cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constrained Bundle Adjustment for Structure From Motion Using Uncalibrated Multi-Camera Systems
Creators: name: Huang, Debao
name: Elhashash, Mostafa
name: Qin, Rongjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Structure from motion using uncalibrated multi-camera systems is a challenging task. This paper proposes a bundle adjustment solution that implements a baseline constraint respecting that these cameras are static to each other. We assume these cameras are mounted on a mobile platform, uncalibrated, and coarsely synchronized. To this end, we propose the baseline constraint that is formulated for the scenario in which the cameras have overlapping views. The constraint is incorporated in the bundle adjustment solution to keep the relative motion of different cameras static. Experiments were conducted using video frames of two collocated GoPro cameras mounted on a vehicle with no system calibration. These two cameras were placed capturing overlapping contents. We performed our bundle adjustment using the proposed constraint and then produced 3D dense point clouds. Evaluations were performed by comparing these dense point clouds against LiDAR reference data. We showed that, as compared to traditional bundle adjustment, our proposed method achieved an improvement of 29.38%.
description: to be published in ISPRS Congress 2022
title: Kunstrechtsspiegel, Nr. 4 (2007): Kunstrechtsspiegel
title: Kunstrechtsspiegel
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kunstrechtsspiegel
Publisher: name: Kunstrechtsspiegel
Year: 2017

description: Urteilsbesprechungen...186-217 Impressum & Verantwortlichkeit...233 Terminvorschau...232-233 IFKUR.de - Kunstrechtrechts-News. 3. Quartal 2007...223-231 Portable Antiquities in the Modern European Context: Law, Ethics, Policy and Practice - Internationales Expertentreffen in Pecz, Ungarn...222-223 Rechtsfragen der Restitution von Kulturgut. Symposium in Wien, Österreich...220-222 Buchbesprechung: Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, International Law, Museums and the Return of Cultural Objects...218-219 Iran v. Berend: Kein renvoi im englischen internationalen Sachenrecht: Keine lex originis im französischen Kollisionsrecht...184-185 Iran v. Barakat Galleries: Eigentum an Kulturgut, dass aufgrund eines öffentlich-rechtlichen Gesetzes an den Staat fällt, kann nicht vor einem englischen Gericht eingeklagt werden...181-183 Iran v. Barakat: Some Observations on the Application of Foreign Public Law by Domestic Courts from a Comparative Perspective...172-180 Editorial: „Zum Wohl der Kunst” / “In the best interests of the art”...168-171 Inhaltsverzeichnis
The Use of Smartphone Apps as a Weight Loss Intervention
Creators: name: Gribensk, Arthur J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Today, over two-thirds of American adults are obese and this trend shows no signs of changing.
Because older methods have been ineffective in decreasing this epidemic, this literature review
was carried out to examine smartphone apps, a new technology that has recently become
ubiquitous. Smartphone apps offer a novel approach to gather real-time patient health data and
create personalized interventions to increase physical activity and maintain a healthy diet. In
order to explore the evidence for apps as a weight-loss tool, a systematic search for studies that
had smartphone apps as a patient intervention for weight loss was conducted on December 19th,
2013. The studies were reviewed for evidence of apps’ effectiveness, usability, and use of
theory. Overall, there was a general lack of theory used in the creation of smartphone apps, and
most studies had small sample sizes and lack of controls. The results of this review point toward
smartphone apps being a usable, effective, and inexpensive intervention for patent weight loss.
Because of the studies’ limitations, this conclusion must be qualified, and further research needs
to be conducted in order to solidify these results.
VoiceFixer: A Unified Framework for High-Fidelity Speech Restoration
Creators: name: Liu, Haohe
name: Liu, Xubo
name: Kong, Qiuqiang
name: Tian, Qiao
name: Zhao, Yan
name: Wang, DeLiang
name: Huang, Chuanzeng
name: Wang, Yuxuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Speech restoration aims to remove distortions in speech signals. Prior methods mainly focus on a single type of distortion, such as speech denoising or dereverberation. However, speech signals can be degraded by several different distortions simultaneously in the real world. It is thus important to extend speech restoration models to deal with multiple distortions. In this paper, we introduce VoiceFixer, a unified framework for high-fidelity speech restoration. VoiceFixer restores speech from multiple distortions (e.g., noise, reverberation, and clipping) and can expand degraded speech (e.g., noisy speech) with a low bandwidth to 44.1 kHz full-bandwidth high-fidelity speech. We design VoiceFixer based on (1) an analysis stage that predicts intermediate-level features from the degraded speech, and (2) a synthesis stage that generates waveform using a neural vocoder. Both objective and subjective evaluations show that VoiceFixer is effective on severely degraded speech, such as real-world historical speech recordings. Samples of VoiceFixer are available at https://haoheliu.github.io/voicefixer.
description: Submitted to INTERSPEECH 2022
Staurastrum pseudoteliferum G. J. P. Ramos, C. E. M. Bicudo & C. W. N. Moura. Granite 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto
name: Bicudo, Carlos Eduardo De Mattos
name: Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Charophyta
Conjugatophyceae
Zygnematales
Desmidiaceae
Staurastrum
Staurastrum pseudoteliferum

description: Staurastrum pseudoteliferum G.J.P.Ramos, C.E.M.Bicudo & C.W.N.Moura sp. nov. (Figs 105–110)
Cells 3–radiate, 1.3 times longer than wide, median constriction deep, sinus open; semicells broadly elliptic, subtriangular in apical view, angles widely rounded, margins straight between processes, provided with stout spines usually arranged linearly or slightly curved in 2 rows of 4 spines at angles, with approximately 9 tiny spines in the margins (3 on each side). Cells 31–32.5 μm long (without spines), 23.5–25 μm wide, 10–11.5 μm isthmus.
 Holotype: material numbered (HUEFS 224653!) deposited at Herbário da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, population partially illustrated here in LM (Figs 105–106, 109–110) and SEM (Fig. 107–108).
 Paratypes (here designated): HUEFS 224684, HUEFS 224705, HUEFS 224716 (Herbário da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil)
 Type locality and habitat: Collected at “Serra da Jiboia” Santa Teresinha, Bahia state, Brazil. 12° 51’ 7” S, 39°28’ 35.4” W. Sample collected by G. J. P.Ramos, C. W. N. Moura and M. A. Santos (HUEFS 224653) on 14 January 2015. Staurastrum pseudoteliferum was observed in samples collected in bromeliad tanks (Alcantarea nahoumii); T 26.7 (± 3.1 ºC). pH 6.0 (± 0.5). C 0.22 (± 0.17 mS. cm-1). TDS 0.13 (± 0.11 ppt). DO 7.5 (± 4.3 mg.L- 1).
 Etymology:—Due to morphological similarly with Staurastrum teliferum
 Notes:— Staurastrum pseudoteliferum differs from Staurastrum teliferum Ralfs (1848: 128) by having two rows of 4 spines at the angles in the ventral view, apical view showing approximately 9 small spines located near the margins, 3 on each side. Additionally, S. teliferum has, in apical view, triangular semicells with slightly concave margins, with 5 tiny spines on each side. Another taxon similar is St. teliferum var. groenbladii Förster (1964), however, this variety differs by having semicircular-slightly elliptic cells (in front view), semicells ovoid (to subsphaerical) in apical view, and thicker spines.
description: Published as part of Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto, Bicudo, Carlos Eduardo De Mattos & Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento, 2018, Some new, rare and interesting desmids from bromeliad phytotelmata in Brazil, pp. 59-77 in Phytotaxa 346 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.346.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13708372
Electronic properties and phase transition in Kagome metal, Yb0.5Co3Ge3
Creators: name: Wang, Yaojia
name: Wang, Xiaoping
name: McCandless, Gregory T.
name: Thanabalasingam, Kulatheepan
name: Wu, Heng
name: Bouwmeester, Damian
name: van der Zant, Herra
name: Ali, Mazhar N.
name: Chan, Julia Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kagome lattice is an important fundamental structure in condensed matter physics for investigating the interplay of electron correlation, topology, and frustrated magnetism. Recent work on Kagome metals in the AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, Cs) family, has shown a multitude of correlation-driven distortions, including symmetry breaking charge density waves and nematic superconductivity at low temperatures. Here we study the new Kagome metal Yb0.5Co3Ge3 and find a temperature-dependent kink in the resistivity that is highly similar to the AV3Sb5 behavior and is commensurate with an in-plane structural distortion of the Co Kagome lattice along with a doubling of the c-axis. The space group is found to lower from P6/mmm to P63/m below the transition temperature, breaking the in-plane mirror planes and C6 rotation, while gaining a screw axis along the c-direction. At very low temperatures, anisotropic negative magnetoresistance is observed, which may be related to anisotropic magnetism. This raises questions about the types of the distortions in Kagome nets and their resulting physical properties including superconductivity and magnetism.
A test of optimal laser impulsion for controlling population within the $N_s=1$, $N_r=5$ polyad of $^{12}C_2H_2$
Creators: name: Santos, L.
name: Iacobellis, N.
name: Herman, M.
name: Perry, D. S.
name: Desouter-Lecomte, M.
name: Vaeck, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optimal control theory has been employed to populate separately two dark states of the acetylene polyad $N_s=1$, $N_r=5$ by indirect coupling via the ground state. Relevant level energies and transition dipole moments are extracted from the experimental literature. The optimal pulses are rather simple. The evolution of the populations is shown for the duration of the control process and also for the field free-evolution that follows the control. One of the dark states appears to be a potential target for realistic experimental investigation because the average population of the Rabi oscillation remains high and decoherence is expected to be weak.
description: 28 pages, 5 figures
CANShield: Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Framework for Controller Area Networks at the Signal-Level
Creators: name: Shahriar, Md Hasan
name: Xiao, Yang
name: Moriano, Pablo
name: Lou, Wenjing
name: Hou, Y. Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern vehicles rely on a fleet of electronic control units (ECUs) connected through controller area network (CAN) buses for critical vehicular control. With the expansion of advanced connectivity features in automobiles and the elevated risks of internal system exposure, the CAN bus is increasingly prone to intrusions and injection attacks. As ordinary injection attacks disrupt the typical timing properties of the CAN data stream, rule-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) can easily detect them. However, advanced attackers can inject false data to the signal/semantic level, while looking innocuous by the pattern/frequency of the CAN messages. The rule-based IDS, as well as the anomaly-based IDS, are built merely on the sequence of CAN messages IDs or just the binary payload data and are less effective in detecting such attacks. Therefore, to detect such intelligent attacks, we propose CANShield, a deep learning-based signal-level intrusion detection framework for the CAN bus. CANShield consists of three modules: a data preprocessing module that handles the high-dimensional CAN data stream at the signal level and parses them into time series suitable for a deep learning model; a data analyzer module consisting of multiple deep autoencoder (AE) networks, each analyzing the time-series data from a different temporal scale and granularity, and finally an attack detection module that uses an ensemble method to make the final decision. Evaluation results on two high-fidelity signal-based CAN attack datasets show the high accuracy and responsiveness of CANShield in detecting advanced intrusion attacks.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures, A version of this paper is accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Mixed-focus Difficulty-Triggered Collaborative Writing: Interoperable Architecture, Implementation, and Evaluation
Creators: name: Long, Duri
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Many students face difficulty when writing documents due to various reasons such as language
barriers, content misunderstanding, or lack of formal writing education. They are often too shy or
busy to visit a writing center or speak with a professor during office hours. Technology also falls
short in this arena. Asynchronous collaboration systems require students to self-report when they
are struggling and many students tend to under-report difficulty. Synchronous collaboration
systems eliminate the need for self-reporting, but require teachers to constantly monitor their
students. By combining synchronous and asynchronous collaboration paradigms, this project is
able to create a mixed-focus collaborative writing system in which students and teachers engage
in collaboration only when triggered by an automatically or manually generated event that
indicates the student is facing difficulty. This mixed-focus system was created by combining two
existing architectures: 1) the EclipseHelper difficulty architecture for inferring programming
difficulty, and 2) the Google Docs collaborative writing environment. The new, combined
architecture allows teachers to intervene and offer remote assistance to their students when they
are automatically notified that a student is facing difficulty. A user study was conducted to
evaluate this new architecture. Students used the system to complete a two-page paper given in a
class they were taking, and data were recorded during the writing and help-giving process. Using
both qualitative and quantitative analysis, the data were evaluated. Overall, students found the
help-giving model easy to use and appreciated the feedback they received. However, difficulty
was predicted infrequently, likely as a result of inherent differences between writing and
programming. Future work will involve further analysis of the data in order to improve the
difficulty prediction algorithm.
title: Kunstrechtsspiegel, Nr. 1 (2007): Kunstrechtsspiegel
title: Kunstrechtsspiegel
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kunstrechtsspiegel
Publisher: name: Kunstrechtsspiegel
Year: 2017

description: Impressum & Verantwortlichkeit...35-36 Terminvorschau...34 IFKUR.de: Kunstrechts-News. 4. Quartal 2006...22-33 Die Benutzung der interaktiven Homepage des Institutes...19-22 The Applicable Law in Cross-Border Resales of Works of Art under Directive 2001/84/EC...12-19 Der Fall 'Rote Mitte' von Oskar Schlemmer: Besprechung des Urteil des Bundesgerichtshofes vom 24.10.2005 - II ZR 329/03...11-12 Ziele des Instituts. Rede anlässlich der Gründungsveranstaltung am 14.10.2006...7-10 Gründung des „Instituts für Kunst und Recht IFKUR e.V.“ in Heidelberg...5-7 Gründungsveranstaltung des Instituts für Kunst und Recht IFKUR e.V. am 14.10.2006 in der Amtsstube des Vereins Alt Heidelberg e.V...4-5 Editorial...2-3 Inhaltsverzeichnis
Experimental Investigation on Tensile Strength of Jacquard Knitted Fabrics
Creators: name: Brad, Raluca
name: Dinu, Milena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An objective approach to select the best fabric for technical and home textiles consists in mechanical properties evaluation. The goal of this study is to analyze the behavior of knitted fabrics undergoing stretch stress. In this respect, three types of 2 colors Rib structure (backstripes jacquard, twillback jacquard and double-layered 3x3 rib fabric) have been presented and tested for tensile strength and elongation on three directions. First, the elasticity and the behavior of knitted Rib fabrics were described The fabrics were knitted using 100% PAN yarns with Nm 1/15x2 on a E5 CMS 330 Stoll V-bed knitting machine, and have been tested using INSTROM 5587 Tensile Testing Machine in respect of standards conditions. After a relaxation period, 15 specimens were prepared, being disposed at 0°, 45° and 90° angles to the wale direction on the flat knitted panel. The tensile strength and the elongation values were recorded and mean values were computed. After strength and tensile elongation testing for 3 types of rib based knitted fabrics, one can see that the double layer knit presents the best mechanical behavior, followed by birds-eyebacking 2 colors Jacquard and then back striped Jacquard. For tensile stress in bias direction, the twillbacking Jacquard has a good breakage resistance value due to the higher number of rib sinker loops in structure that are positioned on the same direction with the tensile force. The twillbacking Jacquard structure could be considered as an alternative for the base material for decorative and home textile products.
Refining the design of a smartphone application for people with chronic low back pain using mixed quantitative and qualitative approaches
Creators: name: Grolier, Maxime
name: Arefyev, Alexandre
name: Pereira, Bruno
name: Figueiredo, Isabel Tavares
name: Gerbaud, Laurent
name: Coudeyre, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: A mobile application has the potential to involve people with chronic NSLBP in their rehabilitation. To refine the design of a smartphone application for people with chronic NSLBP using mixed quantitative and qualitative approaches. We used a user-centred design approach involving people with chronic NSLBP and healthcare professionals (HCPs). We used a three-step methodology: developing consensus on the features, content, and design of the app; developing a user interface; and usability testing of the app and assessing users’ experience. Transcripts of interviews of users were analyzed by qualitative content analysis. A total of 18 people (aged 45 [23–53] years old) with chronic NSLBP, and 7 HCPs (aged 29.5 [25–55] years old) involved in NSLBP management were interviewed. The overall experience of using the smartphone eLombactif app was initially assessed. Then, with close-ended questions we evaluated users’ judgements on the content, its presentation and navigation. Finally, we asked for suggestions: “application content and functionality” and “content presentation” from participants regarding the use and development of the app analyzed by a qualitative methodology. This study described how we refined the design of our application for people with chronic NSLBP using a qualitative and quantitative approaches. This methodology allows for deepening the knowledge of the needs and expectations of potential users by measuring their user experience.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONNon-specific low back pain (NSLBP) is a major global public health issue leading to considerable economic cost and is primarily responsible for pain and disability.Mobile application has the potential to involve people with chronic NSLBP in their rehabilitation.This study described how we refined the design of our application for people with chronic NSLBP using a qualitative and quantitative approaches. Non-specific low back pain (NSLBP) is a major global public health issue leading to considerable economic cost and is primarily responsible for pain and disability. Mobile application has the potential to involve people with chronic NSLBP in their rehabilitation. This study described how we refined the design of our application for people with chronic NSLBP using a qualitative and quantitative approaches.
XMM-Newton observations of SGR 1806-20 over seven years following the 2004 Giant Flare
Creators: name: Younes, G.
name: Kouveliotou, C.
name: Kaspi, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the study of 14 XMM-Newton observations of the magnetar SGR 1806-20 spread over a period of 8 years, starting in 2003 and extending to 2011. We find that in mid 2005, a year and a half after a giant flare (GF), the torques on the star increased to the largest value yet seen, with a long term average rate between 2005 and 2011 of $\lvert\dotν\rvert\approx1.35\times10^{-11}$ Hz s$^{-1}$, an order of magnitude larger than its historical level measured in 1995. The pulse morphology of the source is complex in the observations following the GF, while its pulsed-fraction remained constant at about $7\%$ in all observations. Spectrally, the combination of a black-body (BB) and power-law (PL) components is an excellent fit to all observations. The BB and PL fluxes increased by a factor of 2.5 and 4, respectively, while the spectra hardened, in concordance with the 2004 major outburst that preceded the GF. The fluxes decayed exponentially back to quiescence with a characteristic time-scale of $τ\sim1.5$ yrs, although they did not reach a constant value until at least 3.5 years later (2009). The long-term timing and spectral behavior of the source point to a decoupling between the mechanisms responsible for their respective behavior. We argue that low level seismic activity causing small twists in the open field lines can explain the long lasting large torques on the star, while the spectral behavior is due to a twist imparted onto closed field lines after the 2004 large outburst.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Onset of nonlinear electroosmotic flow under AC electric field
Creators: name: Hu, Zhongyan
name: Zhao, Wenxuan
name: Chen, Yu
name: Zhang, Chen
name: Feng, Xiaoqiang
name: Jing, Guangyin
name: Wang, Kaige
name: Bai, Jintao
name: Wang, Guiren
name: Zhao, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinearity of electroosmotic flows (EOFs) is ubiquitous and plays a crucial role in the mass and energy transfer in ion transport, specimen mixing, electrochemistry reaction, and electric energy storage and utilizing. When and how the transition from a linear regime to a nonlinear one is essential for understanding, prohibiting or utilizing nonlinear EOF. However, suffers the lacking of reliable experimental instruments with high spatial and temporal resolutions, the investigation of the onset of nonlinear EOF still stays in theory. Herein, we experimentally studied the velocity fluctuations of EOFs driven by AC electric field via ultra-sensitive fluorescent blinking tricks. The linear and nonlinear AC EOFs are successfully identified from both the time trace and energy spectra of velocity fluctuations. The critical electric field ($E_{A,C}$) separating the two statuses is determined and is discovered by defining a generalized scaling law with respect to the convection velocity ($U$) and AC frequency ($f_f$) as $E_{A,C}$~${f_f}^{0.48-0.027U}$. The universal control parameters are determined with surprising accuracy for governing the status of AC EOFs. We hope the current investigation could be essential in the development of both theory and applications of nonlinear EOF.
The Distance Between Exons and Alu Elements Influences RNA Circularization Efficiency
Creators: name: Liu, Jiacheng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Circular RNA (circRNA) is a category of RNA that is created when the spliceosome back-splices an exon, thereby forming an RNA covalent circle. A few circRNAs have been shown to have regulatory functions, but the functions of most circRNAs are not known. Previous studies have demonstrated that repetitive elements flanking the exon(s), such as Alu elements, facilitate circularization, and have identified the minimal size of repetitive elements needed to drive circularization. We studied how the distance between exon splice donors/acceptors and Alu elements affects the efficiency of RNA circularization. To create the distance gradient, we inserted and/or deleted sequences between the splice donors/acceptor and Alu elements. We engineered the circular RNA so that it would express GFP after circularization. To measure the circularization efficiency, we conducted Western blots and Northern blots on the proteins and RNA harvested from cells. We showed that in HEK293 cells the distance of the repetitive element upstream of the exon has a large effect on circularization, while the distance downstream has little effect.  Combining these observations, we created a minimal construct that can be circularized efficiently and expressed much more protein than our original construct. Overall, our study further contributed to the understanding of the cis elements that affect circular RNA formation in vivo, and design of vectors to efficiently express proteins from very stable RNAs.
A microfabricated chip trap for laser-cooled molecules
Creators: name: McGarry, Cameron
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: I present our efforts to develop a molecule chip: a microfabricated device for trapping ultracold molecules near a surface and interfacing them with photons in a microwave resonator. This work is a step towards a cavity quantum electrodynamics system, where molecular qubits could be coupled and controlled via microwave photons. Such a system would feature both the strong coupling of a molecular transition to cavity photons, similar to those found in superconducting systems, as well as long coherence times as can be found in typical atomic systems. I present the design and construction of a chip capable of trapping ultracold molecules, together with simulations informing the design choices. I report the microfabrication processes used to make the chip, characterize the quality of these processes and describe the design and construction of the apparatus needed to load molecules onto the chip and detect them. I also present a scheme for background-free imaging of molecules near the surface. Finally, I show how a microwave resonator could be used to control the state of a trapped molecule, and describe a scheme for generating non-classical states in a trapped spin-ensemble.
Xanthidium mamillosum var. borgei K. Forster Caatinga 1981
Creators: name: Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto
name: Bicudo, Carlos Eduardo De Mattos
name: Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Charophyta
Conjugatophyceae
Zygnematales
Desmidiaceae
Xanthidium
Xanthidium mamillosum
Xanthidium mamillosum var. borgei k. förster (1981: 247)

description: Xanthidium mamillosum var. borgei K. Förster (1981: 247): (Figs. 111–112)
Cells 1.1 times wider than long; semicells about hexagonal, medial constriction deep, convex basal margins, angle with 1 pair of long, straight spines, with almost mamiliform base, arranged side by side, lateral margins slightly convex; apical margin slightly concave, angles with 1 pair of spines similar to those of the lower angles; Cell length without spines 53 μm, with spines 84 μm; cell width without spines 58 μm, with spines 90 μm, 23–24μm isthmus.
 Material examined: BRAZIL, Bahia, Itaberaba, Fazenda Itaberaba. 21-I-2015, G. J. P. Ramos et al. s/n (HUEFS 215777).
 Habitat: bromeliad tanks (Aechmea cf. lingulatoides); T 29.9 ºC. pH 5.3. C 0.35 mS. cm-1. TDS 0.15 ppt. DO 3.6 mg.L- 1.
 Notes: Xanthidium mamillosum var. borgei was the only desmid encountered in Aechmea cf. lingulatoides tanks in the region of Itaberaba, Bahia State. Those bromeliads are found in the semiarid Caatinga domain and tend to accumulate very little water; they can accumulate small amounts of moisture in the basal regions of their leaves or dry out completely. Although we only found that desmid in a single bromeliad, its mucilage sheath appears to be an important structure that allows it to survive (possibly only temporarily) in the phytotelmata by minimizing the effects of desiccation. A few specimens were observed in the sample, always showing that same morphological pattern. In Brazil, this variety occurs in central-west region (Borge 1925) and in Amazonian region (Förster 1969, Souza & Melo 2011). This is the first record of this variety for northeast Brazil.
description: Published as part of Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto, Bicudo, Carlos Eduardo De Mattos & Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento, 2018, Some new, rare and interesting desmids from bromeliad phytotelmata in Brazil, pp. 59-77 in Phytotaxa 346 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.346.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13708372
A fully noncommutative analog of the Painlevé IV equation and a structure of its solutions
Creators: name: Bobrova, Irina
name: Retakh, Vladimir
name: Rubtsov, Vladimir
name: Sharygin, Georgy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37K20, 16B99, 16W25

description: We study a fully noncommutative generalisation of the commutative fourth Painlevé equation that possesses solutions in terms of an infinite Toda system over an associative unital division ring equipped by a derivation.
description: The formula (54) was corrected. Some typos were fixed
Modeling Human Referring Expression Generation
Creators: name: Kazemzadeh, Sahar
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Referring generation expression is a natural language processing task that involves creating noun
phrases that identify a referent object to a listener. We evaluate the state-of-the-art Visible
Objects Algorithm for referring expression generation presented by Mitchell et. al (2012), and
find that it does not perform as well with our natural image set than with the computer-generated
image set that was originally used. Further, we analyze over 7,000 referring expressions
generated by players of ReferIt Game, an online game that we developed, and by Amazon
Mechanical Turk workers to identify metrics with which to create an improved stochastic model
that can be coupled with computer vision to mimic human referring expression generation from
visual input.
Data-driven synthesis of Robust Invariant Sets and Controllers
Creators: name: Mulagaleti, Sampath Kumar
name: Bemporad, Alberto
name: Zanon, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a method to identify an uncertain linear time-invariant (LTI) prediction model for tube-based Robust Model Predictive Control (RMPC). The uncertain model is determined from a given state-input dataset by formulating and solving a Semidefinite Programming problem (SDP), that also determines a static linear feedback gain and corresponding invariant sets satisfying the inclusions required to guarantee recursive feasibility and stability of the RMPC scheme, while minimizing an identification criterion. As demonstrated through an example, the proposed concurrent approach provides less conservative invariant sets than a sequential approach.
The Continuous 1.5D Terrain Guarding Problem: Discretization, Optimal Solutions, and PTAS
Creators: name: Friedrichs, Stephan
name: Hemmer, Michael
name: King, James
name: Schmidt, Christiane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the NP-hard continuous 1.5D Terrain Guarding Problem (TGP) we are given an $x$-monotone chain of line segments in $\mathbb{R}^2$ (the terrain $T$) and ask for the minimum number of guards (located anywhere on $T$) required to guard all of $T$. We construct guard candidate and witness sets $G, W \subset T$ of polynomial size such that any feasible (optimal) guard cover $G^* \subseteq G$ for $W$ is also feasible (optimal) for the continuous TGP. This discretization allows us to (1) settle NP-completeness for the continuous TGP, (2) provide a Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme (PTAS) for the continuous TGP using the PTAS for the discrete TGP by Gibson et al., and (3) formulate the continuous TGP as an Integer Linear Program (IP). Furthermore, we propose several filtering techniques reducing the size of our discretization, allowing us to devise an efficient IP-based algorithm that reliably provides optimal guard placements for terrains with up to $10^6$ vertices within minutes on a standard desktop computer.
Highly parallel HEVC decoding for heterogeneous systems with CPU and GPU
Creators: name: Wang, Biao
name: De Souza, Diego F.
name: Álvarez-Mesa, Mauricio
name: Chi, Chi Ching
name: Juurlink, Ben
name: Ilic, Aleksandar
name: Roma, Nuno
name: Sousa, Leonel
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: HEVC
subject: High Efficiency Video Coding
subject: CPU
subject: GPU
subject: video
subject: decoding

description: The High Efficiency Video Coding HEVC standard provides a higher compression efficiency than other video coding standards but at the cost of an increased computational load, which makes hard to achieve real-time encoding/decoding for ultra high-resolution and high-quality video sequences. Graphics Processing Units GPU are known to provide massive processing capability for highly parallel and regular computing kernels, but not all HEVC decoding procedures are suited for GPU execution. Furthermore, if HEVC decoding is accelerated by GPUs, energy efficiency is another concern for heterogeneous CPU+GPU decoding. In this paper, a highly parallel HEVC decoder for heterogeneous CPU+GPU system is proposed. It exploits available parallelism in HEVC decoding on the CPU, GPU, and between the CPU and GPU devices simultaneously. On top of that, different workload balancing schemes can be selected according to the devoted CPU and GPU computing resources. Furthermore, an energy optimized solution is proposed by tuning GPU clock rates. Results show that the proposed decoder achieves better performance than the state-of-the-art CPU decoder, and the best performance among the workload balancing schemes depends on the available CPU and GPU computing resources. In particular, with an NVIDIA Titan X Maxwell GPU and an Intel Xeon E5-2699v3 CPU, the proposed decoder delivers 167 frames per second (fps) for Ultra HD 4K videos, when four CPU cores are used. Compared to the state-of-the-art CPU decoder using four CPU cores, the proposed decoder gains a speedup factor of . When decoding performance is bounded by the CPU, a system wise energy reduction up to 36% is achieved by using fixed (and lower) GPU clocks, compared to the default dynamic clock settings on the GPU.
Cytokine Profiles in Obese African Americans following Influenza Vaccination
Creators: name: Ahmad, Hussein Ahmad
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Obesity is one of modern day’s most serious public health concerns, costing
billions of dollars and claiming millions of lives every year. In addition to being a co-morbidity for significant health concerns and diseases, obesity has been proven to have
significant negative effects on the effectiveness of vaccination for the influenza virus.
The influenza virus is responsible for killing more than 5% of those who contract it. This
study looks at IL-6 and CRP, inflammation cytokines, to look at the whether increased
serum levels of IL-6 and CRP in subjects with higher BMI values result in reduced
responses to vaccination. Results showed that there was no significant correlation
between IL-6 levels and CRP levels and response to vaccination. Obese subjects did have
higher levels of these cytokines than literature values for healthy weight individuals.
Older individuals and high responders to the vaccination were both linked to lower levels
of IL-6 within the serum. Although no significant results were found, this study should be
performed again with a larger and more diverse sample size that includes healthy weight
subjects to better understand the links between serum cytokine levels and response to
vaccination.
Extensible Machine Learning for Encrypted Network Traffic Application Labeling via Uncertainty Quantification
Creators: name: Jorgensen, Steven
name: Holodnak, John
name: Dempsey, Jensen
name: de Souza, Karla
name: Raghunath, Ananditha
name: Rivet, Vernon
name: DeMoes, Noah
name: Alejos, Andrés
name: Wollaber, Allan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; K.6.5
subject: 68T07 (Primary), 68M25 (Secondary)

description: With the increasing prevalence of encrypted network traffic, cyber security analysts have been turning to machine learning (ML) techniques to elucidate the traffic on their networks. However, ML models can become stale as new traffic emerges that is outside of the distribution of the training set. In order to reliably adapt in this dynamic environment, ML models must additionally provide contextualized uncertainty quantification to their predictions, which has received little attention in the cyber security domain. Uncertainty quantification is necessary both to signal when the model is uncertain about which class to choose in its label assignment and when the traffic is not likely to belong to any pre-trained classes. We present a new, public dataset of network traffic that includes labeled, Virtual Private Network (VPN)-encrypted network traffic generated by 10 applications and corresponding to 5 application categories. We also present an ML framework that is designed to rapidly train with modest data requirements and provide both calibrated, predictive probabilities as well as an interpretable "out-of-distribution" (OOD) score to flag novel traffic samples. We describe calibrating OOD scores using p-values of the relative Mahalanobis distance. We demonstrate that our framework achieves an F1 score of 0.98 on our dataset and that it can extend to an enterprise network by testing the model: (1) on data from similar applications, (2) on dissimilar application traffic from an existing category, and (3) on application traffic from a new category. The model correctly flags uncertain traffic and, upon retraining, accurately incorporates the new data.
description: Paper is 15 pages and has 10 figures. Published in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (https://doi.org/10.1109/TAI.2023.3244168). For associated dataset, see https://www.ll.mit.edu/r-d/datasets/vpnnonvpn-network-application-traffic-dataset-vnat
Cnidoscolus adenoblepharus Fern. Casas & J. M. Pizarro, Fontqueria
Creators: name: Maya-Lastra, Carlos A.
name: Steinmann, Victor W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Euphorbiaceae
Cnidoscolus
Cnidoscolus adenoblepharus

description: 4. Cnidoscolus adenoblepharus Fern.Casas & J.M.Pizarro, Fontqueria 55: 461 (2008). Type:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Carinhanha, após a Serra do Ramalho–Agrovila, 14°15 ′ 0 ″ S, 43°45 ′ 0 ″ W, 439 m, 29 April 2003, N. Roque, B.A. Anjos, L.A. Jesus Júnior, D. M. Gonçalves Rigueira & A.B. Xavier 698 (holotype ALCB-000073!; isotypes CEPEC, SPF-00160730!).
 Distribution:— Brazil (microendemic).
description: Published as part of Maya-Lastra, Carlos A. & Steinmann, Victor W., 2018, A Nomenclator of Cnidoscolus (Euphorbiaceae), pp. 1-30 in Phytotaxa 346 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.346.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13708395
High Speed WDM Interconnect Using Silicon Photonics Ring Modulators and Mode-Locked Laser
Creators: name: Müller, Juliana
name: Hauck, Johannes
name: Moscoso-Mártir, Alvaro
name: Chimot, Nicolas
name: Romero-García, Sebastian
name: Shen, Bin
name: Merget, Florian
name: Lelarge, François
name: Witzens, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate an 8 by 14 Gbps compatible WDM link based on a single-section semiconductor mode-locked laser, silicon photonics resonant ring modulators and joint channel reamplification with a semiconductor optical amplifier operated in the linear regime. Individual channels reach a data rate of 25 Gbps with signal quality-factors above 7.
Making the Economic Value Proposition for Pharmacist Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) in Primary Care: A Conceptual Framework
Creators: name: Tripicchio, Kristen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Introduction: Comprehensive medication management (CMM) is a patient care process provided by clinical pharmacists in primary care settings that ensures optimal use of medications with timely follow-up. Despite widespread evidence that shows CMM improves clinical and medication-related outcomes, pharmacist CMM services often fail to be adopted into U.S. primary care settings. Objective: This study presents a conceptual framework linking outcomes of pharmacist-delivered CMM services in primary care settings to financial benefits for both primary care practices investing and implementing CMM and health plans providing coverage of CMM services.Methods: A narrative literature review was performed in PubMed and the gray literature to identify financing opportunities that justify the coverage of CMM by third party health plan administrators or the implementation of CMM by primary care practices. Financing elements that could be impacted by pharmacist-led CMM outcomes, namely higher achievement of medication-related quality measures and reduction of total costs of care, were recorded and utilized to develop the conceptual framework.Results: The framework suggests that CMM may provide economic benefits to health plans and care practices by (1) increasing market competitiveness through higher quality ratings, accreditation recognition, lower premiums and plan bids, and increased patient satisfaction; and (2) increasing revenue through quality bonus payments, shared savings agreements, and fee-for-service reimbursement. Conclusions: The alignment of economic benefits that can be realized through CMM advances a strong value proposition for greater adoption of CMM in the United States’ primary care system. Future application of this study’s conceptual framework could include use as an advocacy tool amongst pharmacy associations or as a tool for individuals seeking buy-in for CMM services.
Sharpening the Weak Gravity Conjecture with Dimensional Reduction
Creators: name: Heidenreich, Ben
name: Reece, Matthew
name: Rudelius, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the behavior of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) under toroidal compactification and RG flows, finding evidence that WGC bounds for single photons become weaker in the infrared. By contrast, we find that a photon satisfying the WGC will not necessarily satisfy it after toroidal compactification when black holes charged under the Kaluza-Klein photons are considered. Doing so either requires an infinite number of states of different charges to satisfy the WGC in the original theory or a restriction on allowed compactification radii. These subtleties suggest that if the Weak Gravity Conjecture is true, we must seek a stronger form of the conjecture that is robust under compactification. We propose a "Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture" that meets this requirement: a superextremal particle should exist for every charge in the charge lattice. The perturbative heterotic string satisfies this conjecture. We also use compactification to explore the extent to which the WGC applies to axions. We argue that gravitational instanton solutions in theories of axions coupled to dilaton-like fields are analogous to extremal black holes, motivating a WGC for axions. This is further supported by a match between the instanton action and that of wrapped black branes in a higher-dimensional UV completion.
description: v2: JHEP published version (plus corrected typo)
Lessons Learned: Defending Against Property Inference Attacks
Creators: name: Stock, Joshua
name: Wettlaufer, Jens
name: Demmler, Daniel
name: Federrath, Hannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work investigates and evaluates multiple defense strategies against property inference attacks (PIAs), a privacy attack against machine learning models. Given a trained machine learning model, PIAs aim to extract statistical properties of its underlying training data, e.g., reveal the ratio of men and women in a medical training data set. While for other privacy attacks like membership inference, a lot of research on defense mechanisms has been published, this is the first work focusing on defending against PIAs. With the primary goal of developing a generic mitigation strategy against white-box PIAs, we propose the novel approach property unlearning. Extensive experiments with property unlearning show that while it is very effective when defending target models against specific adversaries, property unlearning is not able to generalize, i.e., protect against a whole class of PIAs. To investigate the reasons behind this limitation, we present the results of experiments with the explainable AI tool LIME. They show how state-of-the-art property inference adversaries with the same objective focus on different parts of the target model. We further elaborate on this with a follow-up experiment, in which we use the visualization technique t-SNE to exhibit how severely statistical training data properties are manifested in machine learning models. Based on this, we develop the conjecture that post-training techniques like property unlearning might not suffice to provide the desirable generic protection against PIAs. As an alternative, we investigate the effects of simpler training data preprocessing methods like adding Gaussian noise to images of a training data set on the success rate of PIAs. We conclude with a discussion of the different defense approaches, summarize the lessons learned and provide directions for future work.