cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A Penny for Your Thoughts: An Evolutionary History of the Australian Psephennidae (Coleoptera)
Creators: name: Butwell, Arlene
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Australian Psephenidae (Coleoptera)
subject: Mesic biome
subject: Pleistocene climatic events

description: Historical changes to Australia’s climate have been proposed to have caused the decline of its ancient mesic biome. The fragmentation of habitat will affect species in different ways depending on their dispersal ability and their potential to disperse across inhospitable habitats. The diversification of Australia’s terrestrial species has been shown to have arisen due to climate changes that occurred during the Miocene – Pliocene, especially for those that occupy mesic habitats. Almost no comprehensive studies on freshwater insect groups from these habitats exist. In this thesis I investigate the role of past climate change on the evolution of a group that appear to be a specialist of the mesic zone, the Australian Psephenidae. I test two main hypotheses; first, that climate change during the Miocene has led to the diversification of the group, and second, that the limited dispersal capability of the beetle coupled with its habitat specialisation has led to further diversification within the genus. The molecular systematics and historical biogeography of the Australian Psephenidae was investigated using the mitochondrial DNA COI gene and the nuclear DNA H3 gene. Strong evidence for monophyly of the Australian endemic genus Sclerocyphon was found using three different tree building methods. The species tree revealed that the genus underwent a rapid divergence in the late Miocene, presumably as response to the fragmentation of their mesic habitat as Australia became increasingly arid. The timing of speciation within the Sclerocyphon coincides with other Australian freshwater taxa, and implies a vicariant explanation for the current distribution of the genus which is linked to the contraction of the mesic zone. Other vicariant events, such as the flooding of Bass Strait and the birth of Australia’s arid zone have also contributed to the current distribution patterns seen in the Sclerocyphon. More recent Pleistocene climatic events have resulted in further diversification within some of the lineages.
MICROCONTROLLER-BASED UNIFIED NAMESPACE APPROACH FOR EFFICIENT DEVICE INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT IN A SMALL-SCALE IIOT SYSTEM
Creators: name: Kelkar, Aniket Sachin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: microcontroller
IIoT
embedded systems
RTOS
unified namespace

description: The proposed architecture overcomes key issues that affect enterprise efficiency like data silos and inefficient operations by enabling real-time, bi-directional data exchange between all levels of the automation pyramid.

The architecture uses dual microcontroller units to organize a two-level network where data can be harvested from the legacy devices without the need to replace these devices. Its core Publish-Subscribe communication network fosters efficient data sharing while adhering to Industry 4.0 principles and integration of two-way communication using the legacy communication layer. The two-level network seamlessly integrates legacy hardware, minimizing the barrier to entry for SMEs seeking to adopt Industry 4.0 practices.
Non-interacting String and Holographic Dark Energy Cosmological Models in f(R) Theory of Gravitation
Creators: name: Hatkar, S. P.
name: Tadas, D. P.
name: Agrawal, A. S.
name: Katore, S. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a new class of string and holographic dark energy (HDE) cosmological model in the context of the $f(R)$ theory of gravity using the Kasner metric is considered. The exact solution of the field equations is obtained using the relation between the average scale factor and the scalar function $f(R)$. It is observed that the universe is accelerating and expanding. The string phase of the universe is present at an early stage of the evolution of the universe. The universe is dominated by quintessence type HDE at present. The effect of the curvature function $f(R)$ is also observed on dynamical parameters.
description: Accepted Manuscript: 14 Pages, 07 Figures
Spin-polarized Correlated Insulator and Superconductor in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaomeng
name: Hao, Zeyu
name: Khalaf, Eslam
name: Lee, Jong Yeon
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Vishwanath, Ashvin
name: Kim, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ferromagnetism and superconductivity typically compete with each other since the internal magnetic field generated in a magnet suppresses the formation of spin-singlet Cooper pairs in conventional superconductors. Only a handful of ferromagnetic superconductors are known in heavy fermion systems, where many-body electron interactions promoted by the narrow energy bands play a key role in stabilizing these emergent states. Recently, interaction-driven superconductivity and ferromagnetism have been demonstrated as separate phenomena in different density regimes of flat bands enabled by graphene moire superlattices. Combining superconductivity and magnetism in a single ground state may lead to more exotic quantum phases. Here, employing van der Waals heterostructures of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), we realize a flat electron band that is tunable by perpendicular electric fields. Similar to the magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, TDBG exhibits energy gaps at the half and quarter filled flat bands, indicating the emergence of correlated insulating states. We find that the gaps of these insulating states increase with in-plane magnetic field, suggesting a ferromagnetic order. Upon doping the ferromagnetic half-filled insulator, superconductivity emerges with a critical temperature controlled by both density and electric fields. We observe that the in-plane magnetic field enhances the superconductivity in the low field regime, suggesting spin-polarized electron pairing. Spin-polarized superconducting states discovered in TDBG provide a new route to engineering interaction-driven topological superconductivity.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures and supplementary information
The relationship between legal pluralism and the rule of law in South Africa and Timor-Leste
Creators: name: Grenfell, Laura
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2009
Subjects: rule of law, legal pluralism, Timor-Leste, South Africa, customary law, women, international law

description: The re/establishment of the ‘rule of law’ in transitional countries has become a mantra of the international community. At its core, the rule of law assumes that the state enjoys a monopoly of law. This thesis argues that the promotion of the rule of law in transitional countries gives insufficient attention to whether a strong level of legal pluralism exists, in that forms of non-state law, such as customary law, operate in parallel with state law and are preferred by a large proportion of the population. A strong level of legal pluralism is the norm in many regions of the world, particularly in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, where between 80 to 90 per cent of disputes are taken to non-state legal mechanisms for resolution. This study examines two transitional countries, South Africa and Timor-Leste, which are attempting to re/establish the rule of law and where legal pluralism is strong. ...
title: Pogonatum nanum
title: Zwerg-Filzmützenmoos (Pogonatum nanum)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 2 Bilder des Zwerg-Filzmützenmooses.
Farm to Pharmacy: Nutrition, Animals, and Governance in Britain 1870-1945
Creators: Igra, Alma
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: History
Science history
Nutrition
Food
Animal health
Vitamins in human nutrition

description: This dissertation examines the emergence of nutrition science in the 20th century and the first cohort of experts who practiced nutrition as a form of medical diplomacy. Unpacking pivotal case studies in Scotland, Iraq, Vienna, Geneva, and Oxford, the project shows how scientific knowledge was produced on a local scale. I argue that knowledge about food developed in Britain from the late 19th century to World War II in a contingent path that involved much more than “discoveries” in labs. It was the unique formation of this discipline across national, international, and imperial political spheres that produced scientific standards and methods. Nutrition enabled a powerful language of exchange, metamorphosis, and commensurability that were vital for British political world systems. My research, therefore, investigates nutrition not just as medical innovation, but as a revolution in ecology and politics: food science was a way to reimagine the earth and Britain’s place within it. Scientific nutrition began as a marginal sub-field of agricultural science and came to acquire a central place in the definition of human needs. I show how critical terms of human nutrition – productivity, growth, and vitality – emerged from the attempt to improve animal health and from imperial agricultural planning. Even when the science of food moved from farms to pharmacies, through standardized units and products like vitamin supplements, animals and non-human factors continued to shape nutritional concepts, standards, and policies.
Binary Nonlinearization of Lax pairs of Kaup-Newell Soliton Hierarchy
Creators: name: Ma, Wen-Xiu
name: Ding, Qing
name: Zhang, Wei-Guo
name: Lu, Bao-Qun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kaup-Newell soliton hierarchy is derived from a kind of Lax pairs different from the original ones. Binary nonlinearization procedure corresponding to the Bargmann symmetry constraint is carried out for those Lax pairs. The proposed Lax pairs together with adjoint Lax pairs are constrained as a hierarchy of commutative, finite dimensional integrable Hamiltonian systems in the Liouville sense, which also provides us with new examples of finite dimensional integrable Hamiltonian systems. A sort of involutive solutions to the Kaup-Newell hierarchy are exhibited through the obtained finite dimensional integrable systems and the general involutive system engendered by binary nonlinearization is reduced to a specific involutive system generated by mono-nonlinearization.
description: 15 pages, plain+ams tex, to be published in Il Nuovo Cimento B
MOESM1 of Improved algorithms for quantifying the near symmetry of proteins: complete side chains analysis
Creators: name: Tuvi-Arad, Inbal
name: Alon, Gil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material.
title: Pogonatum aloides
title: Aloe-Filzmützenmoos (Pogonatum aloides)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 6 Bilder des Aloe-Filzmützenmooses.
Fashioning the Moral Aesthetic: An Ethnographic Study of the Socialization of Antwerp Trained Fashion Designers
Creators: Nicewonger, Todd Evans
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Ethnology
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Aesthetics
subject: Fashion design
subject: Professional socialization

