cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A refinement of a double inequality for the gamma function
Creators: name: Qi, Feng
name: Guo, Bai-Ni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33B15, 26A48, 26D07

description: In the paper, we present a monotonicity result of a function involving the gamma function and the logarithmic function, refine a double inequality for the gamma function, and improve some known results for bounding the gamma function.
description: 8 pages
title: Walter "Pee Wee" Smith - Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Project - Oral History Transcript
Creators: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Publisher: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Year: 2014

description: Oral History interview with Walter "Pee Wee" Smith of ILWU Local 16 and 200, collected by the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Committee. Completed on September 16, 2014. This interview is part of the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Project by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org

This item contains three parts: oral history audio/video file (.mp4), full text transcription (.pdf), and caption track (.srt).
ESA Climate Change Initiative Plus - Soil Moisture Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) Supporting Product Version 09.0
Creators: name: Dorigo, Wouter
name: stradiotti, pietro
name: Preimesberger, Wolfgang
name: Kidd, Richard
name: van der Schalie, Robin
name: Frederikse, Thomas
name: Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nemesio
name: baghdadi, nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Essential Climate Variable
Soil Moisture
ESA
Climate Change Initiative

description: The Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) provides a detailed description of the algorithms that are used within the ESA CCI Soil Moisture production system. The ESA CCI SM production system was initially developed within CCI Phases 1 & 2 and is continuously being updated within CCI+ to reflect the current state of the science driving the system. The aim of this document is to describe the algorithm development process for each of the ESA CCI SM products, as well as provide an executive summary setting them within framework for the CCI project and the ESA CCI SM production system.

This document forms the deliverable D2.4 Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), version 2.0, and was compiled for the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative Plus Soil Moisture Project (CCN 3 to ESRIN Contract No: 4000126684/19/I-NB” ESA CCI+ Phase 1 New R&D on CCI ECVS Soil Moisture”).This document supports CCI SM product version v09.0, and v9.1
Dissipation-assisted preparation of steady spin-squeezed states of SiV centers
Creators: name: Chen, Jia-Qiang
name: Qiao, Yi-Fan
name: Dong, Xing-Liang
name: Hei, Xin-Lei
name: Li, Peng-Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an efficient scheme for generating spin-squeezed states at steady state in a spin-mechanical hybrid system, where an ensemble of SiV centers are coupled to a strongly damped nanomechanical resonator. We show that,there exists a collective steady state in the system, which is exactly formed by the collective spin states plus the zero excitation state of the mechanical mode. The generation of the steady spin-squeezed state is based on a dissipative quantum dynamical process in which the mechanical dissipation plays a positive role but without destroying the target state. We demonstrate that the spin-squeezed steady state can be deterministically prepared via dissipative means, with the optimal spin squeezing up to 4/N in the ideal case, where N is the number of spins. This work provides a promising platform for quantum information processing and quantum metrology.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Exochus mitratus GRAVENHORST 1829
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus mitratus

description: Exochus mitratus GRAVENHORST, 1829
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 4: 1♀ 20.iv.-5.v., 3♀♀ 5-20.v.; trap 7: 1♁ 5-20.v., 1♀ 20.v.- 1.vi., 1♀ 13-27.vii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Holarctic, known from Georgia (MEYER 1936, RIEDEL et al. 2018, RIEDEL & JAPOSHVILI 2021).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10415120
title: Aaron Michael Smith - Musical Work in the Time of COVID-19 - Oral History Transcript
Creators: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Publisher: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Year: 2020

description: Oral History interview with Aaron Michael Smith, independent violist and composer, about musical work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Completed on June 3, 2020. This interview is part of the Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org

This item contains three parts: oral history audio/video file, caption file (.srt), and full text transcription (.pdf).Â
Studies on the effects of genotype and relatively cool temperatures on rough fruit production by tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum, Mill.)
Creators: name: Yankson, Mary Figyina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Tomato fruits which are misshapen or rough are frequently a problem in the field crop, and sometimes in the greenhouse crop. This horticultural problem has been attributed to the exposure of seedling plants to relatively cool temperatures (below 15°C), but lack of knowledge about conditions causing rough fruit resulted in experiments to explore the influence of genotype and relatively cool temperatures on the production of rough fruit. A field study was carried out at the University of British Columbia in 1975 using 3 cultivars (Bonny Best, Fireball and Immur Prior Beta [IPB]) and 2 reciprocal hybrids of Bonny Best and IPB. In that season, there was a substantial quantity of rough fruit, and there were highly significant differences among genotypes. Controlled environment studies were used in 3 greenhouse experiments. In the first, tomato seedlings of 6 cultivars (Bonny Best, Cold Set, Early Red Chief, Fireball, IPB and Vendor) were chilled for either 3 or 7 nights to 10° ± 1°C at each of 4 different ages ranging from 3.5 to 6.5 weeks after seeding. Control plants were kept at 19° ± 1°C. None of the cultivars in any treatment produced enough rough fruit to be of any horticultural concern, but there were some highly significant differences (1% level) among the cultivars for the number of rough fruits produced. The second experiment employed more severe chilling conditions. Seedlings from 4 age groups ranging from 3 to 6 weeks were chilled for 2 weeks using a night temperature low of 4.4°C and a day high of 12.8°C. Four cultivars (Cold Set, Fireball, IPB and Vendor) were used, and although there were significant differences (5% level), the numbers of rough fruit did not match the horticultural problem. The third controlled environment experiment employed a regime of hourly changes in temperature to range from a night low of 4.4 °C and a day high of 21.1 °C, using only 2 cultivars (IPB and Vendor). Control plants were kept at 20.0UC/23.9°C. The plants were transferred to controlled environment chambers 35 days after seeding, and kept in the contrasting temperature regimes until fruit matured. Although the IPB had a significantly greater number of rough fruit than Vendor, the magnitude of the numbers of rough fruit were too small to be of practical importance. Apparently, the rough fruit problem is not caused by the simple matter of exposure to chilling temperatures, and it is supposed that an interaction, possibly a very complex one, may be the cause of this type of misshapen fruit.
title: Bobbie Singer - Seattle Labor Chorus Oral History Project - Oral History Transcript
Creators: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Publisher: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Year: 2014

description: Oral History interview with Bobbie Singer of the Seattle Labor Chorus. Completed on December 5, 2014. This interview is part of the Seattle Labor Chorus Oral History Project by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org

This item contains two parts: oral history audio file and full text transcription (.pdf).
A month of monitoring the new magnetar Swift J1555.2-5402 during an X-ray outburst
Creators: name: Enoto, Teruaki
name: Ng, Mason
name: Hu, Chin-ping
name: Guver, Tolga
name: Jaisawal, Gaurava K.
name: O'Connor, Brendan
name: Gogus, Ersin
name: Lien, Amy
name: Kisaka, Shota
name: Wadiasingh, Zorawar
name: Majid, Walid A.
name: Pearlman, Aaron B.
name: Arzoumanian, Zaven
name: Bansal, Karishma
name: Blumer, Harsha
name: Chakrabarty, Deepto
name: Gendreau, Keith
name: Ho, Wynn C. G.
name: Kouveliotou, Chryssa
name: Ray, Paul S.
name: Strohmayer, Tod E.
name: Younes, George
name: Palmer, David M.
name: Sakamoto, Takanori
name: Akahori, Takuya
name: Eie, Sujin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The soft gamma-ray repeater Swift J1555.2-5402 was discovered by means of a 12-ms duration short burst detected with Swift BAT on 2021 June 3. Then 1.6 hours after the first burst detection, NICER started daily monitoring of this X-ray source for a month. The absorbed 2-10 keV flux stays nearly constant at around 4e-11 erg/s/cm2 during the monitoring timespan, showing only a slight gradual decline. A 3.86-s periodicity is detected, and the time derivative of this period is measured to be 3.05(7)e-11 s/s. The soft X-ray pulse shows a single sinusoidal shape with a root-mean-square pulsed fraction that increases as a function of energy from 15% at 1.5 keV to 39% at 7 keV. The equatorial surface magnetic field, characteristic age, and spin-down luminosity are derived under the dipole field approximation to be 3.5e+14 G, 2.0 kyr, and 2.1e+34 erg/s, respectively. An absorbed blackbody with a temperature of 1.1 keV approximates the soft X-ray spectrum. Assuming a source distance of 10 kpc, the peak X-ray luminosity is ~8.5e+35 erg/s in the 2--10 keV band. During the period of observations, we detect 5 and 37 short bursts with Swift/BAT and NICER, respectively. Based on these observational properties, especially the inferred strong magnetic field, this new source is classified as a magnetar. We also coordinated hard X-ray and radio observations with NuSTAR, DSN, and VERA. A hard X-ray power-law component that extends up to at least 40 keV is detected at 3-sigma significance. The 10-60 keV flux, which is dominated by the power-law component, is ~9e-12 erg/s/cm2 with a photon index of ~1.2. The pulsed fraction has a sharp cutoff above 10 keV, down to ~10% in the hard-tail component band. No radio pulsations are detected during the DSN nor VERA observations. We place 7σ upper limits of 0.043mJy and 0.026 mJy on the flux density at S-band and X-band, respectively.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures (3 figures in the appendix), 10 tables (9 tables in the appendix). Submitted to ApJL
Exochus gravis
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus gravis

