cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Interdependent Triad of Modern Data Services
Creators: name: Agama, Doye
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Data Architecture
digital transformation
Enterprise Data management
Project Management
data services

description: This short article is aimed at non-technical managers and gives you some practical insights on how these three components form a basic but critical framework for all your data architecture decisions.  The paper presents a novel conceptual framework that analyzes modern data services through a triangular model comprising Communication, Storage, and Processing components. Drawing parallels with the established Project Management Triangle (Time, Cost, Quality), the research examines how these three fundamental elements interact and influence data architecture decisions in contemporary digital systems.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 316.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 29.12.2005, 08:45, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2005

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Some remarks on the ergodic theorem for $U$-statistics
Creators: name: Dehling, Herold G.
name: Giraudo, Davide
name: Volny, Dalibor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note, we investigate the convergence of a $U$-statistic of order two having stationary ergodic data. We will find sufficient conditions for the almost sure and $L^1$ convergence and present some counter-examples showing that the $U$-statistic itself might fail to converge: centering is needed as well as boundedness of $\sup_{j\geq 2}\mathbb{E}[|h(X_1,X_j)|]$.
Numerical simulations of gas mixing effect in Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources
Creators: name: Mironov, V.
name: Bogomolov, S.
name: Bondarchenko, A.
name: Efremov, A.
name: Loginov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The particle-in-cell MCC code NAM-ECRIS is used to simulate the ECRIS plasma sustained in a mixture of Kr with O2, N2, Ar, Ne and He. The model assumes that ions are electrostatically confined in ECR zone by a dip in the plasma potential. Gain in the extracted krypton ion currents is seen for the highest charge states; the gain is maximized when oxygen is used as the mixing gas. A special feature of oxygen is that most of singly charged oxygen ions are produced after dissociative ionization of oxygen molecules with the large kinetic energy release of around 5 eV per ion. Increased loss rate of energetic lowly charged ions of the mixing element requires building up of the retarding potential barrier close to ECR surface to equilibrate electron and ion losses out of the plasma. In the mixed plasmas, the barrier value is large (~1 V) compared to the pure Kr plasma (~0.01 V), with the longer confinement times of krypton ions and with the much higher ion temperatures.
Frailty and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality.
Creators: name: Wee, Shiou Liang
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2023

description: Prospective cohort studies suggest that frailty is associated with an increased risk of incidentcardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality, but their mechanistic and developmentalrelations are not fully understood. We investigated whether frailty predicted anincreased risk of incident nonfatal and fatal CVD among community-dwelling older adults.MethodsA population cohort of 5015 participants aged 55 years and above free of CVD at baselinewas followed for up to 10 years. Pre-frailty and frailty were defined as the presence of 1–2and 3–5 modified Fried criteria (unintentional weight loss, weakness, slow gait speed,exhaustion, and low physical activity), incident CVD events as newly diagnosed registeredcases of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and CVD-related mortality (ICD 9: 390 to 459 orICD-10: I00 to I99). Covariate measures included traditional cardio-metabolic and vascularrisk factors, medication therapies, Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Mini-Mental StateExam (MMSE), and blood biomarkers (haemoglobin, albumin, white blood cell counts andcreatinine).ResultsPre-frailty and frailty were significantly associated with elevated HR = 1.26 (95%CI: 1.02–1.56) and HR = 1.54 (95%CI:1.00–2.35) of overall CVD, adjusted for cardio-metabolic andvascular risk factors and medication therapies, but not after adjustment for GDS depressionand MMSE cognitive impairment. The HR of association between frailty status and bothCVD mortality and overall mortality, however, remained significantly elevated after fulladjustment for depression, cognitive and blood biomarkers.ConclusionFrailty was associated with increased risk of CVD morbidity and especially mortality, mediated in parts by traditional cardio-metabolic and vascular risk factors, and co-morbid depression and associated cognitive impairment and chronic inflammation. Given that prefrailty and frailty are reversible by multi-domain lifestyle and health interventions, there is potential benefits in reducing cardiovascular diseases burden and mortality from interventions targeting pre-frailty and early frailty population.
Observational Constraints on Water Sublimation from 24 Themis and 1 Ceres
Creators: name: McKay, Adam J.
name: Bodewits, Dennis
name: Li, Jian-Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations have suggested that there is water ice present on the surfaces of 24 Themis and 1 Ceres. We present upper limits on the H$_2$O production rate on these bodies derived using a search for [OI]6300 Angstrom emission. For Themis, the water production is less than 4.5 $\times$ 10$^{27}$ mol s$^{-1}$, while for Ceres our derived upper limit is 4.6 $\times$ 10$^{28}$ mol s$^{-1}$. The derived limits imply a very low fraction of the surface area of each asteroid is active ($
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Icarus
A theoretical perspective on the modification of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy at molecule-cobalt interfaces
Creators: name: Halder, Anita
name: Bhandary, Sumanta
name: O'Regan, David D.
name: Sanvito, Stefano
name: Droghetti, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the modification of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) of Co slabs induced by several different conjugated molecular overlayers, i.e., benzene, cyclooctatetraene, naphthalene, pyrene and coronene. We perform first-principles calculations based on Density Functional Theory and the magnetic force theorem. Our results indicate that molecular adsorption tends to favour a perpendicular MCA at surfaces. A detailed analysis of various atom-resolved quantities, accompanied by an elementary model, demonstrates that the underlying physical mechanism is related to the metal-molecule interfacial hybridization and, in particular, to the chemical bonding between the molecular C $p_z$ and the out-of-plane Co $d_{z^2}$ orbitals. This effect can be estimated from the orbital magnetic moment of the surface Co atoms, a microscopic observable accessible to both theory and experiments. As such, we suggest a way to directly assess the MCA modifications at molecule-decorated surfaces, overcoming the limitations of experimental studies that rely on fits of magnetization hysteresis loops. Finally, we also study the interface between Co and both C$_{60}$ and Alq$_3$, two molecules that find widespread use in organic spintronics. We show that the modification of the surface Co MCA is similar upon adsorption of these two molecules, thereby confirming the results of recent experiments.
description: 10 figures in main text and 3 in the SM, 20 pages
Monte Carlo Glauber wounded nucleon model with meson cloud
Creators: name: Zakharov, B. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of the nucleon meson cloud on predictions of the Monte Carlo Glauber wounded nucleon model for $AA$, $pA$, and $pp$ collisions. From the analysis of the data on the charged multiplicity density in $AA$ collisions we find that the meson-baryon Fock component reduces the required fraction of binary collisions by a factor of $\sim 2$ for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s}=0.2$ TeV and $\sim 1.5$ for Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s}=2.76$ TeV. For central $AA$ collisions the meson cloud can increase the multiplicity density by $\sim 16-18$\%. We give predictions for the midrapidity charged multiplicity density in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ TeV for the future LHC run 2. We find that the meson cloud has a weak effect on the centrality dependence of the ellipticity $ε_2$ in $AA$ collisions. For collisions of the deformed uranium nuclei at $\sqrt{s}=0.2$ TeV we find that the meson cloud may improve somewhat agreement with the data on the dependence of the elliptic flow on the charged multiplicity for very small centralities defined via the ZDCs signals. We find that the meson cloud may lead to a noticeable reduction of $ε_2$ and the size of the fireball in $pA$ and $pp$ collisions.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures
A Profile Analysis of Raman-scattered O VI Bands at 6825 Å and 7082 Å in Sanduleak's Star
Creators: name: Heo, Jeong-Eun
name: Angeloni, Rodolfo
name: Di Mille, Francesco
name: Palma, Tali
name: Lee, Hee-Won
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed modeling of the two broad bands observed at 6825 Å and 7082 Å in Sanduleak's star, a controversial object in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These bands are known to originate from Raman-scattering of O VI $λλ$ 1032 and 1038 photons with atomic hydrogen and are only observed in bona fide symbiotic stars. Our high-resolution spectrum obtained with the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) spectrograph at the Magellan-Clay Telescope reveals, quite surprisingly, that the profiles of the two bands look very different: while the Raman 6825 Å band shows a single broad profile with a redward extended bump, the Raman 7082 Å band exhibits a distinct triple-peak profile. Our model suggests that the O VI emission nebula can be decomposed into a red, blue and central emission regions from an accretion disk, a bipolar outflow and a further compact, optically thick region. We also perform Monte Carlo simulations with the aim of fitting the observed flux ratio $F(6825)/F(7082) \sim 4.5$, which indicate that the neutral region in Sanduleak's star is characterized by the column density $N_{HI} \sim 1 \times 10^{23} {\rm\ cm^{-2}}$.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
A Model-driven Approach for Continuous Performance Engineering in Microservice-based Systems
Creators: name: Cortellessa, Vittorio
name: Di Pompeo, Daniele
name: Eramo, Romina
name: Tucci, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Microservices are quite widely impacting on the software industry in recent years. Rapid evolution and continuous deployment represent specific benefits of microservice-based systems, but they may have a significant impact on non-functional properties like performance. Despite the obvious relevance of this property, there is still a lack of systematic approaches that explicitly take into account performance issues in the lifecycle of microservice-based systems. In such a context of evolution and re-deployment, Model-Driven Engineering techniques can provide major support to various software engineering activities, and in particular they can allow managing the relationships between a running system and its architectural model. In this paper, we propose a model-driven integrated approach that exploits traceability relationships between the monitored data of a microservice-based running system and its architectural model to derive recommended refactoring actions that lead to performance improvement. The approach has been applied and validated on two microservice-based systems, in the domain of e-commerce and ticket reservation, respectively, whose architectural models have been designed in UML profiled with MARTE.
An interferometric view of binary stars
Creators: name: Boffin, Henri M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of binary stars is critical to apprehend many of the most interesting classes of stars. Moreover, quite often, the study of stars in binary systems is our only mean to constrain stellar properties, such as masses and radii. Unfortunately, a great fraction of the most interesting binaries are so compact that they can only be apprehended by high-resolution techniques, mostly by interferometry. I present some results highlighting the use of interferometry in the study of binary stars, from finding companions and deriving orbits, determining the mass and radius of stars, to studying mass transfer in symbiotic stars, and tackling luminous blue variables. In particular, I show how interferometric studies using the PIONIER instrument have allowed us to confirm a dichotomy within symbiotic stars, obtain masses of stars with a precision better than 1%, and help us find a new Eta Carinae-like system. I will also illustrate the benefits for the study of binary stars one would get from upgrading the VLT Interferometer so as to be able to observe in the visible range.
description: Paper 9907-135 presented at SPIE 2016
GIUSTO COMPROMESSO: Il rapporto tra alimentazione e ambiente
Creators: name: De Bellis, Lisa
name: Favaro, Enrica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: alimentazione, ambiente, clima

description: La crisi climatica . sicuramente una delle sfide pi. difficili che l’uomo abbia mai dovuto affrontare. La Commissione EAT-Lancet riferisce che, nonostante la produzione alimentare abbia cercato di tenere il passo con la crescita della popolazione, più di 820 milioni di persone non riescono a raggiungere i loro fabbisogni alimentari giornalieri, mentre un numero ancora pi. elevato di individui consuma diete di bassa qualità che causano carenze di micronutrienti e contribuiscono a un aumento dell'incidenza dell'obesità (1). Siamo quasi a un punto di non ritorno e ora necessitiamo di un cambiamento concreto perché c’è la possibilità che non vengano soddisfatti gli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell’ONU e l’Accordo di Parigi, che riassumendo si propongono di mantenere il riscaldamento globale ben al di sotto dei 2°C, aspirando a 1,5°. E cosa succede se non si soddisfano questi obiettivi? Continua a leggere
Eccentricity distribution in the main asteroid belt
Creators: name: Malhotra, Renu
name: Wang, Xianyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observationally complete sample of the main belt asteroids now spans more than two orders of magnitude in size and numbers more than 64,000 (excluding collisional family members). We undertook an analysis of asteroids' eccentricities and their interpretation with simple physical models. We find that Plummer's (1916) conclusion that the asteroids' eccentricities follow a Rayleigh distribution holds for the osculating eccentricities of large asteroids, but the proper eccentricities deviate from a Rayleigh distribution: there is a deficit of eccentricities smaller than $\sim0.1$ and an excess of larger eccentricities. We further find that the proper eccentricities do not depend significantly on asteroid size but have strong dependence on heliocentric distance: the outer asteroid belt follows a Rayleigh distribution, but the inner belt is strikingly different. Eccentricities in the inner belt can be modeled as a vector sum of a primordial eccentricity vector of random orientation and magnitude drawn from a Rayleigh distribution of parameter $\sim0.06$, and an excitation of random phase and magnitude $\sim0.13$. These results imply that a late dynamical excitation of the asteroids occurred, it was independent of asteroid size, it was stronger in the inner belt than in the outer belt. We discuss implications for the primordial asteroid belt and suggest that the observationally complete sample size of main belt asteroids is large enough that more sophisticated model-fitting of the eccentricities is warranted and could serve to test alternative theoretical models of the dynamical excitation history of asteroids and its links to the migration history of the giant planets.
description: 10 pages. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Robustness of point measurements of carbon dioxide concentration for the inference of ventilation rates in a wintertime classroom
Creators: name: Vouriot, Carolanne V. M.
name: van Reeuwijk, Maarten
name: Burridge, Henry C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Indoor air quality in schools and classrooms is paramount for the health and well-being of pupils and staff. CO2 monitors offer a cost-effective way to assess and manage ventilation provision. However, often only a single point measurement is available which might not be representative of the CO2 distribution within the room. A relatively generic UK classroom in wintertime is simulated using CFD. The natural ventilation provision is driven by buoyancy through high- and low-level openings in both an opposite-ended or single-ended configuration, in which only the horizontal location of the high-level vent is modified. CO2 is modelled as a passive scalar and is shown not to be `well-mixed' within the space. Perhaps surprisingly, the single-ended configuration leads to a `more efficient' ventilation, with lower average CO2 concentration. Measurements taken near the walls, often the location of CO2 monitors, are compared with those made throughout the classroom and found to be more representative of the ventilation rate if made above the breathing zone. These findings are robust with respect to ventilation flow rates and to the flow patterns observed, which were tested by varying the effective vent areas and the ratio of the vent areas.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures, details added, section moved to the appendix
Unlocking the Power of Data Reuse: Insights and Testimonials
Creators: name: Choueiki, Ziad
name: Neyens, Evy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This session aimed to provide participants with an informative experience, focusing on the benefits of data reuse. Attendees had the opportunity to enjoy a poster and one of several video testimonials highlighting the advantages of sharing data. The poster specifically depicted the impact of publicly sharing SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing data through open data platforms and repositories, emphasizing its positive effect on the speed of vaccine development. Additionally, the videos featured researchers sharing their personal experiences and the individual benefits they gained from sharing data, particularly in terms of advancing their careers
Socio-economic factors affecting the adoption of GHG emission abatement practices; the case of spring slurry spreading
Creators: name: Tzemi, Domna
name: Breen, James Patrick
name: Tzemi, Domna
name: Breen, James Patrick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: probit model
subject: technology adoption
subject: dairy farmers

description: The agricultural sector in Ireland contributes almost 33% of Ireland’s total Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions with dairy cows and beef cattle being the biggest source of these emissions (EPA, 2016). Several studies exist indicating that changing the timing of slurry spreading from summer to early spring, would reduce the levels of ammonia emissions (Lalor and Schulte, 2008; Stettler et al., 2003). A knowledge gap, however, exists on the extent to which Irish farmers would be willing to change the time they spread slurry. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the influence of selected personal, farm and economic characteristics on farmers’ willingness to spread most of their slurry in early spring. In order to achieve that a binary probit model was used. The results showed that 50% of slurry spread in early spring in Ireland was positively influenced by advisory contact, investment in machinery per hectare and profitability of the farm. While off-farm income and the date farmers turn their cows out to grass had a significant negative effect. The findings of this study could assist advisors and policy makers in relation to the adoption of new practices by farmers.
Site Form, Site 28BU959
Creators: name: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Air Force Base
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 28-BU-959
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/127974/28-bu-959
subject: Wells
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/4575/wells
subject: Footer Foundation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169773/footer-foundation
subject: Twentieth
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169758/twentieth
subject: Farmstead
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135027/farmstead
subject: Pemberton
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169235/pemberton
subject: Depression
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/24147/depression
subject: Cellar
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/25893/cellar

description: Initial New Jersey Site Registration Form.
Adjustable Elasticity of Anatomically Shaped Lattice Bone Scaffold Built by Electron Beam Melting Ti6Al4V Powder
Creators: name: Stojković, Jelena R.
name: Stojković, Miloš
name: Turudija, Rajko
name: Aranđelović, Jovan
name: Marinkovic, Dragan
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: titanium alloy
subject: lattice structure
subject: EBM
subject: bone tissue scaffold
subject: compression

description: This study investigates the elasticity of specific lattice structures made from titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V), namely, anatomically shaped lattice scaffolds (ASLS) aimed for reinforcement of the bone tissue graft that substitute a missing piece of the previously injured bone during its recovery. ASLSs that were used for testing were fabricated using the Electron Beam Melting (EBM) method. The mechanical properties of the ASLS were examined through uniaxial compression tests. Compression testing revealed the complex non-linear behavior of the scaffold structure’s elasticity, with distinct compression stages and deformation dependencies. The ASLS structures exhibited quasi-elastic deformation followed by the rupture of individual struts. Results demonstrate that the ASLSs can be stiffened by applying appropriate compression load and accordingly achieve the target elasticity of the structure for the specific load range. The modulus of elasticity was determined for different compression stages of ASLS, allowing interpolation of the functional relation between the modulus of elasticity and compressive force that is used for stiffening the ASLS. This study enhances the understanding of the mechanical behavior of the specific lattice structures made of Ti6Al4V and provides insights for the development of mechanically optimized anatomically shaped lattice scaffolds.
Enhancement of Terahertz Photoconductive Antennas and Photomixers Operation by Optical Nanoantennas
Creators: name: Lepeshov, Sergey I.
name: Gorodetsky, Andrei
name: Krasnok, Alexander E.
name: Rafailov, Edik U.
name: Belov, Pavel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoconductive antennas and photomixers are very promising sources of terahertz radiation that is widely used for spectroscopy, characterisation and imaging of biological objects, deep space studies, scanning of surfaces and detection of potentially hazardous substances. These antennas are compact and allow generation of both ultrabroadband pulse and tunable continuous wave terahertz signal at room temperatures, without a need of high-power optical sources. However, such antennas have relatively low energy conversion efficiency of femtosecond laser pulses or two close pump wavelengths (photomixer) into the pulsed and continuous terahertz radiation, correspondingly. Recently, an approach to solving this problem has been proposed, that involves known methods of nanophotonics applied to terahertz photoconductive antennas and photomixers. This approach comprises the use of optical nanoantennas for enhancing the efficiency of pump laser radiation absorption in the antenna gap, reducing the lifetime of photoexcited carriers, and improving antenna thermal efficiency. This Review is intended to systematise all the results obtained by researchers in this promising field of hybrid optical-to-terahertz photoconductive antennas and photomixers.
The Curious Case of the PDF Converter that Likes Mozart: Dissecting and Mitigating the Privacy Risk of Personal Cloud Apps
Creators: name: Harkous, Hamza
name: Rahman, Rameez
name: Karlas, Bojan
name: Aberer, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Third party apps that work on top of personal cloud services such as Google Drive and Dropbox, require access to the user's data in order to provide some functionality. Through detailed analysis of a hundred popular Google Drive apps from Google's Chrome store, we discover that the existing permission model is quite often misused: around two thirds of analyzed apps are over-privileged, i.e., they access more data than is needed for them to function. In this work, we analyze three different permission models that aim to discourage users from installing over-privileged apps. In experiments with 210 real users, we discover that the most successful permission model is our novel ensemble method that we call Far-reaching Insights. Far-reaching Insights inform the users about the data-driven insights that apps can make about them (e.g., their topics of interest, collaboration and activity patterns etc.) Thus, they seek to bridge the gap between what third parties can actually know about users and users perception of their privacy leakage. The efficacy of Far-reaching Insights in bridging this gap is demonstrated by our results, as Far-reaching Insights prove to be, on average, twice as effective as the current model in discouraging users from installing over-privileged apps. In an effort for promoting general privacy awareness, we deploy a publicly available privacy oriented app store that uses Far-reaching Insights. Based on the knowledge extracted from data of the store's users (over 115 gigabytes of Google Drive data from 1440 users with 662 installed apps), we also delineate the ecosystem for third-party cloud apps from the standpoint of developers and cloud providers. Finally, we present several general recommendations that can guide other future works in the area of privacy for the cloud.
Measurement of the radius dependence of charged-particle jet suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ALICE Collaboration reports a differential measurement of inclusive jet suppression using pp and Pb$-$Pb collision data at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon collision $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV. Charged-particle jets are reconstructed using the anti-$k_{\rm T}$ algorithm with resolution parameters $R =$ 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6 in pp collisions and $R =$ 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 in central (0$-$10%), semi-central (30$-$50%), and peripheral (60$-$80%) Pb$-$Pb collisions. A novel approach based on machine learning is employed to mitigate the influence of jet background. This enables measurements of inclusive jet suppression in new regions of phase space, including down to the lowest jet $p_{\rm T} \geq 40$ GeV/$c$ at $R = 0.6$ in central Pb$-$Pb collisions. This is an important step for discriminating different models of jet quenching in the quark-gluon plasma. The transverse momentum spectra, nuclear modification factors, derived cross section, and nuclear modification factor ratios for different jet resolution parameters of charged-particle jets are presented and compared to model predictions. A mild dependence of the nuclear modification factor ratios on collision centrality and resolution parameter is observed. The results are compared to a variety of jet-quenching models with varying levels of agreement.
description: 35 pages, 9 captioned figures, 3 tables, authors from page 30, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/9094
Absorption and Photoluminescence in Organic Cavity QED
Creators: name: Herrera, Felipe
name: Spano, Frank C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Organic microcavities can be engineered to reach exotic quantum regimes of strong and ultrastrong light-matter coupling. However, the microscopic interpretation of their spectroscopic signals can be challenging due to the competition between coherent and dissipative processes involving electrons, vibrations and cavity photons. We develop here a theoretical framework based on the Holstein-Tavis-Cummings model and a Markovian treatment of dissipation to account for previously unexplained spectroscopic features of organic microcavities consistently. We identify conditions for the formation of dark vibronic polaritons, a new class of light-matter excitations that are not visible in absorption but lead to strong photoluminescence lines. We show that photon leakage from dark vibronic polaritons can be responsible for enhancing photoluminescence at the lower polariton frequency, and also explain the apparent breakdown of reciprocity between absorption and emission in the vicinity of the bare molecular transition frequency. Successful comparison with experimental data demonstrates the applicability of our theory.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures
Are farming companies emerging from non-agricultural sector better managed than conventional farms in Japan?
Creators: name: Kinoshita, Yukio
name: Kimura, Nobuo
name: Kinoshita, Yukio
name: Kimura, Nobuo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: entry of non-agricultural companies
subject: modernisation of management
subject: farm management styles
subject: managerial capabilities
subject: farm business growth

description: Conventional Japanese farmers have faced a longstanding challenge in adapting to a changing business environment. While the deregulation of the Agricultural Land Act in 2009 has led to the entry of companies from the non-agricultural sector into agriculture, another reason seems to be the general capitalisation of the agricultural industry into the wider economy. However, few management studies have analysed these new companies. An important question is whether the corporatisation of farm business is accompanied by the modernisation of farm management techniques. Our study examines crop-farming companies and compares farm management styles of these newly emerging farming entities with those of family-farmbased entities. It is based on 124 questionnaire responses from a sample of 577 posted in 2016. The questions covered human and organisational factors, as well as operational factors. We find no notable advantages in the way companies are managed. Probably because of their inexperience and low dependence on the farming business in terms of sales, our comparison highlights improvements that they need to make for further modernisation of farm management. Both types of entities face similar challenges in raising managerial capabilities.
Low Frequency Carbon Radio Recombination Lines II: The Diffuse Interstellar Medium
Creators: name: Salgado, F.
name: Morabito, L. K.
name: Oonk, J. B. R.
name: Salas, P.
name: Toribio, M. C.
name: Rottgering, H. J. A.
name: Tielens, A. G. G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the second paper of the series, we have modeled low frequency carbon radio recombination lines (CRRL) from the interstellar medium. Anticipating the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) survey of Galactic CRRLs, we focus our study on the physical conditions of the diffuse cold neutral medium (CNM). We have used the improved departure coefficients computed in the first paper of the series to calculate line-to-continuum ratios. The results show that the line width and integrated optical depths of CRRL are sensitive probes of the electron density, gas temperature, and the emission measure of the cloud. Furthermore, the ratio of CRRL to the [CII] at 158 $μ$m line is a strong function of the temperature and density of diffuse clouds. Guided by our calculations, we analyze CRRL observations and illustrate their use with data from the literature.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Stochastic inference with spiking neurons in the high-conductance state
Creators: name: Petrovici, Mihai A.
name: Bill, Johannes
name: Bytschok, Ilja
name: Schemmel, Johannes
name: Meier, Karlheinz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The highly variable dynamics of neocortical circuits observed in vivo have been hypothesized to represent a signature of ongoing stochastic inference but stand in apparent contrast to the deterministic response of neurons measured in vitro. Based on a propagation of the membrane autocorrelation across spike bursts, we provide an analytical derivation of the neural activation function that holds for a large parameter space, including the high-conductance state. On this basis, we show how an ensemble of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with conductance-based synapses embedded in a spiking environment can attain the correct firing statistics for sampling from a well-defined target distribution. For recurrent networks, we examine convergence toward stationarity in computer simulations and demonstrate sample-based Bayesian inference in a mixed graphical model. This points to a new computational role of high-conductance states and establishes a rigorous link between deterministic neuron models and functional stochastic dynamics on the network level.
Human dynamics and the intergenerational farm transfer process in later life: A roadmap for future generational renewal in agriculture policy
Creators: name: Conway, Shane Francis
name: McDonagh, John
name: Farrell, Maura
name: Kinsella, Anne
name: Conway, Shane Francis
name: McDonagh, John
name: Farrell, Maura
name: Kinsella, Anne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: generational renewal
subject: family farming
subject: succession
subject: retirement
subject: land mobility

description: The senior generation’s reluctance and indeed resistance to alter the status quo of the existing management and ownership structure of their family farm is undoubtedly strong within the farming community. This phenomenon has resulted in extraordinary socio-economic challenges for young people aspiring to embark on a career in farming. The reasons why older farmers fail to plan effectively and expeditiously for the future are expansive, and range from the potential loss of identity, status and power that may occur as a result of engaging in the process, to the intrinsic multi-level relationship farmers have with their farms. These so-called ‘soft issues’ i.e. the emotional and social dimensions involved, are the issues that distort and dominate the older generation’s decisions on the future trajectory of the farm. These really are the ‘hard issues’. This paper draws on three interrelated journal articles exploring the complex human dynamics influencing the decision-making processes surrounding farm succession and retirement to put forth a series of recommendations that sensitively deal with problematic issues surrounding generational renewal in agriculture, whilst also ensuring farmers’ emotional wellbeing in later life.
MAWA-HPC: Modular and Automated Workload Analysis for HPC Systems
Creators: name: Zhu, Zhaobin
name: Bartelheimer, Niklas
name: Neuwirth, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Given the complexity of modern HPC systems, achieving theoretical peak performance depends on a myriad of parameters and system configurations. In order to optimize the system performance and efficiently use the underlying resources, various methods can be applied, including simulation, benchmarking, and monitoring. However, these methods and the tools are not compatible with each other and only consider a selection of performance factors such network, I/O, resource allocation, or parallel execution. Yet, each of these approaches generate knowledge that can be applied to similar problems or system configurations. To avoid that such knowledge is collected only for one-time purposes, and to also support other users, this knowledge must be easily accessible and available to the community. The MAWA-HPC (Modular and Automated Workload Analysis for HPC Systems) project aims to develop a generic workflow and tool suite that can be applied to different use cases and workloads from different science domains. Through its modular design, the workflow is able to support various community tools, increasing the compatibility of each tool and covering new use cases. In this poster, we present the high-level system design of MAWA-HPC and its current prototype implementation. By extending the prototype with the support for additional monitoring and profiling tools, node-level performance engineering tools, network benchmarks, and microbenchmarks for different parallel programming models, we also introduce a multi-dimensional Roofline model. Including time as a third dimension, the Roofline model can provide insight into an application's performance over time, enabling the identification and understanding of performance anomalies.
Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of braid matroids
Creators: name: Ferroni, Luis
name: Larson, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide a combinatorial interpretation of the Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomial of the matroid arising from the braid arrangement of type $\mathrm{A}_{n-1}$, which gives an interpretation of the intersection cohomology Betti numbers of the reciprocal plane of the braid arrangement. Moreover, we prove an equivariant version of this result. The key combinatorial object is a class of matroids arising from series-parallel networks. As a consequence, we prove a conjecture of Elias, Proudfoot, and Wakefield on the top coefficient of Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of braid matroids, and we provide explicit generating functions for their Kazhdan--Lusztig and $Z$-polynomials.
description: 15 pages. Final version, to appear in Communications of the American Mathematical Society
Children of Odin
Creators: name: Speight, E. E. (Ernest Edwin)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fairy tales
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/919916
subject: Mythology
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1031701
subject: Odin (Norse deity)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1043872
subject: Gods, Norse
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/944290
subject: Mythology, Germanic
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1031795
subject: Mythology, Norse
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1031869
subject: Eddas
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902400

description: Ernest Edwin Speight (6 December, 1871 - 17 September, 1949) was an author and English professor who spent most of his life teaching English in India and Japan. He also wrote and edited textbooks such as "Children of Odin" (1901) as well as English language textbooks. In 1918 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Fifth Class, in recognition of his teaching work at the Imperial University in Tokyo and the Fourth Higher School in Kanazawa. Disambiguation Note: "Children of Odin" (1901) by E. E. Speight is often confused with Padriac Colum’s "The Children of Odin" (1920). "Children of Odin" (1901) is a selection of retellings that begins with mythological material from the Icelandic "Eddas" and episodes from Icelandic sagas, and then moves on to Germanic mythology with “The Story of the Necken,” followed by the Norwegian fairy tale “The White Bear and the Trolls,” and concludes with the Norwegian poem “The Elf Dance.” Colum’s "The Children of Odin", on the other hand, is a retelling of Norse mythology from start to finish. The title of Speight’s book refers to “the people of [the] northern countries…the children of Odin themselves” (Preface 7), while the title of Colum’s book refers to the Norse gods that Odin was said to have fathered. Early Print Review: The "Saga-Book" reviewer A.F.M. wrote a generally positive review of Speight’s "Children of Odin". However, he added that “we cannot regard [the illustrations] as a merit, for the artist, whose name is not given, has evidently little acquaintance with Northern literature, and has read the letterpress very hurriedly and carelessly" ("Saga-Book" III of the Viking Club 1903 491). Dr. P. A. Baer For more information and further resources please refer to My Norse Digital Image Repository (https://myndir.uvic.ca/)
Deliverable 2.2: Manuscript preparation of joint research publications
Creators: name: Earl, Julie
name: Gabelova, Alena
name: Bozena Smolkova
name: Siposova, Tatiana
name: Kataki, Agapi
name: Dusinska, Maria
name: Carrato, Alfredo
name: Bermejo, María Laura Garcia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Project management
Horizon 2020 projects

description: Several joint research publications were generated and submitted to peer-reviewed journals during the VISION project as a result of close collaboration among the consortium partners. In each publication, the authors acknowledged the VISION project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 857381. In all cases, the consortium opted for golden open-access journals, or those free of charge with online access for any user. In total, 26 publications have been published and several others are under revision or evaluation.
 All publications are available at the VISION website - http://vision.sav.sk/publications.html The open access to these publications, as well as other project outputs, is also granted in the ZENODO repository, in the community “VISION H2020 Project” - https://www.zenodo.org/communities/vision-h2020/?page=1&size=20 .
LINGUISTIC AND EXTRA-LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF CINEMA DISCOURSE
Creators: name: Ollomurodov, Arjunbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Cinematography is one of the most influential means of mass communication. This unique cultural phenomenon is characterised by rapid development, global distribution and impact on the audience worldwide. This article will investigate about linguistic and extra-linguistic features of Cinema discourse by analyzing these factors in “Gone with the wind”.
Exploiting Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Interference Channels with SWIPT
Creators: name: Gao, Ying
name: Wu, Qingqing
name: Chen, Wen
name: Wu, Celimuge
name: Ng, Derrick Wing Kwan
name: Al-Dhahir, Naofal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper considers intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) interference channel (IFC), where multiple transmitters (Txs) serve their corresponding receivers (Rxs) in a shared spectrum with the aid of IRSs. Our goal is to maximize the sum rate of the Rxs by jointly optimizing the transmit covariance matrices at the Txs, the phase shifts at the IRSs, and the resource allocation subject to the individual energy harvesting (EH) constraints at the Rxs. Towards this goal and based on the well-known power splitting (PS) and time switching (TS) receiver structures, we consider three practical transmission schemes, namely the IRS-aided hybrid TS-PS scheme, the IRS-aided time-division multiple access (TDMA) scheme, and the IRS-aided TDMA-D scheme. The latter two schemes differ in whether the Txs employ deterministic energy signals known to all the Rxs. Despite the non-convexity of the three optimization problems corresponding to the three transmission schemes, we develop computationally efficient algorithms to address them suboptimally, respectively, by capitalizing on the techniques of alternating optimization (AO) and successive convex approximation (SCA). Moreover, we conceive feasibility checking methods for these problems, based on which the initial points for the proposed algorithms are constructed. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed IRS-aided schemes significantly outperform their counterparts without IRSs in terms of sum rate and maximum EH requirements that can be satisfied under various setups. In addition, the IRS-aided hybrid TS-PS scheme generally achieves the best sum rate performance among the three proposed IRS-aided schemes, and if not, increasing the number of IRS elements can always accomplish it.
description: 30 pages, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Ion Beam radiation and temperature effect on Co/Si and CoO/Co/Si thin films
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Co and CoO thin films were deposited by magnetron sputtering in the form of multilayers. They were irradiated with Ar and Si ion beams of different energies and fluences. The magnetic properties were investigated.