cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Charging and energy fluctuations of a driven quantum battery
Creators: name: Crescente, A.
name: Carrega, M.
name: Sassetti, M.
name: Ferraro, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a quantum battery modeled as a set of N independent two-level quantum systems driven by a time dependent classical source. Different figures of merit, such as stored energy, time of charging and energy quantum fluctuations during the charging process, are characterized in a wide range of parameters, by means of numerical approach and suitable analytical approximation scheme. Particular emphasis is put on the role of different initial conditions, describing the preparation state of the quantum battery, as well as on the sensitivity to the functional form of the external time-dependent drive. It is shown that an optimal charging protocol, characterized by fast charging time and the absence of charging fluctuations, can be achieved starting from the ground state of each two-level system, while other pure preparation states are less efficient. Moreover, we argue that a periodic train of peaked rectangular pulses can lead to fast charging. This study aims at providing a useful theoretical background in view of future experimental solid-state implementations.
description: 32 pages (single column), 10 figures
Supplementary Materials: A Study on the Comprehensibility of Behavioral Programming Variants
Creators: name: Ashrov, Adiel
name: Elyasaf, Achiya
name: Sturm, Arnon
name: Katz, Guy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This repository contains supplementary materials for the paper 'A Study on the Comprehensibility of Behavioral Programming Variants' presented at ENASE 2025.

It includes:

Supplementary Appendix: Detailed results and analysis of the controlled experiment comparing BP and COBP, including per-question statistics and extended discussion of findings.

Experimental Data: Raw questionnaire results from the controlled experiment involving 109 participants (37 COBP and 24 BP participants from ISE, 29 COBP and 19 BP participants from SE).

This data supports the study's investigation of comprehensibility differences between classic Behavioral Programming (BP) and Context-Oriented Behavioral Programming (COBP) in reactive systems development.

Authors: Adiel Ashrov, Arnon Sturm, Achiya Elyasaf, Guy Katz

Conference: 20th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2025)

For questions about the data, please contact: adiel.ashrov@mail.huji.ac.il

Keywords: Behavioral Programming, Context-Oriented Programming, Empirical Software Engineering, Software Comprehension, Controlled Experiment, Reactive Systems
Inferring phenomenological models of first passage processes
Creators: name: Rivera, Catalina
name: Hofmann, David
name: Nemenman, Ilya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Biochemical processes in cells are governed by complex networks of many chemical species interacting stochastically in diverse ways and on different time scales. Constructing microscopically accurate models of such networks is often infeasible. Instead, here we propose a systematic framework for building phenomenological models of such networks from experimental data, focusing on accurately approximating the time it takes to complete the process, the First Passage (FP) time. Our phenomenological models are mixtures of Gamma distributions, which have a natural biophysical interpretation. The complexity of the models is adapted automatically to account for the amount of available data and its temporal resolution. The framework can be used for predicting the behavior of various FP systems under varying external conditions. To demonstrate the utility of the approach, we build models for the distribution of inter-spike intervals of a morphologically complex neuron, a Purkinje cell, from experimental and simulated data. We demonstrate that the developed models can not only fit the data but also make nontrivial predictions. We demonstrate that our coarse-grained models provide constraints on more mechanistically accurate models of the involved phenomena.
An Empirical Study of the Chinese Short-Term Interest Rate: A Comparison of the Predictive Power of Rival One-Factor Models
Creators: name: Xu, Hai Yan
name: Ward, Bert D.
name: Nartea, Gilbert V.
name: Xu, Hai Yan
name: Ward, Bert D.
name: Nartea, Gilbert V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: single-factor models
subject: mean reversion
subject: GMM estimation
subject: prediction tests

description: This paper uses the one-factor models proposed by Chan, Karolyi, Longstaff and Sanders (CKLS, 1992) to study the short-term interest rate in China. Nine stochastic models of the short-term interest rate were estimated with GMM. For the Chinese one-month inter bank loan rate, the research finds strong evidence for a mean-reverting feature in the short-term interest yield curve, but no evidence was found to indicate that the volatility is highly positively correlated with the level of interest rates. What is more, evidence was found that the CKLS model, the CIR SR model, and the Brennan-Schwartz model are correctly specified to model the Chinese short-term interest rate, so that these three models are able to adequately capture the dynamics of this interest rate. Finally, Theil’s U2 statistics and the Diebold and Mariano test were applied to explicitly evaluate the predictive power of the single factor models.
Evolution and Impact of Bars over the Last Eight Billion Years: Early Results from GEMS
Creators: name: Jogee, S.
name: Barazza, F. D.
name: Rix, H. -W.
name: Davies, J.
name: Heyer, I.
name: Barden, M.
name: Beckwith, S. V. W.
name: Bell, E. F.
name: Borch, A.
name: Caldwell, J. A. R.
name: Conselice, C.
name: Haussler, B.
name: Heymans, C.
name: Jahnke, K.
name: Knapen, J. H.
name: Laine, S.
name: Lubell, G. M.
name: Mobasher, B.
name: McIntosh, D. H.
name: Meisenheimer, K.
name: Peng, C. Y.
name: Ravindranath, S.
name: Sanchez, S. F.
name: Shlosman, I.
name: Somerville, R. S.
name: Wisotzki, L.
name: Wolf, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bars drive the dynamical evolution of disk galaxies by redistributing mass and angular momentum, and they are ubiquitous in present-day spirals. Early studies of the Hubble Deep Field reported a dramatic decline in the rest-frame optical bar fraction f_opt to below 5% at redshifts z>0.7, implying that disks at these epochs are fundamentally different from present-day spirals. The GEMS bar project, based on ~8300 galaxies with HST-based morphologies and accurate redshifts over the range 0.2-1.1, aims at constraining the evolution and impact of bars over the last 8 Gyr. We present early results indicating that f_opt remains nearly constant at ~30% over the range z=0.2-1.1,corresponding to lookback times of ~2.5-8 Gyr. The bars detected at z>0.6 are primarily strong with ellipticities of 0.4-0.8. Remarkably, the bar fraction and range of bar sizes observed at z>0.6 appear to be comparable to the values measured in the local Universe for bars of corresponding strengths. Implications for bar evolution models are discussed.
description: Submitted June 25, 2004. 10 pages 5 figures. To appear in Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note, eds. D. Block, K. Freeman, R. Groess, I. Puerari, & E.K. Block (Dordrecht: Kluwer), in press
Novel dual relation and constant in Hawking-Page phase transitions
Creators: name: Wei, Shao-Wen
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
name: Mann, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Universal relations and constants have important applications in understanding a physical theory. In this article, we explore this issue for Hawking-Page phase transitions in Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter black holes. We find a novel exact dual relation between the minimum temperature of the ($d$+1)-dimensional black hole and the Hawking-Page phase transition temperature in $d$ dimensions, reminiscent of the holographic principle. Furthermore, we find that the normalized Ruppeiner scalar curvature is a universal constant at the Hawking-Page transition point. Since the Ruppeiner curvature can be treated as an indicator of the intensity of the interactions amongst black hole microstructures, we conjecture that this universal constant denotes an interaction threshold, beyond which a virtual black hole becomes a real one. This new dual relation and universal constant are fundamental in understanding Hawking-Page phase transitions, and might have new important applications in the black hole physics in the near future.
description: 5 pages and 4 figures
Using Panel Data to Estimate the Economic Determinants of CEO Compensation
Creators: name: Gius, Mark P.
name: Gius, Mark P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: CEO
subject: compensation

description: The present study uses the latest data available from ExecuComp in order to estimate an economic model of the determinants of CEO compensation. Examining 975 CEO’s over the period 1992-2002, the present study finds that experience had a positive effect on CEO pay, while industry specific dummy variables had little, if any, effect on compensation. Performance measures, such as net income per sales and return on equity, had very little effect on CEO pay. The results of the present study corroborate many anecdotal assertions that CEO pay is not linked to firm performance. However, the results of the present study indicate that experience is one of the most important factors affecting CEO compensation. Gender was not found to play a significant role; however, this result may be due to the fact that less than 2% of the CEOs in the sample used in the present study were women. These results suggest that years of experience may actually play more of role in the determination of CEO pay than how well the CEO manages the firm.
Board Diligence, Director Busyness and Corporate Governance: An Empirical Analysis for India
Creators: name: Ghosh, Saibal
name: Ghosh, Saibal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: firm performance
subject: board diligence
subject: director busyness
subject: manufacturing
subject: India

description: The paper examines the association between financial performance and boards of non-financial firms. Using data on over 200 listed manufacturing firms in India for 2005, the findings indicate that, after controlling for various firm-specific factors, board diligence as well as director busyness exerts a positive influence on corporate performance.
Transition maps between Hilbert subspaces and quantum energy transport
Creators: name: Bolaños-Servín, Jorge R.
name: Quezada, Roberto
name: Rios-Cangas, Josué I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82C70, 43A32, 47D07

description: We use a natural generalization of the discrete Fourier transform to define transition maps between Hilbert subspaces and the global transport operator $Z$. By using these transition maps as Kraus (or noise) operators, an extension of the quantum energy transport model of 10.1142/S0219025718500182 describing the dynamics of an open quantum system of $N$-levels is presented. We deduce the structure of the invariant states which can be recovered by transporting states supported on the first level.
Additional file 1 of Repeated assessment of work-related exhaustion: the temporal stability of ratings in the Lund University Checklist for Incipient Exhaustion
Creators: name: Persson, Roger
name: Österberg, Kai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Graphical overview of the point prevalence rates in LUCIE across the 11 consecutive assessments.
Dark Matter and the XENON1T electron recoil excess
Creators: name: Kannike, Kristjan
name: Raidal, Martti
name: Veermäe, Hardi
name: Strumia, Alessandro
name: Teresi, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the electron recoil excess around 2 keV claimed by the Xenon collaboration can be fitted by DM or DM-like particles having a fast component with velocity of order $\sim 0.1$. Those particles cannot be part of the cold DM halo of our Galaxy, so we speculate about their possible nature and origin, such as fast moving DM sub-haloes, semi-annihilations of DM and relativistic axions produced by a nearby axion star. Feasible new physics scenarios must accommodate exotic DM dynamics and unusual DM properties.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, published version
Current and Future Limits on General Flavour Violation in b-->s Transitions in Minimal Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Foster, John
name: Okumura, Ken-ichi
name: Roszkowski, Leszek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the current and prospective limits that can be placed on supersymmetric contributions to $b\to s$ transitions in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with general flavour mixing amongst the squarks. We consider three processes: $\bar{B}\to X_sγ$, $\bar{B}_sμ^+μ^-$ and $\bar{B}_s-B_s$ mixing, and pay particular attention to the large $\tanβ$ regime and beyond leading order contributions where the difference between our analysis and previous analyses is most pronounced. We find that even present limits on BR$(\bar{B}_sμ^+μ^-)$ and $Δm_{B_s}$ often provide additional constraints on the amount of flavour violation still allowed by BR$(\bar{B}\to X_sγ)$. Limits on supersymmetric and Higgs mass parameters can also be strongly dependent on the flavour violation. In particular, the case $μ<0$ can still be allowed, even for light sparticle masses. We discuss how future measurements at the Tevatron, the LHC and elsewhere can improve present limits but also provide unique signatures for the existence of flavour violation.
Measurement of the exclusive light hadron decays of the psi'' in e+e- experiments
Creators: name: Wang, P.
name: Mo, X. H.
name: Yuan, C. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement of the exclusive light hadron decays of the psi'' in e+e- experiments with significant interference between the psi'' and non-resonance continuum amplitudes is discussed. The radiative correction and the Monte Carlo simulation are studied. A possible scheme to verify the destructive interference is proposed for the detectors with energy-momentum resolution of (1-2)%.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Independent Directors, Executive Remuneration and the Governance of the Corporation: Some Empirical Evidence from the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Johnston, James
name: Johnston, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: CEO remuneration
subject: independent directors
subject: corporate governance reform

description: One aspect of the study of executive remuneration that has received comparatively little attention is its ability to shed light on the governance of the corporation. The level of a Chief Executive Officer’s remuneration will embody information on both the market within which a business operates and the effectiveness of its independent directors as instruments of corporate governance. Differences in the salaries of top directors that cannot be accounted for by differences in business performance may provide useful evidence on the health of a company’s governance mechanisms. This paper contains the results of an empirical investigation into the role of external competition and internal controls in generating the executive salaries that we observe in the United Kingdom’s leading firms. It also considers whether compliance with the corporate structures prescribed by external committees is likely to curtail some of the excesses seen in the past.
Do Trading Partners Matter for Labour Market Inequality? The Malaysian Case
Creators: name: Devadason, Evelyn
name: Devadason, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: bilateral trade flows
subject: skill inequality
subject: wage inequality

description: This study examines the differential impact of major bilateral trade flows on labour market inequality for the period 1983 to 2000. The focus is on the key trading partners of Malaysia, which are the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the United States of America and Japan. The paper finds that the direction of trade or rather the “whom” aspects of trade matter for inequality trends. There are striking differences on the labour market when export destinations are considered relative to import sources. The results suggest that an expansion in exports to countries that are relatively skilled labour abundant causes greater product market competition, thereby increasing the demand for skilled labour vis-a-vis unskilled labour in the domestic market. Inequality outcomes however do not differ with import source, as there is a general dampening effect of import expansion on the former in the short- and long run. The results clearly do not lend support to the widespread belief that imports from countries that are relatively skilled labour abundant reduce labour market inequality.
Additional file 1 of Lung delivery of MSCs expressing anti-cancer protein TRAIL visualised with 89Zr-oxine PET-CT
Creators: name: Patrick, P. Stephen
name: Kolluri, Krishna K.
name: Thin, May Zaw
name: Edwards, Adam
name: Sage, Elizabeth K.
name: Sanderson, Tom
name: Weil, Benjamin D.
name: Dickson, John C.
name: Lythgoe, Mark F.
name: Lowdell, Mark
name: Janes, Sam M.
name: Kalber, Tammy L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Holographic spin liquids and Lovelock Chern-Simons gravity
Creators: name: Gallegos, A. D.
name: Gürsoy, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the role of torsion as source of spin current in strongly interacting conformal fluids using holography. We establish the constitutive relations of the basic hydrodynamic variables, the energy-momentum tensor and the spin current based on the classification of the spin sources in irreducible Lorentz representations. The fluids we consider are assumed to be described by the five dimensional Lovelock-Chern-Simons gravity with independent vielbein and spin connection. We construct a hydrodynamic expansion that involves the stress tensor and the spin current and compute the corresponding one-point functions holographically. As a byproduct we find a class of interesting analytic solutions to the Lovelock-Chern-Simons gravity, including blackholes, by mapping the equations of motion into non-linear algebraic constraints for the sources. We also derive a Lee-Wald entropy formula for these blackholes in Chern-Simons theories with torsion. The blackhole solutions determine the thermodynamic potentials and the hydrodynamic constitutive relations in the corresponding fluid on the boundary. We observe novel spin induced transport in these holographic models: a dynamical version of the Barnett effect where vorticity generates a spin current and anomalous vortical transport transverse to a vector-like spin source.
description: 52 pages
Spectral Properties and Lifetimes of Neutral Spin-1/2-Fermions in a Magnetic Guide
Creators: name: Lesanovsky, Igor
name: Schmelcher, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the resonant motion of neutral spin-1/2-fermions in a magnetic guide. A wealth of unitary and anti-unitary symmetries is revealed in particular giving rise to a two-fold degeneracy of the energy levels. To compute the energies and decay widths of a large number of resonances the complex scaling method is employed. We discuss the dependence of the lifetimes on the angular momentum of the resonance states. In this context the existence of so-called quasi-bound states is shown. In order to approximately calculate the resonance energies of such states a radial Schrödinger equation is derived which improves the well-known adiabatic approximation. The effects of an additionally applied homogeneous Ioffe field on the resonance energies and decay widths are also considered. The results are applied to the case of the $^6\text{Li}$ atom in the $F=1/2$ hyperfine ground state.
description: accepted for publication in PRA
Additional file 2 of SHP2 mutations induce precocious gliogenesis of Noonan syndrome-derived iPSCs during neural development in vitro
Creators: name: Younghee Ju
name: Park, Jun Sung
name: Daejeong Kim
name: Bumsoo Kim
name: Lee, Jeong Ho
name: Yoonkey Nam
name: Han-Wook Yoo
name: Lee, Beom Hee
name: Han, Yong-Mahn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Characterization of NS-iPSCs. (A) Expression of pluripotency markers in the NS-iPSCs. Similar to the WT-iPSCs, the NS iPSCs expressed various pluripotency markers, such as OCT4, SOX2, NANOG, TRA-1-60, and TRA-1-81. Scale bar, 200 μm. (B) Normal karyotypes of NS-iPSCs. (C) Single point mutation of the PTPN11 gene in the NS-iPSCs. The point mutation of the PTPN11 gene was verified by DNA sequencing.
Bioherbicidal Potential of Metabolites from Endophytic Alternaria and Gibberella Species against Parthenium hysterophorus
Creators: name: Khattak, Saeed Ullah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Abstract

Parthenium hysterophorus is an aggressive invasive weed that threatens agricultural productivity, biodiversity and ecological stability. This study explores the bioherbicidal potential of crude metabolites derived from endophytic Alternaria and Gibberella species as sustainable alternatives to synthetic herbicides. Fungal strains were isolated from the stems of Sageretia thea, identified based on morphological and microscopic characteristics, and cultured in a yeast extract-supplemented medium to enhance metabolite production. Crude extracts were obtained using ethyl acetate and evaluated for their weedicidal efficacy against P. hysterophorus under a Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The synthetic herbicide 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-D) was used as a standard for comparison. The results revealed significant inhibitory effects of the fungal extracts on seed germination and seedling growth. The extract from Alternaria reduced germination by 60% and markedly suppressed shoot and root growth at concentrations ranging from 250 to 1000 μg/mL. The Gibberella extract demonstrated even greater potency, achieving complete inhibition of germination and growth at 1000 μg/mL. In contrast, 2, 4-D exhibited a gradual inhibitory effect but failed to completely suppress germination at the highest tested concentration. These findings highlight the promising potential of fungal metabolites as eco-friendly bioherbicides that can offer an effective and sustainable approach to managing P. hysterophorus.

Keywords: 2, 4-D, Bioherbicide, Fungal natural products, Sageretia thea, Slide culture technique, Weed management.
An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Imperfect Information on Wages in Canada
Creators: name: Sharif, Najma R.
name: Dar, Atul A.
name: Sharif, Najma R.
name: Dar, Atul A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: labour markets
subject: information gaps
subject: wages

description: Most studies of wage differentials explain such differentials in terms of factors like gender, race, and human capital. But systematic gaps in earnings can arise even among homogenous individuals as a result of asymmetric employer and worker information gaps, thereby reflecting labour market inefficiency. This paper estimates these gaps in terms of wage differentials across various population groups in Canada. We examine 21 populations groups, which include a number of immigrant groups as well. Information gaps are likely to be important in the context of immigrants, especially those new to Canadian labour markets. Our special interest is not only to compare information gaps of immigrant and other population groups, but also to assess whether (and how) immigrant information gaps depend upon the length of residence in Canada. The econometric model we employ is the two-tier stochastic earnings frontier, which is estimated using data from the 2001, 1996 and 1991 censuses.
Growth, Income Inequality and Aid Giving: Looking for an Aid-Kuznets Curve
Creators: name: Sobhee, Sanjeev K.
name: Nath, Shyam
name: Sobhee, Sanjeev K.
name: Nath, Shyam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: foreign aid
subject: optimal taxation
subject: fiscal policy

description: This paper contributes to the literature on foreign aid by exclusively explaining a donor’s motivation for foreign external assistance. The underlying framework focuses on recipients’ needs for foreign aid to address income inequality as and when growth occurs. A tax-subsidy policy is hypothesised in the manner advocated by optimal tax theory to effectively deal with inequity by minimizing the distortionary effects of income taxes. This framework is ultimately endogeneized in the recipient’s budget constraint, from which the donor derives the demand for foreign assistance. The outcome supports an inverted-U relationship between foreign aid and per capita income in the way postulated by the conventional Kuznets curve. Our postulate is empirically tested using a panel of 29 developing countries across a time span of 27 years; and from which the hypothesis of an ‘Aid-Kuznets’ curve could not be rejected.
Supplementary Tables 1, 2, and 3 from The role of state and trait anxiety in the processing of facial expressions of emotion
Creators: name: Dyer, Maddy L.
name: Attwood, Angela S.
name: Penton-Voak, Ian S.
name: Munafò, Marcus R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: State anxiety appears to influence facial emotion processing (Attwood et al., 2017 R. Soc. Open Sci. 4, 160855). We aimed to (i) replicate these findings and (ii) investigate the role of trait anxiety, in an experiment with healthy UK participants (N = 48, 50% male, 50% high trait anxiety). High and low state anxiety were induced via inhalations of 7.5% carbon dioxide enriched air and medical air, respectively. High state anxiety reduced global emotion recognition accuracy (p = 0.01, ηp2 = 0.14), but it did not affect interpretation bias towards perceiving anger in ambiguous angry–happy facial morphs (p = 0.18, ηp2 = 0.04). We found no clear evidence of a relationship between trait anxiety and global emotion recognition accuracy (p = 0.60, ηp2 = 0.01) or interpretation bias towards perceiving anger (p = 0.83, ηp2 = 0.01). However, there was greater interpretation bias towards perceiving anger (i.e. away from happiness) during heightened state anxiety, among individuals with high trait anxiety (p = 0.03, dz = 0.33). State anxiety appears to impair emotion recognition accuracy, and among individuals with high trait anxiety, it appears to increase biases towards perceiving anger (away from happiness). Trait anxiety alone does not appear to be associated with facial emotion processing.
Compact Speaker Embedding: lrx-vector
Creators: name: Georges, Munir
name: Huang, Jonathan
name: Bocklet, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep neural networks (DNN) have recently been widely used in speaker recognition systems, achieving state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks. The x-vector architecture is especially popular in this research community, due to its excellent performance and manageable computational complexity. In this paper, we present the lrx-vector system, which is the low-rank factorized version of the x-vector embedding network. The primary objective of this topology is to further reduce the memory requirement of the speaker recognition system. We discuss the deployment of knowledge distillation for training the lrx-vector system and compare against low-rank factorization with SVD. On the VOiCES 2019 far-field corpus we were able to reduce the weights by 28% compared to the full-rank x-vector system while keeping the recognition rate constant (1.83% EER).
description: Accepted to INTERSPEECH 2020
Disease and Behavioral Dynamics for Brucellosis Control in Elk and Cattle in the Greater Yellowstone Area
Creators: name: Xie, Fang
name: Horan, Richard D.
name: Xie, Fang
name: Horan, Richard D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: bioeconomics
subject: brucellosis
subject: disease ecology
subject: epidemiology
subject: replicator dynamics
subject: susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model
subject: wildlife disease
subject: wildlife feeding

description: This paper investigates private responses and ecological impacts of policies proposed to confront the problem of brucellosis being spread from elk to cattle in Wyoming. The policies consist of combinations of changes in elk feeding and population levels. Farmers' responses to these dynamics are modeled along with the associated impacts to livestock population dynamics. Our findings suggest that feedbacks between jointly determined disease dynamics and decentralized economic behavior matter, and the elk feedgrounds do not actually generate economic harm to the individual farmers.
Implementation of a Post-Quantum Anonymous Verifiable Credential Framework
Creators: name: Margaria, Davide
name: Pino, Alessandro
name: Vesco, Andrea
name: D'Alconzo, Giuseppe
name: Di Scala, Antonio J.
name: Guglielmino, Enrico
name: Sanna, Carlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: PQC
Anonymous Credential
ZKP
Selective Disclosure
SSI
VC

description: Verifiable Credentials (VCs) can play a crucial role for the identity layer of the Internet. VCs allow Holders to share cryptographically verifiable claims issued by trusted Issuers for authentication purposes. However, plaintext VCs can compromise the privacy of the Holder, as they must disclose entire VCs even when only partial information is required. To address this growing concern, the concept of anonymous credentials has been introduced. In addition, with the advent of Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers, many cryptography fields, including that of anonymous credentials, face significant security challenges. This threat urge the design, development, and the implementation of Post-Quantum Anonymous Verifiable Credential frameworks. This paper contributes to this challenge by presenting the analysis and selection of a practical PQ Anonymous Credential framework, the adaptation of the framework to the VC concept introduced by the Self-Sovereign Identity Model, and the software implementation with 128 bit security with the initial performance evaluation.
Updating constraints on f(T) teleparallel cosmology and the consistency with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Benetti, Micol
name: Capozziello, Salvatore
name: Lambiase, Gaetano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We focus on viable $f(T)$ teleparallel cosmological models, namely power law, exponential and square-root exponential, carrying out a detailed study of their evolution at all scales. Indeed, these models were extensively analysed in the light of late time measurements, while it is possible to find only upper limits looking at the very early time behavior, i.e. satisfying the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) data on primordial abundance of ${}^4He$. Starting from these indications, we perform our analysis considering both background and linear perturbations evolution and constrain, beyond the standard six cosmological parameters, the free parameters of $f(T)$ models in both cases whether the BBN consistency relation is considered or not. We use a combination of Cosmic Microwave Background, Baryon Acoustic Oscillation, Supernovae Ia and galaxy clustering measurements, and find that very narrow constraints on the free parameters of specific $f(T)$ cosmology can be obtained, beyond any previous precision. While no degeneration is found between the helium fraction, $Y_P$, and the free parameter of $f(T)$, we note that these models constrain the current Hubble parameter, $H_0$, {higher extent than the standard model} one, fully compatible with the Riess et al. measurement in the case of power law $f(T)$ model. Moreover, the free parameters are constrained at non-zero values in more than 3-$σ$, showing a preference of the observations for extended gravity models.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
International trade, regional integration and food security in the Middle East
Creators: name: DeRosa, Dean A.
name: DeRosa, Dean A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
International Relations/Trade

description: Against the background of increasing interest in closer economic relations in the Middle East, the contribution that greater integration of markets might make to improving food security in the region is investigated, using a quantitative framework for gauging the reduction in instability of market supplies for cereal, meat, and dairy commodities under regional cooperation schemes versus more general policies to increase the integration of Middle East markets with markets in Western Europe and the world at large. Nondiscriminatory trade liberalization yields the greatest improvements in food security, but expansion of intra-regional trade relations also result in improved food security, except in the case of wheat and other cereals because of already extensive Middle East imports of these commodities commercially and under bilateral and multilateral food aid programs.
Price competitiveness and variability in Egyptian cotton: effects of sectoral and economywide policies
Creators: name: Bautista, Romeo M.
name: Gehlhar, Clemen G.
name: Bautista, Romeo M.
name: Gehlhar, Clemen G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This paper examines the role of price incentives in the observed decline in cotton production during the 1980s and in the apparent improvement in recent years. The following determinants (in an accounting sense) of the changes in the relative producer price of cotton during 1980-92 are quantified: (1) changes in the foreign price; (2) changes in the real exchange rate; and (3) changes in nominal protection and the marketing margin. An estimated model of the real exchange rate for Egypt is used to provide a further decomposition of the changes in the relative cotton price that isolates the effect of policy-related factors. The comparative effects of sectoral and economywide policies are analyzed based on three alternative policy regimes in terms of the average price and variability of annual price levels over the period 1971-1992. Government interventions are found to reduce both the long-run price incentive and short-run price variability in Egyptian cotton. Various approaches in dealing with commodity price instability in the context of a more open trade regime are indicated.
A New Computer-Aided Diagnosis System with Modified Genetic Feature Selection for BI-RADS Classification of Breast Masses in Mammograms
Creators: name: Boumaraf, Said
name: Liu, Xiabi
name: Ferkous, Chokri
name: Ma, Xiaohong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mammography remains the most prevalent imaging tool for early breast cancer screening. The language used to describe abnormalities in mammographic reports is based on the breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS). Assigning a correct BI-RADS category to each examined mammogram is a strenuous and challenging task for even experts. This paper proposes a new and effective computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system to classify mammographic masses into four assessment categories in BI-RADS. The mass regions are first enhanced by means of histogram equalization and then semiautomatically segmented based on the region growing technique. A total of 130 handcrafted BI-RADS features are then extrcated from the shape, margin, and density of each mass, together with the mass size and the patient's age, as mentioned in BI-RADS mammography. Then, a modified feature selection method based on the genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed to select the most clinically significant BI-RADS features. Finally, a back-propagation neural network (BPN) is employed for classification, and its accuracy is used as the fitness in GA. A set of 500 mammogram images from the digital database of screening mammography (DDSM) is used for evaluation. Our system achieves classification accuracy, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and Matthews correlation coefficient of 84.5%, 84.4%, 94.8%, and 79.3%, respectively. To our best knowledge, this is the best current result for BI-RADS classification of breast masses in mammography, which makes the proposed system promising to support radiologists for deciding proper patient management based on the automatically assigned BI-RADS categories.
Resolved Mid-Infrared Emission Around AB Aur and V892 Tau with Adaptive Optics Nulling Interferometric Observations
Creators: name: Liu, W. M.
name: Hinz, P. M.
name: Hoffmann, W. F.
name: Brusa, G.
name: Miller, D.
name: Kenworthy, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of adaptive optics nulling interferometric observations of two Herbig Ae stars, AB Aur and V892 Tau. Our observations at 10.3 microns show resolved circumstellar emission from both sources. Further analysis of the AB Aur emission suggests that there is an inclined disk surrounding the star. The diameter of the disk is derived to be 24 to 30 AU with an inclination of 45 to 65 degrees from face-on, and a major-axis PA of 30 +/- 15 degrees (E of N). Differences in the physical characteristics between the mid-IR emission and emission at other wavelengths (near-IR and millimeter), found in previous studies, suggest a complex structure for AB Aur's circumstellar environment, which may not be explained by a disk alone. The similarity in the observed size of AB Aur's resolved emission and that of another Herbig Ae star, HD 100546, is likely coincidental, as their respective evolutionary states and spectral energy distributions suggest significantly different circumstellar environments.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Additional file 10 of SHP2 mutations induce precocious gliogenesis of Noonan syndrome-derived iPSCs during neural development in vitro
Creators: name: Younghee Ju
name: Park, Jun Sung
name: Daejeong Kim
name: Bumsoo Kim
name: Lee, Jeong Ho
name: Yoonkey Nam
name: Han-Wook Yoo
name: Lee, Beom Hee
name: Han, Yong-Mahn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 10: Figure S9. Activities of STAT3, NOTCH and BMP signalings in NS NPCs (A) Activity of p-STAT3 in the NS-NPCs. Level of p-STAT3 in NS-NPC was lower than WT ones. (B) Levels of cleaved NOTCH and p-SMAD1 in NS-NPCs. There was no difference in the level of cleaved NOTCH and p-SMAD1 between WT- and NS-NPCs. The relative band intensities are presented as the mean ± SEM (n=4). P values were determined by using an unpaired Student’s t-test. **, p < 0.01; ***, p < 0.001.
Afforestation to increase the provision of ecosystem services: economic implications for Ukraine and beyond
Creators: name: Nijnik, Maria
name: Oskam, Arie J.
name: Nijnik, Albert
name: Nijnik, Maria
name: Oskam, Arie J.
name: Nijnik, Albert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: afforestation
subject: erosion
subject: carbon
subject: timber
subject: cost-benefit analysis

description: This paper analyses costs and benefits of planting trees on marginal lands across forestry zones in Ukraine with the purpose of using them for timber production, erosion prevention and climate change mitigation. The research reveals that establishment of new forests to increase timber production and alleviate soil erosion is economically and environmentally justified in some regions. Incorporating the effects of afforestation through on climate change mitigation increases social benefits.
External Sources of Poynting Flux in MHD Simulations of Black Hole Ergospheres
Creators: name: Punsly, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article investigates the physics that is responsible for creating the outgoing Poynting flux emanating from the ergosphere of a rotating black hole in the limit that the magnetic energy density greatly exceeds the plasma rest mass density (magnetically dominated limit). The underlying physics is derived from published 3-D simulations that obey the general relativistic equations of perfect magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is found that the majority of the outgoing radial Poynting flux emitted from the magnetically dominated regions of the ergosphere is injected into the magnetosphere by a source outside of the event horizon. It is concluded that the primary source of the Poynting flux is associated with inertial forces in the magnetically dominated region proper or in the lateral boundaries of the region. However, the existing numerical data does not rule out the possibility that large computational errors are actually the primary source of the Poynting flux.
description: To appear in MNRAS
IPC01 - 1988, Dunedin, New Zealand - Abstracts
Creators: name: Conference, Penguin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310301
subject: Behavioural ecology
classificationCode: 310307
subject: Population ecology
classificationCode: 310306
subject: Palaeoecology
classificationCode: 310302
subject: Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
classificationCode: 310303
subject: Ecological physiology

description: Abstracts for the first International Penguin Conference (IPC01) held in Dunedin, New Zealand, 16-19 August 1988.
Land, water, and agriculture in Egypt: the economywide impact of policy reform
Creators: name: Robinson, Sherman
name: Gehlhar, Clemen G.
name: Robinson, Sherman
name: Gehlhar, Clemen G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The tax and subsidy system in Egypt in 1986-88 was very distorted, involving large, sectorally variegated, output taxes and subsidies. In agriculture, there were also major input subsidies and no charges for water. In this paper, an ll-sector, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is used to capture this mix of policies, focusing on land and water use in agriculture and on the links between agriculture and the rest of the economy. The model combines an optimizing, programming model of land and water use in agriculture with a simulation model of the non-agricultural sectors. Empirical results indicate that policies in 1986-88 were biased against agriculture and led to a water-conserving structure of agricultural production. Had Egypt introduced markets for water in 1986-88, the equilibrium market price would have been close to zero -land, not water, was the binding constraint. Policy reform increases both aggregate welfare and the demand for water. Water demand is inelastic and policy reform on the output side would strain the existing system of water distribution, since water would become much more valuable than land to agricultural producers. Given the initial policy bias against agriculture, policy reform would favor rural employment and lead to reduced pressure for rural-urban migration.
Hadronic interaction of eta and eta-prime mesons with protons
Creators: name: Moskal, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of investigations aiming to determine the hadronic interaction of eta and eta-prime mesons with nucleons. Inferences are based on comparisons of both the differential cross sections and the close-to-threshold excitation functions for the p p --> p p eta and p p --> p p eta-prime reactions with predictions based on the assumption that the kinematically available phase space is homogeneously populated. We discuss the phenomenology of the initial and final state interaction, relevance of the hadronic and quark-gluon degrees of freedom for the reaction dynamics, and explain in detail the experimental techniques used for the measurement of the meson production in free and quasi-free collisions of nucleons.
description: Thesis for the postdoctoral lecture qualification, format B5, 145 pages
Additional file 1 of SHP2 mutations induce precocious gliogenesis of Noonan syndrome-derived iPSCs during neural development in vitro
Creators: name: Younghee Ju
name: Park, Jun Sung
name: Daejeong Kim
name: Bumsoo Kim
name: Lee, Jeong Ho
name: Yoonkey Nam
name: Han-Wook Yoo
name: Lee, Beom Hee
name: Han, Yong-Mahn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primersa used in this study Table S2. Primary antibodies used for the immunofluorescence and western blotting assays.