cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Group channel pruning and spatial attention distilling for object detection
Creators: name: Chu, Yun
name: Li, Pu
name: Bai, Yong
name: Hu, Zhuhua
name: Chen, Yongqing
name: Lu, Jiafeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the over-parameterization of neural networks, many model compression methods based on pruning and quantization have emerged. They are remarkable in reducing the size, parameter number, and computational complexity of the model. However, most of the models compressed by such methods need the support of special hardware and software, which increases the deployment cost. Moreover, these methods are mainly used in classification tasks, and rarely directly used in detection tasks. To address these issues, for the object detection network we introduce a three-stage model compression method: dynamic sparse training, group channel pruning, and spatial attention distilling. Firstly, to select out the unimportant channels in the network and maintain a good balance between sparsity and accuracy, we put forward a dynamic sparse training method, which introduces a variable sparse rate, and the sparse rate will change with the training process of the network. Secondly, to reduce the effect of pruning on network accuracy, we propose a novel pruning method called group channel pruning. In particular, we divide the network into multiple groups according to the scales of the feature layer and the similarity of module structure in the network, and then we use different pruning thresholds to prune the channels in each group. Finally, to recover the accuracy of the pruned network, we use an improved knowledge distillation method for the pruned network. Especially, we extract spatial attention information from the feature maps of specific scales in each group as knowledge for distillation. In the experiments, we use YOLOv4 as the object detection network and PASCAL VOC as the training dataset. Our method reduces the parameters of the model by 64.7 % and the calculation by 34.9%.
description: Appl Intell
The Social Determinants of Alcohol-Related Traumatic Injury in Young Adults: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Goodon, Hunter
name: Spiwak, Rae
name: Sarvesh Logsetty
name: Gawaziuk, Justin
name: Czyrnyj, Cameron
name: Comaskey, Brenda
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: young adults
subject: social determinants of health
subject: alcohol-related injury
subject: protocol
subject: scoping review
subject: trauma

description: Limited research examines alcohol-related traumatic injury in the context of social determinants of health (SDoH) to guide effective intervention and prevention programs. This scoping review will explore the role SDoH have in alcohol-related traumatic injury in young adults. The scoping review process will be guided by the methodology framework of Arksey and O’Malley and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis Protocols Extension for Scoping Reviews Guidelines (PRISMA-ScR). The PubMed and SCOPUS databases will be systematically searched. Studies of various designs and methodologies (published since 2000) that examine certain SDoH of interest in relation to alcohol-related injury in adults aged 18-25 years old will be considered for inclusion in this review. Results of the review will address an important literature gap and inform the development of targeted prevention programs for alcohol-related traumatic injury for this population.
Akodon dayi Osgood 1916
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Akodon
Akodon dayi

description: Akodon dayi Osgood, 1916. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Pubi., Zool. Ser., 10:208. TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia, Cochabamba Dept., Todos Santos, Chapare River. DISTRIBUTION: C to SC Bolivia, 250- 700 m. COMMENTS: Subgenus Akodon, varius group sensu Myers (1989). Interpreted as a subspecies of A. tapirapoanus (= Bolomys lasiurus) by Cabrera (1961); considered a species closely related to A. toba by Myers (1989).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 689, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
TEACHERS' PERSPECTIVES ON NEW ELT TEXTBOOKS IN ESL CONTEXT. CROSS-  SECTIONAL STUDY IN UZBEKISTAN.
Creators: name: Zokirov, Islombek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In recent years, the demand for English language teaching (ELT) materials has increased significantly in Uzbekistan, as English language learning has become a priority in the country's educational system.
NIBLSE Collaborative Community Model for developing, disseminating, and assessing bioinformatics learning resources
Creators: name: Morgan, William
name: Kleinschmit, Adam
name: Rosenwald, Anne
name: Triplett, Eric
name: Pauley, Mark
name: Tapprich, William
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2020

description: The Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE) has cultivated a collaborative community model to facilitate the development, dissemination, and assessment of bioinformatics learning resources.
Americanizing the World? U.S. Advertising Abroad in the American Century, the View from Italy
Creators: name: Fasce, Ferdinando
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2016

description: Largely based on unpublished company records, the article chronicles the evolution of J. Walter Thompson Italia, the Italian branch of the leading American advertising agency in the twentieth century, between Reconstruction and the “Hot Autumn.” First, it intends to offer additional material and insight on the actual, controversial impact of U.S. advertising in the country in the post-WWII era. Second, it suggests ways to further pursue Mary Nolan’s recent ambitious project of looking at transatlantic American-European relations as truly “hybridized,” that is, bidirectional and mutually influential – this especially as far as consumer culture is concerned. At the same time, it retains a more cautious and restrained notion of “Americanization.”
description: RSAJournal, V. 27 (2016): The United States between Transnationalism and Interculturality
The Transnational and Global Perspectives of American Studies in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Creators: name: Glenney Boggs, Colleen
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2016

description: Recent developments worldwide seem to signal, as some journalists proclaim, the “End of an Era of Transnational Optimism.” Situating the term in its neo-liberal contexts, as one closely allied with global trade, such headlines reflect its current popular usage. But “transnational” has a rich cultural provenance that extends beyond frames of capitalism and state power, and it can offer alternative perspectives on their discontents. Assessing the term’s development in American Studies during and after the “transnational turn” of the 1990s, this article provides an overview of its many facets, and argues that transnationalisms, in the plural, continue to offer critiques of existing paradigms as well as alternatives to prevalent discourse formations.
description: RSAJournal, V. 27 (2016): The United States between Transnationalism and Interculturality
Agricultural Development Around Protected Areas in Vietnam: Agroecology Perspective
Creators: name: Nhung, Nguyen Thi Trang
name: Cuong, Tran Huu
name: Phuong, Nguyen Van
name: Dogot, Thomas
name: Burny, Philippe
name: Hop, Ho Thi Minh
name: Lebailly, Philippe
name: Nhung, Nguyen Thi Trang
name: Cuong, Tran Huu
name: Phuong, Nguyen Van
name: Dogot, Thomas
name: Burny, Philippe
name: Hop, Ho Thi Minh
name: Lebailly, Philippe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Xuan Thuy National Park
subject: buffer zone
subject: agroecology
subject: agricultural development

description: Agricultural development nearby protected areas is required to minimize negative impacts from uses of off-farm resources as well as improper activities on the ecosystem and ensure livelihood for local farming communities. This research aims at assessing agricultural management practices and outcomes toward agroecology of rice cultivation in the buffer zone of Xuan Thuy National Park. Data were gathered from ecosystem managers, communal authorities and 96 rice cultivators living in 14 villages adjacently to the park in 2017-2018. “Traffic light” approach developed by FAO was used as an analytical technique to evaluate and visualize the environmental sustainability of rice cultivation with three levels of desirable, acceptable and unsustainable. The assessment reveals that none of the environmental indicators achieved at sustainable including fertilizer management, soil fertility, pesticide management, biodiversity preservation, and water conservation. Therefore, agricultural development in this area is required to be scrutinized for improvements especially the overdependency on nitrogen fertilizers, improper application of pesticides, limited adoption of biodiversity-friendly practices as well as other environmentally-friendly practices. The research highlights the need of implementing agroecological approach and special regime for protected area buffer zone to strengthen environmental preservation.
The United States in World History
Creators: name: Bender, Thomas
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2016

description: American “exceptionalism” is a myth, not history. Classic works cited as the foundation of exceptionalist America do not make such a claim. John Winthrop and Alexis de Tocqueville are treated as the “originalists” of “exceptionalism,” but in fact they placed American history within a larger framework – the progress of Christianity or that of equality. Before the 1940s, classic American historians did not make reference to “exceptionalism”: not Parkman nor Adams, Turner nor Beard. “Exceptionalism” was a product of the early Cold War. With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of “globalization,” historians, and social scientists in general, began to see that many of the key events or movements in the United States were part of transnational developments: the discovery, the revolution, the Civil War, social politics – and more.
description: RSAJournal, V. 27 (2016): The United States between Transnationalism and Interculturality
CLIPGraphs: Multimodal Graph Networks to Infer Object-Room Affinities
Creators: name: Agrawal, Ayush
name: Arora, Raghav
name: Datta, Ahana
name: Banerjee, Snehasis
name: Bhowmick, Brojeshwar
name: Jatavallabhula, Krishna Murthy
name: Sridharan, Mohan
name: Krishna, Madhava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces a novel method for determining the best room to place an object in, for embodied scene rearrangement. While state-of-the-art approaches rely on large language models (LLMs) or reinforcement learned (RL) policies for this task, our approach, CLIPGraphs, efficiently combines commonsense domain knowledge, data-driven methods, and recent advances in multimodal learning. Specifically, it (a)encodes a knowledge graph of prior human preferences about the room location of different objects in home environments, (b) incorporates vision-language features to support multimodal queries based on images or text, and (c) uses a graph network to learn object-room affinities based on embeddings of the prior knowledge and the vision-language features. We demonstrate that our approach provides better estimates of the most appropriate location of objects from a benchmark set of object categories in comparison with state-of-the-art baselines
Gauss-Bonnet correction to Holographic thermalization: two-point functions, circular Wilson loops and entanglement entropy
Creators: name: Li, Yong-Zhuang
name: Wu, Shao-Feng
name: Yang, Guo-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the thermalization of a class of 4-dimensional strongly coupled theories dual to a 5-dimensional AdS-Vaidya spacetime with Gauss-Bonnet curvature corrections. We probe the thermalization using the two-point functions, the expectation values of circular Wilson loops and entanglement entropy. When boundary separation is small, we observe that the thermalization times of these observables have the weak dependence on the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant $α$. In addition, the growth rate of entanglement entropy density is nearly volume-independent. We also show that a new kind of swallow-tail behavior may exhibit in the thermalization of the two-point function when $α$ is negative and $\ell$ is large enough. At large negative $α$ ($α\lesssim -0.1$) the relationship between the critical thermalization time of entanglement entropy and the boundary separation encounters certain \textquotedblleft phase transition\textquotedblright .
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, clarifications and references added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
title: Применение композитных материалов при проектировании усиления железобетонных конструкций
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ростовский государственный строительный университет
Year: 2015

description: Содержит основные положения и разъяснения по проектированию усиления железобетонных конструкций с использованием внешнего армирования композитными материалами. Приведены примеры расчета изгибаемых и сжатых элементов при различных формах сечения и видах напряженного состояния, выполненные в соответствии с требованиями СП 63.13330.2012 и СП 164.1325800.2014. Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по специальности 08.05.01 «Строительство уникальных зданий и сооружений», по направлению подготовки 08.03.01 «Строительство», по профилю подготовки «Промышленное и гражданское строительство» различных строительных вузов, а также магистров, аспирантов и инженерно-технических работников.
On coexistence and joint measurability of rank-1 quantum observables
Creators: name: Pellonpää, Juha-Pekka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a rank-1 quantum observable (POVM) M is jointly measurable with a quantum observable M' exactly when M' is a smearing of M. If M is extreme, rank-1 and discrete then M and M' are coexistent if and only if they are jointly measurable.
description: Theorem 2 of v1 and Example 1 of v2 are incorrect
On Bayesian inference and remote sensing imagery of state and parameter estimation for crop model
Creators: name: Tianxiang Zhang
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Inefficient use of water resources induces a surge of interest in the improvement of irrigation management to optimally utilise water resources. Researches have shown that a number of technologies have been widely applied to this end, such as remote sensing technologies, crop models, and data assimilation methods. Crop growth models play a paramount role, which not only provide quantitative information on crop development but also evaluate various management strategies. Thus, field-specific crop models are required for reliable and efficient crop treatment and monitoring. Due to the presence of unknown and uncertain parameters in crop models, however, crop state and parameter estimation is generally a challenging problem. Current literature on this challenge is mainly based on either optimisation method to calibrate crop models or conventional filtering method to recursively infer the crop states by using sensors of low spatial/spectral resolutions.
This thesis aims to develop efficient and accurate crop state and parameter estimation methods by using remote sensing technologies and advanced Bayesian inference algorithms. The Bayesian inference framework was firstly employed in state and parameter estimation of crop models, which was achieved through Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and sensitivity informed Particle Filter (PF). Different from optimisation-based approaches where only a point estimate is returned without confidence information, Bayesian estimation could derive the posterior distribution of model parameters of interest by integrating the prior information and measurement information via Bayesian rule. The proposed PF was able to accommodate extra information (e.g., parameter bound information and parameter sensitivity information) for better estimation performance. Two state-of-the-art sensors, including MSI on Sentinel-2A and RedEdge camera on UAVs, were analysed by using the Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and the Random Forest classifier to support observation data collection. All proposed estimation methods were successfully implemented, tested and validated by using both Monte Carlo simulations and real-world datasets. Winter wheat was selected as one case study, and the results suggested that the winter wheat state and parameter estimation employing Bayesian-based method outperforms conventional approaches (e.g., optimisation-based estimation and conventional PF). As a consequence, with the advances of the new sensors and the proposed Bayesian inference, there is a major step to reduce model uncertainties in a promising and powerful way such that the accurate irrigation management can be made before harvest.
An optical spectroscopic survey of the 3CR sample of radio galaxies with z<0.3. V. Implications for the unified model for FRIIs
Creators: name: Baldi, Ranieri D.
name: Capetti, Alessandro
name: Buttiglione, Sara
name: Chiaberge, Marco
name: Celotti, Annalisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the implications of our optical spectroscopic survey of 3CR radio sources with z<0.3 for the unified model (UM) for radio-loud AGN, focusing on objects with a FRII radio morphology. The sample contains 33 high ionization galaxies (HIGs) and 18 broad line objects (BLOs). According to the UM, HIGs, the narrow line sources, are the nuclearly obscured counterparts of BLOs. The fraction of HIGs indicates a covering factor of the circumnuclear matter of 65% that corresponds, adopting a torus geometry, to an opening angle of 50+/-5 degree. No dependence on redshift and luminosity on the torus opening angle emerges. We also consider the implications for a 'clumpy' torus. The distributions of radio luminosity of HIGs and BLOs are not statistically distinguishable, as expected from the UM. Conversely, BLOs have a radio core dominance, R, more than ten times larger than HIGs, as expected in case of jet Doppler boosting. Modeling the R distributions leads to an estimate of the jet bulk Lorentz factor of Gamma ~3-5. The test of the UM based on the radio source size is not conclusive due to the limited number of objects. Studying the emission line ([OIII], [OII]and [OI]) properties of HEGs and BLOs, we find evidences of a narrow line region (NLR) density stratification and its partial obscuration from the torus. In conclusion, the radio and NLR properties of HIGs and BLOs are consistent with the UM predictions. We also explored the radio properties of 21 3CR FRII low-ionization galaxies (LIGs) at z<0.3. We find that they cannot be part of the model that unifies HIGs and BLOs, but they are instead intrinsically different source, still reproduced by a randomly oriented population.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication on A&A
Akodon dolores Thomas 1916
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Akodon
Akodon dolores

description: Akodon dolores Thomas, 1916. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 18:324. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Cordoba Prov., near Villa Dolores, Yacanto, 900 m. DISTRIBUTION: Sierra de Cordoba, C Argentina. COMMENTS: Subgenus Akodon, varius group sensu Myers (1989). Considered closely related to A. molinae (Bianchi et al., 1979; Myers, 1989) if not conspecific with it (Hershkovitz, 1990c).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 689, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Bianchi, N. O., S. Merani, and M. Lizarralde. 1979. Cytogenetics of South American akodont rodents (Cricetidae). V. Segregation of chromosome Nr. 1 polymorphism in Akodon molinae. Experientia, 35: 1438 - 1439.", "Hershkovitz, P. 1990 c. Mice of the Akodon boliviensis size class (Sigmodontinae, Cricetidae), with the description of two new species from Brazil. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 57: 1 - 35."]}
LA RAPPRESENTAZIONE DEL POTERE POLITICO NEL PARADISO DANTESCO
Creators: name: MARTELLI, LUIGI
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: The thesis deals with the representation of political power in Dante's Paradiso. The first chapter focuses on the character of the emperor Justinian, the author of the Corpus legislative body (a restoration of Roman law), whom Dante encounters in Mercury's sky. The chapter underlines the importance of the emperor's narrative on Roman history, which reveals Dante's political vision of history, centered on the central role of the Empire. Then it draws a parallelism between Justinian and Dante, as both the characters aim at earthly glory and are inspired by God's inspiration at the same time, since both their works have political targets. Finally there is a connection between Justinian word's regarding the translation of the imperial capital from Rome to Byzantium made by Constantine, and the Church's sacrilegious translation to Avignon, contemporary to Dante and the composition of the poem. The second chapter deals with the figure of Charles Martel, whom Dante encounters in Venus's sky as a symbol of love and charity. These are political virtues necessary to the well-being of the imperial system conceived by Dante. Through the words of Charles Martel, the poet marks a contrast between this blessed spirit and his living brother Robert Anjou, king of Naples at the moment of the composition of the poem, whom Dante despises both as enemy of the Empire and as a monarch who lacks those skills which are necessary to rule a kingdom. Charles Martel critics the brother's greed and incompetence, showing how his vices are the opposite of the ideal political model conceived by the Florentine poet. The third chapter describes the encounter with the ancestor Cacciaguida, among the militant spirits of Mars. The words of the ancestor mark the contrast between the XII?century Florence in which he lived, when aristocratic families lived in peace and harmony, and the contemporary XIV?century Florence, rebellious to the authority of the Empire and marked by greed, moral decay and bloody conflicts. The last chapter deals with the eagle, symbol of the Empire, which Dante sees in Jupiter's sky. The chapter focuses on the role of the eagle as an emblem of political justice, considering its harsh criticism of the anti-Christian nature of the contemporary pope John XXII and of contemporary European monarchs who promote wars and disorder. In the end the chapter focuses on the spirits placed on the eagle's eye, as historical representative rulers who promoted God's justice according also to the central role of the Empire in Dante's political thought.
How river rocks round: resolving the shape-size paradox
Creators: name: Domokos, G.
name: Jerolmack, D. J.
name: Sipos, A. Á.
name: Török, Á.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 86A60, 00A69, 35Q86

description: River-bed sediments display two universal downstream trends: fining, in which particle size decreases; and rounding, where pebble shapes evolve toward ellipsoids. Rounding is known to result from transport-induced abrasion; however many researchers argue that the contribution of abrasion to downstream fining is negligible. This presents a paradox: downstream shape change indicates substantial abrasion, while size change apparently rules it out. Here we use laboratory experiments and numerical modeling to show quantitatively that pebble abrasion is a curvature-driven flow problem. As a consequence, abrasion occurs in two well-separated phases: first, pebble edges rapidly round without any change in axis dimensions until the shape becomes entirely convex; and second, axis dimensions are then slowly reduced while the particle remains convex. Explicit study of pebble shape evolution helps resolve the shape-size paradox by reconciling discrepancies between laboratory and field studies, and enhances our ability to decipher the transport history of a river rock.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Microlensing of Quasar UV Iron Emission
Creators: name: Guerras, E.
name: Mediavilla, E.
name: Jimenez-Vicente, J.
name: Kochanek, C. S.
name: Muñoz, J. A.
name: Falco, E.
name: Motta, V.
name: Rojas, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the differential microlensing of the UV Fe II and Fe III emission line blends between 14 quasar image pairs in 13 gravitational lenses. We find that the UV iron emission is strongly microlensed in 4 cases with amplitudes comparable to that of the continuum. Statistically modeling the magnifications we infer a typical size of r ~ 4*sqrt(M/Msun) light-days for the Fe line emitting regions which is comparable to the size of the region generating the UV continuum (3 ~ 7 light-days). This may indicate that a significant part of the UV Fe II and Fe III emission originates in the quasar accretion disk.
Probing confined vortices with a superconducting nanobridge
Creators: name: Foltyn, Marek
name: Norowski, Konrad
name: Wyszyński, Michał J.
name: de Arruda, Alberto S.
name: Milošević, Milorad V.
name: Zgirski, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We realize a superconducting nanodevice in which vortex traps in the form of an aluminum square are integrated with a Dayem nanobridge. We perform field-cooling of the traps arriving to different vortex configurations, dependent on the applied magnetic field, to demonstrate that the switching current of the bridge is highly sensitive to the presence and location of vortices in the trap. Our measurements exhibit unprecedented precision and ability to detect the first and successive vortex entries into all fabricated traps, from few hundred nm to 2 $μ$m in size. The experimental results are corroborated by Ginzburg-Landau simulations, which reveal the subtle yet crucial changes in the density of the superconducting condensate in the vicinity of the bridge with every additional vortex entry and relocation inside the trap. An ease of integration and simplicity make our design a convenient platform for studying dynamics of vortices in strongly confining geometries, involving a promise to manipulate vortex states electronically with simultaneous in situ control and monitoring.
Ancient eclipses and long-term drifts in the Earth - Moon system
Creators: name: Vahia, M. N.
name: Singh, Saurabh
name: Seta, Amit
name: Subbarayappa, B. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the anomalies in the Earth - Moon system using ancient eclipse data. We identify nine groups of anomalous eclipses between 400 and 1800 AD recorded in parts of India that should have completely missed the subcontinent as per NASA simulations (Espenak and Meeus, 2011). We show that the typical correction to the lunar location required to reconcile the anomalous eclipses is relatively small and consistent with the fluctuations in the length of day that are observed in recent periods. We then investigate the change in Earth's moment of inertia due to differential acceleration of land and water that can account for this discrepancy. We show that 80 percent of these discrepancies occur when the Moon is at declinations greater than 10 deg and closer to its major standstill of 28 deg while it spends 46 percent of the time in this region. We simulate the differential interaction of the Moon's gravity with landmass and water using finite element method to account for landmass and water mass. We show that the results of eclipse error are consistent with the estimate of a small differential acceleration when the Moon is over land at high latitudes. However, we encounter some examples where the results from simulations studies cannot explain the phenomena. Hence we propose that dT corrections have to be coupled with some other mechanism possibly a small vertical oscillation in the Moon's rotational plane with a period of the order of a few hundred years to achieve the required adjustment in the Eclipse maps.
description: 11 pages, 2 tables, 15 figures in the text and 2 in appendix
“The true story that inspired the movie”
Creators: name: Zagarrio, Vito
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2015

description: This essay maps some of the most important developments in film theory concerning the complex relationship of cinema with history and literature in the context of the digital age. It addresses some of the questions raised through the analysis of exemplary case studies and finally focuses on Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, a 2014 film based on a real life narration, the autobiography of Chris Kyle.
description: RSAJournal, V. 26 (2015): American Life and Literature into Film
Akodon fumeus Thomas 1902
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Akodon
Akodon fumeus

description: Akodon fumeus Thomas, 1902. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 9:137. TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia, Cochabamba Dept., Rio Secure, Choro, 3500 m. DISTRIBUTION: E Andean slopes of SE Peru and W Bolivia. COMMENTS: Subgenus Akodon. Treated as a subspecies of A. mollis (Cabrera, 1961; Gyldenstolpe, 1932; Hershkovitz, 1990c); viewed as a distinct species more closely related to A. kofordi by Myers and Patton (1989b).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 689-690, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Gyldenstolpe, N. 1932. A manual of Neotropical sigmodont rodents. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, Tredje Serien, 11: 1 - 164.", "Hershkovitz, P. 1990 c. Mice of the Akodon boliviensis size class (Sigmodontinae, Cricetidae), with the description of two new species from Brazil. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 57: 1 - 35.", "Myers, P., and J. L. Patton. 1989 b. Akodon of Peru- - revision of the fumeus group (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 721: 1 - 35."]}
Permanence and Transience in Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Sucicides”
Creators: name: Stefanelli, Maria Anita
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2015

description: Adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides’ 1993 novel of the same title, The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola (1999), cinematography by Ed Lachman, screenplay by Coppola, concerns the demise of the five adolescent Lisbon sisters in Detroit’s suburbia of the seventies with the elm-trees dying and a serious environmental concern setting in. A group of schoolboys, strongly attracted by the beautiful creatures, watch them closely to spy on their personal moments trying to make sense of the mystery and ambiguities surrounding their life, and end up being the object of the girls’ and the spectators’ gaze. Events and states of mind in the film are associated with famous paintings of the past stored in the collective memory with the effect of producing some form of dialogue between cinema and painting, while the tropes of transience and permanence at work in life, art, and Nature sanction the inevitability of vanishing, but also the continuity, of cinema itself.
description: RSAJournal, V. 26 (2015): American Life and Literature into Film
The gravitational wave strain in the characteristic formalism of numerical relativity
Creators: name: Bishop, Nigel T
name: Reisswig, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extraction of the gravitational wave signal, within the context of a characteristic numerical evolution is revisited. A formula for the gravitational wave strain is developed and tested, and is made publicly available as part of the PITT code within the Einstein Toolkit. Using the new strain formula, we show that artificial non-linear drifts inherent in time integrated waveforms can be reduced for the case of a binary black hole merger configuration. For the test case of a rapidly spinning stellar core collapse model, however, we find that the drift must have different roots.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Climate Change, Terrestrial Water Storage, and Drought
Creators: name: Yadu Pokhrel
name: Felfelani, Farshid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 40104 Climate Change Processes
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Climate Science
subject: Hydrology
subject: 40608 Surfacewater Hydrology

description: Processed data needed to reproduce the figures in the main text of the paper (Pokhrel et al., 2021).
Prediction of highly cited papers
Creators: name: Newman, M. E. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In an article written five years ago [arXiv:0809.0522], we described a method for predicting which scientific papers will be highly cited in the future, even if they are currently not highly cited. Applying the method to real citation data we made predictions about papers we believed would end up being well cited. Here we revisit those predictions, five years on, to see how well we did. Among the over 2000 papers in our original data set, we examine the fifty that, by the measures of our previous study, were predicted to do best and we find that they have indeed received substantially more citations in the intervening years than other papers, even after controlling for the number of prior citations. On average these top fifty papers have received 23 times as many citations in the last five years as the average paper in the data set as a whole, and 15 times as many as the average paper in a randomly drawn control group that started out with the same number of citations. Applying our prediction technique to current data, we also make new predictions of papers that we believe will be well cited in the next few years.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
An Attentive-based Generative Model for Medical Image Synthesis
Creators: name: Wang, Jiayuan
name: Wu, Q. M. Jonathan
name: Pourpanah, Farhad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Magnetic resonance (MR) and computer tomography (CT) imaging are valuable tools for diagnosing diseases and planning treatment. However, limitations such as radiation exposure and cost can restrict access to certain imaging modalities. To address this issue, medical image synthesis can generate one modality from another, but many existing models struggle with high-quality image synthesis when multiple slices are present in the dataset. This study proposes an attention-based dual contrast generative model, called ADC-cycleGAN, which can synthesize medical images from unpaired data with multiple slices. The model integrates a dual contrast loss term with the CycleGAN loss to ensure that the synthesized images are distinguishable from the source domain. Additionally, an attention mechanism is incorporated into the generators to extract informative features from both channel and spatial domains. To improve performance when dealing with multiple slices, the $K$-means algorithm is used to cluster the dataset into $K$ groups, and each group is used to train a separate ADC-cycleGAN. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed ADC-cycleGAN model produces comparable samples to other state-of-the-art generative models, achieving the highest PSNR and SSIM values of 19.04385 and 0.68551, respectively. We publish the code at https://github.com/JiayuanWang-JW/ADC-cycleGAN.
Cognitive Assessment: Perspectives from Adults with Intellectual Disability
Creators: name: Martin, Genevieve
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2022
Subjects: IPA
Discourse Analysis
Cognitive assessment
Intellectual disability

description: Cognitive assessment is frequently used in the process of the diagnosis of intellectual disability (ID) in adults. However, there is little known about the subjective experience and discourses surrounding this process of assessment. This study therefore aims to explore this experience, and the specific discursive devices utilised by people when describing the experience, from the perspective of adults with ID. Information was gathered using semi-structured interviews with four clients with a recently diagnosed ID. These were analysed using both Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and Discourse Analysis (DA), to examine various aspects of discourse alongside the phenomenological experience. The IPA results highlighted a variety of experiences that participants had and suggested that they did not experience their tests as emotionally neutral. For example, participants described experiences of disconnected services, namely through having seen various professionals over the assessment period, having experienced multiple similar types of assessment over their lifetime, and through experiencing poor communication from services. Participants experienced their assessors as being nice, empathetic, and listening to them, and were left with a feeling of hope that they would get support. However, there was also confusion about the purpose of the assessment and surrounding what the outcomes would be. DA results examined the language and discursive devices used by participants within the discussions about their experience. This latter part of the analysis revealed four main themes, namely surrounding the system holding the power, reliance on others, resilience, and having to do something versus choosing to do it. The results of this study are considered in the context of the surrounding literature. Potential implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
title: Природно-территориальные комплексы в аграрном природопользовании
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ростовский государственный строительный университет
Year: 2015

description: Рассмотрены основные понятия теории, методологии и методических вопросов природно-территориальных комплексов. Основные положения могут использоваться в работе специалистов сельского и городского хозяйства, охраны окружающей среды, экономистов, землеустроителей, специалистов по кадастровой оценке, экологов, почвоведов.
Akodon hershkovitzi Patterson, Gallardo, and Freas 1984
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Akodon
Akodon hershkovitzi

description: Akodon hershkovitzi Patterson, Gallardo, and Freas, 1984. Fieldiana Zool., New Ser., 23:8. TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Magallanes Prov., Isla Capitan Aracena, head of Bahia Morris, 60 m; 54°14'S, 71 °30'W. DISTRIBUTION: Outer islands of the Chilean Archipelago. COMMENTS: Subgenus Akodon after Patterson et al. (1984); subgenus Abrothrix sensu Reig (1987). A yellow-nosed species related to A. xanthorhinus.
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 690, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Patterson, B. D., M. H. Gallardo, and K. E. Freas. 1984. Systematics of mice of the subgenus Akodon (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in southern South America, with the description of a new species. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 23: 1 - 16."]}
Single molecule NMR detection and spectroscopy using single spins in diamond
Creators: name: Perunicic, Viktor S.
name: Hall, Liam T.
name: Simpson, David A.
name: Hill, Charles D.
name: Hollenberg, Lloyd C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanomagnetometry using the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond has attracted a great deal of interest because of the combined features of room temperature operation, nanoscale resolution and high sensitivity. One of the important goals for nano-magnetometry is to be able to detect nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in individual molecules. Our theoretical analysis shows how a single molecule at the surface of diamond, with characteristic NMR frequencies, can be detected using a proximate NV centre on a time scale of order seconds with nanometer precision. We perform spatio-temporal resolution optimisation and also outline paths to greater sensitivity. In addition, the method is suitable for application in low and relatively inhomogeneous background magnetic fields in contrast to both conventional liquid and solid state NMR spectroscopy.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Predicting trends in research using research community imports and exports
Creators: name: Klavans, Richard
name: Boyack, Kevin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: A novel method for tracking (and possibly predicting) trends in research is presented. In addition to tracking what a research community produces, we illustrate how to track the ‘import’ and ‘export’ of ‘micro-solutions’ to and from research communities over time. To illustrate this method, we graph production, import and export activities for the three research communities most associated with the literature on ‘emerging research topics’ over a 20-year period. Predicted levels of import, production and export activity are provided.
Heterogeneous cavitation from atomically smooth liquid-liquid interfaces
Creators: name: Pfeiffer, Patricia
name: Shahrooz, Meysam
name: Tortora, Marco
name: Casciola, Carlo Massimo
name: Holman, Ryan
name: Salomir, Rares
name: Meloni, Simone
name: Ohl, Claus-Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pressure reduction in liquids may result in vaporization and bubble formation. This thermodynamic process is termed cavitation. It is commonly observed in hydraulic machinery, ship propellers, and even in medical therapy within the human body. While cavitation may be beneficial for the removal of malign tissue, yet in many cases it is unwanted due to its ability to erode nearly any material in close contact. Current understanding is that the origin of heterogeneous cavitation are nucleation sites where stable gas cavities reside, e.g., on contaminant particles, submerged surfaces or shell stabilized microscopic bubbles. Here, we present the finding of a so far unreported nucleation site, namely the atomically smooth interface between two immiscible liquids. The non-polar liquid of the two has a higher gas solubility and acts upon pressure reduction as a gas reservoir that accumulates at the interface. We describe experiments that clearly reveal the formation of cavitation on non-polar droplets in contact with water and elucidate the working mechanism that leads to the nucleation of gas pockets through simulations.
description: This preprint has not undergone peer review or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in Nature Physics, and is available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01764-z
A room-temperature alternating current susceptometer - Data analysis, calibration, and test
Creators: name: Alderighi, M.
name: Bevilacqua, G.
name: Biancalana, V.
name: Dancheva, Y.
name: Khanbekyan, A.
name: Moi, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An AC susceptometer operating in the range of 10 Hz to 100 kHz and at room temperature is designed, built, calibrated and used to characterize the magnetic behaviour of coated magnetic nanoparticles. Other weakly magnetic materials (in amounts of some millilitres) can be analyzed as well. The setup makes use of a DAQ-based acquisition system in order to determine the amplitude and the phase of the sample magnetization as a function of the frequency of the driving magnetic field, which is powered by a digital waveform generator. A specific acquisition strategy makes the response directly proportional to the sample susceptibility, taking advantage of the differential nature of the coil assembly. A calibration method based on conductive samples is developed.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, 19 refs
Detection and modeling of hole capture by single point defects under variable electric fields
Creators: name: Lozovoi, Artur
name: Chen, YunHeng
name: Vizkelethy, Gyorgy
name: Bielejec, Edward
name: Flick, Johannes
name: Doherty, Marcus W.
name: Meriles, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding carrier trapping in solids has proven key to semiconductor technologies but observations thus far have relied on ensembles of point defects, where the impact of neighboring traps or carrier screening is often important. Here, we investigate the capture of photo-generated holes by an individual negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond at room temperature. Using an externally gated potential to minimize space-charge effects, we find the capture probability under electric fields of variable sign and amplitude shows an asymmetric-bell-shaped response with maximum at zero voltage. To interpret these observations, we run semi-classical Monte Carlo simulations modeling carrier trapping through a cascade process of phonon emission, and obtain electric-field-dependent capture probabilities in good agreement with experiment. Since the mechanisms at play are insensitive to the trap characteristics, the capture cross sections we observe - largely exceeding those derived from ensemble measurements - should also be present in materials platforms other than diamond.