cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The density of sets containing large similar copies of finite sets
Creators: name: Falconer, Kenneth
name: Kovač, Vjekoslav
name: Yavicoli, Alexia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that if $E \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ ($d\geq 2$) is a Lebesgue-measurable set with density larger than $\frac{n-2}{n-1}$, then $E$ contains similar copies of every $n$-point set $P$ at all sufficiently large scales. Moreover, `sufficiently large' can be taken to be uniform over all $P$ with prescribed size, minimum separation and diameter. On the other hand, we construct an example to show that the density required to guarantee all large similar copies of $n$-point sets tends to $1$ at a rate $1- O(n^{-1/5}\log n)$.
description: 19 pages
MEANING IN METHODS OF SUICIDE
Creators: name: JONES, GEORGIA CATHERINE
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1995

description: It is possible to identify two broad approaches within research regarding suicide behaviour The first aims to clarify individual sociodemographic or psychological characteristics that identify "at risk" individuals The second recognises the importance of understanding the meaning that suicide behaviour has for the individuals concerned. This study aimed to elaborate recent research that has identified the importance of understanding the meaning that people give to using particular suicide methods. This study investigated the relationship between the meanings that suicide attempters give to suicide methods and the meanings that they attach to living and dying. Eight people who had made suicide attempts were each asked to list eight methods of suicide - four that they were likely to use and four that they were unlikely to use. They then ranked the methods in order of how likely they were to use them. Using Repertory Grid Technique, participants generated constructs regarding the suicide methods. They then rated the methods according to the poles of the constructs they produced. Using the same constructs, participants were then asked to rate additional grid elements regarding dying and living The construct rating patterns of the grid elements were then correlated using Kendall's Tau-B correlation The results of this study indicate that different people view different suicide methods differently. Also, the relationship between the meanings attached to particular methods was found to be a function of the degree to which methods differed in their acceptability rankings In addition, the results from this small sample indicated that the meaning that suicide attempters give to using their most preferred suicide method is associated with the meaning they attach to living and dying. For some individuals, this association was apparent only at a more fundamental level of construing. Interpretations of these results are offered and their clinical implications discussed Limitations of the current study are acknowledged and suggestions to improve the approach to this research question are given.
The functions of biblical language in the poetry of Heinrich Heine : conventional and parodic uses of the Bible and of biblical language
Creators: name: Rose, Margaret Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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How parents cope and adjust with the down-transfer of their infants from Level 3 Neonatal Units (NICUs) to Level 2 Special Care Nurseries (SCNs) in Victoria, Australia
Creators: name: Ramudu, Louisa
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Nursing, Division of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Capacity Improvement in Wideband Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Cell-Free Network
Creators: name: Zhang, Zijian
name: Dai, Linglong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Thanks to the strong ability against the inter-cell interference, cell-free network has been considered as a promising technique to improve the network capacity of future wireless systems. However, for further capacity enhancement, it requires to deploy more base stations (BSs) with high cost and power consumption. To address the issue, inspired by the recently proposed technique called reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), we propose the concept of RIS-aided cell-free network to improve the network capacity with low cost and power consumption. Then, for the proposed RIS-aided cell-free network in the typical wideband scenario, we formulate the joint precoding design problem at the BSs and RISs to maximize the network capacity. Due to the non-convexity and high complexity of the formulated problem, we develop an alternating optimization algorithm to solve this challenging problem. Note that most of the considered scenarios in existing works are special cases of the general scenario in this paper, and the proposed joint precoding framework can also serve as a general solution to maximize the capacity in most of existing RIS-aided scenarios. Finally, simulation results verify that, compared with the conventional cell-free network, the network capacity of the proposed scheme can be improved significantly.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Published in IEEE SPAWC'20, 27 May, 2020. This paper proposes a general joint precoding scheme for capacity improvement, which can be direcly applied to most of the RIS-aided communication systems. Simulation codes have been provided at: http://oa.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn/dailinglong/publications/publications.html. More insights can be found in the journal version of this paper: arXiv:2002.03744
Evidence of Cosmic Strings by the Observation of the Alignment of Quasar Polarization Axes on Mpc scale
Creators: name: Slagter, Reinoud Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find a emergent azimuthal-angle dependency of the Nielsen-Olesen vortices in the general relativistic situation just after the symmetry breaking at GUT-scale. Using a high-frequency perturbation method, we obtain in the first and second order perturbation equations $φ$-dependent terms left over after the phase transition of the Higgs field. Vortices with high multiplicity decay into a lattice with entangled Abrikosov vortices. The stability of this lattice of correlated flux $n=1$ vortices with preferred azimuthal-angle is guaranteed by the contribution from the bulk spacetime by means of the warp factor: the cosmic string becomes super-massive for some time during the evolution and initiates the excitations of the vortices to high multiplicity. The correlation will not fade away during the expansion by the warp factor. We used this azimuthal-angle correlation for the explanation of the recently observed alignment of polarization axes of quasars in large quasar groups. The detailed behavior of this alignment can be explained with our model. The two different orientations perpendicular to each other in quasars groups of less richness could be a second order effect in our model. There is a striking similarity between this phase transition of the gauged Higgs field and the temporarily breaking of the axially symmetry of self-gravitating cosmic string, by the appearance of non-diagonal energy-momentum tensor components. The eccentricity of the ellipsoid can be seen as order parameter. Recovery to SO(2) symmetry induces emission of gravitational and electro-magnetic radiation. More data of high-redshift quasars will be needed in order to test the second order effect predicted in our model.
description: This is an improved version of gr-qc/1609.05068 Presented at the "First Hermann Minkowski Meeting", Varna 2017
(201544) John George Maclean
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Porno-grammars of Victorian domestic space : a materialist semiotics of household manuals
Creators: name: Roderick, Ian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Radiation Backgrounds at Cosmic Dawn: X-Rays from Compact Binaries
Creators: name: Madau, Piero
name: Fragos, Tassos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the expected X-ray diffuse background and radiative feedback on the intergalactic medium (IGM) from X-ray binaries prior and during the epoch of reionization. The cosmic evolution of compact binaries is followed using a population synthesis technique that treats separately neutron stars and black hole binaries in different spectral states and is calibrated to reproduce the observed X-ray properties of galaxies at z<4. Together with an updated empirical determination of the cosmic history of star formation, recent modeling of the stellar mass-metallicity relation, and a scheme for absorption by the IGM that accounts for the presence of ionized HII bubbles during the epoch of reionization, our detailed calculations provide refined predictions of the X-ray volume emissivity and filtered radiation background from "normal" galaxies at z>6. Radiative transfer effects modulate the background spectrum, which shows a characteristic peak between 1 and 2 keV. While the filtering of X-ray radiation through the IGM slightly increases the mean excess energy per photoionization, it also weakens the radiation intensity below 1 keV, lowering the mean photoionization and heating rates. Numerical integration of the rate and energy equations shows that the contribution of X-ray binaries to the ionization of the bulk IGM is negligible, with the electron fraction never exceeding 1%. Direct HeI photoionizations are the main source of IGM heating, and the temperature of the largely neutral medium in between HII cavities increases above the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) only at z<10, when the volume filling factor of HII bubbles is already >0.1. Therefore, in this scenario, it is only at relatively late epochs that the bulk of neutral intergalactic hydrogen may be observable in 21-cm emission against the CMB.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
(201545) Katherine Gooden
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
r-process Production Sites as inferred from Eu Abundances in Dwarf Galaxies
Creators: name: Beniamini, Paz
name: Hotokezaka, Kenta
name: Piran, Tsvi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations of $r$-process material in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) shed light on the sources of these elements. Strong upper limits on the Eu mass in some UFDs combined with detections of much larger masses in a UFD, Reticulum II, and other dwarf galaxies imply that Eu production is dominated by rare events, and that the minimal Eu mass observed in any UFD is approximately the amount of Eu mass produced per event. This is consistent with other independent observations in the Galaxy. We estimate, using a model independent likelihood analysis, the rate and Eu (Fe) mass produced per $r$-process (Fe production) event in dwarf galaxies including classical dwarfs and UFDs. The mass and rate of the Fe production events are consistent with the normal core-collapse supernova~(ccSN) scenario. The Eu mass per event is $3\times 10^{-5}M_{\odot}
description: 27 pages, 3 figures. Published in ApJ
THE EVALUATION OF WAVE FORCES ON SEAWALLS
Creators: name: BLACKMORE, PAUL
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1982

description: This Thesis is divided into two parts, Part A deals with the measurement and analysis of wave pressures on real seawalls and Part B deals with the resulting structural response of these seawalls. There have been only thirteen previous investigations to measure full scale wave impact pressures on coastal structures, and of these only five were conducted with sensitive electronic measuring equipment. The infrequent occurrence of impact pressures in a real sea has meant very little impact pressure data has been collected by these previous investigations. This investigation is the first of its kind to be carried out in the U.K. losing modern measuring, and recording equipment, the volume of wave impact data obtained (over 150 impacts recorded) is significantly greater than the combined results of all previous full scale investigations. The magnitude of the wave impacts measured during this investigation were generally lower than those measured by other investigations, the-maximum impact pressure being of the order of seven times the hydrostatic pressure. The pressures measured were found not to fit any current equations. The data has also shown that impact pressures can occur simultaneously over large areas and are not just localised events as previously thought. The most important parameter in the generation of wave impact pressures in a real sea was found to be the percentage of air entrained in the breaking wave. None of the equations currently in use for estimating wave impact pressures consider this parameter, which probably explains why these equations do not fit the measured data. An explicit equation for estimating the maximum impact pressure was not found but a method is given whereby -the impact pressure is related to local wave parameters including a coefficient based on the percentage air entrainment. Finite element modelling of the seawalls has shown that impact pressures can cause a significant dynamic response in the seawalls although short duration impacts (as measured in most model studies) have a negligible effect on response.
PyXtal FF: a Python Library for Automated Force Field Generation
Creators: name: Yanxon, Howard
name: Zagaceta, David
name: Tang, Binh
name: Matteson, David
name: Zhu, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present PyXtal FF, a package based on Python programming language, for developing machine learning potentials (MLPs). The aim of PyXtal FF is to promote the application of atomistic simulations by providing several choices of structural descriptors and machine learning regressions in one platform. Based on the given choice of structural descriptors (including the atom-centered symmetry functions, embedded atom density, SO4 bispectrum, and smooth SO3 power spectrum), PyXtal FF can train the MLPs with either the generalized linear regression or neural networks model, by simultaneously minimizing the errors of energy/forces/stress tensors in comparison with the data from the ab-initio simulation. The trained MLP model from PyXtal FF is interfaced with the Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE) package, which allows different types of light-weight simulations such as geometry optimization, molecular dynamics simulation, and physical properties prediction. Finally, we will illustrate the performance of PyXtal FF by applying it to investigate several material systems, including the bulk SiO2, high entropy alloy NbMoTaW, and elemental Pt for general purposes. Full documentation of PyXtal FF is available at https://pyxtal-ff.readthedocs.io.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Modelling Ordinal Responses with Uncertainty: a Hierarchical Marginal Model with Latent Uncertainty components
Creators: name: Colombi, Roberto
name: Giordano, Sabrina
name: Gottard, Anna
name: Iannario, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In responding to rating questions, an individual may give answers either according to his/her knowledge/awareness or to his/her level of indecision/uncertainty, typically driven by a response style. As ignoring this dual behaviour may lead to misleading results, we define a multivariate model for ordinal rating responses, by introducing, for every item, a binary latent variable that discriminates aware from uncertain responses. Some independence assumptions among latent and observable variables characterize the uncertain behaviour and make the model easier to interpret. Uncertain responses are modelled by specifying probability distributions that can depict different response styles characterizing the uncertain raters. A marginal parametrization allows a simple and direct interpretation of the parameters in terms of association among aware responses and their dependence on explanatory factors. The effectiveness of the proposed model is attested through an application to real data and supported by a Monte Carlo study.
The development of auditory-visual associative learning and its relationship with cognition
Creators: name: Fifer, Joanne Michelle
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Neuropsychology to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology & Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Deep-Learned Collision Avoidance Policy for Distributed Multi-Agent Navigation
Creators: name: Long, Pinxin
name: Liu, Wenxi
name: Pan, Jia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High-speed, low-latency obstacle avoidance that is insensitive to sensor noise is essential for enabling multiple decentralized robots to function reliably in cluttered and dynamic environments. While other distributed multi-agent collision avoidance systems exist, these systems require online geometric optimization where tedious parameter tuning and perfect sensing are necessary. We present a novel end-to-end framework to generate reactive collision avoidance policy for efficient distributed multi-agent navigation. Our method formulates an agent's navigation strategy as a deep neural network mapping from the observed noisy sensor measurements to the agent's steering commands in terms of movement velocity. We train the network on a large number of frames of collision avoidance data collected by repeatedly running a multi-agent simulator with different parameter settings. We validate the learned deep neural network policy in a set of simulated and real scenarios with noisy measurements and demonstrate that our method is able to generate a robust navigation strategy that is insensitive to imperfect sensing and works reliably in all situations. We also show that our method can be well generalized to scenarios that do not appear in our training data, including scenes with static obstacles and agents with different sizes. Videos are available at https://sites.google.com/view/deepmaca.
The role of parallel catamorphic systems in the structure of Zola's 'Rougon-Macquart'
Creators: name: Rochecouste, Gabrielle Maryse
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Particle Mesh Ewald's Method and Non-Interacting Dyon Gas
Creators: name: Kiamari, Motahareh
name: Deldar, Sedigheh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the free energy of a quark-antiquark pair near the deconfinement temperature by particle mesh Ewald's method for non-interacting dyon ensemble. We show that the free energy of the quark-antiquark pair increases linearly by increasing the distance between them. The string tension decreases by increasing the temperature, as expected.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, minor changes are applied
Art and politics : a critical study of the novels of Heinrich Mann from the turn of the century to beginning of the Second World War
Creators: name: Roberts, David Gordon John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Switchable Atomically Thin 2D Electrides from First-principles Prediction
Creators: name: Yang, Xuhui
name: Parrish, Kevin
name: Li, Yan-Ling
name: Sa, Baisheng
name: Zhan, Hongbing
name: Zhu, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrides, with excess anionic electrons confined in their empty space, are promising for uses in catalysis, nonlinear optics and spin-electronics. However, the application of electrides is limited by their high chemical reactivity with the environmental agents. In this work, we report the discovery of a group of two-dimensional (2D) moonolayer electrides with the presence of switchable nearly free electron (NFE) states in their electronic structures. Unlike conventional electrides, which are metals with floating electrons forming the partially occupied bands close to the Fermi level, the switchable electrides are chemically much less active semiconductors holding the NFE states that are 0.3-1.5 eV above the Fermi level. According to a high throughput search, we identified 12 2D candidates that possess such low-energy NFE states. Among them, 11 2D materials can likely be exfoliated from the known layered materials. Under external forces, such as a compressive strain, these NFE states stemming from the surface image potential will be pushed downward to cross the Fermi level. Remarkably, the critical semiconductor-metal transition can be achieved by a strain as low as 3% in 2D monolayer Na$_2$Pd$_3$O$_4$. As such, the switchable 2D electrides may provide an ideal platform for exploring novel quantum phenomena and modern electronic device applications.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
On the descriptive complexity of Salem sets
Creators: name: Marcone, Alberto
name: Valenti, Manlio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E15 28A75 28A78 03D32

description: In this paper we study the notion of Salem set from the point of view of descriptive set theory. We first work in the hyperspace $\mathbf{K}([0,1])$ of compact subsets of $[0,1]$ and show that the closed Salem sets form a $\boldsymbolΠ^0_3$-complete family. This is done by characterizing the complexity of the family of sets having sufficiently large Hausdorff or Fourier dimension. We also show that the complexity does not change if we increase the dimension of the ambient space and work in $\mathbf{K}([0,1]^d)$. We then generalize the results by relaxing the compactness of the ambient space, and show that the closed Salem sets are still $\boldsymbolΠ^0_3$-complete when we endow the hyperspace of all closed subsets of $\mathbb{R}^d$ with the Fell topology. A similar result holds also for the Vietoris topology.
description: Extended Lemma 3.1, fixed Lemma 5.3 and improved the presentation of the results. To appear in Fundamenta Mathematicae
Simulation of incompressible two-phase flow in porous media with large timesteps
Creators: name: Cogswell, Daniel A.
name: Szulczewski, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiphase flow in porous media occurs in several disciplines including petroleum reservoir engineering, petroleum systems' analysis, and CO$_2$ sequestration. While simulations often use a fully implicit discretization to increase the time step size, restrictions on the time step often exist due to non-convergence of the nonlinear solver (e.g. Newton's method). Here this problem is addressed for the Buckley-Leverett equations, which model incompressible, immiscible, two-phase flow with no capillary potential. The equations are recast as a gradient flow using the phase-field method, and a convex energy splitting scheme is applied to enable large timesteps, even for high degrees of heterogeneity in permeability and viscosity. By using the phase-field formulation as a homotopy map, the underlying hyperbolic flow equations can be solved with large timesteps. For a heterogeneous test problem, the new homotopy method allows the timestep to be increased by more than six orders of magnitude relative to the unmodified equations while maintaining convergence.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables
(201540) Jane Forbes
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Weakly constrained-degree percolation on the hypercubic lattice
Creators: name: Hartarsky, Ivailo
name: de Lima, Bernardo N. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K35, 82B43

description: We consider the Constrained-degree percolation model on the hypercubic lattice, $\mathbb L^d=(\mathbb Z^d,\mathbb E^d)$ for $d\geq 3$. It is a continuous time percolation model defined by a sequence, $(U_e)_{e\in\mathbb E^d}$, of i.i.d. uniform random variables in $[0,1]$ and a positive integer (constraint) $κ$. Each bond $e\in\mathbb E^d$ tries to open at time $U_e$; it succeeds if and only if both its end-vertices belong to at most $κ-1$ open bonds at that time. Our main results are quantitative upper bounds on the critical time, characterising a phase transition for all $d\geq 3$ and most nontrivial values of $κ$. As a byproduct, we obtain that for large constraints and dimensions the critical time is asymptotically $1/(2d)$. For most cases considered it was previously not even established that the phase transition is nontrivial. One of the ingredients of our proof is an improved upper bound for the critical curve, $s_{\mathrm{c}}(b)$, of the Bernoulli mixed site-bond percolation in two dimensions, which may be of independent interest.
description: 23 pages, 2 figures
High Resolution Study of Permanent Photoinduced Reflectivity Changes and Charge-Order Domain Switching in Bi0.3Ca0.7MnO3
Creators: name: Cheong, S.-W.
name: Davis, C. C.
name: Kim, B.-G.
name: Smolyaninov, I. I.
name: Smolyaninova, V. N.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Μια Διαδικτυακή Παρέμβαση με Σκοπό την Βελτίωση της Αυτοβιογραφικής Μνήμης και της Ποιότητας Ζωής Ατόμων με Ήπια Νοητική Διαταραχή
Creators: name: Φαλέγκα, Ιωάννα Βασιλείου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Αυτοβιογραφική Μνήμη
Ποιότητα Ζωής
Άτομα με Ήπια Νοητική Διαταραχή
Autobiographical Memory
Quality of Life
People with Mild Cognitive Impairment

description: Εξετάσαμε την επίδραση μιας διαδικτυακής παρέμβασης θεραπείας αναμνήσεων με την τεχνική της ανασκόπησης ζωής στην αυτοβιογραφική μνήμη και την ποιότητα ζωής ηλικιωμένων με Ήπια Νοητική Διαταραχή. Συνολικά συμμετείχαν 60 άτομα με Ήπια Νοητική Διαταραχή και παρόμοια δημογραφικά χαρακτηριστικά , τα οποία χωρίστηκαν τυχαία σε πειραματική ομάδα ή ομάδα ελέγχου. Η πειραματική ομάδα, χωρίστηκε εξίσου σε ομάδες των 2-5 ατόμων και δέχτηκε εβδομαδιαία παρέμβαση για διάστημα τριών μηνών, η οποία περιλάμβανε ανασκόπηση ζωής των συμμετεχόντων. Η ομάδα ελέγχου συμμετείχε σε άλλες παρεμβάσεις νοητικής ενδυνάμωσης. Όλοι συμμετέχοντες εξετάστηκαν στους τομείς της αυτοβιογραφικής μνήμης και της ποιότητας ζωής μέσω των εργαλείων “The Autobiographical Memory Interview” και “EuroQol-5D” πριν και μετά την παρέμβαση ή το πέρας των τριών μηνών. Βρέθηκε βελτίωση της αυτοβιογραφικής μνήμης και της ποιότητας ζωής των ηλικιωμένων που δέχτηκαν την παρέμβαση σε σχέση με τις επιδόσεις τους πριν από αυτή, ενώ επίσης, βρέθηκε βελτίωση της αυτοβιογραφικής τους μνήμης σε σχέση με την ομάδα ελέγχου. Τα ευρήματα μας δείχνουν ότι μια παρέμβαση που εφαρμόζει την τεχνική της θεραπείας αναμνήσεων μπορεί να βελτιώσει την αυτοβιογραφική μνήμη και την ποιότητα ζωής ηλικιωμένων με Ήπια Νοητική Διαταραχή.
description: We examined the effect of an online reminiscence therapy intervention with the life review technique on autobiographical memory and quality of life in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment. A total of 60 people with Mild Cognitive Impairment and similar demographic characteristics participated and were randomly divided into an experimental group or a control group. The experimental group was then divided into groups of 2-5 people and received the weekly intervention for three months, which included a life review of the participants. The control group participated in other cognitive empowerment interventions. All participants were examined in the areas of autobiographical memory and quality of life through the tools "The Autobiographical Memory Interview" and "EuroQol-5D" before and after the intervention or after three months. An improvement was found in the autobiographical memory and the quality of life of the elderly who received the intervention compared to before receiving it, while at the same time it improved their autobiographical memory compared to the control group. Our findings show that an intervention applying the reminiscence therapy technique can improve autobiographical memory and quality of life in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment.
Non-standard interactions and the CP phase measurements in neutrino oscillations at low energies
Creators: name: Ge, Shao-Feng
name: Smirnov, Alexei Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of non-standard interactions (NSI) and the genuine CP phase $δ_D$ in neutrino oscillations at low, $E_ν\lesssim 1\,\mbox{GeV}$, and very low, $E_ν\lesssim 0.1\,\mbox{GeV}$, energies. For experimental setup with baseline and neutrino energy tuned to the first 1-3 oscillation maximum, we develop a simple analytic formalism to show the effects of NSI. The vacuum mimicking and its violation as well as the use of the separation basis play a central role in our formalism. The NSI corrections that affect the CP phase measurement mainly come from the violation of vacuum mimicking as well as from the corrections to the 1-3 mixing angle and mass-squared difference. We find that the total NSI correction to the $ν_μ- ν_e$ probability $P_{μe}$ can reach $20\% - 30\%$ ($1 σ$) at T2(H)K. Correspondingly, the correction to the CP phase can be as large as $50^\circ$ and hence significantly deteriorates the CP sensitivity at T2(H)K. The proposed TNT2K experiment, a combination of T2(H)K and the short baseline experiment $μ$Kam that uses the Super-K/Hyper-K detector at Kamioka to measure the oscillation of the antineutrinos from muon decay at rest ($μ$DAR), can substantially reduce the degeneracy between NSI and the genuine CP phase $δ_D$ to provide high CP sensitivity. The NSI correction to $P_{μe}$ is only $2\%$ ($1 σ$) for $μ$DAR neutrinos.
description: The signs of the CP phases in analytic expressions are changed while the conclusions are unchanged
Core services software release report #3
Creators: name: Farkas, Attila
name: Kertesz, Gabor
name: Kovacs, Jozsef
name: Sciacca, Eva
name: Krokos, Mel
name: Kyd, Banjamin
name: Papanikos, Giorgos
name: Chondros, Nikos
name: Pisa, Claudio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Services
Software
Release

description: This deliverable presents the current release status of core services in NEANIAS, focusing in particular on the software underpinnings of each. The report (NEANIAS deliverable 6.8), comes out right after the third core services release, as detailed in deliverable 6.7, see [1], which was released by the NEANIAS project in its third software release cycle, due in M28 of the project.
(201542) Rowland Jones Venables
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Balancing the books : Frances Burney and the economy of the proper
Creators: name: Rechter, Deborah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Measuring Coherence with Entanglement Concurrence
Creators: name: Qi, Xianfei
name: Gao, Ting
name: Yan, Fengli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum coherence is a fundamental manifestation of the quantum superposition principle. Recently, Baumgratz \emph{et al}. [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{113}, 140401 (2014)] presented a rigorous framework to quantify coherence from the view of theory of physical resource. Here we propose a new valid quantum coherence measure which is a convex roof measure, for a quantum system of arbitrary dimension, essentially using the generalized Gell-Mann matrices. Rigorous proof shows that the proposed coherence measure fulfills all the requirements dictated by the resource theory of quantum coherence measures. Moreover, strong links between the resource frameworks of coherence concurrence and entanglement concurrence is derived, which shows that any degree of coherence with respect to some reference basis can be converted to entanglement via incoherent operations. Our work provides a clear quantitative and operational connection between coherence and entanglement based on two kinds of concurrence. This new coherence measure, coherence concurrence, may be beneficial to the study of quantum coherence.
description: 8 pages
Life Expansion: Toward an Artistic, Design-Based Theory of the Transhuman / Posthuman
Creators: name: Vita-More, Natasha
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2012
Subjects: Human enhancement
Life extension
Transhuman
Posthuman
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description: The thesis’ study of life expansion proposes a framework for artistic, design-based approaches concerned with prolonging human life and sustaining personal identity. To delineate the topic: life expansion means increasing the length of time a person is alive and diversifying the matter in which a person exists. For human life, the length of time is bounded by a single century and its matter is tied to biology. Life expansion is located in the domain of human enhancement, distinctly linked to technological interfaces with biology. The thesis identifies human-computer interaction and the potential of emerging and speculative technologies as seeding the promulgation of human enhancement that approach life expansion. In doing so, the thesis constructs an inquiry into historical and current attempts to append human physiology and intervene with its mortality. By encountering emerging and speculative technologies for prolonging life and sustaining personal identity as possible media for artistic, design-based approaches to human enhancement, a new axis is sought that identifies the transhuman and posthuman as conceptual paradigms for life expansion. The thesis asks: What are the required conditions that enable artistic, design-based approaches to human enhancement that explicitly pursue extending human life? This question centers on the potential of the study’s proposed enhancement technologies in their relationship to life, death, and the human condition. Notably, the thesis investigates artistic approaches, as distinct from those of the natural sciences, and the borders that need to be mediated between them. The study navigates between the domains of life extension, art and design, technology, and philosophy in forming the framework for a theory of life expansion. The critical approach seeks to uncover invisible borders between these interconnecting forces by bringing to light issues of sustaining life and personal identity, ethical concerns, including morphological freedom and extinction risk. Such issues relate to the thesis’ interest in life expansion and the use emerging and speculative technologies. 4 The study takes on a triad approach in its investigation: qualitative interviews with experts of the emerging and speculative technologies; field studies encountering research centers of such technologies; and an artistic, autopoietic process that explores the heuristics of life expansion. This investigation forms an integrative view of the human use of technology and its melioristic aim. The outcome of the research is a theoretical framework for further research in artistic approaches to life expansion.
Accommodating Pharmacy Students With Physical Disabilities During the Experiential Learning Curricula.
Creators: name: Kieser, Mara
name: Feudo, Donna
name: Legg, Julie
name: Rodriguez, Raquel
name: Schriever, Allison
name: Parent-Stevens, Louise
name: Allen, Sheila
name: Feemster, Agnes Ann
name: Brueckl, Mark
name: Walker, Paul C
name: Pick, Amy
name: Caward, Kate
name: Oja, Katie
name: McGuiggan, Mary
name: Shepler, Brian
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Accommodating pharmacy students with physical disabilities during the experiential learning portion of the Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum can present unique challenges for pharmacy schools. The available literature regarding accommodations for pharmacy students in the experiential learning environment is sparse, leaving programs with little guidance. This commentary from the Big Ten Academic Alliance calls on the Academy to create a community of shared resources and best practice examples and offers practical suggestions for accommodating pharmacy students with mobility, vision, and auditory disabilities during introductory pharmacy practice experiences (IPPEs) and advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs).
(201543) Bartle John Laurie Frere
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Text Style Transfer: A Review and Experimental Evaluation
Creators: name: Hu, Zhiqiang
name: Lee, Roy Ka-Wei
name: Aggarwal, Charu C.
name: Zhang, Aston
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The stylistic properties of text have intrigued computational linguistics researchers in recent years. Specifically, researchers have investigated the Text Style Transfer (TST) task, which aims to change the stylistic properties of the text while retaining its style independent content. Over the last few years, many novel TST algorithms have been developed, while the industry has leveraged these algorithms to enable exciting TST applications. The field of TST research has burgeoned because of this symbiosis. This article aims to provide a comprehensive review of recent research efforts on text style transfer. More concretely, we create a taxonomy to organize the TST models and provide a comprehensive summary of the state of the art. We review the existing evaluation methodologies for TST tasks and conduct a large-scale reproducibility study where we experimentally benchmark 19 state-of-the-art TST algorithms on two publicly available datasets. Finally, we expand on current trends and provide new perspectives on the new and exciting developments in the TST field.
description: We fixed the issue that the references are not associated with any [number] in the bibliography section
Controlling Majorana states in topologically inhomogeneous superconductors
Creators: name: Marra, Pasquale
name: Cuoco, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Majorana bound states have been recently observed at the boundaries of one-dimensional topological superconductors. Yet, controlling the localization of the Majorana states, which is essential to the realization of any topological quantum device, is an ongoing challenge. To this end, we introduce a mechanism which can break a topologically homogeneous state via the formation of topological domains, and which can be exploited to control the position of Majorana states. We found in fact that in the presence of amplitude-modulated fields, contiguous magnetic domains can become topologically inequivalent and, as a consequence, Majorana states can be pinned to the domain walls of the magnetic structure. The formation of topological domains and the position of Majorana states can be externally controlled by tuning an applied field (e.g., magnetic or gate).
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in PRB, Rapid Communication
On two arithmetic theta lifts
Creators: name: Ehlen, Stephan
name: Sankaran, Siddarth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F12, 11F27, 11G18, 11G15

description: Our aim is to clarify the relationship between Kudla's and Bruinier's Green functions attached to special cycles on Shimura varieties of orthogonal and unitary type. These functions play a key role in the arithmetic geometry of the special cycles in the context of Kudla's program. In particular, we show that the generating series obtained by taking the differences of the two families of Green functions is a modular form with trivial holomorphic projection. Along the way, we construct a section of the Maass lowering operator for moderate growth modular forms valued in the Weil representation using a regularized theta lift, which may be of independent interest. We also consider arithmetic-geometric applications to integral models of U(n, 1) Shimura varieties. Each family of Green functions gives rise to a formal arithmetic theta function, valued in an arithmetic Chow group, that is conjectured to be modular; our main result is the modularity of the difference of the two arithmetic theta functions. Finally, we relate the arithmetic heights of the special cycles to special derivatives of Eisenstein series, as predicted by Kudla's conjecture, and describe a refinement of a theorem of Bruinier-Howard-Yang on arithmetic intersections against CM points.
description: 55 pages; accepted for publication in Compositio Math
A cost-efficient variant of the incremental Newton iteration for the matrix $p$th root
Creators: name: Tatsuoka, Fuminori
name: Sogabe, Tomohiro
name: Miyatake, Yuto
name: Zhang, Shao-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Incremental Newton (IN) iteration, proposed by Iannazzo, is stable for computing the matrix $p$th root, and its computational cost is $\mathcal{O}(n^3p)$ flops per iteration. In this paper, a cost-efficient variant of IN iteration is presented. The computational cost of the variant well agrees with $\mathcal{O} (n^3 \log p)$ flops per iteration, if $p$ is up to at least 100.