session includes hands-on exercises, mainly based on The Carpentries lesson material (http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/), and various demos.
Fragmenting very large XML data warehouses via K-means clustering algorithm
Creators: name: Cuzzocrea, Alfredo
name: Darmont, Jérôme
name: Mahboubi, Hadj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: XML data sources are more and more gaining popularity in the context of a wide family of Business Intelligence (BI) and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications, due to the amenities of XML in representing and managing semi-structured and complex multidimensional data. As a consequence, many XML data warehouse models have been proposed during past years in order to handle hetero-geneity and complexity of multidimensional data in a way traditional relational data warehouse approaches fail to achieve. However, XML-native database systems currently suffer from limited performance, both in terms of volumes of manageable data and query response time. Therefore , recent research efforts are focusing the attention on fragmentation techniques, which are able to overcome the limitations above. Derived horizontal fragmentation is already used in relational data warehouses, and can definitely be adapted to the XML context. However, classical fragmentation algorithms are not suitable to control the number of originated fragments, which instead plays a critical role in data warehouses, and, with more emphasis, distributed data warehouse architectures. Inspired by this research challenge, in this paper we propose the use of K-means clustering algorithm for effectively and efficiently supporting the fragmentation of very large XML data warehouses, and, at the same time, completely controlling and determining the number of originated fragments via adequately setting the parameter K. We complete our analytical contribution by means of a comprehensive experimental assessment where we compare the efficiency of our proposed XML data warehouse fragmentation technique against those of classical derived horizontal fragmentation algorithms adapted to XML data warehouses.
Holographic heat engines: general considerations and rotating black holes
Creators: name: Hennigar, Robie A.
name: McCarthy, Fiona
name: Ballon, Alvaro
name: Mann, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform the first study of holographic heat engines where the working material is a rotating black hole, obtaining exact results for the efficiency of a rectangular engine cycle. We also make general considerations in the context of benchmarking these engines on circular cycles. We find an exact expression that is valid for black holes with vanishing specific heat at constant volume and derive an upper bound, below the Carnot efficiency and independent of spacetime dimension, which holds for any black hole of this kind. We illustrate our results with applications to a variety of black holes, noting the effects of spacetime dimension, rotation, and higher curvature corrections on the efficiency of the cycle.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, REVTeX 4-1
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d'Aloxe (XVe siècle), Cart. 182 (11 H 233), 105 folios, f. 0102
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d'Aloxe (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 182 (11 H 233), 105 folios, f. 0102, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d'Aloxe (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 182 (11 H 233), 105 folios, f. 0102, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Luanda Leaks – A Conceptual Approach
Creators: name: Victoria, Artur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The international Media in the last days is giving news about a possible appropriation of money belonging to Angola State in advantage of a misconduct of the PR of Angola, favouring a familiar. I believe necessary to make a framework of the conceptual definitions about the facts announced by the media in order to make an opinion about what it is transmitted by TV’s to the public.. Money laundering Money laundering is presented as an activity that is, carrying out acts concatenated in time and space, with a view to achieving a determined goal. Those linked actions are concealment, concealment and integration. From the point of view of the strategic action of organized crime, concealment and concealment are antecedent movements to integration action, when “dirty money” re-enters the economy in the form of lawful market investments. At that stage, it will rarely be possible to recover the assets generated by the illegal activities. In a context of worsening socio-economic conditions in countries classified as "emerging", on all continents, there are three vectors that can be highlighted: a) The fall in profitability of traditional businesses, a world in which products are produced and services are provided, the so-called real economy; b) The increase in poverty, on a world scale, with the increasing deconstruction of the world of work; c) The lack of control over Financial Markets and capital flows by States and multilateral organizations such as the World Bank (IBRD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as multilateral organizations linked to the United Nations (UN). There is a huge negative impact that huge flows of illicit money can have on the financial sector.
