cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deliverable D2.7 Report on the development of FoodEXplorer (eSearch2) and future maintenance and operational requirements
Creators: name: THL
name: IMR
name: EuroFIR AISBL
name: EuroFIR AISBL [JSI]
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: Executive summary

This report describes how a new tool for the exploration of food information named FoodEXplorer was developed, considering our past experience with a pilot tool eSearch. FoodEXplorer is still a Web-based tool, however, its functionality, user interface and underlying database are completely reconstructed and recoded. This tool supports both simple and advanced searches to provide complex food information to a wide spectrum of laypeople and experts (like food compilers, dietitians, scientists, policy makers etc.). It supports food descriptions based on LanguaL, a comparison of data from different food composition datasets, and data exports in XML (Food Data Transport Package) and XLS (MS Excel) formats. FoodEXplorer was integrated with other tools on the EuroFIR food information platform such as FoodCASE, which is used for FCDB maintenance, and FoodBasket that is a simple recipe calculation tool. Moreover, the collection of food composition databases behind FoodEXplorer is used for several dedicated EuroFIR Web Services for delivering food information for other European projects. So integrated EuroFIR tools facilitate the pan-European dissemination channel from national food compilers to the end users of various kinds – and between national food compilers. The report includes User’s manual and instructions for the FoodEXplorerAdministrator.
Fermionic anyons: entanglement and quantum computation from a resource-theoretic perspective
Creators: name: Tosta, Allan
name: Lourenço, Antônio C.
name: Brod, Daniel
name: Iemini, Fernando
name: Debarba, Tiago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computational models can be approached via the lens of resources needed to perform computational tasks, where a computational advantage is achieved by consuming specific forms of quantum resources, or, conversely, resource-free computations are classically simulable. Can we similarly identify quantum computational resources in the setting of more general quasi-particle statistics? In this work, we develop a framework to characterize the separability of a specific type of one-dimensional quasiparticle known as a fermionic anyon. As we evince, the usual notion of partial trace fails in this scenario, so we build the notion of separability through a fractional Jordan-Wigner transformation, leading to an entanglement description of fermionic-anyon states. We apply this notion of fermionic-anyon separability, and the unitary operations that preserve it, mapping it to the free resources of matchgate circuits. We also identify how entanglement between two qubits encoded in a dual-rail manner, as standard for matchgate circuits, corresponds to the notion of entanglement between fermionic anyons.
description: 5+18 pages, 2 figures. Addition of a new Theorem about fermionic-anyons single-particle entanglement, as well as minor text revisions. Comments are welcome
Symmetry and stability of orientationally ordered collective motions of self-propelled, semiflexible filaments
Creators: name: Athani, Madhuvanthi Guruprasad
name: Beller, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ordered, collective motions commonly arise spontaneously in systems of many interacting, active units, ranging from cellular tissues and bacterial colonies to self-propelled colloids and animal flocks. Active phases are especially rich when the active units are sufficiently anisotropic to produce liquid crystalline order and thus active nematic phenomena, with important biophysical examples provided by cytoskeletal filaments including microtubules and actin. Gliding assay experiments have provided a testbed to study the collective motions of these cytoskeletal filaments and unlocked diverse collective active phases, including states with long-range orientational order. However, it is not well-understood how such long-range order emerges from the interplay of passive and active aligning mechanisms. We use Brownian dynamics simulations to study the collective motions of semiflexible filaments that self-propel in quasi-two dimensions, in order to gain insights into the aligning mechanisms at work in these gliding assay systems. We find that, without aligning torques in the microscopic model, long-range orientational order can only be achieved when the filaments are able to overlap. The symmetry (nematic or polar) of the long-range order that first emerges is shown to depend on the energy cost of filament overlap and on filament flexibility. However, our model also predicts that a long-range-ordered active nematic state is merely transient, whereas long-range polar order is the only active dynamical steady state in systems with finite filament rigidity.
description: Main text: 14 pages, 14 figures. For associated video files, see https://pages.jh.edu/dbeller3/resources/SI-Videos/Athani-PRR-2024/
Stand Your Ground Act I
Creators: name: Carnegie Dance Troupe
name: Dance, Karen Jamieson
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: A work-in-progress performance of Stand Your Ground took place at the Dancing on the Edge Festival, Monday, July 9 to Friday, July 13, 5pm at the Firehall Arts Centre Courtyard. The piece moves from the Firehall Courtyard to the Carnegie Community Centre, so audiences were limited to twenty per performance. This was the first draft of a performance drawn from the Carnegie/Firehall Community Project; a three year dance project led by Karen Jamieson, engaging residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in ongoing processes of dance study and creation. Community participants experience working in a dance practice through a series of free weekly workshops including creation and performance processes. The culminating performance of this project took place in July of 2008.
MINGULAY ROCKALL cruise,L'Atalante R/V
Creators: name: ELLIOT Mary
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2016

description: Ce projet était une valorisation de transit lors du passage de l'Atalante dans la zone Atlantique Nord. Ce projet visait donc à effectuer une étude multidisciplinaire (sédimentologie, biologie et géochimie des coraux) pour reconstruire l'histoire de la croissance de ces récifs ainsi que les changements environnementaux (température, circulation des eaux de sub-surface et intermédiaires) au cours de l'Holocène. Nos zones d'études principales se trouvaient 1) au large des côtes Ecossaises : « le Complexe de Mingulay » et 2) sur le Plateau de Rockall « récif de Logachev ». Le site Mingulay se trouve en mer des Hébrides et se caractérise par la présence de récifs coralliens d'eaux froides (L. pertusa) qui prolifèrent actuellement entre 100 et 150 m de profondeur. Le site de Logachev se caractérise lui aussi par d'abondantes colonies coralliennes (L. pertusa et M. oculata) mais à des profondeurs plus importantes autour de 750 m. Nous obtiendrons des reconstructions de l'hydrologie des eaux de sub-surface et intermédiaires avec des résolutions temporelles inédites en deux sites, a des profondeurs différentes. Notre étude très novatrice a été menée par une équipe expérimentée et reconnue sur le plan international. Des carottes sédimentaires (gravité, multicores et Küllenberg) ont été prélevées sur chaque site ainsi que des prélèvements d'eau. Le matériel collecté permettra d'obtenir des enregistrements couvrant la période Holocène, les derniers 10 000 ans, afin de confirmer les tendances que nous observons sur les plus courtes périodes de temps étudiées. Cette mission a également permis d'obtenir suffisamment de matériel pour effectuer un large spectre d'analyses géochimiques, nécessaire pour cette étude pluridisciplinaire. Ce projet a réunit des chercheurs Britanniques, Irlandais, Belges et Français et s'inscrit dans un effort de recherche national qui vise à étudier les écosystèmes des coraux profonds et à utiliser les coraux fossiles comme archives naturelles pour reconstruire à haute résolution les changements paléo-climatiques passés. Les projets suivants ont permis de financer et préparer cette mission : ANR HAMOC PI Christophe Colin (GEOPS Université d'Orsay) - Projet financé par la Région Pays de Loire pour la création d'une Nouvelle Equipe et thématique de recherche PI M. Elliot).
MINERVE 96 cruise,Marion Dufresne R/V
Creators: name: POISSON Alain
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 1996

description: Quantification du flux de CO2 à l'interface océan-atmosphére. Etude des variabilités spatio-temporelles de la distribution de la pression partielle de CO2 dans les eaux de surface océaniques.- Zone d'étude : océan Indien- échelles de temps : variabilité saisonnière, interannuelle.Cette campagne englobe les campagnes MINERVE de 1996 c'est à dire MINERVE 96-34 à MINERVE 96-37 à bord du MARION DUFRESNE (Ouest océan Indien) et la campagne MINERVE 96-38 à bord de l'ASTROLABE (Tasmanie-Terre-Adélie).
Compressed Sensing: A Discrete Optimization Approach
Creators: name: Bertsimas, Dimitris
name: Johnson, Nicholas A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the Compressed Sensing (CS) problem, which is the problem of finding the most sparse vector that satisfies a set of linear measurements up to some numerical tolerance. We introduce an $\ell_2$ regularized formulation of CS which we reformulate as a mixed integer second order cone program. We derive a second order cone relaxation of this problem and show that under mild conditions on the regularization parameter, the resulting relaxation is equivalent to the well studied basis pursuit denoising problem. We present a semidefinite relaxation that strengthens the second order cone relaxation and develop a custom branch-and-bound algorithm that leverages our second order cone relaxation to solve small-scale instances of CS to certifiable optimality. When compared against solutions produced by three state of the art benchmark methods on synthetic data, our numerical results show that our approach produces solutions that are on average $6.22\%$ more sparse. When compared only against the experiment-wise best performing benchmark method on synthetic data, our approach produces solutions that are on average $3.10\%$ more sparse. On real world ECG data, for a given $\ell_2$ reconstruction error our approach produces solutions that are on average $9.95\%$ more sparse than benchmark methods ($3.88\%$ more sparse if only compared against the best performing benchmark), while for a given sparsity level our approach produces solutions that have on average $10.77\%$ lower reconstruction error than benchmark methods ($1.42\%$ lower error if only compared against the best performing benchmark). When used as a component of a multi-label classification algorithm, our approach achieves greater classification accuracy than benchmark compressed sensing methods. This improved accuracy comes at the cost of an increase in computation time by several orders of magnitude.
ASSESSING THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE NIGERIAN ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE
Creators: name: Terhemen, Andzenge
Publisher: name: ZAP JOURNALS
Year: 2025
Subjects: Independence; Regulation; Electric Power; Independent Regulatory Agency; Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission

description: Three mutually exclusive interests converge on the independent regulatory model of governance table: the desire of consumers for affordable and sustainable power supply; the quest of investors of sunk and immovable resources to have a return of their investments; and finally the desire of government for peace and social harmony devoid of exploitation and market abuse. In balancing these competing interests, an umpire, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, was established to moderate the competing interests. It is designed to be and be seen to be independent of all the players in the value chain in its decision-making processes in order to ginger credibility, accountability, legitimacy and transparency and is also required to act objectively, impartially, and consistently, without conflict of interest, bias or undue influence—in other words, independently. This paper problematizes the institutional design of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to ascertain its alignment with the conceptual benchmarks of independence in both form and substance. The paper finds that while the enabling law largely captures the essence of the model, the de facto landscape under which the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission operates is dotted with distortions, misalignments characterized by state and regulatory capture thus betraying its weak independent status and proffers veritable mitigating pathways out of the challenges
MINERVE 97 cruise,L'Astrolabe R/V
Creators: name: POISSON Alain
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 1997

description: Quantification du flux de CO2 à l'interface océan-atmosphère. Étude des variabilités Spatio-temporelles de la distribution de la pression partielle de CO2 dans les eaux de surface océaniques. -Zone d'étude : Océan Indien-Échelles de temps : variabilité saisonnière, interannuelle. Seule la campagne MINERVE 39 a été faite en 1997. Le projet de rattachement est ex-PNEDC/CO2, ESCOBA.
title: Identität durch Erbe? Historische Jubiläen und Jahrestage in der Erinnerungskultur
Creators: name: Speitkamp, Winfried
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Kulturerbe
subject: Identität
subject: 900

description: Vortrag, gehalten am 13.12.2016 im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung des Graduiertenkollegs "Identität und Erbe" an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
description: Neue Bauhausvorträge, vol. 2
MINNERHO 1 cruise,Téthys II R/V
Creators: name: Christophe, RABOUILLE
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2011

description: Mise à l'eau de la station benthique pour contraindre le recyclage de la matière organique dans les sédiments superficiels du prodelta du Rhône au cours du temps en fonction de l'occurrence des évènements de crue. Le projet de rattachement est MERMEX_Rivers.
MINNERHO 2 cruise,Téthys II R/V
Creators: name: Christophe, RABOUILLE
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2011

description: Déploiement de la station benthique pour contraindre le recyclage de la matière organique dans les sédiments superficiels du prodelta du Rhône au cours du temps en fonction de l'occurrence des évènements de crue. Le projet de rattachement est MERMEX_Rivers.
Deliverable 2.6 Manuscript on the EMP-EuroFIR web interface
Creators: name: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: Annex 1 – Abstract and presentation of EuroDISH case study, built-on EuroFIR Nexus deliverable 2.5, EuroFIR NEXUS 2nd Annual Meeting & Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Interfacing the standardized food consumption data platform (e-SMP) with the EuroFIR food composition data interchange platformNadia Slimani, Sandra Crispim, Genevieve Nicolas, Corinne Casagrande, Simonetta Salvini, Heikki Pakkala, Paul Finglas

Objective: To report on the general concept designed to interface standardized food consumption data collected with an international 24-HDR computerized programme (EPIC-Soft®), hosted in a web-Research Infrastructure (e-SMP, still under development), and their related nutrient and other databases available through the EuroFIR food composition data interchange platform.

Methods: Three main blocks of development were identified to allow in the interface of the two platforms (i.e. food consumption, food composition and food matching blocks). Within the food consumption block, the concept of an interface module (e- SMP Food Data Handling Module) was designed to satisfy two main broad objectives: (1) Develop a series of facilities and approaches to handle the standardized EPIC-Soft exported interview data (and possibly other dietary assessment tools) in order to generate and classify different outputs for multiple uses and application contexts, and (2) Prepare them to the matching with nutrient and other concentration data sources available on the EuroFIR platform.

Results: The evaluation of the needs for the ‘Food Data Handling’ module results in different identified steps for preparing food consumption data and matching them with other food group classification systems as well as with food composition data (macro and micronutrients) and other food components. These steps involve a) the definition of objectives within a given project, followed by b) the management of food occurrences (as crude dietary data from EPIC-Soft) and c) the application of specific rules on the food occurrences to obtain the needed data according to the original objectives. More specifically during the interface process between the two platforms (e-SMP and EuroFIR), the original and extensive list of reported foods need to be extracted, aggregated (or disaggregated), and possibly reclassified in order to facilitate the linkage with food composition data (nutrient and other food component databases to be available through the EuroFIR platform).

Conclusion: This conceptual development helps to fill in an important methodological gap to match standardised food consumption data with food composition data between two existing research infrastructures in Europe, namely e- SMP and EuroFIR platform. A more detailed technical concept will be evaluated by a wide range of potential users, in real case studies, within the framework of the recently granted European research infrastructure project (Euro-DISH project).
Renormalization Group Analysis of the Anderson Model on Random Regular Graphs
Creators: name: Vanoni, Carlo
name: Altshuler, Boris L.
name: Kravtsov, Vladimir E.
name: Scardicchio, Antonello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a renormalization group analysis of the problem of Anderson localization on a Random Regular Graph (RRG) which generalizes the renormalization group of Abrahams, Anderson, Licciardello, and Ramakrishnan to infinite-dimensional graphs. The renormalization group equations necessarily involve two parameters (one being the changing connectivity of sub-trees), but we show that the one-parameter scaling hypothesis is recovered for sufficiently large system sizes for both eigenstates and spectrum observables. We also explain the non-monotonic behavior of dynamical and spectral quantities as a function of the system size for values of disorder close to the transition, by identifying two terms in the beta function of the running fractal dimension of different signs and functional dependence. Our theory provides a simple and coherent explanation for the unusual scaling behavior observed in numerical data of the Anderson model on RRG and of Many-Body Localization.
description: 8+6 pages, 3+7 figures, comments are welcome
Supplementary document for The Influence of Metal-semiconductor Junction on the Performances of Mixed-Dimensional MoS2/Ge Heterostructure Avalanche Photodetector - 5811341.pdf
Creators: name: Yuan, Xixi
name: Zhang, Ningning
name: Zhang, Tianyao
name: Meng, Lingyao
name: Zhang, Junming
name: Shao, Jifang
name: Liu, Maliang
name: Hui-Yong, Hu
name: Wang, Liming
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental document
AlephZero and Mathematical Experience
Creators: name: DeDeo, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This essay explores the impact of automated proof construction on three key areas of mathematical cognition: on how we judge the role one piece of mathematics plays in another, on how we make mistakes in reasoning about mathematical objects, and on how we understand what our theorems are truly about. It concludes by speculating on a new form of mathematical experience that these methods could make possible: ``glitching'', a game-like search for uncanny consequences of our definitions.
description: 12 pages. In review, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
MINNERHO 3 cruise,Téthys II R/V
Creators: name: Christophe, RABOUILLE
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2011

description: Déploiement de la station benthique pour contraindre le recyclage de la matière organique dans les sédiments superficiels du prodelta du Rhône au cours du temps en fonction de l'occurrence des évènements de crue. Le projet de rattachement est MERMEX_Rivers.
Simulating (2+1)D SU(2) Yang-Mills Lattice Gauge Theory at finite density with tensor networks
Creators: name: Cataldi, Giovanni
name: Magnifico, Giuseppe
name: Silvi, Pietro
name: Montangero, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically simulate a non-Abelian lattice gauge theory in two spatial dimensions, with tensor networks (TN), up to intermediate sizes (>30 matter sites) well beyond exact diagonalization. We focus on the SU(2) Yang-Mills model in Hamiltonian formulation, with dynamical matter and minimally truncated gauge field (hardcore gluon). Thanks to the TN sign-problem-free approach, we characterize the phase diagram of the model at zero and finite baryon number as a function of the quark bare mass and color charge. At intermediate system sizes, we detect a liquid phase of quark-pair bound-state quasiparticles (baryons), whose mass is finite towards the continuum limit. Interesting phenomena arise at the transition boundary where color-electric and color-magnetic terms are maximally frustrated: For low quark masses, we see traces of potential deconfinement, while for high masses, signatures of a possible topological order.
description: 19 pages, 16 figures, published version
title: A field comparison study of two vaccine protocols against Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in two types of swine breeds in Spain
Creators: name: Sanchez-Tarifa, E.
name: Alonso, C.
name: Perez, I.
name: García, L. A.
name: Fernández-Fontelo, A.
name: Gómez-Duran, O.
name: García-Morante, B.
name: García–Vázquez, Francisco A.
name: Hernández-Caravaca, I.
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Swine erisipelas
subject: Sow vaccination
subject: Maternally derived antibodies (MDA)
subject: ELISA
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Erysipelas still causes large economic losses to pig industry. Maternal immunity is critical to prevent erysipelas in young animals, thus, intensive vaccination protocols or practices focused on the improvement of the maternally derived immunity could provide substantial benefits. The present study evaluates potential changes in antibodies levels in sows and their offspring using two types of tests (commercial ELISA, Ingenasa or rSpaA415 ELISA) when two different vaccination programs (before farrowing or after farrowing) against Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae were applied to sows from Iberian (A) or conventional Large White-Landrace (B) pig farms. The results showed a statistical correlation between titers found in sows and their one-week old piglets in both tests. The overall mean of (log) antibody titers in farm B measured by the commercial ELISA test was significantly higher in pre-farrowing vaccinated sows compared to the post-farrowing vaccine protocol ( p  = 0.0278). Additionally, using the rSpaA415 ELISA test, the overall mean of (log) antibody titers was significantly higher in pre-farrowing sows ( p  = 0.0056) compared to sows following post-farrowing vaccine protocol ( p  = 0.0003) or non- vaccinated sows. None of the above-mentioned differences were found in farm A. The overall mean of (log) antibody titers in piglets from the pre-farrowing vaccination protocol was significantly higher than piglets from the post-farrowing vaccination protocol in farm A ( p  = 0.0059; rSpaA415 ELISA) and farm B ( p  = 0.0168 and p  = 0.0098 for the commercial and rSpaA415 ELISA data, respectively). Additionally, higher proportion of piglets from pre-farrowing vaccinated sows remained seropositive during the post-weaning period (days 42 to 84) compared to piglets from non-vaccinated or post-farrowing vaccinated groups in both farms A and B.
MINNERHO 4 cruise,Téthys II R/V
Creators: name: BOMBLED Bruno
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2011

description: Déploiement de la station benthique pour contraindre le recyclage de la matière organique dans les sédiments superficiels du prodelta du Rhône au cours du temps en fonction de l'occurrence des évènements de crue. Le projet de rattachement est MERMEX-Rivers.
MINOS cruise,Le Suroît R/V
Creators: name: LE PICHON Xavier
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 1986

description: Etude de la nature et de la structure sismique de la croute terrestre. Exploration de la structure de la croute du golfe de Suez. Etude de la nature de l'amincissement crustal entre le golfe de Suez et la mer Rouge. Etude de l'amincissement crustal dans le nord de la mer Rouge. Ces objectifs ont été réalisés à l'aide de méthodes sismiques.
MIO96 cruise,Professeur Georges Petit R/V
Creators: name: LABAT Jean Philippe
name: DALLOT Serge
name: IBANEZ Jean José
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 1996

description: Démonstration et pratique d'outils de l'océanographie, filets, CTD, sondeurs, sismiques, carottages. effectuée aussi sur le TETHYS II ; dans le cadre de la Maîtrise de Biologie des Organismes et Populations. Campagne d'enseignement.
Branchlines. Volume 19, number 1
Creators: name: Watts, Susan B.
name: University Of British Columbia. Faculty Of Forestry
Publisher: name: Produced in-house at the Faculty of Forestry by Susan B. Watts, Editor and Jamie Myers, Designer.
Year: 2011

description: Our Changing Climate. The fate of tree populations in a changing climate. Fueling the future – poplar is popular at UBC. Climate-induced variability in forest growth capacity. Climate variability, climate change and streamflow. Climate warming and salmon fisheries – a game of double jeopardy. Sequestering carbon through soil fertilization. Will the water be there?: an exploration of climate change and the future of water resources in the Okanagan region. Northern forest management in a changing climate. Meeting BC’s carbon reduction targets with resilient communities.
Boundary State Generation for Testing and Improvement of Autonomous Driving Systems
Creators: name: Biagiola, Matteo
name: Tonella, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and sensor technologies are enabling autonomous driving systems (ADSs) with an ever-increasing level of autonomy. However, assessing their dependability remains a critical concern. State-of-the-art ADS testing approaches modify the controllable attributes of a simulated driving environment until the ADS misbehaves. In such approaches, environment instances in which the ADS is successful are discarded, despite the possibility that they could contain hidden driving conditions in which the ADS may misbehave.
 In this paper, we present GENBO (GENerator of BOundary state pairs), a novel test generator for ADS testing. GENBO mutates the driving conditions of the ego vehicle (position, velocity and orientation), collected in a failure-free environment instance, and efficiently generates challenging driving conditions at the behavior boundary (i.e., where the model starts to misbehave) in the same environment instance. We use such boundary conditions to augment the initial training dataset and retrain the DNN model under test. Our evaluation results show that the retrained model has, on average, up to 3x higher success rate on a separate set of evaluation tracks with respect to the original DNN model.
title: Resolving biology’s dark matter: species richness, spatiotemporal distribution, and community composition of a dark taxon
Creators: name: Hartop, Emily
name: Lee, Leshon
name: Srivathsan, Amrita
name: Jones, Mirkka
name: Peña-Aguilera, Pablo
name: Ovaskainen, Otso
name: Roslin, Tomas
name: Meier, Rudolf
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dark taxa
subject: Megabarcoding
subject: DNA barcoding
subject: Biodiversity discovery
subject: Hierarchical Modelling of Species Communities
subject: Diptera
subject: Phoridae
subject: 570 Biologie
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Zoology’s dark matter comprises hyperdiverse, poorly known taxa that are numerically dominant but largely unstudied, even in temperate regions where charismatic taxa are well understood. Dark taxa are everywhere, but high diversity, abundance, and small size have historically stymied their study. We demonstrate how entomological dark matter can be elucidated using high-throughput DNA barcoding (“megabarcoding”). We reveal the high abundance and diversity of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) in Sweden using 31,800 specimens from 37 sites across four seasonal periods. We investigate the number of scuttle fly species in Sweden and the environmental factors driving community changes across time and space. Results: Swedish scuttle fly diversity is much higher than previously known, with 549 putative species detected, compared to 374 previously recorded species. Hierarchical Modelling of Species Communities reveals that scuttle fly communities are highly structured by latitude and strongly driven by climatic factors. Large dissimilarities between sites and seasons are driven by turnover rather than nestedness. Climate change is predicted to significantly affect the 47% of species that show significant responses to mean annual temperature. Results were robust regardless of whether haplotype diversity or species-proxies were used as response variables. Additionally, species-level models of common taxa adequately predict overall species richness. Conclusions: Understanding the bulk of the diversity around us is imperative during an era of biodiversity change. We show that dark insect taxa can be efficiently characterised and surveyed with megabarcoding. Undersampling of rare taxa and choice of operational taxonomic units do not alter the main ecological inferences, making it an opportune time to tackle zoology’s dark matter.
De-confounding Representation Learning for Counterfactual Inference on Continuous Treatment via Generative Adversarial Network
Creators: name: Zhao, Yonghe
name: Huang, Qiang
name: Zeng, Haolong
name: Pen, Yun
name: Sun, Huiyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Counterfactual inference for continuous rather than binary treatment variables is more common in real-world causal inference tasks. While there are already some sample reweighting methods based on Marginal Structural Model for eliminating the confounding bias, they generally focus on removing the treatment's linear dependence on confounders and rely on the accuracy of the assumed parametric models, which are usually unverifiable. In this paper, we propose a de-confounding representation learning (DRL) framework for counterfactual outcome estimation of continuous treatment by generating the representations of covariates disentangled with the treatment variables. The DRL is a non-parametric model that eliminates both linear and nonlinear dependence between treatment and covariates. Specifically, we train the correlations between the de-confounded representations and the treatment variables against the correlations between the covariate representations and the treatment variables to eliminate confounding bias. Further, a counterfactual inference network is embedded into the framework to make the learned representations serve both de-confounding and trusted inference. Extensive experiments on synthetic datasets show that the DRL model performs superiorly in learning de-confounding representations and outperforms state-of-the-art counterfactual inference models for continuous treatment variables. In addition, we apply the DRL model to a real-world medical dataset MIMIC and demonstrate a detailed causal relationship between red cell width distribution and mortality.
description: 15 pages,4 figures. Data Min Knowl Disc (2024)
Core Decreasing Functions
Creators: name: Hidalgo, Alejandro Santacruz
name: Sinnamon, Gord
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B70 (Primary) 46E30, 46B42 (Secondary)

description: Given a measure space and a totally ordered ordered collection of measurable sets, called an ordered core, the notion of a core decreasing function is introduced and used to define the down space of a Banach function space. This is done using a variant of the Köthe dual restricted to core decreasing functions. To study down spaces, the least core decreasing majorant construction and the level function construction, already known for functions on the real line, are extended to this general setting. These are used to give concrete descriptions of the duals of the down spaces and, in the case of universally rearrangement invariant (u.r.i.) spaces, of the down spaces themselves.
 The down spaces of $L^1$ and $L^\infty$ are shown to form an exact Calderón couple with divisibility constant $1$; a complete description of the exact interpolation spaces for the couple is given in terms of level functions; and the down spaces of u.r.i. spaces are shown to be precisely those interpolation spaces that have the Fatou property. The dual couple is also an exact Calderón couple with divisibility constant $1$; a complete description of the exact interpolation spaces for the couple is given in terms of least core decreasing majorants; and the duals of down spaces of u.r.i. spaces are shown to be precisely those interpolation spaces that have the Fatou property.
description: 33 pages
title: An approach designed to fail deaf children and their parents and how to change it
Creators: name: Humphries, Tom
name: Mathur, Gaurav
name: Napoli, Donna Jo
name: Rathmann, Christian
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Deaf children
subject: Sign languages
subject: Cognitive health
subject: Linguistic deprivation
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The matter of raising and educating deaf children has been caught up in percepts of development that are persistently inaccurate and at odds with scientific research. These percepts have negatively impacted the health and quality of life of deaf children and deaf people in general. The all too prevalent advice is to raise the child strictly orally and wait to see what happens. Only when the child is seriously behind is a completely accessible language – a sign language – introduced, and that is far too late for protecting cognitive health. The medical profession, along with others, needs to offer parents better advice and better supports so that neither the children nor their parents wait and watch as the oral-only method fails. All must take responsible action to assure an approach that succeeds.
P2C: Self-Supervised Point Cloud Completion from Single Partial Clouds
Creators: name: Cui, Ruikai
name: Qiu, Shi
name: Anwar, Saeed
name: Liu, Jiawei
name: Xing, Chaoyue
name: Zhang, Jing
name: Barnes, Nick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Point cloud completion aims to recover the complete shape based on a partial observation. Existing methods require either complete point clouds or multiple partial observations of the same object for learning. In contrast to previous approaches, we present Partial2Complete (P2C), the first self-supervised framework that completes point cloud objects using training samples consisting of only a single incomplete point cloud per object. Specifically, our framework groups incomplete point clouds into local patches as input and predicts masked patches by learning prior information from different partial objects. We also propose Region-Aware Chamfer Distance to regularize shape mismatch without limiting completion capability, and devise the Normal Consistency Constraint to incorporate a local planarity assumption, encouraging the recovered shape surface to be continuous and complete. In this way, P2C no longer needs multiple observations or complete point clouds as ground truth. Instead, structural cues are learned from a category-specific dataset to complete partial point clouds of objects. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on both synthetic ShapeNet data and real-world ScanNet data, showing that P2C produces comparable results to methods trained with complete shapes, and outperforms methods learned with multiple partial observations. Code is available at https://github.com/CuiRuikai/Partial2Complete.
description: Accepted to ICCV 2023
MIRROR1 cruise,L'Atalante R/V
Creators: name: Frauke, KLINGELHOEFER
name: Daniel, ASLANIAN
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2011

description: Le dispositif d'acquisition permettra en outre de réaliser une inversion tomographique 3D dans le double but de :
1) caractériser les structures profondes liées à l'anomalie dite « S' », extension septentrionalle de l'anomalie dite "S1", conjuguée de la East Coast Magnetic Anomaly, qui marque la transition océan-continent ;
2) caractériser la bordure de la plateforme continentale. L'imagerie des structures profondes permettront de tester les hypothèses concernant l'origine de l'anomalie magnétique (s'agit-il d'épaisses coulées basaltiques, associées à des « Seaward Dipping Reflectors » ?).Les données nous permettront également de tester les modèles de rifting qui évoquent la présence de failles de détachement conduisant à l'exhumation du manteau lors de la rupture continentale. Les travaux sur les données de la campagne ont permis de répondre aux questions concernant la plateforme continentale aussi bien que de proposer un modèle d'ouverture de la marge. Ce modèle inclut une rifting symétrique et une phase d'accrétion océanique asymétrique avec l'accrétion d'une croûte amagmatique vers l'ouest. Après l'anomalie M25 qui correspond à une phase de réorganisation des mouvements des plaques, une croûte magmatique mince s'est accrétée vers l'est et l'ouest. Aucun « Seaward Dipping Reflector » n'était imagé par la sismique ce qui indique qu'ils ne sont pas l'origine de l'anomalie magnétique S1.
Deliverable 2.5 Report on conceptual specifications for the interface between the e- Standardized Methodologies Platform (e-SMP) and the EuroFIR eSearch Platform
Creators: name: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: 1. General introduction and concepts

The aim of this report is to present the conceptual specifications for the interface between two existing web-infrastructures, the e-Standardized Methodologies Platform (e-SMP) – still under development - and the EuroFIR Food Composition Data (FCD) interchange platform(1). The conceptual development of a tool filling the current missing link between the collected dietary intake data handled in the e-SMP and the food concentration/composition data available via the EuroFIR portal has to be seen as a major step forward towards more comprehensive infrastructures to strengthen the comparability and integration of food consumption and composition data underpinning dietary assessment for national and international nutritional studies in Europe (Figure 1).

In the following text, the EuroFIR information or FCD platform will be mentioned only to provide the context and rationale of this methodological project. However, only the concept of the “Food Data Handling Module” as a future possible integrated part of the e-SMP will be detailed in this report.
Colloquium: Quantum Batteries
Creators: name: Campaioli, Francesco
name: Gherardini, Stefano
name: Quach, James Q.
name: Polini, Marco
name: Andolina, Gian Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in quantum devices for the production, storage, and transfer of energy. In this Colloquium, we concentrate on the field of quantum energy storage by reviewing recent theoretical and experimental progress in quantum batteries. We first provide a theoretical background discussing the advantages that quantum batteries offer with respect to their classical analogues. We then review the existing quantum many-body battery models and present a thorough discussion of important issues related to their open nature. We finally conclude by discussing promising experimental implementations, preliminary results available in the literature, and perspectives.
description: 36 pages, 12 figures, 311 references. Review and perspective article on quantum batteries. Commissioned for Reviews of Modern Physics. Comments and feedback are welcome
Balance Sheet Model
Creators: name: Lee, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Balance Sheet Model

description: The balance sheet model is used to determine the risks of various assets, liabilities and balance sheet items. Primarily, the model calculates the interest rate risk profile of these instruments. The model involves defining an underlying interest rate process, valuation models for all the instruments that depends on the interest rates, and various scenarios for the interest rates in order to compute “risk profiles”.
description: https://osf.io/preprints/inarxiv/n29s7/download
Supplementary document for Bessel-beam illumination Raman microscopy - 5811531.pdf
Creators: name: Bando, Kazuki
name: Yabuuchi, Shumpei
name: Li, Menglu
name: Kubo, Toshiki
name: Oketani, Ryosuke
name: Smith, Nicholas
name: Fujita, Katsumasa
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The imaging property and the detail of the optical setup
MIRROR2 cruise,L'Atalante R/V
Creators: name: REICHERT Christian
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2011

description: Structure profonde de la marge passive atlantique du Maroc. Un des objectifs était d'imager la structure sédimentaire en utilisant la sismique multi-traces lourde sur plusieurs profils le long de la marge. Un autre objectif était d'acquérir un profil de sismique combiné multi-traces et grand-angle conjugué à un profil existant au large du Canada. Il était important d'enregistrer les anomalies magnétiques le long de ces profils sismique pour déterminer leur origine (sous-placage ou volcanisme). En complément, quelques profils de bathymétrie ont été prévus pour déterminer la structuration du fond de mer et quelques carottes d'interface pour pouvoir analyser le développement du bassin.
Topological analysis of the complex SSH model using the quantum geometric tensor
Creators: name: Cheng, Eve
name: Batchelor, Murray T.
name: Cocks, Danny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents two methods for topological analysis of the complex Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using the quantum geometric tensor: Berry phase and topological data analysis. We demonstrate how both methods can effectively generate topological phase diagrams for the model, revealing two distinct regions based on the relative magnitudes of the parameters $|v|$ and $|w|$. Specifically, when $|v| > |w|$, the system is found to be topologically trivial, whereas for $|v| < |w|$, it exhibits topologically non-trivial behavior. Our results contribute to building the groundwork for topological analysis of more complicated SSH-type models.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, revised and expanded version
MISCOBA cruise,L'Europe R/V
Creators: name: SAUZADE Didier
name: OPDERBECKE Jan
Publisher: name: Sismer
Year: 2006

description: Essais et évaluations de moyens techniques novateurs utilisables pour préparer la modélisation du devenir de contaminants chimiques apportés au milieu marin côtier par la zone urbaine de Marseille : 1. Evaluation de l'AUV ASTERx au cours de missions consistant à :i) Reconnaître les fonds des zones ateliers où sera installé le système de fond automatisé de mesure et d'échantillonnage FRAME, à l'aide d'ASTERx équipé du sondeur multifaiceaux haute résolution mis à disposition par GEOSCIENCES AZUR ii) Mesurer les courants dans la colonne d'eau à l'aide d'ASTERx équipé de deux ADCP.2. Réaliser la recette constructeur du sondeur multifaiceaux en configuration embarquée sur l'AUV, comme préalable à son utilisation pour la reconnaissance des fonds.
D7.2 Communications, standardisation, and dissemination plan
Creators: name: M. Khorsandi, Bahare
name: Merluzzi, Mattia
name: Wikström, Gustav
name: Mohnani, Pooja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Sustainable 6G
6G for sustainable applications
standardisation
communication
dissemination

description: This document outlines the communication, dissemination and standardisation plan for the SUSTAIN-6G project. The plan encompasses strategies for effectively communicating project progress and outcomes to diverse stakeholders, including researchers, industry partners, policymakers, and the public. The plan details various dissemination channels and activities to ensure wide-reaching impact and knowledge transfer, fostering the adoption of project findings and contributing to the advancement of sustainability in telecommunication forum. Finally, it also addresses the impact and progress of the project in terms of contributions toward standardisation.