cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"Unified Recursive Emergence Theory (URET): A Depth‑Limited Quadratic Map Linking Quantum, Neural, and Cosmic Energy Patterns"  (Concise, descriptive, and clearly signals the novel bridge across physical scales.)
Creators: name: Wagner, Allen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Unified Recursive Emergence Theory (URET) proposes that a single, low‑order complex recursion generates statistically similar energy patterns at three vastly different physical scales:• sub‑atomic jet structures (quantum regime)• mammalian brain connectomes (neural regime)• dark‑matter filaments in the cosmic web (cosmic regime).

The study defines an energy momentM10(z0,c;λ)=∑n=09∣zn∣e−λ∣zn∣2M_{10}(z_0,c;\lambda)=\sum_{n=0}^{9}|z_n|e^{-\lambda|z_n|^{2}}M10(z0,c;λ)=∑n=09∣zn∣e−λ∣zn∣2 with zn+1=zn2+cz_{n+1}=z_n^{2}+czn+1=zn2+cand demonstrates—using a 10 000‑seed Monte‑Carlo run—that the moment lists for three independent parameter choices (cq,cn,cc)(c_q,c_n,c_c)(cq,cn,cc) remain strongly correlated (ρ ≈ 0.6 – 0.7) while control maps collapse to ρ ≈ 0.

Key points

Laptop‑scale code (50 lines Python) reproduces the result in under two seconds—no HPC required.

Provides a falsifiable metric for scale‑invariance; failure under larger datasets or alternate ccc derivations would falsify URET.

Opens a new bridge between quantum confinement, synaptic plasticity, and cosmological structure formation.

Package contents

URET_manuscript.md — draft paper (Markdown).

uret_10k_test.py — validation script (MIT‑licensed).

README.md — reproduction steps & Zenodo upload guide.

LicenseManuscript © 2025 Allen Wagner — Creative Commons BY 4.0.Code — MIT License.
Changes in social connection during COVID-19 social distancing : It’s not (household) size that matters, it’s who you’re with
Creators: name: Okabe-Miyamoto, Karynna
name: Folk, Dunigan
name: Lyubomirsky, Sonja
name: Dunn, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: PLoS
Year: 2021

