cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Origins of Rome from Cassius Dio to the Suda Lexicon: Romulus and the she-wolf
Creators: name: Mongelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cassius Dio; Suda; John Malalas; Romulus; she-wolf

description: Cassius Dio’s Roman history was a landmark for Byzantine historiography. However, due to the fragmentary knowledge of the books devoted to the origins of Rome, it is difficult to assess the historian’s contribution in rewriting the mythical origins of Rome in Byzantium. The analysis of one episode, the one relating to the prodigious survival of Romulus (and Remus) through the intervention of the she-wolf, is proposed as a case study. While through a citation of Eustatius of Thessalonica we know that certainly Dio wrote about it, that same episode is not always handed down in Byzantine historiography, as it is evidenced by Malalas’ Chronographiae and the authors who used him as their source. Eventually, it is proposed that at least a double tradition on the mythical survival of Romulus could be identified in Byzantine historians. It is possible that for both traditions historical works belonging to the Severan age, written in Greek, were consulted in Byzantium.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 13 (2023)
Version management in object-oriented databases
Creators: name: Zhou, Sheng Dong.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Quasars Probing Quasars IX. The Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Medium Surrounding z ~ 2 Quasars
Creators: name: Lau, Marie Wingyee
name: Prochaska, J. Xavier
name: Hennawi, Joseph F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the kinematics of the gas in the environments of galaxies hosting quasars at $z\sim2$. We employ 148 projected quasar pairs to study the circumgalactic gas of the foreground quasars in absorption. The sample selects foreground quasars with precise redshift measurements, using emission-lines with precision $\lesssim300\,{\rm km\,s^{-1}}$ and average offsets from the systemic redshift $\lesssim|100\,{\rm km\,s^{-1}}|$. We stack the background quasar spectra at the foreground quasar's systemic redshift to study the mean absorption in \ion{C}{2}, \ion{C}{4}, and \ion{Mg}{2}. We find that the mean absorptions exhibit large velocity widths $σ_v\approx300\,{\rm km\,s^{-1}}$. Further, the mean absorptions appear to be asymmetric about the systemic redshifts. The mean absorption centroids exhibit small redshift relative to the systemic $δv\approx+200\,{\rm km\,s^{-1}}$, with large intrinsic scatter in the centroid velocities of the individual absorption systems. We find the observed widths are consistent with gas in gravitational motion and Hubble flow. However, while the observation of large widths alone does not require galactic-scale outflows, the observed offsets suggest that the gas is on average outflowing from the galaxy. The observed offsets also suggest that the ionizing radiation from the foreground quasars is anisotropic and/or intermittent.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted to ApJ
Far-infrared - radio correlation and magnetic field strength in star-forming early-type galaxies
Creators: name: Omar, A.
name: Paswan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A tight far-infrared - radio correlation similar to that in star-forming late-type galaxies is also indicated in star-forming blue early-type galaxies, in which the nuclear optical-line emissions are primarily due to star-forming activities without a significant contribution from active galactic nuclei. The average value of far-infrared to 1.4 GHz radio flux-ratio commonly represented as the $'q'$ parameter is estimated to be $2.35\pm0.05$ with a scatter of 0.16 dex. The average star formation rate estimated using 1.4 GHz radio continuum is $\sim6$ M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$ in good agreement with those estimated using far-infrared and H$α$ luminosities. The radio emission is detected mainly from central region which could be associated with the star-forming activities, most likely triggered by recent tidal interactions. The average thermal contribution to total radio flux is estimated to be $\sim12$ per cent. The average value of the magnetic field strengths in the star-forming early-type galaxies is estimated to be 12$^{+11}_{-4}$ $μ$G. These magnetic fields are very likely generated via fast amplification in small-scale turbulent dynamos acting in the star-bursting regions.
description: Revised version, 17 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, accepted in MNRAS (doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty740)
Learning Large-Scale Bayesian Networks with the sparsebn Package
Creators: name: Aragam, Bryon
name: Gu, Jiaying
name: Zhou, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Learning graphical models from data is an important problem with wide applications, ranging from genomics to the social sciences. Nowadays datasets often have upwards of thousands---sometimes tens or hundreds of thousands---of variables and far fewer samples. To meet this challenge, we have developed a new R package called sparsebn for learning the structure of large, sparse graphical models with a focus on Bayesian networks. While there are many existing software packages for this task, this package focuses on the unique setting of learning large networks from high-dimensional data, possibly with interventions. As such, the methods provided place a premium on scalability and consistency in a high-dimensional setting. Furthermore, in the presence of interventions, the methods implemented here achieve the goal of learning a causal network from data. Additionally, the sparsebn package is fully compatible with existing software packages for network analysis.
description: To appear in the Journal of Statistical Software, 39 pages, 7 figures
Receive Spatial Modulation for Massive MIMO Systems
Creators: name: Raafat, Ahmed
name: Agustin, Adrian
name: Vidal, Josep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the downlink of a massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) single user transmission system operating in the millimeter wave outdoor narrowband channel environment. We propose a novel receive spatial modulation architecture aimed to reduce the power consumption at the user terminal, while attaining a significant throughput. The energy consumption reduction is obtained through the use of analog devices (amplitude detector), which reduces the number of radio frequency chains and analog-to-digital-converters (ADCs). The base station transmits spatial and modulation symbols per channel use. We show that the optimal spatial symbol detector is a threshold detector that can be implemented by using one bit ADC. We derive closed form expressions for the detection threshold at different signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) regions showing that a simple threshold can be obtained at high SNR and its performance approaches the exact threshold. We derive expressions for the average bit error probability in the presence and absence of the threshold estimation error showing that a small number of pilot symbols is needed. A performance comparison is done between the proposed system and fully digital MIMO showing that a suitable constellation selection can reduce the performance gap.
Time.txt
Creators: name: Jiang, Zhuoren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 441012
subject: Sociology of inequalities

description: time.txt time.txt is the detailed time point list for regression.There two types of time points:The time that the overall aware percentage increased by 1% (1% - 95%).The time that 11 impotent real-world events happened.FormatThe first column is the time The second column is the overall aware pencetageThe third column is the impotent real-world events
A software implementation of an MPEG-I video codec
Creators: name: Bell, Gary.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Estimating deceiving signatures and their role in the observation of the VBF production mode in the Higgs-Boson decay into two W bosons
Creators: name: Lehmann, Konstantin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ATLAS experiment
Higgs boson
Higgs to WW decay
Fake leptons
Fake factor method
Machine learning

description: The Higgs boson is the most recently discovered fundamental particle and its precise characterization is an important test of the Standard Model. For these measurements, the decay into two W bosons is crucial because of the large branching ratio, the sensitivity to vector-boson couplings and the theoretical implications on WW scattering. The proton-proton collisions at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV provide an excellent environment to study the Higgs boson. The data recorded by the ATLAS experiment between 2015 and 2018 is analyzed. With an integrated luminosity of 139/fb, it allows to measure precisely the two dominant production modes, gluon fusion (ggF) and vector-boson fusion (VBF). Only collisions with one electron and one muon in the final state are considered and cuts are applied to select signal-like events. For the VBF process, the selection is further refined with the help of a deep neural network. Then, the purified dataset is analyzed with a statistical model constructed from MC simulation and a data-driven background estimate of misidentified leptons. The cross sections times branching ratio are measured to be 12.4 ± 1.5 pb for the ggF and 0.79+0.19−0.16 pb for the VBF processes. For the first time, the VBF process is observed in this decay channel with a significance of 6.6 standard deviations. Also measurements of eleven Simplified Template Cross Sections are performed and found to be consistent with the Standard Model. This precise measurement could only be achieved because the treatment of events with misidentified leptons was improved significantly. These deceiving signatures are estimated with the data-driven Fake Factor Method. An auxiliary measurement is performed to extract fake factors in a phase space with a Z boson recoiling against a jet that is misidentified as lepton. This measurement is presented together with the relevant experimental improvements. As a result of this work, the uncertainties could be reduced to an extent that they do not significantly affect the measurement of the Higgs-boson cross section. Even though the Fake Factor Method is experimentally well-established, a consistent derivation for a phase space with many leptons does not exist. In this thesis, it is shown for the first time that the Fake Factor Method can be derived exactly from the Matrix Method for an arbitrary number of misidentified leptons. In addition, the uncertainty estimate is considered and cases are derived in which the fake estimate does not exhibit Gaussian uncertainties.
Semi-simplicial spaces
Creators: name: Ebert, Johannes
name: Randal-Williams, Oscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18G30, 55U10, 55R35

description: This is an exposition of homotopical results on the geometric realization of semi-simplicial spaces. We then use these to derive basic foundational results about classifying spaces of topological categories, possibly without units. The topics considered include: fibrancy conditions on topological categories; the effect on classifying spaces of freely adjoining units; approximate notions of units; Quillen's Theorems A and B for non-unital topological categories; the effect on classifying spaces of changing the topology on the space of objects; the Group-Completion Theorem.
description: 32 pages; v2: Simplified proof of the Group-Completion Theorem
Database replication strategy in mobile computing environment
Creators: name: Faiz, Mohamed.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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On finiteness properties of the Johnson filtrations
Creators: name: Ershov, Mikhail
name: He, Sue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F28, 20F65, 20F40, 20J06

description: Let A denote either the automorphism group of the free group of rank n>=4 or the mapping class group of an orientable surface of genus n>=12 with at most 1 boundary component, and let G be either the subgroup of IA-automorphisms or the Torelli subgroup of A, respectively. For a natural number N denote by G_N the Nth term of the lower central series of G. We prove that (i) any subgroup of G containing [G,G] (in particular, the Johnson kernel in the mapping class group case) is finitely generated; (ii) if N=2 or n>=8N-4 and K is any subgroup of G containing G_N (for instance, K can be the Nth term of the Johnson filtration of G), then G/[K,K] is nilpotent and hence the abelianization of K is finitely generated; (iii) if H is any finite index subgroup of A containing G_N, with N as in (ii), then H has finite abelianization.
description: 34 pages, 2 figures. v5 changes: minor changes based on referee's suggestions including a minor correction in the proof of Theorem 1.9; the proof of Theorem 1.6 has been rewritten. Accepted for publication in the Duke Mathematical Journal
Search for the Footprints of New Physics with Laboratory and Cosmic Neutrinos
Creators: name: Stecker, Floyd W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of high energy neutrinos, both in the laboratory and from cosmic sources, can be a useful probe in searching for new physics. Such observations can provide sensitive tests of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV), which may be a the result of quantum gravity physics (QG). We review some observationally testable consequences of LIV using effective field theory (EFT) formalism. To do this, one can postulate the existence of additional small LIV terms in free particle Lagrangians, suppressed by powers of the Planck mass. The observational consequences of such terms are then examined. In particular, one can place limits on a class of non-renormalizable, mass dimension five and six Lorentz invariance violating operators that may be the result of QG.
description: Version of a review article in Modern Physics Letters A with eq. (11) corrected post-publication. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1411.5889
Exploration de la qualité des orientations pédagogiques d’enseignantes de maternelle de grande section en France
Creators: name: RICS, Revue
name: Paquette, Alexandra
name: Bigras, Nathalie
name: Lemay, Lise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Early childhood education
Teacher education and professional development of educators

description: La qualité des orientations pédagogiques à l’éducation préscolaire concerne entre autres la perception des enseignantes de maternelle de leur rôle éducatif auprès des élèves. Cette qualité des orientations est susceptible d’être influencée par les composantes de la qualité structurelle (par ex., l’aménagement de la classe) et, en retour, d’avoir une incidence sur la qualité des interactions entre les enseignantes et les enfants (voir Ansari et Pianta, 2019). Dans cette perspective, la présente étude vise à explorer les perceptions de 15 enseignantes de maternelle de grande section en France au sujet de leur rôle. Des entretiens semi-dirigés ont été menés auprès de ces enseignantes au sujet de leur quotidien en classe. L’analyse a porté sur le rôle qu’elles privilégiaient explicitement et implicitement dans leur discours. Les résultats préliminaires suggèrent que les participantes perçoivent leur rôle éducatif en classe maternelle surtout en termes de relations centrées sur la transmission de savoirs. De plus, bien que l’établissement d’un climat positif avec les élèves soit parfois abordé, le soutien émotionnel est peu présent dans les propos des enseignantes lorsqu’elles discutent de leurs interactions avec les élèves. En outre, la discussion aborde l’influence du programme éducatif de maternelle de grande section centré sur les apprentissages scolaires, de même que de l’organisation de la classe, tous deux associés à des composantes de la qualité structurelle, sur les interactions perçues. Ainsi, il semble pertinent de concevoir la qualité des orientations pédagogiques en classe maternelle de grande section comme étant en partie affectée par le contexte culturel qui poserait d’une part les bases de caractéristiques de la qualité structurelle et, d’autre part, celles des interactions entre les enseignantes et les élèves.
Exact results in Floquet coin toss for driven integrable models
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Utso
name: Maity, Somnath
name: Banik, Uddipan
name: Dutta, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an integrable Hamiltonian reducible to free fermions which is subjected to an imperfect periodic driving with the amplitude of driving (or kicking) randomly chosen from a binary distribution like a coin-toss problem. The randomness present in the driving protocol destabilises the periodic steady state, reached in the limit of perfectly periodic driving, leading to a monotonic rise of the stroboscopic residual energy with the number of periods ($N$). We establish that a minimal deviation from the perfectly periodic driving would always result in a {\it bounded} heating up of the system with $N$ to an asymptotic finite value. Remarkably, exploiting the completely uncorrelated nature of the randomness and the knowledge of the stroboscopic Floquet operator in the perfectly periodic situation, we provide an exact analytical formalism to derive the disorder averaged expectation value of the residual energy through a {\it disorder operator}. This formalism not only leads to an immense numerical simplification, but also enables us to derive an exact analytical form for the residual energy in the asymptotic limit which is universal, i.e, independent of the bias of coin-toss and the protocol chosen. Furthermore, this formalism clearly establishes the nature of the monotonic growth of the residual energy at intermediate $N$ while clearly revealing the possible non-universal behaviour of the same.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Consistency tests for the extraction of the Boer-Mulders and Sivers functions
Creators: name: Christova, Ekaterina
name: Leader, Elliot
name: Stoilov, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At present, the Boer-Mulders (BM) function for a given quark flavour is extracted from data on semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) using the simplifying assumption that it is proportional to the Sivers function for that flavour. In a recent paper we suggested that the consistency of this assumption could be tested using information on so-called difference asymmetries, i.e. the difference between the asymmetries in the production of particles and their anti-particles. In this paper, using the SIDIS COMPASS deuteron data on the $\langle\cosϕ_h\rangle$, $\langle\cos 2 ϕ_h\rangle$ and Sivers difference asymmetries, we carry out two independent consistency tests of the assumption of proportionality, but here applied to the sum of the valence-quark contributions. We find that such an assumption is compatible with the data. We also show that the proportionality assumptions made in the existing parametrizations of the BM functions are not compatible with our analysis, which suggests that the published results for the Boer-Mulders functions for individual flavours are unreliable. The $\langle\cosϕ_h\rangle$ and $\langle\cos 2 ϕ_h\rangle$ asymmetries receive contributions also from the, in principle, calculable Cahn effect. We succeed in extracting the Cahn contributions from experiment (we believe for the first time) and compare with their calculated values, with interesting implications.
description: 20 pages on LaTex.file with 16 figures, Section V with the numerical analysis is totally redone, new subsection VC is added, respectively there are small changes in the Abstract and the Conclusion
Strategic information systems planning : the influence of strategic IS plans on key systems decisions in Telecom Australia during the period 1960-86
Creators: name: Hamilton, Douglas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT OF A HYBRID ELECTRIC MACHINE
Creators: name: Khanahmedova, S.
Publisher: name: Вестник науки
Year: 2023
Subjects: STARTER
GENERATOR
STARTING RELAY
BATTERY
RECTIFIER BLOCKS

description: The article is devoted to the analysis of a hybrid electric machine. A brief analysis of an electric machine performing the functions of a starter and generator is given. Some issues in the design, saving of materials, and optimization of the mode are considered
Deep Visual Attention Prediction
Creators: name: Wang, Wenguan
name: Shen, Jianbing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we aim to predict human eye fixation with view-free scenes based on an end-to-end deep learning architecture. Although Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made substantial improvement on human attention prediction, it is still needed to improve CNN based attention models by efficiently leveraging multi-scale features. Our visual attention network is proposed to capture hierarchical saliency information from deep, coarse layers with global saliency information to shallow, fine layers with local saliency response. Our model is based on a skip-layer network structure, which predicts human attention from multiple convolutional layers with various reception fields. Final saliency prediction is achieved via the cooperation of those global and local predictions. Our model is learned in a deep supervision manner, where supervision is directly fed into multi-level layers, instead of previous approaches of providing supervision only at the output layer and propagating this supervision back to earlier layers. Our model thus incorporates multi-level saliency predictions within a single network, which significantly decreases the redundancy of previous approaches of learning multiple network streams with different input scales. Extensive experimental analysis on various challenging benchmark datasets demonstrate our method yields state-of-the-art performance with competitive inference time.
description: W. Wang and J. Shen. Deep visual attention prediction. IEEE TIP, 27(5):2368-2378,2018. Code and results can be found in https://github.com/wenguanwang/deepattention
Modelling multi-agent systems using an extension of Object-Z
Creators: name: Ong, Ghee Soon.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A note on the generalized heat content for Lévy processes
Creators: name: Cygan, Wojciech
name: Grzywny, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G51, 60J75, 35K05

description: Let $\mathbf{X}=\{X_t\}_{t\geq 0}$ be a Lévy process in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $Ω$ be an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ with finite Lebesgue measure. The quantity $H (t) = \int_Ω \mathbb{P}^{x} (X_t\in Ω^c) d x$ is called the heat content. In this article we consider its generalized version $H_g^μ(t) = \int_{\mathbb{R}^d}\mathbb{E}^{x} g(X_t)μ( d x )$, where $g$ is a bounded function and $μ$ a finite Borel measure. We study its asymptotic behaviour at zero for various classes of Lévy processes.
description: to appear in the Bulletin of Korean Mathematical Society
Versioning in object-oriented database systems
Creators: name: Yau, Erinna Siu Hong.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The unified management system : a unified approach to the management of manufacturing systems
Creators: name: Ziino, Anthony.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Electromagnetic modes from Stoner enhancement
Creators: name: Jalali-Mola, Z.
name: Jafari, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Systems with substantial spin fluctuations, can internally dress the polarization function by ladder diagram of Stoner (spin-flip) excitations. This process can drastically modify the electromagnetic response. As a case study we provide detailed analysis of the corrections to the non-local optical conductivity of both doped and undoped graphene. While the resummation of ladder diagram of Stoner excitations does not affect the TE mode in doped graphene, it allows for a new undampled TM mode in undoped graphene. This is the sole effect of corrections arising from ladder diagrams and is dominated by Stoner excitations along the ladder rung which goes away by turning off the source of spin-flip interactions. This can be considered as a direct probe of the spin fluctuations.
description: compile with the included bbl file
An object-oriented extension to e-mail to facilitate distributed computer-mediated education
Creators: name: Trathen, Christopher Elvins.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Where to put the Image in an Image Caption Generator
Creators: name: Tanti, Marc
name: Gatt, Albert
name: Camilleri, Kenneth P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: When a recurrent neural network language model is used for caption generation, the image information can be fed to the neural network either by directly incorporating it in the RNN -- conditioning the language model by `injecting' image features -- or in a layer following the RNN -- conditioning the language model by `merging' image features. While both options are attested in the literature, there is as yet no systematic comparison between the two. In this paper we empirically show that it is not especially detrimental to performance whether one architecture is used or another. The merge architecture does have practical advantages, as conditioning by merging allows the RNN's hidden state vector to shrink in size by up to four times. Our results suggest that the visual and linguistic modalities for caption generation need not be jointly encoded by the RNN as that yields large, memory-intensive models with few tangible advantages in performance; rather, the multimodal integration should be delayed to a subsequent stage.
description: Accepted in JNLE Special Issue: Language for Images (24.3) (expanded with content that was removed from journal paper in order to reduce number of pages), 28 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables
Stray field signatures of Néel textured skyrmions in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt multilayer films
Creators: name: Yagil, A.
name: Almoalem, A.
name: Soumyanarayanan, Anjan
name: Tan, Anthony K. C.
name: Raju, M.
name: Panagopoulos, C.
name: Auslaender, O. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Skyrmions are nanoscale spin configurations with topological properties that hold great promise for spintronic devices. Here, we establish their Néel texture, helicity, and size in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt multilayer films by constructing a multipole expansion to model their stray field signatures and applying it to magnetic force microscopy (MFM) images. Furthermore, the demonstrated sensitivity to inhomogeneity in skyrmion properties, coupled with a unique capability to estimate the pinning force governing dynamics, portends broad applicability in the burgeoning field of topological spin textures.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, significantly revised and upgraded. For the updated supplementary material please contact one of the corresponding authors
Schema evolution issues in object-oriented databases
Creators: name: Luchian, Dragos.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Labor and Wages at the iO Theater
Creators: name: Roarty, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Improvisation
subject: Improv Comedy
subject: Classification Struggle
subject: iO Theater

description: Longform improvisers are rarely paid, even at levels of relative prestige. This paper uses the iO Theater in Chicago, one of the oldest and most important longform improv theaters in the world, as a case study to examine the relationship between the structural and material iterations of the theater with the types of students, improvisers, and staff who were there. Given the fairly consistent approach iO held towards paying performers over forty years, I argue that longform improv’s social position as a distinctly middle-class artform engenders a classification struggle wherein improvisers work to rigidly delineate ‘work’ from the ‘play’ of improv. The longform improv life-style that arises receives attempts to pay improvisers as symbolic attacks on that life-style.
SILVar: Single Index Latent Variable Models
Creators: name: Mei, Jonathan
name: Moura, José M. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A semi-parametric, non-linear regression model in the presence of latent variables is introduced. These latent variables can correspond to unmodeled phenomena or unmeasured agents in a complex networked system. This new formulation allows joint estimation of certain non-linearities in the system, the direct interactions between measured variables, and the effects of unmodeled elements on the observed system. The particular form of the model adopted is justified, and learning is posed as a regularized empirical risk minimization. This leads to classes of structured convex optimization problems with a "sparse plus low-rank" flavor. Relations between the proposed model and several common model paradigms, such as those of Robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Vector Autoregression (VAR), are established. Particularly in the VAR setting, the low-rank contributions can come from broad trends exhibited in the time series. Details of the algorithm for learning the model are presented. Experiments demonstrate the performance of the model and the estimation algorithm on simulated and real data.
description: Print ISSN: 1053-587X Online ISSN: 1941-0476, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, online March 21, 2018
Supervised Image Retrieval and Ranking Technique for Lock-in Thermography Images
Creators: name: Tan, Rui Zhen
name: Venkatarayalu, Neelakantam Varadarajulu
name: Atmosukarto, Indriyati
name: Annamalai, Benjamin Premkumar
name: Eng Teh, Tict
name: Thinn, Kyu Kyu
name: Xue, Ming
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computer vision

description: Lock-in Thermography (LIT) is a non-destructive technique in the failure analysis (FA) of integrated circuits (ICs). In diagnosing the cause of failure, a FA specialist spends a long time searching through a repository of historical images. In this paper, a supervised image retrieval and ranking algorithm incorporating image similarity and classification has been developed. Features are extracted from the images by passing them through the pre-trained VGG16 network. Principal component analysis (PCA) is then performed to identify 100 significant components that serve as signatures for each image and for computing Euclidean distance as the similarity metric. Next, a two-layer classifier replicating the human judgment process has been developed. The first layer of the classifier differentiates whether the query image is taken at the package or die level, whereas the second layer identifies the package or device class of the image. By analyzing the query image through the classifier, its classes in the two layers are determined. The distances of database images belonging to the same classes as the query image are reduced, shifting them ahead. The images thus sorted and ranked are recommended. The algorithm was tested on a dataset of 372 images of which 298 images were used for database construction, and 74 images were used as queried images. The incorporation of class classification improved the precision rate by recommending more images belonging to the same classes as the query.
A review of advances in pixel detectors for experiments with high rate and radiation
Creators: name: Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice
name: Wermes, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments ATLAS and CMS have established hybrid pixel detectors as the instrument of choice for particle tracking and vertexing in high rate and radiation environments, as they operate close to the LHC interaction points. With the High Luminosity-LHC upgrade now in sight, for which the tracking detectors will be completely replaced, new generations of pixel detectors are being devised. They have to address enormous challenges in terms of data throughput and radiation levels, ionizing and non-ionizing, that harm the sensing and readout parts of pixel detectors alike. Advances in microelectronics and microprocessing technologies now enable large scale detector designs with unprecedented performance in measurement precision (space and time), radiation hard sensors and readout chips, hybridization techniques, lightweight supports, and fully monolithic approaches to meet these challenges. This paper reviews the world-wide effort on these developments.
description: 84 pages with 46 figures. Review article.For submission to Rep. Prog. Phys
Testing of object oriented software using formal specifications
Creators: name: Fletcher, Rohan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Living with bushfires on the urban-bush interface
Creators: name: Koksal, Kubra
name: McLennan, James
name: Bearman, Christopher
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4404
subject: Development studies

description: Due to the attractiveness of living in a natural environment, more people are likely to reside in urban-bush interface areas that expose them to dangers from bushfires. Surveys conducted after fires over 2009-2015, indicated that many residents in urban-bush interface areas under-estimate their bushfire risk and do not prepare adequately for these events. For this study, householders living in urban-bush interface areas of Melbourne completed an online survey that showed that the attractiveness of the natural environment setting was the major reason for living in the location. The majority of respondents indicated bushfires as a negative feature of living in the urban-bush-interface. Compared with findings from post-bushfire surveys during 2009-2015, a greater number of respondents had a bushfire survival plan to evacuate as well as being prepared to evacuate if threatened. However, one in eight householders planned to 'wait and see' how a fire developed before taking action. Also, levels of activities to reduce house vulnerability to bushfire were low. For some householders, this was because they believed such preparations would be ineffective and, thus, pointless. This unpreparedness presents challenges to emergency management organisations and, in particular, fire agencies.
Operating system and file system monitoring : a comparison of passive network monitoring with full kernel instrumentation techniques
Creators: name: Moore, Andrew W. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A faceted classification scheme for object-oriented environments
Creators: name: Araban, Saeed.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Computation of the mitochondrial age distribution along the axon length
Creators: name: Kuznetsov, Ivan A.
name: Kuznetsov, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: We describe a compartmental model of mitochondrial transport in axons, which we apply to compute mitochondrial age at different distances from the soma. The model predicts that at the tip of an axon that has a length of 1 cm, the average mitochondrial age is approximately 22 h. The mitochondria are youngest closest to the soma and their age scales approximately linearly with distance from the soma. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first attempt to predict the spatial distribution of mitochondrial age within an axon. A sensitivity study of the mean age of mitochondria to various model parameters is also presented.
An empirical comparison of rule induction with statistical methods of classification
Creators: name: Jones, Noelle Christine.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Arbitrary-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Rotation Proposals
Creators: name: Ma, Jianqi
name: Shao, Weiyuan
name: Ye, Hao
name: Wang, Li
name: Wang, Hong
name: Zheng, Yingbin
name: Xue, Xiangyang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces a novel rotation-based framework for arbitrary-oriented text detection in natural scene images. We present the Rotation Region Proposal Networks (RRPN), which are designed to generate inclined proposals with text orientation angle information. The angle information is then adapted for bounding box regression to make the proposals more accurately fit into the text region in terms of the orientation. The Rotation Region-of-Interest (RRoI) pooling layer is proposed to project arbitrary-oriented proposals to a feature map for a text region classifier. The whole framework is built upon a region-proposal-based architecture, which ensures the computational efficiency of the arbitrary-oriented text detection compared with previous text detection systems. We conduct experiments using the rotation-based framework on three real-world scene text detection datasets and demonstrate its superiority in terms of effectiveness and efficiency over previous approaches.
description: Code is available at: https://github.com/mjq11302010044/RRPN
Materialisierung des Immateriellen?
Creators: name: Grotz, Kathrin
name: Rahemipour, Patricia
name: Piesbergen, Julie
name: Berlekamp, Friederike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Immaterielles Kulturerbe
Nutzer*innenstudie
Museum
UNESCO.
Museumspraxis
Dokumentation
Vermittlung

description: Working Paper, Stand Juni 2023: Studie im Teilprojekt M15 des Instituts für Museumsforschung (IfM) der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz im Verbundprojekt museum4punkt (2017-23), gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien. Seit 2003 steht der Schutz des Immateriellen Kulturerbes (IKE) auf der Agenda der UNESCO. Immaterielles Kulturerbe lebt von seiner fortwährenden Weitergabe von Mensch zu Mensch; es ist gekennzeichnet durch vielfältige Ausprägungen und stetige Veränderungen. Kenntnisse, Fertigkeiten und Erfahrungen, Gerüche und Geräusche, Erlebnisse und Aktivitäten, Gedanken, Erinnerungen und Narrative sowie Stimmungen und Gefühle werden seit Menschengedenken weitergegeben, weitererzählt, erklärt und fortgeführt. Der Mensch, seine Geschichte und Geschichten sind durch diese immateriellen Elemente geprägt. Für Museen bilden sowohl materielles als auch immaterielles Erbe die Grundlage ihrer Arbeit. Objekte stehen in der Museumspraxis oft im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit. Sie werden aber auch als Repräsentanten der nicht dinglichen und flüchtigen Ausdrucksformen interpretiert und ausgestellt. Seit Langem werden im Museum deshalb Medien wie Film-, Foto- und Tonaufnahmen genutzt, um Praktiken, Wissen und Fertigkeiten mit Objektbezug festzuhalten, zu dokumentieren und zu vermitteln.
Device-independent point estimation from finite data and its application to device-independent property estimation
Creators: name: Lin, Pei-Sheng
name: Rosset, Denis
name: Zhang, Yanbao
name: Bancal, Jean-Daniel
name: Liang, Yeong-Cherng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The device-independent approach to physics is one where conclusions are drawn directly from the observed correlations between measurement outcomes. In quantum information, this approach allows one to make strong statements about the properties of the underlying systems or devices solely via the observation of Bell-inequality-violating correlations. However, since one can only perform a {\em finite number} of experimental trials, statistical fluctuations necessarily accompany any estimation of these correlations. Consequently, an important gap remains between the many theoretical tools developed for the asymptotic scenario and the experimentally obtained raw data. In particular, a physical and concurrently practical way to estimate the underlying quantum distribution has so far remained elusive. Here, we show that the natural analogs of the maximum-likelihood estimation technique and the least-square-error estimation technique in the device-independent context result in point estimates of the true distribution that are physical, unique, computationally tractable and consistent. They thus serve as sound algorithmic tools allowing one to bridge the aforementioned gap. As an application, we demonstrate how such estimates of the underlying quantum distribution can be used to provide, in certain cases, trustworthy estimates of the amount of entanglement present in the measured system. In stark contrast to existing approaches to device-independent parameter estimations, our estimation does not require the prior knowledge of {\em any} Bell inequality tailored for the specific property and the specific distribution of interest.
description: Essentially published version, but with the typo in Eq. (E5) corrected