cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Human-Plant Coevolution: A modelling framework for theory-building on the origins of agriculture.
Creators: name: Angourakis, Andreas
name: Alcaina-Mateos, Jonas
name: Madella, Marco
name: Zurro, Debora
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Ecology and environmental sciences
subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences

description: Funder: Leibniz Gemeinschaft
description: The domestication of plants and the origin of agricultural societies has been the focus of much theoretical discussion on why, how, when, and where these happened. The 'when' and 'where' have been substantially addressed by different branches of archaeology, thanks to advances in methodology and the broadening of the geographical and chronological scope of evidence. However, the 'why' and 'how' have lagged behind, holding on to relatively old models with limited explanatory power. Armed with the evidence now available, we can return to theory by revisiting the mechanisms allegedly involved, disentangling their connection to the diversity of trajectories, and identifying the weight and role of the parameters involved. We present the Human-Plant Coevolution (HPC) model, which represents the dynamics of coevolution between a human and a plant population. The model consists of an ecological positive feedback system (mutualism), which can be reinforced by positive evolutionary feedback (coevolution). The model formulation is the result of wiring together relatively simple simulation models of population ecology and evolution, through a computational implementation in R. The HPC model captures a variety of potential scenarios, though which conditions are linked to the degree and timing of population change and the intensity of selective pressures. Our results confirm that the possible trajectories leading to neolithisation are diverse and involve multiple factors. However, simulations also show how some of those factors are entangled, what are their effects on human and plant populations under different conditions, and what might be the main causes fostering agriculture and domestication.
Assessment of Models for Pedestrian Dynamics with Functional Principal Component Analysis
Creators: name: Chraibi, M.
name: Ensslen, T.
name: Gottschalk, H.
name: Saadi, M.
name: Seyfried, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many agent based simulation approaches have been proposed for pedestrian flow. As such models are applied e.g.\ in evacuation studies, the quality and reliability of such models is of vital interest. Pedestrian trajectories are functional data and thus functional principal component analysis is a natural tool to asses the quality of pedestrian flow models beyond average properties. In this article we conduct functional PCA for the trajectories of pedestrians passing through a bottleneck. We benchmark two agent based models of pedestrian flow against the experimental data using PCA average and stochastic features. Functional PCA proves to be an efficient tool to detect deviation between simulation and experiment and to asses quality of pedestrian models.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Die Kundenperspektive des Video-on-Demand-Marktes: Entscheidungskriterien bei zunehmendem Angebot und Wettbewerb
Creators: name: Quint, Veronica
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 700 Künste und Unterhaltung
subject: Streaming media
subject: Video-on-demand
subject: Netflix

description: Durch diese wachsende Konkurrenz entwickelt sich auf dem VOD-Markt ein marktwirtschaftliches System. Unternehmen müssen sich jetzt durch Preis- und Qualitätskämpfe bemühen, ihre Marktposition stets zu verbessern (Schubert 2005). Eine für den Markt neuartige Situation, die Unternehmen vor viele Herausforderungen stellt. Dabei führt der wachsende Wettbewerb zu einer Marktfragmentierung, die auch den Kunden Schwierigkeiten bringt, da sie eine Entscheidung für einen Service erzwingt (Tryon 2013, S. 41). Wer kein Multihoming betreiben will oder kann, muss sich entscheiden. Doch wie entscheidet man sich für einen Streamingdienst und welche Faktoren beeinflussen diese Entscheidung? Dieser Frage widmet sich die vorliegende Arbeit.
description: Due to growing competition, a market-based system is developing in the VOD market. Companies must now strive to constantly improve their market position through price and quality battles (Schubert 2005). This is a new situation for the market, which confronts companies with many challenges. At the same time, growing competition is leading to market fragmentation, which also causes difficulties for customers, as it forces them to decide which service they want to use (Tryon 2013, p. 41). But how do you decide on a streaming service and which factors influence this decision? This question is the focus of this paper.
