cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sparse Binarization for Fast Keyword Spotting
Creators: name: Svirsky, Jonathan
name: Shaham, Uri
name: Lindenbaum, Ofir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the increasing prevalence of voice-activated devices and applications, keyword spotting (KWS) models enable users to interact with technology hands-free, enhancing convenience and accessibility in various contexts. Deploying KWS models on edge devices, such as smartphones and embedded systems, offers significant benefits for real-time applications, privacy, and bandwidth efficiency. However, these devices often possess limited computational power and memory. This necessitates optimizing neural network models for efficiency without significantly compromising their accuracy. To address these challenges, we propose a novel keyword-spotting model based on sparse input representation followed by a linear classifier. The model is four times faster than the previous state-of-the-art edge device-compatible model with better accuracy. We show that our method is also more robust in noisy environments while being fast. Our code is available at: https://github.com/jsvir/sparknet.
Neel proximity effect in superconductor/antiferromagnet heterostructures
Creators: name: Bobkova, I. V.
name: Bobkov, G. A.
name: Gordeeva, V. M.
name: Bobkov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well-known that the cornerstone of the proximity effect in superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures is a generation of triplet Cooper pairs from singlet Cooper pairs inherent in a conventional superconductor. This proximity effect brought a lot of new exciting physics and gave a powerful impulse to development of superconducting spintronics. Nowadays a new direction of spintronics is actively developing, which is based on antiferromagnets and their heterostructures. It is called antiferromagnetic spintronics. By analogy with an important role played by triplet Cooper pairs in conventional superconducting spintronics based on ferromagnets the question arises: does the triplet proximity effect exist in superconductor/antiferromagnet heterostructures and, if so, what are the properties of the induced triplet correlations and the prospects for use in superconducting spintronics? Recent theoretical findings predict that despite the absence of a net magnetization, the Neel magnetic order of the antiferromagnet does give rise to specific spin-triplet correlations at superconductor/antiferromagnet interfaces. They were called Neel triplet correlations. The goal of this review is to discuss the current understanding of the fundamental physics of these Neel triplet correlations and their physical manifestations.
title: RUBinform
title: Datenschutz & Datensicherheit
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wojcieszynski, Brigitte
Publisher: name: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Year: 2020

description: In dieser Ausgabe: ▪ Alles Emotet? - Untergründiges ▪ Zeit aufzuräumen ▪ Die clevere Alternative: Etherpad ▪ Das neue RUB-Datacenter ▪ Virus trifft Virus
description: RUBinform : Datenschutz & Datensicherheit, 2020,1
Use of World Vegetable Center breeding lines among seed companies in Asia in 2023
Creators: name: Schreinemachers, Pepijn
name: Lin, Mandy
name: Editing: Nick Pasiecznik
Publisher: name: World Vegetable Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: BREEDING LINES
subject: GERMPLASM
subject: tomato
subject: PEPPERS
subject: PUMPKINS
subject: BOTTLE GOURD
subject: RESISTANT VARIETIES
subject: Asia and Pacific Seed Association (APSA) – World Vegetable Center Vegetable Breeding Consortium
subject: Seed companies
subject: Germplasm
subject: Tomato
subject: Pepper
subject: Pumpkin
subject: Bitter gourd
subject: Smallholder vegetable farmers

description: This study documents the progress of the Asia and Pacific Seed Association (APSA) – World Vegetable Center Vegetable Breeding Consortium. Consortium membership increased from 19 members in 2017 to 51 in 2023. Seven seed companies joined the Consortium for the first time in 2023, and 43% of members are small companies with less than a hundred employees. WorldVeg sent 1,156 seed samples to seed companies in 2023 and 11,613 seed samples since the start of the Consortium in 2017. We conducted a survey of past and current members to describe the use of WorldVeg germplasm and quantify its impact. We find that an increasing number of seed companies are using WorldVeg pepper, tomato, bitter gourd, and pumpkin germplasm in their breeding programs. The number of vegetable varieties on the market containing WorldVeg-developed germplasm increased from 47 varieties in 2017 to 177 in 2023. Seed sales of these varieties increased from 24.7 tonnes in 2017 to 63.6 tonnes in 2023. This volume is enough to potentially plant 277,600 hectares under Consortium crops and reach 738,000 farm households. Tomato, pepper, and pumpkin varieties are mostly based on WorldVeg germplasm acquired by companies before the launch of the Consortium in 2017, while material provided after 2017 is not yet widely represented in these varieties. Conversely, commercial varieties of bitter gourd are based on WorldVeg germplasm acquired in 2017 or later. Overall, the results of this study clearly show that the Consortium is enabling greater use of WorldVeg germplasm across Asia's seed sector, thereby widely benefiting smallholder vegetable farmers across the continent.
Pseudotetrahymenidae Wang & Liu & Wang & Wang & Wang & Wang & Zhao & Pan 2025, fam. nov.
Creators: name: Wang, Xiang
name: Liu, Lihui
name: Wang, Jialu
name: Wang, Xiaosong
name: Wang, Jiarui
name: Wang, Li
name: Zhao, Lv
name: Pan, Xuming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Oligohymenophorea
Tetrahymenida
Pseudotetrahymenidae

description: Family Pseudotetrahymenidae fam. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: A9FCE478-3C33-458D-AF4F-02505DF5BB74
Diagnosis
The outline of the cell is similar to the one in Tetrahymena. The adoral structure is of Tetrahymena type, composed of one paroral and three oral membranelles. M2 consists of several clusters, forming several parallel parts.
Type genus
Pseudotetrahymena gen. nov.
Genera included
Pseudotetrahymena gen. nov.
description: Published as part of Wang, Xiang, Liu, Lihui, Wang, Jialu, Wang, Xiaosong, Wang, Jiarui, Wang, Li, Zhao, Lv & Pan, Xuming, 2025, Systematic positions and taxonomy of two freshwater ciliates found in China, with establishments of one new family and two new species (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea), pp. 1-20 in European Journal of Taxonomy 981 on page 5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.981.2813, http://zenodo.org/record/14987841
Mahomedella rungsi
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
name: Müller, Günter C.
name: Prozorov, Alexey M.
name: Traore, Mohamed M.
name: Sulak, Harald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Mahomedella
Mahomedella rungsi

description: Mahomedella rungsi (Daniel & Witt, 1974)
Figs 3‒4, 7
 Catopta rungsi Daniel & Witt, 1974, Z. Arb. österr. Ent. 26 (1): 13‒14, g. 9‒10.
Type locality: Maroc Saharien, Hi Merheimine [Morocco, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Errachidia Province, 31.19955723393285, -3.5949628263155886].
Type material (holotype, male) in MNHN.
Distribution: Morocco (Rungs 1979).
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., Müller, Günter C., Prozorov, Alexey M., Traore, Mohamed M. & Sulak, Harald, 2023, Mahomedella hoggarensis sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Cossidae, Cossinae) from Southern Algeria, pp. 42-47 in Ecologica Montenegrina 68 on page 47, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.68.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13246212
Cyclic Progesterone Therapy in Androgenic Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)—A 6-Month Pilot Study of a Single Woman’s Experience Changes
Creators: name: Shirin, Sonia
name: Murray, Faye
name: Goshtasebi, Azita
name: Kalidasan, Dharani
name: Prior, Jerilynn C., 1943-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Background and Objectives: Women with androgenic Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) have increased endometrial cancer risk that cyclic progesterone will prevent; it may also reverse PCOS’s neuroendocrine origins. This pilot study’s purpose was to document 6-month experience changes in a woman with PCOS taking cyclic progesterone therapy because she was intolerant of combined hormonal contraceptive therapy, the current PCOS standard of care. A 31-year-old normal-weight woman with PCOS had heavy flow, irregular cycles, and was combined hormonal contraceptives-intolerant. She was prescribed cyclic oral micronized progesterone (OMP) (300 mg/h.s. cycle days 14–27). She kept Menstrual Cycle Diary© (Diary) records, starting with the 1st treatment cycle for six cycles; she was on no other therapy. Statistical analysis a priori hypothesized progesterone decreases high estradiol (E2) experiences (flow, cervical mucus, fluid retention, front-of-the-breast tenderness and anxiety); analysis focused on these. Our objectives: (1) changes from cycles 1 to 6 in E2-related experiences; and (2) follicular phase E2-related changes from cycle 1 (no therapy) to cycles 3 and 6. Materials and Methods: Data from consecutive Diaries were entered into an SPSS database and analyzed by Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test (Objective #1) within-person whole cycle ordinal data, and (Objective #2 follicular phase) repeated measures ANOVA. Results: Cyclic OMP was associated with regular, shorter cycles (±SD) (28.2 ± 0.8 days). Comparison of cycles 1–6 showed decreased fluid retention (p = 0.001), breast tenderness (p = 0.002), and cervical mucus (p = 0.048); there were no changes in flow or anxiety. Fluid retention in the follicular phase also significantly decreased over time (F (1.2, 14.7) = 6.7, p = 0.017). Conclusions: Pilot daily Diary data suggest women with PCOS have improved everyday experiences on cyclic progesterone therapy. Larger prospective studies with more objective outcomes and randomized controlled trials of this innovative PCOS therapy are needed.
