cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Neutrino masses and non abelian horizontal symmetries
Creators: name: Antonelli, V.
name: Caravaglios, F.
name: Ferrari, R.
name: Picariello, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent neutrino experiments have made very significant progresses and our knowledge of neutrino masses and mixing has considerably improved. In a model independent Monte Carlo approach, we have examined a very large class of textures, in the context of non abelian horizontal symmetries; we have found that neutrino data select only those charged lepton matrices with left-right asymmetric texture. The large atmospheric mixing angle needs m_{23} ~= m_{33}. This result,if combined with similar recent findings for the quark sector in the B oscillations, can be interpreted as a hint for SU(5) unification. In the neutrino sector strict neutrino anarchy is disfavored by data, and at least a factor 2 of suppression in the first row and column of the neutrino majorana mass matrix is required.
description: 22 pages, 18 figures
Ephutomorpha vivida
Creators: name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Ephutomorpha
Ephutomorpha vivida

description: Ephutomorpha vivida (Smith, 1879); Australia
 Mutilla vivida Smith, 1879: 207; ♂.
 Mutilla (Sphaerophthalma [sic]) vivida; André 1895.
 Ephutomorpha vivida (Smith, 1879); André 1902b.
description: Published as part of Brothers, Denis J., 2022, Critical analysis of the type material of Mutillidae described from the Australasian Region (Hymenoptera), pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 5140 (1) on page 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6572181
Data-Adaptive Wavelets and Multi-Scale Singular Spectrum Analysis
Creators: name: Yiou, P.
name: Sornette, D.
name: Ghil, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using multi-scale ideas from wavelet analysis, we extend singular-spectrum analysis (SSA) to the study of nonstationary time series of length $N$ whose intermittency can give rise to the divergence of their variance. SSA relies on the construction of the lag-covariance matrix C on M lagged copies of the time series over a fixed window width W to detect the regular part of the variability in that window in terms of the minimal number of oscillatory components; here W = M Dt, with Dt the time step. The proposed multi-scale SSA is a local SSA analysis within a moving window of width M <= W <= N. Multi-scale SSA varies W, while keeping a fixed W/M ratio, and uses the eigenvectors of the corresponding lag-covariance matrix C_M as a data-adaptive wavelets; successive eigenvectors of C_M correspond approximately to successive derivatives of the first mother wavelet in standard wavelet analysis. Multi-scale SSA thus solves objectively the delicate problem of optimizing the analyzing wavelet in the time-frequency domain, by a suitable localization of the signal's covariance matrix. We present several examples of application to synthetic signals with fractal or power-law behavior which mimic selected features of certain climatic and geophysical time series. A real application is to the Southern Oscillation index (SOI) monthly values for 1933-1996. Our methodology highlights an abrupt periodicity shift in the SOI near 1960. This abrupt shift between 4 and 3 years supports the Devil's staircase scenario for the El Nino/Southern Oscillation phenomenon.
description: 24 pages, 19 figures
KamLAND potentiality on the determination of Neutrino mixing parameters in the post SNO-NC era
Creators: name: Aliani, P.
name: Antonelli, V.
name: Picariello, M.
name: Torrente-Lujan, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study in detail the power of the reactor experiment kamLAND for discriminating existing solutions to the SNP and giving accurate information on neutrino masses and mixing angles. Assuming the expected signal corresponding to various ``benchmark'' points in the 2 dimensional $(Δm^2,\tan^2 θ)$ mixing plane, we develop a full-fledged $χ^2$ analysis which includes KamLAND spectrum and all the existing solar evidence. A complete modelling of statistical and known systematics errors for 1 and 3 years of data taking is also included, exclusion plots are presented. We find a much higher sensitivity especially for values of $Δm^2$ lying in the central part of the LMA region. The situation would be more complicate for values closer to the border of the LMA region (the so called HLMA region, i.e. $Δm^2 \leq 2 \times 10^{5}$ and $Δm^2 \geq 8-9 \times 10^{-5}$ or $tan^2 θ$ far from $\tan^2 θ= 0.5$). In this case kamLAND, with or without solar evidence, will be able only to select multiple regions in the parameter space, in the sense that different possible values of the parameters would produce the same signal.
description: IFUM-345-FT,FTUAM-02-765
Wave turbulence of a liquid surface in an external tangential electric field
Creators: name: Kochurin, Evgeny A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A direct numerical simulation of the interaction of plane capillary waves on the surface of a liquid dielectric in an external tangential electric field taking into account viscous forces has been performed. It has been shown that the interaction of counter-propagating nonlinear waves can generate a direct energy cascade. In the quasistationary energy dissipation regime, probability density functions for angles of inclination of the boundary tend to a Gaussian distribution and the shape of the boundary becomes complex and chaotic. The spectrum of the surface perturbations in this regime is described by a power law $k^{-5/2}$. The energy spectrum has the form $k^{-3/2}$, which coincides with the Iroshnikov-Kraichnan energy spectrum and indicates that the observed wave turbulence of the liquid surface and the weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence of interacting Alfvén waves have a related nature.
description: 11 pages, 5 fihures
The Money Value of Risk: Life Insurance and the Transformation of American Public Health, 1896-1930
Creators: Wolff, Megan Joy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: History
Public health
Public policy (Law)

description: This study examines the engagement of the life insurance industry with the emerging field of public health during the Progressive era. By conducting research, promoting hygiene, and providing the services of visiting nurses, firms such as Metropolitan Life and the Prudential transferred their ideologies and methodologies into the wider medical arena. Thus, the collaborations conducted during this period had significant ramifications for the future shape of American public health, which drew methods of risk assessment and a statistical approach to medicine from the alliance. This dissertation asks why the partnerships occurred. Public health and life insurance are not automatic allies, and their cooperation took place in a wider context of economic growth, social upheaval, and changing attitudes toward the management of risk. The study notes the power of life insurance firms as cultural institutions, which derived their commercial success from their ability to harness the social preoccupations of the buying public; the most profitable companies had a history of adjusting their sales rhetoric to anticipate, match, and manipulate public perceptions about which risks were salient and what the best ways to manage them might be. The passage of social insurance legislation in Europe provided a powerful example to reformers, whose structural approach to social betterment favored poverty prevention and legislative change. To prevent such measures from becoming law in the United States, insurance firms engaged in a strategy of political capitalism that included activities promoting public health. By positioning themselves as guardians of the nation's physical vitality (and, by extension, its prosperity), they protected the dominance of the private sector, strongly influenced the nascent field of public health, and created a point of significant methodological transmission to the medical arena.
Apollonian Circle Packings: Geometry and Group Theory II. Super-Apollonian Group and Integral Packings
Creators: name: Graham, R. L.
name: Lagarias, J. C.
name: Mallows, C. L.
name: Wilks, A. R.
name: Yan, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Apollonian circle packings arise by repeatedly filling the interstices between four mutually tangent circles with further tangent circles. Such packings can be described in terms of the Descartes configurations they contain. It observed there exist infinitely many types of integral Apollonian packings in which all circles had integer curvatures, with the integral structure being related to the integral nature of the Apollonian group. Here we consider the action of a larger discrete group, the super-Apollonian group, also having an integral structure, whose orbits describe the Descartes quadruples of a geometric object we call a super-packing. The circles in a super-packing never cross each other but are nested to an arbitrary depth. Certain Apollonian packings and super-packings are strongly integral in the sense that the curvatures of all circles are integral and the curvature$\times$centers of all circles are integral. We show that (up to scale) there are exactly 8 different (geometric) strongly integral super-packings, and that each contains a copy of every integral Apollonian circle packing (also up to scale). We show that the super-Apollonian group has finite volume in the group of all automorphisms of the parameter space of Descartes configurations, which is isomorphic to the Lorentz group $O(3, 1)$.
description: 37 Pages, 11 figures. The second in a series on Apollonian circle packings beginning with math.MG/0010298. Extensively revised in June, 2004. More integral properties are discussed. More revision in July, 2004: interchange sections 7 and 8, revised sections 1 and 2 to match, and added matrix formulations for super-Apollonian group and its Lorentz version. Slight revision in March 10, 2005
Additional file 2: of Factors associated with recruitment, surveillance participation, and retention in an observational study of pregnant women and influenza
Creators: name: Thompson, Mark
name: Li, De-Kun
name: Naleway, Allison
name: Ferber, Jeannette
name: Henninger, Michelle
name: Shifflett, Pat
name: Sokolow, Leslie
name: Odouli, Roxana
name: Kauffman, Tia
name: Fink, Rebecca
name: Bulkley, Joanna
name: Cragan, Janet
name: Bozeman, Sam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Multivariable Analyses Including Covariates with Significant Bivariate Associations. Presents full results of logistic regressions models described in the manuscript. Table S2. The surveillance methods used and the percentage of weekly reports completed by method or combination of methods. Presented the percentage who completed surveillance reports. Table S3. Characteristics of Cohort Participants who Completed Combinations of Computer Automated Telephone Interview (CATI) and Website Methods of Active Surveillance for Acute Respiratory Illness. Presents descriptive characteristics by types of surveillance methods used. (PDF 73 kb)
Disentangling Scaling Properties in Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Turbulence
Creators: name: Arad, I.
name: Biferale, L.
name: Mazzitelli, I.
name: Procaccia, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address scaling in inhomogeneous and anisotropic turbulent flows by decomposing structure functions into their irreducible representation of the SO(3) symmetry group which are designated by $j,m$ indices. Employing simulations of channel flows with Re$_λ\approx 70$ we demonstrate that different components characterized by different $j$ display different scaling exponents, but for a given $j$ these remain the same at different distances from the wall. The $j=0$ exponent agrees extremely well with high Re measurements of the scaling exponents, demonstrating the vitality of the SO(3) decomposition.
description: 4 pages
V.M. Miklyukov: from dimension 8 to nonassociative algebras
Creators: name: Tkachev, Vladimir G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10, 17A01, 30A99

description: In this short survey we give a background and explain some recent developments in algebraic minimal cones and nonassociative algebras. A good deal of this paper is recollections of my collaboration with my teacher, PhD supervisor and a colleague, Vladimir Miklyukov on minimal surface theory that motivated the present research. This paper is dedicated to his memory.
description: 19 pages
Impact of requirements volatility on software architecture: How do software teams keep up with ever-changing requirements?
Creators: name: Dasanayake, Sandun
name: Aaramaa, Sanja
name: Markkula, Jouni
name: Oivo, Markku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Requirements volatility is a major issue in software development, causing problems such as higher defect density, project delays and cost overruns. Software architecture that guides the overall vision of software product, is one of the areas that is greatly affected by requirements volatility. Since critical architecture decisions are made based on the requirements at hand, changes in requirements can result signifiant changes in architecture. With the wide adoption of agile software development, software architectures are designed to accommodate possible future changes. However, the changes has to be carefully managed as unnecessary and excessive changes can bring negative consequences. An exploratory case study was conducted to study the impact of requirements volatility on software architecture. Fifteen semi-structured, thematic interviews were conducted in a European software company. The research revealed poor communication, information distortion, and external dependencies as the main factors that cause requirement volatility and inadequate architecture documentation, inability to trace design rationale, and increased complexity as the main implications of requirements volatility on software architecture. Insights from software teams' awareness of the requirement volatility, factors contribute to it, and possible ways to mitigate its implications will be utilized to improve the management of requirement volatility during software architecting process.
description: Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 03/2019
Transport in finite size systems: an exit time approach
Creators: name: Castiglione, P.
name: Cencini, M.
name: Vulpiani, A.
name: Zambianchi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of chaotic scattering we analyze passive tracer transport in finite systems. In particular, we study models with open streamlines and a finite number of recirculation zones. In the non trivial case with a small number of recirculation zones a description by mean of asymptotic quantities (such as the eddy diffusivity) is not appropriate. The non asymptotic properties of dispersion are characterized by means of the exit time statistics, which shows strong sensitivity on initial conditions. This yields a probability distribution function with long tails, making impossible a characterization in terms of a unique typical exit time.
description: 16 RevTeX pages + 6 eps-figures included
Decoding the Rejuvenating Effects of Mechanical Loading on Skeletal Maturation using in Vivo Imaging and Deep Learning
Creators: name: Asgharzadeh, Pouyan
name: Röhrle, Oliver
name: Willie, Bettina M.
name: Birkhold, Annette I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Throughout the process of aging, deterioration of bone macro- and micro-architecture, as well as material decomposition result in a loss of strength and therefore in an increased likelihood of fractures. To date, precise contributions of age-related changes in bone (re)modeling and (de)mineralization dynamics and its effect on the loss of functional integrity are not completely understood. Here, we present an image-based deep learning approach to quantitatively describe the dynamic effects of short-term aging and adaptive response to treatment in proximal mouse tibia and fibula. Our approach allowed us to perform an end-to-end age prediction based on $μ$CT images to determine the dynamic biological process of tissue maturation during a two week period, therefore permitting a short-term bone aging prediction with $95\%$ accuracy. In a second application, our radiomics analysis reveals that two weeks of in vivo mechanical loading are associated with an underlying rejuvenating effect of 5 days. Additionally, by quantitatively analyzing the learning process, we could, for the first time, identify the localization of the age-relevant encoded information and demonstrate $89\%$ load-induced similarity of these locations in the loaded tibia with younger bones. These data suggest that our method enables identifying a general prognostic phenotype of a certain bone age as well as a temporal and localized loading-treatment effect on this apparent bone age. Future translational applications of this method may provide an improved decision-support method for osteoporosis treatment at low cost.
The Molecular Mechanism of the Escherichia Coli vitamin B12 Transporter BtuCD-F: Real-time Observation of the Transporter in Motion
Creators: Kim, Jinrang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: ATP-binding cassette transporters
Biological transport
Escherichia coli
Biophysics

description: The Escherichia coli vitamin B12 transporter BtuCD-F is a type II importer belonging to the ABC transporter superfamily. Available data suggest both exporters and type I importers in the ABC superfamily employ similar transport mechanism in which the transmembrane (TMDs) are open to cytoplasm in the resting state, and ATP binding induces a major conformational change resulting in opening of the TMDs instead to the periplasm. However, the crystal structures of BtuCD from E. coli and recent EPR spectroscopy studies indicate that this type II importer employs a substantially different mechanism in which the TMDs are open to the periplasm in the resting state and to the cytoplasm after ATP binding. We have developed robust methods to study the conformation and transport mechanism of BtuCD-F reconstituted into lipid bilayers using single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) measurements. Fluorescent probes have been introduced at a variety of diagnostic sites, enabling smFRET to be used to measure distance changes in different conformational states as well as to observe the transitions between these states in real time. These data suggest that thermal fluctuations enable the transporter to explore different functional conformational states in the absence of ATP or other ligands. They also suggest that the ATP-bound state is indeed open to the cytoplasm and ATP binding/hydrolysis increases the rate of transition between open and closed states. Efforts are currently underway to observe the transport of vitamin B12 through a single BtuCD-F oligomer in real-time.
Toughening in a nacre-like soft-hard layered structure due to weak nonlinearity in the soft layer
Creators: name: Aoyanagi, Yuko
name: Okumura, Ko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, it has been found experimentally that hydrated nacre exhibits a nonlinear mechanical response. While mechanical nonlinearity has been shown to be important in other biological structures, such as spider webs, the implications of mechanical nonlinearity in nacre have not been explored. Here, we show that the nonlinear mechanical response of nacre can be reproduced by an analytical model, which reflects a nacre-like layered structure, consisting of linear-elastic hard sheets glued together by weakly nonlinear-elastic soft sheets. We develop scaling analysis on this analytical model, and perform numerical simulations using a lattice model, which is a discrete counterpart of the analytical model. Unexpectedly, we find the weak nonlinearity in the soft component significantly contributes to enhancing toughness by redistributing the stress at a crack tip over a wider area. Beyond demonstrating a mechanism that explains the unusual properties of biological nacre, this study points to a general design principle for constructing tough composites using weak nonlinearity, and is useful as a guiding principle to develop artificial layered structures mimicking nacre.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Mater. (1st revised version)
Additional file 1: of Over-ground walking or robot-assisted gait training in people with multiple sclerosis: does the effect depend on baseline walking speed and disease related disabilities? A systematic review and meta-regression
Creators: name: Sattelmayer, Martin
name: Chevalley, Odile
name: Steuri, Ruedi
name: Hilfiker, Roger
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Search strategy Pubmed, the used search terms and combinations of the search terms in Pubmed (DOCX 13 kb)
Fast and Slow solutions in General Relativity: The Initialization Procedure
Creators: name: Iriondo, Mirta S.
name: Leguizamón, Enzo O.
name: Reula, Oscar A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply recent results in the theory of PDE, specifically in problems with two different time scales, on Einstein's equations near their Newtonian limit. The results imply a justification to Postnewtonian approximations when initialization procedures to different orders are made on the initial data. We determine up to what order initialization is needed in order to detect the contribution to the quadrupole moment due to the slow motion of a massive body as distinct from initial data contributions to fast solutions and prove that such initialization is compatible with the constraint equations. Using the results mentioned the first Postnewtonian equations and their solutions in terms of Green functions are presented in order to indicate how to proceed in calculations with this approach.
description: 14 pages, LateX
Short time blow-up by negative mass term for semilinear wave equations with small data and scattering damping
Creators: name: Lai, Ning-An
name: Schiavone, Nico Michele
name: Takamura, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: primary 35L71, secondary 35B44

description: In this paper we study blow-up and lifespan estimate for solutions to the Cauchy problem with small data for semilinear wave equations with scattering damping and negative mass term. We show that the negative mass term will play a dominant role when the decay of its coefficients is not so fast, thus the solutions will blow up in a finite time. What is more, we establish a lifespan estimate from above which is much shorter than the usual one.
description: 14 pages. Accepted by a guest editor of a special volume on MSJ-SI 2018 in the journal of Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics
Ephutomorpha volubilis Turner 1914
Creators: name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Ephutomorpha
Ephutomorpha volubilis

description: Ephutomorpha volubilis Turner, 1914; Australia
 Ephutomorpha volubilis Turner, 1914: 445; ♀.
description: Published as part of Brothers, Denis J., 2022, Critical analysis of the type material of Mutillidae described from the Australasian Region (Hymenoptera), pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 5140 (1) on page 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6572181
Analysing Neural Network Topologies: a Game Theoretic Approach
Creators: name: Stier, Julian
name: Gianini, Gabriele
name: Granitzer, Michael
name: Ziegler, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial Neural Networks have shown impressive success in very different application cases. Choosing a proper network architecture is a critical decision for a network's success, usually done in a manual manner. As a straightforward strategy, large, mostly fully connected architectures are selected, thereby relying on a good optimization strategy to find proper weights while at the same time avoiding overfitting. However, large parts of the final network are redundant. In the best case, large parts of the network become simply irrelevant for later inferencing. In the worst case, highly parameterized architectures hinder proper optimization and allow the easy creation of adverserial examples fooling the network. A first step in removing irrelevant architectural parts lies in identifying those parts, which requires measuring the contribution of individual components such as neurons. In previous work, heuristics based on using the weight distribution of a neuron as contribution measure have shown some success, but do not provide a proper theoretical understanding. Therefore, in our work we investigate game theoretic measures, namely the Shapley value (SV), in order to separate relevant from irrelevant parts of an artificial neural network. We begin by designing a coalitional game for an artificial neural network, where neurons form coalitions and the average contributions of neurons to coalitions yield to the Shapley value. In order to measure how well the Shapley value measures the contribution of individual neurons, we remove low-contributing neurons and measure its impact on the network performance. In our experiments we show that the Shapley value outperforms other heuristics for measuring the contribution of neurons.
The Montessori Method's Use of Seguin's Three-Period Lesson and Its Impact on the Book Choices and Word Learning of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Creators: Jackson, Rebecca L. W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Special education
Early childhood education
Education

description: It has been well established in the literature that the acquisition of literacy presents a significant challenge for most students who are deaf or hard of hearing (Allen, 1986; Babbini & Quigley, 1970; Holt, 1993; Lane & Baker, 1974; Marschark, Lang, & Albertini, 2002; Moog & Geers, 1985; Traxler, 2000; Trybus & Karchmer, 1977).  Vocabulary, which has been identified as one of the critical skills necessary for reading (NRP, 2000), is an area of language acquisition in which students with hearing loss demonstrate particular weakness (Davey & King, 1990; Gilbertson & Kamhi, 1995; LaSasso & Davey, 1987; Paul & Gustafson, 1991; Paul & O'Rourke, 1988).  The Montessori Method uses Seguin's three-period lesson as a way to introduce new words to students.  The individualization provided by the three-period lesson, as well as the simplicity of language and lack of feedback involved all hold potential benefit for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.  While little research has been conducted on the book choices of students, King and Quigley (1985) demonstrated that text difficulty is less important when students have a high level of interest in a book.  In theory, increasing student interest in a book by using it in book share sessions and teaching some of the unknown words may make that book more accessible to students. The current study examined the impact of book share sessions, as well as two different types of vocabulary instruction on the book choices and word learning of students.  Six students from a first-grade classroom in a school serving students who are deaf participated in this study. A mixed-model design with alternating treatments employing the framework of qualitative analyses and single-subject design was used.  The dependent variables were book choice and long-term retention of vocabulary items.  The independent variable was the type of vocabulary instruction. While the data showed no impact of any intervention on participants' book choices, five of six participants retained more words taught to them using the Montessori Method than those taught to them using traditional direct instruction.  The study also demonstrated the efficiency of the Montessori Method in teaching vocabulary as compared with direct instruction that included verbal feedback and tangible reinforcement.
Large Coherent Structure Formation by Magnetic Stretching Term in Two-Dimensional MHD Turbulence
Creators: name: Ishizawa, Akihiro
name: Hattori, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using EDQNM approximation, it is shown that the magnetic stretching term is responsible for turning the small-scale turbulent structures into the large coherent magnetic structures in the 2-D MHD turbulence.
description: 2 pages, latex, no figures, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol. 67 No. 12
title: UniGuide 2014/15 Technische Universität Braunschweig
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Technische Universität
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Technische Universität Braunschweig
subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Uni-Guide
subject: 379

description: UniGuide - Technische Universität Braunschweig, vol. 2014/15
加拿大台山华侨与台山县立中学
Creators: name: 黄, 海娟
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: 台山县立中学（以下简称台中）是广东台山一中（台山市第一中学简称）的前身，今天，当我们走 进台山一中的时候，便被其巍峨的教学建筑群所吸引，台山一中之所以有这么宏伟的教学楼群，是 因为在其历史上经过了三次的扩建，而这三次的扩建与台山华侨都有直接的关系。本文由于篇幅所 限，只讨论第一次的扩建，而这次建起的主要是一座采用西式建筑风格的教学楼，分南北中三个区。 这座教学楼建成于1926 年，距今已有80 多年的历史，见证着台山侨乡教育的发展，也是民国时期 台山教育繁荣的标志。教学楼从倡议集资到建设完工，历时多年，主要由加拿大的台山华侨领袖积 极参与而成事，整个过程反映了海外台山华侨与台山地方社会发展的关系，本文通过研究加拿大华 侨建校舍的过程探究海外台山华侨团体、台山政府、台山地方势力团体等在建筑校舍这事件中的关 系，从而窥见民国时期，来自海内外的势力如何与台山本地力量作协调，如何影响台山的社会发展。
A comprehensive, application-oriented study of catastrophic forgetting in DNNs
Creators: name: Pfülb, B.
name: Gepperth, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a large-scale empirical study of catastrophic forgetting (CF) in modern Deep Neural Network (DNN) models that perform sequential (or: incremental) learning. A new experimental protocol is proposed that enforces typical constraints encountered in application scenarios. As the investigation is empirical, we evaluate CF behavior on the hitherto largest number of visual classification datasets, from each of which we construct a representative number of Sequential Learning Tasks (SLTs) in close alignment to previous works on CF. Our results clearly indicate that there is no model that avoids CF for all investigated datasets and SLTs under application conditions. We conclude with a discussion of potential solutions and workarounds to CF, notably for the EWC and IMM models.
description: 14 pages, 12 + 23 figures, ICLR | 2019 Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Maintenance of White Privilege and Power Amid Demographic Change in a Suburban School District
Creators: Fox, Ashley Lauren
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Educational sociology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Education and state
subject: School management and organization
subject: Power (Social sciences)
subject: Privileges and immunities
subject: Racism in education
subject: Race relations

description: My dissertation examines racial power dynamics and whiteness in a previously all-white suburban school district that is now home to a very racially, ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse population. Specifically, I explore how white parents make sense of and respond to changing racial demographics in their community and the extent to which whites maintain privilege and power as they comprise a declining proportion of the community population overall. In light of the current political and social context in the U.S that has accompanied demographic change, there is a great need to critically examine the racial ideologies of whites as they relate ongoing structures of inequality, particularly in suburban areas that are previous centers of white isolation and modern epicenters of demographic change. Using a multi-modal case study methodology, I found that in this particular suburban context, where residents of color possessed similar or greater levels of income and education than white residents, and students of color performed at similar levels as white students in the public schools, dominant ideologies that associated whiteness with superiority and goodness persisted and led some white parents to flee the changing community and schools. Moreover, despite the increasingly small proportion of whites in the community and schools, white parents and residents were able to leverage their racial privilege and status in ways that reasserted and maintained unequal racial power relations in Parkwood through school district policies and practices. This research highlights the often invisible and under-examined ways in which white interests are continuously centered and served in ways that reproduce structures of racism in the “post-racial” era. Overall, the findings from this study contradict dominant colorblind narratives and point to the many ways in which whiteness operates, often in surreptitious ways, to maintain the racial status quo and exert social control over people of color even in contexts in which logic might imply that the power and privilege associated with whiteness would be threatened.
The More You Know: Incorporating Data and Research to Limit the Risks of Producing on Broadway
Creators: Alexis, Lindsay Eve
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Theater--Data processing
Marketing research
Theater--Research
Theater
Performing arts

description: What defines a commercial Broadway success? For the purposes of this thesis, it is defined as a commercial Broadway production that, at the very least, recoups its capitalization and at the most, consistently returns a profit to its investors. A true commercial Broadway success in today’s theatrical landscape has become more of a rarity than a given, a fact that I find troublesome. The aim of my thesis is not to propose a formulaic solution to ensure commercial success on Broadway—that would be futile and given the ever-changing variables impacting success, next to impossible. More realistically, I aim to explore what more can be done to better ensure the health and future of the commercial Broadway industry through the thoughtful and well researched marketing and positioning of its theatrical offerings.
Additional file 1: of Adrenal hemorrhage in newborn: how, when and why- from case report to literature review
Creators: name: M. Toti
name: P. Ghirri
name: A. Bartoli
name: C. Caputo
name: E. Laudani
name: F. Masoni
name: L. Mele
name: R. Bernardini
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Patient's timeline. (PDF 177 kb)
Ephutomorpha xiphognatha Brothers 2022
Creators: name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Ephutomorpha
Ephutomorpha xiphognatha

description: Ephutomorpha xiphognatha (André, 1904); Australia
 Pseudomethoca xiphognatha André, 1904: 428; ♀.
 Ephutomorpha xiphognatha (André, 1904); Brothers, new combination
description: Published as part of Brothers, Denis J., 2022, Critical analysis of the type material of Mutillidae described from the Australasian Region (Hymenoptera), pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 5140 (1) on page 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6572181
Fast and robust detection of solar modules in electroluminescence images
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Mathis
name: Doll, Bernd
name: Talkenberg, Florian
name: Brabec, Christoph J.
name: Maier, Andreas K.
name: Christlein, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fast, non-destructive and on-site quality control tools, mainly high sensitive imaging techniques, are important to assess the reliability of photovoltaic plants. To minimize the risk of further damages and electrical yield losses, electroluminescence (EL) imaging is used to detect local defects in an early stage, which might cause future electric losses. For an automated defect recognition on EL measurements, a robust detection and rectification of modules, as well as an optional segmentation into cells is required. This paper introduces a method to detect solar modules and crossing points between solar cells in EL images. We only require 1-D image statistics for the detection, resulting in an approach that is computationally efficient. In addition, the method is able to detect the modules under perspective distortion and in scenarios, where multiple modules are visible in the image. We compare our method to the state of the art and show that it is superior in presence of perspective distortion while the performance on images, where the module is roughly coplanar to the detector, is similar to the reference method. Finally, we show that we greatly improve in terms of computational time in comparison to the reference method.
What's in a Pauli Matrix?
Creators: name: Sobczyk, Garret
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A18, 15A66, 15B33, 83A05

description: Why is it that after so many years matrices continue to play such an important roll in Physics and mathematics? Is there a geometric way of looking at matrices, and linear transformations in general, that lies at the roots of their success? We take an in depth look at the Pauli matrices, 2x2 matrices over the complex numbers, and examine the various possible geometric interpretations of such matrices. The geometric interpretation of the Pauli matrices explored here natualy extends to what the author has dubbed the study of "geometric matrices". A geometric matrix is a matrix of order 2^n x 2^n over the real or complex numbers, and has its geometric roots in its algebraically isomorphic Clifford geometric algebras.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
The Morphology of Resistance: Korean Resistance Networks 1895-1945
Creators: Shin, Eun Kyong
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: My dissertation, The Morphology of Resistance: Korean Resistance Networks 1895-1945, develops a theory of resistance. Investigating the dynamics of collective resistance, this study focuses on people who decisively resisted an unwanted authority; colonial Korea is the empirical locus. Despite the prevalence of resistant movements thoughout our history, very little is known about the relational structure of resistant movements. Thus, my dissertation fills that lacuna in the literature. The focal question is how less powerful and less equipped colonized people organized and sustained collective resistance. Building on the accumulated knowledge from the social movement theory, studies of secret societies and a social network perspective, my dissertation advances a structural understanding of resistance movements and covert social networks. I have conceived my dissertation in four empirical components. First, my study focuses on relational structures of the Korean resistance movement from 1895 to 1945. Using an innovative prosopographical network method, I capture the historical trajectory of the morphology of resistance, providing structural accounts of Korean resistance movements. Next, I statistically examine the structural conditions that enable large-scale mobilization under the conditions of severe repression. Proposing a theory of network visibility highlighting structural heterogeneity and network fragmentation, I demonstrate the ways in which network visibility operates for covert mobilization. Comparing the March 1st Movement (MFM) in 1919 and the June 10th Movement (JTM) in 1926, I next consider why the MFM mobilization was remarkably successful than the JTM. I argue that the escalated insurgency of the MFM can only be explained by the specific structural conditions for mobilization. Then, my study shifts focus to the demobilization process. What are the structural mechanisms that can explain the evolution and devolution of resistance movements? I empirically show different dynamics for movement mobilization and demobilization. Lastly, I examine the Provisional Government of Korea, which operated from 1919 to 1945 in Shanghai, China, as a case of a successful covert organization. By systematically allocating risk on the margin and to the members who have shorter experience, the covert organization protected the core members and secured their resistance resilience. As a result of these analyses, my dissertation contributes to understand of both resistant movements and covert social networks. The lessons learned from the Korean case help make sense of other cases of covert collective action.
Additional file 2 of Sinusoidal electromagnetic fields accelerate bone regeneration by boosting the multifunctionality of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells
Creators: name: Li, Weigang
name: Liu, Wenbin
name: Wang, Wei
name: Wang, Jiachen
name: Ma, Tian
name: Chen, Jingyuan
name: Wu, Hua
name: Liu, Chaoxu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Fluorescence quantitative analysis of BMPR1B, BMPR2 and P-Smad1/5/8 (n = 6). * P < 0.05 compared to N-N, ** P < 0.01 compared to N-N, # P < 0.05 compared to O-N, ## P < 0.01 compared to O-N, ^ P < 0.05 compared to N-EMF, ^^ P < 0.01 compared to N-EMF, & P < 0.05 compared to O-EMF, && P < 0.01 compared to O-EMF.
title: UniGuide 2011/12 Technische Universität Braunschweig
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Technische Universität
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Technische Universität Braunschweig
subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Uni-Guide
subject: 379

description: UniGuide - Technische Universität Braunschweig, vol. 2011/12
title: UniGuide 2013/14 Technische Universität Braunschweig
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Technische Universität
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Technische Universität Braunschweig
subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Uni-Guide
subject: 379

description: UniGuide - Technische Universität Braunschweig, vol. 2013/14
Critical analysis of the type material of Mutillidae described from the Australasian Region (Hymenoptera)
Creators: name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Eurymutilla Ashmead, 1899
 Eurymutilla Ashmead, 1899: 56, 59; ♀, ♂. Type species: Mutilla affinis Westwood, 1843.
description: Published as part of Brothers, Denis J., 2022, Critical analysis of the type material of Mutillidae described from the Australasian Region (Hymenoptera), pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 5140 (1) on page 206, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6572181
title: UniGuide 2010 Technische Universität Braunschweig
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Technische Universität
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Technische Universität Braunschweig
subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Uni-Guide
subject: 379

description: UniGuide - Technische Universität Braunschweig, vol. 2010
Cloud G074.11+00.11: a stellar cluster in formation
Creators: name: Saajasto, Mika
name: Harju, Jorma
name: Juvela, Mika
name: Tie, Liu
name: Zhang, Qizhou
name: Liu, Sheng-Yuan
name: Hirano, Naomi
name: Wu, Yuefang
name: Kim, Kee-Tae
name: Tatematsu, Ken'ichi
name: Wang, Ke
name: Thompson, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present molecular line and dust continuum observations of a Planck-detected cold cloud, G074.11+00.11. The cloud consists of a system of curved filaments and a central star-forming clump. The clump is associated with several infrared sources and H2O maser emission. We aim to determine the mass distribution and gas dynamics within the clump, to investigate if the filamentary structure seen around the clump repeats itself on a smaller scale, and to estimate the fractions of mass contained in dense cores and filaments. The velocity distribution of pristine dense gas can be used to investigate the global dynamical state of the clump, the role of filamentary inflows, filament fragmentation and core accretion. We use molecular line and continuum observations from single dish observatories and interferometric facilities to study the kinematics of the region. The molecular line observations show that the central clump may have formed as a result of a large-scale filament collision. The central clump contains three compact cores. Assuming a distance of 2.3 kpc, based on Gaia observations and a three-dimensional extinction method of background stars, the mass of the central clump exceeds 700 solar masses, which is roughly 25% of the total mass of the cloud. Our virial analysis suggests that the central clump and all identified substructures are collapsing. We find no evidence for small-scale filaments associated with the cores. Our observations indicate that the clump is fragmented into three cores with masses in the range [10,50] solar masses and that all three are collapsing. The presence of an H2O maser emission suggests active star formation. However, the CO lines show only weak signs of outflows. We suggest that the region is young and any processes leading to star formation have just recently begun.
description: 17 pages, 19 figures, 3 tables