cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
From the classical Frenet-Serret apparatus to the curvature and torsion of quantum-mechanical evolutions. Part I. Stationary Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Alsing, Paul M.
name: Cafaro, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that the Frenet-Serret apparatus of a space curve in three-dimensional Euclidean space determines the local geometry of curves. In particular, the Frenet-Serret apparatus specifies important geometric invariants, including the curvature and the torsion of a curve. It is also acknowledged in quantum information science that low complexity and high efficiency are essential features to achieve when cleverly manipulating quantum states that encode quantum information about a physical system. In this paper, we propose a geometric perspective on how to quantify the bending and the twisting of quantum curves traced by dynamically evolving state vectors. Specifically, we propose a quantum version of the Frenet-Serret apparatus for a quantum trajectory in projective Hilbert space traced by a parallel-transported pure quantum state evolving unitarily under a stationary Hamiltonian specifying the Schrodinger equation. Our proposed constant curvature coefficient is given by the magnitude squared of the covariant derivative of the tangent vector to the state vector and represents a useful measure of the bending of the quantum curve. Our proposed constant torsion coefficient, instead, is defined in terms of the magnitude squared of the projection of the covariant derivative of the tangent vector, orthogonal to both the tangent vector and the state vector. The torsion coefficient provides a convenient measure of the twisting of the quantum curve. Remarkably, we show that our proposed curvature and torsion coefficients coincide with those existing in the literature, although introduced in a completely different manner...
description: 26 pages, 4 figures, v2=v3
Time-reversal symmetry-breaking phenomena in transport study of kagome superconductivity
Creators: name: Yang, Shuo-Ying
name: Yin, Jia-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent studies have found that all three materials within the vanadium-based kagome superconductors ($\textit{A}$V$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$, $\textit{A}$ = K, Cs, Rb) exhibit time-reversal symmetry-breaking behaviors in the superconducting states. Among the three, the Josephson junctions structured Nb/K$_{1-x}$V$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$/Nb and RbV$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$ show magnetic hysteresis below the superconducting transition temperature. CsV$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$ exhibits a zero-field superconducting diode effect, meaning the magnitude of the positive and negative superconducting critical currents are different. We first discuss the similarities and differences among the three above-mentioned experiments. Then, we discuss the possible mechanisms responsible for the unconventional superconducting transport phenomena: such as a chiral superconducting order parameter, and chiral pair density waves arising from the intertwining of the chiral charge order with superconductivity.
title: Some Scribal Techniques in Ancient Israel With Other Semitic Parallels.
Creators: name: Baker, David Weston
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1981

description: This thesis examines selected ancient Semitic scribal techniques. The main source document is the Hebrew Old Testament, with illumination also found in extra-biblical texts (at times autographs rather than later copies, as is the Masoretic text). The first discussion concerns text descriptions. A study of subscripts, especially colophons, results in the refutation of Gevaryahu's claims that some biblical headings were originally colophons. A synthetic study of headings, both specific titles and more general descriptions, follows with special emphasis on incipits, several of which are now identified in the Old Testament. Some types of description are shown to be secondary, scribal additions, while others could be original. Textual divisions are studied under two categories: those which can be studied situ in autograph texts, and those which are determined internally due to the lack of autographs. This includes the Masoretic text, using Genesis, Leviticus 1-7 and Amos here as case studies. These are found to correspond to divisions externally determined in extra-biblical texts, thus providing some control in the division of the biblical text. A study of glosses and notes critiques the methodology of G.R. Driver and others in determining the presence of these, and analyses them from the more objective evidence provided by explicit temporal notes, the waw explicativum, and circumstantial clauses. Finally, there is a study of abbreviations, a number of which have been proposed for the Old Testament by G.R. Driver and others. Based on the analysis of objective abbreviations in other Semitic languages, their existance in the Old Testament is called into question, at least in the scale previously proposed. Scribes are thus shown to effect various aspects of the text, espcially its structure and description. Even the internal content can show evidence of scribal practice.
From the classical Frenet-Serret apparatus to the curvature and torsion of quantum-mechanical evolutions. Part II. Nonstationary Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Alsing, Paul M.
name: Cafaro, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a geometric perspective on how to quantify the bending and the twisting of quantum curves traced by state vectors evolving under nonstationary Hamiltonians. Specifically, relying on the existing geometric viewpoint for stationary Hamiltonians, we discuss the generalization of our theoretical construct to time-dependent quantum-mechanical scenarios where both time-varying curvature and torsion coefficients play a key role. Specifically, we present a quantum version of the Frenet-Serret apparatus for a quantum trajectory in projective Hilbert space traced out by a parallel-transported pure quantum state evolving unitarily under a time-dependent Hamiltonian specifying the Schrodinger evolution equation. The time-varying curvature coefficient is specified by the magnitude squared of the covariant derivative of the tangent vector to the state vector and measures the bending of the quantum curve. The time-varying torsion coefficient, instead, is given by the magnitude squared of the projection of the covariant derivative of the tangent vector to the state vector, orthogonal to the tangent vector and state vector and, in addition, measures the twisting of the quantum curve. We find that the time-varying setting exhibits a richer structure from a statistical standpoint. For instance, unlike the time-independent configuration, we find that the notion of generalized variance enters nontrivially in the definition of the torsion of a curve traced out by a quantum state evolving under a nonstationary Hamiltonian. To physically illustrate the significance of our construct, we apply it to an exactly soluble time-dependent two-state Rabi problem specified by a sinusoidal oscillating time-dependent potential...
description: 37 pages, 2 figures, v2=v3
Supplemental Material, WEB_APPENDICES_pdf - The Left-Digit Bias: When and Why Are Consumers Penny Wise and Pound Foolish?
Creators: name: Sokolova, Tatiana
name: Satheesh Seenivasan
name: Thomas, Manoj
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150402 Hospitality Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental Material, WEB_APPENDICES_pdf for The Left-Digit Bias: When and Why Are Consumers Penny Wise and Pound Foolish? by Tatiana Sokolova, Satheesh Seenivasan and Manoj Thomas in Journal of Marketing Research
MSJ921362_supplement_3 – Supplemental material for Thalamic energy dysfunction is associated with thalamo-cortical tract damage in multiple sclerosis: A diffusion spectroscopy study
Creators: name: Ricigliano, Vito AG
name: Tonietto, Matteo
name: Palladino, Raffaele
name: Poirion, Emilie
name: Luca, Alberto De
name: Branzoli, Francesca
name: Bera, Geraldine
name: Maillart, Elisabeth
name: Stankoff, Bruno
name: Bodini, Benedetta
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, MSJ921362_supplement_3 for Thalamic energy dysfunction is associated with thalamo-cortical tract damage in multiple sclerosis: A diffusion spectroscopy study by Vito AG Ricigliano, Matteo Tonietto, Raffaele Palladino, Emilie Poirion, Alberto De Luca, Francesca Branzoli, Geraldine Bera, Elisabeth Maillart, Bruno Stankoff and Benedetta Bodini in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
title: The Federal Factor in the Government and Politics of Peninsula Malaysia.
Creators: name: Shafruddin, Bin Hashim
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1982

description: This thesis is a study of the federal element - that is, the relations between the Centre and States - in the politics and government of Peninsula Malaysia. It attempts to do this by going beyond federalism as just a matter of constitutional law. For the Constitution provides only the formal boundaries within which several crucial components of the political structure operate - for example administrative organisations and political parties. These individually and in their interactions affect and are affected by the federal element of the political structure. Thus, the thesis focuses on four components of the political structure - Constitution, finance, administrative organisations and political parties (essentially one-party dominance). The Chapters have been organised to reflect these concerns. The examination of these components suggests two main characteristics of federalism in Peninsula Malaysia. First, the Federation is tightly organised and within it the Centre, initially placed in a strong position vis-a-vis the States, has been growing even stronger. Second, the impact of the Centre's dominance is uneven as between States. There seems to be no reason why, despite episodes of States resistance, the former tendency should not be maintained. The latter feature, however, is likely to be constant.
Supplemental_materials_list – Supplemental material for Tactile perception by mouth: Perceiving properties of objects when vision is impaired
Creators: name: Alfaro, Andrea Urqueta
name: Walker, Laura
name: Lee, Chris
name: Lei, Daisy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_materials_list for Tactile perception by mouth: Perceiving properties of objects when vision is impaired by Andrea Urqueta Alfaro, Laura Walker, Chris Lee and Daisy Lei in The British Journal of Visual Impairment
title: The Nyimang Law of Property.
Creators: name: Kadouf, Hunud Abia
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1981

