cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dependence of dissipation on the initial distribution over states
Creators: name: Kolchinsky, Artemy
name: Wolpert, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 82C05

description: We analyze how the amount of work dissipated by a fixed nonequilibrium process depends on the initial distribution over states. Specifically, we compare the amount of dissipation when the process is used with some specified initial distribution to the minimal amount of dissipation possible for any initial distribution. We show that the difference between those two amounts of dissipation is given by a simple information-theoretic function that depends only on the initial and final state distributions. Crucially, this difference is independent of the details of the process relating those distributions. We then consider how dissipation depends on the initial distribution for a 'computer', i.e., a nonequilibrium process whose dynamics over coarse-grained macrostates implement some desired input-output map. We show that our results still apply when stated in terms of distributions over the computer's coarse-grained macrostates. This can be viewed as a novel thermodynamic cost of computation, reflecting changes in the distribution over inputs rather than the logical dynamics of the computation.
Sustainable Hazard Mitigation: Exploring the Importance of Green Infrastructure in Building Disaster Resilient Communities
Creators: Tyler, Jenna
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sustainable buildings
Natural disasters
Hazard mitigation
Buildings--Natural disaster effects
Sustainable development--Environmental aspects
Sustainable development
Sustainability
Engineering

description: Natural disasters continue to plague the United States, undermining the nation’s ability to build disaster resilient communities. Although structural and non-structural mitigation measures are currently in place to lessen the impact natural disasters have on society, little attention has been given to the construction of green infrastructure as a sustainable hazard mitigation strategy. The purpose of this article is to explore the benefits of green infrastructure as a sustainable hazard mitigation strategy and offer recommendations to public sector entities to build disaster resilient communities.
Queer Theory Meets Jung
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Claudetter
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: I  will  begin  by  disclosing  my  own  prejudices  since  they  surely  have shaped my reactions to these chapters. Psychological  Prejudices.  In  spite  of  the  sexism,  heterosex-ism, and racism that invade Carl Jung’s theorizing, I am a Jungi-an—or, more accurately, a post-Jungian1—and a feminist. The challenge  for  me  as  a  lesbian  Jungian  has  been  not  to  defend,  reinterpret, contort, or reformulate Jung and his theories—but, rather,  to  use  Jung,  often  against  himself,  in  ways  that  seem  “truly  Jungian”  and  thus,  hopefully,  to  follow  through  on  the  “subversive possibility that Jung opens up” (Samuels 1989, tape) when we take him “beyond” himself. Philosophical Horizons. My reading in queer theory has been motivated mainly by the work of Judith Butler and has focused on  queer  theory’s  usefulness  in  understanding  LGBTQI  experi-ence in a heterosexist and genderized world. My philosophical prejudices derive from the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, espe-cially his approach to hermeneutics and the problem of under-standing.
The Politics of Social Entrepreneurs in Access to Education: A Case Study of Shan Burmese Refugees in Northwestern Thailand
Creators: Muennig, Peter A.
Su, Celina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Social status
Shan (Asian people)
Social entrepreneurship
Refugees--Education
Refugees--Education (Elementary)
Educational attainment
Public health
Education
South Asians

description: This paper examines social entrepreneurship in a Burmese refugee community as it strives to provide primary education to its children. Despite facing discrimination and fearing Thai authorities, our project leaders exemplified social entrepreneurship, most notably building social capital and agency within the refugee community, and surprisingly resolving intractable problems. Key processes included helping parents claim ownership of the program, depoliticizing the children's access to education, and encouraging high expectations of school performance. Social relationships built an internally sustainable project at virtually no cost and established bridges across antipathetic parties. We argue that the social entrepreneurship model is useful in contexts where poor communities cannot access non-governmental organizations or government agencies.
Plasma etching of superconducting Niobium tips for scanning tunneling microscopy
Creators: name: Roychowdhury, A.
name: Dana, R.
name: Dreyer, M.
name: Anderson, J. R.
name: Lobb, C. J.
name: Wellstood, F. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a reproducible technique for the fabrication of sharp superconducting Nb tips for scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Sections of Nb wire with 250 $μ$m diameter are dry etched in an SF$_6$ plasma in a Reactive Ion Etcher. The gas pressure, etching time and applied power are chosen to produce a self-sharpening effect to obtain the desired tip shape. The resulting tips are atomically sharp, with radii of less than 100 nm, and generate good STM images and spectroscopy on single crystal samples of Au(111), Au(100), and Nb(100), as well as a doped topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$ at temperatures ranging from 30 mK to 9 K.
description: See supplemental file for conductance map linked to Fig. 5(b)
One-dimensional reflected diffusions with two boundaries and an inverse first-hitting problem
Creators: name: Abundo, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J60, 60H05, 60H10

description: We study an inverse first-hitting problem for a one-dimensional, time-homogeneous diffusion $X(t)$ reflected between two boundaries $a$ and $b,$ which starts from a random position $η.$ Let $a \le S \le b$ be a given threshold, such that $P( η\in [a,S])=1,$ and $F$ an assigned distribution function. The problem consists of finding the distribution of $η$ such that the first-hitting time of $X$ to $S$ has distribution $F.$ This is a generalization of the analogous problem for ordinary diffusions, i.e. without reflecting, previously considered by the author.
