cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Position-momentum uncertainty relations based on moments of arbitrary order
Creators: name: Zozor, Steeve
name: Portesi, Mariela
name: Sanchez-Moreno, Pablo
name: Dehesa, Jesus S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The position-momentum uncertainty-like inequality based on moments of arbitrary order for d-dimensional quantum systems, which is a generalization of the celebrated Heisenberg formulation of the uncertainty principle, is improved here by use of the Renyi-entropy-based uncertainty relation. The accuracy of the resulting lower bound is physico-computationally analyzed for the two main prototypes in d-dimensional physics: the hydrogenic and oscillator-like systems.
description: 31 pages, 9 figures
Thermische Untersuchungen an Laser-aktivierten Leuchtstoff-Systemen mit dynamischer Leuchtdichteverteilung
Creators: name: Vogl, Maximilian
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2023
Subjects: Laser
Scheinwerfer
Adaptiv
Dynamisch
Diffusionsnäherung
head light
adaptive
dynamic
diffusion approximation

description: Die Simulation keramischer Leuchtstoffe mittels der Diffusionsnäherung der Strahlungstransportgleichung wird von rotationssymmetrischen Fällen auf allgemeine, dreidimensionale Problemstellungen erweitert. Der Leuchtstoff wird erstmalig mittels der Diffusionsnäherung mit einer zeitlich und örtlich veränderlichen Laserlichtquelle untersucht. Dazu werden verschiedene Laserlichtquellen verglichen, um erauszuarbeiten, welche der Alternativen sich am besten für die Anwendung im Scheinwerfer eignet.
The impact of hybridization on alternative splicing revealed by transcriptome analysis
Creators: name: Baute, Gregory Joseph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Hybridization can result in offspring with transgressive traits when compared to the parents. These hybrid traits may have had an important role in plant evolution, they impact ecological fitness, and they have been exploited extensively in agricultural systems. Gene expression levels and patterns of small RNA expression as well as epigenetic modifications can be affected by hybridization. Alternative splicing (AS) is an important form of gene regulation, where multiple final transcript types are created from a single gene. AS is found in a large number of plant genes and has various functional consequences. Here changes in AS regulation upon hybridization have been assayed on a genome-wide scale using RNA-seq data from rice hybrids. AS was quantified in both parental genotypes and their reciprocal hybrids based on read coverage across genes as well as junction spanning reads. Of the over 24,000 AS events investigated, ~8% happen at different frequencies between the different subspecies. The majority of events in the hybrids occur at additive levels compared to their parents, although a large number of events (~9%) are at non-additive levels. Many nonadditive events in the hybrids are at levels equal to one parent. Several hundred AS events happen at higher or lower levels in at least one of the hybrids then in either parent, indicating transgressive AS. Some of these events, 48 in total, could be unique to the hybrids. The transgressively spliced events could contribute to the phenotype of the hybrids by altering the proteome through introducing different proteins, or via regulation of protein levels through nonsense-mediated decay. These data may also be useful in understanding the evolution of the regulation of AS.
Effects of the low lying Dirac modes on the spectrum of ground state mesons
Creators: name: Lang, C. B.
name: Schröck, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lowest eigenmodes of the Dirac operator are related to the dynamical breaking of the chiral symmetry in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). In our work we construct quark propagators which exclude a varying number of the lowest Dirac eigenmodes and study the influence thereof on meson correlators and the meson spectrum. That procedure partially restores the chiral symmetry (in the valence sector) and we observe degeneracies in the spectrum while confinement seems not to be affected.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. Talk presented at the XXIX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, LATTICE 2011, July 2011, Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California
DEP Bulletin:Volume 37 Issue 14
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
A computer implementation of psychoacoustic grouping rules
Creators: name: Ellis, Daniel P. W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Electrical engineering
Artificial intelligence

description: We are building a computer model of sound organization and understanding in human listeners. In particular, we would like to be able to detect and locate acoustic events that will be perceived as separate objects. Our model aims to duplicate this aspect of the auditory system although the level of correspondence is speculative given our current state of knowledge. We describe an implementation of grouping rules corresponding to the psychoacoustic cues of harmonicity, common onset, continuity and proximity. We increase the system's robustness by adding a second layer of grouping that looks for corroboration between primary groupings. We believe that such a system of repeated hierarchic grouping is critical for the successful modeling of auditory functions.
