cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Inclusion of Underrepresented Populations in Cardiovascular Genetics and Epidemiology
Creators: name: Chappell, Elias
name: Arbour, Laura
name: Laksman, Zachary
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Novel genetic risk markers have helped us to advance the field of cardiovascular epidemiology and refine our current understanding and risk stratification paradigms. The discovery and analysis of variants can help us to tailor prognostication and management. However, populations underrepresented in cardiovascular epidemiology and cardiogenetics research may experience inequities in care if prediction tools are not applicable to them clinically. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to outline the barriers that underrepresented populations can face in participating in genetics research, to describe the current efforts to diversify cardiogenetics research, and to outline strategies that researchers in cardiovascular epidemiology can implement to include underrepresented populations. Mistrust, a lack of diverse research teams, the improper use of sensitive biodata, and the constraints of genetic analyses are all barriers for including diverse populations in genetics studies. The current work is beginning to address the paucity of ethnically diverse genetics research and has already begun to shed light on the potential benefits of including underrepresented and diverse populations. Reducing barriers for individuals, utilizing community-driven research processes, adopting novel recruitment strategies, and pushing for organizational support for diverse genetics research are key steps that clinicians and researchers can take to develop equitable risk stratification tools and improve patient care.
Rational Requirements for Moral Motivation: The Psychopath's Open Question
Creators: name: Montello, Maria
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Psychopaths pose a challenge to those who make claims about the strength of moral assessments.ÿ These individuals are entirely unmoved by the moral rules that they articulate and purportedly espouse.ÿ Psychopaths appear rationally intact but are emotionally broken.ÿ In some cases, they commit horrendous crimes yet show no guilt, no remorse.ÿ Sentimentalists claim that the empirical evidence about psychopaths' affective deficits supports that moral judgment is rooted in emotion and that psychopaths do not make genuine moral judgments'they can't.ÿ Here, I challenge an explanation of psychopathy that indicts psychopaths' emotional impairments alone.ÿ I conclude that there are rational requirements for moral motivation and that psychological and neuroscientific research support that psychopaths do not make the grade.
Friends with Benefits: Other Regard in Epicurean Ethics
Creators: name: Baird, William
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Friendship and hedonism are both major components of Epicureanism. I attempt to relieve the tension that seems to follow from endorsing both of these. I argue that Epicurean friendships require valuing a friend's well-being in the same way as one's own and that embarking on such friendships is what David Schmidtz terms a maieutic end ' one that is achieved by taking on a new set of ends. This conception fits with other-regarding concern that is espoused throughout the Epicurean texts discussing friendship and, as I argue, remains consistent with other psychological and ethical commitments of Epicureanism.
Hypocrisias velivolans Dyar 1920
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Hypocrisias
Hypocrisias velivolans

description: Hypocrisias velivolans Dyar, 1920
Hypocrisias velivolans Dyar, 1920: 30.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Mexico, [Distrito Federal], Mexico City.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype male no. 22 750 designated by Watson (1971: 95) (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 311, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
To Preserve Our Recent Past: Protecting the Bellevue Forest Subdivision in Arlington County, Virginia
Creators: name: Eakins, Jan M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Architecture, Domestic -- Virginia -- Arlington County
subject: Suburban homes -- Virginia -- Arlington County -- Conservation and restoration
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis examines issues surrounding preservation of the recent past, particularly subdivisions developed around World War II. It identifies the urgency of finding solutions for preserving the recently built environment and reasons few preservationists have tackled the challenge. It applies perspectives drawn from scholarly discussion concerning preservation of the recent past to a case study, the Bellevue Forest subdivision in Arlington County, Virginia. The historic significance of Bellevue Forest is examined and recommendations are made concerning how preservationists, planners, and residents might collaborate to protect such recent neighborhoods while allowing for. inevitable change. Chapter I identifies challenges and barriers to preserving the recent past. Chapter II examines scholarly thought on the topic and suggests areas for further research and discussion. Chapters III and IV trace suburbanization nationwide and in Arlington County and Bellevue Forest. Chapter V assesses Bellevue Forest's historic significance, examines threats to its historic integrity, and suggests options for preserving its historic character. Chapter VI offers several conclusions. One is that the recent past is historically significant for its role in the continuum of suburbanization. A conservation area is deemed a viable tool for stabilizing a recently-built neighborhood until it is judged ready for historic designation. Furthermore, while preservation of the recent past presents special challenges, preservationists possess skills and techniques to preserve that past. They need not wait to begin. They must, however, refine their methodology, engage in significant scholarship, and collaborate with others to be effective- a process that might well invigorate the preservation movement.
A Defense of Moral Error Theory
Creators: name: Hirsch, Kyle
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Richard Joyce claims sincerely uttering moral claims necessarily commits the moral claimant to endorsing false beliefs regarding the predication of nonexistent (non-)natural moral properties. For Joyce, any proposition containing a subject, x, saddled with the predicate ''is moral'[1] will have a truth-value of 'false', so long as the predicate fails to refer to anything real in the world. Furthermore, given the philosophical community's present state of epistemic ignorance, we lack sufficient evidence to justify our endorsement of the existence of (non-)natural moral properties purportedly capable of serving as truth-makers for moral claims. My thesis offers a defense of Joyce's moral error theory against two different lines of criticisms proffered by Russ Shafer-Landau'one conceptual in nature, and the other ontological. I argue that available evidence compels the informed agnostic about moral truth to suspend judgment on the matter, if not endorse Joyce's stronger thesis that all moral claims are false.
Towards Effective Identification of Attack Techniques in Cyber Threat Intelligence Reports using Large Language Models
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hoang Cuong
name: Tariq, Shahroz
name: Chhetri, Mohan Baruwal
name: Vo, Bao Quoc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work evaluates the performance of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) extraction methods in identifying attack techniques from threat reports available on the web using the MITRE ATT&CK framework. We analyse four configurations utilising state-of-the-art tools, including the Threat Report ATT&CK Mapper (TRAM) and open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Llama2. Our findings reveal significant challenges, including class imbalance, overfitting, and domain-specific complexity, which impede accurate technique extraction. To mitigate these issues, we propose a novel two-step pipeline: first, an LLM summarises the reports, and second, a retrained SciBERT model processes a rebalanced dataset augmented with LLM-generated data. This approach achieves an improvement in F1-scores compared to baseline models, with several attack techniques surpassing an F1-score of 0.90. Our contributions enhance the efficiency of web-based CTI systems and support collaborative cybersecurity operations in an interconnected digital landscape, paving the way for future research on integrating human-AI collaboration platforms.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures 4 tables, accepted for publication at the Web Conference 2025 (WWW'25)
Rethinking Legal Retribution
Creators: name: Parsley, Stephen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: In this paper I discuss retributivist justifications for legal punishment. I argue that the main moral retributivist theories advanced so far fail to support a plausible system of legal punishment. As an alternative, I suggest, with some reservations, the legal retributivism advanced by Alan Brudner in his Punishment and Freedom.
Making Robert Kane's Libertarianism More Plausible: How James Woodward's Interventionist Causal Theory can Give an Agent Control Over Her Undetermined Decisions
Creators: name: Van Wagner, Tracy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Robert Kane asserts that some decisions and actions which are made by an agent are undetermined.  These undetermined decisions are what allow an agent to have free will and ultimate responsibility for her decisions and actions.  Kane appeals to probabilistic causation in order to argue that these undetermined decisions are not arbitrary or random.  I argue that Woodward's interventionist approach to causation can be used by Kane to make his theory of free will more plausible by illustrating how the agent causes her decision.  Woodward's account can link an agent's reasons with her decision, activity in her self-network with her decision, and can render undetermined decisions plural rational, plural voluntary, and plural voluntarily controlled.
Secular Foundations of Liberal Multiculturalism
Creators: name: Khan, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: In pursuit of a just political order, Will Kymlicka has defended a liberal conception of multiculturalism.  The persuasive appeal of his argument, like that of secular-liberalism more generally, is due to presenting liberalism as a neutral and universal political project.  Utilizing Charles Taylor's genealogy of 'exclusive humanism' in A Secular Age, this thesis attempts to re-read Kymlicka in order to make certain theological commitments in his work explicit.  Here I argue that Kymlicka, in order to make his conception of multiculturalism plausible, relies on a theologically-thick and controversial humanism operating under secular conditions of belief.  By committing himself to a particular conception of the human and specific conditions of belief, Kymlicka's liberal multiculturalism is rendered provincially incoherent because it fails to treat in a neutral manner certain theological commitments.
Can the Contextualist Win the Free Will Debate?
Creators: name: Stern, Reuben
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This thesis explores the merits and limits of John Hawthorne's contextualist analysis of free will. First, I argue that contextualism does better at capturing the ordinary understanding of 'free will' than competing views because it best accounts for the way in which our willingness to attribute free will ordinarily varies with context. Then I consider whether this is enough to conclude that the contextualist has won the free will debate. I argue that this would be hasty, because the contextualist, unlike her competitors, cannot tell us whether any particular agent is definitively free, and therefore cannot inform any practices that are premised on whether a particular agent is morally responsible. As such, I argue that whether the contextualist 'wins the free will debate' depends on whether it is more important to capture the ordinary understanding of 'free will' or more important to inform our practices of ascribing moral responsibility.
Consciousness, Self-Control, and Free Will in Nietzsche
Creators: name: Russell, Bryan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Brian Leiter is one of the few Nietzsche interpreters who argue that Nietzsche rejects all forms of free will. Leiter argues that Nietzsche is an incompatibilist and rejects libertarian free will. He further argues that since Nietzsche is an epiphenomenalist about conscious willing, his philosophy of action cannot support any conception of free will. Leiter also offers deflationary readings of those passages where Nietzsche seemingly ascribes free will to historical figures or types. In this paper I argue against all of these conclusions. In the first section I show that, on the most charitable interpretation, Nietzsche is not an epiphenomenalist. In the second section I trace Nietzsche's alleged incompatibilism through three of his works and offer reasons to be skeptical of the claim that Nietzsche was a committed incompatibilist. Finally, I argue that Nietzsche is not being sarcastic or unacceptably revisionary when he makes positive ascriptions of free will.
A Problem Of Access: Autism, Other Minds, And Interpersonal Relations
Creators: name: Born, Ryan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASCs) are marked by social-communicative difficulties and unusually fixed or repetitive interests, activities, and behaviors (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).  In this thesis, I review empirically and conceptually based philosophic proposals that maintain the social-communicative difficulties exhibited by persons on the autism spectrum result from a lack of capacity to understand other persons as minded.  I will argue that the social-communicative difficulties that characterize ASCs may instead result from a lack of ability to access other minds, and that this lack of ability is due to a contingent lack of external resources.
Why Not Penal Torture?
Creators: name: Grimaldi, Cleo
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: I argue here that the practice of penal torture is not intrinsically wrongful. A common objection against the practice of penal torture is that there is something about penal torture that makes it wrongful, while this is not the case for other modes of punishment. I call this claim the asymmetry thesis. One way to defend this position is to claim that penal torture is intrinsically wrongful. It is the claim I argue against here. I discuss and reject three versions this claim. I first address a version that is based on the idea that penal torture, unlike other modes of punishment, is intrinsically wrong because it is inhuman. I then address a version grounded on the claim that, because penal torture is an assault upon the defenseless, it is morally impermissible. Finally, I discuss a version that concerns the idea that penal torture attacks human dignity and undermine agency.
Patient-Relativity and the Efficacy of Epicurean Therapy
Creators: name: Augustin, Michael
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: According to Epicurus, philosophy's sole task is to ensure the well-being of the soul. Human souls are often riddled with diseases; the most serious are the fear of the gods and the fear of death. Thus, the Epicureans offered several arguments designed to demonstrate that, for instance, 'death is nothing to us,' and should therefore not be feared. Since their creation there has been much discussion, both in antiquity and by contemporary philosophers, about these arguments. In this thesis, I argue that Epicurean philosophical arguments are patient-relative; they necessarily adapt themselves so as to be therapeutically effective for their intended audience. The end result is that when we evaluate Epicurean philosophical arguments, we must do so in light of the audience for whom they were intended.
How Music Makes Us Feel
Creators: name: Economides, Alexander
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: According to folk psychology, instrumental music regularly elicits emotions in listeners. Philosophers and psychologists such as Kivy, Konecni and Zangwill have questioned the existence of these musically elicited emotions, arguing that instrumental music elicits moods or aesthetic judgments rather than emotions. I defend the folk psychological position against these skeptics. The first chapter sets up the debate surrounding musically elicited emotions, while chapters two and three defend the thesis that instrumental music elicits emotions against the critics' arguments. Chapter four outlines the implications of this defense for a variety of fields.
Against Collective Consequentialism
Creators: name: DiGiovanni, James
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: In this paper I argue that Liam Murphy's collective consequentialism'emphasizing fairness instead of maximization of value'is not an adequate response to the demandingness objections levied at consequentialism. Especially since Peter Singer's 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality,' many have objected that consequentialism is far too demanding, particularly concerning our obligations of assistance to those in extreme poverty. Murphy thinks that the problem is not that consequentialism is necessarily too demanding; it is that, in our nonideal world of partial compliance, consequentialism is too demanding on those who comply with its dictates. I hope to show that Murphy's theory is unsatisfying. I will not defend any particular version of consequentialism over alternative consequentialist theories, nor will I defend consequentialism over alternative non-consequentialist moral theories. My aim is far narrower: To show that those who accept a broadly consequentialist account of morality have little reason to accept Murphy's collective consequentialism.
Robustifying automatic speech recognition by extracting slowly varying features
Creators: name: Pizarro, Matías
name: Kolossa, Dorothea
name: Fischer, Asja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the past few years, it has been shown that deep learning systems are highly vulnerable under attacks with adversarial examples. Neural-network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are no exception. Targeted and untargeted attacks can modify an audio input signal in such a way that humans still recognise the same words, while ASR systems are steered to predict a different transcription. In this paper, we propose a defense mechanism against targeted adversarial attacks consisting in removing fast-changing features from the audio signals, either by applying slow feature analysis, a low-pass filter, or both, before feeding the input to the ASR system. We perform an empirical analysis of hybrid ASR models trained on data pre-processed in such a way. While the resulting models perform quite well on benign data, they are significantly more robust against targeted adversarial attacks: Our final, proposed model shows a performance on clean data similar to the baseline model, while being more than four times more robust.
Making Experts: The Boundary Crossing of Knowledge and the Emergence of Relational Expertise in a School Makerspace
Creators: name: Leskinen, Jasmiina
name: Kumpulainen, Kristiina, 1966-
name: Kajamaa, Anu
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Existing research has illuminated the multidimensional nature of knowledge creation in school makerspaces. Yet, limited research exists on the boundary crossing of knowledge in makerspaces and how it can lead to the emergence of relational expertise. Using video records of interactions between 10–13-year-old students and their teachers in a school makerspace, this ethnographic case study applied mediated discourse analysis to investigate the boundary crossing of knowledge and the emergence of relational expertise—i.e., engaging with one’s own expertise, while recognizing, responding to, and building on others’ expertise. The results demonstrate how relational expertise emerged through boundary crossing of knowledge, with increased opportunities for students to identify themselves as experts. The boundary crossing of knowledge was mediated by participating students and teachers as well as material objects, evidencing the social and material nature of relational expertise in the makerspace. By recognizing the makerspace as a boundary object and an epistemic tool, the study enhances current understanding of the boundary crossing of knowledge and the emergence of relational expertise within creative and digitally enhanced learning environments.
Diversity in Rehabilitation Medicine
Creators: name: รศ.พญ.อภิชนา  โฆวินทะ
Publisher: name: ราชวิทยาลัยแพทย์เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟู แห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2559
Subjects: Diversity in Rehabilitation Medicine

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การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบประสิทธิผลของการลงเข็มและการบำบัดด้วยคลื่นกระแทก ในผู้ป่วยโรคพังผืดฝ่าเท้าอักเสบเรื้อรัง: การศึกษาแบบสุ่ม
Creators: name: พรศรี ไตรจีวรภรณ์, วิภาวรรณ ลีลาสำราญ
Publisher: name: ราชวิทยาลัยแพทย์เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟู แห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2559
Subjects: โรคพังผืดฝ่าเท้าอักเสบเรื้อรัง, การลงเข็ม, การบำบัดด้วยคลื่นกระแทก

description: 1, 26, เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟูสาร
Constructive nonlocal games with very small classical values
Creators: name: Rosicka, M.
name: Szarek, S.
name: Rutkowski, A.
name: Gnaciński, P.
name: Horodecki, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are few explicit examples of two player nonlocal games with a large gap between classical and quantum value. One of the reasons is that estimating the classical value is usually a hard computational task. This paper is devoted to analyzing classical values of the so-called linear games (generalization of XOR games to a larger number of outputs). We employ nontrivial results from graph theory and combine them with number theoretic results used earlier in the context of harmonic analysis to obtain a novel tool -- {\it the girth method} -- allowing to provide explicit examples of linear games with prescribed low classical value. In particular, we provide games with minimal possible classical value. We then speculate on the potential unbounded violation, by comparing the obtained classical values with a known upper bound for the quantum value. If this bound can be even asymptotically saturated, our games would have the best ratio of quantum to classical value as a function of the product of the number of inputs and outputs when compared to other explicit (i.e. non-random) constructions.
The Expanded Cluster Account of Art
Creators: name: Murphy, Eric
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: I argue for the Expanded Cluster Account of art (ECA) by first inquiring as to whether 'art' is best described by a cluster account and where ECA fits into the current landscape of theories of concepts. Second, I explicate the relevant aspects of Boyd's theory of natural kinds and argue that his concepts of 'disciplinary matrices' and 'homeostatic property clusters' (roughly analogous to Gaut's criterial properties for characterizing art, particularized for each individual kind) have relevant roles in a proper cluster account of art, thus explicating and expanding Gaut's account in the process. Third, I defend the thesis that Boyd's concept of 'disciplinary matrix,' when applied to 'art,' is fulfilled by George Dickie's notion of 'the Artworld.' Lastly, I consider objections to ECA and positively explain its heuristic and explanatory efficacy above and beyond other contemporary 'anti-definitional' accounts.
ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างการประเมินการทำงานของแขนด้วยเครื่อง SensibleTAB กับการประเมินด้วย Fugl-Meyer Scaleในผู้ป่วยโรคหลอดเลือดสมอง: การศึกษาเบื้องต้น
Creators: name: ภาริส วงศ์แพทย์, รัชวรรณ สุขเสถียร, วันทนียา วัชรีอุดมกาล, พัชรินทร์ อินตา, แพรวนภา ขันทะสีมา, ดาริกา พันธิแก้ว, ปราการเกียรติ ยังคง, ศรายุทธ หัสนัย,วิทยา ไพเราะห์
Publisher: name: ราชวิทยาลัยแพทย์เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟู แห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2559
Subjects: อัมพฤกษ์ครึ่งซีก, โรคหลอดเลือดสมอง, การประเมินการทำงานของแขน, หุ่นยนต์

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Null Counterfactual Factor Interactions for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Chuck, Caleb
name: Feng, Fan
name: Qi, Carl
name: Shi, Chang
name: Agarwal, Siddhant
name: Zhang, Amy
name: Niekum, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hindsight relabeling is a powerful tool for overcoming sparsity in goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL), especially in certain domains such as navigation and locomotion. However, hindsight relabeling can struggle in object-centric domains. For example, suppose that the goal space consists of a robotic arm pushing a particular target block to a goal location. In this case, hindsight relabeling will give high rewards to any trajectory that does not interact with the block. However, these behaviors are only useful when the object is already at the goal -- an extremely rare case in practice. A dataset dominated by these kinds of trajectories can complicate learning and lead to failures. In object-centric domains, one key intuition is that meaningful trajectories are often characterized by object-object interactions such as pushing the block with the gripper. To leverage this intuition, we introduce Hindsight Relabeling using Interactions (HInt), which combines interactions with hindsight relabeling to improve the sample efficiency of downstream RL. However because interactions do not have a consensus statistical definition tractable for downstream GCRL, we propose a definition of interactions based on the concept of null counterfactual: a cause object is interacting with a target object if, in a world where the cause object did not exist, the target object would have different transition dynamics. We leverage this definition to infer interactions in Null Counterfactual Interaction Inference (NCII), which uses a "nulling'' operation with a learned model to infer interactions. NCII is able to achieve significantly improved interaction inference accuracy in both simple linear dynamics domains and dynamic robotic domains in Robosuite, Robot Air Hockey, and Franka Kitchen and HInt improves sample efficiency by up to 4x.
description: Published at ICLR 2025
Content and Contrastive Self-Knowledge
Creators: name: Abruzzo, Vincent
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: It is widely believed that we have immediate, introspective access to the content of our own thoughts. This access is assumed to be privileged in a way that our access to the thought content of others is not. It is also widely believed that, in many cases, thought content is individuated according to properties that are external to the thinker's head. I will refer to these theses as privileged access and content externalism, respectively. Though both are widely held to be true, various arguments have been put forth to the effect that they are incompatible. This charge of incompatibilism has been met with a variety of compatibilist responses, each of which has received its own share of criticism. In this thesis, I will argue that a contrastive account of self-knowledge is a novel compatibilist response that shows significant promise.
Supplementary document for Versatile, do-it-yourself, low-cost spinning disk confocal microscope - 5659629.pdf
Creators: name: Halpern, Aaron
name: Lee, Min Yen
name: Howard, Marco
name: Woodworth, Marcus
name: Nicovich, Philip
name: Vaughan, Joshua
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Protection of noisy multipartite entangled states of superconducting qubits via universally robust dynamical decoupling schemes
Creators: name: Gautam, Akanksha
name: Arvind
name: Dorai, Kavita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the efficacy of the universally robust dynamical decoupling (URDD) sequence to preserve multipartite maximally entangled quantum states on a cloud based quantum computer via the IBM platform. URDD is a technique that can compensate for experimental errors and simultaneously protect the state against environmental noise. To further improve the performance of the URDD sequence, phase randomization (PR) as well as correlated phase randomization (CPR) techniques are added to the basic URDD sequence. The performance of the URDD sequence is quantified by measuring the entanglement in several noisy entangled states (two-qubit triplet state, three-qubit GHZ state, four-qubit GHZ state and four-qubit cluster state) at several time points. Our experimental results demonstrate that the URDD sequence is successfully able to protect noisy multipartite entangled states and its performance is substantially improved by adding the phase randomization and correlated phase randomization sequences.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Science and Faith in Kant's First Critique
Creators: name: Fulmer, Everett
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis engages in an interpretative debate over Kant's general aims in the first Critique. I argue that a defense of the rational legitimacy of religious faith is at the very center of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Moreover, I argue that Kant's defense of faith is inextricably bound up with his views on the legitimacy of science. On my account, Kant's Critique not only demonstrates that science is fully consistent with religious faith, but also that science, when properly understood, actually favors religious belief over non-belief.
Why Do People Seek Negative Emotions' A Solution to Hume's Puzzle
Creators: name: Brady, William
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: In his 1757 essay 'Of Tragedy', Hume reflected on a curious puzzle about emotions.  Sometimes people seek out emotions or experiences that are typically negative and associated with displeasure or pain.  People often desire to watch horror films that will make them scared or listen to music that will make them sad.  Some people even engage in the pursuit of negative emotions on a regular basis such as in the case of thrill-seeking.  In this paper my goal is to update Hume's puzzle with empirical evidence from the affective sciences and argue for two conclusions.  First I will argue that Hume's puzzle still runs deep.  Though some recent scientific and philosophical accounts of emotions have tried to solve it, they have thus far failed.  Second I attempt to construct a psychological account that solves the puzzle.  Instead of focusing on how emotions are generated as previous theories have done, I argue that what is important is how emotions are regulated.
VALIDITY OF TOUGHNESS MEASUREMENTS FROM MINIATURE SPECIMENS FAILING IN DIFFERENT FRACTURE MODES
Creators: name: Ortner, Susan
name: Sanchez, Marcos
name: Echols, John
name: Cicero, Sergio
name: Chekhonin, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Using 0.16T (4 mm thick) compact tension specimens to determine toughness in reactor pressure vessel steels permits the ductile to brittle transition temperature to be derived from small amounts of material and allows more effective use of surveillance specimens. Achieving validity in the toughness measurements requires more care in specimen manufacture, load train alignment and test temperature selection than when larger specimens are used. This is particularly evident in the shapes of precrack fronts, which appear more sharply asymmetric on smaller specimens. Questions have also been raised as to whether the failure mechanisms are the same in miniature and large specimens. This work, performed within the FRACTESUS project, presents toughness measurements and detailed fractography on both a homogeneously brittle base metal and a relatively ductile, inhomogeneous weld. The fractography shows that, even in a ductile weld metal exhibiting clear shear lip, brittle fracture initiates within the part of specimen experiencing small scale yielding, so long as the toughness measurement is valid. Similarly, although the precrack front asymmetry appears more marked in smaller specimens, as long as the deviation from planarity is within the ASTM limits, the asymmetry does not affect the location of the initiation site. For materials showing a variety of fracture modes, the fracture modes observed at the initiation sites are consistent with those observed in larger specimens. Where data are available, the stress and strain conditions at the initiation sites are also found to be consistent in 0.16T and larger specimens. These fractographic observations support the thesis that toughness measurements made on miniature compact tension specimens reflect the same material characteristics and failure mechanisms as those on larger specimens. The limitations on specimen geometry and loading identified by the ASTM Standard are sufficient to ensure that transition temperature values derived from miniature compact specimens are valid for materials failing via a variety of fracture modes.
Appointments Needed for Complete Denture for Frail Older Adults Residing in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Cross-Sectional Study
Creators: name: Altuwaijri, Sahr H.
name: Champirat, Tharee
name: Wyatt, Chris, 1959-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Frail older adults who reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities face multiple barriers in receiving dental care. In edentulous LTC patients, the fabrication of complete dentures (CDs) can present challenges, leading to an increase in procedural or post-insertion appointments. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to document the number of fabrication and post-insertion follow-up appointments for CDs in frail older adults residing in LTC facilities. Data were collected from electronic patient records (AxiUm) and the Index of Clinical Oral Disorder in Elders (CODE) software utilized by the University of British Columbia Geriatric Dentistry Program from 2002 to 2018. A total of 362 CDs were fabricated between 2002 and 2018 in 272 patients. The mean number of visits required was 4.13 and 4.32, with standard deviations (Std) of 1.45 and 1.25 needed to fabricate maxillary CDs and mandibular CDs, respectively. The mean number of follow-up visits was 1.04 for maxillary dentures and 1.09 for mandibular dentures, with an Std of 1.25 for both, similar to the results obtained for adult patients in community dental clinics. Several factors were found to be associated with an increased number of CD fabrication and follow-up visits. Pre-operative assessment of the patient’s cognitive/physical status and intra-oral condition may indicate the estimated time needed to fabricate CDs.
(3R)-obscurolide A: a new obscurolide from Streptomyces chartreusis SA-7 isolated from soil of the North Western Himalayas
Creators: name: Manhas, Ravi S
name: Sharma, Neha
name: Begum, Safeya
name: Nalli, Yedukondalu
name: Chaubey, Asha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A new obscurolide, (3 R)-obscurolide A (5) and four previously identified metabolites streptalbonin F (1), chartreusin (2), TAN 1364B (3) and streptalbonin G (4) were isolated from Streptomyces chartreusis SA-7, obtained from soil of the North Western Himalayas. The structure of new compound (3 R)-obscurolide A (5) was elucidated by spectroscopic data analysis, including 1D and 2D NMR, and HR-ESI-MS, while the known compounds (1–4) were identified by comparing their spectral data with the literature. Notably, chartreusin (2) is a well-known antimicrobial agent with broad-spectrum activity, while the other compounds had been reported to display moderate antimicrobial effects against various test strains.
Against the Linguistic Analogy
Creators: name: Martin, Noel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Recently it has been proposed that humans possess an innate, domain-specific moral faculty, and that this faculty might be fruitfully understood by drawing a close analogy with nativist theories in linguistics. This Linguistic Analogy (LA) hypothesizes that humans share a universal moral grammar. In this paper I argue that this conception is deeply flawed. After profiling a recent and appealing account of universal moral grammar, I suggest that recent empirical findings reveal a significant flaw, which takes the form of a dilemma: either there is something wrong with the moral grammar model because we do not actually possess the innate contents (rules, principles, and concepts) it says we have, or the moral grammar model is simply the wrong model of moral cognition. In light of this dilemma, I conclude we ought to be skeptical that the Linguistic Analogy can adequately serve as a general account of moral cognition.
Hegel's Critique of Ancient Skepticism
Creators: name: Wood, John
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Recent work on the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel has emphasized his interest in skeptical concerns. These contemporary scholars argue that, despite common opinions to the contrary, Hegel actually had a very keen interest in skepticism, one that informed and motivated much of his overall project. While I welcome this recent literature, I argue here that contemporary scholars have overemphasized the importance of skepticism for Hegel. By looking closely at Hegel's arguments against skepticism in the Phenomenology of Spirit, I argue that Hegel's anti-skeptical arguments are in fact major failures. Hegel's failure is at odds with the emphasis that contemporary literature places on Hegel's interests in skepticism. For a philosopher who was supposedly centrally concerned with skeptical issues, Hegel sure does not act like it. I conclude that the tension here is the result of contemporary scholars' overemphasis of the role that skepticism plays in Hegel's project.
International Luck Egalitarianism: A Legislative Approach
Creators: name: Rogasner, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: If morally arbitrary features (that is, blind brute luck) should have no impact on the distribution of wealth, then the vast inequality and the disparity in life prospects between countries is a moral catastrophe; birthplace is completely based on luck, and yet has an enormous impact on life prospects. I contend that those in affluent countries, who have benefited from the luck of birthplace, ought to work towards a more egalitarian world, in which luck plays as little a role in life prospects as possible.
Utility, Character, and Mill's Argument for Representative Government
Creators: name: Vickery, Paul
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: John Stuart Mill's Representative Government argues that the ideal form of government is representative. In this paper, I interpret Mill's argument as a utilitarian argument for a political system with the salient feature of authoritative public participation. Mill argues for this feature in the first three chapters of Representative Government. This argument is interpreted in the context of Mill's utilitarian views as elaborated in Utilitarianism, with emphasis on Mill's understanding of pleasure formation and high quality utility.
A Test of Prinz's Air Theory: Is Attention Sufficient for Conscious Emotion?
Creators: name: Stenson, Anais
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Jesse Prinz proposes that attended intermediate-level representations (AIRs) are sufficient for conscious awareness. He extends this claim to emotion, arguing that attention is the mechanism that separates conscious from unconscious emotions. Prior studies call this entailment into question. However, they do not directly address the intermediate-level requirement, and thus cannot decisively refute the AIR theory of consciousness. This thesis tests that theory by manipulating participants' attention to different features of subliminally processed words while recording both behavioral and electroencephalogram (EEG) data. Both measures suggest that subliminally processed stimuli are attended according to participants' conscious intention to complete a task. In addition, the EEG data demonstrate that intermediate-level neural activity was modulated by the subliminal stimuli. Thus, these results suggest that AIRs are not sufficient for conscious emotion. This finding undermines Prinz's AIR theory, and its account of the distinction between conscious and unconscious emotion.
Hans Kelsen and the Bindingness of Supra-National Legal Norms
Creators: name: Latta, Richard
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: The pure theory of law is a positivist legal theory put forward by Hans Kelsen. Recently there have been two attempts to understand democracy as a source for the normativity that the pure theory assigns to law. Lars Vinx seeks to understand the pure theory as a theory of political legitimacy, in which the normativity that the pure theory assigns to the laws of a state depends on the state's adoption of certain legitimacy enhancing features, including being democratic. Uta Bindreiter argues that, in the case of European Community law, an additional criterion of democracy must be added to the criteria that the pure theory normally requires of legal systems before the pure theory can presuppose the normativity of European Community law. This thesis will argue that neither of these two accounts succeeds in demonstrating that the normativity of the pure theory can be understood to depend on democracy.
Hume on the Nature of Moral Freedom
Creators: name: Lustila, Getty
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Paul Russell argues that the interpretation of Hume as a classical compatibilist is misguided. Russell defends a naturalistic reading of Humean freedom and moral responsibility. On this account, Hume holds two theses: that moral responsibility is a product of our moral sentiments, and that our concept of moral freedom is derived from our considerations of moral responsibility. Russell claims that Hume's theory of the passions is non-cognitivist, and thus that his account of moral judgment fails to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary actions or qualities of mind. He concludes that Hume's account of moral responsibility is inadequate. I argue that Hume has a cognitivist account of the passions. For Hume, our character is judged to be a proper object of praise or censure on account of our ability to partake in a moral community with our fellows. I conclude that Hume does not naturalize freedom and moral responsibility, but socializes it.
The Pernicious Influence of the Ideal/Nonideal Distinction in Political Philosophy
Creators: name: Slank, Shanna
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: The notions of 'ideal theory' and 'nonideal theory' have become widely accepted in political philosophy. Recently, several philosophers' have urged that ideal theory systematically produces practically irrelevant theories. Such philosophers argue that political philosophy ought move away from ideal theory in order to make the discipline more germane to the unjust real world. Call this tactic of eliminating ideal theory 'Strategy.' In this paper, I argue that political philosophy would do well to abandon the ideal/nonideal distinction. Though the use of INID is widespread, philosophers do not have one uniform way of drawing the distinction; of the several common ways of drawing the distinction, none is categorical. As a consequence of this ambiguity, the role that INID plays in our political philosophical theorizing has become pernicious.
The Abstract/Concrete Paradox in Moral Psychology
Creators: name: Reuter, Shane
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: The epistemology of intuitions has become popular recently with philosophers' increasing use of experimental methods to study intuitions. Philosophers have focused on the reliability of intuitions, as empirical studies seem to suggest that conflicting intuitions are common. One set of studies, concerning what Sinnott-Armstrong (2008) calls the abstract/concrete paradox, suggests that conflicting intuitions are common and, hence, that mistaken intuitions are common. As Goldman (2007) notes, if mistaken intuitions are sufficiently prevalent, then we might have reason to think intuitions are unreliable. I argue that mistaken intuitions are not common, since studies concerning the abstract/concrete paradox have unknowingly studied several distinct phenomena instead of the abstract/concrete paradox and, hence, that they present merely apparently conflicting intuitions. I then discuss the import of empirical studies for debates about reliability, noting that those studies can inform us about the unreliability of intuitions but we are still unclear about the conditions for reliability.
กลุ่มกล้ามเนื้อและจำนวนการตรวจคลื่นไฟฟ้ากล้ามเนื้อในการระบุโรครากประสาทส่วนเอวร่วมใต้กระเบนเหน็บ
Creators: name: ปรมินทร์ ชัยวิบูลย์ผล, ชาญวิทย์ โพธิ์งามวงศ์, ภัทราวุธ อินทรกำแหง
Publisher: name: ราชวิทยาลัยแพทย์เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟู แห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2559
Subjects: จำนวนกล้ามเนื้อ, คลื่นไฟฟ้ากล้ามเนื้อ, โรครากประสาทส่วนเอวร่วมใต้กระเบนเหน็บ, กล้ามเนื้อสันหลัง

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Monogamy relations of entropic non-contextual inequalities and their experimental realization
Creators: name: Singh, Dileep
name: Singh, Jaskaran
name: Dorai, Kavita
name: Arvind
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a theoretical framework based on a graph theoretic approach to analyze monogamous relationships of entropic non-contextuality (ENC) inequalities. While ENC inequalities are important in quantum information theory and are well studied, theoretical as well as experimental demonstration of their monogamous nature is still elusive. We provide conditions for ENC inequalities to exhibit a monogamous relationship and derive the same for general scenarios. We show that two entropic versions of the Bell-CHSH inequality acting on a tripartite scenario exhibit a monogamous relationship, for which we provide a theoretical proof as well as an experimental validation on an NMR quantum information processor. Our experimental technique to evaluate entropies has been designed to obtain information about entropies via measurement of only the expectation values of observables.
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ผลจากการฝึกเดินบนสายพานเลื่อนพร้อมการพยุงน้ำหนักตัวกับการฟื้นความสามารถเดินและการทรงตัวของผู้สูงอายุในชุมชน
Creators: name: ภาริส วงศ์แพทย์, วันทนียา วัชรีอุดมกาล
Publisher: name: ราชวิทยาลัยแพทย์เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟู แห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2559
Subjects: การหกล้ม, การเดิน, การทรงตัว, การฝึกเดินบนสายพานเลื่อนด้วยเครื่องพยุงน้ำหนักตัว

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