Pattern formation from Gauge/Gravity Duality
Creators: name: Xia, Chuan-Yin
name: Zeng, Hua-Bi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence, we find a neutral complex scalar field dynamics in a $2+1$ dimensional black hole background which can provide a scheme for studying the pattern formation process in $1+1$ dimensional reaction-diffusion systems. The patterns include plane wave, defect turbulence, phase turbulence, spatio-temporal intermittency where defect chaos coexists with stable plane wave, and coherent structures. A phase diagram is obtained by studying the linear instability of the plane wave solutions to determine the onset of the holographic version of the BFN instability. Near the critical temperature the holographic model is dual to the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE), which has been studied extensively in reaction-diffusion systems. While at low temperature the holographic theory is different from CGLE.
description: 8 pages,6 figures
GPS and the Search for Axions
Creators: name: Nicolaidis, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GPS, an excellent tool for geodesy, may serve also particle physics. In the presence of Earth's magnetic field, a GPS photon may be transformed into an axion. The proposed experimental setup involves the transmission of a GPS signal from a satellite to another satellite, both in low orbit around the Earth. To increase the accuracy of the experiment, we evaluate the influence of Earth's gravitational field on the whole quantum phenomenon. There is a significant advantage in our proposal. While geomagnetic field B is low, the magnetized length L is very large, resulting into a scale (BL)^2 orders of magnitude higher than existing or proposed reaches. The transformation of the GPS photons into axion particles will result in a dimming of the photons and even to a "light shining through the Earth" phenomenon.
description: 9 pages
Modeling the bioconversion of starch to P(HB-co-HV) optimized by experimental design using Bacillus megaterium BBST4 strain
Creators: name: Porras, Mauricio A.
name: Ramos, Fernando D.
name: Diaz, María S.
name: Cubitto, María A.
name: Villar, Marcelo A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate) (P(HB-co-HV)) is a prominent biopolymer as a potential candidate for use in the biomedical area. Several Bacillus spp. strains show promising characteristics in the use of several carbon sources and are an interesting alternative for the production of P(HB-co-HV). Sewage from the agricultural and food processing industries can be used to obtain abundantly starch as a carbon source for PHA production. The aim of the present study was to optimize by response surface methodology and desirability, the production of PHA by a Bacillus megaterium strain using starch as the sole carbon source. Two optimal conditions were determined without sporulation and were used to perform new experiments to calibrate and validate a mechanistic model, developed to simulate the dynamics of PHA and biomass production. The developed model successfully represents the kinetics of the microorganism. Employing different characterization techniques, it was determined that the PHA produced by the strain is a copolymer composed of different HB:HV proportions. Using starch as the sole carbon source in a minimal salt medium, this work shows the first reports in the literature of: 1) a mathematical model for predicting growth kinetic and PHA production for B. megaterium strain and 2) a Bacillus spp. producing P(HB-co-HV) copolymer.
Homotopy theory of unital algebras
Creators: name: Grignou, Brice Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18D50, 18G30, 18G55, 55U15 and 55U40

description: This paper provides an extensive study of the homotopy theory of types of algebras with units, like unital associative algebras or unital commutative algebras for instance. To this purpose, we endow the Koszul dual category of curved coalgebras, where the notion of quasi-isomorphism barely makes sense, with a model category structure Quillen equivalent to that of unital algebras. To prove such a result, we use recent methods based on presentable categories. This allows us to describe the homotopy properties of unital algebras in a simpler and richer way. Moreover, we endow the various model categories with several enrichments which induce suitable models for the mapping spaces and describe the formal deformations of morphisms of algebras.
description: 46 pages
title: Portal = Sommer an der Uni: Leere Hörsäle? Volle Terminkalender!
