cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The condensation transition in random hypergraph 2-coloring
Creators: name: Coja-Oghlan, Amin
name: Zdeborova, Lenka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 05C80

description: For many random constraint satisfaction problems such as random satisfiability or random graph or hypergraph coloring, the best current estimates of the threshold for the existence of solutions are based on the first and the second moment method. However, in most cases these techniques do not yield matching upper and lower bounds. Sophisticated but non-rigorous arguments from statistical mechanics have ascribed this discrepancy to the existence of a phase transition called condensation that occurs shortly before the actual threshold for the existence of solutions and that affects the combinatorial nature of the problem (Krzakala, Montanari, Ricci-Tersenghi, Semerjian, Zdeborova: PNAS 2007). In this paper we prove for the first time that a condensation transition exists in a natural random CSP, namely in random hypergraph 2-coloring. Perhaps surprisingly, we find that the second moment method breaks down strictly \emph{before} the condensation transition. Our proof also yields slightly improved bounds on the threshold for random hypergraph 2-colorability. We expect that our techniques can be extended to other, related problems such as random k-SAT or random graph k-coloring.
Manipulation of Topological States and Bulk Band Gap Using Natural Heterostructures of a Topological Insulator
Creators: name: Nakayama, K.
name: Eto, K.
name: Tanaka, Y.
name: Sato, T.
name: Souma, S.
name: Takahashi, T.
name: Segawa, Kouji
name: Ando, Yoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on (PbSe)5(Bi2Se3)3m, which forms a natural multilayer heterostructure consisting of a topological insulator (TI) and an ordinary insulator. For m = 2, we observed a gapped Dirac-cone state within the bulk-band gap, suggesting that the topological interface states are effectively encapsulated by block layers; furthermore, it was found that the quantum confinement effect of the band dispersions of Bi2Se3 layers enhances the effective bulk-band gap to 0.5 eV, the largest ever observed in TIs. In addition, we found that the system is no longer in the topological phase at m = 1, pointing to a topological phase transition between m = 1 and 2. These results demonstrate that utilization of naturally-occurring heterostructures is a new promising strategy for realizing exotic quantum phenomena and device applications of TIs.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
6. Intellectual History and the History of Economic Thought: A Personal Account
Creators: name: Winch, Donald
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: Donald Winch (1935-2017), a pioneer of intellectual history and one of the inceptors of the so-called “Sussex school”, gave this talk at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan on 21 December 2006. It provides a history of his own engagement with the history of economic thought, and his gradual movement from tribe of historians of economics to that of intellectual historians. We present it here in the original form of the ms.; only some punctuation and quotation marks have been regularized, and an URL has been updated.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 6, No 12 (2017): Special Issue: Philosophy and Geography
Studying JavaScript Security Through Static Analysis
Creators: name: Fass, Aurore
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: As the Internet keeps on growing, so does the interest of malicious actors. While the Internet has become widespread and popular to interconnect billions of people, this interconnectivity also simplifies the spread of malicious software. Specifically, JavaScript has become a popular attack vector, as it enables to stealthily exploit bugs and further vulnerabilities to compromise the security and privacy of Internet users. In this thesis, we approach these issues by proposing several systems to statically analyze real-world JavaScript code at scale. First, we focus on the detection of malicious JavaScript samples. To this end, we propose two learning-based pipelines, which leverage syntactic, control and data-flow based features to distinguish benign from malicious inputs. Subsequently, we evaluate the robustness of such static malicious JavaScript detectors in an adversarial setting. For this purpose, we introduce a generic camouflage attack, which consists in rewriting malicious samples to reproduce existing benign syntactic structures. Finally, we consider vulnerable browser extensions. In particular, we abstract an extension source code at a semantic level, including control, data, and message flows, and pointer analysis, to detect suspicious data flows from and toward an extension privileged context. Overall, we report on 184 Chrome extensions that attackers could exploit to, e.g., execute arbitrary code in a victim's browser.
7. Comme des bêtes. Essay Review
Creators: name: Doron, Claude-Olivier
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: Essay Review: Recension de Pierre Serna, Comme des bêtes. Histoire politique de l’animal en Révolution (1750-1848), Paris: Fayard, 2017.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 6, No 12 (2017): Special Issue: Philosophy and Geography
СРАВНИТЕЛЬНАЯ ОЦЕНКА УРОЖАЙНОСТИ ОЗИМОЙ ПШЕНИЦЫ ПО РЕЗУЛЬТАТАМ ОТБОРА СНОПОВЫХ ОБРАЗЦОВ
Creators: name: В.И. Скорляков
name: Т.А. Юрина
Publisher: name: АгроФорум
Year: 2021
Subjects: озимая пшеница
оценка урожайности
сноповой образец
число продуктивных стеблей
число зерен в колосе
масса 1000 зерен
winter wheat
yield assessment
sheaf sample
number of productive stems
number of grains per ear
weight of 1000 grains

description: Определены численные значения вариабельности продуктивного стеблестоя, числа зерен в колосе и массы 1000 зерен по годам и вариантам возделывания озимой пшеницы. Представлены сравнительные показатели урожайности по результатам отбора сноповых образцов и уборки прямым комбайнированием.
description: The numerical values of the variability of the productive stalk, the number of grains in an ear and the weight of 1000 grains by years and variants of winter wheat cultivation have been determined. Comparative indicators of yield are presented according to the results of sampling sheaf samples and harvesting by direct combining.
Unified $(p,q;α,β,ν;γ)-$deformed oscillator algebra: irreducible representations and induced deformed harmonic oscillator
Creators: name: Baloitcha, E.
name: Hounkonnou, M. N.
name: Nkouankam, E. B. Ngompe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new deformed canonical commutation relation, generalizing various known deformations, is defined together with its structure function of deformation. Then, the related irreducible representations are characterized and classified. Finally, the discrete spectrum of the corresponding deformed harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian is investigated and discussed.
8. Book Reviews
Creators: name: Ragnolini, Davide
name: Soliani, Riccardo
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: Reviews of López, Contexts of John Stuart Mill’s Liberalism. Politics and the Science of Society in Victorian Britain, Nomos 2016; Verri, Méditations sur l’économie politique, éd. André Tiran, Classiques Garnier 2015.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 6, No 12 (2017): Special Issue: Philosophy and Geography
Let’s not Trust Experience Blindly: Formal Monitoring of Humans and other CPS
Creators: name: Schwenger, Maximilian
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: The control logic of complex systems is based on experience: Trained experts steer a machine directly until they help develop an automated controller. Recently, this process was further improved by successfully incorporating machine learning techniques, where the controller was learned from tremendous amounts of empirical data. The resulting controller excels most of the time, especially in situations similar to ones occurring in the training data. In a safety-critical context, however, this is not enough, so formal guarantees about the behavior of the controller become crucial. When a full static analysis and subsequent verification is infeasible due to the complexity of the system, runtime monitoring is still applicable. It acts as a connecting link between the efficiency of trained controllers and formally verifiable guarantees. A runtime monitor assesses the system health based on sensor readings by using a specification that contains information about desired system states and their expected evolution over time. When the monitor encounters a violation of the specification, it raises an alarm. For complex systems, characterizing the desired behavior requires an expressive language. Moreover, provably correct behavior requires formal semantics and an evaluation algorithm with static guarantees on resource consumption to prevent crashes during runtime. This thesis presents formal semantics for the specification language RTLola and shows that it satisfies the aforementioned criteria by introducing an evaluation algorithm with static time and space bounds. The approach is evaluated based on examples from health monitoring and aircraft controllers.
10. Protestantisme et anarchisme
Creators: name: Adamo, Pietro
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: Au cours du XXe siècle, grâce notamment à l’impulsion donnée par la sociologie allemande, les historiens ont souvent insisté sur les analogies structurelles entre le protestantisme et l’anarchisme: le rejet du principe d’autorité, la valorisation de l’individualité et un attachement au pluralisme. Cette analogie peut se lire, du moins dans deux cas historiques, comme un véritable prolongement. L’anarchiste anglais William Godwin, dans Enquête sur la justice politique (1793), construit son idéal de société libre à partir du schéma décentralisé et libertaire du gouvernement ecclésiastique congrégationaliste. Quant aux abolitionnistes américains des années 1830-1840, ils proposent une philosophie politique fondée sur le rejet de l’État comme pierre angulaire de la société civile, s’appuyant sur la doctrine antinomienne des protestants.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 13 (2018): Contemporary Luther / Luther contemporain
The effect of spin drift on spin accumulation voltages in highly-doped Si
Creators: name: Kameno, Makoto
name: Shikoh, Eiji
name: Shinjo, Teruya
name: Sasaki, Tomoyuki
name: Oikawa, Tohru
