cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Discovery of a Quasi-Periodic Oscillation in the Ultraluminous X-ray Source IC 342 X-1: XMM-Newton Results
Creators: name: Agrawal, V. K.
name: Nandi, Anuj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) at 642 mHz in an {\it XMM-Newton} observation of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) IC 342 X-1. The QPO has a centroid at $ν_{QPO} = 642 \pm 20$ mHz, a coherence factor of $ Q = 11.6$, and an amplitude (rms) of 4.1\% with significance of $3.6σ$. The energy dependence study shows that the QPO is stronger in the energy range 0.3 - 5.0 keV. A subsequent observation (6 days later) does not show any signature of the QPO in the power density spectrum. The broadband energy spectra (0.3 - 40.0 keV) obtained by quasi-simultaneous observations of {\it XMM-Newton} and {\it NuSTAR} can be well described by an absorbed {\it diskbb} plus {\it cutoffpl} model. The best fitted spectral parameters are power-law index ($Γ$) $\sim$ 1.1, cutoff energy ($E_c$) $\sim$ 7.9 keV and disc temperature ($kT_{in}$) $\sim$ 0.33 keV, where the QPO is detected. The unabsorbed bolometric luminosity is $\sim$ 5.34$\times$ 10$^{39}$ erg~s$^{-1}$. Comparing with the well known X-ray binary GRS 1915+105, our results are consistent with the mass of the compact object in IC 342 X-1 being in the range $\sim 20 - 65 ~ M_\odot$. We discuss the possible implications of our results.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures (2 colour), in press (MNRAS)
Emergent phenomena in living systems: a statistical mechanical perspective
Creators: name: Bose, Indrani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A natural phenomenon occurring in a living system is an outcome of the dynamics of the specific biological network underlying the phenomenon. The collective dynamics have both deterministic and stochastic components. The stochastic nature of the key processes like gene expression and cell differentiation give rise to fluctuations (noise) in the levels of the biomolecules and this combined with nonlinear interactions give rise to a number of emergent phenomena. In this review, we describe and discuss some of these phenomena which have the character of phase transitions in physical systems. We specifically focus on noise-induced transitions in a stochastic model of gene expression and in a population genetics model which have no analogs when the dynamics are solely deterministic in nature. Some of these transitions exhibit critical-point phenomena belonging to the mean-field Ising universality class of equilibrium phase transitions. A number of other examples, ranging from biofilms to homeostasis in adult tissues, are also discussed which exhibit behavior similar to critical phenomena in equilibrium and nonequilbrium phase transitions. The examples illustrate how the subject of statistical mechanics provides a bridge between theoretical models and experimental observations.
description: 29 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 8 of The long head of biceps at the shoulder: a scoping review
Creators: name: Diplock, Brendan
name: Hing, Wayne
name: Marks, Darryn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 8
Kinder mit einer Sehbeeinträchtigung und der Eintritt in das schulische System. Qualitative Erforschung der Transitionen
Creators: name: Faillettaz, Kelly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Sehbehinderung
Kind
Schuleintritt
Masterarbeit
Vertiefungsrichtung heilpädagogische Früherziehung

description: Die Transition in das schulische System und deren Gelingensfaktoren in Bezug auf die Unterstützung von Kindern mit einer Sehbeeinträchtigung und deren Umfeld sind Gegenstand der vorliegenden qualitativen Untersuchung. Die Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema der Inklusion von Kindern mit einer Sehbeeinträchtigung in der Zeit vom Vorschulalter bis zum Übergang in die zweite Klasse. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Förderbausteine in den Themen der Selbstkompetenz, der sozial-emotionalen Kompetenz, der Kommunikation, der Sensibilisierung und der Fachkompetenz angesiedelt sind. Die Auswertung zeigt auf, dass die Kinder die Transitionen gut meistern, wenn sie sich in der Situation wohl fühlen, wenn sie und ihre Beeinträchtigung wahrgenommen werden, wenn sie sozial gut eingebunden sind und sie Freundschaften bilden können. Die sozial-emotionale Komponente ist entscheidend für einen schulischen Erfolg. Man kann sagen, dass der akademische Erfolg erst dadurch ermöglicht wird.
Additional file 9 of The long head of biceps at the shoulder: a scoping review
Creators: name: Diplock, Brendan
name: Hing, Wayne
name: Marks, Darryn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 9
Source Coding in Networks with Covariance Distortion Constraints
Creators: name: Zahedi, Adel
name: Østergaard, Jan
name: Jensen, Søren Holdt
name: Naylor, Patrick A.
name: Bech, Søren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider a source coding problem with a network scenario in mind, and formulate it as a remote vector Gaussian Wyner-Ziv problem under covariance matrix distortions. We define a notion of minimum for two positive-definite matrices based on which we derive an explicit formula for the rate-distortion function (RDF). We then study the special cases and applications of this result. We show that two well-studied source coding problems, i.e. remote vector Gaussian Wyner-Ziv problems with mean-squared error and mutual information constraints are in fact special cases of our results. Finally, we apply our results to a joint source coding and denoising problem. We consider a network with a centralized topology and a given weighted sum-rate constraint, where the received signals at the center are to be fused to maximize the output SNR while enforcing no linear distortion. We show that one can design the distortion matrices at the nodes in order to maximize the output SNR at the fusion center. We thereby bridge between denoising and source coding within this setup.
Supplementary document for Compressive Hyperspectral Imaging in the Molecular Fingerprint Band - 5645850.pdf
Creators: name: Charsley, Jake
name: Rutkauskas, Marius
name: Altmann, Yoann
name: Risdonne, Valentina
name: Botticelli, Michela
name: Smith, Margaret
name: Young, Christina
name: Reid, Derryck
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
The Mafia's system of silence in communication, film and literature: perversions of society and transgressions of omertà
Creators: name: Cerami, Adriana Nicole
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The Mafia's communicational codes, whether written, unwritten, spoken or unspoken, demonstrate a system of silence that overpowers individuals and institutions within its society. This domination reveals itself through the Mafia's perversions of common societal structures. The Sicilian Mafia, for example, distorts and exaggerates both the Sicilian family structure and the Roman Catholic tradition. Cosa Nostra appropriates certain values and rituals from the Church and family to benefit their own cultural system. The Camorra exposes a perversion and manipulation of the Campania region's communication and economic systems. This examination looks at the literary, factual, cinematic, economic and journalistic manifestations of the Mafia's linguistic and behavioral codes, both within and outside the system of silence.
MICA: A Holistic Approach to Fast In-Memory Key-Value Storage
Creators: name: Hyeontaek  Lim
name: Donsu  Han
name: Andersen, David G.
name: Kaminsky, Michael
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: MICA is a scalable in-memory key-value store that handles 65.6 to 76.9 million key-value operations per second using a single general-purpose multi-core system. MICA is over 4–13.5x faster than current state-of-the-art systems, while providing consistently high throughput over a variety of mixed read and write workloads.
MICA takes a holistic approach that encompasses all aspects of request handling, including parallel data access, network request handling, and data structure design, but makes unconventional choices in each of the three domains. First, MICA optimizes for multi-core architectures by enabling parallel access to partitioned data. Second, for efficient parallel data access, MICA maps client requests directly to specific CPU cores at the server NIC level by using client-supplied information and adopts a light-weight networking stack that bypasses the kernel. Finally, MICA’s new data structures—circular logs, lossy concurrent hash indexes, and bulk chaining—handle both read- and write-intensive workloads at low overhead.
Additional file 10 of The long head of biceps at the shoulder: a scoping review
Creators: name: Diplock, Brendan
name: Hing, Wayne
name: Marks, Darryn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 10
Microchoice Bounds and Self Bounding Learning Algorithms
Creators: name: Langford, John
name: Avrim  Blum
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A major topic in machine learning is to determine good upper bounds on the true error rates of learned
hypotheses based upon their empirical performance on training data. In this paper, we demonstrate new adaptive
bounds designed for learning algorithms that operate by making a sequence of choices. These bounds, which
we call Microchoice bounds, are similar to Occam-style bounds and can be used to make learning algorithms
self-bounding in the style of Freund (1998). We then show how to combine these bounds with Freund’s querytree
approach producing a version of Freund’s query-tree structure that can be implemented with much more
algorithmic efficiency.
Additional file 11 of The long head of biceps at the shoulder: a scoping review
Creators: name: Diplock, Brendan
name: Hing, Wayne
name: Marks, Darryn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 11
CELLOIDS: Imitare la natura a scale microscopiche
Creators: name: De Remigis, Eugenia
name: Palagi, Stefano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: microrobotica
biorobotica
microrobot
bioinspirazione
biomimesi
particelle attive
liposomi
festival della robotica

description: Presented by Eugenia De Remigis at the Festival della Robotica 2023, held in Pisa, Italy, on May 19-21, 2023.
Forma rotundifolia L.
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: O. rotundifolia L. Cat. 66. Bis 1970m. 1 JACCARDhat dieseHöhenangabeoffenbarmit Rücksichtauf denFundort «Simplonvillage (Favre)» gesetzt;FAVRE (Guide, S.47 [1875]) schrieb aber: «sous le village du Simplen». Denkschriften d. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. Bd. LXXXI. A. Becherer: Florae Vallesiacae Supplementuiii. 18 l: Les Rappes bei Vérolliey (Mariétan).- 2: Montana (Mantz, Coquoz);bei Leukerbad bis 1970 m (Gams); Feschel-Erschmatt (Becherer). - 3: Le Châble (Miller); ob Ecône (J.); ob Evolène (Grandjean);Schlucht der Dérochia südlich Grône (Thommen); Briex (J.); Unterems (Becherer); westlich Turtig (Becherer und Zwicky); Turtig-Visp (B. B. T. Z.); Visp-Zeneggen (Mantz, Becherer); Törbel, bis 1750 m (Stehler); Visperterminen (J.); Visp-Gamsen (J., Becherer). - 4: Tunnetschgraben bei Mörel (B.B.T. Z.); im Binntal auch zwischen Giessen und Imfeld (Schmidely). Forma pseudo-peliorrhyncha Wilczek et Dutoit - l: Mex (Wilczek und D. Dutoit 1932).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
On the Randić index and its variants of network data
Creators: name: Yuan, Mingao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Summary statistics play an important role in network data analysis. They can provide us with meaningful insight into the structure of a network. The Randić index is one of the most popular network statistics that has been widely used for quantifying information of biological networks, chemical networks, pharmacologic networks, etc. A topic of current interest is to find bounds or limits of the Randić index and its variants. A number of bounds of the indices are available in literature. Recently, there are several attempts to study the limits of the indices in the Erdős-Rényi random graph by simulation. In this paper, we shall derive the limits of the Randić index and its variants of an inhomogeneous Erdős-Rényi random graph. Our results charaterize how network heterogeneity affects the indices and provide new insights about the Randić index and its variants. Finally we apply the indices to several real-world networks.
description: to appear
Additional file 13 of The long head of biceps at the shoulder: a scoping review
Creators: name: Diplock, Brendan
name: Hing, Wayne
name: Marks, Darryn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 13
Instrument for in-situ orientation of superconducting thin-film resonators used for electron-spin resonance experiments
Creators: name: Mowry, Andrew
name: Chen, Yiming
name: Kubasek, James
name: Friedman, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When used in Electron-Spin Resonance (ESR) measurements, superconducting thin-film resonators must be precisely oriented relative to the external magnetic field in order to prevent the trapping of magnetic flux and the associated degradation of resonator performance. We present a compact design solution for this problem that allows in-situ control of the orientation of the resonator at cryogenic temperatures. Tests of the apparatus show that when proper alignment is achieved, there is almost no hysteresis in the field dependence of the resonant frequency.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures, nearly identical to v1; minor spelling errors fixed
Mining Associated Text and Images with Dual-Wing Harmoniums
Creators: name: Xing, Eric P
name: Yan, Rong
name: Hauptmann, Alexander
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a multi-wing harmonium model for mining multimedia data that extends and improves on earlier models based on two-layer random fields, which capture bidirectional dependencies between hidden topic aspects and observed inputs. This model can be viewed as an undirected counterpart of the two-layer directed models such as LDA for similar tasks, but bears significant difference in inference/learning cost tradeoffs, latent topic representations, and topic mixing mechanisms. In particular, our model facilitates efficient inference and robust topic mixing, and potentially provides high flexibilities in modeling the latent topic spaces. A contrastive divergence and a variational algorithm are derived for learning. We specialized our model to a dual-wing harmonium for captioned images, incorporating a multivariate Poisson for word-counts and a multivariate Gaussian for color histogram. We present empirical results on the applications of this model to classfication, retrieval and image annotation on news video collections, and we report an extensive comparison with various extant models.
Antistigma-Kompetenz an der Volksschule. Ein Leitfaden zur Prävention von Stigmatisierung der Schülerinnen und Schüler durch Lehrpersonen
Creators: name: Scattolin-Koller, Nadia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Verhaltensauffälligkeit
Stigmatisierung
Masterarbeit

description: Es wird angenommen, dass Kinder, die nicht den Norm- und Verhaltenserwartungen der Schule entsprechen, oft negativen Zuschreibungen durch Lehrpersonen im Unterricht unterliegen (Ewald, 2016; Tellisch,2016). Die vorliegende Arbeit untersuchte mittels Onlinefragebogen, welche Beeinträchtigungen und Kinder von Stigmatisierungsprozessen durch Lehrpersonen betroffen sind und inwiefern Handlungskonzepte zur Bildung und Förderung von Antistigma-Kompetenz bei Lehrpersonen angewendet werden könnten. Es zeigte sich, dass besonders Kinder mit herausforderndem Verhalten oder Kinder, mit deren Eltern sich die Kooperation schwierig erweist von Stigmatisierung durch die Lehrpersonen betroffen sind. Basierend auf 32 Rückmeldungen der von Lehrpersonen angegebenen Handlungskonzepte wurde in Kooperation mit Schulleitenden ein Leitfaden erstellt, welcher der Vorbeugung von Stigmatisierungsprozessen dient.
Settling of porous spheres, as a proxy for marine snow, through density stratification
Creators: name: Yu, Sungduk
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: The settling of marine snow, which is a dominant form of settling particulate organic carbon (POC), is a major pathway for carbon transport from the surface to the deep ocean. Although there have been many studies to estimate the global POC flux, the physical settling behavior of POC at an individual level has not been well investigated. Because marine snow is a hotspot for microbial activity, most POC is remineralized while sinking through the upper water column, limiting the total carbon export to the deep ocean. Thus, an understanding of the competing timescales of physical sinking vs. remineralization can lead to a better understanding of vertical carbon flux. Accordingly, the time scale of delayed settling of porous particles at the stratified region (residence time, τ?r?) is the key variable in this study. Here we present experimental results for the settling of a single and a cloud of porous spheres, as a proxy for marine snow, through water columns with various stratification regimes, e.g. homogeneous, 2-layered, and linearly stratified. In addition, the experimental results were compared with the results from numerical models formulated both for a single and a cloud of spheres. We found that the settling of porous spheres can be characterized by two regimes depending on their sizes -- when sphere sizes are small, their settling behavior at a density interface is governed by their settling rate (settling regime), and when sphere sizes are large, their settling behavior at a density interface is governed by molecular diffusion (diffusion regime). In the settling regime, τ?r? decreases with sphere size, while in the diffusion regime, τ?r? increases with sphere size. The numerical models could predict the overall tendency of τ?r? over the sphere sizes (e.g. the settling and diffusion regimes), but the τ?r? from the numerical models were underestimated compared to the laboratory experimental results. However, the modified numerical model, which included the entrained fluid shell around a sphere, was able to return τ?r? similar to the laboratory experimental results. Considering that the thin layers in the ocean are usually observed near density discontinuities, the prolonged retention of porous spheres within density stratification we observed could be a possible mechanism of thin layer formation.
Minmax payoffs of a location game
Creators: name: Shuchi  Chawla
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "We consider a two-player, sequential location game, with n stages. At each stage, players 1 and 2 choose locations from a feasible set in sequence. After all moves are made, consumers each purchase one unit of the good from the closest location. Since player 1 has a natural first-mover disadvantage here (player 2 can obtain a payoff of 1/2 just by replicating player 1's moves), we examine her minmax payoff. When the number of stages is known to both players we show that (i) if the feasible locations form a finite set in R[superscript d], player 1 must obtain at least 1/d+1 in the single-move game (ii) in the original Hotelling game (uniformly distributed consumers on the unit interval), player 1 obtains 1/2 even in the multiple stage game. However, player 1's minmax payoff suffers if she does not know the number of moves, but player 2 does. In the Hotelling game, where the number of stages is either 1 or 2, player 1's payoff falls to 5/12. If she has no information at all about n, we provide a lower bound for her minmax payoff: it must at least equal half the payoff of the single-stage game."
Light Charged Higgs Bosons to AW/HW via Top Decay
Creators: name: Kling, Felix
name: Pyarelal, Adarsh
name: Su, Shufang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While current ATLAS and CMS measurements exclude a light charged Higgs ($m_{H^\pm}<160$ GeV) for most of the parameter region in the context of the MSSM scenarios, these bounds are significantly weakened in the Type II 2HDM once the exotic decay channel into a lighter neutral Higgs, $H^\pm \to AW/HW$, is open. In this study, we examine the possibility of a light charged Higgs produced in top decay via single top or top pair production, with the subsequent decay $H^\pm \rightarrow AW/HW$, which can reach a sizable branching fraction at low $\tanβ$ once it is kinematically permitted. With a detailed collider analysis, we obtain exclusion and discovery bounds for the 14 TeV LHC assuming the existence of a 70 GeV neutral scalar. Assuming ${\rm BR}(H^\pm \rightarrow AW/HW)=100\%$ and ${\rm BR}(A/H \rightarrow ττ)=8.6\%$, the 95% exclusion limits on ${\rm BR}(t \rightarrow H^+ b)$ are about 0.2% and 0.03% for single top and top pair production respectively, with an integrated luminosity of 300 ${\rm fb}^{-1}$. The discovery reaches are about 3 times higher. In the context of the Type II 2HDM, discovery is possible at both large $\tanβ> 17$ for 155 GeV $< m_{H^\pm}
description: 21 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1408.4119
Alyssum alpestre L.
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: T. alpestre L. Cat. 69 und 423. Bis 2400 m. l: Epinassey (Mariétan); Salantin (J.); Arpille (Closuit); ob Collonges bis 2310 m (Gams). - 2: Chemin Neuf ob Conthey (Mariétan); Montorge bei Sitten (idem); Lötschental (J.); ob Hohtenn (Becherer und Schatzmann). - 3: Unter den Lacs de Fenêtre (Ferret), 2300 m (Melly); Mont-Chemin (Thommen, Becherer, Closuit); Vence-Chemin (Thommen); Sarreyer m Bagnes (Miller); ob Riddes (J.); Alpe du Zate im Val d'Hérens, 2400 m (Schmid 1943); Niouc-Vissoie (J.); Vissoie (Kummer); Ayer (Kummer, Sulger); Unterbäch-Bürchen (Binz); Törbel (Stehler); Randa (Huber); ob dem Gründjesee ob Zermatt, etwa 2400 m (idem); Stalden-Saas (Christ); Gspon-Finnelen (A. Keller). - 3a: Simplon-Dorf und Umgebung; Gabi und Umgebung; Laggintal; Gondoschlucht; nahe der Simplonstrasse zwischen Gondo und der italienischen Grenze; Belleggen und Katzhaldeim Zwischbergental (alles: Becherer); Alpien (Becherer und Thommen). Var. lanigerum Ser. - 3: Turtmanntal (Beauverd). Forma bicolor Rchb. - l: Les Marécottes (Coquoz).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
MKM : Mach Kernel Monitor description, examples and measurements
Creators: name: Lehr, Theodore F.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "Visualization of parallel and distributed algorithms and their intimate interaction with the operating system is currently part of the research community's main agenda. This paper introduces and evaluates MKM, the Mach kernel monitor. We show that MKM, when coupled with a user level monitor and visualization system (the PIE system), is able to fulfill the double role of visualizing kernel behavior in the presence of a workload as well as the influence of the operating system kernel on user algorithms. As MKM is expected to be widely used as part of the Mach standard distribution, this paper reports on the MKM design concepts with emphasis on examples showing the usefulness of the system. The report concludes with the measurement and analysis of MKM intrusiveness and ways to compensate for its overhead."
Irrigation District Operation and Finance
Creators: name: Hutchins, Wells A.
name: Hutchins, Wells A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1923
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Financial Economics
Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Report Introduction: Thirty-five years have elapsed since the passage by the California Legislature in 18S7 of the Wright Act, authorizing the formation of irrigation districts. During this time the district movement throughout the West has encountered many changes of fortune, but it is more widespread and economically important today than ever before. As a result of two periods of district speculation and failure there still exists in some quarters a belief that all irrigation districts are speculative enterprises and a consequent prejudice against investing in district bonds. On the other hand, the district is now so popular in many of the Western States that tendencies have sometimes developed recently toward organizing projects which may contain the elements of failure. It is hoped that the data presented and conclusions reached in this bulletin may disabuse the minds of uninformed investors who cling to the idea that all irrigation districts are unsound, and at the same time may be of value to State and to communities contemplating the formation of irrigation districts in pointing out what the experience of other communities has shown to be the essentials of success.
Mobile Robot Task Allocation in Hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Coltin, Brian
name: Veloso, Manuela M.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hybrid sensor networks consisting of both in-expensive static wireless sensors and highly capable mobile robots have the potential to monitor large environments at a low cost. To do so, an algorithm is needed to assign tasks to mobile robots which minimizes communication among the static sensors in order to extend the lifetime of the network. We present three algorithms to solve this task allocation problem: a centralized algorithm, an auction-based algorithm, and a novel distributed algorithm utilizing a spanning tree over the static sensors to assign tasks. We compare the assignment quality and communication costs of these algorithms experimentally. Our experiments show that at a small cost in assignment quality, the distributed tree-based algorithm significantly extends the lifetime of the static sensor network.
The 1D parabolic-parabolic Patlak-Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis: the particular integrable case and soliton solution
Creators: name: Shubina, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the one-dimensional parabolic-parabolic Patlak-Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis. For the case when the diffusion coefficient of chemical substance is equal to two, in terms of travelling wave variables the reduced system appears integrable and allows the analytical solution. We obtain the exact soliton solutions, one of which is exactly the one-soliton solution of the Korteweg-de Vries equation.
description: 9 pages; 12 figures
Recognizing weighted and seeded disk graphs
Creators: name: Klemz, Boris
name: Nöllenburg, Martin
name: Prutkin, Roman
Publisher: name: Journal of Computational Geometry
Year: 2022

description: Disk intersection representations realize graphs by mapping vertices bijectively to disks in the plane such that two disks intersect each other if and only if the corresponding vertices are adjacent in the graph. If intersections are restricted to touching points of the boundaries, we call them disk contact representations. Deciding whether a vertex-weighted planar graph can be realized such that the disks' radii coincide with the vertex weights is known to be NP-hard for both contact and intersection representations. In this work, we reduce the gap between hardness and tractability by analyzing the problem for special graph classes. We show that in the contact scenario it remains NP-hard for outerplanar graphs with unit weights and for stars with arbitrary weights, strengthening the previous hardness results. On the positive side, we present constructive linear-time recognition algorithms for caterpillars with unit weights and for embedded stars with arbitrary weights. We also consider a version of the problem in which the disks of a representation are supposed to cover preassigned points, called seeds. We show that both for contact and intersection representations this problem is NP-hard for unit weights even if the given graph is a path. If the disks' radii are not prescribed, the problem remains NP-hard for trees in the contact scenario.
description: Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022)
title: Writing and re-writing the Middle East
Creators: name: Levey, Gregory
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2012

description: This thesis is comprised of a critical component and a creative component. The creative component consists of a portfolio of creative writing drawn from a fictionalized memoir, and the critical component consists of three interconnected chapters analyzing the creative component. The creative component, titled The Accidental Peacemaker, has been written alongside my recently published (and related) book, How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment. It is a satirical, first-person fictionalized memoir about how the Middle East conflict manifests in North America, told from the point of view of a North American Jewish narrator. The critical component contextualizes the creative component by situating it within the disparate genres of creative writing that inform it, and by exploring its descent from them. Together, the three critical chapters argue that the creative component stands at the intersection of life writing, North American Jewish Writing, and humourous political writing. The first critical chapter, on life writing, examines the overlaps between fiction and memoir, and argues, in part, that from a creative writer’s point of view, a sharp distinction is challenging to pinpoint. The second critical chapter, on North American Jewish writing, explores some efforts that have been made to determine what characteristics identify “Jewish writing,” and which identifying marks are germane to this particular piece of creative work. The third critical chapter, on humourous political writing, argues that humour and politics are particularly intertwined in North American writing and media today, and that by using humour and first-person life writing, an author can probe into sensitive political terrain without as much risk of needlessly offending as they might have if they used other approaches.
Translating Hausdorff is hard: fine-grained lower bounds for Hausdorff distance under translation
Creators: name: Bringmann, Karl
name: Nusser, André
Publisher: name: Journal of Computational Geometry
Year: 2022

description: Computing the similarity of two point sets is a ubiquitous task in medical imaging, geometric shape comparison, trajectory analysis, and many more settings. Arguably the most basic distance measure for this task is the Hausdorff distance, which assigns to each point from one set the closest point in the other set and then evaluates the maximum distance of any assigned pair. A drawback is that this distance measure is not translational invariant, that is, comparing two objects just according to their shape while disregarding their position in space is impossible. Fortunately, there is a canonical translational invariant version, the Hausdorff distance under translation, which minimizes the Hausdorff distance over all translations of one of the point sets. For point sets of size $n$ and $m$, the Hausdorff distance under translation can be computed in time $\tilde O(nm)$ for the $L_1$ and $L_\infty$ norm [Chew, Kedem SWAT'92] and $\tilde O(nm (n+m))$ for the $L_2$ norm [Huttenlocher, Kedem, Sharir DCG'93]. As these bounds have not been improved for over 25 years, in this paper we approach the Hausdorff distance under translation from the perspective of fine-grained complexity theory. We show (i) a matching lower bound of $(nm)^{1-o(1)}$ for $L_1$ and $L_\infty$ (and all other $L_p$ norms) assuming the Orthogonal Vectors Hypothesis and (ii) a matching lower bound of $n^{2-o(1)}$ for $L_2$ in the imbalanced case of $m = O(1)$ assuming the 3SUM Hypothesis.
description: Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 13 No. 2: Special Issue of Selected Papers from SoCG 2021
Model Checking Implicit-Invocation Systems
Creators: name: Garlan, David
name: Khersonsky, Serge
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While implicit invocation (publish-subscribe) systems have good engineering properties, they are difficult to reason about and to test. Model checking such systems is an attractive alternative. However, it is not clear what kinds of state models are best suited for this. We propose a structural approach, which factors the model checking problem into two parts: behavior specific to a particular implicit invocation system, and reusable run-time infrastructure that handles event-based communication and delivery policies. The reusable portion is itself structured so that alternative run-time mechanisms may be experimented with
Additional file 14 of The long head of biceps at the shoulder: a scoping review
Creators: name: Diplock, Brendan
name: Hing, Wayne
name: Marks, Darryn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 14
Symplectic circle actions with isolated fixed points
Creators: name: Jang, Donghoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Consider a symplectic circle action on a closed symplectic manifold with non-empty isolated fixed points. Associated to each fixed point, there are well-defined non-zero integers, called weights. We prove that the action is Hamiltonian if the sum of an odd number of weights is never equal to zero (the weights may be taken at different fixed points). Moreover, we show that if $\dim M=6$, or if $\dim M=2n \leq 10$ and each fixed point has weights $\{\pm a_1, \cdots, \pm a_n\}$ for some positive integers $a_i$, it is enough to consider the sum of three weights. As applications, we recover the results for semi-free actions, and for certain circle actions on six-dimensional manifolds.
Point sources identification problems with pointwise overdetermination
Creators: name: Pyatkov, Sergey
name: Neustroeva, Lyubov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R30, 35R25, 35K57

description: This article is devoted to inverse problems of recovering point sources in mathematical models of heat and mass transfer. The main attention is paid to well-posedness questions of these inverse problems with pointwise overdetermination conditions. We present conditions for existence and uniqueness of solutions to the problem, display non-uniqueness examples, and, in model situations, we give estimates on the number of measurements that allow completely identify sources and their locations. The results rely on asymptotic representations of Green functions of the corresponding elliptic problems with a parameter. They can be used in constructing new numerical algorithms for determining a solution.
description: This article is actually a survey of the results obtained in the previous articles of the authors. In some model cases, we discuss the uniqueness and existence results for some classes of inverse problems. The results uses a new approach based on asymptotic representations of the Green function of the corresponding elliptic problem
Additional file 15 of The long head of biceps at the shoulder: a scoping review
Creators: name: Diplock, Brendan
name: Hing, Wayne
name: Marks, Darryn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 15
Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022)
Creators: name: Journal Of Computational Geometry
Publisher: name: Journal of Computational Geometry
Year: 2022

description: A combinatorial bound for beacon-based routing in orthogonal polygons...13–51 FPT-Algorithms for computing Gromov-Hausdorff and interleaving distances between trees...89–124 Weight balancing on boundaries...1–12 Sometimes reliable spanners of almost linear size...178–196 A Geometric Approach to Inelastic Collapse...197–203 Improved polytope volume calculations based on Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with boundary reflections and sweet arithmetics...52–88 Delaunay triangulations of generalized Bolza surfaces...125–177
Demonstration of Cathode Emittance Dominated High Bunch Charge Beams in a DC gun-based Photoinjector
Creators: name: Gulliford, Colwyn
name: Bartnik, Adam
name: Bazarov, Ivan
name: Dunham, Bruce
name: Cultrera, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of transverse emittance and longitudinal current profile measurements of high bunch charge (greater than or equal to 100 pC) beams produced in the DC gun-based Cornell Energy Recovery Linac Photoinjector. In particular, we show that the cathode thermal and core beam emittances dominate the final 95% and core emittance measured at 9-9.5 MeV. Additionally, we demonstrate excellent agreement between optimized 3D space charge simulations and measurement, and show that the quality of the transverse laser distribution limits the optimal simulated and measured emittances. These results, previously thought achievable only with RF guns, demonstrate that DC gun based photoinjectors are capable of delivering beams with sufficient single bunch charge and beam quality suitable for many current and next generation accelerator projects such as Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs) and Free Electron Lasers (FELs).
Olowu - Children’s rights, international human rights and the promise of Islamic legal theory (2008)
Creators: name: Oladejo Olowu
Publisher: name: Walter Sisulu University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180114 Human Rights Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: A n examination of the significance of Islamic jurisprudence for children's rights in international and comparative dimensions.
Near-optimal algorithms for point-line fitting problems
Creators: name: Chen, Jianer
name: Huang, Qin
name: Kanj, Iyad
name: Xia, Ge
Publisher: name: Journal of Computational Geometry
Year: 2022

description: We study the {\sc Rich Lines} problem, which is a fundamental point-line fitting problem in computational geometry. In this problem, the input is a set $S$ of points in the plane, and the goal is to compute the set of all lines that each covers at least $\lambda$ points from $S$, for a given integer parameter $\lambda \geq 2$; this problem subsumes the {\sc 3-Points-on-Line} problem and the {\sc Exact Fitting} problem, which---the latter---asks for a line containing the maximum number of points. The {\sc Rich Lines} problem has been extensively studied, and its solution serves as a building block for several algorithms in computational geometry. We present a randomized Monte Carlo algorithm for {\sc Rich Lines} that achieves a lower running time than the current-best algorithm of Guibas et al.~[{\it Computational Geometry} 1996], for a wide range of the parameter $\lambda$. We derive lower-bound results showing that, for $\lambda =\Omega(\sqrt{n \log n})$, the upper bound on the running time of this randomized algorithm matches the lower bound that we derive on the time complexity of {\sc Rich Lines} in the algebraic computation trees model.
description: Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022)
Telephium medium Hudson
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: T. medium Hudson Cat. 69. Bis 2125 m. l: St-Maurice (Mariétan); La Bâtiaz-Ravoire (J.); Outre-Rhône,bis 2125m (Gams). - 3: Combe de Lâ (Melly); Valsorey (Guyot); Fionnay (J.); Bonatchesse (J.); ob Charrat (F.); Nendaz (Beauverd; ob Grimentz (idem); Törbel (Stehler). - 3a: Gabi; Welschmatten am Alpienweg; Gondo (alles: Becherer). Var. pilosiusculum K. Wein- 2: Ob Ayent (P.) Forma pedunculatum Ser. - l: Les Marécottes (nach Gams). Forma bicolor de Palézieux- 4: Tschampigenkeller im Binntal (P. 1917).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Modeling Humans as Observation Providers using POMDPs
Creators: name: Rosenthal, Stephanie
name: Veloso, Manuela M.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ability to obtain accurate observations while navigating in uncertain environments is a difficult challenge in deploying robots. Robots have relied heavily on human supervisors who are always available to provide additional observations to reduce uncertainty. We are instead interested in taking advantage of humans who are already in the environment to receive observations. The challenge is in modeling these humans' availability and higher costs of interruption to determine when to query them during navigation. In this work, we introduce a Human Observation Provider POMDP framework (HOP-POMDP), and contribute new algorithms for planning and executing with HOP-POMDPs that account for the differences between humans and other probabilistic sensors that provide observations. We compare optimal HOP-POMDP policies that plan for needing humans' observations with oracle POMDP policies that do not take human costs and availability into account. We show in benchmark tests and real-world environments that the oracle policies match the optimal HOP-POMDP policy 60% of the time, and can be used in cases when humans are likely to be available on the shortest paths. However, the HOP-POMDP policies receive higher rewards in general as they take into account the possibility that a human may be unavailable. HOP-POMDP policies only need to be computed once prior to the deployment of the robot, so it is feasible to precompute and use in practice.
River Catchment Dynamics and Access to Clean Water in Rural South Africa
Creators: name: Yiseyon Hosu
name: Nakin Nakin
name: Cishe Cishe
Publisher: name: Walter Sisulu University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140218 Urban and Regional Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140219 Welfare Economics
subject: 140205 Environment and Resource Economics

description: This is paper discussed the dynamics of water provision in a rural community
Förderung der Lesemotivation durch ein leseanimierendes Unterrichtssetting. Integrative Förderung bei leseanimierendem Unterricht
Creators: name: Kühni, Esther
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Lesekompetenz
Lesemotivation
Oberstufe
Vertiefungsrichtung Schulische Heilpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: Das Lesen gilt als zentrale Kompetenz, um am gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Leben teilnehmen zu können. Auf der Oberstufe trifft man auf eine heterogene Schülerschaft; einige Jugendliche weisen eine mangelnde Lesekompetenz auf und lesen nicht gerne. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich damit, wie durch ein leseanimierendes Unterrichtssetting die Lesemotivation erhöht und das lesebezogene Selbstkonzept positiv beeinflusst werden kann. In Peergruppen lasen Jugendliche ein selber ausgewähltes Buch, mit dem sie sich handelnd und sprechend auseinandersetzten. Die Ergebnisse der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse, des Fragebogens und des Forschungstagebuches lassen annehmen, dass sich die Lesemotivation durch leseanimierende Verfahren steigern lässt. Die Jugendlichen tauschten sich während dem gewählten Setting lieber über Literatur aus und konnten besser zu ihren Gedanken stehen.
Sparse multivariate polynomial interpolation in the basis of Schubert polynomials
Creators: name: Mukhopadhyay, Priyanka
name: Qiao, Youming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Schubert polynomials were discovered by A. Lascoux and M. Schützenberger in the study of cohomology rings of flag manifolds in 1980's. These polynomials generalize Schur polynomials, and form a linear basis of multivariate polynomials. In 2003, Lenart and Sottile introduced skew Schubert polynomials, which generalize skew Schur polynomials, and expand in the Schubert basis with the generalized Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. In this paper we initiate the study of these two families of polynomials from the perspective of computational complexity theory. We first observe that skew Schubert polynomials, and therefore Schubert polynomials, are in $\CountP$ (when evaluating on non-negative integral inputs) and $\VNP$. Our main result is a deterministic algorithm that computes the expansion of a polynomial $f$ of degree $d$ in $\Z[x_1, \dots, x_n]$ in the basis of Schubert polynomials, assuming an oracle computing Schubert polynomials. This algorithm runs in time polynomial in $n$, $d$, and the bit size of the expansion. This generalizes, and derandomizes, the sparse interpolation algorithm of symmetric polynomials in the Schur basis by Barvinok and Fomin (Advances in Applied Mathematics, 18(3):271--285). In fact, our interpolation algorithm is general enough to accommodate any linear basis satisfying certain natural properties. Applications of the above results include a new algorithm that computes the generalized Littlewood-Richardson coefficients.
description: 20 pages; some typos corrected