description: Exochus gravis (GRAVENHORST, 1829)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 4: 2♀♀ 1♁ 5-20.v., 1♁ 20.v.-1.vi.; trap 7: 1♀ 1♁ 23.iv.-5.v., 1♀ 20.v.-1.vi., 1♁ 29.vi.-13.vi.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Krasnodar region (TOLKANITZ 1987), new record for Georgia.
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10415120
FloodDepth-ML-HWMs
Creators: name: Maryam Pakdehi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study applies ML models across three large U.S. coastal watersheds during Hurricanes Michael, Ida, and Ian. The models were developed under three scenarios, differing in the flood observational data used for training and validation:

Scenario 1: Trained only on stream gauges.

Scenario 2: Trained on both stream gauges and HWMs.

Scenario 3: Trained on both stream gauges and HWMs while incorporating HWM uncertainty via a proposed loss function.

Model transferability was tested across all scenarios.
Exochus pictus HOLMGREN 1858
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus pictus

description: Exochus pictus HOLMGREN, 1858
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 2: 1♀ 5-20.v.; trap 15: 3♀♀ 1♁ 30.vi.-14.vii., 1♁ 14-28.vii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Holarctic, known from Georgia (MEYER 1936, RIEDEL et al. 2018, RIEDEL & JAPOSHVILI 2021).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10415120
Disassembling the Galaxy with angle-action coordinates
Creators: name: McMillan, Paul J.
name: Binney, James J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Angle-action coordinates are used to study the relic of an N-body simulation of a self-gravitating satellite galaxy that was released on a short-period orbit within the disc of the Galaxy. Satellite stars that lie within 1.5 kpc of the Sun are confined to a grid of patches in action space. As the relic phase-mixes for longer, the patches become smaller and more numerous. These patches can be seen even when the angle-action coordinates of an erroneous Galactic potential are used, but using the wrong potential displaces them. Diagnostic quantities constructed from the angle coordinates both allow the true potential to be identified, and the relic to be dated. Hence when the full phase space coordinates of large numbers of solar-neighbourhood stars are known, it should be possible to identify members of particular relics from the distribution of stars in an approximate action space. This would then open up the possibility of determining the time since the relic was disrupted and gaining better knowledge of the Galactic potential. The availability of angle-action coordinates for arbitrary potentials is the key to these developments. The paper includes a brief introduction to the torus technique used to generate them.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures (1 new), revisions reflect version accepted by MNRAS
POLYGAMIE SOUFFRANCE ET CONFLITS DANS LES FAMILLES
Creators: name: Professeure Françoise Michelle IKAPI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: La polygamie est une pratique qui a évolué au niveau de plusieurs cultures, cette union simultanée d’un homme avec plusieurs femmes, mais on a tendance à dire polygamie pour polygamie. Cette forme d’union est rependue de plus de 60% dans nos sociétés Africaine et dans certains pays comme la chine, le Cambodge, l’inde ainsi que le Moyen – Orient. Cela concerne moins le continent Américain même si les mormons fondamentalistes. Pratiquent la polygamie, c’est donc une modique la polygamie qui existe dans le monde entier, et dans les régions concernées le fait qu’un homme ait plusieurs épouse est une immoralité.

Au Sénégal par exemple si vous vous mariez selon l’option polygamie, il y a l’option deux 2 épouse, 3 épouses ou 4 épouses, cela concerne le plan civil. Sur le plan religieux, en général, pour les musulmans, cela peut aller jusqu’à 4 épouses.

Mais c’est pratique antéislamique. Les mamans qui sont chrétiennes, pratiquent la polygamie selon la Bible, en s’appuyant sur l’ancien testament. Cela existe aussi chez les juifs fondamentalistes qui se basent sur l’ancien testament.

En effet, la Torat permet explicitement la polygamie, mais à  de nombreuses conditions bien que celle-ci n’y soit pas présentée comme un mode de vie idéal et n’y soit pas du tout encouragée. On peut y trouver plusieurs cas du tout célèbres de polygamie tels ceux d’Abraham, de Jacob ou plus tard du roi Salomon qui aurai 700 épouses (dans les…..).

A l’inverse, on y trouve les cas d’autres personnages emblématique tel que celui du second patriarche Isaac on celui de MOISE lui-même, qui n’aurait tous deux qu’une épouse pour chacun.
Discharge nurse intervention on a pediatric rehabilitation unit: Retrospective chart review to evaluate the Does it impact on number of unmet needs during the transition home following neurological injury
Creators: name: Busch, Rebecca
name: Cady, Rhonda G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: The purpose of this study is to describe the post-discharge needs of children and adolescents when transitioning home after an inpatient comprehensive rehabilitation stay following an acute neurological injury and to evaluate if trends in those needs changed with implementation of a discharge nurse intervention. Retrospective medical record review was conducted 1-year prior (T1) and 1-year after (T2) a discharge nurse intervention. Medical charts of 80 pediatric patients with acute neurological injury (T1 = 39; T2 = 41) were reviewed. Post-discharge communication from the 8-week post-discharge period was reviewed to identify and categorize care coordination needs, using 18 pre-defined care coordination categories. T1 and T2 findings were compared using two sample proportion z-test. Patients discharged following inpatient rehabilitation for acute neurological injury have unmet care coordination needs. The proportion of unmet needs decreased significantly for 10/18 care coordination categories after implementation of the discharge nurse intervention. Data from this study support proactive care coordination by inpatient rehabilitation nurses to reduce unmet post-discharge care coordination needs and provides preliminary evidence that the role of a discharge nurse may have a positive impact on the transition from inpatient rehabilitation to home.
Cultural conflict in decision making in the Northwest Territories
Creators: name: Feeney, Margaret Mary
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: a multicultural society: the existence of cross-cultural communication barriers which can hinder effective planning. The hypothesis is that communication problems that arise in cross-cultural planning efforts in the Northwest Territories go beyond substantive issues and are deeply-rooted in fundamental differences between White and Native attitudes about decision making processes. In land use planning, communication problems are even further exacerbated by conflicting White and Native attitudes toward land. Anthropological concepts are used to provide insights into the dynamics of cross-cultural interactions. The work of anthropologists and other social scientists, in addition to the author's field experience, is used to synthesize descriptions of "traditional" (i.e. roughly around the turn of the century) and emerging White and Native patterns of decision making. Comparison shows that traditional patterns are fundamentally different, but that emerging patterns-are beginning to converge in significant ways. The author recommends emphasizing the areas where White and Native decision making patterns are beginning to overlap in establishing models of decision making to meet the needs of the new multicultural Northwest Territories society. Some of the problems that have resulted from imposing decision making models based on White values on new northern communities in the 1950's and 1960's are explored. In addition, two sets of minutes are examined to show that communication problems among northern Natives and White government and industry representatives are exacerbated by fundamental differences in cultural values. The implications of this thesis for contemporary decision making issues confronting Northwest Territories residents are explored. Recommendations are made for further testing the hypothesis and for monitoring the effectiveness of cross-cultural communication in northern decision making.
Exochus prosopius GRAVENHORST 1829
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus prosopius

description: Exochus prosopius GRAVENHORST, 1829
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 7: 2♀♀ 13-27.vii., 1♀ 27.vii.-20.viii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL et al. 2018, RIEDEL & JAPOSHVILI 2021).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10415120
МЕТАФОРА В ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЯХ М.Ю. ЛЕРМОНТОВА: ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ СИМВОЛИЧЕСКОЙ ГЛУБИНЫ И ЭСТЕТИЧЕСКОЙ ФУНКЦИИ
Creators: name: Комилова, Мухаббат
name: Хамидова, Муслима
name: Половина, Л.В.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: В данной статье исследуется использование метафор в произведениях Михаила Юрьевича Лермонтова – выдающегося русского поэта и прозаика. Рассматриваются различные аспекты метафорического мышления и их роль в создании символической глубины и эстетической функции в творчестве Лермонтова.
Numerical convergence of pre-initial conditions on dark matter halo properties
Creators: name: Zhang, Tianchi
name: Liao, Shihong
name: Li, Ming
name: Zhang, Jiajun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generating pre-initial conditions (or particle loads) is the very first step to set up a cosmological N-body simulation. In this work, we revisit the numerical convergence of pre-initial conditions on dark matter halo properties using a set of simulations which only differs in initial particle loads, i.e. grid, glass, and the newly introduced capacity constrained Voronoi tessellation (CCVT). We find that the median halo properties agree fairly well (i.e. within a convergence level of a few per cent) among simulations running from different initial loads. We also notice that for some individual haloes cross-matched among different simulations, the relative difference of their properties sometimes can be several tens of per cent. By looking at the evolution history of these poorly converged haloes, we find that they are usually merging haloes or haloes have experienced recent merger events, and their merging processes in different simulations are out-of-sync, making the convergence of halo properties become poor temporarily. We show that, comparing to the simulation starting with an anisotropic grid load, the simulation with an isotropic CCVT load converges slightly better to the simulation with a glass load, which is also isotropic. Among simulations with different pre-initial conditions, haloes in higher density environments tend to have their properties converged slightly better. Our results confirm that CCVT loads behave as well as the widely used grid and glass loads at small scales, and for the first time we quantify the convergence of two independent isotropic particle loads (i.e. glass and CCVT) on halo properties.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, version accepted by MNRAS
Evaluating Adversarial Attacks on Driving Safety in Vision-Based Autonomous Vehicles
Creators: name: Zhang, Jindi
name: Lou, Yang
name: Wang, Jianping
name: Wu, Kui
name: Lu, Kejie
name: Jia, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, many deep learning models have been adopted in autonomous driving. At the same time, these models introduce new vulnerabilities that may compromise the safety of autonomous vehicles. Specifically, recent studies have demonstrated that adversarial attacks can cause a significant decline in detection precision of deep learning-based 3D object detection models. Although driving safety is the ultimate concern for autonomous driving, there is no comprehensive study on the linkage between the performance of deep learning models and the driving safety of autonomous vehicles under adversarial attacks. In this paper, we investigate the impact of two primary types of adversarial attacks, perturbation attacks and patch attacks, on the driving safety of vision-based autonomous vehicles rather than the detection precision of deep learning models. In particular, we consider two state-of-the-art models in vision-based 3D object detection, Stereo R-CNN and DSGN. To evaluate driving safety, we propose an end-to-end evaluation framework with a set of driving safety performance metrics. By analyzing the results of our extensive evaluation experiments, we find that (1) the attack's impact on the driving safety of autonomous vehicles and the attack's impact on the precision of 3D object detectors are decoupled, and (2) the DSGN model demonstrates stronger robustness to adversarial attacks than the Stereo R-CNN model. In addition, we further investigate the causes behind the two findings with an ablation study. The findings of this paper provide a new perspective to evaluate adversarial attacks and guide the selection of deep learning models in autonomous driving.
Numerical simulations of buoyancy instabilities in galaxy cluster plasmas with cosmic rays and anisotropic thermal conduction
Creators: name: Rasera, Yann
name: Chandran, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In clusters of galaxies, the specific entropy of intracluster plasma increases outwards. Nevertheless, a number of recent studies have shown that the intracluster medium is subject to buoyancy instabilities due to the effects of cosmic rays and anisotropic thermal conduction. In this paper, we present a new numerical algorithm for simulating such instabilities. This numerical method treats the cosmic rays as a fluid, accounts for the diffusion of heat and cosmic rays along magnetic field lines, and enforces the condition that the temperature and cosmic-ray pressure remain positive. We carry out several tests to ensure the accuracy of the code, including the detailed matching of analytic results for the eigenfunctions and growth rates of linear buoyancy instabilities. This numerical scheme will be useful for simulating convection driven by cosmic-ray buoyancy in galaxy cluster plasmas and may also be useful for other applications, including fusion plasmas, the interstellar medium, and supernovae remnants.
description: 40 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ
Late-time tails of self-gravitating skyrmions
Creators: name: Zajac, Stanislaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the long-time behaviour of spherically symmetric solutions in the Einstein-Skyrme model. Using nonlinear perturbation analysis we obtain the leading order estimation of the tail in the topologically trivial sector (B = 0) of the model. We show that solutions starting from small compactly supported initial data decay as 1/t^4 at future timelike infinity and as 1/u^2 at future null infinity. We also verified that long-time behaviour for the tail in Einstein-Skyrme model is exactly the same as it was obtained for wave maps.
description: 7pp; revised version - title changed, sects. 2 and 3 replaced by the new version of sect. 2 with new figure added, section on numerics slightly modified, references updated, accepted for publication in Acta Phys. Pol. B
Buddhist philosophy : principle and practice
Creators: name: Dumdeang, Sompong Gunavaro
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis is an exposition of the principles and practice of Buddhism from the perspective of Thai Theravada. The emphasis which has been placed by exponenets of Buddhism on "major divisions" such as Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna, or on "schools of thought" such as Mādhyamika, Yogācāra. Vijnānavāda etc., has produced a fractured image of Buddhism. The value of these specialized treatments cannot be denied bu: their effect in producing a notion of "many Buddhisms" has done some disservice to the tradition. Underlying the diversities of Buddhism there is an essential unity. The characterisics of human existence, the causal nexus which results in bondage, the promise of freedom; these fundamental truths are found in all schools of Buddhism so that the central myth expressing the religious truth has remained unchanged through history. For this reason the thesis is organized according to the conventional pattern:,., of the Four Noble Truths. The Buddhism here presented does not deny the existence of truth outside its own system. Hence I have made comparative reference in the thesis to other systems of thought which have profound similarities with Buddhism. This is particularly true of the scepticism of David Hume and the insights of modern existentialist thinkers such as Jean Paul Satre. I have concluded that Buddhism is philosophy rather than psychology, practical religion rather than theoretical religion and that its value is related to contemporary need rather than to mere historical analysis. Buddhism is speculative philosophy leading one toward freedom by working on the elements of the causal chain and culminating in the destruction of bondage and the winning of freedom.
Anomalous magnetic exchange in a dimerized quantum-magnet composed of unlike spin species
Creators: name: Curley, S. P. M.
name: Huddart, B. M.
name: Kamenskyi, D.
name: Coak, M. J.
name: Williams, R. C.
name: Ghannadzadeh, S.
name: Schneider, A.
name: Okubo, S.
name: Sakurai, T.
name: Tidey, J. P.
name: Graf, D.
name: Clark, S. J.
name: Blundell, S. J.
name: Pratt, F. L.
name: Telling, M. T. F.
name: Lancaster, T.
name: Manson, J. L.
name: Goddard, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here a study of the magnetic properties of the antiferromagnetic dimer material CuVOF$_4$(H$_2$O)$_6\cdot$H$_2$O, in which the dimer unit is composed of two different $S = 1/2$ species, Cu(II) and V(IV). An applied magnetic field of $μ_0H_{\rm c1} = 13.1(1)~\rm T$ is found to close the singlet-triplet energy gap, the magnitude of which is governed by the antiferromagnetic intradimer, $J_0 \approx 21~\rm K$, and interdimer, $J' \approx 1~\rm K$, exchange energies, determined from magnetometry and electron-spin resonance measurements. The results of density functional theory (DFT) calculations are consistent with the experimental results and predicts antiferromagnetic coupling along all nearest-neighbor bonds, with the magnetic ground state comprising spins of different species aligning antiparallel to one another, while spins of the same species are aligned parallel. The magnetism in this system cannot be accurately described by the overlap between localized V orbitals and magnetic Cu orbitals lying in the Jahn-Teller (JT) plane, with a tight-binding model based on such a set of orbitals incorrectly predicting that interdimer exchange should be dominant. DFT calculations indicate significant spin density on the bridging oxide, suggesting instead an unusual mechanism in which intradimer exchange is mediated through the O atom on the Cu(II) JT axis.
description: Main - 12 pages, 11 figures. Supplemental Information - 11 pages, 11 figures; V2 - Corrected typo in author list
Matrix Model simulations using Quantum Computing, Deep Learning, and Lattice Monte Carlo
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Enrico
name: Han, Xizhi
name: Hassan, Mohammad
name: Feng, Yuan
name: Nori, Franco
name: McGuigan, Michael
name: Hanada, Masanori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Matrix quantum mechanics plays various important roles in theoretical physics, such as a holographic description of quantum black holes. Understanding quantum black holes and the role of entanglement in a holographic setup is of paramount importance for the development of better quantum algorithms (quantum error correction codes) and for the realization of a quantum theory of gravity. Quantum computing and deep learning offer us potentially useful approaches to study the dynamics of matrix quantum mechanics. In this paper we perform a systematic survey for quantum computing and deep learning approaches to matrix quantum mechanics, comparing them to Lattice Monte Carlo simulations. In particular, we test the performance of each method by calculating the low-energy spectrum.
description: 49 pages, 34 tables, 29 figures. Supplementary material will be made available at https://erinaldi.github.io/mm-qc-dl-supplemental/
title: Human-elephant conflict in the Masai Mara dispersal areas of Transmara District
Creators: name: Wasilwa, Noah Sitati
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2003

description: This thesis is based on a field study of human-elephant conflict (HfiC) in the Masai Mara dispersal areas of Transmara District, Kenya, during 1999 and 2000. The district experiences high HEC because it supports a small resident elephant population and receives elephants that disperse up the escarpment seasonally from the Masai Mara. The study examines attitudes and perceptions of people towards elephants, land use changes, changes in elephant distributions and densities, types and patterns of HEC, and the success of different mitigation methods. Attitudes and perceptions towards elephants were determined using participatory workshops and questionnaire surveys. Land use patterns were examined using aerial photo surveys, secondary data and field surveys. Elephant abundance and distribution were determined from secondary data and ground surveys. Vegetation plots were established to measure seasonal changes in natural forage, and changes in elephant diet were examined through dung analysis. Conflict data were obtained from KWS records and daily monitoring, including interruption of learning in schools. Data were analysed at fine scale using a Geographical Information System. and appropriate statistical tests were used to determine which of many variables most determined prevailing levels of HEC, and the success of mitigating HEC. Forestland was increasingly converted to cultivation, which in tum reduced elephant range and confined resident elephants to the remaining forest and to group ranches. Corridor usage by elephants increased with migration of wildebeests into the Masai Mara. Seasonal and spatial patterns in the occurrence of crop raiding incidents were determined by the maturity of maize, the area under farming, distance from the road and distance from the market centres. The success of crop protection measures depended on using a combination of traditional methods. Men who are drunk most risk being attacked by elephants. Elephants may also directly and/or indirectly interfere with learning in schools, but pupil performance was mainly determined by distance from school, absenteeism and tribe. The local community fosters negative attitudes towards elephants from which they currently receive no benefits. The future for elephants in Transmara District is bleak unless a benefit sharing, compensation and active problem elephant control programmes are implemented. Effective land use planning and participation of the community in conservation could help achieve these goals. The findings of this study have important implications for the future of elephant conservation in the face of competing human needs, both in Transmara District and elsewhere in Africa.
Noise in Brillouin Based Information Storage
Creators: name: Nieves, Oscar A.
name: Arnold, Matthew D.
name: Schmidt, Mikołaj K.
name: Steel, Michael J.
name: Poulton, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically and numerically study the efficiency of Brillouin-based opto-acoustic data storage in a photonic waveguide in the presence of thermal noise and laser phase noise. We compare the physics of the noise processes and how they affect different storage techniques, examining both amplitude and phase storage schemes. We investigate the effects of storage time and pulse properties on the quality of the retrieved signal, and find that phase storage is less sensitive to thermal noise than amplitude storage.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
BioNetExplorer: Architecture-Space Exploration of Bio-Signal Processing Deep Neural Networks for Wearables
Creators: name: Prabakaran, Bharath Srinivas
name: Akhtar, Asima
name: Rehman, Semeen
name: Hasan, Osman
name: Shafique, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we propose the BioNetExplorer framework to systematically generate and explore multiple DNN architectures for bio-signal processing in wearables. Our framework adapts key neural architecture parameters to search for an embedded DNN with a low hardware overhead, which can be deployed in wearable edge devices to analyse the bio-signal data and to extract the relevant information, such as arrhythmia and seizure. Our framework also enables hardware-aware DNN architecture search using genetic algorithms by imposing user requirements and hardware constraints (storage, FLOPs, etc.) during the exploration stage, thereby limiting the number of networks explored. Moreover, BioNetExplorer can also be used to search for DNNs based on the user-required output classes; for instance, a user might require a specific output class due to genetic predisposition or a pre-existing heart condition. The use of genetic algorithms reduces the exploration time, on average, by 9x, compared to exhaustive exploration. We are successful in identifying Pareto-optimal designs, which can reduce the storage overhead of the DNN by ~30MB for a quality loss of less than 0.5%. To enable low-cost embedded DNNs, BioNetExplorer also employs different model compression techniques to further reduce the storage overhead of the network by up to 53x for a quality loss of <0.2%.
Exochus suborbitalis SCHMIEDEKNECHT 1924
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus suborbitalis

description: Exochus suborbitalis SCHMIEDEKNECHT, 1924
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 7: 2♀♀ 13-27.vii., 1♁ 27.vii.-10.viii., 2♀♀ 1♁ 10-24.viii., 1♀ 24.viii.-7.ix., 2♀♀ 21.ix.-5.x.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL et al. 2018, RIEDEL & JAPOSHVILI 2021).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10415120
MEMS Magnetometer Using Magnetic Flux Concentrators and Permanent Magnets
Creators: name: Maspero, Federico
name: Gatani, Gabriele
name: Cuccurullo, Simone
name: Bertacco, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel frequency modulated MEMS magnetometer is presented. The new device is inspired by the magnetic force microscopy technique, it combines standard MEMS technology with magnetic elements to obtain a magnetometer with potential for low power consumption and high performance. The analytical model and the characterization of the first proof-concept device are presented.
description: Accepted version of the paper
Similar glassy features in the NMR response of pure and disordered La1.88Sr0.12CuO4
Creators: name: Mitrovic, V. F.
name: Julien, M. -H.
name: de Vaulx, C.
name: Horvatic, M.
name: Berthier, C.
name: Suzuki, T.
name: Yamada, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High Tc superconductivity in La2-xSrxCuO4 coexists with (striped and glassy) magnetic order. Here, we report NMR measurements of the 139La spin-lattice relaxation, which displays a stretched-exponential time dependence, in both pure and disordered x=0.12 single crystals. An analysis in terms of a distribution of relaxation rates T1^-1 indicates that i) the spin-freezing temperature is spatially inhomogeneous with an onset at Tg(onset)=20 K for the pristine samples, and ii) the width of the T1^-1 distribution in the vicinity of Tg(onset) is insensitive to an ~1% level of atomic disorder in CuO2 planes. This suggests that the stretched-exponential 139La relaxation, considered as a manifestation of the systems glassiness, may not arise from quenched disorder.
description: 7 pages, to be published in Phys. Rev. B
title: Anonymous Hernández - Proyecto Seattle en el Tiempo de COVID-19 - Transcript de Historia Oral
Creators: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Publisher: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Year: 2021