La portata politica del “pensiero debole” di Gianni Vattimo
Creators: name: Giorgio, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2023

description: The political strength of Weak Thought, which is linked the leftist political tradition, is apparent in the refusal of the violence of metaphysics – understood in Heideggerian terms. In fact, also the leftist political tradition has never provided metaphysical arguments, only justifications taken from the “philosophy of history”, calling for a becoming of history which could be interpreted as a potentially emancipative succession of events, which needed to be recognized and actively promoted. Along these lines we could propose a comparison between Hermeneutics and Proceduralism. Against any “natural” or “given” fact, both orientations envision a dialogical and persuasive negotiation, aimed at reaching a resolution legitimated by shared rules. This perspective can be regarded as a project towards a democracy founded on the memory and vision of Europe.
description: Trópos, V. 2 N. 1 (2009): Dialogo e conflitto
Performance of African-ancestry-specific polygenic hazard score varies according to local ancestry in 8q24
Creators: name: Park, J.Y.
name: The PRACTICAL Consortium
name: Drake, B.F.
name: Dale, A.M.
name: Andreassen, O.A.
name: Lui, A.
name: Cussenot, O.
name: Kibel, A.S.
name: Martinez, M.E.
name: Mohler, J.L.
name: Tangen, C.M.
name: Lin, H.-Y.
name: Goodman, P.J.
name: Mahal, B.
name: Cullen, J.
name: Thompson, W.
name: Blanchet, P.
name: Sanderson, M.
name: Multigner, L.
name: Rose, B.S.
name: Menegaux, F.
name: Lophatananon, A.
name: Bush, W.S.
name: Blot, W.J.
name: Fan, C.C.
name: Seibert, T.M.
name: Parent, M.-É.
name: Aldrich, M.C.
name: Thompson, I.M., Jr.
name: UKGPCS Collaborators
name: Leach, R.J.
name: Taylor, J.A.
name: Crawford, D.C.
name: Eeles, R.A.
name: John, E.M.
name: Huynh-Le, M.-P.
name: Fontham, E.T.H.
name: Mills, I.G.
name: Zheng, W.
name: Brureau, L.
name: Cancel-Tassin, G.
name: Truong, T.
name: Bensen, J.T.
name: Fowke, J.H.
name: Muir, K.
name: Hu, J.J.
name: Romana, M.
name: Kote-Jarai, Z.
name: Karunamuni, R.A.
name: Petrovics, G.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2022

description: Background: We previously developed an African-ancestry-specific polygenic hazard score (PHS46+African) that substantially improved prostate cancer risk stratification in men with African ancestry. The model consists of 46 SNPs identified in Europeans and 3 SNPs from 8q24 shown to improve model performance in Africans. Herein, we used principal component (PC) analysis to uncover subpopulations of men with African ancestry for whom the utility of PHS46+African may differ. Materials and methods: Genotypic data were obtained from the PRACTICAL consortium for 6253 men with African genetic ancestry. Genetic variation in a window spanning 3 African-specific 8q24 SNPs was estimated using 93 PCs. A Cox proportional hazards framework was used to identify the pair of PCs most strongly associated with the performance of PHS46+African. A calibration factor (CF) was formulated using Cox coefficients to quantify the extent to which the performance of PHS46+African varies with PC. Results: CF of PHS46+African was strongly associated with the first and twentieth PCs. Predicted CF ranged from 0.41 to 2.94, suggesting that PHS46+African may be up to 7 times more beneficial to some African men than others. The explained relative risk for PHS46+African varied from 3.6% to 9.9% for individuals with low and high CF values, respectively. By cross-referencing our data set with 1000 Genomes, we identified significant associations between continental and calibration groupings. Conclusion: We identified PCs within 8q24 that were strongly associated with the performance of PHS46+African. Further research to improve the clinical utility of polygenic risk scores (or models) is needed to improve health outcomes for men of African ancestry.
MM-ALT: A Multimodal Automatic Lyric Transcription System
Creators: name: Gu, Xiangming
name: Ou, Longshen
name: Ong, Danielle
name: Wang, Ye
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic lyric transcription (ALT) is a nascent field of study attracting increasing interest from both the speech and music information retrieval communities, given its significant application potential. However, ALT with audio data alone is a notoriously difficult task due to instrumental accompaniment and musical constraints resulting in degradation of both the phonetic cues and the intelligibility of sung lyrics. To tackle this challenge, we propose the MultiModal Automatic Lyric Transcription system (MM-ALT), together with a new dataset, N20EM, which consists of audio recordings, videos of lip movements, and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data of an earbud worn by the performing singer. We first adapt the wav2vec 2.0 framework from automatic speech recognition (ASR) to the ALT task. We then propose a video-based ALT method and an IMU-based voice activity detection (VAD) method. In addition, we put forward the Residual Cross Attention (RCA) mechanism to fuse data from the three modalities (i.e., audio, video, and IMU). Experiments show the effectiveness of our proposed MM-ALT system, especially in terms of noise robustness. Project page is at https://n20em.github.io.
