cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Determinanten beruflicher Entscheidungen von Lernenden. Die Bedeutung von Ausbildungsqualität und -zufriedenheit in der Elektroinstallationsbranche
Creators: name: Isabella, Joseph
Publisher: name: Eidgenössische Hochschule für Berufsbildung EHB
Year: 2024
Subjects: MSc Thesis

description: In der Elektroinstallationsbranche ist bereits seit einigen Jahren ein Fachkräftemangel festzustellen. Ein wichtiges Mittel, ihm entgegenzuwirken, ist der Verbleib der Lernenden nach ihrer Ausbildung in der Branche. Ob die subjektiv erlebte Ausbildungsqualität und -zufriedenheit unter Berücksichtigung weiterer Faktoren während der Ausbildung in der Elektroinstallationsbranche im Kanton Bern einen Einfluss darauf haben, welchen Betrieb und welche Branche die Lernenden später auswählen, ist bisher nicht untersucht worden. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie war es daher, den Zusammenhang zwischen Ausbildungsqualität und -zufriedenheit und den Laufbahnentscheiden von Lernenden in der Elektroinstallationsbranche zu untersuchen. Unter Einbezug weiterer Faktoren aus verschiedenen Bereichen wie Arbeitsmarktökonomie und Qualitätssicherung wurde eine Befragung in der Elektroinstallationsbranche konzipiert. Alle Lernenden im letzten Ausbildungsjahr der Elektroinstallationsberufe im Kanton Bern wurden unmittelbar nach Beginn des letzten Semesters befragt (N = 223). Mithilfe einer multinomialen Logit-Analyse wurde der Zusammenhang zwischen Laufbahnentscheidungen und der erlebten Ausbildungsqualität und -zufriedenheit untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die geplanten Laufbahnentscheidungen vor allem von den schulischen Leistungen, der Berufswahl und der allgemeinen betrieblichen Ausbildungszufriedenheit abhängen, wobei alle anderen beobachteten Faktoren konstant gehalten wurden. Die Ausbildungsqualität und die spezifische Ausbildungszufriedenheit (gemessen pro Skala der Ausbildungsqualität) hatten hingegen keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Laufbahnentscheidungen, mit Ausnahme der Bewältigung der Arbeitsbelastung, für die bloss ein Trend festgestellt wurde. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie können wertvolle Hinweise für Berufsbildende der Elektroinstallationsbranche liefern, mit deren Hilfe sie den Verbleib ihrer ehemaligen Lernenden im Lehrbetrieb oder zumindest in der Branche fördern könnten. So könnte dem Fachkräftemangel entgegengewirkt werden.
Spinoza on Metaphysical Doubt and the “Cartesian Circle”
Creators: name: Gleizer, Marcos André
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2019

description: This article offers an analysis and defense of the solution proposed by Spinoza to the “Cartesian circle” problem. Taking into consideration Spinoza’s sound analysis of the epistemic conditions of an authentic doubt, it will try to show, against the interpreters who maintain that Spinoza’s most explicit and consistent solution fails, that his solution offers a perfectly coherent account of the self-justification of the objective value of reason. I will also briefly indicate the intimate connection existing between Spinoza’s solution to the “Cartesian circle” problem and his conception of truth as its own standard
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 15 (2018): Methods of Philosophy
Rev. Whittmore
Creators: name: Tol Cherry
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Historic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/29/historic-period
subject: Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/125/classic-period
subject: Sedentary Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5504/sedentary-period
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/1435/casa-grande-ruins-national-monument
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research
subject: Collections Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/3/collections-research
subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Site Stabilization
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/11/site-stabilization

description: This document is an article regarding Rev. Whittmore's experience first custodian of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Neural Markov Random Field for Stereo Matching
Creators: name: Guan, Tongfan
name: Wang, Chen
name: Liu, Yun-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stereo matching is a core task for many computer vision and robotics applications. Despite their dominance in traditional stereo methods, the hand-crafted Markov Random Field (MRF) models lack sufficient modeling accuracy compared to end-to-end deep models. While deep learning representations have greatly improved the unary terms of the MRF models, the overall accuracy is still severely limited by the hand-crafted pairwise terms and message passing. To address these issues, we propose a neural MRF model, where both potential functions and message passing are designed using data-driven neural networks. Our fully data-driven model is built on the foundation of variational inference theory, to prevent convergence issues and retain stereo MRF's graph inductive bias. To make the inference tractable and scale well to high-resolution images, we also propose a Disparity Proposal Network (DPN) to adaptively prune the search space of disparity. The proposed approach ranks $1^{st}$ on both KITTI 2012 and 2015 leaderboards among all published methods while running faster than 100 ms. This approach significantly outperforms prior global methods, e.g., lowering D1 metric by more than 50% on KITTI 2015. In addition, our method exhibits strong cross-domain generalization and can recover sharp edges. The codes at https://github.com/aeolusguan/NMRF
description: Accepted to CVPR 2024
IWP Solutions for Heterotic String in Five Dimensions
Creators: name: Herrera-Aguilar, Alfredo
name: Kechkin, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain extremal stationary solutions that generalize the Israel-Wilson-Perjés class for the low-energy limit of heterotic string theory with n>=3 U(1) gauge fields toroidally compactified from five to three dimensions. A dyonic solution is obtained using the matrix Ernst potential (MEP) formulation and expressed in terms of a single real 3X3-matrix harmonic function. By studying the asymptotic behaviour of the field configurations we define the physical charges of the field system. The extremality condition makes the charges to saturate the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) bound.
description: 8 pages in LaTex. We have corrected some signs and two Eqs. of formula (29)
Causality-Aware Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks for Spatiotemporal Time Series Imputation
Creators: name: Jing, Baoyu
name: Zhou, Dawei
name: Ren, Kan
name: Yang, Carl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spatiotemporal time series are usually collected via monitoring sensors placed at different locations, which usually contain missing values due to various failures, such as mechanical damages and Internet outages. Imputing the missing values is crucial for analyzing time series. When recovering a specific data point, most existing methods consider all the information relevant to that point regardless of the cause-and-effect relationship. During data collection, it is inevitable that some unknown confounders are included, e.g., background noise in time series and non-causal shortcut edges in the constructed sensor network. These confounders could open backdoor paths and establish non-causal correlations between the input and output. Over-exploiting these non-causal correlations could cause overfitting. In this paper, we first revisit spatiotemporal time series imputation from a causal perspective and show how to block the confounders via the frontdoor adjustment. Based on the results of frontdoor adjustment, we introduce a novel Causality-Aware Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network (Casper), which contains a novel Prompt Based Decoder (PBD) and a Spatiotemporal Causal Attention (SCA). PBD could reduce the impact of confounders and SCA could discover the sparse causal relationships among embeddings. Theoretical analysis reveals that SCA discovers causal relationships based on the values of gradients. We evaluate Casper on three real-world datasets, and the experimental results show that Casper could outperform the baselines and could effectively discover causal relationships.
description: Accepted by CIKM'2024. Fixed typos
Myrmica domestica
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Myrmica
Myrmica domestica

description: 7. Myrmica domestica.
The House Ant B. M.
Myrmica domestica, Shuck. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, 626, 1838. Bostock, Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. 65.
Hab. - Houses, London, Brighton, & c.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1851, List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. - Hymenoptera Aculeata., London :British Museum on page 5
Bi-Directional Relativistic Jets of the Radio Galaxy 1946+708: Constraints on the Hubble Constant
Creators: name: Taylor, G. B.
name: Vermeulen, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of bi-directional motions in the jets of the radio galaxy 1946+708 at z=0.101. This is a Compact Symmetric Object with striking S-symmetry. Sensitive 15 GHz observations reveal a compact component at the center of symmetry with a strongly inverted spectrum, that we identify as the core. From five 4.9 GHz observations spread over 4 years we have determined the velocities of four compact jet components. If simple kinematic models can be applied then the inclination of the source and the bulk jet velocity can be directly determined for any assumed value of the Hubble constant. Conversely, the measurements already place constraints on the Hubble constant, and we show how further observations of 1946+708 can yield an increasingly accurate determination of H_0.
description: in press at ApJ Letters, 12 page LaTex document includes 5 postscript figures
Period spacings in red giants IV: Toward a complete description of the mixed-mode pattern
Creators: name: Mosser, B.
name: Gehan, C.
name: Belkacem, K.
name: Samadi, R.
name: Michel, E.
name: Goupil, M-J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Oscillation modes with a mixed character, as observed in evolved low-mass stars, are highly sensitive to the physical properties of the innermost regions. Measuring their properties is therefore extremely important to probe the core, but requires some care, due to the complexity of the mixed-mode pattern. This work aims at providing a consistent description of the mixed-mode pattern of low-mass stars, based on the asymptotic expansion. We also aim at studying the variation of the gravity offset $\varepsilon_{g}$ with stellar evolution. We revisit previous work about mixed modes in red giants and empirically test how period spacings, rotational splittings, mixed-mode widths and heights can be estimated in a consistent view, based on the properties of the mode inertia ratios. From the asymptotic fit of the mixed-mode pattern of a large set of red giants at various evolutionary stages, we derive unbiased and precise asymptotic parameters. As the asymptotic expansion of gravity modes is verified with a precision close to the frequency resolution for stars on the red giant branch (10$^{-4}$ in relative values), we can derive accurate values of the asymptotic parameters. We decipher the complex pattern in a rapidly rotating star, and explain how asymmetrical splittings can be inferred, as well as the stellar inclinations. This allows us to revisit the stellar inclinations in two open clusters, NGC 6819 and NGC 6791: our results show that the stellar inclinations in these clusters do not have privileged orientation in the sky. The variation of the asymptotic gravity offset along with stellar evolution is investigated in detail. We also derive generic properties that explain under which conditions mixed modes can be observed.
description: Accepted in A&A, AA/2018/32777
Experimental momentum spectra of identified hadrons at $e^+e^-$ colliders compared to QCD calculations
Creators: name: Brummer, Nichol
name: College, Imperial
name: London
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental data on the shape of hadronic momentum spectra are compared to theoretical predictions in the context of calculations in the Modified Leading Log Approximation (MLLA), under the assumption of Local Parton Hadron Duality (LPHD). Considered are experimental measurements at $e^+e^-$-colliders of $ξ_p^*$, the position of the maximum in the distribution of $ξ_p=\log(1/x_p)$, where $x_p=p/p_{beam}$. The parameter $ξ_p^*$ is determined for various hadrons at various centre of mass energies. The dependence on the hadron type poses some interesting questions about the process of hadron-formation. The dependence of $ξ^*_p$ on the centre of mass energy is seen to be described adequately by perturbation theory. A quantitative check of LPHD + MLLA is possible by extracting a value of $α_s$ from an overall fit to the scaling behaviour of $ξ^*_p$.
description: 9 pages latex, 7 eps figures and total ps file
Radio Carbon Dates from the Casa Grande
Creators: name: Andresen, John M.
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/125/classic-period
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Great House / Big House
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/317/great-house-big-house
subject: Wood
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/15/wood
subject: Dating Sample
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3/dating-sample
subject: Building Materials
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/8/building-materials
subject: Environment Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/13/environment-research
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey
subject: Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/6/methodology-theory-or-synthesis

description: This document regards the radio carbon dating of the wooden beams used in the construction of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.
Additional file 1 of Comparative analysis on transcriptomics of ivermectin resistant and susceptible strains of Haemonchus contortus
Creators: name: Tuersong, Waresi
name: Zhou, Caixian
name: Wu, Simin
name: Qin, Peixi
name: Wang, Chunqun
name: Di, Wenda
name: Liu, Lu
name: Liu, Hui
name: Hu, Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Sequence information of primers used in qPCR validation. Table S2. Summary of statistics for the quality control of sequencing data from adult male and female worms of ivermectin resistant and susceptible strains of Haemonchus contortus. Table S3. Summary of total reads in the transcriptome data from RNA sequencing and those mapped to the Haemonchus contortus genome. Table S4. Information on the fold changes for 114 differentially expressed genes identified in both RM_vs_SM and RF_vs_SF comparisons of Haemonchus contortus. Table S5. Top 10 up-regulated (up) and down-regulated (down) genes based on fold changes in the ivermectin (IVM)-resistant male (RM) versus IVM-susceptible male (SM) and IVM-resistant female (RF) versus IVM-susceptible female (SF) worms of Haemonchus contortus. Table S6. Information on differentially expressed genes in the ivermectin-resistant male and female worms of Haemonchus contortus encoding receptors, transporters, and detoxification enzymes. Table S7. Information on differentially expressed genes in the ivermectin-resistant male and female worms of Haemonchus contortus encoding molecules involved in lipid metabolism and cuticle collagen formation.
Three new Ranidae mitogenomes and the evolution of mitochondrial gene rearrangements among Ranidae species.pdf
Creators: name: Liu, Jiabin
name: Yu, JiaoJiao
name: Jiangdong Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: 60409 Molecular Evolution
subject: 60309 Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis

description: Abstract: Various types of gene rearrangements have been discovered in the mitogenoes of the frog family Ranidae. In this study, we determined the complete mitogenome sequence of three Rana frogs. By combining the available mitogenomic data sets from GenBank, we evaluated the phylogenetic relationships of Ranidae at the mitogenome level and analyzed mitogenome rearrangement cases within Ranidae. The three frogs shared an identical mitogenome organization that was extremely similar to the typical Neobatrachian-type arrangement. Except for the genus Babina, the monophyly of each genus was well supported. The genus Amnirana occupied the most basal position among the Ranidae. The [Lithobates + Rana] was the closest sister group of Odorrana. The diversity of mitochondrial gene arrangements in ranid species was unexpectedly high, with 47 mitogenomes from 40 ranids being classifed into 10 different gene rearrangement types. Some taxa owned their unique gene rearrangement characteristics, which had signifcant implication for their phylogeny analysis. All rearrangement events discovered in the Ranidae mitogenomes can be explained by the duplication and random loss model.
Helicity amplitudes in $B \to D^{*} \barν l$ decay
Creators: name: Dai, L. R.
name: Oset, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a recent formalism of the weak hadronic reactions that maps the transition matrix elements at the quark level into hadronic matrix elements, evaluated with an elaborate angular momentum algebra that allows finally to write the weak matrix elements in terms of easy analytical formulas. In particular they appear explicitly for the different spin third components of the vector mesons involved. We extend the formalism to a general case, with the operator $γ^μ-αγ^μγ_5$, that can accommodate different models beyond the standard model and study in detail the $B \to D^{*} \barν l$ reaction for the different helicities of the $D^*$. The results are shown for each amplitude in terms of the $α$ parameter that is different for each model. We show that $\frac{d Γ}{d M_{\rm inv}^{(νl)}}$ is very different for the different components $M=\pm 1, 0$ and in particular the magnitude $\frac{d Γ}{d M_{\rm inv}^{(νl)}}|_{M=-1} -\frac{d Γ}{d M_{\rm inv}^{(νl)}}|_{M=+1} $ is very sensitive to the $α$ parameter, which suggest to use this magnitude to test different models beyond the standard model. We also compare our results with the standard model and find very similar results, and practically identical at the end point of $M_{\rm inv}^{(νl)}= m_B- m_{D^*}$.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures
Automated Contrastive Learning Strategy Search for Time Series
Creators: name: Jing, Baoyu
name: Wang, Yansen
name: Sui, Guoxin
name: Hong, Jing
name: He, Jingrui
name: Yang, Yuqing
name: Li, Dongsheng
name: Ren, Kan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, Contrastive Learning (CL) has become a predominant representation learning paradigm for time series. Most existing methods manually build specific CL Strategies (CLS) by human heuristics for certain datasets and tasks. However, manually developing CLS usually requires excessive prior knowledge about the data, and massive experiments to determine the detailed CL configurations. In this paper, we present an Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) practice at Microsoft, which automatically learns CLS for time series datasets and tasks, namely Automated Contrastive Learning (AutoCL). We first construct a principled search space of size over $3\times10^{12}$, covering data augmentation, embedding transformation, contrastive pair construction, and contrastive losses. Further, we introduce an efficient reinforcement learning algorithm, which optimizes CLS from the performance on the validation tasks, to obtain effective CLS within the space. Experimental results on various real-world datasets demonstrate that AutoCL could automatically find the suitable CLS for the given dataset and task. From the candidate CLS found by AutoCL on several public datasets/tasks, we compose a transferable Generally Good Strategy (GGS), which has a strong performance for other datasets. We also provide empirical analysis as a guide for the future design of CLS.
description: Accepted by CIKM'2024. Fixed typos
Vertrauen in Führungskräfte im Detailhandel. Zusammenhang mit demografischen Faktoren der Mitarbeitenden und der Führungskräfte
Creators: name: Gigon, Manuela
Publisher: name: Eidgenössische Hochschule für Berufsbildung EHB
Year: 2024
Subjects: MSc Thesis

description: AusgangslangeDie vorliegende Masterarbeit analysiert das Vertrauen in Führungskräfte im Detailhandel Sportartikel in Zusammenhang mit demografischen Faktoren sowohl der Mitarbeitenden als auch der Führungskräfte. Das Vertrauen in Führungskräfte stellt einen zentralen Faktor im Arbeitskontext dar und bildet die Grundlage für Arbeitsleistungen. Es findet sich noch wenig Literatur beziehungsweise widersprüchliche Ergebnisse zu den Zusammenhängen von Vertrauen und demografischen Faktoren.

FragestellungZiel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, die Zusammenhänge zwischen verschiedenen demografischen Faktoren wie Alter, Geschlecht, Bildungsstand und Dauer der Betriebszugehörigkeit der Mitarbeitenden und Führungskräfte mit dem Vertrauen von Mitarbeitenden im Detailhandel Sportartikel in ihre direkten Vorgesetzten zu analysieren.

MethodeIm Rahmen einer quantitativen Untersuchung mittels eines selbst erstellten Fragebogens wurden 67 Mitarbeitende (davon 10 Lernende) im Detailhandel Sportartikel in der Deutschschweiz befragt.

ResultateDie Faktoren Alter, Dauer der Betriebszugehörigkeit und Geschlecht der Mitarbeitenden weisen keinen signifikanten Zusammenhang mit dem Vertrauen in Führungskräfte auf. Der Bildungsstand der Führungskräfte sowie der Bildungsstand der Mitarbeitenden in Interaktion mit dem Bildungsstand der Führungskräfte zeigen einen statistisch signifikanten Zusammenhang zum Vertrauen, das die Mitarbeitenden ihren direkten Vorgesetzten entgegenbringen. Die deskriptive Statistik zeigt, dass es Kombinationen von Bildungsniveaus der Mitarbeitenden und der direkten Vorgesetzten gibt, bei denen das Vertrauen unterschiedlich stark ausgeprägt ist.

FazitDie vorliegende Masterarbeit hat die Bedeutung des Bildungsniveaus im Allgemeinen und der Führungskräfte im Speziellen für das Vertrauen der Mitarbeitenden in ihre direkten Vorgesetzten aufgezeigt und damit neue Einblicke in ein bisher wenig untersuchtes Feld der Führungsforschung ermöglicht. Weitere Untersuchungen mit deutlich größeren Stichproben sind notwendig, um die Unterschiede deutlicher herauszuarbeiten.
Tidal Deformabilities and Neutron Star Mergers
Creators: name: Zhao, Tianqi
name: Lattimer, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finite size effects in a neutron star merger are manifested, at leading order, through the tidal deformabilities (Lambdas) of the stars. If strong first-order phase transitions do not exist within neutron stars, both neutron stars are described by the same equation of state, and their Lambdas are highly correlated through their masses even if the equation of state is unknown. If, however, a strong phase transition exists between the central densities of the two stars, so that the more massive star has a phase transition and the least massive star does not, this correlation will be weakened. In all cases, a minimum Lambda for each neutron star mass is imposed by causality, and a less conservative limit is imposed by the unitary gas constraint, both of which we compute. In order to make the best use of gravitational wave data from mergers, it is important to include the correlations relating the Lambdas and the masses as well as lower limits to the Lambdas as a function of mass. Focusing on the case without strong phase transitions, and for mergers where the chirp mass M_chirp<1.4M_sun, which is the case for all observed double neutron star systems where a total mass has been accurately measured, we show that the dimensionless Lambdas satisfy Lambda_1/Lambda_2= q^6, where q=M_2/M_1 is the binary mass ratio; $M$ is mass of each star, respectively. Moreover, they are bounded by q^{n_-}>Lambda_1/Lambda_2> q^{n_{0+}+qn_{1+}}, where n_-
Descartes e il problema della teodicea nella prima modernità
Creators: name: Gatto, Alfredo
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2019

description: The article deals with the critical reception of the Cartesian theory of the eternal truths. It aims to analyze the central role played by Descartes’ doctrine in Early Modern Philosophy, with particular regard to the reflections of Leibniz, Malebranche and Spinoza. Indeed, part of their philosophy can be considered as an attempt to criticize the premises of the Cartesian theory in order to avoid their consequences. There are then strong reasons for believing that the importance of the theodicean issues in Early Modern Philosophy is directly related to Descartes’ doctrine of the free creation of the eternal truths.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 15 (2018): Methods of Philosophy
Advancing Biomedicine with Graph Representation Learning: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
Creators: name: Li, Fang
name: Nian, Yi
name: Sun, Zenan
name: Tao, Cui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph representation learning (GRL) has emerged as a pivotal field that has contributed significantly to breakthroughs in various fields, including biomedicine. The objective of this survey is to review the latest advancements in GRL methods and their applications in the biomedical field. We also highlight key challenges currently faced by GRL and outline potential directions for future research.
description: Accepted by 2023 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
Revisiting the effect of lens mass models in cosmological applications of strong gravitational lensing
Creators: name: Harvey-Hawes, Christopher
name: Wiltshire, David L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong gravitational lens system catalogues are typically used to constrain a combination of cosmological and empirical power-law lens mass model parameters, often introducing additional empirical parameters and constraints from high resolution imagery. We investigate these lens models using Bayesian methods through a novel alternative that treats spatial curvature via the non-FLRW timescape cosmology. We apply Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods using the catalogue of 161 lens systems of Chen et al (arXiv:1809.09845) in order to constrain both lens and cosmological parameters for: (i) the standard $Λ$CDM model with zero spatial curvature; and (ii) the timescape model. We then generate large mock data sets to further investigate the choice of cosmology on fitting simple power-law lens models. In agreement with previous results, we find that in combination with single isothermal sphere parameters, models with zero FLRW spatial curvature fit better as the free parameter approaches an unphysical empty universe, $Ω_{\mathrm M0}\to0$. By contrast, the timescape cosmology is found to prefer parameter values in which its cosmological parameter, the present void fraction, is driven to $f_{\mathrm v0}\to0.73$ and closely matches values that best fit independent cosmological data sets: supernovae Ia distances and the cosmic microwave background. This conclusion holds for a large range of seed values $f_{\mathrm v0}\in\{0.1,0.9\}$, and for timescape fits to both timescape and FLRW mocks. Regardless of cosmology, unphysical estimates of the distance ratios given from power-law lens models result in poor goodness of fit. With larger datasets soon available, separation of cosmology and lens models must be addressed.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures; v2: Corrected MCMC analysis, main results and conclusions unchanged, agrees with final version in MNRAS
Additional file 3 of Validation of neuromuscular blocking agent use in acute respiratory distress syndrome: a meta-analysis of randomized trials
Creators: name: Chang, Wei
name: Sun, Qin
name: Peng, Fei
name: Xie, Jianfeng
name: Qiu, Haibo
name: Yang, Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Data transformation and missing data imputations.
Filling constraints on fermionic topological order in zero magnetic field
Creators: name: Bultinck, Nick
name: Cheng, Meng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider two-dimensional electron systems in zero magnetic field at fractional filling. For such systems a Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem applies, forbidding the existence of a trivial insulator. However, the theorem does not distinguish between bosonic and fermionic systems. In this work we argue that in the case of fermionic systems, the topological orders that are compatible with the microscopic constraints are in general different from the bosonic case. We find different results in the cases of even and odd denominator fillings, with even denominator fillings deviating stronger from the bosonic case. Part of our results also hold in three dimensions.
description: Published version
PRESENTATION.Sciences participatives & Gestion de données FAIR
Creators: name: Giraldo Sevilla, Andrea
name: Miah, Célina
name: Haklay, Muki
name: Reeves, Neal
name: Thuermer, Gefion
name: Walker, Johanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: CircleU; Citizen Science; ASDOST-CitSci

description: This presentation explores the intersection of citizen science and FAIR data management (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). It highlights the challenges and best practices in handling participatory research data, emphasizing the need for structured metadata, ethical considerations, and open access. The presentation compares citizen science data with traditional research data, addressing quality control, legal constraints (such as GDPR), and data governance. Recommendations focus on ensuring data usability, participant engagement, and transparency while promoting FAIR principles to maximize research impact. Through case studies and guidelines, it provides insights into making citizen-generated data more reliable and beneficial for scientific communities.The case study was prepared as part of a training day of the ASDOST-CitSci project.
Algorithms of Sampling-Frequency-Independent Layers for Non-integer Strides
Creators: name: Imamura, Kanami
name: Nakamura, Tomohiko
name: Takamune, Norihiro
name: Yatabe, Kohei
name: Saruwatari, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we propose algorithms for handling non-integer strides in sampling-frequency-independent (SFI) convolutional and transposed convolutional layers. The SFI layers have been developed for handling various sampling frequencies (SFs) by a single neural network. They are replaceable with their non-SFI counterparts and can be introduced into various network architectures. However, they could not handle some specific configurations when combined with non-SFI layers. For example, an SFI extension of Conv-TasNet, a standard audio source separation model, cannot handle some pairs of trained and target SFs because the strides of the SFI layers become non-integers. This problem cannot be solved by simple rounding or signal resampling, resulting in the significant performance degradation. To overcome this problem, we propose algorithms for handling non-integer strides by using windowed sinc interpolation. The proposed algorithms realize the continuous-time representations of features using the interpolation and enable us to sample instants with the desired stride. Experimental results on music source separation showed that the proposed algorithms outperformed the rounding- and signal-resampling-based methods at SFs lower than the trained SF.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for European Signal Processing Conference 2023 (EUSIPCO 2023)
Does Differentially Private Synthetic Data Lead to Synthetic Discoveries?
Creators: name: Perez, Ileana Montoya
name: Movahedi, Parisa
name: Nieminen, Valtteri
name: Airola, Antti
name: Pahikkala, Tapio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background: Synthetic data has been proposed as a solution for sharing anonymized versions of sensitive biomedical datasets. Ideally, synthetic data should preserve the structure and statistical properties of the original data, while protecting the privacy of the individual subjects. Differential privacy (DP) is currently considered the gold standard approach for balancing this trade-off.
 Objectives: To investigate the reliability of group differences identified by independent sample tests on DP-synthetic data. The evaluation is conducted in terms of the tests' Type I and Type II errors. The former quantifies the tests' validity i.e. whether the probability of false discoveries is indeed below the significance level, and the latter indicates the tests' power in making real discoveries.
 Methods: We evaluate the Mann-Whitney U test, Student's t-test, chi-squared test and median test on DP-synthetic data. The private synthetic datasets are generated from real-world data, including a prostate cancer dataset (n=500) and a cardiovascular dataset (n=70 000), as well as on bivariate and multivariate simulated data. Five different DP-synthetic data generation methods are evaluated, including two basic DP histogram release methods and MWEM, Private-PGM, and DP GAN algorithms.
 Conclusion: A large portion of the evaluation results expressed dramatically inflated Type I errors, especially at privacy budget levels of $ε\leq 1$. This result calls for caution when releasing and analyzing DP-synthetic data: low p-values may be obtained in statistical tests simply as a byproduct of the noise added to protect privacy. A DP smoothed histogram-based synthetic data generation method was shown to produce valid Type I error for all privacy levels tested but required a large original dataset size and a modest privacy budget ($ε\geq 5$) in order to have reasonable Type II error.
Non equilibrium spectra of degenerate relic neutrinos
Creators: name: Esposito, S.
name: Miele, G.
name: Pastor, S.
name: Peloso, M.
name: Pisanti, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the exact kinetic evolution of cosmic neutrinos until complete decoupling, in the case when a large neutrino asymmetry exists. While not excluded by present observations, this large asymmetry can have relevant cosmological consequences and in particular may be helpful in reconciling Primordial Nucleosynthesis with a high baryon density as suggested by the most recent observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. By solving numerically the Boltzmann kinetic equations for the neutrino distribution functions, we find the momentum-dependent corrections to the equilibrium spectra and briefly discuss their phenomenological implications.
description: 30 pages, 17 figures, version to be published
Multiparameter quantum estimation of noisy phase shifts
Creators: name: Roccia, Emanuele
name: Cimini, Valeria
name: Sbroscia, Marco
name: Gianani, Ilaria
name: Ruggiero, Ludovica
name: Mancino, Luca
name: Genoni, Marco G.
name: Ricci, Maria Antonietta
name: Barbieri, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase estimation is the most investigated protocol in quantum metrology, but its performance is affected by the presence of noise, also in the form of imperfect state preparation. Here we discuss how to address this scenario by using a multiparameter approach, in which noise is associated to a parameter to be measured at the same time as the phase. We present an experiment using two-photon states, and apply our setup to investigating optical activity of fructose solutions. Finally, we illustrate the scaling laws of the attainable precisions with the number of photons in the probe state.
Multibaryons in the Skyrme model
Creators: name: Scoccola, Norberto N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-lying multibaryon configurations are studied within the bound state approach to the SU(3) Skyrme model. We use approximate ansaetze for the static background fields based on rational maps which have the same symmetries of the exact solutions. To determine the explicit form of the collective Hamiltonians and wave functions we only make use of these symmetries. Thus, the expressions obtained are also valid in the exact case. On the other hand, the meson bindings, inertia parameters and hyperfine splitting constants we calculate do depend on the detailed form of the ansaetze and are, therefore, approximate. Using these values we compute the low-lying spectra of multibaryons with B =< 9 and strangeness 0 and -B. With these results the stability of some multilambda configurations is discussed.
description: 7 pages. To be published in the Proc. of "Hadron Physics 99". Coimbra, Portugal. September 10- 15, 1999
Geografia e filosofia. Riflessioni su Pensiero vivente di Roberto Esposito a partire da Spinoza, Cavell e Foucault
Creators: name: Ariano, Raffaele
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2019

description: The article focuses on the so-called ‘Italian theory’, with special reference to its assessment in Roberto Esposito’s 2010 book Living Thought. The article puts forth three main arguments. First, there is an analogy between the ‘geo-philosophical’ strategy chosen by Esposito to address Italian thought and the strategy pursued by Stanley Cavell when he reflects on Emerson and the specificity of American philosophy. Second, the main traits attributed by Esposito to Italian thought show significant parallels with key concepts in Michel Foucault’s philosophy. Third, interpretations of Spinoza by authors such as Gilles Deleuze and Toni Negri have been instrumental for the flourishing of the philosophical debate that prepared Esposito’s elaboration of a canon of Italian thinkers. The article thus hints that Italian theory could be an interesting case study for the reflection on the relations between geography and philosophy.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 15 (2018): Methods of Philosophy
The Wheeler Propagator
Creators: name: Bollini, C. G.
name: Rocca, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the half advanced and half retarded Wheeler Green function and its relation to Feynman propagators. First for massless equation. Then, for Klein-Gordon equations with arbitrary mass parameters; real, imaginary or complex. In all cases the Wheeler propagator lacks an on-shell free propagation. The Wheeler function has support inside the light-cone (whatever the mass). The associated vacuum is symmetric with respect to annihilation and creation operators. We show with some examples that perturbative unitarity holds, whatever the mass (real or complex). Some possible applications are discussed.
description: 20 pages latex. No figures
Unsupervised and lightly supervised learning in particle physics
Creators: name: Bardhan, Jai
name: Mandal, Tanumoy
name: Mitra, Subhadip
name: Neeraj, Cyrin
name: Patra, Monalisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the main applications of machine learning models that are not fully supervised in particle physics, i.e., clustering, anomaly detection, detector simulation, and unfolding. Unsupervised methods are ideal for anomaly detection tasks -- machine learning models can be trained on background data to identify deviations if we model the background data precisely. The learning can also be partially unsupervised when we can provide some information about the anomalies at the data level. Generative models are useful in speeding up detector simulations -- they can mimic the computationally intensive task without large resources. They can also efficiently map detector-level data to parton-level data (i.e., data unfolding). In this review, we focus on interesting ideas and connections and briefly overview the underlying techniques wherever necessary.
description: 41 pages, 18 figures, 2 tables. Matches the published version
On splitting of the normalizer of a maximal torus in $E_6(q)$
Creators: name: Galt, Alexey
name: Staroletov, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G40

description: Let $G$ be a finite group of Lie type $E_6$ over $F_q$ (adjoint or simply connected) and $W$ be the Weyl group of $G$. We describe maximal tori $T$ such that $T$ has a complement in its algebraic normalizer $N(G,T)$. It is well known that for each maximal torus $T$ of $G$ there exists an element $w\in W$ such that $N(G,T)/T\simeq C_W(w)$. When $T$ does not have a complement isomorphic to $C_W(w)$, we show that $w$ has a lift in $N(G,T)$ of the same order.
description: 17 pages
Sensitivity of Bayesian 21 cm power spectrum estimation to foreground model errors
Creators: name: Burba, Jacob
name: Bull, Philip
name: Wilensky, Michael J.
name: Kennedy, Fraser
name: Garsden, Hugh
name: Glasscock, Katrine A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Power spectrum estimators are an important tool in efforts to detect the 21 cm brightness temperature fluctuations from neutral hydrogen at early times. An initial detection will likely be statistical in nature, meaning that it will not be possible to make a coherent map of the brightness temperature fluctuations; instead, only their variance will be measured against a background of noise and residual systematic effects. Optimal Quadratic Estimator (OQE)-based methods often apply an inverse covariance weighting to the data. However, inaccurate covariance modelling can lead to reduced sensitivity and, in some cases, severe signal loss. We recently proposed a Bayesian method to jointly estimate the 21 cm fluctuations, their power spectrum, and foreground emission. Instead of requiring a fixed a priori estimate of the covariance, we estimate the covariance as part of the inference. Choices of parametrization, particularly of the foregrounds, are subject to model errors and could lead to biases and other ill effects if not properly controlled. In this paper, we investigate the effects of inaccurate foreground models on 21 cm power spectrum recovery. Using simulated visibilities, we find that, even in the most extreme scenarios tested, our approach is capable of recovering 21 cm delay power spectrum estimates consistent with a known input signal for delays $\gtrsim300$ ns ($\sim$88\% of the available Fourier modes). This is true even when using foreground models derived from modified foreground catalogs containing spatial and spectral perturbations at the quoted level of uncertainty on our foreground catalogs.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures
Dove va la filosofia italiana? Riflessioni sull’Italian Thought
Creators: name: Claverini, Corrado
Publisher: name: Phenomenology and Mind
Year: 2019

description: In recent years, Italian philosophy is having enormous success in the United States, to the point that today we hear more and more of the “New Italian Thought”. The objective of this essay is to analyse this phenomenon from a historical point of view and see how and to what extent interest in Italian thought has grown in the USA, traversing the fundamental stages that have contributed to the acknowledgement of the “New Italian Thought”.
description: Phenomenology and Mind, No 15 (2018): Methods of Philosophy
Effective Potential Improvements, $ε$-expansions, and the Electroweak Phase Transition
Creators: name: Amelino-Camelia, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two recently proposed approaches to the study of the electroweak phase transition are discussed.
description: 4 pages, LaTex (requires espcrc2.sty which is appended). Contribution to the Proceedings of Trends in Astroparticle Physics
Essay for the PhD Exam on German language 'GRASS Handbuch version 1.1. Leitfaden zum Geographischen Informationsystem GRASS'
Creators: name: Lemenkova, Polina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200307 German Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Part of the PhD Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University