description: This thesis relates to the customary law of property among the Nyimang of the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan. Besides other forms of property dealt with here, the major emphasis of the investigation is laid on land as property. The research is also oriented to investigating rules governing property relations in the traditional sector and changes in attitude and practice due to modern socio-political and economic developments in the Nyimang area. It further involves the investigation of the traditional process of dispute settlement and how customary rules operate alongside or within the general national legal framework. Chapter I is a general description of the people's history and social and political institutions. Chapter II deals with the concept, classification and the effect of property relations in the Nyimang society. Chapters III and IV are about property and domestic relations. There the nature of the Nyimang family, the concept of illegitimacy, the position of the Nyimang father and his role in the management of the Nyimang type of family property are discussed. In Chapters V, VI and VII the nature of the rights and interests in land is investigated. It is shown there that, as a rule, title to land among the Nyimang is held individually. Disposition and acquisition of rights and interests in property by way of gift, sale, pledge and gratuitous tenancy are dealt with in Chapter VIII. In Chapter IX rules governing succession to property and hereditary offices are shown. Under Chapter X the modes of protecting rights and claims over property are discussed.
title: A Political History of the Congress Alliance in South Africa 1947-1956.
Creators: name: Haines, Corrie Gerald
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1981

description: Prior to the arrest of 156 leading Congressmen and Congresswomen, in December 1956, the Congress Alliance, a multiracial political coalition had sponsored, planned, and promoted domestic and international political initiatives to redress the grievances of its South African constituency. This history will assess the Congress Alliance's political agenda. To accomplish that end, this thesis will draw upon a variety of source materials, many emanating from the Congress Alliance shelf, i.e., presidential addresses, constitutions, flyer/leaflets, public and private conferences, mass meetings, minutes, speeches, detective and United Nations reports, etc. These source materials will help to reconstruct a political history of the Congress Alliance. The overriding theme of this study is multiracial political opposition to State sanctioned oppression: legal discrimination, social segregation, economic exploitation, and political disenfranchisement. This thesis examines, therefore, the evolution of joint political strategies, priorities, programmes, and pressure tactics employed by the Coalition against the South African government. It presents a case study of a nonviolent political struggle for liberty, democracy, equality, and human rights.
title: Female Mission Initiatives: Black and White Women in Three Witwatersrand Churches, 1903-1939.
Creators: name: Gaitskell, Deborah Lyndall
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1981

description: This thesis is a historical study of the religious initiatives taken by two groups of women - white missionaries and African Christians - in the Anglican, Methodist and American Board Mission Churches on the Witwatersrand, South Africa, before the Second World War. It begins by setting the women in context. The nineteenth century background of women and the church is considered first. Then the recruitment of the female missionaries who worked in Johannesburg is examined and the effects of their social origins and training are explored, In the broad characterisation of the African women of Johannesburg which follows, particular stress is laid on the three main spheres of employment open to them, namely domestic service, beer-brewing and laundry work. The second part of the thesis looks at the important prayer unions founded and run by black women, sometimes with missionary help. In all three missions, African women showed great enthusiasm for public prayer and revivalist preaching. Members were also anxious to preserve the premarital chastity of their daughters. Other common concerns were the wearing of uniforms, fund-raising and campaigning for total abstinence from liquor. The individual history of each church association is outlined first, then the emphases which united them are analysed and accounted for. The last part of the thesis concentrates on three particular areas where white female missionaries were active. They set up hostels for servants and provided housewifery training. Sunday schools and a Christian youth movement for girls were frequently under female supervision, Anglican women pioneered two 'settlement houses' in African townships. The class and racial tensions reflected in all three endeavours are highlighted. A brief epilogue sketches the fate of both types of female mission initiatives.
DS_10.1177_0022034518781509 – Supplemental material for Overexpressed Sirt1 in MSCs Promotes Dentin Formation in Bmi1-Deficient Mice
Creators: name: H. Wang
name: C. Lv
name: Y. Gu
name: Q. Li
name: L. Xie
name: H. Zhang
name: D. Miao
name: W. Sun
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_0022034518781509 for Overexpressed Sirt1 in MSCs Promotes Dentin Formation in Bmi1-Deficient Mice by H. Wang, C. Lv, Y. Gu, Q. Li, L. Xie, H. Zhang, D. Miao and W. Sun in Journal of Dental Research
Online_Appendix – Supplemental material for Disclosure of Same-Sex Behaviors to Health-care Providers and Uptake of HIV Testing for Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Qiao, Shan
name: Zhou, Guangyu
name: Li, Xiaoming
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: Health and Community Services
Nursing not elsewhere classified
Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Online_Appendix for Disclosure of Same-Sex Behaviors to Health-care Providers and Uptake of HIV Testing for Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Systematic Review by Shan Qiao, Guangyu Zhou and Xiaoming Li in American Journal of Men's Health
title: From Patriarchy to Gender Equity: Family Law and Its Impact on Women in Bangladesh.
Creators: name: Monsoor, Taslima
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1994

