cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Epidemic extinction in a generalized susceptible-infected-susceptible model
Creators: name: Chen, Hanshuang
name: Huang, Feng
name: Zhang, Haifeng
name: Li, Guofeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the extinction of epidemics in a generalized susceptible-infected-susceptible model, where a susceptible individual becomes infected with the rate $λ$ when contacting $m$ infective individual(s) simultaneously, and an infected individual spontaneously recovers with the rate $μ$. By employing the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation for the master equation, the problem is reduced to finding the zero-energy trajectories in an effective Hamiltonian system, and the mean extinction time $\langle T\rangle$ depends exponentially on the associated action $\mathcal {S}$ and the size of the population $N$, $\langle T\rangle \sim \exp(N\mathcal {S})$. Because of qualitatively different bifurcation features for $m=1$ and $m\geq2$, we derive independently the expressions of $\mathcal {S}$ as a function of the rescaled infection rate $λ/μ$. For the weak infection, $\mathcal {S}$ scales to the distance to the bifurcation with an exponent $2$ for $m=1$ and $3/2$ for $m\geq2$. Finally, a rare-event simulation method is used to validate the theory.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Banned in War, Permitted at Home: The Incoherent Use of Force Constraints on the Police and Military
Creators: name: McBrien, Tyler
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: police
subject: policing
subject: lethal use of force
subject: militarization

description: Stories of militarized police and their use of force on the U.S. domestic population are nothing new, nor are U.S. police forces alone in their use of hollow-point bullets, or of tear gas and pepper spray, also known as “riot control agents.” What makes these instances unique among other uses of force by U.S. police is that they represent acts of violence deemed too brutal for war, and thus illegal under international humanitarian law. Soldiers and police officers are the only two agents of the state authorized to use lethal force, though different bodies of law and regulatory regimes dictate that usage. In terms of weapons and tactics, less rigorous training, and weaker legal accountability, police generally have fewer constraints placed on the use of force, lethal or otherwise, than the military. Given this legal discrepancy, my research asks: How and why are U.S. domestic police forces authorized to use weapons and tactics against their own population that soldiers abroad are not? This question is especially puzzling given the rapid militarization of the police in recent decades and the ever-blurring line between the military and police in the U.S. While the militarization of the police accelerated, legal constraints lagged. The two institutions’ de facto roles have merged significantly while their attendant legal regimes remain separate.
An outcome dependent approach to competence assessment
Creators: name: Yates, Giles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Nodal Line Entanglement Entropy: Generalized Widom Formula from Entanglement Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Pretko, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A system of fermions forming a Fermi surface exhibits a large degree of quantum entanglement, even in the absence of interactions. In particular, the usual case of a codimension one Fermi surface leads to a logarithmic violation of the area law for entanglement entropy, as dictated by the Widom formula. We here generalize this formula to the case of arbitrary codimension, which is of particular interest for nodal lines in three dimensions. We first rederive the standard Widom formula by calculating an entanglement Hamiltonian for Fermi surface systems, obtained by repurposing a trick commonly applied to relativistic theories. The entanglement Hamiltonian will take a local form in terms of a low-energy patch theory for the Fermi surface, though it is nonlocal with respect to the microscopic fermions. This entanglement Hamiltonian can then be used to derive the entanglement entropy, yielding a result in agreement with the Widom formula. The method is then generalized to arbitrary codimension. For nodal lines, the area law is obeyed, and the magnitude of the coefficient for a particular partition is non-universal. However, the coefficient has a universal dependence on the shape and orientation of the nodal line relative to the partitioning surface. By comparing the relative magnitude of the area law for different partitioning cuts, entanglement entropy can be used as a tool for diagnosing the presence and shape of a nodal line in a ground state wavefunction.