Queer Troubles for Psychoanalysis
Creators: name: Owens, Carol
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: As a critical psychologist in Britain in the mid-1990s, I experi-enced  many  of  the  effects  that  queer  theory,  critical  feminism  and  post-structuralism  had  upon  social  science  research  and  discourse theory at this time. Wide-ranging debates about ma-terialism,  essentialism,  and  biological  reductionism  revolved  around  the  purloining  of  the  human  subject  by  mainstream  social,  psychological  and  biomedical  science.  The  critical  pro-ject’s devotion to decentering the same subject, destabilizing the taken-for-granted,  and  deconstructing  the  practices  warranted  by  the  mainstream  contributed  to  the  writing  of  thousands  of  research  articles  and  conference  presentations,  not  to  mention  hundreds  of  books  and  as  many  careers  launched  in  the  mo-bilization of the critical agenda. My own doctoral work on the examination  of  “compulsory  heterosexuality”  at  the  site  of  the  “couple”  as  constituted  by  and  within  the  psy-discourses  was  typical for the time. People like me were usually referred to dis-paragingly within the mainstream as “social constructionists” or worse  “constructivists.”  We  moved  through  our  doctoral  years  occasionally  caught  up  with  dilemmas  over  relativism  which  would  spur  a  whole  other  rake  of  research  articles  and  papers  dedicated to the declaring of the reality of death, the holocaust, and furniture. Some of us were labelled “critical realists” when we  got  too  concerned  about  the  political,  “unreconstructed  feminists”  when  we  worried  overly  about  “woman,”  and  unreflexive allegiance to any of the great “isms” (Marx, Freud, “Fem-in”)  necessitated  some  serious  time  spent  in  the  careful  study  and contemplation of Donna Haraway’s (2013) groundbreaking work Simians, Cyborgs, and Women where we would be firmly reminded that all knowledge is situated, all identities fractured, and that the “local” tops the “global” every time when it comes to  theorizing.  In  general,  at  this  time,  “psychoanalysis”  was  at  best a foolish word, at worst, a bad word.
Clinique
Creators: name: Fradenburg, Aranye
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: Academic  writing  about  psychoanalysis  does  not  often  engage  the practice of psychoanalysis in today’s USA, or vice versa. There are many reasons for this, and one is always wishing there were more  mutual  interest.  The  canons  differ;  academics  still  read  a  lot  of  Freud  and  later  continental  theory,  less  often  Anglo-American object relations theory, and much less often, Thomas Ogden,  Robert  Stoller,  Muriel  Dimen,  Joe  Natterson,  or  Mark  Leffert.  In  my  experience,  American  psychoanalysts  too  often  abdicate  their  intellectual  responsibilities  and  the  social  impli-cations  thereof;  too  few  of  us  regard  ourselves  as  minds  shap-ing  and  being  shaped  by  the  urgent  questions  of  our  time.  In  turn, academic psychoanalytic work does not, in my view, grap-ple closely enough with the reasons why particular people seek treatment, and with the ethics of responding or not responding to  misery  experienced  as  “personal,”  that  is,  felt  to  be  “inside.”  Queer theory has, remarkably, been to-and-fro-ing all over this ground,  in  its  agōn  with  psychoanalysis,  powerfully  critiquing  it, and equally powerfully re-thinking it, finally changing policy and helping to usher in “an exciting [era] of discovery” of sexu-ality’s range and resourcefulness (Roughton 2002, 757, referring to  the  first  decade  of  the  twenty-first  century).  The  chapters  to  which  I’m  responding  here  show  that  the  ground  shared  by  queer  theory  and  psychoanalysis  is  still  something  of  a  battleground,  but  they  also  show  that  the  debate  is  a  highly  creative  one, born of a provocatively uneasy intimacy.
The unusual multiwavelength properties of the gamma-ray source PMNJ1603-4904
Creators: name: Müller, Cornelia
name: Kadler, M.
name: Ojha, R.
name: Böck, M.
name: Krauß, F.
name: Taylor, G. B.
name: Wilms, J.
name: Blanchard, J.
name: Carpenter, B.
name: Dauser, T.
name: Dutka, M.
name: Edwards, P. G.
name: Gehrels, N.
name: Großberger, C.
name: Hase, H.
name: Horiuchi, S.
name: Kreikenbohm, A.
name: Lovell, J. E. J.
name: McConville, W.
name: Phillips, C.
name: Plötz, C.
name: Pursimo, T.
name: Quick, J.
name: Ros, E.
name: Schulz, R.
name: Stevens, J.
name: Tingay, S. J.
name: Trüstedt, J.
name: Tzioumis, A. K.
name: Zensus, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the nature and classification of PMNJ1603-4904, a bright radio source close to the Galactic plane, which is associated with one of the brightest hard-spectrum gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi/LAT. It has previously been classified as a low-peaked BL Lac object based on its broadband emission and the absence of optical emission lines. Optical measurements, however, suffer strongly from extinction and the absence of pronounced short-time gamma-ray variability over years of monitoring is unusual for a blazar. We are combining new and archival multiwavelength data in order to reconsider the classification and nature of this unusual gamma-ray source. For the first time, we study the radio morphology at 8.4GHz and 22.3GHz, and its spectral properties on milliarcsecond (mas) scales, based on VLBI observations from the TANAMI program. We combine the resulting images with multiwavelength data in the radio, IR, optical/UV, X-ray, and gamma-ray regimes. PMNJ1603-4904 shows a symmetric brightness distribution at 8.4GHz on mas-scales, with the brightest, and most compact component in the center of the emission region. The morphology is reminiscent of a Compact Symmetric Object (CSO). Such objects have been predicted to produce gamma-ray emission but have not been detected as a class by Fermi/LAT so far. Sparse (u, v)-coverage at 22.3GHz prevents an unambiguous modeling of the source morphology. IR measurements reveal an excess in the spectral energy distribution (SED), which can be modeled with a blackbody with a temperature of about 1600K, and which is usually not present in blazar SEDs. The VLBI data and the shape of the SED challenge the current blazar classification. PMNJ1603-4904 seems to be either a highly peculiar BL Lac object or a misaligned jet source. In the latter case, the intriguing VLBI structure opens room for a possible classification as a gamma-ray bright CSO.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nonlinear Information Bottleneck
Creators: name: Kolchinsky, Artemy
name: Tracey, Brendan D.
name: Wolpert, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information bottleneck (IB) is a technique for extracting information in one random variable $X$ that is relevant for predicting another random variable $Y$. IB works by encoding $X$ in a compressed "bottleneck" random variable $M$ from which $Y$ can be accurately decoded. However, finding the optimal bottleneck variable involves a difficult optimization problem, which until recently has been considered for only two limited cases: discrete $X$ and $Y$ with small state spaces, and continuous $X$ and $Y$ with a Gaussian joint distribution (in which case optimal encoding and decoding maps are linear). We propose a method for performing IB on arbitrarily-distributed discrete and/or continuous $X$ and $Y$, while allowing for nonlinear encoding and decoding maps. Our approach relies on a novel non-parametric upper bound for mutual information. We describe how to implement our method using neural networks. We then show that it achieves better performance than the recently-proposed "variational IB" method on several real-world datasets.
Brief an E[h]lers
Creators: name: Francke, August Hermann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1722

description: von A[ugust] H[ermann] Francke
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift, Adresse und zwei roten Lacksiegeln
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
Linking Geographic Vocabularies through WordNet
Creators: name: Ballatore, Andrea
name: Bertolotto, Michela
name: Wilson, David C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The linked open data (LOD) paradigm has emerged as a promising approach to structuring and sharing geospatial information. One of the major obstacles to this vision lies in the difficulties found in the automatic integration between heterogeneous vocabularies and ontologies that provides the semantic backbone of the growing constellation of open geo-knowledge bases. In this article, we show how to utilize WordNet as a semantic hub to increase the integration of LOD. With this purpose in mind, we devise Voc2WordNet, an unsupervised mapping technique between a given vocabulary and WordNet, combining intensional and extensional aspects of the geographic terms. Voc2WordNet is evaluated against a sample of human-generated alignments with the OpenStreetMap (OSM) Semantic Network, a crowdsourced geospatial resource, and the GeoNames ontology, the vocabulary of a large digital gazetteer. These empirical results indicate that the approach can obtain high precision and recall.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure
From Tragic Fall to Programmatic Blueprint: "Behold this is Oedipus..."
