cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
WEIRD FAccTs: How Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic is FAccT?
Creators: name: Septiandri, Ali Akbar
name: Constantinides, Marios
name: Tahaei, Mohammad
name: Quercia, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Studies conducted on Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) samples are considered atypical of the world's population and may not accurately represent human behavior. In this study, we aim to quantify the extent to which the ACM FAccT conference, the leading venue in exploring Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems' fairness, accountability, and transparency, relies on WEIRD samples. We collected and analyzed 128 papers published between 2018 and 2022, accounting for 30.8% of the overall proceedings published at FAccT in those years (excluding abstracts, tutorials, and papers without human-subject studies or clear country attribution for the participants). We found that 84% of the analyzed papers were exclusively based on participants from Western countries, particularly exclusively from the U.S. (63%). Only researchers who undertook the effort to collect data about local participants through interviews or surveys added diversity to an otherwise U.S.-centric view of science. Therefore, we suggest that researchers collect data from under-represented populations to obtain an inclusive worldview. To achieve this goal, scientific communities should champion data collection from such populations and enforce transparent reporting of data biases.
description: To appear at ACM FAccT 2023
Archaeoastronomy in ancient Helvetia: the Theater, the Temple and the city of Aventicum (Avenches)
Creators: name: Franceschini, Marina De
name: Veneziano, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies
Year: 2019
Subjects: Archaeoastronomy
ancient Roman religion
Roman Calendar
Helvetia
Roman Architecture
Avenches or Aventicum
Roman Gaul.

description: This article presents our discovery of the astronomical orientation of the city of Aventicum, the capital of ancient Roman Helvetia, where the sacred complex formed by the Temple of the Cigognier and the Theater were oriented along the axis that links the sunset of the Summer Solstice and the sunrise of the Winter Solstice. Also the East and West doors of the city were astronomically oriented on the axis that links the sunrise of the Summer Solstice and the sunset of the Winter Solstice. On July 13th, 2017 I had the fortune to visit two extraordinary Roman sites in Switzerland, Avenches and Vallon, together with friend Cristiano Castelletti, a great scholar as well as an excellent journalist of the Swiss-Italian Radio. This article is dedicated to his memory, because unfortunately Cristiano passed away in 2017, leaving a great void for us all.
Innate TCRβ-chain engagement drives human T cells toward distinct memory-like effector phenotypes with immunotherapeutic potentials.
Creators: name: Vantourout, Pierre
name: Eum, Josephine
name: Poole, María Conde
name: Hayday, Thomas S
name: Laing, Adam G
name: Hussain, Khiyam
name: Nuamah, Rosamond
name: Kannambath, Shichina
name: Moisan, Jacques
name: Stoop, Allart
name: Battaglia, Sebastiano
name: Servattalab, Roya
name: Hsu, Jonathan
name: Bayliffe, Andrew
name: Katragadda, Madan
name: Hayday, Adrian C
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: Immunology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: Human Biology & Physiology
subject: Human Biology & Physiology
classificationCode: Model organisms
subject: Model organisms

description: Clonotypic αβ T cell responses to cargoes presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC), MR1, or CD1 proteins underpin adaptive immunity. Those responses are mostly mediated by complementarity-determining region 3 motifs created by quasi-random T cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangements, with diversity being highest for TCRγδ. Nonetheless, TCRγδ also displays nonclonotypic innate responsiveness following engagement of germline-encoded Vγ-specific residues by butyrophilin (BTN) or BTN-like (BTNL) proteins that uniquely mediate γδ T cell subset selection. We now report that nonclonotypic TCR engagement likewise induces distinct phenotypes in TCRαβ+ cells. Specifically, antibodies to germline-encoded human TCRVβ motifs consistently activated naïve or memory T cells toward core states distinct from those induced by anti-CD3 or superantigens and from others commonly reported. Those states combined selective proliferation and effector function with activation-induced inhibitory receptors and memory differentiation. Thus, nonclonotypic TCRVβ targeting broadens our perspectives on human T cell response modes and might offer ways to induce clinically beneficial phenotypes in defined T cell subsets.
Finite-distance gravitational deflection of massive particles by a rotating black hole in loop quantum gravity
Creators: name: Huang, Yang
name: Cao, Zhoujian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A rotating black hole in loop quantum gravity was constructed by Brahma, Chen, and Yeom based on a nonrotating counterpart using the revised Newman-Janis algorithm recently. For such spacetime, we investigate the weak gravitational deflection of massive particles to explore observational effects of the quantum correction. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, for Gibbons-Werner (GW) method, a geometric approach computing the deflection angle of particles in curved spacetimes, we refine its calculation and obtain a simplified formula. Second, by using GW method and our new formula, we work out the finite-distance weak deflection angle of massive particles for the rotating black hole in loop quantum gravity obtained by Brahma $et\ al.$ An analysis to our result reveals the repulsive effect of the quantum correction to particles. What's more, an observational constraint on the quantum parameter is obtained in solar system.
Sense and sensitivity of double beta decay experiments
Creators: name: Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.
name: Martin-Albo, J.
name: Sorel, M.
name: Ferrario, P.
name: Monrabal, F.
name: Munoz-Vidal, J.
name: Novella, P.
name: Poves, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for neutrinoless double beta decay is a very active field in which the number of proposals for next-generation experiments has proliferated. In this paper we attempt to address both the sense and the sensitivity of such proposals. Sensitivity comes first, by means of proposing a simple and unambiguous statistical recipe to derive the sensitivity to a putative Majorana neutrino mass, m_bb. In order to make sense of how the different experimental approaches compare, we apply this recipe to a selection of proposals, comparing the resulting sensitivities. We also propose a "physics-motivated range" (PMR) of the nuclear matrix elements as a unifying criterium between the different nuclear models. The expected performance of the proposals is parametrized in terms of only four numbers: energy resolution, background rate (per unit time, isotope mass and energy), detection efficiency, and bb isotope mass. For each proposal, both a reference and an optimistic scenario for the experimental performance are studied. In the reference scenario we find that all the proposals will be able to partially explore the degenerate spectrum, without fully covering it, although four of them (KamLAND-Zen, CUORE, NEXT and EXO) will approach the 50 meV boundary. In the optimistic scenario, we find that CUORE and the xenon-based proposals (KamLAND-Zen, EXO and NEXT) will explore a significant fraction of the inverse hierarchy, with NEXT covering it almost fully. For the long term future, we argue that Xe-based experiments may provide the best case for a 1-ton scale experiment, given the potentially very low backgrounds achievable and the expected scalability to large isotope masses.
description: 30 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables
The de facto protection of Marine Protected Areas
Creators: name: Relaño Écija, Verónica
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are the most common tool used to conserve marine resources. Officially, 8% of the world’s ocean are protected by MPAs. However, due to inadequate implementation, MPAs often fail to achieve the desired outcomes, causing vital ecosystem services to be jeopardized. Currently, there is no clear understanding of how much of our oceans is de facto protected. This thesis fills this gap through a global assessment of MPAs' status by providing insights into the different types of existing MPAs. The first chapter of this thesis emphasizes these points. The second chapter compares the evolution of fisheries in four territories in the Pacific, using comprehensive catch data from 1950 to 2018, and shows that Exclusive Economic Zones are viable tools for coastal countries to manage fisheries. It also shows that MPA designation may fall victim to political convenience, resulting in so-called ‘paper parks.’ The third chapter identifies areas of the Pacific that are important for conservation by superposing the migration routes of 11 large pelagic fish species and presents possible ‘blue corridors’ to protect those fish stocks. To understand the protection level or status of MPAs, a ‘one-question questionnaire’ was sent to over 3,000 academics, NGO staff, fishers, journalists and civil servants with a relationship to MPAs in their country. This represented an affordable and replicable methodology to assemble local knowledge about MPAs and to perform comparative analyses of the stakeholders’ answers. The returns from this questionnaire are analyzed in the fourth and fifth chapters, with the former emphasizing the range of answers and the latter the type of answers, by stakeholder occupation. The sixth chapter summarizes the arguments of the previous chapters and illustrates their application through an exemplary documentary film produced by the candidate. The film is a case study of a ‘paper park’ in Argentina and highlights the role of science communication in creating community support for greater marine protection in their area. Overall, this thesis advances our understanding of the de facto protection status of MPAs around the world and provides a basis for increasing their effectiveness.
A distribution-free change-point monitoring scheme in high-dimensional settings with application to industrial image surveillance
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Niladri
name: Lui, Chun Fai
name: Maged, Ahmed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing monitoring tools for multivariate data are often asymptotically distribution-free, computationally intensive, or require a large stretch of stable data. Many of these methods are not applicable to 'high dimension, low sample size' scenarios. With rapid technological advancement, high-dimensional data has become omnipresent in industrial applications. We propose a distribution-free change point monitoring method applicable to high dimensional data. Through an extensive simulation study, performance comparison has been done for different parameter values, under different multivariate distributions with complex dependence structures. The proposed method is robust and efficient in detecting change points under a wide range of shifts in the process distribution. A real-life application illustrated with the help of high-dimensional image surveillance dataset.
description: This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in Statistics Simulation and Computation on 22 April, 2023
‘Returned to their native heath’: Repatriating and deporting British assisted migrants from Australia, 1901-1939
Creators: name: OKOLI, CHLOE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: History

description: Assisted migration schemes in the 1920s allowed many white British migrants to come to Australia to settle. Their ranks included migrants who became a public charge on State government institutions due to disease, disability, mental illness and criminality. The federal government developed policies and legislation to restrict, repatriate and deport British migrants - those deemed ‘likely to become a permanent public charge’ - on the grounds that they did not possess social or economic benefit to Australia. The return of such migrants highlights not only an overlooked dimension to the assisted migration schemes of the 1920s, but also shows that Commonwealth migration restriction policy, law and administration during this time was created and developed in response to issues in addition to race; public dependence and inter-governmental political and economic relationships defined whether a migrant would be restricted or returned.
La proprietà intellettuale nelle pubblicazioni scientifiche – Forme di tutela, licenze e contratti: come difendere il proprio capitale intellettuale
Creators: name: Valentina, Bozzato
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Diritto d'autore
subject: Open Access
subject: Letteratura accademica
subject: Proprietà intellettuale
subject: Comunicazione accademica
subject: https://zenodo.org/communities/a_iatris/

description: Abstract (IT) La tutela della proprietà intellettuale nelle pubblicazioni scientifiche è una tematica spesso trascurata ma di grande impatto, sia per valorizzazione dell’autore che per la disseminazione della conoscenza. Nel mondo dell’editoria scientifica esistono due grandi schieramenti: l’editoria tradizionale, che richiede il pagamento di un abbonamento o di una quota per la lettura dei contenuti che pubblica, e l’editoria Open Access che consente l’accesso libero e gratuito alle pubblicazioni. Il concetto di negoziazione del contratto di edizione con gli editori tradizionali è ancora poco diffuso perché si è portati a pensare che gli autori abbiano poco potere contrattuale nel mondo dell’editoria scientifica, ma grazie al supporto di personale formato in materia di diritto d’autore e all’utilizzo dei cosiddetti addendum, è possibile gestire la proprietà intellettuale della propria opera e garantirne una maggior diffusione e visibilità. L’editoria Open Access è un altro ottimo strumento atto a tutelare la proprietà intellettuale dell’autore: grazie all’adozione di licenze d’uso, l’autore conserva i diritti sulla propria opera e ne assicura ampia disseminazione. Abstract (EN) Intellectual property protection in scientific publications represents a very complex, and often ignored, matter. Nevertheless, it has a wide impact, both for the author’s reputation and for the dissemination of knowledge. In the scientific publishing field, we have two major areas: traditional publishers, who require a paid subscription or a fee to have access to the content they publish, and Open Access publishers, who give free access to the publications. Contract negotiation with traditional publishers is a barely known concept: we are used to thinking that authors do not have bargaining power in the scientific publishing field. With the help of staff dedicated to copyright matters and thanks to the so-called addendum, it is possible to manage the intellectual property of our own work as well as its dissemination and visibility. Open Access publishing represents another great opportunity that guarantees the protection of intellectual property: thanks to Creative Commons Licences, the author retains the copyright, and the public is allowed to reuse the content.
Ultrafast laser-triggered emission from hafnium carbide tips
Creators: name: Kealhofer, Catherine
name: Foreman, Seth M.
name: Gerlich, Stefan
name: Kasevich, Mark A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron emission from hafnium carbide (HfC) field emission tips induced by a sub-10 fs, 150 MHz repetition rate Ti:sapphire laser is studied. Two-photon emission is observed at low power with a moderate electric bias field applied to the tips. As the bias field and/or laser power is increased, the average current becomes dominated by thermally-enhanced field emission due to laser heating: both the low thermal conductivity of HfC and the laser's high repetition rate can lead to a temperature rise of several hundred Kelvin at the tip apex. The contribution of current from a thermal transient at times shorter than the electron-phonon coupling time is considered in the context of the two-temperature model. Under the conditions of this experiment, the integrated current from the thermal transient is shown to be negligible in comparison with the two-photon emission. A finite element model of the laser heating and thermal conduction supports these conclusions and is also used to compare the nature of thermal effects in HfC, tungsten, and gold tips.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
A Model for Translation of Text from Indian Languages to Bharti Braille Characters
Creators: name: Joshi, Nisheeth
name: Katyayan, Pragya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: People who are visually impaired face a lot of difficulties while studying. One of the major causes to this is lack of available text in Bharti Braille script. In this paper, we have suggested a scheme to convert text in major Indian languages into Bharti Braille. The system uses a hybrid approach where at first the text in Indian language is given to a rule based system and in case if there is any ambiguity then it is resolved by applying a LSTM based model. The developed model has also been tested and found to have produced near accurate results.
description: ISCON 2023 Conference Paper, 4 Pages, 2 Tables 4 Figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2305.06157
Affine processes on positive semidefinite d x d matrices have jumps of finite variation in dimension d > 1
Creators: name: Mayerhofer, Eberhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J25 (Primary) 91B70 (Secondary)

description: The theory of affine processes on the space of positive semidefinite d x d matrices has been established in a joint work with Cuchiero, Filipović and Teichmann (2011). We confirm the conjecture stated therein that in dimension d greater than 1 this process class does not exhibit jumps of infinite total variation. This constitutes a geometric phenomenon which is in contrast to the situation on the positive real line (Kawazu and Watanabe, 1974). As an application we prove that the exponentially affine property of the Laplace transform carries over to the Fourier-Laplace transform if the diffusion coefficient is zero or invertible.
description: version to appear in Stochastic Processes and Their Applications
Additional file 1 of Integrative metagenomic and metabolomic analyses reveal the role of gut microbiota in antibody-mediated renal allograft rejection
Creators: name: Li, Xin
name: Li, Ruoying
name: Ji, Bingqing
name: Zhao, Lili
name: Wang, Junpeng
name: Yan, Tianzhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Histopathological characteristics according to the Banff 2019 criteria of AMR cases. Table S2. Comparison of relative abundance of gut microbiota between AMR and control groups at the species level. Table S3. Comparison of relative abundance of gut microbiota between AMR and control groups at the phylum level. Table S4. Comparison of relative abundance of gut microbiota between AMR and control groups at the genus level. Table S5. Comparison of relative abundance of KOs between AMR and control groups. Table S6. Interrelationship between AMR-associated gut microbial species, functions and metabolites. Table S7. Spearman correlation between species and clinical indicators. Table S8. Spearman correlation between metabolites and clinical indicators. Table S9. Area under the ROC curves of microbial biomarkers. Table S10. Antibiotic resistance and virulence genes of key species associated with AMR after kidney transplantation. Table S11. Area under the ROC curves of metabolic biomarkers
Schanuel's conjecture and algebraic powers z^w and w^z with z and w transcendental
Creators: name: Marques, Diego
name: Sondow, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11J81

description: We give a brief history of transcendental number theory, including Schanuel's conjecture (S). Assuming (S), we prove that if z and w are complex numbers, not 0 or 1, with z^w and w^z algebraic, then z and w are either both rational or both transcendental. A corollary is that if (S) is true, then we can find four distinct transcendental positive real numbers x, y, s, t such that the three numbers x^y=/=y^x and s^t=t^s are all integers. Another application (possibly known) is that (S) implies the transcendence of the numbers sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2), i^i^i, and i^e^pi. We also prove that if (S) holds and a^a^z=z, where a=/=0 is algebraic and z is irrational, then z is transcendental.
description: 6 pages. Corrected a mistake in the paragraph after (4.5), updated [15]
$\mathcal{N} = 2$ higher spins: superfield equations of motion, the hypermultiplet supercurrents, and the component structure
Creators: name: Buchbinder, Ioseph
name: Ivanov, Evgeny
name: Zaigraev, Nikita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a continuation of our previous papers arXiv:2109.07639 and arXiv:2202.08196, we study the linearized structure of the manifestly $4D, \mathcal{N} = 2$ supersymmetric theory of the cubic couplings of the higher spin gauge superfields to the matter hypermultiplets. We consider in detail the superfield equations of motion, construct the conserved hypermultiplet superfield currents, explore their component structure (basically in the bosonic sector) and compare it with the corresponding currents in the conventional higher-spin bosonic theory. We thoroughly study the $\mathcal{N} = 2$ spin $\mathbf{2}$ and $\mathbf{3}$ models as instructive examples.
description: 0 + 90 pages, typos corrected; published version
Trees, Tight-Spans and Point Configuration
Creators: name: Herrmann, Sven
name: Moulton, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 54E35, 05C05, 52B11, 92D15

description: Tight-spans of metrics were first introduced by Isbell in 1964 and rediscovered and studied by others, most notably by Dress, who gave them this name. Subsequently, it was found that tight-spans could be defined for more general maps, such as directed metrics and distances, and more recently for diversities. In this paper, we show that all of these tight-spans as well as some related constructions can be defined in terms of point configurations. This provides a useful way in which to study these objects in a unified and systematic way. We also show that by using point configurations we can recover results concerning one-dimensional tight-spans for all of the maps we consider, as well as extend these and other results to more general maps such as symmetric and unsymmetric maps.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures
Interface Between Topological and Superconducting Qubits
Creators: name: Jiang, Liang
name: Kane, Charles L.
name: Preskill, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and analyze an interface between a topological qubit and a superconducting flux qubit. In our scheme, the interaction between Majorana fermions in a topological insulator is coherently controlled by a superconducting phase that depends on the quantum state of the flux qubit. A controlled phase gate, achieved by pulsing this interaction on and off, can transfer quantum information between the topological qubit and the superconducting qubit.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures. V2: Final version as published in Phys. Rev. Lett, with detailed clarifications in the Appendix
Efficient validation of Boson Sampling from binned photon-number distributions
Creators: name: Seron, Benoit
name: Novo, Leonardo
name: Arkhipov, Alex
name: Cerf, Nicolas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to substantiate claims of quantum computational advantage, it is crucial to develop efficient methods for validating the experimental data. We propose a test of the correct functioning of a boson sampler with single-photon inputs that is based on how photons distribute among partitions of the output modes. Our method is versatile and encompasses previous validation tests based on bunching phenomena, marginal distributions, and even some suppression laws. We show via theoretical arguments and numerical simulations that binned-mode photon number distributions can be used in practical scenarios to efficiently distinguish ideal boson samplers from those affected by realistic imperfections, especially partial distinguishability of the photons.
description: 30 pages, 14 figures
Excess energy of an ultracold Fermi gas in a trapped geometry
Creators: name: Biswas, Shyamal
name: Jana, Debnarayan
name: Manna, Raj Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analytically explored finite size and interparticle interaction corrections to the average energy of a harmonically trapped Fermi gas below and above the Fermi temperature, and have obtained a better fitting for the excess energy reported by DeMarco and Jin [Science $\textbf{285}$, 1703 (1999)]. We have presented a perturbative calculation within a mean field approximation.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures; Accepted in European Physical Journal D
Calibration and cross-correlation with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)
Creators: name: Fandiño, Mateus Arantes
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Hydrogen intensity mapping is a new technique to map the three-dimensional distribution of matter in the universe. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is at the forefront of the development of intensity mapping and will produce the largest survey of the universe ever done. This dissertation describes my contributions to the calibration and analysis of CHIME data. The two types of amplifiers used in the telescope were characterized for their thermal complex gain susceptibility. In addition, a system of thermometers for the low-noise amplifiers was developed and deployed. The data is presented and its usefulness assessed. A thermal model for the amplitude of the telescope gains was developed based on gains extracted daily from bright point source transits. The model is effective in reducing the common-mode per-input variability (standard deviation) of the gains amplitude from 1.5% to 0.75% at the high end of the frequency band. The effect is smaller at the lower end of the band where the instrument thermal susceptibility is smaller. The model was tested by beam-forming on visibility data and the possibility of expansion of the model was assessed via singular value decomposition of the gains data. A program to cross-correlate the CHIME data with the Sloan quasar catalog was developed. This is done via a frequency stack on frequency-shifted beam-formed CHIME data. The existing codebase for sky simulations was expanded to allow for correlated tracers with different biases using the Zeldovich approximation. The analysis pipeline was expanded to allow for the generation of selection function-aware mock quasar catalogs, for the beam-forming of visibility data on arbitrary positions and for the frequency shifting and stacking of formed-beam spectra. A 13-σ detection of the cross-correlation signal was obtained. The detected signal shows a 4.6-σ deviation from zero frequency lag which might indicate a systematic difference between the redshift inferred from quasar emission lines relative to the redshifts of their host galaxies. The foreground filtering transfer function is estimated from simulations and used to estimate the un-filtered brightness of the HI-quasar cross-correlation signal at 68.6±5.4 μJy/beam.
BZJ 50 - Contributors + Back Cover
Creators: name: Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Vienna. Department of East Asian Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: Japanologie
Japanese studies
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Japanologie (602020)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- Japanese studies (602020)
Japanistik
japan
japanologie

description: BZJ 50 - Contributors + Back Cover
PriGen: Towards Automated Translation of Android Applications' Code to Privacy Captions
Creators: name: Jain, Vijayanta
name: Gupta, Sanonda Datta
name: Ghanavati, Sepideh
name: Peddinti, Sai Teja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mobile applications are required to give privacy notices to the users when they collect or share personal information. Creating consistent and concise privacy notices can be a challenging task for developers. Previous work has attempted to help developers create privacy notices through a questionnaire or predefined templates. In this paper, we propose a novel approach and a framework, called PriGen, that extends these prior work. PriGen uses static analysis to identify Android applications' code segments which process sensitive information (i.e. permission-requiring code segments) and then leverages a Neural Machine Translation model to translate them into privacy captions. We present the initial evaluation of our translation task for $\sim$300,000 code segments.
Continuous-Time Monte Carlo study of the pseudogap Bose-Fermi Kondo model
Creators: name: Pixley, J. H.
name: Kirchner, Stefan
name: Glossop, M. T.
name: Si, Qimiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the pseudogap Bose-Fermi Anderson model with a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo (CT-QMC) method. We discuss some delicate aspects of the transformation from this model to the Bose-Fermi Kondo model. We show that the CT-QMC method can be used at sufficiently low temperatures to access the quantum critical properties of these models.
description: SCES 2010 Proceedings
The legacy of Coulomb and generalized laws of friction
Creators: name: Popova, Elena
name: Popov, Valentin L.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: Coulomb
subject: history of science
subject: friction

description: The simple formulation of “Coulomb's law of friction” which can be found in most textbooks—the force of friction is proportional to the normal force and does not depend on the contact area and velocity—has little to do with the real work of Coulomb. On the contrary, Coulomb found that Amontons' law, as well as the independence of the coefficient of friction on velocity, normal force, contact area and roughness are only a first, very rough approximation. He differentiated between material couples (e.g. metal-metal), where Amontons' law is a good approximation, and other (wood on metal or wood on wood), where there are significant deviations from Amontons' law. In all cases, however, the dependencies are relatively weak. In contemporary language, we would say they are of logarithmic character: the geometric and loading parameters have to be changed by several orders of magnitude to achieve a change in the coefficient of friction by a factor of two. Coulomb also gives simple two-term relations, which empirically summarize these experimental findings.
Additional file 1: of Disclosure of amyloid positron emission tomography results to individuals without dementia: a systematic review
Creators: name: de Wilde, Arno
name: van Buchem, Marieke
name: Otten, RenĂŠ
name: Bouwman, Femke
name: Stephens, Andrew
name: Barkhof, Frederik
name: Scheltens, Philip
name: van der Flier, Wiesje
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Full search strategy per electronic database. (DOCX 38 kb)
Characterizing the superposition of arbitrary random quantum states and a known quantum state
Creators: name: Li, Bo
name: Liang, Xiao-Bin
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The superposition of states is one of the most fundamental issues in the quantum world. Generally there do not exist physical operations to superpose two unknown random states with nonzero probability. We investigate the superposition problem of unknown qubit states with respect to a known qubit state. It is shown that under trace-nonincreasing completely positive operations the superposable state sets are located in some circles on the Bloch sphere. Meanwhile, we prove that the quantum states in a circle on the Bloch sphere are superposable with respect to a known state. Finally, for the high-dimensional case, we illustrate that any superposition transformation protocols will violate the no-cloning principle for almost all the states. Our results also promote the understanding and applications of the superposition principle in view of quantum no-go theorems.
description: 5 pages, 1 figures
A simple model for the spin-singlet: mathematical equivalence of non-locality, slave will, and conspiracy
Creators: name: Di Lorenzo, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hidden variable model reproducing the quantum mechanical probabilities for a spin singlet is presented. The model violates only the hypothesis of independence of the distribution for the hidden variables from the detectors settings and vice versa (Measurement Independence). It otherwise satisfies the hypotheses of Setting Independence, Outcome Independence -- made in the derivation of Bell inequality -- and that of compliance with Malus's Law -- made in the derivation of Leggett inequality. It is shown that the violation of the Measurement Independence hypothesis may be explained alternatively by assuming a non-local influence of the detectors settings on the hidden variables, or by taking the hidden variable to influence the choice of settings (limitation of free will), or finally by purporting a conspiracy. It is demonstrated that the last two cases admit a realization through existing local classical resources.
description: 10 pages, 1 fig
The numerical study of the influence of material parameters on the regime of adhesive wear of surface asperities
Creators: name: Dudkin, Ivan
name: Shilko, Evgeny
name: Dimaki, Andrey
name: Popov, Valentin L.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: contact mechanics
subject: wear
subject: cold welding
subject: adhesive force

description: In the paper, we developed a discrete element model of adhesive interaction of materials with taking into account the “cold welding” effect. Based on this model, we carried out a detailed analysis of the factors controlling regimes of adhesive wear for elastic-plastic materials with non-ideal plasticity. We proposed an empirical criterion of transition from “breakaway” to “grinding” regime of wear. The extended form of the given criterion takes into account the dependence of material strength on hydrostatic pressure.
Prediction of dual NF-κB/IκB inhibitors using an integrative in-silico approaches
Creators: name: Abbasi, Maryam
name: Mahboubi-Rabbani, Mohammad
name: Kashfi, Khosrow
name: Sadeghi-Aliabadi, Hojjat
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Multiple lines of evidence indicate that the NF-κB signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in carcinogenesis; activation of NF-κB in cancer increases cell proliferation and suppresses apoptosis, both of which define tumor mass development. Inhibiting NF-κB leads to tumor suppression by blocking the IKK-α/β enzymes, thus inhibiting its translocation. Furthermore, protecting p65 from acetylation and phosphorylation inhibits NF-κB through its active site. Some small molecules are assumed to inhibit NF-κB and IκB function separately. This study took one of the previously reported NF-κB inhibitors (compound D4) as a promising lead and predicted some dual NF-κB and IκB inhibitors. We performed a virtual screening (VS) workflow on a library with 186,146 compounds with 75% similarity to compound D4 on both NF-κB and IκB proteins. A total of 186 compounds were extracted from three steps of VS 36 were common in both proteins. These compounds were subjected to the quantum polarized ligand docking to elect potent compounds with the highest binding affinity for NF-κB and IκB proteins. The MM-GBSA method calculates the lowest binding free energy for eight selected compounds. These analyses found three top-ranked compounds for each protein with suitable pharmacokinetics properties and higher in-silico inhibitory ability. In the last screening, compound CID_4969 was introduced to a molecular dynamics (MDs) simulation study as a common inhibitor for both proteins. The MDs confirmed the main interactions between the final elected compound and NF-κB/IκB proteins. Consequently, the presented computational approaches could be used for designing promising anti-cancer agents. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Development and application of economic learning health systems – a forecasting and simulation based analysis of home health for seniors
Creators: name: Hall, William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The task of providing high quality care has become increasingly difficult as pressure mounts on both the funding and demand side of the provision equation. Health leaders have simultaneously had to contend with a decreasing availability of resources along with rising expenditures in part due to an aging population and the development of new innovations in care delivery. Health system transformation and improvement are crucial to addressing these challenges. To spur such transformation, Learning Health Systems (LHS) have been posited as a framework to enable health organizations to generate and apply knowledge in a manner that delivers higher performance and greater value. Despite the opportunities afforded by LHS, published literature has identified several impediments to adoption including: data management, prioritization, and evaluation. This thesis built upon existing LHS theoretical models by incorporating health economic methods to address the aforementioned challenges and create a novel model for economic learning health systems (eLHS). Practically, the first steps of an eLHS model were carried out and documented including an auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) forecasting analysis, and simulation analysis using Markov modelling. These analyses were conducted in partnership with a local health organization within the context of providing home health services for seniors. Results from the analyses forecasted growing community and acute expenditure on care for senior home health patients, set target thresholds for innovations designed to reduce dependence on acute care, and found that two possible home health interventions were cost-effective using simulation with a decision analytic Markov model. Recommendations for future stages of the eLHS process in this context were made as well as applications of the eLHS frameworks in other domains of care.
Science Thriller: The dramatic destiny of Alexander Mohrenstein-Ertel and the history of elastohydrodynamics
Creators: name: Popova, Elena
name: Popov, Valentin L.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: Alexander Mohrenstein-Ertel
subject: history of science
subject: elastohydrodynamics
subject: tribology

description: Presentation is devoted to the life and work of Alexander Mikhailovich Ertel, the founder of elastohydrodynamics. He was the first to recognize the importance of elastic deformation of partners in lubricated contacts as well as pressure dependence of lubricants. In his dissertation written in Moscow during the Second World War, he suggested a solution of this complicated problem, which was not changed essentially by the later research. However, due to his escape to West Germany and change of identity, the real authorship remained unknown over many years. In West Germany, Mohrenstzein-Ertel continued his work by practical implementation of the ideas suggested in his dissertation. He could reveal his identity after the Stalin's death, and could witness the recognition of his contribution through the German Tribological Society and international tribological community.
PRODIGEES Researcher Declaration
Creators: name: Stewart, Benjamin
name: Reiners, Wulf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: staff
consent form
declaration
profile

description: The PRODIGEES Researcher Declaration is a mandatory profile to be filled out, signed and returned to the PRODIGEES Project Manager. Signature and submission of the PRODIGEES Researcher Declaration initiates a staff member's participation in PRODIGEES, and it grants consent to the processing of their data by PRODIGEES, its partners and the EU.
description: Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE, Grant Agreement #873119
Design and simulation of a caprylic acid enzymatically modified phosphatidylcholine micelle using a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations approach
Creators: name: Santos-Luna, Dalia
name: Sixto-López, Yudibeth
name: Bravo-Alfaro, Diego
name: Cano-Sarmiento, Cynthia
name: García, Hugo
name: Correa-Basurto, José
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Computationally simulated micelle models provide useful structural information on the molecular and biological sciences. One strategy to study the self-aggregation process of surfactant molecules that make up a micelle is through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In this study, a theoretical approach with a coarse-grained MD simulation (CG-MD) was employed to evaluate the critical micellar concentration (CMC), the micellization process, building a tridimensional (3D) model system of a micelle using data from the experimentally enzymatically modified phospholipids (PL) by phospholipase A1 (PA1). This required enzymatic interesterification of soybean phosphatidylcholine (PC) with caprylic acid, along with purification and characterization by chromatographic techniques to measure the esterified fatty acids and the corresponding PL composition. The number of molecules used in the CG-MD simulation system was determined from the experimental CMC data which was 0.025%. The molecular composition of the system is: 1 C 18:2, 2 C 8:0/8:0, 3 C 8:0/18:3n-9, 4 C 8:0/18:0, 5 C8:0/18:2n-6, 6 C8:0/18:1n-9, and 7 C 8:0/16:0. According to our theoretical results, the micelle model is structurally stable with an average Rg of 3.64 ± 0.10 Å, and might have an elliptical form with a radius of 24.6 Å. Regarding CMC value there was a relationship between the experimental data of the modified PLs and the theoretical analysis by GC-MD, which suggest that the enzymatic modification of PLs does not affect their self-aggregation properties. Finally, the micellar system obtained in the current research can be used as a simple and useful model to design optimal biocompatible nanoemulsions as possible vehicles for bioactive small molecules. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Guarantees, transparency and the interdependency between sovereign and bank default risk
Creators: name: König, Philipp
name: Anand, Kartik
name: Heinemann, Frank
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: bank debt guarantees
subject: transparency
subject: bank default
subject: sovereign default
subject: global games

description: Bank debt guarantees have traditionally been viewed as costless measures to prevent bank runs. However, as recent experiences in some European countries have demonstrated, guarantees may link the coordination problems of bank and sovereign creditors and induce a functional interdependence between the likelihoods of a government default and bank illiquidity. Employing a global-game approach, we model this link, showing the existence and uniqueness of the joint equilibrium and derive its comparative statics properties. In equilibrium, the guarantee reduces the probability of a bank run, while it increases the probability of a sovereign default. The latter erodes the guarantee’s credibility and thus its effectiveness ex ante. By setting the guarantee optimally, the government balances these two effects in order to minimize expected costs of crises. Our results show that the optimal guarantee has clear-cut welfare gains which are enhanced through policies that promote greater balance sheet transparency.