cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MODERN CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER LEGAL EDUCATION
Creators: name: Asanov, Almazxan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper examines the key challenges and prospects of higher legal education in the modern era. Digitalization, globalization, and evolving legal frameworks reshape legal training, offering both opportunities and challenges. The study highlights the need for hybrid learning, experiential education, AI-driven tools, and international cooperation. Balancing traditional legal principles with modern innovations is essential for meeting contemporary educational demands.
Seismic site effects in a deep alluvial basin: numerical analysis by the boundary element method
Creators: name: Semblat, Jean-François
name: Duval, Anne-Marie
name: Dangla, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main purpose of the paper is the numerical analysis of seismic site effects in Caracas (Venezuela). The analysis is performed considering the boundary element method in the frequency domain. A numerical model including a part of the local topography is considered, it involves a deep alluvial deposit on an elastic bedrock. The amplification of seismic motion (SH-waves, weak motion) is analyzed in terms of level, occurring frequency and location. In this specific site of Caracas, the amplification factor is found to reach a maximum value of 25. Site effects occur in the thickest part of the basin for low frequencies (below 1.0 Hz) and in two intermediate thinner areas for frequencies above 1.0 Hz. The influence of both incidence and shear wave velocities is also investigated. A comparison with microtremor recordings is presented afterwards. The results of both numerical and experimental approaches are in good agreement in terms of fundamental frequencies in the deepest part of the basin. The boundary element method appears to be a reliable and efficient approach for the analysis of seismic site effects.
title: CEO Succession and The Walt Disney Company
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Year: 2023

description: CEO succession planning is a critical exercise for any organization. And yet, experience clearly demonstrates that many companies fail to successfully handle the transition from one CEO to the next. What are the causes of this breakdown? We examine the challenges of a careful, deliberate, and well-scripted succession through the example of The Walt Disney Company. We ask: Why is it so difficult for some companies to find a successor to the outgoing CEO? When is it better for a company to select a successor who carries forward the strengths of a predecessor, and when is it better to promote someone different? How can a board maintain control of the process, while still leveraging the expertise, insight, and judgment of the outgoing CEO? How difficult is the CEO job of a typical, large multinational corporation? Does the high pay that CEOs receive reflect a limited supply of talent, or governance breakdowns that impede the proper evaluation of talent? Under what circumstances is it the right decision to bring back a former CEO?
Additional file 3 of High body mass index is a significant risk factor for the progression and prognosis of imported COVID-19: a multicenter, retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Cai, Huan
name: Yang, Lisha
name: Lu, Yingfeng
name: Zhang, Shanyan
name: Ye, Chanyuan
name: Zhang, Xiaoli
name: Yu, Guodong
name: Gu, Jueqing
name: Lian, Jiangshan
name: Hao, Shaorui
name: Hu, Jianhua
name: Zhang, Yimin
name: Jin, Ciliang
name: Sheng, Jifang
name: Yang, Yida
name: Jia, Hongyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Treatments and outcomes of COVID-19 patients with BMI ≥ 24. Data are presented as medians (interquartile ranges, IQR), n (%) and mean (SD). Others* include interferon-α sprays, arbidol, and lopinavir/ritonavir monotherapy.
AtlantECO Deliverable - D4.1 - Handbook of Standards and Best Practices
Creators: name: Pesant, Stéphane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Standards
Best Practice
Protocols

description: The deliverable (D4.1) constitutes version 1 of the Handbook of Standards and Best Practices regarding AtlantECO's augmented observations and technological innovations as described in Work Package 4. The Handbook will be developed throughout the project and will be delivered progressively as four revised and augmented deliverables (D4.1-D4.4). The Handbook will address standards and best practices with respect to: Sample collection Sample biobanking Sample analysis Access and Benefits Sharing Provenance reporting Environmental context reporting AtlantECO will generate new observations as part of the activities described in its Grant Agreement and also via a number of synergies with other European and International projects. The Handbook aims to harmonise as much as possible the methodologies used across these projects on some key types of observations, while allowing enough flexibility to adapt methodologies to the different observation programmes, therefore maximising the adoption of the standards and best practices. The present deliverable sets the stage for the Handbook, using sample collection protocols as a starting point. It includes: A short introduction to the Project’s goals, organisation and expected outcomes Guiding principles for the design of AtlantECO's system of standards & best practices A package of protocols that can adapt to various field observation programmes A capacity building strategy to maximise the adoption of the system by the community
A Simulation Environment and Reinforcement Learning Method for Waste Reduction
Creators: name: Jullien, Sami
name: Ariannezhad, Mozhdeh
name: Groth, Paul
name: de Rijke, Maarten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.1; I.6.7

