cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: An assessment of processes and strategies for management of the Penarth Coast
Creators: name: Phillips, M
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2005

description: In 1997, the effects of severe erosion along the Penarth foreshore became apparent when the beach surface fell to critical levels. From consideration of global influences, the physical and cultural environments and anthropogenic activities, including the construction of the Cardiff Bay Barrage, a five-year monitoring programme was devised to assess coastal processes, identify possible causes of the erosion and develop management strategies for protection of the Penarth coast. Approximately 1·5 km of the foreshore, comprising two orientations, NNE and NNW, were surveyed each September and April between 1997 and 2002, to assess summer and winter changes. Results showed in September 1997, sediment transport was southerly in direction whilst from April 2000, there was a consistent return to the traditionally accepted south to north longshore drift; verified by significant differences in longshore gradients. Foreshore analysis provided important regression models representing the variation of the shoreline indicator Mean High Water (MHW) with shoreline position (mean beach level) and gain/loss of beach material. Models represented the temporal variation of MHW and depth of closure with further significant correlation between the two-shoreline indicators (83·85%). A Management Response Indicator (MRI) equation provided a simple tool to rapidly assess the health of Penarth beach, MRI = 17·035 +tan·' (x14- x6)/240, whilst temporal variation of longshore gradients, demonstrated an important inter-relationship between beach evolution and orientation (97·37%). Significant temporal and spatial models identified changes in beach formation adjacent to the Barrage breakwater pre and post construction and showed its influence decreased with distance. A further management tool was developed to monitor beach evolution and morphological change in response to this structure. Analysis of ten-year water and wind data identified a projected mean sea level rise of 0-4mm/year and significant increases in easterly wind components between 1995 and 1997, coinciding with significantly higher extreme water levels. Following correlation of these forcing agents with shoreline indicators, supported by documented beach losses of 350 kg/m2 subsequent to an easterly storm, it was concluded that the unprecedented erosion of Penarth beach was caused by increased wave attack from the northeast and southeast quadrants. Function Analysis justified foreshore management from a development perspective whilst risk analysis supported management strategies. Initial recommendations of on-going monitoring to assess beach health were supported by developed models and underpinned by management responses detailed for each of three defined beach sections. These included beach nourishment, wave wall construction in conjunction with the proposed Penarth Headland Link and groyne removal adjacent to the Barrage.
Theoretical and experimental studies in electron paramagnetic resonance II: an investigation of the ground state splitting of the Gd3+[4f7, 8S7/2] ion in lanthanide ethylsulphates and the design of 1-8GHz coaxial electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometers
Creators: name: Shing, Yuh Han
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Electron paramagnetic resonance

description: Bibliography: p. 157-165.
Proving the existence of eigenvalues and eigenvectors by Weierstrass's theorem
Creators: name: Van Schaftingen, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A18

description: I propose a proof of the existence of the existence of eigenvectors and eigenvalues in the spirit of Argand's proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra. The proof only relies on Weierstrass's theorem, the definition of the inverse of a linear operator and algebraic identities.
description: 5 pages
Eliška Kazdová, Tĕšetice-Kyjovice 1
Creators: name: Petrasch, Jörg
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Eliška Kazdová, Tĕšetice-Kyjovice 1. Starší stupeň kultury s moravskou malovanou keramikou. Mit Beiträgen von Milan Salaš (Untersuchung der Felsgesteinartefakte), Antonín Přichystal (Petrographische Untersuchung der Silices), Martin Oliva (Typologisch-technologische Untersuchung der Silices) und einem Vorwort von Vladimír Podborský. Universita J. E. Purkynĕ, Brno 1984. 304 Seiten mit 67 Tabellen, 112 Tafeln, 64 schwarz-weißen und 18 farbigen Abbildungen
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 64 Nr. 2 (1986)
title: Угутское 21 и Угутское 40 – поселения XVII – начала XVIII в. на реке Большой Юган: результаты стационарного изучения 2016 г.
title: Ugutskoe 21 and Ugutskoe 40 – Settlements in the 17th – early 18th Centuries on the Bolshoy Yugan River: Results of a Stationary Research in 2016
Creators: name: Скоробогатова, Анна Юрьевна
name: Лобанова, Татьяна Владимировна
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2020

description: 2016В статье впервые публикуются материалы, полученные в ходе археологических раскопок селища Угутское 21, селища Угутское 40. Выяснено, что это одно поселение, функционировавшее в XVII – начале XVIII в. и принадлежавшее остякам Юганской волости Сургутского уезда. В работе представлены данные по планировочной структуре, архитектуре, вещевом комплексе, а также палеозоологические материалы. Предварительно данное поселение идентифицировано с юртами Ямелцовыми, позднее Уготскими.
description: The article publishes materials obtained during the archaeological excavations of Ugutskoe 21 selishche (a village) and Ugutskoe 40 selishche for the first time. It is found out that this is one settlement that functioned in the 17th – early 18th centuries and belonged to the Ostyaks of the Yuganskaya volost in the Surgutsky Uyezd. The paper presents data on the planning structure, architecture, clothing complex, as well as paleozoological materials. Previously, this settlement was identified with the Yameltsov yurts, later with the Ugotsky ones.
Taraxacum atricapillum Sonck
Creators: name: Uhlemann, Ingo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Taraxacum
Taraxacum atricapillum

description: Taraxacum atricapillum Sonck,
Memoranda Soc. Fauna Fl. Fennica 59: 4 (1983) –
Abb. 10 D.
 Österreich, Kärnten: Pörtschach am Wörther See, Uferstraße, Haus Nr. 13 (ca. 0,4 km östl. der Autobahnauffahrt nach Villach), Wiese im Hausgarten, 7. 4. 2007, leg. Uhlemann (Hb. DR, WU). Taraxacum atricapillum zeichnet sich durch schwarzgrüne Hüllen und schmale, unberandete, zurückgerichtete äußere Involukralblätter, dünne, nahezu ungeflügelte, rosafarbene Blattstiele und etwa waagerecht abstehende, kurze, dreieckige Blattseitenlappen aus.
Diese aus Finnland beschriebene Art hat eine weite Verbreitung in Mittel- und Nordeuropa.
 Verschiedene mitteleuropäische Arten, die auch bis in die boreale Zone ausstrahlen, und schwarzgrüne Hüllen, kleine Blütenkörbe, schwarze oder dunkelgraugrüne Griffel- äste sowie große, oft wenig ausdifferenzierte Blattendlappen aufweisen (z. B. T. atricapillum, T. debrayi, T. melanostigma, T. praecox, T. subsaxenii) werden von verschiedenen Autoren (z.B. KIRSCHNER & al. 2007–2009) der Sektion Borea Sahlin in Richards (1985) zugeordnet. Diese Zuordnung ist aber sehr umstritten. Nach meiner Auffassung (UHLEMANN 2002) sollten die genannten mitteleuropäischen Arten der T. melanostigma - Gruppe als eigene Serie (ser. Melanostigma) innerhalb der Sektion Ruderalia positioniert werden, zumal sehr enge Beziehungen zur T. oblongatum -Gruppe (ser. Oblongata) existieren.
description: Published as part of Uhlemann, Ingo, 2011, Notizen zur Taraxacum-Flora Österreichs und Südtirols, pp. 27-53 in Neilreichia 6 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.303107
title: 'A resonating void' : strategies and responses to poverty, Bath, 1770-1835
Creators: name: Chivers, J
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2006

description: This thesis addresses the lives of the poor in Bath in the period 1770 to 1835, a period of rapid expansion, spatially and demographically, and a time of change both locally and nationally. Because of the importance to Bath of image, the labouring poor have been marginalised. This thesis will help to fill 'a resonating void' in Bath's historiography. It makes an important addition to urban history as a study of a spa resort, and adds to the rather patchy history of poverty in an eighteenth-century urban context. It confirms the view that women were the main recipients of attention under the Old Poor Laws. Using Poor Law records, charity records and Coroners' records, the thesis shows how the poor used the Poor Laws to access poor relief and establish settlements. In times of illness or accident they applied to medical charities. Some women turned to prostitution, and some subsequently entered the Bath Penitentiary and Lock Hospital seeking rehabilitation. Some single, female, domestic servants committed infanticide and some of the poor took their own lives. The authorities acted promptly and pragmatically to examine, and possibly remove, applicants, often single women. They manipulated the apprenticeship scheme as part of a poor relief strategy, and to ensure future labour requirements. The civic elite founded charities to address the problem of begging, to assist the sick or injured poor and used legislation to clean the streets of beggars and prostitutes. Changes in the 1820s have been detected, in line with national trends, suggesting that a tougher line was being taken by the civic elite towards the poor. It reveals the relationship between overseers, justices, the charitable elite and the poor in an eighteenth-century city, characterised by pragmatism on one hand and agency on the other, and adds a more nuanced aspect to the history of Bath while providing an important addition to a national picture of urban poverty.
On the polarimetric signature of emerging magnetic loops in the quiet-Sun
Creators: name: Viticchie, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The abundance of Stokes V profiles dominated by one lobe at the locations of emergence of Omega-shaped magnetic loops is evaluated. The emergence events were found in Hinode SOT/SP time-sequences of quiet-Sun regions. Such a study has the aim of confirming a prediction based on the basic geometrical and physical properties of emerging magnetic loops: Stokes V profiles dominated by one lobe are possibly the main polarimetric signature of these structures. In agreement with this prediction, 47 % of the Stokes V profiles analyzed has an unsigned amplitude asymmetry larger than 0.3, while in the quiet-Sun the abundance is of about 30 %. This excess with respect to the quiet-Sun is found consistently for whatever value of the threshold on the amplitude asymmetry. Such a result proves the goodness of the physical scenarios so far proposed for the interpretation of loop emergence events and may prompt the use of Stokes V profiles dominated by one lobe as a new proxy for their identification in observations with a good spectral sampling.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures - Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
title: Результаты исследования растительных макроостатков из культурного слоя посадской части города Берёзова (XVII–XVIII вв.)
title: Research Results of Plant Macrofossils from Occupation Layer of the Posad of Beryozov in the 17th–18th Centuries
Creators: name: Корона, Ольга Михайловна
name: Лобанова, Татьяна Владимировна
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2020

description: Проведен археоботанический анализ проб из русского города Берёзова, расположенного в подзоне северотаежных лесов Западной Сибири. В результате из 29 растительных образцов и 8 проб культурного слоя определено более пяти тысяч остатков плодов и семян, 27 таксонов растений, для каждого образца получены видовые списки (семенные комплексы) растений, макроостатки которых встречаются в культурном слое посадской части города. В образцах наиболее часто встречаются семена пищевых растений, произрастающих в окрестностях города: брусники, голубики, водяники, княженики, морошки, малины, черемухи, кедра. Культурные злаки представлены овсом, который завозили в город из южных областей. Из европейской части в город завозили семена хмеля и орехи лещины.
description: The archaeological and botanical analysis of samples from the Russian town of Beryozov is made. The town of Beryozov is situated in the subzone of the north taiga woodlands in Western Siberia. As a result, from 29 plant samples and 8 samples of the occupation layer, more than five thousand remains of fruits and seeds, 27 taxa of plants are identified. Lists (seed complexes) of plants for each sample species are obtained, the macro-residues of which are found in the occupation layer of the posad part of the town. In the samples, the most common seeds of food plants growing in the vicinity of the city are lingonberries, blueberries, crowberries, Arctic raspberry, cloudberries, raspberries, bird cherry, and cedar. Cultivated cereals are represented by oat, which were brought from the southern regions. Hop seeds and hazelnuts were brought to the city from the European part.
Supplementary document for Meta-learning-based optical vector beam high-fidelity communication under high scattering - 5806115.pdf
Creators: name: Wenhui, Chen
name: Lin, Qian
name: he, hexiang
name: Chen, Weicheng
name: Su, Zhikun
name: Cai, Bingye
name: Zhu, Wenguo
name: Zhang, Li
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: network structure and data acquisition
Get Your Cyber-Physical Tests Done! Data-Driven Vulnerability Assessment of Robotic Vehicle
Creators: name: Ding, Aolin
name: Chan, Matthew
name: Hassanzadeh, Amin
name: Tippenhauer, Nils Ole
name: Ma, Shiqing
name: Zonouz, Saman
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: The rapid growth of robotic aerial vehicles (RAVs) has attracted extensive interest in numerous public and civilian applications, from flying drones to quadrotors. Security of RAV systems has become increasingly challenging as RAV controller software becomes more complex, exposing a growing attack surface. Memory isolation separates the memory space and enforces memory access control via privilege separation to limit the attacker’s capability so that the attacker cannot compromise other software components by exploiting one memory corruption vulnerability. Memory isolation has been adopted into the resource-constrained systems such as RAVs by lightweight privilege mode switching to meet real-time requirements. In this paper, we propose ARES, a new variable-level vulnerability excavation framework to find deeper bugs from a combined cyber-physical perspective. We present a data-driven method to illustrate that, despite state-of-the-art memory isolation efforts, RAV systems are still vulnerable to adversarial data manipulation attacks. We augment RAV control states with intermediate controller variables by tracing accessible control parameters and vehicle dynamics within the same isolated memory regions. With this expanded state variable space, we apply multivariate statistical analysis to investigate inter-variable quantitative data dependencies and search for vulnerable state variables. ARES utilizes a learning-based method to show how an attacker can exploit memory corruption bugs in a legitimate memory view and elaborately craft adversarial variable values to disrupt a RAV’s safe operations. We demonstrate the feasibility and capability of ARES on the widely-used Ardupilot RAV framework. Our extensive empirical evaluation shows that the attacker may leverage these vulnerable state variables to achieve various RAV failures during its real-time operations, and even evade existing defense solutions.
Depth perception: architecture and the cinematic
Creators: name: Yee, Angela W.
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 61-62
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Some pages are oversized.
description: This project explores the dialectical relationship between architecture and cinema, arguing that both these forms of creative production constitute spatial constructions. The MOP utilizes the film, "Hiroshima Mon Amour" by Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras as the basis for a series of six sequential speculative works that draws links between concerns that permeate contemporary architectural practice and ideas within the film. These issues emanate from a hermeneutic reading of "Hiroshima Mon Amour". A rigorous method of abstract graphic representation explores notions of time, place, fragmentation, memory and experience. Four large-scale drawings executed as "performances" in time with the film serve as test subjects for the project. The drawings are open to multiple interpretations - they have the potential to read as representations of movement (user interaction), site, program, plans, sections or elevations. The MOP structures itself around narrative theory insofar as the project's evolution bears similarities to modes of figuration exercised in the reading and production of narratives. A video installation based on theories developed through the speculative works will be exhibited at EM Media Artist-Run Gallery (April 9th , 10th & 12th) to conclude the project with a realized work.
Taraxacum baeckiiforme Sahlin
Creators: name: Uhlemann, Ingo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Taraxacum
Taraxacum baeckiiforme

description: Taraxacum baeckiiforme Sahlin,
Bot. Not. 124: 499 (1971) –
Abb. 10 E.
 Österreich, Kärnten: Pörtschach am Wörther See, Uferstraße, Haus Nr. 13 (ca. 0,4 km östl. der Autobahnauffahrt nach Villach), Wiese im Hausgarten, 7. 4. 2007, leg. Uhlemann (Hb. DR, WU). Taraxacum baeckiiforme besitzt schmale, unberandete, seitlich abstehende äußere Involukralblätter, rosarote, etwas geflügelte Blattstiele und schmale, abstehende Blattseitenlappen, die durch deutlich entwickelte, schwarzviolett gefärbte Interlobien getrennt sind.
Die Art bevorzugt wärmegetönte Standorte und hat ihren Verbreitungsschwerpunkt in Mitteleuropa.
description: Published as part of Uhlemann, Ingo, 2011, Notizen zur Taraxacum-Flora Österreichs und Südtirols, pp. 27-53 in Neilreichia 6 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.303107
Coefficient, Distortion and Growth Inequalities for Certain Close-to-Convex Functions
Creators: name: Cho, Nak Eun
name: Kwon, Oh Sang
name: Ravichandran, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30C45

description: In the present investigation, certain subclasses of close-to-convex functions are investigated. In particular, we obtain an estimate for the Fekete-Szegö functional for functions belonging to the class, distortion, growth estimates and covering theorems.
Supplemental Information
Creators: name: Irvine, Sara
name: Katagiri, Kento
name: Raeder, Trygve
name: Boesenberg, Ulrike
name: Chalise, Darshan
name: Stanton, Jade
name: Pal, Dayeeta
name: Hallmann, Jörg
name: Ansaldi, Gabriele
name: Brauße, Felix
name: Eggert, Jon
name: Fang, Lichao
name: Folsom, Eric
name: Haubro, Morten
name: Holstad, Theodor
name: Madsen, Anders
name: Möller, Johannes
name: Nielsen, Martin
name: Poulsen, Henning
name: Pudell, Jan-Etienne
name: Rodriguez-Fernandez, Angel
name: Schoofs, Frank
name: Seiboth, Frank
name: Wang, Yifan
name: Jo, Wonhyuk
name: Youssef, Mohamed
name: Zozulya, Alexey
name: Haldrup, Kristoffer
name: Dresselhaus-Marais, Leora
Publisher: name: AIP Publishing
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Longer description of data processing
Non-Markovian dynamics and strong coupling between atomic transitions and a waveguide continuum edge
Creators: name: Chen, Ting
name: Liu, Ren-Bao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum communication and distributed quantum computing, one-dimensional waveguides provide directional transfer of quantum information. A single-mode waveguide has a density-of-states singularity at the lower cut-off frequency, which resembles sharp resonances of a cavity but with non-Markovian dynamics. Thus we put forward schemes of coupling atomic transitions and a waveguide continuum edge. We first present a scheme of spin-photon quantum interface operating in the non-Markovian regime for a $Λ$-type three-level system coupled to a waveguide. Then we show that strong coupling between atomic transitions and a waveguide continuum edge can lead to vacuum Rabi oscillations and bound polariton states.
description: 8 pages 5 figures
Taraxacum crassum H. Ollg. & Travnicek in Ollgaard
Creators: name: Uhlemann, Ingo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Taraxacum
Taraxacum crassum

description: Taraxacum crassum H. Øllg. & Trávniček in Øllgaard,
Preslia 75: 142 (2003) –
 Abb. 10 F. Österreich, Oberösterreich: Ortschaft Mondsee, Straße am Verbrauchermarkt nahe der Autobahnauffahrt, 14.4.2007, leg. Uhlemann (Hb. DR, WU). — Linz, nördlicher Stadtrand, Gewerbegebiet an der Straße nach Freistadt, 18. 4. 2009, leg. Uhlemann (Hb. DR).
 Taraxacum crassum zeichnet sich durch zahlreiche (bis 25), 5–6 mm breite (dadurch wirkt das Involukrum sehr dick – Name!), unberandete, zurückgebogene äußere Involukralblätter, eine hellgrüne Blattfarbe, rosarote Blattstiele, waagerecht abstehende bis hakenförmige Blattseitenlappen sowie einen großen Blattendlappen aus, wobei der letztere etwas an den Hut Napoleons erinnert. Diese erst vor wenigen Jahren neu beschriebene Art hat ihren Verbreitungsschwerpunkt in Mitteleuropa, strahlt aber nördlich bis nach Schweden aus und wurde zudem auch schon in Bulgarien gefunden.
description: Published as part of Uhlemann, Ingo, 2011, Notizen zur Taraxacum-Flora Österreichs und Südtirols, pp. 27-53 in Neilreichia 6 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.303107
Location-independent GNSS Relay Attacks: A Lazy Attacker’s Guide to Bypassing Navigation Message Authentication
Creators: name: Motallebighomi, Maryam
name: Sathaye, Harshad
name: Singh, Mridula
name: Ranganathan, Aanjhan
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: In this work, we demonstrate the possibility of spoofing a GNSS receiver to arbitrary locations without modifying the navigation messages. Due to increasing spoofing threats, Galileo and GPS are evaluating broadcast authentication techniques to validate the integrity of navigation messages. Prior work required an adversary to record the GNSS signals at the intended spoofed location and relay them to the victim receiver. Our attack demonstrates the ability of an adversary to receive signals close to the victim receiver and in real-time generate spoofing signals for an arbitrary location without modifying the navigation message contents.We exploit the essential common reception and transmission time method used to estimate pseudorange in GNSS receivers, thereby potentially rendering any cryptographic authentication useless. We build a proof-of-concept real-time spoofer capable of receiving authenticated GNSS signals and generating spoofing signals for any arbitrary location and motion without requiring any high-speed communication networks or modifying the message contents. Our evaluations show that it is possible to spoof a victim receiver to locations as far as 4000 km away from the actual location and with any dynamic motion path. This work further highlights the fundamental limitations in securing a broadcast signaling-based localization system even if all communications are cryptographically protected.
Radiative Neutrino Mass Generation through Vector-like Quarks
Creators: name: Babu, K. S.
name: Julio, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new model of radiative neutrino masses generated via two-loop diagrams is proposed involving a charge 2/3 vector-like quark and a doublet of leptoquark scalars. This model predicts one of the neutrinos to be massless and admits both the normal and inverted neutrino mass hierarchies with correlated predictions for l_i \rightarrow l_j + γbranching ratios. New contributions to CP violation in B_s-\bar{B}_s mixing arise in the model through leptoquark box diagrams, which can explain the anomalous dimuon events reported by the DO collaboration. These leptoquarks, with masses below 500 GeV, also provide a natural resolution to the apparent discrepancy in the measured values of the CP violation parameters \sin2βand ε_K.
description: 23 pages, latex
The 'Canaanite Jars'
Creators: name: Georgiou, Artemis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos during 2010–
 2011 brought to light a large corpus of ‘Canaanite jars’,
 multiplying the known fragments excavated during
 the 1980–1981 expeditions
On MMSE Properties and I-MMSE Implications in Parallel MIMO Gaussian Channels
Creators: name: Bustin, Ronit
name: Payaro, Miquel
name: Palomar, Daniel
name: Shamai, Shlomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The scalar additive Gaussian noise channel has the "single crossing point" property between the minimum-mean square error (MMSE) in the estimation of the input given the channel output, assuming a Gaussian input to the channel, and the MMSE assuming an arbitrary input. This paper extends the result to the parallel MIMO additive Gaussian channel in three phases: i) The channel matrix is the identity matrix, and we limit the Gaussian input to a vector of Gaussian i.i.d. elements. The "single crossing point" property is with respect to the snr (as in the scalar case). ii) The channel matrix is arbitrary, the Gaussian input is limited to an independent Gaussian input. A "single crossing point" property is derived for each diagonal element of the MMSE matrix. iii) The Gaussian input is allowed to be an arbitrary Gaussian random vector. A "single crossing point" property is derived for each eigenvalue of the MMSE matrix. These three extensions are then translated to new information theoretic properties on the mutual information, using the fundamental relationship between estimation theory and information theory. The results of the last phase are also translated to a new property of Fisher's information. Finally, the applicability of all three extensions on information theoretic problems is demonstrated through: a proof of a special case of Shannon's vector EPI, a converse proof of the capacity region of the parallel degraded MIMO broadcast channel (BC) under per-antenna power constrains and under covariance constraints, and a converse proof of the capacity region of the compound parallel degraded MIMO BC under covariance constraint.
description: Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
FIDO2, CTAP 2.1, and WebAuthn 2: Provable Security and Post-Quantum Instantiation
Creators: name: Bindel, Nina
name: Cremers, Cas
name: Zhao, Mang
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: The FIDO2 protocol is a globally used standard for passwordless authentication, building on an alliance between major players in the online authentication space. While already widely deployed, the standard is still under active development. Since version 2.1 of its CTAP sub-protocol, FIDO2 can potentially be instantiated with post-quantum secure primitives. We provide the first formal security analysis of FIDO2 with the CTAP 2.1 and WebAuthn 2 sub-protocols. Our security models build on work by Barbosa et al. for their analysis of FIDO2 with CTAP 2.0 and WebAuthn 1, which we extend in several ways. First, we provide a more fine-grained security model that allows us to prove more relevant protocol properties, such as guarantees about token binding agreement, the None attestation mode, and user verification. Second, we can prove post-quantum security for FIDO2 under certain conditions and minor protocol extensions. Finally, we show that for some threat models, the downgrade resilience of FIDO2 can be improved, and show how to achieve this with a simple modification.
Explicit Formulae for Noncommutative Deformations of CP^N and CH^N
Creators: name: Sako, Akifumi
name: Suzuki, Toshiya
name: Umetsu, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53D55, 81R60

description: We give explicit expressions of a deformation quantization with separation of variables for CP^N and CH^N. This quantization method is one of the ways to perform a deformation quantization of Kahler manifolds, which is introduced by Karabegov. Star products are obtained as explicit formulae in all order in the noncommutative parameter. We also give the Fock representations of the noncommutative CP^N and CH^N.
description: 22 pages, some comments added, a reference added, to appear in J. Math. Phys
Mitriostigma
Creators: name: Sonke´, Bonaventure
name: Simo, Murielle
name: Dessein, Steven
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Mitriostigma

description: Key to the species of Mitriostigma 1. Monocaulous (i.e. single-stemmed) dwarf; inflorescences supra-axillary and paired at the nodes (Cameroon)........................................................................ M. monocaule 1. Trees, shrubs or sub-shrubs; inflorescences placed unilaterally at successive nodes on alternate sides, sometimes axillary at the nodes (Africa, also Cameroon)............. 2 2. Length of corolla lobes 1/3-1/2 of length of corolla tube............................................................................. 3 2. Length of corolla lobes less than 1/3 of length of corolla tube............................................................................. 4 3. Leaves elliptic to ovate; inflorescences placed unilaterally at successive nodes on alternate sides........... M. axillare 3. Leaves obovate; inflorescences usually paired at the nodes......................................................... M. greenwayi 4. Inflorescences supra-axillary; corolla tube ca 24 mm long; fruits 22-25× 14-16 mm, ellipsoid (Tanzania)........................................................................... M. usambarense 4. Inflorescences axillary; corolla tube 9-14 mm long; fruits 25-40× 8-15 mm, sub-fusiform (Cameroon, Bioko).......................................................................... M. barteri
description: Published as part of Sonke´, Bonaventure, Simo, Murielle & Dessein, Steven, 2009, Synopsis of the genus Mitriostigma (Rubiaceae) with a new monocaulous species from south Cameroon, pp. 305-312 in Nordic Journal of Botany 27 on page 309, DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2009.00415.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5512464
Taraxacum debrayi Hagendijk
Creators: name: Uhlemann, Ingo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Taraxacum
Taraxacum debrayi

description: Taraxacum debrayi Hagendijk & al.,
Acta Bot. Neerl. 21 (4): 436 (1972) –
 Abb. 11 A. Österreich, Oberösterreich: Ortschaft Mondsee, Straße am Verbrauchermarkt nahe der Autobahnauffahrt, 14. 4.2007, leg. Uhlemann (Hb. DR, WU).
 Taraxacum debrayi gehört zu einer Artengruppe, deren Vertreter sich durch schwarzgrüne Hüllen und schmale, unberandete, zurückgebogene äußere Involukralblätter auszeichnen. Insofern scheint die Art mit T. atricapillum, T. oblongatum und T. amaurolepis offenbar verwandtschaftliche Beziehungen zu besitzen. Zusätzlich zeichnet sich T. debrayi durch rosafarbene Blattstiele, breit dreieckige, oberseits mit dünnen Zähnen besetzte Blattseitenlappen und einen großen Blattendlappen aus.
 Taraxacum debrayi hat eine weite Verbreitung in Mittel- und Nordeuropa und umfasst zahlreiche Synonyme, wie T. ampelophytum, T. lippertianum und T. matricium.
description: Published as part of Uhlemann, Ingo, 2011, Notizen zur Taraxacum-Flora Österreichs und Südtirols, pp. 27-53 in Neilreichia 6 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.303107
Closed-form asymptotic sampling distributions under the coalescent with recombination for an arbitrary number of loci
Creators: name: Bhaskar, Anand
name: Song, Yun S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Obtaining a closed-form sampling distribution for the coalescent with recombination is a challenging problem. In the case of two loci, a new framework based on asymptotic series has recently been developed to derive closed-form results when the recombination rate is moderate to large. In this paper, an arbitrary number of loci is considered and combinatorial approaches are employed to find closed-form expressions for the first couple of terms in an asymptotic expansion of the multi-locus sampling distribution. These expressions are universal in the sense that their functional form in terms of the marginal one-locus distributions applies to all finite- and infinite-alleles models of mutation.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures
It’s like flossing your teeth: On the Importance and Challenges of Reproducible Builds for Software Supply Chain Security
Creators: name: Fourné, Marcel
name: Dominik.Wermke
name: Enck, William
name: Fahl, Sascha
name: Acar, Yasemin
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: The 2020 Solarwinds attack was a tipping point that caused a heightened awareness about the security of the software supply chain and in particular the large amount of trust placed in build systems. Reproducible Builds (R-Bs) provide a strong foundation to build defenses for arbitrary attacks against build systems by ensuring that given the same source code, build environment, and build instructions, bitwise-identical artifacts are created. Unfortunately, much of the software industry believes R-Bs are too far out of reach for most projects. The goal of this paper is to help identify a path for R-Bs to become a commonplace property. To this end, we conducted a series of 24 semi-structured expert interviews with participants from the Reproducible-Builds.org project, and iterated on our questions with the reproducible builds community. We identified a range of motivations that can encourage open source developers to strive for R-Bs, including indicators of quality, security benefits, and more efficient caching of artifacts. We identify experiences that help and hinder adoption, which heavily include communication with upstream projects. We conclude with recommendations on how to better integrate R-Bs with the efforts of the open source and free software community.
Mitriostigma Hochst.
Creators: name: Sonke´, Bonaventure
name: Simo, Murielle
name: Dessein, Steven
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Mitriostigma

description: Mitriostigma Hochst. (1842, p. 235 - 236) - Keay (1958, p. 41-42); Dyer (1975, p. 612); Bridson (1979, p. 113-130); Verdcourt (1987, p. 245-250). Type species: Mitriostigmaaxillare Hochst.
description: Published as part of Sonke´, Bonaventure, Simo, Murielle & Dessein, Steven, 2009, Synopsis of the genus Mitriostigma (Rubiaceae) with a new monocaulous species from south Cameroon, pp. 305-312 in Nordic Journal of Botany 27 on page 311, DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2009.00415.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5512464
description: {"references": ["Keay, R. W. J. 1958. Randia and Gardenia in west Africa. - Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 28: 41.", "Dyer, R. A. 1975. The genera of southern African flowering plants. Vol. 1. Dicotyledons: 612. - Dept Agricult. Techn. Serv., Pretoria.", "Bridson, D. M. 1979. Studies in Oxyanthus and Mitriostigma (Rubiaceae subfam. Cinchonoideae) for part 2 of ' Flora of tropical east Africa': Rubiaceae. - Kew Bull. 34: 113 - 130.", "Verdcourt, B. 1987. A new species of Mitriostigma (Rubiaceae - Gardenieae) from Tanzania. - Kew Bull. 42: 245 - 250."]}
Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives
Creators: name: Savcisens, Germans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Over the past decade, machine learning has revolutionized text analysis through flexible computational models. Beyond text, emerging transformer-based architectures have shown promise as tools to explore multi-variate sequences from protein structures to weather forecasts due to their structural similarity to written language.Human life trajectories are another type of process that has a strong structural resemblance to language. From one perspective, lives are simply sequences of events. We present a life2vec model that uses this similarity to adapt innovations from natural language processing to examine the evolution and predictability of human lives based on day-to-day event sequences.
 
This is the presentaiton used during the ODISSEI Lecture on 26 September 2023.
A Security RISC: Microarchitectural Attacks on Hardware RISC-V CPUs
Creators: name: Gerlach, Lukas
name: Weber, Daniel
name: Zhang, Ruiyi
name: Schwarz, Michael
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Microarchitectural attacks threaten the security of computer systems even in the absence of software vulnerabilities. Such attacks are well explored on x86 and ARM CPUs, with a wide range of proposed but not-yet deployed hardware countermeasures. With the standardization of the RISC-V instruction set architecture and the announcement of support for the architecture by major processor vendors, RISC-V CPUs are on the verge of becoming ubiquitous. However, the microarchitectural attack surface of the first commercially available RISC-V hardware CPUs is not yet explored. This paper analyzes the two commercially-available off-the-shelf 64-bit RISC-V (hardware) CPUs used in most RISC-V systems running a full-fledged commodity Linux system. We evaluate the microarchitectural attack surface, which leads to the introduction of 3 new microarchitectural attack techniques: Cache+Time, a novel cache-line-granular cache attack without shared memory, Flush+Fault exploiting the Harvard cache architecture for Flush+Reload, and CycleDrift exploiting unprivileged access to instruction-retirement information. Additionally, we show that many known attacks are applicable to these RISC-V CPUs, mainly due to non-existing hardware countermeasures and instruction-set subtleties that do not consider the microarchitectural attack surface. We demonstrate our attacks in 6 case studies, including the first RISC-V-specific microarchitectural KASLR break and a CycleDrift-based method for detecting kernel activity. Based on our analysis, we stress the need to consider the microarchitectural attack surface during every step of a CPU design, including custom instruction-set extensions.
A Colonel Blotto Gladiator Game
Creators: name: Rinott, Yosef
name: Scarsini, Marco
name: Yu, Yaming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91A05, 60E15

description: We consider a stochastic version of the well-known Blotto game, called the gladiator game. In this zero-sum allocation game two teams of gladiators engage in a sequence of one-to-one fights in which the probability of winning is a function of the gladiators' strengths. Each team's strategy consists of the allocation of its total strength among its gladiators. We find the Nash equilibria and the value of this class of games and show how they depend on the total strength of teams and the number of gladiators in each team. To do this, we study interesting majorization-type probability inequalities concerning linear combinations of Gamma random variables. Similar inequalities have been used in models of telecommunications and research and development.
description: 32 pages, 8 figures
Queer
Creators: name: Popowich, Michael
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 132-137
description: This project locates itself at an intersection of queer theory with art and architecture theory relating to identity, the home, and political agency. The research is born from the desire to explore alternative notions of domesticity and speculate on the way architecture can facilitate and respond to new definitions of family and home. The homogeneity offered by the prototypical nuclear family and the suburban context in which it resides has proliferated, despite an increasingly diverse population of homeowners and increasingly empowered minority groups within our society. Intended to specifically address queer domesticity, this MOP uses queer theory as a catalyst to directly subvert traditional interpretations of the domestic realm, and offer an architectural speculation as to how a critical engagement from a position of marginality can offer a new, positive interpretation of domesticity.
Charged black rings in supergravity with a single non-zero gauge field
Creators: name: Feldman, Andrew L.
name: Pomeransky, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: General charged black ring solution with two angular momenta, a charge and a dipole charge is found by the inverse scattering method. The solution is presented in a relatively concise form in which its symmetries are manifest. The regularity conditions are found and the physical characteristics of the regular solution are expressed via its parameters.
description: Misprints corrected, references added, JHEP format
Peptidoglycan-modifying enzymes : mechanistic studies and substrate and inhibitor design
Creators: name: Hadi, Timin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Peptidoglycan is a key component of the bacterial cell wall and is an essential structure for protecting the cell from lysis due to high osmotic pressure. Because of its importance, peptidoglycan has become a prominent target for antibiotic design as well as a number of host defense mechanisms. In response, many bacteria have developed methods of evading or minimizing the effects of these antibiotics and defense mechanisms through the modification of their peptidoglycan. One such modification, found in a number of bacterial species, is the O-acetylation of N-acetylmuramic acid (MurNAc) residues of peptidoglycan. This modification decreases the hydrolytic activity of lysozyme, an enzyme that is released as a response to bacterial infection, on peptidoglycan, and results in increased bacterial pathogenicity and virulence. The enzyme O-acetylpeptidoglycan esterase (Ape1) from Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an important enzyme involved in the bacterial O-acetylation/deacetylation pathway, and has been shown to be essential for bacterial viability. In this thesis, we detail the design and testing of water-soluble monosaccharide and disaccharide substrates of Ape1 (compounds 1 and 2) and preliminary work towards the design and testing of small-molecule inhibitors of the enzyme. Disaccharide 1 and monosaccharide 2 both served as substrates of Ape1, indicating that a polymeric substrate is not required for efficient catalysis. Our monosaccharide scaffold was chosen for the design of future generations of inhibitors. The enzyme N-acetylmuramic acid 6-phosphate hydrolase (MurQ) is essential for the recycling of MurNAc residues in peptidoglycan. This recycling process serves to reincorporate cell wall components into synthetic precursors that can be used in peptidoglycan biosynthesis as well as other basic metabolic pathways. MurQ catalyzes the conversion of MurNAc 6-phosphate to GlcNAc 6-phosphate through cleavage of a lactyl ether. In this thesis, studies on the mechanism through which MurQ catalyzes hydrolysis of the lactyl ether of MurNAc 6-phosphate are reported. By probing the reaction with chemically synthesized substrate and substrate analogues, an E1cB-like mechanism with an (E)-alkene intermediate is proposed. The amino acids Glu83 and Glu114 are implicated as important residues in catalysis, and their specific roles are also explored in the context of our proposed mechanism.
Mitriostigma axillare Hochst.
Creators: name: Sonke´, Bonaventure
name: Simo, Murielle
name: Dessein, Steven
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Mitriostigma
Mitriostigma axillare

description: Mitriostigmaaxillare Hochst. (1842, p. 235-236) Lectotype (designated here): South Africa, Kwazulu Natal Province, Port Natal (=Durban), Krauss 144 (holotype: B $, lectotype: K000419875 in K, isolectotypes: BM, BOL, K, TCD). Taxonomic synonym: Gardenia citriodora Hook. (1857, Table 4987). Lectotype (designated here): South Africa, Kwazulu Natal Province, Port Natal (=Durban), Gueinzius, s. n. (lectotype: K000419871 in K, isolectotypes: K, TCD). Distribution Zanzibar -Inhambane regional mosaic and Tongaland - Pondoland regional mosaic: Mozambique to northeast Cape Province (Fig. 4). Additional specimens examined Mozambique Cabo Delgado Province: Palma District, andados 4 km do Cabo Delgado para palma, Torre and Paiva 12113 (LISC). Inhambane Province: Inhambane, Sim 20871 (K, LISC photo, PRE). South Africa Kwazulu-Natal Province: ‘‘ Natal ’’, Gerrard 383 (K); ibid., Sutherland s. n. (K); Dukuduku forest, Forest Dept 12 (K); St. Lucia Bay, Evans 3613 (K); Umzumkulu (?= Umzimkulu), Bisset s. n. (K); Inanda, 3 miles north of Umhlanga Rocks, Moll 2994 (K); St Lucia Estuary, Pooley 1730 (K); Umzinto, along road Undoni park, Strey 5972 (K); Durban, Marloth 4186 (K); St Lucia, Lansdell 14 (K); Mapelane (=Maphelane), du Toit 1266 (K); Stanger, Hawaan forest, northwest of Umhlanga Rocks, du Toit 1309 (K); Port Shepstone district, Port Edward, Strey 4924 (K). Eastern Cape Province: Port St Johns, Manteku, Dakane location, Strey 10202 (K); Port Saint Johns, Theron 1577 (K); Lusikisiki, Umsikaba (river) mouth, Codd 9724 (K); near Lusikisiki, on the property of Magwa Tea Corporation, Egoso forest above Magwa falls, Balwkill et al. 1916 (K); Lusikisiki, Magwa falls, Strey 6721 (K); Port St Johns, Ntsubane forest, Strey 8597 (K); south bank Msikaba river, 1.5 miles from the coast, Pondoland, Miller 2588 (K); Ntsubane, Fraser falls vallee, Venter 858 (K); Msikaba river mouth, Venter 974 (K); Port St Johns district, Mount Thesiger, Balkwill et al. 1758 (K). Cultivated at NBGB: Robbrecht 841 (BR); Robbrecht 941 (BR); De Block 1408 (BR).
description: Published as part of Sonke´, Bonaventure, Simo, Murielle & Dessein, Steven, 2009, Synopsis of the genus Mitriostigma (Rubiaceae) with a new monocaulous species from south Cameroon, pp. 305-312 in Nordic Journal of Botany 27 on page 311, DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2009.00415.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5512464