cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Propuesta de intervención para muralito (2022-2)
Creators: name: Méndez León, Olivia
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Conservación y restauración de bienes culturales - Siglo XX
subject: Pintura mural - Bogotá (Colombia) - Siglo XX
subject: Patrimonio cultural
subject: Pintura mural
subject: Intervención
subject: Estado de conservación
subject: Procesos de conservación

description: Se documentan los procesos de conservación en una pintura mural, ubicada en el patio de la Facultad de Estudios del Patrimonio Cultural a partir de un levantamiento de sus deterioros y un diagnóstico. Se realiza una propuesta de tratamiento que solvente las problemáticas estructurales y estéticas de la obra, teniendo en cuenta las particularidades técnicas de la pintura mural y su ubicación en espacio abierto.
description: The conservation processes are documented in a mural painting, located in the courtyard of the Faculty of Cultural Heritage Studies based on a survey of its deterioration and a diagnosis. A treatment proposal is made that solves the structural and aesthetic problems of the work, taking into account the technical particularities of the mural painting and its location in an open space.
Language Models Trained to do Arithmetic Predict Human Risky and Intertemporal Choice
Creators: name: Zhu, Jian-Qiao
name: Yan, Haijiang
name: Griffiths, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The observed similarities in the behavior of humans and Large Language Models (LLMs) have prompted researchers to consider the potential of using LLMs as models of human cognition. However, several significant challenges must be addressed before LLMs can be legitimately regarded as cognitive models. For instance, LLMs are trained on far more data than humans typically encounter, and may have been directly trained on human data in specific cognitive tasks or aligned with human preferences. Consequently, the origins of these behavioral similarities are not well understood. In this paper, we propose a novel way to enhance the utility of LLMs as cognitive models. This approach involves (i) leveraging computationally equivalent tasks that both an LLM and a rational agent need to master for solving a cognitive problem and (ii) examining the specific task distributions required for an LLM to exhibit human-like behaviors. We apply this approach to decision-making -- specifically risky and intertemporal choice -- where the key computationally equivalent task is the arithmetic of expected value calculations. We show that an LLM pretrained on an ecologically valid arithmetic dataset, which we call Arithmetic-GPT, predicts human behavior better than many traditional cognitive models. Pretraining LLMs on ecologically valid arithmetic datasets is sufficient to produce a strong correspondence between these models and human decision-making. Our results also suggest that LLMs used as cognitive models should be carefully investigated via ablation studies of the pretraining data.
Halysidota leda subsp. leda leda (Druce 1890
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Halysidota
Halysidota leda
Halysidota leda leda (druce, 1890)

description: Halysidota leda leda (Druce, 1890)
Phaegoptera leda Druce, 1890b: 497.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Dominica, Windward Islands.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype female designated by Watson (1980: 60) (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 320, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
An implementation of tensor product patch smoothers on GPU
Creators: name: Cui, Cu
name: Grosse-Bley, Paul
name: Kanschat, Guido
name: Strzodka, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N55, 65Y20

description: We present a GPU implementation of vertex-patch smoothers for higher order finite element methods in two and three dimensions. Analysis shows that they are not memory bound with respect to GPU DRAM, but with respect to on-chip scratchpad memory. Multigrid operations are optimized through localization and reorganized local operations in on-chip memory, achieving minimal global data transfer and a conflict free memory access pattern. Performance tests demonstrate that the optimized kernel is at least 2 times faster than the straightforward implementation for the Poisson problem, across various polynomial degrees in 2D and 3D, achieving up to 36% of the peak performance in both single and double precision on Nvidia A100 GPU.
Machine-Learning Insights into the Entanglement-trainability Correlation of Parameterized Quantum Circuits
Creators: name: Zhang, Shikun
name: Zhou, Yang
name: Qin, Zheng
name: Li, Rui
name: Du, Chunxiao
name: Xiao, Zhisong
name: Zhang, Yongyou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have emerged as the leading strategy to obtain quantum advantage on the current noisy intermediate-scale devices. However, their entanglement-trainability correlation, as the major reason for the barren plateau (BP) phenomenon, poses a challenge to their applications. In this Letter, we suggest a gate-to-tensor (GTT) encoding method for parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs), with which two long short-term memory networks (L-G networks) are trained to predict both entanglement and trainability. The remarkable capabilities of the L-G networks afford a statistical way to delve into the entanglement-trainability correlation of PQCs within a dataset encompassing millions of instances. This machine-learning-driven method first confirms that the more entanglement, the more possible the BP problem. Then, we observe that there still exist PQCs with both high entanglement and high trainability. Furthermore, the trained L-G networks result in an impressive increase in time efficiency by about one million times when constructing a PQC with specific entanglement and trainability, demonstrating their practical applications in VQAs.
Halysidota leda subsp. enricoi Toulgoet 1978
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Halysidota
Halysidota leda
Halysidota leda enricoi toulgoët, 1978

description: Halysidota leda enricoi Toulgoët, 1978
Halysidota leda enricoi Toulgoët, 1978a: 377.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Martinique, Morne Vert.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 320, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Diagnóstico de pedestal de simón bolívar en el museo de Bogotá (2022-2)
Creators: name: Méndez León, Olivia
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Conservación del patrimonio cultural - Piedra
subject: Conservación y restauración de bienes muebles
subject: Patrimonio cultural
subject: Piedra arenisca
subject: Escultura
subject: Deterioros
subject: Estado de conservación
subject: Trayectoria
subject: Historia de Bogotá

description: Se documenta el estado de conservación de un pedestal que perteneció a la estatua de Simón Bolívar ubicada en la Plaza de Bogotá y que hoy se encuentra en el patio del Museo de Bogotá. Se realiza un diagnóstico evaluando el origen de los deterioros de la pieza a raíz de su prolongada trayectoria como objeto ubicado en espacios públicos y abiertos. El documento se complementa con datos históricos a partir de fuentes asociadas.
description: The state of conservation of a pedestal that belonged to the statue of Simón Bolívar located in the Plaza de Bogotá and which is today in the courtyard of the Bogotá Museum is documented. A diagnosis is made evaluating the origin of the piece's deterioration as a result of its long history as an object located in public and open spaces. The document is complemented with historical data from associated sources.
Mode-Coupling-Driven Frequency Stabilization in Semiconductor Lasers with Bragg Grating Waveguide
Creators: name: Mahani, M. R.
name: Nechepurenko, Igor A.
name: Rahimof, Yasmin
name: Wicht, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precisely stabilizing laser frequency is crucial for advancing laser technology and unlocking the full potential of various quantum technologies. Here, we propose a compact device for stabilizing frequency of a semiconductor laser through mode coupling effects, which provides enhanced sensitivity. Our proposed architecture features a main ridge waveguide with a Bragg grating, flanked by two curved ridge waveguides. This configuration exhibits an optical phenomenon characterized by a transmission crossing at the wavelength of the Bragg grating. Using particle swarm optimization strategy and employing efficient figures of merit, we achieve a high transmission crossing. The observed asymmetric transmission crossing not only holds the promise for an efficient and compact on-chip laser frequency stabilizer, but also fosters the development of novel sensing platforms with heightened sensitivity.
Caste and the Court: Examining Judicial Selection Bias on Bench Assignments on the Indian Supreme Court
Creators: name: Sriram, Shyam
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This paper is a study on the effect of caste on bench assignments on the Indian Supreme Court. The objective was to determine whether the Chief Justices have historically assigned associate justices to benches based on their individual castes ' Brahmin or Non-Brahmin ' in order to tilt the bias of the Court in either an elitist (Brahmin) direction or a non-elitist (Non-Brahmin) direction. Based on a probability analysis of panel assignments, I created a new model to determine the extant of castebased judicial selection bias on the Indian Supreme Court. Using a random sample of cases from 1950 to 2000, a two-sample test of proportionality was employed to test whether any bias was present in the Chief Justice's bench assignments. No caste bias was discovered in either the fifty-year period of the Court or in a smaller data set of cases between 1977 and 2000 (a period after the emergency between 1975 and 1977).
An Ultra-Low-Power 65 nm Single-Tank 24.5-to-29.1 GHz Gm-Enhanced CMOS LC VCO Achieving 195.2 dBc/Hz FoM at 1 MHz
Creators: name: Kurtoglu, Abdullah
name: Shirazi, Amir H. M.
name: Mirabbasi, Shahriar
name: Miri Lavasani, Hossein
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: A low-power single-core 24.5-to-29.1 GHz CMOS LC voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is presented. The proposed VCO uses an innovative differential cross-coupled architecture in which an additional pair is connected to the main pair to increase the effective transconductance, resulting in lower power consumption and reduced phase noise (PN). The proposed VCO is fabricated in a 1P9M standard CMOS process and sustains oscillation at 29.14 GHz with power consumption as low as 455 μW (650 μA from a 0.7 V supply), which is ~20% lower than a conventional CMOS LC VCO without Gm-enhanced differential pairs built through the same process (700 μA from 0.8 V supply). When consuming 880 μW (1.1 mA from 0.8 V), the proposed VCO exhibits a tuning range of 4.6 GHz (from 24.5 GHz to 29.1 GHz). Moreover, it exhibits a measured phase noise (PN) better than −106.5 dBc/Hz @ 1 MHz and −132.0 dBc/Hz @ 10 MHz, with figure-of-merit (FoM) results of 195.2 dBc/Hz and 200.3 dBc/Hz, respectively.
El lavatorio historia clínica 641-2023
Creators: name: Valderrama Gutiérrez, Tatiana
name: Martínez Martínez, Saray Alejandra
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Conservación y restauración de bienes culturales - Siglo XVII
subject: Patrimonio cultural - Siglo XVII
subject: Pintura de caballete - Bogotá (Colombia) - Siglo XVII
subject: Taller pintura de caballete
subject: Museo colonial
subject: San Juan de Dios
subject: Restauración

description: Proceso de intervención de una pintura de caballete de San Juan de Dios lavándole los pies a cristo.
description: Intervention process for an easel painting like "San Juan de Dios washing the feet of Christ".
Halysidota thiaucourti Toulgoet 1998
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Halysidota
Halysidota thiaucourti

description: Halysidota thiaucourti Toulgoët, 1998
Halysidota thiaucourti Toulgoët, 1998c: 602.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Ecuador, [Cotopaxi], Route Salcedo (San Miguel) Napo.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 320, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Supplementary document for Real-time X-ray Phase-contrast Imaging Using SPINNet -- A Speckle-based Phase-contrast Imaging Neural Network - 5669648.pdf
Creators: name: Qiao, Zhi
name: Shi, Xianbo
name: Yao, Yudong
name: Wojcik, Michael
name: Rebuffi, Luca
name: Cherukara, Mathew
name: Assoufid, Lahsen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments and Techniques

description: Supplemental document
Donor-But Not Recipient-Derived Cells Produce Collagen-1 in Chronically Rejected Cardiac Allografts
Creators: name: Balam, Saidou
name: Buchtler, Simone
name: Winter, Frederike
name: Schmidbauer, Kathrin
name: Neumayer, Sophia
name: Talke, Yvonne
name: Renner, Kerstin
name: Geissler, Edward K.
name: Mack, Matthias
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; T-CELLS; EXPRESSION; FIBROSIS; MYOFIBROBLASTS; CONTRIBUTE; CHEMOKINES; HEARTS; CSF-1; MICE; transplantation; fibrocytes; collagen-1; allograft fibrosis; chronic rejection
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Fibrosis is a prominent feature of chronic allograft rejection, caused by an excessive production of matrix proteins, including collagen-1. Several cell types produce collagen-1, including mesenchymal fibroblasts and cells of hematopoietic origin. Here, we sought to determine whether tissue-resident donor-derived cells or allograft-infiltrating recipient-derived cells are responsible for allograft fibrosis, and whether hematopoietic cells contribute to collagen production. A fully MHC-mismatched mouse heterotopic heart transplantation model was used, with transient depletion of CD4(+) T cells to prevent acute rejection. Collagen-1 was selectively knocked out in recipients or donors. In addition, collagen-1 was specifically deleted in hematopoietic cells. Tissue-resident macrophages were depleted using anti-CSF1R antibody. Allograft fibrosis and inflammation were quantified 20 days post-transplantation. Selective collagen-1 knock-out in recipients or donors showed that tissue-resident cells from donor hearts, but not infiltrating recipient-derived cells, are responsible for production of collagen-1 in allografts. Cell-type-specific knock-out experiments showed that hematopoietic tissue-resident cells in donor hearts substantially contributed to graft fibrosis. Tissue resident macrophages, however, were not responsible for collagen-production, as their deletion worsened allograft fibrosis. Donor-derived cells including those of hematopoietic origin determine allograft fibrosis, making them attractive targets for organ preconditioning to improve long-term transplantation outcomes.
Halysidota striata
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Halysidota
Halysidota striata

description: Halysidota striata (Jones, 1908)
Halisidota striata Jones, 1908: 147.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Brazil], Paraná, Castro.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of syntypes (BMNH; one female syntype labeled TYPE).
REMARK
Classified sensu lato in Watson & Goodger (1986: 22).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 320, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Ethnic Conflict, Electoral Systems, and Power Sharing in Divided Societies
Creators: name: Miller, Sara
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This paper investigates the relationship between ethnic conflict, electoral systems, and power sharing in ethnically divided societies.  The cases of Guyana, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Mauritius, and Trinidad and Tobago are considered.  Electoral systems are denoted based on presidential versus parliamentary system, and on proportional representation versus majoritarian/plurality.  The paper concludes that, while electoral systems are important, other factors like the power distribution between ethnic groups, and ensuring a non-zero-sum game may be as important.
Halysidota rusca
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Halysidota
Halysidota rusca

description: Halysidota rusca (Schaus, 1896)
Mazaeras rusca Schaus, 1896b: 141.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, São Paulo.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype male no. 11 093 designated by Watson (1971: 83) (USNM).
REMARK
Classified sensu lato in Watson & Goodger (1986: 22).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 320, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Judicial Quality and the Supreme Court Nominating Process
Creators: name: O'Geen, Andrew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: In recent months, presidential appointments to the Supreme Court have become an increasingly salient issue with both the public and the press. The relevance of the topic makes it an inviting subject for political science research. When looking at the question of judicial quality, the problem that researchers have faced in the past is one of quantifying quality. This work seeks to expand on previous survey research done on the quality of individual justices. By using quality scores (Comiskey 2004) as a dependent variable, it is possible to analyze influences on the President's nomination choice and their relative impacts on the quality of justices. By using a more rigorous approach, this study can more confidently make assertions about the nature of the nomination and confirmation process and the quality of Supreme Court justices.
Understanding Access to Essential Pharmaceuticals during a Public Health Crisis
Creators: name: Jessen, Andrew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Despite the benefits of antiretroviral therapy in treating HIV/AIDS, government responses have varied substantially, from provisions guaranteeing nearly universal access to insufficient provisions providing almost no access. This research seeks to specifically examine primary explanations, such as economic capacity, and emerging explanations, such as the role of electoral accountability and the presence of stigma, and the coordination between the epistemic community and political leadership as potential causes for the variance in the government provision.  By controlling for state economic capacity, this research furthers the importance of examining other explanations for state response in light of a public health crisis. While electoral accountability and the role of stigma had marginal impacts, the level of scientific coordination and understanding among the states political leadership had perceptible impacts. This research also tests broader aspects of the political economy such as the role of state capacity and subsequent government crisis response.
Enhanced Optimal Power Flow Based Droop Control in MMC-MTDC Systems
Creators: name: Du, Hongjin
name: Prasad, Rashmi
name: Lekic, Aleksandra
name: Vergara, Pedro P.
name: Palensky, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Optimizing operational set points for modular multilevel converters (MMCs) in Multi-Terminal Direct Current (MTDC) transmission systems is crucial for ensuring efficient power distribution and control. This paper presents an enhanced Optimal Power Flow (OPF) model for MMC-MTDC systems, integrating a novel adaptive voltage droop control strategy. The strategy aims to minimize generation costs and DC voltage deviations while ensuring the stable operation of the MTDC grid by dynamically adjusting the system operation points. The modified Nordic 32 test system with an embedded 4-terminal DC grid is modeled in Julia and the proposed control strategy is applied to the power model. The results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed droop control strategy, affirming its potential value in enhancing the performance and reliability of hybrid AC-DC power systems.
Religion and Party Realignment: Are Catholics Realigning into the Republican Party?
Creators: name: Burns, Patrick
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This thesis examines the influence of religion on party realignment in the United States focusing on Catholic voting behavior. A statistical analysis utilizing bivariate analysis and logistical regressions examines if religion and party realignment is an ecumenical trend expanding beyond Evangelicals to Catholics. It measures scientifically the party trends of the Catholic voter. With data pooled from the National Election Studies from 1960 to 2004, it tests the hypothesis that church attending Catholics are realigning over time into the Republican Party both in vote choice and party identification, because of their pro-life position on abortion. The analysis shows that church attending Catholics have dealigned from the Democratic Party over time because of their pro-life position on abortion. The thesis is a model for examining the religion and party realignment question for other traditional Democratic religious denominations such as African-American Evangelicals and Jews.
Cheaper and more noise-resilient quantum state preparation using eigenvector continuation
Creators: name: Agrawal, Anjali A.
name: Getelina, João C.
name: Francis, Akhil
name: Kemper, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Subspace methods are powerful, noise-resilient methods that can effectively prepare ground states on quantum computers. The challenge is to get a subspace with a small condition number that spans the states of interest using minimal quantum resources. In this work, we will use eigenvector continuation (EC) to build a subspace from the low-lying states of a set of Hamiltonians. The basis vectors are prepared using truncated versions of standard state preparation methods such as imaginary time evolution (ITE), adiabatic state preparation (ASP), and variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). By using these truncated methods combined with eigenvector continuation, we can directly improve upon them, obtaining more accurate ground state energies at a reduced cost. We use several spin systems to demonstrate convergence even when methods like ITE and ASP fail, such as ASP in the presence of level crossings and ITE with vanishing energy gaps. We also showcase the noise resilience of this approach beyond the gains already made by having shallower quantum circuits. Our findings suggest that eigenvector continuation can be used to improve existing state preparation methods in the near term.
description: 20 pages, 20 figures
Halysidota rhoda
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Halysidota
Halysidota rhoda

description: Halysidota rhoda (Hampson, 1901)
Halisidota rhoda Hampson, 1901a: 170.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Bolivia, [La Paz], Tananpaya [Tanampaya].
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (BMNH).
REMARK
Classified sensu lato in Watson & Goodger (1986: 22).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 320, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Analyzing the Role of the State in the Promotion of the Information Revolution
Creators: name: Gould, Sherry
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: This paper analyzes the relationship between effective state intervention and Information Communications Technology (ICT) dissemination. I theorize that investment in ICT leads to benefits for all firms; without government intervention and incentives, firms will have little reason to invest substantially in this arena. I demonstrate how the collective action problem leads to a lack of private investment as highlighted by the prisoner's dilemma game. I conduct a multi country regression test to ascertain the factors that influence the dissemination of IT. I then analyze the impact of the United States and South Korean government on ICT by process tracing the role of each government in the dissemination of ICT. My results support my hypothesis. The policy implications for this study are the increase in the level of US government involvement in ICT through encouraging private sector participation, creating new laws, and increasing access to technology in public education.
Enzymatic conversion of human blood group A kidneys to universal blood group O
Creators: name: MacMillan, Serena
name: Hosgood, Sarah A.
name: Walker-Panse, Léonie
name: Rahfeld, Peter
name: Macdonald, Spence S.
name: Kizhakkedathu, Jayachandran N.
name: Withers, Stephen G.
name: Nicholson, Michael L.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: ABO blood group compatibility restrictions present the first barrier to donor-recipient matching in kidney transplantation. Here, we present the use of two enzymes, FpGalNAc deacetylase and FpGalactosaminidase, from the bacterium Flavonifractor plautii to enzymatically convert blood group A antigens from the renal vasculature of human kidneys to ‘universal’ O-type. Using normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) and hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) strategies, we demonstrate blood group A antigen loss of approximately 80% in as little as 2 h NMP and HMP. Furthermore, we show that treated kidneys do not bind circulating anti-A antibodies in an ex vivo model of ABO-incompatible transplantation and do not activate the classical complement pathway. This strategy presents a solution to the donor organ shortage crisis with the potential for direct clinical translation to reduce waiting times for patients with end stage renal disease.
Higher order nonlinear Schrödinger equation in domains with moving boundaries
Creators: name: Mollisaca, Raul Nina
name: Cortés, Mauricio Sepúlveda
name: Asém, Rodfigo Véjar
name: Villagrán, Octavio Vera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The initial-boundary value problem in a bounded domain with moving boundaries and nonhomogeneous boundary conditions for a higher order nonlinear Schrödinger (HNLS) equation is considered. Existence and uniqueness of global weak solutions are proved as well as the stability of the solution. Additionally, a conservative numerical method of finite differences is introduced that also verifies stability properties with respect to the $L^2$-norm, and along with proving its convergence, some interesting numerical examples are shown that illustrate the behavior of the solution.
The Effect of Electoral Security on Partisan Support
Creators: name: Webb, Brian
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: I examine the relationship between the electoral security of congressmen, measured as vote margins in the previous election, and the support Members of Congress offer to their party. I develop a theory that predicts safe members will be more willing to support than vulnerable members and leaders demand more loyalty from safe members than vulnerable. This arrangement is rational and beneficial for leaders and both types of members. Using an OLS regression, I find basic support for my theory.
Supplementary document for Real-time X-ray Phase-contrast Imaging Using SPINNet -- A Speckle-based Phase-contrast Imaging Neural Network - 5669648.pdf
Creators: name: Qiao, Zhi
name: Shi, Xianbo
name: Yao, Yudong
name: Wojcik, Michael
name: Rebuffi, Luca
name: Cherukara, Mathew
name: Assoufid, Lahsen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments and Techniques

description: Supplemental document
Halysidota grata
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Halysidota
Halysidota grata

description: Halysidota grata (Walker, 1866)
Halesidota grata Walker, 1866a: 1910.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Colombia], [Cundinamarca], Bogotá.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of male syntypes (?).
REMARK
Classified sensu lato in Watson & Goodger (1986: 22).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on pages 320-321, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
The Changing Role of Soft Money on Campaign Finance Reform.The Birth of the 527 and its Consequences.
Creators: name: El`Ghaouti, Valerie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: In a time when record numbers of dollars are being spent on campaigns the unregulated dollars are flowing faster than ever. Hundreds of millions of dollars in independent expenditures are being used for 'issue advocacy', print and broadcast advertising, which does not expressly endorse or oppose a candidate for office. The one-time campaign finance ceiling has become the campaign finance basement. Individuals are able to give unlimited dollars to 527 organizations, which function outside of all campaign finance regulation and provide a new path for the flow of political dollars. Since the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, commonly known as the McCain-Feingold Act, federally regulated lobbyists and PACS are being edged out of the political dollar due to contribution limits. It is in 1996 that we witness the birth of 527 organizations and the flourishing growth of soft money spending in the campaign process.
The Effects of EU Information on Support for Euroskeptic Radical Right Parties in Europe
Creators: name: Petricevic, Vanja
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: A relatively well established literature already proffers explanations for the persistence of Euroskeptic Radical Right Parties (ERRPs) in Western Europe and for their emergence in the new democracies of the East. The purpose of this study is not to replicate those existing studies; instead, the argument advanced here is that there may be an important intervening factor as yet unexplored in the extant literature. Drawing upon aggregate survey data from select Western European EU member states and a focused case study of Slovakia, this paper seeks to assess the impact of information, in this case information about the European Union, on voting for ERRPs. The argument presented here is that EU information mitigates the support for ERRPs, more so in the East than in the West.
An aeroacoustic mechanism to explain universal behavior in hypersonic wake flow oscillations
Creators: name: Thasu, Premika S.
name: Kumar, Gaurav
name: Duvvuri, Subrahmanyam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental studies reveal that the near-wake region of a circular cylinder at hypersonic Mach numbers exhibits self-sustained flow oscillations. The oscillation frequency was found to have a universal behavior. Experimental observations suggest an aeroacoustic feedback loop to be the driving mechanism of oscillations. An analytical aeroacoustic model which predicts the experimentally observed frequencies and explains the universal behavior is presented here. The model provides physical insights and informs of flow regimes where deviations from universal behavior are to be expected.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Halysidota interstriata
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Halysidota
Halysidota interstriata

description: Halysidota interstriata (Hampson, 1901)
Halisidota interstriata Hampson, 1901a: 170.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, Paraná, Castro.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (BMNH).
REMARK
Classified sensu lato in Watson & Goodger (1986: 22).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 321, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
IMF Conditionality and Armed Civil Conflict: An Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Gowen, Claire
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Since gaining independence, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced periods of internal conflict at higher rates than other regions. The region has also experienced protracted economic problems. Many African countries have implemented International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs designed to improve a state's long-term economic viability. IMF conditionality, however, has led to a host of problems in sub-Saharan Africa that potentially increase the risk of experiencing internal conflict. The results of this research demonstrate that the implementation of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility significantly increases a country's risk of experiencing armed civil conflict. Neither the Structural Adjustment Facility nor the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility have the same affect, though prior conflict, higher GDPs, negative GDP growth, moderate levels of social fractionalization, transitional regimes and the presence of enclave economies do increase conflict risk.
Halysidota torniplaga
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Halysidota
Halysidota torniplaga

description: Halysidota torniplaga (Reich, 1935)
Halisidota torniplaga Reich, 1935b: 279.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, Santa Catarina, Neu Bremen, Rio Laeiss.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype female (TAU).
REMARK
Classified sensu lato in Watson & Goodger (1986: 22).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 321, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Who, How, and What? Third-Party Intervention in Venezuela
Creators: name: Rojas, Ines
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: This thesis examines the impact that third-party identity and techniques have on mediation outcome. The roles of the OAS and the Carter Center in the negotiations between the Venezuelan government and the opposition (DC), during the period 2002-2003, and the implementation of the agreement in 2004 are compared as representing track I and track II actors and styles. Using a process-tracing methodology, five conflict mappings and stages of conflict are combined with the results of focused interviews to main participants of the negotiation process. The analysis shows a significant impact of third-party identity and strategies on the outcome of mediation. Moreover, the outcome is more likely to be successful when track II actors, actually track I ®, participate as mediators in the actual negotiations. The most effective strategies used by third parties, dependent on the timing of the intervention and the stage of conflict, are communication and formulation strategies.
Tailored Design of Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Models using Branchformers
Creators: name: Gimeno-Gómez, David
name: Martínez-Hinarejos, Carlos-D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advances in Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) have led to unprecedented achievements in the field, improving the robustness of this type of system in adverse, noisy environments. In most cases, this task has been addressed through the design of models composed of two independent encoders, each dedicated to a specific modality. However, while recent works have explored unified audio-visual encoders, determining the optimal cross-modal architecture remains an ongoing challenge. Furthermore, such approaches often rely on models comprising vast amounts of parameters and high computational cost training processes. In this paper, we aim to bridge this research gap by introducing a novel audio-visual framework. Our proposed method constitutes, to the best of our knowledge, the first attempt to harness the flexibility and interpretability offered by encoder architectures, such as the Branchformer, in the design of parameter-efficient AVSR systems. To be more precise, the proposed framework consists of two steps: first, estimating audio- and video-only systems, and then designing a tailored audio-visual unified encoder based on the layer-level branch scores provided by the modality-specific models. Extensive experiments on English and Spanish AVSR benchmarks covering multiple data conditions and scenarios demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed method. Even when trained on a moderate scale of data, our models achieve competitive word error rates (WER) of approximately 2.5\% for English and surpass existing approaches for Spanish, establishing a new benchmark with an average WER of around 9.1\%. These results reflect how our tailored AVSR system is able to reach state-of-the-art recognition rates while significantly reducing the model complexity w.r.t. the prevalent approach in the field. Code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/david-gimeno/tailored-avsr.
description: Accepted in Computer Speech & Language journal of Elsevier
Explaining the Ineffectiveness of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: The Leadership of the Hegemon
Creators: name: Montgomery, Betsy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: This thesis examines the role of the hegemon in the international response to genocide. The study looks specifically at the role of the United States and the post Cold War cases of genocide to determine how the United States encouraged or discouraged a response to genocide. By using the plausibility probe method, this study finds that the role of the hegemon is an important one that should be studied further to understand the impact of the hegemon on the international response to genocide.
StixelNExT: Toward Monocular Low-Weight Perception for Object Segmentation and Free Space Detection
Creators: name: Vosshans, Marcel
name: Ait-Aider, Omar
name: Mezouar, Youcef
name: Enzweiler, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we present a novel approach for general object segmentation from a monocular image, eliminating the need for manually labeled training data and enabling rapid, straightforward training and adaptation with minimal data. Our model initially learns from LiDAR during the training process, which is subsequently removed from the system, allowing it to function solely on monocular imagery. This study leverages the concept of the Stixel-World to recognize a medium level representation of its surroundings. Our network directly predicts a 2D multi-layer Stixel-World and is capable of recognizing and locating multiple, superimposed objects within an image. Due to the scarcity of comparable works, we have divided the capabilities into modules and present a free space detection in our experiments section. Furthermore, we introduce an improved method for generating Stixels from LiDAR data, which we use as ground truth for our network.
International Actors, Norms and Human Development
Creators: name: Moll, Amanda
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: A number of international humanitarian organizations focus on human development and aim to improve the situation of children.  In many developing countries, states have not been able to fulfill the educational or basic needs of its children.  To fill this void, international actors have stepped in to help with human development.  This thesis focuses on answering the question: How are norms diffused to local communities?  Looking at the implementation of human development norms, this paper examines the norms-based actions that NGOs take to maximize the development potential of children.  Programs aimed at increasing basic education as well as fighting child labor are addressed.  When exploring the norm socialization process NGOs use to promote programs in education and child labor, it is clear that a different process is present than is suggested by existing literature.  This is due to the locale where norms are implemented: local communities.
Benchmarking quantum gates and circuits
Creators: name: Tripathi, Vinay
name: Kowsari, Daria
name: Saurav, Kumar
name: Zhang, Haimeng
name: Levenson-Falk, Eli M.
name: Lidar, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate noise characterization in quantum gates and circuits is vital for the development of reliable quantum simulations for chemically relevant systems and fault-tolerant quantum computing. This paper reviews a variety of key benchmarking techniques, including Randomized Benchmarking, Quantum Process Tomography, Gate Set Tomography, Process Fidelity Estimation, Direct Fidelity Estimation, and Cross-Entropy Benchmarking. We evaluate each method's complexities, the resources they require, and their effectiveness in addressing coherent, incoherent, and state preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors. Furthermore, we introduce deterministic benchmarking (DB), a novel protocol that minimizes the number of experimental runs, exhibits resilience to SPAM errors, and effectively characterizes both coherent and incoherent errors. The implementation of DB is experimentally validated using a superconducting transmon qubit, and the results are substantiated with a simple analytical model and master equation simulations. With the addition of DB to the toolkit of available benchmarking methods, this article serves as a practical guide for choosing and applying benchmarking protocols to advance quantum computing technologies.
description: 52 pages, 10 figures
Quantum Dissipative Search via Lindbladians
Creators: name: Eder, Peter J.
name: Finžgar, Jernej Rudi
name: Braun, Sarah
name: Mendl, Christian B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Closed quantum systems follow a unitary time evolution that can be simulated on quantum computers. By incorporating non-unitary effects via, e.g., measurements on ancilla qubits, these algorithms can be extended to open-system dynamics, such as Markovian processes described by the Lindblad master equation. In this paper, we analyze the convergence criteria and speed of a Markovian, purely dissipative quantum random walk on an unstructured classical search space. Notably, we show that certain jump operators make the quantum process replicate a classical one, while others yield differences between open quantum (OQRW) and classical random walks. We also clarify a previously observed quadratic speedup, demonstrating that OQRWs are no more efficient than classical search. Finally, we analyze a dissipative discrete-time ground-state preparation algorithm with a lower implementation cost. This allows us to interpolate between the dissipative and the unitary domain and thereby illustrate the important role of coherence for the quadratic speedup.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRA
Voting: Is it Just for Old People?
Creators: name: Hall, Precious
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: In 2004, the clothing retailer Urban Outfitters sold a t-shirt with the slogan, 'Voting is for Old People'. Did Urban Outfitters step over the line, or were they a reflection of the sate of our democracy and the demographics of current voters' Many organizations have developed to combat the problem of low youth voter turnout and disengagement. One of the most well-known organizations is Rock the Vote. In its 18 year existence, has youth turnout increased' Have their efforts been futile or on the other side, have they been successful in paving the way for the youth to demand attention from the government and be heard' The purpose of this research is to measure the effects of the efforts targeted toward youth voters over the past 18 years, in terms of voter turnout using American National Election Studies Data. The results show that voting is not just for old people.
The Party, the Oil Companies, and Energy Security: Who Determines Chinese Policy?
Creators: name: Ding, Yuanyuan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: China is today the third largest importer of crude oil in the world. Since 1993 when the country's consumption of oil first exceeded the capacity of its domestic production, China has become a net importer and has witnessed a growing appetite for oil during the past decade. Energy security has been given enormous emphasis in the country's foreign policy making, and is believed to be one of the most important components of China's foreign policy in the 21st century. While enough ink has been spilled on the assessment of what China's energy security policy looks like, few scholarly inquiries have been made into the domestic sources of China's energy security policy. The purpose of this article is to reevaluate such a policy by identifying the different domestic stakeholders and analyzing how the potential divergence between the state and the oil companies influences the final policy outcome.