title: Das Potsdamer Universitätsmagazin
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Schmidt, Anna
name: Eckardt, Barbara
name: Marszałek, Magdalena
name: Görlich, Petra
name: Bieber, Sabina
name: Kampe, Heike
name: Jäger, Sophie
name: Horn-Conrad, Antje
name: Günther, Oliver
name: Seckler, Robert
name: Seppä, Silvana
name: Guske, Katja
name: Szameitat, Ulrike
name: Bezzenberger, Tilman
name: Sütterlin, Sabine
name: Weller, Nina
name: Klauke, Lars
name: Universität Potsdam, Referat Für Presse- Und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: Aus dem Inhalt: - Sommer an der Uni: Leere Hörsäle? Volle Terminkalender! - Stärken stärken - Unter Stress
description: Portal: Das Potsdamer Universitätsmagazin, 03/2014
Lepton asymmetry rate from quantum field theory: NLO in the hierarchical limit
Creators: name: Bodeker, Dietrich
name: Sangel, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rates for generating a matter-antimatter asymmetry in extensions of the Standard Model (SM) containing right-handed neutrinos are the most interesting and least trivial coefficients in the rate equations for baryogenesis through thermal leptogenesis. We obtain a relation of these rates to finite-temperature real-time correlation functions, similar to the Kubo formulas for transport coefficients. Then we consider the case of hierarchical masses for the sterile neutrinos. At leading order in their Yukawa couplings we find a simple master formula which relates the rates to a single finite temperature three-point spectral function. It is valid to all orders in $g$,where $g$ denotes a SM gauge or quark Yukawa coupling. We use it to compute the rate for generating a matter-antimatter asymmetry at next-to-leading order in g in the non-relativistic regime. The corrections are of order $g ^ 2$, and they amount to 4% or less.
description: 40 pages, 1 figure
Caminabilidad y accesibilidad restringida en México
Creators: name: Ochoa, Sergio Andrade
name: Corres, Dana Olguin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 140218 Urban and Regional Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 160810 Urban Sociology and Community Studies
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160514 Urban Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: En temas de gestión, educación, legislación, infraestructura y protección, los peatones y las personas con discapacidad son, en México, los actores más vulnerados. Su derecho a la movilidad, la accesibilidad y al disfrute de la ciudad se encuentran en un panorama adverso y en condiciones precarias. La circulación libre de los peatones y la accesibilidad universal en México se antepone ante un panorama antidemocrático, violento y caótico que prioriza el tránsito libre de vehículos particulares.
Postural asymmetry in non-ambulant adults with cerebral palsy: a scoping review
Creators: name: Holmes, Carlee
name: Brock, Kim
name: Prue Morgan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Purpose: Non-ambulant adults with cerebral palsy are vulnerable to development of postural asymmetry and associated complications. The primary aim of this scoping review was to identify postural deformities in non-ambulant adults with cerebral palsy. Materials and methods: Comprehensive searches were undertaken in EMBASE, CINAHL, AMED, Cochrane, Psych INFO, and Joanna Briggs (1986–Jan 2017), supplemented by hand searching. Two reviewers independently extracted data using a customised tool focusing on study design, participant characteristics, postural descriptors, measurement tools, and interventions. Results: From 2546 potential records, 17 studies were included. Variability in populations, reporting methodology, and measurement systems was evident. Data suggest more than 30% of this population have hip migration percentage in excess of 30%, more than 75% experience “scoliosis”, and more than 40% demonstrate pelvic obliquity. Estimates ranged from 14% to 100% hip and 32% to 87% knee contracture incidence. Conservative interventions were infrequently and poorly described. Conclusion: Many non-ambulant adults with cerebral palsy experience postural asymmetry associated with windswept hips, scoliosis, pelvic obliquity, and limb contracture. Options for non-radiographic monitoring of postural asymmetry should be identified, and conservative interventions formally were evaluated in this population.Implications for rehabilitationThe common postural asymmetries of windswept hips, scoliosis, pelvic obliquity, and limb contracture require standardised clinical measurement.Radiography is most commonly used to monitor postural asymmetry in this population, but standardised positioning is not applied and may not be feasible indicating a need for alternate methods and rigorous documentation.The Posture and Postural Ability Scale may be considered for use in the management of body shape in adults with CP. The common postural asymmetries of windswept hips, scoliosis, pelvic obliquity, and limb contracture require standardised clinical measurement. Radiography is most commonly used to monitor postural asymmetry in this population, but standardised positioning is not applied and may not be feasible indicating a need for alternate methods and rigorous documentation. The Posture and Postural Ability Scale may be considered for use in the management of body shape in adults with CP.
Quantum Correlations in Nonlocal BosonSampling
Creators: name: Shahandeh, Farid
name: Lund, Austin P.
name: Ralph, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Determination of the quantum nature of correlations between two spatially separated systems plays a crucial role in quantum information science. Of particular interest is the questions of if and how these correlations enable quantum information protocols to be more powerful. Here, we report on a distributed quantum computation protocol in which the input and output quantum states are considered to be classically correlated in quantum informatics. Nevertheless, we show that the correlations between the outcomes of the measurements on the output state cannot be efficiently simulated using classical algorithms. Crucially, at the same time, local measurement outcomes can be efficiently simulated on classical computers. We show that the only known classicality criterion violated by the input and output states in our protocol is the one used in quantum optics, namely, phase-space nonclassicality. As a result, we argue that the global phase-space nonclassicality inherent within the output state of our protocol represents true quantum correlations.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, comments are very welcomed
Universality class change due to angle of deposition of thin-film growth by random particles aggregation
Creators: name: Boas, A. C. A. Vilas
name: Forgerini, F. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study numerically the effects of the angle of deposition of particles in the growth process of a thin-film generated by aggregation of particles added at random. The particles are aggregated in a random position of an initially flat surface and with a given angle distribution. This process gives rise to a rough interface after some time of deposition. We performed Monte Carlo simulations and, by changing the angle of deposition, we observed a transition from the random deposition (RD) universality class to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. We measured the usual scaling exponents, namely, the roughness ($α$), the growth ($β$) and the dynamic ($z$) exponents. Our results show that the particles added non-perpendicularly to the substrate, can change the universality class in a discrete atomistic random deposition model. When particles are deposited with an angle of $45^{\circ}$ in relation to the surface, the same values of the Ballistic Deposition model are observed in the Random Deposition model. We also propose an analytic approach, using a differential stochastic equation to analyze the growth process evolution, and our theoretical results corroborate the computer simulations.
Manager professional background: impact on performance and style
Creators: name: Wang, Sijin
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The prior professional experience of a manager is important for investors to be able to evaluate the opportunity and risk associated with them. Using a sample of funds and managers taken from Chinese open-ended mutual funds from February 2002 to December 2017, we find that managers with diverse professional experience perform differently and manage their funds in a variety of styles. Managers from government and research backgrounds have a higher risk-adjusted return while facing less market risk. Further detailed analysis shows that managers with government and research backgrounds have efficient investment skills, although market timing measurements suggest that the source of their informational advantage may differ. In contrast, managers with an investment background have higher raw returns generated by following ordinary investment strategies and taking higher systematic risk. Fund managers from a banking background make more money growth on their funds and compensate for their lower performance in generating returns. These results are robust after controlling time and fund fixed effects. In summary, we provide a possible explanation for the mechanism of the impact of prior professional experience on fund performance, whereby managers use the comparative advantage accumulated along career to retrieve informational advantage and generate abnormal return.
Scientific opinion about risk from trans fatty acids
Creators: name: Croatian Agency For Agriculture And Food
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: trans fatty acids
partially hydrogenated vegetable oils
fried food
Croatia

description: Trans fatty acids (TF A) are fatty acids with at least one non con jugated double bond in trans configuration. They arise from unsaturated fat ty acids during process of hydrogenation. Main sourc e of TF A in diet are mostly partially hydrogenated vegetable oils which are vastly us ed in fast food industry for ready to cook dishes, fried food, confectionery and bakery products. The growing concern over theTF A's impact on health, particularly on the cardiovascular system, has changed the public's view of partially hydrogenated oils. The European food indus try has pledged to l ower TF A content as low as technically possible, and it ha s been intensively worked on over the last few years.
 Croatian food agency in collaboration with Food control center as part of Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology in Zagreb has conducted r esearch on TFA content in variety of food products on Croatian market. This will enable risk assessment of exposure to TFA's as well as creation of national regulation s concerning permissible content of TFA and specific labelling of foodstuffs. Scientific opinion is based on conducted analysis of chemical content in food products from Croatian market that are a potent source of TFA's as well as data from food consumption survey on adults in Croatia in 2012. In total 104 samples have been analyzed from foll owing categories: fast food, fat, ice deserts, bakery products, fine bakery wares, chocolate products, snacks, pizza and similar meals. With exception of 3 samples, research has shown that overall intake of TFA in Croatia satisfies a WHO recommendation, that is set on <1 % of total daily energy intake, in average intake of 2000 kcal representing <2 g/day.
description: Scientific opinion was done by Croatian Food Agency which ceases its work on 31 December 2018 and continues its activities from 1 January 2019 in new institution Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food as Center for Food Safety.