Creators: name: Cameron, Olga Cox
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: In the first flush of his discoveries Freud (1900) was much given to inventing mottoes for himself and for this new praxis which both excited and disturbed him. “Flectere si nequeo superos, Ach-eronta movebo,” he inscribes as epigraph to The Interpretation of Dreams: “What have they done to you poor child?” he suggests to  Fliess  as  he  attends  to  stories  of  shocking  childhood  abuse  (Masson 1985, 289). Reading this collection of queer responses to psychoanalytic theory I am tempted to affix Barthes’s (1975) statement, “we are scientific because we lack subtlety” (61), less as a motto than as a caveat to the large swathes of psychoanalytic theory  which  Alice  Kuzniar  challenges  in  her  opening  chapter  “Precarious Sexualities.”It is as astonishing to psychoanalysts as to non-analysts that a  theory  predicated  on  the  existence  of  the  unconscious  and  therefore  committed  to  the  radical  undercutting  of  an  abid-ing  undisturbed  notion  of  the  self  should  have  lent  itself  with  such  stalwartness  and  consistency  to  a  version  of  the  Oedipus  complex which in Kuzniar’s words presumes as its telos “a stable fixed identity of personhood that rests solidly within a unitary gender role and unwavering sexual object choice directed to the opposite of one’s own gender.”
Sarah Hibbert and Richard Wrigley, eds. 2014. Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750-1850: Exchanges and Tensions
Creators: Doe, Julia I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Art, French
Art genres
Art--Aesthetics
French Revolution
Opera
Theater

description: The eleven essays in this volume were produced for an interdisciplinary conference, “Correspondances: Exchanges and Tensions between Art, Theatre, and Opera in France, c. 1750–1850,” held at the National Gallery, London in the spring of 2010. This event coincided with an exhibition of the history paintings of Paul Delaroche. The artist’s purportedly “theatrical” style, and longstanding engagement with the theater more broadly, serve as a fitting starting point for a series of explorations of the interplay between the visual arts and the Parisian stage during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. That relationships between artistic media flourished during these years is a scholarly commonplace, as the editors of the collection, Sarah Hibberd and Richard Wrigley, readily admit. They insist, however, (and rightly so) that a framework for interrogating these networks of exchange remains critically underdeveloped. The tasks set forth for these essays, then, are both lofty and laudable: the authors aim to establish new models for examining the points of contact between artists and artistic forms and to more precisely identify “which ideas and images were crossing over, how this occurred, and to what effect” (9). In so doing, they are able to shed light on several larger themes relevant to the study of painting, music, and drama during this period. First, the collection provides fresh insight into persistent questions of genre—so crucial to the production and reception of the arts in France—examining how well (or how problematically) hierarchical divisions might be mapped across media, and probing how the subversion of these boundaries might be imbued with resonances of wider sociopolitical meaning. Moreover, through their generous topical and chronological scope, the contributions to this volume address issues of aesthetic continuity and rupture, seeking to untangle how and when different media were affected by the various institutional restructurings of the turbulent Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary years.
Estimating Mixture Entropy with Pairwise Distances
Creators: name: Kolchinsky, Artemy
name: Tracey, Brendan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mixture distributions arise in many parametric and non-parametric settings -- for example, in Gaussian mixture models and in non-parametric estimation. It is often necessary to compute the entropy of a mixture, but, in most cases, this quantity has no closed-form expression, making some form of approximation necessary. We propose a family of estimators based on a pairwise distance function between mixture components, and show that this estimator class has many attractive properties. For many distributions of interest, the proposed estimators are efficient to compute, differentiable in the mixture parameters, and become exact when the mixture components are clustered. We prove this family includes lower and upper bounds on the mixture entropy. The Chernoff $α$-divergence gives a lower bound when chosen as the distance function, with the Bhattacharyya distance providing the tightest lower bound for components that are symmetric and members of a location family. The Kullback-Leibler divergence gives an upper bound when used as the distance function. We provide closed-form expressions of these bounds for mixtures of Gaussians, and discuss their applications to the estimation of mutual information. We then demonstrate that our bounds are significantly tighter than well-known existing bounds using numeric simulations. This estimator class is very useful in optimization problems involving maximization/minimization of entropy and mutual information, such as MaxEnt and rate distortion problems.
description: Corrects several errata in published version, in particular in Section V (bounds on mutual information)
The Minor Fall, the Major Lift: Inferring Emotional Valence of Musical Chords through Lyrics
Creators: name: Kolchinsky, Artemy
name: Dhande, Nakul
name: Park, Kengjeun
name: Ahn, Yong-Yeol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the association between musical chords and lyrics by analyzing a large dataset of user-contributed guitar tablatures. Motivated by the idea that the emotional content of chords is reflected in the words used in corresponding lyrics, we analyze associations between lyrics and chord categories. We also examine the usage patterns of chords and lyrics in different musical genres, historical eras, and geographical regions. Our overall results confirms a previously known association between Major chords and positive valence. We also report a wide variation in this association across regions, genres, and eras. Our results suggest possible existence of different emotional associations for other types of chords.
description: Royal Society Open Science, 2017
Enigmatic Sexuality
Creators: name: Zeuthen, Katrine
name: Gammelgaard, Judy
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: It was not without hesitation that we agreed to take part in the discussion initiated by the editors of this book. We are only very superficially acquainted with queer theory, and as clinical prac-titioners  we  are  not  quite  at  ease  with  postmodern  and  post-structuralist thinking, and thus we felt ourselves to be unfamil-iar with the perspectives presented by those who are more well versed in this field.In some ways our apprehension was confirmed when we read the texts, but at the same time our curiosity was piqued when we realized that psychoanalysis was being both used and challenged by deconstructive readings of the Freudian theory of sexuality. As we gradually familiarized ourselves with this line of thinking, we found several perspectives we wanted to address. Because of the limited space, our answers to the many interesting and pro-vocative ideas are of course only preliminary. To this we want to add that we have confined ourselves to commenting on the ideas presented in this book and only occasionally on the ideas quoted in the book, many of which we are not familiar with.
Quasinormal Modes of Lovelock Black Holes
Creators: name: Prasobh, C. B.
name: Kuriakose, V. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quasinormal modes of metric perturbations in asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes in the Lovelock model are calculated for different spacetime dimensions and higher orders of curvature. It is analytically established that in the asymptotic limit $l \rightarrow \infty$, the imaginary parts of the quasi normal frequencies become constant for tensor, scalar as well as vector perturbations. Numerical calculation shows that this indeed is the case. Also, the real and imaginary parts of the quasinormal modes are seen to increase as the order of the theory $k$ increases. The real part of the modes decreases as the spacetime dimension $d$ increases, indicating the presence of lower frequency modes in higher dimensions. Also, it is seen that the modes are roughly isospectral at very high values of the spacetime dimension $d$.
Quittung auf Zahlungsanweisung
Creators: name: Flamsteed, John
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1710

description: von John Flamsteed
description: Schriftstück mit vier eigenhändigen Zeilen und Unterschrift auf der Rückseite
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Englisch
Universal points in the asymptotic spectrum of tensors
Creators: name: Christandl, Matthias
name: Vrana, Péter
name: Zuiddam, Jeroen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 15A69, 14L24, 68Q17

description: The asymptotic restriction problem for tensors is to decide, given tensors $s$ and $t$, whether the nth tensor power of $s$ can be obtained from the $(n+o(n))$th tensor power of t by applying linear maps to the tensor legs (this we call restriction), when $n$ goes to infinity. In this context, Volker Strassen, striving to understand the complexity of matrix multiplication, introduced in 1986 the asymptotic spectrum of tensors. Essentially, the asymptotic restriction problem for a family of tensors $X$, closed under direct sum and tensor product, reduces to finding all maps from $X$ to the reals that are monotone under restriction, normalised on diagonal tensors, additive under direct sum and multiplicative under tensor product, which Strassen named spectral points. Strassen created the support functionals, which are spectral points for oblique tensors, a strict subfamily of all tensors. Universal spectral points are spectral points for the family of all tensors. The construction of nontrivial universal spectral points has been an open problem for more than thirty years. We construct for the first time a family of nontrivial universal spectral points over the complex numbers, using quantum entropy and covariants: the quantum functionals. In the process we connect the asymptotic spectrum to the quantum marginal problem and to the entanglement polytope. To demonstrate the asymptotic spectrum, we reprove (in hindsight) recent results on the cap set problem by reducing this problem to computing asymptotic spectrum of the reduced polynomial multiplication tensor, a prime example of Strassen. A better understanding of our universal spectral points construction may lead to further progress on related questions. We additionally show that the quantum functionals characterise asymptotic slice rank for complex tensors.
A Mixed ODE-PDE Model for Vehicular Traffic
Creators: name: Colombo, Rinaldo M.
name: Marcellini, Francesca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a traffic flow model consisting of a gluing between the Lighthill-Whitham and Richards macroscopic model with a first order microscopic follow the leader model. The basic analytical properties of this model are investigated. Existence and uniqueness are proved, as well as the basic estimates on the dependence of solutions from the initial data. Moreover, numerical integrations show some qualitative features of the model, in particular the transfer of information among regions where the different models are used.
Local multiboson factorization of the quark determinant
Creators: name: Cè, Marco
name: Giusti, Leonardo
name: Schaefer, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the recently proposed multiboson domain-decomposed factorization of the gauge-field dependence of the fermion determinant in lattice QCD. In particular, we focus on the case of a lattice divided in an arbitrary number of thick time slices. As a consequence, multiple space-time regions can be updated independently. This allows to address the exponential degradation of the signal-to-noise ration of correlation functions with multilevel Monte Carlo sampling. We show numerical evidence of the effectiveness of a two-level integration for pseudoscalar propagators with momentum and for vector propagators, in a two active regions setup. These results are relevant to lattice computation of the hadronic contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and to heavy meson decay form factors.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at the 35th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 18-24 June 2017, Granada, Spain
The Transforming Nexus: Psychoanalysis, Social Theory and Queer Childhood
Creators: name: Corbett, Ken
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: Twenty-first-century clinical psychoanalysis surely has as much to  do  with  feminism,  queer  theory,  and  social  philosophy  as  it  does  with  Freudian  tenets,  postwar  British  object-relations  theory, American ego psychology, or even modern attachment models. The social critique of the normal is now developing de-velopmental theories. Questioning the rigid necessity of a nor-mative  symbolic  order  has  led  not  only  to  rethinking  human  development, but also to the re-conception of psychotherapeu-tic care.
Reducing the quantum computing overhead with complex gate distillation
Creators: name: Duclos-Cianci, Guillaume
name: Poulin, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In leading fault-tolerant quantum computing schemes, accurate transformation are obtained by a two-stage process. In a first stage, a discrete, universal set of fault-tolerant operations is obtained by error-correcting noisy transformations and distilling resource states. In a second stage, arbitrary transformations are synthesized to desired accuracy by combining elements of this set into a circuit. Here, we present a scheme which merges these two stages into a single one, directly distilling complex transformations. We find that our scheme can reduce the total overhead to realize certain gates by up to a few orders of magnitude. In contrast to other schemes, this efficient gate synthesis does not require computationally intensive compilation algorithms, and a straightforward generalization of our scheme circumvents compilation and synthesis altogether.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
The N = 1 Supersymmetric Wong Equations and the Non-Abelian Landau Problem
Creators: name: Fanuel, Michaël
name: Govaerts, Jan
name: Avossevou, Gabriel Y. H.
name: Dossa, Anselme F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Lagrangian formulation is given extending to N = 1 supersymmetry the motion of a charged point particle with spin in a non-abelian external field. The classical formulation is constructed for any external static non-abelian SU(N) gauge potential. As an illustration, a specific gauge is fixed enabling canonical quantization and the study of the supersymmetric non-abelian Landau problem. The spectrum of the quantum Hamiltonian operator follows in accordance with the supersymmetric structure.
description: 10 pages
Semantic information, autonomous agency, and nonequilibrium statistical physics
Creators: name: Kolchinsky, Artemy
name: Wolpert, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shannon information theory provides various measures of so-called "syntactic information", which reflect the amount of statistical correlation between systems. In contrast, the concept of "semantic information" refers to those correlations which carry significance or "meaning" for a given system. Semantic information plays an important role in many fields, including biology, cognitive science, and philosophy, and there has been a long-standing interest in formulating a broadly applicable and formal theory of semantic information. In this paper we introduce such a theory. We define semantic information as the syntactic information that a physical system has about its environment which is causally necessary for the system to maintain its own existence. "Causal necessity" is defined in terms of counter-factual interventions which scramble correlations between the system and its environment, while "maintaining existence" is defined in terms of the system's ability to keep itself in a low entropy state. We also use recent results in nonequilibrium statistical physics to analyze semantic information from a thermodynamic point of view. Our framework is grounded in the intrinsic dynamics of a system coupled to an environment, and is applicable to any physical system, living or otherwise. It leads to formal definitions of several concepts that have been intuitively understood to be related to semantic information, including "value of information", "semantic content", and "agency".
Clinical Encounters: The Queer New Times
Creators: name: Weatherill, Rob
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: “Let’s get a few things straight,” says a middle-aged man at the beginning of yet another fraught session, “I want you to accept that I am a married man; I am heterosexual and happy to be so; I love my wife and my children; I am good at my work. So can we return to what I sought these sessions for in the first place, namely my chronic anxiety? This is what I need to put right and I need your help.” Of course, this demand for the analyst to get a few things clear—“straight”—is precisely the issue: the analyst simply repeats the guiding principle about free association.
