cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Topics and Treatments in Global Software Engineering Research: A Systematic Snapshot
Creators: name: Raza, Bilal
name: MacDonell, Stephen G.
name: Clear, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study presents an analysis of the most recent literature addressing global software engineering (GSE). We examine the current state of GSE research using a new Systematic Snapshot Mapping (SSM) technique. We analysed 275 papers published between January 2011 and June 2012 in peer-reviewed conferences, journals and workshops. Our results provide a coarse-grained overview of the very recent literature addressing GSE, by classifying studies into predefined categories. We also follow and extend several prior classifications to support our synthesis of the data. Our results reveal that currently GSE studies are focused on Management and Infrastructure related factors. Most of the studies are conducted at the organizational level using methods such as interviews, surveys, field studies and case studies. We use inter-country network analysis to confirm that the USA and India are major players in GSE, with USA-India collaborations being the most frequently studied, followed by USA-China. Specific groups of countries have dominated the reported GSE project locations. In contrast, regions including Central Asia, South Asia (except India), Africa and South East Asia have not been covered in these studies. While a considerable number of GSE-related studies have been published they are currently quite narrowly focused on exploratory research and explanatory theories. The critical research paradigm has been untouched, perhaps due to a lack of criteria and principles for carrying out such research in GSE. An absence of formulative research, experimentation and simulation, and a comparative focus on evaluative approaches, all suggest that existing tools, methods and approaches from related fields are being tested in the GSE context. However, these solutions may not scale to cover GSE-related issues or may overlook factors/facets specific to GSE.
description: 10 Pages, Conference, 7 Figres, 6 Tables
Supporting Reengineering Scenarios with FETCH: an Experience Report
Creators: name: Du Bois, Bart
name: Van Rompaey, Bart
name: Meijfroidt, Karel
name: Suijs, Eric
Publisher: name: European Association of Software Science and Technology
Year: 2008

description: The exploration and analysis of large software systems is a labor-intensive activity in need of tool support. In recent years, a number of tools have been developed that provide key functionality for standard reverse engineering scenarios, such as (i) metric analysis; (ii) anti-pattern detection; (iii) dependency analysis; and (iv) visualization. However, either these tools support merely a subset of this list of scenarios, they are not made available to the research community for comparison or extension, or they impose strict restrictions on the source code. Accordingly, we observe a need for an extensible and robust open source alternative, which we present in this paper. Our main contributions are (i) a clarification of useful reverse engineering scenarios; (ii) a comparison among existing solutions; and (iii) an experience report on four recent cases illustrating the usefulness of tool support for these scenarios in an industrial setting.
description: Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 8: ERCIM Symposium on Software Evolution 2007
Motherhood for women with serious mental illness
Creators: name: Van Volkingburgh, Sharon Oline
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Much of the literature about maternal mental illness makes assumptions about the problems in the relationship between mentally ill mothers and their children without the perspective of the mother's point of view. This exploratory qualitative study focused on the experiences of six mothers who were currently parents of school age and younger children, and were concurrently receiving treatment for a serious mental illness from the Greater Vancouver Health Service Society. The mothers were interviewed one or two times for approximately one hour each time, using a semi structured interview guide employing open ended questions. The interview examined the meaning to the mother herself of her role as a parent; the struggles and successes she identified; the significance of her social support network; and other aspects of her experience which have been important for her. The purpose of the study was to gain an understanding of each mother's particular situation and to explore the themes and issues raised in these mothers' stories. The data was analyzed using a narrative approach, to preserve the individuality and diversity of the mother's stories. The common themes that emerged for the mothers were: the centrality of the children to the mother's life; struggles around custody issues; the need for planning for the children in case of relapse; the need for social workers to understand mental illness; coping with children's behaviour problems; problems with the children's fathers; coping with poverty and related problems; and isolation and the need for social support. Social workers and health care professionals may use these narratives to increase their understanding of mothers who have a mental illness, and to develop policies, programs, practices, and education to improve services for these families.
Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, December 15, 1930
Creators: name: Trustees Of The Winfield And Okanagan Centre Irrigation District
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, dated December 15, 1930, regarding a statement of expenses, the notice of appeal by the S. S. B. against the assessment of lot 68, and the trapping of a beaver in Beaver Lake Watershed.