name: Suzuki, Yoshishige
name: Suzuki, Toshio
name: Shiraishi, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An investigation was carried out into the effect of spin drift on spin accumulation signals in highly-doped Si using non-local 4-terminal (NL-4T) and 3-terminal (NL-3T) methods. The spin signals in the NL-4T scheme were not affected by spin drift, and the bias dependence was governed by whether spins were injected into or extracted from the Si channel. In contrast, the spin signal was strongly modulated by the bias electric field in the NL-3T scheme. The bias electric field dependence of the spin signals in the NL-3T method was quantitatively clarified using the spin drift-diffusion equation, and the results can be reasonably explained.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Austenite formation and grain refinement in C-Mn steels
Creators: name: Azizi-Alizamini, Hamid
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The present work deals with grain refinement and austenite formation in a plain C-Mn steel with 0.17C-0.74Mn (wt pct). To improve the limited work hardening capability of ultrafine grained ferritic steels, new approaches were adopted to develop bimodal ferrite grain size distributions and ultrafine grained dual phase microstructures. The first approach is based on deformation and annealing of a ferrite-martensite microstructure. Ultrafine grained dual phase steels were obtained through rapid heating of very fine ferrite-carbide aggregates into the intercritical annealing region where partial austenite formation takes place. Hence, austenite formation was systematically investigated using a combination of microstructure characterization and detailed dilatometry analysis. The effect of initial structure and heating rate on austenite formation was examined. The resulting microstructure characteristics and mechanical properties of dual phase steels were also investigated. A multi-phase field modelling approach was adopted to simulate austenite formation from a variety of initial structures including ferrite-spheroidized carbide aggregates, fully pearlitic and ferrite-pearlite structures. The results show that a bimodal distribution of ferrite grains negates the Lüdering effect, yet the improvement of work hardening rate remains marginal compared to fine grained ferrite structures. Very fine grained initial structure and rapid heat treatment cycle are essential parameters to achieve ultrafine grained dual phase steels with improved mechanical properties in the steel employed in this study. For austenite formation, dilatation data can be used to distinguish different stages of microstructure evolution upon heating into the single austenite phase region including ferrite recrystallization, pearlite to austenite and ferrite to austenite transformation. Heating rate has a pronounced effect on the size and morphology of austenite grains in the intercritical annealing region. It is shown that phase field modelling is capable of predicting microstructural changes during austenite formation. It is well suited to capture complex interaction between microstructure processes such as spheroidization, carbide dissolution and coarsening during austenite formation especially in fine grained structures where the length scale is comparable with carbon diffusion distance.
9. Elective Affinities and liaisons dangereuses. Luther’s Heritage and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Creators: name: Spini, Debora
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: The role of the Protestant Reformation in promoting the spirit of capitalism has been a crucial theme in sociological and philosophical debates for more than a century. This paper will consider whether these “elective affinities” still exist, in a context marked by profound transformations of both capitalism and Protestantism: in particular, the notion of Beruf seems hardly compatible with the current economic transformations The chapter will analyse, relying on the critical perspectives of authors such as Boltanski and Chiapello as well as Honneth, how the “new spirit of Capitalism” is successfully re-appropriating other important aspects of the heritage of the Protestant Reformation, primarily the notion of individual autonomy.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 13 (2018): Contemporary Luther / Luther contemporain
Simulating Multi Layer Targets for Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering
Creators: name: Paschke-Brühl, Franziska-Luise
Publisher: name: Rodare
Year: 2021
Subjects: GISAXS, SAXS, grazing incidence small angle x-ray scattering, SMILEI, Simulation, Density Oscillation

description: This bachelor thesis studies the feasibility of grazing-incidence small-angle x-ray scattering
 (GISAXS) in the UHI laser-target interaction via computational simulations with SMILEI. In
 this work we briefly analyze the front and back of the target. We find predominantly that the
 compression of the target becomes apparent in the GISAXS pattern, while we can not observe
 ablation. We will mainly focus on the density oscillation, a dynamic that has not been mentio-
 ned in literature yet. The density oscillation dynamics depend on a simple pressure gradient
 in between the layers. We observe the multi layers inversely oscillating in density and a global
 density alteration moving through the target. The density alteration allows to recognize the
 dynamic in a GISAXS pattern. We learn, that GISAXS is feasible in the high intensity regime,
 but not for the same dynamics as in the lower intensity regime.
2. Introduction: Luther, la Réforme, la Modernité
Creators: name: Albertone, Manuela
name: Christin, Olivier
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: L’Université de Turin et l’Université de Neuchâtel ont organisé deux journées d’études en 2017 sur « Luther contemporain ». Ces deux journées internationales et largement ouvertes à la diversité des approches ont réuni des spécialistes italiens, suisses et français autour de quatre grands thèmes: protestantisme et démocratie; protestantisme et capitalisme; protestantisme, féminisme et nouveaux usages du corps; protestantisme et environnement. Les textes recueillis que l’on va présenter à nos lecteurs témoignent de la fertilité de cette approche historique.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 13 (2018): Contemporary Luther / Luther contemporain
Grassmann dynamics of classical spin in nonabelian gauge fields
Creators: name: Pol'shin, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Grassmann variant of classical mechanics, we construct Lagrangian dynamics of classical spinning particle in (possibly non-abelian) gauge fields. Quantization of this model is briefly discussed.
description: 3 pages, presented at QEDSP2011
Tips to Build an Awesome Portfolio
Creators: name: Ntui, Aniebiet Inyang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Career
Portfolio
Students

description: I've often heard students pursuing their degrees saying, "I wish I could have learned this". When applying for a job, companies have a brief look at your portfolio. Not only companies but also universities providing courses post-graduation have look at an individual's portfolio. Hence, it is essential to focus on your portfolio and build one which will stand out from the rest.
AGN Obscuration and the Unified Model
Creators: name: Bianchi, Stefano
name: Maiolino, Roberto
name: Risaliti, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unification Models of Active Galactic Nuclei postulate that all the observed differences between Type 1 and Type 2 objects are due to orientation effects with respect to the line-of-sight to the observer. The key ingredient of these models is the obscuring medium, historically envisaged as a toroidal structure on a parsec scale. However, many results obtained in the last few years are clearly showing the need for a more complex geometrical distribution of the absorbing media. In this paper we review the various pieces of evidence for obscuring media on different scales, from the vicinity of the black hole to the host galaxy, in order to picture an updated unification scenario explaining the complex observed phenomenology. We conclude by mentioning some of the open issues.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, review article accepted for publication on the special issue of Advances in Astronomy "Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes"
Documentation and Scientific Methodology: introducing curricular sustainability in the degree of pharmacy at the University of Valencia
Creators: name: Rius, Cristina
name: Lucas-Domínguez, Rut
name: Sixto-Costoya, Andrea
name: Vidal-Infer, Antonio
name: Valderrama-Zurián, Juan Carlos
name: Ferragud, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The School of Pharmacy is a leading center at the University of Valencia in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda that was established by the UN in 2015. Among the 17 SDGs, from the subject "Documentation and Scientific Methodology", we work especially the SDG 3, on HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, which seeks to educate future pharmaceutical professionals to ensure a healthy life and promote the well-being of all at all ages; and SDG 5, on GENDER EQUITY, AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS, which places both: patients, students an health professionals in the same framework equally independently of their gender.
Functional analysis of the MYB75 transcription factor as a regulator of secondary cell wall formation in Arabidopsis
Creators: name: Bhargava, Apurva
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Deposition of lignified secondary cell walls in plants is spatially and temporally regulated by transcription factors (TFs). MYB75 is a known regulator of the anthocyanin branch of the phenylpropanoid pathway in Arabidopsis. It was established in this work that this TF also regulates secondary cell wall formation in Arabidopsis. A loss-of-function mutation in MYB75 (myb75-1) results in increased cell wall thickness in xylary and interfascicular fibers within the inflorescence stem. Transcript profiles from the myb75-1 inflorescence stem revealed marked up-regulation in the expression of a suite of genes associated with lignin biosynthesis and cellulose deposition, as well as genes encoding cell wall-modifying proteins and genes involved in photosynthesis and carbon assimilation. These patterns suggest that MYB75 acts as a repressor of the lignin branch of the phenylpropanoid pathway in the Arabidopsis inflorescence stem as part of a broader role in integrating the metabolic flux through different pathways. Secondary cell wall-associated and potential transcription factors may interact together and form a multi-protein complex to regulate the formation of the secondary cell wall. I identified many positive interactions among the known and putative secondary cell wall formation-regulating TFs, using yeast two-hybrid assays. The KNAT7-MYB75 interaction detected in these assays was selected for detailed study, since both of these TF’s individually have been shown to regulate some aspects of secondary cell wall formation in Arabidopsis. The KNAT7-MYB75 interaction was confirmed in vivo in an Arabidopsis protoplast system, and the major domains involved in these protein-protein interactions were identified. This interaction may also be involved in regulation of secondary cell wall formation during Arabidopsis seed coat development. This was evident through phenotypic analysis of single and double loss-of-function mutants using molecular and histological analyses that revealed epidermal cell wall defects. However, MYB75, unlike KNAT7, appears to be a specific regulator of secondary cell wall formation in the seed coat, with no role in mucilage biosynthesis. I propose that a MYB75-KNAT7-involving protein complex could be participating in regulation of secondary cell wall biosynthesis in the developing seed coat, based on identified protein-protein interactions among MYB75, KNAT7 and other transcription factors known to influence seed coat properties.
