cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Change in a probabilistic representation of meaning can account for N400 effects on articles: a neural network model
Creators: name: Rabovsky, Milena
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Increased N400 amplitudes on indefinite articles (a/an) incompatible with expected nouns have been initially taken as strong evidence for probabilistic pre-activation of phonological word forms, and recently been intensely debated because they have been difficult to replicate. Here, these effects are simulated using a neural network model of sentence comprehension that we previously used to simulate a broad range of empirical N400 effects. The model produces the effects when the cue validity of the articles concerning upcoming noun meaning in the learning environment is high, but fails to produce the effects when the cue validity of the articles is low due to adjectives presented between articles and nouns during training. These simulations provide insight into one of the factors potentially contributing to the small size of the effects in empirical studies and generate predictions for cross-linguistic differences in article induced N400 effects based on articles’ cue validity. The model accounts for article induced N400 effects without assuming pre-activation of word forms, and instead simulates these effects as the stimulus-induced change in a probabilistic representation of meaning corresponding to an implicit semantic prediction error.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 731
Local constancy for the reduction mod p of 2-dimensional crystalline representations
Creators: name: Berger, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F, 11S, 11Y

description: Irreducible crystalline representations of dimension 2 of Gal(Qpbar/Qp) depend up to twist on two parameters, the weight k and the trace of frobenius a_p. We show that the reduction modulo p of such a representation is a locally constant function of a_p (with an explicit radius) and a locally constant function of the weight k if a_p <> 0. We then give an algorithm for computing the reductions modulo p of these representations. The main ingredient is Fontaine's theory of (phi,Gamma)-modules as well as the theory of Wach modules.
description: The "local constancy" part is new; the algorithm is unchanged; the title of the article has been changed
Evaluation of bone strength: microtomographic tecniques
Analisi della resistenza ossea: tecniche microtomografiche
Creators: name: Tassani, Simone <1979>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009
Subjects: ING-IND/34 Bioingegneria industriale

description: This thesis is a part of a larger study about the characterization of mechanical and histomorphometrical properties of bone. The main objects of this study were the bone tissue properties and its resistance to mechanical loads. Moreover, the knowledge about the equipment selected to carry out the analyses, the micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), was improved. Particular attention was given to the reliability over time of the measuring instrument.
In order to understand the main characteristics of bone mechanical properties a study of the skeletal, the bones of which it is composed and biological principles that drive their formation and remodelling, was necessary.
This study has led to the definition of two macro-classes describing the main components responsible for the resistance to fracture of bone: quantity and quality of bone. The study of bone quantity is the current clinical standard measure for so-called bone densitometry, and research studies have amply demonstrated that the amount of tissue is correlated with its mechanical properties of elasticity and fracture. However, the models presented in the literature, including information on the mere quantity of tissue, have often been limited in describing the mechanical behaviour. Recent investigations have underlined that also the bone-structure and the tissue-mineralization play an important role in the mechanical characterization of  bone tissue. For this reason in this thesis the class defined as bone quality was mainly studied, splitting it into two sub-classes of bone structure and tissue quality.
A study on bone structure was designed to identify which structural parameters, among the several presented in the literature, could be integrated with the information about quantity, in order to better describe the mechanical properties of bone. In this way, it was also possible to analyse the iteration between structure and function. It has been known for long that bone tissue is capable of remodeling and changing its internal structure according to loads, but the dynamics of these changes are still being analysed. This part of the study was aimed to identify the parameters that could quantify the structural changes of bone tissue during the development of a given disease: osteoarthritis.
A study on tissue quality would have to be divided into different classes, which would require a scale of analysis not suitable for the micro-CT. For this reason the study was focused only on the mineralization of the tissue, highlighting the difference between bone density and tissue density, working in a context where there is still an ongoing scientific debate.
A unit-based symbolic execution method for detecting memory corruption vulnerabilities in executable codes
Creators: name: Baradaran, Sara
name: Heidari, Mahdi
name: Kamali, Ali
name: Mouzarani, Maryam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Memory corruption is a serious class of software vulnerabilities, which requires careful attention to be detected and removed from applications before getting exploited and harming the system users. Symbolic execution is a well-known method for analyzing programs and detecting various vulnerabilities, e.g., memory corruption. Although this method is sound and complete in theory, it faces some challenges, such as path explosion, when applied to real-world complex programs. In this paper, we present a method for improving the efficiency of symbolic execution and detecting four classes of memory corruption vulnerabilities in executable codes, i.e., heap-based buffer overflow, stack-based buffer overflow, use-after-free, and double-free. We perform symbolic execution only on test units rather than the whole program to avoid path explosion. In our method, test units are considered parts of the program's code, which might contain vulnerable statements and are statically identified based on the specifications of memory corruption vulnerabilities. Then, each test unit is symbolically executed to calculate path and vulnerability constraints of each statement of the unit, which determine the conditions on unit input data for executing that statement or activating vulnerabilities in it, respectively. Solving these constraints gives us input values for the test unit, which execute the desired statements and reveal vulnerabilities in them. Finally, we use machine learning to approximate the correlation between system and unit input data. Thereby, we generate system inputs that enter the program, reach vulnerable instructions in the desired test unit, and reveal vulnerabilities in them. This method is implemented as a plugin for angr framework and evaluated using a group of benchmark programs. The experiments show its superiority over similar tools in accuracy and performance.
SHAPE-ID Toolkit Resources - Annotated Bibliography Collection
Creators: name: SHAPE-ID
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Interdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary, Collaborative research, Integration, Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic literature, European research policy

description: This document compiles annotated bibliographies of the key readings on inter- and transdisciplinary research from the academic literature and from European research policy literature .
Absolutely Continuous Spectrum for the Anderson Model on Some Tree-like Graphs
Creators: name: Halasan, Florina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q10

description: We prove persistence of absolutely continuous spectrum for the Anderson model on a general class of tree-like graphs.
description: Some clarifications were added in the introduction and an extra appendix was added
Cornutiplusia circumflexa
Creators: name: Aistleitner, Eyjolf
name: Behounek, Gottfried
name: Hoppe, Henri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Cornutiplusia
Cornutiplusia circumflexa

description: Cornutiplusia circumflexa (LINNAEUS, 1767)
M a t e r i a l u n t e r s u c h t: Brava, Nova Sintra, Santana, 490 m, 17.02.2004, 05.11.+ 07.12.2004, 11.01.2005, 4 ex., São Nicolau, Cachao, 650-700m, 20.12.2000, 4 ex., São Vicente, Mte. Verde, 400-700m, 14.12.2000, 1 ex.
V e r b r e i t u n g: palaeotropisch-subtropisch (Palaearctis, Aethiopis, Orientalis partim).
description: Published as part of Aistleitner, Eyjolf, Behounek, Gottfried & Hoppe, Henri, 2023, Ergänzende Daten zur Noctuiden-Fauna der Kapverden (Cabo Verde) (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Erebidae, Noctuidae), pp. 475-506 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 54 (2) on page 483, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10414294
Bottom Tetraquark Production at RHIC?
Creators: name: Vogt, R.
name: Angerami, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: A resonance has been observed by the ANDY Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Cu+Au collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV and at forward rapidity with an average mass of 18.15 GeV. The Collaboration suggests that it is a $b \overline b b \overline b$ tetraquark state decaying to two $Υ$(1S) states, each measured through the $Υ\rightarrow ggg$ channel. Purpose: Their suggestion is investigated assuming that the two $Υ$ states are produced through the materialization of a $|uud b\overline b b \overline b \rangle$ Fock state in the projectile. Methods: The $Υ$ pair mass and rapidity distributions arising from such a state are calculated. The production of an $X_b(b \overline b b \overline b)$ tetraquark state from the same Fock configuration is also investigated. The dependence on bottom quark mass and their transverse momentum range is also studied. Results: It is found that double $Υ$ production from these $|uud b \overline b b \overline b \rangle$ states peak in the rapidity range of the ANDY detector. The $Υ$ pair and $X_b$ masses are, however, higher than the mass reported by the ANDY Collaboration. Conclusions: The results obtained from these calculations are incompatible with the ANDY result. They are, however, compatible with previous predictions of $b \overline b b \overline b$ tetraquark masses.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Xanthodes albago Pardoxia
Creators: name: Aistleitner, Eyjolf
name: Behounek, Gottfried
name: Hoppe, Henri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nolidae
Xanthodes
Xanthodes albago

description: Xanthodes albago (FABRICIUS, 1794)
M a t e r i a l u n t e r s u c h t: Brava, Nova Sintra, Santana, 490 m, 05.- 30.11.2004, 02.- 09.12.2004, 20.02.2005, 29.09.-4.- 20.10.2007, 49 ex.
V e r b r e i t u n g: palaeotropisch-subtropisch (Mediterraneis, Aethiopis, Orientalis, Australis).
description: Published as part of Aistleitner, Eyjolf, Behounek, Gottfried & Hoppe, Henri, 2023, Ergänzende Daten zur Noctuiden-Fauna der Kapverden (Cabo Verde) (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Erebidae, Noctuidae), pp. 475-506 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 54 (2) on page 484, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10414294
Single-Sector Supersymmetry Breaking in Supersymmetric QCD
Creators: name: Franco, Sebastian
name: Kachru, Shamit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct examples of single-sector supersymmetry breaking based on simple deformations of supersymmetric QCD with (weakly) gauged flavor group. These theories are calculable in a weakly coupled Seiberg dual description. In these models, some of the particles in the first two generations of quarks and leptons are composites of the same strong dynamics which leads to dynamical supersymmetry breaking. Such models can explain the hierarchies of Yukawa couplings in the Standard Model, in a way that predictively correlates with the spectrum of SUSY-breaking soft terms.
description: 22 pages. v3: note added
Model for Density Waves in Gravity-Driven Granular Flow in Narrow Pipes
Creators: name: Ellingsen, Simen Å.
name: Gjerden, Knut S.
name: Grøva, Morten
name: Hansen, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A gravity-driven flow of grains through a narrow pipe in vacuum is studied by means of a one-dimensional model with two coefficients of restitution. Numerical simulations show clearly how density waves form when a strikingly simple criterion is fulfilled: that dissipation due to collisions between the grains and the walls of the pipe is greater per collision than that which stems from collisions between particles. Counterintuitively, the highest flow rate is observed when the number of grains per density wave grows large. We find strong indication that the number of grains per density wave always approaches a constant as the particle number tends to infinity, and that collapse to a single wave, which was often observed also in previous simulations, occurs because the number of grains is insufficient for multiple wave formation.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Minor changes. Final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
Modelli Matematici per Transizioni di Fase in Materiali Speciali
Creators: name: Grandi, Diego <1975>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009
Subjects: MAT/07 Fisica matematica

description: In questa Tesi vengono trattati alcuni temi relativi alla modellizzazione matematica delle Transizioni di Fase, il cui filo conduttore è la descrizione basata su un parametro d'ordine, originato dalla Teoria di Landau. Dopo aver presentato in maniera generale un modo di approccio alla dinamica delle transizioni mediante campo di fase, con particolare attenzione al problema della consistenza termodinamica nelle situazioni non isoterme, si considerano tre applicazioni di tale metodo a transizioni di fase specifiche: la transizione ferromagnetica, la transizione superconduttrice e la transizione martensitica nelle leghe  a memoria di forma (SMA). Il contributo maggiore viene fornito nello studio di quest'ultima transizione di fase per la quale si è elaborato un modello a campo di fase termodinamicamente consistente, atto a descriverne le proprietà termomeccaniche essenziali.
Security proof for cryptographic protocols based only on the monogamy of Bell's inequality violations
Creators: name: Pawlowski, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that monogamy of Bell's inequality violations, which is strictly weaker condition than no-signaling is enough to prove security of quantum key distribution. We derive our results for a whole class of monogamy constraints and generalize our results to any theory that communicating parties may have access to. Some of these theories do not respect no-signaling principle yet still allow for secure communication. This proves that no-signaling is only a sufficient condition for the possibility of secure communication, but not the necessary one. We also present some new qualitative results concerning the security of existing quantum key distribution protocols.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Doubly resonant optical nanoantenna arrays for polarization resolved measurements of surface-enhanced Raman scattering
Creators: name: Petschulat, J.
name: Cialla, D.
name: Janunts, N.
name: Rockstuhl, C.
name: Huebner, U.
name: Moeller, R.
name: Schneidewind, H.
name: Mattheis, R.
name: Popp, J.
name: Tuennermann, A.
name: Lederer, F.
name: Pertsch, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report that rhomb-shaped metal nanoantenna arrays support multiple plasmonic resonances, making them favorable bio-sensing substrates. Besides the two localized plasmonic dipole modes associated with the two principle axes of the rhombi, the sample supports an additional grating-induced surface plasmon polariton resonance. The plasmonic properties of all modes are carefully studied by far-field measurements together with numerical and analytical calculations. The sample is then applied to surface-enhanced Raman scattering measurements. It is shown to be highly efficient since two plasmonic resonances of the structure were simultaneously tuned to coincide with the excitation and the emission wave- length in the SERS experiment. The analysis is completed by measuring the impact of the polarization angle on the SERS signal.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Your Farm Lease
Creators: name: Tharp, Max M.
name: Tharp, Max M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1947
Subjects: Farm Management
Financial Economics

description: Excerpts from the report: In the lease, the farm owner agrees that the tenant shall have certain rights to occupy and use the farm for a specified length of time. Both owner and tenant accept certain duties and responsibilities. In addition to the usual items in the lease—like a description of the farm, time of occupancy, crops to be grown, and rent to be paid—it may cover any special understanding, or project, which the owner and the tenant have talked over and have decided to carry out. There may be arrangements for building fences, enlarging and improving the pasture, constructing terraces or drainage ditches, or other improvements. Details of such improvements usually can be worked out so that each party will be reasonably well satisfied and compensated for what he does. Good written farm leases can lead to better understanding and closer cooperation between landowners and tenants. Such leases can also mean improved tenant farming, soil conservation, more food production, and higher farm incomes.
Semantic Publishing: issues, solutions and new trends in scholarly publishing within the Semantic Web era
Creators: name: Peroni, Silvio <1983>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: INF/01 Informatica

description: This work is concerned with the increasing relationships between two distinct multidisciplinary research fields, Semantic Web technologies and scholarly publishing, that in this context converge into one precise research topic: Semantic Publishing. In the spirit of the original aim of Semantic Publishing, i.e. the improvement of scientific communication by means of semantic technologies, this thesis proposes theories, formalisms and applications for opening up semantic publishing to an effective interaction between scholarly documents (e.g., journal articles) and their related semantic and formal descriptions. In fact, the main aim of this work is to increase the users' comprehension of documents and to allow document enrichment, discovery and linkage to document-related resources and contexts, such as other articles and raw scientific data.

In order to achieve these goals, this thesis investigates and proposes solutions for three of the main issues that semantic publishing promises to address, namely: the need of tools for linking document text to a formal representation of its meaning, the lack of complete metadata schemas for describing documents according to the publishing vocabulary, and absence of effective user interfaces for easily acting on semantic publishing models and theories.
ParaDime: A Framework for Parametric Dimensionality Reduction
Creators: name: Hinterreiter, Andreas
name: Humer, Christina
name: Kainz, Bernhard
name: Streit, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: ParaDime is a framework for parametric dimensionality reduction (DR). In parametric DR, neural networks are trained to embed high-dimensional data items in a low-dimensional space while minimizing an objective function. ParaDime builds on the idea that the objective functions of several modern DR techniques result from transformed inter-item relationships. It provides a common interface for specifying these relations and transformations and for defining how they are used within the losses that govern the training process. Through this interface, ParaDime unifies parametric versions of DR techniques such as metric MDS, t-SNE, and UMAP. It allows users to fully customize all aspects of the DR process. We show how this ease of customization makes ParaDime suitable for experimenting with interesting techniques such as hybrid classification/embedding models and supervised DR. This way, ParaDime opens up new possibilities for visualizing high-dimensional data.
description: accepted at EuroVis 2023
Analysis of the ${1\over 2}^{\pm}$ flavor antitriplet heavy baryon states with QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we study the masses and pole residues of the ${1\over 2}^\pm$ flavor antitriplet heavy baryon states ($Λ_c^+$, $Ξ_c^+,Ξ_c^0)$ and ($Λ_b^0$, $Ξ_b^0,Ξ_b^-)$ by subtracting the contributions from the corresponding ${1\over 2}^\mp$ heavy baryon states with the QCD sum rules, and observe the masses are in good agreement with the experimental data and make reasonable predictions for the unobserved ${1\over 2}^-$ bottom baryon states. Once reasonable values of the pole residues $λ_Λ$ and $λ_Ξ$ are obtained, we can take them as basic parameters to study the revelent hadronic processes with the QCD sum rules.
description: 11 pages, 16 figures, published version
Utilizzo di dispositivi isteretici per l'isolamento di piano: strategie per una progettazione sismica di tipo multi-prestazionale
Use of hysteretic devices for the first-story isolation: strategies for a multi-performance seismic design
Creators: name: Gagliardi, Stefano <1975>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICAR/09 Tecnica delle costruzioni

description: Con la presente tesi si è inteso studiare le possibilità applicative di una particolare tipologia strutturale dotata di isolamento sismico “di piano”, intendendosi con ciò una struttura in cui l'intero piano terra, tramite l'inserimento di opportuni elementi dissipativi isteretici ed in analogia al consueto isolamento sismico di base, agisce da “strato” di protezione passiva per i piani sovrastanti.
A riguardo, fra le possibili soluzioni per realizzare effettivamente tale isolamento "di piano" è stata considerata la disposizione di particolari elementi dissipativi isteretici di controvento detti Crecent-Shaped Braces, caratterizzati da una forma bilatera o curva, tale comunque da presentare un'eccentricità non nulla fra l'asse del controvento stesso e la linea congiungente gli estremi.
description: In this PhD thesis a particular type of structure with "first-story" seismic isolation is studied, i.e. a structure in which the entire first floor, through the insertion of appropriate hysteretic dissipative elements and in analogy to the usual seismic base isolation, acts as a "layer" of passive protection for the floors above.
Among the possible solutions to achieve this "first-story" isolation a particular hysteretic dissipative  bracing element, the Crescent-Shaped Brace, is considered; it is characterized by a shape presenting some eccentricity between the axis of the brace itself and the line joining its ends.
Neural Importance Sampling for Rapid and Reliable Gravitational-Wave Inference
Creators: name: Dax, Maximilian
name: Green, Stephen R.
name: Gair, Jonathan
name: Pürrer, Michael
name: Wildberger, Jonas
name: Macke, Jakob H.
name: Buonanno, Alessandra
name: Schölkopf, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We combine amortized neural posterior estimation with importance sampling for fast and accurate gravitational-wave inference. We first generate a rapid proposal for the Bayesian posterior using neural networks, and then attach importance weights based on the underlying likelihood and prior. This provides (1) a corrected posterior free from network inaccuracies, (2) a performance diagnostic (the sample efficiency) for assessing the proposal and identifying failure cases, and (3) an unbiased estimate of the Bayesian evidence. By establishing this independent verification and correction mechanism we address some of the most frequent criticisms against deep learning for scientific inference. We carry out a large study analyzing 42 binary black hole mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo with the SEOBNRv4PHM and IMRPhenomXPHM waveform models. This shows a median sample efficiency of $\approx 10\%$ (two orders-of-magnitude better than standard samplers) as well as a ten-fold reduction in the statistical uncertainty in the log evidence. Given these advantages, we expect a significant impact on gravitational-wave inference, and for this approach to serve as a paradigm for harnessing deep learning methods in scientific applications.
description: 8+7 pages, 1+5 figures. [v2]: Minor updates to match published version, code available at https://github.com/dingo-gw/dingo
Measurement of surface displacements and strains by the double aperture speckle shearing camer
Creators: name: Brdicko, Jan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In the testing of materials, structures and structural components it is often desired to determine the surface displacement and strain fields due to some external loading. Numerous optical techniques have been developed for this purpose and successfully used in particular applications. Unfortunately, when the surface deformation is quite large, as is usually the case in practical testing, most of these methods fail and only a few suitable optical interferometric techniques will work. Two of the recently developed techniques that seem to work are based on laser speckle interferometry. The first technique was described in 1972 by Duffy [l] who showed that a Double Aperture Speckle Camera (DASC) is suitable for measurement of a reasonably large in-plane displacement having its direction parallel to the line connecting the two apertures of the camera. A second technique was described in 1973 by Hung [3] . He showed that a Double Aperture Speckle Shearing Camera (DASSC) may be used to measure both the in and out-of-plane strains of planar surfaces. Duffy has not considered the fringe formation by DASC due to the displacement normal to the surface and the displacement normal to the line connecting the two apertures of DASC. Hung, in turn, has not considered the effect on fringe formation of either the in and out-of-plane displacements, or the in-plane strain, which is the partial derivative w,v (see Fig. 3.11 for the definition of w,y). Because of the great potential of DASC and DASSC stemming from their ability to measure displacements and strains over many orders of magnitude, a considerable effort was made to determine the fringe formation of the two cameras due to all displacements and strains occuring in a general deformation of a specimen surface. The theoretical analysis of models of DASC and DASSC was performed and resulted in two "new" equations describing the fringe formation by these cameras. The equations take into account the effect of all displacements , and strains on the fringe formation; in addition, the equations are "symmetric" and the equation governing DASSC reduces to the one governing DASC for the lateral shear set equal to zero. The accuracy of these equations was then verified by a number of simple experiments. Various ways of using the two cameras were proposed so that the unknown displacements and strains in the specimen surface may be calculated from the least number of fringe patterns. Computer programs based on these proposed methods were written and used in several experiments. In all instances the actual and the calculated displacements and strains agreed quite well.
Limit on Continuous Neutrino Emission from Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Goldman, Itzhak
name: Nussinov, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The timing data of the binary pulsar PSR1913+16, are used to establish an upper limit on the rate of continuous neutrino emission from neutron stars. Neutrino emission from each of the neutron stars of the binary system, increases the star binding energy and thus translates to a decrease in their masses. This in turn implies an increase with time of the binary period. Using the pulsar data we obtain an upper limit on the allowed rate of mass reduction : $| \dot{M}| <1.1 \times 10^{-12} yr^{-1} M $, where $M$ is the total mass of the binary. This constrains exotic nuclear equations of state that predict continuous neutrino emissions. The limit applies also to other channels of energy loss, e.g. axion emission. Continued timing measurements of additional binary pulsars, should yield a stronger limit in the future.
description: 5 pages, Added a section on energy transport in the neutron star, JHEP published
Automated Driving on a Skid Road with a Forwarder in a CTL Logging Process
Creators: name: Geiger, Chris
name: Beiser, Sebastian
name: Geimer, Marcus
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2021
Subjects: Pathplanning
Potential Fields
Automation
Automated Driving

description: In a fully mechanized Cut-to-Length (CTL) logging process, a harvester fells the trees and cuts them into logs of specific length according to the log quality. In the subsequent process step, a forwarder loads the logs and moves them from the logging area to a forest road. This step shows a huge potential towards automation. Within this paper, a method is presented for driving a forwarder automated on a skid road based on environmental recognition, avoiding the disadvantages of gps-based systems and their lacking accuracy under tree canopy. The presented method exploits the process flow of a CTL process, as a Lidar is mounted on the harvester, which delivers a highly accurate point cloud of the environment and works well regardless of the lighting conditions. Applying the SLAM-algorithm ‘Google Cartographer’ on the collected point cloud data of the 3D-LIDAR from the Harvester creates a map, on which an offline path planning is performed. This map results firstly in a 2D occupancy grid map, showing which areas contains objects and which areas are free space. The data in the map is further processed by identifying trees using a clustering algorithm on the object points. After receiving such a simplified map, the subsequent path planning consists of two steps due to the articulated steering of the forestry machine. In the first step, a guiding path for the skid road is created by using gradient descent after creating an artificial potential field with a high potential for areas containing trees. In the second step, this path is recalculated with a simplified kinematics model of the vehicle, avoiding collisions of the forwarder with the trees adjacent to the skid road. Furthermore, the calculated path contains the steering and heading angles of the vehicle. Based on this information, the necessary steering angle of a vehicle on the map can be calculated online and sent to the machine control. The presented method was proven simulation-based with measurement data recorded at real logging sites during thinning and will be tested under real working conditions for an 11-ton forwarder in near future. Thereby, a stump detection based on a Convolutional Neural Network resulting in an online obstacle avoidance system will be implemented by mounting an additional depth camera on the Forwarder.
Making Things Explainable vs Explaining: Requirements and Challenges under the GDPR
Creators: name: Sovrano, Francesco
name: Vitali, Fabio
name: Palmirani, Monica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The European Union (EU) through the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI-HLEG) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has recently posed an interesting challenge to the eXplainable AI (XAI) community, by demanding a more user-centred approach to explain Automated Decision-Making systems (ADMs). Looking at the relevant literature, XAI is currently focused on producing explainable software and explanations that generally follow an approach we could term One-Size-Fits-All, that is unable to meet a requirement of centring on user needs. One of the causes of this limit is the belief that making things explainable alone is enough to have pragmatic explanations. Thus, insisting on a clear separation between explainabilty (something that can be explained) and explanations, we point to explanatorY AI (YAI) as an alternative and more powerful approach to win the AI-HLEG challenge. YAI builds over XAI with the goal to collect and organize explainable information, articulating it into something we called user-centred explanatory discourses. Through the use of explanatory discourses/narratives we represent the problem of generating explanations for Automated Decision-Making systems (ADMs) into the identification of an appropriate path over an explanatory space, allowing explainees to interactively explore it and produce the explanation best suited to their needs.
Empirical analysis of the Agricultural extension service in Western States of Nigeria as an adult education system
Creators: name: Opeke, Raphael Olabamiji
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Agriculture is the primary industry in Nigeria. About 75 percent of the people of the Western States of Nigeria (Ogun, Oyo, and Ondo States) depend on agriculture with cocoa production as the principal foreign exchange earner. Over the years, other researchers have questioned the effectiveness of the Agricultural Extension Services as adult education agencies in the country and have argued the stagnant nature of farm practices among peasant farmers. The purpose of the study is to investigate the roles that Agricultural Extension Services in the Western States of Nigeria should play for farmers and rural non-farm peoples. The investigation is focused on identification of the methods and techniques agricultural extension agents use in teaching farmers and examines the effectiveness of such methods as correlates of cocoa production among farmers. A conceptual model based on Verner's theoretical framework was used to evaluate the Extension Service as an adult education system. The subjects included 70 extension supervisors, 109 village level extension agents, and 140 cocoa farmers. Interview schedules consisting of structured Likert scales were used to collect data for the study. Descriptive statistics, correlational analyses, univariate and multivariate analyses of variance, and regression analyses were used to examine factors affecting cocoa production. The Extension staff in the Western States of Nigeria perceived administrative function as the "most important" function, and educational function second. The farmers perceived administrative function of the extension service as the "least important" and ranked educational function as the "most important". The most effective instructional techniques recalled by the farmers were those techniques least used by extension agents. The educational components of the extension service in the states did not emerge as significant predictors of cocoa production; even though 55 percent of the instructions given to the farmers occurred under systematic instructional techniques. It was concluded that Agricultural Extension Service in the Western States of Nigeria did not provide effective educational service for the rural people. Extension activities carried out as the most important in the states are not those which the farmers expected from the Ministry of Agriculture. Educational methods and techniques used by the extension agents did not make a significant impact on the peasant farmers, and were judged ineffective to the farmers' own situation. The present system of extension administration tends to relegate the education of rural farmers to a peripheral purpose within the institutional framework. The study utilized a broad perspective of the educational process of rural farmers through agricultural extension and thereby concluded that instructional techniques based on personal and group contacts are deemed the most effective by the farmers in improving their own farm practices.
Chrysodeixis acuta
Creators: name: Aistleitner, Eyjolf
name: Behounek, Gottfried
name: Hoppe, Henri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Chrysodeixis
Chrysodeixis acuta

description: Chrysodeixis acuta (WALKER, [1858]
M a t e r i a l u n t e r s u c h t: Brava, Nova Sintra, Santana, 490 m, 02. 15.+30.11. + 04.12.2004, 11.01.2005, 5 ex.
V e r b r e i t u n g: palaeotropisch-subtropisch(Aethiopis,Orientalis).
description: Published as part of Aistleitner, Eyjolf, Behounek, Gottfried & Hoppe, Henri, 2023, Ergänzende Daten zur Noctuiden-Fauna der Kapverden (Cabo Verde) (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Erebidae, Noctuidae), pp. 475-506 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 54 (2) on page 483, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10414294
Chasmina vestae
Creators: name: Aistleitner, Eyjolf
name: Behounek, Gottfried
name: Hoppe, Henri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Chasmina
Chasmina vestae

description: Chasmina vestae (GUENÉE, 1852)
M a t e r i a l u n t e r s u c h t: Brava, Nova Sintra,Santana, 490 m, 02.+ 15.11.2004, 02.12.2004, 29.09.2007, 7 ex.
V e r b r e i t u n g: afrotropisch-subtropisch.
description: Published as part of Aistleitner, Eyjolf, Behounek, Gottfried & Hoppe, Henri, 2023, Ergänzende Daten zur Noctuiden-Fauna der Kapverden (Cabo Verde) (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Erebidae, Noctuidae), pp. 475-506 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 54 (2) on page 484, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10414294
Hypercontractivity Meets Random Convex Hulls: Analysis of Randomized Multivariate Cubatures
Creators: name: Hayakawa, Satoshi
name: Oberhauser, Harald
name: Lyons, Terry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a probability measure $μ$ on a set $\mathcal{X}$ and a vector-valued function $φ$, a common problem is to construct a discrete probability measure on $\mathcal{X}$ such that the push-forward of these two probability measures under $φ$ is the same. This construction is at the heart of numerical integration methods that run under various names such as quadrature, cubature, or recombination. A natural approach is to sample points from $μ$ until their convex hull of their image under $φ$ includes the mean of $φ$. Here we analyze the computational complexity of this approach when $φ$ exhibits a graded structure by using so-called hypercontractivity. The resulting theorem not only covers the classical cubature case of multivariate polynomials, but also integration on pathspace, as well as kernel quadrature for product measures.
description: 20 pages
Seedtime and Harvest Today
Creators: name: Hainsworth, Reginald G.
name: Baker, Oliver E.
name: Brodell, Albert P.
name: Hainsworth, Reginald G.
name: Baker, Oliver E.
name: Brodell, Albert P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1942
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management
Labor and Human Capital
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: Seedtime and harvest have always been the peak seasons for farm labor, whether done by men and horses or by men and machines; and the approximate dates of these activities are of vital concern to many. But now, with war pressing hard upon our whole economic life, they become of even more critical immediate import. The plans of farmers, farm laborers, employment agencies, transportation systems, markets, and commercial concerns that buy and sell in farm areas are often drawn with the harvest seasons particularly in mind. Now, more than ever before, we need to take account of such circumstances if we are to attain that full production which is our goal. A marked present departure from past conditions during these seasons has to do with farm laborers and their families. Here, again, war, with its drain on manpower for all purposes, adds emphasis to a peacetime trend. Several circumstances, even before this country entered the war, had reduced the need for laborers in farm planting and harvesting work in which vast numbers were formerly employed. This publication takes special note of these changed conditions.
Additional file 2 of DNA methylation and its effects on gene expression during primary to secondary growth in poplar stems
Creators: name: Zhang, Yang
name: Liu, Cong
name: Cheng, He
name: Tian, Shuanghui
name: Liu, Yingying
name: Wang, Shuang
name: Zhang, Huaxin
name: Saqib, Muhammad
name: Wei, Hairong
name: Wei, Zhigang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Distributions of 5-methylcytosine density on Chromosomes 2–19 in primary stems (PS).
Searching for very-high-energy electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave events with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Creators: name: Patricelli, Barbara
name: Carosi, Alessandro
name: Nava, Lara
name: Seglar-Arroyo, Monica
name: Schüssler, Fabian
name: Stamerra, Antonio
name: Adelfio, Andrea
name: Ashkar, Halim
name: Bulgarelli, Andrea
name: Di Girolamo, Tristano
name: Di Piano, Ambra
name: Gasparetto, Thomas
name: Green, Jarred
name: Longo, Francesco
name: Agudo, Ivan
name: Berti, Alessio
name: Bissaldi, Elisabetta
name: Cella, Giancarlo
name: Circiello, Antonio
name: Covino, Stefano
name: Ghirlanda, Giancarlo
name: Humensky, Brian
name: Inoue, Susumu
name: Lefaucheur, Julien
name: Filipovic, Miroslav
name: Razzano, Massimiliano
name: Ribeiro, Deivid
name: Sergijenko, Olga
name: Stratta, Giulia
name: Vergani, Susanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of electromagnetic (EM) emission following the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 opened the era of multi-messenger astronomy with GWs and provided the first direct evidence that at least a fraction of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are progenitors of short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). GRBs are also expected to emit very-high energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) photons, as proven by the recent MAGIC and H.E.S.S. observations. One of the challenges for future multi-messenger observations will be the detection of such VHE emission from GRBs in association with GWs. In the next years, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be a key instrument for the EM follow-up of GW events in the VHE range, owing to its unprecedented sensitivity, rapid response, and capability to monitor a large sky area via scan-mode operation. We present the CTA GW follow-up program, with a focus on the searches for short GRBs possibly associated with BNS mergers. We investigate the possible observational strategies and we outline the prospects for the detection of VHE EM counterparts to transient GW events.
description: Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021); PoS (ICRC2021) 998
Non-unitary Leptonic Mixing and Leptogenesis
Creators: name: Antusch, Stefan
name: Blanchet, Steve
name: Blennow, Mattias
name: Fernandez-Martinez, Enrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the relation between non-unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix and leptogenesis. We discuss how all parameters of the canonical type-I seesaw mechanism can, in principle, be reconstructed from the neutrino mass matrix and the deviation of the effective low-energy leptonic mixing matrix from unitary. When the mass M' of the lightest right-handed neutrino is much lighter than the masses of the others, we show that its decay asymmetries within flavour-dependent leptogenesis can be expressed in terms of two contributions, one depending on the unique dimension five (d=5) operator generating neutrino masses and one depending on the dimension six (d=6) operator associated with non-unitarity. In low-energy seesaw scenarios where small lepton number violation explains the smallness of neutrino masses, the lepton number conserving d=6 operator contribution generically dominates over the d=5 operator contribution which results in a strong enhancement of the flavour-dependent decay asymmetries without any resonance effects. To calculate the produced final baryon asymmetry, the flavour equilibration effects directly related to non-unitarity have to be taken into account. In a simple realization of this non-unitarity driven leptogenesis, the lower bound on M' is found to be about 10^8 GeV at the onset of the strong washout regime, more than one order of magnitude below the bound in "standard" thermal leptogenesis.
description: 19 pages, REVTeX4, 2 eps and 2 axodraw figures
Real-time correlators in Kerr/CFT correspondence
Creators: name: Chen, Bin
name: Chu, Chong-Sun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study real-time correlators in the Kerr/CFT correspondence. The near-horizon geometry of extreme and near-extremal Kerr black holes can be taken as warped spacetimes with the warping factors depending on the transverse radius and the angular variable. By considering the Kerr/CFT correspondence as a generalized warped AdS/CFT correspondence, we show how to compute the CFT real-time correlation functions. We find that the retarded Green's functions, the cross sections and the quasi-normal modes are all in perfect match with the predictions of the dual CFT. The same analysis is also generalized to the charged Newman-Kerr black holes .
description: 21 pages; v3: typo in name corrected