cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Structured learning for information retrieval
Creators: name: Petterson, James
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Q325.5.P48 2011
subject: Machine learning
subject: Information storage and retrieval systems
subject: Data structures (Computer science)

description: Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with the process of searching, recovering and interpreting information from large amounts of data. In this Thesis we show that many of the problems in information retrieval consist of structured learning, where the goal is to learn predictors of complex output structures, consisting of many inter-dependent variables. We then attack these problems using principled machine learning methods that are specifically suited for such scenarios. In the process of doing so, we develop new models, new model extensions and new algorithms that, when integrated with existing methodology, comprise a new set of tools for solving a variety of information retrieval problems. Firstly, we cover the multi-label classification problem, where we seek to predict a set of labels associated with a given object; the output in this case is structured, as the output variables are interdependent. Secondly, we focus on document ranking, where given a query and a set of documents associated with it we want to rank them according to their relevance with respect to the query; here, again, we have a structured output - a ranking of documents. Thirdly, we address topic models, where we are given a set of documents and attempt to find a compact representation of them, by learning latent topics and associating a topic distribution to each document; the output is again structured, consisting of word and topic distributions. For all the above problems, we obtain state-of-the-art solutions as attested by empirical performance in publicly available real-world datasets.
A Summary of Federal Laws and Regulations Affecting Agricultural Employers, 1992
Creators: name: Runyan, Jack L
name: Runyan, Jack L
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Labor and Human Capital

description: Close to half of all U.S. farms in 1987, accounting for more than four-fifths of the value of farm product sales, use hired labor. Hired labor's importance to U.S. farm production requires agricultural employers to understand Federal laws and regulations governing employment, taxes, wages, and working conditions. This single-source publication summarizes these laws and regulations. This updated version of a 1989 report contains expanded sections on agricultural employers’ Federal safety and tax requirements and a new section on Federal equal opportunity requirements.
Weak gravitational lensing by Einstein-non-linear-Maxwell-Yukawa black hole
Creators: name: Javed, Wajiha
name: Khadim, Muhammad Bilal
name: Övgün, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we analyze the weak gravitational lensing in the context of Einstein-non-linear Maxwell-Yukawa black hole. To this desire, we derive the deflection angle of light by Einstein-non-linear Maxwell-Yukawa black hole using the Gibbons and Werner method. For this purpose, we obtain the Gaussian curvature and apply the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to find the deflection angle of Einstein-non-linear Maxwell-Yukawa black hole in weak field limits. Moreover, we derive the deflection angle of light in the influence of plasma medium. We also analyze the graphical behavior of deflection angle by Einstein-non-linear Maxwell-Yukawa black hole in the presence of plasma as well as non-plasma medium.
description: 10 pages. Accepted for publication in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
Properties of Galaxies in Cosmic Filaments around the Virgo Cluster
Creators: name: Lee, Youngdae
name: Kim, Suk
name: Rey, Soo-Chang
name: Chung, Jiwon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the properties of galaxies in filaments around the Virgo cluster with respect to their vertical distance from the filament spine using the NASA-Sloan Atlas catalog. The filaments are mainly composed of low-mass, blue dwarf galaxies. We observe that the g - r color of galaxies becomes blue and stellar mass decreases with increasing vertical filament distance. The galaxies were divided into higher-mass (log h^2M_* > 8) and lower-mass (log h^2M_* < 8) subsamples. We also examine the g - r color, stellar mass, Halpha equivalent width (EW(Halpha)), near-ultraviolet (NUV) - r color, and HI fraction distributions of the two subsamples against the vertical distance. The lower-mass galaxies exhibit a negative g - r color gradient, whereas higher-mass galaxies have a flat g - r color distribution. We observe a negative EW(Halpha) gradient for higher-mass galaxies, whereas lower-mass galaxies show no distinct EW(Halpha) variation. In contrast, the NUV - r color distribution of higher-mass galaxies shows no strong trend, whereas the lower-mass galaxies show a negative NUV - r color gradient. We do not witness clear gradients of HI fraction in either the higher- or lower-mass subsamples. We propose that the negative color and stellar mass gradients of galaxies can be explained by mass assembly from past galaxy mergers at different vertical filament distances. In addition, galaxy interactions might be responsible for the contrasting features of EW(Halpha) and NUV - r color distributions between the higher- and lower-mass subsamples. The HI fraction distributions of the two subsamples suggest that ram-pressure stripping and gas accretion could be ignorable processes in the Virgo filaments.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Multiplexed Illumination for Classifying Visually Similar Objects
Creators: name: Wang, Taihua
name: Dansereau, Donald G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distinguishing visually similar objects like forged/authentic bills and healthy/unhealthy plants is beyond the capabilities of even the most sophisticated classifiers. We propose the use of multiplexed illumination to extend the range of objects that can be successfully classified. We construct a compact RGB-IR light stage that images samples under different combinations of illuminant position and colour. We then develop a methodology for selecting illumination patterns and training a classifier using the resulting imagery. We use the light stage to model and synthetically relight training samples, and propose a greedy pattern selection scheme that exploits this ability to train in simulation. We then apply the trained patterns to carry out fast classification of new objects. We demonstrate the approach on visually similar artificial and real fruit samples, showing a marked improvement compared with fixed-illuminant approaches as well as a more conventional code selection scheme. This work allows fast classification of previously indistinguishable objects, with potential applications in forgery detection, quality control in agriculture and manufacturing, and skin lesion classification.
description: Submitted to Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
Application of the mixing length theory to assess the generation of melt in internally heated systems
Creators: name: Vilella, Kenny
name: Kamata, Shunichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of melting in planetary mantles plays a key role in their thermo-chemical evolution. Because of the laterally heterogeneous nature of melting, 3D numerical simulations are in principle necessary prohibiting us from exploring wide ranges of conditions. To overcome this issue, we propose a new analytical framework allowing to estimate the amount and depths of melting in a 1D analytical model for a simplified convective system. To do so, we develop an approach, partly based on an extended version of the mixing length theory, able to estimate the distribution of the hottest temperatures in natural systems. The approach involves several free parameters that are calibrated by fitting 3D numerical simulations. We demonstrate that our algorithm provides the melting profile at steady-state as well as the long-term evolution in fairly good agreement with the ones obtained in 3D numerical simulations. We then apply our framework for a wide variety of planetary sizes and heating rates. We find that an increase in planetary size increases the depth of melting for small planets but decreases for large planets. This change in the trend is caused by the pressure dependence of the solidus.
Reading "Skunk's Theft"
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
name: Rice, Keren
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-101010-13: Verdena reads the story "Skunk's Theft," told by the wife of Molasses (Chilula Texts, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology vol. 10, no. 7, 1914, p. 328).
Towards Data-Driven Operational Wildfire Spread Modeling:  A Report of the NSF-Funded WIFIRE Workshop
Creators: name: Gollner, Michael
name: Trouve, Arnaud
name: Altintas, Ilkay
name: Block, Jessica
name: De Callafon, Raymond
name: Clements, Craig
name: Cortes, Anna
name: Ellicott, Evan
name: Filippi, Jean Baptiste
name: Finney, Mark
name: Ide, Kayo
name: Jenkins, Mary Ann
name: Jimenez, Daniel
name: Lautenberger, Christopher
name: Mandel, Jan
name: Rochoux, Melanie
name: Simeoni, Albert
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: wildfire, data assimilation, fire spread, wildland fire, wui, operational modeling

description: This report presents a record of the discussions that took place during the workshop entitled “Towards Data-Driven Operational Wildfire Spread Modeling” held on January 12-13, 2015, at the University of California, San Diego. The workshop was organized as part of WIFIRE, a collaborative project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) between San Diego Supercomputer Center, Calit2's Qualcomm Institute and Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD). The objective of WIFIRE is to build a cyberinfrastructure for real-time and data-driven simulation, prediction and visualization of wildfire behavior (see http://wifire.ucsd.edu). WIFIRE is funded by NSF Award #1331615 as part of the Interdisciplinary Research in Hazards and Disasters (Hazards SEES) program.
The objectives of the WIFIRE workshop were: (1) to identify technical barriers and milestones that need to be overcome in order to develop validated data-driven wildfire spread models and make them operational; and (2) to bring together leading representatives of the wildfire research community, the geosciences community and the fire science community. The wildfire research community has relevant expertise on wildfire operations; the geosciences community has relevant expertise on large-scale effects in wildfires (e.g., the coupling with atmospheric phenomena); the fire science community has relevant expertise on flame-scale effects in wildfires (e.g., the response of the fire to changing local conditions). The workshop was organized around four main topical areas and corresponding breakout groups, including operational rate-of-spread models for wildfire spread, CFD models, wildfire data, and data assimilation (see Appendix A for a description of the WIFIRE workshop program). Our goal in this report is to document and share the substance and scope of the workshop discussions and to thereby invite the wider research community to support, engage in, and contribute to the general effort to develop operational data-driven tools for wildfire spread predictions.
description: The National Science Foundation via Award #1331615 as part of the Interdisciplinary Research in Hazards and Disasters (Hazards SEES) program.
Αριστοτέλης: Μίμηση και τραγωδία
Creators: name: Προύτζου, Μαρία Ευαγγέλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Αριστοτέλης
Μίμηση
Τραγωδία
Ποιητική
Τραγική ποίηση
Οικεία ηδονή
Aristotle
Mimesis
Tragedy
Poetics
Tragic poetry
Oikeia hedone

description: Η εργασία αυτή αφορά τον κλάδο της φιλοσοφίας της αισθητικής. H έρευνα βασίζεται κυρίως στην ανάλυση της Ποιητικής του Aριστοτέλη. Συνδέεται η αριστοτελική έννοια της μίμησης με την τραγική ποίηση, το θέατρο και γενικά την τέχνη. Tο κύριο μέρος είναι αφιερωμένο στο περιεχόμενο της ποιητικής μίμησης και τον τελικό σκοπό της, την οικεία ηδονή. H αρχαία τραγωδία μιμείται όσα είναι δυνατόν να συμβούν και υπό αυτήν την έννοια δικαιολογούνται τα "λάθη" τα οποία διαπράττει ο ποιητής, εφόσον εξυπηρετούν τον σαφή αισθητικό σκοπό της.
