cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bayesian inference for near-field interferometric tests of collapse models
Creators: name: Laing, Shaun
name: Bateman, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the information which proposed matterwave interferometry experiments with large test masses can provide about parameterizable extensions to quantum mechanics, such as have been proposed to explain the apparent quantum to classical transition. Specifically, we consider a matterwave near-field Talbot interferometer and Continuous Spontaneous Localisation (CSL). Using Bayesian inference we compute the effect of decoherence mechanisms including pressure and blackbody radiation, find estimates for the number of measurements required, and provide a procedure for optimal choice of experimental control variables. We show that in a MAQRO like experiment it is possible to reach masses of $\sim10^9\,\text{u}$ and we quantify the bounds which can be placed on CSL. These specific results can be used to inform experimental design and the general approach can be applied to other parameterizable models.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Mah Wing, Mah Kan Jew, [Chin Jam Hin], [Do Goon], Tom Fook, Yee Lam, [Louie Gin], Sim Shee Fon, Ow Gim, Wong Sair.
title: How Adults Play at Work
Creators: name: Murphy, Mary Kay
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Play
subject: Playfulness
subject: Adult
subject: Work

description: This thesis investigates adult perceptions of play and playfulness. Though it reflects participant experiences in general, the research focuses primarily on how these are understood within the context of work. As attention to play at work from both business and academia increases, how adults understand, instigate, and appreciate play becomes more important. This thesis improves understanding of how adults play as it connects these perceptions with scholarly thought. The research was completed using a literature review and information provided by fourteen participants in survey and interview form.
title: The Effects of Perceived Competence, Predictability, and Context of Interaction on Perceived Human-Likeness and Human-AI Interactions
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: As robots and AI are designed for social interactions and incorporated into the world, it is important to examine the extent to which humans can perceive such artificial agents as humanlike based solely on the observation of their behaviors. The while psychologists, neuroscientists, computer scientists and designers have studied related phenomena for many years, more work is required to develop a deep understanding of how people perceive the actions of AI compared to humans within a complex, interactive environments, and how this varies as a function of the AI’s competence in navigating that environment.The experiments outlined in this dissertation attempt to clarify how individuals make distinctions of human-likeness on the basis of observable behavior, how the perception of human-likeness is related to the perceptions of competence at a given task as well as how predictable or explainable these behaviors are perceived to be, and finally how the context in which these judgements are made contributes to expectations and overall perceptions of a complex mind. The results from these experiments suggest (1) that increased competence at a task is accompanied with an increase in perception of human-likeness, (2) the relationship between perceived predictability/explainability and human-likeness depends on how competent an entity is perceived to be and (3) the context of an interaction can lead to different expectations of human-likeness and can potentially affect the overall relationship individuals develop with human and AI entities.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Jung Suey Ching, [Jung Gin Board], Jung Gee Wah, Jung gin Lett, Wong Kong Yik, Jung Yat Young, Lee Leong, Lee Wo Soon, Lee Wah Dock, [Lee Bark Cheng].
Quantisation Across Bubble Walls and Friction
Creators: name: Azatov, Aleksandr
name: Barni, Giulio
name: Petrossian-Byrne, Rudin
name: Vanvlasselaer, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We quantise from first principles field theories living on the background of a bubble wall in the planar limit with particular focus on the case of spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry. Using these tools, we compute the average momentum transfer from transition radiation: the soft emission of radiation by an energetic particle passing across the wall, with a particular focus on the longitudinal polarisation of vectors. We find these to be comparable to transverse polarisations in symmetry-breaking transitions with mild super-cooling, and dominant in broken to broken transitions with thin wall. Our results have phenomenological applications for the expansion of bubbles during first order phase transitions. Our general framework allows for the robust calculation of any particle processes of interest in such translation breaking backgrounds.
description: 42 pages + appendices. Updated to match version published in JHEP
DAG-aware Synthesis Orchestration
Creators: name: Li, Yingjie
name: Liu, Mingju
name: Ren, Mark
name: Mishchenko, Alan
name: Yu, Cunxi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The key methodologies of modern logic synthesis techniques are conducted on multi-level technology-independent representations such as And-Inverter-Graphs (AIGs) of the digital logic via directed-acyclic-graph (DAGs) traversal based structural rewriting, resubstitution, and refactoring. Existing state-of-the-art DAG-aware logic synthesis algorithms are all designed to perform stand-alone optimizations during a single DAG traversal. However, we empirically identify and demonstrate that these algorithms are limited in quality-of-results and runtime complexity due to this design concept. This work proposes Synthesis Orchestration, which orchestrates stand-alone operations within the single traversal of AIG. Thus, orchestration method explores more optimization opportunities and results in better performance. Our experimental results are comprehensively conducted on all 104 designs collected from ISCAS'85/89/99, VTR, and EPFL benchmark suites, with consistent logic minimization improvements over rewriting, resubstitution, refactoring, leading to an average of 4% more node reduction with improved runtime efficiency for the single optimization. Moreover, we evaluate orchestration as a plug-in algorithm in resyn and resyn3 flows in ABC, which demonstrates consistent logic minimization improvements (3.8% and 10.9% more node reduction on average). The runtime analysis demonstrates the orchestration outperforms stand-alone algorithms in both AIG minimization and runtime efficiency. Finally, we integrate the orchestration into OpenROAD for end-to-end performance evaluation. Our results demonstrate the advantages of the orchestration optimization technique, even after technology mapping and post-routing in the design flow have been conducted.
Gravitational wave analogues in spin nematics and cold atoms
Creators: name: Chojnacki, Leilee
name: Pohle, Rico
name: Yan, Han
name: Akagi, Yutaka
name: Shannon, Nic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many large-scale phenomena in our Universe, such as gravitational waves, are challenging to reproduce in laboratory settings. However, parallels with condensed matter systems can provide alternative routes for experimental accessibility. Here we show how spin nematic phases provide a low-energy avenue for accessing the physics of linearized gravity, and in particular that their Goldstone modes are relativistically-dispersing massless spin-2 excitations, analogous to gravitational waves. We show at the level of the action that the low-energy effective field theory describing a spin nematic is in correspondence with that of linearized gravity. We then explicitly identify a microscopic model of a spin-1 magnet whose excitations in the low energy limit are relativistically dispersing, massless spin-2 Bosons which are in one-to-one correspondence with gravitational waves and, supported by simulation, outline a procedure for directly observing these analogue waves in a cold gas of $^{23}$Na atoms.
Search for central exclusive production of top quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with tagged protons
Creators: name: CMS
name: Collaborations, TOTEM
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for the central exclusive production of top quark-antiquark pairs ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$) is performed for the first time using proton-tagged events in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 29.4 fb$^{-1}$. The $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ decay products are reconstructed using the central CMS detector, while forward protons are measured in the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer. An observed (expected) upper bound on the production cross section of 0.59 (1.14) pb is set at 95% confidence level, for collisions of protons with fractional momentum losses between 2 and 20%.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-21-007 (CMS Public Pages)
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers:Chong Jang, Lee Ghee, [Ko Yow Ah], Huey Mon Shew, [Chang Sain Tai], [Lee Bark Wai], Young Bow, Ng Suey Hin, [Jang Gar Hop], Wong Yew Fat.
title: A Linear Referencing Analysis of Traffic Incidents and Land Cover Changes: A Case Study from Culpeper, Orange, and Spotsylvania Counties, Virginia
Creators: name: Cooke, John Patrick
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Traffic incidents
subject: Land cover
subject: Linear referencing
subject: Spatial analysis
subject: SANET
subject: Traffic fatalities

description: Traffic injuries and deaths are a sobering reality on roads throughout Virginia and the United States. Numerous traffic incident studies have been conducted focusing on the spatial distribution and clustering of the identified locations; however, many of these studies do not take into account other environmental factors that change over time (i.e. land cover and site characteristics) and that may have an effect on the number of incidents. In this research, a linear referencing and spatial statistical analysis is performed to identify correlations between changing land cover patterns, site characteristics, and traffic incident patterns along travel corridors within Culpeper, Orange, and Spotsylvania counties in central Virginia. Traffic incident data from 1990 to 2007 and land cover data was referenced to the road network to compute changes in distribution of incidents over the 18 year period. It should be understood that land cover does not directly cause traffic incidents; rather the adjacent land cover is one of several factors that play a role in distracting drivers or increasing traffic volumes. The results show an increase in the number of incidents occurring within suburban and urban areas and a small increase in the overall fatally rate. In addition, the number of incidents in agricultural and forested land cover areas steadily increases over the time period, as well; however, the fatality rate decreases over time. By understanding the relationship between land cover changes, site characteristics, and traffic incidents, it is hoped that this information can be used in conjunction with traffic and land use planning to either prepare for future land use changes or to identify problem areas that may lead to increased traffic incidents.
A Two-Layer Blockchain Sharding Protocol Leveraging Safety and Liveness for Enhanced Performance
Creators: name: Xu, Yibin
name: Zheng, Jingyi
name: Düdder, Boris
name: Slaats, Tijs
name: Zhou, Yongluan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sharding is essential for improving blockchain scalability. Existing protocols overlook diverse adversarial attacks, limiting transaction throughput. This paper presents Reticulum, a groundbreaking sharding protocol addressing this issue, boosting blockchain scalability.
