cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hansenocaris undetermined
Creators: name: Olesen, Jørgen
name: Grygier, Mark J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Hansenocarididae
Hansenocaris
Hansenocaris undetermined

description: Y-nauplius Type F
Figs 2, 8A–D
Type F – Dreyer et al. 2023a: figs 3, 5a, c, tables s1–s2.
Material examined
JAPAN – Okinawa, Sesoko I., laboratory pier, 26°38ʹ09.4ʺ N, 127°51ʹ55.2ʺ E • 2 LSN; 1991–2005 • 5 LSN, 1 of which molted to cyprid; 2018–2019 (Tables 1 and S1).
Description
LAST-STAGE NAUPLIUS (LSN). Lecithotrophic. Body ovate in dorso-ventral view; about 1.4 times as long as wide; lateral margins tapering gradually towards caudal end with no discontinuity at posterior end of cephalic shield. Dorsum evenly but strongly curved in lateral view, with trunk axis downturned 65° relative to cephalic axis. Length ca 300 µm (anteroventral view, without dorso-caudal spine), 310 µm in lateral view following curvature of body, greatest width 220 µm, greatest dorso-ventral thickness ca 70 µm. Labrum elevated, pentagonal, about as long as wide, with distinct and free posterior margin; other details unknown. Body narrowly rounded, terminating in short, conical dorso-caudal spine and pair of longer (25 µm), curved, robust furcal spines situated ventrally slightly forward from caudal end.
CYPRID VIEWED THROUGH CUTICLE OF LSN. Body overall weakly brownish, but pigment most heavily concentrated in telson and in naupliar appendages. Central-dorsal gut-like tube devoid of distinct yolk granules except for some orange granules in trunk. Telson much shorter than wide, distinctly less than half as long as thorax. About six lipid vesicles present along anterior margin of cephalon and four along posterior margin of labrum.
Identification and variation
Easily recognizable by the combination of its distinctly downturned trunk region, short, conical dorso-caudal spine and robust but still unremarkably long, curved furcal spines positioned forward from the caudal end. The last feature makes this a ‘short-talon’ morphospecies in comparison to the next two described below.
Distribution
Japan (Sesoko Island, Okinawa).
description: Published as part of Olesen, Jørgen & Grygier, Mark J., 2024, Taxonomic diversity of marine planktonic ' y-larvae' (Crustacea: Facetotecta) from a coral reef hotspot locality (Japan, Okinawa), with a key to y-nauplii, pp. 1-90 in European Journal of Taxonomy 929 (1) on pages 21-23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.929.2479, http://zenodo.org/record/10876286
Structural and kinetic characterization of DNA polymerases I and III from Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Monton Silva, Alejandro <1988>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: BIO/10 Biochimica

description: DNA elongation is performed by Pol III α subunit in E. coli, stimulated by the association with ε and θ subunits. These three subunits define the DNA Pol III catalytic core. There is controversy about the DNA Pol III assembly for the simultaneous control of lagging and leading strands replication, since some Authors propose a dimeric model with two cores, whereas others have assembled in vitro a trimeric DNA Pol III with a third catalytic core, which increases the efficiency of DNA replication. Moreover, the function of the PHP domain, located at the N-terminus of α subunit, is still unknown. Previous studies hypothesized a possible pyrophosphatase activity, not confirmed yet. 

The present Thesis highlights by the first time the production in vivo of a trimeric E. coli DNA Pol III by co-expressing α, τ, ε and θ subunits. This trimeric complex has been enzymatically characterized and a molecular model has been proposed, with 2 α subunits sustaining the lagging-strand replication whereas the third core replicates the leading strand. In addition, the pyrophosphatase activity of the PHP domain has been confirmed. This activity involves, at least, the H12 and the D19 residues, whereas the D201 regulates phosphate release. 

