cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Look at that! – The effect pictures have on consumer preferences for in ovo gender determination as an alternative to culling male chicks
Creators: name: Reithmayer, Corrina
name: Danne, Michael
name: Mußhoff, Oliver
name: Reithmayer, Corrina
name: Danne, Michael
name: Mußhoff, Oliver
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agribusiness
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Gender determination in incubated eggs (in ovo) has the potential to substitute the highly discussed practice of culling male layer chicks. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect pictures have on peoples’ preferences towards in ovo sexing at different stages of embryonic development as an alternative to chick culling. For this purpose, an online survey was conducted with a representative sample of 482 respondents in Germany. A within-subject design with two choice experiments was used to investigate the influence pictures have on respondents’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP). The first choice experiment contained plain text only; the second contained also pictures of a chick or the incubated eggs at the corresponding stages of development. Findings reveal that in ovo gender determination at each proposed day of incubation (days 1, 4 and 9) was preferred to chick culling. In ovo screening on days 1 and 4 was significantly preferred to day 9. This preference for early gender determination increased significantly as a consequence to the provision of pictures. Results furthermore reveal that a high error rate of gender determination or the lack of a meaningful utilization of incubated eggs can decrease approval for in ovo gender determination to an extent, where no positive WTP remains. Findings of this study are useful for stakeholders in poultry production when considering the implementation of in ovo gender determination as a morally admissible substitute to chick culling.
The physical meaning of scattering matrix singularities in coupled-channel formalisms
Creators: name: Capstick, S.
name: Svarc, A.
name: Tiator, L.
name: Gegelia, J.
name: Giannini, M. M.
name: Santopinto, E.
name: Hanhart, C.
name: Scherer, S.
name: Lee, T. -S. H.
name: Sato, T.
name: Suzuki, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physical meaning of bare and dressed scattering matrix singularities has been investigated. Special attention has been attributed to the role of well known invariance of scattering matrix with respect to the field transformation of the effective Lagrangian. Examples of evaluating bare and dressed quantities in various models are given.
description: 14 pages, Summary of the BRAG2007 workshop
Hiplyra michellinae Galil, 2009, n. sp.
Creators: name: Galil, Bella S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Leucosiidae
Hiplyra
Hiplyra michellinae

description: Hiplyra michellinae n. sp.
(Fig. 9)
Philyra platychira – Barnard 1947: 374; 1950: 382, fig. 72j. — Kensley 1981: 39.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: South Africa. Off Natal, Ulmars River, 29°56.8’S, 31°02.1’E, 35 m, 10.VII.1985, id. M. Van der Merwe as P. globosa, 1 ♂ cl 13.5 mm (SAM A44501).
Paratypes: same data, 1 ♂ cl 13.4 mm (SAM A44501). — Off Natal, 29°50.5’S, 31°04’E, 20 m, 13.VII.1959, id. K. H. Barnard as P. globosa, 2 ♂♂ cl 14.3, 12.4 mm (SAM A43213). — Id. K. H. Barnard as P. platychira, 2 ♂♂ cl 15.5, 13.4 mm, 5 ovig. ♀♀ cl 11.8-12.2 mm (SAM A477). — Off Natal, 29°53.6’S, 31°04.6’E, 38 m, 16.V.1958, id. K. H. Barnard as P. platychira, 2 ♂♂ cl 13.6, 13.2 mm (SAM A39544).
ETYMOLOGY. — Named in honour of Michelle Van der Merwe, of the South African Museum.
DISTRIBUTION. — Known only from Natal, South Africa.
DESCRIPTION
Dorsal surface of carapace anteriorly punctuate, minutely granulate, closely granulate on branchial, and intestinal regions. Frontal region only slightly produced.Hepatic region slightly tumescent. Branchio-cardiac grooves shallow. Front produced, slightly cleaved. Anterior margin of efferent channel slightly concave, separated from minutely beaded lateral margin by tear-shaped incision, lateral margin nearly reaching as far forward as anterior margin. Upper, lower margins of subhepatic facet granulate, granules on lower margin larger. Lateral margin of carapace posterior to subhepatic facet closely beaded, granules smaller posteriorly.Epimeral surface minutely granulate; epimeral margin minutely beaded.Sternal plates raised laterally. Anterior margin of abdominal sulcus prominently granulate. Abdomen in male granulate basally, distal margin raised,medially lobate. First abdominal segment in female distinctly trilobate, lobes separated by deep fissures; margins of fused abdominal segments in female minutely granulate. Cheliped merus 0.8 as long as carapace in male; its surface granulate, largest granules on anterior margin. Upper surface of propodus minutely granulate, lower margin bearing line of granules interiorly. Dactyl as long as upper margin of propodus, sickle-shaped, its inner margin carinate, smooth. Pollex bearing two triangular denticles distally. Male first pleopod with short apical process.
REMARKS
Hiplyra michellinae n. sp. differs from its congeners in having a rounded lobe distally on the male abdomen.
description: Published as part of Galil, Bella S., 2009, An examination of the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Leucosiidae) with descriptions of seven new genera and six new species, pp. 279-320 in Zoosystema 31 (2) on pages 294-295, DOI: 10.5252/z2009n2a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5399261
Recursive implementation of optimal time VLSi integer multipliers
Creators: name: W. K.(Wing Kwong) Luk
name: J. E. Vuillemin
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Computer Science Department
Prospects for measuring the 229Th isomer energy using a metallic magnetic microcalorimeter
Creators: name: Kazakov, G. A.
name: Schauer, V.
name: Schwestka, J.
name: Stellmer, S. P.
name: Sterba, J. H.
name: Fleischmann, A.
name: Gastaldo, L.
name: Pabinger, A.
name: Enss, C.
name: Schumm, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Thorium-229 isotope features a nuclear isomer state with an extremely low energy. The currently most accepted energy value, 7.8 +- 0.5 eV, was obtained from an indirect measurement using a NASA x-ray microcalorimeter with an instrumental resolution 26 eV. We study, how state-of-the-art magnetic metallic microcalorimeters with an energy resolution down to a few eV can be used to measure the isomer energy. In particular, resolving the 29.18 keV doublet in the γ-spectrum following the α-decay of Uranium-233, corresponding to the decay into the ground and isomer state, allows to measure the isomer transition energy without additional theoretical input parameters, and increase the energy accuracy. We study the possibility of resolving the 29.18 keV line as a doublet and the dependence of the attainable precision of the energy measurement on the signal and background count rates and the instrumental resolution.
description: 32 pages, 8 figures, eq. (3) corrected
title: Annual report of the U.S. Atlantic Salmon Assessment Committee: report no. 36 - 2023 activities
Creators: name: Hawkes, James P.
Publisher: name: North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/050r87w51
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Total returns to U.S rivers in 2023 were 1,854 salmon, which is the sum of documented returns to traps and returns estimated by redd counts.
Energy sustainable paradigms and methods for future mobile networks: A survey
Creators: name: Piovesan, Nicola
name: Gambin, Angel Fernandez
name: Miozzo, Marco
name: Rossi, Michele
name: Dini, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this survey, we discuss the role of energy in the design of future mobile networks and, in particular, we advocate and elaborate on the use of energy harvesting (EH) hardware as a means to decrease the environmental footprint of 5G technology. To take full advantage of the harvested (renewable) energy, while still meeting the quality of service required by dense 5G deployments, suitable management techniques are here reviewed, highlighting the open issues that are still to be solved to provide eco-friendly and cost-effective mobile architectures. Several solutions have recently been proposed to tackle capacity, coverage and efficiency problems, including: C-RAN, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and fog computing, among others. However, these are not explicitly tailored to increase the energy efficiency of networks featuring renewable energy sources, and have the following limitations: (i) their energy savings are in many cases still insufficient and (ii) they do not consider network elements possessing energy harvesting capabilities. In this paper, we systematically review existing energy sustainable paradigms and methods to address points (i) and (ii), discussing how these can be exploited to obtain highly efficient, energy self-sufficient and high capacity networks. Several open issues have emerged from our review, ranging from the need for accurate energy, transmission and consumption models, to the lack of accurate data traffic profiles, to the use of power transfer, energy cooperation and energy trading techniques. These challenges are here discussed along with some research directions to follow for achieving sustainable 5G systems.
description: Accepted by Elsevier Computer Communications, 21 pages, 9 figures
Arithmetical Semirings
Creators: name: Aldi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the number of connected graphs with $n$ vertices that cannot be written as the cartesian product of two graphs with fewer vertices. We give an upper bound which implies that for large $n$ almost all graphs are both connected and cartesian prime. For graphs with an even number of vertices, a full asymptotic expansion is obtained. Our method, inspired by Knopfmacher's theory of arithmetical semigroups, is based on reduction to Wright's asymptotic expansion for the number of connected graphs with $n$ vertices.
description: 18 pages, enhanced exposition, minor corrections
title: ADCO, Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503) (11 H 1173), f. 00068
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173), f. 00068, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Recovery Strategies for Parsing Extragrammatical Language
Creators: name: Carbonell, Jaime G.
name: Hayes, Philip J.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Practical natural language interfaces must exhibit robust behaviour in the presence of extragrammatical user input. This paper classifies different types of grammatical deviations and related phenomena at the lexical, sentential and dialogue levels and presents recovery strategies tailored to specific phenomena in the classification. Such strategies constitute a tool chest of computationally tractable methods for coping with extragrammaticality in restricted domain natural language. Some of the strategies have been tested and proven viable in existing parsers.
Mass concentration in rescaled first order integral functionals
Creators: name: Monteil, Antonin
name: Pegon, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 28A33, 49J45, 46E35, Secondary: 49Q20, 76T99, 49Q22, 49J10

description: We consider first order local minimization problems of the form $\min \int_{\mathbb{R}^N}f(u,\nabla u)$ under a mass constraint $\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}u=m$. We prove that the minimal energy function $H(m)$ is always concave, and that relevant rescalings of the energy, depending on a small parameter $\varepsilon$, $Γ$-converge towards the $H$-mass, defined for atomic measures $\sum_i m_iδ_{x_i}$ as $\sum_i H(m_i)$. We also consider Lagrangians depending on $\varepsilon$, as well as space-inhomogeneous Lagrangians and $H$-masses. Our result holds under mild assumptions on $f$, and covers in particular $α$-masses in any dimension $N\geq 2$ for exponents $α$ above a critical threshold, and all concave $H$-masses in dimension $N=1$. Our result yields in particular the concentration of Cahn-Hilliard fluids into droplets, and is related to the approximation of branched transport by elliptic energies.
The (n,1)-Reduced DKP Hierarchy, the String Equation and W Constraints
Creators: name: van de Leur, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total descendent potential of a simple singularity satisfies the Kac-Wakimoto principal hierarchy. Bakalov and Milanov showed recently that it is also a highest weight vector for the corresponding W-algebra. This was used by Liu, Yang and Zhang to prove its uniqueness. We construct this principal hierarchy of type D in a different way, viz. as a reduction of some DKP hierarchy. This gives a Lax type and a Grassmannian formulation of this hierarchy. We show in particular that the string equation induces a large part of the W constraints of Bakalov and Milanov. These constraints are not only given on the tau function, but also in terms of the Lax and Orlov-Schulman operators.
Recovering latent time-series from their observed sums : network tomography with particle filters
Creators: name: Airoldi, Edoardo
name: Faloutsos, Christos
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "Hidden variables, evolving over time, appear in multiple settings, where it is valuable to recover them, typically from observed sums. Our driving application is 'network tomography', where we need to estimate the origin-destination (OD) traffic flows to determine, e.g., who is communicating with whom in a local area network. This information allows network engineers and managers to solve problems in design, routing, configuration debugging, monitoring and pricing. Unfortunately the direct measurement of the OD traffic is usually difficult, or even imposible; instead, we can easily measure the loads on every link, that is, sums of desirable OD flows. In this paper we propose i-FILTER, a method to solve this problem. i-FILTER improves the state-of-the-art by (a) introducing explicit time dependence, and by (b) using realistic, non-Gaussian marginals in the statistical models for the traffic flows, as never attempted before. We give experiments on real data, where i-FILTER scales linearly with new observations and out-performs the best existing solutions, in a wide variety of settings. Specificially, on real network traffic measured at CMU, and at AT&T, i-FILTER reduced the estimation errors between 15% and 46% in all cases."
Modeling Warfare in Social Animals: A "Chemical" Approach
Creators: name: Santarlasci, Alisa
name: Martelloni, Gianluca
name: Frizzi, Filippo
name: Santini, Giacomo
name: Bagnoli, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The aim of our study is to describe the dynamics of ant battles, with reference to laboratory experiments, by means of a chemical stochastic model. We focus on ants behavior as an interesting topic in order to predict the ecological evolution of invasive species and their spreading. In our work we want to describe the interactions between two groups of different ant species with different war strategies. Our model considers the single ant individuals and fighting groups in a way similar to atoms and molecules, respectively, considering that ant fighting groups remain stable for a relative long time. Starting from a system of differential non-linear equations (DE), derived from the chemical reactions, we obtain a mean field description of the system. The DE approach is valid when the number of individuals of each species is large in the considered unit, while we consider battles of at most 10 vs. 10 individuals, due to the difficulties in following the individual behavior in a large assembly. Therefore, we also adapt a Gillespie algorithm to reproduce the fluctuations around the mean field. The DE scheme is exploited to characterize the stochastic model. The set of parameters of chemical equations, obtained using a minimization algorithm, are used by the Gillespie algorithm to generate the stochastic trajectories. We then fit the stochastic paths with the DE, in order to analyze the variability of the parameters and their variance. Finally, we estimate the goodness of the applied methodology and we confirm that the stochastic approach must be considered for a correct description of the ant fighting dynamics. With respect to other war models, our chemical one considers all phases of the battle and not only casualties. Thus, we can count on more experimental data, but we also have more parameters to fit. In any case, our model allows a much more detailed description of the fights.
description: A modified version of this manuscript has been published in PLOS ONE journal
Quenched dynamics of classical isolated systems: the spherical spin model with two-body random interactions or the Neumann integrable model
Creators: name: Cugliandolo, Leticia F.
name: Lozano, Gustavo S.
name: Nessi, Nicolas
name: Picco, Marco
name: Tartaglia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Hamiltonian dynamics of the spherical spin model with fully-connected two-body interactions drawn from a Gaussian probability distribution. In the statistical physics framework, the potential energy is of the so-called $p=2$ spherical disordered kind. Most importantly for our setting, the energy conserving dynamics are equivalent to the ones of the Neumann integrable system. We take initial conditions in thermal equilibrium and we subsequently evolve the configurations with Newton dynamics dictated by a different Hamiltonian. We identify three dynamical phases depending on the parameters that characterise the initial state and the final Hamiltonian. We obtain the {\it global} dynamical observables with numerical and analytic methods and we show that, in most cases, they are out of thermal equilibrium. We note, however, that for shallow quenches from the condensed phase the dynamics are close to (though not at) thermal equilibrium. Surprisingly enough, for a particular relation between parameters the global observables comply Gibbs-Boltzmann equilibrium. We next set the analysis of the system with finite number of degrees of freedom in terms of $N$ non-linearly coupled modes. We evaluate the mode temperatures and we relate them to the frequency-dependent effective temperature measured with the fluctuation-dissipation relation in the frequency domain, similarly to what was recently proposed for quantum integrable cases. Finally, we analyse the $N-1$ integrals of motion and we use them to show that the system is out of equilibrium in all phases, even for parameters that show an apparent Gibbs-Boltzmann behaviour of global observables. We elaborate on the role played by these constants of motion in the post-quench dynamics and we briefly discuss the possible description of the asymptotic dynamics in terms of a Generalised Gibbs Ensemble.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0041r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0041r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0041r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
ADVISE: ADaptive Feature Relevance and VISual Explanations for Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Dehshibi, Mohammad Mahdi
name: Ashtari-Majlan, Mona
name: Adhane, Gereziher
name: Masip, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To equip Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with explainability, it is essential to interpret how opaque models take specific decisions, understand what causes the errors, improve the architecture design, and identify unethical biases in the classifiers. This paper introduces ADVISE, a new explainability method that quantifies and leverages the relevance of each unit of the feature map to provide better visual explanations. To this end, we propose using adaptive bandwidth kernel density estimation to assign a relevance score to each unit of the feature map with respect to the predicted class. We also propose an evaluation protocol to quantitatively assess the visual explainability of CNN models. We extensively evaluate our idea in the image classification task using AlexNet, VGG16, ResNet50, and Xception pretrained on ImageNet. We compare ADVISE with the state-of-the-art visual explainable methods and show that the proposed method outperforms competing approaches in quantifying feature-relevance and visual explainability while maintaining competitive time complexity. Our experiments further show that ADVISE fulfils the sensitivity and implementation independence axioms while passing the sanity checks. The implementation is accessible for reproducibility purposes on https://github.com/dehshibi/ADVISE.
Recovering Information from Summary Data
Creators: name: Faloutsos, Christos
name: H V Jagadish
name: N D Sidiropoulos
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data is often stored in summarized form, as a histogram of aggregates (COUNTs, SUMs, or AVeraGes) over specified ranges. We study how to estimate the original detail data from the stored summary. We formulate this task as an inverse problem, specifying a well-defined cost function that has to be optimized under constraints. We show that our formulation includes the uniformity and independence assumptions as a special case, and that it can achieve better reconstruction results if we maximize the smoothness as opposed to the uniformity. In our experiments on real and synthetic datasets, the proposed method almost consistently outperforms its competitor, improving the root-mean-square error by up to 20 per cent for stock price data, and up to 90 per cent for smoother data sets. Finally, we show how to apply this theory to a variety of database problems that involve partial information, such as OLAP, data warehousing and histograms in query optimization.
Eclipsing Binaries Showing Light Time Effect
Creators: name: Zasche, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Four eclipsing binaries, which show apparent changes of period, have been studied with respect to a possible presence of the light time effect. With a least squares method we calculated new light elements of these systems, the mass function of the predicted third body, and its minimum mass. We discuss the probability of the presence of such bodies in terms of mass function, changes in radial velocity and third light in solution of light curves.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, conference proceedings
A probabilistic scheduling algorithm for networked control systems
Creators: name: Singh, Meghna
name: Kundu, Atreyee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper deals with the design of scheduling logics for Networked Control Systems (NCSs) whose communication networks have limited capacity. We assume that only a subset of the plants can communicate with their controllers at any time instant. Our contributions are twofold. First, we present a probabilistic algorithm to design scheduling logics that, under certain conditions on the plant and controller dynamics and the capacity of the network, ensure stochastic stability of each plant in an NCS. Second, given the plant dynamics and the capacity of the network, we design static state-feedback controllers such that the conditions for stability under our scheduling logics are satisfied. The main apparatus for our analysis is a Markovian jump linear system representation of the individual plants in an NCS. Our stability conditions involve sets of matrix inequalities. We present numerical experiments to demonstrate our results.
description: A slightly longer version of our manuscript under review
Fenchel Duality Theory and A Primal-Dual Algorithm on Riemannian Manifolds
Creators: name: Bergmann, Ronny
name: Herzog, Roland
name: Louzeiro, Maurício Silva
name: Tenbrinck, Daniel
name: Vidal-Núñez, José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper introduces a new notion of a Fenchel conjugate, which generalizes the classical Fenchel conjugation to functions defined on Riemannian manifolds. We investigate its properties, e.g.,~the Fenchel--Young inequality and the characterization of the convex subdifferential using the analogue of the Fenchel--Moreau Theorem. These properties of the Fenchel conjugate are employed to derive a Riemannian primal-dual optimization algorithm, and to prove its convergence for the case of Hadamard manifolds under appropriate assumptions. Numerical results illustrate the performance of the algorithm, which competes with the recently derived Douglas--Rachford algorithm on manifolds of nonpositive curvature. Furthermore, we show numerically that our novel algorithm even converges on manifolds of positive curvature.
Reconfigurable Computing and Electronic Nanotechnology
Creators: name: Goldstein, Seth C.
name: Budiu, Mihai
name: Mahim  Mishra
name: Girish  Venkataramani
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We examine the opportunities brought about by recent progress in electronic nanotechnology and describe the methods needed to harness them for building a new computer architecture. In this process we decompose some traditional abstractions, such as the transistor, into fine-grain pieces, such as signal restoration and input-output isolation. We also show how we can forgo the extreme reliability of CMOS circuits for low-cost chemical self-assembly at the expense of large manufacturing defect densities. We discuss advanced testing methods that can be used to recover perfect functionality from unreliable parts. We proceed to show how the molecular switch, the regularity of the circuits created by self-assembly and the high defect densities logically require the use of reconfigurable hardware as a basic building block for hardware design. We then capitalize on the convergence of compilation and hardware synthesis (which takes place when programming reconfigurable hardware) to propose the complete elimination of the instruction-set architecture from the system architecture, and the synthesis of asynchronous dataflow machines directly from high-level programming languages, such as C. We discuss in some detail a scalable compilation system that performs this task.
Five or six step scenario for evolution?
Creators: name: Carter, Brandon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The prediction that (due to the limited amount of hydrogen available as fuel in the Sun) the future duration of our favourable terrestrial environment will be short (compared with the present age of the Earth) has been interpreted as evidence for a hard step scenario. This means that some of the essential steps (such as the development of eukaryotes) in the evolution process leading to the ultimate emergence of intelligent life would have been hard, in the sense of being against the odds in the available time, so that they are unlikely to have been achieved in most of the earth-like planets that may one day be discovered in nearby extra-solar systems. It was originally estimated that only one or two of the essential evolutionary steps had to have been hard in this sense, but it has become apparent that this figure may need upward revision, because recent studies of climatic instability suggest that the possible future duration of our biologically favourable environment may be shorter than had been supposed, only about one Giga year rather than five. On the basis of the statistical requirement of roughly equal spacing between hard steps, it is argued that the best fit with the fossil record is now obtainable by postulating the number of hard steps to be five, if our evolution was exclusively terrestrial, or six if, as now seems very plausible, the first step occurred on Mars.
description: 11 pages Latex
Stochastic synchronization induced by noise
Creators: name: Song, Yunxiang
name: Witten, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random perturbations applied in tandem to an ensemble of oscillating objects can synchronize their motion. We study multiple copies of an arbitrary dynamical system in a stable limit cycle, described via a standard phase reduction picture. The copies differ only in their arbitrary phases $ϕ$. Weak, randomly-timed external impulses applied to all the copies can synchronize these phases over time. Beyond a threshold strength there is no such convergence to a common phase. Instead, the synchronization becomes erratic: successive impulses produce stochastic fluctuations in the phase distribution $q(ϕ)$, ranging from near-perfect to near-random synchronization. Here we show that the sampled entropies of these phase distributions themselves form a steady-state ensemble, whose average can be made arbitrarily negative by tuning the impulse strength. A random-walk description of the entropy's evolution accounts for the observed exponential distribution of entropies and for the stochastic synchronization phenomenon.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures. v4 makes several small revisions for clarity
Dynamic characterization of cellulose nanofibrils in sheared and extended semi-dilute dispersions
Creators: name: Rosén, Tomas
name: Mittal, Nitesh
name: Roth, Stephan V.
name: Zhang, Peng
name: Söderberg, L. Daniel
name: Lundell, Fredrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New materials made through controlled assembly of dispersed cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) has the potential to develop into biobased competitors to some of the highest performing materials today. The performance of these new cellulose materials depends on how easily CNF alignment can be controlled with hydrodynamic forces, which are always in competition with a different process driving the system towards isotropy, called rotary diffusion. In this work, we present a flow-stop experiment using polarized optical microscopy (POM) to study the rotary diffusion of CNF dispersions in process relevant flows and concentrations. This is combined with small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments to analyze the true orientation distribution function (ODF) of the flowing fibrils. It is found that the rotary diffusion process of CNF occurs at multiple time scales, where the fastest scale seems to be dependent on the deformation history of the dispersion before the stop. At the same time, the hypothesis that rotary diffusion is dependent on the initial ODF does not hold as the same distribution can result in different diffusion time scales. The rotary diffusion is found to be faster in flows dominated by shear compared to pure extensional flows. Furthermore, the experimental setup can be used to quickly characterize the dynamic properties of flowing CNF and thus aid in determining the quality of the dispersion and its usability in material processes.
description: 45 pages, 13 figures
Investigation of the quaternary Fe2-xCoxMnSi alloys by structural, magnetic, resistivity and spin polarization measurements
Creators: name: Bainsla, Lakhan
name: Suresh, K. G.
name: Raja, M. Manivel
name: Nigam, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effects of the Co substitution have been observed on the structural, magnetic and magneto-transport properties of Fe2-xCoxMnSi alloy. Curie temperature (TC) and saturation magnetization (MS) of these alloys increased linearly with the Co substitution. Competitive magnetic interaction between ferromagnetic (FM) and anti-ferromagnetic (AFM) phases exists in Fe2-xCoxMnSi for x less than 0.2, AFM phase is completely disappears for x greater than or equal to 0.2. The value of Rhodes-Wohlfarth ratio pc/ps is greater than one for these alloys which is the characteristics of iterant magnetism present in the system. Mössbauer spectroscopic measurements have been done to investigate the atomic disorder and local magnetic moment for some x values. Resistivity measurements also confirm the stability of ferromagnetism with the concentration of Co and also show a sign of half metallicity. Resistivity shows semiconducting behaviour for x = 0.4 which is interesting in view of spin gapless semiconductors.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, regular article
Recognizing substrings of LR(k) languages in linear time
Creators: name: Bates, Joseph
name: Lavie, Alon
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "LR parsing techniques have long been studied as efficient and powerful methods for processing context free languages. A linear time algorithm for recognizing languages representable by LR(k) grammars has long been known. Recognizing substrings of a context-free language is at least as hard as recognizing full strings of the language, as the latter problem easily reduces to the former. In this paper we present a linear time algorithm for recognizing substrings of LR(k) languages, thus showing that the substring recognition problem for theselanguages is no harder than the full string recognition problem.An interesting data structure, the Forest Structured Stack, allows the algorithm to track all possible parses of a substring without loosing[sic] the efficiency of the original LR parser. We present the algorithm, prove its correctness, analyze its complexity, and mention several applications that have been constructed."
Mallocephala rubripes subsp. rubripes rubripes Blanchard 1852
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Mallocephala
Mallocephala rubripes
Mallocephala rubripes rubripes blanchard, 1852

description: Mallocephala rubripes rubripes Blanchard, 1852 n. comb.
Mallocephala rubripes rubripes Blanchard, 1852: 68.
Fuligoptera rubripes – Ruiz 1989: 136.
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2013, Changements nomenclaturaux chez les Arctiinae nÉotropicales (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae); seconde partie, pp. 425-455 in Zoosystema 35 (3) on page 449, DOI: 10.5252/z2013n3a5, http://zenodo.org/record/5165260
Nonmonotonic effects of parallel sidewalls on Casimir forces between cylinders
Creators: name: Rahi, Sahand Jamal
name: Rodriguez, Alejandro W.
name: Emig, Thorsten
name: Jaffe, Robert L.
name: Johnson, Steven G.
name: Kardar, Mehran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the Casimir force between two parallel infinite metal cylinders, with nearby metal plates (sidewalls), using complementary methods for mutual confirmation. The attractive force between cylinders is shown to have a nonmonotonic dependence on the separation to the plates. This intrinsically multi-body phenomenon, which occurs with either one or two sidewalls (generalizing an earlier result for squares between two sidewalls), does not follow from any simple two-body force description. We can, however, explain the nonmonotonicity by considering the screening (enhancement) of the interactions by the fluctuating charges (currents) on the two cylinders, and their images on the nearby plate(s). Furthermore, we show that this effect also implies a nonmonotonic dependence of the cylinder-plate force on the cylinder-cylinder separation.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Sharp pointwise estimates for weighted critical $p$-Laplace equations
Creators: name: Shakerian, Shaya
name: Vétois, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the asymptotic behavior of solutions to a class of weighted quasilinear elliptic equations which arise from the Euler--Lagrange equation associated with the Caffarelli--Kohn--Nirenberg inequality. We obtain sharp pointwise estimates which extend and improve previous results obtained in the unweighted case. In particular, we show that we can refine the asymptotic expansion at infinity by using a Kelvin-type transformation, which reduces the problem to another elliptic-type problem near the origin. The application of this transformation is straightforward in the linear case but more delicate in the quasilinear case. In particular, it is necessary in this case to establish some preliminary estimates before being able to apply the transformation.
description: Final version to appear in Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications
Lettre de Jean-François Séguier à Horace Bénédict de Saussure, 1777-02-22
Creators: name: Séguier, Jean-François
name: Jean-François Séguier
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sciences naturelles (général)

description: [transcription] Monsieur

Lorsque j'eus l'honneur de vous voir et de faire connaissance avec vous, je vous promis de vous envoyer des pierres herborisées des charbonnières de Saint Jean de Valériscle au diocèse d'Uzès. Dès que je les ai reçues j'en ai fait une caisse, que j'ai remise il y a trois jours au sieur Marueje de cette ville, qui au moyen de ses routiers vous la fera porter jusqu'à Genève. Cette caisse pèse 142 livres brut, comme vous verrez par la lettre de voiture que je lui ai remise. Votre nom y est marqué. Elle est bien conditionnée et j'espère que vous la recevrez en bon état. On paye ici couramment 9 l. pour le cent pesant, vous aurez la bonté de lui acquitter ce qui sera deu à raison de ce prix avec quelques autres petits déboursés comme il est marqué dans cette lettre de voiture. Je souhaite que vous soyez content de cet envoi. Vous y trouverez une grande pièce de cette espère de schiste herborisé: pour lui donner le lustre nécessaire, il ne faudra que le frotter rudement avec une brosse forte et courte. Si vous la faites équarrir, ordonnez qu'on la ménage et qu'on la travaille du bon sens, afin qu'elle n'éclate point.

Je vous prie de saluer Mr de Tournes et de lui recommander le paquet que vous eûtes la bonté de lui remettre de ma part pour le faire passer à Vérone. Remerciez le aussi en mon nom des Antiquités de Thyatire qu'il m'a fait remettre par le sieur Piestre de Lyon auquel j'en acquitterai le montant.

J'ose vous prier encore d'offrir mes respects à Madame de Saussure et à Mr le Résident dont le savoir et le mérite me sont entièrement connus.

Si je puis vous être utile à quelque autre chose, je vous prie de me le faire connaître, je serai charmé de vous obliger.

J'ai l'honneur d'être avec une parfaite estime,

Monsieur

Votre très humble et très obéissant serviteur

Séguier

A Nîmes le 22 février 1777

[sur l'enveloppe: Monsieur de Saussure professeur de philosophie / à Genève]
description: [personnes citées] Marueje, Etienne Piestre, madame de Saussure, Samuel et Donat-Louis De Tournes
description: Source: [lieu de Conservation] Genève, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire [cote]Archives Saussure, 8, fol. 108-109
Marginal inferential models: prior-free probabilistic inference on interest parameters
Creators: name: Martin, Ryan
name: Liu, Chuanhai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The inferential models (IM) framework provides prior-free, frequency-calibrated, posterior probabilistic inference. The key is the use of random sets to predict unobservable auxiliary variables connected to the observable data and unknown parameters. When nuisance parameters are present, a marginalization step can reduce the dimension of the auxiliary variable which, in turn, leads to more efficient inference. For regular problems, exact marginalization can be achieved, and we give conditions for marginal IM validity. We show that our approach provides exact and efficient marginal inference in several challenging problems, including a many-normal-means problem. In non-regular problems, we propose a generalized marginalization technique and prove its validity. Details are given for two benchmark examples, namely, the Behrens--Fisher and gamma mean problems.
description: 23 pages, 2 figures
title: 01_1974
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Life in a random universe: Sciama's argument reconsidered
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Wei
name: Braunstein, Samuel L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Random sampling in high dimensions has successfully been applied to phenomena as diverse as nuclear resonances, neural networks and black hole evaporation. Here we revisit an elegant argument by the British physicist Dennis Sciama, which demonstrated that were our universe random, it would almost certainly have a negligible chance for life. Under plausible assumptions, we show that a random universe can masquerade as `intelligently designed,' with the fundamental constants instead appearing to be fined tuned to be achieve the highest probability for life to occur. For our universe, this mechanism may only require there to be around a dozen currently unknown fundamental constants. We speculate on broader applications for the mechanism we uncover.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, pulished on The Astrophysical Journal