description: Accepted by ACM Multimedia 2022. Camera ready version and appendix
Additional file 1: of Effect of dose and dose rate on temporal Îł-H2AX kinetics in mouse blood and spleen mononuclear cells in vivo following Cesium-137 administration
Creators: name: Turner, Helen
name: Younghyun Lee
name: Weber, Waylon
name: Dunstana Melo
name: Kowell, Aimee
name: Ghandhi, Shanaz
name: Amundson, Sally
name: Brenner, David
name: Shuryak, Igor
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Table S1. Mouse Experimental Design. (PDF 11 kb)
Conflittualità politica e dialettica della verità
Creators: name: D’Agostini, Franca
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2023

description: The article is focused on the conception of “dialectics” as “semantics of philosophical concepts”, such as truth, being, justice. The ubiquity and at the same time frailty of these concepts are especially stressed: their frailty is at the origin of nihilism, but nihilism, intended as negation of truth, being, justice and so on, is untenable, as the concepts involved are ubiquitous and therefore undeniable. The awareness concerning these dialectical results is the distinctive note of the hermeneutical-nihilistic conception of truth. In section 1 the notion of dialectics as logic of conceptual properties, between Kant and Hegel, is delineated; in section 2 the self-contradiction of nihilism is presented; section 3 presents instead the frailty of undeniable concepts, and section 4 is focused on the dialectics of truth, as implied in Tarski’s schema; section 5 analyses the source of conceptual dialectics as presented by Hegel in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy. Finally, section 6 reconsiders Vattimo’s hermeneutical-nihilistic conception of truth in the perspective of the philosophical bases of political conflicts.
description: Trópos, V. 2 N. 1 (2009): Dialogo e conflitto
Changes in dynamic transitions between integrated and segregated states underlie visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease.
Creators: name: Zarkali, Angeliki
name: Luppi, Andrea I
name: Stamatakis, Emmanuel A
name: Reeves, Suzanne
name: McColgan, Peter
name: Leyland, Louise-Ann
name: Lees, Andrew J
name: Weil, Rimona S
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Article
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article

description: Hallucinations are a core feature of psychosis and common in Parkinson's. Their transient, unexpected nature suggests a change in dynamic brain states, but underlying causes are unknown. Here, we examine temporal dynamics and underlying structural connectivity in Parkinson's-hallucinations using a combination of functional and structural MRI, network control theory, neurotransmitter density and genetic analyses. We show that Parkinson's-hallucinators spent more time in a predominantly Segregated functional state with fewer between-state transitions. The transition from integrated-to-segregated state had lower energy cost in Parkinson's-hallucinators; and was therefore potentially preferable. The regional energy needed for this transition was correlated with regional neurotransmitter density and gene expression for serotoninergic, GABAergic, noradrenergic and cholinergic, but not dopaminergic, receptors. We show how the combination of neurochemistry and brain structure jointly shape functional brain dynamics leading to hallucinations and highlight potential therapeutic targets by linking these changes to neurotransmitter systems involved in early sensory and complex visual processing.
Violenza, diritto e dialogo
Creators: name: Dottori, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2023

description: This text shows how the tension between violence and brutality, on one side, and dialogue and persuasion, on the other, has always been the fundamental engine of Platonic thought. It will also show how this contrast intrinsically belongs to humankind, as it contains both animal and god. For Plato it is very problematic to find and follow a way in which the will to dialogue overcomes and unifies these opposite sides, all the most because dialogue itself and the will to persuasion can be infiltrated by exploitation and injustice. In conclusion, it is the strength of the myth of virtue and the will to elevate oneself towards the divine that allow the philosopher to find a way of defeating violence with the power of the law, thus indicating a path to humankind.
description: Trópos, V. 2 N. 1 (2009): Dialogo e conflitto
Low-cost educational robotics applied to physics teaching in Brazil
Creators: name: Souza, Marcos A. M.
name: Duarte, José R. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we propose strategies and methodologies of teaching topics in high school physics, through a show of Educational Robotics. The Exhibition was part of a set of actions promoted by a brazilian government program of incentive for teaching activities (PIBID) and whose primary focus is the training of teachers, improvement of teaching in public schools, dissemination of science and formation of new scientists and researchers. By means of workshops, banners and prototyping of robotics, we are able to create a connection between the study areas and their surrounding, making learning meaningful and accessible for the students involved and contributing to their cognitive development.
description: 5 pages and 10 figures
Functional macroporous iron-phosphorous films by electrodeposition on colloidal crystal templates
Creators: name: Golvano-Escobal, Irati
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Pseudo-ordered macroporous iron-phosphorous (Fe-P) films have been electrodeposited potentiostatically from a citrate-sulfate bath onto Au surfaces pre-patterned with a colloidal crystal mask of polystyrene spheres of 350 nm in diameter. The electrolyte contained sodium hypophosphite as the P source, enabling the incorporation of 6–14 at.% P. For comparative purposes, continuous films have been obtained galvanostatically on unpatterned Au surfaces. In both cases, the P content could be varied to a certain extent by adjusting the deposition potential or current density. Tunable microstructure and magnetic response was observed due to the dissimilar chemical composition, with coercivity values being larger in the macroporous films. Additionally, wettability analyses showed that these were more hydrophobic, reaching contact angle values of about 130∘. In spite of their hydrophobic character, the samples were catalytic toward oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline media. The macroporous Fe-P films showed faster kinetics for OER than their nonporous counterparts. Our results show that electrodeposited porous Fe-P based materials show an interesting combination of properties which make them appealing for applications including water cleaning, soft-magnetic components, or electrocatalytic production of oxygen, to name a few.
Characterizing and Optimizing End-to-End Systems for Private Inference
Creators: name: Garimella, Karthik
name: Ghodsi, Zahra
name: Jha, Nandan Kumar
name: Garg, Siddharth
name: Reagen, Brandon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In two-party machine learning prediction services, the client's goal is to query a remote server's trained machine learning model to perform neural network inference in some application domain. However, sensitive information can be obtained during this process by either the client or the server, leading to potential collection, unauthorized secondary use, and inappropriate access to personal information. These security concerns have given rise to Private Inference (PI), in which both the client's personal data and the server's trained model are kept confidential. State-of-the-art PI protocols consist of a pre-processing or offline phase and an online phase that combine several cryptographic primitives: Homomorphic Encryption (HE), Secret Sharing (SS), Garbled Circuits (GC), and Oblivious Transfer (OT). Despite the need and recent performance improvements, PI remains largely arcane today and is too slow for practical use. This paper addresses PI's shortcomings with a detailed characterization of a standard high-performance protocol to build foundational knowledge and intuition in the systems community. Our characterization pinpoints all sources of inefficiency -- compute, communication, and storage. In contrast to prior work, we consider inference request arrival rates rather than studying individual inferences in isolation and we find that the pre-processing phase cannot be ignored and is often incurred online as there is insufficient downtime to hide pre-compute latency. Finally, we leverage insights from our characterization and propose three optimizations to address the storage (Client-Garbler), computation (layer-parallel HE), and communication (wireless slot allocation) overheads. Compared to the state-of-the-art PI protocol, these optimizations provide a total PI speedup of 1.8$\times$ with the ability to sustain inference requests up to a 2.24$\times$ greater rate.
description: Accepted to the 28th edition of the Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2023 Conference
Additional file 1: of Acute Dysnatremias - a dangerous and overlooked clinical problem
Creators: name: Joergensen, David
name: Kiarash Tazmini
name: Jacobsen, Dag
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Acute Dysnatremias. (DOCX 247 kb)
Bayesian inference of CMB gravitational lensing
Creators: name: Anderes, Ethan
name: Wandelt, Benjamin
name: Lavaux, Guilhem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Planck satellite, along with several ground based telescopes, have mapped the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at sufficient resolution and signal-to-noise so as to allow a detection of the subtle distortions due to the gravitational influence of the intervening matter distribution. A natural modeling approach is to write a Bayesian hierarchical model for the lensed CMB in terms of the unlensed CMB and the lensing potential. So far there has been no feasible algorithm for inferring the posterior distribution of the lensing potential from the lensed CMB map. We propose a solution that allows efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling from the joint posterior of the lensing potential and the unlensed CMB map using the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo technique. The main conceptual step in the solution is a re-parameterization of CMB lensing in terms of the lensed CMB and the "inverse lensing" potential. We demonstrate a fast implementation on simulated data including noise and a sky cut, that uses a further acceleration based on a very mild approximation of the inverse lensing potential. We find that the resulting Markov Chain has short correlation lengths and excellent convergence properties, making it promising for application to high resolution CMB data sets of the future.
INFWIDE: Image and Feature Space Wiener Deconvolution Network for Non-blind Image Deblurring in Low-Light Conditions
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhihong
name: Cheng, Yuxiao
name: Suo, Jinli
name: Bian, Liheng
name: Dai, Qionghai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Under low-light environment, handheld photography suffers from severe camera shake under long exposure settings. Although existing deblurring algorithms have shown promising performance on well-exposed blurry images, they still cannot cope with low-light snapshots. Sophisticated noise and saturation regions are two dominating challenges in practical low-light deblurring. In this work, we propose a novel non-blind deblurring method dubbed image and feature space Wiener deconvolution network (INFWIDE) to tackle these problems systematically. In terms of algorithm design, INFWIDE proposes a two-branch architecture, which explicitly removes noise and hallucinates saturated regions in the image space and suppresses ringing artifacts in the feature space, and integrates the two complementary outputs with a subtle multi-scale fusion network for high quality night photograph deblurring. For effective network training, we design a set of loss functions integrating a forward imaging model and backward reconstruction to form a close-loop regularization to secure good convergence of the deep neural network. Further, to optimize INFWIDE's applicability in real low-light conditions, a physical-process-based low-light noise model is employed to synthesize realistic noisy night photographs for model training. Taking advantage of the traditional Wiener deconvolution algorithm's physically driven characteristics and arisen deep neural network's representation ability, INFWIDE can recover fine details while suppressing the unpleasant artifacts during deblurring. Extensive experiments on synthetic data and real data demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach.
description: Accepted by IEEE Trans. Image Process, early access version available at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10047966
Evaluation of transabdominal and transperineal ultrasound-derived prostate specific antigen (PSA) density and clinical utility compared to MRI prostate volumes: A feasibility study.
Creators: name: Pantelidou, Maria
name: Caglic, Iztok
name: George, Anne
name: Blyuss, Oleg
name: Gnanapragasam, Vincent J
name: Barrett, Tristan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research Article
Medicine and health sciences
Research and analysis methods
Biology and life sciences

description: PURPOSE: To investigate the accuracy of surface-based ultrasound-derived PSA-density (US-PSAD) versus gold-standard MRI-PSAD as a risk-stratification tool. METHODS: Single-centre prospective study of patients undergoing MRI for suspected prostate cancer (PCa). Four combinations of US-volumes were calculated using transperineal (TP) and transabdominal (TA) views, with triplanar measurements to calculate volume and US-PSAD. Intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to compare US and MRI volumes. Categorical comparison of MRI-PSAD and US-PSAD was performed at PSAD cut-offs <0.15, 0.15-0.20, and >0.20 ng/mL2 to assess agreement with MRI-PSAD risk-stratification decisions. RESULTS: 64 men were investigated, mean age 69 years and PSA 7.0 ng/mL. 36/64 had biopsy-confirmed prostate cancer (18 Gleason 3+3, 18 Gleason ≥3+4). Mean MRI-derived gland volume was 60 mL, compared to 56 mL for TA-US, and 65 mL TP-US. ICC demonstrated good agreement for all US volumes with MRI, with highest agreement for transabdominal US, followed by combined TA/TP volumes. Risk-stratification decisions to biopsy showed concordant agreement between triplanar MRI-PSAD and ultrasound-PSAD in 86-91% and 92-95% at PSAD thresholds of >0.15 ng/mL2 and >0.12 ng/mL2, respectively. Decision to biopsy at threshold >0.12 ng/mL2, demonstrated sensitivity ranges of 81-100%, specificity 85-100%, PPV 86-100% and NPV 83-100%. Transabdominal US provided optimal sensitivity of 100% for this clinical decision, with specificity 85%, and transperineal US provided optimal specificity of 100%, with sensitivity 87%. CONCLUSION: Transperineal-US and combined TA-TP US-derived PSA density values compare well with standard MRI-derived values and could be used to provide accurate PSAD at presentation and inform the need for further investigations.
Quantum vs classical genetic algorithms: A numerical comparison shows faster convergence
Creators: name: Ibarrondo, Rubén
name: Gatti, Giancarlo
name: Sanz, Mikel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Genetic algorithms are heuristic optimization techniques inspired by Darwinian evolution. Quantum computation is a new computational paradigm which exploits quantum resources to speed up information processing tasks. Therefore, it is sensible to explore the potential enhancement in the performance of genetic algorithms by introducing quantum degrees of freedom. Along this line, a modular quantum genetic algorithm has recently been proposed, with individuals encoded in independent registers comprising exchangeable quantum subroutines [arXiv:2203.15039], which leads to different variants. Here, we address the numerical benchmarking of these algorithms against classical genetic algorithms, a comparison missing from previous literature. To overcome the severe limitations of simulating quantum algorithms, our approach focuses on measuring the effect of quantum resources on the performance. In order to isolate the effect of the quantum resources in the performance, the classical variants have been selected to resemble the fundamental characteristics of the quantum genetic algorithms. Under these conditions, we encode an optimization problem in a two-qubit Hamiltonian and face the problem of finding its ground state. A numerical analysis based on a sample of 200 random cases shows that some quantum variants outperform all classical ones in convergence speed towards a near-to-optimal result. Additionally, we have considered a diagonal Hamiltonian and the Hamiltonian of the hydrogen molecule to complete the analysis with two relevant use-cases. If this advantage holds for larger systems, quantum genetic algorithms would provide a new tool to address optimization problems with quantum computers.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the IEEE Symposium Series On Computational Intelligence 2022
Il comico tra dialogo e conflitto
Creators: name: Salizzoni, Roberto
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2023

description: In Problems of Dostoevsky Creative Art (1929) Bachtin presents polyphonic novel in terms of dialogical unfinalizability. In his manuscript (1938) eventually published as Rabelais and His World (1965) Bachtin argues that carnival laughter overcomes all oppressive social norms and presents his unfinalizability as pure loophole: in this way he regards modern novel as a space for dialog and conflict. Averincev, Groys and Ryklin affirm that in fact with his carnival theory Bachtin justified Stalinist violence, where neither dialog nor conflict were possible. laughter
description: Trópos, V. 2 N. 1 (2009): Dialogo e conflitto
Aristóteles y Vattimo
Creators: name: Oñate, Teresa
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2023

description: The central subject of this writing is to work in the exploration – following an Aristotle’s lesson in his First Philosophy: Book IV 2 – of the conflictual relationship between three kinds of reason: the Dialectical one, the Sophistic, and the Philosophical thought. This analysis permits to realise how in our time Gianni Vattimo’s Debolist Hermeneutics – after Gadamer, the Second Heidegger and the critic of the metaphysics based on Nietzsche – is one of the best positions and perspectives for going on in Philosophy, weakening the violence of the dialectical metaphysics and its sophistic brutality from their own roots, after the dialectics of the Enlightenment and the unwanted results of the unlimited nihilistic capitalism.
description: Trópos, V. 2 N. 1 (2009): Dialogo e conflitto
MOESM1 of Identification of proteins expressed by Babesia bigemina kinetes
Creators: name: Gamila Bohaliga
name: Johnson, Wendell
name: Taus, Naomi
name: Hussein, Hala
name: Bastos, Reginaldo
name: Suarez, Carlos
name: Scoles, Glen
name: Massaro Ueti
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Amino acids alignment of BbiKSP among Babesia species with their accession numbers: B. bigemina, XP_012767701.1; B. bovis, XP_001608872.1; B. ovata, GBE61312.1; B. sp. Xinjiang, ORM40592.1.
Additional file 3: of Effect of dose and dose rate on temporal Îł-H2AX kinetics in mouse blood and spleen mononuclear cells in vivo following Cesium-137 administration
Creators: name: Turner, Helen
name: Younghyun Lee
name: Weber, Waylon
name: Dunstana Melo
name: Kowell, Aimee
name: Ghandhi, Shanaz
name: Amundson, Sally
name: Brenner, David
name: Shuryak, Igor
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Dose predictions calculated from injected 137Cs activity predictions at different time points. Solid circles represent median estimates across multiple Monte Carlo simulations, and error bars indicate their ranges (minimum to maximum). The black line represents a theoretical 1:1 correspondence. (PDF 140 kb)
Identifying the ground state structures of point defects in solids
Creators: name: Mosquera-Lois, Irea
name: Kavanagh, Seán R.
name: Walsh, Aron
name: Scanlon, David O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Point defects are a universal feature of crystalline materials. Their identification is often addressed by combining experimental measurements with theoretical models. The standard approach of simulating defects is, however, prone to missing the ground state atomic configurations associated with energy-lowering reconstructions from the idealised crystallographic environment. Missed ground states compromise the accuracy of calculated properties. To address this issue, we report an approach to efficiently navigate the defect configurational landscape using targeted bond distortions and rattling. Application of our workflow to a range of materials ($\rm CdTe$, $\rm GaAs$, $\rm Sb_2S_3$, $\rm Sb_2Se_3$, $\rm CeO_2$, $\rm In_2O_3$, $\rm ZnO$, anatase-$\rm TiO_2$) reveals symmetry breaking in each host crystal that is not found via conventional local minimisation techniques. The point defect distortions are classified by the associated physico-chemical factors. We demonstrate the impact of these defect distortions on derived properties, including formation energies, concentrations and charge transition levels. Our work presents a step forward for quantitative modelling of imperfect solids.
Flux free growth of large FeSe1/2Te1/2 superconducting single crystals by an easy high temperature melt and slow cooling method
Creators: name: Jha, Rajveer
name: Maheshwari, P. K.
name: Gahtori, Bhasker
name: Awana, V. P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report successful growth of flux free large single crystals of superconducting FeSe1/2Te1/2 with typical dimensions of up to few cm. The AC and DC magnetic measurements revealed the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) value of around 11.5K and the iso-thermal MH showed typical type-II superconducting behavior. The lower critical field being estimated by measuring the low field iso-thermal magnetization in superconducting regime is found to be above 200 Oe at 0K.
description: 15 pages text + Figs. Novel large cm size FeSe1/2Te1/2 superconducting crystals
Interferometric carrier-envelope phase stabilization for ultrashort pulses in the mid-infrared
Creators: name: Meierhofer, Manuel
name: Maier, Simon
name: Afanasiev, Dmytro
name: Freudenstein, Josef
name: Schmid, Christoph P.
name: Huber, Rupert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate an active carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stabilization scheme for optical waveforms generated by difference-frequency mixing of two spectrally detuned and phase-correlated pulses. By performing ellipsometry with spectrally overlapping parts of two co-propagating near-infrared generation pulse trains, we stabilize their relative timing to 18 as. Consequently, we can lock the CEP of the generated mid-infrared (MIR) pulses with a remaining phase jitter below 30 mrad. Employing these pulses for high-harmonic generation in a bulk semiconductor validates our technique. This experiment reveals that our method also stabilizes the energy of the MIR pulses, thereby approaching the intrinsic stability of the underlying laser system.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Efficient All-reduce for Distributed DNN Training in Optical Interconnect System
Creators: name: Dai, Fei
name: Chen, Yawen
name: Huang, Zhiyi
name: Zhang, Haibo
name: Zhang, Fangfang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Communication efficiency plays an important role in accelerating the distributed training of Deep Neural Networks (DNN). All-reduce is the crucial communication primitive to reduce model parameters in distributed DNN training. Most existing all-reduce algorithms are designed for traditional electrical interconnect systems, which cannot meet the communication requirements for distributed training of large DNNs due to the low data bandwidth of the electrical interconnect systems. One of the promising alternatives for electrical interconnect is optical interconnect, which can provide high bandwidth, low transmission delay, and low power cost. We propose an efficient scheme called WRHT (Wavelength Reused Hierarchical Tree) for implementing all-reduce operation in optical interconnect systems. WRHT can take advantage of WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) to reduce the communication time of distributed data-parallel DNN training. We further derive the required number of wavelengths, the minimum number of communication steps, and the communication time for the all-reduce operation on optical interconnect. The constraint of insertion loss is also considered in our analysis. Simulation results show that the communication time of all-reduce by WRHT is reduced by 80.81%, 64.36%, and 82.12%, respectively, compared with three traditional all-reduce algorithms according to our simulation results of an optical interconnect system. Our results also show that WRHT can reduce the communication time of all-reduce operation by 92.42% and 91.31% compared to two existing all-reduce algorithms running in the electrical interconnect system.
description: This paper is accepted by PPoPP as a poster
Additional file 4: of Effect of dose and dose rate on temporal γ-H2AX kinetics in mouse blood and spleen mononuclear cells in vivo following Cesium-137 administration
Creators: name: Turner, Helen
name: Younghyun Lee
name: Weber, Waylon
name: Dunstana Melo
name: Kowell, Aimee
name: Ghandhi, Shanaz
name: Amundson, Sally
name: Brenner, David
name: Shuryak, Igor
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S2. ROC analysis of model performance on “low” vs “high” injected activities (AUC = 0.93). (PDF 4 kb)
Revista Diálogos Interdisciplinarios en Red,Выпуск 1 (1) 2023
Creators: name: Escuela Internacional De Negocios Y Desarrollo Empresarial De Colombia
Publisher: name: Escuela Internacional de Negocios y Desarrollo Empresarial de Colombia
Year: 2023

description: Revista Diálogos Interdisciplinarios en Red,Выпуск 1 (1) 2023
Additional file 1: of Developing integrated community-based HIV prevention, harm reduction, and sexual and reproductive health services for women who inject drugs
Creators: name: Ayon, Sylvia
name: Jeneby, Fatma
name: Faizah Hamid
name: Badhrus, Abdalla
name: Abdulrahman, Taib
name: Gitau Mburu
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Translation of this article into French. (PDF 325 kb)
Quantum Machine Learning for Distributed Quantum Protocols with Local Operations and Noisy Classical Communications
Creators: name: Chittoor, Hari Hara Suthan
name: Simeone, Osvaldo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distributed quantum information processing protocols such as quantum entanglement distillation and quantum state discrimination rely on local operations and classical communications (LOCC). Existing LOCC-based protocols typically assume the availability of ideal, noiseless, communication channels. In this paper, we study the case in which classical communication takes place over noisy channels, and we propose to address the design of LOCC protocols in this setting via the use of quantum machine learning tools. We specifically focus on the important tasks of quantum entanglement distillation and quantum state discrimination, and implement local processing through parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) that are optimized to maximize the average fidelity and average success probability in the respective tasks, while accounting for communication errors. The introduced approach, Noise Aware-LOCCNet (NA-LOCCNet), is shown to have significant advantages over existing protocols designed for noiseless communications.
description: Published in Entropy journal. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2205.08561
Additional file 5: of Effect of dose and dose rate on temporal Îł-H2AX kinetics in mouse blood and spleen mononuclear cells in vivo following Cesium-137 administration
Creators: name: Turner, Helen
name: Younghyun Lee
name: Weber, Waylon
name: Dunstana Melo
name: Kowell, Aimee
name: Ghandhi, Shanaz
name: Amundson, Sally
name: Brenner, David
name: Shuryak, Igor
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S3. Measurement of the number of healthy and highly- damaged blood and spleen MNCs over the 14-day study period. For comparison, the ratio of damaged/healthy cells in non-exposed blood and spleen MNCs were 0.1; whereas the ratios of healthy/damaged cells were 17.6 and 12.3, respectively. (PDF 5 kb)
Ethics and the Commitment to Truth
Creators: name: Malpas, Jeff
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2023

description: Le società contemporanee hanno un carattere essenzialmente pluralista – esse sono fatte di una molteplicità di etnie, linguaggi e culture. Un tale pluralismo è senza dubbio uno dei fattori che hanno favorito la diffusa tendenza a ritenere i concetti di verità e di etica come irrilevanti o relativistici. Non possiamo però abbandonare né l’impegno etico né l’idea che in tale impegno dobbiamo guardare al di là delle nostre preferenze e convinzioni. L’impegno etico è esso stesso legato all’impegno per la verità, poiché l’impegno per la verità comporta non solo un riconoscimento delle pretese che noi stessi avanziamo nei confronti del mondo, ma anche delle pretese che il mondo ha nei nostri confronti. La verità richiede lo stesso riconoscimento e la stessa responsabilità nei confronti dell’altro che è al cuore dell’etica. Più che essere in conflitto con la pluralità, l’impegno per la verità e per l’etica è fondamentale per una reale possibilità della pluralità, così come per la possibilità di ogni politica propriamente democratica. Lavorare a un’appropriata considerazione della verità e dell’etica è dunque un compito significativo per la filosofia contemporanea: quel che qui si è cercato di fare è schizzarne le linee generali.
description: Trópos, V. 2 N. 1 (2009): Dialogo e conflitto
Additional file 1 of Trajectories of peripheral white blood cells count around the menopause: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Dai, Qiaoyun
name: Zhang, Yaya
name: Zhao, Xiujuan
name: Yang, Xueying
name: Sun, Huayu
name: Wu, Shouling
name: Chen, Shuohua
name: Wang, Jianmei
name: Cao, Zongfu
name: Ma, Xu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Parallel syndrome extraction with shared flag qubits for Calderbank-Shor-Steane codes of distance three
Creators: name: Liou, Pei-Hao
name: Lai, Ching-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To perform achieve fault-tolerant quantum computation, one can use flagged syndrome extraction with fewer ancilla qubits. However, it suffers from long circuit depth if one stabilizer is measured at a time. Previously, Reichardt showed that it is possible to measure multiple stabilizers with at most one shared flag qubit for certain small quantum codes. In this paper, we propose a procedure for general Calderbank-Shor-Steane codes of distance three so that multiple $Z$-stabilizers ($X$-stabilizers) can be fault-tolerantly measured in parallel with one shared flag qubit. We simulate the memory and computation pseudo-thresholds for various code schemes. In particular, our parallel scheme based on Shor's nine-qubit code performs better than known seven- and nine-qubit schemes in the literature.