cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Semi-MoreGAN: A New Semi-supervised Generative Adversarial Network for Mixture of Rain Removal
Creators: name: Shen, Yiyang
name: Wang, Yongzhen
name: Wei, Mingqiang
name: Chen, Honghua
name: Xie, Haoran
name: Cheng, Gary
name: Wang, Fu Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rain is one of the most common weather which can completely degrade the image quality and interfere with the performance of many computer vision tasks, especially under heavy rain conditions. We observe that: (i) rain is a mixture of rain streaks and rainy haze; (ii) the scene depth determines the intensity of rain streaks and the transformation into the rainy haze; (iii) most existing deraining methods are only trained on synthetic rainy images, and hence generalize poorly to the real-world scenes. Motivated by these observations, we propose a new SEMI-supervised Mixture Of rain REmoval Generative Adversarial Network (Semi-MoreGAN), which consists of four key modules: (I) a novel attentional depth prediction network to provide precise depth estimation; (ii) a context feature prediction network composed of several well-designed detailed residual blocks to produce detailed image context features; (iii) a pyramid depth-guided non-local network to effectively integrate the image context with the depth information, and produce the final rain-free images; and (iv) a comprehensive semi-supervised loss function to make the model not limited to synthetic datasets but generalize smoothly to real-world heavy rainy scenes. Extensive experiments show clear improvements of our approach over twenty representative state-of-the-arts on both synthetic and real-world rainy images.
description: 18 pages
Truth, Belief and Knowledge in Epistemic Logic
Creators: name: Vanderveken, Daniel
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Standard logic tends to reduce propositions to their truth conditions. However propositions with the same truth conditions are not the contents of the same thoughts just as they are not the senses of synonymous sentences. I will first define a much finer criterion of propositional identity that takes into account predications that we make in expressing propositions. In my view, propositions have a structure of constituents. We ignore in which possible circumstances most propositions are true because we ignore real denotations of their attributes and concepts. In understanding them we just know that their truth in each circumstance is compatible with certain possible denotation assignments to their constituents and incompatible with others. So propositions have possible in addition to real truth conditions. I will explain why strictly equivalent propositions can have a different cognitive value. I will define the notion of truth according to an agent and a strong propositional implication that is known a priori. I will also formulate a logic of belief that is compatible with philosophy of mind. Human agents are minimally rather than perfectly rational in my logic. Epistemic paradoxes are solved.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
Climate and Weather: Inspecting Depression Detection via Emotion Recognition
Creators: name: Wu, Wen
name: Wu, Mengyue
name: Yu, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic depression detection has attracted increasing amount of attention but remains a challenging task. Psychological research suggests that depressive mood is closely related with emotion expression and perception, which motivates the investigation of whether knowledge of emotion recognition can be transferred for depression detection. This paper uses pretrained features extracted from the emotion recognition model for depression detection, further fuses emotion modality with audio and text to form multimodal depression detection. The proposed emotion transfer improves depression detection performance on DAIC-WOZ as well as increases the training stability. The analysis of how the emotion expressed by depressed individuals is further perceived provides clues for further understanding of the relationship between depression and emotion.
Towards an Understanding of the Meaning of Nominal Tense
Creators: name: Tonhauser, Judith
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Paraguayan Guaran´ı has nominal inflectional suffixes with temporal meanings. I challenge the claim that they are nominal tenses (cf. Nordlinger and Sadler 2004), and analyze them as nominal aspects. I present evidence that points to crosslinguistic variation in the way in which noun phrases are temporally interpreted, and address the implications of the existence of languages with nominal temporal markers for theories of temporality and crosslinguistic temporal interpretation.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
Focus, Context, and 'Many' Elements
Creators: name: Tanaka, Takuro
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: This paper investigates the interpretation of the determiner many. Previous literature has pointed out that the interpretation of many requires contextual information. Following this idea, some truth conditions for sentences with determiner many have been suggested. I will show that the analyses proposed in the previous literature are not sufficient, with some data which these analyses cannot explain. This paper argues that the determiner many is focus sensitive, taking a context variable C as its first argument. This context variable provides a set of alternatives for comparison, and predicts a previously unnoticed “list” reading. I will provide a detailed analysis following this idea to explain problematic data for previous analyses, and compare my analysis to the others.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
Constraints on the ultracompact minihalos using neutrino signals from the gravitino dark matter decay
Creators: name: Zheng, Yun-Long
name: Yang, Yu-Peng
name: Li, Ming-Zhe
name: Zong, Hong-Shi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultracompact dark matter minihalos (UCMHs) would be formed during the earlier universe if there were large density perturbations. If the dark matter can decay into the standard model particles, such as neutrinos, these objects would become the potential astrophysical sources and could be detected by the related instruments, such as IceCube. In this paper, we investigate the neutrino signals from the nearby UCMHs due to the gravitino dark matter decay and compare these signals with the background neutrino flux which is mainly from the atmosphere to get the constraints on the abundance of UCMHs.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, Accepted by RAA (Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics). Comments welcome!!
Hyperparameter optimization of data-driven AI models on HPC systems
Creators: name: Wulff, Eric
name: Girone, Maria
name: Pata, Joosep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the European Center of Excellence in Exascale computing "Research on AI- and Simulation-Based Engineering at Exascale" (CoE RAISE), researchers develop novel, scalable AI technologies towards Exascale. This work exercises High Performance Computing resources to perform large-scale hyperparameter optimization using distributed training on multiple compute nodes. This is part of RAISE's work on data-driven use cases which leverages AI- and HPC cross-methods developed within the project. In response to the demand for parallelizable and resource efficient hyperparameter optimization methods, advanced hyperparameter search algorithms are benchmarked and compared. The evaluated algorithms, including Random Search, Hyperband and ASHA, are tested and compared in terms of both accuracy and accuracy per compute resources spent. As an example use case, a graph neural network model known as MLPF, developed for the task of Machine-Learned Particle-Flow reconstruction in High Energy Physics, acts as the base model for optimization. Results show that hyperparameter optimization significantly increased the performance of MLPF and that this would not have been possible without access to large-scale High Performance Computing resources. It is also shown that, in the case of MLPF, the ASHA algorithm in combination with Bayesian optimization gives the largest performance increase per compute resources spent out of the investigated algorithms.
description: Submitted to the proceedings of the ACAT 2021 conference and is to be published in the Journal Of Physics: Conference Series
Symmetric Mass Generation
Creators: name: Wang, Juven
name: You, Yi-Zhuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most well-known mechanism for fermions to acquire a mass is the Nambu-Goldstone-Anderson-Higgs mechanism, i.e. after a spontaneous symmetry breaking, a bosonic field that couples to the fermion mass term condenses, which grants a mass gap for the fermionic excitation. In the last few years, it was gradually understood that there is a new mechanism of mass generation for fermions without involving any symmetry breaking within an anomaly-free symmetry group. This new mechanism is generally referred to as the "Symmetric Mass Generation (SMG)." It is realized that the SMG has deep connections with interacting topological insulator/superconductors, symmetry-protected topological states, perturbative local and non-perturbative global anomaly cancellations, and deconfined quantum criticality. It has strong implications for the lattice regularization of chiral gauge theories. This article defines the SMG, summarizes current numerical results, introduces a novel unifying theoretical framework (including the parton-Higgs and the s-confinement mechanisms, as well as the symmetry-extension construction), and overviews various features and applications of SMG.
description: 33 pages. An invited overview of Symmetric Mass Generation. Introduce a novel unifying theoretical framework. We thank Cenke Xu for initiating this project
GNN-based end-to-end reconstruction in the CMS Phase 2 High-Granularity Calorimeter
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Saptaparna
name: Chernyavskaya, Nadezda
name: Ghosh, Saranya
name: Gray, Lindsey
name: Kieseler, Jan
name: Klijnsma, Thomas
name: Long, Kenneth
name: Nawaz, Raheel
name: Pedro, Kevin
name: Pierini, Maurizio
name: Pradhan, Gauri
name: Qasim, Shah Rukh
name: Viazlo, Oleksander
name: Zehetner, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the current stage of research progress towards a one-pass, completely Machine Learning (ML) based imaging calorimeter reconstruction. The model used is based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and directly analyzes the hits in each HGCAL endcap. The ML algorithm is trained to predict clusters of hits originating from the same incident particle by labeling the hits with the same cluster index. We impose simple criteria to assess whether the hits associated as a cluster by the prediction are matched to those hits resulting from any particular individual incident particles. The algorithm is studied by simulating two tau leptons in each of the two HGCAL endcaps, where each tau may decay according to its measured standard model branching probabilities. The simulation includes the material interaction of the tau decay products which may create additional particles incident upon the calorimeter. Using this varied multiparticle environment we can investigate the application of this reconstruction technique and begin to characterize energy containment and performance.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, proceedings for the 20th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research
Cold gas properties of the Herschel Reference Survey. III. Molecular gas stripping in cluster galaxies
Creators: name: Boselli, A.
name: Cortese, L.
name: Boquien, M.
name: Boissier, S.
name: Catinella, B.
name: Gavazzi, G.
name: Lagos, C.
name: Saintonge, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The HRS is a complete volume-limited sample of nearby objects including Virgo cluster and isolated objects. Using a recent compilation of HI and CO data we study the effects of the cluster on the molecular gas content of spiral galaxies. We first identify M* as the scaling variable that traces the total H2 mass of galaxies better. We show that, on average, HI-deficient galaxies are significantly offset from the M(H2) vs. M* relation for HI-normal galaxies. We use the M(H2) vs. M* scaling relation to define the H2-deficiency parameter. This parameter shows a weak and scattered relation with the HI-def, here taken as a proxy for galaxy interactions with the cluster environment. We also show that, as for the HI, the extent of the H2 disc decreases with increasing HI-deficiency. These results show that cluster galaxies have, on average, a lower H2 content than similar objects in the field. The slope of the H2-def vs. HI-def relation is less than 1, while the D(HI)/D(i) vs. HI-def relation is steeper than the D(CO)/D(i) vs. HI-def relation, thereby indicating that the H2 gas is removed less efficiently than the HI. This result can be understood if the HI is distributed on a flat disc more extended than the stellar disc, thus less anchored to the gravitational potential well of the galaxy than the H2. There is a clear trend between the NUV-i colour and H2-def, which suggests that H2 removal quenches the activity of star formation. This causes galaxies migrate from the blue cloud to the green valley and, eventually, to the red sequence. The total gas-consumption timescale of gas deficient cluster galaxies is comparable to that of isolated systems, and is significantly larger than the typical timescale for total gas removal in a ram pressure stripping process, thus suggesting that ram pressure, rather than starvation, is the dominant process driving the evolution of these cluster galaxies.
description: Accepted for publication on A&A
Bare Predicate Nominals in Dutch
Creators: name: De Swart, Henriëtte
name: Winter, Yoad
name: Zwarts, Joost
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Bare predicate nominals (BPNs) have interesting syntactic and semantic properties that set them aside from full nominals in predicative constructions. In Dutch the differences between BPNs and other nominals are especially visible in the syntax-semantics interface. This paper analyzes Dutch BPNs by making a syntactic distinction between NPs and NumPs/DPs, and a correlating semantic distinction between two ways of relating kinds to individuals realizing them. Whereas the general Carlsonian realization operator relates a kind to all the individuals realizing it, we propose an alternative, more restricted, capacity operator, which only maps a kind to the individuals that realize it in a particular ‘capacity’ (profession, nationality, religion etc.) of the individual. We study the implications of these two modes of realization in conjunction with the different syntactic layers within the DP.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
Are Scalar Implicatures Computed Online?
Creators: name: Storto, Gianluca
name: Tanenhaus, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: We adopt the visual-world eye-tracking paradigm to test the hypothesis that scalar implicatures are integrated very locally to the utterance of scalar terms. Focusing on the ⟨and, or⟩ scale, we show that early point-of-disambiguation effects similar to those triggered by the integration of the lexical meaning of and can be triggered by the integration of the exhaustive meaning of or. Some design issues and an independent interpretive asymmetry holding between and and or are discussed as possible explanations for remaining differences between the effects found in the two cases. We conclude that the exclusivity implicature that is associated to sentences containing or seems to be calculated online, rather locally to the utterance of the disjunction.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
Freizeitgestaltung und Sozialintegration im Jugendalter während der Coronapandemie: Auswirkungen der zweiten Welle aus Sicht von Jugendlichen in Luzern und die Rolle der Sozialen Arbeit
Creators: name: Bonorand, Seraina
