cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trends at NIME -- Reflections on Editing "A NIME Reader"
Creators: name: Jensenius, Alexander Refsum
name: Lyons, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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
subject: H.5.5

description: This paper provides an overview of the process of editing the forthcoming anthology "A NIME Reader - Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression." The selection process is presented, and we reflect on some of the trends we have observed in re-discovering the collection of more than 1200 NIME papers published throughout the 15-year long history of the conference. An anthology is necessarily selective, and ours is no exception. As we present in this paper, the aim has been to represent the wide range of artistic, scientific, and technological approaches that characterize the NIME conference. The anthology also includes critical discourse, and through acknowledgment of the strengths and weaknesses of the NIME community, we propose activities that could further diversify and strengthen the field.
description: 5 pages, 1 table. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2016
RePLEX: A Model-Based Reengineering Tool for PLEX Telecommunication Systems
Creators: name: Fuss, Christian
name: Mosler, Christof
name: Pettau, Marcel
Publisher: name: European Association of Software Science and Technology
Year: 2007

description: Maintenance of complex legacy software systems is a challenging task. In the first place, maintenance requires understanding the system. Reverse engineering and reengineering tools, which make the design of the current system available on-line and which support planning and performing changes to the system, are urgently needed. We present a new tool for reengineering telecommunication systems, recovering the current architecture, and extracting state machines reflecting the system behavior. The tool is based on a structure graph of the architecture and allows architectural modifications with according code changes. The modifications are specified as graph transformations using FUJABA enabling the generation of a Java prototype, which is accessible via a GUI based on the Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) plug-in for the Eclipse workbench.
description: Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 1: Graph Based Tools 2006
Analysis of Y(2175) as a tetraquark state with QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we take the point of view that Y(2175) be a tetraquark state which consists of color octet constituents, and calculate its mass and decay constant within the framework of the QCD sum rule approach. We release standard criterion in the QCD sum rules approach and take more phenomenological analysis, the value of the mass of Y(2175) is consistent with experimental data; there may be some tetraquark components in the state Y(2175). If we retain standard criterion, larger mass than experimental data can be obtained, the current $J_μ(x)$ can interpolate a tetraquark state with larger mass, or Y(2175) has some components with larger mass. The dominating contribution comes from the perturbative term, which is in contrast to the sum rules with interpolating currents constructed from diquark pairs. The tetraquark states may consist of color octet constituents rather than diquark pairs.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Agraphs: Definition, implementation and tools
Creators: name: Déharbe, David
name: Moreira, Anamaria Martins
name: Sena, Demóstenes
Publisher: name: European Association of Software Science and Technology
Year: 2007

description: Agraphs are a graph-based language representation, transformation
  and exchange format. In the same vein as XML, Agraphs form a
  general data representation mechanism that needs to be instantiated
  in different specific applications. In this paper, we present the
  Agraphs data structure, programming interface and related tools,
  identify their main features with respect to exchange format
  characteristics, and compare them to other existing exchange
  formats. These different features are illustrated on an instance of
  Agraphs for modular Petri nets.
description: Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 1: Graph Based Tools 2006
Graphene Antidot Lattices - Designed Defects and Spin Qubits
Creators: name: Pedersen, Thomas G.
name: Flindt, Christian
name: Pedersen, Jesper
name: Mortensen, Niels Asger
name: Jauho, Antti-Pekka
name: Pedersen, Kjeld
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Antidot lattices, defined on a two-dimensional electron gas at a semiconductor heterostructure, are a well-studied class of man-made structures with intriguing physical properties. We point out that a closely related system, graphene sheets with regularly spaced holes ("antidots"), should display similar phenomenology, but within a much more favorable energy scale, a consequence of the Dirac fermion nature of the states around the Fermi level. Further, by leaving out some of the holes one can create defect states, or pairs of coupled defect states, which can function as hosts for electron spin qubits. We present a detailed study of the energetics of periodic graphene antidot lattices, analyze the level structure of a single defect, calculate the exchange coupling between a pair of spin qubits, and identify possible avenues for further developments.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Lack of simple correlation between switching current density and spin-orbit torque efficiency of perpendicularly magnetized spin-current generator/ferromagnet heterostructures
Creators: name: Zhu, Lijun
name: Ralph, D. C.
name: Buhrman, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin-orbit torque can drive electrical switching of magnetic layers. Here, we report that at least for micrometer-sized samples there is no simple correlation between the efficiency of dampinglike spin-orbit torque (ξ_DL^j) and the critical switching current density of perpendicularly magnetized spin-current generator/ferromagnet heterostructures. We find that the values of ξ_DL^j based on switching current densities can either under- or over-estimated ξ_DL^j by up to tens of times in a domain-wall depinning analysis, while in the macrospin analysis based on the switching current density ξ_DL^j can be overestimated by up to thousands of times. When comparing the relative strengths of ξ_DL^j of spin-current generators, the critical switching current densities by themselves are a poor predictor.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Appl
ENFORCe: A System for Ensuring Formal Correctness of High-level Programs
Creators: name: Azab, Karl
name: Habel, Annegret
name: Pennemann, Karl-Heinz
name: Zuckschwerdt, Christian
Publisher: name: European Association of Software Science and Technology
Year: 2007

description: Graph programs allow a visual description of programs on graphs and graph-like structures. The correctness of a graph program with respect to a pre- and a postcondition can be shown in a classical way by constructing a weakest precondition of the program relative to the postcondition and checking whether the precondition implies the weakest precondition. ENFORCe is a currently developed system for ensuring formal correctness of graph programs and, more general, high-level programs by computing weakest preconditions of these programs. In this paper, we outline the features of the system and present its software framework.
description: Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 1: Graph Based Tools 2006
Ypsaltria camposi , Godg.
Creators: name: Goding, Frederic W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1925
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Ypsaltria
Ypsaltria camposi

description: ‡ P. camposi, Godg.
Goding, in this Synopsis.
Habitat: La Asuncion, Bolivar (Campos).
description: Published as part of Goding, Frederic W., 1925, Synopsis of the Cicadidae of Ecuador, pp. 1-34 in Revista del Colegio National Vicente Rocafuerte 7 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10461163
The ParMol Package for Frequent Subgraph Mining
Creators: name: Meinl, Thorsten
name: Wörlein, Marc
name: Urzova, Olga
name: Fischer, Ingrid
name: Philippsen, Michael
Publisher: name: European Association of Software Science and Technology
Year: 2007

description: Mining for frequent subgraphs in a graph database has become a popular topic in the last years.  Algorithms to solve this problem are used in chemoinformatics to find common molecular fragments in a database of molecules represented as two-dimensional graphs. However, the search process in arbitrary graph structures includes costly graph and subgraph isomorphism tests.  In our ParMol package we have implemented four of the most popular frequent subgraph miners using a common infrastructure: MoFa, gSpan, FFSM, and Gaston. Besides the pure re-implementation, we have added additional functionality to some of the algorithms like parallel search, mining directed graphs, and mining in one big graph instead of a graph database. Also a 2D-visualizer for molecules has been integrated.
description: Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 1: Graph Based Tools 2006
A generalization of Pardue's formula
Creators: name: Cimpoeas, Mircea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 13P10, Secondary: 13D25, 13D02, 13H10

description: In this paper, we introduce a new class of monomial ideals, called $d$-fixed ideals, which generalize the class of $p$-Borel ideals and show how some results for $p$-Borel ideals can be transfered to this new class. In particular, we give the form of a principal $d$-fixed ideal and we compute the socle of factors of these ideals. This allowed us to give a generalization of Pardue's formula,i.e. a formula of the regularity for a principal $d$-fixed ideal.
description: 17 pages
Object Oriented and Rule-based Design of Visual Languages using Tiger
Creators: name: Ermel, Claudia
name: Ehrig, Karsten
name: Taentzer, Gabriele
name: Weiss, Eduard
Publisher: name: European Association of Software Science and Technology
Year: 2007

description: In this paper we present the state-of-the-art of the TIGER environment for the generation of visual editor plug-ins in Eclipse, with the focus on its Designer component, a visual environment for object oriented and rule-based design of visual languages. Based on an alphabet for finite automata we show how a visual language can be designed by defining the abstract and concrete syntax of the visual language and syntax directed editing operations in the generated editor plug-in. 
For the graphical layout we use the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) of ECLIPSE which offers an efficient and standardized way for graphical layouting.
description: Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 1: Graph Based Tools 2006
AGN jets and a fanciful trio of black holes in the Abell 85 Brightest Cluster Galaxy
Creators: name: Madrid, Juan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new radio map of the Abell 85 Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) was obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). With a resolution of 0.02", this radio image shows two kiloparsec-scale bipolar jets emanating from the active galactic nucleus of the Abell 85 BCG. The galaxy core appears as a single entity on the new radio map. It has been assumed that the Abell 85 BCG contained a binary black hole in its core. However, Chandra X-ray data and the new high-resolution radio map show no evidence that the Abell 85 BCG harbors a binary black hole. The assumption that this galaxy contains a binary black hole was based on the analysis of its optical surface brightness profile obtained under poor seeing conditions. We demonstrate how the well-known blurring effects of atmospheric seeing can mimic the effects of a binary supermassive black hole (SMBH). Likewise, SDSS J004150.75-091824.3 was postulated to be "a third" SMBH associated with the BCG. In the optical and X-rays, SDSS J004150.75-091824.3 is a point-like source located ~14" away from the nucleus of the Abell 85 BCG. A new spectrum of SDSS J004150.75-091824.3, obtained with the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias, reveals that this source is a background quasar at a redshift of z=1.560+/-0.003 and not associated in any way with the Abell 85 cluster.
The needlets bispectrum
Creators: name: Lan, Xiaohong
name: Marinucci, Domenico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 62G20 (Primary) 62M15, 60B15, 60G60 (Secondary)

description: The purpose of this paper is to join two different threads of the recent literature on random fields on the sphere, namely the statistical analysis of higher order angular power spectra on one hand, and the construction of second-generation wavelets on the sphere on the other. To this aim, we introduce the needlets bispectrum and we derive a number of convergence results. Here, the limit theory is developed in the high resolution sense. The leading motivation of these results is the need for statistical procedures for searching non-Gaussianity in Cosmic Microwave Background radiation.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-EJS197 the Electronic Journal of Statistics (http://www.i-journals.org/ejs/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Discovery of VHE gamma-rays from the high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object RGB J0152+017
Creators: name: HESS Collaboration
name: Aharonian, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: The BL Lac object RGB J0152+017 (z=0.080) was predicted to be a very high-energy (VHE; > 100 GeV) gamma-ray source, due to its high X-ray and radio fluxes. Our aim is to understand the radiative processes by investigating the observed emission and its production mechanism using the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) experiment. Methods: We report recent observations of the BL Lac source RGB J0152+017 made in late October and November 2007 with the H.E.S.S. array consisting of four imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Contemporaneous observations were made in X-rays by the Swift and RXTE satellites, in the optical band with the ATOM telescope, and in the radio band with the Nancay Radio Telescope. Results: A signal of 173 gamma-ray photons corresponding to a statistical significance of 6.6 sigma was found in the data. The energy spectrum of the source can be described by a powerlaw with a spectral index of 2.95+/-0.36stat+/-0.20syst. The integral flux above 300 GeV corresponds to ~2% of the flux of the Crab nebula. The source spectral energy distribution (SED) can be described using a two-component non-thermal synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) leptonic model, except in the optical band, which is dominated by a thermal host galaxy component. The parameters that are found are very close to those found in similar SSC studies in TeV blazars. Conclusions: RGB J0152+017 is discovered as a source of VHE gamma-rays by H.E.S.S. The location of its synchrotron peak, as derived from the SED in Swift data, allows clearly classification it as a high-frequency-peaked BL Lac (HBL).
description: Accepted for publication in A&A Letters (5 pages, 4 figures)
Tetrahymena rostrata Corliss 1952
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Oligohymenophorea
Hymenostomatida
Tetrahymenidae
Tetrahymena
Tetrahymena rostrata

description: Tetrahymena rostrata (Kahl, 1926) Corliss, 1952
Distribution. BRAZIL: (Foissner et al. 2003). DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: (Foissner et al. 2003). MEXICO: Santuario del Bosque de Niebla, near Xalapa (Durán-Ramírez et al. 2015), (Th).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
MRI-Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound of Liver and Kidney
Creators: name: de Senneville, Baudouin Denis
name: Ries, Mario
name: Bartels, Wilbert
name: Moonen, Chrit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) can be used to achieve a local temperature increase deep inside the human body in a non-invasive way. MRI guidance of the procedure allows in situ target definition. In addition, MRI can be used to provide continuous temperature mapping during HIFU for spatial and temporal control of the heating procedure and prediction of the final lesion based on the received thermal dose. Temperature mapping of mobile organs as kidney and liver is challenging, as well as real-time processing methods for feedback control of the HIFU procedure. In this paper, recent technological advances are reviewed in MR temperature mapping of these organs, in motion compensation of the HIFU beam, in intercostal HIFU sonication, and in volumetric ablation and feedback control strategies. Recent pre-clinical studies have demonstrated the feasibility of each of these novel methods. The perspectives to translate those advances into the clinic are addressed. It can be concluded that MR guided HIFU for ablation in liver and kidney appears feasible but requires further work on integration of technologically advanced methods.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures
Quel malheur ! chère France
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Transcription of Varmint Story
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Begay, Kayla
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-190511-07: Transcription of the Varmint Story (file VP-300810-03), from 5:30 to the end of the story.
Flexible and stretchable piezoelectric bio-integrated sensors and energy harvesters based on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)
Creators: name: Ha, Taewoo
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Piezoelectricity
Seismocardiogram

