cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Geological mapping and soil characterization in identifying agricultural related hazards using freely-available Copernicus-Sentinel data, leading to best-practices for sustainable agriculture in Tabular Middle atlas/morocco,
Creators: name: Muzirafuti, Anselme
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Causse of El Hajeb
Water protection
dolomies et les calcaires du Lias
Agriculture
drought
Morocco
Geological structures
Structural geology

description: Currently, 1.2 billion people live in Africa, in 2050 we will be 2.4 billion, many limitations for african farmers lead to low productivity and low incomes, some sub-saharan African countries don’t get 25 % potential farmland output, In Africa , farming is rain fed activity which makes it much vulnerable to climate change. Low smallholder farmer’s productivity and incomes lead to poverty, hunger and lack of development. In 2000, Morocco lost 1-1.4 % GDP due to water problem issues and 0.3-0.6 % GDP due to Soil and forest deteriorations, mitigation and adaptation require infrastructures and best technologies, Sentinel data for best agriculture practices and ensure the quality of water and environmental protection,Tabular Middle Atlas (TMA)/Morocco holds the main source of water, It is used for agriculture, sanitation, construction , gardening, etc. Geologically TMA is dominated by carbonated rocks, These rocks have developed sinkholes by which fertilizers and herbicides penetrate, reach water reservoirs and affect the health of millions of people. Witnessed by chemicals, clay, minerals and turbidity found in Springs water.
Unraveling the Role of Cellular Factors in Viral Capsid Formation
Creators: name: Smith, Gregory Robert
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Understanding the mechanisms of virus capsid assembly has been an important research objective over the past few decades. Determining critical points along the pathways by which virus capsids form could prove extremely beneficial in producing more stable DNA vectors or pinpointing targets for antiviral therapy. The inability of current experimental technology to address this objective has resulted in a need for alternative approaches. Theoretical and computational studies offer an unprecedented opportunity for detailed examination of capsid assembly. The Schwartz Lab has previously developed a discrete event stochastic simulator to model virus assembly based upon local rules detailing the geometry and interaction kinetics of individual capsid subunits. Applying numerical optimization methods to learn kinetic rate parameters that fit simulation output to in vitro static light scattering data has been a successful avenue to understand the details of virus assembly systems; however, information describing in vitro assembly processes does not necessarily translate to real virus assembly pathways in vivo. There are a number of important distinctions between experimental and realistic assembly environments that must be addressed to produce an accurate model. This thesis will describe work expanding upon previous parameter estimation algorithms for more complex data over three model icosahedral virus systems: human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (CCMV). Then it will consider two important modifications to assembly environment to more accurately reflect in vivo conditions: macromolecular crowding and the presence of nucleic acid about which viruses may assemble. The results of this work led to a number of surprising revelations about the variability in potential assembly rates and mechanisms discovered and insight into how assembly mechanisms are affected by changes in concentration, fluctuations in kinetic rates and adjustments to the assembly environment.
Charging Effects and Quantum Crossover in Granular Superconductors
Creators: name: Granato, E.
name: Continentino, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of the charging energy in the superconducting transition of granular materials or Josephson junction arrays is investigated using a pseudospin one model. Within a mean-field renormalization-group approach, we obtain the phase diagram as a function of temperature and charging energy. In contrast to early treatments, we find no sign of a reentrant transition in agreement with more recent studies. A crossover line is identified in the non-superconducting side of the phase diagram and along which we expect to observe anomalies in the transport and thermodynamic properties. We also study a charge ordering phase, which can appear for large nearest neighbor Coulomb interaction, and show that it leads to first-order transitions at low temperatures. We argue that, in the presence of charge ordering, a non monotonic behavior with decreasing temperature is possible with a maximum in the resistance just before entering the superconducting phase.
description: 15 pages plus 4 fig. appended, Revtex, INPE/LAS-003
Archaeological Monitoring and Testing at E. Pierce Street, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
Creators: name: Lindly, John M.
Publisher: name: SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
subject: Phoenix, AZ
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/76695/phoenix-az
subject: Phoenix Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/27/phoenix-basin
subject: Maricopa (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3900/maricopa-county
subject: Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/53/prehistoric
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Huhugam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8166/huhugam
subject: AZ T:12:194 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/117460/az-t12194-asm
subject: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/272/resource-extraction-production-transportation-structure-or-features
subject: Agricultural or Herding
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/273/agricultural-or-herding
subject: Canal or Canal Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/275/canal-or-canal-feature
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research
subject: Site Stewardship Monitoring
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/19/site-stewardship-monitoring
subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/8/records-search-inventory-checking
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring and testing E. Pierce in Phoenix. The project area includes an approximately 5400 square foot lot with a residence. This project was conducted at the request of the City of Phoenix Neighborhood Services Department under an on-call archaeological services contract between the City and SWCA, Inc. (Contract no. 101005) and was assigned project number PGM 2003-36 by the City of Phoenix Archaeology Section. This project will receive funding from Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and as such compliance with section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act is required. Archaeological monitoring was required during a house demolition and the excavation of a test trench was conducted after the house was demolished due to a prehistoric canal being mapped in the project area. A prehistoric canal was found and documented during testing (AZ T:12:194 [ASM]) but it is unclear whether this is the canal that was mapped in the area or another undocumented canal. Additional limited data recovery that would further investigate the canal is recommended.
Scalar dark matter search from the extended $ν$THDM
Creators: name: Baek, Seungwon
name: Das, Arindam
name: Nomura, Takaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a neutrino Two Higgs Doublet Model ($ν$THDM) in which neutrinos obtain {\it naturally} small Dirac masses from the soft symmetry breaking of a global $U(1)_X$ symmetry. We extended the model so the soft term is generated by the spontaneous breaking of $U(1)_X$ by a new scalar field. The symmetry breaking pattern can also stabilize a scalar dark matter candidate. After constructing the model, we study the phenomenology of the dark matter: relic density, direct and indirect detection.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, minor revision in the model and analyses, published version
RETURN To an Address presented to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor requesting His Honour to cause to be placed before the House copies of all Orders in Council, telegrams, papers, and correspondence, or other information in the possession of the Government, or any of its members or officials, between the Attorney-General, or any official of his or any other department, and Isaac Lehman, Esq., J.P., of Ashcroft, and any other official of the Government, or any other person or persons, relative to the prosecution and discharge of one Edward Charles Carey, for alleged embezzlement, or any matters or proceedings connected therewith.
Creators: name: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
Publisher: name: Victoria, BC : Government Printer
Year: 2014

Abstract
Additional file 1 of Overcoming barriers to implementation of patient engagement in clinical trials: feasibility testing of an embedded study
Creators: name: Castonguay, Geneviève
name: Bédard, Sylvain
name: Dubois, Anick
name: Lessard, Émilie
name: Rivard, Léna
name: Rouly, Ghislaine
name: Boivin, Antoine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Universal Graphs at Aleph_{omega_1+1} and Set-Theoretic Geology
Creators: name: Davis, Jacob
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This thesis consists of two parts: the construction of a jointly universal family of graphs, and then an exploration of set-theoretic geology.
The thermodynamic limit for fractional exclusion statistics
Creators: name: Anghel, Dragoş-Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I discuss Haldane's concept of generalised exclusion statistics (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 67}, 937, 1991) and I show that it leads to inconsistencies in the calculation of the particle distribution that maximizes the partition function. These inconsistencies appear when mutual exclusion statistics is manifested between different subspecies of particles in the system. In order to eliminate these inconsistencies, I introduce new mutual exclusion statistics parameters, which are proportional to the dimension of the Hilbert sub-space on which they act. These new definitions lead to properly defined particle distributions and thermodynamic properties. In another paper (arXiv:0710.0728) I show that fractional exclusion statistics manifested in general systems with interaction have these, physically consistent, statistics parameters.
description: 8 pages
Charm balance function in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Parida, Tribhuban
name: Bozek, Piotr
name: Chatterjee, Sandeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the balance function for charm in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The distribution of pairs of charm-anticharm quarks produced in hard processes in the early stages of the nucleus-nucleus collision evolves in the dense fireball formed in the collision. The evolution of the dense matter is described using a relativistic viscous hydrodynamic model and the quark diffusion with a Langevin equation. The evolution of the charm quark balance function from the formation of the charm-anticharm pair up to the freeze-out traces the partial thermalization of the heavy quarks in the dense matter. For the balance function in azimuthal angle we reproduce the collimation effect due to the transverse flow. The evolution in rapidity shows the thermalization of the longitudinal velocity of the quark in the fluid. We provide predictions for the one and two-dimensional balance functions for $D^0$-$\bar{D^0}$ mesons produced in ultarelativistic Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV. The shape of the charm balance function in relative rapidity is sensitive to the rescattering of heavy quarks in the early stages of the collision, while the shape of the balance function in azimuthal angle is sensitive to the rescattering in the latter stages.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour la grange et seigneurie d'Ouges (XVe siècle), Cart. 173 (11 H 939), 226 folios, f. 0035
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour la grange et seigneurie d'Ouges (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 173 (11 H 939), 226 folios, f. 0035, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour la grange et seigneurie d'Ouges (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 173 (11 H 939), 226 folios, f. 0035, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Structure of interfaces at phase coexistence. Theory and numerics
Creators: name: Delfino, Gesualdo
name: Selke, Walter
name: Squarcini, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare results of the exact field theory of phase separation in two dimensions with Monte Carlo simulations for the $q$-state Potts model with boundary conditions producing an interfacial region separating two pure phases. We confirm in particular the theoretical predictions that below critical temperature the surplus of non-boundary colors appears in drops along a single interface, while for $q>4$ at critical temperature there is formation of two interfaces enclosing a macroscopic disordered layer. These qualitatively different structures of the interfacial region can be discriminated through a measurement at a single point for different system sizes.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures; published version
Vortex Glass Phase and Universal Susceptibility Variations in Planar Array of Flux Lines
Creators: name: Hwa, Terence
name: Fisher, Daniel S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some of the properties of the low temperature vortex-glass phase of randomly-pinned flux lines in 1+1 dimensions are studied. The flux arrays are found to be sensitive to small changes in external parameters such as the magnetic field or temperature. These effects are captured by the variations in the magnetic response and noise, which have universal statistics and should provide an unambiguous signature of the glass phase.
description: 11 pages and no figures; revtex 3.0
An Examination of the Archaeology of Northwestern Mexico and Southern Arizona and New Mexico
Creators: name: Gifford, James C.
Year: 1957
Subjects: subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research

description: This report provides an examination of the archaeology of northwestern Mexico, southern Arizona, and New Mexico and an exploration of the relationship between the areas to each other. In order to consider the archaeology of southern Arizona and New Mexico and that of northwestern Mexico, the extensive geographical area has been delimited into two major subareas. These areas have been termed the Sonoran Subarea and the Sinaloan Subarea. This is approached by consideration of stages suggested by Willey and Phillips (1995); Early Lithic, Archaic, formative, Classic, and Postclassic. Important sites or archaeological groups are discussed using these stages situated under the appropriate subarea and characteristic traits for each area are summarized when possible.
SCHEDULE. STATEMENT OF SPECIAL WARRANTS, signed by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, together with the expenditure incurred thereon, between 1st March, 1890, and 31st January, 1891, required by the "Revenue Act," Chap. 102, Sec. 42.
Creators: name: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
Publisher: name: Victoria, BC : Government Printer
Year: 2014

Abstract
Uninformed Consent: The Benefits and Limits of Transparency and Choice in Privacy Decision Making
Creators: name: Adjerid, Idris
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80609 Information Systems Management
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Solutions to privacy concerns centered on notifying consumers about (transparency), and granting them control over the collection and use of their personal information (choice) are pervasive. Policy makers posit that these measures will aid consumers in improved privacy decision making. Conversely, scholars argue that these protections may have a negative impact on market efficiency and firm technology innovation and adoption. Chapter 2 evaluates the impact of regulation providing consumers transparency and choice on technology adoption by hospitals and finds, in contrast to prior results, evidence for a beneficial role of privacy regulation. I also find evidence that these gains may be a result of reduced barriers to adoption stemming from consumer privacy concerns. In Chapters 3 and 4 I shift my focus to evaluate the premise proposed by policy makers that increased transparency and choice will improve consumer privacy decision making. In Chapter 3, I first find that simple privacy notices communicating lower privacy decision making. I Chapter 3, I first find that simple privacy notices communication lower privacy protection can, under some conditions, result in less disclosure from participants, in-line with the policy aims for increased transparency. However, I also find that simple and common changes in those same notices, exploiting individual heuristics and biases, can result in the effect of even straightforward and accessible privacy notices being predictably manipulated (Experiment 1) or entirely thwarted (Experiment 2). Finally, in chapter 4 I find substantial malleability in individual privacy decision making in response to changes in choice framing. Specifically, the labeling of settings, the mix of setting relevance, and the presentation of choices as a choice to reject all impacted the decision frame for participants in a manner that significantly influenced participants' choice of privacy protective settings. Taken together, these results suggest that while privacy solutions centered on transparency and choice may alleviate barriers to technology adoption stemming from consumer privacy concerns, the implicit assumption that they will reduce consumer privacy risks may be questioned. Implications for policy makers include a persistence, and perhaps increase, in consumer privacy risks despite increased transparency and control.
Advancing Space-Based Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Rapid Parameter Estimation via Normalizing Flows
Creators: name: Du, Minghui
name: Liang, Bo
name: Wang, He
name: Xu, Peng
name: Luo, Ziren
name: Wu, Yueliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy is witnessing a transformative shift from terrestrial to space-based detection, with missions like Taiji at the forefront. While the transition brings unprecedented opportunities for exploring massive black hole binaries (MBHBs), it also imposes complex challenges in data analysis, particularly in parameter estimation amidst confusion noise. Addressing this gap, we utilize scalable normalizing flow models to achieve rapid and accurate inference within the Taiji environment. Innovatively, our approach simplifies the data's complexity, employs a transformation mapping to overcome the year-period time-dependent response function, and unveils additional multimodality in the arrival time parameter. Our method estimates MBHBs several orders of magnitude faster than conventional techniques, maintaining high accuracy even in complex backgrounds. These findings significantly enhance the efficiency of GW data analysis, paving the way for rapid detection and alerting systems and enriching our ability to explore the universe through space-based GW observation.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures. Published version
title: Trade for Food Security: The Stability of Global Agricultural Trade Networks
Creators: name: Wang, Xiang
name: Ma, Libang
name: Yan, Simin
name: Chen, Xianfei
name: Growe, Anna
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: economic integration
subject: global agricultural trade
subject: complex network
subject: community division
subject: stability
subject: food security
subject: 300
subject: Wirtschaftliche Integration
subject: Agrarhandel
subject: Komplexes System
subject: Stabilität
subject: Ernährungssicherung

description: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 42271222), the Gansu Science and Technology Major Project (22ZD6WA057).
A $BVI$ Photometric Study of the Near-Galactic Center Globular Cluster NGC 6517 (C1759-089)
Creators: name: Kavelaars, JJ
name: Hanes, David A.
name: Bridges, Terry J.
name: Harris, William E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a $BVI$ photometric study of the globular cluster NGC 6517 using CCD images obtained at the prime focus of the CFHT. From the resultant color-magnitude diagram, we infer that the cluster is differentially reddened and develop a method for determining the amplitude of this effect, which amounts to \( \sim 0.4 \) mag in \( (V-I) \) across our $\sim 4$ arc-min field. From the corrected $V_0,$ $(V-I)_0$ color-magnitude diagram, we derive the metallicity and distance modulus of the cluster. Our values for the mean foreground reddening ($E(B-V) = 1.10 \pm 0.10$) and metallicity (\feh\ = -1.58 $\pm$ 0.05) agree to within uncertainties with previous determinations. Our apparent distance modulus of 18.3 $\pm$ 0.2, however, is larger than the sole previous determination. When the distance modulus is corrected for absorption, assuming that $R_V = 3.8 $ for this line of sight, we find that NGC 6517 is within 3 kpc of the Galactic center, making it a bulge member. This makes NGC 6517 only the fourth metal poor cluster in the bulge for which an accurate CMD is available.