Brief an les Prêteurs du Senat
Creators: name: Monge, Gaspard
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1800

description: Il prie les Prêteurs du Senat de les convoquer
description: von [Gaspard] Monge
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und Adresse
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
Brief an [Gilles Germain Richard] de Ruffey
Creators: name: Buffon, Georges Louis Le Clerc de
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1753

description: von [Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de] Buffon
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift, Adresse und rotem Lacksiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
Brief an [William Strahan]
Creators: name: Hume, David
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1756

description: von David Hume
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Englisch
description: Stark, Werner/Klemme, Heiner. - Ein unbeachtet gebliebener Brief von David Hume. In: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie; 72 (1990), H. 2, S. 214-219
Relative Transfer Function Estimation Exploiting Spatially Separated Microphones in a Diffuse Noise Field
Creators: name: Gößling, N.
name: Doclo, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
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: Many multi-microphone speech enhancement algorithms require the relative transfer function (RTF) vector of the desired speech source, relating the acoustic transfer functions of all array microphones to a reference microphone. In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient method to estimate the RTF vector in a diffuse noise field, which requires an additional microphone that is spatially separated from the microphone array, such that the spatial coherence between the noise components in the microphone array signals and the additional microphone signal is low. Assuming this spatial coherence to be zero, we show that an unbiased estimate of the RTF vector can be obtained. Based on real-world recordings experimental results show that the proposed RTF estimator outperforms state-of-the-art estimators using only the microphone array signals in terms of estimation accuracy and noise reduction performance.
description: To appear in the Proc. of IWAENC2018
Undoing Psychoanalysis: Towards a Clinical and Conceptual Metistopia
Creators: name: Nobus, Dany
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: It was not exactly Freud’s birthday, but on April 27, 1995, the em-inent  French  psychoanalyst  André  Green  (1995)  delivered  the  “Sigmund  Freud  Birthday  Lecture”  at  the  Anna  Freud  Centre  in London under the title “Has Sexuality Anything To Do With Psychoanalysis?”  In  the  opening  sections  of  his  paper,  Green  explained that his provocative question had been prompted by a  twofold  observation.  On  the  one  hand,  he  had  noticed  how  since the mid-1980s sexuality had all but disappeared as a “ma-jor concept” and a “theoretical function of heuristic value” from the  psychoanalytic  literature,  with  the  exception  of  “the  ever  problematic  topic  of  feminine  sexuality.”  On  the  other  hand,  he  had  ascertained  how  practicing  psychoanalysts,  when  pre-senting  case  material,  were  more  inclined  to  focus  on  the  ego,  inter-subjectivity and destructiveness, for example, rather than the role played by sexuality in the mental economy of their pa-tients. In light of these considerations, and wishing the founder of  psychoanalysis  well  for  his  birthday,  Green  went  on  to  em-phasize the value and significance of a thorough re-appraisal of Freud’s  key  contributions  to  the  psychoanalytic  study  of  sexu-ality—libido,  the  Oedipus  complex,  genitality,  the  vicissitudes  of  the  drives  (Eros  and  Thanatos),  narcissism—subsequently  responding to his own call in the 1997 monograph The Chains of Eros (2000) by newly integrating these and other notions into a hierarchical “erotic chain,” starting from the drive and ending in language and sublimation.
"You make me feel like a natural woman:" Thoughts on a Case of Transsexual Identity Formation and Queer Theory
Creators: name: Kaplan, Ami
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: This  chapter  is  about  a  male  to  female  transsexual1  individual  and  some  contemplation  about  her  life  through  the  lens  of  queer  theory.  I  will  introduce  her  shortly,  but  first  I  will  out-line my psychoanalytic orientation and clinical stance in regard to  transgender  clients.  My  psychoanalytic  theoretical  position  is  both  Freudian  (from  an  Ego  Psychology  perspective)  and  based in Object Relations. Within Object Relations, I am most informed  by  Winnicott  and  Fairbairn.  I  don’t  subscribe  to  any  psychoanalytic or environmentally-based etiology theories that include such explanations of transsexualism as a defense against homosexuality;  based  on  the  mother’s  emotional  state;  stem-ming  from  insecure  attachment  to  the  mother  or  other  prob-lems in the family dynamic (Greenson 1966; Bak 1968; Green-acre  1969;  Stoller  1970;  Ovesey  and  Person  1973;  1976;  Coates  1990). The type of work I do with these individuals takes a non-pathologizing  stance  and  does  not  try  to  figure  out  how  they  became transgender. Rather it centers on helping gender variant individuals be who they authentically feel themselves to be.