description: In retail (e.g., grocery stores, apparel shops, online retailers), inventory managers have to balance short-term risk (no items to sell) with long-term-risk (over ordering leading to product waste). This balancing task is made especially hard due to the lack of information about future customer purchases. In this paper, we study the problem of restocking a grocery store's inventory with perishable items over time, from a distributional point of view. The objective is to maximize sales while minimizing waste, with uncertainty about the actual consumption by costumers. This problem is of a high relevance today, given the growing demand for food and the impact of food waste on the environment, the economy, and purchasing power. We frame inventory restocking as a new reinforcement learning task that exhibits stochastic behavior conditioned on the agent's actions, making the environment partially observable. We make two main contributions. First, we introduce a new reinforcement learning environment, RetaiL, based on real grocery store data and expert knowledge. This environment is highly stochastic, and presents a unique challenge for reinforcement learning practitioners. We show that uncertainty about the future behavior of the environment is not handled well by classical supply chain algorithms, and that distributional approaches are a good way to account for the uncertainty. Second, we introduce GTDQN, a distributional reinforcement learning algorithm that learns a generalized Tukey Lambda distribution over the reward space. GTDQN provides a strong baseline for our environment. It outperforms other distributional reinforcement learning approaches in this partially observable setting, in both overall reward and reduction of generated waste.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, 3 listings, 1 algorithm
Physical Properties and Impact Parameter Variations of Kepler Planets from Analytic Light Curve Modeling
Creators: name: Judkovsky, Yair
name: Ofir, Aviv
name: Aharonson, Oded
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply AnalyticLC, an analytic model described in an accompanying paper, to interpret Kepler data of systems that contain two or three transiting planets. We perform tests to verify that the obtained solutions agree with full N-body integrations, and that the number of model parameters is statistically justified. We probe non-coplanar interactions via impact parameter variations (TbVs), enabled by our analytic model. The subset of systems with a valid solution includes 54 systems composed of 140 planets, more than half of which without previously reported mass constraints. Overall we provide: (1) Estimates on physical and orbital properties for all systems analyzed. (2) 102 planets with mass detections significant to better than 3 standard deviations, 43 of which are lighter than five Earth masses. (3) 35 TbVs significant to better than 3 standard deviations. We focus on select systems showing strong TbVs, which can result from either interaction among the known transiting planets, or with a non-transiting object, and provide: (4) a method to constrain the parameters of such unseen companions. These results are enabled by an accurate, 3D, photodynamical model, of a kind expected to become increasingly important for modeling multi-decade photometric and composite (RV, astrometry) data sets.
description: 49 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication. Machine-readable tables are included in the source files
AtlantECO Deliverable - D9.1 - Communication Plan
Creators: name: Eloïse Trabut
name: Abreu, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The Deliverable “Communication Plan” is produced as part of the “Communication, capacity building and outreach” work package of the AtlantECO project and sets out to establish the initial strategy for communication to support the activities and objectives of the project and contribute to sustainable widespread impact.
Collective effects in an incompressible electronic liquid
Creators: name: Miao, Jian-Jian
name: Jin, Hui-Ke
name: Zhou, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the Landau's kinetic equation, we show that an electronic liquid in $d=2,3$ dimensions depicted by a Landau type effective theory will become incompressible on condition that the Landau parameters satisfy either (i) $1+F_{1}^{s}/d=0$ or (ii) $F_{0}^{s}\to{}+\infty$. The condition (i) is the Pomeranchuk instability in the current channel and suggests a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state with a spinon Fermi surface; while the condition (ii) means that the strong repulsion in the charge channel and leads to a conventional charge and thermal insulator. In the collisionless regime ($ωτ\gg{}1$) and the hydrodynamic regime ($ωτ\ll{}1$), the zero and first sound modes have been studied and classified by symmetries, including the longitudinal and transverse modes in $d=2,3$ and the higher angular momentum modes in $d=3$. The sufficient (and/or necessary) conditions of these collective modes have been revealed. It has been demonstrated that some of these collective modes will behave in quite different manners under two incompressibility conditions (i) or (ii). Possible nematic QSL states and a hierarchy structure for gapless QSL states have been proposed in $d=3$.
description: 12+21 pages
HKLL bulk reconstruction for small $Δ$
Creators: name: Aoki, Sinya
name: Balog, János
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the extension of the HKLL (Hamilton, Kabat, Lifschytz, and Lowe) bulk reconstruction for non-interacting scalar fields corresponding to conformal weights $Δ$ smaller than the original condition $Δ> d-1$. We give explicit formulas for the cases $d-2
description: 28 pages, LaTeX, no figures
Spin-flip M1 giant resonance as a challenge for Skyrme forces
Creators: name: Nesterenko, V. O.
name: Kvasil, J.
name: Vesely, P.
name: Kleinig, W.
name: Reinhard, P. -G.
name: Ponomarev, V. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite a great success of the Skyrme mean-field approach in exploration of nuclear dynamics, it seems to fail in description of the spin-flip M1 giant resonance. The results for different Skyrme parameterizations are contradictory and poorly agree with experiment. In particular, there is no parameterization which simultaneously describes the one-peak gross structure of M1 strength in doubly magic nuclei and two-peak structure in heavy deformed nuclei. The reason of this mismatch could lie in an unsatisfactory treatment of spin correlations and spin-orbit interaction. We discuss the present status of the problem and possible ways of its solution. In particular, we inspect i) the interplay of the collective shift and spin-orbit splitting, ii) the isovector M1 response versus isospin-mixed responses, and iii) the role of tensor and isovector spin-orbit interaction.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, to be published in J. Phys. G, special issue on Open Problems in Nuclear Structure Theory (OPeNST)
A Fast Randomized Algorithm for Computing an Approximate Null Space
Creators: name: Nakatsukasa, Yuji
name: Park, Taejun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65F20, 65F55, 15A18, 15A42

description: Randomized algorithms in numerical linear algebra can be fast, scalable and robust. This paper examines the effect of sketching on the right singular vectors corresponding to the smallest singular values of a tall-skinny matrix. We analyze a fast algorithm by Gilbert, Park and Wakin for finding the trailing right singular vectors using randomization by examining the quality of the solution using multiplicative perturbation theory. For an $m\times n$ ($m\geq n$) matrix, the algorithm runs with complexity $O(mn\log n +n^3)$ which is faster than the standard $O(mn^2)$ methods. In applications, numerical experiments show great speedups including a $30\times$ speedup for the AAA algorithm and $10\times$ speedup for the total least squares problem.
description: 28 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
The Banach algebras $AC(σ)$ and $BV(σ)$
Creators: name: Doust, Ian
name: Leinert, Michael
name: Stoneham, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26B30, 47B40

description: The spaces $BV(σ)$ and $AC(σ)$ were introduced as part of a program to find a general theory which covers both well-bounded operators and trigonometrically well-bounded operators acting on a Banach space. Since their initial appearance it has become clear that the definitions could be simplified somewhat. In this paper we give a self-contained exposition of the main properties of these spaces using this simplified approach.
description: 33 pages. Some material previously appeared in an earlier version of arxiv:1312.1806
“A most detestable crime”. Representations of Rape in the Popular Press of Early Modern England
Creators: name: Pallotti, Donatella
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2013
Subjects: early modern English culture; popular press; proceedings of the Old Bailey; representation of rape; street literature

description: In early modern England the legal definition of rape underwent an important revision and gradually, from crime against property, rape became a crime against the person. While reflecting the classical, medieval and biblical assumptions, the period brought about new concerns. The purpose of this article is to explore representations of rape in a variety of popular texts of the English early modern period, by focussing attention on broadside ballads, cheap pamphlets as well as accounts of trials that took place at the Old Bailey. These texts constitute valuable sources of information about people’s attitudes and beliefs and help us construct the views of rape circulating in early modern English culture.
description: LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente, Vol 1 (2012)
Quantum Optomechanics with Single Atom
Creators: name: Chang, Yue
name: Ian, H.
name: Sun, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently increasing explorations for cavity optomechanical coupling assisted by a single atom or an atomic ensemble have opened an experimentally accessible fashion to interface quantum optics and nano (micro) -mechanical systems. In this paper, we study in details such composite quantum dynamics of photon, phonon and atoms, specified by the triple coupling, which only exists in this triple hybrid system: The cavity QED system with a movable end mirror. We exactly diagonalize the Hamiltonian of the triple hybrid system under the parametric resonance condition. We find that, with the rotating-wave approximation, the hybrid system is modeled by a generalized spin-orbit coupling where the orbital angular momentum operator is defined through a Jordan-Schwinger realization with two bosonic modes, corresponding to the mirror oscillation and the single mode photon of the cavity. In the quasi-classical limit of very large angular momentum, this system will behave like a standard cavity-QED system described by the Jaynes-Cummings model as the angular momentum operators are transformed to bosonic operators of a single mode. We test this observation with an experimentally accessible system with the atom in the cavity with a moving mirror.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Autori nella rete. Come l’accesso libero alle opere dell’ingegno in rete rischia di trasformarsi nella fine della libertà della cultura
Creators: name: Di Fortunato, Eleonora
name: Paolinelli, Mario
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2013
Subjects: copyright; copy-left; authors; piracy; freedom

description: The combination of the interests of telephone network owners and the naivety of network fans has turned the concept of “open access”, which began life with quite a different purpose, into a worldwide assault on authors’ rights. Actually, behind the façade of noble ideas, such as cultural freedom, an economic conflict is being waged for the possession of saleable contents – misleadingly offered as gifts – for consumers, so as to keep them in the network. It is only by making sure that an author can receive earnings from the circulation of his/her works that his/her independence can be protected, together with the survival of freedom of thought.
description: LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente, Vol 1 (2012)
Statistical analysis Zwetsloot_BMJOS_FINAL.docx
Creators: name: Zwetsloot, Peter-Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 100404 Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering)
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology

description: Statistical analysis of Zwetsloot et al. - BMJ Open Science 2021.
Barrow entropic dark energy: A member of generalized holographic dark energy family
Creators: name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
name: Paul, Tanmoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The holographic cut-off, in the formalism of generalized holographic dark energy (HDE), is generalized to depend on $L_\mathrm{IR} = L_\mathrm{IR} \left( L_\mathrm{p}, \dot L_\mathrm{p}, \ddot L_\mathrm{p}, \cdots, L_\mathrm{f}, \dot L_\mathrm{f}, \cdots, a\right)$, where $L_\mathrm{p}$ and $L_\mathrm{f}$ are the particle horizon and future horizon respectively, and $a$ is the scale factor of the universe. Based on such formalism, we showed that the Barrow entropic dark energy (DE) model is equivalent to the generalized HDE where the respective holographic cut-off is determined by two ways -- (1) in terms of particle horizon and its derivative and (2) in terms of future horizon and its derivative. Interestingly, such cut-off turns out to depend up-to first order derivative of $L_\mathrm{p}$ or $L_\mathrm{f}$ respectively. Such equivalence between the Barrow entropic dark energy and the generalized HDE is extended to the scenario where the exponent of the Barrow entropy allows to vary with the cosmological expansion of the universe. In both the cases (whether the Barrow exponent is a constant or varies with the cosmological evolution), we determine effective equation of state (EoS) parameter from the generalized holographic point of view, which, by comparing with the Barrow DE EoS parameter, further ensures the equivalence between the Barrow entropic dark energy and the generalized HDE.
description: PLB accepted. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2105.08438
A Simple and Efficient Regularization Method for 3D BEM: Application to Frequency-Domain Elastodynamics
Creators: name: Dangla, Patrick
name: Semblat, Jean-François
name: Xiao, H.
name: Delépine, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An efficient and easy-to-implement method is proposed to regularize integral equations in the 3D boundary element method (BEM). The method takes advantage of an assumed three-noded triangle discretization of the boundary surfaces. The method is based on the derivation of analytical expressions of singular integrals. To demonstrate the accuracy of the method, three elastodynamic problems are numerically worked out in the frequency domain: a cavity under harmonic pressure, diffraction of a plane wave by a spherical cavity, and amplification of seismic waves in a semispherical alluvial basin (the second one is also investigated in the time domain). The numerical results are compared to semi-analytical solutions; a close agreement is found for all problems, showing the accuracy of the proposed method.
GINKO BILOBA L.O'SIMLIGINING BOTANIK TAVSIFI, TARQALISHI VA AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Umarova, Guliro'za
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu tezisda Ginko biloba  o’simligining tarqalishi , morfologik, anatomik tavsifi, tabiat o’rtasidagi ahamiyati va inson salomatligi uchun qanchalar foyda ekanligi to’g’risida  so’z boradi.
Le poesie della rivoluzione egiziana e la loro riproduzione come testi multimodali in YouTube: al-Midàn (La Piazza) di Abd al-Rahmàn al-Abnudi
Creators: name: Casini, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2013
Subjects: Arab Revolutions; colloquial Egyptian poetry; al-Midàn; YouTube; multimodality

