cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
AIParsing: Anchor-free Instance-level Human Parsing
Creators: name: Zhang, Sanyi
name: Cao, Xiaochun
name: Qi, Guo-Jun
name: Song, Zhanjie
name: Zhou, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most state-of-the-art instance-level human parsing models adopt two-stage anchor-based detectors and, therefore, cannot avoid the heuristic anchor box design and the lack of analysis on a pixel level. To address these two issues, we have designed an instance-level human parsing network which is anchor-free and solvable on a pixel level. It consists of two simple sub-networks: an anchor-free detection head for bounding box predictions and an edge-guided parsing head for human segmentation. The anchor-free detector head inherits the pixel-like merits and effectively avoids the sensitivity of hyper-parameters as proved in object detection applications. By introducing the part-aware boundary clue, the edge-guided parsing head is capable to distinguish adjacent human parts from among each other up to 58 parts in a single human instance, even overlapping instances. Meanwhile, a refinement head integrating box-level score and part-level parsing quality is exploited to improve the quality of the parsing results. Experiments on two multiple human parsing datasets (i.e., CIHP and LV-MHP-v2.0) and one video instance-level human parsing dataset (i.e., VIP) show that our method achieves the best global-level and instance-level performance over state-of-the-art one-stage top-down alternatives.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
Boosting Neural Networks to Decompile Optimized Binaries
Creators: name: Cao, Ying
name: Liang, Ruigang
name: Chen, Kai
name: Hu, Peiwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Decompilation aims to transform a low-level program language (LPL) (eg., binary file) into its functionally-equivalent high-level program language (HPL) (e.g., C/C++). It is a core technology in software security, especially in vulnerability discovery and malware analysis. In recent years, with the successful application of neural machine translation (NMT) models in natural language processing (NLP), researchers have tried to build neural decompilers by borrowing the idea of NMT. They formulate the decompilation process as a translation problem between LPL and HPL, aiming to reduce the human cost required to develop decompilation tools and improve their generalizability. However, state-of-the-art learning-based decompilers do not cope well with compiler-optimized binaries. Since real-world binaries are mostly compiler-optimized, decompilers that do not consider optimized binaries have limited practical significance. In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based approach named NeurDP, that targets compiler-optimized binaries. NeurDP uses a graph neural network (GNN) model to convert LPL to an intermediate representation (IR), which bridges the gap between source code and optimized binary. We also design an Optimized Translation Unit (OTU) to split functions into smaller code fragments for better translation performance. Evaluation results on datasets containing various types of statements show that NeurDP can decompile optimized binaries with 45.21% higher accuracy than state-of-the-art neural decompilation frameworks.
title: Récit sur le déroulement du mois de Ramadan autrefois chez les Bni Foughal
Creators: name: Garaoun, Massinissa
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Jijélien

description: Récit sur le déroulement du mois de Ramadan autrefois chez les Bni Foughal
Neotibilis (Neotibilis) manauara Bernardes & Grazia & Barcellos 2006, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bernardes, Jorge L. C.
name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Barcellos, A Line
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Neotibilis
Neotibilis manauara

description: Neotibilis (Neotibilis) manauara sp. nov. (Figs. 5 and 6) Type locality. Brazil, Amazonas, reserve distant 60 km from Manaus Type material. Holotype male, labeled: a) Bert Klein; 13/XI/85; 1301-R.C.N.2 (INPA). Etymology. The species name refers to the type locality General shape ovate. Dorsal surface castaneous. Jugae stronglydeflected dorsally. Antennae ochraceous, punctured on reddish castaneous on the first and second segments; remaining segments lighter. Rostrum not reaching mesocoxae. Pronotum densely punctured on dark castaneous, anterolateral margins ochraceous, narrowly bordered on castaneous. Scutellum: basal angles with 1+1 ochraceous calli. Legs ochraceous, with a few reddish castaneous punctures on femora. Ventral surface of thorax regularly punctured on dark castaneous. Metasternal carina slightly sulcate, almost flat. Abdominal venter yellowish castaneous, lacking punctures on the middle. Abdominal tubercle acute. Connexivum with light area occupying from 1/3 to 1/2 of the middle of each segment, along outer lateral margin. Male. Measurements (n = 1). Total length 12.85; head length 1.71; head width 2.39; eye width 0.68; interocular distance 0.91; anteocular length 0.57; length of antennal segments I –1.02, II – 1.33, III – 2.31; IV – 3.51, V – 3.43; pronotum length 2.73; pronotum width 7.12; scutellum length 5.50; scutellum width 4.17; abdominal width 7.36. Pygophore (Figs. 5, 6) subquadrangular, moderately open dorsally; dorsal rim sinuous, openly U-shaped along proctiger (Fig. 5). Proctiger rounded apically. Parameres with finger-like portion elongated, well surpassing the auriculate portion. Posterolateralangles truncate. Ventral rim openly U-shaped (Fig. 6); laminar flaps well developed, almost the size of parameres, inner lateral margin of flaps sinuous. Inner processes of ventral rim of pygophore in 1+1 small tubercles apart from each other. Female unknown. Comments. Neotibilis (N.) manauara sp. nov. can be distinguished from the other species of the subgenus mainly by genital characters, presenting the finger-like portion of parameres long and the laminar flaps of ventral rim large, almost the size of parameres.
description: Published as part of Bernardes, Jorge L. C., Grazia, Jocélia & Barcellos, A Line, 2006, New Species of Neotibilis Grazia & Barcellos (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatomini), pp. 344-348 in Neotropical Entomology 35 (3) on pages 347-348, DOI: 10.1590/s1519-566x2006000300008, http://zenodo.org/record/3578287
Additional file 1 of Treat-to-target strategies for the management of familial Mediterranean Fever in children
Creators: name: Ehlers, Lisa
name: Rolfes, Elisabeth
name: Lieber, Mareike
name: Müller, Dominik
name: Lainka, Elke
name: Gohar, Faekah
name: Klaus, Günter
name: Girschick, Hermann
name: Hörstermann, Jana
name: Kümmerle-Deschner, Jasmin
name: Brunner, Jürgen
name: Palm-Beden, Katharina
name: Tenbrock, Klaus
name: von Wrangel, Lusine
name: Faßhauer, Maria
name: Blank, Norbert
name: Trauzeddel, Ralf
name: von Stuckrad, Anne Sae Lim
name: Higgins, Sonja
name: Welzel, Tatjana
name: Lutz, Thomas
name: Hentgen, Véronique
name: Foell, Dirk
name: Wittkowski, Helmut
name: Kallinich, Tilmann
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Dimerization-Induced Fermi-Surface Reconstruction in IrTe2
Creators: name: Eom, Man Jin
name: Kim, Kyoo
name: Jo, Y. J.
name: Yang, J. J.
name: Choi, E. S.
name: Min, B. I.
name: Park, J. -H.
name: Cheong, S. -W.
name: Kim, Jun Sung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) oscillation study on IrTe2 single crystals showing complex dimer formations. By comparing the angle dependence of dHvA oscillations with band structure calculations, we show distinct Fermi surface reconstruction induced by a 1/5-type and a 1/8-type dimerizations. This verifies that an intriguing quasi-two-dimensional conducting plane across the layers is induced by dimerization in both cases. A phase transition to the 1/8 phase with higher dimer density reveals that local instabilities associated with intra- and interdimer couplings are the main driving force for complex dimer formations in IrTe2.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett
Engineering a skyrmion crystal in ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic bilayers free from the DM interaction
Creators: name: Okigami, Kazuki
name: Yambe, Ryota
name: Hayami, Satoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically propose a new stabilization mechanism of a skyrmion crystal (SkX) in a bilayer triangular lattice system consisting of the ferromagnetic and the antiferromagnetic layers. By performing variational calculations and Monte Carlo simulations in a complementary way, we find that a magnetic frustration between the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic layers is a source of a finite-Q spiral state and the SkX in the strong interlayer coupling regime. We also show that the degree of frustration is related to the interlayer exchange interaction. The stronger interlayer coupling tends to make the effect of frustration larger, which results in the stabilization of the SkX. The present results not only provide a way of engineering the SkX in the ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic domain and heterostructure but also imply the possibility of the SkX based on interorbital frustration scenario.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Essays on Corporate Investment
Creators: name: Yongjin  Kim
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In the first essay (joint work with Bryan Routledge), we calculate the value implications of suboptimal capital budgeting decisions in an asset-pricing model calibrated to match the standard asset pricing empirical properties in particular, the time-variation in the equity premium. Specifically, we calculate that an investment policy that ignores the time variation in the equity premium, such as would occur with a cost of capital following the CAPM, incurs a 14.8% value loss. We also document the implications for a firm's asset returns in this context. The second essay revisits the relation between firms' choices of debt maturity and their investment in a dynamic world. Prior research, including Myers (1977), suggests that financing with short-term debt resolves the underinvestment problem caused by debt financing. In contrast, I establish that short-term debt can reduce the incentive to invest due to larger exposure to default risk from more frequent debt rollovers. Long-term debt, however, is more subject to illiquidity costs, so firms find optimal maturity by balancing these opposing forces. For the firm with average investment and financing, the agency cost arising from the underinvestment is 0.77% of firm value. This suggests that previous studies overestimate the cost by ignoring firms' flexibility in choosing maturity. I also measure firm-specific agency costs using likelihood-based structural estimation. The measured agency costs show significant cross-sectional variation due to heterogeneity in firm characteristics and convexity of the agency costs. The economy-wide average of the costs is 7.28%, which is considerably higher than the cost for the average firm. In the third essay, I empirically test whether firms' investment decisions take time-varying risk into account. I construct the firm-specific risk premium implicit in option prices. Specifically, individual equity options and historical equity returns are used to infer the joint distribution of the stochastic discount factor and equity return, and the joint distribution determines the risk premium of the equity. The result is that forms' actual investments correctly respond to the time-varying risk premium lagged by 3 to 5 quarters. However, firm-by-firm analyses show that some forms do not adapt appropriately to the risk as theory predicts, demonstrating a room for improvement in capital budgeting practice for those firms.
Additional file 2 of Measurement properties of device-based physical activity instruments in ambulatory adults with physical disabilities and/or chronic diseases: a scoping review
Creators: name: Brandenbarg, Pim
name: Hoekstra, Femke
name: Barakou, Ioulia
name: Seves, Bregje L.
name: Hettinga, Florentina J.
name: Hoekstra, Trynke
name: van der Woude, Lucas H. V
name: Dekker, Rienk
name: Krops, Leonie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary file 2. Full search strategy for each database. A file containing the search strategy used for each database.
Pinhole quantum ghost imaging
Creators: name: Vega, Andres
name: Saravi, Sina
name: Pertsch, Thomas
name: Setzpfandt, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a quantum ghost imaging scheme based on biphotons, that, by using a collimated pump beam of the right size for biphoton generation, obviates the need for lenses to achieve imaging. The scheme is found to be analogous to the classical pinhole camera, where we show that the equivalent to the classical pinhole size depends mainly on the width of the pump beam, but also on the thickness of the nonlinear crystal and the wavelengths of the biphoton.
Compact kink and its interaction with compact oscillons
Creators: name: Hahne, F. M.
name: Klimas, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study compact kinks and its interaction with compact oscillons in models with non-analytic potentials. Oscillon-like excitations are the main ingredients of the radiation field. We look at the problem of scattering which involves topological compact kinks and non-topological oscillons. We also look at the problem of propagation of small perturbation at the kink bulk.
description: 37 pages, 27 figures
Transverse wobbling in Pr 135
Creators: name: Saha, S.
name: Garg, U.
name: Hartley, D.J.
name: Trivedi, T.
name: Mukhopadhyay, S.
name: Zhu, S.
name: Palit, R.
name: Lakshmi, D.V.
name: Schlax, K.W.
name: Raut, R.
name: Sethi, J.
name: Raju, M.K.
name: Dönau, F.
name: Patel, D.
name: Tandel, S.K.
name: Sinha, A.K.
name: Lauritsen, T.
name: Chiara, C.J.
name: Matta, J.T.
name: Ray, S.
name: Janssens, R.V.F.
name: Petrache, C.M.
name: Li, W.
name: Madhusudhana Rao, P.V.
name: Carpenter, M.P.
name: Ayangeakaa, A.D.
name: Seweryniak, D.
name: Ghugre, S.S.
name: Frauendorf, S.
name: Kondev, F.G.
Publisher: name: American Physical Society
Year: 2015

description: A pair of transverse wobbling bands is observed in the nucleus Pr135. The wobbling is characterized by ΔI=1, E2 transitions between the bands, and a decrease in the wobbling energy confirms its transverse nature. Additionally, a transition from transverse wobbling to a three-quasiparticle band comprised of strong magnetic dipole transitions is observed. These observations conform well to results from calculations with the tilted axis cranking model and the quasiparticle rotor model.
A Digital-Receiver for the Murchison Widefield Array
Creators: name: Prabu, Thiagaraj
name: Srivani, K. S.
name: Roshi, D. Anish
name: Kamini, P. A.
name: Madhavi, S.
name: Emrich, David
name: Crosse, Brian
name: Williams, Andrew J.
name: Waterson, Mark
name: Deshpande, Avinash A.
name: Shankar, N. Udaya
name: Subrahmanyan, Ravi
name: Briggs, Frank H.
name: Goeke, Robert F.
name: Tingay, Steven J.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie
name: R, Gopalakrishna M
name: Morgan, Edward H.
name: Pathikulangara, Joseph
name: Bunton, John D.
name: Hampson, Grant
name: Williams, Christopher
name: Ord, Stephen M.
name: Wayth, Randall B.
name: Kumar, Deepak
name: Morales, Miguel F.
name: deSouza, Ludi
name: Kratzenberg, Eric
name: Pallot, D.
name: McWhirter, Russell
name: Hazelton, Bryna J.
name: Arcus, Wayne
name: Barnes, David G.
name: Bernardi, Gianni
name: Booler, T.
name: Bowman, Judd D.
name: Cappallo, Roger J.
name: Corey, Brian E.
name: Greenhill, Lincoln J.
name: Herne, David
name: Hewitt, Jacqueline N.
name: Kaplan, David L.
name: Kasper, Justin C.
name: Kincaid, Barton B.
name: Koenig, Ronald
name: Lonsdale, Colin J.
name: Lynch, Mervyn J.
name: Mitchell, Daniel A.
name: Oberoi, Divya
name: Remillard, Ronald A.
name: Rogers, Alan E.
name: Salah, Joseph E.
name: Sault, Robert J.
name: Stevens, Jamie B.
name: Tremblay, S. E.
name: Webster, Rachel L.
name: Whitney, Alan R.
name: Wyithe, Stuart B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An FPGA-based digital-receiver has been developed for a low-frequency imaging radio interferometer, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The MWA, located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia, consists of 128 dual-polarized aperture-array elements (tiles) operating between 80 and 300\,MHz, with a total processed bandwidth of 30.72 MHz for each polarization. Radio-frequency signals from the tiles are amplified and band limited using analog signal conditioning units; sampled and channelized by digital-receivers. The signals from eight tiles are processed by a single digital-receiver, thus requiring 16 digital-receivers for the MWA. The main function of the digital-receivers is to digitize the broad-band signals from each tile, channelize them to form the sky-band, and transport it through optical fibers to a centrally located correlator for further processing. The digital-receiver firmware also implements functions to measure the signal power, perform power equalization across the band, detect interference-like events, and invoke diagnostic modes. The digital-receiver is controlled by high-level programs running on a single-board-computer. This paper presents the digital-receiver design, implementation, current status, and plans for future enhancements.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Core micro-instability analysis of JET hybrid and baseline discharges with carbon wall
Creators: name: Moradi, S.
name: Pusztai, I.
name: Voitsekhovitch, I.
name: Garzotti, L.
name: Bourdelle, C.
name: Pueschel, M. J.
name: Lupelli, I.
name: Romanelli, M.
name: contributors, the JET-EFDA
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The core micro-instability characteristics of hybrid and baseline plasmas in a selected set of JET plasmas with carbon wall are investigated through local linear and non-linear and global linear gyro-kinetic simulations with the GYRO code [J. Candy and E. Belli, General Atomics Report GA-A26818 (2011)]. In particular, we study the role of plasma pressure on the micro-instabilities, and scan the parameter space for the important plasma parameters responsible for the onset and stabilization of the modes under experimental conditions. We find that a good core confinement due to strong stabilization of the micro-turbulence driven transport can be expected in the hybrid plasmas due to the stabilizing effect of the fast ion pressure that is more effective at the low magnetic shear of the hybrid discharges. While parallel velocity gradient destabilization is important for the inner core, at outer radii the hybrid plasmas may benefit from a strong quench of the turbulence transport by $\mathbf{E}\times\mathbf{B}$ rotation shear.
description: accepted for publication in Nuclear Fusion
Additional file 6 of Measurement properties of device-based physical activity instruments in ambulatory adults with physical disabilities and/or chronic diseases: a scoping review
Creators: name: Brandenbarg, Pim
name: Hoekstra, Femke
name: Barakou, Ioulia
name: Seves, Bregje L.
name: Hettinga, Florentina J.
name: Hoekstra, Trynke
name: van der Woude, Lucas H. V
name: Dekker, Rienk
name: Krops, Leonie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 6: Supplementary file 6. Expanded overview of consumer-grade devices evaluated on their measurement properties in 74 studies. An expanded overview of the consumer-grade devices evaluated on their measurement properties. Extra information on epoch length, sampling rate and results per condition.
New low-energy 0+ state and shape coexistence in Ni 70
Creators: name: Chiara, C.J.
name: Janssens, R.V.F.
name: Recchia, F.
name: Carpenter, M.P.
name: Carroll, J.J.
name: David, H.M.
name: Dombos, A.C.
name: Larson, N.
name: Lauritsen, T.
name: Seweryniak, D.
name: Spyrou, A.
name: Zhu, S.
name: Prokop, C.J.
name: Crider, B.P.
name: Liddick, S.N.
name: Ayangeakaa, A.D.
name: Chen, J.
name: Walters, W.B.
name: Suchyta, S.
name: Go, S.
name: Harker, J.
name: Lewis, R.
name: Quinn, S.J.
Publisher: name: American Physical Society
Year: 2015

description: In recent models, the neutron-rich Ni isotopes around N=40 are predicted to exhibit multiple low-energy excited 0+ states attributed to neutron and proton excitations across both the N=40 and Z=28 shell gaps. In Ni68, the three observed 0+ states have been interpreted in terms of triple shape coexistence between spherical, oblate, and prolate deformed shapes. In the present work a new (02+) state at an energy of 1567 keV has been discovered in Ni70 by using β-delayed, γ-ray spectroscopy following the decay of Co70. The precipitous drop in the energy of the prolate-deformed 0+ level between Ni68 and Ni70 with the addition of two neutrons compares favorably with results of Monte Carlo shell-model calculations carried out in the large fpg9/2d5/2 model space, which predict a 02+ state at 1525 keV in Ni70. The result extends the shape-coexistence picture in the region to Ni70 and confirms the importance of the role of the tensor component of the monopole interaction in describing the structure of neutron-rich nuclei.
Rudesse de la vie en hivers chez les Oulad Attia
Creators: name: Garaoun, Massinissa
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Colliote

description: Récit sur les difficultés de la vie en hivers chez les Oulad Atiya et dans les montagnes colliotes
Exemplar-based Representations for Object Detection, Association and Beyond
Creators: name: Malisiewicz, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recognizing and reasoning about the objects found in an image is one of the key problems in computer vision. This thesis is based on the idea that in order to understand a novel object, it is often not enough to recognize the object category it belongs to (i.e., answering “What is this?”). We argue that a more meaningful interpretation can be obtained by linking the input object with a similar representation in memory (i.e., asking “What is this like?”). In this thesis, we present a memory-based system for recognizing and interpreting objects in images by establishing visual associations between an input image and a large database of object exemplars. These visual associations can then be used to predict properties of the novel object which cannot be deduced solely from category membership (e.g., which way is it facing? what is its segmentation? is there a person sitting on it?).
Part I of this thesis is dedicated to exemplar representations and algorithms for creating visual associations. We propose Local Distance Functions and Exemplar-SVMs, which are trained separately for each exemplar and allow an instance-specific notion of visual similarity. We show that an ensemble of Exemplar-SVMs performs competitively to state-of-the-art on the PASCAL VOC object detection task. In Part II, we focus on the advantages of using exemplars over a purely category-based approach. Because Exemplar-SVMs show good alignment between detection windows and their associated exemplars, we show that it is possible to transfer any available exemplar meta-data (segmentation, geometric structure, 3D model, etc.) directly onto the detections, which can then be used as part of overall scene understanding. Finally, we construct a Visual Memex, a vast graph over exemplars encoding both visual as well as spatial relationships, and apply it to an object prediction task. Our results show that exemplars provide a better notion of object context than category-based approaches.
title: Siamese networks for surveillance and security
Creators: name: Boyle, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2022

description: This thesis investigates the usage of Siamese networks across three surveillance and security tasks for land border security. Siamese networks (also known as a twin-pair network) are a layout of neural networks that contain a segment that contains duplicated architecture and con�figuration parameters for feature extraction of two inputs, combining the outputs into one vector for comparison in a final set of layers to produce a similarity score. The effectiveness of multi�ple architectures of Siamese networks crafted from multiple generations of Convolutional Neural Networks and Residual Neural Networks are examined for side-profile vehicle classification and Differential Morphing Attack Detection (D-MAD), and with a novel architecture for trajectory similarity analysis. The challenging domain of automated vehicle classification from pole-mounted roadway cam�eras from side-profile views is evaluated. Three Siamese networks based on existing non-Siamese architectures are proposed and compared against five existing methods on a novel and published dataset. The evaluation undertaken shows that the residual based Siamese network is able to outperform other state of the art methods on datasets with a small number of classes. An end-to-end Siamese trajectory network framework is proposed for the purpose of trajec�tory similarity analysis in surveillance tasks. A deep feature auto-encoding network is used as part of a discriminative Siamese architecture to perform trajectory similarity analysis. The ef�fectiveness of this method is evaluated on four challenging public real-world datasets containing both vehicle and pedestrian targets, and compared with five existing methods. The proposed method outperforms the existing methods on three of the four datasets. Face morphing attacks pose an increasingly severe threat to automatic face recognition sys�tems in border control environments. Three Siamese architectures built up from multiple gen�erations of non-Siamese Convolutional and Residual Neural Networks for D-MAD are proposed, showing the effectiveness of these networks against a pre-established Convolutional architecture for Single-image Morphing Attack Detection (S-MAD). The residual network based architecture outperforms representative convolutional architectures from the literature, with the Siamese D-MAD architecture able to outperform its S-MAD variant.
Evaluation of Air Quality Impacts on Society: Methods and Application
Creators: name: Jinhyok  Heo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Though essential for informed decision-making, it is challenging to estimate the public health impacts of air quality because it must address the complicated atmospheric processes of air pollutants: emissions, dispersion, chemistry, and removal. Employing a chemical transport model (CTM) is the most rigorous way to address these atmospheric processes. The first part of this thesis analyzed the potential risk of ammonia emissions from post-combustion carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology using a CTM. It was found that, if not controlled properly, CCS ammonia may create a serious public health problem, substantially compromising the benefit of reducing carbon dioxide. The results will guide the level of appropriate control for a wide range of future scenarios. CTMs are expensive from a computational standpoint and, therefore, beyond the reach of policy analysis for many types of problems. On the other hand, current tools used for policy analysis fall short of the rigor of CTMs and may lead to biased results. To address this gap, we developed the Estimating Air Pollution Social Impacts Using Regression (EASIUR) method, which builds parameterizations that predict per-tonne social cost and intake fraction at any location in the United States like a CTM with negligible computational costs. With tagged CTM simulations, the EASIUR method builds a dataset of air quality impacts for a large number of representative emissions sources in the United States and then derives parameterizations for those results. We used an “average plume,” a generic PM2.5 plume generated from CTM results, to describe the exposed population over large receptor areas around an emissions source. The parameterizations have intuitive functional forms with population and common atmospheric variables; their coefficients explain key underlying mechanisms. Out-of-sample evaluations meet the ‘excellent’ criteria of a common air quality model performance metric in most cases, with some exceptions meeting the ‘good’ criteria. We found that the average seasonal per-tonne social costs in the United States are $150,000-180,000/t EC, $21,000-34,000/t SO2, $4,200-15,000/t NOx, and $29,000-85,000/t NH3. It is hoped that the EASIUR model will be of great use in policy research that involves changes in air quality.
New strange pentaquarks
Creators: name: Karliner, Marek
name: Rosner, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The new strange pentaquarks observed by LHCb are very likely hadronic molecules consisting of $Ξ_c \bar D$ and $Ξ_c \bar D^{*}.$ We discuss the experimental evidence supporting this conclusion, pointing out the similarities and differences with the $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$ pentaquarks in the non-strange sector. The latter clearly are hadronic molecules consisting of $Σ_c \bar D$ and $Σ_c \bar D^{*}.$ Following this line of thought, we predict three additional strange pentaquarks, consisting of $Ξ_c^{\prime} \bar D$ and $Ξ_c^{\prime} \bar D^{*}.$ The masses of these states are expected to be shifted upwards by $M(Ξ_c^{\prime})-M(Ξ_c) \approx 110$ MeV with respect to the corresponding known strange pentaquarks.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Topological Two-Dimensional Gravity on Surfaces with Boundary
Creators: name: Troost, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve two-dimensional gravity on surfaces with boundary in terms of contact interactions and surface degenerations. The known solution of the bulk theory in terms of a contact algebra is generalized to include boundaries and an enlarged set of boundary operators. The latter allow for a linearization of the Virasoro constraints in terms of an extended integrable KdV hierarchy.
description: 16 pages
Equilibrium currents in a Corbino graphene ring
Creators: name: López, A.
name: Bolívar, N.
name: Medina, E.
name: Berche, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the description of a graphene Corbino disk in the context of a tight binding approach that includes both kinetic and Rashba spin-orbit coupling due to an external out-of-plane electric field. Persistent equilibrium currents are induced by an external magnetic field breaking time reversal symmetry. By direct diagonalization, we compute the spectrum and focus on the dispersion near the $K$ points at the Fermi level. The dispersion keenly reproduces that of a continuum model in spite of the complexity of the boundary conditions. We validate the assumptions of the continuum model in terms of predominant zig-zag boundaries conditions and weak sub-band coupling. The wave functions displaying the lowest transverse modes are obtained, showing the predominance of edge states with charge density at the zig-zag edges. The persistent charge currents, nevertheless, do not follow the traditional argument of current cancellation from levels below the Fermi level, and thus they depart in the tight-binding from those found in the continuum model.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Microwave control of Rydberg atom interactions
Creators: name: Sevinçli, Sevilay
name: Pohl, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the interaction between Rydberg atoms, whose electronic states are dressed by multiple microwave fields. Numerical calculations are used for an exact description of the microwave induced interactions, and employed to benchmark a perturbative treatment that yields simple insights into the involved mechanisms. Based on this theory, we demonstrate that microwave dressing provides a powerful approach to control dipolar as well as van der Waals interactions and even permits to turn them off entirely. In addition, the proposed scheme also opens up possibilities for engineering dominant three-body interactions.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
title: Une porte d'avion changée en porte de gourbi
Creators: name: Garaoun, Massinissa
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Jijélien

description: Récit sur l'avenir d'une porte avion tombée pendant la guerre de libération chez les Oulad Aïdoune
Additional file 2 of The impact of relaxing restrictions on take-home doses during the COVID-19 pandemic on program effectiveness and client experiences in opioid agonist treatment: a mixed methods systematic review
Creators: name: Adams, Alison
name: Blawatt, Sarin
name: Magel, Tianna
name: MacDonald, Scott
name: Lajeunesse, Julie
name: Harrison, Scott
name: Byres, David
name: Schechter, Martin T.
name: Oviedo-Joekes, Eugenia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Sample search strategy.
Experience-dependent plasticity of layer 2/3 circuits in developing somatosensory neocortex
Creators: name: Wen, Jing
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Experience-dependent plasticity is the adaptability of brain circuits as a result of changes in neural activity, a phenomenon that has been proposed as the neural basis for important brain function in health and disease. The underlying mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity can take different forms, depending on the organisms and brain areas under investigation. A better understanding of these mechanisms will help to interpret normal brain function as well as to guide therapies for neurological diseases. Mouse vibrissa system offers great experimental advantages to studying experience-dependent plasticity and the underlying molecular mechanisms at different levels.
Using sensory experience paradigms of unbalanced whisker activity, we find that sensory experience induces rapid synaptic strengthening at excitatory synapses converged onto single layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons, although the plasticity at these synapses displays remarkable input specificity. Furthermore, we discover that recently potentiated layer 4-2/3 excitatory synapses are labile and subject to activity-dependent weakening in vitro. Calcium-permeable AMPARs (CP-AMPARs) that are sometimes associated with synaptic strengthening are not essential for activity-induced synaptic weakening. Finally, we demonstrate that ongoing sensory experience triggers distinct phases of synaptic plasticity, which are tightly correlated with changes in NMDAR properties and function. Taken together, the results from this thesis show distinct manifestations and mechanisms of how sensory experience modulates synaptic properties and neuronal function that may provide insights into information processing and coding in the neocortex.
Additional file 3 of Indigenous medicinal plants used in folk medicine for malaria treatment in Kwara State, Nigeria: an ethnobotanical study
Creators: name: Evbuomwan, Ikponmwosa Owen
name: Stephen Adeyemi, Oluyomi
name: Oluba, Olarewaju Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Ethnobotanical data including plant names and voucher numbers of the identified indigenous medicinal plants.
Interaction of Cygnus A with its environment
Creators: name: Nulsen, Paul E. J.
name: Young, Andrew J.
name: Kraft, Ralph P.
name: McNamara, Brian R.
name: Wise, Michael W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cygnus A, the nearest truly powerful radio galaxy, resides at the centre of a massive galaxy cluster. Chandra X-ray observations reveal its cocoon shocks, radio lobe cavities and an X-ray jet, which are discussed here. It is argued that X-ray emission from the outer regions of the cocoon shocks is nonthermal. The X-ray jets are best interpreted as synchrotron emission, suggesting that they, rather than the radio jets, are the path of energy flow from the nucleus to the hotspots. In that case, a model shows that the jet flow is non-relativistic and carries in excess of one solar mass per year.
description: 6 pages, 5 figure. To appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 313: "Extragalactic jets from every angle," Galapagos, Ecuador, 15-19 September 2014, F. Massaro, C. C. Cheung, E. Lopez, and A. Siemiginowksa (eds.), Cambridge University Press
Experimental investigation of left-right asymmetry in photon-atom interaction
Creators: name: Ricz, S.
name: Buhr, T.
name: Kövér, Á.
name: Holste, K.
name: Borovik,, A.
name: Schippers, S.
name: Varga, D.
name: Müller, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single ionization of noble gas atoms by linearly polarized synchrotron radiation has been studied by employing angle- and energy-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. The measurements were carried out in the plane defined by the momentum and polarization vectors of the photon. Parameters describing the left-right asymmetry (LRA) (relative to the photon propagation direction) of the photoelectron angular distribution were determined experimentally for the $s$-shells of He, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe atoms and H$_2$ molecules and for the $p$-shells of Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe atoms. The values of the left-right asymmetry differ significantly from zero for both subshells. The photon and photoelectron energy dependence of the LRA parameters are presented also. Possible experimental and instrumental sources that could generate asymmetry are discussed and excluded as well.
title:  Eredità culturale bene comune. Per un Museo della comunità nel territorio di Canale Monterano. Prime ricerche
Creators: name: Mori, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Paolo Giordano Orsini, molto legato al granduca di Toscana Cosimo de’ Medici di cui aveva sposato la figlia, in occasione dell’istituzione del ducato di Bracciano (1560), avvierà un complesso progetto di celebrazione della famiglia Orsini e di costruzione unitaria dello Stato. Istituì l’archivio generale della famiglia Orsini e l’archivio notarile, promosse interventi di bonifiche idrauliche, di restauro e costruzione di palazzi e infrastrutture, elaborò norme precise per l’organizzazione delle singole Comunità. Tuttavia, il duca di Bracciano soffriva di un’endemica situazione debitoria di cui si rintracceranno le origini e le cause, a cominciare dall’acquisizione della contea dell’Anguillara nel 1492 da parte di Gentil Virginio Orsini.

 Paolo Giordano Orsini, had close family ties with Cosimo de Medici having married his daughter. On the occasion of the establishment of the dukedom of Bracciano Paolo Giordano Orsini started an elaborate project for the celebration of the Orsini family and the state unification at the same time. He established the Orsini family archives, the general notarial archive and instituted projects for land reclamation and building restauration.  He formulated and standardized systems of law for the various ‘comunità’. Unfortunately in the mist of all these enterprises the duke was suffering from long standing financial problems. In this article we will trace the origins and causes of this rapidly rising debt starting from the acquisition of the neighboring territory of Anguillara in 1492 made by Gentil Virginio Orsini.
description: Eredità culturale bene comune. Per un Museo della comunità nel territorio di Canale Monterano. Prime ricerche
title: Session Recording in Configuration Management Environments
Creators: name: Irlinger, Maximilian
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Konfigurationsmanagement
subject: Session-Recording
subject: Elektra
subject: Vereinfachung von DevOps-Workflows
subject: Automatisierte Bereitstellung
subject: Internet der Dinge
subject: Iterative Systemkonfiguration
subject: Configuration Management
subject: Session Recording
subject: Elektra
subject: Simplifying DevOps Workflows
subject: Automated Deployment
subject: Internet of Things
subject: Iterative System Configuration

description: Diese Arbeit präsentiert Record Elektra, ein Session-Recording-Tool, das auf Konfigurationsframework Elektra aufbaut und entwickelt wurde, um den Prozess der Anwendung von Konfigurationsänderungen auf mehreren Hosts zu optimieren. Durch eine Fallstudie demonstrieren wir den Konfigurationsprozess unter Verwendung von Record Elektra und zeigen dabei die Wirksamkeit des Tools bei der Vereinfachung von Konfigurationsänderungen und der Reduzierung von Fehlern. Darüber hinaus haben wir die Leistungs- und Speicherauswirkungen von Record Elektra untersucht und festgestellt, dass sie akzeptablen Grenzen entsprechen und somit die Nutzung von Elektra nur minimal beeinträchtigen. Unsere Forschung trägt zum Bereich der Konfigurationsverwaltung bei und betont den Wert des Session-Recordings zur Verbesserung des Konfigurationsprozesses für Software-Services. Die Studie konzentriert sich auf Änderungen, die direkt über Elektra vorgenommen werden, aber unser Ansatz bietet eine Grundlage für die Erweiterung des Session-Recordings, um Änderungen an Konfigurationsdateien direkt zu überwachen.
description: This thesis presents Record Elektra, a session recording tool built on the configuration framework Elektra, designed to streamline the process of applying configuration changes across multiple hosts. Through a case study, we show the configuration process of an embedded system using Record Elektra, demonstrating the tool's effectiveness in simplifying configuration changes and reducing errors. We also evaluated the performance and memory impact of Record Elektra, finding that it remains within acceptable limits, ensuring minimal disruption to the usage of Elektra. Our research contributes to the field of configuration management, highlighting the value of session recording in enhancing the configuration process for software services. The study focuses on changes made directly via Elektra, but our approach provides a foundation for extending session recording to monitor changes made to configuration files directly.
Simulating Spectral Kurtosis Mitigation Against Realistic RFI Signals
Creators: name: Smith, Evan T.
name: Lynch, Ryan
name: Pisano, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effectiveness of the statistical radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation technique spectral kurtosis (SK) in the face of simulated realistic RFI signals. SK estimates the kurtosis of a collection of M power values in a single channel and provides a detection metric that is able to discern between human-made RFI and incoherent astronomical signals of interest. We test the ability of SK to flag signals with various representative modulation types, data rates, duty cycles, and carrier frequencies. We flag with various accumulation lengths M and implement multi-scale SK, which combines information from adjacent time-frequency bins to mitigate weaknesses in single-scale \SK. We find that signals with significant sidelobe emission from high data rates are harder to flag, as well as signals with a 50% effective duty cycle and weak signal-to-noise ratios. Multi-scale SK with at least one extra channel can detect both the center channel and side-band interference, flagging greater than 90% as long as the bin channel width is wider in frequency than the RFI.
description: Accepted to AJ. 19 pages, 15 figures