cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Extractive landscapes: complex ontologies, political ecology and gendered health geographies of Ghana’s gold mining industry
Creators: name: Adomako, Janet Afua Abrafi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation investigates indigenous mining practices and implications for gender, health, and gold access. The study is based on eight months of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in two mining communities (one hard rock and one alluvial mining site). In Ghana, understandings of gold as reproductive, interactive, temporal, and shifting have shaped extractive practices in ways that complicate power relations and gold access. Chiefs, spiritualists, and other non-state authorities have come to play important role in mining because of the immaterial character of gold, despite a greater commitment to neoliberal reforms. Also, mine laborers whose bodies secrete certain reproductive substances are prohibited from mining in certain spaces. While such embodied taboos prohibit certain miners to avoid contact with the extractive landscape, women are generally banned from working underground. Women’s activities are, thus, relegated to above-ground surfaces, thereby creating gendered-specific spaces of extraction that shape health vulnerabilities. This dissertation engages indigenous (feminist) political ecology and health geographies of extraction to understand how indigenous ontologies shape extractive practices. I draw attention to the reciprocal relationship of the extractive landscape as it becomes produced through livelihood-making while disrupting ecologies, particularly human ecologies. While much has been written about extraction, the relationship between indigenous ontologies of gold and bodily materials has been underexplored. Moreover, scholars acknowledge that geological and cosmological understandings of mineral deposits shape extractive practices, yet analyses have not gone far to engage with ontologies, gendered mining practices, and health vulnerabilities. In this dissertation, I demonstrate that resource ontologies profoundly shape extractive practices in ways that create unequal access to resources and health vulnerabilities. The findings indicate that meanings attached to the extractive landscape, gold’s distinctive characteristics, and human reproductive substances create differences in mining spaces, gender roles, subjectivities, and affective emotions. The findings suggest that the invisible environment (e.g. spirits), bodily fluids, and orebodies are all entangled in relational practices that affect emotions, gold production, and everyday use of mining spaces. The study argues for engagement with diverse ontologies to account for the multiplicity of forces that shape mineral extraction.
Patterns of Anti-Immigrant Protests in Germany
Creators: name: Jozwiak, Andreas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This thesis examines the wave of anti immigrant protests in Germany during 2014-15. I examine underlying social, economic and political conditions across the 400 counties that jointly determine the number of protests that occurred. I find that unemployment, a lack of contact with foreigners and strength of the local right wing party are related to higher levels of protests. Counter intuitively, I find that higher levels of education, especially in the East, are related to more protests.
title: Цифровые платформы в экологических и метеорологических системах
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2023

description: В данном учебном пособии освещены вопросы по теории государственных цифровых платформ, основам построении систем мониторинга в разных отраслях на основе искусственного интеллекта, машинного обучения, компьютерного зрения, основам создания геоинформационных систем, средствам визуализации информации и перспективам развития цифровых инструментов в современной цифровой экономике. В конце каждой главы издания представлены тестовые задания для оценки уровня усвоения теоретического материала, ситуационные задания и кейсы, требующие как знания теории, так и применения практических навыков. Учебное пособие подготовлено в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования и соответствует программе междисциплинарного курса «Цифровые платформы в экологических и метеорологических системах». Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по направлению подготовки 20.03.01 «Техносферная безопасность». Издание также может быть полезно студентам направлений подготовки 09.03.01 «Информатика и вычислительная техника», 11.03.02 «Инфокоммуникационные технологии и системы связи», 20.04.01 «Техносферная безопасность», проектировщикам, пользователям сенсоров и интеллектуальных систем, ИТ-специалистам в разных областях.
Iterative solutions to the steady state density matrix for optomechanical systems
Creators: name: Nation, P. D.
name: Johansson, J. R.
name: Blencowe, M. P.
name: Rimberg, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a sparse matrix permutation from graph theory that gives stable incomplete Lower-Upper (LU) preconditioners necessary for iterative solutions to the steady state density matrix for quantum optomechanical systems. This reordering is efficient, adding little overhead to the computation, and results in a marked reduction in both memory and runtime requirements compared to other solution methods, with performance gains increasing with system size. Either of these benchmarks can be tuned via the preconditioner accuracy and solution tolerance. This reordering optimizes the condition number of the approximate inverse, and is the only method found to be stable at large Hilbert space dimensions. This allows for steady state solutions to otherwise intractable quantum optomechanical systems.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of Usefulness of discharge standards in outpatients undergoing sedative endoscopy: a propensity score-matched study of the modified post-anesthetic discharge scoring system and the modified Aldrete score
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Daisuke
name: Morisaki, Tomohito
name: Sakata, Yasuhisa
name: Mizuta, Yumi
name: Nagatsuma, Goshi
name: Inoue, Suma
name: Shimakura, Akane
name: Jubashi, Amane
name: Takeuchi, Yuki
name: Ikeda, Kei
name: Tanaka, Yuichiro
name: Yoshioka, Wataru
name: Hino, Naoyuki
name: Ario, Keisuke
name: Tsunada, Seiji
name: Esaki, Motohiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. The modified post-anesthetic discharge scoring system. Supplementary Table 2. The modified Aldrete score.
Additional file 2 of The temporal trend of placebo response in migraine prevention from 1990 to 2021: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis with regression
Creators: name: Tepper, Stewart J.
name: Cirillo, Jessica
name: Kim, Edward
name: L’Italien, Gil
name: Tweedie, Julie M.
name: Lodaya, Kunal
name: Riley, Dushon
name: Pathan, Farah
name: Antaki, Nicholas
name: Nathanson, Brian H.
name: McAllister, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2. Search terms used in the EMBASE database.
How much does a shared name make things similar? Linguistic labels, similarity, and the development of inductive inference.
Creators: name: Sloutsky, Vladimir M.
name: Lo, Ya-Fen
name: Fisher, Anna
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This article examines the development of inductive generalization, and presents a model of young children's induction and two experiments testing the model. The model specifies contribution of linguistic labels and perceptual similarity to young children's induction and predicts a correspondence between similarity judgment and induction of young children. In Experiment 1, 4- to 5-year-olds, 7- to 8-year-olds, and 11- to 12-year-olds were presented with triads of schematic faces (a Target and two Test stimuli), which varied in perceptual similarity, with one of the Test stimuli sharing a linguistic label with the Target, and another having a different label. Participants were taught an unobservable biological property about the Target and asked to generalize the property to one of the Test stimuli. Although 4- to 5-year-olds' proportions of label-based inductive generalizations varied with the degree of perceptual similarity among the compared stimuli, 11- to 12-year-olds relied exclusively on labels, and 7- to 8-year-olds appeared to be a transitional group. In Experiment 2 these findings were replicated using naturalistic stimuli (i.e., photographs of animals), with perceptual similarity manipulated by "morphing" naturalistic pictures into each other in a fixed number of steps. Overall results support predictions of the model and point to a developmental shift from treating linguistic labels as an attribute contributing to similarity to treating them as markers of a common category-a shift that appears to occur between 8 and 11 years of age.
Is there an authoritarian equivalent to declining public support for wars in democracies dataset.xlsx
Creators: name: Grady, Kristopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440808
subject: International relations

description: Dataset and do files for "Is there an authoritarian equivalent to declining public support for wars in democracies? An evaluation of elite-based attempts to remove nondemocratic leaders during wars."
In vivo mapping of microstructural somatotopies in the human corticospinal pathways.
Creators: name: Verstynen, Timothy
name: Jarbo, Kevin
name: Pathak, Sudhir
name: Schneider, Walter
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The human corticospinal pathway is organized in a body-centric (i.e., somatotopic) manner that begins in cortical cell bodies and is maintained in the axons as they project through the midbrain on their way to spinal motor neurons. The subcortical segment of this somatotopy has been described using histological methods on non-human primates but only coarsely validated from lesion studies in human patient populations. Using high definition fiber tracking (HDFT) techniques, we set out to provide the first in vivo quantitative description of the midbrain somatotopy of corticospinal fibers in humans. Multi-shell diffusion imaging and deterministic fiber tracking were used to map white matter bundles that originate in the neocortex, navigate complex fiber crossings, and project through the midbrain. These fiber bundles were segmented into premotor (dorsal premotor, ventral premotor, and supplementary motor area) and primary motor sections based on the cortical origin of each fiber streamline. With HDFT, we were able to reveal several unique corticospinal patterns, including the cortical origins of ventral premotor fibers and small (∼ 1-2 mm) shifts in the midbrain location of premotor versus primary motor cortex fibers. More importantly, within the relatively small diameter of the pyramidal tracts (∼ 5 mm), we were able to map and quantify the direction of the corticospinal somatotopy. These results show how an HDFT approach to white matter mapping provides the first in vivo, quantitative mapping of subcortical corticospinal topographies at resolutions previously only available with postmortem histological techniques.
