High power integrated laser for microwave photonics Jörn P. Epping1, Ruud M. Oldenbeuving1, Dimitri Geskus1, Ilka Visscher1, Robert Grootjans1, Chris G.H. Roeloffzen1, and René G. Heideman1 1LioniX International BV, P.O. Box 456, 7500 AL, Enschede, The Netherlands. j.p.epping@lionix-int.com Abstract: We present a hybrid integrated laser with two gain sections coupled to one tunable cavity. The resulting laser has a record on-chip power of up to 20.7 dBm and an intrinsic linewidth of 320 Hz. © 2020 The Author(s) 1. Introduction Tunable semiconductor lasers with a narrow linewidth have found a wide range of important applications, reaching from coherent communications, remote optical sensing such as Lidar to arising applications such as microwave photonics (MWP). Especially, integrated microwave photonics [1,2] aims to achieve RF-to-RF signal processing in the optical domain with a small footprint while offering wide bandwidths. Recently, we developed a hybrid integrated photonic platform [3] based on active InP components such as gain sections, modulators, and detectors with passive silicon nitride-based TriPleX enabling low loss optical signal processing due to its low propagation losses (< 0.1 dB/cm). The combination of these two platforms enables fully integrated RF-to-RF analog photonic links (APL). The link gain of an APL quadratically depends on the sensitivity of the modulator, responsivity of the photodetector (PD) as well as the optical power at the receiving PD [2]. Therefore, to achieve an efficient APL with a high link gain an optical input power of typically more than 20 dBm is needed. Furthermore, high optical powers can keep the noise figure at a minimum by making the use of additional amplifiers obsolete. However, so far current hybrid as well as heterogeneously integrated lasers lack sufficient optical power to achieve such efficient APLs. Here, we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first hybrid integrated laser consisting of more than one InP gain sections sharing a common laser mirror. The resulting on-chip power of 20.7 dBm using two gain sections at a pump current of twice 300 mA is the highest optical power of a hybrid integrated laser to date. Furthermore, the laser shows a low intrinsic linewidth of 320 Hz as well as a low relative intensity noise (<-160 dBc/Hz), which should enable future APL with a high link gain and a low noise level. 2. Device design The scheme and a photograph of the dual-gain section hybrid integrated laser is shown in Fig.1 (a) and (b), respectively. The laser comprises of two InP reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) chips and a low- loss TriPleX frequency selective mirror chip. The frequency selective mirror is based on a well-known principle of Vernier mirror with two micro-resonators of slightly different length and, hence, free-spectral ranges of 208 GHz and 215 GHz. To achieve a higher optical output power the mirror chip is coupled to two individual InP RSOAs with a length of 700 µm instead of one [4]. The coupling losses from the InP RSOAs to TriPleX laser cavity are estimated to be about 1 dB. Each of the RSOAs has an individual electrical connection to apply a pump current. On the TriPleX chip, thermo-optic tuners are used to set the frequency selective mirror, to control the phases of the RSOAs within the cavity, two tunable Mach-Zehnder couplers are used to combine both output coupling of the cavity and the power in the output waveguide. The output waveguides are coupled to a fiber array with standard polarization maintaining fibers with a coupling loss of 0.5 dB. Figure 1 a) Conceptual design of the dual gain laser cavity consisting of a tunable dual-ring cavity, two gain section with phase tuners, and two tunable Mach-Zehnder couplers (TC) to control the output coupling and output power. b) Photograph of the assembled dual gain laser.


Final conference, Rome October 11, 2016 Chemical evolution of the surface and subsurface Svalbard annual snow Andrea Spolaor1,2, Elena Barbaro1,2, Jean Marc Christille3,4, Torben Kirchgeorg1, Fabio Giardi5, David Cappelletti6, Clara Turetta2, Andrea Bernagozzi3, Mats P. Björkman7, Enzo Bertolini3 and Carlo Barbante1,2 1Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Santa Marta – Dorsoduro 2137, 30123 Venice, Italy – email: andrea.spolaor@unive.it 2Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes, IDPA-CNR, Dorsoduro 2137, 30123 Venice, Italy. 3Research Unit Atlas, Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley (OAVdA), Loc. Lignan 39, 11020 Nus (AO), Italy. 4Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy 5Chemistry Department – Analytical Chemistry, Scientific Pole, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) Italy. 6Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia I-06123 Perugia, Italy 7University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Box 460, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden Abstract Understanding and monitoring the evolution of annual snow is an important aspect of cryosphere research. Changes in physical proprieties such as hardness, presence of melt layers, or the shape and size of crystals can completely modify the robustness, propriety and quality of the snow. Evaluating these changes can inform the study and prediction of avalanches. The annual snow layer is an extremely dynamic portion of the cryosphere and can be defined as the snow accumulated on the ground during the year, from September to April. The characteristics of the annual snow strata can influence the access to food, particularly for animals that rely on food sources below the snow strata (Kohler et al. 2004). From a chemical point of view, snow depositions during the winter are a sink for an impressive amount of chemical compounds (natural and anthropogenic) and elements trapped in the snow layers. Particularly, compounds and elements that can be photo-activated accumulate during the winter and can be re-emitted in the atmosphere, taking part in numerous geochemical and biological cycles (Björkman et al. 2013) during the spring. However, elements that can be photo-activated are not the only ones to be released from the annual snow strata. During the melting phase, all elements and compounds that are still present in the snow can be released in the melting water (Bogdal et al. 2010), accumulate in the ground or be discharged in the sea, affecting biological productivity or, in the case of anthropogenic compounds, causing a spotted contamination of the surrounding environment. Two experiments were performed to evaluate the changes in the chemical composition of surface and subsurface annual snow. An in-depth investigation of the evolution of the first meter of the annual snow layer, with daily resolution, was conducted in the glacier of Austre Brøggerbreen, Svalbard, between the 27th of March and the 31st of May, in concomitance with the start of the melting phase (Spolaor et al. 2016). The present monitoring study mainly aimed to evaluate changes in the thermal profile and liquid water content (LWC) during the formation of a new ice layer (Figure 1) as well as the re-allocation of the total dissolved salts (TDS) and, more in detailed, the specific ionic compound as Na+, Br-, NO3 -,Cl-, Ca2+,Mg2+ ect. In addition, and to corroborate the previous experiment, three additionally experiments were performed, two at high temporal resolution between the 29th April and 1st of May 2015 (Figure 2) and between the 7th and the 10th of April 2016, and one sampling the surface snow (15 cm) with daily resolution between the 1st of April to the 30th of June 2014. The first high-resolution experiment were performed during the midnight sun season while the second ones when the


Book of Abstracts Edited by: Baca A., Wessner B., Diketmüller R., Tschan H., Hofmann M., Kornfeind P., Tsolakidis E. EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF SPORT SCIENCE CROSSING BORDERS THROUGH SPORT SCIENCE 21 st Αnnual Congress of the 6th - 9th July 2016, Vienna - Austria Hosted by the Centre for Sport Science and University Sports, University of Vienna


Information Science Trends 2022 - The ASIS&T European Chapter Research Series. 17-19 June 2022 1 Crossing the border between human and non-human in information science Niloofar Solhjoo, PhD candidate, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington Keywords everyday information behaviour, more-than-human, companion animal, research method, multispecies ethnography, posthumanism STRUCTURED ABSTRACT Aim of the contribution Telling untold story of animals whose actions are linked to human everyday information behaviour (e.g., in a multispecies family), this poster aims to outline methods to address the voice and perspective of nonhuman animals in information studies. Value of the contribution In this creative study design information behaviour was seen as an inseparable part of more-than-human cohabitation as humans have learnt to understand, make meaning, or just live with animals in their homes and cities. Dogs and cats, as embodied and minded individuals living their lives entangled with humans, were recognized as the research participants. This poster makes a call for an ‘animal turn’ in information science to find more-than-human ways of doing research and undermine the exclusiveness of the human agents in the study of information experience. Research context Existing Literature of the scarce information research related to keeping and living with companion animals were mostly expanded reports, outside the information field, and were built on a limited view of the objective information (e.g., documents and recorded information), with no attention to internal and subjective information, and overlooking everyday practices and important actors in a multispecies family. The fact that dogs and cats live with humans and are interactively entangled with everyday life is sufficient to justify their inclusion in information behaviour studies. Therefore, this poster shifts away from a theoretical focus on information research about or on animals to research ‘with’ animals.


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Chihiro Imamura, Yoichi Tamura, Akio Taniguchi (Nagoya University) Toshiaki Kimura, Hiroaki Kawamura, Ayame Usui (Nagoya City University) Mikio Kurita (Kyoto University) Heuristic design of light-weight homologous structure for Large Submillimeter Telescope AtLAST design study: results, science, and next steps 23rd May 2024 Optimization/Evolution 50-m Class Single-dish Telescope From Kawabe+2016 From Mroczkowski+2024


Fusion of multiple classifiers using self supervised learning for satellite image change detection Alexandros Oikonomidis1[0000−0003−4803−6419], Maria Pegia1[0000−0003−2643−0028], Anastasia Moumtzidou1[0000−0001−7615−8400], Ilias Gialampoukidis1[0000−0002−5234−9795], Stefanos Vrochidis1[0000−0002−2505−9178], and Ioannis Kompatsiaris1[0000−0001−6447−9020] Information Technologies Institute / Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece {aleoikon, mpegia, moumtzid, heliasgj, stefanos, ikom}@iti.gr Abstract. Deep learning methods are widely used in the domain of change de- tection in remote sensing images. While datasets of that kind are abundant, anno- tated images, specific for the task at hand, are still scarce. Neural networks trained with Self supervised learning aim to harness large volumes of unlabeled satellite high resolution images to help in finding better solutions for the change detection problem. In this paper we experiment with this approach by presenting 4 dif- ferent change detection methodologies. We propose a fusion method that under specific parameters can provide better results. We evaluate our results using two openly available datasets with Sentinel-2 satellite images, S2MTCP and OSCD, and we investigate the impact of using 2 different Sentinel 2 band combinations on our final predictions. Finally we conclude by summarizing the benefits of this approach as well as we propose future areas of interest that could be of value in enhancing the change detection task’s outcomes. Keywords: Change Detection · Self Supervised Learning · Satellite images 1 Introduction The history of change detection can be traced back to the early days of remote sensing with one of the first examples being the use of aerial photography to identify agricul- tural land use changes [13]. Change detection is the process of comparing two images of the same area at different times to identify changes, such as urban growth and de- velopment, deforestation events and vegetation evolution. Those changes are depicted onto a change mask where usually a white pixel represents a change and a black pixel that nothing has changed. Despite the large amount of data that is now available from programs like Coperni- cus and Landsat, there is still a lack of open labelled datasets using these images. This makes it difficult to compare and evaluate new proposed change detection algorithms. Sufficient labelled datasets are essential for developing supervised learning methods with deep neural networks. A promising candidate in tackling this problem is Self Supervised Learning(SSL), a subset of Unsupervised Learning. The term supervision means that labels do exist


