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astromatt42/digb_sfgs: Release for 10.21203/rs.3.rs-106679/v1
No full textThis release was used to compute the results in https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-106679/v1
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Radiation Effects in Cooper Pair Insulating Thin Films
No full textCooper-pair insulators are materials that exhibit superconducting behavior, but under specific conditions, regarding film thickness, bias voltage, applied magnetic field, and presence of magnetic impurities, act as insulators with thermally activated Cooper pairs as charge carriers. This paper investigates possible radiation effects in thin films of such materials. Radiation effects are predicted on the basis of Monte Carlo simulations, using 2D Josephson junction array as a model of material structure. Results of a combined theoretical and numerical analysis suggest that radiation-induced change of the Josephson junction charging energy could significantly affect the current-voltage characteristics of a Cooper-pair insulator, and that a transition to a metallic state is possible, due to radiation-induced disruption of the fine-tuned granular structure. The breaking of Cooper pairs, caused by incident and displaced ions, can also destroy the conditions for this specific insulating state to exist.Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Mar 27-30, 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysi
Questions on uncertainties in parton distributions
No full textA discussion is presented of the manner in which uncertainties in parton distributions and related quantities are determined. One of the central problems is the criteria used to judge what variation of the parameters describing a set of partons is acceptable within the context of a global fit. Various ways of addressing this question are outlined. (From the workshop 'Advanced Statistical Techniques in Particle Physics', 18–22 March 2002
Relationship between Premature Mortality and Socioeconomic Factors in Black and White Populations of US Metropolitan Areas
No full textPeer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51397/1/Cooper RS, Relationship Between Premature Mortality and Socioeconomic Factors, 2001.pd
COOPER-framework:a unified process for non-parametric projects
No full textPractitioners assess performance of entities in increasingly large and complicated datasets. If non-parametric models, such as Data Envelopment Analysis, were ever considered as simple push-button technologies, this is impossible when many variables are available or when data have to be compiled from several sources. This paper introduces by the 'COOPER-framework' a comprehensive model for carrying out non-parametric projects. The framework consists of six interrelated phases: Concepts and objectives, On structuring data, Operational models, Performance comparison model, Evaluation, and Result and deployment. Each of the phases describes some necessary steps a researcher should examine for a well defined and repeatable analysis. The COOPER-framework provides for the novice analyst guidance, structure and advice for a sound non-parametric analysis. The more experienced analyst benefits from a check list such that important issues are not forgotten. In addition, by the use of a standardized framework non-parametric assessments will be more reliable, more repeatable, more manageable, faster and less costly. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
#nowplaying-rs
No full text<p>The nowplaying-rs dataset features context- and content features of listening events. It contains 11.6 million music listening events of 139K users and 346K tracks collected from Twitter. The dataset comes with a rich set of item content features and user context features, as well as timestamps of the listening events. Moreover, some of the user context features imply the cultural origin of the users, and some others - like hashtags - give clues to the emotional state of a user underlying a listening event.</p>
<p>The dataset contains three files:</p>
<ul>
<li>user_track_hashtag_timestamp.csv contains basic information about each listening event. For each listening event, we provide an id, the user_id, track_id, hashtag, created_at </li>
<li>context_content_features.csv: contains all context and content features. For each listening event, we provide the id of the event, user_id, track_id, artist_id, content features regarding the track mentioned in the event (instrumentalness, liveness, speechiness, danceability, valence, loudness, tempo, acousticness, energy, mode, key) and context features regarding the listening event (coordinates (as geoJSON), place (as geoJSON), geo (as geoJSON), tweet_language, created_at, user_lang, time_zone, entities contained in the tweet).</li>
<li>sentiment_values.csv contains sentiment information for hashtags. It contains the hashtag itself and the sentiment values gathered via four different sentiment dictionaries: AFINN, Opinion Lexicon, Sentistrength Lexicon and vader. For each of these dictionaries we list the minimum, maximum, sum and average of all sentiments of the tokens of the hashtag (if available, else we list empty values). However, as most hashtags only consist of a single token, these values are equal in most cases. Please note that the lexica are rather diverse and therefore, are able to resolve very different terms against a score. Hence, the resulting csv is rather sparse. The file contains the following comma-separated values: <hashtag, vader_min, vader_max, vader_sum,vader_avg, afinn_min, afinn_max, afinn_sum, afinn_avg, ol_min, ol_max, ol_sum, ol_avg, ss_min, ss_max, ss_sum, ss_avg >, where we abbreviate all scores gathered over the Opinion Lexicon with the prefix 'ol'. Similarly, 'ss' stands for SentiStrength. </li>
</ul>
<p>Please note that user_track_hashtag_timestamp.csv and context_content_features.csv partly provide the same features. We deliberately chose to do so to be able to provide useable files that do not have to be matched and joined with each other to perform e.g., simple recommendation tasks.</p>
<p>Please also find the training and test-splits for the dataset in this repo. Also, Asmita provides prototypical implementations of a context-aware recommender system based on the dataset at https://github.com/asmitapoddar/nowplaying-RS-Music-Reco-FM.</p>
<p><br>
If you make use of this dataset, please cite the following paper where we describe and experiment with the dataset:</p>
<p>@inproceedings{smc18,<br>
title = {#nowplaying-RS: A New Benchmark Dataset for Building Context-Aware Music Recommender Systems},<br>
author = {Asmita Poddar and Eva Zangerle and Yi-Hsuan Yang},<br>
url = {http://mac.citi.sinica.edu.tw/~yang/pub/poddar18smc.pdf},<br>
year = {2018},<br>
date = {2018-07-04},<br>
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Sound & Music Computing Conference},<br>
address = {Limassol, Cyprus},<br>
note = {code at https://github.com/asmitapoddar/nowplaying-RS-Music-Reco-FM},<br>
tppubtype = {inproceedings}<br>
}</p>
Converter USB/RS 485
No full textThis thesis is describing problematic of realisation of converter from USB type media into the universal RS-485 bus which is mainly used for the industrial applications (author is using frequently as a device in order to enable communication between server and RFID devices). This thesis contains theoretical information, realisation of the device itself and assesment of reached targets
Converter USB/RS 485
No full textThis thesis is describing problematic of realisation of converter from USB type media into the universal RS-485 bus which is mainly used for the industrial applications (author is using frequently as a device in order to enable communication between server and RFID devices). This thesis contains theoretical information, realisation of the device itself and assesment of reached targets
Effects of Ion Beam Irradiation on Nanoscale InOx Cooper-Pair Insulators
No full textThis paper examines the effects of irradiating indium oxide films of nanoscale thickness by ion beams, when these films are in the Cooper-pair insulator state. Radiation effects are predicted on the basis of Monte Carlo simulations of ion transport. Results of numerical experiments are interpreted within the theoretical model of a Cooper-pair insulator. The study suggests that radiation-induced changes in InOx films exposed to ion beams could significantly alter their current-voltage characteristics and that a transition to a metallic state is possible, due to radiation-induced perturbation of the fine-tuned granular structure. Furthermore, incident and displaced ions can break up enough Cooper pairs in InOx films to cause dissolution of this specific insulating state
Natural and vaccine-mediated immunity to Salmonella Typhimurium is impaired by the helminth Nippostrongylus brasiliensis
No full textThe impact of exposure to multiple pathogens concurrently or consecutively on immune function is unclear. Here, immune responses induced by combinations of the bacterium Salmonella Typhimurium (STm) and the helminth Nippostrongylus brasiliensis (Nb), which causes a murine hookworm infection and an experimental porin protein vaccine against STm, were examined. Mice infected with both STm and Nb induced similar numbers of Th1 and Th2 lymphocytes compared with singly infected mice, as determined by flow cytometry, although lower levels of secreted Th2, but not Th1 cytokines were detected by ELISA after re-stimulation of splenocytes. Furthermore, the density of FoxP3+ T cells in the T zone of co-infected mice was lower compared to mice that only received Nb, but was greater than those that received STm. This reflected the intermediate levels of IL-10 detected from splenocytes. Co-infection compromised clearance of both pathogens, with worms still detectable in mice weeks after they were cleared in the control group. Despite altered control of bacterial and helminth colonization in co-infected mice, robust extrafollicular Th1 and Th2-reflecting immunoglobulin-switching profiles were detected, with IgG2a, IgG1 and IgE plasma cells all detected in parallel. Whilst extrafollicular antibody responses were maintained in the first weeks after co-infection, the GC response was less than that in mice infected with Nb only. Nb infection resulted in some abrogation of the longer-term development of anti-STm IgG responses. This suggested that prior Nb infection may modulate the induction of protective antibody responses to vaccination. To assess this we immunized mice with porins, which confer protection in an antibody-dependent manner, before challenging with STm. Mice that had resolved a Nb infection prior to immunization induced less anti-porin IgG and had compromised protection against infection. These findings demonstrate that co-infection can radically alter the development of protective immunity during natural infection and in response to immunization
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