cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Performance of the VIDYA Indicator Using Bootstrap
Creators: name: Priskos, Lucas
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: This paper analyses the performance of the Volatility Index Dynamic Average Indicator (VIDYA) as a method for technical trading. The question was whether or not the buy and sell signals generated by VIDYA could allow a trader to outperform the benchmark rate of return. The strategy is implemented in a similar way to a standard moving average crossover where two lines are charted: a short period VIDYA and a long period VIDYA. The four combinations of VIDYA were used were as follows: 6 with 21 periods, 9 with 21 periods, 12 with 21 periods, and 21 with 50 periods. When the shorter period VIDYA is above the longer period this signals that the underlying asset should be bought. Conversely, when the long period VIDYA is above the short period VIDYA this generates a short signal for the underlying asset. A historical back test was conducted on daily data for SPY and FXE to generate a daily return for trading with the VIDYA. The returns were compared to a benchmark of a buy and hold strategy for SPY and FXE, respectively. A relative performance variable was calculated by taking the difference between the loss of the benchmark and the loss of the strategy. As pointed out in their paper, “Data-Snooping, Technical Trading Rule Performance, and the Bootstrap” by Sullivan et al, data snooping is a serious problem when conducting a back test solely on historical data. I controlled for data snooping via bootstrapping by conducting an out of sample test using Hansen’s SPA test. Rather than bootstrapping the underlying price data and running the back test on that, the bootstrap was conducted on the relative performance variable. These two methodologies should be equivalent but the latter is computationally less intense. None of the trading strategies were found to yield a significant return over the benchmark. At the end, this paper recommends further analysis that should be done.
title: In Search of America: One Barbershop at a Time
Creators: name: Buswell, Keith M
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Barbershops are a mainstay of the American tradition and have served as an anchor to main streets across the country. They have a colorful history and play an important role as community gathering places for men and boys. Before our society became more mobile, a boy may have grown up in the same barbershop, in the same barber chair, getting his hair cut by the same barber, from his years as a toddler, a teenager, and into his young adulthood. Many old school barbers have cut the hair of multiple generations, grandfathers, fathers, and sons, while standing in the same four foot by four foot space for over forty, fifty, sixty, or even seventy years. This thesis explores the various roles and many contributions of local barbershops from personal observation and business travels across America combined with scholarly and popular literature.
title: Huntington Lake Recreation Management Composite Plan
Creators: name: Johansson, Kermit L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1980

description: The existing uses at Huntington Lake have evolved from development of the basin area for timber and hydroelectric generation. As a result of the resource attraction in the 1920's, roads were constructed, allowing an influx of recreation visitors. The scenic beauty of the lake made it a popular area which promoted the formation of resorts and Forest Service recreational facilities. Special use permits for recreation summer homes were later granted by the Forest Service to allow utilization of the lake when relatively few people could make the arduous drive up the narrow mountain road.
Prospects for Yukawa Unified SO(10) SUSY GUTs at the CERN LHC
Creators: name: Baer, Howard
name: Kraml, Sabine
name: Sekmen, Sezen
name: Summy, Heaya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The requirement of t-b-τYukawa coupling unification is common in simple grand unified models based on the gauge group SO(10), and it also places a severe constraint on the expected spectrum of superpartners. For Yukawa-unified models with μ>0, the spectrum is characterized by three mass scales: {\it i}). first and second generation scalars in the multi-TeV range, {\it ii}). third generation scalars, μand m_A in the few-TeV range and {\it iii}). gluinos in the \sim 350-500 GeV range with chargino masses around 100-160 GeV. In such a scenario, gluino pair production should occur at large rates at the CERN LHC, followed by gluino three-body decays into neutralinos or charginos. Discovery of Yukawa-unified SUSY at the LHC should hence be possible with only 1 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity, by tagging multi-jet events with 2--3 isolated leptons, without relying on missing E_T. A characteristic dilepton mass edge should easily be apparent above Standard Model background. Combining dileptons with b-jets, along with the gluino pair production cross section information, should allow for gluino and neutralino mass reconstruction. A secondary corroborative signal should be visible at higher integrated luminosity in the W1Z2-> 3\ell channel, and should exhibit the same dilepton mass edge as in the gluino cascade decay signal.
description: 25 pages including 18 EPS figures
title: Synthetic
Creators: name: Prince, Julia L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Throughout her life, the poet May Swenson concerned herself with communicating pathways to personal improvement and self-discovery by navigating the distinct social and psychological challenges specific to her historical context, personality, and gender. Though deceased, Swenson is still able to communicate these notions successfully, as many of her poems’ speakers do not conceal their intentions, but rather “force the truth.”
Synthetic, a poetry chapbook, similarly “forces the truth,” as the speaker – like Swenson’s – craves to bare all and discover more about who she is, as she contends with her own social and psychological challenges regarding beauty-gestures, practices, and relationships within the domestic realm. The speaker relates tangible experiences, adding her voice to the female poets of past and present who have also asked themselves – what does it mean to be a woman? In attempt to force truths regarding her own identity, the speaker examines her roles as a female, daughter, girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, and future mother through poetry. While examining these roles, the speaker contends with societal ideals of beauty, realizing that many beauty practices have been encouraged or emphasized within her domestic realm, even since childhood. In order to make better sense of the beauty pressures put upon her by lovers, her mother, and herself, the speaker toys with the thought that while such practices can be harmful, they might also, at times, be empowering.
The nonlinear three-dimensional response of structures to earthquake excitation
Creators: name: Mason, Bruce Malcolm
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The three-dimensional response of structures, comprised of members possessing nonlinear constitutive relationships, subjected to earthquake excitation is investigated. The input involves consideration of the simultaneous horizontal translation of the structure in two mutually perpendicular directions in addition to torsional behavior; vertical ground motion has not been included. Material nonlinearities are represented in a simplified fashion by the use of a bilinear moment-rotation relationship, subject to the kinematic hardening rule, at each member end. Relevant concepts of structural theory are reviewed and expressed in a format allowing for the use of matrix algebra. A general form of the member stiffness matrix is presented, and a method of formulating and subsequently statically condensing the structure stiffness matrix is also presented. The interaction of axial loads with the nonlinear material behavior is included. For columns subjected to bending about two principal axes, the effect of including biaxial interaction effects on the yield surface is considered. A method of calculating the unbalanced forces resulting from nonlinear behavior is outlined. An energy balance is established whereby the energy input by the earthquake into the structure is accounted for by the various mechanisms with which the structure is able to dissipate or store this input energy. The importance of analyzing the variation of the various energy forms is stressed. The theory developed is applied to two structural examples. The problems encountered in attempting to apply this theory to various models of a structure intended to represent a typical midsized office building are discussed. This structure has a dual component structural system in which an eccentric shear core is designed to resist the horizontal loads and an exterior framing system is designed to resist vertical loads and to act as a second line of defense with respect to horizontal loads. The results obtained from an earthquake analysis of a structure, comprised of exterior five storey frames, are presented. Specific aspects of these results, such as the amount of energy dissipated by various mechanisms, are analyzed in detail. The effect of assumptions made concerning the structural response are discussed and suggestions for future developments in this field of analysis, which will be aided by advancements made in computer technology, are also given.
Planar scattering amplitudes from Wilson loops
Creators: name: McGreevy, John
name: Sever, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an expression for parton scattering amplitudes of planar gauge theory in terms of sums of Wilson loops. We study in detail the example of Yang-Mills theory with an adjoint Higgs field. The expression exhibits the T-duality performed by Alday and Maldacena in the AdS dual as a Fourier transform in loop space. When combined with the AdS/CFT correspondence for Wilson loops and a strong coupling argument for the dominance of 1PI diagrams, this leads to a derivation of the Alday-Maldacena holographic prescription for scattering amplitudes in terms of momentum Wilson loops. The formula leads to a conjecture for a relationship between position-space and momentum-space Wilson loops in N=4 SYM at finite coupling.
description: 30 + 16 pages, 9 figures. v2: corrected section 2
Additional file 1 of Lived experience of intimate partner violence among women using antiretroviral therapy and other outpatient services in Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia: a phenomenological study
Creators: name: Meskele, Mengistu
name: Nelisiwe Khuzwayo
name: Taylor, Myra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Interview guide (unstructured questionnaire).
title: A Qualitative Study on Perceptions of Parents and Their Young Adults with Disabilities Regarding Postsecondary Education
Creators: name: Summers, Kelli
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Postsecondary education (PSE) participation is a predictor for positive employment outcomes for students with or without disabilities (Newman et al., 2011; Test et al., 2009). In recent years, there has been an increase of students with disabilities participating in PSE. Students with intellectual disabilities (ID) have had the lowest enrollment rate of all the disability categories in PSE programs (Newman et al. (2010). This project examined the perceptions of parents and their young adults with ID regarding PSE. Participants included parents of young adults with ID and their young adults who were attending a PSE program on a college campus in the western region of the U.S. Parent and young adults participants were interviewed separately. Interview questions related to demographic characteristics, family values, perceptions regarding college, and reactions to PSE experience. Parents and their young adults reported a variety of perceptions regarding PSE. The researcher analyzed the data and identified two main themes that emerged which were high expectations and independence. These results add to the research literature on parent perceptions about PSE for their young adults with ID.
title: Oscillation Phenomenon of the New York Canal at the I-84 Overpass in Boise, Idaho
Creators: name: Robison, Erik W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2010

description: As part of the Idaho Transportation department's GARVEE program, the 1-84 bridge structure at the New York Canal in Boise, Idaho, was widened in 2009. During the 2009 irrigation season, oscillation patterns were noticed at the bridge structure which resulted in erosion damage to the banks of the canal. After ITD consulted with Horrocks Engineers, a contract was established with the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University to construct a Froude scale model of the structure. The purpose of the model was to determine the cause of the oscillations, and develop an effective method to eliminate them. The model produced oscillations that were in Froude similitude with the structure in Boise, Idaho. The cause of these oscillations was not fully understood at the time this report was written, but various aspects of the canal system and bridge structure were determined to be contributing to the oscillations. The construction and analysis of the model resulted in the implementation of a nose cone on various columns in the bridge structure to disrupt the oscillations and stop the erosion from occurring. Construction of the new design will begin in December, 2010, and should be completed before the start of the 2011 irrigation season. Further investigations into the oscillation phenomenon are being continued at the UWRL.
Additional file 2 of Lived experience of intimate partner violence among women using antiretroviral therapy and other outpatient services in Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia: a phenomenological study
Creators: name: Meskele, Mengistu
name: Nelisiwe Khuzwayo
name: Taylor, Myra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Socio demographic characteristics of the study participants.
Detection of infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV) in Penaeus  monodon by in-situ hybridization at transmission electron microscopic level
Creators: name: Kanokporn Chayaburakul, Gun Anantasomboon
Publisher: name: Rangsit University
Year: 2013
Subjects: IHHNV, in-situ hybridization for TEM, Penaeus monodon, virus tracking

description: 2, 3, Rangsit Journal of Arts and Sciences
Udenrigshandel med varer 2014
Creators: Danmarks Statistik
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: Registrets formål er at belyse Danmarks varehandel med andre lande. Registret er forordningsbelagt.
Data anvendes bla, af diverse offentlige myndigheder som led i det nødvendige beslutningsgrundlag. Derudover anvendes de af en lang række private organisationer, firmaer mm. De detaljerede data anvendes desuden til forskning mm.
Additional file 3 of Lived experience of intimate partner violence among women using antiretroviral therapy and other outpatient services in Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia: a phenomenological study
Creators: name: Meskele, Mengistu
name: Nelisiwe Khuzwayo
name: Taylor, Myra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Code, category and themes.
title: The Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper: Remote Sensing of the Nighttime OH Layer During the DEEPWAVE Campaign
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Pattilyn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: The Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper [AMTM] is a remote sensing instrument developed at Utah State University to map temperature structures in the hydroxyl airglow emission at ~87 km. These maps can then be used to quantify wave field characteristics and to observe general climatology trends. Two recent campaigns that it has been involved with are the DEEPWAVE campaign in Lauder, New Zealand and the Super Soaker campaign in Fairbanks, Alaska.
The Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment, “DEEPWAVE” was an international measurement and modeling program intended to characterize the generation and propagation of a broad range of atmospheric gravity waves with measurements extending from the ground to ~100 km altitude. A suite of aircraft-borne and ground-based aeronomic and weather measurements was deployed from New Zealand during a two-month period in June-July of 2014 to investigate wintertime gravity wave [GW] events as well as to study their climatology. Data used in this study were obtained by a collection of ground-based instrumentation operated at the Lauder Station of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research [NIWA] in New Zealand (45.0°S). Instruments included an AMTM, a Rayleigh lidar and an all-sky imager. Analysis of image data obtained by the AMTM revealed a rich spectrum of GWs with 19 unprecedented quasi-stationary mountain wave [MW] events generated by orographic forcing. This is the largest occurrence of MW activity recorded at heights of 80-100 km. This study will focus on four such events, illustrating their varying MW properties and in three cases determining their corresponding momentum flux.
The Super Soaker Sounding Rocket Mission was designed to study the transport, chemistry, and energetics of water in the mesosphere-lower thermosphere [MLT] region with the intent to create a Polar Mesospheric Cloud [PMC] through water deposition. Three sounding rockets were launched on January 26, 2018 into clear night-time skies over central Alaska with coincident ground-based AMTM, Rayleigh and Resonance lidar observations. In addition, the AMTM collected data for two months preceding and following the launch to establish typical GW characteristics and temperature variability during this period. This study will include an overview of PMC, a summary of the scientific goals and questions of the mission, results collected from the AMTM with an emphasis on the GWs, and an analysis of the wintertime climatology of the Fairbanks area at this time.
The dispersal of protoplanetary discs. II: Photoevaporation models with observationally derived irradiating spectra
Creators: name: Ercolano, Barbara
name: Picogna, Giovanni
name: Monsch, Kristina
name: Drake, Jeremy J.
name: Preibisch, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Young solar-type stars are known to be strong X-ray emitters and their X-ray spectra have been widely studied. X-rays from the central star may play a crucial role in the thermodynamics and chemistry of the circumstellar material as well as in the atmospheric evolution of young planets. In this paper we present model spectra based on spectral parameters derived from the observations of young stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster from the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP). The spectra are then used to calculate new photoevaporation prescriptions that can be used in disc and planet population synthesis models. Our models clearly show that disc wind mass loss rates are controlled by the stellar luminosity in the soft (100 eV - 1 keV) X- ray band. New analytical relations are provided for the mass loss rates and profiles of photoevaporative winds as a function of the luminosity in the soft X-ray band. The agreement between observed and predicted transition disc statistics moderately improved using the new spectra, but the observed population of strongly accreting large cavity discs can still not be reproduced by these models. Furthermore, our models predict a population of non-accreting transition discs that are not observed. This highlights the importance of considering the depletion of millimeter-sized dust grains from the outer disc, which is a likely reason why such discs have not been detected yet.
description: 12 pages, 7 tables, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 4 of Lived experience of intimate partner violence among women using antiretroviral therapy and other outpatient services in Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia: a phenomenological study
Creators: name: Meskele, Mengistu
name: Nelisiwe Khuzwayo
name: Taylor, Myra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. COREQ check list for qualitative study.
title: Jengibre :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Ginger
Group identity.
New Varieties of Plants

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Suppression of Landau damping via electron band gap
Creators: name: Son, S.
name: Ku, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pondermotive potential in the X-ray Raman compression can generate an electron band gap which suppresses the Landau damping. The regime is identified where a Langmuir wave can be driven without damping in the stimulated Raman compression. It is shown that the partial wave breaking and the frequency detuning due to the trapped particles would be greatly reduced.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Modified Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory with scalar current and the Eddington-Robertson gamma-parameter
Creators: name: Moffat, John W.
name: Toth, Viktor T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation, which promotes the gravitational constant to a dynamical scalar field, predicts a value for the Eddington-Robertson post-Newtonian parameter gamma that is significantly different from the general relativistic value of unity. This contradicts precision solar system measurements that tightly constrain gamma around 1. We consider a modification of the theory, in which the scalar field is sourced explicitly by matter. We find that this leads to a modified expression for the gamma-parameter. In particular, a specific choice of the scalar current yields gamma=1, just as in general relativity, while the weak equivalence principle is also satisfied. This result has important implications for theories that mimic Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory in the post-Newtonian limit in the solar system, including our scalar-tensor-vector modified gravity theory (MOG).
description: 7 pages, accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics D
Studieadministrativt Informationssystem
Creators: CVU Sjælland
CVU Syd
University College Sjælland
Professionshøjskolen Absalon
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: Systemet har til formål at samle og strukturerer informationer vedr. de studerendes studieforløb og resultater.
Additional file 1 of IsomiR_Window: a system for analyzing small-RNA-seq data in an integrative and user-friendly manner
Creators: name: Vasconcelos, Ana M.
name: Carmo, Maria Beatriz
name: Ferreira, Beatriz
name: Viegas, Inês
name: Gama-Carvalho, Margarida
name: Ferreira, António
name: Amaral, Andreia J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Tables.
Evidence for unusual superconducting correlations coexisting with stripe order in La(1.875)Ba(0.125)CuO(4)
Creators: name: Tranquada, J. M.
name: Gu, G. D.
name: Huecker, M.
name: Jie, Q.
name: Kang, H. -J.
name: Klingeler, R.
name: Li, Q.
name: Tristan, N.
name: Wen, J. S.
name: Xu, G. Y.
name: Xu, Z. J.
name: Zhou, J.
name: Zimmermann, M. v.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new x-ray and neutron scattering measurements of stripe order in La(1.875)Ba(0.125)CuO(4), along with low-field susceptibility, thermal conductivity, and specific heat data. We compare these with previously reported results for resistivity and thermopower. Temperature-dependent features indicating transitions (or crossovers) are correlated among the various experimental quantities. Taking into account recent spectroscopic studies, we argue that the most likely interpretation of the complete collection of results is that an unusual form of two-dimensional superconducting correlations appears together with the onset of spin-stripe order. Recent theoretical proposals for a sinusoidally-modulated superconducting state compatible with stripe order provide an intriguing explanation of our results and motivate further experimental tests. We also discuss evidence for one-dimensional pairing correlations that appear together with the charge order. With regard to the overall phenomenology, we consider the degree to which similar behavior may have been observed in other cuprates, and describe possible connections to various puzzling phenomena in cuprate superconductors.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures; several references added, accepted in Phys. Rev. B
title: Using an Engineering Design Process to Bring the Local Community Into the Technology and Engineering Education Classroom
Creators: name: Baker, James M
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: This plan B project documents the practice of using an authentic project to teach an engineering design process to high school pre-engineering students and documenting the project preparing a manuscript for journal publication.
The manuscript prepared for publication explores the details of working with local business owners and teachers from different departments and curricular foci to design, fabricate, and install an illuminated sign for a local business. This sign project was presented by an alum of the school to provide an authentic project for multiple courses to collaboratively create a solution for a local community business. Twenty-five students in two engineering design classes were tasked with the creative and engineering design of the sign as well as presenting their proposals to the business owners. Once the business owners selected their preferred design, the remaining process was left to the woodworking and electricity courses for fabrication and installation. There was increased engagement among pre-engineering students as they completed this authentic design project as evidenced by their end-of-term course evaluations.
Enhancing business process execution with a context engine
Creators: name: Kuhlenkamp, Christian Janiesch Jörn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Changes in workflow relevant data of business processes at run-time can hinder their completion or impact their profitability as they have been instantiated under different circumstances. The purpose of this paper is to propose a context engine to enhance a business process management (BPM) system's context-awareness. The generic architecture provides the flexibility to configure processes during initialization as well as to adapt running instances at decision gates or during execution due to significant context change. The paper discusses context-awareness as the conceptual background. The technological capabilities of business rules and complex event processing (CEP) are outlined in an architecture design. A reference process is proposed and discussed in an exemplary application. The results provide an improvement over the current situation of static variable instantiation of business processes with local information. The proposed architecture extends the well-known combination of business rules and BPM systems with a context engine based on CEP. The resulting architecture for a BPM system using a context engine is generic in nature and, hence, requires to be contextualized for situated implementations. Implementation success is dependent on the availability of context information and process compensation options. Practitioners receive advice on a reference architecture and technology choices for implementing systems, which can provide and monitor context information for business processes as well as intervene and adapt the execution. Currently, there is no multi-purpose non-proprietary context engine based on CEP or any other technology available for BPM, which facilitates the adaptation of processes at run-time due to changes in context variables. This paper will stimulate a debate between research and practice on suitable design and technology.
description: This research and development project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the framework concept "Innovations for Tomorrow's Production, Services, and Work" (Funding No. 02P17D160) and managed by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA). The author is responsible for the contents of this publication
Simulation of oil flow in a heat traced piping segment – COMSOL versus analytical trends
Creators: name: Bayoumy, Salah H.
name: El-Marsafy, Sahar M.
name: Ahmed, Tamer S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Oil flow in a circular piping usually requires excessive modeling with detailed correlations to describe the oil flow behavior. The ineffective pour point depressants and the inefficient heat tracing makes oil flow simulation an essential task. Due to the varying of oil characteristics, a robust modeling approach is necessary to guarantee the integrity of the oil flow in the piping system and to avoid additional costs. In this work, a proposed approach coordinates the modeling tools (e.g. Aspen HYSYS®, COMSOL Multiphysics®) to simulate the oil flow in a circular pipe satisfactorily. The oil properties have been extracted from Aspen HYSYS® and used in COMSOL Multiphysics® to describe the varying in oil flow characteristics. Numerous computational trials have been conducted to estimate the oil temperature profiles in the axial and radial directions to ensure the oil flow above the pour point. Moreover, the numerical results were computed to estimate the oil temperature profiles for constant and temperature-dependent oil properties. Finally, an analytical approach was established using dimensional analysis to compare with COMSOL numerical results at constant oil properties. Both results showed a consistent trend match.
On the asymptotic spectrum of the reduced volume in cosmological solutions of the Einstein equations
Creators: name: Reiris, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Say S is a compact three-manifold with non-positive Yamabe invariant. We prove that in any long time constant mean curvature Einstein flow over S, having bounded C^α space-time curvature at the cosmological scale, the reduced volume (-k/3)^{3}Vol(g(k)) (g(k) is the evolving spatial three-metric and k the mean curvature) decays monotonically towards the volume value of the geometrization in which the cosmologically normalized flow decays. In more basic terms, under the given assumptions, there is volume collapse in the regions where the injectivity radius collapses (i.e. tends to zero) in the long time. We conjecture that under the curvature assumption above the Thurston geometrization is the unique global attractor. We validate it in some special cases.
description: 25 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 2 of IsomiR_Window: a system for analyzing small-RNA-seq data in an integrative and user-friendly manner
Creators: name: Vasconcelos, Ana M.
name: Carmo, Maria Beatriz
name: Ferreira, Beatriz
name: Viegas, Inês
name: Gama-Carvalho, Margarida
name: Ferreira, António
name: Amaral, Andreia J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary Figures.
title: Rfviz: An Interactive Visualization Package for Random Forests in R
Creators: name: Beckett, Christopher
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Random forests are very popular tools for predictive analysis and data science. They work for both classification (where there is a categorical response variable) and regression (where the response is continuous). Random forests provide proximities, and both local and global measures of variable importance. However, these quantities require special tools to be effectively used to interpret the forest. Rfviz is a sophisticated interactive visualization package and toolkit in R, specially designed for interpreting the results of a random forest in a user-friendly way. Rfviz uses a recently developed R package (loon) from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) to create parallel coordinate plots of the predictor variables, the local importance values, and the MDS plot of the proximities. The visualizations allow users to highlight or brush observations in one plot and have the same observations show up as highlighted in other plots. This allows users to explore unusual subsets of their data and to potentially discover previously-unknown relationships between the predictor variables and the response.
Small AdS black holes from SYM
Creators: name: Asplund, Curtis T.
name: Berenstein, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a characterization of the set of configurations in N=4 SYM theory that are dual to small AdS black holes. Our construction shows that the black hole dual states are approximately thermal on a SU(M) subset of degrees of freedom of a SU(N) gauge theory. M is determined dynamically and the black hole degrees of freedom are dynamically insulated from the rest. These states are localized on the S^5 and have dynamical processes that correspond to matter absorption that make them behave as black objects.
description: 10 pages, revtex
title: Hellhounds and Helpful Ghost Dogs:  Conflicting Perceptions of “Man’s Best Friend”  Encoded in Supernatural Narrative
Creators: name: Carr, Kiersten
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Black dogs are a type of spectral entity that, according to legend, have been haunting the British Isles for centuries. While the legends have many regional variations, the common feature remains a large black dog, often with eyes “large as saucers” or sometimes, flaming, who appears and then disappears, often without a trace. In many of the legends, the black dog is malevolent: assaulting travelers, frightening livestock to death, attacking other dogs, haunting graveyards and gibbets, and heralding death or disaster. In other versions, however, the black dog acts as a protector to those in need, warding off disaster with its presence. This project is an analysis of black dog legends, answering the primary research question “What do the descriptive and narrative differences between “friendly” and “unfriendly” types of black dog legends reveal about how society views dogs in relation to people?”
By examining characteristics of “friendly” and “unfriendly” black dogs that are consistent across most black dog narratives, it can be extrapolated that “friendly” or “true” black dogs are considered more dog-like than “unfriendly” ones. The behavior of such “friendly” black dogs, then, may tie into wider trends in Western culture of viewing dogs as “man’s best friend;” useful, protective, and trustworthy; while also implying that creatures who do not have these characteristics cannot be classified as “true” dogs despite their appearance. This conclusion has wider implications for human/canine relations.
Flood control and the pink and chum salmon of the Vedder River, B.C. : a method to estimate the effects of extreme flows and channel modifications on salmon productivity
Creators: name: Peters, Neil Jacob
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Major flood control works for the Vedder River, presently in the planning stage, will affect the productivity of the Vedder River's pink and chum salmon. In the past, flood control work has failed to provide long term flood protection and has reduced salmon productivity. This thesis presents the background and history of the interrelated flood control and fish resource problems, suggests apparently feasible solutions, and develops a method to determine the numbers of pink and chum salmon that would be produced from rehabilitated spawning areas. The Chilliwack River below Vedder Crossing (the Vedder River) is flowing across and is actively building an alluvial fan by a natural process of building up the channel bed and periodically breaking out into new channels. A long term flood control project will have to both constrain the river laterally and provide for occasional sediment removal from the channel. Previous efforts to prevent bank erosion and flooding have reduced the width of the river channel and have eliminated many of the best pink and chum spawning areas. If constructed, wide dykes would provide a high factor of safety against flooding and would allow restoration of former spawning areas. Rehabilitation projects should be closely coordinated with plans for sediment removal. Highly variable flows, particularly winter floods, appear to reduce the freshwater survival of pink and chum salmon in the Vedder River. Narrowing of the river channel has increased water velocities and river bed instability and has increased the detrimental effects of floods. To quantify these effects, relationships between river flow and mortality are developed for the present narrow channel, a wide channel and a side channel development. These relationships are used in a method of calculation of adult salmon production that considers uncertainties due to environmental fluctuations and inaccuracies of data. Using estimates for the Vedder River chum salmon the calculations indicate that egg to fry survival in a wide Vedder channel and in a developed side channel would be 1 3/4 to 3 times higher than in the present narrow channel. Restoration of natural spawning areas would likely increase the commercial chum catch by 40,000 to 65,000 fish. A policy of both rehabilitating natural spawning areas and constructing enhancement facilities appears to be necessary to increase and stabilize the pink and chum salmon production from the Vedder-Chilliwack River.
Development of 3D-printed radiotherapy shielding for superficial radiotherapy
Creators: name: Crowe, Scott
name: Li, Weizheng
name: Cleland, Susannah
name: Simpson-Page, Emily
name: Cassim, Naasiha
name: Maxwell, Sarah
name: Charles, Paul
name: Kairn, Tanya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: radiotherapy
3D printing
radiation shielding
kilovoltage x-rays

description: Presentation slides describing the characterisation of two 3D-printable materials for use as shielding in kilovoltage radiotherapy treatments.
Autocorrelations of stellar light and mass in the low-redshift Universe
Creators: name: Li, Cheng
name: White, Simon D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The final data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) provides reliable photometry and spectroscopy for about half a million galaxies with median redshift 0.09. Here we use these data to estimate projected autocorrelation functions w_p(r_p) for the light of galaxies in the five SDSS photometric bands. Comparison with the analogous stellar mass autocorrelation, estimated in a previous paper, shows that stellar luminosity is less strongly clustered than stellar mass in all bands and on all scales. Over the full nonlinear range 10 kpc/h < r_p < 10 Mpc/h our autocorrelation estimates are extremely well represented by power laws. The parameters of the corresponding spatial functions ξ(r) = (r/r_0)^γvary systematically from r_0=4.5 Mpc/h and γ=-1.74 for the bluest band (the u band) to r_0=5.8 Mpc/h and γ=-1.83 for the reddest one (the z band). These may be compared with r_0=6.1 Mpc/h and γ=-1.84 for the stellar mass. Ratios of w_p(r_p) between two given wavebands are proportional to the mean colour of correlated stars at projected distance r_p from a randomly chosen star. The ratio of the stellar mass and luminosity autocorrelations measures an analogous mean stellar mass-to-light ratio (M*/L). All colours get redder and all mass-to-light ratios get larger with decreasing r_p, with the amplitude of the effects decreasing strongly to redder passbands. Even for the u-band the effects are quite modest, with maximum shifts of about 0.1 in u-g and about 25% in M*/L_u. These trends provide a precise characterisation of the well-known dependence of stellar populations on environment.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted to MNRAS; three new paragraphs added: two at the end of Sec. 2 concerning cross-correlations between different bands and possible biases due to photometry errors, and one at the end of the paper discussing marked correlation functions
A functional limit theorem for dependent sequences with infinite variance stable limits
Creators: name: Basrak, Bojan
name: Krizmanić, Danijel
name: Segers, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Under an appropriate regular variation condition, the affinely normalized partial sums of a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables converges weakly to a non-Gaussian stable random variable. A functional version of this is known to be true as well, the limit process being a stable Lévy process. The main result in the paper is that for a stationary, regularly varying sequence for which clusters of high-threshold excesses can be broken down into asymptotically independent blocks, the properly centered partial sum process still converges to a stable Lévy process. Due to clustering, the Lévy triple of the limit process can be different from the one in the independent case. The convergence takes place in the space of càdlàg functions endowed with Skorohod's $M_1$ topology, the more usual $J_1$ topology being inappropriate as the partial sum processes may exhibit rapid successions of jumps within temporal clusters of large values, collapsing in the limit to a single jump. The result rests on a new limit theorem for point processes which is of independent interest. The theory is applied to moving average processes, squared GARCH(1,1) processes and stochastic volatility models.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOP669 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
HSMD: An object motion detection algorithm using a Hybrid Spiking Neural Network Architecture
Creators: name: Machado, Pedro
name: Oikonomou, Andreas
name: Ferreira, Joao Filipe
name: McGinnity, T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The detection of moving objects is a trivial task performed by vertebrate retinas, yet a complex computer vision task. Object-motion-sensitive ganglion cells (OMS-GC) are specialised cells in the retina that sense moving objects. OMS-GC take as input continuous signals and produce spike patterns as output, that are transmitted to the Visual Cortex via the optic nerve. The Hybrid Sensitive Motion Detector (HSMD) algorithm proposed in this work enhances the GSOC dynamic background subtraction (DBS) algorithm with a customised 3-layer spiking neural network (SNN) that outputs spiking responses akin to the OMS-GC. The algorithm was compared against existing background subtraction (BS) approaches, available on the OpenCV library, specifically on the 2012 change detection (CDnet2012) and the 2014 change detection (CDnet2014) benchmark datasets. The results show that the HSMD was ranked overall first among the competing approaches and has performed better than all the other algorithms on four of the categories across all the eight test metrics. Furthermore, the HSMD proposed in this paper is the first to use an SNN to enhance an existing state of the art DBS (GSOC) algorithm and the results demonstrate that the SNN provides near real-time performance in realistic applications.
title: The Live Load Response of the Open Web Steel Joist Black Slough Bridge
Creators: name: Caputo, Piero
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: The bridge being studied spans the Black Slough River in the Nucor/Vulcraft facilities near Brigham City, Utah. The bridge is composed of seven heavyweight open web steel joists supporting a concrete deck-slab element and sitting in two concrete cantilever walls serving as bearings. A full-scale live-load test was performed using forklift vehicles at four locations on the deck. During the test, axial strains, deflections, and rotations where measured.
In their provisions, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) included a simplified number of equations and solutions used to calculate GDFs for standardized decks supported by beam systems. Due to the nonexistence of records for bridges with open web steel joists as deck supporting systems, a number of (AASHTO) GDFs were analyzed and compared to live-load test results to determine which system best mimics this unique bridge live load distribution. Three analysis approaches were also performed to compare their results to the experimental and AASHTO GDFs. In addition, a finite element model (FEM) for this bridge was made by a team of researchers from Kansas University in conjunction with this study. This model was also included in the final methodology comparisons.
The AASHTO calculated GDFs were significantly larger than the measured; on the other hand, the other methods analyzed provided a more accurate prediction of each beam girder distribution factor, following the recorded GDFs trend. The best method was chosen and further theoretical calibration suggestions were made for prediction of the behavior of this bridge using FEA.