cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Goal Introduction in Online Discussion Forums: An Activity Systems Analysis
Creators: Dashew, Brian Leigh
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Adult education
Educational technology
Instructional systems--Design
Learning--Social aspects
Electronic discussion groups

description: Self-direction is the process by which individuals collaborate in the construction of meaningful learning objectives and use internal and external controls to meet those objectives. In professional contexts, self-direction is seen as an increasingly important skill for engagement in complex organizations and industries. Modern innovations in program development for adult learners, therefore, should address learners’ needs for self-motivation, self-monitoring, and self-management. Social learning contexts—such as online class discussion forums—have emerged as potentially democratic spaces in online learning. Yet evaluation methods for assessing online discussion have not considered the ways in which student-introduced goals influence how quality is operationalized and studied.
      This research attempted to understand if, when, and how adult learners leverage online course discussions as a space to introduce and moderate their own learning and professional goals. The study used activity systems analysis as a framework for assessing self-direction within a complex social learning environment. A sample drawn from three sections of an online Research Design course was observed, surveyed, and interviewed to develop a visual map and narrative description of their perceptions of a discussion activity system.
      A cross-case analysis of these maps was used to define five systemic tensions that prevented students from aligning their goals with the instructor-designed activities. When faced with these tensions, students either subjugated their own goals to an instructor’s explicit goals, or else introduced one of eight mediating behaviors associated with self-directed learning. The study yielded five emergent hypotheses that require further investigation: (1) that self-directed learning is not inherent, even among Millennial learners, (2) that self-directed learning is collaborative, (3) that goals for interaction in social learning environments are not universal, (4) that goals must be negotiated, explicit, and activity bound, and (5) that self-directed learning may be not be an observable phenomenon.
Computing Lyapunov spectra with continuous Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization
Creators: name: Christiansen, Freddy
name: Rugh, Hans Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a straightforward and reliable continuous method for computing the full or a partial Lyapunov spectrum associated with a dynamical system specified by a set of differential equations. We do this by introducing a stability parameter beta>0 and augmenting the dynamical system with an orthonormal k-dimensional frame and a Lyapunov vector such that the frame is continuously Gram-Schmidt orthonormalized and at most linear growth of the dynamical variables is involved. We prove that the method is strongly stable when beta > -lambda_k where lambda_k is the k'th Lyapunov exponent in descending order and we show through examples how the method is implemented. It extends many previous results.
description: 14 pages, 10 PS figures, ioplppt.sty, iopl12.sty, epsfig.sty 44 kB
Good and bad children in metabolic networks
Creators: name: Vassena, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37N25

description: Equilibrium bifurcations arise from sign changes of Jacobian determinants, as parameters are varied. Therefore we address the Jacobian determinant for metabolic networks with general reaction kinetics. Our approach is based on the concept of Child Selections: each (mother) metabolite is mapped, injectively, to one of those (child) reactions that it drives as an input. Our analysis distinguishes reaction network Jacobians with constant sign from the bifurcation case, where that sign depends on specific reaction rates. In particular we distinguish "good" Child Selections, which do not affect the sign, from more interesting and mischievous "bad" children, which gang up towards sign changes, instability, and bifurcation.
description: 20 pages
Additional file 11: of High-throughput microscopy exposes a pharmacological window in which dual leucine zipper kinase inhibition preserves neuronal network connectivity
Creators: name: Verschuuren, Marlies
name: Verstraelen, Peter
name: Barriga, Gerardo García-Díaz
name: Cilissen, Ines
name: Coninx, Emma
name: Verslegers, Mieke
name: Larsen, Peter H.
name: Nuydens, Rony
name: Winnok Vos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S10. Extended culture age reduces neuronal connectivity. Connectivity scores based on z-scores from cortical cultures grown for an extended period of time. Neuronal connectivity increased during the first two weeks, after which it stagnated up to five and a half weeks. From DIV 38 onwards age-related loss of neuronal connectivity was detected (Morph.: nbio = 1 x ntech = 6 - Func.: nbio = 1 x ntech = 9). (PDF 10993 kb)
Decentralised on-demand manufacturing of a spare part with recycled plastic from the same appliance
Creators: name: Streibl, Franz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Additive Manufacturing

description: This report summarises the process and resultsof the on-demand additive manufacturing (AM, also threedimensional printing) of a spare part for a household appliance(i.e. refrigerator) based on the original mechanical drawingsand by using recycled plastic from the same appliance - all thiswithout the direct involvement of the original equipmentmanufacturer (OEM) in the process. A standard 3D printer ina publicly accessible open workshop was used on April 5 th 2019to print the spare part. The result shows manufacturerindependent spare part production as a viable alternative toexclusive spare part provision by the OEM for parts that ha
Going Home:  Professional Integration of Chinese Graduate Degree Holders From United States Colleges and Universities in Art Education
Creators: Liu, Yadi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Art--Study and teaching
Chinese students--Foreign countries

description: The study explored the returning experience of six Chinese art education practitioners after they received their graduate degrees in the United States and moved back to China. It was grounded on the assumption that when art education returnees try to translate what they learned into the new system of art education in another country, their efforts will be shaped by the different cultural context, and conflicts will emerge with multiple and interrelated dimensions. The dissertation employed a qualitative cross-case approach. Six returned art education practitioners were selected and interviewed using a semi-structured interview protocol in 2019. I mainly worked as a non-participant researcher, obtaining information from the conversations with the participants. In addition, I collected blog entries, photos, and online articles related to what and how an interviewee responded to a question. The findings of the research suggested that returnees move along diverse trajectories of professional development, and their professional ideas all contradict local traditions to some extent. Collectively, they experienced multiple challenges concerning professional, administrative, and interpersonal, as well as some minor challenges in their returning process. In coping with the challenges, they made two-way changes: they changed their own expectations and behaviors, while also changing art education in China in terms of teaching methods, space, and people involved. This study aimed to provide educational implications for future art education returnees, international art programs, and China as the home country. It also provides implications for the developing art education programs in China. New thoughts sparked by the process of collecting data and writing the dissertation are also presented as suggestions for future studies.
Alexander and Thurston norms of fibered 3-manifolds
Creators: name: Dunfield, Nathan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M

description: For a 3-manifold M, McMullen derived from the Alexander polynomial of M a norm on H^1(M, R) called the Alexander norm. He showed that the Thurston norm on H^1(M, R), which measures the complexity of a dual surface, is an upper bound for the Alexander norm. He asked if these two norms were equal on all of H^1(M,R) when M fibers over the circle. Here, I give examples which show that the answer to this question is emphatically no. This question is related to the faithfulness of the Gassner representations of the braid groups. The key tool used to understand this question is the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariant from combinatorial group theory. Theorem 1.7, which is of independant interest, connects the Alexander polynomial with a certain Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariant.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures. To appear in PJM. v2: Minor corrections over v1
ЭЛЕМЕНТЫ МАГИЧЕСКОГО РЕАЛИЗМА В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ РУССКОЙ ПРОЗЕ: ПОЭТИЧЕСКИЕ СТРАТЕГИИ И ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫЕ ПРИЕМЫ
Creators: name: Каримов, Зиёахмад
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Данная научная статья посвящена исследованию элементов магического реализма в современной русской прозе. Основным фокусом в статье являются поэтические стратегии и литературные приемы, используемые авторами для создания магической атмосферы и введения фантастических элементов в реалистический мир. Через анализ произведений современных русских писателей статья раскрывает различные приемы, такие как использование символов, метафор, мифологических элементов и необычные сюжетные повороты. Результаты исследования помогут понять, как магический реализм обогащает современную русскую прозу и способствует выражению художественной индивидуальности авторов.
Universal properties of the evolution of the Universe in modified loop quantum cosmology
Creators: name: Saeed, Jamal
name: Pan, Rui
name: Brown, Christian
name: Clevear, Gerald
name: Wang, Anzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we systematically study the evolution of the Universe in the framework of a modified loop quantum cosmological model (mLQC-I) with various inflationary potentials, including chaotic, Starobinsky, generalized Starobinsky, polynomials of the first and second kinds, generalized T- models and natural inflation. In all these models, the big bang singularity is replaced by a quantum bounce, and the evolution of the Universe both before and after the bounce is universal and weakly depends on the inflationary potentials, as long as the evolution is dominated by the kinetic energy of the inflaton at the bounce. In particular, the evolution in the pre-bounce region can be universally divided into three different phases: pre-bouncing, pre-transition, and pre-de Sitter. The pre-bouncing phase occurs immediately before the quantum bounce, during which the evolution of the Universe is dominated by the kinetic energy of the inflaton. Thus, the equation of state of the inflaton is about one, w = 1. Soon, the inflation potential takes over, so w rapidly falls from one to negative one. This pre-transition phase is very short and quickly turns into the pre-de Sitter phase, whereby the effective cosmological constant with a Planck size takes over and dominates the rest of the contracting phase. In the entire pre-bounce regime, the evolution of the expansion factor and the inflaton can be approximated by analytical solutions, which are universal and independent of the inflation potentials.
description: Version published in Universe 2024, 10 (10), 397 (28 pages)
Additional file 1 of TGF-β1 induced deficiency of linc00261 promotes epithelial–mesenchymal-transition and stemness of hepatocellular carcinoma via modulating SMAD3
Creators: name: Chen, Zhanjun
name: Xiang, Leyang
name: Li, Longhai
name: Ou, Huohui
name: Fang, Yinghao
name: Xu, Yuyan
name: Liu, Qin
name: Hu, Zhigang
name: Huang, Yu
name: Li, Xianghong
name: Yang, Dinghua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Inhibitors and stimulant used in this research. Table S2. Primary antibodies and its dilutions used for western blotting, immunohistochemical, immunofluorescence staining.
The first passage problem for stable linear delay equations perturbed by power law Lévy noise
Creators: name: Högele, Michael A.
name: Pavlyukevich, Ilya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H10, 60G51, 37A20, 60J60, 60J75, 60G52

description: This article studies a linear scalar delay differential equation subject to small multiplicative power tail Lévy noise. We solve the first passage (the Kramers) problem with probabilistic methods and discover an asymptotic loss of memory in this non-Markovian system. Furthermore, the mean exit time increases as the power of the small noise amplitude, whereas the pre-factor accounts for memory effects. In particular, we discover a non-linear delay-induced exit acceleration due to a non-normal growth phenomenon. Our results are illustrated in the well-known linear delay oscillator driven by $α$-stable Lévy flights.
description: 3 figures
Quantization of generic chaotic 3D billiard with smooth boundary I: energy level statistic
Creators: name: Prosen, Tomaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical calculation and analysis of extremely high-lying energy spectra, containing thousands of levels with sequential quantum number up to 62,000 per symmetry class, of a generic chaotic 3D quantum billiard is reported. The shape of the billiard is given by a simple and smooth de formation of a unit sphere which gives rise to (almost) fully chaotic classical dynamics. We present an analysis of (i) quantum length spectrum whose smooth part agrees with the 3D Weyl formula and whose oscillatory part is peaked around the periods of classical periodic orbits, (ii) nearest neighbor level spacing distribution and (iii) number variance. Although the chaotic classical dynamics quickly and uniformly explores almost entire energy shell, while the measure of the regular part of phase space is insignificantly small, we find small but significant deviations from GOE statistics which are explained in terms of localization of eigenfunctions onto lower dimensional classically invariant manifolds.
description: 10 pages in plain Latex (6 figures in PCL format available upon request) submitted to Phys. Lett. A
IMPACT OF QUESTIONING TECHNIQUES ON DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS IN 6TH - GRADE LEARNERS
Creators: name: Samanova, Shakhlo
name: Rakhimberdiyeva, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Developing speaking skills in young learners is a crucial aspect of language acquisition, and effective questioning techniques play a significant role in enhancing oral communication. This study explores the impact of various questioning strategies on the speaking skills of 6th-grade learners. It examines how open-ended, closed questions , higher-order questions and reflective questions encourage student interaction, critical thinking, and fluency. The research includes classroom observations, teacher interviews, and student assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of different questioning techniques. Findings suggest that well-structured questioning fosters confidence, expands vocabulary, and improves overall speaking proficiency. The study highlights the importance of teacher-led discussions and interactive questioning to create a communicative classroom environment.
MOESM1 of Diagnostic value of whole-body-focused ultrasonography in high-acuity patients in the emergency department: a prospective single-center cross-sectional study
Creators: name: M. Riishede
name: C. Laursen
name: L. TeglbjĂŚrg
name: E. Rancinger
name: P. Pedersen
name: S. Luef
name: J. Clausen
name: O. Graumann
name: A. Lassen
name: G. Baatrup
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. Definition of high acuity patients included in this study.
Asymptotic reductions of the diffuse-interface model, with applications to contact lines in fluids
Creators: name: Benilov, E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diffuse-interface model (DIM) is a tool for studying interfacial dynamics. In particular, it is used for modeling contact lines, i.e., curves where a liquid, gas, and solid are in simultaneous contact. As well as all other models of contact lines, the DIM implies an additional assumption: that the flow near the liquid/gas interface is isothermal. In this work, this assumption is checked for the four fluids for which all common models of contact lines fail. It is shown that, for two of these fluids (including water), the assumption of isothermality does not hold.
Levilactobacillus senmaizukei Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Levilactobacillus
Levilactobacillus senmaizukei

description: DESCRIPTION OF LEVILACTOBACILLUS SENMAIZUKEI COMB. NOV.
 Levilactobacillus senmaizukei (sen.mai.zu’ke.i. N.L. gen. n. senmaizukei of senmaizuke, a fermented pickle).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus senmaizukei Hiraga et al. 2008, 1627 VP
Characteristics of the species are as described [300]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.22 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 48.6.
Isolated from senmaizuke, a fermented turnip product.
 The type strain is L13 T = DSM 21775 T = NBRC 103853 T = TISTR 1847 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AYZH00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: AB297927.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2839, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Dynamics of Entanglement Wedge Cross Section from Conformal Field Theories
Creators: name: Kusuki, Yuya
name: Tamaoka, Kotaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive dynamics of the entanglement wedge cross section directly from the two-dimensional holographic CFTs with a local operator quench. This derivation is based on the reflected entropy, a correlation measure for mixed states. We further compare these results with the mutual information and ones for RCFTs. Our results directly suggest the classical correlation also plays an important role in the subregion/subregion duality even for dynamical setup. Besides a local operator quench, we study the reflected entropy in a heavy state and provide improved bulk interpretation. We checked the above results also hold for the odd entanglement entropy, which is another measure for mixed states related to the entanglement wedge cross section.
description: 5 pages, Revtex, 5 figures. v2: published version
How to Count Kinks: From the Continuum to the Lattice and Back
Creators: name: Gleiser, Marcelo
name: Müller, Hans-Reinhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the matching between (1+1)-dimensional nonlinear field theories coupled to an external stochastic environment and their lattice simulations. In particular, we focus on how to obtain numerical results which are lattice-spacing independent, and on how to extract the correct effective potential which emerges from the simulations. As an application, we study the thermal production of kink-antikink pairs, obtaining a number density of pairs which is lattice-spacing independent and the effective barrier for pair production, i.e., the effective kink mass.
description: 7 pages, 5 PostScript figures, RevTeX. Revised version to appear in Physics Letters B. References and comparison with previous works added
An overview of available software and hardware for managing environmental data
Creators: name: Price, Calvin J.
name: Robertson, Jim
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Computers are a powerful tool when used for handling environmental data. The computer industry is going through a period of rapid growth and keeping current is difficult, even for computer specialists. However it is becoming increasingly important that persons handling environmental data keep somewhat familiar with the hardware and software options available in order to remain as productive as possible when manipulating environmental data. The recent strategy of various provincial regulatory authorities to require electronic transfer of compliance monitoring data in the near future indicates the universality of this mechanism of environmental data handling. This development will undoubtedly cause growth pains by all parties. Consequently, all operations will be affected directly or indirectly by the application of computers to their environmental commitments. However these difficulties are more than offset by the significant benefits which allow quick response to a wide range of complex questions presented by regulatory agencies and internal company management.
Additional file 10: of High-throughput microscopy exposes a pharmacological window in which dual leucine zipper kinase inhibition preserves neuronal network connectivity
Creators: name: Verschuuren, Marlies
name: Verstraelen, Peter
name: Barriga, Gerardo García-Díaz
name: Cilissen, Ines
name: Coninx, Emma
name: Verslegers, Mieke
name: Larsen, Peter H.
name: Nuydens, Rony
name: Winnok Vos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Figure S9. Classification of morphological data confirms findings based on connectivity score. A RFC that was trained on pooled DMSO treated cultures revealed a negative impact of rapamycin on neuronal connectivity as can be seen from the cultures that were misclassified and were assigned a culture age that was lower than the actual culture age (red). Treatment with 0.01 μM and 0.1 μM of GNE3511 could however improve the neuronal connectivity (green) (nbio = 3 x ntech = 5 except for GNE3511: nbio = 2 x ntech = 6). (PDF 10993 kb)
Rhetoric and Reality in the World Bank’s Relations with NGOs: an Indonesian Case Study
Creators: name: Whitelum, Bernadette
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2003
Subjects: World Bank • rhetoric • NGOs • Non-Governmental Organisations • Indonesia • neo-liberalism • gender relations

description: The World Bank is one of the most powerful institutions in the world. And it is charged with some of the world’s most important goals, at least in rhetoric. The World Bank’s mission is “A World Free of Poverty”. World Bank rhetoric now sees the institution embrace such goals as ‘poverty alleviation’, ‘environmental sustainability’, ‘gendermainstreaming’, ‘good governance’, and ‘partnerships for development’. These claims demand critical analysis so that the reality of the Bank’s agenda and work can be deciphered from its rhetoric. To that end, this research critically examines the World Bank’s rhetoric and strategies for engaging NGOs in what it describes as a ‘partnership for development'. ¶ ...
title: Quantified Characterization of Active Defects in 4H–SiC MOS Devices
Creators: name: Moghadam, Hamid Amini
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Energy demand
subject: Non renewable energy sources
subject: Global warming
subject: 4H-SiC MOS capacitors
subject: 4H–SiC MOSFETs

description: According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), global energy demand is expected to increase considerably in the coming years as the result of population growth and economic development [1]. The vast majority of the world’s energy is generated from non-renewable sources, specifically oil, coal and natural gas. The increased volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released by burning these fossil fuels are believed to be the primary sources of global warming and the long term climate changes [2]. Furthermore, global warming is considered to be the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time, responsible for raising sea levels, raging storms, ferocious fires, and severe drought [3]. Electricity is mainly considered to be an environmentally friendly source of energy. However, electricity is largely generated by burning fossil fuels in power plants. This process releases substantial amounts of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere. Therefore, it is very important to utilize the generated electricity in an efficient way in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ultimately the climate change effects.
Real entire functions with real zeros and a conjecture of Wiman
Creators: name: Bergweiler, Walter
name: Eremenko, A.
name: Langley, J. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30D15 (Primary) 30D20 (Secondary)

description: If f is a real entire function and ff" has only real zeros then f belongs to the Laguerre-Polya class, the closure of the set of real polynomials with real zeros. This result completes a long line of development originating from a conjecture of Wiman in 1914.
description: 17 pages, LaTeX
A Non-autoregressive Generation Framework for End-to-End Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation
Creators: name: Ma, Zhengrui
name: Fang, Qingkai
name: Zhang, Shaolei
name: Guo, Shoutao
name: Feng, Yang
name: Zhang, Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Simultaneous translation models play a crucial role in facilitating communication. However, existing research primarily focuses on text-to-text or speech-to-text models, necessitating additional cascade components to achieve speech-to-speech translation. These pipeline methods suffer from error propagation and accumulate delays in each cascade component, resulting in reduced synchronization between the speaker and listener. To overcome these challenges, we propose a novel non-autoregressive generation framework for simultaneous speech translation (NAST-S2X), which integrates speech-to-text and speech-to-speech tasks into a unified end-to-end framework. We develop a non-autoregressive decoder capable of concurrently generating multiple text or acoustic unit tokens upon receiving fixed-length speech chunks. The decoder can generate blank or repeated tokens and employ CTC decoding to dynamically adjust its latency. Experimental results show that NAST-S2X outperforms state-of-the-art models in both speech-to-text and speech-to-speech tasks. It achieves high-quality simultaneous interpretation within a delay of less than 3 seconds and provides a 28 times decoding speedup in offline generation.
description: ACL 2024; Codes and demos are at https://github.com/ictnlp/NAST-S2x
Levilactobacillus spicheri Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Levilactobacillus
Levilactobacillus spicheri

description: DESCRIPTION OF LEVILACTOBACILLUS SPICHERI COMB. NOV.
 Levilactobacillus spicheri (spi’.cher.i. N.L. gen. n. spicheri of Spicher. The name honours Gottfried Spicher, a German scientist who pioneered the microbiological and biochemical characterization of sourdough fermentation).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus spicheri Meroth et al. 2004, 631 VL
Characteristics as described [301]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.75 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 55.9.
Isolated from wheat and rice sourdoughs, from fermented vegetables and a municipal biogas plant.
 The type strain is LTH 5753 T = DSM 15429 T = JCM 15956 T = LMG 21871 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AZFC00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ 534844.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2839, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Community Forestry: Paradoxes and Perspectives in Development Practice
Creators: name: Pulhin, Juan M
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Community forestry, Philippines, development practice, sustainable development, rural poor, political economy, theory of rationalization

description: This thesis deals with two related topics: core development objectives in community forestry in the Philippines, and the 'instruments' of development practice which have been used to address these objectives. The two topics have currency beyond forestry development and are at the centre of a debate about sustainable development. Community forestry aims to democratise resource access, alleviate poverty, and ensure the sustainability of forest resources. Development practice, however, has often led to contradictory outcomes. This paradox is examined from three perspectives: that of political economy, characteristics of practice, and the theory of rationalisation. ¶ Four government-initiated community forestry projects in the Philippines are analysed. ...
A Fourier-Mukai approach to spectral data for instantons
Creators: name: Jardim, Marcos
name: Maciocia, Antony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study U(r) instantons on elliptic surfaces with a section and show that they are in one-one correspondence with spectral data consisting of a curve in the dual elliptic surface and a line bundle on that curve. We use relative Fourier-Mukai transforms to analyse their properties and, in the case of the K3 and abelian surfaces, we show that the moduli space of instantons has a natural Lagrangian fibration with respect to the canonical complex symplectic structure.
description: 17 pages. Final version to appear in Crelle
Scalable multigrid methods for immersed finite element methods and immersed isogeometric analysis
Creators: name: de Prenter, F.
name: Verhoosel, C. V.
name: van Brummelen, E. H.
name: Evans, J. A.
name: Messe, C.
name: Benzaken, J.
name: Maute, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Ill-conditioning of the system matrix is a well-known complication in immersed finite element methods and trimmed isogeometric analysis. Elements with small intersections with the physical domain yield problematic eigenvalues in the system matrix, which generally degrades efficiency and robustness of iterative solvers. In this contribution we investigate the spectral properties of immersed finite element systems treated by Schwarz-type methods, to establish the suitability of these as smoothers in a multigrid method. Based on this investigation we develop a geometric multigrid preconditioner for immersed finite element methods, which provides mesh-independent and cut-element-independent convergence rates. This preconditioning technique is applicable to higher-order discretizations, and enables solving large-scale immersed systems in parallel, at a computational cost that scales linearly with the number of degrees of freedom. The performance of the preconditioner is demonstrated for conventional Lagrange basis functions and for isogeometric discretizations with both uniform B-splines and locally refined approximations based on truncated hierarchical B-splines.
Going the Extra Mile: An Analysis of energy efficiency City-State Partnerships through the Massachusetts Stretch Energy Code Program
Creators: Smith, Shelby
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: City planning
State-local relations
Municipal government--Energy conservation
Cities and towns--Environmental aspects
Energy policy--U.S. states

description: In the United States, where federal level climate protection oscillates according to political tides, environmental and energy efficiency regulation is primarily being undertaken by sub-federal actors. As mere arms of the state, however, towns and cities are severally limited in their ability to implement environmental legislation. Through an examination of the Massachusetts Stretch Energy Code program, a municipal-state partnership that bypasses preemption, this paper seeks to understand what factors influence a municipality’s likelihood to adopt energy efficiency regulation that is stricter than the state mandate. By conceptualizing the different spheres of influence from both a bottom-up and top-down perspective, the aim of this research is twofold. First, to understand what characteristics of a town influence its propensity to adopt, three categories of bottom-up variables are identified. Specifically, the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of jurisdictions, municipalities government factors, and the housing stock composition of towns and cities are considered. The second objective is to understand what structural characteristics within the top-down components of the Stretch Energy Code program, as a municipal-state partnership, influence a jurisdiction’s likelihood to adopt the plan. Employing a mixed methods case study approach with quantitative, spatial, and qualitative lines of analysis, this research found that several factors within the socio-economic composition of towns, the average age of a jurisdiction’s housing stock, and the type of utility company serving the town had the greatest impacts on a municipality’s propensity to adopt. Further, this research uncovered a “spatial contagion” aspect to the enactment of the Stretch Energy Code, as well as significant findings related to the incentivization structure of the broader Green Communities program within which the Stretch Energy Code is embedded.
Additional file 1 of Toddalolactone protects against osteoarthritis by ameliorating chondrocyte inflammation and suppressing osteoclastogenesis
Creators: name: Xu, Yiming
name: Xue, Song
name: Zhang, Tian
name: Jin, Xinmeng
name: Wang, Cong
name: Lu, Haiming
name: Zhong, Yiming
name: Chen, Hongjie
name: Zhu, Libo
name: Ma, Jinzhong
name: Sang, Weilin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. The quantification of apoptotic cells and the density of the western blot bands in Fig. 1. Fig. S2. TOD inhibited the expression of inflammatory and catabolic mediators in IL-1β induced chondrocytes. Fig. S3. TOD suppressed Ctr expression during osteoclastogenesis in vitro.
Quantization of generic chaotic 3D billiard with smooth boundary II: structure of high-lying eigenstates
Creators: name: Prosen, Tomaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the first survey of highly excited eigenstates of a chaotic 3D billiard. We introduce a strongly chaotic 3D billiard with a smooth boundary and we manage to calculate accurate eigenstates with sequential number (of a 48-fold desymmetrized billiard) about 45,000. Besides the brute-force calculation of 3D wavefunctions we propose and illustrate another two representations of eigenstates of quantum 3D billiards: (i) normal derivative of a wavefunction over the boundary surface, and (ii) ray - angular momentum representation. The majority of eigenstates is found to be more or less uniformly extended over the entire energy surface, as expected, but there is also a fraction of strongly localized - scarred eigenstates which are localized either (i) on to classical periodic orbits or (ii) on to planes which carry (2+2)-dim classically invariant manifolds, although the classical dynamics is strongly chaotic and non-diffusive.
description: 12 pages in plain Latex (5 figures in PCL format available upon request) Submitted to Phys.Lett.A
Levilactobacillus suantsaii Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Levilactobacillus
Levilactobacillus suantsaii

description: DESCRIPTION OF LEVILACTOBACILLUS SUANTSAII COMB. NOV.
 Levilactobacillus suantsaii (suan.tsai’i. N.L. gen. n. suantsaii of suan-tsai, a fermented mustard product, from which the type strain was isolated).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus suantsaii Liou et al. 2019, 1489 VP
Characteristics of the species are as described [302]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.43 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 51.1.
Isolated from suan-tsai, a traditional Taiwanese fermented mustard green.
 The type strain is L88 T = BCRC 12945 T = NBRC 113535 T.
Genome sequence accession number: QXIL00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: MH 730159.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2839, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Gold Without the Games: Analyzing Unsuccessful Olympic Bids as Policy Windows
Creators: Robson, Lucy E. M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Olympic Games
City planning
Public policy (Law)

description: Contemporary scholarship on the Olympic Games has turned to consider the negative long-term effects associated with hosting the Games, but has not looked at unsuccessful Olympic bids. Since bidding for the Games is expensive and time-consuming, cities will only bid if it can be shown to provide positive outcomes. This paper responds to the question “Did the unsuccessful Olympic Bids of Toronto 2008, New York City 2012 and Chicago 2016 act as policy windows for public policy or development projects?” It finds that that Toronto’s and New York City’s bids did function as policy windows. To bolster the likelihood of future Olympic Games bids functioning as policy windows, the paper proposes three recommendations: 1. The United States Olympic Committee and the Canadian Olympic Association should mandate that all future bid organizations will be public-private partnerships. 2. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should amend the Olympic Charter to require cities to include a detailed legacy plan with as a part of an Olympic Bid. 3. The IOC should amend the Olympic Charter to require that comprehensive legacy plans are accompanied by the creation of a nonprofit legacy organization.
NGOs, Peasants and the State: Transformation and Intervention in Rural Thailand, 1970-1990.
Creators: name: Quinn, Rapin
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1997
Subjects: NGOs, everyday politics, peasants, transformation, intervention, Thailand, rural Thai society, social movement, Alaine Touraine, actor-agency relations, social meaning and action synthesis, time-space correspondence, cultural geography, community culture

description: This study examines people-centred Thai NGOs trying to help peasants empower themselves in order to compete better in conflicts over land, water, forest, and capital, during the 1970s to 1990s. The study investigates how the NGOs contested asymmetric power relations among government officials, private entrepreneurs and ordinary people while helping raise the people’s confidence in their own power to negotiate their demands with other actors.¶ The thesis argues that the NGOs are able to play an interventionist role when a number of key factors coexist. ...
Vanishing conditions on Weyl tensor for Einstein-type manifolds
Creators: name: Leandro, Benedito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we consider an Einstein-type equation which generalizes important geometric equations, like static and critical point equations. We prove that a complete Einstein-type manifold with fourth-order divergence-free Weyl tensor and zero radial Weyl curvature is locally a warped product with $(n-1)$-dimensional Einstein fibers, provided that the potential function is proper. As a consequence, we prove a result about the nonexistence of multiple black holes in static spacetimes.
MOESM1 of Eimeria maxima-induced transcriptional changes in the cecal mucosa of broiler chickens
Creators: name: Li, Charles
name: Xianghe Yan
name: Lillehoj, Hyun
name: Sungtaek Oh
name: Liheng Liu
name: Zhifeng Sun
name: Changqin Gu
name: Youngsub Lee
name: Zhezi Xianyu
name: Hongyan Zhao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Data quality control summary. Table S2. The number of genes with different expression levels in Gallus gallus. Table S3. List of significantly upregulated genes in chicken cecal mucosa in response to Eimeria maxima infection. Table S4. List of significantly downregulated genes in chicken cecal mucosa in response to Eimeria maxima infection. Table S5. Gene expression changes for some pro-inflammatory molecules in the chicken ceca between naĂŻve uninfected control (N) and Eimeria maxima (EM) infected group.
Advances in monitoring and evaluation in low- and middle-income countries
Creators: name: Kumar, Manish
name: Doherty, Kathy
name: Thomas, James C
name: Watson-Grant, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2021

description:
Data to inform and improve health care systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been facilitated by the development of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. The drivers of change in M&E systems over the last 50 years have included a series of health concerns that have animated global donors (e.g., family planning, vaccination campaigns, and HIV/AIDS); the data requirements of donors; improved national economies enabling LMICs to invest more in M&E systems; and rapid advances in digital technologies. Progress has included the training and expansion of an M&E workforce, the creation of systems for data collection and use, and processes for assessing and ensuring data quality. Controversies have included the development of disease-specific systems that do not coordinate with each other, and a growing burden on health care deliverers to collect data for a proliferating number of health and process indicators. Digital technologies offer the promise of real time data and quick adaptation but also raise ethical and privacy concerns. The desire for speed can cast large-scale evaluations, considered by some to be the gold standard, in an unfavorable light as slow and expensive. Accordingly, there is a growing demand for speedy evaluations that rely on routine health information systems and privately collected "big data" from electronic health records and social media.