cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bewegung und Kognition Die bedeutsame Förderung exekutiver Funktionen mittels körperlicher Aktivität
Creators: name: Sharma-Fischer, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Exekutive Funktionen
Bewegungsvorstellung
Masterarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit basiert auf der Hypothese, dass ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen Bewegung und Kognition besteht. Es wird den Fragen nachgegangen, welche Einflüsse exekutive Funktionen auf das Lernen haben und wie eine Förderung dieser unter Einbezug körperlicher Aktivität aussehen könnte. Die Arbeit untersucht mittels einer umfangreichen Literaturrecherche wissenschaftliche Sichtweisen in Bezug auf das Lernen, wobei der neurowissenschaftliche Ansatz fokussiert wird. Bezugnehmend
 auf das Zusammenwirken von körperlicher Aktivität und exekutiven Funktionen werden neuste Forschungsergebnisse und kritische Überlegungen dargelegt, sowie Schlussfolgerungen aus Theorie und Praxis hinsichtlich einer wirksamen Förderung präsentiert. Bei der Darstellung der Ergebnisse steht der Praxisbezug im Zentrum. Die Arbeit kommt zum Schluss, dass in der Praxis bereits schulische Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten bzw. Projekte bestehen. In Bezug auf das wissenschaftlich begründete Ursache-
 Wirkungsgefüge hinsichtlich Bewegung und Kognition ist das Treffen einer allgemein gültigen Aussage aber schwierig, da die Zusammenhänge noch nicht endgültig geklärt sind.
Free Energy Estimates of All-atom Protein Structures Using Generalized Belief Propagation
Creators: name: Hetunandan  Kamisetty
name: Xing, Eric P
name: Langmead, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a technique for approximating the free energy of protein structures using Generalized Belief Propagation (GBP). The accuracy and utility of these estimates are then demonstrated in two different application domains. First, we show that the entropy component of our free energy estimates can be useful in distinguishing native protein structures from decoys — structures with similar internal energy to that of the native structure, but otherwise incorrect. Our method is able to correctly identify the native fold from among a set of decoys with 87.5% accuracy over a total of 48 different immunoglobin folds. The remaining 12.5% of native structures are ranked among the top 4 of all structures. Second, we show that our estimates of ΔΔ G upon mutation upon mutation for three different data sets have linear correlations between 0.63-0.70 with experimental values and statistically significant p-values. Together, these results suggests that GBP is an effective means for computing free energy in all-atom models of protein structures. GBP is also efficient, taking a few minutes to run on a typical sized protein, further suggesting that GBP may be an attractive alternative to more costly molecular dynamic simulations for some tasks.
Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Externalizing Problems in African American Single Mother Homes: A Person-Oriented Approach
Creators: name: Anton, Margaret
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2014
Subjects: Clinical psychology

description: African American youth, particularly those from single mother homes, are overrepresented in statistics on externalizing problems. Parenting has been identified as a central context in which to understand youth externalizing problems; however, research on African American families has primarily relied on parenting constructs and norms developed with middle income, intact, European American families. The current study demonstrated that 1) a person-oriented approach elucidates variability in parenting practices ,within African American single mother families; 2) patterns in the data suggest that SES predicts variability in parenting style; and 3) parenting style and income were related to youth externalizing behavior, and that the relationship between Permissive and Disengaged parenting and youth externalizing problems depended on maternal income level. Findings have implications for understanding the specific maternal parenting and socioeconomic contexts in which externalizing problems are most likely to occur within this at-risk, yet relatively underserved group.
Wirksame 1x1 Spiele in der Förderung von Kindern mit besonderen Bedürfnissen
Creators: name: Landolt, Monika
name: Schenkel, Karin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Mathematikunterricht
Förderunterricht
Spiel
Masterarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Entwicklungsarbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, wie mit Hilfe von Regelspielen das kleine Einmaleins erlernt und vertieft werden kann. Hierzu wurden neun Regelspiele so modifiziert, dass durch das Spielen diese mathematischen Fertigkeiten trainiert werden. Jedes Regelspiel wird mit einer Spielanleitung, Kopiervorlagen sowie den wichtigsten Spielparametern beschrieben. Die spielintegrierte Förderung fand in zwei altersdurchmischten Unterstufenklassen statt. Der Fokus lag auf acht Kindern mit besonderem Förderbedarf. Die Beliebtheit und der Schwierigkeitsgrad der Spiele wurden mit einer Umfrage erhoben. Der Leistungszuwachs wurde anhand eines Paper-Pencil Tests und Interviews analysiert. Das Forschungstagebuch diente als wichtiges Werkzeug der Aktionsforschung. Viele Resultate dieser Arbeit sprechen dafür, dass spielintegrierte Förderung in der Mathematik wirksam ist.
