cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of nano silica fume on Rutting Resistance of Asphalt payvement : A case study along Adama welnchit trunk road
Creators: name: Addisalem Befkadue
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2021
Subjects: Modified Mix, NSF, Rutting Resistance, Rutting Depth

description: In this study, an attempt was done to evaluate the effect of Nano Silica Fume on rutting
 resistance of asphalt pavement, in the case-study area along Adama-Welenchity Trunk Road.
 This road is the main corridor for the import & export products of the country so that it serves
 for high volume of traffic having heavy axle loads. In addition to the heavy traffic load it
 resists, the adverse temperature of the project area contributes for the occurrence of rutting
 on asphalt layer overlaid previously. Laboratory samples of asphalt mix are made by
 preparing two different asphalt specimens as per Marshall Mix method; one having Nano
 Silica Fume as a modifier and the other without having the modifier as control mix.
 Additionally, wheel tracking machine test was done to measure the rutting depth of these two
 specimens group. The Nano silica fume material which is added in different percentages by
 total weight of the bitumen content used are 3%, 5%, 7%, 9% and 11%. Among these
 different trials, adding of 7% Nano silica fume on the asphalt mix, has increased the Marshall
 stability by 20.83% and decreased the Marshall flow by 12.14%, which exhibits less
 deformation when compared with the results of the control mix. In addition to these, the
 asphalt mix stiffness is enhanced by 37.14% and indeed the rutting resistance is getting better
 by 44.12%. Hence, close evaluation of the Marshall tests results and wheel tracking machine
 test results on modified asphalt mix of the case study area has revealed that adding 7%
 (optimum)content of Nano silica fume in the asphalt mix significantly improves the
 rutting resistance of asphalt pavement
High solar cycle spectral variations inconsistent with stratospheric ozone observations
Creators: name: Ball, W. T.
name: Haigh, J. D.
name: Rozanov, E. V.
name: Kuchar, A.
name: Sukhodolov, T.
name: Tummon, F.
name: Shapiro, A. V.
name: Schmutz, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some of the natural variability in climate is understood to come from changes in the Sun. A key route whereby the Sun may influence surface climate is initiated in the tropical stratosphere by the absorption of solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation by ozone, leading to a modification of the temperature and wind structures and consequently to the surface through changes in wave propagation and circulation. While changes in total, spectrally-integrated, solar irradiance lead to small variations in global mean surface temperature, the `top-down' UV effect preferentially influences on regional scales at mid-to-high latitudes with, in particular, a solar signal noted in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The amplitude of the UV variability is fundamental in determining the magnitude of the climate response but understanding of the UV variations has been challenged recently by measurements from the SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite, which show UV solar cycle changes up to 10 times larger than previously thought. Indeed, climate models using these larger UV variations show a much greater response, similar to NAO observations. Here we present estimates of the ozone solar cycle response using a chemistry-climate model (CCM) in which the effects of transport are constrained by observations. Thus the photolytic response to different spectral solar irradiance (SSI) datasets can be isolated. Comparison of the results with the solar signal in ozone extracted from observational datasets yields significantly discriminable responses. According to our evaluation the SORCE UV dataset is not consistent with the observed ozone response whereas the smaller variations suggested by earlier satellite datasets, and by UV data from empirical solar models, are in closer agreement with the measured stratospheric variations. Determining the most appropriate SSI variability to apply in models...
description: This is the original version submitted to Nature Geoscience in July 2015 with the title "Ozone observations reveal lower solar cycle spectral variations", this has changed to the one given above. 4 Figures, Nature Geoscience, 2016, http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2640.html
Electromagnetic fields in a time-varying medium: Exceptional points and operator symmetries
Creators: name: Koutserimpas, Theodoros T.
name: Fleury, Romain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the interactions of electromagnetic waves with a non-dispersive dynamic medium that is temporally dependent. Electromagnetic fields under material time-modulation conserve their momentum but not their energy. We assume a time-variation of the permittivity, permeability and conductivity and derive the appropriate time-domain solutions based on the causality state at a past observation time. We formulate a time-transitioning state matrix and connect the unusual energy transitions of electromagnetic fields in time-varying media with the exceptional point theory. This state-matrix approach allows us to analyze further the electromagnetic waves in terms of parity and time-reversal symmetries and signify parity-time symmetric wave-states without the presence of a spatially symmetric distribution of gain and loss, or any inhomogeneities and material periodicity. This paper provides a useful arsenal to study electromagnetic wave phenomena under time-varying media and points out novel physical insights connecting the resulting energy transitions and electromagnetic modes with exceptional point physics and operator symmetries.
Harmonic Suppression Study on Twin Aperture CCT Type Superconducting Quadrupole for CEPC Interaction Region
Creators: name: Peng, Quanling
name: Xu, Qingjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From the field calculation, we can also draw a conclusion that the different order harmonics have an independent property, which we can design a combined magnet by adding some high order harmonics, so that it can save space and reduce the magnet cost.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures, NIMA subimission
DEVELOPMENT OF EMBODIMENT IN PHILOSOPHY
Creators: name: Elkhova, Oxana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Philosophy of mind (excl. cognition)
Philosophy of cognition

description: Despite the long history of its formation in the philosophical and Eastern spiritual traditions, the adoption of the concept of embodiment by the scientific community occurred only in the second half of the 20th century. Interestingly, hints of an early theory of embodied cognition can be found in taro(t)ception. Archetypes, visualized, for example, in the tarot system, are designed to stimulate the human subconscious, activate the right hemisphere of the brain associated with creativity, imaginative thinking, and intuitive abilities. This kind of individuation can be characterized as gaining access to the information of the human subconscious, the initiation of intuitive knowledge of the world. For example, the extraordinary popularity of taro(t)ception over many centuries is explained by the ability of a visualized image to serve as a kind of perception channel that allows information to be transmitted from the archetype to the observer: «images are like doors leading to an unfamiliar suite of rooms». According to the Jungian concept, archetypes are a kind of universal images that make up the collective unconscious. These are archaic forms of innate human knowledge, passed down from our ancestors, seen in most cultures throughout human history. It is believed that a person's life can only be considered complete when a person is in harmony with these archetypes, and wisdom is nothing but a return to these foundations. Existing archetypes are not static and fixed, they overlap or combine into patterns at every moment of time, add up to a world – a network of relationships containing informatio
Effect of land use land cover change on reservoir inflow ( The Case of Genale Dawa - III Reservoir , Genale Dawa River ,Basin , Ethiopian
Creators: name: Wamolo, Mohammed
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2021
Subjects: land use/ land cover, Genale Dawa-III, water balance, Landsat, hydrologic model, reservoir inflow.

description: The water resource is a finite resource that needs a proper and sustainable way of
 management to meet the needs in the watershed. The effect of land use land cover change
 influences watershed hydrology. In the last 25 years, the Genale Dawa-III Dam reservoir
 watershed experienced a land use/land cover change. The upper Genale Dawa watershed,
 which is the major contributor of runoff for Genale Dawa-III Dam is very sensitive to land
 use and land cover change. The basin is undergoing land-use change due to intensive
 cultivation as a result of population growth which has an impact on the flow of the basin.
 This study quantified basin runoff volume using the SWAT model and assessed the effect of
 land use/land cover change on the runoff at the outlet of sub-watershed and immediately
 at the inlet of the Genale Dawa-III Dam reservoir near Chenemasa station. Geographic
 Information system (GIS) was integrated with the SWAT model were used to carry out the
 study. Arc GIS10.4.1 and ERDAS IMAGINE2015 were used to process soil raster data set
 and prepare land use land cover map from Landsat image acquired in 1992, 2002, and
 2017 respectively. Land use classification was performed using a supervised classification
 system and its accuracy was also assessed. Hydro-meteorological data was the main input
 data for the SWAT model and which was analyzed. SWAT Model was executed to analyze
 land-use change and the effect of land use on reservoir inflow. The model result indicated
 the expansion of agricultural land and reduction of forest land in the watershed. Using the
 three land use land cover maps, the SWAT model was set up and run and the default
 simulation was used to compute the sensitivity analysis of flow parameters compared with
 the observed data. Then sensitivity analysis was made on monthly basis using 10 flow
 parameters where only six parameters were identified as sensitive flow parameters. The
 model calibration was done from 1992 to 2006 and the validation period from 2007 to
 2014. The result showed that the mean annual flow increased by 29.92mm as a depth from
 177.87mm in 1992 to 207.79mm in 2017. The study results shows that the change in flow
 Genale Dawa Dam-III watershed due to the change in land use land cover.
Entomacis curticornis Kieffer 1912
Creators: name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Diapriidae
Entomacis
Entomacis curticornis

description: Entomacis curticornis Kieffer, 1912a: 69, 70.
Valid name
Entomacis curticornis Kieffer, 1912.
Summary of types
Syntype ♂, BMNH number 9.686. Syntype ♀.
Primary type data
97; Mahe, ’08-9./ Seychelles Exp.; Entomacis / curticornis/ J.J.Kieffer/ type.; Type; Type/ H.T.; Seychelle Islands./ Percy Sladen Trust/ Expedition./ 1913-170. (syntype ♂). 146; Mahe, ’08-9./ Seychelles Exp.; Entomacis / curticornis/ J.J.Kieffer/ paratype.; Seychelle Islands./ Percy Sladen Trust/ Expedition./ 1913-170 (syntype ♀).
Type locality
Seychelles, Mahé, Cascade Estate; Mahé, Anse aux Pins and Anse Royal.
Remarks
Two syntypes were found. The holotype and paratype labels are erroneous, as Kieffer did not designate a holotype. The male syntype is mounted on a card point and is entire; the female syntype is mounted on a card and is entire.
description: Published as part of Notton, David G., 2014, A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, pp. 1-123 in European Journal of Taxonomy 75 on pages 75-76, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.75, http://zenodo.org/record/3862773
Atomic physics studies at the Gamma Factory at CERN
Creators: name: Budker, Dmitry
name: López-Urrutia, José R. Crespo
name: Derevianko, Andrei
name: Flambaum, Victor V.
name: Krasny, Mieczyslaw Witold
name: Petrenko, Alexey
name: Pustelny, Szymon
name: Surzhykov, Andrey
name: Yerokhin, Vladimir A.
name: Zolotorev, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Gamma Factory initiative proposes to develop novel research tools at CERN by producing, accelerating and storing highly relativistic, partially stripped ion beams in the SPS and LHC storage rings. By exciting the electronic degrees of freedom of the stored ions with lasers, high-energy narrow-band photon beams will be produced by properly collimating the secondary radiation that is peaked in the direction of ions' propagation. Their intensities, up to $10^{17}$ photons per second, will be several orders of magnitude higher than those of the presently operating light sources in the particularly interesting $γ$--ray energy domain reaching up to 400 MeV. This article reviews opportunities that may be afforded by utilizing the primary beams for spectroscopy of partially stripped ions circulating in the storage ring, as well as the atomic-physics opportunities afforded by the use of the secondary high-energy photon beams. The Gamma Factory will enable ground breaking experiments in spectroscopy and novel ways of testing fundamental symmetries of nature.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Effect of Aggregate Surface Area on Performance of Asphalt Concrete by using Marshall Tests
Creators: name: Yibeltal Aychew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2021
Subjects: Aggregate Surface Area (ASA), Hot Mix Asphalt Performance, Moisture Susceptibility, aggregate gradation and asphalt concrete.

description: Hot Asphalt Mixtures (HMA) is composite of mineral aggregates, asphalt binder, and air voids.
 Mineral aggregate is covered about 95 percent of the total mixture. In asphalt pavement
 production, aggregate gradation is specified in a large percent passing range to use locally
 available material and to be economical. This large gap of the aggregate gradation specification
 range alters the performance of the asphalt concrete by change the aggregate surface area. The
 aggregate surface area has a critical role in the hot mix asphalt performance by altering the
 coated asphalt film thickness on the aggregate surface and this controls overall mixture
 properties. Various studies have shown that the variation aggregate surface area has a
 significant effect on the performance of asphalt concrete pavements by using Marshall Test
 methods. This study was mainly evaluated the effect of aggregate surface area on the mixture
 volumetric properties and moisture damage. Different aggregate surface areas were determined
 in the blending aggregate gradation percent passing specification range by multiplying
 empirical surface area factor. Using 3.12m2/kg, 4.58m2/kg, 6.19m2/kg, 7.93m2/kg, and 9.64m2/kg
 aggregate surface areas a number of trial mixes have been prepared using the Marshal Mix
 design method. The stability, flow, volumetric properties, and moisture resistance of the hot mix
 asphalt were discussed. The mixture produces in 4.58 m2/kg and 6.19m2/kg aggregate surface
 areas have better Marshall Stability, flow, volumetric, and stripping resistance. In general,
 4.58m2/kg and 6.19 m2/kg of aggregate surface are, not only achieve the hot mix asphalt
 performance but also economically effective by saving 3.6 to 18% of the total bitumen to
 construct asphalt concrete. Based on the result of this study conclude that the better performance
 of the asphalt concrete is observed close to the middle gradation and recommends that, the
 preferable aggregate surface areas are 4.58 m2/kg and 6.19m2/kg to produce well performance
 and economical hot mix asphalt.
Dissipation in Lagrangian formalism
Creators: name: Szegleti, András
name: Márkus, Ferenc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a method with which it is possible to describe a dissipative system in Lagrangian formalism, without the trouble of finding the proper way to model the environment. The concept of the presented method is to create a function that generates the measurable physical quantity, similarly to electrodynamics, where the scalar potential and vector potential generate the electric and magnetic fields.
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Creators: name: L'Humanité (Périodique)
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Éditions de l'Humanité
Year: 2023
Subjects: http://www.idref.fr/03470499X/id
http://www.idref.fr/050613995/id
http://www.idref.fr/027280470/id
http://www.idref.fr/027261468/id
http://www.idref.fr/027416593/id

Abstract
A New Spin on Causality Constraints
Creators: name: Hartman, Thomas
name: Jain, Sachin
name: Kundu, Sandipan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Causality in a shockwave state is related to the analytic properties of a four-point correlation function. Extending recent results for scalar probes, we show that this constrains the couplings of the stress tensor to light spinning operators in conformal field theory, and interpret these constraints in terms of the interaction with null energy. For spin-1 and spin-2 conserved currents in four dimensions, the resulting inequalities are a subset of the Hofman-Maldacena conditions for positive energy deposition. It is well known that energy conditions in holographic theories are related to causality on the gravity side; our results make a connection on the CFT side, and extend it to non-holographic theories.
description: 24+10 pages
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Creators: name: L'Humanité (Périodique)
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Éditions de l'Humanité
Year: 2023
Subjects: http://www.idref.fr/050613995/id
http://www.idref.fr/027280470/id
http://www.idref.fr/027416593/id
http://www.idref.fr/027261468/id
http://www.idref.fr/03470499X/id

Abstract
Effect of Moisture Content & Degree of Compaction on the Shear Strength proper of Addis Ababa Red Clay Soil
Creators: name: Gizachew Tilahun
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2021
Subjects: Remolded red clayey soil, shear strength, water content, degree of compaction, cohesion, and internal friction angle.

description: The purpose of this research was to study the effect of moisture content and degree of
 compaction on the shear strength property of Addis Ababa’s red clay soil. Disturbed
 samples were collected from one representative test pits at 1.5 meters and 3 meters depth
 from Kolfe keranio Sub-city. The basic index property tests were conducted. The specific
 gravity, clay size fraction, liquid limit, plastic index, maximum optimum water content and
 maximum dry density were found to be 2.63 to 2.65, 70.07 to 82.68%, 61.6 to 66.96% and
 32.27 to 37.14%, 27.5 to 30% and 1.36 g/cm3 to 1.446 g/cm3 respectively.
 According to the Unified Soil Classification System and American Association of State
 Highway and Transportation Officials, and American Association of State Highway and
 Transportation Officials, the soil were categorized as CH (inorganic high plasticity) and A-
 7-6 respectively. The laboratory tests were conducted according to the American Society
 for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards.
 Optimum moisture content was used as the benchmark and prepared three samples in the
 wet and three samples in the dry state, including optimum moisture content with consistent
 moisture content variation. For each moisture content, the corresponding dry density was
 determined. The samples were remolded at the pre-determined moisture content and dry
 density. The shear strength parameters were determined from the pre-determined remolded
 samples through the unconsolidated undrained triaxial test. The test results were found to
 be cohesion and internal friction angle increased from 22.11 to 55.92 kPa, 19.61 to 71.68
 kPa and 24.25o to 24.46o, 21.23 to 21.68° with increased water content (21.5 to 27.5% and
 24 to 30%) and increased dry density (1.171 to 1.446 and 1.292 to 1.36)g/cm3 at 1.5 m and
 3 m depth respectively. Cohesion (55.92 to 4.47 kPa and 71.68 to 32.4 kPa) and internal
 friction angle decreased(24.46 to 7.85° and 21.68 to 6.92°) with increased moisture content
 (27.5 to 33.5% and 30 to 36%) and decreased dry density (1.446 to 1.267 and 1.36 to 1.281)
 g/cm3 at 1.5 and 3 m respectively
Motion-Attentive Transition for Zero-Shot Video Object Segmentation
Creators: name: Zhou, Tianfei
name: Wang, Shunzhou
name: Zhou, Yi
name: Yao, Yazhou
name: Li, Jianwu
name: Shao, Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we present a novel Motion-Attentive Transition Network (MATNet) for zero-shot video object segmentation, which provides a new way of leveraging motion information to reinforce spatio-temporal object representation. An asymmetric attention block, called Motion-Attentive Transition (MAT), is designed within a two-stream encoder, which transforms appearance features into motion-attentive representations at each convolutional stage. In this way, the encoder becomes deeply interleaved, allowing for closely hierarchical interactions between object motion and appearance. This is superior to the typical two-stream architecture, which treats motion and appearance separately in each stream and often suffers from overfitting to appearance information. Additionally, a bridge network is proposed to obtain a compact, discriminative and scale-sensitive representation for multi-level encoder features, which is further fed into a decoder to achieve segmentation results. Extensive experiments on three challenging public benchmarks (i.e. DAVIS-16, FBMS and Youtube-Objects) show that our model achieves compelling performance against the state-of-the-arts.
