cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Three-particle formalism for multiple channels: the $ηππ+ K \overline K π$ system in isosymmetric QCD
Creators: name: Draper, Zachary T.
name: Sharpe, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize previous three-particle finite-volume formalisms to allow for multiple three-particle channels. For definiteness, we focus on the two-channel $ηππ$ and $K \overline K π$ system in isosymmetric QCD, considering the positive $G$ parity sector of the latter channel, and neglecting the coupling to modes with four or more particles. The formalism we obtain is thus appropriate to study the $b_1(1235)$ and $η(1295)$ resonances. The derivation is made in the generic relativistic field theory approach using the time-ordered perturbation theory method. We study how the resulting quantization condition reduces to that for a single three-particle channel when one drops below the upper ($K\overline K π$) threshold. We also present parametrizations of the three-particle K matrices that enter into the formalism.
description: 49 pages, no figures. v2: Fixed typos, added additional comments to the conclusion, made other minor changes
Theory of the inverse Faraday effect in dissipative Rashba electron systems: Floquet engineering perspective
Creators: name: Tanaka, Miho
name: Sato, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the inverse Faraday effect (IFE), i.e., photo-induced magnetization, in two-dimensional Rashba spin-orbit coupled electron systems irradiated by a circularly polarized light. The quantum master (Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad) equation enables us to accurately compute the laser driven dynamics, taking inevitable dissipation effects into account. To find the universal features of laser-driven magnetization and its dynamics, we comprehensively investigate (i) the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) driven by a continuous wave and (ii) ultrafast spin dynamics driven by short laser pulses. In the NESS (i), the laser-induced magnetization and its dependence of several parameters (laser frequency, laser field strength, temperature, dissipation strength, etc.) are shown to be in good agreement with the predictions from Floquet theory for dissipative systems in the high-frequency regime. In the case (ii), we focus on ferromagnetic metal states by introducing an effective magnetic field to the Rashba model as the mean field of electron-electron interaction. We find that a precession of the magnetic moment occurs due to the pulse-driven instantaneous magnetic field and the initial phase of the precession is controlled by changing the sign of light polarization. This is well consistent with the spin dynamics observed in experiments of laser-pulse-driven IFE. We discuss how the pulse-driven dynamics are captured by the Floquet theory. Our results %pave the way for computing provides a microscopic method to compute ultrafast dynamics in many electron systems irradiated by intense light.
description: 21 pages (two column), 12 figures
ASSET SECURITIZATION: CONVERTING INTANGIBLE ASSETS INTO FINANCIAL SECURITIES
Creators: name: Yusuf, O. Karaman
name: Ali, R. Tavakoli
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Asset securitization, Financial innovation, Capital market transformation, Investment banks, Securitization process

description: The financial landscape witnessed a significant transformation in the 1980s with the emergence of a groundbreaking innovation known as the securitization of assets. This innovation fundamentally reshaped the role of financial intermediaries within the capital market. Securitization involves the process through which financial intermediaries, such as investment banks, package and sell property assets from owners to investors in the form of securities. During this process, the property assets are detached from the owner's balance sheet, and funds are raised directly from investors who acquire tradable instruments representing a claim on the underlying debt, independent of the original owner. The concept of asset securitization originated in the United States during the 1970s and has since become a pivotal and highly valued financial product in global capital markets
ИЗУЧЕНИЕ КОМПОНЕНТНЫЙ СОСТАВА ЭФИРНОГО МАСЛА ИЗ ЛИСТЬЕВ ШАЛФЕЯ МУСКАТНОГО ( SALVIA SCLAREA L)
Creators: name: Эшназарова, Н.Х.
name: Жураев, М.У.
name: Урманова, Ф.Ф.
name: Ботиров, Э.Х.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Изучен компонентный состав эфирного масла , полученного методом гидродистилляции из листьев шалфея мускатного ( Salvia sclarea L), заготовленных в июле 2024 года с ботанически достоверных растений в период цветения в Бостанлыкском районе Ташкентской области. Методом ГХ-МС в составе эфирного масла обнаружены 43 соединения,  что составлает 95,4 % от общего количества эфирного масла. Установлено, что в полученном масле суммарное содержание монотерпенов и окисленных монотерпенов составляет 9,04 и 31,6%, тогда как сесквитерпенов и окисленных сесквитерпенов-3,75 и 7,7 % соответственно.
Iron as a sustainable chemical carrier of renewable energy: Analysis of opportunities and challenges for retrofitting coal-fired power plants
Creators: name: Debiagi, Paulo
name: da Rocha, Rodolfo Cavaliere
name: Scholtissek, Arne
name: Janicka, Johannes
name: Hasse, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a result of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), several countries committed to phasing down coal electricity as soon as possible, deactivating hundreds of power plants in the near future. CO$_2$-free electricity can be generated in these plants by retrofitting them for iron combustion. Iron oxides produced during the process can be collected and reduced back to metallic iron using H$_2$, in a circular process where it becomes an energy carrier. Using clean energy in the recycling process enables storage and distribution of excess generated in periods of abundance. This concept uses and scales up existing dry metal cycle technologies, which are the focus of extensive research worldwide. Retrofitting is evaluated here to determine feasibility of adding these material requirements to markets, in the context of current plans for decarbonization of steel industry, and policies on hydrogen and renewable electricity. Results indicate that not only for a single power plant, but also on larger scales, the retrofitting plan is viable, promoting and supporting advancements in sustainable electricity, steel industry and hydrogen production, converging necessary technological and construction efforts. The maturation and first commercial-scale application of iron combustion technology by 2030, together with developing necessary reduction infrastructure over the next decades, would pave the way for large-scale retrofitting and support the phasing out of coal in many regions. The proposed plan represents a feasible solution that takes advantage of existing assets, creates a long-lasting legacy for the industry and establishes circular energy economies that increase local energy security.
Nonreciprocal superfluidlike topological spin transport
Creators: name: Kovalev, Alexey A.
name: Li, Bo
name: Schwartz, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study superfluidlike spin transport facilitated by thermal diffusion of magnetic domain walls, where the positive and negative chiralities of domain walls act as opposite topological charges. The topological charge conservation leads to algebraic decay of spin current carried by domain walls, allowing for the transport of spin over extended distances. We demonstrate that the presence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can lead to nonreciprocity in spin flow, thus effectively realizing a spin ratchet. In one scenario, the nonreciprocity arises due to diode-like behavior where the nucleation of domain walls is governed by thermal activation for one direction of spin current and by viscous injection for the other direction of spin current. We confirm our predictions by micromagnetic simulations of domain walls in TmIG nanowire.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Hybrid GRMHD and Force-Free Simulations of Black Hole Accretion
Creators: name: Chael, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new approach for stably evolving general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations in regions where the magnetization $σ=b^2/ρc^2$ becomes large. GRMHD codes typically struggle to evolve plasma above $σ\approx100$ in simulations of black hole accretion. To ensure stability, GRMHD codes will inject mass density artificially to the simulation as necessary to keep the magnetization below a ceiling value $σ_{\rm max}$. We propose an alternative approach where the simulation transitions to solving the equations of general relativistic force-free electrodynamics (GRFFE) above a magnetization $σ_{\rm trans}$. We augment the GRFFE equations in the highly magnetized region with approximate equations to evolve the decoupled field-parallel velocity, plasma energy density, and plasma mass density. Our hybrid scheme is explicit and easily added to the framework of standard-volume GRMHD codes. We present a variety of tests of our method, implemented in the GRMHD code KORAL, and we show first results from a 3D hybrid GRMHD+GRFFE simulation of a magnetically arrested disc (MAD) around a spinning black hole. Our hybrid MAD simulation closely matches the average properties of a standard GRMHD MAD simulation with the same initial conditions in low magnetization regions, but it achieves a magnetization $σ\approx10^6$ in the evacuated jet funnel. We present simulated horizon-scale images of both simulations at 230 GHz with the black hole mass and accretion rate matched to M87*. Images from the hybrid simulation are less affected by the choice of magnetization cutoff $σ_{\rm cut}$ imposed in radiative transfer than images from the standard GRMHD simulation.
description: 24 pages, 16 figures. Accepted to MNRAS
Supplementary document for Boosting the performance of loss-tolerant measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution - 6398599.pdf
Creators: name: Ding, HuaJian
name: Ma, Xiao
name: Liu, Jingyang
name: Zhang, Chunhui
name: Zhou, Xingyu
name: Wang, Qin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary material?
Solicitation of funds for assisting Seto Mau
Creators: name: Cheekungtong (Chinese Freemasons)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Includes records of solicitation of donations for Tang Yip Yang's legal expenses in Ottawa; this reflects how the Chinese Freemasons (Cheekungtong) of Canada worked as a "mutual aid society." The letter from the Dart Coon Club of Montreal to the Dart Coon Club of Victoria addresses Tang's need for financial assistance; however, the book of donation record for Tang is empty.
Effect of Epichloë on ryegrass plant and soil microbiome
Creators: name: Shi, Shengjing
name: Young, Sandra
name: Gerard, Emily
name: Croy, Russell
name: Hume, David
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3004
subject: Crop and pasture production

description: Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) is the most common livestock forage species for pastures in New Zealand and other temperate countries. It can form mutualistic symbiosis with a shoot endophytic Epichloë fungus which produces a diverse range of alkaloid metabolites protecting plants from invertebrate pest damage. There is limited understanding of the effect of Epichloë on plant-associated and soil microbiomes. We aimed to address this knowledge gap and examine whether such effects are Epichloë strain dependent.A field trial was established with six ryegrass cultivar/ Epichloë strain combinations, enabling comparison of Epichloë strain specific effects as well as cultivar/strain interactions on plant and soil microbiomes. Samples were collected multiple times across 1.5 year, both before and after grazing. Microbiomes associated with bulk soil, rhizosphere soil, endophytic roots and shoots were analysed using MiSeq 16S and ITS sequencing. Additionally, the microbiomes associated with seeds used for the trial were examined. Strong Epichloë effects were detected for seed microbiome. However, in samples obtained from the field trial, sampling niches and time played more substantial roles in shaping the microbiome compared to cultivar and Epichloë. Different strains of Epichloë showed various impacts on specific microbial phylum and classes in individual niches, including shoots, root, rhizosphere and soil microbiomes. Our study demonstrated that the aboveground shoot endophyte Epichloë only had minor impact on shoot microbiome as well as belowground microbiomes (root, rhizosphere and soil). Some of the impacts were strain specific. Further studies or metagenomic analyses are required to examine biological impact of Epichloë on plant and soil microbiome.
CEAR: Comprehensive Event Camera Dataset for Rapid Perception of Agile Quadruped Robots
Creators: name: Zhu, Shifan
name: Xiong, Zixun
name: Kim, Donghyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: When legged robots perform agile movements, traditional RGB cameras often produce blurred images, posing a challenge for rapid perception. Event cameras have emerged as a promising solution for capturing rapid perception and coping with challenging lighting conditions thanks to their low latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range. However, integrating event cameras into agile-legged robots is still largely unexplored. Notably, no dataset including event cameras has yet been developed for the context of agile quadruped robots. To bridge this gap, we introduce CEAR, a dataset comprising data from an event camera, an RGB-D camera, an IMU, a LiDAR, and joint encoders, all mounted on a dynamic quadruped, Mini Cheetah robot. This comprehensive dataset features more than 100 sequences from real-world environments, encompassing various indoor and outdoor environments, different lighting conditions, a range of robot gaits (e.g., trotting, bounding, pronking), as well as acrobatic movements like backflip. To our knowledge, this is the first event camera dataset capturing the dynamic and diverse quadruped robot motions under various setups, developed to advance research in rapid perception for quadruped robots.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
title: Q-Sort as a Needs Assessment Technique
Creators: name: Tate, Sean
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Education

description: The Indonesia Nonformal Education Project is part of a large-scale development effort of PENMAS, the Community Education directorate of the Ministry of Education in Indonesia. The project was financed jointly by the Government of Indonesia and by a loan from the World Bank.
description: Summary: This note describes how a research technique called the Q-sort was adapted for use as a tool for needs assessment in nonformal education. It gives step-by-step instructions on its application and enumerates its advantages and disadcantages
title: Discussion Draft: Anne D. Stubbs and H. Milton Patton, November 7, 1975.
Creators: name: Stubbs, Anne D.
name: Patton, H. Milton
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Legislation

description: Discussion Draft: photocopy, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Discussion Draft: States and Title VII of the Housing and New Community Development Act of 1970, Prepared by Anne D. Stubbs and H. Milton Patton for the Academy for Contemporary Problems, November 7, 1975. This report consists of five sections: New Communities and Federal Policies; New Communities, Community Development, and Local Government; The State Concern and Roles in New Community Development; The State Experience in New Community Development; and Alternatives offered by Stubbs and Patton. Legislation is discussed and its relationship to new communities. Planned Communitiy Archives Collection, 420.06.
Effective Luttinger parameter and Kane-Fisher effect in quasiperiodic systems
Creators: name: Vongkovit, T. J.
name: Singh, Hansveer
name: Vasseur, Romain
name: Gopalakrishnan, Sarang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground states of interacting one-dimensional metals are generically Luttinger liquids. Luttinger liquid theory is usually considered for translation invariant systems. The Luttinger liquid description remains valid for weak quasiperiodic modulations; however, as the quasiperiodic modulation gets increasingly strong, it is increasingly renormalized and eventually fails, as the system becomes localized. We explore how quasiperiodic modulation renormalizes the Luttinger parameter characterizing this emergent Luttinger liquid, using the renormalization of transmission coefficients across a barrier as a proxy that remains valid for general quasiperiodic modulation. We find, unexpectedly, that quasiperiodic modulation weakens the effects of short-range interactions, but enhances those of long-range interactions. We support the former finding with matrix-product numerics. We also discuss how interactions affect the localization phase boundary.
title: The Impact of Media Attention on the Illiquidity of Stocks: Evidence from the Global FinTech Sector
Creators: name: Gaar, Eduard
name: Moritz, Valentin
name: Schiereck, Dirk
Publisher: name: Duncker & Humblot
Year: 2025

description: As a result of technological innovations in data processing, the exploitation of Internet usage data in relation to search engines or social networks is becoming increasingly intriguing for understanding and anticipating stock market movements. We analyze the impact of three alternative investor attention variables, i.?e. Google search volume, Wikipedia page views, and stock market-relevant news on the rapidly growing FinTech sector. The result of the simultaneous correlation analysis reveals a highly significant correlation between the trading activities of the FinTech sector and the three investor attention variables. The time-delayed regression analysis complements the results by identifying substantial changes of the effects within one week considering the order of magnitude and sign. Furthermore, multivariate regression analysis highlights that the explanatory power for future stock trading activities and illiquidity primarily depends on Google search volume and stock market-relevant news volume, while the simultaneous correlations are best explained by the number of visits to the corresponding Wikipedia page.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Mah Chong Sik, Mah Chun, Yee Bark Chong, Wong Yee Leung, Wong Jung, [Ng Yong Ton], Soo Leong, Leong Kuey, Leong Fook, Mah Ming Sen.
Classical and quantum field theory in a box with moving boundaries: A numerical study of the Dynamical Casimir Effect
Creators: name: Martín-Caro, Alberto García
name: García-Moreno, Gerardo
name: Olmedo, Javier
name: Velázquez, Jose M. Sánchez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed description of a quantum scalar field theory within a flat spacetime confined to a cavity with perfectly reflecting moving boundaries. Moreover, we establish an equivalence between this time-dependent setting and a field theory on an acoustic metric with static Dirichlet boundary conditions. We discuss the classical and quantum aspects of the theory from the latter perspective, accompanied by the introduction of novel numerical techniques designed for the (nonperturbative) computation of particle production attributed to the Dynamical Casimir effect, applicable to arbitrary boundary trajectories. As an illustrative example of these methodologies, we compute the particle production for a massless field in 1+1 dimensions. Notably, our approaches readily extend to encompass scenarios involving massive fields and higher dimensions
description: 18 pages, 11 figures; v2: Matches the published version. Some references and clarifications added
Parameter estimation and system identification for continuously-observed quantum systems
Creators: name: Nurdin, Hendra I.
name: Guţǎ, Madalin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper gives an overview of parameter estimation and system identification for quantum input-output systems by continuous observation of the output field. We present recent results on the quantum Fisher information of the output with respect to unknown dynamical parameters. We discuss the structure of continuous-time measurements as solutions of the quantum Zakai equation, and their relationship to parameter estimation methods. Proceeding beyond parameter estimation, the paper also gives an overview of the emerging topic of quantum system identification for black-box modeling of quantum systems by continuous observation of a traveling wave probe, for the case of ergodic quantum input-output systems and linear quantum systems. Empirical methods for such black-box modeling are also discussed.
description: 25 pages, to appear in Annual Reviews in Control
title: Who Gets in?: Selection into Advanced Courses among Low-income, Ethnically Diverse Youth
Creators: name: Ricciardi, Courtney
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Advanced courses
subject: Course selection
subject: Low-income
subject: Course trajectories
subject: Minority students

description: Studies of educational disparity focus primarily on students who are failing to meet minimum standards. However, looking at students who outperform the standards expected of them may also be critical to understanding the achievement gap. This study assesses top performers by looking at those who enroll in honors, advanced placement, and international baccalaureate classes among a low-income and a majority Hispanic/Latino population. The population at hand comes from Miami-Dade county and is 49.2% male, 71.7% on free lunch, 9.8% on reduced lunch, 6.5% White/Other (N= 1,753), 58.8% Hispanic/Latino (N=15,692), 30.3% Black (N=8,081), .66% Asian (N=175). Prior research finds that low-income and ethnically diverse students under enroll in advanced level coursework as compared to their White, non-low-income peers due to a variety of factors. Using a range of measures including school readiness assessments such as the LAP-D, measures of socioemotional skills (the DECA), and an array of demographic and school information provided by Miami-Dade county, this study addresses how many students are taking advanced courses, how demographic factors relate to enrollment, how school readiness and prior competence predicts later enrollment, and finally whether race-based access problems still exist after controlling for all of these factors. This will be done through multiple regression, logistic regression, and hierarchical linear modeling.
OPOM: Customized Invisible Cloak towards Face Privacy Protection
Creators: name: Zhong, Yaoyao
name: Deng, Weihong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While convenient in daily life, face recognition technologies also raise privacy concerns for regular users on the social media since they could be used to analyze face images and videos, efficiently and surreptitiously without any security restrictions. In this paper, we investigate the face privacy protection from a technology standpoint based on a new type of customized cloak, which can be applied to all the images of a regular user, to prevent malicious face recognition systems from uncovering their identity. Specifically, we propose a new method, named one person one mask (OPOM), to generate person-specific (class-wise) universal masks by optimizing each training sample in the direction away from the feature subspace of the source identity. To make full use of the limited training images, we investigate several modeling methods, including affine hulls, class centers, and convex hulls, to obtain a better description of the feature subspace of source identities. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated on both common and celebrity datasets against black-box face recognition models with different loss functions and network architectures. In addition, we discuss the advantages and potential problems of the proposed method. In particular, we conduct an application study on the privacy protection of a video dataset, Sherlock, to demonstrate the potential practical usage of the proposed method. Datasets and code are available at https://github.com/zhongyy/OPOM.
description: This article has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence. Datasets and code are available at https://github.com/zhongyy/OPOM
Farey fractions with equal numerators and the rank of unit fractions
Creators: name: Garcia, Rogelio Tomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Analytical expressions are derived for the number of fractions with equal numerators in the Farey sequence of order $n$, $F_n$, and in the truncated Farey sequence $F_n^{1/k}$ containing all Farey fractions below $1/k$, with $1\leq k \leq n$. These developments lead to an expression for the rank of $1/k$ in $F_n$, or equivalently $\left|F_n^{1/k}\right|$, and to remarkable relations between the ranks of different unit fractions. Furthermore, the results are extended to Farey fractions of the form $2/k$.
description: 8 pages
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: [Wong Hean], Ngo Suey, Wong Jok Lim, Wong Fook Line, Wong Fon Wap, Chan Bark Joy, Fong Yim Lun, [Jung Wan], Chee Wong, Lew Hop.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Mah Non Jung, Mr. L. S. Wing, Mr. Fong Yeet, Mrs. Chee Lai Shee, Miss Bessie Chee, Mr. Chee Kee, Chee Wing Long, [Chee Wing ?], Chee Wing Shong, Mrs. Chee Cha Shee, [Miss Mang Chee], Chee Wing Kwong, [Chee Yat ?]
Linear instability of hairy black holes in Horndeski theory
Creators: name: Zhang, Chao
name: Zhu, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Horndeski theory constitutes the most general model of scalar-tensor theories. It has attracted much attention in recent years in relation with black holes, celestial dynamics, stability analysis, etc. It is important to note that, for certain subclasses of Horndeski models, one can obtain analytic solutions for the background fields. This facilitates the investigation of the corresponding stability problems in detail. In particular, we aim to determine the constraints to the model or theory under which the stability conditions can be satisfied. In this study, we focused on a subclass of Horndeski theory and a set of analytic background solutions. In addition, the odd-parity gravitational perturbation and 2nd-order Lagrangian were investigated. Through careful analysis, the instability was identified within the neighborhood of the event horizon. This allows exclusion of a specific geometry for the model. Such an instability is implanted in the structure of the corresponding Lagrangian and is not erased by simply adding numerical constraints on the coupling parameters. As a starting point of our research, the current study provides insights for further exploration of the Horndeski theory.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Yee Jang Man, Yee Hay Lai, Lee Wah, Sam Luon, Sam Ping Yin, Luon Way, Wong Wing, Fong Mon, Chee Wo Fon, Chee Guey Joon.
title: Note: James Monahan to Frederick A. Mclaughlin, "Role of N.T. in Relieving the Ghetto Problem," October 5, 1967
Creators: name: Monahan, James
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: Note, typescript original; 10.5” x 8” (25.4 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Note from James Monahan to Frederick A. Mclaughlin with the subject line of "Role of N.T. in Relieving the Ghetto Problem" dated October 5, 1967. This note discusses the potential of new towns to alleviate the conditions of people who are forced to live within the city because of racial discrimination and socio-economic conditions. This potential is discussed in three sections dealing with race, income and workability. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.15
title: Statement by C. Harrison Mann, Jr., no date
Creators: name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Race conflict
subject: Legislation

description: Statement: 2 pgs, typescript, 8.5" x 14" (21.6cm x 35.6cm)
description: Statement by C. Harrison Mann, Jr. regarding House Bills 59-64 which would require the registration of racially motivated lobbyists. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 16.25
Rawformer: Unpaired Raw-to-Raw Translation for Learnable Camera ISPs
Creators: name: Perevozchikov, Georgy
name: Mehta, Nancy
name: Afifi, Mahmoud
name: Timofte, Radu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern smartphone camera quality heavily relies on the image signal processor (ISP) to enhance captured raw images, utilizing carefully designed modules to produce final output images encoded in a standard color space (e.g., sRGB). Neural-based end-to-end learnable ISPs offer promising advancements, potentially replacing traditional ISPs with their ability to adapt without requiring extensive tuning for each new camera model, as is often the case for nearly every module in traditional ISPs. However, the key challenge with the recent learning-based ISPs is the urge to collect large paired datasets for each distinct camera model due to the influence of intrinsic camera characteristics on the formation of input raw images. This paper tackles this challenge by introducing a novel method for unpaired learning of raw-to-raw translation across diverse cameras. Specifically, we propose Rawformer, an unsupervised Transformer-based encoder-decoder method for raw-to-raw translation. It accurately maps raw images captured by a certain camera to the target camera, facilitating the generalization of learnable ISPs to new unseen cameras. Our method demonstrates superior performance on real camera datasets, achieving higher accuracy compared to previous state-of-the-art techniques, and preserving a more robust correlation between the original and translated raw images. The codes and the pretrained models are available at https://github.com/gosha20777/rawformer.
description: Accepted by ECCV 2024
Deep Low-Density Separation for Semi-Supervised Classification
Creators: name: Burkhart, Michael C.
name: Shan, Kyle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T10, 62H30 (Primary) 68T20, 68T30 (Secondary)

description: Given a small set of labeled data and a large set of unlabeled data, semi-supervised learning (SSL) attempts to leverage the location of the unlabeled datapoints in order to create a better classifier than could be obtained from supervised methods applied to the labeled training set alone. Effective SSL imposes structural assumptions on the data, e.g. that neighbors are more likely to share a classification or that the decision boundary lies in an area of low density. For complex and high-dimensional data, neural networks can learn feature embeddings to which traditional SSL methods can then be applied in what we call hybrid methods. Previously-developed hybrid methods iterate between refining a latent representation and performing graph-based SSL on this representation. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid method that instead applies low-density separation to the embedded features. We describe it in detail and discuss why low-density separation may be better suited for SSL on neural network-based embeddings than graph-based algorithms. We validate our method using in-house customer survey data and compare it to other state-of-the-art learning methods. Our approach effectively classifies thousands of unlabeled users from a relatively small number of hand-classified examples.
title: A Geospatial Framework to Estimate Depth of Scour under Buildings Due to Storm Surge in Coastal Areas
Creators: name: Borga, Mariamawit
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Scour depth
subject: ArcGIS Framework
subject: Storm surge
subject: Building scour
subject: Hurricane Sandy

description: Hurricanes and tropical storms represent one of the major hazards in coastal communities. Storm surge generated by strong winds and low pressure from these systems have the potential to bring extensive flooding in coastal areas. In many cases, the damage caused by the storm surge may exceed the damage from the wind resulting in the total collapse of buildings. Therefore, in coastal areas, one of the sources for major structural damage could be due to scour, where the soil below the building that serves as the foundation is swept away by the movement of the water. The existing methodologies to forecast hurricane flood damage do not differentiate between the different damage mechanisms (e.g., inundation vs. scour). Currently, there are no tools available that predominantly focus on forecasting scour related damage for buildings. Such a tool could provide significant advantages for planning and/or preparing emergency responses. Therefore the focus of this study was to develop a methodology to predict possible scour depth due to hurricane storm surges using an automated ArcGIS tool that incorporates the expected hurricane conditions (flow depth, velocity, and flood duration), site-specific building information, and the associated soil types for the foundation. A case study from Monmouth County (NJ), where the scour damages from 2012 Hurricane Sandy were recorded after the storm, was used to evaluate the accuracy of the developed forecasting tool and to relate the scour depth to potential scour damage. The results indicate that the developed tool provides relatively consistent results with the field observations.
MONETARY POLICY TRANSMISSION: LESSONS FROM THE TURKISH ECONOMY
Creators: name: Professor Cemile, K. Yildiz
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Monetary Transmission Mechanism, monetary policy, interest rate channel, exchange rate channel, bank credit channel, balance sheet channel

description: The Monetary Transmission Mechanism (MTM) plays a pivotal role in shaping real economic activities, including production, consumption, and employment, by channeling the impact of monetary policy decisions. This dynamic process encompasses the total demand resulting from these policy decisions, as well as their effects on inflation expectations and rates. In the contemporary economic landscape, one of the most prominent repercussions of fluctuations in monetary policy is witnessed in the financial choices made by businesses. Such policy changes can significantly influence enterprises' sales, production expenditures, and balance sheets, spanning both durable and nondurable goods production and impacting households' overall expenditure. The MTM can be broadly categorized into two primary components. Firstly, it encompasses the analysis of market interest rate fluctuations, delving into how monetary policy decisions affect the asset landscape, including foreign exchange rates and financial market conditions. Secondly, it scrutinizes the production-related aspects affected by changes in financial market conditions and inflation rates. The MTM operates through a multifaceted network of channels, influencing households' purchasing decisions and altering firms' balance sheets.

This article underscores the diverse channels that constitute the MTM, including the exchange rate channel, interest rate channel, bank credit channel, and balance sheet channel. By exploring these channels, it seeks to unravel the intricate pathways through which monetary changes reverberate across total demand and production levels
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lee Hook Chin, Huey Sam Choy, Huey Chai Lew, Woo Ngok Ling, Woo Kee Hoo, Jung Fook Loy, Chan Young, Chan Soon Wei, Shew Bing Mon, Wong Gee.
A methodology of quantifying membrane permeability based on returning probability theory and molecular dynamics simulation
Creators: name: Matsubara, Yuya
name: Okabe, Ryo
name: Masayama, Ren
name: Watanabe, Nozomi Morishita
name: Umakoshi, Hiroshi
name: Kasahara, Kento
name: Matubayasi, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a theoretical approach to estimate the permeability coefficient of substrates (permeants) for crossing membranes from donor (D) phase to acceptor (A) phase by means of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. A fundamental aspect of our approach involves reformulating the returning probability (RP) theory, a rigorous bimolecular reaction theory, to describe permeation phenomena. This reformulation relies on the parallelism between permeation and bimolecular reaction processes. In the present method, the permeability coefficient is represented in terms of the thermodynamic and kinetic quantities for the reactive (R) phase that exists within the inner region of membranes. One can evaluate these quantities using multiple MD trajectories starting from phase R. We apply the RP theory to the permeation of ethanol and methylamine at different concentrations (infinitely dilute and 1 mol% conditions of permeants). Under the 1 mol% condition, the present method yields a larger permeability coefficient for ethanol ($0.12 \pm 0.01 ~\mathrm{cm~s^{-1}}$) than for methylamine ($0.069\pm 0.006~\mathrm{cm~s^{-1}}$), while the values of the permeability coefficient are satisfactorily close to those obtained from the brute-force MD simulations [$0.18\pm 0.03 ~\mathrm{cm~s^{-1}}$ and $0.052 \pm 0.005 ~\mathrm{cm~s^{-1}}$ for ethanol and methylamine, respectively]. Moreover, upon analyzing the thermodynamic and kinetic contributions to the permeability, we clarify that a higher concentration dependency of permeability for ethanol, as compared to methylamine, arises from the sensitive nature of ethanol's free-energy barrier within the inner region of the membrane against ethanol concentration.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures for maintext
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chan Gin Kee, Chow Sheck Quon, Yi[ Yon Choy, [Yip Kwong Dun], Yip Jum Ping, [Sin Jack Yeng], Jung Jone Chew, Jung Yan, Chan Wah Tai, Soo Chew Goon.
title: The Creation and Utilization of Multimedia Enhancing Thaijo 2.0’s Effectiveness
Creators: name: Jiraroch Thummasaroch
Publisher: name: Department of Information Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: Multimedia
ThaiJO2.0 system
Academic journals

description: Journal of Information Science Research and Practice, 43, 1, 73–88
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chin Jung, Mah Dick, Joe Gee Long, Lee Bing Chee, Woo Hing, Woo Yin, Chin Mon Chee, Wong Mee Sang, Mah King.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chu Tan Fay, Chew Duck, Chew Man, Young Yow, Lee Poo Sing, Young Jai, Wong Wing Hay, Dong Chai Lok, Leong Hing Yee, Lee Shong Chong.
Ansätze und Tools für Historische Text Reuse Detection Fragmentierter Text Reuse am Beispiel ripuarischer Inkunabeln des 15. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Ostrowski, Alina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: DHd2024
Posterpräsentation
Mediävistik
Historical Text Reuse Detection
Inkunabeln
Ripuarisch
Entdeckung
Bewertung
Stilistische Analyse
Methoden
Forschungsprozess
Text

description: Text Reuse Detection (TRD) ist ein Teilgebiet des Natural Language Processing mit dem Ziel, wiederverwendete Passagen in distinkten Texten zu identifizieren. Seit etwa zehn Jahren wird TRD vermehrt für historische Forschung erprobt und eingesetzt, wobei typische Charakteristika historischer Sprachdaten, wie geringe sprachliche Standardisierung oder fehlende digitale Ressourcen, die Durchführung erschweren. Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über verfügbare Tools zur Historischen TRD und die ihnen zugrundeliegenden Ansätze. Anhand eines konkreten Forschungsvorhabens aus dem Bereich der mittelalterlichen Stadtgeschichtsschreibungs- und Inkunabelforschung wird ihre Anwendbarkeit auf kurzen Text Reuse in wenig erschlossenen Sprachen (hier: Ripuarisch) diskutiert.
description: Hinweis: In der ersten Version des Posters waren die Spalten der Tabelle „Systematischer Vergleich und Evaluation“ falsch benannt, so dass den Tools falsche Eigenschaften zugeschrieben waren. Dies wurde in der zweiten Version korrigiert. Tab. 1 und 2, Abb. 1 und 2 sowie die Beschreibungen im Text waren bereits korrekt in Bezug auf die Zuordnung der Ergebnisse zu den einzelnen Tools.
title: Revisiting the Constitution: A Case For Parliamentary System in Central Asia?
Creators: name: Abdukadirov, Sherzod
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Institutional design
subject: Presidential
subject: Parliamentary
subject: Central Asia
subject: Elections
subject: Sherzod Abdukadirov

description: Institutional design can impact the dynamics of power relations in authoritarian regimes. Under the presidential system in Central Asian states, the elite factions agree upon a presidential candidate before the elections and then ensure their candidate’s victory by manipulating the elections. As the cost of exclusion in this process is very high, every elite faction is forced to collude with the other factions. Under a parliamentary system, bargaining among the elites in selection of the head of state would occur after the elections as the elites would have to first secure parliamentary seats to be able to vote for the head of state. Such a process would reduce the stakes in each particular election, making it harder for the elites to manipulate elections yet safer to allow some opposition. Furthermore, the balance of power among the elites in parliament would be decided by the people, giving them a voice in the process.
SFace: Sigmoid-Constrained Hypersphere Loss for Robust Face Recognition
Creators: name: Zhong, Yaoyao
name: Deng, Weihong
name: Hu, Jiani
name: Zhao, Dongyue
name: Li, Xian
name: Wen, Dongchao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep face recognition has achieved great success due to large-scale training databases and rapidly developing loss functions. The existing algorithms devote to realizing an ideal idea: minimizing the intra-class distance and maximizing the inter-class distance. However, they may neglect that there are also low quality training images which should not be optimized in this strict way. Considering the imperfection of training databases, we propose that intra-class and inter-class objectives can be optimized in a moderate way to mitigate overfitting problem, and further propose a novel loss function, named sigmoid-constrained hypersphere loss (SFace). Specifically, SFace imposes intra-class and inter-class constraints on a hypersphere manifold, which are controlled by two sigmoid gradient re-scale functions respectively. The sigmoid curves precisely re-scale the intra-class and inter-class gradients so that training samples can be optimized to some degree. Therefore, SFace can make a better balance between decreasing the intra-class distances for clean examples and preventing overfitting to the label noise, and contributes more robust deep face recognition models. Extensive experiments of models trained on CASIA-WebFace, VGGFace2, and MS-Celeb-1M databases, and evaluated on several face recognition benchmarks, such as LFW, MegaFace and IJB-C databases, have demonstrated the superiority of SFace.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chan Jun, Chee Fay Jung, [Ma Hoa Guang], Nooey Gin Poy, Chan Shew Cheong, Young Jim, Ng Shee Chong, Yue Yee, Yue Wai Yuk, Mah Hong.
Ansätze und Tools für Historische Text Reuse Detection Fragmentierter Text Reuse am Beispiel ripuarischer Inkunabeln des 15. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Ostrowski, Alina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: DHd2024
Posterpräsentation
Mediävistik
Historical Text Reuse Detection
Inkunabeln
Ripuarisch
Entdeckung
Bewertung
Stilistische Analyse
Methoden
Forschungsprozess
Text

description: Text Reuse Detection (TRD) ist ein Teilgebiet des Natural Language Processing mit dem Ziel, wiederverwendete Passagen in distinkten Texten zu identifizieren. Seit etwa zehn Jahren wird TRD vermehrt für historische Forschung erprobt und eingesetzt, wobei typische Charakteristika historischer Sprachdaten, wie geringe sprachliche Standardisierung oder fehlende digitale Ressourcen, die Durchführung erschweren. Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über verfügbare Tools zur Historischen TRD und die ihnen zugrundeliegenden Ansätze. Anhand eines konkreten Forschungsvorhabens aus dem Bereich der mittelalterlichen Stadtgeschichtsschreibungs- und Inkunabelforschung wird ihre Anwendbarkeit auf kurzen Text Reuse in wenig erschlossenen Sprachen (hier: Ripuarisch) diskutiert.