cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Linsensuppe und Austern - Ökonomie und Ernährung im römischen Vicus von GroßGerau
Creators: name: Wenzel, Carsten
name: Deschler-Erb, Sabine
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2014

description: Rund zwei Kilometer südlich des modernen Stadtkerns Groß-Geraus im Norden des Hessischen Rieds entstand in der Flur ..Auf Esch" um das Jahr 75 n. Chr. ein römisches Kastell mit einem angrenzenden Lagerdorf. Dieses entwickelte sich bis zum Abzug des Militärs um 115/120 n. Chr. zur größten geschlossenen Siedlung Südhessens. Sie bestand, in reduziertem Umfang, bis in das 3. Viertel des 3. Jahrhunderts weiter. Wirtschaftliche Grundlage des verkehrsgünstig gelegenen Vicus war zu aller Zeit der Handel und in begrenztem Umfang die Güterproduktion. Das umfangreiche archäozoologische Material gewährt zu demwichtige Einblicke in die Sozial-, Ernährungs- und Landwirtschaftgeschichte einer Siedlung am Rande des römischen Imperiums. Chronologische Entwicklungen zeigen sich dabei vor allem in Bezug auf die Jagdgewohnheiten und die Rinderzucht.
description: The Military camp and adjoining civil settlement at Groß-Gerau in the North of Hessisches Ried were founded in 75 AD. approximately 2 kilometres south of today's city in an area latterly called A u f Esch'. The military presence, until around 115/120 AD. elevated the settlement into one of the most important in the southern part of the federal State of Hesse. The settlement continued to exist albeit in a reduced form until the third quarter of the 3rd Century AD. The econonmy was mainly trade-based with only a limited reliance on production of goods. The comprehensive analysis of the archaeozoological material found within the structures of the settlement affords an important insight into the social, economic, and agricultural history of a settlement at the peripher / of the Roman Empire. Particularly interesting is the chronological development of hunting practices and cattle breeding.
Analysis of Emotional State of a Person through Speech Signal Using Neural Classifiers
Creators: name: E N, ganesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: This work aims at recognizing a person's emotional state starting from audio signal registrations. The system is able to recognize four emotions (anger, fear, happy, and sad). This set of emotional states is widely used for emotion recognition purposes. The system is composed of two subsystems: 1) Gender Recognition (GR) and 2) Emotion Recognition (ER). The gender of the speech signal is recognized by plotting the FFT of the signal. Peak value of the signal is extracted from FFT. By setting the threshold value, the gender of the particular signal is recognized. The features (intensity, formant and pitch) are extracted from the PRAAT software. Then using SVM and k-NN classifiers the emotions can be classified. The experimental analysis shows the performance in terms of accuracy of the proposed ER system. The results highlight that the a priori knowledge of the speaker's gender allows a performance increase.
title: "Es geht uns nicht um Gold und Sensationen". Pressearbeit für Archäologen
Creators: name: Scherzler, Diane
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2014

description: Viele Archäologen wollen das Interesse der Öffentlichkeit an ihrer Forschungsarbeit wecken. Deswegen versuchen sie unter anderem, die Aufmerksamkeit der Massenmedien zu gewinnen: Sie schreiben Pressemeldungen oder richten eine Website ein. Einige Wissenschaftler geben Interviews und werden in Zeitungen, Hörfunk und Fernsehen zitiert. Häufig fehlt Archäologen jedoch die Erfahrung in der Zusammenarbeit mit Medien, und sie sind verwundert, was Journalisten schließlich schreiben oder senden. Ziel dieses Textes ist es, Archäologen vertrauter im Umgang mit Medien zu machen. Der Leser lernt, wie er seine Forschung besser gegenüber Medien präsentieren kann und welche Informationen Journalisten von Wissenschaftlern benötigen, um einen guten Artikel schreiben zu können.
description: "We're not after gold and sensations" Press relations for archaeologists.
Many archaeologists want to arouse public interest in their research. So amongst other strategies, researchers are trying to get the attention of the mass media. They Start writing press releases or create a new Website. Some scientists give interviews and are cited in press, radio and television. But archaeologists often lack experience in how to cooperate with the media. In consequence, they are often irritated by what is finally written or broadcast. The purpose of this text is to familiarize archaeologists with the media. Readers will learn how to present their topics better to the mass media. Answers will be given to what kind of information journalists actually need from scientists for writing an excellent article.
title: Der Dachverband Archäologischer Studierendenvertretungen stellt sich vor
Creators: name: Espinosa, Tobias
name: Evers, Thies
name: Heimann, Jörn
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2014

description: Am 15. Mai 2005 hat sich anlässlich der Bundesfachschaftstagung in Berlin der Dachverband archäologischer Studierendenvertretungen (DASV e.V) gegründet. Ziel und Zweck des übergeordneten Verbandes ist es, die Kommunikation der verschiedenen Fachgruppen, Fachschaftsräte, Studienrichtungsvertretungen untereinander zu optimieren, sowie aktiv an hochschulpolitischen Diskussionen teilzunehmen und öffentlichkeitsbezogen zu informieren.
description: On May 15 th 2005 the "Head Organisation of Students' Representatives of Archaeological Subjects" was founded in Berlin. The organisation's aim is to improve the communication among the students' representatives and to participate in the current public discussion on reforming the universities.
Ernährungsmanagement mit Menschen mit Prader-Willi-Syndrom
Creators: name: Bierbaum, Alexandra
name: Lehmann, Svenja
name: Ohnuseit, Sarah
name: Rampe, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Menschen mit komplexen Behinderungen
Prader-Willi-Syndrom
Besondere Wohnformen
PIMD
Ernährung

description: Für Menschen mit komplexer Behinderung kann gemeinsames Essen mühsam sein und lebenslange Schwierigkeiten nicht nur im Hinblick auf physiologische Aspekte, sondern auch in Bezug auf ihre Bildung und ihre soziale und kulturelle Teilhabe bedeuten (vgl. Stinkes 2013, S. 24). Dies bedeutet, Essen fungiert nicht nur als zu befriedigendes Grundbedürfnis, sondern enthält zusätzlich pädagogisch relevante Aspekte. In der vorliegenden Handreichung wird sich konkret mit Menschen mit Prader-Willi-Syndrom (PWS) befasst. Diese können aufgrund behinderungsbedingter Verhaltensmerkmale pädagogischen Handlungsbedarf aufweisen, da für sie mit dem Thema Ernährung häufig negative Assoziationen einhergehen. Dies ist bei Menschen mit PWS, die in besonderen Wohnformen leben, oft alltäglich. Aufgrund der syndromspezifischen Besonderheiten kommt es im Wohnkontext hinsichtlich der Ernährung häufig zu Einschränkungen und Fremdbestimmung. Dadurch gelangen die betroffenen Personen in eine Sonderrolle, welche die soziale Teilhabe in der Wohngemeinschaft schmälert. Daraus ergeben sich besondere Bedarfe für die Betroffenen und pädagogische Herausforderungen für Fachkräfte. In diesem Zusammenhang stellt sich die Frage, wie Menschen mit PWS in besonderen Wohnformen in ihrem Ernährungsmanagement pädagogisch begleitet werden können. Im medizinisch-therapeutischen Kontext bietet sich hierzu die Methode der Psychoedukation an, aus welcher sich jedoch ebenfalls ein pädagogischer Ansatz zur Umsetzung in diesem Kontext ableiten lässt. Folglich richtet sich diese Handreichung an Fachkräfte der besonderen Wohnformen und soll Möglichkeiten vorstellen, wie dem Ernährungsmanagement bei Menschen mit PWS mithilfe psychoedukativer Ansätze pädagogisch begegnet werden kann.
Shaping Multi-Robot Patrol Performance with Heterogeneity in Individual Learning Behavior
Creators: name: York, Connor
name: Madin, Zachary R
name: O'Dowd, Paul
name: Hunt, Edmund R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Individual differences in learning behavior within social groups, whether in humans, other animals, or among robots, can have significant effects on collective task performance. This is because it can affect individuals' response to the environment and their interactions with each other. In recent years there has been rising interest in the question of how individual differences, whether in learning or other traits, affect collective outcomes: studied, for example, in social insect foraging behavior. Multi-robot, 'swarm' systems have a heritage of bioinspiration from such examples, and here we consider whether heterogeneity in a learning behavior called latent inhibition (LI) may be useful for a team of patrolling robots tasked with environmental monitoring and anomaly detection. Individuals with high LI can be seen as better at learning to be inattentive to irrelevant or unrewarding stimuli, while low LI individuals might be seen as 'distractible' and yet, more positively, more exploratory. We introduce a simple model of the effects of LI as the probability of re-searching a location for a reward (anomalous reading) where it has previously been found to be unrewarding (irrelevant). In simulated patrols, we find that a negatively skewed distribution of mostly high LI robots, and just a single low LI robot, is collectively most effective at monitoring dynamic environments. These results are an example of 'functional heterogeneity' in 'swarm engineering' and could inform predictions for ecological distributions of learning traits within social groups.
