cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Microtus montanus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Arvicolidae
Microtus
Microtus montanus

description: Microtus montanus (Peale, 1848). Mammalia and Ornithology in U.S. Expl. Exped..., 8: 44. REVIEWED BY: R. E. Barry, Jr. (REB). TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., California, Siskiyou Co., headwaters of Sacramento River, near Mt. Shasta. DISTRIBUTION: British Columbia (Canada) and C. Montana south to New Mexico and Arizona, west through the Cascade Mtns, and Sierra Nevada (U.S.A.). COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus; see Anderson, 1960:204; two karyotypically different forms are known, which may represent distinct species; see Judd et al., 1980, J. Mammal., 61: 109- 113. Revised by Anderson, 1959, Univ. Kans. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9:415-511. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080027001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 495, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034
description: {"references": ["Anderson, S. 1960. The baculum in microtine rodents. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 12: 181 - 216.", "Anderson, S. 1959. Distribution, variation, and relationships of the montane vole, Microtus montanus. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 9: 415 - 511."]}
Quasistationarity in a long-range interacting model of particles moving on a sphere
Creators: name: Gupta, Shamik
name: Mukamel, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a long-range interacting system of $N$ particles moving on a spherical surface under an attractive Heisenberg-like interaction of infinite range, and evolving under deterministic Hamilton dynamics. The system may also be viewed as one of globally coupled Heisenberg spins. In equilibrium, the system has a continuous phase transition from a low-energy magnetized phase, in which the particles are clustered on the spherical surface, to a high-energy homogeneous phase. The dynamical behavior of the model is studied analytically by analyzing the Vlasov equation for the evolution of the single-particle distribution, and numerically by direct simulations. The model is found to exhibit long lived non-magnetized quasistationary states (QSSs) which in the thermodynamic limit are dynamically stable within an energy range where the equilibrium state is magnetized. For finite $N$, these states relax to equilibrium over a time that increases algebraically with $N$. In the dynamically unstable regime, non-magnetized states relax fast to equilibrium over a time that scales as $\log N$. These features are retained in presence of a global anisotropy in the magnetization.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures; v2: refs. added, published version
Contributions of structural variations to the asymptotic mixed-mode coupling Factor in red giant stars
Creators: name: Jiang, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The advent of ultra-precise photometry space missions enable the possibility of investigating stellar interior with mixed modes. The structural variations induced by the discontinuity of the chemical composition left behind during the first dredge--up is an important feature in the stellar mid-layers located between the hydrogen-burning shell and the base of the convective zone of red giants, as the mixed-mode properties can be significantly affected by these variations. In this paper, the contributing factors to variations of the mixed-mode coupling factor, $q$, are discussed with stellar models. In general, the structural variations give rise to a subtle displacement in the Lamb frequency and a sharp change in the buoyancy frequency, which lead to variations in the value of $q$ computed using the asymptotic formalisms that assuming a smooth background free of structural variations. The impact of these two factors can be felt in detectable mixed modes in low-luminosity red giants. Furthermore, the different nature of variations of the two characteristic frequencies with radius near the base of the convective zone, produces a sudden increase in $q$ in evolved red giants. This is followed by a quick drop in $q$ as the star evolves further along the red giant branch.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication by Astronomische Nachrichten
Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Candidate Companion Below/Near the Deuterium-Burning Limit In The Young Binary Star System, ROXs 42B
Creators: name: Currie, Thayne
name: Daemgen, Sebastian
name: Debes, John
name: Lafreniere, David
name: Itoh, Yoichi
name: Jayawardhana, Ray
name: Ratzka, Thorsten
name: Correia, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present near-infrared high-contrast imaging photometry and integral field spectroscopy of ROXs 42B, a binary M0 member of the 1--3 Myr-old $ρ$ Ophiuchus star-forming region, from data collected over 7 years. Each data set reveals a faint companion -- ROXs 42Bb -- located $\sim$ 1.16" ($r_{proj}$ $\approx$ 150 $AU$) from the primaries at a position angle consistent with a point source identified earlier by Ratzka et al. (2005). ROXs 42Bb's astrometry is inconsistent with a background star but consistent with a bound companion, possibly one with detected orbital motion. The most recent data set reveals a second candidate companion at $\sim$ 0.5" of roughly equal brightness, though preliminary analysis indicates it is a background object. ROXs 42Bb's $H$ and $K_{s}$ band photometry is similar to dusty/cloudy young, low-mass late M/early L dwarfs. $K$-band VLT/SINFONI spectroscopy shows ROXs 42Bb to be a cool substellar object (M8--L0; $T_{eff}$ $\approx$ 1800--2600 $K$), not a background dwarf star, with a spectral shape indicative of young, low surface gravity planet-mass companions. We estimate ROXs 42Bb's mass to be 6--15 $M_{J}$, either below the deuterium burning limit and thus planet mass or straddling the deuterium-burning limit nominally separating planet-mass companions from other substellar objects. Given ROXs 42b's projected separation and mass with respect to the primaries, it may represent the lowest mass objects formed like binary stars or a class of planet-mass objects formed by protostellar disk fragmentation/disk instability, the latter slightly blurring the distinction between non-deuterium burning planets like HR 8799 bcde and low-mass, deuterium-burning brown dwarfs.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, some minor text changes, more references added, ApJ Letters in press
Mass of a Black Hole Firewall
Creators: name: Abramowicz, M. A.
name: Kluźniak, W.
name: Lasota, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum entanglement of Hawking radiation has been supposed to give rise to a Planck density "firewall" near the event horizon of old black holes. We show that Planck density firewalls are excluded by Einstein's equations for black holes of mass exceeding the Planck mass. We find an upper limit of $1/(8πM)$ to the surface density of a firewall in a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$, translating for astrophysical black holes into a firewall density smaller than Planck density by more than 30 orders of magnitude. A strict upper limit on the firewall density is given by the Planck density times the ratio $M_{\rm Pl}/(8πM)$.
description: 6 pages, version published in Phys. Rev. Lett
The collapse of cooperation: The endogeneity of institutional break-up and its asymmetry with emergence
Creators: name: Cordes, Christian
name: Elsner, Wolfram
name: Graebner, Claudius
name: Heinrich, Torsten
name: Schwardt, Henning
name: Schwesinger, Georg
name: Su, Tong-Yaa
name: Henkel, Joshua
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anthropology, cognitive capacities, cooperation, economic decline, game theory, institutional emergence, network analysis, social institutions
subject: 330

description: Decline and break-up of institutionalized cooperation, at all levels, has occurred frequently. Some of its concomitants, such as international migration, have become topical in the globalized world. Aspects of the phenomenon have also become known as failing states. However, the focus in most social sciences has been on institutional emergence and persistence, not collapse. We develop an endogenous explanation of collapsing institutions. Collapse may be an implication of the very economic success of institutionalized cooperation and of increasing system complexity, when cognitive conditions for effective collective decision-making do not proportionately evolve. Moreover, we show that collapse is not a simple logical reverse of emergence. Rather, institutions break up at different factor constellations than the ones prevailing at emergence. We approach endogenous institutional break-up and its asymmetry from various paradigmatic and disciplinary perspectives, employing psychology, anthropology, network analysis, and institutional economics. These perspectives cover individuals, groups, interaction-arenas, populations, and social networks.
Microtus montebelli
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Arvicolidae
Microtus
Microtus montebelli

description: Microtus montebelli (Milne-Edwards, 1872). Rech. Mamm., p. 285. TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, Honshu, Fusiyama. DISTRIBUTION: Honshu, Sado, and Kyushu Isis. (Japan); Sikotan Isl., Kuriles (U.S. S.R.). COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus (= Arvalomys, Chaline, 1974); see Chaline and Mein, 1979:103; thought by Zimmermann, 1964, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 40:87-140, to be related to maximowiczii of mainland Asia. Sokolov, 1954, Zool. Zh., 33:947-950, provided distribution information. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080028001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 495, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034
description: {"references": ["Chaline, J. 1974. Esquisse de l'evolution morphologique, biometrique et chromosomique du genre Microtus (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) dans le Pleistocene de l'hemisphere nord. Bulletin de la Societe de Geologie France, ser. 7, 14: 440 - 450.", "Chaline, J., and P. Mein. 1979. Les rongeurs et l'evolution. Doin Editeurs, Paris, 235 pp."]}
SN 2000cx and SN 2013bh: Extremely Rare, Nearly Twin Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Silverman, Jeffrey M.
name: Vinko, Jozsef
name: Kasliwal, Mansi M.
name: Fox, Ori D.
name: Cao, Yi
name: Johansson, Joel
name: Perley, Daniel A.
name: Tal, David
name: Wheeler, J. Craig
name: Amanullah, Rahman
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Bloom, Joshua S.
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Goobar, Ariel
name: Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.
name: Laher, Russ
name: Lee, William H.
name: Marion, G. H.
name: Nugent, Peter E.
name: Shivvers, Isaac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2000cx was one of the most peculiar transients ever discovered, with a rise to maximum brightness typical of a SN Ia, but a slower decline and a higher photospheric temperature. Thirteen years later SN 2013bh (aka iPTF13abc), a near identical twin, was discovered and we obtained optical and near-IR photometry and low-resolution optical spectroscopy from discovery until about 1 month past r-band maximum brightness. The spectra of both objects show iron-group elements (Co II, Ni II, Fe II, Fe III, and high-velocity features [HVFs] of Ti II), intermediate-mass elements (Si II, Si III, and S II), and separate normal velocity features (~12000 km/s) and HVFs (~24000 km/s) of Ca II. Persistent absorption from Fe III and Si III, along with the colour evolution, imply high blackbody temperatures for SNe 2013bh and 2000cx (~12000 K). Both objects lack narrow Na I D absorption and exploded in the outskirts of their hosts, indicating that the SN environments were relatively free of interstellar or circumstellar material and may imply that the progenitors came from a relatively old and low-metallicity stellar population. Models of SN 2000cx, seemingly applicable to SN 2013bh, imply the production of up to ~1 M_Sun of Ni-56 and (4.3-5.5)e-3 M_Sun of fast-moving Ca ejecta.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables, re-submitted to MNRAS
Denaturalizing Climate Change: Migration, Mobilities and Space
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Klimawandel
subject: Klimamigration
subject: 320

description: The debate and its critique served as a starting point for conceptualizing a workshop entitled Denaturalizing Climate Change: Migration, Mobilities and Spaces that took place at the artec Sustainability Research Center, University of Bremen in October 2013. The aim was to revisit the nexus between climate change and human mobility, employing innovative and, above all, more politicized approaches.
A Review of X-ray Microcalorimeters Based on Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors for Astrophysics and Particle Physics
Creators: name: Gottardi, Luciano
name: Nagayoshi, Kenichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The state-of-the-art technology of X-ray microcalorimeters based on superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs), for applications in astrophysics and particle physics, is reviewed. We will show the advance in understanding the detector physics and describe the recent breakthroughs in the TES design that are opening the way towards the fabrication and the read-out of very large arrays of pixels with unprecedented energy resolution. The most challenging low temperature instruments for space- and ground-base experiments will be described.
description: 48 pages, 14 figures, published in Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 3793
data and code for paper "Shallow Defects and Variable Photoluminescence Decay Times up to 280 µs in Triple-Cation Perovskites"
Creators: name: YUAN, Ye
name: YAN, Genghua
name: DREESSEN, Chris
name: HÜLSBECK, Markus
name: KLINGEBIEL, Benjamin
name: RAU, Uwe
name: KIRCHARTZ, Thomas
name: RUDOLPH, Toby
name: YE, Jiajiu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: data of the figures shown in main text and in the supporting information, as well as MATLAB scripts for steady-state and transient photoluminescence simulations in the paper "Shallow Defects and Variable Photoluminescence Decay Times up to 280 µs in Triple-Cation Perovskites".
Fractional Klein-Gordon equations and related stochastic processes
Creators: name: Garra, Roberto
name: Orsingher, Enzo
name: Polito, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents finite-velocity random motions driven by fractional Klein-Gordon equations of order $α\in (0,1]$. A key tool in the analysis is played by the McBride's theory which converts fractional hyper-Bessel operators into Erdelyi-Kober integral operators. Special attention is payed to the fractional telegraph process whose space-dependent distribution solves a non-homogeneous fractional Klein-Gordon equation. The distribution of the fractional telegraph process for $α= 1$ coincides with that of the classical telegraph process and its driving equation converts into the homogeneous Klein-Gordon equation. Fractional planar random motions at finite velocity are also investigated, the corresponding distributions obtained as well as the explicit form of the governing equations. Fractionality is reflected into the underlying random motion because in each time interval a binomial number of deviations $B(n,α)$ (with uniformly-distributed orientation) are considered. The parameter $n$ of $B(n,α)$ is itself a random variable with fractional Poisson distribution, so that fractionality acts as a subsampling of the changes of directions. Finally the behaviour of each coordinate of the planar motion is examined and the corresponding densities obtained. Extensions to $N$-dimensional fractional random flights are envisaged as well as the fractional counterpart of the Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation to which our theory applies.
On the Evaluation of the Plausibility and Faithfulness of Sentiment Analysis Explanations
Creators: name: Zini, Julia El
name: Mansour, Mohamad
name: Mousi, Basel
name: Awad, Mariette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current Explainable AI (ExAI) methods, especially in the NLP field, are conducted on various datasets by employing different metrics to evaluate several aspects. The lack of a common evaluation framework is hindering the progress tracking of such methods and their wider adoption. In this work, inspired by offline information retrieval, we propose different metrics and techniques to evaluate the explainability of SA models from two angles. First, we evaluate the strength of the extracted "rationales" in faithfully explaining the predicted outcome. Second, we measure the agreement between ExAI methods and human judgment on a homegrown dataset1 to reflect on the rationales plausibility. Our conducted experiments comprise four dimensions: (1) the underlying architectures of SA models, (2) the approach followed by the ExAI method, (3) the reasoning difficulty, and (4) the homogeneity of the ground-truth rationales. We empirically demonstrate that anchors explanations are more aligned with the human judgment and can be more confident in extracting supporting rationales. As can be foreseen, the reasoning complexity of sentiment is shown to thwart ExAI methods from extracting supporting evidence. Moreover, a remarkable discrepancy is discerned between the results of different explainability methods on the various architectures suggesting the need for consolidation to observe enhanced performance. Predominantly, transformers are shown to exhibit better explainability than convolutional and recurrent architectures. Our work paves the way towards designing more interpretable NLP models and enabling a common evaluation ground for their relative strengths and robustness.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, conference (AIAI - springer)
Entanglement Entropy of Extremal BTZ
Creators: name: Caputa, Pawel
name: Jejjala, Vishnu
name: Soltanpanahi, Hesam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note, we use entanglement entropy as a tool to explore the universal properties of CFTs dual to extremal BTZ black holes. We demonstrate that the entanglement entropies computed in the CFTs at the boundary of the extremal BTZ and the boundary of the near-horizon limit of the extremal BTZ are in perfect agreement and have the form appropriate to a two-dimensional CFT with only the chiral part excited and the anti-chiral in the ground state. Furthermore, we analyze the universal limits of the entanglement entropy and recover the correct value of the thermal entropy for large entangling intervals and the first-law like relation for the small interval.
description: 19 pages, v2 references, several clarifications and comments added
figures and scripts for paper "Shallow Defects and Ultralong Photoluminescence Decay Times up to 280 µs in Triple-Cation Perovskites"
Creators: name: YUAN, Ye
name: YAN, Genghua
name: DREESSEN, Chris
name: HÜLSBECK, Markus
name: KLINGEBIEL, Benjamin
name: RAU, Uwe
name: KIRCHARTZ, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Fig.1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, as well as MATLAB scripts for steady-state and transient photoluminescence simulations in the paper "Shallow Defects and Ultralong Photoluminescence Decay Times up to 280 µs in Triple-Cation Perovskites".
Microtus mujanensis Orlov and Kovalskaya 1978
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Arvicolidae
Microtus
Microtus mujanensis

description: Microtus mujanensis Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1978. Zool. Zh., 57: 1224. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Buryat-Mongolsk. A.S.S. R., Bauntovsk. Obi., Miyha River at Miyha. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus; (RSH from V. G. Orlov, pers. comm.); Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1978, Zool. Zh., 57: 1224- 1232, described this species as morphologically close to maximowiczii, but the species are karyotypically different and Fl hybrids are sterile (SRL). Gromov and Baranova, 1981:209, indicated that the name is based on an earlier publication (Orlov and Kovalskaya, 1975, [Systematics and cytogenetics of mammals], Moscow, p. 32); which may be a nomen nudum (RSH).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 495, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034
description: {"references": ["Orlov, V. N., and Yu. M. Kovalskaya. 1978. [Microtus mujanensis sp. n. from the Vitim River Basin.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 57: 1224 - 1232 (in Russian).", "Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian)."]}
CRITICAL STUDY OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY OF METROPOLITAN LAHORE USING GEO-SPATIAL TECHNIQUES
Creators: name: RANA WAQAR ASLAM
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90508 Water Quality Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Geography
subject: 90905 Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Lahore is famous for its rapid urban growth providing bread and butter to around 11 million population. Availability of clean drinking water to general public is the responsibility of the state. Pakistan ranks at 80 in terms of providing standard drinking water to people. This research is based on monitoring the temporal changes in water quality of various towns of Lahore for the years 2009-2019. Various water quality parameters e.g., pH, alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, hardness, turbidity, chloride, Total Dissolved Solid (TDS), Electric Conductivity (EC) and hardness were examined, and the spatial trend was mapped. Primary data about these parameters was collected from water and sanitation authority Lahore and the interpolation was applied to examine trend in variations of various levels of these parameters for a period from 2009 to 2019. The results show that pH, alkalinity, hardness and turbidity levels in most of towns were below the acceptable limit in comparison to World Health Organization permissible standards. We found that industrial boom, poor sanitation, seepage of sewerage water and its addition in ground water has declined the overall quality of drinking water. Local government must take blunt steps to improve the quality of drinking water otherwise the overall situation may lead to become drastic in near future.
Targeting supermassive black hole binaries and gravitational wave sources for the pulsar timing array
Creators: name: Rosado, Pablo A.
name: Sesana, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a technique to search for supermassive black hole binaries (MBHBs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The search is based on the peculiar properties of merging galaxies that are found in a mock galaxy catalog from the Millennium Simulation. MBHBs are expected to be the main gravitational wave (GW) sources for pulsar timing arrays (PTAs); however, it is still unclear if the observed GW signal will be produced by a few single MBHBs, or if it will have the properties of a stochastic background. The goal of this work is to produce a map of the sky in which each galaxy is assigned a probability of having suffered a recent merger, and of hosting a MBHB that could be detected by PTAs. This constitutes a step forward in the understanding of the expected PTA signal: the skymap can be used to investigate the clustering properties of PTA sources and the spatial distribution of the observable GW signal power; moreover, galaxies with the highest probabilities could be used as inputs in targeted searches for individual GW sources. We also investigate the distribution of neighboring galaxies around galaxies hosting MBHBs, finding that the most likely detectable PTA sources are located in dense galaxy environments. Different techniques are used in the search, including Bayesian and Machine Learning algorithms, with consistent outputs. Our method generates a list of galaxies classified as MBHB hosts, that can be combined with other searches to effectively reduce the number of misclassifications. The spectral coverage of the SDSS reaches less than a fifth of the sky, and the catalog becomes severely incomplete at large redshifts; however, this technique can be applied in the future to larger catalogs to obtain complete, observationally-based information of the expected GW signal detectable by PTAs.
description: 25 pages, 29 figures
Extending the Sunspot Area Series from Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
Creators: name: Jha, Bibhuti Kumar
name: Hegde, Manjunath
name: Priyadarshi, Aditya
name: Mandal, Sudip
name: Ravindra, B
name: Banerjee, Dipankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KoSO) possesses one of world's longest and homogeneous records of sunspot observations that span more than a century (1904-2017). Interestingly, these observations (originally recorded in photographic plates/films) were taken with the same setup over this entire time period which makes this data unique and best suitable for long-term solar variability studies. A large part of this data, between 1921-2011, were digitized earlier and a catalog containing the detected sunspot parameters (e.g., area and location) was published in Mandal et al.(2017). In this article, we extend the earlier catalog by including new sets of data between 1904-1921 and 2011-2017. To this end, we digitize and calibrate these new datasets which include resolving the issue of random image orientation. We fix this by comparing the KoSO images with co-temporal data from Royal Greenwich Observatory. Following that, a semi-automated sunspot detection and automated umbra detection algorithm are implemented onto these calibrated images to detect sunspots and umbra. Additionally, during this catalog updation, we also filled data gaps in the existing KoSO sunspot catalog (1921-2011) by virtue of re-calibrating the 'rouge' plates. This updated sunspot area series covering nearly 115 years (1904-2017) are being made available to the community and will be a unique source to study the long term variability of the Sun
description: 13 Pages, 7 Figures, Accepted for Publication in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences Stellar and Solar Physics
Where are all the Sirius-Like Binary Systems?
Creators: name: Holberg, J. B.
name: Oswalt, T. D.
name: Sion, E. M.
name: Barstow, M. A.
name: Burleigh, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Approximately 70 percent of the nearby white dwarfs appear to be single stars, with the remainder being members of binary or multiple star systems. The most numerous and most easily identifiable systems are those in which the main sequence companion is an M star, since even if the systems are unresolved the white dwarf either dominates or is at least competitive with the luminosity of the companion at optical wavelengths. Harder to identify are systems where the non-degenerate component has a spectral type earlier than M0 and the white dwarf becomes the less luminous component. Taking Sirius as the prototype, these latter systems are referred to here as Sirius-Like. There are currently 98 known Sirius-Like systems. Studies of the local white dwarf population within 20 parsecs indicate that approximately 8 per cent of all white dwarfs are members of Sirius-Like systems, yet beyond 20 parsecs the frequency of known Sirius-Like systems declines to between 1 and 2 per cent, indicating that many more of these systems remain to be found. Estimates are provided for the local space density of Sirius- Like systems and their relative frequency among both the local white dwarf population and the local population of A to K main sequence stars. The great majority of currently unidentified Sirius-Like systems will likely turn out to be closely separated and unresolved binaries. Ways to observationally detect and study these systems are discussed.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
On the Explainability of Natural Language Processing Deep Models
Creators: name: Zini, Julia El
name: Awad, Mariette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While there has been a recent explosion of work on ExplainableAI ExAI on deep models that operate on imagery and tabular data, textual datasets present new challenges to the ExAI community. Such challenges can be attributed to the lack of input structure in textual data, the use of word embeddings that add to the opacity of the models and the difficulty of the visualization of the inner workings of deep models when they are trained on textual data. Lately, methods have been developed to address the aforementioned challenges and present satisfactory explanations on Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. However, such methods are yet to be studied in a comprehensive framework where common challenges are properly stated and rigorous evaluation practices and metrics are proposed. Motivated to democratize ExAI methods in the NLP field, we present in this work a survey that studies model-agnostic as well as model-specific explainability methods on NLP models. Such methods can either develop inherently interpretable NLP models or operate on pre-trained models in a post-hoc manner. We make this distinction and we further decompose the methods into three categories according to what they explain: (1) word embeddings (input-level), (2) inner workings of NLP models (processing-level) and (3) models' decisions (output-level). We also detail the different evaluation approaches interpretability methods in the NLP field. Finally, we present a case-study on the well-known neural machine translation in an appendix and we propose promising future research directions for ExAI in the NLP field.
Microtus nesophilus V. Bailey 1898
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Arvicolidae
Microtus
Microtus nesophilus

description: Microtus nesophilus V. Bailey, 1898. Science, n.s., 8:783. REVIEWED BY: R. E. Barry, Jr. (REB). TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., New York, Suffolk Co., Great Gull Isl. off E. tip of Long Island. DISTRIBUTION: Great and Little Gull islands, off Long Island, New York (U.S.A.). COMMENT: Subgenus Microtus; closely related to pennsylvanicus; to which Youngman, 1967, J. Mammal., 48: 586, referred it; now extinct; see Hall, 1981:796.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 495, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034
description: {"references": ["Youngman, P. M. 1967. A new subspecies of varying lemmings Dicrostonyx torquatus (Pallas), from Yukon Territory (Mammalia, Rodentia). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 80: 31 - 34.", "Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90."]}
Microtus nivalis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Arvicolidae
Microtus
Microtus nivalis

description: Microtus nivalis (Martins, 1842). Rev. Zool. Paris, p. 331. TYPE LOCALITY: Switzerland, Bernese Oberländer, Faulhorn. DISTRIBUTION: Discontinuous, mostly montane, from Spain through the Alps, Appennine, Tatra, Carpathian, and Balkan ranges to Turkey, Palestine, Caucasus, Elburz, Zagros, and Kopet Dag Mtns. COMMENT: Subgenus Chionomys; see Anderson, 1960, or Suranomys Chaline, 1974; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977:327, considered Chionomys a full genus. Van der Meulen, 1978, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 47: 140, considered Suranomys a junior synonym of Chionomys (LDM). Related to gud and roberti, but all three occur in the Caucasus. Peshev, 1970, Mammalia, 34:252-268, showed that further study is needed of the populations now included in this species (SRL). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080029001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 495, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034
description: {"references": ["Anderson, S. 1960. The baculum in microtine rodents. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 12: 181 - 216.", "Chaline, J. 1974. Esquisse de l'evolution morphologique, biometrique et chromosomique du genre Microtus (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) dans le Pleistocene de l'hemisphere nord. Bulletin de la Societe de Geologie France, ser. 7, 14: 440 - 450.", "Gromov, I. M., and I. Ya. Polyakov. 1977. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom 3, vyp. 8 [Fauna of the USSR, vol. 3, pt. 8, Mammals]. Polevki [Voles (Microtinae)]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 504 pp. (in Russian).", "van der Meulen, A. J. 1978. Microtus and Pitymys (Arvicolidae) from Cumberland Cave, Maryland, with a comparison of some New and Old World species. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 47: 101 - 145."]}
Masonry elements strengthened through Textile-Reinforced Mortar: application of detailed level modelling with a free open-source Finite-Element code
Creators: name: Boem, Ingrid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper concerns the modelling of masonry elements strengthened through Textile Reinforced Mortar (TRM), a near surface system made of fiber-based grids or textiles embedded in mortar layers. Recently, the author, focusing on the mechanical characterization of TRM composites, developed a detailed level modelling approach by using the free, open-source Finite-Element code OOFEM, for the simulation of experimental tests on TRM coupons (pull-out tests, tensile tests, shear bond tests and in-plane shear tests). The model was capable to account for the failure of single components (e.g. the fibers tensile failure, the mortar cracking and crushing), as well as of their interactions (the debonding of the fibers from the mortar and of the mortar from the masonry substrate). In this paper, the detailed-level modelling approach is applied to the simulation of TRM strengthened masonry elements subjected to diagonal compression, in-plane and out-of-plane bending tests, investigating on the typical failure modes of masonry. Non-linear static analyses are performed, with nonlinearities of materials and interfaces deduced from experimental evidences. The comparison with some experimental results and a parametric study allowed to evidence the reliability of the models and their sensitivity to the main components characteristics.
Rapidity evolution of Wilson lines at the next-to-leading order
Creators: name: Balitsky, Ian
name: Chirilli, Giovanni A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At high energies particles move very fast so the proper degrees of freedom for the fast gluons moving along the straight lines are Wilson-line operators - infinite gauge factors ordered along the line. In the framework of operator expansion in Wilson lines the energy dependence of the amplitudes is determined by the rapidity evolution of Wilson lines. We present the next-to-leading order hierarchy of the evolution equations for Wilson-line operators.
description: 5 pages and 2 figures, PRD version with typos corrected
Microtus oaxacensis Goodwin 1966
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Arvicolidae
Microtus
Microtus oaxacensis

description: Microtus oaxacensis Goodwin, 1966. Am. Mus. Novit., 2243:1-4. REVIEWED BY: J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP); G. Urbano V. (GUV). TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Oaxaca, Ixtlan Dist., Tarasbundi Ranch, near Vista Hermosa, 5000 ft. (1524 m). DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of N.C. Oaxaca (vic. of Vista Hermosa, Mexico). COMMENT: Subgenus undetermined (RSH). Goodwin, 1966, Am. Mus. Novit., 2243:1-4, stated only that this species is distinct from fulviventer and umbrosus; his illustrations would place the species in the subgenus Microtus (SRL). Martin, R. A., 1974, in Webb, ed., Pleistocene Mammals of Florida, p. 60, placed this species in the genus Pitymys (LDM). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080030001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 4), pp. 477-504 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 495, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353034
description: {"references": ["Goodwin, G. G. 1966. A new species of vole (genus Microtus) from Oaxaca, Mexico. American Museum Novitates, 2243: 1 - 4."]}
EFFECT OF LABOUR CASUALIZATION ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN MONEY DEPOSIT BANKS IN ENUGU STATE
Creators: name: Uche Florence, Williams
name: E. U., Okechukwu
Publisher: name: SADI Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Banks
Casualization
Labour
Organizational
Performance

description: The study examined the effects of labour casualization in the performance of Money deposit Banks in Enugu state. Casual labour which is supposed to be a form of temporary employment has ironically acquired the status of permanent employment in many organizations in Nigeria without the statutory benefits associated with permanent employment status. Casual workers are subjected to lower pay, barred from their right to join a union, and denied some other essential benefits made available to core staff. Companies will often hire several part-time workers instead of one or two full-time workers to avoid their obligation to provide benefits so as to reduce labour cost and enhance productivity and efficiency. Considering the smallness of the population size (less than 200), Census sampling technique was adopted. As a result, the entire population (38 core staff) participated in the study. Structured questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The dependent variables of interests are three key performance indices: profit, expansion capacity and shareholders return. Response on research questions showed that core staff of studied Money deposit Banks scored a grand mean of 3.325, 3.29 and 3.085 respectively for research questions one, two and three. This indicates that the core staff of the studied Money deposit Banks believe that labour casualization affects the expansion capacity of Money deposit Banks negatively to a high level. On the other hand, the response of core staff of the studied Money deposit Banks shows that labour casualization positively affects profit and shareholder return. The result of test of hypothesis on the first research question supports these positions by showing that there is a significant difference between the grand mean of the research questions and the minimum acceptable mean of 2.5. Analysis and discussion on this result revealed labour casualization tend to reduce expansion capacity, enhances profit and shareholders return of money deposit Banks in Enugu State. From the results, analysis and discussions, it can be concluded that labour casualization affects the performance of Money deposit Banks in Enugu State both positively and negatively. This is because, labour casualization tends to increase profit and return on investment but on the other hand reduces customer base and expansion; t was recommended that to ensure an all-round positive impact on performance of money deposit Banks; the number of casual staff used by money deposit Banks should be reduced.
Theory of the electron relaxation in metals excited by an ultrashort optical pump
Creators: name: Baranov, V. V.
name: Kabanov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theory of the electron relaxation in metals excited by an ultrashort optical pump is developed on the basis of the solution of the linearized kinetic equation. The kinetic equation includes both the electron-electron and the electron-phonon collision integrals. The widely used two temperature model follows from the theory as the limiting case, when the thermalization due to the electronelectron collisions is fast with respect to the electron-phonon relaxation. It is demonstrated that the energy relaxation has two consecutive processes. The first and most important step describes the emission of phonons by the photo-excited electrons. It leads to the relaxation of 90% of the energy before the electrons become thermalized among themselves. The second step describes electronphonon thermalization and may be described by the two temperature model. The second stage is difficult to observe experimentally because it involves the transfer of only a small amount of energy from electrons. Thus the theory explains why the divergence of the relaxation time at low temperatures was never observed experimentally.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Effective field theory models for nonviolent information transfer from black holes
Creators: name: Giddings, Steven B.
name: Shi, Yinbo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transfer of quantum information from the interior of a black hole to its atmosphere is described, in models based on effective field theory. This description illustrates that such transfer need not be violent to the semiclassical geometry or to infalling observers, and in particular can avoid producing a singular horizon or "firewall." One can specifically quantify the rate of information transfer, and show that a rate necessary to unitarize black hole evaporation produces a relatively mild modification to the stress tensor near the horizon. In an exterior description of the transfer, the new interactions responsible for it are approximated by "effective sources" acting on fields in the black hole atmosphere. If the necessary interactions couple to general modes in the black hole atmosphere, one also finds a straightforward mechanism for information transfer rates to increase when a black hole is mined, avoiding paradoxical behavior. Correspondence limits are discussed, in the presence of such new interactions, for both small black holes and large ones; the near-horizon description of the latter is approximately that of Rindler space.
description: 29 pages with one figure. v2 fixed minor typos
Pitch control of wind turbines
Creators: name: Dhar, Shirali
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2005
Subjects: Pitch control
Wind turbines
PID controller

description: This thesis discusses the Pitch control of wind turbines. Analysis of open and closed loop control system using a PID controller for a simple pitch control system is discussed. A Simulink simulation is performed to analyze the system response to the outside disturbances
Experimental analysis of Tufting Parameter for Enhancing 3D Composites
Creators: name: Ahmed, Jawwad
Publisher: name: College of Science and Engineering, University of Derby
Year: 2023
Subjects: 3D reinforcement, Lap joint, Tufting, Lap shear strength, Tufted lap joint, Fractographic analysis, Un-tufted lap joint, Composite materials, Adhesive bonding, Delamination, Interlaminar strength, Composite structures, Mechanical properties, Failure analysis, Composite manufacturing.

description: This study investigated the experimental analysis of tufting parameters for enhancing three-dimensional (3D) composites, particularly focusing on the formation of lap joints in 3D composite structures. Existing literature highlights challenges related to lap joint manufacturing, notably the creation of resin-rich areas due to stitching and z-pinning methods, which lead to pockets of resin forming around 3D reinforcements. Furthermore, the insertion of 3D reinforcements, such as needles in stitching or pins in z-pinning, results in fibre misalignment within the lap joint structure. In contrast, tufting offers advantages like one-sided access, simplifying the manufacturing of 3D composites and expanding its applicability to both dry fibre and prepreg materials. The research conducted here experimentally investigates the influence of tufting threads on lap joint performance, considering various manufacturing conditions and parameters such as off edge distance and tuft spacing. The study involved the manufacturing of lap joints using both dry fibre and prepreg materials. For dry fibre lap joints, an in-house solution was provided to facilitate the manufacturing process by placing fibre tows over the pin mold. Additionally, a specially designed and 3D-printed needle was used for the tufting process. The study evaluated the influence of tufting on lap joint performance under static loading conditions, including tensile and 3-point bending tests. The study's experimental results revealed that tuft improved the lap shear strength of dry fibre lap joint and prepreg lap joint with respect to untufted lap joint up to 17% and 46% respectively. Similarly, for bending samples, strength of tufted lap joints were improved up to 36% and 20% for dry fibre lap joints and prepreg lap joint, respectively. The fractographic analysis revealed catastrophic failure for untufted and tufted in both dry fibre lap joints and prepreg lap joints. However, shear failure was dominant in all tufted cases, resulting in improving strength of lap joints. Microscopic examination indicated that failures in tufted lap joints initiated around the tufting thread in lap joint structures.