cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fake news agenda in the era of COVID-19: Identifying trends through fact-checking content
Creators: name: Ceron, Wilson
name: de-Lima-Santos, Mathias-Felipe
name: Quiles, Marcos G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rise of social media has ignited an unprecedented circulation of false information in our society. It is even more evident in times of crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Fact-checking efforts have expanded greatly and have been touted as among the most promising solutions to fake news, especially in times like these. Several studies have reported the development of fact-checking organizations in Western societies, albeit little attention has been given to the Global South. Here, to fill this gap, we introduce a novel Markov-inspired computational method for identifying topics in tweets. In contrast to other topic modeling approaches, our method clusters topics and their current evolution in a predefined time window. Through these, we collected data from Twitter accounts of two Brazilian fact-checking outlets and presented the topics debunked by these initiatives in fortnights throughout the pandemic. By comparing these organizations, we could identify similarities and differences in what was shared by them. Our method resulted in an important technique to cluster topics in a wide range of scenarios, including an infodemic -- a period overabundance of the same information. In particular, the data clearly revealed a complex intertwining between politics and the health crisis during this period. We conclude by proposing a generic model which, in our opinion, is suitable for topic modeling and an agenda for future research.
Language-guided Navigation via Cross-Modal Grounding and Alternate Adversarial Learning
Creators: name: Zhang, Weixia
name: Ma, Chao
name: Wu, Qi
name: Yang, Xiaokang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The emerging vision-and-language navigation (VLN) problem aims at learning to navigate an agent to the target location in unseen photo-realistic environments according to the given language instruction. The main challenges of VLN arise mainly from two aspects: first, the agent needs to attend to the meaningful paragraphs of the language instruction corresponding to the dynamically-varying visual environments; second, during the training process, the agent usually imitate the shortest-path to the target location. Due to the discrepancy of action selection between training and inference, the agent solely on the basis of imitation learning does not perform well. Sampling the next action from its predicted probability distribution during the training process allows the agent to explore diverse routes from the environments, yielding higher success rates. Nevertheless, without being presented with the shortest navigation paths during the training process, the agent may arrive at the target location through an unexpected longer route. To overcome these challenges, we design a cross-modal grounding module, which is composed of two complementary attention mechanisms, to equip the agent with a better ability to track the correspondence between the textual and visual modalities. We then propose to recursively alternate the learning schemes of imitation and exploration to narrow the discrepancy between training and inference. We further exploit the advantages of both these two learning schemes via adversarial learning. Extensive experimental results on the Room-to-Room (R2R) benchmark dataset demonstrate that the proposed learning scheme is generalized and complementary to prior arts. Our method performs well against state-of-the-art approaches in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.
description: Accepted to IEEE TCSVT
Experimental investigation of the ratchet effect in a two-dimensional electron system with broken spatial inversion symmetry
Creators: name: Sassine, S.
name: Krupko, Yu.
name: Portal, J. -C.
name: Kvon, Z. D.
name: Murali, R.
name: Martin, K. P.
name: Hill, G.
name: Wieck, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on experimental evidence of directed electron transport, induced by external linear-polarized microwave irradiation, in a two-dimensional spatially-periodic asymmetrical system called ratchet. The broken spatial symmetry was introduced in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas based on AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction, by patterning an array of artificial semi-discs-shaped antidots. We show that the direction of the transport is efficiently changed by microwave polarization. The dependence of the effect on magnetic field and temperature is investigated. This represents a significant step towards the realization of new microwave detectors and current generators.
Comparison of Algorithms for Simple Stochastic Games
Creators: name: Křetínský, Jan
name: Ramneantu, Emanuel
name: Slivinskiy, Alexander
name: Weininger, Maximilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Simple stochastic games are turn-based 2.5-player zero-sum graph games with a reachability objective. The problem is to compute the winning probability as well as the optimal strategies of both players. In this paper, we compare the three known classes of algorithms -- value iteration, strategy iteration and quadratic programming -- both theoretically and practically. Further, we suggest several improvements for all algorithms, including the first approach based on quadratic programming that avoids transforming the stochastic game to a stopping one. Our extensive experiments show that these improvements can lead to significant speed-ups. We implemented all algorithms in PRISM-games 3.0, thereby providing the first implementation of quadratic programming for solving simple stochastic games.
description: In Proceedings GandALF 2020, arXiv:2009.09360
Gravitational lensing of transient neutrino sources by black holes
Creators: name: Eiroa, Ernesto F.
name: Romero, Gustavo E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study gravitational lensing of neutrinos by Schwarzschild black holes. In particular, we analyze the case of a neutrino transient source associated with a gamma-ray burst lensed by a supermassive black hole located at the center of an interposed galaxy. We show that the primary and secondary images have an angular separation beyond the resolution of forthcoming km-scale detectors, but the signals from each image have time delays between them that in most cases are longer than the typical duration of the intrinsic events. In this way, the signal from different images can be detected as separate events coming from the very same location in the sky. This would render an event that otherwise might have had a low signal-to-noise ratio a clear detection, since the probability of a repetition of a signal from the same direction is negligible. The relativistic images are so faint and proximate that are beyond the sensitivity and resolution of the next-generation instruments.
description: 9 pages; v2: improved version, new references added. Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
MPEC 2024-A45 : 2024 AV
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 AV

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Gestrich, Christof (hrsg.): Gott, Geld und Gabe
Creators: name: Miggelbrink, Ralf
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 56 Nr. 2 (2007): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 56, Heft 2
Mapping Temporal Trends of Parent-Child Migration from Population-Scale Family Trees
Creators: name: Koylu, Caglar
name: Kasakoff, Alice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: User-generated family trees are invaluable for constructing population-scale family networks and studying population dynamics over many generations and far into the past. Family trees contain information on individuals such as birth and death places and years, and kinship ties, e.g., parent-child, spouse, and sibling relationships. Such information about individuals in family trees makes it possible to extract migration networks over time. Despite the recent advances, existing spatial and temporal abstraction techniques for time-variant flow data have limitations due to the lack of knowledge on the effect of temporal partitioning on flow patterns. In this study, we extracted state-to-state migration patterns over a period of 150 years between 1776 and 1926 from a cleaned, geocoded and connected family trees from Rootsweb.com. We used birthplaces and birthyears of parents and children to extract intergenerational migration flows between states. To reveal the temporal trends of migration patterns, we evaluated three temporal partitioning strategies: (1) predefined periods in American history, (2) overlapping time periods with fixed length, and (3) time periods with variable length, which have approximately equal volume of moves per time period. To account for the effect of geographic proximity and flow volumes in migration flows, we transformed the raw flows into modularity flows using a double-constrained a gravity model. Our preliminary results revealed longitudinal population mobility in the U.S. on such a large spatial and temporal scale.
Learning to Fail? Wartime Adaptation and Special Force in Burma, 1942–1944
Creators: name: Van Ess, Brett
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2022

description: This article considers wartime tactical adaptation and its relationship with operational performance and outcomes during the Second World War. Specifically, it examines Long Range Penetration Groups (LRPG) facing the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma during two major operations to reveal how adaptation may decrease combat effectiveness and contribute to operational failure. This conclusion challenges contemporary assumptions about adaptation during conflict and suggests some of the costs when adaptation fails. It raises new questions about what circumstances and in what ways tactical adaptation may contribute to operational success or failure during mid-to-high intensity combat, relevant for contemporary theorists and practitioners.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol 8 No 1 (2022): Vol 8 No 1 (2022)
LTLf Synthesis on Probabilistic Systems
Creators: name: Wells, Andrew M.
name: Lahijanian, Morteza
name: Kavraki, Lydia E.
name: Vardi, Moshe Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many systems are naturally modeled as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), combining probabilities and strategic actions. Given a model of a system as an MDP and some logical specification of system behavior, the goal of synthesis is to find a policy that maximizes the probability of achieving this behavior. A popular choice for defining behaviors is Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Policy synthesis on MDPs for properties specified in LTL has been well studied. LTL, however, is defined over infinite traces, while many properties of interest are inherently finite. Linear Temporal Logic over finite traces (LTLf) has been used to express such properties, but no tools exist to solve policy synthesis for MDP behaviors given finite-trace properties. We present two algorithms for solving this synthesis problem: the first via reduction of LTLf to LTL and the second using native tools for LTLf. We compare the scalability of these two approaches for synthesis and show that the native approach offers better scalability compared to existing automaton generation tools for LTL.
description: In Proceedings GandALF 2020, arXiv:2009.09360
MPEC 2024-A46 : 2024 AW
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 AW

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Rainbow Ranche Limited, April 30,1931
Creators: name: Rainbow Ranche
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The annual meeting of the Rainbow Ranche Limited, April 30, 1931, dated April 30, 1931; signed by James Goldie, J.E. McAllister, Jessie R. Goldie, R.S. Dormer.
Reversible adsorption on a random site surface
Creators: name: Oleyar, C.
name: Talbot, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the reversible adsorption of hard spheres on a random site surface in which the adsorption sites are uniformly and randomly distributed on a plane. Each site can be occupied by one solute provided that the nearest occupied site is at least one diameter away. We use a numerical method to obtain the adsorption isotherm, i.e. the number of adsorbed particles as a function of the bulk activity. The maximum coverage is obtained in the limit of infinite activity and is known exactly in the limits of low and high site density. An approximate theory for the adsorption isotherms, valid at low site density, is developed by using a cluster expansion of the grand canonical partition function. This requires as input the number of clusters of adsorption site of a given size. The theory is accurate for the entire range of activity as long as the site density is less than about 0.3 sites per particle area. We also discuss a connection between this model and the vertex cover problem.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
title: Femtosecond serial crystallography of two classes of copper nitrite reductase
Creators: name: Halsted, T
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: Copper-containing nitrite reductases (CuNiR) catalyse the reduction of nitrite to the gaseous product nitric oxide. The enzyme forms part of the denitrification pathway which, in some bacteria, forms part of their respiratory network where nitrogen reduction is coupled to the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate. Denitrifying bacteria, through the production of nitrous oxide, have a large greenhouse gas impact and are also opportunist pathogens often found infecting immunocompromised patients. The structure and biochemical properties of CuNiRs have been extensively studied revealing a common functional core of one type 1 copper (T1Cu) site and one type 2 copper (T2Cu) site, linked by a cysteine-histidine bridge. The T1Cu is reduced by a partner redox protein and that electron is transferred to the T2Cu to reduce nitrite along with two protons. The order of this reaction is unknown, however with T2Cu reduction possible before or after nitrite binding. The structural study of this reaction is complicated by radiation damage effecting the copper sites when probed by synchrotron X-ray crystallography (SRX). The copper sites are highly prone to reduction by photoelectrons generated by the radiolysis of solvent inside the crystal. As the probe alters the redox states of the copper sites during data collection, the redox state of multiple species in the crystal change over the course of data collection, preventing them from being refined individually and obscuring the active site intermediates that may establish the enzyme mechanism order. To overcome the radiation damage, data collection was carried out at the SPring-8 angstrom compact free electron laser (SACLA), an X-ray free electron laser (XFEL), which produces femtosecond scale X-ray pulses that allow the diffraction to be captured before the onset of any radiation damage. The size of the pulse width also precludes any molecular rotation or vibration producing a ‘time-frozen’ structure. XFEL collection operates on the principle of ‘diffraction before destruction’ where the high intensity of the X-ray pulse destroys the crystal material and so new crystalline material must be inserted into the beam after each shot. Using this approach, the oxidised structure of two CuNiRs were collected from Achromobacter xylosoxidans (AxNiR) and Achromobacter cycloclastes (AcNiR) along with the reduced and nitrite-bound structures of AcNiR. This XFEL data along with other structural data revealed a basis for the oxidase activity in AxNiR and the pH dependence of AcNiR suggesting an ordered mechanism. This thesis reveals the specific changes that SRX can cause to radiation sensitive metalloproteins and the importance of overcoming it.
British Army Cold Weather and Mountain Warfare Training in the Second World War
Creators: name: Granger, Rob
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2022

description: While the British Army fought the Second World War in the temperate climes of Europe, the deserts of North Africa and the jungles of Malaya and Burma it devoted considerable resources to training and equipping troops to fight in cold weather and mountain warfare. This article will review three different scenarios where the British Army sought to develop units to fight in this specialised environment, the methods they utilised, and the lessons learned from each attempt.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol 8 No 1 (2022): Vol 8 No 1 (2022)
Dynamics of a degenerate Cs-Yb mixture with attractive interspecies interactions
Creators: name: Wilson, Kali E.
name: Guttridge, Alexander
name: Liu, I-Kang
name: Segal, Jack
name: Billam, Thomas P.
name: Parker, Nick G.
name: Proukakis, N. P.
name: Cornish, Simon L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We probe the collective dynamics of a quantum degenerate Bose-Bose mixture of Cs and $^{174}$Yb with attractive interspecies interactions. Specifically, we excite vertical center of mass oscillations of the Cs condensate, and observe significant damping for the Cs dipole mode, due to the rapid transfer of energy to the larger Yb component, and the ensuing acoustic dissipation. Numerical simulations based on coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations provide excellent agreement, and additionally reveal the possibility of late-time revivals (beating) which are found to be highly sensitive to the Cs and Yb atom number combinations. By further tuning the interaction strength of Cs using a broad Feshbach resonance, we explore the stability of the degenerate mixture, and observe collapse of the Cs condensate mediated by the attractive Cs-Yb interaction when $a_{\mathrm{Cs}}<50 \, a_0$, well above the single-species collapse threshold, in good agreement with simulations.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures (inc. supplemental material), supplemental movie
Global Birkhoff coordinates for the periodic Toda lattice
Creators: name: Henrici, Andreas
name: Kappeler, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we prove that the periodic Toda lattice admits globally defined Birkhoff coordinates.
description: 32 pages
Henning von Tresckow in Poland in 1939: The Future anti-Hitler Frondeur and the Origins of the Holocaust
Creators: name: Olex-Szczytowski, Matthew
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2022

description: This article analyses the activities of Brigadier General Henning von Tresckow during his time as a front-line German divisional senior staff officer in Poland in 1939. Tresckow is known for his key role in the military element of the conspiracy which attempted the putsch on 20 July 1944. Latterly historians have shown that from 1941 Tresckow was complicit in atrocities in the Soviet theatre. This article demonstrates that Tresckow’s awareness of atrocities began in Poland. His unit, neighbouring army formations, and SS-police Einsatzgruppen perpetrated anti-Semitic excesses presaging the Holocaust. The article’s findings cast new light on the mental trajectories of Tresckow and other leading 1944 frondeurs.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol 8 No 1 (2022): Vol 8 No 1 (2022)
MPEC 2024-A47 : 2024 AX
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 AX

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
VINE -- A numerical code for simulating astrophysical systems using particles II: Implementation and performance characteristics
Creators: name: Nelson, Andrew F.
name: Wetzstein, M.
name: Naab, T.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue our presentation of VINE. We begin with a description of relevant architectural properties of the serial and shared memory parallel computers on which VINE is intended to run, and describe their influences on the design of the code itself. We continue with a detailed description of a number of optimizations made to the layout of the particle data in memory and to our implementation of a binary tree used to access that data for use in gravitational force calculations and searches for SPH neighbor particles. We describe modifications to the code necessary to obtain forces efficiently from special purpose `GRAPE' hardware. We conclude with an extensive series of performance tests, which demonstrate that the code can be run efficiently and without modification in serial on small workstations or in parallel using OpenMP compiler directives on large scale, shared memory parallel machines. We analyze the effects of the code optimizations and estimate that they improve its overall performance by more than an order of magnitude over that obtained by many other tree codes. Scaled parallel performance of the gravity and SPH calculations, together the most costly components of most simulations, is nearly linear up to maximum machine sizes available to us (120 processors on an Origin~3000). At similar accuracy, performance of VINE, used in GRAPE-tree mode, is approximately a factor two slower than that of VINE, used in host-only mode. Optimizations of the GRAPE/host communications could improve the speed by as much as a factor of three, but have not yet been implemented in VINE.
description: Update to revised and newly resubmitted version of the paper. Code updated to version 1.0.7
Speed of lung inflation at birth influences the initiation of lung injury in preterm lambs
Creators: name: Tingay, David G
name: Fatmous, Monique
name: Kenna, Kelly
name: Chapman, Jack
name: Douglas, Ellen
name: Sett, Arun
name: Poh, Qi Hui
name: Dahm, Sophia I
name: Quach, Tuyen Kim
name: Sourial, Magdy
name: Fang, Haoyun
name: Greening, David
name: Pereira-Fantini, Prue M
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300907
subject: Veterinary medicine (excl. urology)
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 3213
subject: Paediatrics
classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences

description: Gas flow is fundamental for driving tidal ventilation and, thus, the speed of lung motion, but current bias flow settings to support the preterm lung after birth do not have an evidence base. We aimed to determine the role of gas bias flow rates to generate positive pressure ventilation in initiating early lung injury pathways in the preterm lamb. Using slower speeds to inflate the lung during tidal ventilation (gas flow rates 4–6 L/min) did not affect lung mechanics, mechanical power, or gas exchange compared with those currently used in clinical practice (8–10 L/min). Speed of pressure and volume change during inflation were faster with higher flow rates. Lower flow rates resulted in less bronchoalveolar fluid protein, better lung morphology, and fewer detached epithelial cells. Overall, relative to unventilated fetal controls, there was greater protein change using 8-10 L/ min, which was associated with enrichment of acute inflammatory and innate responses. Slowing the speed of lung motion by supporting the preterm lung from birth with lower flow rates than in current clinical use resulted in less lung injury without compromising tidal ventilation or gas exchange.
Wrapping up Metal-Organic Framework Crystals with Carbon Nanotubes
Creators: name: M. Padial, Natalia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The presence of tetrazine units in molecular frameworks enables the formation of ultrathin coatings of single wall nanotubes that decorate the crystal surface. These crystal hybrids can be prepared in one step for combination of mesoporosity and surface areas near 4.000 m2·g-1, with excellent stability in water, and conductivities of 4·10-2 S·cm-1 even at very low carbon weight.
Sustaining Britain’s First ‘Citizen Army’: the Creation and Evolution of Reinforcement Policy for Kitchener’s New Armies, 1914-1916
Creators: name: Davies, Thomas E
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2022

description: Expansion of the British Army through Lord Kitchener’s New Armies has dominated the historiography of the First World War, generating a substantial amount of work on local, regional, and national recruitment. Though important, it has drawn attention away from Kitchener’s efforts to create a reinforcement system capable of sustaining it. Therefore, this article will redress this imbalance by exploring the creation and evolution of reinforcement policy for Kitchener’s New Armies between 1914 and 1916. It will demonstrate that the reinforcement system underwent a chaotic expansion and, overall, could not meet the demands of industrial warfare.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol 8 No 1 (2022): Vol 8 No 1 (2022)
Canonicity in GFG and Transition-Based Automata
Creators: name: Radi, Bader Abu
name: Kupferman, Orna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Minimization of deterministic automata on finite words results in a {\em canonical\/} automaton. For deterministic automata on infinite words, no canonical minimal automaton exists, and a language may have different minimal deterministic Büchi (DBW) or co-Büchi (DCW) automata. In recent years, researchers have studied {\em good-for-games\/} (GFG) automata -- nondeterministic automata that can resolve their nondeterministic choices in a way that only depends on the past. Several applications of automata in formal methods, most notably synthesis, that are traditionally based on deterministic automata, can instead be based on GFG automata. The {\em minimization\/} problem for DBW and DCW is NP-complete, and it stays NP-complete for GFG Büchi and co-Büchi automata. On the other hand, minimization of GFG co-Büchi automata with {\em transition-based\/} acceptance (GFG-tNCWs) can be solved in polynomial time. In these automata, acceptance is defined by a set $α$ of transitions, and a run is accepting if it traverses transitions in $α$ only finitely often. This raises the question of canonicity of minimal deterministic and GFG automata with transition-based acceptance. In this paper we study this problem. We start with GFG-tNCWs and show that the safe components (that is, these obtained by restricting the transitions to these not in $α$) of all minimal GFG-tNCWs are isomorphic, and that by saturating the automaton with transitions in $α$ we get isomorphism among all minimal GFG-tNCWs. Thus, a canonical form for minimal GFG-tNCWs can be obtained in polynomial time. We continue to DCWs with transition-based acceptance (tDCWs), and their dual tDBWs. We show that here, while no canonical form for minimal automata exists, restricting attention to the safe components is useful, and implies that the only minimal tDCWs that have no canonical form are these for which the transition to the GFG model results in strictly smaller automaton, which do have a canonical minimal form.
description: In Proceedings GandALF 2020, arXiv:2009.09360
Haudel, Matthias: Die Selbsterschließung des dreieinigen Gottes
Creators: name: Bienert, Wolfgang A.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 56 Nr. 2 (2007): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 56, Heft 2
Ctedoctema acanthocryptum Stokes 1884
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Oligohymenophorea
Pleuronematida
Ctedectomatidae
Ctedoctema
Ctedoctema acanthocryptum

description: Ctedoctema acanthocryptum Stokes, 1884
Distribution. BRAZIL: Paraná River between the Nupelia’s Field Station and the district of Porto São José, São Pedro do Paraná (Buosi et al. 2014 b, 2015), (Ad).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
Dual Effects of Ram Pressure on Star Formation in Multi-phase Disk Galaxies with Strong Stellar Feedback
Creators: name: Lee, Jaehyun
name: Kimm, Taysun
name: Katz, Harley
name: Rosdahl, Joakim
name: Devriendt, Julien
name: Slyz, Adrianne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the impact of ram pressure stripping due to the intracluster medium (ICM) on star-forming disk galaxies with a multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) maintained by strong stellar feedback. We carry out radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of an isolated disk galaxy embedded in a 10^11 Msun dark matter halo with various ICM winds mimicking the cluster outskirts (moderate) and the central environment (strong). We find that both star formation quenching and triggering occur in ram pressure-stripped galaxies, depending on the strength of the winds. HI and H$_2$ in the outer galactic disk are significantly stripped in the presence of the moderate winds, whereas turbulent pressure provides support against ram pressure in the central region where star formation is active. Moderate ICM winds facilitate gas collapsing, increasing the total star formation rates by ~40% when the wind is oriented face-on or ~80% when it is edge-on. In contrast, strong winds rapidly blow away neutral and molecular hydrogen gas from the galaxy, suppressing the star formation by a factor of two within ~200 Myr. Dense gas clumps with N_H > 10 Msun pc^-2 are easily identified in extraplanar regions, but no significant young stellar populations are found in such clumps. In our attempts to enhance radiative cooling by adopting a colder ICM of T=10^6K, only a few additional stars are formed in the tail region, even if the amount of newly cooled gas increases by an order of magnitude.
description: 26 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
On the action potential as a propagating density pulse and the role of anesthetics
Creators: name: Heimburg, Thomas
name: Jackson, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hodgkin-Huxley model of nerve pulse propagation relies on ion currents through specific resistors called ion channels. We discuss a number of classical thermodynamic findings on nerves that are not contained in this classical theory. Particularly striking is the finding of reversible heat changes, thickness and phase changes of the membrane during the action potential. Data on various nerves rather suggest that a reversible density pulse accompanies the action potential of nerves. Here, we attempted to explain these phenomena by propagating solitons that depend on the presence of cooperative phase transitions in the nerve membrane. These transitions are, however, strongly influenced by the presence of anesthetics. Therefore, the thermodynamic theory of nerve pulses suggests a explanation for the famous Meyer-Overton rule that states that the critical anesthetic dose is linearly related to the solubility of the drug in the membranes.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
The Sicilian Expedition Reconsidered
Creators: name: Drokalos, Sotirios F
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2022

description: According to Thucydides, or the prevailing modern interpretation of his classic work, the Athenian campaign in Sicily was the main cause of the Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian war. Modern scholars tend to favour this view, so much so that the Sicilian campaign is universally held up as a classic example of a strategic mistake. This essay attempts, through the lens of a structural realist or neorealist theory of International Relations, to demonstrate that this was not the case. In fact, the Sicilian expedition was a foreseeable and rational strategic choice which was in line with Athenian foreign policy, and was not the main cause of the Athenian defeat.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol 8 No 1 (2022): Vol 8 No 1 (2022)
Empirically Tested Health Literacy Frameworks
Creators: name: Cudjoe, J
name: Delva, S
name: Cajita, Maan Isabella
name: Han, HR
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: BACKGROUND: Health literacy is a significant determinant of health behaviors, but the pathways through which health literacy influences health behaviors are not completely clear nor consistent. The purpose of this systematic review is to critically appraise studies that have empirically tested the potential pathways linking health literacy to health behavior. METHODS: We performed searches of the electronic databases PubMed, Embase, and CINAHL to identify studies that proposed a conceptual framework and empirically tested the proposed mechanism through which health literacy influences certain health behaviors. Twenty eligible studies were included for analysis. KEY RESULTS: The 20 studies addressed various health behaviors: chronic disease self-management (n = 8), medication adherence (n = 2), overall health status (n = 4), oral care (n = 1), cancer screening (n = 1), shared decision-making (n = 1), health information sharing (n = 1), physical activity and eating behaviors (n = 1), and emergency department visits (n = 1). Most studies were conducted in the United States (n = 13) and used a cross-sectional design (n = 15). The Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults was commonly used to assess health literacy levels. Selection of variables and their operationalization were informed by a theoretical model in 12 studies. Age, gender, race/ethnicity, and insurance status were reported antecedents to health literacy. The most commonly tested mediators were self-efficacy (n = 8) and disease knowledge (n = 4). Fit indices reported in the studies ranged from acceptable to excellent. DISCUSSION: Current evidence supports self-efficacy as a mediator between health literacy and health behavior. Further research is needed to identify how health literacy interplays with known psychosocial factors to inform people's use of preventive care services. Future studies should include more disadvantaged populations such as immigrants with high disease burden and those with low health literacy. Theory-based, empirically tested health literacy models can serve as the conceptual basis for developing effective health interventions to improve health behaviors and ultimately decrease the burden of disease in such vulnerable populations. [HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice. 2020;4(1):e21-e44.] PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY: This review systemically compiles, and critically appraises 20 existing studies that test conceptual frameworks that propose potential pathways through which health literacy affects health behaviors. The findings from this review can help inform the development of health literacy-focused interventions to improve the health behaviors of populations with disease burdens.
Amblyteles armatorius
Creators: name: Artmann-Graf, Georg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Amblyteles
Amblyteles armatorius

description: Amblyteles armatorius (Forster, 1771), (Abb. 1)
Diese Art ist weitaus die häufigste von allen. Ich habe sie im Jura in 460 Ereignissen, teilweise mit beiden Geschlechtern, nachgewiesen. Ereignisse mit ausschliesslich Männchen liegen 52 vor, und zwar 45 im Flachland der Nordwestschweiz, 3 in der Zentralschweiz, 3 in der Region Hochrhein und 1 im Wallis. In diesen Gebieten sind die Ereignisse seltener, wobei ich allerdings auch weniger Begehungen ausweisen kann.
Weitere Abkürzungen:leg.= gesammelt, coll.=in der Sammlung von; PS=Peter Schmid; RB=Rudolf Bauer (†); MR=Matthias Riedel; NMBe= N aturhistorisches Museum Bern; ECH=O stschweiz; WCH=Westschweiz; ZCH= Z entralschweiz; NWCH= Nordwestschweiz; Mit «NWCH: Jura» sind Faltenjura einschliesslich Südfuss, seltener auch Tafeljura nördlich der Linie Solothurn-Aarau gemeint; mit «NWCH: Mittelland» ist das Flachland in der weiteren Region Olten gemeint.
Die Männchen treten im Jahr deutlich früher auf als die Weibchen: Bei den Männchen notierte ich von Mai bis Juli 400, von August bis Oktober nur noch 3 Ereignisse. Bei den Weibchen habe ich von Januar bis Juli nur 13, im August keine, von September bis November dagegen 103 Ereignisse festgehalten. Beobachtete Höhenverbreitung: von 260 m in Basel bis 1535 m ü.M. in Törbel (VS).
description: Published as part of Artmann-Graf, Georg, 2017, Schlupfwespenfunde aus der Gattungsgruppe der Amblytelina (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae, Ichneumonini) in der Schweiz, pp. 55-61 in Entomo Helvetica 10 on pages 56-58, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986070, http://zenodo.org/record/7957668
The Sigma Form for the PII Hierarchy
Creators: name: Bobrova, Irina
name: Mazzocco, Marta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the so-called sigma form of the second Painlevé hierarchy. To obtain this form, we use some properties of the Hamiltonian structure of the second Painlevé hierarchy and of the Lenard operator.
title: Rejected evidence reassessed: Wirral and the Mersey Basin in the Roman and post-Roman periods (first to seventh centuries AD)
Creators: name: O'Leary, TA
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2525

description: The Wirral Peninsula is located in the North West of England, between the Mersey and the Dee rivers, with its north shore facing directly onto the Irish Sea. A key site within the region is Meols, an ancient port now eroded by the sea, but which has provided a legacy of finds that are testament to its significance across a very broad period of time. The post-Roman history of the North West of England, has traditionally suffered from a deficit of research, literature on the region is limited, with a bias to Chester, or other specific sites and with no recent texts that have the North West or Cheshire as a focus. The catalogue of finds from Meols (Griffiths, Egan and Philpott, 2007) is an important source of information and has served to emphasise the potential for further archaeological work. There is, also, a growing body of information in the database of finds maintained by the Portable Antiquities Scheme. My research revisits questions about post-Roman Wirral in the light of more recent data. The questions relate to the settlement of the peninsula, how it was connected into wider networks of communication and trade and whether there is any evidence of early Christianity. A fourth question which influences each of the others is what relationship there was between Meols and Chester. An original database has been compiled specifically for this research bringing together both new and legacy data from a wide range of sources. This has allowed the data to be analysed in several ways, through an examination of linkages with Roman times, the context of finds and how the whole might fit into a wider regional framework. Through this analysis, it has been possible to suggest potential narratives relating to activity in this specific place in the post-Roman era.
The Quotient in Preorder Theories
Creators: name: Romeo, Íñigo X. Íncer
name: Mangeruca, Leonardo
name: Villa, Tiziano
name: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Seeking the largest solution to an expression of the form A x <= B is a common task in several domains of engineering and computer science. This largest solution is commonly called quotient. Across domains, the meanings of the binary operation and the preorder are quite different, yet the syntax for computing the largest solution is remarkably similar. This paper is about finding a common framework to reason about quotients. We only assume we operate on a preorder endowed with an abstract monotonic multiplication and an involution. We provide a condition, called admissibility, which guarantees the existence of the quotient, and which yields its closed form. We call preordered heaps those structures satisfying the admissibility condition. We show that many existing theories in computer science are preordered heaps, and we are thus able to derive a quotient for them, subsuming existing solutions when available in the literature. We introduce the concept of sieved heaps to deal with structures which are given over multiple domains of definition. We show that sieved heaps also have well-defined quotients.
description: In Proceedings GandALF 2020, arXiv:2009.09360
YANGI DAVRDA O'ZBEKISTON VA AFG'ONISTON MUNOSABATLARI.
Creators: name: Choriyev, Sardor
name: Choriyev, Samandar
name: Jovliyev, Muzaffar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada Afg’onistonning yangi davrdagi tashqi aloqalari haqida bilib olishingiz mumkin. O’z navbatida Afg’onistonning O’zbekiston bilan ikki mamlakat o’rtasidagi aloqalar ham yoritilib o’tgan. Xususan O’zbekistonning Afg’onistonda amalga oshirgan loyihalar bo’yicha ham bilib olishingiz mumkin. Bevosita O’zbekistonning Afg’onistonning moddiy jihatdan qilayotgan yordami haqida ham batafasil ma`lumotga ega bo’lasiz.
Coherent pulsed excitation of degenerate multistate systems: Exact analytic solutions
Creators: name: Kyoseva, E. S.
name: Vitanov, N. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the solution of a multistate system composed of N degenerate lower (ground) states and one upper (excited) state can be reduced by using the Morris-Shore transformation to the solution of a two-state system involving only the excited state and a (bright) superposition of ground states. In addition, there are N-1 dark states composed of ground states. We use this decomposition to derive analytical solutions for degenerate extensions of the most popular exactly soluble models: the resonance solution, the Rabi, Landau-Zener, Rosen-Zener, Allen-Eberly and Demkov-Kunike models. We suggest various applications of the multistate solutions, for example, as tools for creating multistate coherent superpositions by generalized resonant pi-pulses. We show that such generalized pi-pulses can occur even when the upper state is far off resonance, at special detunings, which makes it possible to operate in the degenerate ground-state manifold without populating the (possibly lossy) upper state, even transiently.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Letter to the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District from F..W. Groves, May 1, 1931
Creators: name: Groves, F.W.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to the Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District from F.W. Groves dated May 1 , 1931.
Drag force in a string model dual to large-N QCD
Creators: name: Talavera, Pere
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the drag force exerted on a quark and a di-quark systems in a background dual to large-N QCD at finite temperature. We find that appears a drag force in the former setup with flow of energy proportional to the mass of the quark while in the latter there is no dragging as in other studies. We also review the screening length.
description: 15 pages, typos removed, error corrected, refs added