cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplemental_Material_final – Supplemental material for Drug-coated balloons: Technical and clinical progress
Creators: name: Huiying Ang
name: Koppara, Tobias R
name: Cassese, Salvatore
name: Jaryl Ng
name: Joner, Michael
name: Foin, Nicolas
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Material_final for Drug-coated balloons: Technical and clinical progress by Huiying Ang, Tobias R Koppara, Salvatore Cassese, Jaryl Ng, Michael Joner and Nicolas Foin in Vascular Medicine
DuckDB-SGX2: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly within Confidential Analytical Query Processing
Creators: name: Battiston, Ilaria
name: Felius, Lotte
name: Ansmink, Sam
name: Kuiper, Laurens
name: Boncz, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We provide an evaluation of an analytical workload in a confidential computing environment, combining DuckDB with two technologies: modular columnar encryption in Parquet files (data at rest) and the newest version of the Intel SGX Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), providing a hardware enclave where data in flight can be (more) securely decrypted and processed. One finding is that the "performance tax" for such confidential analytical processing is acceptable compared to not using these technologies. We eventually manage to run TPC-H SF30 with under 2x overhead compared to non-encrypted, non-enclave execution; we show that, specifically, columnar compression and encryption are a good combination. Our second finding consists of dos and don'ts to tune DuckDB to work effectively in this environment. There are various performance hazards: potentially 5x higher cache miss costs due to memory encryption inside the enclave, NUMA penalties, and highly elevated cost of swapping pages in and out of the enclave -- which is also triggered indirectly by using a non-SGX-aware malloc library.
Machine Learning-Based Protection and Fault Identification of 100% Inverter-Based Microgrids
Creators: name: Beikbabaei, Milad
name: Lindemann, Michael
name: Kapourchali, Mohammad Heidari
name: Mehrizi-Sani, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: 100% inverter-based renewable units are becoming more prevalent, introducing new challenges in the protection of microgrids that incorporate these resources. This is particularly due to low fault currents and bidirectional flows. Previous work has studied the protection of microgrids with high penetration of inverter-interfaced distributed generators; however, very few have studied the protection of a 100% inverter-based microgrid. This work proposes machine learning (ML)-based protection solutions using local electrical measurements that consider implementation challenges and effectively combine short-circuit fault detection and type identification. A decision tree method is used to analyze a wide range of fault scenarios. PSCAD/EMTDC simulation environment is used to create a dataset for training and testing the proposed method. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is examined under seven distinct fault types, each featuring varying fault resistance, in a 100% inverter-based microgrid consisting of four inverters.
description: Accepted for publication at 2024 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
Multi-Omics Insights into the Lipidomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Profiles of Insulin Resistant vs Insulin Sensitive Individuals
Creators: name: Bahia, Gurmenjit
name: Snyder, Michael
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Insulin resistance
subject: Insulin sensitivity
subject: Proteomics
subject: Metabolomics
subject: Lipidomics
subject: Omics Integration

description: Insulin resistance is a metabolic disorder that has been linked as a precursor to a series of other metabolic disorders including type 2 diabetes and in which individuals lack the ability to correctly process insulin (1). This study explores the molecular differences between insulin-resistant (IR) and insulin-sensitive (IS) individuals using a multi-omics approach, incorporating proteomic, lipidomic, and metabolomic analyses to then correlate the potential pathways impacted. Lipidomic analysis displayed significantly higher levels of triglycerides, specifically TAG52.3.FA18.1, TAG52.3.FA16.0, TAG52.3.FA18.2, TAG52.4.FA18.2, and TAG52.4.FA16.0 in IR individuals, hence, suggesting disrupted cholesterol handling and lipid storage. The proteomic analysis revealed significantly increased levels of haptoglobin (HP), an inflammatory proteins, alongside reduced levels of an anti-inflammatory acute-phase protein, Apolipoprotein A-IV (APOA4), which indicates increased immune activation and chronic inflammation– all indicating that inflammation is disrupted in individuals with insulin resistance. Metabolomic analysis displayed significantly decreased levels of creatinine and citric acid, implicating catabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction respectively. As well as increased levels of biliverdin indicating increased oxidative stress and distorted heme metabolism, reflecting a compensatory response to inflammation or metabolic dysregulation. The significant biomolecules identified were linked to key metabolic pathways as mentioned above, including cholesterol metabolism, fatty acid oxidation, and immune modulation, hence, providing a systems-level understanding of the disrupted biological processes in insulin-resistant individuals. The integration of findings from all three of these omics layers depict the alteration of multiple physiological processes in the arisal of insulin resistance, while also providing potential targets for early intervention and therapeutic strategies aimed at restoring metabolic health and improving insulin sensitivity within each of these physiological systems.
sj-pdf-1-mcr-10.1177_1077558720926095 - Supplemental material for Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending Among Individuals With Employer Sponsored Insurance
Creators: name: Johnson, William C.
name: Biniek, Jean Fuglesten
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-mcr-10.1177_1077558720926095 for Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending Among Individuals With Employer Sponsored Insurance by William C. Johnson and Jean Fuglesten Biniek in Medical Care Research and Review
title: The Mbundu and Neighbouring Peoples of Central Angola Under the Influence of Portuguese Trade and Conquest 1482-1790.
Creators: name: Birmingham, David
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1964

description: The two major Bantu political groupings in West Central Africa centre on the Kongo kingdom and on the Luba-Lunda states. To the south of Kongo and east of Lunda live the Mbundu people who, from the end of the fifteenth century, developed contacts with the Portuguese and eventually became the main link between Western Bantu Africa and Europe. During most of the sixteenth century this relationship was based on trade in slaves. The benefits of this trade enabled the Mbundu to consolidate the small state of Ndongo, on the north side of the Kwanza River, into a moderately powerful kingdom. In the mid-sixteenth century Ndongo prosperity caused a migrant Lunda group called the Imbangala, who had camped on the eastern border of Mbundu country, to attack the Mbundu and make direct contact with the Portuguese. From 1575 the Portuguese embarked on a programme of territorial conquest. This continued through most of the seventeenth century, the great period of the Angolan Wars. The Portuguese suffered many setbacks, the lowest ebb being from 1641 to 1648 when the Dutch temporarily captured and held Luanda. By 1671, however, the independent Mbundu monarch in Ndongo had been eradicated. Thereafter the main African trading states of the area were Matamba and Kasanje on the Kwango River. After the wars the Luanda slave trade declined, North European competition from Loango and Portuguese competition from Benguela caused a serious depression in Mbundu trade during most of the eighteenth century. Only after 1790 were there signs of a revival.
title: David Scott on the North-East Frontier of India and in Assam.
Creators: name: Barooah, Niroda Kumar
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1964

description: The subject of this study is David Scott who served the East India Company on the northern and eastern frontier of the Bengal Presidency from 1802 to 1831. First coming into prominence by his handling of relations with Bhutan and Tibet during the Nepal War of 1814, Scott was successively concerned with the Garo hills, the Khasi hills and Assam, as Agent to the North East Frontier and Commissioner of Assam. The years of his service saw a rapid British territorial expansion. They were also years wherein the duties of the British officers, agents of the Paramount power, were greatly extended. This dual growth raised the urgent question of the British purpose in India, to which conservative or paternalist, imperial, liberal, Evangelical and Utilitarian answers were variously given, This thesis sets Scott against this questioning background and seeks to define his contribution to the debate. Scott favoured British territorial expansion, and played an important role by his advocacy of a forward policy in Assam. His imperial vision also extended to the creation of European cantonments and even military colonies in the healthy Khasi hills, the basis for a possible fourth Presidency centred upon Assam. He encouraged Christian missionary effort, and was a pioneer in advocating its application to the tribal areas of the frontier. But he was also a paternalist in his sympathetic study of the Garos, Khasis and Ahoms, and in his efforts to work through native institutions in evolving an administration for newly annexed Assam. His uncle, the Director David Scott, had been deeply involved in the question of Indian trade and commercial relations. Scott likewise actively pursued the possibilities of trade with Burma and China, and showed great practical enthusiasm in developing the resources and commerce of the areas in his charge. Thus both Scott's actions and his ideas are of interest and importance.
Journal of Undergraduate Research (jur), Volume 14, Issues 1 and 2, Fall 2015, Spring 2016
Creators: name: Journal Of Undergraduate Research
name: Cembrinski, Zoe
name: Bender, Noah
name: Meth, Miles
name: Wang, Yu-Hao
name: Wang, Yu-Chieh
name: Wu, Pi-Hsiung
name: Hsu, Lan
name: Cui, Allen
name: Cohen, Alexandra
name: Olearcek, Henry
Publisher: name: University of Rochester
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520203
subject: Cognitive neuroscience
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: The Journal of Undergraduate Research (JUR) is an organization dedicated to providing the University of Rochester student body with intellectual perspectives from various academic disciplines. JUR serves as a forum for the presentation of original research, thereby encouraging the pursuit of significant scholarly endeavors.For more information, please visit the Journal of Undergraduate Research homepage.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-tpx-10.1177_0192623320928006 - Selective Chemonucleolysis With Condoliase in Cynomolgus Monkeys
Creators: name: Muramatsu, Dai
name: Yamaguchi, Hiroaki
name: Minamisawa, Yuka
name: Aisuke Nii
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-tpx-10.1177_0192623320928006 for Selective Chemonucleolysis With Condoliase in Cynomolgus Monkeys by Dai Muramatsu, Hiroaki Yamaguchi, Yuka Minamisawa and Aisuke Nii in Toxicologic Pathology
title: Relations Between Ethiopia and the Sudan on the Western Ethiopian Frontier 1898-1935.
Creators: name: Zewde, Bahru
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1976

description: The Ethiopian victory at Adwa in 1896 and the British conquest of the Sudan in 1898 determined the nature of the relationship between the two African countries in the first thirty-five years of this century. An European colony came to adjoin a politically independent Ethiopia. In 1902, the boundary between the two countries was formally delimited after four years of diplomatic wrangling and manoeuvring. The peoples of the border-land, the parties most directly affected by the issue, had little say in the final outcome of the negotiations. But some of them did try to influence it to a degree hitherto scarcely recognized. Formal delimitation aside, the frontier peoples pursued a life of virtual independence from both Khartoum and Addis Ababa. The defiance of Akwei in the south was matched by that of the Wad Mahmud family in the north. What little control the Ethiopian authorities managed to exercise in the frontier regions was achieved either through the collaboration of Anyuaa leaders like Udial and the ruthless policy of Eajid Abud, or by bolstering the position of Sheikh Khojali in the said. Such tenuous Ethiopian government control provided the setting - and the pretext - for the longstanding desire of the Sudan government to incorporate the Baro lowlands. The Gambella trading post epitomized the new relationship between Ethiopia and British-ruled Sudan. Problems of transport and communication, the ambiguous legal status of the enclave, and the general features of an economy where commodity production had scarcely begun frustrated the high hopes that the British had entertained in establishing the post. Jibouti's pre-eminence as the entrepot of Ethiopia's foreign trade remained unchallenged. Nevertheless, Gambella dislodged Matamma and the sapid as the most important channel of Ethio-Sudanese trade. Like Jibouti, it was the medium by which Ethiopia was drawn, if only reluctantly, into the world market. This process of Ethiopia's integration into the world economy was particularly underlined in western Ethiopia by the relentless quest of international capital for commercial, agricultural, and mining concessions.
Exact Synthesis of Multiqutrit Clifford-Cyclotomic Circuits
Creators: name: Glaudell, Andrew N.
name: Ross, Neil J.
name: van de Wetering, John
name: Yeh, Lia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that the matrices that can be exactly represented by a multiqubit circuit over the Toffoli+Hadamard, Clifford+$T$, or, more generally, Clifford-cyclotomic gate set are precisely the unitary matrices with entries in the ring $\mathbb{Z}[1/2,ζ_k]$, where $k$ is a positive integer that depends on the gate set and $ζ_k$ is a primitive $2^k$-th root of unity. In the present paper, we establish an analogous correspondence for qutrits. We define the multiqutrit Clifford-cyclotomic gate set of degree $3^k$ by extending the classical qutrit gates $X$, $CX$, and $CCX$ with the Hadamard gate $H$ and the $T_k$ gate $T_k=\mathrm{diag}(1,ω_k, ω_k^2)$, where $ω_k$ is a primitive $3^k$-th root of unity. This gate set is equivalent to the qutrit Toffoli+Hadamard gate set when $k=1$, and to the qutrit Clifford+$T_k$ gate set when $k>1$. We then prove that a $3^n\times 3^n$ unitary matrix $U$ can be represented by an $n$-qutrit circuit over the Clifford-cyclotomic gate set of degree $3^k$ if and only if the entries of $U$ lie in the ring $\mathbb{Z}[1/3,ω_k]$.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2024, arXiv:2408.05113
Table_S6_supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Changes in inflammatory biomarkers are related to the antidepressant effects of Ayahuasca
Creators: name: Galvão-Coelho, Nicole Leite
name: Galvão, Ana Cecília De Menezes
name: Raíssa Nóbrega De Almeida
name: Palhano-Fontes, Fernanda
name: Braga, Isaac Campos
name: Soares, Bruno Lobão
name: Maia-De-Oliveira, João Paulo
name: Perkins, Daniel
name: Sarris, Jerome
name: Draulio Barros De Araujo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)

description: Supplemental material, Table_S6_supplementary_material for Changes in inflammatory biomarkers are related to the antidepressant effects of Ayahuasca by Nicole Leite Galvão-Coelho, Ana Cecília de Menezes Galvão, Raíssa Nóbrega de Almeida, Fernanda Palhano-Fontes, Isaac Campos Braga, Bruno Lobão Soares, João Paulo Maia-de-Oliveira, Daniel Perkins, Jerome Sarris and Draulio Barros de Araujo in Journal of Psychopharmacology
TP3M: Transformer-based Pseudo 3D Image Matching with Reference Image
Creators: name: Han, Liming
name: Liu, Zhaoxiang
name: Lian, Shiguo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image matching is still challenging in such scenes with large viewpoints or illumination changes or with low textures. In this paper, we propose a Transformer-based pseudo 3D image matching method. It upgrades the 2D features extracted from the source image to 3D features with the help of a reference image and matches to the 2D features extracted from the destination image by the coarse-to-fine 3D matching. Our key discovery is that by introducing the reference image, the source image's fine points are screened and furtherly their feature descriptors are enriched from 2D to 3D, which improves the match performance with the destination image. Experimental results on multiple datasets show that the proposed method achieves the state-of-the-art on the tasks of homography estimation, pose estimation and visual localization especially in challenging scenes.
description: Accepted by ICRA 2024
Supplementary_Tables_and_Figure – Supplemental material for Bias-Variance Trade-Off in Continuous Test Norming
Creators: name: Voncken, Lieke
name: Albers, Casper J.
name: Timmerman, Marieke E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_Tables_and_Figure for Bias-Variance Trade-Off in Continuous Test Norming by Lieke Voncken, Casper J. Albers and Marieke E. Timmerman in Assessment
title: Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone
Creators: name: Pope, Nicholas
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 22

description: This thesis examines the emergence and sustainment of milícias (militias) in the 1990s in the West Zone ‘margins’ of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It considers the rise of milícias as they coincide with urbanisation, economic liberalisation, democratisation, decentralisation and the rise of violent drug trafficking organisations. This thesis sets out to answer the following overarching research question: ‘How and why did milícias emerge in Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone since the 1990s and how and why were they sustained? What is their relationship to the management of (dis)order?’ The analytical approach developed to answer this question draws on an historically situated political settlements framework to understand milícias as power relations within coalition formations and as facilitators of rent extraction and distribution. The framework introduces urban and political geography literatures on frontiers to advance a thesis that milícias in Rio de Janeiro are coercive brokers that mediate urban frontier zones. This study draws on ethnographic fieldnotes from direct and participant observation, in-depth interviews and oral histories, and extensive archival research of parliamentary documents. It argues that milícias emerged to provide temporary ‘solutions’ to address the violent inequalities, structural insecurities, and the threats and insecurities posed by drug trafficking organisations in the urban frontiers. They emerged through ‘bottom-up’ processes but were also seen as convenient to political and economic elites in the central state who were unable (or unwilling) to provide formal security in the West Zone. However, this thesis makes the case that there was a trade-off for the central state as paramilitaries, as accrued power in the urban frontier, they also attempted to reshape state institutions. Because of their roots in local communities, this thesis also recognises the dependency of milícias on legitimacy, ideas, beliefs and norms, and the power imbued in community relations. This study contributes to the literatures on milícias by accounting for their role as co-producers of (dis)order in the urban margins, the literature on political settlements by intertwining questions of violence and conflict with spatiality, and finally the Latin American literatures on local political order and governance by advancing a conceptualisation of armed groups straddling state and society and challenging conventional state/-non-state binaries.
Generating quantum dissonance via local operations
Creators: name: Torun, Gökhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Correlations may arise in quantum systems through various means, of which the most remarkable one is quantum entanglement. Additionally, there are systems that exhibit non-classical correlations even in the absence of entanglement. Quantum dissonance refers to how quantum discord (QD) -- the difference between the total correlation and the classical correlation in a given quantum state -- appears as a non-classical correlation in a system without entanglement. It could be said that QD has the potential to provide a more inclusive viewpoint for discerning the non-classical correlations. In this work, we address the problem of manipulating the QD between two subsystems through local operations. We propose two explicit procedures for obtaining separable Werner states, a type of mixed state with nonzero QD. Both approaches involve performing local operations on classically correlated states and offers a step-by-step method for obtaining separable Werner states with nonzero discord, providing an alternative (explicit and user-friendly) to existing methods.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
S3_Table – Supplemental material for Effects of Emotional Expressions, Gaze, and Head Orientation on Person Perception in Social Situations
Creators: name: Kaisler, Raphaela E.
name: Marin, Manuela M.
name: Leder, Helmut
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, S3_Table for Effects of Emotional Expressions, Gaze, and Head Orientation on Person Perception in Social Situations by Raphaela E. Kaisler, Manuela M. Marin and Helmut Leder in SAGE Open
S7_Table – Supplemental material for Effects of Emotional Expressions, Gaze, and Head Orientation on Person Perception in Social Situations
Creators: name: Kaisler, Raphaela E.
name: Marin, Manuela M.
name: Leder, Helmut
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, S7_Table for Effects of Emotional Expressions, Gaze, and Head Orientation on Person Perception in Social Situations by Raphaela E. Kaisler, Manuela M. Marin and Helmut Leder in SAGE Open
title: Eldership, Ancestral Traditions and Cultural Identity in African Fiction: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost
Creators: name: Osei-Nyame Jnr., Kwadwo
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2020

description: This paper explores the place and significance of the representations of eldership and ancestral traditions in African fiction. It argues that what the examples located within the selected texts discussed are not merely co-incidental, but collectively represent and articulate an engagement in a discourse of African cultural and spiritual rehabilitation. Examples are chosen from the work of three of Africa’s most prominent and well-known writers to illustrate the argument that is being made, which is that when Africans refer to their ancestral traditions, they do so both as a form of commemoration and also as a means of establishing their belief and faith in age-old spiritual traditions.
Electromagnetic moments of the odd-mass nickel isotopes $^{59-67}$Ni
Creators: name: Müller, P.
name: Kaufmann, S.
name: Miyagi, T.
name: Billowes, J.
name: Bissell, M. L.
name: Blaum, K.
name: Cheal, B.
name: Ruiz, R. F. Garcia
name: Gins, W.
name: Gorges, C.
name: Heylen, H.
name: Kanellakopoulos, A.
name: Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S.
name: Neugart, R.
name: Neyens, G.
name: Nörtershäuser, W.
name: Ratajczyk, T.
name: Rodríguez, L. V.
name: Sánchez, R.
name: Sailer, S.
name: Schwenk, A.
name: Wehner, L.
name: Wraith, C.
name: Xie, L.
name: Xu, Z. Y.
name: Yang, X. F.
name: Yordanov, D. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic dipole and the spectroscopic quadrupole moments of the nuclear ground states in the odd-mass nickel isotopes $^{59-67}$Ni have been determined using collinear laser spectroscopy at the CERN-ISOLDE facility. They are compared to ab initio valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group (VS-IMSRG) calculations including contributions of two-body currents as well as to shell-model calculations. The two-body-current contributions significantly improve the agreement with experimental data, reducing the mean-square deviation from the experimental moments by a factor of 3 to 5, depending on the employed interaction. For all interactions, the largest contributions are obtained for the $5/2^-$ ($7/2^-$) isotopes $^{65}$Ni ($^{55}$Ni), which is ascribed to the high angular momentum of the $f$ orbitals. Our results demonstrate that the inclusion of two-body-current contributions to the magnetic moment in an isotopic chain of complex nuclei can be handled by the VS-IMSRG and can outperform phenomenological shell-model calculations using effective $g$-factors in the nickel region.
description: Published in Physics Letters B, 10 pages, 3 figures
title: The Life Of The 16th Karmapa, Rang Byung Rig Pa’i Rdo Rje: Transformation Of Tibetan Buddhism In Exile
Creators: name: Wang, Meng
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2024

description: The 16th Karmapa, Rang byung rig pa’i rdo rje (1924–1981), was the head of the Karma bKa’ brgyud school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was one of the first Tibetan Buddhist leaders to preserve their tradition in exile and to make important contributions to the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Despite the short period of time of his activity in the West through the three Dharma tours that he embarked on between 1974 and 1980, his school achieved the largest scale of expansion of Tibetan Buddhism by the 1980s with over 300 Dharma centres throughout the world. His activity shaped the early transformation of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. This study examines the Karmapa’s life with a particular focus on Tibetan agency in the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. The purpose is to frame the transmission as an intercultural exchange between the receiver and the transmitter, and thus to introduce balance to the current scholarship that privileges reception over transmission agency. By analysing the Tibetan and English language accounts of the Karmapa’s life, I argue that the transmission is far more complicated than a matter of Westernisation. The Karmapa emphasised traditional methods of propagation; his Western disciples perceived him in ways that are clearly consistent with the traditional values of the lineage. This attests to the effectiveness of his transmission of tradition. To understand this phenomenon, I explore in detail both the context of reception, i.e. the sociocultural conditions in the West that shaped the Western disciples’ interpretation of the lineage, and the Karmapa’s preservation and expansion strategies that bring his role as the transmitter to the centre stage.
Towards Robust Policy: Enhancing Offline Reinforcement Learning with Adversarial Attacks and Defenses
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thanh
name: Luu, Tung M.
name: Ton, Tri
name: Yoo, Chang D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) addresses the challenge of expensive and high-risk data exploration inherent in RL by pre-training policies on vast amounts of offline data, enabling direct deployment or fine-tuning in real-world environments. However, this training paradigm can compromise policy robustness, leading to degraded performance in practical conditions due to observation perturbations or intentional attacks. While adversarial attacks and defenses have been extensively studied in deep learning, their application in offline RL is limited. This paper proposes a framework to enhance the robustness of offline RL models by leveraging advanced adversarial attacks and defenses. The framework attacks the actor and critic components by perturbing observations during training and using adversarial defenses as regularization to enhance the learned policy. Four attacks and two defenses are introduced and evaluated on the D4RL benchmark. The results show the vulnerability of both the actor and critic to attacks and the effectiveness of the defenses in improving policy robustness. This framework holds promise for enhancing the reliability of offline RL models in practical scenarios.
Revisiting linear stability of black hole odd-parity perturbations in Einstein-Aether gravity
Creators: name: Mukohyama, Shinji
name: Tsujikawa, Shinji
name: Wang, Anzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In Einstein-Aether gravity, we revisit the issue of linear stabilities of black holes against odd-parity perturbations on a static and spherically symmetric background. In this theory, superluminal propagation is allowed and there is a preferred timelike direction along the unit Aether vector field. If we choose the usual spherically symmetric background coordinates with respect to the Killing time $t$ and the areal radius $r$, it may not be appropriate for unambiguously determining the black hole stability because the constant $t$ hypersurfaces are not necessarily always spacelike. Unlike past related works of black hole perturbations, we choose an Aether-orthogonal frame in which the timelike Aether field is orthogonal to spacelike hypersurfaces over the whole background spacetime. In the short wavelength limit, we show that no-ghost conditions as well as radial and angular propagation speeds coincide with those of vector and tensor perturbations on the Minkowski background. Thus, the odd-parity linear stability of black holes for large radial and angular momentum modes is solely determined by constant coefficients of the Aether derivative couplings.
description: 14 pages, no figures
Stimulated Raman-induced Beam Focusing
Creators: name: Cho, Minhaeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stimulated Raman scattering, employing a pump and a Stokes beam, exhibits itself through both the Raman loss observed in the pump beam and the Raman gain in the Stokes beam. This phenomenon finds application in spectroscopy for chemical analyses and microscopy for label-free bioimaging studies. Recent efforts have been made to implement super-resolution Raman microscopy using a doughnut-shaped pump, Stokes, or depletion beam. In this study, it is shown that the amplitude and phase of the pump or Stokes beam undergo significant modulation through the stimulated Raman process when they are configured as one of the higher-order Laguerre-Gauss modes, achieved using appropriate spiral phase plates or spatial light modulators. The resulting intensity distributions of the pump and Stokes beams are determined by a superposition of multiple Laguerre-Gauss modes that are coupled through nonlinear Raman gain and loss processes. Calculation results are used to elucidate the limitations associated with super-resolution coherent Raman imaging with a toroidal pump or Stokes beam. This stands in contrast with the stimulated emission depletion fluorescence microscopy technique, which lacks a fundamental limit in the spatial resolution enhancement.
title: Business Resilience in Libya
Creators: name: Momen, Najia
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this thesis is to explore business resilience in Libya during political instability. It does so by focusing on businesses in Libya and how they have remained resilient despite institutional weakness and political instability. The institutions in Libya are historically weak due to long term conflict and major cronyism within the Ghadaffi regime. The goal of this study is to provide answers to the following two research questions: 1 How do organizations in Libya remain resilient in political turbulence/instability? 2. What are the institutional and network dynamics associated with these organizational responses? The research of this thesis employs a qualitative approach with the use of in-depth one-on-one interviews with both key informants followed by Libyan business management members in order to collect primary data regarding business resilience in Libya. The data collected was then analyzed using thematic analysis. The analysis of the data resulted in 7 themes including 1) Assessing network value 2) Culture web 3) Protection 4) Tribal defense 5) Crony capitalism 6) Translational networks. The 6 themes lead to a final theme 7) which is the 3-way Interaction Effect. These findings, with respect to the research goals, reveal that network and institutional strength, or lack thereof, provide significant factors to the resiliency of businesses in Libya. Furthermore the findings suggest there is a 3-way interaction effect between networks, resilience and institution, particularly as it relates to their underlying theories and the Libyan context. The research of this thesis reveals that businesses in Libya use social networks and Wasta as a means to be resilient when institutions are weak or absent.
title: White Mindfulness In The US And UK: The Impact Of Racial Neoliberalism
Creators: name: Karelse, Cathy-Mae
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2019

description: This study investigates mindfulness’ trajectory in the US and UK over the past four decades with attention to the particular adaptation of mindfulness rendered by Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programme (MBSR). I explore the context into which mindfulness arrives from its Buddhist origins in Southeast Asia, arguing that its subsequent arc is inextricable from the socio-political and economic fabric common to the US and UK. Orientalism, secularisation and Buddhist modernisation coalesce, here, with ideologies of neoliberalism, postracialism, whiteness and individualism to constitute new products and formations. My thesis examines mindfulness organisations arising from the development of secular Buddhism in racialised neoliberal US and UK contexts. I consider whether Kabat-Zinn’s ‘second Renaissance’ universalised mindfulness is a sufficient basis to transform social injustices in these postracial capitalist societies. Further, I investigate the pedagogical architectures and technologies through which the sector sustains itself. I adopt a multi-modal inquiry into three leading organisations interviewing thirty-two staff members and consulting archival and current sources. Thematic coding of semi-structured interviews generated an analysis of the impact of ‘neoliberal postraciality’ (Goldberg 2015: 27) on: organisational demographics, philosophies and diversity strategies; mindfulness’ reformulation, authorisation and edicts of universalism and neutrality; the whitewashing and corporatisation of education. My research shows that the mindfulness sector is governed by asymmetrical power structures prevalent in the US and UK: institutional decision-making and leadership roles are racialised and gendered; neo-colonial re-interpretations of mindfulness that re-enchant the world for privileged groups are universalised; research paradigms repeat dominant discourses of individualism, healthism and whiteness which dislocate distress from its structural causes and place the burden of wellness on the precariat regardless of social conditions. On this basis, adjunctive diversity strategies reproduce hegemonic models and discourses that emphasise ‘sameness’ and ‘common humanity’ and disregard the exploitation of differences to create vulnerabilities. Similarly, educational pathways adopt ideologies and frameworks that reinforce exclusions based on select interpretations of competence and experiential learning. My investigation finds that what constitutes a ‘white mindfulness’ is divested of social justice aspirations. To function in the service of social transformation, white mindfulness requires decolonisation.
Trojan globular clusters: radial migration via trapping in bar resonances
Creators: name: Dillamore, Adam M.
name: Monty, Stephanie
name: Belokurov, Vasily
name: Evans, N. Wyn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We search for globular clusters (GCs) trapped in resonances with the bar of the Milky Way. By integrating their orbits in a potential with a decelerating bar, we select 10 whose orbits are significantly changed by its presence. Most of these are trapped in the corotation resonance (CR), including M22 and 47 Tuc. The decelerating bar is capable of transporting these GCs to their current positions from much lower energies, angular momenta, and radii. Our results indicate that the bar is likely to have reshaped the Milky Way's globular cluster system via its resonances. We also discuss implications for the origins of specific GCs, including the possible nuclear star cluster M22. Finally, we consider the effects of the bar on the tidal tails of a trapped GC, by running simulations of stars stripped from 47 Tuc. Instead of forming narrow tails, the stripped stars make up a diffuse extended halo around the cluster, consistent with observations of 47 Tuc.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, published in ApJL
ChimeraTK: A Toolkit for Modular Control Applications
Creators: name: Killenberg, M.
name: Heuer, M.
name: Hierholzer, Martin Christoph
name: Petrosyan, L.
name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Shehzad, N.
name: Kozak, T.
name: Varghese, G.
name: Viti, M.
name: Predki, P.
name: Wychowaniak (Łódz University Of Technology, J.
name: Dworzanski, A.
name: Czuba, K.
name: Marsching, Sebastian
name: Piotrowski, Adam
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: The 11th International Workshop on Personal Computers and Particle Accelerator Controls, PCaPAC 2016, Campinas, Brazil, 25 Oct 2016 - 28 Oct 2016 ; (2016).
description: The DESY ChimeraTK (formerly called MTCA4U) is a collection of C++ libraries which facilitate the development of control applications. Special importance has been placed on abstraction from communication layers to simplify writing applications in heterogenous environments or reusing applications in a different facility. Access to hardware is realised with the device access library through an extensible register-based interface. Starting from PCI Express (e.g. used inside MicroTCA.4 crates) a growing number of backends allow to communicate also through network protocols and even access other control applications. Features like register name mapping and automatic type conversion make the software robust against firmware and hardware changes. The control system adapter allows to write applications which can be used in different SCADA systems such as DOOCS, EPICS or OPC-UA with little to no changes in the source code. We give an update on status of the toolkit and present new features which have recently been implemented or are currently being developed.
Massive twistor worldline in electromagnetic fields
Creators: name: Kim, Joon-Hwi
name: Kim, Jung-Wook
name: Lee, Sangmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the (ambi-)twistor model for spinning particles interacting via electromagnetic field, as a toy model for studying classical dynamics of gravitating bodies including effects of both spins to all orders. We compute the momentum kick and spin kick up to one-loop order and show precisely how they are encoded in the classical eikonal. The all-orders-in-spin effects are encoded as a dynamical implementation of the Newman-Janis shift, and we find that the expansion in both spins can be resummed to simple expressions in special kinematic configurations, at least up to one-loop order. We confirm that the classical eikonal can be understood as the generator of canonical transformations that map the in-states of a scattering process to the out-states. We also remark that cut contributions for converting worldline propagators from time-symmetric to retarded amount to the iterated action of the leading eikonal at one-loop order.
description: 74 pages, 15 figures; (v2) 76 pages, 15 figures; additional references; extended discussions on singularity structures of axial scattering eikonal
Journal of Undergraduate Research (jur), Volume 20, Issue 2, Spring 2022
Creators: name: Journal Of Undergraduate Research
name: Bell, Kirsten
name: Goldfarb, Aidan
name: L. Luna Jr., Jose
name: Bergel, Julia
name: Collins, Regan
name: C. Ritter, Atalanta
name: Sánchez Vargas, Federico
name: Becker, Samantha
Publisher: name: University of Rochester
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430309
subject: Gender history
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 3104
subject: Evolutionary biology

description: The Journal of Undergraduate Research (JUR) is an organization dedicated to providing the University of Rochester student body with intellectual perspectives from various academic disciplines. JUR serves as a forum for the presentation of original research, thereby encouraging the pursuit of significant scholarly endeavors.For more information, please visit the Journal of Undergraduate Research homepage.
title: The political economy of housing: the case of Turkey
Creators: name: Demirors, Sila
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2024

description: This thesis analyses the agencies, processes and relations in the housing provision system in Turkey in the period 2002-2019. The starting point of the thesis is an analytical and historical examination of the production of housing as a commodity — which is inextricably linked to the capture of ground rent — and the intervention of the landed property into capital accumulation in the housebuilding industry. The thesis then analyses how and why the production and consumption of housing have been restructured under the expanded presence of finance in general and in Turkey in particular. Taking the view that housing forms part of both economic and social reproduction it will be examined through the different phases of capital accumulation and the thesis analyses housing provision under the financialised phase of capitalism that is attached to neoliberalism. The thesis also discusses the changing mode of the state’s intervention in housing as the production and consumption of housing is seen to be primarily (but not exclusively) a national relation and process with different socially-specific class features and institutional forms through which the dominant capitalist relations are managed, reproduced and realised. The thesis explores the contemporary institutional form in housing and land markets (in the case of Turkey, through the Mass Housing Administration), the conflicts and alliances among classes and class fractions attached to housing provision in Turkey focusing on the changing form of the Turkish state and its impact.