cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A trace inequality of Ando, Hiai and Okubo and a monotonicity property of the Golden-Thompson inequality
Creators: name: Carlen, Eric A.
name: Lieb, Elliott H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 39B62 (primary) 46N50 (secondary)

description: The Golden-Thompson trace inequality which states that $Tr\, e^{H+K} \leq Tr\, e^H e^K$ has proved to be very useful in quantum statistical mechanics. Golden used it to show that the classical free energy is less than the quantum one. Here we make this G-T inequality more explicit by proving that for some operators, notably the operators of interest in quantum mechanics, $H=Δ$ or $H= -\sqrt{-Δ+m}$ and $K=$ potential, $Tr\, e^{H+(1-u)K}e^{uK}$ is a monotone increasing function of the parameter $u$ for $0\leq u \leq 1$. Our proof utilizes an inequality of Ando, Hiai and Okubo (AHO): $Tr\, X^sY^tX^{1-s}Y^{1-t} \leq Tr\, XY$ for positive operators X,Y and for $\tfrac{1}{2} \leq s,\,t \leq 1 $ and $s+t \leq \tfrac{3}{2}$. The obvious conjecture that this inequality should hold up to $s+t\leq 1$, was proved false by Plevnik. We give a different proof of AHO and also give more counterexamples in the $\tfrac{3}{2}, 1$ range. More importantly we show that the inequality conjectured in AHO does indeed hold in this range if $X,Y$ have a certain positivity property -- one which does hold for quantum mechanical operators, thus enabling us to prove our G-T monotonicity theorem.
Supplementary materials to "Dissociation of dairy from its animal origin and the role of disgust to reduce dairy consumption"
Creators: name: Pedersen, Julie M. E.
name: Loughnan, Steve
Publisher: name: PsychOpen GOLD
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: dairy consumption
subject: disgust
subject: animal product consumption
subject: intervention
subject: 150

description: Supplementary materials to: Loughnan, S., & Pedersen, J. M. E. (2024). Dissociation of dairy from its animal origin and the role of disgust to reduce dairy consumption. Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, 3, Article e10387. https://doi.org/10.5964/phair.10387
description: The supplementary material includes the detailed experimental procedure for Study 2, supplementary analyses and tables.
Times Mirror Poll # 1993-PS0493: The Public, Their Doctors, and Health Reform
Creators: name: Times Mirror Center For The People & The Press
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Bill Clinton job performance (1); most important problem (1); country as biggest threat (1); opinion of certain statements (5); health care system (1); health care problems (2); major problems in family (8); cost of health care (1); national health care system (3); acceptances in new health care system (3); government limits on health care spending (1); confidence in groups making healthcare reform (5); priorities in health care system (7); health insurance possession (2); voter interest and involvement (1); listening to news radio (2); comedy television (1); cheers (5).
Does Comma Selection Help To Cope With Local Optima
Creators: name: Doerr, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One hope when using non-elitism in evolutionary computation is that the ability to abandon the current-best solution aids leaving local optima. To improve our understanding of this mechanism, we perform a rigorous runtime analysis of a basic non-elitist evolutionary algorithm (EA), the $(μ,λ)$ EA, on the most basic benchmark function with a local optimum, the jump function. We prove that for all reasonable values of the parameters and the problem, the expected runtime of the $(μ,λ)$~EA is, apart from lower order terms, at least as large as the expected runtime of its elitist counterpart, the $(μ+λ)$~EA (for which we conduct the first runtime analysis on jump functions to allow this comparison). Consequently, the ability of the $(μ,λ)$~EA to leave local optima to inferior solutions does not lead to a runtime advantage. We complement this lower bound with an upper bound that, for broad ranges of the parameters, is identical to our lower bound apart from lower order terms. This is the first runtime result for a non-elitist algorithm on a multi-modal problem that is tight apart from lower order terms.
description: 36 pages. Full version of a paper that appeared at GECCO 2020
Stage directions in the editions of four of Shakespeare's tragedies from 1604 to 1765
Creators: name: Smith, Paul
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this paper is to present a collation of the stage directions and the progress scenic arrangement in the texts of Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello from the Quarto editions of the plays through the editions of Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson.
Estimativa da eficiência do uso de palivizumab na prevenção  de hospitalizações por infecção por vírus sincicial respiratório  numa coorte de prematuros
Creators: name: Franco, João
name: Costa, Cláudia
name: Margarida Queiroz, Ana
name: Dias Alves, Ana
name: Virella, Daniel
name: Jorge, Ana
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Contexto: As recomendações da Secção de Neonatologia da Sociedade Portuguesa de Pediatria (SNN-SPP) prevêem a profilaxia medicamentosa da infecção por vírus sincicial respiratório (VSR) com palivizumab em idades gestacionais (IG) inferiores a 30 semanas. Alguns Hospitais de Apoio Perinatal Diferenciado seguem práticas mais restritas, limitando o seu uso à extrema prematuridade e/ou a prematuros com doença pulmonar crónica da prematuridade.

