cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Even if, factivity and focus
Creators: name: Guerzoni, Elena
name: Lim, Dongsik
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Pollock (1976) observes that some, but not all, even-if-conditionals appear to convey the speaker's commitment to the truth of their consequent, a phenomenon Lycan (1991) dubbed as the 'consequent-entailment problem.' Providing an account of this phenomenon within a unified and compositional theory of even-if-conditionals has proven to be far from trivial (c.f. Bennett 1982, Lycan 1991, Barker 1994, Lycan 2001, Bennett 2003). This paper argues that once the focus and scope of even (in the sense of Rooth 1985-1996's theory of association with focus) are correctly singled out, the truth of the consequent in the relevant cases follows as an entailment of the assertion together with the existential presupposition of even. This view is argued to be preferable over previous attempts in that it provides a compositional and unified analysis of even if conditionals which builds on independently justified theories of even and of focus association (c.f. Horn 1969, Karttunen and Peters 1979, and Rooth 1985).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Recent outburst of the young star V1180 Cas
Creators: name: Antoniucci, S.
name: Arkharov, A. A.
name: Di Paola, A.
name: Giannini, T.
name: Harutyunyan, A.
name: Kopatskaya, E. N.
name: Larionov, V. M
name: Causi, G. Li
name: Lorenzetti, D.
name: Morozova, D.
name: Nisini, B.
name: Vitali, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the ongoing outburst of the young variable V1180 Cas, which is known to display characteristics in common with EXor eruptive variables. We present results that support the scenario of an accretion-driven nature of the brightness variations of the object and provide the first evidence of jet structures around the source. We monitored the recent flux variations of the target in the Rc, J, H, and K bands. New optical and near-IR spectra taken during the current high state of V1180 Cas are presented, in conjunction with H2 narrow-band imaging of the source. Observed near-IR colour variations are analogous to those observed in EXors and consistent with excess emission originating from an accretion event. The spectra show numerous emission lines, which indicates accretion, ejection of matter, and an active disc. Using optical and near-IR emission features we derive a mass accretion rate of ~3 E-8 Msun/yr, which is an order of magnitude lower than previous estimates. In addition, a mass loss rate of ~4 E-9 and ~4 E-10 Msun/yr are estimated from atomic forbidden lines and H2, respectively. Our H2 imaging reveals two bright knots of emission around the source and the nearby optically invisible star V1180 Cas B, clearly indicative of mass-loss phenomena. Higher resolution observations of the detected jet will help to clarify whether V1180 Cas is the driving source and to determine the relation between the observed knots.
description: Accepted as Letter in A&A; 4 pages, 3 figures
Implicature as a discourse phenomenon
Creators: name: Geurts, Bart
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Standard implementations of Grice’s theory of conversational implicature assume that the derivation an implicature always begins with a single proposition expressed by means of a sentence in a given context. Against this received view, I argue that, in at least three ways, implicatures are discourse-based rather than proposition-based. First, in some cases an implicature can only be derived from an ensemble of two or more utterances. Secondly, some implicatures can only be explained on the assumption that the hearer takes into account the discourse referents that were introduced by the speaker’s utterance. Thirdly, I claim that presupposed material may give rise to conversational implicatures.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Quartierspiegel Werd 2023
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 314 Allgemeine Statistiken zu Europa
subject: 710 Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung
subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Zürich-Aussersihl
subject: Quartier
subject: Amtliche Statistik
subject: Bevölkerungsstatistik

description: Die Entwicklung des Quartiers Werd wurde seit dem 19. Jahrhundert stark vom Verkehr geprägt – sei es durch die linksufrige Seebahn, die das Quartier lange vom Umland abschnitt, sei es durch das Tramdepot Kalkbreite. Letzteres bildete auch das Fundament für ein Wohnbauprojekt der Genossenschaft Kalkbreite, das über die Landesgrenzen hinaus ausstrahlt.
Putting path in place
Creators: name: Gehrke, Berit
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: The paper discusses circumstances under which locative prepositional phrases (PPs) can act as a constituting part of a directed motion event. It will be shown that there is a division of labour among different elements in a sentence to express the Path of a directed motion event and this labour can be distributed in various ways not only among different languages, as discussed in Talmy (1985) and subsequent work, but also among different constructions that are not always associated with particular types of verbs or particular types of Ps.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Existentially interpreted definites
Creators: name: Etxeberria, Urtzi
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: This paper proposes a novel syntactic as well as semantic analysis of the Basque definite determiner [-a] and argues, in opposition to other scholars (cf. Artiagoitia 2002 and references therein), that the Basque definite determiner (despite its various interpretations) is just that, a definite determiner. Moreover, the interpretations that the Basque definite determiner forces are argued to follow from the Neocarlsonian analysis (Chierchia 1998b, Dayal 2004). Finally, this proposal allows us to derive some intriguing pattern of cross-linguistic variation with regard to the morphosyntactic make-up of nominals in existential interpretation (Basque definites, English bare nouns, and French partitives des/du).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Inherent focus on wh-phrases
Creators: name: Eckardt, Regine
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: In the first part of the paper, I propose a framework for focus and question interpretation. While both serve to introcude alternatives, I offer reasons that the two kinds of alternatives arise on different levels of semantic interpretation. The resulting approach can correctly account for all possible constellations of focus and questions, including intervention effects, without the use of type shifts In the second part of the paper, I will investigate data which suggest that the presence/absence of focus features correlate with a question/indefinite interpretation of wh-words. I propose that the semantic closeness is motivated diachronically. Importantly, type shifts between question alternatives and properties are possible steps in diachrony, but not part of the productive part of semantic interpretation.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Freezing vs. equilibration dynamics in the Potts model
Creators: name: Chippari, Francesco
name: Picco, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quench dynamics of the $q$ Potts model on different bi/tri-dimensional lattice topologies. In particular we are interested in instantaneous quenches from $T_i \rightarrow \infty$ to $T \leq T_s$, where $T_s$ is the (pseudo)-spinodal temperature. The goal is to explain why, in the large-$q$ limit, the low-temperature dynamics freezes on some lattices while, on others, the equilibrium configuration is easily reached. The cubic ($3d$) and the triangular ($2d$) lattices are analysed in detail. We show that the dynamics blocks when lattices have acyclic \textit{unitary structures} while the system goes to the equilibrium when these are cyclic, no matter the coordination number ($z$) of the particular considered lattice.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures, added references and minor corrections after review process
Optimal designs for parameters of shifted Ornstein-Uhlenbeck sheets measured on monotonic sets
Creators: name: Baran, Sándor
name: Stehlík, Milan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Measurement on sets with a specific geometric shape can be of interest for many important applications (e.g. measurement along the isotherms in structural engineering). In the present paper the properties of optimal designs for estimating the parameters of shifted Ornstein-Uhlenbeck sheets, that is Gaussian two-variable random fields with exponential correlation structures, are investigated when the processes are observed on monotonic sets. Substantial differences are demonstrated between the cases when one is interested only in trend parameters and when the whole parameter set is of interest. The theoretical results are illustrated by computer experiments and simulated examples from the field of structure engineering. From the design point of view the most interesting finding of the paper is the loss of efficiency of the regular grid design compared to the optimal monotonic design.
Functional topics
Creators: name: Ebert, Christian
name: Endriss, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: It has long been observed that DPs containing a bound pronoun can occur left-dislocated in the German pre-field (see e.g. Vat 1981, Frey 2004b) while at the same time (Frey 2004b) argues that a left-dislocated DP has to be understood as the aboutness topic of the respective sentence. As the pronoun in the left-dislocated DP is bound from within the clause, this seems to be add odds with the claim that topicality of a DP results in a wide scope reading of this DP (as proposed e.g. by Cresti 1995, Ebert and Endriss 2004). We show that those examples in fact have functional wide scope readings as opposed to narrow scope readings and propose an extension of the approach of (Ebert and Endriss 2004) that can derive those readings and account for the occurrence restrictions of certain DPs w.r.t. left-dislocation and other topic positions.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Quartierspiegel Langstrasse 2023
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 314 Allgemeine Statistiken zu Europa
subject: 710 Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung
subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Zürich-Langstrassenquartier
subject: Zürich-Aussersihl
subject: Quartier
subject: Amtliche Statistik
subject: Bevölkerungsstatistik

description: Das Quartier Langstrasse ist eines der lebendigsten der Stadt. Es wurde stark von der Eisenbahn und der Kaserne geprägt: Die dort beherbergten Soldaten trugen einst zur Gründung vieler Lokale und Salons bei. Und eine Ausgehmeile ist die Langstrasse allen Veränderungen zum Trotz geblieben.
Media and Information Literacy (MIL) for Senior High School Students: Responsiveness to Social Media Information Disorder
Creators: name: Veraflor, Nehru B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Media and Information Literacy (MIL)
Senior High school
Information Disorder

description: This study investigated how Media and Information Literacy (MIL) education for senior high school responds to threats of information disorder in social media. Three aspects were viewed in the study which are the MIL skills of the students; the perceptions of teachers on MIL curriculum and the contents of MIL curriculum. Triangulation approach was employed using online survey, key informant interview and content analysis. Findings showed that students have a high level of media and information prosumption skills. On the other hand, teachers viewed the MIL curriculum as misaligned, less relevant and just suggestive. Further analysis revealed that competencies in the MIL curriculum were less significant to development of MIL skills. Thus, the study concluded that MIL education is not fully responsive to social media information disorder. The revision and updating of the MIL curriculum is highly recommended.
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: limits on dark matter-baryon interactions from DR4 power spectra
Creators: name: Li, Zack
name: An, Rui
name: Gluscevic, Vera
name: Boddy, Kimberly K.
name: Bond, J. Richard
name: Calabrese, Erminia
name: Dunkley, Jo
name: Gallardo, Patricio A.
name: Guan, Yilun
name: Hincks, Adam
name: Huffenberger, Kevin M.
name: Kosowsky, Arthur
name: Louis, Thibaut
name: Madhavacheril, Mathew S.
name: Moodley, Kavilan
name: Page, Lyman A.
name: Partridge, Bruce
name: Qu, Frank J.
name: Salatino, Maria
name: Sherwin, Blake
name: Sifón, Cristóbal
name: Vargas, Cristian
name: Wollack, Edward J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diverse astrophysical observations suggest the existence of cold dark matter that interacts only gravitationally with radiation and ordinary baryonic matter. Any nonzero coupling between dark matter and baryons would provide a significant step towards understanding the particle nature of dark matter. Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide constraints on such a coupling that complement laboratory searches. In this work we place upper limits on a variety of models for dark matter elastic scattering with protons and electrons by combining large-scale CMB data from the Planck satellite with small-scale information from Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) DR4 data. In the case of velocity-independent scattering, we obtain bounds on the interaction cross section for protons that are 40\% tighter than previous constraints from the CMB anisotropy. For some models with velocity-dependent scattering we find best-fitting cross sections with a 2$σ$ deviation from zero, but these scattering models are not statistically preferred over $Λ$CDM in terms of model selection.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Automorphism tower problem and semigroup of endomorphisms for free Burnside groups
Creators: name: Atabekyan, Varujan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F50, 20F28, 20E36, 20D45, 20B27

description: We have proved that the group of all inner automorphisms of the free Burnside group $B(m,n)$ is the unique normal subgroup in $Aut(B(m,n))$ among all its subgroups, which are isomorphic to free Burnside group $B(s,n)$ of some rank $s$ for all odd $n\ge1003$ and $m>1$. It follows that the group of automorphisms $Aut(B(m,n))$ of the free Burnside group $B(m,n)$ is complete for odd $n\ge1003$, that is it has a trivial center and any automorphism of $Aut(B(m,n))$ is inner. Thus, for groups $B(m,n)$ is solved the automorphism tower problem and is showed that it is as short as the automorphism tower of the absolutely free groups. Moreover, proved that every automorphism of $End(B(m,n))$ is a conjugation by an element of $Aut(B(m,n))$.
description: 5 pages
Some psycholinguistic comments on NPI licensing
Creators: name: Drenhaus, Heiner
name: Błaszczak, Joanna
name: Sch¨Utte, Juliane
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: In this paper, we discuss the relevance of c-command and licensing strength for NPI licensing. Furthermore, we review the results of an experiment using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in which we investigated the difference in strength of licensing the German negative polarity item jemals ’ever’. The two licensing contexts under discussion are negation and wh-question. We found a sustained negativity on the Negative polarity item (NPI) in wh-context compared to the context where the NPI appeared in the scope of negation. We discuss our ERP results in the light of some recent theoretical proposals on negative polarity licensing.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Stabilization of pyrolysis oils by solvent additions
Creators: name: Baehr, Clarissa
name: Raffelt, Klaus
name: Dahmen, Nicolaus
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2018
Subjects: pyrolysis oil
carbon dioxide

description: FPBO (fast pyrolysis bio oil) changes its composition and thereby its properties over time. This aging process can be measured by aldehyde decrease. Usual stabilization methods of FPBO deploy modifications by the addition of alcohols or other organics.
Carbon dioxide can be an alternative additive for conditioning.
Constraints on quantificational domains: Generic plural des indefinites in French
Creators: name: Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen
name: Mari, Alda
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: The current literature on pluralities is mainly concerned with definite plurals in existential contexts and the implicit assumption is that indefinite plurals are to be analyzed in the same way, as sums of individuals (Link 1983, Landman 2000) in the general case or as groups in more specific cases (see in particular collective readings). We will argue that although plural indefinites can be modeled as sums of individuals in those contexts in which they are either bound by existential closure or indirectly bound by an operator that quantifies over events, they cannot do so when they are directly bound by an adverbial quantifier; in the latter context, plural indefinites can only be represented as groups: binary quantifiers cannot denote a relation between two sets of sums, but only a relation between two sets of groups. This generalization will be shown to follow from an individuability constraint on quantification. Quantification requires individuability and, as argued by Landman (1989a,b) only groups, but not sums, are individuable entities. But one may still wonder whether the generic quantifier can access the members of sums, which are known to be accessible to distributive predication. To put it differently, one should explain why it is not possible to randomly fix a sum and to allow the generic adverb to quantify over its members. We will claim that it is impossible for generic sentences to restrict the generalization to a particular domain. Quantification over (groups of) individuals will be distinguished from quantification over events combined with the indirect binding of a variable supplied by an indefinite (plural). Such indirectly bound plural indefinites can be modeled as sums of individuals. The generic readings of French plural indefinites headed by des ‘some’ will provide us with the core testing ground. The analysis will shed new light on the generic readings of English bare plurals.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
3D simulations of the non-thermal broad-band emission from young supernova remnants including efficient particle acceleration
Creators: name: Ferrand, Gilles
name: Decourchelle, Anne
name: Safi-Harb, Samar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supernova remnants are believed to be the major contributors to Galactic cosmic rays. In this paper, we explore how the non-thermal emission from young remnants can be used to probe the production of energetic particles at the shock (both protons and electrons). Our model couples hydrodynamic simulations of a supernova remnant with a kinetic treatment of particle acceleration. We include two important back-reaction loops upstream of the shock: energetic particles can (i) modify the flow structure and (ii) amplify the magnetic field. As the latter process is not fully understood, we use different limit cases that encompass a wide range of possibilities. We follow the history of the shock dynamics and of the particle transport downstream of the shock, which allows us to compute the non-thermal emission from the remnant at any given age. We do this in 3D, in order to generate projected maps that can be compared with observations. We observe that completely different recipes for the magnetic field can lead to similar modifications of the shock structure, although to very different configurations of the field and particles. We show how this affects the emission patterns in different energy bands, from radio to X-rays and $γ$-rays. High magnetic fields ($>100 μ$G) directly impact the synchrotron emission from electrons, by restricting their emission to thin rims, and indirectly impact the inverse Compton emission from electrons and also the pion decay emission from protons, mostly by shifting their cut-off energies to respectively lower and higher energies.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Figures quality has been reduced. Follows arXiv:1210.0085 (ApJ 2012, 760, 34) on thermal emission
The syntax and semantics of bare conditionals in Chinese
Creators: name: Chi Hang Cheung, Candice
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: This paper investigates a Chinese construction that Cheng & Huang (1996) term the "bare conditional". Previous analyses have treated this construction as involving unselective binding. I argue against such an approach, and propose that the matching requirement observed in Chinese bare conditionals is derived through sideward movement (Hornstein & Nunes 2002, Nunes 2004). I show that this analysis can provide a principled account for the parallelism constraint and the apparent violation of vacuous binding reported in recent studies (Pan & Jiang, forthcoming, Leung 2006). Adopting Caponigro's (2003, 2004) semantic analysis of plain free relatives to bare conditionals in Chinese, I also show that it can nicely accommodate the universal reading as well as the quantificational variability effect.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
A degree-based account of wh-exclamatives in Catalan
Creators: name: Castroviejo Mir´O, Elena
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: In this paper I show that exclamatives in Catalan should be analyzed as a special type of degree construction. It is special because its contribution to discourse is not that of a declarative clause, but rather that of a degree construction – similar to a comparative clause or a result clause construction – because it includes a degree modifier that establishes an equative relation between two degrees. Additionally, I discuss the previous literature on exclamatives and argue that their proposals, according to which exclamatives should be approached from the semantics of questions, are not satisfactory enough to account for the data from Catalan.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Wave-Particle-Interaction in Kinetic Plasmas
Creators: name: Schreiner, Cedric
name: Spanier, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonant scattering of energetic protons off magnetic irregularities is the main process in cosmic ray diffusion. The typical theoretical description uses Alfven waves in the low frequency limit. We demonstrate that the usage of Particle-in-Cell (PiC) simulations for particle scattering is feasible. The simulation of plasma waves is performed with the relativistic electro-magnetic PiC code ACRONYM and the tracks of test particles are evaluated in order to study particle diffusion. Results for the low frequency limit are equivalent to those obtained with an MHD description, but only for high frequencies results can be obtained with reasonable effort. PiC codes have the potential to be a useful tool to study particle diffusion in kinetic turbulence.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Computer Physics Communications
Rhetorical questions as questions
Creators: name: Caponigro, Ivano
name: Sprouse, Jon
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: We argue that rhetorical questions are semantically the same as ordinary questions. New data is presented to show that rhetorical questions allow for answers and the range of their answers is the same as ordinary questions. An analysis is proposed according to which rhetorical and ordinary questions only differ at the pragmatic level: a question is interpreted as a rhetorical question when its answer is known to the Speaker and the Addressee, while it is interpreted as an ordinary question when its answer it is not know to the Speaker. We model Speaker’s and Addressee’s mutual and individual knowledge by adopting Stalnaker’s (1978) notion of ‘Common Ground’ and enriching it, along the lines of Gunlogson (2001).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Determinants of Technology for Education, Entrepreneurship, Employment and Economic Developments (TECH4ED) Adoption
Creators: name: Wallis, Maira Geneva M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Economics
Technology
Technology for Education, Entrepreneurship. Employment, and Economic Development (Tech4ED)

description: Three hundred thirteen residents of Barangay Poblacion, Tadian, Mt. Province were surveyed to identify the determinants of adopting Technology for Education, Entrepreneurship. Employment, and Economic Development (Tech4ED) project. This project is a strategy to empower the Filipinos in the countryside through innovative digital inclusion towards sustainable development by creating knowledge hubs to promote digital literacy, open opportunities for the underserved and marginalized towards improved quality of life and a more competitive Philippines. Tech4Ed has 10 target sectors: Out-of-School Youth and Adults; Educators; Students; People with Disabilities; Women; Senior Citizens; Overseas Filipino Workers and their families/relatives; Entrepreneurs; Indigenous People; and Farmers and Fisherfolk. However, of the 113 respondents surveyed in one of the 3,381 Tech4ED centers in the Philippines, only 84 (27%) were familiar with it which then formed part of the study. Premised on the Technology Acceptance Model (Davis, 1989), the study determined effects of the external factors (demographic profile, computer self-efficacy, and facilitating conditions (i.e., Internet connectivity, accessibility, information dissemination, and skills training) to the perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU); and the influence of PU and PEOU to the behavioral intention of the respondents to use Tech4ED. Using descriptive statistics, results showed that both PU and PEOU influenced the behavioral intention of the respondents to use Tech4ED. Of the 84 respondents, 65 agreed with the statement: "using Tech4ED would improve my job/academic performance" with 10 who strongly agreed or an aggregate of 75 respondents. Majority of the respondents (76/84) also agreed that learning to use Tech4ED would be easy. Both PU and PEOU were influenced by the demographic profile and computer self-efficacy of the respondents. On the contrary, PU and PEOU were not affected by the facilitating condition because the respondents used and still intend to use Tech4ED in the next days despite the problems that they encountered. However, these need to be addressed to encourage more people to use the system. Overall, the study revealed a low utilization rate of the Tech4ED project in Barangay Poblacion.
Donkey pluralities: Plural information states vs. Non-atomic individuals
Creators: name: Brasoveanu, Adrian
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: The paper argues that two distinct and independent notions of plurality are involved in natural language anaphora and quantification: plural reference (the usual non-atomic individuals) and plural discourse reference, i.e. reference to a quantificational dependency between sets of objects (e.g. atomic / non-atomic individuals) that is established and subsequently elaborated upon in discourse. Following van den Berg (1996), plural discourse reference is modeled as plural information states (i.e. as sets of variable assignments) in a new dynamic system couched in classical type logic that extends Compositional DRT (Muskens 1996). Given the underlying type logic, compositionality at sub-clausal level follows automatically and standard techniques from Montague semantics (e.g. type shifting) become available. The idea that plural info states are semantically necessary (over and above non-atomic individuals) is motivated by relative-clause donkey sentences with multiple instances of singular donkey anaphora. At the same time, allowing for non-atomic individuals over and above plural info states enables us to capture the intuitive parallels between singular and plural (donkey) anaphora, while deriving the incompatibility between singular donkey anaphora and collective predicates.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
On relevance scale approaches
Creators: name: Benz, Anton
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: We call approaches which use decision theoretic explications of Grice’ relevance maxim for selecting best answers and calculating implicatures relevance scale approaches. In this paper we discuss these approaches with respect to the questions: Are intuitively optimal assertions identical to assertions with maximal relevance? Can classical relevance implicatures be explained by the assumption that propositions are implicated to be false exactly if they are more relevant than what the speaker has actually asserted? The answers to both questions are negative. We will show that there exists a decision theoretically defined relevance scale which the hearer can use for calculating implicatures, but we will also see that this hearer related scale is only defined after the speaker’s assertion is known and, therefore, cannot be presupposed by a definition of Grice’ relevance maxim.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Decision Making under Uncertainty: A Quasimetric Approach
Creators: name: N'Guyen, Steve
name: Moulin-Frier, Clément
name: Droulez, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a new approach for solving a class of discrete decision making problems under uncertainty with positive cost. This issue concerns multiple and diverse fields such as engineering, economics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and many others. Basically, an agent has to choose a single or series of actions from a set of options, without knowing for sure their consequences. Schematically, two main approaches have been followed: either the agent learns which option is the correct one to choose in a given situation by trial and error, or the agent already has some knowledge on the possible consequences of his decisions; this knowledge being generally expressed as a conditional probability distribution. In the latter case, several optimal or suboptimal methods have been proposed to exploit this uncertain knowledge in various contexts. In this work, we propose following a different approach, based on the geometric intuition of distance. More precisely, we define a goal independent quasimetric structure on the state space, taking into account both cost function and transition probability. We then compare precision and computation time with classical approaches.
Multichannel Interference In High-Order Harmonic Generation From Ne(+) Driven By Ultrashort Intense Laser Pulse
Creators: name: Hassouneh, O.
name: Brown, A. C.
name: van der Hart, H. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the time-dependent R-matrix method to investigate harmonic generation from Ne(+) at a wavelength of 390 nm and intensities up to 10(15) Wcm(-2). The 1s(2)2s(2)2p(4) (3)P(e), (1)D(e), and (1)S(e) states of Ne(2+) are included as residual-ion states to assess the influence of interference between photoionization channels associated with these thresholds. The harmonic spectrum is well approximated by calculations in which only the (3)P(e) and (1)D(e) thresholds are taken into account, but no satisfactory spectrum is obtained when a single threshold is taken into account. Within the harmonic plateau, extending to about 100 eV, individual harmonics can be suppressed at particular intensities when all Ne(2+) thresholds are taken into account. The suppression is not observed when only a single threshold is accounted for. Since the suppression is dependent on intensity, it may be difficult to observe experimentally.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables
IAN: Iterated Adaptive Neighborhoods for manifold learning and dimensionality estimation
Creators: name: Dyballa, Luciano
name: Zucker, Steven W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.5.0

description: Invoking the manifold assumption in machine learning requires knowledge of the manifold's geometry and dimension, and theory dictates how many samples are required. However, in applications data are limited, sampling may not be uniform, and manifold properties are unknown and (possibly) non-pure; this implies that neighborhoods must adapt to the local structure. We introduce an algorithm for inferring adaptive neighborhoods for data given by a similarity kernel. Starting with a locally-conservative neighborhood (Gabriel) graph, we sparsify it iteratively according to a weighted counterpart. In each step, a linear program yields minimal neighborhoods globally and a volumetric statistic reveals neighbor outliers likely to violate manifold geometry. We apply our adaptive neighborhoods to non-linear dimensionality reduction, geodesic computation and dimension estimation. A comparison against standard algorithms using, e.g., k-nearest neighbors, demonstrates their usefulness. Code for our algorithm will be available at https://github.com/dyballa/IAN
description: 69 pages, 35 figures
Scaling laws and sum rules for the B-mode polarization
Creators: name: Giovannini, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of the microwave background polarization anisotropies is investigated when the stochastic Faraday rate is stationary, random and Markovian. The scaling properties of the polarization power spectra and of their nonlinear combinations are scrutinized as a function of the comoving frequency. It is argued that each frequency channel of a given experiment measuring simultaneously the E-mode and the B-mode spectra can be analyzed in this framework with the aim of testing the physical origin of the polarization in a model-independent perspective.
description: 9 pages
A modular approach to intensionality
Creators: name: Ben-Avi, Gilad
name: Winter, Yoad
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: This paper introduces a procedure that takes a simple version of extensional semantics and generates from it an equivalent possible-world semantics that is suitable for treating intensional phenomena in natural language. This process of intensionalization allows to treat intensional phenomena as stemming exclusively from the lexical meaning of words like believe, need or fake. We illustrate the proposed intensionalization technique using an extensional toy fragment. This fragment is used to show that independently motivated extensional mechanisms for scope shifting and verb-object composition, once properly intensionalized, are strictly speaking responsible for certain intensional effects, including de dicto/de re ambiguities and coordinations containing intensional transitive verbs. While such extensional-intensional relations have often been assumed in the literature, the present paper offers a formal sense for this claim, facilitating the dissociation between extensional semantics and intensional semantics.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
Hybrid evolving clique-networks and their communicability
Creators: name: Ding, Yimin
name: Zhou, Bin
name: Chen, Xiaosong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aiming to understand real-world hierarchical networks whose degree distributions are neither power law nor exponential, we construct a hybrid clique network that includes both homogeneous and inhomogeneous parts, and introduce an inhomogeneity parameter to tune the ratio between the homogeneous part and the inhomogeneous one. We perform Monte-Carlo simulations to study various properties of such a network, including the degree distribution, the average shortest-path-length, the clustering coefficient, the clustering spectrum, and the communicability.
Spelling out QR
Creators: name: Bachrach, Asaf
name: Katzir, Roni
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Right-Node Raising has been recently shown to license an exceptional pattern of QR. We provide a framework in which locality is determined through the interaction of complete dominance and spellout, and in which the pattern of QR in Right-Node Raising is predicted.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11
A multifrequency characterization of the extragalactic hard X-ray sky
Creators: name: Kosiba, Matej
name: Peña-Herazo, Harold Andres
name: Massaro, Francesco
name: Masetti, Nicola
name: Paggi, Alessandro
name: Chavushyan, Vahram
name: Bottacini, Eugenio
name: Werner, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nowadays we know that the origin of the Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) is due to the integrated emission of nearby active galactic nuclei. Thus, to obtain a precise estimate of the contribution of different source classes to the CXB it is crucial to fully characterize the hard X-ray sky. We present a multifrequency analysis of all sources listed in the 3d release of the Palermo Swift-BAT hard X-ray catalog (3PBC) with the goal of (i) identifying and classifying the largest number of sources adopting multifrequency criteria, with particular emphasis on extragalactic populations and (ii) extracting Seyfert galaxies to present here the 2nd release of the Turin-SyCAT catalog. We outline a classification scheme based on radio, infrared and optical criteria that allows us to distinguish between unidentified and unclassified hard X-ray sources, and classify and classify the remaining ones discriminating between Galactic and extragalactic classes. Our revised version of the 3PBC lists 1176 classified, 820 extragalactic, and 356 Galactic, 199 unclassified, and 218 unidentified sources. According to our analysis, the hard X-ray sky is mainly populated by Seyfert galaxies and blazars. For the Seyfert galaxies, we present the 2nd release of the Turin-SyCAT including a total of 633 Seyfert galaxies, with 282 new sources, which is an 80% increment from the previous release. We confirm, that there is no clear difference between the flux distribution of the infrared-to-hard X-ray flux ratio of Seyfert galaxies Type 1 and Type 2. However, we confirm a significant trend between the mid-IR flux and hard X-ray flux.
description: 19 pages, 7 tables, 17 figures, accepted for publication in A&A - pre-proofs version, catalog tables will be available online
Task demands and the oddball fast periodic visual stimulation paradigm
Creators: name: Curtis, Samantha
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Human readers are remarkably proficient at reading words rapidly and with minimal effort, and to an extent, automatically. However, there has been a recent shift in the literature surrounding what is claimed to be automatic and the role task demands play. A novel paradigm offers an exciting opportunity to explore visual word recognition as it claims to measure implicit brain responses to visual categorisation or recognition, known as the oddball fast periodic visual stimulation (oddball FPVS) paradigm. Using this paradigm, researchers found evidence of automatic brain processes dedicated to word-meaning discrimination irrelevant to the task (with a basic colour-changing fixation task). This result is surprising in a context that presumes task demands drive visual word discrimination. This thesis focused on investigating the automatic nature of the oddball FPVS paradigm for visual word recognition through task manipulations. The aims were to replicate a previous task modulation performed by Yan et al. (2019) using novel face stimuli and to extend this to visual word recognition. To do so, this thesis created a Lexical task that manipulated participants’ attentional awareness of the word stimuli. The results showed a task effect using novel face stimuli. Extending this to visual word recognition, this thesis replicated findings of a word discrimination response (Lochy et al., 2015) and found a task effect with an attentional shift in the Lexical task increasing the word discrimination responses. To conclude, this opens up possibilities for the oddball FPVS paradigm to be used as a new tool for measuring how our brain discriminates words. However, questions surround the sensitivity of this effect as it might not be detectable in every person. In addition, the task effect questions the automaticity of this word discrimination response as it appears vulnerable to attentional mechanisms.
Production of Tensor Glueball in Ultraperipheral $pp$, $AuAu$ and $PbPb$ Collisions
Creators: name: Kou, Wei
name: Chen, Xurong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we discuss the production of a tensor glueball in the proton-proton and nuclei-nuclei ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs). The cross section is calculated in the equivalent photon approximation (EPA). The total UPCs cross section is related to the matrix elements of $γγ\to π^0 G_2$ process, which can be described as in terms of neutral pion and tensor glueball $G_2$'s distribution amplitudes. The predictions for the rapidity distributions of UPCs cross sections and total cross sections are presented. The theoretical uncertainty of the whole calculation is considered. We consider the decay modes of the final-state tensor glueball and estimate the corresponding number of events. We estimate that there are about 10 tensor glueball $G_2\toϕϕ$ signal events in $PbPb$ collisions at the LHC. We also argue that the lead-lead UPC experiments at future HE-LHC and FCC experiments will provide larger opportunities to measure tensor glueballs.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Accepted by EPJC
Gate sequence for continuous variable one-way quantum computation
Creators: name: Su, Xiaolong
name: Hao, Shuhong
name: Deng, Xiaowei
name: Ma, Lingyu
name: Wang, Meihong
name: Jia, Xiaojun
name: Xie, Changde
name: Peng, Kunchi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurement-based one-way quantum computation (QC) using cluster states as resources provides an efficient model to perform computation and information processing of quantum codes. Arbitrary Gaussian QC can be implemented by sufficiently long single-mode and two-mode gate sequences. However, continuous variable (CV) gate sequences have not been realized so far due to an absence of cluster states larger than four submodes. Here we present the first CV gate sequence consisting of a single-mode squeezing gate and a two-mode controlled-phase gate based on a six-mode cluster state. The quantum property of this gate sequence is confirmed by the fidelities and the quantum entanglement of two output modes, which depend on both the squeezing and controlled-phase gates. The experiment demonstrates the feasibility of implementing Gaussian QC by means of accessible gate sequences.
Holistic Process-Oriented Approach to Test Bench Control for Mobile Machines
Creators: name: Herr, Stefan
name: Becker, Simon
Publisher: name: SAE International
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mobile Arbeitsmaschinen
MOBiL
Rollenprüfstand
Mobile Machines
Chassis-Dynamometer

description: The requirements for modern drivetrains are increasing across all industries. Even mobile working machines such as agricultural and construction machinery are subject to increasingly higher demands in terms of efficiency and CO2 emissions. To verify these requirements and drive further development, it is necessary for testing processes to comprehensively evaluate the machine and its operational processes. For this purpose, the MOBiL testing approach was developed at the Institute of Mobile Machines. This approach incorporates parallel drivetrains, information flow and the environment of the driving and working task. To implement this approach in a complete vehicle testbench, a framework was developed that enables fully individual driving and working tasks of a mobile working machine to be replicated on a test bench. The basis for this framework is the Robot Operating System (ROS), which runs various nodes. Individual nodes control the different testing subsystem, such as the 4-WD-Acoustic-Chassis Dynamometer, the driving robot, or a PTO test stand. Starting from a simulation node, the subsystems are controlled and reflect their respective measured variables back into the system. These variables are then returned to the simulation and collected along with data from the simulation. All nodes are interchangeable, allowing suitable specifications, simulations, and hardware to be used depending on the scenario: For instance, a tractor with a PTO-driven implement like a baler or a rotary harrow driving on a field. This allows tests on the powertrain and its controls to be reproducibly researched on a test bench. Therefore, efficient, and customized testing processes for a wide range of applications and vehicles are enabled.