cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Posting of Workers Directive Revised: Enhancing the Protection of Workers in the Cross-border Provision of Services
Creators: name: Van Nuffel, Piet
name: Afanasjeva, Sofia
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: free movement of services
subject: protection of workers
subject: posted workers
subject: Posting of Workers Directive
subject: Enforcement Directive
subject: equal pay for equal work

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1401-1427
description: I. Introduction. - II. Posting of workers on European labour markets. - III. Introducing workers' protection through the Posting of Workers Directive. - III.1. The Court of Justice and workers' protection in the context of cross-border services. - III.2. The Posting of Workers Directive laying down a nucleus of protective rights. - III.3. Continued controversy in the balance between free movement and social protection. - IV. Clarification of the rules through the Enforcement Directive. - V. Revision of the Posting of Workers Directive. - V.1. The Commission's 2016 Proposal - V.2. Revised rules for the Posting of Workers. - V.3. Remuneration, posting allowances and collective agreements. - V.4. Long term posting. - V.5. Abuse and strengthened enforcement of the Posting of Workers Directive. - VI. Conclusion.
description: In March 2016 the European Commission proposed a revision of the Posting of Workers Directive (Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services). Two years later, the co-legislators have adopted the revised Directive (Directive 2018/957/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 June 2018 amending Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services). This Article seeks to explain how this reform builds on the principles developed in the case law of the Court of Justice and eventually managed to upgrade the Posting of Workers Directive into an extended package of protective labour rules that nevertheless remains within the boundaries of internal market legislation.
Lattice reduction by cubification
Creators: name: Cayron, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice reduction is a NP-hard problem well known in computer science and cryptography. The Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) algorithm based on the calculation of orthogonal Gram-Schmidt (GS) bases is efficient and gives a good solution in polynomial time. Here, we present a new approach called cubification that does not require the calculation of the GS bases. It relies on complementary directional and hyperplanar reductions. The deviation from cubicity at each step of the reduction process is evaluated by a parameter called lattice rhombicity, which is simply the sum of the absolute values of the metric tensor. Cubification seems to equal LLL; it even outperforms it in the reduction of columnar matrices. We wrote a Python program that is ten times faster than a reference Python LLL code. This work may open new perspectives for lattice reduction and may have implications and applications beyond crystallography.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
Constraining Galaxy Haloes from the Dispersion and Scattering of Fast Radio Bursts and Pulsars
Creators: name: Ocker, S. K.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Chatterjee, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be scattered by ionized gas in their local environments, host galaxies, intervening galaxies along their lines-of-sight, the intergalactic medium, and the Milky Way. The relative contributions of these different media depend on their geometric configuration and the internal properties of the gas. When these relative contributions are well understood, FRB scattering is a powerful probe of density fluctuations along the line-of-sight. The precise scattering measurements for FRB 121102 and FRB 180916 allow us to place an upper limit on the amount of scattering contributed by the Milky Way halo to these FRBs. The scattering time $τ\propto(\tilde{F} \times {\rm DM}^2) A_τ$, where ${\rm DM}$ is the dispersion measure, $\tilde{F}$ quantifies electron density variations with $\tilde{F}=0$ for a smooth medium, and the dimensionless constant $A_τ$ quantifies the difference between the mean scattering delay and the $1/e$ scattering time typically measured. A likelihood analysis of the observed scattering and halo DM constraints finds that $\tilde{F}$ is at least an order of magnitude smaller in the halo than in the Galactic disk. The maximum pulse broadening from the halo is $τ\lesssim12$ $μ$s at 1 GHz. We compare our analysis of the Milky Way halo with other galaxy haloes by placing limits on the scattering contributions from haloes intersecting the lines-of-sight to FRB 181112 and FRB 191108. Our results are consistent with haloes making negligible or very small contributions to the scattering times of these FRBs.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, accepted to ApJ
Thoth Open Metadata: supporting small- to medium-sized publishers across the globe
Creators: name: Steiner, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: metadata
OA books
open access
monographs
textbooks
edited collections
CC0

description: These are the presentation slides used as part of an EIFL webinar that focused on innovative and community-led metadata management and distribution solutions for integrating open access (OA) books into the wider supply chain. The webinar aims to benefit small- to medium- sized open access publishers who are struggling to produce their metadate to meet the specifications required by different distribution platforms.
Two-sample Test with Kernel Projected Wasserstein Distance
Creators: name: Wang, Jie
name: Gao, Rui
name: Xie, Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a kernel projected Wasserstein distance for the two-sample test, an essential building block in statistics and machine learning: given two sets of samples, to determine whether they are from the same distribution. This method operates by finding the nonlinear mapping in the data space which maximizes the distance between projected distributions. In contrast to existing works about projected Wasserstein distance, the proposed method circumvents the curse of dimensionality more efficiently. We present practical algorithms for computing this distance function together with the non-asymptotic uncertainty quantification of empirical estimates. Numerical examples validate our theoretical results and demonstrate good performance of the proposed method.
description: 50 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, accepted as oral presentation in AISTATS-22
title: Free Movement of Persons in the EU v. in the EEA: Of Effect-related Homogeneity and a Reversed Polydor Principle
Creators: name: Tobler, Christa
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: free movement of persons
subject: Union citizenship
subject: EEA law
subject: homogeneity
subject: Polydor principle
subject: EU external relations

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1429-1451
description: I. Introduction. - II. The incorporation of Directive 2004/38 into EEA law: legal framework. - III. The meaning of the reservation according to the EFTA Court's obiter dictum in Wahl. - IV. Other EFTA Court case law on Directive 2004/38 in the EEA context. - IV.1. Unproblematic in the present writer's opinion: Clauder. - IV.2. From Clauder to Gunnarsson and Jabbi: a very particular understanding of homogeneity. - IV.3. Gunnarsson and Jabbi: facts and issues. - IV.4. The EFTA Court's decision in Gunnarsson. - IV.5. The EFTA Court's decision in Jabbi. - V. Findings with respect to the reservation and relevance in other contexts, including notably Brexit.
description: When the EEA Agreement was concluded in the early 1990s, it reflected, in the fields covered, the state of the then Community law, also with respect to the free movement of persons. Since then, both EEA and EU law have developed further, though with certain marked differences. Notably, the EU Treaty revision of Maastricht led to the introduction of Union citizenship. The fact that there is no corresponding concept in the EEA Agreement had led to certain challenges within the EEA with respect to the free movement of persons, due notably to the double nature of Directive 2004/38 as a further development of the free movement law of the Communities and a Union citizenship instrument. Today, the EEA and the EU rules are identical with respect to the market access rights of economic agents. In contrast, it is debated whether and to what extent the incorporation of Directive 2004/38 into the EEA legal system is indeed limited for those purposes. This relates in particular to case law of the EFTA Court on persons who are not economically active, where the Court, in the EEA context, gives Directive 2004/38 a broader interpretation than the CJEU does in the EU context. The EFTA Court's aim, despite the lack of Union citizenship in EEA law, is to arrive at the same level of protection. Commentators speak about a particular understanding of homogeneity and of the Polydor principle. This approach raises questions also with respect to the external relations of the EU with other non-Member States, including notably the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland following its withdrawal from EU membership ("Brexit").
Integer colorings with no rainbow 3-term arithmetic progression
Creators: name: Li, Xihe
name: Broersma, Hajo
name: Wang, Ligong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B25, 11B75, 05C55

description: In this paper, we study the rainbow Erdős-Rothschild problem with respect to 3-term arithmetic progressions. We obtain the asymptotic number of $r$-colorings of $[n]$ without rainbow 3-term arithmetic progressions, and we show that the typical colorings with this property are 2-colorings. We also prove that $[n]$ attains the maximum number of rainbow 3-term arithmetic progression-free $r$-colorings among all subsets of $[n]$. Moreover, the exact number of rainbow 3-term arithmetic progression-free $r$-colorings of $\mathbb{Z}_p$ is obtained, where $p$ is any prime and $\mathbb{Z}_p$ is the cyclic group of order $p$.
description: 13 pages
Mobbing und Cybermobbing bei Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland – Querschnittergebnisse der HBSC-Studie 2017/18 und Trends
Creators: name: Fischer, Saskia M.
name: John, Nancy
name: Melzer, Wolfgang
name: Kaman, Anne
name: Winter, Kristina
name: Bilz, Ludwig
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mobbing
subject: Cybermobbing
subject: Bullying
subject: Häufigkeit
subject: Prävalenz
subject: Trend
subject: Schule
subject: Gewalt
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Mobbing ist eine spezifische Form der Gewalt, die mit vielfältigen und langfristigen negativen gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen einhergehen kann. Obwohl eine starke mediale Fokussierung insbesondere auf Cybermobbing zu beobachten ist, liegen nur wenige repräsentative Befunde zur Häufigkeit von (Cyber-)Mobbing in Deutschland vor. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird untersucht, wie verbreitet Mobbing und Cybermobbing an Schulen in Deutschland im Jahr 2018 waren, welche Unterschiede zwischen Mädchen und Jungen, verschiedenen Altersgruppen und Schulformen vorliegen und wie sich die Verbreitung von Mobbing von 2002 bis 2018 entwickelt hat. Dazu werden Daten der deutschen „Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC)“-Studie 2017/18 (N = 4.347 Lernende, 53,0 % weiblich) sowie der vorangegangenen Erhebungswellen analysiert. Jungen gaben 2018 häufiger als Mädchen an, Mobbing ausgeübt zu haben, berichteten aber genauso häufig davon, selbst gemobbt worden zu sein. 15-Jährige berichteten häufiger als 11- und 13-Jährige, andere gemobbt zu haben und seltener, selbst gemobbt worden zu sein. Schülerinnen und Schüler an Gymnasien gaben am seltensten an, in Mobbing involviert gewesen zu sein. Nur wenige Kinder und Jugendliche berichteten von Cybermobbing. Im Vergleich zu allen vorherigen Erhebungsjahren berichteten 2018 die wenigsten Heranwachsenden davon, andere zu mobben. Die Häufigkeit der berichteten Erfahrung, gemobbt zu werden, hat sich dagegen kaum verändert. Die Befunde verdeutlichen die Notwendigkeit, evidenzbasierte präventive Anti-Mobbing-Programme und Interventionsmaßnahmen an allen allgemeinbildenden Schulformen und in allen Altersgruppen einzusetzen.
HOMILA DAVRIDA QO'LLANILADIGAN GORMONAL PREPARATLAR TA'SIRIDA SUT TISHLARINING DAVO-PROFILAKTIKASI
Creators: name: Mirsalixova, F.L.
name: Abdirimova, Gulrux
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada homiladorlikdagi gormonal preparatlar natijasida  yuzaga keladigan, bolalarda emal gipoplaziyasining davolashni takomillashtirishga qaratilgan ilmiy-tadqiqotlarga alohida e’tibor qaratilmoqda. Bunda zamonaviy stomatologiyada og‘iz bo‘shlig‘i kasalliklari bilan bog‘liq, homiladorlikdagi gormonal preparatlar natijasida bolalarda rivojlanadigan kasalliklarning o‘ziga xos kechishini klinik-funksional xususiyatlarini aniqlash chora-tadbirlari keltirilgan.
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Educational Measurement: Opportunities and Ethical Challenges
Creators: name: Bulut, Okan
name: Beiting-Parrish, Maggie
name: Casabianca, Jodi M.
name: Slater, Sharon C.
name: Jiao, Hong
name: Song, Dan
name: Ormerod, Christopher M.
name: Fabiyi, Deborah Gbemisola
name: Ivan, Rodica
name: Walsh, Cole
name: Rios, Oscar
name: Wilson, Joshua
name: Yildirim-Erbasli, Seyma N.
name: Wongvorachan, Tarid
name: Liu, Joyce Xinle
name: Tan, Bin
name: Morilova, Polina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in educational measurement has revolutionized assessment methods, enabling automated scoring, rapid content analysis, and personalized feedback through machine learning and natural language processing. These advancements provide timely, consistent feedback and valuable insights into student performance, thereby enhancing the assessment experience. However, the deployment of AI in education also raises significant ethical concerns regarding validity, reliability, transparency, fairness, and equity. Issues such as algorithmic bias and the opacity of AI decision-making processes pose risks of perpetuating inequalities and affecting assessment outcomes. Responding to these concerns, various stakeholders, including educators, policymakers, and organizations, have developed guidelines to ensure ethical AI use in education. The National Council of Measurement in Education's Special Interest Group on AI in Measurement and Education (AIME) also focuses on establishing ethical standards and advancing research in this area. In this paper, a diverse group of AIME members examines the ethical implications of AI-powered tools in educational measurement, explores significant challenges such as automation bias and environmental impact, and proposes solutions to ensure AI's responsible and effective use in education.
description: 59 pages, 3 figures, a joint work of the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education (AIME) from the National Council of Measurement in Education (NCME)
PROFITABILITY AND RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY OF RICE SEED PRODUCTION: INSIGHTS FROM NEPAL'S TERAI BELT
Creators: name: RAJESH SAH
name: SHIVA CHANDRA DHAKAL
name: SANTOSH MARAHATTA
name: UJJAL TIWARI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Profitability, Optimum Use, Resource Use Efficiency, Rice, Seed.

description: Abstract

Rice is major staple food and accounts for around 50 percent area under cultivation of total cereal crops cultivation in Nepal. The demand of rice seed is high and quality rice seed is crucial for better yield as it has significant role in national food security and income generation of Nepalese people.  In this regard, this study attempted to analyse profitability and resource use efficiency of rice seed production in Jhapa, Chitwan and Bardiya districts from Terai belt of Nepal. The total of 100 samples from each district were selected using simple random sampling technique. The productivity of rice productions in Jhapa, Chitwan and Bardiya were 4.21, 3.89 and 4.65 Mt/ha respectively. The study showed that the average cost of rice seed production was NRs. 82,021, and average gross revenue was NRs. 164,000 resulting in an average net profit of NRs. 81,980 on per ha basis. The overall benefit cost ratio of rice seed production was found 2.04 and the BC ratio was higher in Bardiya district (2.15) as compared to Chitwan (1.99) and Jhapa (1.97) reflecting rice seed production as profitable farming. The cost on organic manure, postharvest operation, seed and chemical fertilizer were found underused and could be increased by 387, 76, 75 and 74 percent respectively and In the other hand, the cost related to harvesting and micronutrient were found overused and could be decreased by 104 and 10 percent for optimal allocation of resources used in rice seed production. The optimal use of available resources and providing technical know-how with better delivery of extension services might lead on significant increase on rice production and making rice production as profitable enterprise which ultimately contribute to meet the domestic demand and lowering high rice import.
Caregiver Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children against COVID-19 after Adult Vaccine Approval
Creators: name: Goldman, Ran D.
name: Krupik, Danna
name: Ali, Samina
name: Mater, Ahmed
name: Hall, Jeanine E.
name: Bone, Jeffrey N.
name: Thompson, Graham C.
name: Yen, Kenneth
name: Griffiths, Mark A.
name: Klein, Adi
name: Klein, Eileen J.
name: Brown, Julie C.
name: Mistry, Rakesh D.
name: Gelernter, Renana
name: On Behalf Of The International COVID-19 Parental Attitude Study (COVIPAS) Group
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Vaccines against COVID-19 are likely to be approved for children under 12 years in the near future. Understanding vaccine hesitancy in parents is essential for reaching herd immunity. A cross-sectional survey of caregivers in 12 emergency departments (ED) was undertaken in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. We compared reported willingness to vaccinate children against COVID-19 with an initial survey and post-adult COVID-19 vaccine approval. Multivariable logistic regression models were performed for all children and for those <12 years. A total of 1728 and 1041 surveys were completed in phases 1 and 2, respectively. Fewer caregivers planned to vaccinate against COVID-19 in phase 2 (64.5% and 59.7%, respectively; p = 0.002). The most significant positive predictor of willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 was if the child was vaccinated per recommended local schedules. Fewer caregivers plan to vaccinate their children against COVID-19, despite vaccine approval for adults, compared to what was reported at the peak of the pandemic. Older caregivers who fully vaccinated their children were more likely to adopt vaccinating children. This study can inform target strategy design to implement adherence to a vaccination campaign.
A Search for Collisions and Planet-Disk Interactions in the Beta Pictoris Disk with 26 Years of High Precision HST/STIS Imaging
Creators: name: Avsar, Arin M.
name: Wagner, Kevin
name: Apai, Dániel
name: Stark, Christopher C.
name: Wyatt, Mark C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Beta Pictoris (Beta Pic)'s well-studied debris disk and two known giant planets, in combination with the stability of HST/STIS (and now also JWST), offers a unique opportunity to test planet-disk interaction models and to observe recent planetesimal collisions. We present HST/STIS coronagraphic imaging from two new epochs of data taken between 2021 and 2023, complementing earlier data taken in 1997 and 2012. This dataset enables the longest baseline and highest precision temporal comparison of any debris disk to date, with sensitivity to temporal surface brightness variations of sub-percentage levels in the midplane of the disk. While no localized surface brightness changes are detected, which would be indicative of a recent planetesimal collision, there is a tentative brightening of the SE side of the disk over the past decade. We link the constraints on surface brightness variations to dynamical models of the planetary system's evolution and to the collisional history of planetesimals. Using a coupled collisional model and injection/recovery framework, we estimate sensitivity to expanding collisional debris down to a Ceres-mass per progenitor in the most sensitive regions of the disk midplane. These results demonstrate the capabilities of long-baseline, temporal studies with HST (and also soon with JWST) for constraining the physical processes occurring within debris disks.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Extra Unionem Nulla Salus? The UK Withdrawal and the European Constitutional Moment
Creators: name: Cannizzaro, Enzo
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: European Union
subject: UK Withdrawal agreement
subject: EU founding Treaties
subject: EU constitutional charter
subject: Brexit
subject: European integration

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1041-1043
description: It is possible that the 29th of March 2019 will be considered as the date on which the Union has ceased to be a quarrelsome community of sovereign States and has become a community of destiny. This may well occur if, on that date, EU law will cease to apply to the UK, thus transforming the withdrawal of that State into a disorderly and ruinous retreat. However, far from revealing the fragility of the European edifice, this inauspicious outcome can turn out to magnify the Constitutional dimension of the process of integration. Regardless of the final outcome of Brexit, the events of these days may show that the links among the peoples of Europe have become so close that it is very difficult to untie them. They could make the prophecy of the functionalist philosophy come true, which advocated a de facto solidarity as the indispensable premise for the creation of a community sharing a common destiny. The difficulty, if not even the impossibility, for the peoples of the Member States to part ways seems to indicate that the process of integration is becoming de facto irreversible and that these peoples are gradually being transformed into a full-fledged community. It is this process of transformation that heralds, in spite of the harsh present time, a Constitutional moment for Europe.
Microscopic origin of excess wings in relaxation spectra of supercooled liquids
Creators: name: Guiselin, Benjamin
name: Scalliet, Camille
name: Berthier, Ludovic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Glass formation is encountered in diverse materials. Experiments have revealed that dynamic relaxation spectra of supercooled liquids generically become asymmetric near the glass transition temperature, $T_g$, where an extended power law emerges at high frequencies. The microscopic origin of this "wing" remains unknown, and was so far inaccessible to simulations. Here, we develop a novel computational approach and study the equilibrium dynamics of model supercooled liquids near $T_g$. We demonstrate the emergence of a power law wing in numerical spectra, which originates from relaxation at rare, localised regions over broadly-distributed timescales. We rationalise the asymmetric shape of relaxation spectra by constructing an empirical model associating heterogeneous activated dynamics with dynamic facilitation, which are the two minimal physical ingredients revealed by our simulations. Our work offers a glimpse of the molecular motion responsible for glass formation at relevant experimental conditions.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, supplementary materials
PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE KEITH AND JULIE VARIETIES OF MANGO (MANGIFERA INDICA L) IN YOLA, NIGERIA
Creators: name: Abdullahi,, D. M. Kirawa
name: Tame, , V. T
name: Jakusko,, B. B
Publisher: name: ZAP JOURNALS
Year: 2024
Subjects: : Physicochemical properties, Keith, Julie, Mango and Processing

description: Mango (Mangifera indica L), a climacteric tropical and sub-tropical fruit, has numerous health-related benefits. The physicochemical characteristics and proximate composition of mango fruits are useful for classifying mango varieties and understanding the benefits that could be derived from the fruits. There is a lack of information on the characteristics of Keith and Julie mango varieties in Nigeria. This study was carried out at the Department of Crop Production and Horticulture of Modibbo Adama University, Yola, to determine the physicochemical properties of fresh Keith and Julie mango fruits. The mango fruit were harvested on the orchard of the University at the matured green stage when they had clear, well-developed shoulders at the stem end. Data on the fruits were collected, including firmness, size, and weight pH, total soluble solids, trivial acidity, moisture content, carbohydrate, protein, fat, ash, crude fiber, dry matter, energy value, and vitamins. The results of the physicochemical properties showed that significant differences (P≤0.05) existed among the varieties with the Keith variety having higher levels of in some characters like total soluble solids (19.45ᵒBrix) than Julie variety which had 13.90ᵒ Brix. Similarly, Julie had higher values in some characters like moisture content (83.67- 83.85%), Protein content (0.70 - 0.71), and vitamin C (52.87- 55.00 mg/100 g) when compared to Keith, who had moisture content of 79.30-84.00%, protein content of 0.13-0.28%, and vitamin C of 47.33 – 49.61 mg/100 g. These differences affect the taste, storability, and nutritional values derivable from the consumption of these fruits. may be the result of varietal differences, which could be consistent and diverse. These results may be useful to researchers interested in mango varietal improvement. It also provides information on maturity and taste indices, which are useful for those involved in the processing industry.
Symbolic integration by integrating learning models with different strengths and weaknesses
Creators: name: Kubota, Hazumi
name: Tokuoka, Yuta
name: Yamada, Takahiro G.
name: Funahashi, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Integration is indispensable, not only in mathematics, but also in a wide range of other fields. A deep learning method has recently been developed and shown to be capable of integrating mathematical functions that could not previously be integrated on a computer. However, that method treats integration as equivalent to natural language translation and does not reflect mathematical information. In this study, we adjusted the learning model to take mathematical information into account and developed a wide range of learning models that learn the order of numerical operations more robustly. In this way, we achieved a 98.80% correct answer rate with symbolic integration, a higher rate than that of any existing method. We judged the correctness of the integration based on whether the derivative of the primitive function was consistent with the integrand. By building an integrated model based on this strategy, we achieved a 99.79% rate of correct answers with symbolic integration.
Joltik: Enabling Energy-Efficient \ "Future-Proof" Analytics on Low-Power Wide-Area Networks
Creators: name: Mingran Yang
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless sensors have enabled a number of key complications. Despite many advances in sensing, computation and wireless technologies, simultaneously achieving energy-efficiency, fidelity, and generality across many (possibly unforeseen) metrics, has remained elusive. To this end, this paper presents Joltik , a framework enablinggeneral and energy efficient analytics for low power wireless sensors. Joltik is built upon recent theoretical advances in universal sketching, which can enable a Joltik sensor node to report a compact summary of observed data to enable a large class of statistical summaries. We address key system design and implementation challenges with respect to communication, memory and computation bottlenecks that arise in practically realizing the potential benefits of universal sketching in the low-power regime. We present a proof-of-concept evaluation of Joltik in LoRaWAN NUCLEO-L476RGboards and sensors and conduct experiments in a local testbed. Across a range of realistic datasets, Joltik provides significant reduction in energy cost compared to transmittingraw data and outperforms many natural alternatives (e.g., sub-sampling, custom sketches, compressed sensing) in terms of energy-accuracy tradeoffs.
Chebyshev Polynomials and Inequalities for Kleinian Groups
Creators: name: Alaqad, Hala
name: Gong, Jianhua
name: Martin, Gaven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 30C60, 30F40, Secondary 20H10, 53A35

description: The principal character of a representation of the free group of rank two into PSL(2, C) is a triple of complex numbers that determines an irreducible representation uniquely up to conjugacy. It is a central problem in the geometry of discrete groups and low dimensional topology to determine when such a triple represents a discrete group that is not virtually abelian, that is a Kleinian group. A classical necessary condition is Jørgensen's inequality. Here we use certainly shifted Chebyshev polynomials and trace identities to determine new families of such inequalities, some of which are best possible. The use of these polynomials also shows how we can identify the principal character of some important subgroups from that of the group itself.
description: 18 pages
Lithobius javanicus
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Lithobiomorpha
Lithobiidae
Lithobius
Lithobius javanicus

description: Lithobius javanicus (Zalesskaja, 1978)
Fig. 1
 Monotarsobius javanicus Zalesskaja 1978: 159.
 Lithobius javanicus – Farzalieva 2006: 102; Dyachkov et al. 2022: 175; Dyachkov 2022b: 404.
 Material. 1 male (ASU No. 577), Tajikistan, Gorno-Badakhshan Region, Khorog botanical garden, N37°28'22" E71°36'7", in old crumbly tree stub, 2280 m, 9–10.VII.2023, coll. YD.
 Distribution. Tajikistan: Khatlon Region (Zalesskaja 1978) and Gorno-Badakhshan Region (present record); Uzbekistan: Surxondaryo Region (Dyachkov 2022b).
 Remarks. This species is recorded in the Gorno-Badakhshan Region for the first time.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2023, On the Chilopoda fauna of the Pamir Mts, Tajikistan, with notes on the highest records of chilopod species in Middle Asia, pp. 67-75 in Ecologica Montenegrina 65 on page 70, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.65.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13246644
Modeling of chemically active particles at an air-liquid interface
Creators: name: Imamura, Shun
name: Kawakatsu, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The collective motion of chemically active particles at an air-liquid interface is studied theoretically as a dynamic self-organization problem. Based on a physical consideration, we propose a minimal model for self-propelled particles by combining hydrodynamic interaction, capillary interaction, driving force by Marangoni effect, and Marangoni flow. Our model has successfully captured the features of chemically active particles, that represent dynamic self-organized states such as crystalline, chain, liquid-like and spreading states.
Evaluation of soccer team defense based on prediction models of ball recovery and being attacked: A pilot study
Creators: name: Toda, Kosuke
name: Teranishi, Masakiyo
name: Kushiro, Keisuke
name: Fujii, Keisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the development of measurement technology, data on the movements of actual games in various sports can be obtained and used for planning and evaluating the tactics and strategy. Defense in team sports is generally difficult to be evaluated because of the lack of statistical data. Conventional evaluation methods based on predictions of scores are considered unreliable because they predict rare events throughout the game. Besides, it is difficult to evaluate various plays leading up to a score. In this study, we propose a method to evaluate team defense from a comprehensive perspective related to team performance by predicting ball recovery and being attacked, which occur more frequently than goals, using player actions and positional data of all players and the ball. Using data from 45 soccer matches, we examined the relationship between the proposed index and team performance in actual matches and throughout a season. Results show that the proposed classifiers predicted the true events (mean F1 score $>$ 0.483) better than the existing classifiers which were based on rare events or goals (mean F1 score $
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Pannopi: a tool for pan-genome based on prokaryotic genome assembly and annotations
Creators: name: Zilov, Danil
name: Komissarov, Aleksey
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: The advent of new generation sequencing for the first time made it possible to significantly speed up and reduce the cost of determining the full sequence of millions of genomes of organisms, from bacteria to humans. It is clear from the bioinformatics side that as the cost of sequencing decreases, the amount of data to be processed will increase. It is necessary to identify areas of analysis that are routine and to automate them.
We created Pannopi - an open-source, scalable, easy-to-install, and use an assembly and annotation pipeline based on a hierarchical pan-genome graph. The program performs a large-scale analysis of the nucleic acid sequence of bacteria from preparation to functional annotation. The process runs from the preparation of sequence reads to genome assembly, through cleaning up the genome from external contamination to structural and functional annotation. Quality control is carried out throughout the process. Pannopi allows users to select the taxons for pan-genome graph construction and required modules; it can be used on a separate command-line program or through a web interface.
Basis-independent quantum coherence and its distribution under relativistic motion
Creators: name: Du, Ming-Ming
name: Li, Hong-Wei
name: Tao, Zhen
name: Shen, Shu-Ting
name: Li, Xiao-Jing Yan. Xi-Yun
name: Zhong, Wei
name: Sheng, Yu-Bo
name: Zhou, Lan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent studies have increasingly focused on the effect of relativistic motion on quantum coherence. Prior research predominantly examined the influence of relative motion on basis-dependent quantum coherence, underscoring its susceptibility to decoherence under accelerated conditions. Yet, the effect of relativistic motion on basis-independent quantum coherence, which is critical for understanding the intrinsic quantum features of a system, remains an interesting open question. This paper addresses this question by examining how total, collective, and localized coherence are affected by acceleration and coupling strength. Our analysis reveals that both total and collective coherence significantly decrease with increasing acceleration and coupling strength, ultimately vanishing at high levels of acceleration. This underscores the profound impact of Unruh thermal noise. Conversely, localized coherence exhibits relative stability, decreasing to zero only under the extreme condition of infinite acceleration. Moreover, we demonstrate that collective, localized, and basis-independent coherence collectively satisfy the triangle inequality. These findings are crucial for enhancing our understanding of quantum information dynamics in environments subjected to high acceleration and offer valuable insights on the behavior of quantum coherence under relativistic conditions.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Optical Properties of Magnesium-Zinc Oxide for Thin Film Photovoltaics
Creators: name: Alaani, Mohammed A. Razooqi
name: Koirala, Prakash
name: Phillips, Adam B.
name: Liyanage, Geethika K.
name: Awni, Rasha A.
name: Sapkota, Dhurba R.
name: Ramanujam, Balaji
name: Heben, Michael J.
name: O’Leary, Stephen K.
name: Podraza, Nikolas J.
name: Collins, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Motivated by their utility in CdTe-based thin film photovoltaics (PV) devices, an investigation of thin films of the magnesium-zinc oxide (MgxZn1−xO or MZO) alloy system was undertaken applying spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE). Dominant wurtzite phase MZO thin films with Mg contents in the range 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.42 were deposited on room temperature soda lime glass (SLG) substrates by magnetron co-sputtering of MgO and ZnO targets followed by annealing. The complex dielectric functions ε of these films were determined and parameterized over the photon energy range from 0.73 to 6.5 eV using an analytical model consisting of two critical point (CP) oscillators. The CP parameters in this model are expressed as polynomial functions of the best fitting lowest CP energy or bandgap E0 = Eg, which in turn is a quadratic function of x. As functions of x, both the lowest energy CP broadening and the Urbach parameter show minima for x ~ 0.3, which corresponds to a bandgap of 3.65 eV. As a result, it is concluded that for this composition and bandgap, the MZO exhibits either a minimum concentration of defects in the bulk of the crystallites or a maximum in the grain size, an observation consistent with measured X-ray diffraction line broadenings. The parametric expression for ε developed here is expected to be useful in future mapping and through-the-glass SE analyses of partial and complete PV device structures incorporating MZO.
Solving combinatorial optimization problems through stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert dynamical systems
Creators: name: Chen, Dairong
name: Kent, Andrew D.
name: Sels, Dries
name: Morone, Flaviano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to approximately solve general instances of combinatorial optimization problems using the physical dynamics of 3d rotors obeying Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert dynamics. Conventional techniques to solve discrete optimization problems that use simple continuous relaxation of the objective function followed by gradient descent minimization are inherently unable to avoid local optima, thus producing poor-quality solutions. Our method considers the physical dynamics of macrospins capable of escaping from local minima, thus facilitating the discovery of high-quality, nearly optimal solutions, as supported by extensive numerical simulations on a prototypical quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem. Our method produces solutions that compare favorably with those obtained using state-of-the-art minimization algorithms (such as simulated annealing) while offering the advantage of being physically realizable by means of arrays of stochastic magnetic tunnel junction devices.
Rapid treatment planning for low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy with TP-GAN
Creators: name: Aleef, Tajwar Abrar
name: Spadinger, Ingrid T.
name: Peacock, Michael D.
name: Salcudean, Septimiu E.
name: Mahdavi, S. Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: I.5.1; I.5.2; I.5.4

description: Treatment planning in low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy (LDR-PB) aims to produce arrangement of implantable radioactive seeds that deliver a minimum prescribed dose to the prostate whilst minimizing toxicity to healthy tissues. There can be multiple seed arrangements that satisfy this dosimetric criterion, not all deemed 'acceptable' for implant from a physician's perspective. This leads to plans that are subjective to the physician's/centre's preference, planning style, and expertise. We propose a method that aims to reduce this variability by training a model to learn from a large pool of successful retrospective LDR-PB data (961 patients) and create consistent plans that mimic the high-quality manual plans. Our model is based on conditional generative adversarial networks that use a novel loss function for penalizing the model on spatial constraints of the seeds. An optional optimizer based on a simulated annealing (SA) algorithm can be used to further fine-tune the plans if necessary (determined by the treating physician). Performance analysis was conducted on 150 test cases demonstrating comparable results to that of the manual prehistorical plans. On average, the clinical target volume covering 100% of the prescribed dose was 98.9% for our method compared to 99.4% for manual plans. Moreover, using our model, the planning time was significantly reduced to an average of 2.5 mins/plan with SA, and less than 3 seconds without SA. Compared to this, manual planning at our centre takes around 20 mins/plan.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Characterization, Experimental Validation and Pilot User Study of the Vibro-Inertial Bionic Enhancement System (VIBES)
Creators: name: Ivani, Alessia S.
name: Barontini, Federica
name: Catalano, Manuel G.
name: Grioli, Giorgio
name: Bianchi, Matteo
name: Bicchi, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study presents the characterization and validation of the VIBES, a wearable vibrotactile device that provides high-frequency tactile information embedded in a prosthetic socket. A psychophysical characterization involving ten able-bodied participants is performed to compute the Just Noticeable Difference (JND) related to the discrimination of vibrotactile cues delivered on the skin in two forearm positions, with the goal of optimising vibrotactile actuator position to maximise perceptual response. Furthermore, system performance is validated and tested both with ten able-bodied participants and one prosthesis user considering three tasks. More specifically, in the Active Texture Identification, Slippage and Fragile Object Experiments, we investigate if the VIBES could enhance users' roughness discrimination and manual usability and dexterity. Finally, we test the effect of the vibrotactile system on prosthetic embodiment in a Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) task. Results show the system's effectiveness in conveying contact and texture cues, making it a potential tool to restore sensory feedback and enhance the embodiment in prosthetic users.
A General Language-Based Framework for Specifying and Verifying Notions of Opacity
Creators: name: Wintenberg, Andrew
name: Blischke, Matthew
name: Lafortune, Stéphane
name: Ozay, Necmiye
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Opacity is an information flow property that captures the notion of plausible deniability in dynamic systems, that is whether an intruder can deduce that "secret" behavior has occurred. In this paper we provide a general framework of opacity to unify the many existing notions of opacity that exist for discrete event systems. We use this framework to discuss language-based and state-based notions of opacity over automata. We present several methods for language-based opacity verification, and a general approach to transform state-based notions into language-based ones. We demonstrate this approach for current-state and initial-state opacity, unifying existing results. We then investigate the notions of K-step opacity. We provide a language-based view of K-step opacity encompassing two existing notions and two new ones. We then analyze the corresponding language-based verification methods both formally and with numerical examples. In each case, the proposed methods offer significant reductions in runtime and space complexity.