cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EXPLORING FEMTECH: INVESTIGATING CLUE AND PRIVACY CONCERNS AMONG MENSTRUATORS
Creators: name: Rightley, Claire Elyse
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460404
subject: Digital forensics

description: FemTech is a booming subset of mHealth applications that was worth $51 billion in 2021 (Stewart, 2022b). FemTech largely focuses on menstruation, pregnancy, and fertility tracking. As with any technology, it comes with privacy and security risks for users, but these risks are more acute due to the sensitive nature of the data being collected. While privacy and security shortcomings have been highlighted for years, concerns were discussed widely in the United States after the Supreme Court released its Dobbs v. Jackson decision on June 24, 2022, which overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 decision that protected abortion as a constitutional right and limited states’ abilities to place restrictions on abortions. With abortion no longer a constitutional right, many states have outlawed or heavily restricted the procedure, and individuals expressed concern about their digital data being used in investigations as it has been in select previous cases (e.g., State of Indiana v. Purvi Patel, 2015; State of Mississippi v. Latice Fisher, 2018; The State of Nebraska v. Celeste Burgess, 2023; The State of Nebraska v. Jessica Burgess, 2023). While Big Tech has been scrutinized for turning user data over to law enforcement, many have more heavily questioned the protections offered by period tracking app companies due to the abundant amount of health data these companies possess about their users (e.g., Basu, 2022; Bradley et al., 2022; Cole, 2022). These apps have historically fallen short in protections for their user data in general (e.g., Beilinson, 2020; Developer of Popular Women’s Fertility-Tracking App Settles FTC Allegations That It Misled Consumers About the Disclosure of Their Health Data, 2021; Quintin, 2017). Clue is one of the most popular FemTech apps with millions of downloads across the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and the company has spoken out widely about their privacy protections in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision (‎Clue Period Tracker & Calendar, n.d.; Clue Period Tracker & Calendar, n.d.; Clue’s Response to Roe vs Wade Decision, 2022). This research presents a forensic analysis of Clue on both iOS and Android after two months of data population, finding that some user-entered data was available in the app cache or .db-wal files on both iOS and Android but was entirely erased after the deletion of the app on the phones. This research also presents results from a survey of 31 menstruators in the United States, finding that online privacy in general is a concern for many users, and most find it unacceptable for period tracking applications to share user health data with advertisers or law enforcement.
SARA -- A Semantic Access Point Resource Allocation Service for Heterogenous Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Zhou, Qianru
name: Gray, Alasdair J. G.
name: Pezaros, Dimitrios
name: McLaughlin, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present SARA, a Semantic Access point Resource Allocation service for heterogenous wireless networks with various wireless access technologies existing together. By automatically reasoning on the knowledge base of the full system provided by a knowledge based autonomic network management system -- SEANET, SARA selects the access point providing the best quality of service among the different access technologies. Based on an ontology assisted knowledge based system SEANET, SARA can also adapt the access point selection strategy according to customer defined rules automatically. Results of our evaluation based on emulated networks with hybrid access technologies and various scales show that SARA is able to improve the channel condition, in terms of throughput, evidently. Comparisons with current AP selection algorithms demonstrate that SARA outperforms the existing AP selection algorithms. The overhead in terms of time expense is reasonable and is shown to be faster than traditional access point selection approaches.
description: 2019 IEEE Wireless Day
Amphiglena Claparede 1864
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Amphiglena

description: Genus Amphiglena Claparède, 1864
Amphiglena mediterranea (Leydig, 1851)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fauvel 1934; Banse 1959; Laubier 1962; Zavodnik 1965, 1967a, 1967b; Banse 1970; Amoureux & Katzmann 1971; Katzmann 1971, 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1973a; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Amoureux 1975, 1983c; Fassari 1983; Katzmann 1983; Požar-Domac 1983, 1986; Giangrande 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Arko-Pijevac et al. 2001; Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Casellato et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2013.
NEW RECORDS: BM18, BM74, BM80.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Handling SQL Nulls with Two-Valued Logic
Creators: name: Libkin, Leonid
name: Peterfreund, Liat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The design of SQL is based on a three-valued logic (3VL), rather than the familiar Boolean logic. 3VL adds a truth value unknown to true and false to handle nulls. Viewed as indispensable for SQL expressiveness, it is at the same time much criticized for unintuitive behavior of queries and being a source of programmer mistakes. We show that, contrary to the widely held view, SQL could have been designed based on the standard Boolean logic, without any loss of expressiveness and without giving up nulls. The approach itself follows SQL's evaluation, which only retains tuples for which conditions in WHERE evaluate to true. We show that conflating unknown with false leads to an equally expressive version of SQL that does not use the third truth value. Queries written under the two-valued semantics can be efficiently translated into the standard SQL and thus executed on any existing RDBMS. These results cover the core of the SQL 1999 Standard: SELECT-FROM-WHERE-GROUP BY-HAVING queries extended with subqueries and IN/EXISTS/ANY/ALL conditions, and recursive queries. We also investigate new optimization rules enabled by the two-valued SQL, and show that for many queries, including most of those found in benchmarks such as TPC-H and TPC-DS, there is no difference between three- and two-valued versions.
Convergent adaptive hybrid higher-order schemes for convex minimization
Creators: name: Carstensen, Carsten
name: Tran, Ngoc Tien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N12 (Primary), 65N30, 65Y20 (Secondary)

description: This paper proposes two convergent adaptive mesh-refining algorithms for the hybrid high-order method in convex minimization problems with two-sided p-growth. Examples include the p-Laplacian, an optimal design problem in topology optimization, and the convexified double-well problem. The hybrid high-order method utilizes a gradient reconstruction in the space of piecewise Raviart-Thomas finite element functions without stabilization on triangulations into simplices or in the space of piecewise polynomials with stabilization on polytopal meshes. The main results imply the convergence of the energy and, under further convexity properties, of the approximations of the primal resp. dual variable. Numerical experiments illustrate an efficient approximation of singular minimizers and improved convergence rates for higher polynomial degrees. Computer simulations provide striking numerical evidence that an adopted adaptive HHO algorithm can overcome the Lavrentiev gap phenomenon even with empirical higher convergence rates.
Operator Spreading in the Memory Matrix Formalism
Creators: name: McCulloch, Ewan
name: von Keyserlingk, C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spread and scrambling of quantum information is a topic of considerable current interest. Numerous studies suggest that quantum information evolves according to hydrodynamical equations of motion, even though it is a starkly different quantity to better-known hydrodynamical variables such as charge and energy. In this work we show that the well-known memory matrix formalism for traditional hydrodynamics can be applied, with relatively little modification, to the question of operator growth in many-body quantum systems. On a conceptual level, this shores up the connection between information scrambling and hydrodynamics. At a practical level, it provides a framework for calculating quantities related to operator growth like the butterfly velocity and front diffusion constant, and for understanding how these quantities are constrained by microscopic symmetries. We apply this formalism to calculate operator-hydrodynamical coefficients perturbatively in a family of Floquet models. Our formalism allows us to identify the processes affecting information transport that arise from the spatiotemporal symmetries of the model.
description: 58 pages, 3 figures
Bispira Kroyer 1856
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Bispira

description: Genus Bispira Krøyer, 1856
Bispira mariae Lo Bianco, 1893
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Giangrande 1989; Zahtila 1995; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Patti et al. 2003; Zavodnik et al. 2006.
* Bispira viola (Grube, 1863)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1863, 1864; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Giangrande 1989; Arko- Pijevac et al. 2001; Castelli et al. 2008.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Sabella viola Grube, 1863.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
MADANIY SEMANTIKANING DUNYO TILSHUNOSLIGIDAGI O'ZIGA XOS XUSUSIYATLARI
Creators: name: Xojiyeva, Nozima
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqola dunyoning lingvistik rasmini shakllantirishda madaniy semantikaning rolini tahlil qilishga bag‘ishlangan. Madaniy semantikaning asosiy xususiyatlari va uning turli tillar va madaniyatlarda namoyon bo‘lish usullari ko‘rib chiqiladi. Qarindoshlik tizimlari, rang qiymatlari, fazoviy yo‘nalish va etnobiologik tasniflarning misollari madaniy semantikaning til lug‘atiga qanday integratsiyalashganligini va uning dunyo rasmini yaratishini ko‘rsatadi. Til, fikrlash va madaniyatning o‘zaro bog‘liqligi tahlil qilinadi.
Alexander invariants and cohomology jump loci in group extensions
Creators: name: Suciu, Alexander I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F14, 55N25, 14M12, 16W70, 17B70, 20F40, 20J05, 57M05, 57M07

description: We study the integral, rational, and modular Alexander invariants, as well as the cohomology jump loci of groups arising as extensions with trivial algebraic monodromy. Our focus is on extensions of the form $1\to K\to G\to Q\to 1$, where $Q$ is an abelian group acting trivially on $H_1(K;\mathbb{Z})$, with suitable modifications in the rational and mod-$p$ settings. We find a tight relationship between the Alexander invariants, the characteristic varieties, and the resonance varieties of the groups $K$ and $G$. This leads to an inequality between the respective Chen ranks, which becomes an equality in degrees greater than 1 for split extensions.
description: 62 pages; accepted for publication in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Generalisations of Matrix Partitions : Complexity and Obstructions
Creators: name: Barsukov, Alexey
name: Kanté, Mamadou Moustapha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.1.3
subject: 68Q15, 68Q17, 05B20

description: A trigraph is a graph where each pair of vertices is labelled either 0 (a non-arc), 1 (an arc) or $\star$ (both an arc and a non-arc). In a series of papers, Hell and co-authors proposed to study the complexity of homomorphisms from graphs to trigraphs, called Matrix Partition Problems, where arcs and non-arcs can be both mapped to $\star$-arcs, while a non-arc cannot be mapped to an arc, and vice-versa. Even though Matrix Partition Problems are generalisations of CSPs, they share with them the property of being ``intrinsically'' combinatorial. So, the question of a possible P-time vs NP-complete dichotomy is a very natural one and was raised in Hell et al.'s papers. We propose a generalisation of Matrix Partitions to relational structures and study them with respect to the question of a dichotomy. We first show that trigraph homomorphisms and Matrix Partitions are P-time equivalent, and then prove that one can also restrict (with respect to having a dichotomy) to relational structures with a single relation. Failing in proving that Matrix Partitions on directed graphs are not P-time equivalent to Matrix Partitions on relational structures, we give some evidence that it might be unlikely by formalising the reductions used in the case of CSPs and by showing that such reductions cannot work for the case of Matrix Partitions. We then turn our attention to Matrix Partitions that can be described by finite sets of (induced-subgraph) obstructions. We show, in particular, that any such problem has finitely many minimal obstructions if and only if it has finite duality. We conclude by showing that on trees (seen as trigraphs) it is NP-complete to decide whether a given tree has a homomorphism to another input trigraph. The latter shows a notable difference on tractability between CSP and Matrix Partitions as it is well-known that CSP is tractable on the class of trees.
Branchiomma Kolliker 1858
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Branchiomma

description: Genus Branchiomma Kölliker, 1858
Branchiomma bombyx (Dalyell, 1853)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1864; Stossich 1883; Bellan 1969; Banse 1970; Katzmann 1971, 1972, 1973a; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Katzmann 1983; Fassari 1983; Giangrande 1989; Gherardi et al. 1993; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995; Fraschetti et al. 2002; Giangrande et al. 2003; Castelli et al. 2008; Licciano & Giangrande 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM44, BM45.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Dasychone bombyx (Dalyell, 1853); Sabella polyzonos Grube 1863.
(AL) Branchiomma luctuosum Grube, 1870
DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Licciano et al. 2002; Castelli et al. 2008.
REMARKS: Alien species with Indo-Pacific origin (Zenetos et al. 2010). It was recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea by Giangrande (1989) from material collected by C.N. Bianchi during an expedition between 1978 and 1979 to Lucrino Lagoon (Naples) (Bianchi 1983b).
Branchiomma lucullanum (Delle Chiaje, 1828)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1861; Lorenz 1863; Grube 1864; Stossich 1876; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Fauvel 1940; Zavodnik 1965, 1967a, 1967b; Banse 1970; Amoureux & Katzmann 1971; Katzmann 1971, 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1973a; Velimirov & Sint 1975; Amoureux 1975, 1976; Amoureux 1983a, 1983c; Fassari 1983; Katzmann 1983; Požar-Domac 1983, 1986; Špan et al. 1989; Gherardi et al. 1993; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Simonini et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Sabella lucullana Delle Chiaje, 1828; Dasychone lucullana (Delle Chiaje, 1828); Branchiomma lucullana (Delle Chiaje, 1828); Branchioma lucullana (Delle Chiaje, 1828).
Branchiomma maerli Licciano & Giangrande, 2008 DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Mikac et al. 2013.
* Branchiomma moebii Knight-Jones, 1994
DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Knight-Jones 1994; Castelli et al. 2008; Licciano & Giangrande 2008.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Claviramus Fitzhugh 2002
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Claviramus

description: Genus Claviramus Fitzhugh, 2002
* Claviramus candelus (Grube, 1863)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1863, 1864; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1935, 1943; Marcuzzi 1972; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Zavodnik et al. 1981; Amoureux 1983a; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Giangrande 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Jasmineira candela (Grube, 1863); Sabella candela Grube, 1863.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Time functions on Lorentzian length spaces
Creators: name: Burtscher, Annegret
name: García-Heveling, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C23 (primary) 53C50, 53C75, 53C80, 83C05 (secondary)

description: In general relativity, time functions are crucial objects whose existence and properties are intimately tied to the causal structure of a spacetime and also to the initial value formulation of the Einstein equations. In this work we establish all fundamental classical existence results on time functions in the setting of Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces (including causally plain continuous spacetimes, closed cone fields and even more singular spaces). More precisely, we characterize the existence of time functions by $K$-causality, show that a modified notion of Geroch's volume functions are time functions if and only if the space is causally continuous, and lastly, characterize global hyperbolicity by the existence of Cauchy time functions, and Cauchy sets. Our results thus inevitably show that no manifold structure is needed in order to obtain suitable time functions.
description: Accepted version. 40 pages, 2 figures
The labor market integration of immigrant women in Europe: context, theory, and evidence
Creators: name: Schieckoff, Bentley
name: Sprengholz, Maximilian
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Labor market disadvantage
subject: Gender gap
subject: Nativity gap
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: In this overview, we seek to provide a comprehensive resource for scholars of female immigrant labor market integration in Europe, to act both as a reference and a roadmap for future studies in this domain. We begin by presenting a contextual history of immigration to and within Europe since the Second World War, before outlining the major theoretical assumptions about immigrant women’s labor market disadvantage. We then synthesize the empirical findings from quantitative studies published between 2000 and 2020 and analyze how they line up with the theoretical predictions. We supplement the review with descriptive analyses using data from 2019, which expose any discrepancies between the current situation in European countries and the situation during the time periods considered in the reviewed studies. Our review has three main take-aways. First, the theoretically relevant determinants of immigrant women’s labor market integration are generally supported by empirical evidence, but the unexplained heterogeneity that remains in many cases between immigrant women and other groups on the labor market calls for more systematic and comprehensive investigations. Second, quantitative studies which take a holistic approach to studying the labor market disadvantages of immigrant women—and all the considerations related to their gender and nativity that this entails—are rare in this body of literature, and future studies should address this. Third, fruitful avenues for future contributions to this field include expanding on certain overlooked outcomes, like immigrant women’s self-employment, as well as geographic regions that until now have received little attention, especially by employing the most recent data.
Comparing the Incomparable? Issues of Lacking Common Support, Functional-Form Misspecification, and Insufficient Sample Size in Decompositions
Creators: name: Hamjediers, Maik
name: Sprengholz, Maximilian
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: decomposition
subject: matching
subject: Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca
subject: simulation
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Decompositions make it possible to investigate whether gaps between groups in certain outcomes would remain if groups had comparable characteristics. In practice, however, such a counterfactual comparability is difficult to establish in the presence of lacking common support, functional-form misspecification, and insufficient sample size. In this article, the authors show how decompositions can be undermined by these three interrelated issues by comparing the results of a regression-based Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition and matching decompositions applied to simulated and real-world data. The results show that matching decompositions are robust to issues of common support and functional-form misspecification but demand a large number of observations. Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions provide consistent estimates also for smaller samples but require assumptions for model specification and, when common support is lacking, for model-based extrapolation. The authors recommend that any decomposition benefits from using a matching approach first to assess potential problems of common support and misspecification.
Algebraic connectivity of the second power of a graph
Creators: name: Afshari, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C50, 15A18

description: Denote the Laplacian of a graph $G$ by $L(G)$ and its second smallest Laplacian eigenvalue by $λ_2(G)$. If $G$ is a graph on $n\ge 2$ vertices, then it is shown that the second smallest eigenvalue of $L(G) + \frac{1}{n} L(\overline{G^2})$ is at least 1, where $\overline{G^2}$ is the complement of the second power of $ G $. As a corollary of this result, it is shown that \begin{itemize}
 \item $ n \, λ_2(G) \ge λ_2(G^2), $
 \item $ λ_2(G) \ge 1-\frac{|D_G|}{n}, $
 \item $ λ_2(G) + λ_2(\Gb) \ge 1, $ \end{itemize} where $|D_G|$ is the number of vertices of eccentricity at least 3 in $G$.
description: 8 pages, correct some typos, rewrite abstract, same as the version published in the JGT
The thermal properties of cob buildings of Devon
Creators: name: Goodhew, Steven Michael Rhyder
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2000

description: Little has been published concerning the thermal properties of existing unbaked earth walls. In order to model the thermal behaviour of a building constructed using traditional cob walls, the thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity need to be established. The Centre for Earthen Architecture (CEA), based at the University of Plymouth's School of Architecture has carried out research into various aspects of cob architecture typical to the Devon area. This study supplements other work concerning the moisture content, structure and pathology of cob as a building material. This research concentrates upon the development of a time dependent probe technique for the measurement of the thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of cob. The literature concerning the technique is reviewed. Methods of obtaining thermal data from the results are discussed. Particular emphasis is placed upon the measurement of the probe's thermal contact conductance with the test material. A series of laboratory tests and results from specific test materials are described. From this work, a link between the improvement of the thermal contact between the probe and the specimen and the accuracy of the thermal diffusivity values is established. The development of field test apparatus is described and the results from three field tests are examined. Values for thermal conductivity, diffusivity and the probe thermal contact conductance are established. These results are used in a thermal simulation of a cob dwelling. The output from the simulation is compared with results from a modern timberframe house of identical dimensions and use. The thermal response of the modern timber-frame house was found to be similar to that of the cob dwelling. However, generally, the range of internal air temperature was found to be higher in the interior spaces of the timber framed dwelling than the cob dwelling.
Desdemona Banse 1957
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Desdemona

description: Genus Desdemona Banse, 1957
(AL) Desdemona ornata Banse, 1957
DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Maggiore & Keppel 2007; Prevedelli et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008. REMARKS: Alien species with Indo-Pacific origin (Zenetos et al. 2010). Reported for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea in a brackish microhabitat of Elba Island (Tuscan Archipelago, Ligurian Sea) (Lardici & Castelli 1986).
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Enabling Large Batch Size Training for DNN Models Beyond the Memory Limit While Maintaining Performance
Creators: name: Piao, XinYu
name: Synn, DoangJoo
name: Park, JooYoung
name: Kim, Jong-Kook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent deep learning models are difficult to train using a large batch size, because commodity machines may not have enough memory to accommodate both the model and a large data batch size. The batch size is one of the hyper-parameters used in the training model, and it is dependent on and is limited by the target machine memory capacity because the batch size can only fit into the remaining memory after the model is uploaded. Moreover, the data item size is also an important factor because if each data item size is larger then the batch size that can fit into the remaining memory becomes smaller. This paper proposes a method called Micro-Batch Processing (MBP) to address this problem. This method helps deep learning models to train by providing a batch processing method that splits a batch into a size that can fit in the remaining memory and processes them sequentially. After processing the small batches individually, a loss normalization algorithm based on the gradient accumulation is used to maintain the performance. The purpose of our method is to allow deep learning models to train using larger batch sizes that exceed the memory capacity of a system without increasing the memory size or using multiple devices (GPUs).
description: Published in IEEE Access
Convergence of a regularized finite element discretization of the two-dimensional Monge-Ampère equation
Creators: name: Gallistl, Dietmar
name: Tran, Ngoc Tien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J96, 65N12, 65N30, 65Y20

description: This paper proposes a regularization of the Monge-Ampère equation in planar convex domains through uniformly elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. The regularized problem possesses a unique strong solution $u_\varepsilon$ and is accessible to the discretization with finite elements. This work establishes locally uniform convergence of $u_\varepsilon$ to the convex Alexandrov solution $u$ to the Monge-Ampère equation as the regularization parameter $\varepsilon$ approaches $0$. A mixed finite element method for the approximation of $u_\varepsilon$ is proposed, and the regularized finite element scheme is shown to be locally uniformly convergent. Numerical experiments provide empirical evidence for the efficient approximation of singular solutions $u$.
Non-Boussinesq stability analysis of natural-convection gaseous flow on inclined hot plates
Creators: name: Rajamanickam, Prabakaran
name: Coenen, Wilfried
name: Sánchez, Antonio L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The buoyancy-driven boundary-layer flow that develops over a semi-infinite inclined hot plate is known to become unstable at a finite distance from the leading edge, characterized by a critical value of the Grashof number Gr based on the local boundary-layer thickness. The nature of the resulting instability depends on the inclination angle $ϕ$, measured from the vertical direction. For values of $ϕ$ below a critical value $ϕ_c$ the instability is characterized by the appearance of spanwise traveling waves, whereas for $ϕ>ϕ_c$ the bifurcated flow displays Görtler-like streamwise vortices. The Boussinesq approximation, employed in previous linear stability analyses, ceases to be valid for gaseous flow when the wall-to-ambient temperature ratio $Θ_w$ is not close to unity. The corresponding non-Boussinesq analysis is presented here, accounting also for the variation with temperature of the different transport properties. A temporal stability analysis including nonparallel effects of the base flow is used to determine curves of neutral stability, which are then employed to delineate the dependences of the critical Grashof number and of its associated wave length on the inclination angle $ϕ$ and on the temperature ratio $Θ_w$ for the two instability modes, giving quantitative information of interest for configurations with $Θ_w-1\sim 1$. The analysis provides in particular the predicted dependence of the crossover inclination angle $ϕ_c$ on $Θ_w$, indicating that for gaseous flow with $Θ_w-1\sim 1$ spanwise traveling waves are predominant over a range of inclination angles $0 \le ϕ\le ϕ_c$ that is significantly wider than that predicted in the Boussinesq approximation.
Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing and Characterisation of Nano-Colloids for Nanotoxicology Applications
Creators: name: Hma Salah, Nasih
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing and Characterisation of Nano-Colloids for Nanotoxicology Applications

description: In this research, a Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) based sensor system was developed for quick detection of not only silver nanoparticles at low concentrations, but also to a range of individual analytes, according to their optical properties. SPR-based sensors are extremely sensitive to changes in the optical properties of the local environment at this interface, making these instruments highly valuable for surface science and bio-sensing experiments. This has enabled silver in solution (silver nitrate) to be detected from colloidal nanoparticles. This study involves the theoretical development of an SPR system, where a glass prism and a multi-layered chip are used. The model presented is rigorous and applicable for any multilayer system. With this model, different parameters of the sensor can be selectively altered allowing the user to optimise the sensor’s response for a particular analyte and to determine system parameters on the basis of results obtained during experiments. Both theoretical predictions and experimental measurements show that the predicted effective permittivity of silver nanoparticles Ag NPs compared with silver nitrate AgNO3 enabled the presence of colloidal silver versus silver in solution to be differentiated down to a concentration limit of 0.1 mgl-1. Different materials were analysed for the compatibility and chemical stability for fabricating biochips. It has been successfully demonstrated that graphene-based SPR sensors are quite promising instruments owing to their improved sensitivity and other beneficial characteristics. Discussion related to different results obtained during experiments is also included together with some recommendations. Opportunities for future research are also mentioned, such as miniaturisation of an SPR sensor system for portable applications so that this technology can be utilised for detection of nano toxicants in the environment.
Robust Frequency Constrained UC Using Data Driven Logistic Regression for Island Power Systems
Creators: name: Rajabdorri, Mohammad
name: Lobato, Enrique
name: Sigrist, Lukas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In the current practice of short-term power scheduling, online power reserves are used to address generation mismatches and contingencies. Neither online inertia nor the speed of the committed units is considered in the scheduling process. With the increasing injection of uncertain renewable energy sources, this practice is starting to fall short especially in island power systems, where the primary frequency response is already scarce, and any contingency leads to potentially poor frequency response. This paper introduces a data driven linear constraint to improve the post-fault frequency quality in island power systems. A coherent initial data-set is obtained by simulating the system frequency response of single outages. Then logistic regression is employed as a predictive analytic procedure to differentiate the acceptable and unacceptable incidents. To compare the conventional methods with the proposed approach and also to handle the uncertain nature of renewable energy generation, an adaptive robust unit commitment formulation is utilized. Results for the island power system of La Palma show that depending on the chosen cut-point on the logistic regression estimation the proposed method can improve the frequency response quality of the system while reducing the operation costs.
On Formality and Combinatorial Formality for hyperplane arrangements
Creators: name: Möller, Tilman
name: Mücksch, Paul
name: Roehrle, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F55, 52B30, 52C35, 14N20

description: A hyperplane arrangement is called formal provided all linear dependencies among the defining forms of the hyperplanes are generated by ones corresponding to intersections of codimension two. The significance of this notion stems from the fact that complex arrangements with aspherical complements are formal. The aim of this note is twofold. While work of Yuzvinsky shows that formality is not combinatorial, in our first main theorem we prove that the combinatorial property of niceness of arrangements does entail formality. Our second main theorem shows that formality is hereditary, i.e. is passed to restrictions. This is rather counter-intuitive, as in contrast the known sufficient conditions for formality, i.e. asphericity, freeness and niceness (owed to our first theorem), are not hereditary themselves. We also demonstrate that the stronger property of $k$-formality, due to Brandt and Terao, is not hereditary.
description: 17 pages; v2 small changes; update of affilation of second author
THE INTEGRATION OF CLOUD SATELLITE IMAGES WITH PREDICTION OF ICY CONDITIONS ON DEVON'S ROADS
Creators: name: CLARK, ROBIN TRISTAN
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1997

description: The need for improved cloud parameterisations in a road surface temperature model is demonstrated. Case studies from early 1994 are used to investigate methods of tracking cloud cover using satellite imagery and upper level geostrophic flow. Two of these studies are included in this thesis. Errors encountered in cloud tracking methods were investigated as well as relationships between cloud height and pixel brightness in satellite imagery. For the first time, a one dimensional energy balance model is developed to investigate the effects of erroneous cloud forecasts on surface temperature. The model is used to determine detailed dependency of surface freezing onset time and minimum temperature on cloud cover. Case studies from the 1995/96 winter in Devon are undertaken to determine effects of differing scenarios of cloud cover change. From each study, an algorithm for predicting road surface temperature is constructed which could be used in future occurrences of the corresponding scenario of the case study. Emphasis is strongly placed on accuracy of predictions of surface freezing onset time and minimum surface temperature. The role o f surface and upper level geostrophic flow, humidity and surface wetness in temperature prediction is also investigated. In selected case studies, mesoscale data are also analysed and compared with observations to determine feasibility of using mesoscale models to predict air temperature. Finally, the algorithms constructed from the 1995/96 studies are tested using case studies from the 1996/97 winter. This winter was significantly different from its preceding one which consequently meant that the algorithm from only one scenario of the 1995/96 winter could be tested. An algorithm is also constructed from a 1996/97 winter case study involving a completely different scenario Recommendations for future research suggest testing of existing algorithms with guidance on additional scenarios.
Dialychone Claparede 1869
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Dialychone

description: Genus Dialychone Claparède, 1869
Dialychone acustica Claparède, 1869
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Bellan 1969; Zavodnik 1971; Katzmann 1972; Amoureux 1976; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Amoureux 1983c; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Giangrande 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Aleffi et al. 2003; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM14, BM16, BM18, BM19, BM21, BM34.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Chone acustica (Claparède, 1868).
Dialychone arenicola (Langerhans, 1880)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Giangrande 1992; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2013. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Chone arenicola Langerhans, 1880.
Dialychone collaris (Langerhans, 1880)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Zavodnik 1965, 1967a, 1967b; Katzmann 1973a; Amoureux 1976; Katzmann 1983; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Aleffi et al. 1988; Giangrande 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Crema et al. 2001; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Chone collaris Langerhans, 1880.
Dialychone dunerificta (Tovar-Hernández, Licciano & Giangrande, 2007)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1935; Fauvel 1940; Vatova 1949a; Meštrov 1957; Banse 1970; Amoureux & Katzmann 1971; Katzmann 1971, 1972; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1973a, 1983; Amoureux 1983a; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Giangrande 1989; Županović & Jardas 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Tovar-Hernández et al. 2007; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2013.
NEW RECORDS: BM12, BM13, BM15, BM17, BM42, BM43, BM66.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Chone duneri Malmgren 1867.
REMARKS: Chone duneri Malmgren, 1867 is restricted to the Arctic Ocean, while all the previous Mediterranean records of that species refer probably to C. dunerificta (Tovar-Hernández et al. 2007).
Dialychone longiseta (Giangrande 1992)
DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Crema et al. 1993; 2001; Mikac et al. 2013. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Chone longiseta Giangrande 1992. Dialychone usticensis (Giangrande, Licciano & Castriota, 2006) DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Mikac et al. 2013.
NEW RECORDS: BM13, BM14, BM15, BM16, BM18, BM19, BM20, BM21, BM28, BM34.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
A Biophysical Model of the Role of the Outer Hair Cell in Cochlear Nonlinearity
Creators: name: Jiang, Beibei
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2010

description: It has been observed that the response characteristics of the basilar membrane in normal living cochleae are both frequency and level-sensitive (Robles & Ruggero 2001). The quality factor of the tuning curve is large at low sound levels and decreases as the sound level increases, and the peak of the tuning curve moves towards lower frequencies as the sound level increases. The current study proposes a nonlinear cochlear model that responds adaptively to the incoming sounds via feedback control arising from the mechanical attributes of the cochlear partition. These attributes are dependent on the membrane potential of the outer hair cells (He & Dallos 1999, Santos-Sacchi 1992). A parallel resistor-capacitor circuit analogy of the outer hair cell with related perilymph and endolymph potentials is designed to simulate sound-evoked changes in the outer hair cell membrane potential. Nonlinear responses of the cochlea, such as compression and two tone suppression, can be explained using this model. Furthermore, it has been shown that the basilar membrane response to pure tone stimuli is attenuated by directly stimulating the medial olivo-cochlear bundle using electrical shocks (Cooper & Guinan 2006). Basilar membrane responses in the presence of efferent stimulation can be demonstrated using the same model, through modulation of the outer hair cell rnembrane potential. The proposed model provides a unified account of the combined effect of sounds and efferent stimulation on cochlear responses.
Euchone Malmgren 1866
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Euchone

description: Genus Euchone Malmgren, 1866
Euchone pararosea Giangrande & Licciano 2006
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Mikac et al. 2013.
NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM19, BM20, BM22, BM27, BM28, BM41, BM42, BM43, BM66, BM99.
Euchone pseudolimnicola Giangrande & Licciano 2006 DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Giangrande & Licciano 2006; Castelli et al. 2008. NEW RECORDS: BM28, BM20, BM21, BM17.
Euchone rosea Langerhans, 1884
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Aleffi et al. 1988; Giangrande 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Aleffi et al. 2003; Simonini et al. 2004; Giangrande & Licciano 2006; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM34, BM44.
REMARKS: Giangrande and Licciano (2006) recorded this species in coralligenous deposits in the SA (Brindisi) and reported its general distribution as being Madeira Island, coasts of Ireland and the Mediterranean Sea. They considered however that the specimens reported as E. rosea from soft sediments in the Mediterranean Sea could belong to a different taxon. This could also be the case of the previous NA records of E. rosea from the Gulf of Trieste (Aleffi et al. 1987-1988, Aleffi et al. 2003; Simonini et al. 2004) and from off the Venice Lagoon (Simonini et al. 2004). Some of those specimens may belong to Euchone pararosea Giangrande & Licciano 2006, a species only recently reported in the NA on soft bottoms (see above). However E. rosea was also found on soft bottom stations in the NA, reported in this list, as confirmed by A. Giangrande.
Euchone rubrocincta (M. Sars, 1862)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fauvel 1940; Vatova 1949a; Bellan 1969; Zavodnik 1971; Katzmann 1972, 1973a; Požar- Domac 1978; Katzmann 1983; Amoureux 1983a; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Požar-Domac 1983; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Giangrande 1989; Županović & Jardas 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2013.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
ПРОФИЛАКТИКА ИНСПЕКТОРЛАРИНИНГ ҲУҚУҚБУЗАРЛИКЛАРДАН ЖАБРЛАНГАН ШАХСЛАР БИЛАН ИШЛАШ ФАОЛИЯТИНИНГ ЎЗИГА ХОС ХУСУСИЯТЛАРИ
Creators: name: Нарзиев, Шахзодбек
name: Абдумаликов, Рахимберди
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ушбу мақоланинг ахамияти шундаки, профилактика инспекторларининг ҳуқуқбузарликлардан жабрланган шахслар билан ишлаш фаолияти тушунчаси, унинг мазмун моҳияти ва ишни ташкил етиш, шунингдек, ушбу сохада юзага келаётган долзарб муаммо ва камчиликлар кўрсатилган. Бундан ташқари ҳудудларда содир этилаётган ҳуқуқбузарликлар ва уларнинг содир этилишига имкон бераётган сабаб ва шарт-шароитлар, улар содир этилганда расмийлаштириладиган ҳужжатлар ва бошка муаммоларни ечимини ишлаб чиқиш бўйича фикрлар илгари сурилган.
Euratella Chamberlin 1919
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Euratella

description: Genus Euratella Chamberlin, 1919
Euratella salmacidis Claparède, 1869
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Meštrov 1957; Amoureux 1976; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Požar- Domac 1983, 1986; Giangrande 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995; Giangrande et al. 2003; Casellato & Stefanon 2008; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2013.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Laonome salmacidis Claparède, 1870.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Hypsicomus Grube 1870
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Hypsicomus

description: Genus Hypsicomus Grube, 1870
* Hypsicomus stichophthalmos (Grube, 1863)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Grube 1863, 1864; Stossich 1883; Carus 1884; Graeffe 1905; Bellan 1969; Zavodnik 1971; Požar-Domac 1986, 1994; Giangrande et al. 2003, 2004; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2013. NEW RECORDS: BM28, BM78.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Sabella stichophthalmus Grube, 1863; Hypsicomus stichophthalmus Grube, 1863; Potamilla stichophthalmos (Grube, 1863); Potamilla stichophthalmus Grube, 1863.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663