cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Implications of a time-varying Galactic potential for determinations of the dynamical surface density
Creators: name: Haines, Tim
name: D'Onghia, Elena
name: Famaey, Benoit
name: Laporte, Chervin
name: Hernquist, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent studies have shown that the passage of a massive satellite through the disk of a spiral galaxy can induce vertical wobbles in the disk and produce features such as in-plane rings and phase-space spirals. Here we analyze a high-resolution N-body simulation of a live stellar disk perturbed by the recent passage of a massive dwarf galaxy that induces such perturbations. We study the implications of the phase-space structures for the estimate of the matter density through traditional Jeans modelling. The dwarf satellite excites rapid time-variations in the potential, leading to a significant bias of the local matter surface density determined through such a method. In particular, while the Jeans modelling gives reasonable estimates in the most overdense regions of the disk, we show that it tends to overestimate the dynamical surface density in underdense regions. In these regions, the phase-space spiral is indeed more marked in the surface of section of height vs. vertical velocity. This prediction can be verified with future Gaia data releases. Our finding is highly relevant for future attempts at determining the dynamical surface density of the outer Milky Way disk as a function of radius. The outer disk of the Milky Way is indeed heavily perturbed, and \textit{Gaia} DR2 data have clearly shown that such phase-space perturbations are even present locally. While our results show that traditional Jeans modelling should give reliable results in overdense regions of the disk, the important biases in underdense regions call for the development of non-equilibrium methods to estimate the dynamical matter density locally and in the outer disk.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL
Resilient Pedagogy: Practical Teaching Strategies to Overcome Distance, Disruption, and Distraction
Creators: name: Thurston, Travis N.
name: Lundstrom, Kacy
name: González, Chris
name: Masland, Lindsay C.
name: Buyserie, Beth
name: Bryson, Rachel
name: Quistberg, Rachel
name: Noffs, David S.
name: Wilson, Kristina
name: DeVaney, James
name: Fortman, Jacob
name: Quintana, Rebecca M.
name: Bowen, Briana
name: Fabrey, Christina
name: Keith, Heather
name: Hawks, Steven R.
name: Dee, Kay C.
name: Ingram, Ella L.
name: O'Connor, Jennifer B.
name: Popovic, Kosta
name: Reyes, Eric
name: Phillips, Christopher
name: Colton, Jared S.
name: Cohn, Jenae
name: Burns, Christopher
name: Winter, Elizabeth
name: Campbell, Rebecca
name: Kelly, Kevin
name: Moore, Miriam
name: Erickson, Kresten
name: Rivera-Mueller, Jessica
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Resilient Pedagogy offers a comprehensive collection on the topics and issues surrounding resilient pedagogy framed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social justice movements that have swept the globe. As a collection, Resilient Pedagogy is a multi-disciplinary and multi-perspective response to actions taken in different classrooms, across different institution types, and from individuals in different institutional roles with the purpose of allowing readers to explore the topics to improve their own teaching practice and support their own students through distance, disruption, and distraction.
Predicting complex user behavior from CDR based social networks
Creators: name: Doyle, Casey
name: Herga, Zala
name: Dipple, Stephen
name: Szymanski, Boleslaw K.
name: Korniss, Gyorgy
name: Mladenic, Dunja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Call Detail Record (CDR) datasets provide enough information about personal interactions to support building and analyzing detailed empirical social networks. We take one such dataset and describe the various ways of using it to create a true social network in spite of the highly noisy data source. We use the resulting network to predict each individual's likelihood to default on payments for the network services, a complex behavior that involves a combination of social, economic, and legal considerations. We use a large number of features extracted from the network to build a model for predicting which users will default. By analyzing the relative contributions of features, we choose their best performing subsets ranging in size from small to medium. Features based on the number of close ties maintained by a user performed better than those derived from user's geographical location. The paper contributions include systematic impact analysis that the number of calls cutoff has on the properties of the network derived from CDR, and a methodology for building complex behavior models by creating very large sets of diverse features and systematically choosing those which perform best for the final model.
description: 41 pages, 7 figures
title: Jahrbuch des Braunschweigischen Geschichtsvereins: 2. Folge, Bd 7 [= 22. Bd der ganzen Reihe] 1935
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 1935
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch
subject: 90

description: Jahrbücher des Braunschweigischen Geschichtsvereins, vol. 2. Folge, Bd 7 [= 22. Bd der ganzen Reihe] 1935
Optical and Electrical Properties of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes with Known Chiralities
Creators: Zhang, Zhengyi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials science
subject: Condensed matter
subject: Nanotechnology
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: Carbon nanotube (CNT) is a hollow structure consisted by one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms, which can be considered as a rolled-up graphene sheet. The diameter and rolling angle (chirality) uniquely determines its electronic structure. Over two decades of study, due to the difficulty of synthesizing clean individual CNTs and the limitation of accurate chirality characterization, there are still unveiled questions towards the intrinsic properties of this 1-D material at single molecular level. In this thesis, I will discuss the approaches of fabricating chirality assigned CNT device and the experimental results of its optical and electrical properties.
      In the first part, I describe using 'fast heating' chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method to achieve the high quality suspended CNT growth. Combining Rayleigh and Raman spectroscopy, I demonstrate the accurate assignment of chirality for each suspended individual CNT.
      With the ability of chirality identification, a series of optical and electrical experiments were conducted on the selected CNTs of interest. In the following part, I first discuss the probe of many-body effect in a semiconducting CNT by observing the elastic scattering (Rayleigh spectra) with electrostatic gating. We found the dominant short-range interaction is reduced to 85% of its intrinsic strength for doping level of ρ=0.4e/nm, demonstrating the possible control of sub-band exciton resonance frequency without rely on Pauli-blocking effect in CNTs.
      In order to study the substrate effect in electrical transport of CNTs, I improved the transfer technique to accurately place individual CNT on a specific substrate. With this technique, I've achieved transferring individual CNT on 20µmx20µm thin layer of hexagonal-boron nitride (h-BN) substrate  with a ± 5µm error.
      The low field electrical transport studies were conducted on both metallic and semiconducting CNTs with known chiralities on h-BN.
      Temperature dependent measurement shows the resistivity becomes super-linear around 250K, consistent with the prediction that the surface polar phonon of h-BN couples with electrons in CNT at higher phonon energy than SiO₂. Moreover, the FET devices of CNT on h-BN with graphite local back gate show hysteresis free feature in vacuum, and the subthreshold swing of 118mV/dec is comparable to high κ dielectric HfO₂ based device.
title: Jahrbuch des Braunschweigischen Geschichtsvereins: 2. Folge, Bd 9 [= 24. Bd der ganzen Reihe] 1937
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 1937
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch
subject: 90

description: Jahrbücher des Braunschweigischen Geschichtsvereins, vol. 2. Folge, Bd 9 [= 24. Bd der ganzen Reihe] 1937
Standard-model bundles
Creators: name: Donagi, Ron
name: Ovrut, Burt
name: Pantev, Tony
name: Waldram, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a family of genus one fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds with fundamental group ${\mathbb Z}/2$. On each Calabi-Yau $Z$ in the family we exhibit a positive dimensional family of Mumford stable bundles whose symmetry group is the Standard Model group $SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ and which have $c_{3} = 6$. We also show that for each bundle $V$ in our family, $c_{2}(Z) - c_{2}(V)$ is the class of an effective curve on $Z$. These conditions ensure that $Z$ and $V$ can be used for a phenomenologically relevant compactification of Heterotic M-theory.
description: Reference to the work of C.Schoen added
Haplopteris volkensii E. H. Crane
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Pteridaceae
Haplopteris
Haplopteris volkensii

description: Haplopteris volkensii (Hieron.) E.H.Crane  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: LMWF; 1 500–2 600 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Castle Forest Station, Alt. 2050 m, 20 Oct. 1979, Gilbert 5762 (EA).
 References: Fries et al. (1924b), Schelpe (1951), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Anisotropy of the upper critical field in superconductors with anisotropic gaps. Anisotropy parameters of MgB2
Creators: name: Miranovic, P.
name: Machida, K.
name: Kogan, V. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The upper critical field Hc2 is evaluated for weakly-coupled two-band superconductors. By modeling the actual bands and the gap distribution of MgB2 by two Fermi surface spheroids with average parameters of the real material, we show that H_{c2,ab}/H_{c2,c} increases with decreasing temperature in agreement with available data.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
title: Jahrbuch des Braunschweigischen Geschichtsvereins: 2. Folge, Bd 8 [= 23. Bd der ganzen Reihe] 1936
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 1936
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch
subject: 90

description: Jahrbücher des Braunschweigischen Geschichtsvereins, vol. 2. Folge, Bd 8 [= 23. Bd der ganzen Reihe] 1936
Peucedanum praeruptorum Dunn
Creators: name: Sui, Ziwei
name: Luo, Jun
name: Yao, Ruolan
name: Huang, Chuanlong
name: Zhao, Yucheng
name: Kong, Lingyi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Apiaceae
Peucedanum
Peucedanum praeruptorum

description: 2.1. Identification of the cDNA encoding PAL in P. praeruptorum
 Using PAL sequences reported previously and our transcriptome database of P. praeruptorum (accession no. SRX997427) (Zhao et al., 2015), a BLAST search was conducted. According to the E -value of alignments, only one PAL was identified and cloned. This cDNA, which encodes a 719 amino acid residue protein (Table S1), was designated PpPAL. According to bioinformatics, PpPAL is most closely related to PAL of Angelica sinensis (AsPAL), which also belongs to Apiaceae (Fig. S2). The amino acid sequences of PpPAL also contain a highly conserved MIO group, which is formed by Ala-Ser-Gly residues (Fig. S3). The high sequence similarity revealed that they might display the same enzymatic functions such as substrate specificity, optimal pH and catalytic mechanism.
description: Published as part of Sui, Ziwei, Luo, Jun, Yao, Ruolan, Huang, Chuanlong, Zhao, Yucheng & Kong, Lingyi, 2019, Functional characterization and correlation analysis of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) in coumarin biosynthesis from Peucedanum praeruptorum Dunn, pp. 35-45 in Phytochemistry 158 on page 36, DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2018.11.006, http://zenodo.org/record/10481556
High-temperature domain walls of QCD with imaginary chemical potentials
Creators: name: Nishimura, Hiromichi
name: Tanizaki, Yuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study QCD with massless quarks on $\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1$ under symmetry-twisted boundary conditions with small compactification radius, i.e. at high temperatures. Under suitable boundary conditions, the theory acquires a part of the center symmetry and it is spontaneously broken at high temperatures. We show that these vacua at high temperatures can be regarded as different symmetry-protected topological orders, and the domain walls between them support nontrivial massless gauge theories as a consequence of anomaly-inflow mechanism. At sufficiently high temperatures, we can perform the semiclassical analysis to obtain the domain-wall theory, and $2$d $U(N_\mathrm{c}-1)$ gauge theories with massless fermions match the 't~Hooft anomaly. We perform these analysis for the high-temperature domain wall of $\mathbb{Z}_{N_\mathrm{c}}$-QCD and also of Roberge-Weiss phase transitions.
description: 21 pages (v2) affiliation updated, typos corrected
Safety and sustainable habitat considerations for the Lakeview Dividend Mine closure : bats in the adit
Creators: name: Steller, Bill
name: Reggin, Lara
name: Schmidt, Tara
name: Sylte, Scott
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Lakeview Dividend Mine near Osoyoos, B.C. operated intermittently from 1898 to the 1940’s, and was closed before reclamation legislation was in place. In 2007, The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources prioritized this project for reclamation due to hazards posed by the remaining adits, shafts, unstable rock ledges, and a stope which had partially caved to surface. Reclamation plans for the site included many unique and complex components. The property has significant historic importance to the community of Osoyoos and is located adjacent to a residential neighbourhood, providing challenges related to community engagement and public safety. The mine’s location is within the fragile and endangered Great Basin Ecosystem, and the mine has been recognized as an area of environmental importance due to habitation of the abandoned adits by red- and blue-listed bat species. Technical challenges in this project included preserving the bat habitat in the adits through the installation of bat gates and a ventilation raise, stabilization of a high rock face above the homes in the adjacent residential community, infilling of the open and partially collapsed stope, and regrading and revegetation of the site.
title: Developing a synthetic bone marrow niche for testing novel leukaemia therapies
Creators: name: Doherty-Boyd, William Sebastian
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2025

description: Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are responsible for haematopoiesis, the continuous production of blood and immune cells within the bone marrow (BM) niche. The BM niche maintains the stem cell pool and haematopoietic activity with a variety of stimuli. Erroneous haematopoiesis can result in disorders and diseases such as acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has the potential to significantly improve AML patients’ outlook. However, the efficacy of novel therapies is difficult to assess prior to clinical trials. A model BM niche was developed to provide insight into therapies’ efficacies.

The model used mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs), which support HSCs in the BM niche, as a feeder layer. The MSCs were cultured on a surface coated with poly(ethyl acrylate). This material caused fibronectin, which the surface was also coated with, to assemble in an open conformation. The fibronectin, which was loaded with the osteogenic growth factor bone morphogenic protein 2, directed the phenotype of MSCs cultured on top. A synthetic, peptide-based hydrogel was also layered on top of the MSCs, forming a barrier between MSCs under the gel and HSCs cultured on top of the gel, and acting as a culture interface between the different cell populations. This system promoted a niche-like phenotype in MSCs, which supported HSCs, mimicking the BM niche.

A CAR T-cell therapy which specifically eliminated AML cells was also developed. AML cells lack differentiable surface markers that can be used as CAR T-cell targets without harming healthy myeloid cells. To overcome this, CD33, a myeloid and AML cell surface marker, was disrupted in HSCs. This allowed CD33 to be targeted with CAR T-cells, theoretically eliminating all CD33 expressing cells, including AML cells, while a CD33del population of haematopoietic cells with the potential to repopulate the niche survived. This therapeutic approach was tested in the model BM niche and found to effectively eliminate AML cells, but also affect haematopoietic cells, warranting further research.

The successful modelling of a healthy, diseased, and treated BM niche demonstrated the usefulness of in vitro models for testing novel therapies for BM associated disorders and diseases.
Explainable NLP for Human-AI Collaboration
Creators: name: Lertvittayakumjorn, Piyawat
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: With more data and computing resources available these days, we have seen many novel Natural Language Processing (NLP) models breaking one performance record after another. Some of them even outperform human performance in some specific tasks. Meanwhile, many researchers have revealed weaknesses and irrationality of such models, e.g., having biases against some sub-populations, producing inconsistent predictions, and failing to work effectively in the wild due to overfitting. Therefore, in real applications, especially in high-stakes domains, humans cannot rely carelessly on predictions of NLP models, but they need to work closely with the models to ensure that every final decision made is accurate and benevolent. In this thesis, we devise and utilize explainable NLP techniques to support human-AI collaboration using text classification as a target task. Overall, our contributions can be divided into three main parts. First, we study how useful explanations are for humans according to three different purposes: revealing model behavior, justifying model predictions, and helping humans investigate uncertain predictions. Second, we propose a framework that enables humans to debug simple deep text classifiers informed by model explanations. Third, leveraging on computational argumentation, we develop a novel local explanation method for pattern-based logistic regression models that align better with human judgements and effectively assist humans to perform an unfamiliar task in real-time. Altogether, our contributions are paving the way towards the synergy of profound knowledge of human users and the tireless power of AI machines.
Optical and Electronic Studies of Air-Sensitive van der Waals Materials Encapsulated by Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Creators: Wang, Dennis
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Applied physics
Condensed matter
Boron nitride
Materials
Electronics
Optics

description: Layered van der Waals materials have played a pivotal role in expanding the scope of condensed matter physics by examining the effects of reduced dimensionality in various systems. These include semiconductors, ferromagnets, and charge density wave materials, among many others. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is often used as a passivation/encapsulation layer for air-sensitive materials in optical and electronic studies owing to its effectiveness as a substrate for graphene in transport measurements. In this thesis, samples probed by Raman spectroscopy and as well as those measured through electronic transport were first encapsulated during fabrication. The specific experimental details are found in each corresponding chapter.
      This thesis aims to characterize several 2-D materials and explore physical phenomena arising from combinations thereof through optical and electronic means. Before delving into the specific research projects, it provides a motivation for each, descriptions of the material(s) involved, and sample fabrication techniques used to assemble the various heterostructures. Topics to be covered include the effects of encapsulation on the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) 1T’-MoTe2 subject to elevated temperatures, how the nearly commensurate to commensurate phase transition of another TMD, the charge density wave material 1T-TaS2, in its few-layer form can be tuned electronically, preliminary results of electronic transport in graphene-ferromagnet heterostructures, and an outline of other optical studies on mono- to few-layered forms of related materials and possible future directions that may be pursued.
Highland Valley landfill : from concept through environmental assessment
Creators: name: Freberg, Mark
name: Sperling, Tony, 1960-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Highland Valley Copper’s reclamation program is driven by an End Land Use Plan developed in 1998. One of the goals of the Plan is to develop suitable end uses that will minimize the impact of the mine’s eventual closure, both on the environment and nearby communities. In 2002, landfilling was proposed as a new land use. The concept has now advanced to the point that a Project Approval Certificate for a large municipal landfill is expected from the Province in September 2008. This paper describes the project and the environmental review process.
Reversible signal transmission in an active mechanical metamaterial
Creators: name: Browning, Alexander P
name: Woodhouse, Francis G
name: Simpson, Matthew J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35C07

description: Mechanical metamaterials are designed to enable unique functionalities, but are typically limited by an initial energy state and require an independent energy input to function repeatedly. Our study introduces a theoretical active mechanical metamaterial that incorporates a biological reaction mechanism to overcome this key limitation of passive metamaterials. Our material allows for reversible mechanical signal transmission, where energy is reintroduced by the biologically motivated reaction mechanism. By analysing a coarse grained continuous analogue of the discrete model, we find that signals can be propagated through the material by a travelling wave. Analysis of the continuum model provides the region of the parameter space that allows signal transmission, and reveals similarities with the well-known FitzHugh-Nagumo system. We also find explicit formulae that approximate the effect of the timescale of the reaction mechanism on the signal transmission speed, which is essential for controlling the material.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures
title: Jahrbuch des Braunschweigischen Geschichtsvereins: 2. Folge, Bd 10 [= 25. Bd der ganzen Reihe] 1938
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 1938
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch
subject: 900

description: Jahrbücher des Braunschweigischen Geschichtsvereins, vol. 2. Folge, Bd 10 [= 25. Bd der ganzen Reihe] 1938
TECHNOLOGIZATION OF THE CONTENT OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS IN NEW UZBEKISTAN IS A REQUIREMENT OF THE TIME
Creators: name: Tleubaev Islambek Shamuratovich teacher – methodist of the Tashkent regional training center  of the National Guard of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article is aimed at systematizing the norms governing educational activities, as well as adapting the content of educational materialsin higher education to standards that meet the requirements of the times, further strengthening the knowledge and level of the younger generation.

Key words: education, norms, materials, higher education, technologization and consciousness.
MOESM5 of A genetically engineered Escherichia coli strain overexpressing the nitroreductase NfsB is capable of producing the herbicide D-DIBOA with 100% molar yield
Creators: name: Calle, Maria De La
name: Cabrera, Gema
name: Cantero, Domingo
name: Valle, Antonio
name: Bolivar, Jorge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 5. Growth curves for: (a) Biotransformations with the ΔlapA, ΔfliQ and ΔlapAΔfliQ strains described in Fig. 3c and d. (b) Biotransformation with the ΔlapAΔfliQ double mutant in the multiple loads of precursor experiments described in Fig. 6.
Analyzing Input and Output Representations for Speech-Driven Gesture Generation
Creators: name: Kucherenko, Taras
name: Hasegawa, Dai
name: Henter, Gustav Eje
name: Kaneko, Naoshi
name: Kjellström, Hedvig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.5.1; J.4

description: This paper presents a novel framework for automatic speech-driven gesture generation, applicable to human-agent interaction including both virtual agents and robots. Specifically, we extend recent deep-learning-based, data-driven methods for speech-driven gesture generation by incorporating representation learning. Our model takes speech as input and produces gestures as output, in the form of a sequence of 3D coordinates. Our approach consists of two steps. First, we learn a lower-dimensional representation of human motion using a denoising autoencoder neural network, consisting of a motion encoder MotionE and a motion decoder MotionD. The learned representation preserves the most important aspects of the human pose variation while removing less relevant variation. Second, we train a novel encoder network SpeechE to map from speech to a corresponding motion representation with reduced dimensionality. At test time, the speech encoder and the motion decoder networks are combined: SpeechE predicts motion representations based on a given speech signal and MotionD then decodes these representations to produce motion sequences. We evaluate different representation sizes in order to find the most effective dimensionality for the representation. We also evaluate the effects of using different speech features as input to the model. We find that mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), alone or combined with prosodic features, perform the best. The results of a subsequent user study confirm the benefits of the representation learning.
description: Accepted at IVA '19. Shorter version published at AAMAS '19. The code is available at https://github.com/GestureGeneration/Speech_driven_gesture_generation_with_autoencoder
Gravitational Radiation Reaction to a Particle Motion
Creators: name: Mino, Yasushi
name: Sasaki, Misao
name: Tanaka, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we discuss the leading order correction to the equation of motion of the particle, which presumably describes the effect of gravitational radiation reaction. We derive the equation of motion in two different ways. The first one is an extension of the well-known formalism by DeWitt and Brehme developed for deriving the equation of motion of an electrically charged particle. In contrast to the electromagnetic case, in which there are two different charges, i.e., the electric charge and the mass, the gravitational counterpart has only one charge. This fact prevents us from using the same renormalization scheme that was used in the electromagnetic case. To make clear the subtlety in the first approach, we then consider the asymptotic matching of two different schemes, i.e., the internal scheme in which the small particle is represented by a spherically symmetric black hole with tidal perturbations and the external scheme in which the metric is given by small perturbations on the given background geometry. The equation of motion is obtained from the consistency condition of the matching. We find that in both ways the same equation of motion is obtained. The resulting equation of motion is analogous to that derived in the electromagnetic case. We discuss implications of this equation of motion.
description: 25 pages revtex file
Optically Probing Emergent Phases of Electrons in the Second Landau Level
Creators: Levy, Antonio Luis
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Condensed matter
Landau levels
Physics
Light--Scattering

description: In this dissertation, I present optical emission and light scattering studies on ultraclean two-dimensional electron systems. These studies focus on emerg- ing phases in the second Landau level.
      I report for the excitation spectrum for fractional quantum Hall states at filling factors ν = 2+1/3, ν = 2+3/8, and ν = 2+2/5 through resonant inelastic light scattering. Resonant Rayleigh scattering is used to demonstrate that these fractional quantum Hall states are anisotropic. This work provides new insights into the nature of quasiparticle interactions of these states. It also sets the stage for the subsequent discussions about competing and coexistent phases.
      I present studies of emergent phases in the filling factor range 2 ≤ ν ≤ 3 using weak optical emission from the second Landau level and resonant inelas- tic light scattering by spin wave excitations. A multiplet of optical emission peaks observed that exhibit striking filling factor dependence amnifest phase competition in the second Landau level. A correlation of emission peaks in the multiplet with anomalies observed in the spin wave spectrum uncover major impact of the spin degree of freedom on the emergent phases in the second Landau level. These experiments demonstrate the promise of optical emission from excited Landau levels as a probe of emergent phases.
      Results from optical emission and resonant inelastic light scattering stud- ies of the second Landau level conducted at higher temperatures (T ≈ 1 K) are also presented. Evidence that many phases observed at these higher temperatures are shown to be the same as those at lower (T ≈ 40 mK) temperatures. Striking and anomalous temperature-dependence of optical emission experiments is used to gain further insight into the nature of these competing phases.
Hemionitis farinosa Christenh.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Pteridaceae
Hemionitis
Hemionitis farinosa

description: Hemionitis farinosa (Forssk.) Christenh.  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ; 1 400–4 000 m. Distribution: I.
 Voucher: Naro Moru Track, Alt. 2 546 m, 23 Jul. 2014, SAJIT 002076 (HIB).
 References: Fries et al. (1924b), Schelpe (1951), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Spectral involutions on rational elliptic surfaces
Creators: name: Donagi, Ron
name: Ovrut, Burt
name: Pantev, Tony
name: Waldram, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we describe a four dimensional family of special rational elliptic surfaces admitting an involution with isolated fixed points. For each surface in this family we calculate explicitly the action of a spectral version of the involution (namely of its Fourier-Mukai conjugate) on global line bundles and on spectral data. The calculation is carried out both on the level of cohomology and in the derived category. We find that the spectral involution behaves like a fairly simple affine transformation away from the union of those fiber components which do not intersect the zero section. These results are the key ingredient in the construction of Standard-Model bundles in [DOPWa].
description: Reference to the work of C.Schoen added
MOESM4 of A genetically engineered Escherichia coli strain overexpressing the nitroreductase NfsB is capable of producing the herbicide D-DIBOA with 100% molar yield
Creators: name: Calle, Maria De La
name: Cabrera, Gema
name: Cantero, Domingo
name: Valle, Antonio
name: Bolivar, Jorge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 4. Biotransformation yields in the biocatalysis carried out by ∆lapA, ∆fliQ, ∆nuoG and ∆fadR single mutant strains, ∆lapA∆fliQ double mutant strain and wild type strain at 4, 8, 18 and 24 h of experiment after precursor addition.
title: Parameter Identification in a Probabilistic Setting
Creators: name: Rosic, Bojana
name: Kucerova, Anna
name: Sykora, Jan
name: Pajonk, Oliver
name: Litvinenko, Alexander
name: Matthies, Hermann
Publisher: name: Institute of Scientific Computing
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Parameter-Identifikation
subject: Kalman-Filter
subject: Bayesian Update
subject: Lineares Bayes. - (Informatikbericht
subject: 2011-10)
subject: parameter identification
subject: Kalman filter
subject: Bayesian update
subject: linear Bayes
subject: polynomial chaos
subject: 004

description: Parameter identification problems are formulated in a probabilistic language, where the randomness reflects the uncertainty about the knowledge of the true values. This setting allows conceptually easily to incorporate new information, e.g. through a measurement, by connecting it to Bayes's theorem. The unknown quantity is modelled as a (may be high-dimensional) random variable. Such a description has two constituents, the measurable function and the measure. One group of methods is identified as updating the measure, the other group changes the measurable function. We connect both groups with the relatively recent methods of functional approximation of stochastic problems, and introduce especially in combination with the second group of methods a new procedure which does not need any sampling, hence works completely deterministically. It also seems to be the fastest and more reliable when compared with other methods. We show by example that it also works for highly nonlinear non-smooth problems with non-Gaussian measures.
description: Informatik-Berichte der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 2011-10
Hemionitis viridis Christenh.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Pteridaceae
Hemionitis
Hemionitis viridis

description: Hemionitis viridis (Forssk.) Christenh.  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ; up to 2 600 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Upper Imenti Forest, Alt. 2 448 m, 7 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003172 (EA).
 References: Fries et al. (1924b), Bussmann (1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Large anisotropy in the optical conductivity of YNi2B2C
Creators: name: Youn, S. J.
name: Min, B. I.
name: Freeman, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical properties of YNi$_2$B$_2$C are studied by using the first-principles full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method within the local density approximation. Anisotropic behavior is obtained in the optical conductivity, even though the electronic structure shows 3D character. A large peak in $σ_z$ is obtained at 2.4 eV. The anisotropic optical properties are analyzed in terms of interband transitions between energy levels and found that the Ni site plays an important role. The electronic energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) spectra are also calculated to help elucidate the anisotropic properties in this system.
description: revtex4, 4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in PRB
title: Deterministic Linear Bayesian Updating of State and Model Parameters for a Chaotic Model
Creators: name: Pajonk, Oliver
name: Rosic, Bojana
name: Matthies, Hermann
Publisher: name: Institute of Scientific Computing
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Bayesian estimation
subject: polynomial chaos expansion
subject: Kalman filter
subject: inverse problem
subject: white noise analysis
subject: 004

description: We present a sampling-free implementation of a linear Bayesian filter. It is based on spectral series expansions of the involved random variables, one such example being Wiener's polynomial chaos. The method is applied to a combined state and parameter estimation problem for a chaotic system, the well-known Lorenz-63 model. We compare it to the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF), which is essentially a stochastic implementation of the same underlying estimator---a fact which is demonstrated in the paper. The spectral method is found to be more reliable for the same computational load, especially for the variance estimation. This is to be expected due to the fully deterministic implementation.
description: Informatik-Berichte der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 2012-01
MOESM3 of A genetically engineered Escherichia coli strain overexpressing the nitroreductase NfsB is capable of producing the herbicide D-DIBOA with 100% molar yield
Creators: name: Calle, Maria De La
name: Cabrera, Gema
name: Cantero, Domingo
name: Valle, Antonio
name: Bolivar, Jorge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. List of the selected superpathways and genes involved in carbon and energy metabolism.
Optical characterization of dopamine release in the globus pallidus and striatum
Creators: Meszaros, Jozsef
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biology
subject: Globus pallidus
subject: Dopamine
subject: Optics

description: The measurement of dopamine neurotransmission in the brain has evolved alongside techniques for measuring neuronal activity. This evolution has progressed from coarse physical inspection (using lesions or dialysis approaches) to measuring electrical signatures of the phenomena of interest. Most recently, an optical revolution has taken hold within the neurosciences. We present an optical dopamine measurement technique as a companion to burgeoning neural activity monitors such as GCaMP. The electrical consequences of individual glutamate molecules impinging upon a postsynaptic membrane can be captured in an electrophysiological trace. On the other hand, dopamine has no consistent, measureable postsynaptic effects and therefore cannot easily be measured electrophysiologically. Researchers have instead used the electrochemical features of dopamine to measure samples of it in physical space. This approach, termed cyclic voltammetry, has generated nearly all of the existing knowledge about the precise characteristics of dopamine release. While a reliable method for measuring dopamine release from heavily innervated areas, cyclic voltammetry lacks the resolving power to establish release from dopamine terminals in other areas of interest. One such area is the external globus pallidus (GPe), the focus of this work. Research performed nearly thirty years prior to this thesis established the presence of sparsely distributed dopamine varicosities within the GPe. Here, we leverage FFN102, a newly developed optical method used as a proxy for dopamine release, to measure dopamine release in this area. Based on previous literature showing that dopamine varicosities were present in the GPe and that dopamine receptors exist on principal cells in the area, we hypothesized that these dopamine varicosities were capable of releasing FFN102. Moreover, previous work had shown that anatomically, the most prominent dopaminergic innervation to the GPe came from the substantia nigra. By validating the FFN102 method in the GPe, we showed that a substance is released which likely reflects dopamine vesicle release. Moreover, the use of two dopamine depletion mouse models allowed us to conclude that FFN102 is released exclusively from dopamine terminals. Finally, we advanced the understanding of dopamine release in the area by examining whether pharmacological manipulation could alter the amount of FFN102 released from dopamine terminals.
Quantum Martingale Theory and Entropy Production
Creators: name: Manzano, Gonzalo
name: Fazio, Rosario
name: Roldán, Édgar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a martingale theory to describe fluctuations of entropy production for open quantum systems in nonequilbrium steady states. Using the formalism of quantum jump trajectories, we identify a decomposition of entropy production into an exponential martingale and a purely quantum term, both obeying integral fluctuation theorems. An important consequence of this approach is the derivation of a set of genuine universal results for stopping-time and infimum statistics of stochastic entropy production. Finally we complement the general formalism with numerical simulations of a qubit system.
description: 7 pages + 5 pages of supplemental information, 2 figures
Pityrogramma aurantiaca C. Chr.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Pteridaceae
Pityrogramma
Pityrogramma aurantiaca

description: Pityrogramma aurantiaca (Hieron.) C.Chr.  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: LMWF, UMF, HZ; 1 400–3 500 m. Distribution: IIIa.
 Voucher: Southeast Mount Kenya, Irangi Forest Station, Alt. 1 900 m, 30 Apr. 1972, Faden et al. 72/189 (EA).
References: Bussmann (1994), Verdcourt (2002a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Additional file 1: of Long-term changes in body weight and physical activity in relation to all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: the HUNT study
Creators: name: Nordstoga, Anne
name: Zotcheva, Ekaterina
name: Svedahl, Ellen
name: Nilsen, Tom
name: Skarpsno, Eivind
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Sensitivity analyses. Table S1. Excluded persons who reported being physically active less than once a week in HUNT1 and less than one hour a week in HUNT2. Table S2. Included body mass index (BMI) at HUNT1 as a covariate in the model. Table S3. Excluded persons aged <60 years. Table S4. Excluded persons with a history of cardiovascular disease. (DOCX 23 kb)
Electric field dependence of thermal conductivity of a granular superconductor: Giant field-induced effects predicted
Creators: name: Sergeenkov, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature and electric field dependence of electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity (TC) of a granular superconductor is considered within a 3D model of inductive Josephson junction arrays. In addition to a low-temperature maximum of zero-field TC K(T,0) (controlled by mutual inductance L_0 and normal state resistivity R_n), the model predicts two major effects in applied electric field: (i) decrease of the linear TC, and (ii) giant enhancement of the nonlinear (i.e., grad T-dependent) TC with [K(T,E)-K(T,0)]/K(T,0) reaching 500% for parallel electric fields E=E_T (E_T=S_0|grad T| is an "intrinsic" thermoelectric field). A possiblity of experimental observation of the predicted effects in granular superconductors is discussed.
description: 5 LaTeX pages (jetpl.sty included), 2 EPS figures. To be published in JETP Letters
Polydesmus collaris C.L. Koch 1847
Creators: name: Bachvarova, Darina
name: Vagalinski, Boyan
name: Doichinov, Aleksandar
name: Stoev, Pavel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Polydesmidae
Polydesmus
Polydesmus collaris

description: Polydesmus collaris C.L. Koch, 1847
Fig. 1
 Material examined. 1 ♀ (IBER), West Bulgaria, Sofia District, Tran Municipality, Rui Mountain, near Zelenigrad, N 42.501257, E 22.334568, along the road, under stones, 13.III.2016, leg. P. Mitov; 1 specimen photographed by Iliya Dimitrov on 4.VI. 2010 in Rui Mountain, Tran Municipality, along the track Lomnitsa village—hut Rui, approximately 2 km from the village N 42.521319, E 22.375491; 1 specimen photographed by Viktor Senderov on 17.IV.2016 near Velinovo village, ca. 15 km SE of Tran, N 42.771549, E 22.691576.
 Remarks. A new species to the Bulgarian fauna. Although no male has been collected, the characteristic color pattern (see Fig. 1) leaves no doubt about the identity of the specimens. At present, the three localities listed above mark the easternmost occurrence of P. collaris, the nearest record being in Serbia, some 60–70 km off the Bulgarian border (Makarov et al. 2004).
description: Published as part of Bachvarova, Darina, Vagalinski, Boyan, Doichinov, Aleksandar & Stoev, Pavel, 2017, New records of millipedes and centipedes from Bulgaria, with an annotated checklist of the Bulgarian myriapods, pp. 507-526 in Zootaxa 4263 (3) on page 509, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/573649