description: Piezoelectricity is a phenomenon that electric energy is generated in a certain material when the material is subjected to mechanical load, and vice versa. Piezoelectric devices with high stretchability and flexibility for bio-integrated applications, including skin-conformal strain sensors and energy harvesters, have been developed for many years. However, the manufacturing process for conventional ceramic-based piezoelectric materials is sophisticated, expensive, and time-consuming. In contrast, piezoelectric polymer sheets, such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), are commercially available, mechanically robust, biocompatible, and less demanding to manufacture. This dissertation introduces low-cost, stretchable bio-integrated sensors and energy harvesters based on PVDF, and a novel subtractive digital manufacturing method for them called the “cut-and-paste” method. To systematically investigate our devices, we developed analytical, numerical, and experimental methods and obtained consistent results. As one demonstration, we created a filamentary serpentine (FS) network of 28-μm-thick PVDF as the soft and stretchable vibration sensor and attached the sensor on human chest to measure seismocardiography (SCG), which reflects chest vibration associated with heartbeats. The SCG measured by our PVDF sensor was comparable with conventional accelerometers, but PVDF sensor was much softer and imperceptible to wear. To optimize the SCG sensing location and to clarify the effect of the skin-sensor elastic mismatch, full-field displacement and strain analysis of the chest motion was conducted via three-dimensional digital image correlation (3D DIC) method. Integrating the FS PVDF-based SCG sensor with Au-based electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors, a skin-soft electro- and mechano-acoustic cardiovascular (EMAC) sensing tattoo has been created. It can synchronously collect electrical and mechanical cardiovascular signals which when combined, can fully reveal the cardiac mechanics such as the pre-ejection period (PEP), the isovolumetric contraction time (ICT), etc. Based on the strong negative correlations between systolic time intervals and systolic/diastolic blood pressures, continuous blood pressure (BP) could be non-invasively tracked via the EMAC sensing tattoo. As another demonstration, we created serpentine PVDF based stretchable energy harvester. We had to optimize the electrode design to minimize the counter effect due to the opposite signs of strain developed in the serpentine ribbon when subjected to stretch. After optimization, the serpentine ribbon exhibits much higher stretchability but comparable attainable electrical outputs with the straight PVDF ribbons
Astrophysics of Wormholes
Creators: name: Kardashev, N. S.
name: Novikov, I. D.
name: Shatskiy, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the hypothesis that some active galactic nuclei and other compact astrophysical objects may be current or former entrances to wormholes. A broad mass spectrum for astrophysical wormholes is possible. We consider various new models of the static wormholes including wormholes maintained mainly by an electromagnetic field. We also discuss observational effects of a single entrance to wormhole and a model for a binary astrophysical system formed by the entrances of wormholes with magnetic fields and consider its possible manifestation.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Arab-American playwrights : hyphenated identities and cultural in-betweenness
Creators: name: Ithawi, Hind Naji Hussein
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Otherness
Americanness
In-betweenness

