cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
GenSafe: A Generalizable Safety Enhancer for Safe Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Based on Reduced Order Markov Decision Process Model
Creators: name: Zhou, Zhehua
name: Xie, Xuan
name: Song, Jiayang
name: Shu, Zhan
name: Ma, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Safe Reinforcement Learning (SRL) aims to realize a safe learning process for Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms by incorporating safety constraints. However, the efficacy of SRL approaches often relies on accurate function approximations, which are notably challenging to achieve in the early learning stages due to data insufficiency. To address this issue, we introduce in this work a novel Generalizable Safety enhancer (GenSafe) that is able to overcome the challenge of data insufficiency and enhance the performance of SRL approaches. Leveraging model order reduction techniques, we first propose an innovative method to construct a Reduced Order Markov Decision Process (ROMDP) as a low-dimensional approximator of the original safety constraints. Then, by solving the reformulated ROMDP-based constraints, GenSafe refines the actions of the agent to increase the possibility of constraint satisfaction. Essentially, GenSafe acts as an additional safety layer for SRL algorithms. We evaluate GenSafe on multiple SRL approaches and benchmark problems. The results demonstrate its capability to improve safety performance, especially in the early learning phases, while maintaining satisfactory task performance. Our proposed GenSafe not only offers a novel measure to augment existing SRL methods but also shows broad compatibility with various SRL algorithms, making it applicable to a wide range of systems and SRL problems.
Pomacentrus lepidogenys Fowler & Bean 1928
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus lepidogenys

description: Pomacentrus lepidogenys Fowler & Bean 1928 —Scaly damselfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on photograph taken on 1 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; others photographed at St. KVG18 (south side of Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 18 Aug. 2014; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3– 32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Palau and Vanuatu, north to Philippines, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in coastal, lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 1–12 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Safety of transtympanic application of probiotics in a chinchilla animal model
Creators: name: Nhan, Carol
name: Bezdjian, Aren
name: Shyamali Saha
name: Prakash, Satya
name: Nguyen, Lily
name: Daniel, Sam
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Auditory brainstem response threshold shifts (dB) in the control (phosphate buffered saline) and experimental (probiotic) ears at 7-10 (Early) and 28 (Late) days post application of probiotic. (DOCX 16 kb)
Scapheremaeus crassus Mahunka 1988
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus crassus

description: Scapheremaeus crassus Mahunka, 1988
Scapheremaeus crassus Mahunka, 1988, 232, figs. 42–46.
Type depository: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest.
Type locality: Ha Son Bin, Hoa Binh, VIETNAM.
Habitat: decaying debris, roots and litter from cracks of a steep slope of a rocky wall.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Pomacentrus moluccensis Bleeker 1853
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus moluccensis

description: Pomacentrus moluccensis Bleeker 1853 —Lemon damselfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 3–4 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; others at St. KVG 17 on the Bismarck Sea side of northern Kavieng District by Serge Andréfouët on 18 Aug. 2014, and at St. KVG29 (southeast of New Hanover) by Serge Andréfouët on 24 Aug. 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Yap (Caroline Islands) and Vanuatu, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia and Lord Howe Island. Found in coastal, lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 1–14 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Time factors in slowing down the rate of growth of demand for primary energy in the United States
Creators: name: Lees, Lester
name: Lo, Mingin Philip
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1973

description: The purpose of this report is to identify the time scales involved in slowing down the rate of growth of primary energy consumption in the U.S., as one component of an overall energy/environment strategy designed to limit the required volume of energy imports from overseas. Two important energy-consuming sectors of the economy are chosen as illustrative examples: (1) the "automobile" as a total system (25%); (2) space heating, air conditioning and water heating in the residential sector (22%). Efficient, light-weight vehicles are introduced into the automobile population by allocating an increasing percentage of new car production to such vehicles year by year until some fixed percentage is attained. Parametric calculations show that significant reductions in the annual rate of energy consumption by automobiles can be achieved if (a) the fuel consumption of efficient vehicles is 60% or less of "standard" vehicles; (b) the increment in percentage of new car production devoted to efficient vehicles is not less than 8% per year; (c) the efficient vehicles are "frozen" at not less than 80% or more of all new car production at the end of an eight to ten year period. In the residential sector the "turnover" rate is comparatively low, and the calculated reduction in annual energy growth rate produced by energy-conserving measures is modest, as expected, unless a "retrofit" rate of older living units of at least 2% per year can be attained.

These two components of an energy-conserving policy taken together would bring the growth rate in U. S. primary energy demand down from its present rate of 4.2% per year to about 2.8% per year by 1985. Reductions in the annual growth rate of the remaining 50% of U.S. primary energy consumption that seem quite feasible would bring the overall growth rate down to about 2.5% per year by 1985. If reductions in growth rate of this magnitude could in fact be achieved, energy imports would peak in the mid-1980s at a level no higher than about 60% above the present (1973) volume of imports. Incentives and disincentives designed to bring about this slowdown in the rate of U. S. energy consumption are discussed briefly.
description: © 1973 California Institute of Technology.

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Research Applied to National Needs (RANN), under Grant No. 29726
description: Submitted - EQLreport7.pdf
MOESM1 of Engineering Bacillus megaterium for production of functional intracellular materials
Creators: name: Grage, Katrin
name: McDermott, Paul
name: Rehm, Bernd
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1. AdditionalÂ tables and figures.
Siting nuclear power plants in California: the near-term alternatives
Creators: name: Goldsmith, Martin
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1973

description: There are many issues presently being debated concerning the generation and utilization of electric power in California. Some are peculiar to a specific area, such as the level of air quality and how it is influenced by fossil-fuel power plants. Others are of general applicability, such as high-level waste disposal from nuclear reactors, which is of global concern.

It is the purpose of this study to investigate one particular aspect of the power problem. This is the question of the relative desirability of locating nuclear power plants at sites along the California coastline or at inland locations. In this introductory section, the basic problem will be outlined, including expected growth in electrical usage, and the nature of the controversy, which lies in the allocation of limited resources.

In subsequent sections, the environmental impacts of coastal and inland plant siting will be discussed in general, without reference to specific locations. Conflicting demands for limited resources (namely, the coastline area and cooling water supply) will also be explored and evaluated. Finally, with the aid of this generalized information, a comparison will be made of the siting alternatives.
description: © 1973 California Institute of Technology.

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) under Grant No. GI-29726.
description: Submitted - EQLReport8.pdf
Temporal control of encapsulant release from nanoparticle loaded polymersomes via single pulse irradiation
Creators: name: DiSalvo, Gina Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Polymersomes are spherical vesicles that self-assemble from amphiphilic diblock copolymers. Their structure is comprised of a bilayer membrane and an aqueous lumen which have the ability to encapsulate hydrophobic and hydrophilic molecules, respectively. Polymersomes have received significant attention for applications in drug delivery due to their ability to control the time and location of drug release within the body; this is highly desirable in that potential side effects associated with non-specific cytotoxic drugs can be minimized. While a variety of different stimuli to initiate cargo release have been investigated, light is a particularly attractive trigger because it can be minimally damaging yet deeply penetrating at certain wavelengths and intensities. In order to reduce the dosage of light required to initiate membrane disruption, photosensitizers must be incorporated into the system. In this work, hydrophobic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are incorporated into the membrane of PBD35-b-PEG20 (polybutadiene(1,2 addition)-b-ethyleneoxide) polymersomes. Photosensitization is brought about by the strong optical absorption associated with the plasmonic nature of the particles and the accompanying photo- and thermal-mechanical phenomena produced upon excitation. Both nanosecond and femtosecond pulsed laser sources, tuned to a wavelength congruent with the localized surface plasmon resonance (SPR) of the incorporated AuNPs, were used to trigger encapsulant release. Herein, the interaction of single pulse laser irradiation on an individual polymersome basis has been explored.  Incorporation of AuNPs in the membrane are shown to significantly reduce the rupture threshold energy for both pulse widths when compared to empty membranes. Additionally, irradiation with sub-threshold energies resulted in the formation of membrane pores with encapsulant release occurring over a time frame of two minutes. An analytical model for drug release from circular membrane pores was used to determine effective pore radii in the irradiated vesicles. Preliminary work to scale down the system to the nanoscale for use as a drug delivery system in vivo is also shown. This fundamental study demonstrates the ability to control encapsulant release from photosensitive polymersomes in a highly spatial and temporal manner.
Additional file 1: of Efficacy and safety of pertussis vaccination for pregnant women â   a systematic review of randomised controlled trials and observational studies
Creators: name: Furuta, Marie
name: Sin, Jacqueline
name: Ng, Edmond
name: Wang, Kay
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Search strategies. Systematic electronic search stragegies for the CENTRAL, Medline, Embase and OpenGrey. (DOCX 20Â kb)
The role of motivations for use in the associations between internalizing psychopathology and caffeine consumption
Creators: name: Doremus, Corey Frederick
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: There were two specific aims of this study. First, it sought to replicate previous research exploring links between caffeine consumption and certain types of internalizing psychopathology. Second, it examined whether motivations for caffeine use account for links between caffeine consumption and internalizing psychopathologies. For both of these aims, total weekly caffeine consumption, caffeine consumption frequency, and caffeinated beverage choice were examined. The sample for this study was 194 undergraduates (mean age=19.8, SD=3.5; 47% male; 51% white, 19% African-American, 13% Hispanic or Latino, 12% Asian, 5% other), and data were collected using self-report questionnaires. Previous findings indicating positive associations between depressive symptoms and increased caffeine consumption were replicated. Both Self-Medication and Dependence motivations for use significantly mediated the association between depressive symptoms and caffeine consumption, both in total weekly consumption amount and caffeine use frequency. Energy and Enjoyment   motivations were not significant mediators. Associations between depressive symptoms and more frequent tea consumption, adjusting for all other caffeinated beverage types, were also found. Panic symptoms were not found to be significantly associated with any beverage choice, total caffeine consumption, or caffeine consumption frequency. While causality cannot be drawn from these findings, they serve as a useful knowledge base to inform future longitudinal studies.
Scapheremaeus cuspidatus Perez-Inigo 1982
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus cuspidatus

description: Scapheremaeus cuspidatus Perez-Iñigo, 1982
Scapheremaeus cuspidatus Perez-Iñigo, 1982, 209, figs. 15–18.
Type depository: Instituto Español de Entomologia, Madrid. Type locality: Annobón, EQUATORIAL GUINEA Habitat: no data given.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Pomacentrus nagasakiensis Tanaka 1917
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus nagasakiensis

description: Pomacentrus nagasakiensis Tanaka 1917 — Nagasaki damselfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken on north coast of Manne Island, Kavieng District at 1–11 m depth, St. KR36, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Maldives and Sri Lanka east to Palau and Papua New Guinea, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found on sandy areas near rocky outcrops, 5–30 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
DDoS detection and mitigation using machine learning
Creators: name: Gawande, Arpit Ramesh
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are very common nowadays. It is  evident that the current industry solutions, such as completely relying on the In-  ternet Service Provider (ISP) or setting up a DDoS defense infrastructure, are not  sufficient in detecting and mitigating DDoS attacks, hence consistent research is  needed. In this thesis we first tried to understand how DDoS attacks happen, then  we discussed a way to detect DDoS attacks using machine learning tools at the  routers, instead of setting up a centralized analysis system. We have proposed a  standard communication architecture which can be used across all the networking  devices for mitigating DDoS attacks. We have also created a simulation program  to demonstrate our detection technique.
Identifying Bottlenecks of NISQ-friendly HHL algorithms
Creators: name: Marfany, Marc Andreu
name: Sakhnenko, Alona
name: Lorenz, Jeanette Miriam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum computing promises enabling solving large problem instances, e.g. large linear equation systems with HHL algorithm, once the hardware stack matures. For the foreseeable future quantum computing will remain in the so-called NISQ era, in which the algorithms need to account for the flaws of the hardware such as noise. In this work, we perform an empirical study to test scaling properties and directly related noise resilience of the the most resources-intense component of the HHL algorithm, namely QPE and its NISQ-adaptation Iterative QPE. We explore the effectiveness of noise mitigation techniques for these algorithms and investigate whether we can keep the gate number low by enforcing sparsity constraints on the input or using circuit optimization techniques provided by Qiskit package. Our results indicate that currently available noise mitigation techniques, such as Qiskit readout and Mthree readout packages, are insufficient for enabling results recovery even in the small instances tested here. Moreover, our results indicate that the scaling of these algorithms with increase in precision seems to be the most substantial obstacle. These insights allowed us to deduce an approximate bottleneck for algorithms that consider a similar time evolution as QPE. Such observations provide evidence of weaknesses of such algorithms on NISQ devices and help us formulate meaningful future research directions.
description: Copyright notice added, minor fixes are performed
Pomacentrus nigromanus Weber 1913
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus nigromanus

description: Pomacentrus nigromanus Weber 1913 —Goldback damselfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 3–5 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; others at St. KVG 17 on the Bismarck Sea side of northern Kavieng District by Serge Andréfouët on 18 Aug. 2014, and at St. KVG25 (off southeastern New Hanover) by Serge Andréfouët on 22 Aug. 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Eastern Indonesia east to Palau and Solomon Islands, south to northwestern Australia, New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands. Found in fringing, lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 6–60 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Effective Polaron Dynamics of an Impurity Particle Interacting with a Fermi Gas
Creators: name: Hoang, Duc Viet
name: Pickl, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum dynamics of a homogeneous ideal Fermi gas coupled to an impurity particle on a three-dimensional box with periodic boundary condition. For large Fermi momentum $k_\text{F}$, we prove that the effective dynamics is generated by a Fröhlich-type polaron Hamiltonian, which linearly couples the impurity particle to an almost-bosonic excitation field. Moreover, we prove that the effective dynamics can be approximated by an explicit coupled coherent state. Our method is applicable to a range of interaction couplings, in particular including interaction couplings of order 1 and time scales of the order $k_\text{F}^{-1}$.
description: 40 pages, 1 figure; v2: updated version with general modifications
Chloeia rupestris Risso 1826
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Amphinomida
Amphinomidae
Chloeia
Chloeia rupestris

description: Chloeia rupestris Risso, 1826 Indeterminable
Chloeia rupestris Risso, 1826: 425; Hartman 1959: 132.
Type locality. Nice, France, Mediterranean Sea.
Remarks. The original description included the presence of jaws; they are certainly not present in Chloeia. This might imply an eunicid rather than an amphinomid. Grube (1850: 288) and Baird (1868: 235) noted that Audouin & Milne-Edwards (1833: 192) indicated C. rupestris does not belong in Amphinomidae because it was described with jaws. The status of the species has been regarded as indeterminable by Hartman (1959: 132).
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., 2023, Revision of Chloeia Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Amphinomidae), pp. 1-134 in Zootaxa 5238 (1) on pages 108-109, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5238.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7621793
Comparison of brine production methods and conversion processes for geothermal electric power generation: Geothermal research study in the Salton Sea region of California
Creators: name: Elliott, David G.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1975

description: This document is one of several that report the results of a study carried out by the EQL during 1975. This investigation was directed at definition of and support for a geothermal resource demonstration program to be conducted at the Salton Sea KGRA: The originating agency was NSF/RANN, but in January of 1975 the responsibility for the project was transferred to ERDA. It was anticipated that the results of the research would be continuously fed in to the demonstration program, which was originally anticipated to be initiated during the period of this present grant. However, the demonstration program was not initiated during that time. Those programs are now getting underway, and it is hoped that these results may be useful to ERDA and the contractors in arriving at a program of research. A summary of results in each of the several research areas is given in the following paragraphs, in order that the reader can place the present report in context.
description: © 1975 California Institute of Technology.

Supported by Energy Research and Development Administration grant ERDA-SAN No. AT(04-3)-1086; formerly NSF AER 75-01748.

This study was performed by Dr. David G. Elliott,  Member of the Technical Staff, Energy Systems Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Martin Goldsmith, Deputy Director, Environmental Quality Laboratory, Caltech. Dr. Goldsmith selected the conversion processes to be analyzed, provided technical guidance, reviewed the results, and participated in writing the manuscript. Valuable technical suggestions were contributed by Professor Rolf Sabersky, Division of Engineering and Applied Science. Caltech.
description: Submitted - TR000036.pdf
Pomacentrus nigromarginatus Allen 1973
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus nigromarginatus

description: Pomacentrus nigromarginatus Allen 1973 —Black-margined damselfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 4 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3–32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: South China Sea north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia. Among corals or rocks at outer reef slopes, 20–50 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
The full-sky Spherical Fourier-Bessel power spectrum in general relativity
Creators: name: Semenzato, Federico
name: Bertacca, Daniele
name: Raccanelli, Alvise
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a formalism for analyzing galaxy clustering on the lightcone with the 2-point correlation in the Spherical Fourier-Bessel (SFB) formalism, which is a natural choice to account for all wide-angle and relativistic (GR) effects. We extend previous studies by including all projection and GR effects, developing an efficient numerical implementation that avoids the use of the Limber approximation, includes multi-bins correlations and a full non-diagonal covariance.
 Using this formalism, we investigate the impact of neglecting GR corrections, and in particular how much this could bias measurements of the non-Gaussianity parameter $f_\mathrm{NL}$.
 Our results show that not including relativistic projection terms can systematically and non-negligibly bias estimates of $f_\mathrm{NL}$. The exact results depend on survey specifications and galaxy population properties, but we stress that a bias will generally be present.
 Finally, we develop a novel prescription for cross-bin correlations that allow to search for a clean signal of relativistic corrections, and show that this requires the use of the 3D full-sky formalism.
description: 33 pages, 14 figures. Matches the published version
The relationship between child sleep quality and child health-related quality of life during pediatric cancer treatment
Creators: name: Gross, JuliaYael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Recent medical advances have contributed to increased rates of childhood cancer survivorship (Ward et al., 2014) and addressing the psychosocial functioning of patients and their families is more relevant today than in previous decades. Children and adolescents with chronic health conditions, such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia, report lower health-related quality of life (HRQL) from initial diagnosis through the two to three-year-long maintenance phase of treatment (Earle & Eiser, 2007; Meeske, Katz, Palmer, Burwinkle & Varni, 2004). Both increased parent stress (Hamner, Latzman, Latzman, Elkin & Majumdar, 2015) and poor child sleep quality (van Litsenburg et al., 2011) can negatively contribute to child HRQL. Assessing modifiable components of HRQL can inform clinical practice and intervention development aimed at improving child and family outcomes. This study evaluated the relationship between child sleep quality and child HRQL, and assessed parent stress as a moderator of this relationship. Thirty-eight participants were parents of children (ages three through twelve) who were undergoing cancer treatment. Data assessing child sleep quality, child HRQL and parent stress was collected through parent self-report and child proxy-report questionnaires. Results showed that parent stress is not a moderator on the relationship between child sleep quality and child HRQL, however, parent age and parent stress remained significant variables to consider when evaluating child HRQL. Factors related to child sleep quality and parent stress, and clinical implications of study findings are discussed. Future research directions are offered.
Transferable Embedding Inversion Attack: Uncovering Privacy Risks in Text Embeddings without Model Queries
Creators: name: Huang, Yu-Hsiang
name: Tsai, Yuche
name: Hsiao, Hsiang
name: Lin, Hong-Yi
name: Lin, Shou-De
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study investigates the privacy risks associated with text embeddings, focusing on the scenario where attackers cannot access the original embedding model. Contrary to previous research requiring direct model access, we explore a more realistic threat model by developing a transfer attack method. This approach uses a surrogate model to mimic the victim model's behavior, allowing the attacker to infer sensitive information from text embeddings without direct access. Our experiments across various embedding models and a clinical dataset demonstrate that our transfer attack significantly outperforms traditional methods, revealing the potential privacy vulnerabilities in embedding technologies and emphasizing the need for enhanced security measures.
description: Accepted at ACL 2024 Main Conference
Additional file 2: of Efficacy and safety of pertussis vaccination for pregnant women â   a systematic review of randomised controlled trials and observational studies
Creators: name: Furuta, Marie
name: Sin, Jacqueline
name: Ng, Edmond
name: Wang, Kay
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Excluded studies after full-texts retrieved and reasons for exclusion. A list of 76 excluded full-text articles with reasons for exclusion (DOCX 26Â kb)
High-throughput tools for functional genomics
Creators: name: Guay, Catherine L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Genetic information is stored in DNA sequences, referred to as the genome. Decoding the meaning of these sequences is a critical challenge in biology. The genome contains functional components that modulate information in the genome into cell type specific functions. Of these components, Cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) integrate transcription factor inputs to causally affect gene expression. The genomic locations and sequences of CRMs are useful for resolving interactions within gene regulatory networks, and are therefore useful to address fundamental questions pertaining to development, evolution, cancer, and  genetic disease.    My work addressed major methodological limitations in CRM analysis. Previously, there was no functional method to identify CRMs at genome-scale. Thus, I developed a Genome-scale Reporter Assay Method for CRMs, or GRAMc, that utilizes random 25bp DNA barcodes (N25s) as reporters to quantitatively and reproducibly identify CRMs across an entire genome. The method was applied in cultured human liver cells and in sea urchin embryos. Due to the limited delivery rate of reporter constructs into embryos, it is often advantageous to test GRAMc libraries containing long (>1kb) genomic inserts. Previously, there was no efficient way to characterize genome-scale reporter libraries containing long inserts. To overcome this limitation, I developed a bi-directional mate-pair library approach to characterize long insert containing libraries of genome-scale magnitude. Although genome-scale identification of CRMs is critical to increase cis-regulatory analysis, in embryos it is also necessary to characterize the spatial activity of CRMs. Available methods to identify the spatial activity of CRMs rely on image analysis. Due to the limited number of optically distinct reporter genes, image-based methods are limited to testing only a few CRMs at a time. To address this challenge, I developed a method for Multiplex and Mosaic Observation of Spatial information encoded In CRMs, or MMOSAIC, that increases throughput of spatial cis-regulatory analysis in embryos by several orders of magnitude over traditional imaging based approaches. Together, these tools for cis-regulatory analysis overcome several major limitations for the study of functional genomics
Multimer states in multilevel waveguide QED
Creators: name: Shi, Jiaming
name: Poddubny, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the interplay of spontaneous emission and interactions for the multiple-excited quasistationary eigenstates in a finite periodic array of multilevel atoms coupled to the waveguide. We develop an analytical approach to calculate such eigenstates based on the subradiant dimer basis. Our calculations reveal the peculiar multimerization effect driven by the anharmonicity of the atomic potential: while a general eigenstate is an entangled one, there exist eigenstates that are products of dimers, trimers, or tetramers, depending on the size of the system and the fill factor. At half-filling, these product states acquire a periodic structure with all-to-all connections inside each multimer and become the most subradiant ones.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures + Supplementary
Pomacentrus pavo
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus pavo

description: Pomacentrus pavo (Bloch 1787) —Blue damselfish
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Kavieng, New Ireland by Kailola (1975: 176). A specimen photographed in Kavieng region on 3 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey; a video of a specimen taken at Alexander Passage, off southeastern New Hanover, at 5–14 m depth, St. KR 96, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell). KFRS and USNM material.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to Line, Society and Tuamotu islands, north to Taiwan, south to northern Australia, Lord Howe and Norfolk islands. Found in sheltered coastal and lagoon reefs, 1–16 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 221, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Utilizing natural components to combat anthropogenic effects
Creators: name: Hassinger, Denise Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Plastic pollution is a recognized global threat that must be resolved in order to preserve and conserve natural ecosystems. Fungi are prime candidates for being one of the many solutions to reducing plastic waste since they are primary decomposers. In particular, white-rot fungi possess ligninolytic enzymes, which break down complex lignin molecules. The present study demonstrates that selected white-rot fungi are able to biodegrade certain single-use plastics. The selected fungi are the following: Pleurotus ostreatus, P. ostreatus columbinus, Lentinula edodes, Ganoderma lucidum, and Trametes versicolor. The selected single-use plastics for this study are the following: high-density polyethylene, low-density polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, and polyethylene terephthalate.
Scapheremaeus cyclops Oudemans 1915, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus cyclops

description: Scapheremaeus cyclops (Oudemans, 1915) comb. nov.
Cymberemaeus cyclops Oudemans, 1915, 193.
Cymberemaeus cyclops: Oudemans, 1917, 18, figs. 39–44.
Type depository: Rijksmuseet voor Naturhistorie, Leiden. Type locality: SRI LANKA.
Habitat: moss and soil.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Crystallization and dissolution studies of calcium oxalate monohydrate
Creators: name: Nkuba, Magata
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM), the most stable hydrate of calcium oxalate (CaOx) at typical room temperatures and pressures, can produce undesirable effects in certain systems, such as kidney stone disease in humans, scale deposits in mechanical equipment, and patinas on art monuments. COM dissolution has been considered as a way to remove COM crystals in such systems. However, there are only a few, if any, effective solutions that can be used in the aforementioned systems. In this study, a microfluidic approach has been used to characterize the COM dissolution abilities of various dissolution agents in the pH range of 3-9. The dissolution agents consisted of eight carboxylic acid compounds: acetic acid, formic acid, DL-malic acid, succinic acid, citric acid, hydroxycitric acid, 1, 2, 3, 4-cyclobutanetetracarboxylic acid (H4CBUT), and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). COM crystals were synthesized and dissolved using two different microfluidic devices, namely a 3-input, 3-output device and a 1-input, 1-output device. Results demonstrate that EDTA, H4CBUT, citrate, and hydroxycitrate have a relatively strong ability to dissolve COM crystals in the pH range of 7 to 9. At solution pH values of 5 and 7, acetate, succinate, EDTA, H4CBUT, and citrate were significantly more effective at COM crystal dissolution than the other solution examined. Succinate, malate, and acetate seemed to have no significant benefit.  Overall, the number of carboxylic acid functional groups appeared to give an indication of which dissolution agent would be most effective at dissolving COM crystals. As expected, water alone exhibited relatively poor COM dissolution capabilities at pH values greater than 5.
Controllable photocurrent generation in Dirac systems with two frequency drives
Creators: name: Ikeda, Yuya
name: Kitamura, Sota
name: Morimoto, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) in Dirac and Weyl semimetals under two-frequency light irradiation. We show that the BPVE emerges for centrosymmetric Dirac and Weyl semimetals in the presence of light fields with frequencies $Ω$ and $2Ω$. The BPVE under the two frequency drive involves both shift current contribution independent of the carriers lifetime $τ$ and the injection current contribution $\propto τ$. Our calculations indicate that the photocurrent's direction, magnitude and type can be dynamically controlled by tuning parameters of the driving fields. Furthermore, we find that the tilt of the Dirac cone significantly affects the photocurrent, particularly in mirror symmetry-lacking Weyl semimetals, leading to an anisotropic optical response. These findings provide new insights into the dynamic control of photocurrents in topological semimetals, offering promising applications for optoelectronic devices.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Additional file 1: of Behaviors in Advance Care Planning and ACtions Survey (BACPACS): development and validation part 1
Creators: name: Kassam, Aliya
name: Douglas, Maureen
name: Simon, Jessica
name: Cunningham, Shannon
name: Fassbender, Konrad
name: Shaw, Marta
name: Davison, Sara
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Consensus of a theoretical framework and the constructs to be included for ACP. (PDF 35Â kb)
Scapheremaeus demeteri Mahunka 1983
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus demeteri

description: Scapheremaeus demeteri Mahunka, 1983
Scapheremaeus demeteri Mahunka, 1983, 178, figs. 88–90.
Type depository: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva and Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Type locality: bank of Awash River, 1400 m., Sodere, ETHIOPIA. Habitat: wet soil.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Cost Escalation in Nuclear Power
Creators: name: Montgomery, W. David
name: Quirk, James P.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1978

description: This report is concerned with the escalation of capital costs of nuclear central station power plants between the early 1960s and the present. The report presents an historical overview of the development of the nuclear power industry and cost escalation in the industry, using existing data on orders and capital costs. New data
are presented on regulatory delays in the licensing process, derived from a concurrent study being carried on in the Social Science group at Caltech.

The conclusions of the study are that nuclear capital costs
have escalated more rapidly than the GNP deflator or the construction industry price index. Prior to 1970, cost increases are related to bottleneck problems in the nuclear construction and supplying industries and the regulatory process; intervenors play only a minor role in cost
escalation. After 1970, generic changes introduced into the licensing process by intervenors (including environmental impact reviews, antitrust reviews, more stringent safety standards) dominate the cost escalation picture, with bottlenecks of secondary importance. Recent increases
in the time from application for a construction permit to commercial operation are related not only to intervenor actions, but also to suspensions, cancellations or postponements of construction by utilities
due to unfavorable demand or financing conditions.
description: © 1978 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

Sponsored by National Science Foundation Grant No. APR-75-16566 AOI and Energy Research and Development Administration Grant No. EY-76-G-03-1305.
description: Submitted - EQLmemo_21.pdf
LiCS: Navigation using Learned-imitation on Cluttered Space
Creators: name: Damanik, Joshua Julian
name: Jung, Jae-Won
name: Deresa, Chala Adane
name: Choi, Han-Lim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this letter, we propose a robust and fast navigation system in a narrow indoor environment for UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) using 2D LiDAR and odometry. We used behavior cloning with Transformer neural network to learn the optimization-based baseline algorithm. We inject Gaussian noise during expert demonstration to increase the robustness of learned policy. We evaluate the performance of LiCS using both simulation and hardware experiments. It outperforms all other baselines in terms of navigation performance and can maintain its robust performance even on highly cluttered environments. During the hardware experiments, LiCS can maintain safe navigation at maximum speed of $1.5\ m/s$.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication