cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spurious phase in a model for traffic on a bridge
Creators: name: Erickson, David W.
name: Pruessner, Gunnar
name: Schmittmann, B.
name: Zia, R. K. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high-precision Monte Carlo data for the phase diagram of a two-species driven diffusive system, reminiscent of traffic across a narrow bridge. Earlier studies reported two phases with broken symmetry; the existence of one of these has been the subject of some debate. We show that the disputed phase disappears for sufficiently large systems and/or sufficiently low bulk mobility.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, JPA style
S-JEPA: towards seamless cross-dataset transfer through dynamic spatial attention
Creators: name: Guetschel, Pierre
name: Moreau, Thomas
name: Tangermann, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motivated by the challenge of seamless cross-dataset transfer in EEG signal processing, this article presents an exploratory study on the use of Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs). In recent years, self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach for transfer learning in various domains. However, its application to EEG signals remains largely unexplored. In this article, we introduce Signal-JEPA for representing EEG recordings which includes a novel domain-specific spatial block masking strategy and three novel architectures for downstream classification. The study is conducted on a 54 subjects dataset and the downstream performance of the models is evaluated on three different BCI paradigms: motor imagery, ERP and SSVEP. Our study provides preliminary evidence for the potential of JEPAs in EEG signal encoding. Notably, our results highlight the importance of spatial filtering for accurate downstream classification and reveal an influence of the length of the pre-training examples but not of the mask size on the downstream performance.
A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS OF CONJUNCTIVE GROUND AND SURFACE WATER USE WITH AN APPLICATION TO MOROCCO
Creators: name: Diao, Xinshen
name: Dinar, Ariel
name: Roe, Terry L.
name: Tsur, Yacov
name: Diao, Xinshen
name: Dinar, Ariel
name: Roe, Terry L.
name: Tsur, Yacov
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Groundwater resources (GW) account for nearly 30 percent of the world sustainable water supplies. Yet, this resource, which is fraught with externalities, has largely been left unregulated. The economic literature on GW is predominantly of a partial equilibrium type, taking the rest of the economy parametrically. We analyze GW regulation in a general equilibrium setting, focusing on the stabilization value of GW under natural (draught) and economic (rural-urban water transfer) shocks. A general equilibrium approach allows evaluating direct and indirect effects of GW regulation on agriculture and non-agriculture sectors and extends the scope for water policy. The analysis is applied to Morocco by extending an existing computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to include ground and surface water (SW) resources. We study effects of (i) an increase in GW extraction cost (e.g., as a result of prolonged extraction beyond natural recharge that lowers the aquifer's water table), (ii) a transfer of SW from rural (irrigation) to urban (domestic) use, and (iii) a reduction of water availability due to severe drought. We estimate the value of GW and assess the direct (partial equilibrium) and indirect (general equilibrium) impacts. We find that GW has a critical role in mitigating the negative effects of these types of shocks.
Supplementary material for Genotype-phenotype associations of KATP variants with cardiovascular risks in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.docx
Creators: name: Liu, Cheng
name: Lai, Yanxian
name: Guan, Tianwang
name: Zhan, Junfang
name: Pei, Jingxian
name: Wu, Daihong
name: Ying, Songsong
name: Shen, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111102 Dietetics and Nutrigenomics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: 110104 Medical Biochemistry: Lipids
subject: 110311 Medical Genetics (excl. Cancer Genetics)
subject: FOS: Basic medicine

description: Supplementary material for manuscript entitled “Genotype-phenotype associations of KATP variants with cardiovascular risks in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes”
The impact of social influence in Australian real-estate: market forecasting with a spatial agent-based model
Creators: name: Evans, Benjamin Patrick
name: Glavatskiy, Kirill
name: Harré, Michael S.
name: Prokopenko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Housing markets are inherently spatial, yet many existing models fail to capture this spatial dimension. Here we introduce a new graph-based approach for incorporating a spatial component in a large-scale urban housing agent-based model (ABM). The model explicitly captures several social and economic factors that influence the agents' decision-making behaviour (such as fear of missing out, their trend following aptitude, and the strength of their submarket outreach), and interprets these factors in spatial terms. The proposed model is calibrated and validated with the housing market data for the Greater Sydney region. The ABM simulation results not only include predictions for the overall market, but also produce area-specific forecasting at the level of local government areas within Sydney as arising from individual buy and sell decisions. In addition, the simulation results elucidate agent preferences in submarkets, highlighting differences in agent behaviour, for example, between first-time home buyers and investors, and between both local and overseas investors.
description: 25 pages + 31 page appendix
VULNERABILITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT AMONG TURKMEN LEASEHOLDERS
Creators: name: Glukhikh, Rimma
name: Lerman, Zvi
name: Schwartz, Moshe
name: Glukhikh, Rimma
name: Lerman, Zvi
name: Schwartz, Moshe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: agriculture
subject: Turkmenistan
subject: transition
subject: vulnerability
subject: income smoothing