name: Kajić, Natali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Im Rahmen der Bachelorarbeit befassen sich Seraina Bonorand und Natali Kajić mit einer qualitativen Forschungsarbeit, die darauf abzielt, Jugendlichen eine Stimme zu verleihen. Jugendliche fanden während der Coronapandemie wenig Gehör, sei es in politischen Entscheidungen oder dem gesellschaftlichen Diskurs. Ihre Bedürfnisse und Sichtweisen wurden oft nicht berücksichtigt. Vorliegende Arbeit geht der Frage nach, wie Jugendliche die Coronapandemie und die Massnahmen zu deren Eindämmung empfunden haben und inwiefern ihre Freizeitgestaltung und ihre Sozialintegration davon betroffen waren. Eine weitere Frage ist, welche Rolle die Soziale Arbeit dabei spielt. Hierzu wird die Bedeutung der Sozialintegration und die Entwicklungsschritte, die im Jugendalter zu deren Erreichen gemeistert werden müssen, beleuchtet. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Freizeit und den Peer-Beziehungen. Vor dem Hintergrund der zweiten Welle der Coronapandemie und deren Massnahmen wird eruiert, mit welchen Einschränkungen Jugendliche im Kanton Luzern konfrontiert waren. Die Befragungen, anhand problemzentrierter Interviews mit sieben Jugendlichen der Stadt Luzern, berücksichtigen die subjektive Sichtweise von 15- bis 17-Jährigen in Bezug auf ihre Freizeitgestaltung. Die Ergebnisse zeigen auf, dass Jugendliche vor allem durch die Kontaktbeschränkungen und Schliessungen von der Pandemie betroffen waren. Es konnten viele Parallelen zu anderen Studien betreffend Freizeit- und Beziehungsgestaltung während der Coronapandemie sowie den Strategien zum Umgang mit der veränderten Situation gezogen werden. Als eine wichtige Schlussfolgerung wurden geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede besonders deutlich.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa + Code Diss LU: hslusa basp + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Sozialarbeit & Sozialpädagogik, 2022 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202209
New Asymptotic Metrics for Relative Generalized Hamming Weight
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Ryutaroh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94B65

description: It was recently shown that RGHW (relative generalized Hamming weight) exactly expresses the security of linear ramp secret sharing scheme. In this paper we determine the true value of the asymptotic metric for RGHW previously proposed by Zhuang et al. in 2013. Then we propose new asymptotic metrics useful for investigating the optimal performance of linear ramp secret sharing scheme constructed from a pair of linear codes. We also determine the true values of the proposed metrics in many cases.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, IEEEtran.cls. To be presented at 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 29-July 4, 2014 Hawai'i Convention Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
Event-Related Modifiers in German Adjectival Passives
Creators: name: Schlücker, Barbara
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: The claim that the German Zustandspassiv is not a voice-category but should be analyzed as a copular construction raises the question of how to explain the occurence of event-related modifiers within these constructions. It is argued that event-related modifiers should not be analyzed as a uniform group, and that their admissibility (or unadmissibility) can be explained on the basis of their different syntactic positions as well as by the way pragmatics interprets these modifiers.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
Smaller Progress Measures and Separating Automata for Parity Games
Creators: name: Dell'Erba, Daniele
name: Schewe, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Calude et al. have recently shown that parity games can be solved in quasi-polynomial time, a landmark result that has led to a number of approaches with quasi-polynomial complexity. Jurdinski and Lasic have further improved the precise complexity of parity games, especially when the number of priorities is low (logarithmic in the number of positions). Both of these algorithms belong to a class of game solving techniques now often called separating automata: deterministic automata that can be used as witness automata to decide the winner in parity games up to a given number of states and colours. We suggest a number of adjustments to the approach of Calude et al. that lead to smaller statespaces. These include and improve over those earlier introduced by Fearnley et al. We identify two of them that, together, lead to a statespace of exactly the same size Jurdzinski and Lasic's concise progress measures, which currently hold the crown as smallest statespace. The remaining improvements, hence, lead to a further reduction in the size of the statespace, making our approach the most succinct progress measures available for parity games.
Finding the boson-number distributions in superconductors from photon spectra emitted by supercurrent-carrying rings irradiated with far IR fields
Creators: name: Agafonov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theory of the IR-field-induced single-photon generation by the narrow thin-film superconducting rings made of the isotropic s-wave pairing type-II superconductors is presented. It is shown that statistical measurements of the energies of photons emitted by the same current-carrying ring prepared initially in the same quantum state, allow to find the number distribution of Cooper pairs in the superconductor.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1207.1608
Minimize Restrictors! (Notes on Definite Descriptions, Condition C and Epithets)
Creators: name: Schlenker, Philippe
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Following a general line explored by Bolinger, Reinhart, Levinson and Schein, we seek to derive Condition C of the Binding Theory from a Gricean maxim of minimization (Minimize Restrictors!), which specifies that a definite description the A B is deviant if A could be dropped without affecting (i) the denotation of the description, and (ii) its various pragmatic effects. Thus the small (American) President is deviant if it is assumed that there is a single (American) President, as small contributes neither to (i) nor to (ii). By contrast, the stupid (American) President is entirely natural: although stupid does not affect (i), it contributes pragmatic information about the speaker's (negative) attitude towards the denotation of the description. If pronouns are treated as short descriptions and if the semantics is set up in a slightly non-standard fashion, Part (i) of Minimize Restrictors! can derive the standard cases of Condition C. Furthermore, Part (ii) accounts for some exceptions to Condition C. First, an element may contribute expressive information about the speaker's attitude towards the denotation of the description, as is the case of epithets (e.g. the idiot expresses the speaker's negative attitude towards the person in question). Second, an element may serve a disambiguating function, as happens in very long sentences in which a definite description is acceptable in violation of Condition C (e.g. the linguist in: [A linguist working on Binding Theory]i was so devoid of any moral sense that hei forced [a physicist working on particles]k to hire [the linguist's]i girlfriend in hisk lab.)
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
A Variational Quantum Algorithm For Approximating Convex Roofs
Creators: name: Androulakis, George
name: McGaha, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary 81P40, 81P68, Secondary 68T07, 46N10

description: Many entanglement measures are first defined for pure states of a bipartite Hilbert space, and then extended to mixed states via the convex roof extension. In this article we alter the convex roof extension of an entanglement measure, to produce a sequence of extensions that we call $f$-$d$ extensions, for $d \in \mathbb{N}$, where $f:[0,1]\to [0, \infty)$ is a fixed continuous function which vanishes only at zero. We prove that for any such function $f$, and any continuous, faithful, non-negative function, (such as an entanglement measure), $μ$ on the set of pure states of a finite dimensional bipartite Hilbert space, the collection of $f$-$d$ extensions of $μ$ detects entanglement, i.e. a mixed state $ρ$ on a finite dimensional bipartite Hilbert space is separable, if and only if there exists $d \in \mathbb{N}$ such that the $f$-$d$ extension of $μ$ applied to $ρ$ is equal to zero. We introduce a quantum variational algorithm which aims to approximate the $f$-$d$ extensions of entanglement measures defined on pure states. However, the algorithm does have its drawbacks. We show that this algorithm exhibits barren plateaus when used to approximate the family of $f$-$d$ extensions of the Tsallis entanglement entropy for a certain function $f$ and unitary ansatz $U(θ)$ of sufficient depth. In practice, if additional information about the state is known, then one needs to avoid using the suggested ansatz for long depth of circuits.
description: Accepted in Quantum Information and Computation
Qubits based on merons in magnetic nanodisks
Creators: name: Xia, Jing
name: Zhang, Xichao
name: Liu, Xiaoxi
name: Zhou, Yan
name: Ezawa, Motohiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Merons and skyrmions are classical topological solitons. However, they will become quantum mechanical objects when their sizes are of the order of nanometers. Recently, quantum computation based on nanoscale skyrmions was proposed. Here, we propose to use a nanoscale meron in a magnetic nanodisk as a qubit, where the up and down directions of the core spin are assigned to be the qubit states $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$. First, we show numerically that a meron with the radius containing only $7$ spins can be stabilized in a ferromagnetic nanodisk classically. Then, we show theoretically that universal quantum computation is possible based on merons by explicitly constructing the arbitrary phase-shift gate, the Hadamard gate, and the CNOT gate. They are executed by magnetic field or electric current. It would serve as a qubit with long coherence time as a remnant of topological stability from its classical counterpart.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Don’t Interpret Focus! Why a Presuppositional Account of Focus Fails and How a Presuppositional Account of Givenness Works
Creators: name: Sauerland, Uli
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: This paper advances a purely presuppositional analysis of intonation. I first show that a inspiring recent article by Geurts and van der Sandt (Theoretical Linguistics, 2004) that pursues the same goal cannot account for multiple foci. Then, I show that if it is assumed that destressed rather than focussed material is semantically marked, multiple foci are accounted for correctly.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
The Semantics of Rising Intonation in Interrogatives and Declaratives
Creators: name: Šafařová, Marie
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: We analyze rising declaratives in English as modal expressions of epistemic uncertainty and argue that their question-like behavior is a secondary effect derived from maxims of rational conversation. In order to express the meaning with formal semantics, we combine Veltman’s update semantics with the test operator with a simple semantics for polar questions.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
Readings of The German Present Perfect
Creators: name: Rothstein, Björn
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: The goal of this paper is to give a monosemous analysis of the meaning of the German present perfect in terms of an Extended Now approach (McCoard (1978). I propose an account for the different present perfect readings in terms of the discourse-based approach to tense first developed by Kamp & Rohrer (1985). Temporal and rhetorical relations between tenses in a given text will be used to account for the different readings of the present perfect.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
Training Strategies for Own Voice Reconstruction in Hearing Protection Devices using an In-ear Microphone
Creators: name: Ohlenbusch, Mattes
name: Rollwage, Christian
name: Doclo, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In-ear microphones in hearing protection devices can be utilized to capture the own voice speech of the person wearing the devices in noisy environments. Since in-ear recordings of the own voice are typically band-limited, an own voice reconstruction system is required to recover clean broadband speech from the in-ear signals. However, the availability of speech data for this scenario is typically limited due to device-specific transfer characteristics and the need to collect data from in-situ measurements. In this paper, we apply a deep learning-based bandwidth-extension system to the own voice reconstruction task and investigate different training strategies in order to overcome the limited availability of training data. Experimental results indicate that the use of simulated training data based on recordings of several talkers in combination with a fine-tuning approach using real data is advantageous compared to directly training on a small real dataset.
description: Accepted to IWAENC 2022
Evaluation of Portable Programming Models to Accelerate LArTPC Detector Simulations
Creators: name: Dong, Zhihua
name: Knoepfel, Kyle
name: Lin, Meifeng
name: Viren, Brett
name: Yu, Haiwang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology is widely used in high energy physics experiments, including the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). Accurately simulating LArTPC detector responses is essential for analysis algorithm development and physics model interpretations. Accurate LArTPC detector response simulations are computationally demanding, and can become a bottleneck in the analysis workflow. Compute devices such as General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) have the potential to substantially accelerate simulations compared to traditional CPU-only processing. The software development that requires often carries the cost of specialized code refactorization and porting to match the target hardware architecture. With the rapid evolution and increased diversity of the computer architecture landscape, it is highly desirable to have a portable solution that also maintains reasonable performance. We report our ongoing effort in evaluating Kokkos as a basis for this portable programming model using LArTPC simulations in the context of the Wire-Cell Toolkit, a C++ library for LArTPC simulations, data analysis, reconstruction and visualization.
description: Proceedings for ACAT2021. v2: accepted refereed version with expanded introduction and discussions. 7 pages, 4 figures and 1 table
A bound for the error term in the Brent-McMillan algorithm
Creators: name: Brent, Richard P.
name: Johansson, Fredrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C10 (Primary) 11Y60, 65G99, 65Y20, 68Q25, 68W40, 68W99 (Secondary)

description: The Brent-McMillan algorithm B3 (1980), when implemented with binary splitting, is the fastest known algorithm for high-precision computation of Euler's constant. However, no rigorous error bound for the algorithm has ever been published. We provide such a bound and justify the empirical observations of Brent and McMillan. We also give bounds on the error in the asymptotic expansions of functions related to modified Bessel functions.
description: 10 pages, 1 table
‘On-Line’-Inferences in the Semantics of 'Dann' and 'Then'
Creators: name: Roßdeutscher, Antje
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: The paper presents a theory of the semantics and the discourse effects of German temporal dann and English then in their sentence-initial, –internal and –final positions. The theory provides an algorithmic reconstruction of these differences on the basis of a single specification of the semantics of dann/then, which interacts with other semantic elements at sentence and discourse level in ways that vary with its position. The requirement which dann/then imposes is that the time it denotes is separated from the time which the narration had reached by a change in some contextually salient property of a topical discourse referent. What is available as contextually salient property depends on where dann/then occurs in the sentence. Integration of this insight into a general account of semantic processing entails a shift of perspective in current semantic theory. Semantic processing must now be treated as incremental following the left to right order not only sentence by sentence but also word by word.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
'Only': Meaning and Implicatures - The Very Incomplete Short Version
Creators: name: Van Rooij, Robert
name: Schulz, Katrin
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: The meaning of ‘only’ has always been an exciting and challanging issue. Many surprising observations have been made and many sophisticated accounts proposed. In this paper we will not focus on new extraordinatry data and their treatment. Instead, we will show that there is a way to approach the meaning of ‘only’ that is faithful to classical insights and observations but still can deal with the well-known challenges. When ‘only’ is used in examples as (1), (1) John only introduced [Mary]F to Sue. the sentence is intuitively interpreted as stating both A that except for Mary, John introduced nobody to Sue, and B that, in fact, he introduced Mary to Sue. In this paper we will argue that contribution A is due to the semantic meaning of (1), while contribution B comes about as a pragmatic conversational implicature.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
Spectrum Allocation for ICIC Based Picocell
Creators: name: Kumar, Suman
name: Kalyani, Sheetal
name: Giridhar, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we analytically study the impact of spectrum allocation scheme in picocells on the coverage probability (CP) of the Pico User (PU), when the macro base stations (MBSs) employ either fractional frequency reuse (FFR) or soft frequency reuse (SFR). Assuming a fixed size for the picocell, the CP expression is derived for a PU present in either a FFR or SFR based deployment, and when the PU uses either the centre or the edge frequency resources. Based on these expressions, we propose two possible frequency allocation schemes for the picocell when FFR is employed by the macrocell. The CP and the average rate expressions for both these schemes are derived, and it is shown that these schemes outperform the conventional scheme where no inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) is assumed. The impact of both schemes on the macro-user performance is also analysed. When SFR is used by the MBS, it is shown that the CP is maximized when the PU uses the same frequency resources as used by the centre region.
description: Submitted to IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
Context and Focus Projection. A Compositional, Intonation-Based Account of Focus Interpretation
Creators: name: Riester, Arndt
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Theories of focus semantics can be divided into compositional, interpretationoriented approaches (Rooth 1985, Rooth 1992, Krifka 1992) and production-oriented approaches (Schwarzschild 1999). The current paper attempts to bring these different perspectives together and profit from their respective strengths. A compositional algorithm will be developed which starts out from intonation instead of abstract focus; in other words, the algorithm integrates a compositional, givenness-based version of focus projection. Some explications to the notion GIVEN will be presented. Givenness and contrast are shown as two independent modules determining discourse congruence. Finally, the algorithm will be spelled out in Bottom-Up DRT (Kamp, van Genabith and Reyle 2004).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 9 (2005): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9
Data Lakehouse to support the development of AI models for predicting patient clinical response to targeted and immuno-therapies
Creators: name: Coquelet Elodine
name: Marta, Silva
name: Balbi Laura
name: Riba Jofre
name: Alfaro Javier
name: Zanzotto Fabio Massimo
name: Pesquita Catia
name: Rohit, Kumar
name: Christophe, Battail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In the context of the European project KATY on precision medicine, we prototyped a Data Lakehouse by integrating research studies that generated molecular profiling data from cohorts of kidney tumor tissues taken from patients included in drug clinical trials. Indeed, there is currently a lack of a database dedicated to support the development of AI models to help doctors in chosing the best drug for each patient.
 The Data Lakehouse architecture, which we have implemented with open source Delta Lake technology, brings together the best features of Data Lake and Data Warehouse.
 The Data Lakehouse will allow three types of access for the KATY consortium members:
 - the implementation of data analytics approaches to query and visualize molecular and clinical data
 - the targeted extraction of data for the training and testing of AI models
 - feeding a Knowledge Graph to support the explainability of the predictive models using a priori biological and clinical knowledge.
The Scale-invariant Power Spectrum of Primordial Curvature Perturbation in CSTB Cosmos
Creators: name: Li, Changhong
name: Cheung, Yeuk-Kwan E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the spectrum of cosmological perturbations in a bounce cosmos modeled by a scalar field coupled to the string tachyon field (CSTB cosmos). By explicit computation of its primordial spectral index we show the power spectrum of curvature perturbations, generated during the tachyon matter dominated contraction phase, to be nearly scale invariant. We propose a unified space of parameters for a systematic study of inflationary/bouncing cosmologies. We find that CSTB cosmos is dual--in Wands's sense--to the slow-roll inflation model as can be easily seen from this unified parameter space. Guaranteed by the dynamical attractor behavior of CSTB Cosmos, this scale invariance is free of the fine-tuning problem, in contrast to the slow-roll inflation model.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures
Software Training in High Energy Physics
Creators: name: Villanueva, Michel H.
name: Malik, Sudhir
name: Evans, Meirin Oan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the upgrades in current high energy physics (HEP) experiments and the new facilities coming online, solving software challenges has become integral for the success of the collaborations, The demand for human resources highly-skilled in both HEP and software domains is increasing. With a highly distributed environment in human resources, the sustainability of the HEP ecosystem requires a continuous effort in the equipment of physicists with the required abilities in software development. In this paper, the collective software training program in HEP and its activities led by the HEP Software Foundation (HSF) and the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software in HEP (IRIS-HEP) are presented. Experiment-agnostic, open, and accessible modules for training have been developed, focusing on common software material with ranges from core software skills needed by everyone to advanced training required to produce high-quality sustainable software. A basic software curriculum was built, and an introductory software training event has been prepared to serve HEP entrants. This program serves individuals with transferable skills that are becoming increasingly important to careers in the realm of software and computing, whether inside or outside HEP.
description: Submitted to Proceedings of ACAT2021 (20th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research)
Overlap coincidence to strong coincidence in substitution tiling dynamics
Creators: name: Akiyama, Shigeki
name: Lee, Jeong-Yup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C23

description: Overlap coincidence is an equivalent criterion to pure discrete spectrum of the dynamics of self affine tilings. In the case of one dimension, strong coincidence on m letter irreducible substitution has been introduced in Dekking (1978) and Arnoux and Ito (2001) which implies that the system is metrically conjugate to a domain exchange. However being a domain exchange does not imply the property of pure discrete spectrum of the tiling dynamics. The relation between two coincidences has not been established completely. In this paper we generalize strong coincidence to higher dimensions and show the implication from overlap coincidence to the new strong coincidence when the associated height group is trivial. Furthermore we introduce a new criterion simultaneous coincidence and show the implication from overlap coincidence to the simultaneous coincidence. The triviality of the height group is shown in Barge and Kwapisz (2006) and Sing (2006) for 1 dimension irreducible Pisot substitutions.
Efficient Quantum State Tracking in Noisy Environments
Creators: name: Rambach, Markus
name: Youssry, Akram
name: Tomamichel, Marco
name: Romero, Jacquiline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum state tomography, which aims to find the best description of a quantum state -- the density matrix, is an essential building block in quantum computation and communication. Standard techniques for state tomography are incapable of tracking changing states and often perform poorly in the presence of environmental noise. Although there are different approaches to solve these problems theoretically, experimental demonstrations have so far been sparse. Our approach, matrix-exponentiated gradient tomography, is an online tomography method that allows for state tracking, updates the estimated density matrix dynamically from the very first measurements, is computationally efficient, and converges to a good estimate quickly even with noisy data. The algorithm is controlled via a single parameter, its learning rate, which determines the performance and can be tailored in simulations to the individual experiment. We present an experimental implementation of matrix-exponentiated gradient tomography on a qutrit system encoded in the transverse spatial mode of photons. We investigate the performance of our method on stationary and evolving states, as well as significant environmental noise, and find fidelities of around 95% in all cases.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Corella eumyota Traustedt 1882
Creators: name: Kakkonen, Jenni E.
name: Worsfold, Tim M.
name: Ashelby, Christopher W.
name: Taylor, Andrea
name: Beaton, Katy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Phlebobranchia
Corellidae
Corella
Corella eumyota

description: (15) Corella eumyota Traustedt, 1882
Status in U.K. – non-native.
The “orange tipped sea squirt” Corella eumyota has been recorded at many monitoring programme sites, each year since 2014, from scrape, settlement panel and rapid assessment samples. Within Scapa Flow, it has been recorded at The Grinds and Gutter Sound navigational buoys and from mooring buoys in Ore Bay; it has also been recorded from all three marinas in the Orkney Islands: Stromness, Kirkwall and Westray.
The first U.K. record was from 2004 on the south coast of England, at Brighton Marina, Gosport Marina and Weymouth Harbour (Arenas et al. 2006). It was first recorded in Scotland in 2009, on the west coast and its first record in Orkney was in 2012 (Nall et al. 2015). More recently, Want et al. (2017) provided records from Orkney from renewable energy infrastructure.
NMS voucher reference number: NMS.Z.2017.144.112.
description: Published as part of Kakkonen, Jenni E., Worsfold, Tim M., Ashelby, Christopher W., Taylor, Andrea & Beaton, Katy, 2019, The value of regular monitoring and diverse sampling techniques to assess aquatic non-native species: a case study from Orkney, pp. 46-79 in Management of Biological Invasions 10 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.3391/mbi.2019.10.1.04, http://zenodo.org/record/11969078