Contemporaneous X-ray Observations of 30 Bright Radio Bursts from the Prolific Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 20220912A
Creators: name: Cook, Amanda M.
name: Scholz, Paul
name: Pearlman, Aaron B.
name: Abbott, Thomas C.
name: Cruces, Marilyn
name: Gaensler, B. M.
name: Fengqiu
name: Dong
name: Michilli, Daniele
name: Eadie, Gwendolyn
name: Kaspi, Victoria M.
name: Stairs, Ingrid
name: Tan, Chia Min
name: Bhardwaj, Mohit
name: Cassanelli, Tomas
name: Curtin, Alice P.
name: Ibik, Adaeze L.
name: Lazda, Mattias
name: Masui, Kiyoshi W.
name: Pandhi, Ayush
name: Rafiei-Ravandi, Masoud
name: Sammons, Mawson W.
name: Shin, Kaitlyn
name: Smith, Kendrick
name: Stenning, David C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an extensive contemporaneous X-ray and radio campaign performed on the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20220912A for eight weeks immediately following the source's detection by CHIME/FRB. This includes X-ray data from XMM-Newton, NICER, and Swift, and radio detections of FRB 20220912A from CHIME/Pulsar and Effelsberg. We detect no significant X-ray emission at the time of 30 radio bursts with upper limits on $0.5-10.0$ keV X-ray fluence of $(1.5-14.5)\times 10^{-10}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ (99.7% credible interval, unabsorbed) on a timescale of 100 ms. Translated into a fluence ratio $η_{\text{ x/r}} = F_{\text{X-ray}}/F_{\text{radio}}$, this corresponds to $η_{\text{ x/r}} < 7\times10^{6}$. For persistent emission from the location of FRB 20220912A, we derive a 99.7% $0.5-10.0$ keV isotropic flux limit of $8.8\times 10^{-15}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (unabsorbed) or an isotropic luminosity limit of 1.4$\times10^{41}$ erg s$^{-1}$ at a distance of 362.4 Mpc. We derive a hierarchical extension to the standard Bayesian treatment of low-count and background-contaminated X-ray data, which allows the robust combination of multiple observations. This methodology allows us to place the best (lowest) 99.7% credible interval upper limit on an FRB $η_{\text{ x/r}}$ to date, $η_{\text{ x/r}} < 2\times10^6$, assuming that all thirty detected radio bursts are associated with X-ray bursts with the same fluence ratio. If we instead adopt an X-ray spectrum similar to the X-ray burst observed contemporaneously with FRB-like emission from Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 detected on 2020 April 28, we derive a 99.7% credible interval upper limit on $η_{\text{ x/r}}$ of $8\times10^5$, which is only 3 times the observed value of $η_{\text{ x/r}}$ for SGR 1935+2154.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures. ApJ in press (accepted after resubmission July 19th, 2024)
Pseudotetrahymena Wang & Liu & Wang & Wang & Wang & Wang & Zhao & Pan 2025, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Wang, Xiang
name: Liu, Lihui
name: Wang, Jialu
name: Wang, Xiaosong
name: Wang, Jiarui
name: Wang, Li
name: Zhao, Lv
name: Pan, Xuming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Oligohymenophorea
Tetrahymenida
Tetrahymenidae
Pseudotetrahymena

description: Genus Pseudotetrahymena gen. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: D5CB9EA2-346B-4228-99EF-ABC86B4B9BE8
Diagnosis
The size in vivo is about 165–230 × 125–210 μm; the anterior end pointed and the posterior end broadly rounded; the buccal field is big and deep, approximately 40% of body the length; 19 or 20 somatic kineties; two postoral kineties; M1 and M2 are approximately equal length; M2 consists of three parts (M2a, b, c); M3 is shorter than M1 and M2; one macronucleus; micronucleus is not observed; freshwater habitat.
Etymology
The genus-group name ‘ Pseudotetrahymena ’ highlights the difference of the oral apparatus and outline from that of the genus Tetrahymena.
Type species
Pseudotetrahymena orientalis gen. et sp. nov. (monotypic genus).
description: Published as part of Wang, Xiang, Liu, Lihui, Wang, Jialu, Wang, Xiaosong, Wang, Jiarui, Wang, Li, Zhao, Lv & Pan, Xuming, 2025, Systematic positions and taxonomy of two freshwater ciliates found in China, with establishments of one new family and two new species (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea), pp. 1-20 in European Journal of Taxonomy 981 on page 5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.981.2813, http://zenodo.org/record/14987841
AUO Cities & Indicators - July 2021
Creators: name: Murray, Katherine
name: Davern, Melanie
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Preventative health care
Public health not elsewhere classified
Health promotion
Health and community services
Urban design
Land use and environmental planning
Transport planning
Community planning

description: An up to date list of the Cities and Indicators included in The Australian Urban Observatory.
These 21 cities, including 8 capital cities and 13 other major regional cities with a population of 80,000 or more, link the AUO to the Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development National Cities Performance Framework. The AUO maps to three levels of detail, covering 170 Local Government Areas, 3,101 Suburbs and 39,967 Neighborhoods (ABS SA1s).
