cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cicurina (Cicurella) sheari Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina sheari

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) sheari Gertsch 1992
(Figs 98–99, 136)
 Cicurina sheari Gertsch 1992: 115, figs 135–136 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Ramsey Bat Cave, Real Co., Texas. 2 Oct. 1976. D. Pate, R. Hemperly, K. Heuss ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 4.59; carapace length: 2.34; carapace width: 1.62; opisthosoma length 2.25. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 6 denticles (3 large, 3 small), left side with 7 denticles (3 large, 4 small). Leg I: total length: 6.65; femur: 1.80; patella: 0.70; tibia: 1.65; metatarsus: 1.55; tarsus: 0.95; leg IV: total length: 7.65; femur: 2.00; patella: 0.65; tibia: 1.95; metatarsus: 2.00; tarsus: 1.05. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum length: 0.476. Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit, bearing minute, medial, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, half intruded by straight dorsal plate, atrial aperture moderate; bursa not enlarged nor fused; copulatory ducts touching at midpoint, reaching over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores visible (1 seen); stalk short, procurved, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe kidney-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, positioned externally from the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Ramseys Bat Cave (Real County, Texas, Fig. 136).
 Remarks. Male unknown. The holotype vial contained two immature specimens not mentioned in Gertsch (1992). The correct spelling of the cave name is Ramseys, and not Ramsey.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 44
SkyNet: Memristor-based 3D IC for Artificial Neural Networks
Creators: name: Bhat, Sachin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Hardware implementations of artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become feasible due to the advent of persistent 2-terminal devices such as memristor, phase change memory, MTJs, etc. Hybrid memristor crossbar/CMOS systems have been studied extensively and demonstrated experimentally. In these circuits, memristors located at each cross point in a crossbar are, however, stacked on top of CMOS circuits using back end of line processing (BOEL), limiting scaling. Each neuron’s functionality is spread across layers of CMOS and memristor crossbar and thus cannot support the required connectivity to implement large-scale multi-layered ANNs.
This work proposes a new fine-grained 3D integrated circuit technology for ANNs that is one of the first IC technologies for this purpose. Synaptic weights implemented with devices are incorporated in a uniform vertical nanowire template co-locating the memory and computation requirements of ANNs within each neuron. Novel 3D routing features are used for interconnections in all three dimensions between the devices enabling high connectivity without the need for special pins or metal vias. To demonstrate the proof of concept of this fabric, classification of binary images using a perceptron-based feed forward neural network is shown. Bottom-up evaluations for the proposed fabric considering 3D implementation of fabric components reveal up to 19x density, 1.2x power benefits when compared to 16nm hybrid memristor/CMOS technology.
Cicurina (Cicurella) sprousei Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina sprousei

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) sprousei Gertsch 1992
(Figs 100–101, 136)
 Cicurina sprousei Gertsch 1992: 113, figs 119–120 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas: Bandera County: Station ‘C’ Cave. 4 Sept. 1988. P. Sprouse ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 5.04; carapace length: 2.43; carapace width: 1.64; opisthosoma length: 2.62. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 6 denticles (3 large, 3 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 7.20; femur: 2.05; patella: 0.75; tibia: 1.75; metatarsus: 1.60; tarsus: 1.05; leg IV: total length: 8.20; femur: 2.15; patella: 0.70; tibia: 2.00; metatarsus: 2.25; tarsus: 2.10. Tarsal claw IV: 0.17. Epigynum: 0.434. Epigynal ventral plate with long transverse slit, bearing medial, deep, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, half intruded by slightly rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture moderate; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts separated at midpoint, reaching over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located medially; primary pores visible (2 seen); stalk short, slightly procurved, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe kidney-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, externally positioned from the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct internally attached to the primary lobe base.
 Gertsch 1992. 94–95 Cicurina selecta Gertsch 1992. 96–97 Cicurina serena Gertsch 1992. 98–99 Cicurina sheari Gertsch 1992. 100–101 Cicurina sprousei Gertsch 1992. 102–103 Cicurina stowersi Gertsch 1992. 104–105 Cicurina suttoni Gertsch 1992. 106–107 Cicurina travisae Gertsch 1992. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.