The Gravity Dual of a Density Matrix
Creators: name: Czech, Bartlomiej
name: Karczmarek, Joanna L.
name: Nogueira, Fernando
name: Van Raamsdonk, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a state in a quantum field theory on some spacetime, we can associate a density matrix to any subset of a given spacelike slice by tracing out the remaining degrees of freedom. In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, if the original state has a dual bulk spacetime with a good classical description, it is natural to ask how much information about the bulk spacetime is carried by the density matrix for such a subset of field theory degrees of freedom. In this note, we provide several constraints on the largest region that can be fully reconstructed, and discuss specific proposals for the geometric construction of this dual region.
description: 19 pages, LaTeX, 8 figures, v2: footnote and reference added
Chrysis rutiliventris Abeille de Perrin 1879
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Masaridae
Chrysis
Chrysis rutiliventris

description: 13. Chrysis rutiliventris Abeille de Perrin, 1879
Chrysis rutiliventris Abeille de Perrin 1879: 74. Syntype; France: Bordeaux (MNHN) (Chrysis ignita group).
Remarks. See Chrysis vanlithi above.
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
4. Modernité catholique, modernité protestante: Batailles historiographiques à l’époque contemporaine
Creators: name: Belligni, Eleonora
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: Un des défis les plus complexes du protestantisme contemporain a trait à son historiographie, et en particulier au tournant historique lié au processus de sécularisation et aux révolutions du dix-huitième siècle, comprenant la fin de la guerre religieuse et politique entre les principales confessions chrétiennes et le début d’une rivalité culturelle. Entre le XIXe et le XXe siècle, le protestantisme et le catholicisme imputèrent aux disciplines historiques – et plus généralement aux sciences humaines et sociales nouvellement constituées – de déterminer, parmi les confessions chrétiennes, laquelle eut une influence majeure dans la définition de la physionomie du monde contemporain. Il s’agissait ainsi de comprendre quelle religion contenait dans son patrimoine les génes de la modernité et de l’évolution de la société occidentale. Pour les deux confessions chrétiennes, la guerre armée prenait la forme d’une concurrence, soit d’une compétition au sein de laquelle le vainqueur gagnerait la palme de la modernité, s’attribuant les valeurs positives liées à l’idée de progrès. Du point de vue historique, le signe distinctif de ce moment devint l’osmose de certains concepts utilisés par les deux confessions à l’instar de «christianisation», «confessionnalisation», «disciplinement», qui furent utilisés pour décrire des phénomènes qui avaient connu des développements analogues – ou du moins comparables – dans les pays protestants et dans les pays catholiques.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 13 (2018): Contemporary Luther / Luther contemporain
A Characterization of Scale Invariant Responses in Enzymatic Networks
Creators: name: Skataric, Maja
name: Sontag, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: An ubiquitous property of biological sensory systems is adaptation: a step increase in stimulus triggers an initial change in a biochemical or physiological response, followed by a more gradual relaxation toward a basal, pre-stimulus level. Adaptation helps maintain essential variables within acceptable bounds and allows organisms to readjust themselves to an optimum and non-saturating sensitivity range when faced with a prolonged change in their environment. Recently, it was shown theoretically and experimentally that many adapting systems, both at the organism and single-cell level, enjoy a remarkable additional feature: scale invariance, meaning that the initial, transient behavior remains (approximately) the same even when the background signal level is scaled. In this work, we set out to investigate under what conditions a broadly used model of biochemical enzymatic networks will exhibit scale-invariant behavior. An exhaustive computational study led us to discover a new property of surprising simplicity and generality, uniform linearizations with fast output (ULFO), whose validity we show is both necessary and sufficient for scale invariance of enzymatic networks. Based on this study, we go on to develop a mathematical explanation of how ULFO results in scale invariance. Our work provides a surprisingly consistent, simple, and general framework for understanding this phenomenon, and results in concrete experimental predictions.
3. Les Réformateurs, de l’ethos monastique à l’habitus académique
Creators: name: Christin, Olivier
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: Cet article a pour ambition de décrire les ressorts sociologiques et les conditions historiques d’apparition de l’habitus savant moderne au cours des XVIe-XVIIIe siècles. Dans le prolongement des travaux récents consacrés à la persona du savant, il s’interroge donc sur le rôle spécifique que l’on peut attribuer au protestantisme et plus spécifiquement au luthéranisme dans ce processus, en prenant pour exemple les récits de vies exemplaires de réformateurs comme Luther, Blarer, Brenz et surtout Melanchthon.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 13 (2018): Contemporary Luther / Luther contemporain
CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants: 2010
Creators: name: Mohr, Peter J.
name: Taylor, Barry N.
name: Newell, David B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper gives the 2010 self-consistent set of values of the basic constants and conversion factors of physics and chemistry recommended by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) for international use. The 2010 adjustment takes into account the data considered in the 2006 adjustment as well as the data that became available from 1 January 2007, after the closing date of that adjustment, until 31 December 2010, the closing date of the new adjustment. Further, it describes in detail the adjustment of the values of the constants, including the selection of the final set of input data based on the results of least-squares analyses. The 2010 set replaces the previously recommended 2006 CODATA set and may also be found on the World Wide Web at physics.nist.gov/constants.
description: 94 pages, 8 figures, 48 tables
Algorithmic aspects of elliptic bases in finite field discrete logarithm algorithms
Creators: name: Joux, Antoine
name: Pierrot, Cécile
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Elliptic bases, introduced by Couveignes and Lercier in 2009, give an elegant way of representing finite field extensions. A natural question which seems to have been considered independently by several groups is to use this representation as a starting point for discrete logarithm algorithms in small characteristic finite fields. This idea has been recently proposed by two groups working on it, in order to achieve provable quasi-polynomial time for discrete logarithms in small characteristic finite fields. In this paper, we do not try to achieve a provable algorithm but, instead, investigate the practicality of heuristic algorithms based on elliptic bases. Our key idea is to use a different model of the elliptic curve used for the elliptic basis that allows for a relatively simple adaptation of the techniques used with former Frobenius representation algorithms. We have not performed any record computation with this new method but our experiments with the field $\F_{3^{1345}}$ indicate that switching to elliptic representations might be possible with performances comparable to the current best practical methods.
Quantum feedback control of a superconducting qubit: Persistent Rabi oscillations
Creators: name: Vijay, R.
name: Macklin, C.
name: Slichter, D. H.
name: Weber, S. J.
name: Murch, K. W.
name: Naik, R.
name: Korotkov, A. N.
name: Siddiqi, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The act of measurement bridges the quantum and classical worlds by projecting a superposition of possible states into a single, albeit probabilistic, outcome. The time-scale of this "instantaneous" process can be stretched using weak measurements so that it takes the form of a gradual random walk towards a final state. Remarkably, the interim measurement record is sufficient to continuously track and steer the quantum state using feedback. We monitor the dynamics of a resonantly driven quantum two-level system -- a superconducting quantum bit --using a near-noiseless parametric amplifier. The high-fidelity measurement output is used to actively stabilize the phase of Rabi oscillations, enabling them to persist indefinitely. This new functionality shows promise for fighting decoherence and defines a path for continuous quantum error correction.
description: Manuscript: 5 Pages and 3 figures ; Supplementary Information: 9 pages and 3 figures
An online notebook resource for reproducible inference, analysis and publication of gene regulatory networks
Creators: name: Ben Guebila, Marouen
name: Weighill, Deborah
name: Lopes-Ramos, Camila M.
name: Burkholz, Rebekka
name: Pop, Ramona T.
name: Palepu, Kalyan
name: Shapoval, Mia
name: Fagny, Maud
name: Schlauch, Daniel
name: Glass, Kimberly
name: Altenbuchinger, Michael
name: Kuijjer, Marieke
name: Platig, John
name: Quackenbush, John
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: An online notebook resource for reproducible inference, analysis and publication of gene regulatory networks
5. Protestantisme, montagne et environnement: une relation privilégiée?
Creators: name: Tissot, Laurent
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: La relation entre protestantisme et environnement a fait l’objet de vives controverses tant historiques que théologiques. Notre article vise à savoir comment des voyageurs protestants – ou déclarés comme tels – perçoivent, au cours de leurs pérégrinations, la nature qu’ils traversent. Que disent-ils de la nature là où elle est, là où ils la parcourent, la voient, la sentent et non seulement dans ce qui les est transmis par des textes sacrés ou savants? Nous nous servirons à cet égard de deux textes complètement différents par leur nature, le statut de leur auteur, les motivations qui les animent et les lieux décrits. Tout les oppose sauf deux éléments, la période qui les voit être écrits et l’origine protestante de leur auteur. Le premier, rédigé en 1865 par Marc Dufour, a pour cadre les Alpes suisses et le second, écrit sept ans plus tard en 1872 par George Monro Grant, les Montagnes Rocheuses canadiennes. Ils s’inscrivent tous les deux dans un moment charnière de cette « invention de la montagne » voit en Suisse l’émergence d’une véritable « industrialisation du tourisme » et au Canada l’affirmation d’un sentiment national qui passe par l’intégration d’un vaste territoire dans le même Etat. Ces contextes expliquent les raisons qui poussent leurs auteurs à s’affronter à la montagne, le loisir pour Dufour et la politique pour Grant.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 13 (2018): Contemporary Luther / Luther contemporain
6. Luther dans les documents du magistère pontifical du 500e anniversaire de la naissance au 500e anniversaire de la Réforme (1980-2017)
Creators: name: Cozzo, Paolo
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: Pendant les dernières quatre décennies, l'Église catholique a eu occasion de se mesurer avec Luther et avec la Réforme protestante en concomitance de certaines importants anniversaires. En 1983, Jean Paul II saisit le 500e de la naissance de Luther comme occasion pour renforcer le dialogue oecuménique, qui se développa jusqu'à porter, en 1999, à la déclaration conjointe sur la doctrine de la justification. Si pendant le pontificat de Benoît XVI le dialogue continua, il ne se traduisit pas, cependant, par un franchissement des distances de nature théologique et éthique entre l'Église de Rome et les églises luthériennes. Cettes distances, même en restant intactes, ont été laissées à l’arrière-plan par François, qui, dans les célébrations pour le 500e de la Réforme (2017) a voulu valoriser (en perspective oecuménique, mais aussi en syntonie avec son dessin de réforme de l’Église)  l'esprit de renouvellement et la volonté de redressement incarnées par Martin Luther.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 13 (2018): Contemporary Luther / Luther contemporain
8. Is Protestantism the Source of Modern Freedoms?
Creators: name: Zuber, Valentine
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: Following the upheaval of the French Revolution, there were violently divergent ideological-religious interpretations of French history in the intellectual sphere. It seems necessary to set out the main theological-political theories that never stopped wondering about the ideological origins of Human Rights and explore the deep conviction of many French historians who, at the end of the 19th century, still professed the eminent superiority of the Republican and liberal political structure that had been inherited from political Protestantism.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 13 (2018): Contemporary Luther / Luther contemporain
Förderung der Aufmerksamkeit von Kindern mit kognitiver Beeinträchtigung durch das Bewegungsspiel. Ein Konzept für die Psychomotoriktherapie
Creators: name: Joss, Helen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Psychomotorik
Psychomotoriktherapie
Aufmerksamkeit
Förderung
kognitive Beeinträchtigung
Bewegungsspiel
Bachelorarbeit

description: Die Aufmerksamkeit beeinflusst alle nicht-automatisierten Tätigkeiten und Interaktionen und stellt die Basis jeglicher Lernprozesse dar. Diese Bachelorarbeit geht der Frage nach, ob und wie die Aufmerksamkeit von Kindern mit kognitiver Beeinträchtigung mittels entwicklungsorientierter Bewegungsspielangebote in der Psychomotoriktherapie gefördert werden kann. Dazu werden die Themen
 Aufmerksamkeit, kognitive Beeinträchtigung und Bewegungsspiel beleuchtet und verknüpft, wobei spezifische Rahmenbedingungen, therapeutische Interventionen sowie Förderbereiche abgeleitet werden, die in ein Konzept mit konkreten Bewegungsspielangeboten münden. Zusammenfassend kann festgehalten werden, dass sich die Aufmerksamkeit aus mehreren Teilfähigkeiten zusammensetzt und sich über mehrere Phasen entwickelt; konkret von einer wahrnehmungsorientierten,
 auf einen Sinneskanal gerichteten Aufmerksamkeit zu einer Aufmerksamkeit, die zunehmend auch in komplexeren Situationen und unter Berücksichtigung von Vorgaben aufrechterhalten werden kann. Auch wenn sehr viele Kinder mit kognitiver Beeinträchtigung Schwierigkeiten mit der Aufmerksamkeit aufweisen, so können sich diese unterschiedlich auswirken. Es gilt also individualisiert zu arbeiten. Dazu eignet sich das Bewegungsspiel innerhalb spezifischer Rahmenbedingungen, unterstützt durch weitere entwicklungsorientierte therapeutische Interventionen. Die Evaluation des Konzepts durch eine erfahrene Psychomotoriktherapeutin aus dem Sonderschulbereich sowie dessen Erprobung in der Praxis durch die Verfasserin fällt positiv aus und ergibt Weiterentwicklungsmöglichkeiten v.a. im Bereich der Erfassung des Entwicklungsstandes der Aufmerksamkeit.
Development of Best Strategies for the Control of Butomus umbellatus L. (Flowering Rush) In Alberta
Creators: name: Cahoon, Lisa
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Invasive species
subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Anatomy
subject: Botany
subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Physiology

description: The emergent aquatic perennial, Butomus umbellatus L. is a prohibited noxious weed in Alberta. In this thesis I provide (1) the first comprehensive review on its phenology and cytotype in Alberta; (2) an examination of the effect of cytotype on propagation means and (3) an experimental test of different control methods in two infested Alberta lakes. One of the findings of this study is that a full understanding of the propagation of this species is complicated because there are two cytotypes: fertile diploids and sterile triploids. I describe in this thesis how most populations of B. umbellatus in Alberta appear to be the diploid cytotype, except for a triploid population in Innisfail. My studies found that in diploid plants, sexual reproduction is not the primary means of spread. My results also indicate that all control methods currently in use are equally unsuccessful, largely because B. umbellatus invests so heavily in vegetative reproduction that removing the entire rhizome is difficult. Because of this life history feature, B. umbellatus will likely be most effectively controlled by quickly recognizing new populations and removing all plant material. While revegetation of a reclaimed area with indigenous plants could prove beneficial, my results indicated that B. umbellatus quickly reclaims sites that have been replanted with native species.
11. Research Report | Forms, Patterns, Structures: Citation Analysis and the History of Analytic Philosophy
Creators: name: Petrovich, Eugenio
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: In this brief note I discuss two citation analysis-based studies in history of analytic philosophy that I recently published, highlighting some of their methodological features. In the first section, I sum up the two studies, focusing on the three methodologies that were used (citation counting, co-citation analysis, and citation context analysis). In the second section, I advance three remarks on these studies. Firstly, I argue that citation analysis methods shed light on the form rather than the content of the object. Secondly, I argue that these methods frame the object under study at the documental level, instead of  the intellectual level studied by internalist and the social level studied by externalist history of philosophy. Thirdly, I point out that citation analysis unveils patterns that are invisible at the micro-scale and that are difficult to study by traditional methodologies. I argue that we need new theories and concepts to better understand the objects and phenomena we observe from this distant point of view. In the third section, I highlight the strengths and weaknesses of citation analysis. I conclude by stressing the need for an interdisciplinary research programme that integrates citation analysis, history of philosophy, and the social studies of science.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 13 (2018): Contemporary Luther / Luther contemporain
Assume, Guarantee or Repair - A Regular Framework for Non Regular Properties.
Creators: name: Frenkel, Hadar
name: Grumberg, Orna
name: Pasareanu, Corina
name: Sheinvald, Sarai
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: We present Assume-Guarantee-Repair (AGR) - a novel framework which verifies that a program satisfies a set of properties and also repairs the program in case the verification fails. We consider communicating programs - these are simple C-like programs, extended with synchronous actions over communication channels. Our method, which consists of a learning-based approach to assume-guarantee reasoning, performs verification and repair simultaneously: in every iteration, AGR either makes another step towards proving that the (current) system satisfies the required properties, or alters the system in a way that brings it closer to satisfying the properties. To handle infinite-state systems we build finite abstractions, for which we check the satisfaction of complex properties that contain first-order constraints, using both syntactic and semantic-aware methods. We implemented AGR and evaluated it on various communication protocols. Our experiments present compact proofs of correctness and quick repairs.
12. La race pensée comme altération. Essay Review
Creators: name: Bonniol, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2018

description: Essay Review: Recension de Claude-Olivier Doron, L’homme altéré. Races et dégénérescence (XVIIe-XIXe siècles), Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2016, 592 p. (ISBN 9791026700968, € 29,00).
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 7, No 13 (2018): Contemporary Luther / Luther contemporain
title: Montreux 50 ans : 1962-2012
title: Commune de Montreux
titleType: Subtitle
title: Montreux 50 ans : 1962-2012
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Municipalité De Montreux
Publisher: name: Municipalité de Montreux
Year: 0

description: Brochure de l'exposition sur le 50ème anniversaire de la commune de Montreux préparée par les Archives de Montreux
Hysteresis in a Solar Activity Cycle
Creators: name: Suyal, Vinita
name: Prasad, Awadhesh
name: Singh, Harinder P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze in situ measurements of solar wind velocity obtained by the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft during the solar activity cycle 23. We calculated a robust complexity measure, the permutation entropy (S) of solar wind time series at different phases of a solar activity cycle. The permutation entropy measure is first tested on the known dynamical data before its application to solar wind time series. It is observed that complexity of solar wind velocity fluctuations at 1 AU shows hysteresis phenomenon while following the ascending and descending phases of the activity cycle. This indicates the presence of multistability in the dynamics governing the solar wind velocity over a solar activity cycle.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures; Solar Physics, 2011