cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Towards Unsupervised Deep Image Enhancement with Generative Adversarial Network
Creators: name: Ni, Zhangkai
name: Yang, Wenhan
name: Wang, Shiqi
name: Ma, Lin
name: Kwong, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Improving the aesthetic quality of images is challenging and eager for the public. To address this problem, most existing algorithms are based on supervised learning methods to learn an automatic photo enhancer for paired data, which consists of low-quality photos and corresponding expert-retouched versions. However, the style and characteristics of photos retouched by experts may not meet the needs or preferences of general users. In this paper, we present an unsupervised image enhancement generative adversarial network (UEGAN), which learns the corresponding image-to-image mapping from a set of images with desired characteristics in an unsupervised manner, rather than learning on a large number of paired images. The proposed model is based on single deep GAN which embeds the modulation and attention mechanisms to capture richer global and local features. Based on the proposed model, we introduce two losses to deal with the unsupervised image enhancement: (1) fidelity loss, which is defined as a L2 regularization in the feature domain of a pre-trained VGG network to ensure the content between the enhanced image and the input image is the same, and (2) quality loss that is formulated as a relativistic hinge adversarial loss to endow the input image the desired characteristics. Both quantitative and qualitative results show that the proposed model effectively improves the aesthetic quality of images. Our code is available at: https://github.com/eezkni/UEGAN.
Environmental Assessment of Natural Radioactivity in Soil Samples from the LUSI Mud Volcano, Indonesia
Creators: name: Ryuta Hazama
name: Shizuma, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2009
Subjects: gamma ray spectrometry,LUSI,mud volcano,radioactivity,building material

description: 2, 2, EnvironmentAsia
The hyperluminous, dust-obscured quasar W2246-0526 at z=4.6: detection of parsec-scale radio activity
Creators: name: Fan, Lulu
name: Chen, Wen
name: An, Tao
name: Xie, Fu-Guo
name: Han, Yunkun
name: Knudsen, Kirsten K.
name: Yang, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: WISE J224607.56$-$052634.9 (W2246-0526) is a hyperluminous ($L_{\rm bol}\approx 1.7\times 10^{14}~L_\odot$), dust-obscured and radio-quiet quasar at redshift $z=4.6$. It plays a key role in probing the transition stage between dusty starbursts and unobscured quasars in the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). To search for the evidence of the jet activity launched by the SMBH in W2246-0526, we performed very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of its radio counterpart with the European VLBI Network (EVN) plus the enhanced Multi Element Remotely Linked Interferometer Network (e-MERLIN) at 1.66 GHz and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 1.44 and 1.66 GHz. The deep EVN plus e-MERLIN observations detect a compact (size $\leq32$ pc) sub-mJy component contributing about ten percent of its total flux density, which spatially coincides with the peak of dust continuum and [C II] emissions. Together with its relatively high brightness temperature ($\geq8\times10^{6}$ K), we interpret the component as a consequence of non-thermal radio activity powered by the central SMBH, which likely originates from a stationary jet base. The resolved-out radio emission possibly come from a diffuse jet, quasar-driven winds, or both, while the contribution by star formation activity is negligible. Moreover, we propose an updated geometry structure of its multi-wavelength active nucleus and shed light on the radio quasar selection bias towards the blazars at $z>4$.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Weak-coupling expansion of the hot QCD pressure
Creators: name: Schroder, York
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent progress made in determining the pressure of hot QCD up to the first non-perturbative term in its weak-coupling expansion.
description: 11 pg, Talk given at 29th Johns Hopkins Workshop in Theoretical Physics: Strong Matter in the Heavens, Budapest, Hungary, 1-3 Aug 2005
Genotoxicity Assessment of Mercuric Chloride in the Marine Fish Therapon jaruba.
Creators: name: Nagarajan Nagarani
name: Velmurugan Janaki Devi
name: Chandrasekaran Archana Devi
name: Kumaraguru, Arumugan Kuppusamy
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2009
Subjects: genotoxicity,mercuric chloride,micronucleus

description: 2, 2, EnvironmentAsia
Temperature-dependent gap equations and their solutions in the SU(4) model of high-temperature superconductivity
Creators: name: Sun, Yang
name: Guidry, Mike
name: Wu, Cheng-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temperature-dependent gap equations in the SU(4) model of high-Tc superconductivity are derived and analytical solutions are obtained. Based on these solutions, a generic gap diagram describing the features of energy gaps as functions of doping P is presented and a phase diagram illustrating the phase structure as a function of temperature T and doping P is sketched. A special doping point P_q occurs naturally in the solutions that separates two phases at temperature T = 0: a pure superconducting phase on one side (P > P_q) and a phase with superconductivity strongly suppressed by antiferromagnetism on the other (P < P_q). We interpret P_q as a quantum phase transition point. Moreover, the pairing gap is found to have two solutions for P < P_q: a small gap that is associated with competition between superconductivity and antiferromagnetism and is responsible for the ground state superconductivity, and a large gap without antiferromagnetic suppression that corresponds to a collective excited state. A pseudogap appears in the solutions that terminates at P_q and originates from the competition between d-wave superconductivity and antiferromagnetism. Nevertheless, this conclusion does not contradict the preformed pair picture conceptually if the preformed pairs are generally defined as any pairs formed before pairing condensation.
description: 23 pages, 5 color figures
The Perseus ALMA Chemistry Survey (PEACHES). I. The Complex Organic Molecules in Perseus Embedded Protostars
Creators: name: Yang, Yao-Lun
name: Sakai, Nami
name: Zhang, Yichen
name: Murillo, Nadia M.
name: Zhang, Ziwei E.
name: Higuchi, Aya E.
name: Zeng, Shaoshan
name: López-Sepulcre, Ana
name: Yamamoto, Satoshi
name: Lefloch, Bertrand
name: Bouvier, Mathilde
name: Ceccarelli, Cecilia
name: Hirota, Tomoya
name: Imai, Muneaki
name: Oya, Yoko
name: Sakai, Takeshi
name: Watanabe, Yoshimasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To date, about two dozen low-mass embedded protostars exhibit rich spectra with lines of complex organic molecule (COM). These protostars seem to possess different enrichment in COMs. However, the statistics of COM abundance in low-mass protostars are limited by the scarcity of observations. This study introduces the Perseus ALMA Chemistry Survey (PEACHES), which aims at unbiasedly characterizing the chemistry of COMs toward the embedded (Class 0/I) protostars in the Perseus molecular cloud. Of 50 embedded protostars surveyed, 58% of them have emission from COMs. A 56%, 32%, and 40% of the protostars have CH$_3$OH, CH$_3$OCHO, and N-bearing COMs, respectively. The detectability of COMs depends neither on the averaged continuum brightness temperature, a proxy of the H$_2$ column density, nor on the bolometric luminosity and the bolometric temperature. For the protostars with detected COMs, CH$_3$OH has a tight correlation with CH$_3$CN, spanning more than two orders of magnitude in column densities normalized by the continuum brightness temperature, suggesting a chemical relation between CH$_3$OH and CH$_3$CN and a large chemical diversity in the PEACHES samples at the same time. A similar trend with more scatter is also found between all identified COMs, hinting at a common chemistry for the sources with COMs. The correlation between COMs is insensitive to the protostellar properties, such as the bolometric luminosity and the bolometric temperature. The abundance of larger COMs (CH$_3$OCHO and CH$_3$OCH$_3$) relative to that of smaller COMs (CH$_3$OH and CH$_3$CN) increases with the inferred gas column density, hinting at an efficient production of complex species in denser envelopes.
description: 55 pages, 9 tables, 24 figures. Updated after publication in ApJ. Figure 18 appears as a figure set in ApJ
Bernhardt, Reinhold: Der Absolutheitsanspruch des Christentums
Creators: name: Schäfer, Rolf
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (1991): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 40, Heft 4
Mean-field stationary state of a Bose gas at a Feshbach resonance
Creators: name: Carmichael, Andrew
name: Javanainen, Juha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the steady state of a zero-temperature Bose gas near a Feshbach or photoassociation resonance using a two-channel mean-field model that incorporates atomic and molecular condensates, as well as correlated atom pairs originating from dissociation of molecules into pairs of atoms. We start from a many-body Hamiltonian for atom-molecule conversion, and derive the time dependent version of the mean-field theory. The stationary solution of the time dependent model is rendered unique with an approximation that entails that all noncondensate atoms are correlated, as if emerging from dissociation of molecules. The steady state is solved numerically, but limiting cases are also found analytically. The system has a phase transition in which the atomic condensate emerges in a nonanalytic fashion. We quantify the scaling of the observable quantities, such as fractions of atomic and molecular condensates, with the detuning and the atom-molecule conversion strength. Qualitatively, the dependence on detuning rounds out with increasing coupling strength. A study of the thermodynamics shows that the pressure of the atom-molecule system is negative, even on the molecule side of the resonance. This indicates the possibility of mechanical instability.
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Contamination in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus): Analysis in Liver and Bile
Creators: name: Voravit Cheevaporn
name: Montira Pindang
name: Helander, Herbert F.
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2010
Subjects: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,fixed wavelength fluorescence,nile tilapia,naphthalene,phenanthrene,pyrene

description: 2, 3, EnvironmentAsia
Uncertainty Relations in Hydrodynamics
Creators: name: de Matos, G. Gonçalves
name: Kodama, T.
name: Koide, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The uncertainty relations in hydrodynamics are numerically studied. We first give a review for the formulation of the generalized uncertainty relations in the stochastic variational method (SVM), following the paper by two of the present authors [Phys. Lett. A382, 1472 (2018)]. In this approach, the origin of the finite minimum value of uncertainty is attributed to the non-differentiable (virtual) trajectory of a quantum particle and then both of the Kennard and Robertson-Schrödinger inequalities in quantum mechanics are reproduced. The same non-differentiable trajectory is applied to the motion of fluid elements in hydrodynamics. By introducing the standard deviations of position and momentum for fluid elements, the uncertainty relations in hydrodynamics are derived. These are applicable even to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and then the field-theoretical uncertainty relation is reproduced. We further investigate numerically the derived relations and find that the behaviors of the uncertainty relations for liquid and gas are qualitatively different. This suggests that the uncertainty relations in hydrodynamics are used as a criterion to classify liquid and gas in fluid.
description: 56 pages, 9 figures
Distribution of Heavy Metals in Rice Plant Cultivated in Industrial Effluent Receiving Soil
Creators: name: Abul Khaer Mohammad Rezaur Rahman
name: Hossain, Syed Mohammod
name: Mir Md. Akramuzzaman
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2010
Subjects: heavy metal,industrial pollution,industrial effluent,neutron activation analysis,rice

description: 2, 3, EnvironmentAsia
Moving Object Based Collision-Free Video Synopsis
Creators: name: Ratnarajah, Anton Jeran
name: Goonetilleke, Sahani
name: Tissera, Dumindu
name: Balagopalan, Kapilan
name: Rodrigo, Ranga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Video synopsis, summarizing a video to generate a shorter video by exploiting the spatial and temporal redundancies, is important for surveillance and archiving. Existing trajectory-based video synopsis algorithms will not able to work in real time, because of the complexity due to the number of object tubes that need to be included in the complex energy minimization algorithm. We propose a real-time algorithm by using a method that incrementally stitches each frame of the synopsis by extracting object frames from the user specified number of tubes in the buffer in contrast to global energy-minimization based systems. This also gives flexibility to the user to set the threshold of maximum number of objects in the synopsis video according his or her tracking ability and creates collision-free summarized videos which are visually pleasing. Experiments with six common test videos, indoors and outdoors with many moving objects, show that the proposed video synopsis algorithm produces better frame reduction rates than existing approaches.
description: The summarized output videos are available at https://anton-jeran.github.io/M2SYN/
Intrinsic Curie temperature bistability in ferromagnetic semiconductor resonant tunneling diodes
Creators: name: Ganguly, Swaroop
name: MacDonald, A. H.
name: Register, L. F.
name: Banerjee, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict bistability in the Curie temperature-voltage characteristic of double barrier resonant-tunneling structures with dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor quantum wells. Our conclusions are based on simulations of electrostatics and ballistic quantum transport combined with a mean-field theory description of ferromagnetism in dilute magnetic semiconductors.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B; typo removed in revised version - spurious eq.12 immediately after eq.11
Adsorption Kinetics of Carbamate Pesticide in Rice Field Soil
Creators: name: Soontree Khuntong
name: Sanya Sirivithayapakorn
name: Pannee Pakkong
name: Cheema Soralump
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2010
Subjects: carbofuran,rice field,solvent extraction,soil contamination,pesticide adsorption,adsorption kinetics,desorption

description: 2, 3, EnvironmentAsia
Additional file 12 of Assessing the genetic background and genomic relatedness of red cattle populations originating from Northern Europe
Creators: name: Schmidtmann, Christin
name: Schönherz, Anna
name: Guldbrandtsen, Bernt
name: Marjanovic, Jovana
name: Calus, Mario
name: Hinrichs, Dirk
name: Thaller, Georg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 12: Table S6. Pairwise genome-wide FST values (based on Weir and Cockerham [48]) for all combinations of studied breeds.
Mercury's crustal thickness correlates with lateral variations in mantle melt production
Creators: name: Beuthe, Mikael
name: Charlier, Bernard
name: Namur, Olivier
name: Rivoldini, Attilio
name: Van Hoolst, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mercury's crust has a complex structure resulting from a billion years of volcanism. The surface variations in chemical composition have been identified from orbit by the spacecraft MESSENGER. Combining these measurements with laboratory experiments on partial melting, we estimate which variations in surface density and degree of mantle melting are required to produce surface rocks. If the surface density is representative of the deep crustal density, more than one half of crustal thickness variations in the northern hemisphere are explained by lateral variations in mantle melting. The crust is thin below the magnesium-poor Northern Volcanic Plains whereas the thickest crust is found in the magnesium-rich region located at mid-northern latitudes in the Western Hemisphere. The magnesium-rich region is thus not due to an early impact but rather to extensive mantle melting. The thickness-melting relation has also been observed for the oceanic crust on Earth and might be a common feature of terrestrial planets.
description: 11 pages of main text, 37 pages with supplements; 3+12 figures, 1+1 tables
Can Genotoxic Effect be Model Dependent in Allium Test?-An Evidence.
Creators: name: Rathore, Hemant Singh
name: Rathore, Manisha
name: Suneeta Panchal
name: Makwana, Mukesh
name: Sharma, Anjali
name: Shrivastava, Sharad
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2010
Subjects: Allium test,Root primordial cells,G0,Genotoxicity,peracetic acid

description: 2, 3, EnvironmentAsia
UAV Trajectory Planning for AoI-Minimal Data Collection in UAV-Aided IoT Networks by Transformer
Creators: name: Zhu, Botao
name: Bedeer, Ebrahim
name: Nguyen, Ha H.
name: Barton, Robert
name: Gao, Zhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted increasing attention. By taking into account age-of-information (AoI), we investigate the trajectory planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is used to aid a cluster-based IoT network. An optimization problem is formulated to minimize the total AoI of the collected data by the UAV from the ground IoT network. Since the total AoI of the IoT network depends on the flight time of the UAV and the data collection time at hovering points, we jointly optimize the selection of hovering points and the visiting order to these points. We exploit the state-of-the-art transformer and the weighted A*, which is a path search algorithm, to design a machine learning algorithm to solve the formulated problem. The whole UAV-IoT system is fed into the encoder network of the proposed algorithm, and the algorithm's decoder network outputs the visiting order to ground clusters. Then, the weighted A* is used to find the hovering point for each cluster in the ground IoT network. Simulation results show that the trained model by the proposed algorithm has a good generalization ability to generate solutions for IoT networks with different numbers of ground clusters, without the need to retrain the model. Furthermore, results show that our proposed algorithm can find better UAV trajectories with the minimum total AoI when compared to other algorithms.
Superconducting phase coherent electron transport in proximity conical ferromagnets
Creators: name: Sosnin, I.
name: Cho, H.
name: Petrashov, V. T.
name: Volkov, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report superconducting phase-periodic conductance oscillations in ferromagnetic wires with interfaces to conventional superconductors. The ferromagnetic wires were made of Ho, a conical ferromagnet. The distance between the interfaces was much larger than the singlet superconducting penetration depth. We explain the observed oscillations as due to the long-range penetration of an unusual "helical" triplet component of the order parameter that is generated at the superconductor/ferromagnet interfaces and maintained by the intrinsic rotating magnetization of Ho.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Uptake of Arsenic in Rice Plant Varieties Cultivated with Arsenic Rich Groundwater
Creators: name: Piyal Bhattacharya
name: Samal, Alok Chandra
name: Jayjit Majumdar
name: Santra, Subhas Chandra
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2010
Subjects: Arsenic,bioaccumulation,rice (Oryza sativa L.),irrigation water,West Bengal

description: 2, 3, EnvironmentAsia
Excited state fluid mechanics and mathematical principles of separation and transition
Creators: name: Yue, Peng
name: Xiao, Jingping
name: Xu, Ke
name: Li, Ming
name: Jiang, Feng
name: Lu, Yiyu
name: Peng, Dewei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transition and separation are difficult but important problems in the field of fluid mechanics. Hitherto, separation and transition problems have not been described accurately in mathematical terms, leading to design errors and prediction problems in fluid machine engineering. The nonlinear uncertainty involved in separation and transition makes it difficult to accurately analyze these phenomena using experimental methods. Thus, new ideas and methods are required for the mathematical prediction of fluid separation and transition. In this article, after an axiomatic treatment of fluid mechanics, the concept of an excited state is derived by generating a fluctuation velocity, and it is revealed that fluid separation and transition are special forms of this excited state. This allows us to clarify the state conditions of fluid separation and transition. Mathematical analysis of the Navier--Stokes equations leads to a general excited state theorem suitable for flowfields. Finally, the conditions of separation and transition are derived, and the corresponding general laws are established. The results presented in this article provide a foundation for future research on the mechanism of turbulence and the solution of engineering problems.
description: 19 pages
Attention based Writer Independent Handwriting Verification
Creators: name: Shaikh, Mohammad Abuzar
name: Duan, Tiehang
name: Chauhan, Mihir
name: Srihari, Sargur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The task of writer verification is to provide a likelihood score for whether the queried and known handwritten image samples belong to the same writer or not. Such a task calls for the neural network to make it's outcome interpretable, i.e. provide a view into the network's decision making process. We implement and integrate cross-attention and soft-attention mechanisms to capture the highly correlated and salient points in feature space of 2D inputs. The attention maps serve as an explanation premise for the network's output likelihood score. The attention mechanism also allows the network to focus more on relevant areas of the input, thus improving the classification performance. Our proposed approach achieves a precision of 86\% for detecting intra-writer cases in CEDAR cursive "AND" dataset. Furthermore, we generate meaningful explanations for the provided decision by extracting attention maps from multiple levels of the network.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, Published in 2020 17th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR)
Additional file 1 of Assessing the genetic background and genomic relatedness of red cattle populations originating from Northern Europe
Creators: name: Schmidtmann, Christin
name: Schönherz, Anna
name: Guldbrandtsen, Bernt
name: Marjanovic, Jovana
name: Calus, Mario
name: Hinrichs, Dirk
name: Thaller, Georg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Information on breeds, sample size per breed, source and type of SNP chip.
Distribution of Heavy Metals in the Different Parts of Cerithidea Obtusa and the Relationships between Metal Distribution and Allometric Parameters of the Snail
Creators: name: YAP, Chee Kong
name: EDWARD, Franklin Berandah
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2010
Subjects: Cerithidea obtuse,heavy metals,allometric parameters,different parts,cluster analysis,multivariate analysis

description: 2, 3, EnvironmentAsia
Image Collage on Arbitrary Shape via Shape-Aware Slicing and Optimization
Creators: name: Wu, Dong-Yi
name: Le, Thi-Ngoc-Hanh
name: Yao, Sheng-Yi
name: Lin, Yun-Chen
name: Lee, Tong-Yee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image collage is a very useful tool for visualizing an image collection. Most of the existing methods and commercial applications for generating image collages are designed on simple shapes, such as rectangular and circular layouts. This greatly limits the use of image collages in some artistic and creative settings. Although there are some methods that can generate irregularly-shaped image collages, they often suffer from severe image overlapping and excessive blank space. This prevents such methods from being effective information communication tools. In this paper, we present a shape slicing algorithm and an optimization scheme that can create image collages of arbitrary shapes in an informative and visually pleasing manner given an input shape and an image collection. To overcome the challenge of irregular shapes, we propose a novel algorithm, called Shape-Aware Slicing, which partitions the input shape into cells based on medial axis and binary slicing tree. Shape-Aware Slicing, which is designed specifically for irregular shapes, takes human perception and shape structure into account to generate visually pleasing partitions. Then, the layout is optimized by analyzing input images with the goal of maximizing the total salient regions of the images. To evaluate our method, we conduct extensive experiments and compare our results against previous work. The evaluations show that our proposed algorithm can efficiently arrange image collections on irregular shapes and create visually superior results than prior work and existing commercial tools.
description: This paper has been accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), March 2023. Project website http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/shapedimagecollage
On the efficiency and reliability of cluster mass estimates based on member galaxies
Creators: name: Biviano, A.
name: Murante, G.
name: Borgani, S.
name: Diaferio, A.
name: Dolag, K.
name: Girardi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the efficiency and reliability of cluster mass estimators that are based on the projected phase-space distribution of galaxies in a cluster region. To this aim, we analyse a data-set of 62 clusters extracted from a concordance LCDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. Galaxies (or Dark Matter particles) are first selected in cylinders of given radius (from 0.5 to 1.5 Mpc/h) and ~200 Mpc/h length. Cluster members are then identified by applying a suitable interloper removal algorithm. Two cluster mass estimators are considered: the virial mass estimator (Mvir), and a mass estimator (Msigma) based entirely on the cluster velocity dispersion estimate. Mvir overestimates the true mass by ~10%, and Msigma underestimates the true mass by ~15%, on average, for sample sizes of > 60 cluster members. For smaller sample sizes, the bias of the virial mass estimator substantially increases, while the Msigma estimator becomes essentially unbiased. The dispersion of both mass estimates increases by a factor ~2 as the number of cluster members decreases from ~400 to ~20. The bias in the Mvir estimates is reduced in clusters without significant evidence for subclustering, and when only early-type galaxies are selected. Radially-dependent incompleteness can drastically affect Mvir estimates, but leaves the Msigma estimates almost unaffected. Other observational effects, like centering and velocity errors, and different observational apertures, have little effect on the mass estimates. (Abridged)
description: To appear in A&A. 17 pages, 14 figures
Niederstein, Peter: Christen am runden Tisch - Ermutigungen zur ökumenischen Bewegung
Creators: name: Müller, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 40 Nr. 4 (1991): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 40, Heft 4
Additional file 2 of Assessing the genetic background and genomic relatedness of red cattle populations originating from Northern Europe
Creators: name: Schmidtmann, Christin
name: Schönherz, Anna
name: Guldbrandtsen, Bernt
name: Marjanovic, Jovana
name: Calus, Mario
name: Hinrichs, Dirk
name: Thaller, Georg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Details on data processing. For each analysis, steps of quality control and the size of used dataset are specified.
Fonctions Holomorphes Cliffordiennes
Creators: name: Laville, Guy
name: Ramadanoff, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Soit R\_{0,2m+1} l'algèbre de Clifford de R^{2m+1} muni d'une forme quadratique de signature négative, D = \sum\_{i=0}^{2m+1} e\_i {\partial\over \partial x\_i}, Δle Laplacien ordinaire. Les fonctions holomorphes Cliffordiennes f sont les fonctions satisfaisant à DΔ^m f = 0. Nous étudions les solutions polynomiales et singulières, les représentations intégrales et leurs conséquences et enfin le fondement de la théorie des fonctions elliptiques Cliffordiennes.
Understanding the Unconsoled as a novel of identity
Creators: name: Cooper, Anna M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis will consider three motifs of the novel as they relate to the creation of self-identity and validity. First, the series of alter egos that Ryder confronts form a nonlinear narrative of his life. Second, the surreal landscape and architecture of the city alternates between austere and baroque labyrinths, providing a barometer for the condition of his mind, much in the manner of Poe or Kafka. Essentially, space and time fluctuate according to Ryder's psychological state. And third, the townspeople erode the line between public and private, take up Ryder's struggle for identity at the communal level, and, with their infatuation with art and art criticism, provide a parody of the self-perpetuating cycles of high culture. Because these themes and sub-themes revolve around Ryder's intense two-day crisis of identity, this work might be called a novel of identity, or an Identitatsroman in order to evoke a string of common literary classifications—Bildungsroman, Erziehungsroman, and Kunstlerroman—with which this work bears close ties. Ryder, compromised by a performer's lifestyle, relinquishes control over his identity, allowing the public to determine its composition, and thereby he permits the public to determine his worth. In an effort to add some degree of stability to his identity, he obsesses over giving the greatest piano performance ever, so that his identity as a virtuoso would be forever cemented in the minds of the public and himself.
Diagonalization of Hamiltonian for finite-sized dispersive media: Canonical quantization with numerical mode-decomposition (CQ-NMD)
Creators: name: Na, Dong-Yeop
name: Zhu, Jie
name: Chew, Weng Cho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new math-physics modeling approach, called canonical quantization with numerical mode-decomposition, for capturing the physics of how incoming photons interact with finite-sized dispersive media, which is not describable by the previous Fano-diagonalization methods. The main procedure is to (1) study a system where electromagnetic (EM) fields are coupled to non-uniformly distributed Lorentz oscillators in Hamiltonian mechanics, (2) derive a generalized Hermitian eigenvalue problem for conjugate pairs in coordinate space, (3) apply computational electromagnetics methods to find a countably/finite set of time-harmonic eigenmodes that diagonalizes the Hamiltonian, and (4) perform the subsequent canonical quantization with mode-decomposition. Moreover, we provide several numerical simulations that capture the physics of full quantum effects, impossible by classical Maxwell's equations, such as non-local dispersion cancellation of an entangled photon pair and Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect in a dispersive beam splitter.
description: submitted to Physical Review A (under review)
Removal of Cadmium and Zinc from Soil using Immobilized Cell of Biosurfactant Producing Bacteria
Creators: name: Charoon Sarin
name: Siripun Sarin
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2010
Subjects: cadmium,zinc,immobilized cell,biosurfactant

description: 2, 3, EnvironmentAsia
Uniqueness in the Kashiwara-Vergne conjecture
Creators: name: Alekseev, Anton
name: Petracci, Emanuela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that a universal symmetric solution of the Kashiwara-Vergne conjecture is unique up to order one. in the Appendix by the second author, this result is used to show that solutions of the Kashiwara-Vergne conjecture for quadratic Lie algebras existing in the literature are not universal.
description: 9 pages
Women and Sustainable Consumption Solutions in fashion clothing زنان و شیوه های مصرف پایدار درصنعت مد پوشاک
Creators: name: Davari, R
name: Talebpour, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sustainable Consumption, Women's role, sustainable Fashion, clothing, garment

description: The poster presented in National conference on Women's Role in Sustainable Development held in Azad University of Damghan, IRAN.
Frequency comb generation in a pulse-pumped normal dispersion Kerr mini-resonator
Creators: name: Xu, Yiqing
name: Sharples, Alexander
name: Fatome, Julien
name: Coen, Stéphane
name: Erkintalo, Miro
name: Murdoch, Stuart G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kerr microresonators driven in the normal dispersion regime typically require the presence of localized dispersion perturbations, such as those induced by avoided mode crossings, to initiate the formation of optical frequency combs. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate that this requirement can be lifted by driving the resonator with a pulsed pump source. We also show that controlling the desynchronization between the pump repetition rate and the cavity free-spectral range (FSR) provides a simple mechanism to tune the center frequency of the output comb. Using a fiber mini-resonator with a radius of only 6 cm we experimentally present spectrally flat combs with a bandwidth of 3 THz whose center frequency can be tuned by more than 2 THz. By driving the cavity at harmonics of its 0.54 GHz FSR, we are able to generate combs with line spacings selectable between 0.54 and 10.8 GHz. The ability to tune both the center frequency and frequency spacing of the output comb highlights the flexibility of this platform. Additionally, we demonstrate that under conditions of large pump-cavity desynchronization, the same cavity also supports a new form of Raman-assisted anomalous dispersion cavity soliton.
Intrinsic Cutoff and Acausality for Massive Spin 2 Fields Coupled to Electromagnetism
Creators: name: Porrati, M.
name: Rahman, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We couple a massive spin 2 particle to electromagnetism. By introducing new, redundant degrees of freedom using the Stueckelberg formalism, we extract an intrinsic, model independent UV cutoff of the effective field theory describing this system. The cutoff signals both the onset of a strongly interacting dynamical regime and a finite size for the spin 2 particle. We show that the existence of a cutoff is strictly connected to other pathologies of interacting high-spin fields, such as the Velo-Zwanziger acausality. We also briefly comment on implications of this result for the detection of high spin states and on its possible generalization to arbitrary spin.
description: 14 pages, to appear in Nuclear Physics B
Additional file 1 of Heterogeneity of early-onset conduct problems: assessing different profiles, predictors and outcomes across childhood
Creators: name: Díaz-Vázquez, Beatriz
name: Álvarez-Voces, María
name: Romero, Estrella
name: López-Romero, Laura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1: Appendix. Information related to variables used in the study. This section contains information on the variables used in the study, their main descriptive statistics, their use according to the different waves of time and the informants who reported them.
Non-perturbative renormalization of left-left four-fermion operators in quenched lattice QCD
Creators: name: Guagnelli, M.
name: Heitger, J.
name: Pena, C.
name: Sint, S.
name: Vladikas, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define a family of Schroedinger Functional renormalization schemes for the four-quark multiplicatively renormalizable operators of the $ΔF = 1$ and $ΔF = 2$ effective weak Hamiltonians. Using the lattice regularization with quenched Wilson quarks, we compute non-perturbatively the renormalization group running of these operators in the continuum limit in a large range of renormalization scales. Continuum limit extrapolations are well controlled thanks to the implementation of two fermionic actions (Wilson and Clover). The ratio of the renormalization group invariant operator to its renormalized counterpart at a low energy scale, as well as the renormalization constant at this scale, is obtained for all schemes.
description: 52 pages, 6 figures (40 eps files)
Additional file 3 of Assessing the genetic background and genomic relatedness of red cattle populations originating from Northern Europe
Creators: name: Schmidtmann, Christin
name: Schönherz, Anna
name: Guldbrandtsen, Bernt
name: Marjanovic, Jovana
name: Calus, Mario
name: Hinrichs, Dirk
name: Thaller, Georg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Descriptive statistics of frequency and size of ROH per breed.
Evaluation of Construction-Zone Pavement Marking Materials
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Pigman, Jerry G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objectives of this study were to evaluate available foil-back and removable tapes as well as one new construction-zone raised pavement marker and to recommend materials that should be included on approved lists for use by the Kentucky Department of Highways. Tapes were placed on transverse test sections and the reflectivity, durability, and appearance were observed.  Tapes to be included on the approved lists for foil-back and removable tapes were recommended. Tapes manufactured by 3M, Flex-0-Lite, and Swarolite were included on the list of acceptable foil-back tapes. Recommended removable tapes were the 3M and Cataphote removable tapes. The Astra Optics construction zone marker was added to the approved list for construction-zone raised pavement markers. Data were presented for various permanent tapes to aid in the selection of this material.
Decoherence by engineered quantum baths
Creators: name: Rossini, Davide
name: Calarco, Tommaso
name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
name: Montangero, Simone
name: Fazio, Rosario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce, and determine decoherence for, a wide class of non-trivial quantum spin baths which embrace Ising, XY and Heisenberg universality classes coupled to a two-level system. For the XY and Ising universality classes we provide an exact expression for the decay of the loss of coherence beyond the case of a central spin coupled uniformly to all the spins of the baths which has been discussed so far in the literature. In the case of the Heisenberg spin bath we study the decoherence by means of the time-dependent density matrix renormalization group. We show how these baths can be engineered, by using atoms in optical lattices.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Speech-Based Emotion Recognition using Neural Networks and Information Visualization
Creators: name: Almahmoud, Jumana
name: Kikkeri, Kruthika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Emotions recognition is commonly employed for health assessment. However, the typical metric for evaluation in therapy is based on patient-doctor appraisal. This process can fall into the issue of subjectivity, while also requiring healthcare professionals to deal with copious amounts of information. Thus, machine learning algorithms can be a useful tool for the classification of emotions. While several models have been developed in this domain, there is a lack of userfriendly representations of the emotion classification systems for therapy. We propose a tool which enables users to take speech samples and identify a range of emotions (happy, sad, angry, surprised, neutral, clam, disgust, and fear) from audio elements through a machine learning model. The dashboard is designed based on local therapists' needs for intuitive representations of speech data in order to gain insights and informative analyses of their sessions with their patients.
description: IEEE Vis 2020 Abstract
Safety Belt Usage in Lexington and Opinion of a Mandatory Safety Belt Law
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Pigman, Jerry G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: One objective of this study was to obtain data from a large number of locations within Lexington to determine the extent that safety belt usage varies within the city. An observational survey was conducted at two locations in each of 12 geographic zones in Lexington. Overall safety belt usage rates of 37.6 percent for drivers and 65.1 for children under four years of age were observed using data collected in all 12 zones. Rates were higher in zones in the southern half of Lexington. Usage rates for drivers ranged from 31.9 to 43.5 percent in the various zones while the use of safety seats or belts for children under four years of age ranged from 44.2 percent to 79.1 percent.  Another objective of the study was to use a mailed questionnaire to assess opinions of Lexington residents toward a mandatory safety belt law. A response rate of 61.7 percent was obtained to a questionnaire mailed to 1,000 licensed drivers in Fayette County. The respondents agreed that safety belts were effective with 85 percent indicating that safety belts were very effective in reducing injuries and deaths in traffic accidents. The usage rate noted by the respondents (60 percent indicated they always wore their safety belt) was substantially higher than that determined from the observational survey. The respondents gave strong support to either a statewide law requiring use of safety belts (77 percent in favor) or, in absence of a statewide law, a law in Fayette County requiring use of safety belts (73 percent in favor).
Additional file 4 of Assessing the genetic background and genomic relatedness of red cattle populations originating from Northern Europe
Creators: name: Schmidtmann, Christin
name: Schönherz, Anna
name: Guldbrandtsen, Bernt
name: Marjanovic, Jovana
name: Calus, Mario
name: Hinrichs, Dirk
name: Thaller, Georg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Average level of genomic inbreeding (FROH) for different length categories with standard deviation in parenthesis per breed.
Characterization of pedestrian contact interaction trajectories
Creators: name: Kwak, Jaeyoung
name: Lees, Michael H.
name: Cai, Wentong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A spreading process can be observed when a particular behavior, substance, or disease spreads through a population over time in social and biological systems. It is widely believed that contact interactions among individual entities play an essential role in the spreading process. Although the contact interactions are often influenced by geometrical conditions, little attention has been paid to understand their effects especially on contact duration among pedestrians. To examine how the pedestrian flow setups affect contact duration distribution, we have analyzed trajectories of pedestrians in contact interactions collected from pedestrian flow experiments of uni-, bi- and multi-directional setups. Based on standardized maximal distance, we have classified types of motions observed in the contact interactions. We have found that almost all motion in the unidirectional flow setup can be characterized as subdiffusive motion, suggesting that the empirically measured contact duration tends to be longer than one estimated by ballistic motion assumption. However, Brownian motion is more frequently observed from other flow setups, indicating that the contact duration estimated by ballistic motion assumption shows good agreement with the empirically measured one. Furthermore, when the difference in relative speed distributions between the experimental data and ballistic motion assumption is larger, more subdiffusive motions are observed. This study also has practical implications. For instance, it highlights that geometrical conditions yielding smaller difference in the relative speed distributions are preferred when diseases can be transmitted through face-to-face interactions.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2401.02121