cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Correlation Coefficient-Based Recombinative Guidance for Genetic Programming Hyperheuristics in Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling
Creators: name: Zhang, Fangfang
name: Mei, Yi
name: Nguyen, S
name: Zhang, Mengjie
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Dynamic flexible job shop scheduling (JSS) is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem due to its complex environment. In this problem, machine assignment and operation sequencing decisions need to be made simultaneously under the dynamic environments. Genetic programming (GP), as a hyperheuristic approach, has been successfully used to evolve scheduling heuristics for dynamic flexible JSS. However, in traditional GP, recombination between parents may disrupt the beneficial building blocks by choosing the crossover points randomly. This article proposes a recombinative mechanism to provide guidance for GP to realize effective and adaptive recombination for parents to produce offspring. Specifically, we define a novel measure for the importance of each subtree of an individual, and the importance information is utilized to decide the crossover points. The proposed recombinative guidance mechanism attempts to improve the quality of offspring by preserving the promising building blocks of one parent and incorporating good building blocks from the other. The proposed algorithm is examined on six scenarios with different configurations. The results show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms on most tested scenarios, in terms of both final test performance and convergence speed. In addition, the rules obtained by the proposed algorithm have good interpretability.
Oblique ascension for Climate 6 (lat. 45°), Toledan Tables by Pedersen (Fritz S.) (2002) | Type-B (ID n° 269)
Creators: name: Pedersen, Fritz S.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: Astronomy
History of astronomy
DISHAS
Astronomical table

description: This is a type B edition: A type-B edition corresponds to a critical edition of several table witnesses:
 it is based on several different editions, themselves based on tables from different primary sources.
 A type-B edition can be based on type-A, type-B or type-C editions.
You can find it on the DISHAS project website from this link: https://dishas.obspm.fr/table-edition/269
description: Source: The Toledan Tables, Pedersen (Fritz S.), 2002
Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Multitask Genetic Programming for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling
Creators: name: Zhang, Fangfang
name: Mei, Yi
name: Nguyen, S
name: Zhang, Mengjie
name: Tan, KC
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Dynamic flexible job shop scheduling (JSS) is an important combinatorial optimization problem with complex routing and sequencing decisions under dynamic environments. Genetic programming (GP), as a hyperheuristic approach, has been successfully applied to evolve scheduling heuristics for JSS. However, its training process is time consuming, and it faces the retraining problem once the characteristics of job shop scenarios vary. It is known that multitask learning is a promising paradigm for solving multiple tasks simultaneously by sharing knowledge among the tasks. To improve the training efficiency and effectiveness, this article proposes a novel surrogate-assisted evolutionary multitask algorithm via GP to share useful knowledge between different scheduling tasks. Specifically, we employ the phenotypic characterization for measuring the behaviors of scheduling rules and building a surrogate for each task accordingly. The built surrogates are used not only to improve the efficiency of solving each single task but also for knowledge transfer in multitask learning with a large number of promising individuals. The results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly improve the quality of scheduling heuristics for all scenarios. In addition, the proposed algorithm manages to solve multiple tasks collaboratively in terms of the evolved scheduling heuristics for different tasks in a multitask scenario.
The ArchaeoTrail App. Opening a window into the past
Creators: name: Loges, Luise
name: Döpper, Stephanie
name: Ludwig, Matthias
name: Oehler, Deng-Xin Ken
name: Gurjanow, Iwan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Archaeological sites offer valuable insights into the past. Without a good presentation, however, it is difficult to communicate this knowledge to the general public. The newly developed ArchaeoTrail App does just this and offers the opportunity for visitors to discover the archaeological sites on their own. The ArchaeoTrail App is based on the successful two-folded system of MathCityMap, which entails a web portal and an actual app for mobile devices. The portal aims at the scientists and research institutions that want to generate archaeological tours for sites all around the world. With just a few clicks, texts, photos, audio files and videos can be uploaded in the web portal. By doing so, a new tour is automatically created. In the smartphone app, visitors are guided by their GPS along a suggested route to the various stations of the tour. They receive brief information in the form of texts and multimedia and, for school groups and families, small quizzes are even provided. ArchaeoTrail was initiated and is currently run by Stephanie Döpper in collaboration with Matthias Ludwig and his team, who are responsible for the project’s technical realisation. The project is sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation within the framework “World Knowledge – Structural Support for ‘Rare Subjects’”. Luise Loges is the public relations officer of the project.
Personalized Convolutional Dictionary Learning of Physiological Time Series
Creators: name: Roques, Axel
name: Gruffaz, Samuel
name: Kim, Kyurae
name: Oliviero-Durmus, Alain
name: Oudre, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: I.5.1
subject: 68T10 (Primary) 62Fxx (Secondary)

description: Human physiological signals tend to exhibit both global and local structures: the former are shared across a population, while the latter reflect inter-individual variability. For instance, kinetic measurements of the gait cycle during locomotion present common characteristics, although idiosyncrasies may be observed due to biomechanical disposition or pathology. To better represent datasets with local-global structure, this work extends Convolutional Dictionary Learning (CDL), a popular method for learning interpretable representations, or dictionaries, of time-series data. In particular, we propose Personalized CDL (PerCDL), in which a local dictionary models local information as a personalized spatiotemporal transformation of a global dictionary. The transformation is learnable and can combine operations such as time warping and rotation. Formal computational and statistical guarantees for PerCDL are provided and its effectiveness on synthetic and real human locomotion data is demonstrated.
SVR Macau
Creators: name: Jen-Kai, Liu
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Der Regierungschef der Sonderverwaltungsregion (SVR) Macau, Edmund Ho Hau Wah (He Houhua), gab am 9. November seine zweite Regierungserklärung in seiner noch nicht einmal einjährigen Amtszeit ab.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - November 2000
SVR Hongkong
Creators: name: Schüller, Margot
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Die Unterzeichnung einer Vereinbarüng über die Rückführung illegal eingereister Personen zwischen der SVR Hongkong und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland durch Anson Chan (Administrative Secretary) und Innenminister Schily am 17. November in Hongkong könnte sich als wichtiger Schritt auf dem Weg zur visafreien Einreise von Hongkonger Bürgern nach Deutschland und in andere Staaten der EU erweisen.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - November 2000
Confidence-based Ant Colony Optimization for Capacitated Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Comparison of Different Encoding Schemes
Creators: name: Jia, YH
name: Mei, Yi
name: Zhang, Mengjie
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The blossoming of electric vehicles gives rise to a new vehicle routing problem called capacitated electric vehicle routing problem. Since charging is not as convenient as refueling, both the service of customers and the recharging of vehicles should be considered. In this paper, we propose a confidence-based bi-level ant colony optimization algorithm to solve the problem. It divides the whole problem into the upper-level sub-problem capacitated vehicle routing problem and the lower-level sub-problem fixed routing vehicle charging problem. For the upper-level sub-problem, an ant colony optimization algorithm is used to generate customer service sequence. Both the direct encoding scheme and the order-first split-second encoding scheme are implemented to make a guideline of their applicable scenes. For the lower-level sub-problem, a new heuristic called simple enumeration is proposed to generate recharging schedules for vehicles. Between the two sub-problems, a confidence-based selection method is proposed to select promising customer service sequence to conduct local search and lower-level optimization. By setting adaptive confidence thresholds, the inferior service sequences that have little chance to become the iteration best are eliminated during the execution. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm has reached the state-of-the-art level and updated eight best known solutions of the benchmark.
Fully Autonomous Programming using Iterative Multi-Agent Debugging with Large Language Models
Creators: name: Grishina, Anastasiia
name: Liventsev, Vadim
name: Härmä, Aki
name: Moonen, Leon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Program synthesis with Large Language Models (LLMs) suffers from a "near-miss syndrome": the generated code closely resembles a correct solution but fails unit tests due to minor errors. We address this with a multi-agent framework called Synthesize, Execute, Instruct, Debug, and Repair (SEIDR). Effectively applying SEIDR to instruction-tuned LLMs requires determining (a) optimal prompts for LLMs, (b) what ranking algorithm selects the best programs in debugging rounds, and (c) balancing the repair of unsuccessful programs with the generation of new ones. We empirically explore these trade-offs by comparing replace-focused, repair-focused, and hybrid debug strategies. We also evaluate lexicase and tournament selection to rank candidates in each generation. On Program Synthesis Benchmark 2 (PSB2), our framework outperforms both conventional use of OpenAI Codex without a repair phase and traditional genetic programming approaches. SEIDR outperforms the use of an LLM alone, solving 18 problems in C++ and 20 in Python on PSB2 at least once across experiments. To assess generalizability, we employ GPT-3.5 and Llama 3 on the PSB2 and HumanEval-X benchmarks. Although SEIDR with these models does not surpass current state-of-the-art methods on the Python benchmarks, the results on HumanEval-C++ are promising. SEIDR with Llama 3-8B achieves an average pass@100 of 84.2%. Across all SEIDR runs, 163 of 164 problems are solved at least once with GPT-3.5 in HumanEval-C++, and 162 of 164 with the smaller Llama 3-8B. We conclude that SEIDR effectively overcomes the near-miss syndrome in program synthesis with LLMs.
description: Accepted for publication in ACM Trans. Evol. Learn. Optim., February 2025. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2304.10423
The (un)detectability of trajectories in pilot-wave theory
Creators: name: Fankhauser, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pilot wave theory endows particles with definite positions at all times governed by deterministic dynamics. However, individual particle trajectories are generically undetectable by experiment. This idea might seem to be contested in light of two proposals: (1) So-called 'weak velocity measurements', allegedly detecting Bohmian trajectories by weakly probing a quantum system without essentially disturbing it, and (2) the so-called 'surrealistic' trajectories experiment which supposedly establishes a conflict between the 'actual' position of a particle and its position derived from pilot wave theory. Although both attempts shed light on the nature of Bohmian particles, neither constitute empirical or theoretical evidence in favour or against pilot wave theory. Both instances admit a straightforward standard quantum mechanical interpretation compatible with the predictions of Bohmian theories. It is concluded that the puzzles arise from the absence of a coherent account of what quantum mechanical measurements signify.
description: Published book chapter, 20+3 pages, 3 figures, overlap with arXiv:2408.05828 and arXiv:2309.10395 by the author
A Task and Motion Planning Framework Using Iteratively Deepened AND/OR Graph Networks
Creators: name: Karami, Hossein
name: Thomas, Antony
name: Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present an approach for integrated task and motion planning based on an AND/OR graph network, which is used to represent task-level states and actions, and we leverage it to implement different classes of task and motion planning problems (TAMP). Several problems that fall under task and motion planning do not have a predetermined number of sub-tasks to achieve a goal. For example, while retrieving a target object from a cluttered workspace, in principle the number of object re-arrangements required to finally grasp it cannot be known ahead of time. To address this challenge, and in contrast to traditional planners, also those based on AND/OR graphs, we grow the AND/OR graph at run-time by progressively adding sub-graphs until grasping the target object becomes feasible, which yields a network of AND/OR graphs. The approach is extended to enable multi-robot task and motion planning, and (i) it allows us to perform task allocation while coordinating the activity of a given number of robots, and (ii) can handle multi-robot tasks involving an a priori unknown number of sub-tasks. The approach is evaluated and validated both in simulation and with a real dual-arm robot manipulator, that is, Baxter from Rethink Robotics. In particular, for the single-robot task and motion planning, we validated our approach in three different TAMP domains. Furthermore, we also use three different robots for simulation, namely, Baxter, Franka Emika Panda manipulators, and a PR2 robot. Experiments show that our approach can be readily scaled to scenarios with many objects and robots, and is capable of handling different classes of TAMP problems.
An updated building guide and code for COMPASS activity monitoring system
Creators: name: Brown, Laurence Andrew
name: Peirson, Stuart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: circadian
sleep
Arduino
mouse
biological rhythms

