cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamics of the impurity screening cloud following quantum quenches of the Resonant Level Model
Creators: name: Ghosh, Shreyoshi
name: Ribeiro, Pedro
name: Haque, Masudul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of the evolution of impurity screening cloud in the Resonant Level Model (RLM) followed by quenches of system parameters. The considered quenches are either local or found to be effectively local. The screening cloud is characterized by impurity-bath correlators and by the entanglement of a block centered around the impurity with the rest of the system. We consider several local quench protocols, such as, quenches from initially decoupled to coupled impurity, quenches between different finite couplings of the impurity, and `detuning quenches' involving changing the onsite impurity potential away from or to the chemical potential of the bath. The relevant correlators and the entanglement display versions of the `light-cone' effect, since the information about the quench travels through the bath at finite speed. At long times (`inside' the light cone), the impurity screening cloud relaxes exponentially to the final equilibrium structure, with the relaxation rate given by the emergent energy scale of impurity screening. Also, snaphots of the time-evolving spatial profile of impurity-bath correlators show exponential dependences on space, with the length scale given by the screening length.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures
Achieving NTD Control, Elimination and Eradication Targets Post-2020: Modelling Perspectives and Priorities
Creators: name: NTD Modelling Consortium
name: WHO Department Of Control Of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2020

description: The World Health Organisation (WHO) is developing the 2030 goals for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) and they are reaching out to their diverse stakeholder network who support the achievement of the global goals of reducing the burden of NTDs. In response to this request, the NTD Modelling Consortium, an international team of quantitative analysts and modellers, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, engaged a large network of infectious disease modellers who work on NTDs to provide insights from their analyses which were relevant to the achievability, measurability and feasibility of the proposed goals.To ensure a productive discussion between WHO and this group of quantitative scientists, both on individual diseases and across diseases, a face-to-face meeting was convened in April 2019 between the WHO Department of Control of NTDs and the mathematical modellers addressing more than 20 diseases. The aims of this meeting were: i) to facilitate a more productive dialogue between the modellers and the policy makers, so that the evidence base underlying the upcoming Roadmap could be informed by a range of quantitative analyses, and ii) to build a platform for future partnership. This meeting was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation directly and through the NTD Modelling Consortium. This report gives an overview of the discussions at the meeting that are being. The agenda and attendees are provided as annexes to this report.
Dam break problem for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the generation of rogue waves
Creators: name: El, Gennady A.
name: Khamis, Eduardo G.
name: Tovbis, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel, analytically tractable, scenario of the rogue wave formation in the framework of the small-dispersion focusing nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation with the initial condition in the form of a rectangular barrier (a "box"). We use the Whitham modulation theory combined with the nonlinear steepest descent for the semi-classical inverse scattering transform, to describe the evolution and interaction of two counter-propagating nonlinear wave trains --- the dispersive dam break flows --- generated in the NLS box problem. We show that the interaction dynamics results in the emergence of modulated large-amplitude quasi-periodic breather lattices whose amplitude profiles are closely approximated by the Akhmediev and Peregrine breathers within certain space-time domain. Our semi-classical analytical results are shown to be in excellent agreement with the results of direct numerical simulations of the small-dispersion focusing NLS equation.
description: 29 pages, 15 figures, major revision
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 17.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 25.01.2009, 09:30, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Potential and Sobolev Spaces Related to Symmetrized Jacobi Expansions
Creators: name: Langowski, Bartosz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42C10 (Primary), 42C05, 42C20 (Secondary)

description: We apply a symmetrization procedure to the setting of Jacobi expansions and study potential spaces in the resulting situation. We prove that the potential spaces of integer orders are isomorphic to suitably defined Sobolev spaces. Among further results, we obtain a fractional square function characterization, structural theorems and Sobolev type embedding theorems for these potential spaces.
Resilient Fleet Management for Energy-Aware Intra-Factory Logistics
Creators: name: Goutham, Mithun
name: Stockar, Stephanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a novel fleet management strategy for battery-powered robot fleets tasked with intra-factory logistics in an autonomous manufacturing facility. In this environment, repetitive material handling operations are subject to real-world uncertainties such as blocked passages, and equipment or robot malfunctions. In such cases, centralized approaches enhance resilience by immediately adjusting the task allocation between the robots. To overcome the computational expense, a two-step methodology is proposed where the nominal problem is solved a priori using a Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for task allocation, resulting in a nominal search tree. When a disruption occurs, the nominal search tree is rapidly updated a posteriori with costs to the new problem while simultaneously generating feasible solutions. Computational experiments prove the real-time capability of the proposed algorithm for various scenarios and compare it with the case where the search tree is not used and the decentralized approach that does not attempt task reassignment.
description: This manuscript was accepted to the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) which was held from Wednesday through Friday, July 10-12, 2024 in Toronto, ON, Canada. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2304.11444
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 26.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 09.02.2009, 09:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Treatment Eligibility Criteria Assessment in Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Prevalence Studies in Kenya.
Creators: name: Downs, Louise
name: Matthews, Philippa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of available seroprevalence data on HBV in Kenya from 23 studies. We reviewed clinical and laboratory data necessary to make HBV treatment decisions based on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), National South African and Kenyan guidelines on the management of chronic hepatitis B.
 For each study reporting factors involved in treatment decisions, we reviewed the information available and compared it to the treatment guidelines. We then reviewed the proportion of study participants who would meet treatment criteria by each of these guidelines.
Multi-Objective Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Recurrent Neural Networks
Creators: name: Booysen, Reinhard
name: Bosman, Anna Sergeevna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial neural network (NN) architecture design is a nontrivial and time-consuming task that often requires a high level of human expertise. Neural architecture search (NAS) serves to automate the design of NN architectures and has proven to be successful in automatically finding NN architectures that outperform those manually designed by human experts. NN architecture performance can be quantified based on multiple objectives, which include model accuracy and some NN architecture complexity objectives, among others. The majority of modern NAS methods that consider multiple objectives for NN architecture performance evaluation are concerned with automated feed forward NN architecture design, which leaves multi-objective automated recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture design unexplored. RNNs are important for modeling sequential datasets, and prominent within the natural language processing domain. It is often the case in real world implementations of machine learning and NNs that a reasonable trade-off is accepted for marginally reduced model accuracy in favour of lower computational resources demanded by the model. This paper proposes a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm-based RNN architecture search method. The proposed method relies on approximate network morphisms for RNN architecture complexity optimisation during evolution. The results show that the proposed method is capable of finding novel RNN architectures with comparable performance to state-of-the-art manually designed RNN architectures, but with reduced computational demand.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 112.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 18.05.2009, 07:15, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Reynolds number limits for jet propulsion: A numerical study of simplified jellyfish
Creators: name: Miller, Laura
name: Herschlag, Gregory
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The Scallop Theorem states that reciprocal methods of locomotion, such as jet propulsion or paddling, will not work in Stokes flow (Reynolds number = 0). In nature the effective limit of jet propulsion is still in the range where inertial forces are signi cant. It appears that almost all animals that use jet propulsion swim at Reynolds numbers (Re) of about 5 or more. Juvenile squid and octopods hatch from the egg already swimming in this inertial regime. Juvenile jellyfi sh, or ephyrae, break off from polyps swimming at Re greater than 5. Many other organisms, such as scallops, rarely swim at Re less than 100. The limitations of jet propulsion at intermediate Re is explored here using the immersed boundary method to solve the two-dimensional Navier Stokes equations coupled to the motion of a simpli ed jelly fish. The contraction and expansion kinematics are prescribed, but the forward and backward swimming motions of the idealized jellyfi sh are emergent properties determined by the resulting fluid dynamics. Simulations are performed for both an oblate bell shape using a paddling mode of swimming and a prolate bell shape using jet propulsion. Average forward velocities and work put into the system are calculated for Re between 1 and 320. The results show that forward velocities rapidly decay with decreasing Re for all bell shapes when Re < 10. Similarly, the work required to generate the pulsing motion increases significantly for Re < 10. When compared actual organisms, the swimming velocities and vortex separation patterns for the model prolate agree with those observed in Nemopsis bachei. The forward swimming velocities of the model oblate jelly sh after two pulse cycles are comparable to those reported for Aurelia aurita, but discrepancies are observed in the vortex dynamics between when the 2D model oblate jelly sh and the organism. This discrepancy is likely due to a combination of the differences between the 3D reality of the jellyfi sh verses the 2D simpli cation, as well as the rigidity of the time varying geometry imposed by the idealized model.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 245.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.10.2009, 07:30, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
The influence of cytokinin–auxin cross-regulation on cell-fate determination in Arabidopsis thaliana root development
Creators: name: Byrne, Helen
name: Kieber, Joseph
name: King, John
name: Muraro, Daniele
name: Bennett, Malcolm
name: Voß, Ute
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Root growth and development in Arabidopsis thaliana are sustained by a specialised zone termed the meristem, which contains a population of dividing and differentiating cells that are functionally analogous to a stem cell niche in animals. The hormones auxin and cytokinin control meristem size antagonistically. Local accumulation of auxin promotes cell division and the initiation of a lateral root primordium. By contrast, high cytokinin concentrations disrupt the regular pattern of divisions that characterises lateral root development, and promote differentiation. The way in which the hormones interact is controlled by a genetic regulatory network. In this paper, we propose a deterministic mathematical model to describe this network and present model simulations that reproduce the experimentally observed effects of cytokinin on the expression of auxin regulated genes. We show how auxin response genes and auxin efflux transporters may be affected by the presence of cytokinin. We also analyse and compare the responses of the hormones auxin and cytokinin to changes in their supply with the responses obtained by genetic mutations of SHY2, which encodes a protein that plays a key role in balancing cytokinin and auxin regulation of meristem size. We show that, although shy2 mutations can qualitatively reproduce the effect of varying auxin and cytokinin supply on their response genes, some elements of the network respond differently to changes in hormonal supply and to genetic mutations, implying a different, general response of the network. We conclude that an analysis based on the ratio between these two hormones may be misleading and that a mathematical model can serve as a useful tool for stimulate further experimental work by predicting the response of the network to changes in hormone levels and to other genetic mutations.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 11.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 16.01.2009, 09:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Analysis of optical loss thresholds in the fusion-based quantum computing architecture
Creators: name: Melkozerov, Aleksandr
name: Avanesov, Ashot
name: Dyakonov, Ivan
name: Straupe, Stanislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bell state measurements (BSM) play a significant role in quantum information and quantum computing, in particular, in fusion-based quantum computing (FBQC). The FBQC model is a framework for universal quantum computing provided that we are able to perform entangling measurements, called fusions, on qubits within small entangled resource states. Here we analyse the usage of different linear-optical BSM circuits as fusions in the FBQC schemes and numerically evaluate hardware requirements for fault-tolerance in this framework. We examine and compare the performance of several BSM circuits with varying additional resources and estimate the requirements on losses for every component of the linear-optical realization of fusions under which errors in fusion networks caused by these losses can be corrected. Our results show that fault-tolerant quantum computing in the FBQC model is possible with currently achievable levels of optical losses in an integrated photonic implementation, provided that we can create and detect single photons of the resource states with a total marginal efficiency higher than 0.973.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures; v.2: references added, minor mistakes corrected, main results unchanged
Additional file 1 of Latent-space embedding of expression data identifies gene signatures from sputum samples of asthmatic patients
Creators: name: Shaoke Lou
name: Tianxiao Li
name: Spakowicz, Daniel
name: Xiting Yan
name: Chupp, Geoffrey Lowell
name: Gerstein, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Information for the analysis. Table S1–S3 and Fig S1–S13 are included in the file.
Exponents, Symmetry Groups and Classification of Operator Fractional Brownian Motions
Creators: name: Didier, Gustavo
name: Pipiras, Vladas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Operator fractional Brownian motions (OFBMs) are zero mean, operator self-similar (o.s.s.), Gaussian processes with stationary increments. They generalize univariate fractional Brownian motions to the multivariate context. It is well-known that the so-called symmetry group of an o.s.s. process is conjugate to subgroups of the orthogonal group. Moreover, by a celebrated result of Hudson and Mason, the set of all exponents of an operator self-similar process can be related to the tangent space of its symmetry group. In this paper, we revisit and study both the symmetry groups and exponent sets for the class of OFBMs based on their spectral domain integral representations. A general description of the symmetry groups of OFBMs in terms of subsets of centralizers of the spectral domain parameters is provided. OFBMs with symmetry groups of maximal and minimal types are studied in any dimension. In particular, it is shown that OFBMs have minimal symmetry groups (as thus, unique exponents) in general, in the topological sense. Finer classification results of OFBMs, based on the explicit construction of their symmetry groups, are given in the lower dimensions 2 and 3. It is also shown that the parametrization of spectral domain integral representations are, in a suitable sense, not affected by the multiplicity of exponents, whereas the same is not true for time domain integral representations.
Rational blowdowns and smoothings of surface singularities
Creators: name: Wahl, Jonathan
name: Szabó, Zoltán
name: Stipsicz, András
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: In this paper we give a necessary combinatorial condition for a negative–definite plumbing tree to be suitable for rational blow–down, or to be the graph of a complex surface singularity which admits a rational homology disk smoothing. New examples of surface singularities with rational homology disk smoothings are also presented; these include singularities with resolution graph having valency four nodes.
Additional file 1 of Barriers and facilitators to breastfeeding during the immediate and one month postpartum periods, among Mexican women: a mixed methods approach
Creators: name: Hernández-Cordero, Sonia
name: Lozada-Tequeanes, Ana Lilia
name: Fernández-Gaxiola, Ana Cecilia
name: Shamah-Levy, Teresa
name: Sachse, Matthias
name: Veliz, Paula
name: Izchel Cosío-Barroso
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Interview Codebook (primary properties and dimensions) used for the qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews. This is an overview about interview codebook used in the qualitative analysis (coding tree and code definitions), which shows primary properties and dimensions of the categories of the qualitative data.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 38.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 21.02.2009, 08:15, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Additional file 2 of EMU: reconfigurable graphical user interfaces for Micro-Manager
Creators: name: Deschamps, Joran
name: Ries, Jonas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2 UML diagram: UIProperty and subclasses. UML diagram of the UIProperty class and its subclasses. These classes are instantiated in ConfigurablePanel subclasses and are ultimately mapped using the EMU configuration to µManager device properties. Descriptions of each class’ specificity can be found in Table 1. Each class is represented by a box with three compartments: class name, class variables and class methods. Inheritance relationship between two classes is shown as a solid line with an arrow pointing towards the superclass. The visibility of member variables and methods is indicated by the following signs: - (private), # (protected) or + (public). The diagram shows all private member variables as well as all non-private member methods. Static methods are underlined. Variable and method return types, if applicable, are indicated after a colon. The corresponding Javadoc is available in the EMU source-code [25].
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 120.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 26.05.2009, 07:30, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 182.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 30.07.2009, 07:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
New look at AdS black holes with conformal scalar hair
Creators: name: Ortaggio, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit static, spherically symmetric solutions to AdS-Einstein gravity with a conformally coupled scalar field (and no self-interaction potential) in four dimensions. We first observe that a convenient choice of coordinates leads to a significant simplification of the field equations, which enables one to identify various roots of the indicial equations and thus distinct branches of solutions. Next, we construct an explicit 2-parameter hairy black hole solution in terms of an infinite power series around the event horizon. The black hole is non-extremal with a regular scalar field on and outside the event horizon, and it reduces to the Schwarzschild-AdS metric in the limit of vanishing hair. Its properties are illustrated for various values of the parameters and compared with previous numerical results by other authors. In addition, the analysis reveals the presence of a photon sphere and how the scalar field affects its size and the angular radius of the corresponding shadow. The thermodynamics of the solution is also briefly discussed.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. v2: a few new comments on the black hole shadow, table 2 expanded, minor changes in the text, typo in eq. (13) fixed, refs. added (main results unchanged). v3: title slightly changed to conform to the journal version, new footnote 10, energy-momentum tensor added in new appendix A, refs. added
CoRAST: Towards Foundation Model-Powered Correlated Data Analysis in Resource-Constrained CPS and IoT
Creators: name: Hu, Yi
name: Zuo, Jinhang
name: Zhao, Alanis
name: Iannucci, Bob
name: Joe-Wong, Carlee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Foundation models (FMs) emerge as a promising solution to harness distributed and diverse environmental data by leveraging prior knowledge to understand the complicated temporal and spatial correlations within heterogeneous datasets. Unlike distributed learning frameworks such as federated learning, which often struggle with multimodal data, FMs can transform diverse inputs into embeddings. This process facilitates the integration of information from various modalities and the application of prior learning to new domains. However, deploying FMs in resource-constrained edge systems poses significant challenges. To this end, we introduce CoRAST, a novel learning framework that utilizes FMs for enhanced analysis of distributed, correlated heterogeneous data. Utilizing a server-based FM, CoRAST can exploit existing environment information to extract temporal, spatial, and cross-modal correlations among sensor data. This enables CoRAST to offer context-aware insights for localized client tasks through FM-powered global representation learning. Our evaluation on real-world weather dataset demonstrates CoRAST's ability to exploit correlated heterogeneous data through environmental representation learning to reduce the forecast errors by up to 50.3% compared to the baselines.
description: accepted and to be published in 2024 IEEE International Workshop on Foundation Models for Cyber-Physical Systems & Internet of Things (FMSys)
The impact of a new light rail system on single-family property values in Charlotte, North Carolina
Creators: name: Duncan, Mike
name: Delmelle, Eric
name: Yan, Sisi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: This paper examines the impact of a new light rail system on single-family housing values in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1997 to 2008. We use a Hedonic Price Analysis (HPA) to estimate how proximity to light rail, housing characteristics, and spatial components (at a block group level) affect single-family housing values. The same method is applied to each of the four time periods (t1, t2, t3, t4) that coincide with the pre-planning, planning, construction, and operation phase of the light rail system. We observe a trend that suggests a greater desirability to live closer to a light rail station as the transit system becomes operational.
Least square fitting with one parameter less
Creators: name: Berg, Bernd A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that whenever the multiplicative normalization of a fitting function is not known, least square fitting by $χ^2$ minimization can be performed with one parameter less than usual by converting the normalization parameter into a function of the remaining parameters and the data.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure. Fortran code available on the Web. Erratum: The 4-parameter example suffered from a typo in two subroutines, which is now corrected
Additional file 3 of EMU: reconfigurable graphical user interfaces for Micro-Manager
Creators: name: Deschamps, Joran
name: Ries, Jonas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3 UML diagram: UIParameter and subclasses. UML diagram of the abstract UIParameter class and its subclasses. These classes are instantiated in ConfigurablePanel subclasses and their respective member variable value_ is set to a user-defined value using the EMU configuration. Each class is represented by a box with three compartments: class name, class variables and class methods. Abstract class names are written in italic. Parameterized class types are shown in a box on the top right corner of each class. Inheritance relationship between two classes is shown as a solid line with an arrow pointing towards the superclass. The visibility of member variables and methods is indicated by the following signs: - (private), # (protected) or + (public). The diagram shows all private member variables as well as all non-private member methods. Abstract methods are displayed in italic. Variable and method return types, if applicable, are indicated after a colon. The corresponding Javadoc is available in the EMU source-code [25].
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 12.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.01.2009, 10:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
E-RIHS IP D1.2 Project DMP
Creators: name: Spini, Lucilla
name: Virgili, Vania
name: Padfield, Joseph
name: Benassi, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data Management Plan
Open Science

description: The Data Management Plan for E-RIHS IP pertains Deliverable D1.2, within WP1, and in particular is an output of Task 1.3 “Commitment to responsible science” under the leadership of CNR. The document addresses the different types of data and related metadata to be generated or re-used by the project, the application of open science practices and the FAIR data principles, as well as data security and ethical considerations. Building on the E-RIHS PP outputs and the E-RIHS Data Strategy. The E-RIHS IP Data Management Plan is to be considered as working and living document to be monitored, reviewed and updated throughout the project.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 284.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 26.11.2009, 12:30, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 21.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 29.01.2009, 08:30, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 204.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 22.08.2009, 07:15, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Infrequent Assessments Distort Property Taxes: Theory and Evidence
Creators: name: Strumpf, Koleman S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: Economists have long recognized that lags in property reassessment benefit infrequent movers because it reduces their property taxes. But in addition reassessment lags can influence the level of property taxes selected under majority rule. I show that short delays in community-wide reassessment increase property tax collections because it reduces the tax price for a majority of voters. However, longer delays reduce property tax collections because the aggregate assessed base (and thus the tax yield) declines so much. I formally characterize the cutoff between these regimes and show tax collections are generally above their socially optimal level. This theory can help explain why many people believe property taxes are excessive, and it also suggests that the American system of taxing capital gains at realization, rather than on accrual, might result in excessive rates. I test this theory on a sample of Pennsylvania municipalities in the Philadelphia suburbs. This is a suitable crucible for such an evaluation because community-wide reassessments are infrequently performed in Pennsylvania. It is not possible to reject the theory’s basic predictions, and numerical estimates suggest that a five year delay in community-wide reassessment increases government revenues by six percent. However, reassessment delays do not impose statistically significant social losses because they benefit infrequent movers.
GenAI Detection Tools, Adversarial Techniques and Implications for Inclusivity in Higher Education
Creators: name: Perkins, Mike
name: Roe, Jasper
name: Vu, Binh H.
name: Postma, Darius
name: Hickerson, Don
name: McGaughran, James
name: Khuat, Huy Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study investigates the efficacy of six major Generative AI (GenAI) text detectors when confronted with machine-generated content that has been modified using techniques designed to evade detection by these tools (n=805). The results demonstrate that the detectors' already low accuracy rates (39.5%) show major reductions in accuracy (17.4%) when faced with manipulated content, with some techniques proving more effective than others in evading detection.
 The accuracy limitations and the potential for false accusations demonstrate that these tools cannot currently be recommended for determining whether violations of academic integrity have occurred, underscoring the challenges educators face in maintaining inclusive and fair assessment practices. However, they may have a role in supporting student learning and maintaining academic integrity when used in a non-punitive manner.
 These results underscore the need for a combined approach to addressing the challenges posed by GenAI in academia to promote the responsible and equitable use of these emerging technologies. The study concludes that the current limitations of AI text detectors require a critical approach for any possible implementation in HE and highlight possible alternatives to AI assessment strategies.
A kinetics study of the electron cyclotron resonance plasma oxidation of silicon
Creators: name: Irene, E. A.
name: Hu, Y.Z.
name: Joseph, J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: In-situ ellipsometry, both single wavelength and spectroscopic, has been used to study the electron cyclotron resonance plasma oxidation of Si. Spectroscopic ellipsometry has been used to establish that the best fit optical model for the oxidation is a two layer model where the interface layer forms early and stabilizes and the outer layer is SiO2. The interface layer is modeled well as a mixture of a-Si and oxide. The kinetics of film growth were followed using single wavelength ellipsometry at a temperature insensitive wavelength, and the results were in agreement with the Cabrera-Mott theory.
Antimicrobial Resistance Collaboration Cohort: Preliminary results dissemination
Creators: name: Yek, Christina
name: Sreyngim Lay
name: Sophana Chea
name: Oum, Meng Heng
name: Stuehser, Reagan
name: Sokna Ly
name: Ratanak Sath
name: Rathna Tim
name: Chanthap Lon
name: Sidonn Krang
name: Seng, Heng
name: Sovann Ly
name: Manning, Jessica
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2022

description: The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases International Center of Excellence in Research in Cambodia (ICER Cambodia) is collaborating with the Cambodia Communicable Disease Center (CCDC) and Cambodian regional hospitals to study the landscape of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Cambodia. The objective of the collaboration is to use next-generation sequencing techniques to discover common and novel AMR genes in bacterial isolates, to inform national surveillance and clinical practice.
 In June 2021, a workshop was held for dissemination of preliminary results of the study.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 268.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 04.11.2009, 08:30, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2009

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Quantum Metrology of Absorption and Gain Parameters using Two-Mode Bright Squeezed Light
Creators: name: Kamble, Mrunal
name: Wang, Jiaxuan
name: Agarwal, Girish S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Absorption and gain processes are fundamental to any light-matter interaction and a precise measurement of these parameters is important for various scientific and technological applications. Quantum probes, specifically the squeezed states have proved very successful, particularly in the applications that deal with phase shift and force measurements. In this paper, we focus on improving the sensitivity of the estimation of the photon loss coefficient of a weakly absorbing medium as well as the estimation of the gain parameter using a two-mode bright squeezed state. The generation of this state combines the advantage of a coherent beam for its large photon number with the quantum properties of the two-mode squeezing operation in an optical parametric amplifier. We present two measurement schemes: balanced photodetection and time-reversed metrology, both utilizing two-mode bright squeezed light. The maximum quantum advantage we can achieve using two-mode bright squeezed light is 3.7 times for the absorption parameter $α= 0.05$ and 8.4 times for $α= 0.01$ as compared to using only the coherent state. Similarly, the maximum quantum advantage for the estimation of optical gain is found around 2.81 times for the gain coefficient $G=1.05$ and around 6.28 times for $G=1.01$. We discuss the significance of using one measurement scheme over the other under different squeezing conditions. We compare our results with the Cramér-Rao bound for a two-mode bright squeezed state to assess the quality of the proposed methodologies.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures