cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Asymptotic performance of PCA for high-dimensional heteroscedastic data
Creators: name: Hong, David
name: Balzano, Laura
name: Fessler, Jeffrey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62H25, 62H12, 62F12

description: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a classical method for reducing the dimensionality of data by projecting them onto a subspace that captures most of their variation. Effective use of PCA in modern applications requires understanding its performance for data that are both high-dimensional and heteroscedastic. This paper analyzes the statistical performance of PCA in this setting, i.e., for high-dimensional data drawn from a low-dimensional subspace and degraded by heteroscedastic noise. We provide simplified expressions for the asymptotic PCA recovery of the underlying subspace, subspace amplitudes and subspace coefficients; the expressions enable both easy and efficient calculation and reasoning about the performance of PCA. We exploit the structure of these expressions to show that, for a fixed average noise variance, the asymptotic recovery of PCA for heteroscedastic data is always worse than that for homoscedastic data (i.e., for noise variances that are equal across samples). Hence, while average noise variance is often a practically convenient measure for the overall quality of data, it gives an overly optimistic estimate of the performance of PCA for heteroscedastic data.
description: 34 pages (including supplement), 17 figures
Learned Monotone Minimal Perfect Hashing
Creators: name: Ferragina, Paolo
name: Lehmann, Hans-Peter
name: Sanders, Peter
name: Vinciguerra, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (LZI)
Year: 2023
Subjects: compressed data structure
monotone minimal perfect hashing
retrieval
Theory of computation → Data compression
Information systems → Point lookups

description: A Monotone Minimal Perfect Hash Function (MMPHF) constructed on a set S of keys is a function that maps each key in S to its rank. On keys not in S, the function returns an arbitrary value. Applications range from databases, search engines, data encryption, to pattern-matching algorithms. In this paper, we describe LeMonHash, a new technique for constructing MMPHFs for integers. The core idea of LeMonHash is surprisingly simple and effective: we learn a monotone mapping from keys to their rank via an error-bounded piecewise linear model (the PGM-index), and then we solve the collisions that might arise among keys mapping to the same rank estimate by associating small integers with them in a retrieval data structure (BuRR). On synthetic random datasets, LeMonHash needs 34% less space than the next larger competitor, while achieving about 16 times faster queries. On real-world datasets, the space usage is very close to or much better than the best competitors, while achieving up to 19 times faster queries than the next larger competitor. As far as the construction of LeMonHash is concerned, we get an improvement by a factor of up to 2, compared to the competitor with the next best space usage. We also investigate the case of keys being variable-length strings, introducing the so-called LeMonHash-VL: it needs space within 13% of the best competitors while achieving up to 3 times faster queries than the next larger competitor.
The dendroidal category is a test category
Creators: name: Ara, Dimitri
name: Cisinski, Denis-Charles
name: Moerdijk, Ieke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the category of trees $Ω$ is a test category in the sense of Grothendieck. This implies that the category of dendroidal sets is endowed with the structure of a model category Quillen-equivalent to spaces. We show that this model category structure, up to a change of cofibrations, can be obtained as an explicit left Bousfield localisation of the operadic model category structure.
description: 15 pages, v2: minor modifications, final version
Mechanics of epithelial tissue formation
Creators: name: van Drongelen, Ruben
name: Vazquez-Faci, Tania
name: Huijben, Teun A. P. M.
name: van der Zee, Maurijn
name: Idema, Timon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A key process in the life of any multicellular organism is its development from a single egg into a full grown adult. The first step in this process often consists of forming a tissue layer out of randomly placed cells on the surface of the egg. We present a model for generating such a tissue, and find that the resulting cellular pattern corresponds to the Voronoi tessellation of the nuclei of the cells. Experimentally, we obtain the same result in both fruit flies and flour beetles, with a distribution of cell shapes that matches that of the model, without any adjustable parameters. Finally, we show that this pattern is broken when the cells do not all grow at the same rate.
An Exact Model of the Power/Efficiency Trade-Off While Approaching the Carnot Limit
Creators: name: Johnson, Clifford V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Carnot heat engine sets an upper bound on the efficiency of a heat engine. As an ideal, reversible engine, a single cycle must be performed in infinite time, and so the Carnot engine has zero power. However, there is nothing in principle forbidding the existence of a heat engine whose efficiency approaches that of Carnot while maintaining finite power. Such an engine must have very special properties, some of which have been discussed in the literature, in various limits. While recent theorems rule out a large class of engines from maintaining finite power at exactly the Carnot efficiency, the approach to the limit still merits close study. Presented here is an exactly solvable model of such an approach that may serve as a laboratory for exploration of the underlying mechanisms. The equations of state have their origins in the extended thermodynamics of electrically charged black holes.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures (Essentially the version to appear in Phys. Rev. D. Discussion and computations improved and extended. Typos fixed. References added.)
Advancing Time Series Forecasting Techniques & Practices in a Big Data Environment
Creators: name: HEWAMALAGE, HANSIKA PEHESARANI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 460199
subject: Applied computing not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 380205
subject: Time-series analysis
classificationCode: 460308
subject: Pattern recognition
classificationCode: 460502
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery

description: Accurate forecasting is pivotal to domains such as transportation, tourism, and energy. Although forecasting was traditionally limited to a few time series analysed by statisticians, the scale of the data collated has escalated rapidly in recent years. Consequently, while data scientists are becoming enthusiastic about applying Machine Learning (ML) techniques for forecasting, the details behind adapting them to forecasting remain lesser-known. This thesis addresses this overarching problem by 1) performing empirical analyses on the factors influencing the performance of ML models built as Global Forecasting Models (GFM) and 2) developing tools and guidelines to support forecast evaluation in many-series scenarios.
An Iron Age Farmstead at Grove Farm, Enderby, Leicestershire
Creators: name: Clay, Patrick N
name: Elsdon, Sheila
name: Pollard, Richard J
name: Young, Robert
name: O'Sullivan, Deirdre Mary
name: Morgan, Graham C
name: Gouldwell, Anthony
name: Monckton, Angela
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 66, 1-82
description: Excavations undertaken in 1983-4 of a Late Iron Age enclosure have revealed several phases of activity including circular buildings. Environmental information suggests the practice of a mixed economy during the first century BC-first century AD. This work contributes to an ongoing study of prehistoric occupation on clay subsoils.
QCloud - Ireland's quantum cloud environment
Creators: name: Murray, Hazel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: MTU
Quantumcomputing
TRE
AWS
ResearchCollaboration
IaC
Sustainability
EOSCinPractice
OCRE

description: As part of an adoption funding programme supported by the EU and building on experience gained through the GÉANT-led OCRE project, the EOSC Future project allotted a total of €4.8 million across three calls, aimed at bridging the gap between commercial service providers and researchers through the EOSC ecosystem. The third and last call in the series awarded two projects for making commercial services more accessible to Research & Education communities via the EOSC Marketplace, to digital service aggregators (e.g. non-profit entities, NRENs, RIs and e-Infrastructures, HPC centres, etc.) teaming up with OCRE cloud service providers. Harnessing the power of quantum mechanics, this project offers cloud-based access to quantum computing hardware. This breakthrough technology opens avenues for cryptography, networking, data analysis, and optimisation. Researchers gain access to a variety of quantum processors, driving experimentation and innovation. Harnessing quantum computing through the cloud, enables researchers scattered across Ireland to access and leverage this cutting-edge technology, fostering collaboration and accelerating scientific progress. “Access to quantum computing not only empowers us to personally unveil the advantages of quantum computing in the field of security of autonomous systems and lay the foundation for a quantum-powered future but also enables us to actively engage in software engineering for quantum computing, all while nurturing the minds of the next generation of students and innovators in the realm of quantum knowledge” Dr Anila Mjeda, CyberSkills, MTU
An Iron Age and Romano-British Enclosure System at Normanton le Heath
Creators: name: Thorpe, Reuben
name: Sharman, Josephine
name: Sharman, Josephine
name: Clay, Patrick N
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 68, 1-63
description: A system of enclosures and droveways, known from aerial reconnaissance of the cropmarks, was investigated in advance of proposed opencast mining. This revealed a complex multi-phase settlement showing changing patterns of site and land organisation during the Late Iron Age and early Roman periods.
Molecular dynamics simulation of melting of finite and infinite size silicene
Creators: name: Min, Tjun Kit
name: Yoon, Tiem Leong
name: Lim, Thong Leng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the melting temperature of free-standing silicene by carrying out molecular dynamics (MD) simulation experiments using optimzed Stillinger-Weber (SW) potential by Zhang {\it et al.}. The melting scenario of a free-standing silicene is well captured visually in our MD simulations. The data are systematically analyzed using a few qualitatively different indicators, including caloric curve, radial distribution function and a numerical indicator known as `global similarity index'. The optimized SW potential consistently yield a melting temperature of 1500~K for the simulated free-standing, infinite silicene.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
Provisional List of Deserted Medieval Villages in Leicestershire
Creators: name: George Hoskins, William
name: Grant, B
name: Thirsk, Joan
name: Green, George H
name: G Hurst, John
name: Warwick Beresford, Maurice
name: Clifford Darby, Henry
name: Roy Versey, George
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 39, 24-33
description: Provisional List of Deserted Medieval Villages in Leicestershire
title: CCMC News: Winter 1993, Issue No. 4
Creators: name: National Research Council Of Canada. Institute For Research In Construction
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 1993

description: The issue includes: * Ontario to designate CCMC in its building code, by G. E. Wildish * CCCME hold back-to-back meetings * Proper installation of loose-fill mineral-fibre insulation * Senior technical official: Marcel Brouzes * Roofing and water-proofing membranes * Code clarification on EIFS cladding
A package for computations with classical resultants
Creators: name: Staglianò, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13P15, 68W30

description: We present the Macaulay2 package Resultants, which provides commands for the effective computation of multivariate resultants, discriminants, and Chow forms. We provide some background for the algorithms implemented and show, with a few examples, how the package works.
description: To appear in Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry
Donington le Heath
Creators: name: Dornier, Ann M
name: Moorhousem, Stephen
name: Clough Dunning, Gearald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 47, 22-42
description: Donington le Heath is situated in north-west Leicestershire. The medieval house under discussion, probably the manor house, is on the northeast fringe of the modern settlement, where it merges with Hugglescote and Coalville. It lies on the 450 ft contour. The ground slopes gently away to the south. The subsoil is clay.
Anglo-Saxon Discoveries at Harson
Creators: name: Clough Dunning, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 28, 49-54
description: In a recent volume of these Transactions Miss K. M. Kenyon recorded the circumstances of finding pits in the quarry worked by the Stanton Ironworks Company at Harston in 1935 and 1936. Three pits and contents belonging to the Early Iron Age were fully described by Miss Kenyon, leaving the two pits of the Anglo-Saxon period to be reported upon later. These pits, 90 ft. apart, were situated 200 yds. north-west of the prehistoric pits. The five sites are marked on the accompanying sketch-map (fig. 1), kindly supplied by Mr. H. B. Hewlett, Geologist to the Company.
The Last Abbot of Leicester
Creators: name: Cocks, Terence
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 58, 6-19
description: One of the most turbulent times of ecclesiastical history in this country was undeniably the Reformation period in the sixteenth century; in Leicestershire, as elsewhere, one of the greatest early impacts must have been that caused by the dissolution of the monasteries. The local monastic houses were all yielded up unhesitatingly by their heads, the principal of whom was John Bourchier, Abbot of St. Mary of the Meadows (St. Mary de Pratis), better known as Leicester Abbey, the largest monastery in the county and one of the richest houses of Augustinian or Austin canons in the kingdom. Most local writers appear to have assumed that Abbot Bourchier, like the majority of the dispossessed abbots and priors, retired into obscurity to enjoy his pension; but in fact he was to have an unusually long and varied career after surrendering his abbey.
The Archdeacons of Leicester, 1092-1992
Creators: name: Cocks, Terence
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 67, 27-46
description: The Archdeaconry of Leicester was founded in or shortly before 1092 by Remigius, first bishop of Lincoln. It formed part of the diocese of Lincoln until 1839, when it was transferred to that of Peterborough, with which it remained until the bishopric of Leicester was restored in 1926. In extent the archdeaconry was practically co-terminous with the county of Leicester, until 1921 when it was divided and the archdeaconry of Loughborough was formed. Archdeacons .were the bishop's principal administrative officers, and for centuries the position was one of considerable prestige, influence and wealth (the last not always acquired by praiseworthy methods). Consequently archdeaconries were often held by men who were already prominent or who later became so. This is certainly the case with that of Leicester, which over the centuries has been held by clerics who achieved celebrity in a variety of ways: scholars, social reformers, future bishops and senior churchmen, and, prior to the Reformation, statesmen. This paper deals with the careers of the archdeacons themselves and their achievements in other spheres rather than with their archidiaconal activities.
Local Model-Agnostic Explanations for Machine Learning and Time-series Forecasting Models
Creators: name: Sewwandi, Rajapaksha Hewa Ranasinghage Dilini
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 460206
subject: Knowledge representation and reasoning

description: As we rely more and more on Artificial Intelligence machine learning models for real-life decision-making, understanding and trusting the predictions becomes ever more critical. Imagine that when you buy your first home, the bank rejects your mortgage application without any reason. It is practically unethical to make decisions based on automated systems without providing explanations. This refers, how crucial it is to know how and why the system arrived at a conclusion. This is where my Ph.D. comes into play. In my Ph.D. I developed novel algorithms which provide human-understandable explanations for the decisions of classification and forecasting models.
On the VC-Dimension of Binary Codes
Creators: name: Hu, Sihuang
name: Weinberger, Nir
name: Shayevitz, Ofer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the asymptotic rates of length-$n$ binary codes with VC-dimension at most $dn$ and minimum distance at least $δn$. Two upper bounds are obtained, one as a simple corollary of a result by Haussler and the other via a shortening approach combining Sauer-Shelah lemma and the linear programming bound. Two lower bounds are given using Gilbert-Varshamov type arguments over constant-weight and Markov-type sets.
All Saints, Leicester: A Short History of the Church and Parish
Creators: name: Hepworth, Philip
name: Morris, Ernest
name: Hartopp, Henry
name: Collinson, Hugh
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 26, 93-132
description: All Saints' is probably the least well known of Leicester's existing medieval churches. In size it ranks fourth of the five, and it is not so old as the smaller St. Nicholas'. Unlike St. Martin's and St. Mary's it has not drawn attention to itself through associations with the corporation and the castle; in situation it compares unfavourably with St. Margaret's, which stood outside the medieval town. Earlier too, perhaps, All Saints' never quite lived up to its splendid position in Leicester's Highcross Street; its gild, which dispensed charity in the parish, was less elaborately organised than those of St. Martin's and St. Margaret's, and complained that "the yearly contribution seemed burdensome"' in reply to King Richard II's enquiry of 1388.
Evolving multi-output digital circuits using multi-genome grammatical evolution
Creators: name: Tetteh, Michael
name: de Lima, Allan
name: McEllin, Jack
name: Murphy, Aidan
name: MOTA DIAS, DOUGLAS
name: RYAN, CONOR
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023

description: Grammatical Evolution is a Genetic Programming variant which evolves problems in any arbitrary language that is BNF compliant. Since its inception, Grammatical Evolution has been used to solve real-world problems in different domains such as bio-informatics, architecture design, financial modelling, music, software testing, game artificial intelligence and parallel programming. Multi-output problems deal with predicting numerous output variables simultaneously, a notoriously difficult problem. We present a Multi-Genome Grammatical Evolution better suited for tackling multi-output problems, specifically digital circuits. The Multi-Genome consists of multiple genomes, each evolving a solution to a single unique output variable. Each genome is mapped to create its executable object. The mapping mechanism, genetic, selection, and replacement operators have been adapted to make them well-suited for the Multi-Genome representation and the implementation of a new wrapping operator. Additionally, custom grammar syntax rules and a cyclic dependency-checking algorithm have been presented to facilitate the evolution of inter-output dependencies which may exist in multi-output problems. Multi-Genome Grammatical Evolution is tested on combinational digital circuit benchmark problems. Results show Multi-Genome Grammatical Evolution performs significantly better than standard Grammatical Evolution on these benchmark problems.
title: Киберпреступность: перспективы развития законодательства в Российской Федерации
Creators: name: Николаев, Вячеслав
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье рассматривается вопрос о перспективности развития законодательства в сфере борьбы с киберпреступностью в Российской Федерации. Рассматриваются мнения авторов по поводу того, что следует понимать под «киберпреступностью», мнения о закреплении понятия на законодательном уровне. Также автор анализирует российское законодательство в сфере борьбы с киберпреступностью, приводит примеры киберпреступлений в Российской Федерации и приходит к выводу, что законодательство в сфере борьбы с киберпреступностью в Российской Федерации требует усовершенствования.
Iron Production in Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire in Antiquity
Creators: name: Condron, Frances
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 71, 1-20
description: Iron production in Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire during the Roman period is well attested, though to date the region has not been considered one of importance. This paper outlines the range of settlements involved in smelting and smithing, and suggests models for the organisation of production and development through time. It is suggested that surplus iron was being made and transported outside the region, possibly to the northern garrisons, following the archaeologically documented movement of lower Nene Valley wares. A gazetteer of smelting and smithing sites is provided.
Improving Resource-constrained Machine Translation and Text generation Using Knowledge Transition
Creators: name: SALEH, FAHIMEH SADAT
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 460206
subject: Knowledge representation and reasoning

description: Despite the significant improvements of Neural Text Generation (NTG) systems such as Neural Machine Translation and Natural Language Generation, there are still some open challenges in this domain due to constraints on resources. The resource limitation is sometimes rooted in the model’s incapability to use maximum resources (e.g., processing full document instead of processing sentences independently), or more typically because of the lack of annotated training data. This research addresses these limitations utilizing knowledge transition from high-resource NTG models to low-resource ones.
Expansions of arithmetic functions of several variables with respect to certain modified unitary Ramanujan sums
Creators: name: Tóth, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A25, 11N37

description: We introduce new analogues of the Ramanujan sums, denoted by $\widetilde{c}_q(n)$, associated with unitary divisors, and obtain results concerning the expansions of arithmetic functions of several variables with respect to the sums $\widetilde{c}_q(n)$. We apply these results to certain functions associated with $σ^*(n)$ and $ϕ^*(n)$, representing the unitary sigma function and unitary phi function, respectively.
description: 11 pages, 1 table, revised. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1704.02881
Further Investigations at Oakham Castle, Rutland: A Time Team Evaluation
Creators: name: Mepham, Lorraine
name: Good, Oliver
name: Young, Jane
name: Cooke, Nicholas
name: Goller, Rob
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 89, 165-178
description: An archaeological evaluation, at Oakham Castle, Rutland, confirmed the results of small-scale excavations undertaken within the inner bailey during the 1950s, by locating evidence of a passageway leading eastwards from the Great Hall through the service block. Other medieval stone structures were recorded within the inner bailey, but little dating evidence was found. A trench excavated across the line of an outer earthwork to the north found no evidence to determine its original date, which in its current form is almost certainly a nineteenth-century construction.
A Middle Palaeolithic Flint Handaxe from Aylestone, Leicester
Creators: name: Cookson, Anne P
name: Tyldesley, Joyce A
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 59, 13-16
description: In May 1984 a Middle Palaeolithic bout coupe type flint handaxe (Fig. 1) was brought to the Jewry Wall Museum for identification by Mr G. York ofEyres Monsell, Leicester, who has since kindly agreed to its donation to the Museum collections (Accession number Al4.1984). It was found on the north -side of Glenhills Boulevard, Aylestone, Leicester during the final stages of construction of this stretch of the City's Southern District Distributor Road (N.G.R. SK57250012). Fieldwork by the Museums Archaeological Survey Team earlier in the road construction process had not revealed any finds, nor did a further search of the area subsequent to this discovery. The handaxe lay on a pile of stones on the surface between two trees in a newly planted row on the landscaped verge of the new road. Some topsoil had been imported for the landscaping from a nearby area of the river floodplain (centred at SP5859990). However the extremely good state of preservation of the handaxe makes it seem unlikely that it was brought to the findspot with this soil from the floodplain, where it would have been subject to much abrasion and disturbance. It seems more probable that the handaxe was dug up and brought to the surface during tree planting or the laying of services along the new roadline.
Empowering Research Communities through cross-sector data sharing
Creators: name: Constanze, Roedig
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Interdisciplinary
OpenScience
Providers
HPC
OpenScienceLabs
ResearchCommunity
EOSCinPractice

description: As part of an adoption funding programme supported by the EU and building on experience gained through the GÉANT-led OCRE project, the EOSC Future project allotted a total of €4.8 million across three calls, aimed at bridging the gap between commercial service providers and researchers through the EOSC ecosystem. Specifically, the first call in the series awarded five projects for making commercial services more accessible to Research & Education communities via the EOSC Marketplace, to digital service aggregators (e.g. non-profit entities, NRENs, RIs and e-Infrastructures, HPC centres, etc.) teaming up with OCRE cloud service providers. OpenScienceLabs (OSL) enable the sharing of HPC code and results using cloud technology. It provides a universal wrapper for running code in the browser, with access to parallel or special purpose hardware. OSL utilises cloud-native methods and DevSecOps practices, such as containerisation, orchestration, automation, and security measures. It simplifies usage for new or non-expert users by eliminating the need for compilation, installation, or operational tasks. With OSL, end-users can access the system within minutes through a web browser. After an initial co-development phase, any HPC codebase can be made compatible with OSL. The OSL design is continuously improved through use-cases like Peer Review-Companions, Outreach, Open Sourcing, Self-Service On-boarding, and HPC-Summer Schools. These use-cases help enhance usability, scalability, and portability of OSL.
The People of Rutland in 1522
Creators: name: Cornwall, Julian
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 37, 7-28
description: 1522 is not a particularly memorable year in English history. Its chief event was the dedaration of war against France, a singularly unnecessary and profit-less one in which England's part was small and inglorious. Still, men and money-mainly the latter-had to be found, and the efforts of the state to do so resulted in a survey of national resources unparallelled perhaps since the compiling of Domesday Book. In the summer of that year commissions were issued for musters to be held in every shire. There was nothing unusual in this, but on this occasion the enquiry embraced much more than the tally of able-bodied men and arms and armour. The commissioners were instructed to ascertain the owner and annual value of every parcel of land, and to obtain from every man a statement on oath of his "value and substance", taking into account every type of property, "debts, specialities, loans, merchandise, household implements", and so forth. No efforts were to be spared in getting true valuations; special pains were to be taken over men suspected of deliberately undervaluing themselves. The ostensible reason for all this was to find out how much every one was able to contribute towards the furnishing of harness which was of course an obligation laid on every free man. The real purpose, as revealed in confidential letters addressed to the Commissioners for Warwickshire, was to prepare the ground for the assessment of a forced loan of unprecedented magnitude. This was levied in 1523. In that same year Cardinal Wolsey demanded from Parliament a grant of �800,000 which was clearly prompted by the success of the loan.
Energy dissipation in sheared wet granular assemblies
Creators: name: Kovalcinova, L.
name: Karmakar, S.
name: Schaber, M.
name: Schuhmacher, A. -L.
name: Scheel, M.
name: DiMichiel, M.
name: Brinkmann, M.
name: Seemann, R.
name: Kondic, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Energy dissipation in sheared dry and wet granulates is considered in the presence of an externally applied confining pressure. Discrete element simulations reveal that for sufficiently small confining pressures, the energy dissipation is dominated by the effects related to the presence of cohesive forces between the particles. The residual resistance against shear can be quantitatively explained by a combination of two effects arising in a wet granulate: i) enhanced friction at particle contacts in the presence of attractive capillary forces, and ii) energy dissipation due to the rupture and reformation of liquid bridges. Coulomb friction at grain contacts gives rise to an energy dissipation which grows linearly with increasing confining pressure, for both dry and wet granulates. Because of a lower Coulomb friction coefficient in the case of wet grains, as the confining pressure increases the energy dissipation for dry systems is faster than for wet ones.
On indecomposability of $βX$
Creators: name: Lipham, David Sumner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54D05, 54D35, 54F15, 54G20

description: The following is an open problem in topology: Determine whether the Stone-Čech compactification of a widely-connected space is necessarily an indecomposable continuum. Herein we describe properties of $X$ that are necessary and sufficient in order for $βX$ to be indecomposable. We show that indecomposability and irreducibility are equivalent properties in compactifications of indecomposable separable metric spaces, leading to some equivalent formulations of the open problem. We also construct a widely-connected subset of Euclidean $3$-space which is contained in a composant of each of its compactifications. The example answers a question of Jerzy Mioduszewski.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
A Medieval Bronze Bowl from Leicester
Creators: name: Cottrill, Frank
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 23, 63-71
description: Early in 1943 a firing-hole for a drying-stove was excavated at the iron-foundry of S. Russell & Sons Ltd. in Sarah Street, Leicester. On the west the foundry extends to the River Soar, and the excavation was made against the riverside wall and about in line with Torrington Avenue, a small turning on the west side of Sarah Street. The black mud of the river bed was exposed from 5 ft. to 11 ft. below the foundry floor; under-lying it was gravel. About 1 ft. above the latter, in the mud, was found the bronze bowl here described. This, the most remarkable metal object of early medieval date found in Leicester, has been presented to Leicester Museum by the Directors of S. Russell & Sons.
Scalable and Accurate Time Series Classification
Creators: name: SHIFAZ, AHMED
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 460206
subject: Knowledge representation and reasoning
classificationCode: 380205
subject: Time-series analysis
classificationCode: 460308
subject: Pattern recognition
classificationCode: 460502
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery

description: This thesis focuses on time series classification, which aims to develop algorithms that learn to categorize temporally ordered data. It is an important area of machine learning research with a diverse range of applications, such as the classification of satellite images, medical and human activity data. This research addresses the lack of support for scalability and multivariate time series among state-of-the-art time series classifiers. It contributes two novel univariate algorithms that demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in accuracy while being several magnitudes faster than its competitors. It also contributes seven multivariate similarity measures and two ensembles for multivariate time series classification.
Zampa's systems theory: a comprehensive theory of measurement in dynamic systems
Creators: name: Rychtarikova, Renata
name: Urban, Jan
name: Stys, Dalibor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The article outlines in memoriam Prof. Pavel Zampa's concepts of system theory which enable to devise a measurement in dynamic systems independently of the particular system behaviour. From the point of view of Zampa's theory, terms like system time, system attributes, system link, system element, input, output, subsystems, and state variables are defined. In Conclusions, Zampa's theory is discussed together with another mathematical approaches of qualitative dynamics known since the 19th century. In Appendices, we present applications of Zampa's technical approach to measurement of complex dynamical (chemical and biological) systems at the Institute of Complex Systems, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Reviews
Creators: name: Cottrill, Frank
name: Katherine Babette Evans, Anne
name: Millward, Roy
name: Simmons, Jack
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 25, 159-168
description: EXCAVATIONS AT THE JEWRY WALL SITE, LEICESTER. By Kathleen M. Kenyon, M.A. (with sections by other writers). Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, No. XV (published in conjunction with the Corporation of the City of Leicester). Pp. xi + 292; 33 plates (including plans), 100 text figures. Oxford University Press. 1948. 30s.; THE ABBEY OF ST. MARY OF THE MEADOWS, LEICESTER. By A. Hamilton Thompson. pp. 274; 7 plates. Published for the Leicestershire Archaeological Society by Edgar Backus, Leicester. 1949� 21S.; MIDLAND ENGLAND. By W. G. Hoskins. illustrations. Batsford. 1949. 12s. Vlll + 120 pp. 6d; HISTORY OF ST. NICHOLAS' PARISH CHURCH, LEICESTER. By the Eric C. G. Weeks. iv + 55 pp. Leicester: the Author, St. Nicholas' Church. 1949. 3s. 6d.
Production of Hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) and derivatives
Creators: name: Poggiaroni, Giulio
name: Heeres, Hans
name: Krawielitzki, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: HMF
biomass residues
fast pyrolisis oil
bio chemistry

description: This factsheet describes the NewWave manufacturing line (ML) #2. In this NewWave ML, partners RUG & AVA Biochem will use the pyrolytic sugars (PS) fractionated from the Fast Pyrolisis Oil (FPBO) as a non-food-competitive rawmaterial to produce hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF). 5-HMF is a versatile organic component produced from C-6 sugars that can be used as a renewable chemical ingredient in the production of several products such as fuels, solvents, medicines, resins and other
 materials. AVA Biochem will convert the PS through the innovative CORBIS technology.
Equivalence of Lattice Orbit Polytopes
Creators: name: Ladisch, Frieder
name: Schürmann, Achill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C10 (Primary), 16U60, 20B25, 20C15, 52B20, 90C10 (Secondary)

description: Let $G$ be a finite permutation group acting on $\mathbb{R}^d$ by permuting coordinates. A core point (for $G$) is an integral vector $z\in \mathbb{Z}^d$ such that the convex hull of the orbit $Gz$ contains no other integral vectors but those in the orbit $Gz$. Herr, Rehn and Schürmann considered the question for which groups there are infinitely many core points up to translation equivalence, that is, up to translation by vectors fixed by the group. In the present paper, we propose a coarser equivalence relation for core points called normalizer equivalence. These equivalence classes often contain infinitely many vectors up to translation, for example when the group admits an irrational invariant subspace or an invariant irreducible subspace occurring with multiplicity greater than $1$. We also show that the number of core points up to normalizer equivalence is finite if $G$ is a so-called QI-group. These groups include all transitive permutation groups of prime degree. We give an example to show how the concept of normalizer equivalence can be used to simplify integer convex optimization problems.
description: v3: small changes in introduction, only minor changes (typos etc.) otherwise. Final version. v2: Comments by referees incorporated, various small improvements, numbering of results changed. 26 pages, PdfLatex + Biblatex
Efficient Mitigation of Leakage-abuse Attacks for Searchable Encryption
Creators: name: VO, VIET QUANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 460407
subject: System and network security

description: Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) is one of the key enablers for building encrypted databases. Current studies are not ready for practical uses due to security and performance issues. Therefore, we first propose ShieldDB that enables streaming/search over encrypted database. We analyse to what extend adversaries can exploit the leakage of DSSE schemes, and propose lightweight but effective padding countermeasures. Then, we focus on how to improve the performance of advanced schemes supporting security notions of forward and backward privacy. We provide three trusted execution environment-supported backward (and forward)-private schemes. Our schemes outperform previous studies at the same leakage types.
The Monastic Granges of Leicestershire
Creators: name: Courtney, Paul
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 56, 33-45
description: The classic monastic grange was an isolated and consolidated demesne farm and the best known group are the Cistercian granges of Yorkshire. However, in Yorkshire some granges did specialise in fishing, salt manufacture or iron mining. Therefore perhaps the best definition is that of T.A.M. Bishop who saw the grange as a 'purely economic formation external to the administration and social life of the district'. 2 In studying the Leicestershire granges one is immediately faced by problems of definition. The isolated compact demesne farmed by lay brothers or hired labourers lies at one extreme from the demesne dispersed in the open fields and worked by a varying mixture of hired and customary labour. However, many estates lay in between these two types and many desmesnes were only consolidated slowly. One is also confronted by lack of information on the workings of most granges and the medieval usage of the term 'grange' may be loose.
The Ablowitz-Ladik system on a finite set of integers
Creators: name: Xia, Baoqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how to solve initial-boundary value problems for integrable nonlinear differential-difference equations on a finite set of integers. The method we employ is the discrete analogue of the unified transform (Fokas method). The implementation of this method to the Ablowitz-Ladik system yields the solution in terms of the unique solution of a matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem, which has a jump matrix with explicit $(n,t)$-dependence involving certain functions referred to as spectral functions. Some of these functions are defined in terms of the initial value, while the remaining spectral functions are defined in terms of two sets of boundary values. These spectral functions are not independent but satisfy an algebraic relation called global relation. We analyze the global relation to characterize the unknown boundary values in terms of the given initial and boundary values. We also discuss the linearizable boundary conditions.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1703.01687
Factors influencing the development of institutional Open Educational Resource repositories in Vietnam
Creators: name: TRUONG, NGOC TUONG VI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 460999
subject: Information systems not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460903
subject: Information modelling, management and ontologies

description: This qualitative study focuses on understanding the development of institutional Open Educational Resource repositories as an educational change at higher education organisations in Vietnam from the viewpoint of higher education providers. The empirical findings found that the development of institutional Open Educational Resource repository is a complex and massive educational change influenced heavily by multiple interconnected factors. It is anticipated that the study’s findings will prove useful to higher education stakeholders in Vietnam and similar countries, from those seeking to implement educational change more broadly to those aiming specifically to develop an Open Educational Resource repository at their university.
Saxon and medieval Leicester
Creators: name: Courtney, Paul
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 72, 110-145
description: This article takes an interdisciplinary approach to the Saxon and medieval evolution of Leicester's landscape. Documentary, archaeological and architectural evidence is combined with comparative material from other N.W. European towns to propose a model of topographic organisation and development.
Multiparticle production in the large lambda n limit: Realising Higgsplosion in a scalar QFT
Creators: name: Khoze, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a scalar theory which we use as a simplified model for the Higgs sector, we adopt the semiclassical formalism of Son for computations of $n$-particle production cross-sections in the high-multiplicity $n\to \infty$ weak-coupling $λ\to 0$ regime with the value of $λn$ held fixed and large. The approach relies on the use of singular classical solutions to a certain boundary value problem. In the past this formalism has been successfully used and verified in computations of perturbative multi-particle processes at tree-level, and also at the next-to-leading order level in the small $λn$ expansion near the multi-particle mass threshold. We apply this singular solutions formalism in the regime of ultra-high multiplicities where $λn \gg 1$, and compute the leading positive $\sim n\,\sqrt{λn}$ contribution to the exponent of the multi-particle rate in this large $λn$ limit. The computation is carried out near the multi-particle mass threshold where the multiplicity $n$ approaches its maximal value allowed by kinematics. This calculation relies on the idea of Gorsky and Voloshin to use a thin wall approximation for the singular solutions that resemble critical bubbles. This approximation is justified in precisely the high-multiplicity $\sqrt{λn} \to \infty$ regime of interest. Based on our results we show that the scalar theory with a spontaneous symmetry breaking used here as a simplified model for the Higgs sector, is very likely to realise the high-energy Higgsplosion phenomenon.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures, v2: minor corrections, matches version accepted in JHEP, v3: extended discussion below Eq. (4.10), minor corrections, v4: few typos (signs and factors) corrected in intermediate results
Lord's Place, Leicester: An Urban Aristocratic House of the 16th Century pp
Creators: name: Courtney, Paul
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 74, 37-58
description: This article provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the architecture and social history of Lord's Place. This building was the Leicester residence of Henry, the third earl of Huntingdon, the borough's patron in the late sixteenth century. The last remnants of Lord's Place were demolished in 1902 when the High Street was widened. However, surviving plans, photographs and documents allow some aspects of this former aristocratic complex to be re-interpreted.