cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Proximal Point Dual Newton Algorithm for Solving Group Graphical Lasso Problems
Creators: name: Zhang, Yangjing
name: Zhang, Ning
name: Sun, Defeng
name: Toh, Kim-Chuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C22, 90C25, 90C31, 62J10

description: Undirected graphical models have been especially popular for learning the conditional independence structure among a large number of variables where the observations are drawn independently and identically from the same distribution. However, many modern statistical problems would involve categorical data or time-varying data, which might follow different but related underlying distributions. In order to learn a collection of related graphical models simultaneously, various joint graphical models inducing sparsity in graphs and similarity across graphs have been proposed. In this paper, we aim to propose an implementable proximal point dual Newton algorithm (PPDNA) for solving the group graphical Lasso model, which encourages a shared pattern of sparsity across graphs. Though the group graphical Lasso regularizer is non-polyhedral, the asymptotic superlinear convergence of our proposed method PPDNA can be obtained by leveraging on the local Lipschitz continuity of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker solution mapping associated with the group graphical Lasso model. A variety of numerical experiments on real data sets illustrates that the PPDNA for solving the group graphical Lasso model can be highly efficient and robust.
description: 24 pages
A model to assess customer alignment through customer experience concepts
Creators: name: Munoz, Leonardo
name: Avila, Oscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: K.4.0

description: Business and Information Technology Alignment (BITA) has been one of the main concerns of IT and Business executives and directors due to its importance to overall company performance, especially today in the age of digital transformation. For BITA has been developed several models which in general has focused in the implementation of alignment strategies for the internal operation of the organizations and in the measurement of this internal alignment, but, there is still a big gap in measurement models of the alignment with the external environment of the organizations. In this paper is presented the design and application of a maturity measurement model for BITA with the customers, where the customers are actors of the external environment of the companies. The proposed model involves evaluation criteria and business practices which the companies ideally do for improve the relationship with their customers.
description: 12 pages, Preprint version, BIS 2019 International Workshops, Seville, Spain, June 26 to 28, 2019, Revised Papers
Chiral de Rham complex
Creators: name: Malikov, Fyodor
name: Schechtman, Vadim
name: Vaintrob, Arkady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The aim of this note is to define certain sheaves of vertex algebras on smooth manifolds. For each smooth complex algebraic (or analytic) manifold $X$, we construct a sheaf $Ω^{ch}_X$, called the {\bf chiral de Rham complex} of $X$. It is a sheaf of vertex algebras in the Zarisky (or classical) topology, It comes equipped with a $\BZ$-grading by {\it fermionic charge}, and the {\it chiral de Rham differential} $d_{DR}^{ch}$, which is an endomorphism of degree 1 such that $(d_{DR}^{ch})^2=0$. One has a canonical embedding of the usual de Rham complex $(Ω_X, d_{DR})\hra (Ω_X^{ch}, d_{DR}^{ch})$ which is a quasiisomorphism. If $X$ is Calabi-Yau then this sheaf admits an N=2 supersymmetry. For some $X$ (for example, for curves or for the flag spaces $G/B$), one can construct also a purely even analogue of this sheaf, a {\it chiral structure sheaf} $\CO^{ch}_X$. For the projective line, the space of global sections of the last sheaf is the irreducible vacuum $\hsl(2)$-module on the critical level.
description: 37 pages, Tex. Completed and revised version, to appear in CMP (1999)
Archelatona Kotov & Korovchinsky 2006, GEN. NOV.
Creators: name: Kotov, Alexey A.
name: Korovchinsky, Nikolai M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Sididae
Archelatona

description: ARCHELATONA GEN. NOV.   Type species. Archelatona zherikhini sp. nov.
 Etymology. The name originates from the Greek αρχη ¢ ¢ meaning origin, and the genus name Latona, from which the name of the tribe Latonini was derived.
 Diagnosis. Large cladocerans, with body size about 1.8–3.0 mm. Antenna II with two-segmented exopod and three-segmented endopod. Distolateral spines on both basal and distal segments of antennal exopod small. Antennal setae (7–9)–(11–15)/(0)–(≥ 1)–(4), all setae of endopod similar, unspecialized.
 Differential diagnosis. Archelatona gen. nov. differs from all close (Recent) genera of the tribe (Latona, Latonopsis, Sarsilatona, Pseudosida) in having small distolateral spines on both the basal and the distal segments of the antennal exopod and similar, unspecialized setae on the endopod.
description: Published as part of Kotov, Alexey A. & Korovchinsky, Nikolai M., 2006, First record of fossil Mesozoic Ctenopoda (Crustacea, Cladocera), pp. 269-274 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (2) on page 270, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00204.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5435761
title: Μαθηματική πρόβλεψη ηλιακής ακτινοβολίας με χρήση νευρωνικών δικτύων:
Εφαρμογή σε πράσινα ενεργειακά συστήματα
title: Model prediction of solar radiation through neural networks: Application in green energy systems

Creators: name: Καλαϊτζακη Μαρια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2022

description: Στις μέρες μας είναι επιτακτική η ανάγκη της διαφοροποίησης του τρόπου ζωής μας, καθώς έχει προκαλέσει κατά βάση μια σύγχυση τόσο στην ατμόσφαιρα όσο και στην βιοποικιλότητα του πλανήτη μας. Καλούμαστε λοιπόν να αναθεωρήσουμε και να ακολουθήσουμε έναν πιο οικολογικό τρόπο ζωής, τόσο σε ατομικό όσο και σε επιχειρηματικό επίπεδο, έτσι ώστε να επιτευχθούν σημαντικές μειώσεις στα ποσοστά των αέριων ρύπων που προέρχονται από ανθρώπινες ενέργειες.  Για να πραγματοποιηθούν όμως τα παραπάνω, πέρα από την προσωπική συνείδηση, είναι αναγκαίο να αναπτυχθούν περαιτέρω οι τεχνολογίες των Ανανεώσιμων Πηγών Ενέργειας που θα δύνανται να προωθήσουν την πράσινη ενέργεια στον επιχειρηματικό τομέα. Με γνώμονα τα παραπάνω, στην εν λόγω εργασία παρουσιάζεται μία ολιστική μεθοδολογία ανάπτυξης ενός μοντέλου πρόβλεψης ηλιακής ακτινοβολίας το οποίο μπορεί να αποτελέσει την βάση για την αποδοτική λειτουργία φωτοβολταϊκών συστημάτων συνδεδεμένων σε πρότυπες ενεργειακές μονάδες (όπως τα θερμοκήπια, βιομηχανικές εγκαταστάσεις παραγωγής ενέργειας κ.α.). Ειδικότερα, το μοντέλο πρόβλεψης αναπτύσσεται μέσω ενός νευρωνικού δικτύου, το οποίο με χρήση καιρικών δεδομένων προηγούμενων ετών, εκπαιδεύεται και διεκπεραιώνει την πρόβλεψη της ηλιακής ακτινοβολίας. Χρησιμοποιούνται δεδομένα πέντε ετών (2016-2020), τα τέσσερα πρώτα έτη χρησιμοποιούνται στο στάδιο της εκπαίδευσης, ενώ το πέμπτο και τελευταίο έτος είναι αυτό για το οποίο εκτελούνται οι προβλέψεις. Το μοντέλο πραγματοποιεί συνολικά πέντε προβλέψεις, μία για κάθε εποχή και μία για ολόκληρο το έτος. Τέλος, τα αποτελέσματα τα οποία προκύπτουν από την πρόβλεψη του νευρωνικού δικτύου συγκρίνονται με τα πραγματικά δεδομένα και γίνεται αξιολόγηση της αποδοτικότητας καθώς και της ορθότητας των αποτελεσμάτων που προέκυψαν από το νευρωνικό δίκτυο. Η αποδοτικότητα και η ορθότητα της λειτουργίας του νευρωνικού δικτύου κρίνεται μέσω της σύγκρισης των πραγματικών και των προβλεπόμενων τιμών καθώς και από τα σφάλματα, τόσο το απόλυτο όσο και το σχετικό, που εμφανίζονται στην κατακλείδα της διπλωματικής αυτής. Στην εργασία αυτή η πρόβλεψη έχει ως απώτερο σκοπό να υποβοηθήσει και να προτρέψει έναν επιχειρηματία στο να επενδύσει στην πράσινη επιχειρηματικότητα.
Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System
Creators: name: KTeV Collaboration
name: Alavi-Harati, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a series of measurements based on K -> pi+pi- and K -> pi0pi0 decays collected in 1996-1997 by the KTeV experiment (E832) at Fermilab. We compare these four K -> pipi decay rates to measure the direct CP violation parameter Re(e'/e) = (20.7 +- 2.8) x 10^-4. We also test CPT symmetry by measuring the relative phase between the CP violating and CP conserving decay amplitudes for K->pi+pi- (phi+-) and for K -> pi0pi0 (phi00). We find the difference between the relative phases to be Delta-phi = phi00 - phi+- = (+0.39 +- 0.50) degrees and the deviation of phi+- from the superweak phase to be phi+- - phi_SW =(+0.61 +- 1.19) degrees; both results are consistent with CPT symmetry. In addition, we present new measurements of the KL-KS mass difference and KS lifetime: Delta-m = (5261 +- 15) x 10^6 hbar/s and tauS = (89.65 +- 0.07) x 10^-12 s.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. D, August 6, 2002; 37 pages, 32 figures
Absolutely closed nil-2 groups
Creators: name: Magidin, Arturo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E06, 20F18 (primary)

description: Using the description of dominions in the variety of nilpotent groups of class at most two, we give a characterization of which groups are absolutely closed in this variety. We use the general result to derive an easier characterization for some subclasses; e.g. an abelian group $G$ is absolutely closed in ${\cal N}_2$ if and only if $G/pG$ is cyclic for every prime $p$.
description: 21 pages plain TeX. Final version, with full classification
title: Factors Influencing Physical Activity Levels in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Creators: name: Myers, Justin E
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: COPD
subject: physical activity
subject: characteristics

description: Decreased levels of physical activity is common amongst individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and has been directly associated with reduced survival, decreased quality of life and increased health care utilisation. Physical activity is a complex, multifactorial behaviour, and the development of multi sensor physical activity monitors has enabled researchers and clinicians alike to quantify this behaviour with greater degree of accuracy. However, despite this improved measurement capacity the clinical characteristics related to physical activity in COPD remain unclear. Using a historical data-base, the aim of this thesis was to examine how standard clinical characteristics such as anthropometry, lung function, exercise capacity (assessed by the sixminute walk distance) and quadricep strength were related to physical activity in two groups of COPD patients, one group with more severe disease referred to outpatient lung transplant assessment (pre-LTx group) (n=90) and another with less severe disease referred to attend a tertiary outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation program (pre-PR group) (n=70). This retrospective cross-sectional study included COPD patients that attended The Prince Charles Hospital between 2008 and 2013 and had a valid measurement of physical activity level as recorded by the SenseWear Armband.
An Exact Approach to the Oscillator Radiation Process in an Arbitrarily Large Cavity
Creators: name: Andion, N. P.
name: Malbouisson, A. P. C.
name: Neto, A. Mattos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from a solution of the problem of a mechanical oscillator coupled to a scalar field inside a reflecting sphere of radius $R$, we study the behaviour of the system in free space as the limit of an arbitrarily large radius in the confined solution. From a mathematical point of view we show that this way of facing the problem is not equivalent to consider the system {\it a} {\it priori} embedded in infinite space. In particular, the matrix elements of the transformation turning the system to principal axis, do not tend to distributions in the limit of an arbitrarily large sphere as it should be the case if the two procedures were mathematically equivalent. Also, we introduce "dressed" coordinates which allow an exact description of the oscillator radiation process for any value of the coupling, strong or weak. In the case of weak coupling, we recover from our exact expressions the well known decay formulas from perturbation theory.
description: 27 pages
On the Hasse invariants of the Tate normal forms $E_5$ and $E_7$
Creators: name: Morton, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H52, 11G15, 11G20, 11R29, 11R37

description: A formula is proved for the number of linear factors over $\mathbb{F}_l$ of the Hasse invariant of the Tate normal form $E_5(b)$ for a point of order $5$, as a polynomial in the parameter $b$, in terms of the class number of the imaginary quadratic field $K=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-l})$, proving a conjecture of the author from 2005. A similar theorem is proved for quadratic factors with constant term $-1$, and a theorem is stated for the number of quartic factors of a specific form in terms of the class number of $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-5l})$. These results are shown to imply a recent conjecture of Nakaya on the number of linear factors over $\mathbb{F}_l$ of the supersingular polynomial $ss_l^{(5*)}(X)$ corresponding to the Fricke group $Γ_0^*(5)$. The degrees and forms of the irreducible factors of the Hasse invariant of the Tate normal form $E_7$ for a point of order $7$ are determined, which is used to show that the polynomial $ss_l^{(N*)}(X)$ for the group $Γ_0^*(N)$ has roots in $\mathbb{F}_{l^2}$, for any prime $l \neq N$, when $N \in \{2,3,5,7\}$.
description: 37 pages. In version 5, minor corrections have been made
Social Media Macroscope (SMM),  A User-Friendly Open-Source Gateway for Social Media Research
Creators: name: KIM, YONG WOOK
name: Wang, Chen
name: Kooper, Rob
name: Yoon, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Social issues
subject: Social aspects of transport
subject: Other social sciences
subject: FOS: Other social sciences

description: Social Media Intelligence and Learning Environment (SMILE), a key application of the Social Media Macroscope (SMM) project, is an open-source platform tailored for social media research. SMILE addresses the limitations of existing social media analytics tools, such as high costs and restricted access to data acquisition and analysis methodologies. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools via an easy-to-use web interface, facilitating free academic research. By maintaining open-source code, SMILE ensures transparency and reproducibility of the research results. Additionally, it uses the user's credentials for data collection, adhering to social media platform protocols and guidelines to ensure proper data collection.

One notable feature of SMILE is its sentiment analysis capability, which includes the VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) algorithm, SentiWordNet algorithm, and a machine learning-trained sentiment model with debiased word embeddings. This makes SMILE an invaluable tool for researchers aiming to understand and interpret the emotional tone of social media content. Other analytics offered by SMILE include natural language processing, network analysis, and machine learning classification, name entity recognition, and topic modeling,  each incorporating multiple algorithms with appropriate academic citations.

