cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The French digital infrastructure for written heritage Biblissima+ and the challenges of musical heritage
Creators: name: Roger, Kévin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: musicology
artificial intelligence
early music
Biblissima+
IIIF

description: Poster du cluster 6 Biblissima+ présenté lors de la MedRen 2023 à Munich (24-28/07/2023)
description: Ce travail a bénéficié d'une aide de l'État gérée par l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche au titre du programme d'Investissements d'avenir portant la référence « ANR-21-ESRE-0005 » (ÉquipEx Biblissima+)
Research Process Analysis of a Survey on Access to HIV/AIDS Care among Health Care Workers in Swaziland
Creators: name: Harris, Mamie-Eleanor Sackey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: In October 2007 the Swaziland Nursing Association (SNA), in collaboration with the South African Human Capacity Development Project (SA-HCD) and the Capacity Project - IntraHealth International, came together to conduct a survey on the „Access to HIV/AIDS care among health care workers in Swaziland.‟ The research stemmed from the observation of high rates of HIV/ AIDS fear and stigma among health workers, poor utilization of HIV care and support facilities by these health care workers, and health workers‟ concerns regarding breach of confidentiality. The objectives of the survey were largely two-fold: a. To assess health care workers‟ knowledge and access to work place HIV/AIDS infection prevention and control and to determine the barriers to receiving HIV/AIDS care and support by health care workers and their families. b. To use the knowledge obtained from the survey in a targeted intervention to reduce potential barriers to HIV/AIDS care among health care workers. The aim of this paper, written before the data analysis, is to present a descriptive analysis of the research process, critically analyze the research methods, and discuss possible strengths and limitations of the methods and the implications for further research. Analysis of the methods showed that like all research processes, the HCW survey is not without its strengths and biases. Methodological challenges such as contextual documentation, sampling, and time and human resource constraints were all factors that played into the research process and are important factors to be considered in the data analysis and results interpretations. The importance of community participatory approaches and training were found to have been great initiatives in the research process by way of the commitment, depth and ownership it imparted to the study. Additionally, the relevance of knowledge and awareness of the research context was highlighted in the quality imparted to the data collection processes. Based on this research process analysis, the need for the involvement of the survey implementers (nurses) in the data analysis and results interpretation is greatly emphasized in their ability to enhance the validity and reliability of the studies findings. In conclusion, capturing all aspects of the qualitative research process is imperative in ensuring in-depth understanding of the research data. It is hoped that information obtained from this research analysis will not only inform the data analysis and results write up of the health care workers‟ survey but also serve as a resource tool for future practice. The longer term goal of which would be that, subsequent interventions can build upon the information, to contribute to the establishment of a much needed resource data base for best practices in qualitative research development in the Kingdom of Swaziland.
A theoretical review on the single-impurity electron spin resonance on surfaces
Creators: name: Delgado, Fernando
name: Lorente, Nicolás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development of electron spin resonance (ESR) combined with scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STM) is undoubtedly one of the main experimental breakthroughs in surface science of the last decade thanks to joining the extraordinarily high energy resolution of ESR (nano-eV scale) with the single-atom spatial resolution of STM (sub-Ångström scale). While the experimental results have \fer{significantly} grown with the number of groups that have succeeded in implementing the technique, the physical mechanism behind it is still unclear, with several different mechanisms proposed to explain it. Here, we start by revising the main characteristics of the experimental setups and observed features. Then, we review the main theoretical proposals, with both their strengths and weaknesses. One of our conclusions is that many of the proposed mechanisms share the same basic principles, \fer{the time-dependent electric field at the STM junction is modulating the coupling of the spin-polarized transport electrons with the local spin.} This explains why these mechanims are essentially equivalent in a broad picture. We analyze the subtle differences between some of them and how they compare with the different experimental observations.
description: 32 pages, 4 figures, Review work
Implementing a determinants of health screening and referral process at an urban OBGYN clinic: a quality improvement project
Creators: name: Comer, Avani
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Purpose of Project: Social determinants of health (SDoH) are key factors influencing an individual's well-being, including where they live, learn, play, and work. This quality improvement project aimed to identify and address SDoH by implementing the HealthLeads screening tool in an OBGYN center. Methodology: Staff received training on a simplified process to refer patients using a resource packet developed by the co-PI. The packet contained resources for eight SDoH, including food insecurity, utility disconnection, housing instability, childcare, transportation, financial hardship, health literacy, and home safety. The patient's data was gathered from the screening tool, and provider data from staff surveys using a six-question Likert-type questionnaire. Results: A total of 61 patients were screened. Of these patients, 16% (n=10) were identified with unmet needs. A third, 30% (n=3) of cases were successfully referred to community resources. Common SDoH identified included financial issues and difficulty reading hospital materials. Most patients with unmet needs were Spanish-speaking, and all were aged 20-35, with the father of the baby being involved. Providers were pleased with the screening and referral process but suggested transitioning to an electronic process and providing the tool in additional languages to improve sustainability Implications for Practice: Screening for SDoH during the prenatal visit is feasible and can increase the detection of unmet needs and successful referrals to community resources, resulting in more comprehensive care. Implementing a condensed packet of community resources allowed patients to quickly and efficiently access the aid they needed. Overall, this quality improvement project demonstrated the vital role of addressing social determinants of health when providing comprehensive care in an OBGYN center.
Sentence-final particle 'de' in Mandarin as an informativity maximizer
Creators: name: Chen, Jun
name: Papay, Sean
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: We propose that the Mandarin sentence-final particle de is attached to answers with maximal utility. We quantify this utility as informativity by drawing on a cross-entropy model, and explore the plausibility of applying cross-entropy methods (as well as related Kullback- Leibler divergence-based methods) across languages, as a precise model of understanding the subtle pragmatic meanings of sentence-final particles.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Mechanisms and origins of half-metallic ferromagnetism in CrO2
Creators: name: Solovyev, I. V.
name: Kashin, I. V.
name: Mazurenko, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chromium dioxide (CrO2) offers a rare example of metallic ferromagnetism among stoichiometric transition-metal oxides. What makes it even more remarkable is the half-metallic electronic structure. Today, CrO2 is widely used in magnetorecording and regarded as a promising spintronic material. Nevertheless, the key question "Why is it ferromagnetic?" remains largely unanswered, despite general interest to the problem and practical importance of CrO2. In the present work we challenge this question by combining first-principles electronic structure calculations with the model Hamiltonian approach and modern many-body methods for treating electron correlations. Our analysis demonstrates that the problem is indeed highly nontrivial: at the first glance, the ferromagnetism in CrO2 can be easily explained by Hund's rule related exchange processes in the narrow t2g band. However, the electron correlations, rigorously treated in the frameworks of dynamical mean-field theory, tend to destabilize this state. The ferromagnetism reemerges if, besides conventional kinetic energy changes in the t2g band, to consider other mechanism, involving direct exchange and magnetic polarization of the oxygen band. We show how all these contributions can be evaluated using first-principles electronic structure calculations. Our results explain the overall stability of the ferromagnetic state and provide the firm microscopic basis for understanding the magnetism of CrO2.
description: 37 pages, 11 figure, 5 tables
The latest take on intensional superlatives
Creators: name: Charnavel, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: This work presents a new solution to the debate whether superlative adjectives can reconstruct within relative clauses containing an intensional predicate. I propose that that- clauses can be construed as superlative clauses corresponding to the domain argument of -est and involving degree relativization. This approach provides new ways to address the various issues of the debate related to interpretation, intervention effects, NPI licensing, and specificity of superlatives as compared to other adjectival modifiers.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Designing and Validating a Stress Questionnaire on Informal Caregivers: Baseline Data from Telephone Interviews With Caregivers from the Family Caregiver Support Program at the Durham Council for Senior Citizens
Creators: name: Baloch, Khaula
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Daily caregiving can impact a caregiver's emotional and physical health. Some caregivers receive a break in providing care through respite care programs. The Durham Council of Senior Citizens provides respite care to participants in their Family Caregiver Support Program. The Council of Senior Citizens lacks a method to evaluate stress in their caregivers. Validated instruments that measure stress in the caregiver population include the Zarit Burden Interview (Zarit, Reever, Bach-Peterson, 1980) and the Caregiver Burden Scale (Montgomery, Borgatta, and Borgatta, 2000). The purpose of this study is to design and validate a questionnaire for informal caregivers at the Council for Senior Citizens. The results indicate the Zarit Burden Interview is a valid instrument in measuring stress in this population. No statistically significant relationships concerning participant stress were detected through the administration of the Caregiver Burden Scale. Due to the small population examined, further research is recommended to determine if the Caregiver Burden Scale should be continued as an element of the Family Caregiver Support Program Questionnaire.
The proper motion of stars in dwarf galaxies: distinguishing central density cusps from cores
Creators: name: de Martino, Ivan
name: Diaferio, Antonaldo
name: Ostorero, Luisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that measuring the proper motion of ${\sim 2000}$ stars within a dwarf galaxy, with an uncertainty of 1 km/s at most, can establish whether the Dark Matter (DM) density profile of the dwarf has a central core or cusp. We derive these limits by building mock star catalogues similar to those expected from future astrometric {\it Theia}-like missions and including celestial coordinates, radial velocity and proper motion of the stars. The density field of the DM halo of the dwarf is sampled from an extended Navarro-Frank-White (eNWF) spherical model, whereas the number density distribution of the stars is a Plummer sphere. The velocity field of the stars is set according to the Jeans equations. A Monte Carlo Markov Chain algorithm applied to a sample of $N\gtrsim 2000$ stars returns unbiased estimates of the eNFW DM parameters within $10\%$ of the true values and with $1σ$ relative uncertainties $\lesssim 20$\%. The proper motions of the stars lift the degeneracy among the eNFW parameters which appears when the line-of-sight velocities alone are available. {Our analysis demonstrates that, by estimating the log-slope of the mass density profile estimated at the half-light radius, a sample of $N=2000$ stars can distinguish between a core and a cusp at more than $8σ$.} Proper motions also return unbiased estimates of the dwarf mass profile with $1σ$ uncertainties that decrease, on average, from 2.65 dex to 0.15 dex when the size of the star sample increases from $N=100$ to $N=6000$ stars. The measure of the proper motions can thus strongly constrain the distribution of DM in nearby dwarfs and provides a fundamental contribution to understanding the nature and the properties of DM.
description: 14 pages, 10 Figures and 5 Tables. Accepted for publication on MNRAS
Romanian 5-year-olds derive global but not local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs: Evidence from a shadow play paradigm
Creators: name: Benz, Anton
name: Bleotu, Adina Camelia
name: Gotzner, Nicole
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: Our paper investigates the rates with which Romanian 5years-olds and adults derive local and global implicatures. We test a novel combination of multiple scalar terms, where quantifiers are embedded under epistemic adverbs such as Poate c? unii câini sunt alba?tri ‘It is possible that some dogs are blue.’ In our study, we employ a shadow play paradigm, where participants reward a baby dragon for his guesses about various silhouettes of animals hiding behind a curtain. Such a paradigm creates a situation of indirect access, which makes epistemics adequate in the context. Both Romanian adults and children derived few local implicatures but a considerable number of global implicatures, especially not-certain-some global implicatures, where possible is strengthened to not certain. We observed an interaction of group and implicature type with children deriving fewer global implicatures than adults. Our findings are more compatible with a pragmatic account of implicatures than a grammatical one. Moreover, they are in contrast with previous work by Bill (2017) and Bill et al. (2021), who found that children derived more local implicatures than adults (~50%), but few global ones. We take our results to suggest that local implicature rates may decrease when the embedded scalar terms do not belong to the same scale as the non-embedded ones, but rather to different scales (, ). We also explore other possible explanations for the low local implicatures rates in terms of the role of uncertainty and the role of the possible/certain contrast as a question under discussion.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Intersection Theory on Tropicalizations of Toroidal Embeddings
Creators: name: Gross, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14T05

description: We show how to equip the cone complexes of toroidal embeddings with additional structure that allows to define a balancing condition for weighted subcomplexes. We then proceed to develop the foundations of an intersection theory on cone complexes including push-forwards, intersections with tropical divisors, and rational equivalence. These constructions are shown to have an algebraic interpretation: Ulirsch's tropicalizations of subvarieties of toroidal embeddings carry natural multiplicities making them tropical cycles, and the induced tropicalization map for cycles respects push-forwards, intersections with boundary divisors, and rational equivalence. As an application we prove a correspondence between the genus 0 tropical descendant Gromov-Witten invariants introduced by Markwig and Rau and the genus 0 logarithmic descendant Gromov-Witten invariants of toric varieties.
description: Comments are welcome!
Electronic Health Record bias management and mitigation in AI models
Creators: name: Emeka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Health Records, Bias, Bias Identification, Bias Mitigation

description: Slides presented by Dr Emeka Abakasanga at the Early Career Researcher Lunchtime session on 27 September 2023. This series of sessions is organised by the Research Support Facility of the AI for Multiple Long-term Conditions programme.
Really: Ambiguity and question bias
Creators: name: Bill, Cory
name: Koev, Todor
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: We discuss two empirical puzzles about English really: (i) really is ambiguous between an intensifier use akin to very (cf. Zelda is really tall) and a conversational use that expresses definite certainty (cf. Zelda REALLY is tall); (ii) polar questions with conversational really convey a negative speaker bias towards the question prejacent (cf. Is Kai REALLY from Hawaii? ? The speaker doubts that Kai is from Hawaii). We propose a single lexical entry according to which really combines with a gradable property P and states that the degree to which P applies meets all relevant standards. The ambiguity hinges on whether P ranges over degrees of individual properties (as in the case of intensifier really) or degrees of commitment (as in the case of conversational really). In addition, we propose to derive the question bias associated with conversational really from its obligatory contrastive focus marking, a feature that it shares with other polar elements that give rise to a similar effect.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Public Health and Transportation Policy: Integrating the Consequences of Physical Inactivity Into the Transportation Policy Structure
Creators: name: Kueber, Garril L., MD
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: When governmental agencies decide to change, limit, or expand the transportation infrastructure, their decision affects more than the speed of car travel. Because transportation infrastructure affects how much physical activity people can pursue by either providing or limiting access to sidewalks, bikeways, and trails, transportation decisions affect public health. In this paper, I examine the complex structure of transportation policy, decision-making, and funding. By analyzing the assumptions, biases, and historical path dependence that permeate the transportation decision process, I demonstrate the ways in which the transportation decision structure (including funding, models, and political will) continues to favor automobile travel over physically active travel and neglects consideration of health consequences. I also discuss how the transportation policy structure is dispersed over Federal, state, and local jurisdictions, and how this diffuse structure can lead to disagreement over priorities. While one area of government might change its transportation policy, this does not necessarily affect the other areas of government, and thus, little overall change many occur. Stakeholders in transportation have a long history of developing ideas to limit automobile usage, primarily to limit air pollution. I discuss these methods, as well as how the policy framework to limit air pollution provides one model for how societal consequences can be integrated into the transportation decision structure. I argue that the ongoing increase in the prevalence of obesity represents one of the significant societal costs resulting from the limitation of physical activity, and discuss the extent of that societal burden and evidence to support the linkage between transportation infrastructure and physical activity. I propose how transportation policy can and should be changed on multiple levels to reflect these societal costs, and to promote equal standing between physically active modes of transportation and sedentary modes of transportation.
Evaluativity in even-comparatives via presupposition accommodation
Creators: name: Bi, Ruyue Agnes
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: Sentences involving the scalar particle even result in positive or negative inferences when combined with gradable predicates, which is unexpected assuming the classic (un)-likelihood analysis of even. I observe that these evaluative inferences arise when (i) the likelihood presupposition of even is not already entailed in the common ground, and (ii) the comparison class is not explicitly given. Hence, this paper gives a pragmatic account of the puzzle and demonstrates that the evaluative inferences can be derived systematically with the help of two general pragmatic principles, what I call the “Presupposition Accommodation Condition” and “Alternative-sampling Hypothesis.” The basic intuition is that given the pressure to reason in the absence of sufficient evidence – in these cases, without specified reasons for the likelihood orderings – comprehenders make the most out of the information they have, assume normality, and commit to their best guess for the speaker’s intended common ground.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Spin-momentum coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with lattice band pseudospins
Creators: name: Khamehchi, M. A.
name: Qu, Chunlei
name: Mossman, M. E.
name: Zhang, Chuanwei
name: Engels, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum emulation of spin-momentum coupling (SMC), a crucial ingredient for the emergence of topological phases, is currently drawing considerable interest. In previous quantum gas experiments, typically two atomic hyperfine states were chosen as pseudospins. Here, we report the observation of a new kind of SMC achieved by loading a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) into periodically driven optical lattices. The s- and p-bands of a static lattice, which act as pseudospins, are coupled through an additional moving lattice which induces a momentum dependent coupling between the two pseudospins, resulting in s-p hybrid Floquet-Bloch bands. We investigate the band structures by measuring the quasimomentum of the BEC for different velocities and strengths of the moving lattice and compare our measurements to theoretical predictions. The realization of SMC with lattice bands as pseudospins paves the way for engineering novel quantum matter using hybrid orbital bands.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
The left-CONS2 constraint
Creators: name: Bayırlı, İsa Kerem
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: We propose a new generalization over determiner denotations. We claim that, for any determiner Det, Det(P)(Q) entails Det(P? Q)(Q) (the left-CONS2 Constraint, as we elaborate in the paper). We discuss potential counterexamples to the validity of this constraint including restricted universals (e.g. every ... but John, approximately/almost all/every...) and proportional expressions with an upper bound (e.g. fewPROP, at most one-third..., fewer than seventy percent...). Following earlier proposals, we provide evidence that problematic inferences associated with determiners arise not from their denotations but either from the operator Exh or from degree operators.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Reciprocal questions and the pragmatics of argument reversing verb phrase ellipsis
Creators: name: Balachandran, Lalitha
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: Adding to the literature on pragmatics-sensitive ellipsis, the current paper examines cases of argument mismatches in verb phrase ellipsis involving pairs of participants, termed argument reversals (ARs), and argues that they are primarily possible in situations involving implicit questions of reciprocity or actuality. The analysis put forth captures this generalization by arguing that ellipsis in these cases may be pragmatically licensed by accommodating a reciprocal or actual Question Under Discussion (r/aQUD) structure (Roberts, 2012). The emergence and resolution of these implicit questions is operationalized using the Table model (Farkas and Bruce, 2010). In light of their unique structural and pragmatic characteristics and the observation that existing theories of AR, which implement standard licensing conditions on ellipsis, are insufficient for capturing their pragmatics, some directions forward for addressing the issue of the grammaticality of these constructions are discussed.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
On the Hamilton-Waterloo Problem with triangle factors and $C_{3x}$-factors
Creators: name: Asplund, John
name: Kamin, David
name: Keranen, Melissa
name: Pastine, Adrián
name: Özkan, Sibel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05

description: The Hamilton-Waterloo Problem (HWP) in the case of $C_{m}$-factors and $C_{n}$-factors asks if $K_v$, where $v$ is odd (or $K_v-F$, where $F$ is a 1-factor and $v$ is even), can be decomposed into r copies of a 2-factor made either entirely of $m$-cycles and $s$ copies of a 2-factor made entirely of $n$-cycles. In this paper, we give some general constructions for such decompositions and apply them to the case where $m=3$ and $n=3x$. We settle the problem for odd $v$, except for a finite number of $x$ values. When $v$ is even, we make significant progress on the problem, although open cases are left. In particular, the difficult case of $v$ even and $s=1$ is left open for many situations.
Open evaluation of research-related activities - practical considerations
Creators: name: Mietchen, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Abstract: 

This repo contains materials related to a presentation given on 5 September 2024 at the University of Pisa as part of the Annual Meeting 2024 of the Gruppo Telecomunicazioni e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (GTTI).

 

Abstract: 

The complex nature of the research landscape provides ample opportunities to evaluate specific contributions, yet doing so in a way that spans across multiple contexts is challenging. Opening up this landscape tends to complicate the picture even further. Prevailing evaluation paradigms of research-related activities are strongly biased towards certain types of contributions, and they lack transparency and alignment with societal needs. Such evaluation workflows can be opened up in various ways too, and this talk will zoom in on practical aspects of that from the perspective of multiple stakeholders in the research landscape.

 

While the slides are mostly in English, there are a few comments in Italian sprinkled in; they are referring to elements of the preceding presentation by Marco Malgarini (ANVUR) in the same session.
Gallup Poll # 1942-0279: State Elections
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2004

description: Registered to vote (1); Eligible to vote (1); Plan to vote (1); Vote in primary (1); Favor Democrat or Republican for governor (1); For Senator favor Democrat or Republican (1): For congressman favor Democrat or Republican (1); What country parents born (2); vote in 1940 election (2).
Morphological tenselessness and SOT: Evidence for a covert relative pronominal tense in Gitksan
Creators: name: Aonuki, Yurika
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: Gitksan (Tsimshianic) is morphologically tenseless. Simple matrix clauses in Gitksan are compatible with both past and present contexts, and attitude complements and relative clauses are compatible with both simultaneous and back-shifted contexts, similar to the Sequence of Tense (SOT; Comrie, 1985; Enc ?, 1987) in English. Despite this similarity, an account of SOT in English does not extend to morphologically tenselessness clauses in Gitksan in light of data from before/after clauses. I argue that this in turn supports the existence of a covert non-future tense in Gitksan (Jóhannsdóttir and Matthewson, 2007) and that this tense is specifically a relative pronominal tense. After a brief overview of the Gitksan data (Section 1), I introduce my analysis of SOT in English involving a temporal pronoun with no tense restriction, which I call a ‘tense operator-less’ account (Section 2). This analysis is applied to the puzzling temporal interpretations of present-under-will relative clauses (Abusch, 1998) as well as before/after clauses in English (Section 3). I then introduce data from matrix and embedded clauses in Gitksan (Section 4) and demonstrate the existence of a temporal pronoun as a semantic primitive in the language (Section 5). I develop an analogous tense operator-less account of Gitksan (Section 6), but this account is challenged by data from before/after clauses (Section 7). I argue for an alternative analysis of Gitksan involving a relative pronominal non-future tense (Section 8) and conclude (Section 9).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Towards making the most of NLP-based device mapping optimization for OpenCL kernels
Creators: name: Vavaroutsos, Petros
name: Oroutzoglou, Ioannis
name: Masouros, Dimosthenis
name: Soudris, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Nowadays, we are living in an era of extreme device heterogeneity. Despite the high variety of conventional CPU architectures, accelerator devices, such as GPUs and FPGAs, also appear in the foreground exploding the pool of available solutions to execute applications. However, choosing the appropriate device per application needs is an extremely challenging task due to the abstract relationship between hardware and software. Automatic optimization algorithms that are accurate are required to cope with the complexity and variety of current hardware and software. Optimal execution has always relied on time-consuming trial and error approaches. Machine learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) has flourished over the last decade with research focusing on deep architectures. In this context, the use of natural language processing techniques to source code in order to conduct autotuning tasks is an emerging field of study. In this paper, we extend the work of Cummins et al., namely Deeptune, that tackles the problem of optimal device selection (CPU or GPU) for accelerated OpenCL kernels. We identify three major limitations of Deeptune and, based on these, we propose four different DNN models that provide enhanced contextual information of source codes. Experimental results show that our proposed methodology surpasses that of Cummins et al. work, providing up to 4\% improvement in prediction accuracy.
description: Accepted at IEEE COINS 2022
Negation, polarity and scale structure: Different inferences of absolute adjectives
Creators: name: Alexandropoulou, Stavroula
name: Gotzner, Nicole
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: This work investigates the interpretation of absolute gradable adjectives like clean in comparison with their stronger scalemates (pristine) and corresponding antonyms (dirty and filthy) in the scope of negation or in the absence of it. We find that participants distinguish between non-negated absolute terms differing in informational strength (e.g., clean vs. pristine). However, such distinctions are fewer in the scope of negation. Under negation, weak absolute adjectives entail the antonym of a given pair (e.g., not clean ?‘dirty’), while the fine granularity of the underlying measurement scale appears to be responsible for additional interpretations of absolute adjective expressions, such as middling interpretations (‘neither clean nor dirty’) and inferences to the antonym. Overall, our findings endorse both the standard ab- solute, contradictory effect of negation on the interpretation of absolute adjectives as well as the less typical attenuating effect of negation, mostly discussed in relation to relative gradable adjectives (Horn, 1989). We conclude that different properties of measurement scales—scale structure and scale granularity—as well as evaluative polarity, play an essential role in the derivation of different (pragmatic) inferences of gradable adjectives (see also Gotzner et al., 2018b).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Anaphoric reference in descriptions of surprising events
Creators: name: Achimova, Asya
name: Butz, Martin V.
name: Stegemann-Philipps, Christian
name: Winkler, Susanne
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: The choice of anaphoric reference is a complex process regulated by a combination of linguistic and cognitive constraints. This paper experimentally addresses the impact of world knowledge on the types of references speakers produce, focusing on the predictability of event progressions. In order to avoid confounding event predictability and the predictability of words in their descriptions, we created an artificial virtual world and trained participants to recognize typical event progressions within. Speakers then described novel scenes, which either conformed to their expectations or violated them, in a free production experiment. The data reveal that surprising event progressions lead to a more frequent production of definite noun phrases, in contrast to reduced linguistic expressions (pronouns and zero anaphors). We further introduce a Bayesian inference model, which offers an explanation of why a definite noun phrase and not a pronoun is used for the description of surprising events. We conclude that speakers choose more informative descriptions to talk about surprising events because this strategy allows them to avoids misunderstanding with higher likelihood.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
title: Quelle est la plus-value de la Réalité Virtuelle dans la prise en charge infirmière de la douleur procédurale chez les grands brûlés ?
title: Quelle est la plus-value de la Réalité Virtuelle dans la prise en charge infirmière de la douleur procédurale chez les grands brûlés ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lilliu, Valentina
name: Nessi, Sébastien
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Grands brûlés
subject: Douleurs procédurales
subject: Analgésie
subject: Réalité Virtuelle
subject: Rôle infirmier
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Contexte : Les patients grands brûlés subissent des douleurs liées aux brûlures considérées comme étant les plus difficiles à vivre et nécessitant des procédures douloureuses quotidiennes. Cependant, plusieurs rapports discutent de l’inadéquation du traitement de la douleur. Bien que les traitements pharmacologiques apportent des bénéfices, leurs effets délétères sont également à prendre en considération. Par conséquent, les recommandations préconisent l’intégration d’un traitement non-pharmacologique, telle que la réalité virtuelle pour chaque patient. Objectif : Explorer la plus-value de la réalité virtuelle dans la prise en charge infirmière de la douleur procédurale chez les grands brûlés. Méthode : Recherche d’articles scientifiques primaires sur la base de données Pubmed. Les articles retenus ont fait l’objet d’extraction des résultats sous forme de grilles puis nous avons synthétisé les résultats à l’aide de la théorie infirmière de la gestion des symptômes. Résultat / Discussion : Les principaux résultats significatifs obtenus sont : l’amélioration de l’expérience de la douleur ainsi qu’un impact positif sur les effets obtenus sur le symptôme, tels qu’une diminution de la douleur, de l’anxiété, de l’administration d’analgésiques et une amélioration du débridement des plaies. Finalement, la réalité virtuelle pourrait également apporter une plus-value à la profession infirmière en lui permettant de remplir leur rôle, diminuant le sentiment d’impuissance face à la douleur non soulagée.
Temporal and intensional pictorial conflation
Creators: name: Abusch, Dorit
name: Rooth, Mats
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: This paper proposes accounts in possible worlds semantics of temporally conflated pictorial narratives, and intensionally conflated pictorial narratives. The semantics for film shots and panels in comics that are embedded under attitudes such as imagining and dreaming uses de se interpretation and existential modality, strengthened by a normality condition.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: George W. Bush/Finances/Iraq/Smallpox/Genetics/Bush's Economic Plan
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2003

description: George W. Bush Job Performance (5); Direction of Country (1); UN job performance (1); Personal finances (1); Worried about self/family member being victim of terrorism (1); Economy/Iraq more important (1); Iraq (19); European countries in war on terrorism (3); Anti-war demonstrations (2); Smallpox (4); Selecting genetic traits (2); Bush's economic plan (1); Federal budget (2); Football (3); Cholesterol medication (2).
Additional file 1 of Clustering trunk movements of children and adolescents with neurological gait disorders undergoing robot-assisted gait therapy: the functional ability determines if actuated pelvis movements are clinically useful
Creators: name: van Dellen, Florian
name: Aurich-Schuler, Tabea
name: Hesse, Nikolas
name: Labruyère, Rob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplement A. Standardized Instructions.
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: George W. Bush/War on Terrorism/Bush's Economic Plan/Iraq
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2003

description: George W. Bush Job Performance (10); Opinion of people in news (7); Direction of Country (1); George W. Bush a "compassionate Conservative" (2); George W. Bush attention to issues (2); War on terrorism (4); Bush's economic plan (1); Invading Iraq (5); Trust in Bush Administration/UN to make right decisions regarding Iraq (3); US policy toward Iraq (5); Iraqi threat to US (1); Weapons of Mass destruction (4); Weapons inspectors (3); War with Iraq (2); Colin Powell's speech to UN (3); Iraqi ties to Al-Qaeda (2); Fair/unfair criticisms of George W. Bush (1); Personal finances (2).
USCEA/Cambridge Report Poll: Nuclear Energy, January 1985
Creators: name: U.S. Council For Energy Awareness (USCEA)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: Nuclear energy (1); candidates stand on nuclear energy/affect on vote (1); nuclear energy versus foreign oil (1); sources of electricity (2); knowledge of nuclear energy (2); energy supply as a serious problem (1).
New properties of the Lerch's transcendent
Creators: name: Ferreira, E. M.
name: Kohara, A. K.
name: Sesma, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M35, 30E15

description: A new representation of the Lerch's transcendent Phi(z,s,a), valid for positive integer s=n=1,2,... and for z and a belonging to certain regions of the complex plane, is presented. It allows to write an equation relating Phi(z,n,a) and Phi(1/z,n,1-a), which provides an expansion of Phi(z,n,a) as a power series of 1/z, convergent for |z|>1.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
Vector Perturbation Channel Inversion for SWIPT MU-MISO Systems
Creators: name: Krikidis, Ioannis
name: Psomas, Constantinos
name: Chatzinotas, Symeon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This letter investigates the employment of vector-perturbation (VP) precoding to convey simultaneously information and energy in multiple-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) downlink channel. We show that the conventional VP in addition to the information capacity benefits that provides to linear channel inversion techniques, it enhances the harvested energy at the receivers due to the extended symbol constellation. To further boost harvesting performance, the proposed modified VP technique (named VP-EH) designs the VP integer offsets in order to maximize the delivered power. The proposed scheme incorporates an integer least square problem to find the closest lattice point to a point which is given by a Rayleigh quotient optimization problem. Finally, a convex combination between conventional VP and VP-EH is proposed to achieve a trade-off between maximizing information or energy. Theoretical and simulations results validate that VP is a promising technique to simultaneously convey information and energy in MU-MISO systems.
Multi-Parameter Analysis and Measurement of Resonances in Grid-Connected Converters with LCL Filters
Creators: name: Schulz, Dominik
name: Liske, Andreas
name: Hiller, Marc
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Year: 2023

description: LCL filters offer high attenuation of grid current ripple, but are challenging from a control perspective due to the resonant peak in their transfer function. The influence of selected individual parameters has already been the studied in several papers. This paper builds on this existing body of work and provides a more comprehensive analysis of all relevant variables influencing the resonance. In addition, dependencies between the parameters are explored. Stability and resonances are evaluated using frequency responses and an impedance based approach. Finally, the analysis results are confirmed with measurements.
Reasoning about stored representations in semantics using the typology of lexicalized quantifiers
Creators: name: Katzir, Roni
name: Züfle, Maike
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2023

description: The typology of lexicalizations in natural languages is highly skewed: some meanings repeatedly receive their own expression as individual morphemes or words in language after language, while many other meanings rarely or never do. For example, while many languages have monomorphemic counterparts of English some and all, no known language has a monomorphemic quantifier that means ‘all or none’ or a quantifier that asserts that its two arguments are of the same cardinality. It seems tempting to reason from this typological skew to properties of stored representations. However, it is not generally safe to assume that if something is typologically unattested then it simply cannot be represented or learned. The representational system for stored denotations is just one of several interacting factors that affect the typology, and other factors such as communicative pressure and learnability are likely to shape patterns of lexicalization. In this paper we propose to reason from the typology to stored representations by modeling the representational framework, communicative pressure, and learnability directly within an evolutionary model, building on work by Brochhagen et al. (2018). Our empirical focus is a lexicalization asymmetry noted by Horn (1972) in the domain of logical operators and framed within the Aristotelian Square of Opposition. We show that, on certain assumptions, Horn’s lexicalization pattern depends on very particular representational costs in the lexicon: it arises if the storage costs for ‘every’ and ‘some’ are lower than those for ‘not every’ and ‘not some’ but not otherwise.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung