cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Simulating User Agents for Embodied Conversational-AI
Creators: name: Philipov, Daniel
name: Dongre, Vardhan
name: Tur, Gokhan
name: Hakkani-Tür, Dilek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Embodied agents designed to assist users with tasks must engage in natural language interactions, interpret instructions, execute actions, and communicate effectively to resolve issues. However, collecting large-scale, diverse datasets of situated human-robot dialogues to train and evaluate such agents is expensive, labor-intensive, and time-consuming. To address this challenge, we propose building a large language model (LLM)-based user agent that can simulate user behavior during interactions with an embodied agent in a virtual environment. Given a user goal (e.g., make breakfast), at each time step, the user agent may observe" the robot actions or speak" to either intervene with the robot or answer questions. Such a user agent assists in improving the scalability and efficiency of embodied dialogues dataset generation and is critical for enhancing and evaluating the robot's interaction and task completion ability, as well as for research in reinforcement learning using AI feedback. We evaluate our user agent's ability to generate human-like behaviors by comparing its simulated dialogues with the TEACh dataset. We perform three experiments: zero-shot prompting to predict dialogue acts, few-shot prompting, and fine-tuning on the TEACh training subset. Results show the LLM-based user agent achieves an F-measure of 42% with zero-shot prompting and 43.4% with few-shot prompting in mimicking human speaking behavior. Through fine-tuning, performance in deciding when to speak remained stable, while deciding what to say improved from 51.1% to 62.5%. These findings showcase the feasibility of the proposed approach for assessing and enhancing the effectiveness of robot task completion through natural language communication.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables
Optimal exact quantum algorithm for the promised element distinctness problem
Creators: name: Li, Guanzhong
name: Li, Lvzhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The element distinctness problem is to determine whether a string $x=(x_1,\ldots,x_N)$ of $N$ elements contains two elements of the same value (a.k.a colliding pair), for which Ambainis proposed an optimal quantum algorithm. The idea behind Ambainis' algorithm is to first reduce the problem to the promised version in which $x$ is promised to contain at most one colliding pair, and then design an algorithm $\mathcal{A}$ requiring $O(N^{2/3})$ queries based on quantum walk search for the promise problem. However, $\mathcal{A}$ is probabilistic and may fail to give the right answer. We thus, in this work, design an exact quantum algorithm for the promise problem which never errs and requires $O(N^{2/3})$ queries. This algorithm is proved optimal. Technically, we modify the quantum walk search operator on quasi-Johnson graph to have arbitrary phases, and then use Jordan's lemma as the analyzing tool to reduce the quantum walk search operator to the generalized Grover's operator. This allows us to utilize the recently proposed fixed-axis-rotation (FXR) method for exact quantum search, and hence achieve 100\% success.
Quantification of plasma microRNAs in a group of healthy smokers, ex-smokers and non-smokers and correlation to biomarkers of tobacco exposure
Creators: name: Anisha Banerjee
name: Waters, David
name: Camacho, Oscar M.
name: Minet, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
Cell Biology

description: The stability of circulating miRNAs, their non-invasive sampling techniques and deregulation in diseases make them potential candidate biomarkers of biological effect. Here, we profiled the level of 84 plasma miRNAs in 30 smokers, 20 non-smokers and 20 ex-smokers. A robust statistical strategy was applied with replicate samples to account for reproducibility of the results. We identified differential expression of miR-124 and let-7a between the smoking and control groups. We further explored the dose–response relationship of miR-124 and let-7a with two biomarkers of tobacco exposure and found that this relationship was affected by adjustments based on age, pack-year and gender.
Representing service-relationships as first class entities in service orchestrations
Creators: name: Kapuruge, Malinda
name: Han, Jun
name: Colman, Alan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460308
subject: Pattern recognition
classificationCode: 460502
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery
classificationCode: 460612
subject: Service oriented computing
classificationCode: 461104
subject: Neural networks
classificationCode: 461201
subject: Automated software engineering
classificationCode: 461202
subject: Empirical software engineering

description: Service orchestration approaches are widely used to composing multiple business services (partner services) into a business process to achieve a particular business objective. The business relationships captured in such a service orchestration are primarily those between the partner services and the business process itself. This however results in tight-coupling between processes and partner services and inadequate capturing of relationships between partner services that participate in an orchestration. These limitations create problems concerning the stability and runtime adaptability of a service orchestration. To address these limitations, we propose in this paper an approach that represents the service-relationships as first-class entities in service orchestrations during design-time and runtime. It provides the required stability and improves the runtime adaptability for service orchestrations amidst changing business requirements. A novel process enactment platform supporting the approach has been implemented by further extending the Apache Axis2 Web service engine.
Newsday Poster, Carey vs. LILCO, November 2, 1978
Creators: name: New York State Against Jamesport/Shoreham West
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1978
Subjects: Newspapers
Nuclear power plants
Power plants
Petitions
Political posters

description: This Newsday poster, published on November 2, 1978, expresses the the LILCO Jamesport/Shoreham proposal for a nuclear powerplant, and Governor Carey's political stance on nuclear powerplants.
Cluster transformations, the tetrahedron equation and three-dimensional gauge theories
Creators: name: Sun, Xiaoyue
name: Yagi, Junya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define three families of quivers in which the braid relations of the symmetric group $S_n$ are realized by mutations and automorphisms. A sequence of eight braid moves on a reduced word for the longest element of $S_4$ yields three trivial cluster transformations with 8, 32 and 32 mutations. For each of these cluster transformations, a unitary operator representing a single braid move in a quantum mechanical system solves the tetrahedron equation. The solutions thus obtained are constructed from the noncompact quantum dilogarithm and can be identified with the partition functions of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on a squashed three-sphere.
description: 29 pages. v2: minor changes, references added, published version
Euseius scutalis
Creators: name: ZahidiK, Abdelaziz
name: Akchour, Abdellah
name: K, Serge Kreiter
name: TixierK, Marie-Stéphane
name: MsandaK, Fouad
name: MousadikK, Abdelhamid El
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Euseius
Euseius scutalis

description: Euseius scutalis (Athias-Henriot)
 Typhlodromus scutalis Athias-Henriot 1958: 183.
 Amblyseius scutalis, Athias-Henriot 1960b.
 Amblyseius (Typhlodromalus) scutalis, Muma 1961.
 Amblyseius (Amblyseius) scutalis, Ueckermann & Loots 1988: 109
 Amblyseius scutalis, Ueckermann 1992: 149.
 Amblyseius (Euseius) scutalis, Gupta 2003.
 Euseius scutalis, Ferragut & Escudero 1997: 233 ; Swirski et al. 1998: 107 ; Moraes et al. 1986: 52, 2004a: 82 ; Chant & McMurtry 2005: 216, 2007: 123.
 Euseius delhiensis (Narayanan & Kaur, 1960: 5) (Synonymy according to Wysoki & Bolland 1983).
 Euseius rubini (Swirski & Amitai 1961): 196 (Synonymy according to Amitai & Swirski 1966).
 Euseius gossipi (El-Badry, 1967a): 177; 1970: 503 (Synonymy according to Wysoki & Bolland 1983).
 Euseius libanesi (Dosse, 1967): 30 (Synonymy according to Wysoki & Bolland 1983).
 Euseius plumerii Romeih et al. 2010: 28 (Synonymy according to Abo-Shnaf & Moraes 2014).
 World distribution — Algeria, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Cyprus, Egypt, Ghana, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Madeira Island (Portugal), Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen.
 Previous records from Morocco — This species was reported by McMurtry and Bounfour (1989) and Tixier et al. (2003, 2016).
 Specimens examined — 4 ♀♀ on Solanum nigrum L. (Solanaceae) collected at Ouled Abdellah in May 2018 ; 9 ♀♀ + 5 ♂♂ + 4 im. on Ceratonia siliqua L. (Fabaceae) collected in April 2019 in Immouzer region at the argan forest.
 Remarks — The description and measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Moraes et al. (2001) for specimens from Sub-Saharan Africa. This species is mainly reported from the South of the West Palaearctic region and is found in dry climates. It is very common in Maghreb and South of Spain (Kreiter et al. 2004) and recorded in Tunisia on many plants including citrus (Kreiter et al. 2010 ; Sahraoui et al. 2012). This species is able to feed on T. urticae and P. citri (Abbassy et al. 2012). It can be reared on pollen and is considered as a biological control agent against phytophagous mites, scale insects, and whiteflies on greenhouse cucumber (Nomikou et al. 2002).
description: Published as part of ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, pp. 691-724 in Acarologia 63 (3) on page 703, DOI: 10.24349/v5of-5oe1, http://zenodo.org/record/10786247
Visual-tactile Fusion for Transparent Object Grasping in Complex Backgrounds
Creators: name: Li, Shoujie
name: Yu, Haixin
name: Ding, Wenbo
name: Liu, Houde
name: Ye, Linqi
name: Xia, Chongkun
name: Wang, Xueqian
name: Zhang, Xiao-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The accurate detection and grasping of transparent objects are challenging but of significance to robots. Here, a visual-tactile fusion framework for transparent object grasping under complex backgrounds and variant light conditions is proposed, including the grasping position detection, tactile calibration, and visual-tactile fusion based classification. First, a multi-scene synthetic grasping dataset generation method with a Gaussian distribution based data annotation is proposed. Besides, a novel grasping network named TGCNN is proposed for grasping position detection, showing good results in both synthetic and real scenes. In tactile calibration, inspired by human grasping, a fully convolutional network based tactile feature extraction method and a central location based adaptive grasping strategy are designed, improving the success rate by 36.7% compared to direct grasping. Furthermore, a visual-tactile fusion method is proposed for transparent objects classification, which improves the classification accuracy by 34%. The proposed framework synergizes the advantages of vision and touch, and greatly improves the grasping efficiency of transparent objects.
description: Published
Persistent organic pollutants and promoter hypermethylation of the O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase gene
Creators: name: Park, Soo Yeun
name: Lee, Yu-Mi
name: Kim, Mi-Jin
name: Jacobs, David R.
name: Porta, Miquel
name: Duk-Hee Lee
name: Ki-Su Kim
name: Kim, Dong-Sun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Promoter hypermethylation of the O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) DNA repair gene is important during carcinogenesis. We explored whether organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), were associated with hypermethylation of the MGMT gene promoter in peripheral leukocytes among 368 Koreans without cancer. Hypermethylation decreased as OCPs increased (Ptrend = 0.02), while PCB concentrations showed an inverted U-shaped association (Pquadratic
Preliminary analyses reveal strong genetic structure in populations of Leucothoe vulgaris (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Leucothoidae) from Okinawa, Japan
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
name: Reimer, James Davis
name: Lorion, Julien
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Preliminary phylogenetic analyses of specimens of a leucothoid amphipod, Leucothoe vulgaris, collected from sponges, ascidians, and coral rubble from Okinawa, Japan, were completed using mitochondrial COI and nuclear 18S ribosomal DNA sequences. Analyses of sequences from 83 specimens demonstrate that populations of L. vulgaris likely entail at least two cryptic species, which are reciprocally monophyletic and reproductively isolated. These two potentially cryptic species live in sympatry but are apparently morphologically identical, suggesting a geographically driven divergence process and secondary contact. Within each clade, two major subclades corresponding to the east and west coast of Okinawa Island were present, with divergence times of approximately 1.61–1.83 mya. This last result suggests a role of Pleistocene sea level changes in the current patterns of intra-specific genetic structure and highlights the need for a more comprehensive sampling of L. vulgaris throughout the Indo-west Pacific.
Nonlinear edge transport in a quantum Hall system
Creators: name: Isobe, Hiroki
name: Nagaosa, Naoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear transport phenomena in condensed matter reflect the geometric nature, quantum coherence, and many-body correlation of electronic states. Electric currents in solids are classified into (i) Ohmic current, (ii) supercurrent, and (iii) geometric or topological current. While the nonlinear current-voltage $(I$-$V)$ characteristics of the former two categories have been extensive research topics recently, those of the last category remains unexplored. Among them, the quantum Hall current is a representative example. Realized in two-dimensional electronic systems under a strong magnetic field, the topological protection quantizes the Hall conductance in the unit of $e^2/h$ ($e$: elementary charge, $h$: Planck constant), of which the edge transport picture gives a good account. Here, we theoretically study the nonlinear $I$-$V_\text{H}$ characteristic of the edge transport up to third order in $V_\text{H}$. We find that nonlinearity arises in the Hall response from electron-electron interaction between the counterpropagating edge channels with the nonlinear energy dispersions. We also discuss possible experimental observations.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Acanthobrama persidis
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Acanthobrama
Acanthobrama persidis

description: 168. Acanthobrama persidis (Coad, 1981)
Common name. Persian bleak-Kor bleak
Taxonomy. Original description: Pseudophoxinus persidis Coad, 1981: 2058, fig. 1 [Upper Shur River drainage, near Darab on Darab-Fasa road, 28°45.5'N, 54°24'E, Iran; holotype: NMC 79-0154 A].
Revisions. Teimori et al. (2015).
Illustrations. Teimori et al. (2015: 191, fig. 2).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Kor River, Persis, Lake Maharlu.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Aroos mahi-e Parsi.—Listed Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Preliminary analyses reveal strong genetic structure in populations of Leucothoe vulgaris (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Leucothoidae) from Okinawa, Japan
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
name: Reimer, James Davis
name: Lorion, Julien
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Preliminary phylogenetic analyses of specimens of a leucothoid amphipod, Leucothoe vulgaris, collected from sponges, ascidians, and coral rubble from Okinawa, Japan, were completed using mitochondrial COI and nuclear 18S ribosomal DNA sequences. Analyses of sequences from 83 specimens demonstrate that populations of L. vulgaris likely entail at least two cryptic species, which are reciprocally monophyletic and reproductively isolated. These two potentially cryptic species live in sympatry but are apparently morphologically identical, suggesting a geographically driven divergence process and secondary contact. Within each clade, two major subclades corresponding to the east and west coast of Okinawa Island were present, with divergence times of approximately 1.61–1.83 mya. This last result suggests a role of Pleistocene sea level changes in the current patterns of intra-specific genetic structure and highlights the need for a more comprehensive sampling of L. vulgaris throughout the Indo-west Pacific.
Acanthobrama urmianus
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Acanthobrama
Acanthobrama urmianus

description: 169. Acanthobrama urmianus (Günther, 1899)
Common name. Urmia bream
Taxonomy. Original description: Abramis urmianus Günther, 1899: 389, pl. 23 (fig. A) [Ocksa River and Urmi River, Iran; Syntypes: (7) BMNH 1899.9.30.116-117 (2), 1899.9.30.118 (1) Ocksa R.,?1899.9.30.119-126 (8)].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020: 113, fig. 197).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Lake Orumiyeh.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 445-Orumiyeh.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Aros mahi-e Oromiye.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: BMNH.
Conservation. —IUCN: DD.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Metadata Evaluation and Improvement
Creators: name: Habermann, Ted
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: metadata evaluation
metadata improvement
organizational change
metadata 2020

description: Improving metadata is organizational change and organizational change is hard. Chip and Dan Heath have thought a lot about organizational change and they told us normal humans how to do it in their book: Switch – How to Change Things When Change is Hard. I applied ideas from that book to the metadata evaluation and improvement problem. Their framework provides some ideas about an easy to follow way forward.
Detection of the extended $γ$-ray emission from the new supernova remnant G321.3-3.9 with Fermi-LAT
Creators: name: Guo, Xiaolei
name: Liu, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the 15 yrs of Pass 8 data recorded by the {\em Fermi} Large Area Telescope, we report the detection of an extended gigaelectronvolt emission component with a 68\% containment radius of $0^{\circ}\!.85$, which is spatially associated with the newly identified supernova remnant (SNR) G321.3-3.9. The $γ$-ray spectrum is best described by a log-parabola model in the energy range of 100 MeV - 1 TeV, which shows a significant spectral curvature at $\sim$ 1 GeV. Either a leptonic or a hadronic model could explain the multi-wavelength data of G321.3-3.9, while the leptonic model predicts a too low strength of magnetic field. Also considering the flat radio spectrum of G321.3-3.9 and the $γ$-ray upper limit in the low energy band, the hadronic model is favored. The spatial coincidence between the $γ$-ray morphology and the diffuse thermal X-ray emission of G321.3-3.9 and the curved gigaelectronvolt $γ$-ray spectrum of it make G321.3-3.9 to be similar to the typical middle-aged SNRs interacting with molecular clouds. Such characteristics provide another evidence of the potential hadronic origin for its $γ$-ray emission. While there is no molecular cloud detected around G321.3-3.9, which challenges the hadronic model.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Automatic Depth-Optimized Quantum Circuit Synthesis for Diagonal Unitary Matrices with Asymptotically Optimal Gate Count
Creators: name: Zhang, Shihao
name: Huang, Kai
name: Li, Lvzhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices can only execute small circuits with shallow depth, as they are still constrained by the presence of noise: quantum gates have error rates and quantum states are fragile due to decoherence. Hence, it is of great importance to optimize the depth/gate-count when designing quantum circuits for specific tasks. Diagonal unitary matrices are well-known to be key building blocks of many quantum algorithms or quantum computing procedures. Prior work has discussed the synthesis of diagonal unitary matrices over the primitive gate set $\{\text{CNOT}, R_Z\}$. However, the problem has not yet been fully understood, since the existing synthesis methods have not optimized the circuit depth.
 In this paper, we propose a depth-optimized synthesis algorithm that automatically produces a quantum circuit for any given diagonal unitary matrix. Specially, it not only ensures the asymptotically optimal gate-count, but also nearly halves the total circuit depth compared with the previous method. Technically, we discover a uniform circuit rewriting rule well-suited for reducing the circuit depth. The performance of our synthesis algorithm is both theoretically analyzed and experimentally validated by evaluations on two examples. First, we achieve a nearly 50\% depth reduction over Welch's method for synthesizing random diagonal unitary matrices with up to 16 qubits. Second, we achieve an average of 22.05\% depth reduction for resynthesizing the diagonal part of specific quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) circuits with up to 14 qubits.
Euseius stipulatus
Creators: name: ZahidiK, Abdelaziz
name: Akchour, Abdellah
name: K, Serge Kreiter
name: TixierK, Marie-Stéphane
name: MsandaK, Fouad
name: MousadikK, Abdelhamid El
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Euseius
Euseius stipulatus

description: Euseius stipulatus (Athias-Henriot)
 Amblyseius stipulatus Athias-Henriot 1960a: 294.
 Typhlodromus stipulatus, Hirshmann 1962.
 Amblyseius (Amblyseius) stipulatus, Ueckermann & Loots 1988: 110.
 Euseius stipulatus, Ferragut et al. 1985: 225 ; Moraes et al. 1986: 55, 2004a: 84 ; Chant & McMurtry 2005: 216. 2007: 123.
 World distribution — Algeria, Azores, Canary Islands, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Madeira Island, Montenegro, Morocco, Peru, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and USA.
 Previous records from Morocco — This species was recorded in many regions in Morocco and collected on several plants as reported by Tixier et al. (2016).
 Specimens examined — 6 ♀♀ + 2 ♂♂ on Bryonia dioica Jacq. (Cucurbitaceae) collected in Ouled Abdellah citrus orchard in May 2017 ; 1 ♀ + 1 ♂ were collected on citrus leaves at Saouda orchard in September 2018.
 Remarks — The description and measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Ferragut and Escudero (1997) and by Ferragut et al. (2010) for specimens from Spain. Euseius stipulatus was classified by McMurtry and Croft (1997) as a specialized pollen feeder. This species feeds also on pest mites such as P. citri (Ferragut et al. 1988, 1992), T. urticae (Moyano et al. 2009) and eriophyid mites (Ferragut et al. 1987) on many crops such as peach, avocado orchards, and vineyards (Ferragut et al. 1983 ; Papaioannou-Souliotis et al. 1994 ; Ragusa 2006) and citrus (Kreiter et al. 2010 ; Sahraoui et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, pp. 691-724 in Acarologia 63 (3) on page 704, DOI: 10.24349/v5of-5oe1, http://zenodo.org/record/10786247
On the initial spin periods of magnetars born in weak supernova explosions and their gravitational wave radiation
Creators: name: Yan, Yu-Long
name: Cheng, Quan
name: Zheng, Xiao-Ping
name: Ouyang, Xia-Xia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The initial spin periods of newborn magnetars are \textbf{strongly associated with the origin of their strong magnetic fields, both of which can affect the electromagnetic radiation and gravitational waves (GWs) emitted at their birth.} Combining the upper limit $E_{\rm SNR}\lesssim10^{51}$ erg on the explosion energies of \textbf{the supernova (SN) remnants around slowly-spinning magnetars} with a detailed investigation on the evolution of newborn magnetars, we set constraints on the initial spin periods of magnetars \textbf{born in weak SN explosions}. Depending on the conversion efficiency $η$ of the electromagnetic energy of \textbf{these} newborn magnetars into the kinetic energy of SN ejecta, the minimum initial spin periods of \textbf{these} newborn magnetars are $P_{\rm i, min}\simeq 5-6$ ms for an ideal efficiency $η=1$, $P_{\rm i, min}\simeq 3-4$ ms for a possible efficiency $η=0.4$, and $P_{\rm i, min}\simeq 1-2$ ms for a relatively low efficiency $η=0.1$. \textbf{Based on these constraints and adopting reasonable values for the physical parameters of the newborn magnetars, we find that their GW radiation at $ν_{\rm e,1}=ν$ may be undetectable by the Einstein Telescope (ET) since the maximum signal-to-noise ratio (${\rm S/N}$) is only 2.41 even the sources are located at a very close distance of 5 Mpc, where $ν$ are the spin frequencies of the magnetars. At such a distance, the GWs emitted at $ν_{\rm e,2}=2ν$ from the newborn magnetars with dipole fields $B_{\rm d}=5\times10^{14}$ and $10^{15}$ G may be detectable by the ET because ${\rm S/N}$ are 10.01 and 19.85, respectively. However, if these newborn magnetars are located at $20$ Mpc away in the Virgo supercluster, no GWs could be detected by the ET due to low ${\rm S/N}$.
Integration of a systolic array based hardware accelerator into a DNN operator auto-tuning framework
Creators: name: Peccia, F. N.
name: Bringmann, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The deployment of neural networks on heterogeneous SoCs coupled with custom accelerators is a challenging task because of the lack of end-to-end software tools provided for these systems. Moreover, the already available low level schedules and mapping strategies provided by the accelerator developers for typical tensor operations are not necessarily the best possible ones for each particular use case. This is why frameworks which automatically test the performance of the generated code on a specific hardware configuration are of special interest. In this work, the integration between the code generation framework TVM and the systolic array-based accelerator Gemmini is presented. A generic schedule to offload the GEneral Matrix Multiply (GEMM) tensor operation onto Gemmini is detailed, and its suitability is tested by executing the AutoTVM tuning process on it. Our generated code achieves a peak throughput of 46 giga-operations per second (GOPs) under a 100 MHz clock on a Xilinx ZCU102 FPGA, outperforming previous work. Furthermore, the code generated by this integration was able to surpass the default hand-tuned schedules provided by the Gemmini developers in real-world workloads.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to the CODAI Workshop at the 2022 ESWEEK
Recurrent subspaces in Banach spaces
Creators: name: López-Martínez, Antoni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A16, 47A53, 37B20

description: We study the spaceability of the set of recurrent vectors $\text{Rec}(T)$ for an operator $T:X\longrightarrow X$ on a Banach space $X$. In particular: we find sufficient conditions for a quasi-rigid operator to have a recurrent subspace; when $X$ is a complex Banach space we show that having a recurrent subspace is equivalent to the fact that the essential spectrum of the operator intersects the closed unit disc; and we extend the previous result to the real case. As a consequence we obtain that: a weakly-mixing operator on a real or complex separable Banach space has a hypercyclic subspace if and only if it has a recurrent subspace. The results exposed exhibit a symmetry between the hypercyclic and recurrence spaceability theories showing that, at least for the spaceable property, hypercyclicity and recurrence can be treated as equals.
description: 24 pages
Power-aware speed scaling in processor sharing systems: Optimality and robustness
Creators: name: Wierman, Adam
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Tang, Antony
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Adapting the speed of a processor is an effective method to reduce energy consumption. This paper studies the optimal way to scale speed to balance response time and energy consumption under processor sharing scheduling. It is shown that using a static rate while the system is busy provides nearly optimal performance, but having a wider range of available speeds increases robustness to different traffic loads. In particular, the dynamic speed scaling optimal for Poisson arrivals is also constant-competitive in the worst case. The scheme that equates power consumption with queue occupancy is shown to be 10-competitive when power is cubic in speed.
Mannan biotechnology: from biofuels to health
Creators: name: Montarop Yamabhai
name: Suttipong Sak-Ubol
name: Witsanu Srila
name: Haltrich, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Mannans of different structure and composition are renewable bioresources that can be widely found as components of lignocellulosic biomass in softwood and agricultural wastes, as non-starch reserve polysaccharides in endosperms and vacuoles of a wide variety of plants, as well as a major component of yeast cell walls. Enzymatic hydrolysis of mannans using mannanases is essential in the pre-treatment step during the production of second-generation biofuels and for the production of potentially health-promoting manno-oligosaccharides (MOS). In addition, mannan-degrading enzymes can be employed in various biotechnological applications, such as cleansing and food industries. In this review, fundamental knowledge of mannan structures, sources and functions will be summarized. An update on various aspects of mannan-degrading enzymes as well as the current status of their production, and a critical analysis of the potential application of MOS in food and feed industries will be given. Finally, emerging areas of research on mannan biotechnology will be highlighted.
Hofstadter states and reentrant charge order in a semiconductor moiré lattice
Creators: name: Kometter, Carlos R.
name: Yu, Jiachen
name: Devakul, Trithep
name: Reddy, Aidan P.
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Foutty, Benjamin A.
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Fu, Liang
name: Feldman, Benjamin E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emergence of moiré materials with flat bands provides a platform to systematically investigate and precisely control correlated electronic phases. Here, we report local electronic compressibility measurements of a twisted WSe$_2$/MoSe$_2$ heterobilayer which reveal a rich phase diagram of interpenetrating Hofstadter states and electron solids. We show that this reflects the presence of both flat and dispersive moiré bands whose relative energies, and therefore occupations, are tuned by density and magnetic field. At low densities, competition between moiré bands leads to a transition from commensurate arrangements of singlets at doubly occupied sites to triplet configurations at high fields. Hofstadter states (i.e., Chern insulators) are generally favored at high densities as dispersive bands are populated, but are suppressed by an intervening region of reentrant charge-ordered states in which holes originating from multiple bands cooperatively crystallize. Our results reveal the key microscopic ingredients that favor distinct correlated ground states in semiconductor moiré systems, and they demonstrate an emergent lattice model system in which both interactions and band dispersion can be experimentally controlled.
Mannan biotechnology: from biofuels to health
Creators: name: Montarop Yamabhai
name: Suttipong Sak-Ubol
name: Witsanu Srila
name: Haltrich, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Mannans of different structure and composition are renewable bioresources that can be widely found as components of lignocellulosic biomass in softwood and agricultural wastes, as non-starch reserve polysaccharides in endosperms and vacuoles of a wide variety of plants, as well as a major component of yeast cell walls. Enzymatic hydrolysis of mannans using mannanases is essential in the pre-treatment step during the production of second-generation biofuels and for the production of potentially health-promoting manno-oligosaccharides (MOS). In addition, mannan-degrading enzymes can be employed in various biotechnological applications, such as cleansing and food industries. In this review, fundamental knowledge of mannan structures, sources and functions will be summarized. An update on various aspects of mannan-degrading enzymes as well as the current status of their production, and a critical analysis of the potential application of MOS in food and feed industries will be given. Finally, emerging areas of research on mannan biotechnology will be highlighted.
Constraints on the internal physics of neutron stars from the observational data of several young pulsars: the role of a power-law decaying dipole magnetic field
Creators: name: Yan, Yu-Long
name: Cheng, Quan
name: Zheng, Xiao-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observational data (e.g., the timing data and magnetic tilt angles $χ$) of young pulsars can be used to probe some critical issues about the internal physics of neutron stars (NSs), for instance, the number of precession cycles $ξ$ and the internal magnetic field configuration (IMFC) of NSs. Evolution of the dipole magnetic field $B_{\rm d}$ of NSs may play an important role in determining the final results. In this work, a power-law form is adopted to describe the decay of $B_{\rm d}$. In such a scenario, the IMFC and $ξ$ of young pulsars with an ordinary $B_{\rm d}\sim10^{12}-\-10^{13}$ G and a steady braking index $n$ are investigated. Since the tilt angle change rates $\dotχ$ of pulsars with $n<3$ can be theoretically predicted, a test on the power-law decay model can thus be made by comparing the theoretical values to that obtained from observations. However, such a comparison can only be made on the Crab pulsar currently, and the results show that the power-law decay model is inconsistent with the Crab's observations. We suggest that rather than decay, the Crab's $B_{\rm d}$ should increase with time at a rate $\sim12-14$ G/s. A definite conclusion on the validity of the power-law decay model for pulsars with ordinary $B_{\rm d}$ may be given if $\dotχ$ of other pulsars could be measured.
Lookahead Pathology in Monte-Carlo Tree Search
Creators: name: Nguyen, Khoi P. N.
name: Ramanujan, Raghuram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a search paradigm that first found prominence with its success in the domain of computer Go. Early theoretical work established the soundness and convergence bounds for Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees (UCT), the most popular instantiation of MCTS; however, there remain notable gaps in our understanding of how UCT behaves in practice. In this work, we address one such gap by considering the question of whether UCT can exhibit lookahead pathology in adversarial settings -- a paradoxical phenomenon first observed in Minimax search where greater search effort leads to worse decision-making. We introduce a novel family of synthetic games that offer rich modeling possibilities while remaining amenable to mathematical analysis. Our theoretical and experimental results suggest that UCT is indeed susceptible to pathological behavior in a range of games drawn from this family.
Constraints on the SZ power spectrum on degree angular scales in WMAP data
Creators: name: Joudaki, Shahab
name: Smidt, Joseph
name: Amblard, Alexandre
name: Cooray, Asantha
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect has a distinct spectral signature that allows its separation from fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and foregrounds. Using CMB anisotropies measured in Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe's five-year maps, we constrain the SZ fluctuations at large, degree angular scales corresponding to multipoles in the range from 10 to 400. We provide upper bounds on SZ fluctuations at multipoles greater than 50, and find evidence for a hemispherically asymmetric signal at ten degrees angular scales. The amplitude of the detected signal cannot be easily explained with the allowed number density and temperature of electrons in the Galactic halo. We have failed to explain the excess signal as a residual from known Galactic foregrounds or instrumental uncertainties such as 1/f-noise.
PHYSICS-INFORMED MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN STRUCTURAL DIGITAL TWIN FOR DAMAGE IDENTIFICATION THROUGH ANOMALY DETECTION
Creators: name: Acharya, Ojaswi
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 400510
subject: Structural engineering
classificationCode: 461103
subject: Deep learning

description: Structural health monitoring (SHM) and timely damage identification play crucial roles in ensuring the safety and longevity of civil infrastructure. With the recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), data-driven techniques such as autoencoders (AEs) have been extensively utilized for damage identification through anomaly detection. However, AE based methods primarily learn identity mappings from healthy-state data, making them less effective in detecting subtle damage, highlighting the need for more robust and physics aware approaches to damage identification. This study presents a physics-informed, machine learning-driven structural digital twin (DT) framework for damage identification through anomaly detection. The proposed approach integrates physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to first reduce discrepancies between finite element model (FEM) predictions and actual structural responses which can arise due to several reasons such as modeling uncer tainties. By leveraging sensor data from the real structure, the structural DT refines the predicted structural response. Anomaly detection is then performed by comparing these pre dictions against real sensor measurements. The performance of the proposed structural DT is evaluated against state-of-the-art AE-based and long short-term memory (LSTM)-AE-based anomaly detection methods. Validation of this approach is conducted using the ASCE bench mark structure, both numerically and experimentally. The ability of the proposed approach to detect different damage scenarios is studied. Results demonstrate consistently superior performance, particularly in detecting minor damage cases compared to existing AE-based methods. To demonstrate robustness, the framework is validated under both hammer impact and shaker excitations. Notably, an improvement of mean squared error (MSE) by at least 10-fold across all study cases was observed compared to traditional FEMs, indicating the potential of the proposed structural DT in generating refined response prediction. The dam age detection accuracy of 100% was observed across all the major damage scenarios across numerical and experimental study. Moreover, even in the smaller damage scenarios, the ac curacy of 100% was obtained for at least 20% stiffness reduction offering an improvement of accuracy value by up to 55% compared to standard AE and LSTM-AE. The findings of this study highlight the ability of physics-informed digital twins for structural damage identification. The study also forms a basis for exploration of the potential of the proposed structural DT approach beyond this application such as surrogate models for FEM updating, enabling real-time structural assessment, and dynamic testing applications
Iphiseius degenerans
Creators: name: ZahidiK, Abdelaziz
name: Akchour, Abdellah
name: K, Serge Kreiter
name: TixierK, Marie-Stéphane
name: MsandaK, Fouad
name: MousadikK, Abdelhamid El
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Iphiseius
Iphiseius degenerans

description: Iphiseius degenerans (Berlese)
 Seius degenerans Berlese 1889: 9.
 Seiulus degenerans, Berlese 1887: 9.
 Amblyseius (Iphiseius) degenerans, Muma 1961: 288.
 Iphiseius (Iphiseius) degenerans, Prichard & Baker 1962: 299.
 Typhlodromus degenerans, Hirschmann 1962: 2.
 Amblyseius degenerans, Zaher 1986: 99.
 Iphiseius degenerans, Berlese 1921: 95 ; Chant 1959: 110 ; Moraes et al. 1986: 61, 2004a: 92 ; Chant & McMurtry 2005: 218, 2007: 12.
 Iphiseius martigellus El-Badry 1968: 325 (Synonymy according to Chant & McMurtry 2005: 217).
 World distribution — Algeria, Azores, Benin, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Cyprus, DR Congo, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Grande Comore Island, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Madagascar Island, Madeira Island, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Portugal, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South-Africa, Syria, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, USA, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
 Previous records from Morocco — It was reported from Morocco by McMurtry and Bounfour (1989) and by Tixier et al. (2003) on Nerium oleander L. (Apocynaceae) in Gorges of Zegzel.
 Specimens examined — 3 ♀♀ on Cupressus spp. (Cupressaceae) collected at Errahim domain in July 2017 ; 2 ♀♀ and 1 ♀ on the same previous substrate in May 2017 respectively at Taoufiqui 1 and 2 orchards.
 Remarks — The description and measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Döker et al. (2018) for specimens from Turkey. This species has a wide distribution in Africa and South Europe and around the Mediterranean Sea (Swirski and Amitai, 1997b ; Moraes et al, 2004a ; Sahraoui et al, 2012). It is described by McMurtry and Croft (1997) as a generalist (type III predator), able to feed on a wide range of food such as thrips larvae, spider mites, and pollen (Nwilene and Nachman 1996 ; Van Rijn and Tanigoshi 1999 ; Vantornhout et al. 2004 ; Messelink et al. 2006). This species is commercialised for biological control of the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) in greenhouses (Vantornhout et al. 2005).
description: Published as part of ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, pp. 691-724 in Acarologia 63 (3) on page 704, DOI: 10.24349/v5of-5oe1, http://zenodo.org/record/10786247