cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Instrumental polarisation at the Nasmyth focus of the E-ELT
Creators: name: Ovelar, M. de Juan
name: Snik, F.
name: Keller, C. U.
name: Venema, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ~39-m European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) will be the largest telescope ever built. This makes it particularly suitable for sensitive polarimetric observations, as polarimetry is a photon-starved technique. However, the telescope mirrors may severely limit the polarimetric accuracy of instruments on the Nasmyth platforms by creating instrumental polarisation and/or modifying the polarisation signal of the object. In this paper we characterise the polarisation effects of the two currently considered designs for the E-ELT Nasmyth ports as well as the effect of ageing of the mirrors. By means of the Mueller matrix formalism, we compute the response matrices of each mirror arrangement for a range of zenith angles and wavelengths. We then present two techniques to correct for these effects that require the addition of a modulating device at the polarisation-free intermediate focus that acts either as a switch or as a part of a two-stage modulator. We find that the values of instrumental polarisation, Stokes transmission reduction and cross- talk vary significantly with wavelength, and with pointing, for the lateral Nasmyth case, often exceeding the accuracy requirements for proposed polarimetric instruments. Realistic ageing effects of the mirrors after perfect calibration of these effects may cause polarimetric errors beyond the requirements. We show that the modulation approach with a polarimetric element located in the intermediate focus reduces the instrumental polarisation effects down to tolerable values, or even removes them altogether. The E-ELT will be suitable for sensitive and accurate polarimetry, provided frequent calibrations are carried out, or a dedicated polarimetric element is installed at the intermediate focus.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Navigates Like Me: Understanding How People Evaluate Human-Like AI in Video Games
Creators: name: Milani, Stephanie
name: Juliani, Arthur
name: Momennejad, Ida
name: Georgescu, Raluca
name: Rzpecki, Jaroslaw
name: Shaw, Alison
name: Costello, Gavin
name: Fang, Fei
name: Devlin, Sam
name: Hofmann, Katja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We aim to understand how people assess human likeness in navigation produced by people and artificially intelligent (AI) agents in a video game. To this end, we propose a novel AI agent with the goal of generating more human-like behavior. We collect hundreds of crowd-sourced assessments comparing the human-likeness of navigation behavior generated by our agent and baseline AI agents with human-generated behavior. Our proposed agent passes a Turing Test, while the baseline agents do not. By passing a Turing Test, we mean that human judges could not quantitatively distinguish between videos of a person and an AI agent navigating. To understand what people believe constitutes human-like navigation, we extensively analyze the justifications of these assessments. This work provides insights into the characteristics that people consider human-like in the context of goal-directed video game navigation, which is a key step for further improving human interactions with AI agents.
description: 18 pages; accepted at CHI 2023
Simultaneous interpretation of numbers and the impact of technological support
Creators: name: Desmet, Bart
name: Vandierendonck, Mieke
name: Defrancq, Bart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: In simultaneous interpretation, numbers are a common source of errors. They are often characterized by low predictability from the context and high information density, and the interpreter is therefore required to change strategies with respect to listening, memory and production. Booth technology that automatically recognizes numbers in the source speech and presents them on a screen could reduce the cognitive load and improve translation quality.
An exploratory study on CAI tools in simultaneous interpreting: Theoretical framework and stimulus validation
Creators: name: Prandi, Bianca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The acquisition of terminology and specialized knowledge prior to a technical conference represents a fundamental phase in the interpreter's workflow, but quick and easy access to terminological information during the interpreting task is equally important to support the interpreter in the rendition of terminology and to ensure a high-quality interpreting performance.
EURORURAL ´20 SMART COUNTRYSIDE FOR THE 21st CENTURY
Creators: name: Šťastná, Milada
name: Vaishar, Antonín
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Eurorural
conference

description: We have the honour to inform you about organizing the EURORURAL '20 conference on SMART COUNTRYSIDE FOR 21ST CENTURY during 1.9. - 4.9. 2020 online. It was the 7th of the Moravian rural conferences organized by the Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno together with SPOT project (H2020). The aims of the conference were following: to map European rural research and particular interests of investigators, to gain space for the presentation of contemporary knowledge about rural research, to continue in the tradition of international conferences dedicated to rural problems, to support intra-personal contacts among experts of different disciplines dealing with rural problems, to present South Moravian rural landscape. The conference was aimed at a relatively complex view of rural problems from different viewpoints (ecology, geography, demography, sociology, economy, territorial planning), less at the research of specific problems in detail. More information can be found at http://www.eurorural.eu/eurorural20/index.html
description: http://www.eurorural.eu/eurorural20/index.html
Technologies and role-space: How videoconference interpreting affects the court interpreter's perception of her role
Creators: name: Devaux, Jerome
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Back in 2000, videoconference systems were introduced in criminal courts in England and Wales so that defendants could attend their pre-trial court hearings from prison. Since then, the number of cases heard via videoconference interpreting technologies has been on the increase. In order to be able to conduct a hearing remotely, courts and prisons are equipped with cameras, screens, microphones, and loud-speakers which link up both locations so that participants can hear and see each other. In terms of research, various reports on the viability of such systems acknowledge the benefits of conducting court hearings remotely, whilst also highlighting shortfalls. Interestingly, most of these studies were carried out in a monolingual setting, and fewer studies examine the impact of videoconference interpreting equipment in multilingual court settings. In this context the interpreter's role, and more particularly her role perception when technologies are used in a courtroom, remains under-explored. This paper will demonstrate that, unlike in face-to-face court hearings, technologies force some interpreters to create split role models.
Towards a GML-Enabled Knowledge Graph Platform
Creators: name: Abdallah, Hussein
name: Mansour, Essam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This vision paper proposes KGNet, an on-demand graph machine learning (GML) as a service on top of RDF engines to support GML-enabled SPARQL queries. KGNet automates the training of GML models on a KG by identifying a task-specific subgraph. This helps reduce the task-irrelevant KG structure and properties for better scalability and accuracy. While training a GML model on KG, KGNet collects metadata of trained models in the form of an RDF graph called KGMeta, which is interlinked with the relevant subgraphs in KG. Finally, all trained models are accessible via a SPARQL-like query. We call it a GML-enabled query and refer to it as SPARQLML. KGNet supports SPARQLML on top of existing RDF engines as an interface for querying and inferencing over KGs using GML models. The development of KGNet poses research opportunities in several areas, including meta-sampling for identifying task-specific subgraphs, GML pipeline automation with computational constraints, such as limited time and memory budget, and SPARQLML query optimization. KGNet supports different GML tasks, such as node classification, link prediction, and semantic entity matching. We evaluated KGNet using two real KGs of different application domains. Compared to training on the entire KG, KGNet significantly reduced training time and memory usage while maintaining comparable or improved accuracy. The KGNet source-code is available for further study
description: 9 pages, 15 figures, accepted at ICDE 2023
Additional file 1 of A cross-sectional study of symptoms and health-related quality of life in menopausal-aged women in China
Creators: name: Rautenberg, Tamlyn A.
name: Ng, Shu Kay Angus
name: Downes, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Statistical properties of filaments in weak gravitational lensing
Creators: name: Higuchi, Yuichi
name: Oguri, Masamune
name: Shirasaki, Masato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study weak lensing properties of filaments that connect clusters of galaxies through large cosmological $N$-body simulations. We select 4639 halo pairs with masses higher than $10^{14}h^{-1}\mathrm{M}_\odot$ from the simulations and investigate dark matter distributions between two haloes with ray-tracing simulations. In order to classify filament candidates, we estimate convergence profiles and perform profile fitting. We find that matter distributions between haloes can be classified in a plane of fitting parameters, which allow us to select straight filaments from the ray-tracing simulations. We also investigate statistical properties of these filaments, finding them to be consistent with previous studies. We find that $35\%$ of halo pairs possess straight filaments, $4\%$ of which can directly be detected at $S/N\geq2$ with weak lensing. Furthermore, we study statistical properties of haloes at the edges of filaments. We find that haloes are preferentially elongated along filamentary structures and are less massive with increasing filament masses. However, the dependence of these halo properties on masses of straight filaments is very weak.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Adelocera fryi Hayek 1973
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Adelocera
Adelocera fryi

description: Adelocera fryi (Fleutiaux, 1935)
Agraeus fryi Fleutiaux, 1935: 28.
Adelocera fryi (Fleutiaux) Hayek, 1973: 32.
Type depository. Holotype (BMNH).
Type locality. Assam (Patkai Hills) (Chakraborty, Chakrabarti, 2000).
Distribution. India: Assam (Hayek, 1973). Elsewhere: Myanmar (Burma).
Literature. Fleutiaux (1935: 28): original description; Hayek (1973: 32): combination; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2000: 75): catalogue.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
Construction of Gaiotto states with fundamental multiplets through Degenerate DAHA
Creators: name: Matsuo, Yutaka
name: Rim, Chaiho
name: Zhang, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct Gaiotto states with fundamental multiplets in $SU(N)$ gauge theories, in terms of the orthonormal basis of spherical degenerate double affine Hecke algebra (SH in short), the representations of which are equivalent to those of $W_n$ algebra with additional $U(1)$ current. The generalized Whittaker conditions are demonstrated under the action of SH, and further rewritten in terms of $W_n$ algebra. Our approach not only consists with the existing literature but also holds for general $SU(N)$ case.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor modifications, typos corrected
Present? Remote? Remotely present! New technological approaches to remote simultaneous conference interpreting
Creators: name: Ziegler, Klaus
name: Gigliobianco, Sebastiano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Since the 1970s, there have been several approaches to test and implement remote interpreting as a complementary interpreting modality in addition to the traditional and proven interpretation on site. The reasons for experimenting with remote interpretation in conference settings are manifold and can generally be classified by economic aspects, availability issues or organizational matters. In this paper, we discuss the preliminary results of a pilot study aimed at exploring how the limitations of remote interpreting described by the literature could be overcome using new technological advances in Information and Communication Technology. We discuss challenges and technological solutions for remote simultaneous conference interpreting from an interdisciplinary perspective and sketch out what the future workspace for conference interpreters might look like.
Gravity-related spontaneous collapse in bulk matter
Creators: name: Diósi, Lajos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the DP-model, gravity-related spontaneous wave function collapses suppress undesirable Schrödinger Cat states. We derive the equations of the model for the hydrodynamic-elastic (acoustic) modes in a bulk. Two particular features are discussed: the universal dominance of spontaneous collapses at large wavelengths, and the reduction of spontaneous heating by a slight refinement of the DP-model.
description: 6pp
Superhabitability of High-Obliquity and High-Eccentricity Planets
Creators: name: Jernigan, Jonathan
name: Laflèche, Émilie
name: Burke, Angela
name: Olson, Stephanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planetary obliquity and eccentricity influence climate by shaping the spatial and temporal patterns of stellar energy incident at a planet's surface, affecting both the annual mean climate and magnitude of seasonal variability. Previous work has demonstrated the importance of both planetary obliquity and eccentricity for climate and habitability, but most studies have not explicitly modeled the response of life to these parameters. While exaggerated seasons may be stressful to some types of life, a recent study found an increase in marine biological activity for moderately high obliquities <45$^{\circ}$ assuming an Earth-like eccentricity. However, it is unclear how life might respond to obliquities >45$^{\circ}$, eccentricities much larger than Earth's, or the combination of both. To address this gap, we use cGENIE-PlaSim, a 3-D marine biogeochemical model coupled to an atmospheric general circulation model, to investigate the response of Earth-like marine life to a large range of obliquities (0-90$^{\circ}$) and eccentricities (0-0.4). We find that marine biological activity increases with both increasing obliquity and eccentricity across the parameter space we considered, including the combination of high obliquity and high eccentricity. We discuss these results in the context of remote biosignatures, and we argue that planets with high obliquity and/or eccentricity may be superhabitable worlds that are particularly favorable for exoplanet life detection.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
Microbial metabolism: optimal control of uptake versus synthesis
Creators: name: Frank, Steven A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Microbes require several complex organic molecules for growth. A species may obtain a required factor by taking up molecules released by other species or by synthesizing the molecule. The patterns of uptake and synthesis set a flow of resources through the multiple species that create a microbial community. This article analyzes a simple mathematical model of the tradeoff between uptake and synthesis. Key factors include the influx rate from external sources relative to the outflux rate, the rate of internal decay within cells, and the cost of synthesis. Aspects of demography also matter, such as cellular birth and death rates, the expected time course of a local resource flow, and the associated lifespan of the local population. Spatial patterns of genetic variability and differentiation between populations may also strongly influence the evolution of metabolic regulatory controls of individual species and thus the structuring of microbial communities. The widespread use of optimality approaches in recent work on microbial metabolism has ignored demography and genetic structure.
A Review on Automated Brain Tumor Detection and Segmentation from MRI of Brain
Creators: name: Roy, Sudipta
name: Nag, Sanjay
name: Maitra, Indra Kanta
name: Bandyopadhyay, Samir Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is an important but time consuming manual task performed by medical experts. Automating this process is a challenging task because of the high diversity in the appearance of tumor tissues among different patients and in many cases similarity with the normal tissues. MRI is an advanced medical imaging technique providing rich information about the human soft-tissue anatomy. There are different brain tumor detection and segmentation methods to detect and segment a brain tumor from MRI images. These detection and segmentation approaches are reviewed with an importance placed on enlightening the advantages and drawbacks of these methods for brain tumor detection and segmentation. The use of MRI image detection and segmentation in different procedures are also described. Here a brief review of different segmentation for detection of brain tumor from MRI of brain has been discussed.
description: 30 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1205.6572 by other authors
A HISTORICAL-LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE SUBSISTENCE OF THE FIRST BANTU SPEAKERS SOUTH OF THE RAINFOREST: THE BANANA CASE
Creators: name: Acker, Van
name: Pacchiarotti
name: Bostoen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Historical linguistics
West-Western Bantu languages
Bantu Expansion
agriculture
tropical rainforest
banana (Musa sp.)

description: The Bantu Expansion is the principal linguistic, cultural and demographic process in Late Holocene Africa. Different disciplines have dealt with the question of how the relatively young Bantu language family (ca. 5000 years) could spread over disproportionally large parts of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa.

The prevailing synthesis is a model in which the Bantu language dispersal is conceived as resulting from a single migratory macro-event driven by agriculture. However, many questions about the movement and subsistence of ancestral Bantu speakers are still open. Through the BantuFirst project, archaeologists, palaeobotanists and linguists form a cross-disciplinary team to carry out evidence-based research on the first Bantu-speaking settlements south of the rainforest. Their goal is to acquire a new transversal view on the interconnections between human migration, language spread, climate change and early farming in Late Holocene Central Africa in order to improve our current understanding of the Bantu Expansion.

We focus here on the project’s historical-linguistic research devoted to the West-Western branch of the Bantu family. Those languages are spoken southern Gabon, southern Congo, south-western DRC and northern Angola including Cabinda. We focus on the project’s objective of expanding existing specialized reconstructed West-Western Bantu lexicon, especially in the domains of subsistence and land use strategies of ancestral West-Western Bantu speakers. Specifically, we present preliminary results on the banana (Musa sp.) case in Central-Africa, based on the comparison of vernacular names for banana species in West-Western Bantu languages. This topic is especially relevant because it is still not clear when, how and by whom bananas were introduced in Africa. With our research, we intend to shed new light on these questions and to better understand: (i) the role that bananas played in the diet of early Bantu speakers; and (ii) how banana exploitation contributed to the Bantu expansion through Central-Africa.
A new distant Milky Way globular cluster in the Pan-STARRS1 3π survey
Creators: name: Laevens, Benjamin P. M.
name: Martin, Nicolas F.
name: Sesar, Branimir
name: Bernard, Edouard J.
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Slater, Colin T.
name: Bell, Eric F.
name: Ferguson, Annette M. N.
name: Schlafly, Edward F.
name: Burgett, William S.
name: Chambers, Kenneth C.
name: Denneau, Larry
name: Draper, Peter W.
name: Kaiser, Nicholas
name: Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter
name: Magnier, Eugene A.
name: Metcalfe, Nigel
name: Morgan, Jeffrey S.
name: Price, Paul A.
name: Sweeney, William E.
name: Tonry, John L.
name: Wainscoat, Richard J.
name: Waters, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new satellite in the outer halo of the Galaxy, the first Milky Way satellite found in the stacked photometric catalog of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 (Pan-STARRS1) Survey. From follow-up photometry obtained with WFI on the MPG/ESO 2.2m telescope, we argue that the object, located at a heliocentric distance of 145+/-17 kpc, is the most distant Milky Way globular cluster yet known. With a total magnitude of M_V=-4.3+/-0.2 and a half-light radius of 20+/-2 pc, it shares the properties of extended globular clusters found in the outer halo of our Galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. The discovery of this distant cluster shows that the full spatial extent of the Milky Way globular cluster system has not yet been fully explored.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted
The Dawn of Open Access to Phylogenetic Data
Creators: name: Magee, Andrew F.
name: May, Michael R.
name: Moore, Brian R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The scientific enterprise depends critically on the preservation of and open access to published data. This basic tenet applies acutely to phylogenies (estimates of evolutionary relationships among species). Increasingly, phylogenies are estimated from increasingly large, genome-scale datasets using increasingly complex statistical methods that require increasing levels of expertise and computational investment. Moreover, the resulting phylogenetic data provide an explicit historical perspective that critically informs research in a vast and growing number of scientific disciplines. One such use is the study of changes in rates of lineage diversification (speciation - extinction) through time. As part of a meta-analysis in this area, we sought to collect phylogenetic data (comprising nucleotide sequence alignment and tree files) from 217 studies published in 46 journals over a 13-year period. We document our attempts to procure those data (from online archives and by direct request to corresponding authors), and report results of analyses (using Bayesian logistic regression) to assess the impact of various factors on the success of our efforts. Overall, complete phylogenetic data for ~60% of these studies are effectively lost to science. Our study indicates that phylogenetic data are more likely to be deposited in online archives and/or shared upon request when: (1) the publishing journal has a strong data-sharing policy; (2) the publishing journal has a higher impact factor, and; (3) the data are requested from faculty rather than students. Although the situation appears dire, our analyses suggest that it is far from hopeless: recent initiatives by the scientific community -- including policy changes by journals and funding agencies -- are improving the state of affairs.
Interacting dark sector with transversal interaction
Creators: name: Chimento, Luis P.
name: Richarte, Martín G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the interacting dark sector composed of dark matter, dark energy, and dark radiation for a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) background by introducing a three-dimensional internal space spanned by the interaction vector $\mathbf{Q}$ and solve the source equation for a linear transversal interaction. Then, we explore a realistic model with dark matter coupled to a scalar field plus a decoupled radiation term, analyze the amount of dark energy in the radiation era and find that our model is consistent with the recent measurements of cosmic microwave background anisotropy coming from Planck along with the future constraints achievable by CMBPol experiment.
description: To appear in the proceedings of "CosmoSur II - Gravitation and Cosmology in the Southern Cone" (Valparaiso, Chile, 27-31 May 2013)
Optical Memory, Switching, and Neuromorphic Functionality in Metal Halide Perovskite Materials and Devices
Creators: name: Vats, Gaurav
name: Hodges, Brett
name: Ferguson, Andrew J.
name: Wheeler, Lance
name: Blackburn, Jeffrey L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metal halide perovskite-based materials have emerged over the past few decades as remarkable solution-processable opto-electronic materials with many intriguing properties and potential applications. These emerging materials have recently been considered for their promise in low-energy memory and information processing applications. In particular, their large optical cross-sections, high photoconductance contrast, large carrier diffusion lengths, and mixed electronic/ionic transport mechanisms are attractive for enabling memory elements and neuromorphic devices that are written and/or read in the optical domain. Here, we review recent progress toward memory and neuromorphic functionality in metal halide perovskite materials and devices where photons are used as a critical degree of freedom for switching, memory, and neuromorphic functionality.
Elastic Multi-Body Interactions on a Lattice
Creators: name: Petrov, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that by coupling two hyperfine states of an atom in an optical lattice one can independently control two-, three-, and four-body on-site interactions in a non-perturbative manner. In particular, under typical conditions of current experiments one can have a purely three- or four-body interacting gas of $^{39}$K atoms characterized by on-site interaction shifts of several 100Hz.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Casimir Effect in Active Matter Systems
Creators: name: Ray, D.
name: Reichhardt, C.
name: Reichhardt, C. J. Olson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically examine run-and-tumble active matter particles in Casimir geometries composed of two finite parallel walls. We find that there is an attractive force between the two walls of a magnitude that increases with increasing run length. The attraction exhibits an unusual exponential dependence on the wall separation, and it arises due to a depletion of swimmers in the region between the walls by a combination of the motion of the particles along the walls and a geometric shadowing effect. This attraction is robust as long as the wall separation is comparable to or smaller than the swimmer run length, and is only slightly reduced by the inclusion of steric interactions between swimmers. We also examine other geometries and find regimes in which there is a crossover from attraction to repulsion between the walls as a function of wall separation and run length.
description: 6 pages, 5 postscript figures
Simplified normal forms near a degenerate elliptic fixed point in two-parametric families of area-preserving maps
Creators: name: Gelfreich, Vassili
name: Gelfreikh, Natalia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J40, 37G05, 70K45, 70K42

description: We derive simplified normal forms for an area-preserving map in a neighbourhood of a degenerate resonant elliptic fixed point. Such fixed points appear in generic two-parameter families of area-preserving maps. We also derive a simplified normal form for a generic two-parametric unfolding. The normal forms are used to analyse bifurcations of $n$-periodic orbits. In particular, for $n\ge6$ we find regions of parameters where the normal form has "meandering'' invariant curves.
Editorial Board: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (2001-2004)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2004

description: Copies of pages listing members of the editorial board of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. The Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, ISSN: 0033-5649 was founded in 1940 by Howard W. Haggard, M.D., director of Yale University’s Laboratory of Applied Physiology. Later it was renamed the Journal of Studies on Alcohol, and is currently called the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, published at the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies.
Additional file 1 of Community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the Delta wave in New York City
Creators: name: Dai, Katherine
name: Foerster, Steffen
name: Vora, Neil M.
name: Blaney, Kathleen
name: Keeley, Chris
name: Hendricks, Lisa
name: Varma, Jay K.
name: Long, Theodore
name: Shaman, Jeffrey
name: Pei, Sen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1.
Stock Return Volatility in Southeast Asian Markets
Creators: name: Inphong, Natthinee
Publisher: name: Leeds Beckett University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis explores determinants of stock return volatility in Southeast Asian markets. Firstly, we examine the effects of fundamental factors (macroeconomic and corporate variables) and behavioural factors (index composition and political risk) on stock market volatility. The factors are studied based on two theories in finance: neoclassical finance and behavioural finance. The results show that behavioural factors affect stock market volatility more significantly than fundamental factors in the countries with underdeveloped financial systems and unstable economies. This implies that the concept of behavioural finance is more reliable. However, the implication of the results presented in this thesis contributes to numerous finance researches regarding the theory of neoclassical finance in the countries with developed financial systems and stable economies. Next, we investigate evidence of primary factors influencing stock return volatility at industry level. Our results indicate that behavioural factors influence industry return volatility more significantly compared to those on aggregate market level. In other words, noise trading tends to be found in industry level, while informed traders become more dominant in the market, and thus the impact of noise trading on aggregate market volatility is reduced. Finally, we further evaluate the significance of stock return volatility by investigating the dynamics of volatility for the implications of real economic activity and crisis. A number of tests are conducted to examine whether the characteristics of return volatility involve a crisis and whether information in time-varying return volatilities explains macroeconomic fluctuations. As expected, we have found some characteristics of return volatility related to a crisis. There are the same results in both aggregate market and industry levels. The positive and relatively large value of β coefficient, which indicates high persistence in volatility, has been found in the time of pre-crisis. In addition, the results suggest that return volatility at industry level are most important closer to real economic activity, while return volatility at aggregate market is further. Most notably, industries that highly related to financial system (finance & securities and banking industry groups) appear to warrant overweighting for macroeconomic environment. Our results should be of value to macro-prudential, fiscal and monetary policy makers, as they provide guidance on how policy makers should think about the relationship between stock return volatility and the financial system to indicate economic conditions. These also present an important policy implication in light of stock market regulations, which should be established to prevent investors from clouding decision-making processes.
Modeling of compressible electrolytes with phase transition
Creators: name: Dreyer, Wolfgang
name: Giesselmann, Jan
name: Kraus, Christiane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 78A57, 80A17, 92E20, 35C20, 35R35, 76T10, 76T30, 35Q30, 35Q35, 76D45, 76N10, 76T99, 76A02, 80A22, 82B26, 34B15

description: A novel thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is derived for compressible electrolytes with phase transitions. The fluid mixtures may consist of N constituents with the phases liquid and vapor, where both phases may coexist. In addition, all constituents may consist of polarizable and magnetizable matter. Our introduced thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model may be regarded as a generalized model of Allen-Cahn/Navier-Stokes/Poisson type for multi-component flows with phase transitions and electrochemical reactions. For the introduced diffuse interface model, we investigate physically admissible sharp interface limits by matched asymptotic techniques. We consider two scaling regimes, i.e. a non-coupled and a coupled regime, where the coupling takes place between the smallness parameter in the Poisson equation and the width of the interface. We recover in the sharp interface limit a generalized Allen-Cahn/Euler/Poisson system for mixtures with electrochemical reactions in the bulk phases equipped with admissible interfacial conditions. The interfacial conditions satisfy, for instance, a generalized Gibbs-Thomson law and a dynamic Young-Laplace law.
Are Giant Molecular Clouds Real? Searching for a virialized scale in NGC 253
Creators: name: Oakes, Elias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) are widely described as the key structures of early star formation. However, the hierarchical and complex nature of the interstellar medium (ISM) means that cloud-like objects can be seen above and below the canonical GMC scales of 50-100 pc, raising the question of whether GMCs are physically motivated, well-defined entities. In this work, I will describe a search for the characteristic size scale of bound objects. I will present the ALMA Zoom field, which maps 12CO(2-1) at 0.3'' ~= 5 pc spatial resolution over 1.4 kpc^2 in the disk of NGC 253. Using dendrograms, we have conducted a scale-free, hierarchical decomposition of these data to identify over 2400 candidate structures with sizes ranging from R~2 to 500 pc. We estimate the bound state of each structure, i.e. whether we expect it to be gravitationally coherent or not, using the virial parameter. By comparing the virial parameter against physical properties including the size, mass, surface density, and hierarchical position of structures, we have carried out a comprehensive search for a preferred scale at which bound structures emerge. Ultimately, we do not find any emergent scale for cloud-like structures in our data. These findings call into question the GMC paradigm and emphasize the need for structure-agnostic approaches to characterize the ISM.
Disadvantages of Preferential Dispersals in Fluctuating Environments
Creators: name: Morita, Satoru
name: Yoshimura, Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has not been known whether preferential dispersal is adaptive in fluctuating environments. We investigate the effect of preferential and random dispersals in bet-hedging systems by using a discrete stochastic metapopulation model, where each site fluctuates between good and bad environments with temporal correlation. To explore the optimal migration pattern, an analytical estimation of the total growth is derived by mean field approximation. We found that the preference for fertile sites is disadvantageous when transportation among sites has a cost or the sensitivity of preference is high.
EMPATHY IN CLINICAL NURSING EDUCATION IN A SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT: A SCOPING REVIEW PROTOCOL
Creators: name: De Godoy, Simone
name: Mendes, Isabel Amélia Costa
name: Parsons, Gareth Simon
name: Lancastle, Deborah
name: Araújo, Agostinho Antônio Cruz
name: Juping Yu
name: Souza, Mirella Castelhano
name: Santos, Sara Soares Dos
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
subject: Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Empathy
subject: Nursing Students
subject: Virtual Reality

description: Opportunities for preserving and developing empathy and building empathy skills exist within nurse education. It is well known that students profess to be interested in nursing as a career because they want to help others, therefore students existing empathy skills can be developed, or enhanced through exposure to education experiences in the affective, cognitive or behavioral areas.
The interpolation method for random graphs with prescribed degrees
Creators: name: Salez, Justin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider large random graphs with prescribed degrees, such as those generated by the configuration model. In the regime where the empirical degree distribution approaches a limit $μ$ with finite mean, we establish the systematic convergence of a broad class of graph parameters that includes in particular the independence number, the maximum cut size and the log-partition function of the antiferromagnetic Ising and Potts models. The corresponding limits are shown to be Lipschitz and concave functions of $μ$. Our work extends the applicability of the celebrated interpolation method, introduced in the context of spin glasses, and recently related to the fascinating problem of right-convergence of sparse graphs.
Asymptotic stability of stationary solutions to the compressible Euler-Maxwell equations
Creators: name: Liu, Qingqing
name: Zhu, Changjiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we are concerned with the compressible Euler-Maxwell equations with a nonconstant background density (e.g. of ions) in three dimensional space. There exist stationary solutions when the background density is a small perturbation of a positive constant state. We first show the asymptotic stability of solutions to the Cauchy problem near the stationary state provided that the initial perturbation is sufficiently small. Moreover the convergence rates are obtained by combining the $L^p$-$L^q$ estimates for the linearized equations with time-weighted estimate.
description: 25 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1006.3606 by other authors
title: Zum Andenken an Herrn Dr. Emil Sträuli
title: 20. April 1834 - 3. April 1894
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Herold, Otto
name: Kronauer, O.
name: Schneider, Albert
name: Schenk, C.
Publisher: name: Druck von Geschwister Ziegler
Year: 1894
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Sträuli, Emil
subject: Winterthur

description: Inhalt: Leichenreden gehalten bei der Beerdigung am 6. April 1894: Herr Dekan 0. Herold in Winterthur, Herr Oberrichter O. Kronauer in Winterthur, Herr Professor Dr. A. Schneider in Zürich, Herr Stadtschreiber Dr. C. Schenk in Winterthur ; sowie Nekrologe aus verschiedenen Zeitungen
Constraints for the Progenitor Masses of 17 Historic Core-Collapse Supernovae
Creators: name: Williams, Benjamin F.
name: Peterson, Skyler
name: Murphy, Jeremiah
name: Gilbert, Karoline
name: Dalcanton, Julianne J.
name: Dolphin, Andrew E.
name: Jennings, Zachary G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using resolved stellar photometry measured from archival HST imaging, we generate color-magnitude diagrams of the stars within 50 pc of the locations of historic core-collapse supernovae that took place in galaxies within 8 Mpc. We fit these color-magnitude distributions with stellar evolution models to determine the best-fit age distribution of the young population. We then translate these age distributions into probability distributions for the progenitor mass of each SNe. The measurements are anchored by the main-sequence stars surrounding the event, making them less sensitive to assumptions about binarity, post-main-sequence evolution, or circumstellar dust. We demonstrate that, in cases where the literature contains masses that have been measured from direct imaging, our measurements are consistent with (but less precise than) these measurements. Using this technique, we constrain the progenitor masses of 17 historic SNe, 11 of which have no previous estimates from direct imaging. Our measurements still allow the possibility that all SNe progenitor masses are <20 M_sun. However, the large uncertainties for the highest-mass progenitors also allow the possibility of no upper-mass cutoff.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Adelocera imfoveata Vats and Kashyap 1992
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Adelocera
Adelocera imfoveata

description: Adelocera imfoveata Vats and Kashyap, 1992
Adelocera imfoveatus Vats and Kashyap, 1992: 8.
Type depository. Holotype (NPC-IARI).
Type locality. Uttar Pradesh (Shahjahanpur).
Distribution. India: Uttar Pradesh (Chakraborty, Chakrabarti, 2000).
Literature. Vats and Kashyap (1992: 8): original description; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2000: 75): catalogue.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
Learning Label Encodings for Deep Regression
Creators: name: Shah, Deval
name: Aamodt, Tor M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep regression networks are widely used to tackle the problem of predicting a continuous value for a given input. Task-specialized approaches for training regression networks have shown significant improvement over generic approaches, such as direct regression. More recently, a generic approach based on regression by binary classification using binary-encoded labels has shown significant improvement over direct regression. The space of label encodings for regression is large. Lacking heretofore have been automated approaches to find a good label encoding for a given application. This paper introduces Regularized Label Encoding Learning (RLEL) for end-to-end training of an entire network and its label encoding. RLEL provides a generic approach for tackling regression. Underlying RLEL is our observation that the search space of label encodings can be constrained and efficiently explored by using a continuous search space of real-valued label encodings combined with a regularization function designed to encourage encodings with certain properties. These properties balance the probability of classification error in individual bits against error correction capability. Label encodings found by RLEL result in lower or comparable errors to manually designed label encodings. Applying RLEL results in 10.9% and 12.4% improvement in Mean Absolute Error (MAE) over direct regression and multiclass classification, respectively. Our evaluation demonstrates that RLEL can be combined with off-the-shelf feature extractors and is suitable across different architectures, datasets, and tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/ubc-aamodt-group/RLEL_regression.
description: Published at ICLR 2023 (Notable top-25%)
Reading to learn RTL Pedagogy
Creators: name: Bhila, Takura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Deep learning

description: Reading to Learn pedagogy seem to be providing the most needed solutions towards educational achievement across the curriculum from primary school to the university. However, across grades, the teaching of reading is not given the attention it deserves from primary to university because of misaligned assumptions. It is at the backdrop of this assertion that this paper argues that Reading to Learn pedagogy can be the solution to the failure to read to learn experienced across the education spectrum especially in the primary and secondary education sector. This study was informed by Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, Halliday’s systemic functional theory and Bernstein’s pedagogic discourse. This is mixed method research from which data was generated through action research, structured interviews, questionnaires, and journaling, posttest and pretest activities. Data was analysed and presented into themes and statistical analysis in the form of bar graphs. It is established from the research that reading to learn pedagogy can be the solution to reading to learn challenges manifesting themselves in a Namibian primary school and other similar environments.