description: The article investigates Abd al-Rahmàn al-Abnudi’s al-Midàn (The Square), the celebrated poem in colloquial Egyptian Arabic dedicated to the Egyptian young people who occupied the central Midàn al-Tahrìr (Tahrìr Square or Liberation Square) in Cairo on 25th January 2011 paving the way for the revolution. The poem, written during the very first days of the uprising, is analyzed in the context of the major transformations in the Egyptian literary field during the decade 2001-2011. In this period the state’s cultural institutions lost much of their traditional power to exert authority over the contents of literary production and its circulation among the reading public. One of the most outstanding features of these transformations, is represented by the role of internet as a means of circulation and reception of literary texts, especially by means of blogs and YouTube. The article considers several versions of al-Midàn uploaded on YouTube and highlights the process by which the poem was transformed by each user into a (re) newed multimodal text, where different semiotic resources interact: the reading of the poem, the video images, and (if present) the soundtrack. These videos were viewed and commented on by hundreds of thousands of YouTube users in the weeks following the writing of the poem and have made a decisive contribution to the shaping of the revolution’s collective imaginary.
description: LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente, Vol 1 (2012)
Soft Contribution to the Hard Ridge in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
Creators: name: Moschelli, George
name: Gavin, Sean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear collisions exhibit long-range rapidity correlations not present in proton-proton collisions. Because the correlation structure is wide in relative pseudorapidity and narrow in relative azimuthal angle, it is known as the ridge. Similar ridge structures are observed in correlations of particles associated with a jet trigger (the hard ridge) as well as correlations without a trigger (the soft ridge). Earlier we argued that the soft ridge arises when particles formed in an early Glasma stage later manifest transverse flow. We extend this study to address new soft ridge measurements. We then determine the contribution of flow to the hard ridge.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, includes comparison to data
Online Neural Diarization of Unlimited Numbers of Speakers Using Global and Local Attractors
Creators: name: Horiguchi, Shota
name: Watanabe, Shinji
name: Garcia, Paola
name: Takashima, Yuki
name: Kawaguchi, Yohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A method to perform offline and online speaker diarization for an unlimited number of speakers is described in this paper. End-to-end neural diarization (EEND) has achieved overlap-aware speaker diarization by formulating it as a multi-label classification problem. It has also been extended for a flexible number of speakers by introducing speaker-wise attractors. However, the output number of speakers of attractor-based EEND is empirically capped; it cannot deal with cases where the number of speakers appearing during inference is higher than that during training because its speaker counting is trained in a fully supervised manner. Our method, EEND-GLA, solves this problem by introducing unsupervised clustering into attractor-based EEND. In the method, the input audio is first divided into short blocks, then attractor-based diarization is performed for each block, and finally, the results of each block are clustered on the basis of the similarity between locally-calculated attractors. While the number of output speakers is limited within each block, the total number of speakers estimated for the entire input can be higher than the limitation. To use EEND-GLA in an online manner, our method also extends the speaker-tracing buffer, which was originally proposed to enable online inference of conventional EEND. We introduce a block-wise buffer update to make the speaker-tracing buffer compatible with EEND-GLA. Finally, to improve online diarization, our method improves the buffer update method and revisits the variable chunk-size training of EEND. The experimental results demonstrate that EEND-GLA can perform speaker diarization of an unseen number of speakers in both offline and online inferences.
description: Accepted to IEEE/ACM TASLP
Improving Face-Based Age Estimation with Attention-Based Dynamic Patch Fusion
Creators: name: Wang, Haoyi
name: Sanchez, Victor
name: Li, Chang-Tsun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the increasing popularity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recent works on face-based age estimation employ these networks as the backbone. However, state-of-the-art CNN-based methods treat each facial region equally, thus entirely ignoring the importance of some facial patches that may contain rich age-specific information. In this paper, we propose a face-based age estimation framework, called Attention-based Dynamic Patch Fusion (ADPF). In ADPF, two separate CNNs are implemented, namely the AttentionNet and the FusionNet. The AttentionNet dynamically locates and ranks age-specific patches by employing a novel Ranking-guided Multi-Head Hybrid Attention (RMHHA) mechanism. The FusionNet uses the discovered patches along with the facial image to predict the age of the subject. Since the proposed RMHHA mechanism ranks the discovered patches based on their importance, the length of the learning path of each patch in the FusionNet is proportional to the amount of information it carries (the longer, the more important). ADPF also introduces a novel diversity loss to guide the training of the AttentionNet and reduce the overlap among patches so that the diverse and important patches are discovered. Through extensive experiments, we show that our proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on several age estimation benchmark datasets.
description: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (accepted for publication)
Noise bridges dynamical correlation and topology in coupled oscillator networks
Creators: name: Ren, Jie
name: Wang, Wen-Xu
name: Li, Baowen
name: Lai, Ying-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relationship between dynamical properties and interaction patterns in complex oscillator networks in the presence of noise. A striking finding is that noise leads to a general, one-to-one correspondence between the dynamical correlation and the connections among oscillators for a variety of node dynamics and network structures. The universal finding enables an accurate prediction of the full network topology based solely on measuring the dynamical correlation. The power of the method for network inference is demonstrated by the high success rate in identifying links for distinct dynamics on both model and real-life networks. The method can have potential applications in various fields due to its generality, high accuracy and efficiency.
description: 2 figures, 2 tables. Accepted by Physical Review Letters
La comunità irlandese a Roma, 1377-1870 Il case-study storiografico
Creators: name: Binasco, Matteo
Publisher: name: Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna: Series, Journals and Workshop
Year: 2013

description: The aim of this essay is to provide a historiographical overview of the Irish community in Rome throughout a period which goes from the Middle Ages until the second half of the nineteenth century. More precisely the period examined goes from 1377, the year of the Papacy’s return from the Avignon exile, until 1870, when the city was annexed to the kingdom of Italy. Given the long period examined, this article does not provide a comprehensive picture and, consequently, should be seen as a work in progress which will be revised and improved thanks to further archival and bibliographical research.
description: Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, No 2 (2012)
Classification of Stochastic Processes with Topological Data Analysis
Creators: name: Güzel, İsmail
name: Kaygun, Atabey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 55N31, 62R40, 68T09

description: In this study, we examine if engineered topological features can distinguish time series sampled from different stochastic processes with different noise characteristics, in both balanced and unbalanced sampling schemes. We compare our classification results against the results of the same classification tasks built on statistical and raw features. We conclude that in classification tasks of time series, different machine learning models built on engineered topological features perform consistently better than those built on standard statistical and raw features.
description: BA\c{S}ARIM 2022 - 7th High-Performance Computing Conference, May 2022, \.Istanbul, T\"urkiye
The key challenges of social robots
Creators: name: Lutz, Christoph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: social robots

description: What are the key ethical, legal and social (ELS) issues of social robots? How can these challenges be addressed? To answer these questions, Christoph Lutz conducted with two research colleagues four interactive and interdisciplinary workshops during leading robotics conferences. Here, he reports on some of the key findings and implications.
The Preliminary Results on Analysis of TAIGA-IACT Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Gres, Elizaveta
name: Kryukov, and Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The imaging Cherenkov telescopes TAIGA-IACT, located in the Tunka valley of the republic Buryatia, accumulate a lot of data in a short period of time which must be efficiently and quickly analyzed. One of the methods of such analysis is the machine learning, which has proven its effectiveness in many technological and scientific fields in recent years. The aim of the work is to study the possibility of the machine learning application to solve the tasks set for TAIGA-IACT: the identification of the primary particle of cosmic rays and reconstruction their physical parameters. In the work the method of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) was applied to process and analyze Monte-Carlo events simulated with CORSIKA. Also various CNN architectures for the processing were considered. It has been demonstrated that this method gives good results in the determining the type of primary particles of Extensive Air Shower (EAS) and the reconstruction of gamma-rays energy. The results are significantly improved in the case of stereoscopic observations.
description: In Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Deep Learning in Computational Physics (DLCP2021), 28-29 June, 2021, Moscow, Russia. 9 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Women's Safety in the Digital World: A Review of Challenges and Technological Solutions
Creators: name: Bekal, Shruthi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: cyber harrasment
women's safety
privacy
Ethical design

description: The digital revolution has transformed how individuals live, work, and interact, but it has also introduced significant risks, particularly for women in cyberspace. Cyberbullying, online harassment, identity theft, data privacy violations, and electronic surveillance not only threaten personal security but also undermine women's confidence and participation in the digital sphere. At the same time, emerging technological advancements offer promising solutions to enhance online safety. Innovations such as IoT-based safety devices, AI-driven threat detection systems, and mobile safety applications demonstrate the potential for technology to counteract these threats.This paper explores the dual impact of technological advancements—how they create vulnerabilities while serving as tools for empowerment and protection. It highlights the importance of ethical design, robust regulatory frameworks, and multidisciplinary collaboration in developing sustainable and inclusive safety solutions. Additionally, the innovation potential of Generative AI (Gen AI) is examined, demonstrating how it can drive proactive safety measures and support digital security initiatives. The findings emphasize the critical need for ongoing research and policymaking to ensure that technological innovation does not exacerbate existing inequalities but instead safeguards and empowers women in the digital age.
Analysis of the HiSCORE Simulated Events in TAIGA Experiment Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Vlaskina, Anna
name: Kryukov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: TAIGA is a hybrid observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at high energies in range from 10 TeV to several EeV. It consists of instruments such as TAIGA-IACT, TAIGA-HiSCORE, and others. TAIGA-HiSCORE, in particular, is an array of wide-angle timing Cherenkov light stations. TAIGA-HiSCORE data enable to reconstruct air shower characteristics, such as air shower energy, arrival direction, and axis coordinates. In this report, we propose to consider the use of convolution neural networks in task of air shower characteristics determination. We use Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to analyze HiSCORE events, treating them like images. For this, the times and amplitudes of events recorded at HiSCORE stations are used. The work discusses a simple convolutional neural network and its training. In addition, we present some preliminary results on the determination of the parameters of air showers such as the direction and position of the shower axis and the energy of the primary particle and compare them with the results obtained by the traditional method.
description: In Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Deep Learning in Computational Physics (DLCP2021), 28-29 June, 2021, Moscow, Russia. 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Localized matter-waves patterns with attractive interaction in rotating potentials
Creators: name: Sakaguchi, Hidetsgu
name: Malomed, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-dimensional (2D) model of a rotating attractive Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), trapped in an external potential. First, an harmonic potential with the critical strength is considered, which generates quasi-solitons at the lowest Landau level (LLL). We describe a family of the LLL quasi-solitons using both numerical method and a variational approximation (VA), which are in good agreement with each other. We demonstrate that kicking the LLL mode or applying a ramp potential sets it in the Larmor (cyclotron) motion, that can also be accurately modeled by the VA.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
Una poetica per l'inclusione della disabilità
Creators: name: Grandi, William
Publisher: name: Studi sulla Formazione
Year: 2012

description: The article investigates recent Children’s Literature, in order to find out metaphors and references about disabled people. This research shows that Children’s Literature can enable children and grown-up people not only to know disabilities, but also to start up social integration of disabled person. Ultimately Children’s Literature can be an effective tool to know and help disabled childhood.
description: Studi sulla Formazione, Anno XV, I-2012
The dominating mode of two competing massive modes of quadratic gravity
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Avijit
name: Xavier, Semin
name: Shankaranarayanan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the last two decades, motivations for modified gravity have emerged from both theoretical and observational levels. $f(R)$ and Chern-Simons gravity have received more attention as they are the simplest generalization. However, $f(R)$ and Chern-Simons gravity contain only an additional scalar (spin-0) degree of freedom and, as a result, do not include other modes of modified theories of gravity. In contrast, quadratic gravity (also referred to as Stelle gravity) is the most general second-order modification to 4-D general relativity and contains a massive spin-2 mode that is not present in $f(R)$ and Chern-Simons gravity. Using two different physical settings $-$ the gravitational wave energy-flux measured by the detectors and the backreaction of the emitted gravitational radiation on the spacetime of the remnant black hole $-$ we demonstrate that massive spin-2 mode carries more energy than the spin-0 mode. Our analysis shows that the effects are pronounced for intermediate-mass black holes, which are prime targets for LISA.
description: To appear in Nature Scientific Reports
Additional file 4 of High body mass index is a significant risk factor for the progression and prognosis of imported COVID-19: a multicenter, retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Cai, Huan
name: Yang, Lisha
name: Lu, Yingfeng
name: Zhang, Shanyan
name: Ye, Chanyuan
name: Zhang, Xiaoli
name: Yu, Guodong
name: Gu, Jueqing
name: Lian, Jiangshan
name: Hao, Shaorui
name: Hu, Jianhua
name: Zhang, Yimin
name: Jin, Ciliang
name: Sheng, Jifang
name: Yang, Yida
name: Jia, Hongyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Univariable Analysis of Risk Factors associated for the Severe/Critical type COVID-19 patients.
Regional analysis of myelin basic protein across postnatal brain development of C57BL/6J mice
Creators: name: Burette, Alain C.
name: Ozarkar, Siddhi S.
name: Vulli, Tasmai
name: Patel, Ridthi K. R.
name: Philpot, Benjamin D.
name: Friar, Carlee A.
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2025

description:
Healthy brain development hinges on proper myelination, with disruption contributing to a wide array of neurological disorders. Immunohistochemical analysis of myelin basic protein (MBP) is a fundamental technique for investigating myelination and related disorders. However, despite decades of MBP research, detailed accounts of normal MBP progression in the developing mouse brain have been lacking. This study aims to address this gap by providing a detailed spatiotemporal account of MBP distribution across 13 developmental ages from postnatal day 2 to 60. We used an optimized immunohistochemistry protocol to overcome the challenges of myelin’s unique lipid-rich composition, enabling more consistent staining across diverse brain structures and developmental stages, offering a robust baseline for typical myelination patterns, and enabling comparisons with pathological models. To support and potentially accelerate research into myelination disorders, we have made >1,400 high-resolution micrographs accessible online under the Creative Commons license.
Observation of an Efimov resonance in an ultracold mixture of atoms and weakly bound dimers
Creators: name: Knoop, S.
name: Ferlaino, F.
name: Berninger, M.
name: Mark, M.
name: Nägerl, H. -C.
name: Grimm, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss our recent observation of an atom-dimer Efimov resonance in an ultracold mixture of Cs atoms and Cs_2 Feshbach molecules [Nature Phys. 5, 227 (2009)]. We review our experimental procedure and present additional data involving a non-universal g-wave dimer state, to contrast our previous results on the universal s-wave dimer. We resolve a seeming discrepancy when quantitatively comparing our experimental findings with theoretical results from effective field theory.
description: Conference Proceeding ICPEAC 2009 Kalamazoo, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
The Chinese people’s liberation army in the 1960’s : ideal and reality
Creators: name: Louis, Randolph Vincent Craig
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The subject of the paper is the nature of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) during the 1960s. The primary aim is to analyze the basic characteristics of this complex bureaucratic institution, especially its internal nature and its relationship to society. The principal problem explored is whether the PLA in the 1960s developed into a distinct, professionalized military organization (as is the common pattern in the West) or whether it remained relatively close to its particular nature of the pre-1949 People's War era. However, it transpired that the very incomplete state of our knowledge concerning contemporary Chinese society made it extremely difficult to resolve the problem with any certainty or precision. The main contribution of the paper is placing the topic in a conceptual framework which, it is argued, brings us closer to the actual situation in China. The body of the paper is divided into three main parts. The first gives the general conceptual and historical framework used to approach the topic, mainly through a comparison of the PLA's military tradition with those of other areas. The second part explores the ideal nature of the PLA as revealed in three different official sources, both classified government documents and the public Chinese press and from both the national and provincial levels. The third part examines the actual behaviour of the PLA in a precise situation, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Kwangtung province. The line of argument developed is that the three PLAs examined, the pre-1949 PLA, the ideal PLA of the early 1960s, and the active PLA in the Cultural Revolution, shared a basic common nature. This was closely related to the communist Chinese approach to fighting, to their approach to social development, and to the nature of Chinese society. The general conclusion is that, during the 1960s, the PLA did not develop into a distinct, professionalized military organization. Rather, it remained as a highly active and well-integrated participant in the distinctive social development of the People's Republic of China. The PLA's intensive involvement in society had led to the reflection of Chinese society's trends and characteristics within it.
A Short Proof of Convexity of Step-out Step-in Sequencing Games
Creators: name: Beeson, Coulter
name: Olver, Neil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 91A12

description: The Step out-Step in sequencing game is a particular example of a game from the sequencing game framework of Curiel, Perderzoli, and Tijs, where coalitions of players in a queue may reorder themselves to improve the their overall cost, under some restrictions. Musegaas, Borm and Quant proved, in two papers, that a simple greedy algorithm correctly computes the valuation of a coalition, and that the game is convex. These proofs entail rather involved case analyses; in this note, we give short proofs of both results.
description: 5 pages