Objectivos: Estimar a relação custo-eficácia da profilaxia com palivizumab segundo as recomendações da SNN-SPP, através da aplicação de um modelo teórico a uma coorte real de prematuros.

Metodologia: Estudo prospectivo histórico. Coorte de crianças nascidas num Hospital de Apoio Perinatal Diferenciado entre 1/10/2002 e 30/04/2005 com IG ² 35 semanas. Considerou-se caso o internamento no mesmo hospital por bronquiolite por VSR nas épocas 2003/04 e 2004/05. Baseando-nos nas recomendações SNN-SPP e no Number Needed to Treat dos estudos IMpact e IRIS, estimámos a redução prevista nas taxas de hospitalização caso a profilaxia fosse efectuada, comparando os seus custos com a redução de custos de hospitalização.

Resultados: Dos 356 recém-nascidos elegíveis, nove foram excluídos por óbito e dois por administração de palivizumab. A taxa de hospitalização por bronquiolite por VSR nas 345 crianças incluídas foi 9,3%. No subgrupo com indicação para profilaxia (26 crianças) a taxa de hospitalização foi 15,4%, com uma estimativa de custo médio de hospitalização de Û 6.542,35. Não ocorreu nenhuma morte por nfecção por VSR. A redução estimável no número de hospitalizações sob profilaxia seria de 1,5 (IMpact) ou 2,4 (IRIS). O custo necessário para prevenir um internamento seria de Û 26.263,11 na melhor estimativa e Û 57.716,26 na pior estimativa. Conclusão. Com o modelo desenvolvido, não conseguimos demonstrar nesta coorte uma estimativa de relação custo-eficácia favorável à administração de Palivizumab segundo recomendações da SNN-SPP.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 37 No 1 (2006)
PIPA/Anwar Sadat Chair Poll: Americans on the Middle East
Creators: name: Program For Public Consultation, University Of Maryland
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Opinion of various countries (3); opinion of various groups of people (2); support for violence in Egypt and Libya attacks (2); protecting American diplomats (2); governments criticizing attacks (2); arresting perpetrators of attacks (2); agreement with arguments about Egypt (5); agreement with arguments about Israel and Iran (3); Israel striking Iran (5); relations with Islamic peoples (1); source of Islamic-Western tensions (1); uprisings in Arab countries (1); supporting opposing democracies (1); importance of relations with Muslims (1); importance of Arab-Israeli conflicts (1); support for actions in Syria (5); diplomatic involvement in Middle East (1).
British Gallup Poll: CQ 037
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1996

description: Government approval rating(1); Thatcher approval rating(1); political party leaders(2); political party(2); 1987 election(2); economic situation(3); price increase(3); personal financial situation(2); unemployment(1); good time to buy(1); wages(2).
Electric Dipole Moments and Static Dipole Polarizabilities of Alkali--Alkaline-Earth Molecules: Non-relativistic versus relativistic coupled-cluster theory analyses
Creators: name: Mitra, R.
name: Prasannaa, V. S.
name: Sahoo, B. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the electric dipole moments (PDMs) and static electric dipole polarizabilities of the alkali--alkaline-earth (Alk-AlkE) dimers by employing finite-field coupled-cluster methods, both in the frameworks of non-relativistic and four-component spinfree relativistic theory. In order to carry out comparative analyses rigorously, we consider those Alk-AlkE molecules made out of the lightest to the medium-heavy constituent atoms (Alk: Li to Rb and AlkE: Be through Sr). We present behaviour of electron correlation effects as well as relativistic effects with the size of the molecules. Uncertainties to the above quantities of the investigated Alk-AlkE molecules are inferred by analyzing our results from different form of Hamiltonian, basis set, and perturbative parameter in a few representative molecules. We have also provided empirical relations by connecting average polarizabilities of the Alk-AlkE molecules with their PDMs, and atomic numbers and polarizabilities of the corresponding Alk and AlKE atoms, which can be used to roughly estimate the average polarizabilities of other heavier Alk-AlkE molecules. We finally give our recommended results, and compare them with the literature values.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 81.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.04.1966, erstellt von Araldo Pittini, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Aleitamento materno e infecção ou da importância do mesmo na sua  prevenção
Creators: name: Teresa Neto, Maria
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Resumo: O leite materno tem propriedades que o tornam único e inimitável. Sob o ponto de vista de prevenção da infecção, o leite de uma mãe é, na generalidade dos casos, o alimento de eleição para o seu filho. É certo que há situações infecciosas que contra indicam o aleitamento materno mas elas são, hoje em dia, bem definidas e limitadas. Por outro lado, os conhecimentos actuais sobre as vantagens do aleitamento materno são tão baseados na ciência e na evidência, que se pode considerar um falhanço dos serviços de saúde ter uma criança não amamentada. Aceitamos que toda a mãe tem o direito de dizer não, mas só se esse, for um “não” esclarecido. O leite materno é um simbiótico, uma fonte natural de lactobacilos e bífidobactérias (pró-bióticos) e uma fonte natural de oligossacáridos (pré-bióticos) que, só por si e independentemente de todas as outras substâncias que o compõem, constituem uma protecção contra doenças infecciosas e não infecciosas em todos os períodos da vida nomeadamente na idade adulta. O recém-nascido pré-termo beneficiará muito se for alimentado com leite materno pelas condições que envolvem o seu nascimento e primeiros tempos de vida mas, muitas vezes, esse beneficio não é utilizado, tendo frequentemente como justificação precisamente esses condicionalismos.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 37 No 1 (2006)
Catholic Church and State Relationship: September, 1992
Creators: name: Office Of The Technical Advisor To The President Of Mexico
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1997

description: Pope's visit to Mexico(1); Catholic church and state relationship(15); priest's civil rights(8); people's religion(1); religious education(2); religious attitudes(3); Salinas job performance(1); presidential candidate preference for the 1988 election(1).
Trombocitopénia Neonatal Aloimune – Apresentação Clínica Tardia
Creators: name: Mendes, Leonor Real
name: Ferrão, Anabela
name: Malcata, Conceição
name: Morais, Anabela
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Introdução: A trombocitopénia neonatal aloimune é a causa mais comum de trombocitopénia isolada no recém-nascido saudável, devendo-se à destruição das plaquetas fetais/neonatais induzida por aloanticorpos plaquetários maternos dirigidos contra antigénios plaquetários fetais.

Caso Clínico: Apresenta-se o caso de um lactente com um mês de vida, internado por um quadro de petéquias generalizadas e equimoses nos membros inferiores. Analiticamente, apresentava trombocitopénia grave, sem parâmetros de infecção e estudo primário da coagulação normal. Pela suspeita de trombocitopénia de etiologia imune iniciou gamaglobulina endovenosa 1 g/Kg em dois dias consecutivos com boa resposta clínica e hematológica. O estudo dos anticorpos antiplaquetários mostrou presença de anticorpos anti-HLA classe I no soro materno.

Conclusão: O caso clínico descrito distingue-se por se tratar de uma trombocitopénia aloimune causada por anticorpos HLA e pelas manifestações clínicas surgirem numa idade mais tardia que o habitual.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 37 No 1 (2006)
Stage directions in the editions of four of Shakespeare's tragedies from 1604 to 1765
Creators: name: Smith, Paul
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 360403
subject: Drama, theatre and performance studies
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: The purpose of this paper is to present a collation of the stage directions and the progress scenic arrangement in the texts of Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello from the Quarto editions of the plays through the editions of Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson.
Fontanela Anterior Persistente – Variante do Normal
Creators: name: Fonte Santa, Susana
name: Emilio, Alexandra
name: Sequeira, Joaquim
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Apresenta-se o caso de um rapaz de 46 meses de idade com persistência da fontanela anterior e cuja investigação não mostrou alterações, tendo por este motivo sido considerado uma variante do normal. A persistência da fontanela anterior tem sido descrita em variadas patologias congénitas e metabólicas. Existem contudo poucos casos descritos em crianças sem patologia, em que o encerramento da fontanela ocorreu mais tardiamente que o esperado.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 37 No 1 (2006)
Study of a labor market: new applications and placements at the District of Columbia Employment Center in the year ending March 31, 1937
Creators: name: Zapoleon, Marguerite W.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 350501
subject: Business and labour history

description: It is the purpose of this paper to study, insofar as statistics are available, the supply and the demand for different types of labor as registered in a single large clearing-house, the District of Columbia Employment Center.
Periodique 205
Creators: name: Brule Ville Associes
name: Match, Paris
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1990

description: 1988 legislative elections(3); 1988 presidential election(2); interest in French politics(1); political party sympathies(2); confidence in various French politicians(23); job performance of President Francois Mitterand(10); job performance of Prime Minister Michel Rocard(2); confidence in present government(2); presidential election vote intent(4); standard of living today vs. nine years ago(4).
Study of a labor market: new applications and placements at the District of Columbia Employment Center in the year ending March 31, 1937
Creators: name: Zapoleon, Marguerite W.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: It is the purpose of this paper to study, insofar as statistics are available, the supply and the demand for different types of labor as registered in a single large clearing-house, the District of Columbia Employment Center.
Robust Linear Precoder Design for 3D Massive MIMO Downlink with A Posteriori Channel Model
Creators: name: Lu, An-An
name: Gao, Xiqi
name: Xiao, Chengshan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the robust linear precoder design for three dimensional (3D) massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) downlink with uniform planar array (UPA) and imperfect channel state information (CSI). In practical massive MIMO with UPAs, the number of antennas in each column or row is usually limited. The straightforward extension of the conventional DFT based beam domain channel model widely used in massive MIMO with uniform linear arrays (ULAs) can not apply. To overcome this issue, we establish a new beam domain channel model by using sampled steering vectors. Then, a novel method to obtain the beam domain channel power matrices and the instantaneous beam domain channel coefficients is proposed, and an a posteriori beam domain channel model which includes the channel aging and the spatial correlation is established. On the basis of the a posteriori channel model, we consider the robust precoder design with the expected weighted sum-rate maximization under a total power constraint. By viewing the power constraint as a Riemannian manifold, we transform the constrained optimization problem into an unconstrained optimization problem on the Riemannian manifold. Then, we derive an iterative algorithm to obtain the optimal precoders by setting the Riemannian gradient of the objective function to zero. Furthermore, we propose a low complexity robust precoder design by replacing the expected rates in the objective function with their upper bounds. Simulation results show that the proposed precoders can achieve significant performance gain than the widely used regularized zero forcing (RZF) precoder and signal to leakage noise ratio (SLNR) precoder.
description: 29 pages, 6 figures
Chlorine as a Deodorant in Sulphate Paper Pulp Manufacture
Creators: name: Gordon, Willis Owen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4003
subject: Biomedical engineering
classificationCode: 4004
subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
classificationCode: 401404
subject: Industrial engineering

description: Description to be added
Agradecimento ao Dr. José Pita Groz Dias
Creators: name: Videira Amaral, João
name: Virella, Daniel
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Neste número da Acta Pediátrica Portuguesa (APP) épublicado o último manuscrito revisto pelo Dr. Pita Groz. Emboraa Direcção da APP mantenha toda a confiança no julgamentoclínico e científico do Dr. Pita Groz, respeita o seudesejo expresso de “parar e dar o lugar a mais novos”. Estaatitude é concordante com o percurso clínico e científico doDr. Pita Groz, pautado pela correcção pessoal e científica epela honestidade intelectual.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 37 No 1 (2006)
Dexterous holographic trapping of dark-seeking particles with Zernike holograms
Creators: name: Abacousnac, Jatin
name: Grier, David G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intensity distribution of a holographically-projected optical trap can be tailored to the physical properties of the particles it is intended to trap. Dynamic optimization is especially desirable for manipulating dark-seeking particles that are repelled by conventional optical tweezers, and even more so when dark-seeking particles coexist in the same system as light-seeking particles. We address the need for dexterous manipulation of dark-seeking particles by introducing a class of "dark" traps created from the superposition of two out-of-phase Gaussian modes with different waist diameters. Interference in the difference-of-Gaussians (DoG) trap creates a dark central core that is completely surrounded by light and therefore can trap dark-seeking particles rigidly in three dimensions. DoG traps can be combined with conventional optical tweezers and other types of traps for use in heterogeneous samples. The ideal hologram for a DoG trap being purely real-valued, we introduce a general method based on the Zernike phase-contrast principle to project real-valued holograms with the phase-only diffractive optical elements used in standard holographic optical trapping systems. We demonstrate the capabilities of DoG traps (and Zernike holograms) through experimental studies on high-index, low-index and absorbing colloidal particles dispersed in fluid media.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
A Rigorous Runtime Analysis of the $(1 + (λ, λ))$ GA on Jump Functions
Creators: name: Antipov, Denis
name: Doerr, Benjamin
name: Karavaev, Vitalii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The $(1 + (λ,λ))$ genetic algorithm is a younger evolutionary algorithm trying to profit also from inferior solutions. Rigorous runtime analyses on unimodal fitness functions showed that it can indeed be faster than classical evolutionary algorithms, though on these simple problems the gains were only moderate. In this work, we conduct the first runtime analysis of this algorithm on a multimodal problem class, the jump functions benchmark. We show that with the right parameters, the \ollga optimizes any jump function with jump size $2 \le k \le n/4$ in expected time $O(n^{(k+1)/2} e^{O(k)} k^{-k/2})$, which significantly and already for constant~$k$ outperforms standard mutation-based algorithms with their $Θ(n^k)$ runtime and standard crossover-based algorithms with their $\tilde{O}(n^{k-1})$ runtime guarantee. For the isolated problem of leaving the local optimum of jump functions, we determine provably optimal parameters that lead to a runtime of $(n/k)^{k/2} e^{Θ(k)}$. This suggests some general advice on how to set the parameters of the \ollga, which might ease the further use of this algorithm.
description: The full version of the paper "The $(1 + (\lambda, \lambda))$ GA Is Even Faster on Multimodal Problems" presented at GECCO 2020 containing all the proofs omitted in the conference paper
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 31.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 06.02.1966, erstellt von Araldo Pittini, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Denoising and feature extraction in photoemission spectra with variational auto-encoder neural networks
Creators: name: Restrepo, Francisco
name: Zhao, Junjing
name: Chatterjee, Utpal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, distinct machine learning (ML) models have been separately used for feature extraction and noise reduction from energy-momentum dispersion intensity maps obtained from raw angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) data. In this work, we employ a shallow variational auto-encoder (VAE) neural network to demonstrate the prospect of using ML for both denoising of as well as feature extraction from ARPES dispersion maps.
description: Submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments
Geochemical Relations of the Ground Waters of the Houston-Galveston Area, Texas
Creators: name: Foster, Margaret D.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3703
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
classificationCode: 3707
subject: Hydrology
classificationCode: 370703
subject: Groundwater hydrology

description: Description to be added
Imaginary spin-orbital coupling in parity-time symmetric systems with momentum-dependent gain and loss
Creators: name: Qin, Jieli
name: Zhou, Lu
name: Dong, Guangjiong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin-orbital coupling (SOC) and parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry both have attracted paramount research interest in condensed matter physics, cold atom physics, optics and acoustics to develop spintronics, quantum computation, precise sensors and novel functionalities. Natural SOC is an intrinsic relativistic effect. However, there is an increasing interest in synthesized SOC nowadays. Here, we show that in a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric spin-1/2 system, the momentum-dependent balanced gain and loss can synthesize a new type of SOC, which we call imaginary SOC. The imaginary SOC can substantially change the energy spectrum of the system. Firstly, we show that it can generate a pure real energy spectrum with a double-valleys structure. Therefore, it has the ability to generate supersolid stripe states. Especially, the imaginary SOC stripe state can have a high contrast of one. Moreover, the imaginary SOC can also generate a spectrum with tunable complex energy band, in which the waves are either amplifying or decaying. Thus, the imaginary SOC would also find applications in the engineering of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry-based coherent wave amplifiers/absorbers. Potential experimental realizations of imaginary SOC are proposed in cold atomic gases and systems of coupled waveguides constituted of nonlocal gain and loss.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
title: Wettstreit der Bühnendichter und -dichterinnen
Creators: name: Redlinger, Sophie
Year: 2017

description: Poetry Slams sind als integraler Bestandteil der zeitgenössischen Literatur- und Kulturszene im deutschsprachigen Raum mittlerweile fest etabliert. Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Slam Poetry im Kontext des DaF/Z-Unterrichts und geht konkret der Frage nach, welche Potentiale fremdproduzierte Slam Poetry-Texte bzw. Videoaufzeichnungen als Material für den DaF/Z-Unterricht bieten können. Ausgehend von der literatur- und medienwissenschaftlichen Verortung des Genres Slam Poetry werden zunächst wesentliche Genrespezifika und -merkmale definiert. Im Anschluss daran wird exemplarisch anhand eines ausgewählte Poetry Slam-Videos – Wo kommst du her? von der Slammerin Yasmin Hafedh - eine genaue Analyse vorgenommen. Die Analyse des Videos erfolgt zunächst in einem ersten Schritt mithilfe leicht adaptierter filmanalytischer Methoden. In einem zweiten Schritt werden das Video und der Text schließlich noch einer detaillierten qualitativen Analyse anhand eines selbst erstellten Kriterienkatalogs unterzogen. Von Interesse sind hier sowohl jene Aspekte, die aus der Performativität bzw. Medialität dieser spezifischen Literaturform resultieren, als auch sprachlich-strukturelle und inhaltliche Merkmale. Basierend auf den Analyseergebnissen werden schließlich die folgenden Fragen diskutiert: Inwiefern können diese, Slam Poetry-Texte in sprachlicher und inhaltlicher Hinsicht kennzeichnenden, Merkmale relevant für den DaF/Z-Unterricht sein? Inwiefern können Poetry Slam-Videos aufgrund ihres performativen Charakters als audiovisuelle Texte unter dem Aspekt des Hör-Seh-Verstehens behandelt werden? Die Ergebnisse dieser „Potentialanalyse“ können schließlich den Grundstein für weiterführende methodische Überlegungen zum Einsatz von Slam Poetry im Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitspracheunterricht sowie die Basis für den Entwurf von Praxisbeispielen darstellen.
USIA Poll # 1992-I92103: Ecuador Drug
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Country's general performance (1); country's past general performance (1); country's future general performance (1); most important problem in the country (1); illegal drugs consumption (4); drug trafficking (3); most important drug problem in the country (2); counter-narcotic actions (15); drug trafficking and corruption (1); solution to the drug trafficking problems (2); pesticide usage in coca plantations (1); terrorism (shining path) (3); judicial system and drug trafficking (2); prison system (2); military actions against drug trafficking (1); extradition (5); cooperation with other countries against drug trafficking (1); aid from the United States against drug trafficking (15); drug problems in the United States (3); attitudes toward Ecuadorian society (1); Democratic government versus military government (1); satisfaction with democracy (1)
Fixed-Target Runtime Analysis
Creators: name: Buzdalov, Maxim
name: Doerr, Benjamin
name: Doerr, Carola
name: Vinokurov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2
subject: 68Q17

description: Runtime analysis aims at contributing to our understanding of evolutionary algorithms through mathematical analyses of their runtimes. In the context of discrete optimization problems, runtime analysis classically studies the time needed to find an optimal solution. However, both from a practical and from a theoretical viewpoint, more fine-grained performance measures are needed to gain a more detailed understanding of the main working principles and their resulting performance implications. Two complementary approaches have been suggested: fixed-budget analyses and fixed-target analyses. In this work, we conduct an in-depth study on the advantages and the limitations of fixed-target analyses. We show that, different from fixed-budget analyses, many classical methods from the runtime analysis of discrete evolutionary algorithms yield fixed-target results without greater effort. We use this to conduct a number of new fixed-target analyses. However, we also point out examples where an extension of existing runtime results to fixed-target results is highly non-trivial.
description: This is an extended version of a paper which appeared at GECCO 2020
BIPO Survey # 95, January, 1943
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Voluntary reduction vs. rationing (2); local authorities controlling elementary schools (1); difficulty finding housing (2); most important war problem (1); what war is fought for (2); opening theatres on Sunday (2); returning to party system (2); Allies handling North African situation (2); anti-Jewish feelings (1); Jews in country (2); Winston Churchill job performance (1); satisfaction with government war conduct (1).
Combating fluctuations in relaxation times of fixed-frequency transmon qubits with microwave-dressed states
Creators: name: Zhao, Peng
name: Ma, Teng
name: Jin, Yirong
name: Yu, Haifeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the long coherence time, the fixed-frequency transmon qubit is a promising qubit modality for quantum computing. Currently, diverse qubit architectures that utilize fixed-frequency transmon qubits have been demonstrated with high-fidelity gate performance. Nevertheless, the relaxation times of transmon qubits can have large temporal fluctuations, causing instabilities in gate performance. The fluctuations are often believed to be caused by nearly on-resonance couplings with sparse two-level-system (TLS) defects. To mitigate their impact on qubit coherence and gate performance, one direct approach is to tune the qubits away from these TLSs. In this work, to combat the potential TLS-induced performance fluctuations in a tunable-bus architecture unitizing fixed-frequency transmon qubits, we explore the possibility of using an off-resonance microwave drive to effectively tuning the qubit frequency through the ac-Stark shift while implementing universal gate operations on the microwave-dressed qubit. We show that the qubit frequency can be tuned up to 20 MHz through the ac-stark shift while keeping minimal impacts on the qubit control. Besides passive approaches that aim to remove these TLSs through more careful treatments of device fabrications, this work may offer an active approach towards mitigating the TLS-induced performance fluctuations in fixed-frequency transmon qubit devices.
description: 12 pages,9 figures
Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting: Tutorial and Literature Survey
Creators: name: Benidis, Konstantinos
name: Rangapuram, Syama Sundar
name: Flunkert, Valentin
name: Wang, Yuyang
name: Maddix, Danielle
name: Turkmen, Caner
name: Gasthaus, Jan
name: Bohlke-Schneider, Michael
name: Salinas, David
name: Stella, Lorenzo
name: Aubet, Francois-Xavier
name: Callot, Laurent
name: Januschowski, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: A.1

description: Deep learning based forecasting methods have become the methods of choice in many applications of time series prediction or forecasting often outperforming other approaches. Consequently, over the last years, these methods are now ubiquitous in large-scale industrial forecasting applications and have consistently ranked among the best entries in forecasting competitions (e.g., M4 and M5). This practical success has further increased the academic interest to understand and improve deep forecasting methods. In this article we provide an introduction and overview of the field: We present important building blocks for deep forecasting in some depth; using these building blocks, we then survey the breadth of the recent deep forecasting literature.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures
BIPO Survey # 96, March, 1943
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Disbanding Home Guard after war (2); Ernest Bevin job performance (2); regulating working conditions (1); government power to check company efficiency (1); western democracies helping Red Army (1); Allies collaborating with the Axis (2); forming Supreme War Council (1); appointing Supreme Commander (1); setting up world peace organization (1); British Army seeing worst fighting (1); necessary to invade continent (2); decisive victory against Germany (1); Beveridge Report (2).
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 27.01.1966, erstellt von Araldo Pittini, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Topology optimization including a model of the layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process
Creators: name: Haveroth, G. A.
name: Thore, C-J.
name: Correa, M. R.
name: Ausas, R. F.
name: Jakobsson, S.
name: Cuminato, J. A.
name: Klarbring, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A topology optimization formulation including a model of the layer-by-layer additive manufacturing (AM) process is considered. Defined as a multi-objective minimization problem, the formulation accounts for the performance and cost of both the final and partially manufactured designs and allows for considering AM-related issues such as overhang and residual stresses in the optimization. The formulation is exemplified by stiffness optimization in which the overhang is limited by adding mechanical or thermal compliance as a measure of the cost of partially manufactured designs. Convergence of the model as the approximate layer-by-layer model is refined is shown theoretically, and an extensive numerical study indicates that this convergence can be fast, thus making it a computationally viable approach useful for including AM-related issues into topology optimization. The examples also show that drips and sharp corners associated with some geometry-based formulations for overhang limitation can be avoided. The codes used in this article are written in Python using only open sources libraries and are available for reference.
title: Fraktale Geometrie und Möglichkeiten der Umsetzung im Mathematikunterricht der Sekundarstufe I und II sowie im Wahlpflichtfach
Creators: name: Schuh, Petra
Year: 2017

description: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird zunächst geklärt, was unter fraktaler Geometrie verstanden wird und es werden die wesentlichen Eigenschaften fraktaler Objekte erläutert. Weitere Bestandteile der Arbeit sind die Beschreibung der wichtigsten mathematischen und natürlichen Fraktale sowie die Bedeutung und Anwendungsbereiche der fraktalen Geometrie. Im Rahmen eines Exkurses folgt ein kurzer Einblick in die Chaostheorie. Der Fokus der Arbeit liegt auf Möglichkeiten der Umsetzung der fraktalen Geometrie im Mathematikunterricht. Zunächst werden Aufbau und Gliederung des Lehrplans erläutert und der Lehrstoff des Unterrichtsgegenstandes beziehungsweise des Wahlpflichtgegenstandes Mathematik auf mögliche Anknüpfungspunkte untersucht. Anschließend werden konkrete Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, wie und bei welchen thematischen Inhalten die Lehrkraft ihren Schülerinnen und Schülern das Thema näherbringen kann. Die ausgearbeiteten Beispiele bieten für verschiedene Zielgruppen Möglichkeiten einer Umsetzung und reichen von einem ersten Kennenlernen fraktaler Objekte in der Unterstufe bis zu einer intensiveren mathematischen Auseinandersetzung in der Oberstufe.
description: This thesis first defines what fractal geometry is about and explains the main characteristics of fractal objects. Other parts of this paper include the description of the most important mathematical and natural fractals as well as the significance and fields of application of fractal geometry. The thesis also provides a short insight into chaos theory. The focus of the thesis is on the implementation of fractal geometry into the school subject mathematics. The structure of the curriculum for both the regular subject and the elective is explained first and examined for connecting factors with the topic. Subsequently the paper shows possibilities of how and according to which content of the curriculum the teacher can introduce the fractal geometry to the pupils. The elaborated examples offer possibilities of implementation for different target groups and range from a first encounter with fractal objects for younger age groups to a more intensive mathematical examination for older pupils.
BIPO Survey # 97, March, 1943
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Eating at Woolton (3); continuing restaurants after war (1); looking forward to end of war (1); change of life after war (2); Allies invading continent (1); continuing conscription after war (1); Winston Churchill successor (1); countries working together after war (2); satisfaction with government war conduct (1); Churchill job performance (1); comments on Churchill speech (1); German people or Nazi government as chief enemy (1); International Police Force formation (1); wireless radio in home (3).
Acanthochitona interglacialis Dell'Angelo & Landau & Sosso & Taviani 2020, n. sp.
Creators: name: Dell'Angelo, Bruno
name: Landau, Bernard M.
name: Sosso, Maurizio
name: Taviani, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Polyplacophora
Chitonida
Acanthochitonidae
Acanthochitona
Acanthochitona interglacialis

description: Acanthochitona interglacialis n. sp.
(Fig. 20)
Type material. Holotype: MZB 50560, an intermediate valve, width 1.6 mm (Figs 20 A–C).
Type locality. Saudi Arabia, Gulf of Aqaba, Ash Shaykh Humayd: St. 8.
Type stage. Late Pleistocene, last interglacial MIS5e.
Etymology. The name refers to the stratigraphic occurrence of the available material (interglacial deposits).
Diagnosis. Intermediate valve pentagonal, elevated, rounded in anterior profile, posterior margin slightly concave either side of strongly protruding apex. Tegmentum sculptured with elongated, flattened pustules of variable size. Articulamentum with apophyses projecting forward, insertion plate short with one slit on each side.
Description. Intermediate valve pentagonal, elevated (H/W = 0.55), rounded in anterior profile, anterior margin strongly concave in jugal part, posterior margin slightly concave on both sides of strongly protruding apex. Tegmentum sculptured with elongated, widely-spaced, irregularly arranged, flattened pustules, of variable size, up to 100 µm in length, with up to 13 microaesthetes irregularly disposed.
Articulamentum with apophyses projecting forward, insertion plate short with short, narrow slits, one on each side.
Remarks. A single intermediate valve is present in the studied material that superficially resembles an intermediate valve of the genus Acanthochitona, but without a well developed jugal area. The jugal area is in continuity with the pleural areas and not separate, and it has the same type of sculpture formed by large granules, albeit more irregular and less evident. The elevation of the valve is an uncommon character in Acanthochitona. We therefore describe this unique intermediate valve as a new species. The attribution to the genus Acanthochitona is tentative, based on the great similarity of this valve with intermediate valves pertaining to Acanthochitona.
Other living species of Acanthochitona without a well defined jugal area are known, i.e. Acanthochitona sp. (Sirenko 2012: 98, fig. 33) and A. lanae Sirenko & Saito, 2017 (Sirenko & Saito 2017: fig. 30), both from Vietnam, but this could be the first report (B. Sirenko, pers. comm.) of a fossil species of Acanthochitona with this feature.
Distribution. Late Pleistocene: Saudi Arabia, Gulf of Aqaba (Ash Shaykh Humayd: this study).
description: Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio & Taviani, Marco, 2020, Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4772 (3) on page 433, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3819654
Envisioning Success : Building Blocks for Strategic and Comprehensive Peacebuilding Impact Evaluation
Creators: name: Fast, Larissa
name: Neufeldt, Reina
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440402
subject: Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding

description: Linking peacebuilding and development is an emerging area of specialisation. Changes in the political, social, and economic contexts, the intangible dimensions of attitudinal and relational change, and the need to take a long-term perspective in order to capture the effects of programming all pose substantial challenges to peacebuilding programming for development agencies. This article provides a series of guiding questions for evaluation which can also be used in the planning and monitoring stages of a peacebuilding or conflictsensitive development programming.1 Drawing upon the work of scholars and practitioners working in the fields of development and peacebuilding, the article presents a process to generate strategic building blocks for a comprehensive approach to evaluating peacebuilding programming.
Galaxy mergers can initiate quenching by unlocking an AGN-driven transformation of the baryon cycle
Creators: name: Davies, Jonathan J.
name: Pontzen, Andrew
name: Crain, Robert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use zoom simulations to show how merger-driven disruption of the gas disc in a galaxy provides its central active galactic nucleus (AGN) with fuel to drive outflows that entrain and expel a significant fraction of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). This in turn suppresses replenishment of the interstellar medium, causing the galaxy to quench up to several Gyr after the merger. We start by performing a zoom simulation of a present-day star-forming disc galaxy with the EAGLE galaxy formation model. Then, we re-simulate the galaxy with controlled changes to its initial conditions, using the genetic modification technique. These modifications either increase or decrease the stellar mass ratio of the galaxy's last significant merger, which occurs at $z\approx 0.74$. The halo reaches the same present-day mass in all cases, but changing the mass ratio of the merger yields markedly different galaxy and CGM properties. We find that a merger can unlock rapid growth of the central supermassive black hole if it disrupts the co-rotational motion of gas in the black hole's vicinity. Conversely, if a less disruptive merger occurs and gas close to the black hole is not disturbed, the AGN does not strongly affect the CGM, and consequently the galaxy continues to form stars. Our result illustrates how a unified view of AGN feedback, the baryon cycle and the interstellar medium is required to understand how mergers and quenching are connected over long timescales.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS