cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Segregated FLS Processing Cores for V/STOL Autonomous Landing Guidance Assistant System using FPGA
Creators: name: Ahmed, Hossam O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is highly predicted that the roads and parking areas will be extremely congested with vehicles to the point that searching for a novel solution will not be an optional choice for conserving the sustainability rate of the overall humanity's development growth. Such issue could be overcome by developing modified generations of the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles that essentially depend on the Vertical and/or Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) feature to increase the efficiency of landing capabilities on limited-space parking areas. The complexity of integrating an efficient and safe V/STOL feature in such UAM vehicles is notably difficult comparing with the conventional and normal techniques for landing and take-off. The efficient V/STOL feature should be carried out by a complete and collaborative Cyber-Physical System (CPS) processing architecture, such as the CPS-5C architecture. In this paper, we only proposed two CPS-5C physical layers of a V/STOL Autonomous Landing Guidance Assistant System (ALGAS2) processing unit to increase the reliability of the vertical landing mechanism. The proposed V/STOL-ALGAS2 system depends on Fuzzy Logic System (FLS) as the advanced control unit. Furthermore, the proposed ALGAS2 system depends on four symmetric and segregated processing ALGAS2 cores that processing the data in a fully parallel and independent manner to enhance many essential security and safety factors for the futuristic UAM vehicles. The proposed ALGAS2 digital circuits architecture has been designed using MATLAB and VHDL. Also, it has been further analyzed for the implementation and validation tests using the Intel Altera OpenVINO FPGA board. The proposed ALGAS processing unit attained a maximum computational processing performance of about 21.22 Giga Operations per Seconds (GOPS).
description: 2021 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), Dulles, VA, USA
Algebraic methods for reconstruction of coordinates in strip detectors
Creators: name: Smirnov, Igor B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many types of detectors, such as cathode strip chambers and some MPGDs, allow us to reconstruct track positions by induced strip charges. There are two main types of algebraic methods for this reconstruction: center of gravity methods and little-known differential methods. General formulas for differential methods are derived. Their performance is compared with the performance of center of gravity methods. It is shown that the differential methods are better than the previously known center of gravity methods, but the improved center of gravity methods provide results similar to the results of differential methods.
description: 7th international conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors 2022, MPGD2022
Computational Design of Passive Grippers
Creators: name: Kodnongbua, Milin
name: Lou, Ian Good Yu
name: Lipton, Jeffrey
name: Schulz, Adriana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work proposes a novel generative design tool for passive grippers -- robot end effectors that have no additional actuation and instead leverage the existing degrees of freedom in a robotic arm to perform grasping tasks. Passive grippers are used because they offer interesting trade-offs between cost and capabilities. However, existing designs are limited in the types of shapes that can be grasped. This work proposes to use rapid-manufacturing and design optimization to expand the space of shapes that can be passively grasped. Our novel generative design algorithm takes in an object and its positioning with respect to a robotic arm and generates a 3D printable passive gripper that can stably pick the object up. To achieve this, we address the key challenge of jointly optimizing the shape and the insert trajectory to ensure a passively stable grasp. We evaluate our method on a testing suite of 22 objects (23 experiments), all of which were evaluated with physical experiments to bridge the virtual-to-real gap. Code and data are at https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~milink/passive-gripper/
Constraining isocurvature perturbations with the 21cm emission from minihaloes
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Yoshitaka
name: Chongchitnan, Sirichai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of isocurvature perturbations on the 21cm radiation from minihaloes (MHs) at high redshifts and examine constraints on the isocurvature amplitude and power spectrum using the next generation of radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array. We find that there is a realistic prospect of observing the isocurvature imprints in the 21cm emission from MHs, but only if the isocurvature spectral index is close to $3$ (i.e., the spectrum is blue). When the isocurvature fraction increases beyond $\sim 10\%$ of the adiabatic component, we observe an unexpected decline in the 21cm fluctuations from small-mass MHs, which can be explained by the incorporation small MHs into larger haloes. We perform a detailed Fisher-matrix analysis, and conclude that the combination of future CMB and 21cm experiments (such as CMBPol and the Fast-Fourier-Transform Telescope) is ideal in constraining the isocurvature parameters, but will stop short of distinguishing between CDM and baryon types of isocurvature perturbations, unless the isocurvature fraction is large and the spectrum is blue.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, accepted for MNRAS
2018 WMP Political TV Ad Codebook
Creators: name: Franklin Fowler, Erika
name: Franz, Michael M.
name: Ridout, Travis N.
name: Floyd, Breeze
name: Baum, Laura
Publisher: name: Wesleyan University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Political science not elsewhere classified

description: This item contains the Codebook for 2018 Political TV Ad Airings Data from the Wesleyan Media Project.
 Contractual obligations with our data provider, Kantar/CMAG, necessitate that we limit access to the data to members of academic institutions using the data for academic purposes. To learn more and purchase data visit https://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/dataaccess/.
 This item is part of the project 2018 Political TV Ad Airings Data.
Stellar mass-loss near the Eddington limit. Tracing the sub-photospheric layers of classical Wolf-Rayet stars
Creators: name: Gräfener, G.
name: Vink, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Towards the end of their evolution hot massive stars develop strong stellar winds and appear as emission line stars, such as WR stars or LBVs. The quantitative description of the mass loss in these important pre-SN phases is hampered by unknowns such as clumping and porosity due to an in-homogeneous wind structure, and by an incomplete theoretical understanding of optically thick stellar winds. In this work we investigate the conditions in deep atmospheric layers of WR stars to find out whether these comply with the theory of optically thick winds, and whether we find indications of clumping in these layers. We use a new semi-empirical method to determine sonic-point optical depths, densities, and temperatures for a large sample of WR stars of the carbon (WC) and oxygen (WO) sequence. Based on an artificial model sequence we investigate the reliability of our method and its sensitivity to uncertainties in stellar parameters. We find that the WR stars in our sample obey an approximate relation with P_rad/P_gas~80 at the sonic point. This 'wind condition' is ubiquitous for radiatively driven, optically thick winds, and sets constraints on possible wind/envelope solutions affecting radii, mass-loss rates, and clumping properties. Our results suggest that the presence of an optically thick wind may force many stars near the Eddington limit to develop clumped, radially extended sub-surface zones. The clumping in these zones is most likely sustained by the non-linear strange-mode instability, and may be the origin of the observed wind clumping. The properties of typical late-type WC stars comply with this model. Solutions without sub-surface clumping and inflation are also possible but demand for compact stars with comparatively low mass-loss rates. These objects may resemble the small group of WO stars with their exceptionally hot stellar temperatures and highly ionized winds.
description: accepted by A&A
Juscelinomys vulpinus
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Juscelinomys
Juscelinomys vulpinus

description: Juscelinomys vulpinus (Winge, 1887). E Museo Lundii, 1 (3):36. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Pleistocene cave deposits near Lagoa Santa. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. COMMENTS: Moojen (1965) provisionally referred Winge's Oxymycterus vulpinus to Juscelinomys. The present existence of J. vulpinus in the region and its status with respect to J. candango invite attention (see Voss and Myers, 1991).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 706, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Moojen, J. 1965. Novo genero de Cricetidae do Brasil central (Glires, Mammalia). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 25: 281 - 285.", "Voss, R. S., and P. Myers. 1991. Pseudoryzomys simplex (Rodentia: Muridae) and the significance of Lund's collections from the caves of Lagoa Santa, Brazil. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 414 - 432."]}
Health Insurance TV Advertising Codebook
Creators: name: Franklin Fowler, Erika
name: Gollust, Sarah E.
name: Floyd, Breeze
name: Baum, Laura
Publisher: name: Wesleyan University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Public health not elsewhere classified

description: This item contains the Codebook for 2013-2018 Health Insurance TV Ad Airings Data from the Wesleyan Media Project. Contractual obligations with our data provider, Kantar/CMAG, necessitate that we limit access to the data to members of academic institutions using the data for academic purposes. To learn more and purchase data visit https://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/dataaccess/. This item is part of the project Health Insurance TV Advertising 2013-2018.
Rotation curves and dynamical masses of MaNGA barred galaxies
Creators: name: Schmidt, Eduardo O.
name: Mast, Damián
name: Gaspar, Gaia
name: Weidmann, Walter A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyse a sample of 46 barred galaxies of MaNGA. Our goal is to investigate the stellar kinematics of these galaxies and obtain their rotation curves. Additionally, we aim to derive the total stellar and dynamical masses, as well as the maximum rotation velocity, in order to examine their distributions and scaling relations. Using the Pipe3D dataproducts publicly available we obtained the rotation curves, which were fitted considering two components of an axisymmetric Miyamoto-Nagai gravitational potential. We found a wide range of the maximum rotation velocities (117 - 340 km s -1 ), with a mean value of 200 km s -1 . In addition we found that the total stellar and dynamical masses are in the range of log(M star /M sun ) = 10.1 - 11.5, with a mean value of log(M star /M sun ) = 10.8, and log(M dyn /M sun ) = 10.4 - 12.0, with a mean value of log(M dyn /M sun ) = 11.1, respectively. We found a strong correlation between dynamical mass and maximum velocity, between maximum velocity and magnitude, and between stellar mass and maximum velocity. According to these results, barred galaxies exhibit similar behaviour to that of normal spiral galaxies with respect to these relations, as well as in terms of the distribution of their dynamical mass and maximum rotation velocity. Ho we ver, we found that the distribution of stellar masses of barred galaxies is statistically different from other samples including non-barred galaxies. Finally, analysing the galaxies that show nuclear activity, we find no difference with the rotation curves of normal galaxies.
The Spacetime Geometry of a Null Electromagnetic Field
Creators: name: Torre, C. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a set of local geometric conditions on a spacetime metric which are necessary and sufficient for it to be a null electrovacuum, that is, the metric is part of a solution to the Einstein-Maxwell equations with a null electromagnetic field. These conditions are restrictions on a null congruence canonically constructed from the spacetime metric, and can involve up to five derivatives of the metric. The null electrovacuum conditions are counterparts of the Rainich conditions, which geometrically characterize non-null electrovacua. Given a spacetime satisfying the conditions for a null electrovacuum, a straightforward procedure builds the null electromagnetic field from the metric. Null electrovacuum geometry is illustrated using some pure radiation spacetimes taken from the literature.
description: 28 pages
Kunsia Hershkovitz 1966
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Kunsia

description: Kunsia Hershkovitz, 1966. Z. Säugetierk., 31 (2):112. TYPE SPECIES: Mus tomentosus Lichtenstein, 1830. COMMENTS: Species formerly included in Scapteromys until set apart in Kunsia by Hershkovitz (1966c), who arranged both genera in the scapteromyine "group," which he viewed as closely related to oxymycterines. Formal tribal segregation of the two genera affirmed by Reig (1980). Karyology summarized by Gardner and Patton (1976).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 706, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Hershkovitz, P. 1966 c. South American swamp and fossorial rats of the scapteromyine group (Cricetinae, Muridae), with comments on the glans penis in murid taxonomy. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 31: 81 - 149.", "Gardner, A. L., and J. L. Patton. 1976. Karyotypic variation in oryzomyine rodents (Cricetinae) with comments on chromosomal evolution in the Neotropical cricetine complex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, 49: 1 - 48."]}
A next-to-leading Luescher formula
Creators: name: Bombardelli, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a next-to-leading Luescher-like formula for the finite-size corrections of the excited states energies in integrable theories. We conjecture the expressions of the corrections for both the energy and the particles' rapidities by interpreting the excited states as momenta-dependent defects. We check the resulting formulas in some simple relativistic model and conjecture those for the AdS5/CFT4 case.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures;v2: minor corrections, clarifications and a reference added
A Generalizable TCAD Framework for Silicon FinFET Spin Qubit Devices with Electrical Control
Creators: name: Ding, Qian
name: Kuhlmann, Andreas V.
name: Fuhrer, Andreas
name: Schenk, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a TCAD-based simulation framework established for quantum dot spin qubits in a silicon FinFET platform with all-electrical control of the spin state. The framework works down to 1K and consists of a two-step simulation chain, from definition of the quantum dot confinement potential with DC bias voltages, to calculation of microwave response electric field at qubit locations using small-signal AC analysis. An average field polarization vector at each quantum dot is extracted via a post-processing step. We demonstrate functionality of this approach by simulation of a recently reported two-qubit device in the form of a 5-gate silicon FinFET. The impact of the number of holes in each quantum dot on the MW response E-field polarization direction is further investigated for this device. The framework is easily generalizable to study future multi-qubit large-scale systems.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, submitted to conference SISPAD 2022
2016 WMP Non-Presidential Political TV Ad Codebook
Creators: name: Franklin Fowler, Erika
name: Franz, Michael M.
name: Ridout, Travis N.
name: Floyd, Breeze
name: Baum, Laura
Publisher: name: Wesleyan University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Political science not elsewhere classified

description: This item contains the Codebook for 2016 Non-Presidential Political TV Ad Airings Data from the Wesleyan Media Project. Contractual obligations with our data provider, Kantar/CMAG, necessitate that we limit access to the data to members of academic institutions using the data for academic purposes. To learn more and purchase data visit https://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/dataaccess/.
 This item is part of the project 2016 Non-Presidential Political TV Ad Airings Data.
Exact zero modes and decoherence in systems of interacting Majorana fermions
Creators: name: Yang, Guang
name: Feldman, D. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Majorana fermions often coexist with other low-energy fermionic degrees of freedom. In such situation, topological quantum computation requires the use of fermionic zero modes of a many-body system. We classify all such modes for interacting fermions and show how to select the mode that maximizes the decoherence time. We find that in a typical interacting system the maximal decoherence time is within one order of magnitude from the decoherence time of a qbit based on the local part of the fermion parity operator.
description: 14 pages
Predicting the $B -> ρ$ form factors using AdS/QCD Distribution Amplitudes for the $ρ$ meson
Creators: name: Ahmady, M.
name: Campbell, R.
name: Lord, S.
name: Sandapen, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use QCD light-cone sum rules (LCSR) with holographic anti de Sitter/Chromodynamics (AdS/QCD) Distribution Amplitudes (DAs) for the $ρ$ meson to predict the form factors that govern the leading amplitudes of the rare radiative $B -> ργ$ decay and the semileptonic decay $B -> ρl ν$. We test the Isgur-Wise relation between the radiative and semileptonic form factors. We also compute the total width (in units of $|V_{ub}|^2$) for the semileptonic decay $B -> ρl ν$ as well as ratios of partial decay widths which are independent of $|V_{ub}|$.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures. Revised version after addressing Referee's comments
Cohomological resolutions for anomalous Lie constraints
Creators: name: Hasiewicz, Zbigniew
name: Walczyk, Cezary J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the BRST resolution of the spaces of physical states of the systems with anomalies can be consistently defined. The appropriate anomalous complexes are obtained by canonical restrictions of the ghost extended spaces to the kernel of anomaly operator without any modifications of the "matter" sector. The cohomologies of the anomalous complex for the case of constarints constituting a centrally extended simple Lie algebra of compact type are calculated and analyzed in details within the framework of Hodge - deRham - Kaehler theory: the vanishing theorem of the relative cohomologies is proved and the absolute cohomologies are reconstructed.
description: 32 pages
Dynamic Weighting of Time-Varying Visual and Auditory Evidence during Multisensory Decision Making
Creators: name: Tuip, Rosanne R.M.
name: Ham, Wessel van der
name: Lorteije, Jeannette A.M.
name: Opstal, Filip Van
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sensory processes, perception and performance

description: Perceptual decision-making in a dynamic environment requires two integration processes: integration of sensory evidence from multiple modalities to form a coherent representation of the environment, and integration of evidence across time to accurately make a decision. Only recently studies started to unravel how evidence from two modalities is accumulated across time to form a perceptual decision. One important question is whether information from individual senses contributes equally to multisensory decisions. We designed a new psychophysical task that measures how visual and auditory evidence is weighted across time. Participants were asked to discriminate between two visual gratings, and/or two sounds presented to the right and left ear based on respectively contrast and loudness. We varied the evidence, i.e., the contrast of the gratings and amplitude of the sound, over time. Results showed a significant increase in performance accuracy on multisensory trials compared to unisensory trials, indicating that discriminating between two sources is improved when multisensory information is available. Furthermore, we found that early evidence contributed most to sensory decisions. Weighting of unisensory information during audiovisual decision-making dynamically changed over time. A first epoch was characterized by both visual and auditory weighting, during the second epoch vision dominated and the third epoch finalized the weighting profile with auditory dominance. Our results suggest that during our task multisensory improvement is generated by a mechanism that requires cross-modal interactions but also dynamically evokes dominance switching.
Effects of anisotropy on gravitational infall in galaxy clusters using an exact general relativistic model
Creators: name: Troxel, M. A.
name: Peel, Austin
name: Ishak, Mustapha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects and implications of anisotropies at the scale of galaxy clusters by building an exact general relativistic model of a cluster using the inhomogeneous and anisotropic Szekeres metric. The model is built from a modified Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) density profile. We compare this to a corresponding spherically symmetric structure in the Lemaitre-Tolman (LT) model and quantify the impact of introducing varying levels of anisotropy. We examine two physical measures of gravitational infall -- the growth rate of density and the velocity of the source dust in the model. We introduce a generalization of the LT dust velocity profile for the Szekeres metric and demonstrate its consistency with the growth rate of density. We find that the growth rate of density in one substructure increases by 0.5%, 1.5%, and 3.75% for 5%, 10%, and 15% levels of introduced anisotropy, which is measured as the fractional displaced mass relative to the spherically symmetric case. The infall velocity of the dust is found to increase by 2.5, 10, and 20 km/s (0.5%, 2%, and 4.5%), respectively, for the same three levels of anisotropy. This response to the anisotropy in a structure is found to be strongly nonlinear with respect to the strength of anisotropy. These relative velocities correspond to an equivalent increase in the total mass of the spherically symmetric structure of 1%, 3.8%, and 8.4%, indicating that not accounting for the presence of anisotropic mass distributions in cluster models can strongly bias the determination of physical properties like the total mass.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, matches version published in JCAP
Top Quark FCNC Decay to 125GeV Higgs boson in the Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity
Creators: name: Yang, Bingfang
name: Liu, Ning
name: Han, Jinzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the current observation of a 125 GeV Higgs boson, we calculate $t\rightarrow cH$ and $t\rightarrow cg(γ)H$ in the unitary gauge in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity(LHT). Due to the large contribution from the new mirror fermions, we find that the branching ratios of $t\rightarrow cH$ and $t\rightarrow cgH$ can be greatly enhanced in the LHT model and maximally reach $\mathcal O(10^{-5})$ in the allowed parameter space. When the mirror fermion mass $M_3 > 2(1.5)$ TeV and the cut-off scale $f=500$ GeV, the process of $pp \to t\bar{t} \to 3b +c +\ell+ \slashed E_{T}^{miss}$ can reach $3σ$($5σ$) sensitivity at 8(14) TeV LHC with luminosity $\cal{L}$ $=20(300) fb^{-1}$.
description: added references and discussions, updated figures, version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
2016 WMP Presidential Political TV Ad Codebook
Creators: name: Franklin Fowler, Erika
name: Franz, Michael M.
name: Ridout, Travis N.
name: Floyd, Breeze
name: Baum, Laura
Publisher: name: Wesleyan University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Political science not elsewhere classified

description: This item contains the Codebook for 2016 Presidential Political TV Ad Airings Data from the Wesleyan Media Project.
 Contractual obligations with our data provider, Kantar/CMAG, necessitate that we limit access to the data to members of academic institutions using the data for academic purposes. To learn more and purchase data visit https://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/dataaccess/.
 This item is part of the project 2016 Presidential Political TV Ad Airings Data.
Austroniscus Vanhoffen 1914
Creators: name: (SOSA), Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance
name: Brandt, Angelika
name: Chen, Chong
name: Engel, Laura
name: Esquete, Patricia
name: Horton, Tammy
name: Jażdżewska, Anna M.
name: Johannsen, Nele
name: Kaiser, Stefanie
name: Kihara, Terue C.
name: Knauber, Henry
name: Kniesz, Katharina
name: Landschoff, Jannes
name: Lörz, Anne-Nina
name: Machado, Fabrizio M.
name: Martínez-Muñoz, Carlos A.
name: Riehl, Torben
name: Serpell-Stevens, Amanda
name: Sigwart, Julia D.
name: Tandberg, Anne Helene S.
name: Tato, Ramiro
name: Tsuda, Miwako
name: Vončina, Katarzyna
name: Watanabe, Hiromi K.
name: Wenz, Christian
name: Williams, Jason D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Nannoniscidae
Austroniscus

description: Austroniscus Vanhöffen 1914
Type species: Austroniscus ovalis Vanhöffen, 1914
Composition: Twelve species. Austroniscus acutus Birstein, 1970, Austroniscus brandtae Kaiser, Stransky & Brix, 2023, Austroniscus chelus Kaiser & Brandt, 2007, Austroniscus coronatus Schiecke & Modigh-Tota, 1976, Austroniscus groenlandicus (Hansen, 1916), Austroniscus karamani Birstein, 1962, Austroniscus norbi Svavarsson, 1982, Austroniscus obscurus Kaiser & Brandt, 2007, Austroniscus ovalis Vanhöffen, 1914, Austroniscus rotundatus Vanhöffen, 1914, Austroniscus vinogradovi (Gurjanova, 1950) and Austroniscus indobathyasellus Kaiser, Kniesz & Kihara, sp. nov.
Diagnosis
Following Kaiser et al. (2023): 415.
description: Published as part of (SOSA), Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance, Brandt, Angelika, Chen, Chong, Engel, Laura, Esquete, Patricia, Horton, Tammy, Jażdżewska, Anna M., Johannsen, Nele, Kaiser, Stefanie, Kihara, Terue C., Knauber, Henry, Kniesz, Katharina, Landschoff, Jannes, Lörz, Anne-Nina, Machado, Fabrizio M., Martínez-Muñoz, Carlos A., Riehl, Torben, Serpell-Stevens, Amanda, Sigwart, Julia D., Tandberg, Anne Helene S., Tato, Ramiro, Tsuda, Miwako, Vončina, Katarzyna, Watanabe, Hiromi K., Wenz, Christian & Williams, Jason D., 2024, Ocean Species Discoveries 1 – 12 — A primer for accelerating marine invertebrate taxonomy, pp. e 128431 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e128431, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e128431
All-day childcare and schooling
Creators: name: Duchêne, Cédric
name: Heers, Marieke
name: Bernardi, Laura
Publisher: name: Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
Year: 2025

description: This report analyses the attitudes of parents in Switzerland regarding all-day childcare, based on data collected from an online panel of 2,161 parents. Providing high-quality childcare is essential for child development, equal educational opportunities, and increasing female participation in the workforce, all of which contribute to Switzerland’s economic sustainability. The analyses presented in this report are based on primary data covering various aspects of general parental attitudes towards all-day schooling, contrasted with specific views on the own family. They differentiated between German- and French-speaking parents to shed more light on potential regional differences.
Improving frequency selection of driven pulses using derivative-based transition suppression
Creators: name: Motzoi, Felix
name: Wilhelm, Frank K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many techniques in quantum control rely on frequency separation as a means for suppressing unwanted couplings. In its simplest form, the mechanism relies on the low bandwidth of control pulses of long duration. Here we perform a higher-order quantum-mechanical treatment that allows for higher precision and shorter times. In particular, we identify three kinds of off-resonant effects: i) simultaneous unwanted driven couplings (e.g. due to drive crosstalk), ii) additional (initially undriven) transitions such as those in an infinite ladder system, and iii) sideband frequencies of the driving waveform such as we find in corrections to the rotating wave approximation. With a framework that is applicable to all three cases, in addition to the known adiabatic error responsible for a shift of the energy levels we typically see in the spectroscopy of such systems, we derive error terms in a controlled expansion corresponding to higher order adiabatic effects and diabatic excitations. We show, by also expanding the driving waveform in a basis of different order derivatives of a trial function (typically a Gaussian) these different error terms can be corrected for in a systematic way hence strongly improving quantum control of systems with dense spectra.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
Cosmological Time Dilation in Durations of Swift Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Zhang, Fu-Wen
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
name: Shao, Lang
name: Wei, Da-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological time dilation is a fundamental phenomenon in an expanding universe, which stresses that both the duration and wavelength of the emitted light from a distant object at the redshift $z$ will be dilated by a factor of $1+z$ at the observer. By using a sample of 139 \emph{Swift} long GRBs with known redshift ($z\leq8.2$), we measure the observed duration ($T_{90}$) in the observed energy range between $140/(1+z)$ keV and $350/(1+z)$ keV, corresponding to a fixed energy range of 140-350 keV in the rest frame. We obtain a significant correlation between the duration and the factor $1+z$, i.e., $T_{\rm{90}}=10.5(1+z)^{0.94\pm0.26}$, which is well consistent with that expected from cosmological time dilation effect.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJL
Kunsia fronto
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Kunsia
Kunsia fronto

description: Kunsia fronto (Winge, 1887). E Museo Lundii, 1 (3):44. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Rio das Velhas, Pleistocene cave deposits near Lagoa Santa. DISTRIBUTION: Isolated localities in NE Argentina and EC Brazil; range poorly documented. SYNONYMS: chacoensis, planaltensis. COMMENTS: Taxonomy and distribution reviewed by Avila-Pires (1972).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 706, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Avila-Pires, F. D., de. 1972. A new subspecies of Kunsia fronto (Winge, 1888) from Brazil (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 32: 419 - 422."]}
Modified conformable double Laplace Sumudu approach with applications
Creators: name: Ahmed, S. A.
name: Saadeh, R.
name: Qazza, A.
name: Elzaki, T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this study, we combine two novel methods, the conformable double Laplace-Sumudu transform (CDLST) and the modified decomposition technique. We use the new approach called conformable double Laplace-Sumudu modified decomposition (CDLSMD) method, to solve some nonlinear fractional partial differential equations. We present the essential properties of the CDLST and produce new results. Furthermore, five interesting examples are discussed and analyzed to show the efficiency and applicability of the presented method. The results obtained show the strength of the proposed method in solving different types of problems.
Probabilistic Unrolling: Scalable, Inverse-Free Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Latent Gaussian Models
Creators: name: Lin, Alexander
name: Tolooshams, Bahareh
name: Atchadé, Yves
name: Ba, Demba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Latent Gaussian models have a rich history in statistics and machine learning, with applications ranging from factor analysis to compressed sensing to time series analysis. The classical method for maximizing the likelihood of these models is the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. For problems with high-dimensional latent variables and large datasets, EM scales poorly because it needs to invert as many large covariance matrices as the number of data points. We introduce probabilistic unrolling, a method that combines Monte Carlo sampling with iterative linear solvers to circumvent matrix inversion. Our theoretical analyses reveal that unrolling and backpropagation through the iterations of the solver can accelerate gradient estimation for maximum likelihood estimation. In experiments on simulated and real data, we demonstrate that probabilistic unrolling learns latent Gaussian models up to an order of magnitude faster than gradient EM, with minimal losses in model performance.
description: 29 pages, 4 figures
The Detector System for the Stratospheric Kinetic Inductance Polarimeter (SKIP)
Creators: name: Johnson, B. R.
name: Ade, P. A. R.
name: Araujo, D.
name: Bradford, K. J.
name: Chapman, D.
name: Day, P. K.
name: Didier, J.
name: Doyle, S.
name: Eriksen, H. K.
name: Flanigan, D.
name: Groppi, C.
name: Hillbrand, S.
name: Jones, G.
name: Limon, M.
name: Mauskopf, P.
name: McCarrick, H.
name: Miller, A.
name: Mroczkowski, T.
name: Reichborn-Kjennerud, B.
name: Smiley, B.
name: Sobrin, J.
name: Wehus, I. K.
name: Zmuidzinas, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Stratospheric Kinetic Inductance Polarimeter (SKIP) is a proposed balloon-borne experiment designed to study the cosmic microwave background, the cosmic infrared background and Galactic dust emission by observing 1133 square degrees of sky in the Northern Hemisphere with launches from Kiruna, Sweden. The instrument contains 2317 single-polarization, horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKID). The LEKIDs will be maintained at 100 mK with an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator. The polarimeter operates in two configurations, one sensitive to a spectral band centered on 150 GHz and the other sensitive to 260 and 350 GHz bands. The detector readout system is based on the ROACH-1 board, and the detectors will be biased below 300 MHz. The detector array is fed by an F/2.4 crossed-Dragone telescope with a 500 mm aperture yielding a 15 arcmin FWHM beam at 150 GHz. To minimize detector loading and maximize sensitivity, the entire optical system will be cooled to 1 K. Linearly polarized sky signals will be modulated with a metal-mesh half-wave plate that is mounted at the telescope aperture and rotated by a superconducting magnetic bearing. The observation program consists of at least two, five-day flights beginning with the 150 GHz observations.
description: J Low Temp Phys DOI 10.1007/s10909-013-1014-3 The final publication is available at link.springer.com
Kunsia tomentosus
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Kunsia
Kunsia tomentosus

description: Kunsia tomentosus (Lichtenstein, 1830). Darst. Säugeth., 7(15):33. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, southeastern area along the Rio Uruguay (as restricted by Hershkovitz, 1966c:120). DISTRIBUTION: NE Bolivia (Beni Prov.) and WC Brazil (Mato Grosso); Pleistocene cave samples in Minas Gerais, Brazil. SYNONYMS: gnambiquarae, principalis. COMMENTS: Rare in collections; range inadequately known. See Massoia and Fornes (1965) and Hershkovitz (1966c) for justification of synonymy.
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 706, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Hershkovitz, P. 1966 c. South American swamp and fossorial rats of the scapteromyine group (Cricetinae, Muridae), with comments on the glans penis in murid taxonomy. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 31: 81 - 149.", "Massoia, E., and A. Fornes. 1965. Notas sobre el genero Scapteromys (Rodentia-Cricetidae). II. Fundamentos de la identidad especifica de S. principalis (Lund) y S. gnambiquarae (M. Ribeiro). Neotropica, 11: 1 - 7."]}
IMPROVING FOOD ACCESS FOR BLACK RESIDENTS IN UNDERINVESTED AREAS OF GRANVILLE AND VANCE COUNTIES
Creators: name: Butler, Renee
name: Wilkins, Adaliah
name: Mortensen, Nathan
name: Carter, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2025

description:
Food insecurity is a systemic issue within the built environment of Granville and Vance (GV) counties, North Carolina (NC), that has pervasive negative effects on residents’ health outcomes. Analysis of GV counties’ built environment identified food insecurity as a priority to address. The team performed contextual analyses to gain comprehensive understanding of the impact food access has on residents, and what factors influence that relationship. As a result, the team identified several recommendations to reduce food insecurity while prioritizing equity-centered, community-driven solutions. Through establishment of a food resource directory, expansion of the NC Department of Transportation’s Microtransit program, and creation of a food insecurity steering committee, access to adequate nutrition would improve for GV counties’ residents. These efforts, in combination with local partnerships and stakeholder collaboration, can reduce barriers to food access and assistance programs. Additionally, these recommendations form a strong foundation for future improvements to be made.
Backyard Beetles + Pollinators Lab for BIO 3400 Ecology at Greensboro College
Creators: name: Cooke, Sandra
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2020

description: This contains Dr. Sandra Cooke's modifications to the EREN-NEON FLP Backyard Beetles + Pollinators project developed for BIO 3400 Ecology, an upper level course taught in person at Greensboro College during the Fall 2020 semester.
Lenoxus Thomas 1909
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Lenoxus

description: Lenoxus Thomas, 1909. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 4:236. TYPE SPECIES: Oxymycterus apicalis J. A. Allen, 1900. COMMENTS: Akodontine. Viewed as closely related to Oxymycterus by Reig (1987), but electrophoretic data reveal Lenoxus as the most highly differentiated sister taxon to all other akodonts surveyed, including Oxymycterus (Patton et al., 1989).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 706-707, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Allen, J. A. 1900. Description of new American marsupials. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 13: 191 - 199."]}
Electron acceleration in a nonrelativistic shock with very high Alfvén Mach number
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Y.
name: Amano, T.
name: Hoshino, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron acceleration associated with various plasma kinetic instabilities in a nonrelativistic, very-high-Alfvén Mach-number ($M_A \sim 45$) shock is revealed by means of a two-dimensional fully kinetic PIC simulation. Electromagnetic (ion Weibel) and electrostatic (ion-acoustic and Buneman) instabilities are strongly activated at the same time in different regions of the two-dimensional shock structure. Relativistic electrons are quickly produced predominantly by the shock surfing mechanism with the Buneman instability at the leading edge of the foot. The energy spectrum has a high-energy tail exceeding the upstream ion kinetic energy accompanying the main thermal population. This gives a favorable condition for the ion acoustic instability at the shock front, which in turn results in additional energization. The large-amplitude ion Weibel instability generates current sheets in the foot, implying another dissipation mechanism via magnetic reconnection in a three-dimensional shock structure in the very-high-$M_A$ regime.
shs-nlp at RadSum23: Domain-Adaptive Pre-training of Instruction-tuned LLMs for Radiology Report Impression Generation
Creators: name: Karn, Sanjeev Kumar
name: Ghosh, Rikhiya
name: P, Kusuma
name: Farri, Oladimeji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Instruction-tuned generative Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Bloomz possess excellent generalization abilities, but they face limitations in understanding radiology reports, particularly in the task of generating the IMPRESSIONS section from the FINDINGS section. They tend to generate either verbose or incomplete IMPRESSIONS, mainly due to insufficient exposure to medical text data during training. We present a system which leverages large-scale medical text data for domain-adaptive pre-training of instruction-tuned LLMs to enhance its medical knowledge and performance on specific medical tasks. We show that this system performs better in a zero-shot setting than a number of pretrain-and-finetune adaptation methods on the IMPRESSIONS generation task, and ranks 1st among participating systems in Task 1B: Radiology Report Summarization at the BioNLP 2023 workshop.
description: 1st Place in Task 1B: Radiology Report Summarization at BioNLP 2023
A study on the immunoregulatory properties of camel milk derived lipids (Camelus dromedarius)
Creators: name: Al-Nasseri, Raya Hamdan Salim
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Immunology not elsewhere classified

description: Camel (Camelus dromedarius) milk is believed to have beneficial effects in inflammatory diseases such as diabetes, however, there are few studies reporting the immunoregulatory properties of the milkâ€™s lipids. This study aimed to extract the lipid component from camel milk and investigate its ability to regulate macrophage inflammatory responses using the human macrophage derived cell-line, dTHP-1. Omani camel milk lipid was over 95% triglyceride (TG) with major saturated fatty acids (SFAs) identified as palmitic acid (35.28%), myristic acid (14.46%), stearic acid (7.40 %); and unsaturated (USFAs) oleic acid (19.31%) and palmitoleic acid (14.00%). These fatty acids were identified as fatty acid methyl esters and analysed by Gas Chromatography â€“ Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS). The camel milkâ€™s total lipids (TL) total free fatty acids (TFAs) and unsaturated free fatty acids (USFAs) significantly reduced glycated protein (gBSA) proinflammatory cytokine secretion (TNF-Î±, IL-1Î², IL-18 and IL-6) by dTHP-1 cells. In addition the lipids down regulated gene expression of markers of the proinflammatory M1 macrophage phenotype CD86 but in contrast the lipids significantly enhanced markers of the M2 phenotype (CD206, CD163, Dectin-1, IL-1Ra, and IL-10. TL also enhanced the translocation of the p50/p50 homodimers of the nuclear transcription factor NF-ÎºB, at the expense of p50/p65 heterodimer translocation. The lipids significantly down regulated the expression and activation of the inflammasome NLRP3/caspase-1/ASC assembly formation. Finally all the lipid componets up-regulated significantly expression of the Ten-Eleven Translocation-2 (TET-2) transcription regulator, linking their actions to this recently discovered regulator of the NLRP3 inflammasome. This study reports evidence that camel milk lipids are in-vitro highly immunoregulatory in macrophages and their consumption may be beneficial in inflammatory diseases such as diabetes.
FFN206 based assay for SLC18A1 using HEK-293 SLC18A1 OE cells
Creators: name: Tremolada, Sara
name: Redaelli, Loredana
name: Scarabottolo, Lia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Transport assay

description: FFN206 (FFN= False Fluorescent Neurotrasmitter) is a fluorescent assay developed in intact cells for monoamine uptake. Compound FFN206 is a fluorescent SLC18A1/SLC18A2 substrate which was developed and allowed functional examination of VMAT1 and VMAT2 in cell culture, using fluorescence microscopy or microplate reader. It crosses the plasma membrane and accumulates into vesicles by SLC18A1 or SLC18A2 transport. SLC18A1 is a transporter protein expressed on vesicular membranes for the monoamines (dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, and histamine). While the SLC18A2 isoform is expressed in the monoaminergic neurons throughout the CNS, the SLC18A1 isoform is only expressed in endocrine/paracrine cells associated with the stomach, intestine, and sympathetic nervous system. It functions as antiporter (2H+ out/1 monoamine in) essential for monoamine uptake into vesicles.