Magnetic mixed valent semimetal EuZnSb$_2$ with Dirac states in the band structure
Creators: name: Wang, Aifeng
name: Baranets, Sviatoslav
name: Liu, Yu
name: Tong, Xiao
name: Stavitski, E.
name: Zhang, Jing
name: Chai, Yisheng
name: Yin, Wei-Guo
name: Bobev, Svilen
name: Petrovic, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report discovery of new antiferromagnetic semimetal EuZnSb$_2$, obtained and studied in the form of single crystals. Electric resistivity, magnetic susceptibility and heat capacity indicate antiferromagnetic order of Eu with $T_N$ = 20 K. The effective moment of Eu$^{2+}$ inferred from the magnetization and specific heat measurement is 3.5 $μ_B$, smaller than the theoretical value of Eu$^{2+}$ due to presence of both Eu$^{3+}$ and Eu$^{2+}$. Magnetic field-dependent resistivity measurements suggest dominant quasi two dimensional Fermi surfaces whereas the first-principle calculations point to the presence of Dirac fermions. Therefore, EuZnSb$_2$ could represent the first platform to study the interplay of dynamical charge fluctuations, localized magnetic 4$f$ moments and Dirac states with Sb orbital character.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Von der Kraft der Vegebung, der Möglichkeit der Versöhnung und der Verheißung Gewalt zu überwinden
Creators: name: Enns, Fernando
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 57 Nr. 1 (2008): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 57, Heft 1
Tidal response and near-horizon boundary conditions for spinning exotic compact objects
Creators: name: Chen, Baoyi
name: Wang, Qingwen
name: Chen, Yanbei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
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: Teukolsky equations for $|s|=2$ provide efficient ways to solve for curvature perturbations around Kerr black holes. Imposing regularity conditions on these perturbations on the future (past) horizon corresponds to imposing an in-going (out-going) wave boundary condition. For exotic compact objects (ECOs) with external Kerr spacetime, however, it is not yet clear how to physically impose boundary conditions for curvature perturbations on their boundaries. We address this problem using the Membrane Paradigm, by considering a family of fiducial observers (FIDOs) that float right above the horizon of a linearly perturbed Kerr black hole. From the reference frame of these observers, the ECO will experience tidal perturbations due to in-going gravitational waves, respond to these waves, and generate out-going waves. As it also turns out, if both in-going and out-going waves exist near the horizon, the Newman Penrose (NP) quantity $ψ_0$ will be numerically dominated by the in-going wave, while the NP quantity $ψ_4$ will be dominated by the out-going wave. In this way, we obtain the ECO boundary condition in the form of a relation between $ψ_0$ and the complex conjugate of $ψ_4$, in a way that is determined by the ECO's tidal response in the FIDO frame. We explore several ways to modify gravitational-wave dispersion in the FIDO frame, and deduce the corresponding ECO boundary condition for Teukolsky functions. We subsequently obtain the boundary condition for $ψ_4$ alone, as well as for the Sasaki-Nakamura and Detweiler's functions. As it also turns out, reflection of spinning ECOs will generically mix between different $\ell$ components of the perturbations fields, and be different for perturbations with different parities. We also apply our boundary condition to computing gravitational-wave echoes from spinning ECOs, and solve for the spinning ECOs' quasi-normal modes.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
On local-to-global spectral sequences for the cohomology of diagrams
Creators: name: Blanc, David
name: Johnson, Mark W.
name: Turner, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The aim of this paper is to construct and examine three candidates for local-to-global spectral sequences for the cohomology of diagrams of algebras with directed indexing. In each case, the $E^2$ -terms can be viewed as a type of local cohomology relative to a map or an object in the diagram.
description: 27 pages; incorporated corrections based on referee's report and added a few references
Classical evolution of fractal measures on the lattice
Creators: name: Antoniou, N. G.
name: Diakonos, F. K.
name: Saridakis, E. N.
name: Tsolias, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the classical evolution of a lattice of non-linear coupled oscillators for a special case of initial conditions resembling the equilibrium state of a macroscopic thermal system at the critical point. The displacements of the oscillators define initially a fractal measure on the lattice associated with the scaling properties of the order parameter fluctuations in the corresponding critical system. Assuming a sudden symmetry breaking (quench), leading to a change in the equilibrium position of each oscillator, we investigate in some detail the deformation of the initial fractal geometry as time evolves. In particular we show that traces of the critical fractal measure can sustain for large times and we extract the properties of the chain which determine the associated time-scales. Our analysis applies generally to critical systems for which, after a slow developing phase where equilibrium conditions are justified, a rapid evolution, induced by a sudden symmetry breaking, emerges in time scales much shorter than the corresponding relaxation or observation time. In particular, it can be used in the fireball evolution in a heavy-ion collision experiment, where the QCD critical point emerges, or in the study of evolving fractals of astrophysical and cosmological scales, and may lead to determination of the initial critical properties of the Universe through observations in the symmetry broken phase.
description: 15 pages, 15 figures, version publiced at Physical Review E
On the connection between orthant probabilities and the first passage time problem
Creators: name: Di Nardo, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article describes a new Monte Carlo method for the evaluation of the orthant probabilities by sampling first passage times of a non-singular Gaussian discrete time-series across an absorbing boundary. This procedure makes use of a simulation of several time-series sample paths, aiming to record their first crossing instants. Thus, the computation of the orthant probabilities is traced back to the accurate simulation of a non-singular Gaussian discrete-time series. Moreover, if the simulation is also efficient, this method is shown to be more speedy than the others proposed in the literature. As example, we make use of the Davies-Harte algorithm in the evaluation of the orthant probabilities associated to the ARFIMA$(0,d,0)$ model. Test results are presented that compare this method with currently available software.
description: 2 tables
Discussion of a medical condition, recorded by Verdena
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio files VP-010511-03 and VP-010511-04: Verdena talks in Hupa about a medical condition she has been worried about, in Hupa. Recorded by Verdena Parker using an Edirol digital recorder in April or May of 2011 (the date May 1, 2011 reflected in the filenames is only approximate), in stereo with low gain.
Understanding the working of a B-dot probe
Creators: name: Bose, Sayak
name: Kaur, Manjit
name: Barada, Kshitish K
name: Ghosh, Joydeep
name: Chattopadhyay, Prabal K
name: Pal, Rabindranath
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic pickup loops or B-dot probes are one of the oldest known sensors of time-varying magnetic fields. The operating principle is based on Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction. However, obtaining accurate measurements of time-varying magnetic fields using these kinds of probes is a challenging task. A B-dot probe and its associated circuit are prone to electrical oscillations. As a result, the measured signal may not faithfully represent the magnetic field sampled by the B-dot probe. In this paper, we have studied the transient response of a B-dot probe and its associated circuit to a time-varying magnetic field. Methods of removing the oscillations pertaining to the detector structure are described. After removing the source of the oscillatory signal, we have shown that the time-integrated induced emf measured by the digitiser is linearly proportional to the magnetic field sampled by the B-dot probe, thus verifying the faithfulness of the measured signal.
Planet Formation by Concurrent Collapse
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Michael
name: Mehlig, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After reviewing the difficulties faced by the conventional theory of planet formation (based upon the aggregation of microscopic dust particles), we describe an alternative hypothesis. We propose that planets form by gravitational collapse at the same time as the star about which they orbit. This 'concurrent collapse' hypothesis avoids theoretical difficulties associated with the conventional model and suggests satisfying explanations for various poorly understood phenomena. We introduce new explanations for FU Orionis outbursts seen in young stars, the discovery of exoplanets with eccentric orbits and the existence of small rocky objects such as chondrules in the solar system.
description: 16 pages, no figures, extended and refined version of earlier submission
$O(d,d;\mathbb{Z})$ invariant Fierz-Pauli massive gravity
Creators: name: Noumi, Toshifumi
name: Saito, Kaishu
name: Soda, Jiro
name: Yoshida, Daisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an $O(d,d;\mathbb{Z})$ invariant massive deformation of double field theory at the level of free theory. We study Kaluza-Klein reduction on $R^{1,n-1} \times T^{d}$ and derive the diagonalized second order action for each helicity mode. Imposing the absence of ghosts and tachyons, we obtain a class of consistency conditions which include the well known weak constraint in double field theory as a special case. Consequently, we find two-parameter sets of $O(d,d;\mathbb{Z})$ invariant Fierz-Pauli massive gravity theories.
description: 15 pages,1 figure
Lightweight Visualisations of COBOL Code for Supporting Migration to SOA
Creators: name: Van Geet, Joris
name: Demeyer, Serge
Publisher: name: European Association of Software Science and Technology
Year: 2008

description: In this age of complex business landscapes, many enterprises turn to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for aligning their IT portfolio with their business. Because of the enormous business risk involved with replacing an enterpriseâs IT landscape, a stepwise migration to SOA is required. As a first step, they need to understand and assess the current structure of their legacy systems. Based on existing reverse engineering techniques, we provide visualisations to support this process for COBOL systems and present preliminary results of an ongoing industrial case study.
description: Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 8: ERCIM Symposium on Software Evolution 2007
Paramecium caudatum Ehrenberg 1833
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Hypotrichea
Oxytrichida
Oxytrichidae
Paramecium
Paramecium caudatum

description: Paramecium caudatum Ehrenberg, 1833
Distribution. BRAZIL: Garapia River, Rio Grande do Sul (Malfatti 2019), (Vi); Maquiné River basin, Rio Grande do Sul (Malfatti 2019), (Vg); Pró-Mata, in São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul (Malfatti 2019), (Vf, Vy). COLOMBIA: (Paz 1980), (Gs).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
A Requirements-Based Taxonomy of Software Product Line Evolution
Creators: name: Schmid, Klaus
name: Eichelberger, Holger
Publisher: name: European Association of Software Science and Technology
Year: 2008

description: Software product lines are, by their very nature, complex software systems.
Due to the interconnectedness of the various products in the product line any form of evolution becomes significantly more complex than in a single system situation. So far most work on product line evolution has focused on specific approaches to supporting special cases of the evolution problem. In this paper, we take a different approach and provide a broad taxonomy of requirements-driven evolution in software product lines. This serves as a basis for the identification of requirements on evolution support.
description: Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 8: ERCIM Symposium on Software Evolution 2007
Electron-Phonon Interaction in Embedded Semiconductor Nanostructures
Creators: name: Grosse, Frank
name: Zimmermann, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modification of acoustic phonons in semiconductor nanostructures embedded in a host crystal is investigated including corrections due to strain within continuum elasticity theory. Effective elastic constants are calculated employing {\em ab initio} density functional theory. For a spherical InAs quantum dot embedded in GaAs barrier material, the electron-phonon coupling is calculated. Its strength is shown to be suppressed compared to the assumption of bulk phonons.
The Use of Executable FIT Tables to support Maintenance and Evolution Tasks
Creators: name: Ricca, Filippo
name: Torchiano, Marco
name: Di Penta, Massimiliano
name: Ceccato, Mariano
name: Tonella, Paolo
Publisher: name: European Association of Software Science and Technology
Year: 2008

description: Acceptance testing is a kind of testing performed prior to software delivery.
In the agile approach, acceptance test suites are specified by analysts and customers during the requirement elicitation phase and used to support the development/maintenance activities. This paper reports an experiment with master students that investigates on the usefulness of executable acceptance test cases, developed by using FIT (Framework for Integrated Test), during software maintenance and
evolution activities. The preliminary results indicate that FIT tables help students to correctly perform the maintenance/evolution tasks with no significant impact on time.
description: Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 8: ERCIM Symposium on Software Evolution 2007
Package Evolvability and its Relationship with Refactoring
Creators: name: Mubarak, Asma
name: Counsell, Steve
name: Hierons, Rob
name: Hassoun, Youssef
Publisher: name: European Association of Software Science and Technology
Year: 2008

description: In this paper, we address a set of research questions investigating trends in changes to an open-source system (OSS). An interesting âpeak and troughâ effect trend was found to exist in the system studied, suggesting that developer activity comprises of a set of high and low periods. Trends in overall changes applied to the system were complemented with empirical evidence in refactoring data for the same system; this showed a similar peak and trough effect but at different versions of the same system. This result suggests a contrasting motivation between regular maintenance practice and that of refactoring. Our analysis of high-level package trends informed some interesting cross-comparisons with refactoring practice, and some insights into why refactoring might be applied after a burst of regular change activity, rather than consistently. We use data extracted from seven Java OSS as a basis for our refactoring analysis.
description: Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 8: ERCIM Symposium on Software Evolution 2007
"Einheit in Vielfalt" als Zielvorstellung kirchlicher Einheit
Creators: name: Koslowski, Jutta
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 57 Nr. 1 (2008): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 57, Heft 1
Complete communitites: moving from academic rhetoric to action
Creators: name: Brueton, Lea Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The suburb is not a modern concept. Although many authors tend to begin the history of the suburb after World War II, the suburb actually dates back to the 1800s. The rapid growth of the suburb following World War II resulted in many problems. By the late 1980s and the early 1990s new planning and development models were presented as solutions to the problems of the conventional homogeneous suburb. One solution was complete communities. Advocates of complete communities argue that their design and planning principles alleviate most of the problems created by the suburb. The past 50 decades, however, have been dedicated to the development of the single family suburb. This practice has resulted in several barriers to the development and implementation of complete communities. This paper outlines the barriers faced by complete community projects in the Southeast portion of Vancouver Island and some communities in the Lower Mainland. These barriers can be overcome. The objective of this thesis is to illustrate the practices that can be applied to complete community projects in order to minimize or overcome the barriers they face. The practices that aid in overcoming these barriers are drawn from interviews with the key players in the complete community development project of the Straiton Neighbourhood in the City of Abbotsford. The key practices are: • to educate the key players about the planning and design principles of complete communities; • to develop long term relationships amongst the key players and; • to illustrate the long term commitment made by the developer of a complete community. As more complete community projects come through the process and are built, more and more innovative approaches to addressing these barriers may be found. Ideally, the approval and development process for complete communities will become more efficient and less time consuming for all those involved.
Letter to the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District from the Secretary to the Trustees, December 24, 1930
Creators: name: Trustees, Secretary Of
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter from the Secretary to the trustees to the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District (J.E. Seaton, James Goldie, J.H. Aberdeen and F.O. McDonald, dated December 24, 1930, regarding documents sent by Mr. G.D. Marshall of the Okanagan Centre Irrigation and Power Company in connection with the crossing of the C.N.R. by the Bypass.
Effects of spin orbit coupling in superconducting proximity devices -- application to $\mathrm{CoSi_2 / TiSi_2}$ heterostructures
Creators: name: Mishra, Vivek
name: Li, Yu
name: Zhang, Fu-Chun
name: Kirchner, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent findings of unconventional superconductivity in $\mathrm{CoSi_2 / TiSi_2}$ heterostructures, we study the effect of interface induced Rashba spin orbit coupling on the conductance of a three terminal "T" shape superconducting device. We calculate the differential conductance for this device within the quasi-classical formalism that includes the mixing of triplet-singlet pairing due to the Rashba spin orbit coupling. We discuss our result in the light of the conductance spectra reported by Chiu {\it et al.} for $\mathrm{CoSi_2 / TiSi_2}$ heterostructures.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Rapidly Spinning Compact Stars with Deconfinement Phase Transition
Creators: name: Demircik, Tuna
name: Ecker, Christian
name: Järvinen, Matti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study rapidly spinning compact stars with equations of state featuring a first order phase transition between strongly coupled nuclear matter and deconfined quark matter by employing the gauge/gravity duality. We consider a family of models, which allow purely hadronic uniformly rotating stars with masses up to approximately $2.9\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$, and are therefore compatible with the interpretation that the secondary component ($2.59^{+0.08}_{-0.09}\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$) in GW190814 is a neutron star. These stars have central densities several times the nuclear saturation density so that strong coupling and non-perturbative effects become crucial. We construct models where the maximal mass of static (rotating) stars $M_{\mathrm{TOV}}$ ($M_{\mathrm{max}}$) is either determined by the secular instability or a phase transition induced collapse. We find largest values for $M_{\mathrm{max}}/M_{\mathrm{TOV}}$ in cases where the phase transition determines $M_{\mathrm{max}}$, which shifts our fit result to $M_{\mathrm{max}}/M_{\mathrm{TOV}} = 1.227^{+0.031}_{-0.016}$, a value slightly above the Breu-Rezzolla bound $1.203^{+0.022}_{-0.022}$ inferred from models without phase transition.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, comments welcome
Transcription of "Pingu Helps to Deliver the Mail"
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: Newbold, Lindsey
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-100411-04: Transcription of the first narration of the animated video "Pingu Helps to Deliver the Mail" (file VP-091010-05), from the beginning of the file to 4:13.
Defect CFT techniques in the 6d $\mathcal{N} = (2,0)$ theory
Creators: name: Drukker, Nadav
name: Probst, Malte
name: Trépanier, Maxime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface operators are among the most important observables of the 6d $\mathcal{N} = (2,0)$ theory. Here we apply the tools of defect CFT to study local operator insertions into the 1/2-BPS plane. We first relate the 2-point function of the displacement operator to the expectation value of the bulk stress tensor and translate this relation into a constraint on the anomaly coefficients associated with the defect. Secondly, we study the defect operator expansion of the stress tensor multiplet and identify several new operators of the defect CFT. Technical results derived along the way include the explicit supersymmetry tranformations of the stress tensor multiplet and the classification of unitary representations of the superconformal algebra preserved by the defect.
description: 41 pages, two figures
Narrow associated QSO absorbers: clustering, outflows and the line-of-sight proximity effect
Creators: name: Wild, Vivienne
name: Kauffmann, Guinevere
name: White, Simon
name: York, Donald
name: Lehnert, Matthew
name: Heckman, Timothy
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Khare, Pushpa
name: Lundgren, Britt
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Berk, Daniel Vanden
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 3 (SDSS DR3) we investigate how narrow (<700km/s) CIV and MgII quasar absorption line systems are distributed around quasars. The CIV absorbers lie in the redshift range 1.6 < z < 4 and the MgII absorbers in the range 0.440% of CIV absorbers within 3,000km/s of the QSO are not a result of large-scale clustering but rather are directly associated with the quasar itself; (iii) that this intrinsic absorber population extends to outflow velocities of order 12,000km/s; (iv) that this outflow component is present in both radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars; and (v) that a small high-velocity outflow component is observed in the MgII population, but any further intrinsic absorber component is undetectable in our clustering analysis. We also find an indication that absorption systems within 3,000km/s are more abundant for radio-loud than for radio-quiet quasars. This suggests either that radio-loud objects live in more massive halos, or that their radio activity generates an additional low-velocity outflow, or both.
description: 16 pages, 20 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Solving some gauge systems at infinite N
Creators: name: Wosiek, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After summarizing briefly some numerical results for four-dimensional supersymmetric SU(2) Yang-Mills quantum mechanics, we review a recent study of systems with an infinite number of colours. We study in detail a particular supersymmetric matrix model which exhibits a phase transition, strong-weak duality, and a rich structure of supersymmetric vacua. In the planar and strong coupling limits, this field theoretical system is equivalent to a one-dimensional XXZ Heisenberg chain and, at the same time, to a gas of $q$-bosons. This not only reveals a hidden supersymmetry in these well-studied models; it also maps the intricate pattern of our supersymmetic vacua into that of the now-popular ground states of the XXZ chain.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures; lecture given at the XLVI Cracow School of Theoretical Physics; some typos and references corrected
Characterization of regulated protein secretion in phytophthora zoospores
Creators: name: Zhang, Weiwei
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2014

description: Secretion of pathogen proteins is crucial for establishment of disease in animals and plants. Typically, early interactions between host and pathogen trigger regulated secretion of pathogenicity factors that function in pathogen adhesion and host penetration. During the onset of plant infection by spores of the Oomycete, Phytophthora nicotianae, proteins are secreted from three types of cortical vesicles. Following induction of spore encystment, two vesicle types undergo full fusion, releasing their entire contents onto the cell surface. However, the third vesicle type, so-called large peripheral vesicles, selectively secretes a small Sushi domain-containing protein, PnCcp, while retaining a large glycoprotein, PnLpv, before moving away from the plasma membrane. The experiments described in this thesis aim to characterize the differential secretion and retention of proteins from the large peripheral vesicles in Phytophthora spores and to investigate the possible mechanisms underlying the selective secretion of large peripheral vesicle proteins. Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged PnCcp proteins were expressed in P. nicotianae by genetic transformation in order to study the subcellular localization and secretion of PnCcp in living cells. Analysis of drug-resistant transformants indicated that sometimes the PnCcp-GFP transgene was not expressed and at other times the fusion protein was not fluorescent or was mislocalized to the cytoplasm or the extracellular space other than the large peripheral vesicles. Double-immunofluorescence labelling of P. nicotianae spores both in vitro and in planta confirmed that PnCcp was secreted from the large peripheral vesicles while PnLpv was retained during encystment. Immunolocalization studies of P. nicotianae mycelia revealed that the synthesis of PnLpv precedes that of PnCcp and PnCcp is added to large peripheral vesicles after PnLpv. By immunofluorescence labelling and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs), the majority of the PnCcp protein was detected to be secreted within 1-2 min of the onset of encystment and secretion of PnCcp occurred at a similar time period as that of ventral and dorsal vesicle proteins. Selective secretion of PnCcp is associated with its compartmentalization within the vesicle periphery. Pharmacological inhibition of dynamin function, purportedly in vesicle fission, by dynasore treatment provides evidence that selective secretion of PnCcp utilizes a kiss-and-run, transient fusion mechanism similar to that described in animal cells. This is the first report of transient fusion and selective protein secretion outside mammalian cells. Results also show that full or transient fusion of different populations of vesicles is triggered simultaneously by the same signal. The research in this thesis expanded our understanding of regulated protein secretion in Phytophthora and other systems.
Evaluation of High Traffic Crash Corridors
Creators: name: Green, Eric R.
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objectives of this study were to: a) determine a procedure to use to identify corridors in each highway district for which a detailed analysis of crash data should be conducted (with resulting increased law enforcement activities, education programs and engineering improvement s); b) develop a procedure to use to analyze the crash data and recommend countermeasures; and c) conduct a case study analysis for one selected corridor.  A method which could be used to select high crash corridors, by highway district, was developed. The procedure involved: obtaining a list of rout es in each district which traveled through more than one county; determining various attributes for each route (such as length, number of crashes, traffic volume); calculating a relative value for each attribute; and developing a ranking method to select a route for each district.  After a specific corridor is selected in a highway district, the crashes should be analyzed based on both a corridor basis and a review of high crash locations. The corridor analysis involves comparing the characteristics of the crashes on the corridor with statewide data. The high crash analysis involves identifying 0.1 and 0.3-mile spots and 1-mile sections having a critical number and rate of crashes and inspecting these locations. Countermeasures would then be recommended to address the problem areas identified on the corridor.
TurnGPT: a Transformer-based Language Model for Predicting Turn-taking in Spoken Dialog
Creators: name: Ekstedt, Erik
name: Skantze, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: Syntactic and pragmatic completeness is known to be important for turn-taking prediction, but so far machine learning models of turn-taking have used such linguistic information in a limited way. In this paper, we introduce TurnGPT, a transformer-based language model for predicting turn-shifts in spoken dialog. The model has been trained and evaluated on a variety of written and spoken dialog datasets. We show that the model outperforms two baselines used in prior work. We also report on an ablation study, as well as attention and gradient analyses, which show that the model is able to utilize the dialog context and pragmatic completeness for turn-taking prediction. Finally, we explore the model's potential in not only detecting, but also projecting, turn-completions.
description: Accepted to Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2020
Enterprise Resource Planning
Creators: name: Grossardt, Ted
name: Brumm, Joel
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This goal of this project was to assist the Cabinet in improving the way data is gathered, maintained, and used in the Highway Information System (HIS). The procedure was to identify the critical uses of various data categories, the specific needs for that data, and how that matched up with how the data is handled currently. The end result is a database of metadata information about the HIS database itself. This will enable new users and those unfamiliar with the background of the HIS to easily locate information about how data was collected, how frequently it is updated, and the responsible parties for particular data types.
Deterministic attitude and pose filtering, an embedded Lie groups approach
Creators: name: Zamani, Mohammad
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Robots Motion
subject: Robots Control systems
subject: Lie groups

description: Attitude estimation is a core problem in many robotic systems that perform automated or semi automated navigation. The configuration space of the attitude motion is naturally modelled on the Lie group of special orthogonal matrices SO(3). Many current attitude estimation methods are based on non-matrix parameterization of attitude. Non-matrix parameterization schemes sometimes lead to modelling issues such as the singularities in the parameterization space, non-uniqueness of the attitude estimates and the undesired conversion errors such as the projection or normalization errors. Moreover, often attitude filters are designed by linearizing or approximating the nonlinear attitude kinematics followed by applying the Kalman filtering based methods that are primarily only suitable for linear Gaussian systems. In this thesis, the attitude estimation problem is considered directly on SO(3) along with nonlinear vectorial measurement models. Minimum-energy filtering is adapted to respect the geometry of the problem and in order to solve the problem avoiding linearization or Gaussian assumptions. This approach allows for obtaining a geometric approximate minimum-energy (GAME) filter whose performance is tested by means of Monte Carlo simulations. Many of the major attitude filtering methods in the literature are surveyed and included in the simulation study. The GAME filter outperforms all of the state of the art attitude filters studied, including the multiplicative extended Kalman filter (MEKF), the unscented quaternion estimator (USQUE), the right-invariant extended Kalman filter (RIEKF) and the nonlinear constant gain attitude observer, in the asymptotic estimation error. Furthermore, the proposed GAME filter is shown to be near-optimal by deriving a bound on the optimality error of the filter that is proven to be small in simulations. Moreover, similar GAME filters are derived for pose filtering on the special Euclidean group SE(3), attitude and bias filtering on the unit circle and attitude and bias filtering on the special orthogonal group. The approximation order of the proposed method can potentially be extended to arbitrary higher orders. For instance, for the case angle estimation on the unit circle an eighth-order approximate minimum-energy filter is provided.
Rooted staggered fermions: good, bad or ugly?
Creators: name: Sharpe, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I give a status report on the validity of the so-called ``fourth-root trick'', i.e. the procedure of representing the determinant for a single fermion by the fourth root of the staggered fermion determinant. This has been used by the MILC collaboration to create a large ensemble of lattices using which many quantities of physical interest have been and are being calculated. It is also used extensively in studies of QCD thermodynamics. The main question is whether the theory so defined has the correct continuum limit. There has been significant recent progress towards answering this question. After recalling the issue, and putting it into a broader context of results from statistical mechanics, I critically review the new work. I also address the related issue of the impact of treating valence and sea quarks differently in rooted simulations, discuss whether rooted simulations at finite temperature and density are subject to additional concerns, and briefly update results for quark masses using the MILC configurations. An answer to the question in the title is proposed in the summary.
description: Plenary talk at Lattice 2006 (42 pages, 6 figures, 2 appendices)
Forschungsdaten digital managen mit FuD. Ein vielseitiges Tool für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Creators: name: Lemaire, Marina
name: Rommelfanger, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Data Literacy
FuD
From Books to Bytes
NFDI4Memory
Tool
FDM
RDM

description: Das Softwaresystem FuD wird eingesetzt, um qualitativ arbeitenden Forschungsprojekten in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften eine Plattform zur kollaborativen Erfassung, Aufbereitung, Analyse, Publikation und Archivierung von Forschungsdaten zu bieten. Entwickelt vom Servicezentrum eSciences und dem Trier Center for Digital Humanities an der Universität Trier, unterstützt FuD seit über 20 Jahren Projekte bei der digitalen Transformation ihrer Arbeit. Mehr als 60 Forschungsprojekte haben das System bereits genutzt, das sich durch seine hohe Konfigurierbarkeit an die unterschiedlichsten Anforderungen anpassen lässt. Es eignet sich für vielfältige Anwendungsfälle, wie etwa Online- und Print-Editionen, Inventare, Personendatenbanken, sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen oder historisch-geographische Visualisierungen. Im Workshop wird das System anhand verschiedener Praxisbeispiele in einer Live-Präsentation vorgeführt.
description: From Books to Bytes: The Digital Transformation in Historical Studies - Learning, Teaching, and Research in the Age of Digitization.

The professional handling of data is a virulent topic across the boundaries of all disciplines. NFDI4Memory addresses this in order to (further) develop data literacy in the historical sciences and subjects working in history and to support the community in mastering the digital turn.

The event series "From Books to Bytes" will start in October 2023 and will regularly present current topics and relevant fields of application in research and teaching with experts, researchers and teachers. It is designed in such a way that after short thematic introductions, participants will have the opportunity to independently engage with the presented content in hands-on sessions.
Transcription of a story about the establishment of the Hoopa Valley Reservation
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: Newbold, Lindsey
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio files VP-100411-02 and VP-100411-03: Transcription of a story about life in the old days and the establishment of the Hoopa Valley Reservation (file VP-110510-13), from 17:24 to 18:26 (VP-100411-02) and from 18:26 to the end of the story (VP-100411-03).
A Full Characterisation of the Supermassive Black Hole in IRAS 09149-6206
Creators: name: Walton, D. J.
name: Alston, W. N.
name: Kosec, P.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Gallo, L. C.
name: Garcia, J. A.
name: Miller, J. M.
name: Nardini, E.
name: Reynolds, M. T.
name: Ricci, C.
name: Stern, D.
name: Dauser, T.
name: Harrison, F. A.
name: Reynolds, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new broadband X-ray observations of the type-I Seyfert galaxy IRAS 09149-6206, taken in 2018 with $XMM$-$Newton$, $NuSTAR$ and $Swift$. The source is highly complex, showing a classic 'warm' X-ray absorber, additional absorption from highly ionised iron, strong relativistic reflection from the innermost accretion disc and further reprocessing by more distant material. By combining X-ray timing and spectroscopy, we have been able to fully characterise the supermassive black hole in this system, constraining both its mass and - for the first time - its spin. The mass is primarily determined by X-ray timing constraints on the break frequency seen in the power spectrum, and is found to be $\log[M_{\rm{BH}}/M_{\odot}] = 8.0 \pm 0.6$ (1$σ$ uncertainties). This is in good agreement with previous estimates based on the H$α$ and H$β$ line widths, and implies that IRAS 09149-6206 is radiating at close to (but still below) its Eddington luminosity. The spin is constrained via detailed modelling of the relativistic reflection, and is found to be $a^* = 0.94^{+0.02}_{-0.07}$ (90% confidence), adding IRAS 09149-6206 to the growing list of radio-quiet AGN that host rapidly rotating black holes. The outflow velocities of the various absorption components are all relatively modest ($v_{\rm{out}} \lesssim 0.03c$), implying these are unlikely to drive significant galaxy-scale AGN feedback.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS