cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constructions of Normality and the Boundaries of Social Citizenship – Solo Mothers in the Swedish Welfare Model
Creators: name: Wennberg, Lena
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2012

description: Discussions concerning the welfare of individuals today largely have a liberal profile: participation, independence, and free choice are discursively articulated in Swedish and European debates. The point of departure in this article is that gender equality needs to be seen as a question of substantive equality that is, becoming equal in the material sense; it cannot only be seen in the formal sense as a question of equal rights and protection against discrimination. As an analytical tool, ‘solo mothers’ is here used to disturb the different discourses that over time have led to the Swedish welfare model as well as the present Europeanising ones. Solo mothers offer a tool for interrogating critically the manner in which gender equality and social rights discursively link to each other over time and thus show how the social practices of gender are constructed, re-constructed and transformed in the Swedish welfare model in time and space. The conclusion is that gender neutrality in law, based on the liberal notion of an active citizen being primarily a wage-earner, that does not recognise and acknowledge gendered difference and diversity among citizens, runs the risk of reproducing solo mothers as defective family formations and second-rate citizens.
description: feminists@law, Vol 2 No 1 (2012)
A Gender Perspective on Flexicurity and the Swedish Employment Protection Act
Creators: name: Ulander-Wanman, Carin
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2012

description: Full employment is an important policy objective at both the Swedish national and European Union levels. The Swedish Employment Protection Act will help to achieve this goal by giving employees the protection of permanent employment. The European Union sees flexicurity as one means to reach that objective. This article shows how women are at risk of being excluded from the opportunity of gaining employment security to a larger extent than men. Such circumstances exist in both the Swedish labour law and the EU flexicurity strategy. The norms that form the basis of the Swedish Employment Protection Act are based on stability of the employment relationship between employer and employee. Flexicurity represents flexibility in the relationship between employers and employees to a greater extent. In the Swedish Employment Protection Act and in flexicurity, workers' competences are essential to their job and employment security. Neither the Swedish Employment Protection Act nor flexicurity take women's specific life circumstances into account when it comes to designing job and employment security for workers. The lack of gender analysis in the construction and formulation of workers' job and employment security may lead to a disadvantage particularly for women.
description: feminists@law, Vol 2 No 1 (2012)
FDiff-Fusion:Denoising diffusion fusion network based on fuzzy learning for 3D medical image segmentation
Creators: name: Ding, Weiping
name: Geng, Sheng
name: Wang, Haipeng
name: Huang, Jiashuang
name: Zhou, Tianyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, the denoising diffusion model has achieved remarkable success in image segmentation modeling. With its powerful nonlinear modeling capabilities and superior generalization performance, denoising diffusion models have gradually been applied to medical image segmentation tasks, bringing new perspectives and methods to this field. However, existing methods overlook the uncertainty of segmentation boundaries and the fuzziness of regions, resulting in the instability and inaccuracy of the segmentation results. To solve this problem, a denoising diffusion fusion network based on fuzzy learning for 3D medical image segmentation (FDiff-Fusion) is proposed in this paper. By integrating the denoising diffusion model into the classical U-Net network, this model can effectively extract rich semantic information from input medical images, thus providing excellent pixel-level representation for medical image segmentation. ... Finally, to validate the effectiveness of FDiff-Fusion, we compare it with existing advanced segmentation networks on the BRATS 2020 brain tumor dataset and the BTCV abdominal multi-organ dataset. The results show that FDiff-Fusion significantly improves the Dice scores and HD95 distance on these two datasets, demonstrating its superiority in medical image segmentation tasks.
description: This paper has been accepted by Information Fusion. Permission from Elsevier must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media. The final version is available at [doi:10.1016/J.INFFUS.2024.102540]
Data Obsolescence Detection in the Light of Newly Acquired Valid Observations
Creators: name: Chaieb, Salma
name: Hnich, Brahim
name: Mrad, Ali Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The information describing the conditions of a system or a person is constantly evolving and may become obsolete and contradict other information. A database, therefore, must be consistently updated upon the acquisition of new valid observations that contradict obsolete ones contained in the database. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for dealing with the information obsolescence problem. Our approach aims to detect, in real-time, contradictions between observations and then identify the obsolete ones, given a representation model. Since we work within an uncertain environment characterized by the lack of information, we choose to use a Bayesian network as our representation model and propose a new approximate concept, $ε$-Contradiction. The new concept is parameterised by a confidence level of having a contradiction in a set of observations. We propose a polynomial-time algorithm for detecting obsolete information. We show that the resulting obsolete information is better represented by an AND-OR tree than a simple set of observations. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on a real elderly fall-prevention database and showcase how this tree can be used to give reliable recommendations to doctors. Our experiments give systematically and substantially very good results.
Frequency-comb-induced radiation pressure force in dense atomic clouds
Creators: name: Kruljac, Mateo
name: Buhin, Danijel
name: Kovacic, Domagoj
name: Vulic, Vjekoslav
name: Aumiler, Damir
name: Ban, Ticijana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the frequency comb induced radiation pressure force acting on a cloud of cold $^{87}$Rb atoms. Reduction and spectral broadening of the frequency comb force are observed as the cloud's optical thickness is increased. Since the radiation pressure force is uniquely determined by light scattered by an atomic cloud, we discuss different scattering mechanisms, and point to the shadow effect as the dominant mechanism affecting FC-induced force in resonantly excited dense atomic clouds. Our results improve the understanding of the interaction of frequency comb light with many-atom ensembles, which is essential for novel frequency comb applications in simultaneous multi-species cooling, multi-mode quantum memories, and multi-mode atom-light interfaces.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Immigrant Women Facing Male Partner Violence – Gender, Race and Power in Swedish Alien and Criminal Law
Creators: name: Burman, Monica
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2012

description: This article deals with the ways in which gender and race are recognized and addressed in Swedish criminal and alien law with reference to men’s violence against women with insecure residency. It offers an analysis of Swedish preparatory works and case law which seeks to unmask and problematize intersecting power structures and discourses in law. The analysis shows that a perspective on men’s violence against women as related to gender and power to some extent has been implemented in and had significant effects on criminal law, while the significance of race and racism has not been properly acknowledged. Swedish alien law is blatantly lacking in an understanding both in terms of gender power relations and of the ways in which men’s violence against women can be racialized or culturalized. The main conclusion is that there are significant processes of ‘othering’ abused women in both legal areas, but especially in alien law where abused migrant women are constructed as unwanted in the Swedish society when no longer fulfilling their function as men’s partners. The author argues that the notions that men’s violence against women always harms women and is about the assertion of power and control over women should be placed at the centre of an intersectional approach to law and policy. Such an approach will hopefully contribute to counteract current Swedish problems associated with a simplified approach to gender, race and men’s violence against women.
description: feminists@law, Vol 2 No 1 (2012)
Non-targeted transcription factors motifs are a systemic component of ChIP-seq datasets
Creators: name: Worsley Hunt, Rebecca
name: Wasserman, Wyeth W.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The global effort to annotate the non-coding portion of the human genome relies heavily on chromatin immunoprecipitation data generated with high-throughput DNA sequencing (ChIP-seq). ChIP-seq is generally successful in detailing the segments of the genome bound by the immunoprecipitated transcription factor (TF), however almost all datasets contain genomic regions devoid of the canonical motif for the TF. It remains to be determined if these regions are related to the immunoprecipitated TF or whether, despite the use of controls, there is a portion of peaks that can be attributed to other causes. Results: Analyses across hundreds of ChIP-seq datasets generated for sequence-specific DNA binding TFs reveal a small set of TF binding profiles for which predicted TF binding site motifs are repeatedly observed to be significantly enriched. Grouping related binding profiles, the set includes: CTCF-like, ETS-like, JUN-like, and THAP11 profiles. These frequently enriched profiles are termed ‘zingers’ to highlight their unanticipated enrichment in datasets for which they were not the targeted TF, and their potential impact on the interpretation and analysis of TF ChIP-seq data. Peaks with zinger motifs and lacking the ChIPped TF’s motif are observed to compose up to 45% of a ChIP-seq dataset. There is substantial overlap of zinger motif containing regions between diverse TF datasets, suggesting a mechanism that is not TF-specific for the recovery of these regions. Conclusions: Based on the zinger regions proximity to cohesin-bound segments, a loading station model is proposed. Further study of zingers will advance understanding of gene regulation.
Persecution on Account of One’s Gender: Refugee Status or Status Quo?
Creators: name: Nilsson, Eva
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2012

description: The subject of this paper is women experiencing male partner violence and the determination of refugee status. My central point of departure is the changes that were made in the Swedish Aliens Act in 2006 concerning the definition of ‘refugee’, which inter alia states that persecution on account of a person’s gender should be included within the definition. The changes came into force at the same time as the new Aliens Act which was introduced in order to strengthen the ‘rule of law’ in migration matters. The objective of this article is to analyse the premises for these changes. The conclusion is that the changes are gender biased and marked by ‘othering’ mechanisms and underlying racism. The conclusion is also that many of these women, as a consequence of the constructions in the legislation, are exposed by the Swedish migration authorities to such institutionalized violence ‘on account of gender’ that would have been a basis for refugee status if it had been the authorities in their homeland that had exposed them to it. The reason for this is that the ‘special’ character of migration law rests upon demands other than those usually required by the ‘rule of law’, limiting the possibilities for change. However, maintaining the ‘rule of law’ also means exclusion for women seeking asylum. With or without the rule of law, it seems ongoing exclusion is the keyword for women in this branch of law.
description: feminists@law, Vol 2 No 1 (2012)
Very stable Higgs bundles, equivariant multiplicity and mirror symmetry
Creators: name: Hausel, Tamas
name: Hitchin, Nigel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We define and study the existence of very stable Higgs bundles on Riemann surfaces, how it implies a precise formula for the multiplicity of the very stable components of the global nilpotent cone and its relationship to mirror symmetry. The main ingredients are the Bialynicki-Birula theory of ${\mathbb C}^*$-actions on semiprojective varieties, ${\mathbb C}^*$ characters of indices of ${\mathbb C}^*$-equivariant coherent sheaves, Hecke transformation for Higgs bundles, relative Fourier-Mukai transform along the Hitchin fibration, hyperholomorphic structures on universal bundles and cominuscule Higgs bundles.
description: 91 pages, refereed version, to appear in Inventiones Mathematicae
Three-phase equilibria of hydrates from computer simulation. I. Finite-size effects in the methane hydrate
Creators: name: Blazquez, S.
name: Algaba, J.
name: Míguez, J. M.
name: Vega, C.
name: Blas, F. J.
name: Conde, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clathrate hydrates are vital in energy research and environmental applications. Understanding their stability is crucial for harnessing their potential. In this work, we employ direct coexistence simulations to study finite-size effects in the determination of the three-phase equilibrium temperature ($T_3$) for methane hydrates. Two popular water models, TIP4P/Ice and TIP4P/2005, are employed, exploring various system sizes by varying the number of molecules in the hydrate, liquid, and gas phases. The results reveal that finite-size effects play a crucial role in determining $T_3$. The study includes nine configurations with varying system sizes, demonstrating that smaller systems, particularly those leading to stoichiometric conditions and bubble formation, may yield inaccurate $T_3$ values. The emergence of methane bubbles within the liquid phase, observed in smaller configurations, significantly influences the behavior of the system and can lead to erroneous temperature estimations. Our findings reveal finite size effects on the calculation of the $T_3$ by direct coexistence simulations and clarify the system size convergence for both models, shedding light on discrepancies found in the literature. The results contribute to a deeper understanding of the phase equilibrium of gas hydrates and offer valuable information for future research in this field.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
Almost orthogonal subsets of vector spaces over finite fields
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Ali
name: Petridis, Giorgis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C10, 05B25

description: We prove various results on the size and structure of subsets of vector spaces over finite fields which, in some sense, have too many mutually orthogonal pairs of vectors. In particular, we obtain sharp finite field variants of a theorem of Rosenfeld and an almost version of a theorem of Berlekamp.
description: 26 pages. Minor changes compared to v1
Effective Lagrangian for Non-Abelian Two-Dimensional Topological Field Theory
Creators: name: Srisangyingcharoen, Pongwit
name: Mansfield, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a systematic approach to obtain an effective Lagrangian for 2D non-Abelian topological BF theory. A general expression is presented in a diagrammatic representation containing solely scalar fields. Expressions for the SU(2) and SU(3) effective actions are explicitly stated. In the case of SU(2), we show that the effective action can be interpreted as a winding number. By using the SU(2) effective action, the partition function on a sphere for SU(2) Yang-Mills theory is calculated. Moreover, we generalise the theory to include a source term for the gauge field as well as calculate the vacuum expectation value of the Wilson loop based on the effective theory.
description: 38 pages, 3 figures
With Dissolution Comes Revelation: Civil Partners Discover the Economic Basis of Marriage
Creators: name: Auchmuty, Rosemary
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2013

description: It has been argued that one of the reasons for the decline in the rate of heterosexual marriage in western coutnries has been women's increased economic power, with the availability of alternative means of support making marriage to a breadwinning husband less essential and, in fact, less likely. Indeed, the reciprocity of marital support obligations on divorce has made it financially disadvantageous for women at both ends of the wealth spectrum to formalise relationships with dependent men. The absence of a gendered power dynamic in same-sex relationships has led some advocates of same-sex marriage to present the institution as a new, equality-based model for all marriages. Such a representation ignores the profound, historical and continuing economic basis of marriage and the fact that protection of an economically weaker partner lies at the heart of our marriage laws. The Civil Partnership Act 2004 was welcomed for conferring (near) equality on same-sex relationships, but what legal recognition actually meant in terms of obligations was often lost sight of in the rush to get 'married'. As with heterosexual marriage, however, it is only on the ending of a relationship that the true effects of legal regulation become clear. Interviews conducted with people who have dissolved their civil partnership reveal that, for those with property to dispute over, the court's discretion on dissolution to override previously agreed arrangements or understandings often comes as an expensive surprise. This paper explores the effects that ignorance or greater undersanding of the economic effecs of legal regulation might have on decisions made by same-sex couples.
description: feminists@law, Vol 3 No 1 (2013)
Reduced Order and Surrogate Models for Gravitational Waves
Creators: name: Tiglio, Manuel
name: Villanueva, Aarón
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present an introduction to some of the state of the art in reduced order and surrogate modeling in gravitational wave (GW) science. Approaches that we cover include Principal Component Analysis, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, the Reduced Basis approach, the Empirical Interpolation Method, Reduced Order Quadratures, and Compressed Likelihood evaluations. We divide the review into three parts: representation/compression of known data, predictive models, and data analysis. The targeted audience is that one of practitioners in GW science, a field in which building predictive models and data analysis tools that are both accurate and fast to evaluate, especially when dealing with large amounts of data and intensive computations, are necessary yet can be challenging. As such, practical presentations and, sometimes, heuristic approaches are here preferred over rigor when the latter is not available. This review aims to be self-contained, within reasonable page limits, with little previous knowledge (at the undergraduate level) requirements in mathematics, scientific computing, and other disciplines. Emphasis is placed on optimality, as well as the curse of dimensionality and approaches that might have the promise of beating it. We also review most of the state of the art of GW surrogates. Some numerical algorithms, conditioning details, scalability, parallelization and other practical points are discussed. The approaches presented are to large extent non-intrusive and data-driven and can therefore be applicable to other disciplines. We close with open challenges in high dimension surrogates, which are not unique to GW science.
description: Invited article for Living Reviews in Relativity. 93 pages
Rheumatologists lack confidence in their knowledge of cannabinoids pertaining to the management of rheumatic complaints
Creators: name: Fitzcharles, Mary-Ann
name: Ste-Marie, Peter A
name: Clauw, Daniel J
name: Jamal, Shahin
name: Karsh, Jacob
name: LeClercq, Sharon
name: McDougall, Jason J
name: Shir, Yoram
name: Shojania, Kam
name: Walsh, Zach
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Arthritis pain is reported as one of the most common reasons for persons using medical herbal cannabis in North America. “Severe arthritis” is the condition justifying legal use of cannabis in over half of all authorizations in Canada, where cannabis remains a controlled substance. As champions for the care of persons with arthritis, rheumatologists must be knowledgeable of treatment modalities both traditional and non-traditional, used by their patients. As study of cannabinoid molecules in medicine is recent, we have examined the confidence in the knowledge of cannabinoids expressed by Canadian rheumatologists. Methods: The confidence of rheumatologists in their knowledge of cannabinoid molecules and mechanisms relevant to rheumatology, and their ability to advise patients about cannabinoid treatments was recorded by an online questionnaire circulated via email to the entire Canadian Rheumatology Association membership. Results: Over three quarters of the 128 respondents lacked confidence in their knowledge of cannabinoid molecules. While 45% of respondents believed there was no current role for cannabinoids in rheumatology patient care, only 25% supported any use of herbal cannabis. With 70% never having previously prescribed or recommended any cannabinoid treatment, uncertainty regarding good prescribing practices was prevalent. Concerns about risks of cannabis use were in line with the current literature. Conclusions: Rheumatologists lacked confidence in their knowledge of cannabinoid molecules in general and in their competence to prescribe any cannabinoid for rheumatic complaints. In line with this uncertainty, there is reticence to prescribe cannabinoid preparations for rheumatology patients. Guidance is required to inform rheumatologists on the evidence regarding cannabinoids.
Fractional double phase Robin problem involving variable order-exponents without Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition
Creators: name: Biswas, Reshmi
name: Bahrouni, Sabri
name: Carvalho, Marcos L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a fractional double phase Robin problem involving variable order and variable exponents. The nonlinearity $f$ is a Carathéodory function satisfying some hypotheses which do not include the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz type condition. By using Variational methods, we investigate the multiplicity of solutions.
description: No comments
Observing dynamic oscillatory behavior of triple points among black hole thermodynamic phase transitions
Creators: name: Wei, Shao-Wen
name: Wang, Yong-Qiang
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
name: Mann, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the dynamic process of black hole thermodynamic phase transitions at a triple point is a huge challenge. In this letter, we carry out the first investigation of dynamical phase behaviour at a black hole triple point. By numerically solving the Smoluchowski equation near the triple point for a six-dimensional charged Gauss-Bonnet anti-de Sitter black hole, we find that initial small, intermediate, or large black holes can transit to the other two coexistent phases at the triple point, indicating that thermodynamic phase transitions can indeed occur dynamically. More significantly, we observe characteristic weak and strong oscillatory behaviour in this dynamic process, which can be understood from an investigation of the rate of first passage from one phase to another. Our results further an understanding of the dynamic process of black hole thermodynamic phase transitions.
description: 6 pages and 6 figures
Confusion2vec 2.0: Enriching Ambiguous Spoken Language Representations with Subwords
Creators: name: Shivakumar, Prashanth Gurunath
name: Georgiou, Panayiotis
name: Narayanan, Shrikanth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Word vector representations enable machines to encode human language for spoken language understanding and processing. Confusion2vec, motivated from human speech production and perception, is a word vector representation which encodes ambiguities present in human spoken language in addition to semantics and syntactic information. Confusion2vec provides a robust spoken language representation by considering inherent human language ambiguities. In this paper, we propose a novel word vector space estimation by unsupervised learning on lattices output by an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. We encode each word in confusion2vec vector space by its constituent subword character n-grams. We show the subword encoding helps better represent the acoustic perceptual ambiguities in human spoken language via information modeled on lattice structured ASR output. The usefulness of the proposed Confusion2vec representation is evaluated using semantic, syntactic and acoustic analogy and word similarity tasks. We also show the benefits of subword modeling for acoustic ambiguity representation on the task of spoken language intent detection. The results significantly outperform existing word vector representations when evaluated on erroneous ASR outputs. We demonstrate that Confusion2vec subword modeling eliminates the need for retraining/adapting the natural language understanding models on ASR transcripts.
A Simulation Study of Electric Field Engineering with Multi-Level Pinned Photodiodes for Fast and Complete Charge Transfer
Creators: name: Alaibakhsh, Hamzeh
name: Karami, Mohammad Azim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a CMOS image sensor pixel, fast and complete charge transfer from pinned photodiode (PPD) is desired and necessary in some applications. In special cases such as time-of-flight imaging or large pinned photodiodes, the PPD potential well shape highly affects the charge transfer performance and should be engineered carefully. In the present work, a PPD structure named multi-level PPD is introduced and examined through simulation study. Moreover, a fast and effective way to analyze the pinning process for a lag-free design is introduced. It is concluded that the proposed PPD achieves fast and complete charge transfer without additional implementation masks or process steps. The proposed PPD is compared with a similar conventional rectangular pixel and 31% reduction in the charge transfer time is observed.
description: This is a manuscript with 5 pages, 7 figures prepared for publication in the field of electron devices
Superballistic and superdiffusive scaling limits of stochastic harmonic chains with long-range interactions
Creators: name: Suda, Hayate
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35, 74A25, 82C22, 82C70

description: We consider one-dimensional infinite chains of harmonic oscillators with random exchanges of momenta and long-range interaction potentials which have polynomial decay rate $|x|^{-θ}, x \to \infty, θ> 1$ where $x \in \mathbb{Z}$ is the interaction range. The dynamics conserve total momentum, total length and total energy. We prove that the systems evolve macroscopically on superballistic space-time scale $(y \varepsilon^{-1}, t \varepsilon^{- \frac{θ- 1}{2}})$ when $1 < θ< 3$, $(y \varepsilon^{-1}, t \varepsilon^{-1} \sqrt{- \log(\varepsilon^{-1})}^{-1})$ when $θ= 3$, and ballistic space-time scale $(y \varepsilon^{-1}, t \varepsilon^{-1})$ when $θ> 3$. Combining our results and the results in [10], we show the existence of two different space-time scales on which the systems evolve. In addition, we prove scaling limits of recentered normal modes of superballistic wave equations, which are analogues of Riemann invariants and capture fluctuations around characteristics. The space-time scale is superdiffusive when $2 < θ\le 4$ and diffusive when $θ> 4$.
description: 33 pages
Next Generation of AI for Power Electronics: Explainable, Light, and Flexible
Creators: name: Li, Xinze
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial intelligence
subject: Physics-informed machine learning
subject: Power Electronics

description: The presentation titled "Next Generation of AI for Power Electronics: Explainable, Light, and Flexible" addresses the challenges of existing AI integration in power electronics, particularly issues related to non-explainability, heavy data and computation dependency, and inflexibility. To overcome these, Physics-Informed Machine Learnings (PIMLs) are well-positioned as innovative solutions, embedding physics-based knowledge directly into AI models and serving as next generation of AI for power electronics fields. PIML approaches are classified into three main types: Physics-in-Loss (integrating physical laws in the loss function), Physics-in-Initialization (using physics-based initialization), and Physics-in-Architecture (designing neural network structures aligned with physical principles). Implications, applications, and pros and cons of these PIML methods are discussed. 

Considering the nature of power electronics domains with rich physics foundations but lacking abundant data support, the Physics-in-Architecture methods lie at the center of this presentation, which progressively discusses its power-electronics-specific explainability, data-light and lightweight advantages, and training-free zero-shot flexibility across diverse scenarios. Potential future directions for applying PIMLs in the lifecycle of power converters are shed light on, paving the way for democratizing next-generation AI in power electronics.

Please note, the code demos provided are open sourced in the GitHub repositories:

https://github.com/XinzeLee/PANN

https://github.com/XinzeLee/PE-GPT
Зульфия в его работе Сермано , узловатый чувства
Creators: name: Джаксиликова, Айгерим
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Этот в статье Зульфия Исраилова в его поэзии креативность горизонт широкий , художественный наблюдение острый , страсть оживленный и дающий жизнь лирический чувства молния ударять стоя о слово проводится .
Convergence rate to the Tracy-Widom laws for the largest eigenvalue of Wigner matrices
Creators: name: Schnelli, Kevin
name: Xu, Yuanyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 15B52, 60B20

description: We show that the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalue of a real symmetric or complex Hermitian Wigner matrix of size $N$ converge to the Tracy--Widom laws at a rate $O(N^{-1/3+ω})$, as $N$ tends to infinity. For Wigner matrices this improves the previous rate $O(N^{-2/9+ω})$ obtained by Bourgade [5] for generalized Wigner matrices. Our result follows from a Green function comparison theorem, originally introduced by Erdős, Yau and Yin [19] to prove edge universality, on a finer spectral parameter scale with improved error estimates. The proof relies on the continuous Green function flow induced by a matrix-valued Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process. Precise estimates on leading contributions from the third and fourth order moments of the matrix entries are obtained using iterative cumulant expansions and recursive comparisons for correlation functions, along with uniform convergence estimates for correlation kernels of the Gaussian invariant ensembles.
description: 48 pages; minor revisions and updated references, final version
Topological Field Theory with Haagerup Symmetry
Creators: name: Huang, Tzu-Chen
name: Lin, Ying-Hsuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct a (1+1)$d$ topological field theory (TFT) whose topological defect lines (TDLs) realize the transparent Haagerup $\mathcal{H}_3$ fusion category. This TFT has six vacua, and each of the three non-invertible simple TDLs hosts three defect operators, giving rise to a total of 15 point-like operators. The TFT data, including the three-point coefficients and lasso diagrams, are determined by solving all the sphere four-point crossing equations and torus one-point modular invariance equations. We further verify that the Cardy states furnish a non-negative integer matrix representation under TDL fusion. While many of the constraints we derive are not limited to the this particular TFT with six vacua, we leave open the construction of TFTs with two or four vacua. Finally, TFTs realizing the Haagerup $\mathcal{H}_1$ and $\mathcal{H}_2$ fusion categories can be obtained by gauging algebra objects. This note makes a modest offering in our pursuit of exotica and the quest for their eventual conformity.
description: 41+11 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables; v2: corrected statements about the literature, revised Appendix A
Nested Closed Paths in Two-Dimensional Percolation
Creators: name: Song, Yu-Feng
name: Tan, Xiao-Jun
name: Zhang, Xin-Hang
name: Jacobsen, Jesper Lykke
name: Nienhuis, Bernard
name: Deng, Youjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B43, 60K35

description: For two-dimensional percolation on a domain with the topology of a disc, we introduce a nested-path operator (NP) and thus a continuous family of one-point functions $W_k \equiv \langle \mathcal{R} \cdot k^\ell \rangle $, where $\ell$ is the number of independent nested closed paths surrounding the center, $k$ is a path fugacity, and $\mathcal{R}$ projects on configurations having a cluster connecting the center to the boundary. At criticality, we observe a power-law scaling $W_k \sim L^{X_{\rm NP}}$, with $L$ the linear system size, and we determine the exponent $X_{\rm NP}$ as a function of $k$. On the basis of our numerical results, we conjecture an analytical formula, $X_{\rm NP} (k) = \frac{3}{4}ϕ^2 -\frac{5}{48}ϕ^2/ (ϕ^2-\frac{2}{3})$ where $k = 2 \cos(πϕ)$, which reproduces the exact results for $k=0,1$ and agrees with the high-precision estimate of $X_{\rm NP}$ for other $k$ values. In addition, we observe that $W_2(L)=1$ for site percolation on the triangular lattice with any size $L$, and we prove this identity for all self-matching lattices.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures plus supplemental material, 1 page 2 figures
Tight Risk Bound for High Dimensional Time Series Completion
Creators: name: Alquier, Pierre
name: Marie, Nicolas
name: Rosier, Amélie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Initially designed for independent datas, low-rank matrix completion was successfully applied in many domains to the reconstruction of partially observed high-dimensional time series. However, there is a lack of theory to support the application of these methods to dependent datas. In this paper, we propose a general model for multivariate, partially observed time series. We show that the least-square method with a rank penalty leads to reconstruction error of the same order as for independent datas. Moreover, when the time series has some additional properties such as periodicity or smoothness, the rate can actually be faster than in the independent case.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
Generative Artificial Intelligence in Canadian Financial Services Marketing: Transforming Consumer Insights and Engagement
Creators: name: Lavalle de Zamacona, Jorge
name: Pirouzi, Peivand
Publisher: name: Crown College of Canada
Year: 2025

description: Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how financial institutions gather consumer insights and engage with customers. In Canada, banks and insurers are embracing generative AI to gain a competitive edge. Half of Canadian financial institutions were already using AI in 2023, and that share is projected to reach 70% by 2026, signaling that AI-driven strategies are becoming mainstream (Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions & Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, 2024). 

Consultancies note that in Canada alone, generative AI could significantly impact the day-to-day activities of roughly 40% of the workforce (PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada, 2023) – a testament to its broad transformative potential.
Using Small-Footprint Discrete and Full-Waveform Airborne LiDAR Metrics to Estimate Total Biomass and Biomass Components in Subtropical Forests
Creators: name: Cao, Lin
name: Coops, Nicholas C.
name: Hermosilla, Txomin
name: Innes, John L.
name: Dai, Jinsong
name: She, Guanghui
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: An accurate estimation of total biomass and its components is critical for understanding the carbon cycle in forest ecosystems. The objectives of this study were to explore the performances of forest canopy structure characterization from a single small-footprint Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) dataset using two different techniques focusing on (i) 3-D canopy structural information by discrete (XYZ) LiDAR metrics (DR-metrics), and (ii) the detailed geometric and radiometric information of the returned waveform by full-waveform LiDAR metrics (FW-metrics), and to evaluate the capacity of these metrics in predicting biomass and its components in subtropical forest ecosystems. This study was undertaken in a mixed subtropical forest in Yushan Mountain National Park, Jiangsu, China. LiDAR metrics derived from DR and FW LiDAR data were used alone, and in combination, in stepwise regression models to estimate total as well as above-ground, root, foliage, branch and trunk biomass. Overall, the results indicated that three sets of predictive models performed well across the different subtropical forest types (Adj-R² = 0.42–0.93, excluding foliage biomass). Forest type-specific models (Adj-R² = 0.18–0.93) were generally more accurate than the general model (Adj-R² = 0.07–0.79) with the most accurate results obtained for coniferous stands (Adj-R² = 0.50–0.93). In addition, LiDAR metrics related to vegetation heights were the strongest predictors of total biomass and its components. This research also illustrates the potential for the synergistic use of DR and FW LiDAR metrics to accurately assess biomass stocks in subtropical forests, which suggest significant potential in research and decision support in sustainable forest management, such as timber harvesting, biofuel characterization and fire hazard analyses.
Anti-Drude Metal of Bosons
Creators: name: Masella, Guido
name: Prokof'ev, Nikolay V.
name: Pupillo, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the absence of frustration, interacting bosons in the ground state exist either in the superfluid or insulating phases. Superfluidity corresponds to frictionless flow of the matter field, and in optical conductivity is revealed through a distinct $δ$-functional peak at zero frequency with the amplitude known as the Drude weight. This characteristic low-frequency feature is instead absent in insulating phases, defined by zero static optical conductivity. Here we demonstrate that bosonic particles in disordered one dimensional, $d=1$, systems can also exist in a conducting, non-superfluid, phase when their hopping is of the dipolar type, often viewed as short-ranged in $d=1$. This phase is characterized by finite static optical conductivity, followed by a broad anti-Drude peak at finite frequencies. Off-diagonal correlations are also unconventional: they feature an integrable algebraic decay for arbitrarily large values of disorder. These results do not fit the description of any known quantum phase and strongly suggest the existence of a novel conducting state of bosonic matter in the ground state.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Conserved and non-conserved Noether currents from the quantum effective action
Creators: name: Floerchinger, Stefan
name: Grossi, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum effective action yields equations of motion and correlation functions including all quantum corrections. We discuss here how it encodes also Noether currents at the full quantum level. Interestingly, the construction can be generalized beyond the standard symmetry transformations that leave the action invariant. We also discuss an extended set of transformations, which change the action by a term that is locally known on the level of the quantum effective action. Associated to such extended gauge transformations are currents for which we obtain a divergence-type equation of motion, but they are not conserved. We call them non-conserved Noether currents. We discuss in particular symmetries and extended transformations associated to space-time geometry for relativistic quantum field theories. These encompass local dilatations or Weyl gauge transformation, local Lorentz transformations and local shear transformations. Together they constitute the symmetry group of the frame bundle GL$(d)$. The corresponding non-conserved Noether currents are the dilatation or Weyl current, the spin current and the shear current. In particular for the latter we obtain a new divergence-type equations of motion.
description: 25 pages
Performance Anxiety : Can performance measurement and reporting help to improve Canadian healthcare? : Conference Summary
Creators: name: Wener, Eleni
name: McKendry, Rachael
name: Lewis, Steven
name: Wu, Leena
name: Wong, Sabrina T.
Publisher: name: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
Year: 2016

description: Summary of the 2014 Centre for Health Services and Policy Research annual health policy conference.
Social Reproduction of Human Beings: A Feminist Perspective
Creators: name: Picchio, Antonella
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2012

description: This lecture draws on classical political economy to explore the present capitalist tension between production, rent and profit on the one hand and social reproduction on the other. Far from glorifying care and domestic labour as the expression of women's self-sacrifice, feminist theorising on social reproduction is central to struggles over the re-definition of life and its 'common' sense.
description: feminists@law, Vol 2 No 1 (2012)
A composite solution to the EDGES anomaly
Creators: name: Mathur, Anubhav
name: Rajendran, Surjeet
name: Ramani, Harikrishnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Subcomponent millicharged dark matter that cools baryons via Coulomb interactions has been invoked to explain the EDGES anomaly. However, this model is in severe tension with constraints from cosmology and stellar emissions. In this work, we consider the consequences of these millicharged particles existing in composite blobs. The relevant degrees of freedom at high temperature are minuscule elementary charges, which fuse at low temperatures to make up blobs of larger charge. These blobs serve as the degrees of freedom relevant in cooling the baryons sufficiently to account for the EDGES anomaly. In such a model, cosmology and stellar constraints (which involve high-temperature processes) apply only to the feebly-interacting elementary charges and not to the blobs. This salvages a large range of parameter space for millicharged blobs that can explain the EDGES anomaly. It also opens up new parameter space for direct detection, albeit at low momentum transfers.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Introduction: Gender Equality and Othering in the Swedish Welfare State
Creators: name: Drakopoulou, Maria
name: Davies, Margaret
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2012

description: The papers in this special section of feminists@law represent an attempt to acquaint an English speaking audience with some of the key issues currently occupying Swedish feminist legal scholars. The idea is to allow the reader to catch some revealing glimpses of the workings of the Swedish feminist legal mind in the context of gender equality law. It aims to promote an understanding of specifics of the feminist engagement with and critique of Swedish gender equality law and policy through contributors’ discussions of major themes of western feminism - motherhood, labour, immigration, disability and sexual exploitation.
description: feminists@law, Vol 2 No 1 (2012)
Gender Equality in the Swedish Welfare State
Creators: name: Svensson, Eva-Maria
name: Gunnarsson, Asa
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2012

description: Sweden represents utopia for many women’s activists around the world. The article tries to explain the policies that created the vision of a women-friendly welfare state. Global gender gap indexes have placed Sweden in the top five for many years. The success is measured in a high level of labour market participation and education, instituted policies for the reconciliation of work and family life and women’s bodily and physical integrity. Even though many feminists do not wish to see any dark stains on the glorified picture of Sweden as a gender equal society, a critical examination of remaining gender-biased practices such as the uneven distribution of economic and political power and the gendered segregation of the labour market is also be presented. Another critical aspect is the exclusionary effects of the Swedish gender equality policies. Despite its critical stance the article defends a large part of the strong and comprehensive structural base for achieving gender equality that has become a role-model for many feminists.
description: feminists@law, Vol 2 No 1 (2012)