Study of Nano Properties in Hard Dental Tissues
Creators: name: E N, ganesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Knowledge of the mechanical properties of hard dental tissues is important for understanding broad spectrum dental procedures, from the design to the selection of dental methods. The behavior of dental tissues has long been described in the literature as well as by individual authors, and has been especially dedicated to all fundamental components of teeth, but less research has been carried out pertaining to the micromechanical properties of dentin and bone cement in the root of the tooth. This work deals with the micro-structure and Nano indentation of tooth root dent in taking into account the micromechanical properties of the wall of the tooth. The detailed knowledge of the properties of the intraosseous part of the tooth allows us to optimize the design of current dental implants in the next stage.
False Theta Functions and the Verlinde formula
Creators: name: Creutzig, Thomas
name: Milas, Antun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discover new analytic properties of classical partial and false theta functions and their potential applications to representation theory of W-algebras and vertex algebras in general. More precisely, motivated by clues from conformal field theory, first, we are able to determine modular-like transformation properties of regularized partial and false theta functions. Then, after suitable identification of regularized partial/false theta functions with the characters of atypical modules for the singlet vertex algebra W(2,2p-1), we formulate and prove a Verlinde-type formula for the fusion rules of irreducible W(2,2p-1)-modules.
description: 21 pages. v2: a few minor corrections. v3: published version
Optimal control of diffusion processes: $\infty$-order variational analysis and numerical solution
Creators: name: Chertovskih, Roman
name: Pogodaev, Nikolay
name: Staritsyn, Maxim
name: Aguiar, A. Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49K20, 49J45, 93C20

description: We tackle a nonlinear optimal control problem for a stochastic differential equation in Euclidean space and its state-linear counterpart for the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation in the space of probabilities. Our approach is founded on a novel concept of local optimality surpassing Pontryagin's minimum, originally crafted for deterministic optimal ensemble control problems. A key practical outcome is a rapidly converging numerical algorithm, which proves its feasibility for problems involving Markovian and open-loop strategies.
Random Walks in Rindler Spacetime and String Theory at the Tip of the Cigar
Creators: name: Mertens, T. G.
name: Verschelde, H.
name: Zakharov, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we discuss Rindler space string thermodynamics from a thermal scalar point of view as an explicit example of the results obtained in JHEP 1402 (2014) 127. We discuss the critical behavior of the string gas and interpret this as a random walk near the black hole horizon. Combining field theory arguments with the random walk path integral picture, we realize (at genus one) the picture put forward by Susskind of a long string surrounding black hole horizons. We find that thermodynamics is dominated by a long string living at string-scale distance from the horizon whose redshifted temperature is the Rindler or Hawking temperature. We provide further evidence of the recent proposal for string theory at the tip of the cigar by comparing with the flat space orbifold approach to Rindler thermodynamics. We discuss all types of closed strings (bosonic, type II and heterotic strings).
description: 54 pages, v2: version accepted for publication in JHEP
CIBRA identifies genomic alterations with a system-wide impact on tumor biology
Creators: name: Lakbir, Soufyan
name: Buranelli, Caterina
name: Meijer, Gerrit A.
name: Heringa, Jaap
name: Fijneman, Remond J. A.
name: Abeln, Sanne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background: Genomic instability is a hallmark of cancer, leading to many somatic alterations. Identifying which alterations have a system-wide impact is a challenging task. Nevertheless, this is an essential first step for prioritizing potential biomarkers. We developed CIBRA (Computational Identification of Biologically Relevant Alterations), a method that determines the system-wide impact of genomic alterations on tumor biology by integrating two distinct omics data types: one indicating genomic alterations (e.g., genomics), and another defining a system-wide expression response (e.g., transcriptomics). CIBRA was evaluated with genome-wide screens in 33 cancer types using primary and metastatic cancer data from the Cancer Genome Atlas and Hartwig Medical Foundation. Results: We demonstrate the capability of CIBRA by successfully confirming the impact of point mutations in experimentally validated oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Surprisingly, many genes affected by structural variants were identified to have a strong system-wide impact (30.3%), suggesting that their role in cancer development has thus far been largely underreported. Additionally, CIBRA can identify impact with only ten cases and controls, providing a novel way to prioritize genomic alterations with a prominent role in cancer biology. Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that CIBRA can identify cancer drivers by combining genomics and transcriptomics data. Moreover, our work shows an unexpected substantial system-wide impact of structural variants in cancer. Hence, CIBRA has the potential to preselect and refine current definitions of genomic alterations to derive more nuanced biomarkers for diagnostics, disease progression, and treatment response. CIBRA is available at https://github.com/AIT4LIFE-UU/CIBRA
description: 22 pages, 9 figures
An Algebraic Approach to the Control of Decentralized Systems
Creators: name: Lessard, Laurent
name: Lall, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Optimal decentralized controller design is notoriously difficult, but recent research has identified large subclasses of such problems that may be convexified and thus are amenable to solution via efficient numerical methods. One recently discovered sufficient condition for convexity is quadratic invariance (QI). Despite the simple algebraic characterization of QI, which relates the plant and controller maps, proving convexity of the set of achievable closed-loop maps requires tools from functional analysis. In this work, we present a new formulation of quadratic invariance that is purely algebraic. While our results are similar in flavor to those from traditional QI theory, they do not follow from that body of work. Furthermore, they are applicable to new types of systems that are difficult to treat using functional analysis. Examples discussed include rational transfer matrices, systems with delays, and multidimensional systems.
Decentralized and Equitable Optimal Transport
Creators: name: Lau, Ivan
name: Ma, Shiqian
name: Uribe, César A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper considers the decentralized (discrete) optimal transport (D-OT) problem. In this setting, a network of agents seeks to design a transportation plan jointly, where the cost function is the sum of privately held costs for each agent. We reformulate the D-OT problem as a constraint-coupled optimization problem and propose a single-loop decentralized algorithm with an iteration complexity of O(1/ε) that matches existing centralized first-order approaches. Moreover, we propose the decentralized equitable optimal transport (DE-OT) problem. In DE-OT, in addition to cooperatively designing a transportation plan that minimizes transportation costs, agents seek to ensure equity in their individual costs. The iteration complexity of the proposed method to solve DE-OT is also O(1/ε). This rate improves existing centralized algorithms, where the best iteration complexity obtained is O(1/ε^2).
description: Accepted to ACC 2024
Additional statistics and results from Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions directed towards the body midline
Creators: name: Maselli, Antonella
name: Ofek, Eyal
name: Cohn, Brian
name: Hinckley, Ken
name: Gonzalez-Franco, Mar
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Reaching objects in a dynamic environment requires fast online corrections that compensate for sudden object shifts or postural changes. Previous studies revealed the key role of visually monitoring the hand-to-target distance throughout action execution. In the current study, we investigate how sensorimotor asymmetries associated with space perception, brain lateralization and biomechanical constraints, affect the efficiency of online corrections. Participants performed reaching actions in virtual reality, where the virtual hand was progressively displaced from the real hand to trigger online corrections, for which it was possible to control the total amount of the redirection and the region of space in which the action unfolded. The efficiency of online corrections and the degree of awareness of the ensuing motor corrections were taken as assessment variables. Results revealed more efficient visuo-motor corrections for actions redirected towards, rather than away from, them. The effect is independent on the reaching hand and the hemispace of action, making explanations associated with laterality effects and biomechanical constraints improbable. An explanation may be found in the finer sensorimotor representations characterizing the frontal space proximal to the medial body plane, where a preference for visual processing has been documented, and where high-value functional actions, like fine manipulative skills, typically take place.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘New approaches to 3D vision’.
Scalarization of isolated black holes in scalar Gauss-Bonnet theory in the fixing-the-equations approach
Creators: name: Lara, Guillermo
name: Pfeiffer, Harald P.
name: Wittek, Nikolas A.
name: Vu, Nils L.
name: Nelli, Kyle C.
name: Carpenter, Alexander
name: Lovelace, Geoffrey
name: Scheel, Mark A.
name: Throwe, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most promising avenues to perform numerical evolutions in theories beyond General Relativity is the fixing-the-equations approach, a proposal in which new ``driver'' equations are added to the evolution equations in a way that allows for stable numerical evolutions. In this direction, we extend the numerical relativity code SpECTRE to evolve a ``fixed'' version of scalar Gauss-Bonnet theory in the decoupling limit, a phenomenologically interesting theory that allows for hairy black hole solutions in vacuum. We focus on isolated black hole systems both with and without linear and angular momentum, and propose a new driver equation to improve the recovery of such stationary solutions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the latter by numerically evolving black holes that undergo spontaneous scalarization using different driver equations. Finally, we evaluate the accuracy of the obtained solutions by comparing with the original unaltered theory.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures
Safety-Critical Control for Autonomous Systems: Control Barrier Functions via Reduced-Order Models
Creators: name: Cohen, Max H.
name: Molnar, Tamas G.
