cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Underwater Piano: A Resonance Theory of Cochlear Mechanics
Creators: name: Bell, James Andrew
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2005
Subjects: mechanotransduction, outer hair cell, surface acoustic wave, squirting wave, pressure wave, traveling wave

description: This thesis takes a fresh approach to cochlear mechanics. Over the last quarter of a century, we have learnt that the cochlea is active and highly tuned, observations suggesting that something may be resonating. Rather than accepting the standard traveling wave interpretation, here I investigate whether a resonance theory of some kind can be applied to this remarkable behaviour.¶ A historical survey of resonance theories is first conducted, and advantages and drawbacks examined. A corresponding look at the traveling wave theory includes a listing of its short-comings.¶ A new model of the cochlea is put forward that exhibits inherently high tuning. ...
Adaptive User Interfaces for Mobile Computing Devices
Creators: name: Bridle, Robert Angus
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: mobile computing, adaptive, machine learning, user interface, concept drift

description: This thesis examines the use of adaptive user interface elements on a mobile phone and presents two adaptive user interface approaches. The approaches attempt to increase the efficiency with which a user interacts with a mobile phone, while ensuring the interface remains predictable to a user. ¶ ...
Kerdock Codes Determine Unitary 2-Designs
Creators: name: Can, Trung
name: Rengaswamy, Narayanan
name: Calderbank, Robert
name: Pfister, Henry D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The non-linear binary Kerdock codes are known to be Gray images of certain extended cyclic codes of length $N = 2^m$ over $\mathbb{Z}_4$. We show that exponentiating these $\mathbb{Z}_4$-valued codewords by $\imath \triangleq \sqrt{-1}$ produces stabilizer states, that are quantum states obtained using only Clifford unitaries. These states are also the common eigenvectors of commuting Hermitian matrices forming maximal commutative subgroups (MCS) of the Pauli group. We use this quantum description to simplify the derivation of the classical weight distribution of Kerdock codes. Next, we organize the stabilizer states to form $N+1$ mutually unbiased bases and prove that automorphisms of the Kerdock code permute their corresponding MCS, thereby forming a subgroup of the Clifford group. When represented as symplectic matrices, this subgroup is isomorphic to the projective special linear group PSL($2,N$). We show that this automorphism group acts transitively on the Pauli matrices, which implies that the ensemble is Pauli mixing and hence forms a unitary $2$-design. The Kerdock design described here was originally discovered by Cleve et al. (arXiv:1501.04592), but the connection to classical codes is new which simplifies its description and translation to circuits significantly. Sampling from the design is straightforward, the translation to circuits uses only Clifford gates, and the process does not require ancillary qubits. Finally, we also develop algorithms for optimizing the synthesis of unitary $2$-designs on encoded qubits, i.e., to construct logical unitary $2$-designs. Software implementations are available at https://github.com/nrenga/symplectic-arxiv18a, which we use to provide empirical gate complexities for up to $16$ qubits.
description: 16 pages double-column, 4 figures, and some circuits. Accepted to 2019 Intl. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), and PDF of the 5-page ISIT version is included in the arXiv package
The Evolution of Genomic Imprinting and X Chromosome Inactivation in Mammals
Creators: name: Hore, Tim
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Genomic imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation, eutherians, marsupials, monotremes, parental conflict, evolution, epigentics, comparative genomics