description: The dissertation is an attempt to examine the practice of “othering” Arab-Americans as an ethnic group in the period between 9/11 and the appearance of ISIS through the literary lens of theater. The study explores issues of hyphenated identities and cultural in-betweenness that Arab-American playwrights either experience in their personal lives or address on stage through visionary characters that represent the struggles of everyday fellow Arab-Americans. The dissertation examines plays by Yussef El Guindi, Sam Younis, and Jamil Khoury. The topics explored by these playwrights are indicative of the concerns and the frustrations of the communities they represent. Therefore, these playwrights’ works examine issues of identity struggles, fear, and the confusion of acquiring a space that is in-between two different and occasionally clashing cultures. Arabs/Muslims in general and Arab-Americans specifically have mainly been portrayed as foreign “others.” To interrogate such portrayals, the dissertation relies partially on Edward Said’s views about the ‘Oriental other.’ Said’s framework directs my arguments in meaningful ways toward interrogating the positions expressed by the dramatists. Furthermore, Foucault’s ideas about power and state surveillance will be considered. This study utilizes other scholars’ views; their works will offer explanations of issues of special consideration that Said’s and Foucault’s framework may fall short of fully explaining. The introduction offers a brief review of Arab-Americans’ identity formation since the 1870s when the first wave of Arab immigrants landed in the U.S. Furthermore, the literary production of Arab-Americans is examined with a specific focus on theater and its sudden blooming in the aftermath of 9/11. Chapter One examines two of El Guindi’s plays that focus on the concept of citizenship and the state’s relation to its subjects. Back of the Throat and Language Rooms reveal the instability of the concept of American citizenship during times of national security crisis. Chapter Two investigates Younis’s Browntown. The play shows the predicament of actors of color in general and those of Arab/Muslim backgrounds specifically in the show business. Chapter Three explores Khoury’s Mosque Alert to reveal the intersection of religious freedom and Islamophobia in an age of paranoia and national uncertainty. The conclusion summarizes the findings of this study
Domain Specific Modeling (DSM) as a Service for the Internet of Things & Services
Creators: name: Moin, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a novel approach for developing Sense-Compute-Control (SCC) applications for the Internet of Things and Services (IoTS) following the Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) methodology. We review the recent approaches to MDSE and argue that Domain Specific Modeling (DSM) suites our needs very well. However, in line with the recent trends in cloud computing and the emer-gence of the IoTS, we believe that both DSM creation tools and DSM solutions that are created via those tools should also be provided to their respective users in a service-oriented fashion through the cloud in the IoTS. In this work, we concentrate on the latter, i.e., DSM solu-tions that are created via a DSM creation tool. We argue that it makes sense for the owners of a DSM solution in a domain to provide their DSM solution as a service, following the well known Software as a Ser-vice (SaaS) model, to the interested customers through the IoTS. Our proposed approach concentrates on such a DSM solution for developing SCC applications in the IoTS. However, the idea could be applied to DSM solutions in other domains as well.
description: International Internet of Things Summit - IoT360 2014: Internet of Things. User-Centric IoT pp 347-354
title: On the Interdependence of Illegal and Legal Immigration
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Bonn, Moritz
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2013
Subjects: Fiscal Contribution
Economics
Wirtschaft
Immigration Policy
Illegal Immigration

description: This paper accounts for the interdependency between illegal and legal immigration and its effects on average migrant productivity as well as on the fiscal budget. I present a simple model which proposes that the host country's government can reduce the required skill level for legal entry in order to maximize the immigrant's average pro- ductivity. With regard to the fiscal surplus that is achieved by immigration, the model presumes that the government is encouraged to substitute illegal workers by legal ones if the former are characterized by lower tax benefit ratios or if over-qualification among unauthorized aliens is widespread.
Sense-Deliberate-Act Cognitive Agents for Sense-Compute-Control Applications in the Internet of Things & Services
Creators: name: Moin, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we advocate Agent-Oriented Software Engi-neering (AOSE) through employing Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) intel-ligent agents for developing Sense-Compute-Control (SCC) applications in the Internet of Things and Services (IoTS). We argue that not only the agent paradigm, in general, but also cognitive BDI agents with sense-deliberate-act cycle, in particular, fit very well to the nature of SCC applications in the IoTS. However, considering the highly constrained heterogeneous devices that are prevalent in the IoTS, existing BDI agent frameworks, even those especially created for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), do not work. We elaborate on the challenges and propose pos-sible approaches to address them.
description: International Internet of Things Summit - IoT360 2014: Internet of Things. User-Centric IoT pp 23-28
In-medium QCD and Cherenkov gluons
Creators: name: Dremin, I. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equations of in-medium gluodynamics are proposed. Their classical lowest order solution is explicitly shown for a color charge moving with constant speed. For nuclear permittivity larger than 1 it describes emission of Cherenkov gluons resembling results of classical electrodynamics. The choice of nuclear permittivity and Lorentz-invariance of the problem are discussed. Effects induced by the transversely and longitudinally moving (relative to the collision axis) partons at LHC energies are described.
description: 13 p., misprints corrected
Evidence of shallow bandgap in ultra-thin 1T'-MoTe2 via infrared spectroscopy
Creators: name: Park, Jin Cheol
name: Jung, Eilho
name: Lee, Sangyun
name: Hwang, Jungseek
name: Lee, Young Hee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although van der Waals (vdW) layered MoS2 shows the phase transformation from the semiconducting 2H-phase to the metallic 1T-phase through chemical lithium intercalation, vdW MoTe2 is thermodynamically reversible between the 2H- and 1T'-phases, and can be further transformed by energetics, laser irradiation, strain or pressure, and electrical doping. Here, thickness- and temperature-dependent optical properties of 1T'-MoTe2 thin films grown by chemical vapor depsition are investigated via Fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopy. An optical gap of 28 +/- 2 meV in a 3-layer (or 2 nm) thick 1T'-MoTe2 is clearly observed at a low temperature region below 50K. No discernible optical bandgap is observed in samples thicker than ~4 nm. The observed thickness-dependent bandgap results agree with the measured dc resistivity data; the thickness-dependent 1T'-MoTe2 clearly demonstrates the metal-semiconductor transition at a crossover below the 2 nm-thick sample.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
The rotating wind of the quasar PG 1700+518
Creators: name: Young, S.
name: Axon, D. J.
name: Robinson, A.
name: Hough, J. H.
name: Smith, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is now widely accepted that most galaxies undergo an active phase, during which a central super-massive black hole generates vast radiant luminosities through the gravitational accretion of gas. Winds launched from a rotating accretion disk surrounding the black hole are thought to play a critical role, allowing the disk to shed angular momentum that would otherwise inhibit accretion. Such winds are capable of depositing large amounts of mechanical energy in the host galaxy and its environs, profoundly affecting its formation and evolution, and perhaps regulating the formation of large-scale cosmological structures in the early Universe. Although there are good theoretical grounds for believing that outflows from active galactic nuclei originate as disk winds, observational verification has proven elusive. Here we show that structures observed in polarized light across the broad H-alpha emission line in the quasar PG 1700+158 originate close to the accretion disk in an electron scattering wind. The wind has large rotational motions (~4,000 km/s), providing direct observational evidence that outflows from active galactic nuclei are launched from the disks. Moreover, the wind rises nearly vertically from the disk, favouring launch mechanisms that impart an initial acceleration perpendicular to the disk plane.
title: European Exascale Software Initiative : numerical libraries, solvers and algorithms
Creators: name: Duff, IS
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Facilities Council
Year: 2011
Subjects: fault tolerance
co-design centres
Exascale
numerical software
IESP
EESI
High performance computing
mathematical software libraries

description: Computers with sustained Petascale performance are now available and it is expected that hardware will be developed with a peak capability in the Exascale range by around 2018. However, the complexity, hierarchical nature, and probable heterogeneity of these machines pose great challenges for the development of software to exploit these architectures. This was recognized some years ago by the IESP (International Exascale Software Project)initiative and the European response to this has been a collaborative project called EESI (European Exascale Software Initiative). This initiative began in 2010 and has submitted its final report to the European Commission with a final conference in Barcelona in October 2011. The main goals of EESI are to build a European vision and roadmap to address the international outstanding challenge of performing scientific computing on the new generation of computers. The main activity of the EESI is in eight working groups, four on applications and four on supporting technologies. We first briefly review these eight chapters before discussing in more detail the work of Working Group 4.3 on Numerical Libraries, Solvers and Algorithms. Here we will look at the principal areas, the challenges of Exascale and possible ways to address these, and the resources that will be needed.
An approach to NNLO QCD analysis of non-singlet structure function
Creators: name: Khorramian, Ali N.
name: Tehrani, S. Atashbar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions to anomalous dimension governing the evolution of non-singlet quark distributions. We use the xF3 data of the CCFR collaboration to obtain some unknown parameters which exist in the non-singlet quark distributions in the NNLO approximation. In the fitting procedure, Bernstein polynomial method is used. The results of valence quark distributions in the NNLO, are in good agreement with the available theoretical model.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at IPM-LHP06, Tehran, Iran; PSN: IPM-LHP06-19May
Near-wall forces on a neutrally-buoyant spherical particle in an axisymmetric stagnation-point flow
Creators: name: Magnaudet, Jacques
name: Abbas, Micheline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrodynamic forces acting on a neutrally-buoyant spherical particle immersed in a wall-bounded axisymmetric stagnation point flow (Hiemenz-Homann flow) are predicted, based on a suitable form of the reciprocal theorem. An approximate algebraic form of the undisturbed velocity field is set up, mimicking the gradual transition of the actual carrying flow throughout the boundary layer, from a pure linear straining flow in the bulk to a parabolic flow at the wall. The particle Reynolds number is assumed to be small and predictions based on the creeping-flow assumption are first derived. Then, inertial corrections are computed, assuming that the particle stands close enough to the wall for the latter to be in the inner region of the disturbance. Predictions for the time-dependent slip velocity between the particle and ambient fluid are obtained in the form of a differential equation, first assuming that the particle moves along the flow symmetry axis, then extending the analysis to particles released at an arbitrary radial position. In the former case, these predictions are compared with results provided by numerical simulations. When the strain-based Reynolds number (built on the particle radius and strain rate in the bulk) exceeds $0.1$, finite-inertia effects due to particle-wall interactions and to the relative acceleration between the particle and fluid are found to substantially modify the way the slip velocity varies with the distance to the wall.
description: 35 pages, 6 figures
title: Using forecasts to uncover the loss function of FOMC members
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Pierdzioch, Christian
name: Rülke, Jan-Christoph
name: Tillmann, Peter
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2013
Subjects: forecasting
Economics
Wirtschaft
Federal Open Market Committee
asymmetric loss function; monetary policy

description: We revisit the sources of the bias in Federal Reserve forecasts and assess
whether a precautionary motive can explain the forecast bias. In contrast to the existing literature, we use forecasts submitted by individual
FOMC members to uncover members' implicit loss function. Our key finding is that the loss function of FOMC members is asymmetric: FOMC members incur a higher loss when they underpredict (overpredict) inflation and unemployment (real GDP) as compared to an overprediction (underprediction) of similar size. Our findings add to the recent controversy on the relative quality of FOMC forecasts compared to staff forecasts. Together with Capistrán's (2008) finding of similar asymmetries in Federal Reserve staff forecasts our results suggest that differences in predictive ability do not stem from differences in preferences. This is underlined by our second result: forecasts remain biased even after accepting an asymmetric loss function.
Regular and chaotic motion in elliptical galaxies
Creators: name: Muzzio, Juan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here I review recent work, by other authors and by myself, on some particular topics related to the regular and chaotic motion in elliptical galaxies. I show that it is quite possible to build highly stable triaxial stellar systems that include large fractions of chaotic orbits and that partially and fully chaotic orbits fill different regions of space, so that it is important not to group them together under the single denomination of chaotic orbits. Partially chaotic orbits should not be confused with weakly fully chaotic orbits either, and their spatial distributions are also different. Slow figure rotation (i.e., rotation in systems with zero angular momentum) seems to be always present in highly flattened models that result from cold collapses, with the rotational velocity diminishing or becoming negligibly small for less flattened models. Finally, I comment on the usefulness and limitation of the classification of regular orbits via frequency analysis.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures (both are mosaics of 6 and 4 individual figures, respectively, in eps format). It is an invited talk delivered at the workshop "Chaos in Astronomy 2007", in memory of N. Voglis, held in Athens (Greece), 17 - 20 September 2008, and accepted for publication in the Proccedings of that workshop
title: Local Inflation Reconsidering the International Comovement of Inflation
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Foerster, Marcel
name: Tillmann, Peter
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2013
Subjects: Monetary Policy
Globalization, Dynamic Hierarchical Factor Model
Energy Prices
Inflation
Economics
Wirtschaft

description: In this paper we reconsider the degree of international comovement of
inflation rates. We use a dynamic hierarchical factor model that is able
to decompose Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation in a panel of countries
into (i) a factor common to all inflation series and all countries,
(ii) a factor specific to a given sub-section of the CPI, (iii) a country
group-factor and (iv) a country-specific component. With its pyramidal
structure, the model allows for the possibility that the global factor
affects the country-group factor and other subordinated factors but
not vice versa. Using quarterly data for industrialized and emerging
economies from 1996 to 2011 we find that about two thirds of overall
inflation volatility are due to country-specific determinants. For CPI
inflation net of food and energy, the global factor and the CPI basketspecific
factor account for less than 20% of inflation variation. We argue
that "local inflation" rather than "global inflation" (Ciccarelli and Mojon
(2010)) is a better description of the evidence. Only energy price inflation
in industrial economies is dominated by common factors.
Transcription of a discussion of Verdena's language work
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Begay, Kayla
name: Newbold, Lindsey
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio files VP-190511-03 through VP-190511-06: Transcription of a discussion of how Verdena got involved with language work (file VP-101010-03), from 11:41 to 13:31 (VP-190511-03), from 13:31 to 15:48 (VP-190511-04), from 15:48 to 16:57 (VP-190511-05), and from 16:57 to the end of the text (VP-190511-06).
title: Pay What You Want – But Pay Enough! Information Asymmetries and PWYW-Pricing
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Greiff, Matthias
name: Egbert, Henrik
name: Xhangolli, Kreshnik
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft

description: Pay What You Want (PWYW) pricing has received considerable attention recently. Empirical studies show that if PWYW pricing is implemented, in a number of cases consumers do not behave selfishly and that some producers are able to use PWYW for increasing turnover and profits respectively. In this paper we add information asymmetries to the existing explanations regarding consumer behaviorand argue that information asymmetries may account for the results found in empirical studies. Since the success of PWYW pricing depends on the distribution of information, one implication is that optimization strategies with respect to pricing should take information asymmetries into account.
Gravitational collapse in loop quantum gravity
Creators: name: Modesto, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the gravitational collapse in loop quantum gravity. We consider the space-time region inside the Schwarzschild black hole event horizon and we divide this region in two parts, the first one where the matter (dust matter) is localized and the other (outside) where the metric is Kantowski-Sachs type. We calculate the state solving Hamiltonian constraint and we obtain a set of three difference equations that give a regular and natural evolution beyond the classical singularity point in "r=0" localized.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
Letter to the Comptroller of Water Rights from the Secretary of Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, July 12, 1930
Creators: name: , Winfield
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter from the secretary of Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District to the  comptroller of water rights in Victoria, B.C., dated July 12, 1930, regarding a statement that the Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District is not responsible for the putting in of the by pass in an "extravagant manner.
title: Linkage between Benefit Expenditure and Premium Burden: Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi
name: Sugahara, Kota
name: Kunizaki, Minoru
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2013
Subjects: Keywords: long term care insurance
financial transfer, Japan
inter jurisdictional interaction
Economics
Wirtschaft

description: This study considers the discretionary premium setting behavior of municipalities in the Japanese system of long term care insurance (LTCI). Although, the LTCI system is managed by the municipality, but the financial system is controlled by national health insurers, and the municipality seems to have no discretion in managing it. However, we find that the premium setting forecast of each municipality is different, contrary to the intention of the LTCI system. Adjustment subsidy does not function in line wit h the intention of the system, affecting the standard premium setting process. Moreover, our empirical results show that municipalities seem to have discretion in premium setting. Cities, in particular, set premiums low, reflecting elderly political power. In addition, premiums are influenced elderly political power when few neighboring municipalities are available for reference. Municipalities do have leeway in premium setting, contrary to the intention of the LTCI system.
Elliptic curves with all quadratic twists of positive rank
Creators: name: Dokchitser, Tim
name: Dokchitser, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G05 (Primary) 11G40, 14G25 (Secondary)

description: We observe that there are elliptic curves over number fields all of whose quadratic twists must have positive rank, assuming the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. We give a classification of such curves in terms of their local behaviour, and characterise them in terms of the Galois action on the Tate module. In particular, their existence shows that Goldfeld's conjecture does not extend directly to elliptic curves over number fields.
description: Minor corrections; final version, to appear in Acta Arithmetica; 4 pages
title: R&D Incentives in Vertically Related Markets
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Memar, Ahmad Reza Saboori
name: Götz, Georg
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2013
Subjects: product differentiation
process innovation
vertical relations
research and development
interbrand and intrabrand competition
Economics
Wirtschaft
bilateral oligopoly

description: This paper focuses on incentives to invest in research and development (R&D) in vertically related markets. In a bilateral duopoly setup, we consider how process R&D incentives of the firms in both upstream and downstream market depend on the intensity of simultaneous interbrand and intrabrand competition. Among the results: both interbrand and intrabrand competition have twofold effects on R&D incentives. Existence of a vertically related market with imperfect competition lowers both the incentives to invest in process R&D and the competitive advantage through the R&D investment. We will show how the impact of a firm's R&D investments in either market on consumer surplus as well as on the profits of all firms in both markets depends on exogenous parameters.