description: ESPAÑOL Entrevista de historia oral con Anónima Hernández, una cuidadora. Completado el 28 de abril de 2021. Esta entrevista es parte del Proyecto de Historia Oral Trabajando en el Tiempo de COVID-19 de los Archivos Laborales de Washington, Universidad de Washington.

Este artículo contiene cuatro partes: el audio de la historia oral (.mp4), la transcripción preliminar en español e inglés (.pdf), y los subtítulos en español e inglés (.srt).

ENGLISH Oral History interview with Anonymous Hernández, a caregiver. Completed on April 28, 2021. This interview is part of the Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org

This item contains four parts: oral history audio file (.mp4), preliminary transcription in Spanish and English (.pdf), and caption tracks in Spanish and English (.srt).
Exochus tibialis HOLMGREN 1858
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus tibialis

description: Exochus tibialis HOLMGREN, 1858
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 4; 1♀ 5-20.v.; trap 7: 1♀ 1♁ 5-20.v.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: West Palaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL et al. 2018).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10415120
title: Robert Shauger - Working in the Time of COVID-19 - Oral History Transcript
Creators: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Publisher: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Year: 2021

description: Oral History interview with Robert Shauger, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) at St. Michael Medical Center and Vice President and Steward, UFCW 21, about working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Completed on January 15, 2021. This interview is part of the Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org

This item contains three parts: oral history video file (.mp4), full text transcription (.pdf), and caption tracks (.srt).
title: Joel Shapira - Musical Work in the Time of COVID-19 - Oral History Transcript
Creators: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Publisher: name: Labor Archives of Washington
Year: 2020

description: Oral History interview with Joel Shapira, jazz guitarist, music educator, and member of Twin Cities Musicians Union 30-73, about musical work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Completed in July 2020. This interview is part of the Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org

This item contains two parts: oral history audio file and full text transcription (.pdf).Â
Few-shot Learning in Emotion Recognition of Spontaneous Speech Using a Siamese Neural Network with Adaptive Sample Pair Formation
Creators: name: Feng, Kexin
name: Chaspari, Theodora
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Speech-based machine learning (ML) has been heralded as a promising solution for tracking prosodic and spectrotemporal patterns in real-life that are indicative of emotional changes, providing a valuable window into one's cognitive and mental state. Yet, the scarcity of labelled data in ambulatory studies prevents the reliable training of ML models, which usually rely on "data-hungry" distribution-based learning. Leveraging the abundance of labelled speech data from acted emotions, this paper proposes a few-shot learning approach for automatically recognizing emotion in spontaneous speech from a small number of labelled samples. Few-shot learning is implemented via a metric learning approach through a siamese neural network, which models the relative distance between samples rather than relying on learning absolute patterns of the corresponding distributions of each emotion. Results indicate the feasibility of the proposed metric learning in recognizing emotions from spontaneous speech in four datasets, even with a small amount of labelled samples. They further demonstrate superior performance of the proposed metric learning compared to commonly used adaptation methods, including network fine-tuning and adversarial learning. Findings from this work provide a foundation for the ambulatory tracking of human emotion in spontaneous speech contributing to the real-life assessment of mental health degradation.
description: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, early access article. doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3109485