cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Leveraging LLMs for the Quality Assurance of Software Requirements
Creators: name: Lubos, Sebastian
name: Felfernig, Alexander
name: Tran, Thi Ngoc Trang
name: Garber, Damian
name: Mansi, Merfat El
name: Erdeniz, Seda Polat
name: Le, Viet-Man
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Successful software projects depend on the quality of software requirements. Creating high-quality requirements is a crucial step toward successful software development. Effective support in this area can significantly reduce development costs and enhance the software quality. In this paper, we introduce and assess the capabilities of a Large Language Model (LLM) to evaluate the quality characteristics of software requirements according to the ISO 29148 standard. We aim to further improve the support of stakeholders engaged in requirements engineering (RE). We show how an LLM can assess requirements, explain its decision-making process, and examine its capacity to propose improved versions of requirements. We conduct a study with software engineers to validate our approach. Our findings emphasize the potential of LLMs for improving the quality of software requirements.
description: Accepted for publication at the RE@Next! track of RE 2024
War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 35, July 1, 1942 to July 31, 1942
Creators: name: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Canada. Canadian Army
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/531187
subject: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
subject: World War (1939-1945)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180924
subject: War diaries
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1745536

description: The war diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. They contain the daily orders, correspondence, newsletters, and an intelligence log detailing troop activities, locations, and weather conditions. The war diaries detail the activities and movement of the 1st Battalion from training in Canada and England to active duty on the Western Front and their return to Victoria in January 1946. This diary was kept while at Denton and Seaford, England. It has entries about having another screening of the security film "Next of Kin", various inspections including one for boots, and participating in various exercises including a field firing exercise, among other activities and information.
Finite element methodologies for structural design and optimisation
Creators: name: Silva Sampaio Da Costa, Rui
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: The development and deployment of large-scale load-bearing structures in the aeronautics industry is an endeavour that can span several decades. The complex nature of the materials involved and manufacturing processes used has historically led to iterative design stages and lengthy testing and certification procedures. In particular, composite materials, with all their promises, bring about several interesting challenges. One of these is the relatively common incidence of manufacturing defects. In the best-case scenario, these defects could mean that the component is discarded; in the worst-case scenario, it could lead to premature structural collapse. Numerical methodologies specifically tailored for the design and optimisation of large-scale composite structures enable faster, cheaper and more robust designs. Therefore, this work presents a series of finite element methodologies to address the challenges associated with large-scale composite structure development. To address the iterative nature of the design stage and the need for robust defect tolerance, this work proposes a numerical methodology to discretise a moving boundary explicitly and a topology optimisation formulation centred on the energy release rate of bodies with embedded cracks. Additionally, to address the need for virtual testing frameworks this work presents a multiscale material modelling methodology targeting modern modelling approaches and computing architectures. The methodology is applied to a full-size composite wing-box model. Finally, this work develops an optimisation methodology combining the boundary tracking capabilities, the energy release rate-based formulation and the multiscale modelling workflow to enable the optimisation of large-scale composite structures with manufacturing defects. The methodology is applied to a composite stringer run-out model with a kissing bond defect.
An asymptotic model for the propagation of oceanic internal tides through quasi-geostrophic flow
Creators: name: Wagner, Gregory L.
name: Ferrando, Gwenael
name: Young, William R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the hydrostatic Boussinesq equations, we derive a time-averaged `hydrostatic wave equation' that describes the propagation of inertia-gravity internal waves through quasi-geostrophic flow. The derivation uses a multiple-time-scale asymptotic method to isolate wave field evolution over intervals much longer than a wave period, assumes that the wave field has a well-defined and non-inertial frequency such as that of the mid-latitude semi-diurnal lunar tide, neglects nonlinear wave-wave interactions and makes no restriction on either the background density stratification or the relative spatial scales between the wave field and quasi-geostrophic flow. As a result the hydrostatic wave equation is a reduced model applicable to the propagation of large scale internal tides through the inhomogeneous and moving ocean. A numerical comparison with the linearized and hydrostatic Boussinesq equations demonstrates the validity of the hydrostatic wave equation and illustrates the manners of model failure when the quasi-geostrophic flow is too strong and the wave frequency is too close to inertial.
СРАВНЕНИЕ ХИМИЧЕСКОГО СОСТАВА СЕМЯН СОРТОВ И ОБРАЗЦОВ ХЛОПЧАТНИКА С ЦВЕТНЫМ И БЕЛЫМ ВОЛОКНОМ
Creators: name: Мамедова, Ф.Ф.
name: Курбонов, А.Ё.
name: Хамираев, У.К.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Семена, являющиеся одним из видов сырья хлопчатника, по цели использования разделяют на два типа: семенные и технически обработанные. Изучение состава семян имеет важное значение для промышленности. Из семян можно получать масло и питательные корма для скота, а также продукцию, используемую для других хозяйственных целей.
(farsi - فارسی‎) 2023 تقویم علمی مکتب
Creators: name: García Doval, Fátima M.
name: Gallar Martínez, Ángeles Consuelo
name: Rozada, F.
name: González Pedraz, Cristina
name: Alonso Ayuso, Ana Teresa
name: Aguilera, Jorge
name: Rascón, Andrés J.
name: Gallardo Saborido, Emilio J.
name: Valldecabres, Ainhoa
name: Fernández-Bayo, Jesús D.
name: ALLA (Secretaría Téunica De L'Academia De La Llingua Asturiana)
name: Chaib, Djalila
name: Cátedra De Cultura Científica De La Universidad Del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
name: Martínez Cortés, Juan Pablo
name: Laga Lázaro, Eduardo
name: Calverol Llauró, Josep Maria
name: Mosquera Carregal, Xesús M.
name: Naya Riveiro, M. Cristina
name: Perea Marco, Mari Carmen
name: Martínez Martínez, Rosa
name: Roldán Zafra, Juan Narciso
name: Universidad Miguel Hernández De Elche
name: Hervás, Gonzalo
name: Frutos, Pilar
name: Marcos Cordero, Benita
name: Rodríguez Lozano, Pablo
name: Timón, Almudena
name: Zúñiga Urbano, Juan Ignacio
name: Penelas Meléndez, Mª Teresa
name: Padillo Saoud, Abdenour
name: Mayorga Marqués, Aurora
name: Manuelian, Carmen L.
name: García Valdés, Pablo
name: Hidalgo, Aurelio
name: Manzano-Arrondo, Vicente
name: Busto, Bernardo
name: Federación Española De Esperanto
name: Gonçalves, Flávio C.
name: Gallego Barco, Lydia
name: Fernández Via, Mercedes
name: May Masnou, Anna
name: Colmenero Ginés, Ana I.
name: López Sendino, Paula
name: Martínez Batalla, Elena
name: Cester Mazarico, Laura
name: Arimon Bedós, Muriel
name: Rodrigo Zamora, Patricia
name: Agell, Gemma
name: Martorell Lerena, Alejandro Alberto
name: Fayez, Ahmad Farhad
name: Fonseca, Pablo A. S.
name: Manzanas, Jody R.
name: Comisión Mujeres Y Ciencia De La Sociedad Geológica De España
name: Macho Stadler, Marta
name: Toral, Pablo G.
Publisher: name: Digital.CSIC
Year: 2022
Subjects: Divulgación
Calendarios
Educación
Niños
Investigación y desarrollo
Tecnología

description: El proyecto “Calendario Científico Escolar 2023” ha consistido en la elaboración de un calendario dirigido al alumnado de educación primaria y secundaria obligatoria. Cada día se ha recogido un aniversario científico o tecnológico como, por ejemplo, nacimientos de personas de estos ámbitos o conmemoraciones de hallazgos destacables. Además, el calendario se acompaña de una guía didáctica con orientaciones para el aprovechamiento educativo transversal del calendario en las clases, incluyendo actividades adaptadas a cada rango de edad y al alumnado con necesidades especiales. Se trata de la cuarta edición de este proyecto de divulgación científica.
The need for and use of primary HIV prevention in Manicaland, East Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Moorhouse, Louisa Rose
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Many countries are not on track to meet the UNAIDS target of ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030. One manner in which progress towards such targets to reduce new HIV infection can be accelerated is through improved use of HIV prevention methods. The HIV Prevention Cascade framework can be used as a way of identifying the levels of primary prevention method use and barriers to use among adolescent girls and young women – a target group for increasing HIV prevention method use - and their potential male partners. The overarching aim of this thesis was to use the HIV prevention cascade framework to measure levels of prevention method use, as well as barriers to prevention method use among adolescent girls and young women and their male partners. Analysis of risk factors associated with HIV acquisition identified some sexual risk behaviours consistently associated with acquisition of HIV infection, including selfreporting a non-regular or concurrent sexual partners. Evaluation of a risk differentiation tool to predict combined HIV/HSV-2 acquisition gave good sensitivity among those already sexually active and reporting a non-regular partner was predictive of HIV/HSV-2 acquisition. However, rapid change in sexual risk behaviour was observed across 12 months of follow up and over half of new infections occurred in those not reporting to have started sex at baseline. Validation of the HIV prevention cascade framework demonstrated that it was feasible to populate the HIV prevention cascade framework, including both the main and sub bars, using data collected as part of the Manicaland Pilot HIV Prevention Cascades Study. Analysis using the HIV prevention cascade framework found that male condoms were the most commonly used prevention method and PrEP was the least. Barriers to prevention method use were identified using the HIV prevention cascade framework, which indicate potential targets for interventions to improve prevention method use. Barriers were identified for all prevention methods and at each step of the prevention cascade, indicating the need for multi-level interventions which target individual, provider, community and structural factors.
YUFE Vision and Transformation Strategy on Flipped Knowledge Transfer
Creators: name: Barbara Tan
name: Eugénie Delzenne
name: Carlos Ruiz de Léon
name: Carlos Ruiz de Léon
name: Saša Zelenika
name: Dorian Hayes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Flipped Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge Valorisation

description: The initial conclusions of the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE - https://yufe.eu/) European University alliance activities in fostering a vision for a more demand-driven approach to Knowledge Valorisation (KV), as developed within the Work Package 3 (WP3) of the YUFERING project (YUFE Transforming Research and Innovation through Europe-wide Knowledge), are presented in this report. YUFERING WP3 aims to explore routes to enhance an outside-in, demand-driven approach to KV within the Quadruple Helix innovation model. How can effective stakeholder engagement and co-creation facilitate KV and impact? What can universities do to foster this transformation? To assess such issues, YUFE conducted pilots at three member institutions (University of Antwerp, University of Essex, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) with the aim to gain insights on how to implement such a transformation strategy in real-life scenarios. The gained insights are shared herein.
Sizes and Stellar Masses of the Little Red Dots Imply Immense Stellar Densities
Creators: name: Guia, Carl Audric
name: Pacucci, Fabio
name: Kocevski, Dale D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) are red and compact galaxies detected in JWST deep fields, mainly in the redshift range $z=4-8$. Given their compactness and the inferred stellar masses in the hypothesis that LRDs are starburst galaxies, the implied stellar densities are immense. This Research Note uses an extensive catalog of LRDs from the PRIMER and the COSMOS-Web surveys to investigate these densities. We find a median (upper limit) on the effective radius of $80$ pc, which leads to median (lower limit) values of the core density of $\sim 10^4 \, \rm M_\odot \, pc^{-3}$, and individual densities as high as $\sim 10^8 \, \rm M_\odot \, pc^{-3}$, which is $\sim 10$ times higher than the density necessary for runaway collisions to take place. For $\sim 35\%$ of the LRDs investigated, the lower limits are higher than the highest stellar densities observed in any system in any redshift range.
description: Accepted on Research Notes of the AAS. This is a concise note (3 pages, 1 figure) regarding the inferred stellar densities for 475 LRDs from the PRIMER and the COSMOS-Web surveys
Recent progress in many-body localization
Creators: name: Abanin, Dmitry A.
name: Papić, Zlatko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article is a brief introduction to the rapidly evolving field of many-body localization. Rather than giving an in-depth review of the subject, our aspiration here is simply to introduce the problem and its general context, outlining a few directions where notable progress has been achieved in recent years. We hope that this will prepare the readers for the more specialized articles appearing in the forthcoming dedicated volume of Annalen der Physik, where these developments are discussed in more detail.
description: Invited overview article for the Special Volume of Annalen der Physik on Many-Body Localization
Impact of Usability Mechanisms: A Family of Experiments on Efficiency, Effectiveness and User Satisfaction
Creators: name: Ferreira, Juan M.
name: Rodríguez, Francy
name: Santos, Adrián
name: Acuña, Silvia T.
name: Juristo, Natalia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context: The usability software quality attribute aims to improve system user performance. In a previous study, we found evidence of the impact of a set of usability characteristics from the viewpoint of users in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction. However, the impact level appears to depend on the usability feature and suggest priorities with respect to their implementation depending on how they promote user performance. Objectives: We use a family of three experiments to increase the precision and generalization of the results in the baseline experiment and provide findings on the impact on user performance of the Abort Operation, Progress Feedback and Preferences usability mechanisms. Method: We conduct two replications of the baseline experiment in academic settings. We analyse the data of 367 experimental subjects and apply aggregation (meta-analysis) procedures. Results: We find that the Abort Operation and Preferences usability mechanisms appear to improve system usability a great deal with respect to efficiency, effectiveness and user satisfaction. Conclusions: We find that the family of experiments further corroborates the results of the baseline experiment. Most of the results are statistically significant, and, because of the large number of experimental subjects, the evidence that we gathered in the replications is sufficient to outweigh other experiments.
description: 16 pages, IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering
War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 33, May 1, 1942 to May 31, 1942
Creators: name: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Canada. Canadian Army
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/531187
subject: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
subject: World War (1939-1945)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180924
subject: War diaries
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1745536

description: The war diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. They contain the daily orders, correspondence, newsletters, and an intelligence log detailing troop activities, locations, and weather conditions. The war diaries detail the activities and movement of the 1st Battalion from training in Canada and England to active duty on the Western Front and their return to Victoria in January 1946. This diary was kept while at Denne Park, Denton, and Seaford, England. It has entries about the padre making a sermon as requested by the officers in jest comparing two motion pictures "I Want Wings" and "Hellzapoppin", an inspection from a Brigadier, moving to Denton, participating in exercise "Tiger" taking place in the Seaford area, near daily air-raid alerts but without any bombs falling and spotting an enemy plane once, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering orders, strength returns (daily & weekly), training syllabi, administrative memos, exercises, and orders about firing ranges.
Special Relativity from Soft Gravitons
Creators: name: Hertzberg, Mark P.
name: Sandora, McCullen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study all translationally and rotationally invariant local theories involving massless spin 2 and spin 1 particles that mediate long range forces, allowing for general energy relations and violation of boost invariance. Although gauge invariance is not a priori required to describe non Lorentz invariant theories, we first establish that locality requires `soft gauge invariance'. Then by taking the soft graviton limit in scattering amplitudes, we prove that in addition to the usual requirement of universal graviton couplings, the special relativistic energy-momentum relation is also required and must be exact. We contrast this to the case of theories with only spin $\leq1$ particles, where, although we can still derive charge conservation from locality, special relativity can be easily violated. We provide indications that the entire structure of relativity can be built up from spin 2 in this fashion.
description: 6 pages in double column format, 1 figure. V2: Added appendix on more details of locality in spin 2; expanded discussion with comments on implications for Lorentz violating models; added references
Observations of Lyman-alpha and O VI: Signatures of Cooling and Star Formation in a Massive Central Cluster Galaxy
Creators: name: Donahue, Megan
name: Connor, Thomas
name: Voit, G. Mark
name: Postman, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report new HST COS and STIS spectroscopy of a star-forming region (~100 solar masses/year) in the center of the X-ray cluster RXJ1532.9+3021 (z=0.362), to follow-up the CLASH team discovery of luminous UV filaments and knots in the central massive galaxy. We detect broad (~500 km/s) Lyman alpha emission lines with extraordinarily high equivalent width (EQW~200 Angstroms) and somewhat less broadened H-alpha (~220 km/s). Emission lines of N V and O VI are not detected, which constrains the rate at which gas cools through temperatures of 10^6 K to be less than about 10 solar masses/year. The COS spectra also show a flat rest-frame UV continuum with weak stellar photospheric features, consistent with the presence of recently-formed hot stars forming at a rate of ~10 solar masses/year, uncorrected for dust extinction. The slope and absorption lines in these UV spectra are similar to those of Lyman Break Galaxies at z approximately 3, albeit those with the highest Lyman-alpha equivalent widths and star-formation rates. This high-EQW Lyman-alpha source is a high-metallicity galaxy rapidly forming stars in structures that look nothing like disks. This mode of star formation could significantly contribute to the spheroidal population of galaxies. The constraint on the luminosity of any O VI line emission is stringent enough to rule out steady and simultaneous gas cooling and star formation, unlike similar systems in the Phoenix Cluster and Abell 1795. The fact that the current star formation rate differs from the local mass cooling rate is consistent with recent simulations of episodic AGN feedback and star formation in a cluster atmosphere.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted to Astrophysical Journal
War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 34, June 1, 1942 to June 30, 1942
Creators: name: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Canada. Canadian Army
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/531187
subject: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
subject: World War (1939-1945)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180924
subject: War diaries
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1745536

description: The war diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. They contain the daily orders, correspondence, newsletters, and an intelligence log detailing troop activities, locations, and weather conditions. The war diaries detail the activities and movement of the 1st Battalion from training in Canada and England to active duty on the Western Front and their return to Victoria in January 1946. This diary was kept while at Denton and Seaford, England. It has entries about completing the exercise "Tiger", an incident causing the local public house called "The Flying Fish" to be out of bounds until 1800 hrs each day, having a dental parade where appointments for men needing dental treatment were made and charting all the troop's teeth will happen, spending a good deal of time training for manning anti-raid positions so it becomes second-nature, all troops taking a "smartening up" course to enforce better and more rigid discipline, watching two German war pictures "The War in the West" and "Pact with Russia" that contain the "real thing" and had the desired effect on the spectators, viewing a security film called "Next of Kin", a lecture on espionage and propaganda for the officers, and participating in "Battle Inoculation" training which is the nearest thing to being under shell fire that the army can give, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering orders, strength returns (daily & weekly), training syllabi, administrative memos, operation instructions, sports day programme, defence platoon instructions, and movement orders.
SpeechCraft: A Fine-grained Expressive Speech Dataset with Natural Language Description
Creators: name: Jin, Zeyu
name: Jia, Jia
name: Wang, Qixin
name: Li, Kehan
name: Zhou, Shuoyi
name: Zhou, Songtao
name: Qin, Xiaoyu
name: Wu, Zhiyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Speech-language multi-modal learning presents a significant challenge due to the fine nuanced information inherent in speech styles. Therefore, a large-scale dataset providing elaborate comprehension of speech style is urgently needed to facilitate insightful interplay between speech audio and natural language. However, constructing such datasets presents a major trade-off between large-scale data collection and high-quality annotation. To tackle this challenge, we propose an automatic speech annotation system for expressiveness interpretation that annotates in-the-wild speech clips with expressive and vivid human language descriptions. Initially, speech audios are processed by a series of expert classifiers and captioning models to capture diverse speech characteristics, followed by a fine-tuned LLaMA for customized annotation generation. Unlike previous tag/templet-based annotation frameworks with limited information and diversity, our system provides in-depth understandings of speech style through tailored natural language descriptions, thereby enabling accurate and voluminous data generation for large model training. With this system, we create SpeechCraft, a fine-grained bilingual expressive speech dataset. It is distinguished by highly descriptive natural language style prompts, containing approximately 2,000 hours of audio data and encompassing over two million speech clips. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed dataset significantly boosts speech-language task performance in stylist speech synthesis and speech style understanding.
description: Accepted by ACM Multimedia 2024
Locality of the anomalous Hall conductivity
Creators: name: Marrazzo, Antimo
name: Resta, Raffaele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The geometrical intrinsic contribution to the anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) of a metal is commonly expressed as a reciprocal-space integral: as such, it only addresses unbounded and macroscopically homogeneous samples. Here we show that the geometrical AHC has an equivalent expression as a local property. We define a "geometrical marker" which actually probes the AHC in inhomogeneous systems (e.g. heterojunctions), as well as in bounded samples. The marker may even include extrinsic contributions of geometrical nature.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Enhanced Astronomical Source Classification with Integration of Attention Mechanisms and Vision Transformers
Creators: name: Bhavanam, Srinadh Reddy
name: Channappayya, Sumohana S.
name: Srijith, P. K.
name: Desai, Shantanu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate classification of celestial objects is essential for advancing our understanding of the universe. MargNet is a recently developed deep learning-based classifier applied to SDSS DR16 dataset to segregate stars, quasars, and compact galaxies using photometric data. MargNet utilizes a stacked architecture, combining a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for image modelling and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for modelling photometric parameters. In this study, we propose enhancing MargNet's performance by incorporating attention mechanisms and Vision Transformer (ViT)-based models for processing image data. The attention mechanism allows the model to focus on relevant features and capture intricate patterns within images, effectively distinguishing between different classes of celestial objects. Additionally, we leverage ViTs, a transformer-based deep learning architecture renowned for exceptional performance in image classification tasks. We enhance the model's understanding of complex astronomical images by utilizing ViT's ability to capture global dependencies and contextual information. Our approach uses a curated dataset comprising 240,000 compact and 150,000 faint objects. The models learn classification directly from the data, minimizing human intervention. Furthermore, we explore ViT as a hybrid architecture that uses photometric features and images together as input to predict astronomical objects. Our results demonstrate that the proposed attention mechanism augmented CNN in MargNet marginally outperforms the traditional MargNet and the proposed ViT-based MargNet models. Additionally, the ViT-based hybrid model emerges as the most lightweight and easy-to-train model with classification accuracy similar to that of the best-performing attention-enhanced MargNet.
description: 33 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in APSS
Vulnerability and co-susceptibility determine the size of network cascades
Creators: name: Yang, Yang
name: Nishikawa, Takashi
name: Motter, Adilson E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In a network, a local disturbance can propagate and eventually cause a substantial part of the system to fail, in cascade events that are easy to conceptualize but extraordinarily difficult to predict. Here, we develop a statistical framework that can predict cascade size distributions by incorporating two ingredients only: the vulnerability of individual components and the co-susceptibility of groups of components (i.e., their tendency to fail together). Using cascades in power grids as a representative example, we show that correlations between component failures define structured and often surprisingly large groups of co-susceptible components. Aside from their implications for blackout studies, these results provide insights and a new modeling framework for understanding cascades in financial systems, food webs, and complex networks in general.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in PRL http://journals.aps.org/prl/issues/118/4
Information sur les intruments joués lors d'un charivari
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2022

Abstract
A Nitsche Method for Elliptic Problems on Composite Surfaces
Creators: name: Hansbo, Peter
name: Jonsson, Tobias
name: Larson, Mats G.
name: Larsson, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a finite element method for elliptic partial differential equations on so called composite surfaces that are built up out of a finite number of surfaces with boundaries that fit together nicely in the sense that the intersection between any two surfaces in the composite surface is either empty, a point, or a curve segment, called an interface curve. Note that several surfaces can intersect along the same interface curve. On the composite surface we consider a broken finite element space which consists of a continuous finite element space at each subsurface without continuity requirements across the interface curves. We derive a Nitsche type formulation in this general setting and by assuming only that a certain inverse inequality and an approximation property hold we can derive stability and error estimates in the case when the geometry is exactly represented. We discuss several different realizations, including so called cut meshes, of the method. Finally, we present numerical examples.
Probing microplasticity in small scale FCC crystals via Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
Creators: name: Ni, Xiaoyue
name: Papanikolaou, Stefanos
name: Vajente, Gabriele
name: Adhikari, Rana X
name: Greer, Julia R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In small-scale metallic systems, collective dislocation activity has been correlated with size effects in strength and with a step-like plastic response under uniaxial compression and tension. Yielding and plastic flow in these samples is often accompanied by the emergence of multiple dislocation avalanches. Dislocations might be active pre-yield, but their activity typically cannot be discerned because of the inherent instrumental noise in detecting equipment. We apply Alternate Current (AC) load perturbations via Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) during quasi-static uniaxial compression experiments on single crystalline Cu nano-pillars with diameters of 500 nm, and compute dynamic moduli at frequencies 0.1, 0.3, 1, and 10 Hz under progressively higher static loads until yielding. By tracking the collective aspects of the oscillatory stress-strain-time series in multiple samples, we observe an evolving dissipative component of the dislocation network response that signifies the transition from elastic behavior to dislocation avalanches in the globally pre-yield regime. We postulate that microplasticity, which is associated with the combination of dislocation avalanches and slow viscoplastic relaxations, is the cause of the dependency of dynamic modulus on the driving rate and the quasi-static stress. We construct a continuum mesoscopic dislocation dynamics model to compute the frequency response of stress over strain and obtain a consistent agreement with experimental observations. The results of our experiments and simulations present a pathway to discern and quantify correlated dislocation activity in the pre-yield regime of deforming crystals.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Simultaneous tracking of spin angle and amplitude beyond classical limits
Creators: name: Colangelo, Giorgio
name: Ciurana, Ferran Martin
name: Bianchet, Lorena C.
name: Sewell, Robert J.
name: Mitchell, Morgan W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how simultaneous, back-action evading tracking of non-commuting observables can be achieved in a widely-used sensing technology, atomic interferometry. Using high-dynamic-range dynamically-decoupled quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements on a precessing atomic spin ensemble, we track the collective spin angle and amplitude with negligible effects from back action, giving steady-state tracking sensitivity 2.9 dB beyond the standard quantum limit and 7.0 dB beyond Poisson statistics.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 30, February 1, 1942 to February 28, 1942
Creators: name: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Canada. Canadian Army
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/531187
subject: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
subject: World War (1939-1945)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180924
subject: War diaries
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1745536

description: The war diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. They contain the daily orders, correspondence, newsletters, and an intelligence log detailing troop activities, locations, and weather conditions. The war diaries detail the activities and movement of the 1st Battalion from training in Canada and England to active duty on the Western Front and their return to Victoria in January 1946. This diary was kept while at Denne Park, England. It has entries about using athletics training to build up the modern soldier, an outbreak of mumps and subsequent quarantine, a competitive endurance test, a thorough inspection, and participating in "Warship Week" in the town of Horsham, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering orders, strength returns (daily & weekly), training syllabi, administrative memos, exercises, operational orders, movement orders, and The Soldiers Guide to the Identity of Documents and Passes.
On the Capacity of the AWGN Channel with Additive Radar Interference
Creators: name: Shahi, Sara
name: Tuninetti, Daniela
name: Devroye, Natasha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the capacity of a communications channel that, in addition to additive white Gaussian noise, also suffers from interference caused by a co-existing radar transmission. The radar interference (of short duty-cycle and of much wider bandwidth than the intended communication signal) is modeled as an additive term whose amplitude is known and constant, but whose phase is independent and identically uniformly distributed at each channel use. The capacity achieving input distribution, under the standard average power constraint, is shown to have independent modulo and phase. The phase is uniformly distributed in $[0,2π]$. The modulo is discrete with countably infinitly many mass points, but only finitely many in any bounded interval. From numerical evaluations, a proper-complex Gaussian input is seen to perform quite well for weak radar interference. We also show that for very large radar interference, capacity is equal to $1/2\log (1 + S)$ and a proper-complex Gaussian input achieves it. It is concluded that the presence of the radar interference results in a loss of half of the degrees of freedom compared to an AWGN channel without radar interference.
description: Under submission
Construction of the steady state density matrix and quasilocal charges for the spin-1/2 XXZ chain with boundary magnetic fields
Creators: name: Matsui, Chihiro
name: Prosen, Tomaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) density operator of the spin-1/2 XXZ chain with non-diagonal boundary magnetic fields coupled to boundary dissipators. The Markovian boundary dis- sipation is found with which the NESS density operator is expressed in terms of the product of the Lax operators by relating the dissipation parameters to the boundary parameters of the spin chain. The NESS density operator can be expressed in terms of a non-Hermitian transfer operator (NHTO) which forms a commuting family of quasilocal charges. The optimization of the Mazur bound for the high temperature Drude weight is discussed by using the quasilocal charges and the conventional local charges constructed through the Bethe ansatz.
description: 15 pages
Логинова ИЗ №2787526.pdfTopographical orientation method for detecting the nerve ring in larvae of parasitic nematodes of the order Strongylida
Creators: name: Loginova, Olga
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310913
subject: Invertebrate biology

description: The invention relates to methods for diagnosis and can be used in the fields of healthcare, agriculture, veterinary medicine and biology to detect the nerve ring in the body of parasitic nematodes of the order Strongylida (for example, first stage larva (L1) from the families Dictyocaulidae and Protostrongylidae and third stage larva (L3 ) from the families Ancylostomatidae, Molineidae, Strongylidae and Trichostrongylidae)
The effect of ion-induced shock waves on the transport of reacting species around energetic ion tracks
Creators: name: de Vera, Pablo
name: Surdutovich, Eugene
name: Mason, Nigel J.
name: Currell, Fred J.
name: Solov'yov, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The passage of energetic ions through tissue initiates a series of physico-chemical events, which lead to biodamage. The study of this scenario using a multiscale approach brought about the theoretical prediction of shock waves initiated by energy deposited within ion tracks. These waves are being explored in this letter in different aspects. The radial dose that sets their initial conditions is calculated using diffusion equations extended to include the effect of energetic $δ$-electrons. The resulting shock waves are simulated by means of reactive classical molecular dynamics. The simulations predict a characteristic distribution of reactive species which may have a significant contribution to biodamage, and also suggests experimental means to detect the shock waves.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Co-factor analysis of citation networks
Creators: name: Hayes, Alex
name: Rohe, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One compelling use of citation networks is to characterize papers by their relationships to the surrounding literature. We propose a method to characterize papers by embedding them into two distinct "co-factor" spaces: one describing how papers send citations, and the other describing how papers receive citations. This approach presents several challenges. First, older documents cannot cite newer documents, and thus it is not clear that co-factors are even identifiable. We resolve this challenge by developing a co-factor model for asymmetric adjacency matrices with missing lower triangles and showing that identification is possible. We then frame estimation as a matrix completion problem and develop a specialized implementation of matrix completion because prior implementations are memory bound in our setting. Simulations show that our estimator has promising finite sample properties, and that naive approaches fail to recover latent co-factor structure. We leverage our estimator to investigate 237,794 papers published in statistics journals from 1898 to 2022, resulting in the most comprehensive topic model of the statistics literature to date. We find interpretable co-factors corresponding to many statistical subfields, including time series, variable selection, spatial methods, graphical models, GLM(M)s, causal inference, multiple testing, quantile regression, resampling, semi-parametrics, dimension reduction, and several more.
Informativo Mesa Digital
Creators: name: De Podestá, Marcelo
name: Santos, Arthur Saldanha Dos
name: De Oliveira, Daniel Coelho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: O informativo “Mesa Digital” é parte de um projeto coordenado pelo Grupo de Estudos de Culturas Alimentares Digitais com a proposta de estimular o debate em torno das análises teóricas e empíricas que envolvem reflexões sobre culturas alimentares digitais, movimentos sociais e ativismo alimentar digital. Queremos concentrar a análise no debate alimentar mediado pelas tecnologias, ou seja, como diferentes atores utilizam o espaço “online” para se comunicar, se posicionar e debater sobre alimentação. Buscaremos também compreender como práticas alimentares cotidianas ganham dimensão pública e de que forma movimentos sociais alimentares expressam suas posi- ções no ambiente digital. A “mesa digital” é uma extensão da “mesa analógica”: assim como no ambiente face a face, as relações no ambiente online podem expressar alianças, compartilhamentos, bem como tensões e conflitos.
On slowly rotating magnetized white dwarfs
Creators: name: Terrero, Diana Alvear
name: Paret, Daryel Manreza
name: Martinez, Aurora Perez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotating magnetized white dwarfs are studied within the framework of general relativity using Hartle's formalism. Matter inside magnetized white dwarfs is described by an equation of state of particles under the action of a constant magnetic field which introduces anisotropic pressures. Our study is done for values of magnetic field below $10^{13}$ G -a threshold of the maximum magnetic field obtained by the cylindrical metric solution- and typical densities of WDs. The effects of the rotation and magnetic field combined are discussed, we compute relevant magnitudes such as the moment of inertia, quadrupole moment and eccentricity.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
title: Τοπογραφική αποτύπωση Ιερού Ναού Αγίας Τριάδος Αιγάλεω
title: Topographic map of the holy church of the Holy Trinity Aegaleo
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μακρής, Πέτρος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Τοπογραφικό

description: Αντικείμενο της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η τοπογραφική αποτύπωση του Ιερού Ναού Αγίας Τριάδας στο Αιγάλεω. Συγκεκριμένα, θα πρέπει να αποτυπωθούν τα όρια των οικοδομικών τετράγωνων της εκκλησιάς καθώς επίσης θα πρέπει να αποτυπωθεί και ο περιβάλλον χώρος αυτής, όπως για παράδειγμα παρτέρια, φρεάτια, στύλοι φωτισμού, στύλοι της ΔΕΗ, παγκάκια, δέντρα και όποιο άλλο σημείο λεπτομέρειας υπάρχει στην γύρω περιοχή. Επίσης θα πρέπει να αποτυπωθούν και τα όρια των ιδιοκτησιών καθώς και τα όρια των δρόμων. Η διπλωματική αποτελείται από το θεωρητικό μέρος, τα τμήματα των μετρήσεων, την επίλυση των μετρήσεων και την σχεδίαση του τελικού προϊόντος. Αρχικά ως πρώτη ενέργεια που πραγματοποιήθηκε κατά την ανάθεση της διπλωματικής, ήταν η αναγνώριση της περιοχής και η ίδρυση του τριγωνομετρικού δικτύου. Στη συνέχεια, ακολουθούν διάφορες μετρήσεις οι οποίες είναι εξαρτημένες από τις στάσεις του τριγωνομετρικού δικτύου. Έπειτα, αφού έγινε η καταγραφή όλων των απαραιτήτων μετρήσεων, ακολουθεί η επεξεργασία και η επίλυση τους για να έχουμε ως αποτέλεσμα τις συντεταγμένες που μας χρειάζονται, ώστε να σχεδιάσουμε το τελικό προϊόν, δηλαδή το τοπογραφικό του Ι.Ν και της ευρύτερης περιοχής. Τέλος, αναφέρονται και τα συμπεράσματα σχετικά με τις δυσκολίες που αντιμετωπίστηκαν και με τις προτάσεις για την αποφυγή ορισμένων λαθών που μπορεί να προκύψουν.
Intermodal Four-Wave-Mixing and Parametric Amplification in km-long Fibers
Creators: name: Guasoni, Massimiliano
name: Parmigiani, Francesca
name: Horak, Peter
name: Fatome, Julien
name: Richardson, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically and numerically investigate intermodal four-wave-mixing in km-long fibers, where random birefringence fluctuations are present along the fiber length. We identify several distinct regimes that depend on the relative magnitude between the length scale of the random fluctuations and the beat-lengths of the interacting quasi-degenerate modes. In addition, we analyze the impact of polarization mode-dispersion and we demonstrate that random variations of the core radius, which are typically encountered during the drawing stage of the fiber, can represent the major source of bandwidth impairment. These results set a boundary on the limits of validity of the classical Manakov model and may be useful for the design of multimode parametric amplifiers and wavelength converters, as well as for the analysis of nonlinear impairments in long-haul spatial division multiplexed transmission.