cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Broadening equitable access to solar: renters, non-adopters and the impact of consumption values on attitudes and installation intentions
Creators: name: McCarthy, Breda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Addressing inequities in rooftop solar access is crucial to achieving decarbonisation and energy justice goals. This study contributes to the literature by applying an adapted consumption values model to the rooftop solar context and by examining renters’ perceptions of factors that would reduce barriers to solar uptake. An online survey (n = 331) of Australian households reveals that value-for-money perceptions are the only significant difference between adopters and non-adopters of solar. Structural equation modelling shows that, while idealistic values influence attitudes towards rooftop solar, pragmatic values drive installation intentions, which is aligned with prior research. Logistic regression shows that the higher the functional value (defined as the perceived utility of a product based on value for money, performance or quality perceptions) and the higher the conditional value (defined as the perceived utility of a product based on the circumstances faced by the decision maker), the higher the odds of installing solar. The findings are consistent with studies reporting significant cost barriers to solar adoption. Several recommendations for policy makers and practitioners are made to support equitable access to rooftop solar and help address the negative effects of past policies that favoured homeowners over renters.
title: An update on intensional logic and two-sorted type theory
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Thomas Ede
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistik

description: By Gallin’s (1975) translation *, Montague’s (1970b) intensional type logic can be construed as a sublanguage of two-sorted type theory. Though Gallin’s * is largely reversible (Zimmermann, 1989), this only holds for the truly higher-order standard semantics of full functional domains, not for Gallin’s first-orderly generalised semantics.
Early dark energy and scalarization in a scalar-tensor model
Creators: name: Sadjadi, H. Mohseni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model in which the Gauss-Bonnet invariant holds the quintessence at a fixed point, respecting an initial $Z_2$ symmetry in the radiation-dominated era. This results in an early dark energy that becomes significant around the matter-radiation equality era. However, due to $Z_2$ symmetry breaking, scalarization occurs, leading to a rapid reduction in the early dark energy density. The model then quickly behaves like the $Λ$CDM model. This scenario may also explain the reduction of sound horizon and aligns with the assumption that the gravitational wave speed is infinitesimally close to the speed of light.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures. Major revision. Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
title: The Austrian German discourse particle leicht: a version of the discourse particle denn?
Creators: name: Zobel, Sarah
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistik

description: The Austrian German discourse particle leicht can be used in polar questions and wh-questions. It shares this potential with the better-known and more widely used discourse particle denn. An investigation of the possible contexts of use for leicht and denn, following Theiler (2021), shows that leicht is not merely the Austrian German version of denn. While some of the types of contexts that license the use of denn also license the use of leicht, leicht is more restricted in its use and questions with leicht may differ from questions with denn in their pragmatic effects.
title: ‘What damage could a small breeze do to a fence?’ The lack of collective action on ride-hailing platforms in Berlin and Tallinn
Creators: name: Animento, Stefania
name: Kall, Kairit
name: Niebler, Valentin
name: Unt, Marge
name: Roosalu, Triin
name: Ojamäe, Liis
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Berlin
subject: collective action
subject: platform work
subject: ride-hailing
subject: Tallinn
subject: Uber
subject: 320 Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung)
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: The proliferation of ride-hailing platforms in the last decade has been challenged by workers’ mobilization around the world. In order to complement the existing research on successful organizing, in this article the authors investigate the lack of collective resistance in two cases. By comparing the ride-hailing industry in Berlin (Germany) and Tallinn (Estonia), the authors explain the absence of collective mobilization in these different contexts. While ride-hailing in Berlin is more regulated than in Tallinn, drivers in both cities are structurally located in the weakest position within labour relations. Their isolation presents common features found in the business model and the work process, but also within wider societal structures and ideological landscape.
Electric dipole moments of charged leptons in models with pseudo-Dirac sterile fermions
Creators: name: Abada, Asmaa
name: Toma, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we address the impact of a small lepton number violation on charged lepton electric dipole moments - EDMs. Low-scale seesaw models protected by lepton number symmetry and leading to pseudo-Dirac pairs in the neutrino heavy spectrum provide a natural explanation for the smallness of neutrino masses with potentially testable consequences. Among which, it was thought that the small mass gap in each pair of pseudo-Dirac neutrinos may induce important contribution to the charged lepton EDMs. Recently, it has been shown that the contribution from some of the Feynman diagrams to charged lepton EDMs exactly cancel by virtue of the Ward-Takahashi identity in quantum electrodynamics. We thus consider here the Standard Model minimally extended with pairs of pseudo-Dirac sterile fermions and derive the complete analytical formula at two loops for the charged lepton EDMs. In addition, we numerically evaluate the order of the predicted EDMs consistent with the experimental bounds and constraints such as neutrino oscillation data, charged lepton flavour violating processes, sterile neutrino direct searches, meson decays, sterile neutrino decays, and cosmological and astrophysical observations. We find that, in the minimal setup accommodating neutrino data (masses and mixings) with only two pseudo-Dirac pairs, the predicted electron EDM is $\mathcal{O}(10^{-36})~e\hspace{0.05cm}\mathrm{cm}$, at most, which is much smaller than the current experimental bound and even future sensitivity. Hopefully, the electron EDM might reach future sensitivity, once extra pseudo-Dirac neutrinos are taken into account. The analytical formulae we derive are generic to any model involving pseudo-Dirac pairs in the heavy neutrino spectrum.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
Gamma-Ray Emitting Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies And Their Place In The Agn Zoo
Creators: name: D'Ammando, Filippo
name: Orienti, Monica
name: Finke, Justin
name: Giroletti, Marcello
name: Larsson, Josefin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Active Galactic Nuclei

description: Relativistic jets are usually produced by radio-loud AGN hosted in giant elliptical galaxies such as blazars and radio galaxies. The discovery by Fermi-LAT of variable gamma-ray emission from narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies revealed the presence of a new class of AGN with relativistic jets. Considering that NLSy1 are usually hosted in spiral galaxies, this finding poses intriguing questions about the nature of these objects and the formation of relativistic jets.

In this talk I discuss the radio-to-gamma-ray properties of the gamma-ray NLSy1 detected during the first 7 years of Fermi operation, the observations of their host galaxies, and the estimation of their black hole masses.
title: Nonformal Education in Ghana: A Project Report
Creators: name: Kinsey, David C.
name: Bing, John W.
Publisher: name: Center for International Education, UMass Amherst
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Ghana, nonformal education

description: This report presents a description and analysis of nonformal educational activities carried out in Ghana over a two-year period in 1976-77. Its purpose is to share the ideas, problems, and learnings that emerged from this experience with those who are concerned with the improvement of rural nonformal education programs as well as the development of more effective collaborative relationships between American universities and such field programs.
CALRec: Contrastive Alignment of Generative LLMs for Sequential Recommendation
Creators: name: Li, Yaoyiran
name: Zhai, Xiang
name: Alzantot, Moustafa
name: Yu, Keyi
name: Vulić, Ivan
name: Korhonen, Anna
name: Hammad, Mohamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traditional recommender systems such as matrix factorization methods have primarily focused on learning a shared dense embedding space to represent both items and user preferences. Subsequently, sequence models such as RNN, GRUs, and, recently, Transformers have emerged and excelled in the task of sequential recommendation. This task requires understanding the sequential structure present in users' historical interactions to predict the next item they may like. Building upon the success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in a variety of tasks, researchers have recently explored using LLMs that are pretrained on vast corpora of text for sequential recommendation. To use LLMs for sequential recommendation, both the history of user interactions and the model's prediction of the next item are expressed in text form. We propose CALRec, a two-stage LLM finetuning framework that finetunes a pretrained LLM in a two-tower fashion using a mixture of two contrastive losses and a language modeling loss: the LLM is first finetuned on a data mixture from multiple domains followed by another round of target domain finetuning. Our model significantly outperforms many state-of-the-art baselines (+37% in Recall@1 and +24% in NDCG@10) and our systematic ablation studies reveal that (i) both stages of finetuning are crucial, and, when combined, we achieve improved performance, and (ii) contrastive alignment is effective among the target domains explored in our experiments.
description: RecSys 2024 (Long Paper)
RAS–p110α signalling in macrophages is required for effective inflammatory response and resolution of inflammation
Creators: name: Rosell, Alejandro
name: Krygowska, Agata Adelajda
name: Pérez, Marta Alcón
name: Cuesta, Cristina
name: Voisin, Mathieu-Benoit
name: de Paz, Juan
name: Sanz-Fraile, Héctor
name: Rajeeve, Vinothini
name: Carreras-González, Ana
name: Berral-González, Alberto
name: Swinyard, Ottilie
name: Gabandé-Rodríguez, Enrique
name: Downward, Julian
name: Alcaraz, Jordi
name: Anguita, Juan
name: García-Macías, Carmen
name: De Las Rivas, Javier
name: Cutillas, Pedro R
name: Sanchez, Esther Castellano
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: Tumour Biology
subject: Tumour Biology
classificationCode: Signalling & Oncogenes
subject: Signalling & Oncogenes
classificationCode: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
subject: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
classificationCode: Gene Expression
subject: Gene Expression
classificationCode: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Genetics & Genomics
classificationCode: Model organisms
subject: Model organisms

description: Macrophages are crucial in the body’s inflammatory response, with tightly regulated functions for optimal immune system performance. Our study reveals that the RAS–p110α signalling pathway, known for its involvement in various biological processes and tumourigenesis, regulates two vital aspects of the inflammatory response in macrophages: the initial monocyte movement and later-stage lysosomal function. Disrupting this pathway, either in a mouse model or through drug intervention, hampers the inflammatory response, leading to delayed resolution and the development of more severe acute inflammatory reactions in live models. This discovery uncovers a previously unknown role of the p110α isoform in immune regulation within macrophages, offering insight into the complex mechanisms governing their function during inflammation and opening new avenues for modulating inflammatory responses.
Robotic Constrained Imitation Learning for the Peg Transfer Task in Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery
Creators: name: Kawaharazuka, Kento
name: Okada, Kei
name: Inaba, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this study, we present an implementation strategy for a robot that performs peg transfer tasks in Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) via imitation learning, aimed at the development of an autonomous robot for laparoscopic surgery. Robotic laparoscopic surgery presents two main challenges: (1) the need to manipulate forceps using ports established on the body surface as fulcrums, and (2) difficulty in perceiving depth information when working with a monocular camera that displays its images on a monitor. Especially, regarding issue (2), most prior research has assumed the availability of depth images or models of a target to be operated on. Therefore, in this study, we achieve more accurate imitation learning with only monocular images by extracting motion constraints from one exemplary motion of skilled operators, collecting data based on these constraints, and conducting imitation learning based on the collected data. We implemented an overall system using two Franka Emika Panda Robot Arms and validated its effectiveness.
description: Accepted at ICRA2024, website - https://haraduka.github.io/fls-imitation
2Whsp: A Multi-Frequency Selected Catalog Of Vhe Gamma-Ray Blazars And Blazar Candidates
Creators: name: Chang, Yu Lin
name: Arsioli, Bruno
name: Giommi, Paolo
name: Padovani, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Active Galactic Nuclei

description: High Synchrotron Peaked Blazars (HSPs) are extremely important for VHE astronomy. We built the largest existing catalog of High Synchrotron Blazars (2WHSP) based on multi-frequency data. The catalog is an extension of the 1WHSP list. We compared several general properties of HSPs such as the synchrotron peak, the redshift and IR the color-color diagram. We also built the logN-logS for the sources, trying to see the evolution and the deficiency of the catalog. The catalog will provide a unique sample of targets for VHE observations in future since the HSPs are the dominant extra-Galactic sources in VHE sky. This might help find more VHE sources later. In the future, we will use this catalog to estimate other VHE properties of HSPs.
[Bao yan tang xu mi ji] : wu shi zhi [Volume 15]
[寶顏堂續秘笈] : 五十帙 [第十五冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: [China] : [Shen shi Shang bai zhai]
Year: 2017

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Volume 01-04: Shang shu gu shi - Mai wang.
Volume 05-08: Xian yi bian - Shu du za chao.
Volume 09-12: Si yi kao - Hu hui.
Volume 13-16: Luo hu ye lu - Bi han bu.
Missing 13th, 14th, 15th & 16th leaves between images 036 & 037.
Edition: [Ke ben]
Progress in Computational Understanding of Ferroelectric Mechanisms in HfO$_2$
Creators: name: Zhu, Tianyuan
name: Ma, Liyang
name: Deng, Shiqing
name: Liu, Shi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the first report of ferroelectricity in nanoscale HfO$_2$-based thin films in 2011, this silicon-compatible binary oxide has quickly garnered intense interest in academia and industry, and continues to do so. Despite its deceivingly simple chemical composition, the ferroelectric physics supported by HfO$_2$ is remarkably complex, arguably rivaling that of perovskite ferroelectrics. Computational investigations, especially those utilizing first-principles density functional theory (DFT), have significantly advanced our understanding of the nature of ferroelectricity in these thin films. In this review, we provide an in-depth discussion of the computational efforts to understand ferroelectric hafnia, comparing various metastable polar phases and examining the critical factors necessary for their stabilization. The intricate nature of HfO$_2$ is intimately related to the complex interplay among diverse structural polymorphs, dopants and their charge-compensating oxygen vacancies, and unconventional switching mechanisms of domains and domain walls, which can sometimes yield conflicting theoretical predictions and theoretical-experimental discrepancies. We also discuss opportunities enabled by machine-learning-assisted molecular dynamics and phase-field simulations to go beyond DFT modeling, probing the dynamical properties of ferroelectric HfO$_2$ and tackling pressing issues such as high coercive fields.
Mass-energy equivalence and the gravitational redshift: Does energy always have mass?
Creators: name: D'Abramo, Germano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most widespread interpretations of the mass-energy equivalence establishes that not only can mass be transformed into energy (e.g., through nuclear fission, fusion, or annihilation) but that every type of energy also has mass (via the mass-energy equivalence formula). Here, we show that this is not always the case. With the help a few thought experiments, we show that, for instance, the electric potential energy of a charged capacitor should not contribute to the capacitor's gravitational rest mass (while still contributing to its linear momentum). That result is in agreement with the fact that light (ultimately, an electromagnetic phenomenon) has momentum but not rest mass.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Mapping alternative plant defense across latitude
Creators: name: Gorden, Nicole L. Soper
name: Maddaus, Peter
name: McClannahan, Gina
name: Etterson, Julie
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Leaf defenses have been the focus of ecological, evolutionary, and biogeographical studies for decades.  For example, several studies have found higher levels of leaf defenses at low latitudes, perhaps due to a combination of increased resource availability and increased herbivore pressure.  However, other forms of defense, such as floral defenses, have only gained interest more recently, despite the fact that floral defenses can be just as common as leaf defenses and frequently occur at much higher levels.  While several studies have started to look at the presence of floral defenses, their effects on potential floral antagonists, and their ability to be induced, the field of floral defense ecology is still fairly new.  In this study, we investigated patterns in floral defenses across geographical clines and compared them to leaf defenses to test for tradeoffs in various plant defense strategies across latitude.  We collected leaves and flowers from Chamaecrista fasciculata plants at nine sites across latitudes from Minnesota to Texas and extracted their condensed tannin defenses.

We found that plants had higher levels of condensed tannins in their leaves at lower latitudes, which agrees with previous studies looking at leaf defenses across latitude in other species.  However, floral condensed tannins were not significantly correlated with latitude but were at higher levels than in leaves, suggesting flowers may simply be defended at high levels no matter where the plant is located.  Extrafloral nectaries (EFNs), which are used to attract ant defenders that protect both flowers and leaves, were larger at higher latitudes, suggesting there may be a tradeoff between leaf defenses and indirect defenses in Chamaecrista fasciculata.  This may mean that EFNs are cheaper to maintain in relatively resource poor northern climes, or that plants have responded to local variation in ant presence or other environmental characters when adapting their defense strategies.  To our knowledge, this is the first study looking at intraspecific floral defenses or EFNs across latitudinal clines.  Such studies may become increasingly important to understand how plants interact with their antagonists across geographic space as climate change alters plant and animal phenologies and ranges.
Jetlike structures in low-mass binary neutron star merger remnants
Creators: name: Bamber, Jamie
name: Tsokaros, Antonios
name: Ruiz, Milton
name: Shapiro, Stuart L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GW170817 and GRB 170817A provided direct evidence that binary neutron star (NSNS) mergers can produce short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). However, questions remain about the nature of the central engine. Depending on the mass, the remnant from a NSNS merger may promptly collapse to a black hole (BH), form a hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) which undergoes a delayed collapse to a BH, a supramassive neutron star (SMNS) with a much longer lifetime, or an indefinitely stable NS. There is strong evidence that a BH with an accretion disk can launch a sGRB-compatible jet via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism, but whether a supramassive star can do the same is less clear. We have performed general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations of the merger of both irrotational and spinning, equal-mass NSNSs constructed from a piecewise polytropic representation of the SLy equation of state, with a range of gravitational masses that yield remnants with mass above and below the supramassive limit. Each NS is endowed with a dipolar magnetic field extending from the interior into the exterior, as in a radio pulsar. We examine cases with different initial binary masses, including a case which produces a HMNS which collapses to a BH, and lower mass binaries that produce SMNS remnants. We find similar jetlike structures for both the SMNS and HMNS remnants that meet our basic critera for an incipient jet. The outflow for the HMNS case is consistent with a Blandford-Znajek (BZ) jet. There is sufficient evidence that such BZ-powered outflows can break out and produce ulrarelativistic jets so that we can describe the HMNS system as a sGRB progenitor. However, the incipient jets from the SMNS remnants have much more baryon pollution and we see indications of inefficient acceleration and mixing with the surrounding debris. Therefore, we cannot conclude that SMNS outflows are the progenitors of sGRBs.
description: 25 pages, 15 figures
[Bao yan tang xu mi ji] : wu shi zhi [Volume 14]
[寶顏堂續秘笈] : 五十帙 [第十四冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: [China] : [Shen shi Shang bai zhai]
Year: 2017

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Volume 01-04: Shang shu gu shi - Mai wang.
Volume 05-08: Xian yi bian - Shu du za chao.
Volume 09-12: Si yi kao - Hu hui.
Volume 13-16: Luo hu ye lu - Bi han bu.
15th & 16th leaves (images 033 to 036) are bound reversely.
Edition: [Ke ben]
Exploring relaxation dynamics in warm dense plasmas by tailoring non-thermal electron distributions with a free electron laser
Creators: name: Shi, Yuanfeng
name: Ren, Shenyuan
name: Chung, Hyun-kyung
name: Wark, Justin S.
name: Vinko, Sam M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Knowing the characteristic relaxation time of free electrons in a dense plasma is crucial to our understanding of plasma equilibration and transport. However, experimental investigations of electron relaxation dynamics have been hindered by the ultra-fast, sub-femtosecond time scales on which these interactions typically take place. Here we propose a novel approach that uses x-rays from a free electron laser to generate well-defined non-thermal electron distributions, which can then be tracked via emission spectroscopy from radiative recombination as they thermalize. Collisional radiative simulations reveal how this method can enable the measurement of electron relaxation time scales {\it in situ}, shedding light on the applicability and accuracy of the Coulomb Logarithm framework for modelling collisions in dense plasmas.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Determination of Organophosphorus Pesticides in Vegetables and Fruit by an Indirect Competitive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ic-ELISA) and a Lateral-Flow Immunochromatographic (LFIC) Strip Assay
Creators: name: Yue, Yadong
name: Chen, Jiangyan
name: Zhang, Mingjiang
name: Yin, Yingai
name: Dong, Yiyang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Residues of pesticides in agricultural by-products may cause harm to human health. An indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ic-ELISA) and a competitive form of lateral-flow immunochromatographic (LFIC) strip were developed for the determination of methyl parathion and triazophos in agricultural by-products. In the optimized system for ic-ELISA, the limits of detection (LODs) for methyl parathion and triazophos were 1.39 and 1.94 ng/mL. The linear ranges for methyl parathion and triazophos were from 7.90 to 200 ng/mL and 4.47 to 170.19 ng/mL. The recoveries from agricultural by-products ranged from 84.16 to 106.96% and the coefficients of variation were from 0.77 to 6.45%. In the optimized LFIC system, good linearity was obtained for methyl parathion and triazophos between 5 and 200 ng/mL. The LODs of the CG-LFIC strip for methyl parathion and triazophos were 2.17 and 4.21 ng/mL. The coefficients of variation of the test strip were from 0.73 to 8.34%. Pears, apples, cucumbers, and lettuces spiked with methyl parathion and triazophos were employed to characterize matrix effects using the LFIC strip. The ic-ELISA and LFIC strip were simple and practical for the rapid determination of organophosphorus pesticides in agricultural by-products. Furthermore, the LFIC strip was suitable for on-site testing and rapid screening.
Adaptive Whole-body Robotic Tool-use Learning on Low-rigidity Plastic-made Humanoids Using Vision and Tactile Sensors
Creators: name: Kawaharazuka, Kento
name: Okada, Kei
name: Inaba, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Various robots have been developed so far; however, we face challenges in modeling the low-rigidity bodies of some robots. In particular, the deflection of the body changes during tool-use due to object grasping, resulting in significant shifts in the tool-tip position and the body's center of gravity. Moreover, this deflection varies depending on the weight and length of the tool, making these models exceptionally complex. However, there is currently no control or learning method that takes all of these effects into account. In this study, we propose a method for constructing a neural network that describes the mutual relationship among joint angle, visual information, and tactile information from the feet. We aim to train this network using the actual robot data and utilize it for tool-tip control. Additionally, we employ Parametric Bias to capture changes in this mutual relationship caused by variations in the weight and length of tools, enabling us to understand the characteristics of the grasped tool from the current sensor information. We apply this approach to the whole-body tool-use on KXR, a low-rigidity plastic-made humanoid robot, to validate its effectiveness.
description: Accepted at ICRA2024, website - https://haraduka.github.io/wholebody-tooluse/
Agn Populations In Goods-N Through Emerge Ultra-Deep Jvla Observations
Creators: name: Guidetti, Daria
name: Bondi, M.
name: Prandoni, I.
name: Beswick, R.J.
name: Muxlow, T.W.B.
name: Wrigley, N.
name: Smail, I.R.
name: McHardy, I.
name: Ivison, R.
name: EMERGE Collaboration
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Active Galactic Nuclei

description: Multi-wavelength studies of deep radio fields show a composite population of star-forming galaxies, radio-quiet and radio-loud AGNs, with the formers dominating at the lowest flux densities (< 100 microJy). However, the exact mixture between these types of radio sources is still matter of debate. The most direct way to identify faint AGN-driven radio emission is the detection of embedded radio cores in the host galaxies, through ultra-deep and very high resolution radio observations. This would open the perspective of studying the whole AGN population in the radio band, including the radio-quiet component traditionally selected at other wavelengths (opt/IR/X-ray). Assessing the faint AGN component in deep radio fields, will provide an important tool to understand the role of nuclear activity in distant galaxies and its possible co-evolution  with star-formation processes, as radio wavelengths are not affected by dust extinction and/or gas absorption.

In my talk I will report about the e-MERLIN Galaxy Evolution Survey (eMERGE, PI: Muxlow), a legacy project which aims at undertaking a spatially-resolved study of AGN and star formation processes up to high redshift in a 30 arcmin diameter field in the GOODS-N region, through ultra-deep (sub-microJy rms), sub-arcsec (50-500 mas) imaging at 1.4 and 5 GHz, using combined JVLA and eMERLIN observations. I will focus on the 5 GHz JVLA mosaic observations and catalogue of GOODS-N (94 sources), in the framework of the eMERGE project, and on the study of a larger sample of GOODS-N galaxies (300 objects) selected at 1.4 GHz to constrain the presence of AGN cores in moderate-to-high redshift (1<z<5) galaxies, via radio spectra-morphological analysis with the additional help of multi-wavelength information.
Characterization of Tigecycline-Sensitive and Tigecycline-Resistant Escherichia coli by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) and Chemometrics
Creators: name: Bashir, Saba
name: Ali, Saqib
name: Nawaz, Haq
name: Majeed, Muhammad Irfan
name: Mohsin, Mashkoor
name: Nawaz, Ali
name: Rashid, Nosheen
name: Tahir, Fatima
name: Haq, Anwar ul
name: Saleem, Mudassar
name: Nawaz, Muhammad Zamman
name: Shahzad, Kashif
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Tigecycline has been considered the last treatment option for various difficult-to-treat diseases caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens. The recent emergence of resistance in bacteria has become a severe worldwide public health concern. In this study, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) combined with chemometrics was used for the rapid discrimination of tigecycline-sensitive E. coli (TSEC) and tigecycline-resistant E. coli (TREC) strains. For this purpose, the SERS spectra of TSEC and TREC strains were acquired with and without tigecycline exposure and their mean spectra were compared to separate the spectral features associated with the development of resistance. To analyze the SERS spectra, principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchal cluster analysis (HCA) were employed for the clustering of TSEC and TREC strains with and without tigecycline exposure based on their biochemical differences. Additionally, partial least squares – discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) successfully distinguished exposed and unexposed strains with 99% sensitivity, 99.8% specificity, and 100% accuracy.
Classification of Tuberculosis by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Partial Least Squares – Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA)
Creators: name: Shahzad, Kashif
name: Nawaz, Haq
name: Majeed, Muhammad Irfan
name: Nazish, Rimsha
name: Rashid, Nosheen
name: Tariq, Ayesha
name: Shakeel, Samra
name: Shahzadi, Anam
name: Yousaf, Sadia
name: Yaqoob, Nimra
name: Hameed, Wajeeha
name: Sharif, Sana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy was employed for the characterization and comparison of classes of tuberculosis (TB) including pulmonary and extra-pulmonary TB with healthy serum samples. Notably, two subgroups of SERS spectra were observed due to biochemical features in the SERS peaks for extra-pulmonary TB. These two subgroups are classified as extra-pulmonary TB type 1 and type 2. SERS clearly differentiates classes of tuberculosis infection from healthy controls on the basis of the SERS features. To demonstrate the discrimination of SERS datasets of tuberculosis classes and healthy controls, principal component analysis (PCA) was used to identify the biochemical differences. Moreover, partial least squares – discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) was used for the classification of tuberculosis types and healthy controls. The sensitivity and specificity were 85% and 90%, respectively.
D3.8. Sensory quality of the UCs derived products
Creators: name: Moreira, Diana
name: Santos, Carla
name: Silva, Marta Nunes
name: Geraldo, Rafaela
name: Saavedra, Gabriela
name: Silva, Beatriz
name: Schilling, Frank
name: Kießling, Martina
name: Wockenfuss, Luise
name: Murali, Srinivaas
name: Sinast, Eva
name: Stolzenberger, Reiner
name: Bolie, Maria
name: Lyras, George
name: Petrusan, Janos-Istvan
name: Vasconcelos, Marta W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In this deliverable sensory tests were applied at the DIL FoodSense Lab and at UCP’s Sensorial Analysis Lab to investigate the consumers’ perception and acceptability for five to six UCs based prototypes (1 meat analogue, 1 dairy analogue, 1 bread, 1 small confectionery, 1 pasta and 1 snack) selected on the basis of the results obtained from the nutritional quality and functional feature characterisation.
[Bao yan tang xu mi ji] : wu shi zhi [Volume 11]
[寶顏堂續秘笈] : 五十帙 [第十一冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: [China] : [Shen shi Shang bai zhai]
Year: 2017

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Volume 01-04: Shang shu gu shi - Mai wang.
Volume 05-08: Xian yi bian - Shu du za chao.
Volume 09-12: Si yi kao - Hu hui.
Volume 13-16: Luo hu ye lu - Bi han bu.
Edition: [Ke ben]
PhytoBacExplorer: A Phylogenomic Resource for the Phytobacterial Community
Creators: name: Baxter, Laura
name: Dyer, Nigel
name: Brown, Paul
name: Stark, Richard
name: Constantinidou, Chrystala
name: Wacker, Theresa
name: Studholme, David
name: Grant, Murray
name: Ott, Sascha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plantpathogens
subject: Xanthomonas
subject: Pseudomonas
subject: integrated software platform
subject: Databases
subject: Comparative Genomics

description: PhytoBacExplorer is a phylogenomic resource which allows the phytobacterial community to access curated, richly annotated, high-quality data for the intensively studied phytobacteria genera Xanthomonas and Pseudomonas and perform integrative analyses on that data . It includes tools for Multi-Locus Sequence Tag analyses, and phylogenetic reconstruction and visualisation, and its user-friendly GUI allows academic researchers to focus on the research and data exploration itself, rather than technical tasks. PhytoBacExplorer is build on the impactful and mature EnteroBase system with >4,200 users in the medical community, including a number of national reference laboratories. Here, we present an overview over PhytoBacExplorer’s key characteristics and features and illustrate its usefullness and strengths on an use case. In this use case, PhytoBacExplorer was utilized to retrieve the data, resolve the phylogeny and choose target and non-target assemblies for finding species- and pathovar-specific genetic markers for Xanthomonas.
LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF FORESTRY BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON HYDROLOGY AND WATER CHEMISTRY IN THREE APPALCHIAN HEADWATER CATCHMENTS
Creators: name: Wright, Kameryn I.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering
subject: Environmental Engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: Forest Biology
subject: Forest Management

description: In 1982, a study was initiated in the Field Branch watershed, in the University of Kentucky’s Robinson Forest, to evaluate forestry best management practice (BMP) effectiveness after intensive harvesting. The study utilized a paired watershed approach on three adjacent Field Branch subcatchments. One subcatchment was left as the control, one had BMPs implemented (including a 50-ft undisturbed buffer along the stream), and one was clear-cut to the stream’s banks without the use of BMPs (i.e. logger’s choice). Prior research has shown that logging can negatively impact watershed functions by altering stream hydrology, geomorphology, water quality, and instream habitat. Thus, the goal of forestry BMPs is to mitigate these impacts; however, information on their effectiveness, especially on the long-term, is limited. Monitoring of three streams, one in each subcatchment, has continued since 1982. In 1985, two years after harvest, results indicated a significant increase in stormflow, baseflow, storm volume as a percentage of rainfall, and curve number in the BMP implemented subcatchment. Conversely, in the clear-cut subcatchment these same parameters were significantly increased in 1984, 1985, 2006, and 2007. Water quality results were mixed and forestry BMPs seemingly added little to no benefit over the clear-cut subcatchment for most monitored constituents.
[Bao yan tang xu mi ji] : wu shi zhi [Volume 09]
[寶顏堂續秘笈] : 五十帙 [第九冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: [China] : [Shen shi Shang bai zhai]
Year: 2017

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Volume 01-04: Shang shu gu shi - Mai wang.
Volume 05-08: Xian yi bian - Shu du za chao.
Volume 09-12: Si yi kao - Hu hui.
Volume 13-16: Luo hu ye lu - Bi han bu.
Missing 16th leaf between images 270 & 271, and 27th leaf between images 290 & 291.
Edition: [Ke ben]
From the Quantum Breakdown Model to the Lattice Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Hu, Yu-Min
name: Lian, Biao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The one-dimensional quantum breakdown model, which features spatially asymmetric fermionic interactions simulating the electrical breakdown phenomenon, exhibits an exponential U(1) symmetry and a variety of dynamical phases including many-body localization and quantum chaos with quantum scar states. We investigate the minimal quantum breakdown model with the minimal number of on-site fermion orbitals required for the interaction, and identify a large number of local conserved charges in the model. We then reveal a mapping between the minimal quantum breakdown model in certain charge sectors and a quantum link model which simulates the U(1) lattice gauge theory, and show that the local conserved charges map to the gauge symmetry generators. A special charge sector of the model further maps to the PXP model, which shows quantum many-body scars. This mapping unveils the rich dynamics in different Krylov subspaces characterized by different gauge configurations in the quantum breakdown model.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
title: SWOT Analysis of Selected Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies
Creators: name: Füzi, Ádám Miklós
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: CDR
subject: Paris Agreement
subject: SWOT Analysis
subject: Carbon Dioxide mitigation

description: In order to mitigate climate change, mankind must discover the appropriate method to restrain the increase in the Earth's mean temperature. In order to meet the goal set by the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to below 2oC, it is necessary to not only focus on discovering the appropriate technologies but also on managing the available time effectively. This thesis compares a several selected Carbon Dioxide removal technologies through analysis of literature reviews and secondary literature reviews, and subsequently compares the technologies using a SWOT analysis. The objective of this thesis is to identify the currently operational Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies that are most likely to have a significant impact on reducing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, in order to fulfill the target of limiting global warming to below 2oC. The selected CDR technologies are: Direct Air Capture with Carbon Storage (DACCS), Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), Biochar, Enhanced Rock Weathering, Ocean Alkalinization, Ocean Fertilisation, Afforestation and Reforestation, Soil Carbon Sequestration technologies. Through the SWOT analysis this thesis used different kinds of datas such as: TRL (Technology Readiness Level), storage type, durable storage, cost at scale, mitigation potential, MRV, risks, energy requirements, number of publications and patents through the last twenty years, social acceptance through public media and others.Through the SWOT analysis, two technologies have emerged as having more potential than the others: DACCS and forestation and reforestation technologies.
[Bao yan tang xu mi ji] : wu shi zhi [Volume 07]
[寶顏堂續秘笈] : 五十帙 [第七冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: [China] : [Shen shi Shang bai zhai]
Year: 2017

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Volume 01-04: Shang shu gu shi - Mai wang.
Volume 05-08: Xian yi bian - Shu du za chao.
Volume 09-12: Si yi kao - Hu hui.
Volume 13-16: Luo hu ye lu - Bi han bu.
Missing 8th leaf between images 132 & 133.
Edition: [Ke ben]
Revealing the Production Mechanism of High-Energy Neutrinos from NGC 1068
Creators: name: Das, Abhishek
name: Zhang, B. Theodore
name: Murase, Kohta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of high-energy neutrino signals from the nearby Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068 provides us with an opportunity to study nonthermal processes near the center of supermassive black holes. Using the IceCube and latest Fermi-LAT data, we present general multimessenger constraints on the energetics of cosmic rays and the size of neutrino emission regions. In the photohadronic scenario, the required cosmic-ray luminosity should be larger than about 1-10 percent of the Eddington luminosity, and the emission radius should be less than about 15 Schwarzschild radii in low-beta plasma and less than about 3 Schwarzschild radii in high-beta plasma. The leptonic scenario overshoots the NuSTAR or Fermi-LAT data for any emission radii we consider, and the required gamma-ray luminosity is much larger than the Eddington luminosity. The beta decay scenario also violates not only the energetics requirement but also gamma-ray constraints especially when the Bethe-Heitler and photomeson production processes are consistently considered. Our results rule out the leptonic and beta decay scenarios in a nearly model-independent manner, and support hadronic mechanisms in magnetically-powered coronae if NGC 1068 is a source of high-energy neutrinos.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, minor changes
Learning BPS Spectra and the Gap Conjecture
Creators: name: Gukov, Sergei
name: Seong, Rak-Kyeong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We explore statistical properties of BPS q-series for 3d N=2 strongly coupled supersymmetric theories that correspond to a particular family of 3-manifolds Y. We discover that gaps between exponents in the q-series are statistically more significant at the beginning of the q-series compared to gaps that appear in higher powers of q. Our observations are obtained by calculating saliencies of q-series features used as input data for principal component analysis, which is a standard example of an explainable machine learning technique that allows for a direct calculation and a better analysis of feature saliencies.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
Nonuniversal critical dynamics on planar random lattices with heterogeneous degree distributions
Creators: name: Alves, Sidiney G.
name: Ferreira, Silvio C.
name: de Oliveira, Marcelo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The weighted planar stochastic (WPS) lattice introduces a topological disorder that emerges from a multifractal structure. Its dual network has a power-law degree distribution and is embedded in a two-dimensional space, forming a planar network. We modify the original recipe to construct WPS networks with degree distributions interpolating smoothly between the original power-law tail, $P(q)\sim q^{-α}$ with exponent $α\approx 5.6$, and a square lattice. We analyze the role of disorder in the modified WPS model, considering the critical behavior of the contact process. We report a critical scaling depending on the network degree distribution. The scaling exponents differ from the standard mean-field behavior reported for CP on infinite-dimensional (random) graphs with power-law degree distribution. Furthermore, the disorder present in the WPS lattice model is in agreement with the Luck-Harris criterion for the relevance of disorder in critical dynamics. However, despite the same wandering exponent $ω=1/2$, the disorder effects observed for the WPS lattice are weaker than those found for uncorrelated disorder.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures