cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Energy-Efficient Configurable Lattice Cryptography Processor for the Quantum-Secure Internet of Things
Creators: name: Banerjee, Utsav
name: Pathak, Abhishek
name: Chandrakasan, Anantha P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a configurable lattice cryptography processor which enables quantum-resistant security protocols for IoT. Efficient sampling architectures, coupled with a low-power SHA-3 core, provide two orders of magnitude energy savings over software. A single-port RAM-based NTT architecture is proposed, which provides ~124k-gate area savings. This is the first ASIC implementation which demonstrates multiple lattice-based protocols proposed for NIST post-quantum standardization.
description: Published in 2019 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
Cosmological constant in broken maximal sugras
Creators: name: Chalmers, Gordon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the form of the cosmological constant in the loop expansion of broken maximally supersymmetric supergravity theories, and after embedding, within superstring and M-theory. Supersymmetry breaking at the TeV scale generates values of the cosmological constant that are in agreement with current astrophysical data. The form of perturbative quantum effects in the loop expansion is consistent with this parameter regime.
description: 8 pages
Semidysderina marta Platnick & Dupérré 2011, new species
Creators: name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Semidysderina
Semidysderina marta

description: Semidysderina marta, new species Figures 853–860
TYPE: Female holotype taken in pitfall trap at an elevation of 5050 ft at Cerro Lagila, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia (Apr. 15–30, 1975; J. Kochalka), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 37107).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Females have the atrium largely filled by the triangular base of the anterior genitalic process (figs. 858–860).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 37107, figs. 853– 860): Total length 1.91. Elevated portion of pars cephalica granulate. Chilum small, triangular. Sternum surface finely reticulate. Postepigastric scutum only around epigastric furrow. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2, r0-1-1; tibiae: I v4-4-2, II v4-4-0; metatarsi: I v2-2-2, II v2-2- 1p. Both anterior and posterior margins of atrium rebordered; atrium triangular, containing wide triangular sclerotization; anterior genitalic process strongly sclerotized as base; apodemes oriented obliquely.
 OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Colombia: Magdalena: San Lorenzo, northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, June 20, 1985, litter and moss, elev. 2200 m (H.-G. Müller, MHNG PBI_OON 883), 2♀; near San Lorenzo, northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Aug. 22, 1985, bamboo forest with litter and sphagnum, elev. 2250 m (H.-G. Müller, MHNG PBI_OON 882), 3♀.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia.
description: Published as part of Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2011, The Andean Goblin Spiders Of The New Genera Paradysderina And Semidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-121 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (364) on page 116, DOI: 10.1206/771.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10114211
On the Stability of the Classical Vacua in a Minimal SU(5) 5-D Supergravity Model
Creators: name: Diamandis, G. A.
name: Georgalas, B. C.
name: Kouroumalou, P.
name: Lahanas, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a five-dimensional supergravity model with SU(5) gauge symmetry and the minimal field content. Studying the arising scalar potential we find that the gauging of the $U(1)_R$ symmetry of the five-dimensional supergravity causes instabilities. Lifting the instabilities the vacua are of Anti-de-Sitter type and SU(5) is broken along with supersymmetry. Keeping the $U(1)_R$ ungauged the potential has flat directions along which supersymmetry is unbroken.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures
Achieving Hate Speech Detection in a Low Resource Setting
Creators: name: Li, Peiyu
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Online social networks provide people with convenient platforms to communicate and share life moments. However, because of the anonymous property of these social media platforms, the cases of online hate speeches are increasing. Hate speech is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation”. Online hate speech has caused serious negative effects to legitimate users, including mental or emotional stress, reputational damage, and fear for one’s safety. To protect legitimate online users, automatically hate speech detection techniques are deployed on various social media. However, most of the existing hate speech detection models require a large amount of labeled data for training. In the thesis, we focus on achieving hate speech detection without using many labeled samples. In particular, we focus on three scenarios of hate speech detection and propose three corresponding approaches. (i) When we only have limited labeled data for one social media platform, we fine-tune a per-trained language model to conduct hate speech detection on the specific platform. (ii) When we have data from several social media platforms, each of which only has a small size of labeled data, we develop a multitask learning model to detect hate speech on several platforms in parallel. (iii) When we aim to conduct hate speech on a new social media platform, where we do not have any labeled data for this platform, we propose to use domain adaptation to transfer knowledge from some other related social media platforms to conduct hate speech detection on the new platform. Empirical studies show that our proposed approaches can achieve good performance on hate speech detection in a low resource setting.
Snake Mind, Wolf Body, Panther Courage: Jojo Rabbit as a Critique of Hegemonic Masculinity
Creators: name: Lippert, Christian W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: In 2019, the movie Jojo Rabbit (Waititi, 2019) was released to theaters. Because the film uses comedy and satire to tell a story about Jojo, a young Nazi who has Hitler as an imaginary friend, it received mix reviews. This analysis focuses on how the movie sheds light on the negative influence of hegemonic masculinity. Hegemonic masculinity refers to the messages and actions that place men above women or types of masculinity above femininity and other masculinities. Jojo’s desire to be a Nazi is deeply connected to his desire to be man. This analysis examines how hegemonic masculinity a) can limit the definition of manhood in negative ways b) pressures men and boys to prove or defend their manhood, and c) influences how boys and men use violence, threats, and public humiliation to police each one another’s masculinity. By understanding the film in this way, we can better understand how messages of hegemonic masculinity support extremist beliefs like white supremacy and neo-Nazism. We can also see how beliefs about male superiority harm everyone, even boys and men.
Nebria (Boreonebria) rufescens subsp. rufescens ssp. rufescens (STROM 1768
Creators: name: Guéorguiev, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Nebria
Nebria rufescens
Nebria (boreonebria) rufescens ssp. rufescens (strøm 1768)

description: Nebria (Boreonebria) rufescens ssp. rufescens (STRØM 1768)
K o s o v o:" 1978.VI.11 Peć (Peja) 700 m ", 3 s. (cIR).
First record for Kosovo.
description: Published as part of Guéorguiev, B., 2011, New and interesting records of Carabid Beetles from South-East Europe, South-West and Central Asia, with taxonomic notes on Pterostichini and Zabrini (Coleoptera, Carabidae), pp. 501-547 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1) on page 508, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324736
High-redshift test of gravity using enhanced growth of small structures probed by the neutral hydrogen distribution
Creators: name: Leo, Matteo
name: Arnold, Christian
name: Li, Baojiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future 21 cm intensity mapping surveys such as SKA can provide precise information on the spatial distribution of the neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization epoch. This information will allow to test the standard LCDM paradigm and with that the nature of gravity. In this work, we employ the SHYBONE simulations, which model galaxy formation in f(R) modified gravity using the IllustrisTNG model, to study the effects of modified gravity on HI abundance and power spectra. We find that the enhanced growth low-mass dark matter halos experience in f(R) gravity at high redshifts alters the HI power spectrum and can be observable through 21 cm intensity mapping. Our results suggest that the HI power spectrum is suppressed by 13\% on scales $k\lesssim2\,h\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$ at z=2 for F6, a f(R) model which passes most observational constraints. We show that this suppression can be detectable by SKA1-MID with 1000 hours of exposure time, making HI clustering a novel test of gravity at high redshift.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PRD
Novel Approach to Super Yang-Mills Theory on Lattice - Exact fermionic symmetry and "Ichimatsu" pattern -
Creators: name: Itoh, K.
name: Kato, M.
name: Sawanaka, H.
name: So, H.
name: Ukita, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a lattice theory with an exact fermionic symmetry, which mixes the link and the fermionic variables. The staggered fermionic variables may be reconstructed into a Majorana fermion in the continuum limit. The gauge action has a novel structure. Though it is the ordinary plaquette action, two different couplings are assigned in the ``Ichimatsu pattern'' or the checkered pattern. In the naive continuum limit, the fermionic symmetry survives as a continuum (or an $O(a^0)$) symmetry. The transformation of the fermion is proportional to the field strength multiplied by the difference of the two gauge couplings in this limit. This work is an extension of our recently proposed cell model toward the realization of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on lattice.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures
ACCELERATING SPARSE MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE
Creators: name: Gondimalla, Ashish
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400903
subject: Digital processor architectures
classificationCode: 400904
subject: Electronic device and system performance evaluation, testing and simulation
classificationCode: 400999
subject: Electronics, sensors and digital hardware not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460607
subject: High performance computing
classificationCode: 460606
subject: Energy-efficient computing

description: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become important workloads due to their

impressive accuracy in tasks like image classification and recognition. Convolution operations

are compute intensive, and this cost profoundly increases with newer and better CNN models.

However, convolutions come with characteristics such as sparsity which can be exploited. In

this dissertation, we propose three different works to capture sparsity for faster performance

and reduced energy. 

The first work is an accelerator design called SparTen for improving two-

sided sparsity (i.e, sparsity in both filters and feature maps) convolutions with fine-grained

sparsity. SparTen identifies efficient inner join as the key primitive for hardware acceleration

of sparse convolution. In addition, SparTen proposes load balancing schemes for higher

compute unit utilization. SparTen performs 4.7x, 1.8x and 3x better than dense architecture,

one-sided architecture and SCNN, the previous state of the art accelerator. The second work

BARISTA scales up SparTen (and SparTen like proposals) to large-scale implementation

with as many compute units as recent dense accelerators (e.g., Googles Tensor processing

unit) to achieve full speedups afforded by sparsity. However at such large scales, buffering,

on-chip bandwidth, and compute utilization are highly intertwined where optimizing for

one factor strains another and may invalidate some optimizations proposed in small-scale

implementations. BARISTA proposes novel techniques to balance the three factors in large-

scale accelerators. BARISTA performs 5.4x, 2.2x, 1.7x and 2.5x better than dense, one-

sided, naively scaled two-sided and an iso-area two-sided architecture, respectively. The last

work, EUREKA builds an efficient tensor core to execute dense, structured and unstructured

sparsity with losing efficiency. EUREKA achieves this by proposing novel techniques to

improve compute utilization by slightly tweaking operand stationarity. EUREKA achieves a

speedup of 5x, 2.5x, along with 3.2x and 1.7x energy reductions over Dense and structured

sparse execution respectively. EUREKA only incurs area and power overheads of 6% and

11.5%, respectively, over Ampere
Psychristus (Nipponobradycellus) HABU 1973
Creators: name: D. W
name: Jaeger, B.
name: H, Rolwaling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Psychristus

description: Key to species of subgenus Nipponobradycellus from Nepal
 1 Elytra smooth with only stria 1 completely developed, stria 2 partly reduced, remaining ones indicated only by single punctures. Interval 3 without discal pore puncture. Last abdominal sternite marginally with only one seta at each side in male.............................................................................................. P. glaber JAEGER & WRASE nov.sp.
- Elytra with all striae completely developed. Interval 3 with discal pore puncture. Last abdominal sternite marginally with two setae at each side in male.....................................2
 2 Pronotum from widest point weakly convex and strongly sinuate toward the longer, weakly obtuse-angled but sharp posterior angles, denticle absent. Antennomere 2 and 7-11 with a blackish stripe at middle. Humeri more strongly developed. Eyes moderately convex. Elytra longer (EL/EW 1,51). Median lobe with a long, narrow, parallel-sided apical lamella (Figs 2, 3). Body size larger, 4.6 mm (up to now only one male known).............................................................. P. schmidti WRASE & JAEGER nov.sp.
 - Pronotum from widest point almost rectilinearly narrowed toward the short, weakly obtuse-angled but sharp posterior angles, a small denticle present. Antennomere 2 and 7-11 of the same colour as antennomere 1. Humeri less strongly developed. Eyes fairly flat. Elytra shorter (EL/EW 1.48). Median lobe with apical lamella evenly narrowed (Figs 6, 7). Body size smaller, 3.9 mm (up to now only one male known).................................................................................................... P. umbraticornis WRASE & JAEGER nov.sp.
description: Published as part of D. W, Jaeger, B. & H, Rolwaling, 2007, New species of Psychristus ANDREWES 1930 subgenus Nipponobradycellus HABU 1973 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini, Stenolophina) from Nepal, pp. 681-692 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (1) on page 683, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5412569
Probing the anomalous electromagnetic dipole moments of the top quark in $γp$ collision at the LHC, the HL-LHC and the HE-LHC
Creators: name: Koksal, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The determination of the electromagnetic dipole moments of the top quark is one of the most important goals of the top quark physics program in the collider experiments. For this reason, the top quark pair production to investigate the sensitivity on the electric and magnetic dipole moments of the top quark via the process $pp\rightarrow p γp \rightarrow p t \bar{t} X$ at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) and High-Energy Large Hadron Collider (HE-LHC) is discussed. We apply pure leptonic and semileptonic decays for top quark pair production in the final state. Moreover, we consider systematic uncertainties of $0,3\%$ and $5\%$. The best limits obtained from the process $pp\rightarrow p γp \rightarrow p t \bar{t} X$ on the anomalous $a_{A}$ and $a_{V}$ couplings are $|a_{A}|=0.0200$ and $a_{V}=[-0.9959; 0.0003]$. Thus, our results indicate that the process $pp\rightarrow p γp \rightarrow p t \bar{t} X$ is a very good perspective to probe the electric and magnetic dipole moments of the top quark at the HL-LHC and the HE-LHC.
description: 32 pages, 11 figures, 19 tables, version to appear in NPB
Vespa velutina: a menace for Western Iberian fruit production
Creators: name: Nave, Anabela
name: Godinho, Joana
name: Fernandes, João
name: Garcia, Ana Isabel
name: Golpe, Maria Amparo Ferreira
name: Branco, Manuela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The Asian Hornet (Vespa velutina) is an invasive species that causes severely negative impacts on the ecosystems’ functioning, human health and agriculture. Its impact extends to the detriment of orchards and vineyards as the species feeds on fruits to obtain sugar, consequently diminishing the marketable yield and reducing the overall quantity of final products. The survey presented in this manuscript aimed to study the agricultural technicians’ appraisal of fruit damage caused by V. velutina since its appearance in the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula. In Galicia, Spain, 83% of technicians reported incidents on fruit damage, primarily affecting grapes, but also on pears and apples. In Portugal, 25% of technicians reported similar occurrences covering 8 species of fruit, notably on grapes, but also on apples, pears, figs, plums, peaches, blueberries and blackberries. This outcome showcases how V. velutina may cause non-negligible, direct detriment to fruit production, particularly to grapes. More studies are needed to quantify the economic impact of this type of damage.
Nebria (Eunebria) picicornis subsp. picicornis ssp. picicornis (FABRICIUS 1801
Creators: name: Guéorguiev, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Nebria
Nebria picicornis
Nebria (eunebria) picicornis ssp. picicornis (fabricius 1801)

description: Nebria (Eunebria) picicornis ssp. picicornis (FABRICIUS 1801)
C r o a t i a: "Dalmatia Metković E. v. D.", 1 s. (HNHM).
K o s o v o: "Alban.Exp.’18 Prizren 14.V.",1s.(NMW).
First records for Croatia and Kosovo.
description: Published as part of Guéorguiev, B., 2011, New and interesting records of Carabid Beetles from South-East Europe, South-West and Central Asia, with taxonomic notes on Pterostichini and Zabrini (Coleoptera, Carabidae), pp. 501-547 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1) on page 508, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324736
Dark matter in the Galaxy
Creators: name: Bilic, Neven
name: Tupper, Gary B.
name: Viollier, Raoul D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a brief introduction to standard cosmology and the dark matter problem in the the Universe, we consider a self-gravitating noninteracting fermion gas at nonzero temperature as a model for the dark matter halo of the Galaxy. This fermion gas model is then shown to imply the existence of a supermassive compact dark object at the Galactic center.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, invited talk at the 8th Adriatic Meeting on Particle Physics Dubrovnik 4-14 Sept 2001
Nebria (Eunebria) psammodes
Creators: name: Guéorguiev, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Nebria
Nebria psammodes

description: Nebria (Eunebria) psammodes (P. ROSSI 1792)
B o s n i a H e r z e g o v i n a:"Bosniacoll.Lichtn.",1s.(HNHM).
First record for Bosnia Herzegovina.
description: Published as part of Guéorguiev, B., 2011, New and interesting records of Carabid Beetles from South-East Europe, South-West and Central Asia, with taxonomic notes on Pterostichini and Zabrini (Coleoptera, Carabidae), pp. 501-547 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1) on page 508, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324736
Additional file 3: of â Spatial heterogeneity of environmental risk in randomized prevention trials: consequences and modelingâ
Creators: name: Abdoulaye Guindo
name: Issaka Sagara
name: Boukary Ouedraogo
name: Kankoe Sallah
name: Mahamadoun Assadou
name: Healy, Sara
name: Duffy, Patrick
name: Ogobara Doumbo
name: Alassane Dicko
name: Giorgi, Roch
name: Gaudart, Jean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Data-Generating Model (DGM) performance index for estimating the different factor effects (baseline risk 0.37). (DOCX 23 kb)
Suppressing the $μ$ and neutrino masses by a superconformal force
Creators: name: Kubo, Jisuke
name: Suematsu, Daijiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The idea of Nelson and Strassler to obtain a power law suppression of parameters by a superconformal force is applied to understand the smallness of the $μ$ parameter and neutrino masses in R-parity violating supersymmetric standard models. We find that the low-energy sector should contain at least another pair of Higgs doublets, and that a suppression of $\lsim O(10^{-13})$ for the $μ$ parameter and neutrino masses can be achieved generically. The superpotential of the low-energy sector happens to possess an anomaly-free discrete R-symmetry, either $R_3$ or $R_6$, which naturally suppresses certain lepton-flavor violating processes, the neutrinoless double beta decays and also the electron electric dipole moment. We expect that the escape energy of the superconformal sector is $\lsim$ O(10) TeV so that this sector will be observable at LHC. Our models can accommodate to a large mixing among neutrinos and give the same upper bound of the lightest Higgs mass as the minimal supersymmetric standard model.
description: 24 pages
Superconformal Field Theories for Compact Manifolds with Spin(7) Holonomy
Creators: name: Blumenhagen, Ralph
name: Braun, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a construction of superconformal field theories for manifolds with Spin(7) holonomy. Geometrically these models correspond to the realization of Spin(7) manifolds as anti-holomorphic quotients of Calabi-Yau fourfolds. Describing the fourfolds as Gepner models and requiring anomaly cancellation we determine the resulting Betti numbers of the Spin(7) superconformal field theory. As in the G_2 case, we find that the Gepner model and the geometric result disagree.
description: 16 pages, TeX, harvmac, refs. added
Additional file 2: of â Spatial heterogeneity of environmental risk in randomized prevention trials: consequences and modelingâ
Creators: name: Abdoulaye Guindo
name: Issaka Sagara
name: Boukary Ouedraogo
name: Kankoe Sallah
name: Mahamadoun Assadou
name: Healy, Sara
name: Duffy, Patrick
name: Ogobara Doumbo
name: Alassane Dicko
name: Giorgi, Roch
name: Gaudart, Jean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Description of mathematical formulas and terms used in this manuscript. (DOCX 17 kb)
Hunting for extra dimensions in the shadow of M87*
Creators: name: Vagnozzi, Sunny
name: Visinelli, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Event Horizon Telescope has recently provided the first image of the dark shadow around the supermassive black hole M87*. The observation of a highly circular shadow provides strong limits on deviations of M87*'s quadrupole moment from the Kerr value. We show that the absence of such a deviation can be used to constrain the physics of extra dimensions of spacetime. Focusing on the Randall-Sundrum AdS$_5$ brane-world scenario, we show that the observation of M87*'s dark shadow sets the limit $\ell \lesssim 170\,{\rm AU}$, where $\ell$ is the AdS$_5$ curvature radius. This limit is among the first quantitative constraints on exotic physics obtained from the extraordinary first ever image of the dark shadow of a black hole.
description: v3: references added, version published in PRD
ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКОЕ ВЛИЯНИЕ АБЮЗЕРНЫХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ В СЕМЬЕ НА ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ЛИЧНОСТИ
Creators: name: Имонова, Мафтуна
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В данной статье рассматривается насилие в семейных отношениях, нарушение личных границ между супругами, унижение человеческой личности, влияние жестокого обращения на характер детей.
An Auger test of the Cen A model of highest energy cosmic rays
Creators: name: Anchordoqui, Luis A.
name: Goldberg, Haim
name: Weiler, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If, as recently proposed by Farrar and Piran, Cen A is the source of cosmic rays detected above the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuz'min cutoff, neutrons are $\approx 140$ more probable than protons to be observed along its line of sight. This is because the proton flux is rendered nearly isotropic by ${\cal O}(μ$G) intergalactic magnetic fields. With the anticipated aperture of the Southern Auger Observatory, one may expect on the order of 2 neutron events/year above $10^{20}$ eV in the line of sight of Cen A.
description: Version to appear in Physical Review Letters, contains additional discussion suggested by referees
Hybrid system identification using switching density networks
Creators: name: Burke, Michael
name: Hristov, Yordan
name: Ramamoorthy, Subramanian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Behaviour cloning is a commonly used strategy for imitation learning and can be extremely effective in constrained domains. However, in cases where the dynamics of an environment may be state dependent and varying, behaviour cloning places a burden on model capacity and the number of demonstrations required. This paper introduces switching density networks, which rely on a categorical reparametrisation for hybrid system identification. This results in a network comprising a classification layer that is followed by a regression layer. We use switching density networks to predict the parameters of hybrid control laws, which are toggled by a switching layer to produce different controller outputs, when conditioned on an input state. This work shows how switching density networks can be used for hybrid system identification in a variety of tasks, successfully identifying the key joint angle goals that make up manipulation tasks, while simultaneously learning image-based goal classifiers and regression networks that predict joint angles from images. We also show that they can cluster the phase space of an inverted pendulum, identifying the balance, spin and pump controllers required to solve this task. Switching density networks can be difficult to train, but we introduce a cross entropy regularisation loss that stabilises training.
Nebria (Oreonebria) diaphana subsp. relicta
Creators: name: Guéorguiev, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Nebria
Nebria diaphana
Nebria (oreonebria) diaphana ssp. relicta (breit 1914)

description: Nebria (Oreonebria) diaphana ssp. relicta (BREIT 1914)
B o s n i a H e r z e g o v i n a:" Bosnia "/"A.v.Gebhardt.B.M.1938-106", 1 s. (BMNH).
First record for Bosnia Herzegovina.
description: Published as part of Guéorguiev, B., 2011, New and interesting records of Carabid Beetles from South-East Europe, South-West and Central Asia, with taxonomic notes on Pterostichini and Zabrini (Coleoptera, Carabidae), pp. 501-547 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1) on page 508, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324736
Optically induced topological states on the surface of mercury telluride
Creators: name: Kyriienko, O.
name: Kibis, O. V.
name: Shelykh, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We developed the theory which describes the Floquet engineering of surface electronic modes in bulk mercury telluride (HgTe) by a circularly polarized electromagnetic field. The analysis shows that the field results in appearance of the surface states which arise from the mixing of conduction and valence bands of HgTe. Their branches lie near the center of the Brillouin zone and have the Dirac dispersion characteristic for topological states. Besides them, the irradiation induces the gap between the conduction and valence bands of HgTe. Thus, the irradiation can turn mercury telluride into topological insulator from gapless semiconductor. It is demonstrated that the optically induced states differ substantially from the non-topological surface states existing in HgTe without irradiation. The structure of the found states is studied both analytically and numerically in the broad range of their parameters.
description: Published version
Spoken Language Intent Detection using Confusion2Vec
Creators: name: Shivakumar, Prashanth Gurunath
name: Yang, Mu
name: Georgiou, Panayiotis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Decoding speaker's intent is a crucial part of spoken language understanding (SLU). The presence of noise or errors in the text transcriptions, in real life scenarios make the task more challenging. In this paper, we address the spoken language intent detection under noisy conditions imposed by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We propose to employ confusion2vec word feature representation to compensate for the errors made by ASR and to increase the robustness of the SLU system. The confusion2vec, motivated from human speech production and perception, models acoustic relationships between words in addition to the semantic and syntactic relations of words in human language. We hypothesize that ASR often makes errors relating to acoustically similar words, and the confusion2vec with inherent model of acoustic relationships between words is able to compensate for the errors. We demonstrate through experiments on the ATIS benchmark dataset, the robustness of the proposed model to achieve state-of-the-art results under noisy ASR conditions. Our system reduces classification error rate (CER) by 20.84% and improves robustness by 37.48% (lower CER degradation) relative to the previous state-of-the-art going from clean to noisy transcripts. Improvements are also demonstrated when training the intent detection models on noisy transcripts.
The Effects of Cannabinoids on Stress-Coping Behaviors and Neuroendocrinological Measures in Chronic Unpredtictable Stress: A Preclinical Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Reuveni, Noa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: It is unclear if cannabis helps individuals cope with life’s stressors or increases the likelihood of developing stress-related disorders such as depression. Chronic unpredictable stress is a validated model of depression that exposes rodents to a series of frequently-occurring, intermittent stressors over the course of a few weeks. This systematic review and meta-analysis summarizes existing research using rodents on the effects of cannabinoids on stress-coping behaviors and neuroendocrinological measurements in chronic unpredictable stress. Databases were systematically searched for articles that met inclusion criteria, and effect sizes between control chronic unpredictable stress groups and cannabinoid-treated chronic unpredictable stress groups were calculated. A meta-analysis of the 26included articles indicated that cannabinoids prevent the negative effects of chronic unpredictable stress, suggesting that the development of cannabinoid-based drugs has the potential to treat stress-related disorders such as depression.
Nematic and gas-liquid transitions for sticky rods on square and cubic lattices
Creators: name: Quiring, P.
name: Klopotek, M.
name: Oettel, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using grand-canonical Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the phase diagram of hard rods of length $L$ with additional contact (sticky) attractions on square and cubic lattices. The phase diagram shows a competition between gas-liquid and ordering transitions (which are of demixing type on the square lattice for $L \ge 7$ and of nematic type on the cubic lattice for $L \ge 5$). On the square lattice, increasing attractions initially lead to a stabilization of the isotropic phase. On the cubic lattice, the nematic transition remains of weak first order upon increasing the attractions. In the vicinity of the gas-liquid transition, the coexistence gap of the nematic transition quickly widens. These features are different from nematic transitions in the continuum.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures
Seeding Rate, Herbicide, and Irrigation Effects on Spring-Seeded Oat-Alfalfa Companion Crops
Creators: name: Roberts, Carson D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Small grain companion crop seeding rate recommendations for alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) establishment are dated and inconsistent, and how a small grain companion crop seeding rates should be adjusted at different moisture levels is unknown. A study was conducted to provide clarity about oat (Avena sativa L.) companion crop seeding rates that maximize weed suppression and forage yield and minimize the effect on alfalfa stand establishment. This experiment considered oat companion crop seeding rates at various irrigation levels. Companion crop treatments consisted of oats sown at 89, 45, 22, 10, and 0 (with and without herbicide) kg ha-1. Irrigation was applied using a line-source irrigation gradient with five irrigation levels (IL). The largest amounts of water were applied at high ILs, and low ILs received lower amounts of water. At the two highest ILs in the first cut, a 2-fold increase in alfalfa stem density occurred as the 89 kg ha-1 oat rate was reduced to 11 kg ha-1, but at the lowest two ILs, the increase was 5 to 7-fold. Similarly, second cut differences in stem density were only apparent at lower ILs. First cut forage yields were lowest in 0 kg ha-1 treatments and increased with increasing oat seeding rates. These differences in yield were amplified as ILs were reduced. At high ILs, oats sown with alfalfa increased yield over the control by less than 30%, but total yield was increased by approximately 60% in the lowest ILs. Conversely, yields were highest among 0 kg ha-1 treatments in second cut. At both cuts, herbicide and untreated plots produced the largest alfalfa yields, and alfalfa yield was reduced as oat seeding rates were increased. The highest oat seeding rates (89 and 45 kg ha-1) reduced weed dry matter yield to levels comparable to the herbicide in both cuts. Generally, the presence of oats or weeds reduced crude protein. NDF was also less desirable at first cut with increasing oat seeding rates, and differences in NDF increased as irrigation was reduced. Results observed in this study suggest that the highest alfalfa density, yield, and forage quality can be achieved when alfalfa is sown alone with an herbicide. If herbicides cannot be used, the best results may be achieved when alfalfa is sown with a companion crop when irrigation is high, but without a companion crop when irrigation is low. Seeding rates between 22 and 11 kg ha-1 may be most desirable when a companion crop is used.
Additional file 1: of Transcriptome analysis of Nicotiana benthamiana infected by Tobacco curly shoot virus
Creators: name: Li, Ke
name: Wu, Gentu
name: Li, Mingjun
name: Ma, Mingge
name: Du, Jiang
name: Sun, Miao
name: Sun, Xianchao
name: Qing, Ling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Virology

description: Table S1. Primers used for RT-qPCR. (DOCX 18.9 kb)
The Relationship Between Social Skills and Coping Drinking Motives: A Test of the Social Skills Deficit Vulnerability Model
Creators: name: Smart, Jaimee A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Because drinking alcohol to cope has many negative outcomes (e.g., alcohol use disorder, problematic drinking patterns, etc.), it is vital to understand what contributes to drinking to cope. Having adequate social skills and social support has been found to help overall mental health. As such, it was logical to reason that social skills and social support could also impact physical health. Specifically, social skills and social support were examined as potential ways to buffer coping drinking development. This study utilized information from 176 adults living in the United States to understand the role social skills and social support play in coping drinking motives. Findings showed that social support could decrease the likelihood of coping drinking motives. Further, social skills can assist in buffering the development of coping drinking motives through social support. The results suggest that having an adequate social network can help individuals refrain from turning to problematic coping mechanisms to manage life stressors.
Notiophilus danieli REITTER 1897
Creators: name: Guéorguiev, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brachyceridae
Notiophilus
Notiophilus danieli

description: Notiophilus danieli REITTER 1897
I s r a e l: "Palaestina Reitter", 1 s. (HNHM); " Jordan. J. Klapperich " / "Jordantal Jericó" / " 250 m u. M. 10.2.1958 ", 3 s. (HNHM).
L e b a n o n:"Saida"/"" Libanon Syria coll. Winkler", 1 s. (HNHM).
First record for Lebanon. This species has been cited for Israel (BODENHEIMER 1937, CHIKATUNOV et al. 1999), but after was omitted for the county (CATPAL 1: BOUSQUET & BARŠEVSKIS 2003: 97). Species confirmed for Israel.
description: Published as part of Guéorguiev, B., 2011, New and interesting records of Carabid Beetles from South-East Europe, South-West and Central Asia, with taxonomic notes on Pterostichini and Zabrini (Coleoptera, Carabidae), pp. 501-547 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1) on page 509, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324736
Trends in Cooperative Extension Calls from 2010 - 2019
Creators: name: Smith, Emily Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: The purposes of this study are to assess the most frequently addressed topics that the public has for Family Consumer Sciences (FCS) related Extension professionals and to indicate whether the topics are changing over time, with a specific interest in changes to food safety and preservation inquiries. The CES office in one county in a western state has been collecting FCS data from the years 2010 to 2019. This data is about the FCS-specific phone calls received to the office. The data was then coded and put into an Excel spreadsheet. There were a total of 5,863 phone calls with 695 male callers, 5,151 female callers, and 17 preferred to not answer. These phone calls came from 210 different zip codes, representing 24 states and territories of the United States and several international calls. There were 38 topics recorded on the spreadsheet, which were then condensed into five categories. The five categories are as follows: food preservation, food safety, nutrition, food safety, and marriage and finances. Descriptive statistics were used to get an overview of the trends in the data. Following that, one-way independent groups ANOVA will determine the changes in frequencies of food safety and food preservation calls over the ten-year span. It is hypothesized that the frequency of both food safety and food preservation calls will decrease over time. Findings report that there is a downward trend in all phone call topics. There is a significant decrease in calls from 2010-2019 in the food safety and food preservation categories.
Calculation of the Chiral Lagrangian Coefficients from the Underlying Theory of QCD: A Simple Approach
Creators: name: Yang, Hua
name: Wang, Qing
name: Kuang, Yu-Ping
name: Lu, Qin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the coefficients in the chiral Lagrangian approximately from QCD based on a previous study of deriving the chiral Lagrangian from the first principles of QCD in which the chiral Lagrangian coefficients are defined in terms of certain Green's functions in QCD. We first show that, in the large N(c)-limit, the anomaly part contributions to the coefficients are exactly cancelled by certain terms in the normal part contributions, and the final results of the coefficients only concern the remaining normal part contributions depending on QCD interactions. We then do the calculation in a simple approach with the approximations of taking the large-N(c) limit, the leading order in dynamical perturbation theory, and the improved ladder approximation, thereby the relevant Green's functions are expressed in terms of the quark self energy. By solving the Schwinger-Dyson equation for the quark self energy, we obtain the approximate QCD predicted coefficients and the quark condensate which are consistent with the experimental values.
description: Further typos corrected, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Compression challenges in large scale PDE solvers
Creators: name: Götschel, Sebastian
name: Weiser, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 65-02, 65M60, 65N30, 68-02, 68P30

description: Solvers for partial differential equations (PDE) are one of the cornerstones of computational science. For large problems, they involve huge amounts of data that needs to be stored and transmitted on all levels of the memory hierarchy. Often, bandwidth is the limiting factor due to relatively small arithmetic intensity, and increasingly so due to the growing disparity between computing power and bandwidth. Consequently, data compression techniques have been investigated and tailored towards the specific requirements of PDE solvers during the last decades. This paper surveys data compression challenges and corresponding solution approaches for PDE problems, covering all levels of the memory hierarchy from mass storage up to main memory. Exemplarily, we illustrate concepts at particular methods, and give references to alternatives.
description: revised version
Numerical Simulation of Losses in Four-Way Pipe Junctions
Creators: name: Barth, Simon
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: To design pipelines, engineers need to know how much energy the fluid in the pipe has at different locations in the pipe network. The energy the fluid has comes in the form of pressure, velocity, and elevation. As fluid travels through a pipe, it loses energy for many different reasons. Some of those reasons include friction between the fluid and the pipe wall, shear forces within the fluid, changes in flow direction, changes in elevation, or various pipe fittings like elbows, tee’s, valves, reducers, and expanders. Many of the causes of energy loss are well researched. One cause of energy loss that is not well documented is the energy loss experienced through four-way junctions in pipe networks or crosses. These junctions make the fluid lose energy differently through each of the junction’s legs due to differences in flow between the legs and different changes in direction between different legs. For this paper, computer simulations were set up to determine the energy loss factor for each leg of a cross junction for various scenarios.