cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors and the NuMI neutrino beam
Creators: name: MINOS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This letter reports results from the MINOS experiment based on its initial exposure to neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. The rate and energy spectra of charged current muon neutrino interactions are compared in two detectors located along the beam axis at distances of 1 km and 735 km. With 1.27 x 10^{20} 120 GeV protons incident on the NuMI target, 215 events with energies below 30 GeV are observed at the Far Detector, compared to an expectation of 336 \pm 14.4 events. The data are consistent with muon neutrino disappearance via oscillation with |Δm^2_{23}| = 2.74^{+0.44}_{-0.26} x 10^{-3} eV^2/c^4 and sin^2(2θ_{23}) > 0.87 (at 60% C.L.).
description: To be submitted to PRL. 6 pages, 4 figures
Contributions of Selected Indian Researchers to Multi Attribute Decision Making in Neutrosophic Environment: An Overview
Creators: name: Surapati Pramanik
name: Mallick, Rama
name: Anindita Dasgupta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Algebra

description: Multi-attribute decision making (MADM) is a mathematical tool to solve decision problems involving conflicting attributes. With the increasing complexity, uncertainty of objective things and the neutrosophic nature of human thought, more and more attention has been paid to the investigation on multi attribute decision making in neutrosophic environment, and convincing research results have been reported in the literature.
Using electronic decision support to enhance provider-caretaker communication for treatment of children under five in Tanzania
Creators: name: Perri, Seneca I.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2019
Subjects: African Studies
Communication
Information Technology
Health care management

description: One out of every six children in sub-Saharan Africa dies from treatable diseases before reaching age 5. Millions of these deaths could be averted if health care providers followed evidence-based protocols, such as the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI), to provide care. IMCI assists providers to diagnose and treat problems for children under 5, and specifies key information for the provider to teach to the child's caretaker. While IMCI has been adopted as official policy throughout Tanzania, the protocol has been neither universally used nor consistently followed. An innovative IMCI-based protocol that runs on a mobile phone, called eIMCI, was designed for this study using user-centered design (UCD) principles to assist provider navigation of the protocol and improve provider-caretaker communication of key information points, including the problem and treatment of the child, and when to return to the clinic. The electronic protocol, eIMCI, was compared to an equivalent paper-based protocol, pIMCI. This study was based on the mHealth Communications Theoretical Framework. The aims of the study were to (1) utilize UCD design principles to develop eIMCI and evaluate its usability, and (2) evaluate the effect of protocol delivery platform on (a) provider communication and (b) caretaker recall of key information points. A randomized cluster trial was conducted in which health care clinics in Tanzania were randomized to implement each platform. Results suggested that electronic protocol use led to improved provider-caretaker communication. Providers who used eIMCI were more likely to give counseling that covered the key information points specified, and caretakers in the eIMCI arm recalled more of these key information points overall. The implications of this work suggested that the eIMCI mobile protocol may lead to improved provider-caretaker communication, which may result in a greater ability for caretakers to carry out treatment plans in the home. When utilizing mobile devices to deliver such interventions, the structure, clarity, and direction enabled by the electronic platform are suggested to promote adoption of the complete sphere of high-quality clinical care. As such adoption is continued, understanding of key health information may become firmly rooted in caretaker health literacy levels.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0196
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/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0196, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0196, 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
Galilean symmetry in a nonabelian Chern Simons matter system
Creators: name: Banerjee, R.
name: Mukherjee, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Galilean symmetry in a nonrelativistic model, recently advanced by Bak, Jackiw and Pi, involving the coupling of a nonabelian Chern-Simons term with matter fields. The validity of the Galilean algebra on the constraint surface is demonstrated in the gauge independent formalism. Then the reduced space formulation is discussed in the axial gauge using the symplectic method. An anomalous term in the Galilean algebra is obtained which can be eliminated by demanding conditions on the Green function. Finally, the axial gauge is also treated by Dirac's method. Galilean symmetry is preserved in this method. Comparisions with the symplectic approach reveal some interesting features.
description: Latex file, 15 pages, no figures
title: The Prevalence of Diabetes and Alcoholism in Indian Communities
Creators: name: Collins, John
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

description: Type II diabetes and alcoholism are more prevalent in the American Indian population than in any other population in the United States. Alcoholism is strongly correlated with other ailments, such as suicide, violence, and even death. Diabetes is often the result of poor diet and lack of exercise, and results in serious health implications. Together, these two afflictions have detrimentally influenced the mental and physical health of affected individuals and their communities. Although poor economic well-being bears strong influence over the prevalence of these diseases, the historical treatment of American Indians by European settlers and the United States government has proved to be the most important influence. Rum trading by British settlers introduced Indians to the poison which has yet to leave the veins of the majority of its users. In addition, redistricting of Indian civilizations and the depletion of natural resources has produced confined and destitute communities where diabetes and alcoholism are rampant as a result. Commodity foods that were high in fat and sugar became mainstays in many Indian homes. Attempts at assimilation via the General Allotment Act only made matters worse, as a cultural and identity crisis was created that has proved to be irreparable. The future outlook concerning these issues is uncertain, however it is evident that change will have to come from the community and tribal level rather than from the United States government.
Massless Spectra and Gauge Couplings at One-Loop on Non-Factorisable Toroidal Orientifolds
Creators: name: Berasaluce-González, Mikel
name: Honecker, Gabriele
name: Seifert, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: So-called `non-factorisable' toroidal orbifolds can be rewritten in a factorised form as a product of three two-tori by imposing an additional shift symmetry. This finding of Blaszczyk et al., arXiv:1111.5852, provides a new avenue to Conformal Field Theory methods, by which the vector-like massless matter spectrum - and thereby the type of gauge group enhancement on orientifold invariant fractional D6-branes - and the one-loop corrections to the gauge couplings in Type IIA orientifold theories can be computed in addition to the well-established chiral matter spectrum derived from topological intersection numbers among three-cycles. We demonstrate this framework for the $\mathbb{Z}_4 \times Ω\mathcal{R}$ orientifolds on the $A_3 \times A_1 \times B_2$-type torus. As observed before for factorisable backgrounds, also here the one-loop correction can drive the gauge groups to stronger coupling as demonstrated by means of a four-generation Pati-Salam example.
description: 65 pages, 10 figures; v3: matches published version (ref + explanatory remarks added)
Absolute Quantum Efficiency Measurements by Means of Conditioned Polarization Rotation
Creators: name: Brida, Giorgio
name: Chekhova, Maria
name: Genovese, Marco
name: Gramegna, Marco
name: Krivitsky, Leonid
name: Rastello, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new scheme for measuring the quantum efficiency of photon counting detectors by using correlated pho-tons. The measurement technique is based on a 90 rotation of the polarization of one photon member of a correlated pair produced by parametric down-conversion, conditioned on the detection of the other correlated photon after polarization selection. We present experimental results obtained with this scheme.
Dynamical and Pressure Structures in Winds with Multiple Embedded Evaporating Clumps I. 2D Numerical Simulations
Creators: name: Pittard, J. M.
name: Dyson, J. E.
name: Falle, S. A. E. G.
name: Hartquist, T. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Because of its key role in feedback in star formation and galaxy formation, we examine the nature of the interaction of a flow with discrete sources of mass injection. We show the results of two-dimensional numerical simulations in which we explore a range of configurations for the mass sources and study the effects of their proximity on the downstream flow. The mass sources act effectively as a single source of mass injection if they are so close together that the ratio of their combined mass injection rate is comparable to or exceeds the mass flux of the incident flow into the volume that they occupy. The simulations are relevant to many diffuse sources, such as planetary nebulae and starburst superwinds, in which a global flow interacts with material evaporating or being ablated from the surface of globules of cool, dense gas.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Uteroplacental Insufficiency Causes Sex-Divergent Changes in the Placental PPARγ-Setd8 Axis in the Rat
Creators: name: Loverin, Amy Elizabeth Xiang
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2019
Subjects: Nutrition

description: Fetal outcomes after uteroplacental insufficiency (UPI) include growth restriction and sex-divergent increase in neonatal and adult-onset disease. Fetal acquisition of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) is 1) linked to disease outcomes, 2) mediated by the placenta, and 3) impaired in pregnancies complicated by UPI. Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) regulates placental LCPUFA transport via direct control of gene expression and by initiating chromatin modifications through Setd8. We previously showed in our rat model that UPI results in fetal growth restriction and development of sex-divergent neonatal and adult-onset disease. We hypothesize that UPI in the rat results in sex-divergent changes in the placental PPARγ-Setd8 axis and sex-divergent changes in fetal serum LCPUFA profiles. UPI was induced by bilateral uterine artery ligation at embryonic day 19 in pregnant Sprague Dawley rats. Male and female fetal rat serum and corresponding placenta were surgically collected at term (embryonic day 21). Serum LCPUFA profiles were measured using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. mRNA was measured using real-time RT-PCR, protein was measured using western blotting, and PPARγ occupancy at the Setd8 promoter was measured using ChIP. Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD), *p<0.05. UPI did not affect PPARγ mRNA levels and protein abundance in male placenta or female placenta compared to sex-matched control. UPI increased Setd8 mRNA levels, protein abundance, and total PPARγ at the promoter of the Setd8 compared to sex-matched control in male placenta but not in female placenta. In male placenta, UPI increased global H4K20me compared to sex-matched control. No differences were observed in female placenta. In male fetuses, UPI increased the LCPUFA palmitic acid (PAL), linoleic acid (LA), and arachidonic acid (AA), while decreasing palmitoleic acid (PA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). In female fetuses, UPI increased AA with no change in other LCPUFA. In conclusion, UPI in the rat results in sex-divergent changes in the PPARγ-Setd8 axis in association with sex-divergent changes in fetal serum LCPUFA profiles. Given the role of Setd8 in chromatin maintenance, sex-divergent changes in PPARγ-driven Setd8 expression may influence UPI-induced sex-divergent changes in the placental transcriptome and subsequent placental transfer of LCPUFA.
Measurement of the B -> pi l nu Branching Fraction and Determination of |Vub| with Tagged B Mesons
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
name: Aubert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a measurement of the B -> pi l nu branching fraction based on 211 fb-1 of data collected with the BABAR detector. We use samples of B0 and B+ mesons tagged by a second B meson reconstructed in a semileptonic or hadronic decay, and combine the results assuming isospin symmetry to obtain BF(B0 -> pi- l+ nu) = (1.33 +/- 0.17(stat) +/- 0.11(syst)) x 10^-4. We determine the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |Vub| by combining the partial branching fractions measured in ranges of the momentum transfer squared and theoretical calculations of the form factor. Using a recent lattice QCD calculation, we find |Vub| = (4.5 +/- 0.5(stat) +/- 0.3(syst) +0.7/-0.5(FF)) x 10^-3, where the last error is due to the normalization of the form factor.
description: 8 pages (including EPAPS), 4 postscript figures
Microcanonical Ensemble and Algebra of Conserved Generators for Generalized Quantum Dynamics
Creators: name: Adler, Stephen L.
name: Horwitz, L. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been shown, by application of statistical mechanical methods to determine the canonical ensemble governing the equilibrium distribution of operator initial values, that complex quantum field theory can emerge as a statistical approximation to an underlying generalized quantum dynamics. This result was obtained by an argument based on a Ward identity analogous to the equipartition theorem of classical statistical mechanics. We construct here a microcanonical ensemble which forms the basis of this canonical ensemble. This construction enables us to define the microcanonical entropy and free energy of the field configuration of the equilibrium distribution and to study the stability of the canonical ensemble. We also study the algebraic structure of the conserved generators from which the microcanonical and canonical ensembles are constructed, and the flows they induce on the phase space.
description: Plain TeX, 18 pages. Corrected report number only
title: Carte des transports routiers au Maroc. Réseau routier du Maroc
title: Carte des transports routiers au Maroc. Réseau routier du Maroc
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Transport
subject: Réseau routier

description: Cartographie
description: BESM-carto_1958-78-p168_78-01
description: 168
description: 78
description: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc
description: Source: Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM)
description: Source: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc
description: Source: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc (BESM) > BESM (Cartographie)
description: Relation: https://cinumed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/idurl/1/81915
description: Coverage: Maroc
description: Coverage: XXe siècle
description: Temporal: XXe siècle
description: Bibliographic citation: « Carte des transports routiers au Maroc. Réseau routier du Maroc », In Bulletin économique et social du Maroc (BESM), n° 78, 1958
description: Provenance: Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM)
description: Provenance: https://cinumed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/
The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Whiskey Industry
Creators: name: Li, Billy
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Climate change
whiskey
United States

description: Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time and will impact the lives and livelihood of billions of people around the world. As the Earth’s climate continues to warm, the whiskey industry will need to acknowledge and adapt to the challenges that climate change will bring. While other alcoholic beverage industries have already reckoned with the effects of climate change, the American whiskey industry has been relatively insulated. This is in part due to the lack of government regulation and having access to a large geographic area with ample resources. This thesis reviewed literature regarding climate change, whiskey, and the intersection of the two. Then, the cognac and beer industry were investigated to examine the severity of climate change’s effects on comparable industries. Next, interviews with five American whiskey distillers provided data on areas where the industry would be impacted the most. Qualitative data from the interviews were coded to derive five main themes: climate change’s impact on grain variety, whiskey aging, wood used for barrels, freshwater access, and adaptation methods. Finally, adaptation recommendations were provided for the distilleries based on the literature review and data from the qualitative interviews to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change on the American whiskey industry.
Pseudoresonance mechanism of all-optical frequency standard operation
Creators: name: Kazakov, G.
name: Matisov, B.
name: Mazets, I.
name: Mileti, G.
name: Delporte, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel approach to all-optical frequency standard design, based on a counterintuitive combination of the coherent population trapping effect and signal discrimination at the maximum of absorption for the probe radiation. The short-term stability of such a standard can achieve the level of 10^-14/(τ)^1/2. The physics beyond this approach is dark resonance splitting caused by interaction of the nuclear magnetic moment with the external magnetic field.
description: revtex4, references added
Resource theory of contextuality for arbitrary prepare-and-measure experiments
Creators: name: Duarte, Cristhiano
name: Amaral, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contextuality has been identified as a potential resource responsible for the quantum advantage in several tasks. It is then necessary to develop a resource-theoretic framework for contextuality, both in its standard and generalized forms. Here we provide a formal resource-theoretic approach for generalized contextuality based on a physically motivated set of free operations with an explicit parametrisation. Then, using an efficient linear programming characterization for the contextual set of prepared-and-measured statistics, we adapt known resource quantifiers for contextuality and nonlocality to obtain natural monotones for generalized contextuality in arbitrary prepare-and-measure experiments.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures. Comments are welcome!
A Spectroscopic Search for the non-nuclear Wolf-Rayet Population of the metal-rich spiral galaxy M83
Creators: name: Hadfield, Lucy
name: Crowther, Paul
name: Schild, Hans
name: Schmutz, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a catalogue of non-nuclear regions containing Wolf-Rayet stars in the metal-rich spiral galaxy M83 (NGC5236). From a total of 283 candidate regions identified using HeII 4686 imaging with VLT-FORS2, Multi Object Spectroscopy of 198 regions was carried out, confirming 132 WR sources. From this sub-sample, an exceptional content of 1035 +/- 300 WR stars is inferred, with N(WC)/N(WN) approx 1.2, continuing the trend to larger values at higher metallicity amongst Local Group galaxies, and greatly exceeding current evolutionary predictions at high metallicity. Late-type stars dominate the WC population of M83, with N(WC8-9)/N(WC4-7)=9 and WO subtypes absent, consistent with metallicity dependent WC winds. Equal numbers of late to early WN stars are observed, again in contrast to current evolutionary predictions. Several sources contain large numbers of WR stars. In particular, #74 (alias region 35 from De Vaucouleurs et al. contains 230 WR stars, and is identified as a Super Star Cluster from inspection of archival HST/ACS images. Omitting this starburst cluster would result in revised statistics of N(WC)/N(WN) approx 1 and N(WC8-9)/N(WC4-7) approx 6 for the `quiescent' disk population. Including recent results for the nucleus and accounting for incompleteness in our spectroscopic sample, we suspect the total WR population of M83 may exceed 3000 stars.
description: 39 pages, 13 figures, 17 finding charts, accepted for Astronomy & Astrophysics. Version will full resolution images available at ftp://astro1.shef.ac.uk/pub/pac/m83.ps.gz
MOESM2 of Targeting the DPP-4-GLP-1 pathway improves exercise tolerance in heart failure patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Chengcong
name: Huang, Ying
name: Zeng, Yongmei
name: Lu, Xiyan
name: Dong, Guoqing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2. Details of risk and bias assessment, This file included the supporting evidences of how we assessed the risk of bias.
WT identities for proper vertices and renormalization in a superspace formulation of gauge theories
Creators: name: Joglekar, Satish D.
name: Mandal, Bhabani Prssad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate the WT identity for proper vertices in a simple and compact form $\partial Γ/ {\partial θ} =0 $ in a superspace formulation of gauge theories proposed earlier. We show this WT identity (together with a subsidiary constraint) lead, in transparent way, the superfield superspace multiplet renormalizations formulated earlier (and shown to explain symmetries of Yang-Mills theory renormalization).
description: 18 pages, Latex , Revised version, Appeared in PRD 55
Unified Einstein-Virasoro Master Equation in the General Non-Linear Sigma Model
Creators: name: de Boer, J.
name: Halpern, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Virasoro master equation (VME) describes the general affine-Virasoro construction $T=L^{ab}J_aJ_b+iD^a \dif J_a$ in the operator algebra of the WZW model, where $L^{ab}$ is the inverse inertia tensor and $D^a $ is the improvement vector. In this paper, we generalize this construction to find the general (one-loop) Virasoro construction in the operator algebra of the general non-linear sigma model. The result is a unified Einstein-Virasoro master equation which couples the spacetime spin-two field $L^{ab}$ to the background fields of the sigma model. For a particular solution $L_G^{ab}$, the unified system reduces to the canonical stress tensors and conventional Einstein equations of the sigma model, and the system reduces to the general affine-Virasoro construction and the VME when the sigma model is taken to be the WZW action. More generally, the unified system describes a space of conformal field theories which is presumably much larger than the sum of the general affine-Virasoro construction and the sigma model with its canonical stress tensors. We also discuss a number of algebraic and geometrical properties of the system, including its relation to an unsolved problem in the theory of $G$-structures on manifolds with torsion.
description: LaTeX, 55 pages, one postscript figure, uses epsfig.sty. contains a few minor corrections; version to be published in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
QuantumLeak: Stealing Quantum Neural Networks from Cloud-based NISQ Machines
Creators: name: Fu, Zhenxiao
name: Yang, Min
name: Chu, Cheng
name: Xu, Yilun
name: Huang, Gang
name: Chen, Fan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Variational quantum circuits (VQCs) have become a powerful tool for implementing Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs), addressing a wide range of complex problems. Well-trained VQCs serve as valuable intellectual assets hosted on cloud-based Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers, making them susceptible to malicious VQC stealing attacks. However, traditional model extraction techniques designed for classical machine learning models encounter challenges when applied to NISQ computers due to significant noise in current devices. In this paper, we introduce QuantumLeak, an effective and accurate QNN model extraction technique from cloud-based NISQ machines. Compared to existing classical model stealing techniques, QuantumLeak improves local VQC accuracy by 4.99\%$\sim$7.35\% across diverse datasets and VQC architectures.
"It's Kind of Context Dependent": Understanding Blind and Low Vision People's Video Accessibility Preferences Across Viewing Scenarios
Creators: name: Jiang, Lucy
name: Jung, Crescentia
name: Phutane, Mahika
name: Stangl, Abigale
name: Azenkot, Shiri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While audio description (AD) is the standard approach for making videos accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) people, existing AD guidelines do not consider BLV users' varied preferences across viewing scenarios. These scenarios range from how-to videos on YouTube, where users seek to learn new skills, to historical dramas on Netflix, where a user's goal is entertainment. Additionally, the increase in video watching on mobile devices provides an opportunity to integrate nonverbal output modalities (e.g., audio cues, tactile elements, and visual enhancements). Through a formative survey and 15 semi-structured interviews, we identified BLV people's video accessibility preferences across diverse scenarios. For example, participants valued action and equipment details for how-to videos, tactile graphics for learning scenarios, and 3D models for fantastical content. We define a six-dimensional video accessibility design space to guide future innovation and discuss how to move from "one-size-fits-all" paradigms to scenario-specific approaches.
description: To appear at CHI 2024
СОВРЕМЕННАЯ ПОЛИТКОРРЕКТНАЯ ЛЕКСИКА В ДИСКУРСЕ ОГРАНИЧЕННЫХ ВОЗМОЖНОСТЕЙ ЗДОРОВЬЯ ЧЕЛОВЕКА В ТЕКСТАХ АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНЫХ СМИ И ОСОБЕННОСТИ ЕЕ ПЕРЕВОДА НА РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫК
Creators: name: Воронцова Ирина Игоревна
name: Комиссарова Татьяна Викторовна
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2019
Subjects: инвалидность; ограниченные возможности здоровья человека (ОВЗ); политкорректность; люди с инвалидностью; особые образовательные потребности; вежливость; толерантность; инвалидность как идентичность.

description: Так как российская культура в отношении соблюдения принципов политкорректности как языкового поведения ориентируется на западные шаблоны словоупотребления, перенимая их вместе с самой культурной традицией, важно проследить в текстах западных изданий параметры формирования вежливой лексики в отношении людей с ограниченными возможностями здоровья (ОВЗ), в том числе с инвалидностью. Авторы исследуют методы реализации принципа политической корректности на лексико-семантическом уровне в текстах современных публикаций в англоязычных СМИ, затрагивающих тему инвалидности и ограниченных возможностей здоровья человека. Авторы выделяют актуальные тенденции в этом дискурсе: переосмысление понятия disability («инвалидности / ОВЗ») как новой идентичности личности, использование лексики, обозначающей преодоление ограничений здоровья человеком, при наименовании групп людей с инвалидностью, употребление лексической единицы special needs («особые потребности») исключительно в образовательном контексте. В текстах англоязычных статей из-за травмирующей тематики присутствует большое количество эвфемизмов. Авторами предложена их классификация, в том числе выделена новая категория наименований людей с инвалидностью, на основании упоминания соответствующих средств реабилитации. Предложены варианты перевода англоязычной политкорректной лексики в рамках возможностей отражения ее специфики современным русским языком. На лингвистическом уровне исследование вносит свой вклад в идею равноправия людей с ограниченными возможностями здоровья и людей, таковых не имеющих.
Middle school students’ motivational dispositions and interest in STEM careers
Creators: name: Ozulku, Elif
name: Kloser, Matthew
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: This study explored the relationship between middle school students’ mathematics- and science-related motivational dispositions and their attitudes toward STEM-related careers. To better understand these constructs, we regressed motivational variables from the Situated Expectancy-Value Framework (Eccles, J. S., & Wigfield, A. 2020. From expectancy-value theory to situated expectancy-value theory: A developmental, social cognitive, and sociocultural perspective on motivation. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 61, 101859), on attitudes toward STEM careers by gender, race/ethnicity, and age. Findings showed that, among the five motivational disposition variables (i.e. self-efficacy, identity, enjoyment, utility value, and cost), utility value was the strongest predictor of STEM career attitudes and science-related motivational dispositions explained the variation in STEM career attitudes more than mathematics-related motivational dispositions. We also found changes in the strength of the relationship between students’ motivational dispositions and STEM career attitudes by gender, race, and age. Finally, we reported an indirect effect of self-efficacy on STEM career attitudes mediated by identity, interest, utility value, and cost, a finding that may explain the perplexing results by prior research that contradicts some current theories of self-efficacy and career motivation.
Local vs Nonlocal cloning in a noisy environment
Creators: name: Ferraro, A.
name: Paris, M. G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the distribution of quantum information among many parties in the presence of noise. In particular, we consider how to optimally send to m receivers the information encoded into an unknown coherent state. On one hand, a local strategy is considered, consisting in a local cloning process followed by direct transmission. On the other hand, a telecloning protocol based on nonlocal quantum correlations is analyzed. Both the strategies are optimized to minimize the detrimental effects due to losses and thermal noise along the propagation. The comparison between the local and the nonlocal protocol shows that telecloning is more effective than local cloning for a wide range of noise parameters. Our results indicate that nonlocal strategies can be more robust against noise than local ones, thus being suitable candidates to play a major role in quantum information networks.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
ИСТОРИЯ РУССКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ СКВОЗЬ ГЕНДЕРНУЮ ОПТИКУ Рецензия на книгу: Строганова Е.Н. Классики и современницы: Гендерные реалии в истории русской литературы XIX века. М.: Литфакт, 2019. 400 с.
Creators: name: Ирина Леонардовна Савкина
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2019
Subjects: гендер; история литературы; канонические и маргинальные тексты; гендерная асимметрия; патриархатные стереотипы.

description: Рецензия посвящена книге Е.Н. Строгановой, одной из первых отечественных исследовательниц, обратившихся к гендерному изучению художественной литературы. В рецензии отмечено, что ключевой категорией, принятой автором, становится понятие «гендер», которое трактуется как репрезентация социокультурных представлений о полах, их взаимоотношениях, об асимметрии представлений о социокультурных ролях, предписываемых мужчине и женщине. Этот подход определяет содержание и структуру сборника, состоящего из шести разделов и включающего двадцать шесть статей, главными героями которых являются не именитые и признанные И. Гончаров, Н. Некрасов, Ф. Достоевский, М. Салтыков-Щедрин, Л. Толстой, но их гораздо менее известные современницы: Е. Ган, Е. Салиас де Турнемир, Н. Хвощинская, С. Хвощинская, А. Лачинова, Е. Новосильцева и другие. Статьи сборника убедительно демонстрируют, что привычное отодвигание женщин-литераторов в маргинальность определяется не ничтожностью их литературного дарования, а в первую очередь – глубоко укорененными патриархатными стереотипами. И обычный упрек писательницам во внимании к повседневности, к бытовым подробностям, мелочам и деталям можно рассматривать не как «дефект», но как особенность или достоинство. Рецензент подчеркивает, что принципиальная новизна книги Е.Н. Строгановой заключается в изменении оптики, в понимании истории литературы не как совокупности канонических и маргинальных текстов, а как живого поля литературных и человеческих контактов и взаимовлияний.
A comparative analysis of empirical calibrators for nebular metallicity
Creators: name: Perez-Montero, Enrique
name: Diaz, Angeles I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new analysis of the main empirical calibrators of oxygen abundance for ionised gas nebulae. With that aim we have compiled an extensive sample of objects with emission line data including the near IR [SIII] lines and the weak auroral lines which allow for the determination of the gas electron temperature. For all the objects the oxygen abundances have been derived in a homogeneus way, using the most recent sets of atomic coefficients and taking into the account the effect of particle density on the temperature of O$^+$. The residuals between directly and empirically-derived abundances as a function of abundance have been studied. A grid of photo-ionisation models, covering the range of physical properties of the gas, has been used to explain the origin of the uncertainties affecting each abundance calibrator. The range of validity for each abundance parameter has been identified and its average uncertainty has been quantified.
description: 16 pages, 26 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
ЛИЧНАЯ БИБЛИОТЕКА А.П. ЧЕХОВА В ТАГАНРОГЕ Рецензия на книгу: Личная библиотека А.П. Чехова. Избранное. Таганрог: Типография ООО «Веда», 2017. 156 с.
Creators: name: Кондратьева Виктория Викторовна
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2019
Subjects: А.П. Чехов; личная библиотека; альбом; автографы; музей

description: Автор рецензии на вышедшую в 2017 г. в Таганроге книгу «Личная библиотека А.П. Чехова. Избранное» рассказывает о трехэтапном проекте описания личной библиотеки А.П. Чехова в Таганрогском государственном литературном и историко-архитектурном музее-заповеднике, первой частью которого стал презентационный альбом, в котором представлены фотографии части книг библиотеки писателя, автографов его современников. Книги личной библиотеки с их уникальными дарственными надписями расширяют и дополняют представления об А.П. Чехове как о человеке, художнике слова, помогают ближе узнать его окружение. Фотографии сопровождаются комментариями биографического и историко-литературного характера. Для альбома были отобраны книги, демонстрирующие широту интересов писателя, его литературные связи, историю семьи, книги выдающихся и малоизвестных современников. В издание вошли некоторые книги из ялтинской части личной библиотеки писателя. Альбом отражает состав библиотеки, обстоятельства ее формирования и пополнения, является ценным источником для изучения и уточнения фактов биографии и творчества Чехова, его литературных связей и мировоззренческих установок эпохи. Отмечается, что альбом отражает современные тенденции визуализации музейных материалов и литературных коллекций с просветительскими и научными целями, увеличивает аттрактивность книги как музейного предмета и расширяет возможности доступа широкой аудитории к музейным фондам. Автор подчеркивает новаторский характер книги и ее важность для науки и широкого круга читателей.
Bipolar Neutrosophic Soft Expert Set Theory
Creators: name: Şahin, Mehmet
name: Vakkas Uluçay
name: Broumi, Said
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Algebra

description: In this paper, we introduce for the first time the concept of bipolar neutrosophic soft expert set and its some operations. Also, the concept of bipolar neutrosophic soft expert set and its basic operations, namely complement, union and intersection. We give examples for these concepts.
DDCO: Discovery of Deep Continuous Options for Robot Learning from Demonstrations
Creators: name: Krishnan, Sanjay
name: Fox, Roy
name: Stoica, Ion
name: Goldberg, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An option is a short-term skill consisting of a control policy for a specified region of the state space, and a termination condition recognizing leaving that region. In prior work, we proposed an algorithm called Deep Discovery of Options (DDO) to discover options to accelerate reinforcement learning in Atari games. This paper studies an extension to robot imitation learning, called Discovery of Deep Continuous Options (DDCO), where low-level continuous control skills parametrized by deep neural networks are learned from demonstrations. We extend DDO with: (1) a hybrid categorical-continuous distribution model to parametrize high-level policies that can invoke discrete options as well continuous control actions, and (2) a cross-validation method that relaxes DDO's requirement that users specify the number of options to be discovered. We evaluate DDCO in simulation of a 3-link robot in the vertical plane pushing a block with friction and gravity, and in two physical experiments on the da Vinci surgical robot, needle insertion where a needle is grasped and inserted into a silicone tissue phantom, and needle bin picking where needles and pins are grasped from a pile and categorized into bins. In the 3-link arm simulation, results suggest that DDCO can take 3x fewer demonstrations to achieve the same reward compared to a baseline imitation learning approach. In the needle insertion task, DDCO was successful 8/10 times compared to the next most accurate imitation learning baseline 6/10. In the surgical bin picking task, the learned policy successfully grasps a single object in 66 out of 99 attempted grasps, and in all but one case successfully recovered from failed grasps by retrying a second time.
description: Published at CoRL 2017
Validation of Mountain Precipitation Forecasts from the NCAR Convection-permitting Ensemble and Operational Forecast Systems over the Western United States
Creators: name: Gowan, Thomas Michael
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2019
Subjects: Atmospheric sciences

description: Convection-permitting ensembles (CPEs) can capture the large spatial variability and quantify the inherent uncertainty of precipitation forecasts in areas of complex terrain; however, such systems remain largely untested over the western U.S. In this study, we assess the capabilities of deterministic and probabilistic cool-season (October-March) quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPFs) produced by the high-resolution (3-km horizontal grid spacing), 10-member NCAR Ensemble using observations collected by Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) stations at mountain locations across the western U.S and precipitation analyses from the Parameter-elevation Relationships on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM). We also examine the performance of operational forecast systems run by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) including the HRRR, NAM 3-km CONUS nest, GFS, and SREF. Overall, we find that higher resolution models, such as the HRRR, NAM-3km CONUS nest, and an individual member of the NCAR Ensemble, are more skillful than coarser models, especially over the interior ranges of the western U.S. This is likely because the high-resolution models better resolve topography, especially the narrow interior ranges, and thus better simulate orographic precipitation. Although probabilistic forecasts from the SREF are often more skillful than those generated by the NCAR Ensemble, the NCAR Ensemble generally outperforms its individual dynamical cores. While the NCAR Ensemble is shown to suffer from a spread deficiency, the SREF's multidynamical core configuration allows it to generate ample spread. These results should help guide future short-range model development and inform forecasters about the capabilities and limitations of several widely used deterministic and probabilistic modeling systems over the western U.S.
Entanglement and criticality in translational invariant harmonic lattice systems with finite-range interactions
Creators: name: Unanyan, R. G.
name: Fleischhauer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the relation between entanglement and criticality in translationally invariant harmonic lattice systems with non-randon, finite-range interactions. We show that the criticality of the system as well as validity or break-down of the entanglement area law are solely determined by the analytic properties of the spectral function of the oscillator system, which can easily be computed. In particular for finite-range couplings we find a one-to-one correspondence between an area-law scaling of the bi-partite entanglement and a finite correlation length. This relation is strict in the one-dimensional case and there is strog evidence for the multi-dimensional case. We also discuss generalizations to couplings with infinite range. Finally, to illustrate our results, a specific 1D example with nearest and next-nearest neighbor coupling is analyzed.
description: 4 pages, one figure, revised version
Duality as a Method to Derive a Gauge Invariant Massive Electrodynamics and New Interactions
Creators: name: de Gracia, G. B.
name: Pimentel, B. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Taking into account the recent developments associated with duality in physics, this article is focused on investigating the properties of a tensor generalization of the electrodynamics dual to the standard vector model even considering the full radiative corrections. A discussion on duality is extended for non-linearly interacting models. The alternative tensor structure allows a new local self-interaction and also a partial gauge invariant mass term. In this way, the renormalization conditions, a new interaction, Ward-Takahashi identities for all the sets of gauge symmetries, and the Schwinger-Dyson quantum equations are carefully provided to consistently characterize the propagating modes of the quantum system. The possibility of this gauge invariant massive extension is considered from the perspective of a generalized Stueckelberg procedure for higher derivative systems.