cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Legible Simplification of Textured Urban Models
Creators: name: Chang, Remco
name: Butkiewicz, Thomas
name: Carolinie  Ziemkiewicz
name: Wartell, Zachary
name: Pollard, Nancy S.
name: Ribarsky, William
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most of the algorithms used for research in mesh simplification and discrete levels of detail (LOD) work well for simplifying single objects with a large number of polygons. For a city-sized collection of simple buildings, using these traditional algorithms could mean the disappearance of an entire residential area in which the buildings tend to be smaller than those in commercial regions. To solve this problem, we developed a mesh-simplification algorithm that incorporates concepts from architecture and city planning. Specifically, we rely on the concept of urban legibility, which segments a city into paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. If we preserve these elements of legibility during the simplification process, we can maintain the city's image and create urban models that users can understand more effectively. To accomplish this goal, we divide our algorithm into five steps. During preprocessing, it performs hierarchical clustering, cluster merging, model simplification, and hierarchical texturing, at runtime, it employs LOD to select the appropriate models for rendering.
Spinning particles in scalar-tensor gravity
Creators: name: Burton, D. A.
name: Tucker, R. W.
name: Wang, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a new model of a spinning particle in Brans-Dicke spacetime using a metric-compatible connection with torsion. The particle's spin vector is shown to be Fermi-parallel (by the Levi-Civita connection) along its worldline (an autoparallel of the metric-compatible connection) when neglecting spin-curvature coupling.
description: 8 pages Corrected typo in address footnote
SDSSJ1156-0207: A 0.54 M_sun + 0.19 M_sun Double-lined M Dwarf Eclipsing Binary System
Creators: name: Lee, Chien-Hsiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eclipsing binaries are instrumental to our understanding of fundamental stellar parameters. With the arrival of ultra-wide cameras and large area photometric monitoring programs, numerous eclipsing binaries systems have been reported photometrically. However, due to the expensive efforts to follow up them spectroscopically, most of their basic properties remain unexplored. In this paper we exploited the eclipsing binary light curves delivered by the all-sky Catalina sky surveys, in tandem with the single shot spectroscopic survey from SDSS, and identify a double-lined M-dwarf eclipsing binary SDSSJ1156-0207. Because this system is very faint (V=15.89 mag), we obtained follow-up radial velocity measurements using Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph onboard Gemini north telescope. This provides us a spectral resolution R~4000, enabling us to determine the mass and radius of each stellar components when jointly fitted with light curve. Our best-fit results indicate that both components are of M dwarf, with the primary component to be 0.54+/-0.20 M_sun and 0.46+/-0.08 R_sun, while the secondary component to be 0.19+/-0.08 M_sun and 0.30+/-0.08 R_sun. High resolution spectroscopic observations in the future will help pin down the stellar parameters, providing insights to the stellar models at low mass regimes, as well as shedding lights on the internal structure of close-in low mass objects and their inflation mechanism.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, AJ accepted
Blocks in cycles and k-commuting permutations
Creators: name: Moreno, Rutilo
name: Rivera, Luis Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 05A05, Secondary 05A15, 20B30

description: Let $k$ be a nonnegative integer, and let $α$ and $β$ be two permutations of $n$ symbols. We say that $α$ and $β$ $k$-commute if $H(αβ, βα)=k$, where $H$ denotes the Hamming metric between permutations. In this paper, we consider the problem of finding the permutations that $k$-commute with a given permutation. Our main result is a characterization of permutations that $k$-commute with a given permutation $β$ in terms of blocks in cycles in the decomposition of $β$ as a product of disjoint cycles. Using this characterization, we provide formulas for the number of permutations that $k$-commute with a transposition, a fixed-point free involution and an $n$-cycle, for any $k$. Also, we determine the number of permutations that $k$-commute with any given permutation, for $k \leq 4$.
description: 25 pages. v3 is a major revision
Radius of Uniform Convexity of some special functions
Creators: name: Aktaş, İbrahim
name: Toklu, Evrim
name: Orhan, Halit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30C45

description: In this investigation our main aim is to determine the radius of uniform convexity of the some normalized q-Bessel and Wright functions. Here we consider six different normalized forms of q-Bessel functions, while we apply three different kinds of normalizations of Wright function. Also, we have shown that the obtained radii are the smallest positive roots of some functional equations.
description: 13 pages
The diversity of human papillomavirus infection among human immunodeficiency virus-infected women in Yunnan, China Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae)
Creators: name: Fei, Q.-Y.
name: Jiang, Y.
name: Fei, M.-D.
name: Zhang, H.-Y.
name: Li, H.-X.
name: Tiggelaar, S.M.
name: Jin, Y.-N.
name: Jiang, C.-Q.
name: Xu, L.
name: Qian, H.
name: Qiao, Y.-L.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Sahasrabuddhe, V.V.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd.
Year: 2014

description: Background: Yunnan has one of the oldest and the most severe human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemics in China. We conducted an observational study to evaluate the human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype distribution in relation to cervical neoplastic disease risk among HIV-infected women in Yunnan. Methods: We screened 301 HIV-infected non-pregnant women in Mangshi prefecture in Yunnan province. All consenting participants underwent simultaneous and independent assessment by cervical cytology, colposcopy-histopathology, and HPV genotyping. Unadjusted and multivariable-adjusted multinomial logistic regression analysis was conducted to evaluate factors associated with single or multiple carcinogenic HPV genotypes. Results: HPV genotypes were present in 43.5% (131/301) overall, and carcinogenic HPV genotypes were present in 37.5% (113/301) women. Among women with carcinogenic HPV genotypes, 80 (70.8% of 113) had a single carcinogenic HPV type, while 33 (29.2%) women had multiple (2 or more) carcinogenic HPV types. Overall, the most common carcinogenic HPV types were HPV52 (7.3%), HPV58 (6.6%), HPV18 (6.3%), HPV16 (6.0%), and HPV33 (5.3%). In women with cervical precancerous lesions (i.e., high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions [HSIL] on cytology or cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or worse [CIN2+] detected on colposcopy-histology), the most commonly detected genotypes were HPV16 (28.6%), HPV52 (25.0%), HPV58 (17.9%), HPV18 (10.7%) and HPV31 (10.7%). Increasing age was an independent risk factor associated with presence of single carcinogenic HPV types (adjusted odds ratio: 1.04, 95%CI: 1.01-1.07, p=0.012) but not with the presence of multiple carcinogenic types in the multivariable-adjusted models. Conclusions: As HIV-infected women continue to live longer on antiretroviral therapy in China, it will be increasingly important to screen for, and prevent, HPV-associated cervical cancer in this population, especially given the wide diversity and multiplicity of HPV genotypes.
Upper limit for gamma-ray emission above 140 GeV from the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Draco
Creators: name: MAGIC Collaboration
name: Albert, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxy Draco with its high mass to light ratio is one of the most auspicious targets for indirect dark matter searches. Annihilation of hypothetical DM particles can result in high-energy gamma-rays, e.g. from neutralino annihilation in the supersymmetric framework. With the MAGIC telescope a search for a possible DM signal originating from Draco was performed during 2007. The analysis of the data results in a flux upper limit of 1.1x10^-11 photons cm^-2 sec^-1 for photon energies above 140 GeV, assuming a point like source. Furthermore, a comparison with predictions from supersymmetric models is given. While our results do not constrain the mSUGRA phase parameter space, a very high flux enhancement can be ruled out.
description: Accepted for publication by Astrophysical Journal
Weighted Data Normalization Based on Eigenvalues for Artificial Neural Network Classification
Creators: name: Zhang, Qingjiu
name: Sun, Shiliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial neural network (ANN) is a very useful tool in solving learning problems. Boosting the performances of ANN can be mainly concluded from two aspects: optimizing the architecture of ANN and normalizing the raw data for ANN. In this paper, a novel method which improves the effects of ANN by preprocessing the raw data is proposed. It totally leverages the fact that different features should play different roles. The raw data set is firstly preprocessed by principle component analysis (PCA), and then its principle components are weighted by their corresponding eigenvalues. Several aspects of analysis are carried out to analyze its theory and the applicable occasions. Three classification problems are launched by an active learning algorithm to verify the proposed method. From the empirical results, conclusion comes to the fact that the proposed method can significantly improve the performance of ANN.
Learning, Regret minimization, and Equilibria
Creators: name: Avrim  Blum
name: Monsour, Yishay
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many situations involve repeatedly making decisions in an uncertain envi- ronment: for instance, deciding what route to drive to work each day, or repeated play of a game against an opponent with an unknown strategy. In this chapter we describe learning algorithms with strong guarantees for set- tings of this type, along with connections to game-theoretic equilibria when all players in a system are simultaneously adapting in such a manner. We begin by presenting algorithms for repeated play of a matrix game with the guarantee that against any opponent, they will perform nearly as well as the best fixed action in hindsight (also called the problem of combining expert advice or minimizing external regret). In a zero-sum game, such algorithms are guaranteed to approach or exceed the minimax value of the game, and even provide a simple proof of the minimax theorem. We then turn to algorithms that minimize an even stronger form of regret, known as internal or swap regret. We present a general reduction showing how to convert any algorithm for minimizing external regret to one that minimizes this stronger form of regret as well. Internal regret is important because when all players in a game minimize this stronger type of regret, the empirical distribution of play is known to converge to correlated equilibrium. The third part of this chapter explains a different reduction: how to con- vert from the full information setting in which the action chosen by the opponent is revealed after each time step, to the partial information (ban- dit) setting, where at each time step only the payoff of the selected action is observed (such as in routing), and still maintain a small external regret. Finally, we end by discussing routing games in the Wardrop model, where one can show that if all participants minimize their own external regret, then overall traffic is guaranteed to converge to an approximate Nash Equilibrium. This further motivates price-of-anarchy results.
title: ADCO, Deuxième cartulaire ou Grand cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesme, Cart. 143 (7 H 7), 153 fol, f. 0086r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2009
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Deuxième cartulaire ou Grand cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesme, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 143 (7 H 7), 153 fol, f. 0086r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Deuxième cartulaire ou Grand cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesme, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 143 (7 H 7), 153 fol, f. 0086r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Molesme
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb137389344
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q334044
The association between the history of HIV diagnosis and oral health
Creators: name: Smith, J.S.
name: Webster-Cyriaque, J.
name: Burger-Calderon, R.
name: Ramsey, K.J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2016

description: Unmet oral care needs are high among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS (PLWH). Oral health care is of increasing importance as life expectancy is being prolonged extensively among PLWH. The benefit of oral health care in relation to time since HIV diagnosis has not previously been assessed. A retrospective multivariable analysis of the Special Project of National Significance Oral Health Initiative observational cohort study (N = 2,178) was performed to estimate the odds ratios (ORs) of oral health outcomes comparing historically diagnosed subjects (>1 y since HIV diagnosis) to newly diagnosed subjects (≤1 y since HIV diagnosis). ORs were adjusted for age, study site, language, income, last dental care visit, and dental insurance. Historically diagnosed subjects were more likely to report oral problems than newly HIV-diagnosed subjects (OR, 2.10). Historically diagnosed subjects were more likely to require oral surgery (OR, 1.52), restorative treatment (OR, 1.35), endodontic treatment (OR, 1.63), and more than 10 oral clinic visits over the 24-mo study period (OR, 2.02). The crude cumulative 2-y risk of requiring prosthetic (risk difference [RD], 0.21) and endodontic (RD, 0.11) treatment was higher among historically than newly diagnosed subjects, despite no significance postadjustment. Furthermore, poor oral health outcomes were exacerbated among non-highly active antiretroviral therapy users. Summarizing, the authors found that historically diagnosed subjects were more likely to report oral problems and require dental procedures compared with newly diagnosed subjects, suggesting that oral health among PLWH declines over time since HIV diagnosis. Hence, newly diagnosed PLWH may benefit from the implementation of early oral interventions.
Lurking systematics in predicting galaxy cold gas masses using dust luminosities and star formation rates
Creators: name: Janowiecki, Steven
name: Cortese, Luca
name: Catinella, Barbara
name: Goodwin, Adelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use galaxies from the Herschel Reference Survey to evaluate commonly used indirect predictors of cold gas masses. We calibrate predictions for cold neutral atomic and molecular gas using infrared dust emission and gas depletion time methods which are self-consistent and have ~20% accuracy (with the highest accuracy in the prediction of total cold gas mass). However, modest systematic residual dependences are found in all calibrations which depend on the partition between molecular and atomic gas, and can over/under-predict gas masses by up to 0.3dex. As expected, dust-based estimates are best at predicting the total gas mass while depletion time-based estimates are only able to predict the (star-forming) molecular gas mass. Additionally, we advise caution when applying these predictions to high-z galaxies, as significant (0.5dex or more) errors can arise when incorrect assumptions are made about the dominant gas phase. Any scaling relations derived using predicted gas masses may be more closely related to the calibrations used than to the actual galaxies observed.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, accepted to MNRAS. Figure 8 is my favorite
Information-Causal Unified Framework (ICUF)
Creators: name: Sambey, Stanley Everett
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The Information-Causal Unified Framework (ICUF) integrates the empirical strengths of the Updated Unified Data Framework (UDF v5.2) with the theoretical foundations of Entangled Causal Network Theory (ECNT). ICUF formalizes quantum information as a fundamental causal structure, defining a weighted, directed network with a path integral over causal states. It resolves key inconsistencies in quantum gravity by introducing a renormalized entropy-action principle that unifies quantum field theory (QFT) and general relativity (GR) while maintaining scale consistency and falsifiability.
Effective Cluster Typical Medium Theory for Diagonal Anderson Disorder Model in One- and Two-Dimensions
Creators: name: Ekuma, Chinedu E.
name: Terletska, Hanna
name: Meng, Zi Yang
name: Moreno, Juana
name: Jarrell, Mark
name: Mahmoudian, Samiyeh
name: Dobrosavljevic, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a cluster typical medium theory to study localization in disordered electronic systems. Our formalism is able to incorporate non-local correlations beyond the local typical medium theory in a systematic way. The cluster typical medium theory utilizes the momentum resolved typical density of states and hybridization function to characterize the localization transition. We apply the formalism to the Anderson model of localization in one- and two-dimensions. In one dimension, we find that the critical disorder strength scales inversely with the linear cluster size with a power-law, $W_c \sim (1/L_c)^{1/ν}$; whereas in two dimensions, the critical disorder strength decreases logarithmically with the linear cluster size. Our results are consistent with previous numerical work and in agreement with the one-parameter scaling theory.
description: 8 Pages and 8 Figures
Enhancement of the thermoelectric effect due to the Majorana zero modes coupled to one quantum-dot system
Creators: name: Wang, Xiao-Qi
name: Zhang, Shu-Feng
name: Han, Hu
name: Yi, Guang-Yu
name: Gong, Wei-Jiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By considering Majorana zero modes to laterally couple to the quantum dot, we evaluate the thermoelectric effect in one single-dot system. The calculation results show that if one Majorana zero mode couples to the dot, the thermoelectric effect will exhibit its change, but the thermoelectric efficiency cannot be enhanced apparently. However, the thermoelectric effect can be efficiently strengthened when two Majorana zero modes are introduced simultaneously. We believe that the findings in this work provide an alternative method for the detection of Majorana bound state.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, submitted to PRB
Learning Valuation Distributions from Partial Observations
Creators: name: Avrim  Blum
name: Mansour, Yishay
name: Morgenstern, Jamie
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Auction theory traditionally assumes that bidders’ val- uation distributions are known to the auctioneer, such as in the celebrated, revenue-optimal Myerson auc- tion (Myerson 1981). However, this theory does not de- scribe how the auctioneer comes to possess this infor- mation. Recently work (Cole and Roughgarden 2014) showed that an approximation based on a finite sample of independent draws from each bidder’s distribution is sufficient to produce a near-optimal auction. In this work, we consider the problem of learning bidders’ val- uation distributions from much weaker forms of obser- vations. Specifically, we consider a setting where there is a repeated, sealed-bid auction with n bidders, but all we observe for each round is who won, but not how much they bid or paid. We can also participate (i.e., submit a bid) ourselves, and observe when we win. From this information, our goal is to (approximately) recover the inherently recoverable part of the underlying bid distributions. We also consider extensions where different subsets of bidders participate in each round, and where bidders’ valuations have a common-value component added to their independent private values.
Learning to Select Good TitleWords: An New Approach based on Reverse Information Retrieval
Creators: name: Jin, Rong
name: Hauptmann, Alexander
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we show how we can learn to select good words for a document title. We view the problem of selecting good title words for a document as a variant of an Information Retrieval problem. Each title word is treated as a “document” and selection of appropriate title words as finding relevant “documents”. Based on our training collection consisting of 40,000 document and title pairs, we learn the “document” representations for all the title words and apply these learned representations to select appropriate title words over 10,000 test documents. Compared to other learning approaches, namely K nearest neighbor approach, a Naïve Bayesian approach and a variant of a machine translation model, we find that our approach is significantly better as indicated by the F1 metric.
Véu das memórias.Somente nos reconhecemos como somos, em parte ou inteiros, pela lente de nossas memórias. Mas se elas nos faltarem, quem seremos?
Creators: name: Schulz, Ricardo Teles
name: SILVEIRA, FABIO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 360299
subject: Creative and professional writing not elsewhere classified

description: O texto reflete sobre a identidade humana como algo profundamente ligado à memória, destacando a tragédia da perda progressiva dessas memórias na demência, onde o indivíduo se desfaz de si mesmo em vida. A partir de citações de Shakespeare, Fernando Pessoa e Carlos Drummond de Andrade, o autor explora como o esquecimento fragmenta o ser, mas também sugere, de modo poético, que esquecer pode ser, paradoxalmente, uma forma de liberdade.Véu das memórias - by Line of Life and Ricardo Teles SchulzEnsaio faz parte da coleção Line of life (www.lineoflife.care)
Early adoption of the human papillomavirus vaccine among hispanic adolescent males in the united states
Creators: name: Reiter, P.L.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Katz, M.L.
name: Paskett, E.D.
name: Gilkey, M.B.
name: Brewer, N.T.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2014

description: BACKGROUND: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is common among Hispanic males, but to the authors' knowledge little is known regarding HPV vaccination in this population. The authors examined the early adoption of the HPV vaccine among a national sample of Hispanic adolescent males.METHODS: The authors analyzed provider-verified HPV vaccination data from the 2010 through 2012 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) for Hispanic males aged 13 years to 17 years (n=4238).Weighted logistic regression identified correlates of HPV vaccine initiation (receipt of ≥1 doses).RESULTS: HPV vaccine initiation was 17.1% overall, increasing from 2.8% in 2010 to 31.7% in 2012 (P<.0001). Initiation was higher among sons whose parents had received a provider recommendation to vaccinate compared with those whose parents had not (53.3% vs 9.0%; odds ratio, 8.77 [95% confidence interval, 6.05-12.70]). Initiation was also higher among sons who had visited a health care provider within the previous year (odds ratio, 2.42; 95% confidence interval, 1.39-4.23). Among parents with unvaccinated sons, Spanish-speaking parents reported much higher intent to vaccinate compared with English-speaking parents (means: 3.52 vs 2.54; P<.0001). Spanish-speaking parents were more likely to indicate lack of knowledge (32.9% vs 19.9%) and not having received a provider recommendation (32.2% vs 17.7%) as the main reasons for not intending to vaccinate (both P<.05).CONCLUSIONS: HPV vaccination among Hispanic adolescent males has increased substantially in recent years. Ensuring health care visits and provider recommendation will be key for continuing this trend. Preferred language may also be important for increasing HPV vaccination and addressing potential barriers to vaccination.
On column density thresholds and the star formation rate
Creators: name: Clark, Paul C.
name: Glover, Simon C. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a numerical study designed to address the question of whether there is a column density threshold for star formation within molecular clouds. We have simulated a large number of different clouds, with volume and column densities spanning a wide range of different values, using a state-of-the-art model for the coupled chemical, thermal and dynamical evolution of the gas. We show that star formation is only possible in regions where the mean (area-averaged) column density exceeds $10^{21} \: {\rm cm^{-2}}$. Within the clouds, we also show that there is a good correlation between the mass of gas above a K-band extinction $A_{\rm K} = 0.8$ and the star formation rate (SFR), in agreement with recent observational work. Previously, this relationship has been explained in terms of a correlation between the SFR and the mass in dense gas. However, we find that this correlation is weaker and more time-dependent than that between the SFR and the column density. In support of previous studies, we argue that dust shielding is the key process: the true correlation is one between the SFR and the mass in cold, well-shielded gas, and the latter correlates better with the column density than the volume density.
description: 21 pages and 12 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Learning to Play Stackelberg Security Games
Creators: name: Avrim  Blum
name: Haghtalab, Nika
name: Procaccia, Ariel D.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this chapter, we present an alternative, learning-theoretic approach for dealing with uncertainty in Stackelberg security games. In order to paint a cohesive picture, we focus on one type of uncertainty: unknown attacker utilities. Learning will take place in a repeated Stackelberg security game, where the defender gathers information about the attacker purely by observing the attacker’s responses to mixed strategies played by the defender. In more detail, we wish to learn a good strategy for the defender without any initial information about the utility function of the attacker (Section 1); when given a distribution over attacker types (Section 2); and when faced with an unknown sequence of attackers (Section 3). In each section we present, in some generality, the relevant learning-theoretic techniques: optimization with membership queries, Monte Carlo tree search, and no-regret learning, respectively. In Section 4 we briefly discuss additional work at the intersection of machine learning and Stackelberg security games.
Genetic and dietary determinants of insulin-like growth factor (igf)-1 and igf binding protein (bp)-3 levels among chinese women
Creators: name: Yang, C.-X.
name: Liu, L.
name: McCullough, L.E.
name: Miller, E.
name: Li, J.-Y.
name: Qi, Y.-N.
name: Wang, Q
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Li, H.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2014

description: Background: Higher insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 and lower IGF binding protein (BP)-3 levels have been associated with higher commoncancer risk, including breast cancer. Dietary factors, genetic polymorphisms, and the combination of both may influence circulating IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 serum concentrations.Methods: From September 2011 to July 2012, we collected demographic, reproductive and dietary data on 143 women (> 40 years). We genotyped IGF-1 rs1520220 and IGFBP-3 rs2854744 and measured circulating IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 levels in serum. Covariance analyses were used to estimate the associations of serum levels of IGF-1 and IGFBP-3, and the molar ratio of IGF-1to IGFBP-3 with IGF-1 rsl 520220 and IGFBP-3 rs2854744 genotypes. We subsequently assessed the combined influence of genetics and diet (daily intake of protein, fat and soy isoflavones) on IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 levels.Results: Among women aged less than 50 years, circulating IGF-1 serum levels were significantly lower for those with CC genotype for IGF-1 rsl 520220 than levels for those with the GC or GG genotypes (in recessive model: P = 0.007).ln gene-diet analyses among these women, we found carrying CC genotype for IGF-1 rs1520220 and high soy isoflavone intake tend to be associated with lower circulating IGF-1 levels synthetically (P = 0.002). Women with GG or GC genotypes for IGF-1 rsl 520220 and with low intake of soy isoflavones had the highest levels of circulating IGF-1 (geometric mean [95% Cl]: 195 [37, 1021] μg/L). Comparatively, women with both the CC genotype and high soy intake had the lowest levels of circulating IGF-1 (geometric mean [95% Cl]: 120 [38,378] μg/L).Conclusions: IGF-1 serum levels are significantly lower among women with the CC genotype for IGF-1-rs1 520220. High soy isoflavone intake may interact with carrying CC genotype for IGF-1-rs1 520220 to lower women's serum IGF-1 levels more.
A short note on small deviations of sequences of i.i.d. random variables with exponentially decreasing weights
Creators: name: Aurzada, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G50, 60F99

description: We obtain some new results concerning the small deviation problem for $S=\sum_n q^n X_n$ and $M=\sup_n q^n X_n$, where $0
description: Revision, 13p, to appear in: Statist. Probab. Lett
Learning to Identify Video Shots with People Based On Face Detection
Creators: name: Jin, Rong
name: Hauptmann, Alexander
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We examine how to identify video shots with at least two humans using only detected face information. While face detection is much more reliable than shape based people classification in broadcast video, one particular difficulty is that, when there are several humans in an image, the accuracy of face detection is usually significantly degraded, which leads to poor performance in identifying shots of 'people'. Furthermore, while our standard face detector works from individual still images, we propose using the statistics of face information of images within a whole shot as additional evidence in deciding whether or not a video shot belongs to the 'people' category. Empirically, we studied which statistics of face information are more informative than others and how to combine different statistics together in order to achieve better prediction.
Lensing of Fast Radio Bursts by Binaries to Probe Compact Dark Matter
Creators: name: Wang, Y. K.
name: Wang, F. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility that a fraction of the dark matter is comprised of massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) remains unclear, especially in the 20-100 $M_{\odot}$ window. MACHOs could make up binaries, whose mergers may be detected by LIGO as gravitational wave events. On the other hand, the cosmological origin of fast radio burst (FRBs) has been confirmed. We investigate the possibility of detecting fast radio bursts (FRBs) gravitational lensed by MACHO binaries to constrain their properties. Since lensing events could generate more than one images, lensing by binaries could cause multiple-peak FRBs. The angular separation between these images is roughly $10^{-3}$ mas, which is too small to be resolved. The typical time interval between different images is roughly 1 millisecond (ms). The flux ratio between different images is roughly from 10 to $10^3$. With the expected detection rate of $10^4$ FRBs per year by the upcoming experiments, we could expect five multi-peak FRBs observed per year with time interval larger than 1 ms and flux ratio less than $10^3$ if the fraction of dark matter in MACHOs is $f\sim0.01$. A null search multiple-peak FRBs for time interval larger than 1 ms and flux ratio less than $10^3$ with $10^4$ FRBs would constrain the fraction $f$ of dark matter in MACHOs to $f<0.001$.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in A&A, final version after language editing
La ville, cité et Université de Paris, par Olivier Truschet et Germain Hoyau, 1553 (détail)
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021

description: Extrait de "Le vray pourtraict naturel de la ville, cité, uniuersité & aubourgz de Paris", par Olivier Truschet et Germain Hoyau (plan publié en 1553 et représentant la ville en 1552), figurant le Palais de justice, la Conciergerie, le Grand Châtelet, le Petit Châtelet, l’Hôtel de ville, la place de Grève, le Louvre.
description: Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UBBasel_Map_155u_Kartenslg_AA_124.tif
description: Provenance: Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Kartenslg AA 124
Density profiles and collective modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate with light-induced spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Lü, Qin-Qin
name: Sheehy, Daniel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phases of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with light-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) are studied within the mean-field approximation. The mixed BEC phase, in which the system condenses in a superposition of two plane wave states, is found to be stable for sufficiently small light-atom coupling, becoming unstable in a continuous fashion with increasing light-atom coupling. The structure of the phase diagram at fixed chemical potential for bosons with SOC is shown to imply an unusual density dependence for a trapped mixed BEC phase, with the density of one dressed spin state increasing with increasing radius, providing a unique experimental signature of this state. The collective Bogoliubov sound mode is shown to also provide a signature of the mixed BEC state, vanishing as the boundary to the regime of phase separation is approached.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures. Published Version
Learning to identify TV news monologues by style and context
Creators: name: Snoek, Cees G. M.
name: Hauptmann, Alexander G.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "We focus on the problem of learning semantics from multimedia data associated with broadcast video documents. In this paper we propose to learn semantic concepts from multimodal sources based on style and context detectors, in combination with statistical classifier ensembles. As a case study we present our method for detecting the concept of news subject monologues. This approach had the best average precision performance amongst 26 submissions in the 2003 video track of the Text Retrieval Conference benchmark. Experiments were conducted with respect to individual detector contribution, ensemble size, and ranking mechanism. It was found that the combination of detectors is decisive for the final result, although some detectors might appear useless in isolation. Moreover, by using a probabilistic ranking, in combination with a large classifier ensemble, results can be improved even further."
MPEC 2025-D236 : 2025 DJ22
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 DJ22

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Fast Covariance Estimation for High-dimensional Functional Data
Creators: name: Xiao, Luo
name: Ruppert, David
name: Zipunnikov, Vadim
name: Crainiceanu, Ciprian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For smoothing covariance functions, we propose two fast algorithms that scale linearly with the number of observations per function. Most available methods and software cannot smooth covariance matrices of dimension $J \times J$ with $J>500$; the recently introduced sandwich smoother is an exception, but it is not adapted to smooth covariance matrices of large dimensions such as $J \ge 10,000$. Covariance matrices of order $J=10,000$, and even $J=100,000$, are becoming increasingly common, e.g., in 2- and 3-dimensional medical imaging and high-density wearable sensor data. We introduce two new algorithms that can handle very large covariance matrices: 1) FACE: a fast implementation of the sandwich smoother and 2) SVDS: a two-step procedure that first applies singular value decomposition to the data matrix and then smoothes the eigenvectors. Compared to existing techniques, these new algorithms are at least an order of magnitude faster in high dimensions and drastically reduce memory requirements. The new algorithms provide instantaneous (few seconds) smoothing for matrices of dimension $J=10,000$ and very fast ($
description: 35 pages, 4 figures
Factors Associated With Adherence to Follow-up Colposcopy
Creators: name: Moorman, P.G.
name: Wordlaw-Stintson, L.
name: Vidal, A.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Hoyo, C.
name: Fish, L.J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Background Understanding the gaps in knowledge about human papilloma virus (HPV) infection, transmission, and health consequences and factors associated with the knowledge gap is an essential first step for the development of interventions to improve adherence to follow-up among women with abnormal Pap smears. Purpose To examine the relationship between knowledge about HPV and adherence to scheduled colposcopic evaluation and variables related to lack of knowledge among women with abnormal Pap tests. Methods Telephone surveys were conducted with women who attended their scheduled appointments (adherers) and women who did not attend their appointments (nonadherers). Results The multivariable analyses indicate that lower HPV knowledge was independently associated with nonadherence to follow-up, controlling for race and education level. Factors related to lower knowledge scores included non-white race, lower education, and lack of health insurance at the time of the scheduled appointment. Conclusion Lack of knowledge of HPV was related to nonadherence among women scheduled for colposcopic evaluation. Translation to Health Education Practice Health education interventions that deliver complex information about HPV and cervical cancer should be in a format that is accessible and understandable to the women who are most at risk of being nonadherent.
Charge reconstruction in large-area photomultipliers
Creators: name: Grassi, M.
name: Montuschi, M.
name: Baldoncini, M.
name: Mantovani, F.
name: Ricci, B.
name: Andronico, G.
name: Antonelli, V.
name: Bellato, M.
name: Bernieri, E.
name: Brigatti, A.
name: Brugnera, R.
name: Budano, A.
name: Buscemi, M.
name: Bussino, S.
name: Caruso, R.
name: Chiesa, D.
name: Corti, D.
name: Corso, F. Dal
name: Ding, X. F.
name: Dusini, S.
name: Fabbri, A.
name: Fiorentini, G.
name: Ford, R.
name: Formozov, A.
name: Galet, G.
name: Garfagnini, A.
name: Giammarchi, M.
name: Giaz, A.
name: Insolia, A.
name: Isocrate, R.
name: Lippi, I.
name: Longhitano, F.
name: Presti, D. Lo
name: Lombardi, P.
name: Marini, F.
name: Mari, S. M.
name: Martellini, C.
name: Meroni, E.
name: Mezzetto, M.
name: Miramonti, L.
name: Monforte, S.
name: Nastasi, M.
name: Ortica, F.
name: Paoloni, A.
name: Parmeggiano, S.
name: Pedretti, D.
name: Pelliccia, N.
name: Pompilio, R.
name: Previtali, E.
name: Ranucci, G.
name: Re, A. C.
name: Romani, A.
name: Saggese, P.
name: Salamanna, G.
name: Sawy, F. H.
name: Settanta, G.
name: Sisti, M.
name: Sirignano, C.
name: Spinetti, M.
name: Stanco, L.
name: Strati, V.
name: Verde, G.
name: Votano, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large-area PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMT) allow to efficiently instrument Liquid Scintillator (LS) neutrino detectors, where large target masses are pivotal to compensate for neutrinos' extremely elusive nature. Depending on the detector light yield, several scintillation photons stemming from the same neutrino interaction are likely to hit a single PMT in a few tens/hundreds of nanoseconds, resulting in several photoelectrons (PEs) to pile-up at the PMT anode. In such scenario, the signal generated by each PE is entangled to the others, and an accurate PMT charge reconstruction becomes challenging. This manuscript describes an experimental method able to address the PMT charge reconstruction in the case of large PE pile-up, providing an unbiased charge estimator at the permille level up to 15 detected PEs. The method is based on a signal filtering technique (Wiener filter) which suppresses the noise due to both PMT and readout electronics, and on a Fourier-based deconvolution able to minimize the influence of signal distortions ---such as an overshoot. The analysis of simulated PMT waveforms shows that the slope of a linear regression modeling the relation between reconstructed and true charge values improves from $0.769 \pm 0.001$ (without deconvolution) to $0.989 \pm 0.001$ (with deconvolution), where unitary slope implies perfect reconstruction. A C++ implementation of the charge reconstruction algorithm is available online at http://www.fe.infn.it/CRA .
Learning to Identify TV News Monologues by Style and Context
Creators: name: Snoek, Cees G.M.
name: Hauptmann, Alexander
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We focus on the problem of learning semantics from multimedia data associated with broad- cast video documents. In this paper we propose to learn semantic concepts from multimodal sources based on style and context detectors, in combination with statistical classifier ensembles. As a case study we present our method for detecting the concept of news subject monologues. This approach had the best average precision performance amongst 26 sub- missions in the 2003 video track of the Text Retrieval Conference benchmark. Experiments were conducted with respect to individual detector contribution, ensemble size, and ranking mechanism. It was found that the combination of detectors is decisive for the final result, although some detectors might appear useless in isolation. Moreover, by using a probabilistic ranking, in combination with a large classfier ensemble, results can be improved even further.
EXONEST: The Bayesian Exoplanetary Explorer
Creators: name: Knuth, Kevin H.
name: Placek, Ben
name: Angerhausen, Daniel
name: Carter, Jennifer L.
name: D'Angelo, Bryan
name: Gai, Anthony D.
name: Carado, Bertrand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The fields of astronomy and astrophysics are currently engaged in an unprecedented era of discovery as recent missions have revealed thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars. While the Kepler Space Telescope mission has enabled most of these exoplanets to be detected by identifying transiting events, exoplanets often exhibit additional photometric effects that can be used to improve the characterization of exoplanets. The EXONEST Exoplanetary Explorer is a Bayesian exoplanet inference engine based on nested sampling and originally designed to analyze archived Kepler Space Telescope and CoRoT (Convection Rotation et Transits planétaires) exoplanet mission data. We discuss the EXONEST software package and describe how it accommodates plug-and-play models of exoplanet-associated photometric effects for the purpose of exoplanet detection, characterization and scientific hypothesis testing. The current suite of models allows for both circular and eccentric orbits in conjunction with photometric effects, such as the primary transit and secondary eclipse, reflected light, thermal emissions, ellipsoidal variations, Doppler beaming and superrotation. We discuss our new efforts to expand the capabilities of the software to include more subtle photometric effects involving reflected and refracted light. We discuss the EXONEST inference engine design and introduce our plans to port the current MATLAB-based EXONEST software package over to the next generation Exoplanetary Explorer, which will be a Python-based open source project with the capability to employ third-party plug-and-play models of exoplanet-related photometric effects.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. Presented at the 37th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt 2017) in Jarinu/SP Brasil