cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Exploratory Study of Documentation Strategies for Product Features in Popular GitHub Projects
Creators: name: Puhlfürß, Tim
name: Montgomery, Lloyd
name: Maalej, Walid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: [Background] In large open-source software projects, development knowledge is often fragmented across multiple artefacts and contributors such that individual stakeholders are generally unaware of the full breadth of the product features. However, users want to know what the software is capable of, while contributors need to know where to fix, update, and add features. [Objective] This work aims at understanding how feature knowledge is documented in GitHub projects and how it is linked (if at all) to the source code. [Method] We conducted an in-depth qualitative exploratory content analysis of 25 popular GitHub repositories that provided the documentation artefacts recommended by GitHub's Community Standards indicator. We first extracted strategies used to document software features in textual artefacts and then strategies used to link the feature documentation with source code. [Results] We observed feature documentation in all studied projects in artefacts such as READMEs, wikis, and website resource files. However, the features were often described in an unstructured way. Additionally, tracing techniques to connect feature documentation and source code were rarely used. [Conclusions] Our results suggest a lacking (or a low-prioritised) feature documentation in open-source projects, little use of normalised structures, and a rare explicit referencing to source code. As a result, product feature traceability is likely to be very limited, and maintainability to suffer over time.
description: Accepted for the New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
Phononic-crystal cavity magnomechanics
Creators: name: Hatanaka, Daiki
name: Asano, Motoki
name: Okamoto, Hajime
name: Yamaguchi, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Establishing a way to control magnetic dynamics and elementary excitations (magnons) is crucial to fundamental physics and the search for novel phenomena and functions in magnetic solid-state systems. Electromagnetic waves have been developed as means of driving and sensing in magnonic and spintronics devices used in magnetic spectroscopy, non-volatile memory, and information processors. However, their millimeter-scale wavelengths and undesired cross-talk have limited operation efficiency and made individual control of densely integrated magnetic systems difficult. Here, we utilize acoustic waves (phonons) to control magnetic dynamics in a miniaturized phononic crystal micro-cavity and waveguide architecture. We demonstrate acoustic pumping of localized ferromagnetic magnons, where their back-action allows dynamic and mode-dependent modulation of phononic cavity resonances. The phononic crystal platform enables spatial driving, control and read-out of tiny magnetic states and provides a means of tuning acoustic vibrations with magnons. This alternative technology enhances the usefulness of magnons and phonons for advanced sensing, communications and computation architectures that perform transduction, processing, and storage of classical and quantum information.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Modelling Assessment Rubrics through Bayesian Networks: a Pragmatic Approach
Creators: name: Mangili, Francesca
name: Adorni, Giorgia
name: Piatti, Alberto
name: Bonesana, Claudio
name: Antonucci, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic assessment of learner competencies is a fundamental task in intelligent tutoring systems. An assessment rubric typically and effectively describes relevant competencies and competence levels. This paper presents an approach to deriving a learner model directly from an assessment rubric defining some (partial) ordering of competence levels. The model is based on Bayesian networks and exploits logical gates with uncertainty (often referred to as noisy gates) to reduce the number of parameters of the model, so to simplify their elicitation by experts and allow real-time inference in intelligent tutoring systems. We illustrate how the approach can be applied to automatize the human assessment of an activity developed for testing computational thinking skills. The simple elicitation of the model starting from the assessment rubric opens up the possibility of quickly automating the assessment of several tasks, making them more easily exploitable in the context of adaptive assessment tools and intelligent tutoring systems.
International IP Protection For GMO – A Biotech Odyssey
Creators: name: Kerle, Clemens
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2007

description: This paper deals with IP protection for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) under the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs). It outlines the potential of GMOs and shows why effective patent protection is a necessary prerequisite for research in this area. It argues that the TRIPs minimum requirements do not mandate sufficient standards for GMO patents – they do not require patent protection for most biotechnological inventions. Subsequently, it explores the consequences of this lack of harmonization. Employing salient arguments for and against IP-harmonization, it demonstrates that harmonized effective patent protection for GMOs confers significant advantages on the participating countries, but hardly any disadvantages. Moreover, it indicates that effective IPRs mitigate the more widespread use of Genetic Use Restriction Technology(ies) (GURTs). It concludes with showing why multilateral harmonization is necessary and why developing countries are deterred from unilaterally raising the standard of IP protection for GMOs.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 8: 2006-2007
Jefferson Rebuffed
Creators: name: Mayer-Schönberger, Vikor
name: Ziewitz, Malte
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2007

description: When the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) concluded in Tunis in November 2005, it was hailed as a great achievement. There is, however, another yet untold story about the WSIS negotiations and the subsequent outcome. It focuses on the ill-fated European proposal to internationalize Internet governance and to curtail the policy-making power of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the corporation currently in charge of Internet naming and numbering. It is the story of a missed opportunity for what could have become a “constitutional moment” in international Internet governance. With its Constitution arguably being the oldest and most enduring worldwide, the United States traditionally has been at the forefront of fostering and advancing constitutional governance structures, at times even through the use of force. Why then, has the United States vigorously opposed the European proposal, with its concept of self-constrained governance in the important context of global information flows? The aim of this article is to offer an answer.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 8: 2006-2007
title: Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Nahostkonflikt: Eine völkerrechtliche Einordnung: Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen 42
Creators: name: Arnauld, Andreas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Der wiederaufgeflammte Nahostkonflikt mit zahlreichen Toten und einer drohenden Eskalation wirft zahlreiche völkerrechtliche Fragen auf. Prof. Dr. Andreas von Arnauld wird im Rahmen einer Sondereinheit der Völkerrechtlichen Tagesthemen die Situation rechtlich einordnen und hierbei auf das Selbstverteidigungsrecht Israels, den völker-rechtlichen Status Palästinas und der Hamas sowie das humanitäre Völkerrecht und die israelische Besatzungspolitik eingehen.
description: Völkerrechtsblog
Privacy Implications Of Commercial Office Building Security Technology In The Post-9/11 Era
Creators: name: Adler, Trevor T.
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2007

description: This Note examines a full range of security issues involving privately-owned but publicly accessible office buildings in the post-9/11 era, from a landlord’s basic security duties to privacy infringement. The analysis focuses on the recent proliferation of computer-enabled access control and surveillance technologies, which have emerged in the last ten years as a viable alternative to increased security personnel staffing. The Note makes several conclusions and recommendations. First, to overcome the possibility of negligent security lawsuits, property owners must reevaluate the security provided in their buildings on an ongoing basis. Second, access control and surveillance technologies offer cost-effective means of satisfying security minima for a majority of commercial properties. Third, to balance the benefits of these technologies with the potential for privacy infringement, property owners should consider contractual and/or unilateral notice of security monitoring and recording practices. Finally, the burgeoning partnership between private security and law enforcement creates the possibility of Fourth Amendment privacy infringements.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 8: 2006-2007
Patenting Race
Creators: name: Price, W. Nicholson
name: Price, W. Nicholson
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2007

description: Genetic tests which target specific ethnicities are fraught with problems, and will become commonplace unless action is taken to stop them. The first has already been patented in Europe by the U.S. company Myriad Genetics, despite vigorous opposition. Myriad’s patent covers testing for a mutation in the breast cancer gene BRCA2 in Ashkenazi-Jewish women. The patenting and approval of BiDil, a heart medication for African-Americans, provides strong evidence that patenting ethnically based medicine has become more acceptable in the United States. In allowing race-based drugs, the United States is much closer to allowing ethnic genetic testing, which has deeper, more insidious, and more widespread negative effects. As such, action must be taken to avoid the patenting of ethnic genetic tests. While existing anti-discrimination law may provide one reactive means to challenge these tests, its extent is unclear, and that route is slow and uncertain. Instead, Congress should proactively enact narrow legislation specifically tailored to prohibit these tests.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 8: 2006-2007
Trovos de amor para cantar con acompañamiento de guitarra: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2022), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Trovos de amor para cantar con acompañamiento de guitarra: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Application of a Sliding Mode Observer for Sensorless Operation of Switched Reluctance Motors
Creators: name: Brock, Stefan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Engineering

