cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Table S2. Summary of the model investigating the effects of female traits (age, dominance rank, and sociality level; see methods) on female.annual hygienic index in females for whom few grooming events (10-19) were recorded. from Mother-to-daughter transmission of hygienic anti-parasite behaviour in mandrills
Creators: name: poirotte, Clémence
name: Charpentier, Marie J. E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: To test for significant differences between levels of female dominance rank, we changed the reference level sequentially.
Speaking Feminine Virtue
Creators: name: Elhajoui, Khaleelah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Most speakers and learners of Japanese accept ‘women’s language’ as a naturally-occurring phenomenon, rooted in the speech practices or inherent femininity of its users. However, investigation into the origins of this supposedly-innate language variety contradicts the gradual, organic formation of women’s speech that one might expect. Rather, we see a careful discursive construction of women’s language throughout Japan’s history. This thesis examines the literary texts of the Nara and Heian periods, diaries, letters, and official records of women serving in the imperial court of the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, and women’s conduct manuals in the Edo period to analyze the origins of ‘women’s language,’ the ways in which vernaculars of some women were appropriated and applied to all women, and the ideological currents that reinforced these norms in cultural practice. My analysis found that pre-modern metalinguistic discourses provided a foundation of legitimacy for future discourses surrounding ‘women’s language.’ I examined how changes in women’s social and political standing during the medieval period led to the genesis of court women’s speech, finding that this speech style was diffused through early prototypes of conduct manuals tailored for women. As conduct manuals aimed at women gained prominence in the Edo period, the norms associated with virtuous ‘women’s language’ became inseparable from economic class and social status, and through appropriation of court women’s language conduct manuals were implicit in the erasure of women’s linguistic innovation. In spite of these rigid norms, the numerous examples of women’s subversive and non-standard language use suggest that there were ways for women to bend the rules and that there was, ultimately, more to women’s language than conduct manual discourses would lead us to believe.
Convergence of the Gutt Star Product
Creators: name: Esposito, Chiara
name: Stapor, Paul
name: Waldmann, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we consider the Gutt star product viewed as an associative deformation of the symmetric algebra S^\bullet(g) over a Lie algebra g and discuss its continuity properties: we establish a locally convex topology on S^\bullet(g) such that the Gutt star product becomes continuous. Here we have to assume a mild technical condition on g: it has to be an Asymptotic Estimate Lie algebra. This condition is e.g. fulfilled automatically for all finite-dimensional Lie algebras. The resulting completion of the symmetric algebra can be described explicitly and yields not only a locally convex algebra but also the Hopf algebra structure maps inherited from the universal enveloping algebra are continuous. We show that all Hopf algebra structure maps depend analytically on the deformation parameter. The construction enjoys good functorial properties.
description: 35 pages, minor typos corrected, updated bibliography
Exact renormalization group for wave functionals
Creators: name: Kuwahara, Takaaki
name: Tanaka, Gota
name: Tsuchiya, Asato
name: Yamashiro, Kazushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the construction of the cMERA for interacting field theories, we derive a non-perturbative functional differential equation for wave functionals in scalar field theories from the exact renormalization group equation. We check the validity of the equation using the perturbation theory. We calculate the wave functional up to the first-order perturbation and verify that it satisfies the equation.
description: 15 pages, published version
A scoping review on DSS mouse colitis models comprising two time periods with a focus on reporting on prevention of bias and refinements
Creators: name: Thallmair, Michaela
name: Jirkof, Paulin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The use of DSS to induce colitis is one of the most commonly used animal models in this research field. Although it is known from patients that colitis causes pain in approximately 80% of the affected people, in animal models often no analgesia is used. In addition, in many publications it is not clear how animal well-being is assessed or whether any refinements are used. In this scoping review, we want to find out whether refinements such as the use of analgesia, pain assessment, application of humane endpoints or clinical scoring is reported in studies using a mouse model of acute or chronic DSS colitis. In addition we look for sources of bias and will assess whether randomization and blinding is reported.
title: Model reconstruction for dynamical systems
Creators: name: Odunuga, Abdulrafiu Babatunde
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: In numerical weather prediction (NWP), determining states and reconstructing model parameters or the underlying structural functions of dynamical models are essential and crucial components of the modelling and simulation process. In addition, it is gaining prominence in emerging application areas. In light of this, we examine the estimate of an unknown model M or the F function that determines the rate of change of x, which represents the dynamical system model of the type x˙ = F(x) using a high-dimensional nonlinear approach based on Ansatz functions such as Polynomial or Gaussian functions. The focus of this thesis is to propose specific iterative learning methods developed for estimating a dynamical system of interest using data assimilation (DA) techniques, as opposed to the traditional approaches typically used for parameter estimation, reduced order model approximation and the current approaches of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in general. This is initially evaluated using two models of dynamical systems with increasing complexity: Lorenz ’63 and Lorenz ’96. Then, we examine the reconstruction strategy based on a variety of basis functions, including Polynomial and Radial Basis Functions (RBF). As generic application issues, we examine the reconstruction of the dynamics of Lorenz ’63 with implicitly applied RBF under the assumption that the L 2 metric in coefficient space corresponds to a Gaussian prior in coefficient space. In addition, we employ the Amari Neural Field model for kernel reconstruction as a simulation test case for brain neural activity. Using the Lorenz ’96 model, we examine a Taylor series technique to express the forcing function F(x) with regard to the state variables. This was utilised for the rebuilding of models via ensemble data assimilation. Using the variational data assimilation method and the Kalman filter technique, our Model Reconstruction for Dynamical Systems primary objective is to study a general method for resolving this problem with little or some specific understanding of the underlying dynamical system. The models are then supplemented with a reaction-diffusion system. We demonstrate that learning a reaction-diffusion model’s fundamental partial differential equation is doable and produces good results when the learnt model is utilised as a propagator. Thus, we notice that the general iterative model reconstruction is competitive for the specific inverse issue under study for a broad range of initial conditions. Included are numerical examples demonstrating the practicability of the method
Ergodic properties of folding maps on spheres
Creators: name: Burchard, Almut
name: Chambers, Gregory R.
name: Dranovski, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A45 (22D40, 51F15, 60B15)

description: We consider the trajectories of points on $\mathbb{S}^{d - 1}$ under sequences of certain folding maps associated with reflections. The main result characterizes collections of folding maps that produce dense trajectories. The minimal number of maps in such a collection is $d+1$.
description: 18 pages; Accepted for publication in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A
Softly Fine-Tuned Standard Model and the Scale of Inflation
Creators: name: Korutlu, Beste
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The direct coupling between the Higgs field and the spacetime curvature, if finely tuned, is known to stabilize the Higgs boson mass. The fine-tuning is soft because the Standard Model (SM) parameters are subject to no fine-tuning thanks to their independence from the Higgs-curvature coupling. This soft fine-tuning leaves behind a large vacuum energy $\propto Λ_{\rm UV}^4$ which inflates the Universe with a Hubble rate $\propto Λ_{\rm UV}$, $Λ_{\rm UV}$ being the SM ultraviolet boundary. This means that the tensor-to-scalar ratio inferred from cosmic microwave background polarization measurements by BICEP2, Planck and others lead to the determination of $Λ_{\rm UV}$. The exit from the inflationary phase, as usual, is accomplished via decays of the vacuum energy. Here we show that, identification of $Λ_{\rm UV}$ with the inflaton, as a sliding UV scale upon the SM, respects the soft fine-tuning constraint and does not disrupt the stability of the SM Higgs boson.
description: 5 pages
CCG workshop - Whole energy system model - Kenya, October 2nd - 5th 2023
Creators: name: Lubello, Pietro
name: Oduor, Joshua
name: Akute, Michelle
name: Pye, Steve
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This repository contains the material used for the Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) workshop held in Nakuru, Kenya, between October 2nd and October 5th 2023. The workshop focus was the Kenyan OSeMOSYS Whole Energy System Model (WESM) in the context of the Integrated National Energy Planning, with some sector-specific discussions including industry, transport, clean cooking and hydrogen.
description: This material has been produced with support from the Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) programme. CCG is funded by UK aid from the UK government. Views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the UK government's official policies.
Table S1. Summary of the model investigating the effect of female.annual PRG on females’ monthly protozoan richness in females for whom few grooming events (10-19) were recorded. from Mother-to-daughter transmission of hygienic anti-parasite behaviour in mandrills
Creators: name: poirotte, Clémence
name: Charpentier, Marie J. E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Social animals are particularly exposed to infectious diseases. Pathogen-driven selection pressures have thus favoured the evolution of behavioural adaptations to decrease transmission risk such as the avoidance of contagious individuals. Yet, such strategies deprive individuals of valuable social interactions, generating a cost-benefit trade-off between pathogen avoidance and social opportunities. Recent studies revealed that hosts differ in these behavioural defences but the determinants driving such inter-individual variation remain understudied. Using 6 years of behavioural and parasite data on a large natural population of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx), we showed that, when parasite prevalence was high in the population, females avoided grooming their conspecifics' peri-anal region (PAR), where contagious gastro-intestinal parasites accumulate. Females varied, however, in their propensity to avoid this risky body region: across years, some females consistently avoided grooming it, while others did not. Interestingly, hygienic females, i.e. those avoiding the PAR, were less parasitized than non-hygienic females. Finally, age, dominance rank and grooming frequency did not influence a female's hygiene but both mother–daughter and maternal half-sisters exhibited similar hygienic levels, whereas paternal half-sisters and non-kin dyads did not, suggesting a social transmission of this behaviour. Our study emphasizes that the social inheritance of hygiene may structure behavioural resistance to pathogens in host populations with potential consequences on the dynamics of infectious diseases.
TOI-1695 b: A Water World Orbiting an Early M Dwarf in the Planet Radius Valley
Creators: name: Cherubim, Collin
name: Cloutier, Ryan
name: Charbonneau, David
name: Wohler, Bill
name: Stockdale, Chris
name: Stassun, Keivan G.
name: Schwarz, Richard P.
name: Safonov, Boris
name: Mortier, Annelies
name: Latham, David W.
name: Horne, Keith
name: Haywood, Raphaëlle D.
name: Gonzales, Erica
name: Goliguzova, Maria V.
name: Collins, Karen A.
name: Ciardi, David R.
name: Bieryla, Allyson
name: Belinski, Alexander A.
name: Watson, Christopher A.
name: Vanderspek, Rolands
name: Udry, Stéphane
name: Sozzetti, Alessandro
name: Ségransan, Damien
name: Sasselov, Dimitar
name: Ricker, George R.
name: Rice, Ken
name: Poretti, Ennio
name: Piotto, Giampaolo
name: Pepe, Francesco
name: Molinari, Emilio
name: Micela, Giuseppina
name: Mayor, Michel
name: Lovis, Christophe
name: López-Morales, Mercedes
name: Jenkins, Jon M.
name: Essack, Zahra
name: Dumusque, Xavier
name: Doty, John P.
name: Colón, Knicole D.
name: Cameron, Andrew Collier
name: Buchhave, Lars A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Characterizing the bulk compositions of transiting exoplanets within the M dwarf radius valley offers a unique means to establish whether the radius valley emerges from an atmospheric mass loss process or is imprinted by planet formation itself. We present the confirmation of such a planet orbiting an early M dwarf ($T_{\rm mag} = 11.0294 \pm 0.0074, M_s = 0.513 \pm 0.012\ M_\odot, R_s = 0.515 \pm 0.015\ R_\odot, T_{\rm eff} =3690\pm 50 K$): TOI-1695 b ($P = 3.13$ days, $R_p = 1.90^{+0.16}_{-0.14}\ R_\oplus$). TOI-1695 b's radius and orbital period situate the planet between model predictions from thermally-driven mass loss versus gas depleted formation, offering an important test case for radius valley emergence models around early M dwarfs. We confirm the planetary nature of TOI-1695 b based on five sectors of TESS data and a suite of follow-up observations including 49 precise radial velocity measurements taken with the HARPS-N spectrograph. We measure a planetary mass of $6.36 \pm 1.00\ M_\oplus$, which reveals that TOI-1695 b is inconsistent with a purely terrestrial composition of iron and magnesium silicate, and instead is likely a water-rich planet. Our finding that TOI-1695 b is not terrestrial is inconsistent with the planetary system being sculpted by thermally driven mass loss. We present a statistical analysis of seven well-characterized planets within the M dwarf radius valley demonstrating that a thermally-driven mass loss scenario is unlikely to explain this population.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures. Accepted in AJ
Chemosensitize Cancer Cells Targeting Dicer
Creators: name: Kim, Sul Gi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Medulloblastoma is the most common brain tumor in children and treatment consist of surgical removal of tumor followed by radiotherapy. Unfortunately, radiation can lead to prolonged negative neurological side effects and impact the quality of life to children.  Therefore our lab focuses on discovering novel chemosensitizing compound targeting for Dicer inhibition in hopes of decreasing chemotherapy dose and eliminate radiotherapy use. Dicer is a haloinsufficient tumor suppressor where partial loss of it increases tumor production. Surprisingly, works of our lab and others have discovered that full loss of Dicer in a mouse model decreased tumor volume and increased sensitivity to chemotherapy. Our lab have optimized high throughput screen (HTS) assay and used it to screen 1593 compounds’ effect to Dicer endonuclease activity. Five potential Dicer inhibitors were discovered in the HTS assay. When inhibitors were introduced to in vitro assay to medulloblastoma, some but not all, of the inhibitors substaintially decreased cell viability. Discovery of the Dicer inhibitors are critical for improving medulloblastoma treatment and can potentially be used to enhance chemosensitivity of various cancers.