description: High risk is inherent to agriculture in Turkmenistan, a post-socialist desert country where the political uncertainties of transition exacerbate natural unpredictability. This study examines risk coping strategies of Turkmen farmers based on a survey of 1100 respondents carried out in 2002 in all five provinces. We propose a new composite index of vulnerability, which includes human capital indicators and geographic location. The analysis relies on a single independent variable, which nevertheless incorporates the effect of criteria interactions. Using survey data, we analyze income smoothing as a mechanisms of risk management across vulnerability groups. Consistently with theoretical expectations, the most vulnerable households seem prefer a smaller, but safer outcome over a larger but uncertain one: the most vulnerable households tend to specialize in wheat, which is less risky (and less profitable) than cotton, while less vulnerable households emphasize cotton. However, contrary to expectations and findings in other countries, Turkmen farmers do not follow many of the common risk coping strategies. The more vulnerable households do not readily diversify their income generating activities: they seldom take off-farm employment; rarely engage in cottage industries; do not diversify the production mix on their household plot. Nor is there evidence that the more vulnerable families show greater reliance on their subsistence household plot. The results seem to suggest that the more vulnerable households are trapped in a deep vulnerability trap, lacking initiative and probably resources to break out through income diversification strategies.
5G cellular systems supported by UAVs, RESs, and RISs (PL: Systemy komórkowe 5G wspierane przez BSP, OZE oraz IPR)
Creators: name: Samorzewski, Adam
name: Kliks, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper considers energy consumption in 5G cellular networks powered by Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) and equipped with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), acting as mobile access points. The study was focused on the energy side of the Radio Access Network (RAN) located in the city of Poznań in Poland. The profit associated with the use of renewable energy generators, i.e. photovoltaic panels (PVP) for base stations (BSs) is presented in the form of two factors: the average number of UAV charges (ANUC) to provide continuous access to mobile services for connected user equipment (UE) terminals, and the average reduction in energy consumption (AREC) of the wireless system.
description: The scientific paper is written in Polish. The contribution of the paper was presented during the 2023 Radiocommunications and ICT Conference (pl. Konferencja Radiokomunikacji i Teleinformatyki - KRiT 2023) in Cracow, Poland
Evaluating French Sentencing Reform: The 2014 Consensus Commission for a New Public Policy For the Prevention of Recidivism
Creators: name: Finger, Clemens
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Probation
International Law
France

