cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantum Fisher information measurement and verification of the quantum Cramér-Rao bound in a solid-state qubit
Creators: name: Yu, Min
name: Liu, Yu
name: Yang, Pengcheng
name: Gong, Musang
name: Cao, Qingyun
name: Zhang, Shaoliang
name: Liu, Haibin
name: Heyl, Markus
name: Ozawa, Tomoki
name: Goldman, Nathan
name: Cai, Jianming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum Cramér-Rao bound sets a fundamental limit on the accuracy of unbiased parameter estimation in quantum systems, relating the uncertainty in determining a parameter to the inverse of the quantum Fisher information. We experimentally demonstrate near saturation of the quantum Cramér-Rao bound in the phase estimation of a solid-state spin system, provided by a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. This is achieved by comparing the experimental uncertainty in phase estimation with an independent measurement of the related quantum Fisher information. The latter is independently extracted from coherent dynamical responses of the system under weak parametric modulations, without performing any quantum-state tomography. While optimal parameter estimation has already been observed for quantum devices involving a limited number of degrees of freedom, our method offers a versatile and powerful experimental tool to explore the Cramér-Rao bound and the quantum Fisher information in systems of higher complexity, as relevant for quantum technologies.
The Universal de Rham/Spencer Double Complex on a Supermanifold
Creators: name: Cacciatori, Sergio L.
name: Noja, Simone
name: Re, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 14F10, 14F40, 58A50

description: The universal Spencer and de Rham complexes of sheaves over a smooth or analytical manifold are well known to play a basic role in the theory of $\mathcal{D}$-modules. In this article we consider a double complex of sheaves generalizing both complexes for an arbitrary supermanifold, and we use it to unify the notions of differential and integral forms on real, complex and algebraic supermanifolds. The associated spectral sequences give the de Rham complex of differential forms and the complex of integral forms at page one. For real and complex supermanifolds both spectral sequences converge at page two to the locally constant sheaf. We use this fact to show that the cohomology of differential forms is isomorphic to the cohomology of integral forms, and they both compute the de Rham cohomology of the reduced manifold. Furthermore, we show that, in contrast with the case of ordinary complex manifolds, the Hodge-to-de Rham (or Frölicher) spectral sequence of supermanifolds with Kähler reduced manifold does not converge in general at page one.
description: This version matches the published version, superseding the previous one. The title has changed and the introduction has been rewritten. The mathematical results are unchanged
Melese aprepia Dognin 1908
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Melese
Melese aprepia

description: Melese aprepia Dognin, 1908
Melese aprepia Dognin, 1908: 155.
TYPE LOCALITY. — French Guiana, Saint Laurent du Maroni.
TYPE SPECIMEN.— Lectotype male no. 30 450 designated by Watson (1971: 13) (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Refresh, New Update
Creators: name: Carlin, David
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Background: This work is situated in the field of creative nonfiction practice, specifically the experimental and lyric essay (Tall and D’Agata 1997). In the contested context of the Anthropocene, with the prospect of catastrophic climate change (Yusoff 2018, Kolbert 2014), nonfiction needs to find new ‘modes of attention’ (Dillon 2017) to the unfolding real. This research asks how the lyric essay can deploy innovations in form and point of view to address the observed and felt experience of collective crisis in everyday life.
Contribution: ‘Refresh, New Update’ deploys a plural voice that eschews the narrator’s ‘I’ familiar in the personal and lyric essay, to critically engage with the politics of ‘we’re all in this together.’. It both borrows and bends the hermit crab form (Miller and Paola 2012) of the online news update to perform an ironic doubling of the immediate crisis of Covid-19 with the temporally extended crisis of climate change. In so doing, it suggests avenues for further research into how the essay can attend to the interconnections between different scales of experience and subjectivities, as these post-normal times demand.
Significance: This essay is published in Sydney Review of Books (SRB), a journal housed at the Writing and Society Research Centre of University of Western Sydney. The SRB’s mission is to ‘publish longform criticism and essays by Australia’s best critics, writers and thinkers.’ The essay is one in an SRB series responding to Covid 19 including essays by leading writers and scholars including Jeff Sparrow, Wu Qi, Simon Wang and Eliza Burke.
Supplementary document for Scan-less machine-learning-enabled incoherent microscopy for minimally-invasive deep brain imaging - 5627057.pdf
Creators: name: Guo, Ruipeng
name: Nelson, Soren
name: REGIER, Mathew
name: Davis, M.
name: Jorgensen, Erik
name: Sheperd, Jason
name: Menon, Rajesh
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics

description: Supplemental document.
Gaussian invariant measures and stationary solutions of 2D Primitive Equations
Creators: name: Grotto, Francesco
name: Pappalettera, Umberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a Gaussian measure formally preserved by the 2-dimensional Primitive Equations driven by additive Gaussian noise. Under such measure the stochastic equations under consideration are singular: we propose a solution theory based on the techniques developed by Gubinelli and Jara in \cite{GuJa13} for a hyperviscous version of the equations.
description: 15 pages
Melese hampsoni Rothschild 1909
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Melese
Melese hampsoni

description: Melese hampsoni Rothschild, 1909
Melese hampsoni Rothschild, 1909b: 272.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Guyana, [Potaro-Siparuni], Potaro.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Described on 21 males. We chose the male syntype with a white printed label “Potaro, Brit. Guiana, April 1908, (S.M. Klages)” / a white printed label “Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1.” / a pink handwritten label “ Melese hampsoni Type Rothsch[ild]” / a white printed label “ ARCTIIDAE ♂, Genitalia Slide Vu n° 17 W” / a printed blue label “ Arctiidae genitalia slide N° 2951” / a round red printed label “Type”, and designated it as lectotype. We have labeled it with a round blue label “ Lectotype ” and a white printed label “ Lectotype 2010 Melese hampsoni ♂ by Vincent & Laguerre” (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Design, delivery, and evaluation of a knowledge translation intervention for multi-stakeholders
Creators: name: Randhawa, Gurprit Kaur
name: Orach, Juma
name: Black, Agnes
name: Chan, Vivienne
name: Potter, Naomi
name: Brinkman, Jacqui
name: Côté, Hélène C. F.
name: Worfolk, Larry
name: Knight, Darryl
name: Leversage, Ivan
name: Tebbutt, Scott J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2023

description: Background: Knowledge translation (KT) is a key competency for trainees (graduate students and post-doctoral fellows), the new generation of researchers who must learn how to synthesize, disseminate, exchange, and ethically apply knowledge to improve patient and health system services, products, and outcomes. KT training is a key enabler to support KT competency development. Yet, there is a dearth of research on the design, delivery, and evaluation of KT training for trainees. Methods: The study applied a QUAN(qual) mixed methods approach with an embedded experimental model design. A heart and lung patient was also recruited to participate as a partner and researcher in the study. A multi-faceted KT intervention for trainees was designed, delivered, and evaluated. Data were collected using surveys and focus groups. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in R Studio and MS Excel. Qualitative data were analyzed in NVivo using thematic analysis. Results: Participation in each KT intervention varied, with 8–42 participants attending KT webinars, 61 attendees in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Heat, and 31 participants in the Patient & Public Forum. In total, 27 trainees and 4 faculty participated in at least one of the KT webinars. Trainee participants reported satisfaction, as well as statistically significant increases in 10/13 KT competencies after receiving one or more components of the KT intervention. Additionally, participating faculty, patients, and the public were satisfied with the intervention components they participated in. Several challenges and facilitators were also identified to improve the KT intervention. Conclusions: The KT intervention is a promising initiative that can be adopted and adapted across various post-secondary settings to support trainees’ competency development in KT. This evaluation demonstrates that trainees will respond to opportunities for KT training and that capacity for KT competencies can be advanced through a multi-faceted intervention that involves trainees, faculty, patients, and health system collaborators in its design and delivery. This evaluation study contributes the design and results of a novel KT intervention for multi-stakeholders.
Melese punctata Rothschild 1909
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Melese
Melese punctata

description: Melese punctata Rothschild, 1909
Melese punctata Rothschild, 1909b: 272.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Ecuador, Bulim.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Dynamical properties of feedback signalling in B lymphopoiesis: A mathematical modelling approach
Creators: name: Chulián, Salvador
name: Martínez-Rubio, Alvaro
name: Marciniak-Czochra, Anna
name: Stiehl, Thomas
name: Goñi, Cristina Blázquez
name: Gutiérrez, Juan Francisco Rodríguez
name: Orellana, Manuel Ramirez
name: Robleda, Ana Castillo
name: Pérez-García, Víctor M.
name: Rosa, María
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 92B05, 92C15

description: Haematopoiesis is the process of generation of blood cells. Lymphopoiesis generates lymphocytes, the cells in charge of the adaptive immune response. Disruptions of this process are associated with diseases like leukaemia, which is especially incident in children. The characteristics of self-regulation of this process make them suitable for a mathematical study. In this paper we develop mathematical models of lymphopoiesis using currently available data. We do this by drawing inspiration from existing structured models of cell lineage development and integrating them with paediatric bone marrow data, with special focus on regulatory mechanisms. A formal analysis of the models is carried out, giving steady states and their stability conditions. We use this analysis to obtain biologically relevant regions of the parameter space and to understand the dynamical behaviour of B-cell renovation. Finally, we use numerical simulations to obtain further insight into the influence of proliferation and maturation rates on the reconstitution of the cells in the B line. We conclude that a model including feedback regulation of cell proliferation represents a biologically plausible depiction for B-cell reconstitution in bone marrow. Research into haematological disorders could benefit from a precise dynamical description of B lymphopoiesis.
description: Submitted to Journal of Theoretical Biology
Quasinormal Modes and Thermodynamics of Regular Black Holes
Creators: name: Lan, Chen
name: Miao, Yan-Gang
name: Yang, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By applying the dimensionless scheme, we investigate the quasinormal modes and phase transitions analytically for three types of regular black holes. The universal deviations to the first law of mechanics in regular black holes are proved. Meanwhile, we verify that second order phase transitions and Davies points still exist in these three models. In addition, we calculate their quasinormal modes in the eikonal limit by applying the light ring/quasinormal mode correspondence, and discuss the spiral-like shapes and the relations between the quasinormal modes and phase transitions. As the main result, we show that spiral-like shapes in the complex frequency plane are closely related to the parameterization, namely in some particular units the spiral-like shapes will emerge in the models, which may not be of the spiral behaviors reported by other authors. We also discover a universal property of regular black holes, i.e., the imaginary parts of their QNMs do not vanish for the extreme cases, which does not appear in singular black holes, such as the Reissner-Nordström and Kerr black holes, etc.
description: published version
How well does surprisal explain N400 amplitude under different experimental conditions?
Creators: name: Michaelov, James A.
name: Bergen, Benjamin K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We investigate the extent to which word surprisal can be used to predict a neural measure of human language processing difficulty - the N400. To do this, we use recurrent neural networks to calculate the surprisal of stimuli from previously published neurolinguistic studies of the N400. We find that surprisal can predict N400 amplitude in a wide range of cases, and the cases where it cannot do so provide valuable insight into the neurocognitive processes underlying the response.
description: To be presented at CoNLL 2020
title: Transformation von Tierarzneimitteln und Bioziden in Gülle
title: Transformation von Tierarzneimitteln und Bioziden in Gülle
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schwarz, Lisa
Publisher: name: Umeltbundesamt
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Gülle
subject: Tierarzneimittel
subject: Biozide
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Die Arbeit stellt unterschiedliche Abbau- und Transformationsprozesse in Rinder- und Schweinegülle anhand der Auswertung bisheriger Forschungsergebnisse dar. Dazu wurde auf der Basis einer umfangreichen Literaturrecherche eine Datenbank angelegt, die Arbeiten umfasst, welche sich unter verschiedenen Blickwinkeln mit Umweltbelastungen durch Wirkstoffrückstände aus Tierhaltung beschäftigen. Aus dieser Datenbank wurden jene Studien ausgewertet, die sich speziell mit Transformationsprozessen in Rinder- und Schweinegülle befassen. Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Arbeit stellt unterschiedliche Abbau- und Transformationsprozesse in Rinder- und Schweinegülle anhand der Auswertung bisheriger Forschungsergebnisse dar. Dazu wurde auf der Basis einer umfangreichen Literaturrecherche eine Datenbank angelegt, die Arbeiten umfasst, welche sich unter verschiedenen Blickwinkeln mit Umweltbelastungen durch Wirkstoffrückstände aus Tierhaltung beschäftigen. Aus dieser Datenbank wurden jene Studien ausgewertet, die sich speziell mit Transformationsprozessen in Rinder- und Schweinegülle befassen.
How Poems Make Things Happen
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Jessica
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Background: W. H. Auden once wrote, in the earlier part of the 20th century, that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ and that it should not be made to fulfil the purpose of political rhetoric, which should ‘secure unanimity in action’. Yet many poets have turned to poetry during turbulent times as a space to address timely political matters. This essay revisits Auden’s statement in contemporary times, exploring what poetry can ‘make happen’—what it does or provides for readers, audiences and the poets themselves.
Contribution: In analysing recent poems that respond to current cultural, health and environmental crises, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the COVID-19 pandemic and the calamities of the Anthropocene, this essay looks at how poems provide a ‘shadow counterpart to the world of information and political rhetoric’, not only reflecting and embodying subjective feeling, but provoking and stimulating the imaginative capabilities of readers. In this way, the essay explores how poems (and in the context of this essay, politically-minded poems) can provoke or invoke change in less obvious ways to that enabled by other forms of activism.

Significance: This essay was competitively selected and commissioned as part of ‘Powerful and Moving’, a literary collaboration between RMIT’s non/fictionLab and widely-read online literary review Sydney Review of Books (SRB). My essay will be paired with another essay on a related topic by an industry practitioner/writer (Tamryn Bennett), and a live conversation between Tamryn and myself will be hosted by SRB in 2021 as a continuation of the discussions raised by our respective essays. SRB has published articles by leading Australian writers including Jeff Sparrow, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Lisa Gorton, David Malouf and many more.
Melese nigromaculata Rothschild 1909
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Melese
Melese nigromaculata

description: Melese nigromaculata Rothschild, 1909
Melese nigromaculata Rothschild, 1909b: 272.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Brazil], Minas Gerais.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Described on 3 males and 4 females. We chose the male syntype with a white printed label “Minas Geraes (Kennedy)” / a white printed label “Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1.” / a pink handwritten label “ Melese nigromaculata Type Rothsch[ild]” / a white printed label “ Arctiidae ♀ (!), Genitalia slide, VU n° 16 W” / a blue printed label “ Arctiidae, genitalia slide, N° 2950” / a round red printed label “Type”, and designated it as lectotype. We have labeled it with a round blue label “ Lectotype ” and a white printed label “ Lectotype Melese nigromaculata ♂ by Vincent & Laguerre” (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Stochastic model reduction: convergence and applications to climate equations
Creators: name: Assing, Sigurd
name: Flandoli, Franco
name: Pappalettera, Umberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study stochastic model reduction for evolution equations in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, and show the convergence to the reduced equations via abstract results of Wong-Zakai type for stochastic equations driven by a scaled Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Both weak and strong convergence are investigated, depending on the presence of quadratic interactions between reduced variables and driving noise. Finally, we are able to apply our results to a class of equations used in climate modeling.
description: 22 pages
Lest we remember
Creators: name: Guntarik, Olivia
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
classificationCode: 450104
subject: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture
classificationCode: 450107
subject: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history

description: BACKGROUND: Walter Benjamin, Michael Taussig and Zora Neale Hurston reposition colonial violence to instantiate minority worldviews. Inspired by their ethnographies, I shift between identities, times and places to bring Australian history into broader global debates. My prose poem is part of an ongoing conversation with multiple storytellers across two countries: Borneo and Australia. It is a response to the work of Iranian exile Mammad Aidani and Boonwurrung elder Carolyn Briggs, and asks 'what is an authentic history?' Debates on this question privilege the distinction between fact and fiction, and the need to reconcile differences. Gaps remain in understanding what justice looks like in creative responses to this question as exclusions persist.

CONTRIBUTION: 'Lest We Remember' expresses the politics of commemoration and what we choose to monumentalise and forget. Research was undertaken to solve the problem of how to develop narratives that are independent of colonial memories; that give agency to ancestors often recorded as the victims of elimination. I presented an extended version of the work at the 2020 Activism at the Margins conference in Melbourne, alongside presenters Briggs and Aidani. Patricia Hill Collins was a keynote speaker at this event and the work builds on her theory of intersectionality. The work is designed to bring other voices into current debates on the impact of neocolonial capitalism on environmental justice. I foreground activist voices as authentic forms of truth-telling through the productive intersections of race.

SIGNIFICANCE: The work was published in Overland, a Melbourne literary journal that prioritises work accessible to a general readership. Selected from the conference proceedings by editor Evelyn Araluen, it forms part of a special issue on activism, which I co-edited. The work has led to a commission to co-create place-based narratives with Djaara storytellers in Castlemaine, to be launched at 2021 NAIDOC Week.
Modeling electrochemical systems with weakly imposed Dirichlet boundary conditions
Creators: name: Kim, Sungu
name: Khanwale, Makrand A.
name: Anand, Robbyn K.
name: Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Finite element modeling of charged species transport has enabled analysis, design, and optimization of a diverse array of electrochemical and electrokinetic devices. These systems are represented by the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations coupled with the Navier-Stokes equation, with a key quantity of interest being the current at the system boundaries. Accurately computing the current flux is challenging due to the small critical dimension of the boundary layers (small Debye layer) that require fine mesh resolution at the boundaries. We resolve this challenge by using the Dirichlet-to-Neumanntransformation to weakly impose the Dirichlet conditions for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations. The results obtained with weakly imposed Dirichlet boundary conditions showed excellent agreement with those obtained when conventional boundary conditions with highly resolved mesh we reemployed. Furthermore, the calculated current flux showed faster mesh convergence using weakly imposed conditions compared to the conventionally imposed Dirichlet boundary conditions. We illustrate the approach on canonical 3D problems that otherwise would have been computationally intractable to solve accurately. This approach substantially reduces the computational cost of model-ing electrochemical systems.
description: 26 pages, 14 figures
Melese rubricata Dognin 1910
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Melese
Melese rubricata

description: Melese rubricata Dognin, 1910
Melese rubricata Dognin, 1910: 9.
TYPE LOCALITY. — French Guiana, Saint Laurent du Maroni.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype female no.30 451 designated by Watson (1971: 82) (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Reading Crises, Writing Crisis
Creators: name: Michael, Rosemary
name: Rawson, Jane
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Background
This work sits within the field of Creative Writing, specifically speculative fiction - a site of novel speculation in both content (fiction and criticism) and form. Joanna Russ and Ursula K Le Guin were early pioneers, pre-empting Haraway’s call for ‘feminist speculative fabulations’ (2016) as ‘a mode of attention.’ Le Guin’s ‘carrier bag theory’ (1986) suggests a radically different structure for storytelling and may answer Haraway’s invitation for new modes of composition which testify to the climate crisis we are facing. Can this thinking be extended to respond to the more acute crisis of COVID-19?

Contribution
Reading Crises, Writing Crisis is a collaborative essay between Rose Michael and Jane Rawson that addresses the experience of reading dystopian fiction (specifically, slow climate catastrophe and the sudden global pandemic). Using a novel technique of ‘cross-over writing’ (Carlin et al 2019), which one of the authors was introduced to through the collective ‘We Thought We Knew What Summer Was’ (Axon, 2020) essay project, this work builds on the contemporary collaborative essay by experimenting with how a pair of authorial voices can come together to testify in one choric essay. The crisis of the lived experience of climate change and COVID is conjured through the juxtaposition of intimate observations and personal reflections in a comingled, but split, point of view.

Significance
This work is nationally significant in that it brings together two award-winning novelists for an experiment in collaborative writing that addresses slow and acute crises in fiction and in life. It has been published in the well-received anthology Reading Like an Australian Writer, quoted in the Canberra Times review, and cited at the 2020 Australasian Association of Writing Programs ‘Rising Tides’ annual conference. It offers a model for a collective writing ‘point of view’, building on an existing method, as well as evidencing a reflexive creative critical practice.
Pulay forces in density-functional theory with extended Hubbard functionals: From nonorthogonalized to orthogonalized manifolds
Creators: name: Timrov, Iurii
name: Aquilante, Francesco
name: Binci, Luca
name: Cococcioni, Matteo
name: Marzari, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a derivation of the exact expression for Pulay forces in density-functional theory calculations augmented with extended Hubbard functionals, and arising from the use of orthogonalized atomic orbitals as projectors for the Hubbard manifold. The derivative of the inverse square root of the orbital overlap matrix is obtained as a closed-form solution of the associated Lyapunov (Sylvester) equation. The expression for the resulting contribution to the forces is presented in the framework of ultrasoft pseudopotentials and the projector-augmented-wave method, and using a plane wave basis set. We have benchmarked the present implementation with respect to finite differences of total energies for the case of NiO, finding excellent agreement. Owing to the accuracy of Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory calculations - provided the Hubbard parameters are computed for the manifold under consideration - the present work paves the way for systematic studies of solid-state and molecular transition-metal and rare-earth compounds.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
Melese pusilla Rothschild 1909
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Melese
Melese pusilla

description: Melese pusilla Rothschild, 1909
Melese pusilla Rothschild, 1909b: 272.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Guyana, [Potaro-Siparuni], Potaro; [Brazil], Amazonas, Fonte Boa; Suriname, [Sipaliwini], Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley.
TYPE SPECIMENS.— Described from 3 male and 1 female syntypes (BMNH; one of the male labeled TYPE).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 236, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Unraveling the origin of higher success probabilities in quantum versus semi-classical annealing
Creators: name: Starchl, Elias
name: Ritsch, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum annealing aims at finding optimal solutions to complex optimization problems using a suitable quantum many body Hamiltonian encoding the solution in its ground state. To find the solution one typically evolves the ground state of a soluble initial Hamiltonian adiabatically to the ground state of the designated final Hamiltonian. Here we explore whether and when a full quantum representation of the dynamics leads to higher probability to end up in the desired ground when compared to a classical mean field approximation. As simple, nontrivial example we target the ground state of interacting bosons trapped in a tight binding lattice with small local defect by turning on long range interactions. Already two atoms in four sites interacting via two cavity modes prove complex enough to exhibit significant differences between the full quantum model and a mean field approximation for the cavity fields mediating the interactions. We find a large parameter region of highly successful quantum annealing where the semi-classical approach largely fails. Here we see strong evidence for the importance of entanglement to end close to the optimal solution. The quantum model also reduces the minimal time for a high target occupation probability. In contrast to naive expectations that enlarging the Hilbert space is beneficial, different numerical cut-offs of the Hilbert space reveal an improved performance for lower cut-offs, i.e. an nonphysical reduced Hilbert space, for short simulation times. Hence a less faithful representation of the full quantum dynamics sometimes creates a higher numerical success probability in shorter time. However, a sufficiently high cut-off proves relevant to obtain near perfect fidelity for long simulations times in a single run. Overall our results exhibit a clear improvement based on a quantum model versus simulations based on a classical field approximation.
description: 19 pages, 23 figures
Melese erythrastis Dognin 1907
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Melese
Melese erythrastis

description: Melese erythrastis Dognin, 1907
Melese erythrastis Dognin, 1907: 227.
TYPE LOCALITY. — French Guiana, Saint Laurent du Maroni.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 30 449 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 236, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Predictors of Nursing Faculty Job and Career Satisfaction, Turnover Intentions, and Professional Outlook: A National Survey
Creators: name: Boamah, Sheila A.
name: Kalu, Michael E.
name: Havaei, Farinaz
name: McMillan, Kimberly
name: Belita, Emily
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Background: Retaining talented and experienced nurses in clinical practice and academia is crucial for maintaining continuity, ensuring high-quality care and education, and fostering a positive work environment. Although factors influencing nursing staff retention are well documented, little is known about how workplace factors impact nursing faculty retention outcomes. Methods: A national survey involving 645 nursing faculty across Canada was undertaken. Multivariate regression analysis with interaction effects was conducted to determine the association between work-related factors (i.e., workplace culture and work–life imbalance) and faculty job and career satisfaction, turnover intentions, and professional outlook. Results: Supportive workplace culture positively influenced faculty job and career satisfaction and professional outlook, while it negatively impacted turnover intentions. Conversely, work–life imbalance decreased faculty job and career satisfaction and professional outlook (i.e., confidence in nursing program, profession), and it increased intentions to leave the job. Conclusion: Our results offer insights into the work–life experiences of Canadian faculty members and shed light on key factors that impact their job-related outcomes. In the context of competing resources, every effort must be made to improve modifiable workplace factors such as the academic work environment and create targeted interventions and policies to promote faculty retention.
Mathematical models of Leukaemia and its treatment: A review
Creators: name: Chulián, Salvador
name: Rubio, Álvaro-Martínez
name: Rosa, María
name: Pérez-García, Víctor M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Leukaemia accounts for around 3% of all cancer types diagnosed in adults, and is the most common type of cancer in children of paediatric age. There is increasing interest in the use of mathematical models in oncology to draw inferences and make predictions, providing a complementary picture to experimental biomedical models. In this paper we recapitulate the state of the art of mathematical modelling of leukaemia growth dynamics, in time and response to treatment. We intend to describe the mathematical methodologies, the biological aspects taken into account in the modelling, and the conclusions of each study. This review is intended to provide researchers in the field with solid background material, in order to achieve further breakthroughs in the promising field of mathematical biology.
Melese leucanioides subsp. leucanioides
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Melese
Melese leucanioides
Melese leucanioides leucanioides (herrich-Schäffer, [1856])

description: Melese leucanioides leucanioides
(Herrich-Schäffer, [1856])
Idioctetus leucanioides Herrich-Schäffer, [1856] a: wrapper to pl. 88, fig. 504.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [South America] Am[erica] Aequin[octialis].
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of syntypes (MLUH; not found).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 236, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Learning by mistakes in memristor networks
Creators: name: Carbajal, Juan Pablo
name: Martin, Daniel Alejandro
name: Chialvo, Dante Renato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results in adaptive matter revived the interest in the implementation of novel devices able to perform brain-like operations. Here we introduce a training algorithm for a memristor network which is inspired in previous work on biological learning. Robust results are obtained from computer simulations of a network of voltage controlled memristive devices. Its implementation in hardware is straightforward, being scalable and requiring very little peripheral computation overhead.
description: Article has 11 figures. Builds upon arXiv:adap-org/9707006, arXiv:cond-mat/0009211, and arXiv:1406.2210
Methane as a dominant absorber in the habitable-zone sub-Neptune K2-18 b
Creators: name: Bézard, Bruno
name: Charnay, Benjamin
name: Blain, Doriann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In their Letter, Tsiaras et al. reported the detection of water vapour in the atmosphere of K2-18 b, an exoplanet of 7 to 10 Earth masses located in the habitable zone of an M-dwarf star. The detection is based on an absorption feature seen at 1.4 $μ$m in observations of the transiting exoplanet with the Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Camera 3. We have simulated the mean temperature structure and composition of K2-18b using a radiative-convective equilibrium model and we present here the corresponding transit spectroscopy calculations. We argue that the reported absorption is most likely due to methane, a gas expected to be abundant in the hydrogen-helium atmosphere of cold sub-Neptunes. More generally, we show that the 1.4-$μ$m absorption seen in transit spectra is not diagnostic of the presence of water vapour for sub-Neptunes having an effective temperature less than 600 K and that water vapour dominates over methane at this wavelength only at larger temperatures.
description: This preprint has not undergone any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in Nature Astronomy (Matters Arising), and is available online at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01678-z
Mona Fandey's Cassette, or Grey Feather
Creators: name: Iyer, Sreedhevi
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
classificationCode: 470213
subject: Postcolonial studies
classificationCode: 470321
subject: Translation and interpretation studies

description: Background: The combined practice of postcolonial and translation studies as embodied by Maria Tymockzco, and Appiah’s notions of cosmopolitanism forms the major influence in the production of this work. Correspondence with major translator Arshia Sattar, and an interview with BFM, a radio channel, further sharpened the research practice. My research asks, how specific does a translation from Tamil to English needs to be, to communicate cultural particularities to a universal audience?

Contribution: ‘Gray Feathers’ is a short fiction piece based on a real polarising figure, Mona Fandey. Originally in Tamil, the narrative follows the visit of a mysterious stranger to a collector’s home, and his attempt to sell a cassette apparently belonging to the widely feared shaman. It is the first short fiction to be translated from Tamil to English, originating from Malaysia. The translation factors the geographical and socio-cultural particularities, including linguistic vernaculars, and aims to communicate them to a global English-reading audience.

Significance: ‘Words Without Borders’ is a New York journal that has won the Whiting Foundation Literary Magazine Prize, the London Book Fair International Excellence Award for a Translation Initiative, and an honourable mention at the National Book Foundation Innovations in Reading Prize. It has translated writing from 124 countries in 100 languages. Authors published in this journal include Elena Ferrante. It has also been featured in the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, the Guardian (UK), Vanity Fair, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Scalable Transfer Evolutionary Optimization: Coping with Big Task Instances
Creators: name: Shakeri, Mojtaba
name: Miahi, Erfan
name: Gupta, Abhishek
name: Ong, Yew-Soon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In today's digital world, we are faced with an explosion of data and models produced and manipulated by numerous large-scale cloud-based applications. Under such settings, existing transfer evolutionary optimization frameworks grapple with simultaneously satisfying two important quality attributes, namely (1) scalability against a growing number of source tasks and (2) online learning agility against sparsity of relevant sources to the target task of interest. Satisfying these attributes shall facilitate practical deployment of transfer optimization to scenarios with big task-instances, while curbing the threat of negative transfer. While applications of existing algorithms are limited to tens of source tasks, in this paper, we take a quantum leap forward in enabling more than two orders of magnitude scale-up in the number of tasks; i.e., we efficiently handle scenarios beyond 1000 source task-instances. We devise a novel transfer evolutionary optimization framework comprising two co-evolving species for joint evolutions in the space of source knowledge and in the search space of solutions to the target problem. In particular, co-evolution enables the learned knowledge to be orchestrated on the fly, expediting convergence in the target optimization task. We have conducted an extensive series of experiments across a set of practically motivated discrete and continuous optimization examples comprising a large number of source task-instances, of which only a small fraction indicate source-target relatedness. The experimental results show that not only does our proposed framework scale efficiently with a growing number of source tasks but is also effective in capturing relevant knowledge against sparsity of related sources, fulfilling the two salient features of scalability and online learning agility.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables, 2 algorithm pseudocodes. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2003.04407 by other authors
Melese leucanioides subsp. silvicola Seitz 1921
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Melese
Melese leucanioides
Melese leucanioides silvicola seitz, 1921

description: Melese leucanioides silvicola Seitz, 1921
Melese leucanioides silvicola Seitz, 1921: 340.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Colombia, [Cundinamarca], Villavicencio.
TYPE SPECIMENS.— Undisclosed number of syntypes (?).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 236, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
RLOC: Terrain-Aware Legged Locomotion using Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control
Creators: name: Gangapurwala, Siddhant
name: Geisert, Mathieu
name: Orsolino, Romeo
name: Fallon, Maurice
name: Havoutis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a unified model-based and data-driven approach for quadrupedal planning and control to achieve dynamic locomotion over uneven terrain. We utilize on-board proprioceptive and exteroceptive feedback to map sensory information and desired base velocity commands into footstep plans using a reinforcement learning (RL) policy. This RL policy is trained in simulation over a wide range of procedurally generated terrains. When ran online, the system tracks the generated footstep plans using a model-based motion controller. We evaluate the robustness of our method over a wide variety of complex terrains. It exhibits behaviors which prioritize stability over aggressive locomotion. Additionally, we introduce two ancillary RL policies for corrective whole-body motion tracking and recovery control. These policies account for changes in physical parameters and external perturbations. We train and evaluate our framework on a complex quadrupedal system, ANYmal version B, and demonstrate transferability to a larger and heavier robot, ANYmal C, without requiring retraining.
description: 26 pages, 19 figures, 16 tables, 2 algorithms, accepted for publication to IEEE T-RO
Gauge equivariant neural networks for quantum lattice gauge theories
Creators: name: Luo, Di
name: Carleo, Giuseppe
name: Clark, Bryan K.
name: Stokes, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gauge symmetries play a key role in physics appearing in areas such as quantum field theories of the fundamental particles and emergent degrees of freedom in quantum materials. Motivated by the desire to efficiently simulate many-body quantum systems with exact local gauge invariance, gauge equivariant neural-network quantum states are introduced, which exactly satisfy the local Hilbert space constraints necessary for the description of quantum lattice gauge theory with Zd gauge group on different geometries. Focusing on the special case of Z2 gauge group on a periodically identified square lattice, the equivariant architecture is analytically shown to contain the loop-gas solution as a special case. Gauge equivariant neural-network quantum states are used in combination with variational quantum Monte Carlo to obtain compact descriptions of the ground state wavefunction for the Z2 theory away from the exactly solvable limit, and to demonstrate the confining/deconfining phase transition of the Wilson loop order parameter.