description: This thesis constitutes a detailed assessment of the legal position of women in Bangladesh and argues that, despite some recent reforms purporting to improve their status, there is no real change in the situation of patriarchal domination. It is further argued that the dominant patriarchal structures, with the interlinked forces of religion, tradition and seclusion, are sustained not only in family life but also in family law. The thesis illustrates some confusions in the debates about the legal position of women and suggests that the lack of conceptual clarity has handicapped a discussion of the real needs of women in family law within a patriarchally-dominated legal framework. Based on a detailed exposition of family law under the British colonial regime and Pakistani state law, the present study focuses on the more recent Bangladeshi legal developments. These were officially brought about to meet certain social needs and to improve the overall situation of women. However, apart from the reforms concerning the Family Courts Ordinance of 1985, and some glimpses of judicial activism, in reported as well as unreported cases, the existing family law reforms are shown to be mainly procedural. In particular, they appear unable to protect women effectively from violence and economic deprivation. While not arguing for absolute gender equality, although this is apparently provided as a paper right in the Constitution of Bangladesh, the present study proposes that gender equity in family law can be meaningfully developed by better implementation of the existing law, prominently by sensitising the judiciary and society about the particular needs of women.
Supplemental_Material_App1 - Research data management in practice: Results from a cross-sectional survey of health and medical researchers from an academic institution in Australia
Creators: name: Krahe, Michelle A
name: Toohey, Julie
name: Wolski, Malcolm
name: Scuffham, Paul A
name: Reilly, Sheena
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental_Material_App1 for Research data management in practice: Results from a cross-sectional survey of health and medical researchers from an academic institution in Australia by Michelle A Krahe, Julie Toohey, Malcolm Wolski, Paul A Scuffham, and Sheena Reilly in Health Information Management Journal
title: Missionaries, the Hindu State and British Paramountcy in Travancore and Cochin, 1858-1936.
Creators: name: Koji, Kawashima
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1994

description: This thesis seeks to examine and explain changes in the triangular relationship between Christian missionaries, an Indian princely state and the British colonial authorities. It argues that, in the second half of the nineteenth century, the missionaries and the self-declared Hindu state of Travancore maintained a largely favourable relationship despite the clear differences in their respective religious positions. For its vigorous efforts towards 'modernization', Travancore needed the educational and medical activities of the missionaries. At the same time, the Madras government demanded the abolition of caste disabilities and supported similar demands from the missionaries. However, the situation changed significantly with the emergence of Hindu revivalism and communal movements in the late nineteenth century. The state as well as the higher castes became alarmed at the conversion of large number of the lower castes to Christianity. The British authorities, faced with the rise of Indian nationalism, became much more sensitive to religious feelings in Travancore and sought to avoid intervening in social and religious matters as far as possible, though, by contrast, intervention in Cochin remained, for various reasons, more active. In this way, the missionaries practically lost support from the British government. Instead, they were obliged to pay more attention to the Maharaja and his government, which adopted various anti-missionary policies in the 1890s and 1900s. Nevertheless, the Travancore government still needed missionary educational and medical activities as well as their strong influence over the low-caste Christians who became increasingly assertive. But in the 1930s, their relationship became strained once more. The missionaries, who could not expect any substantial help from the British authorities, had almost no choice but to accept the situation. In this way, the Travancore state, while utilizing missionary activities, largely succeeded in preventing Christian influence from expanding further.
ARCADE: An Augmented Reality Display Environment for Multimodal Interaction with Conversational Agents
Creators: name: Schindler, Carolin
name: Mayumi, Daiki
name: Matsuda, Yuki
name: Rach, Niklas
name: Yasumoto, Keiichi
name: Minker, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Making the interaction with embodied conversational agents accessible in a ubiquitous and natural manner is not only a question of the underlying software but also brings challenges in terms of the technical system that is used to display them. To this end, we present our spatial augmented reality system ARCADE, which can be utilized like a conventional monitor for displaying virtual agents as well as additional content. With its optical-see-through display, ARCADE creates the illusion of the agent being in the room similarly to a human. The applicability of our system is demonstrated in two different dialogue scenarios, which are included in the video accompanying this paper at https://youtu.be/9nH4c4Q-ooE.
FLEURS-R: A Restored Multilingual Speech Corpus for Generation Tasks
Creators: name: Ma, Min
name: Koizumi, Yuma
name: Karita, Shigeki
name: Zen, Heiga
name: Riesa, Jason
name: Ishikawa, Haruko
name: Bacchiani, Michiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper introduces FLEURS-R, a speech restoration applied version of the Few-shot Learning Evaluation of Universal Representations of Speech (FLEURS) corpus. FLEURS-R maintains an N-way parallel speech corpus in 102 languages as FLEURS, with improved audio quality and fidelity by applying the speech restoration model Miipher. The aim of FLEURS-R is to advance speech technology in more languages and catalyze research including text-to-speech (TTS) and other speech generation tasks in low-resource languages. Comprehensive evaluations with the restored speech and TTS baseline models trained from the new corpus show that the new corpus obtained significantly improved speech quality while maintaining the semantic contents of the speech. The corpus is publicly released via Hugging Face.
Amazon Locker Capacity Management
Creators: name: Sethuraman, Samyukta
name: Bansal, Ankur
name: Mardan, Setareh
name: Resende, Mauricio G. C.
name: Jacobs, Timothy L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.1.6; I.2.6; I.2.8; I.6.3
subject: 68T05, 90B05, 90B06, 90C90

description: Amazon Locker is a self-service delivery or pickup location where customers can pick up packages and drop off returns. A basic first-come-first-served policy for accepting package delivery requests to lockers results in lockers becoming full with standard shipping speed (3-5 day shipping) packages, and leaving no space left for expedited packages which are mostly Next-Day or Two-Day shipping. This paper proposes a solution to the problem of determining how much locker capacity to reserve for different ship-option packages. Yield management is a much researched field with popular applications in the airline, car rental, and hotel industries. However, Amazon Locker poses a unique challenge in this field since the number of days a package will wait in a locker (package dwell time) is, in general, unknown. The proposed solution combines machine learning techniques to predict locker demand and package dwell time, and linear programming to maximize throughput in lockers. The decision variables from this optimization provide optimal capacity reservation values for different ship options. This resulted in a year-over-year increase of 9% in Locker throughput worldwide during holiday season of 2018, impacting millions of customers.
description: 22 pages, 10 figues
title: The Politics of Moderation: Britain and the Indian Liberal Party, 1917-1923.
Creators: name: Woods, Philip Graham
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1993

description: This thesis has three main foci. The first is an examination of the broader intentions behind the Government of India Act (1919) and the context of these reforms in the longer-term transfer of power in India. The second is the role played by the Indian Moderates within the nationalist movement leading to their defection from the Indian National Congress in 1918. Thirdly, it examines the relationship between the British rulers and the new Indian Liberal Party, both during the making of constitutional reforms and during the period of the first legislative councils elected under the reforms, 1921-23. The working of the reforms is examined from the perspective of both central and provincial legislative politics. At the centre the main issues of controversy between the British and the Indian Liberals were: economic and constitutional matters, law and order issues connected with the Gandhian non-co-operation movement, the political reaction in British policy that took place during 1921-22, the Indianisation of the civil service and armed forces, and the treatment of Indians overseas. The experience of the provincial legislatures is studied, with special attention paid to three provinces where Indian Liberals played a key part in the new Ministries: Bengal, Bombay and the United Provinces. The failure of the Indian Liberals at the elections of 1923 is examined and reasons given for the collapse of the British-Indian Liberal relationship. It is argued that the intentions and the results of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms were more liberal than has generally been recognised. The reforms provided the first steps in establishing parliamentary democracy in India. Though the amount of power that was transferred to Indians was limited, and confined to the provincial level, the level of influence that Indians gained over the policy-making process at both central and provincial levels was considerably greater.
3D Reconstruction of Protein Structures from Multi-view AFM Images using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)
Creators: name: Rade, Jaydeep
name: Herron, Ethan
name: Sarkar, Soumik
name: Sarkar, Anwesha
name: Krishnamurthy, Adarsh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advancements in deep learning for predicting 3D protein structures have shown promise, particularly when leveraging inputs like protein sequences and Cryo-Electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) images. However, these techniques often fall short when predicting the structures of protein complexes (PCs), which involve multiple proteins. In our study, we investigate using atomic force microscopy (AFM) combined with deep learning to predict the 3D structures of PCs. AFM generates height maps that depict the PCs in various random orientations, providing a rich information for training a neural network to predict the 3D structures. We then employ the pre-trained UpFusion model (which utilizes a conditional diffusion model for synthesizing novel views) to train an instance-specific NeRF model for 3D reconstruction. The performance of UpFusion is evaluated through zero-shot predictions of 3D protein structures using AFM images. The challenge, however, lies in the time-intensive and impractical nature of collecting actual AFM images. To address this, we use a virtual AFM imaging process that transforms a `PDB' protein file into multi-view 2D virtual AFM images via volume rendering techniques. We extensively validate the UpFusion architecture using both virtual and actual multi-view AFM images. Our results include a comparison of structures predicted with varying numbers of views and different sets of views. This novel approach holds significant potential for enhancing the accuracy of protein complex structure predictions with further fine-tuning of the UpFusion network.
title: Property Crime and the Criminal Process in Lusaka Magistrates' Courts.
Creators: name: Mwansa, Kalombo Thomson
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1992

description: This thesis investigates the etiology of property crime in Lusaka, Zambia, as well as the way in which it has been dealt with by the criminal justice system, namely, the police, the courts and the prisons. The thesis is divided into 9 chapters. Chapter 1, the Introduction reviews the literature, discusses the methodology and describes the setting. Chapter 2 discusses customary criminal law and punishment, criminal justice during the colonial period, and the received criminal law and punishment. It also looks at the structure of the subordinate courts, the prosecution system and legal representation. Chapter 3 looks at the incidence and the etiology of property crime (the background characteristics of offenders), the offenders' preferred methods of attack, and the motivation for crime. It then discusses recidivism and criminal careers. Chapter 4 discusses pre-trial procedure, i.e., the circumstances of arrest and the role of both the police and members of the public in the arrest of suspects and offenders and the question of bail. It also examines the nature of the police- suspect encounter and the factors considered by the police in making the decision to prosecute. Chapter 5 discusses the trial process, i.e, it examines the circumstances under which both the police and complainants withdraw cases before judgment is delivered. It also looks at the cases which were dismissed and those which ended in the acquittal of defendants. Chapters 6 and 7 discuss the principles of sentencing which magistrates followed in imposing both the sentence of imprisonment and various non-custodial measures. Chapter 8 examines the role of both the criminal justice system and members of the public in the prevention of property crime. Chapter 9 concludes the thesis and makes suggestions for reform.
Dados
Creators: name: William Simão de Deus
name: Ellen Francine Barbosa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Este repositório apresenta os dados de pesquisa utilizados no projeto Apoio à Recuperação de Recursos Educacionais Abertos para o Ensino de Programação.

 

O arquivo README.md detalha a estrutura de cada diretório bem como dos dados disponíveis.
Data
Creators: name: De Deus, William Simão
name: Barbosa, Ellen Francine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Este repositório apresenta os dados de pesquisa utilizados no projeto Apoio à Recuperação de Recursos Educacionais Abertos para o Ensino de Programação. O arquivo README.md detalha a estrutura de cada diretório bem como dos dados disponíveis.
Audio Enhancement for Computer Audition -- An Iterative Training Paradigm Using Sample Importance
Creators: name: Milling, Manuel
name: Liu, Shuo
name: Triantafyllopoulos, Andreas
name: Aslan, Ilhan
name: Schuller, Björn W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Neural network models for audio tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and acoustic scene classification (ASC), are susceptible to noise contamination for real-life applications. To improve audio quality, an enhancement module, which can be developed independently, is explicitly used at the front-end of the target audio applications. In this paper, we present an end-to-end learning solution to jointly optimise the models for audio enhancement (AE) and the subsequent applications. To guide the optimisation of the AE module towards a target application, and especially to overcome difficult samples, we make use of the sample-wise performance measure as an indication of sample importance. In experiments, we consider four representative applications to evaluate our training paradigm, i.e., ASR, speech command recognition (SCR), speech emotion recognition (SER), and ASC. These applications are associated with speech and non-speech tasks concerning semantic and non-semantic features, transient and global information, and the experimental results indicate that our proposed approach can considerably boost the noise robustness of the models, especially at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), for a wide range of computer audition tasks in everyday-life noisy environments.
title: The Political Institutions of Bijapur 1536-1686 and Golconda 1518-1636.
Creators: name: Ghauri, Iftikhar Ahmad
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1961

description: Chapter I discusses the scope of the thesis; the paucity of material rendered it impossible to study the five Sultanates of the Deccan, only Bijapur and Golconda were picked up. The origin of the latter states and the genealogy of their founders has been traced out. Chapter II discusses the Isna 'Ashariya theory of Imamate and its impact on the Deccan. Section on the Shah of Bijapur discusses the sectarian nature of the monarchy, its position, powers and functions. The misunderstanding that Nawab is inferior to Shah is removed. Generous treatment of the Hindus and the fallacy concerning Jizya exploded. Section on the Shah of Golconda establishes Shi'ism as the state religion and also brings out the Indian and "National" character of the monarchy. Chapter III brings out the position, composition, economic position and the bitter animosity of the Umara among themselves Chapter IV. Owing to the early death of several rulers of Bijapur and the extreme youth of their successors, regency as an institution had come into being. Its role has been discussed. Chapter V. The administration of these states was far inferior to that of the Mughals. The Peshwa, Vakil or sometimes known as Vazir was the most important officer and the rest were his creatures and generally his henchmen. I.H.Qureshi's assertion that privy purse and state treasury were distinct from one another in the Deccan has been disproved. Chapter VI discusses the nature and composition of the army and the reasons why the Muslims were forced to employ Hindus in large numbers. A recently discovered document from Haidarabad has brought to light some features of the military organisation of Golconda. Chapter VII. The Muslim rulers were not interested in the local administration and generally left it alone. The fallacy that an Indian village was a self-sufficing unit has been exposed.
Wright's First-Order Logic of Strict Finitism
Creators: name: Yamada, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A classical reconstruction of Wright's first-order logic of strict finitism is presented. Strict finitism is a constructive standpoint of mathematics that is more restrictive than intuitionism. Wright sketched the semantics of said logic in Wright (Realism, Meaning and Truth, chap 4, 2nd edition in 1993. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, Cambridge, pp.107-75, 1982), in his strict finitistic metatheory. Yamada (J Philos Log. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-022-09698-w, 2023) proposed, as its classical reconstruction, a propositional logic of strict finitism under an auxiliary condition that makes the logic correspond with intuitionistic propositional logic. In this paper, we extend the propositional logic to a first-order logic that does not assume the condition. We will provide a sound and complete pair of a Kripke-style semantics and a natural deduction system, and show that if the condition is imposed, then the logic exhibits natural extensions of Yamada (2023)'s results.
description: The author's final manuscript in 47 pages. The published version is 54 pages long due to its format. This abstract is that of the published version
title: Some Aspects of the Development of Social Policy in Ceylon, 1840-55, With Special Reference to the Influence of Missionary Organisations.
Creators: name: de Silva, K. M.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1961

description: Social policy in Ceylon in our period was dominated by religious issues, both because of the strength and importance of missionary activity, and the fact that the indigenous religions proved to be a formidable obstacle in the way of the missionaries. The First Chapter of this thesis deals with the new policy laid down by Lord Glenelg and continued by his successors, of active state support of missionary activity, and the acceptance of conversion as a responsibility of the state. As part of this policy, the Anglican Establishment in Ceylon was reformed, deprived of its many privileges, and it was accepted as a principle of state policy that the various missions working in Ceylon were equal in the eyes of the Government, Chapter Two deals with education policy. The most noteworthy developments in this sphere were Mackenzie's reform of the School Commission; and the gradual acceptance of the vernacular languages as media of instruction. Missionary influence on the Government's education policy was both strong and sustained, but the deep divisions among the missionary groups prevented it from being both stronger and more effective. Chapters Three and Pour deal with the most significant achievement of the missionaries - the severance of the connection of the state with Buddhism. The Third Chapter shows the importance of Sir James Stephen in the development of Colonial Office policy on Buddhism. An evangelical by conviction he strongly supported the missionaries on this issue. The Fourth Chapter deals with the compromise settlement on Buddhism imposed by Sir John Pakington and Sir George Anderson, after the retirement of Stephen and as a direct consequence of the disturbances of 1848. Social policy was not only a matter of religion: it was also a response to the social problems of the day. The Fifth Chapter deals with the response of the British Government and the missionaries to the problems of the traditional society, and the Sixth deals with the major social problem of the new capitalist society - the emmigration of Indian plantation labour to Ceylon. It shows the state responding to all these problems alike, while the missionaries concentrated on the social problems of the traditional society and showed little interest in the question of Indian emigration. They were interested in the Indians as potential converts, but they were not interested in the humanitarian aspects of this formidable problem.
title: The Development of Public Opinion in Bengal 1818-1835.
Creators: name: Ahmed, Abul Faiz Salahuddin
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1961

description: This thesis is a study of the ideas which constituted public opinion in Bengal, the influences which shaped them and the effect of those ideas on Government policy. There were three distinct types of reaction to the Western impact: (i) The conservative Hindus who were anxious for practical reasons to promote English education, but were afraid of Western ideas. Their tendency was to resist Western ideas by adopting Western techniques, (ii) The reformist Hindus had imbibed the liberal ideas of the age and sought to reinterpret but not reject Hinduism, (iii) The radicals rejected Hinduism in the light of rationalist criticism. The growth of the Press helped the development of public opinion. The English Press influenced the growth of the vernacular Press. By 1835 the Bengal Press reflected the opinion of the different sections of the people. The Government policy towards the Press was not consistent. The Government's attitude of avoiding serious conflict with Indian public opinion was apparent in its social policy. It modified its policy of resuming rent-free lands with defective titles, a policy which had produced serious discontent among the zamindars. It was only when a fairly strong opinion against sati was created in Bengal, that the Government decided to act. But it needed a man of Bentinck's stature to effect the abolition of this custom. As a result of strong Indian protest, the Government also abolished the discriminatory clauses of the Indian Jury Act of 1826. The growing though predominantly Hindu demand for English education and the influence of the 'Anglicists' led the Government to change its education policy which had been to promote, traditional Indian learning. But 'Anglicism' could not go very far, Muslim fears and protest influenced the Government decision. The sources on which this thesis is based consist of unpublished and published materials - official documents and private papers, books and tracts, newspapers and periodical journals, in both English and Bengali. In using these materials emphasis has been placed on contemporary or near-contemporary sources.
title: Psychiatry and Colonialism: The Treatment of European Lunatics in British India, 1800-1858.
Creators: name: Ernst, Waltraud R. M.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1986

description: This is a study of the transfer of European concepts of mental illness to India and of the concomitant transplantation of specialized institutions for the confinement and treatment of the mentally ill to a colonial society. Government policies will be analysed in relation to British attempts to control the deviant behaviour of Europeans in India and to guarantee the maintenance of the imperial power structure by keeping social distance between the various classes and races of Anglo-Indian and Indian society. The emergence of psychiatry as a medical discipline, the humanitarian campaigns and subsequent legislation for reformed asylum management and the establishment of large-scale public institutions for the insane in Britain will be set against developments in the presidencies in Bengal, Madras and Bombay. The specific history of the 'Lunatic Asylums for the European Insane' in Calcutta, Madras and Bombay respectively will be analysed in relation to the various presidencies' social conditions and politico-ideological orientations. The involvement of medical experts, private madhouse-owners and public boards of inspection in the management of the three main institutions will be evaluated and compared. An attempt will be made to assess the condition of asylum inmates of different social and racial backgrounds and to reconstruct the diagnostic and therapeutic concepts and methods used by various asylum superintendents. Asylum statistics will be compiled for the Calcutta Asylum and reference to specific cases and to details of institutional arrangements for patients will be made for the Bombay Asylum.
Mapping data report. Cruise EX0801, Mapping shake down 2008, September 8 -26, 2008 Seattle, WA – Seattle, WA
Creators: name: Malik, Mashkoor
Publisher: name: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
Year: 2011

description: The main objectives for the mapping shakedown cruise included: 1. Conduct Sea Acceptance Test (SAT) for acceptance of multibeam sonar. 2. Test and validate the correct installation of the mapping and ancillary sensors. 3. Test and validate the data acquisition capabilities. 3.Test and establish a detailed data management system including data processing pipelines. 5. Identify any shortcomings in the suite of hardware and software that are key to the success of the EX mission.