description: Upon his election in 2012 and facing a growing prison population rate and recidivism rate, French President François Hollande called for a Consensus Commission to create new policy recommendations in order to help improve the conditions of the criminal justice system. The Consensus Commission, which consisted of a variety of criminal justice actors, stakeholders, and academics, came up with five main policy objectives, which included the creation of a new sentencing method of probation, as well as a reevaluation of risk assessment strategies and processes of sentence execution. The Commission’s findings were released in a 2013 report which was widely available to the public. ​Hollande then tasked his liberal-leaning Minister of Justice, Christiane Taubira, and his traditionalist Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls, to lead the legislative battle to implement these findings into law. Over the course of 2013 and early 2014, the French parliament debated and drafted the law which ultimately came to be known as the Law of August 15, 2014: Individualizing Sentences to Reinforce the Effectiveness of Punishment. Lawmakers implemented many of the suggestions of the Consensus Commission, establishing probation, known as contrainte pénale, and supervised parole releases, known as libération sous contraintee, as new tools for French judges who had been bound by strict mandatory minimum and repeat offender laws passed during the previous presidential administration of Nicolas Sarkozy. In order to pass these provisions, however, concessions were made, particularly in fortification of victims’ rights through a bolstered Victim Aid Bureau and widespread funding for restorative justice practices.
Towards the fractional quantum Hall effect: a noncommutative geometry perspective
Creators: name: Marcolli, Matilde
name: Mathai, Varghese
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we give a survey of some models of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect based on noncommutative geometry. We begin by recalling some classical geometry of electrons in solids and the passage to noncommutative geometry produced by the presence of a magnetic field. We recall how one can obtain this way a single electron model of the integer quantum Hall effect. While in the case of the integer quantum Hall effect the underlying geometry is Euclidean, we then discuss a model of the fractional quantum Hall effect, which is based on hyperbolic geometry simulating the multi-electron interactions. We derive the fractional values of the Hall conductance as integer multiples of orbifold Euler characteristics. We compare the results with experimental data.
description: 27 pages, LaTeX, 9 eps figures, v2: minor changes
Undulatory swimming in suspensions and networks of flexible filaments
Creators: name: Townsend, Adam K.
name: Keaveny, Eric E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many biological fluids are composed of suspended polymers immersed in a viscous fluid. A prime example is mucus, where the polymers are also known to form a network. While the presence of this microstructure is linked with an overall non-Newtonian response of the fluid, swimming cells and microorganisms similar in size to the network pores and polymer filaments instead experience the heterogeneous nature of the environment, interacting directly with the polymers as obstacles as they swim. To characterise and understand locomotion in these heterogeneous environments, we simulate the motion of an undulatory swimmer through 3D suspensions and networks of elastic filaments, exploring the effects of filament and link compliance and filament concentration up to 20\% volume fraction. For compliant environments, the swimming speed increases with filament concentration to values about 10\% higher than in a viscous fluid. In stiffer environments, a non-monotonic dependence is observed, with an initial increase in speed to values 5\% greater than in a viscous fluid, followed by a dramatic reduction to speeds just a fraction of its value in a viscous fluid. Velocity fluctuations are also more pronounced in stiffer environments. We demonstrate that speed enhancements are linked to hydrodynamic interactions with the microstructure, while reductions are due to the filaments restricting the amplitude of the swimmer's propulsive wave. Unlike previous studies where interactions with obstacles allowed for significant enhancements in swimming speeds, the modest enhancements seen here are more comparable to those given by models where the environment is treated as a continuous viscoelastic fluid.
description: 26 pages, 11 figures
$J/ψ$ Production in $p+p$, $d+Au$, and $Cu+Cu$ Collisions at RHIC
Creators: name: Cianciolo, Vince
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PHENIX results for $J/ψ$ production in $p+p$, $d+Au$, and $Cu+Cu$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV are presented.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings for contributed talk at 2005 Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC05)
Are There Age-Related Differences in Couples’ Support Exchanges?
Creators: name: Floyd, Corinne
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: social support
aging
romantic relationships

description: Social support is a necessary component of living a fulfilling life, and we often rely on our romantic partners as a primary source of support. However, a number of factors can hinder the provider’s ability to deliver support in a way that conveys caring and understanding to the recipient. Drawing from theories of aging, which suggest that older adults are more skilled than younger adults in using cognitive and behavioral strategies that promote positive interpersonal interactions, the current study aims to examine whether the emotional wisdom associated with aging may be linked to the quality of couples’ support exchanges. Married and newly dating couples (N = 282 couples) of varying ages engaged in two videotaped support discussions and completed post-discussion questionnaires. When examining partners’ observed support provision behaviors, no significant age effects emerged. Likewise, age was not a robust predictor of partners’ appraisals of their support interactions. However, relationship satisfaction was generally associated with more positive behaviors and appraisals across all ages. These findings suggest that older may not necessarily be wiser within romantic relationships. Rather, the quality of the relationship itself may be a more important context for understanding support behaviors and appraisals.
Oscillatory thermal-inertial flows in liquid metal rotating convection
Creators: name: Vogt, Tobias
name: Horn, Susanne
name: Aurnou, Jonathan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first detailed thermal and velocity field characterization of convection in a rotating cylindrical tank of liquid gallium, which has thermophysical properties similar to those of planetary core fluids. Our laboratory experiments, and a closely associated direct numerical simulation, are all carried out in the regime prior to the onset of steady convective modes. This allows us to study the oscillatory convective modes, sidewall modes and broadband turbulent flow that develop in liquid metals before the advent of steady columnar modes. Our thermo-velocimetric measurements show that strongly inertial, thermal wind flows develop, with velocities reaching those of comparable non-rotating cases. Oscillatory bulk convection and wall modes coexist across a wide range of our experiments, along with strong zonal flows that peak in the Stewartson layer, but that extend deep into the fluid bulk in the higher supercriticality cases. The flows contain significant time-mean helicity that is anti-symmetric across the midplane, demonstrating that oscillatory liquid metal convection contains the kinematic components to sustain system-scale dynamo generation.
description: 29 pages, 12 figures
Supplementary material for Genotype-phenotype associations of KATP variants with cardiovascular risks in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.docx
Creators: name: Liu, Cheng
name: Lai, Yanxian
name: Guan, Tianwang
name: Zhan, Junfang
name: Pei, Jingxian
name: Wu, Daihong
name: Ying, Songsong
name: Shen, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111102 Dietetics and Nutrigenomics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: 110311 Medical Genetics (excl. Cancer Genetics)
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: 110104 Medical Biochemistry: Lipids

description: Supplementary material for manuscript entitled “Genotype-phenotype associations of KATP variants with cardiovascular risks in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes”
SURVIVAL AND GROWTH OF FAMILY FARMS IN ISRAEL: 1971-1995
Creators: name: Dolev, Yuval
name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Dolev, Yuval
name: Kimhi, Ayal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Farm Management

description: We analyze the growth of family farms in Israeli cooperative villages between 1981 and 1995, using longitudinal data. We use instrumental variable techniques to account for the endogeneity of initial farm size, and correct for selectivity due to farm survival. Both endegeneity and sample selection are found important in this case. We find that smaller farms grow faster, so that there is convergence of farm sizes at the bottom end of the size distribution. There is weak evidence that this convergence process slows down at the upper part of the size distribution. We also find a positive effect of farm specialization on growth, indicating the possibility of scale economies. Farm capital stock affects farm survival but not growth itself, once accounting for selectivity due to survival. Farm growth is faster in larger farm households, indicating that family labor is important even when farms become more commercialized.
Elicitation on syntactic islands, disjunction, and possession
Creators: name: Rudolph, Johnny (Soni)
name: Drummond, Emily
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: nkr

description: One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on extraction out of common syntactic islands, sentences with "or" and "but", and possession. Corresponds to page 89-95 in Notebook 2.
Many-body interactions and melting of colloidal crystals
Creators: name: Dobnikar, J.
name: Chen, Y.
name: Rzehak, R.
name: von Grünberg, H. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the melting behavior of charged colloidal crystals, using a simulation technique that combines a continuous mean-field Poisson-Boltzmann description for the microscopic electrolyte ions with a Brownian-dynamics simulation for the mesoscopic colloids. This technique ensures that many-body interactions between the colloids are fully taken into account, and thus allows us to investigate how many-body interactions affect the solid-liquid phase behavior of charged colloids. Using the Lindemann criterion, we determine the melting line in a phase-diagram spanned by the colloidal charge and the salt concentration. We compare our results to predictions based on the established description of colloidal suspensions in terms of pairwise additive Yukawa potentials, and find good agreement at high-salt, but not at low-salt concentration. Analyzing the effective pair-interaction between two colloids in a crystalline environment, we demonstrate that the difference in the melting behavior observed at low salt is due to many-body interactions.
The McThesis
Creators: name: Funk-Tanaka, Kenna
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: McDonald’s
Globalization
Glocalization
Food
Asia

description: McDonald’s is a globally ubiquitous symbol. At its simplest, it is fast food. At its most complex, it is a global shaper of food, culture, and economy. McDonald’s has become the poster child of transnational corporations as a tool of Western cultural imperialism and a creator of unilateral, almost hegemonic, relationships between local cultures and global forces. However, there is a dissonance between the day-to-day impact on ordinary people and this narrative of globalization. This thesis examines McDonald’s menu and consumer experience in East and Southeast Asia with the goal of illustrating the complex and symbiotic relationship that globalization creates between countries. I review the literature on globalization and food—within it, glocalization and fast food—as well as particularly formative work on McDonald’s specifically. I propose three stages of development of the relationship between McDonald’s and its host country: (1) foreign, (2) integrated, (3) independent. These stages are examined from the lens of the consumer experience and menu. This thesis aims to bridge the gap between abstract theories (see “Glocalization” by Roland Robertson) and case studies (see Golden Arches East by James L. Watson). In the third stage, the foreign culture becomes disconnected from its source and is freely altered by the domestic culture, without the limitations of authenticity or preconceived notions. McDonald’s becomes the medium for the creation of a ‘third culture’ out of the global and local. McDonald’s helps create a new America—one that lives only in the minds those thousands of miles away.
DOES LAND REFORM IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES INCREASE CHILD LABOR? EVIDENCE FROM THE REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA
Creators: name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Kimhi, Ayal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use