description: This project concerns the philosophy of aesthetics. The research is based mostly on Aristotle's Poetics.Aristotle's sense of mimesis is connected with the tragic poetry, the theater and art generally. The main part is dedicated to the content of the poetic mimesis and its final goal, which is "oikeia hedone" (proper pleasure). The ancient tragedy imitates the things that are possible to happen and that's the reason why we justify the poet's "mistakes" since they promote its clear aesthetic goal.
Correlation of the scattering and dispersion events in the Crab Nebula pulsar
Creators: name: Kuzmin, A.
name: Losovsky, B. Ya.
name: Jordan, C. A.
name: Smith, F. Graham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In separate series of observations of the Crab pulsar, pulse broadening due to scattering was measured at 111 MHz, and variations of dispersion due to pulse delay were measured at higher radio frequencies. In a remarkable event lasting 200 days a large increase occurred in both parameters and with similar time signatures. The increases in scattering and dispersion measure observed over the 200 days MJD 53950 - 54150 are attributable to the effects of an ionised cloud or filament crossing the line of sight. The cloud would be $10^11 - 10^12 m across, with electron density 10^3 - 10^4 cm^-3. The increased scattering might originate within the cloud itself, or the moving filament might induce turbulence in a separate higher density cloud in the line of sight.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, accepted by A&A
A Privacy-Preserving Protocol for the Kidney Exchange Problem
Creators: name: Breuer, Malte
name: Meyer, Ulrike
name: Wetzel, Susanne
name: Mühlfeld, Anja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Kidney donations from living donors form an attractive alternative to long waiting times on a list for a post-mortem donation. However, even if a living donor for a given patient is found, the donor's kidney might not meet the patient's medical requirements. If several patients are in this position, they may be able to exchange donors in a cyclic fashion. Current algorithmic approaches for determining such exchange cycles neglect the privacy requirements of donors and patients as they require their medical data to be centrally collected and evaluated. In this paper, we present the first distributed privacy-preserving protocol for kidney exchange that ensures the correct computing of the exchange cycles while at the same time protecting the privacy of the patients' sensitive medical data. We prove correctness and security of the new protocol and evaluate its practical performance.
Καλλιέργεια της αφηγηματικής ικανότητας των μαθητών/μαθητριών στο πλαίσιο της σχολικής τάξης: αποτελέσματα μιας κειμενοκεντρικής προσέγγισης
Creators: name: Σκούρα, Θεοδώρα Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Αλληλεπίδραση δασκάλου/μαθητών
Κειμενικός είδος (αφήγηση)
Γραφή ως κοινωνικοπολιτισμική πρακτική
Συνοικοδόμηση
Interaction
Genre (narrative)
Writing as sociocultural practice
Co-construction

description: Στην έρευνα αυτή με επίκεντρο τη μάθηση του γραπτού λόγου (αφηγηματικό είδος λόγου) παρουσιάζεται ένα εναλλακτικό μοντέλο περιγραφής της επικοινωνίας που ασκείται στη σχολική τάξη δίνοντας μια νέα διάσταση στη διδασκαλία-μάθηση καθώς επικεντρώνεται στις επικοινωνιακές διαδικασίες/αλληλεπιδράσεις που αναπτύσσονται μεταξύ των συμμετεχόντων φωτίζοντας τη σταδιακή συνεργασιακή οικοδόμηση της γνώσης μέσα στο πλαίσιο της τάξης. Η έρευνα διεξήχθη από τη δασκάλα της τάξης (Β' Δημοτικού) και παρουσιάζει συμπεράσματα που προκύπτουν αφενός από την πολυεπίπεδη ανάλυση των προφορικών αλληλεπιδράσεων μεταξύ δασκάλας-παιδιών σχετικά με τους επικοινωνιακούς τους ρόλους και πως αυτό επηρεάζει το συμμερισμό της εξουσίας στην τάξη και αφετέρου από την ανάλυση των γραπτών τους (οικειοποίηση του υπερδομικού σχήματος της αφήγησης σε ποσοστό 73%)
description: This research presents an alternative model of description of communication between participants in classroom Contexts focusing on learning of genre of narrative. It suggests that attention should be directed to teaching and learning as two locally. Constructed discursive processes whose parameters are dynamically defined and reshaped by children and teachers as they interact in specific classroom Contexts. This research was conducted by the teacher of the specific classroom (second grade) and illustrates some conclusion which show that literacy is co-constructed within classroom Contexts. The conclusions were extracted by focusing on the multileveled analysis of communicative interactions between participants and on the analysis of the written texts of children.
Stellar Structure of Irregular Galaxies. Edge-On Galaxies
Creators: name: Tikhonov, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar photometry obtained using the Hubble Space Telescope is used to study the distributions of the number densities of stars of various ages in 12 irregular and dwarf spiral galaxies viewed edge-on. Two subsystems can be distinguished in all the galaxies: a thin disk comprised of young stars and a thick disk containing a large fraction of the old stars (primarily red giants) in the system. Variations of the stellar number densities in the thin and thick disks in the Z direction perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy follow an exponential law. The size of the thin disk corresponds to the visible size of the galaxy at the mu = 25m/arcsec^2, while the thick disk is a factor of two to three larger. In addition to a thick disk, the massive irregular galaxy M82 also has a more extended stellar halo that is flattened at the galactic poles. The results of our previous study of 12 face-on galaxies are used together with the new results presented here to construct an empirical model for the stellar structure of irregular galaxies.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
New York Times Upshot/Siena College: October 2018 Minnesota 02 Poll
Creators: name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Likelihood of voting in 2018 election (2); opinion of various public figures (2); Minnesota Congressional District 02 (1); Democratic Candidate Angie Craig (1); Republican Candidate Jason Lewis (1); vote for Democrat/Republican for Congress (1); respondent would like Democrats/Republicans to control House of Representatives (1); President Donald Trump approval (1); support/oppose various political positions (5).
Sattler, Dorothea; Nüssel, Friederike: Menschenstimmen zu Abendmahl und Eucharistie
Creators: name: Lachner, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 55 Nr. 3 (2006): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 55, Heft 3
Η επικοινωνία και οι διαπροσωπικές σχέσεις εκπαιδευτικού και παλιννοστούντων/αλλοδαπών μαθητών στην ελληνική πολυπολιτισμική τάξη
Creators: name: Παπασάνδα, Αλκμήνη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Πολυπολιτισμικότητα
Διαπολιτισμική εκπαίδευση
Επικοινωνία εκπαιδευτικού-μαθητή
Συμβολική αλληλεπίδραση
Διαπολιτισμική επικοινωνία
Διαπολιτισμική ικανότητα
Multiculturalism
Intercultural education
Teacher-student communication
Symbolic interaction
Intercultural communication
Intercultural competence

description: Η συγκεκριμένη μεταπτυχιακή εργασία διερευνά την επικοινωνία και τις διαπροσωπικές σχέσεις που αναπτύσσονται μεταξύ εκπαιδευτικού και παλιννοστούντων/αλλοδαπών μαθητών σε ελληνικές πολυπολιτισμικές τάξεις. Η παραπάνω θεματική αναπτύσσεται σε τρεις άξονες, ο πρώτος από τους οποίους εξετάζει την πολυπολιτισμικότητα και τις προσεγγίσεις που αναπτύχθηκαν για την αντιμετώπιση της, εστιάζοντας στη διαπολιτισμική παιδαγωγική, ο δεύτερος αναφέρεται στην επικοινωνία εκπαιδευτικού-μαθητή υπό το πρίσμα της θεωρίας της συμβολικής αλληλεπίδρασης και ο τρίτος αποτελεί σύζευξη των δύο παραπάνω θεματικών και αναλύει τη διαπολιτισμική επικοινωνία των δύο κύριων πρωταγωνιστών της εκπαιδευτικής πράξης και τα πιθανά προβλήματα μιας τέτοιου είδους αλληλεπίδρασης. Το θεωρητικό πλαίσιο συνδυάστηκε με μια ερευνητική προσπάθεια η οποία διεξήχθη σε δύο διαφορετικά σχολικά περιβάλλοντα, ενός "τυπικού" και ενός διαπολιτισμικού σχολείου.
description: The current study is an enquiry on interpersonal and intercultural communication between teachers and culturally diverse students in greek classrooms. It focuses on the communication and interaction between teachers and students in the frameworks of symbolic interaction theory and combining the aforementioned theory with the fact of today's multiculturality it examines the intercultural communication between teachers and students and the potentially problematic outcomes of such an interaction. Besides the theoritical part it includes the findings of a research which was conducted in two different school environments, one of a "typical" and one of an intercultural school.
Ripping yarns: the narrative creation of Jack the Ripper
Creators: name: Ferguson, Christine Cecilia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In recent years, much critical attention has focused on the impact of the serial killer figure on such established literary genres as detective and gothic fiction. The present study reverses this mode of inquiry by looking at the effect of modernist and postmodernist narrative in shaping the cultural construction of archetypal serial murderer Jack the Ripper. Texts discussed include The Whitechapel Murders Papers (1889), Adelaide Belloc-Lowndes' The Lodger (1913), Iain Sinclair's White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (1987) and Charles Palliser's Betrayals (1994). Of specific concern is the way in which the aesthetic co-option of serial murder has continually worked to obscure and depoliticize its gendered nature. The study closes by suggesting ways in which the wrongs of the Ripper might be re-written in order to produce a less misogynist and exotic conception of multiple murder.
On the Brauer monoid for finite fields
Creators: name: Kirichenko, V. V.
name: Novikov, B. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12G05; 20M50

description: The Brauer monoid is studied by the notion of 0-cohomology. We investigate the impact of invertible elements of modifications on the structure of the Brauer monoid, especially for finite fields.
description: 5 pages, Latex
Co$_2$FeAl full Heusler compound based spintronic terahertz emitter
Creators: name: Gupta, Rahul
name: Husain, Sajid
name: Kumar, Ankit
name: Brucas, Rimantas
name: Rydberg, Anders
name: Svedlindh, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To achieve a large terahertz (THz) amplitude from a spintronic THz emitter (STE), materials with 100\% spin polarisation such as Co-based Heusler compounds as the ferromagnetic layer are required. However, these compounds are known to loose their half-metallicity in the ultrathin film regime, as it is difficult to achieve L2$_1$ ordering, which has become a bottleneck for the film growth. Here, the successful deposition using room temperature DC sputtering of the L2$_1$ and B2 ordered phases of the Co$_2$FeAl full Heusler compound is reported. Co$_2$FeAl is used as ferromagnetic layer together with highly orientated Pt as non-ferromagnetic layer in the Co$_2$FeAl/Pt STE, where an MgO(10 nm) seed layer plays an important role to achieve the L2$_1$ and B2 ordering of Co$_2$FeAl. The generation of THz radiation in the CFA/Pt STE is presented, which has a bandwidth in the range of 0.1-4 THz. The THz electric field amplitude is optimized with respect to thickness, orientation, and growth parameters using a thickness dependent model considering the optically induced spin current, superdiffusive spin current, inverse spin Hall effect and the attenuation of THz radiation in the layers. This study, based on the full Heusler Co$_2$FeAl compound opens up a plethora possibilities in STE research involving full Heusler compounds.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Precise Asymptotics in Chung's law of the iterated logarithm
Creators: name: Zhang, Li-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F15; 60G50

description: This paper gives sufficent and necessary conditions on a kind of limit results to hold on the precise convergent rate of an infinite series of probabilities on the Chung type law of the iterated logarithm.
Costs of Producing Milk, 1989 and 1990
Creators: name: Clauson, Annette
name: Mathews, Ken
name: Shapouri, Hosein
name: Clauson, Annette
name: Mathews, Ken
name: Shapouri, Hosein
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The total economic cost of producing milk in the United States was $14.74 per hundredweight (cwt) of milk in 1989 and $14.98 in 1990. On a per cow basis, the U.S. cost of producing milk was $2,171.70 in 1989 and $2,274.83 in 1990. The average return (residual returns to management and risk) for U.S. dairy producers was higher in 1990, at $0.14 per cwt compared with $0.11 in 1989. Although the average economic cost of producing milk increased in 1990, producers received an increase of $0.20 per cwt in U.S. milk prices, higher receipts for dairy cattle sold, and an increase of almost 500 pounds in milk output per cow, yielding average cash receipts of $15.12 per cwt of milk sold.
Η θεωρία του John Stuart Mill για τον πολιτισμό και το πρόβλημα της χειραφέτησης των γυναικών
Creators: name: Κούρτη, Θεοδώρα Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Πολιτισμός
γυναίκα
Χειραφέτηση
Εξέλιξη
Πρόοδος
Civilization
Woman
Emancipation
Progress

description: Η παρούσα μελέτη πραγματεύεται τη θεωρία του Άγγλου φιλοσόφου John Stuart Mill για την εξέλιξη του πολιτισμού καθώς και το άμεσα συνδεόμενο με αυτή πρόβλημα της γυναικείας χειραφέτησης. Αρχικά παρουσιάζεται το ιστορικό και φιλοσοφικό πλαίσιο με σκοπό να γίνει φανερό πώς ο Mill οδηγήθηκε στις συγκεκριμένες απόψεις. Έπειτα περνάμε στο ζήτημα του πολιτισμού. Προσδιορίζεται η έννοιά του, όπως την αντιλαμβάνεται ο φιλόσοφος, και παρακολουθείται η εξέλιξή του από τα στάδια της βαρβαρότητας και της δουλείας ως την εποχή του Mill. Ακολουθούν οι προτάσεις του για πρόοδο και κοινωνική ανάπτυξη κι αναλύεται το ιδανικό κατ΄ αυτόν σύστημα διακυβέρνησης. Στο πλαίσιο του ενδιαφέροντος του Mill για μετασχηματισμό του ανθρώπου και της κοινωνίας ώστε να μπορέσουν να βελτιωθούν και να οδηγηθούν σ΄ ένα ανώτερο στάδιο εξέλιξης, πραγματεύεται το πρόβλημα της γυναικείας χειραφέτησης. Γίνεται αναφορά στην κοινωνική και πολιτική κατάσταση των γυναικών, στη θέση τους μέσα στο γάμο και την οικογένεια, στις καταπιεσμένες ικανότητές τους και τέλος, στην ορθή θέση που θα έπρεπε να έχουν ως άτομα στην οικογένεια και την κοινωνία γενικότερα.
description: The present study deals with John Stuart Mill' s theory of civilization and the question of women' s emancipation. First, the historical and philosophical context is presented in order to come clear how Mill came at these ideas. Then we go to the matter of civilization, we explain the meaning of it - as J. S. Mill understands it - and we follow its evolution from the stage of barbarism to Mill' s days. The philosopher' s ideas that could lead to social and political progress are the next matter we deal with. In the context of human and social progress Mill refers to the problem of women' s emancipation. We present the social and political situation of women, their role in the family life, their repressed abilities and the position that they should have as individuals both in social and family life.
Leveraging ParsBERT and Pretrained mT5 for Persian Abstractive Text Summarization
Creators: name: Farahani, Mehrdad
name: Gharachorloo, Mohammad
name: Manthouri, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Text summarization is one of the most critical Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. More and more researches are conducted in this field every day. Pre-trained transformer-based encoder-decoder models have begun to gain popularity for these tasks. This paper proposes two methods to address this task and introduces a novel dataset named pn-summary for Persian abstractive text summarization. The models employed in this paper are mT5 and an encoder-decoder version of the ParsBERT model (i.e., a monolingual BERT model for Persian). These models are fine-tuned on the pn-summary dataset. The current work is the first of its kind and, by achieving promising results, can serve as a baseline for any future work.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, csicc2021 conference
Inflation with High Derivative Couplings
Creators: name: Chen, Bin
name: Li, Miao
name: Wang, Tower
name: Wang, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a class of generalized inflation models in which the inflaton is coupled to the Ricci scalar by a general $f(ϕ, R)$ term. The scalar power spectrum, the spectral index, the running of the spectral index, the tensor mode spectrum and a new consistency relation of the model are calculated. We discuss in detail the issues of how to diagonize the coupled perturbation equations, how to deal with an entropy-like source, and how to determine the initial condition by quantization. By studying some explicit models, we find that rich phenomena such as a blue scalar power spectrum, a large running of the spectral index, and a blue tensor mode spectrum can be obtained.
description: 26 pages, LaTeX; v2: refs. added; refs. corrected
Nondiscriminatory Treatment: a straightforward framework for multi-human parsing
Creators: name: Yan, Min
name: Zhang, Guoshan
name: Zhang, Tong
name: Zhang, Yueming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-human parsing aims to segment every body part of every human instance. Nearly all state-of-the-art methods follow the "detection first" or "segmentation first" pipelines. Different from them, we present an end-to-end and box-free pipeline from a new and more human-intuitive perspective. In training time, we directly do instance segmentation on humans and parts. More specifically, we introduce a notion of "indiscriminate objects with categorie" which treats humans and parts without distinction and regards them both as instances with categories. In the mask prediction, each binary mask is obtained by a combination of prototypes shared among all human and part categories. In inference time, we design a brand-new grouping post-processing method that relates each part instance with one single human instance and groups them together to obtain the final human-level parsing result. We name our method as Nondiscriminatory Treatment between Humans and Parts for Human Parsing (NTHP). Experiments show that our network performs superiorly against state-of-the-art methods by a large margin on the MHP v2.0 and PASCAL-Person-Part datasets.
Measuring the Electron Temperature and Identifying Plasma Detachment using Machine Learning and Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Samuell, C. M.
name: Mclean, A. G.
name: Johnson, C. A.
name: Glass, F.
name: Jaervinen, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A machine learning approach has been implemented to measure the electron temperature directly from the emission spectra of a tokamak plasma. This approach utilized a neural network (NN) trained on a dataset of 1865 time slices from operation of the DIII-D tokamak using extreme ultraviolet / vacuum ultraviolet (EUV/VUV) emission spectroscopy matched with high-accuracy divertor Thomson scattering measurements of the electron temperature, $T_e$. This NN is shown to be particularly good at predicting $T_e$ at low temperatures ($T_e < 10$ eV) where the NN demonstrated a mean average error of less than 1 eV. Trained to detect plasma detachment in the tokamak divertor, a NN classifier was able to correctly identify detached states ($T_e<5$ eV) with a 99% accuracy (F$_1$ score of 0.96) at an acquisition rate $10\times$ faster than the Thomson scattering measurement. The performance of the model is understood by examining a set of 4800 theoretical spectra generated using collisional radiative modeling that was also used to predict the performance of a low-cost spectrometer viewing nitrogen emission in the visible wavelengths. These results provide a proof-of-principle that low-cost spectrometers leveraged with machine learning can be used both to boost the performance of more expensive diagnostics on fusion devices, and be used independently as a fast and accurate $T_e$ measurement and detachment classifier.
description: Submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments
Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, January 9, 1932
Creators: name: Trustees Of The Winfield And Okanagan Centre Irrigation District
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, dated January 9, 1932, regarding water deliveries, a letter from the Deputy Minister of Lands and a letter from the Comptroller requesting information on irrigable acreage.
A difference method for solving the nonlinear $q$-factional differential equations on time scale
Creators: name: Zhang, Tie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The $q$-fractional differential equation usually describe the physics process imposed on the time scale set $T_q$. In this paper, we first propose a difference formula for discretizing the fractional $q$-derivative $^cD_q^αx(t)$ on the time scale set $T_q$ with order $0
Giant non-adiabatic effects in layer metals: Raman spectra of intercalated graphite explained
Creators: name: Saitta, A. Marco
name: Lazzeri, Michele
name: Calandra, Matteo
name: Mauri, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The occurrence of non-adiabatic effects in the vibrational properties of metals have been predicted since the 60's, but hardly confirmed experimentally. We report the first fully \emph{ab initio} calculations of non-adiabatic frequencies of a number of layer and conventional metals. We suggest that non-adiabatic effects can be a feature of the vibrational Raman spectra of any bulk metal, and show that they are spectacularly large (up to 30% of the phonon frequencies) in the case of layer metals, such as superconducting $MgB_2$, $CaC_6$ and other graphite intercalated compounds. We develop a framework capable to estimate the electron momentum-relaxation time of a given system, and thus its degree of non-adiabaticity, in terms of the experimentally observed frequencies and linewidths.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Η εικόνα της γυναίκας στα παραδοσιακά ελληνικά παραμύθια
Creators: name: Χαρίτου, Φωτεινή Ηλία
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Παραδοσιακά παραμύθια
γυναίκα
Σεξισμός
Στερεότυπη εικόνα
Πρωτοποριακή εικόνα
Διδακτική πρόταση
Traditional fairy-tales
Woman
Sexism
Stereotyped picture
Pioneering picture
Instructive proposal

description: Στην εργασία αυτή παρουσιάζεται η εικόνα της γυναίκας που προβάλλεται μέσα από τα παραδοσιακά ελληνικά παραμύθια και εξετάζεται σε ποιο βαθμό αυτή η εικόνα αντανακλά τη σύγχρονή τυς κοινωνική πραγματικότητα. Επίσης τονίζεται η παιδαγωγική αξία του παραμυθιού και διατυπώνονται κάποιες προτάσεις σχετικά με τη διδακτική αξιοποίηση του στη σχολική πράξη διότι στις μέρες μας είναι εξαιρετικά υποβαθμισμένη.
description: In this work is presented the picture of woman that is appeared through the traditional greek fairy tales and is examined in which degree this picture reflects their modern social reality. Also is stressed the pedagogic value of fairy tale and are formulated certain proposals with regard to his instructive exploitation in the school practice because in our days she is exceptionally downgraded
Can we probe right-handed charged quark currents?
Creators: name: Oertel, Micaela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different scenarios of new physics beyond the standard model give rise to a direct coupling of right-handed quarks to W bosons. We will discuss how the prediction of the Callan-Treiman low energy theorem for the scalar K pi form factor in combination with recent data on $K^L_{μ3}$ decays can serve as a stringent test of the standard model (SM) and possible extensions, in particular right-handed charged quark currents (RHCs). In addition, we will comment on the impact of hadronic tau decay data on RHCs.
description: Talk given at QCD06, 3-7th July 06, Montpellier, France
On the Potential of Lexico-logical Alignments for Semantic Parsing to SQL Queries
Creators: name: Shi, Tianze
name: Zhao, Chen
name: Boyd-Graber, Jordan
name: Daumé, Hal
name: Lee, Lillian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: Large-scale semantic parsing datasets annotated with logical forms have enabled major advances in supervised approaches. But can richer supervision help even more? To explore the utility of fine-grained, lexical-level supervision, we introduce Squall, a dataset that enriches 11,276 WikiTableQuestions English-language questions with manually created SQL equivalents plus alignments between SQL and question fragments. Our annotation enables new training possibilities for encoder-decoder models, including approaches from machine translation previously precluded by the absence of alignments. We propose and test two methods: (1) supervised attention; (2) adopting an auxiliary objective of disambiguating references in the input queries to table columns. In 5-fold cross validation, these strategies improve over strong baselines by 4.4% execution accuracy. Oracle experiments suggest that annotated alignments can support further accuracy gains of up to 23.9%.
description: Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2020
Low scale leptogenesis with an SU(2)_L singlet scalar
Creators: name: Frigerio, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider thermal leptogenesis as the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. Some phenomenologically unpleasant features of the usual leptogenesis scenario are reviewed. We propose a minimal alternative, which makes use of a charged scalar $δ^+$, singlet under $SU(2)_L$. Such particle is contained in natural extensions of the Standard Model. The lepton asymmetry is generated by the decays of a right-handed neutrino into $δ^+$ and a right-handed charged lepton and it turns out to be sufficiently large for scales as low as $\sim$ TeV. The phenomenological signatures at colliders are discussed.
description: 4 pages, 2 epsi figures, revtex4.cls, slac_two.rtx; talk presented at the IPM Conference on Lepton and Hadron Physics, Tehran, Iran, May 15-20, 2006; PSN: IPM-LHP06-19May
Elicitation of causatives and several stories (in English)
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Spence, Justin
name: Rice, Keren
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio files VP-101010-11a/c: Elicitation of causation and causative themes, followed by discussion of names for different groups of people whose trarditional territory is near Hoopa Valley, then several stories told in English: Captain John going to Washington, the removal of Hupa people to Round Valley, Verdena's last pregnancy assisted by the advice of a shaman
Ανάλυση ηλεκτροεγκεφαλογραφημάτων (EEG) κατά τη διάρκεια παρουσίασης εικόνων (IAPS) συγκεκριμένου συναισθηματικού περιεχομένου
Creators: name: Τσεμπερλίδης, Στέφανος Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Εγκέφαλος
Συναίσθημα
Εγκεφαλικοί ρυθμοί
Διφασικοί θεωρία
Σύντομος μετασχηματισμός Fourier
Brain
Emotion
Brain rythms
Biphysic theory
Short-time Fourier transform
IAPS

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία μελετάται η εγκεφαλική απόκρισης κατά την παρουσίαση εικόνων συναισθηματικού περιεχομένου, οι οποίες προέρχονται από το International System of Affective Pictures (IAPS). Το μεγαλύτερο μέρος παρεμφερών μελετών και πειραμάτων έχει υποδείξει την δυνατότητα διάκρισης των εγκεφαλικών αποκρίσεων σε εικόνες θετικού/αρνητικού και ουδέτερου συναισθηματικού περιεχομένου. Στην παρούσα εργασία μελετάται η δυνατότητα διάκρισης των εγκεφαλικών αποκρίσεων σε εικόνες θετικού και αρνητικού συναισθηματικού περιεχομένου με βάση τις δυο παραμέτρους (valence/arousal) της διφασικής προσέγγισης του συναισθήματος. Για την καταγραφή της εγκεφαλικής δραστηριότητας χρησιμοποιείται το ηλεκτροεγκεφαλογράφημα. Για την ανάλυση των ηλεκτροεγκεφαλογραφημάτων χρησιμοποιείται ο σύντομος μετασχηματισμός Fourier ο οποίος μας παρέχει τη δυνατότητα μελέτης της χρονικής εξέλιξης του φασματικού περιεχομένου των ηλεκτροεγκεφαλικών σημάτων.Θεωρώντας τα εγκεφαλικά σήματα ως την γλώσσα με την οποία παρουσιάζεται η εγκεφαλική δραστηριότητα χρησιμοποιείται μια μέθοδος φασματικής ανάλυσης των εγκεφαλικών σημάτων που καταγράφονται κατά την παρουσίαση των εικόνων IAPS. Συγκεκριμένα χρησιμοποιείται ο Short –Time Fourier Transform (STFT) ο οποίος μας παρέχει τη δυνατότητα μελέτης της χρονικής εξέλιξης του φασματικού περιεχομένου των ηλεκτροεγκεφαλικών σημάτων.Το υπολογιστικό περιβάλλον στο οποίο πραγματοποιείται η ανάλυση είναι το matlab καθώς και το toolbox eeglab, το οποίο είναι ειδικά σχεδιασμένο για την ανάλυση και αναπαράσταση ηλεκτροεγκεφαλικών σημάτων.
description: In the current dissertation we studied brain responses during the presentation of emotional pictures from the international system-A affective pictues (IAPS). The aim is to distinct brain responses on the base of two parameters : valence and arousal (biphasic approuch of emotion). EEG is used for obtaining brain signals. Short-Time Fourier Transform is used for analysing electroengephalograms. Short-Time Fourier Transform provides the ability to study the time-evolution of the frequency content of brain signals.
Learning Quadrupedal Locomotion over Challenging Terrain
Creators: name: Lee, Joonho
name: Hwangbo, Jemin
name: Wellhausen, Lorenz
name: Koltun, Vladlen
name: Hutter, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Some of the most challenging environments on our planet are accessible to quadrupedal animals but remain out of reach for autonomous machines. Legged locomotion can dramatically expand the operational domains of robotics. However, conventional controllers for legged locomotion are based on elaborate state machines that explicitly trigger the execution of motion primitives and reflexes. These designs have escalated in complexity while falling short of the generality and robustness of animal locomotion. Here we present a radically robust controller for legged locomotion in challenging natural environments. We present a novel solution to incorporating proprioceptive feedback in locomotion control and demonstrate remarkable zero-shot generalization from simulation to natural environments. The controller is trained by reinforcement learning in simulation. It is based on a neural network that acts on a stream of proprioceptive signals. The trained controller has taken two generations of quadrupedal ANYmal robots to a variety of natural environments that are beyond the reach of prior published work in legged locomotion. The controller retains its robustness under conditions that have never been encountered during training: deformable terrain such as mud and snow, dynamic footholds such as rubble, and overground impediments such as thick vegetation and gushing water. The presented work opens new frontiers for robotics and indicates that radical robustness in natural environments can be achieved by training in much simpler domains.