 Reticulum employs a two-phase approach, adapting transaction throughput based on runtime adversarial attacks. It comprises "control" and "process" shards in two layers. Process shards contain at least one trustworthy node, while control shards have a majority of trusted nodes. In the first phase, transactions are written to blocks and voted on by nodes in process shards. Unanimously accepted blocks are confirmed. In the second phase, blocks without unanimous acceptance are voted on by control shards. Blocks are accepted if the majority votes in favor, eliminating first-phase opponents and silent voters. Reticulum uses unanimous voting in the first phase, involving fewer nodes, enabling more parallel process shards. Control shards finalize decisions and resolve disputes.
 Experiments confirm Reticulum's innovative design, providing high transaction throughput and robustness against various network attacks, outperforming existing sharding protocols for blockchain networks.
description: The paper has been accepted to Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2024
SUD MUSTAQILLIGI VA ODIL SUDLOV: DEMOKRATIK JAMIYATNING ASOSIY TAMOYILLARI
Creators: name: Saidabdullayev, Orzubek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Demokratik jamiyatning barqaror rivojlanishi va qonun ustuvorligini ta’minlash uchun sud hokimiyatining mustaqilligi muhim ahamiyat kasb etadi. Sud mustaqilligi – davlat hokimiyatining boshqa tarmoqlaridan ajratilgan holda faoliyat yurituvchi, faqat qonunga bo‘ysunadigan sud organlarining erkinligi bo‘lib, u fuqarolarning huquq va erkinliklarini himoya qilishda hal qiluvchi rol o‘ynaydi. Ushbu maqolada sud mustaqilligi va odil sudlovning huquqiy asoslari, xalqaro va milliy tajribalar, shuningdek, sud tizimining samarali ishlashiga to‘sqinlik qiluvchi omillar keng qamrovli tahlil qilinadi. Xususan, Birlashgan Millatlar Tashkiloti (BMT), Yevropa Kengashi va boshqa xalqaro tashkilotlarning sud mustaqilligi bo‘yicha qabul qilgan me’yoriy hujjatlari hamda dunyodagi ilg‘or sud tizimlari o‘rganilib, O‘zbekiston tajribasi bilan taqqoslanadi.
title: Total Anthocyanin Levels in Commercially-Available Pigmented Grain Products
Creators: name: Hauver, Alexandra
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Anthocyanins
subject: Blue corn
subject: HPLC
subject: Food processing

description: This thesis reports an observational research project, which analyzed the anthocyanin content of products with black soybeans or blue corn as an ingredient. The objectives of the study were: 1) gather a minimum of 8 commercially available food products with black soybean or blue corn as predominant ingredients, and produce triplicate anthocyanin-rich extractions of each, 2) assess anthocyanin content of each extraction by two methods: HPLC to measure the common anthocyanins as determined by a literature search, and the pH differential colorimetric assay for assessing total anthocyanin content, and 3) compare anthocyanin content of processed pigmented grain products to known values for fruit, and amounts demonstrated to be necessary for achieving health benefits. Total anthocyanin content determined by colorimetric assay ranged from 106.1 mg/kg to 261.5 mg/kg full-fat chip, while yellow corn chips contained a mean of 3.8 mg/kg full-fat chip. All six brands of blue corn tortilla chips had a significantly (p<0.05) higher anthocyanin content than yellow corn chips. HPLC analysis of the individual anthocyanins in blue corn tortilla chips showed the presence of 5 out of 6 of the common anthocyanins. Cyanidin-3-glucoside was the most prominent anthocyanin in blue corn tortilla chips ranging from 13.3 mg/kg full-fat chip to 29.5 mg/kg full-fat chip. Pelargonidin-3-glucoside, delphinidin-3-glucoside, peonidin-3-glucoside, and petunidin-3-glucoside were all present in blue corn chips listed in order of highest quantity. Malvidin-3-glucoside was not found to be present in any of the blue corn chip samples, while no individual anthocyanins were detectable in the yellow corn tortilla chips. The anthocyanins in black soybean milks were unable to be extracted. In a 100 g portion, the amount of anthocyanins found in blue corn tortilla chips is comparable to the amount found in plums.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Mah Kee, Lew Hay Kung, Ng Len Hong, Eng Bong Gong, Lous Fong, Look Ling Yuen, Woo Kuong, Lee Len King, Yee Soon Jing, Lew Git Jing.
title: S-Band QPSK Transmitter for PocketQube Satellites
Creators: name: Deorukhkar, Jay
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: PocketQube
subject: CubeSat
subject: QPSK
subject: S-band
subject: Transmitter
subject: FPGA

description: The small satellite eld has become popular amongst academia, amateur satellite (AM- SAT) community, and commercial businesses due to the miniaturization of components and smaller form factors. Speci cally, the PocketQube structure has gained attraction for its size and a ordability of launch fees. However, the size constraint makes it di cult to gener- ate power and limits the transmit power for downlink. Therefore, e cient data modulation is key to providing high data downlink rates. Also, the typical VHF and UHF frequency spectrum used for satellites is getting congested. Hence, the higher frequency bands such as S-band and X-band are gaining attraction and o er higher data bandwidth. To address both issues, an architecture to implement QPSK modulation for S-band operation is pro- posed. The design is focused on low-power PocketQubes and the implementation is targeted for academia and the AMSAT community.
Novel techniques for alpha/beta pulse shape discrimination in Borexino
Creators: name: Basilico, D.
name: Bellini, G.
name: Benziger, J.
name: Biondi, R.
name: Caccianiga, B.
name: Calaprice, F.
name: Caminata, A.
name: Chepurnov, A.
name: D'Angelo, D.
name: Derbin, A.
name: Di Giacintov, A.
name: Di Marcello, V.
name: Ding, X. F.
name: Di Ludovico, A.
name: Di Noto, L.
name: Drachnev, I.
name: Franco, D.
name: Galbiati, C.
name: Ghiano, C.
name: Giammarchi, M.
name: Goretti, A.
name: Gromov, M.
name: Guffanti, D.
name: Ianni, Aldo
name: Ianni, Andrea
name: Jany, A.
name: Kobychev, V.
name: Korga, G.
name: Kumaran, S.
name: Laubenstein, M.
name: Litvinovich, E.
name: Lombardi, P.
name: Lomskaya, I.
name: Ludhova, L.
name: Machulin, I.
name: Martyn, J.
name: Meroni, E.
name: Miramonti, L.
name: Misiaszek, M.
name: Muratova, V.
name: Nugmanov, R.
name: Oberauer, L.
name: Orekhov, V.
name: Ortica, F.
name: Pallavicini, M.
name: Pelicci, L.
name: Penek, O.
name: Pietrofaccia, L.
name: Pilipenko, N.
name: Pocar, A.
name: Raikov, G.
name: Ranalli, M. T.
name: Ranucci, G.
name: Razeto, A.
name: Re, A.
name: Rossi, N.
name: Schoenert, S.
name: Semenov, D.
name: Settanta, G.
name: Skorokhvatov, M.
name: Singhal, A.
name: Smirnov, O.
name: Sotnikov, A.
name: Tartaglia, R.
name: Testera, G.
name: Unzhakov, E.
name: Vishneva, A.
name: Vogelaar, R. B.
name: von Feilitzsch, F.
name: Wojcik, M.
name: Wurm, M.
name: Zavatarelli, S.
name: Zuber, K.
name: Zuzel, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Borexino could efficiently distinguish between alpha and beta radiation in its liquid scintillator by the characteristic time profile of their scintillation pulse. This alpha/beta discrimination, first demonstrated at the tonne scale in the Counting Test Facility prototype, was used throughout the lifetime of the experiment between 2007 and 2021. With this method, alpha events are identified and subtracted from the beta-like solar neutrino events. This is particularly important in liquid scintillator as alpha scintillation is quenched many-fold. In Borexino, the prominent Po-210 decay peak was a background in the energy range of electrons scattered from Be-7 solar neutrinos. Optimal alpha-beta discrimination was achieved with a "multi-layer perceptron neural network", which its higher ability to leverage the timing information of the scintillation photons detected by the photomultiplier tubes. An event-by-event, high efficiency, stable, and uniform pulse shape discrimination was essential in characterising the spatial distribution of background in the detector. This benefited most Borexino measurements, including solar neutrinos in the \pp chain and the first direct observation of the CNO cycle in the Sun. This paper presents the key milestones in alpha/beta discrimination in Borexino as a term of comparison for current and future large liquid scintillator detectors
description: 13 pages, 14 figures
Strumenti cloud per la Ricerca: EOSC EU Node
Creators: name: Massarotti, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: EOSC
subject: Open Science
subject: Cloud Computing

description: Questa presentazione introduce l’European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) EU Node, illustrando il contesto europeo dell’Open Science e il ruolo chiave di EOSC nel supportare la ricerca aperta e collaborativa. Dopo una panoramica sulle infrastrutture e sulle strategie di sviluppo, viene mostrata una dimostrazione pratica dei sei servizi attualmente disponibili, evidenziando le opportunità offerte per la gestione, l’archiviazione e la condivisione dei dati di ricerca.