description: To accompany the publication of Current Protocols paper on screening/monitoring (Simultaneous assessment of circadian rhythms and sleep in mice using passive infrared sensors: a user guide, Brown et al 2020 tbc). An update to the original guide for building a COMPASS system (https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.9892.2) for monitoring activity and predicted sleep in mice, The material includes: a copy of the website put up to help building of systems. (folder: website-> index.html) sketches for Arduino and Processing (v3.4) more detailed building guide and shopping list (Build) 3D models for PIR case (.stl and OpenSCAD files, in Build) Node-RED (https://nodered.org/) flows and guide for setting up data-collection on Raspberry Pi without Processing (Node-red). Live copy at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~anat0144/COMPASS_updates.html
description: Ongoing project at https://github.com/LozRiviera/COMPASS_ongoing
Chinas Innovationskapazität auf dem Prüfstand
Creators: name: Schüller, Margot
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Chinas Wirtschaft hat in den letzten zwei Dekaden ein bemerkenswert hohes Wachstum von durchschnittlich rd. 9% pro Jahr erreicht (China Statistical Yearbook 2004'- 24-25).1 Im Jahre 2004 lag das BIP-Wachstum sogar bei 9,5% (siehe Abbildung 1). Zwar können an der Qualität des Wachstums durchaus berechtigte Zweifel angebracht werden, doch wird auch mittel- und langfristig von der chinesischen Regierung ein schnelles Entwicklungstempo angestrebt.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - 2/2005
Gelingt es der KP China „rechtzeitig umzuschalten“? - Zur neuen Agrarpolitik
Creators: name: Schucher, Günter
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Im zweiten Jahr nacheinander haben die Kommunistische Partei Chinas und der Staatsrat auch 2005 ihren ersten programmatischen Beschluss (das „Dokument Nummer Eins“, yi hao wenjian) den Problemen der Bauern und der Landwirtschaft gewidmet und damit erneut deutlich gemacht, dass die „Bauernfrage“ für die chinesische Führung derzeit die größte innenpolitische Herausforderung darstellt. Bereits nach Beginn der Reformen im Jahre 1978 und in den 80er Jahren waren immer wieder erste Dokumente eines Jahres der Agrarpolitik gewidmet, dann allerdings war diese „Tradition“ für 17 Jahre unterbrochen worden.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - 2/2005
Rücktritt des Hongkonger Regierungschefs - Auslöser einer neuen Verfassungskrise
Creators: name: Willmann, Katrin
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Am 10. März 2005 trat Tung Chee-hwa zwei Jahre vor Ende seiner zweiten Amtszeit als erster Regierungschef (Chief Executive) der Sonderverwaltungsregion (SVR) Hongkong zurück. Die Amtsgeschäfte werden seitdem von Chief Secretary Donald Tsang weitergeführt. Zwar überraschte Tungs Bekanntgabe die internationale und Hongkonger Öffentlichkeit angesichts der seit Anfang März in der Presse kursierenden Spekulationen nicht, trotzdem wirft sie Fragen zu seiner Motivation, zur möglichen Einflussnahme der parteistaatlichen Führung und zum Prozedere um die Wahl seines Nachfolgers auf, das bislang noch ungeklärt ist.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - 2/2005
NODES_Inndiana_Z31_Cardiomyogenic differentiation of H9C2 cardiomyoblast on hydrogel derived from decellularized bovine pericardium extracellular matrix
Creators: name: University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro (UNIPMN)
Publisher: name: ZENODO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spoke 5 - Industry for Health and Silver Economy
INNDIANA Project
Eco healthcare
ECS00000036

description: Master's Degree in Medical Biotechnologies
Taiwans Reaktionen auf das Antisezessionsgesetz
Creators: name: Schütte, Hans-Wilm
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: In Taiwan war das Antisezessionsgesetz seit dem letzten Februardrittel das beherrschende Thema in den Medien und in der Politik. So blieb es den ganzen März hindurch. Das Gesetz stieß, noch ehe sein Wortlaut bekannt wurde, praktisch auf einhellige Ablehnung, wenn auch in unterschiedlicher Intensität. Die Reaktionen konnten Beijing, das sich gern auf die „taiwanischen Landsleute“ beruft, nicht gefallen. Im Effekt bedeutete das Gesetz willkommenen Rückenwind für die Unabhängigkeitsbefürworter.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - 2/2005
Antisezessionsgesetz - viel Lärm um nichts und einiges zerschlagenes Porzellan
Creators: name: Giese, Karsten
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Schon Tage bevor das Antisezessionsgesetz am 14. März zur Abstimmung in die diesjährige Frühjahrssitzung des Nationalen Volkskongresses zur Abstimmung eingebracht und damit überhaupt erst im Wortlaut bekannt wurde (siehe Anhang), ging ein Aufschrei nach dem anderen durch die amerikanische und auch die deutschsprachige Presse (vgl. u.a. WSJ, 8.3.05, 13.3.05; FAZ, 9.3.05; HB, 9.3.05; NZZ, 7.3.05, 9.3.05
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - 2/2005
Jamaha Gnezdilov & O'Brien 2008
Creators: name: Bahder, Brian W.
name: Myrie, Wayne
name: Helmick, Ericka E.
name: Van Dam, Alex R.
name: Bartlett, Charles R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Nogodinidae
Jamaha

description: Genus Jamaha Gnezdilov & O’Brien, 2008
Diagnosis. Metope elongate, enlarged before clypeus, with median carina running through the postclypeus only. Fore wings widely rounded apically. Radius, median, and cubitus anterior bifurcate (R 2 M 2 CuA2). Hind tibia with single tooth distally. Hind margin of pygofer (males) with long process medially. Aedeagus without ventral hooks.
description: Published as part of Bahder, Brian W., Myrie, Wayne, Helmick, Ericka E., Van Dam, Alex R. & Bartlett, Charles R., 2024, A new species of planthopper in the genus Colpoptera (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Nogodinidae) from the Northeastern coast of Jamaica, pp. 520-534 in Zootaxa 5424 (5) on page 528, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5424.5.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14895703
title: Between Mastery and Subjectivization; Jacques Rancière and a Politics of Art without Foundation
Creators: name: Klee, Stephen
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2009

