cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Insurance pricing with hierarchically structured data: An illustration with a workers' compensation insurance portfolio
Creators: name: Campo, Bavo D. C.
name: Antonio, Katrien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Actuaries use predictive modeling techniques to assess the loss cost on a contract as a function of observable risk characteristics. State-of-the-art statistical and machine learning methods are not well equipped to handle hierarchically structured risk factors with a large number of levels. In this paper, we demonstrate the data-driven construction of an insurance pricing model when hierarchically structured risk factors, contract-specific as well as externally collected risk factors are available. We examine the pricing of a workers' compensation insurance product with a hierarchical credibility model (Jewell, 1975), Ohlsson's combination of a generalized linear and a hierarchical credibility model (Ohlsson, 2008) and mixed models. We compare the predictive performance of these models and evaluate the effect of the distributional assumption on the target variable by comparing linear mixed models with Tweedie generalized linear mixed models. For our case-study the Tweedie distribution is well suited to model and predict the loss cost on a contract. Moreover, incorporating contract-specific risk factors in the model improves the predictive performance and the risk differentiation in our workers' compensation insurance portfolio.
description: 39 pages (including Appendix), 18 figures and 3 tables
Line-Intensity Mapping: Theory Review
Creators: name: Bernal, José Luis
name: Kovetz, Ely D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging approach to survey the Universe, using relatively low-aperture instruments to scan large portions of the sky and collect the total spectral-line emission from galaxies and the intergalactic medium. Mapping the intensity fluctuations of an array of lines offers a unique opportunity to probe redshifts well beyond the reach of other cosmological observations, access regimes that cannot be explored otherwise, and exploit the enormous potential of cross-correlations with other measurements. This promises to deepen our understanding of various questions related to galaxy formation and evolution, cosmology, and fundamental physics. Here we focus on lines ranging from microwave to optical frequencies, the emission of which is related to star formation in galaxies across cosmic history. Over the next decade, LIM will transition from a pathfinder era of first detections to an early-science era where data from more than a dozen missions will be harvested to yield new insights and discoveries. This review discusses the primary target lines for these missions, describes the different approaches to modeling their intensities and fluctuations, surveys the scientific prospects of their measurement, presents the formalism behind the statistical methods to analyze the data, and motivates the opportunities for synergy with other observables. Our goal is to provide a pedagogical introduction to the field for non-experts, as well as to serve as a comprehensive reference for specialists.
description: Minor typos corrected; matches the published version, with an extended list of references. 10 figures, 40 pages + references; invited by The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. Comments are welcome. Accompanied by an update of the lim package at https://github.com/jl-bernal/lim
Nematic fluctuations mediated superconductivity revealed by anisotropic strain in Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$As$_2$
Creators: name: Philippe, J. -C.
name: Lespinas, A.
name: Faria, J.
name: Forget, A.
name: Colson, D.
name: Houver, S.
name: Cazayous, M.
name: Sacuto, A.
name: Paul, I.
name: Gallais, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anisotropic strain is an external field capable of selectively addressing the role of nematic fluctuations in promoting superconductivity. We demonstrate this using polarization-resolved elasto-Raman scattering to probe the evolution of nematic fluctuations under strain in the normal and superconducting states of the paradigmatic iron-based superconductor Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$As$_2$. In the non-superconducting parent compound BaFe$_2$As$_2$ we observe a strain-induced suppression of the nematic susceptibility which follows the expected behavior of an Ising order parameter under a symmetry breaking field. For the superconducting compound, the suppression of the nematic susceptibility correlates with the decrease of the superconducting critical temperature $T_c$. Our results indicate a significant contribution of nematic fluctuations to electron pairing and validate theoretical scenarios of enhanced $T_c$ near a nematic quantum critical point.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures + SM
A fully non-perturbative charm-quark tuning using machine learning
Creators: name: Hudspith, R. J.
name: Mohler, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a relativistic heavy-quark action tuning for the charm sector on ensembles generated by the CLS consortium. We tune a particular 5-parameter action in an entirely non-perturbative and -- up to the chosen experimental input -- model-independent way using machine learning and the continuum experimental charmonium ground-state masses with various quantum numbers. In the end we are reasonably successful; obtaining a set of simulation parameters that we then verify produces the expected spectrum. In the future, we will use this action for finite-volume calculations of hadron-hadron scattering.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures
Weakly Broken Galileon Symmetry
Creators: name: Pirtskhalava, David
name: Santoni, Luca
name: Trincherini, Enrico
name: Vernizzi, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effective theories of a scalar $ϕ$ invariant under the internal \textit{galileon symmetry} $ϕ\toϕ+b_μx^μ$ have been extensively studied due to their special theoretical and phenomenological properties. In this paper, we introduce the notion of \textit{weakly broken galileon invariance}, which characterizes the unique class of couplings of such theories to gravity that maximally retain their defining symmetry. The curved-space remnant of the galileon's quantum properties allows to construct (quasi) de Sitter backgrounds largely insensitive to loop corrections. We exploit this fact to build novel cosmological models with interesting phenomenology, relevant for both inflation and late-time acceleration of the universe.
description: 26+8 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
The Role of Attention in Somatosensory Processing: A Multi-trait, Multi-method Analysis
Creators: name: Edden, Richard A. E.
name: Puts, Nicolaas A. J.
name: Wodka, Ericka L.
name: Mahone, E. Mark
name: Mostofsky, Stewart H.
name: Tommerdahl, Mark
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Sensory processing abnormalities in autism have largely been described by parent report. This study used a multi-method (parent-report and measurement), multi-trait (tactile sensitivity and attention) design to evaluate somatosensory processing in ASD. Results showed multiple significant within-method (e.g., parent report of different traits)/cross-trait (e.g., attention and tactile sensitivity) correlations, suggesting that parent-reported tactile sensory dysfunction and performance-based tactile sensitivity describe different behavioral phenomena. Additionally, both parent-reported tactile functioning and performance-based tactile sensitivity measures were significantly associated with measures of attention. Findings suggest that sensory (tactile) processing abnormalities in ASD are multifaceted, and may partially reflect a more global deficit in behavioral regulation (including attention). Challenges of relying solely on parent-report to describe sensory difficulties faced by children/families with ASD are also highlighted.
STI: Turbocharge NLP Inference at the Edge via Elastic Pipelining
Creators: name: Guo, Liwei
name: Choe, Wonkyo
name: Lin, Felix Xiaozhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Natural Language Processing (NLP) inference is seeing increasing adoption by mobile applications, where on-device inference is desirable for crucially preserving user data privacy and avoiding network roundtrips. Yet, the unprecedented size of an NLP model stresses both latency and memory, creating a tension between the two key resources of a mobile device. To meet a target latency, holding the whole model in memory launches execution as soon as possible but increases one app's memory footprints by several times, limiting its benefits to only a few inferences before being recycled by mobile memory management. On the other hand, loading the model from storage on demand incurs IO as long as a few seconds, far exceeding the delay range satisfying to a user; pipelining layerwise model loading and execution does not hide IO either, due to the high skewness between IO and computation delays. To this end, we propose Speedy Transformer Inference (STI). Built on the key idea of maximizing IO/compute resource utilization on the most important parts of a model, STI reconciles the latency v.s. memory tension via two novel techniques. First, model sharding. STI manages model parameters as independently tunable shards, and profiles their importance to accuracy. Second, elastic pipeline planning with a preload buffer. STI instantiates an IO/compute pipeline and uses a small buffer for preload shards to bootstrap execution without stalling at early stages; it judiciously selects, tunes, and assembles shards per their importance for resource-elastic execution, maximizing inference accuracy. Atop two commodity SoCs, we build STI and evaluate it against a wide range of NLP tasks, under a practical range of target latencies, and on both CPU and GPU. We demonstrate that STI delivers high accuracies with 1-2 orders of magnitude lower memory, outperforming competitive baselines.
description: ASPLOS'23
Developmental Markers of Genetic Liability to Autism in Parents: A Longitudinal, Multigenerational Study
Creators: name: Martin, Gary E.
name: Klusek, Jessica
name: Barron, Sheila
name: Sideris, John
name: Lee, Michelle
name: Wassink, Thomas
name: Losh, Molly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Genetic liability to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be expressed in unaffected relatives through subclinical, genetically meaningful traits, or endophenotypes. This study aimed to identify developmental endophenotypes in parents of individuals with ASD by examining parents' childhood academic development over the school-age period. A cohort of 139 parents of individuals with ASD were studied, along with their children with ASD and 28 controls. Parents' childhood records in the domains of language, reading, and math were studied from grades K-12. Results indicated that relatively lower performance and slower development of skills (particularly language related skills), and an uneven rate of development across domains predicted ASD endophenotypes in adulthood for parents, and the severity of clinical symptoms in children with ASD. These findings may mark childhood indicators of genetic liability to ASD in parents, that could inform understanding of the subclinical expression of ASD
Najas major All., Fl. Pedem.
Creators: name: Peruzzi, Lorenzo
name: Galasso, Gabriele
name: Domina, Gianniantonio
name: Bartolucci, Fabrizio
name: Santangelo, Annalisa
name: Alessandrini, Alessandro
name: Astuti, Giovanni
name: D'Antraccoli, Marco
name: Roma-Marzio, Francesco
name: Ardenghi, Nicola M. G.
name: Barberis, Giuseppina
name: Conti, Fabio
name: Bernardo, Liliana
name: Peccenini, Simonetta
name: Stinca, Adriano
name: Wagensommer, Robert P.
name: Bonari, Gianmaria
name: Iamonico, Duilio
name: Iberite, Mauro
name: Viciani, Daniele
name: Guacchio, Emanuele Del
name: Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del
name: Lastrucci, Lorenzo
name: Villani, Mariacristina
name: Brunu, Antonello
name: Magrini, Sara
name: Pistarino, Annalaura
name: Brullo, Salvatore
name: Salmeri, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Hydrocharitaceae
Najas
Najas major

description: Najas major All., Fl. Pedem. 2: 221. 1785. [April–July 1785]
 Ind. Loc.:—“Ad oras lacuum Canapiciensium, & praesertim ad exitum aquarum” [after typification]. PIE
 Type (lectotype designated by Casper1979:217):— ITALY.“ Fluvialis latifolia, fructus minus obtuso, monospermo” in Micheli, Nov. Pl. Gen.: t. 8, f. 2. 1729 [icon].
 Compiled by:— A. Alessandrini
description: Published as part of Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Galasso, Gabriele, Domina, Gianniantonio, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Santangelo, Annalisa, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Astuti, Giovanni, D'Antraccoli, Marco, Roma-Marzio, Francesco, Ardenghi, Nicola M. G., Barberis, Giuseppina, Conti, Fabio, Bernardo, Liliana, Peccenini, Simonetta, Stinca, Adriano, Wagensommer, Robert P., Bonari, Gianmaria, Iamonico, Duilio, Iberite, Mauro, Viciani, Daniele, Guacchio, Emanuele Del, Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Villani, Mariacristina, Brunu, Antonello, Magrini, Sara, Pistarino, Annalaura, Brullo, Salvatore & Salmeri, Cristina, 2019, An inventory of the names of native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy, their loci classici and types, pp. 1-215 in Phytotaxa 410 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.410.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13716045
Asymptotically matched quasi-circular inspiral and transition-to-plunge in the small mass ratio expansion
Creators: name: Compère, Geoffrey
name: Küchler, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the small mass ratio expansion and on the equatorial plane, the two-body problem for point particles in general relativity admits a quasi-circular inspiral motion followed by a transition-to-plunge motion. We first derive the equations governing the quasi-circular inspiral in the Kerr background at adiabatic, post-adiabatic and post-post-adiabatic orders in the slow-timescale expansion in terms of the self-force and we highlight the structure of the equations of motion at higher subleading orders. We derive in parallel the equations governing the transition-to-plunge motion to any subleading order, and demonstrate that they are governed by sourced linearized Painlevé transcendental equations of the first kind. The first ten perturbative orders do not require any further developments in self-force theory, as they are determined by the second-order self-force. We propose a scheme that matches the slow-timescale expansion of the inspiral with the transition-to-plunge motion to all perturbative orders in the overlapping region exterior to the last stable orbit where both expansions are valid. We explicitly verify the validity of the matching conditions for a large set of coefficients involved, on the one hand, in the adiabatic or post-adiabatic inspiral and, on the other hand, in the leading, subleading or higher subleading transition-to-plunge motion. This result is instrumental for deriving gravitational waveforms within the self-force formalism beyond the innermost stable circular orbit.
description: Minor changes. 39 pages, 4 ancillary files
Measurement of spark probability of GEM detector for CBM muon chamber (MUCH)
Creators: name: Biswas, S.
name: Abuhoza, A.
name: Frankenfeld, U.
name: Garabatos, C.
name: Hehner, J.
name: Kleipa, V.
name: Morhardt, T.
name: Schmidt, C. J.
name: Schmidt, H. R.
name: Wiechula, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability of triple GEM detector setups in an environment of high energetic showers is studied. To this end the spark probability in a shower environment is compared to the spark probability in a pion beam.
description: 5 pages, 10 figures
Homogeneous Subgroups of Young Children with Autism Improve Phenotypic Characterization in the Study to Explore Early Development
Creators: name: Thompson, William
name: Schieve, Laura
name: Blaskey, Lisa
name: Landa, Rebecca
name: Tian, Lin H.
name: Edmondson-Pretzel, Rebecca
name: Daniels, Julie
name: Pandey, Juhi
name: Wiggins, Lisa D.
name: Hepburn, Susan
name: Levy, Susan E.
name: Lee, Li-Ching
name: Rice, Catherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The objective of this study was to identify homogenous classes of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to improve phenotypic characterization. Children were enrolled in the Study to Explore Early Development between 2 and 5 years of age. 707 children were classified with ASD after a comprehensive evaluation with strict diagnostic algorithms. Four classes of children with ASD were identified from latent class analysis: mild language delay with cognitive rigidity, mild language and motor delay with dysregulation, general developmental delay, and significant developmental delay with repetitive motor behaviors. We conclude that a four-class phenotypic model of children with ASD best describes our data and improves phenotypic characterization of young children with ASD. Implications for screening, diagnosis, and research are discussed.
The Spin of New Black Hole Candidate: MAXI J1803-298 Observed by NuSTAR and NICER
Creators: name: Feng, Ye
name: Zhao, Xueshan
name: Li, Yufeng
name: Gou, Lijun
name: Jia, Nan
name: Liao, Zhenxuan
name: Wang, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MAXI J1803-298, a newly-discovered Galactic transient and black hole candidate, was first detected by \emph{MAXI}/GSC on May 1st, 2021. In this paper, we present a detailed spectral analysis of MAXI J1803-298. Utilizing the X-ray reflection fitting method, we perform a joint fit to the spectra of MAXI J1803-298, respectively, observed by \emph{NuSTAR} and \emph{NICER}/XTI on the same day over the energy range between 0.7-79.0 keV, and found its spin (and the inclination angle i) can be constrained to be close to an extreme value, 0.991 ($i\sim$ $70 ^{\circ}$), at 68\% confidence interval. The results suggest that MAXI J1803-298 may be a fast-rotating black hole with a large inclination angle.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Orchis italica Poir., Encycl.
Creators: name: Peruzzi, Lorenzo
name: Galasso, Gabriele
name: Domina, Gianniantonio
name: Bartolucci, Fabrizio
name: Santangelo, Annalisa
name: Alessandrini, Alessandro
name: Astuti, Giovanni
name: D'Antraccoli, Marco
name: Roma-Marzio, Francesco
name: Ardenghi, Nicola M. G.
name: Barberis, Giuseppina
name: Conti, Fabio
name: Bernardo, Liliana
name: Peccenini, Simonetta
name: Stinca, Adriano
name: Wagensommer, Robert P.
name: Bonari, Gianmaria
name: Iamonico, Duilio
name: Iberite, Mauro
name: Viciani, Daniele
name: Guacchio, Emanuele Del
name: Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del
name: Lastrucci, Lorenzo
name: Villani, Mariacristina
name: Brunu, Antonello
name: Magrini, Sara
name: Pistarino, Annalaura
name: Brullo, Salvatore
name: Salmeri, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Orchis
Orchis italica

description: Orchis italica Poir., Encycl. [J. Lamarck & al.] 4(2): 600(–601). 1798. [1 November 1798]
 Ind. Loc.:—“en Italie ”. ITA
 Type (lectotype designated by Renz & Taubenheim in Davis 1984: 523, erroneously indicated as holotype):— [ITALY]. Herb. Lamarck, M . Vahl s.n. (P).
 Compiled by:— L. Peruzzi
description: Published as part of Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Galasso, Gabriele, Domina, Gianniantonio, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Santangelo, Annalisa, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Astuti, Giovanni, D'Antraccoli, Marco, Roma-Marzio, Francesco, Ardenghi, Nicola M. G., Barberis, Giuseppina, Conti, Fabio, Bernardo, Liliana, Peccenini, Simonetta, Stinca, Adriano, Wagensommer, Robert P., Bonari, Gianmaria, Iamonico, Duilio, Iberite, Mauro, Viciani, Daniele, Guacchio, Emanuele Del, Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Villani, Mariacristina, Brunu, Antonello, Magrini, Sara, Pistarino, Annalaura, Brullo, Salvatore & Salmeri, Cristina, 2019, An inventory of the names of native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy, their loci classici and types, pp. 1-215 in Phytotaxa 410 (1) on page 118, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.410.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13716045
Yang-Mills stars in Higgsed non-Abelian dark matter
Creators: name: Jain, Mudit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bosonic field theories with self interactions alongside gravity, generally admit bound states known as solitons. Depending upon the spin nature of the field, they can even carry macroscopic intrinsic spin polarization. Focusing on the SU($2$) case, we describe polarized solitons in non-Abelian theories with a heavy Higgs, which we refer to as `Yang-Mills stars'. Owing to both kinds of self-interactions; repulsive ones arising due to the Yang-Mills structure, while attractive ones arising due to the Higgs exchange; we can have a diverse zoo of solitons. Depending upon various parameters of the theory such as the mass of the Yang-Mills vector fields $m$, mass of the dark Higgs field $M_φ$, and the gauge coupling constant $g$, these objects can be astrophysically large with varying size and mass, and carry large intrinsic spin and/or iso-spin giving rise to interesting phenomenological implications. Even for vector mass as large as $m \simeq 10$ eV, we can accommodate gauge couplings $g \lesssim 10^{-4}-10^{-5}$, still evading Bullet cluster constraints. For these parameters, there may exist cosmologically long lived solitons having radii as large as $r_{s} \sim 10^{5}\,R_{\odot}$ and masses $M_{s} \sim 10 M_{\odot}$, carrying $M_{s}/m \sim 10^{66}$ amounts of intrinsic spin and iso-spin polarization. As a subset of the space of soliton solutions in the SU($2$) Higgs model, in the end we also explicitly discuss solitons in the Abelian Higgs model.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Updated towards the accepted version in PRD
Increased Sensory Processing Atypicalities in Parents of Multiplex ASD Families Versus Typically Developing and Simplex ASD Families
Creators: name: Donkers, Franc C. L.
name: Donaldson, Chelsea K.
name: Stauder, Johannes E. A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Recent studies have suggested that sensory processing atypicalities may share genetic influences with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To further investigate this, the adolescent/adult sensory profile (AASP) questionnaire was distributed to 85 parents of typically developing children (P-TD), 121 parents from simplex ASD families (SPX), and 54 parents from multiplex ASD families (MPX). After controlling for gender and presence of mental disorders, results showed that MPX parents significantly differed from P-TD parents in all four subscales of the AASP. Differences between SPX and MPX parents reached significance in the Sensory Sensitivity subscale and also in subsequent modality-specific analyses in the auditory and visual domains. Our finding that parents with high genetic liability for ASD (i.e., MPX) had more sensory processing atypicalities than parents with low (i.e., SPX) or no (i.e., P-TD) ASD genetic liability suggests that sensory processing atypicalities may contribute to
Massive quarks at one loop in the dipole picture of Deep Inelastic Scattering
Creators: name: Beuf, G.
name: Lappi, T.
name: Paatelainen, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the light cone wave functions for a virtual photon to split into quark-antiquark states, including for the first time quark masses at one loop accuracy. These wave functions can be used to calculate cross sections for several precision probes of perturbative gluon saturation at the Electron-Ion Collider. Using these wave functions we derive, for the first time, the dipole picture DIS cross sections at one loop for longitudinal and transverse virtual photons including quark masses. The quark masses are renormalized in the pole mass scheme, satisfying constraints from the requirement of Lorentz invariance of the quark Dirac and Pauli form factors.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures. v2: references added/updated, typos fixed
Lattice-Driven Chiral Charge Density Wave State in 1T-TaS$_{2}$
Creators: name: Singh, Manoj
name: Yu, Boning
name: Huber, James
name: Sharma, Bishnu
name: Ainouche, Ghilles
name: Fu, Ling
name: van Wezel, Jasper
name: Boyer, Michael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use scanning tunneling microscopy to study the domain structure of the nearly-commensurate charge density wave (NC-CDW) state of 1T-TaS$_2$. In our sub-angstrom characterization of the state, we find a continual evolution of the CDW lattice from domain wall to domain center, instead of a fixed CDW arrangement within a domain. Further, we uncover an intradomain chirality characterizing the NC-CDW state. Unlike the orbital-driven chirality previously observed in related transition metal dichalcogenides, the chiral nature of the NC-CDW state in 1T-TaS$_2$ appears driven by a strong coupling of the NC-CDW state to the lattice.
Reconstructing homospectral inflationary potentials
Creators: name: Cadavid, Alexander Gallego
name: Romano, Antonio Enea
name: Liddle, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Purely geometrical arguments show that there exist classes of homospectral inflationary cosmologies, i.e. different expansion histories producing the same spectrum of comoving curvature perturbations. We develop a general algorithm to reconstruct the potential of minimally-coupled single scalar fields from an arbitrary expansion history. We apply it to homospectral expansion histories to obtain the corresponding potentials, providing numerical and analytical examples. The infinite class of homospectral potentials depends on two free parameters, the initial energy scale and the initial value of the field, showing that in general it is impossible to reconstruct a unique potential from the curvature spectrum unless the initial energy scale and the field value are fixed, for instance through observation of primordial gravitational waves.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures. Published version
EUSO-SPB2 Fluorescence Telescope Calibration and Field Tests
Creators: name: Kungel, Viktoria
name: Battisti, Matteo
name: Filippatos, George
name: Heibges, Tobias
name: Kuznetsov, Evgeny
name: Mese, Marco
name: Meyer, Stephan S.
name: Parizot, Etienne
name: Scotti, Valentina
name: Sternberg, Patrick
name: Wiencke, Lawrence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2), successfully launched from Wanaka, New Zealand on May 13, 2022, is a precursor for a space-based astroparticle observatory such as the Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA). EUSO-SPB2 flew two custom telescopes. Both have UV/UV-visible sensitivity and feature Schmidt optics. The Fluorescence Telescope (FT) measures ultra-high energy cosmic rays by looking down. The Čerenkov Telescope (CT) searches for neutrino signatures by looking toward Earth's limb. The two telescopes each have a 1 m diameter entrance pupil and segmented glass mirrors that collect light from extensive air showers at the PeV and EeV-scale. Here we describe the FT telescope optics together with the results of the FT field tests at the Utah Telescope Array (TA) site from August/September 2022. The FT recorded the night sky background, lasers, and artificial point sources. The field tests included an absolute photometric calibration of the FT telescope that is compared to a piece-wise laboratory calibration.
Higher-order transverse momentum fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Bhatta, Somadutta
name: Zhang, Chunjian
name: Jia, Jiangyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the event-by-event mean transverse momentum fluctuations are sensitive to overlap area and energy density fluctuations in initial state. We present a framework to calculate $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ fluctuations up to $4^{\mathrm{th}}$-order using standard and subevent methods, which is validated using the HIJING model. We observe a power-law dependence for cumulants of all orders as a function of charged particle multiplicity $N_{\mathrm{ch}}$, consistent with a simple independent source picture. The fluctuation in $pp$ collisions is observed to be larger than for $p+$Pb, Pb+Pb and Xe+Xe collisions at the same $N_{\mathrm{ch}}$ due to bias in number of contributing sources. The short-range correlations are greatly suppressed in subevent method in comparison to calculations based on the standard method. This study provides a baseline for transverse momentum fluctuations without the presence of final state effects.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, replace with published version
Potential Risk Factors for the Development of Self-Injurious Behavior among Infants at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Botteron, Kelly N.
name: Dimian, Adele F.
name: Schultz, Robert T.
name: Pruett, John R.
name: Wolff, Jason J.
name: Dager, Stephen R.
name: Elison, Jed T.
name: Estes, Annette M.
name: Piven, Joseph
name: Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Prevalence of self-injurious behavior (SIB) is as high as 50% among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Identification of risk factors for the development of SIB is critical to early intervention and prevention. However, there is little empirical research utilizing a prospective design to identify early risk factors for SIB. The purpose of this study was to evaluate behavioral characteristics predicting SIB at age 2 years among 235 infants at high familial risk for ASD. Logistic regression results indicated that presence of SIB or proto-SIB and lower developmental functioning at age 12 months significantly predicted SIB at 24 months. A pattern of persistent SIB over this period was associated with a diagnosis of autism and poorer cognitive and adaptive outcomes.
CAT-RRT: Motion Planning that Admits Contact One Link at a Time
Creators: name: Nechyporenko, Nataliya
name: Escobedo, Caleb
name: Kadekodi, Shreyas
name: Roncone, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current motion planning approaches rely on binary collision checking to evaluate the validity of a state and thereby dictate where the robot is allowed to move. This approach leaves little room for robots to engage in contact with an object, as is often necessary when operating in densely cluttered spaces. In this work, we propose an alternative method that considers contact states as high-cost states that the robot should avoid but can traverse if necessary to complete a task. More specifically, we introduce Contact Admissible Transition-based Rapidly exploring Random Trees (CAT-RRT), a planner that uses a novel per-link cost heuristic to find a path by traversing high-cost obstacle regions. Through extensive testing, we find that state-of-the-art optimization planners tend to over-explore low-cost states, which leads to slow and inefficient convergence to contact regions. Conversely, CAT-RRT searches both low and high-cost regions simultaneously with an adaptive thresholding mechanism carried out at each robot link. This leads to paths with a balance between efficiency, path length, and contact cost.
G-SINC: Global Synchronization Infrastructure for Network Clocks
Creators: name: Frei, Marc
name: Kwon, Jonghoon
name: Tabaeiaghdaei, Seyedali
name: Wyss, Marc
name: Lenzen, Christoph
name: Perrig, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many critical computing applications rely on secure and dependable time which is reliably synchronized across large distributed systems. Today's time synchronization architectures are commonly based on global navigation satellite systems at the considerable risk of being exposed to outages, malfunction, or attacks against availability and accuracy. This paper describes a practical instantiation of a new global, Byzantine fault-tolerant clock synchronization approach that does not place trust in any single entity and is able to tolerate a fraction of faulty entities while still maintaining synchronization on a global scale among otherwise sovereign network topologies. Leveraging strong resilience and security properties provided by the path-aware SCION networking architecture, the presented design can be implemented as a backward compatible active standby solution for existing time synchronization deployments. Through extensive evaluation, we demonstrate that over 94% of time servers reliably minimize the offset of their local clocks to real-time in the presence of up to 20% malicious nodes, and all time servers remain synchronized with a skew of only 2 ms even after one year of reference clock outage.
The Response of Taupō Volcano to the M7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake
Creators: name: Schuler, J
name: Hreinsdóttir, S
name: Illsley-Kemp, Finnigan
name: Holden, C
name: Townend, John
name: Villamor, P
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
classificationCode: 3706
subject: Geophysics
classificationCode: 37
subject: Earth sciences
classificationCode: 3703
subject: Geochemistry

description: Several studies suggest that large earthquakes (M > 7.0) can act as external triggers of volcanic unrest, and even eruption. This triggering is attributed to either ground shaking (dynamic stresses) or to permanent ground deformation (associated with static stress changes). However, large earthquakes are rare and testing triggering hypotheses has proven difficult. We use geodetic data to show that the 13 November 2016 Kaikōura earthquake (Mw 7.8) triggered local deformation of up to 11 mm at Taupō volcano, 500 km away, which lasted for approximately twelve days. Using elastic geodetic models, we infer that the observed deformation was caused by either aseismic fault slip or a dike intrusion. We then use strong motion data from the surrounding area to show that the Kaikōura earthquake caused maximum dynamic stress changes in the range of 0.15–0.9 MPa in the vicinity of Taupō volcano and conclude that these dynamic stress changes triggered local faulting or dike activity and the associated deformation at Taupō volcano.
Influence of bonding on superconductivity in high-pressure hydrides
Creators: name: Heil, Christoph
name: Boeri, Lilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent reports on high-temperature superconductivity above 190 K in hydrogen sulfide at 200 GPa pressure, exceeding all previously discovered superconductors, has greatly invigorated the interest in dense hydrogen-rich solids. In this paper, we investigate a possible way to optimize the critical temperature in these compounds using first-principles linear-response calculations. We construct hypothetical alchemical atoms to smoothly interpolate between elements of the chalcogen group and study their bonding and superconducting properties. Our results show that the already remarkable critical temperatures of H$_3$S could be improved even further by increasing the ionic character of the relevant bonds, i.e. replacing sulfur partially with more electronegative elements.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Probe the color screening in proton-nucleus collisions with complex potentials
Creators: name: Wen, Liuyuan
name: Du, Xiaojian
name: Shi, Shuzhe
name: Chen, Baoyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Color screening and parton inelastic scattering modify the heavy-quark antiquark potential in the medium that consists of particles from quantum chromodynamics (QCD), leading to suppression of quarkonium production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Due to small charm/anti-charm ($c\bar{c}$) pair production number in proton-nucleus (pA) collisions, the correlation between different $c\bar{c}$ pairs is negligible, which makes the Schrödinger equation viable for tracking the evolution of only one $c\bar{c}$ pair. We employ the time-dependent Schrödinger equation with in-medium $c\bar{c}$ potential to study the evolution of charmonium wave functions in the hydrodynamic like QCD medium produced in pA collisions. We explore different parametrizations of real and imaginary parts of $c\bar{c}$ potential and calculate the nuclear modification factors ($R_{\rm pA}$) of $J/ψ$ and $ψ(2S)$ in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV energy p-Pb collisions at Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Comparing a strong and a weak screening scenario with experimental data in this approach, we arrive at the conclusion that the color screening is weak at temperature close to deconfined phase transition. Moreover, the imaginary part of the potential is crucial to describe the experimental data which is consistent with widely studied semi-classical approaches where the dissociation rates are essential.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Chinese Physics C
Predictors of Parent Responsiveness to 1-Year-Olds At-Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Turner-Brown, Lauren
name: Sideris, John
name: Crais, Elizabeth R.
name: Watson, Linda R.
name: Wakeford, Linn
name: Kinard, Jessica L.
name: Baranek, Grace T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Parent responsiveness is critical for child development of cognition, social-communication, and self-regulation. Parents tend to respond more frequently when children at-risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate stronger social-communication; however, it is unclear how responsiveness is associated with sensory characteristics of children at-risk for ASD. To address this issue, we examined the extent to which child social-communication and sensory reactivity patterns (i.e., hyper- and hypo-reactivity) predicted parent responsiveness to 1-year-olds at-risk for ASD in a community sample of 97 parent-infant pairs. A combination of child social-communication and sensory hypo-reactivity consistently predicted how parents played and talked with their 1-year-old at-risk for ASD. Parents tended to talk less and use more play actions when infants communicated less and demonstrated stronger hypo-reactivity.
Momentum-inversion symmetry breaking on the Fermi surface of magnetic topological insulators
Creators: name: Tan, Hengxin
name: Kaplan, Daniel
name: Yan, Binghai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic topological insulators (MnBi$_2$Te$_4$)(Bi$_2$Te$_3$)$_n$ were anticipated to exhibit magnetic energy gaps while recent spectroscopic studies did not observe them. Thus, magnetism on the surface is under debate. In this work, we propose another symmetry criterion to probe the surface magnetism. Because of both time-reversal symmetry-breaking and inversion symmetry-breaking, we demonstrate that the surface band structure violates momentum-inversion symmetry and leads to a three-fold rather than six-fold rotational symmetry on the Fermi surface if corresponding surface states couple strongly to the surface magnetism. Such a momentum-inversion symmetry violation is significant along the $Γ-K$ direction for surface bands on the (0001) plane.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Evolved galaxies in high-density environments across $2.0\leq z<4.2$ using the ZFOURGE survey
Creators: name: Hartzenberg, Georgia R.
name: Cowley, Michael J.
name: Hopkins, Andrew M.
name: Allen, Rebecca J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To explore the role environment plays in influencing galaxy evolution at high redshifts, we study $2.0\leq z<4.2$ environments using the FourStar Galaxy Evolution (ZFOURGE) survey. Using galaxies from the COSMOS legacy field with ${\rm log(M_{*}/M_{\odot})}\geq9.5$, we use a seventh nearest neighbour density estimator to quantify galaxy environment, dividing this into bins of low, intermediate and high density. We discover new high density environment candidates across $2.0\leq z<2.4$ and $3.1\leq z<4.2$. We analyse the quiescent fraction, stellar mass and specific star formation rate (sSFR) of our galaxies to understand how these vary with redshift and environment. Our results reveal that, across $2.0\leq z<2.4$, the high density environments are the most significant regions, which consist of elevated quiescent fractions, ${\rm log(M_{*}/M_{\odot})}\geq10.2$ massive galaxies and suppressed star formation activity. At $3.1\leq z<4.2$, we find that high density regions consist of elevated stellar masses but require more complete samples of quiescent and sSFR data to study the effects of environment in more detail at these higher redshifts. Overall, our results suggest that well-evolved, passive galaxies are already in place in high density environments at $z\sim2.4$, and that the Butcher-Oemler effect and SFR-density relation may not reverse towards higher redshifts as previously thought.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, final version published in PASA
Combined Spectroscopy and Electrical Characterization of La:BaSnO$_\text{3}$ Thin Films and Heterostructures
Creators: name: Tchiomo, Arnaud P. Nono
name: Carleschi, Emanuela
name: Prinsloo, Aletta R. E.
name: Sigle, Wilfried
name: van Aken, Peter A.
name: Mannhart, Jochen
name: Ngabonziza, Prosper
name: Doyle, Bryan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For La-doped BaSnO$_\text{3}$ thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition, we combine chemical surface characterization and electronic transport studies to probe the evolution of electronic states in the band structure for different La-doping content. Systematic analyses of spectroscopic data based on fitting the core electron line shapes help to unravel the composition of the surface as well as the dynamics associated with increasing doping. This dynamics is observed with a more pronounced signature in the Sn 3d core level, which exhibits an increasing asymmetry to the high binding energy side of the peak with increasing electron density. The present results expand the current understanding of the interplay between the doping concentration, electronic band structure and transport properties of epitaxial La:BaSnO$_\text{3}$ films.
description: 7 Figures, 4 Tables in manuscript; and 6 Figures and 1 Table in the Supplementary Information
Snap-off production of monodisperse droplets
Creators: name: Barkley, Solomon
name: Weeks, Eric R.
name: Dalnoki-Veress, Kari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a novel technique to produce monodisperse droplets through the snap-off mechanism. The methodology is simple, versatile, and requires no specialized or expensive components. The droplets produced have polydispersity <1% and can be as small as 2.5 $μ$m radius. A convenient feature is that the droplet size is constant over a 100-fold change in flow rate, while at higher flows the droplet size can be continuously adjusted.
description: to be published in Eur. Phys. J. E as a "Tips and Tricks" article
Majorana nanowires, Kitaev chains, and spin models
Creators: name: Pan, Haining
name: Sarma, Sankar Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the fact that the idealized Kitaev chain toy model and the experimental semiconductor-superconductor Majorana nanowire can both host the Majorana zero modes, we theoretically investigate the question to what extent the two models are equivalent or similar, using the perspective of the corresponding dual spin models for both. We start with the duality between the Kitaev chain and the transverse-field XY spin model through the Jordan-Wigner transformation with the goal of establishing the connection between the Kitaev chain and the nanowire. By applying the Jordan-Wigner transformation to the nanowire, we find that the corresponding bosonic spin model is a generalized spin cluster model, containing 3-spin and 4-spin terms, with staggered couplings. By projecting out the upper band of the bare semiconductor with higher energy, we obtain an effective low-energy spinless system from the spinful nanowire system deep in the topological regime. Finally, we establish the connection between the Kitaev chain and Majorana nanowire by showing that the spinless Kitaev chain can be viewed as the first-order approximation of the spinful Majorana nanowire deep in the topological regime.
description: 10 pages, 0 figures