cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Environmental taxes on industries in Indonesia: developing a framework for sustainability
Creators: name: Hasan, Dahliana
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In recent years, developed countries as well as developing countries have resorted to the use of environmental taxes to manage pollution. However, the actual design of environmental taxes differs among countries due to different underlying rationales and experiences. Indonesia as a developing country, has also experimented with these taxes since 1997 to address some of the challenges of environmental degradation that it has been grappling with. In spite of this, the coverage of environmental tax legislations and the actual contribution of environmental taxes in practice still remain unclear. This study critically evaluates these issues with a view to exploring possible ways for developing a comprehensive framework of such taxes to manage pollution from industries in Indonesia. The reduction of pollution from industrial activities would likely contribute to environmental sustainability. The significance of the study lies in the fact that the coverage of environmental tax laws in Indonesia and the role of environmental taxes in practice have not been examined by other scholars. This thesis uses a mixed method approach to conduct the analysis. The approaches are based on the normative and empirical methods. It therefore relies on analysing data from primary and secondary documents as well as data from interviews and survey questionnaires with relevant stakeholders. This thesis consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 is the introductory chapter and identifies the gaps in the literature and poses questions that inform the research undertaken in this thesis. It also sets out an outline of the relevant chapters. Chapters 2 and 3 provide the knowledge context for the analysis by discussing the nature and use of pricing instruments in managing environmental degradation. Findings from the analysis are discussed in Chapters 4 and 5. The final chapter is Chapter 6 and it provides a summary of findings as well as propositions of the framework for sustainability in Indonesia.
IN03099 Poḷonnaruva Slab Inscription of Sāhasa-Malla - Müller (1883)
Creators: name: Müller, Edward
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IN03099
Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon
AIC
Polonnaruwa
Poḷonnaruva
Sāhasa-Malla
Müller

description: IN03099 Poḷonnaruva Slab Inscription of Sāhasa-Malla - Transcript and Translation Source: Müller, Edward. (1883). Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon. London: Trubner & Co., pp. 103-104 (transcript) and 136-137 (translation), no. 156. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1336676
Interaction of charged patchy protein models with like-charged polyelectrolyte brushes
Creators: name: Yigit, Cemil
name: Kanduc, Matej
name: Ballauff, Matthias
name: Dzubiella, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the adsorption of charged patchy particle models (CPPMs) on a thin film of a like-charged and dense polyelectrolyte (PE) brush (of 50 monomers per chain) by means of implicit-solvent, explicit-salt Langevin dynamics computer simulations. Our previously introduced set of CPPMs embraces well-defined one-, and two-patched spherical globules, each of the same net charge and (nanometer) size, with mono- and multipole moments comparable to those of small globular proteins. We focus on electrostatic effects on the adsorption far away from the isoelectric point of typical proteins, i.e., where charge regulation plays no role. Despite the same net charge of the brush and globule we observe large binding affinities up to tens of the thermal energy, kT, which are enhanced by decreasing salt concentration and increasing charge of the patch(es). Our analysis of the distance-resolved potentials of mean force together with a phenomenological description of all leading interaction contributions shows that the attraction is strongest at the brush surface, driven by multipolar, Born (self-energy), and counterion-release contributions, dominating locally over the monopolar and steric repulsions.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables
Numerical Stability of DeepGOPlus Inference
Creators: name: Pepe, Inés Gonzalez
name: Chatelain, Yohan
name: Kiar, Gregory
name: Glatard, Tristan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are currently among the most widely-used deep neural network (DNN) architectures available and achieve state-of-the-art performance for many problems. Originally applied to computer vision tasks, CNNs work well with any data with a spatial relationship, besides images, and have been applied to different fields. However, recent works have highlighted numerical stability challenges in DNNs, which also relates to their known sensitivity to noise injection. These challenges can jeopardise their performance and reliability. This paper investigates DeepGOPlus, a CNN that predicts protein function. DeepGOPlus has achieved state-of-the-art performance and can successfully take advantage and annotate the abounding protein sequences emerging in proteomics. We determine the numerical stability of the model's inference stage by quantifying the numerical uncertainty resulting from perturbations of the underlying floating-point data. In addition, we explore the opportunity to use reduced-precision floating point formats for DeepGOPlus inference, to reduce memory consumption and latency. This is achieved by instrumenting DeepGOPlus' execution using Monte Carlo Arithmetic, a technique that experimentally quantifies floating point operation errors and VPREC, a tool that emulates results with customizable floating point precision formats. Focus is placed on the inference stage as it is the primary deliverable of the DeepGOPlus model, widely applicable across different environments. All in all, our results show that although the DeepGOPlus CNN is very stable numerically, it can only be selectively implemented with lower-precision floating-point formats. We conclude that predictions obtained from the pre-trained DeepGOPlus model are very reliable numerically, and use existing floating-point formats efficiently.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables with 3 figures, 2 tables in Appendix
Competitions between prosocial exclusions and punishments in finite populations
Creators: name: Liu, Linjie
name: Chen, Xiaojie
name: Szolnoki, Attila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Prosocial punishment has been proved to be a powerful mean to promote cooperation. Recent studies have found that social exclusion, which indeed can be regarded as a kind of punishment, can also support cooperation. However, if prosocial punishment and exclusion are both present, it is still unclear which strategy is more advantageous to curb free-riders. Here we first study the direct competition between different types of punishment and exclusion. We find that pool (peer) exclusion can always outperform pool (peer) punishment both in the optional and in the compulsory public goods game, no matter whether second-order sanctioning is considered or not. Furthermore, peer exclusion does better than pool exclusion both in the optional and in the compulsory game, but the situation is reversed in the presence of second-order exclusion. Finally, we extend the competition among all possible sanctioning strategies and find that peer exclusion can outperform all other strategies in the absence of second-order exclusion and punishment, while pool exclusion prevails when second-order sanctioning is possible. Our results demonstrate that exclusion is a more powerful strategy than punishment for the resolution of social dilemmas.
Additional file 2: of Satisfaction of doctors with their training: evidence from UK
Creators: name: Gregory, Simon
name: Demartini, Chiara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Factor analysis of the research variables [25]. (DOCX 115Â kb)
title: Spatio-temporal Pattern of Two Common Cancers Among Iranian Women: An Adaptive Smoothing Model
Creators: name: Raei, Mehdi
name: Schmid, Volker J.
name: Moayyed, Majid
name: Mahaki, Behzad
Publisher: name: Journal of B.U.ON.
Year: 2019

description: Purpose: Considering the increase in incidence of breast and cervix uteri cancers in Iran, this study investigates spatio-temporal patterns of the incidence of these two cancers by estimating the step changes between pairs of adjacent regions and between the Iranian women from 2004 to 2009. Methods: Using an adaptive smoothing model, spatio-temporal mapping of the breast and cervix uteri cancers and their changes were studied. Identification of step changes between the neighboring spatial units was carried out by modeling adjacency matrix elements as random variables. Results: There was a high relative risk of breast cancer around the central northern half of Iran, and a high relative risk of cervix uteri cancer was seen in the northeastern part of Iran. Northwest and southeast of Iran had a relatively low risk of breast and cervix uteri cancer. In general, step changes were largely similar between the two diseases Introduction Women are about half of the world’s population, and their proper health is of particular impor- tance as it ensures the health of the community. According to the World Health Organization, 25% of women’s deaths are due to malignant tumors. Breast cancer is the most common malignancy of women throughout the world and accounts for 30% of all cancers in women. In 2000, more with an agreement coefficient of 56%. This was observed in the Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, and Kohgiluye & Boyerah- mad provinces on the central band of Iran, as well as some eastern and northern regions on the map that were distinct from their adjacent provinces from the aspect of relative risk of both cancers. Conclusion: Identifying areas with high/low incidence risk can help health authorities to make better decisions to prevent and control breast and cervix uteri cancers and allocate resources more efficiently. In addition, determining and identifying the step changes in unexplained components of the disease risk can lead to a deeper understanding of the spatial structure of unmeasured confounding factors.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IX, Cart. 193 (11 H 78), f. 0114r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IX, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 193 (11 H 78), f. 0114r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome IX, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 193 (11 H 78), f. 0114r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Linear programming approach to discrete time optimal control problems with time discounting
Creators: name: Parkinson, Alex
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The linear programming (LP) approach to control systems is based on the fact that the occupational measures generated by admissible controls and the corresponding solutions of a nonlinear system satisfy certain linear equations representing the system’s dynamics in an integral form. The idea of such linearization was explored extensively in relation to various deterministic and stochastic problems of optimal control of systems that evolve in continuous time. However, no results based on this idea for deterministic discrete time control systems is available in the literature. The thesis aims at the development of LP based techniques for analysis and solution of a deterministic discrete time optimal control problem with time discounting criteria. To this end, we reformulate the optimal control problem as that of optimization problem on the set of discounted occupational measures and we show that the optimal value of the latter is equal to the optimal value of a certain infinite dimensional (ID) LP problem. We then show that this IDLP problem can be approximated by semi-infinite linear programming problems and subsequently by finite-dimensional (“standard”) LP problems. We also indicate a way how a near optimal control of the underlying nonlinear optimal control problem can be constructed on the basis of the solution of an approximating finite-dimensional LP problem.
Open Gromov-Witten invariants from the Fukaya category
Creators: name: Hugtenburg, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper proposes a framework to show that the Fukaya category of a symplectic manifold $X$ determines the open Gromov-Witten invariants of Lagrangians $L \subset X$. We associate to an object in an $A_\infty$-category an extension of the negative cyclic homology, called \emph{relative cyclic homology}. We extend the Getzler-Gauss-Manin connection to relative cyclic homology. Then, we construct (under simplifying technical assumptions) a relative cyclic open-closed map, which maps the relative cyclic homology of a Lagrangian $L$ in the Fukaya category of a symplectic manifold $X$ to the $S^1$-equivariant relative quantum homology of $(X,L)$. Relative quantum homology is the dual to the relative quantum cohomology constructed by Solomon-Tukachinsky. This is an extension of quantum cohomology, and comes equipped with a connection extending the quantum connection. We prove that the relative open-closed map respects connections. As an application of this framework, we show, assuming a construction of the relative cyclic open-closed map in a broader technical setup, that the Fukaya category of a Calabi-Yau variety determines the open Gromov-Witten invariants with one interior marked point for any null-homologous Lagrangian brane.
description: 35 pages. Minor edits taking into account referee suggestions. Updated references. Numbering agrees with journal version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2205.13436
Implementing global sourcing strategies and optimising offshoring capability: a longitudinal case study
Creators: name: McKenzie, Alexander Ross
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Recognising the impact that globalisation has had on the sourcing of services, the purpose of this study was to understand how managers of firms implement global sourcing strategies and optimise offshoring capabilities. While significant research has been undertaken by scholars, future research needs have also been identified, including in-depth longitudinal studies in outsourcing, how outsourcing changes over time and the evolution of retained client capabilities. Research in these areas will go some way towards improving our understanding of the complex issues with which managers of firms have to deal. To support these research needs through this thesis, a longitudinal case study based within a global financial services firm was undertaken over two years, utilising a mixed methods approach that included interviews, qualitative and quantitative surveys, documentation, physical artefacts and participant observation. In addition, this research was supplemented by 16 years of secondary historical data. The result is a detailed and rich narrative describing the real issues managers experience and how they deal with them when implementing global sourcing strategies and optimising offshoring capabilities. The thesis concludes with the identification and discussion of one primary and four secondary contributions. The primary contribution is captured in the Global Services Sourcing Model, which will assist managers when implementing global sourcing strategies. The first two secondary contributions are labelled Leadership Incongruence and the Retained Organisation, and highlight the role of leadership during the implementation phase of the strategy and how this strategy may impact the organisation into the future. The third secondary insight is the Global Services Maturity Model, which will provide managers with guidance when developing the internal capabilities to support their offshoring initiatives. The final secondary contribution discusses the importance of developing a Global Mindset across the organisation to support the firm’s global sourcing strategy.
Digital Security -- A Question of Perspective. A Large-Scale Telephone Survey with Four At-Risk User Groups
Creators: name: Herbert, Franziska
name: Becker, Steffen
name: Buckmann, Annalina
name: Kowalewski, Marvin
name: Hielscher, Jonas
name: Acar, Yasemin
name: Dürmuth, Markus
name: Zou, Yixin
name: Sasse, M. Angela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the digital security experiences of four at-risk user groups in Germany, including older adults (70+), teenagers (14-17), people with migration backgrounds, and people with low formal education. Using computer-assisted telephone interviews, we sampled 250 participants per group, representative of region, gender, and partly age distributions. We examine their device usage, concerns, prior negative incidents, perceptions of potential attackers, and information sources. Our study provides the first quantitative and nationally representative insights into the digital security experiences of these four at-risk groups in Germany. Our findings show that participants with migration backgrounds used the most devices, sought more security information, and reported more experiences with cybercrime incidents than other groups. Older adults used the fewest devices and were least affected by cybercrimes. All groups relied on friends and family and online news as their primary sources of security information, with little concern about their social circles being potential attackers. We highlight the nuanced differences between the four at-risk groups and compare them to the broader German population when possible. We conclude by presenting recommendations for education, policy, and future research aimed at addressing the digital security needs of these at-risk user groups.
Semantics and loop invariant synthesis for probabilistic programs
Creators: name: Gretz, Friedrich
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In this thesis we consider sequential probabilistic programs. Such programs are a means to model randomised algorithms in computer science. They facilitate the formal analysis of performance and correctness of algorithms or security aspects of protocols. We develop an operational semantics for probabilistic programs and show it to be equivalent to the expectation transformer semantics due to McIver and Morgan. This connection between the two kinds of semantics provides a deeper understanding of the behaviour of probabilistic programs and is instrumental to transfer results between communities that use transition systems such as Markov decision processes to reason about probabilistic behaviour and communities that focus on deductive verification techniques based on expectation transformers. As a next step, we add the concept of observations and extend both semantics to facilitate the calculation of expectations which are conditioned on the fact that no observation is violated during the program's execution. Our main contribution here is to explore issues that arise with non-terminating, non-deterministic or infeasible programs and provide semantics that are generally applicable. Additionally, we discuss several program transformation to facilitate the understanding of conditioning in probabilistic programming. In the last part of the thesis we turn our attention to the automated verification of probabilistic programs. We are interested in automating inductive verification techniques. As usual the main obstacle in program analysis are loops which require either the calculation of fixed points or the generation of inductive invariants for their analysis. This task, which is already hard for standard, i.e. non-probabilistic, programs, becomes even more challenging as our reasoning becomes quantitative. We focus on a technique to generate quantitative loop invariants from user defined templates. This approach is implemented in a software tool called Prinsys and evaluated on several examples.
Bijective proof of a conjecture on unit interval posets
Creators: name: Fang, Wenjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In a recent preprint, Matherne, Morales and Selover conjectured that two different representations of unit interval posets are related by the famous zeta map in $q,t$-Catalan combinatorics. This conjecture was proved recently by Gélinas, Segovia and Thomas using induction. In this short note, we provide a bijective proof of the same conjecture with a reformulation of the zeta map using left-aligned colored trees, first proposed in the study of parabolic Tamari lattices.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. Accepted by Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Dynamics of $\mathcal B$-free sets: a view through the window
Creators: name: Kasjan, Stanisław
name: Keller, Gerhard
name: Lemańczyk, Mariusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A35, 37A45, 37B05

description: Let $\mathcal B$ be an infinite subset of $\{1,2,\dots\}$. We characterize arithmetic and dynamical properties of the $\mathcal B$-free set $\mathcal F_{\mathcal B}$ through group theoretical, topological and measure theoretic properties of a set $W$ (called the window) associated with $\mathcal B$. This point of view stems from the interpretation of the set $\mathcal F_{\mathcal B}$ as a weak model set. Our main results are: $\mathcal B$ is taut if and only if the window is Haar regular; the dynamical system associated to $\mathcal F_{\mathcal B}$ is a Toeplitz system if and only if the window is topologically regular; the dynamical system associated to $\mathcal F_{\mathcal B}$ is proximal if and only if the window has empty interior; and the dynamical system associated to $\mathcal F_{\mathcal B}$ has the "naïvely expected" maximal equicontinuous factor if and only if the interior of the window is aperiodic.
Additional file 3: of Economic evaluation of an experience sampling method intervention in depression compared with treatment as usual using data from a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Simons, Claudia
name: Drukker, Marjan
name: Evers, Silvia
name: Mastrigt, Ghislaine Van
name: HĂśhn, Petra
name: Kramer, Ingrid
name: Frenk Peeters
name: Delespaul, Philippe
name: Menne-Lothmann, Claudia
name: Hartmann, Jessica
name: Os, Jim Van
name: Wichers, Marieke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S1. Costs at baseline and costs over 32 weeks (intention-to-treat) per type of consultation. Table S2. Unit costs per cost category. Costs were obtained from a Dutch cost manual (2009-prices, Hakkaart van Roijen 2010) and calculated to their 2012 value (Statline). (DOCX 20 kb)
Improved Accuracy for Trotter Simulations Using Chebyshev Interpolation
Creators: name: Rendon, Gumaro
name: Watkins, Jacob
name: Wiebe, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum metrology allows for measuring properties of a quantum system at the optimal Heisenberg limit. However, when the relevant quantum states are prepared using digital Hamiltonian simulation, the accrued algorithmic errors will cause deviations from this fundamental limit. In this work, we show how algorithmic errors due to Trotterized time evolution can be mitigated through the use of standard polynomial interpolation techniques. Our approach is to extrapolate to zero Trotter step size, akin to zero-noise extrapolation techniques for mitigating hardware errors. We perform a rigorous error analysis of the interpolation approach for estimating eigenvalues and time-evolved expectation values, and show that the Heisenberg limit is achieved up to polylogarithmic factors in the error. Our work suggests that accuracies approaching those of state-of-the-art simulation algorithms may be achieved using Trotter and classical resources alone for a number of relevant algorithmic tasks.
description: 67 pages, 6 figures
Transnational macro-narrative descendancy in violent conflict: a case study of the Mujahidin Indonesia Timur in central Sulawesi
Creators: name: Henshaw, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis investigates transnational macro-narrative descendancy in violent conflicts and identifies enabling dynamics that facilitate re-framing. To date there has been little focus on actual re-framing processes involved, explicitly narrative descendancy, bridging, resonance building or grafting, representing a critical knowledge gap. This thesis first reviews relevant literature on constructivism and rational choice theory and tests the findings against an empirical case study in central Sulawesi. The findings demonstrate that a mixture of approaches is present, though this is likely due to a range of dynamics unique to the conflict itself. The results have high relevance for policy makers and academics across security and conflict disciplines.
title: Éric Caumes
Creators: name: Caumes, Éric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Autres destinataires : Hervé Latapie, Richard Cross, Caroline Petit, Dominique Mathez. 1 fichier (1 page).
Optimal lower bounds for Quantum Learning via Information Theory
Creators: name: Hadiashar, Shima Bab
name: Nayak, Ashwin
name: Sinha, Pulkit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2

description: Although a concept class may be learnt more efficiently using quantum samples as compared with classical samples in certain scenarios, Arunachalam and de Wolf (JMLR, 2018) proved that quantum learners are asymptotically no more efficient than classical ones in the quantum PAC and Agnostic learning models. They established lower bounds on sample complexity via quantum state identification and Fourier analysis. In this paper, we derive optimal lower bounds for quantum sample complexity in both the PAC and agnostic models via an information-theoretic approach. The proofs are arguably simpler, and the same ideas can potentially be used to derive optimal bounds for other problems in quantum learning theory.
 We then turn to a quantum analogue of the Coupon Collector problem, a classic problem from probability theory also of importance in the study of PAC learning. Arunachalam, Belovs, Childs, Kothari, Rosmanis, and de Wolf (TQC, 2020) characterized the quantum sample complexity of this problem up to constant factors. First, we show that the information-theoretic approach mentioned above provably does not yield the optimal lower bound. As a by-product, we get a natural ensemble of pure states in arbitrarily high dimensions which are not easily (simultaneously) distinguishable, while the ensemble has close to maximal Holevo information. Second, we discover that the information-theoretic approach yields an asymptotically optimal bound for an approximation variant of the problem. Finally, we derive a sharper lower bound for the Quantum Coupon Collector problem, via the generalized Holevo-Curlander bounds on the distinguishability of an ensemble. All the aspects of the Quantum Coupon Collector problem we study rest on properties of the spectrum of the associated Gram matrix, which may be of independent interest.
description: v3: 40 pages; Added references; edited extensively; simplified the proof of Theorem 3.2; results unchanged. A preliminary version of the results in Section 3 was included in the S.B.H.'s PhD thesis at University of Waterloo (Dec. 2020). An extended abstract of the results in Section 4 was included in the P.S.' bachelor's project report at Indian Institute of Science (Apr. 2022)
The distribution and acoustic properties of fricatives in Light Warlpiri
Creators: name: Hendy, Caroline Rose
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Australian Aboriginal languages
linguistics
phonetics
mixed languages
contact languages
Light Warlpiri
fricatives

description: This thesis examines potential fricatives in Light Warlpiri, an Australian mixed language with Warlpiri, Kriol, and English adstrates. Most Australian languages, including Warlpiri, lack contrastive fricatives. Because of this, any inherited fricatives in Light Warlpiri – including those that have come through Kriol – are originally from English. However, the fricative inventories of Standard Australian English, Australian Aboriginal English, and Kriol differ in terms of which places of articulation are differentiated and whether voicing is contrastive. The aim of this thesis is to establish whether fricatives exist in Light Warlpiri, to investigate their acoustic properties if so, and to compare these properties with those of the Light Warlpiri source languages. This thesis consists of two studies using elicited data from 10 first language speakers of Light Warlpiri. The first study investigates the presence and distribution of potential fricatives in Light Warlpiri. It is found that Light Warlpiri lacks /h/, and reflexes of English dental fricatives are realised as stops. The second study is an acoustic analysis of the subset of potential fricatives that are produced as fricatives. It is shown that Light Warlpiri speakers differentiate fricative production by the place of articulation of the English source. Voicing is shown to be contrastive for labiodental fricatives, but not for alveolar or postalveolar fricatives. These results show that the fricative inventory of Light Warlpiri has significant influence from Standard Australian English, but differs from all of its source languages.
A Search for Laser Emission with Megawatt Thresholds from 5600 FGKM Stars
Creators: name: Tellis, Nathaniel K.
name: Marcy, Geoffrey W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We searched high resolution spectra of 5600 nearby stars for emission lines that are both inconsistent with a natural origin and unresolved spatially, as would be expected from extraterrestrial optical lasers. The spectra were obtained with the Keck 10-meter telescope, including light coming from within 0.5 arcsec of the star, corresponding typically to within a few to tens of au of the star, and covering nearly the entire visible wavelength range from 3640 to 7890 angstroms. We establish detection thresholds by injecting synthetic laser emission lines into our spectra and blindly analyzing them for detections. We compute flux density detection thresholds for all wavelengths and spectral types sampled. Our detection thresholds for the power of the lasers themselves range from 3 kW to 13 MW, independent of distance to the star but dependent on the competing "glare" of the spectral energy distribution of the star and on the wavelength of the laser light, launched from a benchmark, diffraction-limited 10-meter class telescope. We found no such laser emission coming from the planetary region around any of the 5600 stars. As they contain roughly 2000 lukewarm, Earth-size planets, we rule out models of the Milky Way in which over 0.1 percent of warm, Earth-size planets harbor technological civilizations that, intentionally or not, are beaming optical lasers toward us. A next generation spectroscopic laser search will be done by the Breakthrough Listen initiative, targeting more stars, especially stellar types overlooked here including spectral types O, B, A, early F, late M, and brown dwarfs, and astrophysical exotica.
description: 50 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to Astronomical Journal
Children's homes in French speaking Switzerland - Foyers éducatifs en Suisse romande
Creators: name: Vuillème, Martin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Jugendheim
subject: Residential care
subject: Kinderheim
subject: Foyers éducatifs
subject: Switzerland
subject: Children's homes

description: Historical list of residential care institutions / children's homes operating in the French speaking part of Switzerland. Only institutions meant for youth 0-25 are included. Names, years when founded, years when closed, geographic location, specialization, website, email, phone number, statement of purpose and reasons for closure. Liste historique des foyers éducatifs de suisse romande destinés aux enfants et aux jeunes de 0 à 25 ans. Noms, année de fondation, année de fermeture, situation géographique, spécialisation, site web, email, numéro de téléphone, concept institutionnel et motifs de fermeture.
Network Slicing: Market Mechanism and Competitive Equilibria
Creators: name: Promponas, Panagiotis
name: Tassiulas, Leandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Towards addressing spectral scarcity and enhancing resource utilization in 5G networks, network slicing is a promising technology to establish end-to-end virtual networks without requiring additional infrastructure investments. By leveraging Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), we can realize slices completely isolated and dedicated to satisfy the users' diverse Quality of Service (QoS) prerequisites and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This paper focuses on the technical and economic challenges that emerge from the application of the network slicing architecture to real-world scenarios. We consider a market where multiple Network Providers (NPs) own the physical infrastructure and offer their resources to multiple Service Providers (SPs). Then, the SPs offer those resources as slices to their associated users. We propose a holistic iterative model for the network slicing market along with a clock auction that converges to a robust $ε$-competitive equilibrium. At the end of each cycle of the market, the slices are reconfigured and the SPs aim to learn the private parameters of their users. Numerical results are provided that validate and evaluate the convergence of the clock auction and the capability of the proposed market architecture to express the incentives of the different entities of the system.
On the acceleration and deceleration of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei - II. Mass-loading
Creators: name: Nokhrina, E. E.
name: Beskin, V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of a mass-loading of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow in a relativistic jet from active galactic nuclei (AGN) due to $γγ\rightarrow e^+e^-$ conversion is considered analytically. We argue that the effects of charge average separation due to specific initial pairs' motion lead to partial magnetic and electric fields screening or enhancement. The effect of the fields screening has not been considered earlier. The pairs with the center-of-mass moving faster or slower than the bulk plasma flow create a surface charge and a current which either screen or enhance both electric and magnetic fields in a pair creation domain. This impacts the bulk flow motion, which either accelerates or decelerates. The pairs with the center-of-mass moving with exactly the drift velocity does not induce the fields disturbance. In this case the flow decelerates due to pure mass-loading. For these different cases the Lorentz factor of the loaded outflow is calculated as a function of loading pairs number density. The effect may be important on sub-parsec to parsec scales due to conversion of TeV jet radiation on soft infra-red to ultra-violet external isotropic photon field. This leads to an outer shell acceleration. The conversion of MeV jet radiation on larger scales may account for the flow deceleration due to pure mass-loading. The proposed mechanism may be a source of internal shocks and instabilities in the pair creation region.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Adolescence in the Evolutionary Social Sciences: A Systematic Scoping Review
Creators: name: Emmott, Emily
name: Morita, Masahito
name: Tasker, Alex
name: Arnot, Megan
name: Salali, Gul
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biological and Physical Anthropology
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Adolescence
subject: Evolutionary Anthropology

description: Here we provide a protocol for a systematic scoping review (Peters et al., 2015; Munn et al., 2018) to provide an overview of current empirical academic research on adolescence within the evolutionary social sciences. Specifically, we ask: Q1. What evolutionary or evolution-informed questions are addressed in the current empirical research on adolescent cognition and behaviour within the evolutionary social sciences?; and Q2. What are the characteristics of adolescents (and populations) under study?
Additional file 1 of DE-kupl: exhaustive capture of biological variation in RNA-seq data through k-mer decomposition
Creators: name: Audoux, Jérôme
name: Philippe, Nicolas
name: Rayan Chikhi
name: Mikaël Salson
name: Mélina Gallopin
name: Gabriel, Marc
name: Coz, Jérémy Le
name: Drouineau, Emilie
name: Commes, Thérèse
name: Gautheret, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Tables S1–S5, Supplementary Figures S1–S16. (PDF 3112 kb)
Design of a benchtop NMR/MRI system
Creators: name: Fonseca, Daniel
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) provides us with ways to look at objects in a very intricate and detailed manner. A major advantage of these systems is their non-destructive nature and them not requiring any contact with the samples. Current systems are quite often exorbitant and complex in nature, making them unfeasible for teaching and research purposes. There has been a demand for low-cost systems making its application possibilities endless. With the advances in the consumer electronics industry, products such as the PC MRI solution by Spincore Technologies, discussed as part of this project, provide great alternatives. The ultimate goal of the project was to deliver a design that would bringtogether different elements to create a benchtop NMR system. An NMR probe has been developed to function within an existing Halbach magnet array which is used to transmit an excitation pulse and also receive the NMR signal. The remaining elements make use of commercially available products and where required programmed using MATLAB. Utilising the Spincore MRI system reduced the need for additional equipment and can be expanded to incorporate gradient magnetic field coils.
Affleck-Dine Leptogenesis with Varying Peccei-Quinn Scale
Creators: name: Bae, Kyu Jung
name: Baer, Howard
name: Hamaguchi, Koichi
name: Nakayama, Kazunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Affleck-Dine leptogenesis scenario along the LHu flat direction is reconsidered. It is known that successful Affleck-Dine leptogenesis requires that the lightest neutrino mass is extremely small. This situation can be significantly relaxed if the neutrino mass in the early universe is different from the present one. We consider a supersymmetric Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitsky (DFSZ) type model, which provides a solution to the strong CP problem and generates a SUSY mu-term and right-handed neutrino masses. If the PQ scale during lepton number generation is much larger than the present value, leptogenesis is very efficient so that enough baryon number can be generated without introducing a hierarchically small neutrino mass. The final baryon asymmetry is related to the mu-term, and hence linked to the level of electroweak fine-tuning. We also show the PQ breaking scalar dynamics that keeps a large PQ breaking scale during inflation and lepton number generation. The mu-term generating superpotential plays an important role for preserving the lepton asymmetry during saxion oscillation. In this scenario, the axion isocurvature perturbation is naturally suppressed.
description: 1+21 pages, 1 figure
Regainingly approximable numbers and sets
Creators: name: Hertling, Peter
name: Hölzl, Rupert
name: Janicki, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03D78, 03D25, 03D30, 03D32, 68Q30

description: We call an $α\in \mathbb{R}$ regainingly approximable if there exists a computable nondecreasing sequence $(a_n)_n$ of rational numbers converging to $α$ with $α- a_n < 2^{-n}$ for infinitely many $n \in \mathbb{N}$. We also call a set $A\subseteq\mathbb{N}$ regainingly approximable if it is c.e. and the strongly left-computable number $2^{-A}$ is regainingly approximable. We show that the set of regainingly approximable sets is neither closed under union nor intersection and that every c.e. Turing degree contains such a set. Furthermore, the regainingly approximable numbers lie properly between the computable and the left-computable numbers and are not closed under addition. While regainingly approximable numbers are easily seen to be i.o. $K$-trivial, we construct such an $α$ such that ${K(α\restriction n)>n}$ for infinitely many $n$. Similarly, there exist regainingly approximable sets whose initial segment complexity infinitely often reaches the maximum possible for c.e. sets. Finally, there is a uniform algorithm splitting regular real numbers into two regainingly approximable numbers that are still regular.
Additional file 1: of Satisfaction of doctors with their training: evidence from UK
Creators: name: Gregory, Simon
name: Demartini, Chiara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Questionnaire. This file provides information regarding the questions included into the survey related to this study. http://www.gmc-uk.org/2017_BN3_Annex_A_pdf.pdf_71025099.pdf . (PDF 141Â kb)
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0151v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0151v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0151v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
The Orbital Nature of 81 Ellipsoidal Red Giant Binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Nie, J. D.
name: Wood, P. R.
name: Nicholls, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we collect a sample of 81 ellipsoidal red giant binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and we study their orbital natures individually and statistically. The sample contains 59 systems with circular orbits and 22 systems with eccentric orbits. We derive orbital solutions using the 2010 version of the Wilson-Devinney code. The sample is selection-bias corrected, and the orbital parameter distributions are compared to model predictions for the LMC and to observations in the solar vicinity. The masses of the red giant primaries are found to range from about 0.6 to 9 Msun with a peak at around 1.5 Msun, in agreement with studies of the star formation history of the LMC, which find a burst of star formation beginning around 4 Gyr ago. The observed distribution of mass ratios q=m2/m1 is more consistent with the flat q distribution derived for the solar vicinity by Raghavan et al. than it is with the solar vicinity q distribution derived by Duquennoy & Mayor. There is no evidence for an excess number of systems with equal mass components. We find that about 20% of the ellipsoidal binaries have eccentric orbits, twice the fraction estimated by Soszynski et al. Our eccentricity evolution test shows that the existence of eccentric ellipsoidal red giant binaries on the upper parts of the red giant branch (RGB) can only be explained if tidal circularization rates are ~1/100 the rates given by the usual theory of tidal dissipation in convective stars.
description: 16 Pages,15 Figures, 2 Tables