Supplemental Material for Huang et al., 2020
Creators: name: Huang, Kang
name: Huber, Gwendolyn
name: Ritland, Kermit
name: Dunn, Derek W.
name: Baoguo Li
Publisher: name: GSA Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60409 Molecular Evolution
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60411 Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics

description: Polyploidy poses several problems for parentage analysis. We present a new polysomic inheritance model for parentage analysis based on genotypes or allelic phenotypes to solve these problems. The effects of five factors are simultaneously accommodated in this model: (i) double-reduction, (ii) null alleles, (iii) negative amplification, (iv) genotyping errors and (v) self-fertilization. To solve genotyping ambiguity (unknown allele dosage), we developed a new method to establish the likelihood formulas for allelic phenotype data and to simultaneously include the effects of our five chosen factors. We then evaluated and compared the performance of our new method with three established methods by using both simulated data and empirical data from the cultivated blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum). We also developed and compared the performance of two additional estimators to estimate the genotyping error rate and the sample rate. We make our new methods freely available in the software package POLYGENE, at http://github.com/huangkang1987/polygene.
Developing an Integrated Information System for the Food Sector
Creators: name: Manchester, Alden
name: Manchester, Alden
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Food expenditures
subject: food sales
subject: food prices

description: An information system for the food sector which integrates measures of prices, quantities, and values provides more information about many developments in the food sector than a system that separately measures prices, quantities, or values. The author has developed such an integrated information system. His system allows greater understanding of the sources of food, outlets, food purchasers, and productivity in food marketing.
Parity Violation in QCD Process
Creators: name: Haba, Naoyuki
name: Kaneta, Kunio
name: Matsumoto, Shigeki
name: Nabeshima, Takehiro
name: Tsuno, Soshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parity violation in QCD process is studied using helicity dependent top quark pair productions at Large Hadron Collider experiment. Though no violation can be found in the standard model (SM), new physics beyond the SM predicts the violation in general. In order to evaluate the violation, we utilize an effective operator analysis in a case that new particles predicted by the new physics are too heavy to be directly detected. By using this method, we try to discriminate supersymmetric SM from universal extra-dimension model via an asymmetry measurement of the top quark pair production. We also discuss the asymmetry from the SM electroweak top pair production process and that from the little Higgs model.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
The Coset Spin-4 Casimir Operator and Its Three-Point Functions with Scalars
Creators: name: Ahn, Changhyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find the GKO coset construction of the dimension 4 Casimir operator that contains the quartic WZW currents contracted with completely symmetric SU(N) invariant tensors of ranks 4, 3, and 2. The requirements, that the operator product expansion with the diagonal current is regular and it should be primary under the coset Virasoro generator of dimension 2, fix all the coefficients in spin-4 current, up to two unknown coefficients. The operator product expansion of coset primary spin-3 field with itself fixes them completely. We compute the three-point functions with scalars for all values of the 't Hooft coupling in the large N limit. At fixed 't Hooft coupling, these three-point functions are dual to that found by Chang and Yin recently in the undeformed AdS_3 bulk theory (higher spin gravity with matter).
description: 65 pages; the ambiguity for the two coefficient functions is clarified and the abstract, the introduction, the subsection 3.4 and the conclusion are improved and to appear in JHEP
Adaptive bridge regression modeling with model selection criteria
Creators: name: Kawano, Shuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of constructing an adaptive bridge regression modeling, which is a penalized procedure by imposing different weights to different coefficients in the bridge penalty term. A crucial issue in the modeling process is the choices of adjusted parameters included in the models. We treat the selection of the adjusted parameters as model selection and evaluation problems. In order to select the parameters, model selection criteria are derived from information-theoretic and Bayesian approach. We conduct some numerical studies to investigate the effectiveness of our proposed modeling strategy.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
D6.4: Final report on new prototypal services
Creators: name: Agnes Ansari
name: Abdulrahman Azab
name: Simone Bna
name: Miroslaw Kupcik
name: Janez Povh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Deliverable
HPC
Research infrastructure

description: In this deliverable, we present results obtained in Task 6.2 of Work Package 6 of the PRACE-6IP project. This task focused on four new services that had the potential to address some of the widely recognised needs in scientific computing and were also related with efforts toward the exascale transition. These services are: urgent computing, in-situ visualisation, the deployment of containers and full virtualised tools into HPC, and data analytics. All of them were already investigated within the preceding PRACE-5IP project and were smoothly continued within this project.
The main objective of this deliverable is therefore to present the work done within each service. The deliverable has four main sections – one for each service, which contains the main results obtained within each service. These results are: (i) pilot implementation of two scientific codes in urgent computing mode and incorporating the follow-up activities into a new EU project eFlows4HPC, (ii) succesfull installation of three in-situ frameworks (Catalyst, Damaris, Melissa) into seven PRACE HPC clusters and instrumentation of several CFD codes to be coupled with in-situ frameworks, (iii) several trainings and dissemination activities and support for 23 use cases where containers combined with parallelisation were a key-enabling technology, and (iv) automatic installation instructions and user manuals for a list of nine data services were created. The deliverable also provides links to the other results of the Task 6.2, like the scientific papers and white papers containing results obtained during during this task.
Each section contains a description of each specific service, the list of planned activities, report of the work done within PRACE-6IP, final conclusion based on the results of the activities and a proposal on how to continue with the service. An Annex contains important results developed within the Data analytics service, which are expected to be appreciated by scientific communities related to Big Data analysis.
This document can also act as a basis for preparation of the next PRACE implementation phase project, if there will be an opportonuty to prepare it.
Echoprint: An Open Music Identification Service
Creators: name: Ellis, Daniel P. W.
name: Whitman, Brian
name: Porter, Alastair
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Information science

description: We discuss Echoprint, an open source and open data music identification service available to anyone. Echoprint is efficient and speedy and works by generating dozens of hashes a second from input audio (microphone or files) and then matching those hashes in a large scale inverted index for queries. We discuss the signal code generator and the server component.
Classifying soundtracks with audio texture features
Creators: name: Ellis, Daniel P. W.
name: Zeng, Xiaohong
name: McDermott, Josh H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Electrical engineering

description: Sound textures may be defined as sounds whose character depends on statistical properties as much as the specific details of each individually-perceived event. Recent work has devised a set of statistics that, when synthetically imposed, allow listeners to identify a wide range of environmental sound textures. In this work, we investigate using these statistics for automatic classification of a set of environmental sound classes defined over a set of web videos depicting "multimedia events". We show that the texture statistics perform as well as our best conventional statistics (based on MFCC covariance). We further examine the relative contributions of the different statistics, showing the importance of modulation spectra and cross-band envelope correlations.
G-flux in F-theory and algebraic cycles
Creators: name: Braun, Andreas P.
name: Collinucci, Andres
name: Valandro, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct explicit G4 fluxes in F-theory compactifications. Our method relies on identifying algebraic cycles in the Weierstrass equation of elliptic Calabi-Yau fourfolds. We show how to compute the D3-brane tadpole and the induced chirality indices directly in F-theory. Whenever a weak coupling limit is available, we compare and successfully match our findings to the corresponding results in type IIB string theory. Finally, we present some generalizations of our results which hint at a unified description of the elliptic Calabi-Yau fourfold together with the four-form flux G4 as a coherent sheaf. In this description the close link between G4 fluxes and algebraic cycles is manifest.
description: 55 pages, 1 figure; added refs, corrected typos
Diasporic Sikh masculinities in Ranj Dhaliwal’s "Daaku" and Gautam Malkani’s "Londonstani"
Creators: name: Sunar, Kiran Kaur
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis will examine Sikh diasporic masculine identities in Gautam Malkani’s "Londonstani" and Ranj Dhaliwal’s "Daaku" and their operations as sites of critical investigation for the resignification of contemporary Sikh masculinities. In these two recent novels, Sikh diasporic masculinities are produced as young urban subcultural performances that are self-identified as rudeboy and gangster respectively. The naming and performance of subcultural youth identities in "Daaku" and "Londonstani" are important in that they convey the desires of young Sikh men to respond to hysteria surrounding racialized bodies in a post-911 moment where traditional amritdhari identification is no longer a viable option for survival. The first section, entitled, "Performing Violence" discusses the operation of violence as a performative aspect of Sikh youth identity. In "Daaku" and "Londonstani," intimacy is impossible except in the form of violence, and violence itself becomes an intimate act for young Sikh rudeboy and gangster masculinities. The second section of this project, entitled, "Women/Space/Surveillance" examines how intimacy functions for young Sikh men in "Londonstani" and "Daaku." The private comes to operate not as a space of intimacy, but as a site of state surveillance and heteronormative regulation. As such, this section examines how contemporary Sikh men construct themselves through representations of group identity that engage with homosociality because heteronormative forms of allegiance with British and Canadian nation-states are no longer viable options. I conclude that the only intimacies that young, diasporic Sikh men can have are with each other and ultimately, they mandate betrayal in that they exceed the boundaries of both gangster masculinities and contemporary normative heterosexualities.
Proposal for compact solid-state III-V single-plasmon sources
Creators: name: Gan, Choon How
name: Hugonin, Jean-Paul
name: Lalanne, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a compact single-plasmon source operating at near-infrared wavelengths on an integrated III-V semiconductor platform, with a thin ridge waveguide serving as the plasmon channel. By attaching an ultra-small cavity to the channel, it is shown that both the plasmon generation efficiency (β) and the spontaneous-decay rate into the channel can be significantly enhanced. An analytical model derived with the Lorentz reciprocity theorem captures the main physics involved in the design of the source and yields results in good agreement with fully-vectorial simulations of the device. At resonance, it is predicted that the ultra-small cavity increases the β-factor by 70% and boosts the spontaneous decay rate by a factor 20. The proposed design could pave the way towards integrated and scalable plasmonic quantum networks. Comparison of the present design with other fully-dielectric competing approaches is addressed.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Identifying 'Cover Songs' with Chroma Features and Dynamic Programming Beat Tracking
Creators: name: Ellis, Daniel P. W.
name: Poliner, Graham E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Electrical engineering

description: Large music collections, ranging from thousands to millions of tracks, are unsuited to manual searching, motivating the development of automatic search methods. When different musicians perform the same underlying song or piece, these are known as 'cover' versions. We describe a system that attempts to identify such a relationship between music audio recordings. To overcome variability in tempo, we use beat tracking to describe each piece with one feature vector per beat. To deal with variation in instrumentation, we use 12-dimensional 'chroma' feature vectors that collect spectral energy supporting each semitone of the octave. To compare two recordings, we simply cross-correlate the entire beat-by-chroma representation for two tracks and look for sharp peaks indicating good local alignment between the pieces. Evaluation on several databases indicate good performance, including best performance on an independent international evaluation, where the system achieved a mean reciprocal ranking of 0.49 for true cover versions among top-10 returns.
Investigations into Tandem Acoustic Modeling for the Aurora Task
Creators: name: Ellis, Daniel P. W.
name: Reyes-Gomez, Manuel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Electrical engineering

description: In tandem acoustic modeling, signal features are first processed by a discriminantly-trained neural network, then the outputs of this network are treated as the feature inputs to a conventional distribution-modeling Gaussian-mixture model (GMM) speech recognizer. This arrangement achieves relative error rate reductions of 30% or more on the Aurora task, as well as supporting feature stream combination at the posterior level, which can eliminate more than 50% of the errors compared to the HTK baseline. In this paper, we explore a number of variations on the tandem structure to improve our understanding of its effectiveness. We experiment with changing the subword units used in each model (neural net and GMM), varying the data subsets used to train each model, substituting the posterior calculations in the neural net with a second GMM, and a variety of feature condition such as deltas, normalization and PCA rank reduction in the 'tandem domain' i.e. between the two models. All results are reported on the Aurora-2000 noisy digits task.
Minimal-Impact Audio-Based Personal Archives
Creators: name: Ellis, Daniel P. W.
name: Lee, Keansub
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Electrical engineering
Information science

description: Collecting and storing continuous personal archives has become cheap and easy, but we are still far from creating a useful, ubiquitous memory aid. We view the inconvenience to the user of being 'instrumented' as one of the key barriers to the broader development and adoption of these technologies. Audio-only recordings, however, can have minimal impact, requiring only that a device the size and weight of a cellphone be carried somewhere on the person. We have conducted some small-scale experiments on collecting continuous personal recordings of this kind, and investigating how they can be automatically analyzed and indexed, visualized, and correlated with other minimal-impact, opportunistic data feeds (such as online calendars and digital photo collections). We describe our unsupervised segmentation and clustering experiments in which we can achieve good agreement with hand-marked environment/situation labels. We also discuss some of the broader issues raised by this kind of work including privacy concerns, and describe our future plans to address these and other questions.
