cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, A X 117 : Composite manuscript of theological content
Creators: name: Guilelmus, Textor
name: Engelhart, von Ebrach
name: Zscheckenbürlin, Hieronymus
name: Loy, Johannes
name: Eckhart, Meister
name: Kress, Thomas
name: Seuse, Heinrich
name: Tauler, Johannes
name: Peuntner, Thomas
name: Moser, Ludwig
name: Moser, Ludwig
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: This volume, originally from Ludwig Moser’s private book collection (cf. note of ownership 2r) came to the Basel University Library as part of the holdings of the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel. It contains various theological texts in German, beginning with a version of Wilhelm Textoris’ Migrale vel Ars moriendi (Sterbebuch, a book on the art of dying), which Moser himself translated into German. This is followed by Henry Suso’s "Büchlein von der Wahrheit”, Thomas Peuntner’s "Büchlein von der Liebe Gottes”, and several sermons by Johannes Tauler and Meister Eckhart.
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
Meaning creation in novel noun-noun compounds: humans and language models
Creators: name: Chen, Phoebe
name: Poeppel, David
name: Zuanazzi, Arianna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: The interpretation of novel noun-noun compounds (NNCs, e.g. “devil salary”) requires the combination of nouns in the absence of syntactic cues, an interesting facet of complex meaning creation. Here we examine unconstrained interpretations of a large set of novel NNCs, to investigate how NNC constituents are combined into novel complex meanings. The data show that words’ lexical-semantic features (e.g. material, agentivity, imageability, semantic similarity) differentially contribute to the grammatical relations and the semantics of NNC interpretations. Further, we demonstrate that passive interpretations incur higher processing cost (longer interpretation times and more eye-movements) than active interpretations. Finally, we show that large language models (GPT-2, BERT, RoBERTa) can predict whether a NNC is interpretable by human participants and estimate differences in processing cost, but do not exhibit sensitivity to more subtle grammatical differences. The experiments illuminate how humans can use lexical-semantic features to interpret NNCs in the absence of explicit syntactic information.
Sphenomorphus sungaicolus Sumarli, Grismer, Wood, Ahmad, Rizal, Ismail, Izam, Ahmad & Linkem 2016
Creators: name: Grismer, L. Lee
name: Quah, Evan S. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Sphenomorphus
Sphenomorphus sungaicolus

description: Sphenomorphus sungaicolus Sumarli, Grismer, Wood, Ahmad, Rizal, Ismail, Izam, Ahmad & Linkem, 2016
Holotype and type locality: Adult male (LSUHC 11722) from “Hutan Lipur Sekayu, Hulu Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia (4°59'N, 102°55'E).”
Distribution: Known from Hutan Lipur Sekayu, Hutan Lipur Chemerong, and the Tembat Forest Reserve, Hulu Terengganu, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia—localities east of the Banjaran Titiwangsa. Localities on the western side of the Banjaran Titiwangsa are FRIM and Ulu Gombak, Selangor and the Korbu Forest Reserve, Perak in the north. Populations newly reported here come from Ulu Galas Forest Reserve Kelantan (LSUDPC 10840).
description: Published as part of Grismer, L. Lee & Quah, Evan S. H., 2019, An updated and annotated checklist of the lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos, pp. 230-248 in Zootaxa 4545 (2) on page 241, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/2618805
Effects of Shared Attention on joint language production across processing stages
Creators: name: Cirillo, Giusy
name: Strijkers, Kristof
name: Runnqvist, Elin
name: Baus, Cristina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Shared attention across individuals is a crucial component of joint activities, modulating how we perceive relevant information. In this study, we explored shared attention in language production and memory across separate representation levels. In a shared go/no-go task, pairs of participants responded to objects displayed on a screen: One participant reacted according to the animacy of the object (semantic task), while her partner reacted to the first letter/phoneme (phoneme-monitoring task). Objects could require a response from either one participant, both participants or nobody. Only participants assigned to the phoneme-monitoring task were faster at responding to the joint than to alone trials. However, results from a memory recall test showed that for both partners recall was more accurate for those items to which the partner responded and for jointly responded items. Overall, our findings suggest that partners co-represent each other’s language features even when they do not engage in the same task.
Clonaria inconspicua Brunner 1907
Creators: name: Brock, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Diapheromeridae
Clonaria
Clonaria inconspicua

description: inconspicua Brunner, 1907: 223 (Gratidia)
7 ST: 1 ɗ & 2 Ψ UZBEKISTAN, Buchara, [18]96, 2 ɗ [IRAN] ‘Persia’, Kirman, viii.[18]98, 1 ɗ [IRAN] ‘Persia’, Khorasan, 26.vii. [19]01, 1 ɗ Road from Trauscaspían (Turkmenia) to Kuchan (Persia), 15.iii. [18]98. There are 3 additional syntypes (1 ɗ & 2 Ψ) in NHMW [ex. St. Petersburg coll.].
= Clonaria inconspicua (Brunner, 1907) (Diapheromeridae: Pachymorphinae: Gratidiini)
description: Published as part of Brock, Paul D., 2007, The Types of Phasmida in the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (ZMAS), pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 1398 on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175361
Impossible Symmetries and Conformal Gravity
Creators: name: Hinterbichler, Kurt
name: Joyce, Austin
name: Mathys, Grégoire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the physics of relativistic gapless phases defined by a mixed anomaly between two generalized conserved currents. The gapless modes can be understood as Goldstone modes arising from the nonlinear realization of (generically higher-form) symmetries arising from these currents. In some cases, the anomaly cannot be reproduced by any local and unitary theory, indicating that the corresponding symmetries are impossible, in the sense that they cannot appear in a Lorentzian physical system. We consider many examples of the general construction. Most notably, we study conformal gravity from this perspective, describing the higher-form symmetries of the linear theory and showing how it can be understood in terms of anomalies. Along the way we clarify some aspects of electric-magnetic duality in linear conformal gravity.
description: 30 pages + appendices; v2: refs added, typos corrected, published in PRD
Bidirectional Progressive Neural Networks with Episodic Return Progress for Emergent Task Sequencing and Robotic Skill Transfer
Creators: name: Ada, Suzan Ece
name: Say, Hanne
name: Ugur, Emre
name: Oztop, Erhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human brain and behavior provide a rich venue that can inspire novel control and learning methods for robotics. In an attempt to exemplify such a development by inspiring how humans acquire knowledge and transfer skills among tasks, we introduce a novel multi-task reinforcement learning framework named Episodic Return Progress with Bidirectional Progressive Neural Networks (ERP-BPNN). The proposed ERP-BPNN model (1) learns in a human-like interleaved manner by (2) autonomous task switching based on a novel intrinsic motivation signal and, in contrast to existing methods, (3) allows bidirectional skill transfer among tasks. ERP-BPNN is a general architecture applicable to several multi-task learning settings; in this paper, we present the details of its neural architecture and show its ability to enable effective learning and skill transfer among morphologically different robots in a reaching task. The developed Bidirectional Progressive Neural Network (BPNN) architecture enables bidirectional skill transfer without requiring incremental training and seamlessly integrates with online task arbitration. The task arbitration mechanism developed is based on soft Episodic Return progress (ERP), a novel intrinsic motivation (IM) signal. To evaluate our method, we use quantifiable robotics metrics such as 'expected distance to goal' and 'path straightness' in addition to the usual reward-based measure of episodic return common in reinforcement learning. With simulation experiments, we show that ERP-BPNN achieves faster cumulative convergence and improves performance in all metrics considered among morphologically different robots compared to the baselines.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Tytthoscincus butleri
Creators: name: Grismer, L. Lee
name: Quah, Evan S. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Tytthoscincus
Tytthoscincus butleri

description: Tytthoscincus butleri (Boulenger, 1912)
Distribution: This species was previouls known only from Bukit Larut, Perak and Langkawi Island, Kedah but has now been reported from Penang Island (Grismer et al. 2017a) and Bukit Mertajam (Grismer et al. 2018a).
description: Published as part of Grismer, L. Lee & Quah, Evan S. H., 2019, An updated and annotated checklist of the lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos, pp. 230-248 in Zootaxa 4545 (2) on page 242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/2618805
Maternal and zygotic activin signaling promotes adequate pattern and differentiation of mesoderm through regulation of pluripotency genes during zebrafish development
Creators: name: Hasanpour, S.
name: Eagderi, S.
name: Poorbagher, H.
name: Hasanpour, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320226
subject: Surgery
classificationCode: 320999
subject: Neurosciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: To investigate the role of maternal Activin-like factors in the preservation of stemness and mesendoderm induction, their effects were promoted and inhibited using synthetic human Activin A or SB-505124 treatments, respectively, before the maternal to zygotic transition (MZT). To study the role of zygotic Activin-like factors, SB-505124 treatment was also used after the MZT. Promoting the signaling intensity of maternal Activin-like factors led to premature differentiation, loss of stemness, and no mesendoderm malformation, while its alleviation delayed the differentiation and caused various malformations. Inhibition of the zygotic Activin-like factors was associated with suppressing the ndr1, ndr2, oct4 (pou5f3), mycb and notail transcription as well as differentiation retardation at the oblong stage, and a broad spectrum of anomalies in a dose-dependent manner. Together, promoting the signal intensity of maternal Activin-like factors drove development along with mesendodermal differentiation, while suppression of the maternal or zygotic ones maintained the pluripotent state and delayed differentiation.
Canuleius inermis Redtenbacher 1906
Creators: name: Brock, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Heteronemiidae
Canuleius
Canuleius inermis

description: * inermis Redtenbacher, 1906: 68 (Canuleius)
2 ST: 1 ɗ & 1 Ψ [BRAZIL], Theresopolis. There are 15 additional syntypes (6 ɗ, 1 ɗ juv., 5 Ψ & 3 Ψ juv.) in NHMW (4 ɗ, 1 ɗ juv., 2 Ψ & 1 Ψ juv.) and ZMUH (2 ɗ, 3 Ψ & 2 Ψ juv). Not traced in ZMHB. = Canuleius inermis Redtenbacher, 1906 (Heteronemiidae: Heteronemiinae: Pygirhynchini)
* inquinatus Redtenbacher, 1908: 498 (Asceles)
8 probable PLT: 8 Ψ [MALAYSIA] ‘Borneo’, Kina­Balu, ex. Heyne coll. [one clearly belongs to a different species]. The Ψ lectotype is in NHMW. There are 6 additional paralectotypes (4 ɗ & 2 Ψ) in NHMW. Also a probable syntype (1 ɗ) in MNHN.
= Junior subjective synonym of Asceles larunda (Westwood, 1859) (Diapheromeridae: Necrosciinae)
description: Published as part of Brock, Paul D., 2007, The Types of Phasmida in the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (ZMAS), pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 1398 on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175361
The effect of constituent frequency and distractor type on learning novel complex words
Creators: name: Beyersmann, Elisabeth
name: Grainger, Jonathan
name: Dufau, Stéphane
name: Fournet, Colas
name: Ziegler, Johannes C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The present study explored the role of constituent frequency and distractor type in complex word learning. Skilled readers were trained to associate novel letter strings with one out of two pictures, with one picture serving as the target, and the other as a distractor. A facilitatory effect of first-constituent frequency was found only in trials where distractors promoted first-constituent learning, and a facilitatory effect of second-constituent frequency only in trials where distractors promoted second-constituent learning, but not vice versa. Learning occurred in the absence of any pre-existing knowledge about the constituent morphemes and any explicit reference to the constituents during learning. The results point to the important role of constituent frequency and distractor type in novel word learning and provide insights into the mechanisms involved in the implicit acquisition of morphological knowledge in adult learners, that we suspect to be a key aspect of language learning in general.
Adelungella insignis Brunner 1907
Creators: name: Brock, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Diapheromeridae
Adelungella
Adelungella insignis

description: insignis Brunner, 1907: 229 (Adelungella)
2 ST: 2 Ψ [IRAN] ‘Persia’, Kirman, 17.vi. [18]98 & 28.iii. [19]01 (Zarndny). = Adelungella insignis Brunner, 1907 (Diapheromeridae: Pachymorphinae: Gratidiini)
description: Published as part of Brock, Paul D., 2007, The Types of Phasmida in the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (ZMAS), pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 1398 on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175361
Isomeric states of fission fragments explored via Penning trap mass spectrometry at IGISOL
Creators: name: Jaries, A.
name: Stryjczyk, M.
name: Kankainen, A.
name: Ayoubi, L. Al
name: Beliuskina, O.
name: Canete, L.
name: de Groote, R. P.
name: Delafosse, C.
name: Delahaye, P.
name: Eronen, T.
name: Flayol, M.
name: Ge, Z.
name: Geldhof, S.
name: Gins, W.
name: Hukkanen, M.
name: Imgram, P.
name: Kahl, D.
name: Kostensalo, J.
name: Kujanpää, S.
name: Kumar, D.
name: Moore, I. D.
name: Mougeot, M.
name: Nesterenko, D. A.
name: Nikas, S.
name: Patel, D.
name: Penttilä, H.
name: Pitman-Weymouth, D.
name: Pohjalainen, I.
name: Raggio, A.
name: Ramalho, M.
name: Reponen, M.
name: Rinta-Antila, S.
name: de Roubin, A.
name: Ruotsalainen, J.
name: Srivastava, P. C.
name: Suhonen, J.
name: Vilen, M.
name: Virtanen, V.
name: Zadvornaya, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The masses of $^{84}$Br, $^{105}$Mo, $^{115,119,121}$Pd, $^{122}$Ag, $^{127,129}$In, $^{132}$Sb and their respective isomeric states have been measured with the JYFLTRAP Penning trap mass spectrometer using the phase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance technique. The excitation energies of the isomeric states in $^{132}$Sb and $^{119}$Pd were experimentally determined for the first time, while for $^{84}$Br, $^{115}$Pd and $^{127,129}$In, the precision of the mass values was substantially improved. In $^{105}$Mo and $^{121}$Pd there were no signs of a long-lived isomeric state. The ground-state measurements of $^{119}$Pd and $^{122}$Ag indicated that both are significantly more bound than the literature values. For $^{122}$Ag, there was no indication of a proposed third long-lived state. The results for the $N=49$ nucleus $^{84}$Br and isomers close to doubly magic $^{132}$Sn have been compared to the shell-model and the microscopic quasiparticle-phonon model calculations.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, B XI 10 : Composite manuscript (mysticism)
Creators: name: Sieber, Ludwig
name: Johannes, von Weißenburg
name: Franke, Johannes
name: Heinrich, von Ekkewint
name: Kraft, von Boyberg
name: Carpentarii, Georgius
name: Bitz, Wilhelm
name: Moser, Urban
name: Eckhart, Meister
name: Johannes, de Sterngassen
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: This small-format composite manuscript contains numerous pieces of mysticism, such as sermons, treatises (excerpts), instructions and sayings by, among others, Meister Eckhart, Heinrich von Ekkewint and Johannes von Sterngassen. The volume was written by two different hands; the first of these complains in red ink on f. 379r that anyone unable to write could have no idea how torturous such work is. A note of ownership by abbey librarian Georg Carpentarius (around 1487-1531) and the old shelfmark E xxvi associates the manuscript with the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel. As most of the German-language manuscripts at the monastery, it was part of the lay brothers' library.
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
Compactness of quantics tensor train representations of local imaginary-time propagators
Creators: name: Takahashi, Haruto
name: Sakurai, Rihito
name: Shinaoka, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Space-time dependence of imaginary-time propagators, vital for \textit{ab initio} and many-body calculations based on quantum field theories, has been revealed to be compressible using Quantum Tensor Trains (QTTs) [Phys. Rev. X {\bf 13}, 021015 (2023)]. However, the impact of system parameters, like temperature, on data size remains underexplored. This paper provides a comprehensive numerical analysis of the compactness of local imaginary-time propagators in QTT for one-time/-frequency objects and two-time/-frequency objects, considering truncation in terms of the Frobenius and maximum norms. To study worst-case scenarios, we employ random pole models, where the number of poles grows logarithmically with the inverse temperature and coefficients are random. The Green's functions generated by these models are expected to be more difficult to compress than those from physical systems. The numerical analysis reveals that these propagators are highly compressible in QTT, outperforming the state-of-the-art approaches such as intermediate representation and discrete Lehmann representation. For one-time/-frequency objects and two-time/-frequency objects, the bond dimensions saturate at low temperatures, especially for truncation in terms of the Frobenius norm. We provide counting-number arguments for the saturation of bond dimensions for the one-time/-frequency objects, while the origin of this saturation for two-time/-frequency objects remains to be clarified. This paper's findings highlight the critical need for further research on the selection of truncation methods, tolerance levels, and the choice between imaginary-time and imaginary-frequency representations in practical applications.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, E I 4 : Composite manuscript of writings regarding the Council of Basel
Creators: name: Aegidius, Carlerii
name: Louber, Jakob
name: Thomas, de Corcellis
name: Carpentarii, Georgius
name: Simon, de Teramo
name: Binz, Gustav
name: Alexander, de Roes
name: Eugenius IV., Papa
name: Friedrich III., Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser
name: Hildegard, von Bingen, Heilige
name: Johannes, Chrysostomus
name: Nicolaus, de Tudeschis
name: Pius II, Papa
name: Felix V., Antipapa, Papa
name: Philippe III., Bourgogne, Duc
name: Rolevinck, Werner
name: Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: This codex, which consists of several parts, contains primarily decrees, bulls, letters and decisions related to the Council of Basel (1431-1448), by various hands in Latin and German. Later hands added occasional notes, corrections and additions. Historiographic information is included with the so-called “Grössere Basler Annalen” and Latinized excerpts from the Rötteln Chronicle and the German Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen. This manuscript came from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel and then became part of the holdings of the Basel University Library.
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
Tytthoscincus copias
Creators: name: Grismer, L. Lee
name: Quah, Evan S. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Tytthoscincus
Tytthoscincus copias

description: Tytthoscincus copias (Boulenger, 1908)
Taxonomy: Previously recognized as Sphenomorphus copias but was transferred to the genus Tytthoscincus by Grismer et al. (2017a).
description: Published as part of Grismer, L. Lee & Quah, Evan S. H., 2019, An updated and annotated checklist of the lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos, pp. 230-248 in Zootaxa 4545 (2) on page 242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/2618805
Adelungella insignis Redtenbacher 1908
Creators: name: Brock, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Diapheromeridae
Adelungella
Adelungella insignis

description: insignis Redtenbacher, 1908: 474 (Parastheneboea)
2 ST: 2 Ψ [MALAYSIA] ‘Borneo’, Kina­Balu, ex. Heyne coll. There are 2 additional syntypes (2 Ψ) in NHMW.
= Junior subjective synonym of Parastheneboea laetior laetior (Brunner, 1907) (Diapheromeridae: Necrosciinae)
description: Published as part of Brock, Paul D., 2007, The Types of Phasmida in the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (ZMAS), pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 1398 on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175361
Examining LGBTQ+-Related Concepts in the Semantic Web: Link Discovery, Concept Drift, Ambiguity, and Multilingual Information Reuse
Creators: name: Wang, Shuai
name: Adamidou, Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Semantic web
subject: Semantic Web
subject: Metadata
subject: LGBTQ
subject: Homosaurus
subject: Concept Drift
subject: Ambiguity

description: In recent years, there is a notable increase in the use of LGBTQ+ ontologies and structured vocabularies in library systems, digital archives, online databases, heritages, etc. Many were published as linked data, including Homosaurus, QLIT, GSSO, etc. However, little has been reported about the links between the concepts captured by them. To study their interconnection, we retrieve all their published mappings as well as relevant information to form an integrated knowledge graph. We evaluate its usefulness with respect to three aspects. First, taking advantage of its weakly connected components, we study the discovery of missing links between entities. Second, we analyze concept drift and change by providing examples of concept convergence, ambiguity, and scope change. Moreover, we study how multilingual information from other resources can enrich entities using Homosaurus as an example. Finally, we discuss potential challenges and practical implications of our findings in the community.
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, N I 1:99a : Nibelungenlied (fragment)
Creators: name: Kind, Christian Emmanuel
name: Wackernagel, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: These five bifolia with fragments from The Song of the Nibelungs are from a mid-14th century manuscript; they were preserved because they were reused as binding material. Discovered in 1866 by a clergyman from Fanas/Prättigau, they came into the hands of the Basel philologist Wilhelm Wackernagel and today are part of the Basel University Library. The leaves show restrained rubrication; the margins are decorated with occasional reddish-brown pen and ink drawings (particularly in the shape of dragons and dragon-like creatures).
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
A $C^\ast$-algebraic view on the interaction of real- and reciprocal space topology in skyrmion crystals
Creators: name: Prass, Pascal
name: Lux, Fabian R.
name: Prodan, Emil
name: van Straten, Duco
name: Mokrousov, Yuriy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the interaction of real- and reciprocal space topology in skyrmion crystals is an open problem. We approach it from the viewpoint of $C^\ast$-algebras and calculate all admissible Chern numbers of a strongly coupled tight-binding skyrmion system on a triangular lattice as a function of Fermi energy and texture parameters. Our analysis reveals the topological complexity of electronic states coupled to spin textures, and the failure of the adiabatic picture to account for it in terms of emergent electromagnetism. On the contrary, we explain the discontinuous jumps in the real-space winding number in terms of collective evolution in real-, reciprocal, and mixed space Chern numbers. Our work sets the stage for further research on topological dynamics in complex dynamic spin textures coupled to external fields.
description: 40 pages, 13 figures, Submission to SciPost, resubmission in response to referee
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, O III 19 : Johannes Tauler, Sermons
Creators: name: Huber, Daniel
name: Eckhart, Meister
name: Tauler, Johannes
name: Faesch, Remigius
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: This slim volume belonged to Remigius Faesch (1595-1667), jurist and rector of the University of Basel; together with his vast collection of art and curios, the book became part of the university library in the 1820s. As noted by Remigius Faesch in his catalog under the Libri manuscripti in 4º antiqui, the codex contains “Etliche Teutsche Sermon unn Predigen”, mostly by the Dominican preacher and mystic Johannes Tauler (1300-1361).
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
Application of reverse cumulative distribution curve and scaled logit model in determining optimal immunogenic dose and prediction of protection of EV71 vaccines
Creators: name: Jin, Lairun
name: Jin, Pengfei
name: Zhang, Xuefeng
name: Zhu, Fengcai
name: Li, Jingxin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: This study proposes the reverse cumulative distribution curve (RCDC) for optimal dose selection and a scaled logit model for estimating protection in EV71 vaccine development. Data were from a phase 2 trial involving infants and young children randomized to receive either 640 U with or without adjuvant, 320 U with adjuvant, 160 U with adjuvant EV71 vaccines, or placebo. RCDCs were constructed using neutralizing antibody titers 28 days post-vaccination. Robustness of RCDC parameters was assessed via coefficient of variation for the area under the curve (AUC), the relative optimal point, median on the curve, and antibody titer of the point of maximum curvature, with geometric mean titer (GMT) as control. The scaled logit model estimated protection against EV71-associated disease for the selected optimal dose. The AUC and relative optimal point demonstrated greater robustness than GMT. The 640 U with adjuvant dose had the highest AUC (0.64, 95% CI: 0.61–0.66), sum of coordinates of the relative optimal point (1.40, 95% CI: 1.34–1.43), and the highest estimated protection (93.36%, 95% CI: 79.91–97.86). AUC and relative optimal point of RCDC are effective for early vaccine dose screening, with protection estimated by the scaled logit model.
Sipyloidea linearis Redtenbacher 1908
Creators: name: Brock, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Diapheromeridae
Sipyloidea
Sipyloidea linearis

description: linearis Redtenbacher, 1908: 544 (Sipyloidea)
1 ST: 1 Ψ [MALAYSIA] ‘Borneo’, Kina­Balu, ex. Heyne coll. [This appears to be the specimen labelled with the manuscript name ‘ Platysosibia sodalis ’]. There are additional syntypes (1 Ψ) in NHMW and MNMS (number of Ψ not known).
= Sipyloidea linearis Redtenbacher, 1908 (Diapheromeridae: Necrosciinae)
description: Published as part of Brock, Paul D., 2007, The Types of Phasmida in the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (ZMAS), pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 1398 on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175361
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, K101 : Ketubbah (כתובה)
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: The marriage of Joshua, son of Isaac Hayyim Recanati, and Dona Esther Sarah, daughter of Raphael Recanati, established a union within this widely ramified, wealthy and influential Sephardic family. Written on a document that is painted with illusionistic effect, the actual text of the ketubbah is in the right column and the conditions are in the left column. These are surrounded by rococo architecture in central perspective, with the family emblem at the top flanked by two cupids. The name of the groom is honored with a medallion that depicts Joshua commanding the sun to stand still (Joshua 10:12–13). Two female figures hold the ends of a gold ribbon with the inscription “Be fruitful and multiply!”
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
First investigation of void statistics in numerical relativity simulations
Creators: name: Williams, Michael J.
name: Macpherson, Hayley J.
name: Wiltshire, David L.
name: Stevens, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply and extend standard tools for void statistics to cosmological simulations that solve Einstein's equations with numerical relativity (NR). We obtain a simulated void catalogue without Newtonian approximations, using a new watershed void finder which operates on fluid-based NR simulations produced with the Einstein Toolkit. We compare and contrast measures of void size and void fraction, and compare radial stacked density profiles to empirically-derived Hamaus-Sutter-Wandelt (HSW) density profiles and profiles based on distance to void boundaries. We recover statistics roughly consistent with Newtonian N-body simulations where such a comparison is meaningful. We study variation of dynamical spatial curvature and local expansion explicitly demonstrating the spatial fluctuations of these quantities in void regions. We find that voids in our simulations expand ~10-30% faster than the global average and the spatial curvature density parameter in the centre of voids reaches ~60-80%.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures; v2: Clarifications and references added, matches published version in MNRAS
Delicate curvature bounces in the no-boundary wave function and in the late universe
Creators: name: Lehners, Jean-Luc
name: Quintin, Jerome
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical considerations motivate us to consider vacuum energy to be able to decay and to assume that the spatial geometry of the universe is closed. Combining both aspects leads to the possibility that the universe, or certain regions thereof, can collapse and subsequently undergo a curvature bounce. This may have occurred in the very early universe, in a pre-inflationary phase. We discuss the construction of the corresponding no-boundary instantons and show that they indeed reproduce a bouncing history of the universe, interestingly with a small and potentially observable departure from classicality during the contracting phase. Such an early bouncing history receives a large weighting and provides competition for a more standard inflationary branch of the wave function. Curvature bounces may also occur in the future. We discuss the conditions under which they may take place, allowing for density fluctuations in the matter distribution in the universe. Overall, we find that curvature bounces require a delicate combination of matter content and initial conditions to occur, though with significant consequences if these conditions are met.
description: 26 pages, 14 figures; v2: minor changes, references added, and section 3.2 rewritten for clarity. Matches published version
Application of reverse cumulative distribution curve and scaled logit model in determining optimal immunogenic dose and prediction of protection of EV71 vaccines
Creators: name: Jin, Lairun
name: Jin, Pengfei
name: Zhang, Xuefeng
name: Li, Jingxin
name: Zhu, Fengcai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: This study proposes the reverse cumulative distribution curve (RCDC) for optimal dose selection and a scaled logit model for estimating protection in EV71 vaccine development. Data were from a phase 2 trial involving infants and young children randomized to receive either 640 U with or without adjuvant, 320 U with adjuvant, 160 U with adjuvant EV71 vaccines, or placebo. RCDCs were constructed using neutralizing antibody titers 28 days post-vaccination. Robustness of RCDC parameters was assessed via coefficient of variation for the area under the curve (AUC), the relative optimal point, median on the curve, and antibody titer of the point of maximum curvature, with geometric mean titer (GMT) as control. The scaled logit model estimated protection against EV71-associated disease for the selected optimal dose. The AUC and relative optimal point demonstrated greater robustness than GMT. The 640 U with adjuvant dose had the highest AUC (0.64, 95% CI: 0.61-0.66), sum of coordinates of the relative optimal point (1.40, 95% CI: 1.34-1.43), and the highest estimated protection (93.36%, 95% CI: 79.91-97.86). AUC and relative optimal point of RCDC are effective for early vaccine dose screening, with protection estimated by the scaled logit model.
Modeling Sustainable City Trips: Integrating CO2e Emissions, Popularity, and Seasonality into Tourism Recommender Systems
Creators: name: Banerjee, Ashmi
name: Mahmudov, Tunar
name: Adler, Emil
name: Aisyah, Fitri Nur
name: Wörndl, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tourism affects not only the tourism industry but also society and stakeholders such as the environment, local businesses, and residents. Tourism Recommender Systems (TRS) can be pivotal in promoting sustainable tourism by guiding travelers toward destinations with minimal negative impact. Our paper introduces a composite sustainability indicator for a city trip TRS based on the users' starting point and month of travel. This indicator integrates CO2e emissions for different transportation modes and analyses destination popularity and seasonal demand. We quantify city popularity based on user reviews, points of interest, and search trends from Tripadvisor and Google Trends data. To calculate a seasonal demand index, we leverage data from TourMIS and Airbnb. We conducted a user study to explore the fundamental trade-offs in travel decision-making and determine the weights for our proposed indicator. Finally, we demonstrate the integration of this indicator into a TRS, illustrating its ability to deliver sustainable city trip recommendations. This work lays the foundation for future research by integrating sustainability measures and contributing to responsible recommendations by TRS.
Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne, V 1765 : Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae, Francesco Petrarca, De Vita Solitaria
Creators: name: Seuse, Heinrich
name: Petrarca, Francesco
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: This codex contains two different texts, both incomplete, in a single 19th century binding. One of these is Henry Suso’s Horologium Sapientiae (1-66), a text that was written in Constance and that was in wide use during the late Middle Ages. The other is Petrarch's De Vita Solitaria (67-116). The first is a parchment manuscript of Italian origin that can be dated to the late 14th or early 15th century; it is written by a single hand in a semi-cursive Gothic script in two columns. What makes this manuscript special is that it was written on a parchment palimpsest that originally contained legal texts written in the 13th century. The second part, by another hand and of French or Swiss origin, contains a text by Petrarch written in a bastarda script in two columns, dated to the 15th century. Both texts contain pen-flourish initials and are interspersed with manicules.
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 163 : Laurent d'Orléans, Somme le roi
Creators: name: Petau, Alexandre
name: Lullin, Ami
name: Thomas, de Aquino
name: Laurent, d'Orléans
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: At the behest of King Philip III the Bold, the Dominican Laurent d’Orléans wrote a book on religious instruction for lay people. He was inspired by the Miroir du monde in the 3rd and 4th tract (f. 6r-33r) compiling two treatises about this 13th century work, that was widely read throughout the realm. The fifth treatise on the virtues (f. 33r-99r) is the only part originally by Brother Laurent. The illuminator who created the 8 miniatures is not identified, but probably was active in Northern France.
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 164 : Jacques Legrand, Livre de bonnes meurs
Creators: name: Petau, Paul
name: Lullin, Ami
name: Legrand, Jacques
name: Mazerolles, Philippe de
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: The Livre de bonnes meurs, dedicated to the Duke of Berry, draws its inspiration from the Sophilogium by the same author. In essence this is a moral and religious work. As part of the “mirror for princes”, it broaches the topic of the virtues and moral qualities that an ideal prince should possess. This Geneva manuscript represents the first version, dated 1404. It was illuminated by the master of Philippe de Commynes’ Froissart and contains a single beautiful illumination for the frontispiece.
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 179 : Jean d’Auton, Epistre d’Hector au roy
Creators: name: Auton, Jean d'
name: Petau, Alexandre
name: Lullin, Ami
name: Bourdichon, Jean
name: Sala, Pierre
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: In 1511, the Benedictine Jean d'Auton (around 1466-1528), chronicler at the court of Louis XII, initiated a contest to write fictional letters to the king. For this contest, he wrote the Epistre d'Hector au roy, which was answered, among others, by Jean Lemaire de Belges with his Epistre du roy Loys à Hector. This Geneva manuscript begins with a full-page illustration, executed by an artist named Maître des Entrées, active in Lyon. It depicts Hector presenting a book to a satyr in front of an army of soldiers in armor, some of whom are crowned with the poets’ laurel wreath. The numerous references to antiquity, textual as well as visual, are typical for the humanist milieu of Lyon, which included the owner of this manuscript, Jean Sala, half-brother of the famous author and antiquities enthusiast Pierre Sala.
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 57 : Gautier Burley (attr.), Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum veterum
Creators: name: Lentulus
name: Petau, Paul
name: Lullin, Ami
name: Augustinus, Aurelius
name: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
name: Gregorius I, Papa
name: Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius
name: Burlaeus, Gualterus
name: Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: “Lives of philosophers” constitute a subcategory of the ancient literary genre of “lives of illustrious men” that was considered anew beginning in the 12th century. The Latin text of this manuscript, the Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum veterum, attributed to Gautier Burley (actually an anonymous Italian author from the early 14th century), consists of a collection of moral maxims from various philosophers, whose names are indexed at the end of the work (f. 93r-94r). This copy, dated 1452, may be from the Abbey of Saint-Denis and later was the property of Paul and Alexandre Petau, before becoming part of the holdings of the Bibliothèque de Genève as part of the bequest of Ami Lullin.
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
Tytthoscincus jaripendek Grismer, Wood, Quah, Anuar, Ngadi, Izam, Norhayati 2017
Creators: name: Grismer, L. Lee
name: Quah, Evan S. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Tytthoscincus
Tytthoscincus jaripendek

description: Tytthoscincus jaripendek Grismer, Wood, Quah, Anuar, Ngadi, Izam, Norhayati, 2017a
Holotype and type locality: Adult male (LSUHC 11680) from “Robinson’s Falls, Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia (N 04°27.959′, E 101°23.129′; 1411 m in elevation).”
Distribution: Known only from the type locality at Robinson’s Falls, Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia but is likely to range more widely across the Cameron Highlands plateau.
description: Published as part of Grismer, L. Lee & Quah, Evan S. H., 2019, An updated and annotated checklist of the lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos, pp. 230-248 in Zootaxa 4545 (2) on page 242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/2618805
Statistical testing of random number generators and their improvement using randomness extraction
Creators: name: Foreman, Cameron
name: Yeung, Richie
name: Curchod, Florian J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random number generators (RNGs) are notoriously challenging to build and test, especially for cryptographic applications. While statistical tests cannot definitively guarantee an RNG's output quality, they are a powerful verification tool and the only universally applicable testing method. In this work, we design, implement, and present various post-processing methods, using randomness extractors, to improve the RNG output quality and compare them through statistical testing. We begin by performing intensive tests on three RNGs -- the 32-bit linear feedback shift register (LFSR), Intel's 'RDSEED,' and IDQuantique's 'Quantis' -- and compare their performance. Next, we apply the different post-processing methods to each RNG and conduct further intensive testing on the processed output. To facilitate this, we introduce a comprehensive statistical testing environment, based on existing test suites, that can be parametrised for lightweight (fast) to intensive testing.
description: As published in Entropy, 21 + 12 pages
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 152 : Seneca, Tragedies
Creators: name: Bodmer, Martin
name: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
name: Maggs Bros. Ltd.
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: During the Middle Ages, Seneca was the most popular and most read of the ancient playwrights. The manuscripts of his tragedies, of which almost 400 copies are known today, are mostly from the 14th and 15th century, as is this copy, owned by the Fondation Bodmer. At the beginning of each of Seneca's dramas, this version has a historiated initial that summarizes the plot of the drama, such as the suicide of Jocasta and the blinding of Oedipus at the beginning of the eponymous drama (f. 46v). The rather modest execution of these initials was most likely carried out in Northern Italy, where most of the illuminated copies of this text (about 50) were produced.
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10
Dual Simplex Volume Maximization for Simplex-Structured Matrix Factorization
Creators: name: Abdolali, Maryam
name: Barbarino, Giovanni
name: Gillis, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Simplex-structured matrix factorization (SSMF) is a generalization of nonnegative matrix factorization, a fundamental interpretable data analysis model, and has applications in hyperspectral unmixing and topic modeling. To obtain identifiable solutions, a standard approach is to find minimum-volume solutions. By taking advantage of the duality/polarity concept for polytopes, we convert minimum-volume SSMF in the primal space to a maximum-volume problem in the dual space. We first prove the identifiability of this maximum-volume dual problem. Then, we use this dual formulation to provide a novel optimization approach which bridges the gap between two existing families of algorithms for SSMF, namely volume minimization and facet identification. Numerical experiments show that the proposed approach performs favorably compared to the state-of-the-art SSMF algorithms.
description: 31 pages, 10 figures
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 158 : Terence, Comedies: Andria and Eunuchus
Creators: name: Bodmer, Martin
name: Terentius Afer, Publius
name: Rosenthal, Bernard M.
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2024

description: The plays of Terence were highly appreciated throughout the entire Middle Ages, as attested by this 11th century manuscript written in Carolingian script, which preserves fragments from two of his six comedies, Andria and Eunuchus. The fragments are of different sizes; between the 15th and 16th century, they were used as binding for registers, as evidenced by certain signs of use and of folds, as well as by dates written beside invocations of the Virgin, of Christ or of St. Thomas.
description: Online Since: 2019-10-10