Atmospheric Scintillation in Astronomical Photometry
Creators: name: Osborn, J.
name: Föhring, D.
name: Dhillon, V. S.
name: Wilson, R. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scintillation noise due to the Earth's turbulent atmosphere can be a dominant noise source in high-precision astronomical photometry when observing bright targets from the ground. Here we describe the phenomenon of scintillation from its physical origins to its effect on photometry. We show that Young's (1967) scintillation-noise approximation used by many astronomers tends to underestimate the median scintillation noise at several major observatories around the world. We show that using median atmospheric optical turbulence profiles, which are now available for most sites, provides a better estimate of the expected scintillation noise and that real-time turbulence profiles can be used to precisely characterise the scintillation noise component of contemporaneous photometric measurements. This will enable a better understanding and calibration of photometric noise sources and the effectiveness of scintillation correction techniques. We also provide new equations for calculating scintillation noise, including for extremely large telescopes where the scintillation noise will actually be lower than previously thought. These equations highlight the fact that scintillation noise and shot noise have the same dependence on exposure time and so if an observation is scintillation limited, it will be scintillation limited for all exposure times. The ratio of scintillation noise to shot noise is also only weakly dependent on telescope diameter and so a bigger telescope may not yield a reduction in fractional scintillation noise.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, accepted in MNRAS
Machine learning for proteomics: Challenges, opportunities, and ProteomicsML
Creators: name: Gabriëls, Ralf
name: Bittremieux, Wout
name: Bouwmeester, Robbin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Machine learning (ML) has become an integral part of many proteomics data analysis workflows. Nevertheless, a thorough understanding of ML models for proteomics is still lacking for many researchers in the field. To this end, we initiated ProteomicsML (https://proteomicsml.org), a community-driven platform for newcomers to find educational resources and for experienced researchers to share workflows and implementations. It offers tutorials and datasets aimed at simplifying ML concepts, even for users with limited coding and ML experience. The platform covers various predictive tasks, such as peptide retention time, ion mobility, and fragmentation intensity.

During the first part of this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to explore the interactive tutorials, receiving guidance on platform usage while encouraged to provide feedback. Next, based on these tutorials, we will naturally progress into interactive discussions on the current landscape of ML in proteomics, addressing topics such as transparent benchmarking, shared file formats, and facilitating integration into existing pipelines. Overall, the workshop is designed to provide an introduction to ProteomicsML, as well as to spur discussions on open issues for ML in proteomics. We welcome both beginners and experts to join the interactive workshop and discussions.
An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Third Party State Intervention in Civil Conflicts and the Frequency of Terrorist Reprisals Against the Intervening State
Creators: name: Garvey, Stephen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This thesis examines the relationship between third party state intervention
in civil conflicts and the likelihood that an intervening state will become the target
of terrorist attacks by other combatants in that conflict. In doing so, this thesis
builds off of the root causes theory of terrorism to examine how different types of
intervention might exacerbate or alleviate conditions that foster the emergence of
terrorist organizations in civil conflict areas, or affect public support and
recruitment opportunities for terrorist organizations once they emerge. By utilizing
principal-agent theory this thesis examines the potential dangers that states may
face when enlisting governments or insurgent organizations as agents within an
internationalized civil conflict. This thesis considers the effects of direct military
support for a belligerent in a civil conflict versus indirect material or logistical
support to determine whether different tactics deployed during an intervention
affect the likelihood of terrorist reprisals in different ways. Similarly, this thesis
examines interventions on behalf of governments and on behalf of insurgent
organizations separately to determine if the type of actor that an intervening state
supports has differing effects on the incidence of international terrorism against the
intervening state.
Dopamine depletion in the nucleus accumbens of rats induced by a phenylalanine- and tyrosine-free amino acid mixture
Creators: name: Taylor, Sarah Christine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter modulating neuronal mechanisms of human and animal behavior. In humans, one way to study the role of dopamine in neuronal mechanisms is by temporary depletion of dopamine synthesis and release. The depletion can be accomplished via administration of an amino acid (AA) mixture lacking the precursors to dopamine: phenylalanine (Phe) and tyrosine (Tyr). By using the same methodological approach in an animal model, this study examined the neurobiological consequences of this AA depletion on dopamine concentrations in the nucleus accumbens (NAc). Specifically, we used fast scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) to test whether the Phe-/Tyr- AA mixture reduced real-time dopamine transient activity in the NAc of rats. We hypothesized that administration of the mixture would reduce dopamine synthesis and lead to less dopamine available for release. Thus, we predicted that the Phe-/Tyr- AA mixture would decrease both the frequency and amplitude of dopamine transients in the NAc of rats. Data indicate that systemic administration of Tyr-/Phe- AA mixture, but not a control AA mixture containing Phe and Tyr, decreased frequency and caused a shift towards lower concentrations of dopamine transients in the NAc. We conclude that Phe-/Tyr- AA mixture decreases dopamine release in the NAc due to reduced dopamine synthesis.
Fringing Analysis and Simulation for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time
Creators: name: Guo, Zhiyuan
name: Walter, Chris W.
name: Lage, Craig
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Collaboration, The LSST Dark Energy Science
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of fringing in astronomical CCD images will impact photometric quality and measurements. Yet its impact on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has not been fully studied. We present a detailed study on fringing for Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) already implemented on the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera's focal plane. After making physical measurements and knowing the compositions, we have developed a model for the e2v CCDs. We present a method to fit for the internal height variation of the epoxy layer within the sensors based on fringing measurements in a laboratory setting. This method is generic enough that it can be easily modified to work for other CCDs. Using the derived fringing model, we successfully reproduce comparable fringing amplitudes that match the observed levels in images taken by existing telescopes with different optical designs. This model is then used to forecast the expected level of fringing in a single LSST y-band sky background exposure with Rubin telescope optics in the presence of a realistic time varying sky spectrum. The predicted fringing amplitude in LSST images ranges from $0.04\%$ to $0.2\%$ depending on the location of a CCD on the focal plane. We find that the predicted variation in surface brightness caused by fringing in LSST y-band skybackground images is about $0.6\ μ\rm{Jy}\ \rm{arcsec}^{-2}$, which is 40 times larger than the current measurement error. We conclude that it is necessary to include fringing correction in the Rubin's LSST image processing pipeline.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures, submitted to PASP
Matrix product state renormalization
Creators: name: Bal, Matthias
name: Rams, Marek M.
name: Zauner, Valentin
name: Haegeman, Jutho
name: Verstraete, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The truncation or compression of the spectrum of Schmidt values is inherent to the matrix product state (MPS) approximation of one-dimensional quantum ground states. We provide a renormalization group picture by interpreting this compression as an application of Wilson's numerical renormalization group along the imaginary time direction appearing in the path integral representation of the state. The location of the physical index is considered as an impurity in the transfer matrix and static MPS correlation functions are reinterpreted as dynamical impurity correlations. Coarse-graining the transfer matrix is performed using a hybrid variational ansatz based on matrix product operators, combining ideas of MPS and the multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz. Through numerical comparison with conventional MPS algorithms, we explicitly verify the impurity interpretation of MPS compression, as put forward by [V. Zauner et al., New J. Phys. 17, 053002 (2015)] for the transverse-field Ising model. Additionally, we motivate the conceptual usefulness of endowing MPS with an internal layered structure by studying restricted variational subspaces to describe elementary excitations on top of the ground state, which serves to elucidate a transparent renormalization group structure ingrained in MPS descriptions of ground states.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, published version
MPEC 2023-Q95 : 2023 QO3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 QO3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Latent User Intent Modeling for Sequential Recommenders
Creators: name: Chang, Bo
name: Karatzoglou, Alexandros
name: Wang, Yuyan
name: Xu, Can
name: Chi, Ed H.
name: Chen, Minmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sequential recommender models are essential components of modern industrial recommender systems. These models learn to predict the next items a user is likely to interact with based on his/her interaction history on the platform. Most sequential recommenders however lack a higher-level understanding of user intents, which often drive user behaviors online. Intent modeling is thus critical for understanding users and optimizing long-term user experience. We propose a probabilistic modeling approach and formulate user intent as latent variables, which are inferred based on user behavior signals using variational autoencoders (VAE). The recommendation policy is then adjusted accordingly given the inferred user intent. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the latent user intent modeling via offline analyses as well as live experiments on a large-scale industrial recommendation platform.
description: The Web Conference 2023, Industry Track
Appendix S1: from Mother-to-daughter transmission of hygienic anti-parasite behaviour in mandrills
Creators: name: poirotte, Clémence
name: Charpentier, Marie J. E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: This appendix provides supplementary materials and results.
title: Textilforschung 2019 : Bericht 66
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Forschungskuratorium Textil e.V.
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 677 Textilien

description: Das Forschungskuratorium Textil (FKT) hat im Jahr 2019 gemeinsam mit dem Berliner Institut für Innovation und Technik die grundlegenden organisatorischen Umstrukturierungen der vergangenen Jahre abgeschlossen und konzentriert sich jetzt voll und ganz auf die inhaltliche und fachliche Entwicklung. Ein erster wichtiger Schritt ist dabei der Blick in die Zukunft: Im Jahr 2019 hat das FKT die aufwendige Studie Perspektiven 2035 durchgeführt. Mit einer in der Branche bislang einzigartigen Kombination an Methoden wurde darin analysiert, wie sich die Textilindustrie in den kommenden 15 Jahren verändern wird - und wie die Branche darauf reagieren sollte. Die Ergebnisse der Studie wurden in einem ausführlichen Projektbericht veröffentlicht. Zukunftsweisende Veranstaltungen Vorgestellt werden in diesem Bericht auch viele erfolgreiche, teils bereits am Markt platzierte Projektergebnisse, die dank der Förderung durch die Industrielle Gemeinschaftsforschung (IGF) und das Zentrale Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM) möglich wurden. Verschiedene Veranstaltungen waren Plattform dafür, diese Projekte interessierten Unternehmen und der Politik vorzustellen und damit einen vielversprechenden Blick in die Zukunft zu werfen. Beim Smart-Textiles Anwenderforum lag der Fokus beispielsweise auf den künftig immer wichtiger werdenden e-Textiles. Das vom Bundeswirtschaftsministerium initiierte Forum Leichtbau wiederum konzentrierte sich auf den ressourcensparenden und somit nachhaltigen Leichtbau in verschiedenen Branchen. Beim jährlichen AK Technische Textilien wurden viele textile Innovationen für den Bereich Bauen und Wohnen vorgestellt. Die Branche zeigte sich auch auf der Fashion Week in Berlin: Der Gesamtverband textil + mode organisierte eine Veranstaltung zum Thema „Nachhaltigkeit+“. Dieser Bericht beschreibt auch, wie Unternehmer selbst in der Forschung aktiv werden können, wenn ihnen die Mittel für die eigene Forschung und Entwicklung fehlen - als Mitglied in einem projektbegleitenden Ausschuss. Alles in allem hat das Jahr 2019 eine Vielzahl an textilen Innovationen und Entwicklungen hervorgebracht: Die Branche ist gut aufgestellt. Die Themen Demografie, Nachhaltigkeit oder Digitalisierung werden die großen Treiber der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung bleiben. Die deutsche Textilbranche kann entsprechende Lösungen bieten und hat allen Grund, positiv in die Zukunft zu schauen.
Degenerate epitaxy-driven defects in monolayer silicon oxide onto ruthenium
Creators: name: Mathur, Shashank
name: Vlaic, Sergio
name: Machado-Charry, Eduardo
name: Vu, Anh-Duc
name: Guisset, Valérie
name: David, Philippe
name: Hadji, Emmanuel
name: Pochet, Pascal
name: Coraux, Johann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of the ultimately-thin crystalline allotrope of silicon oxide, prepared onto a ruthenium surface, is unveiled down to atomic scale with chemical sensitivity, thanks to high resolution scanning tunneling microscopy and first principle calculations. An ordered oxygen lattice is imaged which coexists with the two-dimensional monolayer oxide. This coexistence signals a displacive transformation from an oxygen reconstructed-Ru(0001) to silicon oxide, along which latterally-shifted domains form, each with equivalent and degenerate epitaxial relationships with the substrate. The unavoidable character of defects at boundaries between these domains appeals for the development of alternative methods capable of producing single-crystalline two-dimensional oxides.
Dispersive formalism for the nuclear structure correction $δ_\mathrm{NS}$ to the $β$ decay rate
Creators: name: Seng, Chien-Yeah
name: Gorchtein, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the axial $γW$-box diagram for $I(J^P)=1(0^+)$ nuclei and provide a dispersion representation of the nuclear-structure correction $δ_\text{NS}$ including its energy-dependent part. We also summarize useful isospin rotation formula and representations in nuclear theory that could facilitate the calculation of the parity-odd nuclear structure function $F_3(ν,Q^2)$. They provide a rigorous theory framework for the future, high-precision calculation of the nuclear structure correction $δ_\text{NS}$ necessary for the extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $|V_{ud}|$ from superallowed nuclear $β$ decays.
description: Version accepted by Physical Review C
Generalized ILW hierarchy: Solutions and limit to extended lattice GD hierarchy
Creators: name: Takasaki, Kanehisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 14N35, 37K10

description: The intermediate long wave (ILW) hierarchy and its generalization, labelled by a positive integer $N$, can be formulated as reductions of the lattice KP hierarchy. The integrability of the lattice KP hierarchy is inherited by these reduced systems. In particular, all solutions can be captured by a factorization problem of difference operators. A special solution among them is obtained from Okounkov and Pandharipande's dressing operators for the equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of $\mathbb{CP}^1$. This indicates a hidden link with the equivariant Toda hierarchy. The generalized ILW hierarchy is also related to the lattice Gelfand-Dickey (GD) hierarchy and its extension by logarithmic flows. The logarithmic flows can be derived from the generalized ILW hierarchy by a scaling limit as a parameter of the system tends to $0$. This explains an origin of the logarithmic flows. A similar scaling limit of the equivariant Toda hierarchy yields the extended 1D/bigraded Toda hierarchy.
description: latex2e using amsmath,amssymb,amsthm, 30 pages, no figure; (v2) sections 2, 3 and 5 are considerably reorganized, accepted for publication
Table S3. Groomed partners and top-groomed partners in common for each kin category (mother-daughter / maternal half-sisters / paternal half-sisters / unrelated females). from Mother-to-daughter transmission of hygienic anti-parasite behaviour in mandrills
Creators: name: poirotte, Clémence
name: Charpentier, Marie J. E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: For each dyad of females each year, we considered the total number of groomed partners and top-groomed partners in common between these two females over the total number of groomed partners for both females. We considered as top-groomed partners those that were groomed more than 10% of the time that female spent grooming that year. The sample sizes in brackets indicate the number of dyad.year.
On line contribution functions and examining spectral line formation in 3D model stellar atmospheres
Creators: name: Amarsi, Anish Mayur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Line contribution functions are useful diagnostics for studying spectral line formation in stellar atmospheres. I derive an expression for the contribution function to the abso- lute flux depression that emerges from three-dimensional box-in-a-star model stellar atmospheres. I illustrate the result by comparing the local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) spectral line formation of the high-excitation permitted OI777nm lines with the non-LTE case.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Library Policy as a Potential Barrier to the Access of Public Library eBook and eReader Services by People Experiencing Homelessness
Creators: name: Spencer, Rachel Anne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This paper examines whether the policies of some public libraries in a southern state have the potential to create barriers to the access of eBook and eReader services by people experiencing homelessness. In order to identify if library policies present potential barriers to the access of eBook and eReader services by people experiencing homelessness, a total of fifteen public library employees from seven public libraries in six counties participated in semi structured interviews. The questions asked during the interviews pertained to the employees’ understanding of the library’s eBook and/or eReader services, their knowledge of policy and whether they knew of any instances in which library policy presented a barrier to access, and their opinions and perceptions of people experiencing homelessness. Results indicated requirements to register for a card could result in policy-related barriers to the access of eBook and eReader services by people experiencing homelessness.
MPEC 2023-Q96 : 2023 QP3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 QP3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Utopic Colonies: A Decolonial Critique of Liberal Modern Buddhist Social Movements
Creators: name: Terry, Shaun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: My project’s aim is double. By tracing the effects of Orientalism and coloniality through
contemporary Transatlantic movements that came from Buddhism, I hope to make clear, and
draw attention to, the cultural conditions that spawned these liberal modern, supposedly liberatory,
movements. This project then aims to produce a narrow kind of historiography of liberal modern
Buddhistic subversive phenomena. That narrowness is, in part, the product of my focus on
Buddhist Economics and the US mindfulness movement. My other aim is to take note of how
culture can determine aspects of social movements that aim to improve the social world. There
surely are problems that plagued many of the movements of 1968, and many of those problems
appear in Buddhist Economics and in the US mindfulness movement.
Universal entanglement and correlation measure in two-dimensional conformal field theories
Creators: name: Yin, Chao
name: Liu, Zhenhuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the amount of entanglement shared by two intervals in the ground state of a (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT), quantified by an entanglement measure $\mathcal{E}$ based on the computable cross norm (CCNR) criterion. Unlike negativity or mutual information, we show that $\mathcal{E}$ has a universal expression even for two disjoint intervals, which depends only on the geometry, the central charge c, and the thermal partition function of the CFT. We prove this universal expression in the replica approach, where the Riemann surface for calculating $\mathcal{E}$ at each order n is always a torus topologically. By analytic continuation, result of n=1/2 gives the value of $\mathcal{E}$. Furthermore, the results of other values of n also yield meaningful conclusions: The n=1 result gives a general formula for the two-interval purity, which enables us to calculate the Renyi-2 N-partite information for N<=4 intervals; while the $n=\infty$ result bounds the correlation function of the two intervals. We verify our findings numerically in the spin-1/2 XXZ chain, whose ground state is described by the Luttinger liquid.
description: 5+2 pages, 3+2 figures; published version
How do OSS projects change in number and size? A large-scale analysis to test a model of project growth
Creators: name: Schweitzer, Frank
name: Nanumyan, Vahan
name: Tessone, Claudio J.
name: Xia, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Established Open Source Software (OSS) projects can grow in size if new developers join, but also the number of OSS projects can grow if developers choose to found new projects. We discuss to what extent an established model for firm growth can be applied to the dynamics of OSS projects. Our analysis is based on a large-scale data set from SourceForge (SF) consisting of monthly data for 10 years, for up to 360'000 OSS projects and up to 340'000 developers. Over this time period, we find an exponential growth both in the number of projects and developers, with a remarkable increase of single-developer projects after 2009. We analyze the monthly entry and exit rates for both projects and developers, the growth rate of established projects and the monthly project size distribution. To derive a prediction for the latter, we use modeling assumptions of how newly entering developers choose to either found a new project or to join existing ones. Our model applies only to collaborative projects that are deemed to grow in size by attracting new developers. We verify, by a thorough statistical analysis, that the Yule-Simon distribution is a valid candidate for the size distribution of collaborative projects except for certain time periods where the modeling assumptions no longer hold. We detect and empirically test the reason for this limitation, i.e., the fact that an increasing number of established developers found additional new projects after 2009.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures
Toward $N$ to $Nπ$ matrix elements from lattice QCD
Creators: name: Barca, Lorenzo
name: Bali, Gunnar
name: Collins, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: QCD matrix elements of axial and vector currents between nucleons are required for the Monte Carlo reconstruction of the energy of neutrinos that are detected in long baseline oscillation experiments in the quasi-elastic regime. The cleanest approach for determining the axial matrix elements is lattice QCD. However, the extraction of these from the corresponding correlation functions is complicated by very large excited state contributions, that are related to transitions from the nucleon to a nucleon-pion pair. In this pilot study with a pion mass $m_π= 429~ \mathrm{MeV}$, we demonstrate for the first time that these contributions can be removed by including five-(anti)quark operators into the basis of interpolators used to create the nucleon. The same techniques will be needed to compute transition matrix elements between the nucleon and nucleon-pion scattering states that are relevant in the resonance production regime.
description: 5 pages + Supplemental Material, 5 figures
Rank 2 sheaves on toric 3-folds: classical and virtual counts
Creators: name: Gholampour, Amin
name: Kool, Martijn
name: Young, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 14D20, 14J60, 14M25, 14N35

description: Let $\mathcal{M}$ be the moduli space of rank 2 stable torsion free sheaves with Chern classes $c_i$ on a smooth 3-fold $X$. When $X$ is toric with torus $T$, we describe the $T$-fixed locus of the moduli space. Connected components of $\mathcal{M}^T$ with constant reflexive hulls are isomorphic to products of $\mathbb{P}^1$. We mainly consider such connected components, which typically arise for any $c_1$, "low values" of $c_2$, and arbitrary $c_3$. In the classical part of the paper, we introduce a new type of combinatorics called double box configurations, which can be used to compute the generating function $\mathsf{Z}(q)$ of topological Euler characteristics of $\mathcal{M}$ (summing over all $c_3$). The combinatorics is solved using the double dimer model in a companion paper. This leads to explicit formulae for $\mathsf{Z}(q)$ involving the MacMahon function. In the virtual part of the paper, we define Donaldson-Thomas type invariants of toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds by virtual localization. The contribution to the invariant of an individual connected component of the $T$-fixed locus is in general not equal to its signed Euler characteristic due to $T$-fixed obstructions. Nevertheless, the generating function of all invariants is given by $\mathsf{Z}(q)$ up to signs.
description: 62 pages. Published version. Exposition much improved following referees' suggestions; division in classical and virtual part which can be read more or less independently. Mathematical content unchanged