Quantum inferring acausal structures and the Monty Hall problem
Creators: name: Kurzyk, Dariusz
name: Glos, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a quantum version of the Monty Hall problem based upon the quantum inferring acausal structures, which can be identified with generalization of Bayesian networks. Considered structures are expressed in formalism of quantum information theory, where density operators are identified with quantum generalization of probability distributions. Conditional relations between quantum counterpart of random variables are described by quantum conditional operators. Presented quantum inferring structures are used to construct a model inspired by scenario of well-known Monty Hall game, where we show the differences between classical and quantum Bayesian reasoning.
Asymmetric steering in coherent transport of atomic population with a three-well Bose-Hubbard model
Creators: name: Olsen, M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering properties in a three-well Bose-Hubbard model under the mechanism of coherent transport of atomic population (CTAP). This process, also known as transport without transit (TWT), transfers condensed atoms from one well of a lattice potential to another, non-adjacent well, without macroscopic occupation of the middle well. The dynamics and entanglement properties of this system have previously been analysed and shown to be dependent on the initial quantum state of the atoms in the first well. In this work we utilise the phase-space method of stochastic integration in the positive-P representation. The system demonstrated inseparability between the wells for Fock initial states, and we show that steering is also only found for an initial Fock state. Depending on how we write our steering inequalities, steering is seen at different times, showing a basic asymmetry. This means that for part of the evolution, Alice can steer Bob but not vice versa. After the midpoint of the population transfer, this situation reverses.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, submitted to special edition of JOSA-B on EPR steering. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1401.2535
Supervised Contrastive Learning with Nearest Neighbor Search for Speech Emotion Recognition
Creators: name: Wang, Xuechen
name: Zhao, Shiwan
name: Qin, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a challenging task due to limited data and blurred boundaries of certain emotions. In this paper, we present a comprehensive approach to improve the SER performance throughout the model lifecycle, including pre-training, fine-tuning, and inference stages. To address the data scarcity issue, we utilize a pre-trained model, wav2vec2.0. During fine-tuning, we propose a novel loss function that combines cross-entropy loss with supervised contrastive learning loss to improve the model's discriminative ability. This approach increases the inter-class distances and decreases the intra-class distances, mitigating the issue of blurred boundaries. Finally, to leverage the improved distances, we propose an interpolation method at the inference stage that combines the model prediction with the output from a k-nearest neighbors model. Our experiments on IEMOCAP demonstrate that our proposed methods outperform current state-of-the-art results.
description: Accepted by lnterspeech 2023, poster
Περινεϊκή ουρηθροστομία σκύλου: Αναφορά σε πέντε περιστατικά
Creators: name: Σπληνάκη, Χρυσή Πέτρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Περινεϊκή ουρηθροστομία
Σκύλος
Perineal urethrostomy
Dog

description: Πέντε αρσενικοί ακέραιοι σκύλοι, τέσσερις ακαθόριστης φυλής και ένα French Bulldog, μέσης ηλικίας πέντε ετών, υποβλήθηκαν σε περινεϊκή ουρηθροστομία με σκοπό την αντιμετώπιση τραυματικής ρήξης της ουρήθρας ή υποτροπιάζουσας ουρολιθίασης. Η κλινική εικόνα των σκύλων περιλάμβανε συμπτώματα δυσουρίας σε ποσοστό 20% και ούρησης από το σημείο του τραύματος ή μέσω ουρηθροδερματικού συριγγίου σε ποσοστό 80%. Η διαγνωστική διερεύνηση περιλάμβανε αιματολογικές και βιοχημικές εξετάσεις, δοκιμή ευαισθησίας και αντιβιόγραμμα, καθώς και ακτινογραφία κοιλίας. Το στόμιο της ουρηθροστομίας, μήκους 1,5-2 cm κατέληγε στην περινεϊκή χώρα, στο μέσο περίπου της απόστασης μεταξύ πρωκτού και οσχέου. Η μοναδική άμεση μετεγχειρητική επιπλοκή που καταγράφηκε ήταν η εμφάνιση αιματουρίας, διάμεσης διάρκειας έξι ημερών. Κατά τη μετεγχειρητική παρακολούθηση της πορείας των ζώων, διάμέσης διάρκειας τριών ετών, παρατηρήθηκε εμφάνιση ουρολοίμωξης σε ποσοστό 20%, ενώ στο υπόλοιπο 80% δεν καταγράφηκε καμία μακροχρόνια μετεγχειρητική επιπλοκή.
description: Five intact, male dogs, four mixed breed and a French Bulldog, with a median age of five years, underwent perineal urethrostomy for treatment of traumatic urethral rupture or recurrent urolithiasis. The dogs were presented with symptoms of dysuria in 20% and urination from the wound site or through an urethrodermal fistula in 80%. The diagnostic investigation included complete blood count, biochemical profile testing, sensitivity testing and antibiogram of urine sample or sample from the trauma site, as well as abdominal x-rays. The stoma of the urethrostomy was 1.5-2cm long and it was located in the perineum, on the midline between the anus and the scrotum. The only immediate postoperative complication recorded was the occurrence of hematuria, with a median duration of six days. During the post-operative follow-up, of a median duration of three years, urinary tract infection was observed in 20% of the cases, while in the remaining 80% no long-term postoperative complications were recorded.
Carex polyphylla Kar. et Kir.
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: C. polyphylla Kar. et Kir. (C. LeersiiF. V/. Schultz non Willd., C. muricata var. Leersii Kneucker, C. mur. ssp. Leersii A. et G., C. echinata var. Leersii Kükenthal, C. divulsa ssp. Leersii W. Koch, C. Pairaeissp. Leersii 0. Schwarz) 2: BeiBranson (Bührer1950).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Die entwicklungspsychologische Beratung als Methode zur Unterstützung der Eltern-Kind-Passung im Kontext der Heilpädagogischen Früherziehung
Creators: name: Studer, Petra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Beratung
Frühförderung
Masterarbeit

description: Die Eltern-Kind-Passung umschreibt einen Zustand, in welchem Verhalten und Reaktion von Eltern und Kind in einer Kooperation aufeinander eingehen. Das individuelle kindliche Temperament spielt dabei eine wichtige Rolle. Durch Belastungen und Stressoren kann es zu negativen Gegenseitigkeiten kommen, was sich ungünstig auf die Entwicklung des Kindes auswirken kann (vgl. Ziegenhain, 2007, S. 662). In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, inwiefern die videobasierte, entwicklungspsychologische Beratung (EPB-Methode), im Kontext der Heilpädagogischen Früherziehung, die Eltern-Kind-Passung beeinflussen kann. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf dem kindlichen Temperament. Mit fünf EPB-Methode praktizierenden Fachpersonen wurde dazu ein Einzelinterview geführt und mittels einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet. Die Fachpersonen bewerten, dass die EPB-Methode ElternKind-Passungen auf verschiedenen Ebenen günstig unterstützen kann. Zudem zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass die Methode im Alltag der Heilpädagogischen Früherziehung familienorientiert angewendet werden kann. Bei der Frage nach einer zukünftigen Implementierung der EPB-Methode in das Masterstudium gehen die subjektiven Meinungen der Fachpersonen auseinander.
Additional file 9 of ALDOC- and ENO2- driven glucose metabolism sustains 3D tumor spheroids growth regardless of nutrient environmental conditions: a multi-omics analysis
Creators: name: De Vitis, Claudia
name: Battaglia, Anna Martina
name: Pallocca, Matteo
name: Santamaria, Gianluca
name: Mimmi, Maria Chiara
name: Sacco, Alessandro
name: De Nicola, Francesca
name: Gaspari, Marco
name: Salvati, Valentina
name: Ascenzi, Francesca
name: Bruschini, Sara
name: Esposito, Antonella
name: Ricci, Giulia
name: Sperandio, Eleonora
name: Massacci, Alice
name: Prestagiacomo, Licia Elvira
name: Vecchione, Andrea
name: Ricci, Alberto
name: Sciacchitano, Salvatore
name: Salerno, Gerardo
name: French, Deborah
name: Aversa, Ilenia
name: Cereda, Cristina
name: Fanciulli, Maurizio
name: Chiaradonna, Ferdinando
name: Solito, Egle
name: Cuda, Giovanni
name: Costanzo, Francesco
name: Ciliberto, Gennaro
name: Mancini, Rita
name: Biamonte, Flavia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 9: Figure S3. Schematic illustration of upstream and downstream events of ALDOC and/or ENO2 perturbation.
Hierarchical Motion Planning for Self-reconfigurable Modular Robots
Creators: name: Preethi  Bhat
name: Kuffner, James J.
name: Goldstein, Seth C.
name: Siddhartha  Srinivasa
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motion planning for a self-reconfigurable robot involves coordinating the movement and connectivity of each of its homogeneous modules. Reconfiguration occurs when the shape of the robot changes from some initial configuration to a target configuration. Finding an optimal solution to reconfiguration problems involves searching the space of possible robot configurations. As this space grows exponentially with the number of modules, optimal planning becomes intractable. We propose a hierarchical planning approach that computes heuristic global reconfiguration strategies efficiently. Our approach consists of a base planner that computes an optimal solution for a few modules and a hierarchical planner that calls this base planner or reuses pre-computed plans at each level of the hierarchy to ultimately compute a global suboptimal solution. We present results from a prototype implementation of the method that efficiently plans for self-reconfigurable robots with several thousand modules. We also discuss tradeoffs and performance issues including scalability, heuristics and plan optimality
RAMP: Retrieval-Augmented MOS Prediction via Confidence-based Dynamic Weighting
Creators: name: Wang, Hui
name: Zhao, Shiwan
name: Zheng, Xiguang
name: Qin, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic Mean Opinion Score (MOS) prediction is crucial to evaluate the perceptual quality of the synthetic speech. While recent approaches using pre-trained self-supervised learning (SSL) models have shown promising results, they only partly address the data scarcity issue for the feature extractor. This leaves the data scarcity issue for the decoder unresolved and leading to suboptimal performance. To address this challenge, we propose a retrieval-augmented MOS prediction method, dubbed {\bf RAMP}, to enhance the decoder's ability against the data scarcity issue. A fusing network is also proposed to dynamically adjust the retrieval scope for each instance and the fusion weights based on the predictive confidence. Experimental results show that our proposed method outperforms the existing methods in multiple scenarios.
description: Accepted by Interspeech 2023, oral
Mobbing-Prävention in Mittelstufenklassen Einfluss von Präventionslektionen auf das Klassenklima, die Soziometrie und die Rollen der Schülerinnen und Schüler
Creators: name: Good, Iris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Prävention
Unterrichtsklima
Masterarbeit

description: Mobbing ist ein ernst zu nehmendes Problem an Schulen, vor dem niemand die Augen verschliessen darf (Steves, 2015). Oft wird Mobbing spät oder gar nicht erkannt und es gelingt nicht adäquat zu reagieren (Kindler, 2009). Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist, Mobbing wirksam vorzubeugen. Präventionslektionen des Programmes BE-Prox von Alsaker (2004) werden in drei Mittelstufenklassen zeitgleich durchgeführt. Um zu untersuchen, wie sich das Klassenklima, die Mobbingrollen nach Alsaker (2012) sowie die Soziometrie der Klassen verändern, wird zu Beginn und am Schluss eine Befragung in den Klassen durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich die Störneigungen, die Aggressionen sowie das Konkurrenzgefühl innerhalb der Klassen signifikant verringerten. Auch hat sich die Anzahl der Opfer verringert. Bei der Soziometrie konnten positive, jedoch nicht signifikante Tendenzen festgestellt werden.
Algebraic K-theory of group rings and the cyclotomic trace map
Creators: name: Lueck, Wolfgang
name: Reich, Holger
name: Rognes, John
name: Varisco, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19D50, 19D55, 19B28, 55P91, 55P42

description: We prove that the Farrell-Jones assembly map for connective algebraic K-theory is rationally injective, under mild homological finiteness conditions on the group and assuming that a weak version of the Leopoldt-Schneider conjecture holds for cyclotomic fields. This generalizes a result of Bökstedt, Hsiang, and Madsen, and leads to a concrete description of a large direct summand of $K_n(\mathbb{Z}[G])\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}}\mathbb{Q}$ in terms of group homology. In many cases the number theoretic conjectures are true, so we obtain rational injectivity results about assembly maps, in particular for Whitehead groups, under homological finiteness assumptions on the group only. The proof uses the cyclotomic trace map to topological cyclic homology, Bökstedt-Hsiang-Madsen's functor C, and new general isomorphism and injectivity results about the assembly maps for topological Hochschild homology and C.
description: To appear in Advances in Mathematics. 77 pages
Supplementary Material (English version)
Creators: name: Alvarez, I.
name: Manero, B.
name: Modoro, A.
name: Suñé-Soler, N.
name: Henao, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Supplementary Material (English version). Title of the paper "Immersive Virtual Reality to improve the competence to manage classroom climate in secondary schools". Published in the journal Educación XX1, 26, nº1 (2023)
Unraveling the Emission Mechanism of the HBL Source Mrk 180 with Multi-Wavelength Data
Creators: name: Mondal, Sandeep Kumar
name: Das, Saikat
name: Gupta, Nayantara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Markarian (Mrk) 180 is a High frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object or HBL object, located at a redshift of 0.045 and a potential candidate for high-energy cosmic ray acceleration. In this work, we have done a temporal and spectral study using Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) $γ$-ray data, collected over 12.8 years. In the case of the temporal study, the 12.8 years long, 30-day binned, Fermi-LAT $γ$-ray light curve does not show any significant enhancement of the flux. To understand the underlying physical mechanism, we focused our study on multi-wavelength spectral analysis. We constructed multi-wavelength spectral energy distribution (MWSED) using Swift X-ray, ultraviolet & optical, and X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) data, which have been analysed thoroughly. The SED has been modelled with three different models: (i) pure leptonic scenario and lepto-hadronic scenario where we considered two types of lepto-hadronic interactions (ii) line-of-sight interactions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECR; $E\gtrsim 10^{17}$ eV) with the cosmic background radiation and (iii) interaction between relativistic protons with the cold proton within the blazar jet. In this literature, we have done a detailed comparative study between all these three models. In an earlier study, Mrk 180 was associated with the Telescope Array (TA) hotspot of UHECRs at $E>57$ EeV which motivates us to check whether Mrk 180 can be a source of UHECRs, contributing to the TA hotspot. From our study, we find, for conservative strengths of the extragalactic magnetic field, Mrk 180 is unlikely to be a source of UHECR events.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2212.07331
The Joshua Roll: A Model Book
Creators: name: Ouyang, Fannie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The Joshua Roll (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. Gr. 431) is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript most commonly dated to the tenth century. It is often compared to the Bayeux Tapestry or Roman triumphal columns due to its continuous narrative format. Stylistically, it is compared to the Paris Psalter (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS. gr. 139) because the two works display classical techniques. Scholars mostly discuss the roll regarding its contents – the illustrations and text – however, this thesis will shift the conversation towards the manuscript’s unusual scroll format, which had become uncommon by the tenth century. By this time, people had long since transitioned to the codex or book format. By conducting formal, iconographic, and contextual analyses, this paper will question the Joshua Roll’s role as an illuminated manuscript and propose an alternative function as a model book.
Differentially Private Distributed Constrained Optimization
Creators: name: Han, Shuo
name: Topcu, Ufuk
name: Pappas, George J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Many resource allocation problems can be formulated as an optimization problem whose constraints contain sensitive information about participating users. This paper concerns solving this kind of optimization problem in a distributed manner while protecting the privacy of user information. Without privacy considerations, existing distributed algorithms normally consist in a central entity computing and broadcasting certain public coordination signals to participating users. However, the coordination signals often depend on user information, so that an adversary who has access to the coordination signals can potentially decode information on individual users and put user privacy at risk. We present a distributed optimization algorithm that preserves differential privacy, which is a strong notion that guarantees user privacy regardless of any auxiliary information an adversary may have. The algorithm achieves privacy by perturbing the public signals with additive noise, whose magnitude is determined by the sensitivity of the projection operation onto user-specified constraints. By viewing the differentially private algorithm as an implementation of stochastic gradient descent, we are able to derive a bound for the suboptimality of the algorithm. We illustrate the implementation of our algorithm via a case study of electric vehicle charging. Specifically, we derive the sensitivity and present numerical simulations for the algorithm. Through numerical simulations, we are able to investigate various aspects of the algorithm when being used in practice, including the choice of step size, number of iterations, and the trade-off between privacy level and suboptimality.
description: Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Ignorance is Almost Bliss: Near-Optimal Stochastic Matching With Few Queries
Creators: name: Avrim  Blum
name: Dickerson, John
name: Haghtalab, Nika
name: Procaccia, Ariel D.
name: Sandholm, Tuomas W
name: Sharma, Ankit
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The stochastic matching problem deals with finding a maximum matching in a graph whose edges are unknown but can be accessed via queries. This is a special case of stochastic k-set packing, where the problem is to find a maximum packing of sets, each of which exists with some probability. In this paper, we provide edge and set query algorithms for these two problems, respectively, that provably achieve some fraction of the omniscient optimal solution. Our main theoretical result for the stochastic matching (i.e., 2-set packing) problem is the design of an adaptive algorithm that queries only a constant number of edges per vertex and achieves a (1-ε) fraction of the omniscient optimal solution, for an arbitrarily small ε > 0. Moreover, this adaptive algorithm performs the queries in only a constant number of rounds. We complement this result with a non-adaptive (i.e., one round of queries) algorithm that achieves a (0.5 - ε) fraction of the omniscient optimum. We also extend both our results to stochastic k-set packing by designing an adaptive algorithm that achieves a (2/k - ε) fraction of the omniscient optimal solution, again with only O(1) queries per element. This guarantee is close to the best known polynomial-time approximation ratio of 3/k+1 -ε for the deterministic k-set packing problem [Furer 2013].
We empirically explore the application of (adaptations of) these algorithms to the kidney exchange problem, where patients with end-stage renal failure swap willing but incompatible donors. We show on both generated data and on real data from the first 169 match runs of the UNOS nationwide kidney exchange that even a very small number of non-adaptive edge queries per vertex results in large gains in expected successful matches.
Locally Tomographic Shadows (Extended Abstract)
Creators: name: Barnum, Howard
name: Graydon, Matthew A.
name: Wilce, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a monoidal probabilistic theory -- a symmetric monoidal category $\mathcal{C}$ of systems and processes, together with a functor $\mathbf{V}$ assigning concrete probabilistic models to objects of $\mathcal{C}$ -- we construct a locally tomographic probabilistic theory LT$(\mathcal{C},\mathbf{V})$ -- the locally tomographic shadow of $(\mathcal{C},\mathbf{V})$ -- describing phenomena observable by local agents controlling systems in $\mathcal{C}$, and able to pool information about joint measurements made on those systems. Some globally distinct states become locally indistinguishable in LT$(\mathcal{C},\mathbf{V})$, and we restrict the set of processes to those that respect this indistinguishability. This construction is investigated in some detail for real quantum theory.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2023, arXiv:2308.15489
var. membranacea Koch
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: C. ericetoriun Poll. Cat. 372. Vgl. Naegeli Lit. 1917 (mit Karte). Die von vielen Autoren (auch von J. im Cat.) besonders aufgeführte «Hochgebirgsrasse» var. membranacea (Hoppe) Koch (= var. alpina Hagenbach!) ist, wie NAEGELI dargetan hat, einzuziehen. Bis 3000m: Oberrothorn bei Zermatt (Braun-Blanquet 1919, Gilomen 1938). l: Tanneverge (Briquet). - 2: Saviese (Wolf); Gerstenhorn (Wilczek). - 3: Valsorey (Guyot); Vernamiege (Pannatier); Pralovin bei Les Hauderes (idem); Col de Torrent (Wolf); Chandolin (Fries); St-Luc und Umgebung (Rohrer, Schrnid); Törbel (Stehler); Zermatt vielfach (vgl. Cat. und Naegeli), höchste Stelle 3000m (s. oben), nach Naegeli «bis über 3000m» (wo?); Saastal: ausser Mattmark (vgl. Cat.): Mattwaldalp, ob Heimischgarten,Siwiboden,Plattje beiFee,Mittaghörn, Täliboden (alles: nach Naegeli); Visperterminen (Garns, Thellung, P.); Simplon: Steinental (Favrat, Bernoulli), Mittenbach (Wilczek).- 3a: Simplonhospiz (Bernoulli). - 4:Riederhorn (Knetsch); Eggishorn (Bernoulli); Binntal (vgl. Cat. und Naegeli) vielfach.
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Closed orbits in quotient systems
Creators: name: Zegowitz, Stefanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37P35

description: We study the relationship between pairs of topological dynamical systems $ (X,T) $ and $ (X',T') $, where $ (X',T') $ is the quotient of $ (X,T) $ under the action of a finite group $ G $. We describe three phenomena concerning the behaviour of closed orbits in the quotient system, and the constraints given by these phenomena. We find upper and lower bounds for the extremal behaviour of closed orbits in the quotient system in terms of properties of $ G $ and show that any growth rate in between these bounds can be achieved.
Über die Bedeutung von Naturerlebnissen für die Entwicklung von Kindern
Creators: name: Schläfli Maier, Kyra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
kindliche Entwicklung
Naturerlebnis
Masterarbeit

description: Naturpädagogische Projekte führen im Schulkontext ein Nischendasein und müssen von Lehrkräften oft verteidigt werden. Gleichzeitig zeigen aktuelle Berichte, dass sich die Lebenswelt von Kindern in den letzten Jahrzehnten stark verändert hat und Kinder immer weniger Zeit in der Natur verbringen. In Form einer Literaturarbeit geht diese Masterarbeit daher der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung die Naturerfahrung für die kindliche Entwicklung hat.
 In der Theorie werden zuerst zentrale Begriffe und historische Bezüge zum Naturverständnis, zu Naturpädagogik und zur Persönlichkeitsentwicklung erarbeitet. Danach werden mit Hilfe einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse ausgewählte Fachtexte untersucht.
 Es zeigt sich, dass Naturräume, besonders, wenn diese in sozialem Miteinander erkundet werden, ideale Entwicklungsräume für Kinder sind und für ihre sozial emotionale Entwicklung eine wichtige Bedeutung haben.
Quantum Suplattices
Creators: name: Jenča, Gejza
name: Lindenhovius, Bert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Building on the theory of quantum posets, we introduce a non-commutative version of suplattices, i.e., complete lattices whose morphisms are supremum-preserving maps, which form a step towards a new notion of quantum topological spaces. We show that the theory of these quantum suplattices resembles the classical theory: the opposite quantum poset of a quantum suplattice is again a quantum suplattice, and quantum suplattices arise as algebras of a non-commutative version of the monad of downward-closed subsets of a poset. The existence of this monad is proved by introducing a non-commutative generalization of monotone relations between quantum posets, which form a compact closed category. Moreover, we introduce a non-commutative generalization of Galois connections and we prove that an upper Galois adjoint of a monotone map between quantum suplattices exists if and only if the map is a morphism of quantum suplattices. Finally, we prove a quantum version of the Knaster-Tarski fixpoint theorem: the quantum set of fixpoints of a monotone endomap on a quantum suplattice form a quantum suplattice.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2023, arXiv:2308.15489
Global Synthesis of CNOT Circuits with Holes
Creators: name: Murphy, Ewan
name: Kissinger, Aleks
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A common approach to quantum circuit transformation is to use the properties of a specific gate set to create an efficient representation of a given circuit's unitary, such as a parity matrix or stabiliser tableau, and then resynthesise an improved circuit, e.g. with fewer gates or respecting connectivity constraints. Since these methods rely on a restricted gate set, generalisation to arbitrary circuits usually involves slicing the circuit into pieces that can be resynthesised and working with these separately. The choices made about what gates should go into each slice can have a major effect on the performance of the resynthesis. In this paper we propose an alternative approach to generalising these resynthesis algorithms to general quantum circuits. Instead of cutting the circuit into slices, we "cut out" the gates we can't resynthesise leaving holes in our quantum circuit. The result is a second-order process called a quantum comb, which can be resynthesised directly. We apply this idea to the RowCol algorithm, which resynthesises CNOT circuits for topologically constrained hardware, explaining how we were able to extend it to work for quantum combs. We then compare the generalisation of RowCol using our method to the naive "slice and build" method empirically on a variety of circuit sizes and hardware topologies. Finally, we outline how quantum combs could be used to help generalise other resynthesis algorithms.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2023, arXiv:2308.15489
Moore-Penrose Dagger Categories
Creators: name: Cockett, Robin
name: Lemay, Jean-Simon Pacaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.1; G.1.3;

description: The notion of a Moore-Penrose inverse (M-P inverse) was introduced by Moore in 1920 and rediscovered by Penrose in 1955. The M-P inverse of a complex matrix is a special type of inverse which is unique, always exists, and can be computed using singular value decomposition. In a series of papers in the 1980s, Puystjens and Robinson studied M-P inverses more abstractly in the context of dagger categories. Despite the fact that dagger categories are now a fundamental notion in categorical quantum mechanics, the notion of a M-P inverse has not (to our knowledge) been revisited since their work. One purpose of this paper is, thus, to renew the study of M-P inverses in dagger categories. Here we introduce the notion of a Moore-Penrose dagger category and provide many examples including complex matrices, finite Hilbert spaces, dagger groupoids, and inverse categories. We also introduce generalized versions of singular value decomposition, compact singular value decomposition, and polar decomposition for maps in a dagger category, and show how, having such a decomposition is equivalent to having M-P inverses. This allows us to provide precise characterizations of which maps have M-P inverses in a dagger idempotent complete category, a dagger kernel category with dagger biproducts (and negatives), and a dagger category with unique square roots.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2023, arXiv:2308.15489
K-Theory for Real C*-algebras via Unitary Elements with Symmetries
Creators: name: Boersema, Jeffrey L.
name: Loring, Terry A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L80, 19K99, 81Q99

description: We prove that all eight KO groups for a real C*-algebra can be constructed from homotopy classes of unitary matrices that respect a variety of symmetries. In this manifestation of the KO groups, all eight boundary maps in the 24-term exact sequence associated to an ideal in a real C*-algebra can be computed as exponential or index maps with formulas that are nearly identical to the complex case.
description: 79 pages. Reorganization of sections and notational clarifications since previous edition
Handheld Devices for Control
Creators: name: Myers, Brad A
name: Rosenfeld, Roni
name: Nichols, Jeffrey
name: Wobbrock, Jacob O
name: Litwack, Kevin
name: Harris, Thomas K
name: Pignol, Mathilde
name: Higgins, Michael
name: Hughes, Joe
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With  present  and  future wireless  technologies,  such  as  IEEE  802.11, BlueTooth, RF-Lite,  and G3,
handheld  devices will  frequently  be  in  close,  interactive  communication. Many  environments,  including  offices,
meeting  rooms,  automobiles  and  classrooms  already  contain many  computers  and  computerized  appliances,  and
the smart homes of the future will have ubiquitous embedded computation. When the user enters one of these environments
 carrying a handheld device, how will that device interact with the environment? We are exploring, as
part of the Pebbles research project, the many ways that handheld devices such as PalmOS Organizers, PocketPC
and Windows CE devices, and smart cell phones can serve as useful adjuncts to the “fixed” computers and computerized
 appliances in the user’s vicinity. This brings up many interesting research questions, such as: How can
the handheld device improve the user interfaces of everything else in the user’s environment, rather than being just
be another complex gadget that must be learned? What is the best way to provide a user interface that spans multiple
 devices that are in use at the same time? How will users and systems decide which functions should be presented
 and in what manner on what device? How can the user’s handheld device be effectively used as a “Personal
Universal Controller” to provide an easy-to-use and familiar interface to all of the complex appliances available to
a user? How can communicating handheld devices enhance the effectiveness of meetings and classroom lectures?
We present some preliminary observations on these issues, and discuss some of the systems that we have built to
investigate them.
Generalised Winograd Schema and its Contextuality
Creators: name: Lo, Kin Ian
name: Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh
name: Mansfield, Shane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ambiguities in natural language give rise to probability distributions over interpretations. The distributions are often over multiple ambiguous words at a time; a multiplicity which makes them a suitable topic for sheaf-theoretic models of quantum contextuality. Previous research showed that different quantitative measures of contextuality correlate well with Psycholinguistic research on lexical ambiguities. In this work, we focus on coreference ambiguities and investigate the Winograd Schema Challenge (WSC), a test proposed by Levesque in 2011 to evaluate the intelligence of machines. The WSC consists of a collection of multiple-choice questions that require disambiguating pronouns in sentences structured according to the Winograd schema, in a way that makes it difficult for machines to determine the correct referents but remains intuitive for human comprehension. In this study, we propose an approach that analogously models the Winograd schema as an experiment in quantum physics. However, we argue that the original Winograd Schema is inherently too simplistic to facilitate contextuality. We introduce a novel mechanism for generalising the schema, rendering it analogous to a Bell-CHSH measurement scenario. We report an instance of this generalised schema, complemented by the human judgements we gathered via a crowdsourcing platform. The resulting model violates the Bell-CHSH inequality by 0.192, thus exhibiting contextuality in a coreference resolution setting.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2023, arXiv:2308.15489
Pulmonary delivery of isoxyl particles to treat Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Creators: name: Wang, Chenchen
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: Isoxyl is an effective drug to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis but its use was impaired by failure in clinical trials. Due to absence of reliable quantitive analytical methods at that time, the reasons for these poor in-vivo outcomes were not determined. In the present work, an HPLC method was developed and validated for determination of isoxyl concentrations in plasma. Pilot studies showed that therapeutic plasma concentrations were not achieved after oral administration of isoxyl to guinea pigs. Pulmonary delivery may rescue the drug by targeting isoxyl particles to macrophages, the host cells of mycobacteria. Isoxyl particles with various size and shape were prepared by antisolvent precipitation. Subsequent spray drying produced microparticles < 5 μm suitable for lung delivery. Isoxyl > 5 μg/ml, independent of particle form, seemed effective in killing intracellular mycobacteria without cytotoxicity. This work is the basis for reviving drugs with undesired physicochemical properties to treat lung infection.
Selbstwirksamkeit mit Hilfe von eigenen Ressourcen und passenden Lernstrategien erfahren
Creators: name: Stuker, Roland
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Motivation
Lernstrategien
Lernberatung
Masterarbeit

description: Die vorliegende praxisorientierte Masterarbeit orientiert sich einerseits an Inhalten und Strategien basierend auf dem Zürcher Ressourcen Modell, mit dem Ziel, Motivation zu aktivieren und Handlungen zu optimieren. Andererseits sind Gesprächsbausteine aus dem lösungsorientierten bzw. dem systemischen Beratungsansatz und die Auseinandersetzung von Lernmodellen und der Lernberatung weitere wichtige Bestandteile. Ziel der Arbeit war, herauszufinden, inwieweit eine engmaschige Betreuung über einen längeren Zeitraum die Selbstkompetenz der Schüler_innen fördert und anregt. Dazu wurden bei vier Schüler_innen der Sekundarstufe Stammklasse G mit Hilfe von wöchentlichen Einzelgesprächen Ressourcen aufgedeckt, passende Lernstrategien erarbeitet und metakognitiv beurteilt. Die Evaluation fand mit Hilfe von Bildern, welche die Schüler_innen gewählt hatten, und Skalierungsfragen statt. Die Ergebnisse zeigten Entwicklungen in Richtung gesteigerter positiver Selbstwirksamkeit und verstärkter schulischer Motivation.
A determination of the local acceleration of gravity for the NIST-4 watt balance
Creators: name: Leaman, E. J.
name: Haddad, D.
name: Seifert, F.
name: Chao, L. S.
name: Cao, A.
name: Pratt, J. R.
name: Schlamminger, S.
name: Newell, D. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new watt balance is being constructed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in preparation for the redefinition of the International System of Units and the realization of mass through an exact value of the Planck constant. The total relative uncertainty goal for this instrument of a few parts in $10^{8}$ requires that the local acceleration due to gravity be known at the location of a test mass with a relative uncertainty on the order of only a few parts in $10^{9}$. To make this determination, both the horizontal and vertical gradients of gravity must be known such that gravity may be tied from an absolute reference in the laboratory to the precise mass location. We describe the procedures used to model and measure gravity variations throughout the laboratory and give our results.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. It will appear at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=19
Eleocharis spicata
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: L. spicata (L.) DC. Cat. 357. Obere Höhengrenze festzustellen. Die Angabe von der Vincenthütte, «3300m»,bezieht sich auf das italienische Grenzgebiet (Höhe der Hütte:3165m!). Sichere hohe Stellen im Wallis siehe unten. l: Sex-Vuillème(F.); Luisin(Exk.Soc.Murith.);Fontanabran(J.); Barberine(Exk.Soc.Murith.); Emosson (desgl.); Trient (Zahn).- 2:Schafalp(J.); Ferden(J.); Faldumpass(J.).- 3:Valsorey (Guyot); Les Dix (J.); ob Törbel (Stebler); Zermatt, hohe Stellen: Unterrothorn, bis 3106m (Braun-Blanquet 1919), Gornergrat, bis 3130 m (idem 1919), bei der Eseltschuggenhütte, 3260m (Oberson1951);Simplon:Schienhorn(Tochenhorn), unter dem Kaltwassergletscher, unter dem Mäderhorn (diese drei Angaben nach: Favre, Guide Bot. Simplon, S.247 [1875]; im Cat. übersehen).- 3a:Schönhorn(Hübschhorn);Hohlicht(beides nach Favre l.c.).- 4:Gebiet des Aletschwaldes (Schröter). Var. compacta E.Meyer - 3:Croix de Tsousse im Val d'Entremont, 2790m (Oberson). Var. minima Schur - 3:Almagelleralp im Saastal,2400m (Guyot). Var. nardiflora Godet - 2: Lötschental (Beauverd).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556