cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Near-falls in Singapore community-dwelling older adults: a feasibility study
Creators: name: Soh, Leng Hsien Shawn
name: Tan, Chee-Wee
name: Lane, Judith
name: Yeh, Ting-Ting
name: Soon, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Physiotherapy

description: A near-fall is defined as a loss of balance that would result in a fall if sufficient balance recovery manoeuvres are not executed. Compared to falls, near-falls and its associated balance recovery manoeuvres have been understudied. The study provided evidence that studying near-falls in Singapore community-dwelling older adults is feasible and can be applied to a large-scale study. Recruitment and retention rates were good. Older adults were able to identify near-falls and balance recovery manoeuvres. Both texting and calling were feasible reporting methods, but texting was preferred.
The global land water storage data set release 2 (GLWS2.0) derived via assimilating GRACE and GRACE-FO data into a global hydrological model
Creators: name: Gerdener, Helena
name: Kusche, Jürgen
name: Schulze, Kerstin
name: Döll, Petra
name: Klos, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the new global land water storage data set GLWS2.0, which contains total water storage anomalies (TWSA) over the global land except for Greenland and Antarctica with a spatial resolution of 0.5°, covering the time frame 2003 to 2019 without gaps, and including uncertainty quantification. GLWS2.0 was derived by assimilating monthly GRACE/-FO mass change maps into the WaterGAP global hydrology model via the Ensemble Kalman filter, taking data and model uncertainty into account. TWSA in GLWS2.0 is then accumulated over several hydrological storage variables. In this article, we describe the methods and data sets that went into GLWS2.0, how it compares to GRACE/-FO data in terms of representing TWSA trends, seasonal signals, and extremes, as well as its validation via comparing to GNSS-derived vertical loading and its comparison with the NASA Catchment Land Surface Model GRACE Data Assimilation (CLSM-DA). We find that, in the global average over more than 1000 stations, GLWS2.0 fits better than GRACE/-FO to GNSS observations of vertical loading at short-term, seasonal, and long-term temporal bands. While some differences exist, overall GLWS2.0 agrees quite well with CLSM-DA in terms of TWSA trends and annual amplitudes and phases.
description: Preprint
Gestão de fluxos turísticos em centros históricos: o caso de Faro
Creators: name: Ferreira, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2004

description: O turismo cultural é apontado por muitos autores como uma das formas de facilitar a regeneração dos centros históricos. Para atingir esse objectivo, há que assegurar uma gestão sustentável dos fluxos de visitantes, a qual só pode ter sucesso ser for integrada em formas holísticas de actuação, apoiadas em parcerias que envolvam todos os interessados (sector público, sector privado e associações que representem a comunidade local). O caso de Faro pode esclarecer os contornos locais desta nova tendência.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 2 (2004)
AGN Feedback in SDSS-IV MaNGA: AGNs have Suppressed Central Star Formation Rates
Creators: name: Lammers, Caleb
name: Iyer, Kartheik G.
name: Ibarra-Medel, Hector
name: Pacifici, Camilla
name: Sánchez, Sebastián F.
name: Tacchella, Sandro
name: Woo, Joanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite the importance of feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in models of galaxy evolution, observational constraints on the influence of AGN feedback on star formation remain weak. To this end, we have compared the star formation trends of 279 low-redshift AGN galaxies with 558 inactive control galaxies using integral field unit spectroscopy from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey. With a Gaussian process-based methodology, we reconstruct nonparametric star formation histories in spatially resolved spaxels covering the face of each galaxy. Based on galaxy-wide star formation rates (SFRs) alone, we find no obvious signatures of AGN feedback. However, the AGN galaxies have significantly suppressed central (kiloparsec-scale) SFRs, lying up to a factor of $2$ below those of the control galaxies, providing direct observational evidence of AGN feedback suppressing star formation. The suppression of central SFRs in the AGN galaxies began in the central regions ${\sim} 6$ Gyr ago (redshift $z {\sim} 0.7$), taking place over a few gigayears. A small subset of the AGN galaxies were rapidly driven to quiescence shortly before being observed (in the last $500$ Myr), potentially indicating instances of AGN-driven feedback. More frequently, however, star formation continues in the AGN galaxies, with suppression primarily in the central regions. This is suggestive of a picture in which integrated (Gyr-timescale) AGN feedback can significantly affect central star formation, but may be inefficient in driving galaxy-wide quenching in low-redshift galaxies, instead leaving them in the green valley.
