cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Most-Favored-Nation Clause as a Bar to Economic Union
Creators: name: Kelsey, Hope
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The nations of the world are on the brink of economic suicide. An immediate and drastic stock-taking of international trade conditions, envisaging a volte-face in world commercial policies is one of the imperative requisites for any possible recovery. Out of the morass and hopeless tangle of the myriad problems presented by such an undertaking rises the question of the most-favored-nation clause in treaties, technical in its application, but vitally basic in its inception, meaning, and breadth of operation. A study of the clause is of far greater importance for a correct understanding of present day commercial policies and international economic relations than one would surmise from the very general knowledge of this subject on the part of most students of history, economies, and international relations, as well as on the part of the nations' leaders in public life. For this reason, the writer has deemed it worthwhile to make a study of its present position in the light of developments in post-war commercial policy with special reference to its European orientation. An attempt will be made to answer the questions: Is its maintenance as the regulator of international commercial intercourse still desirable in consideration of the European and world economic situation of today, or is its usefulness overshadowed by its shortcomings? An attempt will be made to show how and to what degree its existence has proven in recent years to be a bar to attempts at economic union and the ultimate establishment of a more liberal tariff policy: first, in Europe ; secondly, in the world at large.
The Most-Favored-Nation Clause as a Bar to Economic Union
Creators: name: Kelsey, Hope
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The nations of the world are on the brink of economic suicide. An immediate and drastic stock-taking of international trade conditions, envisaging a volte-face in world commercial policies is one of the imperative requisites for any possible recovery. Out of the morass and hopeless tangle of the myriad problems presented by such an undertaking rises the question of the most-favored-nation clause in treaties, technical in its application, but vitally basic in its inception, meaning, and breadth of operation. A study of the clause is of far greater importance for a correct understanding of present day commercial policies and international economic relations than one would surmise from the very general knowledge of this subject on the part of most students of history, economies, and international relations, as well as on the part of the nations' leaders in public life. For this reason, the writer has deemed it worthwhile to make a study of its present position in the light of developments in post-war commercial policy with special reference to its European orientation. An attempt will be made to answer the questions: Is its maintenance as the regulator of international commercial intercourse still desirable in consideration of the European and world economic situation of today, or is its usefulness overshadowed by its shortcomings? An attempt will be made to show how and to what degree its existence has proven in recent years to be a bar to attempts at economic union and the ultimate establishment of a more liberal tariff policy: first, in Europe ; secondly, in the world at large.
Absolute Reactor Antineutrino Flux Measurement with PROSPECT-I Data
Creators: name: Kunkle, Paige
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) is a short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment designed to perform a sterile neutrino oscillation search and make a precise measurement of the neutrino energy spectrum from a compact reactor core, located at the highly enriched High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In its first phase, PROSPECT demonstrated a superior signal-to-background while operating with minimal overburden, motivating an absolute flux measurement at the few percent level that has potential impacts on understanding the reactor antineutrino anomaly and the global flux picture, as well as reactor monitoring with neutrino detectors. This talk will outline the major components of an absolute flux measurement with PROSPECT and present the current analysis progress.
On the toroidal-velocity anti-dynamo theorem under the presence of nonuniform electric conductivity
Creators: name: Rüdiger, G.
name: Schultz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laminar electrically conducting Couette flows with the hydrodynamically stable quasi-Keplerian rotation profile and non-uniform conductivity are probed for dynamo instability. In spherical geometry the equations for the poloidal and the toroidal field components completely decouple, resulting in free decay, regardless of the spatial distribution of the electric conductivity. In cylindrical geometry the poloidal and toroidal components do not decouple, but here also we do not find dynamo excitations for the cases that the electric conductivity only depends on the radius or -- much more complex -- that it only depends on the azimuthal or the axial coordinate. The transformation of the plane-flow dynamo model of Busse \& Wicht (1992) to cylindrical or spherical geometry therefore fails. It is also shown that even the inclusion of axial flows of both directions does {\em not} support the dynamo mechanism. The Elsasser toroidal-velocity antidynamo theorem, according to which dynamos without any radial velocity component cannot work, is thus not softened by non-uniform conductivity distributions.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Pselaphodes antennarius Huang & Li & Yin 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Huang, Meng-Chi
name: Li, Li-Zhen
name: Yin, Zi-Wei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pselaphodes
Pselaphodes antennarius

description: Pselaphodes antennarius sp. nov.
(Figs 4A, 5)
Type material (1 ex.). HOLOTYPE: ♁, CHINA: ‘ China: N. Guizhou, Daozhen Co. (AEA ẆȒẇaeẇŊàR), Dashahe († ÒȐ), 29°10′12″N, 107°33′36″E, mixed leaf litter, sifted, 1730 m, 07.vii.2015, Jiang, Peng, Tu & Zhou leg.’ (SNUC).
Diagnosis of male. Length 2.88 mm; antennomere VII slightly broadened mesally, antennomere IX broadly triangular, with large cavity on upper surface; antennomere X with large lamina-like projection at base; metaventral processes short, apically narrowed; protrochanter and profemur each with one distinct ventral spine, mesotrochanter with multiple protuberances.
Description. Male (Fig. 4A). Body reddish brown, BL 2.88 mm. Head slightly longer than wide, HL 0.63 mm, HW 0.60 mm; each eye composed of about 35 facets. Antennomeres IX–XI (Fig. 5A) forming distinct club, antennomere VII slightly broadened mesally, antennomere IX broadly triangular, with large cavity on upper surface, antennomere Xwith large lamina-like projection at base. Pronotum (Fig. 5B) as long as wide, PL 0.55 mm, PW 0.55 mm, constricted at apical half. Elytra wider than long, EL 0.80 mm, EW 1.15 mm. Metaventral horn-like processes (Fig. 5C) short, apically narrowed. Protrochanter with acute ventral spine, profemur with distinct ventral spine (Fig. 5D); mesotrochanter (Fig. 5E) with multiple protuberances; metatrochanter and metafemur (Fig. 5F) simple.Abdomen broad at base and narrowed apically, AL 0.90 mm, AW 1.13 mm. Sternite IX (Fig. 5G) semi-membranous. Length of aedeagus (Figs 5 H–J) 0.43 mm; median lobe asymmetric, parameres apically narrowed, endophallus composed of one elongate and two short sclerites.
Female. Unknown.
Comparative notes. The new species is placed as a member of the P. walkeri species group based on the asymmetrical male antennomere VII. The unique form of antennomere IX and antennomere X, short metaventral processes, multiple protuberances of the mesotrochanter, and structure of the aedeagus readily separate P. antennarius from all other similar congeners.
Etymology. The specific epithet is Latin adjective referring to the strongly modified antennomeres IX–X in the male of the new species.
Distribution. China: Guizhou.
description: Published as part of Huang, Meng-Chi, Li, Li-Zhen & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2018, Eleven new species and a new country record of Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from China, with a revised checklist of world species, pp. 457-478 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (2) on pages 461-462, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0035, http://zenodo.org/record/4488739
The Nutrition-Health Program of the Junior and Senior Public High Schools in the District of Columbia
Creators: name: DeGroot, Ruth Elizabeth
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this investigation has been to discover the present statue of the nutrition-health program of the public high schools of the District of Columbia. The fifteen white junior and senior schools of the District cooperated in the making of the study. Ten of these are junior high schools, five are senior high schools.
Confinement and oscillating deconfinement crossover of two-magnon excitations in quantum spin chains quantified by spin entanglement entropy
Creators: name: Dong, Zhao-Yang
name: Li, Jian-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the spin entanglement entropy (EE) to characterize spin excitations. The scalings of EEs are elaborated as $\ln N$, $\ln N+D_k$ and $2\ln N+D$ for the single-magnon states, two-magnon bound states and two-magnon continuum, respectively, based on the Bethe ansatz solutions of the ferromagnetic spin chain with $N$ sites. The $\ln N$ divergence for the bound states reveals the two magnons emerge as a new quasiparticle. More importantly, the nonzero intercepts ($D_k,D$) embody the many-body effects of two-magnon states. In particular, an exact relation between the intercept of EEs and an observable quantity, the two-magnon distance, is established for the bound states. In such a case, we quantify the two-magnon confinement in a spin system by the increasing entanglement with the distance as a particle physics analogue. Moreover, the EEs can also be used to study the evolution of the excitations. When the bound states are immersed in the continuum in the alternating chain, they undergo an oscillating confinement-deconfinement crossover, shown by the oscillations of the EEs and two-magnon distance with the chain length.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
The Nutrition-Health Program of the Junior and Senior Public High Schools in the District of Columbia
Creators: name: DeGroot, Ruth Elizabeth
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3210
subject: Nutrition and dietetics
classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: The purpose of this investigation has been to discover the present statue of the nutrition-health program of the public high schools of the District of Columbia. The fifteen white junior and senior schools of the District cooperated in the making of the study. Ten of these are junior high schools, five are senior high schools.
Adult education under public auspices in the United States
Creators: name: Alderman, Lewis Raymond
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: It is the purpose of this thesis: 1. to give in brief form history, meaning, and need of adult education; 2. to show, in consecutive order, the history and present scope of the major fields of adult education under public auspices; 3. to point out trends, present weaknesses, and to make recommendations that have application in the various fields of adult education under public auspices.
Adult education under public auspices in the United States
Creators: name: Alderman, Lewis Raymond
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: It is the purpose of this thesis: 1. to give in brief form history, meaning, and need of adult education; 2. to show, in consecutive order, the history and present scope of the major fields of adult education under public auspices; 3. to point out trends, present weaknesses, and to make recommendations that have application in the various fields of adult education under public auspices.
Spectral single photons characterization using generalized Hong, Ou and Mandel interferometry
Creators: name: Fabre, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New methods are proposed to characterize the spectral-temporal distribution of single photons. The presented protocols take advantage of spectral filtering, frequency entanglement between two single photons the one of interest and a reference, followed by the generalized Hong, Ou and Mandel interferometer. The measurement of the coincidence probability in these different schemes reveals the chronocyclic Wigner, the pseudo-Wigner distribution and the spectrogram at the single-photon level.
USIA Poll # 1984-I84049: Japan UN/UNESCO Survey II
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Knowledge of United Nations (1); United Nations location (1); United Nations job performance (1); usefulness of United Nations membership (1); effectiveness of United Nations (1); UNESCO (1); country contributing most to UNESCO (1); UNICEF (1); UNESCO function (1); United States withdrawal from UNESCO (4).
PIPA/Levada Center Poll: G8 Summit
Creators: name: Levada Center
name: Program For Public Consultation, University Of Maryland
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: Democracy (1); influence of certain countries (1); influence of certain countries over ten year span (5); democracy in Russia (1); United States advancing human rights abroad (1); G8 Summit (2); subjects discussed at G8 Summit (1); Russian participation in G8 Summit (4); Russian/American relations after G8 (1); NATO/Russia fearing each other (2); developments in Russia (3); re-nationalization of Russian oil and gas industries (1); nationalization of industries in private hands (1); government model for Russia (2); America signing treaties prohibiting holding people in secret and allowing Red Cross access (1); keeping prisoners suspected of having information indefinitely (5); legality of American practices of detaining/imprisoning suspects (1); legal requirements for treatment of detainees (5); rules about pressuring detainees (4); treatment of detainees in Guantanamo (2); American government handling interrogators (1); same rules for detainees regardless of citizenship (1); American interrogations of detainees in Iraq (1); rights of suspected terrorists (10); changing practices according to UN Commission on Human Rights (1); America sending detainees to other countries for interrogation (3); commander being held responsible for military personnel using torture (1); government officials who torture being punished (1); Abu Gharaib prisoner abuse (5).
TranSalNet: Towards perceptually relevant visual saliency prediction
Creators: name: Lou, Jianxun
name: Lin, Hanhe
name: Marshall, David
name: Saupe, Dietmar
name: Liu, Hantao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visual saliency prediction using transformers - Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced computational modelling for saliency prediction. However, accurately simulating the mechanisms of visual attention in the human cortex remains an academic challenge. It is critical to integrate properties of human vision into the design of CNN architectures, leading to perceptually more relevant saliency prediction. Due to the inherent inductive biases of CNN architectures, there is a lack of sufficient long-range contextual encoding capacity. This hinders CNN-based saliency models from capturing properties that emulate viewing behaviour of humans. Transformers have shown great potential in encoding long-range information by leveraging the self-attention mechanism. In this paper, we propose a novel saliency model that integrates transformer components to CNNs to capture the long-range contextual visual information. Experimental results show that the transformers provide added value to saliency prediction, enhancing its perceptual relevance in the performance. Our proposed saliency model using transformers has achieved superior results on public benchmarks and competitions for saliency prediction models. The source code of our proposed saliency model TranSalNet is available at: https://github.com/LJOVO/TranSalNet
description: Source code: https://github.com/LJOVO/TranSalNet
The Background, Development and Results of the Job Specialty Inventory of the Air Force
Creators: name: Botsford, Charles G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: For many years the problem of putting the right man in the right job in order to obtain full utilization of his potentialities has existed. Both industrial and public administrators have considered the problem systematically. A great deal has been said and written about job analysis and its relationship to placement and to the utilization of the worker. Various techniques of job analysis have been developed. The basic principles behind the developed techniques generally are the same insofar as reviewed; the costs in the methods utilized in the collection of job data have varied widely; the written material on interview technique and the description of an orderly compilation of the collected job data before utilization has been lacking in literature.The problem of this thesis is the development of a job analysis "instrument" and a job analysis interview technique to be used in the collection and marshalling of factual job data, with special reference to the Air Force. Job analysis is an important factor in effective administration and is defined more explicitly later in this chapter. It is important to develop in the armed services methods of personnel administration which will be effective in both wartimes and peace. In 1948 the future plans of the Air Force included working out principles and policies of an Officer and Airman Career Program. The tedious, detailed analysis of every segment of theme programs had to he accomplished before implementation could take place. One of the important segments was the collection of basic, factual Job information to be used in placing each officer and airman in a position commensurate with his qualifications. The technological advances during World War II had rendered many existing job descriptions antiquated. It was important, therefore, that the Air Force develop a job analysis instrument that would be efficient and satisfactory in the collection of current, factual job information from which adequate Job descriptions could be prepared, career programs developed, and training standards established.
The Background, Development and Results of the Job Specialty Inventory of the Air Force
Creators: name: Botsford, Charles G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: For many years the problem of putting the right man in the right job in order to obtain full utilization of his potentialities has existed. Both industrial and public administrators have considered the problem systematically. A great deal has been said and written about job analysis and its relationship to placement and to the utilization of the worker. Various techniques of job analysis have been developed. The basic principles behind the developed techniques generally are the same insofar as reviewed; the costs in the methods utilized in the collection of job data have varied widely; the written material on interview technique and the description of an orderly compilation of the collected job data before utilization has been lacking in literature.The problem of this thesis is the development of a job analysis "instrument" and a job analysis interview technique to be used in the collection and marshalling of factual job data, with special reference to the Air Force. Job analysis is an important factor in effective administration and is defined more explicitly later in this chapter. It is important to develop in the armed services methods of personnel administration which will be effective in both wartimes and peace. In 1948 the future plans of the Air Force included working out principles and policies of an Officer and Airman Career Program. The tedious, detailed analysis of every segment of theme programs had to he accomplished before implementation could take place. One of the important segments was the collection of basic, factual Job information to be used in placing each officer and airman in a position commensurate with his qualifications. The technological advances during World War II had rendered many existing job descriptions antiquated. It was important, therefore, that the Air Force develop a job analysis instrument that would be efficient and satisfactory in the collection of current, factual job information from which adequate Job descriptions could be prepared, career programs developed, and training standards established.
Reseña: Pupio, A., Alcalde, R. A. y De la Fuente, L. (2019). ¿Qué nos hace humanos? Un manual para pensar(nos) en las aulas (Segunda edición digital), Bahía Blanca, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional del Sur, 202 pp., ISBN 978-987-655-269-1, compilación.
Creators: name: Marinetti, Camila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: comunicación pública de la ciencia
manual
patrimonio
educación

description: Reseña: Pupio, A., Alcalde, R. A. y De la Fuente, L. (2019). ¿Qué nos hace humanos? Un manual para pensar(nos) en las aulas (Segunda edición digital), Bahía Blanca, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional del Sur, 202 pp., ISBN 978-987-655-269-1, compilación.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 95.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 23.04.1966, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert
description: ETH-Bibliothek
GEO Poll: National Pre-election Survey 1, January, 1994
Creators: name: Gabinete De Estudios De Opinion (GEO)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1995

description: Political values(10); media(5); political information(4); national situation(11); political parties(5); political preferences(10); the electoral process(8); Chiapas(16); demographics(8).
Variability in Quasar Light Curves: using quasars as standard candles
Creators: name: Solomon, Rance
name: Stojkovic, Dejan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A relation between the variational slope, $s_F$ , and the mean absolute magnitude, $\langle M \rangle$, in the light curves of 58 spectroscopically confirmed quasars is measured with a dispersion of 0.15dex. Assuming it holds for quasars in general, not only does this relation add to our working knowledge of quasar variability but it also shows great promise at accurately measuring luminosity distance to a quasar in a model independent way. An accurate, model independent measure of the luminosity distance would allow quasars to be added to the cosmic distance ladder, easily extending the ladder out far beyond the redshifts accessible to type Ia supernovae where cosmological parameters can be better constrained.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
GEO Poll: National Pre-election Survey 2, March, 1994
Creators: name: Gabinete De Estudios De Opinion (GEO)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1995

description: Political values(8); media(5); political information(6); national situation(12); political preferences(10); political parties(3); the electoral process(16); Chiapas(14); demographics(8).
Gallup Poll # 1957-0583: Eisenhower/Political Parties/1960 Presidential Election/Sources of News
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2004

description: Dwight D. Eisenhower job performance (1); respondent gets most information and news from magazines/radio/newspapers/television (2); most important problem facing country today (2); which political party best serves interests of certain groups (5); would register as a Democrat/Republican if had to register again today (2); Billy Graham (2); how would respondent rate certain men (9); Vice President Nixon vs. Senator Knowland of California (1); Senator Kefauver of Tennessee vs. Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts (1); 1957-1958 budget cut (3); Republican party vs. Democratic party (3); President Eisenhower's speech last Tuesday night (2); usually get news from newspapers/radio/TV (1); would rather have son get a job with a newspaper/magazine/TV station/radio station (1); story about respondent in newspaper during last twelve months (2); where was respondent living four years ago (2); where was respondent living one year ago (2); ever voted before (1); which party would like to see win if elections for Congress were being held today (2); 1956 presidential election (2).
The Data Processing of the LAMOST Medium-Resolution Spectral Survey of Galactic Nebulae (LAMOST MRS-N Pipeline)
Creators: name: Wu, Chao-Jian
name: Wu, Hong
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Li, Yao
name: Ren, Juan-Juan
name: Chen, Jian-Jun
name: Hsia, Chih-Hao
name: Wu, Yu-Zhong
name: Zhu, Hui
name: Li, Bin
name: Hou, Yong-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) medium-resolution spectral survey of Galactic Nebulae (MRS-N) has conducted for three years since Sep. 2018 and observed more than 190 thousands nebular spectra and 20 thousands stellar spectra. However, there is not yet a data processing pipeline for nebular data. To significantly improve the accuracy of nebulae classification and their physical parameters, we developed the MRS-N Pipeline. This article presented in detail each data processing step of the MRS-N Pipeline, such as removing cosmic rays, merging single exposure, fitting sky light emission lines, subtracting skylight, wavelength recalibration, measuring nebular parameters, creating catalogs and packing spectra. Finally, a description of the data products, including nebular spectra files and parameter catalogs, is provided.
description: Accepted for publication in RAA. 17 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
Gallup Poll # 1957-0585: Warfare/Supreme Court/Work/Smoking
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2006

description: Dwight Eisenhower job performance (2); Geneva Conference to discuss reduction of arms and military personnel (4); trading stamps (4); attitudes toward the Supreme Court and Congress (3); four-day work week (4); number of hours worked per week (1); number of jobs respondent has (1); 1960 presidential election (7); federal aid to build new public schools (2); smoking cigarettes and cancer (10); 1956 presidential election (1).
DeepFormableTag: End-to-end Generation and Recognition of Deformable Fiducial Markers
Creators: name: Yaldiz, Mustafa B.
name: Meuleman, Andreas
name: Jang, Hyeonjoong
name: Ha, Hyunho
name: Kim, Min H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fiducial markers have been broadly used to identify objects or embed messages that can be detected by a camera. Primarily, existing detection methods assume that markers are printed on ideally planar surfaces. Markers often fail to be recognized due to various imaging artifacts of optical/perspective distortion and motion blur. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel deformable fiducial marker system that consists of three main parts: First, a fiducial marker generator creates a set of free-form color patterns to encode significantly large-scale information in unique visual codes. Second, a differentiable image simulator creates a training dataset of photorealistic scene images with the deformed markers, being rendered during optimization in a differentiable manner. The rendered images include realistic shading with specular reflection, optical distortion, defocus and motion blur, color alteration, imaging noise, and shape deformation of markers. Lastly, a trained marker detector seeks the regions of interest and recognizes multiple marker patterns simultaneously via inverse deformation transformation. The deformable marker creator and detector networks are jointly optimized via the differentiable photorealistic renderer in an end-to-end manner, allowing us to robustly recognize a wide range of deformable markers with high accuracy. Our deformable marker system is capable of decoding 36-bit messages successfully at ~29 fps with severe shape deformation. Results validate that our system significantly outperforms the traditional and data-driven marker methods. Our learning-based marker system opens up new interesting applications of fiducial markers, including cost-effective motion capture of the human body, active 3D scanning using our fiducial markers' array as structured light patterns, and robust augmented reality rendering of virtual objects on dynamic surfaces.
A novel similarity measure for mining missing links in long-path networks
Creators: name: Ran, Yijun
name: Liu, Tianyu
name: Jia, Tao
name: Xu, Xiao-Ke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Network information mining is the study of the network topology, which answers a large number of application-based questions towards the structural evolution and the function of a real system. For example, the questions can be related to how the real system evolves or how individuals interact with each other in social networks. Although the evolution of the real system may seem to be found regularly, capturing patterns on the whole process of the evolution is not trivial. Link prediction is one of the most important technologies in network information mining, which can help us understand the real system's evolution law. Link prediction aims to uncover missing links or quantify the likelihood of the emergence of nonexistent links from known network structures. Currently, widely existing methods of link prediction almost focus on short-path networks that usually have a myriad of close triangular structures. However, these algorithms on highly sparse or long-path networks have poor performance. Here, we propose a new index that is associated with the principles of Structural Equivalence and Shortest Path Length ($SESPL$) to estimate the likelihood of link existence in long-path networks. Through 548 real networks test, we find that $SESPL$ is more effective and efficient than other similarity-based predictors in long-path networks. We also exploit the performance of $SESPL$ predictor and embedding-based approaches via machine learning techniques, and the performance of $SESPL$ can achieve a gain of 44.09\% over $GraphWave$ and 7.93\% over $Node2vec$. Finally, according to the matrix of Maximal Information Coefficient ($MIC$) between all the similarity-based predictors, $SESPL$ is a new independent feature to the space of traditional similarity features.
description: 5 figures
Gallup Poll # 1957-0590: Political Party/Presidential Election/Automobile
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2008

description: Dwight Eisenhower job performance (2); important problems (1); partisan opinions (10); Russian missile and rocket development (1); journey to the moon (1); Russia and Earth satellite (1); Republican presidential candidates (2); Democratic presidential candidates (2); newspaper (3); Armed Forces (1); integration in school (2); voter participation (1); Asian flu (3); buying a car (7).
title: Ein Recht auf Gesundheit für Fremde aus Art 3 und 8 EMRK?
Creators: name: Lauer, Sabrina
Year: 2017

description: Das Recht auf Gesundheit findet sich in verschiedenen internationalen Menschenrechtsverträgen, als sogenanntes soziales Grundrecht ist es allerdings nicht in der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention verankert. Dennoch hat der EGMR im Laufe der vergangenen Jahrzehnte sich häufig mit dem Gesundheitszustand der Beschwerdeführer, insbesondere jenem von Fremden in Zusammenhang mit aufenthaltsbeendenden Maßnahmen, vor allem unter dem Blickwinkel des Art 3 EMRK beschäftigt. Art 3 EMRK ist ein absolut geltendes existenzielles Grundrecht, das Folter sowie unmenschliche oder erniedrigende Behandlung verbietet. Durch die dynamische Rechtsprechung des EGMR wurde der Anwendungsbereich von Art 3 EMRK sukzessive erweitert. Allerdings stellt der Gesundheitszustand eines Fremden nur in außergewöhnlichen Ausnahmefällen ein Abschiebehindernis dar und zwar insbesondere dann, wenn es sich um eine lebensbedrohliche Krankheit handelt und der Beschwerdeführer im Zielland weder die notwendige medizinische Behandlung noch familiäre Unterstützung erhalten kann. Im Gegensatz dazu steht das Recht auf Privat- und Familienleben, bei dem die physische und psychische Integrität einen Teilaspekt darstellt, unter einem Eingriffsvorbehalt. Aus der stringenten Rechtsprechung des EGMR kann daher nicht auf ein allgemeines Recht auf Gesundheit für Fremde geschlossen werden.
description: The right to health can be found in various human rights treaties, but as a so-called social human right it is not incorporated in the European Convention on Human Rights. Nevertheless the Court has dealt in a number of cases with the state of health of applicants, especially aliens facing deportation or expulsion, mainly under Art 3 ECHR. Art 3 ECHR is an absolute existential fundamental right that prohibits torture as well as inhuman or degrading treatment. Due to the dynamic case law of the European Court of Human Rights the scope of application of Art 3 ECHR has been gradually extended. However the state of health of an applicant can only be an impediment for expulsion under very exceptional circumstances, namely if the applicant suffers from a life threatening disease and there is neither necessary medical treatment nor family support available in the country of destination. On the contrary the right to private and family life, of which the physical and psycholological integrity is an integral part, is not absolute and can be interfered. From the stringent case law of the Court no general right to health for foreigners can be derived.
Hospitalizações por Complicações da Varicela
Creators: name: Carvalho, Isabel
name: Caldeira, Teresa
name: Santos, Fátima
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Resumo

A varicela é a mais frequente das doenças exantemáticas prevenivel por vacina e é por vezes causa de graves complicações, condicionando o internamento hospitalar. Objectivos; Analisar as características epidemiológicas e clínicas das crianças internadas por complicações associadas á varicela. Metodologia; Revisão casuística de casos de crianças previamente saudáveis internadas por complicações associadas à varicela, no período de Janeiro de 1999 a Dezembro de 2002. Resultados; Foram internadas 21 crianças, 52% do sexo masculino. A mediana da idade foi 2 anos, O intervalo de tempo médio entre o início da varicela e o início da complicação foi de 4,7 ± 3 dias. Os tipos de complicações mais frequentes foram a sobre infecção bacteriana da pele ou tecido celular subcutâneo (23f8%) e as complicações respiratórias (28,6%), Complicações menos frequentes, como as neurológicas (19?0%) e hematológicas (i4,3%), ocorreram em crianças com mais de 5 anos e mais tardiamente no curso da varicela. Dez crianças efectuaram aciclovir (47,6%). O tempo médio de internamento foi 6,5 ± 3,5 dias. A evolução foi favorável em todos os casos.

Conclusões: Verificou-se um aumento significativo de internamentos por complicações da varicela, todos os casos ocorreram em crianças sem défices imunitários prévios. As complicações da varicela representam a morbilidade de uma doença considerada benigna e inevitável nas crianças.A instituição de um programa de vacinação da varicela será benéfica na redução das suas complicações e consequente diminuição dos custos económicos associados.

Palavras-Chave: varicela, complicações, criança, hospitalização.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 36 n.º 5 (2005)
Pselaphodes daweishanus Huang & Li & Yin 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Huang, Meng-Chi
name: Li, Li-Zhen
name: Yin, Zi-Wei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pselaphodes
Pselaphodes daweishanus

description: Pselaphodes daweishanus sp. nov.
(Figs 7A, 8)
Type material (1 ex.). HOLOTYPE: ♁, CHINA: ‘ China: Yunnan, Daweishan N. R., 22°54.317′N, 103°41.961′E, 2124 m, 28.x.2016, Huang & Wang leg. [ṅṁ† DZƜŊ ḨOiṖữ]’ (SNUC).
Diagnosis of male. Length 3.10 mm; antennomere VII slightly broadened mesally, antennomere IX nearly triangular, with round projection on upper surface, antennomere X with large projection at base, antennomere XI narrowed near base; metaventral processes broad apically; protrochanter and profemur with acute ventral spines, protibia with small but distinct projection at apex; mesotrochanter with three ventral spines.
Description. Male (Fig. 7A). Body reddish brown, BL 3.10 mm. Head longer than wide, HL 0.71 mm, HW 0.63 mm; each eye composed of about 35 facets. Antennomeres IX–XI (Fig. 8A) forming distinct club, antennomere VII slightly broadened mesally, antennomere IX nearly triangular, with disc-like projection on upper surface, strongly projected at anteromesal margin, antennomere X with distinct and large projection at base, antennomere XI narrowed near base. Pronotum (Fig. 8B) as long as wide, PL 0.64 mm, PW 0.65 mm, roundly narrowed from middle to apex. Elytra wider than long, EL 0.92 mm, EW 1.23 mm. Metaventral processes (Fig. 8C) broadened at apex. Protrochanter with long and acute ventral spine, profemur (Fig. 8D) with large ventral spine; protibia (Fig. 8E) with small but distinct projection at apex; mesotrochanter (Fig. 8F) with three acute ventral spines; metatrochanter and metafemur (Fig. 8G) simple. Abdomen broad at base and narrowed apically, AL 0.83 mm, AW 1.23 mm. Sternite IX (Fig. 8H) semi-membranous. Length of aedeagus (Figs 8 I–K) 0.57 mm; median lobe asymmetric, endophallus composed of one elongate and two short sclerites.
Female. Unknown.
Comparative notes. The new species is placed as a member of the P. walkeri species group based on the asymmetrical male antennomere VII. Males of the new species can be readily separated from similar congeners by the form of the antennal club, the broad metaventral processes, spination of the legs, as well as structure of the aedeagus.
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the type locality of the new species, i.e., Daweishan National Nature Reserve; adjective.
Distribution. China: Yunnan.
description: Published as part of Huang, Meng-Chi, Li, Li-Zhen & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2018, Eleven new species and a new country record of Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from China, with a revised checklist of world species, pp. 457-478 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (2) on pages 464-465, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0035, http://zenodo.org/record/4488739
The Gin: Its Economic Contribution to the Development of the Cotton Industry in the U. S
Creators: name: Smith, W. Harold
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this paper is to give a history of the part played by the cotton gin in the economic development of the cotton industry in the Unitec States. In order neither to magnify nor minimize this contribution and to put it in its natural setting, the growth and development of the cotton plant will be discussed first, after which, the evolution of spinning, the invention and improvement of the cotton gin, and its effect on the cotton industry, will be taken up in the order named.
Gallup Poll # 1969-0792: The Future/Political Leaders
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2007

description: Country that has achieved the most from 1960 to 1969 (1); wish respondent would like to see happen in the next ten years (1); world a better/worse place to live in the next ten years (1); things to happen in the next 20 years (1); political leaders job performance (11); political party to win next Congressional election (2); age people should be allowed to vote (1); Vietnam (1); 1968 presidential election (1); attend church in the last 7 days (1).
title: Das k. k. Wohltätigkeitshaus in Baden 1805–1918
Creators: name: Andreasch, Clemens
Year: 2017

description: Das Wohltätigkeitshaus in Baden war ein Kurheim für sozial Bedürftige, dessen Grundlage eine Stiftung von Kaiser Franz I. aus dem Jahr 1808 war. In der vorliegenden Masterarbeit wird untersucht, wie sich das Wohltätigkeitshaus von seiner Gründung 1805 bis zum Ende der Habsburgermonarchie entwickelt hat. Dafür werden vier Aspekte näher betrachtet: die innere Verwaltungsstruktur und Organisation, die übergeordneten Stellen, die aufgenommenen Personen und die baulichen Veränderungen. In vier chronologisch geordneten Kapiteln über die Entstehungsphase, die Zeit bis 1850, die Zeit von 1850 bis 1900 und die Zeit ab 1900 wird dargestellt und analysiert, was in den überlieferten Quellen zu den genannten Aspekten zu finden ist. Ein eigenes Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit den Direktoren und Ärzten des Wohltätigkeitshauses über den gesamten Untersuchungszeitraum hinweg, eines mit der Anzahl der jährlich aufgenommenen Personen, und ein weiteres befasst sich mit vergleichbaren Institutionen in anderen Kurorten der Habsburgermonarchie. In einer Conclusio wird versucht, noch einmal die wichtigsten Punkte der vier Aspekte über den gesamten Untersuchungszeitraum hinweg zusammenzufassend herauszuarbeiten. Im Anhang der Arbeit finden sich Editionen der noch vorhandenen Stiftbriefe.
description: In 1808, the Wohltätigkeitshaus in Baden was created as a charity foundation by Emperor Franz I to serve as a spa for the needy. The aim of this master thesis is to examine the development of the Wohltätigkeitshaus from its foundation until the end of the Habsburg Monarchy. Four aspects will be explored: firstly, the internal administration structure and organisation; secondly, the superordinate authorities; thirdly, the people admitted to the foundation; and fourthly, the architectural changes. Four chronologically organised chapters detailing the years surrounding the founding, between founding and 1850, from 1850 to 1900, and from 1900 until the end of the Monarchy analyse the available sources with regard to the four abovenamed aspects. These are followed by a chapter on the Heads and doctors of the Wohltätigkeitshaus, a chapter on the numbers of annually admitted people and a further chapter on similar institutions in other spa towns. In concluding remarks, an attempt is made to outline and assess the essentials of the four aspects covering the entire period under examination. The appendix of this paper contains editions of the founding documents.
Gravitational torques dominate the dynamics of accreted gas at $z>2$
Creators: name: Cadiou, Corentin
name: Dubois, Yohan
name: Pichon, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxies form from the accretion of cosmological infall of gas. In the high redshift Universe, most of this gas infall is expected to be dominated by cold filamentary flows which connect deep down inside halos, and, hence, to the vicinity of galaxies. Such cold flows are important since they dominate the mass and angular momentum acquisition that can make up rotationally-supported disks at high-redshifts. We study the angular momentum acquisition of gas into galaxies, and in particular, the torques acting on the accretion flows, using hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of high-resolution zoomed-in halos of a few $10^{11}\,\rm M_\odot$ at $z=2$. Torques can be separated into those of gravitational origin, and hydrodynamical ones driven by pressure gradients. We find that coherent gravitational torques dominate over pressure torques in the cold phase, and are hence responsible for the spin-down and realignment of this gas. Pressure torques display small-scale fluctuations of significant amplitude, but with very little coherence on the relevant galaxy or halo-scale that would otherwise allow them to effectively re-orientate the gas flows. Dark matter torques dominate gravitational torques outside the galaxy, while within the galaxy, the baryonic component dominates. The circum-galactic medium emerges as the transition region for angular momentum re-orientation of the cold component towards the central galaxy's mid-plane.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures. Comments welcome. Submitted to MNRAS. Comments from referee taken into account