 Remarks. Male unknown. The holotype vial only contains the female holotype; the seven immature spiders mentioned by Gertsch (1992) were not found. Data added by Gertsch (1992): “C Cave #1, 15 miles N. of Vanderpool”.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on pages 44-46
Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Verb-Noun Collocations
Creators: name: Cai, Ying
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: This study aims to investigate the acquisition of verb-noun collocations in Chinese by learners who study Chinese as a foreign language. By conducting a survey, this research attempt to discuss the following issues. 1) Does learners’ acquisition of verb-noun collocations increase with years of learning? 2) Is learners’ acquisition of verb-noun collocations related to the usage frequency of the verbs? 3) Are there any differences between patient objects and non-patient objects in verb-noun collocation acquisitions? 4) Does natural L2 exposure have an impact on collocational competence?
Seven verbs are selected in this study, 看 kan, 开 kai, 做 zuo, 走 zou, 放 fang, 打 da, 带 dai. In order to answer the research questions, a survey which consisted of four parts was conducted. This survey was done in a public university in Massachusetts, USA. In total, 82 Chinese learners have participated in this study, and they were grouped into three instructional levels: Second-Year Chinese learners, Third-Year Chinese learners, and Fourth-Year Chinese learners.
The data in this research show that the use of collocations is related to learners’ language proficiency, and this study has identified a hook-shaped learning curve in the acquisition of verb-noun collocations. In addition, the frequency is significant to the verb-noun acquisition, and the usage frequency of verbs plays a vital role compared to nouns. Furthermore, at all three proficiency levels, learners had a higher accuracy rate with regard to patient objects in verb-noun collocations.
Collocations are problematic for learners who study Chinese as their foreign language; thus, it is essential for instructors to discuss effective teaching methodology for collocations. In this paper, some implications for teaching Chinese verb-noun collocations are provided by the researcher.
The demand for food and beverages in Norway
Creators: name: Rickersten, Kyrre
name: Rickersten, Kyrre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The demand for food and beverages is estimated within a three-stage demand model. The separability structure of the model is checked by nonparametric tests. Some generalized axiom of revealed preference (GARP) violations are detected in one of the subsystems. However, they are removed by small adjustments in the quantities of fish, and the violations are interpreted as results of measurement errors. The almost ideal demand system is used in the static and a dynamic version. The results of various specification and misspecification tests suggest that the static version performs poorly as compared with the dynamic version. Norwegian demand elasticities for disaggregate food commodities have rarely been estimated within a system framework, so the results are of intrinsic interest. The elasticities estimated by using the dynamic model are of the expected signs and reasonable magnitudes. The values are stable over time for most commodities. Elasticities estimated within a subsystem are conditional on the goods included in that system, and they may differ from the more policy relevant unconditional elasticities estimated within a system including all goods. Adjustment formulas are used to approximate the unconditional elasticities from the estimated conditional elasticities. There are considerable differences between the numerical values of the conditional and unconditional elasticities for several of the foods. The unconditional own-price elasticities are in the interval -0.20 to - 0.89. The own-price elasticities for hot drinks and for milk are most inelastic. The unconditional expenditure elasticities for food-away-from-home, fish, soft drinks, and alcoholic beverages are above one, while the expenditure elasticity for hot drinks is about zero. Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
FORGETTING TRAUMATIC WAR MEMORY: A CASE STUDY OF THE JAPANESE ANIME SERIES "THE BIG O"
Creators: name: CHIBA, NAOMI
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: This thesis addresses the issues of traumatic war memory concerning remembering and forgetting as presented construction of war memory in popular culture by closely examining the Japanese television anime series The Big O. The thesis proposes that the story told in The Big O can be seen as a vehicle for understanding why the Japanese wished to forget traumatic war memories related to the defeat of Japan in World War II. The Big O is a science fiction story that is set in a postwar defeated society. The protagonist of the story is Roger Smith, who searches for his lost memories. He is a social advocate for the people who want to recall their lost memories and acts as a negotiator in Paradigm City, a city that lost its own memories forty years ago. Drawing upon memory studies, the thesis explores various aspects of Japanese ambition and social concerns that emerged in Japan’s postwar society, including the national pride for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the rising economic success, and the revision of World War II’s history in school textbooks. The thesis examines dialogues by the characters in The Big O by paying attention to two major arguments surrounding memories: remembering and forgetting. By doing so, the thesis attempts to elucidate the ways in which war memories are at times remembered and often forgotten by those recovering from the wounds of war.
DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON BIRD ABUNDANCE ALONG ELEVATION GRADIENTS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS
Creators: name: Duclos, Timothy
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: The stratification of bird species along elevational gradients is widely reported, with montane bird communities typically characterized by distinctive species occurring in relatively small and isolated populations; as such, these species are the subject of considerable interest to ecologists and conservationists. The stratification of species along elevation is largely attributed to compressed climatic zonation. Recent evidence that bird species are shifting up in elevation has fueled speculation that these species are tracking their climactic niches in response to climate change. However, there is also evidence plant communities are shifting in elevation, presenting a potential additional mechanism explaining changes observed in the bird community. Uncertainty as to the degree to which climate directly influences bird abundance versus the degree to which climate indirectly influences bird abundance via habitat composition and structure represents a key impediment to understanding the ecology of these species in montane environments. To address this question I measured species abundance, habitat characteristics, and temperature at 150 survey points located along 15 elevational transects in the Presidential Mountains of New Hampshire in the summers of 2014 and 2015. I used N-mixture models to correct for imperfect detection of species and structural equation models, incorporating abundance, habitat, temperature, and precipitation derived from a downscaled regional dataset to assign variation to the direct and indirect effects of climate upon birds. Analysis of 21 species revealed species-specific patterns on how climate exerts direct effects and indirect effects mediated by forest composition and structure on bird abundance. This work represents an important contribution to the ecological understanding of the pathways by which climate influences bird abundance. Finding that 62% of species experience both direct and indirect effects of climate, with 62% experiencing stronger direct than indirect effects, these results underscore the vulnerability of these species to climate change. With 81% of species found to experience indirect effects of climate via forests, these findings indicate great conservation value of maintaining forest habitat amidst climate change. Overall, this information will facilitate the refinement of predictive models of the abundance of montane bird species and represents an approach that will advance future investigations of climate effects in the Northern Appalachians and other systems.
BMI, Tumor Lesion and Probability of Femur Fracture: a Probabilistic Biomechanics Approach
Creators: name: gao, zhi
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: found that most of these factors are directly or indirectly linked to subjects’ BMI (body mass index). Thus, from a statistical perspective, BMI could be an overall indicator of the probability of femur fracture from a sideways fall. Using a biomechanics approach coupled with statistical data we investigate this relationship with a large cohort of postmenopausal women aged 50-79 from WHI-OS (Women’s Health Initiative Observational Cohort). The cohort is divided into six sub-cohorts by BMI where each fall-related factor is examined and compared with each other. Significant differences are discovered among cohorts in terms of femur size, aBMD (areal bone mineral density), peak fall force based on kinematics, and maximum von Mises stresses induced in the proximal femur. Through a probabilistic margin of safety approach which has been recently applied to orthopedic application, we found the margin of safety predicted probability to be decreasing faster with increasing BMI and better v fitted with medical record of the identical cohort compared to that found using a deterministic risk factor approach. To promote the application in other situations, tumor damaged femur bones are examined and tested for possible stress concentration effect in terms of probability of failure. The influence of tumor lesion turned out to be size and location sensitive. The superior side of the femoral neck has the highest stress concentration effect from tumor lesion where a 4mm diameter lesion could result in a 1.7 times greater maximum von Mises stress and 2.95 times greater probability of failure.
Signatures of $\tilde{R}_2$ class of Leptoquarks at the upcoming $ep$ colliders
Creators: name: Padhan, Rojalin
name: Mandal, Sanjoy
name: Mitra, Manimala
name: Sinha, Nita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the signatures of the $\tilde{R}_2$ class of leptoquark (LQ) models at the proposed $e^- p$ and $e^+p$ colliders. We carry out an analysis for the proposed colliders LHeC and FCC-eh with center of mass (c.m.) energy 1.3 TeV and 3.46 TeV, respectively. For $\tilde{R}_2$ class of LQ models, there are a number of final states that can arise from LQ production and its subsequent decay. In this report we do a detailed cut-based analysis for the $l^{\pm}j$ final state. We also discuss the effect of polarized electron and positron beams on LQ production and in turn on $l^{\pm}j$ production. At LHeC, the final state $l^+j$ has very good discovery prospect. We find that, only 100 $\text{fb}^{-1}$ of data can probe LQ mass upto 1.2 TeV with $5σ$ significance, even with a generic set of cuts. On the contrary, at FCC-eh, one can probe LQ masses upto 2.2 TeV (for $e^-$ beam) and 3 TeV (for $e^+$ beam), at more than $5σ$ significance with luminosity $1000\,\text{fb}^{-1}$ and $500\,\text{fb}^{-1}$, respectively.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures
Cicurina (Cicurella) stowersi Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina stowersi

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) stowersi Gertsch 1992
(Figs 102–103, 136)
 Cicurina stowersi Gertsch 1992: 113, figs 121–122 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162.
 HOLOTYPE female: “Stowers Cave, 24 mi. W. Kerrville, Kerr Co., Tex. 3 May 1969. Roger Bartholomew”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 3.33; carapace length: 1.62; carapace width: 1.17; opisthosoma length: 1.71. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (3 large, 4 small), left side 6 denticles (3 large, 3 small). Leg I: total length: 4.53; femur: 1.15; patella: 0.50; tibia: 1.15; metatarsus: 1.05; tarsus: 0.68; leg IV: total length: 5.30; femur: 1.40; patella: 0.50; tibia: 1.25; metatarsus: 1.45; tarsus: 0.70. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum: 0.35. Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit, bearing medial, shallow, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, almost intruded by rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts touching at midpoint, reaching well over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores not visible; stalk short, procurved, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe elongated; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, externally positioned from the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Stowers Cave (Kerr County, Texas, Fig. 136).
 Remarks. Male unknown. The holotype was dehydrated.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 46
Non-equilibrium Hadrochemistry in QGP Hadronization
Creators: name: Rafelski, Johann
name: Letessier, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This survey offers an introductory tutorial for students of any age of the currently thriving field of hadrochemistry. We discuss the different chemical potentials, how the hadronic phase space is described and how one evaluates the abundance of hadrons at time of hadronization. We show that a rather accurate description of experimental data arises and we present results of fits to hadron yields at SPS and RHIC. We show that introduction of chemical non-equilibrium originating in a sudden hadronization of a QGP is favored strongly at SPS and is presently also emerging at RHIC. The low chemical freeze-out temperatures are consistent with the picture of single freeze-out scenario (chemical and thermal freeze-out coincide).
description: To appear in the proceedings of Pan American Advanced Studies Institute on New States of Matter in Hadronic Interactions (PASI 2002), Campos do Jordao, Brazil, 7-18 Jan 2002; American Institute of Physics 2002 *v2 Contains UPDATED RHIC-130 chemical freeze-out analysis*
Production Asymmetry Measurement of High Xt Hadrons in pp Collisions at 40 GeV
Creators: name: Abramov, V. V.
name: Dyshkant, A. S.
name: Evdokimov, V. N.
name: Goncharov, P. I.
name: Gorin, A. M.
name: Gurzhiev, A. N.
name: Korneev, Yu. P.
name: Kostritskii, A. V.
name: Krinitsyn, A. N.
name: Kryshkin, V. I.
name: Mel'nik, Yu. M.
name: Podstavkov, V. M.
name: Sin'kin, N. I.
name: Tereshenko, S. I.
name: Turchanovich, L. K.
name: Yakutin, A. E.
name: Zaichenko, A. A.
name: Zapol'sky, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single-spin asymmetries for hadrons have been measured in collisions of transversely-polarized 40 GeV/c proton beam with an unpolarized liquid hydrogen target. The asymmetries were measured for pi+-, K+-, protons and antiprotons, produced in the central region (0.02 < Xf < 0.10 and 0.7 < Pt < 3.4 GeV/c). Asymmetries for pi+-, K+- and antiprotons show within measurement errors the linear dependence on Xt and change a sign near 0.37. For protons negative asymmetry, independent of Xt has been found. The results are compared with those of other experiments and SU(6) model predictions.
description: 25 pages (Latex), 12 Postscript figures
Explicit Learning of Phonotactic Patterns Disrupts Language Learning
Creators: name: Hare, Evan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Learning environment has been proposed to be a cause of age of acquisition effects in second language acquisition. Explicit learning in adults is linked to fast initial gains but poorer ultimate attainment whereas implicit learning in children requires more input but leads to greater proficiency in the long run. The current study used ERP measures to determine if explicit learning of a phonotactic pattern interferes with implicit learning of that same pattern in adults. Listeners were told to figure out the pattern of consonants that can go together in a word by listening to 16 CVCV nonsense words in which the two consonants all matched in voicing or never matched in voicing.
Listeners rated novel items that fit the pattern presented in training as far more likely to fit the rule than novel items that violated that pattern, indicating that they did indeed learn the pattern. For participants who heard the voicing-mismatch language, novel items that violated the pattern elicited a larger negativity 200-400 ms after onset compared to novel items that fit the pattern. This effect was entirely distinct from what was previously observed under implicit learning conditions. Further, three patterns of data suggest that difficult explicit learning of a phonotactic pattern decreased language learning. First, differences in N400 amplitude across training blocks were reduced compared to what was observed with implicit learning. Differences in N400 amplitude in response to trained and novel items were limited to the more easily learned matched-voicing language. Second, the ERP index of implicit phonotactic learning, a larger Late Positive Component (LPC) in response to novel items that violate compared to fit the pattern, was absent under explicit learning conditions. Third, and supporting the idea that an absence of an LPC effect indicates an absence of implicit learning, the only hint of an LPC-like effect was evident for the more easily learned matched-voicing pattern.
These patterns of data suggest that, at least for patterns that native speakers have exclusively implicit knowledge of, challenging explicit learning can interfere with other aspects of language learning. Adults who approach second-language acquisition with class-room style explicit learning strategies may compromise implicit learning of complex patterns that are necessary for higher levels of ultimate proficiency.
Attempts at Explaining the NuTeV Observation of Di-Muon Events
Creators: name: Dedes, Athanasios
name: Dreiner, Herbi
name: Richardson, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NuTeV Collaboration has observed an excess in their di-muon channel, possibly corresponding to a long-lived neutral particle with only weak interactions and which decays to muon pairs. We show that this can {\it not} be explained by pair production of neutralinos in the target followed by their decay far downstream in the detector via a $LLE$ R-parity violating (RPV) operator, as suggested in the literature. In the parameter region allowed by LEP the event rate is far too small. We propose instead a new neutralino production method via $B$-mesons, which can fully explain the observation. This is analogous to neutrino production via $π$-mesons. This model can be completely tested and thus also possibly excluded with NOMAD data. If it is excluded, the NuTeV observation is most likely not due to physics beyond the Standard Model. Our model can also be tested at the current and future $B$-factories. This opens up a new way of testing a long-lived neutralino LSP at fixed-target experiments and thus a possibility to close the gap between collider and cosmological tests of R-parity violation. We also discuss a possible explanation in terms of a neutral heavy lepton mixing with the Standard Model neutrinos. The flavour structure of the observation can be accounted for but the production rate is far too low.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
MAGNETO-ELECTRIC APPROXIMATE COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR BAYESIAN INFERENCE
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Sourabh
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Probabilistic graphical models like Bayesian Networks (BNs) are powerful artificial-intelligence formalisms, with similarities to cognition and higher order reasoning in the human brain. These models have been, to great success, applied to several challenging real-world applications. Use of these formalisms to a greater set of applications is impeded by the limitations of the currently used software-based implementations. New emerging-technology based circuit paradigms which leverage physical equivalence, i.e., operating directly on probabilities vs. introducing layers of abstraction, promise orders of magnitude increase in performance and efficiency of BN implementations, enabling networks with millions of random variables. While majority of applications with small network size (100s of nodes) require only single digit precision for accurate results, applications with larger size (1000s to millions of nodes) require higher precision computation. We introduce a new BN integrated circuit fabric based on mixed-signal magneto-electric circuits which perform probabilistic computations based on the principle of approximate computation. Precision scaling in this fabric is logarithmic in area vs. linear in prior directions. Results show 33x area benefit for a 0.001 precision compared to prior direction, while maintaining three orders of magnitude performance benefits vs. 100-core processor implementations.
Cicurina (Cicurella) travisae Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina travisae

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) travisae Gertsch 1992
(Figs 106–107, 131)
 Cicurina travisae Gertsch 1992: 101, figs 63–70 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Travis County, Tooth Cave, 15 miles N.W. of Austin; found under rocks. August 5, 1963 James Reddell coll.”. Examined (AMNH).
 Additional material examined. UNITED STATES: Travis County: Amber Cave, 08.iv.1984, 1♀ [TMM# 11799], J. Reddell, M. Reyes (TMM); Kretschmarr Cave, 21.ii.1988, 1♀, M. Reyes (TMM); McDonald Cave, 29.v.1989, 1♀ 14 juvs, W. Elliott, J. Reddell, M. Reyes (TMM); Pisarowicz Cave, 21.iv.1984, 1♀ [TMM# 10156], J. Reddell, M. Reyes (TMM); Root Cave (north entrance), 01.iv.1989, 1♀ 2 juvs, J. Reddell & M. Reyes (AMNH); Salamander Cave, 06.iv.1966, 1♀ 1 juv., J. Reddell (TMM).
 Description. Female holotype
Opisthosoma length: 1.98. Epigynum: 0.370 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with long transverse slit, bearing medial, deep, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium square, almost completely intruded by rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa not enlarged nor fused; copulatory ducts almost touching at midpoint, acute, reaching top or slightly over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores not visible; stalk strongly procurved, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore elongated; primary lobe elongated; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, reaching dictynoid pore; fertilization duct internally attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Reported from a few caves in the Jollyville Plateau of Travis County: Amber Cave, Kretschmarr Cave, McDonald Cave (=Schulze Cave), Pisarowicz Cave, Root Cave, Salamander Cave, and Tooth Cave (type locality) (Fig. 131).
 Remarks. Male unknown. Gertsch (1992) illustrated four specimens representing Cicurina (Cicurella) travisae (his figs 63–70) without mentioning which one is the holotype. The holotype vial contained the holotype opisthosoma, and one mature female. Cokendolpher (2004a) believed that Gertsch (1992) illustrated more than one species for Cicurina (Cicurella) travisae. In the distribution of Cicurina (Cicurella) buwata, Gertsch listed Gallifer Cave as a known locality (under Cicurina (Cicurella) elliotti). Gallifer Cave is however located on the Jollyville plateau, nearby the cave listed for Cicurina (Cicurella) travisae. Pisarowicz Cave and Salamander Cave listed here as known localities for the species, have unfortunately been destroyed by urban development.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 47
Carroll membranes
Creators: name: Roychowdhury, Dibakar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore Carroll limit corresponding to M2 as well as M3 branes propagating over 11D supergravity backgrounds in M theory. In the first part of the analysis, we introduce the membrane Carroll limit associated to M2 branes propagating over M theory supergravity backgrounds. Considering two specific M2 brane embeddings, we further outline the solutions corresponding to the Hamilton's dynamical equations in the Carroll limit. We further consider the so called \textit{stringy} Carroll limit associated to M2 branes and outline the corresponding solutions to the underlying Hamilton's equations of motion by considering specific M2 brane embeddings over 11D target space geometry. As a further illustration of our analysis, considering the Nambu-Goto action, we show the equivalence between different world-volume descriptions in the Carroll limit of M2 branes. Finally, considering the \textit{stringy} Carroll limit, we explore the constraint structure as well as the Hamiltonian dynamics associated to unstable M3 branes in 11D supergravity and obtain the corresponding effective world-volume description around their respective tachyon vacua.
description: Latex, 17 pages, minor modifications, Version to appear in JHEP
Cosmological Evolution of Brane World Moduli
Creators: name: Brax, Ph.
name: van de Bruck, C.
name: Davis, A. -C.
name: Rhodes, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
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: We study cosmological consequences of non-constant brane world moduli in five dimensional brane world models with bulk scalars and two boundary branes. We focus on the case where the brane tension is an exponential function of the bulk scalar field, $U_b \propto \exp{(αϕ)}$. In the limit $α\to 0$, the model reduces to the two-brane model of Randall-Sundrum, whereas larger values of $α$ allow for a less warped bulk geometry. Using the moduli space approximation, we derive the four-dimensional low-energy effective action from a supergravity-inspired five-dimensional theory. For arbitrary values of $α$, the resulting theory has the form of a bi-scalar-tensor theory. We show that, in order to be consistent with local gravitational observations, $α$ has to be small (less than $10^{-2}$) and the separation of the branes must be large. We study the cosmological evolution of the interbrane distance and the bulk scalar field for different matter contents on each branes. Our findings indicate that attractor solutions exist which drive the moduli fields towards values consistent with observations. The efficiency of the attractor mechanism crucially depends on the matter content on each branes. In the five-dimensional description, the attractors correspond to the motion of the negative tension brane towards a bulk singularity, which signals the eventual breakdown of the four-dimensional description and the necessity of a better understanding of the bulk singularity.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, typos and factor of 2 corrected, version to appear in Physical Review D
The role of properdin in the pathogenesis of murine systemic lupus erythematosus
Creators: name: Hasanain Y. M. Al Aridhee
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), complement-activating immune complexes (ICs) are central to the immunopathogenesis of disease. Their deposition in kidney initiates an inflammatory response resulting in glomerulonephritis. Properdin is the only known positive regulator of complement activation, but its role in SLE disease severity has not been studied yet. Properdin-deficient mice were crossed with MRL/lpr mice on C57Bl/6 background. MRL/lpr mice develop lupus-like disease spontaneously. We derived properdin wildtype, properdin deficient, and properdin heterozygous MRL/lpr mice. Compared to MRL/lpr properdin wildtype mice, MRL/lpr properdin-deficient mice developed significantly less severe disease, had lower serum anti-DNA antibody titre, reduced complement activation, less serum pro-inflammatory cytokines and showed less splenic surface expression of CR2 on B220 positive cells. Parallel analysis of properdin heterozygous MRL/lpr mice revealed a gene dose effect in some measures. There was less serum creatinine in MRL/lpr properdin-deficient mice and colocalising activated C3 fragments and immunoglobulins (ICs) in the mesangium, and less SMA-α and nephrin expression in MRL/lpr properdin-deficient mice compared to MRL/lpr properdin wildtype mice. These findings demonstrate that properdin plays a significant role in the severity of lupus and involvement of kidney in MRL/lpr mice. Because MRL/lpr properdin deficient mice had lower levels of anti-DNA Abs, inflammatory mediators and marker of renal impairment, the study implies that properdin could constitute a novel therapy target.
Cohomology of toric bundles
Creators: name: Sankaran, P.
name: Uma, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M25, 14F15

description: We describe the singular cohomology ring, the K-ring of complex vector bundles, the Chow ring, and the Grothendieck ring of coherent sheaves of the total space of the fibre bundle with base space an irreducible nonsingular complete Noetherian scheme and fibre a nonsingular projective T-toric variety associated to a prinicipal T-bundle over the field of complex numbers.
description: 16 pages. Relation (ii)' in Defn 1.1 modified to correct an error in Lemma 2.2(i). Other minor errors corrected
The stable index of 0-1 matrices
Creators: name: Chen, Zhibing
name: Huang, Zejun
name: Yan, Jingru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce the concept of stable index for 0-1 matrices. Let $A$ be a 0-1 square matrix. If $A^k$ is a 0-1 matrix for every positive integer $k$, then the stable index of $A$ is defined to be infinity; otherwise, the stable index of $A$ is defined to be the smallest positive integer $k$ such that $A^{k+1}$ is not a 0-1 matrix. We determine the maximum finite stable index of all 0-1 matrices of order $n$ as well as the matrices attaining the maximum finite stable index.
Multiple Testing Correction with Repeated Correlated Outcomes: Applications to Epigenetics
Creators: name: Leap, Katie
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Epigenetic changes (specifically DNA methylation) have been associated with adverse health outcomes; however, unlike genetic markers that are fixed over the lifetime of an individual, methylation can change. Given that there are a large number of methylation sites, measuring them repeatedly introduces multiple testing problems beyond those that exist in a static genetic context. Using simulations of epigenetic data, we considered different methods of controlling the false discovery rate. We considered several underlying associations between an exposure and methylation over time.
We found that testing each site with a linear mixed effects model and then controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) had the highest positive predictive value (PPV), a low number of false positives, and was able to differentiate between differential methylation that was present at only one time point vs. a persistent relationship. In contrast, methods that controlled FDR at a single time point and ad hoc methods tended to have lower PPV, more false positives, and/or were unable to differentiate these conditions.
Validation in data obtained from Project Viva found a difference between fitting longitudinal models only to sites significant at one time point and fitting all sites longitudinally.
Un Portale per il Sistema Preventivo e i Diritti Umani
Creators: name: Schiesaro, GianMarco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: sistema preventivo
diritti umani
educazione
nuove tecnologie

description: Atti del Congresso Internazionale Sistema Preventivo e Diritti Umani, 2-6 gennaio 2009, pp. 39-41
Pedagogic model for Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with quark-hadron duality
Creators: name: Close, Frank E.
name: Zhao, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how quark-hadron duality can emerge for valence spin averaged structure functions, and for the non-forward distributions of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering. Novel factorisations of the non-forward amplitudes are proposed. Some implications for large angle scattering and deviations from the quark counting rules are illustrated.
description: Version accepted by Phys. Rev. D
Cicurina (Cicurella) troglobia Cokendolpher 2004
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina troglobia

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) troglobia Cokendolpher 2004
(Figs 108–109, 130)
 Cicurina troglobia Cokendolpher 2004b: 60, figs 1–3 (description of female). — Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3243–3245, 3249, 3254; Taylor et al. 2005: 98.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas: Bell Co. Seven Mile Mt. Cave, 28 June 2000, J. Reddell, M. Reyes, Molted 20 Oct. 2000, 14 July 2001 ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 4.32; carapace length: 2.07; carapace width: 1.53; opisthosoma length: 2.25. Eyes absent.
Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (1 large, 2 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (2 large, 5 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 6.23; femur: 1.60; patella: 0.70; tibia: 1.55; metatarsus: 1.43; tarsus: 0.95; leg IV: total length: 7.30; femur: 1.95; patella: 0.60; tibia: 1.75; metatarsus: 2.00; tarsus: 1.00. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum: 0.420 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with moderate transverse slit, bearing medial, very deep, inverted V-shaped indentation; atrium square, almost completely intruded by dome-shaped dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa not enlarged nor fused; copulatory ducts widely separated at midpoint, reaching under primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores visible (1 seen); stalk short, straight, horizontal, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore elongated; primary lobe hat-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, reaching the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Seven Mile Mountain Cave (Bell County, Texas, Fig. 130).
 Remarks. Male unknown. Data added in Cokendolpher (2004b): “Molted in captivity 02.x.2000, molted to maturity 14 July 2001, right legs removed for DNA studies”.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on pages 47-48
Rydberg mediated entanglement in a two-dimensional neutral atom qubit array
Creators: name: Graham, T. M.
name: Kwon, M.
name: Grinkemeyer, B.
name: Marra, Z.
name: Jiang, X.
name: Lichtman, M. T.
name: Sun, Y.
name: Ebert, M.
name: Saffman, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate high fidelity two-qubit Rydberg blockade and entanglement in a two-dimensional qubit array. The qubit array is defined by a grid of blue detuned lines of light with 121 sites for trapping atomic qubits. Improved experimental methods have increased the observed Bell state fidelity to $F_{\rm Bell}=0.86(2)$. Accounting for errors in state preparation and measurement (SPAM) we infer a fidelity of $F_{\rm Bell}^{\rm -SPAM}=0.88$. Accounting for errors in single qubit operations we infer that a Bell state created with the Rydberg mediated $C_Z$ gate has a fidelity of $F_{\rm Bell}^{C_Z}=0.89$. Comparison with a detailed error model based on quantum process matrices indicates that finite atom temperature and laser noise are the dominant error sources contributing to the observed gate infidelity.
description: includes supplemental material, error analysis revised to use process matrices
title: 03_0654
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Investigation of Historical Area in Xi'an, China
Creators: name: Yu, Zhaoxiong
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Historical area is the unique place to a certain context because it contains the most valuable culture on the site and also keeps recording its history. While the increasing pressure from developing tourism and booming population seriously impacts the old site resulting in culture lost.
This thesis investigates a typical historical area in Xi’an in a logical process. The process starts with analysis from local fabric as urban scale to living unit as family scale to make a clear view on local culture lost. According to the context, set up appropriate criteria to select typical site to make sure the solution can be well integrated into similar scenario. Then, based on the analysis, generate possible conceptual responses. Finally, design from a modular unit, to courtyard space and to the final block prospect, and make sure the final solution in every step could not only solve the problems, but also accommodate the local life style.
The whole design process appropriately integrates the concept of shared space in dealing with the overload urban and living density. The application of the phasing study makes the whole research and design process more sustainable and feasible.