description: Genomic imprinting is responsible for monoallelic gene expression that depends on the sex of the parent from which the alleles (one active, one silent) were inherited. X-chromosome inactivation is also a form of monoallelic gene expression. One of the two X chromosomes is transcriptionally silenced in the somatic cells of females, effectively equalising gene dosage with males who have only one X chromosome that is not complemented by a gene poor Y chromosome. X chromosome inactivation is random in eutherian mammals, but imprinted in marsupials, and in the extraembryonic membranes of some placentals. Imprinting and X inactivation have been studied in great detail in placental mammals (particularly humans and mice), and appear to occur also in marsupial mammals. However, both phenomena appear to have evolved specifically in mammals, since there is no evidence of imprinting or X inactivation in non-mammalian vertebrates, which do not show parent of origin effects and possess different sex chromosomes and dosage compensation mechanisms to mammals.¶ In order to understand how imprinting and X inactivation evolved, I have focused on the mammals most distantly related to human and mouse. I compared the sequence, location and expression of genes from major imprinted domains, and genes that regulate genomic imprinting and X-chromosome inactivation in the three extant mammalian groups and other vertebrates. Specifically, I studied the evolution of an autosomal region that is imprinted in humans and mouse, the evolution of the X-linked region thought to control X inactivation, and the evolution of the genes thought to establish and control differential expression of various imprinted loci. This thesis is presented as a collection of research papers that examines each of these topics, and a review and discussion that synthesizes my findings.¶ ...
Extended matrix Gelfand-Dickey hierarchies: reduction to classical Lie algebras
Creators: name: Feher, Laszlo
name: Marshall, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction method has been used to associate with $gl_n$ extensions of the matrix r-KdV system. Reductions of these systems to the fixed point sets of involutive Poisson maps, implementing reduction of $gl_n$ to classical Lie algebras of type $B, C, D$, are here presented. Modifications corresponding, in the first place to factorisation of the Lax operator, and then to Wakimoto realisations of the current algebra components of the factorisation, are also described.
description: plain TeX, 12 pages
Orbifold expansion and entire functions with bounded Fatou components
Creators: name: Pardo-Simón, Leticia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Many authors have studied the dynamics of hyperbolic transcendental entire functions; these are those for which the postsingular set is a compact subset of the Fatou set. Equivalenty, they are characterized as being expanding. Mihaljević-Brandt studied a more general class of maps for which finitely many of their postsingular points can be in their Julia set, and showed that these maps are also expanding with respect to a certain orbifold metric. In this paper we generalise these ideas further, and consider a class of maps for which the postsingular set is not even bounded. We are able to prove that these maps are also expanding with respect to a suitable orbifold metric, and use this expansion to draw conclusions on the topology and dynamics of the maps. In particular, we generalize existing results for hyperbolic functions, giving criteria for the boundedness of Fatou components and local connectivity of Julia sets. As part of this study, we develop some novel results on hyperbolic orbifold metrics. These are of independent interest, and may have future applications in holomorphic dynamics.
description: V3: Author accepted manuscript. To appear in Ergod. Theory Dyn. Syst
The Quest for Indonesian Islam: Contestation and Consensus Concerning Veiling
Creators: name: Hamdani, Deny
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2007
Subjects: veiling, Indonesian Islam, Islamic attire, Islam-oriented regime

description: This study examines various transformations in the practice of veiling which have involved changes in its meaning for Indonesian Muslims. It concentrates on a forty-year period from the New Order to the Reform Era. In particular, it focuses on the interplay between the practice of wearing the veil and the changing social and political constellation in Indonesia, and relates these to the presence of both contestation and consensus regarding veiling among Indonesian Muslims. After conducting one year’s fieldwork in some regions of Indonesia, I found significant changes in how Muslims negotiate their daily lives in connection with the idea of veiling. While a ‘relaxed’ form of veiling has long been practiced by santri (devout) Muslims, veiling has assumed an absolute meaning for other Muslims, especially since the increasing Islamisation of various social classes. The practice of veiling has become pervasive among Muslims: at the same time, it is intertwined with fashion trends, commercialisation and the expression of personal and religious identity. ... NOTE: This work has been published by Lambert Academic Publishing and is available at: https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details/store/gb/book/978-3-8443-8928-9/anatomy-of-muslim-veils
Microneta viaria
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Microneta
Microneta viaria