CITIESACT: CanberraNSW: Albury-Wodonga, Newcastle-Maitland, Sydney, WollongongNT: DarwinQLD: Brisbane, Cairns, Gold Coast-Tweed Heads, Mackay, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba, TownsvilleSA: AdelaideTAS: Hobart, LauncestonVIC: Albury-Wodonga, Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, MelbourneWA: Perth
The Impacts of Environmental and Socio-Economic Risks on the Fisheries in the Mediterranean Region
Creators: name: Hilmi, Nathalie
name: Farahmand, Shekoofeh
name: Lam, Vicky W. Y.
name: Cinar, Mine
name: Safa, Alain
name: Gilloteaux, Juliette
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: The objective of this study is to investigate the impacts of the environmental and socio-economic risks on the fisheries in the Mediterranean region from an economic point of view. A balanced panel of 21 Mediterranean countries for 2001–2018 has been estimated by the GLS method, considering heteroskedasticity and correlation among cross sections. The volume of fish landed and landed values have been considered in two models. The results show that increases in sea bottom and surface temperature, H⁺ ion concentration and salinity threaten the fisheries in the Mediterranean region for the volume of fish landed and that sea surface temperature and salinity negatively influence landed values. In addition, there is an inverse U-shaped relationship between human population and fisheries. Moreover, the Human Development Index (HDI), an indicator of countries’ adaptive capacity, has a positive impact on fisheries and indicates that countries can safeguard fisheries by improving their adaptive capacity. Finally, our results strongly show the risk of climate change for the fisheries in the Mediterranean region and that fisheries are adversely impacted by climate change as well as worsening socio-economic conditions in the absence of adaptation plans.
Expanding the eNanoMapper Ontology - ICBO2020
Creators: name: Winckers, Laurent
name: Evelo, Chris
name: Willighagen, Egon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: eNanoMapper
NanoCommons
ICBO2020
ICBO
OBO Dashboard
ROBOT is an OBO Tool
OBO
ROBOT

description: The NanoCommons Knowledgebase, https://www.nanocommons.eu/nanocommonsknowedge-base/, is an essential component of nanoinformatics and based on an agreed ontology. NanoCommons has continued to expand and develop the eNanoMapper (ENM) ontology to aid toxicological data management for NMs [1]. Ontological mapping facilitates the organization, integration and reuse of data which suits the premise of less usage of animals for research purposes. 1. Hastings J, Jeliazkova N, Owen G, Tsiliki G, Munteanu CR, Steinbeck C, Willighagen EL. eNanoMapper: harnessing ontologies to enable data integration for nanomaterial risk assessment. J Biomed Semantics. 2015;6:10. doi: 10.1186/s13326-015-0005-5
The Tree of Life: A Review of the Strengths-Based Narrative Approach
Creators: name: Lock, S.
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: This paper reviews the literature on the Tree of Life (ToL), a psychosocial support tool underpinned by narrative therapy. Originally developed to support vulnerable children in East and Southern Africa, ToL draws on the metaphor of a tree, taken from Zimbabwean folklore and collective narrative practice to support groups and communities to overcome difficult life experiences. The aim is to inform practitioners of the key elements of the approach and to inform educational psychology practice.
‘It's Just Because It Went Really High and We Go Wheeeee…!’: Young Children’s Views on Risk-Taking Play in Their Early Years Setting
Creators: name: Tytler, K
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: Previous research suggests that young children enjoy taking risks in their play and that risky play offers many benefits. To gain further insight into the child’s perspective, the present study explored young children’s views about risk-taking play, employing a sample of eight children aged four years old from four different early years settings in one local authority in England. Since research outside the UK has identified categories of risk-taking play, this was used as a starting point to inform for the current small-scale study. Semi-structured interviews with the children were undertaken with a series of photographs depicting different types of play used to engage the children in discussion. Data from each of these interviews were subjected to thematic analysis. Findings revealed that children had a variety of reasons for choosing to participate in risk-taking play, such as it being scary or exciting. Children’s choices were mediated by their awareness of safety issues with each child articulating the boundaries around whether, where and how they might choose to engage in a risk-taking play activity.
What Motivates Staff to Work at a Therapeutic School for Children Identified as Having Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties?
Creators: name: Wilding, A.
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: Those who work at schools with children identified as having social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD), work in considerably challenging, stressful and undesirable environments (Shuttleworth, 2005). Taking this into consideration, this study focuses on staff motivation, in an attempt to pinpoint what motivates individuals to pursue and commit to a career in this field of work. Staff members working with children identified as having SEBD at a therapeutic primary school in the UK were interviewed (N = 7). Semi-structured interviews were prepared and carried out inside the school premises in a private space. Interviews were recorded using an audio recorder and were analysed using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000) was applied to the data and referred to as a framework. Five key themes were developed from the data, three of the key themes were deemed to be most relevant to the research question: ‘What motivates staff to work at a therapeutic school for children identified as having emotional and behavioural difficulties?’ These were: Emotional connection: Occasions when participants spoke of feeling deeply connected to others. This connection was either with children through relatedness, or with colleagues (team spirit). A sense of feeling good: This was summarised as pride, enjoyment, appreciation, a sense of feeling right/suited, feeling valued, and even ‘the challenge’ and ‘hard work’. Responsibility: Participants felt driven by a sense of responsibility, for example comparisons were made to being like parent-figures to the children. These three themes were considered to be the key forms of motivation identified from this particular sample of staff members.
Carbon Capture Systems for Building-Level Heating Systems—A Socio-Economic and Environmental Evaluation
Creators: name: Liyanage, Don Rukmal
name: Hewage, Kasun
name: Karunathilake, Hirushie
name: Chhipi-Shrestha, Gyan
name: Sadiq, Rehan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: The energy consumption of buildings contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Energy use for space and water heating in buildings causes a major portion of these emissions. Natural gas (NG) is one of the dominant fuels used for building heating, emitting GHG emissions directly to the atmosphere. Many studies have been conducted on improving energy efficiency and using cleaner energy sources in buildings. However, implementing carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) on NG building heating systems is overlooked in the literature. CCUS technologies have proved their potential to reduce GHG emissions in fossil fuel power plants. However, their applicability for building-level applications has not been adequately established. A critical literature review was conducted to understand the feasibility and viability of adapting CCUS technologies to co-function in building heating systems. This study investigated the technical requirements, environmental and socio-economic impacts, and the drivers and barriers towards implementing building-level CCUS technologies. The findings indicated that implementing building-level CCUS technologies has significant overall benefits despite the marginal increase in energy consumption, operational costs, and capital costs. The information presented in this paper is valuable to academics, building owners and managers, innovators, investors, and policy makers involved in the clean energy sector.
Maintaining an Interactionist Perspective of Undesirable Behaviour: What Is the Role of the Educational Psychologist?
Creators: name: Cunningham, L.
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: Special Educational Needs (SEN) legislation has recently undergone the largest reform in over a decade. Whilst several key changes have been widely discussed, the shift in terminology to describe children’s behavioural difficulties has received less attention. A greater emphasis has been placed on encouraging school staff and professionals to see beyond the observable behaviour and to give consideration to possible underpinning factors. However, the explicit focus on identifying undiagnosed learning difficulties, speech and language difficulties or mental health issues may serve to encourage a paradigm shift towards a more ‘within-child’ rather than interactionist perspective of undesirable behaviour. This paper will discuss this possibility, and with specific reference to speech and language difficulties, it will consider how through their five core functions educational psychologists can seek to maintain an interactionist perspective of undesirable behaviour.
Insulating Half-Heusler TmPdSb with Unusual Band Order and Metallic Surface States
Creators: name: Dan, Shovan
name: Ptok, Andrzej
name: Pavlosiuk, Orest
name: Singh, Karan
name: Wiśniewski, Piotr
name: Kaczorowski, Dariusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical and experimental results exploring a half-Heusler compound TmPdSb with unusual band order and metallic surface states. Typically, the half-Heusler systems exhibit topological features in a semimetallic state, and trivial ones in an insulating state. Topological properties of the most of half-Heusler systems are related to the band inversion around the Fermi level, similar to this observed in CdTe/HgTe systems. In the case of TmPdSb we observed the gapped electronic band structure with ``band inversion'' in the conductance band, while the slab-like system realized metallic surface states. The bulk insulating nature of the compound was corroborated by means of electrical transport measurements. The experimental data revealed several features due to the presence of metallic surface states, such as linear magnetoresistance and weak-antilocalization effect, characterized by enhanced coherence length and a very large number of surface conductive channels. Our findings reveal new features of the rare-earth half-Heusler.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, supporting information
Understanding Sexualised Behaviour in Children
Creators: name: Talbot, Lana V
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: Teachers and parents sometimes turn to educational psychologists when they have concerns about the sexual behaviour of children and young people. This paper draws upon developmental psychology to describe ways in which sexual development has been conceptualised. This highlights that sexual development is best seen on a continuum that ranges from the developmentally appropriate to children that molest. From this analysis educational psychologists are encouraged to think about the different professional responses that are most appropriate and to see the importance of being able to move along a graded response from reassurance to concern.
Advances in Preference-based Reinforcement Learning: A Review
Creators: name: Abdelkareem, Youssef
name: Shehata, Shady
name: Karray, Fakhri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms suffer from the dependency on accurately engineered reward functions to properly guide the learning agents to do the required tasks. Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) addresses that by utilizing human preferences as feedback from the experts instead of numeric rewards. Due to its promising advantage over traditional RL, PbRL has gained more focus in recent years with many significant advances. In this survey, we present a unified PbRL framework to include the newly emerging approaches that improve the scalability and efficiency of PbRL. In addition, we give a detailed overview of the theoretical guarantees and benchmarking work done in the field, while presenting its recent applications in complex real-world tasks. Lastly, we go over the limitations of the current approaches and the proposed future research directions.
Properties of outer solar system pebbles during planetesimal formation from meteor observations
Creators: name: Jenniskens, Peter
name: Estrada, Paul R.
name: Pilorz, Stuart
name: Gural, Peter S.
name: Samuels, Dave
name: Rau, Steve
name: Abbott, Timothy M. C.
name: Albers, Jim
name: Austin, Scott
name: Avner, Dan
name: Baggaley, Jack W.
name: Beck, Tim
name: Blomquist, Solvay
name: Boyukata, Mustafa
name: Breukers, Martin
name: Cooney, Walt
name: Cooper, Tim
name: De Cicco, Marcelo
name: Devillepoix, Hadrien
name: Egland, Eric
name: Fahl, Elize
name: Gialluca, Megan
name: Grigsby, Bryant
name: Hanke, Toni
name: Harris, Barbara
name: Heathcote, Steve
name: Hemmelgarn, Samantha
name: Howell, Andy
name: Jehin, Emmanuel
name: Johannink, Carl
name: Juneau, Luke
name: Kisvarsanyi, Erika
name: Mey, Philip
name: Moskovitz, Nick
name: Odeh, Mohammad
name: Rachford, Brian
name: Rollinson, David
name: Scott, James M.
name: Towner, Martin C.
name: Unsalan, Ozan
name: van Wyk, Rynault
name: Wood, Jeff
name: Wray, James D.
name: Pavao, C.
name: Lauretta, Dante S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 85

description: In the late stages of accretion leading up to the formation of planetesimals, particles grew to pebbles the size of 1-mm to tens of cm. That is the same size range that dominates the present-day comet mass loss. Meteoroids that size cause visible meteors on Earth. Here, we hypothesize that the size distribution and the physical and chemical properties of young meteoroid streams still contain information about the conditions in the solar nebula during these late stages of accretion. From observations of 47 young meteor showers, we find that freshly ejected meteoroids from long-period comets tend to have low bulk density and are distributed with equal surface area per log-mass interval (magnitude distribution index chi ~ 1.85), suggesting gentle accretion conditions. Jupiter-family comets, on the other hand, mostly produce meteoroids twice as dense and distributed with a steeper chi ~ 2.15 or even chi ~ 2.5, which implies that those pebbles grew from particles fragmenting in a collisional cascade or by catastrophic collisions, respectively. Both comet populations contain an admixture of compact materials that are sometimes sodium-poor, but Jupiter-family comets show a higher percentage (~8% on average) than long-period comet showers (~4%), and a wider range. While there are exceptions in both groups, the implication is that most long-period comets formed under gentle particle growth conditions, possibly near the 30 AU edge of the Trans Neptunian Disk, while most Jupiter family comets formed closer to the Sun where pebbles reached or passed the fragmentation barrier. This is possible if the Scattered Disk represents all objects scattered by Neptune during its migration, while the present-day outer Oort cloud formed only during and after the Sun had moved away from sibling stars.
description: 82 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables
title: Radiologist’s role in incidental congenital anomalies on lumbar MRI
Creators: name: Alsaadi, Maryam
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Uroradiology & genital male imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: Anatomy
subject: Kidney
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A 43-year-old man with VACTERL association, including anal atresia and scoliosis, has not been investigated for other possible associated congenital anomalies. During the evaluation for scoliosis, an MRI of the spine was performed. The MRI findings raised the suspicion of a duplex collecting system; therefore, CT urography was requested.

description: 43 years, male
Book Review: Strength Cards
Creators: name: Hussain, T.
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: This review is of a resource called “Strengths Cards” (which can be purchased from, amongst other providers, Positive Insights http://positiveinsights.co.uk; http://mindspring.uk.com/shop/strengths-cards/). These cards are based on the 24 human signature strengths first identified in Martin Seligman’s book (2002) Authentic Happiness.
Towards Feature Selection for Ranking and Classification Exploiting Quantum Annealers
Creators: name: Dacrema, Maurizio Ferrari
name: Moroni, Fabio
name: Nembrini, Riccardo
name: Ferro, Nicola
name: Faggioli, Guglielmo
name: Cremonesi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Feature selection is a common step in many ranking, classification, or prediction tasks and serves many purposes. By removing redundant or noisy features, the accuracy of ranking or classification can be improved and the computational cost of the subsequent learning steps can be reduced. However, feature selection can be itself a computationally expensive process. While for decades confined to theoretical algorithmic papers, quantum computing is now becoming a viable tool to tackle realistic problems, in particular special-purpose solvers based on the Quantum Annealing paradigm. This paper aims to explore the feasibility of using currently available quantum computing architectures to solve some quadratic feature selection algorithms for both ranking and classification. The experimental analysis includes 15 state-of-the-art datasets. The effectiveness obtained with quantum computing hardware is comparable to that of classical solvers, indicating that quantum computers are now reliable enough to tackle interesting problems. In terms of scalability, current generation quantum computers are able to provide a limited speedup over certain classical algorithms and hybrid quantum-classical strategies show lower computational cost for problems of more than a thousand features.
description: Source code is available on Github https://github.com/qcpolimi/SIGIR22_QuantumFeatureSelection.git
The Soft Skills of Software Learning Development: the Psychological Dimensions of Computing and Security Behaviours
Creators: name: Ivory, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: When writing software code, developers typically prioritise functionality over security, either consciously or unconsciously through biases and heuristics. This is often attributed to tangible pressures such as client requirements, but little is understood about the psychological dimensions affecting security behaviours. There is an increasing demand for understanding how psychological skills affect secure software development and to understand how these skills themselves are developed during the learning process. This doctoral research explores this research space, with aims to identify important workplace-based skills for software developers; to identify and empirically investigate the soft skills behind these workplace skills in order to understand how soft skills can influence security behaviours; and, to identify ways to introduce and teach soft skills to computer science students to prepare the future generation of software developers. The motivations behind this research are presented alongside the work plan. Three distinct phases are introduced, along with planned analyses. Phase one is currently in the data collection stage, with the second phase in planning. Prior relevant work is highlighted, and the paper concludes with a presentation of preliminary results and the planned next steps.
Towards Measuring Domain Shift in Histopathological Stain Translation in an Unsupervised Manner
Creators: name: Nisar, Zeeshan
name: Vasiljević, Jelica
name: Gançarski, Pierre
name: Lampert, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Domain shift in digital histopathology can occur when different stains or scanners are used, during stain translation, etc. A deep neural network trained on source data may not generalise well to data that has undergone some domain shift. An important step towards being robust to domain shift is the ability to detect and measure it. This article demonstrates that the PixelCNN and domain shift metric can be used to detect and quantify domain shift in digital histopathology, and they demonstrate a strong correlation with generalisation performance. These findings pave the way for a mechanism to infer the average performance of a model (trained on source data) on unseen and unlabelled target data.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Galactic Component Mapping of Galaxy UGC 2885 by Machine Learning Classification
Creators: name: Kwik, Robin J.
name: Wang, Jinfei
name: Barmby, Pauline
name: Holwerda, Benne W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Automating classification of galaxy components is important for understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies. Traditionally, only the larger galaxy structures such as the spiral arms, bulge, and disc are classified. Here we use machine learning (ML) pixel-by-pixel classification to automatically classify all galaxy components within digital imagery of massive spiral galaxy UGC 2885. Galaxy components include young stellar population, old stellar population, dust lanes, galaxy center, outer disc, and celestial background. We test three ML models: maximum likelihood classifier (MLC), random forest (RF), and support vector machine (SVM). We use high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope (HST) digital imagery along with textural features derived from HST imagery, band ratios derived from HST imagery, and distance layers. Textural features are typically used in remote sensing studies and are useful for identifying patterns within digital imagery. We run ML classification models with different combinations of HST digital imagery, textural features, band ratios, and distance layers to determine the most useful information for galaxy component classification. Textural features and distance layers are most useful for galaxy component identification, with the SVM and RF models performing the best. The MLC model performs worse overall but has comparable performance to SVM and RF in some circumstances. Overall, the models are best at classifying the most spectrally unique galaxy components including the galaxy center, outer disc, and celestial background. The most confusion occurs between the young stellar population, old stellar population, and dust lanes. We suggest further experimentation with textural features for astronomical research on small-scale galactic structures.
description: 44 pages, 10 figures; Advances in Space Research in press
How COVID-19 Could Change the Economics of the Plastic Recycling Sector
Creators: name: Issifu, Ibrahim
name: Deffor, Eric Worlanyo
name: Sumaila, Ussif Rashid
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: The price of oil has a great influence on prices of recycled plastics and, therefore, plastic recycling efforts. Here, we analyze the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on crude oil price and how this, in turn, is likely to affect the degree of plastic recycling that takes place. Impulse response functions and variance decompositions, calculated from the structural vector autoregression, suggest that changes in crude oil prices are key drivers of the price of recycled plastics. The findings highlight that because plastics are made from the by-products of oil, falling oil prices increase the cost of recycling. Therefore, the price of recycled plastics should be supported using taxes while encouraging sustained behavioral changes among consumers and producers to selectively collect and recycle personal protective equipment so that they do not clog our landfills or end up in our water bodies as plastic waste.
DYNAMIC SIMULATION TOOL FOR DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS USING A SPARSE TABLEAU APPROACH
Creators: name: Rajakumar, Aravindkumar
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400805
subject: Electrical energy transmission, networks and systems
classificationCode: 400803
subject: Electrical energy generation (incl. renewables, excl. photovoltaics)

description: Distributed energy resources (DERs), such as rooftop solar generation and energy storage systems, are becoming more prevalent in distribution systems. DERs are connected to the distribution system via power electronic converters, introducing faster dynamics in the system. Understanding the system dynamics under a high penetration of inverter-based DERs is critical for power system researchers and practitioners, driving the development of modeling techniques and simulation software. Aiming to reduce computational complexity, existing tools and techniques often employ various approximations. Meanwhile, modern advancements in computational hardware capabilities provide opportunities to include the faster time-scale dynamics. To address this, the primary objective of this thesis is to develop an open-source Python simulation package, Dynamic Simulation using Sparse Tableau Approach in Python, DynaSTPy (pronounced “dynasty”), capable of capturing the dynamics of all components in a distribution feeder. The distribution feeder is modeled as a system of Differential-Algebraic Equations (DAEs). Further, each component in the feeder is modeled based on the Sparse Tableau Approach (STA), which involves the representation of component model equations using sparse matrices, facilitating a systematic procedure to model the components and construct the system DAEs. In sinusoidal steady state, the DAEs can be represented in phasor form, extending the approach to perform power flow analysis of distribution feeders.
Lithosiccia takanoi Volynkin, 2023, sp. n.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lithosiccia
Lithosiccia takanoi

description: Lithosiccia takanoi sp. n.
https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 33D73E82-E965-4B79-8EB2-9B247F920E78
(Figs 6, 23)
 Type material. Holotype (Figs 6, 23): male, “ Sierra Leone 120m | Tiwai Island, Moa River | N07°33'00''; W11°21'09'' | 17–22.vi.2016 Light Trap | leg. Takano, Miles & Goff | ANHRT:2017.18” / “ANHRTUK | 00020605” / “Slide | AV4970 ♂ | A. Volynkin ” (ANHRT).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 7.5 mm in the male holotype. Lithosiccia takanoi is externally reminiscent of L. juvenis but distinguished by the somewhat shorter rami of the male antenna, the slightly narrower forewing with a somewhat more tapered apex and a more ochreous ground colour, the blackishbrown and more distinct forewing markings (they are brown in the congener), and the discal marking of the forewing inclined more inwardly. In the male genital capsule, L. takanoi differs from L. juvenis in the longer, broader and symmetrical cuculli (they are asymmetrical in the congener), the more robust setae of the sacculus, and the shorter and distally thicker distal saccular process. The phallus of L. takanoi is somewhat shorter than in the congener (in proportion to the tegumen-vinculum complex length). Compared to L. juvenis, the vesica of the new species is somewhat broader and bears a single massive cornutus whereas L. juvenis has a shorter and thinner cornutus along with a medial-dorsal diverticulum bearing an elongate cluster of spinules.
The female is unknown.
 Molecular data. As only a single specimen was sequenced, the intraspecific variability of COI-5P sequences of this species could not be calculated. The divergence from L. juvenis is provided above. The pairwise distance between L. takanoi and another neighbour, L. smithi is in the range of 6.37–6.71%.
 Distribution. The new species is currently known only from its type locality in south-eastern Sierra Leone.
 Etymology. The new species is dedicated to the knowledgeable entomologist Dr Hitoshi Takano, Collections Manager, ANHRT, organiser and participant of several entomological expeditions in Africa and one of the collectors of the holotype. The name is a noun in the genitive case.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., 2023, Lithosiccia, a new genus with four new species from mainland Africa (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 24-39 in Ecologica Montenegrina 65 on page 28, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.65.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13246318
Does It Look Sequential? An Analysis of Datasets for Evaluation of Sequential Recommendations
Creators: name: Klenitskiy, Anton
name: Volodkevich, Anna
name: Pembek, Anton
name: Vasilev, Alexey
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

description: Sequential recommender systems are an important and demanded area of research. Such systems aim to use the order of interactions in a user's history to predict future interactions. The premise is that the order of interactions and sequential patterns play an essential role. Therefore, it is crucial to use datasets that exhibit a sequential structure to evaluate sequential recommenders properly.
 We apply several methods based on the random shuffling of the user's sequence of interactions to assess the strength of sequential structure across 15 datasets, frequently used for sequential recommender systems evaluation in recent research papers presented at top-tier conferences. As shuffling explicitly breaks sequential dependencies inherent in datasets, we estimate the strength of sequential patterns by comparing metrics for shuffled and original versions of the dataset. Our findings show that several popular datasets have a rather weak sequential structure.