cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cissidium seditiosum Darby 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium seditiosum

description: Cissidium seditiosum sp. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 5C7FCA79-8952-4E1D-8999-DE7915F58095
Fig. 82
Etymology
Johnson ms name, presumably from the Latin ‘ seditiosus ’, meaning ‘mutinous’ or ‘fractious’.
Material examined
Holotype JAMAICA • ♂; St. Ann Parish, 2.5 miles S of Moncague; 2250 ft a.s.l.; 3 Apr. 1968; forest floor litter; S. Peck and R. Fiske leg.; parts of antennae missing; FMNH.
Paratype JAMAICA • ♂; same collection data as for holotype; aedeagus glued to card, antennae missing; MMUE.
Description
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 82A), length 0.83 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, head darker, pubescence, legs and antennae dusky yellow.
HEAD. With a shallow linear depression behind the eyes, width across eyes 0.21 mm; mentum parallelsided; antennomeres III–XI, length 0.39 mm, III–IX length 0.22 mm, X–XI length 0.17 mm. (Note; one antennomere missing, the other missing antennomeres III–IX, X–XI remaining pasted to the card).
PRONOTUM. 0.26 mm long, 0.37 mm wide, densely pubescent, the hairs barely overlapping, and foveolate, without basal foveae; sides rounded, becoming almost parallel to acute hind angles, bordered, the border continuing along the posterior margin to the short and angulate median emargination in front of the scutellum (Fig. 82B).
ELYTRA. 0.49 mm long, 0.40 mm wide, pubescent and foveolate contrasting with the pronotum.
MESOVENTRITE. Medial extension of collar short, parallel-sided then becoming effaced; mid-keel parallelsided hind angles with short flat carinae to mesocoxal anterior borders, rising medially with transverse foveolate sculpturing and ± eight setae (missing from holotype) to a point above the keel; keel with ± six setae, short, terminating in a point at the mid-point of the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins evenly rounded, without serrations; humeri toothed (Fig. 82C).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.15 mm, reticulate at sides, depressed disc with crescent-shaped foveolae and mixture of setae and elongate scales, distance across spines 0.12 mm.
WINGS. Apterous.
GENITALIA. Male aedeagus pointed, lateral margins broadening towards tip.
Remarks
Distinguished from C. insulare sp. nov., the only other Cissidium reported from Jamaica, by the acute hind angles of the pronotum.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 129-131, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282
g-Functions and gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling
Creators: name: Hatsuda, Yasuyuki
name: Ito, Katsushi
name: Sakai, Kazuhiro
name: Satoh, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study gluon scattering amplitudes/Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling by calculating the area of the minimal surfaces in AdS_3 based on the associated thermodynamic Bethe ansatz system. The remainder function of the amplitudes is computed by evaluating the free energy, the T- and Y-functions of the homogeneous sine-Gordon model. Using conformal field theory (CFT) perturbation, we examine the mass corrections to the free energy around the CFT point corresponding to the regular polygonal Wilson loop. Based on the equivalence between the T-functions and the g-functions, which measure the boundary entropy, we calculate corrections to the T- and Y-functions as well as express them at the CFT point by the modular S-matrix. We evaluate the remainder function around the CFT point for 8 and 10-point amplitudes explicitly and compare these analytic expressions with the 2-loop formulas. The two rescaled remainder functions show very similar power series structures.
description: 51 pages, 4 figures, v2: some comments and references added, based on the published version, v3: minor changes
EFFECTIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Creators: name: Scientific advisor: Klicheva Amira Bekmurodovna Student: Mamatqulova Zarina Sultonmurod qizi Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Language
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Language learning is an essential skill for university students, offering academic, professional, and cultural benefits. However, students often struggle to find effective strategies that fit their busy schedules. This article explores key techniques to enhance language learning, including immersive exposure, active vocabulary building, regular speaking practice, and the use of digital tools. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of setting SMART goals, engaging in writing exercises, and understanding cultural contexts. By combining structured learning with real-world application, university students can develop fluency and confidence in their target language efficiently.

Key words: academic papers, digital tools, self-study, language learning process, speech speed, vocabulary-building techniques, language exchanges, motivation
Memory for pictures: Sometimes a picure is not worth a single word
Creators: name: Oates, Joyce M.
name: Reder, Lynne M.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Although there are some phenomena in memory that are poorly understood, it is generally accepted that an item studied as a picture will be better remembered than an item studied as a word.
SPITZER SAGE Observations of Large Magellanic Cloud Planetary Nebulae
Creators: name: Hora, J. L.
name: Cohen, M.
name: Ellis, R. G.
name: Meixner, M.
name: Blum, R. D.
name: Latter, W. B.
name: Whitney, B. A.
name: Meade, M. R.
name: Babler, B. L.
name: Indebetouw, R.
name: Gordon, K.
name: Engelbracht, C. W.
name: For, B. -Q.
name: Block, M.
name: Misselt, K.
name: Vijh, U.
name: Leitherer, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present IRAC and MIPS images and photometry of a sample of previously known planetary nebulae (PNe) from the SAGE survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) performed with the Spitzer Space Telescope. Of the 233 known PNe in the survey field, 185 objects were detected in at least two of the IRAC bands, and 161 detected in the MIPS 24 micron images. Color-color and color-magnitude diagrams are presented using several combinations of IRAC, MIPS, and 2MASS magnitudes. The location of an individual PN in the color-color diagrams is seen to depend on the relative contributions of the spectral components which include molecular hydrogen, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), infrared forbidden line emission from the ionized gas, warm dust continuum, and emission directly from the central star. The sample of LMC PNe is compared to a number of Galactic PNe and found to not significantly differ in their position in color-color space. We also explore the potential value of IR PNe luminosity functions (LFs) in the LMC. IRAC LFs appear to follow the same functional form as the well-established [O III] LFs although there are several PNe with observed IR magnitudes brighter than the cut-offs in these LFs.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, to be published in the Astronomical Journal. Additional online data available at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/irac/publications/
Cissidium sueae Darby 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium sueae

description: Cissidium sueae sp. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 662078AF-F3BB-49B4-A366-AAB095BF7D06
Figs 3B, 83
Etymology
I have the pleasure in naming this species after my sister Susan Allen.
Material examined
Holotype BRAZIL • ♀; Santo Caterinay, Chapecosino; Jan. 1950; F. Plaumann leg.; H.F. Dybas # 58-36; FMNH.
Description
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 83A), length 0.86 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, pubescence, legs and antennae dusky yellow.
HEAD. With a shallow foveolate and setose linear depression behind the eyes (Fig. 3B), width across eyes 0.17 mm; mentum as Fig 4A; antennomeres III–XI, length 0.42 mm, III–IX length 0.22 mm, X–XI length 0.20 mm.
PRONOTUM. 0.24 mm long, 0.32 mm wide, pubescent with shallow foveolae in basal half; lateral margins evenly rounded to acute hind angles, narrowly bordered, the borders continuing along the posterior margin to the angulate medial emargination in front of the scutellum (Fig. 83B).
ELYTRA. 0.54 mm long, 0.47 mm wide, pubescent and shallowly foveolate.
MESOVENTRITE. Medial extension of collar with terminal fringe of short setae; mid keel effaced before collar, hind angles stopping well short of the mesocoxal anterior borders; keel long, setose, tapering to a sharp point near the base of the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins rounded, without serrations; humeri toothed (Fig. 83C).
METAVENTRITE. Sparsely pubescent, length 0.14 mm, disc simple, width across spines 0.12 mm; posterior margin of mesocoxae not serrate.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Male not known.
Remarks
One of the five Brazilian species in this group. Distinguished by the setose posterior margin of the median extension of the mesoventral keel.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 131-132, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282
Mechanisms Underlying Spatial Representation Revealed through Studies of Hemispatial Neglect
Creators: name: Behrmann, Marlene
name: Ghiselli-Crippa, Thea
name: Sweeney, John A.
name: Matteo, Ilaria Di
name: Kass, Robert
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The representations that mediate the coding of spatial position were examined by comparing the behavior of patients with left hemispatial neglect with that of nonneurological control subjects. To determine the spatial coordinate system(s) used to define ‘‘left’’ and ‘‘right,’’ eye movements were measured for targets that appeared at 58, 108, and 158 to the relative left or right defined with respect to the midline of the eyes, head, or midsaggital plane of the trunk. In the baseline condition, in which the various egocentric midlines were all aligned with the environmental midline, patients were disproportionately slower at initiating saccades to left than right targets, relative to the controls. When either the trunk or the head was rotated and the midline aligned with the most peripheral position while the eyes remained aligned with the midline of the environment, the results did not differ from the baseline condition. However, when the eyes were rotated and the midline aligned with the peripheral position, saccadic reaction time (SRT) differed significantly from the baseline, especially when the eyes were rotated to the right. These findings suggest that target position is coded relative to the current position of gaze (oculocentrically) and that this eyecentered coding is modulated by orbital position (eye-in-head signal). The findings dovetail well with results from existing neurophysiological studies and shed further light on the spatial representations mediated by the human parietal cortex.
Specht modules with abelian vertices
Creators: name: Lim, Kay Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C20, 20C30

description: In this article, we consider indecomposable Specht modules with abelian vertices. We show that the corresponding partitions are necessarily $p^2$-cores where $p$ is the characteristic of the underlying field. Furthermore, in the case of $p\geq 3$, or $p=2$ and $μ$ is 2-regular, we show that the complexity of the Specht module $S^μ$ is precisely the $p$-weight of the partition $μ$. In the latter case, we classify Specht modules with abelian vertices. For some applications of the above results, we extend a result of M. Wildon and compute the vertices of the Specht module $S^{(p^p)}$ for $p\geq 3$.
Biexciton fine structure in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
Creators: name: Steinhoff, Alexander
name: Florian, Matthias
name: Singh, Akshay
name: Tran, Kha
name: Kolarczik, Mirco
name: Helmrich, Sophia
name: Achtstein, Alexander W.
name: Woggon, Ulrike
name: Owschimikow, Nina
name: Jahnke, Frank
name: Li, Xiaoqin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) semiconductors are shaped by the emergence of correlated many-body complexes due to strong Coulomb interaction. Exceptional electron-hole exchange predestines TMDCs to study fundamental and applied properties of Coulomb complexes such as valley depolarization of excitons and fine-structure splitting of trions. Biexcitons in these materials are less understood and it has been established only recently that they are spectrally located between exciton and trion. Here we show that biexcitons in monolayer TMDCs exhibit a distinct fine structure on the order of meV due to electron-hole exchange. Ultrafast pump-probe experiments on monolayer WSe$_2$ reveal decisive biexciton signatures and a fine structure in excellent agreement with a microscopic theory. We provide a pathway to access biexciton spectra with unprecedented accuracy, which is valuable beyond the class of TMDCs, and to understand even higher Coulomb complexes under the influence of electron-hole exchange.
Mechanisms of Sustained Selective Attention in 3- to 5-year-old Children: Evidence from a New Object Tracking Task
Creators: name: Fisher, Anna
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Sustained selective attention is a crucial component of many higher-order cognitive processes; yet there is little research into the mechanisms of this ability early in development. One of the challenges in investigating mechanisms of sustained selective attention in young children is lack of appropriate experimental paradigms. This paper reports findings from a novel paradigm designed to investigate mechanisms of sustained selective attention in young children - the Object Tracking task. Results of two experiments with 3- to 5-year-old children provided support to the notion that development of the endogenous component of selective sustained attention lags behind the development of the exogenous component of this process. Importantly, the Object Tracking paradigm allowed investigating both of these components within the same task, thereby making it possible to attribute changes in performance to different mechanisms of attentional control rather than to differences in the level of motivation and engagement in different tasks.
Classification of the virtually cyclic subgroups of the pure braid groups of the projective plane
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Daciberg Lima
name: Guaschi, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F36

description: We classify the (finite and infinite) virtually cyclic subgroups of the pure braid groups $P_{n}(RP^2)$ of the projective plane. The maximal finite subgroups of $P_{n}(RP^2)$ are isomorphic to the quaternion group of order 8 if $n=3$, and to $\Z_{4}$ if $n\geq 4$. Further, for all $n\geq 3$, up to isomorphism, the following groups are the infinite virtually cyclic subgroups of $P_{n}(RP^2)$: $\Z$, $\Z_{2} \times \Z$ and the amalgamated product $\Z_{4} \ast_{\Z_{2}} \Z_{4}$.
description: 15 pages
title: Aligning DevSecOps and Machine Learning
Creators: name: Antunes, Luiz
Publisher: name: Software Engineering Institute
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01xqjjn94
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021

description:  In this blog post from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Luiz Antunes, a DevOps engineer, explores the machine learning (ML) and DevSecOps domains and propose ways to use them in collaboration for increased performance.
"Divide and Conquer" Semiclassical Molecular Dynamics: A practical method for Spectroscopic calculations of High Dimensional Molecular Systems
Creators: name: Di Liberto, Giovanni
name: Conte, Riccardo
name: Ceotto, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extensively describe our recently established "divide-and-conquer" semiclassical method [M. Ceotto, G. Di Liberto and R. Conte, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 010401 (2017)] and propose a new implementation of it to increase the accuracy of results. The technique permits to perform spectroscopic calculations of high dimensional systems by dividing the full-dimensional problem into a set of smaller dimensional ones. The partition procedure, originally based on a dynamical analysis of the Hessian matrix, is here more rigorously achieved through a hierarchical subspace-separation criterion based on Liouville's theorem. Comparisons of calculated vibrational frequencies to exact quantum ones for a set of molecules including benzene show that the new implementation performs better than the original one and that, on average, the loss in accuracy with respect to full-dimensional semiclassical calculations is reduced to only 10 wavenumbers. Furthermore, by investigating the challenging Zundel cation, we also demonstrate that the "divide-and-conquer" approach allows to deal with complex strongly anharmonic molecular systems. Overall the method very much helps the assignment and physical interpretation of experimental IR spectra by providing accurate vibrational fundamentals and overtones decomposed into reduced dimensionality spectra.
Online data assimilation in distributionally robust optimization
Creators: name: Li, Dan
name: Martinez, Sonia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper considers a class of real-time decision making problems to minimize the expected value of a function that depends on a random variable $ξ$ under an unknown distribution $\mathbb{P}$. In this process, samples of $ξ$ are collected sequentially in real time, and the decisions are made, using the real-time data, to guarantee out-of-sample performance. We approach this problem in a distributionally robust optimization framework and propose a novel Online Data Assimilation Algorithm for this purpose. This algorithm guarantees the out-of-sample performance in high probability, and gradually improves the quality of the data-driven decisions by incorporating the streaming data. We show that the Online Data Assimilation Algorithm guarantees convergence under the streaming data, and a criteria for termination of the algorithm after certain number of data has been collected.
description: Appeared in CDC 2018
Cissidium trangse Darby 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium trangse

description: Cissidium trangse sp. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: E9F8435B-868D-4989-A272-ADA87C244DB4
Fig. 84
Etymology
Johnson ms name after Trang in the SW of Thailand where the insect was collected.
Material examined
Holotype THAILAND • ♀; S., Kachong Exp. Stat b. Trang; Franz leg.; one antenna lost in SEM; MMUE.
Additional material
A teneral specimen in MMUE taken at the same time may be this species.
Description
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 84A), length 0.58 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, pubescence, legs and antennae dusky yellow.
HEAD. With a shallow foveolate and setose linear depression behind the eyes; width across eyes 0.18 mm; mentum as Fig. 4A; antennomeres III–XI, length 0.30 mm, III–IX length 0.14 mm, X–XI length 0.16 mm.
PRONOTUM. 0.18 mm long, 0.24 mm wide, pubescent with shallow foveolae in basal half where there are traces of two short linear foveae; lateral margins evenly rounded before shallow concave sinuations to bluntly rectangular hind angles, narrowly bordered, the borders continuing along the posterior margin becoming wider towards the angulate medial emargination in front of the scutellum (Fig. 84B).
ELYTRA. 0.38 mm long, 0.33 mm wide, pubescent, without foveolae.
MESOVENTRITE. Medial extension of collar slightly tapering; mid-keel anterior angles widening before collar, posterior angles rounded; keel narrow, densely setose, tapering then parallel-sided to termination just past the interruption point of the mesocoxal margins; mesoventral lateral margins serrate in posterior half; humeri toothed (Fig. 84C).
METAVENTRITE. Sparsely pubescent, length 0.10 mm, disc simple, width across spines 0.08 mm; posterior margin of mesocoxae serrate.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Males not known.
Remarks
The only species of Cissidium to have been described from Thailand.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 132-134, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282
Maternal interpersonal trauma and cord blood IgE levels in an inner-city cohort: A life-course perspective
Creators: name: Sternthal, Michelle J
name: Enlow, Michelle B
name: Cohen, Sheldon
name: Caner, Marina J
name: Staudenmayer, John
name: Tsang, Kathy
name: Wright, Rosalind J
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Background: Prenatal stress affects immunocompetence in offspring, although the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Objective: We sought to examine associations between maternal lifetime interpersonal trauma (IPT) and cord blood total IgE levels in a sample of urban newborns (n 5 478). Methods: Maternal IPT during childhood and adolescence (birth to 17 years), adulthood (18 years to index pregnancy), and the index pregnancy were ascertained by using the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale at 28.4 6 7.9 weeks’ gestation. Cord blood IgE levels were derived by using a fluoroenzyme immunoassay. We examined effects of maternal IPT on increased cord blood IgE levels (upper quartile, 1.08 IU/mL) by using logistic regression, adjusting for confounders and mediating variables. Results: Maternal trauma was categorized as unexposed (n 5 285 [60%]), early (childhood and/or teenage years only, n 5 107 [22%]), late (adulthood and/or index pregnancy only, n 5 29 [6%]), and chronic (early and late, n 5 57 [12%]) exposure. Relative to no IPT, early (odds ratio [OR], 1.78; 95% CI, 1.05- 3.00) and chronic maternal IPT (OR, 2.25; 95% CI, 1.19-4.24) were independently associated with increased IgE levels in unadjusted analyses. When adjusting for standard controls, including maternal age and race, season of birth, child’s sex, and childhood and current socioeconomic status, early effects became nonsignificant (OR, 1.48; 95% CI, 0.85-2.58). Chronic exposure remained significant in fully adjusted models, including standard controls, current negative life events, allergen exposure, and potential pathway variables (maternal atopy, prenatal smoking, and birth weight; OR, 2.18; 95% CI, 1.06-4.50). Conclusion: These data link chronic trauma over the mother’s life course with increased IgE levels in infants at birth. Research examining associations between maternal trauma and indicators of offspring’s atopic risk might be particularly relevant in inner- city high-risk populations.
Impact of a finite cut-off for the optical sum rule in the superconducting state
Creators: name: Marsiglio, F.
name: van Heumen, E.
name: Kuzmenko, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A single band optical sum rule derived by Kubo can reveal a novel kind of superconducting state. It relies, however, on a knowledge of the single band contribution from zero to infinite frequency. A number of experiments over the past five years have used this sum rule; their data has been interpreted in support of 'kinetic energy-driven superconductivity'. However, because of the presence of unwanted interband optical spectral weight, they necessarily have to truncate their sum at a finite frequency. This work examines theoretical models where the impact of this truncation can be examined first in the normal state, and then in the superconducting state. The latter case is particularly important as previous considerations attributed the observed anomalous temperature dependence as an artifact of a non-infinite cutoff frequency. We find that this is in fact not the case, and that the sign of the corrections from the use of a non-infinite cutoff is such that the observed temperature dependence is even more anomalous when proper account is taken of the cutoff. On the other hand, in these same models, we find that the strong observed temperature dependence in the normal state can be attributed to the effect of a non-infinite cutoff frequency.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
The KL-UCB Algorithm for Bounded Stochastic Bandits and Beyond
Creators: name: Garivier, Aurélien
name: Cappé, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 93E35

description: This paper presents a finite-time analysis of the KL-UCB algorithm, an online, horizon-free index policy for stochastic bandit problems. We prove two distinct results: first, for arbitrary bounded rewards, the KL-UCB algorithm satisfies a uniformly better regret bound than UCB or UCB2; second, in the special case of Bernoulli rewards, it reaches the lower bound of Lai and Robbins. Furthermore, we show that simple adaptations of the KL-UCB algorithm are also optimal for specific classes of (possibly unbounded) rewards, including those generated from exponential families of distributions. A large-scale numerical study comparing KL-UCB with its main competitors (UCB, UCB2, UCB-Tuned, UCB-V, DMED) shows that KL-UCB is remarkably efficient and stable, including for short time horizons. KL-UCB is also the only method that always performs better than the basic UCB policy. Our regret bounds rely on deviations results of independent interest which are stated and proved in the Appendix. As a by-product, we also obtain an improved regret bound for the standard UCB algorithm.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures; Conf. Comput. Learning Theory (COLT) 2011 in Budapest, Hungary
Marital status, chronic stress and the 3-year progression of carotid atherosclerosis: The Pittsburgh Healthy Heart Project.
Creators: name: Anderson, Barbara P.
name: Kamarck, Thomas W
name: Frank, Ellen
name: Cohen, Sheldon
name: Tyrrell, Kim Sutton
name: Muldoon, Matthew F
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Department of Psychology
Lectures on the stable homotopy of BG
Creators: name: Priddy, Stewart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P42, 20C20, 55R35

description: This paper is a survey of the stable homotopy theory of BG for G a finite group. It is based on a series of lectures given at the Summer School associated with the Topology Conference at the Vietnam National University, Hanoi, August 2004.
description: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 14 November 2007
title: Synthesis and Characterisation of Transition Metal Oxides for Potential Multiferroic and Photocatalytic Applications
Creators: name: Jackson, J
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The work presented is on the synthesis and characterisation of inorganic transition metal oxides for potential multiferroic and photocatalytic applications and chemical control of the materials has been used to tune the structure and properties of the materials
Detection of the Aromatic Molecule Benzonitrile ($c$-C$_6$H$_5$CN) in the Interstellar Medium
Creators: name: McGuire, Brett A.
name: Burkhardt, Andrew M.
name: Kalenskii, Sergei
name: Shingledecker, Christopher N.
name: Remijan, Anthony J.
name: Herbst, Eric
name: McCarthy, Michael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polycyclic aromatic nitrogen heterocycles are thought to be widespread throughout the Universe, because these classes of molecules are probably responsible for the unidentified infrared bands, a set of emission features seen in numerous Galactic and extragalactic sources. Despite their expected ubiquity, astronomical identification of specific aromatic molecules has proven elusive. We present the discovery of benzonitrile ($c$-C$_6$H$_5$CN), one of the simplest nitrogen-bearing aromatic molecules, in the interstellar medium. We observed hyperfine-resolved transitions of benzonitrile in emission from the molecular cloud TMC-1. Simple aromatic molecules such as benzonitrile may be precursors for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon formation, providing a chemical link to the carriers of the unidentified infrared bands.
Brief von Israel Gotthard Zaudy an David Heilbronn an Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden, 04.02.1821
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1821
Subjects: subject: 090

description: Protest gegen seine Abberufung als Sekretär des Vereins und die Ernennung von David Heilbronn
Cissidium triangulum Darby 2019
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium triangulum

description: Cissidium triangulum Darby, 2019
Figs 4E, 85
Material examined
Holotype MALAYSIA • Sarawak, Mulu; pitfalls in alluvial forest; Mar. 1978; N.M. Collins leg.; genitalia not dissected; BMNH.
Supplementary description
The following description amplifies the type description of Darby (2019), in particular by adding more details of the meso- and metaventral characters, in order to conform with the entries in the present paper.
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 85A), length 0.79 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, antennae, legs, and pubescence yellow.
HEAD. Distance across eyes 0.22 mm; antennomeres III–XI, length 0.31 mm; mentum triangular the anterior margin much longer than the basal, stipes also triangular, broadest at base (Fig. 4E).
PRONOTUM. Length 0.19 mm, width 0.28 mm, pubescent, shallowly foveolate; sides rounded then straight before rectangular hind angles, border crenulate, not continuing along posterior margin, median emargination angulate (Fig. 85B).
ELYTRA. Length 0.41 mm, width 0.34 mm, pubescent, the pubescence slightly longer than on the pronotum, shallowly foveolate.
MESOVENTRITE. Median extension of collar parallel-sided, short, mid-keel setose and rugose before keel; keel narrow, tapering to a point at the base of the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins almost straight before turning to meet mesocoxae, then obscured; humeri barely toothed (Fig. 85C).
METAVENTRITE. With scattered pubescence throughout, disc plain, length 0.14 mm, distance across spines 0.08 mm; mesocoxal posterior margins without serrations.
Remarks
The only species of Cissidium from Sarawak in this group.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 134-135, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282
Self-testing mutually unbiased bases in the prepare-and-measure scenario
Creators: name: Farkas, Máté
name: Kaniewski, Jędrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) constitute the canonical example of incompatible quantum measurements. One standard application of MUBs is the task known as quantum random access code (QRAC), in which classical information is encoded in a quantum system, and later part of it is recovered by performing a quantum measurement. We analyse a specific class of QRACs, known as the $2^{d} \to 1$ QRAC, in which two classical dits are encoded in a $d$-dimensional quantum system. It is known that among rank-1 projective measurements MUBs give the best performance. We show (for every $d$) that this cannot be improved by employing non-projective measurements. Moreover, we show that the optimal performance can only be achieved by measurements which are rank-1 projective and mutually unbiased. In other words, the $2^{d} \to 1$ QRAC is a self-test for a pair of MUBs in the prepare-and-measure scenario. To make the self-testing statement robust we propose measures which characterise how well a pair of (not necessarily projective) measurements satisfies the MUB conditions and show how to estimate these measures from the observed performance. Similarly, we derive explicit bounds on operational quantities like the incompatibility robustness or the amount of uncertainty generated by the uncharacterised measurements. For low dimensions the robustness of our bounds is comparable to that of currently available technology, which makes them relevant for existing experiments. Lastly, our results provide essential support for a recently proposed method for solving the long-standing existence problem of MUBs.
description: 5+7 pages, 5 figures, accepted manuscript
Impurity entanglement entropy in Kondo systems from conformal field theory
Creators: name: Eriksson, Erik
name: Johannesson, Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement entropy in Kondo impurity systems is studied analytically using conformal field theory. From the impurity contribution to the scaling corrections of the entanglement entropy we extract information about the screening cloud profile for general non-Fermi-liquid fixed points. By also considering the finite-temperature corrections to scaling of the von Neumann entropy we point out a direct connection between the large-distance screening cloud profile and thermodynamic observables such as the specific heat.
description: 4 pages, published version
Mapping topographic structure in white matter pathways with level set trees.
Creators: name: Kent, Brian P.
name: Rinaldo, Alessandro
name: Fang-Cheng  Yeh
name: Verstynen, Timothy
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Fiber tractography on diffusion imaging data offers rich potential for describing white matter pathways in the human brain, but characterizing the spatial organization in these large and complex data sets remains a challenge. We show that level set trees--which provide a concise representation of the hierarchical mode structure of probability density functions--offer a statistically-principled framework for visualizing and analyzing topography in fiber streamlines. Using diffusion spectrum imaging data collected on neurologically healthy controls (N = 30), we mapped white matter pathways from the cortex into the striatum using a deterministic tractography algorithm that estimates fiber bundles as dimensionless streamlines. Level set trees were used for interactive exploration of patterns in the endpoint distributions of the mapped fiber pathways and an efficient segmentation of the pathways that had empirical accuracy comparable to standard nonparametric clustering techniques. We show that level set trees can also be generalized to model pseudo-density functions in order to analyze a broader array of data types, including entire fiber streamlines. Finally, resampling methods show the reliability of the level set tree as a descriptive measure of topographic structure, illustrating its potential as a statistical descriptor in brain imaging analysis. These results highlight the broad applicability of level set trees for visualizing and analyzing high-dimensional data like fiber tractography output.
INSPIRING at X Aniversario OPECT
Creators: name: Garrich, Miquel
name: Bueno Delgado, María Victoria
name: Pavón Mariño, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This presentation was used in JORNADA X ANIVERSARIO OPECT-UPCT, 17 de julio de 2019, Salón de Actos Isaac Peral (CIM) Cartagena, Spain; for presenting the GIRTEL group.
On quantum capacity of erasure channel assisted by back classical communication
Creators: name: Leung, Debbie
name: Lim, Joungkeun
name: Shor, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a communication protocol for the erasure channel assisted by backward classical communication, which achieves a significantly better rate than the best prior result. In addition, we prove an upper bound for the capacity of the channel. The upper bound is smaller than the capacity of the erasure channel when it is assisted by two-way classical communication. Thus, we prove the separation between quantum capacities assisted by backward classical communication and two-way classical communication.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Cissidium visendum Darby 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium visendum

description: Cissidium visendum sp. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 83CA11DD-21D9-49F7-9B48-41BDDBB3FFCD
Fig. 86
Etymology
Named after the Latin adjective ‘ visendus ’, meaning ‘worth seeing’.
Material examined
Holotype MALAYSIA • ♂; Selangor, Gombak; FMNH.
No other collection data are present, but it is likely that the specimen was taken in the vicinity of University of Malaya Field Station, by D.H. Murphy (see C. modestum sp. nov.). A determination label in Johnson’s hand stating ‘ adustipenne ’ is attached to the specimen but it is clearly not that species (see C. adustipenne).
Description
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 86A), length 0.64 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow.
HEAD. With a shallow linear depression behind the eyes; width across eyes 0.20 mm antennomeres III–XI length 0.29 mm, III–IX length 0.15 mm, X–XI length 0.14 mm; mentum as Fig. 4A.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.18 mm, width 0.29 mm, pubescent without foveae; side margins evenly rounded to rectangular hind angles, bordered, border not extending onto posterior margin which has an emargination opposite the scutellum (Fig. 86B).
ELYTRA. Length 0.40 mm, width 0.35 mm, pubescent, shallowly foveolate most noticeably in basal area.
MESOVENTRITE. Medial extension of collar long, narrow and parallel-sided, mid-keel tapering seamlessly into parallel-sided keel, setose; keel long, extending past mesocoxal border interruption; humeri barely toothed; mesoventral lateral margins smoothly rounded, without serrations (Fig. 86C).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.12 mm, width across spines 0.08 mm, with a densely setose, almost square, medial depression, the setae stouter than on the rest of the metaventrite; posterior margins of mesocoxal cavities without serrations.
WINGS. Macropterous.
Remarks
Distinguished from C. bilineatum sp. nov., the only other species from Malaya recorded in this group, by the absence of the linear depressions on the pronotum.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 135-136, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282
Gas cell density characterization for laser wakefield acceleration
Creators: name: Audet, T. L.
name: Lee, P.
name: Maynard, G.
name: Dufrénoy, S. Dobosz
name: Maitrallain, A.
name: Bougeard, M.
name: Monot, P.
name: Cros, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the design of laser plasma electron injectors for multi-stage laser driven wakefield accelerators, the control of plasma density is a key element to stabilize the acceleration process. A cell with variable parameters is used to confine the gas and tailor the density profile. The gas filling process was characterized both experimentally and by fluid simulations. Results show a good agreement between experiments and simulations. Simulations were also used to study the effect of each of the gas cell parameters on the density distribution and show the possibility to finely control the density profile.
Large affine spaces of non-singular matrices
Creators: name: Pazzis, Clément de Seguins
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A03, 15A30

description: Let K be an arbitrary (commutative) field with at least three elements. It was recently proven that an affine subspace of M_n(K) consisting only of non-singular matrices must have a dimension lesser than or equal to n(n-1)/2. Here, we classify, up to equivalence, the subspaces whose dimension equals n(n-1)/2. This is done by classifying, up to similarity, all the n(n-1)/2-dimensional linear subspaces of M_n(K) consisting of matrices with no non-zero invariant vector, reinforcing a classical theorem of Gerstenhaber. Both classifications only involve the quadratic structure of the field K.
description: 38 pages (minor corrections from the previous version)
Inverse problem of potential theory
Creators: name: Ramm, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J05, 35R30

description: P. Novikov in 1938 has proved that if $u_1(x)=u_2(x)$ for $|x|>R$, where $R>0$ is a large number, $$u_j(x):=\int_{D_j}g_0(x,y)dy, \quad g_0(x,y):=\frac 1 {4π|x-y|},$$ and $D_j\subset \mathbb{R}^3$, $j=1,2,$ $D_j\subset B_R$, are bounded, connected, smooth domains, star-shaped with respect to a common point, then $D_1=D_2$. Here $B_R:= \{x: |x|\le R\}$. Our basic results are: a) the removal of the assumption about star-shapeness of $D_j$, b) a new approach to the problem, c) the construction of counter-examples for a similar problem in which $g_0$ is replaced by $g=\frac {e^{ik|x-y|}}{4π|x-y|}$, where $k>0$ is a fixed constant.
Transition Properties of Low Lying States in Atomic Indium
Creators: name: Sahoo, B. K.
name: Das, B. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here the results of our relativistic many-body calculations of various properties of the first six low-lying excited states of indium. The calculations were performed using the relativistic coupled-cluster method in the framework of the singles, doubles and partial triples approximation. We obtain a large lifetime ~10s for the [4p^6]5s^2 5p_{3/2} state, which had not been known earlier. Our precise results could be used to shed light on the reliability of the lifetime measurements of the excited states of atomic indium that we have considered in the present work.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure and 3 tables
From portals to platforms – building new frameworks for user engagement
Creators: name: Sherratt, Tim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Trove
DigitalNZ
DPLA
Europeana
APIs
digital collections

description: Presented at the LIANZA 2013 Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, 21 October 2013. The recent launch of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has highlighted the continuing importance of metadata aggregation services as a way of overcoming institutional and disciplinary divides and providing customised discovery services. But the DPLA’s catchy slogan of ‘portal, platform, public’ points beyond web pages and search boxes towards a more complex stream of user engagement, innovation and advocacy. Trove, the National Library of Australia’s discovery service, provides access to a wide range of cultural heritage collections drawn from libraries, museums, archives, universities and elsewhere. Best known is the collection of digitised newspapers -- a vast resource that currently includes more than 100 million articles. But Trove has always been about more than discovery. Integral to the system’s success and growth has been its capacity to provide a platform for user engagement. Trove’s annotation and organisation features allow users to customise their experience while, at the same time, enriching discovery metadata. In addition to existing facilities for user engagement, Trove, like the DPLA, Europeana and DigitalNZ, provides machine-readable access to its aggregated collections through an API. The provision of an API enables the creation not only of new content, but the creation of new applications and interfaces – new ways of using, visualizing, analyzing and enriching the existing metadata. Based on the experience of developing and maintaining Trove, this paper will critically examine the shift from portal to platform represented by the increasing importance of user annotations and the opportunities provided by the provision of metadata in machine- readable forms.
Objective and Subjective Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Ballentine, Leslie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of probability was prominent in the original foundations of quantum mechanics, and continues to be so today. Indeed, the controversies regarding objective and subjective interpretations of probability have again become active. I argue that, although both objective and subjective probabilities have domains of relevance in QM, their roles are quite distinct. Even where both are legitimate, the objective and subjective probabilities differ, both conceptually and numerically. There are quantum probabilities that have no useful subjective interpretations, and there are subjective probabilities that cannot be realized as quantum probabilities.
description: Paper given at a conference in Vaxjo, Sweden, 11 June 2007
Gates agronomy grant learnings: Final report
Creators: name: Boyle, Maria
name: Johns, Ben
name: Meijerick, Marius
name: Jones, Russ
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2021

description: This is a final evaluation report written by Abt Assoc for the BMGF Agricultural Development team covering the outcomes and lessons coming from five significant agronomy grants projects.