description: To slow the transmission of COVID-19, countries around the world have implemented social distancing and stay-at-home policies—potentially leading people to rely more on household members for their sense of closeness and belonging. To understand the conditions under which people felt the most connected, we examined whether changes in overall feelings of social connection varied by household size and composition. In two pre-registered studies, undergraduates in Canada (NStudy 1 = 548) and adults primarily from the U.S. and U.K. (NStudy 2 = 336) reported their perceived social connection once before and once during the pandemic. In both studies, living with a partner robustly and uniquely buffered shifts in social connection during the first phases of the pandemic (βStudy 1 = .22, βStudy 2 = .16). In contrast, neither household size nor other aspects of household composition predicted changes in connection. We discuss implications for future social distancing policies that aim to balance physical health with psychological health.
Excited-state spectroscopy of spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride
Creators: name: Yu, Pei
name: Sun, Haoyu
name: Wang, Mengqi
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Ye, Xiangyu
name: Zhou, Jingwei
name: Liu, Hangyu
name: Wang, Chengjie
name: Shi, Fazhan
name: Wang, Ya
name: Du, Jiangfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) technique to directly probe electron-spin resonance transitions in the excited state of negatively-charged boron vacancy (VB-) defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) at room temperature. The data showed that the excited state has a zero-field splitting of ~ 2.1 GHz, a g factor similar to the ground state and two types of hyperfine splitting ~ 90 MHz and ~ 18.8 MHz respectively. Pulsed ODMR experiments were conducted to further verify observed resonant peaks corresponding to spin transitions in the excited state. In addition, negative peaks in photoluminescence and ODMR contrast as a function of magnetic field magnitude and angle at level anti-crossing were observed and explained by coherent spin precession and anisotropic relaxation. This work provided significant insights for studying the structure of VB- excited states, which might be used for quantum information processing and nanoscale quantum sensing.
Human Parity on CommonsenseQA: Augmenting Self-Attention with External Attention
Creators: name: Xu, Yichong
name: Zhu, Chenguang
name: Wang, Shuohang
name: Sun, Siqi
name: Cheng, Hao
name: Liu, Xiaodong
name: Gao, Jianfeng
name: He, Pengcheng
name: Zeng, Michael
name: Huang, Xuedong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most of today's AI systems focus on using self-attention mechanisms and transformer architectures on large amounts of diverse data to achieve impressive performance gains. In this paper, we propose to augment the transformer architecture with an external attention mechanism to bring external knowledge and context to bear. By integrating external information into the prediction process, we hope to reduce the need for ever-larger models and increase the democratization of AI systems. We find that the proposed external attention mechanism can significantly improve the performance of existing AI systems, allowing practitioners to easily customize foundation AI models to many diverse downstream applications. In particular, we focus on the task of Commonsense Reasoning, demonstrating that the proposed external attention mechanism can augment existing transformer models and significantly improve the model's reasoning capabilities. The proposed system, Knowledgeable External Attention for commonsense Reasoning (KEAR), reaches human parity on the open CommonsenseQA research benchmark with an accuracy of 89.4\% in comparison to the human accuracy of 88.9\%.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, 7 tables
Brief shining moment: the Whitlam era as allegory
Creators: name: Milne, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Brief Shining Moment is a PhD project submitted in the form of an installed exhibition in a gallery context. The project is accompanied by a two-volume exegesis. The first of these volumes (entitled: Mythos) is a reproduction of the exhibition in book form. It includes all the images and the text information that was presented on didactic panels in the gallery. This second volume (entitled: Logos) places the themes that are visually articulated in the exhibition into a wider conceptual context. It presents an expositional rationale of the processes employed in the exhibition project and a discussion of a pilot study that informed it.
Natural orbitals for the ab initio no-core configuration interaction approach
Creators: name: Fasano, Patrick J.
name: Constantinou, Chrysovalantis
name: Caprio, Mark A.
name: Maris, Pieter
name: Vary, James P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ab initio no-core configuration interaction (NCCI) calculations for the nuclear many-body problem have traditionally relied upon an antisymmetrized product (Slater determinant) basis built from harmonic oscillator orbitals. The accuracy of such calculations is limited by the finite dimensions which are computationally feasible for the truncated many-body space. We therefore seek to improve the accuracy obtained for a given basis size by optimizing the choice of single-particle orbitals. Natural orbitals, which diagonalize the one-body density matrix, provide a basis which maximizes the occupation of low-lying orbitals, thus accelerating convergence in a configuration-interaction basis, while also possibly providing physical insight into the single-particle structure of the many-body wave function. We describe the implementation of natural orbitals in the NCCI framework, and examine the nature of the natural orbitals thus obtained, the properties of the resulting many-body wave functions, and the convergence of observables. After taking $^3\mathrm{He}$ as an illustrative testbed, we explore aspects of NCCI calculations with natural orbitals for the ground state of the $p$-shell neutron halo nucleus $^6\mathrm{He}$.
description: 26 pages, 17 figures
Extreme $\ell$-boson stars
Creators: name: Alcubierre, Miguel
name: Barranco, Juan
name: Bernal, Argelia
name: Degollado, Juan Carlos
name: Diez-Tejedor, Alberto
name: Jaramillo, Víctor
name: Megevand, Miguel
name: Núñez, Darío
name: Sarbach, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new class of complex scalar field objects, which generalize the well known boson stars, was recently found as solutions to the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system. The generalization consists in incorporating some of the effects of angular momentum, while still maintaining the spacetime's spherical symmetry. These new solutions depend on an (integer) angular parameter $\ell$, and hence were named $\ell$-boson stars. Like the standard $\ell=0$ boson stars these configurations admit a stable branch in the solution space; however, contrary to them they have a morphology that presents a shell-like structure with a "hole" in the internal region. In this article we perform a thorough exploration of the parameter space, concentrating particularly on the extreme cases with large values of $\ell$. We show that the shells grow in size with the angular parameter, doing so linearly for large values, with the size growing faster than the thickness. Their mass also increases with $\ell$, but in such a way that their compactness, while also growing monotonically, converges to a finite value corresponding to about one half of the Buchdahl limit for stable configurations. Furthermore, we show that $\ell$-boson stars can be highly anisotropic, with the radial pressure diminishing relative to the tangential pressure for large $\ell$, reducing asymptotically to zero, and with the maximum density also approaching zero. We show that these properties can be understood by analyzing the asymptotic limit $\ell\rightarrow\infty$ of the field equations and their solutions. We also analyze the existence and characteristics of both timelike and null circular orbits, especially for very compact solutions.
description: 22 pages. To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity - (Focus Issue on Bosonic Stars)
Timelike and spacelike kernel functions for the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment
Creators: name: Nesterenko, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complete set of relations, which mutually express the spacelike and timelike kernel functions for the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a^{\text{HVP}}_μ$ in terms of each other, is obtained. By making use of the derived relations the explicit expression for the next-to-leading order spacelike kernel function, which enters the representation for $a^{\text{HVP}}_μ$ involving the hadronic vacuum polarization function, is obtained. The corresponding next-to-leading order spacelike kernel function, which appears in the representation for $a^{\text{HVP}}_μ$ involving the Adler function, is calculated numerically. The obtained results can be employed in the assessments of the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment in the framework of the spacelike methods, such as lattice studies, MUonE project, and others.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures; v3: minor amendments
Cyana neopuer N. Singh, Bhattacharaya & Volynkin 2019
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Saldaitis, Aidas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Cyana
Cyana neopuer

description: Cyana neopuer N. Singh, Bhattacharaya & Volynkin, 2019
(Figs 7, 8, 11, 14)
 Cyana neopuer N. Singh, Bhattacharaya & Volynkin in Singh, Bhattacharaya, Volynkin & Chandra, 2019, Zootaxa, 4603 (2): 366, figs 1–8, 23–26, 31–32 (Type locality: “NE India, W Meghalaya, Umran, 33 km N Shillong ”).
 Type material examined. Holotype (Fig. 7): male, “NE India, W Meghalaya, Umran, 33 km N Shillong, 26°06'N, 92°23'E, 800 m, 14–23.VII.1997, leg. Sinjaev [recte: Sinyaev] & Afonin”, slide MWM 34431 Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM). Paratypes: 55 males and 5 females from NE India, Nepal and N Myanmar listed by Singh et al. (2019) (MWM / ZSM, NZCZSI).
 Distribution. North-East India (Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya), Nepal and northern Myanmar (Singh et al. 2019).
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Saldaitis, Aidas, 2022, Cyana luxuriosa, a new species from Xizang, China (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), pp. 1-7 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 6, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13240253
Nonideality-Aware Training for Accurate and Robust Low-Power Memristive Neural Networks
Creators: name: Joksas, Dovydas
name: Wang, Erwei
name: Barmpatsalos, Nikolaos
name: Ng, Wing H.
name: Kenyon, Anthony J.
name: Constantinides, George A.
name: Mehonic, Adnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent years have seen a rapid rise of artificial neural networks being employed in a number of cognitive tasks. The ever-increasing computing requirements of these structures have contributed to a desire for novel technologies and paradigms, including memristor-based hardware accelerators. Solutions based on memristive crossbars and analog data processing promise to improve the overall energy efficiency. However, memristor nonidealities can lead to the degradation of neural network accuracy, while the attempts to mitigate these negative effects often introduce design trade-offs, such as those between power and reliability. In this work, we design nonideality-aware training of memristor-based neural networks capable of dealing with the most common device nonidealities. We demonstrate the feasibility of using high-resistance devices that exhibit high $I$-$V$ nonlinearity -- by analyzing experimental data and employing nonideality-aware training, we estimate that the energy efficiency of memristive vector-matrix multipliers is improved by three orders of magnitude ($0.715\ \mathrm{TOPs}^{-1}\mathrm{W}^{-1}$ to $381\ \mathrm{TOPs}^{-1}\mathrm{W}^{-1}$) while maintaining similar accuracy. We show that associating the parameters of neural networks with individual memristors allows to bias these devices towards less conductive states through regularization of the corresponding optimization problem, while modifying the validation procedure leads to more reliable estimates of performance. We demonstrate the universality and robustness of our approach when dealing with a wide range of nonidealities.
description: 32 pages, 20 figures, 4 tables
Dignathodontidae Cook 1896
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
name: Zuev, Roman V.
name: Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Dignathodontidae

description: Family Dignathodontidae Cook, 1896   Remarks. This family is new to the fauna of the Dagestan.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., Zuev, Roman V. & Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A., 2022, Centipedes (Chilopoda) from the Dagestan, northern Caucasus, Russia, pp. 68-89 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on page 69, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13240273
Idiopathic splenomegaly in childhood and the spectrum of RAS-associated lymphoproliferative disease: a case report
Creators: name: Blanchard-Rohner, Geraldine
name: Ragotte, Robert J.
name: Junker, Anne
name: Sharma, Mehul
name: Del Bel, Kate L.
name: Lu, Henry Y.
name: Erdle, Stephanie
name: Chomyn, Alanna
name: Gill, Harinder
name: Tucker, Lori B.
name: Schreiber, Richard A.
name: Rozmus, Jacob
name: Biggs, Catherine M.
name: Hildebrand, Kyla J.
name: Wu, John
name: Stockler, Sylvia
name: Turvey, Stuart E.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: KRAS (KRAS proto-oncogene, GTPase; OMIM: 190,070) encodes one of three small guanosine triphosphatase proteins belonging to the RAS family. This group of proteins is responsible for cell proliferation, differentiation and inhibition of apoptosis. Gain-of-function variants in KRAS are commonly found in human cancers. Non-malignant somatic KRAS variants underlie a subset of RAS-associated autoimmune leukoproliferative disorders (RALD). RALD is characterized by splenomegaly, persistent monocytosis, hypergammaglobulinemia and cytopenia, but can also include autoimmune features and lymphadenopathy. In this report, we describe a non-malignant somatic variant in KRAS with prominent clinical features of massive splenomegaly, thrombocytopenia and lymphopenia. Case presentation: A now-11-year-old girl presented in early childhood with easy bruising and bleeding, but had an otherwise unremarkable medical history. After consulting for the first time at 5 years of age, she was discovered to have massive splenomegaly. Clinical follow-up revealed thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia and increased polyclonal immunoglobulins and C-reactive protein. The patient had an unremarkable bone marrow biopsy, flow cytometry showed no indication of expanded double negative T-cells, while malignancy and storage disorders were also excluded. When the patient was 8 years old, whole exome sequencing performed on DNA derived from whole blood revealed a heterozygous gain-of-function variant in KRAS (NM_004985.5:c.37G > T; (p.G13C)). The variant was absent from DNA derived from a buccal swab and was thus determined to be somatic. Conclusions: This case of idiopathic splenomegaly in childhood due to a somatic variant in KRAS expands our understanding of the clinical spectrum of RAS-associated autoimmune leukoproliferative disorder and emphasizes the value of securing a molecular diagnosis in children with unusual early-onset presentations with a suspected monogenic origin.
Experimental quantum advantage with quantum coupon collector
Creators: name: Zhou, Min-Gang
name: Cao, Xiao-Yu
name: Lu, Yu-Shuo
name: Wang, Yang
name: Bao, Yu
name: Jia, Zhao-Ying
name: Fu, Yao
name: Yin, Hua-Lei
name: Chen, Zeng-Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An increasing number of communication and computational schemes with quantum advantages have recently been proposed, which implies that quantum technology has fertile application prospects. However, demonstrating these schemes experimentally continues to be a central challenge because of the difficulty in preparing high-dimensional states or highly entangled states. In this study, we introduce and analyse a quantum coupon collector protocol by employing coherent states and simple linear optical elements, which was successfully demonstrated using realistic experimental equipment. We showed that our protocol can significantly reduce the number of samples needed to learn a specific set compared with the classical limit of the coupon collector problem. We also discuss the potential values and expansions of the quantum coupon collector by constructing a quantum blind box game. The information transmitted by the proposed game also broke the classical limit. These results strongly prove the advantages of quantum mechanics in machine learning and communication complexity.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, Accepted by Research
Integrating single-cell transcriptomics and immune repertoire analysis reveals features of specific T cell subgroups related to the prognosis of antidepressant treatment
Creators: name: xr, Liu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: NFE.R : Calculating the Network Flow Entropy of  TCR network from CD8+CTLs

RF.R : Training Random Forests model

MR.R : Performing Mendelian randomization analysis
Efficacy and safety of CD22 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy in patients with B cell malignancies: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Adeel, Komal
name: Fergusson, Nathan J
name: Shorr, Risa
name: Atkins, Harold
name: Hay, Kevin A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has had great success in treating patients with relapsed or refractory B cell malignancies, with CD19-targeting therapies now approved in many countries. However, a subset of patients fails to respond or relapse after CD19 CAR T cell therapy, in part due to antigen loss, which has prompted the search for alternative antigen targets. CD22 is another antigen found on the surface of B cells. CARs targeting CD22 alone or in combination with other antigens have been investigated in several pre-clinical and clinical trials. Given the heterogeneity and small size of CAR T cell therapy clinical trials, systematic reviews are needed to evaluate their efficacy and safety. Here, we propose a systematic review of CAR T cell therapies targeting CD22, alone or in combination with other antigen targets, in B cell malignancies. Methods: We will perform a systematic search of EMBASE, MEDLINE, Web of Science, Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials, clinicaltrials.gov, and the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. Ongoing and completed clinical trials will be identified and cataloged. Interventional studies investigating CD22 CAR T cells, including various multi-antigen targeting approaches, in patients with relapsed or refractory B cell malignancies will be eligible for inclusion. Only full-text articles, conference abstracts, letters, and case reports will be considered. Our primary outcome will be a complete response, defined as absence of detectable cancer. Secondary outcomes will include adverse events, overall response, minimal residual disease, and relapse, among others. Quality assessment will be performed using a modified Institute of Health Economics tool designed for interventional single-arm studies. We will report a narrative synthesis of clinical studies, presented in tabular format. If appropriate, a meta-analysis will be performed using a random effects model to synthesize results. Discussion: The results of the proposed review will help inform clinicians, patients, and other stakeholders of the risks and benefits of CD22 CAR T cell therapies. It will identify gaps or inconsistencies in outcome reporting and help to guide future clinical trials investigating CAR T cells. Systematic review registration PROSPERO registration number: CRD42020193027
Dignathodon Meinert 1870
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
name: Zuev, Roman V.
name: Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Dignathodontidae
Dignathodon

description: Dignathodon Meinert, 1870
  Dignathodon microcephalus (Lucas, 1846)
Type locality: [Algeria] Les environs d'Oran [Oran], d'Alger, de Philippeville [now Skikda], de la Calle [now El Kala] (Lucas 1846).
Figs 2–4.
 Geophilus microcephalus Lucas 1846: 288.
 Dignathodon microcephalum – Meinert 1870: 38–40; Sseliwanoff 1884: 99–100; Brölemann 1930: 119–120; Titova 1969: 165; Matic 1972: 132–134; Salinas 1990: 42–45.
 Dignathodon microcephalus – Zapparoli 1994: 15; 1999: 114; Chipman et al. 2013: 235; Simaiakis et al. 2013: 295; Voigtländer & Reip 2013: 227; Volkova 2016: 670; Cabanillas et al. 2021: 61.
 Material. 1 ♀ (ZMUS), Dagestan, Kayakentsky District, near Novokayakent, Quercus, Fraxinus forest, in leaf litter and soil, N42°23'8", E47°58'2", 15 m, 3. VI.2021, coll. RZ, EB.
 Distribution. Mostly the Mediterranean region, known also from Central Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia (Chipman et al. 2013; Simaiakis et al. 2013; Voigtländer & Reip 2013; Cabanillas et al. 2021). Russia: Crimea (Sseliwanoff 1884), and Dagestan (new).
 Remarks. This species and genus Dignathodon are new to the fauna of both the Dagestan and Caucasus.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., Zuev, Roman V. & Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A., 2022, Centipedes (Chilopoda) from the Dagestan, northern Caucasus, Russia, pp. 68-89 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on pages 69-70, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13240273
Baryon acoustic oscillations in thin redshift shells from BOSS DR12 and eBOSS DR16 galaxies
Creators: name: Menote, Ranier
name: Marra, Valerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an age of large astronomical dateset and severe cosmological tensions, the case for model independent analyses is compelling. We present a set of 14 baryon acoustic oscillations measurements in thin redshift shells with 3% precision that were obtained by analyzing BOSS DR12 and eBOSS DR16 galaxies in the redshift range $0.32
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables. Monte Python likelihood for the angular BAO measurements available at https://github.com/ranier137/angularBAO. V2 reflects version accepted for publication in MNRAS
Linking cultural dimensions with the nature of corruption
Creators: name: Pillay, Soma
name: Shrivastava, Samir
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, we argue that extant literature offers somewhat simplistic explanations of the antecedents of corruption. Drawing from institutional theory and the recent fine-grained formulations on the nature of corruption, we offer testable hypotheses that link Hofstede’s (1980) dimensions of national culture with the pervasiveness and arbitrariness of corruption prevalent in the institutions of a nation. Thereafter we discuss the implications for practice and theory. We point out that our theoretical framework makes a conceptual link between macro- and micro-level variables – this is a link that has hitherto eluded scholars in the area.
A note on the dynamical system formulations in $f(R)$ gravity
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Saikat
name: Dunsby, Peter K. S.
name: Macdevette, Kelly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of dynamical system formulations have been proposed over the last few years to analyse cosmological solutions in $f(R)$ gravity. The aim of this article is to provide a brief introduction to the different approaches, presenting them in chronological order as they appeared in the history of the relevant scientific literature. In this way, we illuminate how the shortcoming(s) of an existing formulation encouraged the development of an alternative formulation. Whenever possible, a 2-dimensional phase portrait is given for a better visual representation of the dynamics of phase space. We also touch upon how cosmological perturbations can be analyzed using the phase space language.
description: 31 pages. 8 figures. Slight modification done in section 8.1. Invited article for the special issue of IJGMMP dedicated to the conference Geomgrav 2021
Clinopodes escherichii
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
name: Zuev, Roman V.
name: Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Geophilidae
Clinopodes
Clinopodes escherichii

description: Clinopodes escherichii (Verhoeff, 1896)
Type locality: Pera [now Beyoglu, Turkey] (Verhoeff 1896).
Figs 13–18.
 Geophilus flavidus subsp. escherichii Verhoeff 1896: 2–3.
 Geophilus flavidus subsp. escherichii – Muralewicz 1926: 43.
 Clinopodes escherichii – Matic 1972: 81–83; Bonato et al. 2011a: 186–187; Chipman et al. 2013: 236; Simaiakis et al. 2013: 296; Volkova 2016: 671; Zuev & Evsyukov 2016: 423.
 Material. 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ (ZISP No. 126; Muralewicz det.), Petrowsk [Makhachkala], 12/ 25.III.1904, coll. SM.
 Previous records. Makhachkala (Muralewicz 1926).
 Distribution. Mostly the Eastern Mediterranean Region, known also from European Russia and Western Asia (Bonato et al. 2011a; Chipman et al. 2013; Simaiakis et al. 2013; Volkova 2016). Russia: Crimea, Tatarstan, Rostov-on-Don Region, Kalmykia (Ghilarov & Folkmanova 1957; Titova 1975; Volkova 2016; Zuev & Evsyukov 2016), and Dagestan (Muralewicz 1926).
 Remarks. Morphology of the specimens mainly agrees with the Bonato et al. (2011a), but differs in the number of LBS: both ♂ with 75 (vs. 59–71), ♀ with 79 ones (vs. 63–73).
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., Zuev, Roman V. & Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A., 2022, Centipedes (Chilopoda) from the Dagestan, northern Caucasus, Russia, pp. 68-89 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on pages 72-73, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13240273
Boundary Conditions for Warped AdS$_3$ in Quadratic Ensemble
Creators: name: Aggarwal, Ankit
name: Ciambelli, Luca
name: Detournay, Stéphane
name: Somerhausen, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of warped conformal field theories (WCFT), the derivation of the warped Cardy formula relies on the zero mode spectrum being bounded from below. Generically, this is not true for holographic WCFTs in "canonical" ensemble, whereas this condition is satisfied in the "quadratic" ensemble, making it more natural in holographic setups. In this work, we find a new set of boundary conditions in three-dimensional Topologically Massive Gravity (TMG) such that the putative dual theory is a WCFT in quadratic ensemble. Surprisingly, imposing the equations of motion, we obtain a closed form metric spanned by two arbitrary chiral functions, analogous to the Bañados metrics in Einstein gravity. Surface charges for these boundary conditions are not a priori integrable and we discuss two choices of boundary conditions to make them so. We obtain the bulk thermodynamic entropy of warped BTZ black holes by making use of the warped Cardy formula, in its regime of validity. We also discuss the issue of identifying the vacuum in our solution space: demanding the enhancement of global symmetries selects only a family of solutions, out of which the unique vacuum must be carefully singled out.
description: v1: 23 pages; Mathematica file with all the computations available as an ancillary file. v2: Minor changes in language, references added, matches published version
The Entropy Shift and Extremality Shift at Zero Temperature
Creators: name: McPeak, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a well-established connection between the higher-derivative corrections to the black hole entropy and the black hole extremality bound. The particular combination of EFT coefficients $c_i$ that controls the mass shift at fixed charge and temperature also controls the entropy shift at fixed charge and mass in the limit where the mass approaches the uncorrected value for the extremal mass. In this note, we use the classical entropy function formalism to examine the entropy corrections at exactly zero temperature, or at the corrected value for the extremal mass. We find that the zero-temperature entropy shift (a) is unrelated to the mass shift, (b) is $\mathcal{O}(c_i)$ in the EFT coefficients, rather than $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{c_i})$, as is the constant-mass entropy shift, and (c) is negative in the example of the EFT arising at low energies from QED plus gravity.
description: 7 pages
Intersection focused Situation Coverage-based Verification and Validation Framework for Autonomous Vehicles Implemented in CARLA
Creators: name: Tahir, Zaid
name: Alexander, Rob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) i.e., self-driving cars, operate in a safety critical domain, since errors in the autonomous driving software can lead to huge losses. Statistically, road intersections which are a part of the AVs operational design domain (ODD), have some of the highest accident rates. Hence, testing AVs to the limits on road intersections and assuring their safety on road intersections is pertinent, and thus the focus of this paper. We present a situation coverage-based (SitCov) AV-testing framework for the verification and validation (V&V) and safety assurance of AVs, developed in an open-source AV simulator named CARLA. The SitCov AV-testing framework focuses on vehicle-to-vehicle interaction on a road intersection under different environmental and intersection configuration situations, using situation coverage criteria for automatic test suite generation for safety assurance of AVs. We have developed an ontology for intersection situations, and used it to generate a situation hyperspace i.e., the space of all possible situations arising from that ontology. For the evaluation of our SitCov AV-testing framework, we have seeded multiple faults in our ego AV, and compared situation coverage based and random situation generation. We have found that both generation methodologies trigger around the same number of seeded faults, but the situation coverage-based generation tells us a lot more about the weaknesses of the autonomous driving algorithm of our ego AV, especially in edge-cases. Our code is publicly available online, anyone can use our SitCov AV-testing framework and use it or build further on top of it. This paper aims to contribute to the domain of V&V and development of AVs, not only from a theoretical point of view, but also from the viewpoint of an open-source software contribution and releasing a flexible/effective tool for V&V and development of AVs.
description: International Conference on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2021
Development of CODO: A Comprehensive Tool for COVID-19 Data Representation, Analysis, and Visualization
Creators: name: Dutta, Biswanath
name: Bain, Debanjali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial intelligence (AI) has become indispensable for managing and processing the vast amounts of data generated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ontology, which formalizes knowledge within a domain using standardized vocabularies and relationships, plays a crucial role in AI by enabling automated reasoning, data integration, semantic interoperability, and extracting meaningful insights from extensive datasets. The diversity of COVID-19 datasets poses challenges in comprehending this information for both human and machines. Existing COVID-19 ontologies are designed to address specific aspects of the pandemic but lack comprehensive coverage across all essential dimensions. To address this gap, CODO, an integrated ontological model has been developed encompassing critical facets of COVID-19 information such as aetiology, epidemiology, transmission, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention, genomics, therapeutic safety, and more. This paper reviews CODO since its inception in 2020, detailing its developments and highlighting CODO as a tool for the aggregation, representation, analysis, and visualization of diverse COVID-19 data. The major contribution of this paper is to provide a summary of the development of CODO, and outline the overall development and evaluation approach. By adhering to best practices and leveraging W3C standards, CODO ensures data integration and semantic interoperability, supporting effective navigation of COVID-19 complexities across various domains.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, journal
Cryptops (Cryptops) caucasius Verhoeff 1934
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
name: Zuev, Roman V.
name: Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Cryptopidae
Cryptops
Cryptops caucasius

