cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A Marvelous Work and a Trauma: An Examination of Narratives Among Latter-Day Saint Sister Missionaries
Creators: name: Barker, Maygan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: In LDS folk culture narratives are often required to be uplifting or faith affirming in some dimension. This focus marginalizes traumatic or painful experiences. Further pushed into the sidelines are Sister missionary narratives, with Sister’s trauma narratives being doubly stigmatized. This thesis takes a two pronged approach in exploring Sister missionaries’ trauma narratives: first it examines the beliefs Sisters’ stories embody, with special consideration to the intersection of genre and worldview. I propose that trauma narratives expose four units of worldview, namely: 1) The righteous are blessed and the wicked are punished. 2) If you are suffering it is because you have sinned. 3) If someone who is righteous is suffering, it must be an experience that will make them a better person. 4) Suffering should increase testimony of the organizational church. With genre and worldviews established, I then provide an analysis of the ways trauma narratives subvert these folk beliefs and complicate notions of Mormon identity.
To accomplish this, I draw on four interviews I conducted with former Sister missionaries about their traumatic experiences. Because I served a full time LDS mission and returned with trauma, I have occasionally included my own narratives in the analysis.
title: An Analysis Of Obsidian Artifacts from the Black Mountain Redoubt (48FR6463): A Late Archaic to Late Prehistoric Shoshone Campsite in Northwestern Wyoming
Creators: name: Erlick, Mary Margaret Hagen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: The Black Mountain Redoubt is a small Late Archaic through Late Prehistoric campsite in northwestern Wyoming associated with a series of communal bighorn sheep hunting traps. A diverse tools assemblage along with several house features indicates a wide range of activities specifically associated with bighorn sheep hunting. We use a 100 percent analysis of the obsidian formal tool and debitage assemblage as a test of obsidian conveyance in western Wyoming. Obsidian artifacts come from the five major regional sources but are dominated by Obsidian Cliff materials in keeping with the Yellowstone Plateau conveyance zone. In contrast, obsidian from Malad, Idaho is rare. There is no difference in the outcomes of the source analysis when comparing formal tools and debitage indicating that previous interpretations of regional obsidian conveyance are robust. The analysis also provides an opportunity to examine the technological differences in which artifacts from different sources enter the site’s archaeological record. Obsidian formal tools are limited to projectile points and bifaces. Obsidian debitage analysis indicates that these materials enter the archaeological record in many forms that are not specific to source. The key difference between sources in the obsidian debitage assemblage is artifact size, but contrary to expectations artifacts from the closest sources are not necessarily the largest in the assemblage. This analysis highlights the potential of detailed obsidian source analysis from a single site that integrates both formal tools and debitage into a comprehensive interpretation of obsidian technological organization.
Integrable Abel equation and asymptotics of symmetry solutions of Korteweg-de Vries equation
Creators: name: Suleimanov, B. I.
name: Shavlukov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34M55, 35Q53

description: We provide a general solution for a first order ordinary differential equation with a rational right-hand side, which arises in constructing asymptotics for large time of simultaneous solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and the stationary part of its higher non-autonomous symmetry. This symmetry is determined by a linear combination of the first higher autonomous symmetry of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and of its classical Galileo symmetry. This general solution depends on an arbitrary parameter. By the implicit function theorem, locally it is determined by the first integral explicitly written in terms of hypergeometric functions. A particular case of the general solution defines self-similar solutions of the Whitham equations, found earlier by G.V. Potemin in 1988. In the well-known works by A.V. Gurevich and L.P. Pitaevsky in early 1970s, it was established that these solutions of the Whitham equations describe the origination in the leading term of non-damping oscillating waves in a wide range of problems with a small dispersion. The result of this article supports once again an empirical rule saying that under various passages to the limits, integrable equations can produce only integrable, in certain sense, equations. We propose a general conjecture: integrable ordinary differential equations similar to that considered in the present paper should also arise in describing the asymptotics at large times for other symmetry solutions to evolution equations admitting the application of the method of inverse scattering problem.
description: Originally published on Russian in Ufa mathematical journal vol. 13 issue 2 pp. 104-111 (2021) Eglish translation: Ufa Math. J. 13:3, 99-106 (2021)
Brownian motion and temperament of living cells
Creators: name: Tsekov, R.
name: Lensen, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The migration of living cells obeys usually the Einstein law of Brownian motion. While the latter is due to the thermal motion of surrounding matter, the cells locomotion is generally associated to their vitality. In the present paper the concept of cell temperament is introduced, being analogous to thermodynamic temperature and related to the cell entropy production. A heuristic expression for the diffusion coefficient of cell on structured surfaces is derived as well. The cell locomemory is also studied via the generalized Langevin equation.
IRS-aided Near-field Communication: Prospects and Challenges with Codebook Approach
Creators: name: Hibi, Ryuhei
name: Hashida, Hiroaki
name: Kawamoto, Yuichi
name: Kato, Nei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are gaining attention as a low-cost solution to the coverage reduction in high-frequency bands used in next-generation communications. IRSs achieve low costs by controlling only the reflection of radio waves. However, to improve further the propagation environment, larger IRS sizes are required owing to their inability to amplify and retransmit signals. As the IRS size increases, the near-field region expands, requiring beamfocusing instead of beamforming, which is extensively used in existing research. This results in considerable overhead for IRS control decisions. To address this, constructing a codebook that achieves high communication quality with fewer IRS control patterns is effective. This article presents experimental results demonstrating the effectiveness of beamfocusing, construction policy for nonuniform three-dimensional codebooks, and simulation evaluation results of communication performance when operating IRSs with various codebooks. We believe these insights will foster further value for IRSs in next-generation communications.
description: IEEE Wireless Communications https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-wireless-communications/paper-submission "first submission"
title: Reliquary
Creators: name: Sloan, Matthew
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: I am interested in ritual – the rituals we inherit, and those we choose for ourselves.
By situating the everyday mugs, cups, plates, and bowls next to objects more closely associated with ritual and ceremony, I am suggesting that all of these are significant objects. On one hand, the tableware essential to the rituals of daily living we share at home, on the other, communion vessels and reliquaries are used to deepen a spiritual ritual shared by a community. Both rituals are important experiences worthy of introspection, and consideration.
This is why I make pottery. I believe that handmade objects have the ability to slow us down, and compel us to notice the kind of objects we’ve become oblivious to.
The pots in this show were made during the Covid-19 pandemic. I found the upheaval of daily life held together by my studio practice. I looked towards mindfulness, meditation, and flow in that practice, making discoveries as I made incremental steps.
My pots are strongest when I am making them as part of a routine, not by rote, but rather through the daily ritual of my studio practice.
I believe these rituals exist for all of us in some fashion, choosing to acknowledge and examine them will add significance and meaning to daily life.
Dyonic D3 branes
Creators: name: Fiol, Bartomeu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe embeddings of a single D3-brane in generic IIB supergravity backgrounds when both electric and magnetic fields are turned on. As a particular application, we describe a dyonic D3-brane in AdS_5 x S^1, dual to 1/4 BPS states of N=4$ SYM.
description: 9 pages
title: Common Objective
Creators: name: Scott, Josh
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Pots are like people. Gestural qualities can make pots appear to move like people. They form groups in ways that people might. Repeated forms on a pedestal can appear to be in formation like a military unit. More importantly, pots perform specific jobs or tasks in ways similar to people.
Inherently, the job someone holds or the function of a pot will have an effect on perceived importance. A funerary urn may seem to be a more important form than a coffee mug, yet both are committed to specific tasks. This can be likened to a lineman and a doctor. One may seem more respected than the other, but they both perform functions critical to modern society.
This body of work echoes social hierarchies. Juxtaposition, scale, and quantity aid in relaying messages of supposed importance. In this exhibition, I present pots that are made for daily use alongside pots whose functions and display orientation seem to take them out of the everyday realm. Not all of the works are meant to be handled the same or to perform the same task, yet they all accomplish the jobs they were designed for. A ewer pours liquid, a vase displays flowers and a lidded form provides containment.
I find satisfaction in knowing that the effort put into making a functional pot is rewarded when the pot functions well. A quiet surface paired with innate utility might be my truest aspiration, but a form imbued with capability and confidence elevates the pot even further. This is a difficult standard to be held to, and even more difficult to articulate. Nonetheless, this aspiration draws me in and holds me accountable.
Hardy's Uncertainty principle for Schrödinger equations with quadratic Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Cordero, Elena
name: Giacchi, Gianluca
name: Malinnikova, Eugenia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42A38, 35S30, 35B05

description: Hardy's uncertainty principle is a classical result in harmonic analysis, stating that a function in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ and its Fourier transform cannot both decay arbitrarily fast at infinity. In this paper, we extend this principle to the propagators of Schrödinger equations with quadratic Hamiltonians, known in the literature as metaplectic operators. These operators generalize the Fourier transform and have captured significant attention in recent years due to their wide-ranging applications in time-frequency analysis, quantum harmonic analysis, signal processing, and various other fields. However, the involved structure of these operators requires careful analysis, and most results obtained so far concern special propagators that can basically be reduced to rescaled Fourier transforms. The main contributions of this work are threefold: (1) we extend Hardy's uncertainty principle, covering all propagators of Schrödinger equations with quadratic Hamiltonians, (2) we provide concrete examples, such as fractional Fourier transforms, which arise when considering anisotropic harmonic oscillators, (3) we suggest Gaussian decay conditions in certain directions only, which are related to the structure of the corresponding symplectic projection.
Outflow Dynamics in Modeling Oligopoly Markets: The Case of the Mobile Telecommunications Market in Poland
Creators: name: Sznajd-Weron, Katarzyna
name: Weron, Rafał
name: Włoszczowska, Maja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we introduce two models of opinion dynamics in oligopoly markets and apply them to a situation, where a new entrant challenges two incumbents of the same size. The models differ in the way the two forces influencing consumer choice -- (local) social interactions and (global) advertising -- interact. We study the general behavior of the models using the Mean Field Approach and Monte Carlo simulations and calibrate the models to data from the Polish telecommunications market. For one of the models criticality is observed -- below a certain critical level of advertising the market approaches a lock-in situation, where one market leader dominates the market and all other brands disappear. Interestingly, for both models the best fits to real data are obtained for conformity level $p \in (0.3,0.4)$. This agrees very well with the conformity level found by Solomon Asch in his famous social experiment.
title: Test-Retest of the 5-Minute Psychomotor Vigilance Test
Creators: name: Dennison, Katharine
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability of many variables in the 5-minute Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT). Many studies have looked at the validity of a 5-minute PVT, but few so far have looked at reliability. For this study, 13 adult females who worked 12-hr shifts were recruited to complete a two trial day study. The first trial day, the subjects submitted health questionnaire followed by a self-reported sleepiness scale and then a 5-minute PVT. The second trial session the subjects only competed the sleepiness scale followed by the 5-minute PVT. After analyzing the data, it was found that the fastest 10% of reaction time (F10RT%) and the mean reaction time (MRT) were the 2 most reliable variables based upon their ICC scores. The self-reported sleepiness scale showed moderate reliability and a mirroring effect in the subjects' PVT outcomes. Overall, the 5-minute PVT is a reliable tool to use to measure fatigue levels in female adult shift workers.
Viscous effects on plasmoid formation from nonlinear resistive tearing growth in a Harris sheet
Creators: name: Ahmad, Nisar
name: Zhu, Ping
name: Ali, Ahmad
name: Zeng, Shiyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, the evolution of a highly unstable m = 1 resistive tearing mode, leading to plasmoid formation in a Harris sheet is studied in the framework of full MHD model using the NIMROD simulation. Following the initial nonlinear growth of the primary m = 1 island, the X-point develops into a secondary elongated current sheet that eventually breaks into plasmoids. Two distinctive viscous regimes are found for the plasmoid formation and saturation. In the low viscosity regime (i.e. P r . 1), the plasmoid width increases sharply with viscosity, whereas in the viscosity dominant regime (i.e. P r & 1 ), the plasmoid size gradually decreases with viscosity. Such a finding quantifies the role of viscosity in modulating the plasmoid formation process through its effects on the plasma flow and the reconnection itself.
title: Balancing the Double-Edged Sword of Implementation: An Eclectic Approach
Creators: name: Chun, Spencer R. K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: This portfolio is a compilation which expresses the author’s perspective on necessary considerations for teachers when implementing ideas in the classroom. The thoughts and perspectives showed in this portfolio have been shaped by the author’s previous formal and informal teaching experiences and the opportunities to further his understanding of teaching and research during his time in the Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT) program at Utah State University (USU).
This portfolio is comprised of two sections: The first section consists of Teaching perspectives, which include the author’s desired professional environment, his teaching philosophy statement, and observations obtained through observing other teachers. The second consists of two research papers and an annotated bibliography, which discuss an eclectic approach to foreign language classroom implementation in an effort to mitigate the drawbacks inherent in any idea.
Suppression of d-wave superconductivity in the checkerboard Hubbard model
Creators: name: Doluweera, D. G. S. P.
name: Macridin, A.
name: Maier, T. A.
name: Jarrell, M.
name: Pruschke, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a dynamical cluster quantum Monte Carlo approximation we investigate the d-wave superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ in the doped 2D repulsive Hubbard model with a weak inhomogeneity. The inhomogeneity is introduced in the hoppings $\tp$ and $t$ in the form of a checkerboard pattern where $t$ is the hopping within a $2\times2$ plaquette and $\tp$ is the hopping between the plaquettes. We find inhomogeneity suppresses $T_c$. The characteristic spin excitation energy and the strength of d-wave pairing interaction decrease with decreasing $T_c$ suggesting a strong correlation between these quantities.
description: Five pages, four figures. Accepted for Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Com.)
On boundary super algebras
Creators: name: Doikou, Anastasia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the symmetry breaking of super algebras due to the presence of appropriate integrable boundary conditions. We investigate the boundary breaking symmetry associated to both reflection algebras and twisted super Yangians. We extract the generators of the resulting boundary symmetry as well as we provide explicit expressions of the associated Casimir operators.
description: 23 pages, Latex. Minor modifications
A Study of Wintering Wetland-Dependent Waterbirds in Mazandaran Province
Creators: name: Beiranvand, Hossein Barani
name: K. Rabii
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Wintering Waterbirds, Wetland-dependent, Caspian, Wetlands, IUCN, Iran

description: This study reveals the distribution, abundance and status of all 115 species of wintering wetland-dependent waterbirds in Mazandaran province during the period 2005–2014, and gives their last decade population estimations and their importance in national and international scope. Divers & Grebes (7), Pelicans (2), Cormorants and Darter (2), Herons and Egrets (8), Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills (4), Flamingos (1), Geese, Swans and Ducks (24), Cranes (2), Rails, Gallinules and Coot (4), Waders (32), Gulls, Terns and Skua (18), Raptors (8), Little and Great Bustards (2), and Turkestan Shrike (1) are wintering migratory species in wetlands of Mazandaran province. In 2005 mid-winter census, minimum population size of all waterbird species recorded was 320.037 birds. The most abundant population census was for 2007 with 1.490.357 birds. The population size of Common CootFulica atrain these two years was 71.127 and 1.075.850 birds, respectively. The survey showed that Miankaleh international wetland attracts an average population of over 52 thousand of Greater FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber in winter and serves one of the most important winter habitats for this species in the region. 37 species of migratory birds to Mazandaran wetlands are under national conservation legislation and 12 species are included in IUCN threatened species categories. Siberian Crane Grus leucogeranus (CR), Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis(EN), Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus(VU), Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus(VU), Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus(EN), Eastern Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca(VU), White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla (VU), Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga(VU), Pallid HarrierCircus macrourus(NT), Little BustardTetrax tetrax(NT), Great Bustard Otis tarda(VU), and Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius(CR) are the most important wintering migratory threatened species to wetlands of northern Iran in Mazandaran province. In average, every year more than 800 thousand migratory birds of more than a hundred species spend at least one stage of their life cycle in these wetlands.
Accelerating cosmologies from non-local higher-derivative gravity
Creators: name: Capozziello, Salvatore
name: Elizalde, Emilio
name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study accelerating cosmological solutions of a general class of non-linear gravities which depend on Gauss-Bonnet and other higher derivative invariants. To achieve this goal a local formulation with auxiliary scalars for arbitrary higher-derivative non-local gravity is developed. It is demonstrated that non-local Gauss-Bonnet gravity can be reduced, in the local formulation, to a model of string-inspired scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. A natural unification, in the theory here developed, of the early-time inflation epoch with a late-time acceleration stage can also be realized.
description: 7 pages, no figures, version to appear in Physics Letters B
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Dargaye, Zaynah
name: Schneidewind, Clara
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Security and privacy → Formal methods and theory of security
subject: Security and privacy → Logic and verification
subject: Theory of computation → Program verification
subject: Software and its engineering → Formal software verification
subject: Security and privacy → Distributed systems security
subject: Computer systems organization → Peer-to-peer architectures

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: OASIcs, Vol. 105, 4th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC 2022), pages 0:i-0:xii
Optimizing the regimes of Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detector for multiple source types
Creators: name: Kondrashov, I. S.
name: Simakov, D. A.
name: Khalili, F. Ya.
name: Danilishin, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop here algorithms which allow to find regimes of signal-recycled Fabry-Perot--Michelson interferometer (for example, Advanced LIGO), optimized concurrently for two (binary inspirals + bursts) and three (binary inspirals + bursts + millisecond pulsars) types of gravitational waves sources. We show that there exists a relatevely large area in the interferometer parameters space where the detector sensitivity to the first two kinds of sources differs only by a few percent from the maximal ones for each kind of source. In particular, there exists a specific regime where this difference is ~0.5 for both of them. Furthermore we show that even more multipurpose regimes are also possible, that provide significant sensitivity gain for millisecond pulsars with only minor sensitivity degradation for binary inspirals and bursts.
description: 10 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables. Minor corrections in main text are done in version 2 and two plots and one table are added for the sake of clarity of the obtained results
title: A Research Project to Investigate the Instructional Preferences of Alternatively Certified Career and Technical Education Teachers
Creators: name: Deceuster, Jessica
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Industry career workers that have transitioned to teaching within the education sector have the knowledge base to develop “what” needs to be taught in Career and Technical Education (CTE) curriculum; however, they do not have adequate knowledge about instructional strategies or “how” the curriculum content should be taught. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to document the instructional strategies, techniques, and coursework that were taught through the Utah State University Career and Technical Education Academy, to Career and Technical Education teachers that have transitioned from industry to education, and to assess how well the instructional strategies, techniques, and coursework transferred into the CTE teacher’s classrooms.
On the quantum dynamics of a point particle in conical space
Creators: name: Filgueiras, C.
name: Moraes, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum neutral particle, constrained to move on a conical surface, is used as a toy model to explore bound states due to both a inverse squared distance potential and a $δ$-function potential, which appear naturally in the model. These pathological potentials are treated with the self-adjoint extension method which yields the correct boundary condition (not necessarily a null wavefunction) at the origin. We show that the usual boundary condition requiring that the wavefunction vanishes at the origin is arbitrary and drastically reduces the number of bound states if used. The situation studied here is closely related to the problem of a dipole moving in conical space.
description: To appear in Annals of Physics
Additional file 2 of Physiological and molecular response and tolerance of Macleaya cordata to lead toxicity
Creators: name: Zhang, Hongxiao
name: Hu, Linfeng
name: Du, Xinlong
name: Sun, Xijing
name: Wang, Ting
name: Mu, Zhiying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
Can massless neutrinos oscillate in presence of matter?
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Indranath
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In presence of matter the possibility of flavor oscillation of massless neutrino is explored. A comparison between vacuum oscillation and the matter induced oscillation of massless neutrinos is carried out to examine whether the flavor transition is possible in the framework of standard model if there is background matter. The Stodolsky type of equation describing the neutrino oscillation phenomenon as the motion of a spherical pendulum in flavor space is deduced. That pendular model is studied with zero vacuum oscillation frequency implying the zero neutrino mass evolved in the framework of standard model, but non-zero frequency arising due to the MSW effect. The implication of the non-zero term present in the Stodolsky equation at zero vacuum frequency is addressed properly.
description: 8 pages no figure
Collaboration and Participation in Architectural Design:Lesson Learnt from Building a Bamboo Pavilion with Indigenous Karen
Creators: name: Sadanu Sukkasame
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Collaboration
Participation
Design Process
Karen
Bamboo Pavilion

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 18, 1, 187-198
Robust Neural Regression via Uncertainty Learning
Creators: name: Mashrur, Akib
name: Luo, Wei
name: Zaidi, Nayyar A.
name: Robles-Kelly, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep neural networks tend to underestimate uncertainty and produce overly confident predictions. Recently proposed solutions, such as MC Dropout and SDENet, require complex training and/or auxiliary out-of-distribution data. We propose a simple solution by extending the time-tested iterative reweighted least square (IRLS) in generalised linear regression. We use two sub-networks to parametrise the prediction and uncertainty estimation, enabling easy handling of complex inputs and nonlinear response. The two sub-networks have shared representations and are trained via two complementary loss functions for the prediction and the uncertainty estimates, with interleaving steps as in a cooperative game. Compared with more complex models such as MC-Dropout or SDE-Net, our proposed network is simpler to implement and more robust (insensitive to varying aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty).
Photonic Simulation of Localization Phenomena Using Boson Sampling
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Anuprita V.
name: Tiwari, Vatsana
name: Sharma, Auditya
name: Raina, Ankur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum simulation in its current state faces experimental overhead in terms of physical space and cooling. We propose boson sampling as an alternative compact synthetic platform performing at room temperature. Identifying the capability of estimating matrix permanents, we explore the applicability of boson sampling for tackling the dynamics of quantum systems without having access to information about the full state vector. By mapping the time-evolution unitary of a Hamiltonian onto an interferometer via continuous-variable gate decompositions, we present proof-of-principle results of localization characteristics of a single particle. We study the dynamics of one-dimensional tight-binding systems in the clean and quasiperiodic-disordered limits to observe Bloch oscillations and dynamical localization, and the delocalization-to-localization phase transition in the Aubry- Andre-Harper model respectively. Our computational results obtained using boson sampling are in complete agreement with the dynamical and static results of non-interacting tight-binding systems obtained using conventional numerical calculations. Additionally, our study highlights the role of number of sampling measurements or shots for simulation accuracy.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
Weyl metrisability of two-dimensional projective structures
Creators: name: Mettler, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A20, 53B10, 53C28

description: We show that on a surface locally every affine torsion-free connection is projectively equivalent to a Weyl connection. First, this is done using exterior differential system theory. Second, this is done by showing that the solutions of the relevant PDE are in one-to-one correspondence with the sections of the `twistor' bundle of conformal inner products having holomorphic image. The second solution allows to use standard results in algebraic geometry to show that the Weyl connections on the two-sphere whose geodesics are the great circles are in one-to-one correspondence with the smooth quadrics without real points in the complex projective plane.
description: 15 pages. Final version
Pair correlations of a spin-imbalanced Fermi gas on two-leg ladders
Creators: name: Feiguin, A. E.
name: Heidrich-Meisner, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the pair correlations of a spin-imbalanced two-leg ladder with attractive interactions, using the density matrix renormalization group method (DMRG). We identify regions in the phase diagram spanned by the chemical potential and the magnetic field that can harbor Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO)-like physics. Results for the pair structure factor, exhibiting multiple pairing wave-vectors, substantiate the presence of FFLO-like correlations. We further discuss phase separation scenarios induced by a harmonic trap, which differ from the case of isolated chains.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.; minor revisions
EPIC: A Lightweight LiDAR-Based UAV Exploration Framework for Large-Scale Scenarios
Creators: name: Geng, Shuang
name: Ning, Zelin
name: Zhang, Fu
name: Zhou, Boyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous exploration is a fundamental problem for various applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Recently, LiDAR-based exploration has gained significant attention due to its ability to generate high-precision point cloud maps of large-scale environments. While the point clouds are inherently informative for navigation, many existing exploration methods still rely on additional, often expensive, environmental representations. This reliance stems from two main reasons: the need for frontier detection or information gain computation, which typically depends on memory-intensive occupancy grid maps, and the high computational complexity of path planning directly on point clouds, primarily due to costly collision checking. To address these limitations, we present EPIC, a lightweight LiDAR-based UAV exploration framework that directly exploits point cloud data to explore large-scale environments. EPIC introduces a novel observation map derived directly from the quality of point clouds, eliminating the need for global occupancy grid maps while preserving comprehensive exploration capabilities. We also propose an incremental topological graph construction method operating directly on point clouds, enabling real-time path planning in large-scale environments. Leveraging these components, we build a hierarchical planning framework that generates agile and energy-efficient trajectories, achieving significantly reduced memory consumption and computation time compared to most existing methods. Extensive simulations and real-world experiments demonstrate that EPIC achieves faster exploration while significantly reducing memory consumption compared to state-of-the-art methods.
description: RAL 2025 accepted. Open-sourced at https://github.com/SYSU-STAR/EPIC
Purity and Gaussianity bounded uncertainty relation
Creators: name: Mandilara, A.
name: Karpov, E.
name: Cerf, N. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bounded uncertainty relations provide the minimum value of the uncertainty assuming some additional information on the state. We derive analytically an uncertainty relation bounded by a pair of constraints, those of purity and Gaussianity. In a limiting case this uncertainty relation reproduces the purity-bounded derived by V I Man'ko and V V Dodonov and the Gaussianity-bounded one [Phys. Rev. A 86, 030102R (2012)].
description: Major changes in the presentation of the results but also in the proofs which have become more compact. Submitted to Journal of Physics A
title: In the Presence of Evil: Demonic Perception Narratives
Creators: name: Jaye, Victoria
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: I offer a new classification system for organizing, understanding, and validating the inhuman demonic encounter by organizing it through the senses the experience is activating. A demonic or inhuman spirit, which can be used interchangeably, is a spirit in that they exist without bodies, possess abilities greater than that of humans (rendering them inhuman), are hyperintelligent, react negatively to Christian religious iconography, and are malevolent in their behavior towards humans.
The system I have created is organized by the sensory perceptions of the narrative (i.e. sight, sound, smell, and feeling of the demonic presence) then is divided further by the types of perceptions reported in narratives about contact with inhuman spirits. My system encompasses the phenomena described during the encroachment, infestation, and oppression phases. Encroachment is when a demon is looking for a foothold to enter a person’s life (they cannot just enter on their own). Infestation is when strange phenomena begins because a demon has moved into people’s lives. Oppression is where a person’s mind begins to be broken down by an entity in order to crush their will.
For this part of the project, I am using memorates described in interviews done by the paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, in the books In A Dark Place (1992) and The Haunting (1989) along with other related experiences from Satan’s Harvest (1990). I am using these instances of contemporary literature on the subject to widen the understanding for my system. This way, the patterns of demonic activity emerge and then can be organized by the sense they are activating. My classification system could also be applied to other types of supernatural folklore to look for patterns, especially with negative supernatural narratives.
Quantum-annealing-inspired algorithms for multijet clustering
Creators: name: Okawa, Hideki
name: Tao, Xian-Zhe
name: Zeng, Qing-Guo
name: Yung, Man-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jet clustering or reconstruction is a crucial component at high energy colliders, a procedure to identify sprays of collimated particles originating from the fragmentation and hadronization of quarks and gluons. It is a complicated combinatorial optimization problem and requires intensive computing resources. In this study, we formulate jet reconstruction as a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem and introduce novel quantum-annealing-inspired algorithms for clustering multiple jets in electron-positron collision events. One of these quantum-annealing-inspired algorithms, ballistic simulated bifurcation, overcomes problems previously observed in multijet clustering with quantum-annealing approaches. We find that both the distance defined in the QUBO matrix and the prediction power of the QUBO solvers have crucial impacts on the multijet clustering performance. This study opens up a new approach to globally reconstructing multijet beyond dijet in one go, in contrast to the traditional iterative method.
description: Accepted by Physics Letters B, replaced with published version
Flux through a Möbius strip?
Creators: name: Fernandez-Jambrina, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Integral theorems such as Stokes' and Gauss' are fundamental in many parts of Physics. For instance, Faraday's law allows computing the induced electric current on a closed circuit in terms of the variation of the flux of a magnetic field across the surface spanned by the circuit. The key point for applying Stokes' theorem is that this surface must be orientable. Many students wonder what happens to the flux through a surface when this is not orientable, as it happens with a Möbius strip. On an orientable surface one can compute the flux of a solenoidal field using Stokes' theorem in terms of the circulation of the vector potential of the field along the oriented boundary of the surface. But this cannot be done if the surface is not orientable, though in principle this quantity could be measured on a laboratory. For instance, checking the induced electric current on a circuit along the boundary of a surface if the field is a variable magnetic field. We shall see that the answer to this puzzle is simple and the problem lies in the question rather than in the answer.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in European Journal of Physics
title: The Wingate Anaerobic Test: A Comprehensive Literature Review and Update on Reference Values in Athletes
Creators: name: Christie, Caleb
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: The Wingate Anaerobic test (WAnT) was developed in the 1970s as a measurement of lower extremity anaerobic power (Ayalon, Inbar, Bar-Or, 1974) and has long been used as a measurement tool in athletes, who are often defined by numbers. While numbers are not able to entirely predict or evaluate athletic ability, they are often used as a tool to predict or rate athletes. The WAnT has long been a gold standard in evaluating lower extremity power, which is a highly valuable aspect of many sprint and power-driven sports (e.g., hockey, football, or track and field). The WAnT was originally developed and performed on a cycle ergometer that includes a subject pedaling for 30 seconds at maximal effort against a predetermined percentage of their body weight (BW), which has stood as the widely accepted method since development. There are multiple variables that can be adjusted at the investigators’ discretion which may influence data output, including percentage of body weight (BW) as resistance, type of ergometer, time of testing in regard to participants’ training macrocycle, duration of the WAnT, and inclusion of a familiarization session. Each of these variables can change the impact of reported data and reliability of a study compared to others. For instance, increasing or decreasing resistance may alter the ability of the participant to produce power efficiently, whereas shortening duration takes the lowest power values away from the calculation, increasing MP. These variables may be manipulated to achieve optimal performance outcomes.
title: Intermachine Reliability of the Velotron During Wingate Anaerobic Testing
Creators: name: Christie, Caleb
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate inter-machine reliability of the Velotron electromagnetically-braked cycle ergometer for the Wingate anaerobic test (WAnT) with power-trained athletes. Methods: Anaerobic athletes participating in football or track and field at a National Collegiate Athletics Association Division I program were recruited for participation in the study. Each participant visited the laboratory 3 times (1 familiarization trial, 2 experimental trials) within 2 weeks and at least 24 hours between visits. Participants completed a “practice trial” on the first visit to familiarize themselves with the 30-second WAnT. The WAnT procedure included a 5-minute warmup at a resistance of 75 W and a cadence of 60-100 rpms followed by a 3-minute rest before the test start. WAnTs were performed with a traditional flying start in which participants had 6 seconds of acceleration before a load of 8.5% of body mass was applied. Data of interest included mean power (MP), anaerobic capacity (AC), peak power (PP), anaerobic power (AP), and maximum revolutions per minute (RPMmax). Results: Results from a limited number of subjects suggested high reliability between Velotron ergometers. Peak power (1256.8±332.2W [Ergo A], 1234.6±344.0W [Ergo B]) and MP (770.2±154.9W [Ergo A], 807±120.0W [Ergo B]) did not differ substantially between trials. However, power outputs from testing trials were generally greater than from a familiarization trial. Conclusion: A familiarization trial is necessary for reliability testing. These preliminary findings also suggest that normative values can be established on different Velotron ergometers, and that tests completed on different Velotron ergometers are reliable.
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: D'Emidio, Mattia
name: Lindner, Niels
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
subject: Mathematics of computing → Discrete mathematics
subject: Mathematics of computing → Combinatorics
subject: Mathematics of computing → Mathematical optimization
subject: Mathematics of computing → Graph theory
subject: Applied computing → Transportation

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: OASIcs, Vol. 106, 22nd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2022), pages 0:i-0:x
BO'LAJAK O'QITUVCHILARNING USLUBIY KOMPETENTSIYASI RIVOJLANISH TEXNOLOGIYALARI
Creators: name: Boykalonov, Olam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada o`qituvchilarning kompitentligini rivojlantirish masalalarini shakllantirish asosiy yo`nalishlarini kasbiy va metodik kompetentlik tushunchalariga ta’rif berilgan, shuningdek, kasbiy kompetensiyaga ega mutaxassisning sifatlari haqida batafsil bayon etilgan. Shu bilan birga bo‘lajak o‘qituvchilarning pedagogik faoliyatga tayyorgarligining zaruriy va yetarli darajasini ta’minlab beruvchi asosiy talablar ham yoritilgan.
Additional file 2 of Relationship between serum homocysteine, fibrinogen, lipoprotein-a level, and peripheral arterial disease: a dose–response meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wang, Hecheng
name: Wu, Pengpeng
name: Jiang, Deying
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Zhang, Jian
name: Zong, Yu
name: Han, Yanshuo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Characteristics of individual studies on Hcy, FIB, LPa and risk of PADs.