description: Microneta viaria (Blackwall, 1841)
 MATERIAL: 2 Ƌ, 14 ♀, Italy, Tuscany, Mt Argentario, Maremma, 280-400 m a.s.l., sifting litter under Quercus ilex & Q. suber, 13.-14.II.1980, leg. A. Focarile. – 1 Ƌ, Greece, Thessalie, Tsagarada, 350 m a.s.l., in leaf litter, 10.IV.2004, leg. S. Vit [GR-2004, #8]. – 1 ♀, SW Turkey, of Artvin, pasture in Fagus & Picea forest, 1900 m a.s.l., under stones, 9. VI.1986, leg. C. Besuchet, I. Löbl & D. Burckhardt [10a]. – 1 Ƌ, 8 km W of Borçka, 350 m a.s.l., deciduous forest, sifting litter, 8. VI.1986, leg. C. Besuchet, I. Löbl & D. Burckhardt [8]. – 1 ♀, Gümüshane, between Erzincan and Kelkit, 30 km from Erzincan, 2100 m a.s.l., under stones, 4. VI.1986, leg. C. Besuchet, I. Löbl & D. Burckhardt [1c]. – 1 ♀, Kastamonu, Karadere, 32 km N of Tosya, 1400 m a.s.l., Pinus forest, under stones, 19. V.1976, leg. C. Besuchet & I. Löbl. – 3 ♀, Ilgazdag (route Kastamonu - Çankiri), Diphan, 1300 m a.s.l., 17. V.1976, leg. C. Besuchet & I. Löbl [20]. – 1 Ƌ, 13 km from Agli, 1200 m a.s.l., Quercus forest with Pinus, sifting litter, 18. V.1976, leg. C. Besuchet & I. Löbl [25]. – 1 ♀, Sinop, above Bektas, 23 km N of Boyabat, route Boyabat - Sinop, 1100 m a.s.l., Fagus forest, sifting litter, 20. V.1976, leg. C. Besuchet & I. Löbl [31]. – 1 ♀, Bolu, Abant, 1500-1600 m a.s.l., Fagus forest, under stones, 22. V.1976, leg. C. Besuchet & I. Löbl [33b]. – 2 ♀, 9 km N of Mengen (route Mengen - Devrek), 750 m a.s.l., sifting leaf litter in ravine, under Betula, Rhododendron, 23. V. 1976, leg. C. Besuchet & I. Löbl [34].
REMARKS: This species is here reported for the first time for the Italian fauna.
RANGE: Holarctic.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2011, On linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from the Eastern and Central Mediterranean kept at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, pp. 49-91 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.117799, http://zenodo.org/record/6311696
How does the Earth's rotation affect predictions of gravitational wave strong lensing rates?
Creators: name: Yang, Lilan
name: Ding, Xuheng
name: Biesiada, Marek
name: Liao, Kai
name: Zhu, Zong-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The next generation of ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, e.g. the Einstein Telescope, is expected to observe a significant number of strongly lensed GW events as predicted in many previous papers. However, all these works ignored the impact of the Earth's rotation on this prediction. Multiple lensed images arrive at the Earth at different time, thus the ground-based detector has different responses to the lensed images due to different orientations of the detector relative to the GW source direction. Therefore the amplitudes of the GW signal from different images are modulated appropriately, in addition to the lensing magnification. In order to assess this effect, we performed Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the event rate of lensed GW signals. Our conclusion is that the Earth's rotation has a non-negligible impact on the event rate of lensed GW image. The updated event rates decrease by factors of $\sim40\%, \sim20\%, \sim10\%$, for NS-NS, BH-NS, BH-BH systems respectively.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; Accepted by ApJ
Hearing Women's Voices in Popular Song: Analyzing Sound and Identity in Country and Soul
Creators: Heidemann, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Music
Music--Performance
Women singers
Popular music--Social aspects
Gender identity

description: In this study I combine music analysis with critical theory to investigate how different conceptions of feminine identity--intersecting with race and class--are materialized through recorded sound. I present interpretive analyses of four popular songs recorded and released between 1967 and 1974: "Baby, I Love You" by Aretha Franklin, "Fist City" by Loretta Lynn, "If I Were Your Woman" by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and "Jolene" by Dolly Parton. My analyses focus on vocal performance, and vocal quality (or timbre) in particular, as I investigate the means by which the sounds of these recordings participate in cultural discourse on gender, sexuality, race, and class. These songs narrate moments in sexual love relationships (the hope of new love or the threat of infidelity), while the performances of each vocalist, the studio musicians, and the work of engineers and producers combine to create representations of black and working-class femininity that express varying degrees of assertiveness and vulnerability in the face of unequal gender power relations. I compare and contextualize these sonic expressions of identity with the personas these vocalists presented in their professional and public lives, illustrating how these recordings participate in the construction of a multi-faceted and always-emergent history of American womanhood.
      In order to accurately describe the relationship between musical sound and intersectional gender identity, I develop a phenomenological analytic methodology sensitive to how embodied responses (the types of physical engagements invited by sound), associative (or connotative, semiotic) responses, and social and historical context of both the recording and listener all contribute to the process of interpretation. I take my own situated listening experience as the object of study, recognizing how my listening practices and reactions, and overlapping identities--as a white, upper-middle-class woman and music scholar--impact my interpretations of these songs. My focus on the physical engagement inherent in music listening underpins the approach to vocal quality analysis I present at the outset of my study, in which I link descriptive language about voice to the physical components of vocal sound production. In my analyses of lyrics, instrumental quality, dynamics, rhythm, form, pitch, and the sonic "space" afforded by each recording, I continue to attend to the types of embodied and associative responses afforded by each element, demonstrating how an engagement with these sounds informs conceptions of gender identity.
title: Edgeworthia papyrifera Siebold et Zucc.
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Relation between $f$-vectors and $d$-vectors in cluster algebras of finite type or rank 2
Creators: name: Gyoda, Yasuaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F60