description: AAAI 2020. Code: https://github.com/tfzhou/MATNet
Quantum Ring-Polymer Contraction Method: Including nuclear quantum effects at no additional computational cost in comparison to ab-initio molecular dynamics
Creators: name: John, Chris
name: Spura, Thomas
name: Habershon, Scott
name: Kühne, Thomas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple and accurate computational method, which facilitates ab-initio path-integral molecular dynamics simulations, where the quantum mechanical nature of the nuclei is explicitly taken into account, at essentially no additional computational cost in comparison to the corresponding calculation using classical nuclei. The predictive power of the proposed quantum ring-polymer contraction method is demonstrated by computing various static and dynamic properties of liquid water at ambient conditions. This development permits to routinely include nuclear quantum effects in ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Investigation of the electron-phonon interaction in $N{{b}_{3}}Sn$ with the aid of microcontacts
Creators: name: Yanson, I. K.
name: Bobrov, N. L.
name: Rybal'chenko, L. F.
name: Fisun, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The method of microcontact spectroscopy in the superconducting state was used to investigate weak nonlinearities of the current-voltage characteristics of point contacts made of $N{{b}_{3}}Sn$ single crystals. The nature of the spectrum of the electron-phonon interaction was found to vary considerably from contact to contact, indicating considerable deviations of the composition of the surface of $N{{b}_{3}}Sn$ from stoichiometry. A correlation was established between the nature of the spectrum and the magnitude of the gap singularities of the current-voltage characteristics. In the case of "dirty" high-resistance contacts with strong gap singularities the microcontact spectra were reasonably reproducible, which made it possible to relate them sufficiently closely to the microcontact function of the electron-phonon interaction in the bulk material. It was found that microcontact spectroscopy of this interaction was possible in the superconducting state not only in dirty $S-c-S$ contacts, but also in dirty $S-c-N$ contacts.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Domain wall dynamics in stepped magnetic nanowire with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
Creators: name: Risi, S. Al
name: Sbiaa, R.
name: Bahri, M. Al
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Micromagnetic simulation is carried out to investigate the current-driven domain wall (DW) in a nanowire with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). A stepped nanowire is proposed to pin DW and achieve high information storage capacity based on multi-bit per cell scheme. The DW speed is found to increase for thicker and narrower nanowires. For depinning DW from the stepped region, the current density Jdep is investigated with emphasis on device geometry and materials intrinsic properties. The Jdep could be analytically determined as a function of the nanocontriction dimension and the thickness of the nanowire. Furthermore, Jdep is found to exponential dependent on the anisotropy energy and saturation magnetization, offering thus more flexibility in adjusting the writing current for memory applications.
Ensemble learning in CNN augmented with fully connected subnetworks
Creators: name: Hirata, Daiki
name: Takahashi, Norikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable performance in general object recognition tasks. In this paper, we propose a new model called EnsNet which is composed of one base CNN and multiple Fully Connected SubNetworks (FCSNs). In this model, the set of feature-maps generated by the last convolutional layer in the base CNN is divided along channels into disjoint subsets, and these subsets are assigned to the FCSNs. Each of the FCSNs is trained independent of others so that it can predict the class label from the subset of the feature-maps assigned to it. The output of the overall model is determined by majority vote of the base CNN and the FCSNs. Experimental results using the MNIST, Fashion-MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets show that the proposed approach further improves the performance of CNNs. In particular, an EnsNet achieves a state-of-the-art error rate of 0.16% on MNIST.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables
The way forward
Creators: name: Fridlund, Malcolm
name: Hatzes, Artie
name: Liseau, René
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the last few decades the study of disks around stars young and old and of different types have progressed significantly. During the same time a completely new discipline, the study of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, have emerged. Both these fields, which are interconnected, have benefited from the development of new instrumentation, and especially by telescopes and detectors deployed in space. In this chapter we are describing the state of the art of such instruments and make an inventory of what is being currently developed. We also state some of the requirements of the next steps and what type of instruments will lead the way forward.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
Spongites yendoi Y. M. Chamberlain 1993
Creators: name: Tâmega, Frederico T. S.
name: Spotorno-Oliveira, Paula
name: Coutinho, Ricardo
name: Bassi, Davide
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Rhodophyta
Cryptonemiales
Corallinaceae
Spongites
Spongites yendoi

description: Spongites yendoi (Foslie) Y.M. Chamberlain, 1993: 102 (Figs. 10–13)
 Basionym: — Goniolithon yendoi Foslie, 1900 a: 25
 Lectotype: — TRH (Yendo nº. 66) Foslie (1904).
 Type locality: —Shimoda Harbour, Izul, Japan, K. Yendo, April 1899.
 Synonyms: —Complete reference in Chamberlain (1993).
 Age: —Prainhas do Pontal —3,370 –3,185 Cal yrs B. P. (2σ).
 Material examined: — BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro State,Arraial do Cabo, Prainhas do Pontal (22°59’18.8” S, 42°00’47.1” W, 2.09 m above sea level, 14 August 2014, F. T. de S. Tâmega & P. S-Oliveira, IEAPM 00333, IEAPM 00334, IEAPM 00335).
 Description: —Thalli non-geniculate, encrusting (Fig. 10); internal construction monomerous with a multistratose ventral cell filaments composed of rectangular cells, 7–10 μm in length and 2–3 μm in diameter; dorsal filaments with rectangular cells, 4–5 μm in length and 3–4 μm in diameter. Cells of adjacent filaments joined by cell fusions; secondary pit connections not observed.
Empty uniporate conceptacles and flush with, to raised above the surrounding thallus surface; conceptacle chambers 120–210 μm in diameter and 80–160 μm in height (Figs. 11–13). The cylindrical pore canal is lined by cells protruding laterally into the canal and oriented parallel to the roof surface (Fig. 13). No epithallial cells were identified.
 Remarks: —Specimens ascribed to S. yendoi in this study show similarities in their conceptacle characteristics with those previously reported for the species in Japan (Masaki 1968), South Africa (Chamberlain 1993), Australia (Penrose 1996), Mexico (Mateo-Cid et al. 2007) and Brazil (Henriques et al. 2012, Costa et al. 2014), with only minor differences in the conceptacle roof height and diameter (Table 4).
 Geographical distribution: —See Guiry & Guiry (2015) for a detailed distribution list.
 published works. This study 1, Masaki (1968) 2, Chamberlain (1993) 3, Penrose (1996) 4, Mateo-Cid et al. (2007) 5, Henriques et al. (2012) 6,
 Costa et al. (2014) 7.
 Order Hapalidiales W.A. Nelson, J.E.Sutherland, T.J.Farr & H.S.Yoon in Nelson et al. 2015: 464.
description: Published as part of Tâmega, Frederico T. S., Spotorno-Oliveira, Paula, Coutinho, Ricardo & Bassi, Davide, 2016, Taxonomic assessment of fossil Holocene coralline red algae (Rhodophyta, Corallinales, Hapalidiales) from southwestern Atlantic, pp. 237-250 in Phytotaxa 245 (4) on pages 242-243, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.245.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13677377
Neural Network-Optimized Channel Estimator and Training Signal Design for MIMO Systems with Few-Bit ADCs
Creators: name: Nguyen, Duy H. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper is concerned with channel estimation in MIMO systems with few-bit ADCs. In these systems, a linear minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) channel estimator obtained in closed-form is not an optimal solution. We first consider a deep neural network (DNN) and train it as a non-linear MMSE channel estimator for few-bit MIMO systems. We then present a first attempt to use DNN in optimizing the training signal and the MMSE channel estimator concurrently. Specifically, we propose an autoencoder with a specialized first layer, whose weights embed the training signal matrix. Consequently, the trained autoencoder prompts a new training signal design that is customized for the MIMO channel model under consideration.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in IEEE Signal Processing Letters
On the evaluation of the suitability of the materials used to 3D print holographic acoustic lenses to correct transcranial focused ultrasound aberrations
Creators: name: Ferri, Marcelino
name: Bravo, José M.
name: Redondo, Javier
name: Sánchez-Pérez, Juan V.
name: Jiménez, Noé
name: Jimenez-Gambín, Sergio
name: Camarena, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correction of transcranial focused ultrasound aberrations is a relevant topic for enhancing various non-invasive medical treatments. Nowadays, the most widely accepted method to improve focusing is the emission through multi-element phased arrays; however, a new disruptive technology, based on 3D printed holographic acoustic lenses, has recently been proposed overcoming the spatial limitations of phased arrays due to the submillimetric precision of the latest generation of 3D printers. This works aims to optimize this recent solution; particularly, the preferred acoustic properties of the polymers used for printing the lens are systematically analyzed, paying special attention to the effect of p-wave speed and its relationship to the achievable voxel size of 3D printers. Results from simulations and experiments clearly show that there are optimal ranges for lens thickness and p-wave speed, fairly independent of the emitted frequency, the transducer aperture, or the transducer-target distance, given a particular voxel size
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
Time-resolved Scattering of a Single Photon by a Single Atom
Creators: name: Leong, Victor
name: Seidler, Mathias Alexander
name: Steiner, Matthias
name: Cerè, Alessandro
name: Kurtsiefer, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering of light by matter has been studied extensively in the past. Yet, the most fundamental process, the scattering of a single photon by a single atom, is largely unexplored [1-3]. One prominent prediction of quantum optics is the deterministic absorption of a traveling photon by a single atom, provided the photon waveform matches spatially and temporally the time-reversed version of a spontaneously emitted photon [4-12]. Here, we experimentally address this prediction and investigate the influence of the temporal profile of the photon on the scattering dynamics using a single trapped atom and heralded single photons. In a time-resolved measurement of the atomic excitation we find a 56(11)% increase of the peak excitation by photons with an exponentially rising profile compared to a decaying one. This result demonstrates that tailoring the envelope of single photons enables precise control of the photon-atom interaction.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Comunicación "Creative imprint in the Jenji Kohan´s Television Series as showrunner"
Creators: name: Higueras Ruiz, María José
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: Presentación de la Comunicación “Creative imprint in the Jenji Kohan´s Television Series as showrunner” el 3 de noviembre de 2017 en Aesthetic of Television Serials organizado por la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
[B.4.05.b.3.] Le Naïf
Creators: name: L'Humanité (Périodique)
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Éditions de l'Humanité
Year: 2023
Subjects: http://www.idref.fr/027416593/id
http://www.idref.fr/027261468/id
http://www.idref.fr/03470499X/id
http://www.idref.fr/027280470/id
http://www.idref.fr/050613995/id

Abstract
Self-Supervised Light Field Reconstruction Using Shearlet Transform and Cycle Consistency
Creators: name: Gao, Yuan
name: Bregovic, Robert
name: Gotchev, Atanas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The image-based rendering approach using Shearlet Transform (ST) is one of the state-of-the-art Densely-Sampled Light Field (DSLF) reconstruction methods. It reconstructs Epipolar-Plane Images (EPIs) in image domain via an iterative regularization algorithm restoring their coefficients in shearlet domain. Consequently, the ST method tends to be slow because of the time spent on domain transformations for dozens of iterations. To overcome this limitation, this letter proposes a novel self-supervised DSLF reconstruction method, CycleST, which applies ST and cycle consistency to DSLF reconstruction. Specifically, CycleST is composed of an encoder-decoder network and a residual learning strategy that restore the shearlet coefficients of densely-sampled EPIs using EPI reconstruction and cycle consistency losses. Besides, CycleST is a self-supervised approach that can be trained solely on Sparsely-Sampled Light Fields (SSLFs) with small disparity ranges ($\leqslant$ 8 pixels). Experimental results of DSLF reconstruction on SSLFs with large disparity ranges (16 - 32 pixels) from two challenging real-world light field datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed CycleST method. Furthermore, CycleST achieves ~ 9x speedup over ST, at least.
Search for neutrinoless double beta decay
Creators: name: Ostrovskiy, Igor
name: O'Sullivan, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review current experimental efforts to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0$νββ$). A description of the selected leading experiments is given and the strongest recent results are compared in terms of achieved background indexes and limits on effective Majorana mass. A combined limit is also shown. The second part of the review covers next generation experiments, highlighting the challenges and new technologies that may be necessary to achieve a justifiable discovery potential. A potential synergy with direct dark matter searches, which could be an especially prudent strategy in case the axial vector coupling constant is quenched in 0$νββ$ decay, is emphasized.
description: Updated to include new KamLAND-Zen result. Minor fixes to text and plots
Effect of Moisture Content & Degree of Compaction on the Shear Strength proper of Addis Ababa Red Clay Soil
Creators: name: Gizachew Tilahun
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2021
Subjects: Remolded red clayey soil, shear strength, water content, degree of compaction, cohesion, and internal friction angle.

description: The purpose of this research was to study the effect of moisture content and degree of
 compaction on the shear strength property of Addis Ababa’s red clay soil. Disturbed
 samples were collected from one representative test pits at 1.5 meters and 3 meters depth
 from Kolfe keranio Sub-city. The basic index property tests were conducted. The specific
 gravity, clay size fraction, liquid limit, plastic index, maximum optimum water content and
 maximum dry density were found to be 2.63 to 2.65, 70.07 to 82.68%, 61.6 to 66.96% and
 32.27 to 37.14%, 27.5 to 30% and 1.36 g/cm3 to 1.446 g/cm3 respectively.
 According to the Unified Soil Classification System and American Association of State
 Highway and Transportation Officials, and American Association of State Highway and
 Transportation Officials, the soil were categorized as CH (inorganic high plasticity) and A-
 7-6 respectively. The laboratory tests were conducted according to the American Society
 for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards.
 Optimum moisture content was used as the benchmark and prepared three samples in the
 wet and three samples in the dry state, including optimum moisture content with consistent
 moisture content variation. For each moisture content, the corresponding dry density was
 determined. The samples were remolded at the pre-determined moisture content and dry
 density. The shear strength parameters were determined from the pre-determined remolded
 samples through the unconsolidated undrained triaxial test. The test results were found to
 be cohesion and internal friction angle increased from 22.11 to 55.92 kPa, 19.61 to 71.68
 kPa and 24.25o to 24.46o, 21.23 to 21.68° with increased water content (21.5 to 27.5% and
 24 to 30%) and increased dry density (1.171 to 1.446 and 1.292 to 1.36)g/cm3 at 1.5 m and
 3 m depth respectively. Cohesion (55.92 to 4.47 kPa and 71.68 to 32.4 kPa) and internal
 friction angle decreased(24.46 to 7.85° and 21.68 to 6.92°) with increased moisture content
 (27.5 to 33.5% and 30 to 36%) and decreased dry density (1.446 to 1.267 and 1.36 to 1.281)
 g/cm3 at 1.5 and 3 m respectively.
The Eating Habits of Milky Way Mass Halos: Destroyed Dwarf Satellites and the Metallicity Distribution of Accreted Stars
Creators: name: Deason, Alis J.
name: Mao, Yao-Yuan
name: Wechsler, Risa H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the mass spectrum of destroyed dwarfs that contribute to the accreted stellar mass of Milky Way (MW) mass M_vir ~ 10^12.1 M_sun) halos using a suite of 45 zoom-in, dissipationless simulations. Empirical models are employed to relate (peak) subhalo mass to dwarf stellar mass, and we use constraints from z=0 observations and hydrodynamical simulations to estimate the metallicity distribution of the accreted stellar material. The dominant contributors to the accreted stellar mass are relatively massive dwarfs with M_star ~ 10^8-10^10 M_sun. Halos with more quiescent accretion histories tend to have lower mass progenitors (10^8-10^9 M_sun), and lower overall accreted stellar masses. Ultra-faint mass (M_star < 10^5 M_sun) dwarfs contribute a negligible amount (<< 1%) to the accreted stellar mass and, despite having low average metallicities, supply a small fraction (~2-5 %) of the very metal-poor stars with [Fe/H] < -2. Dwarfs with masses 10^5 < M_star/M_sun < 10^8 provide a substantial amount of the very metal-poor stellar material (~40-80 %), and even relatively metal-rich dwarfs with M_star > 10^8 M_sun can contribute a considerable fraction (~20-60 %) of metal-poor stars if their metallicity distributions have significant metal-poor tails. Finally, we find that the generic assumption of a quiescent assembly history for the MW halo seems to be in tension with the mass spectrum of its surviving dwarfs. We suggest that the MW could be a "transient fossil"; a quiescent halo with a recent accretion event(s) that disguises the preceding formation history of the halo.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures. Accepted by ApJ
[B.4.05.b.4.] Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Creators: name: L'Humanité (Périodique)
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Éditions de l'Humanité
Year: 2023
Subjects: http://www.idref.fr/050613995/id
http://www.idref.fr/027280470/id
http://www.idref.fr/03470499X/id
http://www.idref.fr/027261468/id
http://www.idref.fr/027416593/id

Abstract
A numerical approach for fluid deformable surfaces
Creators: name: Reuther, Sebastian
name: Nitschke, Ingo
name: Voigt, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fluid deformable surfaces show a solid-fluid duality which establishes a tight interplay between tangential flow and surface deformation. We derive the governing equations as a thin film limit and provide a general numerical approach for their solution. The simulation results demonstrate the rich dynamics resulting from this interplay, where in the presence of curvature any shape change is accompanied by a tangential flow and, vice versa, the surface deforms due to tangential flow. However, they also show that the only possible stable stationary state in the considered setting is a sphere with zero velocity.
Grain-size dependent demagnetizing factors in permanent magnets
Creators: name: Bance, Simon
name: Seebacher, Bernhard
name: Schrefl, Thomas
name: Exl, Lukas
name: Winklhofer, Michael
name: Hrkac, Gino
name: Zimanyi, Gergely
name: Shoji, Tetsuya
name: Yano, Masao
name: Sakuma, Noritsugu
name: Ito, M
name: Kato, Akira
name: Manabe, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82D40

description: The coercive field of permanent magnets decreases with increasing grain size. The grain size dependence of coercivity is explained by a size dependent demagnetizing factor. In Dy free Nd$_2$Fe$_{14}$B magnets the size dependent demagnetizing factor ranges from 0.2 for a grain size of 55 nm to 1.22 for a grain size of 8300 nm. The comparison of experimental data with micromagnetic simulations suggests that the grain size dependence of the coercive field in hard magnets is due to the non-uniform magnetostatic field in polyhedral grains.
An analytical study of mismatched complementary media
Creators: name: Zhu, Lin
name: Luo, Xudong
name: Ma, Hongru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complementary media (CM) interacting with arbitrarily situated obstacles are usually less discussed. In this paper, an analytical framework based on multiple scattering theory is established for analyzing such a mismatched case. As examples, CM-based devices, i.e., a superlens and superscatterer, are discussed. From an analysis, the cancellation mechanism of the mismatched CM is studied. In addition, numerical results are provided for illustration. Moreover, further study shows that such cancellation effects might rely on specific conditions. Actually, the conclusions are not restricted to any specific frequencies; they could be extended to many other areas including applications to active cloaking, antennas, and wireless power transfer.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures