cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cragandhara khasia Volynkin, 2023, sp. n.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Cragandhara
Cragandhara khasia

description: Cragandhara khasia sp. n.
https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 16708E6A-82BF-4EEB-B497-653E5847F352
(Figs 3, 11)
 Type material. Holotype (Figs 3, 11): male, [NE India, Meghalaya, Khasi Hills] “Khasis, | Feb. 1897. | Nat. Coll.” / “ Rothschild | Bequest | B.M. 1939-1.” / QR-code label with unique ID “ NHMUK010292439 ” | “Slide | NHMUK0104331715 ” (NHMUK).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 12.0 mm in the male holotype. The male of C. khasia sp. n. externally differs from C. himalaya sp. n. in its somewhat larger size, the broader forewing with a more distally convex costal margin, and the broader ochreous yellow costal stripe. The detailed comparison of the male genitalia of the two species is provided above in the diagnosis of C. himalaya sp. n.
The female is unknown.
 Distribution. Northeast India (Meghalaya).
 Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from Khasi Hills, where the new species is found.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., 2023, Cragandhara, a new genus for two new species from India (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 84-90 in Ecologica Montenegrina 69 on page 90, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.69.8, http://zenodo.org/record/13246632
DTGAN: Dual Attention Generative Adversarial Networks for Text-to-Image Generation
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhenxing
name: Schomaker, Lambert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most existing text-to-image generation methods adopt a multi-stage modular architecture which has three significant problems: 1) Training multiple networks increases the run time and affects the convergence and stability of the generative model; 2) These approaches ignore the quality of early-stage generator images; 3) Many discriminators need to be trained. To this end, we propose the Dual Attention Generative Adversarial Network (DTGAN) which can synthesize high-quality and semantically consistent images only employing a single generator/discriminator pair. The proposed model introduces channel-aware and pixel-aware attention modules that can guide the generator to focus on text-relevant channels and pixels based on the global sentence vector and to fine-tune original feature maps using attention weights. Also, Conditional Adaptive Instance-Layer Normalization (CAdaILN) is presented to help our attention modules flexibly control the amount of change in shape and texture by the input natural-language description. Furthermore, a new type of visual loss is utilized to enhance the image resolution by ensuring vivid shape and perceptually uniform color distributions of generated images. Experimental results on benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method compared to the state-of-the-art models with a multi-stage framework. Visualization of the attention maps shows that the channel-aware attention module is able to localize the discriminative regions, while the pixel-aware attention module has the ability to capture the globally visual contents for the generation of an image.
Gravitational lenses in arbitrary space-times
Creators: name: Fleury, Pierre
name: Larena, Julien
name: Uzan, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The precision reached by current and forthcoming strong-lensing observations requires to accurately model various perturbations to the main deflector. Hitherto, theoretical models have been developed to account for either cosmological line-of-sight perturbations, or isolated secondary lenses via the multi-plane lensing framework. This article proposes a general formalism to describe multiple lenses within an arbitrary space-time background. The lens equation, and the expressions of the amplification and time delays, are rigorously derived in that framework. Our results may be applied to a wide range of set-ups, from strong lensing in anisotropic cosmologies, to line-of-sight perturbations beyond the tidal regime.
description: 23+6 pages, 9 figures; v3: enriched sec. 2, matches the version published in Classical and Quantum Gravity, except the addition of an important reference (Schneider 2019); v4: minor typos corrected
Toward Scalable and Unified Example-based Explanation and Outlier Detection
Creators: name: Chong, Penny
name: Cheung, Ngai-Man
name: Elovici, Yuval
name: Binder, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: When neural networks are employed for high-stakes decision-making, it is desirable that they provide explanations for their prediction in order for us to understand the features that have contributed to the decision. At the same time, it is important to flag potential outliers for in-depth verification by domain experts. In this work we propose to unify two differing aspects of explainability with outlier detection. We argue for a broader adoption of prototype-based student networks capable of providing an example-based explanation for their prediction and at the same time identify regions of similarity between the predicted sample and the examples. The examples are real prototypical cases sampled from the training set via our novel iterative prototype replacement algorithm. Furthermore, we propose to use the prototype similarity scores for identifying outliers. We compare performances in terms of the classification, explanation quality, and outlier detection of our proposed network with other baselines. We show that our prototype-based networks beyond similarity kernels deliver meaningful explanations and promising outlier detection results without compromising classification accuracy.
description: Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Sufi Intraocular Lens  - 02
Creators: name: M.Merino, BSc Biochemistry, BSc Biology, MSc, PhD, Marisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The Sufi Intraocular Lens (C₁₂H₃₆O₆Si₆) represents a significant advancement in ophthalmic implant technology. This second phase of research further explores its thermal stability, mechanical durability, biocompatibility, and optical performance. The Sufi IOL is designed to withstand extreme conditions, being stable at 300°C temperature and 15 atm pressure. A critical aspect of this study is the Preservative C₁₀H₁₆N₂O₈, which maintains the sterility and functionality of the lens over extended periods. This paper delves into the physicochemical properties, fabrication process, and potential clinical applications of this next-generation intraocular lens (IOL).
WORKING PAPER 8 - Aprender português para falar com as pessoas. Reflexões sobre processos de reconfiguração identitária em contextos de imigração.
Creators: name: VALENTIM, Cristina Sá
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Imigração
Subjectividade
Língua
Estratégias identitárias
Integração Cultural
Immigration
Subjectivity
Language
Identity strategies
Cultural integration

description: Resumo Partindo de um estudo de caso centrado nas apropriações da língua portuguesa por dois sujeitos imigrados em Coimbra, esta análise pretende sugerir a importância que um enfoque na identidade self e na realidade experienciada dos indivíduos poderá constituir em análises sociais que se pretendam qualitativas e émicas. Através de uma pesquisa etnográfica norteada por uma abordagem contextual constata-se que ‘falar português’ significa um exercício estratégico identitário que visa acima de tudo a procura por um reconhecimento social em diversas esferas de sociabilidade e em vários domínios: nas relações de parentesco, nas relações laborais, nas redes de amizade. Estes sujeitos migrantes usam a língua, concretamente a identidade legitimadora que ela veicula, de forma a dissolverem categorias e a contornarem identidades a eles atribuídas no intuito de reconstruírem uma identidade social e, acima de tudo, de definirem a sua individualidade e de expressarem as suas várias pertenças identitárias.
description: Citar como/Please quote as: Valentim, Cristina. 2011. Aprender português para falar com as pessoas. Reflexões sobre processos de reconfiguração identitária em contextos de imigração. Working Paper CRIA 8, Lisboa. PEst-OE/SADG/UI4038/2011
Incoherent transport across the strange metal regime of highly overdoped cuprates
Creators: name: Ayres, J.
name: Berben, M.
name: Culo, M.
name: Hsu, Y. -T.
name: van Heumen, E.
name: Huang, Y.
name: Zaanen, J.
name: Kondo, T.
name: Takeuchi, T.
name: Cooper, J. R.
name: Putzke, C.
name: Friedemann, S.
name: Carrington, A.
name: Hussey, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strange metals possess highly unconventional transport characteristics, such as a linear-in-temperature ($T$) resistivity, an inverse Hall angle that varies as $T^2$ and a linear-in-field ($H$) magnetoresistance. Identifying the origin of these collective anomalies has proved profoundly challenging, even in materials such as the hole-doped cuprates that possess a simple band structure. The prevailing dogma is that strange metallicity in the cuprates is tied to a quantum critical point at a doping $p*$ inside the superconducting dome. Here, we study the high-field in-plane magnetoresistance of two superconducting cuprate families at doping levels beyond $p*$. At all dopings, the magnetoresistance exhibits quadrature scaling and becomes linear at high $H/T$ ratios. Moreover, its magnitude is found to be much larger than predicted by conventional theory and insensitive to both impurity scattering and magnetic field orientation. These observations, coupled with analysis of the zero-field and Hall resistivities, suggest that despite having a single band, the cuprate strange metal phase hosts two charge sectors, one containing coherent quasiparticles, the other scale-invariant `Planckian' dissipators.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures and 3 tables (including Supplementary Information)
Using Side Channel Information and Artificial Intelligence for Malware Detection
Creators: name: Maxwell, Paul
name: Niblick, David
name: Ruiz, Daniel C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cybersecurity continues to be a difficult issue for society especially as the number of networked systems grows. Techniques to protect these systems range from rules-based to artificial intelligence-based intrusion detection systems and anti-virus tools. These systems rely upon the information contained in the network packets and download executables to function. Side channel information leaked from hardware has been shown to reveal secret information in systems such as encryption keys. This work demonstrates that side channel information can be used to detect malware running on a computing platform without access to the code involved.
description: 7 pages
WORKING PAPER 9 - O Historiador, o Leitor, o Rei e as Amantes deles: Sobre alguns efeitos perversos do fim das teoriaS
Creators: name: CARDOSO, Ângela Miranda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Historiografia
História pública
Narrativismo
Micro-história
Género
Biografia
Historiography
Public history
Narrative
Micro-history
Gender
Biography

description: Resumo Nas últimas décadas, tem-se vindo a naturalizar entre os historiadores um discurso que, proclamando o “regresso do indivíduo” ou “da narrativa” – a face mais académica do “fim das ideologias” –, constitui a base de renovadas pretensões de autonomia face às ciências sociais. Tomando como ponto de partida o estudo de um caso exemplar – o de uma obra recentemente publicada em Portugal sobre as amantes régias –, este texto propõe-se examinar as principais questões metodológicas e teóricas colocadas por uma recuperada história narrativa de inspiração rankeana, e pela supressão do exercício teórico que, a seu reboque, e dominada pelas expectativas do grande público, tem servido uma progressiva diluição das fronteiras entre história e literatura. Abstract In recent decades, historians have come to take for granted an argument which, proclaiming the “return of the individual” or “of narrative” – the academic counterpart of the “end of ideologies” – has served as a basis for claims of increased autonomy vis-à-vis the social sciences. Starting from an exemplary case-study – a work recently published in Portugal about royal mistresses – this essay aims to examine the main methodological and theoretical issues raised by neo-Rankean narrative history and by the suppression of theoretical reflection which, in its wake, and pandering to the expectations of the wider public, has contributed to an ever greater blurring of the distinction between history and literature.
description: PEst-OE/SADG/UI4038/2011
Primordial black holes and secondary gravitational waves from natural inflation
Creators: name: Gao, Qing
name: Gong, Yungui
name: Yi, Zhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter (DM) and the generation of scalar induced secondary gravitational waves by using the enhancement mechanism with a peak function in the non-canonical kinetic term in natural inflation is discussed. We show explicitly that the power spectrum for the primordial curvature perturbation can be enhanced at $10^{12}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, $10^{8}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ and $10^{5}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ by adjusting the model parameters. With the enhanced primordial curvature perturbations, we show the production of PBH DM with peak masses around $10^{-13}\ M_{\odot}$, the Earth's mass and the stellar mass, and the generation of scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) with peak frequencies around mHz, $10^{-6}$ Hz and nHz, respectively. The PBHs with the mass scale $10^{-13}\ M_{\odot}$ can make up almost all the DM and the associated SIGWs is testable by spaced based gravitational wave observatory.
description: mathced with the published version
Earth-like planets hosting systems: Architecture and properties
Creators: name: Davoult, Jeanne
name: Alibert, Yann
name: Mishra, Lokesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of Earth-like planets is a major focus of current planetology research and faces a significant technological challenge. Indeed, when it comes to detecting planets as small and cold as the Earth, the cost of observation time is massive. Understanding in what type of systems Earth-like planets (ELPs) form and how to identify them is crucial for preparing future missions such as PLATO, LIFE, or others. Theoretical models suggest that ELPs predominantly form within a certain type of system architecture. Therefore, the presence or absence of ELPs could be inferred from the arrangement of other planets within the same system. This study aims to identify the profile of a typical system that harbours an ELP by investigating the architecture of systems and the properties of their innermost detectable planets. Here, we introduce a novel method for determining the architecture of planetary systems and categorising them into four distinct classes. Using three populations of synthetic planetary systems generated using the Bern model around three different types of stars, we studied the `theoretical' architecture (the architecture of a complete planetary system) and the `biased' architecture (the architecture of a system in which only detectable planets are taken into account) of the synthetic systems. The biased architecture of a system, studied in conjunction with the mass, radius, and period of the innermost detectable planet, appears to correlate with the presence or absence of an ELP in the same system. We conclude that the detections of ELPs can be predicted thanks to the already known properties of their systems, and we present a list of the properties of the systems most likely to host such a planet.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Synchro-betatron Resonance of Crab Crossing Scheme with Large Crossing Angle and Finite Bunch Length
Creators: name: Xu, Derong
name: Hao, Yue
name: Luo, Yun
name: Qiang, Ji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Crab crossing scheme is an essential collision scheme to achieve high luminosity for the future colliders with large crossing angles. However, when bunch length of one or both colliding beams is comparable with the wavelength of the crab cavity voltage, the nonlinear dependence of the crabbing kick may present a challenge to the beam dynamics of the colliding beams and impact the beam quality as well as the luminosity lifetime. In this paper, the results of nonlinear dynamics in the crab crossing scheme are presented, using both analytical and numerical studies. The result indicates that higher-order synchro-betatron resonances may be excited in the crab crossing scheme with large crossing angle, which causes the beam quality deterioration and luminosity degradation. The studies also reveal possible countermeasures to suppress the synchro-beta resonance, hence mitigate the degradation of beam quality and luminosity.
description: 16 pages, 23 figures
Measuring the Environmental Exposome (ISES2020)
Creators: name: Schymanski, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: exposome
environment
high resolution mass spectrometry
cheminformatics
non-target screening

description: Invited presentation for the ISES 2020 Virtual Meeting scheduled for September 21 & 22, 2020, in "The Chemical Space in Exposure Assessments" symposium organised by Oliver Fiehn, Tom Metz and David Wishart Abstract: The environment and the chemicals to which we are exposed is incredibly complex, with over 100 million chemicals in the largest open chemical databases and over 70,000 in household use alone. Detectable molecules in complex samples can now be captured using high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), which provides a “snapshot” of all chemicals present in a sample and allows for retrospective data analysis through digital archiving. However, there is no “one size fits all” analytical method, and scientists cannot yet identify most of the tens of thousands of features in each sample, leading to critical bottlenecks in identification and data interpretation. Defining the chemical space to search, the analytical methods to use, prioritizing efforts to find significant environmental chemicals or potentially toxic substances responsible for observed biological/toxic effects as well as their metabolites will be the key to the exposomics challenge, which involves reconciling highly complex samples with expert knowledge and careful validation. This talk will cover European and worldwide community initiatives to help connect knowledge on chemistry and toxicity with measured data and environmental observations to measure the “environmental exposome” - from compound databases to spectral libraries and retrospective screening. It will touch on the challenges of data curation, deposition and communication between resources, with a focus on recent activities to capture and exchange European environmental knowledge for community (re)use. Finally, it will show how interdisciplinary efforts and data sharing can facilitate research in exposomics and beyond. The work to be presented is a massive collaborative effort for which we are extremely grateful and various contributors will be acknowledged throughout the talk. Keywords (≤ 5): exposome, environment, high resolution mass spectrometry, cheminformatics, non-target screening
title: Residence Rights for EU Citizens and Their Family Members: Navigating the New Normal
Creators: name: Cambien, Nathan
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Brexit
subject: Court of Justice
subject: EU citizenship
subject: residence rights for family members
subject: acquired rights
subject: withdrawal agreement

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1333-1352
description: I. Introduction. - II. EU citizens and their family members: "autonomous" vs. "derived" residence rights. - III. Residence rights enjoyed by EU citizens as inalienable rights? - III.1. Residence rights of UK nationals and their family members in the EU27. - III.2. Residence rights of EU27 citizens and their family members in the UK. - III.3. Intermediary conclusion. - IV. Brexit and residence rights: an essential issue for any negotiated solution. - IV.1. Changing citizenship statuses at the EU level. - IV.2. Preserving residence rights for EU27 citizens/UK nationals and their family members. - V. Concluding remarks.
description: One of the fundamental pillars of the European Union is the right of EU citizens and their family members to move freely between and reside in the different EU member States. In recent case law, the Court of Justice has made it abundantly clear that EU citizens derive these rights directly from their EU citizenship status, whereas their family members have only "derived" residence rights, which are dependent on the EU citizen having exercised his freedom of movement. The impact of Brexit on the free movement of persons between the UK and the remaining EU Member States has remained one of the most controversial and politically sensitive issues ever since the British people voted to leave the EU. This Article tries to shed some light on the legal arguments underlying this debate. On the one hand, it provides an overview of a number of arguments deriving from EU law or international law on the basis of which, according to some scholars, EU citizens and their family members would continue to enjoy the residence rights attached to citizenship after Brexit. On the other hand, it will analyse a number of legal principles which would, according to some scholars, have to be respected by any withdrawal agreement between the EU27 and the UK and which, arguably, provide a basis for continued residence rights after Brexit.
НКМК ФАОЛИЯТИДА ESG ТАМОЙИЛЛАРИНИНГ ТАКОМИЛЛАШТИРИШ ИСТИҚБОЛЛАРИ
Creators: name: Худойбердиева, Д.Б.
name: Эргашов, Б.Э.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ушбу мақолада бугунги глобаллашув жараёнларида дунё аҳолисига хавф солаётган хатарлар, ишлаб чиқариш жараёнлари тобора ривожланаётган бир пайтда яшил иқтисодиётнинг ўрни ва аҳамияти, яшил иқтисодиёт соҳасининг иқтисодиётга тадбиқ этилиши, халқаро тажрибада яшил иқтисодиётни ривожлантириш ва самарали фойдаланиш мақсадида ESG тамойилларининг жорий этилиши, НКМК фаолиятида ESG тамойилларининг амалиётга кенг жорий қилиниши бўйича амалга оширилаётган чора-тадбирлар таҳлил қилинади.
Classifying Entanglement by Algebraic Geometry
Creators: name: Gharahi, Masoud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Quantum Entanglement is one of the key manifestations of quantum mechanics that separate the quantum realm from the classical one. Characterization of entanglement as a physical resource for quantum technology became of uppermost importance. While the entanglement of bipartite systems is already well understood, the ultimate goal to cope with the properties of entanglement of multipartite systems is still far from being realized. This dissertation covers characterization of multipartite entanglement using algebraic-geometric tools. Firstly, we establish an algorithm to classify multipartite entanglement by $k$-secant varieties of the Segre variety and $\ell$-multilinear ranks that are invariant under Stochastic Local Operations with Classical Communication (SLOCC). We present a fine-structure classification of multiqubit and tripartite entanglement based on this algorithm. Another fundamental problem in quantum information theory is entanglement transformation that is quite challenging regarding to multipartite systems. It is captivating that the proposed entanglement classification by algebraic geometry can be considered as a reference to study SLOCC and asymptotic SLOCC interconversions among different resources based on tensor rank and border rank, respectively. In this regard, we also introduce a new class of tensors that we call \emph{persistent tensors} and construct a lower bound for their tensor rank. We further cover SLOCC convertibility of multipartite systems considering several families of persistent tensors.
description: Ph.D. dissertation
title: EU Citizenship, Access to 'Social Benefits' and Third-Country National Family Members: Reflecting on the Relationship Between Primary and Secondary Rights in Times of Brexit
Creators: name: Muir, Elise
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: EU citizenship
subject: constitutionalisation
subject: settlement for the UK
subject: Brexit
subject: Metock
subject: Brey

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1353-1378
description: I. Introduction. - I.1. Mapping out the constitutional and legislative framework for EU citizenship law. - I.2. The multiple constitutional functions of Art. 21 TFEU. - I.3. Tensions between primary and secondary law: the UK Settlement as an illustration. - II. Deconstitutionalising the perimeters of EU citizenship law: from Martínez Sala v. Freistaat Bayern to Brey as reflected in the UK Settlement. - II.1. Enshrining EU citizens' rights in EU primary law: "constitutional engineering". - II.2. The adoption of new legislation: fresh political guidance. - II.3. Legislation acting as a gateway to EU citizenship rights. - II.4. Interim conclusion: deconstitutionalisation. - III. Constitutionalising the perimeters of EU citizenship law: from Metock to Lounes, via the UK Settlement. - III.1. EU legislation and the rights attached to EU citizenship: from Singh to Akrich. - III.2. Ambiguities on the sources of rights: the adoption of a new legislative framework revirement in Metock. - III.3. Shifting to Art. 21, para. 1, TFEU: from the UK Settlement to Lounes. - III.4. Interim conclusion: constitutional protection? - IV. Soul searching: acknowledging the political dimension of EU citizenship law and locating the debate at legislative level. - IV.1. Art. 21, para. 1, TFEU and Directive 2004/38: the Directive as a gateway to EU primary rights? - IV.2. Concluding remarks on the relationship between primary and secondary rights.
description: In a series of recent cases on the rights of mobile EU citizens who do not perform an economic activity, the Court of Justice of the EU "deconstitutionalised" its understanding of key aspects of the free movement of EU citizens. The Court moved the discussion to the secondary law level, having kept it at the primary law level for many years. This line of cases sheds light on the ability of the Court to reframe the interplay between primary and secondary law as well as between the judicial and political guidance. The post-Brey case law provides a remarkable, if not unique, example of deconstitutionalisation following a period of intense constitutionalisation. The practical implications of this process are well illustrated in the context of the debate on Brexit that tests the relationship between treaty and legislative rights. This Article makes an enquiry into whether the trend towards a broader deference to political guidance in EU citizenship case law has been mirrored in other areas of citizens' rights having been subject to controversy in the context of Brexit, such as the status of third-country national family members.
Comment on "Fully gapped superconductivity and topological aspects of the noncentrosymmetric superconductor TaReSi"
Creators: name: Ptok, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper [T. Shang et al., Phys. Rev. B 107, 224504 (2023)], the authors study the physical properties of TaReSi compounds having Ima2 structure. This noncentrosymmetric structure is proposed to be the source of topological properties for mentioned compound. However, for a correct description of topological features, it is important to recognize the correct structure of the compound at low temperature. In this Comment, we show that Ima2 cannot be realized by TaReSi and is unstable at low temperature. The Ima2 structure contains the soft modes at S (1/2,0,0) point, which leads to the stable structure with Cm symmetry. Notably, the stable Cm system also has a noncentrosymmetric structure, which can be the actual source of topological properties.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Whey Proteins as a Potential Co-Surfactant with Aesculus hippocastanum L. as a Stabilizer in Nanoemulsions Derived from Hempseed Oil
Creators: name: Smułek, Wojciech
name: Siejak, Przemysław
name: Fathordoobady, Farahnaz
name: Masewicz, Łukasz
name: Guo, Yigong
name: Jarzębska, Małgorzata
name: Kitts, David D.
name: Kowalczewski, Przemysław Łukasz
name: Baranowska, Hanna Maria
name: Stangierski, Jerzy
name: Szwajca, Anna
name: Pratap-Singh, Anubhav
name: Jarzębski, Maciej
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: The use of natural surfactants including plant extracts, plant hydrocolloids and proteins in nanoemulsion systems has received commercial interest due to demonstrated safety of use and potential health benefits of plant products. In this study, a whey protein isolate (WPI) from a byproduct of cheese production was used to stabilize a nanoemulsion formulation that contained hempseed oil and the Aesculus hippocastanum L. extract (AHE). A Box–Behnken experimental design was used to set the formulation criteria and the optimal nanoemulsion conditions, used subsequently in follow-up experiments that measured specifically emulsion droplet size distribution, stability tests and visual quality. Regression analysis showed that the concentration of HSO and the interaction between HSO and the WPI were the most significant factors affecting the emulsion polydispersity index and droplet size (nm) (p < 0.05). Rheological tests, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis and L*a*b* color parameters were also taken to characterize the physicochemical properties of the emulsions. Emulsion systems with a higher concentration of the AHE had a potential metabolic activity up to 84% in a microbiological assay. It can be concluded from our results that the nanoemulsion system described herein is a safe and stable formulation with potential biological activity and health benefits that complement its use in the food industry.
GANterfactual - Counterfactual Explanations for Medical Non-Experts using Generative Adversarial Learning
Creators: name: Mertes, Silvan
name: Huber, Tobias
name: Weitz, Katharina
name: Heimerl, Alexander
name: André, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the ongoing rise of machine learning, the need for methods for explaining decisions made by artificial intelligence systems is becoming a more and more important topic. Especially for image classification tasks, many state-of-the-art tools to explain such classifiers rely on visual highlighting of important areas of the input data. Contrary, counterfactual explanation systems try to enable a counterfactual reasoning by modifying the input image in a way such that the classifier would have made a different prediction. By doing so, the users of counterfactual explanation systems are equipped with a completely different kind of explanatory information. However, methods for generating realistic counterfactual explanations for image classifiers are still rare. Especially in medical contexts, where relevant information often consists of textural and structural information, high-quality counterfactual images have the potential to give meaningful insights into decision processes. In this work, we present GANterfactual, an approach to generate such counterfactual image explanations based on adversarial image-to-image translation techniques. Additionally, we conduct a user study to evaluate our approach in an exemplary medical use case. Our results show that, in the chosen medical use-case, counterfactual explanations lead to significantly better results regarding mental models, explanation satisfaction, trust, emotions, and self-efficacy than two state-of-the-art systems that work with saliency maps, namely LIME and LRP.
title: The European Citizens' Initiative in Times of Brexit
Creators: name: Athanasiadou, Natassa
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Brexit
subject: EU citizenship
subject: citizens' initiatives
subject: participation
subject: democracy
subject: European Commission

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1378-1399
description: I. Introduction. - II. Revisiting the admissibility test. - II.1. Possibility of partial registration. - II.2. Possibility of influencing ongoing negotiations. - III. Managing expectations at the post-registration stage. - III.1. False expectations in case of partially inadmissible initiatives. - III.2. Difficulty of influencing ongoing procedures. - IV. Brexit-related initiatives as a case study. - IV.1. Towards a more flexible admissibility test. - IV.2. Shortcomings at the post-registration stage. - V. Conclusion.
description: In the era of Brexit negotiations, which will determine the future of citizens' rights in terms of the bilateral relations between the UK and the EU, EU citizens from different Member States have used the instrument of the European citizens' initiative in order to bring forward their claim for retaining the same rights also in the post-Brexit era. The present Article analyses the current legal framework for European citizens' initiatives against the benchmark of general principles of EU law, in particular the principles of good administration, legal certainty and legitimate expectations. On the basis of this analysis, the Brexit-related citizens' initiatives are used as a case study marking a change in the Commission's administrative practice, towards more openness and cooperative spirit in the phase of the admissibility check. However, this new approach bears the risk of creating false expectations to organisers and signatories as to the real prospect of an initiative. The Article concludes that, in order to enable the full potential of citizens' initiatives, the Commission should strengthen the cooperation mechanisms when registering initiatives in line with the principle of good administration.
Exploring isospin-nonconserving effects in the upper $fp$ shell with new mass measurements
Creators: name: Li, H. F.
name: Xu, X.
name: Sun, Y.
name: Kaneko, K.
name: Zhou, X.
name: Zhang, M.
name: Huang, W. J.
name: Zhou, X. H.
name: Litvinov, Yu. A.
name: Wang, M.
name: Zhang, Y. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear mass measurements have recently been extended conspicuously to proton-rich region in the upper $fp$ shell. The new data are utilized to study isospin symmetry breaking phenomena}using Coulomb displacement energy (CDE) and triplet displacement energy (TDE) as probes. The new mass data, either measured for the first time or with greatly improved accuracy, removed several previously found ``anomalies" in the systematical behavior in the $fp$ shell. Remarkably, more regular odd-even staggering patterns can be established in both CDE and TDE, calling for a uniform explanation in terms of isospin-nonconserving (INC) forces across the $sd$, $f_{7/2}$, and upper $fp$ shells. By extending the large-scale shell-model calculation [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{110}, 172505 (2013)] to the upper $fp$-shell region, we found that, in order to describe the new data, the same INC force is required as previously used for the $f_{7/2}$ shell. Especially, we propose the $T=1$ TDE for those triplet nuclei, that have $pp$, $nn$, and $pn$ pairs on top of a common even-even $N=Z$ core, to be a good indicator for the isotensor component of isospin violating interactions, which is estimated here to be 150 keV.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Ghilaroviella valiachmedovi Zalesskaja 1975
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Lithobiomorpha
Henicopidae
Ghilaroviella
Ghilaroviella valiachmedovi

description: Ghilaroviella valiachmedovi Zalesskaja, 1975
Fig. 1
 Ghilaroviella valiachmedovi Zalesskaja 1975: 1317.
 Ghilaroviella valiachmedovi – Zalesskaja 1978: 20; Dyachkov et al. 2022: 161.
 Material. 1 female (ASU No. 575), Tajikistan, Gorno-Badakhshan Region, Bartang River Valley, N37°58'35" E71°50'21", thickets of Betula and Prunus (Cerasus), under stones, in soil, 2300 m, 7– 8.VII.2023, coll. YD, AF.
 Distribution. Tajikistan: Khatlon and Gorno-Badakhshan regions (Western Pamir) (Zalesskaja 1975, 1978; Dyachkov et al. 2022).
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2023, On the Chilopoda fauna of the Pamir Mts, Tajikistan, with notes on the highest records of chilopod species in Middle Asia, pp. 67-75 in Ecologica Montenegrina 65 on page 69, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.65.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13246644
Infection dynamics of COVID-19 virus under lockdown and reopening
Creators: name: Svoboda, Jakub
name: Tkadlec, Josef
name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas
name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
name: Nowak, Martin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by COVID-19, we develop and analyze a simple stochastic model for a disease spread in human population. We track how the number of infected and critically ill people develops over time in order to estimate the demand that is imposed on the hospital system. To keep this demand under control, we consider a class of simple policies for slowing down and reopening the society and we compare their efficiency in mitigating the spread of the virus from several different points of view. We find that in order to avoid overwhelming of the hospital system, a policy must impose a harsh lockdown or it must react swiftly (or both). While reacting swiftly is universally beneficial, being harsh pays off only when the country is patient about reopening and when the neighboring countries coordinate their mitigation efforts. Our work highlights the importance of acting decisively when closing down and the importance of patience and coordination between neighboring countries when reopening.
Towards Deconfounded Image-Text Matching with Causal Inference
Creators: name: Li, Wenhui
name: Su, Xinqi
name: Song, Dan
name: Wang, Lanjun
name: Zhang, Kun
name: Liu, An-An
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Prior image-text matching methods have shown remarkable performance on many benchmark datasets, but most of them overlook the bias in the dataset, which exists in intra-modal and inter-modal, and tend to learn the spurious correlations that extremely degrade the generalization ability of the model. Furthermore, these methods often incorporate biased external knowledge from large-scale datasets as prior knowledge into image-text matching model, which is inevitable to force model further learn biased associations. To address above limitations, this paper firstly utilizes Structural Causal Models (SCMs) to illustrate how intra- and inter-modal confounders damage the image-text matching. Then, we employ backdoor adjustment to propose an innovative Deconfounded Causal Inference Network (DCIN) for image-text matching task. DCIN (1) decomposes the intra- and inter-modal confounders and incorporates them into the encoding stage of visual and textual features, effectively eliminating the spurious correlations during image-text matching, and (2) uses causal inference to mitigate biases of external knowledge. Consequently, the model can learn causality instead of spurious correlations caused by dataset bias. Extensive experiments on two well-known benchmark datasets, i.e., Flickr30K and MSCOCO, demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method.
description: ACM MM
Better Robustness Testing for Autonomy Systems
Creators: name: Zizyte, Milda
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: Successfully testing autonomy systems is important to decrease the likelihood that these systems will cause damage to people, themselves, or the environment.Historically, robustness testing has been successful at finding failures in traditional system software. Robustness testing uses a chosen test value input generation techniqueto exercise the system under test with potentially exceptional inputs and evaluate how the system performs. However, assessing coverage for a given input generation technique, especially in black box testing, is tricky. Past work has justified new input generation techniques on the basis that they find a non-zero number of failures, or find more failures than other methods. Simply measuring the efficacy ofthese techniques in this way does not consider the complexity or uniqueness of these failures. No strongly justified metrics of comparison or systematic ways to combine test value input generation techniques have been introduced. In this dissertation, we explore two main robustness testing input generation techniques: fuzzing and dictionary-based testing. These techniques represent twodifferent ways of sampling the possible input space for a given parameter. Fuzzing can theoretically generate any value, but may generate wasteful test cases due tothe size of the sample space. Conversely, dictionary-based testing may closer match the distribution of failure-triggering inputs, but is restricted in scope by the predeterminedvalues in the dictionary. By introducing metrics to compare these techniques, we can highlight how these tradeoffs manifest on actual systems. To perform this comparison, we have created an approach to test autonomy systemsand apply both test input generation techniques to an assortment of systems. We introduce the comparison metrics of efficiency and effectiveness, and show thatboth test methods have areas of strength, weakness, and similar performance. By delving deeper into the reason for these differences and similarities, we justify combiningthe test input generation techniques in a hybridized way. We propose various hybrid testing methods and evaluate them according to our metrics of comparison. We find that dictionary-based testing, followed by fuzzing, performs the best according to our metrics. We show that this happens because of a path dependency in testing, that is, deeper bugs cannot be found until fragile fields are eliminated fromtesting. We discuss how both of our metrics were necessary to reach this insight. We also include general insights from testing autonomy systems, such as low dimensionalityof failure-triggering inputs. Our recommendations of testing frameworks, test input generation techniques, test case selection strategies for a hybrid testing method, and metrics of evaluation can be used to test robotics software effectively and efficiently in the future, which is a step toward safer autonomy systems.
What Drives Climate Action in Canada’s Provincial North? Exploring the Role of Connectedness to Nature, Climate Worry, and Talking with Friends and Family
Creators: name: Galway, Lindsay P.
name: Beery, Thomas
name: Buse, Chris G.
name: Gislason, Maya K.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Despite widespread calls to action from the scientific community and beyond, a concerning climate action gap exists. This paper aims to enhance our understanding of the role of connectedness to nature in promoting individual-level climate action in a unique setting where climate research and action are lacking: Canada’s Provincial North. To begin to understand possible pathways, we also examined whether climate worry and talking about climate change with family and friends mediate the relationship between connectedness to nature and climate action. We used data collected via postal surveys in two Provincial North communities, Thunder Bay (Ontario), and Prince George (British Columbia) (n = 628). Results show that connectedness to nature has a direct positive association with individual-level climate action, controlling for gender and education. Results of parallel mediation analyses further show that connectedness to nature is indirectly associated with individual-level climate action, mediated by both climate worry and talking about climate change with family and friends. Finally, results suggest that climate worry and talking about climate change with family and friends serially mediate the relationship between connectedness to nature and with individual-level climate action. These findings are relevant for climate change engagement and action, especially across Canada’s Provincial North, but also in similar settings characterized by marginalization, heightened vulnerability to climate change, urban islands within vast rural and remote landscapes, and economies and social identities tied to resource extraction. Drawing on these findings, we argue that cultivating stronger connections with nature in the places where people live, learn, work, and play is an important and currently underutilized leverage point for promoting individual-level climate action. This study therefore adds to the current and increasingly relevant calls for (re-)connecting with nature that have been made by others across a range of disciplinary and sectoral divides.