On the other hand, an artificial polymerase (HoLaMa), designed by deleting the exonuclease domain of Klenow Fragment, has been expressed, purified and characterized for a better understanding of bacterial polymerases mechanism. The absence of exonuclease domain impaired enzyme processivity, since this domain is involved in DNA binding. Finally, Klenow enzyme, HoLaMa, α subunit and DNA Pol III αεθ have been characterized at the single-molecule level by FRET analysis, combining ALEX and TIRF microscopy. Fluorescently-labeled DNA molecules were immobilized, and changes in FRET efficiency enabled us to study polymerase binding and DNA polymerization.
Equilibrium conditions of spinning test particles in Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes
Creators: name: Stuchlik, Zdenek
name: Kovar, Jiri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Equilibrium conditions and spin dynamics of spinning test particles are discussed in the stationary and axially symmetric Kerr-de Sitter black-hole or naked-singularity spacetimes. The general equilibrium conditions are established, but due to their great complexity, the detailed discussion of the equilibrium conditions and spin dynamics is presented only in the simple and most relevant cases of equilibrium positions in the equatorial plane and on the symmetry axis of the spacetimes. It is shown that due to the combined effect of the rotation of the source and the cosmic repulsion the equilibrium is spin dependent in contrast to the spherically symmetric spacetimes. In the equatorial plane, it is possible at the so-called static radius, where the gravitational attraction is balanced by the cosmic repulsion, for the spinless particles as well as for spinning particles with arbitrarily large azimuthal-oriented spin or at any radius outside the ergosphere with a specifically given spin orthogonal to the equatorial plane. On the symmetry axis, the equilibrium is possible at any radius in the stationary region and is given by an appropriately tuned spin directed along the axis. At the static radii on the axis the spin of particles in equilibrium must vanish.
Theory of Coherent Raman Superradiance Imaging of Condensed Bose Gases
Creators: name: Uys, H.
name: Meystre, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the off-resonant superradiant Raman scattering of light from a cigar-shaped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. Absorption images of transmitted light serve as a direct probe of long range coherence in the condensate. Our multimode theory is in good agreement with the time-dependent spatial features observed in recent experiments, and the inclusion of quantum fluctuations in the initial stages of the superradiant emission accounts well for shot-to-shot fluctuations.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures; Theory extended to include meanfield interaction and effects due to photon recoil. Comparison with experiment included
An Active Galactic Nucleus Recognition Model based on Deep Neural Network
Creators: name: Chen, Bo Han
name: Goto, Tomotsugu
name: Kim, Seong Jin
name: Wang, Ting Wen
name: Santos, Daryl Joe D.
name: Ho, Simon C. -C.
name: Hashimoto, Tetsuya
name: Poliszczuk, Artem
name: Pollo, Agnieszka
name: Trippe, Sascha
name: Miyaji, Takamitsu
name: Toba, Yoshiki
name: Malkan, Matthew
name: Serjeant, Stephen
name: Pearson, Chris
name: Hwang, Ho Seong
name: Kim, Eunbin
name: Shim, Hyunjin
name: Lu, Ting-Yi
name: Hsiao, Tiger Y. -Y.
name: Huang, Ting-Chi
name: Herrera-Endoqui, Martin
name: Bravo-Navarro, Blanca
name: Matsuhara, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To understand the cosmic accretion history of supermassive black holes, separating the radiation from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star-forming galaxies (SFGs) is critical. However, a reliable solution on photometrically recognising AGNs still remains unsolved. In this work, we present a novel AGN recognition method based on Deep Neural Network (Neural Net; NN). The main goals of this work are (i) to test if the AGN recognition problem in the North Ecliptic Pole Wide (NEPW) field could be solved by NN; (ii) to shows that NN exhibits an improvement in the performance compared with the traditional, standard spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting method in our testing samples; and (iii) to publicly release a reliable AGN/SFG catalogue to the astronomical community using the best available NEPW data, and propose a better method that helps future researchers plan an advanced NEPW database. Finally, according to our experimental result, the NN recognition accuracy is around 80.29% - 85.15%, with AGN completeness around 85.42% - 88.53% and SFG completeness around 81.17% - 85.09%.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
Experimental and computational comparison of freeze-thaw induced pressure generation in red and sugar maple
Creators: name: Zarrinderakht, Maryam
name: Konrad, Isabell
name: Wilmot, Timothy R.
name: Perkins, Timothy D.
name: Berg, Abby K. van den
name: Stockie, John M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35B27, 76M12, 76M50, 80A22, 92-05, 92C80

