cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Surveillance Expansion in China: Beyond Total Surveillance
Creators: name: Bernotaite, Ausma
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: surveillance
subject: China
subject: public security
subject: surveillance expansion paradigm

description: This thesis examines the interrelationship between political ideology and surveillance technologies across China's public security apparatus. I investigate how the need of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for societal stability informs its use of technology, and how technical possibilities, in turn, drive Party-state ideology and surveillance growth. Focusing on an authoritarian state such as China provides us with the best available opportunity to understand what political, social, and technological factors promote rapid and comprehensive surveillance expansion. I interrogate the expansion of surveillance in China by asking: How do technological, political, and social factors contribute to the expansion of surveillance in China today? To answer this key research question, I use a multi-case study methodology that considers the Golden Shield [...], Police Cloud [...], three core types of public security biometrics and the grid management system [...]. The theoretical springboard of this thesis was James Rule's 1973 book Private Lives, Public Surveillance. Rule's manuscript is a theoretical contribution to studying the growth and totalisation of surveillance systems, paying particular attention to the form of their expansion. The four studies in this thesis reflect different aspects of China's ambitions to develop digital public security infrastructure from the late 1990s to the 2020s. This thesis includes empirical and conceptual contributions. Empirically, the thesis is the first comprehensive examination of China's four key public security-led surveillance systems and the linkages between them, with a focus on developments during the present Xi Jinping period. Building on a multidisciplinary literature review of surveillance and Chinese studies, a detailed examination of each of these processes investigates how surveillance systems increase in technological reach and ideological objectives. The main conceptual contribution of this thesis to the literature of both surveillance studies and Chinese security studies is an examination of the dynamic and symbiotic relationship between the Chinese Party-state's national security ambitions and the configuration of its national surveillance system. [...]
Using Collective Intelligence to Route Internet Traffic
Creators: name: Wolpert, David H.
name: Tumer, Kagan
name: Frank, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.2.11

description: A COllective INtelligence (COIN) is a set of interacting reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms designed in an automated fashion so that their collective behavior optimizes a global utility function. We summarize the theory of COINs, then present experiments using that theory to design COINs to control internet traffic routing. These experiments indicate that COINs outperform all previously investigated RL-based, shortest path routing algorithms.
description: 7 pages
Additional file 2 of Therapeutic outcome and related predictors of stereotactic body radiotherapy for small liver-confined HCC: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Creators: name: Long, Yanyan
name: Liang, Yan
name: Li, Shujie
name: Guo, Jing
name: Wang, Ying
name: Luo, Yan
name: Wu, Yongzhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Including 3 parts. Part 1: The detailed search query of the PubMed and Cochrane Library databases; Part 2: PICO eligibility criteria; Part 3: The detailed results of normal distribution test.
Efficient verification of Dicke states
Creators: name: Liu, Ye-Chao
name: Yu, Xiao-Dong
name: Shang, Jiangwei
name: Zhu, Huangjun
name: Zhang, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among various multipartite entangled states, Dicke states stand out because their entanglement is maximally persistent and robust under particle losses. Although much attention has been attracted for their potential applications in quantum information processing and foundational studies, the characterization of Dicke states remains as a challenging task in experiments. Here, we propose efficient and practical protocols for verifying arbitrary $n$-qubit Dicke states in both adaptive and nonadaptive ways. Our protocols require only two distinct settings based on Pauli measurements besides permutations of the qubits. To achieve infidelity $ε$ and confidence level $1-δ$, the total number of tests required is only $O(nε^{-1}\lnδ^{-1})$. This performance is exponentially more efficient than all previous protocols based on local measurements, including quantum state tomography and direct fidelity estimation, and is comparable to the best global strategy. Our protocols are readily applicable with current experimental techniques and are able to verify Dicke states of hundreds of qubits.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, close to the published version
Additional file 2: of Acceptability of psychosocial interventions for dementia caregivers: a systematic review
Creators: name: Qiu, Dan
name: Hu, Mi
name: Yu, Yu
name: Tang, Bingwei
name: Xiao, Shuiyuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Quality assessment. (DOCX 29 kb)
Multiple modular symmetries as the origin of flavour
Creators: name: Varzielas, Ivo de Medeiros
name: King, Stephen F.
name: Zhou, Ye-Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a general formalism for multiple moduli and their associated modular symmetries. We apply this formalism to an example based on three moduli with finite modular symmetries $S_4^A$, $S_4^B$ and $S_4^C$, associated with two right-handed neutrinos and the charged lepton sector, respectively. The symmetry is broken by two bi-triplet scalars to the diagonal $S_4$ subgroup. The low energy effective theory involves the three independent moduli fields $τ_A$, $τ_B$ and $τ_C$, which preserve the residual modular subgroups $Z_3^A$, $Z_2^B$ and $Z_3^C$, in their respective sectors, leading to trimaximal TM$_1$ lepton mixing, consistent with current data, without flavons.
description: 31 pages, 1 figure, 6 tables, refs and comments added
O DESENVOLVIMENTO NACIONAL E O PARADIGMA DO RULE OF LAW
Creators: name: KLEBER GIL ZECA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Este artigo visa analisar de que forma o desenvolvimento nacional pode ser alcançado no Brasil e qual a participação do direito e o grau de intervenção estatal na economia para tal desiderato. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, busca-se a correlação entre a ordem econômica e o direito econômico, suas fontes teóricas e fundamentos. Dessa correlação, parte-se para a análise econômica do direito e do desenvolvimento nacional preconizado pela Carta Política brasileira e chega-se até as concepções econômicas do rule of Law. Conclui-se que os ideais neoliberais alienígenas decorrentes de “boas práticas de governança” em países desenvolvidos não podem ser transportados para nosso país sem adaptações à nossa cultura, para que o aparato institucional e as políticas públicas do Estado Social sejam adequados à nossa realidade.
O COMPLIANCE CONSUMERISTA: UTOPIA OU REALIDADE UMA ANÁLISE DO CÓDIGO DE ÉTICA DO WALLMART
Creators: name: JULIANO DEFFUNE FLENIK
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: O presente trabalho busca através do código de ética do Wallmart, bem como de suas políticas mercantis, traçar um novo paradigma da atividade empresarial, seja esta a chamada empresa cidadã. Nesse novo contexto empresarial, o modelo buscado visa à conglobancia da atividade empresarial aliadas à valores intrínsecos e comportamentos extrínsecos que envolvam esse novo papel empresarial afim de consecução de protagonismo social da empresa, e sobretudo a defesa do consumidor.
General Principles of Learning-Based Multi-Agent Systems
Creators: name: Wolpert, David H.
name: Wheeler, Kevin R.
name: Tumer, Kagan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: I.2.6 ; I.2.11

description: We consider the problem of how to design large decentralized multi-agent systems (MAS's) in an automated fashion, with little or no hand-tuning. Our approach has each agent run a reinforcement learning algorithm. This converts the problem into one of how to automatically set/update the reward functions for each of the agents so that the global goal is achieved. In particular we do not want the agents to ``work at cross-purposes'' as far as the global goal is concerned. We use the term artificial COllective INtelligence (COIN) to refer to systems that embody solutions to this problem. In this paper we present a summary of a mathematical framework for COINs. We then investigate the real-world applicability of the core concepts of that framework via two computer experiments: we show that our COINs perform near optimally in a difficult variant of Arthur's bar problem (and in particular avoid the tragedy of the commons for that problem), and we also illustrate optimal performance for our COINs in the leader-follower problem.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
High-Order Variational Calculation for the Frequency of Time-Periodic Solutions
Creators: name: Pelster, Axel
name: Kleinert, Hagen
name: Schanz, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a convergent variational perturbation theory for the frequency of time-periodic solutions of nonlinear dynamical systems. The power of the theory is illustrated by applying it to the Duffing oscillator.
description: Author Information under http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~pelster/, http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/ and http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/personen/schanz.html
Additional file 1 of PCSK9 inhibitor recaticimab for hypercholesterolemia on stable statin dose: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1b/2 study
Creators: name: Xu, Mingtong
name: Zhu, Xiaoxue
name: Wu, Junyan
name: Zhang, Yuling
name: Zhao, Dong
name: Wang, Xuhong
name: Ding, Yanhua
name: Cao, Yu
name: Li, Chengqian
name: Hu, Wei
name: Sheng, Jianlong
name: Luo, Zhu
name: Zheng, Zeqi
name: Hu, Jinfang
name: Liu, Jianying
name: Zhou, Xiaoyang
name: Shen, Aizong
name: Ding, Xiaomei
name: Zhang, Yongdong
name: Zhao, Yonggang
name: Li, Yijing
name: Zhong, Sheng
name: An, Shimin
name: Zou, Jianjun
name: Yan, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Study design. Figure S2. Percentage change in TC during treatment. Figure S3. Percentage change in non-HDL-C during treatment. Figure S4. Percentage change in ApoB during treatment. Figure S5. Percentage change in Lp(a) during treatment. Figure S6. Percentage change in HDL-C during treatment. Figure S7. Percentage change in TG during treatment. Figure S8. Percentage change in ApoA1 during treatment. Figure S9. Percentage change in free PCSK9 during treatment. Figure S10. Serum concentration-time profile of recaticimab. Figure S11. Serum exposure of recaticimab after the first dose (A) and last dose (B) according to the presence or absence of ADAs. Table S1. Baseline characteristics of patients. Table S2. Moderate or severe treatment-emergent adverse events in recaticimab groups. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
The kinetic exclusion process: a tale of two fields
Creators: name: Gutiérrez-Ariza, C.
name: Hurtado, P. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a general class of stochastic lattice gas models, and derive their fluctuating hydrodynamics description in the large size limit under a local equilibrium hypothesis. The model consists in energetic particles on a lattice subject to exclusion interactions, which move and collide stochastically with energy-dependent rates. The resulting fluctuating hydrodynamics equations exhibit nonlinear coupled particle and energy transport, including particle currents due to temperature gradients (Soret effect) and energy flow due to concentration gradients (Dufour effect). The microscopic dynamical complexity is condensed in just two matrices of transport coefficients: the diffusivity matrix (or equivalently the Onsager matrix) generalizing Fick-Fourier's law, and the mobility matrix controlling current fluctuations. Both transport coefficients are coupled via a fluctuation-dissipation theorem, suggesting that the noise terms affecting the local currents have Gaussian properties. We further prove the positivity of entropy production in terms of the microscopic dynamics. The so-called kinetic exclusion process has as limiting cases two of the most paradigmatic models of nonequilibrium physics, namely the symmetric simple exclusion process of particle diffusion and the Kipnis-Marchioro-Presutti model of heat flow, making it the ideal testbed where to further develop modern theories of nonequilibrium behavior.
description: 21 pages, 1 fig
Onycholabis pedulangulus Liang and Imura 2003
Creators: name: Liang, Hongbin
name: Kavanaugh, David H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Onycholabis
Onycholabis pedulangulus

description: Onycholabis pedulangulus Liang and Imura, 2003:688 (China, Vietnam, Laos).
 Specimens Examined. Total 83 specimens; for 73 types, refer to Liang and Imura (2003); additional specimens: CHINA: Yunnan Province, 5 males and 5 females (IOZ, CAS), ‘‘ China, Yunnan Province, Tengchong, Wuhe Town, Longjiangqiao, riverside, 24853956.00N, 98840936.10E’’/‘‘ 1,215 m, 2003.10.28, Liang H. B., Shi X. C. coll. Institute of Zool., CAS and California Acad. Sciences’ ’.
 Description. See Liang and Imura (2003).
 Distribution. Known from Laos, Vietnam, and China.
 Remarks. Adults of this species have been found on river banks and on the walls of roadside drainage ditches.
description: Published as part of Liang, Hongbin & Kavanaugh, David H., 2005, A Review of Genus Onycholabis Bates (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini), with Description of a New Species from Western Yunnan, China, pp. 507-520 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 59 (4) on page 512, DOI: 10.1649/837.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10105842
O ESTADO DE BEM-ESTAR SOCIAL NO BRASIL
Creators: name: CARINA PESCAROLO
name: SORAIA PAULINO MARCHI
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: O presente artigo tem por finalidade analisar com base na pesquisa bibliográfica se é aplicável o Estado de bem-estar social no Brasil e se pode ser efetivo. Discorre sobre como se originaram o Estado liberal (burguês) e o Estado social ou de providência (intervencionista), posicionando-os na história, tanto das revoluções quanto das crises que os embasaram, traçando seus conceitos, características, aplicação e crises. Buscar demonstrar o contexto histórico, com base nas Constituições brasileiras, desde a imperial de 1824 até a democrática de 1988, a origem do Estado de bem-estar social no Brasil, até que ponto tem respaldo para ser aplicado, se pode ser efetivo ou não.
Using Terminological Knowledge Representation Languages to Manage Linguistic Resources
Creators: name: Jordan, Pamela W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: I examine how terminological languages can be used to manage linguistic data during NL research and development. In particular, I consider the lexical semantics task of characterizing semantic verb classes and show how the language can be extended to flag inconsistencies in verb class definitions, identify the need for new verb classes, and identify appropriate linguistic hypotheses for a new verb's behavior.
description: 3 pages, ACL96 Student Session, uses aclap.sty
Flaw Selection Strategies for Partial-Order Planning
Creators: name: Pollack, M. E.
name: Joslin, D.
name: Paolucci, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Several recent studies have compared the relative efficiency of alternative flaw selection strategies for partial-order causal link (POCL) planning. We review this literature, and present new experimental results that generalize the earlier work and explain some of the discrepancies in it. In particular, we describe the Least-Cost Flaw Repair (LCFR) strategy developed and analyzed by Joslin and Pollack (1994), and compare it with other strategies, including Gerevini and Schubert's (1996) ZLIFO strategy. LCFR and ZLIFO make very different, and apparently conflicting claims about the most effective way to reduce search-space size in POCL planning. We resolve this conflict, arguing that much of the benefit that Gerevini and Schubert ascribe to the LIFO component of their ZLIFO strategy is better attributed to other causes. We show that for many problems, a strategy that combines least-cost flaw selection with the delay of separable threats will be effective in reducing search-space size, and will do so without excessive computational overhead. Although such a strategy thus provides a good default, we also show that certain domain characteristics may reduce its effectiveness.
description: See http://www.jair.org/ for an online appendix and other files accompanying this article
LIBERDADE DE EXPRESSÃO: DIREITO AO ESQUECIMENTO E JUSTIÇA DE TRANSIÇÃO
Creators: name: GISLENI VALEZI RAYMUNDO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Trata-se de breve abordagem acerca da liberdade de expressão no Estado Democrático de Direito, por meio da qual se objetiva contextualizar as formas dessa espécie de liberdade previstas no ordenamento jurídico, diante de julgamentos do STF, bem como acerca do direito ao esquecimento e o papel do Poder Judiciário nesse mesmo cenário. Diante dessa perspectiva, se insere o atual debate sobre a Justiça de Transição, o direito ao esquecimento, sendo que esse constitui contraposição às facetas daquela, na medida em que encerra a possibilidade de discussão de acontecimentos pretéritos em detrimento da vida privada.
An Extremal Property of the Hexagonal Lattice
Creators: name: Faulhuber, Markus
name: Steinerberger, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an extremal property of the hexagonal lattice $Λ\subset \mathbb{R}^2$. Let $p$ denote the circumcenter of its fundamental triangle (a so-called deep hole) and let $A_r$ denote the set of lattice points that are at distance $r$ from $p$ \begin{equation} A_r = \left\{ λ\in Λ: \| λ- p \| = r\right\}. \end{equation} If $Γ$ is a small perturbation of $Λ$ in the space of lattices with fixed density and $C_r$ denotes the set of points in $A_r$ shifted to the new lattice, then \begin{equation} \sum_{μ\in C_r}{ \| p - μ\|} - \sum_{λ\in A_r}{ \| p - λ\|} \gtrsim r \, |A_r| \, d(Λ, Γ)^2, \end{equation} where $d(Λ, Γ)$ denotes the distance between the lattices: the hexagonal lattice has the property that `far away points are closer than they are for nearby lattices'. This has implications in the calculus of variations: assume \begin{equation} g_Γ(z) = \sum_{γ\in Γ} f( \|z - γ\|) \quad \mbox{ satisfies } \quad \min_{z \in \mathbb{R}^2} g_Λ(z) = g_Λ(p). \end{equation} For a certain class of compactly supported functions $f$, the hexagonal lattice $Λ$ is then a strict local maximizer of \begin{equation} \max_Γ \min_{z \in \mathbb{R}^2} \sum_{γ\in Γ}{f( \|z - γ\| )}, \end{equation} where the maximum runs over all lattices of fixed density.
Set-Theoretic Completeness for Epistemic and Conditional Logic
Creators: name: Halpern, Joseph Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.4; F.4.1

description: The standard approach to logic in the literature in philosophy and mathematics, which has also been adopted in computer science, is to define a language (the syntax), an appropriate class of models together with an interpretation of formulas in the language (the semantics), a collection of axioms and rules of inference characterizing reasoning (the proof theory), and then relate the proof theory to the semantics via soundness and completeness results. Here we consider an approach that is more common in the economics literature, which works purely at the semantic, set-theoretic level. We provide set-theoretic completeness results for a number of epistemic and conditional logics, and contrast the expressive power of the syntactic and set-theoretic approaches
description: This is an expanded version of a paper that appeared in AI and Mathematics, 1998
Tingui: the sickness by exposure to marine aerosols in the Northeast of Brazil
Creators: name: Guennes, Marcella
name: de Melo Júnior, Mauro
name: Melo, Pedro
name: Maida, Mauro
name: Padovani-Ferreira, Beatrice
name: Nascimento, Silvia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: marine aerosol, seasickness, Trichodesmium, Ostreopsis, phytoplankton, tingui, Tamandaré fever

description: On the northeastern coast of Brazil, in Tamandaré Bay and a small fishing village nestled between a cliff and the sea (Lagoa Azeda), a peculiar phenomenon known as tingui has occurred since at least 1943, and likely even earlier. The word tingui originated from the Tupi language, spoken by the region's indigenous  people, and means "liquid of seasickness” or “foamy water”. During   events, individuals exposed to marine aerosols experience symptoms such as respiratory distress, epistaxis, eye irritation, cough, and astenia. In more severe cases, the illness may progress to fever, muscle pain, joint pain; and post-orbital pain.  The tingui phenomenon  occurs during the summer and affects people near the shoreline for two to three days. It is often associated with an unpleasant odour from the sea and may or may not be accompanied by red discoloration and foam in the seawater. The local community of Lagoa Azeda has been aware of tingui for generations. Fishermen traditionammy built houses uphill, where they temporary relocate to avoid illness caused by exposure to marine aerosols.

Despite its historical presence, studies on  the species responsible for tingui and the environmental conditions triggering symptoms in humans remain scarce. However, there is a growing awareness of these events, along with concerns that they may be increasing in frequency and intensity, possibly as a result of environmental changes in the region. Future summers will see efforts to monitor phytoplankton, benthic microalgae, and tingui occurrences to better understand mitigate their impacts.
INTERVENÇÃO ESTATAL NA ATIVIDADE ECONÔMICA: A REGULAÇÃO SOB A ÓTICA DA ECONOMIA E OS DIREITOS FUNDAMENTAIS
Creators: name: JOSÉ RAUL CUBAS JÚNIOR
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: O presente artigo busca descrever a intervenção do Estado na economia à luz dos postulados estabelecidos por economistas membros da Escola Econômica de Chicago [Richard Posner e George Stigler] e da Escola Austríaca de Economia [Ludwig Von Mises] para, ao final, cotejar tais posicionamentos com os comandos insertos na Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil de 1988, em busca de responder se é possível, em nosso país, abolir completamente as medidas de intervenção estatal na economia. Para tanto, o método utilizado é o hipotético-dedutivo, com pesquisa bibliográfica. A principal conclusão alcançada destaca a impossibilidade de abolir as referidas medidas, porquanto também são instrumentos utilizados em favor de efetivar direitos e garantias fundamentais.
The CMS Phase I Pixel Upgrade and Search for ttbar Resonances in Boosted Semileptonic Final States
Creators: name: Chen, Xuan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021

description: The pixel detector is an integral part of the CMS silicon tracker, designed to measure the position and momentum of charged particles produced in high-energy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The phase I upgrade of the CMS forward pixel detector has replaced the previous forward pixel detector in early 2017. In this thesis, I will discuss the testing and qualification procedures for the modules and half cylinders of the CMS Phase I FPIX detector. This thesis also presents a model-independent search for the production of heavy resonances decaying into top-antitop quark pairs using data recorded by the CMS detector in 2018 (integrated luminosity of 58.8 /fb). The analysis focuses on the semi-leptonic decaying channel of the top-antitop quark pair. I focus on events that contain one muon, large missing transverse momentum and at least two high transverse momentum jets, and use special event reconstruction techniques that are optimized for top quarks with high Lorentz boosts.
title: Business Fixed Investment: Some Theoretical Issues and Applications to U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1947-1999
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hong-Oanh
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Investment dynamics
subject: Investment theory
subject: Neoclassical model
subject: Q model

description: This study seeks to make a contribution toward gaining a greater understanding of investment dynamics. The study has two main objectives: (1) to carry out a theoretical analysis of the dynamic behaviour of investment; and (2) to combine two strands of investment theory, dealing with financial constraints and financial development, and to apply the combined model to industry-level data. The study recognises that the neoclassical model represents a major advance from previous theories of investment, as it provides an explanation of how the desired capital stock is determined within a rigorous net-worth maximisation framework. By incorporating a convex adjustment cost function into that framework, the Q model has even greater theoretical appeal, in that it permits an explicit analysis of investment dynamics. However, the Q model generally does not perform well in empirical studies, due partly to a number of problems related to variable Q itself. To achieve the first objective, the dynamic properties of investment are analysed within the framework of a neoclassical model that, like the Q model, incorporates a convex adjustment cost function. However, rather than proceeding through first-order conditions involving the capital stock and its shadow price variable as in the Q model and many of its variants, this study employs the Euler equation approach to focus directly on the relationship between capital stock and investment, which is found to be characterised by saddle point equilibrium. This means that, following a shock (such as an unexpected cut in interest rates) the system must jump immediately to an appropriate point on the new saddle path associated with the new equilibrium. The study shows that under reasonable assumptions concerning the adjustment cost and production functions, these initial jumps typically involve investment overshooting its steady-state value in the short term. Investment overshooting also implies overshooting by stock prices in financial markets.
Langevin dynamics of a heavy particle and orthogonality effects
Creators: name: Thomas, Mark
name: Karzig, Torsten
name: Kusminskiy, Silvia Viola
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik

description: The dynamics of a classical heavy particle moving in a quantum environment is determined by a Langevin equation which encapsulates the effect of the environment-induced reaction forces on the particle. For an open quantum system these include a Born-Oppenheimer force, a dissipative force and a stochastic force due to shot and thermal noise. Recently it was shown that these forces can be expressed in terms of the scattering matrix of the system by considering the classical heavy particle as a time-dependent scattering center, allowing to demonstrate interesting features of these forces when the system is driven out of equilibrium. At the same time, it is well known that small changes in a scattering potential can have a profound impact on a fermionic system due to the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe. In this work, by calculating the Loschmidt echo, we relate Anderson orthogonality effects with the mesoscopic reaction forces for an environment that can be taken out of equilibrium. In particular we show how the decay of the Loschmidt echo is characterized by fluctuations and dissipation in the system and discuss different quench protocols.
The [CII]/[NII] ratio in 3 < z < 6 sub-millimetre galaxies from the South Pole Telescope survey
Creators: name: Cunningham, D. J. M.
name: Chapman, S. C.
name: Aravena, M.
name: De Breuck, C.
name: Béthermin, M.
name: Chen, Chian-Chou
name: Dong, Chenxing
name: Gonzalez, A. H.
name: Greve, T. R.
name: Litke, K. C.
name: Ma, J.
name: Malkan, M.
name: Marrone, D. P.
name: Miller, T.
name: Phadke, K. A.
name: Reuter, C.
name: Rotermund, K.
name: Spilker, J. S.
name: Stark, A. A.
name: Strandet, M.
name: Vieira, J. D.
name: Weiß, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Atacama Compact Array and Atacama Pathfinder Experiment observations of the [N II] 205 $μ$m fine-structure line in 40 sub-millimetre galaxies lying at redshifts z = 3 to 6, drawn from the 2500 deg$^2$ South Pole Telescope survey. This represents the largest uniformly selected sample of high-redshift [N II] 205 $μ$m measurements to date. 29 sources also have [C II] 158 $μ$m line observations allowing a characterization of the distribution of the [C II] to [N II] luminosity ratio for the first time at high-redshift. The sample exhibits a median L$_{[C II]}$ /L$_{[N II]}$ $\approx$ 11 and interquartile range of 5.0 to 24.7. These ratios are similar to those observed in local (U)LIRGs, possibly indicating similarities in their interstellar medium. At the extremes, we find individual sub-millimetre galaxies with L$_{[C II]}$ /L$_{[N II]}$ low enough to suggest a smaller contribution from neutral gas than ionized gas to the [C II] flux and high enough to suggest strongly photon or X-ray region dominated flux. These results highlight a large range in this line luminosity ratio for sub-millimetre galaxies, which may be caused by variations in gas density, the relative abundances of carbon and nitrogen, ionization parameter, metallicity, and a variation in the fractional abundance of ionized and neutral interstellar medium.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted to MNRAS
General Volume-Preserving Mechanical Systems
Creators: name: Zhou, Bin
name: Guo, Han-Ying
name: Wu, Ke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this letter, we present the general form of equations that generate a volume-preserving flow on a symplectic manifold (M, ω). It is shown that every volume-preserving flow has some 2-forms acting the role of the Hamiltonian functions in the Hamiltonian mechanics and the ordinary Hamilton equations are included as a special case with a 2-form \frac{1}{n-1} H ωwhere H is the corresponding Hamiltonian.
description: Plain LaTeX, 13 pages, no figures
A Conceptual Reasoning Approach to Textual Ellipsis
Creators: name: Hahn, Udo
name: Markert, Katja
name: Strube, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a hybrid text understanding methodology for the resolution of textual ellipsis. It integrates conceptual criteria (based on the well-formedness and conceptual strength of role chains in a terminological knowledge base) and functional constraints reflecting the utterances' information structure (based on the distinction between context-bound and unbound discourse elements). The methodological framework for text ellipsis resolution is the centering model that has been adapted to these constraints.
description: 5 pages, uuencoded gzipped PS file (see also Technical Report at: http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/public/papers/ecai96.ps.gz)
Optimal Dose Allocation Considering Toxicity and Efficacy Jointly in Phase I/II Dose Finding Studies
Creators: name: Zhang, Yue
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021

description: Novel anticancer therapies are challenging the standards of drug development in Phase I dose-finding studies. Agents with specific biologic targets, unknown dose-efficacy trends, and limited toxicity motivate innovative designs to identify optimal biological dose (OBD), the dose jointly defined by toxicity and efficacy probabilities. In this thesis, a novel design to identify OBD is developed by combining optimal design theory with the continual reassessment method (CRM). The optimal design theory is implemented based on the continuation ratio model and straightforward OBD selection criteria. To better fit practical needs, the new design is progressed to identify adjusted-OBD with modified criteria. The possible candidates of OBD and adjusted-OBD are proposed. The C-optimal designs or variance functions of all candidates of both OBD and adjusted-OBD are demonstrated. Our simulation studies show that, under a wide range of dose-outcome scenarios compared to Isotonic, L-logistic, Logistic, EffTox and TriCRM, the proposed design has high probabilities in correctly recommending OBD when the assumed model is true. Under extensive settings of adjusted-OBD identification, our design keeps its outstanding performance in correctly recommending adjusted-OBD compared with TriCRM.
Exactly solvable chain of interacting electrons with correlated hopping and pairing
Creators: name: Karnaukhov, Igor N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A generalization of the Mattis-Nam model (J.Math.Phys., 13 (1972), 1185), which takes into account a correlated hopping and pairing of electrons, is proposed, its exact solution is obtained. In the framework of the model the stability of the zero energy Majorana fermions localized at the boundaries is studied in the chain in which electrons interact through both the on-site Hubbard interaction and the correlated hopping and pairing. The ground-state phase diagram of the model is calculated, the region of existence of topological states is determined. It is shown that low-energy excitations destroy bonds between electrons in the chain, leading to an insulator state.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Economic Growth, Social Justice and the Bible: The Search for a New System
Creators: Melazhakam, Mathew Joseph
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Social justice
Social justice--Religious aspects
Social justice--Biblical teaching
Social justice--Economic aspects
Economic development
Socialism
Capitalism

description: Social justice makes not just a moral sense but also an economic sense. Sustained economic growth and prosperity for nations cannot be achieved without social justice. There could be a short-run tradeoff between the two, but that tradeoff breaks down sooner than later, and growth peters out unless the fruits of growth are shared equitably. Therefore, the U.S. problem of low growth and high unemployment cannot be resolved unless its age-old discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, and income is successfully tackled.
Direct Sum Testing: The General Case
Creators: name: Dinur, Irit
name: Golubev, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A function $f:[n_1]\times\dots\times[n_d]\to\mathbb{F}_2$ is a direct sum if it is of the form $f\left(a_1,\dots,a_d\right) = f_1(a_1)\oplus\dots \oplus f_d (a_d),$ for some $d$ functions $f_i:[n_i]\to\mathbb{F}_2$ for all $i=1,\dots, d$, and where $n_1,\dots,n_d\in\mathbb{N}$. We present a $4$-query test which distinguishes between direct sums and functions that are far from them. The test relies on the BLR linearity test (Blum, Luby, Rubinfeld, 1993) and on an agreement test which slightly generalizes the direct product test (Dinur, Steurer, 2014). In multiplicative $\pm 1$ notation, our result reads as follows. A $d$-dimensional tensor with $\pm 1$ entries is called a tensor product if it is a tensor product of $d$ vectors with $\pm 1$ entries, or equivalently, if it is of rank $1$. The presented tests can be read as tests for distinguishing between tensor products and tensors that are far from being tensor products. We also present a different test, which queries the function at most $(d+2)$ times, but is easier to analyze.
Sternodelus arrowi
Creators: name: Liang, Hongbin
name: Kavanaugh, David H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Sternodelus
Sternodelus arrowi

description: Sternodelus arrowi (Jedlička)
(Fig. 12)
description: Published as part of Liang, Hongbin & Kavanaugh, David H., 2005, A Review of Genus Onycholabis Bates (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini), with Description of a New Species from Western Yunnan, China, pp. 507-520 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 59 (4) on page 517, DOI: 10.1649/837.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10105842
New constraints on the nuclear equation of state from the thermal emission of neutron stars in quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries
Creators: name: d'Etivaux, N. Baillot
name: Guillot, S.
name: Margueron, J.
name: Webb, N. A.
name: Catelan, M.
name: Reisenegger, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a new analysis of the thermal emission from the neutron star surface to constrain the dense matter equation of state. It is based on the use of a Markov-Chain Monte Carlo algorithm combined with an empirical parametrization of the equation of state, as well as the consistent treatment of seven neutron star quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries in globular clusters with well-measured distances. Previous analyses have indicated that the thermal emission of these neutron stars tends to prefer low neutron star radii, questioning basic knowledge from nuclear physics. We show that it is possible to reconcile the thermal emission analyses with nuclear physics knowledge, with or without including a prior on the slope of the symmetry energy $L_{\rm sym}$. We obtain radii of the order of about 12~km without worsening the fit statistic. With an empirical parametrization of the equation of state, we obtain the following values for the slope of the symmetry energy, its curvature $K_{\rm sym}$, and the isoscalar skewness parameter $Q_{\rm sat}$: $L_{\rm sym}=37.2^{+9.2}_{-8.9}$ MeV, $K_{\rm sym}=-85^{+82}_{-70}$ MeV, and $Q_{\rm sat}=318^{+673}_{-366}$ MeV. For the first time, we measure the values of the empirical parameters $K_{\rm sym}$ and $Q_{\rm sat}$. These values are only weakly impacted by our assumptions, such as the distances or the number of free empirical parameters, provided they are taken within a reasonable range. We also study the weak sensitivity of our results to the set of sources analyzed, and we identify a group of sources that dominates the constraints. The resulting masses and radii obtained are also discussed in the context of the independent constraints from GW 170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart, AT 2017gfo.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
LEI ANTICORRUPÇÃO: NECESSIDADE E APLICABILIDADE
Creators: name: ANDREIA AZEVEDO DE LIMA WADA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: O presente artigo tem como escopo a análise da Lei Anticorrupção, busca-se verificar a sua necessidade e aplicabilidade, bem como verificar algumas criticas com relação aos dispositivos constante na lei. Resulta necessário descrever brevemente o cenário de surgimento desta lei, e verificar a sua necessidade de aplicação, descrever algumas formas de prevenção da corrupção com a utilização de algumas práticas como a implantação de métodos como compliance, e dispor sobre algumas críticas que esta Lei sofreu. Utilizando-se a metodologia para o desenvolvimento o dedutivo, bibliográfico. A importância do estudo deriva do fato de que a prática de ilícitos por pessoa jurídica traz consigo diversas negativas de crescimento e desenvolvimento para uma nação, e para isso o combate a esta prática precisa ser legalmente reconhecido e aplicado, com isso a Lei Anticorrupção tem um papel fundamental para buscar a responsabilidade da pessoa jurídica e a tipologia dos atos ilícitos, para que se possam aplicar as devida sanções, almejando o comportamento ético e cumprimento dos seus deveres jurídicos.
Analogs of the Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrodinger Equations for Multidimensional Variational Problems of Field Theory
Creators: name: Stoyanovsky, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalizations of the Hamilton-Jacobi and Schrodinger equations for multidimensional variational problems of field theory are deduced. These generalizations are so-called variational differential equations.
description: LaTeX, 4 pages; minor changes
Additional file 1: of The baseline levels and risk factors for high-sensitive C-reactive protein in Chinese healthy population
Creators: name: Tang, Ying
name: Liang, Peifen
name: Chen, Junzhe
name: Fu, Sha
name: Liu, Bo
name: Feng, Min
name: Lin, Baojuan
name: Lee, Ben
name: Xu, Anping
name: Lan, Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S1. The relationship between hs-CRP and biomarkers stratified by gender in healthy population. Table S2. The relationship between hs-CRP and biomarkers stratified by age in healthy population. (DOCX 20 kb)
INCOTERMS: UMA PERSPECTIVA DE UNIFORMIZAÇÃO DA REGULAMENTAÇÃO DO COMÉRCIO INTERNACIONAL
Creators: name: ELLEN GALLIANO DE BARROS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: O presente estudo pretende analisar a importância do Incoterms como modelo da unificação da regulamentação que trata do comércio internacional, diante do cenário marcado pela globalização socioeconômica e do avanço tecnológico. Nesta perspectiva, cumpre destacar a evolução do comércio internacional acompanhado do desenvolvimento das formas contratuais de compra e venda internacional, de modo a analisar o nascimento da Lex mercatoria, durante a Idade Média, até chegar as influências da atual Era da mundialização com o aprimoramento das práticas mercantis. Assim, a Lex mercatoria, conjunto de regras criado pelos próprios mercadores com base nos usos e costumes, tem recebido nova roupagem, a partir da inclusão de novas fontes, tendo em vista a pretensão de unificação do regramento que abarca as transações comerciais entre os países. Por este motivo, o objetivo central do artigo é a exibição do Incoterms, que é caracterizado por termos internacionais empregados no contrato de prática mercantil, desenvolvido por organização internacional não governamental, com propósito de facilitar a exportação e importação de bens, reduzir os custos do negócio jurídico, afastar obstáculos para o crescimento econômico dos Estados e, acima de tudo, eliminar as incertezas da legislação aplicável a cada caso e as divergências entre as partes. Entretanto, embora o instituto em comento demonstre a harmonização do regramento sobre a mercancia exterior, merece implementação e melhoria em seu conteúdo, a fim de traçar todas as situações fáticas que podem ocorrer no momento da execução do contrato, sem ser visto tão somente como uma cláusula contratual sem autonomia jurídica necessária. Isto posto, o foco direciona-se ao estudo do contexto marcado, de um lado, pela emergência da harmonização das regras influenciadas pela Globalização e, por outro lado, pela aparição do Incoterms, nos moldes da nova Lex mercatoria, que ainda não possui a devida força de aplicação. Nesse sentido, o procedimento metodológico utilizado é o dedutivo-indutivo, em virtude da investigação do problema com suporte doutrinário e jurisprudencial.
A Complete Classification of Tractability in RCC-5
Creators: name: Jonsson, P.
name: Drakengren, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the computational properties of the spatial algebra RCC-5 which is a restricted version of the RCC framework for spatial reasoning. The satisfiability problem for RCC-5 is known to be NP-complete but not much is known about its approximately four billion subclasses. We provide a complete classification of satisfiability for all these subclasses into polynomial and NP-complete respectively. In the process, we identify all maximal tractable subalgebras which are four in total.
description: See http://www.jair.org/ for an online appendix and other files accompanying this article