cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
OmniSearchSage: Multi-Task Multi-Entity Embeddings for Pinterest Search
Creators: name: Agarwal, Prabhat
name: Sk, Minhazul Islam
name: Pancha, Nikil
name: Hazra, Kurchi Subhra
name: Xu, Jiajing
name: Rosenberg, Chuck
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3

description: In this paper, we present OmniSearchSage, a versatile and scalable system for understanding search queries, pins, and products for Pinterest search. We jointly learn a unified query embedding coupled with pin and product embeddings, leading to an improvement of $>8\%$ relevance, $>7\%$ engagement, and $>5\%$ ads CTR in Pinterest's production search system. The main contributors to these gains are improved content understanding, better multi-task learning, and real-time serving. We enrich our entity representations using diverse text derived from image captions from a generative LLM, historical engagement, and user-curated boards. Our multitask learning setup produces a single search query embedding in the same space as pin and product embeddings and compatible with pre-existing pin and product embeddings. We show the value of each feature through ablation studies, and show the effectiveness of a unified model compared to standalone counterparts. Finally, we share how these embeddings have been deployed across the Pinterest search stack, from retrieval to ranking, scaling to serve $300k$ requests per second at low latency. Our implementation of this work is available at https://github.com/pinterest/atg-research/tree/main/omnisearchsage.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, to be published as an oral paper in TheWebConf Industry Track 2024
Identifying the Barriers to Human-Centered Design in the Workplace: Perspectives from UX Professionals
Creators: name: Gorichanaz, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human-centered design, a theoretical ideal, is sometimes compromised in industry practice. Technology firms juggle competing priorities, such as adopting new technologies and generating shareholder returns, which may conflict with human-centered design values. This study sought to identify the types of workplace situations that present barriers for human-centered design, going beyond the views and behaviors of individual professionals. Q methodology was used to analyze the experiences of 14 UX professionals based in the United States. Five factors were identified, representing workplace situations in which human-centered design is inhibited, despite the involvement of UX professionals: Single-Minded Arrogance, Competing Visions, Moving Fast and Breaking Things, Pragmatically Getting By, and Sidestepping Responsibility. Underpinning these five factors are the dimensions of speed and clarity of vision. This paper demonstrates connections between the literature on UX ethics and human-centered design practice, and its findings point toward opportunities for education and intervention to better enable human-centered and ethical design in practice.
Observation of 1/3 fractional quantum Hall physics in balanced large angle twisted bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Kim, Dohun
name: Jin, Seyoung
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Smet, Jurgen H.
name: Cho, Gil Young
name: Kim, Youngwook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetotransport of conventional semiconductor based double layer systems with barrier suppressed interlayer tunneling has been a rewarding subject due to the emergence of an interlayer coherent state that behaves as an excitonic superfluid. Large angle twisted bilayer graphene offers unprecedented strong interlayer Coulomb interaction, since both layer thickness and layer spacing are of atomic scale and a barrier is no more needed as the twist induced momentum mismatch suppresses tunneling. The extra valley degree of freedom also adds richness. Here we report the observation of fractional quantum Hall physics at 1/3 total filling for balanced layer population in this system. Monte Carlo simulations support that the ground state is also an excitonic superfluid but the excitons are composed of fractional rather than elementary charges. The observed phase transitions with an applied displacement field at this and other fractional fillings are also addressed with simulations. They reveal ground states with different topology and symmetry properties.
description: accepted to Nature communications
Spin correlations in the parent phase of Li$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$ODFeSe
Creators: name: Wo, Hongliang
name: Pan, Bingying
name: Hu, Die
name: Feng, Yu
name: Christianson, A. D.
name: Zhao, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elucidating spin correlations in the parent compounds of high-temperature superconductors is crucial for understanding superconductivity. We used neutron scattering to study spin correlations in Li$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$ODFeSe, an insulating material with reduced electron carriers compared to its superconducting counterpart ($T_c$ = 41 K), serving as the undoped parent compound. Our findings show a reduced total fluctuating moment in this insulator relative to FeSe and 122 iron pnictides, likely due to increased interlayer distances from intercalation, which enhance fluctuations and reduce the intensity of spin excitations. Moreover, we observed a V-shaped spin wave-like excitation dispersion, contrasting with the twisted hourglass pattern in the superconducting counterpart. Electron doping shifts spin excitation from ($π$, 0) point to an incommensurate position towards ($π$, $π$) direction below 65 meV. This transition from V-shaped to hourglass-like dispersion, akin to behaviors in hole-doped cuprates, suggests a potential shared mechanism in magnetism and superconductivity across these diverse systems.
description: Accepted for publication in PRL
Anisotropic Born-Infeld-f(R) Cosmologies
Creators: name: Kibaroğlu, Salih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate anisotropic cosmological solutions within the framework of Born-Infeld-f(R) gravity, a modification of general relativity that incorporates higher-order curvature invariants. Specifically, we focus on the analysis of Bianchi type-I solutions, which provide a valuable framework for studying the evolution of spatial anisotropies in cosmology. By introducing a reconstruction scheme for this model, we explore the behavior of these solutions, analyze various cosmic evolution scenarios, including Starobinsky inflation, de Sitter-like expansion, power-law dynamics, and Big Rip-like evolution. Additionally, we examine the exponential and power-law behavior of the auxiliary metric function to illustrate its impact on the dynamics of cosmic evolution. Our analysis elucidates how the modifications introduced by Born-Infeld-f(R) gravity influence anisotropic dynamics, offering new perspectives on the late-time behavior of the universe and potential future singularities.
description: 22 pages, 14 figures, to appear in Physics of the Dark Universe
D4.2: Best Practice Report
Creators: name: Diplaris, Sotiris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: This deliverable is the work-product of a cross-field working group effort to bring environmental policy makers in line with the best practices to reach young people where they already are: in social media and communicate with them in familiar settings. To understand how social media and new technologies are able to provide the potential to drive the societal and political participation of young people in the decision-making process on environmental issues, we first studied the demographics of social network users and in particular our target segment ageing from 18 to 29 as well as their current attitudes regarding environmental issues (Section 2), and then compiled a list of existing online environmental platforms and hubs (Section 3).

We also collected information on 23 e-Participation case studies in Europe and worldwide (Section 4) in order to glean insights with respect to the most effective practices that are typically followed in such campaigns, as well as insights into what makes an e-Participation initiative successful, what are the problems and how they can be addressed. We also performed structured user studies involving 231 individuals across Europe that were reached through an online questionnaire with the help of the STEP pilot partners (Section 5). Findings from our research indicate that the ideal e-participation platform should integrate social media and gamification features, interesting and shareable content that can be consumed quickly on any device like for example multimedia content (images, videos, animations etc.), useful links and engaging calls to action; content that is tailored to young people and made appropriate for their particular context. Evidence also suggests a more active media campaign that would leverage social media (Facebook in particular), online media and frequently updated and engaging content to bring about increased awareness on governmental initiatives.
Millikelvin Nb nanoSQUID-embedded tuneable resonator fabricated with a neon focused-ion-beam
Creators: name: Potter, Jamie A.
name: Meti, Laith
name: Chapman, Gemma
name: Romans, Ed
name: Gallop, John
name: Hao, Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SQUID-embedded superconducting resonators are of great interest due to their potential for coupling highly scalable superconducting circuits with quantum memories based on solid-state spin ensembles. Such an application requires a high-$Q$, frequency-tuneable resonator which is both resilient to magnetic field, and able to operate at millikelvin temperatures. These requirements motivate the use of a higher $H_{c}$ metal such as niobium, however the challenge then becomes to sufficiently reduce the operating temperature. We address this by presenting a monolithic Nb nanoSQUID-embedded resonator, where neon focused-ion-beam fabrication of the nanoSQUID results in a device displaying frequency tuneability at $T = 16$ mK. In order to assess the applicability of the device for coupling to small spin clusters, we characterise the flux sensitivity as a function of microwave drive power and externally applied magnetic field, and find that the noise is dominated by dielectric noise in the resonator. Finally, we discuss improvements to the device design which can dramatically improve the flux sensitivity, which highlights the promise of Nb SQUID-embedded resonators for hybrid superconductor-spin applications.
Manufacturing Variability in High Pressure Turbine Rotor Blades
Creators: name: Lee, Wen Yao
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Jet Engine
Manufacturing Variability
Real Geometry
Aerodynamics
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Uncertainty Quantification
Gas Turbine

description: All but one of the figures have been granted clearance by the copyright holders. One figure has been redacted for confidentiality reasons.
description: This thesis is a compilation of three studies that give a detailed understanding of the impact of manufacturing variability on high pressure turbine rotor blade aerodynamic and proposes several means by which the effects of manufacturing variability can be mitigated. A prerequisite for the aerodynamic studies is the ability to process the measurements of real blades. Structured-light scanning was used measure the manufactured blades and geometry processing scripts were developed to extract the manufacturing variability once the blades were aligned to the design-intent coordinate system. The extracted manufacturing variability were then mapped to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models and assessed aerodynamically. For the first study, blade sections were analysed using MIT’s Multiple Blade Interacting Streamtube Euler solver (MISES). The distribution of blade surface curvature was found to influence the blade surface velocity distributions, which consequently affect the development of the boundary layers, ultimately contributing to changes in momentum deficit and aerodynamic blockage. The recommendation here was to measure the blades with sufficient resolution to resolve curvature in order for a meaningful performance assessment to be made. The second study analysed the measured blades using Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) CFD. From this study, an exit flow angle-based blade reorientation procedures and a functional sentencing methodology were proposed. For a statistically non-representative sample, these changes to the manufacturing process reduces the spread in stage capacity from ~±0.5% to ~±0.15% while increasing the manufacturing yield rate from ~68% to ~97%. The third and final study was performed using RANS CFD to understand the multi-passage behaviour of assembled HPT rotor blade rows. This study included the shroud and the flow structures around the tip of the blade were found to be the result of the interaction between the horse-shoe vortex and the pressure fields of the blades. In a multi-passage environment where periodicity is relaxed, the flow structures were also dependent on how the blades interacted with one another. However, despite the change in flow structures, averaging results obtained from single-passage CFD models gave good approximations of multi-passage stage capacity and mass-averaged exit flow angle.
description: This PhD was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Rolls-Royce plc. As Rolls-Royce plc was the main sponsor and industrial partner, the PhD was carried up in accordance to the University Gas Turbine Partnership (UGTP) agreement.
Soil Moisture Gradients and Controls on a Southern Appalachian Hillslope from Drought Through Recharge
Creators: name: Yeakley, J. Alan
name: Swank, W. T.
name: Swift, L. W.
name: Homberger, G. M.
name: Shugart, H. H.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1998
Subjects: soil moisture
hillslopes
humid watersheds
models
upland forested watershed
time domain reflectometry (TDR) network

description: Soil moisture gradients along hillslopes in humid watersheds, although indicated by vegetation gradients and by studies using models, have been difficult to confirm empirically. While soil properties and topographic features are the two general physio-graphic factors controlling soil moisture on hillslopes, studies have shown conflicting results regarding which factor is more important. The relative importance of topographic and soil property controls was examined in an upland forested watershed at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in the southern Appalachian mountains. Soil moisture was measured along a hillslope transect with a mesic-to-xeric forest vegetation gradient over a period spanning precipitation extremes. The hillslope was transect instrumented with a time domain reflectometry (TDR) network at two depths. Soil moisture was measured during a severe autumn drought and subsequent winter precipitation recharge. In the upper soil depth (0-30 cm), moisture gradients persisted throughout the measurement period, and topography exerted dominant control. For the entire root zone (0-90 cm), soil moisture gradients were found only during drought. Control on soil moisture was due to both topography and storage before drought. During and after recharge, variations in soil texture and horizon distribution exerted dominant control on soil moisture content in the root zone (0-90 cm). These results indicate that topographic factors assert more control over hillslope soil moisture during drier periods as drainage progresses, while variations in soil water storage properties are more important during wetter periods. Hillslope soil moisture gradients in southern Appalachian watersheds appear to be restricted to upper soil layers, with deeper hillslope soil moisture gradients occurring only with sufficient drought.
description: https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/2/41/1998/
Heteroclinic cycles for reaction diffusion systems by forced symmetry-breaking
Creators: name: Lauterbach, Reiner
name: Maier-Paape, Stanislaus
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: axisymmetric equilibrium
subject: group orbit
subject: invariant manifold
subject: higher codimension
subject: bifurcation
subject: 37G40
subject: 35B32
subject: 34C14
subject: 37G25

description: We consider solutions of the semilinear parabolic equation (1.1) on the 2-Sphere. Assuming (1.1) has an axisymmetric equilibrium uα, the group orbit of uα gives a whole (invariant) manifold M of equilibria for (1.1). Under generic conditions we have that, after perturbing (1.1) by a (small) L ⊂ O(3)-equivariant perturbation, M persists as an invariant manifold ͠M slightly changed. However, the flow on ͠M is in general no longer trivial. Indeed, we find heteroclinic orbits on ͠M and, in case L = 핋 (the tetrahedral subgroup of O(3)), even heteroclinic cycles.
On Parallel External-Memory Bidirectional Search
Creators: name: Siag, Lior
name: Shperberg, Shahaf S.
name: Felner, Ariel
name: Sturtevant, Nathan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Parallelization and External Memory (PEM) techniques have significantly enhanced the capabilities of search algorithms when solving large-scale problems. Previous research on PEM has primarily centered on unidirectional algorithms, with only one publication on bidirectional PEM that focuses on the meet-in-the-middle (MM) algorithm. Building upon this foundation, this paper presents a framework that integrates both uni- and bi-directional best-first search algorithms into this framework. We then develop a PEM variant of the state-of-the-art bidirectional heuristic search (BiHS) algorithm BAE* (PEM-BAE*). As previous work on BiHS did not focus on scaling problem sizes, this work enables us to evaluate bidirectional algorithms on hard problems. Empirical evaluation shows that PEM-BAE* outperforms the PEM variants of A* and the MM algorithm, as well as a parallel variant of IDA*. These findings mark a significant milestone, revealing that bidirectional search algorithms clearly outperform unidirectional search algorithms across several domains, even when equipped with state-of-the-art heuristics.
description: 10 pages, includes conference paper and appendix
Open Educational Resources (OER): An overview
Creators: name: Martin, Victoria
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Open access
Open access and libraries
Open Educational Resources (OER)
OER
Open education

description: This presentation, delivered on January 8, 2018, at the Salisbury University Libraries (Salisbury, MD), provides an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER). It was delivered as part of OER training for Salisbury University librarians.
CancerKG.ORG A Web-scale, Interactive, Verifiable Knowledge Graph-LLM Hybrid for Assisting with Optimal Cancer Treatment and Care
Creators: name: Gubanov, Michael
name: Pyayt, Anna
name: Karolak, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T09

description: Here, we describe one of the first Web-scale hybrid Knowledge Graph (KG)-Large Language Model (LLM), populated with the latest peer-reviewed medical knowledge on colorectal Cancer. It is currently being evaluated to assist with both medical research and clinical information retrieval tasks at Moffitt Cancer Center, which is one of the top Cancer centers in the U.S. and in the world. Our hybrid is remarkable as it serves the user needs better than just an LLM, KG or a search-engine in isolation. LLMs as is are known to exhibit hallucinations and catastrophic forgetting as well as are trained on outdated corpora. The state of the art KGs, such as PrimeKG, cBioPortal, ChEMBL, NCBI, and other require manual curation, hence are quickly getting stale. CancerKG is unsupervised and is capable of automatically ingesting and organizing the latest medical findings. To alleviate the LLMs shortcomings, the verified KG serves as a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) guardrail. CancerKG exhibits 5 different advanced user interfaces, each tailored to serve different data modalities better and more convenient for the user.
Arithmetic Properties of the Ternary Quadratic Form 3x^2 + 6y 2 + 14z^2 + 4yz + 2zx + 2xy
Creators: name: Münkel, F.
name: Pehlivan, L.
name: Williams, K.S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: See the abstract in the attached pdf.
D4.3: Social Media Monitoring Tool
Creators: name: Diplaris, Sotiris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: This deliverable reports on the development and deployment of the initial version of the STEP social media monitoring tool. It describes the usage scenario and functionality together with implementation details. The prototype application targeting environmental policy makers is presented here, whilst a reduced version targeting citizens is presented in terms of the integrated STEP platform in D3.2 Integrated and tested STEP platform. Modifications are continued on the applications throughout the whole lifetime of the project including the improvement of research modules.
Doped and structured silica optical fibres for fibre laser sources
Creators: name: Kasik, I.
name: Barton, I.
name: Kamradek, M.
name: Podrazky, O.
name: Aubrecht, J.
name: Varak, P.
name: Peterka, P.
name: Honzatko, P.
name: Pysz, D.
name: Franczyk, M.
name: Buczynski, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Specialty optical fibres, usually the silica-based ones doped with rare-earth ions, have been heart of fibre amplifiers and lasers spread thanks to work of team of Sir David N. Payne started in 1980-ies of 20th century. Wavelength of their emission depends on used rare earth, on glass matrix in which the rare earths are incorporated, on fibre structure in macro, micro and nano scale, and fibre laser architecture. Usually, fibre lasers are operated at single wavelength. A typical example is an erbium fibre laser (erbium ions in modified silica glass) operating around 1550 nm or ytterbium fibre laser (ytterbium ions in modified silica glass) operating around 1060 nm. When erbium and ytterbium ions together are randomly distributed in a silica glass matrix and pumped at absorption band of ytterbium, laser emission is typically obtained only at 1550 nm (emission of erbium) thanks to energy transfer from ytterbium to erbium ions, supported by modification of silica glass matrix with phosphorous pentoxide. However, when erbium and ytterbium ions are specifically structured in micro or nano scale in the fibre core it is possible to obtain dual-wavelength laser operation with controlled output parameters. Such dual-wavelength operation with controlled output at 1042 nm and simultaneously at 1550 nm was demonstrated with structured core Er3+ and Yb3+-doped fibre. The proposed approach makes fabrication of active fibres emitting with controlled characteristics at more wavelengths possible.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
Joint ECOTIP / FACE-IT / CHARTER factsheet on Arctic Carbon Sequestration
Creators: name: GRID-Arendal
name: University of Lappland
name: University of Bremen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Fact sheet on Arctic "Carbon Sequestration" as part of the fact sheet collection "Results in and Research Gaps of Arctic Biodiversity Research". The fact sheets present joint results and research gaps identified by the EU H2020-funded projects ECOTIP, FACE-IT, and CHARTER. The fact sheets have been published in April 2024.
Hydrocephalus: Congenital Anomalies in New Born Crossbred Calf
Creators: name: Suresh F. Nipane, Bhojaraj S. Girhepunje, Lata P. Deshmukh and  Vitthal Hatwar
Publisher: name: Bio vet innovator magazine
Year: 2025

description: A crossbred calf that had just born complained of an unusually huge, circular growth on its head that resembled a pot. Clinical symptoms include weakness, head tremors, convulsions, impaired sucking reflex, and an irregular dome-shaped growth on the skull. The calf's nervous system was responsive and awake. Physical examination reveals a fluid-filled hollow beneath the skin. The crossbred calf's external congenital hydrocephalus was confirmed by the case history, clinical examination, and physical examination. After undergoing surgery to cure hydrocephalus, the treated calf has recovered and reported to have sucking normally.
Effects of Religiosity on Emotional Regulation and Resilience among University Students
Creators: name: Talat, Narmeen
name: Zulfiqar, Najia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170111 Psychology of Religion
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Applied Psychology
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology

description: The current study aimed to examine the impact of religiosity on emotional regulation and resilience amongst university students. Participants consisted of 150 boys and 150 girls. Data were collected from different departments of the University of Haripur, KPK Pakistan through the convenience sampling technique. The Centrality of Religiosity, Emotional Regulation Questionnaire, and Brief Resilience Scale were administered. The result shows that religiosity was significantly positively correlated with emotional regulation and resilience. With one standard deviation increase in religiosity, emotional regulation increased by 84% and R2 change was .70. Likewise, the beta value of resilience was 79% and R2 change was .63. Thus, religiosity appeared to be a significant powerful predictor of emotional regulation and resilience among university students. Gender differences were non-significant. Strengths, limitations, and future recommendations are discussed.
Numerical Haemodynamics in the Human Heart
Creators: name: Daub, Anna Christina
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2018
Subjects: Mitralklappe
WIrbelidentifikation
CFD
mitral valve
vortex identification

description: The characteristic vortex formation in the ventricles is believed to be affected at an early stage of heart diseases. First, post-processing of patient-specific data has to be standardised. The chosen methods, a combination of Eulerian and Lagrangian techniques, are characterised by means of necessary spatial and temporal resolutions. Second, the goal is to find the best cost-benefit approach for modelling of the mitral valve, as it affects vortex formation and progression in the left ventricle.
One Noise to Rule Them All: Learning a Unified Model of Spatially-Varying Noise Patterns
Creators: name: Maesumi, Arman
name: Hu, Dylan
name: Saripalli, Krishi
name: Kim, Vladimir G.
name: Fisher, Matthew
name: Pirk, Sören
name: Ritchie, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Procedural noise is a fundamental component of computer graphics pipelines, offering a flexible way to generate textures that exhibit "natural" random variation. Many different types of noise exist, each produced by a separate algorithm. In this paper, we present a single generative model which can learn to generate multiple types of noise as well as blend between them. In addition, it is capable of producing spatially-varying noise blends despite not having access to such data for training. These features are enabled by training a denoising diffusion model using a novel combination of data augmentation and network conditioning techniques. Like procedural noise generators, the model's behavior is controllable via interpretable parameters and a source of randomness. We use our model to produce a variety of visually compelling noise textures. We also present an application of our model to improving inverse procedural material design; using our model in place of fixed-type noise nodes in a procedural material graph results in higher-fidelity material reconstructions without needing to know the type of noise in advance.
description: In ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2024, 21 pages
Competing Hexagonal and Square Lattices on a Spherical Surface
Creators: name: Xie, Han
name: Liu, Wenyu
name: Lu, Zhenyue
name: Chen, Jeff Z. Y.
name: Li, Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structural properties of packed soft-core particles provide a platform to understand the cross-pollinated physical concepts in solid-state- and soft-matter physics. Confined on spherical surface, the traditional differential geometry also dictates the overall defect properties in otherwise regular crystal lattices. Using molecular dynamics simulation of the Hertzian model as a tool, we report here the emergence of new types of disclination patterns: domain and counter-domain defects, when hexagonal and square patterns coexist. A new angle is presented to understand the incompatibility between tiling lattice shapes and the available spherical areal shapes, which is common in nature -- from molecular systems in biology to backbone construction in architectures.
description: Authors' version of the article submitted to Nano Letters and accepted
BIOBUILD DEC Plan (Public Summary)
Creators: name: RTDS Group
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This initial DEC Plan for the BIOBUILD project aims to serve as an information and control instrument for alldissemination, exploitation, and communication (DEC) activities among all partners in the project. The initialDEC Plan describes the communication strategy, outlines the main operational activities of the project, keymessages, stakeholders, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as well as planned tools for the first projectReporting Period (RP1; M1 – M18).
Impact of inter-city interactions on disease scaling
Creators: name: Loureiro, Nathalia A.
name: Neto, Camilo R.
name: Sutton, Jack
name: Perc, Matjaz
name: Ribeiro, Haroldo V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Inter-city interactions are critical for the transmission of infectious diseases, yet their effects on the scaling of disease cases remain largely underexplored. Here, we use the commuting network as a proxy for inter-city interactions, integrating it with a general scaling framework to describe the incidence of seven infectious diseases across Brazilian cities as a function of population size and the number of commuters. Our models significantly outperform traditional urban scaling approaches, revealing that the relationship between disease cases and a combination of population and commuters varies across diseases and is influenced by both factors. Although most cities exhibit a less-than-proportional increase in disease cases with changes in population and commuters, more-than-proportional responses are also observed across all diseases. Notably, in some small and isolated cities, proportional rises in population and commuters correlate with a reduction in disease cases. These findings suggest that such towns may experience improved health outcomes and socioeconomic conditions as they grow and become more connected. However, as growth and connectivity continue, these gains diminish, eventually giving way to challenges typical of larger urban areas - such as socioeconomic inequality and overcrowding - that facilitate the spread of infectious diseases. Our study underscores the interconnected roles of population size and commuter dynamics in disease incidence while highlighting that changes in population size exert a greater influence on disease cases than variations in the number of commuters.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, supplementary information; accepted for publication in Scientific Reports
Fifth International GeoHAB Symposium, Galway, Ireland (5-7th May, 2004) Abstract Booklet
Creators: name: Grehan, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: GeoHab (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) is an international association of marine scientists studying biophysical (i.e., geologic and oceanographic) indicators of benthic habitats and ecosystems as proxies for biological communities and species diversity. The main goals of GeoHab scientists are:

to support government spatial marine planning, sustainable ocean management, and decision making;

to support and underpin the design of marine protected areas (MPAs);

to conduct scientific research programs aimed at generating knowledge of benthic ecosystems and seafloor geology;

to conduct living and non-living seabed resource assessments for economic and management purposes, including the design of fishing reserves.

The Galway Symposium programme featured 40 oral and 24 poster presentations with participation from scientists from 11 different countries around the globe representing Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal (Azores), New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States.  The booklet contains the abstracts for each oral and poster presentation.
title: ‘Freeing Fictions with Compassion’
title: improving my practice as a clinical supervisor through my living-educational theory
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wadsley, Margaret C.
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2025

description: This research was designed to generate practitioner knowledge based on
 understanding, explaining and validating a process of mutual improvement
 within the supervisory relationship, which is at the heart of my practice.
 After a long career as an educator and therapist I integrated my Adlerian
 feminist approach with Living Educational Theory (LET) research to provide
 the methodology for this doctoral research. This thesis provides a
 values-based alternative to contemporary professional effectiveness
 research and expertise development models for evaluating and explaining
 practice improvement. ‘Freeing Fictions with Compassion’, the
 living-educational-theory that elucidated my explanation of mutual
 improvement within the supervisory relationship, forms a sound basis for
 on-going professional learning and development.

 With the collaboration of supervisees I work with at relational-depth, I
 recorded 66 hours of supervision sessions. I also clarified a
 constellation of practice values during a detailed self-inquiry and
 devised a supervisee-led practice evaluation using Rich Pictures. The
 innovative assemblage of methods in my research design were compatible
 with the socially just principles of Adlerian Psychology and Living
 Educational Theory. Together they united LET’s tried and tested
 qualitative approach with reflexive explorations in the form of poetry,
 stories, artwork, Rich Pictures, Early Recollections, and creation of
 multimedia based elucidatory narratives. I also drew on Adlerian practice
 tools to support data collection and integrated Adlerian ideas about
 metaphor and embodied knowledge to support my data analysis. The research
 process enabled me to create new insights into Adler’s concept of the
 fictional final goal and the part it plays in unconsciously evoking
 defensiveness and impasse in professional relationships. The impact of
 this research reaches beyond clinical supervision to roles of a
 supervisory nature in a wide range of settings, for example, education,
 health, social care, and different supervisory contexts.
What are the attitudes toward patients with substance use disorders (SUD) among medical students in the UK: a systematic review
Creators: name: Sinyor, Jessica
name: Jackson, Jennifer
name: Collier, Karen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Science Policy

