cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Model-aware reinforcement learning for high-performance Bayesian experimental design in quantum metrology
Creators: name: Belliardo, Federico
name: Zoratti, Fabio
name: Marquardt, Florian
name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum sensors offer control flexibility during estimation by allowing manipulation by the experimenter across various parameters. For each sensing platform, pinpointing the optimal controls to enhance the sensor's precision remains a challenging task. While an analytical solution might be out of reach, machine learning offers a promising avenue for many systems of interest, especially given the capabilities of contemporary hardware. We have introduced a versatile procedure capable of optimizing a wide range of problems in quantum metrology, estimation, and hypothesis testing by combining model-aware reinforcement learning (RL) with Bayesian estimation based on particle filtering. To achieve this, we had to address the challenge of incorporating the many non-differentiable steps of the estimation in the training process, such as measurements and the resampling of the particle filter. Model-aware RL is a gradient-based method, where the derivatives of the sensor's precision are obtained through automatic differentiation (AD) in the simulation of the experiment. Our approach is suitable for optimizing both non-adaptive and adaptive strategies, using neural networks or other agents. We provide an implementation of this technique in the form of a Python library called qsensoropt, alongside several pre-made applications for relevant physical platforms, namely NV centers, photonic circuits, and optical cavities. This library will be released soon on PyPI. Leveraging our method, we've achieved results for many examples that surpass the current state-of-the-art in experimental design. In addition to Bayesian estimation, leveraging model-aware RL, it is also possible to find optimal controls for the minimization of the Cramér-Rao bound, based on Fisher information.
description: 45 pages, 10 figures
Assessing dispositions toward ridicule and laughter in the workplace : adapting and validating the PhoPhiKat-9 questionnaire
Creators: name: Hofmann, Jennifer
name: Ruch, Willibald
name: Proyer, René T.
name: Platt, Tracey
name: Gander, Fabian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150

description: The current paper addresses the measurement of three dispositions toward ridicule and laughter; i.e., gelotophobia (the fear of being laughed at), gelotophilia (the joy of being laughed at), and katagelasticism (the joy of laughing at others). These traits explain inter-individual differences in responses to humor, laughter, and social situations related to humorous encounters. First, an ultra-short form of the PhoPhiKat-45 (Ruch and Proyer, 2009) was adapted in two independent samples (Construction Sample N = 157; Replication Sample N = 1,774). Second, we tested the validity of the PhoPhiKat-9 in two further independent samples. Results showed that the psychometric properties of the ultra-short form were acceptable and the proposed factor structure could be replicated. In Validation Sample 1 (N = 246), we investigated the relation of the three traits to responses in a ridicule and teasing scenario questionnaire. The results replicated findings from earlier studies by showing that gelotophobes assigned the same emotions to friendly teasing and malicious ridicule (predominantly low joy, high fear, and shame). Gelotophilia was mainly predicted by relating joy to both, teasing and ridicule scenarios, while katagelasticism was predicted by assigning joy and contempt to ridicule scenarios. In Validation Sample 2 (N = 1,248), we investigated whether the fear of being laughed at is a vulnerability at the workplace: If friendly teasing and laughter of co-workers, superiors, or customers are misperceived as being malicious, individuals may feel less satisfied and more stressed. The results from a representative sample of Swiss employees showed that individuals with a fear of being laughed at are generally less satisfied with life and work and experience more work stress. Moreover, gelotophilia went along with positive evaluations of one's life and work, while katagelasticism was negatively related to work satisfaction and positively related to work stress. In order to establish good work practices and build procedures against workplace bullying, one needs to consider that individual differences impact on a person's perception of being bullied and assessing the three dispositions may give important insights into team processes.
Pisaboa laldea Huber 2000
Creators: name: Huber, Bernhard A.
name: Villarreal, Osvaldo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pisaboa
Pisaboa laldea

description: Pisaboa laldea Huber, 2000
Figs 747–749, 763, 770–772, 1063
Pisaboa laldea Huber, 2000: 285, figs 1151–1158 (♂).
Diagnosis (amendments; see Huber 2000)
Females are distinguished from known congeners by shape of epigynum (Fig. 770; anterior plate roughly square-shaped, without pockets, with distinctive internal arc visible in uncleared specimens) and by internal genitalia (Figs 763, 771–772; unique shape of pore plates; distinctive anterior arc).
New record
VENEZUELA – Táchira • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, ZFMK (Ar 22076), and 4 ♀♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (Ven20- 119), SE Pregonero, forest near La Trampa (7.9236° N, 71.7152° W), 1300 m a.s.l., 10 Feb. 2020 (B.A. Huber, O. Villarreal M., Q. Arias C.).
Note
We were not able to exactly locate the type locality, “Camp. Siberia, Laldea”, but Campamento Siberia is at 3 km from our new collecting site, suggesting that the new site is within a few km from the type locality.
Redescription of male (amendments; see Huber 2000)
Habitus as in Fig. 747. Eye measurements (male from La Trampa): distance PME–PME 100 µm; diameter PME 110 µm; distance PME–ALE 80 µm; distance AME–AME 20 µm; diameter AME 50 µm. Abdomen with dark and white marks. Prolateral trichobothrium absent on tibia 1. Femora 1–4 approximately same maximum diameter. All tibiae with many short vertical hairs. Tibia 1 in two newly collected males: 5.7, 6.0.
Description of female
Females in general similar to males (Figs 748–749) but sternum without anterior humps and leg tibiae with few short vertical hairs. Tibia 1 in five females: 4.1–4.4 (mean 4.3). Epigynum (Fig. 770) anterior plate roughly square-shaped, posteriorly slightly elevated and with slightly protruding rim, distinctive anterior internal arc visible in uncleared specimens; posterior plate short but wide. Internal genitalia (Figs 763, 771–772) with uniquely shaped pore plates, elongated and bent in mid-section, with distinctive anterior arc (arrow in Fig. 763) and anterior median receptacle.
Distribution
Known from two neighboring localities in the Venezuelan state Táchira (Fig. 1063).
Natural history
The spiders were found ~ 0.5–1.5 m above the ground, in small webs that led into hollow branches or into shelters of dead leaves suspended among the vegetation.
description: Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A. & Villarreal, Osvaldo, 2020, On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae), pp. 1-317 in European Journal of Taxonomy 718 on pages 219-220, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101, http://zenodo.org/record/4069574
Sorex sclateri Merriam 1897
Creators: name: Matson, John O.
name: Ordóñez-Garza, Nicté
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Soricomorpha
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex sclateri

description: Sorex sclateri Merriam, 1897
Sclater’s Shrew
Sorex sclateri Merriam, 1897:228. Type locality “ Tumbala, Chiapas, Mexico (alt., 5000 ft.)” Sorex Sclateri Trouessart, 1898:1287.
Holotype. Number 75872, U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collection, adult, female, skin and skull; collected October 28, 1895, by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman, original number 8567.
Distribution. Known only from two localities in Chiapas, Mexico (Carraway 2007).
Diagnosis. Sorex sclateri is the largest member of the S. salvini species group. It is as large as most species in the S. veraepacis species group. U3> U 4 in three of four specimens, U3 = U 4 in one individual. Color is a dark brown above slightly paler below, tail as in body.
Description. Sorex sclateri has a longer mandible and relatively less inflated cranium than S. cristobalensis, S. salvini, S. stizodon, or the undescribed species from Honduras. Average body measurements for four specimens (three topotypes and type) are: TOT 124; Tail 52, HF 15.9. Average skull measurements for three specimens (two topotypes and type) are: CBL 19.5, GLS 19.8, LR 8.2, PL 7.9, LUT 3.0, LMT 4.9, CB 9.1, WM2 4.9, LIB, 4.4, DB 5.7, LM 8.3, HC 3.0. Sorex sclateri pelage color is dark brown compared to species in the S. veraepacis species group, which are gray to black.
Ecology. Summarized by Carraway (2007), no new information available.
Specimens examined (4). Mexico, Chiapas: Tumbalá, 5000 ft. (USNM 75871–75874).
Additional records. Mexico, Chiapas: San Antonio Buenavista (Carraway 2007).
description: Published as part of Matson, John O. & Ordóñez-Garza, Nicté, 2017, The taxonomic status of Long-tailed shrews (Mammalia: genus Sorex) from Nuclear Central America, pp. 461-483 in Zootaxa 4236 (3) on pages 476-477, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322258
Confluentia colombiana Santos-Silva & Galileo & Mcclarin 2018, comb.nov.
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
name: Mcclarin, Jim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Confluentia
Confluentia colombiana

description: Confluentia colombiana (Gilmour, 1950), comb.nov.
(Figs 51–52)
Sparna colombiana Gilmour, 1950: 552; Gilmour, 1965: 631 (cat.); Martínez, 2000: 97 (distr.); Monné & Giesbert, 1994: 274 (checklist); Monné, 1995: 24 (cat.); Monné & Hovore, 2006: 237 (checklist); Monné, 2005: 356 (cat.); 2017: 312 (cat.). Sparna columbiana; Gilmour, 1954: 85 (error).
Sparna colombina; Fuchs, 1956: 576 (error).
According to Gilmour (1950): “The elytra very elongate, rather depressed, moderately, but distinctly dilated behind the middle, the humeri broadly rounded; the apices slightly bisinuate, the marginal angle terminating in a fairly long, sharp spine, the sutural angle rectangular.”Actually, the elytra in the holotype is not as elongated as reported and figured by Gilmour (1950) (about 7 times longer than prothorax) (Fig. 52): it is more widened and shorter (about 6 times prothoracic length) (Fig. 51). Furthermore, the elytral apex is wider than in his figure.
description: Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio, Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Mcclarin, Jim, 2018, Division of the genera Sparna Thomson, 1864 and Carterica Pascoe, 1858 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Colobotheini) with description of six new genera and eight new species, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 4407 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1216420
All Puffed Up: Exploring Ultra-diffuse Galaxy Origins through Galaxy Interactions
Creators: name: Fielder, Catherine
name: Jones, Michael
name: Sand, David
name: Bennet, Paul
name: Crnojevic, Denija
name: Karunakaran, Ananthan
name: Mutlu-Pakdil, Burcin
name: Spekkens, Kristine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new follow-up observations of two ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) selected for their distorted morphologies and tidal features, suggestive of tidal influence. Using Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys F555W and F814W imaging, we identify $8\pm2$ globular clusters (GCs) in KUG 0203-Dw1 and $6\pm2$ in KDG 013, abundances typical for normal dwarf galaxies of similar stellar mass. Jansky Very Large Array data reveal a clear HI detection of KUG 0203-Dw1 with a gas mass estimate of $\log{M_{\rm{HI}}/M_{\odot}}\lesssim 7.4$ and evidence of active stripping by the host, while KDG 013 has no clear gas detection. The UDGs likely originated as normal dwarf galaxies that have been subjected to significant stripping and tidal heating, causing them to become more diffuse. These two UDGs complete a sample of five exhibiting tidal features in the full Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey area (CFHTLS; $\sim150^{2}$ deg). These tidally influenced UDGs exhibit diversse properties; one stands out as a potential result of a dwarf merger, while the remainder suggest tidal heating origins. We also cannot conclusively rule out that these galaxies became UDGs in the field before processing by the group environment, underscoring the need for broader searches of diffuse galaxies to better understand the impact of galaxy interactions.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures
"Effectiveness Of Informational Booklet On Knowledge Regarding Autism Spectrum Disorders Among Primary School Teachers"
Creators: name: Dr Berlin Sara Thampy
Publisher: name: BIJNR
Year: 2023

description: ABSTRACT: Autism spectrum disease is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by abnormal or impaired development that is evident before the age of three years. It affects social interaction, communication, and behavior, with a severity that ranges from mild to severe, hence the term Autism Spectrum Disorder. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of informational booklet designed to enhance preschool teachers' understanding of ASD. The research design selected for the study was pre experimental one group pre test post- test design. Sample comprised of 100 primary school teachers of selected schools of Indore, (M.P.) selected using non probability purposive sampling technique. Structured Knowledge Questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge. The mean of post-test knowledge scores was 26.6, which is significantly higher than mean of pre-test knowledge scores of 12.4. Standard deviation of post-test score and pre-test score is 9.4 and 13.3 respectively. The computed paired “t” value (18.67, df=99 at the level of p= 0.05) is greater than table value (1.66) which represents significant gain in knowledge. This study result implies that informational booklet was useful in improving the knowledge of primary school teachers regarding autism spectrum disease.
Platycheirus chilosia
Creators: name: Fisler, Lisa
name: Speight, Martin C. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Platycheirus
Platycheirus chilosia

description: Platycheirus chilosia (Curran, 1922)
Matériel examiné:
• 2 mâles de la collection BNM, révisés par M. C. D. Speight. Provenance: Piz Lischanna (GR), à 3050 m. Collectés en 1932 par F. Keiser.
Le nom P. carinatus est encore régulièrement utilisé pour cette espèce, mais Young et al. (2016) précisent qu’il s’agit d’un synonyme de P. chilosia. Cette espèce n’était jusqu’à présent connue que des pays nordiques, y compris du continent nord-américain (Speight 2020). Son aire de répartition auparavant considérée comme boréale, elle était donc absente des clés d’identification d’Europe centrale et des checklists nationales. Ceci, et sa présence à plus de 3000 m d’altitude, ont contribué à ce qu’elle passe inaperçue en Suisse. En Europe, les mâles sont cependant facilement différenciables de toutes les autres espèces du genre Platycheirus grâce à la présence d’une rangée de soies fortes, longues et courbées à l’arrière du basitarse 1 (Fig.2). Les femelles sont plus difficiles à identifier et aucun exemplaire n’a été trouvé jusqu’à présent dans les collections suisses. Les critères qui permettent de différencier les femelles d’espèces similaires sont décrits par Young et al. (2016).
description: Published as part of Fisler, Lisa & Speight, Martin C. D., 2020, Quatre nouvelles espèces de Syrphidae (Diptera) pour la Suisse, pp. 123-129 in Entomo Helvetica 13 on page 126, DOI: 10.5169/seals-985890, http://zenodo.org/record/8113665
Simplices in large sets and directional expansion in ergodic actions
Creators: name: Björklund, Michael
name: Fish, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study ergodic $\mathbb{Z}^r$-actions and investigate expansion properties along cyclic subgroups. We show that under some spectral conditions there are always directions which expand significantly a given measurable set with positive measure. Among other things, we use this result to prove that the set of volumes of all $r$-simplices with vertices in a set with positive upper density must contain an infinite arithmetic progression, thus showing a discrete density analogue of a classical result by Graham.
description: 21 pages
A Research Prospectus on Interactions of Matter and Energy:  Progress on Opto-Physical Recognition and Classification of Aerosol and Clouds  in the Terrestrial Atmosphere - Novel Instrumentation and a Theoretical Aerosol Typology
Creators: name: Giordano, Marco E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: AERONET Optical Typology
subject: micro-Instrumentation
subject: Ground-received Visible Solar Irradiance
subject: Global Aerosol Climatology
subject: Historic Global Seasonal Aerosol Climatology
subject: Aerosol typology reference standards
subject: Mahalanobis Distance
subject: simulated Degree of Linear Polarization
subject: sDLP
subject: Frechet Distance
subject: Aerosol Physics
subject: Aerosol Optics
subject: Atmospheric Sciences
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This is a document outlining the research progress, future paths and anticipated outcomes of a panoramic work using NASA's Global Aerosol Robotic Network AERONET data archive as the basis of the project.
Sorex stizodon Merriam 1895
Creators: name: Matson, John O.
name: Ordóñez-Garza, Nicté
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Soricomorpha
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex stizodon

description: Sorex stizodon Merriam, 1895
Pale-toothed Shrew
Sorex stizodon Merriam, 1895:98. Type locality “ San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico ”.
Holotype. Number 75885, U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collection, adult female, skin and skull, collected September 25, 1895 by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman, original number 8473.
Distribution. Known only from the type locality, at 9000 ft elevation.
Diagnosis. Smallest Sorex in NCA. Color of dorsum is rusty brown to reddish brown, venter slightly paler. U3 <U4. Pigment of teeth not the usual red color for Sorex, instead it is pale light orange to yellowish. Brain case slightly inflated with a short rostrum.
Description. Measurements for the holotype (and only specimen) of Sorex stizodon are: TOT 107; Tail 41, HF 153.5; CBL 17.5, GLS 17.9, LR 5.6, LP 6.0, LUT 2.0, LMT 3.5, CB 8.9, WM2 4.2, LIB, 3.4, DB 5.8, LM 5.8, HC 3.1. Compared to other members of the S. salvini group, S. stizodon is absolutely small in all measurements. It has a relatively inflated cranium relative to cranial length.
Ecology. Reviewed by Carraway (2007).
Specimens examined (1). Mexico, Chiapas: San Cristóbal, 9000 ft. (Examined and measured by Neal Woodman).
description: Published as part of Matson, John O. & Ordóñez-Garza, Nicté, 2017, The taxonomic status of Long-tailed shrews (Mammalia: genus Sorex) from Nuclear Central America, pp. 461-483 in Zootaxa 4236 (3) on page 477, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322258
title: Rime Piacevoli di Cesare Caporali, del Mauro et d'altri autori
Creators: name: Caporali, Cesare
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Source: Bibliothèque patrimonaile Villon (Rouen), Fonds Leber, Leberp-1928
Ionization of NH3 by electron and photon impact
Creators: name: Granados-Castro, Carlos Maria
name: Genoni, Alessandro
name: Ancarani, Lorenzo Ugo
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 530

description: We study single ionization by electron and photon impact from the outer valence orbital 3a1 of NH3. The wave function describing the ejected electron is expanded in an appropriate set of Generalized Sturmian Functions. The cross sections obtained with two different molecular target descriptions are compared with each other, and with experimental data.
Transferability of dual-task coordination skills after practice with changing component tasks
Creators: name: Schubert, Torsten
name: Liepelt, Roman
name: Kübler, Sebastian
name: Strobach, Tilo
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150

description: Recent research has demonstrated that dual-task performance with two simultaneously presented tasks can be substantially improved as a result of practice. Among other mechanisms, theories of dual-task practice-relate this improvement to the acquisition of task coordination skills. These skills are assumed (1) to result from dual-task practice, but not from single-task practice, and (2) to be independent from the specific stimulus and response mappings during the practice situation and, therefore, transferable to new dual task situations. The present study is the first that provides an elaborated test of these assumptions in a context with well-controllable practice and transfer situations. To this end, we compared the effects of dual-task and single-task practice with a visual and an auditory sensory-motor component task on the dual-task performance in a subsequent transfer session. Importantly, stimulus and stimulus-response mapping conditions in the two component tasks changed repeatedly during practice sessions, which prevents that automatized stimulus-response associations may be transferred from practice to transfer. Dual-task performance was found to be improved after practice with the dual tasks in contrast to the single-task practice. These findings are consistent with the assumption that coordination skills had been acquired, which can be transferred to other dual-task situations independently on the specific stimulus and response mapping conditions of the practiced component tasks.
Coherent turbulent structures in a rapid contraction
Creators: name: Alhareth, Abdullah A.
name: Mugundhan, Vivek
name: Langley, Kenneth R.
name: Thoroddsen, Sigurður T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coherent vortical structures in turbulent flow through a strong 16:1 3-D contraction, are studied using time-resolved volumetric measurements. Visualization using vorticity magnitude criterion shows the emergence of long, stretched cylindrical vortices aligned with the mean flow. This alignment is quantified by PDFs of the direction cosines. We propose two measures to quantify the alignment, the peak height in the probability and a coefficient from the moment of the PDF, both of which reaffirm the strong streamwise alignment. The r.m.s. streamwise vorticty grows within the contraction to becoming 4.5 times larger than the transverse component, at the downstream location where the contraction ratio C=11. The characteristic vortices become as long as the measurement volume, or more than 4 times the integral scale at the entrance to the contraction. We also characterize the vorticity enhancement along individual vortices, measuring 65% strengthening over the distance where C goes from 4 to 11. The prevalence of these coherent structures is estimated from 700,000 measured volumes, showing that near the outlet it is more likely to have 1 or 2 of these structures present than none.
Rustic Capital Writing: typed drafts and photos
Creators: name: Marichal, Robert
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015

description: vue 60
description: "Typed drafts and photos of the following P.Herc.: 32, 40, 90, 342, 359, 371, 393, 876, 1059; these papyri are listed on the covering page of the folder (where the numbers 412 and 450 are crossed out) under the title: 'Capitale rustique. Texte recopié et photos'. Descriptions, transcriptions and photos of the papyri are grouped and enclosed in different folders following the inventory number (folder 1: P.Herc. 30, 40, 90, 342, 359; folder 2:P.Herc. 371, 393; P.Herc. 876, 1059). Corrections and remarks added with different inks (black, red and light pink). In some cases pictures of the papyri have a date on their back or the indication of the number of 'bobin'; pictures of some Neaples drawings."
description: Source: 4MAR_10_2_5-19.6
description: Relation: 4MAR_2_5-12.2, 4MAR_2_5-12.3, 4MAR_2_5-12.4, 4MAR_2_5-12.5, 4MAR_2_5-12.6, 4MAR_2_5-12.7, 4MAR_2_5-12.8, 4MAR_2_5-12.9, 4MAR_2_5-19.4, 4MAR_2_5-19.7, 4MAR_2_5-19.8, 4MAR_42_4-1, 4MAR_42_4-6, 4MAR_42_4-7
description: created: n.d., 1957
Functionalizing Fe adatoms on Cu(001) as a nanoelectromechanical system
Creators: name: Schüler, Michael
name: Chotorlishvili, Levan
name: Melz, Marius
name: Saletsky, Alexander
name: Klavsyuk, Andrey
name: Toklikishvili, Zaza
name: Berakdar, Jamal
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 530

description: This study demonstrates how the spin quantum dynamics of a single Fe atom adsorbed on Cu(001) can be controlled and manipulated by the vibrations of a nearby copper tip attached to a nano cantilever by virtue of the dynamic magnetic anisotropy. The magnetic properties of the composite system are obtained from ab initio calculations in completely relaxed geometries and turned out to be dependent considerably on the tip-iron distance that changes as the vibrations set in. The level populations, the spin dynamics interrelation with the driving frequency, as well as quantum information related quantities are exposed and analyzed.
Pipiza accola Violovitsh 1985
Creators: name: Fisler, Lisa
name: Speight, Martin C. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Pipiza
Pipiza accola

description: Pipiza accola Violovitsh, 1985
Matériel examiné:
• 2 femelles de la collection BNM, révisés par M. C. D. Speight. Provenances: Disentis (GR), Trin (GR), entre 783 et 1500 m. Collectées en 1993, respectivement 2014, par WSL Birmensdorf et J. & R. Bärfuss.
• 1 femelle de la collection ETH, révisée par L. Fisler. Provenance: Flaach (ZH), 350 m. Collectée en 1993 par E. Sabathy.
• 15 femelles de la collection AGC déterminées par L. Fisler et révisées par M. C. D. Speight. Provenances: Chevroux (FR) et Cudrefin (VD), à 430 m. Collectées en 2017, respectivement 2019, par AGC/ L. Fisler et AGC / S. Marti.
Les espèces du genre Pipiza sont séparées en plusieurs groupes. Un groupe bien défini, le groupe luteitarsis, comprend les espèces P. accola, P. luteitarsis Zettersdtedt, 1843, P. luteibarba Vujić, Radenković & Polić, 2008 et P. quadrimaculata (Panzer, 1802). Ce groupe se distingue par le fait que la surface ventrale apicale du fémur arrière est plate, ne possédant pas les deux arêtes présentes chez les espèces des autres groupes de Pipiza. Vujić (2008) et Speight (2017) présentent des critères qui permettent de différencier P. accola des trois autres espèces du groupe luteitarsis. A noter que la présence de P. luteibarba n’est pas confirmée en Suisse, bien qu’elle le soit en Autriche, et que P. quadrimaculata est facilement distinguable des autres espèces du groupe. P. accola, de son côté, était absente des clés d’identification européennes et était considérée comme une espèce orientale de Russie jusqu’en 1998 où elle a été signalée pour la première fois en Europe centrale (Wolff 1998). Pour cette raison, elle était confondue avec l’espèce P. luteitarsis, comme l’ont démontré les collections examinées de l’ETH et du BNM. Toute identification de P. luteitarsis datant d’avant 1998 doit donc être considérée avec soin.
Espèces confirmées pour la Suisse
Les espèces suivantes étaient déjà citées dans la liste des Syrphidae de Suisse, mais elles nécessitaient toutefois confirmation. Leur présence dans les collections nous permet de valider désormais leur existence sur le territoire suisse.
description: Published as part of Fisler, Lisa & Speight, Martin C. D., 2020, Quatre nouvelles espèces de Syrphidae (Diptera) pour la Suisse, pp. 123-129 in Entomo Helvetica 13 on pages 126-127, DOI: 10.5169/seals-985890, http://zenodo.org/record/8113665
ADAPTIVE FILTER FOR REDUCING FALSE POSITIVES IN FACE RECOGNITION FROM IMAGE AND VIDEO INPUTS
Creators: name: G.K.SHASHANKA
name: ANJALI GANESH
name: SHRISHA H S
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Face Recognition, Deep Learning, False Positive, Face Analytics, Face Dataset.

description: Abstract

In recent years, significant progress has been made in Face Recognition (FR) systems, finding diverse applications such as security, authentication, surveillance, and user convenience. Despite these advancements, a persistent challenge in FR systems is the occurrence of false positives, where individuals are mistakenly identified as matches. This issue can lead to security breaches, privacy concerns, and user dissatisfaction. Researchers are actively developing deep-learning-based algorithms to enhance FR systems by addressing false positive (FP) rates. This paper introduces an innovative approach to tackle false positives in real-time face recognition systems that operate on image streams using a filtering method. Instead of treating every identification as a match, our method dynamically filters false positive results using a larger database containing recent and necessary face images. This filtering technique significantly decreases the number of false positive cases, resulting in a more accurate and reliable face recognition system. The experimental results presented in this paper illustrate the effectiveness of our approach in reducing false positives across various challenging scenarios. By adapting to the specific context in which face recognition is applied, our method achieves a noteworthy reduction in false positives while maintaining a high level of accuracy and efficiency. In summary, mitigating false positives in face recognition stands as a crucial stride in unlocking the complete potential of this technology, simultaneously addressing apprehensions regarding its potential misuse. Our innovative false positive filtering approach presents a promising resolution to this challenge, laying the foundation for the development of more secure and reliable face recognition systems across diverse domains.
Cokernel statistics for walk matrices of directed and weighted random graphs
Creators: name: Van Werde, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C50, 15B52, 60B20

description: The walk matrix associated to an $n\times n$ integer matrix $X$ and an integer vector $b$ is defined by $W := (b,X b, . . . ,X^{n-1} b)$. We study limiting laws for the cokernel of $W$ in the scenario where $X$ is a random matrix with independent entries and $b$ is deterministic. Our first main result provides a formula for the distribution of the $p^{m}$-torsion part of the cokernel, as a group, when $X$ has independent entries from a specific distribution. The second main result relaxes the distributional assumption and concerns the $\mathbb{Z}[x]$-module structure.
 The motivation for this work arises from an open problem in spectral graph theory which asks to show that random graphs are often determined up to isomorphism by their (generalized) spectrum. Sufficient conditions for generalized spectral determinacy can namely be stated in terms of the cokernel of a walk matrix. Extensions of our results could potentially be used to determine how often those conditions are satisfied. Some remaining challenges for such extensions are outlined in the paper
description: 19 pages
title: Activité du port de Saint-Malo – 1763 – Dieppe
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: produits de la mer
subject: poissons
subject: produits manufacturés

description: Cette fiche est issue de l’enquête menée par Jean Delumeau sur l’activité du port de Saint-Malo au 17e et 18e siècle. Cette fiche correspond à l’activité de l’année 1763 avec le port "Dieppe"
description: Marchandises arrivées à Saint-Malo : harengs ; bouteilles ; verre à vitre
description: Catégories de marchandises arrivées à Saint-Malo : produits de la mer ; poissons ; produits manufacturés
description: Coverage: Grand cabotage
description: Bibliographic citation: CHEREL, Huguette. L'Activité du port de Saint-Malo en 1763. DES : Histoire : Rennes : 1967 (Bibliothèque François-Lebrun, MH 1052)
description: date: Date de numérisation : 2021 à 2023
description: created: Années 1950-1960
Neural Network Models of Cognitive Conflict Paradigms
Creators: name: Luna-Rodriguez, Aquiles
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der HSU/UniBw H
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automate
subject: Spiking Neural Network
subject: Jellyfish Simulation
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Der Zugriff auf das dazugehörige ZIP-Archiv ist nur auf Anfrage möglich.
description: In recent years, some areas of cognitive psychology have proposed formal models in the form of computer simulations, using Back-Propagation Artificial Neural Networks (BP-ANNs). Such models represent an improvement in plausibility, and they allow quantitative results to be compared with empirical data.--- After learning, BP-ANN's cells exhibit a fixed input/output behavior. Using the black box method, this is shown to be a fundamental problem. Cells without an internal state to represent short-time memory cannot account for the sequence of stimuli, nor for the time elapsed between stimuli. As a consequence, BP-ANNs -as well as other neural networks without state-dependant input/output- are inadequate as models of some important cognitive processes. These include classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and sequence effects in cognitive control.--- Another major methodological problem is the use of free parameters. BP-ANNs cognitive models frequently use arbitrary amounts of cells, amounts of layers, connection structure, learning parameter value and other characteristics, without giving a theoretical justification.--- Three methods are proposed here to solve these problems: first, the black box method is used to produce a cell's input/output behavior more similar to that of neurons. Second, the reverse engineering method is used to simulate as many neural features as possible. And, third, a genetic algorithm is used to eliminate arbitrary free parameters.--- The use of these methods is illustrated through a series of spiking neural network models, implementing state-dependant input/output, spikes, refractory period, temporal summation, axon delay and synchronization of neuron groups. A genetic algorithm is used to choose the parameter values in another series of models.--- Finally, the feasibility of following this research strategy using parallel computer hardware is discussed.
Conditional forecasting of bus travel time and passenger occupancy with Bayesian Markov regime-switching vector autoregression
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaoxu
name: Cheng, Zhanhong
name: Schmidt, Alexandra M.
name: Sun, Lijun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurately forecasting bus travel time and passenger occupancy with uncertainty is essential for both travelers and transit agencies/operators. However, existing approaches to forecasting bus travel time and passenger occupancy mainly rely on deterministic models, providing only point estimates. In this paper, we develop a Bayesian Markov regime-switching vector autoregressive model to jointly forecast both bus travel time and passenger occupancy with uncertainty. The proposed approach naturally captures the intricate interactions among adjacent buses and adapts to the multimodality and skewness of real-world bus travel time and passenger occupancy observations. We develop an efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling algorithm to approximate the resultant joint posterior distribution of the parameter vector. With this framework, the estimation of downstream bus travel time and passenger occupancy is transformed into a multivariate time series forecasting problem conditional on partially observed outcomes. Experimental validation using real-world data demonstrates the superiority of our proposed model in terms of both predictive means and uncertainty quantification compared to the Bayesian Gaussian mixture model.
Gene expression (mRNA) markers for differentiating between malignant and benign follicular thyroid tumours
Creators: name: Wojtas, Bartosz
name: Pfeifer, Aleksandra
name: Oczko-Wojciechowska, Malgorzata
name: Krajewska, Jolanta
name: Czarniecka, Agnieszka
name: Kukulska, Aleksandra
name: Eszlinger, Markus
name: Musholt, Thomas J.
name: Stokowy, Tomasz
name: Swierniak, Michal
name: Stobiecka, Ewa
name: Chmielik, Ewa
name: Rusinek, Dagmara
name: Tyszkiewicz, Tomasz
name: Halczok, Monik
name: Hauptmann, Steffen
name: Lange, Dariusz
name: Jarzab, Michal
name: Paschke, Ralf
name: Jarzab, Barbara
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Distinguishing between follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) and follicular thyroid adenoma (FTA) constitutes a long-standing diagnostic problem resulting in equivocal histopathological diagnoses. There is therefore a need for additional molecular markers. To identify molecular differences between FTC and FTA, we analyzed the gene expression microarray data of 52 follicular neoplasms. We also performed a meta-analysis involving 14 studies employing high throughput methods (365 follicular neoplasms analyzed). Based on these two analyses, we selected 18 genes differentially expressed between FTA and FTC. We validated them by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) in an independent set of 71 follicular neoplasms from formaldehyde-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue material. We confirmed differential expression for 7 genes (CPQ, PLVAP, TFF3, ACVRL1, ZFYVE21, FAM189A2, and CLEC3B). Finally, we created a classifier that distinguished between FTC and FTA with an accuracy of 78%, sensitivity of 76%, and specificity of 80%, based on the expression of 4 genes (CPQ, PLVAP, TFF3, ACVRL1). In our study, we have demonstrated that meta-analysis is a valuable method for selecting possible molecular markers. Based on our results, we conclude that there might exist a plausible limit of gene classifier accuracy of approximately 80%, when follicular tumors are discriminated based on formalin-fixed postoperative material.
Sorex veraepacis
Creators: name: Matson, John O.
name: Ordóñez-Garza, Nicté
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Soricomorpha
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex veraepacis

description: Sorex veraepacis species group
The Sorex veraepacis species group can be distinguished from other members of Sorex in NCA by not possessing a postmandibular foramen and canal, U3 is usually shorter than U4, and younger individuals have a pigmented ridge on the lingual side of the unicuspid teeth. Their color is gray to dark gray or black often with white tips on guard hairs. The species group contains four species: composed of S. chiapensis, S. ibarrai, S. veraepacis, and the new species from the Sierra Madre of southwestern Guatemala.
description: Published as part of Matson, John O. & Ordóñez-Garza, Nicté, 2017, The taxonomic status of Long-tailed shrews (Mammalia: genus Sorex) from Nuclear Central America, pp. 461-483 in Zootaxa 4236 (3) on page 477, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322258
Priscula Simon 1893
Creators: name: Huber, Bernhard A.
name: Villarreal, Osvaldo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Priscula

description: Priscula Simon, 1893
Notes
Priscula is a largely Andean genus, with 13 of the now 20 described species endemic to Venezuela. However, at least Peru and Colombia are known to have numerous undescribed species present in collections (B.A. Huber, B. Rodríguez-Anillo, unpubl. data), so the actual species richness is certainly much higher.
Most Andean records are from mid to high altitudes (~ 1000–2700 m a.s.l.), and the genus has rarely been found on the lower slopes of the Andes towards the Amazon basin [e.g., P. binghamae (Chamberlin, 1916) near Yucumo, Bolivia, at 500 m a.s.l.] or in low Andean valleys (e.g., P. paeza Huber, 2000 in Depto del Valle, Colombia, at 400 m a.s.l.) (Huber 2000). In Venezuela, most western species (in the states of Táchira, Mérida, Trujillo, Lara) are from mid to high altitudes, while in the east (Miranda, Monagas, Sucre), Priscula can commonly be found below 500 m a.s.l.
Of the now 13 nominal species in Venezuela, 12 are treated below. For Priscula tunebo Huber, 2000 we have no new data except for rough locality coordinates: Táchira, Pregonero, Camp. Siberia
[approximately 7.89° N, 71.72° W], “Laldea”. In 2020 we collected very close to this place (probably less than 5 km) but the only Priscula we found was P. andinensis González-Sponga, 1999.
description: Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A. & Villarreal, Osvaldo, 2020, On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae), pp. 1-317 in European Journal of Taxonomy 718 on pages 227-228, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101, http://zenodo.org/record/4069574
Confluentia Santos-Silva & Galileo & Mcclarin 2018
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
name: Mcclarin, Jim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Confluentia

description: Key to species of Confluentia
1. Each elytron with two dark longitudinal bands. Colombia............................... C. nigrolineata (Fuchs, 1956)
- Elytra without dark longitudinal bands..................................................................... 2
2(1). Elytra widened after middle, in widest area, distance between outermost dorsal carina and humeral carina equal to about 1.5 times width between dorsal carinae. Colombia....................................... C. colombiana (Gilmour, 1950)
- Elytra not distinctly widened after middle, in widest area, distance between outermost dorsal carina and humeral carina about as wide as width between dorsal carinae.................................................................... 3
3(2). Antennomere III with abundant long, erect ventral setae. Ecuador.......................... C. pallida (Gilmour, 1950)
- Antennomere III with sparse erect ventral setae.............................................................. 4
4(3). Elytra entirely dark, apices deeply notched close to distal outer spine. Colombia....................... C. nigra sp. nov.
- Elytra bicolorous, apices not deeply notched close to distal outer spine........................................... 5
5(4). Antennomere III shorter than IV. Peru................................................. C. flavomaculata sp. nov.
- Antennomere III slightly longer than IV.................................................................... 6
6(5). Basal 3/4 of elytra with well defined wide lateral reddish orange band. Colombia....... C. rubra (Martins & Galileo, 2005)
- Elytra with basal dark area irregularly shaped, with light lateral area not forming well defined longitudinal band. Peru, B....................................................................................... C. soror (Belon, 1896)
description: Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio, Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Mcclarin, Jim, 2018, Division of the genera Sparna Thomson, 1864 and Carterica Pascoe, 1858 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Colobotheini) with description of six new genera and eight new species, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 4407 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1216420
CMG2 expression is an independent prognostic factor for soft tissue sarcoma patients
Creators: name: Greither, Thomas
name: Wedler, Alice
name: Rot, Swetlana
name: Keßler, Jacqueline
name: Kehlen, Astrid
name: Holzhausen, Hans-Jürgen
name: Bache, Matthias
name: Würl, Peter
name: Taubert, Helge
name: Kappler, Matthias
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610

description: The capillary morphogenesis gene 2 (CMG2), also known as the anthrax toxin receptor 2 (ANTXR2), is a transmembrane protein putatively involved in extracellular matrix (ECM) adhesion and tissue remodeling. CMG2 promotes endothelial cell proliferation and exhibits angiogenic properties. Its downregulation is associated with a worsened survival of breast carcinoma patients. Aim of this study was to analyze the CMG2 mRNA and protein expression in soft tissue sarcoma and their association with patient outcome. CMG2 mRNA was measured in 121 tumor samples of soft tissue sarcoma patients using quantitative real-time PCR. CMG2 protein was evaluated in 52 tumor samples by ELISA. CMG2 mRNA was significantly correlated with the corresponding CMG2 protein expression (rs = 0.31; p = 0.027). CMG2 mRNA expression was associated with the mRNA expressions of several ECM and tissue remodeling enzymes, among them CD26 and components of the uPA system. Low CMG2 mRNA expression was correlated with a worsened patients’ disease-specific survival in Kaplan-Meier analyses (mean patient survival was 25 vs. 96 months; p = 0.013), especially in high-stage tumors. A decreased CMG2 expression is a negative prognostic factor for soft tissue sarcoma patients. CMG2 may be an interesting candidate gene for the further exploration of soft tissue sarcoma genesis and progression.
Octet baryon and heavy meson interactions in chiral effective field theory
Creators: name: Huang, Bo-Lin
name: Wang, Bo
name: Zhu, Shi-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the effective potentials of the octet baryon and heavy meson systems using the chiral effective field theory up to the next-to-leading order. We consider the contact terms, one-pseudoscalar-meson and two-pseudoscalar-meson exchange contributions, facilitating a comprehensive analysis of the short-, mid-, and long-range interactions in these systems. The low energy constants are correlated with those of the $\bar{N}N$ interaction using a quark-level Lagrangian approach. We also incorporate the decuplet baryon contributions in the loop diagrams. Our research provides new insights into several near-threshold charmed baryons [e.g., $Λ_{c}(2940)$, $Ξ_{c}(3055)$, and $Ω_{c}(3188)$, etc.] around $3$ GeV from the hadronic molecular perspective. We also observe several molecular states, referred to as $Ξ_{c}$, within the mass range of $3100-3500$ MeV. Further measurements of their resonance parameters and decay patterns in experiments may help to discriminate the conventional baryon and hadronic molecule explanations for these near-threshold states.
description: 30 pages, 9 figures and 11 tables
THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN MODERNIZING MORTGAGE LOAN ACCOUNTING PROCESSES IN COMMERCIAL BANKS
Creators: name: Ashurov, Feruzjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The financial industry, particularly commercial banking, has undergone transformative changes with the integration of technology. Among the various banking operations, mortgage loan accounting—a critical function for ensuring accuracy, compliance, and risk management—has significantly benefitted from technological advancements. This article examines how technology modernizes mortgage loan accounting processes, the challenges it addresses, and the benefits achieved through these innovations.