description: The central theme of this thesis is the connection between art and politics focussing in particular on its recent post-foundational formulation by Jacques Ranciere. While Ranciere does provide a convincing articulation as to what a political or critical art practice might look like or hope to achieve, I contest his position whenever the constraint of the art-politics interconnection is unjustifiable. Chapter One. (a) provides an overview of Ranciere's philosophical system, which prepares the ground for an analysis of Duncan Cambpell's artists' film Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2003). Chapter One.(b) reads this work as an exemplary instance of that 'dissensual' spectatorial experience that Ranciere associates with aesthetic regime art. In Chapter Two I address the 'cultural sociology' of Pierre Bourdieu accusing him of a type of (foundational) metaphysical thinking, which leads inexorably to a determinist understanding of spectatorial subjectivity, as well as securing for himself a position of mastery. Similar accusations are made in relation to the work of Andrea Fraser as represented by her performance Official Welcome (2001). In Chapter Three I attempt to expose a limitation in Ranciere's assessment of art's criticality. In trying to protect art from the dangers of performing an authoritarian role within society, he erects unnecessary barriers to thinking the artist as politically committed. I attempt to hurdle those obstacles, so as to stretch his system to accommodate a figure of the artist as directly performing a political subjectivization. This alteration both significantly changes his aesthetic philosophy, while retaining its constitutive logic. This chapter is therefore a polemical intervention into Ranciere's influential discourse, a questioning of the validity of his ethico-theoretical decision to exclude a specific type of commitment from art. From this customised position I re-describe the political functioning of Suzanne Lacy;s canonical feminist artwork In Mourning and in Rage (1977).
title: Interviews by Charles Maclean in India, 1975
title: 41 interviews and TOC
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Risan, Lars
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: 41 Pdf-files, all together 103 pages. They are the interviews that Charles Macelan did in April and May 1975, in  West Bengal, and partly in Odessa. They consern the possible truthfulnaess of the story boout the "wold children" Amala and Kamala, and about Rachel and Joseph Singh that raised them.

Contact information:

https://larsrisan.net/

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title: Interviews by Charles Maclean in India, 1975
title: 41 interviews and TOC
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Risan, Lars
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: 41 Pdf-files, all together 103 pages. Theu are interviews that Charles macelan did in AQpil nd May 1975, in  West Bengal, and partly in Odessa. They consern the possible truthfulnaess of the story boout the "wold children" Amala and Kamala, and aboout Rachel abd Joseph Singh that raised them.
title: Tell Me What You Eat and I Will Tell You If You Are Jewish: Food and Discourses of Identity Among Thessalonikian Jews
Creators: name: Kravya, Vasiliki
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2003

description: The main issue explored in this thesis is how and why food is used as a channel through which everyday identities are informed and elaborated. The thesis explores when, how and in which circumstances food and the activities involved in its preparation, consumption and exchange can be used as vehicles for identities. My ethnographic focus is on the Jewish population of Thessaloniki, the largest and most economically viable city of Northern Greece. The Jewish past of this city is quite remarkable: the Thessalonikian Jews remained a significant part of the overall population and existed continuously until early twentieth century. Dramatic events during the twentieth century and in particular the coming of Asia Minor refugees in 1922-3 and the Second World War in 1939-45 caused significant upheavals and resulted in a radical reduction of the city's Jewish population. My ethnographic data confirm that this turbulent history is reflected in the construction of present-day Thessalonikian Jewish identities. Food and the associated activities like preparing, serving, eating, talking and remembering through food are explored as meaningful contexts in which the Jews of Thessaloniki make statements about their past, create their present, construct or reject collective identifications, express their fears and preoccupations, imagine their future. The identities of my informants were multiple and complex. Being Jewish interacted with being Sephardic, Thessalonikian and Greek. In the thesis I argue that food was a way of experiencing and expressing these identities. I use the term "community" cautiously since it fails to reflect the complexity of Thessalonikian Jewish experiences and the varying degrees of identification by individuals with that community. Different degrees of belonging are considered in relation to gender, age, economic and social status. Therefore, the ambivalence or often the reluctance of Jewish people living in Thessaloniki to be identified as members of "a community" is an important theme of the thesis. Another important theme discussed is the tension and the overlapping between religion and tradition meaning kosher diet and Sephardic food as it is translated and perceived by the Jewish people themselves.
title: Dislocation Density‐Mediated Functionality in Single‐Crystal BaTiO₃
Creators: name: Zhuo, Fangping
name: Zhou, Xiandong
name: Dietrich, Felix
name: Soleimany, Mehrzad
name: Breckner, Patrick
name: Groszewicz, Pedro B.
name: Xu, Bai‐Xiang
name: Buntkowsky, Gerd
name: Rödel, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2024