description: Patients accessing treatment for substance use disorders (SUD) are often met with negative attitudes from healthcare professionals. Identifying how future doctors perceive these patients is central to tackling stigmatized attitudes, which deter patients from utilizing services. This systematic review explores UK medical students’ prevailing attitudes toward SUD patients. This PROSPERO-registered review is guided by the PRISMA checklist. Database and citation searches identified 1688 papers for screening, of which seven met the inclusion criteria and were quality assessed, extracted and synthesized. We found some students held negative attitudes, assigning SUD patients blame for their conditions and considering them more dangerous than other patients. Students also lacked confidence in addressing these patients’ needs. They felt SUD teaching was low priority on their curricula, despite identifying doctors as responsible for overall SUD management. Progression through training appeared to correlate with improved attitudes within the included studies’ limitations, and diverse methods such as expert patients further enhanced student perceptions and knowledge. Stigmatizing views of SUD patients remain present among UK medical students. Time and resources allocated to SUD education should better reflect the public health challenge it represents. Further work is needed to explore the effectiveness of stigma-reducing interventions.
D5.1: Definition Of Step Pilots And Evaluation Methodology
Creators: name: Keratidis, Christodoulos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: D5.1 aims to plan the pilot operation of STEP in detail, and define an evaluation methodology for assessing its impact. The pilot plan starts by setting up the public participation processes in which the STEP platform will be tested. These processes are defined by the pilot partners, based on a framework for public participation which has been created by combining information from available best practice guidelines and toolkits and adapting it to the project specificities. A deployment strategy is defined which includes the scenarios, the provisions for training and user support, platform development cycles, user recruitment and engagement, platform moderation, monitoring and risk management, and responsibilities.
D5.2: Intermediate Evaluation
Creators: name: Forbes, Paula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: This Intermediate Evaluation Deliverable reports on the progress to date of the Pilot partners use of the STEP platform in carrying out eParticipation activities with young people across the various European regions involved in the project. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods have been utilised to evaluate the platform with the end users, including surveys and interviews. This approach has been effective in highlighting both the positive and negative aspects of the platform itself and how it is being used.

Early results from both young people and Policy Makers are evaluating the platform positively for most aspects, including effectively having their voice heard by the relevant person, attractiveness of the platform, help/support. Aspects such as the platform being able to get other Young People (YP) interested in important environmental issues and seeing the ideas from other YP were also rated well. Ease of use was mostly positive, but some aspects such as young people knowing how to make a post for the first time could be improved upon. Interviews with end users gave us some useful insights about their use of the platform and any issues that they had encountered. These findings are discussed in more detail in the results section. Recommendations for improvement are also proposed in Chapter 3. Intended audience is primarily the people involved in the project but this deliverable may be of interest to

others carrying out eParticipation activities as it highlights some if the issues that may be encountered and suggests actions for resolution.
Seminemacheilus Banarescu & Nalbant 1995
Creators: name: Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran
name: Kaya, Cüneyt
name: Geiger, Matthias F.
name: Freyhof, Jörg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Seminemacheilus

description: Key to species of Seminemacheilus
1a A few deeply embedded scales on caudal peduncle; caudal-peduncle depth 1.3–1.6 times in its length; head length 21–24% SL....................................................................................... S. ispartensis
1b Body scaleless; caudal-peduncle depth 0.9–1.3 times in its length; head length 24–28% SL........................... 2
2a Caudal fin usually slightly emarginate; marbled flank pattern; one central pore in supratemporal head canal...... S. attalicus
2b Caudal fin truncate or roundish; flank pattern mottled, vermiculated or with large isolated blotches; no central pore in supratemporal head canal................................................................................... 3
3a Belly usually with many small black or brown blotches; posterior naris reaching to anterior eye margin when folded backward......................................................................................... S. ahmeti
3b Belly plain white or yellowish without small black or brown blotches; posterior naris not reaching to anterior eye margin when folded backward...................................................................................... 4
4a Caudal fin roundish; caudal-peduncle depth 0.9–1.1 times in its length.................................. S. ekmekciae
4b Caudal fin truncate; caudal-peduncle depth 1.1–1.6 times in its length............................................ 5
5a 5–7 supraorbital head pores; eye diameter 13–14% HL; snout length 38–40% HL; prepelvic length 57–59% SL.... S. lendlii
5b 2–5 (6) supraorbital pores; eye diameter 14–17% HL; snout length 35–37% HL; prepelvic length 53–56% SL....... S. tubae
description: Published as part of Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Kaya, Cüneyt, Geiger, Matthias F. & Freyhof, Jörg, 2020, Revision of the genus Seminemacheilus, with the description of three new species (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), pp. 477-501 in Zootaxa 4802 (3) on page 479, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3907717
BC-SIM-TN-009_STC_GM_Observation_Strategy_Optimization_20220706
Creators: name: SIMIONI, EMANUELE
name: RE, Cristina
name: Da Deppo, Vania
name: ZUSI, MICHELE
name: CAPACCIONI, FABRIZIO
name: CAPRIA, MARIA TERESA
name: Doressundiram, Alain
name: Langeven, Yves
name: PALUMBO, PASQUALE
name: Vincendon, Mathieu
name: CREMONESE, Gabriele
Publisher: name: O.A. Padova
Year: 2022

description: The present document has been issued to describe the optimization of the Global Mapping Observation strategy of STC, channel of the Spectrometers and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem (SIMBIO-SYS). These optimization has the scope to ensure the performance and the objectives of the STC Channel reducing the DV in manner to make available more targets acquisitions for HRIC or a greater flexibility for VIHI channel
BC-SIM-TN-003 - Reports and Note Layout and Flow - Version 2
Creators: name: POLITI, ROMOLO
name: ZUSI, MICHELE
name: SIMIONI, EMANUELE
name: CREMONESE, Gabriele
name: CAPACCIONI, FABRIZIO
name: DORESSOUNDIRAM, ALAIN
name: LANGEVIN, YVES
name: PALUMBO, PASQUALE
name: VINCENDON, MATHIEU
Publisher: name: IAPS Roma
Year: 2022

description: In this document, we will describe the name convention, the format, the flow of reports, notes, and plans produced for the Spectrometers and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem (SIMBIO-SYS).
D5.3: Final Evaluation Report
Creators: name: Forbes, Paula
name: Paoli, Stefano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: This Final Evaluation Deliverable reports on the use of the STEP platform by the pilot partners in carrying out e-Participation activities with Young People across the various European municipalities and regions involved in the project.

The current deliverable presents the case for each STEP pilot, the experience gained and the lessons learnt by each pilot partner. As part of the evaluation activities we conducted a number of qualitative interviews with relevant actors in the STEP pilots. Additionally we conducted two questionnaires, one with Public Officers and a second with Young People in the pilot countries. The results of the evaluation are discussed in relation to a number of core objectives and targets defined originally for the STEP project. The data analysis conducted for this evaluation show positive results for STEP in the achievement of the project objectives. STEP is indeed seen by both Young People and Policy Makers as a useful platform for the conduction of e-Participation on environmental issues and the actors generally said they would use the platform again and would suggest its use to their respective peers. Overall the evaluation has also shown that some improvements may still be required for fine tuning the usability of the platform. Results have shown further that the mistrust of Young People toward policy makers still persist, however STEP is seen as a platform which can help in the conduction of participatory policy making in the area of environmental issues.

The deliverable is organized as follows: we begin with a general presentation of the project success indicators and objectives, a detailed presentation of each STEP pilot and an initial breakdown of the data collection for the evaluation; this is followed by an overview for each pilot of the results achieved and some of the problems identified directly by the pilots; then the qualitative data is presented, starting with the Public Officers/Policy Makers and then turning to Young People; then there is the presentation of the

analysis of the questionnaires again following the order of Public Officers/Policy Makers and then turning to Young People; we then present an overall SWOT analysis for STEP before concluding the deliverable.
SOIM User Manual v6.0
Creators: name: SIMIONI, Emanuele
name: ZUSI, MICHELE
name: POLITI, ROMOLO
Publisher: name: O.A. Padova
Year: 2022

description: Thanks to ASI for the resources which made possible the development of this software.
description: This document will describe the Simulator for Operation of Imaging Missions (SOIM) software used to simulate any Imaging System on board of Missions which take advantage of the Spice Kernels (technology). The document will provide documentation and a description of the input and output files. The experience accumulated by INAF in International Space Missions has demonstrated the impact and the scientific return of Imaging tools. In all mission phases, these instruments have required the development of tools to simulate acquisitions, to verify and optimize the observation strategy, and to define the essential parameters for Operations. The Simulator for Operation of Imaging Missions (SOIM) will be a generic software tool for simulating such payloads. It was developed thanks to the contribution of INAF-OAPD; INAF-IAPS; CNR-IFN and will represent a transversal activity to different research lines favoring the optimization of performances and, with the collaboration of the scientific group, the validation of scientific requirements. At the current date the simulator was applied to 5 instruments: -the three Monitor Cameras (MCAM) on board of BepiColombo Mission -the CaSSIS camera onboard of ExoMars 2016 -the instrument Spectrometers and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem (SIMBIO-SYS) onboard of BepiColombo mission.