description: 22 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
The Downward Influence of Stratospheric Sudden Warmings
Creators: name: Hitchcock, Peter
name: Simpson, Isla R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Troposphere
Atmospheric circulation--Mathematical models
Atmospheric temperature--Mathematical models
Stratosphere
Atmosphere, Upper
Atmosphere

description: The coupling between the stratosphere and the troposphere following two major stratospheric sudden warmings is studied in the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model using a nudging technique by which the zonal-mean evolution of the reference sudden warmings are artificially induced in an ~100-member ensemble spun off from a control simulation. Both reference warmings are taken from a freely running integration of the model. One event is a displacement, the other is a split, and both are followed by extended recoveries in the lower stratosphere. The methodology permits a statistically robust study of their influence on the troposphere below. The nudged ensembles exhibit a tropospheric annular mode response closely analogous to that seen in observations, confirming the downward influence of sudden warmings on the troposphere in a comprehensive model. This tropospheric response coincides more closely with the lower-stratospheric annular mode anomalies than with the midstratospheric wind reversal. In addition to the expected synoptic-scale eddy feedback, the planetary-scale eddies also reinforce the tropospheric wind changes, apparently responding directly to the stratospheric anomalies. Furthermore, despite the zonal symmetry of the stratospheric perturbation, a highly zonally asymmetric near-surface response is produced, corresponding to a strongly negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation with a much weaker response over the Pacific basin that matches composites of sudden warmings from the Interim ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-Interim). Phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project models exhibit a similar response, though in most models the response’s magnitude is underrepresented.
Increasing the benefits and sustainability of irrigation through the integration of fisheries: a guide for water planners, managers and engineers
Creators: name: Nguyen-Khoa, S.
name: McCartney, Matthew
name: Funge-Smith, S.
name: Smith, L.
name: Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
name: Dubois, M.
name: Nguyen-Khoa, S.
name: McCartney, Matthew
name: Funge-Smith, S.
name: Smith, L.
name: Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
name: Dubois, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Fishery production
subject: Sustainability
subject: Irrigation systems
subject: Integrated management
subject: Water resources
subject: Water management
subject: Guidelines
subject: Irrigation management
subject: Aquatic ecosystems
subject: Habitats
subject: Aquaculture
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Infrastructure
subject: Livelihoods
subject: Food security
subject: Nutrition security
subject: Socioeconomic environment
subject: Monitoring and evaluation
subject: Environmental Impact Assessment
subject: Trends
subject: Sustainable Development Goals
subject: Community management
subject: Participatory approaches
subject: Water governance
subject: Institutions
subject: Stakeholders
subject: Conflicts
subject: Rural areas
subject: Water reservoirs
subject: Rivers
subject: Floodplains
subject: Africa
subject: Asia

description: There is increasing recognition of the need to bring about changes across the full spectrum of agricultural practices to ensure that, in future, food production systems are more diverse, sustainable and resilient. In this context, the objectives of irrigation need to be much more ambitious, shifting away from simply maximizing crop yields to maximizing net benefits across a range of uses of irrigation water, including ecosystems and nature-based solutions. One important way to achieve this is by better integrating fisheries into the planning, design, construction, operation and management of irrigation systems. Irrigation – a major contributor to the Green Revolution – has significantly improved agricultural production worldwide, with consequent benefits for food security, livelihoods and poverty alleviation. Today, irrigated agriculture represents about 21 percent of cultivated land, but contributes approximately 40% of the total global crop production. Many governments continue to invest in irrigation as a cornerstone of food security and rural development. Investments in irrigation often represent a pragmatic form of adaptation to changing climatic conditions. This guide focuses on how to sustainably optimize and broaden the range of benefits from irrigation development - not only economic but also social and environmental benefits. It emphasizes the opportunities that fisheries could provide to increase food production and economic returns, enhance livelihoods and public health outcomes, and maintain key ecosystem services. The guide considers possible trade-offs between irrigation and fisheries, and provides recommendations on how these could be minimized.
Time Encoding via Unlimited Sampling: Theory, Algorithms and Hardware Validation
Creators: name: Florescu, Dorian
name: Bhandari, Ayush
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: An alternative to conventional uniform sampling is that of time encoding, which converts continuous-time signals into streams of trigger times. This gives rise to Event-Driven Sampling (EDS) models. The data-driven nature of EDS acquisition is advantageous in terms of power consumption and time resolution and is inspired by the information representation in biological nervous systems. If an analog signal is outside a predefined dynamic range, then EDS generates a low density of trigger times, which in turn leads to recovery distortion due to aliasing. In this paper, inspired by the Unlimited Sensing Framework (USF), we propose a new EDS architecture that incorporates a modulo nonlinearity prior to acquisition that we refer to as the modulo EDS or MEDS. In MEDS, the modulo nonlinearity folds high dynamic range inputs into low dynamic range amplitudes, thus avoiding recovery distortion. In particular, we consider the asynchronous sigma-delta modulator (ASDM), previously used for low power analog-to-digital conversion. This novel MEDS based acquisition is enabled by a recent generalization of the modulo nonlinearity called modulo-hysteresis. We design a mathematically guaranteed recovery algorithm for bandlimited inputs based on a sampling rate criterion and provide reconstruction error bounds. We go beyond numerical experiments and also provide a first hardware validation of our approach, thus bridging the gap between theory and practice, while corroborating the conceptual underpinnings of our work.
description: 27 pgs, 11 figures, IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc., accepted with minor revisions
Efficient Implementation of Reinforcement Learning over Homomorphic Encryption
Creators: name: Suh, Jihoon
name: Tanaka, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We investigate encrypted control policy synthesis over the cloud. While encrypted control implementations have been studied previously, we focus on the less explored paradigm of privacy-preserving control synthesis, which can involve heavier computations ideal for cloud outsourcing. We classify control policy synthesis into model-based, simulator-driven, and data-driven approaches and examine their implementation over fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) for privacy enhancements. A key challenge arises from comparison operations (min or max) in standard reinforcement learning algorithms, which are difficult to execute over encrypted data. This observation motivates our focus on Relative-Entropy-regularized reinforcement learning (RL) problems, which simplifies encrypted evaluation of synthesis algorithms due to their comparison-free structures. We demonstrate how linearly solvable value iteration, path integral control, and Z-learning can be readily implemented over FHE. We conduct a case study of our approach through numerical simulations of encrypted Z-learning in a grid world environment using the CKKS encryption scheme, showing convergence with acceptable approximation error. Our work suggests the potential for secure and efficient cloud-based reinforcement learning.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
High Resolution VLBI Astrometry of pulsar scintillation screens with the $θ-θ$ Transform
Creators: name: Baker, Daniel
name: Brisken, Walter
name: van Kerkwijk, Marten H.
name: van Lieshout, Rik
name: Pen, Ue-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent development of $θ\mhyphenθ$ techniques in pulsar scintillometry has opened the door for new high resolution imaging techniques of the scattering medium. By solving the phase retrieval problem and recovering the wavefield from a pulsar dynamic spectrum, the Doppler shift, time delay, and phase offset of individual images can be determined. However, the results of phase retrieval from a single dish are only known up to a constant phase rotation, which introduces extra parameters when doing astrometry using Very Long Baseline Interferometry. We present an extension to previous $θ\mhyphenθ$ methods using the interferometric visibilities between multiple stations to calibrate the wavefields. When applied to existing data for PSR B0834+06 we measure the effective screen distance and lens orientation with five times greater precision than previous works.
title: Die Stadtwehr und Bürgerschaft des Freistaats Frankfurt und ihre ungebetenen Gäste; [1849]
title: Eine Dankadresse (?) für die Lobrede des Deputirten Wichmann ; Frankfurt, 1. Januar 1849
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel
The SpacePy space science package at 12 years
Creators: name: Niehof, Jonathan T.
name: Morley, Steven K.
name: Welling, Daniel T.
name: Larsen, Brian A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For over a decade, the SpacePy project has contributed open-source solutions for the production and analysis of heliophysics data and simulation results. Here we introduce SpacePy's functionality for the scientific user and present relevant design principles. We examine recent advances and the future of SpacePy in the broader scientific Python ecosystem, concluding with some of the work that has used SpacePy.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
title: Protest des Ausschußes des Allgemeinen deutschen Vereins zum Schutze der vaterländischen Arbeit. Den Entwurf eines Reichsgesetzes über die Wahlen der Abgeordneten zum Volkshause betreffend; [1849]
title: Frankfurt a/M. den 8. Februar 1849
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hohenlohe, Felix ¬zu
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel. - In Fraktur. - Textanfang: Hohe deutsche Nationalversammlung! Der soeben zur Vorlage gekommene Entwurf eines Reichsgesetzes über die Wahlen der Abgeordneten zum Volkshause enthält in Paragraph 2. sub. 3. 4. und 5. Anträge, durch welche dem größeren Theile der arbeitenden Volksklassen die Krone aller politischen Rechte, das Wahlrecht zur Reichsversammlung, entzogen würde ...
Renormalization of Null Wilson Lines in EQCD
Creators: name: D'Onofrio, Michela
name: Kurkela, Aleksi
name: Moore, Guy D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiation and energy loss of a light, high-energy parton in a perturbative Quark-Gluon Plasma is controlled by transverse momentum exchange. The troublesome infrared contributions to transverse momentum exchange can be computed on the lattice using dimensional reduction to EQCD. However a novel extended operator, the Null Wilson Line of EQCD, is involved. We compute the renormalization properties of this object's lattice implementation to next-to-leading order, which should facilitate its efficient calculation on the lattice.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
Absolute dimensions of detached eclipsing binaries. III. The metallic-lined system YZ Cassiopeiae
Creators: name: Pavlovski, K.
name: Southworth, J.
name: Kolbas, V.
name: Smalley, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The bright binary system YZ Cassiopeiae is a remarkable laboratory for studying the Am phenomenon. It consists of a metallic-lined A2 star and an F2 dwarf on a circular orbit, which undergo total and annular eclipses. We present an analysis of 15 published light curves and 42 new high-quality echelle spectra, resulting in measurements of the masses, radii, effective temperatures and photospheric chemical abundances of the two stars. The masses and radii are measured to 0.5% precision: M_A = 2.263 +/- 0.012 Msun, M_B = 1.325 +/- 0.007 Msun, R_A = 2.525 +/- 0.011 Rsun and R_B = 1.331 +/- 0.006 Rsun. We determine the abundance of 20 elements for the primary star, of which all except scandium are super-solar by up to 1 dex. The temperature of this star (9520 +/- 120 K) makes it one of the hottest Am stars. We also measure the abundances of 25 elements for its companion (Teff = 6880 +/- 240 K), finding all to be solar or slightly above solar. The photospheric abundances of the secondary star should be representative of the bulk composition of both stars. Theoretical stellar evolutionary models are unable to match these properties: the masses, radii and temperatures imply a half-solar chemical composition (Z = 0.009 +/- 0.003) and an age of 490-550 Myr. YZ Cas therefore presents a challenge to stellar evolutionary theory.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 15 pages, 9 tables, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Eye donation in hospice and hospital palliative care settings: perceptions, practice, and service development needs – findings from a national survey
Creators: name: Long-Sutehall, Tracy
name: Zatorska, Anna
name: Myall, Michelle
name: Faull, Christina
name: Hurlow, Adam
name: Mollart, Sarah
name: Rayment, Clare
name: Short, Jill
name: Wale, Jane
name: Winstanley, Emma
name: Bracher, Mike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Molecular Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
The carbon footprint of proposed $\rm e^+e^-$ Higgs factories
Creators: name: Janot, Patrick
name: Blondel, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy consumption of any of the $\rm e^+e^-$ Higgs factory projects that can credibly operate immediately after the end of LHC, namely three linear colliders (CLIC, operating at $\sqrt{s}=380$GeV; and ILC and $\rm C^3$, operating at $\sqrt{s}=250$ GeV) and two circular colliders (CEPC and FCC-ee, operating at $\sqrt{s}=240$ GeV), will be everything but negligible. Future Higgs boson studies may therefore have a significant environmental impact. This note proposes to include the carbon footprint for a given physics performance as a top-level gauge for the design optimization and, eventually, the choice of the future facility. The projected footprints per Higgs boson produced, evaluated using the 2021 carbon emission of available electricity, are found to vary by a factor 100 depending on the considered Higgs factory project.
description: Contribution to Snowmass'21. Accepted for publication in EPJPlus. 15 pages, 4 tables, 2 figures. Modifications with respect to v3: minor comments from EPJPlus reviewers included
A Novel Semisupervised Contrastive Regression Framework for Forest Inventory Mapping with Multisensor Satellite Data
Creators: name: Ge, Shaojia
name: Gu, Hong
name: Su, Weimin
name: Lönnqvist, Anne
name: Antropov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate mapping of forests is critical for forest management and carbon stocks monitoring. Deep learning is becoming more popular in Earth Observation (EO), however, the availability of reference data limits its potential in wide-area forest mapping. To overcome those limitations, here we introduce contrastive regression into EO based forest mapping and develop a novel semisupervised regression framework for wall-to-wall mapping of continuous forest variables. It combines supervised contrastive regression loss and semi-supervised Cross-Pseudo Regression loss. The framework is demonstrated over a boreal forest site using Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery for mapping forest tree height. Achieved prediction accuracies are strongly better compared to using vanilla UNet or traditional regression models, with relative RMSE of 15.1% on stand level. We expect that developed framework can be used for modeling other forest variables and EO datasets.
title: Einige Worte über die Einführung der Grundrechte in Bayern; [1849]
title: Beilage zur Bayerischen Landbötin No. 22 vom Jahre 1849
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel. - Nicht identisch mit BV041978181 (dort ohne Beilagenvermerk)
An X-ray and Infrared Survey of the Lynds 1228 Cloud Core
Creators: name: Skinner, Stephen
name: Rebull, Luisa
name: Guedel, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nearby Lynds 1228 (L1228) dark cloud at a distance of ~200 pc is known to harbor several young stars including the driving sources of the giant HH 199 and HH 200 Herbig-Haro outflows. L1228 has been previously studied at optical, infrared, and radio wavelengths but not in X-rays. We present results of a sensitive 37 ks Chandra ACIS-I X-ray observation of the L1228 core region. Chandra detected 60 X-ray sources, most of which are faint (<40 counts) and non-variable. Infrared counterparts were identified for 53 of the 60 X-ray sources using archival data from 2MASS, Spitzer, and WISE. Object classes were assigned using mid-IR colors for those objects with complete photometry, most of which were found to have colors consistent with extragalactic background sources. Seven young stellar object (YSO) candidates were identified including the class I protostar HH 200-IRS which was detected as a faint hard X-ray source. No X-ray emission was detected from the luminous protostar HH 199-IRS. We summarize the X-ray and infrared properties of the detected sources and provide IR spectral energy distribution modeling of high-interest objects including the protostars driving the HH outflows.
description: 38 pages, 7 tables, 8 figures; to appear in AJ
Performance of chemically modified reduced graphene oxide (CMrGO) in electrodynamic dust shield (EDS) applications
Creators: name: Schaible, Micah J.
name: Sjolund, Kristoffer G.
name: Ryan, Emily A.
name: Shofner, Meisha L.
name: Reynolds, John R.
name: Linsey, Julie S.
name: Orlando, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) technology is a dust mitigation strategy that is commonly studied for applications such as photovoltaics or thermal radiators where soiling of the surfaces can reduce performance. The goal of the current work was to test the performance of a patterned nanocomposite EDS system produced through spray-coating and melt infiltration of chemically modified reduced graphene oxide (CMrGO) traces with thermoplastic high-density polyethylene (HDPE). The EDS performance was tested for a dusting of lunar regolith simulant under high vacuum conditions (~10-6 Torr) using both 2-phase and 3-phase configurations. Uncapped (bare) devices showed efficient dust removal at moderate voltages (1000 V) for both 2-phase and 3-phase designs, but the performance of the devices degraded after several sequential tests due to erosion of the traces caused by electric discharges. Further tests carried out while illuminating the dust surface with a UV excimer lamp showed that the EDS voltage needed to reach the maximum cleanliness was reduced by almost 50% for the 2-phase devices (500 V minimum for rough and 1000 V for smooth), while the 3-phase devices were unaffected by the application of UV. Capping the CMrGO traces with low-density polyethylene (LDPE) eliminated breakdown of the materials and device degradation, but larger voltages (3000 V) coupled with UV illumination were required to remove the grains from the capped devices.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures
Should Community College Students Earn an Associate Degree Before Transferring to a Four-Year Institution?
Creators: name: Crosta, Peter Michael
name: Kopko, Elizabeth Mary
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Degrees, Academic
College credits
Community colleges--Research
Associate in arts degree
Community college students--Education
Community colleges
Education, Higher

description: Community colleges are the postsecondary entry point for thousands of students each year in the United States. Over 80 percent of these students indicate a desire to earn a bachelor’s degree or higher (Horn & Skomsvold, 2011). However, according to studies by the National Student Clearinghouse, only about 15 percent of all students who start at two-year public colleges earn a bachelor’s degree within six years (Shapiro et al., 2012). Although the expected pathway for community college students seeking a bachelor’s degree includes earning an associate degree, little is known about the impact of earning an associate degree on bachelor’s degree completion. This paper thus seeks to answer the following question: Are community college students who earn an associate degree before transferring to a four-year college more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree? Using data on students in one state who entered community college and then transferred, we find large, positive apparent impacts of earning the transfer-oriented (e.g., Associate in Arts) associate degree on the probability of earning a bachelor’s degree within four, five, and six years. However, we do not find any apparent impact associated with earning one of the workforce-oriented (e.g., Associate in Applied Science) degrees that are awarded by programs typically designed for direct labor market entry. This is an important distinction, as all associate degrees are not equal in their potential impacts on future baccalaureate completion.
Anomaly Attribution with Likelihood Compensation
Creators: name: Idé, Tsuyoshi
name: Dhurandhar, Amit
name: Navrátil, Jiří
name: Singh, Moninder
name: Abe, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper addresses the task of explaining anomalous predictions of a black-box regression model. When using a black-box model, such as one to predict building energy consumption from many sensor measurements, we often have a situation where some observed samples may significantly deviate from their prediction. It may be due to a sub-optimal black-box model, or simply because those samples are outliers. In either case, one would ideally want to compute a ``responsibility score'' indicative of the extent to which an input variable is responsible for the anomalous output. In this work, we formalize this task as a statistical inverse problem: Given model deviation from the expected value, infer the responsibility score of each of the input variables. We propose a new method called likelihood compensation (LC), which is founded on the likelihood principle and computes a correction to each input variable. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first principled framework that computes a responsibility score for real valued anomalous model deviations. We apply our approach to a real-world building energy prediction task and confirm its utility based on expert feedback.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
title: Mittheilungen über die Grundsätze und Leistungen des Allgemeinen deutschen Vereines zum Schutze vaterländischer Arbeit; [1848]
title: Frankfurt a. M., den 16. November 1848
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel. - In Fraktur
Production of kshort, kstar(892)and phi(1020) in minimum bias events and kshort and lambda in jets in pbar p collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Creators: name: CDF Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of the inclusive transverse momentum pT distribution of centrally produced kshort, kstar(892), and phi(1020) mesons up to pT = 10 GeV/c in minimum-bias events, and kshort and lambda particles up to pT = 20 GeV/c in jets with transverse energy between 25 GeV and 160 GeV in pbar p collisions. The data were taken with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV. We find that as pT increases, the pT slopes of the three mesons (kshort, kstar, and phi) are similar, and the ratio of lambda to kshort as a function of pT in minimum-bias events becomes similar to the fairly constant ratio in jets at pT ~ 5 GeV/c. This suggests that the particles with pT >~ 5 GeV/c in minimum-bias events are from soft jets, and that the pT slope of particles in jets is insensitive to light quark flavor (u, d, or s) and to the number of valence quarks. We also find that for pT
Yggdrasil Decision Forests: A Fast and Extensible Decision Forests Library
Creators: name: Guillame-Bert, Mathieu
name: Bruch, Sebastian
name: Stotz, Richard
name: Pfeifer, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Yggdrasil Decision Forests is a library for the training, serving and interpretation of decision forest models, targeted both at research and production work, implemented in C++, and available in C++, command line interface, Python (under the name TensorFlow Decision Forests), JavaScript, Go, and Google Sheets (under the name Simple ML for Sheets). The library has been developed organically since 2018 following a set of four design principles applicable to machine learning libraries and frameworks: simplicity of use, safety of use, modularity and high-level abstraction, and integration with other machine learning libraries. In this paper, we describe those principles in detail and present how they have been used to guide the design of the library. We then showcase the use of our library on a set of classical machine learning problems. Finally, we report a benchmark comparing our library to related solutions.
Direct Optimisation of $\boldsymbolλ$ for HDR Content Adaptive Transcoding in AV1
Creators: name: Vibhoothi
name: Pitié, François
name: Katsenou, Angeliki
name: Ringis, Daniel Joseph
name: Su, Yeping
name: Birkbeck, Neil
name: Lin, Jessie
name: Adsumilli, Balu
name: Kokaram, Anil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Since the adoption of VP9 by Netflix in 2016, royalty-free coding standards continued to gain prominence through the activities of the AOMedia consortium. AV1, the latest open source standard, is now widely supported. In the early years after standardisation, HDR video tends to be under served in open source encoders for a variety of reasons including the relatively small amount of true HDR content being broadcast and the challenges in RD optimisation with that material. AV1 codec optimisation has been ongoing since 2020 including consideration of the computational load. In this paper, we explore the idea of direct optimisation of the Lagrangian $λ$ parameter used in the rate control of the encoders to estimate the optimal Rate-Distortion trade-off achievable for a High Dynamic Range signalled video clip. We show that by adjusting the Lagrange multiplier in the RD optimisation process on a frame-hierarchy basis, we are able to increase the Bjontegaard difference rate gains by more than 3.98$\times$ on average without visually affecting the quality.
description: SPIE2022:Applications of Digital Image Processing XLV accepted manuscript
Additional file 1 of Measurement and documentation of quality indicators for the end-of-life care of hospital patients a nationwide retrospective record review study
Creators: name: Bijnsdorp, F. M.
name: Schouten, B.
name: Reyners, A. K. L.
name: Wagner, C.
name: Francke, A. L.
name: van Schoten, S. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Manual for nurse raters.
Quantizations from (P)OVM's
Creators: name: Bergeron, Hervé
name: Curado, Evaldo M. F.
name: Gazeau, Jean-Pierre
name: Rodrigues, Ligia M. C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 46L65, 81S05, 81R30, 22D10

description: We explain the powerful role that operator-valued measures can play in quantizing any set equipped with a measure, for instance a group (resp. group coset) with its invariant (resp. quasi-invariant) measure. Coherent state quantization is a particular case. Such integral quantizations are illustrated with two examples based on the Weyl-Heisenberg group and on the affine group respectively. An interesting application of the affine quantization in quantum cosmology is mentioned, and we sketch a construction of new coherent states for the hydrogen atom.
Subsiding routing misbehavior in MANET using "Mirror Model"
Creators: name: Akhtar, Md. Amir Khusru
name: Sahoo, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Noncooperation or failure to work together is a big challenge that surely degrades the performance and reliability of Mobile Adhoc Networks. In MANETs, nodes have dual responsibilities of forwarding and routing, that's why it needs unison with nodes. To sort out non-cooperation a real life behavior should be implemented, so that misbehavior is nullified. In this paper, we present the "Mirror Model" that strictly enforces cooperation due to its punishment strategy. Node's behavior is watched by its neighbors in PON mode, to update the NPF, NPRF values for a threshold time. After the expiry of the threshold time each node calculates the PFR and broadcasts its neighbors. Similarly all neighbors broadcasted PFR is received and processed by the node to define the 'G' and 'BP' values. The G value is used to isolate selfish nodes from the routing paths and BP denotes the amount of packets to be dropped by an honest node against a selfish node in spite of its misbehavior/packet drops. Cooperation within the neighbors, certainly result in subsiding misbehavior of selfish nodes, therein enhancing cooperation of the whole MANET. This model ensures honesty and reliability in MANET because it does not eliminate a node, but it behaves in the same way as the node behaved. Therefore, it justifies its name, after all mirrors reflects the same. We have implemented the model in "GloMoSim" on top of the DSR protocol, resulting its effectiveness, as compared to the DSR protocol when the network is misconducting for its selfish needs.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1309.2208
Empirically-Driven Multiwavelength K-corrections At Low Redshift
Creators: name: Fielder, Catherine E.
name: Andrews, Brett H.
name: Newman, Jeffrey A.
name: Salim, Samir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: K-corrections, conversions between flux in observed bands to flux in rest-frame bands, are critical for comparing galaxies at various redshifts. These corrections often rely on fits to empirical or theoretical spectral energy distribution (SED) templates of galaxies. However, the templates limit reliable K-corrections to regimes where SED models are robust. For instance, the templates are not well-constrained in some bands (e.g., WISE W4), which results in ill-determined K-corrections for these bands. We address this shortcoming by developing an empirically-driven approach to K-corrections as a means to mitigate dependence on SED templates. We perform a polynomial fit for the K-correction as a function of a galaxy's rest-frame color determined in well-constrained bands (e.g., rest-frame (g-r)) and redshift, exploiting the fact that galaxy SEDs can be described as a one parameter family at low redshift (0.01 < z < 0.09). For bands well-constrained by SED templates, our empirically-driven K-corrections are comparable to the SED fitting method of Kcorrect and SED template fitting employed in the GSWLC-M2 catalogue (the updated medium-deep GALEX-SDSS-WISE Legacy Catalogue). However, our method dramatically outperforms the available SED fitting K-corrections for WISE W4. Our method also mitigates incorrect template assumptions and enforces the K-correction to be 0 at z = 0. Our K-corrected photometry and code are publicly available.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Comparative Study on Agile software development methodologies
Creators: name: Moniruzzaman, A B M
name: Hossain, Dr Syed Akhter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Today-s business environment is very much dynamic, and organisations are constantly changing their software requirements to adjust with new environment. They also demand for fast delivery of software products as well as for accepting changing requirements. In this aspect, traditional plan-driven developments fail to meet up these requirements. Though traditional software development methodologies, such as life cycle-based structured and object oriented approaches, continue to dominate the systems development few decades and much research has done in traditional methodologies, Agile software development brings its own set of novel challenges that must be addressed to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of the valuable software. It is a set of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development process, where requirements and development evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams that allows rapid delivery of high quality software to meet customer needs and also accommodate changes in the requirements. In this paper, we significantly identify and describe the major factors, that Agile development approach improves software development process to meet the rapid changing business environments. We also provide a brief comparison of agile development methodologies with traditional systems development methodologies, and discuss current state of adopting agile methodologies. We speculate that from the need to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of the valuable software, Agile software development is emerged as an alternative to traditional plan-based software development methods. The purpose of this paper, is to provide an in-depth understanding, the major benefits of agile development approach to software development industry, as well as provide a comparison study report of ASDM over TSDM.
description: 25 pages, 25 images, 86 references used, with authors biographies
A Finite Element Method for Angular Discretization of the Radiation Transport Equation on Spherical Geodesic Grids
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Maitraya K
name: Radice, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discrete ordinate ($S_N$) and filtered spherical harmonics ($FP_N$) based schemes have been proven to be robust and accurate in solving the Boltzmann transport equation but they have their own strengths and weaknesses in different physical scenarios. We present a new method based on a finite element approach in angle that combines the strengths of both methods and mitigates their disadvantages. The angular variables are specified on a spherical geodesic grid with functions on the sphere being represented using a finite element basis. A positivity-preserving limiting strategy is employed to prevent non-physical values from appearing in the solutions. The resulting method is then compared with both $S_N$ and $FP_N$ schemes using four test problems and is found to perform well when one of the other methods fail.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures
Utilization of Noise-Only Samples in Array Processing With Prior Knowledge
Creators: name: Zachariah, Dave
name: Jansson, Magnus
name: Bengtsson, Mats
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For array processing, we consider the problem of estimating signals of interest, and their directions of arrival (DOA), in unknown colored noise fields. We develop an estimator that efficiently utilizes a set of noise-only samples and, further, can incorporate prior knowledge of the DOAs with varying degrees of certainty. The estimator is compared with state of the art estimators that utilize noise-only samples, and the Cramér-Rao bound, exhibiting improved performance for smaller sample sets and in poor signal conditions.
IoT Droplocks: Wireless Fingerprint Theft Using Hacked Smart Locks
Creators: name: Kerrison, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Electronic locks can provide security- and convenience-enhancing features, with fingerprint readers an increasingly common feature in these products. When equipped with a wireless radio, they become a smart lock and join the billions of IoT devices proliferating our world. However, such capabilities can also be used to transform smart locks into fingerprint harvesters that compromise an individual's security without their knowledge. We have named this the droplock attack. This paper demonstrates how the harvesting technique works, shows that off-the-shelf smart locks can be invisibly modified to perform such attacks, discusses the implications for smart device design and usage, and calls for better manufacturer and public treatment of this issue.
description: Submitted and accepted into 2022 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing & Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical & Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) and IEEE Congress. Submitted version: 10 pages, 8 figures
Preparing Quantum States by Measurement-feedback Control with Bayesian Optimization
Creators: name: Wu, Yadong
name: Yao, Juan
name: Zhang, Pengfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Preparation of quantum states is of vital importance for performing quantum computations and quantum simulations. In this work, we propose a general framework for preparing ground states of many-body systems by combining the measurement-feedback control process (MFCP) and the machine learning method. Using the Bayesian optimization (BO) strategy, the efficiency of determining the measurement and feedback operators in the MFCP is demonstrated. Taking the one dimensional Bose-Hubbard model as an example, we show that BO can generate optimal parameters, although constrained by the operator basis, which can drive the system to the low energy state with high probability in typical quantum trajectories.