cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Direct observation of nodeless superconductivity and phonon modes in electron-doped copper oxide Sr$_{1-x}$Nd$_x$CuO$_2$
Creators: name: Fan, Jia-Qi
name: Yu, Xue-Qing
name: Cheng, Fang-Jun
name: Wang, Heng
name: Wang, Ruifeng
name: Ma, Xiaobing
name: Hu, Xiao-Peng
name: Zhang, Ding
name: Ma, Xu-Cun
name: Xue, Qi-Kun
name: Song, Can-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microscopic understanding of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates has been hindered by the apparent complexity of crystal structures in these materials. We used scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to study an electron-doped copper oxide compound Sr$_{1-x}$Nd$_x$CuO$_2$ that has only bare cations separating the CuO$_2$ planes and thus the simplest infinite-layer structure among all cuprate superconductors. Tunneling conductance spectra of the major CuO$_2$ planes in the superconducting state revealed direct evidence for a nodeless pairing gap, regardless of variation of its magnitude with the local doping of trivalent neodymium. Furthermore, three distinct bosonic modes are observed as multiple peak-dip-hump features outside the superconducting gaps and their respective energies depend little on the spatially varying gaps. Along with the bosonic modes with energies identical to those of the external, bending and stretching phonons of copper oxides, our findings indicate their origin from lattice vibrations rather than spin excitations.
description: 16 Pages, 4 figures, 5 supplemental figures
Relapse incidence from a new approach to simplifying and optimizing acute malnutrition treatment in children aged 6 to 59 months: a 3 month prospective cohort in Burkina Faso
Creators: name: Daures, Maguy
name: Phelan, Kevin
name: Mariama  Issoufou
name: Seni  Kouanda
name: Ousmane  Sawadogo
name: Issaley, Kader
name: Cazes, Cecile
name: Seri, Benjamin
name: Ouaro, Bertine
name: Akpakpo, Bruno
name: Mendiboure, Vincent
name: Shepherd, Susan
name: Becquet, Renaud
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Incidence of relapse at three months in young children who recovered under the OptiMA strategy for management of acute malnutrition: prospective cohort, Burkina Faso presented at MSF Scientific Days International (London) Medical Research Day, May 13, 2020 by Kevin Phelan
Real time aerial natural image interpretation for autonomous ranger drone navigation
Creators: name: Majidi, Babak
name: Bab-Hadiashar, Alireza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper a method for real time interpretation of environmental features for use in visual navigation system of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is presented. The proposed approach uses manually sampled colour values to classify different land covers. Colour information of a set of manually selected windows is compared to select the best attributes needed for discrimination between different land covers in various (natural) lighting conditions. Each frame is then partially scanned and desired environmental features are extracted and classified. The results show that the proposed technique meets the minimum speed and accuracy requirement of aforementioned application.
Employing Measures of Heterogeneity and an Object-Based Approach to Extrapolate Tree Species Distribution Data
Creators: name: Jones, Trevor G.
name: Coops, Nicholas C.
name: Gergel, Sarah E.
name: Sharma, Tara
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Information derived from high spatial resolution remotely sensed data is critical for the effective management of forested ecosystems. However, high spatial resolution data-sets are typically costly to acquire and process and usually provide limited geographic coverage. In contrast, moderate spatial resolution remotely sensed data, while not able to provide the spectral or spatial detail required for certain types of products and applications, offer inexpensive, comprehensive landscape-level coverage. This study assessed using an object-based approach to extrapolate detailed tree species heterogeneity beyond the extent of hyperspectral/LiDAR flightlines to the broader area covered by a Landsat scene. Using image segments, regression trees established ecologically decipherable relationships between tree species heterogeneity and the spectral properties of Landsat segments. The spectral properties of Landsat bands 4 (i.e., NIR: 0.76–0.90 µm), 5 (i.e., SWIR: 1.55–1.75 µm) and 7 (SWIR: 2.08–2.35 µm) were consistently selected as predictor variables, explaining approximately 50% of variance in richness and diversity. Results have important ramifications for ongoing management initiatives in the study area and are applicable to wide range of applications.
Quantum dialogue without information leakage based on the entanglement swapping between any two Bell states and the shared secret Bell state
Creators: name: Ye, Tian-Yu
name: Jiang, Li-Zhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to avoid the risk of information leakage during the information mutual transmission between two authorized participants, i.e., Alice and Bob, a quantum dialogue protocol based on the entanglement swapping between any two Bell states and the shared secret Bell state is proposed. The proposed protocol integrates the ideas of block transmission, two-step transmission and unitary operation encoding together using the Bell states as the information carriers. Besides the entanglement swapping between any two Bell states, a shared secret Bell state is also used to overcome the information leakage problem, which not only makes Bob aware of the prepared initial state but also is used for Bob's encoding and entanglement swapping. Security analysis shows that the proposed protocol can resist the general active attacks from an outside eavesdropper Eve. Moreover, the relation between the maximal amount of information Eve can gain and the detection probability is derived.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
'Identity Politics' and Property in the Trump/Brexit Era
Creators: name: Keenan, Sarah
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2018

description: This comment piece in the Feminist Perspectives on Brexit series argues that the Trump and Brexit campaigns need to be understood by reference to the interconnections between identity - specifically white identity - and property in the national spaces of the US and the UK. It was originally given as a paper to the Feminists @ Law: Revisiting Identity Symposium, UTS, Sydney, 2-3 November 2017.
description: feminists@law, Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
Regulating Everyday Gambling: A Photo Essay
Creators: name: Bedford, Kate
name: Shieber, Andrea
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2018

description: This photo-essay arises out of a research project undertaken by Kate Bedford and colleagues on gambling regulation, and photographs of a local bingo hall taken by Andrea Shieber as part of an Adult Education photography course. The essay stages a three way dialogue between the photographs, interview data gathered as part of the research project from the case study of bingo regulation in England and Wales, and analysis of what bingo regulation can add to existing debates within political economy. It focuses on two themes: (1) the social, part-domestic nature of the bingo hall and (2) the key role of cash within bingo.
description: feminists@law, Vol 8 No 1 (2018)
Developing a new generation of breast cancer clinical gene expression tests
Creators: name: Kos, Zuzana
name: Nielsen, Torsten
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: When treatment decisions are based purely on clinicopathological factors, many women with estrogen receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative cancers are overtreated. Gene expression profiles are valuable clinical tools that stratify the recurrence risk to identify patients most likely to benefit from adjuvant systemic therapies. Building upon greater understanding of tumor biology and more rigorous approaches to validation (including independent studies with a high level of evidence), several second-generation multigene tests have been developed. In the previous issue, Martin and colleagues report the third clinical validation study for EndoPredict, a distributed assay to assess risk of distant recurrences in estrogen receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative women. The authors confirm the assay’s independent prognostic value in premenopausal and postmenopausal, node-positive women treated with contemporary chemotherapy followed by endocrine therapy. EndoPredict did not, however, predict benefit from adding paclitaxel. Predictive signatures for selecting among chemotherapy regimens remain an area needing further development.
Book Review: Sandeep Bakshi, Suhraiya Jivraj and Silvia Posocco (eds), Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions
Creators: name: Narrain, Siddharth
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2018

description: Book review of Sandeep Bakshi, Suhraiya Jivraj and Silvia Posocco (eds), Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (Counterpress, Oxford, 2016).
description: feminists@law, Vol 8 No 1 (2018)
Probability of bankruptcy in small firms and cost efficiency: the case of Slovenia
Creators: name: Tajnikar, Maks
name: Pusnik, Ksenja
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recent entrepreneurship praxis as well as entrepreneurship research have concentrated on one of the fundamental issues: business failures. Existing research has focused on investigating determinants of the mortality of firms (Beaver, 1966, Altman, 1968, Zmijewsky, 1984, Frydman et al., 1985, Gentry et al., 1987) in two samples of firms, namely firms that survive in a particular year and firms that went bankrupt in this particular year. They aim to classify a sample of firms on the basis of balance sheet data (financial data) and nonfinancial data. Despite different opinions expressed by authors, these research activities argue that financial data alone could not explain the failure or nonfailure of the firm (Zavgren, 1987, Keasey and Watson, 1987). As one of the determinants of bankruptcy risk Becchetti and Sierra (2003) have investigated productive efficiency by adopting stochastic frontier approach (Battese and Coelli, 1995). Their findings indicate that a firm's productive efficiency has significant explanatory power in predicting bankruptcy. In this perspective, the authors try to answer three questions: (1) whether the probability of bankruptcy could be explained by cost efficiency, measured by data envelopment analysis (DEA), (2) with what time lag cost efficiency effects bankruptcy, and (3) in what way cost efficiency must be analyzed to be able to estimate its predictive power on the probability of bankruptcy. According to the opinion of the authors, the inclusion of cost efficiency as the determinant of bankruptcy risk enables the analysis of the determinants, which arise from inside of firms (the combinations of factors of production, the scale of their use for producing a unit of production and their prices) and determinants arising from the market (output level and sales market prices), as cost efficiency indicates technical as well as allocative efficiency, both being the result of business process inside of firms. In this perspective, by analyzing the probability of bankruptcy among small firms on the basis of cost efficiency authors determine the fault of bankruptcy as the consequence of business process inefficiency inside the firms and bad business performance on the sales markets. On the basis of financial ratios, we consider the following indices as determinants of business performance on the sales markets: liquidity, profitability, turnover, export, sales/industry sales rate and break- even point. The research is limited to a sample of small firms in Slovenia.
Field-free Josephson diode effect in altermagnet/normal metal/altermagnet junctions
Creators: name: Cheng, Qiang
name: Mao, Yue
name: Sun, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field-free and highly efficient diodes with the nonreciprocity of supercurrent are believed to be the core block of the superconducting computing devices without dissipation. In this paper, we propose a Josephson diode based upon altermagnets with the vanishing net macroscopic magnetization. The nonreciprocity of supercurrent can be realized without applying any external magnetic field or ferromagnetic exchange field, which can avoid the magnetic cross-talk between the basic elements of the devices. The high efficiency exceeding $40\%$ can be obtained and the efficiency shows the high stability when the structure parameters are changed. The diode efficiency is antisymmetric about the relative orientation angle of the superconducting leads, so that its sign can easily be inverted by adjusting the relative orientation angle. The symmetries satisfied by the current-phase difference relations and the diode efficiency are analyzed by considering the transformations of the junctions under the time-reversal, the spin-rotation and the mirror reflection operations. The high efficiency and the high stability of the Josephson diode effect in our junctions provide the possibility for the design of the field-free dissipationless diode devices.
description: 13pages,6figures
KEYNOTE The Sexual Contract: 30 Years On
Creators: name: Pateman, Carole
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2018

description: This is a video of Carole Pateman's Keynote address at the Sexual Contract: 30 Years On conference held at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University on 10-11 May 2018. In her address, Pateman reflects on the antecedents and contemporary context for the writing of her book, The Sexual Contract (Polity Press, 1988), in political theory and in the women's movement of the 1970s. She goes on to discuss several key features of the book, including the distinction made in chapter 2 between different historical forms of patriarchy, with the modern form of patriarchy being based on contract, in which sexual subordination is presented as voluntary. She notes that the book focuses on contracts concerning property in the person and in particular contracts within three institutions: employment, marriage and prostitution. She goes on to respond to some of the feminist criticisms of her argument about prostitution, before concluding by noting the interdisciplinary audience the book has attracted, particularly among legal academics.
description: feminists@law, Vol 8 No 1 (2018)
Early Detection of Spam Domains with Passive DNS and SPF
Creators: name: Fernandez, Simon
name: Korczyński, Maciej
name: Duda, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spam domains are sources of unsolicited mails and one of the primary vehicles for fraud and malicious activities such as phishing campaigns or malware distribution. Spam domain detection is a race: as soon as the spam mails are sent, taking down the domain or blacklisting it is of relative use, as spammers have to register a new domain for their next campaign. To prevent malicious actors from sending mails, we need to detect them as fast as possible and, ideally, even before the campaign is launched. In this paper, using near-real-time passive DNS data from Farsight Security, we monitor the DNS traffic of newly registered domains and the contents of their TXT records, in particular, the configuration of the Sender Policy Framework, an anti-spoofing protocol for domain names and the first line of defense against devastating Business Email Compromise scams. Because spammers and benign domains have different SPF rules and different traffic profiles, we build a new method to detect spam domains using features collected from passive DNS traffic. Using the SPF configuration and the traffic to the TXT records of a domain, we accurately detect a significant proportion of spam domains with a low false positives rate demonstrating its potential in real-world deployments. Our classification scheme can detect spam domains before they send any mail, using only a single DNS query and later on, it can refine its classification by monitoring more traffic to the domain name.
KEYNOTE The Unravelling Patriarchy
Creators: name: Tronto, Joan
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2018

description: This is a video of Joan Tronto's Keynote address at the Sexual Contract: 30 Years On conference held at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University on 10-11 May 2018. In her address, Tronto begins with Carole Pateman's insight in The Sexual Contract (1988) about the incapacity of contract to produce freedom and equality, and considers the possibilities for an alternative organisation of human relations based on care ethics. She observes that in the years since the publication of The Sexual Contract, neoliberalism has resulted in a rewriting of the sexual contract. Under neoliberalism, the entry of women into the labour market, the full commodification of women's work and increasing economic disparities between men have resulted in some women becoming 'honorary individuals', substantially autonomous of men, with the consequent disruption of both men's political and sexual domination of women. This process has, in turn, given rise to a violent, misogynist and antidemocratic backlash in the form of neopopulism, in which men who have lost out economically feel a sense of deprivation, blame women, and seek a return to earlier forms of patriarchal domination. Against this background, she argues, care ethics provides a means of rethinking democratic commitments. A more just allocation of caring responsibilities could lead to a caring democracy without a return to gender subordination.
description: feminists@law, Vol 8 No 1 (2018)
The Influence of the Sexual Contract on the Law's Distribution of Property in Intimate Relationships
Creators: name: Galloway, Kate
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2018

description: Despite more than a century since the Married Women’s Property Acts came into force throughout the Commonwealth, the common law’s approach to the distribution of property between couples in a marriage or marriage-like relationship has failed to accommodate the deeply gendered experiences of men and women in intimate relations. Instead, the general law, i.e. judge-made law outside statutory family law provisions, embodies often unconscious gendered assumptions that have implications for the equitable distribution of property between men and women. In light of assumptions generally about sex equality, and about the neutrality of the law, one might ask why this underlying inequality perseveres. This paper draws on Pateman’s articulation of the sexual contract to explain, and to navigate, the tensions inherent in the general law’s approach to property distribution between heterosexual intimate partners. It posits that the sexual contract at once establishes an equal place for women as owners of property in the liberal mould yet silences their claims for equitable distribution between them and their spouses. It helps explain the law’s differential norms of what constitutes an expression of will, and what is valued in terms of contribution—the two ingredients for establishing an interest in property. Pateman’s theorisation of women’s status simultaneously as insiders and outsiders provides a means of understanding the incongruity within the law of intimate partner trusts, the implications for women’s property, and how the law might move beyond existing constraints.
description: feminists@law, Vol 8 No 1 (2018)
Twentieth Century Housewives and The Sexual Contract
Creators: name: Thompson, Sharon
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2018

description: “If a wife has a right to the money she can save from her housekeeping allowance, she might let her husband go short of food while she builds up a banking account. She might serve him up corned beef instead of roast beef for dinner.” These are the words of Goddard LJ in Blackwell v Blackwell [1943] 2 All ER 579, where it was held that Mrs Blackwell’s savings of one hundred pounds ten shillings in the Oxford and District Co-operative Society were the property of her husband, from whom Mrs Blackwell had been separated for two years. Protection of the husband’s roast beef might have been secured, but the consequences for Mrs Blackwell were severe. Writing in 1967, Lady Summerskill described her as ‘helpless and hopeless, a victim of a legal system which still in the twentieth century treats the wife as a chattel of her husband’. In this paper, I argue that The Sexual Contract enriches our understanding of the lived experiences of twentieth century housewives like Mrs Blackwell by looking to the root causes of their oppression and finding them in the sexual contract underpinning marriage. The Sexual Contract also highlights the shortcomings of ‘conjectural histories’ and the importance of paying attention to the ‘missing half of the story’. This emphasises the need for a feminist history of family law, to appreciate the forgotten campaigns of pressure groups that sought to change the law affecting married women. Drawing on my forthcoming SLSA funded research, I take the Married Women’s Association as my focus. This group financed Mrs Blackwell’s unsuccessful appeal in 1943 and continued to campaign for legal reform of wives’ right to housekeeping money. Twenty years later, Lady Summerskill’s Married Women’s Property Bill gained Royal Assent (becoming the Married Women’s Property Act 1964), and provided that money given by a husband to his wife for housekeeping was to be held by husband and wife in equal shares. Yet as this paper explores, the story behind this short piece of legislation is often ignored, and Carole Pateman’s work helps us understand why. Paying attention to the role of the sexual contract in family law history requires a rewriting of orthodox history that does not forget women’s struggles for legal equality. Indeed, to properly understand why the law affecting married women is so different now, it is imperative that the Married Women’s Association’s hard-fought campaigns are not overlooked. While their campaigns might not have always led directly to reform, this group was an example of feminist activism in the mid-twentieth century that emphasised the inequity of the current law and created pressure for change.
description: feminists@law, Vol 8 No 1 (2018)
Homography-Based Loss Function for Camera Pose Regression
Creators: name: Boittiaux, Clémentin
name: Marxer, Ricard
name: Dune, Claire
name: Arnaubec, Aurélien
name: Hugel, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Some recent visual-based relocalization algorithms rely on deep learning methods to perform camera pose regression from image data. This paper focuses on the loss functions that embed the error between two poses to perform deep learning based camera pose regression. Existing loss functions are either difficult-to-tune multi-objective functions or present unstable reprojection errors that rely on ground truth 3D scene points and require a two-step training. To deal with these issues, we introduce a novel loss function which is based on a multiplane homography integration. This new function does not require prior initialization and only depends on physically interpretable hyperparameters. Furthermore, the experiments carried out on well established relocalization datasets show that it minimizes best the mean square reprojection error during training when compared with existing loss functions.
DeepFD: Automated Fault Diagnosis and Localization for Deep Learning Programs
Creators: name: Cao, Jialun
name: Li, Meiziniu
name: Chen, Xiao
name: Wen, Ming
name: Tian, Yongqiang
name: Wu, Bo
name: Cheung, Shing-Chi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As Deep Learning (DL) systems are widely deployed for mission-critical applications, debugging such systems becomes essential. Most existing works identify and repair suspicious neurons on the trained Deep Neural Network (DNN), which, unfortunately, might be a detour. Specifically, several existing studies have reported that many unsatisfactory behaviors are actually originated from the faults residing in DL programs. Besides, locating faulty neurons is not actionable for developers, while locating the faulty statements in DL programs can provide developers with more useful information for debugging. Though a few recent studies were proposed to pinpoint the faulty statements in DL programs or the training settings (e.g. too large learning rate), they were mainly designed based on predefined rules, leading to many false alarms or false negatives, especially when the faults are beyond their capabilities. In view of these limitations, in this paper, we proposed DeepFD, a learning-based fault diagnosis and localization framework which maps the fault localization task to a learning problem. In particular, it infers the suspicious fault types via monitoring the runtime features extracted during DNN model training and then locates the diagnosed faults in DL programs. It overcomes the limitations by identifying the root causes of faults in DL programs instead of neurons and diagnosing the faults by a learning approach instead of a set of hard-coded rules. The evaluation exhibits the potential of DeepFD. It correctly diagnoses 52% faulty DL programs, compared with around half (27%) achieved by the best state-of-the-art works. Besides, for fault localization, DeepFD also outperforms the existing works, correctly locating 42% faulty programs, which almost doubles the best result (23%) achieved by the existing works.
description: Accepted by ICSE 2022. 11 pages for main content, 2 pages for reference
Explicit and implicit measures of emotions: Data-science might help to account for data complexity and heterogeneity
Creators: name: Moranges, M.
name: Rouby, C.
name: Plantevit, M.
name: Bensafi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Measuring emotions is a real challenge for fundamental and applied research, especially in ecological contexts. de Wijk and Noldus propose combining two types of measures-explicit to characterize a specific food, and implicit-physiological-to capture the whole experience of a meal in real-life situations. This raises several challenges including development of new and miniaturized sensors and devices but also developing new ways of data analysis. We suggest a path to follow for future studies regarding data analysis: to include Data Science in the game. This field of research may enable developing predictive but also explicative models that link subjective experience of emotions and physiological responses in real-life contexts. We suggest that food scientists should go out of their comfort zone by collaborating with computer scientists and then be trained with the new tools of Data Science, which will undoubtedly enable them 1/ to better manage complex and heterogeneous data sets, 2/ to extract knowledge that will be essential to this field of research.
Marriage, Work, and the Dissolution of the Productive Household
Creators: name: Taylor, Luke
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2018

description: The many figures that populated the family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gradually disappeared until the couple of husband and wife took the centre of the stage, and the marriage contract became constitutive of domestic relations. - Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, p.116. This paper is an historical study of the dissolution of the productive household in (primarily) nineteenth-century English law and legal thought. Building on Pateman’s insights into the construction of the family and marriage in political thought, the paper shows how law and legal thought contributed to the disaggregation of work and family life, and constructed (in place of the household) a legal conception of the private family that revolved around the married couple. The first part of the paper traces the movement in scholarly legal thought from Blackstone’s “private oeconomical relations”, to the late nineteenth century category of “Domestic Relations”, and the eventual emergence of “Family Law” in the twentieth century. It identifies two key processes in this intellectual shift: the excision of master-servant law from the legal household and its (imperfect) identification with contract; and a concomitant move away from a contractual treatment of marriage towards a modern, specifically legal, status-based conception of the relation. The second part of the paper considers how institutional lawmaking and social norms combined to disaggregate the household in distinctly gendered ways. Addressing enclosure laws, family wage ideology, married women’s property laws, and judicial reinforcement of women’s presumed domesticity in breach of promise to marry cases, it shows how law and ideology reinforced the sexual contract by splitting the household along corresponding female/male and family/work lines.
description: feminists@law, Vol 8 No 1 (2018)
EllSeg-Gen, towards Domain Generalization for head-mounted eyetracking
Creators: name: Kothari, Rakshit S.
name: Bailey, Reynold J.
name: Kanan, Christopher
name: Pelz, Jeff B.
name: Diaz, Gabriel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The study of human gaze behavior in natural contexts requires algorithms for gaze estimation that are robust to a wide range of imaging conditions. However, algorithms often fail to identify features such as the iris and pupil centroid in the presence of reflective artifacts and occlusions. Previous work has shown that convolutional networks excel at extracting gaze features despite the presence of such artifacts. However, these networks often perform poorly on data unseen during training. This work follows the intuition that jointly training a convolutional network with multiple datasets learns a generalized representation of eye parts. We compare the performance of a single model trained with multiple datasets against a pool of models trained on individual datasets. Results indicate that models tested on datasets in which eye images exhibit higher appearance variability benefit from multiset training. In contrast, dataset-specific models generalize better onto eye images with lower appearance variability.
description: Code available at https://bitbucket.org/RSKothari/multiset_gaze/
Dynamic Median Consensus for Marine Multi-Robot Systems Using Acoustic Communication
Creators: name: Vasiljevic, Goran
name: Petrovic, Tamara
name: Arbanas, Barbara
name: Bogdan, Stjepan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we present a dynamic median consensus protocol for multi-agent systems using acoustic communication. The motivating target scenario is a multi-agent system consisting of underwater robots acting as intelligent sensors, applied to continuous monitoring of the state of a marine environment. The proposed protocol allows each agent to track the median value of individual measurements of all agents through local communication with neighbouring agents. Median is chosen as a measure robust to outliers, as opposed to average value, which is usually used. In contrast to the existing consensus protocols, the proposed protocol is dynamic, uses a switching communication topology and converges to median of measured signals. Stability and correctness of the protocol are theoretically proven. The protocol is tested in simulation, and accuracy and influence of protocol parameters on the system output are analyzed. The protocol is implemented and validated by a set of experiments on an underwater group of robots comprising of aMussel units. This experimental setup is one of the first deployments of any type of consensus protocol for an underwater setting. Both simulation and experimental results confirm the correctness of the presented approach.
Search and detection of pulsars in the monitoring observations at the frequency 111 MHz
Creators: name: Tyul'bashev, S. A.
name: Tyul'bashev, V. S.
name: Kitaeva, M. A.
name: Chernyshova, A. I.
name: Malofeev, V. M.
name: Chashey, I. V.
name: Shishov, V. I.
name: Dagkesamanskii, R. D.
name: Klimenko, S. V.
name: Nikitin, I. N.
name: Nikitina, L. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pulsars with periods more than 0.4 seconds in the declination range -9o < decj < 42o and in the right ascension range 0h < r.a.< 24h were searched in parallel with the program of interplanetary scintillations monitoring of a large number of sources with the radiotelescope LPA LPI. Four-year observations carried out at the central frequency 110.25 MHz in the band 2.5 MHz and in six frequency channels with the time resolution 100 ms were used for the search. Initial detections of candidates for pulsars were based on the Fourier power spectra averaged over the whole observations period. The candidates for pulsars were checked in more details from observations analysis with higher time-frequency resolution: 32 frequency channels with time resolution of 12.5 ms. 18 new pulsars was discovered, their main characteristics are presented.
description: published in Astronomy Report, translated by Yandex translator with correction of scientific lexis, 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Queering Asylum Anxieties: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugee Claims
Creators: name: Raj, Senthorun
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: Over the last three decades, an increasing number of Anglophone courts have recognised asylum claims on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Such jurisprudence has been heralded for “progressing” LGBTI rights. Yet, the progressive promise of these “pro-LGBTI” decisions leaves much more to be desired. Often formulated under the rubric of a “particular social group,” the extent to which queer refugees have been granted protection has been contingent on whether they subscribe to normative ideas of intimacy, identity, and injury. Specifically, queer refugees must demonstrate they have a “well-founded fear of persecution” by subscribing to ethnocentric assumptions about sexual citizenship, gender expression, erotic relationships, and state violence. While the concept of fear has been central to the grant of asylum under international law, it has also been mobilised in legal, political, and academic responses to the adjudication of such claims. Specifically, the fear about having a refugee jurisprudence that is too queer has led to states attempting to curb opening the proverbial “floodgates.” This anxious attempt at control has been painfully fleshed out in the way courts navigate the nexus between “authenticating” immutable sexual or gender identities and “counting” what amounts to sustained state persecution. Drawing on appellate case law from Australia, UK, US, and the EU, this paper disturbs how fear stifles the recognition of queer identity, intimacy, and injury. By disrupting judicial gestures, it considers how “asylum anxieties” continue to undermine queer claims for protection.
description: feminists@law, Vol 7 No 1 (2017)
Holding Out for Other Ways of Knowing and Being
Creators: name: Van Marle, Karin
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: This was the keynote presentation at the workshop on Diversity and Legal Reasoning held at Queen Mary University of London on 23 November 2016, co-sponsored by the Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Diversity and the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context. Karin van Marle approaches the theme of diversity in legal reasoning from the perspective of epistemology and argues that political and legal institutions should value difference and live with it in a way that amounts to more than mere ‘accommodation’ or adding a list of different differences. Drawing on the work of Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler, Costas Douzinas and Adam Gearey, Albie Sachs, Jacqueline Rose, Adriana Cavarero and Iris Marion Young, she explores ways in which traditional approaches to notions like university, access, space, truth, knowledge, politics and ethics could be challenged at the heart of what they hold dear.
description: feminists@law, Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
Feminism, Women Judges, Judicial Diversity and the High Court of Australia
Creators: name: McLoughlin, Kcasey
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: This paper was originally presented at the workshop on Diversity and Legal Reasoning held at Queen Mary University of London on 23 November 2016, sponsored by the Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Diversity and the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context. McLoughlin examines the political and judical discourse surrounding the arrival of women judges to the High Court of Australia and considers what this reveals about the nature of commitments to judicial diversity and prospects for feminist aspirations to the achivement of more far-reachig forms of diversity.
description: feminists@law, Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
Comment: Diversity and Legal Reasoning
Creators: name: Hunter, Rosemary
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: This short comment was originally delivered as part of the workshop on Diversity and Legal Reasoning held at Queen Mary University of London on 23 November 2016, sponsored by the Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Diversity and the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context. Hunter engages with Karin Van Marle's call for a radically disruptive diversity, but argues that it is too early to conclude that legal reasoning which destabilises current systems and norms is an impossibility. Providing examples from the feminist judgment projects and her research on feminist judges, she suggests that the exploration of what might be possible within law still has a long way to go.
description: feminists@law, Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
In vitro efficacy of N-acetylcysteine on bacteria associated with chronic suppurative otitis media
Creators: name: Lea, Jane
name: Conlin, Anne E
name: Sekirov, Inna
name: Restelli, Veronica
name: Ayakar, Komathi G
name: Turnbull, LeeAnn
name: Doyle, Patrick
name: Noble, Michael
name: Rennie, Robert
name: Schreiber, William E
name: Westerberg, Brian D
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The safety and efficacy of Ciprodex® has been demonstrated for treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM). However, symptoms fail to resolve in 9-15% of patients. The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on S. aureus, and planktonic and sessile (biofilm forming) P. aeruginosa in vitro using clinical isolates from patients with CSOM. Methods: 1) Stability was assessed using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for each component in a prepared mixture of Ciprodex® and NAC over 15 days. Sterility was assessed by measuring bacterial growth on a blood agar plate. Efficacy was assessed using a disc diffusion method by inoculating plates with S. aureus ATCC 29513 and P. aeruginosa ATCC 27853, and measuring the clearance zone. 2) Fifteen P. aeruginosa strains were isolated from patients with CSOM and tested in vitro using the bioFILM PA™ antimicrobial susceptibility assay. Treatment solutions included Ciprodex® & ciprofloxacin +/- NAC, and NAC alone (0.25%, 0.5% & 1.25%). Results: 1) NAC combined with Ciprodex® demonstrated stability, sterility, and efficacy over a two-week period 2) P. aeruginosa strains in the sessile (33%-40%) and planktonic (13%) state demonstrated resistance to Ciprodex® and ciprofloxacin. When NAC ≥0.5% was used in isolation or as an adjunct to either of these medications, no resistance was found in the sessile or planktonic state among all 15 strains. Conclusion: 1) Ciprodex® combined with NAC has a shelf life of at least two weeks given the documented preservation of stability, sterility, and clinical efficacy of the mixed compounds. 2) P. aeruginosa strains demonstrated resistance to both Ciprodex® and ciprofloxacin. NAC ≥0.5% overcomes issues with resistance and shows promise in the treatment of CSOM.
Brexit Logics: Myth and Fact - A Black Feminist Analysis
Creators: name: Rajan-Rankin, Sweta
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: On June 24, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a landmark referendum result. The ‘Brexit’ vote along with Trump’s presidential election in America, the Turkish referendum, the French election and the rise in far-right groups more globally, have been underpinned by certain populist ‘logics’. This comment seeks to agitate these Brexit logics through a Black Feminist perspective that refocuses current debates on power and the intersectional politics of gender, race and class.
description: feminists@law, Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in the Protection of Women Fleeing Gender-Based Violence in their Home Countries
Creators: name: Querton, Christel
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: More than one million persons crossed the Mediterranean Sea in 2015 into the European Union (‘EU’) leading many to describe the situation as the worst refugee crisis in Europe since the Second World War. The role of International Human Rights Law in ensuring the protection of asylum seekers from return to countries where they would face prohibited treatment is consequently of particular interest. In 2015, approximately 27.7% of persons claiming asylum in the EU were women and girls and reports suggest most flee war, armed conflict, persecution and sexual or gender-based violence. In the context of increasing reliance by asylum seekers and refugees on the European Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) as a protection mechanism against return to ill-treatment, torture and persecution, examination of the Court’s approach is essential. Adopting a gender analysis based on feminist legal theory, this paper explores the case law of the Court relating to gender-based violence and discrimination against women. Using a comparative approach, the paper analyses how principles and concepts developed in ‘domestic’ cases are applied in ‘expulsion’ cases, in order to query the impact of the Court as a mechanism for the effective protection of women seeking refuge in Europe. The paper considers the extent to which International Human Rights Law as interpreted by the Court responds to the international protection needs of those at risk of gender-based violence. It compares how the principles regarding the prohibition of gender-based violence and discrimination against women developed by the Court in ‘domestic’ cases are applied to ‘expulsion’ cases where the breach of Article 3 ECHR is feared as a result of treatment in the receiving country. Protection against gender-based violence from a ‘male network’ and the Court’s reliance on this concept in ‘expulsion’ cases is explored in particular.
description: feminists@law, Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
Australia’s Parental Leave Pay Scheme: Temporal Disruption and ‘Genuine’ Attachment to Waged Work
Creators: name: Hargita, Starla
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2017

description: Australia’s parental leave provisions were enacted to provide both leave and pay for new parents, with the intent of promoting economic gender parity and softening the financial burden of motherhood. This paper investigates the structure of Australia’s parental leave pay (PLP) scheme, particularly its work-test eligibility requirement, and considers the consequences of this requirement for women excluded from PLP benefits by virtue of their attachment to waged work being deemed disingenuous (ie, not ‘genuine’). The article theorises a retemporalisation of care that allows for the varieties and transformations of embodied time in the gendered body.
description: feminists@law, Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
Do too many cooks spoil the broth? The effect of syndication on the performance of venture capitalists' portfolio firms in Sweden
Creators: name: Berggren, Bjorn
name: Olofsson, Christer
name: Silver, Lars
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The literature surrounding venture capital firms' relations to their portfolio firms is vast, but tend to focus primarily on the relationship between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs from the venture capitalists' perspective. Many studies focus on how the venture capitalists need to control their investment. It is often implied that venture capitalists are beneficial to the firms in which they invest. In several studies it has been suggested that venture capitalist add value to their portfolio firms by providing capital as well as competence in form of advice and improved routines to the portfolio firm. Many researchers seem to assume that venture capital firms' advices to portfolio firms are always relevant and useful. Governments and government agencies also tend to unconditionally support the venture capital industry as being crucial providers of venture creation. As Sweden has targeted science-related ventures as being of prime importance to the growth of the Swedish economy, venture capital provision has been placed in the forefront of likely contributors to venture growth in that particular field. Not all entrepreneurs seem equally impressed by contributions made by venture capitalists. Case research provides evidence of venture capitalists having a short term focus, lack of patience with investments and above all, being unable to provide adequate support in terms of contributions aimed at enhancing ventures abilities to market their products. According to these studies there seems to be indications that venture capital may not be as beneficial to venture growth as has been previously reported.