description: 9+3 pages
Study of neutron density fluctuation and neutron-proton correlation in Au+Au collisions using PYTHIA8/Angantyr
Creators: name: Zuman, Zhang
name: Sha, Li
name: Ning, Yu
name: Jianping, Lin
name: Shuang, Li
name: Siyu, Tang
name: Daicui, Zhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Utilizing the PYTHIA8 Angantyr model, which incorporates the multiple-parton interactions (MPI) based color reconnection (CR) mechanism, we study the relative neutron density fluctuation and neutron-proton correlation in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\text{NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV. In this study, we have not only delved into the dependence of these two remarkable observations on rapidity, centrality, and energy, but also presented an analysis of their interplay with the MPI and CR. Our results have shown that the light nuclei yield ratio of proton, deuteron, and triton, expressed by the elegant expression $N_tN_p/N_d^2$, remains unchanged even as the rapidity coverage and collision centrality increase. Interestingly, we have also revealed that the effect of CR is entirely dependent on the presence of MPI; CR has no impact on the yield ratio if MPI is off. Our findings further demonstrate that the light nuclei yield ratio experiences a slight increase with increasing collision energy as predicted by the PYTHIA8 Angantyr model, but it cannot describe the non-monotonic trend observed by the STAR experiment. Based on the Angantyr model simulation results, it is essential not to overlook the correlation between neutron and proton fluctuations. The Angantyr model is a good baseline for studying collisions in the absence of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) system, given its lack of flow and jet quenching.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2211.03297 by other authors
(201816) William Brown
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Schooling, work and social division : a study of working class youth
Creators: name: Wyn, Johanna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Social Data Services - Challenges Ahead: Working on Sustainability, Impact, Capacity Building and Compliance [CESSDA Widening Event 2019]
Creators: name: Cekikj, Aneta
name: Emery, Tom
name: Dekker, Ron
name: Ilijašić Veršić, Ivana
name: Bishop, Libby
name: Beagrie, Neil
name: Alfredsson, Iris
name: Krejčí, Jindřich
name: Bornatici, Christina
name: Stebe, Janez
name: Vipavc Brvar, Irena
name: Hegedus, Peter
name: Kleemola, Mari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: CESSDA ERIC
Widening
Strengthening
Research Infrastructure
Sustainability
Capacity Building
Data Archives
Data Services

description: The consortium of European Social Science Data Archives, CESSDA ERIC, through funding a dedicated project on Widening and Strengthening of the consortium, organised a workshop on 5-6 November 2019 in Skopje, North Macedonia. This event is part of continuous efforts by CESSDA ERIC to strengthen and widen the social data research infrastructure community across Europe and beyond. It was organised within the CESSDA ERIC Work Plan Task on Widening Activities 2019. More information is available at the event website: https://www.cessda.eu/skopje2019/. Event title: Social Data Services - Challenges Ahead: Working on Sustainability, Impact, Capacity Building and Compliance Date: 5th - 6th November 2019 Place: Skopje, North Macedonia Over the past four years, efforts have been made on widening: to expand the participation in CESSDA and to establish the conditions for a network of national social science data services in Europe.

 The event in 2019 focused on challenges CESSDA faces to improve its research infrastructure: Challenges connected to sustainability, impact and ongoing monitoring of Research Infrastructures in the European Union, and integration with the European Open Science Cloud. Challenges connected to developments at national data services in terms of funding and building capacities internally and complying with CESSDA requirements externally. Challenges connected to widening of CESSDA in terms of support and collaboration with partner countries and new member countries. There were 37 participants from 16 countries including 10 target non-member countries and 6 CESSDA member countries. Participants were representatives from ministries, research councils and service providers from recent and potential partner countries.
 The event was hosted by The Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, and the following CESSDA Service Providers were organising the content and the meeting: Tárki Data Archive (TÁRKI)
 Czech Social Science Data Archive (CSDA)
 Social Science Data Archives (ADP)
 Swedish National Data Service (SND)
 Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS) More information on the CESSDA Widening events can be found here: https://www.cessda.eu/Tools-Services/For-Members/Widening-workshops.
(201819) William Shepherd Kinnersley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Guidelines For Use Of Climate Scenarios Developed From Statistical Downscaling Methods.
Creators: name: Wilby, RL
name: Charles, SP
name: Zorita, E
name: Timbal, B
name: Whetton, P
name: Mearns, LO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: climate
IPCC
downscaling

description: Many climate impact applications require the equivalent of point climate observations and are highly sensitive to fine-scale climate variations that are parameterised in coarse-scale models. This is especially true for regions of complex topography, coastal or island locations, and in regions of highly heterogeneous land-cover. This guidance documents reviews statistical methods of estimating point climate from coarse scale climate projections.
Detection of Zak phases and topological invariants in a chiral quantum walk of twisted photons
Creators: name: Cardano, F.
name: D'Errico, A.
name: Dauphin, A.
name: Maffei, M.
name: Piccirillo, B.
name: de Lisio, C.
name: De Filippis, G.
name: Cataudella, V.
name: Santamato, E.
name: Marrucci, L.
name: Lewenstein, M.
name: Massignan, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological insulators are fascinating states of matter exhibiting protected edge states and robust quantized features in their bulk. Here, we propose and validate experimentally a method to detect topological properties in the bulk of one-dimensional chiral systems. We first introduce the mean chiral displacement, and we show that it rapidly approaches a multiple of the Zak phase in the long time limit. Then we measure the Zak phase in a photonic quantum walk, by direct observation of the mean chiral displacement in its bulk. Next, we measure the Zak phase in an alternative, inequivalent timeframe, and combine the two windings to characterize the full phase diagram of this Floquet system. Finally, we prove the robustness of the measure by introducing dynamical disorder in the system. This detection method is extremely general, as it can be applied to all one-dimensional platforms simulating static or Floquet chiral systems.
description: 10 pages, 7 color figures (incl. appendices) Close to the published version
Forcing the lock? : the problem of class composition in Italian workerism
Creators: name: Wright, Steven John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Observation of light driven band structure via multi-band high harmonic spectroscopy
Creators: name: Uzan-Narovlansky, Ayelet J.
name: Jiménez-Galán, Álvaro
name: Orenstein, Gal
name: Silva, Rui E. F.
name: Arusi-Parpar, Talya
name: Shames, Sergei
name: Bruner, Barry D.
name: Yan, Binghai
name: Smirnova, Olga
name: Ivanov, Misha
name: Dudovich, Nirit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intense light-matter interactions have revolutionized our ability to probe and manipulate quantum systems at sub-femtosecond time scales, opening routes to all-optical control of electronic currents in solids at petahertz rates. Such control typically requires electric field amplitudes $\sim V/Å$, when the voltage drop across a lattice site becomes comparable to the characteristic band gap energies. In this regime, intense light-matter interaction induces significant modifications of electronic and optical properties, dramatically modifying the crystal band structure. Yet, identifying and characterizing such modifications remains an outstanding problem. As the oscillating electric field changes within the driving field's cycle, does the band-structure follow, and how can it be defined? Here we address this fundamental question, proposing all-optical spectroscopy to probe laser-induced closing of the band-gap between adjacent conduction bands. Our work reveals the link between nonlinear light matter interactions in strongly driven crystals and the sub-cycle modifications in their effective band structure.
(201820) Thomas Kinnersely
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A historical commentary on Deinarchus I
Creators: name: Worthington, Ian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(201822) William Beauclark Robinson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Topological mosaic in Moiré superlattices of van der Waals heterobilayers
Creators: name: Tong, Qingjun
name: Yu, Hongyi
name: Zhu, Qizhong
name: Wang, Yong
name: Xu, Xiaodong
name: Yao, Wang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures formed by 2D atomic crystals provide a powerful approach towards designer condensed matter systems. Incommensurate heterobilayers with small twisting and/or lattice mismatch lead to the interesting concept of Moiré superlattice, where the atomic registry is locally indistinguishable from commensurate bilayers but has local-to-local variation over long range. Here we show that such Moiré superlattice can lead to periodic modulation of local topological order in vdW heterobilayers formed by two massive Dirac materials. By tuning the vdW heterojunction from normal to the inverted type-II regime via an interlayer bias, the commensurate heterobilayer can become a topological insulator (TI), depending on the interlayer hybridization controlled by the atomic registry between the vdW layers. This results in mosaic pattern of TI regions and normal insulator (NI) regions in Moiré superlattices, where topologically protected helical modes exist at the TI/NI phase boundaries. By using symmetry based k.p and tight-binding models, we predict that this topological phenomenon can be present in inverted transition metal dichalcogenides heterobilayers. Our work points to a new means of realizing programmable and electrically switchable topological superstructures from 2D arrays of TI nano-dots to 1D arrays of TI nano-stripes.
description: 17 pages,5 figures
The fantastic in the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann
Creators: name: Woodgate, Kenneth Bartlett
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Carotid Vessel Wall Segmentation Challenge
Creators: name: Yuan, Chun
name: Chen, Li
name: Niranjan Balu
name: Mossa-Basha, Mahmud
name: Jenq-Neng
name: Saloner, David
name: Douglas, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Segmentation
Vessel wall
Carotid artery
3D-MERGE

description: MICCAI endorsed event Atherosclerosis, a leading cause of death worldwide, is a systemic disease that leads to plaque formation or luminal narrowing in multiple vascular beds, including carotid arteries. Atherosclerosis develops in the walls of the artery (vessel wall) and therefore it is important to measure the thickness of the vessel wall to differentiate normal and diseased vessels. Vessel wall (VW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), using black blood imaging, has been effective at visualizing normal and diseased arteries and characterizing atherosclerotic lesions. VW MRI has previously been used in research settings, with careful and comprehensive manual segmentation of the vessel wall. However, manual segmentation is labor intensive and requires a high degree of training in vessel wall review. On the other hand, automatic segmentation is also challenging for complex atherosclerotic lesions and in complex arterial geometries. Vessel wall imaging (VWI) with MRI of the carotid artery has been recognized to be able to identify atherosclerotic lesions which pose increased risk of causing clinical events. However, traditional axial acquisition MRI sequences require a long scan. To ensure patient compliance and diagnostic image quality, a fast 3D carotid black blood MRI sequence (3D Motion Sensitized Driven Equilibrium prepared Rapid Gradient Echo, 3D-MERGE) has been developed, which allows large coverage of carotid arteries with submillimeter isotropic resolution in coronal acquisition, and is able to depict atherosclerotic lesion burden, severity, and luminal stenosis. This rapid sequence, which can complete a carotid scan in 2 minutes, has potential clinical application in identifying patients with advanced lesions but its application is limited due to the complexity of 3D image review, the large number of images available, and the lack of trained radiologists with extensive experience in the evaluation of carotid vessel
 wall thickness. In this challenge, the task is to segment the vessel wall from 3D-MERGE image with high accuracy and robustness. While the challenges of segmentation in different body regions are different, all vessel wall segmentation requires the basic steps of identifying the artery (localization) and lumen and outer wall segmentation. Then the wall thickness (difference between the lumen and outer wall contours) can be measured. Other clinically usable measurements such as lumen area or percent stenosis can also be derived from the vessel wall segmentation. Therefore, this challenge focuses on the important first step of vessel wall segmentation.
Efficient N:M Sparse DNN Training Using Algorithm, Architecture, and Dataflow Co-Design
Creators: name: Fang, Chao
name: Sun, Wei
name: Zhou, Aojun
name: Wang, Zhongfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sparse training is one of the promising techniques to reduce the computational cost of DNNs while retaining high accuracy. In particular, N:M fine-grained structured sparsity, where only N out of consecutive M elements can be nonzero, has attracted attention due to its hardware-friendly pattern and capability of achieving a high sparse ratio. However, the potential to accelerate N:M sparse DNN training has not been fully exploited, and there is a lack of efficient hardware supporting N:M sparse training. To tackle these challenges, this paper presents a computation-efficient training scheme for N:M sparse DNNs using algorithm, architecture, and dataflow co-design. At the algorithm level, a bidirectional weight pruning method, dubbed BDWP, is proposed to leverage the N:M sparsity of weights during both forward and backward passes of DNN training, which can significantly reduce the computational cost while maintaining model accuracy. At the architecture level, a sparse accelerator for DNN training, namely SAT, is developed to neatly support both the regular dense operations and the computation-efficient N:M sparse operations. At the dataflow level, multiple optimization methods ranging from interleave mapping, pre-generation of N:M sparse weights, and offline scheduling, are proposed to boost the computational efficiency of SAT. Finally, the effectiveness of our training scheme is evaluated on a Xilinx VCU1525 FPGA card using various DNN models and datasets. Experimental results show the SAT accelerator with the BDWP sparse training method under 2:8 sparse ratio achieves an average speedup of 1.75x over that with the dense training, accompanied by a negligible accuracy loss of 0.56% on average. Furthermore, our proposed training scheme significantly improves the training throughput by 2.97~25.22x and the energy efficiency by 1.36~3.58x over prior FPGA-based accelerators.
description: To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
Social-entertainment travel and life cycle in metropolitan Melbourne
Creators: name: Wolinski, Jeffrey N.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Many-body topological invariants in fermionic symmetry protected topological phases: Cases of point group symmetries
Creators: name: Shiozaki, Ken
name: Shapourian, Hassan
name: Ryu, Shinsei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the definitions of many-body topological invariants to detect symmetry-protected topological phases protected by point group symmetry, using partial point group transformations on a given short-range entangled quantum ground state. Partial point group transformations $g_D$ are defined by point group transformations restricted to a spatial subregion $D$, which is closed under the point group transformations and sufficiently larger than the bulk correlation length $ξ$. By analytical and numerical calculations,we find that the ground state expectation value of the partial point group transformations behaves generically as $\langle GS | g_D | GS \rangle \sim \exp \Big[ i θ+ γ- α\frac{{\rm Area}(\partial D)}{ξ^{d-1}} \Big]$. Here, ${\rm Area}(\partial D)$ is the area of the boundary of the subregion $D$, and $α$ is a dimensionless constant. The complex phase of the expectation value $θ$ is quantized and serves as the topological invariant, and $γ$ is a scale-independent topological contribution to the amplitude. The examples we consider include the $\mathbb{Z}_8$ and $\mathbb{Z}_{16}$ invariants of topological superconductors protected by inversion symmetry in $(1+1)$ and $(3+1)$ dimensions, respectively, and the lens space topological invariants in $(2+1)$-dimensional fermionic topological phases. Connections to topological quantum field theories and cobordism classification of symmetry-protected topological phases are discussed.
description: 60 pages, 15 figures, final version
Differential Evolution Algorithm Based Hyperparameter Selection of Gated Recurrent Unit for Electrical Load Forecasting
Creators: name: Sen, Anuvab
name: Gupta, Vedica
name: Tang, Chi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate load forecasting remains a formidable challenge in numerous sectors, given the intricate dynamics of dynamic power systems, which often defy conventional statistical models. As a response, time-series methodologies like ARIMA and sophisticated deep learning techniques such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks have demonstrated their mettle by achieving enhanced predictive performance. In our investigation, we delve into the efficacy of the relatively recent Gated Recurrent Network (GRU) model within the context of load forecasting. GRU models are garnering attention due to their inherent capacity to adeptly capture and model temporal dependencies within data streams. Our methodology entails harnessing the power of Differential Evolution, a versatile optimization technique renowned for its prowess in delivering scalable, robust, and globally optimal solutions, especially in scenarios involving non-differentiable, multi-objective, or constrained optimization challenges. Through rigorous analysis, we undertake a comparative assessment of the proposed Gated Recurrent Network model, collaboratively fused with various metaheuristic algorithms, evaluating their performance by leveraging established numerical benchmarks such as Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). Our empirical investigations are conducted using power load data originating from the Ontario province, Canada. Our research findings cast a spotlight on the remarkable potential of metaheuristic-augmented Gated Recurrent Network models in substantially augmenting load forecasting precision, offering tailored, optimal hyperparameter configurations uniquely suited to each model's performance characteristics.
description: 3 figures, 2 tables, Presented @ 3rd Annual BRIC Symposium, 2023 @McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2307.15299
Drop splashing is independent of substrate wetting
Creators: name: Latka, Andrzej
name: Boelens, Arnout M. P.
name: Nagel, Sidney R.
name: de Pablo, Juan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A liquid drop impacting a dry solid surface with sufficient kinetic energy will splash, breaking apart into numerous secondary droplets. This phenomenon shows many similarities to forced wetting, including the entrainment of air at the contact line. Because of these similarities and the fact that forced wetting has been shown to depend on the wetting properties of the surface, existing theories predict splashing to depend on wetting properties as well. However, using high-speed interference imaging we observe that at high capillary numbers wetting properties have no effect on splashing for various liquid-surface combinations. Additionally, by fully resolving the Navier-Stokes equations at length and time scales inaccessible to experiments, we find that the shape and motion of the air-liquid interface at the contact line at the edge of the droplet are independent of wettability. We use these findings to evaluate existing theories and to compare splashing with forced wetting.
Land settlement and environment in the upper Dandenongs
Creators: name: Winzenried, Arthur
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Time-reversal symmetric work distributions for closed quantum dynamics in the histories framework
Creators: name: Miller, Harry J. D.
name: Anders, Janet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A central topic in the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics is the definition of thermodynamic work in the quantum regime. One widely used solution is to define work for a closed system undergoing non-equilibrium dynamics according to the two-point energy measurement scheme. However, due to the invasive nature of measurement the two-point quantum work probability distribution leads to inconsistencies with two pillars of thermodynamics: it breaks the first law and the time-reversal symmetry expected for closed dynamics. We here introduce the quantum histories framework as a method to characterise the thermodynamic properties of the unmeasured, closed dynamics. Extending the classical phase space trajectories to continuous power operator trajectories allows us to derive an alternative quantum work distribution for closed quantum dynamics that fulfils the first law and is time-reversal symmetric. We find that the work distribution of the unmeasured dynamics leads to deviations from the classical Jarzynski equality and can have negative values highlighting distinctly non-classical features of quantum work.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures, comments welcome
(201814) James Bull
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Memory-augmented conformer for improved end-to-end long-form ASR
Creators: name: Carvalho, Carlos
name: Abad, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Conformers have recently been proposed as a promising modelling approach for automatic speech recognition (ASR), outperforming recurrent neural network-based approaches and transformers. Nevertheless, in general, the performance of these end-to-end models, especially attention-based models, is particularly degraded in the case of long utterances. To address this limitation, we propose adding a fully-differentiable memory-augmented neural network between the encoder and decoder of a conformer. This external memory can enrich the generalization for longer utterances since it allows the system to store and retrieve more information recurrently. Notably, we explore the neural Turing machine (NTM) that results in our proposed Conformer-NTM model architecture for ASR. Experimental results using Librispeech train-clean-100 and train-960 sets show that the proposed system outperforms the baseline conformer without memory for long utterances.
Comparison of Tsallis statistics with the Tsallis-factorized statistics in the ultrarelativistic $pp$ collisions
Creators: name: Parvan, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Tsallis statistics was applied to describe the experimental data on the transverse momentum distributions of hadrons. We considered the energy dependence of the parameters of the Tsallis-factorized statistics, which is now widely used for the description of the experimental transverse momentum distributions of hadrons, and the Tsallis statistics for the charged pions produced in $pp$ collisions at high energies. We found that the results of the Tsallis-factorized statistics deviate from the results of the Tsallis statistics only at low NA61/SHINE energies when the value of the entropic parameter is close to unity. At higher energies, when the value of the entropic parameter deviates essentially from unity, the Tsallis-factorized statistics satisfactorily recovers the results of the Tsallis statistics.
description: 8 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1607.01956
Digital Gallery: Caen Highland Township, 1813
Creators: name: Kennedy, Sarah
name: Aitken, Jacquie
name: Hardie, Lucy
name: Cassidy, Catherine Anne
name: Oliver, Iain
name: Miller, Alan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: CINE
Caen
3-D Object
Digital Reconstruction
CULTURAL HERITAGE
HISTORY
Digital Humanities

description: During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the inhabitants of many small farming communities in the Scottish Highlands were forced to leave their homes. Under the guise of improvement landlords drove out traditional subsistence farmers and created a much less densely occupied landscape. One of the communities affected by this process of ‘clearance’ was the township of Caen in Sutherland. Caen was located in the lower part of the Strath of Kildonan. This area was cleared particularly brutally by representatives of the Duke of Sutherland between 1813 and 1819. Several families resisted the clearances and soldiers were sent from Fort George to maintain order. Today only a few foundations indicate where a thriving farming community once stood.
Emergent discourses : the construction of gender and ethnicity in Australian English
Creators: name: Winter, Joanne Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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(201815) Thomas Norton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Paramagnetic resonance in spin-polarized disordered Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Kovalev, V. M.
name: Savenko, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the pseudo-spin density response of a disordered two-dimensional spin-polarized Bose gas of exciton polaritons to weak alternating magnetic field, assuming that one of the spin states of the doublet is macroscopically occupied and Bose-condensed while the occupation of the other state remains much smaller. We calculate spatial and temporal dispersions of spin susceptibility of the gas taking into account spin-flip processes due to the transverse-longitudinal splitting. Further, we use the Bogoliubov theory of weakly-interacting gases and show that the time-dependent magnetic field power absorption exhibits double resonance structure corresponding to two particle spin states (contrast to paramagnetic resonance in regular spin-polarized electron gas). We analyze the widths of these resonances caused by scattering on the disorder and show that, in contrast with the ballistic regime, in the presence of impurities, the polariton scattering on them is twofold: scattering on the impurity potential directly and scattering on the spatially fluctuating condensate density caused by the disorder. As a result, the width of the resonance associated with the Bose-condensed spin state can be surprizingly narrow in comparison with the width of the resonance associated with the non-condensed state.
description: Manuscript: 6 pages, 2x2 figures, published in Scientific Reports 7, 2076 (2017)
(201817) William Exton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Attitude toward mathematics among the students at Nazarbayev University Foundation Year Programme
Creators: name: Karjanto, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 97C40, 62P15, 91E45

description: This article investigates the attitude toward mathematics among the students enrolled in the Foundation Year Programme at Nazarbayev University. The study is conducted quantitatively and an inventory developed by Tapia and Marsh II is adopted in this research. The inventory consists of 40 statements on the five-point Likert scale. Gender, specialization and final high school score in mathematics are collected. The number of valid returned questionnaires is 108. There are 55 males, 53 females, 73 Mathematical-Physics (MP), 22 Biology-Chemistry (BC) and 13 International Relations-Economics (IRE) students. Generally, they have a positive attitude toward mathematics, with the score mean and standard deviation are 3.999 and 0.531 out of five, respectively. We confirm a hypothesis on a positive correlation between previous high achievement in mathematics and favorable attitude toward it. The correlation value is $r = 0.300$, its effect size is medium and it is extremely significant ($p$-value $= 0.0008 < 0.001$). There is no significant difference between male and female students in terms of their attitude toward mathematics ($t = 0.6804$, $p$-value $= 0.2489 > 0.05$). There is a very significant difference between students who specialize in IRE and MP in terms of their attitude toward mathematics ($F(2,105) = 5.6848$, $p$-value $= 0.0045 < 0.01$).
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 10/96
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: Änderung der Benutzungsordnung der Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund in der Fassung der Neubekanntmachung vom 29. Juni 1994
description: Beitragsordnung des Studentenwerks Dortmund in der Fassung vom 28. Juni 1996 in Verbindung mit dem Gesetz über die Studentenwerke in Nordrhein-Westfalen (StWG) vom 4. Januar 1994 (GV. NW. Nr. 7/94, S. 36)
description: Nichtamtlicher Teil: Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Maschinenbau an der Universität Dortmund vom 5. März 1996
description: Studienordnung für das Studium der beruflichen Fachrichtung Sonderpädagogik für das Lehramt für die Sekundarstufe II an der Universität Dortmund mit dem Abschluß "Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Sekundarstufe II" vom 11.09.1996
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 10, 1996
Physics of Galactic Metals: Evolutionary Effects due to Production, Distribution, Feedback & Interaction with Black Holes
Creators: name: Choi, Ena
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
name: Naab, Thorsten
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
name: Hirschmann, Michaela
name: Núñez, Alejandro
name: Hu, Chia-Yu
name: Oser, Ludwig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We ask how the inclusion of various physical heating processes due to the metal content of gas affect the evolution of massive galaxies and compute a suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations that follow these systems and their supermassive black holes. We use a smoothed particle hydrodynamics code with a pressure-entropy formulation and a more accurate treatment of the metal production, turbulent diffusion and cooling rate based on individual element abundances. The feedback models include (1) AGN feedback via high velocity BAL winds and Compton/photoionization heating, (2) explicit stellar feedback from multiple processes including powerful winds from supernova events, stellar winds from young massive stars and AGB stars as well as radiative heating within Stromgren spheres around massive stars, and (3) additional heating effects due to the presence of metals including grain photoelectric heating, metallicity dependent X-ray heating by nearby accreting black holes and from the cosmic X-ray background, which are the major improvement in our feedback model. With a suite of zoom-in simulations of 30 halos with $M_{vir} \sim 10^{12-13.4}$, we show that energy and momentum budget from all feedback effects generate realistic galaxy properties. We explore the detailed role of each feedback model with three additional sets of simulations with varying input physics. We show that the metal induced heating mechanisms reduce the fraction of accreted stellar material by mainly suppressing the growth of diffuse small stellar systems at high redshift but overall have a relatively minor effect on the final stellar and gas properties of massive galaxies. The inclusion of AGN feedback significantly improves the ability of our cosmological simulations to yield realistic gas and stellar properties of massive galaxies with reasonable fraction of the final stellar mass accreted from other galaxies.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Myths of the beach : a coastal sense of place in Australian film and television
Creators: name: Winnett, Francine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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