name: Ames, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern autonomous systems, such as flying, legged, and wheeled robots, are generally characterized by high-dimensional nonlinear dynamics, which presents challenges for model-based safety-critical control design. Motivated by the success of reduced-order models in robotics, this paper presents a tutorial on constructive safety-critical control via reduced-order models and control barrier functions (CBFs). To this end, we provide a unified formulation of techniques in the literature that share a common foundation of constructing CBFs for complex systems from CBFs for much simpler systems. Such ideas are illustrated through formal results, simple numerical examples, and case studies of real-world systems to which these techniques have been experimentally applied.
description: To appear in Annual Reviews in Control
Indications of an offset merger in Abell 3667
Creators: name: Omiya, Y.
name: Nakazawa, K.
name: Tamura, T.
name: Akamatsu, H.
name: Matsushita, K.
name: Okabe, N.
name: Sato, K.
name: Fujita, Y.
name: Gu, L.
name: Simionescu, A.
name: Ichinohe, Y.
name: Riseley, C. J.
name: Akahori, T.
name: Ito, D.
name: Sakai, K.
name: Kurahara, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abell 3667 is a nearby merging cluster with a prominent cold front and a pair of two bright radio relics. Assuming a head-on merger, the origin of the cold front is often considered to be a remnant of the cluster core stripped by its surrounding ICM. Some authors have proposed an offset merger scenario in which the subcluster core rotates after the first core crossing. This scenario can reproduce features such as the cold front and a pair of radio relics. To distinguish between these scenarios, we reanalyzed the ICM distribution and measured the line-of-sight bulk ICM velocity using the XMM-Newton PN data. In the unsharp masked image, we identify several ICM features. The notable feature is a RG1 vortex, which is a clockwise vortex-like enhancement with a radius of about 250 kpc connecting the first BCG to the radio galaxy (RG1). It is particularly enhanced near the north of the 1st BCG, which is named the BCG-N tail. The thermodynamic maps show that the ICM of the RG1 vortex has a relatively high abundance of 0.5-0.6 solar compared to the surrounding regions. The ICM of the BCG-E tail also has a high abundance and low pseudo-entropy and can be interpreted as a remnant of the cluster core's ICM. Including its arc-like shape, the RG1 vortex supports the idea that the ICM around the cluster center is rotating, which is natural for an offset merger scenario. The results of the line-of-sight bulk ICM velocity measurements show that the ICM around the BCG-N tail is redshifted with a velocity difference of 940+/-440 km/s compared to the optical redshift of the first BCG. We obtain other indications of variations in the line-of-sight velocity of the ICM and discuss these in the context of an offset merger.
Vermittlung von Forschungsdatenmanagement durch den Einsatz elektronischer Laborbücher in Praktika
Creators: name: Strauß, Florian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Electronic Lab Notebook
Research Data Management
Teaching

description: Vortrag auf dem Workshop „Forschungsdaten im Physikstudium“ in Bad Honnef, 20. bis 22.04.2022 Vorgestellt wurden Ansätze des Einsatzes des elektronischen Laborbuchs eLabFTW in drei ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Praktika. Zusätzlich wurden Erkenntnisse der aus der Betrachtung entstandenen Masterarbeit präsentiert.
Cumulative quantum work-deficit versus entanglement in the dynamics of an infinite spin chain
Creators: name: Dhar, Himadri Shekhar
name: Ghosh, Rupamanjari
name: De, Aditi Sen
name: Sen, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that the dynamical phase transition (DPT) in nearest-neighbor bipartite entanglement of time-evolved states of the anisotropic infinite quantum XY spin chain, in a transverse time-dependent magnetic field, can be quantitatively characterized by the dynamics of an information-theoretic quantum correlation measure, namely, quantum work-deficit (QWD). We show that only those nonequilibrium states exhibit entanglement resurrection after death, on changing the field parameter during the DPT, for which the cumulative bipartite QWD is above a threshold. The results point to an interesting inter-relation between two quantum correlation measures that are conceptualized from different perspectives.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, elsarticle, final accepted version
Evidence for 24-hour posture management: A scoping review
Creators: name: Osborne, Lauren Julia
name: GOWRAN, ROSEMARY
name: Casey, Jackie
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Introduction: People with complex physical disabilities unable to change their position independently are at risk of developing postural deformities and secondary complications. 24-hour posture management is needed to protect body structure. With inconsistencies in current service provision, this research aimed to scope the evidence for a 24-hour posture management approach. Method: A scoping review was conducted using four health and social science databases. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied; further papers were included through citation chaining. Results: The evidence for 24-hour posture management was often low quality due to the complications of completing robust research studies in this complex specialty. However, many professionals in the field agree that a 24-hour approach to postural care is essential. Conclusion: There is a need for clear national policy and guidance relating to postural care and scope for development of dedicated posture management services. Current NHS service provision is variable and inconsistent. Lack of postural care is a safeguarding and human rights issue. Specialist training and research in postural care within the Occupational Therapy profession is required to raise awareness of the role Occupational Therapists can play in preventing postural deformities and other secondary complications through providing good postural care.
title: Welfare and health: Systems in tension
Creators: name: Kennedy, Catherine Ann
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Health care management, public policy, public health, social structure.

description: This thesis argues the case for active citizenship in the context of two systems of welfare and health. The argument evolves via an analysis of three philosophical models of citizenship. Detailed analysis and discussion of the three models leads to the conclusion that one of the models is the most appropriate for the practice of modern citizenship. The preferred model is Neighbour-Centred and based on a communitarian philosophy. It embodies a pluralistic view of the state which attributes equal functional significance to the state, the market, and the many groups which fall within the remit of voluntarism. Within the three models, various tensions are identified which manifest themselves in the operation of two systems of welfare and health. Analyses of the two contrasting systems of welfare and health (American and British ) lead to the conclusion that neither system is satisfactory, based as they are on opposing political ideologies. The shortcomings within the systems lead to tensions which derive from the systems themselves and from the models previously described. Critiques of the two systems by Illich and Marx further highlight the observed tensions. It is argued that the presence of these tensions is inevitable. To the extent that they are potential facilitators of change then they may have a positive effect. When they result in disequilibrium in the systems they may be destructive.
Encoding of linear kinetic plasma problems in quantum circuits via data compression
Creators: name: Novikau, Ivan
name: Dodin, Ilya Y.
name: Startsev, Edward A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an algorithm for encoding of linear kinetic plasma problems in quantum circuits. The focus is made on modeling electrostatic linear waves in one-dimensional Maxwellian electron plasma. The waves are described by the linearized Vlasov-Ampère system with a spatially localized external current that drives plasma oscillations. This system is formulated as a boundary-value problem and cast in the form of a linear vector equation $Aψ= b$ to be solved by using the quantum signal processing algorithm. The latter requires encoding of the matrix $A$ in a quantum circuit as a subblock of a unitary matrix. We propose how to encode $A$ in a circuit in a compressed form and discuss how the resulting circuit scales with the problem size and the desired precision.
Leveraging Blue Foods for Low-Carbon Food Systems
Creators: name: Spencer, Rebecca
name: Tigchelaar, Michelle
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Blue food
subject: Ocean
subject: Climate change mitigation
subject: food systems

description: Blue foods–aquatic animals, plants, and algae cultivated or captured in freshwater and marine environments–are increasingly recognized as vital to include in the conversation on sustainable food systems under climate change. This paper synthesizes existing evidence on blue foods’ potential contribution to decarbonizing food systems by identifying four distinct levers with and around blue foods and presents key policy instruments through which the international community can utilize said levers in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Assessing Good Governance in Protected Areas (PA) Co-management: A Case Study of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Mollick, Abdus Subhan
name: Roy, Milton
name: Khan, Nabiul Islam
name: Islam, Wasiul
name: Sadath, Nazmus
name: Nath, Tapan Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Co-management has been adopted in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh since 2008 toward biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement of local communities. However, we have limited research on how good governance was maintained and practiced in co-managed mangrove protected areas (PA). Drawing on a case study, this research assessed stakeholders’ perception on good governance in PA co-management in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh. We adopted a ‘good governance framework’ consisting of six governance principles (stakeholders’ participation, transparency, responsiveness, legitimacy, fairness and organizational capacity) and deployed both qualitative (11 key-informants’ interviews and 4 focus group discussions) and quantitative methods (135 structured interviews) for data collection. Median, frequencies (percent), contingency table chi-square tests were performed for quantitative data. About 30–35% of the respondents perceived neutral in their responses to good governance principles (stakeholders’ participation, transparency, responsiveness, legitimacy, fairness and organizational capacity) indicating moderate level of governance in PA co-management in the Sundarbans. This study has demonstrated a wider implementation gap between the ambitious intent enshrined in the new policy framework and actual rollout of PA governance on the ground. These results would be useful to policy-makers, development agencies and PA managers in formulating and implementing effective policies for PA co-management in Bangladesh and elsewhere.
Cylinders in singular del Pezzo surfaces
Creators: name: Cheltsov, Ivan
name: Park, Jihun
name: Won, Joonyeong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For each del Pezzo surface $S$ with du Val singularities, we determine whether it admits a $(-K_S)$-polar cylinder or not. If it allows one, then we present an effective $\mathbb{Q}$-divisor $D$ that is $\mathbb{Q}$-linearly equivalent to $-K_S$ and such that the open set $S\setminus\mathrm{Supp}(D)$ is a cylinder. As a corollary, we classify all the del Pezzo surfaces with du Val singularities that admit nontrivial $\mathbb{G}_a$-actions on their affine cones defined by their anticanonical divisors.
description: 23 pages
The Functor of Points Approach to Schemes in Cubical Agda
Creators: name: Zeuner, Max
name: Hutzler, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a formalization of quasi-compact and quasi-separated schemes (qcqs-schemes) in the Cubical Agda proof assistant. We follow Grothendieck's functor of points approach, which defines schemes, the quintessential notion of modern algebraic geometry, as certain well-behaved functors from commutative rings to sets. This approach is often regarded as conceptually simpler than the standard approach of defining schemes as locally ringed spaces, but to our knowledge it has not yet been adopted in formalizations of algebraic geometry. We build upon a previous formalization of the so-called Zariski lattice associated to a commutative ring in order to define the notion of compact open subfunctor. This allows for a concise definition of qcqs-schemes, streamlining the usual presentation as e.g. given in the standard textbook of Demazure and Gabriel. It also lets us obtain a fully constructive proof that compact open subfunctors of affine schemes are qcqs-schemes.
description: 18 pages
Conservation Outcomes of Collaborative Forest Management in a Medium Altitude Semideciduous Forest in Mid-western Uganda
Creators: name: Mawa, Christopher
name: Babweteera, Fred
name: Tumusiime, David Mwesigye
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Globally, community involvement in forest management has been hailed as an effective strategy to achieve both conservation and livelihoods improvement goals. In Uganda, Collaborative Forest Management (CFM) has been promoted to enable registered local community groups to co-manage specified areas of state forests with state agencies. However, there is paucity of empirical research evidence on conservation outcomes that are attributable to CFM. To fill this gap, this study used forest inventory data collected in compartments under different forest management regimes (CFM, inactive-CFM, and non-CFM) in 2003 and 2016 to assess spatial and temporal changes in forest structural attributes in a semideciduous forest in mid-western Uganda. Our ordination results show significant changes in tree communities in the non-CFM compartment. The CFM compartment registered a net increase in basal area. We attribute these changes to the high rate of illegal timber extraction and charcoal processing, with signs of the latter only recorded in the inactive- and non-CFM compartments. Illegal timber extraction was perpetuated by powerful outsiders while charcoal processing was dominated by local area residents for cash income. Deliberate management interventions should be instituted to curb illegal human activities and enhance regeneration and recruitment of target tree species in the forest.
A variationally consistent membrane wrinkling model based on spectral decomposition of the strain tensor
Creators: name: Zhang, Daobo
name: Kiendl, Josef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a novel variationally consistent membrane wrinkling model for analyzing the mechanical responses of wrinkled thin membranes. The elastic strain energy density is split into tensile and compressive terms via a spectral decomposition of the strain tensor. Tensile and compressive parts of the stress and constitutive tensors are then obtained via consistent variation from the respective strain energies. Considering only the positive part of the strain energy in the variational formulation, we obtain a membrane with zero compressive stiffness. By adding the negative strain energy multiplied with a very small factor, we further obtain a residual compressive stiffness, which improves stability and allows handling also states of slackening. Comparison with results from analytical, numerical and experimental examples from the literature on membrane wrinkling problems demonstrate the great performance and capability of the proposed approach, which is also compatible with commercial finite element software.
Representations of Quantum Affine Superalgebras
Creators: name: Zhang, Huafeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the quantum affine superalgebra $U_q(Lsl(M,N))$ and its finite-dimensional representations. We prove a triangular decomposition and establish a system of Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt generators for this superalgebra, both in terms of Drinfel'd currents. We define the Weyl modules in the spirit of Chari-Pressley and prove that these Weyl modules are always finite-dimensional and non-zero. In consequence, we obtain a highest weight classification of finite-dimensional simple representations when $M \neq N$. Some concrete simple representations are constructed via evaluation morphisms.
description: published version with minor corrections
PROTECT. Un progetto per la città di Siena
Creators: name: Arrighetti, Andrea
name: Leporini, Raffaella
name: Repole, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Lo studio archeosismologico dei centri storici collocati in aree sismiche permette una conoscenza più o meno approfondita degli effetti di alcuni specifici terremoti sulle componenti materiali e fornisce dati di assoluto interesse sulle dinamiche sociali, economiche e politiche scaturite a seguito di tali eventi. In questo filone di indagine si inserisce il progetto PROTECT – Knowledge for PReventiOn. Technique for reparing seismic damage from medieval period To modern era, finanziato dal programma di ricerca e innovazione Horizon 2020 dell’Unione Europea con una Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, che mira all’applicazione, in via del tutto sperimentale, dei metodi di analisi archeosismologica al centro storico di Siena, in Toscana, in funzione di una approfondita conoscenza del contesto di studio sotto il profilo della prevenzione sismica. Il progetto, a livello metodologico, si basa sull’applicazione e sulla sperimentazione della lettura archeologica degli effetti dei terremoti sull’edilizia storica cittadina seguendo una visione con scale di approfondimento diversificate nello studio delle architetture presenti all’interno delle mura cittadine del contesto senese. L’obiettivo del progetto è quello di creare un protocollo operativo di lettura archeosismologica per un centro cittadino, o per una porzione di quest’ultimo, per poi esportare tale modello anche ad altre realtà italiane ed europee nell’ottica della conoscenza, salvaguardia e tutela del patrimonio storico dal rischio sismico.
title: Evaluation of Scalable Quantum and Classical Machine Learning for Particle Tracking Classification in Nuclear Physics
Creators: name: Thomadakis, Polykarpos
name: Billias, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Future particle accelerators will exceed by far the current data size (1015) per experiment, and high- luminosity program(s) will produce more than 300 times as much data. Classical Machine Learning (ML) likely will benefit from new tools based on quantum computing. Particle track reconstruction is the most computationally intensive process in nuclear physics experiments. A combinatorial approach exhaustively tests track measurements (“hits”), represented as images, to identify those that form an actual particle trajectory, which is then used to reconstruct track parameters necessary for the physics experiment. Quantum Machine Learning (QML) could improve this process in multiple ways, including denoising the data, classifying candidate tracks, and reconstructing the track parameters without conventional processing.

We will present our contributions to the candidate track classification problem using a quantum convolutional network, for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers: (1) an artifact-free image decomposition of the particle images into sub-images to cope with the 5% fidelity of a 12-qubit circuit required for the encoding of the full image (currently used in classical ML); (2) improve fidelity by 70% utilizing Distributed NISQ (D-NSIQ) model that utilizes 128 cores to run our simulations on 5-qubit Quantum Processor Units with different and realistic noise models; (3) evaluation of D-NISQ QML in terms of accuracy against the 99% precision of an optimized classical convolutional network we published recently.
The importance of being warm (during inflation)
Creators: name: Bartrum, Sam
name: Bastero-Gil, Mar
name: Berera, Arjun
name: Cerezo, Rafael
name: Ramos, Rudnei O.
name: Rosa, Joao G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The amplitude of primordial curvature perturbations is enhanced when a radiation bath at a temperature T>H is sustained during inflation by dissipative particle production, which is particularly significant when a non-trivial statistical ensemble of inflaton fluctuations is also maintained. Since gravitational modes are oblivious to dissipative dynamics, this generically lowers the tensor-to-scalar ratio and yields a modified consistency relation for warm inflation, as well as changing the tilt of the scalar spectrum. We show that this alters the landscape of observationally allowed inflationary models, with for example the quartic chaotic potential being in very good agreement with the Planck results for nearly-thermal inflaton fluctuations, whilst essentially ruled out for an underlying vacuum state. We also discuss other simple models that are in agreement with the Planck data within a renormalizable model of warm inflation.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure; added discussion and references; matches published version in Phys. Lett. B
An expression of excess work during transition between nonequilibrium steady states
Creators: name: Yuge, Tatsuro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excess work is a non-diverging part of the work during transition between nonequilibrium steady states (NESSs). It is a central quantity in the steady state thermodynamics (SST), which is a candidate for nonequilibrium thermodynamics theory. We derive an expression of excess work during quasistatic transitions between NESSs by using the macroscopic linear response relation of NESS. This expression is a line integral of a vector potential in the space of control parameters. We show a relationship between the vector potential and the response function of NESS, and thus obtain a relationship between the SST and a macroscopic quantity. We also connect the macroscopic formulation to microscopic physics through a microscopic expression of the nonequilibrium response function, which gives a result consistent with the previous studies.
description: 12 pages,1 figure. Title changed. To appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor
On the algebraic curves for circular and folded strings in $\textrm{AdS}_5\times S^5$
Creators: name: Arnaudov, D.
name: Rashkov, R. C.
name: Vetsov, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There have been recent advances in the construction of algebraic curves for certain classes of string solutions in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this paper we obtain the Lax operators and associated spectral curves for circular and folded string solutions in $\,\textrm{AdS}_5\times S^5$. In addition, we provide an original approach for the reconstruction of string solutions in $\,S^3$ from their corresponding curves.
description: 19 pages, no figures, references added