cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Higher Auslander's formula
Creators: name: Ebrahimi, Ramin
name: Nasr-Isfahani, Alireza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18E10, 18E20, 18E99

description: Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a small $n$-abelian category. We show that the category of finitely presented functors $mod$-$\mathcal{M}$ modulo the subcategory of effaceable functors $mod_0$-$\mathcal{M}$ has an $n$-cluster tilting subcategory which is equivalent to $\mathcal{M}$. This gives a higher-dimensional version of Auslander's formula.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2001.01254
Phases of supersymmetric gauge theories and galois invariants
Creators: name: Dell'Aquila, Eleonora
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This thesis deals with the problem of understanding the vacuum structure of supersymmetric gauge theories. More precisely, the theories considered here are N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories obtained through breaking of part of the supersymmetry from N = 2 gauge theories. The space of vacua of these theories has a very interesting and rich structure, only partly understood. This work proposes a new point of view on this problem, conjecturing a relation between the classification of certain special phases of N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories and the mathematical problem of classifying a certain kind of graphs - Grothendieck's "dessins s'enfants" - according to the corresponding Galois invariants. The Seiberg-Witten solution of the parent N = 2 theory plays a crucial role in establishing this correspondence.
Supporting Files for Kaczmarski et al 2022 - "The role of evolutionarily metastable oligomeric states in the optimization of catalytic activity"
Creators: name: Kaczmarski, Joe Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Zip Files containing supporting files for the manuscript "The role of evolutionarily metastable oligomeric states in the optimization of catalytic activity" by Kaczmarski et al. 2022. - "Kaczmarski et al 2022 Supp Files.zip" contains data files (mostly Prism files) and DNA/Protein sequence files. -"Kaczmarski et al 2022 MD_analysis_zenodo.zip" contains data files and scripts used for analysis of MD simulations.
Impaired neural synchrony in the theta frequency range in adolescents at familial risk for schizophrenia
Creators: name: Perkins, D.O.
name: Donkers, F.C.L.
name: Cleary, K.M.
name: Belger, A.
name: Schwikert, S.R.
name: Evans, A.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Puberty is a critical period for the maturation of the fronto-limbic and fronto-striate brain circuits responsible for executive function and affective processing. Puberty also coincides with the emergence of the prodromal signs of schizophrenia, which may indicate an association between these two processes.Time-domain analysis and wavelet based time-frequency analysis was performed on electroencephalographic (EEG) data of 30 healthy control (HC) subjects and 24 individuals at familial risk(FR) for schizophrenia. All participants were between the ages of 13 and 18 years and were carefully matched for age, gender, ethnicity, education, andTanner Stage. Electrophysiological recordings were obtained from 32 EEG channels while participants performed a visual oddball task, where they identified rare visual targets among standard "scrambled" images and rare aversive and neutral dis-tracter pictures. The time-domain analysis showed that during target processing the FR group showed smaller event-related potentials in the P2 and P3 range as compared to the HC group. In addition, EEG activity in the theta (4-8 Hz) frequency range was significantly reduced during target processing in the FR group. Inefficient cortical information processing during puberty may be an early indicator of altered brain function in adolescents at FR for schizophrenia and may represent a vulnerability marker for illness onset. Longitudinal assessments will have to determine their predictive value for illness onset in populations at FR for psychotic illness.
Rigorous computer-assisted bounds on the period doubling renormalisation fixed point and eigenfunctions in maps with critical point of degree 4
Creators: name: Burbanks, Andrew D
name: Osbaldestin, Andrew H
name: Thurlby, Judi A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37E20 (Primary) 37E05 (Secondary)

description: We gain tight rigorous bounds on the renormalisation fixed point for period doubling in families of unimodal maps with degree $4$ critical point. We use a contraction mapping argument to bound essential eigenfunctions and eigenvalues for the linearisation of the operator and for the operator controlling the scaling of added noise. Multi-precision arithmetic with rigorous directed rounding is used to bound operations in a space of analytic functions yielding tight bounds on power series coefficients and universal constants to over $320$ significant figures.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
ZTBus: A Large Dataset of Time-Resolved City Bus Driving Missions
Creators: name: Widmer, Fabio
name: Ritter, Andreas
name: Onder, Christopher H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents the Zurich Transit Bus (ZTBus) dataset, which consists of data recorded during driving missions of electric city buses in Zurich, Switzerland. The data was collected over several years on two trolley buses as part of multiple research projects. It involves more than a thousand missions across all seasons, each mission usually covering a full day of operation. The ZTBus dataset contains detailed information on the vehicle's power demand, propulsion system, odometry, global position, ambient temperature, door openings, number of passengers, dispatch patterns within the public transportation network, etc. All signals are synchronized in time and include an absolute timestamp in tabular form. The dataset can be used as a foundation for a variety of studies and analyses. For example, the data can serve as a basis for simulations to estimate the performance of different public transit vehicle types, or to evaluate and optimize control strategies of hybrid electric vehicles. Furthermore, numerous influencing factors on vehicle operation, such as traffic, passenger volume, etc., can be analyzed in detail.
description: Published version
ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ И ПРОДВИЖЕНИЕ ПЕРСОНАЛЬНОГО БРЕНДА
Creators: name: МАСЛОВА ВАЛЕНТИНА МИХАЙЛОВНА
Publisher: name: Образование. Наука. Научные кадры
Year: 2020
Subjects: PERSONAL BRAND
LABOR MARKET
TARGET AUDIENCE
BUSINESS
EXPERTS
ПЕРСОНАЛЬНЫЙ БРЕНД
РЫНОК ТРУДА
ЦЕЛЕВАЯ АУДИТОРИЯ
БИЗНЕС
ЭКСПЕРТЫ

description: В статье рассматриваются понятие, вопросы создания и формирования персонального (личного) бренда. Представлены принципы построения персонального бренда. Определены этапы формирования персонального бренда и их содержание. Даны примеры персонального бренда наемного работника и знаменитой личности. Представлены сферы деятельности по значимости наличия персонального бренда. Сделаны выводы и даны рекомендации по продвижению персонального бренда.The article deals with the concept, creation and formation of a personal brand. The principles of building a personal brand are presented. The stages of personal brand formation and their content are defined. Examples of a personal brand of an employee and a famous person are given. Areas of activity on the importance of having a personal brand are presented. The article concludes with conclusions and recommendations for the promotion of a personal brand.
Evaluating and treating the prodromal stage of schizophrenia
Creators: name: Perkins, D.O.
Publisher: name: Current Medicine Group LLC 1
Year: 2004

description: Identification of a person in the prodromal stage of schizophrenia, before the onset of the first episode of psychosis, provides an opportunity for early, potentially preventative, interventions. Recent attempts to develop "at risk" or " prodromal syndrome" diagnostic criteria have proved to be successful at identifying individuals at high risk for psychosis. Preliminary investigations find that pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions may reduce the risk of psychosis in "at risk" individuals, but until more is known, current treatment guidelines recommend close monitoring, therapeutic interventions that address identified problems, including supportive or cognitive therapies to reduce the functional consequences of the presenting symptoms, family interventions to reduce family distress and improve coping, and intervention with schools to decrease likelihood of school failure. Pharmacologic intervention targeting the prodromal symptoms is not recommended, given the uncertain risk-benefit ratio.
Development and evaluation of airborne carbonyl measurement methods
Creators: name: Herrington, Jason Sandor
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: The overall goal of the current dissertation work was to further develop and optimize the Passive Aldehydes and Ketones Sampler (PAKS) method, and compare the PAKS method to the United States (U.S.) Environmental Protections Agency's (EPA) Compendium Method TO-11A (active sampling with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH)-coated solid sorbents).The PAKS method was optimized to have improved collection efficiencies (~100%) and sample stabilities (on cartridge and in extract) for acrolein and crotonaldehyde (as opposed to Method TO-11A's acrolein collection efficiency of ~20%). Subsequently, the PAKS sample processing procedures were optimized so as to provide the most efficient, accurate, precise, and cost effective techniques. In addition, the PAKS method blank contamination sources and concentrations were identified, and then minimized as best as possible. In the end, the final PAKS method demonstrated stable blank and sample concentrations for almost a half year; method and analytical precisions, expressed as coefficient of variation from replicate samples, of ~20% and <10%, respectively for formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein; and analytical detection limits ranging from 0.28 to 4.81 µg/m³ and method detection limits ranging from 0.00 to 9.87 µg/m³ for a 24-hour sampling period.Extensive laboratory experiments indicated that U.S. EPA Compendium Method TO-11A had long-term (i.e., ≥24 hours) acetaldehyde sampling collection efficiencies that were substantially less than 100% at 30% and 60% relative humidity.The Active Acrolein Sampler (AAS) method was developed based on the principles of the PAKS methods. The AAS method was suitable for short-term (i.e., 30 minutes) and long-term (i.e., ≥24 hours) acrolein sampling at sampling rates from 50 to 250 mL/min.Relative humidity from 30 to 90%, temperature from 20 to 40° C, and the presence of ozone up to 250 ppb did not affect the performance of the AAS method for short-term acrolein sampling (i.e., 1 to 2 hours). The AAS method had an acrolein LOD of 0.24 µg/m³ for a 30 minute sampling duration @ 250 mL/min, which was comparable to other acrolein measurement methods; however, the AAS method is a significant advantage over other methods when one considers the AAS for its simplicity and ease of use.
МЕРЫ ПО СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЮ ПРОТИВОДЕЙСТВИЯ КОРРУПЦИИ В СФЕРЕ ЗАКУПОК ТОВАРОВ, РАБОТ, УСЛУГ ДЛЯ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫХ И МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫХ НУЖД
Creators: name: НАУМОВ ЮРИЙ ГЕННАДЬЕВИЧ
name: САМОЛЫСОВ ПАВЕЛ ВАЛЕРЬЕВИЧ
Publisher: name: Образование. Наука. Научные кадры
Year: 2020
Subjects: КОРРУПЦИЯ
АНТИМОНОПОЛЬНЫЕ ОРГАНЫ
ПРАВООХРАНИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ОРГАНЫ
ФАС РОССИИ
МВД РОССИИ
КАРТЕЛЬ НА ТОРГАХ
CORRUPTION
ANTITRUST AUTHORITIES
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
FAS RUSSIA
MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA
CARTEL AT AUCTION

description: Статья посвящена рассмотрению некоторых мер по совершенствованию противодействия коррупции в сфере закупок, которые позволят в короткие сроки стимулировать антикоррупционную активность органов государственной власти и уменьшить уровень вреда от субъектов коррупционных отношений. Противодействие коррупции является самостоятельной функцией государства и осознанной социальным большинством потребностью. В связи с этим важно предпринимать системные меры по стабилизации социально-экономического и политического развития России при одновременном продолжении принятия системных государственно-правовых мер по предупреждению и пресечению коррупции, в том числе на торгах. Авторами предлагаются конкретные предложения по дальнейшему совершенствованию Федерального закона «О контрактной системе в сфере закупок товаров, работ, услуг для обеспечения государственных и муниципальных нужд», которые потребуют как дальнейшего совершенствования законодательства и правоприменительной практики в области противодействия традиционным и вновь изобретаемым способам коррупции, в том числе на торгах, а также максимального исключения человеческого фактора и субъективного отношения к процедуре торгов и контроля за ними.The article is devoted to the consideration of some measures to improve the fight against corruption in the procurement sector, which will allow in a short time to stimulate the anti-corruption activity of state authorities and reduce the level of harm from subjects of corruption relations. Anti-corruption is an independent function of the state and a need recognized by the social majority. In this regard, it is important to take systemic measures to stabilize the socio-economic and political development of Russia while continuing to take systemic state and legal measures to prevent and combat corruption, including at the auction. The authors propose specific proposals for further improvement of the Federal Law “On the contract system in the field of procurement of goods, work, services to meet state and municipal needs", which will require further improvement of the legislation and law enforcement practice in the field of combating traditional and newly invented methods of corruption, including the number of tenders, as well as the maximum exclusion of the human factor and subjective attitude to the bidding procedure and control over them.
A tale of two studies: Study design and our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence
Creators: name: Aiello, Allison E.
name: Shook-Sa, Bonnie E.
name: Boyce, Ross M.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2020

description: The COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the most important public health crisis of the last century. To date, infections with the SARS-CoV-2 virus have caused nearly 300,000 deaths in the United States alone [1], while also contributing to substantial excess morbidity and mortality from delayed and deferred care [2]. In addition to the direct and indirect health impacts, policies intended to limit the spread of the disease have resulted in large-scale disruptions to education systems, economic activity, and social networks. Put simply, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the daily lives of nearly all Americans in a way that no other health crisis has in our lifetimes.
Digitilisation will make learning easier to digest
Creators: name: McCormack, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This is the fourth offering in the series of six articles specifically designed to inform, assist and signpost the built environment to embrace and engage on its digital transformation journey. The first
 part of the series focused on the digitalisation pathway and digital tools, including BIM, that the industry could avail of. The second part of the series (Articles 4, 5 and 6) will look
 at navigating the pathway to secure the skills advantages to avail of
 the commercial opportunities that digitalisation offers. If industry is to develop and leverage its digital skills for energy efficient construction, and increase its competitiveness, it will be driven via the skills of the workforce. Upskilling must be demand-driven ... demand both from the industry perspective and from the workers in the industry. It is this “meeting of demands” that will lead to success in meeting the needs of industry, society and the environment. Demand needs to be addressed at three different levels : (1) Industry – which is profit driven; (2) Learner – skills mobility driven; (3) The sector – energy reduction driven. It is evident from our work that the approaches of many EU initiatives are not interlinked and can, at times, be on opposite faces. So, our challenge is to align all three and harness these in delivering a successful cohesive demand. Stimulation of demand for sustainable energy skills from a learner’s perspective is completely different from that of the industry and overall sector need. However, in ARISE (see page ••) we are aligning these and aiming to create a multilateral inspiration. How can we stimulate the skills to demand necessary to meet industry needs and deliver the energy savings the sector requires? We can improve market demand and increase the energy performance of buildings by untapping the huge latent potential of the construction workforce through stimulus and reward. Digitalisation is a game-changing strategy that will empower the construction sector to thrive and deliver the expertise for sustainable energy skills. This will be the tool to stimulate demand. There is a direct correlation between digitalisation and energy efficiency as highlighted at the IEA energy efficiency conference in June 2019.
Composite boolean separators for data analysis with applications in computed tomography and gene expression microarray data
Creators: name: Lozina, Irina I.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: An important topic in machine-learning / data-mining is that of analyzing binary datasets.A binary dataset consists of a subset of n-vectors (observations) with binary components, each of which has an associated binary outcome (the class of the observation). Clearly, the set of n-vectors and their outcomes represent a partially defined Boolean function.The central problem of machine-learning / data-mining, the so-called classification problem, consists in finding an "extension" of the partially defined Boolean function closely approximating a hidden ("target") function. Various methods have been developed to solve this and related problems, such as identifying misclassified observations, revealing irrelevant and/or redundant variables, etc.In this thesis, we propose a new approach to analyzing different problems in machine-learning / data-mining. First, we define a simple procedure for generating artificial Boolean variables, called Composite Boolean Features, and describe an iterative algorithm for generating Boolean functions which agree with the outcomes in a large proportion of the observations in the dataset. We call these functions Composite Boolean Separators (CBSes for short). We then use the idea of CBSes in several ways. In particular, we demonstrate the usefulness of these concepts by showing how the introduction of CBSes can enhance the accuracy of classification systems; we employ CBSes for identifying misclassified observations and examine how deletion of such observations and reversal of their class influence the classification accuracy; we apply the new variables to the attribute selection problem, i.e., to the problem of finding "good" (informative) subsets of the original attributes, or equivalently, identifying "bad" (irrelevant and/or redundant) attributes in the given datasets.All the results have been tested on eight publicly available datasets and validated by five well-known machine-learning / data-mining techniques. Also, we applied CBSes, along with other techniques, to the analysis of two real-life medical datasets: computed tomography data and breast cancer gene expression microarray data.The results presented in this thesis demonstrate that for many real-life datasets, the application of CBSes increases the classification accuracy significantly. CBSes also prove useful in the missclassification and attribute selection problems.
Maternally Orphaned Children and Intergenerational Concerns Associated with Breast Cancer Deaths among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Foerster, M.
name: Cabanes, A.
name: Schüz, J.
name: Adisa, C.
name: Pinder, L.F.
name: Lombe, D.
name: Mutumba, S.
name: Parham, G.
name: Galukande, M.
name: Anele, A.
name: Dos-Santos-Silva, I.
name: Zietsman, A.
name: Anderson, B.O.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2021

description: Importance: Low breast cancer survival in sub-Saharan Africa's young population increases the likelihood that breast cancer deaths result in maternal orphans, ie, children (<18 years) losing their mother. Objective: To estimate the number of maternal orphans and their ages for every 100 breast cancer deaths in sub-Saharan African settings during 2014-2019 and to describe family concerns about the orphaned children. Design, Setting, and Participants: Deaths occurring between September 1, 2014, and July 1, 2019, in the African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes (ABC-DO) were examined in a cohort of women diagnosed with breast cancer during 2014-2017 at major cancer treatment hospitals in Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. The cohort was actively followed up for vital status via a trimonthly mobile phone call to each woman or her next of kin (typically a partner, husband, or child). Main Outcomes and Measures: The number (Poisson counts) and ages of new orphans at the time of maternal death. Results: This cohort study found that a total of 795 deaths resulted in 964 new maternal orphans, with deaths occurring in women younger than 50 years accounting for 85% of the orphans. For every 100 deaths in women younger than 50 years, there were 210 new orphans (95% CI, 196-225) overall, with country-specific estimates of 189 in Nigerian, 180 in Namibian, 222 in Ugandan, and 247 in Zambian Black women. For every 100 deaths of the women at any age, there were 121 maternal orphans, 17% of whom were younger than 5 years, 32% aged 5 to 9 years, and 51% aged 10 to 17 years at the time of maternal death. In follow-up interviews, families' concerns for children's education and childcare were reported to be exacerbated by the financial expenses associated with cancer treatment. Conclusions and Relevance: This study provides evidence that the number of maternal orphans due to breast cancer exceeds the number of breast cancer deaths among women in sub-Saharan Africa. The intergenerational consequences associated with cancer deaths in sub-Saharan Africa appear to be large and support the need for continued action to improve survival.
Higher Criticism to Compare Two Large Frequency Tables, with sensitivity to Possible Rare and Weak Differences
Creators: name: Donoho, David L.
name: Kipnis, Alon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62H17, 62H15, 62G10

description: We adapt Higher Criticism (HC) to the comparison of two frequency tables which may -- or may not -- exhibit moderate differences between the tables in some unknown, relatively small subset out of a large number of categories. Our analysis of the power of the proposed HC test quantifies the rarity and size of assumed differences and applies moderate deviations-analysis to determine the asymptotic powerfulness/powerlessness of our proposed HC procedure. Our analysis considers the null hypothesis of no difference in underlying generative model against a rare/weak perturbation alternative, in which the frequencies of $N^{1-β}$ out of the $N$ categories are perturbed by $r(\log N)/2n$ in the Hellinger distance; here $n$ is the size of each sample. Our proposed Higher Criticism (HC) test for this setting uses P-values obtained from $N$ exact binomial tests. We characterize the asymptotic performance of the HC-based test in terms of the rarity parameter $β$ and the perturbation intensity parameter $r$. Specifically, we derive a region in the $(β,r)$-plane where the test asymptotically has maximal power, while having asymptotically no power outside this region. Our analysis distinguishes between cases in which the counts in both tables are low, versus cases in which counts are high, corresponding to the cases of sparse and dense frequency tables. The phase transition curve of HC in the high-counts regime matches formally the curve delivered by HC in a two-sample normal means model.
Tunable and efficient ultraviolet generation in nanophotonic lithium niobate
Creators: name: Hwang, Emily
name: Harper, Nathan
name: Sekine, Ryoto
name: Ledezma, Luis
name: Marandi, Alireza
name: Cushing, Scott K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On-chip ultraviolet sources are of great interest for building compact and scalable atomic clocks, quantum computers, and spectrometers; however, few material platforms are suitable for integrated ultraviolet light generation. Of these materials, thin-film lithium niobate is the most competitive due to its ability to be quasi-phase-matched, optical confinement, and nonlinear properties. Here, we present efficient (197 $\pm$ 5 %/W/cm$^{2}$) second harmonic generation of UV-A light in a periodically poled lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguide. We achieve on-chip ultraviolet powers of 30 $μ$W, demonstrating the potential for compact frequency-doubling of common near-IR laser diodes. By using a large cross section waveguide (600 nm film thickness), we achieve insensitivity to fabrication errors, and can attain first-order quasi-phase-matching with relatively long poling periods (>1.5 $μ$m). The device also demonstrates linear wavelength tunability using temperature. By varying the poling period, we have achieved the shortest reported wavelength (355 nm) generated through frequency doubling in thin-film lithium niobate. Our results open up new avenues to realize ultraviolet on-chip sources and chip-scale photonics.
БРЕНДИНГ КАК ИСКУССТВО ПРИВЛЕЧЕНИЯ КЛИЕНТА НА РЫНКЕ ФИНАНСОВЫХ УСЛУГ
Creators: name: СИНЯЕВА ИНГА МИХАЙЛОВНА
Publisher: name: Образование. Наука. Научные кадры
Year: 2020
Subjects: БАНК
БРЕНД
БРЕНДИНГ
ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИЯ
КЛИЕНТ
КОНЦЕНТРАЦИЯ
ЛОЯЛЬНОСТЬ
МЕХАНИЗМ
РЫНОК
ФИНАНСЫ
BANK
BRAND
BRANDING
GLOBALIZATION
CLIENT
CONCENTRATION
LOYALTY
MECHANISM
MARKET
FINANCE

description: В представленной статье автор раскрывает содержание брендинга как искусства привлечения клиента в условиях глобализации и цифровизации рынка финансовых услуг. Отмечая тенденцию концентрации капитала с одновременным сокращением количества банков и страховых организаций на рынке финансовых услуг, автор акцентирует внимание на необходимости реализации стратегии брендинга в целях повышения лояльности клиентов. Достаточно подробно освещены самые сильные финансовые бренды 2019 г. Научную новизну представляет авторская модель стратегии брендинга, направленная на увеличение объема продаж, повышение имиджа, конкурентоспособности и популярности бренда.In this article, the author consistently reveals the content of branding as the art of attracting customers in the context of globalization and digitalization of the financial services market. Noting the trend of capital concentration with a simultaneous reduction in the number of banks and insurance organizations in the financial services market, the author focuses on the need to implement a branding strategy in order to increase customer loyalty. The strongest financial brands of 2019 are covered in sufficient detail. Scientific novelty is represented by the author's model of branding strategy aimed at increasing sales, improving the image, competitiveness and popularity of the brand.
Teaching CNNs to mimic Human Visual Cognitive Process & regularise Texture-Shape bias
Creators: name: Mohla, Satyam
name: Nasery, Anshul
name: Banerjee, Biplab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Recent experiments in computer vision demonstrate texture bias as the primary reason for supreme results in models employing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), conflicting with early works claiming that these networks identify objects using shape. It is believed that the cost function forces the CNN to take a greedy approach and develop a proclivity for local information like texture to increase accuracy, thus failing to explore any global statistics. We propose CognitiveCNN, a new intuitive architecture, inspired from feature integration theory in psychology to utilise human interpretable feature like shape, texture, edges etc. to reconstruct, and classify the image. We define novel metrics to quantify the "relevance" of "abstract information" present in these modalities using attention maps. We further introduce a regularisation method which ensures that each modality like shape, texture etc. gets proportionate influence in a given task, as it does for reconstruction; and perform experiments to show the resulting boost in accuracy and robustness, besides imparting explainability to these CNNs for achieving superior performance in object recognition.
description: Submitted at ICASSP 2022; 5 Pages; LaTex;
Quark mass dependence of $ππ$ scattering in isospin 0, 1, and 2 from lattice QCD
Creators: name: Rodas, Arkaitz
name: Dudek, Jozef J.
name: Edwards, Robert G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using lattice QCD we extract $ππ$ scattering amplitudes with isospin--0,1,2 in low partial-waves at two values of the light quark mass corresponding to $m_π\sim 283$ and $330$ MeV. We confirm expectations of weak repulsion in isospin--2, and the presence of a narrow $ρ$ resonance in isospin--1, and study the pion mass dependence of these channels. In isospin--0 we find that the two pion masses considered straddle the point at which the $σ$ transitions from being a stable bound-state to being either a virtual bound-state or a subthreshold resonance. We discuss the ability of lattice calculations like these to precisely determine the $σ$ pole location when it is a resonance, and propose an approach in which the full complement of amplitudes computed in this paper can be used simultaneously to provide more constraint.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures, 1 table, corresponds to version published in PRD
Differentiation of Aedes aegypti and Aedes notoscriptus (Diptera Culicidae) eggs using scanning electron microscopy
Creators: name: Faull, Katherine
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ecosystem function

description: Aedes notoscriptus and Aedes aegypti are both peri-domestic, invasive container-breeding mosquitoes. While the two potential arboviral vectors are bionomically similar, their sympatric distribution in Australia is limited. In this study, analyses of Ae. aegypti and Ae. notoscriptus eggs were enabled using scanning electron microscopy. Significant variations in egg length to width ratio and outer chorionic cell field morphology between Ae. aegypti and Ae. notoscriptus enabled distinction of the two species. Intraspecific variations in cell field morphology also enabled differentiation of the separate populations of both species, highlighting regional and global variation. Our study provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of inter- and intraspecific egg morphological and morphometric variation between two invasive container-breeding mosquitoes. The results indicate a high degree of intraspecific variation in Ae. notoscriptus egg morphology when compared to the eggs of Ae. aegypti. Comparative morphological analyses of Ae. aegypti and Ae. notoscriptus egg attributes using SEM allows differentiation of the species and may be helpful in understanding egg biology in relation to biotope of origin.
Monte Carlo event generation of neutrino-electron scattering
Creators: name: Zhuridov, Dmitry
name: Sobczyk, Jan T.
name: Juszczak, Cezary
name: Niewczas, Kajetan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an extension of the NuWro Monte Carlo neutrino event generator with the neutrino-electron scattering processes. This new dynamical channel includes the charged current and neutral current interactions, together with their interference, for $ν_\ell e$ and $\barν_\ell e$ ($\ell=e,μ,τ$) scatterings, resulting in ten possible final states. We illustrate the performance of the new functionality on few physical examples, including an estimation of the background in the T2K $ν_μ\rightarrowν_e$ oscillation experiment. We show that the background events arising from the neutrino-electron interactions occupy mostly a distinct region of the phase space and can be easily separated.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures; v2: minor changes, version published in JPG
АУТПЛЕЙСМЕНТ КАК ЭФФЕКТИВНЫЙ ИНСТРУМЕНТ СМЯГЧЕНИЯ ПОСЛЕДСТВИЙ УВОЛЬНЕНИЙ НА РОССИЙСКОМ РЫНКЕ ТРУДА
Creators: name: ТИХОНОВ АЛЕКСЕЙ ИВАНОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Образование. Наука. Научные кадры
Year: 2020
Subjects: УПРАВЛЕНИЕ ПЕРСОНАЛОМ
АУТПЛЕЙСМЕНТ
УВОЛЬНЕНИЕ
ВЫХОДНОЕ ИНТЕРВЬЮ
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
OUTPLACEMENT
DISMISSAL
EXIT INTERVIEW

description: В связи с экономическим кризисом 2020 г. возрастает актуальность тем, связанных с оптимизацией и сокращением персонала. Одним из действенных способов смягчения последствий увольнений сотрудников является аутплейсмент, широко распространенный в западных странах. В статье приводится содержание практик аутплейсмента в России и за рубежом, рассматриваются основные способы организации аутплейсмента и цели, достигаемые с его помощью. Рассматривается влияние аутплейсмента на работу в сфере управления персоналом в компаниях, а также на социально-экономическую обстановку в обществе в целом. На основании статистических данных из различных источников в статье сравнивается степень распространенности аутплейсмента в России и других странах. Раскрываются причины отказа от использования аутплейсмента российскими компаниями, а также задачи, которые российские компании чаще всего решают с помощью аутплейсмента. В статье приводится мнение работодателей об эффективности использования аутплейсмента при решении тех или иных рабочих задач. На основании проведенного научного исследования рассматриваются возможные факторы, влияющие на частоту и эффективность использования аутплейсмента российскими работодателями.In connection with the economic crisis of 2020, the relevance of topics related to optimization and downsizing is increasing. One of the effective ways to mitigate the consequences of employee layoffs is outplacement, which is widespread in Western countries. The article provides the content of outplacement practices in Russia and abroad, discusses the main ways of organizing outplacement and the goals achieved with its help. The article discusses the impact of outplacement on work in the field of personnel management in companies, as well as on the socioeconomic situation in society as a whole. Based on statistical data from various sources, the article compares the degree of prevalence of outplacement in Russia and other countries. The article discusses the reasons for refusing to use outplacement by Russian companies, as well as the tasks that Russian companies most often solve using outplacement. The article provides the opinion of employers on the effectiveness of using outplacement for solving various work tasks. Based on the conducted scientific research, possible factors affecting the frequency and effectiveness of outplacement use by Russian employers are considered.
Recursive Rules with Aggregation: A Simple Unified Semantics
Creators: name: Liu, Yanhong A.
name: Stoller, Scott D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Complex reasoning problems are most clearly and easily specified using logical rules, but require recursive rules with aggregation such as count and sum for practical applications. Unfortunately, the meaning of such rules has been a significant challenge, leading to many disagreeing semantics. This paper describes a unified semantics for recursive rules with aggregation, extending the unified founded semantics and constraint semantics for recursive rules with negation. The key idea is to support simple expression of the different assumptions underlying different semantics, and orthogonally interpret aggregation operations using their simple usual meaning. We present a formal definition of the semantics, prove important properties of the semantics, and compare with prior semantics. In particular, we present an efficient inference over aggregation that gives precise answers to all examples we have studied from the literature. We also apply our semantics to a wide range of challenging examples, and show that our semantics is simple and matches the desired results in all cases. Finally, we describe experiments on the most challenging examples, exhibiting unexpectedly superior performance over well-known systems when they can compute correct answers.
Topological Reconstruction of Particle Physics Processes using Graph Neural Networks
Creators: name: Ehrke, Lukas
name: Raine, John Andrew
name: Zoch, Knut
name: Guth, Manuel
name: Golling, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a new approach, the Topograph, which reconstructs underlying physics processes, including the intermediary particles, by leveraging underlying priors from the nature of particle physics decays and the flexibility of message passing graph neural networks. The Topograph not only solves the combinatoric assignment of observed final state objects, associating them to their original mother particles, but directly predicts the properties of intermediate particles in hard scatter processes and their subsequent decays. In comparison to standard combinatoric approaches or modern approaches using graph neural networks, which scale exponentially or quadratically, the complexity of Topographs scales linearly with the number of reconstructed objects. We apply Topographs to top quark pair production in the all hadronic decay channel, where we outperform the standard approach and match the performance of the state-of-the-art machine learning technique.
description: 25 pages, 24 figures, 8 tables
Protective efficacy of Ad26.COV2.S against SARS-CoV-2 B.1.351 in macaques
Creators: name: Andersen, H.
name: Tostanoski, L.H.
name: Martinot, A.J.
name: Liu, J.
name: Bueno-Wilkerson, D.
name: Barouch, D.H.
name: Atyeo, C.
name: Sanborn, O.
name: Chandrashekar, A.
name: Pessaint, L.
name: Chang, A.
name: Bondzie, E.A.
name: Hope, D.L.
name: Martinez, D.R.
name: McMahan, K.
name: Schuitemaker, H.
name: Gardner, S.
name: Patel, S.
name: Flinchbaugh, Z.
name: Wan, H.
name: Valentin, D.
name: Jacob-Dolan, C.
name: Yu, J.
name: Alter, G.
name: Anioke, T.
name: Sellers, D.
name: Hayes, T.
name: Bauer, K.
name: Brown, R.
name: Wegmann, F.
name: Baric, R.S.
name: Zahn, R.
name: Nampanya, F.
name: Mercado, N.B.
name: Lewis, M.G.
name: Cook, A.
name: Giffin, V.M.
name: Nkolola, J.
name: Teow, E.
Publisher: name: Nature Research
Year: 2021

description: The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants that partially evade neutralizing antibodies poses a threat to the efficacy of current COVID-19 vaccines1,2. The Ad26.COV2.S vaccine expresses a stabilized Spike protein from the WA1/2020 strain and has recently demonstrated protective efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19 in humans in multiple geographic regions, including in South Africa where 95% of sequenced viruses in COVID-19 cases were the B.1.351 variant3. Here we show that Ad26.COV2.S elicits humoral and cellular immune responses that cross-react with the B.1.351 variant and protects against B.1.351 challenge in rhesus macaques. Ad26.COV2.S induced lower binding and neutralizing antibodies against B.1.351 as compared with WA1/2020 but elicited CD8 and CD4 T cell responses that were comparable against WA1/2020, B.1.351, B.1.1.7, P.1, and CAL.20C variants. B.1.351 infection of sham control rhesus macaques resulted in higher levels of virus replication in bronchoalveolar lavage and nasal swabs than did WA1/2020 infection. Ad26.COV2.S provided robust protection against both WA1/2020 and B.1.351, although we observed higher levels of virus in vaccinated animals following B.1.351 challenge. These data demonstrate that Ad26.COV2.S provided robust protection against B.1.351 challenge in rhesus macaques. Our findings have important implications for vaccine control of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.
Arithmetic progressions : combinatorial and number-theoretic perspectives
Creators: name: Vijay, Sujith
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: A beautiful result in the study of arithmetic progressions modulo 1 is the three distance theorem, conjectured by Steinhaus and proved by Sós, Świerczkowski et al. According to this theorem, there are at most three distinct gaps between consecutive elements in any finite initial segment of the sequence of fractional parts of integer multiples of any real number. We interpret this theorem as a statement about the finiteness of the number of champions in a suitably defined tournament, and obtain higher-dimensional generalizations. A famous open problem in combinatorial discrepancy theory, raised by Erdős many decades ago, is whether the hypergraph of homogeneous arithmetic progressions has unbounded discrepancy. We investigate a variant of this question. In 1986, Beck showed that given any 2-coloring, the hypergraph of quasi-progressions {lfloor n alpha rfloor} corresponding to almost all real numbers α in [1, ∞) has unbounded discrepancy, in fact, at least log* N, the inverse of the tower function. We make a substantial improvement on this lower bound, replacing log* N by (log N) 1/4 - o(1) and also show that there is some quasi-progression with discrepancy at least (1/50) N 1/6.A fundamental result in Ramsey theory is the theorem of Hales and Jewett, which states that any 2-coloring of the nd hypercube admits a monochromatic line for any fixed n and sufficiently large d. We show that the Hales-Jewett number HJ(n) is at least exponential in n, improving the linear lower bound in the original paper of Hales and Jewett.We also study a game-theoretic variant of the unbounded discrepancy problem where two players, Maker and Breaker, take turns coloring the integers from 0 to N with their own colors. Maker's goal is to obtain a lead on some homogeneous arithmetic progression that exceeds a pre-specified target, and Breaker's goal is to prevent this from happening. We show that given ε > 0$, Maker wins if the target is below N 1/2 - ε and Breaker wins if the target is above N 1/2 + ε for sufficiently large N.
КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНЫЕ ОСНОВЫ МЕЖДУНАРОДНОГО НАЛОГООБЛОЖЕНИЯ
Creators: name: ТУСКАЕВА МАДИНА РУСЛАНОВНА
name: ЛАКУТИ АЛЛА ЛЕОНИДОВНА
name: ГАСАНОВА ЗАРЕМА АЛАНОВНА
Publisher: name: Образование. Наука. Научные кадры
Year: 2020
Subjects: НАЛОГ
МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЕ НАЛОГООБЛОЖЕНИЕ
НАЛОГООБЛАГАЕМАЯ БАЗЫ
МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЕ ДВОЙНОЕ НАЛОГООБЛОЖЕНИЕ
НАЛОГОВЫЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ
TAX
INTERNATIONAL TAXATION
TAXABLE BASE
INTERNATIONAL DOUBLE TAXATION
TAX RELATIONS

description: В своей деятельности международные организации сталкиваются с проблемой двойного налогообложения одного и того же объекта сразу в нескольких странах что может привести не только к экономической нецелесообразности ведения деятельности в нескольких странах, но и, как следствие, препятствовать развитию внешнеэкономических связей государств.International organizations that conduct their activities are faced with the problem of double taxation of the same object in several countries at once, which can lead not only to the economic inexpediency of doing business in several countries, but also, as a result, impede the development of foreign economic relations of states.
Transversal Diagonal Logical Operators for Stabiliser Codes
Creators: name: Webster, Mark A.
name: Quintavalle, Armanda O.
name: Bartlett, Stephen D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Storing quantum information in a quantum error correction code can protect it from errors, but the ability to transform the stored quantum information in a fault tolerant way is equally important. Logical Pauli group operators can be implemented on Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes, a commonly-studied category of codes, by applying a series of physical Pauli X and Z gates. Logical operators of this form are fault-tolerant because each qubit is acted upon by at most one gate, limiting the spread of errors, and are referred to as transversal logical operators. Identifying transversal logical operators outside the Pauli group is less well understood. Pauli operators are the first level of the Clifford hierarchy which is deeply connected to fault-tolerance and universality. In this work, we study transversal logical operators composed of single- and multi-qubit diagonal Clifford hierarchy gates. We demonstrate algorithms for identifying all transversal diagonal logical operators on a CSS code that are more general or have lower computational complexity than previous methods. We also show a method for constructing CSS codes that have a desired diagonal logical Clifford hierarchy operator implemented using single qubit phase gates. Our methods rely on representing operators composed of diagonal Clifford hierarchy gates as diagonal XP operators and this technique may have broader applications.
description: 24 pages + 11 page appendix, 4 figures, comments welcome; v2 minor clarifications
Electrical analogue of one-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional Aubry-André-Harper lattices
Creators: name: Ganguly, Sudin
name: Maiti, Santanu K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work discusses the possibility to realize correlated disorder in electrical circuits and studies the localization phenomena in terms of two-port impedance. The correlated disorder is incorporated using the Aubry-André-Harper (AAH) model. One-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional AAH structures are explored and directly mapped with their tight-binding analogues. Transitions from the high-conducting phase to the low-conducting one are observed for the circuits.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, Comments are Welcome