SMILE's microservice architecture ensures portability and scalability. CIlogon provides secure and lightweight identity management. The backend, powered by Node.js/Express and GraphQL, handles user requests and social media data collection. Analytics modules run in separate containers, with RabbitMQ managing communication between the backend and analytics modules. MinIO is employed to provide secure data storage and an integration with NCSA Clowder facilitates community data sharing.

SMILE leverages Docker containers managed by Kubernetes and Helm charts for continuous integration and deployment. All images and deployment charts are accessible on GitHub and Docker Hub. Automation scripts, leveraging GitHub Actions, are in place to simplify build, publication, and deployment tasks, making migration, upgrade, and deployment processes efficient and user-friendly.
B0s Oscillation Results
Creators: name: Willocq, Stephane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review new studies of the time dependence of B0s - B0s-bar mixing by the ALEPH, DELPHI and SLD Collaborations, with an emphasis on the different analysis methods used. Combining all available results yields a preliminary lower limit on the oscillation frequency of dms > 14.4 ps-1 at the 95% C.L.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, contributed to ICHEP2002 proceedings
Sididae INDET.
Creators: name: Kotov, Alexey A.
name: Korovchinsky, Nikolai M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Sididae

description: SIDIDAE INDET.   Locality. Rocks of the northern slope of Ukha Mtount, 6 km west of Somon Khotont, Ara-Khangay Aymag, Mongolia. Numerous freshwater insects (or/and their larvae) from several orders (more than 1500 impressions), characteristic for the latest Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous, were also collected (Rasnitsyn & Quicke, 2002). Only a single ctenopod specimen was found among numerous cladoceran remains (hundreds of impressions), the majority of which were assigned to adult prochydorids and ephippia of daphniids (see Smirnov, 1992).
 Age. Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary, 145 Mya (Rasnitsyn & Quicke, 2002).
 Material. (22) PIN 4307/2005. AII.
 Description. Only rami of antenna II of this putative sidid cladoceran have been preserved, although not too distinct (Fig. 2E), antennal formula (9)–(> 11)/ (0)–(≥ 1)–(≥ 3). The reconstruction of the impression is shown in Fig. 2 (F). Both rami seem to be thin, but this may be an artefact. Exopod length 0.91 mm. Apical setae of the exopod, one of the apical setae of the endopod and distolateral spines of the ramal segments are apparently missing. Approximate body size 2.7 mm.
description: Published as part of Kotov, Alexey A. & Korovchinsky, Nikolai M., 2006, First record of fossil Mesozoic Ctenopoda (Crustacea, Cladocera), pp. 269-274 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (2) on page 273, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00204.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5435761
title: Multi-lingual Text Processing from Videos
Creators: name: Sharma, Nabin
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Multi-lingual video word dataset
subject: Videotex systems

description: Advances in digital technology have produced low priced portable imaging devices such as digital cameras attached to mobile phones, camcorders, PDA’s etc. which are highly portable. These devices can be used to capture videos and images at ease, which can be shared through the internet and other communication media. In the commercial do- main, cameras are used to create news, advertisement videos and other forms of material for information communication. The use of multiple languages to create information for targeted audiences is quite common in countries having multiple oﬃcial languages. Trans- mission of news, advertisement videos and images across various communication channels has created large databases of videos and these are increasing exponentially. Eﬀective management of such databases requires proper indexing for the retrieval of relevant in- formation. Text information is dominant in most of the videos and images, which can be used as keywords for retrieval of relevant video and images. Automatic annotation of videos and images to extract keywords requires the text to be converted to an editable form. This thesis addresses the problem of multi-lingual text processing from video frames. Multi-lingual text processing involves text detection, word segmentation, script identiﬁcation, and text recognition. Additionally, text frame classiﬁcation is required to avoid processing a video frame which does not contain text information. A new multi-lingual video word dataset was created and published as a part of the current research. The dataset comprises words of ten scripts, namely English (Roman), Hindi (Devanagari), Bengali (Bangla), Arabic, Oriya, Gujrathi, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. This dataset was created to facilitate future research on multi-lingual text recognition.
Homotopical approach to quantum contextuality
Creators: name: Okay, Cihan
name: Raussendorf, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the phenomenon of quantum mechanical contextuality, and specifically parity-based proofs thereof. Mermin's square and star are representative examples. Part of the information invoked in such contextuality proofs is the commutativity structure among the pertaining observables. We investigate to which extent this commutativity structure alone determines the viability of a parity-based contextuality proof. We establish a topological criterion for this, generalizing an earlier result by Arkhipov.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures
title: Ethical Encounter Theology: An Inter-Disciplinary Consonance
Creators: name: Rice, Martin James
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Ethical encounter theology
subject: Ethically-structured cosmogony
subject: Theology/science research
subject: Biblical story

description: Ethical Encounter Theology (E.E.T.) is developed as a scientifically coherent, perfect being theist worldview, supported by holistic biblical readings and a strong theodicy. Ethically-structured cosmogony bridges the revelational/empirical gap that separates traditional perfect being theism from Theology/Science research. The dissertation explores an ethical worldview where biblical faith in a perfect God is consonant with contemporary science. Processes of ethical encounter, binary ethical apocalypsis and ethical dialysis characterize a worldview in which science and traditional theology can share a goal of exposing and separating right from wrong. Ecollation (physical actualization of invisible information) and binary ethical apocalypsis (reification of right and wrong ethical possibilities) are argued to have accompanied the progress of naturalistic evolution and to have added lasting meaning to world history. The ethical structuring of our world is argued to have begun with a prolepsis (and/or divine prescience) of moral evil. That caused the cosmic ethical anthropic problem (c.e.a.p.) which imprisoned creation’s goodness in a singularity of selfishness. An encounter with divine self-giving love then enabled this to expand into our universe. Thus evolutionary complexification takes place in a matrix of invisible potentials, including right and wrong ethical possibilities. The visible and invisible moieties of a creatio ex ethica universe facilitate an ongoing dialectic between divine right ethics and human resistance to virtue. All evolutionary history is expected to be conserved to constitute the evidence required for eschatological justice. This differentiates E.E.T. from those naturalistic and panentheistic theologies where history is disposable. The biblical story of original sin is taken to be a dramatization of the primal problem (c.e.a.p.) between God and humankind. Freedom of choice is the divine means for there to be a just judgment and ethical dialysis at the Eschaton. Our anthropic universe’s contingency, waste, suffering, injustice and futility are consequences of the freedom required to resolve the c.e.a.p. Nevertheless, ethical identification and separation processes are specifically salvific, eternally instructive and greatly honor God. They provide a theologically very good motive for creating a universe like ours.
Relaxation oscillations and negative strain rate sensitivity in the Portevin - Le Chatelier effect
Creators: name: Rajesh, S.
name: Ananthakrishna, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A characteristic feature of the Portevin - Le Chatelier effect or the jerky flow is the stick-slip nature of stress-strain curves which is believed to result from the negative strain rate dependence of the flow stress. The latter is assumed to result from the competition of a few relevant time scales controlling the dynamics of jerky flow. We address the issue of time scales and its connection to the negative strain rate sensitivity of the flow stress within the framework of a model for the jerky flow which is known to reproduce several experimentally observed features including the negative strain rate sensitivity of the flow stress. We attempt to understand the above issues by analyzing the geometry of the slow manifold underlying the relaxational oscillations in the model. We show that the nature of the relaxational oscillations is a result of the atypical bent geometry of the slow manifold. The analysis of the slow manifold structure helps us to understand the time scales operating in different regions of the slow manifold. Using this information we are able to establish connection with the strain rate sensitivity of the flow stress. The analysis also helps us to provide a proper dynamical interpretation for the negative branch of the strain rate sensitivity.
description: 7 figures, To appear in Phys. Rev. E
Central­‐Local Relations and Change in Japan’s Prefectural Elections
Creators: Hong, Jean Xiaojun
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Despite widespread calls for political change stemming from public dissatisfaction over a plethora of evidence of backdoor dealings and how politics has been run, intent to thoroughly reform the political system is not evident among parties. In this paper, I investigate why this is so among local parties. I argue that one largely overlooked reason is the restrictions on local governments in the form of central local relations. Because local governments depend on the center for funds and administrative support to implement many policies and carry out public works projects, they cannot afford to endanger their relations with the central government and are thus cautious when responding to public demands for administrative reform. They are also circumscribed by what local governments can carry out given their limited administrative and financial powers. In the first part of this paper, I look at the intent of parties to affect change by examining local party manifestos from the LDP and the DPJ across 23 prefectures. Local  party manifestos  began to be used in 2003 and has been increasingly in elections ever since. My inquiry is made based on an analysis of local party manifesto content. Policy proposals are categorized into various groups, and the compositions of manifestos are compared across parties. I establish that local parties look beyond voters’ preferences and their own ideological positions when proposing policies. Specifically, central‐local relations are also taken into  account. In the  second part, I investigate how the contents of LDP local  party manifestos vary with the strength of central­-local  relations. First, I compare the parties of local politicians in prefectural assemblies with the parties of national politicians in their respective Lower House election districts to determine the degree of matching between parties of local and national politicians. Next, I draw from the analysis of local party manifestos in the previous section and examine it in view of the degree of congruity between parties of local and national politicians. Results indicate that prefectures with closer central-local relations (as approximated by the degree of matching between parties of local prefectural assembly politicians and Lower House politicians) have a lower proportion of policies that deal with administrative and political reform. This confirms my hypothesis that local governments in prefectures with stronger central-­local ties are more restrained than local governments in prefectures with weaker ties, and therefore are less likely to propose policies advocating administrative reform.
Analysis and synthesis of feature map for kernel-based quantum classifier
Creators: name: Suzuki, Yudai
name: Yano, Hiroshi
name: Gao, Qi
name: Uno, Shumpei
name: Tanaka, Tomoki
name: Akiyama, Manato
name: Yamamoto, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for analyzing the feature map for the kernel-based quantum classifier is developed; that is, we give a general formula for computing a lower bound of the exact training accuracy, which helps us to see whether the selected feature map is suitable for linearly separating the dataset. We show a proof of concept demonstration of this method for a class of 2-qubit classifier, with several 2-dimensional dataset. Also, a synthesis method, that combines different kernels to construct a better-performing feature map in a lager feature space, is presented.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables
A precision measurement of direct CP violation in the decay of neutral kaons into two pions
Creators: name: Batley, J. R.
name: collaboration, NA48
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The direct CP violation parameter Re(epsilon'/epsilon) has been measured from the decay rates of neutral kaons into two pions using the NA48 detector at the CERN SPS. The 2001 running period was devoted to collecting additional data under varied conditions compared to earlier years (1997-99). The new data yield the result: Re(epsilon'/epsilon) = (13.7 +/- 3.1) times 10^{-4}. Combining this result with that published from the 1997, 98 and 99 data, an overall value of Re(epsilon'/epsilon) = (14.7 +/- 2.2) times 10^{-4} is obtained from the NA48 experiment.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Physics Letters B
Structure-activity relationship of atorvastatin derivatives for metabolic activation by hydrolases
Creators: name: Mizoi, Kenta
name: Takahashi, Masato
name: Sakai, Sachiko
name: Ogihara, Takuo
name: Haba, Masami
name: Masakiyo Hosokawa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Computational Biology

description: 1. We investigated the structure-activity relationship of 31 kinds of synthesized atorvastatin esters, thioesters, amides and lactone, selected as prodrug models, for metabolic activation by microsomes and hydrolases. 2. The susceptibility to human carboxylesterase 1 (hCES1) was influenced not only by the size of the acyl group and alkoxy group but also by the degree of steric crowding around the alkoxy group. 3. The susceptibility to human carboxylesterase 2 (hCES2) increased with a decrease in electron density around the alkoxy group of the substrate. 4. Lactone was specifically hydrolyzed by paraoxonase 3 (PON3). 5. These findings should be useful in prodrug design for controlling metabolic activation.
Electrostatic binding of polyanions using self-assembled multivalent (SAMul) ligand displays – structure–activity effects on DNA/heparin binding
Creators: name: Fechner, Loryn E.
name: Albanyan, Buthaina
name: Vieira, Vânia M. P.
name: Laurini, Erik
name: Posocco, Paola
name: Pricl, Sabrina
name: Smith, David K.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie

description: This paper reports that modifying the ligands in self-assembled multivalent (SAMul) displays has an impact on apparent binding selectivity towards two nanoscale biological polyanions – heparin and DNA. For the nanostructures assayed here, spermidine ligands are optimal for heparin binding but spermine ligands are preferred for DNA. Probing subtle differences in such nanoscale binding interfaces is a significant challenge, and as such, several experimental binding assays – competition assays and isothermal calorimetry – are employed to confirm differences in affinity and provide thermodynamic insights. Given the dynamic nature and hierarchical binding processes involved in SAMul systems, we employed multiscale modelling to propose reasons for the origins of polyanion selectivity differences. The modelling results, when expressed in thermodynamic terms and compared with the experimental data, suggest that DNA is a shape-persistent polyanion, and selectivity originates only from ligand preferences, whereas heparin is more flexible and adaptive, and as such, actively reinforces ligand preferences. As such, this study suggests that inherent differences between polyanions may underpin subtle binding selectivity differences, and that even simple electrostatic interfaces such as these can have a degree of tunability, which has implications for biological control and regulation on the nanoscale.
Additional file 1 of Predicting cell invasion in breast tumor microenvironment from radiological imaging phenotypes
Creators: name: Arefan, Dooman
name: Hausler, Ryan M.
name: Sumkin, Jules H.
name: Sun, Min
name: Wu, Shandong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. The list of higher order statistical features and input parameters.
title: State interventions in public space in Athens and the mediatization of the crisis
title: Sustaining the unsustainable using precarity as a tool
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fotiadi, Eva
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie

description: The article argues that since December 2008, the continuous presence in public space in Athens and the spectacular mediatization in news reports, of various forms of the so-called anomie, as well as (since 2012) of its spectacular and violent repression by the police, were instrumentalized by the Greek austerity government in an attempt to enhance and manipulate already existing feelings of precarity among the population. Organized police operations in public space were turned into ‘media events’. Specifically, ‘affective precarity’ is considered as a way of demobilizing precarity as a politically and economically operative concept. The article adopts Lauren Berlant’s analysis of the relation between precarity and the austerity state.
Accelerating Muons to 2400 GeV/c with Dogbones Followed by Interleaved Fast Ramping Iron and Fixed Superconducting Magnets
Creators: name: Summers, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first acceleration stage for this muon collider scenario includes twenty passes through a single two GeV Linac. Teardrop shaped arcs of 1.8 Tesla fixed field magnets are used at each end of the Linac. This dogbone geometry minimizes muon decay losses because muons pass through shorter arcs when their gamma boost is low. Two 2200 meter radius hybrid rings of fixed superconducting magnets and iron magnets ramping at 200 Hz and 330 Hz are used as part of the second stage of muon acceleration. Muons are given 25 GeV of RF energy per orbit. Acceleration is from 250 GeV/c to 2400 GeV/c and requires a total of 86 orbits in both rings; 82% of the muons survive. The total power consumption of the iron dipoles is 4 megawatts. Stranded copper conductors and thin magnetic laminations are used to reduce power losses.
description: 5 pages, LaTex, Snowmass 2001 conference contribution
Admissible and attainable convergence behavior of block Arnoldi and GMRES
Creators: name: Kubínová, Marie
name: Soodhalter, Kirk M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65F10, 65F15

description: It is well-established that any non-increasing convergence curve is possible for GMRES and a family of pairs $(A,b)$ can be constructed for which GMRES exhibits a given convergence curve with $A$ having arbitrary spectrum. No analog of this result has been established for block GMRES, wherein multiple right-hand sides are considered. By reframing the problem as a single linear system over a ring of square matrices, we develop convergence results for block Arnoldi and block GMRES. In particular, we show what convergence behavior is admissible for block GMRES and how the matrices and right-hand sides producing any admissible behavior can be constructed. Moreover, we show that the convergence of the block Arnoldi method for eigenvalue approximation can be almost fully independent of the convergence of block GMRES for the same coefficient matrix and the same starting vectors.
description: 23 pages
Exotic subfactors of finite depth with Jones indices (5+sqrt{13})/2 and (5+sqrt{17})/2
Creators: name: Asaeda, M.
name: Haagerup, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 46L37, 81T05

description: We prove existence of subfactors of finite depth of the hyperfinite II_1 factor with indices (5+sqrt{13})/2= 4.302... and (5+sqrt{17})/2=4.561.... The existence of the former was announced by the second named author in 1993 and that of the latter has been conjectured since then. These are the only known subfactors with finite depth which do not arise from classical groups, quantum groups or rational conformal field theory.
description: 70 pages, Latex, using epic.sty, eepic.sty, epsf.sty, here.sty
Drift chamber readout system of the DIRAC experiment
Creators: name: Afanasyev, L.
name: Karpukhin, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A drift chamber readout system of the DIRAC experiment at CERN is presented. The system is intended to read out the signals from planar chambers operating in a high current mode. The sense wire signals are digitized in the 16-channel time-to-digital converter boards which are plugged in the signal plane connectors. This design results in a reduced number of modules, a small number of cables and high noise immunity. The system has been successfully operating in the experiment since 1999
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
title: Comparative regionalism
title: a new research agenda
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Börzel, Tanja A.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: 1\. Introduction 2\. The History of Regionalism: European Integration and Beyond 3\. The Outcome of Regionalism: Inter-, Supra- or Post-National? 3.1 From Cooperation to Integration 3.2 New and Old Regionalism 3.3 Persisting Diversity or Emerging Similarity? 4\. The Drivers of Regionalism: Old Theories and New Puzzles 4.1 The Demand for Regionalism. It Is Not Only the Economy, Stupid! 4.2 The Supply of Regionalism. Interests, Power, and Norms 5\. When Regionalism Hits Home. Policy Harmonization and Structural Change 5.1 From Second Image Reversed... 5.2 ... to Europeanization and Domestic Change 6\. Conclusions Literature
description: After the end of the Cold War, students of International Relations observed an expansion of inter-state activities at the regional level. Regional and sub- regional groupings appeared to gain momentum as the way in which countries cooperate and should cooperate to pursue peace, stability, wealth and social justice. The surge and resurgence of regionalism has triggered the proliferation of concepts and approaches. The focus of this paper will be on processes and structures of state-led regionalism driven by the delegation of policies and political authority to regional institutions. Based on this understanding of regionalism, the existing literature will be reviewed with regard to three general questions. These questions do not only require research across regions but also allow developing a common research agenda to accumulate knowledge generated about specific regions. First, what are the outcomes of regionalism? How can we describe and compare the results of the delegation of policies and political authority? Second, what are the drivers of regionalism? Why do some governments choose to delegate policies and political authority while others do not? Finally, what are the internal effects of regionalism? How does the delegation of policies and political authority impact back on the domestic structures of the states involved?
Focal loci of families and the genus of curves on surfaces
Creators: name: Chiantini, L.
name: Lopez, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J29

description: In this article we apply the classical method of focal loci of families to give a lower bound for the genus of curves lying on general surfaces. First we translate and reprove Xu's result that any curve C on a general surface in P^3 of degree d>4 has geometric genus g > 1 + deg(C)(d - 5)/2. Then we prove a similar lower bound for the curves lying on a general surface in a given component of the Noether-Lefschetz locus in P^3 and on a general projectively Cohen-Macaulay surface in P^4.
description: Plain TeX, 11 pages, to appear on PAMS. Minor corrections in the statement of 1.3 and in remark 3.4
Sensitivity of future lepton colliders and low-energy experiments to charged lepton flavor violation from bileptons
Creators: name: Li, Tong
name: Schmidt, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of charged lepton flavor violation is a clear sign of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). In this work, we investigate the sensitivity of future lepton colliders to charged lepton flavor violation via on-shell production of bileptons, and compare their sensitivity with current constraints and future sensitivities of low-energy experiments. Bileptons couple to two charged leptons with possibly different flavors and are obtained by expanding the general SM gauge invariant Lagrangians with or without lepton number conservation. We find that future lepton colliders will provide complementary sensitivity to the charged-lepton-flavor-violating couplings of bileptons compared with low-energy experiments. The future improvements of muonium-antimuonium conversion, lepton flavor non-universality in leptonic τ decays, electroweak precision observables and the anomalous magnetic moments of charged leptons will also be able to probe similar parameter space.
description: 32 pages, 4 figures, 8 tables, matches published version in PRD
Challenges and Opportunities of Cultural Planning in China: A Case Study of Tianqiao Performing Arts District Planning in Beijing
Creators: Tian, Chengqi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: City planning
Cultural property
Cultural policy--Planning
Cities and towns--Growth

description: Over the past decades, the economic progress made in China has radically transformed the neighborhoods in Chinese cities. Accompanying the rapid urban expansion, however, is the destruction of both tangible historic structures and diminishment of intangible cultural heritage in many cities. As many of the historic cities are facing the dual challenges of both stimulating urban development and preserving cultural heritage, many major cities in China, therefore, choose to establish cultural districts as a way of capturing the economic potential of cultural heritage while preserving the cultural heritage itself. The cultural, economic, and administrative contexts in China have added to the complexities of cultural planning in China and posed many challenges for implementing cultural plans. Those challenges and complexities are particularly pronounced in major Chinese cities playing important political and economic roles. Therefore, this thesis aims to understand those challenges and complexities through a qualitative case study on one cultural district in central Beijing, the Tianqiao Performing Arts District. Tianqiao Performing Arts District aims to accomplish two purposes: urban revitalization and reestablishing the region as the city’s cultural center. However, since its announcement in 2009, the government has not made much progress in accomplishing its goals. The implementation of the plan has stagnated and so far its positive impacts are limited. The thesis, therefore, examines the factors hindering the progress of the through interviews of those relevant stakeholders and on-site observations. After collecting those information, the paper will formulate some recommendations that can alleviate the issues that hinder the progress of the plan. Through the case study of Tianqiao Performing Arts District, this thesis aims to examine the challenges and opportunities facing cultural planning in China and identifying the challenges facing cultural districts in the particular context of China. The thesis starts with literature reviews of major theories, definitions, and measurement of success for cultural districts, as well as relevant literatures discussing reasons for the successes or failures of cultural districts. In order to answer our research questions, we conducted a study on Tianqiao Performing Arts District in Beijing with on-site observations and qualitative interviews. The qualitative information from interviews were summarized to help us gain an understanding of the factors hindering the progress of the districts; these information will also help us understand what are important for successful cultural planning in the broader context of China.
Interactive process models for knowledge intensive project work
Creators: name: Jørgensen, Håvard D.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik

description: This extended abstract summarises the current state of a thesis project in information systems engineering. The overall problem is to support planning, coordination, management and performance of work in knowledge intensive projects. The approach is to apply interactive process models created and updated by the project participants, to customise and control the behaviour of the computerised support system. A number of new and existing modelling techniques are combined to solve the identified problems of modelling by end users and flexible model-driven computer support. Model reuse is a core challenge both for increasing the usefulness of the models and for minimising the effort of modelling. An innovative framework that supports need driven model reuse has been designed. The contributions of this thesis are validated through prototype implementation, comparison with related work, and user experimentation in case studies. Concrete problem formulation and a definite target audience are identified as the main shortcomings at the current stage of the work.