cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Indirect Evidence for Dark Matter Density Spikes around Stellar-Mass Black Holes
Creators: name: Chan, Man Ho
name: Lee, Chak Man
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been suggested for a long time that dark matter would form a density spike around a black hole. However, no promising evidence has been observed so far to verify this theoretical suggestion. Here, we report the existence of a dark matter density spike around each of the two nearby stellar-mass black holes (A0620-00 and XTE J1118+480). The dynamical friction between dark matter and the companion stars can satisfactorily explain the abnormally fast orbital decays in the two binaries. The calculated spike index for A0620-00 and XTE J1118+480 are $γ=1.71^{+0.01}_{-0.02}$ and $γ=1.85^{+0.04}_{-0.04}$ respectively, which are close to the lower regime predicted by the stellar heating model. It may provide a possible indirect evidence for the existence of dark matter density spikes around stellar-mass black holes. We anticipate that analyzing observational data of nearby black hole X-ray binaries would be a new way to reveal the nature of dark matter.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL
Gli studi e il collezionismo di Numismatica araba in Italia dall’Unità ad oggi
Creators: name: D’Ottone Rambach, Arianna
Publisher: name: Fisciano (SA): Università degli Studi di Salerno; Roma: Edizioni Quasar
Year: 2020
Subjects: Numismatics
Coin circulation
Coin finds
Archaeology
Ancient economy
Ancient history
Ancient coinage
Ancient numismatics
Roman numismatics and archaeology
Ancient greek numismatics
Medieval numismatics

description: This paper offers overview of the Italian contributions to the field of Arabic Numismatics and of the history of collecting Arabic coins in Italy since 1871 to date. It ends with some thoughts on the future of the studies of Arabic Numismatics in Italy. Divided in four chronological sections – 1871-1922; 1922-1945; 1945-1999; 2000-2020 – the article records both the creation (and dispersal) of private and public collections of Arabic coins and Italian schoarly contributions to this field, as well as the studies of numismatic evidence found in Italy. Through this, it is possible to get a first glimpse on the history of this specific branch of the Numismatic studies during the period taken into account.
Priority List of Adverse Events of Special Interest: Lassa Fever and MERS
Creators: name: Sturkenboom, Miriam
name: Law, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Toolbox
case definitions
guidance documents
Brighton Collaboration
CEPI

description: This document provides the methods and results of the creation of the Priority List of potential Adverse events of special interest relevant to Lassa Fever and MERS vaccine trials.
description: The SPEAC Project is funded in whole by CEPI.
Temnothorax casanovai Prebus 2021
Creators: name: Prebus, Matthew M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Temnothorax
Temnothorax casanovai

description: casanovai group overview This group is monotypic, with the nominal Temnothorax casanovai sp. nov. being the only member. With only a couple of collections from mid elevation southern Mexico (Fig. 106G), this species is morphologically similar to the members of the augusti group, in that it has a subquadrate petiolar node that overhangs the caudal cylinder. It can be separated from them by the overall larger size of T. casanovai sp. nov., the shorter propodeal spines, smaller metapleural gland bulla, and longer antennal scapes. Despite the morphological similarities to the augusti group, this species is more closely related to T. subditivus (Prebus, in prep.).
description: Published as part of Prebus, Matthew M., 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax salvini clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to the clades of New World Temnothorax, pp. 1-462 in PeerJ (e 11514) (e 11514) 9 on page 142, DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11514, http://zenodo.org/record/5102026
Scattering of Dark Particles with Light Mediators
Creators: name: Soper, Davison E.
name: Spannowsky, Michael
name: Tait, Tim M. P.
name: Wallace, Chris J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a treatment of the high energy scattering of dark Dirac fermions from nuclei, mediated by the exchange of a light vector boson. The dark fermions are produced by proton-nucleus interactions in a fixed target and, after traversing shielding that screens out strongly interacting products, appear similarly to neutrino neutral current scattering in a detector. Using the Fermilab experiment E613 as an example, we place limits on a secluded dark matter scenario. Visible scattering in the detector includes both the familiar regime of large momentum transfer to the nucleus ($Q^2$) described by deeply inelastic scattering, as well as small $Q^2$ kinematics described by the exchanged vector mediator fluctuating into a quark-antiquark pair whose interaction with the nucleus is described by a saturation model. We find that the improved description of the low $Q^2$ scattering leads to important corrections, resulting in more robust constraints in a regime where a description entirely in terms of deeply inelastic scattering cannot be trusted.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures
Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage
Creators: name: Vatsalan, Dinusha
name: Karapiperis, Dimitrios
name: Verykios, Vassilios S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given several databases containing person-specific data held by different organizations, Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) aims to identify and link records that correspond to the same entity/individual across different databases based on the matching of personal identifying attributes, such as name and address, without revealing the actual values in these attributes due to privacy concerns. This reference work entry defines the PPRL problem, reviews the literature and key findings, and discusses applications and research challenges.
description: PP. 1 - 10
Evidence that Shocks Destroy Small PAH Molecules in Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Zhang, Lulu
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Li, Aigen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combined mapping-mode mid-infrared Spitzer spectra with complementary infrared imaging to perform a spatially resolved study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) emission from the central regions of 66 nearby galaxies, roughly evenly divided into star-forming systems and low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In conjunction with similar measurements available for quasars, we aim to understand the physical properties of PAHs across a broad range of black hole accretion power, with the goal of identifying observational diagnostics that can be used to probe the effect of AGNs on the host galaxy. Whereas the PAH emission correlates tightly with far-ultraviolet luminosity in star-forming regions, the spatially resolved regions of AGNs tend to be PAH-deficient. Moreover, AGN regions exhibit on average smaller PAH 6.2 μm/7.7 μm and larger PAH 11.3 μm/7.7 μm band ratios. Although the current data are highly restrictive, they suggest that these anomalous PAH band ratios cannot be explained by the effects of the AGN radiation field alone. Instead, they hint that small grains may be destroyed by the combined effects of radiative processes and shocks, which are plausibly linked to jets and outflows preferentially associated with highly sub-Eddington, radiatively inefficient AGNs. While quasars also present a PAH deficit and unusual PAH band ratios, their characteristics differ in detail compared to those observed in more weakly accreting AGNs, a possible indicator of fundamental differences in their modes of energy feedback.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables, published in Astrophysical Journal
title: Ergonomische Auslegung einer Lichtleiste zur Kollisionsvermeidung
Creators: name: Zademach, Martin
name: Abendroth, Bettina
Publisher: name: De Gruyter
Year: 2023

description: Zur Vermeidung von Frontalkollisionen bieten prädiktive Fahrerassistenzsysteme die Möglichkeit den Fahrer in kritischen Situationen zu warnen und zu einer Gegenmaßnahme zu bewegen. In diesem Zusammenhang wird das Fahrerwarnelement Lichtleiste untersucht, das den Fahrer durch optische Warnungen im Bereich der Scheibenwurzel unterstützt. Das Ziel dieses Beitrags ist die Darlegung von Erkenntnissen zur ergonomischen Auslegung eines derartigen Warnelements. Anhand von physikalischen Grundlagen, ergonomischen Auslegungsprinzipien und Ergebnissen einer Probandenuntersuchung werden Gestaltungsgrundlagen geschaffen. Berücksichtigt werden hierbei geometrische Eigenschaften des Signals sowie geeignete Signalverläufe im Warnkontext.
The Contribution of Evolved Stars to PAH Heating and Implications for Estimating Star Formation Rates
Creators: name: Zhang, Lulu
name: Ho, Luis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is a promising tool for estimating star formation rate (SFR) in galaxies, but the origin of its sources of excitation, which include not only young but possibly also old stars, remains uncertain. We analyze Spitzer mid-infrared mapping-mode spectroscopic observations of the nuclear and extra-nuclear regions of 33 nearby galaxies to study the contribution of evolved stars to PAH emission. In combination with photometric measurements derived from ultraviolet, Hα, and infrared images, the spatially resolved spectral decomposition enables us to characterize the PAH emission, SFR, and stellar mass of the sample galaxies on sub-kpc scales. We demonstrate that the traditional empirical correlation between PAH luminosity and SFR has a secondary dependence on specific SFR, or, equivalently, stellar mass. Ultraviolet-faint regions with lower specific SFRs and hence greater fraction of evolved stars emit stronger PAH emission at fixed SFR than ultraviolet-bright regions. We reformulate the PAH-based SFR estimator by explicitly introducing stellar mass as a second parameter to account for the contribution of evolved stars to PAH excitation. The influence of evolved stars can explain the sub-linear correlation between PAH emission and SFR, and it can partly account for the PAH deficit in dwarf galaxies and low-metallicity environments.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, ApJ in press
title: Σχεδιασμός, εφαρμογή και αξιολόγηση επιτραπέζιου παιχνιδιού με διαπολιτισμικό περιεχόμενο για παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μανωλέρη, Χαρίκλεια Χ.
Publisher: name: University of Thessaly
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Διαπολιτισμική εκπαίδευση
subject: Αυτοαντίληψη στα παιδιά
subject: Παιγνίδια στην εκπαίδευση

description: Σημείωση: διατίθεται συμπληρωματικό υλικό σε ξεχωριστό αρχείο.
HPC-oriented Large-scale Code Restructurings with Coccinelle
Creators: name: Martone, Michele
name: Lawall, Julia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Presentation at FOSDEM'24 (HPC, Big Data and Data Science devroom): https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2554-hpc-oriented-large-scale-code-restructurings-with-coccinelle/
CircleNet: Reciprocating Feature Adaptation for Robust Pedestrian Detection
Creators: name: Zhang, Tianliang
name: Han, Zhenjun
name: Xu, Huijuan
name: Zhang, Baochang
name: Ye, Qixiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pedestrian detection in the wild remains a challenging problem especially when the scene contains significant occlusion and/or low resolution of the pedestrians to be detected. Existing methods are unable to adapt to these difficult cases while maintaining acceptable performance. In this paper we propose a novel feature learning model, referred to as CircleNet, to achieve feature adaptation by mimicking the process humans looking at low resolution and occluded objects: focusing on it again, at a finer scale, if the object can not be identified clearly for the first time. CircleNet is implemented as a set of feature pyramids and uses weight sharing path augmentation for better feature fusion. It targets at reciprocating feature adaptation and iterative object detection using multiple top-down and bottom-up pathways. To take full advantage of the feature adaptation capability in CircleNet, we design an instance decomposition training strategy to focus on detecting pedestrian instances of various resolutions and different occlusion levels in each cycle. Specifically, CircleNet implements feature ensemble with the idea of hard negative boosting in an end-to-end manner. Experiments on two pedestrian detection datasets, Caltech and CityPersons, show that CircleNet improves the performance of occluded and low-resolution pedestrians with significant margins while maintaining good performance on normal instances.
description: Accepted by Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS)
Tension between the power spectrum of density perturbations measured on large and small scales
Creators: name: Battye, Richard A.
name: Charnock, Tom
name: Moss, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a tension between measurements of the amplitude of the power spectrum of density perturbations inferred using the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and directly measured by Large-Scale Structure (LSS) on smaller scales. We show that this tension exists, and is robust, for a range of LSS indicators including clusters, lensing and redshift space distortions and using CMB data from either $Planck$ or WMAP+SPT/ACT. One obvious way to try to reconcile this is the inclusion of a massive neutrino which could be either active or sterile. Using $Planck$ and a combination of all the LSS data we find that (i) for an active neutrino $\sum m_ν= (0.357\pm0.099)\,{\rm eV}$ and (ii) for a sterile neutrino $m_{\rm sterile}^{\rm eff}= (0.67\pm0.18)\,{\rm eV}$ and $ΔN_{\rm eff}= 0.32\pm0.20$. This is, however, at the expense of a degraded fit to $Planck$ temperature data, and we quantify the residual tension at $2.5σ$ and $1.6 σ$ for massive and sterile neutrinos respectively. We also consider alternative explanations including a lower redshift for reionization that would be in conflict with polarisation measurements made by WMAP and $ad$-$hoc$ modifications to primordial power spectrum.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures
Temnothorax fuscatus
Creators: name: Prebus, Matthew M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Temnothorax
Temnothorax fuscatus

description: fuscatus group overview With four species (one described as new here), the fuscatus group is another small group with a range spanning the mid-to-high elevations of central Mexico to southern Central America (Fig. 107). All nest collections of fuscatus group species have been from arboreal habitats, either nesting in vegetation (alive or dead) on live trees or in epiphytes. The low, long petiolar node distinguishes this group from nearly everything else in the salvini clade. Apparently, the fuscatus group is sister to the ground-nesting pergandei group (Prebus, in prep.).
description: Published as part of Prebus, Matthew M., 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax salvini clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to the clades of New World Temnothorax, pp. 1-462 in PeerJ (e 11514) (e 11514) 9 on page 148, DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11514, http://zenodo.org/record/5102026
Innovation, Automation, Tradition: Wieso es sich lohnen kann, aus Blog-Texten Bücher und Journals zu machen
Creators: name: Dalkilic, Evin
name: Dölle, Keanu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Wissenschaftsblogs gelten noch immer als innovative Publikationsformate, obwohl es sie bereits seit mehr als 15 Jahren gibt. In der Wissenschaft haben sie zwar mittlerweile ihren Platz gefunden, werden aber nach wie vor oft als nicht gleichwertig gegenüber traditionellen Publikationen angesehen. Auch Hochschulbibliotheken tun sich – vor allem wenn es um die Finanzierung geht – nicht immer leicht damit, Wissenschaftsblogs als Publikationen anzuerkennen, die klassischen Formaten wie Büchern oder Journals entsprechen.
Um zu testen, inwiefern klassische Publikationsformate die Akzeptanz in beiden Hinsichten stärken und so auch die Zugänglichkeit erleichtern können, hat der Verfassungsblog im BMBF-geförderten Projekt "Offener Zugang zu Öffentlichem Recht" Blog-Texte als Sammelbände und Journals gebündelt. In der Folge wurde ein Workflow entwickelt, der weitestgehend automatisiert funktioniert und die über die Blog-Software Wordpress veröffentlichten Texte mit nur wenigen Klicks in die neuen Formate überführt.
Hierbei werden Blogbeiträge inkl. Metadaten in maschinenlesbare Datenformate exportiert, durch ein eigens entwickeltes Python-Skript angepasst und mit bestehender Open-Source-Software in LaTeX konvertiert. Durch das Textsatzsystem LaTeX und hierfür erstellte Vorlagen können die Beiträge dann in verschiedenen Layouts und Formaten aufbereitet werden. In wenigen Minuten können so aus Blogbeiträgen Journals oder Bücher als PDF, ePub oder Printversion erzeugt werden.
Die entwickelten Tools sind zur Nachnutzung frei verfügbar und sollen anderen Wissenschaftsblogs, die Wordpress nutzen, so die Möglichkeit bieten, ihre Publikationsformate auf einfache Art zu diversifizieren.
Effect of annealing on the charge-voltage characteristics of the SrBi2(Ta,Nb)2O9 films
Creators: name: Morozovsky, N. V.
name: Semchenko, A. V.
name: Sidsky, V. V.
name: Kolos, V. V.
name: Turtsevich, A. S.
name: Eliseev, E. A.
name: Morozovska, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of changes of the Nb content and annealing on charge vs. voltage and current vs. voltage characteristics of SrBi2(Ta,Nb)2O9 film was studied theoretically and experimentally. Theoretical modeling, which takes into account the mobile charged donors impact on the features of charge vs. voltage and current vs. voltage characteristics of ferroelectric semiconductor films, revealed the changes of conductivity value and ferroelectric parameters. The results of theoretical analysis and experimental results are in qualitative agreement.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
Ensembling Transformers for Cross-domain Automatic Term Extraction
Creators: name: Tran, Hanh Thi Hong
name: Martinc, Matej
name: Pelicon, Andraz
name: Doucet, Antoine
name: Pollak, Senja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic term extraction plays an essential role in domain language understanding and several natural language processing downstream tasks. In this paper, we propose a comparative study on the predictive power of Transformers-based pretrained language models toward term extraction in a multi-language cross-domain setting. Besides evaluating the ability of monolingual models to extract single- and multi-word terms, we also experiment with ensembles of mono- and multilingual models by conducting the intersection or union on the term output sets of different language models. Our experiments have been conducted on the ACTER corpus covering four specialized domains (Corruption, Wind energy, Equitation, and Heart failure) and three languages (English, French, and Dutch), and on the RSDO5 Slovenian corpus covering four additional domains (Biomechanics, Chemistry, Veterinary, and Linguistics). The results show that the strategy of employing monolingual models outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches from the related work leveraging multilingual models, regarding all the languages except Dutch and French if the term extraction task excludes the extraction of named entity terms. Furthermore, by combining the outputs of the two best performing models, we achieve significant improvements.
description: 11 pages including references, 3 figures, 2 tables
Recycling of Perovskite Substrate
Creators: name: Wang, Jie
name: Liang, Yuhan
name: Wang, Yue
name: Yang, Shengan
name: Zhang, Xinyu
name: Huang, Xin
name: Wang, Yajuan
name: Liang, Zhaowei
name: Ma, Ji
name: Zhang, Hui
name: Chen, Qingming
name: Ma, Jing
name: Lin, Yuanhua
name: Wu, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of water-soluble sacrificial layer of Sr$_3$Al$_2$O$_6$ has tremendously boosted the research on freestanding functional oxide thin films, especially thanks to its ultimate capability to produce high-quality epitaxial perovskite thin films. However, the costly single-crystalline substrates, e.g. SrTiO$_3$, were generally discarded after obtaining the freestanding thin films. Here, we demonstrate that the SrTiO$_3$ substrates can be recycled to fabricate La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$ films with nearly identical structural and electrical properties. After attaining freestanding thin films, the residues on SrTiO$_3$ can be removed by 80 \degree C hot water soaking and rinsing treatments. Consequently, the surface of SrTiO$_3$ reverted to its original step-and-terrace structure.
Valley Zeeman Effect in Elementary Optical Excitations of a Monolayer WSe2
Creators: name: Srivastava, Ajit
name: Sidler, Meinrad
name: Allain, Adrien V.
name: Lembke, Dominik S.
name: Kis, Andras
name: Imamoglu, Atac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) such as WSe$_2$ is a two-dimensional (2D) direct band-gap valley-semiconductor having an effective Honeycomb lattice structure with broken inversion symmetry. The inequivalent valleys in the Brillouin zone could be selectively addressed using circularly-polarized light fields, suggesting the possibility for magneto-optical measurement and manipulation of the valley pseudospin degree of freedom. Here we report such experiments that demonstrate the valley Zeeman effect -- strongly anisotropic lifting of the degeneracy of the valley pseudospin degree of freedom using an external magnetic field. While the valley-splitting measured using the exciton transition is consistent with the difference of the conduction and valence band orbital magnetic moments, the trion transition exhibits an unexpectedly large valley Zeeman effect which cannot be understood using an independent electron-hole picture. Instead, we find an explanation using the recently predicted large Berry curvature and the associated magnetic moment for the electron-hole exchange interaction modified trion dispersion. Our results raise the possibility of observing optical excitation induced valley Hall effect in monolayer TMDs or topological states of photons strongly coupled to trion excitations in a microcavity.
Supramolecular Scaffolds for Biomimetic Catalysis
Creators: name: La Manna, Pellegrino
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: CHIM/06 CHIMICA ORGANICA

description: 2016 - 2017
description: This PhD thesis is concerned with the design, synthesis and the characterization of supramolecular scaffolds for biomimetic catalysis. Development of new organocatalytic systems based upon well-designed calix[4]arene derivatives was made and their application for on water catalysis of the Vinylogous Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction (VMAR) was explored. The obtained results showed that combination of high hydrophobicity and synthetic versatility of calixarene macrocycles can be exploited for a kind of catalysis which permits the use of mild conditions and the choice of a reaction medium, water, different from organic solvents which are largely employed for the synthesis of fine chemicals and are responsible of large energy usage and industrial pollution4. So, calixarene macrocycles can be exploited to develop new environmentally oriented catalytic approaches. The target molecules bear a butenolide moiety substituted at γ position; this moiety represents a recurring motif in several compounds displaying a wide range of biological activities5. Moreover, thanks to the presence of functional groups typically involved in processes of molecular recognition through weak interactions, like hydroxyl and carbonyl functionalities, these products exhibit interesting features in their solid state assembly, showing that playing on non covalent interactions could be a good opportunity to build supramolecular architectures resembling the natural ones... [edited by Author]
title: An ontogenetic and comparative analysis of the bony semicircular canal form.
Creators: name: Cardenas-Serna, Marcela
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The semicircular canals – part of the vestibular system – are housed inside the petrous temporal bone. They detect angular acceleration of the head and are vital for gaze stabilisation and locomotion. The morphology of the semicircular canals is imperative for its function, given that alterations in variables such as length, circularity, position within the head or cross-section area can alter the sensitivity and the frequencies at which they can detect these accelerations. Given this tight association between form and function, the semicircular canal form must be highly regulated, as variation may give rise to functionally deleterious geometries. The unique morphology of a species’ canals has been used extensively to infer function, particularly where agility and locomotion is concerned. This work first investigates the semicircular canal form in humans to assess whether bone-remodelling dysregulation can lead to increased variation in form. Second, the ontogeny of the semicircular canal is evaluated to assess whether ossification is the limiting factor for canal form development. Lastly, the morphology of the canals across a set of mammalian species was evaluated to assess its relationship to the size of the perilymphatic space. A dataset of CT and microCT images that includes perinatal and adult humans, mice at several developmental stages, and a wider adult mammalian group was analysed using traditional morphometrics, geometric morphometrics and cross-section shape metrics. In summary, this study shows that the overall shape and size of the human semicircular canals are established in utero and remain stable thereafter, although minute changes around the perimeter of the canals were observed, suggesting that regulation of the canal form continues until late adulthood regardless of any potential bone-remodelling dysregulation. In mice, canal form continued to develop postnatally until the point of ossification, after which the results are similar to those of the human. This suggests that ossification may be the limiting factor for mammalian canal development. Lastly, the cross-section shape of the bony canals seems to vary with the size of the perilymphatic space, and it appears that it is possible to infer the size of the perilymphatic space using the cross-section aspect ratio.
The psychometric properties of the DAIMON Scale, a translation from Spanish to English: an instrument to measure the relationship with and between voices
Creators: name: Rosen, Cherise
name: Chase, Kayla
name: Perona-Garcelán, Salvador
name: Marvin, Robert
name: Sharma, Rajiv
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: With recent emphasis placed on altering the relationship between the hearer and their voice(s) to decrease levels of distress, there is an increased need for psychological measures to evaluate clinical intervention outcomes. Currently, there are few such measures available. The DAIMON scale is designed to evaluate the dialogical aspects of the relationship of person to voice, voice to person, the emotional salience of this relationship and the dialogic relationship between voice(s). The purpose of the current study was to translate and adapt the DAIMON from Spanish to English and measure its psychometric properties for future use in a clinical population. Forty-four persons currently experiencing voices participated. The DAIMON ~ English version (DAIMON-EV) demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity indices. The psychometric properties of the DAIMON-EV were found to be reliable, with the overall internal consistency of the measure and all subscale ordinal α scores ranging from 0.89 to 0.94. Concurrent validity of the DAIMON-EV was examined by the relation to the internal constructs of the PSYRATS-AVHs, VAY and the BAVQ-R. The integrity of the measure was maintained, and all items of the DAIMON-EV were shown to be a reliable measure of the assigned construct.
A Roadmap to Domain Knowledge Integration in Machine Learning
Creators: name: Gupta, Himel Das
name: Sheng, Victor S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many machine learning algorithms have been developed in recent years to enhance the performance of a model in different aspects of artificial intelligence. But the problem persists due to inadequate data and resources. Integrating knowledge in a machine learning model can help to overcome these obstacles up to a certain degree. Incorporating knowledge is a complex task though because of various forms of knowledge representation. In this paper, we will give a brief overview of these different forms of knowledge integration and their performance in certain machine learning tasks.
Numerical analysis of a three-wave-mixing Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier with engineered dispersion loadings - data and WRspice netlist
Creators: name: Gaydamachenko, Victor
name: Kissling, Christoph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: wrspice
twpa
Josephson junction

description: This repository contains the WRspice netlist and the raw data of the results presented in the article "Numerical analysis of a three-wave-mixing Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier with engineered dispersion loadings" (For more details: arxiv.org/abs/2209.11052).
Table of Contents of: "Asteroseismology of Stellar Populations in the Milky Way"
Creators: name: Miglio, Andrea
name: Eggenberger, Patrick
name: Girardi, Leo
name: Montalban, Josefina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give here the Table of Contents and clickable links to papers of the proceedings from the workshop "Asteroseismology of Stellar Populations in the Milky Way", held in Sesto, 22-26 July 2013. The aim of this workshop was to foster collaborations and discussions between expert researchers in Galactic evolution, specialists in stellar structure and asteroseismology, and key representatives of extensive ground-based spectroscopic surveys such as APOGEE and the ESO-Gaia Spectroscopic Survey. The workshop was devoted to discussing first results achieved by combining spectroscopic and seismic constraints on populations of stars observed by CoRoT and Kepler, and the relevance of CoRoT and Kepler surveys in the context of future Gaia observations.
description: HTML file with clickable links to papers
Feature Calibration Network for Occluded Pedestrian Detection
Creators: name: Zhang, Tianliang
name: Ye, Qixiang
name: Zhang, Baochang
name: Liu, Jianzhuang
name: Zhang, Xiaopeng
name: Tian, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pedestrian detection in the wild remains a challenging problem especially for scenes containing serious occlusion. In this paper, we propose a novel feature learning method in the deep learning framework, referred to as Feature Calibration Network (FC-Net), to adaptively detect pedestrians under various occlusions. FC-Net is based on the observation that the visible parts of pedestrians are selective and decisive for detection, and is implemented as a self-paced feature learning framework with a self-activation (SA) module and a feature calibration (FC) module. In a new self-activated manner, FC-Net learns features which highlight the visible parts and suppress the occluded parts of pedestrians. The SA module estimates pedestrian activation maps by reusing classifier weights, without any additional parameter involved, therefore resulting in an extremely parsimony model to reinforce the semantics of features, while the FC module calibrates the convolutional features for adaptive pedestrian representation in both pixel-wise and region-based ways. Experiments on CityPersons and Caltech datasets demonstrate that FC-Net improves detection performance on occluded pedestrians up to 10% while maintaining excellent performance on non-occluded instances.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS)
Electron cryotomography of SARS-CoV-2 virions reveals cylinder-shaped particles with a double layer RNP assembly
Creators: name: Calder, Lesley J
name: Calcraft, Thomas
name: Hussain, Saira
name: Harvey, Ruth
name: Rosenthal, Peter B
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Model organisms
subject: Imaging
subject: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Structural Biology & Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Infectious Disease
subject: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computational & Systems Biology

description: SARS-CoV-2 is a lipid-enveloped Betacoronavirus and cause of the Covid-19 pandemic. To study the three-dimensional architecture of the virus, we perform electron cryotomography (cryo-ET) on SARS-Cov-2 virions and three variants revealing particles of regular cylindrical morphology. The ribonucleoprotein particles packaging the genome in the virion interior form a dense, double layer assembly with a cylindrical shape related to the overall particle morphology. This organisation suggests structural interactions important to virus assembly.
title: Fahrerarbeitsplatz
Creators: name: Abendroth, Bettina
name: Williams, Mihaela
Publisher: name: Gentner
Year: 2023

description: The place of work in the passenger car includes the passenger compartment, especially the driver cockpit with the man-vehicle interfaces. The driver has to fulfil both his primary task (i.e. vehicle guidance) and secondary tasks (e.g., operating driver support systems). For designing this place of work a series of rules and regulations has to be considered.
ZentralGut.CH - Das openGLAM Portal für die Zentralschweiz
Creators: name: Erlinger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Central Switzerland
Digital Cultural Heritage
GLAM

description: Ende Mai 2022 geht mit zentralgut.ch das von der Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek (ZHB) Luzern initiierte Portal für das digitale Kulturgut der Zentralschweiz online. Die sechs Inner- bzw. «Urschweizer» Kantone Luzern, Schwyz, Ob- und Nidwalden, Uri und Zug besitzen insbesondere für die helvetische Geschichte einen reichen Bestand in einer Vielzahl an unterschiedlichen Gedächtnisinstitutionen. Kantons- und Stadtbibliotheken, Kantonsarchive, unterschiedliche Museen und zahlreiche Privatinitiativen verwalten und sammeln diese Kulturgüter. Diesen Einrichtungen gemein ist oft, dass sie aufgrund ihrer kleinen Strukturen nicht die ausreichenden Ressourcen besitzen, um eigenständige Digitalisierungs- und Präsentationinitiativen anzustossen. Daher schienen für ein Kooperationsprojekt die idealen Voraussetzungen geben zu sein. ZentralGut versammelt somit erstmals an zentraler Stelle unterschiedliche digitalisierte Bestände unter offener Lizenz. Neben Buch- und Handschriften, zählen Graphiken, Fotografien und Abbildungen musealer Artefakte ebenso zum Objektbestand des Repositoriums wie beispielsweise die Sammlung zeitgenössischer Quartierszeitschriften, die das städtische und kommunale Leben in den Orten der Zentralschweiz im 21. Jahrhundert dokumentieren. Neben den diversen Beständen aus den Zentralschweizer Kultureinrichtungen versammelt ZentralGut auch ausgewählte Bestände mit Innerschweizer Bedeutung aus nationalen Repositorien wie E-Rara, E-Manuscripta, Memobase oder dem Bildarchiv der ETH Zürich und steht umgekehrt auch selbst wieder als Datengeber für diese bundesweiten Portale oder Wikimedia Commons zur Verfügung. Mit ZentralGut tritt ein in der Sache wohl ein bekanntes weiteres Repositorium auf die Bühne, versucht allerdings in seiner Konzeption als kooperatives mit einem regionalen Fokus ausgestattetes Projekt eine Lücke in der Dokumentation und Informationsversorgung zu schliessen.
Spectral evolution responsible for the transition from positive lags to negative lags in Gamma-ray Bursts
Creators: name: Liang, Wen-Qiang
name: Lu, Rui-Jing
name: Peng, Cheng-Feng
name: Chen, Wen-Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was well known that most of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are dominated by positive spectral lags, while a small fraction of GRBs show negative lags. However, Wei et al. firstly identified a well-defined transition from positive lags to negative lags in GRB 160625B, and then got robust limits on possible violation of Lorentz Invariance (LIV) based on the observation. Recently, such a transition has been found in three different emission episodes in \thisgrb by Gunapati et al., which provides us a great opportunity to investigate whether the transition results from LIV-induced observed spectral lags. Our analysis shows that the LIV model can not be compatible with the current observations, whereas, only the spectral evolution induced spectral lags could responsible for the transition. So, spectral evolution can also explain the positive to negative lag in GRB 190530A.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted by Astrophysical Journal
Genetic management of endangered Australian plant populations
Creators: name: RODGER, YAEL SIMONE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Conservation and biodiversity

description: Conservation genetic management approaches, such as augmenting gene flow, have the potential to improve the adaptive potential of populations, which is a primary goal in species conservation. Despite its demonstrated successes, genetic management remains infrequently applied in practical conservation. This thesis evaluates the prospects and assess the outcomes of genetic rescue for two endangered Australian plant species with different rates of natural outcrossing, as case studies for incorporating mating system in genetic management planning. It makes recommendations to guide and encourage future applications of genetic rescue for this and comparable threatened species.
On the Spectral Efficiency of Full-Duplex Small Cell Wireless Systems
Creators: name: Nguyen, Dan
name: Tran, Le-Nam
name: Pirinen, Pekka
name: Latva-aho, Matti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the spectral efficiency of full-duplex small cell wireless systems, in which a full-duplex capable base station (BS) is designed to send/receive data to/from multiple halfduplex users on the same system resources. The major hurdle for designing such systems is due to the self-interference at the BS and co-channel interference among users. Hence, we consider a joint beamformer design to maximize the spectral efficiency subject to certain power constraints. The design problem is first formulated as a rank-constrained optimization one, and the rank relaxation method is then applied. However the relaxed problem is still nonconvex, and thus optimal solutions are hard to find. Herein, we propose two provably convergent algorithms to obtain suboptimal solutions. Based on the concept of the difference of convex functions programming, we approximate the design problem by a determinant maximization program in each iteration of the first algorithm. The second method is built upon the sequential parametric convex approximation method, which allows us to transform the relaxed problem into a semidefinite program in each iteration. Extensive numerical experiments under small cell setups illustrate that the full-duplex system with the proposed algorithms can achieve a large gain over the half-duplex one.
description: accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 15 pages, 8 figures
Search for ultralight dark matter from long-term frequency comparisons of optical and microwave atomic clocks
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Takumi
name: Takamizawa, Akifumi
name: Akamatsu, Daisuke
name: Kawasaki, Akio
name: Nishiyama, Akiko
name: Hosaka, Kazumoto
name: Hisai, Yusuke
name: Wada, Masato
name: Inaba, Hajime
name: Tanabe, Takehiko
name: Yasuda, Masami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We search for ultralight scalar dark matter candidates that induce oscillations of the fine structure constant, the electron and quark masses, and the quantum chromodynamics energy scale with frequency comparison data between an $^{171}$Yb optical lattice clock and a $^{133}$Cs fountain microwave clock that span 298 days with an uptime of 15.4 $\%$. New limits on the couplings of the scalar dark matter to electrons and gluons in the mass range from $10^{-22}$ eV/$c^{2}$ to $10^{-20}$ eV/$c^{2}$ are set, assuming that each of these couplings is the dominant source of the modulation in the frequency ratio. The absolute frequency of the $^{171}$Yb clock transition is also determined as $518\,295\,836\,590\,863.69(28)$ Hz, which is one of the important contributions towards a redefinition of the SI second.
HDNet: A Hierarchically Decoupled Network for Crowd Counting
Creators: name: Gu, Chenliang
name: Wang, Changan
name: Gao, Bin-Bin
name: Liu, Jun
name: Zhang, Tianliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, density map regression-based methods have dominated in crowd counting owing to their excellent fitting ability on density distribution. However, further improvement tends to saturate mainly because of the confusing background noise and the large density variation. In this paper, we propose a Hierarchically Decoupled Network (HDNet) to solve the above two problems within a unified framework. Specifically, a background classification sub-task is decomposed from the density map prediction task, which is then assigned to a Density Decoupling Module (DDM) to exploit its highly discriminative ability. For the remaining foreground prediction sub-task, it is further hierarchically decomposed to several density-specific sub-tasks by the DDM, which are then solved by the regression-based experts in a Foreground Density Estimation Module (FDEM). Although the proposed strategy effectively reduces the hypothesis space so as to relieve the optimization for those task-specific experts, the high correlation of these sub-tasks are ignored. Therefore, we introduce three types of interaction strategies to unify the whole framework, which are Feature Interaction, Gradient Interaction, and Scale Interaction. Integrated with the above spirits, HDNet achieves state-of-the-art performance on several popular counting benchmarks.
description: Accepted by IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2022
Ro-vibrational spectroscopy of molecules represented by a Tietz-Hua oscillator potential
Creators: name: Roy, Amlan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate low and high-lying bound states of Tietz-Hua oscillator potential are presented. The radial Schrödinger equation is solved efficiently by means of the generalized pseudospectral method that enables optimal spatial discretization. Both $\ell=0$ and rotational states are considered. Ro-vibrational levels of six diatomic molecules \emph{viz.}, H$_2$, HF, N$_2$, NO, O$_2$, O$_2^+$ are obtained with good accuracy. Most of the states are reported here for the first time. A detailed analysis of variation of eigenvalues with $n, \ell$ quantum numbers is made. Results are compared with literature data, wherever possible. These are also briefly contrasted with the Morse potential results.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables
Angelo Maria Ripellino e il ‘suo’ Lènin di Majakovskij
Creators: name: Niero, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2018
Subjects: Angelo Maria Ripellino
Vladimir Majakovskij
Poetry translation
Reception of Russian literature in Italy

description: The article analyses the way Angelo Maria Ripellino translated in 1967 – fifty years after the October Revolution! – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s long poem Lenin for the Turin publishing house Giulio Einaudi. Judging by the words spent by Ripellino in his Preface to the book and in a letter about Lènin he sent to one of the editors of Einaudi, Guido Davico Bonino, the translation appears to be an intriguing example of work carried out not as the personal choice of the translator, but as a gentlemen agreement between him and the publisher (a sort of social’nyj zakaz, a “social commitment” fulfilled by Ripellino, who at that time was known as the best interpreter of Russian poetry of the first part of the 20th century). Despite this unfavourable circumstances and, consequently, a presumable low degree of congeniality between the translator and the translated one, Ripellino’s work is extremely interesting as it reveals an approach to poetic translating that is strikingly different from the masterful versions he made of Boris Pasternak’s (1957), Aleksandr Blok’s (1960) and, later, Velimir Khlebnikov’s (1968) poems, whose literary specificity was conveyed to the Italian reader mainly using a very flexible vers libre. Translating Lenin, instead, Ripellino provided the text with a considerable number of rhymes, assonances, consonances and so forth (although the lexical units chosen for the translation not always match the register of the original). Ripellino took so much care of the formal features of Mayakovsky’s long poem that his translation can actually be considered a verbal product that has more to do with rhetoric than with politics (in a sense, the ideological content partly recedes into the background). In all likelihood, Ripellino thus wanted to draw the attention of the reader to Mayakovsky as a ‘revolutionary poet’ rather than to Mayakovsky as the ‘poet of the Revolution’.