cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Shared and Private Information Learning in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Deep Modal Alignment and Self-supervised Multi-Task Learning
Creators: name: Lai, Songning
name: Li, Jiakang
name: Guo, Guinan
name: Hu, Xifeng
name: Li, Yulong
name: Tan, Yuan
name: Song, Zichen
name: Liu, Yutong
name: Ren, Zhaoxia
name: Wan, Chun
name: Miao, Danmin
name: Liu, Zhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Designing an effective representation learning method for multimodal sentiment analysis tasks is a crucial research direction. The challenge lies in learning both shared and private information in a complete modal representation, which is difficult with uniform multimodal labels and a raw feature fusion approach. In this work, we propose a deep modal shared information learning module based on the covariance matrix to capture the shared information between modalities. Additionally, we use a label generation module based on a self-supervised learning strategy to capture the private information of the modalities. Our module is plug-and-play in multimodal tasks, and by changing the parameterization, it can adjust the information exchange relationship between the modes and learn the private or shared information between the specified modes. We also employ a multi-task learning strategy to help the model focus its attention on the modal differentiation training data. We provide a detailed formulation derivation and feasibility proof for the design of the deep modal shared information learning module. We conduct extensive experiments on three common multimodal sentiment analysis baseline datasets, and the experimental results validate the reliability of our model. Furthermore, we explore more combinatorial techniques for the use of the module. Our approach outperforms current state-of-the-art methods on most of the metrics of the three public datasets.
SU(3) glueballs on coarse, anisotropic lattices
Creators: name: Morningstar, Colin
name: Peardon, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results from a calculation of the low-lying glueball spectrum of pure-gauge SU(3) are used as a test of the effectiveness of improved discretisation schemes in reducing finite spacing errors. Glueball masses are extracted from simulations on anisotropic lattices, where the temporal lattice spacing is much shorter than the spatial ones. This allows clearer resolution of the decay of glueball correlators.
description: 4 pages LaTeX, 3 figures with espcrc2.sty. Poster presented at LATTICE96(improvement)
title: Hegemony at play
title: Four case studies in popular culture
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bergfeld, Sarah Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Popular culture -- Research

description: Frequently, the events and people appearing in various popular culture media are dismissed because they are assumed to be meaningless or unimportant. This dissertation explores the social and political meanings of several pop culture phenomena, from icons like Superman and hip-hop artist Eminem to the conservative trends in visual media embodied by televised poker and the reality television show Survivor. This dissertation deconstructs each figure's placement within and outside of various racist, sexist, class, and heterosexist structures at both the local and national levels in order to illustrate how the national imagination is constrained by these structures and how each character's use in various media serves to further strengthen and naturalize those structures. All of these figures make invisible, reinscribe, and naturalize privileged positionalities like whiteness, masculinity, heterosexuality, wealth, and American citizenship even as they attempt critiques. Even so, the case studies that comprise this dissertation illustrate that there are gaps and spaces between intersecting structures of privilege that allow for heterogeneous and potentially liberatory readings, especially at the personal and local levels.
Identifying factors that enhance prion accumulation in cultured sheep microglial cells
Creators: name: Stanton, James Brantly
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Prion diseases -- Research

description: Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE, prion diseases) are invariably fatal, neurodegenerative diseases. Unlike other neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, many TSE are transmissible. Based on the protein-only hypothesis, this transmissibility is thought to be conferred by the ability of the abnormal isoform (PrPSc) to catalyze the conversion of the normal cellular form of the host encoded prion protein (PrPC) to additional PrPSc molecules. The conformational difference between PrPC and PrPSc is the abundance of beta-sheets within the PrPSc molecules, which renders PrPSc detergent insoluble and partially resistant to protease digestion. The stability of PrPSc results in the aggregation of PrPSc in affected tissues and serves as the marker for prion diseases. TSE can be found in many species and include scrapie in sheep and goats, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and kuru in humans. The similarities between scrapie and CJD have long been recognized and the use of scrapie as an experimental model allows for the investigation of a natural prion disease in a natural host. This work utilized a sheep-model of prion diseases to investigate the role of possible co-factors involved in the accumulation of PrPSc. In the first study, it was determined that coinfection of microglial cell cultures with both PrPScP and a noncytopathic small ruminant lentivirus (SRLV) resulted in a relative increase in the amount of PrPSc accumulated within and released by the cultured microglial. Additional studies are required to determine the biological significance and mechanism of this pathogen synergism. The second study sought to describe the cellular response of sheep microglia to accumulation of PrPSc in an attempt to identify proteins that might directly interact with PrPPC or PrPSc. Forty-nine genes were determined to be differentially regulated in this second study. Several of these genes have previously been determined to be differentially expressed in mouse and human models of prion disease. Determining if any of these identified genes play a direct role in the pathogenesis of prion diseases, requires additional studies.
The effect of structural hindrance on the complexation of actinides and lanthanides by ligands containing soft nitrogen donors
Creators: name: Ogden, Mark Daniel
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Radioactive waste disposal

description: A serious limiting factor in the continued development of nuclear power is the disposal of high-level radioactive waste from spent nuclear fuel. One strategy for reducing the long term radiotoxicity of spent nuclear fuel is transmutation of the actinides into shorter-lived fission products by bombardment with fast neutrons. An important complicating factor is the presence of large amounts of lanthanides in dissolved spent nuclear fuel. The lanthanides plus yttrium represent approximately 40% of the mass and 1/3 of the atoms created in U/Pu fission. These lanthanides complicate transmutation because of their high neutron absorption cross sections which limits transmutation efficiency. The separation of lanthanides (Ln) from actinides (An) is therefore critical to the future of nuclear power. Owing to the chemical similarities of trivalent Ln and An, which is the dominant oxidation state for trans Pu actinides, the mutual separation of the two groups is one of the most challenging tasks in separation science that must exploit small differences in their solution chemistry. The prior literature teaches us that donor atoms softer than oxygen, e.g. N, S, Cl, are most effective for accomplishing this separation. It has also been shown in the literature that more sterically hindered ligands which focus their donor groups in a favorable geometry have an increased overall binding affinity due to the reduction in energy required for preorientation when binding. In this work a series of ligands containing both soft and hard nitrogen donors with increased steric focus of their donor groups have been synthesized and complexed to transition metals, lanthanides and actinides in solution. The emphasis of this work is to consider the interaction of these sterically focused ligands with metal centers, and quantify the effect preorientation has on the relative affinity for binding. This information is necessary in developing a basic understanding of a structure/donor group relationship in designing ligands for the selective extraction or binding of metal cations.
Grandfather's diaries as an evacuee
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: These are two separate diaries written in 1940 by my maternal grandfather, Peter Vail (1925-2006), while he was evacuated to Ashbourne, Derbyshire from his home in Leigh-on-sea, Essex.
Period three actions on lens spaces
Creators: name: Maher, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M60

description: We show that a free period three action on a lens space is standard, i.e. the quotient is homeomorphic to a lens space. This is an extension of the result for period three actions on the three-sphere, arXiv:math.GT/0204077, by the author and J. Hyam Rubinstein.
description: 67 pages, 54 pictures
Anchoring polar magnetic field in a stationary thick accretion disk
Creators: name: Samadi, Maryam
name: Abbassi, Shahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of a hot accretion flow bathed in a poloidal magnetic field. We consider an axisymmetric viscous resistive flow in the steady state configuration. We assume the dominant mechanism of energy dissipation is due to turbulence viscosity and magnetic diffusivity. A certain fraction of that energy can be advected towards the central compact object. We employ self-similar method in the radial direction to find a system of ODEs with just one varible, $θ$ in the spherical coordinates. For the existence and maintaining of a purely poloidal magnetic in a rotating thick disk, we find the necessary condition is a constant value of angular velocity along a magnetic field line. We obtain an analytical solution for the poloidal magnetic flux. We explore possible changes in the vertical structure of the disk under the influences of even symmetric and asymmetric magnetic fields. Our results reveal that a polar magnetic field with even symmetry about the equatorial plane makes the disk vertically thin. Moreover, the accretion rate decreases when we consider a strong magnetic field. Finally, we notice hot magnetized accretion flows can be fully advected even in a slim shape.
description: Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Dynamics as Shadow of Phase Space Geometry
Creators: name: Klauder, J. R.
name: Maraner, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting with the generally well accepted opinion that quantizing an arbitrary Hamiltonian system involves picking out some additional structure on the classical phase space (the {\sl shadow} of quantum mechanics in the classical theory), we describe classical as well as quantum dynamics as a purely geometrical effect by introducing a {\sl phase space metric structure}. This produces an ${\cal O}(\hbar)$ modification of the classical equations of motion reducing at the same time the quantization of an arbitrary Hamiltonian system to standard procedures. Our analysis is carried out in analogy with the adiabatic motion of a charged particle in a curved background (the additional metric structure) under the influence of a universal magnetic field (the classical symplectic structure). This allows one to picture dynamics in an unusual way, and reveals a dynamical mechanism that produces the selection of the right set of physical quantum states.
description: LaTeX (epsfig macros), 30 pages, 1 figure
Toward Cost-effective Adaptive Random Testing: An Approximate Nearest Neighbor Approach
Creators: name: Huang, Rubing
name: Cui, Chenhui
name: Lian, Junlong
name: Towey, Dave
name: Sun, Weifeng
name: Chen, Haibo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Adaptive Random Testing (ART) enhances the testing effectiveness (including fault-detection capability) of Random Testing (RT) by increasing the diversity of the random test cases throughout the input domain. Many ART algorithms have been investigated such as Fixed-Size-Candidate-Set ART (FSCS) and Restricted Random Testing (RRT), and have been widely used in many practical applications. Despite its popularity, ART suffers from the problem of high computational costs during test-case generation, especially as the number of test cases increases. Although several strategies have been proposed to enhance the ART testing efficiency, such as the forgetting strategy and the k-dimensional tree strategy, these algorithms still face some challenges, including: (1) Although these algorithms can reduce the computation time, their execution costs are still very high, especially when the number of test cases is large; and (2) To achieve low computational costs, they may sacrifice some fault-detection capability. In this paper, we propose an approach based on Approximate Nearest Neighbors (ANNs), called Locality-Sensitive Hashing ART (LSH-ART). When calculating distances among different test inputs, LSH-ART identifies the approximate (not necessarily exact) nearest neighbors for candidates in an efficient way. LSH-ART attempts to balance ART testing effectiveness and efficiency.
description: To be published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The influence of a new student introduction program on freshman student retention at a rural, two-year community college
Creators: name: Smith, Beth Jan
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2010
Subjects: College student orientation

description: Challenging economic conditions, changing student demographics, and heightened levels of accountability may require community colleges to address student retention more strategically. Community colleges must cope with external forces while at the same time attempting to meet their mission of open access. Retention is also important when community colleges rely on student enrollments for economic survival. There is a need to study programs that increase student retention, and new student orientation programs are the most promising in addressing the problem of student attrition. This quantitative, retrospective study examines a first year orientation program (fyo) at a rural 2-year community college and its influence on the term-to-term retention of first year, degree seeking students. Enrollment data for the two years prior to the program's inception were compared to the first two years the fyo program became mandatory for all freshman, degree-seeking students enrolled in at least one college-level course. Chi-square tests for categorical data were calculated to find significant differences in returning versus non-returning student totals. The overall influence of the program on retention was significant. Implications for practice are discussed and examples of application are included in the appendix. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest llc. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.].
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0081v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0081v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0081v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
title: Review of the mechanisms of debris-flow impact against barriers
Creators: name: Poudyal, Sunil
name: Choi, Clarence E.
name: Song, Dongri
name: Zhou, Gordon G.D.
name: Yune, Chan-Young
name: Cui, Yifei
name: Leonardi, Alessandro
name: Busslinger, Matthias
name: Wendeler, Corinna
name: Piton, Guillaume
name: Moase, Emily
name: Strouth, Alex
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2019
Subjects: debris flows
barriers
impact mechanisms
flow compositions

description: Our limited understanding of the mechanisms pertaining to the force exerted by debris flows on barriers makes it difficult to ascertain whether a design is inadequate, adequate, or over-designed. The main scientific challenge is because flow-type landslides impacting a rigid barrier is rarely captured in the field, and no systematic, physical experimental data is available to reveal the impact mechanisms. An important consideration in flow-structure interaction is that the impact dynamics can differ radically depending on the composition of the flow. Currently, no framework exists that can characterize the impact behavior for a wide range of flow compositions. This review paper examines recent works on debris-flow structure interactions and the limitations of commonly used approaches to estimate the impact load for the design of barriers. Key challenges faced in this area and outlook for further research are discussed.
Supplemental data for diagnostic accuracy of serum steroids and peptides in the evaluation of 46, XY disorders of sex development (DSD).
Creators: name: Barnabas, Rohit
name: Ranjan Lila, Anurag
name: Karlekar, Manjiri
name: Arya, Sneha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320208
subject: Endocrinology

description: This study identifies FSH, stimulated T/A (>1.6), ASI, and LH as key discriminatory markers for etiological diagnosis in 46, XY DSD, while suggesting that traditional cutoffs like stimulated T/DHT <10 and T/A <0.8 may have limited utility.
Study of Critical Slowing-Down in $SU(2)$ Landau Gauge Fixing
Creators: name: Cucchieri, Attilio
name: Mendes, Tereza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of critical slowing-down for gauge-fixing algorithms (Landau gauge) in $SU(2)$ lattice gauge theory on $2$ and $4$ dimensional lattices, both numerically and analytically. We consider five such algorithms, and we measure four different observables. A detailed discussion and analysis of the tuning of these algorithms is also presented.
description: 4 pages (including 1 figure); latex using espcrc2.sty. Talk presented at LATTICE96(poster)
Extended magic phase in twisted graphene multilayers
Creators: name: Foo, D. C. W.
name: Zhan, Z.
name: Ezzi, Mohammed M. Al
name: Peng, L.
name: Adam, S.
name: Guinea, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical and experimental studies have verified the existence of ``magic angles'' in twisted bilayer graphene, where the twist between layers gives rise to flat bands and consequently highly correlated phases. Narrow bands can also exist in multilayers with alternating twist angles, and recent theoretical work suggests that they can also be found in trilayers with twist angles between neighboring layers in the same direction. We show here that flat bands exist in a variety of multilayers where the ratio between twist angles is close to coprime integers. We generalize previous analyses, and, using the chiral limit for interlayer coupling, give examples of many combinations of twist angles in stacks made up of three and four layers which lead to flat bands. The technique we use can be extended to systems with many layers. Our results suggest that flat bands can exist in graphene multilayers with angle disorder, that is, narrow samples of turbostatic graphite.
description: Main text: 4 pages, 4 figures -- Supplementary Material: 15 pages, 13 figures
On generators of $C_0$-semigroups of composition operators
Creators: name: Gallardo-Gutiérrez, Eva A.
name: Yakubovich, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47B35

description: Avicou, Chalendar and Partington proved that an (unbounded) operator $(Af)=G\cdot f'$ on the classical Hardy space generates a $C_0$ semigroup of composition operators if and only if it generates a quasicontractive semigroup. Here we prove that if such an operator $A$ generates a $C_0$ semigroup, then it is automatically a semigroup of composition operators, so that the condition of quasicontractivity of the semigroup in the cited result is not necessary. Our result applies to a rather general class of Banach spaces of analytic functions in the unit disc.
Investigating the quark flavor dependence of the chiral magnetic effect with a multiphase transport model
Creators: name: Huang, Ling
name: Ma, Chun-Wang
name: Ma, Guo-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Because the properties of the QCD phase transition and the chiral magnetic effect (CME) depend on the number of quark flavors ($N_{f}$) and quark mass, relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a natural environment to investigate the flavor features if quark deconfinement occurs. We introduce an initial two-flavor or three-flavor dipole charge separation into a multiphase transport (AMPT) model to investigate the flavor dependence of the CME. By taking advantage of the recent ALICE data of charge azimuthal correlations with identified hadrons, we attempt to disentangle two-flavor and three-flavor CME scenarios in Pb+Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV. We find that the experimental data show a certain potential to distinguish the two scenarios, therefore we further suggest to collect more data to clarify the possible flavor dependence in future experiments.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures; final published version
Locality and Causality in Hidden Variables Models of Quantum Theory
Creators: name: Teufel, Stefan
name: Berndl, Karin
name: Dürr, Detlef
name: Goldstein, Sheldon
name: Zangh\`ı, Nino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by Popescu's example of hidden nonlocality, we elaborate on the conjecture that quantum states that are intuitively nonlocal, i.e., entangled, do not admit a local causal hidden variables model. We exhibit quantum states which either (i) are nontrivial counterexamples to this conjecture or (ii) possess a new kind of more deeply hidden irreducible nonlocality. Moreover, we propose a nonlocality complexity classification scheme suggested by the latter possibility. Furthermore, we show that Werner's (and similar) hidden variables models can be extended to an important class of generalized observables. Finally a result of Fine on the equivalence of stochastic and deterministic hidden variables is generalized to causal models.
description: revised version, 21 pages, submitted to Physical Review A
My Great Grandad George Lawrence McPherson's war story
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: This record contains material submitted by a school student at Woodhey High School over Remembrance Weekend 2023.
Environmental post-processing increases the adhesion strength of mussel byssus adhesive
Creators: name: George, Matthew N.
name: Carrington, Emily
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Marine mussels (Mytilus trossulus) attach to a wide variety of surfaces underwater using a protein adhesive that is cured by the surrounding seawater environment. In this study, the influence of environmental post-processing on adhesion strength was investigated by aging adhesive plaques in a range of seawater pH conditions. Plaques took 8–12 days to achieve full strength at pH 8, nearly doubling in adhesion strength (+94%) and increasing the work required to dislodge (+59%). Holding plaques in low pH conditions prevented strengthening, causing the material to tear more frequently under tension. The timescale of strengthening is consistent with the conversion of DOPA to DOPA-quinone, a pH dependent process that promotes cross-linking between adhesive proteins. The precise arrangement of DOPA containing proteins away from the adhesive-substratum interface emphasizes the role that structural organization can have on function, an insight that could lead to the design of better synthetic adhesives and metal-coordinating hydrogels.
ACTS in Need: Automatic Configuration Tuning with Scalability Guarantees
Creators: name: Zhu, Yuqing
name: Liu, Jianxun
name: Guo, Mengying
name: Ma, Wenlong
name: Bao, Yungang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To support the variety of Big Data use cases, many Big Data related systems expose a large number of user-specifiable configuration parameters. Highlighted in our experiments, a MySQL deployment with well-tuned configuration parameters achieves a peak throughput as 12 times much as one with the default setting. However, finding the best setting for the tens or hundreds of configuration parameters is mission impossible for ordinary users. Worse still, many Big Data applications require the support of multiple systems co-deployed in the same cluster. As these co-deployed systems can interact to affect the overall performance, they must be tuned together. Automatic configuration tuning with scalability guarantees (ACTS) is in need to help system users. Solutions to ACTS must scale to various systems, workloads, deployments, parameters and resource limits. Proposing and implementing an ACTS solution, we demonstrate that ACTS can benefit users not only in improving system performance and resource utilization, but also in saving costs and enabling fairer benchmarking.
title: It's a bucket with holes in the bottom
title: a study of bicultural identity development
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Huff, Leslie Diane
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers

description: In the United States, English language learners (ELLs) are failing to achieve. The literature indicates that among a variety of probable causes, a students' development of a bicultural identity could be key to fostering success. However, the examination of cultural identity development, specifically the opportunities available within the school context for bicultural identity development is under researched. This article addresses this gap by examining how the school context provides and prevents opportunities for ELLs to develop their identities biculturally. Findings indicated that despite good intentions opportunities for bicultural identity development in the negotiation of linguistic, cultural, social, and academic components of the school context were largely unavailable to the ELL in the study.
Disk Accretion Driven by Spiral Shocks
Creators: name: Arzamasskiy, Lev
name: Rafikov, Roman R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spiral density waves are known to exist in many astrophysical disks, potentially affecting disk structure and evolution. We conduct a numerical study of the effects produced by a density wave, evolving into a shock, on the characteristics of the underlying disk. We measure the deposition of angular momentum in the disk by spiral shocks of different strength and verify the analytical prediction of Rafikov (2016) for the behavior of this quantity, using shock amplitude (which is potentially observable) as the input variable. Good agreement between the theory and numerics is found as we vary shock amplitude (including highly nonlinear shocks), disk aspect ratio, equation of state, radial profiles of the background density and temperature, and pattern speed of the wave. We show that high numerical resolution is required to properly capture shock-driven transport, especially at low wave amplitudes. We also demonstrate that relating local mass accretion rate to shock dissipation in rapidly evolving disks requires accounting for the time-dependent contribution to the angular momentum budget, caused by the time dependence of the radial pressure support. We provide a simple analytical prescription for the behavior of this contribution and demonstrate its excellent agreement with the simulation results. Using these findings we formulate a theoretical framework for studying one-dimensional (in radius) evolution of the shock-mediated accretion disks, which can be applied to a variety of astrophysical systems.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
Extremal dependence of multivariate distributions and its applications
Creators: name: Sun, Yannan
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Multivariate analysis

description: Stochastic dependence arises in many fields including electrical grid reliability, network/internet traffic analysis, environmental and agricultural impact assessment, and financial risk management. Models in these fields exhibit the stochastic behavior of strong dependence often among their extreme values. Extremal dependence is directly related to the dynamics of a system. It is critically important to understand this relationship. If not, the extremal dependence can cause long term, contagious damage. The tail dependence of multivariate distributions is frequently studied via the tool of copulas, but copula-based methods become inefficient in higher dimensions. The theories of multivariate regular variation and extreme values bring in many results for multivariate distributions based on various measures. Applying these theories, however, is difficult because the measures are not explicit. In this dissertation, we establish the link between tail dependence parameters and the theory of multivariate regular variation. For a multivariate regularly varying distribution, we show that the upper tail dependence function and the intensity measure are equivalent in describing its extremal dependence structure. With this new characterization we can efficiently evaluate tail dependence for multivariate distributions when the copulas are not explicitly accessible. As applications, we derive tractable formulas for tail dependence parameters of heavy-tailed scale mixtures of multivariate distributions. We discuss the structural traits of multivariate tail dependence, such as the monotonicity properties of tail dependence for bivariate elliptical distributions. We also give a general method to approximate the Value-at-Risk for aggregated data in terms of the tail dependence function of the data and the Value-at-Risk for one of the variables. Explicit approximations are obtained for Archimedean copulas, Archimedean survival copulas and Pareto distributions of Marshall-Olkin type. Additionally, to visualize the monotonicity properties of the tail dependence parameters, we give some simulation results for Pareto distributions in three and four dimensions.
Stable quantum memories with limited measurement
Creators: name: Freeman, C. Daniel
name: Sarovar, Mohan
name: Herdman, C. M.
name: Whaley, K. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the existence of a finite temperature threshold for a 1D stabilizer code under an error correcting protocol that requires only a fraction of the syndrome measurements. Below the threshold temperature, encoded states have exponentially long lifetimes, as demonstrated by numerical and analytical arguments. We sketch how this algorithm generalizes to higher dimensional stabilizer codes with string-like excitations, like the toric code.
description: 11 Pages, 7 Figures
My Great Grandmother's account of her WW2 experience
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: When my great grandmother, Margaret Keleher, was around 8 years old she was evacuated to Littleborough as it was safer in the countryside. She was sent here with her younger brother and older sister. They all stayed with a family for about two months. My great grandmother didn't mind this experience as she was with her siblings. The children weren't expected to do any work and said the family looking after her was nice. The children would go out playing most days as schools were closed. There was no contact with her parents. Only children were evacuated to the countryside, but her mother did visit once. My great grandmother remembers the loud sirens. When they went off, they would make way to the school and go down into the cellar. As she was young it was scary. She could also hear the bombs. They would have to stay in the cellar until it was all clear. There were lots of people from the community taking shelter. There were food rations and no bananas. They were only allowed small portions.
Radial Velocity Studies of Close Binary Stars. XI
Creators: name: Pribulla, Theodor
name: Rucinski, Slavek M.
name: Lu, Wenxian
name: Mochnacki, Stefan W.
name: Conidis, George
name: Blake, R. M.
name: DeBond, Heide
name: Thomson, J. R.
name: Pych, Wojtek
name: Ogloza, Waldemar
name: Siwak, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radial-velocity measurements and sine-curve fits to the orbital radial velocity variations are presented for ten close binary systems: DU Boo, ET Boo, TX Cnc, V1073 Cyg, HL Dra, AK Her, VW LMi, V566 Oph, TV UMi and AG Vir. By this contribution, the DDO program has reached the point of 100 published radial velocity orbits. The radial velocities have been determined using an improved fitting technique which uses rotational profiles to approximate individual peaks in broadening functions. Three systems, ET Boo, VW LMi and TV UMi, were found to be quadruple while AG Vir appears to be a spectroscopic triple. ET Boo, a member of a close visual binary with $P_{vis} = 113$ years, was previously known to be a multiple system, but we show that the second component is actually a close, non-eclipsing binary. The new observations enabled us to determine the spectroscopic orbits of the companion, non-eclipsing pairs in ET Boo and VW LMi. The particularly interesting case is VW LMi, where the period of the mutual revolution of the two spectroscopic binaries is only 355 days. While most of the studied eclipsing pairs are contact binaries, ET Boo is composed of two double-lined detached binaries and HL Dra is single-lined detached or semi-detached system. Five systems of this group were observed spectroscopically before: TX Cnc, V1073 Cyg, AK Her (as a single-lined binary), V566 Oph, AG Vir, but our new data are of much higher quality than the previous studies.
description: Accepted by AJ, August 2006, 10 figures, 3 tables
My Grandad's Royal Navy Album
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: This is the story of my grandad who served in the Royal Navy during WW2. My dad keeps an album of his father's time spent in the Pacific and I have uploaded some photos from this.My grandad was conscripted at the age of 17 and had to take tests to determine his physical and mental capabilities. He passed these very well and was assigned to the Royal Navy as a decoder. His ship was a frigate HMS Palladin.When he first left for the Far East, he was quite lonely and scared, and used to write home a lot. My great grandfather and grandmother used to send him parcels with gifts and food. He mentioned visiting Ceylon a lot, which is now Sri Lanka.He was a very good footballer and played in the Royal Navy football team. He played in midfield.His job was a decoder, which meant intercepting Japanese messages. There was one occasion where the ship was under attack by the Japanese and he spotted a suicide plane coming towards the ship. He shouted to the gunner, who trained the guns on the plane and destroyed it.He was present at the surrender by Japanese forces to Lord Mountbatten. He also visited Hiroshima after the atom bomb had been dropped by the US.Being in the Royal Navy so young and experiencing what he did, I believe it affected him quite badly during his life.
FERN: Leveraging Graph Attention Networks for Failure Evaluation and Robust Network Design
Creators: name: Liu, Chenyi
name: Aggarwal, Vaneet
name: Lan, Tian
name: Geng, Nan
name: Yang, Yuan
name: Xu, Mingwei
name: Li, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robust network design, which aims to guarantee network availability under various failure scenarios while optimizing performance/cost objectives, has received significant attention. Existing approaches often rely on model-based mixed-integer optimization that is hard to scale or employ deep learning to solve specific engineering problems yet with limited generalizability. In this paper, we show that failure evaluation provides a common kernel to improve the tractability and scalability of existing solutions. By providing a neural network function approximation of this common kernel using graph attention networks, we develop a unified learning-based framework, FERN, for scalable Failure Evaluation and Robust Network design. FERN represents rich problem inputs as a graph and captures both local and global views by attentively performing feature extraction from the graph. It enables a broad range of robust network design problems, including robust network validation, network upgrade optimization, and fault-tolerant traffic engineering that are discussed in this paper, to be recasted with respect to the common kernel and thus computed efficiently using neural networks and over a small set of critical failure scenarios. Extensive experiments on real-world network topologies show that FERN can efficiently and accurately identify key failure scenarios for both OSPF and optimal routing scheme, and generalizes well to different topologies and input traffic patterns. It can speed up multiple robust network design problems by more than 80x, 200x, 10x, respectively with negligible performance gap.
Finite-range effect in the two-dimensional density-induced BCS-BEC crossover
Creators: name: Sakakibara, Hikaru
name: Tajima, Hiroyuki
name: Liang, Haozhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) crossover in a two-dimensional Fermi gas with the finite-range interaction by using the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory. Expanding the scattering phase shift in terms of the scattering length and effective range, we discuss the effect of the finite-range interaction on the pairing and thermodynamic properties. By solving the gap equation and the number equation self-consistently, we numerically calculate the effective-range dependence of the pairing gap, chemical potential, and pair size throughout the BCS-BEC crossover. Our results would be useful for further understanding of low-dimensional many-body problems.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Beaune et du Beaunois (XVe siècle), Cart. 174 (11 H 79), 56 pages, f. 0035
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Beaune et du Beaunois (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 174 (11 H 79), 56 pages, f. 0035, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Beaune et du Beaunois (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 174 (11 H 79), 56 pages, f. 0035, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Constraint-Guided Test Execution Scheduling: An Experience Report at ABB Robotics
Creators: name: Gotlieb, Arnaud
name: Mossige, Morten
name: Spieker, Helge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated test execution scheduling is crucial in modern software development environments, where components are frequently updated with changes that impact their integration with hardware systems. Building test schedules, which focus on the right tests and make optimal use of the available resources, both time and hardware, under consideration of vast requirements on the selection of test cases and their assignment to certain test execution machines, is a complex optimization task. Manual solutions are time-consuming and often error-prone. Furthermore, when software and hardware components and test scripts are frequently added, removed or updated, static test execution scheduling is no longer feasible and the motivation for automation taking care of dynamic changes grows. Since 2012, our work has focused on transferring technology based on constraint programming for automating the testing of industrial robotic systems at ABB Robotics. After having successfully transferred constraint satisfaction models dedicated to test case generation, we present the results of a project called DynTest whose goal is to automate the scheduling of test execution from a large test repository, on distinct industrial robots. This paper reports on our experience and lessons learned for successfully transferring constraint-based optimization models for test execution scheduling at ABB Robotics. Our experience underlines the benefits of a close collaboration between industry and academia for both parties.
description: SafeComp 2023