cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On obtaining stable rankings
Creators: name: Asudeh, Abolfazl
name: Jagadish, HV
name: Miklau, G
name: Stoyanovich, J
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Computation Theory and Mathematics

description: Decision making is challenging when there is more than one criterion to consider. In such cases, it is common to assign a goodness score to each item as a weighted sum of its attribute values and rank them accordingly. Clearly, the ranking obtained depends on the weights used for this summation. Ideally, one would want the ranked order not to change if the weights are changed slightly. We call this property stability of the ranking. A consumer of a ranked list may trust the ranking more if it has high stability. A producer of a ranked list prefers to choose weights that result in a stable ranking, both to earn the trust of potential consumers and because a stable ranking is intrinsically likely to be more meaningful. In this paper, we develop a framework that can be used to assess the stability of a provided ranking and to obtain a stable ranking within an “acceptable“ range of weight values (called “the region of interest“). We address the case where the user cares about the rank order of the entire set of items, and also the case where the user cares only about the top-k items. Using a geometric interpretation, we propose algorithms that produce stable rankings. In addition to theoretical analyses, we conduct extensive experiments on real datasets that validate our proposal.
Corpus des inscriptions de la France médiévale. 5: Dordogne, Gironde. Textes établis et présentés par Robert Favreau, Bernadette Leplant, Jean Michaud sous la direction de Edmond-René Labande, 1979
Creators: name: Neumüllers-Klauser, Renate
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Francia, Bd. 7 (1979)
Microwave-induced resistance oscillations in tilted magnetic fields
Creators: name: Bogan, A.
name: Hatke, A. T.
name: Studenikin, S. A.
name: Sachrajda, A.
name: Zudov, M. A.
name: Pfeiffer, L. N.
name: West, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the effect of an in-plane magnetic field on microwave-induced resistance oscillations in a high mobility two-dimensional electron system. We have found that the oscillation amplitude decays exponentially with an in-plane component of the magnetic field $B_\parallel$. While these findings cannot be accounted for by existing theories, our analysis suggests that the decay can be explained by a $B_\parallel$-induced correction to the quantum scattering rate, which is quadratic in $B_\parallel$.
Soriculus macrurus Blanford 1888
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Soriculus
Soriculus macrurus

description: Soriculus macrurus Blanford, 1888. Fauna Brit. India, 1:231. TYPE LOCALITY: "Darjeeling, India." DISTRIBUTION: C Nepal to W and S China and to N Burma and Vietnam. SYNONYMS: irene, leucops. COMMENTS: Subgenus Episoriculus. Formerly confused with leucops, but shown to be a distinct species by Hoffmann (1985b).
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 123, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Hoffmann, R. S. 1985 b [1986]. A review of the genus Soriculus (Mammalia: Insectivora). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 82: 459 - 481."]}
SU(2)-Donaldson invariants of the complex projective plane
Creators: name: Griffin, Michael
name: Malmendier, Andreas
name: Ono, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 11F23, 11F37, 14D21, 81T13

description: There are two families of Donaldson invariants for the complex projective plane, corresponding to the SU(2)-gauge theory and the SO(3)-gauge theory with non-trivial Stiefel-Whitney class. In 1997 Moore and Witten conjectured that the regularized u-plane integral on the complex projective plane gives the generating functions for these invariants. In earlier work the second two authors proved the conjecture for the SO(3)-gauge theory. Here we complete the proof of the conjecture by confirming the claim for the SU(2)-gauge theory. As a consequence, we find that the SU(2) Donaldson invariants for CP^2 are explicit linear combinations of the Hurwitz class numbers which arise in the theory of imaginary quadratic fields and orders.
description: 18 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0808.1442, arXiv:1008.0175
Semi-linear wave equations with effective damping
Creators: name: D'Abbicco, Marcello
name: Lucente, Sandra
name: Reissig, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35L71

description: We study the Cauchy problem for the semi-linear damped wave equation in any space dimension. We assume that the time-dependent damping term is effective. We prove the global existence of small energy data solutions in the supercritical case.
description: 28 pages
Thermodynamic origin of the Landau instability of superfluids
Creators: name: Goutéraux, Blaise
name: Mefford, Eric
name: Sottovia, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we revisit the question of the linear stability of superfluid phases of matter. Famously, Landau predicted superfluid Helium would become unstable for large enough superfluid velocities. We demonstrate that this instability simply follows from a thermodynamic argument, by showing that its onset corresponds to a change of sign of one of the eigenvalues of the matrix of second derivatives of the free energy. Turning on dissipation and without any particular assumption on invariance under boosts, we show that a linear dynamical instability also develops, leading to exponential growth in time of perturbations around equilibrium. Specializing to Galilean superfluids and assuming the existence of quasiparticles, our criterion matches Landau's critical velocity. We also verify that it correctly reproduces the onset of the instability in relativistic superfluids constructed using gauge/gravity duality. Our work provides a simple, comprehensive and unified description of the Landau instability for superfluids independently of the microscopic details of the system.
description: v1: 5 pages + appendices, 2 figures
On the incompressible limit of a strongly stratified heat conducting fluid
Creators: name: Basarić, Danica
name: Bella, Peter
name: Feireisl, Eduard
name: Oschmann, Florian
name: Titi, Edriss S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A compressible, viscous and heat conducting fluid is confined between two parallel plates maintained at a constant temperature and subject to a strong stratification due to the gravitational force. We consider the asymptotic limit, where the Mach number and the Froude number are of the same order proportional to a small parameter. We show the limit problem can be identified with Majda's model of layered ``stack-of-pancake'' flow.
description: published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2206.14041
Property of rapid decay for extensions of compactly generated groups
Creators: name: Garncarek, Łukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22D15, 43A15, 20F65

description: In the article we settle down the problem of permanence of property RD under group extensions. We show that if $1\to N\to G\to Q\to 1$ is a short exact sequence of compactly generated groups such that $Q$ has property RD, and $N$ has property RD with respect to the restriction of a word-length on $G$, then $G$ has property RD. We also generalize the result of Ji and Schweitzer stating that locally compact groups with property RD are unimodular. Namely, we show that any automorphism of a locally compact group with property RD which distorts distances subexponentially, preserves the Haar measure.
description: 9 pages, 0 figures; v3: extended the results to topological groups
Controllable binding of polar molecules and meta-stability of 1-D gases with attractive dipole forces
Creators: name: Byrd, Jason N.
name: Montgomery, John A.
name: Côté, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore one-dimensional (1-D) samples of ultracold polar molecules with attractive dipole-dipole interactions and show the existence of a repulsive barrier due to a strong quadrupole interaction between molecules. This barrier can stabilize a gas of ultracold KRb molecules and even lead to long-range wells supporting bound states between molecules. The properties of these wells can be controlled by external electric fields, allowing the formation of long polymer-like chains of KRb, and studies of quantum phase transitions by varying the effective interaction between molecules. We discuss the generalization of those results to other systems.
Weyl geometry and gauge-invariant gravitation
Creators: name: Poulis, F. P.
name: Salim, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a gauge-invariant theory of gravitation in the context of Weyl Integrable Space-Times. After making a brief review of the theory's postulates, we carefully define the observers' proper-time and point out its relation with space-time description. As a consequence of this relation and the theory's gauge symmetry we recover all predictions of General Relativity. This feature is made even clearer by a new exact solution we provide which reveals the importance of a well defined proper-time. The thermodynamical description of the source fields is given and we observe that each of the geometric fields have a certain physical significance, despite the gauge-invariance. This is shown by two examples, where one of them consists of a new cosmological constant solution. Our conclusions highlight the intimate relation among test particles trajectories, proper-time and space-time description which can also be applied in any other situation, whether or not it recovers General Relativity results and also in the absence of a gauge symmetry.
description: 25 pages
Cosmological moduli problem in large volume scenario and thermal inflation
Creators: name: Choi, Kiwoon
name: Park, Wan-Il
name: Shin, Chang Sub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in a large volume scenario of type IIB string or F-theory compactifications, single thermal inflation provides only a partial solution to the cosmological problem of the light volume modulus. We then clarify the conditions for double thermal inflation, being a simple extension of the usual single thermal inflation scenario, to solve the cosmological moduli problem in the case of relatively light moduli masses. Using a specific example, we demonstrate that double thermal inflation can be realized in large volume scenario in a natural manner, and the problem of the light volume modulus can be solved for the whole relevant mass range. We also find that right amount of baryon asymmetry and dark matter can be obtained via a late-time Affleck-Dine mechanism and the decays of the visible sector NLSP to flatino LSP.
description: 29 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
A node-capacitated Okamura-Seymour theorem
Creators: name: Lee, James R.
name: Mendel, Manor
name: Moharrami, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The classical Okamura-Seymour theorem states that for an edge-capacitated, multi-commodity flow instance in which all terminals lie on a single face of a planar graph, there exists a feasible concurrent flow if and only if the cut conditions are satisfied. Simple examples show that a similar theorem is impossible in the node-capacitated setting. Nevertheless, we prove that an approximate flow/cut theorem does hold: For some universal c > 0, if the node cut conditions are satisfied, then one can simultaneously route a c-fraction of all the demands. This answers an open question of Chekuri and Kawarabayashi. More generally, we show that this holds in the setting of multi-commodity polymatroid networks introduced by Chekuri, et. al. Our approach employs a new type of random metric embedding in order to round the convex programs corresponding to these more general flow problems.
description: 30 pages, 5 figures
The dissipative Generalized Hydrodynamic equations and their numerical solution
Creators: name: Møller, Frederik
name: Besse, Nicolas
name: Mazets, Igor E.
name: Stimming, Hans-Peter
name: Mauser, Norbert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: "Generalized Hydrodynamics" (GHD) stands for a model that describes one-dimensional \textit{integrable} systems in quantum physics, such as ultra-cold atoms or spin chains. Mathematically, GHD corresponds to nonlinear equations of kinetic type, where the main unknown, a statistical distribution function $f(t,z,θ)$, lives in a phase space which is constituted by a one-dimensional position variable $z$, and a one-dimensional "kinetic" variable $θ$, actually a wave-vector, called "rapidity". Two key features of GHD equations are first a non-local and nonlinear coupling in the advection term, and second an infinite set of conserved quantities, which prevent the system from thermalizing. To go beyond this, we consider the dissipative GHD equations, which are obtained by supplementing the right-hand side of the GHD equations with a non-local and nonlinear diffusion operator or a Boltzmann-type collision integral. In this paper, we deal with new high-order numerical methods to efficiently solve these kinetic equations. In particular, we devise novel backward semi-Lagrangian methods for solving the advective part (the so-called Vlasov equation) by using a high-order time-Taylor series expansion for the advection fields, whose successive time derivatives are obtained by a recursive procedure. This high-order temporal approximation of the advection fields are used to design new implicit/explicit Runge-Kutta semi-Lagrangian methods, which are compared to Adams-Moulton semi-Lagrangian schemes. For solving the source terms, constituted by the diffusion and collision operators, we use and compare different numerical methods of the literature.
description: 35 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
Evolution of solar magnetic tubes and its manifestation in Stokes parameters
Creators: name: Sheminova, V. A.
name: Gadun, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Basic scenarios and mechanisms for the formation and decay of small-scale magnetic elements and their manifestation in synthesized Stokes profiles of the Fe I 15648.5 A infrared line are considered in the context of two-dimensional modeling of nonstationary magnetogranulation on the Sun. The stage of convective collapse is characterized by large redshifts in the V profiles accompanied by complete Zeeman splitting of the I profiles. This is due to intense downward flows of material, which facilitates the concentration of longitudinal field with an amplitude of about several kG in the tube. The dissipation of strong magnetic structures is characterized by blueshifts in the Stokes profiles, which result from upward fluxes that decrease the magnetic field in the tube. Typical signatures during key stages in the evolution of compact magnetic elements should be detectable via observations with sufficiently high spatial and temporal resolution.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, published in Astronomy Reports, 2000, vol. 44, Issue 10, p.701-710
Klaus Rudolf Wenger, Preußen in der öffentlichen Meinung Frankreichs 1815 bis 1870. Politische Aspekte des französischen Preußenbildes; ein Beitrag zur historischen Analyse nationaler Urteilsklischees, 1979
Creators: name: Vidalenc, Jean
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Francia, Bd. 7 (1979)
Sterile Neutrinos and Pulsar Velocities Revisited,
Creators: name: Kisslinger, Leonard S.
name: Johnson, Mikkel B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the momentum given to a proto neutron star during the first 10 seconds after temperature equilibrium is reached, using recent evidence of sterile neutrinos and a measurement of the mixing angle. This is a continuation of an earlier estimate with a wide range of possible mixing angles. Using the new mixing angle we find that sterile neutrinos can account for the observed pulsar velocities.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
Soriculus nigrescens
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Soriculus
Soriculus nigrescens

description: Soriculus nigrescens (Gray, 1842). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10:261. TYPE LOCALITY: " India ", West Bengal, Darjeeling. DISTRIBUTION: Middle altitudes of the Himalaya from Tibet and Nepal to Assam and SW China. SYNONYMS: caurinus, centralis, pahari, radulus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951). COMMENTS: Subgenus Soriculus. The form radulus is distinctly smaller (Hoffmann, 1985b).
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 123, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Hoffmann, R. S. 1985 b [1986]. A review of the genus Soriculus (Mammalia: Insectivora). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 82: 459 - 481."]}
The Application of Roman History in English Imperial Ideologies
Creators: name: Farid, Ronni
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Rome
subject: England
subject: Empire
subject: imperialism
subject: colonialism
subject: Elizabeth I
subject: James I
subject: Charles I
subject: Cromwell
subject: Charles II
subject: James II
subject: Caesar
subject: Hannibal
subject: Augustus

description: This thesis engages with the historiography of English imperial studies between the reigns of Elizabeth I and James II to contend that English domestic and international policy depended on the Roman Republican and early Imperial models as a guidebook for effective governance. England, this thesis demonstrates, more closely aligned itself with the early and middle Roman Republic during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, but evolved to value the late Republic during the reign of Charles I and Cromwell, and the early Empire during the reign of Charles II and James II.
Modeling and Verification of Agent based Adaptive Traffic Signal using Symbolic Model Verifier
Creators: name: Vishal, Vivek
name: Gugwad, Sagar
name: Singh, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper addresses the issue of modeling and verification of a Multi Agent System (MAS) scenario. We have considered an agent based adaptive traffic signal system. The system monitors the smooth flow of traffic at intersection of two road segment. After describing how the adaptive traffic signal system can efficiently be used and showing its advantages over traffic signals with predetermined periods, we have shown how we can transform this scenario into Finite State Machine (FSM). Once the system is transformed into a FSM, we have verified the specifications specified in Computational Tree Logic(CTL) using NuSMV as a model checking tool. Simulation results obtained from NuSMV showed us whether the system satisfied the specifications or not. It has also showed us the state where the system specification does not hold. Using which we traced back our system to find the source, leading to the specification violation. Finally, we again verified the modified system with NuSMV for its specifications.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to International Journal of Computer Application (IJCA)
Some disquisitions on cosmological 2-form dualities
Creators: name: Aoki, Katsuki
name: Jiménez, Jose Beltrán
name: Figueruelo, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study different aspect of self-interacting 2-form fields with special emphasis in their cosmological applications. We provide the explicit construction of how massless 2-forms are compatible with the cosmological principle without resorting to the dual scalar field formulation. In terms of the 2-form, the residual Euclidean group is non-trivially realised by means of a combination of external spatial translations and internal gauge transformations. After presenting the general discussion of the dualities in cosmological scenarios, we analyse particular examples for some singular models and discuss in some detail the dual descriptions of the DBI, the cuscuton and the ghost condensate as well as the role of the duality in the effective field theories of cosmological perturbations. We then proceed to analysing scenarios with several self-interacting massless 2-forms and we show that they naturally provide the dual description of a solid. We then show how the perfect fluid and superfluids can be obtained by taking the appropriate limits in the dual formulations. We finally consider the case of massive 2-forms and their duals and briefly discuss their potential signatures in gravitational waves astronomy.
description: 52 pages. V2 matches published version with improved discussions and additional appendix
Decomposition de motifs abeliens
Creators: name: Ancona, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let A be an abelian variety and let us fix a Weil cohomology with coefficients in F. Let $H^1(A,F)$ be the first cohomology group of A and $Lef(A) \subset GL(H^1(A,F))$ be its Lefschetz group, i.e. the sub-group of $GL(H^1(A,F))$ of linear applications commuting with endomorphisms of A and respecting the pairing induced by a polarization. We give an explicit presentation of a $\mathbb{Q}$-algebra of correspondences $B_{i,r}$ such that the cycle class map induces an isomorphism $cl_{|_{B_{i,r}}}: B_{i,r} \otimes_{\mathbb{Q}} F \cong End_{Lef(A)}(H^i(A^r,F)).$ We also give relative versions of this result. We deduce in particular the following fact. Let $S=S_K(G,\mathcal{X})$ be a Shimura variety of PEL type. Then the functor \textit{canonical construction} ${μ: Rep (G) \rightarrow VHS(S(\mathbb{C}))}$ lifts to a functor ${\tildeμ: Rep (G) \rightarrow CHM(S)_{\mathbb{Q}}}$, where $CHM(S)_{\mathbb{Q}}$ is the category of relative Chow motives.
description: Final version. Added application to PEL Shimura varieties. 22 pages, in french, Manuscripta Math., 2014
TDCOSMO. XII. Improved Hubble constant measurement from lensing time delays using spatially resolved stellar kinematics of the lens galaxy
Creators: name: Shajib, Anowar J.
name: Mozumdar, Pritom
name: Chen, Geoff C. -F.
name: Treu, Tommaso
name: Cappellari, Michele
name: Knabel, Shawn
name: Suyu, Sherry H.
name: Bennert, Vardha N.
name: Frieman, Joshua A.
name: Sluse, Dominique
name: Birrer, Simon
name: Courbin, Frederic
name: Fassnacht, Christopher D.
name: Villafaña, Lizvette
name: Williams, Peter R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong-lensing time delays enable measurement of the Hubble constant ($H_{0}$) independently of other traditional methods. The main limitation to the precision of time-delay cosmography is mass-sheet degeneracy (MSD). Some of the previous TDCOSMO analyses broke the MSD by making standard assumptions about the mass density profile of the lens galaxy, reaching 2% precision from seven lenses. However, this approach could potentially bias the $H_0$ measurement or underestimate the errors. For this work, we broke the MSD for the first time using spatially resolved kinematics of the lens galaxy in RXJ1131$-$1231 obtained from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager spectroscopy, in combination with previously published time delay and lens models derived from Hubble Space Telescope imaging. This approach allowed us to robustly estimate $H_0$, effectively implementing a maximally flexible mass model. Following a blind analysis, we estimated the angular diameter distance to the lens galaxy $D_{\rm d} = 865_{-81}^{+85}$ Mpc and the time-delay distance $D_{Δt} = 2180_{-271}^{+472}$ Mpc, giving $H_0 = 77.1_{-7.1}^{+7.3}$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ - for a flat $Λ$ cold dark matter cosmology. The error budget accounts for all uncertainties, including the MSD inherent to the lens mass profile and the line-of-sight effects, and those related to the mass-anisotropy degeneracy and projection effects. Our new measurement is in excellent agreement with those obtained in the past using standard simply parametrized mass profiles for this single system ($H_0 = 78.3^{+3.4}_{-3.3}$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$) and for seven lenses ($H_0 = 74.2_{-1.6}^{+1.6}$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$), or for seven lenses using single-aperture kinematics and the same maximally flexible models used by us ($H_0 = 73.3^{+5.8}_{-5.8}$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$). This agreement corroborates the methodology of time-delay cosmography.
description: 21 pages, 22 figures, 1 table. Accepted by A&A (this version: language improvements only)
Ultrasensitive N-photon interferometric autocorrelator
Creators: name: Zhou, Zili
name: Frucci, Giulia
name: Mattioli, Francesco
name: Gaggero, Alessandro
name: Leoni, Roberto
name: Jahanmirinejad, Saeedeh
name: Hoang, Thang Ba
name: Fiore, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a novel method to measure the Nth-order (N=1, 2, 3, 4) interferometric autocorrelation with high sensitivity and temporal resolution. It is based on the combination of linear absorption and nonlinear detection in a superconducting nanodetector, providing much higher efficiency than methods based on all-optical nonlinearities. Its temporal resolution is only limited by the quasi-particle energy relaxation time, which is directly measured to be in the 20 ps range for the NbN films used in this work. We present a general model of interferometric autocorrelation with these nonlinear detectors and discuss the comparison with other approaches and possible improvements.
Spectroscopic FIR mapping of the disk and galactic wind of M82 with Herschel-PACS
Creators: name: Contursi, A.
name: Poglitsch, A.
name: Graciá-Carpio, J.
name: Veilleux, S.
name: Sturm, E.
name: Fischer, J.
name: Verma, A.
name: Hailey-Dunsheath, S.
name: Lutz, D.
name: Davies, R.
name: González-Alfonso, E.
name: Sternberg, A.
name: Genzel, R.
name: Tacconi, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [Abridged] We present maps of the main cooling lines of the neutral atomic gas ([OI] at 63 and 145 micron and [CII] at 158 micron) and in the [OIII] 88 micron line of the starburst galaxy M82, carried out with the PACS spectrometer on board the Herschel satellite. By applying PDR modeling we derive maps of the main ISM physical parameters, including the [CII] optical depth, at unprecedented spatial resolution (~300 pc). We can clearly kinematically separate the disk from the outflow in all lines. The [CII] and [OI] distributions are consistent with PDR emission both in the disk and in the outflow. Surprisingly, in the outflow, the atomic and the ionized gas traced by the [OIII] line both have a deprojected velocity of ~75 km/s, very similar to the average velocity of the outflowing cold molecular gas (~ 100 km/s) and several times smaller than the outflowing material detected in Halpha (~ 600 km/s). This suggests that the cold molecular and neutral atomic gas and the ionized gas traced by the [OIII] 88 micron line are dynamically coupled to each other but decoupled from the Halpha emitting gas. We propose a scenario where cold clouds from the disk are entrained into the outflow by the winds where they likely evaporate, surviving as small, fairly dense cloudlets (n_H\sim 500-1000 cm^-3, G_0\sim 500- 1000, T_gas\sim300 K). We show that the UV photons provided by the starburst are sufficient to excite the PDR shells around the molecular cores. The mass of the neutral atomic gas in the outflow is \gtrsim 5-12x 10^7 M_sun to be compared with that of the molecular gas (3.3 x 10^8 M_sun) and of the Halpha emitting gas (5.8 x 10^6 M_sun). The mass loading factor, (dM/dt)/SFR, of the molecular plus neutral atomic gas in the outflow is ~ 2. Energy and momentum driven outflow models can explain the data equally well, if all the outflowing gas components are taken into account.
description: 26 pages, 23 figures, 4 Tables, Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Inge Nielsen, Thermae et Balnea. The Architecture and Cultural History of Roman Public Baths
Creators: name: Heinz, Werner
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Inge Nielsen, Thermae et Balnea. The Architecture and Cultural History of Roman Public Baths. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 1990. Textband mit 194 Seiten, Tafelband mit 260 Abbildungen.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 194.1994: Bonner Jahrbücher
“The Embedded Red Engines”: Organizational Foundations of Delegated Governance in China
Creators: name: Luo, Hanning
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2021

description: Politicians and organizational leaders always attempt to paint a picture of progress and relate their efforts to such improvements. However, the more governments attempt to do, “the more likely they are to be held liable for poor performance, or for policy changes that impose losses”. Generating supports while avoiding the risks of blame could be a paradoxical task for modern welfare states, especially during economic downturns and retrenchment. Yet the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seems to have consolidated its legitimacy from mobilizing poverty reduction and pandemic relief, even though the economic growth slows down and experiences a downturn, with problems such as inequality, nonprogrammatic distribution, and corrupted officials remaining. This paper argues that the CCP’s organizational embeddedness in the networks of China’s private sectors serves as one of the foundations of the CCP’s successful employment of strategies in disseminating responsibilities while preserving high capacity of monitoring, which enables it to both take the credit for successful adaptations and walk away from failed attempts. With both qualitative evidence and quantitative analysis, this thesis illustrates the mechanism of China’s unique state-business partnership and reveals how it helps the CCP to extend its reach of governance.
Stop comparing resummation methods
Creators: name: Löfgren, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I argue that the consistency of any resummation method can be established if the method follows a power counting derived from a hierarchy of scales. I.e., whether it encodes a top-down effective field theory. This resolves much confusion over which resummation method to use once an approximation scheme is settled on. And if no hierarchy of scales exists, you should be wary about resumming. I give evidence from the study of phase transitions in thermal field theory, where adopting a consistent power-counting scheme and performing a strict perturbative expansion dissolves many common problems of such studies: gauge dependence, strong renormalization scale dependence, the Goldstone boson catastrophe, IR divergences, imaginary potentials, mirages (illusory barriers), perturbative breakdown, and linear terms.
description: 11 pages
Tomasz Wujewski, Anatolian Sepulchral Stelae in Roman Times
Creators: name: Koch, Guntram
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Tomasz Wujewski, Anatolian Sepulchral Stelae in Roman Times. Seria Historia Sztuki, Band 21. Uniwersytetim Adama Mickiewicza, Posznan 1991. 116 Seiten, 80 Abbildungen auf Tafeln.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 194.1994: Bonner Jahrbücher
Elisabeth Ettlinger, Bettina Hedinger, Bettina Hoffmann, Philip M. Kenrick, Giuseppe Pucci, Katrin Roth-Rubi, Gerwulf Schneider, Siegmar von Schnurbein, Colin M. Wells und Susanne Zabehlicky-Scheffenegger, Conspectus Formarum Terrae Sigillatae Italico Modo Confectae
Creators: name: Martin-Kilcher, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Elisabeth Ettlinger, Bettina Hedinger, Bettina Hoffmann, Philip M. Kenrick, Giuseppe Pucci, Katrin Roth-Rubi, Gerwulf Schneider, Siegmar von Schnurbein, Colin M. Wells und Susanne Zabehlicky-Scheffenegger, Conspectus Formarum Terrae Sigillatae Italico Modo Confectae. Materialien zur Römisch-Germanischen Keramik, Heft 10. Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn 1990. 210 Seiten, 63 Tafeln, 2 Beilagen.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 194.1994: Bonner Jahrbücher
$S_8$ Tension in the Context of Dark Matter-Baryon Scattering
Creators: name: He, Adam
name: Ivanov, Mikhail M.
name: An, Rui
name: Gluscevic, Vera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore an interacting dark matter (IDM) model that allows for a fraction of dark matter (DM) to undergo velocity-independent scattering with baryons. In this scenario, structure on small scales is suppressed relative to the cold DM scenario. Using the effective field theory of large-scale structure, we perform the first systematic analysis of BOSS full-shape galaxy clustering data for the IDM scenario, and we find that this model alleviates the $S_8$ tension between large-scale structure and Planck data. Adding the $S_8$ prior from DES to our analysis further leads to a mild $\sim3σ$ preference for a non-vanishing DM-baryon scattering cross-section, assuming $\sim 10\%$ of DM is interacting and has a particle mass of 1 MeV. This result produces a modest $\sim 20$% suppression of the linear power at $k\lesssim 1~h$/Mpc, consistent with other small-scale structure observations. Similar scale-dependent power suppression was previously shown to have the potential to resolve $S_8$ tension between cosmological data sets. The validity of the specific IDM model explored here will be critically tested with upcoming galaxy surveys at the interaction level needed to alleviate the $S_8$ tension.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures. v2: minor wording changes + reformatting. v3: minor wording changes
Kalman Filter Estimation for Focal Plane Wavefront Correction
Creators: name: Groff, Tyler D.
name: Kasdin, N. Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Space-based coronagraphs for future earth-like planet detection will require focal plane wavefront control techniques to achieve the necessary contrast levels. These correction algorithms are iterative and the control methods require an estimate of the electric field at the science camera, which requires nearly all of the images taken for the correction. We demonstrate a Kalman filter estimator that uses prior knowledge to create the estimate of the electric field, dramatically reducing the number of exposures required to estimate the image plane electric field. In addition to a significant reduction in exposures, we discuss the relative merit of this algorithm to other estimation schemes, particularly in regard to estimate error and covariance. As part of the reduction in exposures we also discuss a novel approach to generating the diversity required for estimating the field in the image plane. This uses the stroke minimization control algorithm to choose the probe shapes on the deformable mirrors, adding a degree of optimality to the problem and once again reducing the total number of exposures required for correction. Choosing probe shapes has been largely unexplored up to this point and is critical to producing a well posed set of measurements for the estimate. Ultimately the filter will lead to an adaptive algorithm which can estimate physical parameters in the laboratory and optimize estimation.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012 conference proceedings. Journal version at arXiv:1301.3828
title: Microbial Diversity Across an Oxygen Gradient Using Large-scale Phylogenetic-based Analysis of Marine Metagenomes
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Ryan J.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2016

description:
Insufficient reference sequence data for annotation of unknown environmental sequences and metagenomes has driven efforts to find alternative annotation methods that mitigate biases from missing information. The use of phylogenetic-placement algorithms shows promise as a robust sequence annotation technique that deals with missing reference information by allowing for annotation of sequences at internal nodes of a phylogenetic tree. However, using these methods for community level surveys of the thousands of genes found in metagenomes requires powerful computational systems and sophisticated software workflows. The main goal of this thesis is to outline a phylogenetic analysis pipeline built to process environmental metagenomic samples using the pplacer software suite, and a pilot study performed with this software pipeline to investigate community-level patterns in gene diversity for a marine oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) off the coast of Chile, South America. Reference sequence data was used to create a custom database and custom reference packages for 9,204 functional housekeeping genes, along with small sub-unit ribosomal genes (SSU) by Domain. A comparative analysis of metagenomic samples from the OMZ using our pipeline shows that while functional and SSU genes show similar spatial patterns of diversity across the oxygen gradient, higher overall diversity was identified via the functional genes. Ecologically relevant functional genes showed higher levels of diversity than either the total from all functional genes or SSU ribosomal genes, underlining the importance of diversity in ecosystem functions.
Soriculus parca
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Soriculus
Soriculus parca

description: Soriculus parca (G. M. Allen, 1923). Am. Mus. Novitates, 100:6. TYPE LOCALITY: "Ho-mu-shu Pass, Western Yunnan, China, 8000 feet." DISTRIBUTION: SW China, N Burma and Thailand and N Vietnam. SYNONYMS: furva, lowei. COMMENTS: Formerly included in smithii, but retained as a separate species by Hoffmann (1985b), with lowei and furva as tentative subspecies.
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 123, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Hoffmann, R. S. 1985 b [1986]. A review of the genus Soriculus (Mammalia: Insectivora). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 82: 459 - 481."]}
Matching Exemplar as Next Sentence Prediction (MeNSP): Zero-shot Prompt Learning for Automatic Scoring in Science Education
Creators: name: Wu, Xuansheng
name: He, Xinyu
name: Liu, Tianming
name: Liu, Ninghao
name: Zhai, Xiaoming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Developing models to automatically score students' written responses to science problems is critical for science education. However, collecting and labeling sufficient student responses for training models is time and cost-consuming. Recent studies suggest that pre-trained language models can be adapted to downstream tasks without fine-tuning with prompts. However, no research has employed such a prompt approach in science education. As student responses are presented with natural language, aligning the scoring procedure as the next sentence prediction task using prompts can skip the costly fine-tuning stage. In this study, we developed a zero-shot approach to automatically score student responses via Matching Exemplars as Next Sentence Prediction (MeNSP). This approach employs no training samples. We first apply MeNSP in scoring three assessment tasks of scientific argumentation and found machine-human scoring agreements, Cohen's Kappa ranges from 0.30 to 0.57, and F1 score ranges from 0.54 to 0.81. To improve the performance, we extend our research to the few-shots setting, either randomly selecting labeled student responses or manually constructing responses to fine-tune the models. We find that one task's performance is improved with more samples, Cohen's Kappa from 0.30 to 0.38, and F1 score from 0.54 to 0.59; for the two others, scoring performance is not improved. We also find that randomly selected few-shots perform better than the human expert-crafted approach. This study suggests that MeNSP can yield referable automatic scoring for student responses while significantly reducing the cost of model training. This method can benefit low-stakes classroom assessment practices in science education. Future research should further explore the applicability of the MeNSP in different types of assessment tasks in science education and improve the model performance.
description: 10 page + 1 figure
FRAME: Fast and Robust Autonomous 3D point cloud Map-merging for Egocentric multi-robot exploration
Creators: name: Stathoulopoulos, Nikolaos
name: Koval, Anton
name: Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar
name: Nikolakopoulos, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article presents a 3D point cloud map-merging framework for egocentric heterogeneous multi-robot exploration, based on overlap detection and alignment, that is independent of a manual initial guess or prior knowledge of the robots' poses. The novel proposed solution utilizes state-of-the-art place recognition learned descriptors, that through the framework's main pipeline, offer a fast and robust region overlap estimation, hence eliminating the need for the time-consuming global feature extraction and feature matching process that is typically used in 3D map integration. The region overlap estimation provides a homogeneous rigid transform that is applied as an initial condition in the point cloud registration algorithm Fast-GICP, which provides the final and refined alignment. The efficacy of the proposed framework is experimentally evaluated based on multiple field multi-robot exploration missions in underground environments, where both ground and aerial robots are deployed, with different sensor configurations.
description: to be published
Notes on Linear Divisible Sequences and Their Construction: A Computational Approach
Creators: name: Trendell, Sean
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2018

description: In this Masters thesis, we examine linear divisible sequences. A linear divisible sequence is any sequence {an}n?0 that can be expressed by a linear homogeneous recursion relation that is also a divisible sequence. A sequence {an}n?0 is called a divisible sequence if it has the property that if n|m, then an|am. A sequence of numbers {an}n?0 is called a linear homogeneous recurrence sequence of order m if it can be written in the form
an+m = p1an+m?1 + p2an+m?2 + · · · + pm?1an+1 + pman, n ? 0,
for some constants p1, p2, ..., pm with pm = 0 and initial conditions a0, a1, ..., am?1. We focus on taking products, powers, and products of powers of second order linear divisible sequences in order to construct higher order linear divisible sequences. We hope to find a pattern in these constructions so that we can easily form higher order linear divisible sequence.
Manfred Clauss, Cultores Mithrae. Die Anhängerschaft des Mithras-Kultes
Creators: name: Freis, Helmut
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Manfred Clauss, Cultores Mithrae. Die Anhängerschaft des Mithras-Kultes. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien, Band 10. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1992. 335 Seiten.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 194.1994: Bonner Jahrbücher
Literal Dope
Creators: name: Johnson, Frank
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2019

description: Literal Dope draws from the rich literary traditions of hip-hop and the broader umbrella of Black American art traditions. It seems to me that perhaps the best way to honor the language which raised me, taught me, and literally saved my life is to explore it, praise it, weaponize it when necessary, and deploy it as a tool for Black liberation. The work's theory is deeply informed by bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and a number of Black feminist artists. The world needs Black folksespecially Black menwho know love; who know how to love each other and know they are loved by each other. Growing up in the 90s, during the "superpredator" rhetoric militarization of police across the country, most everything I saw told me no one wanted me, and reminded me often. This is of course a trap designed to prevent the establishment of trust, and in turn the establishment of joy and love. I began to see this, and realized that dope was the answer. I needed to be dope. My poetry could help. I could use it to become dope. Not cool. Not widely celebrated. Dope. Magical. Metamorphic. Being dope means being honest about the ways I've been conditioned into the schools and behaviors of a violent patriarchy. It means moving beyond confession toward revelation and forgiveness and change. Being dope means learning how to get free, and keeping a couple things tucked away and within reach that can help you stay free.