Optimal Binaural LCMV Beamforming in Complex Acoustic Scenarios: Theoretical and Practical Insights
Creators: name: Gößling, N.
name: Marquardt, D.
name: Merks, I.
name: Zhang, T.
name: Doclo, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
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: Binaural beamforming algorithms for head-mounted assistive listening devices are crucial to improve speech quality and speech intelligibility in noisy environments, while maintaining the spatial impression of the acoustic scene. While the well-known BMVDR beamformer is able to preserve the binaural cues of one desired source, the BLCMV beamformer uses additional constraints to also preserve the binaural cues of interfering sources. In this paper, we provide theoretical and practical insights on how to optimally set the interference scaling parameters in the BLCMV beamformer for an arbitrary number of interfering sources. In addition, since in practice only a limited temporal observation interval is available to estimate all required beamformer quantities, we provide an experimental evaluation in a complex acoustic scenario using measured impulse responses from hearing aids in a cafeteria for different observation intervals. The results show that even rather short observation intervals are sufficient to achieve a decent noise reduction performance and that a proposed threshold on the optimal interference scaling parameters leads to smaller binaural cue errors in practice.
description: To appear in Proc. IWAENC 2018
Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensions via Gauged Linear Quivers
Creators: name: Dey, Anindya
name: Hanany, Amihay
name: Koroteev, Peter
name: Mekareeya, Noppadol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Starting from mirror pairs consisting only of linear (framed A-type) quivers, we demonstrate that a wide class of three-dimensional quiver gauge theories with N=4 supersymmetry and their mirror duals can be obtained by suitably gauging flavor symmetries. Infinite families of mirror pairs including various quivers of D and E-type and their affine extensions, star-shaped quivers, and quivers with symplectic gauge groups may be generated in this fashion. We present two different computational strategies to perform the aforementioned gauging procedure - one of them involves N=2* classical parameter space description, while the other one uses partition functions of the N=4 theories on S^3. The partition function, in particular, turns out to be an extremely efficient tool for implementing this gauging procedure as it readily generalizes to arbitrary size of the quiver and arbitrary rank of the gauge group at each node. For most examples of mirror pairs obtained via this procedure, we perform additional checks of mirror symmetry using the Hilbert series.
description: 73 pages, many figures, typos corrected
Brief an [Albrecht v.] Haller
Creators: name: Bonnet, Charles
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1757

description: Er berichtet Baron von Haller, dass der König von Dänemark ihm die goldene Medaille überreicht hat
description: von Charles Bonnet
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
Carol Vernallis. 2013. Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press. Reviewed
Creators: Harper, Paula Clare
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Technology
Music videos
Digital media
Music

description: “I love the media swirl,” begins Carol Vernallis’s (2013) Unruly Media. In this exploratory, whirlwind, and sometimes frustrating volume, Vernallis acts as an exuberant tour guide through the bleeding edges of twentieth– and twenty–first–century media content. Vernallis cares deeply about the material under scrutiny in her book—pop culture artifacts from the “Sneezing Baby Panda” video to Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 Moulin Rouge!—and the thesis of Unruly Media is, in part, that these objects are worthy of serious scholarly attention. Outing herself so blatantly as a fan of her material is a bold scholarly move, and, despite weaknesses in Unruly Media’s argumentation and execution, Vernallis’s call for further, rigorous, interdisciplinary attention to music video and other contemporary audiovisual phenomena is one that deserves to be heeded by scholars across a wide spectrum of disciplinary backgrounds.
Brief an [Andreas] Alciatus
Creators: name: Amerbach, Bonifacius
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1534

description: Erwähnt Erasmus
description: von B[onifacius] Amerbach
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Lateinisch
description: Die Amerbachkorrespondenz / ed. A. Hartmann 4. Basel, 1953, Nr. 1826
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Mai 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Caveats for information bottleneck in deterministic scenarios
Creators: name: Kolchinsky, Artemy
name: Tracey, Brendan D.
name: Van Kuyk, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information bottleneck (IB) is a method for extracting information from one random variable $X$ that is relevant for predicting another random variable $Y$. To do so, IB identifies an intermediate "bottleneck" variable $T$ that has low mutual information $I(X;T)$ and high mutual information $I(Y;T)$. The "IB curve" characterizes the set of bottleneck variables that achieve maximal $I(Y;T)$ for a given $I(X;T)$, and is typically explored by maximizing the "IB Lagrangian", $I(Y;T) - βI(X;T)$. In some cases, $Y$ is a deterministic function of $X$, including many classification problems in supervised learning where the output class $Y$ is a deterministic function of the input $X$. We demonstrate three caveats when using IB in any situation where $Y$ is a deterministic function of $X$: (1) the IB curve cannot be recovered by maximizing the IB Lagrangian for different values of $β$; (2) there are "uninteresting" trivial solutions at all points of the IB curve; and (3) for multi-layer classifiers that achieve low prediction error, different layers cannot exhibit a strict trade-off between compression and prediction, contrary to a recent proposal. We also show that when $Y$ is a small perturbation away from being a deterministic function of $X$, these three caveats arise in an approximate way. To address problem (1), we propose a functional that, unlike the IB Lagrangian, can recover the IB curve in all cases. We demonstrate the three caveats on the MNIST dataset.