cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Saliency-Aware Diffusion Reconstruction for Effective Invisible Watermark Removal
Creators: name: Alam, Inzamamul
name: Islam, Md Tanvir
name: Woo, Simon S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.5; I.5.4

description: As digital content becomes increasingly ubiquitous, the need for robust watermark removal techniques has grown due to the inadequacy of existing embedding techniques, which lack robustness. This paper introduces a novel Saliency-Aware Diffusion Reconstruction (SADRE) framework for watermark elimination on the web, combining adaptive noise injection, region-specific perturbations, and advanced diffusion-based reconstruction. SADRE disrupts embedded watermarks by injecting targeted noise into latent representations guided by saliency masks although preserving essential image features. A reverse diffusion process ensures high-fidelity image restoration, leveraging adaptive noise levels determined by watermark strength. Our framework is theoretically grounded with stability guarantees and achieves robust watermark removal across diverse scenarios. Empirical evaluations on state-of-the-art (SOTA) watermarking techniques demonstrate SADRE's superiority in balancing watermark disruption and image quality. SADRE sets a new benchmark for watermark elimination, offering a flexible and reliable solution for real-world web content. Code is available on~\href{https://github.com/inzamamulDU/SADRE}{\textbf{https://github.com/inzamamulDU/SADRE}}.
description: Accepted at The Web Conference 2025
On braided Poisson and quantum inhomogeneous groups
Creators: name: Zakrzewski, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37, 81R50 (Primary) 16W30, 81S05 (Secondary)

description: The well known incompatibility between inhomogeneous quantum groups and the standard q-deformation is shown to disappear (at least in certain cases) when admitting the quantum group to be braided. Braided quantum ISO(p,N-p) containing SO_q(p,N-p) with |q|=1 are constructed for N=2p, 2p+1, 2p+2. Their Poisson analogues (obtained first) are presented as an introduction to the quantum case.
description: LaTeX, 8 pages. Submitted to Proceedings of the 6th Colloquium on Quantum Groups in Prague, June 1997
Nested sampling on non-trivial geometries
Creators: name: Javid, Kamran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metropolis nested sampling evolves a Markov chain from a current livepoint and accepts new points along the chain according to a version of the Metropolis acceptance ratio modified to satisfy the likelihood constraint, characteristic of nested sampling algorithms. The geometric nested sampling algorithm we present here is a based on the Metropolis method, but treats parameters as though they represent points on certain geometric objects, namely circles, tori and spheres. For parameters which represent points on a circle or torus, the trial distribution is `wrapped' around the domain of the posterior distribution such that samples cannot be rejected automatically when evaluating the Metropolis ratio due to being outside the sampling domain. Furthermore, this enhances the mobility of the sampler. For parameters which represent coordinates on the surface of a sphere, the algorithm transforms the parameters into a Cartesian coordinate system before sampling which again makes sure no samples are automatically rejected, and provides a physically intutive way of the sampling the parameter space. We apply the geometric nested sampler to two types of toy model which include circular, toroidal and spherical parameters. We find that the geometric nested sampler generally outperforms \textsc{MultiNest} in both cases. \\ %We also apply the algorithm to a gravitational wave detection model which includes circular and spherical parameters, and find that the geometric nested sampler and \textsc{MultiNest} appear to perform equally well as one another. Our implementation of the algorithm can be found at \url{https://github.com/SuperKam91/nested_sampling}.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, 28 equations
Efficient solution of the anisotropic spherically-aligned axisymmetric Jeans equations of stellar hydrodynamics for galactic dynamics
Creators: name: Cappellari, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present a flexible solution for the axisymmetric Jeans equations of stellar hydrodynamics under the assumption of an anisotropic (three-integral) velocity ellipsoid aligned with the spherical polar coordinate system. I describe and test a robust and efficient algorithm for its numerical computation. I outline the evaluation of the intrinsic velocity moments and the projection of all first and second velocity moments, including both the line-of-sight velocities and the proper motions. This spherically-aligned Jeans Anisotropic Modelling (JAM_sph) method can describe in detail the photometry and kinematics of real galaxies. It allows for a spatially-varying anisotropy, or stellar mass-to-light ratios gradients, as well as for the inclusion of general dark matter distributions and supermassive black holes. The JAM_sph method complements my previously derived cylindrically-aligned JAM_cyl and spherical Jeans solutions, which I also summarize in this paper. Comparisons between results obtained with either JAM_sph or JAM_cyl can be used to asses the robustness of inferred dynamical quantities. As an illustration, I modelled the Atlas3D sample of 260 early-type galaxies with high-quality integral-field spectroscopy, using both methods. I found that they provide statistically indistinguishable total-density logarithmic slopes. This may explain the previously-reported success of the JAM method in recovering density profiles of real or simulated galaxies. A reference software implementation of JAM_sph is included in the publicly-available JAM software package.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures, LaTeX. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. The method described in this paper is included in the JAM software package at https://purl.org/cappellari/software
Retrieval of daytime total columnar water vapour from MODIS measurements over land surfaces
Creators: name: Diedrich, Hannes
name: Preusker, Rene
name: Lindstrot, Rasmus
name: Fischer, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie

description: A retrieval of total column water vapour (TCWV) from MODIS (Moderate- resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) measurements is presented. The algorithm is adapted from a retrieval for MERIS (Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) from Lindstrot et al. (2012). It obtains the TCWV for cloud-free scenes above land at spatial resolution of 1 km×1 km and provides uncertainties on a pixel- by-pixel basis. The algorithm has been extended by introducing correction coefficients for the transmittance calculation within the forward operator. With that a wet bias of the MODIS algorithm against ARMMicrowave Radiometer data has been eliminated. An extensive validation against other ground-based measurements (GNSS-water vapour stations, GUAN Radiosondes) on a global scale reveals a bias between −0.8 and −1.6mm and root mean square deviations between 0.9 and 1.9 mm. This is an improvement in comparison to the operational TCWV Level 2 product (bias between −1.9 and −3.2mm and root mean square deviations between 1.9 and 2.7 mm).
Xianyun yanling 仙醖延齡 Q00201_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Hippasteria colossa Djakonov 1950
Creators: name: Mah, Christopher
name: Nizinski, Martha
name: Lundsten, Lonny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Goniasteridae
Hippasteria
Hippasteria colossa

description: HIPPASTERIA COLOSSA DJAKONOV, 1950
Djakonov, 1950: 55 (1968: 47); 1952: 411; Baranova, 1957: 162
 Occurrence: Bering Sea, 238– 250 m. Comments: This is another of the possible synonyms that compose the H. spinosa complex in the Aleutian/ North Pacific region. Characters that distinguish this species are either variable or plesiomorphic to H. spinosa.
 Material examined: None.
description: Published as part of Mah, Christopher, Nizinski, Martha & Lundsten, Lonny, 2010, Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species, pp. 266-301 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (2) on pages 285-286, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00638.x, http://zenodo.org/record/10114738
Ordinary differential equations and descriptive set theory: uniqueness and globality of solutions of Cauchy problems in one dimension
Creators: name: Andretta, Alessandro
name: Marcone, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study some natural sets arising in the theory of ordinary differential equations in one variable from the point of view of descriptive set theory and in particular classify them within the Borel hierarchy. We prove that the set of Cauchy problems for ordinary differential equations which have a unique solution is $Π^0_2$-complete and that the set of Cauchy problems which locally have a unique solution is $Σ^0_3$-complete. We prove that the set of Cauchy problems which have a global solution is $Σ^0_4$-complete and that the set of ordinary differential equation which have a global solution for every initial condition is $Π^0_3$-complete. We prove that the set of Cauchy problems for which both uniqueness and globality hold is $Π^0_2$-complete.
Electronic supplementary material for Bründl et al. 2019 Proc Royal Soc B from Experimentally induced increases in fecundity lead to greater nestling care in blue tits
Creators: name: Bründl, Aisha C.
name: Sorato, Enrico
name: Sallé, Louis
name: Thiney, Alice C.
name: Kaulbarsch, Sonja
name: Chaine, Alexis S.
name: Russell, Andrew F.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Models on the evolution of bi-parental care typically assume that maternal investment in offspring production is fixed and predict subsequent contributions to offspring care by the pair are stabilized by partial compensation. While experimental tests of this prediction are supportive, exceptions are commonplace. Using wild blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus), we provide, to our knowledge, the first investigation into the effects of increasing maternal investment in offspring production for subsequent contributions to nestling provisioning by mothers and male partners. Females that were induced to lay two extra eggs provisioned nestlings 43% more frequently than controls, despite clutch size being made comparable between treatment groups at the onset of incubation. Further, experimental males did not significantly reduce provisioning rates as expected by partial compensation, and if anything contributed slightly (9%) more than controls. Finally, nestlings were significantly heavier in experimental nests compared with controls, suggesting that the 22% average increase in provisioning rates by experimental pairs was beneficial. Our results have potential implications for our understanding of provisioning rules, the maintenance of bi-parental care and the timescale over which current–future life-history trade-offs operate. We recommend greater consideration of female investment at the egg stage to more fully understand the evolutionary dynamics of bi-parental care.
Covariant BSSN formulation in bimetric relativity
Creators: name: Torsello, Francesco
name: Kocic, Mikica
name: Högås, Marcus
name: Mörtsell, Edvard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical integration of the field equations in bimetric relativity is necessary to obtain solutions describing realistic systems. Thus, it is crucial to recast the equations as a well-posed problem. In general relativity, under certain assumptions, the covariant BSSN formulation is a strongly hyperbolic formulation of the Einstein equations, hence its Cauchy problem is well-posed. In this paper, we establish the covariant BSSN formulation of the bimetric field equations. It shares many features with the corresponding formulation in general relativity, but there are a few fundamental differences between them. Some of these differences depend on the gauge choice and alter the hyperbolic structure of the system of partial differential equations compared to general relativity. Accordingly, the strong hyperbolicity of the system cannot be claimed yet, under the same assumptions as in general relativity. In the paper, we stress the differences compared with general relativity and state the main issues that should be tackled next, to draw a road map towards numerical bimetric relativity.
description: It matches the published version and its corrigendum at https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ab74f7. 14 pages plus appendices. The ancillary files contain the supplementary material and the paper in colors
Chiral Extrapolation of Hadronic Observables
Creators: name: Thomas, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the great challenges of lattice QCD is to produce unambiguous predictions for the properties of physical hadrons. We review recent progress with respect to a major barrier to achieving this goal, namely the fact that computation time currently limits us to large quark mass. Using insights from the study of the lattice data itself, together with the general constraints of chiral symmetry, we demonstrate that it is possible to extrapolate accurately and in an essentially model independent manner from the mass region where calculations will be performed within the next five years to the chiral limit.
description: Lattice2002(plenary) Invited presentation at The XX Int. Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Lattice 2002, MIT Boston, June 24--29, 2002
Design rules for liquid crystalline electrolytes for enabling dendrite-free lithium metal batteries
Creators: name: Ahmad, Zeeshan
name: Hong, Zijian
name: Viswanathan, Venkatasubramanian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dendrite free electrodeposition of lithium metal is necessary for the adoption of high energy density rechargeable lithium metal batteries. Here, we demonstrate a new mechanism of using a liquid crystalline electrolyte to suppress dendrite growth with a lithium metal anode. A nematic liquid crystalline electrolyte modifies the kinetics of electrodeposition by introducing additional overpotential due to its bulk distortion and anchoring free energy. By extending the phase-field model, we simulate the morphological evolution of the metal anode and explore the role of bulk distortion and anchoring strengths on the electrodeposition process. We find that adsorption energy of liquid crystalline molecules on lithium surface can be a good descriptor for the anchoring energy and obtain it using first-principles density functional theory calculations. Unlike other extrinsic mechanisms, we find that liquid crystals with high anchoring strengths can ensure smooth electrodeposition of lithium metal, thus paving the way for practical applications in rechargeable batteries based on metal anodes.
description: 28 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, 18 pages of Supporting Information. v2: added molecular level calculations and design rules
Hippasteria derjungini Djakonov 1950
Creators: name: Mah, Christopher
name: Nizinski, Martha
name: Lundsten, Lonny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Goniasteridae
Hippasteria
Hippasteria derjungini

description: HIPPASTERIA DERJUNGINI DJAKONOV, 1950
 (Hippasteria derjungini Djakonov, 1949: 22 is a nomen nudum, insufficiently characterized)
Djakonov, 1950: 55 (1968: 46); 1952: 412
 Occurrence: Okhotsk Sea, off the northeast coast of Sakhalin. 192 m.
 Material examined: None.
description: Published as part of Mah, Christopher, Nizinski, Martha & Lundsten, Lonny, 2010, Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species, pp. 266-301 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (2) on page 286, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00638.x, http://zenodo.org/record/10114738
Noisy Accelerated Power Method for Eigenproblems with Applications
Creators: name: Mai, Vien V.
name: Johansson, Mikael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper introduces an efficient algorithm for finding the dominant generalized eigenvectors of a pair of symmetric matrices. Combining tools from approximation theory and convex optimization, we develop a simple scalable algorithm with strong theoretical performance guarantees. More precisely, the algorithm retains the simplicity of the well-known power method but enjoys the asymptotic iteration complexity of the powerful Lanczos method. Unlike these classic techniques, our algorithm is designed to decompose the overall problem into a series of subproblems that only need to be solved approximately. The combination of good initializations, fast iterative solvers, and appropriate error control in solving the subproblems lead to a linear running time in the input sizes compared to the superlinear time for the traditional methods. The improved running time immediately offers acceleration for several applications. As an example, we demonstrate how the proposed algorithm can be used to accelerate canonical correlation analysis, which is a fundamental statistical tool for learning of a low-dimensional representation of high-dimensional objects. Numerical experiments on real-world data sets confirm that our approach yields significant improvements over the current state-of-the-art.
description: Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing
Hippasteria phrygiana ARGENTINENSIS BERNASCONI 1961
Creators: name: Mah, Christopher
name: Nizinski, Martha
name: Lundsten, Lonny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Goniasteridae
Hippasteria
Hippasteria phrygiana

description: HIPPASTERIA PHRYGIANA ARGENTINENSIS BERNASCONI, 1961
Bernasconi, 1961: 1; Clark & Downey, 1992: 248
 Occurrence: Northern Argentina. 108–162 m.
 Material examined: None.
description: Published as part of Mah, Christopher, Nizinski, Martha & Lundsten, Lonny, 2010, Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species, pp. 266-301 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (2) on page 288, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00638.x, http://zenodo.org/record/10114738
Estimating uncertainties from high resolution simulations of extreme wind storms and consequences for impacts
Creators: name: Pardowitz, Tobias
name: Befort, Daniel J.
name: Leckebusch, Gregor C.
name: Ulbrich, Uwe
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: COSMO-CLM
subject: uncertainty
subject: ensemble
subject: impact
subject: Winter storm
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: A simple method is presented designed to assess uncertainties from dynamical downscaling of regional high impact weather. The approach makes use of the fact that the choice of the simulation domain for the regional model is to a certain degree arbitrary. Thus, a small ensemble of equally valid simulations can be produced from the same driving model output by shifting the domain by a few of grid cells. Applying the approach to extra-tropical storm systems the regional simulations differ with respect to the exact location and severity of extreme wind speeds. Based on an integrated storm severity measure, the individual ensemble members are found to vary by more than 25 % from the ensemble mean in the majority of episodes considered. Estimates of insured losses based on individual regional simulations and integrated over Germany even differ by more than 50 % from the ensemble mean in most cases. Based on a set of intense storm episodes, a quantification of winter storm losses under recent and future climate is made. Using this domain shift ensemble approach, uncertainty ranges are derived representing the uncertainty inherent to the used downscaling method.
Supplementary Figures 1-3 from Multi-omic detection of Mycobacterium leprae in archaeological human dental calculus
Creators: name: Fotakis, Anna K.
name: Denham, Sean D.
name: Mackie, Meaghan
name: Orbegozo, Miren Iraeta
name: Mylopotamitaki, Dorothea
name: Gopalakrishnan, Shyam
name: Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas
name: Olsen, Jesper V.
name: Cappellini, Enrico
name: Zhang, Guojie
name: Christophersen, Axel
name: Gilbert, M. Thomas P.
name: Vågene, Åshild J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020

description: Mineralized dental plaque (calculus) has proven to be an excellent source of ancient biomolecules. Here, we present a Mycobacterium leprae genome (6.6-fold), the causative agent of leprosy, recovered via shotgun sequencing of sixteenth-century human dental calculus from an individual from Trondheim, Norway. When phylogenetically placed, this genome falls in branch 3I among the diversity of other contemporary ancient strains from Northern Europe. Moreover, ancient mycobacterial peptides were retrieved via mass spectrometry-based proteomics, further validating the presence of the pathogen. Mycobacterium leprae can readily be detected in the oral cavity and associated mucosal membranes, which likely contributed to it being incorporated into this individual's dental calculus. This individual showed some possible, but not definitive, evidence of skeletal lesions associated with early-stage leprosy. This study is the first known example of successful multi-omics retrieval of M. leprae from archaeological dental calculus. Furthermore, we offer new insights into dental calculus as an alternative sample source to bones or teeth for detecting and molecularly characterizing M. leprae in individuals from the archaeological record.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Insights into health and disease from ancient biomolecules’.
Exposure to polybrominated biphenyl and stochastic epigenetic mutations: application of a novel epigenetic approach to environmental exposure in the Michigan polybrominated biphenyl registry
Creators: name: Curtis, Sarah W.
name: Dawayland O. Cobb
name: Varun Kilaru
name: Metrecia L. Terrell
name: M. Elizabeth Marder
name: Barr, Dana Boyd
name: Marsit, Carmen J.
name: Marcus, Michele
name: Conneely, Karen N.
name: Smith, Alicia K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Endocrine-disrupting compounds are associated with altered epigenetic regulation and adverse health outcomes, although inconsistent results suggest that people have varied responses to the same exposure. Interpersonal variation in response to environmental exposures is not identified using standard, population-based methods. However, methods that capture an individual’s response, such as analyzing stochastic epigenetic mutations (SEMs), may capture currently missed effects of environmental exposure. To test whether polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) was associated with SEMs, DNA methylation was measured using Illumina’s MethylationEPIC array in PBB-exposed individuals, and SEMs were identified. Association was tested using a linear regression with robust sandwich variance estimators, controlling for age, sex, lipids, and cell types. The number of SEMs was variable (range: 119–18,309), and positively associated with age (p = 1.23e-17), but not with sex (p = 0.97). PBBs and SEMs were only positively associated in people who were older when they were exposed (p = 0.02 vs. p = 0.91). Many subjects had SEMs enriched in biological pathways, particularly in pathways involved with xenobiotic metabolism and endocrine function. Higher number of SEMs was also associated with higher age acceleration (intrinsic: p = 1.70e-3; extrinsic: p = 3.59e-11), indicating that SEMs may be associated with age-related health problems. Finding an association between environmental contaminants and higher SEMs may provide insight into individual differences in response to environmental contaminants, as well as into the biological mechanism behind SEM formation. Furthermore, these results suggest that people may be particularly vulnerable to epigenetic dysregulation from environmental exposures as they age.
Yingshou duofu 膺受多福 Q00431_01_B
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Mean field theory and coherent structures for vortex dynamics on the plane
Creators: name: Lim, Chjan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new derivation of the Onsager-Joyce-Montgomery (OJM) equilibrium statistical theory for point vortices on the plane, using the Bogoliubov-Feynman inequality for the free energy, Gibbs entropy function and Landau's approximation. This formulation links the heuristic OJM theory to the modern variational mean field theories. Landau's approximation is the physical counterpart of a large deviation result, which states that the maximum entropy state does not only have maximal probability measure but overwhelmingly large measure relative to other macrostates.
description: PACS: 47.15.Ki, 67.40.Vs, 68.35.Rh 16 pages
The role of Tokyo in Japanese climate policy - from the viewpoint of multi- level governance
Creators: name: Yamashita, Noriaki
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: Climate Change is becoming an increasingly important environmental issue these days. During the past ten years, Tokyo Metropolitan Government(TMG) has developed a proactive climate policy and have led to similar policies in other local governments, as well as the Japanese government. This paper attempts to deal with the research question directed at the roles of TMG and other actors in policy-making process of a specific policy field: What roles had TMG and other stakeholders played in solar thermal policy making process to revitalize stagnating Japanese market? Three data collection methods were used for this research such as document survey, participant observation and interviews. This study clarified the important roles of TMG and other stakeholders in solar thermal policy-making process. It is worth noting that TMG and several actors had strongly promoted its solar thermal policy without adequate support from national government. This study will shed further light on the role of TMG in Japanese climate policy with respect to multi-level governance.
Hypergeometric periods for a tame polynomial
Creators: name: Sabbah, Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D07, 14D05, 32G20, 32S40

description: We analyse the Gauss-Manin system of differential equations---and its Fourier transform---attached to regular functions satisfying a tameness assupmption on a smooth affine variety over C (e.g. tame polynomials on C^{n+1}). We give a solution to the Birkhoff problem and prove Hodge-type results analogous to those existing for germs of isolated hypersurface singularities.
description: AMS-LaTeX with amsart.sty. Uses XY-pic package. 43 pages
On configurations concerning cardinal characteristics at regular cardinals
Creators: name: Ben-Neria, Omer
name: Garti, Shimon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E17, 03E50, 03E55

description: We study the consistency and consistency strength of various configurations concerning the cardinal characteristics $\mathfrak{s}_θ,\mathfrak{p}_θ,\mathfrak{g}_θ,\mathfrak{r}_θ,\mathfrak{t}_θ$ at uncountable regular cardinals $θ$. Motivated by a theorem of Raghavan-Shelah who proved that $\mathfrak{s}_θ\leq\mathfrak{b}_θ$, we explore in the first part of the paper the consistency of inequalities comparing $\mathfrak{s}_θ$ with $\mathfrak{p}_θ$ and $\mathfrak{g}_θ$. In the second part of the paper we study variations of the extender-based Radin forcing to establish several consistency results concerning $\mathfrak{r}_θ$ from hyper-measurability assumptions, results which were previously known to be consistent only from supercompactness assumptions. In doing so, we answer several questions which appeared in the literature.
description: 25 pages, to appear
Xichao wuwei 喜朝五位 Q00430_01_D
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Purification, characterization, and gene cloning of a novel aminoacylase from Burkholderia sp. strain LP5_18B that efficiently catalyzes the synthesis of N-lauroyl-l-amino acids
Creators: name: Takakura, Yasuaki
name: Asano, Yasuhisa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: An N-lauroyl-l-phenylalanine-producing bacterium, identified as Burkholderia sp. strain LP5_18B, was isolated from a soil sample. The enzyme was purified from the cell-free extract of the strain and shown to catalyze degradation and synthesis activities toward various N-acyl-amino acids. N-lauroyl-l-phenylalanine and N-lauroyl-l-arginine were obtained with especially high yields (51% and 89%, respectively) from lauric acid and l-phenylalanine or l-arginine by the purified enzyme in an aqueous system. The gene encoding the novel aminoacylase was cloned from Burkholderia sp. strain LP5_18B and expressed in Escherichia coli. The gene contains an open reading frame of 1,323 nucleotides. The deduced protein sequence encoded by the gene has approximately 80% amino acid identity to several hydratase of Burkholderia. The addition of zinc sulfate increased the aminoacylase activity of the recombinant E. coli strain. Aminoacylase from Burkholderia sp. LP5_18B showed synthesis activities for various Nα-lauroyl-l-amino acids.
Yingshou duofu 膺受多福 Q00431_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Equality and multilateral financial cooperation in the Americas
Creators: name: Armijo, Leslie Elliott
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: regional financial cooperation
subject: Latin America
subject: inequality
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: The paper explores the concepts of interpersonal, inter-firm, and interstate equality embedded in three contending visions for the evolution of international financial links within the Western Hemisphere. The free market- oriented regional financial project of the United States envisions extension of a NAFTA-like regulatory framework throughout the hemisphere. It promises Latin American citizens better financial services and their firms greater access to U.S. and Canadian loans and investment, in exchange for U.S.-style legal protections for foreign banks and (implicitly) for dramatically reduced financial policy space for Latin American governments. Venezuela’s vision of “Bolivarian” finance, exported to some of the circum-Caribbean and upper Andean region, promotes assertive state management vis-à-vis both foreign and domestic investors, populist redistribution, and increasing reliance on non- market financial transactions. It emphasizes equal credit access for poorer citizens and government retention of national financial policy space, but downplays the need for predictable financial regulation and property rights. Brazil’s regional financial project would unite South America through creation of continent-wide physical infrastructure and capitalist financial markets, while retaining an on-going role for public sector banks responsive to central government priorities. Brazil’s approach shares with the Venezuelan vision an emphasis on Latin American governments’ need for financial policy space, and with the U.S. vision a concern for regulatory predictability and financial deepening.
A Test of The Source Galerkin Method
Creators: name: Petrov, D.
name: Emirdag, P.
name: Guralnik, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some results of the ongoing development of our Source Galerkin (SG) nonperturbative approach to numerically solving Quantum Field theories are presented. This technique has the potential to be much faster than Monte Carlo methods. SG uses known symmetries and theoretical properties of a theory. In order to test this approach, we applied it to phi^4 theory in zero dimensions. This model has been extensively studied and has a known set of exact solutions. This allows us to broaden the understanding of various properties of the SG method and to develop techniques necessary for the successful application of this method to more sophisticated theories.
description: Talk presented at LATTICE2002, 3 pages, 2 figures
Phase signature of topological transition in Josephson Junctions
Creators: name: Dartiailh, Matthieu C.
name: Mayer, William
name: Yuan, Joseph
name: Wickramasinghe, Kaushini S.
name: Matos-Abiague, Alex
name: Žutić, Igor
name: Shabani, Javad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological superconductivity holds promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing. While planar Josephson junctions are attractive candidates to realize this exotic state, direct phase-measurements as the fingerprint of the topological transition are missing. By embedding two gate-tunable Al/InAs Josephson junctions in a loop geometry, we measure a $π$-jump in the junction phase with increasing in-plane magnetic field, ${\bf B}_\|$. This jump is accompanied by a minimum of the critical current, indicating a closing and reopening of the superconducting gap, strongly anisotropic in ${\bf B}_\|$. Our theory confirms that these signatures of a topological transition are compatible with the emergence of Majorana states.
Farside-dominant quasinuclear rainbow in refractive $α$+$α$ scattering
Creators: name: Ohkubo, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $α$+$α$ scattering has a long history since the first experiment by Rutherford and Chadwick in 1927 and has been studied thoroughly experimentally and theoretically. However, $α$+$α$ scattering has never been paid attention from the viewpoint of refractive scattering. I have successfully analyzed the experimental angular distributions in $α$+$α$ scattering systematically over a wide range of incident energies $E_L$=53.4 - 280 MeV using a phenomenological optical model with a deep real potential. The existence of a farside-dominant quasinuclear rainbow with no well-defined rainbow angle and no supernumerary bow in the lit side followed by the shadow, which is not a genuine rainbow but a refractive scattering from a marginally small droplet at high energies, is found for the first time in $α$+$α$ scattering. The refraction due to the deep potentials with an attractive core at short distances are discussed from the viewpoint of the Luneburg. The deep vs shallow problem of the potential and the nuclear rainbow scattering in inelastic channels are also discussed.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Group Cohomology and Gauge Equivalence of some Twisted Quantum Doubles
Creators: name: Mason, Geoffrey
name: Ng, Siu-Hung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Dijkgraaf, Pasquier and Roche introduced twisted quantum doubles of a finite group in the context of conformal field theory. We study equivalences that arise among the braided monoidal categories associated to these quantum doubles, especially in the commutative case. This involves a close study of the cohomology of various complexes introduced by Eilenberg-MacLane. We show among other things that an equivalence of braided monoidal categories is the same as gauge equivalence of the corresponding quantum doubles, and that an invariant for an equivalence class is given by a metabolic quadratic space.
description: LaTeX, 49 pages
Xichao wuwei 喜朝五位 Q00430_01_B
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Weighted Tango Bundles And Their Moduli Spaces
Creators: name: Cascini, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F05

description: We define a new class of holomorphic (n-1)-bundles on the n-dimensional complex projective space, that contains the Tango bundles and their stable Horrock's pull-backs; we show that these bundles are invariant under small deformations and that their isomorphism classes correspond to smooth points of moduli spaces.
description: 9 pages, ams-latex
The Unexpected Spectrum of the Innermost Ejecta of the Red Hypergiant VY CMa
Creators: name: Humphreys, Roberta M.
name: Ziurys, L. M.
name: Bernal, J. J.
name: Gordon, Michael S.
name: Helton, L. Andrew
name: Ishibashi, Kazunori
name: Jones, Terry J.
name: Richards, A. M. S.
name: Vlemmings, Wouter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HST/STIS spectra of the small clumps and filaments closest to the central star in VY CMa reveal that the very strong K I emission and TiO and VO molecular emission, long thought to form in a dusty circumstellar shell, actually originate in a few small clumps 100's of AU from the star. The K I lines are 10 to 20 times stronger in these nearest ejecta than on the star. The observations also confirm VO as a circumstellar molecule. In this letter we discuss the spectra of the features, their motions and ages, and the identification of the molecular emission. The strength of the atomic and molecular features in the small clumps present an astrophysical problem for the excitation process. We show that the clumps must have a nearly clear line of sight to the star's radiation.
description: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal
INTERNET OF THINGS for MONITORING AIR POLLUTION PM 2.5: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
Creators: name: YD, Astanti
name: DH, Santoso
name: BD, Rahmwati
name: AT, Akbar
name: E, Rusita
name: Zahra, Nandita
name: A.P, Zahirah
name: R.A, Fahri
name: I.K, Hilmi
name: MR, Nuansa
name: A.P, Gadhing
name: AY, Hermawan
name: BT, Mahardika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This material has been presented on 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology 2024 October 23 - 24, 2024.
Ramanujan's theorem and highest abundant numbers
Creators: name: Musin, Oleg R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In 1915, Ramanujan proved asymptotic inequalities for the sum of divisors function, assuming the Riemann hypothesis (RH). We consider a strong version of Ramanujan's theorem and define highest abundant numbers that are extreme with respect to the Ramanujan and Robin inequalities. Properties of these numbers are very different depending on whether the RH is true or false.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 4: of Geographies of asthma medication purchase for pre-schoolers in Belgium
Creators: name: Trabelsi, Sonia
name: Casas, Lidia
name: Benoit Nemery
name: Nawrot, Tim
name: Thomas, Isabelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Figure S2. Prevalence of purchase for the three studied areas by means of the discretisation method based on average value and standard deviation (PDF 664 kb)
The factorization method for systems with a complex action -a test in Random Matrix Theory for finite density QCD-
Creators: name: Ambjorn, J.
name: Anagnostopoulos, K. N.
name: Nishimura, J.
name: Verbaarschot, J. J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monte Carlo simulations of systems with a complex action are known to be extremely difficult. A new approach to this problem based on a factorization property of distribution functions of observables has been proposed recently. The method can be applied to any system with a complex action, and it eliminates the so-called overlap problem completely. We test the new approach in a Random Matrix Theory for finite density QCD, where we are able to reproduce the exact results for the quark number density. The achieved system size is large enough to extract the thermodynamic limit. Our results provide a clear understanding of how the expected first order phase transition is induced by the imaginary part of the action.
description: 27 pages, 25 figures
Scaling in the massive antiferromagnetic XXZ spin-1/2 chain near the isotropic point
Creators: name: Rutkevich, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scaling limit of the Heisenberg XXZ spin chain at zero magnetic field is studied in the gapped antiferromagnetic phase. For a spin-chain ring having $N_x$ sites, the universal Casimir scaling function, which characterises the leading finite-size correction term in the large-$N_x$ expansion of the ground state energy, is calculated by numerical solution of the nonlinear integral equation of the convolution type. It is shown, that the same scaling function describes the temperature dependence of the free energy of the infinite XXZ chain at low enough temperatures in the gapped scaling regime.
description: v3: 14 pages, 5 figures, extended version, two appendices added