cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Essays in the political economy of automation: power, politics, institutions and labour-saving technological change in Europe
Creators: name: Van Overbeke, Toon
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2022

description: Automation, or technology that substitutes labour in production, is central to most advanced capitalist democracies. As an important factor of productivity growth, it benefits most in society over the long-term by helping to taper over existing inequalities all the while making strenuous, tedious and low value added jobs redundant. However, in the short-term automation often proves injurious to individuals or even groups of workers who see their skills devalued or their jobs destroyed. This combination of economic potential and sociopolitical peril has sparked much research on the topic over the last decades. As a result, social scientists have offered a range of different theories to understand the development of this process. These existing accounts predict labourreplacing technological change should thrive in liberal economies, where there exist few barriers managerial power and labour is relatively unorganised. In this dissertation I shed light on these claims by analysing the relation between institutions, politics and automation in advanced capitalist democracies. Over the course of three papers, I use of a range of different methods, from comparative case studies to multivariate statistical analysis to untangle this relation. I show that automation is not simply a market-driven process, filtering routine tasks out of the economy, but is deeply rooted within institutionally defined models of growth and redistribution. Contrary to conventional wisdom, I find that systems where capital has to share its political power with labour often automate more not less. What is more, my findings show that when automation is an institutionally negotiated process its short-term adjustment costs are distributed more fairly, leading to lower levels of anti-incumbent voting. As such, this thesis contributes to debates in comparative political economy by demonstrating the embeddedness of automation within capitalist growth models and by highlighting how this type of technological change cuts across the perennial tensions between capitalism and democracy.
Quantum geometry quadrupole-induced third-order nonlinear transport in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4
Creators: name: Li, Hui
name: Zhang, Chengping
name: Zhou, Chengjie
name: Ma, Chen
name: Lei, Xiao
name: Jin, Zijing
name: He, Hongtao
name: Li, Baikui
name: Law, Kam Tuen
name: Wang, Jiannong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of quantum geometry effects in materials has been one of the most important research directions in recent decades. The quantum geometry of a material is characterized by the quantum geometry tensor of the Bloch states. The imaginary part of the quantum geometry tensor gives rise to the Berry curvature while the real part gives rise to the quantum metric. While Berry curvature has been well studied in the past decades, the experimental investigation on the quantum metric effects is only at its infancy stage. In this work, we measure the nonlinear transport of bulk MnBi${_2}$Te${_4}$, which is a topological anti-ferromagnet. We found that the second order nonlinear responses are negligible as required by inversion symmetry, the third-order nonlinear responses are finite. The measured third-harmonic longitudinal ($V_{xx}^{3ω}$) and transverse ($V_{xy}^{3ω}$) voltages with frequency 3w, driven by an a.c. current with frequency w, show an intimate connection with magnetic transitions of MnBi${_2}$Te${_4}$ flakes. Their magnitudes change abruptly as MnBi${_2}$Te${_4}$ flakes go through magnetic transitions from an AFM state to a canted AFM state and to a FM state. In addition, the measured $V_{xx}^{3ω}$ is an even function of the applied magnetic field B while $V_{xy}^{3ω}$ is odd in B. Amazingly, the field dependence of the third-order responses as a function of the magnetic field suggests that $V_{xx}^{3ω}$ is induced by quantum metric quadrupole and $V_{xy}^{3ω}$ is induced by Berry curvature quadrupole. Therefore, the quadrupoles of both the real and the imaginary part of the quantum geometry tensor of bulk MnBi${_2}$Te${_4}$ are revealed through the third order nonlinear transport measurements. This work greatly advanced our understanding on the connections between the higher order moments of quantum geometry and nonlinear transport.
Additional file 1 of An automated workflow to screen alkene reductases using high-throughput thin layer chromatography
Creators: name: Garabedian, Brett M.
name: Meadows, Corey W.
name: Mingardon, Florence
name: Guenther, Joel M.
name: Rond, Tristan De
name: Abourjeily, Raya
name: Lee, Taek Soon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1. Additional Table and Figures.
title: Zum Andenken an Alice Klaeger, 1916-1969
title: Gedenkfeier anlässlich der Bestattung von Alice Klaeger, Mittwoch, den 21. Mai 1969 in der Friedhofkapelle Enzenbühl in Zürich
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Aellig, Fritz
name: Meyer, Werner
Publisher: name: [Steno-Verlag]
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Klaeger, Alice
subject: Zürich
subject: Rorschach
subject: Friedhof Enzenbühl (Zürich)

description: Inhalt: Abdankungsansprache von Fritz AelIig, Pfarrer am Neumünster in Zürich ; Gedenkworte von Werner Meyer, Verwaltungsdirektor des Opernhauses Zürich
What's new in Python 3.11
Creators: name: Schreiner, Henry Fredrick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Python 3.11 is coming out in October! We will look through the major features you can expect, such as results from the Faster CPython project, enhanced exceptions, new typing functionality, a very nice new asyncio feature, and several exciting enhancements sprinkled throughout the standard library. A couple of major new changes will be rolling in in future versions, as well, like the removal of distutils (3.12) and utf-8 by default (3.15); 3.11 provides some assistance for those, as well.
RamanSPy: An open-source Python package for integrative Raman spectroscopy data analysis
Creators: name: Georgiev, Dimitar
name: Pedersen, Simon Vilms
name: Xie, Ruoxiao
name: Fernández-Galiana, Álvaro
name: Stevens, Molly M.
name: Barahona, Mauricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Raman spectroscopy is a non-destructive and label-free chemical analysis technique, which plays a key role in the analysis and discovery cycle of various branches of science. Nonetheless, progress in Raman spectroscopic analysis is still impeded by the lack of software, methodological and data standardisation, and the ensuing fragmentation and lack of reproducibility of analysis workflows thereof. To address these issues, we introduce RamanSPy, an open-source Python package for Raman spectroscopic research and analysis. RamanSPy provides a comprehensive library of ready-to-use tools for spectroscopic analysis, which streamlines day-to-day tasks, integrative analyses, as well as novel research and algorithmic development. RamanSPy is modular and open source, not tied to a particular technology or data format, and can be readily interfaced with the burgeoning ecosystem for data science, statistical analysis and machine learning in Python.
Data and matlab code of figures of PPSN 2022 paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14721-0_35
Creators: name: Omeradzic, Amir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Data of OB22 (PPSN22)Generate experimental results of OB22.Run script (TRIALS can be changed accordingly), plots are generated automatically.* fig1/main_fig1.m: generates left plot phi_i(sigma) and right sub-plots showing the error over all components* fig2/main_fig2.m: R=100,10,1,0.1 is set at the top and generates sub-plots of Fig. 2.* fig3/main_fig3_dyn.m: generate mean dynamics of ES. Choose population size of CONFIG 1 or CONFIG 2 (left/right sub-plots)* fig3/main_fig3_iter.m: generate iterated dynamics using phi_i. Two configurations (1-2) by varying population size, and three sub-configurations (a-c) to generate dynamics using different phi-approximations (see Fig. 3)(dynamics of real ES and iteration must be merged manually)* fig4/main_fig4.m
Hadronic structure on the light-front VIII. Light scalar and vector mesons
Creators: name: Liu, Wei-Yang
name: Shuryak, Edward
name: Zahed, Ismail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the QCD instanton vacuum model to discuss the emergence of the light scalar and vector mesons on the light front. We take into account both the instanton and anti-instanton single and molecular interactions on the light quarks, in the form of non-local effective interactions. Although the molecular induced interactions are suppressed by a power of the packing fraction, they are still sufficient to bind the vector mesons, while keeping most of the scalar spectrum relatively unchanged. We explicitly derive the light front distribution amplitudes (DAs) and partonic functions (PDFs) for the scalar and vector mesons, and compare them after pertinent QCD evolution, to the available empirical and lattice measured counterparts. The Dirac electric form factors for both the pion and rho meson are derived, and shown to compare well with current data.
description: 42 pages, 24 figures
Small- and large-x nucleon spin structure from a global QCD analysis of polarized Parton Distribution Functions
Creators: name: Nocera, Emanuele Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I investigate the behavior of spin-dependent parton distribution functions in the regions of small and large momentum fractions $x$. I present a systematic comparison between predictions for relevant observables obtained with various models of nucleon spin structure and a recent global analysis of spin-dependent distributions, NNPDFpol1.1. Together with its unpolarized counterpart, NNPDF2.3, they form a mutually consistent set of parton distributions. Because they include most of the available experimental information, and are determined with a minimally biased methodology, these are especially suited for such a study. I show how NNPDFpol1.1 can discriminate between different theoretical models, even though NNPDF uncertainties remain large near the endpoints $x\to 0$ and $x\to 1$, due to the lack of experimental information. I discuss how our knowledge of nucleon spin structure may be improved at small-$x$ by future measurements at an Electron-Ion Collider, and at large-$x$ by recent measurements at Jefferson Lab, also in view of its $12$ GeV upgrade.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, version to be published in Phys.Lett.B
title: Generation of inducible epigenome editing tools
Creators: name: Bozhkova, Kalina
Year: 2021

description: Die Erforschung der Rolle der DNA-Methylierung in der frühen Präimplantationsentwicklung und der Reprogrammierung von zellulärer Potenz wird dazu beitragen, grundlegende Fragen zur frühen Entwicklung zu beantworten und zu neuen Strategien für die regenerative Medizin beitragen. Erst seit kurzem ist eine gezielte Manipulation der DNA-Methylierung aufgrund der Entdeckung des CRISPR/Cas9-Systems und der Verwendung eines dCas9 möglich. Im Rahmen dieser Masterarbeit wurde mit Hilfe eines dCas9- und eines PB-Transposon-Vektors ein induzierbares Epigenom-Editing-Tool zur gezielten Manipulation von DNA Methylierung erstellt. Das Potenzial dieses neuartigen Tools zur Manipulierung der DNA-Methylierung wurde über einen längeren Zeitraum getestet. Darüber hinaus wurde die Möglichkeit zum „Multiplexed Editing“ mehrerer genomischer Loci in derselben Zelle untersucht, indem ein einzelner Expressionsvektor erzeugt wurde, der mehrere gRNAs beherbergt. Als Targets für das Editing-Tool wurden wichtige Schlüsselfaktoren ausgewählt, die an der Induktion von „2C-like cells“ (2CLCs) beteiligt sind. Schließlich wurden die Auswirkungen des neu geschaffenen Epigenom-Editing-Systems auf die 2CLC-Population analysiert. Die Ergebnisse dieser Masterarbeit ergaben neue Erkenntnisse über das Design und die Effizienz neuartiger Werkzeuge zur Epigenom-Editierung, die wesentlich dazu beitragen werden, effiziente neuartige Epigenome-Editing Tools herzustellen, welche dazu beitragen werden grundlegende epigenetische Fragen der DNA-Methylierungs-Reprogrammierung in Entwicklung und Krankheit zu verstehen.
description: Studying the role of DNA methylation in early preimplantation development and reprogramming of cellular potency will unravel fundamental questions about early development and further help to advance novel strategies for regenerative medicine. Only recently targeted manipulation of DNA methylation has become available due to the discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, and the utilization of a dCas9. In the course of this master thesis an inducible epigenome editing tool for the targeted manipulation of DNA methylation of selected genomic loci has been created, by utilizing a dCas9-system and a PB-transposon vector for generating stable transgenic cell lines. The potential of the tool to edit DNA methylation for a prolonged time has been tested. Additionally, multiplexed editing of several genomic loci in the same cell has been examined, by creating a single “CARGO”-vector harboring multiple small guide RNAs. As targets important key factors involved in the induction of “2C-like cells” (2CLCs) have been selected to study the effects of the newly created epigenome editing system on the 2CLC-population in mouse embryonic stem cells. The results generated during this master thesis revealed new insights into the design and efficiency of novel epigenome editing tools, which will greatly help to generate improved epigenome editing tools to study fundamental epigenetic questions of DNA methylation reprograming in development and disease.
Four Best Practice Transfer Roadmaps for Learning Regions
Creators: name: de Bont, Rien
name: Di Nucci, Maria Rosaria
name: Krug, Michael
name: Schwarz, Lucas
name: Laes, Erik
name: Meynaerts, Erika
name: del Bufalo, Nicoletta
name: Alonso, Irene
name: Maleki, Pouyan
name: Zučika, Aija
name: Kudrenickis, Ivars
name: Venerucci, Virna
name: Massa, Gilda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Community Energy
REC
RED-II

description: This documents contains Deliverable 6.3 of the H2020 Project titled 'COME-RES'. In COME-RES’ broader objective of supporting the development of renewable energy communities (RECs) in nine European countries, one activity is the facilitation of so-called ‘transfer activities’ where teams from mentoring regions are coupled to learning regions to share experiences and knowledge. The following pairs have been composed: Thuringia (Germany) / North Brabant (the Netherlands), Apulia (Italy) / Flanders (Belgium), Latvia / Piedmont (Italy), Canary Islands (Spain) / Comunidad Valenciana (Spain). In the activities of COME-RES prior to this report, stakeholders from learning regions have visited the mentoring regions with the purpose of studying a single best practice for community energy. This report describes the activities in the context of a return visit of practitioners of the mentoring region to the learning region. The key purpose of this return activity was to draw up a roadmap which describes tangible steps towards implementing (aspects of) the best practice in the learning region.
 After an introduction, this report starts with describing the so-called ‘Dynamic learning lab methodology’ which acted as a basis for the transfer teams to compile a roadmap. The results section describes the activities undertaken in the return visits and the resulting roadmaps. A final conclusion section takes stock of more generic lessons learnt from the four transfer workshops. One main lesson is under which conditions a transfer of concepts is possible and how it demands a great amount of ‘translation’ between different national contexts. Another finding is how difficult it is to demand and achieve a deeper type of reflection as asked for within the ‘Dynamic learning lab methodology’. In this light, this report recommends to keep methodologies for roadmaps more adaptable to the specific situation at hand.
Liouvillian Dynamics of the Open Schwinger Model: String Breaking and Kinetic Dissipation in a Thermal Medium
Creators: name: Lee, Kyle
name: Mulligan, James
name: Ringer, Felix
name: Yao, Xiaojun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the dynamics of bound state formation is one of the fundamental questions in confining quantum field theories such as Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). One hadronization mechanism that has garnered significant attention is the breaking of a string initially connecting a fermion and an anti-fermion. Deepening our understanding of real-time string-breaking dynamics with simpler, lower dimensional models like the Schwinger model can improve our understanding of the hadronization process in QCD and other confining systems found in condensed matter and statistical systems. In this paper, we consider the string-breaking dynamics within the Schwinger model and investigate its modification inside a thermal medium, treating the Schwinger model as an open quantum system coupled to a thermal environment. Within the regime of weak coupling between the system and environment, the real-time evolution of the system can be described by a Lindblad evolution equation. We analyze the Liouvillian gaps of this Lindblad equation and the time dependence of the system's von Neumann entropy. We observe that the late-time relaxation rate decreases as the environment correlation length increases. Moreover, when the environment correlation length is infinite, the system exhibits two steady states, one in each of the sectors with definite charge-conjugation-parity (CP) quantum numbers. For parameter regimes where an initial string breaks in vacuum, we observe a delay of the string breaking in the medium, due to kinetic dissipation effects. Conversely, in regimes where an initial string remains intact in vacuum time evolution, we observe string breaking (melting) in the thermal medium. We further discuss how the Liouvillian dynamics of the open Schwinger model can be simulated on quantum computers and provide an estimate of the associated Trotter errors.
description: 24 pages, 16 figures; v2: added an appendix to explain the dependence of Liouvillian gaps on environment correlation functions and system sizes; v3: add references; v4,v5: correct typos
Additional file 3 of Echolocating bats can adjust sensory acquisition based on internal cues
Creators: name: Boonman, Arjan
name: Rieger, Itai
name: Amichai, Eran
name: Greif, Stefan
name: Ofri Eitan
name: Goldshtein, Aya
name: Yovel, Yossi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. The correlation of the Chirp-Z frequency estimations with three alternative algorithms for five trials of swinging in front of wall (R2 values are presented).
SeaDataCloud Temperature and Salinity Historical Data Collection for the North Atlantic Ocean (Version 1)
Creators: name: Coatanoan, Christine
name: Simoncelli, Simona
Publisher: name: SeaDataCloud
Year: 2018

description: The SeaDataCloud Temperature and Salinity Historical Data Collection for the North Atlantic Ocean includes open access in situ data on temperature and salinity of water column in the North Atlantic Ocean (from 10°N to 62°N for the east part and including the Labrador Sea for the west part) for period 1900 – 2017. The data were retrieved from the SeaDataNet infrastructure at the end of October 2017. The dataset format is ODV binary collections [1]. The quality control of the data has been performed with the help of ODV software. Data Quality Flags have been revised and set up using recommended QC procedures defined during SeaDataNet2 in conjunction with the visual expert check.
Характеристика отдельных физических и почвенно-гидрологических свойств метрового профиля серой лесной почвы
Creators: name: Зинченко С.И.
Publisher: name: Владимирский земледелец
Year: 2018
Subjects: ПОЧВЕННО-ГИДРОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ КОНСТАНТЫ
СЕРАЯ ЛЕСНАЯ ПОЧВА
УДЕЛЬНАЯ ПЛОТНОСТЬ
ПЛОТНОСТЬ СЛОЖЕНИЯ
АГРОЛАНДШАФТЫ
ВЛАДИМИРСКОЕ ОПОЛЬЕ

description: Установлены параметры водно-физических показателей в метровом профиле серой лесной слабооподзоленной среднесуглинистой почвы Владимирского ополья. Обнаружена прямая отрицательная корреляционная связь между содержанием гумуса и плотностью твердой фазы (r= 0,93), а также между плотностью сложения и содержанием гумуса (r= -0,74). Плотность сложения пахотного слоя составляла 1,32 г/см3, что соответствует сильно уплотненной почве. Ниже 30 см наблюдался резкий рост величины этого показателя, обусловленный не только отсутствием механического воздействия, но и значительным снижением содержания органического вещества, а также генезисом образования серых лесных почв. Определение почвенно-гидрологических констант (полной влагоемкости (ПВ), наименьшей влагоемкости (НВ), капиллярной влагоемкости (КВ), влажности завядания растений (ВЗР)) дало возможность оценить профильное распределение влаги. Диапазон доступной влаги в метровом слое серой лесной почве по разности между НВ (302,2 мм) и ВЗР (115,0 мм) составил 187,2 мм. Полученные результаты могут применяться при создании программ усовершенствования технологий адаптивно-ландшафтного земледелия с учетом физических свойств почв конкретных агроландшафтов.
ChatSim: Underwater Simulation with Natural Language Prompting
Creators: name: Palnitkar, Aadi
name: Kapu, Rashmi
name: Lin, Xiaomin
name: Liu, Cheng
name: Karapetyan, Nare
name: Aloimonos, Yiannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robots are becoming an essential part of many operations including marine exploration or environmental monitoring. However, the underwater environment presents many challenges, including high pressure, limited visibility, and harsh conditions that can damage equipment. Real-world experimentation can be expensive and difficult to execute. Therefore, it is essential to simulate the performance of underwater robots in comparable environments to ensure their optimal functionality within practical real-world contexts.OysterSim generates photo-realistic images and segmentation masks of objects in marine environments, providing valuable training data for underwater computer vision applications. By integrating ChatGPT into underwater simulations, users can convey their thoughts effortlessly and intuitively create desired underwater environments without intricate coding. \invis{Moreover, researchers can realize substantial time and cost savings by evaluating their algorithms across diverse underwater conditions in the simulation.} The objective of ChatSim is to integrate Large Language Models (LLM) with a simulation environment~(OysterSim), enabling direct control of the simulated environment via natural language input. This advancement can greatly enhance the capabilities of underwater simulation, with far-reaching benefits for marine exploration and broader scientific research endeavors.
Optimized Adaptive Streaming Representations based on System Dynamics
Creators: name: Toni, Laura
name: Aparicio-Pardo, Ramon
name: Pires, Karine
name: Simon, Gwendal
name: Blanc, Alberto
name: Frossard, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Adaptive streaming addresses the increasing and heterogenous demand of multimedia content over the Internet by offering several encoded versions for each video sequence. Each version (or representation) has a different resolution and bit rate, aimed at a specific set of users, like TV or mobile phone clients. While most existing works on adaptive streaming deal with effective playout-control strategies at the client side, we take in this paper a providers' perspective and propose solutions to improve user satisfaction by optimizing the encoding rates of the video sequences. We formulate an integer linear program that maximizes users' average satisfaction, taking into account the network dynamics, the video content information, and the user population characteristics. The solution of the optimization is a set of encoding parameters that permit to create different streams to robustly satisfy users' requests over time. We simulate multiple adaptive streaming sessions characterized by realistic network connections models, where the proposed solution outperforms commonly used vendor recommendations, in terms of user satisfaction but also in terms of fairness and outage probability. The simulation results further show that video content information as well as network constraints and users' statistics play a crucial role in selecting proper encoding parameters to provide fairness a mong users and to reduce network resource usage. We finally propose a few practical guidelines that can be used to choose the encoding parameters based on the user base characteristics, the network capacity and the type of video content.
SeaDataCloud Temperature and Salinity Historical Data Collections for the North Sea (Version 1)
Creators: name: Scory, Serge
name: Simoncelli, Simona
Publisher: name: SeaDataCloud
Year: 2018

description: The SeaDataCloud Temperature and Salinity Historical Data Collection for the North Sea includes open access in situ data on temperature and salinity for the period 1893 – 2017. The data were retrieved from the SeaDataNet infrastructure at the end of October 2017. The dataset format is ODV binary collections [3]. The quality control of the data has been performed with the help of ODV software. Data Quality Flags have been revised following common recommended procedures defined under SeaDataNet 2 project [2] in conjunction with visual expert check. Trajectories (“underway” data) and “discrete” data (CTD, XBT, discrete water samplers) have been handled separately.
Emergent generalized symmetries in ordered phases and applications to quantum disordering
Creators: name: Pace, Salvatore D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the rich landscape of higher-form and non-invertible symmetries that emerge at low energies in generic ordered phases. Using that their charge is carried by homotopy defects (i.e., domain walls, vortices, hedgehogs, etc.), in the absence of domain walls we find that their symmetry defects in ${D}$-dimensional spacetime are described by ${(D-1)}$-representations of a ${(D-1)}$-group that depends only on the spontaneous symmetry-breaking (SSB) pattern of the ordered phase. These emergent symmetries are not spontaneously broken in the ordered phase. We show that spontaneously breaking them induces a phase transition into a nontrivial disordered phase that can have symmetry-enriched (non-)abelian topological orders, photons, and even more emergent symmetries. This SSB transition is between two distinct SSB phases$\unicode{x2013}$an ordinary and a generalized one$\unicode{x2013}$making it a possible generalized deconfined quantum critical point. We also investigate the 't Hooft anomalies of these emergent symmetries and conjecture that there is always a mixed anomaly between them and the microscopic symmetry spontaneously broken in the ordered phase. One way this anomaly can manifest is through the fractionalization of the microscopic symmetry's quantum numbers. Our results demonstrate that even the most exotic generalized symmetries emerge in ordinary phases and provide a valuable framework for characterizing them and their transitions.
description: 16+8 pages, 4+3 figures. v2 & v3: minor changes and added references. v4: published version
title: Live GNSS Tracking of Search and Rescue Dogs with LoRa
Creators: name: Thomeczek, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Landshut
Year: 2023

description: Dogs have amazing abilities that can be used to help humans, for example when finding people in need with Search and Rescue Dogs. To achieve this years of training are required for both dog and handler. In addition to this dog training is a highly complex topic and avoiding mistakes is crucial. This can be challenging, due to the nature of Area Search Dog (or Air Scenting Dog) training in which the dogs often work out of sight. In these cases live visualisation of the dog’s track can help form a better understanding of the dog, which is key to finding missing persons. This thesis evaluates existing technologies for sending coordinates locally over distances, to track dogs. The results show that current options offer no satisfactory location update frequency, are expensive, lack sufficient range, or are dependent on the availability of third party infrastructure. An affordable alternative is proposed making use of the radio modulation technique LoRa, which can offer sufficient accuracy and update frequency. A prototype shows that a specialised training app can offer reasonable support to decrease the complexity of Search and Rescue work.
Quality and resource efficiency in hospital service provision: A geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis of stroke quality of care in Germany
Creators: name: Pross, Christoph
name: Strumann, Christoph
name: Geissler, Alexander
name: Herwartz, Helmut
name: Klein, Nadja
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: stochastic frontier analysis
subject: health system
subject: hospital performance

description: We specify a Bayesian, geoadditive Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model to assess hospital performance along the dimensions of resources and quality of stroke care in German hospitals. With 1,100 annual observations and data from 2006 to 2013 and risk-adjusted patient volume as output, we introduce a production function that captures quality, resource inputs, hospital inefficiency determinants and spatial patterns of inefficiencies. With high relevance for hospital management and health system regulators, we identify performance improvement mechanisms by considering marginal effects for the average hospital. Specialization and certification can substantially reduce mortality. Regional and hospital-level concentration can improve quality and resource efficiency. Finally, our results demonstrate a trade-off between quality improvement and resource reduction and substantial regional variation in efficiency.
Additional file 1 of Tenebenal: a meta-diamide with potential for use as a novel mode of action insecticide for public health
Creators: name: Lees, Rosemary Susan
name: Ambrose, Pauline
name: Williams, Jessica
name: Morgan, John
name: Praulins, Giorgio
name: Ingham, Victoria A.
name: Williams, Chris T.
name: Logan, Rhiannon Agnes Ellis
name: Hanafy M. Ismail
name: Malone, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Physico-chemical properties of the mud house brick used to make the testing tiles (ACS, Poole, UK). Table S2. Results of Potter Tower calibration exercise to investigate distribution of application of active ingredient across filter papers treated with IRS formulations using HPLC analysis of active ingredient content across the paper. Fig. S1. Residual activity of TenebenalTM WP applied in four concentrations as a prototype WP IRS to four surface materials, in comparison to an untreated control, measured as mortality in adult female Anopheles gambiae of the Kisumu strain 48 hours after exposure. Fig. S2. Residual activity of TenebenalTM WP applied in four concentrations as a prototype WP IRS to four surface materials, in comparison to an untreated control, measured as mortality in adult female Anopheles gambiae of the Kisumu strain 72 hours after exposure. Fig. S3. Residual activity of TenebenalTM WP applied in four concentrations as a prototype WP IRS to four surface materials, in comparison to an untreated control, measured as knock down in adult female Anopheles gambiae of the Kisumu strain observed immediately after exposure. Fig. S4. Residual efficacy of three standard IRS formulations applied to four substrates, in comparison to an untreated control, measured as mortality in adult female Anopheles gambiae of the Kisumu strain 24 hours after exposure.
Velocity Bias from the Small Scale Clustering of SDSS-III BOSS Galaxies
Creators: name: Guo, Hong
name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Zehavi, Idit
name: Dawson, Kyle
name: Skibba, Ramin A.
name: Tinker, Jeremy L.
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: White, Martin
name: Schneider, Donald P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the measurements and modelling of the projected and redshift-space clustering of CMASS galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 11. For a volume-limited luminous red galaxy sample in the redshift range of $0.48
description: MNRAS accepted. Minor revisions from previous version
title: Narrative exchange and intercultural encounter between forced migrants and receiving communities in Torino (Italy) and Edinburgh (Scotland)
Creators: name: Aldegheri, Esa
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Migration, community education, narrative studies, integration, migration studies.

description: This thesis undertakes a comparative study of community education projects in Torino (Italy) and Edinburgh (Scotland) which use narrative exchange to facilitate intercultural encounter between people who are forced migrants and those from receiving communities. It investigates the effectiveness of narrative exchange as a tool for addressing, interpreting and challenging the dynamics of intercultural encounter and community integration in contemporary urban contexts. The thesis presents a unique interdisciplinary contribution to academic debates around migration and integration, drawing on insights from social science combined with a narrative inquiry methodology and a deliberately narrative form. It addresses the epistemological tension between the qualitative, narrative-based work and knowledge embodied in community education projects and the more quantitative requirements of funding criteria which must be met to continue such work. Furthermore, it offers a series of practice-based findings and learnings intended as a resource of practical use in the field of community education. Taking ‘journey’ as a founding metaphor, the thesis is cast in the form of a travel narrative moving through the phases of a PhD, the lives and stories of people and projects encountered, and processes of learning, unlearning and relearning. It is presented as a journey narrated through the voice of the researcher as traveller or wayfarer. The thesis employs qualitative research methods and is conducted multilingually, with maps and poetry occurring and recurring. Material is gathered through conversations and participant observation. Narrative inquiry is the overarching research methodology, employed to analyse material gathered and identify which types of narrative exchange can facilitate dialogical intercultural encounter in urban migratory contexts.
Additional file 4 of Echolocating bats can adjust sensory acquisition based on internal cues
Creators: name: Boonman, Arjan
name: Rieger, Itai
name: Amichai, Eran
name: Greif, Stefan
name: Ofri Eitan
name: Goldshtein, Aya
name: Yovel, Yossi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Figure S2. Estimating the cross-correlation. Left – The veolicty of the pendulum was normalized and half-reftified before cross-correlating it with the emitted frequency sequence. Right – The maximal peak-to-peak of the cross correlation function was divided by the maximum of the auto-correlation in order to assess the cross-correlation.
Semiconductive microporous hydrogen-bonded organophosphonic acid frameworks
Creators: name: Tholen, Patrik
name: Peeples, Craig A.
name: Schaper, Raoul
name: Bayraktar, Ceyda
name: Erkal, Turan Selman
name: Ayhan, Mehmet Menaf
name: Çoşut, Bünyemin
name: Beckmann, Jens
name: Yazaydin, A. Ozgur
name: Wark, Michael
name: Hanna, Gabriel
name: Zorlu, Yunus
name: Yücesan, Gündoğ
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
subject: materials science
subject: HOF
subject: hydrogen-bonded organic framework

description: Herein, we report a semiconductive, proton-conductive, microporous hydrogen-bonded organic framework (HOF) derived from phenylphosphonic acid and 5,10,15,20‐tetrakis[p‐phenylphosphonic acid] porphyrin (GTUB5). The structure of GTUB5 was characterized using single crystal X-ray diffraction. A narrow band gap of 1.56 eV was extracted from a UV-Vis spectrum of pure GTUB5 crystals, in excellent agreement with the 1.65 eV band gap obtained from DFT calculations. The same band gap was also measured for GTUB5 in DMSO. The proton conductivity of GTUB5 was measured to be 3.00 × 10−6 S cm−1 at 75 °C and 75% relative humidity. The surface area was estimated to be 422 m2 g−1 from grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. XRD showed that GTUB5 is thermally stable under relative humidities of up to 90% at 90 °C. These findings pave the way for a new family of organic, microporous, and semiconducting materials with high surface areas and high thermal stabilities.
Crossover behavior in interface depinning
Creators: name: Chen, Y. J.
name: Zapperi, Stefano
name: Sethna, James P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the crossover scaling behavior of the height-height correlation function in interface depinning in random media. We analyze experimental data from a fracture experiment and simulate an elastic line model with non-linear couplings and disorder. Both exhibit a crossover between two different universality classes. For the experiment, we fit a functional form to the universal crossover scaling function. For the model, we vary the system size and the strength of the non-linear term, and describe the crossover between the two universality classes with a multiparameter scaling function. Our method provides a general strategy to extract scaling properties in depinning systems exhibiting crossover phenomena.
description: 6 figures. Revised version
Mujeres constructoras de paz
Creators: name: Ojeda, Angela Patricia Giron
name: Torres, Erika Johana Pantoja
name: Estudiantes De Semillero TROSPUS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Cartilla Mujeres constructoras de paz busca la articulación en el proceso de diálogo social con mujeres de las comunidades caucanas intervenidas mediante el proyecto PROMOPAZ, en aras de generar reflexiones y acciones frente a las medidas de reparación integral.
Spatial interpolation based on previously-observed behavior: a framework for interpolating spaceborne GNSS-R data from CYGNSS
Creators: name: Chew, Clara
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study presents a framework for spatially interpolating Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) data over land. The method, Previously-Observed Behavior Interpolation (POBI), assumes that reflectivity data can be interpolated at unsampled locations by quantifying how past observations of reflectivity at the unsampled location varied with past observations of reflectivity at nearby locations. The POBI method is able to recreate truth reflectivity maps with a mean error of 0.17 dB (standard deviation 1.96 dB) and preserves the heterogeneous and discontinuous nature of reflectivity observations. This method is useful for applications that necessitate rapidly-updated data but have some tolerance for uncertainty in interpolated points.
Likelihood smoothing using gravitational wave surrogate models
Creators: name: Cole, Robert H.
name: Gair, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Likelihood surfaces in the parameter space of gravitational wave signals can contain many secondary maxima, which can prevent search algorithms from finding the global peak and correctly mapping the distribution. Traditional schemes to mitigate this problem maintain the number of secondary maxima and thus retain the possibility that the global maximum will remain undiscovered. By contrast, the recently proposed technique of likelihood transform can modify the structure of the likelihood surface to reduce its complexity. We present a practical method to carry out a likelihood transform using a Gaussian smoothing kernel, utilising gravitational wave surrogate models to perform the smoothing operation analytically. We demonstrate the approach with Newtonian and post-Newtonian waveform models for an inspiralling circular compact binary.
description: 14 pages, 15 figures. To match published version
Electron transfer efficiency in liquid xenon across THGEM holes
Creators: name: Martínez-Lema, G.
name: Roy, A.
name: Breskin, A.
name: Arazi, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dual-phase liquid-xenon time projection chambers (LXe TPCs) deploying a few tonnes of liquid are presently leading the search for WIMP dark matter. Scaling these detectors to 10-fold larger fiducial masses, while improving their sensitivity to low-mass WIMPs presents difficult challenges in detector design. Several groups are considering a departure from current schemes, towards either single-phase liquid-only TPCs, or dual-phase detectors where the electroluminescence region consists of patterned electrodes. Here, we discuss the possible use of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (THGEMs) coated with a VUV photocathode and immersed in LXe as a building block in such designs. We focus on the transfer efficiencies of ionization electrons and photoelectrons emitted from the photocathode through the electrode holes, and show experimentally that efficiencies approaching 100 % can be achieved with realistic voltage settings. The observed voltage dependence of the transfer efficiencies is consistent with electron transport simulations once diffusion and charging-up effects are included.
On conjugacy of additive actions in the affine Cremona group
Creators: name: Arzhantsev, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 14L30, 14R10, Secondary 13E10, 14E07, 14J50

description: An additive action on an irreducible algebraic variety $X$ is an effective action $\mathbb{G}_a^n\times X\to X$ with an open orbit of the vector group $\mathbb{G}_a^n$. Any two additive actions on $X$ are conjugate by a birational automorphism of $X$. We prove that, if $X$ is the projective space, the conjugating element can be chosen in the affine Cremona group and it is given by so-called basic polynomials of the corresponding local algebra.
description: 6 pages
Point-of-interest recommendation using extended random walk with restart on geographical-temporal hybrid tripartite graph
Creators: name: Taheri, Mozhgan
name: Farnaghi, Mahdi
name: Alimohammadi, Abbas
name: Moradi, Parham
name: Khoshahval, Samira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Previous studies neglected the impact of shared spatio-temporal interests in the Point of Interest (POI) recommendation. The proposed GHTG-ERWR method simultaneously models shared spatio-temporal preferences of users, the dynamics of users’ behavior, and the geographical effect for POI recommendation. It is composed of an Extended Random Walk with Restart (ERWR) algorithm that works on a Geographical-temporal Hybrid Tripartite Graph (GHTG). The method overcomes shortcomings of prior approaches by employing users’ joint preferences over time and space through the auxiliary information derived from location-session and session-location edges. Experimental results on Gowalla and Weeplaces datasets proved the feasibility of the approach.