description: Sap exudation is the process whereby trees such as sugar (Acer saccharum) and red maple (Acer rubrum) generate unusually high positive stem pressure in response to repeated cycles of freeze and thaw. This elevated xylem pressure permits the sap to be harvested over a period of several weeks and hence is a major factor in the viability of the maple syrup industry. The extensive literature on sap exudation documents competing hypotheses regarding the physical and biological mechanisms that drive positive pressure generation in maple, but to date relatively little effort has been expended on devising mathematical models for the exudation process. In this paper, we utilize an existing model of Graf et al. [J. Roy. Soc. Interface 12:20150665, 2015] that describes heat and mass transport within the multiphase gas-liquid-ice mixture in the porous xylem tissue. The model captures the inherent multiscale nature of xylem transport by including phase change and osmotic transport in wood cells on the microscale, which is coupled to heat transport through the tree stem on the macroscale. A parametric study based on simulations with synthetic temperature data identifies the model parameters that have greatest impact on stem pressure build-up. Measured daily temperature fluctuations are then used as model inputs and the resulting simulated pressures are compared directly with experimental measurements taken from mature red and sugar maple stems during the sap harvest season. The results demonstrate that our multiscale freeze-thaw model reproduces realistic exudation behavior, thereby providing novel insights into the specific physical mechanisms that dominate positive pressure generation in maple trees.
description: 7 figures
Policy implementation in contemporary rural China : the case of the village redevelopment program
Creators: name: Rosenberg, Lior
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Regional planning China Case studies
subject: Rural development Political aspects China
subject: China Economic conditions Regional disparities Case studies
subject: China Economic conditions

description: A case study of China's Village Redevelopment Program (VRP, hereafter), this dissertation examines how VRP has been implemented in two counties in the provinces of Shandong and Anhui. It reveals that county governments can demonstrate a surprising degree of divergence and flexibility when implementing similar policies from above. Officials in Chenggu and Beian interpreted the policy and implemented it differently; and higher-level authorities played very different roles as supervisors and subsidy providers. Government-villager relations were also very different in the two counties. Yet, outcomes were ultimately the same. In both counties officials diverged significantly from the genuine goal of VRP to decrease rural economic inequalities, instead channeling government resources to those who already have and leaving the less developed behind. To reconcile the puzzle of different forms of implementation yet similar outcomes, this dissertation focuses on both the concept of local discretion and on the larger economic-political-social environment in which local officials operate and which shape local officials' "own" decision making and actions. Through the prism of VRP, the dissertation illuminates two pressures they face - local economic conditions on the one hand and a politics of command on the other- which have influenced and shaped the modes of implementation and outcomes in each of the counties. This case study of VRP shakes one of the most common conceptualizations of hierarchical relations in the Chinese political system, the commonly used paradigm of principal-agent relations.
Divisorial valuations via arcs
Creators: name: de Fernex, Tommaso
name: Ein, Lawrence
name: Ishii, Shihoko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14B05, 14M25

description: This paper shows a finiteness property of a divisorial valuation in terms of arcs. First we show that every divisorial valuation over an algebraic variety corresponds to an irreducible closed subset of the arc space. Then we define the codimension for this subset and give a formula of the codimension in terms of "relative Mather canonical class". By using this subset, we prove that a divisorial valuation is determined by assigning the values of finite functions. We also have a criterion for a divisorial valuation to be a monomial valuation by assigning the values of finite functions.
description: Minor corrections, including in Remark 3.3 where it was incorrectly claimed that the codimension of a quasi-cylinder equals the Krull codimension; these corrections do not affect the rest of the paper
D-4.1.4 Description of the pipelines implemented to feed the analysis tools with the data stored in the three databases of this project (COHESIVE)
Creators: name: Di Pasquale Adriano,
name: Caldarelli Valentina
name: Mangone Iolanda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: OHEJP
COHESIVE
IZSAM
Workpackage 4
Deliverable D-4.1.4
D-4.1.4

description: OHEJP Project: COHESIVE Project JIP2 COHESIVE COHESIVE: One Health Structure In Europe
  Deliverable D-4.1.4 Workpackage 4 D-4.1.4 Description of the pipelines implemented to feed the analysis tools with the data stored in the three databases of this project
Delayed Detonation Thermonuclear Supernovae With An Extended Dark Matter Component
Creators: name: Chan, H-S.
name: Chu, M-C.
name: Leung, S-C.
name: Lin, L-M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present simulations of thermonuclear supernovae admixed with an extended component of fermionic cold dark matter. We consider the explosion of a Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf using the deflagration model with deflagration-detonation transition with spherical symmetry. The dark matter component is comparable in size with that of the normal matter, and so the system is described by two-fluid, one-dimensional Eulerian hydrodynamics. The explosion leaves all the dark matter trapped as a remnant compact dark star in all of our considered models. The presence of dark matter lengthens the deflagration phase to produce more thermo-neutrinos and similar amounts of iron-group elements compared to those of ordinary explosions with no dark matter admixture. The dark matter admixed models produce dimmer and broader light curves, which challenge the role of thermonuclear supernovae as standard candles in cosmic distance measurement. Our results also suggest a formation path of dark compact objects which mimic sub-solar-mass black holes as dark gravitational sources, through near-solar-mass dark matter admixed thermonuclear supernovae.
description: 17 pages, 17 figures
Some notes on a method for proving inequalities by computer
Creators: name: Banjac, Bojan D.
name: Makragic, Milica D.
name: Malesevic, Branko J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 26D05, 26D15, 41A10

description: In this article we consider mathematical fundamentals of one method for proving inequalities by computer, based on the Remez algorithm. Using the well-known results of undecidability of the existence of zeros of real elementary functions, we demonstrate that the considered method generally in practice becomes one heuristic for the verification of inequalities. We give some improvements of the inequalities considered in the theorems for which the existing proofs have been based on the numerical verifications of Remez algorithm.
description: in Results in Mathematics 07/2015
Uniqueness for volume-constraint local energy-minimizing sets in a half-space or a ball
Creators: name: Xia, Chao
name: Zhang, Xuwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49Q20, 28A75, 53A10, 53C24

description: In this paper, we prove a Poincaré-type inequality for any set of finite perimeter which is stable with respect to the free energy among volume-preserving perturbation, provided that the Hausdorff dimension of its singular set is at most $n-3$. With this inequality, we classify all the volume-constraint local energy-minimizing sets in a unit ball, a half-space or a wedge-shaped domain. In particular, we prove that the relative boundary of any energy-minimizing set is smooth.
description: 27 pages, 2 figures; major revision: title has been changed and the proof has been rewritten
Post-1999 state-building in East Timor : local reception of state institutions and cultures of governance
Creators: name: Inoue, Hiroko
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nation-building Timor-Leste
subject: Peace-building Timor-Leste
subject: Timor-Leste Politics and government 21st century

description: This thesis examines the local reception of international state-building in post-1999 East Timor. Contemporary literature on state-building and peace-building has largely concentrated on the structure of state institutions and activities by international actors and local elites. Drawing upon various sources of data including field research and historical and anthropological literature, this thesis explores Timorese society's relationship with the modern state, which was built under international and national auspices. It demonstrates the significant impact of local culture of governance on the local reception of state institutions, and elucidates a variety of factors that uphold the culture of governance. In order to grapple with the malleable and ever-contested nature of local culture, this thesis analyses state-building as an interactive process between state and society and involving a number of actors, thereby forming and reforming the local culture of governance. The local culture of governance was heavily influenced by the nation's colonial past. Democratic state institution-building reflected post-colonial characteristics of political culture; electoral democracy was continuously projected with, and redefined through, the sense of nation-ness, which had a strong emphasis on unity over diversity. Like many other post-conflict societies, large parts of East Timor had maintained viable customary forms of governance based on a kinship community. Village institutions built in the post-1999 period therefore became an intersection where the 'universal' ideas of governance, such as democracy and gender equality, met 'traditional' norms of governance. The local subsistence agriculture-based economy was also a key component in the resilient local 'traditional' culture. State judicial institutions were not particularly active in rural areas due to conceptual gaps and lack of infrastructural backing. Crucially, the significant presence of the international community and the introduction of the neo-liberal market economy in post-1999 East Timor also brought about rapid change in the culture of governance, influencing the local society's relationship with state institutions. In short, informed by the history of colonialism and embedded in socio-economic structures, the local culture of governance had significant implications for the way in which local society engaged with the state. Such findings encourage scholars to reconsider the idea that a particular set of state institutions inevitably brings about stability and peace in conflict-torn societies.
Heralded generation of vectorially structured photons with high purity
Creators: name: Wu, Hai-Jun
name: Yu, Bing-Shi
name: Zhu, Zhi-Han
name: Rosales-Guzmán, Carmelo
name: Zhou, Zhi-Yuan
name: Ding, Dong-Sheng
name: Gao, Wei
name: Shi, Bao-Sen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Engineering vector spatial modes of photons is an important approach for manipulating high-dimension photonic states in various quantum optical experiments. In this work, we demonstrate generation of heralded single photons with well-defined vector spatial modes by using a self-locking polarizing interferometer comprising a spatial light modulator. Specifically, it is shown that, by carefully tailoring and compensating spatial and temporal amplitudes of manipulated photons, one can exactly convert ultrafast single photons into desired spin-orbit states with extremely high purity. This compact and robust device provides a versatile way for not only generation, but also manipulation and characterization of arbitrary photonic spin-orbit states.
From the Mendeleev periodic table to particle physics and back to the periodic table
Creators: name: Kibler, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly describe in this paper the passage from Mendeleev's chemistry (1869) to atomic physics (in the 1900's), nuclear physics (in the 1932's) and particle physics (from 1953 to 2006). We show how the consideration of symmetries, largely used in physics since the end of the 1920's, gave rise to a new format of the periodic table in the 1970's. More specifically, this paper is concerned with the application of the group SO(4,2)xSU(2) to the periodic table of chemical elements. It is shown how the Madelung rule of the atomic shell model can be used for setting up a periodic table that can be further rationalized via the group SO(4,2)xSU(2) and some of its subgroups. Qualitative results are obtained from this nonstandard table.
description: 15 pages; accepted for publication in Foundations of Chemistry (special issue to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Mendeleev who died in 1907); version 2: 16 pages; some sentences added; acknowledgment and references added; misprints corrected
Crack Localization and the Interplay between Stress Enhancement and Thermal Noise
Creators: name: Sinha, Santanu
name: Roy, Subhadeep
name: Hansen, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the competition between thermal fluctuations and stress enhancement in the failure process of a disordered system by using a local load sharing fiber bundle model. The thermal noise is introduced by defining a failure probability that constitutes the temperature and elastic energy of the fibers. We observe that at a finite temperature and low disorder strength, the failure process, which nucleate in the absence of any thermal fluctuation, becomes spatially uncorrelated when the applied stress is sufficiently low. The dynamics of the model in this limit lies closely to the universality class of ordinary percolation. When applied stress is increased beyond a threshold value, localized fractures appear in the system that grow with time. We identify the boundary between the localized and random failure process in the space of temperature and applied stress, and find that the threshold of stress corresponding to the onset of localized crack growth increases with the increase of temperature.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
VILENS: Visual, Inertial, Lidar, and Leg Odometry for All-Terrain Legged Robots
Creators: name: Wisth, David
name: Camurri, Marco
name: Fallon, Maurice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present visual inertial lidar legged navigation system (VILENS), an odometry system for legged robots based on factor graphs. The key novelty is the tight fusion of four different sensor modalities to achieve reliable operation when the individual sensors would otherwise produce degenerate estimation. To minimize leg odometry drift, we extend the robot's state with a linear velocity bias term, which is estimated online. This bias is observable because of the tight fusion of this preintegrated velocity factor with vision, lidar, and inertial measurement unit (IMU) factors. Extensive experimental validation on different ANYmal quadruped robots is presented, for a total duration of 2 h and 1.8 km traveled. The experiments involved dynamic locomotion over loose rocks, slopes, and mud, which caused challenges such as slippage and terrain deformation. Perceptual challenges included dark and dusty underground caverns, and open and feature-deprived areas. We show an average improvement of 62% translational and 51% rotational errors compared to a state-of-the-art loosely coupled approach. To demonstrate its robustness, VILENS was also integrated with a perceptive controller and a local path planner.
description: Video: https://youtu.be/NG4pkjJKhus
Culture and the need for positive self-regard : the Japanese case
Creators: name: Heine, Steven J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: A great deal of research indicates that North Americans are motivated to possess. enhance, and maintain positive self views. The cross-cultural generalizability of these motivations is addressed by examining a culture characterized by an interdependent view of self: Japanese. An anthropological and social psychological review suggests that many elements of Japanese culture are incongruent with needs for positive self-views. It is maintained that Japanese culture discourages people to think highly of themselves, in large part because positive self-views conflict with fulfillment of interdependent cultural goals. Five studies were conducted to test the notion that Japanese have a less pronounced need for positive self-regard than do North Americans. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrate that Japanese are less likely than Canadians to enhance their groups. Study 3 shows that the absence of self-enhancing biases is linked to larger actual-ideal discrepancies for Japanese. Study 4, employing a hidden behavioral measure, provides additional albeit somewhat limited evidence for self-enhancing tendencies among Canadians and for self-effacing tendencies among Japanese. Finally, Study 5 demonstrates an absence of dissonance reduction and self-affirmational tendencies among Japanese. The results of the 5 studies are discussed within the context of the role of positive vs. negative self-feelings in Japanese culture.
REPAC: Reliable estimation of phase-amplitude coupling in brain networks
Creators: name: Cisotto, Giulia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Recent evidence has revealed cross-frequency coupling and, particularly, phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) as an important strategy for the brain to accomplish a variety of high-level cognitive and sensory functions. However, decoding PAC is still challenging. This contribution presents REPAC, a reliable and robust algorithm for modeling and detecting PAC events in EEG signals. First, we explain the synthesis of PAC-like EEG signals, with special attention to the most critical parameters that characterize PAC, i.e., SNR, modulation index, duration of coupling. Second, REPAC is introduced in detail. We use computer simulations to generate a set of random PAC-like EEG signals and test the performance of REPAC with regard to a baseline method. REPAC is shown to outperform the baseline method even with realistic values of SNR, e.g., -10 dB. They both reach accuracy levels around 99%, but REPAC leads to a significant improvement of sensitivity, from 20.11% to 65.21%, with comparable specificity (around 99%). REPAC is also applied to a real EEG signal showing preliminary encouraging results.
The ghosts of the Ecole Normale. Life, death and legacy of René Gateaux
Creators: name: Mazliak, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The present paper deals with the life and some aspects of the scientific contributions of the mathematician René Gateaux, killed during World War 1 at the age of 25. Though he died very young, he left interesting results in functional analysis. In particular, he was among the first to try to construct an integral over an infinite dimensional space. His ideas were extensively developed later by Paul Lévy. Among other things, Lévy interpreted Gateaux's integral in a probabilistic framework that later contributed to the construction of the Wiener measure. This article tries to explain this singular personal and professional destiny in pre- and postwar France.
Mechanisms of short interval timing: The influence of interval filling on perceived duration and discrimination performance
Creators: name: Horr, Ninja Katja
name: Massimiliano, Di Luca
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: The ability to estimate temporal properties like interval duration is crucial for our successful interaction with the environment. Quantifying how factors other than physical duration can distort duration estimates helps understanding the mechanisms underlying temporal perception. Previous research has shown that intervals defined by two temporal markers (empty intervals) are perceived shorter and less precise than intervals consisting of a continuous stimulus or of a sequence of stimuli (filled intervals, e.g., Rammsayer and Lima, 1991; Thomas & Brown, 1974). Here, we present a systematic investigation of perceived duration and discrimination performance using continuously filled, isochronously filled, anisochronously filled, and empty intervals (Horr & Di Luca, 2015). Participants compared intervals of different duration, indicating which of two is longer. We find duration discrimination to be most precise when two continuous or isochronous intervals are compared and it is worst for anisochronous intervals. Duration of filled intervals is overestimated compared to empty intervals, and this effect is higher for stimulus sequences (isochronous and anisochronous) than for continuous intervals. Quantitative analysis of the duration distortions with different intervals suggests that an explanation based solely on individual intervals is not sufficient, as the difference in the types of intervals compared also biases duration estimates.
Clothmaking passage (maal taany njìk) continued; vocabulary
Creators: name: Chaiyapha, Sidawun
name: Intanai, Thongwilai
name: Janthong, Mi
name: Janthong, Saengmanee
name: Naknual, Prasopchok
name: Sridachart, Khamsroy
name: Thawichart, Somphong
name: Lau-Preechathammarach, Raksit Tyler
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: kdt

description: Session to translate cloth-making passage into Kuy. Asking about vocabulary. Recorder: Zoom H4n. Microphone: internal.
Global Debates, local dilemmas : sex-selective abortion in contemporary Vietnam
Creators: name: Hang, Tran Minh
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: HQ767.5.V5 H36 2011
subject: Abortion Vietnam
subject: Sex preselection
subject: Sex of children, Parental preferences for Vietnam

description: Sex-selective abortion has been the subject of vigorous debate around the world. While the ethical implications and consequences of sex-selective abortion have been intensely debated within the field of bioethics and feminism, anthropological contributions to these debates have been surprisingly limited. In Vietnam, demographic data indicates that the proportion of male births has increased over the last decade, especially since 2003. The national average sex ratio at birth, an indicator of sex selection, today is close to 111, and may rise to 115 in the current decade. Although demographic research indicates that the trend is the result of the practice of sex-selective abortion, very little is understood about the incidence of sex-selective abortions in Vietnam: who undertakes them, why they decide to do so, how they take place and why policy measures to prevent them apparently have had such little effect. Also noticeably missing in discussions of this problem in Vietnam is attention to the identities, circumstances and experiences of those who provide and undergo sex-selective abortions. Adopting a processual and phenomenological approach to sex-selective abortion, this study aims to examine how and why sex-selective abortions occur and to explore the motives, circumstances and experiences of the people, especially women, who undertake them. As the first ethnographic study of sex-selective abortion in Vietnam, the research sheds light on the social, cultural, institutional and personal contexts in which such abortions take place and contributes to debates on the global and local factors that influence the utilization of new reproductive technologies for sex selection. This study suggests that sex-selective abortion in Vietnam is driven by three important factors: the perception of son preference rooted in the structure of the society; the desire for smaller sized families that reflects personal ambitions, economic imperativeness and policy constraints; and the development and market-driven proliferation of new reproductive technologies, particularly ultrasound, that facilitate sex determinations. The study identifies the people who engage in sex selection and investigates who they are sociologically, what motivates them, what procedures they follow, and how the practice of sex selection impacts upon them physically, psychologically, socially and spiritually. The thesis includes eight chapters, in which the five substantive chapters give an ethnographic account of how sex-selective abortions take place. The account traces women's experiences of this process, from their involvement in sex determination and abortion decision-making, through to their experiences of abortion procedures and the after{u00AC}effects of abortions. It concludes with a discussion of societal responses to this phenomenon.
Non-Extremal Rotating Black Holes in Five-Dimensional Gauged Supergravity
Creators: name: Chong, Z. W.
name: Cvetic, M.
name: Lu, H.
name: Pope, C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supersymmetric black holes in five-dimensional gauged supergravity must necessarily be rotating, and so in order to study the passage to black holes away from supersymmetry, it is of great interest to obtain non-extremal black holes that again have non-zero rotation. In this paper we find a simple framework for describing non-extremal rotating black holes in five-dimensional gauged supergravities. Using this framework, we are able to construct a new solution, describing the general single-charge solution of N=2 gauged supergravity, with arbitrary values for the two rotation parameters. Previously-obtained solutions with two or three equal charges also assume a much simpler form in the new framework, as also does the general solution with three unequal charges in ungauged N=2 supergravity. We discuss the thermodynamics and BPS limit of the new single-charge solutions, and we discuss the separability of the Hamilton-Jacobi and Klein-Gordan equations in these backgrounds.
description: Latex, 12 pages. Mis-statement about separability of Hamilton-Jacobi and Klein-Gordon equations corrected
Mixture of Linear Models Co-supervised by Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Seo, Beomseok
name: Lin, Lin
name: Li, Jia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep neural network (DNN) models have achieved phenomenal success for applications in many domains, ranging from academic research in science and engineering to industry and business. The modeling power of DNN is believed to have come from the complexity and over-parameterization of the model, which on the other hand has been criticized for the lack of interpretation. Although certainly not true for every application, in some applications, especially in economics, social science, healthcare industry, and administrative decision making, scientists or practitioners are resistant to use predictions made by a black-box system for multiple reasons. One reason is that a major purpose of a study can be to make discoveries based upon the prediction function, e.g., to reveal the relationships between measurements. Another reason can be that the training dataset is not large enough to make researchers feel completely sure about a purely data-driven result. Being able to examine and interpret the prediction function will enable researchers to connect the result with existing knowledge or gain insights about new directions to explore. Although classic statistical models are much more explainable, their accuracy often falls considerably below DNN. In this paper, we propose an approach to fill the gap between relatively simple explainable models and DNN such that we can more flexibly tune the trade-off between interpretability and accuracy. Our main idea is a mixture of discriminative models that is trained with the guidance from a DNN. Although mixtures of discriminative models have been studied before, our way of generating the mixture is quite different.
Proposal for methods to measure the octupole susceptibility
Creators: name: Sorensen, M. E.
name: Fisher, I. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direct means of measuring the susceptibility towards an octupole order parameter are proposed via a sixth-rank tensor property. Equivalent derivatives of more conventionally measured tensor properties, including elastic stiffness, magnetic susceptibility, and elastoresistivity, are written in full, as constrained by the symmetry of the experimentally-motivated $O_h$ point group. For simplicity, we consider the specific case of $Pr^{3+}$ ions in a cubic point symmetry with a $Γ_3$ crystal field ground state, but the ideas are somewhat general. Experimental feasibility of measuring these various derivatives of tensor quantities is discussed.
Science communication capacity building needs of pacific non government organisations
Creators: name: Kirk, Lawrence Ross
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Communication in science Pacific Area
subject: Non-governmental organizations Pacific Area

description: This research has investigated ways that science communication can be improved for Pacific NGOs and the communities they represent. It is responding to a need for greater capacity to interpret the complex science of climate change. The impact of climate change is very real for these communities and in some cases irreversible decisions have to be made based on their ability to interpret and understand science. Pacific NGOs are recognised for their ability to enable change, ensure local ownership, and transfer knowledge. However, do they have the capacity to understand, manage, and embed scientific knowledge into their decision making processes? This research has reviewed the literature and undertaken semi-structured interviews with Pacific NGOs. These interviews explored their capacity building needs and tested a self assessment tool used by non profit organisations. Results indicate that this assessment tool could be used to predict where an NGO needs to improve organisational capacity. The use of this tool to also predict a relationship with science communication capacity needs further validation. Despite the acknowledgement of the value of NGOs, there is still a gap between political rhetoric and resourcing organisational capacity. The use of this self assessment tool could be used to bridge this gap as well as providing a framework for sharing resources between NGOs. It is hoped that this research will provide a catalyst for Pacific NGOs to become active partners in the science that aims to improve their future.
Chance-constrained Stochastic MPC of Astlingen Urban Drainage Benchmark Network
Creators: name: Svensen, Jan Lorenz
name: Sun, Congcong
name: Cembrano, Gabriela
name: Puig, Vicenç
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In urban drainage systems (UDS), a proven method for reducing the combined sewer overflow (CSO) pollution is real-time control (RTC) based on model predictive control (MPC). MPC methodologies for RTC of UDSs in the literature rely on the computation of the optimal control strategies based on deterministic rain forecast. However, in reality, uncertainties exist in rainfall forecasts which affect severely accuracy of computing the optimal control strategies. Under this context, this work aims to focus on the uncertainty associated with the rainfall forecasting and its effects. One option is to use stochastic information about the rain events in the controller; in the case of using MPC methods, the class called stochastic MPC is available, including several approaches such as the chance-constrained MPC method. In this study, we apply stochastic MPC to the UDS using the chance-constrained method. Moreover, we also compare the operational behavior of both the classical MPC with perfect forecast and the chance-constrained MPC based on different stochastic scenarios of the rain forecast. The application and comparison have been based on simulations using a SWMM model of the Astlingen urban drainage benchmark network.
description: A preprint of a submitted article to the Journal Control Engineering Practice
Clothmaking passage (maal taany njìk); vocabulary
Creators: name: Chaiyapha, Sidawun
name: Intanai, Thongwilai
name: Janthong, Saengmanee
name: Sridachart, Khamsroy
name: Thawichart, Somphong
name: Lau-Preechathammarach, Raksit Tyler
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: kdt

description: Session to translate cloth-making passage into Kuy at the sala. Asking about vocabulary. Recorder: Zoom H4n. Microphone: internal.
OVI Observations of Galaxy Clusters: Evidence for Modest Cooling Flows
Creators: name: Bregman, Joel N.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Miller, Eric D.
name: Irwin, Jimmy A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A prediction of the galaxy cluster cooling flow model is that as gas cools from the ambient cluster temperature, emission lines are produced in gas at subsequently decreasing temperatures. Gas passing through 10^5.5 K emits in the lines of OVI 1032,1035, and here we report a FUSE study of these lines in three cooling flow clusters, Abell 426, Abell 1795, and AWM 7. No emission was detected from AWM 7, but OVI is detected from the centers of Abell 426 and Abell 1795, and possibly to the south of the center in Abell 1795, where X-ray and optical emission line filaments lie. In Abell 426, these line luminosities imply a cooling rate of 32+/-6 Msolar/yr within the central r = 6.2 kpc region, while for Abell 1795, the central cooling rate is 26+/-7 Msolar/yr (within r = 22 kpc), and about 42+/-9 Msolar/yr including the southern pointing. Including other studies, three of six clusters have OVI emission, and they also have star formation as well as emission lines from 1E4 K gas. These observations are generally consistent with the cooling flow model but at a rate closer to 30 Msolar/yr than originally suggested values of 100-1000 Msolar/yr.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, ApJ, in press
On the quaternion transformation and field equations in curved space-time
Creators: name: Chanyal, B. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 12Hxx, 35Q76, 83C10

description: In this paper, we use four-dimensional quaternionic algebra to describing space-time field equations in curvature form. The transformation relations of a quaternionic variable are established with the help of basis transformations of quaternion algebra. We deduced the quaternionic covariant derivative that explains how the quaternion components vary with scalar and vector fields.The quaternionic metric tensor and geodesic equation are also discussed to describing the quaternionic line element in curved space-time. Moreover, we discussed an expression for the Riemannian Christoffel curvature tensor in terms of the quaternionic metric tensor. We have deduced the quaternionic form of Einstein-field-like equation which shows an equivalence between quaternionic matter and geometry.
description: 22 pages
K_4-free graphs have sparse halves
Creators: name: Reiher, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Every $K_4$-free graph on $n$ vertices has a set of $\lfloor n/2\rfloor$ vertices spanning at most $n^2/18$ edges.
description: Second version addresses referee report