description: Submitted as a uuencoded gziped tar file containing tex document and macros. Also available via ftp://astro.queensu.ca/pub/ngc6517.ps or http://astro.queensu.ca/~kauelaar/ngc6517.html
UniAuth: Building a Human-Centered Identity Management System
Creators: name: Hayashi, Eiji
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Passwords are the most common form of user authentication today. When passwords were first introduced in the 1960s, computers were a scarce resource, and experts had at most a few passwords to manage. However, today, we are surrounded by many computers and services, and passwords are imposing a growing burden on users. As a way of coping, users choose insecure behaviors, such as writing down passwords, choosing weak passwords, or reusing passwords for multiple accounts. One result is that passwords are now a major source of vulnerabilities in computer systems. To address this problem, I designed, implemented and evaluated the Unified Authentication Framework (UniAuth in short). The three core ideas behind UniAuth are 1) a user will have one smart device that manages all of their credentials, 2) the smart device can communicate with online services as well as physical devices via a standardized protocol to handle activities related to user authentication (such as authentication, account creation and password updates), and 3) the smart device can use its on-board sensors to improve the security and usability of user authentication to the device. With the UniAuth Framework, users only need to authenticate themselves to their smart devices a small number of times a day. Then, the smart device can communicate with online services and physical devices to perform tasks related to user authentication on behalf of users. This work consists of three lines of research. The first explored how people use and manage their passwords in their daily life to confirm design of UniAuth. The second investigated how smartphones’ onboard sensors could be utilized to adjust the security level of user authentication to the smartphones. Finally, the third involved the design, implementation, and evaluation of the UniAuth Framework through an expert review and a field study. These pieces of research demonstrated that UniAuth could realize secure and usable user authentication, which is one of the grand challenges in usable security, provide a smooth transitional path from passwordbased user authentication to a better user authentication, and open up new design space in user authentication research in the Internet of Things era.
Unifying Low-Rank Models for Visual Learning
Creators: name: Cabral, Ricardo Da Silveira
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Many problems in signal processing, machine learning and computer vision can be solved by learning low rank models from data. In computer vision, problems such as rigid structure from motion have been formulated as an optimization over subspaces with fixed rank. These hard-rank constraints have traditionally been imposed by a factorization that parameterizes subspaces as a product of two matrices of fixed rank. Whilst factorization approaches lead to efficient and kernelizable optimization algorithms, they have been shown to be NP-Hard in presence of missing data. Inspired by recent work in compressed sensing, hard-rank constraints have been replaced by soft-rank constraints, such as the nuclear norm regularizer. Vis-a-vis hard-rank approaches, soft-rank models are convex even in presence of missing data: but how is convex optimization solving a NP-Hard problem? This thesis addresses this question by analyzing the relationship between hard and soft rank constraints in the unsupervised factorization with missing data problem. Moreover, we extend soft rank models to weakly supervised and fully supervised learning problems in computer vision. There are four main contributions of our work: (1) The analysis of a new unified low-rank model for matrix factorization with missing data. Our model subsumes soft and hard-rank approaches and merges advantages from previous formulations, such as efficient algorithms and kernelization. It also provides justifications on the choice of algorithms and regions that guarantee convergence to global minima. (2) A deterministic \rank continuation" strategy for the NP-hard unsupervised factorization with missing data problem, that is highly competitive with the state-of-the-art and often achieves globally optimal solutions. In preliminary work, we show that this optimization strategy is applicable to other NP-hard problems which are typically relaxed to convex semidentite programs (e.g., MAX-CUT, quadratic assignment problem). (3) A new soft-rank fully supervised robust regression model. This convex model is able to deal with noise, outliers and missing data in the input variables. (4) A new soft-rank model for weakly supervised image classification and localization. Unlike existing multiple-instance approaches for this problem, our model is convex.
Additional file 2 of Population-specific genetic-risk scores enable improved prediction of mortality within 28 days of sepsis onset: a retrospective Taiwanese cohort study
Creators: name: Hsieh, Ming-Shun
name: Wu, Pei-Hsuan
name: Chiu, Kuan-Chih
name: Liao, Shu-Hui
name: Chen, Che-Shao
name: Hsiao, Tzu-Hung
name: Chen, Yi-Ming
name: Hu, Sung-Yuan
name: How, Chorng-Kuang
name: Chattopadhyay, Amrita
name: Lu, Tzu-Pin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary material 2: Figure S1. Exclusion criteria and study samples included in the study. Figure S2. Heatmap showing tissue based differential expression analysis using FUMA for genes mapped from genome-wide significant SNPs. Figure S3. General tissue specific up-regulated and down-regulated genes mapped from genome-wide significant SNPs via FUMA. Figure S4. Detailed tissue specific up-regulated and down-regulated genes mapped from genome-wide significant SNPs via FUMA. Table S1. SNPs found previously to be associated with sepsis susceptibility in genome-wide association studies. Table S2. List of suggestively significant SNPs (p<1 x10-5). Table S3. The performance of the polygenic risk score in the Cox prediction model using clumping and thresholding method (C+T) parameters. Table S4. Characteristics associated with 28-day mortality in the training dataset. Table S5. Characteristics associated with 28-day mortality in the testing dataset.
On New Approach to semi-Fredholm theory in unital C*-algebras
Creators: name: Ivkovic, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Axiomatic Fredholm theory in unital C*-algebras was established by Keckic and Lazovic in [15]. Following the purely algebraic approach by Keckic and Lazovic, in [14] we extended further this theory to axiomatic semi-Fredholm and semi-Weyl theory in unital C*-algebras. However, recently, in [11] we developed another approach to axiomatic Fredholm theory in unital C*-algebras which is based on the theory of Hilbert modules and which is equivalent to the algebraic approach by Keckic and Lazovic. In this paper, we extend further this new Hilbert-module approach from Fredholm theory to semi-Fredholm and semi-Weyl theory in unital C*-algebras. Hence, we provide a new proof of the results in [14].
A Deeper Look at the New Milky Way Satellites: Sagittarius II, Reticulum II, Phoenix II, and Tucana III
Creators: name: Mutlu-Pakdil, Burçin
name: Sand, David J.
name: Carlin, Jeffrey L.
name: Spekkens, Kristine
name: Caldwell, Nelson
name: Crnojević, Denija
name: Hughes, Allison K.
name: Willman, Beth
name: Zaritsky, Dennis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present deep Magellan/Megacam stellar photometry of four recently discovered faint Milky Way satellites: Sagittarius II (Sgr II), Reticulum II (Ret II), Phoenix II (Phe II), and Tucana III (Tuc III). Our photometry reaches ~2-3 magnitudes deeper than the discovery data, allowing us to revisit the properties of these new objects (e.g., distance, structural properties, luminosity measurements, and signs of tidal disturbance). The satellite color-magnitude diagrams show that they are all old (~13.5 Gyr) and metal-poor ([Fe/H]$\lesssim-2.2$). Sgr II is particularly interesting as it sits in an intermediate position between the loci of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters in the size-luminosity plane. The ensemble of its structural parameters is more consistent with a globular cluster classification, indicating that Sgr II is the most extended globular cluster in its luminosity range. The other three satellites land directly on the locus defined by Milky Way ultra-faint dwarf galaxies of similar luminosity. Ret II is the most elongated nearby dwarf galaxy currently known for its luminosity range. Our structural parameters for Phe II and Tuc III suggest that they are both dwarf galaxies. Tuc III is known to be associated with a stellar stream, which is clearly visible in our matched-filter stellar density map. The other satellites do not show any clear evidence of tidal stripping in the form of extensions or distortions. Finally, we also use archival HI data to place limits on the gas content of each object.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Minor updates to match accepted version
Near-Constant Mean Curvature Solutions of the Einstein Constraint Equations with Non-Negative Yamabe Metrics
Creators: name: Isenberg, James
name: Clausen, Adam
name: Allen, Paul T
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that sets of conformal data on closed manifolds with the metric in the positive or zero Yamabe class, and with the gradient of the mean curvature function sufficiently small, are mapped to solutions of the Einstein constraint equations. This result extends previous work which required the conformal metric to be in the negative Yamabe class, and required the mean curvature function to be nonzero.
description: 15 pages
title: On herring biomass in the Baltic Sea during the 20th Century
Creators: name: Thurow, Fritz
Publisher: name: ASC 1999 - P - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Baltic Sea (ICES Ecoregion)

description: Use of very simple known methods enabled firstly 'Estimated-biomass' from yield (Y) divided by weighed fishing mortality (F) and secondly 'Catchrate-biomass' from cpue. Assessment ofrecruitment was possible by use of the Yield/Recruit-concept. Findings were calibrated against VP A-biomass of ICES, 1997a. This suggested that in the first half of this century, biomass was over 1 million t. Subsequently it increased to almost 2 million t by the 50s and to over 3 million t by the 70s. Thereafter it declined to some 2 million tin the 90s. Recruitment showed roughly the same trend. It is concluded that carrying capacity had increased by the late 50s so that a unit of biomass produced more offspring. This is thought to have been caused by eutrophication.
N=2 Supersymmetry, Painleve III and Exact Scaling Functions in 2D Polymers
Creators: name: Fendley, P.
name: Saleur, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss in this paper various aspects of the off-critical $O(n)$ model in two dimensions. We find the ground-state energy conjectured by Zamolodchikov for the unitary minimal models, and extend the result to some non-unitary minimal cases. We apply our results to the discussion of scaling functions for polymers on a cylinder. We show, using the underlying N=2 supersymmetry, that the scaling function for one non-contractible polymer loop around the cylinder is simply related to the solution of the Painleve III differential equation. We also find the ground-state energy for a single polymer on the cylinder. We check these results by numerically simulating the polymer system. We also analyze numerically the flow to the dense polymer phase. We find there surprising results, with a $c_{\hbox{eff}}$ function that is not monotonous and seems to have a roaming behavior, getting very close to the values 81/70 and 7/10 between its UV and IR values of 1.
description: 20 pages (with 2 figures included)
Increasing brightness in multiphoton microscopy with low-repetition-rate, wavelength-tunable femtosecond fiber laser
Creators: name: Bogusławski, Jakub
name: Kwaśny, Alicja
name: Stachowiak, Dorota
name: Soboń, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many experiments in biological and medical sciences currently use multiphoton microscopy as a core imaging technique. To date, solid-state lasers are most commonly used as excitation beam sources. However, the most demanding applications require precisely adjusted excitation laser parameters to enhance image quality. Still, the lag in developing easy-to-use laser sources with tunable output parameters makes it challenging. Here, we show that manipulating the temporal and spectral properties of the excitation beam can significantly improve the quality of images. We have developed a wavelength-tunable femtosecond fiber laser that operates within the 760 - 800 nm spectral range and produces ultrashort pulses (below 70 fs) with a clean temporal profile and high pulse energy (1 nJ). The repetition rate could be easily adjusted using an integrated pulse picker unit within the 1 - 25 MHz range and without strongly influencing other parameters of the generated pulses. We integrated the laser with a two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) scanning laser microscope and investigated the effect of tunable wavelength and reducing the pulse repetition rate on the quality of obtained images. Using our laser, we substantially improved the images brightness and penetration depth of native fluorescence and stained samples compared with a standard fiber laser. Our results will contribute to developing imaging techniques using lower average laser power and broader use of tailored fiber-based sources.
Non-equilibrium dynamics of gene expression and the Jarzynski equality
Creators: name: Berg, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to express specific genes at the right time, the transcription of genes is regulated by the presence and absence of transcription factor molecules. With transcription factor concentrations undergoing constant changes, gene transcription takes place out of equilibrium. In this paper we discuss a simple mapping between dynamic models of gene expression and stochastic systems driven out of equilibrium. Using this mapping, results of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics such as the Jarzynski equality and the fluctuation theorem are demonstrated for gene expression dynamics. Applications of this approach include the determination of regulatory interactions between genes from experimental gene expression data.
Understanding the Visual Appearance of Road Scenes Using a Monocular Camera
Creators: name: Lee, Jong Ho
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Over the past several decades, research efforts in the development of self-driving vehicles have drastically improved accompanying technologies. Since the challenges held by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the autonomous driving industry has increased significantly, and almost all the automotive companies have started to develop the technologies to deploy autonomous driving vehicles in the real world. Even though a lot of companies have been making efforts to achieve fully automated vehicles, the current technologies are not mature enough to be deployed in the real world yet, because self-driving vehicles need to respond to uncontrolled environments, such as moving objects, pedestrians, traffic lights, and unexpected work-zones. Among these uncontrolled environments, this thesis focuses on understanding road information and estimating states of traffic lights. Given that all of the traffic control devices are regularized in colors, color is one of the most significant features to be recognized. In order to accomplish such necessary a vision task, self-driving vehicles must incorporate cameras. Despite the fact that traffic control devices have their own regularized color and cameras can see those devices, they are still difficult to detect and recognize by autonomous vehicles. One of the biggest problems is that the color of those devices can be captured differently based on illumination. In this thesis, we investigate the problem of recognizing static objects using a monocular camera to assist self-driving vehicles in perceiving traffic control devices. The perception system, specifically a camera, should recognize the objects robustly regardless of the environment. Throughout this thesis, we exploit different color spaces and apply machine learning to reduce color variance. Also, we develop algorithms which compensate for illumination changes by considering the Sun position, to further improve the road sign recognition. Furthermore, we improve a traffic light state estimation which performs robustly under various illumination conditions. We deploy and demonstrate all of the algorithms in an autonomous vehicle.
The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Follow-Up Observations of the Macho Microlensing Event in the Galactic Bulge
Creators: name: Szymanski, M.
name: Udalski, A.
name: Kaluzny, J.
name: Kubiak, M.
name: Krzeminski, W.
name: Mateo, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present follow-up observations of a gravitational microlensing candidate found by the MACHO collaboration in the Galactic bulge. The photometric data cover a period near the maximum of the event and may be used to construct complete light curve. The position of the lensed star in the color magnitude diagram suggests that it is a Galactic bulge star located on the subgiant branch.
description: 5 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures; LaTeX format. Submitted to Acta Astronomica. PostScript figures (and text also) available via anonymous ftp from (148.81.8.1) ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle/macho/
Charged-current quasielastic neutrino scattering from $^{12}$C in an extended superscaling model with two-nucleon emission
Creators: name: Martinez-Consentino, V. L.
name: Amaro, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quasielastic cross-section of charged-current neutrino and antineutrino scattering on $^{12}$C is calculated using an improved superscaling model with relativistic effective mass. Our model encompasses two-particle emission induced by neutrinos, which we distinguish into two contributions. The first contribution arises from meson-exchange currents, and its calculation is performed at a microscopic level. The second contribution is phenomenological and extracted from the high-energy tail of the scaling function, assumed to be produced by 2p2h mechanisms where the one-body current plays a role, such as short-range correlations and interferences with MEC, final-state interaction, etc. The model explicitly includes the modification of the relativistic effective mass of the nucleon within the relativistic mean field model of nuclear matter. The meson exchange currents are also consistently calculated within the same model. With this model, we present predictions for the neutrino and antineutrino cross sections of $^{12}$C that have been measured in accelerator experiments.
description: 15 pages
On Some Universal Features of the Holographic Quantum Complexity of Bulk Singularities
Creators: name: Bolognesi, Stefano
name: Rabinovici, Eliezer
name: Roy, Shubho R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a comparative study of the time dependence of the holographic quantum complexity of some space like singular bulk gravitational backgrounds. This is done by considering the two available notions of complexity, one that relates it to the maximal spatial volume and the other that relates it to the classical action of the Wheeler-de Witt patch. We calculate and compare the leading and the next to leading terms and find some universal features. The complexity decreases towards the singularity for both definitions, for all types of singularities studied. In addition the leading terms have the same quantitative behavior for both definitions in restricted number of cases and the behaviour itself is different for different singular backgrounds. The quantitative details of the next to leading terms, such as their specific form of time dependence, are found not to be universal. They vary between the different cases and between the different bulk definitions of complexity. We also address some technical points inherent to the calculation.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures. v2: minor corrections