Le slide forniscono spunti pratici e strumenti utili per i ricercatori interessati a sfruttare le potenzialità del cloud nella ricerca scientifica.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lee Sing Wey, Lee Kidd, Lee Chu Hing, Low Sing, Low Sing, Mah Back Hong, Chang Young Chu, Chang King, Chin Sun Cheong, [Chun Sun Ming].
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Woo San Ling, Lee Butt, Chan Bing, Lim Lee Hung, Leong Kim, Leong King Ball, Leong Yow Jang, Leong Yow Dap, Lim Young.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lim Kwock On, Soo Gun, Leong Shing, Soon Yin Hoy, Lew Jin, Lew Shain,Lew Show Cheong, Lew Gee Wast, Lew Sing Yee, Tom Wei.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chow Gin Leong, Jae Doo Kew, Woo Quai, Woo Lap Do, Danj Hoy, Chow Lai Pon, Chew Ken Ho, Chew You Keong, Chew Shuey Gook.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lew Way Sing, Lam Luon Ye, Ng Foon Kai, Kuo Mon Yin, [Wong Joy Joke], Lew Way Oy, [Wong Yim Chuan], [Wong Fook Foy], [Wong Wing Joan], Wong June Yuen.
title: Application: Reston Land Corporation, "Reston Town Center Rezonings," February 3, 1987
Creators: name: Reston Land Corporation
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: Application, copy; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Application from the Reston Land Corporation entitled "Reston Town Center Rezonings" dated February 3, 1987. This is Reston Land Corporation's application, to rezone the property on which Reston Town Center would be built. The application discusses the improvements to be made on the property to be rezoned. Transportation improvements in the area of the Town Center are discussed as well. Planned Community Archives Collection, 522B.03
title: Histological Analysis of Threespot Damselfish (Stegastes planifrons) Gastrointestinal Tract and Implications for Staghorn Coral (Acropora cervicornis) Health
Creators: name: Norfolk, William A
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Histology
subject: Coral
subject: Disease
subject: Damselfish
subject: Tissue loss
subject: Fluorescence in situ hybridization

description: During the past three decades, Caribbean coral reefs have experienced a 98% decline in historic population levels of the primary reef-building corals, staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) and elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata). The threespot damselfish (Stegastes planifrons) is a Caribbean reef fish species that preferentially inhabits staghorn and elkhorn coral thickets. Threespot damselfish maintain algal lawns on local coral thickets by biting coral tissue to expose the calcium carbonate skeleton to promote the growth of macroalgae, which is then used as a major food source. This study examined the health impacts of damselfish habitation of staghorn coral thickets and investigated the potential of the threespot damselfish to serve as a vector for the coral pathogen identified as a Rickettsia-like organism (RLO). Gross observations coupled with histological analyses were used to assess the health of damselfish-colonized corals gathered from the Florida Keys and Broward County, Florida. Threespot damselfish samples were collected from their associated Florida Keys thickets and the gastrointestinal tract was examined histologically for the presence of potential pathogens. Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to specifically identify the presence of RLOs within the damselfish gastrointestinal tract. The results of this study indicated that damselfish occupation of staghorn coral thickets had no effect on the overall health of the coral colony. Damselfish predation of resident coral thickets showed a minor decrease in overall coral health associated with the growth of algae through skeletal spaces. RLO infection levels of damselfish-occupied corals were similar to those seen in coral thickets outside of damselfish territories. RLO presence was not detected in any sample of damselfish gastrointestinal tract with either basic histology or FISH. The minor amount of detrimental effects associated with damselfish occupation should not deter the planting of restoration-raised corals at a particular reef site due to the presence of the species. Specific coral planting strategies should be employed to reduce the potential for damselfish-associated damage at all coral plantings.
Inferring entropy production from time-dependent moments
Creators: name: Singh, Prashant
name: Proesmans, Karel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measuring entropy production of a system directly from the experimental data is highly desirable since it gives a quantifiable measure of the time-irreversibility for non-equilibrium systems and can be used as a cost function to optimize the performance of the system. Although numerous methods are available to infer the entropy production of stationary systems, there are only a limited number of methods that have been proposed for time-dependent systems and, to the best of our knowledge, none of these methods have been applied to experimental systems. Herein, we develop a general non-invasive methodology to infer a lower bound on the mean total entropy production for arbitrary time-dependent continuous-state Markov systems in terms of the moments of the underlying state variables. The method gives surprisingly accurate estimates for the entropy production, both for theoretical toy models and for experimental bit erasure, even with a very limited amount of experimental data.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures
Resummation schemes for high-electric-charge objects leading to improved experimental mass limits
Creators: name: Alexandre, Jean
name: Mavromatos, Nick E.
name: Mitsou, Vasiliki A.
name: Musumeci, Emanuela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-Electric-Charge compact Objects (HECOs) appear in several theoretical particle physics models beyond the Standard Model, and are actively searched for in current colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In such searches, mass bounds of these objects have been placed, using Drell-Yan and photon-fusion processes at tree level so far. However, such mass-bound estimates are not reliable, given that, as a result of the large values of the electric charge of the HECO, perturbative Quantum Electrodynamics calculations break down. In this work, we perform a Dyson-Schwinger resummation scheme (as opposed to lattice strong-coupling approach), which makes the computation of the pertinent HECO-production cross sections reliable, thus allowing us to extract improved mass bounds for such objects from ATLAS and MoEDAL searches.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures, 10 tables; typo correction in photon propagator in (26) and in respective Feynman rules in Tables V, VI and Eq.(A.4), with no effect on numerical results and conclusions; clarification added on HECO-photon vertex Feynman rule below (26)
Celebraciones para la libertad y la educación
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Libertad
expresión
educación
Ecuador
UTPL
periodismo
investigacion

description: Publicación en la sección de opinión del diario digital hora 32 https://hora32.com.ec/ que se edita en Loja (Ecuador)
Twin-field quantum key distribution with local frequency reference
Creators: name: Chen, Jiu-Peng
name: Zhou, Fei
name: Zhang, Chi
name: Jiang, Cong
name: Chen, Fa-Xi
name: Huang, Jia
name: Li, Hao
name: You, Li-Xing
name: Wang, Xiang-Bin
name: Liu, Yang
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) overcomes the linear rate-loss limit, which promises a boost of secure key rate over long distance. However, the complexity of eliminating the frequency differences between the independent laser sources hinders its practical application. Here, taking the saturated absorption spectroscopy of acetylene as an absolute reference, we propose and demonstrate a simple and practical approach to realize TF-QKD without requiring relative frequency control of the independent laser sources. Adopting the 4-intensity sending-or-not-sending TF-QKD protocol, we experimentally demonstrate the TF-QKD over 502 km, 301 km and 201 km ultra-low loss optical fiber respectively. We expect this high-performance scheme will find widespread usage in future intercity and free-space quantum communication networks.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables
title: "Thundersticks": "Go Mason!" ca. 2006
Creators: name: University, George Mason
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: George Mason University
subject: Basketball

description: Thundersticks: color, 4" x 23.5" (10.2 cm x 59.7 cm)
description: Green "thundersticks" with "Go Mason!" printed on them. Distributed at pep rallies and games. 2005-06 Men's Basketball Season and Tournament Run Collection Box 3
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: [Loais Wing Guey], [Kuan Song Jon], Kuan Song Jun, [Loo Wing Choing], [Loain Chew Soon], Kwan Song King, Woo Hun, Kwan Bing Yow, Kwan Bark Mook, Kwan Lung Sun.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chee Hop Lee, Chee Poy Fun, Chin Tong Hon, Wong Kong, Seto Tong, Seto Bing Lun, Seto Hong Kurong, Seto York, Chow Ying, Jung Len Chang.
Supplementary document for Effect of tissue fixation on the optical properties of structural components assessed by non-linear microscopy imaging - 6396027.pdf
Creators: name: Markus, Andrea
name: Ferrari, Daniele Pereira
name: Alves, Frauke
name: Gomes, Fernanda Ramos
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Figure 1
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Ing Hong Sui, Fong Gee Luey, Fung Yee Shew, Fung Gim Joy, Fung Fook Luey, Fung Poy Lum, Fung Chew Jack, [Yick Shue Lam], Ng Jang Poy, Wong Ho Lap.