Environmental influence on the body shape of Melanophryniscus tadpoles (Anura: Bufonidae) Marcos R. Severgnini1; Diego Baldo2; Maria F. Vera Candioti2; Diogo B. Provete1 1Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul - UFMS 2Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - CONICET


Poster STI 2022 Conference Proceedings Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators All papers published in this conference proceedings have been peer reviewed through a peer review process administered by the proceedings Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a conference proceedings. Proceeding Editors Nicolas Robinson-Garcia Daniel Torres-Salinas Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado Citation: Fuente-Gutiérrez, E. (2022). Analysis of the economic efficiency of the research activity of public universities: Proposal of a model for the evaluation of performance. In N. Robinson-Garcia, D. Torres-Salinas, & W. Arroyo-Machado (Eds.), 26th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, STI 2022 (sti22109). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6951506 Copyright: © 2022 the authors, © 2022 Faculty of Communication and Documentation, University of Granada, Spain. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Collection: https://zenodo.org/communities/sti2022grx/


Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries - A Living Bibliography Annika Rockenberger1 1University of Oslo Library, Moltke Moes vei 39, Oslo, 0851, Norway Abstract This poster describes the creation and publication of a curated, cumulative, open – living – bibliography of the organisation Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB). It recounts how the bibliographic material - conference abstracts, posters, peer-reviewed papers, journal articles, but also news items about the conferences, blog posts, forum posts - has been collected in a Zotero library. It discusses ways of documenting and archiving the bibliography both as a set of research data in a Dataverse repository and as an open Zotero group library. The poster concludes with the prospect of opening up the bibliography to become a community driven project that will be expanded and maintained by the DHNB community and made explorable for research both as a live bibliography and as a data set for further analyses. Keywords Bibliography, Research Data, Community, DHNB 1. Origins 1.1. From Idea to Action In late 2019 and in the advent of the 5-year anniversary of the Association of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) in April 2020, I1 started collecting material on DHNB as an organisation, a community of researchers and practitioners, and a central facilitator of digital humanities knowledge in the Nordic and Baltic Countries and beyond. Even though DHNB was at that time only a couple of years old, already I met many obstacles collecting its conference outputs: The main medium of DHNB community building and publication. Gathering information about how the Nordic-Baltic, the international Digital Humanities community, and the wider Humanities and Social Sciences communities received the organisation and its DHNB2022 - Digital Humanities in Action: Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 6th Conference, March 15–18, 2022, Uppsala, Sweden Envelope-Open annika.rockenberger@ub.uio.no (A. Rockenberger) GLOBE https://www.ub.uio.no/english/about/people/uhs/uhsfagstudier/annikar/ (A. Rockenberger) Orcid 0000-0001-9515-8262 (A. Rockenberger) © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its author. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). CEUR Workshop Proceedings http://ceur-ws.org ISSN 1613-0073 CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) 1I will deliberately use the first person singular throughout this paper. This for three reasons: Firstly, I believe that using “I” and an active voice increases the readability and accessibility of a text. Secondly, I believe one should make it explicit who it is who does the research, the data collection, the analyses, and the writing. Academic texts do not emerge out of thin air, they are created by individuals with intentions and biases. Thirdly, I make use the ’autoethnographic method’ when I not just present the results of my data collection and research but also write about the processes and contexts that inform my data collection and the practices that shape it. For a brief, however illustrative, introduction to autoethnography as method see [1]. A more in-depth introduction would be [2].


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Page | 1 Spatial Patterns of Walking, Cycling, and Public Transport Mobility and Associated Neighbourhood Characteristics in Dublin, Ireland Kevin Credit*1 1National Centre for Geocomputation, Maynooth University December 7, 2022 Summary This paper explores the spatial patterns of walking, cycling, and public transport mobility in Dublin using a novel methodology that queries all neighbourhood-to-neighbourhood travel times within the region (by mode). These travel times are converted to travel costs and divided by Euclidean distance to create relative measures of mobility (cost-distance ratios). Analysing the neighbourhood characteristics of the origins and destinations for these ratios shows that racial/ethnic diversity, low socioeconomic status, and poor health are all related to relatively more costly (i.e., slow) public transit service. However, some of these neighbourhoods are relatively well-served by walking and cycling infrastructure. KEYWORDS: public transport, mobility, travel times, spatial modeling, cycling 1. Introduction Transportation mobility – the ability of an individual to travel through space on a given transportation network – is an important component of economic opportunity, public health, and overall quality of life (Ong & Houston, 2002; Yi, 2006; Lindstrom, 2008; Frank et al., 2006). This is particularly true for non-automobile modes, such as walking, cycling, and public transport, since these modes are less expensive than automobile ownership and tend to increase physical activity rates. However, a growing body of research has shown that the provision of transportation infrastructure – and thus individual mobility – is often unequally distributed in urban areas. In the North American context, processes of suburbanisation and ‘white flight’ in the post-WWII period were driven by transportation investment patterns that focused almost exclusively on automobile infrastructure in suburban and exurban areas (Vojnovic & Darden, 2013). The implicit (and sometimes explicit) goal of these investments was to enable the decentralisation of higher income, white populations. The resulting ‘sprawling’ development patterns make effective public transport service difficult to deliver at a regional scale; but even within dense cities, minoritized neighbourhoods still tend to be less well- served by public transport, walking, and cycling infrastructure (Lee et al. 2018; Credit et al. 2021). While European countries have experienced broadly similar trends in auto-centric development patterns over the past 70 years, the underlying socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and built environment dynamics are much different (and less well-studied) than in North America. In Ireland, the onset of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy in the early 1990s fostered massive growth in suburban and exurban Dublin (McManus, 2018). By 2000 the effective Dublin “commuting belt” measured 90km, with new development occurring in a dispersed pattern across both larger commuter towns and smaller villages (Willams & Shiels, 2000). Despite the downturn in construction caused by the 2008 financial crisis, the auto-orientation of new development in Ireland continues to persist, with a 2014 study (Caulfield & Ahern) showing that those living in housing built after 2006 have significantly longer commute times and a much higher likelihood of commuting by automobile. * kevin.credit@mu.ie


ABSTRACT • We present an update of the MulChem chemical evolution model applied to the Milky Way Galaxy, by using the most recent stellar yields for low and intermediate mass stars and for massive stars. • We study the role of the different type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate prescriptions, using 15 different Delay Time Distribution (DTD) functions, depending on the binary stars able to create a SN Ia scenario • Simultaneously, 12 tables of yields of elements produced by different explosion mechanisms for SN-Ia are explored. The chemical abundances derived from these 180 models, resulting from the combination of different set of SN Ia yields and DTDs, are analized. • The results of the Solar Region for [Fe/H] and [a/Fe] vs. Stellar age and for [a/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] (where a-elements are O, Mg, Si, S, and Ca) are compared with an extensive observational dataset coming from the most recent surveys and compiled for this work. • Then, the best model able to reproduce the observational data is selected by means of a c2 technique. • We analyse the results obtained for relative abundance of a-elements (O, Mg, Si, S, Ca) with Fe as a function of the galactocentric distance and stellar ages for the disc and the halo. • In agreement with previous works, we find that a significant fraction of type Ia SNe must take place at short delay times in order to reproduce these observed abundance ratios [α/Fe], as a function of both stellar age and Fe abundance • The large dispersion of data could be explained by a mix of stars located at different spatial regions or that moved after their birth. A mix of different DTD’s or explosión mechanims may also justify part of this dispersion SUPERNOVA RATES AND [a/Fe] ABUNDANCES IN MWG: THEIR VARIATIONS IN TIME AND SPACE M.Mollá1, O.Cavichia2, J.J.Bazán1, A.Castrillo3, L.Galbany4,I.Millán-Irigoyen1 1CIEMAT, 2Univ. Itajubà, 3UAM, 4ICE-IEEE


Discovering Our Universe Together The Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON) and Time Domain Follow-up from the Ground and Space Bryan Millera, Rachel Streetb, Cesar Briceñoa, Andy Adamsona, Janice Leea, Lisa Storrie-Lombardib, Monika Soraisama, Joanna Thomas-Osipa, Jay Eliasa, Steve Heathcotea, Adam Boltona, Arturo Nuneza February, 2022 aNSF’s NOIRLab, bLas Cumbres Observatory


What can we learn from constraining Extreme-Emission Line Galaxies models with large samples of local analogs? Enrique Pérez-Montero Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC And the collaboration from: R. Amorín (La Serena), J.M. Vílchez (IAA), J. Sánchez Almeida (IAC), C. Kehrig (IAA), R. García-Benito (IAA)


1 The Ideation Capacity Guided by an Intercultural Experience During the Concept Designing Process, a Case Study Dirk van Gogh* Hiroko Yamazaki ** * Chairman of Design Study Group of KASK,-Royal Academy Fine Arts Ghent, Belgium, dirk.vangogh@hogent.be ** Homeopath, VGC association, Antwerp, Belgium, hiroko_ymzk@yahoo.co.jp Abstract: The present paper evaluates the concept designing process among Belgium students of the course ‘Product Development’ and the students of the course ‘Multimedia Design’. Examining 4 projects during the design workshop, named: “Inspired by Japanese Home Cooking”, we discuss how the ideation capacity was activated by intercultural experience. Key words: Culture, Ideation, Cooking 1. Introduction As one of the trainings to optimize students’ design capacity in an international context, the Higher Institute for Product Development, Design Sciences, University College of Antwerp holds a workshop-week in the year of 2009 under the theme of “Products and Services for Food and Drinks”. A similar workshop was held in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, University College of Ghent during the course ‘Multimedia Design’ in May 2010. In this paper, a brief report is presented of one workshop, named “Inspired by Japanese Home Cooking” and run by, a Belgian doctor in product development Dirk van Gogh and a Japanese homeopath Hiroko Yamazaki. The main objectives of the workshop were: to activate students’ ideation capacity by giving inspirations from authentic Japanese home-style cooking and to make it possible for students to develop innovative products or eating environments based on Western and Asian cultural viewpoints. 2. Methods 2.1. Participants Twenty students participated, including 4 from first-year master course, 6 from third-year bachelor course, 5 from second-year bachelor course, and 5 from international students of the European Erasmus program. 2.2. Procedure The workshop especially focused on the following aspects: Introduction of Japanese home cooking: First of all, some key characters of Japanese home cooking were presented. One of the characters is its variety; that is, Japanese has introduced many other cultures’ cooking into their daily eating while respecting their own


Omri Mor1, Jiakun Yan1, Hartmut Kaiser2, Marc Snir1 1Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2Center of Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University A Lightweight Communication Interface for Asynchronous Many-Task Systems Lightweight Communication Interface (LCI) [2] Low-level Communication Library: - Intended user: high-level library developers - Similar to UCX, libfabric, and GASNet, as opposed to MPI Designed for AMT Runtimes: - Applies to other irregular applications, such as graph analytics or sparse linear algebra - Easily modifiable research library, for studying communication API design and implementation Major Features: - Multithreaded performance as top priority - Versatile communication interface - Explicit control of communication behaviors and resources Motivation Modern Parallel Architecture: - Increased intra-node parallelism. - Increased heterogeneity. - Powerful Interconnect. Task-based Programming Model: - Programmers decompose their program into tasks along with their dependencies. - The runtime will handle the mapping, scheduling and data movement. - E.g. HPX, Legion, PaRSEC. - Communication layer: MPI/GASNet. New Communication Pattern: - Multithreaded. - Irregular destinations. - Small messages. HPX [3] and PaRSEC [1]: New LCI Backends [4, 5] High Performance ParalleX (HPX): - Implementation of ParalleX execution model, standards-focused C++ API - Asynchronous task execution and arbitrary task graph construction. - Developed by the STE||AR Group Parallel Runtime Scheduling and Execution Controller (PaRSEC): - Generic framework for executing distributed task-based applications - Support for multiple Domain-Specific Language backends - Developed by the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Task-based Multi-Chain Ping-Pong Motivation: - Communication layer benchmarks necessary to measure and improve efficiency - Traditional communication benchmarks do not directly apply to AMT runtimes Design: - “Chains” of tasks spawned on two nodes and alternating between nodes - Task chains associated with data movement - Tasks optionally execute computation on data Variables: - Message size, chain count, chain length, and task granularity Measurement: - Basic communication characteristics: latency, message rate, and bandwidth - Realistic cache effects with task modification of communication buffers - Communication-communication and computation-communication overlap Evaluation Execution Environment: - Expanse cluster at San Diego Supercomputer Center - 2× AMD EPYC 7742: 128 cores @ 2.25 GHz with 256 GiB DDR4 - Mellanox ConnectX-6: 2× HDR InfiniBand links in a Hybrid Fat-Tree topology - Rocky Linux 8.8 with Linux 4.18.0-477.15.1 - Open MPI 4.1.5 with UCX 1.14.0, using AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler Results: References 1. George Bosilca et al. “DAGuE: A generic distributed DAG engine for High Performance Computing”. Parallel Computing. 38, 1. 2012. (https://github.com/icldisco/parsec) 2. Hoang-Vu Dang, Marc Snir, and William Gropp. "Towards millions of communicating threads." Proceedings of the 23rd European MPI Users' Group Meeting. 2016. (https://github.com/uiuc-hpc/LC) 3. Hartmut Kaiser et al. "HPX: A task based programming model in a global address space." Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Partitioned Global Address Space Programming Models. 2014. (https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx) 4. Omri Mor, George Bosilca, and Marc Snir. "Improving the Scaling of an Asynchronous Many-Task Runtime with a Lightweight Communication Engine." Proceedings of the 52nd International Conference on Parallel Processing. 2023. 5. Jiakun Yan, Hartmut Kaiser, and Marc Snir. "Design and Analysis of the Network Software Stack of an Asynchronous Many-task System--The LCI parcelport of HPX." Proceedings of the SC'23 Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis. 2023. Motivation Modern Parall


“Media and scientific literature monitoring of Xylella fastidiosa using the MEDISYS platform” Mannino M. R., Larenaudie M., Campese C., Linge J.P., Candresse T., Jaques Miret J.A., Jeger M.J., Maiorano A., Gachet E., Muñoz Guajardo I., Stancanelli G.


Genetic diversity and Wolbachia infection of Italian populations of Philaenus spumarius, the main vector of Xylella fastidiosa in southern Europe Formisano G1, Iodice L1, Cascone P1, Sacco A1, Quarto R1, Cavalieri V1, Abou Kubaa R1, Bosco D1,2, Guerrieri E1, Giorgini M1 1CNR, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Italy 1,2Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy Presenter: Giorgini M (massimo.giorgini@ipsp.cnr.it)


An open-source solution for the implementation of scenario planning with an interactive visualisation tools Liam Webb1, Mitchel Langford1 and Gary Higgs1 GIS Research Centre, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD), Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, UK December 12, 2022 *Liam.webb@southwales.ac.uk Summary KEYWORDS: Predictive analysis, API’s, Accessibility, PSS Summary This research will provide insight into scenario planning in GIS and how when mixed with interactive visualisation tools it can be used to provide unique insight into geospatial data and provide policymakers with more insightful data, which, in turn, can lead to better and more deliberated decisions. 1. Introduction Too often policymakers and decision-makers rely on outdated procedures and systems to undertake analyses and interrogation of spatial data, there is a danger in doing this that resources and results generated this way are not always as accurate when compared to current and modern techniques (Huang, et al., 2020). Despite this, there is scant evidence for the uptake of newer systems being created despite their increasing availability (Tsalamanis, 2018). By implementing multiple open- source techniques and technologies together, current visualisation tools have the potential to build in- depth analysis systems that provide a more portable and user-friendly approach that could increase uptake from policymakers and increase data effectiveness as a result. 1.1. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES  Implementation and investigation of scenario planning within GIS  Development and integration of visualisation tools and technologies  Creation of web-platform that allows users to have visualised results from scenario planning analysis The main goal of this research will be to investigate scenario planning and how it can be implemented within an accessibility tool that utilises visualisation tools and techniques to present temporal accessibility data through live calculations (not pre-stored data). With the creation of this tool policy makers could exploit data to predict what could happen if a certain scenario was carried out. 1.2. PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS AND PSS Planning support systems are systems that are created with the intent of providing planning data for specific tasks (Batty, 1995; Klosterman, 1997). By utilising temporal travel data as well as other supply-side variables predictive analysis within web-GIS can be used as a planning support system to assist policymakers in the planning of urban development. For example, by measuring the accessibility of supply-side variables such as banks and the effect that changing travel networks can


EUROPRO Digital Corpus Description The EUROPRO Digital Corpus is a collection of digital texts that reflect the discursive and linguistic practices of international research projects financed by the Horizon2020 European framework for excellence science and research innovation. As such, it is regarded as a specialized corpus of texts that is static, implying that it was compiled at one specific point in time. The EUROPRO Digital Corpus is divided into two sub-corpora focusing on specific objects of inquiry, namely the EUROPROwebs Corpus (European Project Websites) and the EUROPROtweets Corpus (European Project Twitter Accounts). Overall, the corpus allows us to analyse digital academic discourse and, through its analysis, insights can be gained into international research group’s evolving discursive and professional practices. Additionally, as the figure below displays, the EUROPRO Digital Corpus is part of a holistic network of genres, texts and documents that we have labelled as EUROPRO Repository and that go deeper into the academic, professional and contextual aspects that surround international research projects. Thus, this repository comprises the EUROPRO Database, which is an extension of the EUROPRO Digital Corpus and include a total of 100 Horizon2020 international research projects. Much as the EUROPRO Digital Corpus, two collections of texts make up this database: the EUROPROwebs Database containing 100 research project websites and the EUROPROtweets Database collecting the existing Twitter accounts derived from projects in the database. Lastly, the EUROPRO Repository has also a branch devoted to EUROPRO Documentation, where materials and resources are gathered to gain understanding into how international research projects are created and developed and how scientific knowledge is expected to be communicated, disseminated and exploited.


Linked Open Samian Ware - Florian Thiery, Allard Mees, Dennis Gottwald Florian Thiery M.Sc. Dr. Allard Mees FSA Dennis Gottwald B.A.


Promoting A Physical Security Mental Model For Personal Firewall Warnings Abstract We used an iterative process to design personal firewall warnings in which the functionality of a firewall is visualized based on a physical security mental model. We performed a study to determine the degree to which our proposed warnings are understandable for our participants, and the degree to which they convey the risks and encourage safe behavior as compared to warnings based on those from a popular personal firewall. Initial results show that our warnings facilitate the comprehension of warning information, better communicate risk, and increase the likelihood of safe behavior. Moreover, they provided participants with a better understanding of both the functionality of a personal firewall and the consequences of their actions. Keywords Usable security, firewall, warning, mental model ACM Classification Keywords H.5.2 Information Interfaces and Presentation: User Interfaces-Evaluation/Methodology; D.4.6 Software: Security and Protection-Information flow controls. Introduction Even though personal firewalls are an important aspect of personal computer security, little attention has been given to their usability. Prior research [6] revealed that users’ interaction with firewalls is mainly limited to Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI 2011, May 7–12, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM 978-1-4503-0268-5/11/05. Fahimeh Raja University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 fahimehr@ece.ubc.ca Kirstie Hawkey Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 1W5 Hawkey@cs.dal.ca Steven Hsu University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 h.steven@alumni.ubc.ca Kai-Le Clement Wang University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 w.kaile@alumni.ubc.ca Konstantin Beznosov University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 Beznosov@ece.ubc.ca


Poster: Detecting Network Anomalies from Small Trafﬁc Samples using Graph Neural Network Aviv Yehezkel Cynamics Israel aviv@cynamics.ai Eyal Elyashiv Cynamics Boston, US eyal@cynamics.ai Abstract—Detecting anomalies in computer networks is a classic, long-term research problem. While almost every kind of model architecture has been proposed, previous works usually analyzed the entire network trafﬁc. However, such analysis implies high memory and processing overhead, and is becoming less applicable for large networks. In this poster we present a work in progress which studies a previously under-researched setting where only a small fraction of the network trafﬁc is given. Our approach pre-processes the samples and transforms the computer network into a graph neural network (GNN). It distills node features, edge features and graph representations to learn a vector embedding for each endpoint which characterizes its normal behaviors. Then, a link predictor model is used to estimate the likeli- hood of network communications and detect anomalies. Index Terms—Deep-Learning; Graph Neural Network; Net- work Anomaly Detection; Network Security 1. Introduction Detecting anomalies in computer networks is a classic, long-term research problem. Almost every kind of model architecture has been studied: statistical, clustering, clas- siﬁcation, information-theory, deep-learning, and others (see [1] for a recent comprehensive survey on network anomaly detection). Speciﬁcally, various learning-based approaches were used [2]–[6]. However, previous works were based on analyzing the entire network trafﬁc, which is less applicable for large networks. A much less-studied approach is the sampling ap- proach, which is especially suitable for high-speed (gigabit or more) or high throughput networks, where only a small fraction of the packets (for example 1%) is being sampled and summarized [7]. In a recent work, we showed how a small percent of uniform sampling can be used to efﬁciently and accurately detect network anomalies and attacks using the concept of ”auto-encoder losses transfer learning” [8]. Our approach collected 1% network samples for each client, trained an auto-encoder neural network for each client’s network and then normalized all auto-encoder losses of the different clients, providing the ability to transform loss vectors of different client networks with potentially signiﬁcant varying characteristics, properties, and behaviors into a similar statistical distribution. The normalized losses can then be forwarded to a global detection model that detects and classiﬁes threats in a generalized way that is agnostic to the speciﬁc client. We used extensive simulation study to compare the ”sampled” approach to the existing “un- sampled” state-of-the-art approach and showed its superior detection accuracy. In this poster, we present a work in progress which intends to take our previous research one step deeper in the network - from the gateways to the endpoints. The proposed approach will transform the computer network into a graph neural network (GNN). It will distill node features, edge features and graph representations to learn a vector embedding for each endpoint which characterizes its normal behaviors. Then, a link predictor model will be used to estimate the likelihood of network communica- tions and detect anomalies in the endpoint level. As this work is still in progress, the poster abstract will mainly present our research idea and approach, without providing evaluations and preliminary results. In addition to the lower processing cost, a sampling- based network anomaly detection approach has many ad- vantages, such as: (a) Data privacy: the packet’s payload is not analyzed at any moment; (b) built-in robustness against sophisticated attacker utilizing ML techniques, due to the randomized nature. The key contributions of the work being presented in the poster are: • A novel approach for transforming a computer network to graph ne


The 21th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun Edited by A. S. Brun, J. Bouvier, P. Petit Nonlinear tidal interactions in the convective envelopes of low-mass stars and giant gaseous planets Aurélie Astoul,1 Adrian Barker1 1Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK 1 * Abstract In close exoplanetary systems, tidal interactions are known to shape orbital architectures, to modify star and planet spins, and to have an impact on the internal structures of the bodies through tidal heating. Most stars around which planets have been discovered are low-mass stars and thus feature a convective envelope, as is also expected in giant gaseous planets like Hot Jupiters. Tidal flows in convective envelopes consist of large-scale equilibrium tides and inertial waves (restored by the Coriolis acceleration, and recently discovered in the Sun) excited by tides. Inertial waves contribute greatly to the tidal dissipation when they are excited and subsequently damped (through e.g. turbulent viscous friction), especially early in the life of a system. These waves are known to be subject to nonlinear effects, including triggering differential rotation in the form of zonal flows. In this context, we investigate how nonlinearities affect tidal properties, thanks to 3D nonlinear hydrodynamical simulations of tidal flows, in an adiabatic and incompressible convective shell. Unlike previous studies, we use a realistic tidal body forcing to excite inertial waves. Within our new set-up, we observe the establishment of strong cylindrically-sheared zonal flows, which modify the tidal dissipation rates from prior linear theoretical predictions. We demonstrate that the effects of this differential rotation on the waves neatly explains the discrepancies between linear and nonlinear dissipation rates in many of our simulations. Nonlinear interactions between inertial waves, and those between the waves and the background sheared flow, can lead to instabilities, for sufficiently high tidal forcing amplitudes or low viscosities. These different processes disrupt the energetic exchanges between tidal waves and the background flow, and also further modify tidal dissipation rates. 2 Introduction Due to the compact nature of many exoplanetary systems discovered so far, the study of tidal interactions is essential to understand the orbital and rotational properties of the plan- ets, as well as the rotations of their host stars. There has been a growing interest in detecting orbital decay of close Hot Jupiters, presumably caused by tidal interactions (e.g. Pa- tra et al., 2020; Harre et al., 2023). Though many ∼one-day orbital period giant gaseous planets are expected to migrate towards their host stars if tides are strong, only WASP-12 b has been convincingly confirmed to decay to date (Maciejew- ski et al., 2016). Therefore, an accurate theoretical estimation of tidal dissipation is needed to interpret the orbital decay rate of the planet/accelerating spin of star. In the WASP-12 system, non-linear wave breaking of gravity waves (restored by buoyancy) in the radiative central portions of the host star is believed to be responsible for the inward spiralling of the planet (Chernov et al., 2017; Weinberg et al., 2017; Barker, 2020). In other systems where this mechanism probably can- not apply, tidal dissipation of inertial waves (restored by the Coriolis acceleration) in stellar convective envelopes could be another avenue to explain any inferred orbital decay, as in the KELT-1 Hot Jupiter/brown dwarf system (Maciejewski et al., 2022) or for the Hot Jupiter Kepler-1658 b (Vissapra- gada et al., 2022). Given the high tidal forcing amplitudes1 ϵ = (M2/M1)(R1/a)3 expected in Hot Jupiters themselves, 1A measure of the strength of the tides with M the mass, R the radius and a the orbital semi-major axis, with subscripts 1 and 2 referring to the perturbed body and the perturber, respectively (Ogil


Surface imaging of cool evolved stars in the era of the ELT M. Wittkowski1 A. Chiavassa2 S. Höfner3 J. B. Climent4 1 ESO 2 Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France 3 Uppsala University, Sweden 4 Universitat de València Cool evolved stars are the main source of chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium. Understanding their mass loss offers a unique opportunity to study the cycle of matter. We discuss interferometric studies and their comparison to latest state-of-the-art dynamic model atmospheres. They show broad agreement for asymptotic giant branch stars. For red supergiants, however, current models cannot explain observed extensions by far, pointing to missing physical processes in their models, and uncertainties in our general understanding of mass loss. We present ongoing imaging and time-series observations that may provide the strongest constraint and may help to identify missing dynamic processes. VLTI studies will remain the highest spatial resolution observations at ESO into the ELT era, complemented by ALMA observations. We discuss crucial improvements in both instrumental and operational areas for surface imaging of cool evolved stars in the era of the ELT. Introduction Low-to-intermediate mass asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and massive red supergiants (RSGs) are cool evolved stars with low effective temperatures between about 2500 K and 4000 K, and together spanning a huge range of luminosities of log L/Lsun between about 3 and 6. They experience a mass loss rate of up to about 10-5 to 10-4 Msun/year, precipitating the return of material to the interstellar medium. The mass-loss process is thought to be triggered by a levitation of the atmosphere to radii where dust can form, and radiative acceleration on dust grains dragging along the gas (e.g., Höfner and Olofsson 2018). However, some details of this process are surprisingly little understood, in particular for red supergiants, for which current models of pulsation and convection alone cannot elevate the atmosphere to observed extensions (Arroyo-Torres et al. 2015). Other processes may need to be included, such as radiative acceleration on Doppler-shifted molecular lines (Josselin & Plez 2007), magnetic fields and Alfén waves (e.g., Thirumalai & Heyl 2012, Airapetian et al. 2010), rotation (e.g., Vlemmings et al. 2018), or giant hot spots (e.g., Montarges et al. 2016, Vlemmings et al. 2017). The mass-loss is initiated on top of the convective photosphere of these sources, a crucial region that we need to image and study for a representative sample covering the large parameter space, to understand the physical mechanisms that elevate the atmosphere and drive the mass loss, by comparison to theoretical simulations. Current stage A decade of comparisons of mostly single-epoch spectro-interferometry at individual baselines to dynamic model atmospheres for AGB and RSG stars showed that both classes of evolved stars observationally show similarly extended molecular layers that can be fairly well reproduced by 1D pulsation dynamic models and with 3D models of convection for AGB stars (e.g., Wittkowski et al. 2016), but that by far cannot be reproduced by current 1D or 3D dynamic models of RSG stars (Arroyo- Torres et al. 2015). Interferometry now succeeds in imaging stellar surfaces and their environments, allowing us to compare reconstructed images and 3D simulations of convection in terms of contrast and morphology. Figs. 1-3 show as examples our work based on the PIONIER instrument in the near-IR H band for the the carbon AGB star R Scl (Wittkowski et al. 2017a), and the RSGs V766 Cen (Wittkowski et al. 2017b) and V602 Car (Climent et al., in prep.). All image reconstructions show a complex structure within the stellar disk. The image reconstruction of R Scl shows a complex structure and a dominant spot with large contrast


Collaborative Modeling Project for Predicting Acute Oral Toxicity (CATMoS) K Mansouri1, A Karmaus2, J Fitzpatrick3,4, G Patlewicz3, P Pradeep3,4, D Allen2, W Casey1, and N Kleinstreuer1 1NIH/NIEHS/DNTP/NICEATM, RTP, NC, USA; 2ILS, RTP, NC, USA; 3EPA/CCTE, RTP, NC, USA; 4ORISE, Oak Ridge, TN, USA OBJECTIVES • Acute systemic toxicity tests are commonly required by regulatory authorities to characterize a chemical’s toxicity. • ICCVAM published a roadmap to establish alternative approaches for evaluating toxicity • The goal of this project was to provide a computational tool for assessing acute oral toxicity • A key aspect of this project was leveraging the collective expertise of collaborators from different sectors APPROACH • Data collected and curated by ICCVAM’s Acute Toxicity Workgroup • International collaborators were invited to form a modeling consortium • Regulators and stakeholders were involved at early stages to ensure usability • Crowdsourced models were evaluated and combined into a consensus model MAIN RESULTS • 35 international participating groups and over 100 scientists from government, academia and industry submitted models (n=139 total) • The combined models provided high coverage and concordance for screened the lists of interest. • The consensus model showed high performance and accuracy. IMPACT • Dialogue between regulators and computational scientists in a dedicated workshop: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/atwksp- 2018 • Free and open-source/open-data consensus model available via a user-friendly app OPERA:https://github.com/NIEHS/OPERA • Collaborative publication: https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP8495 • CATMoS is being tested for regulatory use Abstract 253 This work does not necessarily represent the views or policy of the US EPA. Any mention of tradenames does not constitute endorsement


— 707 711 Celebration & Contemplation, 10th International Conference on Design & Emotion 27 — 30 September 2016, Amsterdam Abstract In the Western world we tend to neglect our mental wellbeing. We ignore feelings of stress, anxiety or sadness until the point that these develop themselves into burnouts, depressions and other mental issues… ‘We never saw coming…’ After problems have escalated treatment is expensive, lengthy and bureaucratic. Treatment is also ‘disease’ oriented, reducing a person to a ‘patient’ and not focusing on possibilities. As much as one out of every four westerners may develop a mental issue during their lifetimes. In many of these cases, escalation towards severe mental illness can be prevented by a greater awareness and basic care of ones own mental health. Very much like we are supposed to keep our bodies fit, thereby preventing to become obese or heart diseased. Mindkeeper is a multidisciplinary collaborative design project that is doing just that: Psychologists, psychiatrics, patients, insurers, coders and designers have teamed-up to develop a digital tool that provides people agency regarding matters concerning their own mental health. Mindkeeper will do that by coaching the user in seeking emotional fulfillment on the basis of the users emotional state and context. This emotional state is monitored by Mindkeeper thus building a personal mental health record. The data making up this record is visualized in a coherent and pleasing way providing the user with an idea of what is going on in ones mind. This results in a clear and attractive overview of an area that is usually shrouded in mysteries and folklore. The user empowered with this mental insight, may use Mindkeeper to connect with a community. Once connected, people can post queries, receive answers, compare ones situation with selected others and receiving and reviewing tips and tricks in getting or keeping oneself on track. The basic idea is that Mindkeeper is aimed at relatively mental healthy people and that by using Mindkeeper, people remedy slight issues themselves, thereby staying in control and keeping the responsibility of their own mental well being in their own hands. Keywords Mental wellbeing, Emotional fulfillment, Emotion monitor, ESM, Mental health app, Groupness, Community, Big data, Data visualization Mindkeeper: Monitor your mental wellbeing - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gijs Ockeloen1 gijs@reframingstudio.com Beatrijs Voorneman1 beatrijs@reframingstudio.com Arjen Oenema1 arjen@reframingstudio.com 1Reframing Studio, the Netherlands


Page | 1 Using secondary data to examine whether a programme of interventions in urban forests enhances community health and wellbeing. Ogletree S*1, Ward Thompson C1, Clemens T1, Pearce J1, and Mitchell R2 1University of Edinburgh 2University of Glasgow GISRUK 2023 Summary There is a growing demand for better evidence on the importance of forests for human health, as this may be a key element of future forestry strategies. Combining data from the Scottish Census, Public Health Scotland, and Scottish Forestry this research sought to address specific questions about the impact of urban woodlands in deprived areas on mental health and child development. Spatial data on woodland interventions and residential location allowed for a unique level of analysis to investigate outcomes. KEYWORDS: Greenspace, Secondary data, Woodlands, Mental health 1. Introduction Globally, there is an increasing burden of non-communicable disease (NCD), particularly mental illness, which is experienced inequitably (with those poorest suffering most) and potentially affects all stages of life. For example, poor mental health in childhood has implications for health and wellbeing throughout life. In the short term, school attainment may be impaired (Trout et al., 2003) while, in the longer term, persistent mental health issues, higher mortality rates and wider inequalities may result (Dube et al., 2003, Jokela et al., 2009). More recently there have been substantial increases in the prevalence of childhood social, emotional, and behavioural problems (Layard and Dunn, 2009). To address this upward trend, and the consequent growing societal burden now and in the future, it is imperative to identify the determinants of these childhood problems as well as to address poor mental health in adults. At the same time, across the UK, Europe and beyond, there is a demand for better evidence on the importance of forests for human health, as this may be a key element of future forestry strategies (World Commission on Protected Areas, 2018, Marušáková et al., 2019). The climate emergency means tree planting is poised to expand in the UK and this offers an opportunity to establish and maintain forests that are productive and multifunctional, delivering ecosystem services while benefiting human health and wellbeing. In this context, those responsible for urban and peri-urban land management are asking: what does urban forestry mean for human use, social benefit and wellbeing in the context of health inequities? (Marušáková et al., 2019)? Scottish Forestry have identified an urgent need to understand the value of forests for health and wellbeing in order to target scarce resources most effectively. For the first time, we have an opportunity to link secondary data on mental health, child development and a decade-long national urban forest intervention programme to offer the kind of evidence being * scott.ogletree@ed.ac.uk


MEASURED AND THEORETICAL SELF- AND N2-BROADENED LINE PARAMETERS IN THE 6 BAND OF CH3D V. Malathy Devia, D. Chris Bennera, Keeyoon Sungb, Mary Ann H. Smithc, Arlan Mantzd, Adriana Predoi-Crosse, Tatyana Sinyakovaf, Jeanna Buldyrevaf aDepartment of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA; bJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA; cScience Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA; dDepartment of Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA; eDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada; fInstitute UTINAM, University of Franche-Comte, Besancon, France


Page | 1 Leicester Temporal Geodemographic Classification Nouh AL-Mahrouqi*1 and Stefano De Sabbata†1 1School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, LE2 2LH GISRUK 2023 Summary The city of Leicester (UK) has seen large socio-demographic changes over the past century, gaining complex social, economic and multicultural geographies. Such changes are reflected in the data collected through the census and can be illustrated by developing a temporal geodemographic classification. This paper presents the results of a Master's dissertation project aimed at developing a temporal geodemographic classification for Leicester's urban area, including the Leicester Local Authority District, as well as the Oadby and Wigston Local Authority District, analysing its changing socio-economic structure over three censuses. KEYWORDS: Temporal Geodemographics, Leicester, Cluster Analysis, K-means, UK census 1. Introduction and Background The socio-economic and demographic characteristics of cities evolve throughout time due to a wide range of factors, including changes to the built environment and migration (Gale & Longley, 2013). The socio-spatial structure of places can quickly alter due to a variety of causes that have an impact on societies. Exploring these changes is essential to help policymakers in evaluating social and economic initiatives and interventions. In recent decades, summary indicators of neighbourhoods' demographic, economic, and social characteristics have been explored using geodemographic classifications. In particular, Singleton and Longley (2015) discussed the importance of developing local, specialised classifications for the analysis of cities. This paper presents the work completed for a Master's dissertation (AL-Mahrouqi, 2022) at the University of Leicester. The objective was to develop a temporal geodemographic classification (see, e.g., Patias et al., 2022) for Leicester using the 1991, 2001 and 2011 censuses to find out the changes and stability in the socio-economic characteristics of Leicester across the two decades. 2. Methods The research followed the standard framework for creating a geodemographic classification, including data acquisition, manipulation, and clustering analysis. Leicester's demographic, socio-economic and housing data were obtained from the Office for National Statistics for the UK censuses of 1991, 2001 and 2011. A detailed assessment of each variable was conducted to exclude the variables that could have had a negative impact on clustering or caused uncertainty in the results. The process involved removing strongly correlated and skewed variables, variables with minimal spatial variation, and variables that reduced the homogeneity of the clusters by carrying out a within-cluster sum of squares (WCSS) analysis. The final set included a total of 37 final variables: 18 were in their original form, and 19 were composite variables generated by merging multiple variables. The three censuses' geographic units were unified into the 2011 OA using the GeoConvert tool to obtain * Noo00h123@hotmail.com † s.desabbata@leicester.ac.uk


A New Approach Methodology (NAM) using 3D Human iPSC-Derived Neural Organoids to Screen for Developmental Neurotoxicity Hazard Sierra Boyd Ph.D. U.S. EPA The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.


Using missing data patterns to detect incorrectly assigned articles in bibliographic datasets Simon Willemin simon.willemin@library.ethz.ch 0009-0003-5802-9113 ETH Library, ETH Zurich, Switzerland The DORA declaration and CoARA call for the use of bibliometric indicators based on open data. However, established scholarly metadata datasets are closed, and the quality of open datasets has not yet been thoroughly examined. In this paper, I present a method to detect errors in a dataset using missing data patterns. As an example, the method is applied to the affiliation metadata of publications associated with ETH Zurich. This allows me to identify a series of incorrectly affiliated papers. The method introduced in this paper is not specifically designed for affiliation data and can also be used to detect errors in other types of data. It could lead to corrections which will hopefully benefit providers as well as users of data. 1. Introduction The DORA declaration and CoARA call for the use of bibliometric indicators based on open data. Some institutions have recently taken up such calls by abandoning the use of proprietary bibliometric products (Sorbonne University, 2023), by unsubscribing from a commercial database (CNRS, 2024), or by introducing a ranking based on open data (Waltman et al., 2024). However, reservations against the use of open data still arise due to uncertainties regarding their quality compared to closed and more established datasets whose weaknesses and biases are better known. Recent projects, such as TOBI (Towards Open Bibliometric Indicators, https://eth-library.github.io/tobi/) in Switzerland and OPENBIB (Comparative Analysis and Curation of German Metadata in Open Bibliometric Data, https://www.dzhw.eu/en/forschung/projekt?pr_id=733) in Germany might allow for a smooth transition towards openness by evaluating the quality of open bibliometric databases or by establishing such a database. In the context of the project TOBI, tools to detect errors and to assess quality are developed. This paper introduces a method to detect a specific type of error in any dataset. It is based on the identification of patterns of missing data that are not – or rarely – due to a lack of information, but to errors. The method consists in (1) computing missing data patterns, (2) grouping computed values, (3) filtering for groups of values corresponding to the type of error to detect, and (4) manually identifying the cases corresponding to the type of error to detect. To the extent of my knowledge, this error detection method has not been previously employed nor described in the literature. As an example, the method is applied to the affiliation data of the bibliographic database Dimensions. The detection of affiliation errors can lead to improvements in the database and consequently to more reliable analyses, especially when it comes to collaborations or networks. It can also be useful for data analysts in a context where existing institution disambiguation systems are not sufficiently accurate (Donner et al., 2020). The specific application of the method that I present allows one to find a series of incorrectly affiliated papers (the erroneous affiliations they are associated with are given in Appendix 1). Most of the errors seem to be due to homonymy and to the format of data used as a source. I discuss both the results and potential improvements of the data they are associated with, as well as the method and further possible uses of missing data patterns in a bibliometric context.


CoHERE WP5 Innovations n. 21 “This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693289.” Interactive e-book & Eurocraft prototype serious game


ANAIS 2017 VI CEFIVASF VI CONGRESSO DE EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA DO VALE DO SÃO FRANCISCO 24 a 26 de Agosto de 2017, Petrolina-PE / Juazeiro-BA Educação Física no Brasil: Aplicações na Escola, Saúde e Desempenho GEPEGENE CEFIS Colegiado de Educação Física Prefeitura de Juazeiro O trabalho segue em frente para mudar ainda mais Ministério da Saúde Ministério do Esporte Realização Patrocínio Apoio Sec. Executiva TREINAMENTOS E EVENTOS FACULDADE INSPIRAR ® WZ PETROLINA


EVALUATION OF XYLEM VASCULAR OCCLUSIONS IN OLIVE CULTIVARS INFECTED WITH XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA Montilon V.3, Boscia D.1, Savino V.2,3, Saldarelli P.1, Saponari M.1, De Stradis A.1 1CNR, Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Bari, Italy 2Centro di Ricerca, Sperimentazione e Formazione in Agricoltura “Basile Caramia”, Locorotondo (Bari), Italy 3Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy


Final conference, Rome October 11, 2016 Reconstruction of geomagnetic paleosecular variation on the continental margin of northwestern Barents Sea Caricchi, C. (1), Sagnotti L.(1), Macrì, P.(1), Lucchi, R.G. (2) and the scientific party of the project and cruise CORIBAR. 1 Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143, Rome, Italy (chiara.caricchi@ingv.it) 2 OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/c, I-34010 Sgonico, Trieste, Italy Abstract In the last decades, geomagnetic paleosecular variation (PSV) for the past millennia have been reconstructed from paleomagnetic and archeomagnetic data, in order to understand the variability of the geomagnetic field. PSV data from the Artic region could be of critical importance for geomagnetic field models. In particular, sedimentary sequences with suitable lithological character and good paleomagnetic properties may provide valuable empirical inputs for the reconstruction of the geomagnetic field variability over geological times. In this work, we present the analysis of high‐resolution paleomagnetic and rock magnetic analyses carried out on 3 sedimentary cores collected in glaciomarine silty‐ clay sequences from the continental shelf and slope across Kveithola trough‐mouth fan, on the continental margin of northwestern Barents Sea (Fig. 1). This study has been conducted in the framework of the PNRA project CORIBAR-IT, whose general aim is to define the timing and the paleo- environmental changes linked to the last deglaciation, by investigating the glacigenic sediments in a palaeo-ice stream depositional system in the western Barents Sea. The cores have been divided in sections of about 1m of length and then cut in two half parts Figure 1 Location of the CORIBAR cores (this work) and SVAIS and EGLACOM cores [Sagnotti et al., 2011; 2016]. (a) Location map of the study area in the NW Barents Sea. (b) Detail of the square study area indicated in map and location of the CORIBAR-SVAIS-EGLACOM sediment cores.


Globulettes: formation sites of Globulettes: formation sites of free floating planets? free floating planets? Globulettes are kAU scale and planetary/brown dwarf mass cold and dense molecular clumps seen in silhouette against the bright nebular background in HII regions. Lauri Haikala


SETTING UP OF EFFICIENT SAMPLING SCHEMES TO DETECT XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA IN APULIAN OLIVE GROVES Santoro Franco, Gualano Stefania, Favia Gabriele, Franco Valentini, D’Onghia Anna Maria International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies of Bari (CIHEAM of Bari) Via Ceglie 9, 70010, Valenzano (BA), Italy


Quantum Reservoir Computing for Chaotic Time Series Forecasting Osama Ahmed1, Felix Tennie1, and Luca Magri1,2 1Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom 2Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom Abstract Recently, it has been demonstrated that quantum reservoir computing (QRC) is an effective tool for time-series prediction. In this work, QRC is applied for multivariate, non-linear and chaotic time series predictions using the IBM Quantum platform. We compare the results of QRC predictions with its classical counterpart, analysing reservoir dynamics and sizes. Specifi- cally, this comprises time-series prediction, reservoir memory capacity and long-term statistics of the chaotic systems. We show that in comparison to the classical reservoir, fewer hyper- parameters are needed by the quantum reservoir, highlighting the robustness of the method. Furthermore, we have compared ensembles of networks between the quantum and classical schemes, with optimal hyper-parameters chosen through grid search and Bayesian optimization. We find that entanglement in the quantum reservoir enriches reservoir dynamics and prediction capabilities. More specifically, one can reduce the size of the quantum reservoir by comparison to its classical counterpart while preserving the accuracy of the output. Finally, we analyse the challenges and opportunities of QRC for recurrent time series predictions on Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum computing (NISQ)-era quantum processors. This work confirms and highlights the potential of QRC for chaotic time series predictions on near term quantum computers. 1 Introduction Various previous works have proposed utilizing and applying QRC and hybrid QRC architectures for time series predictions [1–3]. In hybrid QRC, input data is encoded in form of Bloch-sphere rotation angles in individual qubits along with reservoir state probabilities. The resulting quantum states undergo unitary operation at each time step [1]. In an another approach, a reservoir state is associated with the density operator of encoded quantum state and reservoir probabilities cor- respond to measurement outcomes of the final quantum state [3, 4]. While it has been speculated that quantum reservoir computers are a potential candidate providing quantum advantage in the near term NISQ-era, very few studies have been conducted on high-dimensional chaotic systems as well as their long term statistical predictabilities. The focus of this work is to study low-dimensional as well as high-dimensional chaotic systems with QRC. More specifically, we investigate the 3-dimensional Lorenz-63, and the 10-dimensional Lorenz-96 systems [5]. We assess the performance in multiple ways: first, by considering short-term time series prediction capabilities that are quantified using the predictability horizon [6], second, by comparison of long term statistics [7, 8], and third, by considering the short-term memory capacity of the reservoir [9]. In Section. 2, we present the comparison of quantum and classical reservoir architectures. Then, we compare the results of chaotic predictions for both networks. In Section. 3, 1


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Hot coronae around spiral galaxies: Probing the first principles of galaxy formation Ákos Bogdán1 W. Forman1, M. Vogelsberger2, H. Bourdin3, P. Mazzotta1,3, R. Kraft1, C. Jones1,E. Churazov4 1Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3University of Rome 4Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics


1 Experience Design for Elderly Living Design of ‘Birdy Tabletop’, a communication system Alistair Jones*, Masanori Godai*, Gabrielle Le Bihan*, Anne Guenand** *M2 students, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, BP 60319, 60203 Compiègne Cedex, France alistair.jones@etu.utc.fr, masanori.godai@etu.utc.fr, gabrielle.le-bihan@etu.utc.fr, **Roberval Lab., Product Design, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, BP 60319, 60203 Compiègne Cedex, France, anne.guenand@utc.fr Abstract: This paper presents a novel communication device developed using experience design and by taking the subjective values of the final user in the early steps of the design process. In this case, the system is dedicated to French elderly women with limited mobility and limited technological understanding, enabling them to communicate with members of their social group who are in the proximity of their homes. The method is based on extensive gerontology research, face-to-face interviews and three user co-design sessions, which necessitated the development of low-fidelity prototypes. As a result of our research, we propose Birdy, an interactive tabletop system. Keywords: Interaction design, elderly living, robust design, participative design, interactive tabletops 1. Introduction The population of senior citizens in industrialized countries is greatly increasing in number and percentage. As the generation of baby-boomers reaches old age, the identity of this social group is changing rapidly in ways that are difficult to measure and to understand [1]. Our conventional perspectives of old age are being challenged more than ever, especially in the case of female seniors. Women in old age live longer than their male counterparts, and are more likely to find themselves living alone. Since living alone is a popular and important option, much research has focused on assisted-living solutions for aging in place. Assisted-living solutions are typically designed for monitoring the physical health and security of the elder. Often, the role of monitor rightly falls upon trusted members of the elder's social network, but designers often demonstrate a limited understanding of an elder's social needs, and seldom seek to connect the elder to friends outside of the family. We seek to distinguish ourselves from prior research by leveraging the extensive gerontology research and previously unexploited insights to elder's social networks to provide a device who's primary objective is increasing friendly casual communication among elder's social networks. We believe this has the potential to provide great long-term benefits and happiness for elders. In this paper, we present a design for providing a socio-technical system to help elder women keep in touch within a close community of their friends. Though we designed and tested for women, as they are more likely to find themselves living alone, there are no explicit reasons for which our design could not serve elder males, as well. A preliminary state of the art on gerontology and elderly living is presented in section 2. Section 3 explains the method, details group interviews and discussions with a panel of elderly women, and presents some criteria of variability in the experience of living revealed through the experiments (section 3.1). Section 3.2 presents the robust design of an interactive tabletop, including the criteria of variability, and introduces concerns from the potential users regarding the final proposal. The section 4 is dedicated to discussion and conclusion.


Georgia State University Library's Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) Learning Lab Course A two-semester course that connected students with community partners to IDENTIFY DATA-DRIVEN SOLUTIONS FOR TACKLING FOOD INSECURITY in the metro-Atlanta area and other sites in Georgia. Funded by the New America Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Challenge Fund. pitcases.org $PARTNER COMPENSATION$ written into grant Develop RQs with Community Partners Survey Development & IRB Protocol Online and In- Person Data Collection with Students Data Cleaning and Prep Students do Data Analysis Present Results to Partners  →→→  →→→ Used both qualitative and quantitative skills to develop research questions (RQs), conduct data analyses, and communicate findings to community partners. ✓5 RQs – Descriptive (2), Inferential (1), and Qualitive (2) ✓Create data product (policy memo, one-pager, infographic) & presentation. Survey Data (MARTA users) ➢% heard of/used Fresh for Less program? ➢% don’t know how to make healthy meals? ➢Association b/t food insecurity and Fresh for Less use? WWG Focus Groups Data ➢Food for Health program changed Ps behaviors or feelings towards food? ➢Barriers Ps experience w/ Food For Health program participation? ➢% receive SNAP benefits? ➢% current MARTA Markets users satisfied with hours? ➢Association b/t receiving SNAP and using MARTA Markets? ➢What food items do MARTA users want Markets to offer? ➢Similarities/differences b/t current Market users and non-users re: desired food items? ➢% MARTA Markets users by gender? ➢Satisfaction with MARTA Markets food quality, variety, display, and operation hours, days, seasons, and locations? ➢Association b/t gender and satisfaction with MARTA Markets? ➢What factors would increase MARTA Markets use? ➢What factors would increase MARTA Markets awareness? ➢% missed/dropped class due to food insecurity? ➢% stressed/low energy due to food insecurity? ➢Association b/t level of food insecurity and health effects of food insecurity? ➢Food sensitivities impact use of Panther’s Pantry? ➢What food items do students want Panther’s Pantry to offer? ➢% food insecure? ➢% households w/ kids + food insecure? ➢Association b/t being food insecure & housing status? ➢What non-food items do students want Panther’s Pantry to offer? ➢To what extent are students asking for non- food items that Panther’s Pantry already offers? SAS 2: Data Analysis (IN-PERSON) Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition - Final Round Introduction to Canva (ONLINE) Panther’s Pantry Tour Canva for Multi-Media Presentations (ONLINE) Intro to Power BI for Data Visualization (IN-PERSON) Public Health Research Day Conference “I think a lot of new possibilities opened up for me. I have always seen myself as a humanities kind of person who ought to be scared of numbers, but the two go hand-in-hand and I am not afraid of pursuing things that require quantitative reasoning. I am excited to keep learning about data because I really can see a future for myself in data science now...I have already brought up this class and the research, qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills, and software program skills I have learned in interviews I had last week.” "We recognize the listening, reflection, and professional skills that are taught to the students that extend beyond the topics that are covered in traditional research courses. At Wholesome Wave Georgia, the practice of these skills makes us feel as if our time is valued and that students are learning the critical skills needed to meaningfully engage with real-world data. This partnership provided a unique opportunity for us as a small organization that cannot currently code our focus groups. Our student partners took the time to meet with our team and then tackle some of the more time-intensive and valuable analyses of our qualitative data, strengthening our understanding of our programming and validating our upcoming programmatic changes." ➢ 2 Outstanding Und


Mindsponge https://mindsponge.info/posts/297 Last updated: 04/19/2024 Intergenerational Diﬀerences in the Environmental Concerns: Insights from Chinese Plastic Waste Business Owners Dan Li College of Educational Science, Yan’an University, Yan’an, Shaanxi, China April 19, 2024 Most surveyed populations share concerns about safeguarding the environment [1]. While studies have explored general and speciﬁc environmental behaviors [2], little attention has been given to how diﬀerent generations relate to environmental concerns. In a recent study published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio), Wang and Wu [3] focus on exploring intergenerational disparities of plastic waste business owners in environmental concerns, speciﬁcally ecological worldview and concerns of local environmental issues. The research involved 102 plastic waste business owners spanning two generations in Wuzhen Town, China, who took part in a paired-sample survey. By integrating insights from Mindsponge Theory and utilizing the advantages of Bayesian analysis [4,5], the study also delved into the roles of post-materialistic values, environmental knowledge, exposure to environmental risks through new media, and community ties in mediating the links between intergenerational diﬀerence and environmental concern.


FACTORES DE RESILIENCIA SOCIAL PRESENTES EN EL DESARROLLO DE LAS ACCIONES COLECTIVAS PARA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UNA CULTURA DE PAZ REALIZADOS POR LOS LÍDERES SOCIALES DE LA ORGANIZACIÓN PARA EL DESARROLLO URBANO Y CAMPESINO (ORDEURCA) Juan David Caicedo Hernández Programa de Psicología


Proceedings of the LXIV SIGA Annual Congress Online, 14/16 September, 2021 ISBN: 978-88-944843-2-8 Poster Communication Abstract – 5.10 RESPONSE VARIATION TO SALT AND DROUGHT STRESS AMONG DURUM WHEAT GENOTYPES AT SEEDLING STAGE URBANAVICIUTÈ I., BONFIGLIOLI L., PAGNOTTA M. A. Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, Tuscia University, Via S. C. de Lellis, snc, 01100 Viterbo Italy durum wheat, abiotic stress, climatic change, real time PCR, WRKY Drought and salinity are the main abiotic factors that threaten food security and cause the most damage to crop grain yield. In the frame of the project H2020-ECOBREED (No 771367) present aim was to investigate variations in morphological (plant high, root length), physiological (chlorophyll content), and biochemical (real time PCR of transcription factor WRKY) responses to drought and salt stresses, among six durum wheat genotypes, replicated three times, under glasshouse conditions. The WRKY transcription factor is widespread in plants and associated with plant growth, development, and abiotic stress tolerance. Drought and salinity treatments were assessed two weeks after sowing, when the seedlings reached two fully expanded leaves stage. Drought conditions were managed by discontinuing watering and evaluating field capacity (FC) in pots. Salt conditions were reached adding to the nutrient solution 250 mM of NaCl and watering the plants three times per week.


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86th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology | Oct. 29 – 31, 2023 |London, United Kingdom. Author(s) retain copyright, but ASIS&T receives an exclusive publication license. ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2023 1 Submission Type Benefits and Challenges of Multidisciplinary and Multi-organizational Collaboration in Developing a mHealth Application for People with Dementia and Their Care Partners Park, Min Sook University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S.A. | minsook@uwm.edu Oh, Chorong Ohio University, U.S.A. | ohc@ohio.edu Lee, Yura University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S.A. | lee626@uwm.edu Bong, Ji Yae University of North Carolina at Charlotte | jbong@charlotte.edu Lee, Hyun Seung University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S.A. | lee649@uwm.edu ABSTRACT This poster introduces the authors’ multidisciplinary and multi-organizational project which aims to develop a digital memory book application for people with dementia and their care partners. The project involves both research and the practical application of study findings, necessitating team collaboration across various disciplines. This poster introduces the project and discusses the importance, benefits, and challenges of the multidisciplinary endeavor. KEYWORDS Multidisciplinary collaboration, health informatics, mHelath, dementia, digital assistive technology, user-driven design INTRODUCTION This poster briefly discusses the benefits and challenges of the authors' multidisciplinary and multi-organizational collaborative project, which sets out to develop an integrated, evidence-based, and user-driven memory book application. This computer-based assistive technology (AT) is expected to improve communication quality between people with dementia (PwD) and their care partners. Researchers from various fields, including communication disorders, education technology, social work, and information studies affiliated with different universities, are participating in this project. While collaboration among researchers with different backgrounds provides an opportunity to unify expertise and research practices and leverage resources at different institutes, it also presents challenges. This poster outlines the project and discusses the challenges and benefits of digital AT development for PwD and their care partners through multidisciplinary collaboration. Background Longevity stands as a supreme achievement of the 20th century. However, alongside this increased lifespan, society faces significant challenges such as the growing population of individuals with dementia. Presently, over 55 million people worldwide are affected by dementia, with new cases increasing by nearly 10 million annually (World Health Organization [WHO], 2023). As dementia progresses in individuals, communication difficulties (e.g., in speaking or understanding) pose substantial challenges and common symptoms (Banovic et al., 2018). These difficulties not only create a care burden for care partners of people with dementia (PwD) along with other behavior and cognitive issues experienced by PwD (Georges et al., 2008). PwD care partners often find themselves needing to adopt a new way of communication (Banovic et al., 2018) with their loved ones. Due to advancements in communication and information technology (ICT), computer-based assistive technology (AT) has been devised to support PwD care partners. In particular, cognitive enhancement programs such as digital memory books offer the potential to enhance and elevate the quality of interactions between PwD and their care partners (Aitken, 2015; Hashim et al., 2015; Papastefanakis et al., 2011) including communication. To yield positive outcomes, addressing the specific needs of PwD and their care partners proves vital in developing an AT (Davies et al., 2020). However, ATs frequently tend to address general issues instead of tailoring their designs to cater to the unique needs of their intended users (Peterson et al., 2023). The amalgamation of diverse


— 633 641 Celebration & Contemplation, 10th International Conference on Design & Emotion 27 — 30 September 2016, Amsterdam Introduction Do-it-Yourself practices in the field of design happens since the origin of the discipline itself. Craftsmanship (Nimkurlat, 2010 p. 75), Bricolage (Louridas, 1999 p. 2) and experimentation (Ayala, 2014) have been always evident procedures for design professionals when arising a project. However, there has been for some time in the field of design a more noticeable need to contribute more deeply and in a robust way in research through these type of approaches. As design is considered a practice based branch of knowledge, a novel form of carrying out research in the field of materials is presented. In the following pages, a visual storytelling of a Do-It-Yourself-Materials (DIY-M) practice (Rognoli, et. al, 2015) will be revealed. A course inside a Master´s Level Degree was set as a pilot study where the DIY-M could be created and tested. Accompanying the path with a methodology known as MDD or Material Driven Design (Karana, et. al, 2015), the outcome, shows visually how even before the project comes as an idea, the designer, through tinkering with materials without a project in mind but following a conscious method of research, is able to create a vision with the material that becomes for certain, a valuable contribute to create meaningful material experiences for the further project. During the development of the course, one of the core facts that is also intended to be presented through this pictorial, is the emotional change of perception on the topic of DIY-M from the beginning, through and towards the end of the course of study. In the beginning, the course was perceived as another practical way to develop a project where experimenting with materials had non added value practice for a designer. Abstract It is known in the field of design, that when a project comes to shape, an emotional value of the designer or the team of designers that put together all the elements for the project to be born, it is and will be always something that artificiality and industry will never be able to meet. Imagine for a moment that even before the project comes as an idea, the designer is able to create a material that may be the perfect match for that idea to arise into a project. This pictorial is presented as a way to evidence the valuable contribute that material experience through the concept of Do-It-Yourself Materials is providing nowadays to designer’s research. It is an approach to understand what is happening when everything starts with the material in mind before the project. By a meticulous interrogation to design students during the development of a material, a collection of experiences and a visual storytelling of a Do-It-Yourself Materials are presented to elucidate the importance of the meaning that the designer provides when, as an alchemist gains control of the material through interacting with it, how that meaning is carried within the material and therefore can be transferred to the project subsequently throughout an established vision. Keywords Material driven design, DIY materials, Material tinkering The emotional value of Do-It-Yourself materials - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Valentina Rognoli1 valentina.rognoli@polimi.it Camilo Ayala Garcia1 camilo.ayala@polimi.it Stefano Parisi1 stefanoparisi.sp@gmail.com 1Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy


A new spin on age-rotation-activity A new spin on age-rotation-activity relations with Kepler and TESS relations with Kepler and TESS Travis Metcalfe Travis Metcalfe Space Science Institute / MPS Space Science Institute / MPS Collaborators: Jen van Saders, Ricky Egeland, Orlagh Creevey, et al. Collaborators: Jen van Saders, Ricky Egeland, Orlagh Creevey, et al.


TRAYECTORIA DEL SEMILLERO DE INVESTIGACIÓN TROPUS BOLETÍN INFORMATIVO LÍNEA SALUD-CLÍNICA 2021


Cosmic Rays transport in the Interstellar Medium : Role of the Self-Generated turbulence Loann Brahimi - CRISM 2018 (Grenoble) LUPM - Montpellier University 25 juin 2018 Implementation of a sub-grid Cosmic Rays (CRs) diﬀusion coeﬃcient and resonant Alfven waves drift velocity terms in the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) RAMSES code


Open Schools Journal for Open Science Vol. 3, 2020 Active drug targeting Erian J. HLW Duerrauer V. HLW Rainer L. Dept Biosciences Geppert M. HLW Joubert I. A. Dept Biosciences Himly M. Dept. Biosciences https://doi.org/10.12681/osj.22588 Copyright © 2020 J. Erian, V. Duerrauer, L. Rainer, M. Geppert, I. A. Joubert, M. Himly To cite this article: Erian, J., Duerrauer, V., Rainer, L., Geppert, M., Joubert, I., & Himly, M. (2020). Active drug targeting. Open Schools Journal for Open Science, 3(2). doi:https://doi.org/10.12681/osj.22588 http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 02/03/2021 01:38:42 |


249 A OMISSÃO NA DECLARAÇÃO DE INCONSTITUCIONALIDADE: ANÁLISE DO DISCURSO SOBRE O CABIMENTO DE EMBARGOS DE DECLARAÇÃO NAS DECLARAÇÕES DE INCONSTITUCIONALIDADE OMISSION IN THE DECLARATION OF UNCONSTITUTIONALITY: SPEECH ANALYSIS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF “AMENDMENT OF JUDGMENT” IN THE DECLARATIONS OF UNCONSTITUTIONALITY EVANDRO PEREIRA GUIMARÃES FERREIRA GOMES Mestre em Direito Público e Evolução Social pela Universidade Estácio de Sá – UNESA/RJ. Diretor Jurídico do Instituto para o Avanço Cientifico dos Países do Sul (The Institute for the Scientific Advancement of the South). Advogado. RESUMO O objeto do presente trabalho versa sobre a análise do discurso das decisões dos ministros do Supremo Tribunal Federal em embargos de declaração opostos contra a declaração de inconstitucionalidade que deixou de apreciar a modulação temporal dos efeitos por falta de requerimento das partes. O estudo parte da seguinte pergunta: cabe embargos de declaração, em sede de controle concreto, em face da não manifestação da Corte Constitucional brasileira sobre a modulação temporal dos efeitos nas declarações de inconstitucionalidade? Destaque-se que os embargos de declaração são o recurso oponível à decisão que apresenta omissão, contrariedade ou obscuridade, ao passo que a declaração de inconstitucionalidade de norma produz efeitos próprios, declarando nulos os atos produzidos com base na referida norma em razão do seu efeito ex tunc. Sendo assim, nossa hipótese consiste na possibilidade de provimento na oposição de embargos nas declarações de inconstitucionalidade quando não há pedido nos autos acerca da modulação temporal dos efeitos, por ser esta matéria de índole constitucional. Por fim, a presente pesquisa utiliza a matriz teórica de analise do discurso desenvolvida por Patrick Charaudeau. PALAVRAS CHAVE: Jurisdição Constitucional; Controle De Constitucionalidade; Embargos De Declaração, Análise Do Discurso; Supremo Tribunal Federal.


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When BLE Meets Light: Multi-modal Fusion for Enhanced Indoor Localization Jagdeep Singh jagdeep.singh@toshiba-bril.com Toshiba Europe Ltd., BRIL, UK Tim Farnham tim.farnham@toshiba-bril.com Toshiba Europe Ltd., BRIL, UK Qing Wang qing.wang@tudelft.nl Delft University of Technology, NL ABSTRACT Designing a reliable and highly accurate indoor localization system is challenging due to the non-uniformity of indoor spaces, multipath fading, and satellite signal blockage. To ad- dress these issues, we propose a Deep Neural Network-based localization system that combines passive Visible Light Posi- tioning (p-VLP) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technolo- gies to achieve stable, energy-efficient, and accurate indoor localization. Our solution leverages incremental learning to fuse data from visible light and BLE, overcoming their individual limitations and achieving centimeter-level local- ization accuracy. We build a prototype using low-cost S9706 hue sensors for p-VLP and low-power nrf52830 BLE boards to collect data simultaneously from both technologies in a 25m2 testbed. Our approach demonstrates a significant lo- calization accuracy improvement of approximately 47% and 64% compared to individual p-VLP and BLE technologies, respectively, achieving a mean localization error of 20 cm. CCS CONCEPTS • Networks → Location based services; • Computing method- ologies → Neural networks. KEYWORDS Multi-modal fusion, visible light positioning, Bluetooth 5.1 1 INTRODUCTION Building smart indoor environments has intensified the need to design more accurate indoor localization systems. Difficult Commercialization & Limited Usable Range. One promising technology for highly-accurate indoor lo- calization is Visible Light Positioning (VLP), which utilizes light’s directive properties for precise indoor localization. However, existing VLP systems perform well only in con- trolled environments. In real-world scenarios, factors like ex- ternal ambient light sources, obstacles, and shadows, decline localization performance, ultimately restricting the e ective localization areas. Additionally, active VLP systems have lim- ited market adoption due to luminaire design changes [5]. Limited Accuracy. In contrast, RF technologies like Blue- tooth Low Energy (BLE) have gained popularity for indoor localization due to their ubiquity and low-cost hardware. However, BLE’s narrowband nature makes it susceptible to multipath fading, limiting ranging accuracy. The angle of arrival/departure techniques can utilize signal phase infor- mation to overcome this. However, they require multiple antennas, typically sized 16 × 16 cm, which are bulky, expen- sive, and challenging to acquire commercially [3]. Hybrid Localization? To address these challenges, this paper investigates combining BLE and VLP to design a re- liable, accurate hybrid localization system. We aim to over- come BLE’s low accuracy and VLP’s limited usage range by leveraging both technologies’ strengths. Our system utilizes unmodulated light sources’ inherent characteristics, specifi- cally the power at dominant wavelengths, via single-pixel hue sensors, without modifying existing lighting infrastruc- ture. Additionally, we leverage BLE 5.1 standard and employ Constant Tone Extension (CTE), a waveform with constant frequency and amplitude [1, 3], to collect Received Signal Strength (RSS) using a single antenna. Furthermore, we lever- age Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to e ectively fuse signal features from both technologies. DNNs show promise in modeling the mapping between signal features and target lo- cations, addressing multipath complexity in indoor areas [3]. Our contributions are summarized as follows: i) We propose BLELight, a hybrid accurate localization sys- tem for large indoor spaces. BLELight fuses the intrinsic features of unmodulated light (the ratio of power at dom- inant wavelengths) with the BLE signal strength. ii) We propose an incremental learning-based approach to train the DNN model