Focusing properties of discrete RF quadrupole
Creators: name: Li, Zhihui
name: Wang, Zhijun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The particle motion equation in the Radio Frequency (RF) quadrupole is derived. The motion equation shows that the general transform matrix of RF quadrupole with length less than or equal to 0.5b*l (b is the relativistic velocity of particles and l is wavelength of radio frequency electromagnetic field) can describe the particle motion in arbitrary long RF quadrupole. By iterative integration, the general transform matrix of discrete RF quadrupole is derived from the motion equation. The transform matrix is in form of power series of focusing parameter B. It shows that for length less than b*l, the series up to 2nd order of B agrees well with the direct integration results for B up to 30, while for length less than 0.5b*l, the series up to 1st order is a good approximation of the real solution for B less than 30 already. The formula of the transform matrix can be integrated into the linac or beam line design code to deal with the focusing of the discrete RF quadrupole.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Making Software Development More Diverse and Inclusive: Key Themes, Challenges, and Future Directions
Creators: name: Hyrynsalmi, Sonja M.
name: Baltes, Sebastian
name: Brown, Chris
name: Prikladnicki, Rafael
name: Rodriguez-Perez, Gema
name: Serebrenik, Alexander
name: Simmonds, Jocelyn
name: Trinkenreich, Bianca
name: Wang, Yi
name: Liebel, Grischa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Introduction: Digital products increasingly reshape industries, influencing human behavior and decision-making. However, the software development teams developing these systems often lack diversity, which may lead to designs that overlook the needs, equal treatment or safety of diverse user groups. These risks highlight the need for fostering diversity and inclusion in software development to create safer, more equitable technology. Method: This research is based on insights from an academic meeting in June 2023 involving 23 software engineering researchers and practitioners. We used the collaborative discussion method 1-2-4-ALL as a systematic research approach and identified six themes around the theme challenges and opportunities to improve Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion (SDDI). We identified benefits, harms, and future research directions for the four main themes. Then, we discuss the remaining two themes, Artificial Intelligence & SDDI and AI & Computer Science education, which have a cross-cutting effect on the other themes. Results: This research explores the key challenges and research opportunities for promoting SDDI, providing a roadmap to guide both researchers and practitioners. We underline that research around SDDI requires a constant focus on maximizing benefits while minimizing harms, especially to vulnerable groups. As a research community, we must strike this balance in a responsible way.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Search for WHIM around A2744 using Suzaku
Creators: name: Hattori, Shiho
name: Ota, Naomi
name: Zhang, Yu-Ying
name: Akamatsu, Hiroki
name: Finoguenov, Alexis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results from the Suzaku satellite of the surrounding region of a galaxy cluster, A2744, at $z=0.3$. To search for oxygen emission lines from the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), we analyzed X-ray spectra from two northeast regions 2.2-3.3 and 3.3-4.4 Mpc from the center of the cluster, which offers the first test on the presence of a WHIM near the typical accretion shock radius ($\sim 2r_{200}$) predicted by hydrodynamical simulations. For the 2.2-3.3 Mpc region, the spectral fit significantly (99.2% significance) improved when we include OVII and OVIII lines in the spectral model. A comparable WHIM surface brightness was obtained in the 3.3-4.4 Mpc region and the redshift of OVIII line is consistent with $z=0.3$ within errors. The present results support that the observed soft X-ray emission originated from the WHIM. However, considering both statistical and systematic uncertainties, OVIII detection in the northeast regions was marginal. The surface brightness of the OVIII line in ${\rm 10^{-7} photons\,cm^{-2}s^{-1}arcmin^{-2}}$ was measured to be $2.7\pm 1.0$, $2.1 \pm 1.2$ for the 2.2-3.3, 3.3-4.4 Mpc regions, giving the upper limit on the baryon overdensity of $δ= 319 (<443)$, $283 (<446)$, respectively. This is comparable with previous observations of cluster outskirts and their theoretical predictions. The future prospect for WHIM detection using the Athena X-IFU micro-calorimeter is briefly discussed here. In addition, we also derived the ICM temperature distribution of A2744 to detect a clear discontinuity at the location of the radio relic. This suggests that the cluster has undergone strong shock heating by mass accretion along the filament.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, PASJ accepted
Postural asymmetry in non-ambulant adults with cerebral palsy: a scoping review
Creators: name: Holmes, Carlee
name: Brock, Kim
name: Prue Morgan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Purpose: Non-ambulant adults with cerebral palsy are vulnerable to development of postural asymmetry and associated complications. The primary aim of this scoping review was to identify postural deformities in non-ambulant adults with cerebral palsy. Materials and methods: Comprehensive searches were undertaken in EMBASE, CINAHL, AMED, Cochrane, Psych INFO, and Joanna Briggs (1986–Jan 2017), supplemented by hand searching. Two reviewers independently extracted data using a customised tool focusing on study design, participant characteristics, postural descriptors, measurement tools, and interventions. Results: From 2546 potential records, 17 studies were included. Variability in populations, reporting methodology, and measurement systems was evident. Data suggest more than 30% of this population have hip migration percentage in excess of 30%, more than 75% experience “scoliosis”, and more than 40% demonstrate pelvic obliquity. Estimates ranged from 14% to 100% hip and 32% to 87% knee contracture incidence. Conservative interventions were infrequently and poorly described. Conclusion: Many non-ambulant adults with cerebral palsy experience postural asymmetry associated with windswept hips, scoliosis, pelvic obliquity, and limb contracture. Options for non-radiographic monitoring of postural asymmetry should be identified, and conservative interventions formally were evaluated in this population.Implications for rehabilitationThe common postural asymmetries of windswept hips, scoliosis, pelvic obliquity, and limb contracture require standardised clinical measurement.Radiography is most commonly used to monitor postural asymmetry in this population, but standardised positioning is not applied and may not be feasible indicating a need for alternate methods and rigorous documentation.The Posture and Postural Ability Scale may be considered for use in the management of body shape in adults with CP. The common postural asymmetries of windswept hips, scoliosis, pelvic obliquity, and limb contracture require standardised clinical measurement. Radiography is most commonly used to monitor postural asymmetry in this population, but standardised positioning is not applied and may not be feasible indicating a need for alternate methods and rigorous documentation. The Posture and Postural Ability Scale may be considered for use in the management of body shape in adults with CP.
"Pseudoisomorphs" in liquids with intramolecular degrees of freedom
Creators: name: Olsen, Andreas Elmerdahl
name: Dyre, Jeppe C.
name: Schrøder, Thomas B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Computer simulations show that liquids of molecules with harmonic intramolecular bonds may have "pseudoisomorphic" lines of approximately invariant dynamics in the thermodynamic phase diagram. We demonstrate that these lines can be identified by requiring scale invariance of the inherent-structure reduced-unit low-frequency vibrational spectrum evaluated for a single equilibrium configuration. This rationalizes why excess-entropy scaling, density scaling, and isochronal superposition apply for many liquids with internal degrees of freedom.
Anti-hydroxyl radical activity, redox potential and anti-AChE activity of Amanita strobiliformis polysaccharide extract
Creators: name: Karaman, Maja
name: Janjušević, Ljiljana
name: Jakovljević, Dragica
name: Šibul, Filip
name: Pejin, Boris
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: This study outlines antioxidant and anti-AChE activities of the polysaccharide (PSH) extract from the mushroom species Amanita strobiliformis. Both the presence of α and ß glucans within the aforementioned extract was recorded. PSH extract displayed a profound scavenging activity of OH radicals (IC50 value, 11.86 ± 0.59 μg/mL) and high potential for reduction of Fe3+ ions (174.11 ± 8.70 mg eq. AA/g d.w.) being almost 48- and 5-fold more effective than mannitol and butylated hydroxytoluene used as a positive control, respectively. Compared with galanthamine (0.001 μg), the same extract exhibited a moderate anti-AChE activity (10 μg) in solid. Since purified PSH extract exhibited higher bioactivity (IC50 value 7.27 ± 0.31 μg/mL, 197.68 ± 9.47 mg eq. AA/g d.w. and 0.1 μg, respectively), it can be predominantly ascribed to the polysaccharide compounds. A. strobiliformis PSH extract may be considered as a promising resource of potent bioactive polysaccharides of natural origin successfully addressing both oxidative stress and lack of acetylcholine.