cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Understanding Person Identification through Gait
Creators: name: Hanisch, Simon
name: Muschter, Evelyn
name: Hatzipanayioti, Admantini
name: Li, Shu-Chen
name: Strufe, Thorsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gait recognition is the process of identifying humans from their bipedal locomotion such as walking or running. As such, gait data is privacy sensitive information and should be anonymized where possible. With the rise of higher quality gait recording techniques, such as depth cameras or motion capture suits, an increasing amount of detailed gait data is captured and processed. The introduction and rise of the Metaverse is an example of a potentially popular application scenario in which the gait of users is transferred onto digital avatars. As a first step towards developing effective anonymization techniques for high-quality gait data, we study different aspects of movement data to quantify their contribution to gait recognition. We first extract categories of features from the literature on human gait perception and then design experiments for each category to assess how much the information they contain contributes to recognition success. We evaluated the utility of gait perturbation by means of naturalness ratings in a user study. Our results show that gait anonymization will be challenging, as the data is highly redundant and inter-dependent.
STATUS OF ACADEMIC COLLEGE LIBRARIES REGARDING SUSTAINABLE LIBRARY SERVICE PROVISION TO ITS USERS
Creators: name: Shyamkumar S. Gorde1 And Prof. Dr. Harshal R. Nimbhorkar2
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Introduction We all know that academic libraries are today an integral part of all the educational institutions and enjoy a significant place as far as the development of the institution is considered. The college libraries are types of academic libraries that support educational and research activities in a college setting. Thus, a college library is, therefore, the best place for the students to develop their ability to locate and utilize information, which is necessary for their academic success. Moreover, the establishment of well-equipped libraries and their closer integration with the teaching programs is of paramount significance for any college. The college library must meet the reading, the referencing and the academic needs of its users by providing appropriate and useful information materials, which is necessary to meet those needs. A well-balanced collection that is made accessible to the college teachers and the students via modern technological tools enriches the teaching programs and makes classroom work more stimulating and efficient for all. In addition to above, skilful and competent staff equipped with the latest resources is a pre-requisite for any successful academic institution. Thus, nothing can be more harmful to a developing institution than to ignore its library, as it plays a pivotal role in promoting the overall intellectual and emotional development of its users. A paradox of modern academic libraries is that, while they strive to introduce new technologies to respond to evolving user information needs, they are still mostly organized around traditional information formats. Also, presently a large part of the library building’s spaces are dedicated to shelving for books, print, and digital materials. Although a major public perception survey demonstrates that books continue to be the library’s brand, in order to be sustainable for longer period its periodic evaluation with respect to various attributes needs to be carried out. In the digital age, this poses a challenge for the economic sustainability of libraries, since brands are difficult and costly to change. The value and utility of the book is coming under increased scrutiny, largely due to the fact that users are trading off physical access to print books and research journals for the convenience and speed of virtual access to digital materials. Considering the trend toward digital collections and social networking services, the key concern is whether the blended model of traditional plus hybrid and a new Library 2.0 model are sustainable. In view of the above, present study was conducted to determine the status of academic college libraries in view of sustainable library service provision.
Octave-spanning tunable parametric oscillation in nanophotonics
Creators: name: Ledezma, Luis
name: Roy, Arkadev
name: Costa, Luis
name: Sekine, Ryoto
name: Gray, Robert
name: Guo, Qiushi
name: Nehra, Rajveer
name: Briggs, Ryan M.
name: Marandi, Alireza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Widely-tunable coherent sources are desirable in nanophotonics for a multitude of applications ranging from communications to sensing. The mid-infrared spectral region (wavelengths beyond 2 $μ$m) is particularly important for applications relying on molecular spectroscopy. Among tunable sources, optical parametric oscillators typically offer some of the broadest tuning ranges; however, their implementations in nanophotonics have been limited to narrow tuning ranges and only at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. Here, we surpass these limits in dispersion-engineered periodically-poled lithium niobate nanophotonics and demonstrate ultra-widely tunable optical parametric oscillators. With a pump wavelength near 1 $μ$m, we generate output wavelengths tunable from 1.53 $μ$m to 3.25 $μ$m in a single chip with output powers as high as tens of milliwatts. Our results represent the first octave-spanning tunable source in nanophotonics extending into the mid-infrared which can be useful for numerous integrated photonic applications.
InTheMED D3.4 Report on the Results of the Analysis of Different Scenarios in the Case Studies
Creators: name: Todaro, Valeria
name: Secci, Daniele
name: D'Oria, Marco
name: Tanda, Maria Giovanna
name: Zanini, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Surrogate model
Mediterranean
Climate Change
Groundwater

description: The overall objective of the InTheMED project is to implement innovative and sustainable management tools and remediation strategies for MED aquifers (inland and coastal) in order to mitigate anthropogenic and climate-change threats by creating new long-lasting spaces of social learning among different interdependent stakeholders, NGOs, and scientific researchers in five field case studies. These are located at the two shores of the MED basin, namely in Spain, Greece, Portugal, Tunisia, and Turkey. InTheMED will develop an inclusive process that will establish an ensemble of innovative assessment and management tools and methodologies including a high-resolution monitoring approach, smart modelling, a socio-economic assessment, web-based decision support systems (DSS) and new configurations for governance to validate efficient and sustainable integrated groundwater management in the MED considering both the quantitative and qualitative aspects. This Deliverable, namely D3.4, is part of Task 3.4 “Analysis of Different Scenarios” (Lead: UNIPR/ participants: UPV, TUC, IST-ID, CERTE and BU). The aim of Task 3.4 is to simulate different scenarios considering the impact of climate and socio-economic changes on groundwater resources at the five pilot sites. At this aim, different surrogate models were developed for each case study, which are described in Milestone 3.2 (Tanda et al., 2022) and Deliverable 3.2 (Todaro et al., 2023). The surrogate models will support the implementation of the Fuzzy WebDSS tool (Deliverable 6.2; Varouchakis et al., 2023) aimed at assist decision makers in aquifer management. The definition of the scenarios and the description of the application of the surrogate models under these scenarios were presented in Milestone 3.4 (Secci et al., 2023). The D3.4 presents the results of the analysis of the most relevant scenarios in the demo sites.
description: This project is part of the PRIMA Programme supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 1923.
Clique Cover Width and Clique Sum
Creators: name: Shahrokhi, Farhad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a clique cover $C$ in the undirected graph $G$, the clique cover graph of $C$ is the graph obtained by contracting the vertices of each clique in $C$ into a single vertex. The clique cover width of G, denoted by $CCW(G)$, is the minimum value of the bandwidth of all clique cover graphs of $G$. When $G$ is the clique sum of $G_1$ and $G_2$, we prove that $CCW(G) \le 3/2(CCW(G_1) + CCW(G_2))$.
Additional file 17 of The nuclear and mitochondrial genome assemblies of Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae: Meliponini), a tiny yet remarkable pollinator in the Neotropics
Creators: name: Ferrari, Rafael Rodrigues
name: Ricardo, Paulo Cseri
name: Dias, Felipe Cordeiro
name: de Souza Araujo, Natalia
name: Soares, Dalliane Oliveira
name: Zhou, Qing-Song
name: Zhu, Chao-Dong
name: Coutinho, Luiz Lehmann
name: Arias, Maria Cristina
name: Batista, Thiago Mafra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Fig. S3. Eight quality parameters of 2 × 101 (SR1) Illumina short-read sequencing (R2) based on FastQC analysis
Stability and Migration of Small Copper Clusters in Amorphous Dielectrics
Creators: name: Guzman, David M.
name: Onofrio, Nicolas
name: Strachan, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use density functional theory (DFT) to study the thermodynamic stability and migration of copper ions and small clusters embedded in amorphous silicon dioxide. We perform the calculations over an ensemble of statistically independent structures to quantify the role of the intrinsic atomic-level variability in the amorphous matrix affect the properties. The predicted formation energy of a Cu ion in the silica matrix is 2.7+/-2.4 eV, significantly lower the value for crystalline SiO2. Interestingly, we find that Cu clusters of any size are energetically favorable as compared to isolated ions; showing that the formation of metallic clusters does not require overcoming a nucleation barrier as is often assumed. We also find a broad distribution of activation energies for Cu migration, from 0.4 to 1.1 eV. This study provides insights into the stability of nanoscale metallic clusters in silica of interest in electrochemical metallization cell memories and optoelectronics.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Regularity results for a class of widely degenerate parabolic equations
Creators: name: Ambrosio, Pasquale
name: di Napoli, Antonia Passarelli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B45, 35B65, 35D30, 35K10, 35K65

description: Motivated by applications to gas filtration problems, we study the regularity of weak solutions to the strongly degenerate parabolic PDE $u_{t}-\mathrm{div}\left((\vert Du\vert-ν)_{+}^{p-1}\frac{Du}{\vert Du\vert}\right)=f$ in $Ω_{T}=Ω\times(0,T)$, where $Ω$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ for $n\geq2$, $p\geq2$, $ν$ is a positive constant and $\left(\,\cdot\,\right)_{+}$ stands for the positive part. Assuming that the datum $f$ belongs to a suitable Lebesgue-Sobolev parabolic space, we establish the Sobolev spatial regularity of a nonlinear function of the spatial gradient of the weak solutions, which in turn implies the existence of the weak time derivative $u_{t}$. The main novelty here is that the structure function of the above equation satisfies standard growth and ellipticity conditions only outside a ball with radius $ν$ centered at the origin. We would like to point out that the first result obtained here can be considered, on the one hand, as the parabolic counterpart of an elliptic result established in [5], and on the other hand as the extension to a strongly degenerate context of some known results for less degenerate parabolic equations.
Probing sd-fp cross-shell interactions via terminating configurations in Sc42,43
Creators: name: Carpenter, M.P.
name: Devlin, M.
name: Lauritsen, T.
name: Ryu, S.K.
name: Chiara, C.J.
name: Stoitcheva, G.
name: Ideguchi, E.
name: Görgen, A.
name: Pechenaya, O.L.
name: Reiter, P.
name: Janssens, R.V.F.
name: Baktash, C.
name: Lister, C.J.
name: Lafosse, D.R.
name: Fallon, P.
name: Seweryniak, D.
name: Ormand, W.E.
name: Galindo-Uribarri, A.
name: Sarantites, D.G.
name: Lerma, F.
name: MacChiavelli, A.O.
name: Reviol, W.
name: Rudolph, D.
Publisher: name: American Physical Society
Year: 2007

description: An experimental study of the lower fp-shell nuclei Sc42,43 was performed via αpn and αp evaporation, respectively, from Ne20 + Si28 and Mg24 + Mg24 fusion-evaporation reactions. The experiments were conducted with the Gammasphere and Microball detector arrays. The level schemes of both nuclei have been extended considerably. Terminating states associated with the f7/2n and d3/2-1f7/2n+1 configurations were identified in each nuclide and incorporated into detailed comparisons with neighboring nuclei and with shell model calculations. The energy differences between the terminating states provide a test of the sd-fp cross-shell interactions in these calculations.
Multi-Label Clinical Time-Series Generation via Conditional GAN
Creators: name: Lu, Chang
name: Reddy, Chandan K.
name: Wang, Ping
name: Nie, Dong
name: Ning, Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, deep learning has been successfully adopted in a wide range of applications related to electronic health records (EHRs) such as representation learning and clinical event prediction. However, due to privacy constraints, limited access to EHR becomes a bottleneck for deep learning research. To mitigate these concerns, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been successfully used for generating EHR data. However, there are still challenges in high-quality EHR generation, including generating time-series EHR data and imbalanced uncommon diseases. In this work, we propose a Multi-label Time-series GAN (MTGAN) to generate EHR and simultaneously improve the quality of uncommon disease generation. The generator of MTGAN uses a gated recurrent unit (GRU) with a smooth conditional matrix to generate sequences and uncommon diseases. The critic gives scores using Wasserstein distance to recognize real samples from synthetic samples by considering both data and temporal features. We also propose a training strategy to calculate temporal features for real data and stabilize GAN training. Furthermore, we design multiple statistical metrics and prediction tasks to evaluate the generated data. Experimental results demonstrate the quality of the synthetic data and the effectiveness of MTGAN in generating realistic sequential EHR data, especially for uncommon diseases.
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Deformation theory of periodic monopoles (with singularities)
Creators: name: Foscolo, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C07

description: We show that for generic choices of parameters the moduli spaces of periodic monopoles (with singularities), i.e. monopoles on $\mathbb{R}^{2} \times \mathbb{S}^{1}$ possibly singular at a finite collection of points, are either empty or smooth hyperkähler manifolds. Furthermore, we prove an index theorem and therefore compute the dimension of the moduli spaces.
Rotational damping, ridges, and the quasicontinuum of γ rays in Dy152
Creators: name: Clark, R.M.
name: Jenkins, D.G.
name: Fallon, P.
name: Lane, G.
name: MacChiavelli, A.O.
name: Døssing, T.
name: Korichi, A.
name: Carpenter, M.P.
name: Lister, C.J.
name: Janssens, R.V.F.
name: Larabee, A.J.
name: Meredith, B.
name: Ward, D.
name: Heinz, A.M.
name: Kondev, F.G.
name: Moore, E.F.
name: Seweryniak, D.
name: Zhu, S.
name: Ahmad, I.
name: Herskind, B.
name: Lopez-Martens, A.
name: Kozemczak, J.
name: Chowdhury, P.
name: Lauritsen, T.
name: Khoo, T.L.
Publisher: name: American Physical Society
Year: 2007

description: The quasicontinuum of γ rays from the feeding and decay of superdeformed and normal bands in Dy152 have been extracted in one- and two-dimensional spectra. The Eγ-Eγ correlations in the latter reveal strong ridges associated with superdeformed and normal states in this nucleus. The entry distributions for normal and superdeformed bands have been extracted from measured fold and sum-energy distributions. A Monte Carlo model was developed to simultaneously describe all the quasicontinuum and ridge spectra as well as the feeding intensity of the superdeformed bands. The rotational damping widths in the normal and superdeformed wells were derived based on a comparison of the data with model calculations of the continuum of γ rays at finite temperature.
All-optical thermometry and the thermal properties of the optically detected spin resonances of the NV center in nano-diamond
Creators: name: Plakhotnik, Taras
name: Doherty, Marcus W.
name: Cole, Jared H.
name: Chapman, Robert
name: Manson, Neil B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is at the frontier of quantum nano-metrology and bio-sensing. Recent attention has focused on the application of high-sensitivity thermometry using the spin resonances of NV centers in nano-diamond to sub-cellular biological and biomedical research. Here, we report a comprehensive investigation of the thermal properties of the center's spin resonances and demonstrate an alternate all-optical NV thermometry technique that exploits the temperature dependence of the center's optical Debye-Waller factor.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures
Finite-size scaling as a way to probe near-criticality in natural swarms
Creators: name: Attanasi, A.
name: Cavagna, A.
name: Del Castello, L.
name: Giardina, I.
name: Melillo, S.
name: Parisi, L.
name: Pohl, O.
name: Rossaro, B.
name: Shen, E.
name: Silvestri, E.
name: Viale, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Collective behaviour in biological systems is often accompanied by strong correlations. The question has therefore arisen of whether correlation is amplified by the vicinity to some critical point in the parameters space. Biological systems, though, are typically quite far from the thermodynamic limit, so that the value of the control parameter at which correlation and susceptibility peak depend on size. Hence, a system would need to readjust its control parameter according to its size in order to be maximally correlated. This readjustment, though, has never been observed experimentally. By gathering three-dimensional data on swarms of midges in the field we find that swarms tune their control parameter and size so as to maintain a scaling behaviour of the correlation function. As a consequence, correlation length and susceptibility scale with the system's size and swarms exhibit a near-maximal degree of correlation at all sizes.
description: Selected for Viewpoint in Physics; PRL Editor's Suggestion
Additional file 18 of The nuclear and mitochondrial genome assemblies of Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae: Meliponini), a tiny yet remarkable pollinator in the Neotropics
Creators: name: Ferrari, Rafael Rodrigues
name: Ricardo, Paulo Cseri
name: Dias, Felipe Cordeiro
name: de Souza Araujo, Natalia
name: Soares, Dalliane Oliveira
name: Zhou, Qing-Song
name: Zhu, Chao-Dong
name: Coutinho, Luiz Lehmann
name: Arias, Maria Cristina
name: Batista, Thiago Mafra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Fig. S4. Eight quality parameters of 2 × 301 (SR3) Illumina short-read sequencing (R1) based on FastQC analysis
A computer-simulated Stern-Gerlach laboratory
Creators: name: Schroeder, Daniel V.
name: Moore, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an interactive computer program that simulates Stern-Gerlach measurements on spin-1/2 and spin-1 particles. The user can design and run experiments involving successive spin measurements, illustrating incompatible observables, interference, and time evolution. The program can be used by students at a variety of levels, from non-science majors in a general interest course to physics majors in an upper-level quantum mechanics course. We give suggested homework exercises using the program at various levels.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
Echoes of axial gravitational perturbations in stars of uniform density
Creators: name: Lin, Kai
name: Qian, Wei-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work investigates the echoes in axial gravitational perturbations in compact objects. To this end, we propose an alternative scheme of the finite difference method implemented in two coordinate systems, where the initial conditions are placed on the axis of the tortoise coordinate with appropriate boundary conditions that fully respect the causality. The scheme is then employed to study the temporal profiles of the quasinormal oscillations in the Schwarzschild black hole and the uniform-density stars. When presented in a two-dimensional evolution profile, the resulting ringdown waveforms in the black hole metric are split into the reflected and transmitted waves as the initial perturbations evolve and collide with the peak of the effective potential. On the other hand, for compact stars, quasinormal oscillations might be characterized by echoes. Consistent with the causality arguments, the phenomenon is produced by the gravitational waves bouncing between the divergent potential at the star's center and the peak of the effective potential. The implications of the present study are also discussed.
Radius of curvature of the S factor maximum in sub-barrier fusion hindrance
Creators: name: Back, B.B.
name: Rehm, K.E.
name: Janssens, R.V.F.
name: Jiang, C.L.
Publisher: name: American Physical Society
Year: 2007

description: A maximum of the S(E) factor is evidence for an onset of sub-barrier fusion hindrance and it can be well described by a radius-of-curvature expression near the maximum. The systematics of this radius of curvature has been studied over a wide range of projectile-target combinations. It follows a tentative general trend as a function of the parameter ζ=Z1Z2μ, and is strongly affected by effects associated with the nuclear structure of the nuclei in the entrance channel. It also explains the reason why the S factor maximum is not easily recognized visually for lighter, astrophysically interesting fusion systems.
The MC-QTAIM analysis reveals an exotic bond in the coherently quantum superposed Malonaldehyde
Creators: name: Goli, Mohammad
name: Shahbazian, Shant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proton between the two oxygen atoms of the malonaldehyde molecule experiences an effective double-well potential in which the proton wavefunction is delocalized between the two wells. Herein we employed the state-of-the-art multi-component quantum theory of atoms in molecules partitioning scheme to obtain the molecular structure, i.e. atoms in molecules and bonding network, from the superposed ab initio wavefunctions of malonaldehyde. In contrast to the familiar clamped-proton portrayal of malonaldehyde, in which the proton forms a hydrogen basin, for the superposed states the hydrogen basin disappears and two novel hybrid oxygen-hydrogen basins appear instead, with an even distribution of the proton population between the two basins. The interaction between the hybrid basins is stabilizing thanks to an unprecedented mechanism. This involves the stabilizing classical Coulomb interaction of the one-proton density in one of the basins with the one-electron density in the other basin. This stabilizing mechanism yields a bond foreign to the known bonding modes in chemistry.
description: File contains the main text plus the supporting information
Fluctuation diagnostics of the electron self-energy: Origin of the pseudogap physics
Creators: name: Gunnarsson, O.
name: Schäfer, T.
name: LeBlanc, J. P. F.
name: Gull, E.
name: Merino, J.
name: Sangiovanni, G.
name: Rohringer, G.
name: Toschi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate how to identify which physical processes dominate the low-energy spectral functions of correlated electron systems. We obtain an unambiguous classification through an analysis of the equation of motion for the electron self-energy in its charge, spin and particle-particle representations. Our procedure is then employed to clarify the controversial physics responsible for the appearance of the pseudogap in correlated systems. We illustrate our method by examining the attractive and repulsive Hubbard model in two-dimensions. In the latter, spin fluctuations are identified as the origin of the pseudogap, and we also explain why $d-$wave pairing fluctuations play a marginal role in suppressing the low-energy spectral weight, independent of their actual strength.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures + 4 pages supplementary
Linguistic justice and global english: theoretical and empirical approaches
Creators: name: Soler, Josep
name: Morales Galvez, Sergi
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: The global spread of English and its impact on the pursuit of linguistic justice has been a topic of concern for scholars in a wide range of different fields in the humanities and social sciences. Firmly convinced of the usefulness of cross-field collaboration to advance our understanding of the expansion of English globally, in this special issue we bring together experts in sociolinguistics and political theory with two goals in mind: (1) to illustrate, empirically, its consequences for speakers in situated contexts; and (2) to propose potential normative responses to the global spread of English. In order to frame the overarching theme of the special issue, and to show our stance as guest editors in connection to global English, in this opening piece we develop a critique to Philippe Van Parijs’ notion of linguistic justice. In particular, we take issue with his vision that promoting English as a global lingua franca is a good idea in order to enhance everyone’s equality of opportunities (e.g., in the labour market). We question such an assumption from both a theoretical and empirical point of view, and argue that having equal access to English is not sufficient to equalize everyone’s opportunities
Additional file 19 of The nuclear and mitochondrial genome assemblies of Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae: Meliponini), a tiny yet remarkable pollinator in the Neotropics
Creators: name: Ferrari, Rafael Rodrigues
name: Ricardo, Paulo Cseri
name: Dias, Felipe Cordeiro
name: de Souza Araujo, Natalia
name: Soares, Dalliane Oliveira
name: Zhou, Qing-Song
name: Zhu, Chao-Dong
name: Coutinho, Luiz Lehmann
name: Arias, Maria Cristina
name: Batista, Thiago Mafra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Fig. S5. Eight quality parameters of 2 × 301 (SR3) Illumina short-read sequencing (R2) based on FastQC analysis
Horseshoes for $\mathcal{C}^{1+α}$ mappings with hyperbolic measures
Creators: name: Yang, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B40, 37D25, 37C40

description: We present here a construction of horseshoes for any $\mathcal{C}^{1+α}$ mapping $f$ preserving an ergodic hyperbolic measure $μ$ with $h_μ(f)>0$ and then deduce that the exponential growth rate of the number of periodic points for any $\mathcal{C}^{1+α}$ mapping $f$ is greater than or equal to $h_μ(f)$. We also prove that the exponential growth rate of the number of hyperbolic periodic points is equal to the hyperbolic entropy. The hyperbolic entropy means the entropy resulting from hyperbolic measures.
description: 20 pages
Einstein and Besso: from Zürich to Milano
Creators: name: Bracco, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 1896-1901 Milanese period is a key one to understand Einstein's training background. When he was a student at the ETH in Zürich (the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zürich) from 1896 to 1900, he would make regular trips back to Milan to stay with his family who was involved in the development of the electricity industry in northern Italy. Between 1899 and 1901, he would meet his faithful friend and collaborator, Michele Besso in Milan on a regular basis. Given their relationship, the 1899-1901 Milanese period therefore foreshadowed the Bern period later in 1904. In order to specify the circumstances under which Einstein and Besso got the chance to meet, we will show that their respective families did have interconnected social networks, especially through the electricity sector and the polytechnic engineering Universities of Zürich and Milan. The branch of the Cantoni family, on Michele's mother's side, rather ignored by now, played a crucial role: with Vittorio Cantoni, a renowned electrical engineer who had not been previously identified as being Michele's uncle, and Giuseppe Jung, professor at the Milan Politecnico. We will also show that when staying in Milan, Einstein, who lived in a well-known Milanese palace in the heart of the city, worked in the nearby rich library of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere in Brera. The linkage between the scientific observations which can be found in Einstein's correspondence and this library collection sheds new light on his scientific work, in particular on his original thesis.
Stability of a Stochastic Ring Network
Creators: name: Storm, Jaap
name: Kager, Wouter
name: Mandjes, Michel
name: Borst, Sem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we establish a necessary and sufficient stability condition for a stochastic ring network. Such networks naturally appear in a variety of applications within communication, computer, and road traffic systems. They typically involve multiple customer types and some form of priority structure to decide which customer receives service. These two system features tend to complicate the issue of identifying a stability condition, but we demonstrate how the ring topology can be leveraged to solve the problem.
description: 25 pages, 2 figures; v2: revamped Section 3.1, rewritten Section 6.1, expanded Section 7, added two figures and two references, streamlined the proof of Theorem 5.6, additional minor edits throughout
An Institutional Approach to Research Data Management (RDM) for Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Creators: name: Ariza, Angela
name: El-Athman, Rukeia
name: Raedler, Joerg
name: Muth, Thilo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Research Data Infrastructure, ELN, openBIS, Research Data Management, Materials science, data life cycle

description: The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM, German Federal Institute for Materials Science and Testing) implements the BAM Data Store, a central storage infrastructure for internal research data management (RDM) containing an electronic lab notebook (ELN) and a laboratory information management system (LIMS) based on the open source software openBIS developed at the ETH Zurich. The poster provides an overview of the approach followed during the pilot phase of the project in 2021 and presents the BAM Data Store framework, which is being rolled out at BAM since 2023 as the backbone infrastructure for RDM.
Rotational structures and their evolution with spin in Gd152
Creators: name: Brown, T.B.
name: Carpenter, M.P.
name: Fallon, P.
name: Laird, R.W.
name: Ragnarsson, I.
name: Lauritsen, T.
name: Hartley, D.J.
name: Riley, M.A.
name: Kondev, F.G.
name: Fischer, S.M.
name: Simpson, J.
name: Nisius, D.
name: Janssens, R.V.F.
name: Campbell, D.B.
Publisher: name: American Physical Society
Year: 2007

description: The fusion-evaporation reaction involving a 175 MeV S36 beam and a Sn124 target was performed, and the emitted γ rays were observed with the Gammasphere spectrometer. Significant additions to the level scheme of Gd152 were made in spite of the relative weakness of the α4n exit channel, being only ∼2% of the total fusion cross-section. The high-spin behavior of Gd152 was compared with that of other N=88 nuclei. A striking similarity was observed with Dy154 and it is therefore suggested that the angular-momentum-induced shape changes that take place in Dy154 also occur in Gd152 in the 30-40Latin small letter h with stroke spin range. This is supported by Cranked Nilsson-Strutinsky calculations which were used to interpret the high-spin bands. It is found that a better agreement between calculation and experiment is obtained if the Z=64 shell gap increases with a decreasing number of valence particles outside the doubly-closed 64146Gd82 nucleus.
Strategic Coalition for Data Pricing in IoT Data Markets
Creators: name: Pandey, Shashi Raj
name: Pinson, Pierre
name: Popovski, Petar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper considers a market for trading Internet of Things (IoT) data that is used to train machine learning models. The data, either raw or processed, is supplied to the market platform through a network and the price of such data is controlled based on the value it brings to the machine learning model. We explore the correlation property of data in a game-theoretical setting to eventually derive a simplified distributed solution for a data trading mechanism that emphasizes the mutual benefit of devices and the market. The key proposal is an efficient algorithm for markets that jointly addresses the challenges of availability and heterogeneity in participation, as well as the transfer of trust and the economic value of data exchange in IoT networks. The proposed approach establishes the data market by reinforcing collaboration opportunities between device with correlated data to avoid information leakage. Therein, we develop a network-wide optimization problem that maximizes the social value of coalition among the IoT devices of similar data types; at the same time, it minimizes the cost due to network externalities, i.e., the impact of information leakage due to data correlation, as well as the opportunity costs. Finally, we reveal the structure of the formulated problem as a distributed coalition game and solve it following the simplified split-and-merge algorithm. Simulation results show the efficacy of our proposed mechanism design toward a trusted IoT data market, with up to 32.72% gain in the average payoff for each seller.
description: 15 pages. 12 figures. This paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Copyright may change without notice
P-MaNGA: Gradients in Recent Star Formation Histories as Diagnostics for Galaxy Growth and Death
Creators: name: Li, Cheng
name: Wang, Enci
name: Lin, Lin
name: Bershady, Matthew A.
name: Bundy, Kevin
name: Tremonti, Christy A.
name: Xiao, Ting
name: Yan, Renbin
name: Bizyaev, Dmitry
name: Blanton, Michael
name: Cales, Sabrina
name: Cherinka, Brian
name: Cheung, Edmond
name: Drory, Niv
name: Emsellem, Eric
name: Fu, Hai
name: Gelfand, Joseph
name: Law, David R.
name: Lin, Lihwai
name: MacDonald, Nick
name: Maraston, Claudia
name: Masters, Karen L.
name: Merrifield, Michael R.
name: Pan, Kaike
name: Sanchez, S. F.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Thomas, Daniel
name: Wake, David
name: Wang, Lixin
name: Weijmans, Anne-Marie
name: Wilkinson, David
name: Yoachim, Peter
name: Zhang, Kai
name: Zheng, Tiantian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the data produced by the MaNGA prototype run (P-MaNGA), aiming to test how the radial gradients in recent star formation histories, as indicated by the 4000AA-break (D4000), Hdelta absorption (EW(Hd_A)) and Halpha emission (EW(Ha)) indices, can be useful for understanding disk growth and star formation cessation in local galaxies. We classify 12 galaxies observed on two P-MaNGA plates as either centrally quiescent (CQ) or centrally star-forming (CSF), according to whether D4000 measured in the central spaxel of each datacube exceeds 1.6. For each galaxy we generate both 2D maps and radial profiles of D4000, EW(Hd_A) and EW(Ha). We find that CSF galaxies generally show very weak or no radial variation in these diagnostics. In contrast, CQ galaxies present significant radial gradients, in the sense that D4000 decreases, while both EW(Hd_A) and EW(Ha) increase from the galactic center outward. The outer regions of the galaxies show greater scatter on diagrams relating the three parameters than their central parts. In particular, the clear separation between centrally-measured quiescent and star-forming galaxies in these diagnostic planes is largely filled in by the outer parts of galaxies whose global colors place them in the green valley, supporting the idea that the green valley represents a transition between blue-cloud and red-sequence phases, at least in our small sample. These results are consistent with a picture in which the cessation of star formation propagates from the center of a galaxy outwards as it moves to the red sequence.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 20 of The nuclear and mitochondrial genome assemblies of Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae: Meliponini), a tiny yet remarkable pollinator in the Neotropics
Creators: name: Ferrari, Rafael Rodrigues
name: Ricardo, Paulo Cseri
name: Dias, Felipe Cordeiro
name: de Souza Araujo, Natalia
name: Soares, Dalliane Oliveira
name: Zhou, Qing-Song
name: Zhu, Chao-Dong
name: Coutinho, Luiz Lehmann
name: Arias, Maria Cristina
name: Batista, Thiago Mafra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Fig. S6. Contig ExN50 plot of the de novo-assembled transcriptome of Tetragonisca angustula showing a peak at E95 of roughly 4.7 kb
Single-neutron states in Sn101
Creators: name: Lister, C.J.
name: Seweryniak, D.
name: Peterson, D.
name: Lauritsen, T.
name: Gros, S.
name: Walters, W.B.
name: Hoteling, N.
name: Wang, X.
name: Hecht, A.A.
name: Carpenter, M.P.
name: Zhu, S.
name: Woods, P.J.
name: Khoo, T.L.
name: Janssens, R.V.F.
name: Robinson, A.P.
name: Lotay, G.
Publisher: name: American Physical Society
Year: 2007

description: The first data on the relative single-particle energies outside the doubly magic Sn100 nucleus were obtained. A prompt 171.7(6)keV γ-ray transition was correlated with protons emitted following the β decay of Sn101 and is interpreted as the transition between the single-neutron g7/2 and d5/2 orbitals in Sn101. This observation provides a stringent test of current nuclear structure models. The measured νg7/2-νd5/2 energy splitting is compared with values calculated using mean-field nuclear potentials and is used to calculate low-energy excited states in light Sn isotopes in the framework of the shell model. The correlation technique used in this work offers possibilities for future, more extensive spectroscopy near Sn100.
Origin of Hole-Trapping States in Solution-Processed Copper(I) Thiocyanate (CuSCN) and Defect-Healing by I$_2$ Doping
Creators: name: Worakajit, Pimpisut
name: Kidkhunthod, Pinit
name: Waiprasoet, Saran
name: Nakajima, Hideki
name: Sudyoadsuk, Taweesak
name: Promarak, Vinich
name: Pattanasattayavong, Pichaya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solution-processed copper(I) thiocyanate (CuSCN) typically exhibits low crystallinity with short-range order; the defects result in a high density of trap states that limit the device performance. Despite the extensive electronic applications of CuSCN, its defect properties have not been studied in detail. Through X-ray absorption spectroscopy, pristine CuSCN prepared from the standard diethyl sulfide-based recipe is found to contain under-coordinated Cu atoms, pointing to the presence of SCN vacancies. A defect passivation strategy is introduced by adding solid I$_2$ to the processing solution. At small concentrations, the iodine is found to exist as I$^-$ which can substitute for the missing SCN$^-$ ligand, effectively healing the defective sites and restoring the coordination around Cu. Applying I$_2$-doped CuSCN as a p-channel in thin-film transistors shows that the hole mobility increases by more than five times at the optimal doping concentration of 0.5 mol%. Importantly, the on/off current ratio and the subthreshold characteristics also improve as the I$_2$ doping method leads to the defect healing effect while avoiding the creation of detrimental impurity states. An analysis of the capacitance-voltage characteristics corroborates that the trap state density is reduced upon I$_2$ addition. The contact resistance and bias-stress stability of the devices also improve. This work shows a simple and effective route to improve hole transport properties of CuSCN which is applicable to wide-ranging electronic and optoelectronic applications.
Spectroscopy of the N=Z-2 nucleus Cr46 and mirror energy differences
Creators: name: Appelbe, D.
name: Warner, D.D.
name: Bernstein, L.A.
name: Carpenter, M.P.
name: Garrett, P.E.
name: Algin, E.
name: Lenzi, S.M.
name: Bauer, R.W.
name: Becker, J.A.
name: Cameron, J.A.
name: Janssens, R.V.F.
name: Lister, C.J.
name: Seweryniak, D.
Publisher: name: American Physical Society
Year: 2007

description: Excited states in Cr46 were sought using the C12(Ar36,2n) reaction. Gamma rays were detected with the Gammasphere array, and the Z value of the reaction products was determined with an ionization chamber located at the focal plane of the Fragment Mass Analyzer. In addition to the ground-state band observed up to IÏ€=10+ (tentatively 12+), five states are proposed to belong to the 3- band. The mirror energy differences with the analog states in Ti46 present a pronounced staggering effect between the odd and even spin members that is reproduced well by shell-model calculations incorporating the different Coulomb contributions, monopole, multipole, and single-particle effects together with an isospin-nonconserving interaction that accounts for the so-called J=2 anomaly. Dramatically different E1 decay patterns for members of the 3- band between the Cr46 and Ti46 mirrors are also observed.
Electronic and transport properties in geometrically disordered graphene antidot lattices
Creators: name: Fan, Zheyong
name: Uppstu, Andreas
name: Harju, Ari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A graphene antidot lattice, created by a regular perforation of a graphene sheet, can exhibit a considerable band gap required by many electronics devices. However, deviations from perfect periodicity are always present in real experimental setups and can destroy the band gap. Our numerical simulations, using an efficient linear-scaling quantum transport simulation method implemented on graphics processing units, show that disorder that destroys the band gap can give rise to a transport gap caused by Anderson localization. The size of the defect induced transport gap is found to be proportional to the radius of the antidots and inversely proportional to the square of the lattice periodicity. Furthermore, randomness in the positions of the antidots is found to be more detrimental than randomness in the antidot radius. The charge carrier mobilities are found to be very small compared to values found in pristine graphene, in accordance with recent experiments.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, An unused figure from the previous version is removed
A Customized Text Sanitization Mechanism with Differential Privacy
Creators: name: Chen, Huimin
name: Mo, Fengran
name: Wang, Yanhao
name: Chen, Cen
name: Nie, Jian-Yun
name: Wang, Chengyu
name: Cui, Jamie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As privacy issues are receiving increasing attention within the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community, numerous methods have been proposed to sanitize texts subject to differential privacy. However, the state-of-the-art text sanitization mechanisms based on metric local differential privacy (MLDP) do not apply to non-metric semantic similarity measures and cannot achieve good trade-offs between privacy and utility. To address the above limitations, we propose a novel Customized Text (CusText) sanitization mechanism based on the original $ε$-differential privacy (DP) definition, which is compatible with any similarity measure. Furthermore, CusText assigns each input token a customized output set of tokens to provide more advanced privacy protection at the token level. Extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets show that CusText achieves a better trade-off between privacy and utility than existing mechanisms. The code is available at https://github.com/sai4july/CusText.
description: This work has been accepted to the Findings of ACL 2023