cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fault tolerance for holonomic quantum computation
Creators: name: Oreshkov, Ognyan
name: Brun, Todd A.
name: Lidar, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review an approach to fault-tolerant holonomic quantum computation on stabilizer codes. We explain its workings as based on adiabatic dragging of the subsystem containing the logical information around suitable loops along which the information remains protected.
description: 16 pages, this is a chapter in the book "Quantum Error Correction", edited by Daniel A. Lidar and Todd A. Brun, (Cambridge University Press, 2013), at http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/quantum-physics-quantum-information-and-quantum-computation/quantum-error-correction
A solution to Karttunen’s Problem
Creators: name: Mandelkern, Matthew
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: There is a difference between the conditions in which one can felicitously assert a ‘must’-claim versus those in which one can use the corresponding non-modal claim. But it is difficult to pin down just what this difference amounts to. And it is even harder to account for this difference, since assertions of ˹Must φ˺ and assertions of φ alone seem to have the same basic goal: namely, coming to agreement that 〚φ〛 is true. In this paper I take on this puzzle, known as Karttunen’s Problem. I begin by arguing that a ‘must’-claim is felicitous only if there is a shared argument for its prejacent. I then argue that this generalization, which I call Support, can explain the more familiar generalization that ‘must’-claims are felicitous only if the speaker’s evidence for them is in some sense indirect. Finally, I sketch a pragmatic derivation of Support.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 2 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
Bauschinger Effect in Thin Metal Films: Discrete Dislocation Dynamics Study
Creators: name: Davoudi, Kamyar M.
name: Nicola, Lucia
name: Vlassak, Joost J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of dislocation climb on plastic deformation during loading and unloading are studied using a two-dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics model. Simulations are performed for polycrystalline thin films passivated on both surfaces. Dislocation climb lowers the overall level of the stress inside thin films and reduces the work hardening rate. Climb decreases the density of dislocations in pile-ups and reduces back stresses. These factors result in a smaller Bauschinger effect on unloading compared to simulations without climb. As dislocations continue to climb at the onset of unloading and the dislocation density continues to increase, the initial unloading slope increases with decreasing unloading rate. Because climb disperses dislocations, fewer dislocations are annihilated during unloading, leading to a higher dislocation density at the end of the unloading step.
description: 21 pages including 7 figures, Accepted by Journal of Applied Physics
On the role of classifiers in licensing Mandarin existential wh-phrases
Creators: name: Huang, Hsin-Lun
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: As in many languages in the world, wh-phrases in Mandarin can be interpreted as more than interrogative, depending on where they appear. This paper focuses on one of the non-interrogative readings of Mandarin wh-phrases, the existential reading, and presents an account of the licensing conditions for this particular reading by examining its distribution. Moreover, this paper aims to tackle the issue concerning the required co-occurrence of existential wh-phrases and classifiers in certain environments, a puzzle that has received much notice (Li, 1992; Lin, 1998; Liao, 2011) but is not yet resolved. This paper argues that Mandarin wh-phrases require two ingredients to be existential, non-veridicality (Xie, 2007; Lin et al., 2014) and existential closure (∃) (Kratzer and Shimoyama, 2002). And classifiers play the role of providing existential force to the wh-phrase when ∃ is unavailable. The (un-)availability of ∃ is conditioned by the application site of ∃ and the syntactic heights of non-veridical operators, whose scope constitutes the licensing domain for the wh-phrase: ∃ is unavailable when it falls outside the scope of the non-veridical operators, given a licensing condition proposed in this paper that limits the application of ∃ to wh-phrases to being within a non-veridical domain. In that case, a classifier is required for the existential interpretation of the wh-phrase.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
Embedded port infrastructure inspection using artificial intelligence
Creators: name: Vigne, Nicolas
name: Barrère, Rémi
name: Blanck, Benjamin
name: Steffens, Florian
name: Nok Au, Ching
name: Riordan, James
name: Dooly, Gerard
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: This paper is related to the H2020 RAPID project, focusing on the AI automated monitoring of critical port infrastructure such as concrete structure. An important objective in RAPID was to translate a technical expertise of labelling cracks into a UAV real-time embedded solution based on deep neural networks. The efficiency of a deep learning algorithm is highly dependent on the data used for training, and this paper illustrates the fact that the use of open-source data is not sufficient. An intensive collaboration between neural network and industry experts made it possible to obtain a relevant data set of sufficient size to carry out quality training. This collaborative work also allowed the definition of ground truths, necessary for the validation of the detection system. In this paper, we provide a definition of the useful metrics and objectives for the algorithms in accordance with the complexity of the cracks and their environment, used to identify the best neural network in terms of efficiency, and performance to embed it on a UAV. Our research then focused on the hardware platform that could be used as an onboard computer for the drone, considering Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) constraints. We applied optimization methods to reduce the latency of our models while maintaining high accuracy. These techniques allowed us achieve a state-of-the-art detection rate while complying with the real-time requirements of the overall system, and the need to increase productivity of mission inspections in a port environment through high-speed inferences.
A uniqueness puzzle: How many-questions and non-distributive predication
Creators: name: Gentile, Francesco Paolo
name: Schwarz, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: We discuss a novel observation about the meaning of how many-questions, viz. a uniqueness implication that arises in cases that feature non distributive predicates, such as How many students solved this problem together?. We attempt an analysis of this effect in terms of Dayal’s (1996) Maximal Informativity Presupposition for questions. We observe that such an analysis must be reconciled with the unexpected absence of uniqueness implications in cases where the non-distributive predicate appears under a possibility modal. We explore two possible solutions: (i) the postulation of a scopally mobile maximality operator in degree questions of the sort proposed in Abrus´an and Spector (2011); (ii) the proposal that the informativity to be maximized is based on pragmatic, contextual, entailment rather than semantic entailment. We explain why neither solution is satisfactory. We also observe that a Maximal Informativity Presupposition fails to capture uniqueness implications in how many-questions with predicates that are weakly distributive in the sense of Buccola and Spector (2016), such as How many students in the seminar have the same first name?. We conclude that uniqueness implications in how many-questions must have a source that is independent of Dayal’s (1996) Maximal Informativity Presupposition.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
Realizing topological states with polyatomic symmetric top molecules
Creators: name: Wall, M. L.
name: Maeda, K.
name: Carr, L. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that ultracold polyatomic symmetric top molecules, such as methyl fluoride, loaded into an optical lattice and subject to DC electric and microwave field dressing, can display topological order via a self-consistent analog of a proximity effect in the internal state space of the molecule. The non-trivial topology arises from pairwise transitions between internal states induced by dipole-dipole interactions and made resonant by the field dressing. Topological order is explicitly demonstrated by matrix product state simulations on 1D chains. Additionally, we show that in the limit of pinned molecules our description maps onto a long-range and anisotropic XYZ spin model, where Majorana fermions are zero-energy edge excitations in the case of nearest-neighbor couplings.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Coordination and focus particles (re?)united
Creators: name: Gajič, Jovana
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: The aim of this paper is to sketch a unified semantics for coordination markers and focus particles. The main empirical motivation is found in the existence of some ‘multipractic’ particles in Serbian, ni and i, which serve as coordination markers, additive focus particles and scalar focus particles. A disjunction-based analysis can capture the polarity-sensitive behavior of ni, whereas i relies on a conjunction semantics. An approach that involves the exhaustification of alternatives is a crucial ingredient. Nonetheless, two types of exhaustification should be allowed—one corresponding to ‘only’ and the other one to ‘even’.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
Neutron-skin values and matter and neutron radii determined from reaction cross sections of proton scattering on $^{12}$C, $^{40,48}$Ca, $^{58}$Ni, $^{208}$Pb
Creators: name: Wakasa, Tomotsugu
name: Tagami, Shingo
name: Matsui, Jun
name: Takechi, Maya
name: Yahiro, Masanobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Very lately, the PREX and the CREX collaboration present skin values, $r_{\rm skin}^{208}({\rm newPREX2}) =0.278 \pm 0.078\ {\rm (exp)} \pm 0.012\ {\rm (theor.)}\,{\rm fm}$ and $r_{\rm skin}^{48}=0.121 \pm 0.026\ {\rm (exp)} \pm 0.024\ {\rm (model)}$, respectively. We recently determined a neutron-skin value $r_{\rm skin}^{208}=0.278 \pm 0.035$fm from measured reaction cross sections $σ_{\rm R}({\rm exp})$ of p+$^{208}$Pb scattering in a range of incident energies $10 \lsim E_{\rm in} \lsim 100$ MeV where the chiral (Kyushu) $g$-matrix folding model is reliable for $^{12}$C+$^{12}$C scattering. The data $σ_{\rm R}({\rm exp})$ are available for proton scattering on $^{58}$Ni, $^{40,48}$Ca, $^{12}$C targets. Our first aim is to test the Kyushu $g$-matrix folding model for p+$^{208}$Pb scattering in $20 \lsim E_{\rm in} \lsim 180$ MeV. Our second aim is to determine skin values $r_{\rm skin}$ and matter and neutron radii, $r_{\rm m}$ and $r_{\rm n}$, for $^{208}$Pb, $^{58}$Ni, $^{40,48}$Ca, $^{12}$C from the $σ_{\rm R}({\rm exp})$. Our method is the Kyushu $g$-matrix folding model with the densities scaled from the D1S-GHFB+AMP densities, where D1S-GHFB+AMP stands for Gogny-D1S HFB (GHFB) with the angular momentum projection (AMP). As for proton scattering, we find that our model is reliable in $20 \lsim E_{\rm in} \lsim 180$ MeV. For $^{208}$Pb, the skin value deduced from $σ_{\rm R}({\rm exp})$ in $20 \lsim E_{\rm in} \lsim 180$ MeV is $r_{\rm skin}^{208}(σ_{\rm R})=0.299 \pm 0.020$ fm. Our results on $r_{\rm skin}$ are compared with the previous works. Our result $r_{\rm skin}^{208}(σ_{\rm R}) = 0.299 \pm 0.020$ fm agrees with $r_{\rm skin}^{208}({\rm PREX2}) = 0.283\pm 0.071$ fm. In addition, our result $r_{\rm skin}^{48}=0.103 \pm 0.022$ fm is consistent with the CREX value.
title: Stadt für alle?
Creators: name: Huber, Nora Lynn
Year: 2023

description: Der öffentliche Raum erfüllt vielseitige Funktionen, er ist Aufenthaltsraum, Ort der Begegnung mit Fremdem und des Meinungsaustauschs. Damit ist er essentiell für eine demokratische Stadtgesellschaft und urbane Lebensqualität. Durch demographische, klimatische und ökonomische Entwicklungen geraten öffentliche Räume jedoch zunehmend unter Druck. Die Masterarbeit untersucht, welche Faktoren die Wahrnehmung öffentlicher Räume prägen und wie diese positiv verändert werden kann. Basierend auf der Annahme, dass die Zugänglichkeit die wichtigste Eigenschaft des öffentlichen Raumes ist, wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie Verdrängungsprozesse verhindert und möglichst inklusive und diverse öffentliche Räume geschaffen werden können. Dazu werden mittels qualitativer Expert:inneninterviews die vier Wiener Praxisbeispiele Wasserwelt, Praterstern, Reumannplatz und Schlingermarkt analysiert. Die Resultate werden in Form einer Toolbox zusammengefasst und anhand davon Handlungsempfehlungen für die zukünftige Entwicklung des Wiener Fallbeispiels Franz-Jonas-Platz formuliert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass für die Planung von inklusiven und diversen öffentlichen Plätzen drei Bereiche berücksichtigt werden müssen. Erstens zeichnet sich ein inklusiver Planungsprozess aus durch eine gute Datengrundlage über die Bedürfnisse aller sozialen Gruppen am Ort, eine Beteiligung mit Rücksichtnahme auf benachteiligte Gruppen, eine sensible Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und eine respektvolle Zusammenarbeit mit allen beteiligten Akteur:innen. Zweitens ermöglichen eine bedürfnisorientierte bauliche Gestaltung und Infrastrukturausstattung ein gutes Nebeneinander verschiedener sozialer Gruppen und eine Erhöhung der Aufenthaltsqualität für alle. Drittens erlauben es vielseitige, niederschwellige und bei Bedarf konfliktlösende Angebote am Platz, die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe für alle sozialen Gruppen zu fördern. Inklusive und diverse öffentliche Räume können gelingen, wenn in der Planung ein Bewusstsein für gesellschaftliche Machtverhältnisse besteht und eine breite Perspektive eingenommen wird, wofür diese Masterarbeit sensibilisieren will.
Nominalized clauses and reference to propositional content
Creators: name: Bogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth
name: Moulton, Keir
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: We investigate the semantics of Korean embedded clauses that bear the nominalizer kes and declarative marker ta. Such clauses can be embedded by mit ‘believe.’ While such clauses are not factive (Shim and Ihsane 2015), we present elicitation data that shows that nominalized (ta-kes) clauses are felicitously embedded by mit only if their conveyed content was previously asserted in the context; no such restriction arises for non nominalized clauses. Our analysis of such nominalized embedded clauses argues that they do not denote a proposition— a set of possibleworlds—but rather a definite description of a discourse event—an assertion event— that carries propositional content. The use of ta-kes embedded clauses allows Korean verbs like mit to acquire felicity conditions similar to those proposed for response-stance verbs (e.g. agree, deny) (Cattell 1978, Anand and Hacquard 2014).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
title: Wie können Organisationen Frauen zu female ledership befähigen?
Creators: name: Meusburger, Clara
Year: 2023

description: Verschiedene Forschungsergebnisse und Medienberichte weisen immer wieder auf die Ungleichheit der Geschlechter in beruflichen Kontexten hin. Hierzu wird einerseits der finanzielle Aspekt und andererseits die Repräsentanz der Geschlechter auf der Ebene der Führungskräfte thematisiert. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit untersucht, welche Maßnahmen Unternehmen in Österreich bereits setzen, sodass mehr Frauen in Führungspositionen kommen, und auch die Wahrnehmung der Frauen in Führungspositionen zu deren Karriereaufstieg. Hierzu wurden 10 leitfadengestützte explorative Expert*inneninterviews mit Mitarbeiter*innen von Unternehmen, welche in Österreich ansässig sind, geführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass das Thema Frauenförderung in Unternehmen nach einer feinfühligen Integrations- und Kulturveränderungsarbeit verlangt. Die Wichtigkeit des Einbezugs der Führungskräfte, aber auch aller Mitarbeitenden durch Bildungs- und Teamentwicklungsmaßnahmen ist für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung essenziell. Als wichtige Steuerungsmechanismen können staatliche, aber auch unternehmensinterne Vorgaben, wie zum Beispiel die Integration von Quoten beschrieben werden. Limitationen der Masterarbeit ergeben sich beispielsweise durch die geografischen Gegebenheiten, aber auch der explorative Zugang unterstützt eine tiefgreifende Auseinandersetzung mit einzelnen Ursachen nicht.
description: Various research results and media reports repeatedly point out gender inequality in professional contexts. Both gender representation in leading positions and financial inequalities are discussed. This master's thesis examines which measures companies in Austria apply in order to have more women in executive positions. For this purpose, ten ‘guideline-based expert- interviews’ within Austrian companies have been conducted. The results show that promoting women in companies requires sensitive implementation of cultural change at work. Involving managers and employees at all levels, through education, training, and team development sessions, is essential for success in improving gender equality in the workplace. Company- internal guidelines and the integration of quotas can also be pivotal and useful tools to help achieve equality. Limitations of this master’s thesis include the geographic circumstances, as well as the challenge of the explorative scientific approach which does not support an in-depth examination of individual causes.
Magnetic braking of Ap/Bp stars: an alternative formation mechanism of compact intermediate-mass binary pulsars
Creators: name: Liu, Wei-Min
name: Chen, Wen-Cong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is difficult for the intermediate-mass X-ray binaries (IMXBs) evolutionary channel to form intermediate-mass binary pulsars (IMBPs) with a short orbital period (less than 3 d) via stable mass transfer. The main reason is that the magnetic braking mechanisms are generally thought not to work for donor stars with a mass of greater than 1.5 $\rm M_{\odot}$ in the canonical model. However, some intermediate-mass stars have anomalously strong magnetic fields (about 100 -- 10000 G), i. e. so-called Ap or Bp stars. With the coupling between the magnetic field and the irradiation-driven wind from the surface of Ap/Bp stars, a plausible magnetic braking mechanism should be expected. In this work, we attempt to investigate if IMXBs with Ap/Bp stars can produce IMBPs with a short orbital period (less than 3 d) by such an anomalous magnetic braking mechanism. Using a stellar evolution code, we have simulated the evolution of a large number of IMXBs consisting of a NS and an Ap/Bp star. For the spin evolution of the NS, we consider the accretion torque, the propeller torque, and the spin-down torque caused by the interaction between the magnetic field and the accretion disc. The calculated results show that, employing anomalous magnetic braking of Ap/Bp stars, IMXBs can evolve into compact IMBPs with short orbital periods of less than 3 d. However, there exists significant discrepancy between the spin periods of IMBPs in our simulated results and those observed.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Half-integer conductance plateau at the $ν= 2/3$ fractional quantum Hall state in a quantum point contact
Creators: name: Nakamura, James
name: Liang, Shuang
name: Gardner, Geoffrey C.
name: Manfra, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $ν= 2/3$ fractional quantum Hall state is the hole-conjugate state to the primary Laughlin $ν= 1/3$ state. We investigate transmission of edge states through quantum point contacts fabricated on a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure designed to have a sharp confining potential. When a small but finite bias is applied, we observe an intermediate conductance plateau with $G = 0.5 \frac{e^2}{h}$. This plateau is observed in multiple QPCs, and persists over a significant range of magnetic field, gate voltage, and source-drain bias, making it a robust feature. Using a simple model which considers scattering and equilibration between counterflowing charged edge modes, we find this half-integer quantized plateau to be consistent with full reflection of an inner counterpropagating -1/3 edge mode while the outer integer mode is fully transmitted. In a QPC fabricated on a different heterostructure which has a softer confining potential, we instead observe an intermediate conductance plateau at $G = \frac{1}{3} \frac{e^2}{h}$. These results provide support for a model at $ν= 2/3$ in which the edge transitions from a structure having an inner upstream -1/3 charge mode and outer downstream integer mode to a structure with two downstream 1/3 charge modes when the confining potential is tuned from sharp to soft and disorder prevails.
description: 6+4 pages, 4+4 figures
Towards a model of incremental composition
Creators: name: Beck, Sigrid
name: Tiemann, Sonja
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: This paper reviews some recent psycholinguistic results on semantic processing and explores their consequences for a cognitively plausible model of incremental composition. We argue that semantic composition is neither strictly incremental (in the sense that every incoming word is composed immediately) nor global (in the sense that composition only proceeds when the entire syntactic structure is available). We conjecture that incremental composition is type driven: elements in the same type domain (e.g. temporal ) are composed immediately; elements that concern different type domains (e.g. temporal  vs. event ) cause delayed processing.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
Expert System Based On Neural-Fuzzy Rules for Thyroid Diseases Diagnosis
Creators: name: Azar, Ahmad Taher
name: Hassanien, Aboul Ella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The thyroid, an endocrine gland that secretes hormones in the blood, circulates its products to all tissues of the body, where they control vital functions in every cell. Normal levels of thyroid hormone help the brain, heart, intestines, muscles and reproductive system function normally. Thyroid hormones control the metabolism of the body. Abnormalities of thyroid function are usually related to production of too little thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism) or production of too much thyroid hormone (hyperthyroidism). Therefore, the correct diagnosis of these diseases is very important topic. In this study, Linguistic Hedges Neural-Fuzzy Classifier with Selected Features (LHNFCSF) is presented for diagnosis of thyroid diseases. The performance evaluation of this system is estimated by using classification accuracy and k-fold cross-validation. The results indicated that the classification accuracy without feature selection was 98.6047% and 97.6744% during training and testing phases, respectively with RMSE of 0.02335. After applying feature selection algorithm, LHNFCSF achieved 100% for all cluster sizes during training phase. However, in the testing phase LHNFCSF achieved 88.3721% using one cluster for each class, 90.6977% using two clusters, 91.8605% using three clusters and 97.6744% using four clusters for each class and 12 fuzzy rules. The obtained classification accuracy was very promising with regard to the other classification applications in literature for this problem.
description: Conference Paper
Higher-order corrections in $t{\bar t}γ$ cross sections
Creators: name: Kidonakis, Nikolaos
name: Tonero, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study higher-order QCD corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a photon ($t{\bar t}γ$ production) in proton-proton collisions. We calculate the approximate NNLO cross section, with second-order soft-gluon corrections added to the complete NLO result, including uncertainties from scale dependence and from parton distributions. We compare our results to recent measurements from the LHC, and find that the soft-gluon corrections provide improved agreement with the data. We also calculate differential distributions in top-quark transverse momentum and rapidity.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
HAVE as a relation between individuals and properties
Creators: name: Bassaganyas-Bars, Toni
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: This paper argues that the role of HAVE-predicates is to introduce relations into the discourse, one of whose arguments is the individual denoted by the sentence subject. This is the only token-level argument in the relation: the other is modeled as a nominalized property (Chierchia, 1984; Chierchia and Turner, 1988). A number of peculiarities of HAVE are argued to follow from this account, including its connection with existential predicates (McNally, 1992, 2009).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
Two indefinite pronouns in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Creators: name: Barbera, Gemma
name: Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: This paper analyses two pronouns in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) that refer to unidentified human referents: WHOˆSOMEup and ONEup. We first show that in contexts that discriminate between indefinite pronouns and existential readings of human impersonal pronouns, both pronouns pattern with indefinite pronouns. We then examine the semantic properties of the two pronouns. WHOˆSOMEup and ONEup contrast with respect to their number, compatibility with collective predicates, scope with respect to event iteration and domain restriction requirements. In terms of specificity, both pronouns are epistemically non-specific, but ONEup is interpreted as scopally and partitively specific while WHOˆSOMEup is neutral with respect to scopal and partitive specificity.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
PHANGS-JWST First Results: The Influence of Stellar Clusters on PAHs in Nearby Galaxies
Creators: name: Dale, Daniel A.
name: Boquien, Médéric
name: Barnes, Ashley T.
name: Belfiore, Francesco
name: Bigiel, F.
name: Cao, Yixian
name: Chandar, Rupali
name: Chastenet, Jérémy
name: Chevance, Mélanie
name: Deger, Sinan
name: Egorov, Oleg V.
name: Grasha, Kathryn
name: Groves, Brent
name: Hassani, Hamid
name: Henny, Kiana F.
name: Klessen, Ralf S.
name: Kreckel, Kathryn
name: Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
name: Larson, Kirsten L.
name: Lee, Janice C.
name: Leroy, Adam K.
name: Liu, Daizhong
name: Murphy, Eric J.
name: Rosolowsky, Erik
name: Sandstrom, Karin
name: Schinnerer, Eva
name: Sutter, Jessica
name: Thilker, David A.
name: Watkins, Elizabeth J.
name: Whitmore, Bradley C.
name: Williams, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comparison of theoretical predictions of dust continuum and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission with new JWST observations in three nearby galaxies: NGC 628, NGC 1365, and NGC 7496. Our analysis focuses on a total of 1063 compact stellar clusters and 2654 stellar associations previously characterized by HST in the three galaxies. We find that the distributions and trends in the observed PAH-focused infrared colors generally agree with theoretical expectations, and that the bulk of the observations is more aligned with models of larger, ionized PAHs. These JWST data usher in a new era of probing interstellar dust and studying how the intense radiation fields near stellar clusters and associations play a role in shaping the physical properties of PAHs.
description: 8 pages, accepted as part of a PHANGS-JWST Focus Issue to appear in ApJ
Games in linguistics
Creators: name: Asher, Nicholas
name: Hunter, Julie
name: Paul, Soumya
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: In this paper we set out three consequences of a game-theoretic model for conversation, Message Exchange (ME) Games (Asher et al., 2016), which we think are of linguistic interest. We develop a notion of conversational success, explain subjectivity and bias in interpretation using concepts from epistemic game theory, and characterize the strategic usefulness of using so called expressions of “not at issue” content using ME games.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
A detailed investigation of W+c-jet at the LHC
Creators: name: Czakon, Michał
name: Mitov, Alexander
name: Pellen, Mathieu
name: Poncelet, Rene
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: State-of-the-art analyses of W+c-jet production at the LHC require precise predictions. In the present work, we study in detail the impact of off-diagonal CKM elements up to next-to-next-to leading order in QCD, the influence of flavored jet algorithms, and the size of electroweak corrections. In addition, we also investigate phenomenological aspects related to the exact definition of the process. We find that all these effects can be of the order of several per cent for both the fiducial cross section and differential distributions. They are, therefore, very relevant for the interpretation of current and upcoming measurements.
description: 23 pages, 31 pdf Figures. Matches published version
Kinds, epistemic indefinites, and some-exclamatives
Creators: name: Anderson, Curt
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Although exclamative sentences have garnered much attention over the years, most work has focused on understanding what have been called wh-exclamatives and nominal exclamatives, to the exclusion of other types of exclamative constructions. I focus on what I call some-exclamatives, clausal exclamatives where the predicate uses the determiner some. I provide an analysis of these exclamatives, showing how their existence is motivated by independent properties of exclamative constructions and some.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
Evolution: Life has Evolved to Evolve
Creators: name: Deem, Michael W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Jim Shapiro synthesizes a great many observations about the mechanisms of evolution to reach the remarkable conclusion that large-scale modification, exchange, and rearrangement of the genome are common and should be viewed as fundamental features of life. In other words, the genome should be viewed not as mostly read-only with a few rare mutations, but rather as a fully-fledged read-write library of genetic functions under continuous revision. Revision of the genome occurs during cellular replication, during multicellular development, and during evolution of a population of individuals. DNA formatting controls the timing and location of genetic rearrangements, gene expression, and genetic repair. Each of these events is under the control of precise cellular circuits. Shapiro reviews the toolbox of natural genetic engineering that provides the functionalities necessary for efficient long-term genome restructuring.
description: 3 pages
SMEFT truncation effects in Higgs boson pair production at NLO QCD
Creators: name: Heinrich, Gudrun
name: Lang, Jannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for Higgs boson pair production in gluon fusion at next-to-leading order in QCD, including effects of anomalous couplings within Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). In particular, we investigate truncation effects of the SMEFT series, comparing different ways to treat powers of dimension-six operators and double operator insertions.
description: Contribution to the proceedings of ACAT 2021
In situ electromagnetic field diagnostics with an electron plasma in a Penning-Malmberg trap
Creators: name: Amole, C.
name: Ashkezari, M. D.
name: Baquero-Ruiz, M.
name: Bertsche, W.
name: Butler, E.
name: Capra, A.
name: Cesar, C. L.
name: Charlton, M.
name: Deller, A.
name: Evetts, N.
name: Eriksson, S.
name: Fajans, J.
name: Friesen, T.
name: Fujiwara, M. C.
name: Gill, D. R.
name: Gutierrez, A.
name: Hangst, J. S.
name: Hardy, W. N.
name: Hayden, M. E.
name: Isaac, C. A.
name: Jonsell, S.
name: Kurchaninov, L.
name: Little, A.
name: Madsen, N.
name: McKenna, J. T. K.
name: Menary, S.
name: Napoli, S. C.
name: Olchanski, K.
name: Olin, A.
name: Pusa, P.
name: Rasmussen, C. Ø.
name: Robicheaux, F.
name: Sarid, E.
name: Silveira, D. M.
name: So, C.
name: Stracka, S.
name: Tharp, T.
name: Thompson, R. I.
name: van der Werf, D. P.
name: Wurtele, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a novel detection method for the cyclotron resonance frequency of an electron plasma in a Penning-Malmberg trap. With this technique, the electron plasma is used as an in situ diagnostic tool for measurement of the static magnetic field and the microwave electric field in the trap. The cyclotron motion of the electron plasma is excited by microwave radiation and the temperature change of the plasma is measured non-destructively by monitoring the plasma's quadrupole mode frequency. The spatially-resolved microwave electric field strength can be inferred from the plasma temperature change and the magnetic field is found through the cyclotron resonance frequency. These measurements were used extensively in the recently reported demonstration of resonant quantum interactions with antihydrogen.
Parent Stars of Extrasolar Planets - XIII. Additional Evidence for Li Abundance Anomalies
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Guillermo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of our analysis of new high resolution spectra of 37 late-F to early-G dwarf stars for the purpose of deriving their Li abundances. Most of the stars were selected from the large Valenti and Fischer compilation and had unknown Li abundances prior to the present study. When the new data are combined with data from our previous studies on this topic and analyzed in a similar way, we find, again, that stars with planets near the solar temperature are deficient in Li relative to a comparison set of stars. A similar result is obtained when we combine our data with a large database of stellar Li abundances from the literature.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Bilder in ausgewählten GW-Schulbüchern der fünften Schulstufe
Creators: name: Knötzl, Stefanie
Year: 2023

description: Bilder in Schulbücher werden oft dazu verwendet um komplexe Prozesse und Sachverhalte vereinfacht darzustellen oder komplizierte Texte zu veranschaulichen. Im Unterrichtsfach Geographie und wirtschaftliche Bildung schreibt man Medien, besonders dem Bild, eine große Bedeutung zu. In den Schulbüchern ist eine große Anzahl an Bildern und anderen graphischen Medien zu finden. In dieser Masterarbeit wird anhand einer bilddidaktischen Schulbuchanalyse erhoben, welche Funktionen die Bilder in den Schulbüchern erfüllen. Dabei wurden die fünf auflagestärksten GW-Schulbücher der fünften Schulstufe des Schuljahres 2022/23 verwendet. Für die Analyse wurden sieben Funktionen gewählt. Es wurde untersucht, ob die Bilder fachdidaktische Funktionen erfüllen oder lediglich rein illustrativ von den Schulbuchautorinnen und Schulbuchautoren sowie den Verlagen verwendet wurden. Weiters wurde analysiert, inwiefern die Bilder in dem Schulbuchtext beziehungsweise in den Arbeitsaufträgen miteinbezogen werden. Die Gemeinsamkeiten und die Unterschiede der fünf untersuchten Schulbücher werden, hinsichtlich der Funktionen der Bilder, dargestellt, um aufzuzeigen welche Lehrwerke fachdidaktisch, handlungs- und medienkompetenzorientiert aufgebaut sind.
Unifying the canonical, historical, and play-by-play present
Creators: name: Anand, Pranav
name: Toosarvandani, Maziar
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: While the present tense is typically taken to index the reference time to the time of utterance, such a restriction cannot capture noncanonical uses of the present in English, such as the historical present or play-by-play present. We adopt a bicontextual semantics for present tense, in which the two time coordinates are mediated by pragmatics, allowing us to bring canonical, narrative, and play-by-play uses under a single denotation. Moreover, we show that such a treatment can also capture the novel observation that the historical use of the present tense can “anchor” the past perfect, while its other two uses cannot.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
Long-term analysis of phenotypically structured models
Creators: name: Lorz, Alexander
name: Perthame, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Phenotypically structured equations arise in population biology to describe the interaction of species with their environment that brings the nutrients. This interaction usually leads to selection of the fittest individuals. Models used in this area are highly nonlinear, and the question of long term behaviour is usually not solved. However, there is a particular class of models for which convergence to an Evolutionary Stable Distribution is proved, namely when the quasi-static assumption is made. This means that the environment, and thus the nutrient supply, reacts immediately to the population dynamics. One possible proof is based on a Total Variation bound for the appropriate quantity. We extend this proof to several cases where the nutrient is regenerated with delay. A simple example is the chemostat with a rendering factor, then our result does not use any smallness assumption. For a more general setting, we can treat the case with a fast reaction of nutrient supply to the population dynamics.
The OLYMPUS Internal Hydrogen Target
Creators: name: Bernauer, J. C.
name: Carassiti, V.
name: Ciullo, G.
name: Henderson, B. S.
name: Ihloff, E.
name: Kelsey, J.
name: Lenisa, P.
name: Milner, R.
name: Schmidt, A.
name: Statera, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An internal hydrogen target system was developed for the OLYMPUS experiment at DESY, in Hamburg, Germany. The target consisted of a long, thin-walled, tubular cell within an aluminum scattering chamber. Hydrogen entered at the center of the cell and exited through the ends, where it was removed from the beamline by a multistage pumping system. A cryogenic coldhead cooled the target cell to counteract heating from the beam and increase the density of hydrogen in the target. A fixed collimator protected the cell from synchrotron radiation and the beam halo. A series of wakefield suppressors reduced heating from beam wakefields. The target system was installed within the DORIS storage ring and was successfully operated during the course of the OLYMPUS experiment in 2012. Information on the design, fabrication, and performance of the target system is reported.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures
Spectrum of a dilated honeycomb network
Creators: name: Exner, Pavel
name: Turek, Ondrej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 81Q35, Secondary 34B45, 34K13, 35B10

description: We analyze spectrum of Laplacian supported by a periodic honeycomb lattice with generally unequal edge lengths and a $δ$ type coupling in the vertices. Such a quantum graph has nonempty point spectrum with compactly supported eigenfunctions provided all the edge lengths are commensurate. We derive conditions determining the continuous spectral component and show that existence of gaps may depend on number-theoretic properties of edge lengths ratios. The case when two of the three lengths coincide is discussed in detail.
description: 21 pages, one figure
Intercombination line photoassociation spectroscopy of ${}^{87}$Rb${}^{170}$Yb
Creators: name: Franzen, Tobias
name: Pollklesener, Bastian
name: Sillus, Christian
name: Görlitz, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first observation of photoassociation near the ${}^2 S _\frac 1 2 + {}^3P_1$-asymptote in a mixture of ${}^{87}$Rb and ${}^{170}$Yb. In a search spanning binding energies between 0.1 GHz and 11 GHz, a single pair of interspecies PA resonances is detected around 3.1 GHz. These resonances are characterized by extracting PA rates, binding energies and Zeeman shift coefficients. Using one of these resonances, 2-photon-photoassociaton is performed, improving on previous measurements of the binding energies of the two least bound states in the electronic ground state and demonstrating intercombination line photoassociation as a powerful spectroscopic tool. We discuss implications for pathways towards RbYb molecules in the absolute ground state.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Van Benthem’s problem, exhaustification, and distributivity
Creators: name: Alxatib, Sam
name: Ivlieva, Natasha
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: We discuss the problem of deriving upper-bounded meanings of few, fewer than, and related expressions, in treatments where they are taken to denote predicates of individuals. In such analyses, the determiner-like uses of these expressions are derived by existentiallyclosing their predicate denotations, but this is known to give rise to problems (van Benthem, 1986). We show that the needed upper bound can be derived by applying an exhaustification operator above existential closure. Crucially, this exhaustification operator is insensitive to the distributive properties of the predicates in the sentence, an assumption that we see as consistent with recent work supporting the blindness view of implicatures (Fox and Hackl, 2006; Magri, 2009). We also discuss some similarities and differences between our analysis and Buccola and Spector’s (2016) maximality-based approach.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 21 No 1 (2018): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
Celestial amplitudes in an ambidextrous basis
Creators: name: Jorge-Diaz, Carmen
name: Pasterski, Sabrina
name: Sharma, Atul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We start by constructing a conformally covariant improvement of the celestial light transform which keeps track of the mixing between incoming and outgoing states under finite Lorentz transformations in $\mathbb{R}^{2,2}$. We then compute generic 2, 3 and 4-point celestial amplitudes for massless external states in the ambidextrous basis prepared by composing this $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ intertwiner with the usual celestial map between momentum and boost eigenstates. The results are non-distributional in the celestial coordinates $(z,\bar{z})$ and conformally covariant in all scattering channels. Finally, we focus on the tree level 4-gluon amplitude where we present a streamlined route to the ambidextrous correlator based on Grassmannian formulae and examine its alpha space representation. In the process, we gain insights into the operator dictionary and CFT data of the holographic dual.
description: 55 pages, 3 figures
Relativistic nuclear magnetic resonance J-coupling with ultrasoft pseudopotentials and the zeroth-order regular approximation
Creators: name: Green, Timothy F. G.
name: Yates, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for the first-principles calculation of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) J-coupling in extended systems using state-of-the-art ultrasoft pseudopotentials and including scalar-relativistic effects. The use of ultrasoft pseudopotentials is allowed by extending the projector augmented wave (PAW) method of Joyce et. al [J. Chem. Phys. 127, 204107 (2007)]. We benchmark it against existing local-orbital quantum chemical calculations and experiments for small molecules containing light elements, with good agreement. Scalar-relativistic effects are included at the zeroth-order regular approximation (ZORA) level of theory and benchmarked against existing local-orbital quantum chemical calculations and experiments for a number of small molecules containing the heavy row six elements W, Pt, Hg, Tl, and Pb, with good agreement. Finally, 1J(P-Ag) and 2J(P-Ag-P) couplings are calculated in some larger molecular crystals and compared against solid-state NMR experiments. Some remarks are also made as to improving the numerical stability of dipole perturbations using PAW.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures, 10 tables. The following article has been submitted to The Journal of Chemical Physics. After it is published, it will be found at http://jcp.aip.org
Relaxation in Luttinger liquids: Bose-Fermi duality
Creators: name: Protopopov, I. V.
name: Gutman, D. B.
name: Mirlin, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the life time of excitations in a dispersive Luttinger liquid. We perform a bosonization supplemented by a sequence of unitary transformations that allows us to treat the problem in terms of weakly interacting quasiparticles. The relaxation described by the resulting Hamiltonian is analyzed by bosonic and (after a refermionization) by fermionic perturbation theory. We show that the the fermionic and bosonic formulations of the problem exhibit a remarkable strong-weak-coupling duality. Specifically, the fermionic theory is characterized by a dimensionless coupling constant $λ= m^*l^2T$ and the bosonic theory by $λ^{-1}$, where $1/m^*$ and $l$ characterize the curvature of the fermionic and bosonic spectra, respectively, and $T$ is the temperature.
description: 15 page, 2 Figures; manuscript unchanged; misprint in metadata corrected