Irrotational, two-dimensional Surface waves in fluids
Creators: name: Unruh, W. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equations for waves on the surface of an irrotational incompressible fluid are derived in the coordinates of the velocity potential/stream function. The low frequency shallow water approximation for these waves is derived for a varying bottom topography. Most importantly, the conserved norm for the surface waves is derived, important for quantisation of these waves and their use in analog models for black holes.
description: 14 pages. To appear in Analog Gravity-- Proceedings of the Como Summer School 2011 ed D. Faccio et al, Springer-Velag
Partial separability revisited: Necessary and sufficient criteria
Creators: name: Szalay, Szilárd
name: Kökényesi, Zoltán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the classification of mixed states of quantum systems composed of arbitrary number of subsystems of arbitrary dimensions. This extended classification is complete in the sense of partial separability and gives 1+18+1 partial separability classes in the tripartite case contrary to a former 1+8+1. Then we give necessary and sufficient criteria for these classes, which make it possible to determine to which class a mixed state belongs. These criteria are given by convex roof extensions of functions defined on pure states. In the special case of three-qubit systems, we define a different set of such functions with the help of the Freudenthal triple system approach of three-qubit entanglement.
description: v3: 22 pages, 5 tables, 1 figure, minor corrections (typos), clarification in the Introduction. Accepted in Phys. Rev. A. Comments are welcome
Modular Urbanism: Combining modular and multi-scalar design strategies in creating sustainable landscape architecture design and construction processes
Creators: name: Skilling, Gordon
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Modular design, Sustainability, Landscape architecture, Multi-scalar design, Placemaking, Tactical urbanism.
subject: Landscape Architecture

description: In the continued effort to fulfill its professional mandate to build sustainably, the discipline of landscape architecture has begun the transition from emphasizing site-specific design and construction (a “one-off” approach) towards more expansive methods that better address material efficiencies, life cycle performance, and end of life building practices through redevelopment, adaptive re-use and retrofitting. Within this context, this thesis asks how modular design thinking could offer an alternative approach, especially when combined with the multi-scalar techniques and principles of tactical urbanism and placemaking in the (re)design and construction of sustainable urban spaces. Often thought of as generic, repetitive, and monotonous, with regard to the built environment, this thesis will suggest that modular design thinking, at the site scale, has direct application to landscape architecture in not only (re)activating urban spaces, but in creating meaningful sense of place. Highlights will include three interdisciplinary design case studies, that engaged community, and municipal stakeholders. This thesis will touch on the importance of interdisciplinary practice in the development of novel, specific yet scalable, adaptable yet economical forms of urbanism, and in doing so, develop possible alternative design processes in generating normative practices in landscape architecture design and construction.
Relating dual-task and pupillometry paradigms (Colby & McMurray, 2021)
Creators: name: Colby, Sarah
name: McMurray, Bob
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 200404 Laboratory Phonetics and Speech Science
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Purpose: Listening effort is quickly becoming an important metric for assessing speech perception in less-than-ideal situations. However, the relationship between the construct of listening effort and the measures used to assess it remains unclear. We compared two measures of listening effort: a cognitive dual task and a physiological pupillometry task. We sought to investigate the relationship between these measures of effort and whether engaging effort impacts speech accuracy.Method: In Experiment 1, 30 participants completed a dual task and a pupillometry task that were carefully matched in stimuli and design. The dual task consisted of a spoken word recognition task and a visual match-to-sample task. In the pupillometry task, pupil size was monitored while participants completed a spoken word recognition task. Both tasks presented words at three levels of listening difficulty (unmodified, eight-channel vocoding, and four-channel vocoding) and provided response feedback on every trial. We refined the pupillometry task in Experiment 2 (n = 31); crucially, participants no longer received response feedback. Finally, we ran a new group of subjects on both tasks in Experiment 3 (n = 30).Results: In Experiment 1, accuracy in the visual task decreased with increased signal degradation in the dual task, but pupil size was sensitive to accuracy and not vocoding condition. After removing feedback in Experiment 2, changes in pupil size were predicted by listening condition, suggesting the task was now sensitive to engaged effort. Both tasks were sensitive to listening difficulty in Experiment 3, but there was no relationship between the tasks and neither task predicted speech accuracy.Conclusions: Consistent with previous work, we found little evidence for a relationship between different measures of listening effort. We also found no evidence that effort predicts speech accuracy, suggesting that engaging more effort does not lead to improved speech recognition. Cognitive and physiological measures of listening effort are likely sensitive to different aspects of the construct of listening effort.
Supplemental Material S1. Reaction times in the dual task.
Supplemental Material S2. Response confusions.
Colby, S., & McMurray, B. (2021). Cognitive and physiological measures of listening effort during degraded speech perception: Relating dual-task and pupillometry paradigms. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00583
The Influence of Molecular Adsorption on Elongating Gold Nanowires
Creators: name: French, William R.
name: Iacovella, Christopher R.
name: Cummings, Peter T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study the impact of physisorbing adsorbates on the structural and mechanical evolution of gold nanowires (AuNWs) undergoing elongation. We used various adsorbate models in our simulations, with each model giving rise to a different surface coverage and mobility of the adsorbed phase. We find that the local structure and mobility of the adsorbed phase remains relatively uniform across all segments of an elongating AuNW, except for the thinning region of the wire where the high mobility of Au atoms disrupts the monolayer structure, giving rise to higher solvent mobility. We analyzed the AuNW trajectories by measuring the ductile elongation of the wires and detecting the presence of characteristic structural motifs that appeared during elongation. Our findings indicate that adsorbates facilitate the formation of high-energy structural motifs and lead to significantly higher ductile elongations. In particular, our simulations result in a large number of monatomic chains and helical structures possessing mechanical stability in excess of what we observe in vacuum. Conversely, we find that a molecular species that interacts weakly (i.e., does not adsorb) with AuNWs worsens the mechanical stability of monatomic chains.
description: To appear in Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Utility rebates, emissions spillovers and lobbying : essays on environmental economics
Creators: name: Datta, Souvik
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The first essay, co-authored with Sumeet Gulati, estimates the increase in the market share of ENERGY STAR-qualified appliances attributed to utility rebates in the US. Results show that a dollar increase in the rebate leads to a 0.3% increase in the share of ENERGY STAR-qualified clothes washers while the effect is not significant for dishwashers and refrigerators. Assuming a redemption rate of 40%, the cost of a megawatt hour saved is lower than the estimated cost of building and operating an additional power plant and the average on-peak spot price. Therefore, rebate programs for ENERGY STAR clothes washers are a cost-effective way to reduce energy demand. In the second essay I analyse the presence of pollution spillovers by looking at emission levels and changes in emissions. I use a spatial autoregressive (SAR) model with geographic distance and industry distance weight matrices as well as an extension of the SAR model that uses the two weight matrices simultaneously to exploit the variation in the toxicity-weighted emission levels and emission changes in a large sample of manufacturing facilities in Canada. I find that, compared to OLS results, these spatial linkages exist and are stronger for within sector linkages than geographic linkages. In the third essay I use firm-level characteristics to predict the lobbying and abatement decision of firms in a model with two non-cooperating firms. There are three sources of firm heterogeneity, viz. the marginal cost of production, the emission intensity and the marginal cost factor of abatement. The decision to lobby or abate or do both depends on the cost-effectiveness of lobbying against that of abating. I find that a firm will abate and not lobby if its effective marginal abatement cost, which depends on output, is lower than a threshold value.
DEVELOPING THE DISCURSIVE COMPETENCE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BASED ON AN INDIVIDUAL APPROACH
Creators: name: Rustamova, Dilobar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In modern education, discursive competence plays a crucial role in developing students’ ability to effectively express ideas, engage in meaningful discussions, and comprehend complex texts. Discourse competence is the ability of an individual to express their thoughts clearly, logically, and persuasively in the process of communication. For high school students, these skills are crucial not only in the educational process but also in their future professional and social lives. This article explores strategies for enhancing high school students’ discursive competencies through an individualized approach. By integrating personalized learning techniques, differentiated instruction, and communicative activities, students can develop their linguistic and cognitive abilities. The study also examines the impact of tailored teaching methods on students’ analytical thinking and argumentative skills.
Using Long Reads to SNP Calling and Haplotype Reconstruction in a Tetraploid Potato Cultivar
Creators: name: Alves de Freitas Guedes, Fernanda
name: Esselink, Danny
name: Visser, Richard
name: Finkers, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Potato, haplotypes, nanopore reads, biallelic SNPs

description: Long reads have been contributing to improve genome assemblies,
 generating longer scaffolds and allowing variant discovery. On the
 other side, the relatively high error rate and number of small indels of
 Nanopore long reads make them more difficult to use for SNP calling.
 Using these long reads for SNP calling and SNP-based haplotyping of
 polyploid genomes can be even more challenging, specially because of
 the false positive SNPs.
description: This poster was exhibited at the Plant and Genome Conference (PAG) XXVIII
Size matters: An empirical study of neural network training for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
Creators: name: Ellis, Daniel P. W.
name: Morgan, Nelson
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Electrical engineering
Artificial intelligence

description: We have trained and tested a number of large neural networks for the purpose of emission probability estimation in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. In particular, the problem under test is the DARPA Broadcast News task. Our goal here was to determine the relationship between training time, word error rate, size of the training set, and size of the neural network. In all cases, the network architecture was quite simple, comprising a single large hidden layer with an input window consisting of feature vectors from 9 frames around the current time, with a single output for each of 54 phonetic categories. Thus far, simultaneous increases to the size of the training set and the neural network improve performance; in other words, more data helps, as does the training of more parameters. We continue to be surprised that such a simple system works as well as it does for complex tasks. Given a limitation in training time, however, there appears to be an optimal ratio of training patterns to parameters of around 25:1 in these circumstances. Additionally, doubling the training data and system size appears to provide diminishing returns of error rate reduction for the largest systems.
Ergodicity of certain cocycles over certain interval exchanges
Creators: name: Ralston, David
name: Troubetzkoy, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that for odd-valued piecewise-constant skew products over a certain two parameter family of interval exchanges, the skew product is ergodic for a full-measure choice of parameters.
Bill Ayers, Blackberries and John McCain
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The Bill Ayers issue underscores just how out of touch John McCain is with the country he seeks to lead. It is also, for many Americans, just another way for John McCain to tell us he is old.
Vergleichende Untersuchung des Lernerfolges bei virtueller und realer Patientendemonstration in der rheumatologischen Ausbildung
Creators: name: Mattis, Christin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610

description: An deutschen Hochschulen haben neue Lehrmethoden, wie das E-Learning, in den letzten Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen. Gleichzeitig sehen Studenten während ihrer Ausbildung immer weniger Patienten mit rheumatologischen Krankheitsbildern. Ziel der Arbeit war ein Vergleich des Lernerfolgs und der Akzeptanz der Lehrmethodik zwischen Lehrfilmen und patientenbezogener Lehre. Es erfolgte eine Gegenüberstellung beider Lehrformen anhand von rheumatologischen Krankheitsbildern. Zu beiden Unterrichtsmethoden wurden identische Fakten vermittelt. Nach der Lehrveranstaltung wurde das fachliche Wissen abgefragt und der Kurs evaluiert. Der Unterricht am Patienten erzielte bessere Ergebnisse in der Wissensabfrage und in den Evaluationen als die Lehrfilme. Die Kombination beider Präsentationen erzielte bessere Resultate als jede Lehrform für sich alleine. Lehrfilme können eine gute Ergänzung des Lehrplans darstellen. Die Erkenntnisse geben aber Anlass, den praktischen Unterricht am Patienten weiterhin zu stärken und betonen die Notwendigkeit, einem Abbau von Lehrkapazität entgegenzuwirken.
description: Recently, new teaching methods, such as internet-based e-learning, have gained importance at German universities. At the same time, however, students see fewer patients with rheumatic diseases during their medical education. The aim of the study was to compare the gain of knowledge and the acceptance of the teaching methodology between educational films and patient-related teaching. Both teaching methods communicated identical facts con-cerning representative rheumatic diseases. Afterwards, participants had to pass a knowledge test and had to evaluate both teaching methods. Patient-related teaching achieved a better increase of knowledge and better results in evaluations than the educational films. The combination of both teaching methods produced better results than any form on its own. Educational films are suited to improve the practical teaching. However, the results stress the importance of practical lessons with real-life cases and argue against the reduction of the educational capacity at German universities.
Spectroscopy of low-frequency noise and its temperature dependence in a superconducting qubit
Creators: name: Yan, Fei
name: Bylander, Jonas
name: Gustavsson, Simon
name: Yoshihara, Fumiki
name: Harrabi, Khalil
name: Cory, David G.
name: Orlando, Terry P.
name: Nakamura, Yasunobu
name: Tsai, Jaw-Shen
name: Oliver, William D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a direct measurement of the low-frequency noise spectrum in a superconducting flux qubit. Our method uses the noise sensitivity of a free-induction Ramsey interference experiment, comprising free evolution in the presence of noise for a fixed period of time followed by single-shot qubit-state measurement. Repeating this procedure enables Fourier-transform noise spectroscopy with access to frequencies up to the achievable repetition rate, a regime relevant to dephasing in ensemble-averaged time-domain measurements such as Ramsey interferometry. Rotating the qubit's quantization axis allows us to measure two types of noise: effective flux noise and effective critical-current or charge noise. For both noise sources, we observe that the very same 1/f-type power laws measured at considerably higher frequencies (0.2-20 MHz) are consistent with the noise in the 0.01-100-Hz range measured here. We find no evidence of temperature dependence of the noises over 65-200 mK, and also no evidence of time-domain correlations between the two noises. These methods and results are pertinent to the dephasing of all superconducting qubits.
description: v2: Modified title and presentation; 11 p. incl. 5 p. appendix
Quantum dot occupation and electron dwell time in the cotunneling regime
Creators: name: Küng, B.
name: Rössler, C.
name: Beck, M.
name: Faist, J.
name: Ihn, T.
name: Ensslin, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present comparative measurements of the charge occupation and conductance of a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dot. The dot charge is measured with a capacitively coupled quantum point contact sensor. In the single-level Coulomb blockade regime near equilibrium, charge and conductance signals are found to be proportional to each other. We conclude that in this regime, the two signals give equivalent information about the quantum dot system. Out of equilibrium, we study the inelastic-cotunneling regime. We compare the measured differential dot charge with an estimate assuming a dwell time of transmitted carriers on the dot given by h/E, where E is the blockade energy of first-order tunneling. The measured signal is of a similar magnitude as the estimate, compatible with a picture of cotunneling as transmission through a virtual intermediate state with a short lifetime.
DEP Bulletin:Volume 37 Issue 15
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
Analysis of agricultural public expenditures in Nigeria--examination at the federal, state, and local government levels
Creators: name: Aderibigbe Olomola
name: Tewodaj Mogues
name: Tolulope Olofinbiyi
name: Chinedum Nwoko
name: Edet Udoh
name: Alabi, Reuben
name: Onu, Justice
name: Sileshi Woldeyohannes
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Analysis of agricultural public expenditures in Nigeria--examination at the federal, state, and local government levels
Dynamic Traitor Tracing for Arbitrary Alphabets: Divide and Conquer
Creators: name: Laarhoven, Thijs
name: Oosterwijk, Jan-Jaap
name: Doumen, Jeroen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We give a generic divide-and-conquer approach for constructing collusion-resistant probabilistic dynamic traitor tracing schemes with larger alphabets from schemes with smaller alphabets. This construction offers a linear tradeoff between the alphabet size and the codelength. In particular, we show that applying our results to the binary dynamic Tardos scheme of Laarhoven et al. leads to schemes that are shorter by a factor equal to half the alphabet size. Asymptotically, these codelengths correspond, up to a constant factor, to the fingerprinting capacity for static probabilistic schemes. This gives a hierarchy of probabilistic dynamic traitor tracing schemes, and bridges the gap between the low bandwidth, high codelength scheme of Laarhoven et al. and the high bandwidth, low codelength scheme of Fiat and Tassa.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Maximum-entropy Surrogation in Network Signal Detection
Creators: name: Cochran, Douglas
name: Howard, Stephen D.
name: Moran, Bill
name: Schmitt, Harry A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multiple-channel detection is considered in the context of a sensor network where raw data are shared only by nodes that have a common edge in the network graph. Established multiple-channel detectors, such as those based on generalized coherence or multiple coherence, use pairwise measurements from every pair of sensors in the network and are thus directly applicable only to networks whose graphs are completely connected. An approach introduced here uses a maximum-entropy technique to formulate surrogate values for missing measurements corresponding to pairs of nodes that do not share an edge in the network graph. The broader potential merit of maximum-entropy baselines in quantifying the value of information in sensor network applications is also noted.
description: 4 pages, submitted to IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, August 2012
Planetesimal Formation in Magnetorotationally Dead Zones: Critical Dependence on the Net Vertical Magnetic Flux
Creators: name: Okuzumi, Satoshi
name: Hirose, Shigenobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulence driven by magnetorotational instability (MRI) affects planetesimal formation by inducing diffusion and collisional fragmentation of dust particles. We examine conditions preferred for planetesimal formation in MRI-inactive "dead zones" using an analytic dead-zone model based on our recent resistive MHD simulations. We argue that successful planetesimal formation requires not only a sufficiently large dead zone (which can be produced by tiny dust grains) but also a sufficiently small net vertical magnetic flux (NVF). Although often ignored, the latter condition is indeed important since the NVF strength determines the saturation level of turbulence in MRI-active layers. We show that direct collisional formation of icy planetesimal across the fragmentation barrier is possible when the NVF strength is lower than 10 mG (for the minimum-mass solar nebula model). Formation of rocky planetesimals via the secular gravitational instability is also possible within a similar range of the NVF strength. Our results indicate that the fate of planet formation largely depends on how the NVF is radially transported in the initial disk formation and subsequent disk accretion processes.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters