cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modeling of Gesture-Sound Relationships in Recorder Playing: A Study of Blowing Pressure
Creators: name: Vinceslas, Leny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: This work deals with instrumental gestures and their relation to sound in recorder playing. In particular, it presents a study of the relationship between the blowing pressure and a number of timbre characteristics of produced sound. Blowing pressure is acquired by means of a pressure transducer mounted on the mouthpiece of the recorder, while sound is acquired using a microphone and analyzed in the spectral domain via SMS in order to extract spectral shape descriptors corresponding to odd harmonics, even harmonics and residual components. A performance recording is carried out so that a number of representative playing contexts are covered. Collected data (blowing pressure, produced sound, and spectral analyses) are segmented and used to assemble a multi-modal performance database. Starting from the acquired data (blowing pressure and spectral descriptors), supervised machine learning techniques are used to construct and evaluate two types of models. The first model takes spectral descriptors as input and produces an estimation of the blowing pressure, in a frame-by-frame fashion. The second model takes the blowing pressure as input and produces an estimation of the spectral descriptors, also in a frame-by-frame fashion. While the former lays in the domain of indirect acquisition of instrumental gestures, the application context of the latter corresponds to spectral-domain timbre synthesis. Both models are evaluated via crossvalidation, while the synthesis-oriented model is tested by means of additive synthesis via SMS.
Australian rural nurses' experiences of mentoring : a constructivist grounded theory study
Creators: name: Mills., Jane Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Aspects of Symmetry, Topology and Anomalies in Quantum Matter
Creators: name: Wang, Juven C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this thesis, we explore the aspects of symmetry, topology and anomalies in quantum matter with entanglement from both condensed matter and high energy theory viewpoints. The focus of our research is on the gapped many-body quantum systems including symmetry-protected topological states and topologically ordered states. Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Geometric phase, wavefunction overlap, spacetime path integral and topological invariants. Chapter 3. Aspects of Symmetry. Chapter 4. Aspects of Topology. Chapter 5. Aspects of Anomalies. Chapter 6. Quantum Statistics and Spacetime Surgery. Chapter 7. Conclusion: Finale and A New View of Emergence-Reductionism. (Thesis supervisor: Prof. Xiao-Gang Wen)
description: Ph.D. thesis, MIT, Dept. of Physics. Defended and submitted in May 2015. Citable URI: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/99285 Partially based on arxiv:1212.4863, arXiv:1306.3695, arxiv:1307.7480, arXiv:1310.8291, arXiv:1403.5256, arXiv:1404.7854, arXiv:1405.7689, arXiv:1408.6514, arXiv:1409.3216. With refinement. 250 pages
Data Stewards in Thüringen - ein Pilotprojekt für Forschende an Thüringer Hochschulen als Erweiterung des TKFDM
Creators: name: Kirsch, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data Stewards
Forschungsdatenmanagement
FDM

description: Folien zum Vortrag "Data Stewards in Thüringen - ein Pilotprojekt für Forschende an Thüringer Hochschulen als Erweiterung des TKFDM" im Rahmen der 5. Thüringer FDM-Tage vom 20.-21. Juni 2023, ausgerichtet vom Thüringer Kompetenznetzwerk Forschungsdatenmanagement (TKFDM). Links zu allen weiteren Materialien finden sie auf der Webseite des TKFDM: https://forschungsdaten-thueringen.de/material-veranstaltungen.html Die Aufzeichnung dieses Vortrags finden Sie hier: https://youtu.be/7oaOkEgTI7s ------------------------------------------ English: Slides of the presentation "Data Stewards in Thüringen - ein Pilotprojekt für Forschende an Thüringer Hochschulen als Erweiterung des TKFDM" as part of the 5th Thuringian RDM Days from June 20-21, 2023, hosted by the Thuringian Competence Network Research Data Management (TKFDM). Links to all other materials can be found on the TKFDM website: https://forschungsdaten-thueringen.de/material-veranstaltungen.html The recording of the presentation can be found here: https://youtu.be/7oaOkEgTI7s
Nonlinear Audio Recurrence Analysis with Application to Music Genre Classification
Creators: name: De los Santos, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: Audio classification is a Music Information Retrieval (MIR) area of interest, dedicated to extract key features from music by means of automatic implementations. On this research, nonlinear time series analysis techniques are used for the processing of audio waveforms. The use of nonlinear time series analysis in audio classification tasks is relatively new. These techniques are implemented with the assumption that the temporal evolution of audio signals can be analyzed over a multidmensional space, with the intention of finding additional information that usual audio analysis tools, such as the Fourier Transform, might not bring. In particular, iterative or recurrent patterns in audio signals over a multidimensional space is the desired additional information to find. Some first evidence show these tools can be sensitive to audio signal analysis. In this thesis, two complementary sources for feature extraction based on nonlinear time series analysis are presented. The process consists in performing a recurrence analysis over framed audio signals and representing the output in two different formats: the first, a histogram of the found recurrences at different times in the audio frame. The second, a frequency histogram obtained by transforming and fitting the recurrence time histogram into frequency values with the same resolution as the correspondent frequency spectrum. A specific set of spectral features are then extracted from both representations and used for classifier training and testing. The reliability of new data obtained through these sources is tested by comparing to a common automatic classification methodology, choosing music genre as the target of classification. Among other results described, the combination of features extracted from the Fourier frequency spectrum and features extracted from histograms resulted in a 5.5% increment in the highest common classification accuracy, raising it from 66.0% using common methodology to 71.5%. Moreover, the creation of new specific features for these histograms and the maximization of parameters used to perform the nonlinear analysis is suggested as future work on this research.
Real-time Accompaniment Using Lyrics-Matching Query-by-Humming (QBH)
Creators: name: Papiotis, Panos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: We present an automatic accompaniment system for the singing voice, which allows the user to begin singing from any point within the piece he/she desires. The system is based on the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm, which is used as both a similarity measure as well as an alignment tool between the live performance and the reference. The user’s position within the piece is initially determined with a variation of current Query by humming/singing methods, based on three sets of acoustic features; pitch trajectory, RMS energy envelope and MFCCs. After locating the user, the system adapts the tempo of the accompaniment utilizing a known on-line DTW method. The system is implemented in MATLAB and Java, while audio playback is handled using Max/MSP.
VMAT versus DCAT radiotherapy planning in SBRT Lung
Creators: name: Jeno Palvolgyi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: VMAT, dynamic conformal arc therapy (DCAT), SBRT Lung

description: Abstract VMAT and DCAT radiotherapy plans were generated using Monaco 5.1 treatment planning system for seven I and II-stage Lung cancer patients. The study aims to compare the radiotherapy plan quality of the two treatment planning methods. In the majority of cases, no significant difference was found in dose distribution at the OARs and in the dose spillage.
Simultaneous investigation of shear modulus and torsional resonance of solid 4He
Creators: name: Shin, Jaeho
name: Choi, Jaewon
name: Shirahama, Keiya
name: Kim, Eunseong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the origin of a resonant period drop of a torsional oscillator (TO) containing solid ${}^{4}$He by inspecting its relation to a change in elastic modulus. To understand this relationship directly, we measure both phenomena simultaneously using a TO with a pair of concentric piezoelectric transducers inserted in its annulus. Although the temperature, ${}^{3}$He concentration, and frequency dependence are essentially the same, a marked discrepancy in the drive amplitude dependence is observed. We find that this discrepancy originates from the anisotropic response of polycrystalline solid ${}^{4}$He connected with low-angle grain boundaries by studying the shear modulus parallel to and perpendicular to the driving direction.
Diaphragm Thickening Fraction for Predicting Weaning Success in COPD Patients
Creators: name: Pattarin Pirompanich
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2022
Subjects: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Diaphragm
Diaphragm thickening frac-tion
Ultrasound
Weaning

description: Science & Technology Asia, 27, 4, 1-9
Towards Time-aware Contextual Music Recommendation: An Exploration of Temporal Patterns of Music Listening Using Circular Statistics
Creators: name: Resa, Zuriñe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: Music is present in many situations of our daily life, it's a way of showing our personality traits, a way of reinforcing our social identity or even a way of inducing an emotional state or mood. These factors that are highly linked to our music consumptions and preferences, are highly changeable, they do vary over time and they can be assessed to be linked to physiological or natural rhythms. For this reason, it seems reasonable to explore the influence of these rhythms in music listening activity. This thesis is an attempt to explore temporal patterns in relation with the time of the day or the day of the week which can be observed when tracking specific artists or music genres. The final goal is to characterize music listeners based on the information extracted regarding the time of reproducing each artist and genre, assessing temporal patterns and thus, cyclic rhythms. So as to detect these temporal patterns or rhythms, a circular statistical analysis is performed over a data-set containing the listening habits of almost a thousand users of an online radio - music recommender system. This analytical approach offers a wide range of strategies to examine "circular data", data where the period of measurement is rotationally invariant(as the daily hours which range form 0 to 24, 24 being the same as 0). This way temporal patterns are identified regarding the time of the day or the day of the week (respectively, a period of 24 hours and of 7 days). We show that for certain users, respectively for artist and genres, 20% and 40% of the found temporal patterns can be used to predict music listening selections with above-chance accuracy. This finding has as a possible application personalized playlist generation and music recommendation based on providing user-specific suggestions at the "right" moment.
Overview of ethical issues across the HBP (OP9.9)
Creators: name: Guerrero, Manuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ethical issues and challenges, RRI in HBP, Ethics Rapporteurs, Ethics Advisory Board

description: Overview of ethical issues across the HBP (OP9.9).An overview of the ethical issues across the HBP compiled in the context of the Ethics Rapporteur Programme and the Ethics Trilateral Meetings. The overview summarises in bullet points the identified ethical issues and challenges across the HBP presented by the Ethics Rapporteurs, which covers until SGA3 month 36 when it was finished.
L'iniziativa europea per la riforma del sistema di valutazione della ricerca: l'Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment
Creators: name: Di Donato, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: open science
riforma della valutazione della ricerca

description: Seminario organizzato dal Centro Interdipartimentale “Diritto e tecnologie di Frontiera” - Università di Pisa  12 gennaio 2023   Sommario Al termine di un processo di consultazione avviato dalla Commissione europea all’inizio del 2021 e di una intensa fase di discussione e di redazione e che ha coinvolto oltre 350 istituzioni di tutta Europa, ERAC e ERA Forum, 20 luglio 2022 è stato pubblicato l’Agreement on reforming research assessment. L’accordo sarà/è stato aperto alla sottoscrizione di Università ed Enti di ricerca, di Agenzie dal 28 settembre e porterà alla costituzione di una Coalizione per la riforma del sistema di valutazione. La presentazione racconterà la genesi del documento, e ne illustrerà il contenuto e lo scopo, per sottolineare in conclusione potenzialità e criticità dell’applicazione dell’accordo nel contesto italiano. Letture - Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, https://ec.europa.eu/info/files/agreement-reforming-researchassessment_en - European Commission, Towards a reform of the research assessment system, Scoping report, 29 novembre 2021, https://op.europa.eu/it/publication-detail/-/publication/36ebb96c-50c5-11ec-91ac-01aa75ed71a1 - Council conclusions sulla valutazione della ricerca e sull'attuazione della scienza aperta, adottate nella 3877ª sessione del 10 giugno 2022 https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10126-2022-INIT/it/pdf
Regulation of prostate growth : interactions of hormones and activin-related growth factors
Creators: name: McPherson., Stephen John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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title: Impact of age and BMI on weight loss after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
Creators: name: Betzler, Christopher Philip
name: Ordnung, Christian
name: Popp, Felix
name: Wolff, Stefanie
name: Bruns, Christiane Josephine
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: There is no clear evidence regarding age and preoperative BMI as a predictive factor in excess weight loss after bariatric surgery and especially after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of age and preoperative BMI on postoperative weight[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
A User Configurable Voice Based Controller for Midi Synthesizer
Creators: name: Nagi, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: Through the research we undertook for this master thesis, we developed a prototype, which we believe is the first step, towards building a voice-based controller for a midi synthesizer to be used in real-time. A key component of this research was the evaluation of the different onsets detection algorithms, and their applicability to the prototype developed herein. Another focus of the research was the smoothing of the fundamental frequency estimates, produced by the YIN algorithm. As a result of the research undertaken, we have found that an onset detection method based on the estimated note changes was more robust to background noise. Our prototype is developed in Max/Msp environment, which renders our prototype open to changes by its user, and make it useful with most software midi synthesizer.
title: Epidemiology in Korea and long-term effect of surgery in Moyamoya disease
Creators: name: Oh, Chang Wan
name: Kim, Jeong Eun
name: Cho, Won-Sang
name: Seung, Bang Jae
name: Kim, Tackeun
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: This study was designed to provide nation-wide epidemiology of moyamoya disease (MMD) in Korea, and to identify long-term effect of direct revascularization surgery for MMD. Method: For epidemiology, we used database by National Health Insurance System. To elucidate the effect of surgery,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
The role of Alfvén wave heating in solar prominences
Creators: name: Soler, Roberto
name: Terradas, Jaume
name: Oliver, Ramon
name: Ballester, Jose Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations have shown that magnetohydrodynamic waves over a large frequency range are ubiquitous in solar prominences. The waves are probably driven by photospheric motions and may transport energy up to prominences suspended in the corona. Dissipation of wave energy can lead to heating of the cool prominence plasma, so contributing to the local energy balance within the prominence. Here we discuss the role of Alfvén wave dissipation as a heating mechanism for the prominence plasma. We consider a slab-like quiescent prominence model with a transverse magnetic field embedded in the solar corona. The prominence medium is modelled as a partially ionized plasma composed of a charged ion-electron single fluid and two separate neutral fluids corresponding to neutral hydrogen and neutral helium. Friction between the three fluids acts as a dissipative mechanism for the waves. The heating caused by externally-driven Alfvén waves incident on the prominence slab is analytically explored. We find that the dense prominence slab acts as a resonant cavity for the waves. The fraction of incident wave energy that is channelled into the slab strongly depends upon the wave period, $P$. Using typical prominence conditions, we obtain that wave energy trapping and associated heating are negligible when $P \gtrsim 100$ s, so that it is unlikely that those waves have a relevant influence on prominence energetics. When $1$ s $\lesssim P \lesssim 100$ s the energy absorption into the slab shows several sharp and narrow peaks, that can reach up to 100%, when the incident wave frequency matches a cavity resonance of the slab. Wave heating is enhanced at those resonant frequencies. Conversely, when $P \lesssim 1$ s cavity resonances are absent, but the waves are heavily damped by the strong dissipation. We estimate that wave heating may compensate for about 10% of radiative losses of the prominence plasma.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Deuteron-deuteron collision at 160 MeV
Creators: name: Khatri, G.
name: Parol, W.
name: Bodek, K.
name: Ciepał, I.
name: Jamroz, B.
name: Kalantar-Nayestanaki, N.
name: Kistryn, St.
name: Kłos, B.
name: Kozela, A.
name: Kulessa, P.
name: Magiera, A.
name: Mazumdar, I.
name: Messchendorp, J. G.
name: Rozpedzik, D.
name: Skwira-Chalotf, I.
name: Stephan, E.
name: Wilczek, A.
name: Włoch, B.
name: Wronska, A.
name: Zejma, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The experiment was carried out using BINA detector at KVI in Groningen. For the first time an extensive data analysis of the data collected in back part of the detector is presented, where a clusterization method is utilized for angular and energy information. We also present differential cross-sections for the (dd$\rightarrow$dpn) breakup reaction within \textit{dp} quasi-free scattering limit and their comparison with first calculations based on Single Scattering Approximation (SSA) approach.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, presented at Jagiellonian Symposium 2015 in Krakow, PhD work
title: Coiling of wide-necked intracranial aneurysms assisted by a temporary bridging device (Comaneci) – preliminary experience
Creators: name: Fischer, Sebastian
name: Weber, Anushe
name: Drescher, Finn
name: Weber, Werner
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: aneurysm
subject: endovascular
subject: Comaneci
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Endovascular treatment of wide-necked aneurysms remains challenging without the use of adjunctive devices to preserve the parent artery. We present our initial experience with a temporary bridging device, the Comaneci (Rapid Medical, Israel). The compliant remodeling mesh protects the parent[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Autonomously Adaptive Soundscapes for Reducing Stress in Critically-Ill Patients
Creators: Frishkopf, Michael
Papathanassoglou, Elizabeth
Hindle, Abram
Kutsogiannis, Demetrios
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2019

NFRF Exploration awarded in 2020: High stress levels, delirium, and sleep deprivation are common among critically-ill patients and may compromise recovery and survival as well as increase length and costs of hospital stays. Pharmacologic approaches are the usual mode of treatment for these

conditions, but with non-negligible expense, limited effectiveness, and potentially harmful side effects. Music and sound therapies are low-cost and non-invasive, without dangerous side effects. Research has shown them to be highly effective if customized to the patient. Yet critically-ill patients cannot be expected to cooperate fully with music therapists, who are also scarce and expensive. We thus propose to design, prototype, and test an autonomous system for generating therapeutic soundscapes adapted to the critically-ill patient, aiming to induce relaxation, improve sleep, and reduce anxiety and delirium. Design of the soundscape space of possibilities will require close collaboration between project researchers in music and medicine and will be shaped by experimental results obtained from a large, diverse group of healthy subjects. A binaural sound generator will create an immersive audio experience auditioned through headphones or speakers. A reinforcement-learning approach will guide the search of the soundscape space based on biosignals: observations of the patient’s current state, including response to the current soundscape. Thus the patient will not need to actively engage with the system but rather will passively provide biofeedback. The explore-exploit tradeoff in the search algorithm must be carefully tailored for critically-ill patients so that the search itself does not cause additional stress. Doing so will require close collaboration between the project’s researchers in computer science, medicine, and music as well as extensive experimentation with healthy subjects. Our innovative synthesis of medical ethnomusicology, music therapy, critical-care medicine, and machine learning aims to produce a cost-effective, adaptive, patient-centered approach to stress reduction in critically-ill patients, one that is non-invasive, non-pharmacologic, and free of harmful side effects, resulting in better quality of life for patients and their families, and more efficient use of hospital resources. Our project also offers learning opportunities for students, and promises to spur future synergistic collaborations between medicine, the arts, and computer science, for the public good.
Supplementary document for Fab-compatible Processed Transparent Organic Photodiodes for High-Detectivity CMOS Image Sensors - 5871818.pdf
Creators: name: Park, Sungjun
name: Lim, Younhee
name: Heo, Chul-Joon
name: Yun, Sungyoung
name: Leem, Dong-Seok
name: Kim, Sunghan
name: Choi, Byungki
name: Park, Kyung-Bae
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document.
El arbitraje en el ordenamiento jurídico colombiano: análisis de los cambios y desafíos que supone para el mismo la virtualidad.
Creators: name: Laserna Moreno, Luis Armando
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Arbitraje (Derecho civil)
subject: Derecho - Innovaciones tecnológicas
subject: Investigación cualitativa - Análisis de datos

description: Este proyecto se centra en el arbitraje virtual ,una figura jurídica de gran interés. Su temática ha tenido mayor desarrollo a nivel internacional donde se han identificado una serie de obstáculos ligados al pacto arbitral, el procedimiento y la eficacia de la decisión arbitral adoptada por medios telemáticos. En el presente estudio, se analizarán estas cuestiones y su tratamiento en el Estatuto Arbitral Internacional Colombiano- Ley 1563 de 2012-. El arbitraje, como mecanismo alternativo de solución de conflictos es un método eficaz para dirimir controversias entre las partes. Quizá una de las mayores características del arbitraje en el ámbito internacional, radica en la flexibilidad de las partes para pactar las normas aplicables a la solución de determinada disputa. Por esto, es común, su decisión de someter sus diferencias a centros especializados, encargados de tramitar estos procesos, cuyas etapas procesales por lo general se surten de manera presencial por los árbitros y las partes. Empero, con el surgimiento del internet y la implementación de las plataformas virtuales, la distancia entre individuos, es cada vez menor, facilitando la comunicación entre ellas. Esta circunstancia es provechosa en el arbitraje, y origina una especie singular del arbitraje tratada bajo el nomen de Arbitraje virtual, Cyberarbitration, Cybitration, E-arbitration ó Arbitraje en línea. Esta figura, si bien más reciente en algunos países, plantea múltiples inquietudes e interrogantes.. En esta oportunidad, estudiaremos estas problemáticas en el ámbito de las disposiciones reguladoras del arbitraje internacional colombiano.
Future Wireless Networks: Towards Learning-driven Sixth-generation Wireless Communications
Creators: name: Saleem, Rabbia
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: The evolution of wireless communication networks, from present to the emerging fifth-generation (5G) new radio (NR), and sixth-generation (6G) is inevitable, yet propitious. The thesis evolves around application of machine learning and optimization techniques to problems in spectrum management, internet-of-things (IoT), physical layer security, and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). The first problem explores License Assisted Access (LAA), which leverages unlicensed resource sharing with the Wi-Fi network as a promising technique to address the spectrum scarcity issue in wireless networks. An optimal communication policy is devised which maximizes the throughput performance of LAA network while guaranteeing a proportionally fair performance among LAA stations and a fair share for Wi-Fi stations. The numerical results demonstrate more than 75 % improvement in the LAA throughput and a notable gain of 8-9 % in the fairness index. Next, we investigate the unlicensed spectrum sharing for bandwidth hungry diverse IoT networks in 5G NR. An efficient coexistence mechanism based on the idea of adaptive initial sensing duration (ISD) is proposed to enhance the diverse IoT-NR network performance while keeping the primary Wi-Fi network's performance to a bearable threshold. A Q-learning (QL) based algorithm is devised to maximize the normalized sum throughput of the coexistence Wi-Fi/IoT-NR network. The results confirm a maximum throughput gain of 51 % and ensure that the Wi-Fi network's performance remains intact. Finally, advanced levels of network security are critical to maintain due to severe signal attenuation at higher frequencies of 6G wireless communication. Thus, an IRS-based model is proposed to address the issue of network security under trusted-untrusted device diversity, where the untrusted devices may potentially eavesdrop on the trusted devices. A deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm is devised to jointly optimize the active and passive beamforming matrices. The results confirm a maximum gain of 2-2.5 times in the sum secrecy rate of trusted devices and ensure Quality-of-Service (QoS) for all the devices. In conclusion, the thesis has led towards efficient, secure, and smart communication and build foundation to address similar complex wireless networks.
Madonnas, martinets and the Malayan Emergency : an historical analysis of events that led Australian army nurses to war
Creators: name: McLeod., Margaret
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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title: The expanded trans/supra-orbital approach for large space-occupying lesions of the anterior fossa: Technical note and case presentation
Creators: name: Hickmann, Anne-Katrin
name: Reisch, Robert
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: The supraorbital approach has become widely used in minimally invasive and endoscope-assisted neurosurgery to reach pathologies of the anterior and middle fossa. But it has its limitations, especially in resection of tumors with a large craniocaudal extension. In those cases, the supraorbital[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Expressive Breath Modeling
Creators: name: Comajuncosas, Josep M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009

description: This Master Thesis is devoted to the research in normal and pathologic breath noises in order to develop a sound generator which is able to recreate a variety of respiratory sounds and patterns. The provided breathing model consists of a breathing pattern generator, which computes the target airflow, a normal sound generator, which computes the noisy part of the breathing sounds, and a wheeze generator, which computes the continuous adventitious sounds characteristic from some respiratory pathologies. The synthesis engine uses a single recorded respiratory cycle to model a whole breathing pattern by inferring a mapping from airflow to RMS and resynthesizing the proper frames from the reference sample. Time-interpolated, noise-excited LPC analysis/resynthesis is employed for the noisy part and time-domain based sinusoidal resynthesis is used to model asthmatic wheezes. A Matlab prototype was implemented and some user tests evaluated the realism and expressiveness of the generated sounds.
Mass measurements of neutron-rich Rb and Sr isotopes
Creators: name: Klawitter, R.
name: Bader, A.
name: Brodeur, M.
name: Chowdhury, U.
name: Chausdhuri, A.
name: Fallis, J.
name: Gallant, A. T.
name: Grossheim, A.
name: Kwiatkowski, A. A.
name: Lascar, D.
name: Leach, K. G.
name: Lennarz, A.
name: Macdonald, T. D.
name: Pearkes, J.
name: Seeraji, S.
name: Simon, M. C.
name: Simon, V. V.
name: Schultz, B. E.
name: Dilling, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the mass measurements of several neutron-rich $\mathrm{Rb}$ and $\mathrm{Sr}$ isotopes in the $A \approx 100$ region with the TITAN Penning-trap mass spectrometer. Using highly charged ions in the charge state $q=10+$, the masses of $^{98,99}\mathrm{Rb}$ and $^{98-100}\mathrm{Sr}$ have been determined with a precision of $6 - 12\ \mathrm{keV}$, making their uncertainty negligible for r-process nucleosynthesis network calculations. The mass of $^{101}\mathrm{Sr}$ has been determined directly for the first time with a precision eight times higher than the previous indirect measurement and a deviation of $3σ$ when compared to the Atomic Mass Evaluation. We also confirm the mass of $^{100}\mathrm{Rb}$ from a previous measurement. Furthermore, our data indicates the existance of a low-lying isomer with $80\ \mathrm{keV}$ excitation energy in $^{98}\mathrm{Rb}$. We show that our updated mass values lead to minor changes in the r-process by calculating fractional abundances in the $A\approx 100$ region of the nuclear chart.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Aproximación a las prácticas procedimentales en torno a la eutanasia en Colombia: una revisión desde el debido proceso a la objeción de conciencia y al discurso de la dignidad humana.
Creators: name: Fernandez Ramos, Efren Jose
name: Vanegas Garrido, Ana Victoria
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Eutanasia - Aspectos morales y éticos
subject: Eutanasia - Legislación - Colombia
subject: Dignidad - Aspectos Naturales y Éticos

description: Este proyecto abordara las generalidades alrededor de la Eutanasia, abordando el desarrollo dogmático del principio de la dignidad humana y su íntima relación con el grueso de los derechos fundamentales por conexidad; en un segundo estadio, advertiremos los requisitos concurrentes que son necesarios para la procedencia de la figura en mención así como los desafíos y retos puestos de presente ante los múltiples debates moralistas y religiosos que se han gestado por cuanto se “dispone de la vida”, más allá de dignificar la muerte; finalmente, estableceremos conclusiones parciales en torno a la forma cómo tales debates se han configurado en detractores y dilaciones injustificadas e innecesarias a la adecuada práctica de la Eutanasia, sugiriendo el entorpecimiento del debido proceso asistencial al individuo que quiere morir en dignidad, así como demás aspectos subyacentes. El presente proyecto es el resultado del proceso de investigación bibliográfica y de revisión documental de los autores alrededor de los avances, circunstancias, dinámicas y problemáticas que se han gestado en torno a la figura de la Eutanasia, así como de sus manejos dogmáticos en el marco del ordenamiento jurídico colombiano.
title: Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors in pediatric patients: Long-term follow-up
Creators: name: Sarikaya-Seiwert, Sevgi
name: Beez, Thomas
name: Schmitz, Ann Kristin
name: Steiger, Hans-Jakob
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DNET
subject: seizure
subject: brain tumor
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumor (DNET) is a rare, usually benign pediatric brain tumor that is presenting generally with seizures. The optimal management and long-term outcome is uncertain. The goal of this study was to evaluate the role of surgery for seizure control. Method: We[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Investigation on the applicability of immunodetection techniques to biomolecule samples concentrated via pyro-electrohydrodynamic jet
Creators: name: Giudice, Danila Del
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease

description: The project aim was to develop an innovative biosensor with a high sensitivity, to detect low
 abundant protein biomarkers in small volumes of blood (<1mL), pushing the sensitivity well below
 1 pg/mL, thus overcoming the current standard limits. Current clinical diagnostic criteria for AD
 require a patient to have clear symptoms of dementia which are excluded from other brain disorders,
 such as memory loss and confusion, inability to learn new things, difficulty with language and so on.
title: Retinale Schichtdickenanalyse nach Neuritis nervi optici im zeitlichen Verlauf
Creators: name: Meyer-Ter-Vehn, Tobias
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Veränderungen der einzelnen Netzhautschichtdicken wurden mittels SD-OCT bei Patienten mit stattgehabter Neuritis nervi optici (NNO) im zeitlichen Verlauf untersucht und mit funktionellen Parametern (Visus, Gesichtsfeld) korreliert. Methodik: Bei Patienten mit einer Erstmanifestation[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 29. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft
RSEs at Academic Conferences
Creators: name: Nüst, Daniel
name: Topping, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: RSE
research software engineer
research software engineering
RSEng
policy

description: Abstract and poster presented at the EGU General Assembly 2019 in the session ESSI3.5 RSEs: Researchers who Code. Poster spot: X1.73
 Submission ID: EGU2019-12597
Asymptotically hyperbolic connections
Creators: name: Fine, Joel
name: Herfray, Yannick
name: Krasnov, Kirill
name: Scarinci, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: General Relativity in 4 dimensions can be equivalently described as a dynamical theory of SO(3)-connections rather than metrics. We introduce the notion of asymptotically hyperbolic connections, and work out an analog of the Fefferman-Graham expansion in the language of connections. As in the metric setup, one can solve the arising "evolution" equations order by order in the expansion in powers of the radial coordinate. The solution in the connection setting is arguably simpler, and very straightforward algebraic manipulations allow one to see how the obstruction appears at third order in the expansion. Another interesting feature of the connection formulation is that the "counter terms" required in the computation of the renormalised volume all combine into the Chern-Simons functional of the restriction of the connection to the boundary. As the Chern-Simons invariant is only defined modulo large gauge transformations, the requirement that the path integral over asymptotically hyperbolic connections is well-defined requires the cosmological constant to be quantised. Finally, in the connection setting one can deform the 4D Einstein condition in an interesting way, and we show that asymptotically hyperbolic connection expansion is universal and valid for any of the deformed theories.
description: 25 pages, no figures
Quantum distinguishability measures: projectors vs. states maximization
Creators: name: Budini, Adrian A.
name: Filho, Ruynet L. de Matos
name: Santos, Marcelo F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distinguishability between two quantum states can be defined in terms of their trace distance. The operational meaning of this definition involves a maximization over measurement projectors. Here we introduce an alternative definition of distinguishability which, instead of projectors, is based on maximization over normalized states (density matrices). It is shown that this procedure leads to a distance (between two states) that, in contrast to the usual approach based on a 1-norm, is based on an infinite-norm. Properties such as convexity, monotonicity, and invariance under unitary transformations are fulfilled. Equivalent operational implementations based on maximization over classical probabilities and hypothesis testing scenarios are also established. When considering the action of completely positive transformations contractivity is only granted for unital maps. This feature allows us to introduce a measure of the quantumness of non-unital maps that can be written in terms of the proposed distinguishability measure and corresponds to the maximal possible deviation from contractivity. Particular examples sustain the main results and conclusions.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
title: Unterschwellige Laserkoagulation mit einem Standardlaser bei RCS – Eine Fallserie
Creators: name: Koinzer, Stefan
name: Treumer, F.
name: Purtskhvanidze, K.
name: Roider, J.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Wir demonstrieren an einer Fallserie, wie unterschwellige Laserphotokoagulation mit einem continuous wave (CW) Laser möglich ist. Methoden: 5 Augen von 5 Patienten mit chronischer Retinopathia centralis serosa (RCS), lokalisierter angiographischer Leckage und subfovealer subretinaler[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 29. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft
Super-GCA from $\mathcal{N} = (2,2)$ Super-Virasoro
Creators: name: Mandal, Ipsita
name: Rayyan, Ahmed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the extended Supersymmetric Galilean Conformal Algebra (SGCA) in two spacetime dimensions by the method of group contraction on $2d$ $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ superconformal algebra. Both the parent and daughter algebras are infinite-dimensional. We provide the representation theory of the algebra. We adopt a superspace formalism for the SGCA fields, allowing us to write them down in a compact notation as components of superfields. We also discuss correlation functions, short supermultiplets and null states.
description: minor typos corrected; journal version
Deep Imaging in Scattering Media with Single Photon Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM)
Creators: name: Pediredla, Adithya Kumar
name: Zhang, Shizheng
name: Avants, Ben
name: Ye, Fan
name: Nagayama, Shin
name: Chen, Ziying
name: Kemere, Caleb
name: Robinson, Jacob
name: Veeraraghavan, Ashok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In most biological tissues, light scattering due to small differences in refractive index limits the depth of optical imaging systems. Two-photon microscopy (2PM), which significantly reduces the scattering of the excitation light, has emerged as the most common method to image deep within scattering biological tissue. This technique, however, requires high-power pulsed lasers that are both expensive and difficult to integrate into compact portable systems. In this paper, using a combination of theoretical and experimental techniques, we show that Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) can image nearly as deep as 2PM without the need for a high-powered pulsed laser. Compared to other single photon imaging techniques like epifluorescence and confocal microscopy, SPIM can image more than twice as deep in scattering media (approximately 10 times the mean scattering length). These results suggest that SPIM has the potential to provide deep imaging in scattering media in situations where 2PM systems would be too large or costly.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, OSA style
Deformations of GR and BH thermodynamics
Creators: name: Krasnov, Kirill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In four space-time dimensions General Relativity can be non-trivially deformed. Deformed theories continue to describe two propagating degrees of freedom, as GR. We study Euclidean black hole thermodynamics in these deformations. We use the recently developed formulation that works with SO(3) connections as well as certain matrices M of auxiliary fields. We show that the black hole entropy is given by one quarter of the horizon area as measured by the Lie algebra valued two-form MF, where F is the connection curvature. This coincides with the horizon area as measured by the metric only for the case of General Relativity.
description: 18 pages, no figures
Psychosis in pregnancy
Creators: name: McCauley-Elsom., Kay
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Automatic accompaniment for improvised music
Creators: name: Martín, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009

description: Modern music students practice improvisation playing on top of a software that generates accompaniment, but it does not listen to the musician's input. Automatic accompaniment systems (AAS) provide appropriate musical accompaniment to a human player in a given musical context by listening to them. We are interested in developing an AAS. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to build a system that generates accompaniment for a given melody, emulating a jazz pianist accompanying a human soloist improvising in jazz style. The method used is based on re-using stored fragments to create the accompaniment. Two musical fragment representation models have been studied: a tree representation model and a statistical model, from which the latter has been implemented.
Valence Characterization of Surface and Subsurface Region in SmB6
Creators: name: Lutz, P.
name: Thees, M.
name: Peixoto, T. R. F.
name: Kang, B. Y.
name: Cho, B. K.
name: Min, Chul-Hee
name: Reinert, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Samarium hexaboride (SmB6), which lies in the mixed valence regime in the Anderson model, has been predicted to possess topologically protected surface states. The intensive investigations on SmB6 have brought up the long standing questions about the discrepancy between the surface and bulk electronic properties in rare-earth compounds in general. Here, we investigate and eventually clarify this discrepancy in the particular case of SmB6 by the photoemission core-level spectra. We focus on the change in both Sm and B states depending on time, temperature, probing depth, and surface termination on the cleaved (100) surface. Our spectra show that the unusual time-dependent change in the Sm valence occurs within a period of hours, which is not related to the adsorption of residual gases. Moreover, we observe a reduction of the surface feature in the B and Sm states on the same timescale accompanied by the formation of a subsurface region. Thus, it indicates the relatively slow charge redistribution between the surface and subsurface regions. Our findings demonstrate that the f states is strongly involved in the surface relaxation.
description: accepted in Phil. Mag