cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Monte Carlo sampling from the quantum state space. II
Creators: name: Seah, Yi-Lin
name: Shang, Jiangwei
name: Ng, Hui Khoon
name: Nott, David John
name: Englert, Berthold-Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-quality random samples of quantum states are needed for a variety of tasks in quantum information and quantum computation. Searching the high-dimensional quantum state space for a global maximum of an objective function with many local maxima or evaluating an integral over a region in the quantum state space are but two exemplary applications of many. These tasks can only be performed reliably and efficiently with Monte Carlo methods, which involve good samplings of the parameter space in accordance with the relevant target distribution. We show how the Markov-chain Monte Carlo method known as Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, or hybrid Monte Carlo, can be adapted to this context. It is applicable when an efficient parameterization of the state space is available. The resulting random walk is entirely inside the physical parameter space, and the Hamiltonian dynamics enable us to take big steps, thereby avoiding strong correlations between successive sample points while enjoying a high acceptance rate. We use examples of single and double qubit measurements for illustration.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 12 references
Robust and efficient in situ quantum control
Creators: name: Ferrie, Christopher
name: Moussa, Osama
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precision control of quantum systems is the driving force for both quantum technology and the probing of physics at the quantum and nano-scale. We propose an implementation independent method for in situ quantum control that leverages recent advances in the direct estimation of quantum gate fidelity. Our algorithm takes account of the stochasticity of the problem and is suitable for closed-loop control and requires only a constant number of fidelity estimating experiments per iteration independent of the dimension of the control space. It is efficient and robust to both statistical and technical noise.
description: #QuantumControl #funnypictures
The myth of European identity Representation and construction of regional, national and European identities in German, French and international television news broadcasts
Creators: name: Wiehl, Anna
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2014

description: This paper presents an overview of some of the central myths (sensu Roland Barthes) of European identity in its interdependence with national and regional identities. Starting from the premises that television-news perceived as a social practice is still highly influential for how we perceive the world and ›locate‹ ourselves in it, we examine significant examples of TV-news – reaching from regional (Bavaria/Alsace), national (Germany/France) to supra-national public broadcasting stations (arte) on both the macro-level and the micro-level of the programs. Thereby, we follow a pluri-disciplinary research axis: Combining a semio-historic approach with methodological instruments from the Cultural Studies ›tool-box‹ allows us to understand topical cultural phenomena and their expressions in (mass-)media as socio-culturally embedded imprints of collective memory and imagination. Covering a wide spectrum of ›news-narratives‹, the analysis focuses on the interdependence of the preservation of heritage, traditional values and the construction of (post-)modern versions of national self-assertiveness (or the lack of it) in a globalized world – and the fact that ›audio-visions‹ of European (cultural) identity are still very elusive. These findings are taken as a point of departure to consider options for future (social-)TV-programs that can enhance the emergence of persistent ›Europeanness‹ as multifaceted, flexible pluri-identities.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 5 No 1 (2014): Identities in media and music. Case-studies from (trans)national, regional and local communities
Andrés, S. I., Teodoro de, El Nominalismo de Guillermo de Ockham como Filosofia del Linguaje. Editorial Credos, S. A. Vol. de 302 ps. 135x197. Madrid 1969
Creators: name: Paula, Manuel António De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1971

description: Theologica, v. 6 n. 2 (1971)
Magnetism in a family of $S = 1$ square lattice antiferromagnets Ni$X_2$(pyz)$_2$ ($X = $ Cl, Br, I, NCS; pyz = pyrazine)
Creators: name: Liu, J.
name: Goddard, P. A.
name: Singleton, J.
name: Brambleby, J.
name: Foronda, F.
name: Möller, J. S.
name: Kohama, Y.
name: Ghannadzadeh, S.
name: Ardavan, A.
name: Blundell, S. J.
name: Lancaster, T.
name: Xiao, F.
name: Williams, R. C.
name: Pratt, F. L.
name: Baker, P. J.
name: Wierschem, K.
name: Lapidus, S. H.
name: Stone, K. H.
name: Stephens, P. W.
name: Bendix, J.
name: Lees, M. R.
name: Woods, T. J.
name: Carreiro, K. E.
name: Tran, H. E.
name: Villa, C. J.
name: Manson, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The crystal structures of Ni$X_2$(pyz)$_2$ ($X$ = Cl (\textbf{1}), Br (\textbf{2}), I (\textbf{3}) and NCS (\textbf{4})) were determined at 298~K by synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction. All four compounds consist of two-dimensional (2D) square arrays self-assembled from octahedral NiN$_4$$X_2$ units that are bridged by pyz ligands. The 2D layered motifs displayed by \textbf{1}-\textbf{4} are relevant to bifluoride-bridged [Ni(HF$_2$)(pyz)$_2$]$Z$F$_6$ ($Z$ = P, Sb) which also possess the same 2D layers. In contrast, terminal $X$ ligands occupy axial positions in \textbf{1}-\textbf{4} and cause a staggering of adjacent layers. Long-range antiferromagnetic order occurs below 1.5 (Cl), 1.9 (Br and NCS) and 2.5~K (I) as determined by heat capacity and muon-spin relaxation. The single-ion anisotropy and $g$ factor of \textbf{2}, \textbf{3} and \textbf{4} are measured by electron spin resonance where no zero--field splitting was found. The magnetism of \textbf{1}-\textbf{4} crosses a spectrum from quasi-two-dimensional to three-dimensional antiferromagnetism. An excellent agreement was found between the pulsed-field magnetization, magnetic susceptibility and $T_\textrm{N}$ of \textbf{2} and \textbf{4}. Magnetization curves for \textbf{2} and \textbf{4} calculated by quantum Monte Carlo simulation also show excellent agreement with the pulsed-field data. \textbf{3} is characterized as a three-dimensional antiferromagnet with the interlayer interaction ($J_\perp$) slightly stronger than the interaction within the two-dimensional [Ni(pyz)$_2$]$^{2+}$ square planes ($J_\textrm{pyz}$).
description: 17 pages, 12 figures
This is the soundtrack of our identity: National mythscapes in music and the construction of collective identity through music in early Flemish radio (1929–1939)
Creators: name: Goessens, Lieselotte
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2014

description: Based on research on the early Flemish radio of the 1920s and 1930s this article shows how particular musical repertoires can be used to address feelings of togetherness and imagined community and to influence the content and color of collective identities. Radio has played an important part in the reinforcement of Flemish collective identity and Flemish cultural emancipation, and music was an important means in this process. Through the example of the very first music program of the catholic Flemish broadcaster in October 1929 it becomes clear how music programs on the radio were an expression of collective identity, but also directed the meaning of this identity towards a specific interpretation. The article uses theories both from the field of nationhood studies as from the field of music sociology. Concepts of A.D. Smith and D. S. Bell are merged in the concept of ›mythscape‹ and used as tool in the analyses.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 5 No 1 (2014): Identities in media and music. Case-studies from (trans)national, regional and local communities
Regional and national identity in Austrian dialectal pop songs A critical analysis of two Austropop songs
Creators: name: Thumberger, Ulrike
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2014

description: Austria is a country where, even today, a lot of people still speak dialect as their first language. Though small in dimension, the country has a very rich dialectal heritage, with most dialects belonging to the Bavarian group and just a small territory in the Western part being of Alemannic origin. There are also studies which show that people’s identity is largely bound to the dialect they speak and the area they originally stem from. As dialect still plays an important role in many aspects of life you can also find a number of pop songs the lyrics of which are written and rendered in dialect. The use of dialect in Austrian pop songs came up in the 1970’s with the »Austropop« movement. With dialect being the most domestic style of language spoken in Austria, it was only a logical consequence that it became a part of »Austropop«. The paper aims at showing how regional as well as national identity was and is constructed through the use of dialect and place names in the lyrics of Austrian pop songs by analysing two songs, namely »Vo Mello bis ge Schoppornou«, rendered in Alemannic dialect, and »Jö schau«, sung in a Bavarian dialect like Viennese.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 5 No 1 (2014): Identities in media and music. Case-studies from (trans)national, regional and local communities
Robust analysis $\ell_1$-recovery from Gaussian measurements and total variation minimization
Creators: name: Kabanava, Maryia
name: Rauhut, Holger
name: Zhang, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Analysis $\ell_1$-recovery refers to a technique of recovering a signal that is sparse in some transform domain from incomplete corrupted measurements. This includes total variation minimization as an important special case when the transform domain is generated by a difference operator. In the present paper we provide a bound on the number of Gaussian measurements required for successful recovery for total variation and for the case that the analysis operator is a frame. The bounds are particularly suitable when the sparsity of the analysis representation of the signal is not very small.
Additional file 1 of Assessment of the readiness and response toward the dengue fever outbreak (2019) in Sudan: a qualitative exploration
Creators: name: Bagahizel, Abdulla M.
name: Elkhatim, Hamadnalla Sir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
On Nichols (braided) Lie algebras
Creators: name: Wu, Weicai
name: Zhang, Shouchuan
name: Zhang, Yao-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16W30, 16G10

description: We prove {\rm (i)} Nichols algebra $\mathfrak B(V)$ of vector space $V$ is finite-dimensional if and only if Nichols braided Lie algebra $\mathfrak L(V)$ is finite-dimensional; {\rm (ii)} If the rank of connected $V$ is $2$ and $\mathfrak B(V)$ is an arithmetic root system, then $\mathfrak B(V) = F \oplus \mathfrak L(V);$ and {\rm (iii)} if $Δ(\mathfrak B(V))$ is an arithmetic root system and there does not exist any $m$-infinity element with $p_{uu} \not= 1$ for any $u \in D(V)$, then $\dim (\mathfrak B(V) ) = \infty$ if and only if there exists $V'$, which is twisting equivalent to $V$, such that $ \dim (\mathfrak L^ - (V')) = \infty.$ Furthermore we give an estimation of dimensions of Nichols Lie algebras and two examples of Lie algebras which do not have maximal solvable ideals.
description: 29 Pages; Substantially revised version; To appear in International Journal of Mathematics
Fernandez, Clemente. S. J., Los Filósofos Modernos. La Editorial Católica «Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos». 2 Vols. de 634 e 578 ps. 125x200. Madrid 1970
Creators: name: Paula, Manuel António De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1971

description: Theologica, v. 6 n. 2 (1971)
There are no ghettos: Indexing global rap and hip hop in local Finnish youth radio discourse
Creators: name: Muhonenth, Anu
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2014

description: The paper takes a closer look on rap and hip hop identities that are indexed in the discourses, on rap music and hip hop culture in Finnish youth radio and explores the following: What kind of rap and hip hop identities are displayed in these discourses? How are globality and locality indexed in these discourses? Is there something typically “Finnish” in the rap music and hip hop culture presented in the Finnish language youth radio? The paper shows that the Finnish rap scene indexes local identities and represents a local subculture that is both linguistically and culturally “Finnish”, adjusted to local, cultural and linguistic conditions. Finnish rap displays a great diversity of different features that exhibit global, transnational, local and glocal. It indexes a diversity of features connected to contemporary Finnish rap culture; the discourses reveal indexicalities of multiple rap identity constructions and performances. Globality and locality form a complex manifestation of a place. Hip hop presents several layers of modality and the representation highlights the intersection of different aspects of (national and international) languages, styles, (local and global) identities, hip hop culture(s), youth identities, globalization and localization.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 5 No 1 (2014): Identities in media and music. Case-studies from (trans)national, regional and local communities
A cinema of one’s own Building/reconstructing Siberian indigenous peoples’ identity in recent cinema: examples from Sakha (Yakutia) Republic and the Republic of Khakassia
Creators: name: Damiens, Caroline
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2014

description: This paper discusses indigenous cinema from Siberia and how this media is being used by the Siberian minorities as a means to (re)build their national identity after the collapse of USSR. It focuses on films from Sakha (Yakutia) Republic and the Republic of Khakassia, both autonomous republics within the Russian Federation, which are experiencing an ethnicity-based cultural revival. It shows that cinema plays a full part in this revitalization process. The article begins with a brief history of Sakha and Khakas feature films, which form the core of the studied corpus. Based on interviews of Khakas and Sakha filmmakers, it analyses why and how film can be considered a good vehicle for identity strengthening. Then, focusing on films themselves, be they amateur or more professional quality productions, if not commissioned by the local government, it examines how those films are rethinking the supranational (Russo-Soviet) narrative, re-imagining geography and trying to reconnect with Sakha and Khakas peoples' own past and traditions. Finally, it highlights the differences between Khakas and Sakha cinema through showing how these “national” film productions can express a strong or a weak feeling of identity.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 5 No 1 (2014): Identities in media and music. Case-studies from (trans)national, regional and local communities
Stability of low-rank matrix recovery and its connections to Banach space geometry
Creators: name: Chávez-Domínguez, Javier Alejandro
name: Kutzarova, Denka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There are well-known relationships between compressed sensing and the geometry of the finite-dimensional $\ell_p$ spaces. A result of Kashin and Temlyakov can be described as a characterization of the stability of the recovery of sparse vectors via $\ell_1$-minimization in terms of the Gelfand widths of certain identity mappings between finite-dimensional $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ spaces, whereas a more recent result of Foucart, Pajor, Rauhut and Ullrich proves an analogous relationship even for $\ell_p$ spaces with $p < 1$. In this paper we prove what we call matrix or noncommutative versions of these results: we characterize the stability of low-rank matrix recovery via Schatten $p$-(quasi-)norm minimization in terms of the Gelfand widths of certain identity mappings between finite-dimensional Schatten $p$-spaces.
description: 16 pages
Additional file 1 of Circulating small extracellular vesicle-derived splicing factor 3b subunit 4 as a non-invasive diagnostic biomarker of early hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Son, Ju A
name: Weon, Ji Hyang
name: Baek, Geum Ok
name: Ahn, Hye Ri
name: Choi, Ji Yi
name: Yoon, Moon Gyeong
name: Cho, Hyo Jung
name: Cheong, Jae Youn
name: Eun, Jung Woo
name: Kim, Soon Sun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Clinicopathological characteristic of the patients in cohort 1. Supplementary Table 2. Clinicopathological characteristic of the patients in cohort 2. Supplementary Table 3. Clinicopathological characteristic of the patients in cohort 3. Supplementary Table 4. Clinicopathological characteristic of the patients in the external cohort. Supplementary Table 5. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses of factors associated with overall survival and disease-free survival in TCGA LIHC dataset. Supplementary Table 6. Markers of immune cells. Supplementary Fig. 1. The correlation between the expression of SF3B4 gene and the prognosis of ten different types of cancer in TCGA.A Overall survival rate and B Disease-free survival rate, as well as the expression of SF3B4 gene in various tumors using GEPIA2 software. Supplementary Fig. 2. EV-AFP expression and its diagnostic power in HCC. A Box plot of AFP expression in blood-derived EVs from different diseases. NP, normal person; CHD, coronary heart disease; CRC, colorectal cancer; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; PAAD, pancreatic adenocarcinoma; TPM, transcripts per million B Expression of serum EV-AFP based on the stage of liver disease (left) and AUCs of serum EV-AFP compared to serum EV-SF3B4 for diagnosing HCC (right) in the external cohort. Statistically significant differences were determined using one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. Compared to HC; *P <0.05, **P <0.01. Supplementary Fig. 3. The distribution of five well-known MDSC markers in whole cells. Supplementary Fig. 4. The relationship between SF3B4 Copy Number Variation and immune infiltration. *P <0.05, **P<0.01. Supplementary Fig. 5. Bar chart showing the expression of SF3B4 and MDSC markers in a set of 86 pairs of HCC tissues.
Doctoral thesis recital (piano)
Creators: name: Kesuma, Martin
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Canons, fugues, etc. (Piano)
Sonatas (Piano)
Concert etudes
Piano music

description: From Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, book II, BWV 870. Prelude and fugue no. 1 in C major / J. S. Bach -- Transcendental etude no. 12, Chasse-neige / Franz Liszt -- Piano sonata, op. 1 / Alban Berg -- Sonata no. 2 in B-Flat minor, op. 35 / Frédéric Chopin
Енергоефективна технологія вирішення проблеми утилізації відходів тваринництва
Creators: name: Popov, Stanislav
name: Petrash, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 401106
subject: Waste management, reduction, reuse and recycling

description: Запропоновано конструкцію підземного цементоґрунтового резервуару для зберігання відходів тваринництва. Резервуар являє собою непроникну стінку, влаштовану у ґрунті без його виймання, яка своєю довжиною сягає природнього водотривкого шару ґрунту. Таким чином буде унеможливлений ефект деградації оточуючого ґрунту від впливу відходів.
Functional characterization of biocide fitness determinants in the opportunistic pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii
Creators: name: Prity, Farzana Tasum
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Acinetobacter baumannii is a major multidrug resistant opportunistic pathogen. While antibiotic resistance mechanisms in A. baumannii are well-studied, resistance to biocides is much less characterized. A high-throughput genomic screen previously identified multiple genes that may play a role in biocide resistance. Growth assays confirmed that mutants of four of these genes, including AdeB efflux pump, showed increased susceptibility to various biocides. Furthermore, qRT-PCR analysis indicated that AdeB efflux pump and its cognate regulator, AdeRS may have a different ligand specificity, which was also evident in the same genomic screening data. A possible novel efflux pump, Neo1, was identified by the same high-throughput genomic screen. Unexpectedly, an in vivo functional assay of Neo1 and its ortholog, YccS, showed increased antibiotic sensitivity in Escherichia coli. For in vitro functional analysis, Neo1 was semi-purified using IMAC; however, preliminary ligand screening using nanoDSF did not identify potential ligands of Neo1. A separate qRT-PCR analysis established that spermine and spermidine induce the expression of the A. baumannii amvA multidrug efflux pump gene, suggesting these polyamines are its natural substrates. Together, the studies of this thesis provided insightful indications about the functions and regulations of multidrug efflux pumps and other biocide tolerant genes in A. baumannii.
World music routes: the modification of the Sakha musical tradition1
Creators: name: Ventsel, Aimar
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2014

description: The focus of the article is twofold. It scrutinizes the marketing strategies of the traditional musicians of the Republic of Sakha, in the Russian Far East. In the last 10 years musicians who had performed pop, rock or jazz now focus on the global world music scene in order to develop their international career and earn money. Simultaneously, the article discusses the role of the media in the local music business of the Republic of Sakha. The local media puts artists under heavy pressure to gain success outside of their home region and Russia. Artists are turned into political activists and role models for young musicians. In order to respond to these expectations and thrive in the global music business, Sakha artists have developed interesting methods of modifying Sakha tradition. The article is critical to the post-colonial reading of the world music business and argues that artists are not always manipulated by managers but that artists develop strategies to fit the expectations of the audience and managers.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 5 No 1 (2014): Identities in media and music. Case-studies from (trans)national, regional and local communities
Mechanism of metallization and superconductivity suppression in YBa$_2($Cu$_{0.97}$Zn$_{0.03})_3$O$_{6.92}$ revealed by $^{67}$Zn NQR
Creators: name: Pelc, Damjan
name: Požek, Miroslav
name: Despoja, Vito
name: Sunko, Denis K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) signal on the Zn site in nearly optimally doped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.92}$, when Cu is substituted by 3\% of isotopically pure $^{67}$Zn. We observe that Zn creates large insulating islands, confirming two earlier conjectures: that doping provokes an orbital transition in the CuO$_2$ plane, which is locally reversed by Zn substitution, and that the islands are antiferromagnetic. Also, we find that the Zn impurity locally induces a breaking of the D$_4$ symmetry. Cluster and DFT calculations show that the D$_4$ symmetry breaking is due to the same partial lifting of degeneracy of the nearest-neighbor oxygen sites as in the LTT transition in La$_{2-x}$Ba$_x$CuO$_4$, similarly well-known to strongly suppress superconductivity. These results show that in-plane oxygen $2p^5$ orbital configurations are principally involved in the metallicity and superconductivity of all high-T$_c$ cuprates, and provide a qualitative symmetry-based constraint on the SC mechanism.
description: extended version, to appear in New Journal of Physics
Cencillo, Luís, Mito Semântica y realidad. La Ed. Católica, S. A. (B.A.C., n.° 299). Vol. de 266 ps. 125x200. Madrid 1970
Creators: name: Paula, Manuel António De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1971

description: Theologica, v. 6 n. 2 (1971)
Additional file 1 of Individual- and neighborhood-level characteristics of lung cancer screening participants undergoing telemedicine shared decision making
Creators: name: Shusted, Christine S.
name: Juon, Hee-Soon
name: Ruane, Brooke
name: Till, Brian
name: Zeigler-Johnson, Charnita
name: McIntire, Russell K.
name: Grenda, Tyler
name: Okusanya, Olugbenga
name: Evans, Nathaniel R.
name: Kane, Gregory C.
name: Barta, Julie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Distance to Screening Site and Neighborhood Deprivation Index (NDI) Among Individuals in the Incomplete Screening and Complete Screening Subgroups. Supplemental Table 2. Baseline Characteristics Of Individuals Receiving Shared Decision Before and After Telehealth Implementation.
Alternative way to characterize a q-gaussian distribution by a robust heavy tail measurement
Creators: name: Helena, E. L de Santa
name: Nascimento, C. M.
name: Gerhardt, G. J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The q-Gaussians are a class of stable distributions which are present in many scientific fields, and that behave as heavy tailed distributions for an especific range of q values. The identification of these values, which are used in the description of systems, is sometimes a hard task. In this work the identification of a q-Gaussian distribution from empirical data was done by a measure of its tail weight using robust statistics. Numerical methods were used to generate artificial data, to find out the tail weight -- medcouple, and also to adjust the curve between medcouple and the q value. We showed that the medcouple value remains unchanged when the calculation is applied to data which have long memory. A routine was made to calculate the q value and its standard deviation, when applied to empirical data. It is possible to identify a q-Gaussian by the proposed methods with higher precision than in the literature for the same data sample, or as precise as found in the literature. However, in this case, it is required a smaller sample of data. We hope that this method will be able to open new ways for identifying physical phenomena that belongs to nonextensive frameworks.
description: Added references. Corrected typos. Improved in introduction, conclusion, results unchanged
One-to-one correspondence between generating functionals and cocycles on quantum groups in presence of symmetry
Creators: name: Das, Biswarup
name: Franz, Uwe
name: Kula, Anna
name: Skalski, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that under a symmetry assumption all cocycles on Hopf *-algebras arise from generating functionals. This extends earlier results of R.Vergnioux and D.Kyed and has two quantum group applications: all quantum Lévy processes with symmetric generating functionals decompose into a maximal Gaussian and purely non-Gaussian part and the Haagerup property for discrete quantum groups is characterized by the existence of an arbitrary proper cocycle.
description: 16 pages; v2 corrects a few minor points. The article has been accepted for publication in Mathematische Zeitschrift
General description of quasi-adiabatic dynamical phenomena near exceptional points
Creators: name: Milburn, Thomas J.
name: Doppler, Jörg
name: Holmes, Catherine A.
name: Portolan, Stefano
name: Rotter, Stefan
name: Rabl, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The appearance of so-called exceptional points in the complex spectra of non-Hermitian systems is often associated with phenomena that contradict our physical intuition. One example of particular interest is the state-exchange process predicted for an adiabatic encircling of an exceptional point. In this work we analyse this and related processes for the generic system of two coupled oscillator modes with loss or gain. We identify a characteristic system evolution consisting of periods of quasi-stationarity interrupted by abrupt non-adiabatic transitions, and we present a qualitative and quantitative description of this switching behaviour by connecting the problem to the phenomenon of stability loss delay. This approach makes accurate predictions for the breakdown of the adiabatic theorem as well as the occurrence of chiral behavior observed previously in this context, and provides a general framework to model and understand quasi-adiabatic dynamical effects in non-Hermitian systems.
description: Main text: 9 pages; 5 figures. Appendix: 4 pages; 1 figure
Towards a New Cultural History of Law
Creators: name: Siemens, Daniel
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2012

description: Finding ways of integrating law and legal practices into historical narratives is one of the most challenging fields of modern historiography. In the article to follow, the problems posed will be discussed on a historiographical and on a theoretical level. Firstly, I analyze the efforts social historians have undertaken in order to come to terms with law since the 1970s and discuss the extent to which their attempts to deal with legal matters differed from traditional legal history. Secondly, I explore the problematic relationship between law and historiography with reference to recent research in the field that is either influenced by the “performative turn” of the 1990s or by the flourishing area of global history. My findings indicate that while a considerable number of micro-historical studies on law and criminality now exist, macro-histories remain rather wary of approaches that stress the performative aspects of law. I conclude by highlighting the reasons making it such a complicated endeavor to write a new cultural history of law that aims at transgressing the boundaries of social as well as legal history. First of these is the enduring problem of the national boundedness of legal norms and structures. Another essential aspect is the question of language—are all historical descriptions of legal processes necessarily dependent on judicial logic and rhetoric? Finally, there is a problem of theory; what is the place of reference for a general historiography sensitive for legal aspects and legal practices.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 3 No 2 (2012): Law and Historiography: Contributions to a New Cultural History of Law
Justice as ›performance‹? The historiography of legal procedure and political criminal justice in Weimar Germany
Creators: name: Grunwald, Henning
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2012

description: Forensic theatre, courtroom drama: metaphors about the theatricality of legal procedure abound in scholarly writing. And yet, despite manifest structural similarities between stage and tribunal, historians as well as scholars of politics, law and culture have been slow to take seriously the performativity of law. In asking why, my contribution explores some of the challenges posed by a cultural history of the legal process as performance. After surveying appropriations of Performance Studies concepts by scholars of law, I formulate a working definition of the performativity of judicial procedure. Part two develops a tripartite matrix for categorizing interpretations of the nexus between performance and the legal process: surface/structural similarities; the performance of justice’s impartiality (and by extension the state’s legitimacy); and, brushing these against the grain, counter-performances of fundamental dissent. Empirically, this contribution draws on the politicization and aestheticization of trials in interwar Germany. In Weimar’s starkly polarized politics, performative aspects of trials such as performer-audience interaction and the creation/affirmation of community through sacrifice were particularly salient. Taking the performativity of justice seriously, my contribution argues, can help us better understand the deep impact of legal procedure on political culture.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 3 No 2 (2012): Law and Historiography: Contributions to a New Cultural History of Law
»Law and Society« in imperial Russia
Creators: name: Kirmse, Stefan B.
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2012

description: At first sight, combining the study of imperial Russia and the interdisciplinary field of "law and society" research may seem unusual. New critical scholarship, however, has helped to narrow the gap between the two fields. Discussing the entangled historiographies of law and society research and Russian imperial history from the mid-1960s to the present, the article highlights the shortcomings of previous research before showing that more recent works have begun to remedy earlier flaws. While historians of the Russian Empire have now entered the cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary field of law and society research, challenges remain. Thus the article identifies five promising areas of research for the future analysis of legal interaction in the Russian Empire. Finally, it offers a short case study to illustrate the ways in which the combination of these areas would help to improve our understanding of everyday legal experiences in imperial Russia.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 3 No 2 (2012): Law and Historiography: Contributions to a New Cultural History of Law
Joint Channel Parameter Estimation via Diffusive Molecular Communication
Creators: name: Noel, Adam
name: Cheung, Karen C.
name: Schober, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The design and analysis of diffusive molecular communication systems generally requires knowledge of the environment's physical and chemical properties. Furthermore, prospective applications might rely on the timely detection of changes in the local system parameters. This paper studies the local estimation of channel parameters for diffusive molecular communication when a transmitter releases molecules that are observed by a receiver. The Fisher information matrix of the joint parameter estimation problem is derived so that the Cramer-Rao lower bound on the variance of locally unbiased estimation can be found. The joint estimation problem can be reduced to the estimation of any subset of the channel parameters. Maximum likelihood estimation leads to closed-form solutions for some single-parameter estimation problems and can otherwise be determined numerically. Peak-based estimators are proposed for low-complexity estimation of a single unknown parameter.
description: 14 pages, 2 tables, 8 figures. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications
Globalization of legal cultures in the 19th century. Criminal trials, gender, and the public in Meiji Japan
Creators: name: Hedinger, Daniel
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2012

description: On a rainy summer night in 1887 a murder took place in one of Tokyo’s entertainment districts. A geisha known as Hanai Oume stabbed her lover to death. Oume’s open trial—shortly before the courts were opened to the general public for the first time—attracted widespread interest and caused a sensation. This article focuses on the courtroom as a place of encounter between the law and the public. The public trials of the Meiji period are a good starting-point for describing the implementation of Western law in Japan. It thereby addresses the problem of the globalization of legal cultures in the 19th century, a topic which has been largely ignored in global history. Moreover, a new cultural history of law that genuinely accounts for popular responses to legal reforms can give us a much more comprehensive picture of Japanese society in the mid-Meiji years. In summary, the convergence of fast-changing practices and omnipresent public interest in trials marks a short and specific moment in modern Japanese history. The open trials of the 1880s are best understood as rituals that sought to address and finally to resolve the social crises triggered by the Meiji Revolution. They were social dramas that unfolded in the new public sphere of the courtroom. This space was never under the state’s absolute control and trials were not mere engines of repression; in fact, in many ways the courtroom represented an arena in which state and society were able to negotiate with one another. Therefore, through Oume’s case we can glimpse the beginnings of the notion of public space in Meiji Japan.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 3 No 2 (2012): Law and Historiography: Contributions to a New Cultural History of Law
Fluctuation-response Relation Unifies Dynamical Behaviors in Neural Fields
Creators: name: Fung, C. C. Alan
name: Wong, K. Y. Michael
name: Mao, Hongzi
name: Wu, Si
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Anticipation is a strategy used by neural fields to compensate for transmission and processing delays during the tracking of dynamical information, and can be achieved by slow, localized, inhibitory feedback mechanisms such as short-term synaptic depression, spike-frequency adaptation, or inhibitory feedback from other layers. Based on the translational symmetry of the mobile network states, we derive generic fluctuation-response relations, providing unified predictions that link their tracking behaviors in the presence of external stimuli to the intrinsic dynamics of the neural fields in their absence.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
Priority, Property, and Trust. Patent law and pharmaceuticals in the German Empire
Creators: name: Hüntelmann, Axel C.
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2012

description: This article analyses the importance of legal aspects and patent law in the development, production, and marketing of pharmaceuticals at the beginning of the 20th century in the German Empire. It investigates how property, priority, and trust were linked and how this affected the patenting of pharmaceuticals. Moreover, it also looks at the interaction between different actors—scientists, the state, and the industry—and possible conflicts resulting from this interaction. After a general introduction to and review of the literature on law and legal aspects in the history of pharmaceuticals, the article sketches the state regulation of pharmaceuticals and the impact of patent law on pharmaceuticals in historical perspective. It goes on to explore the nexus of priority, prestige, and originality to explain why applications for patents became attractive to scientists. The influence of patents on legal, economic, and scientific aspects within the research process and their entanglements are demonstrated using the example of the Institute for Experimental Therapy and the Georg Speyer House in Frankfurt in the first decade of the 20th century. Friedrich Franz Friedmann’s application for his tuberculosis remedy serves to emphasize the aspects of scientific research, patent law, economic interest, and public trust. The final section summarizes the relation between patents, priority, property, and trust as well as the entanglement of law and science in the history of pharmaceuticals.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 3 No 2 (2012): Law and Historiography: Contributions to a New Cultural History of Law
Quantum revivals and many-body localization
Creators: name: Vasseur, R.
name: Parameswaran, S. A.
name: Moore, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the magnetization of a single `qubit' spin weakly coupled to an otherwise isolated disordered spin chain exhibits periodic revivals in the localized regime, and retains an imprint of its initial magnetization at infinite time. We demonstrate that the revival rate is strongly suppressed upon adding interactions after a time scale corresponding to the onset of the dephasing that distinguishes many-body localized phases from Anderson insulators. In contrast, the ergodic phase acts as a bath for the qubit, with no revivals visible on the time scales studied. The suppression of quantum revivals of local observables provides a quantitative, experimentally observable alternative to entanglement growth as a measure of the `non-ergodic but dephasing' nature of many-body localized systems.
description: 5 pages + appendices. v4: published version
Additional file 1 of High-dose pharmaceutical-grade biotin in patients with demyelinating neuropathies: a phase 2b open label, uncontrolled, pilot study
Creators: name: Créange, Alain
name: Hutin, Emilie
name: Sedel, Frédéric
name: Le Vigouroux, Ludivine
name: Lefaucheur, Jean-Pascal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: eTable 1. Compliance to IP During the Whole Study - SS population. eTable 2. Treatment-emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs). eTable 2a. Overview of the incidence of TEAEs - SS Population. eTable 2b. Display of Adverse Events. eTable 2c. IP-related TEAEs by SOC and PT – SS Population. eTable 2d. TEAEs by IP Discontinuation by SOC and PT – SS Population. eTable 2e. TEAEs Leading to Death by SOC and PT – SS Population. eTable 2f. Other Serious Adverse Events by SOC and PT – SS Population.
An Examination of a Play-Based Summer Reading Program for Elementary-Aged Children with Reading Difficulties
Creators: name: Parr, Lindsay
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: play-based learning
summer reading programs
scaffolding
reading difficulties

description: Recent research suggests that summer reading programs may benefit elementary-aged children with learning disabilities and reading difficulties. However, there exists limited literature on how both play-based learning (PBL) and scaffolding can be used to improve reading outcomes in non-school settings. The purpose of this qualitative research was to examine PBL, scaffolding, and perceived reading outcomes in a 6-week play-based summer reading program. The conceptual framework guiding this research is that PBL, when combined with scaffolding, results in either the maintenance or the improvement of reading outcomes. Fourteen individuals (5 support workers, 4 parents, 5 children) who were enrolled in a play-based summer reading program between 2019 and 2021 participated in semi-structured interviews. The findings suggest that PBL and scaffolding can lead to perceived reading progress and increases in confidence and motivation, as well as an absence of a summer learning slide. Additional themes relating to the role of the support workers, program organization and friendship/belonging emerged. Implications for the literacy learning of elementary-aged children with disabilities and reading difficulties are discussed.
title: Aspen Regeneration and Response to Fire in the Intermountain West
Creators: name: McCloskey, Kelly J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: The history of Populus tremuloides regeneration in the Intermountain West, particularly western Wyoming, is one of prolific vegetative reproduction following wildland fire. The reproductive physiology of aspen and its disturbance-response characteristics are explored through a review of previous studies. The combination of fire suppression and increased herbivory on aspen by wild and domestic ungulates is likely facilitating conifer invasion of areas historically dominated by aspen as has been observed in parts of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado over the past 100 years. A case study of the regenerative response of aspen to wildland fire in western Wyoming demonstrates how physiology, life history characteristics, and disturbance regimes affect the presence and distribution of aspen across the western landscape.
The regenerative response of aspen, Populus tremuloides, was monitored following two spatially overlapping wildland fire events on Shadow Mountain that occurred 6 years apart. The fires left a landscape mosaic of unburned, once-burned, and twice-burned sites ranging in size from approximately 0.1 to 12.0 hectares. Aspen suckering response in burned areas was significantly greater than that observed in unburned areas. Less regeneration occurred on plots that reburned than on those that burned only once; however, by the second year post-fire sucker numbers on the reburned plots were not statistically significantly lower than they were on the plots that burned only once. Self-thinning of suckers observed on the plots burned only in the first fire suggests that sucker numbers on once-burned and twice-burned plots will converge over a 6- to 10-year period. Sucker numbers on burned plots appear sufficient for stand replacement, while those on unburned plots are very low, potentially consistent with seral aspen stands that may be subject to conifer encroachment.