Novel relativistic plasma excitations in a gated two-dimensional electron system
Creators: name: Muravev, V. M.
name: Gusikhin, P. A.
name: Andreev, I. V.
name: Kukushkin, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microwave response of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) covered by a conducting top gate is investigated in the relativistic regime for which the 2D conductivity $σ_{2 \rm{D}} > c/2π$. Weakly damped plasma waves are excited in the gated region of the 2DES. The frequency and amplitude of the resulting plasma excitations show a very unusual dependence on the magnetic field, conductivity, gate geometry and separation from the 2DES. We show that such relativistic plasmons survive for temperatures up to 300 K, allowing for new room-temperature microwave and terahertz applications.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Stretching and breaking of chemical bonds, correlation of electrons, and radical properties of covalent species
Creators: name: Sheka, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chemical bonds are considered in light of correlation of valence electrons that is strengthened when the bond is dissociated. In the framework of the unrestricted Hartree-Fock single-reference version of the configuration interaction theory, effectively unpaired electrons lay the foundation of the electron correlation measure in terms of total number of the electrons (molecular chemical susceptibility). graphs and their singularities with respect to the interatomic distance allow presenting a quantitative description of stretching and breaking of chemical bonds. The approach validity is demonstrated on a large number of bonds of different order and chemical composition.
description: 24 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables, Advances in Quantum Chemistry, vol. 70, 2014
Evaluating the Differential Item Functioning of the Behavioral Activation for Depression Scale Chinese Version (C-BADS) with Factorial Invariance Procedures
Creators: name: Chen, Yun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The current study aims to exam the psychometric property of the Chinese Behavioral Activation for Depression Scale (C-BADS) in order to correctly assess behavioral activation related construct in China and Taiwan. A total of 752 college students were recruited from China, Taiwan, and the United States. Factorial invariance based differential item functioning (DIF) testing and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used to study the psychometric property of C-BADS. Results show that the majority of BADS items show differences in functioning across culture, with items in the activation factor shows the least magnitude of DIF. In addition, a modified factor model proposed by the original author fit well with our data. Findings from the current study provided important information regarding the use of C-BADS in China and Taiwan, as well as the necessary changes required to introduce BA into Chinese culture. Reasons contributing to the DIF were also explored.
Stable operations and cooperations in derived Witt theory with rational coefficients
Creators: name: Ananyevskiy, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F42, 19G12, 19G38

description: The algebras of stable operations and cooperations in derived Witt theory with rational coefficients are computed and an additive description of cooperations in derived Witt theory is given. The answer is parallel to the well-known case of K-theory of real vector bundles in topology. In particular, we show that stable operations in derived Witt theory with rational coefficients are given by the values on the powers of Bott element.
description: 37 pages, typos corrected, minor changes in exposition. To appear in the Annals of K-theory
Additional file 3 of The temporal trend of placebo response in migraine prevention from 1990 to 2021: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis with regression
Creators: name: Tepper, Stewart J.
name: Cirillo, Jessica
name: Kim, Edward
name: L’Italien, Gil
name: Tweedie, Julie M.
name: Lodaya, Kunal
name: Riley, Dushon
name: Pathan, Farah
name: Antaki, Nicholas
name: Nathanson, Brian H.
name: McAllister, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Supplemental Table 1. Select variables stratified by year of publication for studies reporting continuous outcomes. Supplemental Table 2. Sensitivity analysis of continuous outcomes by the route of administration. Supplemental Table 3. Cochrane risk-of-bias tool for randomized trials. Supplemental Figure 1. Mean study sample size over time for studies reporting continuous outcomes. Supplemental Figure 2. Placebo route over time among eligible studies reporting continuous outcomes. Supplemental Figure 3. Adjusted mean change in placebo response from baseline on studies with A) low risk and some concern of bias and B) only low risk of bias.
Image classification by visual bag-of-words refinement and reduction
Creators: name: Lu, Zhiwu
name: Wang, Liwei
name: Wen, Ji-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a new framework for visual bag-of-words (BOW) refinement and reduction to overcome the drawbacks associated with the visual BOW model which has been widely used for image classification. Although very influential in the literature, the traditional visual BOW model has two distinct drawbacks. Firstly, for efficiency purposes, the visual vocabulary is commonly constructed by directly clustering the low-level visual feature vectors extracted from local keypoints, without considering the high-level semantics of images. That is, the visual BOW model still suffers from the semantic gap, and thus may lead to significant performance degradation in more challenging tasks (e.g. social image classification). Secondly, typically thousands of visual words are generated to obtain better performance on a relatively large image dataset. Due to such large vocabulary size, the subsequent image classification may take sheer amount of time. To overcome the first drawback, we develop a graph-based method for visual BOW refinement by exploiting the tags (easy to access although noisy) of social images. More notably, for efficient image classification, we further reduce the refined visual BOW model to a much smaller size through semantic spectral clustering. Extensive experimental results show the promising performance of the proposed framework for visual BOW refinement and reduction.
Toric Codes and Finite Geometries
Creators: name: Little, John B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94B27 (Primary), 51C05 (Secondary)

description: We show how the theory of affine geometries over the ring ${\mathbb Z}/\langle q - 1\rangle$ can be used to understand the properties of toric and generalized toric codes over ${\mathbb F}_q$. The minimum distance of these codes is strongly tied to the collections of lines in the finite geometry that contain subsets of the exponent vectors of the monomials that are evaluated to produce the standard generator matrix for the code. We argue that this connection is, in fact, even more direct than the connection with the lattice geometry of those exponent vectors considered as elements of ${\mathbb Z}^2$ or ${\mathbb R}^2$. This point of view should be useful both as a way to visualize properties of these codes and as a guide to heuristic searches for good codes constructed in this fashion. In particular, we will use these ideas to see a reason why these constructions have been so successful over the field ${\mathbb F}_8$, but less successful in other cases. This corrected version (posted on 3/6/2017) adds a necessary hypothesis in Proposition 2.4. A counterexample to the previous version was pointed out to the author by Melda Görür and the author thanks her for bringing that to his attention. Theorem 3.2 and Corollary 3.3 are also reformulated so they do not refer to the new more restricted Proposition 2.4.
description: 11 pages
Resonant conversions of QCD axions into hidden axions and suppressed isocurvature perturbations
Creators: name: Kitajima, Naoya
name: Takahashi, Fuminobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study in detail MSW-like resonant conversions of QCD axions into hidden axions, including cases where the adiabaticity condition is only marginally satisfied, and where anharmonic effects are non-negligible. When the resonant conversion is efficient, the QCD axion abundance is suppressed by the hidden and QCD axion mass ratio. We find that, when the resonant conversion is incomplete due to a weak violation of the adiabaticity, the CDM isocurvature perturbations can be significantly suppressed, while non-Gaussianity of the isocurvature perturbations generically remain unsuppressed. The isocurvature bounds on the inflation scale can therefore be relaxed by the partial resonant conversion of the QCD axions into hidden axions.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures, v2: typos corrected, conclusions unchanged
Additional file 2 of Circulating CD8+CD122+ T cells as a prognostic indicator of pancreatic cancer
Creators: name: Teramatsu, Katsuhito
name: Oono, Takamasa
name: Oyama, Koki
name: Fujimori, Nao
name: Murakami, Masatoshi
name: Yasumori, Sho
name: Ohno, Akihisa
name: Matsumoto, Kazuhide
name: Takeno, Ayumu
name: Nakata, Kohei
name: Nakamura, Masafumi
name: Ogawa, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2.
A General Analysis of Wtb anomalous Couplings
Creators: name: Cao, Qing-Hong
name: Yan, Bin
name: Yu, Jiang-Hao
name: Zhang, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate new physics effects on the Wtb effective couplings in a model-independent manner. The new physics effects are summarized as four independent couplings $f_1^L$, $f_1^R$, $f_2^L$ and $f_2^R$. Using single-top-quark productions and W-helicity fraction measurements at the LHC and Tevatron, we perform a global fit to impose constraints on top quark effective couplings. We introduce a set of parameters $x_0$, $x_m$, $x_p$ and $x_5$ to study the correlations among Wtb effective couplings. We show that (i) improving the measurements of $σ_t$ and $σ_{tW}$ is important in constraining the correlation of $(f_1^R,f_2^R)$ and $(f_2^L,f_2^R)$; (ii) $f_1^L$ and $f_2^R$ are anti-correlated, which is sensitive to all the experiments; (iii) $f_1^R$ and $f_2^L$ are also anti-correlated, which is sensitive to the W-helicity measurements; (iv) the correlation between $f_2^L$ and $f_2^R$ is sensitive to the precision of $σ_t$, $σ_{tW}$ and $F_0$ measurements. The effective Wtb couplings are studied in three kinds of new physics models: $SU(2)_1 \times SU(2)_2 \times U(1)_X$ models, vector-like quark models and Littlest Higgs model with and without T-parity. The Wtb couplings in the left-right model and the un-unified model are sensitive to the ratio of gauge couplings when the new heavy gauge boson's mass ($M_{W'}$) is less than several hundred GeV, but the constraint is loose if $M_{W'}>1$ TeV. The Wtb couplings in vector-like quark models and the Littlest Higgs models are sensitive to the mixing angles of new heavy particles and SM particles. We also include the constraints of the oblique T-parameter and Zbb couplings which impose much tighter constraints on the mixing angles. We show that the Wtb coupling constraints become relevant if the precision of single top production cross section measurements could be reduced to 1\% relative to the SM predictions in future.
description: Chin. Phys. C in press
Haptic face processing.
Creators: name: Lederman, Susan J.
name: Kilgour, Andrea
name: Kitada, Ryo
name: Klatzky, Roberta
name: Hamilton, Cheryl
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We present an overview of a new multidisciplinary research program that focuses on haptic processing of human facial identity and facial expressions of emotion. A series of perceptual and neuroscience experiments with live faces and/or rigid three-dimensional facemasks is outlined. To date, several converging methodologies have been adopted: behavioural experimental studies with neurologically intact participants, neuropsychological behavioural research with prosopagnosic individuals, and neuroimaging studies using fMRI techniques. In each case, we have asked what would happen if the hands were substituted for the eyes. We confirm that humans can haptically determine both identity and facial expressions of emotion in facial displays at levels well above chance. Clearly, face processing is a bimodal phenomenon. The processes and representations that underlie such patterns of behaviour are also considered.
An eclipsing post common-envelope system consisting of a pulsating hot subdwarf B star and a brown dwarf companion
Creators: name: Schaffenroth, V.
name: Barlow, B. N.
name: Drechsel, H.
name: Dunlap, B. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) are evolved, core helium-burning objects located on the extreme horizontal branch. Their formation history is still puzzling as the sdB progenitors must lose nearly all of their hydrogen envelope during the red-giant phase. About half of the known sdBs are in close binaries with periods from 1.2 h to a few days, a fact that implies they experienced a common-envelope phase. Eclipsing hot subdwarf binaries (also called HW Virginis systems) are rare but important objects for determining fundamental stellar parameters. Even more significant and uncommon are those binaries containing a pulsating sdB, as the mass can be determined independently by asteroseismology. Here we present a first analysis of the eclipsing hot subdwarf binary V2008-1753. The light curve shows a total eclipse, a prominent reflection effect, and low--amplitude pulsations with periods from 150 to 180 s. An analysis of the light-- and radial velocity (RV) curves indicates a mass ratio close to $ q = 0.146$, an RV semi-amplitude of $K=54.6 \,\rm kms^{-1}$, and an inclination of $i=86.8^\circ$. Combining these results with our spectroscopic determination of the surface gravity, $\log \,g = 5.83$, the best--fitting model yields an sdB mass of 0.47$M_{\rm \odot}$ and a companion mass of $69 M_{\rm Jup}$. As the latter mass is below the hydrogen-burning limit, V2008-1753 represents the first HW Vir system known consisting of a pulsating sdB and a brown dwarf companion. Consequently, it holds great potential for better constraining models of sdB binary evolution and asteroseismology.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted for A&A
Additional file 1 of Gravitational distribution of regional opening and closing pressures, hysteresis and atelectrauma in ARDS evaluated by electrical impedance tomography
Creators: name: Scaramuzzo, Gaetano
name: Spinelli, Elena
name: Spadaro, Savino
name: Santini, Alessandro
name: Tortolani, Donatella
name: Corte, Francesca Dalla
name: Pesenti, Antonio
name: Volta, Carlo Alberto
name: Grasselli, Giacomo
name: Mauri, Tommaso
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental tables + patient’s individual regional opening/closing pressures.
title: Opening the 'black box' : a study of the process of NICE guidelines implementation
Creators: name: Ioanni Spyridonidis, Dimitri
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: Providing rigorous evidence about the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare interventions is not sufficient to account for whether they are introduced into practice or no. This study informs ‘evidence-based’ implementation by using an innovative methodology to provide further understanding of the implementation process. Within the English National Health System the ‘new public management’ (NPM) has spawned new arrangements for the healthcare delivery and one manifestation of these is the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence that develops clinical guidelines to set standards of care, which are centrally monitored. The aims of the study was to explore the nature of the implementation process by which ‘new’ interventions are implemented in the healthcare sector and identify factors that may influence the shape of the implementation process using NICE guidelines as exemplar case studies. A conceptual framework was developed based on the analysis of the theoretical, policy and empirical literature on the implementation process and drew on theories of professionalism, managerialism and power. A comparative case study was adopted to study the process retrospectively, prospectively and longitudinally. 74 face-to- face informal interviews were conducted involving clinicians and managers between 2007 and 2009. The implementation process might be characterised as linear and staged to begin with but becomes ‘non-linear’ as it moves from the planning phase to adoption in every day practice. While, national priorities determine the context for implementation the shape of the process is influenced by the power relations between doctors and managers. The findings suggest that structuralist and post-structuralist theories of power have limited explanatory value. A new conceptual framework is proposed that bridges ‘structural’ and ‘relational’ power and constitutes a hybrid position that suggests that even though professionalism qualifies, it does not fully denies, the transformative power of the NPM to move beyond ‘traditional’ forms of organizing clinical work. 4
Additional file 1 of Senescence-related impairment of autophagy induces toxic intraneuronal amyloid-β accumulation in a mouse model of amyloid pathology
Creators: name: Suelves, Nuria
name: Saleki, Shirine
name: Ibrahim, Tasha
name: Palomares, Debora
name: Moonen, Sebastiaan
name: Koper, Marta J.
name: Vrancx, Céline
name: Vadukul, Devkee M.
name: Papadopoulos, Nicolas
name: Viceconte, Nikenza
name: Claude, Eloïse
name: Vandenberghe, Rik
name: von Arnim, Christine A. F.
name: Constantinescu, Stefan N.
name: Thal, Dietmar Rudolf
name: Decottignies, Anabelle
name: Kienlen-Campard, Pascal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. This file includes supplementary Figures S1–S8, supplementary Methods and supplementary Tables S1–S6.
Illumination effects in face recognition
Creators: name: W L Braje
name: D  Kersten
name: M J Tarr
name: N F Troje
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: How do observers recognize faces despite dramatic image variations that arise from changes in illumination? This paper examines (1) whether face recognition is sensitive to illumination direction and (2) whether cast shadows improve performance by providing information about illumination or hinder performance by introducing spurious edges. In Experiment 1, observers judged whether two sequentially presented faces, illuminated from the same direction or different directions, were the same individual or not. Cast shadows were present for half of the observers. Performance was impaired by a change in the illumination direction and by the presence of shadows. In Experiment 2, observers learned to name eight faces under one illumination direction (left/right) and one cast-shadow condition (present/absent); they were later tested under novel illumination and shadow conditions. Performance declined for unfamiliar illumination directions, but not for unfamiliar shadow conditions. The finding that face recognition is illumination dependent is consistent with the use of image-based representations. The results indicate that face recognition processes are sensitive to either the direction of Lighting or the resultant pattern of shading, and that cast shadows can kinder recognition, possibly by masking informative features or leading to spurious contours.
Additional file 1 of Adjoint-based direct data assimilation of GNSS time series for optimizing frictional parameters and predicting postseismic deformation following the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake
Creators: name: Kano, Masayuki
name: Shin’ichi Miyazaki
name: Ishikawa, Yoichi
name: Kazuro Hirahara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Postseismic time series at all stations in numerical experiments. The blue squares and red circles indicate the synthetic data in Exps. 1 and 2. The green, blue, and red lines are the theoretical time series calculated by using the first-guess and optimum frictional parameters in Exp. 1 and 2, respectively. Figure S2. Postseismic time series at all stations in the application to real data. The red and blue circles indicate the GNSS time series in X and Y directions. The pink, red, and orange lines are the theoretical time series in the X direction calculated by using the first-guess values, the optimum values when only frictional parameters are optimized and the optimum values when frictional parameters and initial values are simultaneously optimized, respectively. The light blue, blue, and green lines indicate the corresponding theoretical time series in the Y direction. Figure S3. (a) Spatio-temporal evolution of slip velocities when the diagonal elements of error variance-covariance matrix for slip velocities are set to be the squared of the larger standard deviation of 1.0×10-7 m/s compared to the results shown in Fig. 10b. (b) Difference between the spatial distribution of the first-guess initial slip velocity and that of the optimized initial slip velocity. Figure S4. Postseismic time series at all stations when the diagonal elements of error variance-covariance matrix for slip velocities are set to be the squared of the larger standard deviation of 1.0×10-7 m/s compared to the results shown in Figure S2. The red and blue circles indicate the GNSS time series in X and Y directions. The red, and blue lines are the corresponding theoretical time series in X and Y directions calculated by using the optimum values. Figure S5. Spatial distribution of the optimized frictional parameters when the diagonal elements of error variance-covariance matrix for slip velocities are set to be the squared of the larger standard deviation of 1.0×10-7 m/s compared to the results shown in Fig. 9b. Figure S6. Postseismic time series at all stations. The red and blue circles indicate the GNSS time series in X and Y directions. The red and blue lines are the corresponding theoretical time series calculated by using the optimum values obtained in Kano et al. (2015).
The Patient-Physician-Parent Relationship and Medical Decision-Making for Children
Creators: name: Brassfield, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: I consider how the deliberative model defended by Emanuel and Emanuel might be modified to accommodate cases in which the patient is a very young child whose parent is the presumed medical decision maker. Drawing on a parent-centered account of parents’ rights to explain why, in most cases, parents can justifiably make medical decisions for their children, I argue that on the modified version of the deliberative model, physicians should pressure or try to override a parent’s medical decision when this is necessary to preserve significant welfare or agency interests on behalf of the child. Importantly, this account is consistent with parents being justified in making medical decisions for a child that do not promote the child’s best interests.
Principe de Hasse pour les intersections de deux quadriques
Creators: name: Wittenberg, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Admettant l'hypothèse de Schinzel et la finitude des groupes de Tate-Shafarevich des courbes elliptiques sur les corps de nombres, toute intersection lisse de deux quadriques dans l'espace projectif de dimension n satisfait au principe de Hasse si n>4. Le même résultat vaut pour n=4, c'est-à-dire pour les surfaces de del Pezzo de degré 4, lorsque le groupe de Brauer est réduit aux constantes et que la surface est suffisamment générale. ----- Assuming Schinzel's hypothesis and the finiteness of Tate-Shafarevich groups of elliptic curves over number fields, smooth intersections of two quadrics in n-dimensional projective space satisfy the Hasse principle if n>4. The same result holds for n=4, i.e., for del Pezzo surfaces of degree 4, provided the Brauer group is reduced to constants and the surface is sufficiently general.
description: 6 pages, in French, with abridged English version; old paper (2005), posted for archival purposes
Incidental Categorization of Spectrally Complex Non-Invariant Auditory Stimuli in a Computer Game Task
Creators: name: Wade, Travis
name: Holt, Lori
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study examined perceptual learning of spectrally complex nonspeech auditory categories in an
interactive multi-modal training paradigm. Participants played a computer game in which they
navigated through a three-dimensional space while responding to animated characters encountered
along the way. Characters’ appearances in the game correlated with distinctive sound category
distributions, exemplars of which repeated each time the characters were encountered. As the game
progressed, the speed and difficulty of required tasks increased and characters became harder to
identify visually, so quick identification of approaching characters by sound patterns was, although
never required or encouraged, of gradually increasing benefit. After 30 min of play, participants
performed a categorization task, matching sounds to characters. Despite not being informed of
audio-visual correlations, participants exhibited reliable learning of these patterns at posttest.
Categorization accuracy was related to several measures of game performance and category learning
was sensitive to category distribution differences modeling acoustic structures of speech categories.
Category knowledge resulting from the game was qualitatively different from that gained from an
explicit unsupervised categorization task involving the same stimuli. Results are discussed with
respect to information sources and mechanisms involved in acquiring complex, context-dependent
auditory categories, including phonetic categories, and to multi-modal statistical learning.
Robust Bayesian compressive sensing for signals in structural health monitoring
Creators: name: Huang, Yong
name: Beck, James L.
name: Wu, Stephen
name: Li, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In structural health monitoring (SHM) systems, massive amounts of data are often generated that need data compression techniques to reduce the cost of signal transfer and storage. Compressive sensing (CS) is a novel data acquisition method whereby the compression is done in a sensor simultaneously with the sampling. If the original sensed signal is sufficiently sparse in terms of some basis, the decompression can be done essentially perfectly up to some critical compression ratio. In this article, a Bayesian compressive sensing (BCS) method is investigated that uses sparse Bayesian learning to reconstruct signals from a compressive sensor. By explicitly quantifying the uncertainty in the reconstructed signal, the BCS technique exhibits an obvious benefit over existing regularized norm-minimization CS methods that provide a single signal estimate. However, current BCS algorithms suffer from a robustness problem: sometimes the reconstruction errors are very large when the number of measurements is a lot less than the number of signal degrees of freedom that are needed to capture the signal accurately in a directly sampled form. In this paper, we present improvements to the BCS reconstruction method to enhance its robustness so that even higher compression ratios can be used and we examine the tradeoff between efficiently compressing data and accurately decompressing it. Synthetic data and actual acceleration data collected from a bridge SHM system are used as examples. Compared with the state-of-the-art BCS reconstruction algorithms, the improved BCS algorithm demonstrates superior performance. With the same reconstruction error, the proposed BCS algorithm works with relatively large compression ratios and it can achieve perfect lossless compression performance with quite high compression ratios. Furthermore, the error bars for the signal reconstruction are also quantified effectively.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables
Do the Winners Really Take It all? Exploring Entrepreneurial Learning in Start-Up Competitions
Creators: name: Stolz, Lennard
name: Sternberg, Rolf
Publisher: name: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: entrepreneurial learning
subject: fuzzy-sets qualitative comparative analysis
subject: policy instruments
subject: qualitative comparative analysis
subject: start-up competitions
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::370 | Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Originating from business plan competitions at universities, start-up competitions (SUCs) are nowadays a widely used policy tool to foster entrepreneurial learning among a larger group of potential and nascent entrepreneurs. While the literature on entrepreneurial learning highlights the importance of participants’ prior experiences, studies on learning in SUCs often ignore these experiences, but detect different perceptions of the learning outcomes from SUCs. To address this research gap, we explore configurations of prior experience and the participation routines of entrepreneurs at SUCs. To do so, we apply fuzzy-sets qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to in-depth interview data from 26 participants at two German SUCs. Based on theories on entrepreneurial learning, insights from the interviews, and our empirical results from fsQCA, we identify one necessary condition and two specific configurations of conditions that lead to the outcome. The absence of entrepreneurial knowledge was found to be a necessary condition for entrepreneurial learning in SUCs. Prior industry experience is part of both solutions, but whether the presence or absence of it is important depends on whether it is combined with active participation in the competition. We present implications for policymakers, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
On cultural differences of heroes: evidence from individualistic and collectivistic cultures
Creators: name: Sun, Yuning
name: Kinsella, Elaine
name: IGOU, ERIC RAYMOND
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Building on earlier research that examined the characteristics people associate with heroes, our research examined similarities and differences of the hero stereotype across cultures. Specifically, in Study 1 (N = 209) and Study 2 (N = 298), we investigated lay perceptions of heroes among participants from a collectivistic culture. In Study 3 (N = 586), we examined whether group membership could be determined by participants’ centrality ratings of the combined set of hero features. In Study 4 (N = 197), we tested whether the hero features that distinguish American and Chinese participants, when used to describe a target person, influence the impression that the target person is a hero. In Study 5 (N = 158) and Study 6 (N= 591), we investigated cultural differences in perceptions of different types of heroes (e.g., social, martial, civil) and the influence of individualism and collectivism on the perception of those heroes.
"Your Daily Life Is Your Temple And Your Religion”: The Material and Immaterial Availability of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
Creators: name: Wilensky-Lanford, Brook
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This thesis will use the reception history of the book The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, a short, illustrated book of prose poetry first published in 1923, to question the prevailing characterization in American religious history of the sixties as a revolution in an otherwise stagnant religious culture. The Prophet is best known for its popularity in the 1960s, where it acquired a reputation as a “counterculture Bible.” I argue that The Prophet is distinguished not by any special affinity for the counterculture, but by its remarkably consistent level of “availability” to readers over time, in terms both literary and material, as demonstrated by two instances in its publication history: the publication and distribution of an “Armed Services Edition” of The Prophet during World War II; and the widespread selection of excerpts from The Prophet as alternate ritual texts for reading aloud at weddings beginning in the late 1960s and 70s.