description: Cryptops (Cryptops) caucasius Verhoeff, 1934
Type locality: Sotshi im Nordkaukasus [Russia, Krasnodar Territory, Sochi] (Verhoeff 1934).
Figs 34–40.
 Cryptops caucasius – Zalesskaja & Schileyko 1992: 370.
 Cryptops (C.) caucasius – Zalesskaja & Schileyko 1991: 31; Zuev 2016: 31; Zuev & Evsyukov 2016: 421.
 Material. 1 ad. (ASU No. 339), 1 ad. (ASU No. 340), Dagestan, Kumtorkalinsky District, 2 km S Sarykum sand dune, stony steppe, under stones, N42°59', E47°13', 220 m, 10–11. V.2021, coll. YD, AF; 1 ad. (ASU No. 345), Sergokalinsky District, 1.2 km NW from Vanashimakhi Village, stony steppe, under stones, N42°24'42.35", E47°35'26.41", 800 m, 06. V.2021, coll. YD; 1 ad. (ASU No 346), Gunib District, 4 km NW from Gunib, Kaligeg Mt, stony steppe, under stones, N42°24'48.94", E46°55'32.31", 1870 m, 07.V.2021, coll. YD, AF; 2 sad. (ZMUS), Buynaksky District, near Chirkey, shore of Chirkeyskoe reservoir, semi-desert, under stones, N42°59', E46°53', 400 m, 7.VI.2021, coll. RZ, EB.
 Previous records. According to the map by Zalesskaja & Schileyko (1992: Fig. 5), C. caucasius occurs in the Dagestan, but this is not indicated in the text.
 Distribution. A Caucasian species, also known from the Crimea; a sole specimen is known from Turkmenistan (Zalesskaja & Schileyko 1991, 1992; Zuev 2016). Russia: Krasnodar Territory (Verhoeff 1934), Rostov-on-Don Region (Zuev & Evsyukov 2016), Stavropol Territory (Zuev 2016), Dagestan, and Crimea (Zalesskaja & Schileyko 1991, 1992).
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., Zuev, Roman V. & Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A., 2022, Centipedes (Chilopoda) from the Dagestan, northern Caucasus, Russia, pp. 68-89 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on pages 77-78, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13240273
Cryptops (Cryptops) hortensis
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
name: Zuev, Roman V.
name: Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Cryptopidae
Cryptops
Cryptops hortensis

description: Cryptops (Cryptops) hortensis (Donovan, 1810)
Type locality: gardens at Exeter [United Kingdom] (Donovan 1810).
 Cryptops hortensis – Zalesskaja & Schileyko 1992: 370.
 Cryptops (C.) hortensis hortensis – Zalesskaja & Schileyko 1991: 24–26; 1992: 368, 370.
 Cryptops (C.) hortensis – Nefediev et al. 2016b: 107; Zuev 2016: 31; Zuev & Evsyukov 2016: 421; Dyachkov 2020b: 179–180.
 Material. 1 ad. (ZMUS), Dagestan, Kayakentsky District, near Novokayakent, Quercus, Fraxinus forest, in dead wood, N42°23'8", E47°58'2", 15 m, 3. VI.2021, coll. RZ, EB.
 Distribution. A Turano-Euro-Mediterranean species (Zalesskaja & Schileyko 1991, 1992; Stoev 2000). Russia: “European part to the latitude of Moscow ” (Zalesskaja & Schileyko 1991, 1992), Stavropol Territory (Zuev 2016), Rostov-on-Don Region (Zuev & Evsyukov 2016), and Dagestan (new), synanthropic in Western Siberia (Nefediev et al. 2016b).
 Remarks. This species is new to the fauna of the Dagestan.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., Zuev, Roman V. & Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A., 2022, Centipedes (Chilopoda) from the Dagestan, northern Caucasus, Russia, pp. 68-89 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on page 78, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13240273
Lithobius (Lithobius) erythrocephalus C. L. Koch 1847
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
name: Zuev, Roman V.
name: Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Lithobiomorpha
Lithobiidae
Lithobius
Lithobius erythrocephalus