description: The rotor speed and position control of a switched reluctance motor (SRM) needs an encoder or resolver to obtain information about the rotor position. These sensors may deteriorate in harsh environments, and increase the size and cost of the drive. This paper presents an evaluation of the sliding-mode observer to estimate a switched reluctance motor speed and rotor position. A new concept of observer based on a simple but quite accurate model of SRM has been proposed. A non-linear model of an SRM is used and a computer simulation is developed based on data from an experimental motor system. The implication of discrete–time implementation with various sample rates was examined
Tides of Unknowing: Offshore-Eldritch Horror in Still Wakes the Deep (Abstract)
Creators: name: Mummelthei, Victoria
Publisher: name: Eldritch: New Critical Developments in the Lovecraftian Mythos; Peter Lang Publishing, Oxford; Editor: David K. Goodin; Series Editor: Simon Bacon
Year: 2025
Subjects: game studies
digital games
lovecraft
eldritch
still wakes the deep
offshore
horror
wet ontologies
oceanic thinking
wet ontology
cosmic horror
video games

description: Proposal for an essay in the volume Eldritch: New Critical Developments in the Lovecraftian Mythos; Genre Fiction and Film Companions Series; Peter Lang Publishing, Oxford; Editor: David K. Goodin; Series Editor: Simon Bacon.
A Super-Localized Generalized Finite Element Method
Creators: name: Freese, Philip
name: Hauck, Moritz
name: Keil, Tim
name: Peterseim, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N12, 65N30

description: This paper presents a novel multi-scale method for elliptic partial differential equations with arbitrarily rough coefficients. In the spirit of numerical homogenization, the method constructs problem-adapted ansatz spaces with uniform algebraic approximation rates. Localized basis functions with the same super-exponential localization properties as the recently proposed Super-Localized Orthogonal Decomposition enable an efficient implementation. The method's basis stability is enforced using a partition of unity approach. A natural extension to higher order is presented, resulting in higher approximation rates and enhanced localization properties. We perform a rigorous a priori and a posteriori error analysis and confirm our theoretical findings in a series of numerical experiments. In particular, we demonstrate the method's applicability for challenging high-contrast channeled coefficients.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures
Consumption and Prices of Cereal and Bakery Products
Creators: name: Hiemstra, Stephen J.
name: Hiemstra, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Agribusiness
Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Retail prices of cereal and bakery products rose 39 percent between 1950 and 1964 compared with an increase of only 20 percent for the entire food-at-home price index. Prices of bakery products and breakfast cereals contributed more to the price increase than did products such as wheat flour. Per capita consumption of the cereal components of all cereal and bakery products declined 13 percent since 1950.
description: Reprinted from the National Food Situation, NFS- 112, May 1965, by the Economic and Statistical Analysis Division, Economic Research Service.
Trovos de amor para cantar con acompañamiento de guitarra: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
title: El «enigma de Ingolstadt»: la historia de un cartapacio
Creators: name: Belda Plans, Juan
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 340

description: En el curso 1547-1548 Melchor Cano pronunció dos relecciones teológicas ante el claustro de la universidad de Salamanca. Dos años más tarde las llevó personalmente a la imprenta salmantina de Portonariis. La historia de un cartapacio encontrado en Ingolstadt da un viraje a la edición crítica del texto.
description: Legal History Insights
Exhaustive Symbolic Regression
Creators: name: Bartlett, Deaglan J.
name: Desmond, Harry
name: Ferreira, Pedro G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Symbolic Regression (SR) algorithms attempt to learn analytic expressions which fit data accurately and in a highly interpretable manner. Conventional SR suffers from two fundamental issues which we address here. First, these methods search the space stochastically (typically using genetic programming) and hence do not necessarily find the best function. Second, the criteria used to select the equation optimally balancing accuracy with simplicity have been variable and subjective. To address these issues we introduce Exhaustive Symbolic Regression (ESR), which systematically and efficiently considers all possible equations -- made with a given basis set of operators and up to a specified maximum complexity -- and is therefore guaranteed to find the true optimum (if parameters are perfectly optimised) and a complete function ranking subject to these constraints. We implement the minimum description length principle as a rigorous method for combining these preferences into a single objective. To illustrate the power of ESR we apply it to a catalogue of cosmic chronometers and the Pantheon+ sample of supernovae to learn the Hubble rate as a function of redshift, finding $\sim$40 functions (out of 5.2 million trial functions) that fit the data more economically than the Friedmann equation. These low-redshift data therefore do not uniquely prefer the expansion history of the standard model of cosmology. We make our code and full equation sets publicly available.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Leveraging Memory Effects and Gradient Information in Consensus-Based Optimization: On Global Convergence in Mean-Field Law
Creators: name: Riedl, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 65K10, 90C26, 90C56, 35Q90, 35Q84

description: In this paper we study consensus-based optimization (CBO), a versatile, flexible and customizable optimization method suitable for performing nonconvex and nonsmooth global optimizations in high dimensions. CBO is a multi-particle metaheuristic, which is effective in various applications and at the same time amenable to theoretical analysis thanks to its minimalistic design. The underlying dynamics, however, is flexible enough to incorporate different mechanisms widely used in evolutionary computation and machine learning, as we show by analyzing a variant of CBO which makes use of memory effects and gradient information. We rigorously prove that this dynamics converges to a global minimizer of the objective function in mean-field law for a vast class of functions under minimal assumptions on the initialization of the method. The proof in particular reveals how to leverage further, in some applications advantageous, forces in the dynamics without loosing provable global convergence. To demonstrate the benefit of the herein investigated memory effects and gradient information in certain applications, we present numerical evidence for the superiority of this CBO variant in applications such as machine learning and compressed sensing, which en passant widen the scope of applications of CBO.
description: 35 pages, 6 figures
title: Claiming thin air
title: is there a case for native title in radio spectrum?
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Motlap, Shane Darren
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2006

description: The question of whether a plausible case for native title in radio spectrum exists in Australia is not yet fully understood. The relevant literature is lacking in both breadth and depth. To date, no case has been developed and tested in the courts. Subsequently this thesis examined whether a plausible case could be constructed that demonstrates native title in radio spectrum in Australia. This thesis proposed that native title exists in radio spectrum, but is yet to be proven in Australian law; particularly when considerations are given to impediments as represented by the current government and by the current structure of native title legislation and its processes. Since there was a scarcity of available literature on the concept of native title in radio spectrum, and the fact that there was no relevant precedent that existed in Australian law, a comparative study of Maori rights in radio spectrum in New Zealand was undertaken to a) provide both an initial reference point for Indigenous Australians to consider if they were to pursue native title in radio spectrum, and b) to gauge the applicability of the Maori experience to the legislative conditions currently facing Indigenous Australians who might wish to express native title rights in radio spectrum. Eventually, the findings of this thesis support the existence of native title in radio spectrum; however, this cannot be expressed at the present time. Consequently, Indigenous Australians are strongly encouraged to pursue this issue with an enduring view to achieve economic and wider parity enjoyed by other Australians.
Two distinct populations of exosomes are released from LIM1863 colon carcinoma cell-derived organoids
Creators: name: Tauro, BJ
name: Greening, David
name: Mathias, RA
name: Mathivanan, Suresh
name: Ji, H
name: Simpson, Richard
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Exosomes are naturally occurring biological nanomembranous vesicles (̃40 to 100 nm) of endocytic origin that are released from diverse cell types into the extracellular space. They have pleiotropic functions such as antigen presentation and intercellular transfer of protein cargo, mRNA, microRNA, lipids, and oncogenic potential. Here we describe the isolation, via sequential immunocapture using anti-A33- and anti-EpCAM-coupled magnetic beads, of two distinct populations of exosomes released from organoids derived from human colon carcinoma cell line LIM1863. The exosome populations (A33-Exos and EpCAM-Exos) could not be distinguished via electron microscopy and contained stereotypical exosome markers such as TSG101, Alix, and HSP70. The salient finding of this study, revealed via gel-based LC-MS/MS, was the exclusive identification in EpCAM-Exos of the classical apical trafficking molecules CD63 (LAMP3), mucin 13 and the apical intestinal enzyme sucrase isomaltase and increased expression of dipeptidyl peptidase IV and the apically restricted pentaspan membrane glycoprotein prominin 1. In contrast, the A33-Exos preparation was enriched with basolateral trafficking molecules such as early endosome antigen 1, the Golgi membrane protein ADP-ribosylation factor, and clathrin. Our observations are consistent with EpCAM- and A33-Exos being released from the apical and basolateral surfaces, respectively, and the EpCAM-Exos proteome profile with widely published stereotypical exosomes. A proteome analysis of LIM1863-derived shed microvesicles (sMVs) was also performed in order to clearly distinguish A33- and EpCAMExos from sMVs. Intriguingly, several members of the MHC class I family of antigen presentation molecules were exclusively observed in A33-Exos, whereas neither MHC class I nor MHC class II molecules were observed via MS in EpCAM-Exos. Additionally, we report for the first time in any extracellular vesicle study the colocalization of EpCAM, claudin-7, and CD44 in EpCAM-Exos. Given that these molecules are known to complex together to promote tumor progression, further characterization of exosome subpopulations will enable a deeper understanding of their possible role in regulation of the tumor microenvironment. © 2013 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
Consensus-Based Optimization for Saddle Point Problems
Creators: name: Huang, Hui
name: Qiu, Jinniao
name: Riedl, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we propose consensus-based optimization for saddle point problems (CBO-SP), a novel multi-particle metaheuristic derivative-free optimization method capable of provably finding global Nash equilibria. Following the idea of swarm intelligence, the method employs a group of interacting particles, which perform a minimization over one variable and a maximization over the other. This paradigm permits a passage to the mean-field limit, which makes the method amenable to theoretical analysis and allows to obtain rigorous convergence guarantees under reasonable assumptions about the initialization and the objective function, which most notably include nonconvex-nonconcave objectives.
A PDE approach to the existence and regularity of surfaces of minimum mean curvature variation
Creators: name: Caffarelli, L. A.
name: Stinga, P. R.
name: Vivas, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop an analytic theory of existence and regularity of surfaces (given by graphs) arising from the geometric minimization problem $$\min_{\mathcal{M}}\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathcal{M}}|\nabla_{\mathcal{M}}H|^2\,dA$$ where $\mathcal{M}$ ranges over all $n$-dimensional manifolds in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with prescribed boundary, $\nabla_{\mathcal{M}}H$ is the tangential gradient along $\mathcal{M}$ of the mean curvature $H$ of $\mathcal{M}$ and $dA$ is the differential of surface area. The minimizers, called surfaces of minimum mean curvature variation, are central in applications of computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing and mechanics. Our main results show the existence of both smooth surfaces and of variational solutions to the minimization problem together with geometric regularity results. These are the first analytic results available on the literature for this problem.
description: 13 pages. To appear in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
schlably: A Python Framework for Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Scheduling Experiments
Creators: name: de Puiseau, Constantin Waubert
name: Peters, Jannik
name: Dörpelkus, Christian
name: Tercan, Hasan
name: Meisen, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Research on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based production scheduling (PS) has gained a lot of attention in recent years, primarily due to the high demand for optimizing scheduling problems in diverse industry settings. Numerous studies are carried out and published as stand-alone experiments that often vary only slightly with respect to problem setups and solution approaches. The programmatic core of these experiments is typically very similar. Despite this fact, no standardized and resilient framework for experimentation on PS problems with DRL algorithms could be established so far. In this paper, we introduce schlably, a Python-based framework that provides researchers a comprehensive toolset to facilitate the development of PS solution strategies based on DRL. schlably eliminates the redundant overhead work that the creation of a sturdy and flexible backbone requires and increases the comparability and reusability of conducted research work.
description: currently under review for SoftwareX
Next nearest neighbour coupling with spinor polariton condensates
Creators: name: Dovzhenko, Dmitriy
name: Aristov, Denis
name: Pickup, Lucy
name: Sigurdsson, Helgi
name: Lagoudakis, Pavlos G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on experimental observation of next-nearest-neighbour coupling between ballistically expanding spinor exciton-polariton condensates in a planar semiconductor microcavity. All-optical control over the coupling strength between neighbouring condensates is demonstrated through distance-periodic pseudospin screening of their ballistic particle outflow due to the inherent splitting of the planar cavity transverse-electric (TE) and transverse-magnetic (TM) modes. By screening the nearest-neighbour coupling we overcome the conventional spatial coupling hierarchy between condensates. This offers a promising route towards creating unconventional non-planar many-body Hamiltonians using networks of ballistically expanding spinor exciton-polariton condensates.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Terahertz field-induced nonlinear coupling of two magnon modes in an antiferromagnet
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhuquan
name: Gao, Frank Y.
name: Curtis, Jonathan B.
name: Liu, Zi-Jie
name: Chien, Yu-Che
name: von Hoegen, Alexander
name: Wong, Man Tou
name: Kurihara, Takayuki
name: Suemoto, Tohru
name: Narang, Prineha
name: Baldini, Edoardo
name: Nelson, Keith A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnons are quantized collective spin-wave excitations in magnetically ordered materials. Revealing their interactions among these collective modes is crucial for the understanding of fundamental many-body effects in such systems and the development of high-speed information transport and processing devices based on them. Nevertheless, identifying couplings between individual magnon modes remains a long-standing challenge. Here, we demonstrate spectroscopic fingerprints of anharmonic coupling between distinct magnon modes in an antiferromagnet, as evidenced by coherent photon emission at the sum and difference frequencies of the two modes. This discovery is enabled by driving two magnon modes coherently with a pair of tailored terahertz fields and then disentangling a mixture of nonlinear responses with different origins. Our approach provides a route for generating nonlinear magnon-magnon mixing.
On locating and neighbor-locating colorings of sparse graphs
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Dipayan
name: Foucaud, Florent
name: Nandi, Soumen
name: Sen, Sagnik
name: Supraja, D K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A proper $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a \emph{neighbor-locating $k$-coloring} if for each pair of vertices in the same color class, the two sets of colors found in their respective neighborhoods are different. The \textit{neighbor-locating chromatic number} $χ_{NL}(G)$ is the minimum $k$ for which $G$ admits a neighbor-locating $k$-coloring. A proper $k$-vertex-coloring of a graph $G$ is a \emph{locating $k$-coloring} if for each pair of vertices $x$ and $y$ in the same color-class, there exists a color class $S_i$ such that $d(x,S_i)\neq d(y,S_i)$. The locating chromatic number $χ_{L}(G)$ is the minimum $k$ for which $G$ admits a locating $k$-coloring. Our main results concern the largest possible order of a sparse graph of given neighbor-locating chromatic number. More precisely, we prove that if $G$ has order $n$, neighbor-locating chromatic number $k$ and average degree at most $2a$, where $2a\le k-1$ is a positive integer, then $n$ is upper-bounded by $\mathcal{O}(a^2(k^{2a+1}))$. We also design a family of graphs of bounded maximum degree whose order is close to reaching this upper bound. Our upper bound generalizes two previous bounds from the literature, which were obtained for graphs of bounded maximum degree and graphs of bounded cycle rank, respectively. Also, we prove that determining whether $χ_L(G)\le k$ and $χ_{NL}(G)\le k$ are NP-complete for sparse graphs: more precisely, for graphs with average degree at most 7, maximum average degree at most 20 and that are $4$-partite. We also study the possible relation between the ordinary chromatic number, the locating chromatic number and the neighbor-locating chromatic number of a graph.
Defining relations for minimal unitary quantum affine W-algebras
Creators: name: Adamović, Dražen
name: Kac, Victor . G.
name: Frajria, Pierluigi Möseneder
name: Papi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that any unitary highest weight module over a universal minimal quantum affine $W$-algebra at non-critical level descends to its simple quotient. We find the defining relations of the unitary simple minimal quantum affine $W$-algebras and the list of all their irreducible positive energy modules. We also classify all irreducible highest weight modules for the simple affine vertex algebras in the cases when the associated simple minimal $W$-algebra is unitary.
description: Latex file, 24 pages, final version, to appear in Communications in Mathematical Physics
title: Verfassungsblatt: 2023/8
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Verfassungsblog gGmbH
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Verfassungsrecht
subject: constitutional law
subject: Verfassungspolitik
subject: constitutional policy
subject: 340

description: Verfassungsblatt, vol. 1 (2023), no. 8, p. 1246
The Business Fallout from the Rapid Obsolescence and Planned Obsolescence of High-Tech Products
Creators: name: Hodges, Ann C.
name: Taylor, Porcher L.
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2005

description: The recent rapid pace of technological change has made human capital more important, yet it has rendered the employee’s knowledge base obsolete more quickly. Employers use covenants not to compete, restricting employees from switching to work for competitors, in order to retain knowledgeable personnel. Currently, the lack of predictability in interpreting noncompete agreements allows employers to draft overly-lengthy noncompetes, encourages enforcement litigation, and curtails employees from changing jobs because of the fear of litigation. Employees should not be prevented from working for competitors for longer than is necessary to protect the employer’s legitimate interest. Use of obsolescence as a guide in drafting noncompete agreements should provide the protection employers need without overburdening the employee’s option to change jobs. Judges should utilize court-appointed obsolescence experts in order to determine the useful life of employee knowledge and should limit noncompete agreements accordingly. This judicial scrutiny should encourage employers to tie restrictions directly to obsolescence of employee knowledge, improving both predictability and fairness of noncompete agreements.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 6: 2004-2005
The Philosopher à la Jean-François Lyotard – Is what he suggests against the rules?
Creators: name: Holbrook, J Britt
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This is a paper I presented at the conference on "A New Practice of Philosophy" in Denton, TX, March 9, 2011.
Collateral Estoppel and Claim Construction Orders
Creators: name: Garza, Anthony M.
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2005

description: Collateral estoppel could be a powerful tool in patent litigation. When a claim construction is necessary to a final judgment, ordinarily, an adverse party may not relitigate the construction in a future action. Current Federal Circuit jurisprudence, however, seems to offer an escape hatch. Because courts often construe patent claims before the trial begins, a party subject to an adverse claim construction could settle to try to avoid any future collateral effects. If a future court cannot determine whether the prior claim construction ruling was “final”, the court will not give the claim construction ruling collateral estoppel effect. Due to the interlocutory and changeable nature of a claim construction order, finality is always in doubt. This article suggests how a future court could find a past claim construction ruling as “final”, despite its tentative nature. A motion for vacatur necessarily determines whether a claim construction ruling is “practically final”, providing enough “finality” to support collateral estoppel in many circuits. To support this conclusion, the article explores current doctrine examining the intersection of vacatur, collateral estoppel, and interlocutory rulings, including claim construction rulings.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 6: 2004-2005
title: Verfassungsblatt: 2023/9
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Verfassungsblog gGmbH
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Verfassungsrecht
subject: constitutional law
subject: Verfassungspolitik
subject: constitutional policy
subject: 340

description: Verfassungsblatt, vol. 1 (2023), no. 9, p. 1355
Production, Preservation, and Disclosure of Metadata
Creators: name: Beckham, J. Brian
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2006

description: As the use of information technology increasingly pervades every facet of our personal and professional life, legal practitioners are taking increasing notice of the effect that metadata can have on their practice. In particular, the prevalence of metadata threatens to have a dramatic effect on discovery issues, such as document retention and production. This article endeavors to define and discuss the concept of metadata, and then explore how this new category of information will apply to traditional notions of waiver and privilege. It will then highlight several proposals for the discoverability of metadata, and will conclude with a discussion of the ethical implications for counsel in dealing with electronically transmitted documents.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 7: 2005-2006
QueueFlower: Orchestrating Microservice Workflows via Dynamic Queue Balancing
Creators: name: Anonymous, Anonymous
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460601
subject: Cloud computing
classificationCode: 490304
subject: Optimisation

description: Source code and the detailed proof of theoretical guarantee for "QueueFlower: Orchestrating Microservice Workflows via Dynamic Queue Balancing".Refer to the `readme.md` in `QueueFlower.tar.gz` to setup the environment and run the code.
“Robust Notice” and “Informed Consent:” The Keys to Successful Spyware Legislation
Creators: name: Blanke, Jordan M.
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2006

description: As spyware, adware, and other computer programs that surreptitiously monitor user behavior become more prevalent, the United States Congress and a number of state governments have proposed legislation to target this problem. This article argues that any legislative solution must require robust, meaningful notice to users about the ramifications of the software they are installing, so that users can give their informed consent to install the software and accept its terms and conditions. The article discusses the background of the technological innovations that led to the present day computing environment. It then explores some of the common questions and answers that arise concerning spyware and discusses the strengths and weakness of various state and federal legislative approaches.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 7: 2005-2006
The Orphan Drug Act and the Myth of the Exclusivity Incentive
Creators: name: Rogyoski, Robert
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2006

description: For more than 20 years, the marketing exclusivity provision of the Orphan Drug Act has been hailed as a key component of the incentive for the United States’ pharmaceutical industry to develop drugs for rare disorders; this is the Official Story of the ODA. In this paper, I argue that the Official Story is a myth. Rather, the real engine for the development of drugs to treat rare disorders is the patent system.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 7: 2005-2006
Quasinormal modes, Hawking radiation and absorption of the massless scalar field for Bardeen black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter
Creators: name: Sun, Qi
name: Li, Qian
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Li, Qi-Quan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quasinormal modes, Hawking radiation and absorption cross-section of the Bardeen black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter for a massless scalar field. Our results show that the oscillation frequency of quasinormal modes is enhanced as magnetic charge $g$ or the dark matter parameter $α$ increases. For damping rate of quasinormal modes, the influence of them is different. Specifically, the increase of dark matter parameter $α$ makes the damping rate increasing at first and then decreasing. While the damping rate is continuously decreasing with the increase of the magnetic charge $g$. Moreover, we find that the increase of the dark matter parameter $α$ enhances the power emission spectrum whereas magnetic charge $g$ suppresses it. This means that the lifespan of black holes increases for smaller value of $α$ and larger value of $g$ when other parameters are fixed. Finally, the absorption cross-section of the considered black hole is calculated with the help of the partial wave approach. Our results suggest that the absorption cross-section decreases with the dark matter parameter $α$ or the magnetic charge $g$ increasing.
description: 18 pages,17 figures
YBX1/YB-1 induces partial EMT and tumourigenicity through secretion of angiogenic factors into the extracellular microenvironment
Creators: name: Gopal, SK
name: Greening, David
name: Mathias, RA
name: Ji, H
name: Rai, Alin
name: Chen, Maoshan
name: Zhu, H-J
name: Simpson, Richard
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3211
subject: Oncology and carcinogenesis

description: Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) describes a morphogenetic program which confers mesenchymal cell properties, such as reduced cell-cell contact and increased cell migration and invasion, to epithelial cells. Here we investigate the role of the pleiotropic transcription/splicing factor and RNA-binding protein nucleasesensitive element-binding protein 1 (YBX1/YB-1) in increasing the oncogenic potential of epithelial MDCK cells. Characterization of MDCK cells expressing YBX1 (MDCKYBX1 cells) revealed a partial EMT phenotype, including cytosolic relocalization of E-cadherin, increased cell scattering, and anchorage-independent growth. Subcutaneous injection of parental MDCK cells into NOD/SCID mice did not form tumours. Critically, MDCKYBX1 cells established viable tumour xenografts, and immunohistochemical staining indicated murine vascularization by CD31+ endothelial cells. We analysed the total secretome (containing soluble and extracellular vesicles) of MDCKYBX1 cells to investigate regulation of the tumour microenvironment. YBX1 expression elevated release of secreted factors known to enhance angiogenesis (TGF-β, CSF-1, NGF, VGF, ADAM9 and ADAM17), compared to MDCK cells. Importantly, treatment with MDCKYBX1 cell-derived secretome increased recipient 2F-2B endothelial cell motility. This defines YBX1 as an oncogenic enhancer that can regulate tumour angiogenesis via release of secreted modulators into the extracellular microenvironment.
Towards continuity: Universal frequency-preserving KAM persistence and remaining regularity
Creators: name: Tong, Zhicheng
name: Li, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J40, 70K60

description: Beyond Hölder's type, this paper mainly concerns the persistence and remaining regularity of an individual frequency-preserving KAM torus in a finitely differentiable Hamiltonian system, even allows the non-integrable part being critical finitely smooth. To achieve this goal, besides investigating the Jackson approximation theorem towards only modulus of continuity, we demonstrate an abstract regularity theorem adapting to the new iterative scheme. Via these tools, we obtain a KAM theorem with sharp differentiability hypotheses, asserting that the persistent torus keeps prescribed universal Diophantine frequency unchanged. Further, the non-Hölder regularity for invariant KAM torus as well as the conjugation is explicitly shown by introducing asymptotic analysis. To our knowledge, this is the first approach to KAM on these aspects in a continuous sense, and we also provide two systems, which cannot be studied by previous KAM but by ours.
description: 36 pages, substantial text overlap with arXiv:2301.13590
An Antitrust Tying Analysis of Microsoft’s Security Software Products
Creators: name: Schneider, Heather
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2006

description: This article discusses the possible legal ramifications of Microsoft’s recent entry into the market for security software, such as personal firewall, anti-virus, and anti-spyware software. Microsoft has encountered antitrust problems in the past by bundling software with the Windows operating system, and some commentators have suggested that Microsoft’s next antitrust battle will be over security software. The purpose of this article is to determine whether Microsoft’s new security offerings could constitute illegal tying arrangements. The article provides a technical background, including a description of operating systems and security software in general, an overview of Microsoft’s current and proposed security offerings, and reasons why security software is needed. It then discusses the hypothetical outcome of a tying claim against Microsoft under Section 1 of the Sherman Act by analyzing Microsoft’s product offerings under the traditional per se tying rule and under the rule of reason. It concludes by presenting several possible remedies if a tying violation were to be found.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 7: 2005-2006