description: Unlike metals where dislocations carry strain singularity but no charge, dislocations in oxide ceramics are characterized by both a strain field and a local charge with a compensating charge envelope. Oxide ceramics with their deliberate engineering and manipulation are pivotal in numerous modern technologies such as semiconductors, superconductors, solar cells, and ferroics. Dislocations facilitate plastic deformation in metals and lead to a monotonous increase in the strength of metallic materials in accordance with the widely recognized Taylor hardening law. However, achieving the objective of tailoring the functionality of oxide ceramics by dislocation density still remains elusive. Here a strategy to imprint dislocations with {100}<100> slip systems and a tenfold change in dislocation density of BaTiO₃ single crystals using high‐temperature uniaxial compression are reported. Through a dislocation density‐based approach, dielectric permittivity, converse piezoelectric coefficient, and alternating current conductivity are tailored, exhibiting a peak at medium dislocation density. Combined with phase‐field simulations and domain wall potential energy analyses, the dislocation‐density‐based design in bulk ferroelectrics is mechanistically rationalized. These findings may provide a new dimension for employing plastic strain engineering to tune the electrical properties of ferroics, potentially paving the way for advancing dislocation technology in functional ceramics.
Uncovering Cross-Domain Recommendation Ability of Large Language Models
Creators: name: Liu, Xinyi
name: Wang, Ruijie
name: Sun, Dachun
name: Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
name: Abdelzaher, Tarek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) seeks to enhance item retrieval in low-resource domains by transferring knowledge from high-resource domains. While recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential in Recommender Systems (RS), their ability to effectively transfer domain knowledge for improved recommendations remains underexplored. To bridge this gap, we propose LLM4CDR, a novel CDR pipeline that constructs context-aware prompts by leveraging users' purchase history sequences from a source domain along with shared features between source and target domains. Through extensive experiments, we show that LLM4CDR achieves strong performance, particularly when using LLMs with large parameter sizes and when the source and target domains exhibit smaller domain gaps. For instance, incorporating CD and Vinyl purchase history for recommendations in Movies and TV yields a 64.28 percent MAP 1 improvement. We further investigate key factors including source domain data, domain gap, prompt design, and LLM size, which impact LLM4CDR's effectiveness in CDR tasks. Our results highlight that LLM4CDR excels when leveraging a single, closely related source domain and benefits significantly from larger LLMs. These insights pave the way for future research on LLM-driven cross-domain recommendations.
Investigating AGN feedback in H$α$-luminous galaxy clusters: first Chandra X-ray analysis of Abell 2009
Creators: name: Fornasiero, I.
name: Ubertosi, F.
name: Gitti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the X-ray and radio properties of the galaxy cluster Abell 2009 (z=0.152) to complete the in-depth study of a subsample of objects from the ROSAT Brightest Cluster Sample with relatively high X-ray flux and H$α$ line luminosity, which is a promising diagnostic of the presence of cool gas in the cluster cores. Our aim is to investigate the feedback from the AGN in the central galaxy and the ICM of relaxed clusters. In this work, we analyze archival data from JVLA and Chandra observations. We performed a morphological analysis of both the X-ray emission from the ICM of Abell 2009 and the radio emission from the AGN in the central galaxy. We also performed a spectral analysis of the X-ray emission to derive the global properties and radial profiles of the thermal gas. Our X-ray analysis confirms the expectations, based on the selection criteria, that Abell 2009 is a cool-core system. We estimate a cooling radius of 88 kpc within which the ICM is radiating its energy at rates of $L_{cool} \sim 4.4 \times 10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$. Radio observations of the central galaxy reveal a bright core surrounded by radio lobes on 30 kpc scales with a symmetric butterfly-shaped morphology. Although we did not detect any X-ray cavity at the position of the central radio lobes, we combined the volume of the lobes with the pressure of the surrounding ICM to derive the work done by the AGN on the gas to inflate them. By estimating a cavity age of about 20 Myr, this corresponds to a mechanical power of $\approx 10^{45}$ erg s$^{-1}$ which is sufficient to counterbalance the radiative cooling losses in Abell 2009. We finally discuss possible correlations between the global properties of the 18 objects from the BCS selection, finding in particular that the number of outbursts required to counterbalance the radiative ICM losses is linearly anticorrelated with the energy and power of the outburst.
description: 15 pages with 18 figures
Malleable Overview-Detail Interfaces
Creators: name: Min, Bryan
name: Chen, Allen
name: Cao, Yining
name: Xia, Haijun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The overview-detail design pattern, characterized by an overview of multiple items and a detailed view of a selected item, is ubiquitously implemented across software interfaces. Designers often try to account for all users, but ultimately these interfaces settle on a single form. For instance, an overview map may display hotel prices but omit other user-desired attributes. This research instead explores the malleable overview-detail interface, one that end-users can customize to address individual needs. Our content analysis of overview-detail interfaces uncovered three dimensions of variation: content, composition, and layout, enabling us to develop customization techniques along these dimensions. For content, we developed Fluid Attributes, a set of techniques enabling users to show and hide attributes between views and leverage AI to manipulate, reformat, and generate new attributes. For composition and layout, we provided solutions to compose multiple overviews and detail views and transform between various overview and overview-detail layouts. A user study on our techniques implemented in two design probes revealed that participants produced diverse customizations and unique usage patterns, highlighting the need and broad applicability for malleable overview-detail interfaces.
description: CHI 2025
Freier Diskurs oder perfekter Überwachungsstaat? Identity Work im chinesischen Internet
Creators: name: Giese, Karsten
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: China erlebt seit mehr als einem Vierteljahrhundert einen in vielerlei Hinsicht beispiellosen Prozess ökonomischen, sozialen und kulturellen Wandels, in dessen Folge auch die Kapazität der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas zur Durchsetzung gesellschaftlicher und politischer Gefolgschaft Einschränkungen erfahren hat. Zunehmend sieht sich die KPCh nun gezwungen, neuen sozialen und tendenziell auch politischen Akteuren Wirkungsräume zu eröffnen, während sie unverändert an ihrem alleinigen Führungsanspruch festhält.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - 1/2005
Wirtschaftswunder Macau - Fünf Jahre Sonderverwaltungsregion
Creators: name: Liu, Jen-Kai
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: „Wie verzückt von [dem Prinzip] ’Ein Land, zwei Systeme’, so glänzt Macau jetzt mit einer beliebten Regierung, einer harmonischen Gesellschaft und einer lebhaften Wirtschaft“ (Lin 2004). So beschrieb die Asia Times Macau fünf Jahre nach Rückgabe der portugiesischen Enklave an China und der Gründung der Sonderverwaltungsregion Macau (SVRM) am 20. Dezember 1999. Macau erfreut sich seines Status als unabhängiges Zollgebiet unter der WTO - die WTO hat Macaus Wirtschaftssystem als eines der freiesten Wirtschaftssysteme für Handel und Investitionen in der Welt bezeichnet - und eines Freihafens. Unter der Bezeichnung „China Macau “ nimmt die SVRM einen relativ unabhängigen Status in elf internationalen Organisationen und 29 NGOs ein. Ferner hat Macau bislang 42 internationale Verträge geschlossen. 62 Länder und Regionen haben Macau visafreien Status gewährt, und 68 Länder haben Konsulate für Angelegenheiten Macaus errichtet (XNA, 16.12.04).
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - 1/2005
Syntax and writing quality in Spanish and English (Wolters & Kim, 2024)
Creators: name: Wolters, Alissa Patricia
name: Kim, Young-Suk Grace
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 470402
subject: Child language acquisition
classificationCode: 470212
subject: Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies

description: Purpose: There is limited research on the writing of young Spanish–English bilinguals and their writing in both languages. In the current study, we addressed whether written syntax features differed by language (English and Spanish) and varied as a function of grade level, English learner status, and instructional program (dual or English immersion). We also examined whether Spanish and English syntax features were related cross-linguistically and related to writing quality within languages and whether these relations to writing quality were moderated by grade level, English learner status, and instructional program.Method: We examined written syntax features of Spanish and English essays by simultaneous and emergent bilinguals in Grades 1, 2, and 3 in either Spanish–English dual immersion or English immersion instruction in the United States (N = 278). Essays were scored for quality and evaluated for mean length of T-units, number of verbs, number of noun agreement words, and number of subject agreement words accurately conjugated.Results: Written syntax features significantly differed by language and varied as a function of grade level, English learner status, and instructional program. Grades 2 and 3 wrote longer utterances, more verbs, and greater noun agreement accuracy than Grade 1. Syntax features were related to writing quality within languages, but Spanish relations were weaker for English learners than non-English learners and for dual immersion students than English immersion students.Conclusion: Our findings suggest written syntax features may be useful for evaluation of English–Spanish simultaneous and emergent bilinguals’ writing.Supplemental Material S1. Writing quality rubric.Supplemental Material S2. Bivariate correlations between syntax features and writing quality by grade.Supplemental Material S3. Bivariate correlations between syntax features and writing quality by English learner status.Supplemental Material S4. Bivariate correlations between syntax features and writing quality by instructional program.Supplemental Material S5. Student essay examples with noun agreement coding.Wolters, A. P., & Kim, Y.-S. G. (2024). Are written syntax features related to writing quality? An examination of Spanish and English compositions by bilingual children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(8), 2566–2582. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00270
Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization for Web Service Location Allocation Problem
Creators: name: Tan, Boxiong
name: Ma, Hui
name: Mei, Yi
name: Zhang, Mengjie
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Software
subject: Distributed Computing

description: With the ever increasing number of functionally similar web services being available on the Internet, the market competition is becoming intense. Web service providers (WSPs) realize that good Quality of Service (QoS) is a key of business success and low network latency is a critical measurement of good QoS. Because network latency is related to location, a straightforward way to reduce network latency is to allocate services to proper locations. However, Web Service Location Allocation Problem (WSLAP) is a challenging task since there are multiple objectives potentially conflicting with each other and the solution search space has a combinatorial nature. In this paper, we consider minimizing the network latency and total cost simultaneously and model the WSLAP as a multi-objective optimization problem. We develop a new PSO-based algorithm to provide a set of trade-off solutions. The results show that the new algorithm can provide a more diverse range of solutions than the compared three well known multi-objective optimization algorithms. Moreover, the new algorithm performs better especially on large problems.
The News Says, the Bot Says: How Immigrants and Locals Differ in Chatbot-Facilitated News Reading
Creators: name: Zhang, Yongle
name: Nguyen-Le, Phuong-Anh
name: Singh, Kriti
name: Gao, Ge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: News reading helps individuals stay informed about events and developments in society. Local residents and new immigrants often approach the same news differently, prompting the question of how technology, such as LLM-powered chatbots, can best enhance a reader-oriented news experience. The current paper presents an empirical study involving 144 participants from three groups in Virginia, United States: local residents born and raised there (N=48), Chinese immigrants (N=48), and Vietnamese immigrants (N=48). All participants read local housing news with the assistance of the Copilot chatbot. We collected data on each participant's Q&A interactions with the chatbot, along with their takeaways from news reading. While engaging with the news content, participants in both immigrant groups asked the chatbot fewer analytical questions than the local group. They also demonstrated a greater tendency to rely on the chatbot when formulating practical takeaways. These findings offer insights into technology design that aims to serve diverse news readers.
Multitask Genetic Programming-Based Generative Hyperheuristics: A Case Study in Dynamic Scheduling
Creators: name: Zhang, Fangfang
name: Mei, Yi
name: Nguyen, S
name: Tan, KC
name: Zhang, Mengjie
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Evolutionary multitask learning has achieved great success due to its ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. However, it is rarely used in the hyperheuristic domain, which aims at generating a heuristic for a class of problems rather than solving one specific problem. The existing multitask hyperheuristic studies only focus on heuristic selection, which is not applicable to heuristic generation. To fill the gap, we propose a novel multitask generative hyperheuristic approach based on genetic programming (GP) in this article. Specifically, we introduce the idea in evolutionary multitask learning to GP hyperheuristics with a suitable evolutionary framework and individual selection pressure. In addition, an origin-based offspring reservation strategy is developed to maintain the quality of individuals for each task. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach, comprehensive empirical studies have been conducted on the homogeneous and heterogeneous multitask dynamic flexible job shop scheduling. The results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly improve the quality of scheduling heuristics for each task in all the examined scenarios. In addition, the evolved scheduling heuristics verify the mutual help among the tasks in a multitask scenario.
title: Model‐based analysis of the influence of surface roughness on fatigue processes
Creators: name: Yan, Sikang
name: Jawaid, Arsalan
name: Kerscher, Eberhard
name: Seewig, Jörg
name: Müller, Ralf
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2024

description: In the last decade, the phase field method was developed to simulate fatigue fracture processes. The biggest advantage of phase field modeling is its unified framework, in which the entire fracture evolution from nucleation to propagation is covered. Even though it is known that surface roughness has an essential impact on fatigue life, it has rarely been considered directly in phase field models for fatigue processes due to the required computational effort. In this work, we provide a simulation setup to incorporate roughness profiles into a phase field model for fatigue cracks. We have used a roughness model for our studies and also present initial results that show agreement between simulation and experiments.
Leseverstehenskompetenzerwerb neu zugewanderter, mehrsprachiger Schüler:innen. Eine quantitative und qualitative Untersuchung des Leseverstehenskompetenzerwerbs ausgewählter Fokus-Schüler:innen der Integrationsklasse Academia in Stäfa
Creators: name: von Aarburg, Diana
Publisher: name: Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik
Year: 2024
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit
Leseverstehen
Kompetenzerwerb
Schüler
Schülerin
mehrsprachig
Migrationshintergrund
Integrationsklasse
Stäfa
Academia

description: Die empirische Masterarbeit untersucht mittels eines quantitativen Diagnostikinstrumentes den Leseverstehenskompetenzerwerb neu zugewanderter, mehrsprachiger Schüler:innen der Integrationsklasse Academia in Stäfa zehn Wochen vor der Integration in die Regelklasse. Das Ziel der Arbeit ist ein umfassendes Verständnis der individuellen Leseverstehenskompetenz. Deshalb wird mittels eines qualitativen Leitfadeninterviews untersucht, wie sich theoriebasierte Faktoren aus dem von der Autorin entwickelten Modell im Erwerb der Schüler:innen manifestieren. Anhand der evaluativen qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse erfolgt die Klassifikation in Risiko- und Schutzfaktoren. Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Klassifizierungen und der Leseverstehenskompetenz werden diskutiert. Durch die Analyse der Daten werden Zusammenhänge zwischen den Risikofaktoren und dem Leseverstehenskompetenzerwerb aufgezeigt.
Chinas Beschäftigungsstrukturen im Wandel?
Creators: name: Schucher, Günter
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: In der Volksrepublik China vollziehen sich seit Beginn der Wirtschaftsreformen Ende der 70er Jahre zwei grundlegende strukturelle Wandlungsprozesse, zum einen der von einer überwiegend agrarischen in eine Industrie- und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft, zum anderen die schrittweise Verdrängung staatlicher Eigentumsformen und planwirtschaftlicher Regulierungsmechanismen durch Privateigentum und Marktwirtschaft.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - Januar 1999