description: We study $f$-vectors, which are the maximal degree vectors of $F$-polynomials in cluster algebra theory. For a cluster algebra is of finite type, we find that positive $f$-vectors correspond with $d$-vectors, which are exponent vectors of denominators of cluster variables. Furthermore, using this correspondence and properties of $d$-vectors, we prove that cluster variables in a cluster are uniquely determined by their $f$-vectors when the cluster algebra is of finite type or rank $2$.
description: 15 pages, minor corrections, author's final draft
Coaching en la Dirección del INDESA como herramienta gerencial potenciadora del talento humano
Creators: name: Nadeska Gallardo Lichaá
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: La investigación consiste en determinar la aplicación de la herramienta de Coaching organizacional en el Instituto para la Recreación y el Deporte en SabanetaINDESA como potenciadora del talento humano, a través de la identificación de los aspectos organizacionales; la descripción de la dirección del talento humano y el análisis de la herramienta Coaching Modelo de 4 etapas de Harvard (2005), el Modelo de 5 Contextos de Kimsey-House y Otros (2014). A través del estudio del caso se obtuvieron resultados que evidencian el uso del coaching en la institución para conocer cómo mejorar sus procesos de talento humano.
Applications of Continuous Spatial Models in Multiple Antenna Signal Processing
Creators: name: Dickins, Glenn
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2007
Subjects: telecommunications, wireless, multiple antenna, spatial channel, wave field, spatial field, multiple input multiple output, MIMO

description: This thesis covers the investigation and application of continuous spatial models for multiple antenna signal processing. The use of antenna arrays for advanced sensing and communications systems has been facilitated by the rapid increase in the capabilities of digital signal processing systems. The wireless communications channel will vary across space as different signal paths from the same source combine and interfere. This creates a level of spatial diversity that can be exploited to improve the robustness and overall capacity of the wireless channel. Conventional approaches to using spatial diversity have centered on smart, adaptive antennas and spatial beam forming. Recently, the more general theory of multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) systems has been developed to utilise the independent spatial communication modes offered in a scattering environment. ¶ ...
Pseudo-electromagnetic fields in topological semimetals
Creators: name: Ilan, Roni
name: Grushin, Adolfo G.
name: Pikulin, Dmitry I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dirac and Weyl semimetals, materials where electrons behave as relativistic fermions, react to position- and time-dependent perturbations, such as strain, as if emergent electromagnetic fields were applied. Since they differ from external electromagnetic fields in their symmetries and phenomenology they are called pseudo-electromagnetic fields, and enable a simple and unified description of a variety of inhomogeneous systems involving topological semimetals. We review the different physical ways to create effective pseudo-fields, their observable consequences as well as their similarities and differences compared to electromagnetic fields. Among these difference is their effect on quantum anomalies, the absence of a classical symmetry in the quantum theory, which we revisit from a quantum field theory and a semiclassical viewpoint. We conclude with predicted observable signatures of the pseudo-fields and the nascent experimental status.
description: 18 pages, 6 (preliminary) figures. Original submitted version, comments welcome
title: The Portuguese Cartazes System and the (Magumbayas) on pearl fishing in the Gulf/ Paulo Fernandes
Creators: name: Fernandes, Agnelo Paulo Fernandes Dr
Publisher: name: National Library and Archives
Year: 2009
Subjects: Pearl fisheries - Arabian Peninsula - History - 16th century
Cartazes SystemArabian Peninsula - History - 16th century

Based on my latest research on Documents for the History of Arabia, this paper intends to describe the different aspects of pearl fishing in the Arabian Gulf during the 16th to early 18th centuries, with focus on the Portuguese Cartazes System (navigation permit) and the Magumbayas (taxes).
PathologyGAN: Learning deep representations of cancer tissue
Creators: name: Quiros, Adalberto Claudio
name: Murray-Smith, Roderick
name: Yuan, Ke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Histopathological images of tumors contain abundant information about how tumors grow and how they interact with their micro-environment. Better understanding of tissue phenotypes in these images could reveal novel determinants of pathological processes underlying cancer, and in turn improve diagnosis and treatment options. Advances of Deep learning makes it ideal to achieve those goals, however, its application is limited by the cost of high quality labels from patients data. Unsupervised learning, in particular, deep generative models with representation learning properties provides an alternative path to further understand cancer tissue phenotypes, capturing tissue morphologies. In this paper, we develop a framework which allows GANs to capture key tissue features and uses these characteristics to give structure to its latent space. To this end, we trained our model on two different datasets, an H&E colorectal cancer tissue from the National Center for Tumor diseases (NCT) and an H&E breast cancer tissue from the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) and Vancouver General Hospital (VGH). Composed of 86 slide images and 576 TMAs respectively. We show that our model generates high quality images, with a FID of 16.65 (breast cancer) and 32.05 (colorectal cancer). We further assess the quality of the images with cancer tissue characteristics (e.g. count of cancer, lymphocytes, or stromal cells), using quantitative information to calculate the FID and showing consistent performance of 9.86. Additionally, the latent space of our model shows an interpretable structure and allows semantic vector operations that translate into tissue feature transformations. Furthermore, ratings from two expert pathologists found no significant difference between our generated tissue images from real ones. The code, images, and pretrained models are available at https://github.com/AdalbertoCq/Pathology-GAN
description: Accepted for publication at the Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA) https://melba-journal.org
Classical Integrable 2-dim Models Inspired by SUSY Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Andrianov, A. A.
name: Ioffe, M. V.
name: Nishnianidze, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A class of integrable 2-dim classical systems with integrals of motion of fourth order in momenta is obtained from the quantum analogues with the help of deformed SUSY algebra. With similar technique a new class of potentials connected with Lax method is found which provides the integrability of corresponding 2-dim hamiltonian systems. In addition, some integrable 2-dim systems with potentials expressed in elliptic functions are explored.
description: 19 pages, LaTeX, final version to be published in J.Phys.A
Additional file 3 of Mechanisms of motor symptom improvement by long-term Tai Chi training in Parkinson’s disease patients
Creators: name: Li, Gen
name: Huang, Pei
name: Cui, Shi-Shuang
name: Tan, Yu-Yan
name: He, Ya-Chao
name: Shen, Xin
name: Jiang, Qin-Ying
name: Huang, Ping
name: He, Gui-Ying
name: Li, Bin-Yin
name: Li, Yu-Xin
name: Xu, Jin
name: Wang, Zheng
name: Chen, Sheng-Di
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S1. Pathway analysis in Tai Chi group relative to the Control group from baseline to six-month visit; Fig. S2 Pathway analysis in Tai Chi group relative to the Control group from six-month visit to one-year visit; Fig. S3 Pathway analysis in Tai Chi group relative to the Control group from baseline to one-year visit; Fig. S4 Enrichment analysis in Tai Chi group relative to the Control group from baseline to six-month visit; Fig. S5 Enrichment analysis in Tai Chi group relative to the Control group from six-month visit to one-year visit; Fig. S6 Enrichment analysis in Tai Chi group relative to the Control group from baseline to one-year visit; Fig. S7 Comparison of the change of HIP2 mRNA level in the 3 groups.
POSSIBILITIES OF ULTRASOUND APPLICATION IN CONVECTIVE DRYING OF FOOD PRODUCTS
Creators: name: Najafli, M.R.
name: Safarov, J.E.
name: Sultanova, Sh.A.
name: Samandarov, D.I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Convection drying of foodstuffs still has some limitations that make it difficult to apply in certain areas. These include slow drying rate and loss of product quality. Some of these limitations can be overcome by introducing new technologies used as additional energy sources. Among others, ultrasound stands out, which is able to influence the drying rate without causing a significant increase in the temperature of the material. This favours its application in the drying of various temperature-sensitive materials or in drying processes carried out at low temperatures, such as convection drying at atmospheric pressure [1].
Phenomenology of GeV-scale scalar portal
Creators: name: Boiarska, Iryna
name: Bondarenko, Kyrylo
name: Boyarsky, Alexey
name: Gorkavenko, Volodymyr
name: Ovchynnikov, Maksym
name: Sokolenko, Anastasia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review and revise the phenomenology of the scalar portal -- a new scalar particle with the mass in GeV range that mixes with the Higgs boson. In particular, we consider production channels $B\to S K_1(1270)$ and $B\to S K_0^*(700)$ and show that their contribution is significant. We extend the previous analysis by comparing the production of scalars from decays of mesons, of the Higgs bosons and direct production via proton bremsstrahlung, deep inelastic scattering and coherent scattering on nuclei. Relative efficiency of the production channels depends on the energy of the beam and we consider the energies of DUNE, SHiP and LHC-based experiments. We present our results in the form directly suitable for calculations of experimental sensitivities.
description: Minor changes/typos fixing
Hearing with American Law: On Music as Evidence and Offense in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Creators: Smith, Thomas
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Music--Law and legislation
Rap (Music)
Music and race
Evidence (Law)
Criminal justice, Administration of
Rap (Music)--Political aspects
Imprisonment

description: This dissertation considers how music has been heard with American law during an age of mass incarceration. Drawing upon records in legal archives for thousands of cases from the late 1980s to the present, it describes how legal hearings of music have contributed towards the reproduction of racial injustice. The dissertation takes two distinct modes of hearing as objects for analysis: (1) the hearing of music as evidence; and (2) the hearing of music as an offense. The dissertation describes how, since the late 1980s, the American criminal justice system has routinely and selectively heard rap music as evidence within its investigations and prosecutions. It shows how rap has served variously as a clue or lead during investigations, an aggravator of charges filed and sentences pursued during plea bargaining, a support for arguments against bail, a form of proof for elements of a crime or elements of a sentence enhancement allegation, a support for an affirmative defense, a witness impeacher, a form of proof for an aggravating factor in sentencing, and a support for arguments against parole. The dissertation questions whether quick-fix, colorblind policy proposals are likely to halt this selective hearing of rap, suggesting the need for frank discussions to take place about the political contours of problematization. The dissertation then describes how, over the same time period, through both the criminal justice system and the procedures of administrative law, music has been heard routinely as a subfelony offense. It shows how offenses have been heard in music to facilitate narcotics investigations, raise revenue for cash-strapped municipalities, patrol the borders of the nation, and drive residents from neighborhoods. It demonstrates how the academic study of music can become attentive to harms and injustices made possible through hearing that are not reducible to the restriction of musical freedom, including but not limited to harassment, profiling, the imposition of crushing debts, vehicle impoundment, eviction, and deportation, by engaging in fine-grained study of the social life of music’s regulative rules.
Collective motion occurs inevitably in a class of populations of globally coupled chaotic elements
Creators: name: Nakagawa, N.
name: Komatsu, T. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discovered numerically a scaling law obeyed by the amplitude of collective mo tion in large populations of chaotic elements. Our analysis strongly suggests that such populations generically exhibit collective motion in the presence of interaction, however weak it may be. A phase diagram for the collective motion, which is characterized by peculiar structures similar to Arnold tongues, is obtained.
description: 6 pages, 9 Postscript figures, uses revtex.sty
Using water quality criteria to sustain priority water uses downstream from mines
Creators: name: Wilkes, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Sustainable development in mining means that mines need to safeguard resource values such as water quality in their immediate vicinity. Once aquatic resource values are properly defined, water quality objectives should be set for receiving waters. If met, these ensure that the aquatic resource values are sustained. In general, objectives can be set. using criteria already in existence published by B.C. Environment and CCME. With receiving water objectives known at the planning stages, mines can engineer treatment works to deliver the effluent quality required. Therefore water quality criteria based objectives are useful to both sustain aquatic resources, and also for providing realistic targets for mine development or upgrade planning.
Enhancing License Plate Super-Resolution: A Layout-Aware and Character-Driven Approach
Creators: name: Nascimento, Valfride
name: Laroca, Rayson
name: Ribeiro, Rafael O.
name: Schwartz, William Robson
name: Menotti, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite significant advancements in License Plate Recognition (LPR) through deep learning, most improvements rely on high-resolution images with clear characters. This scenario does not reflect real-world conditions where traffic surveillance often captures low-resolution and blurry images. Under these conditions, characters tend to blend with the background or neighboring characters, making accurate LPR challenging. To address this issue, we introduce a novel loss function, Layout and Character Oriented Focal Loss (LCOFL), which considers factors such as resolution, texture, and structural details, as well as the performance of the LPR task itself. We enhance character feature learning using deformable convolutions and shared weights in an attention module and employ a GAN-based training approach with an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model as the discriminator to guide the super-resolution process. Our experimental results show significant improvements in character reconstruction quality, outperforming two state-of-the-art methods in both quantitative and qualitative measures. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/valfride/lpsr-lacd
description: Accepted for presentation at the Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI) 2024
Oedothorax apicatus
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Oedothorax
Oedothorax apicatus

description: Oedothorax apicatus (Blackwall, 1850)
MATERIAL: 1 Ƌ, Greece, Phthiotis, Malesina, 20.VII.1968, leg. A. Senglet [6831]. – 2 ♀, Turkey, Izmir, Çeşme, 19.IX.1988, T. Jaccoud [TR23A].
RANGE: European-Ancient Mediterranean.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2011, On linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from the Eastern and Central Mediterranean kept at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, pp. 49-91 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.117799, http://zenodo.org/record/6311696
Heat Vulnerability and Cooling Opportunities: Recommendations for the City of San Diego, California
Creators: Riha, Garrett
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: City planning--Environmental aspects
Trees in cities
Urban parks
Urban heat island

description: The expansion and densification of cities change the existing landscapes in ways that significantly alter ecosystems of all scales. Expansion of roads, parking lots, and built structures have increased impermeable surface areas, causing an increase in surface temperatures, a phenomena referred to as the urban heat island. The mechanics of the consequential relationship between urbanization and increased surface temperatures have been well documented in public health and environmental research. This report contributes to the present body of research by providing a framework through which thoughtful planning efforts to reduce the urban heat island (UHI) can be developed. Specifically, this report unpacks the processes and results of a spatial analysis that identifies geographies within the City of San Diego that are in particular need of cooling efforts. The spatial analysis consists of heat exposure information derived from land surface temperature data from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite, and heat sensitivity information derived from population data from the United States Census Bureau. The spatial analysis is then leveraged in the creation of a decision map that compares census tracts within San Diego according to their relative heat vulnerability. This decision map is advanced further in order to evaluate the expected productivity of various cooling strategies in the target census tracts. In addition to a discussion of the findings and applications of the cooling strategies advocated, this report makes specific recommendations as to which strategies should be pursued in which geographies. The majority of the most heat vulnerable census tracts are within the Mid-City and Southeastern neighborhoods of San Diego. 24 of these census tracts were identified as ones for which cooling efforts would be most impactful. These census tracts were determined through an evolution of the heat vulnerability decision map, which captured population size. Recommendations for each census tract were developed through a consideration of their individual attributes in relation to the most popular and proven cooling strategies. The analysis led to tailored recommendations of special efforts to expand existing tree canopies in 10 of the 24 target census tracts, to increase the amount of park space in 7 of the 24 census tracts, and to establish 4 new cooling centers within walking distance of the 5 of the 24 census tracts that currently lack remote cooling centers. Additional cooling tools, including cool roofs, green roofs, and cool pavement were also advocated for. Estimated impact, cost-benefit analysis, and strategies for implementation of all of the recommended cool techniques, including zoning incentives, grants, and demonstration projects, is discussed.
Oedothorax fuscus
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Oedothorax
Oedothorax fuscus

description: Oedothorax fuscus (Blackwall, 1834)
MATERIAL: 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Italy, Zogno, 25. VI.1966, leg. A. Comellini.
RANGE: European.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2011, On linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from the Eastern and Central Mediterranean kept at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, pp. 49-91 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.117799, http://zenodo.org/record/6311696
Systems of order: The satirical novels of Evelyn Waugh
Creators: name: Milthorpe, Naomi Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Evelyn Waugh, satire, English literature 20th Century

description: 'Systems of Order: The satirical novels of Evelyn Waugh' is a study of Evelyn Waugh’s satire. It offers a contextual reading of eleven works by Waugh, presenting revisionist readings of familiar novels and according attention to previously neglected works. It aims to sketch out the main features of Waugh’s satire, including Waugh’s lexis and the use of certain key images and motifs. Comparative analysis of Waugh’s satirical novels with works by contemporary writers such as Clough Williams-Ellis, Wyndham Lewis, Stella Gibbons and T.S. Eliot brings into sharp relief the techniques and targets of Waugh’s satire. ¶ This thesis argues that despite Waugh’s tongue-in-cheek denial of satire’s efficacy in a complacent modern world, he did indeed write satire of a peculiarly twentieth century kind. Waugh’s apparently anarchic novels reflect, behind the detached insouciance of their narrators, the moral standards which the novels ostensibly claim are absent in the modern world. ¶ In Waugh’s writing, satire is effected through the creation of systems of literary order. The structure and patterning of his novels, and his masterful use of the rhetorical techniques of satire, mete out punishment on a formal level. Waugh’s satirical novels dramatize the tension between truth, order and civilization, and their oppositions, disorder and barbarism. 'Systems of Order' suggests that from the very first, Waugh’s satiric project aimed toward the repudiation of modern disorder.
Multi-Feature Aggregation in Diffusion Models for Enhanced Face Super-Resolution
Creators: name: Santos, Marcelo dos
name: Laroca, Rayson
name: Ribeiro, Rafael O.
name: Neves, João C.
name: Menotti, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Super-resolution algorithms often struggle with images from surveillance environments due to adverse conditions such as unknown degradation, variations in pose, irregular illumination, and occlusions. However, acquiring multiple images, even of low quality, is possible with surveillance cameras. In this work, we develop an algorithm based on diffusion models that utilize a low-resolution image combined with features extracted from multiple low-quality images to generate a super-resolved image while minimizing distortions in the individual's identity. Unlike other algorithms, our approach recovers facial features without explicitly providing attribute information or without the need to calculate a gradient of a function during the reconstruction process. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time multi-features combined with low-resolution images are used as conditioners to generate more reliable super-resolution images using stochastic differential equations. The FFHQ dataset was employed for training, resulting in state-of-the-art performance in facial recognition and verification metrics when evaluated on the CelebA and Quis-Campi datasets. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/marcelowds/fasr
description: Accepted for presentation at the Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI) 2024
Heating and stability of Columbia Neutral Torus stellarator plasmas
Creators: Hammond, Kenneth
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Plasma (Ionized gases)
Physics
Plasma heating
Stellarators

description: This thesis describes physics research carried out at the Columbia Neutral Torus (CNT) stellarator after its adaptation from a non-neutral plasma experiment to a device relevant to magnetic fusion energy research. Results are presented in the areas of plasma heating and related topics (microwave-assisted plasma start-up, overdense heating, inversion of stellarator images), as well as to stellarator stability and related topics (high β, error fields). This thesis also describes the engineering improvements which enabled the said adaptation of CNT. The first step of that process involved the installation of a low-power, pulsed 2.45 GHz magnetron. In those initial experiments it was found that the simultaneous use of microwave start-up and of an emissive hot cathode resulted in non-linearly increased electron densities, implying a synergy between the two start-up methods. Then, a 10 kW, 2.45 GHz heating system was commissioned including a custom-designed transmission line and launch antenna. Highly overdense plasmas (a factor of 4 above the cutoff density) were obtained with this system, both for O-mode and X-mode polarization. The analysis of Langmuir probe profiles of density and temperature required the accurate mapping of the minor radius in the plasma, which motivated a study of CNT error fields. This resulted in a new numerical method for inferring coil misalignments from flux surface measurements. The improved knowledge of the actual magnetic field geometry of CNT permitted to develop and successfully apply an inversion technique to experimental plasma images. This technique (“onion peeling”) reconstructs radial emissivity profiles, and can be considered a 3D generalization of Abel inversion. Finally, simulations of high-β plasma equilibria in different CNT magnetic configurations indicate that (1) ballooning stability limits should be accessible at volume-averaged β as low as 0.9% and (2) ballooning-stable β values as high as 3.0% should be attainable with heating powers as low as 40-100 kW and 1-3 MW respectively, according to stellarator energy confinement scaling laws.
Additional file 4 of An integrative analysis of genome-wide association study and regulatory SNP annotation datasets identified candidate genes for bipolar disorder
Creators: name: Qi, Xin
name: Wen, Yan
name: Li, Ping
name: Liang, Chujun
name: Cheng, Bolun
name: Ma, Mei
name: Cheng, Shiqiang
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Liu, Li
name: Kafle, Om
name: Zhang, Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. FUMA gene set enrichment analysis results.
Oedothorax paludigena Simon 1926
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Oedothorax
Oedothorax paludigena

description: Oedothorax paludigena Simon, 1926
MATERIAL: 2 Ƌ, 4 ♀, Greece, Epirus, between Salaora and Arta, bank of lagoon, 28.III.1978, leg. S. Vit [19].
REMARKS: This species is here reported for the first time for the Greek fauna.
RANGE: East Mediterranean.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2011, On linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from the Eastern and Central Mediterranean kept at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, pp. 49-91 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.117799, http://zenodo.org/record/6311696
A galaxy's accretion history unveiled from its integrated spectrum
Creators: name: Boecker, Alina
name: Leaman, Ryan
name: van de Ven, Glenn
name: Norris, Mark A.
name: Mackereth, Ted
name: Crain, Robert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method of quantifying a galaxy's accretion history from its integrated spectrum alone. Using full spectral fitting and calibrated regularization techniques we show how we can accurately derive a galaxy's mass distribution in age-metallicity space and further separate this into stellar populations from different chemical enrichment histories. By exploiting the fact that accreted lower mass galaxies will exhibit an offset to lower metallicities at fixed age compared to the in-situ stellar population, we quantify the fraction of light that comes from past merger events, that are long since mixed in phase-space and otherwise indistinguishable. Empirical age-metallicity relations (AMRs) parameterized for different galaxy masses are used to identify the accreted stellar populations and link them back to the progenitor galaxy's stellar mass. This allows us to not only measure the host galaxy's total ex-situ mass fraction ($f_{acc}$), but also quantify the relative amount of accreted material deposited by satellite galaxies of different masses, i.e. the accreted satellite mass function in analogy to the subhalo mass function. Using mock spectra of simulated, present-day galaxies from the EAGLE suite we demonstrate that our method can recover the total accreted fraction to within $\approx 12 \%$, the stellar mass of the most massive accreted subhalo to within $\approx 26 \%$ and the slope of the accreted satellite mass function to within $\approx 16 \%$ of the true values from the EAGLE merger trees. Future application of this method to observations could potentially provide us accretion histories of hundreds of individual galaxies, for which deep integrated light spectroscopy is available.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS on 20th December 2018