cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Flexibility of the Pressure Function
Creators: name: Kucherenko, Tamara
name: Quas, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A60, 37B10, 37D35

description: We study the flexibility of the pressure function of a continuous potential (observable) with respect to a parameter regarded as the inverse temperature. The points of non-differentiability of this function are of particular interest in statistical physics, since they correspond to phase transitions. It is well known that the pressure function is convex, Lipschitz, and has an asymptote at infinity. We prove that in a setting of one-dimensional compact symbolic systems these are the only restrictions. We present a method to explicitly construct a continuous potential whose pressure function coincides with \emph{any} prescribed convex Lipschitz asymptotically linear function starting at a given positive value of the parameter. In fact, we establish a multidimensional version of this result. As a consequence, we obtain that for a continuous observable the phase transitions can occur at a countable dense set of temperature values. We go further and show that one can vary the cardinality of the set of ergodic equilibrium states as a function of the parameter to be any number, finite or infinite.
Interesting interrogatives
Creators: name: Abenina-Adar, Maayan
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2020

description: The stem interest has two syntactic variants that occur with both declarative and interrogative subordinate clauses. The presuppositions that such constructions carry are difficult to explain under predominant theories of how similar predicates semantically compose with subordinate clauses. I offer a new analysis, which puts together some ideas already found in this literature – in particular, the idea that certain interrogative clauses semantically encode (something like) the illocutionary force of asking and the idea that experiencer predicates (such as interest) are associated with acquaintance inferences.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 24 No 1 (2020): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Comparing Visually and Spectroscopically Identified Galaxy Merger Samples
Creators: name: Desmons, Alice
name: Brough, Sarah
name: Martínez-Lombilla, Cristina
name: De Propris, Roberto
name: Holwerda, Benne
name: Sánchez, Ángel R. López
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conduct a comparison of the merging galaxy populations detected by a sample of visual identification of tidal features around galaxies as well as spectroscopically-detected close pairs of galaxies to determine whether our method of selecting merging galaxies biases our understanding of galaxy interactions. Our volume-limited parent sample consists of 852 galaxies from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey in the redshift range $0.04 \leq z \leq 0.20$ and stellar mass range $9.50 \leq$ log$_{10}(M_{\star}/\rm{M}_{\odot})\leq 11.0$. We conduct our comparison using images from the Ultradeep layer of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) to visually-classify galaxies with tidal features and compare these to the galaxies in the GAMA spectroscopic close-pair sample. We identify 198 galaxies possessing tidal features, resulting in a tidal feature fraction $f_{\rm{tidal}}$ = 0.23 $\pm$ 0.02. We also identify 80 galaxies involved in close pairs, resulting in a close pair fraction $f_{\rm{pair}}$ = 0.09 $\pm$ 0.01. Upon comparison of our tidal feature and close pair samples we identify 42 galaxies that are present in both samples, yielding a fraction $f_{\rm{both}}$ = 0.05 $\pm$ 0.01. We find evidence to suggest that the sample of close pairs of galaxies is more likely to detect early-stage mergers, where two separate galaxies are still visible, and the tidal feature sample detects later-stage mergers, where only one galaxy nucleus remains visible. The overlap of the close pair and tidal feature samples likely detect intermediate-stage mergers. Our results are in good agreement with the predictions of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations regarding the populations of merging galaxies detected by close pair and tidal feature samples.
description: Accepted in MNRAS
Tricellaria inopinata d'Hondt and Occhipinti-Ambrogi 1985
Creators: name: Kakkonen, Jenni E.
name: Worsfold, Tim M.
name: Ashelby, Christopher W.
name: Taylor, Andrea
name: Beaton, Katy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Bryozoa
Gymnolaemata
Cheilostomatida
Candidae
Tricellaria
Tricellaria inopinata

description: (11) Tricellaria inopinata d’Hondt and Occhipinti-Ambrogi, 1985
Status in U.K. – non-native.
The bryozoan Tricellaria inopinata has been recorded each year since 2014 from scrape, settlement panel and rapid assessment samples. It has been found at Gutter Sound and The Grinds navigation buoy, Stromness and Kirkwall marina and in Fersness Bay and Pierowall visiting yacht moorings.
Cook et al. (2013) document the European distribution of T. inopinata demonstrating a wide U.K. range along southern and western coasts as well as eastern Scotland. The first Scottish records were made in 2006 from marinas in Troon and Clyde and it has since been recorded in eight other marinas in Scotland (Cook et al. 2013). Its occurrence in marinas indicates that recreational yachting may play a role in the dispersal of this species but Bishop et al. (2015b) also note that it is present on natural shores indicating natural dispersal on a more localised scale probably also occurs. Cook et al. (2013) did not include any northern Scottish marinas in their review of the Scottish distribution of T. inopinata but it was recorded from Orkney in August 2012 by Nall et al. (2015). The species is probably of Pacific origin (possibly NE) but its precise native range remains uncertain (Dyrynda et al. 2000; Cook et al. 2013).
description: Published as part of Kakkonen, Jenni E., Worsfold, Tim M., Ashelby, Christopher W., Taylor, Andrea & Beaton, Katy, 2019, The value of regular monitoring and diverse sampling techniques to assess aquatic non-native species: a case study from Orkney, pp. 46-79 in Management of Biological Invasions 10 (1) on page 61, DOI: 10.3391/mbi.2019.10.1.04, http://zenodo.org/record/11969078
Super-Planckian excursions of the inflaton and quantum corrections
Creators: name: Chialva, Diego
name: Mazumdar, Anupam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models of inflation with super-Planckian excursion seem well in agreement with the recent observations of B- mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation by the BICEP2 data. In this note, we highlight the challenges faced by such models from ultraviolet (UV) completion. In particular, we will discus radiative corrections to the inflaton Lagrangian and to the gravitational sector. We will emphasize why we would require an UV complete theory of gravity to tackle some of the issues for the super-Planckian excursion. In particular, we will highlight how higher derivative terms in the inflaton and gravity sectors cause problems from non-locality and ghosts, if considered order by order, and thus prompt us to take into account infinite series of such terms. We will also stress how the presence of a scale of new physics below the Planck scale would make some of the UV related problems more compelling and invalidate some of the remedies that have been proposed in the literature. Finally, we will briefly speculate on possible ways of curing some of the challenges.
description: 8 pages plus bibliography
Sensorimotor-inspired Tactile Feedback and Control Improve Consistency of Prosthesis Manipulation in the Absence of Direct Vision
Creators: name: Thomas, Neha
name: Fazlollahi, Farimah
name: Brown, Jeremy D.
name: Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The lack of haptically aware upper-limb prostheses forces amputees to rely largely on visual cues to complete activities of daily living. In contrast, able-bodied individuals inherently rely on conscious haptic perception and automatic tactile reflexes to govern volitional actions in situations that do not allow for constant visual attention. We therefore propose a myoelectric prosthesis system that reflects these concepts to aid manipulation performance without direct vision. To implement this design, we built two fabric-based tactile sensors that measure contact location along the palmar and dorsal sides of the prosthetic fingers and grasp pressure at the tip of the prosthetic thumb. Inspired by the natural sensorimotor system, we use the measurements from these sensors to provide vibrotactile feedback of contact location and implement a tactile grasp controller that uses automatic reflexes to prevent over-grasping and object slip. We compare this system to a standard myoelectric prosthesis in a challenging reach-to-pick-and-place task conducted without direct vision; 17 able-bodied adults took part in this single-session between-subjects study. Participants in the tactile group achieved more consistent high performance compared to participants in the standard group. These results indicate that the addition of contact-location feedback and reflex control increases the consistency with which objects can be grasped and moved without direct vision in upper-limb prosthetics.
description: Accepted to IROS 2021
Fast Quantum State Tomography in the Nitrogen Vacancy Center of Diamond
Creators: name: Zhang, Jingfu
name: Hegde, Swathi S.
name: Suter, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum state tomography (QST) is the procedure for reconstructing unknown quantum states from a series of measurements of different observables. Depending on the physical system, different sets of observables have been used for this procedure. In the case of spin-qubits, the most common procedure is to measure the transverse magnetization of the system as a function of time. Here, we present a different scheme that relies on time-independent observables and therefore does not require measurements at different evolution times, thereby greatly reducing the overall measurement time. To recover the full density matrix, we use a set of unitary operations that transform the density operator elements into the directly measurable observable. We demonstrate the performance of this scheme in the electron-nuclear spin system of the nitrogen vacancy center in diamond.
description: Supplementary Material available by email jingfu.zhang@tu-dortmund.de or zhangjfu2000@yahoo.com
Spectral Integrals of Bernoulli Generalized Functionals
Creators: name: Zhang, Jing
name: Wang, Caishi
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Zhang, Lixia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60H40, 81S25

description: Let $\mathcal{S}\subset \mathcal{L}^2 \subset \mathcal{S}^*$ be the Gel'fand triple over the Bernoulli space, where elements of $\mathcal{S}^*$ are called Bernoulli generalized functionals. In this paper, we define integrals of Bernoulli generalized functionals with respect to a spectral measure (projection operator-valued measure) in the framework of $\mathcal{S}\subset \mathcal{L}^2 \subset \mathcal{S}^*$, and examine their fundamental properties. New notions are introduced, several results are obtained and examples are also shown.
description: This article has been accepted by the journal [Stochastics: An International Journal of Probability and Stochastic Processes]
Coexistence of topological and nontopological Fermi-superfluid phases
Creators: name: Thompson, K.
name: Zülicke, U.
name: Brand, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-dimensional spin-imbalanced Fermi gas subject to s-wave pairing and spin-orbit coupling is considered a promising platform for realizing a topological chiral-p-wave superfluid. In the BCS limit of s-wave pairing, i.e., when Cooper pairs are only weakly bound, the system enters the topological phase via a second-order transition driven by increasing the Zeeman spin-splitting energy. Stronger attractive two-particle interactions cause the system to undergo the BCS-BEC crossover, in the course of which the topological transition becomes first-order. As a result, topological and nontopological superfluids coexist in spatially separated domains in an extended region of phase space spanned by the strength of s-wave interactions and the Zeeman energy. Here we investigate this phase-coexistence region theoretically using a zero-temperature mean-field approach. Exact numerical results are presented to illustrate basic physical characteristics of the coexisting phases and to validate an approximate analytical description derived for weak spin-orbit coupling. Besides extending our current understanding of spin-imbalanced superfluid Fermi systems, the present approach also provides a platform for future studies of unconventional Majorana excitations that, according to topology, should be present at the internal interface between coexisting topological and nontopological superfluid parts of the system.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, RevTex4.2, v3: minor corrections to Eqs. (11c) and (A2); amended Figs. 4(c) and 4(d) [see also Erratum of published article: Phys. Rev. Research 4, 049001(E) (2022)]
Boundedness of Susceptibility in Spin Glass Transition of Transverse Field Mixed $p$-spin Glass Models
Creators: name: Itoi, Chigak
name: Sakamoto, Yoshinori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spontaneous symmetry breaking phenomena in the transverse field mixed $p$-spin glass model in finite dimensions are studied with Nishimori's gauge theory. Useful identities in the gauge theory enable us to study $\mathbb Z_2$-symmetry breaking. It is proven that ferromagnetic long-range order and spontaneous magnetization at an arbitrary temperature are bounded by those on the Nishimori line in the corresponding classical model. These bounds imply that neither ferromagnetic long-range order nor spontaneous magnetization exists in spin glass phase. It is proven also that the ferromagnetic susceptibility has an upper bound in paramagnetic and spin glass phases.
description: 9 pages. v2: Reference updated
GRB 160410A: the first Chemical Study of the Interstellar Medium of a Short GRB
Creators: name: Fernández, J. F. Agüí
name: Thöne, C. C.
name: Kann, D. A.
name: Postigo, A. de Ugarte
name: Selsing, J.
name: Schady, P.
name: Yates, R. M.
name: Greiner, J.
name: Oates, S. R.
name: Malesani, D.
name: Xu, D.
name: Klotz, A.
name: Campana, S.
name: Rossi, A.
name: Perley, D. A.
name: Blazek, M.
name: D'Avanzo, P.
name: Giunta, A.
name: Hartmann, D.
name: Heintz, K. E.
name: Jakobsson, P.
name: Kirkpatrick, C. C.
name: Kouveliotou, C.
name: Melandri, A.
name: Pugliese, G.
name: Salvaterra, R.
name: Starling, R. L. C.
name: Tanvir, N. R.
name: Vergani, S. D.
name: Wiersema, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs) are produced by the coalescence of compact binary systems which are remnants of massive stars. GRB 160410A is classified as a short-duration GRB with extended emission and is currently the farthest SGRB with a redshift determined from an afterglow spectrum and also one of the brightest SGRBs to date. The fast reaction to the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory alert allowed us to obtain a spectrum of the afterglow using the X-shooter spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The spectrum shows several absorption features at a redshift of z=1.7177, in addition, we detect two intervening systems at z=1.581 and z=1.444. The spectrum shows ly-alpha in absorption with a column density of log N(HI)=21.2+/-0.2 cm$^{-2}$ which, together with FeII, CII, SiII, AlII and OI, allow us to perform the first study of chemical abundances in a SGRB host galaxy. We determine a metallicity of [X/H]=-2.3+/-0.2 for FeII and -2.5+/-0.2 for SiII and no dust depletion. We also find no evidence for extinction in the afterglow spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling. The environment has a low degree of ionisation and the CIV and SiIV lines are completely absent. We do not detect an underlying host galaxy down to deep limits. Additionally, we compare GRB 160410A to GRB 201221D, another high-z short GRB that shows absorption lines at z=1.045 and an underlying massive host galaxy.
description: 25 pages, 22 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
Incidences of Möbius transformations in $\mathbb F_p$
Creators: name: Warren, Audie
name: Wheeler, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop the methods used by Rudnev and Wheeler to prove an incidence theorem between arbitrary sets of Möbius transformations and point sets in $\mathbb F_p^2$. We also note some asymmetric incidence results, and give applications of these results to various problems in additive combinatorics and discrete geometry.
description: 12 pages
Adjectives of veracity as vagueness regulators
Creators: name: Masià, Melania S.
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: This paper discusses adjectives of veracity in Spanish (verdadero ‘true’ or auténtico ‘authentic’), which are intensifiers in prenominal position. I will argue that AVs are sensitive to the vagueness of the predicate and propose an analysis of AVs as domain restrictors that builds on Sassoon (2013).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 19 (2015): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19
On the origin of the holographic universe
Creators: name: Sheikhahmadi, Haidar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we reexamine the holographic dark energy concept proposed already for cosmological applications. By considering, more precisely, the bounds on the entropy arising from lattice field theory on one side and Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of black holes on another side, it is shown that the so-called holographic dark energy cannot be mimicked as easily as claimed in the literature. In addition, the limits on the electron $(g-2)$ experiments are taken into account again. It is shown that the corrections to the electron magnetic momentum are of the order of ${\mathcal{O}}(10^{-23})$.
description: 8 Pages, some new explanations and references added
On a cover time problem on a dynamic graph with steps at random times
Creators: name: Demirci, Yunus Emre
name: Işlak, Ümit
name: Yıldız, Mehmet Akif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a cover time problem for random walks on dynamic graphs in which the graph expands in time and the walker moves at random times. Time to cover all nodes and number of returns to original states are analyzed in resulting model.
Mandarin utterance-final particle ba (吧) in the conversational scoreboard
Creators: name: Ettinger, Allyson
name: Malamud, Sophia A.
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: We explore the meaning of the Mandarin particle ba (吧) in interaction with the utterance to which it attaches (the “anchor”) and the context. Previous literature on ba contains no unified generalization – effects claimed by various scholars include uncertainty, soliciting agreement/confirmation, or politeness. To arrive at a unified descriptive generalization and clarify the distribution of the particle, we conducted a corpus study of ba using Mandarin-language television and film (95 tokens).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 19 (2015): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19
Charged-current non-standard neutrino interactions at the LHC and HL-LHC
Creators: name: Yue, Chong-Xing
name: Cheng, Xue-Jia
name: Yang, Ji-Chong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A series of new physics scenarios predict the existence of the extra charged gauge boson $W'$, which can induce charged-current (CC) non-standard neutrino interactions (NSIs). The theoretical constraints on the simplified $W'$ model and further on the CC NSI parameters $\widetildeε^{ qq'Y}_{αβ}$ from partial wave unitarity and $W'$ decays are considered. The sensitivity of the process $p p \rightarrow W'\rightarrow \ellν$ to the $W'$ model at the LHC and high-luminosity~(HL) LHC experiments is investigated by estimating the expected constraints on $\widetildeε^{qq'Y}_{αβ}$ ($α= β= e $ or $μ$) using a Monte-Carlo~(MC) simulation. We find that the interference effect plays an important role, and the LHC can strongly constrain $\widetildeε^{qq'L}_{αβ}$. Compared with those at the $13 \;{\rm TeV}$ LHC with $\mathcal{L}=139\;{\rm fb}^{-1}$, the expected constraints at the $14 \;{\rm TeV}$ LHC with $\mathcal{L}=3\;{\rm ab}^{-1}$ can be strengthened to approximately one order of magnitude.
description: 30 pages, 17 figures, 3 tables
Inference for a Large Directed Acyclic Graph with Unspecified Interventions
Creators: name: Li, Chunlin
name: Shen, Xiaotong
name: Pan, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62H22, 62F12, 62F03

description: Statistical inference of directed relations given some unspecified interventions (i.e., the intervention targets are unknown) is challenging. In this article, we test hypothesized directed relations with unspecified interventions. First, we derive conditions to yield an identifiable model. Unlike classical inference, testing directed relations requires identifying the ancestors and relevant interventions of hypothesis-specific primary variables. To this end, we propose a peeling algorithm based on nodewise regressions to establish a topological order of primary variables. Moreover, we prove that the peeling algorithm yields a consistent estimator in low-order polynomial time. Second, we propose a likelihood ratio test integrated with a data perturbation scheme to account for the uncertainty of identifying ancestors and interventions. Also, we show that the distribution of a data perturbation test statistic converges to the target distribution. Numerical examples demonstrate the utility and effectiveness of the proposed methods, including an application to infer gene regulatory networks. The R implementation is available at https://github.com/chunlinli/intdag.
description: 48 pages, 13 figures
What’s included in the set of alternatives? Psycholinguistic evidence for a permissive view
Creators: name: Gotzner, Nicole
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: According to a standard permissive view, the set of alternatives consists of various possible replacements of a focused expression (Rooth 1985, 1992). On the other hand, a more restrictive view assumes that certain alternatives are excluded from consideration such as elements which do not form a partition (e.g., Wagner 2006, 2012). I will try to adjudicate between these two theories by looking at the question which elements listeners consider as part of the alternative set. The data presented here suggest that listeners consider a broad set of possible replacements of a focused expression even when a set of particular elements is enumerated contextually. Therefore, the data are most in line with a permissive view of alternative sets such as the one proposed by Rooth (1985, 1992). Albeit, listeners do not consider the entire focus semantic value but rather a partially-restricted set – an intermediate set between the focus semantic value and the actual/relevant set of alternatives.According to a standard permissive view, the set of alternatives consists of variouspossible replacements of a focused expression (Rooth 1985, 1992). On the other hand, a morerestrictive view assumes that certain alternatives are excluded from consideration such aselements which do not form a partition (e.g., Wagner 2006, 2012). I will try to adjudicatebetween these two theories by looking at the question which elements listeners consider as partof the alternative set. The data presented here suggest that listeners consider a broad set ofpossible replacements of a focused expression even when a set of particular elements isenumerated contextually. Therefore, the data are most in line with a permissive view ofalternative sets such as the one proposed by Rooth (1985, 1992). Albeit, listeners do not considerthe entire focus semantic value but rather a partially-restricted set – an intermediate set betweenthe focus semantic value and the actual/relevant set of alternatives.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 19 (2015): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19
Boussinesq's equations for (2+1)-dimensional gravity-surface waves in an ideal fluid model
Creators: name: Karczewska, Anna
name: Rozmej, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of gravity surface waves for the ideal fluid model in (2+1)-dimensional case. We apply a systematic procedure for deriving the Boussinesq equations for a prescribed relationship between the orders of four expansion parameters, the amplitude parameter $α$, the long-wavelength parameter $β$, the transverse wavelength parameter $γ$, and the bottom variation parameter $δ$. We also take into account surface tension effects when relevant. For all considered cases, the (2+1)-dimensional Boussinesq equations can not be reduced to a single nonlinear wave equation for surface elevation function. On the other hand, they can be reduced to a single, highly nonlinear partial differential equation for an auxiliary function $f(x,y,t)$ which determines the velocity potential but is not directly observed quantity. The solution $f$ of this equation, if known, determines the surface elevation function. We also show that limiting the obtained the Boussinesq equations to (1+1)-dimensions one recovers well-known cases of the KdV, extended KdV, fifth-order KdV, and Gardner equations.
description: 16 pages. Title extended. Presentation shortened. Some misprints corrected. Appendix B replaced
On the Truth Conditional Potential of Negations
Creators: name: Späth, Andreas
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: According to Partee (1991) and Hajicova/Partee/Sgall (1998), the meaning of natural language sentences corresponds to the tripartite structure. Scope relations within the sentence meaning may effect different readings of DPs. The essential point is the syntactic position of a DP relative to the position of the (possible) sentence negation. It can be shown that the scope of negation coincides with the domain of prosodic focus. The semantic counterpart of focus is the critical meaning of the sentence or - speaking with Roberts (1996) - its partial answer. Scope relations within the sentence yield complex, nested function-argument structures. The resultant operations mapping properties onto individuals mark the structural precondition for DP-readings, e.g. for the specific reading of indefinite DPs. The presentation regards German data as well as data from Czech, which has no overt article system. The movement of DPs out of the prosodically unmarked focus, i.e. the focus of new information, results in the specific DP-reading, at least in the reading of the DP as an individual term: Petr si autoi koupil ti 'Peter cari bought ti' (= Peter bought the car). The presentation illuminates the semantic composition of sentence meaning with respect to ist interaction with the lexical, prosodic, and syntactic level.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 6 (2002): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 6
A Deep Representation for Invariance And Music Classification
Creators: name: Zhang, Chiyuan
name: Evangelopoulos, Georgios
name: Voinea, Stephen
name: Rosasco, Lorenzo
name: Poggio, Tomaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Representations in the auditory cortex might be based on mechanisms similar to the visual ventral stream; modules for building invariance to transformations and multiple layers for compositionality and selectivity. In this paper we propose the use of such computational modules for extracting invariant and discriminative audio representations. Building on a theory of invariance in hierarchical architectures, we propose a novel, mid-level representation for acoustical signals, using the empirical distributions of projections on a set of templates and their transformations. Under the assumption that, by construction, this dictionary of templates is composed from similar classes, and samples the orbit of variance-inducing signal transformations (such as shift and scale), the resulting signature is theoretically guaranteed to be unique, invariant to transformations and stable to deformations. Modules of projection and pooling can then constitute layers of deep networks, for learning composite representations. We present the main theoretical and computational aspects of a framework for unsupervised learning of invariant audio representations, empirically evaluated on music genre classification.
description: 5 pages, CBMM Memo No. 002, (to appear) IEEE 2014 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014)
Pure Manner Adverbs revisited
Creators: name: Sch¨Afer, Martin
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Ernst (1984) notes that most Quality Adverbs have two readings, one of which is a VP reading, the other one a clausal reading. However, within this group there are also adverbs such as loudly, woodenly etc., which only allow for the VP reading, the so called Pure Manner Adverbs. While Ernst holds that these adverbs form a class because of their limitation to one reading, he cannot explain why adverbs with two readings, such as quietly, graciously do not belong to this class, although their VP readings have the same semantics as the PMA. I propose to drop the ‘one-reading’ criterion in favour of a semantic characterization of PMA. The revised class of PMA will include adverbs with two readings, where the VP reading servers as the the primary reading and the clausal reading results from a metaphorical usage of the adverb. A template for deriving these readings is introduced, using the underspecified event semantic approach of Do¨ lling (2000). At the end of the paper, I discuss how constraints at the level of Do¨ lling’s PFS can be used in making the semantic derivation system sensitive to the syntactic influence on the preferred readings.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 6 (2002): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 6
Photon-assisted confinement-induced resonances for ultracold atoms
Creators: name: Leyton, Vicente
name: Roghani, Maryam
name: Peano, Vittorio
name: Thorwart, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the two-particle s-wave scattering for an ultracold atom gas confined in a quasi-one-dimensional trapping potential which is periodically modulated. The interaction between the atoms is included in terms of Fermi's pseudopotential. For a modulated isotropic transverse harmonic confinement, the atomic center of mass and relative degrees of freedom decouple and an exact solution is possible. We use the Floquet approach to show that additional photon-assisted resonant scattering channels open up due to the harmonic modulation. Applying the Bethe-Peierls boundary condition, we obtain the general scattering solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation which is universal at low energies. The binding energies and the effective one-dimensional scattering length can be controlled by the external driving.
Evolution of Cold Streams and Emergence of the Hubble Sequence
Creators: name: Cen, Renyue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new physical framework for the emergence of the Hubble sequence is outlined, based on novel analyses performed to quantify the evolution of cold streams of a large sample of galaxies from a state-of-the-art ultra-high resolution, large-scale adaptive mesh-refinement hydrodynamic simulation in a fully cosmological setting. It is found that the following three key physical variables of galactic cold inflows crossing the virial sphere substantially decrease with decreasing redshift: the number of streams N_{90} that make up 90% of concurrent inflow mass flux, average inflow rate per stream dot M_{90} and mean (mass flux weighted) gas density in the streams n_{gas}. Another key variable, the stream dimensionless angular momentum parameter lambda, instead is found to increase with decreasing redshift. Assimilating these trends and others leads naturally to a physically coherent scenario for the emergence of the Hubble sequence, including the following expectations: (1) the predominance of a mixture of disproportionately small irregular and complex disk galaxies at z>2 when most galaxies have multiple concurrent streams, (2) the beginning of the appearance of flocculent spirals at z~1-2 when the number of concurrent streams are about 2-3, (3) the grand-design spiral galaxies appear at z<1 when galaxies with only one major cold stream significantly emerge. These expected general trends are in good accord with observations. Early type galaxies are those that have entered a perennial state of zero cold gas stream, with their abundance increasing with decreasing redshift.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ Letters
Privacy-Preserving Feature Selection with Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Creators: name: Ono, Shinji
name: Takata, Jun
name: Kataoka, Masaharu
name: I, Tomohiro
name: Shin, Kilho
name: Sakamoto, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For the feature selection problem, we propose an efficient privacy-preserving algorithm. Let $D$, $F$, and $C$ be data, feature, and class sets, respectively, where the feature value $x(F_i)$ and the class label $x(C)$ are given for each $x\in D$ and $F_i \in F$. For a triple $(D,F,C)$, the feature selection problem is to find a consistent and minimal subset $F' \subseteq F$, where `consistent' means that, for any $x,y\in D$, $x(C)=y(C)$ if $x(F_i)=y(F_i)$ for $F_i\in F'$, and `minimal' means that any proper subset of $F'$ is no longer consistent. On distributed datasets, we consider feature selection as a privacy-preserving problem: Assume that semi-honest parties $\textsf A$ and $\textsf B$ have their own personal $D_{\textsf A}$ and $D_{\textsf B}$. The goal is to solve the feature selection problem for $D_{\textsf A}\cup D_{\textsf B}$ without revealing their privacy. In this paper, we propose a secure and efficient algorithm based on fully homomorphic encryption, and we implement our algorithm to show its effectiveness for various practical data. The proposed algorithm is the first one that can directly simulate the CWC (Combination of Weakest Components) algorithm on ciphertext, which is one of the best performers for the feature selection problem on the plaintext.
description: 14 pages
Signalling games select Horn strategies
Creators: name: Van Rooy, Robert
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: In this paper I will discuss why (un) marked expressions typically get an (un)marked interpretation: Horn’s division of pragmatic labor. It is argued that it is a conventional fact that we use language this way. This convention will be explained in terms of equilibria of signalling games introduced by Lewis (1969) but now in an evolutionary setting. I will also relate this signalling game analysis with Blutner’s (2000) bi-directional optimality theory and with Parikh’s (1991, 2000) game-theoretical analysis of successful communication.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 6 (2002): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 6
Maximality and Minimality in Comparatives
Creators: name: Meier, Cécile
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: In this paper, I investigate more closely the contribution of modal operators to the semantics of comparatives and I show that there is no need for a maximality or minimality operator. Following Kratzer’s (1981, 1991) analysis of modal elements, I assume that the meaning of a modal sentence is dependent on a conversational background and an ordering source. For comparative environments, I demonstrate that the ordering source reduces a set of possible degrees to a single degree that is most (or least) wanted or expected, i.e., maximality and minimality readings of comparative constructions are an effect of the pragmatic meaning of the modal.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 6 (2002): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 6
Assessment of time to recurrence of opportunistic infections in people living with HIV/AIDS, in Debre Markos town, East Gojam zone, North West Ethiopia, in 2013. (Retrospective Cohort study)
Creators: name: HABTAMU MELLIE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: Introduction: According to 2011 Ethiopian demographic health survey the national adult HIV

prevalence is 1.5 %. In the same survey, HIV prevalence was 2.2% in the Amhara Region. In the

region of North West Ethiopia, 88.9% of pre-ART PLWHA has any type of OI at initiation of

ART. Different studies showed the effect of ART improves time to death of PLWHA however,

little is known about its effect on improving time of recurrence of OI and factors associated with

it and magnitude of the recurrence. Hence this study will be used to plan resources needed for

chronic HIV/AIDS care and to identify factors affecting patients’ survival.

Objective: To assess time to recurrence of OIs and factors associated with it and to determine

magnitude of recurrence in PLWHA in Debre Markos town in 2013.

Method: Institution based comparative retrospective cohort study were used and the required

sample size was 536. All 18 years old and above PLWHA who were on chronic HIV care in

Debre Makkos town health institutions was the source population for the study. Study

participants were selected from the list of PLWHA attending the public health facilities using

simple random sampling procedure by data collectors who are working in ART clinic. Univariate

analysis was used to describe patients’ baseline and follow up characteristics. Actuarial life table

and Kaplan-meier survival was used to estimate survival and log rank test was used to compare

survival curves. Cox proportional-hazard regression model was used to calculate the uni-variate

and adjusted hazard rate and to determine independent predictors of time to recurrence of OI.
Is the German Perfekt a Perfect Perfect?
Creators: name: Löbner, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: Descriptive accounts of German tense forms largely agree in the Perfekt being ambiguous between (at least) a past and a resultative or similar perfect meaning, or function. Recent theoretical accounts, however, favour a uniform analysis, e.g. Klein (1999) and Musan (2000). In this paper it will be argued that the German Perfekt is genuinely ambiguous in a way these approaches are unable to account for. Mainly drawing on evidence from narrative passages, temporal clauses and the aspectual particles schon and noch it is argued that these basic semantic data require the assumption of both a non-perfect past and a non-past perfect reading of the form.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 6 (2002): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 6
Mapping fine-scale demersal trawl effort for application in ecosystem assessment and spatial planning
Creators: name: Currie, JC
name: Harris, LR
name: Atkinson, LJ
name: Fairweather, TP
name: Sink, KJ
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Fine-scale maps of fishing activity are valuable information layers for fisheries management, assessments of biodiversity impacts and marine spatial planning. Our aim was to develop an accurate map of demersal trawling intensity in South Africa and to demonstrate its utility at a national scale. We calculated a swept area ratio, representing demersal trawling effort for the entire study period (2005‒2018) and annually. We then plotted spatial and temporal patterns of trawling activity, identified core fishing areas, and examined spatial overlap between trawling, South Africa’s marine ecosystem types and the national network of marine protected areas. A high proportion of trawling effort (90%) was concentrated in 43% of the area exposed to trawling, with the remaining 10% spread across 57% of the fished areas. The fishery overlaps with 33 of 150 benthic and bentho-pelagic marine ecosystem types. Of those, 11 have more than 50% of their extent, and five have more than 80%, within the trawl ring-fence. Our analyses support a systematic prioritisation of ecosystem types for further management and protection. The new South African trawling-intensity map contributes an improved pressure layer for ecosystem assessments, can help identify priority fishing areas and has application in conservation, marine spatial planning and fisheries management.
Detecting the genuine multipartite two-way steerability with linear steering inequalities
Creators: name: Jiang, Guangming
name: Wu, Xiaohua
name: Zhou, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to the fundamental idea that a steering inequality can be constructed by just considering the measurements performed by Bob, and from the definitions of steering from Alice to Bob, a general scheme for designing two different kinds of linear steering inequalities (LSIs) is developed to detect the two-way steerability for bipartite system and the genuine multipartite two-way steerability for multipartite system, respectively. Besides the LSIs constructed from the known one-way criteria and the Bell operators, several other types of LSIs are also considered.
description: 18 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in QINP
Presupposition Justification by Abduction and Quantified Presuppositions
Creators: name: Krause, Peter
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2019

description: The presuppositions originating from triggering expressions embedded under quantifiers have been crucial test cases both for projection theories of presupposition and for discourse representation theory and dynamic semantics theories. In this paper some of these data are reviewed. The examples are sometimes considered within context, and projection data are discussed, The conclusion about the data differs from previous assessments in the literature. A simple generalization is argued for which lends support to the satisfaction theory of presuppositions and does not directly involve a notion of sentence or discourse topic. Although the generalization supports the satisfaction theory, its formal realization demands additional theoretical flexibility. In the theoretical part, a formal tool offering this additional flexibility is presented: presupposition justification based on abduction within discourse representation theory. This formalism is applied to some central data. For each example, the justification problems and their possible solutions are computed and discussed briefly.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 6 (2002): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 6
Spectroscopic factors for low-lying 16N levels and the astrophysical 15N(n,gamma)16N reaction rate
Creators: name: Guo, B.
name: Li, Z. H.
name: Li, Y. J.
name: Su, J.
name: Pang, D. Y.
name: Yan, S. Q.
name: Wu, Z. D.
name: Li, E. T.
name: Bai, X. X.
name: Du, X. C.
name: Fan, Q. W.
name: Gan, L.
name: He, J. J.
name: Jin, S. J.
name: Jing, L.
name: Li, L.
name: Li, Z. C.
name: Lian, G.
name: Liu, J. C.
name: Shen, Y. P.
name: Wang, Y. B.
name: Yu, X. Q.
name: Zeng, S.
name: Zhang, L. Y.
name: Zhang, W. J.
name: Liu, W. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fluorine is a key element for nucleosynthetic studies since it is extremely sensitive to the physical conditions within stars. The astrophysical site to produce fluorine is suggested to be asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. In these stars the 15N(n, g)16N reaction could affect the abundance of fluorine by competing with 15N(a, g)19F. The 15N(n, g)16N reaction rate depends directly on the neutron spectroscopic factors of the low-lying states in 16N. The angular distributions of the 15N(7Li, 6Li)16N reaction populating the ground state and the first three excited states in 16N are measured using a Q3D magnetic spectrograph and are used to derive the spectroscopic factors of these states based on distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) analysis. The spectroscopic factors of these four states are extracted to be 0.96+-0.09, 0.69+-0.09, 0.84+-0.08 and 0.65+-0.08, respectively. Based on the new spectroscopic factors we derive the 15N(n,g)16N reaction rate. The accuracy and precision of the spectroscopic factors are enhanced due to the first application of high-precision magnetic spectrograph for resolving the closely-spaced 16N levels which can not be achieved in most recent measurement. The present result demonstrates that two levels corresponding to neutron transfers to the 2s1/2 orbit in 16N are not so good single-particle levels although 15N is a closed neutron-shell nucleus. This finding is contrary to the shell model expectation. The present work also provides an independent examination to shed some light on the existing discrepancies in the spectroscopic factors and the 15N(n, g)16N rate.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Quartierspiegel Alt-Wiedikon 2023
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 314 Allgemeine Statistiken zu Europa
subject: 710 Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung
subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Zürich-Wiedikon
subject: Quartier
subject: Amtliche Statistik
subject: Bevölkerungsstatistik

description: Aus dem einstigen Haufendorf Wiedikon entwickelte sich im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert einer der bevölkerungsreichsten Stadtkreise Zürichs. Alt-Wiedikon ist eines seiner drei Quartiere. Während das Ortsmuseum im «Haus zum Eselsschrei» aus dem Jahr 1594 einen Blick in die Vergangenheit gestattet, weisen Bauten wie die «Sihlcity» in die Zukunft.