description: Lithobius (Lithobius) erythrocephalus C.L. Koch, 1847
 Type locality: Happurg in the Franconian Jura (Bonato et al. 2016).
Figs 61–68.
 Lithobius erythrocephalus C.L. Koch 1847: 150.
 Lithobius erythrocephalus – Muralewicz 1926: 29; 1929: 32–33; Eason 1972: 116; Zalesskaja 1973: 124; 1978: 135–136.
 Lithobius illyricus Latzel 1880: 115.
 Lithobius illyricus – Muralewicz 1926: 30; 1929: 35–37; Zalesskaja 1978: 135.
 Material. 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (ZMMU Rc 8220), Dagestan, Tarumovsky District, near Kochubey, swamp, N44°23', E46°34', 07–10. VI.2021, coll. OM.
 Distribution. An European species, known also from Western Asia (Muralewicz 1926, 1929; Zalesskaja 1973, 1978; Simaiakis et al. 2013); introduced in Iceland (Eason 1970) and in Saudi Arabia (Simaiakis et al. 2013). Russia: Kursk, Moscow, and Ryazan regions (Zalesskaja 1978), and Dagestan (new).
 Remarks. This species is new to the fauna of both the Dagestan and North Caucasus.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., Zuev, Roman V. & Gichikhanova, Uzlipat A., 2022, Centipedes (Chilopoda) from the Dagestan, northern Caucasus, Russia, pp. 68-89 in Ecologica Montenegrina 52 on page 81, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13240273
Detection of Prompt Fast-Variable Thermal Component in Multi-Pulse Short Gamma-Ray Burst 170206A
Creators: name: Zhao, Peng-Wei
name: Tang, Qing-Wen
name: Zou, Yuan-Chuan
name: Wang, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of a strong thermal component in the short Gamma-Ray Burst 170206A with three intense pulses in its light curves, throughout which the fluxes of this thermal component exhibit fast temporal variability same as that of the accompanying non-thermal component. The values of the time-resolved low-energy photon index in the non-thermal component are between about -0.79 and -0.16, most of which are harder than -2/3 excepted in the synchrotron emission process. In addition, we found a common evolution between the thermal component and the non-thermal component, $E_{\rm p,CPL} \propto kT_{\rm BB}^{0.95\pm0.28}$, and $F_{\rm CPL} \propto F_{\rm BB}^{0.67\pm0.18}$, where $E_{\rm p,CPL}$ and $F_{\rm CPL}$ are the peak photon energy and corresponding flux of the non-thermal component, and $ kT_{\rm BB}$ and $F_{BB}$ are the temperature and corresponding flux of the thermal component, respectively. Finally, we proposed that the photospheric thermal emission and the Comptonization of thermal photons may be responsible for the observational features of GRB 170206A.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
ФИЗИКО-МЕХАНИЧЕСКИЕ СВОЙСТВА БИТУМОВ
Creators: name: Махмудов, М.Ж.
name: Салойдинов, А.А.
name: Абдуллаева, Ш.Ш.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Битумы являются термопластичными материалами и их механические свойства изменяются в широких пределах при переходе от жидкого состояния в условиях высоких температур до твёрдого состояния при низких температурах. Под воздействием нагрузок в битумах возникают одновременно обратимые (упругие) и необратимые (пластические) деформации.
Shell-model study on properties of proton dripline nuclides with Z, N = 30-50 including uncertainty analysis
Creators: name: Cai, Boshuai
name: Chen, Guangshang
name: Yuan, Cenxi
name: He, Jianjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The binding energies and proton separation energies of nuclides with $Z, N = 30-50$ are investigated, based on the shell model with an uncertainty analysis through statistical methods. Several formulas are used to obtain the binding energies and proton separation energies according to the shell-model calculations. The non-parametric Bootstrap method is applied to establish an uncertainty decomposition and recomposition framework. Moreover, it is used to estimate the stability of proton(s) emission for each nuclide. Two formulas for calculating the binding energies with a systematic uncertainty of $\sim0.3$ MeV are proposed, and a reliable extrapolation ability is examined. These binding energy formulas deduce similar forms of respective $S_{p}$ and $S_{2p}$ energies, which predict the extension of the nuclear boundary of this region. A nice description of the binding energies and proton separation energies is provided. The one- and two-proton separation energies and partial half-lives of proton emitting are predicted, thus showing a new dripline. Besides, there are 30 unstable nuclides predicted to be bound against proton(s)-emission. These nuclear properties will be useful in nuclear astrophysics.
Swiss-cheese cosmologies with variable $G$ and $Λ$ from the renormalization group
Creators: name: Anagnostopoulos, Fotios K.
name: Bonanno, Alfio
name: Mitra, Ayan
name: Zarikas, Vasilios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A convincing explanation for the nature of the dark energy and dark matter is still missing. In recent works a RG-improved swiss-cheese cosmology with an evolving cosmological constant dependent on the \sch radius has been proven to be a promising model to explain the observed cosmic acceleration. In this work we extend this model to consider the combined scaling of the Newton constant $G$ and the cosmological constant $Λ$ according to the IR-fixed point hypothesis. We shall show that our model easily generates the observed recent passage from deceleration to acceleration without need of extra energy scales, exotic fields or fine tuning. In order to check the generality of the concept, two different scaling relations have been analysed and we proved that both are in very good agreement with $Λ$CDM cosmology. We also show that our model satisfies the observational local constraints on $\dot{G}/G$.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
The mass spectrum and wave functions of the $B_c$ system
Creators: name: Wang, Guo-Li
name: Wang, Tianghong
name: Li, Qiang
name: Chang, Chao-Hsi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectrum and relativistic wave functions of $B_c$ system are investigated via solving the complete Salpeter equation. Emphases are put on the study of the partial waves of each $J^P$ state. Our study shows that there are three categories of $J^P$ states. The first category contains $0^-$ and $0^+$ states, which are ${}^1S_0$ dominant state with a small amount of $P$ wave and ${}^3P_0$ dominant state with a small amount of $S$ wave, respectively. The second category includes the natural parity states, such as $1^-$, $2^+$, $3^-$, etc. Taking the $1^-$ state as an example, we study it in two cases. One is the ${}^3S_1$ dominant state with a small amount of $P$ and $D$ waves, and the other is the ${}^3D_1$ dominant state but contains a large amount of $S$ and $P$ wave components. The third category includes the unnatural parity states, such as $1^+$, $2^-$, $3^+$, etc. For the $1^+$ spectrum, the states are grouped into pairs with different radial quantum numbers. Each pair contains two ${}^1P_1-{}^3P_1$ mixing states, and the corresponding mixing angles are calculated by using the relativistic wave functions.
description: 26 pages, 1 table, 8 figures
Geophilus Leach 1814
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Geophilidae
Geophilus

description: Genus Geophilus Leach, 1814
 Type species: Scolopendra electrica Linnaeus, 1758 (by monotypy) (Bonato et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2022, An annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Afghanistan, pp. 8-24 in Ecologica Montenegrina 53 on page 10, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.53.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13240337