ZoomNeXt: A Unified Collaborative Pyramid Network for Camouflaged Object Detection
Creators: name: Pang, Youwei
name: Zhao, Xiaoqi
name: Xiang, Tian-Zhu
name: Zhang, Lihe
name: Lu, Huchuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent camouflaged object detection (COD) attempts to segment objects visually blended into their surroundings, which is extremely complex and difficult in real-world scenarios. Apart from the high intrinsic similarity between camouflaged objects and their background, objects are usually diverse in scale, fuzzy in appearance, and even severely occluded. To this end, we propose an effective unified collaborative pyramid network that mimics human behavior when observing vague images and videos, \ie zooming in and out. Specifically, our approach employs the zooming strategy to learn discriminative mixed-scale semantics by the multi-head scale integration and rich granularity perception units, which are designed to fully explore imperceptible clues between candidate objects and background surroundings. The former's intrinsic multi-head aggregation provides more diverse visual patterns. The latter's routing mechanism can effectively propagate inter-frame differences in spatiotemporal scenarios and be adaptively deactivated and output all-zero results for static representations. They provide a solid foundation for realizing a unified architecture for static and dynamic COD. Moreover, considering the uncertainty and ambiguity derived from indistinguishable textures, we construct a simple yet effective regularization, uncertainty awareness loss, to encourage predictions with higher confidence in candidate regions. Our highly task-friendly framework consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in image and video COD benchmarks. Our code can be found at {https://github.com/lartpang/ZoomNeXt}.
description: Extensions to the conference version accepted by TPAMI 2024. Fixed value errors. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2203.02688
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chin Sik Joo, Look Kwong Yin, Huey Hoo, Ing Bok Foo, Huey Chung Jock, Lee Doo, Ng Yat Sun, [Wong Fook Chon], Lam Shew, Juny Shee Kew.
title: A Phoenix Still in Ashes: For-profit Open Admissions and the Public Good
Creators: name: Perini, Michael
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Public good
subject: Civic good
subject: For-profit
subject: Higher education
subject: Corporate business
subject: Open admissions

description: This thesis describes the implications of open admissions policies widely employed in higher education in the for-profit sector, and in particular by the University of Phoenix, and examines the potential effects of such procedures on the public good. This study seeks to examine these issues by comparing the University of Phoenix’s practices to those employed historically in America through the use of the framework within Cohen and Kisker’s historical analysis The Shaping of American Higher Education. After measuring for-profit practices through the historical spectrums of societal context, institutions, students, staff, faculty, curriculum, governance and finance, this work concludes that the open admissions policies utilized by the for-profits have the high potential to damage notions and actualities of the public good. The for-profit entities may exist and thrive in different niches of higher education than public or private non-profit institutions, though their practices require revision.
Direct detection of dark matter: a critical review
Creators: name: Misiaszek, Marcin
name: Rossi, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of the dark matter in the Universe is one of the hardest unsolved problems in modern physics. Indeed, on one hand, the overwhelming indirect evidence from astrophysics seems to leave no doubt about its existence; on the other hand, direct search experiments, especially those conducted with low background detectors in underground laboratories all over the world seem to deliver only null results, with a few debated exceptions. Furthermore, the lack of predicted candidates at the LHC energy scale has made this dichotomy even more puzzling. We will recall the most important phases of this novel branch of experimental astro-particle physics, analyzing the interconnections among the main projects involved in this challenging quest, and we will draw conclusions slightly different from how the problem is commonly understood.
description: 28 pages, 15 picture, 2 tables
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: [Jsang Fat], [Mop Lin], Chow hin Toy, Chow Doy Chew, Toy Gong, Lim Shee Tong, [Yip Mon], Yip Wai Lim, Mah Pon, Lee Mon.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chow Gim Hong, Chew Fun, Leong Lin Yee, Chan Sang, Jang Yee, Jang Bing Suey, Lee New, Jang Lok Sing, Jang Gim Gee, Jang Bow Lee.
title: TeleHealth Insulin Program for Uninsured Type 2 Diabetics
Creators: name: So, Mary June C.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013

description: The CATS published in MARS (Mason Archival Repository Service; mars.gmu.edu) are submitted by students after they have been reviewed, revised, and approved by their instructor. All CATs are current at the time of original publication but will not be updated over time.
description: Purpose: To assess the impact of a TeleHealth Insulin Program (TIP) on reducing Hemoglobin A1c (HgbA1c) levels in individuals with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Dynamic Imaging using any Ultrasound Localization Microscopy Dataset
Creators: name: Ghigo, Nin
name: Ramos-Palacios, Gerardo
name: Bourquin, Chloé
name: Xing, Paul
name: Wu, Alice
name: Cortés, Nelson
name: Ladret, Hugo
name: Ikan, Lamyae
name: Casanova, Christian
name: Porée, Jonathan
name: Sadikot, Abbas
name: Provost, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) relies on the injection of microbubbles (MBs) to obtain highly resolved density maps of blood circulation in vivo, with a resolution that can reach 10 μm ~ λ/10 in the rodent brain. Static mean velocity maps can be extracted but are intrinsically biased by potential significant changes in the number of MBs detected during the cardiac cycle. Dynamic ULM (DULM) is a technique developed for non-invasive pulsatility measurements in the brain of rodents, leading to temporally resolved velocity and density cine-loops. It was previously based on external triggers such as the electrocardiogram (ECG), limiting its use to datasets acquired specifically for DULM applications while also increasing the required acquisition time. This study presents a new motion matching method using tissue Doppler that eliminates the need for ECG-gating in DULM experiments. DULM can now be performed on any ULM datasets, recovering pertinent temporal information, and improving the robustness of the mean velocity estimates.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lam Kee Wing, Chee Shing, Won Hong Yip, Won Lin Woon, [Won Hook], Won Kai Tong, Kon Kurock Lin, Won Lick, Won Yick, Tom Bing.
The Metron Project -- I. The Metron Project Science Program
Creators: name: Dubrovich, V. K.
name: Grachev, S. I.
name: Eroshenko, Yu. N.
name: Shirokov, S. I.
name: Valyavin, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the first in a series of four articles, the scientific goals of the Metron project are highlighted, and the characteristics of the cosmic objects available for study within its framework are provided. The Metron interferometer radio telescope should include arrays of meter-range dipole antennas placed on Earth, in outer space or on the far side of the Moon (or a combination of these options). Working in the meter range will enable the study of the so-called cosmological epoch of ``Dark Ages'', which is challenging to observe but highly interesting for understanding the origin of the first stars, galaxies, and black holes, as well as for the search for new cosmological objects and processes. One possibility is to search for absorption in the 21 cm line within extended halos around early protogalaxies and supermassive primordial black holes, whose existence is predicted in a number of models. Another goal of Metron may be to clarify the anomalous absorption in the 21 cm line previously detected by the EDGES telescopes and to observe radio emissions from stars' and exoplanets' magnetospheres. The Metron project aims to achieve unprecedented resolution for the meter range, which is expected to yield new world-class scientific results. Meter-range antennas and receivers are relatively simple and inexpensive, and the construction of interferometric arrays from them can be accomplished in a relatively short period of time.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted to Astrophysical Bulletin 2024
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: [Jung Yee Wang], Chin Pon Kee, [Jung Hoang], Jung Hing Yuen, Chin Gooey, Wong Lin Sing, Lee Ying Suey, Fong Luon, Chow Yan Yet, Jung Mon Chow.
Accumulating Hints for Flavour Violating Higgses at the Electroweak Scale
Creators: name: Crivellin, Andreas
name: Iguro, Syuhei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that supplementing the Standard Model by only a second Higgs doublet, a combined explanation of $h\to eτ$, $h\to μτ$, $b\to s \ell^+ \ell^-$, the $W$ mass and $R({D^{(*)}})$ as well as the excess in $t\to bH^+(130\,{\rm GeV})\to b\overline{b}c$ is possible. While this requires flavour violating couplings, the stringent bounds from e.g. $μ\to eγ$, $τ\to μγ$, $B_s-\bar B_s$ mixing, $b\to sγ$, low mass di-jet and $pp\to H^+H^-\to τ^+τ^-ν\barν$ searches can be avoided. However, the model is very constrained, it inevitably predicts a shift in the SM Higgs coupling strength to tau leptons as well as a non-zero $t\to hc$ rate, as indeed preferred by recent measurements. We study three benchmark points providing such a simultaneous explanation and calculate their predictions, including collider signatures which can be tested with upcoming LHC run-3 data.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, typo corrected in Bs meson mixing
Enhancing Malware Detection by Integrating Machine Learning with Cuckoo Sandbox
Creators: name: Alshmarni, Amaal F.
name: Alliheedi, Mohammed A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the modern era, malware is experiencing a significant increase in both its variety and quantity, aligning with the widespread adoption of the digital world. This surge in malware has emerged as a critical challenge in the realm of cybersecurity, prompting numerous research endeavors and contributions to address the issue. Machine learning algorithms have been leveraged for malware detection due to their ability to uncover concealed patterns within vast datasets. However, deep learning algorithms, characterized by their multi-layered structure, surpass the limitations of traditional machine learning approaches. By employing deep learning techniques such as CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) and RNN (Recurrent Neural Network), this study aims to classify and identify malware extracted from a dataset containing API call sequences. The performance of these algorithms is compared with that of conventional machine learning methods, including SVM (Support Vector Machine), RF (Random Forest), KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors), XGB (Extreme Gradient Boosting), and GBC (Gradient Boosting Classifier), all using the same dataset. The outcomes of this research demonstrate that both deep learning and machine learning algorithms achieve remarkably high levels of accuracy, reaching up to 99% in certain cases.