description: This dissertation examines the acquisition of design techniques among Antwerp trained avant-garde fashion designers by focusing on the aesthetic, communicative, and moral aspects of creativity in design. This required drawing on 15 months of fieldwork in design classes and studio workspaces where student designers are socialized into particular ways of conceptualizing, translating, and constructing design forms. In analyzing these exchanges this dissertation develops methodological and analytical frameworks for ethnographically investigating the practice of design, itself. As such, this thesis develops a number of conceptual tools for describing how designers organize sociality through material and aesthetically designed forms. Thus, this dissertation offers new ways of understanding how the social effects of design forms are linked to the cultural theories and practices that produce them, while also describing the social life of Antwerp trained fashion designers.
The Calogero-Sutherland Model and Generalized Classical Polynomials
Creators: name: Baker, T. H.
name: Forrester, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multivariable generalizations of the classical Hermite, Laguerre and Jacobi polynomials occur as the polynomial part of the eigenfunctions of certain Schrödinger operators for Calogero-Sutherland-type quantum systems. For the generalized Hermite and Laguerre polynomials the multidimensional analogues of many classical results regarding generating functions, differentiation and integration formulas, recurrence relations and summation theorems are obtained. We use this and related theory to evaluate the global limit of the ground state density, obtaining in the Hermite case the Wigner semi-circle law, and to give an explicit solution for an initial value problem in the Hermite and Laguerre case.
description: LaTeX 2.09, 41 pages, uses subeqnarray.sty
China's coal industry transformation: performance, challenges and prospects
Creators: name: Shi, Xunpeng
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Coal industry, productivity, safety regulation, small coal mines, emissions intensity, China, environment regulations, stochastic frontier

description: This thesis examines the performance, challenges and prospects of the Chinese coal industry under transformation in the market transition period from 1993 to date. The term 'transformation' is used intentionally to distinguish it from 'transition', which is more commonly used. While issues arising from state-ownership are central in an economic transition, the tenn 'transformation' also takes into account the existence of China's other specific challenges including the many small scale mines, poor mining safety, and pressure on the industry's prospects resulting from increasingly stringent environmental regulations. ... Based on the results of empirical and quantitative analysis, several policy recommendations are proposed which include deepening market reforms of State-owned coal mines through privatisation or relinquishment of state ownership, changes of corporation governance and debt restructuring; and improving governance of small coal mining through improvement of the legal and fiscal frameworks and building of SCM's capacity. The participation of stakeholders is useful in the process of improving safety and regularising small coal mining. The formulation of industrial policies such as participating in the unemployment insurance system, promoting export liberalisation, strengthening mining consolidation, are also recommended. The thesis also argues that the policy of simply closing down mines in China is impractical and ineffective, and that a better alternative is to govern their development through regularisation. The thesis also outlines some directions for future research into the coal industry's transformation.
An analysis of some issues in asset price behaviour
Creators: name: Pavlov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2003

description: The equity premium puzzle, described by Mehra and Prescott in 1985, has baffled financial economists for almost two decades and still lacks a satisfactory resolution. For an area of economics, whose main focus is on measuring risks and rewards for risk taking, not being able to explain the difference in expected returns between two major classes of financial assets - equity and bonds - is a major challenge. We examine some of the issues associated with the equity premium and related puzzles. The main contribution of the thesis is in establishing that a representative agent model can be used to approximate the solutions of an over lapping generations economy when markets are conditionally complete and then using this approximation to examine age-related liquidity restrictions as possible explanations for the puzzle. We conclude that such restrictions by themselves can not explain the equity premium puzzle.
Deep Radar Inverse Sensor Models for Dynamic Occupancy Grid Maps
Creators: name: Wei, Zihang
name: Yan, Rujiao
name: Schreier, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To implement autonomous driving, one essential step is to model the vehicle environment based on the sensor inputs. Radars, with their well-known advantages, became a popular option to infer the occupancy state of grid cells surrounding the vehicle. To tackle data sparsity and noise of radar detections, we propose a deep learning-based Inverse Sensor Model (ISM) to learn the mapping from sparse radar detections to polar measurement grids. Improved lidar-based measurement grids are used as reference. The learned radar measurement grids, combined with radar Doppler velocity measurements, are further used to generate a Dynamic Grid Map (DGM). Experiments in real-world highway scenarios show that our approach outperforms the hand-crafted geometric ISMs. In comparison to state-of-the-art deep learning methods, our approach is the first one to learn a single-frame measurement grid in the polar scheme from radars with a limited Field Of View (FOV). The learning framework makes the learned ISM independent of the radar mounting. This enables us to flexibly use one or more radar sensors without network retraining and without requirements on 360° sensor coverage.
The topology of the space of symplectic balls in rational 4-manifolds
Creators: name: Lalonde, Francois
name: Pinsonnault, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 57R17, 57S05, Secondary 53D35, 55R20

description: We study in this paper the rational homotopy type of the space of symplectic embeddings of the standard ball $B^4(c) \subset \R^4$ into 4-dimensional rational symplectic manifolds. We compute the rational homotopy groups of that space when the 4-manifold has the form $M_λ= (S^2 \times S^2, μω_0 \oplus ω_0)$ where $ω_0$ is the area form on the sphere with total area 1 and $μ$ belongs to the interval $[1,2]$. We show that, when $μ$ is 1, this space retracts to the space of symplectic frames, for any value of $c$. However, for any given $1 < μ< 2$, the rational homotopy type of that space changes as $c$ crosses the critical parameter $c_{crit} = μ- 1$, which is the difference of areas between the two $S^2$ factors. We prove moreover that the full homotopy type of that space changes only at that value, i.e the restriction map between these spaces is a homotopy equivalence as long as these values of $c$ remain either below or above that critical value.
description: Typos corrected, 2 minor corrections in the text. Numbering consistant with the published version
Validation of straight-line signal propagation for radio signal of very inclined cosmic ray air showers
Creators: name: Broeck, Dieder Van den
name: Latif, Uzair Abdul
name: Buitink, Stijn
name: de Vries, Krijn
name: Huege, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An ongoing challenge for radio-based detectors of high-energy cosmic particles is the accurate description of radio signal propagation in natural nonuniform media. For radio signals originating from extensive air showers, the current state of the art simulations often implicitly assume straight-line signal propagation. The refraction due to a nonuniform atmosphere is however expected to have an effect on the received signal and associated reconstruction. This effect is currently not completely understood for the most inclined geometries. Here, we present a study regarding the validity of straight-line signal propagation when simulating radio emission associated with very inclined air shower geometries. To this end, the calculation of the electric field based on the end point formalism used in CoREAS was improved by use of tabulated ray tracing data. We find a difference of 2% in radiation energy and a difference of O(0.01°) on direction reconstruction when working at frequencies below 600 MHz. We thus find that, for frequencies up to 600 MHz and zenith angles up to 88°, the current straight-line based simulation approaches are accurate.
Natural revegetation of exploration trenches in the Stillwater Complex of the Beartooth Mountains, Montana
Creators: name: Wheeler, David W.
name: Sawyer, John O.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In 1971 and 1972 Anaconda Copper Company reclaimed a series of mineral exploration trenches located in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, Custer National Forest. The work was done following U.S. Forest Service prescriptions and resulted in backfilling the trenches and extensive seeding of exotic species of three grasses and one clover. From an examination of photographs taken 1971 to 1975 and subsequent site inspections, it is apparent that the initially high cover of exotic species has declined, and native plants from surrounding areas have begun to colonzie the reclaimed trenches. A study was conducted during 1979 to 1980 to identify those native species. The trenches are located in the basal zones of the Stillwater Mineralized Complex at elevations ranging from 2,500 meters to 2,835 meters. Surrounding vegetation types include Abies lasiocarpa-Pinus albicaulis/ Vaccinium scoparium, Pinus albicaulis-Abies lasiocarpa, Pinus albicaulis, and dry alpine. Colonization on the trenches was found to be positively correlated with the surrounding undisturbed vegetation types. There was an assemblage of native species that were mainly restricted to colonizing trenches that extend into or through the dry alpine and timberline habitat types. There was another aggregate of species that were associated with the Abies lasiocarpa-Pinus albicaulis/Vaccinium scoparium habitat type. Successful colonizers which are locally abundant should be used as seed sources for subsequent reclamation of disturbances in the Complex and in other areas of similar habitat type. Further studies should be conducted to develop seeding recommendations for other habitat types throughout Montana.
title: Hylocomium splendens
title: Etagenmoos (Hylocomium splendens)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 3 Bilder des Etagenmooses.
Fast Radiative-Transfer-Equation-Based Image Reconstruction Algorithms for Non-Contact Diffuse Optical Tomography Systems
Creators: Jia, Jingfei
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biomedical engineering
Diagnostic imaging

description: It is well known that the radiative transfer equation (RTE) is the most accurate deterministic light propagation model employed in diffuse optical tomography (DOT). RTE-based algorithms provide more accurate tomographic results than codes that rely on the diffusion equation (DE), which is an approximation to the RTE, in scattering dominant media. However, RTE based DOT (RTE-DOT) has limited utility in practice due to its high computational cost and lack of support for general non-contact imaging systems. In this dissertation, I developed fast reconstruction algorithms for RTE-based DOT (RTE-DOT), which consists of three independent components: an efficient linear solver for forward problems, an improved optimization solver for inverse problem, and the first light propagation model in free space that fully considers the angular dependency, which can provide a suitable measurement operator for RTE-DOT. This algorithm is validated and evaluated with numerical experiments and clinical data. According to these studies, the novel reconstruction algorithm is up to 30 times faster than traditional reconstruction techniques, while achieving comparable reconstruction accuracy.
Cyclic Sieving for Plane Partitions and Symmetry
Creators: name: Hopkins, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E18, 05E10

description: The cyclic sieving phenomenon of Reiner, Stanton, and White says that we can often count the fixed points of elements of a cyclic group acting on a combinatorial set by plugging roots of unity into a polynomial related to this set. One of the most impressive instances of the cyclic sieving phenomenon is a theorem of Rhoades asserting that the set of plane partitions in a rectangular box under the action of promotion exhibits cyclic sieving. In Rhoades's result the sieving polynomial is the size generating function for these plane partitions, which has a well-known product formula due to MacMahon. We extend Rhoades's result by also considering symmetries of plane partitions: specifically, complementation and transposition. The relevant polynomial here is the size generating function for symmetric plane partitions, whose product formula was conjectured by MacMahon and proved by Andrews and Macdonald. Finally, we explain how these symmetry results also apply to the rowmotion operator on plane partitions, which is closely related to promotion.
Fastened from the Start: Inquiry and the Poetics of Attention
Creators: Scanlon, Patrick James
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Education
Creative writing
Curriculum planning
Curriculum evaluation
Attention

description: This dissertation is focused on a particular event at the heart of educational inquiry: the composition of attention — its catalogue of shapes and movements, and the manner in which it gathers and disperses.  There are two major foci for my project: The first part, The Composition of Attention, is a historical survey that seeks to identify the circumstances comprising the Copernican revolution, what is arguably the most significant instance of inquiry in human history. This extraordinary set of events put in question not only the structure of the universe, but also the structure of inquiry. There were a host of methodological considerations at stake, not simply a set of new astronomical facts.  Given the fact that this movement from a geocentric orientation to a heliocentric one has been subject caricature, distortion, and omission, my study seeks to trace how these unfortunate themes have, not only permeated the inception of compulsory education, but how many have come to remain permanent features, however implicit. The second focus, The Attention of Composition, explores the constituent elements of attention in their capacity to organize the scene of inquiry, be it a semester long research project, a writing assignment bound by the scope of one class period, or even more pedestrian moments of perception: i.e., the thought-feelings that occur while descending the stairs to exit the apartment.  In each of these scenes the components of attention are activated, and as such can alert one to the particular habits of attention operative in other educational events.  Although there has been a substantial increase in, shall we say, our attention to attention, given the difficulties of student achievement across a variety of contexts, there exists little consideration of it in the moments of its emergence, and under the auspices of language.  This project designates five elements in the structure of inquiry—subject, language, object, aim, and method—that are studied according to four respective disciplines.  Each discipline, or type of attention, addresses a pair of elements: Pedagogy – method and aim; Economy – aim and object; Poetics – object and language; Psychoanalysis – language and subject.  The doubling of these elements for each style of attention is reflective of the Keplerian revelation of the function of planetary orbits.
Propaganda and the people: an examination of persuasion in the struggle for independence in Việt Nam to 1954
Creators: name: Hurle, Robert James
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2004

description: Over the years 1946 to 1954, the Vietnamese people largely succeeded in repelling a European invader, the French colons, who fought to re-establish a French colony in that land. The Vietnamese fight was led by an indigenous organisation called the Viet Minh, an alliance of a number of groups, chief among them being the Indochinese Communist Party, which succeeded in carrying the bulk of the Vietnamese people along with them. One reason why they were able to do this was the success of the materials of persuasion, the propaganda, that they used. It was aimed squarely at the ordinary people, and successfully convinced millions of them to risk their lives and livelihood to help the fight for Independence. The persuasion techniques elicited a strong response because they were cleverly targeted and designed to appeal to traditions that the people felt connect to them and their daily aspirations. The personality and character of one man, President Ho Chi Minh, was crucial to the appeal for support from the ordinary Vietnamese citizen but, perhaps surprisingly, he is not at all a major figure in the propaganda materials.
Subgroups of monothetic groups
Creators: name: Morris, Sidney A.
name: Pestov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22A05

description: It is shown that every separable abelian topological group is isomorphic with a topological subgroup of a monothetic group (that is, a topological group with a single topological generator). In particular, every separable metrizable abelian group embeds into a metrizable monothetic group. More generally, we describe all topological groups that can be embedded into monothetic groups: they are exactly abelian topological groups of weight $\leq\frak c$ covered by countably many translations of every nonempty open subset.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX 2e
Designing coupling that guarantees synchronization between identical chaotic systems
Creators: name: Brown, Reggie
name: Rulkov, Nikolai F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine synchronization between identical chaotic systems. A rigorous criteria is presented which, if satisfied, guarantees that the coupling produces linearly stable synchronous motion. The criteria can also be used to design couplings that lead to stable synchronous motion. Analytical results from a dynamical system are presented.
description: 4 pages, RevTex, 1 figure, submitted for publication
A precise definition of reduction of partial differential equations
Creators: name: Zhdanov, Renat Z.
name: Tsyfra, Ivan M.
name: Popovych, Roman O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A30, 35L70, 58J70

description: We give a comprehensive analysis of interrelations between the basic concepts of the modern theory of symmetry (classical and non-classical) reductions of partial differential equations. Using the introduced definition of reduction of differential equations we establish equivalence of the non-classical (conditional symmetry) and direct (Ansatz) approaches to reduction of partial differential equations. As an illustration we give an example of non-classical reduction of the nonlinear wave equation in (1+3) dimensions. The conditional symmetry approach when applied to the equation in question yields a number of non-Lie reductions which are far-reaching generalization of the well-known symmetry reductions of the nonlinear wave equations.
description: LaTeX, 21 pages
The impact of video gaming on cognitive functioning of people with schizophrenia (GAME-S): study protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Välimäki, M
name: Yang, M
name: Lam, YTJ
name: Lantta, T
name: Palva, M
name: Palva, S
name: Yee, B
name: Yip, SH
name: Yu, KSD
name: Chang, HCC
name: Cheng, PYI
name: Bressington, D
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Video gaming is a promising intervention for cognitive and social impairment in patients with schizophrenia. A number of gaming interventions have been evaluated in small-scale studies with various patient groups, but studies on patients with schizophrenia remain scarce and rarely include the evaluation of both clinical and neurocognitive outcomes. In this study, we will test the effectiveness of two interventions with gaming elements to improve cognitive and clinical outcomes among persons with schizophrenia. Methods: The participants will be recruited from different outpatient units (e.g., outpatient psychiatric units, day hospitals, residential care homes). The controlled clinical trial will follow a three-arm parallel-group design: 1) cognitive training (experimental group, CogniFit), 2) entertainment gaming (active control group, SIMS 4), and 3) treatment as usual. The primary outcomes are working memory function at 3-month and 6-month follow-ups. The secondary outcomes are patients’ other cognitive and social functioning, the ability to experience pleasure, self-efficacy, and negative symptoms at 3-month and 6-month follow-ups. We will also test the effectiveness of gaming interventions on neurocognitive outcomes (EEG and 3 T MRI plus rs-fMRI) at a 3-month follow-up as an additional secondary outcome. Data will be collected in outpatient psychiatric services in Hong Kong. Participants will have a formal diagnosis of schizophrenia and be between 18 and 60 years old. We aim to have a total of 234 participants, randomly allocated to the three arms. A sub-sample of patients (N = 150) will be recruited to undergo an EEG. For neuroimaging assessment, patients will be randomly allocated to a subset of patients (N=126). We will estimate the efficacy of the interventions on the primary and secondary outcomes based on the intention-to-treat principle. Behavioural and EEG data will be analysed separately. Discussion: The study will characterise benefits of gaming on patients’ health and well-being, and contribute towards the development of new treatment approaches for patients with schizophrenia. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03133143. Registered on April 28, 2017.
title: Deep Learning Architecture with Context Adaptive Features for Image Parsing
Creators: name: Azam, Basim
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: deep learning
subject: computer vision
subject: image parsing
subject: machine learning

description: Image parsing is fundamental to field of computer vision, and it aids the process of recognising objects and pixels in images. Image parsing refers to assigning pixels in an image to pre-defined object category labels. Traditional machine learning techniques have proven to be inadequate to produce accurate pixel labels and are prone to misclassifications. Therefore, the field of image parsing has gained popularity among researchers and experts in machine learning. As a result, numerous techniques have been proposed. These image parsing techniques, however, have complex architectures and almost lack the consideration of contextual information. There is an enormous body of literature that recognises the importance of image segmentation, presenting an evaluation of it, while the deep learning-based architectures are at the forefront of this developing body of models to perceive images as object labels. The deep learning architectures are mostly based on fully convolutional neural networks and hold the potential to transform the pixel-wise segmentation. Such deep architectures, however, should be developed considering additional context and relevant features. Therefore, the main aim of this thesis is to present novel deep learning-based image parsing architectures that consider contextual information for image parsing and to present component-wise investigations to select the best classifiers, context generations, visual features, and set of hyperparameters used to produce pixel labels. [...]
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 4 (140)]
Creators: name: , Petrus
name: , Jacobus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1337
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Die Brüder Petrus und Jacobus, Söhne des verstorbenen Ubertus de Anono aus Mailand an der Porta Nova, beide nun wohnhaft in Castelleto, gehörig zur plebs von Incino, verkaufen dem Petrus, genannt Zonus de Scolla, aus Civate Land auf dem Gebiet von Annone [di Brianza].
Electromagnetic finite-size effects to the hadronic vacuum polarization
Creators: name: Bijnens, J.
name: Harrison, J.
name: Hermansson-Truedsson, N.
name: Janowski, T.
name: Jüttner, A.
name: Portelli, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to reduce the current hadronic uncertainties in the theory prediction for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, lattice calculations need to reach sub-percent accuracy on the hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution. This requires the inclusion of $\mathcal{O}(α)$ electromagnetic corrections. The inclusion of electromagnetic interactions in lattice simulations is known to generate potentially large finite-size effects suppressed only by powers of the inverse spatial extent. In this paper we derive an analytic expression for the $\mathrm{QED}_{\mathrm{L}}$ finite-volume corrections to the two-pion contribution to the hadronic vacuum polarization at next-to-leading order in the electromagnetic coupling in scalar QED. The leading term is found to be of order $1/L^{3}$ where $L$ is the spatial extent. A $1/L^{2}$ term is absent since the current is neutral and a photon far away thus sees no charge and we show that this result is universal. Our analytical results agree with results from the numerical evaluation of loop integrals as well as simulations of lattice scalar $U(1)$ gauge theory with stochastically generated photon fields. In the latter case the agreement is up to exponentially suppressed finite-volume effects. For completeness we also calculate the hadronic vacuum polarization in infinite volume using a basis of 2-loop master integrals.
description: 42 pages, 11 figures
New bounds for the optimal density of covering single-insertion codes via the Turán density
Creators: name: Pikhurko, Oleg
name: Verbitsky, Oleg
name: Zhukovskii, Maksim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We prove that the density of any covering single-insertion code $C\subseteq X^r$ over the $n$-symbol alphabet $X$ cannot be smaller than $1/r+δ_r$ for some positive real $δ_r$ not depending on $n$. This improves the volume lower bound of $1/(r+1)$. On the other hand, we observe that, for all sufficiently large $r$, if $n$ tends to infinity then the asymptotic upper bound of $7/(r+1)$ due to Lenz et al (2021) can be improved to $4.911/(r+1)$.
 Both the lower and the upper bounds are achieved by relating the code density to the Turán density from extremal combinatorics. For the last task, we use the analytic framework of measurable subsets of the real cube $[0,1]^r$.
description: This article has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. This is the author's version converted to the IEEEtran style
From Noncommutative Bosonization to S-Duality
Creators: name: Nunez, Carlos
name: Olsen, Kasper
name: Schiappa, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend standard path-integral techniques of bosonization and duality to the setting of noncommutative geometry. We start by constructing the bosonization prescription for a free Dirac fermion living in the noncommutative plane R_θ^2. We show that in this abelian situation the fermion theory is dual to a noncommutative Wess-Zumino-Witten model. The non-abelian situation is also constructed along very similar lines. We apply the techniques derived to the massive Thirring model on noncommutative R_θ^2 and show that it is dualized to a noncommutative WZW model plus a noncommutative cosine potential (like in the noncommutative Sine-Gordon model). The coupling constants in the fermionic and bosonic models are related via strong-weak coupling duality. This is thus an explicit construction of S-duality in a noncommutative field theory.
description: 15 pages, harvmac
Cutting and Cleaning - Amsterdam Pilot Booklet Ch.5
Creators: name: Brinks, Ger
name: Luiken, Anton
name: Skelton, Laurie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Whether it was an outdated pair of jeans or a sweater full of holes, you’ve likely dropped unused clothing into a collection bin. Once donated, your old clothing is either resold, recycled, or thrown away. Fortunately, there’s a market for almost every textile product collected. Only a small percentage of collected textiles must be thrown away due to spoilage or contamination.
Additional file 6: of A comparative analysis of the transcriptome profiles of liver and muscle tissue in pigs divergent for feed efficiency
Creators: name: Vigors, Stafford
name: OâDoherty, John
name: Bryan, Kenneth
name: Torres Sweeney
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Table S6. Selected gene ontology terms in liver. This table lists the genes involved in a selected number of gene ontology terms identified in liver. (DOCX 16 kb)
A Comprehensive Cross-Model Framework for Benchmarking the Performance of Quantum Hamiltonian Simulations
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Avimita
name: Rappaport, Sonny
name: Giri, Anish
name: Johri, Sonika
name: Proctor, Timothy
name: Neira, David E. Bernal
name: Sathe, Pratik
name: Lubinski, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum Hamiltonian simulation is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing and forms the basis for many quantum algorithms. Benchmarking them is an important gauge of progress in quantum computing technology. We present a methodology and software framework to evaluate various facets of the performance of gate-based quantum computers on Trotterized quantum Hamiltonian evolution. We propose three distinct modes for benchmarking: (i) comparing simulation on a real device to that on a noiseless classical simulator, (ii) comparing simulation on a real device with exact diagonalization results, and (iii) using scalable mirror circuit techniques to assess hardware performance in scenarios beyond classical simulation methods. We demonstrate this framework on five Hamiltonian models from the HamLib library: the Fermi and Bose-Hubbard models, the transverse field Ising model, the Heisenberg model, and the Max3SAT problem. Experiments were conducted using Qiskit's Aer simulator, BlueQubit's CPU cluster and GPU simulators, and IBM's quantum hardware. Our framework, extendable to other Hamiltonians, provides comprehensive performance profiles that reveal hardware and algorithmic limitations and measure both fidelity and execution times, identifying crossover points where quantum hardware outperforms CPU/GPU simulators.
description: 24 pages, 17 figures
Fat in hearts: Uptake, storage, and turnover
Creators: Trent, Chad
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Nutrition

description: The heart is one of the most energy demanding organs and is metabolically flexible to meet those demands. A major fraction of the hearts energy is derived from the uptake of circulating lipids; this dissertation reviews general pathways of lipid metabolism and then discusses how the heart obtains lipids and how these lipids are processed once inside the heart. Furthermore, derangements in lipid uptake and processing that are associated or causative of cardiac dysfunction are discussed. A new finding describes how the mouse heart requires lipoprotein lipase derived fatty acids for intracellular lipid droplets formation. Finally, the implications of these findings and future studies are described.
Additional file 1 of The great detectives: humans versus AI detectors in catching large language model-generated medical writing
Creators: name: Liu, Jae Q. J.
name: Hui, Kelvin T. K.
name: Al Zoubi, Fadi
name: Zhou, Zing Z. X.
name: Samartzis, Dino
name: Yu, Curtis C. H.
name: Chang, Jeremy R.
name: Wong, Arnold Y. L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Additional file 5: of A comparative analysis of the transcriptome profiles of liver and muscle tissue in pigs divergent for feed efficiency
Creators: name: Vigors, Stafford
name: OâDoherty, John
name: Bryan, Kenneth
name: Torres Sweeney
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Table S5. Selected gene ontology terms in muscle. This table lists the genes involved in a selected number of gene ontology terms identified in muscle. (DOCX 23 kb)
Miranda-Persson's problem on extremal elliptic K3 surfaces
Creators: name: Artal-Bartolo, E.
name: Tokunaga, H.
name: Zhang, D. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J27 (Primary), 14J28 (Secondary)

description: We compute Mordell-Weil groups for extremal semistable elliptic fibrations of K3 surfaces
description: 33 pages, 3 figures