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    RDLS-SS-DWT v. 0.9

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    This fileset contains the implementation of RDLS-DWT and SS-DWT in JPEG 2000 (RDLS-SS-DWT v. 0.9), which was used in a research described in: R. Starosolski, “Application of reversible denoising and lifting steps to DWT in lossless JPEG 2000 for improved bitrates,” Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 39, Part A, pp. 249-63, DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2015.09.013, 2015 and R. Starosolski, “Skipping selected steps of DWT computation in lossless JPEG 2000 for improved bitrates,” submitted.   This software is intended for research purposes only; it is provided "as is"; author makes no warranty of any kind, either express or implied, with respect to this software. <br

    SS Northland Echo

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    Photograph - A view of the steamboat, SS Northland Echo on the Athabasca River. Athabasca, Albert

    SS Athabasca River - 02

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    Photograph - A view of the SS Athabasca River paddle steamer on the river, Athabasca, Albert

    RIC-HSCT for MF/SS

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    Advanced-stage mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome (MF/SS) have a poor prognosis. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), particularly using a reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen, is a promising treatment for advanced-stage MF/SS. We performed RIC-HSCT in nine patients with advanced MF/SS. With a median follow-up period of 954days after HSCT, the estimated 3-year overall survival was 85.7% (95% confidence interval, 33.4-97.9%) with no non-relapse mortality. Five patients relapsed after RIC-HSCT; however, in four patients whose relapse was detected only from the skin, persistent complete response was achieved in one patient, and the disease was manageable in other three patients by the tapering of immunosuppressants and donor lymphocyte infusion, suggesting that graft-versus-lymphoma effect and "down-staging" effect from advanced stage to early stage by HSCT improve the prognosis of advanced-stage MF/SS. These results suggest that RIC-HSCT is an effective treatment for advanced MF/SS

    Maximally localized Wannier functions in LaMnO 3 within PBE + U , hybrid functionals and partially self-consistent GW: an efficient route to construct ab initio tight-binding parameters for e g perovskites

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    Using the newly developed VASP2WANNIER90 interface we have constructed maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) for the e(g) states of the prototypical Jahn-Teller magnetic perovskite LaMnO3 at different levels of approximation for the exchange-correlation kernel. These include conventional density functional theory (DFT) with and without the additional on-site Hubbard U term, hybrid DFT and partially self-consistent GW. By suitably mapping the MLWFs onto an effective e(g) tight-binding (TB) Hamiltonian we have computed a complete set of TB parameters which should serve as guidance for more elaborate treatments of correlation effects in effective Hamiltonian-based approaches. The method-dependent changes of the calculated TB parameters and their interplay with the electron-electron (el-el) interaction term are discussed and interpreted. We discuss two alternative model parameterizations: one in which the effects of the el-el interaction are implicitly incorporated in the otherwise 'noninteracting' TB parameters and a second where we include an explicit mean-field el-el interaction term in the TB Hamiltonian. Both models yield a set of tabulated TB parameters which provide the band dispersion in excellent agreement with the underlying ab initio and MLWF bands

    SS Northland Sun at Mirror Landing, AB

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    Photograph - The paddle-wheeler, SS Northland Sun, docked at shore in Mirror Landing, Albert

    SS Northland Light at Sawridge, AB

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    Photograph - Paddle-wheeler, SS Northland Light, docked at the shore. Sawridge, A

    That's 'é' not 'þ' '?' or '☐': a user-driven context-aware approach to erroneous metadata in digital libraries

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    In this paper we present a novel system for user-driven integration of name variants when interacting with web-based information systems. The growth and diversity of online information means that many users experience disambiguation and collocation errors in their information searching. We approach these issues via a client-side JavaScript browser extension that can reorganise web content and also integrate remote data sources. The system is illustrated through three worked examples using existing digital libraries

    SS-Sonderkommando Bełżec. Portret zbiorowy

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    SS-SONDERKOMMANDO BELZEC. A COLLECTIVE PORTRAIT The subject-matter of this paper&rsquo;s analysis revolves around the members of SS and German police who, during the 1941&ndash;1943 period, belonged to SS-Sonderkommando Belzec or Dienstelle Belzec der Waffen SS &mdash; as the extermination camp in Belzec was officially known. It was the first center of &ldquo;Action Reinhardt,&rdquo; implemented in the General Government and in Białystok District, in which around four hundred fifty thousand Jews were murdered by the Nazis. In writing of this article its author used documents from German and Polish archives, scholarly and popular literature on the subject and memories. These sources served as a foundation on the basis of which the attempt to create a collective portrait of perpetrators was undertaken. The author of the article, as it is accepted in historiography, based his conclusions on thirty seven members of SS-Sonderkommando Belzec who were at least temporarily employed in the camp &mdash; during its building, its operation, the extermination or the erasing of traces. The article analyzes the age of the members of Belzec camp&rsquo;s personnel, their nationality and birthplace, education, participation in National Socialist organizations, engagement in &ldquo;T4&rdquo; action and &mdash; in the widest possible terms &mdash; participation in the Holocaust. The article describes the process of selection to the SS crew, the principles governing the assignation of functions and duties in the camp, the exchange of members between different centers of &ldquo;Action Reinhardt,&rdquo; their future fate and the question of their postwar legal punishment. More attention is paid to two commandants, i.e. Christian Wirth and Gottlieb Hering. The article indicates the similarities and differences between them, their impact on the camp&rsquo;s operation and their influence over other members of SS-Sonderkommando Belzec.SS-SONDERKOMMANDO BELZEC. A COLLECTIVE PORTRAIT The subject-matter of this paper&rsquo;s analysis revolves around the members of SS and German police who, during the 1941&ndash;1943 period, belonged to SS-Sonderkommando Belzec or Dienstelle Belzec der Waffen SS &mdash; as the extermination camp in Belzec was officially known. It was the first center of &ldquo;Action Reinhardt,&rdquo; implemented in the General Government and in Białystok District, in which around four hundred fifty thousand Jews were murdered by the Nazis. In writing of this article its author used documents from German and Polish archives, scholarly and popular literature on the subject and memories. These sources served as a foundation on the basis of which the attempt to create a collective portrait of perpetrators was undertaken. The author of the article, as it is accepted in historiography, based his conclusions on thirty seven members of SS-Sonderkommando Belzec who were at least temporarily employed in the camp &mdash; during its building, its operation, the extermination or the erasing of traces. The article analyzes the age of the members of Belzec camp&rsquo;s personnel, their nationality and birthplace, education, participation in National Socialist organizations, engagement in &ldquo;T4&rdquo; action and &mdash; in the widest possible terms &mdash; participation in the Holocaust. The article describes the process of selection to the SS crew, the principles governing the assignation of functions and duties in the camp, the exchange of members between different centers of &ldquo;Action Reinhardt,&rdquo; their future fate and the question of their postwar legal punishment. More attention is paid to two commandants, i.e. Christian Wirth and Gottlieb Hering. The article indicates the similarities and differences between them, their impact on the camp&rsquo;s operation and their influence over other members of SS-Sonderkommando Belzec
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