description: This paper investigates the issue of child labor in the context of land reforms in transition economies, using farm household data from the Republic of Georgia. The results show that an increase in landholdings as an outcome of the land reform can, in the presence of market imperfections, lead to an increase in child labor. This is because the increased demand for labor on the family farm is stronger than the wealth effect generated by the land reform. However, this result is not uniform across farm families. First, it is only relevant for boys, because girls tend to assist in household activities rather than in farm work. Second, larger households are able to meet the increased demand for farm labor without the need for additional child labor. To the extent that smaller households tend to be poorer, it is mostly the poor households that sacrifice the future wellbeing of their male children in order to satisfy current needs. In this sense, the land reform may lead to a higher rural inequality in the long run. The policy implications are that land reforms in transition countries should include, as an integral ingredient, the development of rural land, labor and credit markets, in order to avoid the repercussions associated with increased child labor.
The Kondo Effect in the Presence of Magnetic Impurities
Creators: name: Heersche, H. B.
name: de Groot, Z.
name: Folk, J. A.
name: Kouwenhoven, L. P.
name: van der Zant, H. S. J.
name: Houck, A. A.
name: Labaziewicz, J.
name: Chuang, I. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure transport through gold grain quantum dots fabricated using electromigration, with magnetic impurities in the leads. A Kondo interaction is observed between dot and leads, but the presence of magnetic impurities results in a gate-dependent zero-bias conductance peak that is split due to an RKKY interaction between the spin of the dot and the static spins of the impurities. A magnetic field restores the single Kondo peak in the case of an antiferromagnetic RKKY interaction. This system provides a new platform to study Kondo and RKKY interactions in metals at the level of a single spin.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Negative flow of energy in a mechanical wave
Creators: name: Matulis, A.
name: Acus, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70F99, 81Q99

description: A classical system, which is analogous to the quantum one with a backflow of probability, is proposed. The system consists of a chain of masses interconnected by springs, as well attached by other springs to fixed supports. Thanks to the last springs the cutoff frequency and dispersion appears in the spectrum of waves propagating along the chain. It is shown that this dispersion contributes to the appearance of a backflow of energy. In the case of the interference of the two waves, the magnitude of this backflow is an order of magnitude higher than the value of the probability backflow in the mentioned quantum problem. The equation of Green's function is considered, and it is shown that the backflow of energy is also possible when the system is excited by two consecutive short pulses. This classical backflow phenomenon is explained by the branching of energy flow to local modes, what is confirmed by the results for the forced damped oscillator. It is shown that even in such a simple system the backflow of energy takes place (both an instantaneous and on average) and the energy comes back to external force.
description: 9p, 11fig; matches published version, Lithuanian Journal of Physics, Vol. 60, No. 4
Optimization-based Trajectory Planning for Tethered Aerial Robots
Creators: name: Martinez-Rozas, S.
name: Alejo, D.
name: Caballero, F.
name: Merino, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a non-linear optimization method for trajectory planning of tethered aerial robots. Particularly, the paper addresses the planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) linked to an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) by means of a tether. The result is a collision-free trajectory for UAV and tether, assuming the UGV position is static. The optimizer takes into account constraints related to the UAV, UGV and tether positions, obstacles and temporal aspects of the motion such as limited robot velocities and accelerations, and finally the tether state, which is not required to be tense. The problem is formulated in a weighted multi-objective optimization framework. Results from simulated scenarios demonstrate that the approach is able to generate obstacle-free and smooth trajectories for the UAV and tether.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, accepted ICRA'21
Anatomy of Vector-Like Bottom-Quark Models in the Alignment Limit of the 2-Higgs Doublet Model Type-II
Creators: name: Arhrib, Abdesslam
name: Benbrik, Rachid
name: Boukidi, Mohammed
name: Moretti, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Expanding upon our ongoing investigation of Vector-Like Quark (VLQ) phenomenology within a 2-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) framework, in this paper, we complement a previous one dedicated to Vector-Like Top-quarks (VLTs) by studying Vector-Like Bottom-quarks (VLBs), specifically focusing on their behavior in the alignment limit of a Type-II Yukawa structure. We examine the potential for detecting VLBs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and analyze their decay signatures, encompassing both Standard Model (SM) processes and exotic decays. The objective is to differentiate among singlet, doublet, and triplet configurations of VLBs by identifying distinct decay patterns, thereby providing insights into the structure of Beyond the SM (BSM) physics.
description: 36 pages, 21 figures, matches published version in EPJC. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2401.16219
Supplementary material for “Association of KATP variants with coronary microvascular dysfunction and refractory angina pectoris in coronary artery disease patients with increased serum lipoprotein(a) levels.”
Creators: name: Liu, Cheng
name: Pei, Jingxian
name: Yang, Zhengxia
name: Lai, Yanxian
name: Zhang, Shenghui
name: Guan, Tianwang
name: Shen, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110311 Medical Genetics (excl. Cancer Genetics)
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: 110104 Medical Biochemistry: Lipids

description: Supplementary material for “Association of KATP variants with coronary microvascular dysfunction and refractory angina pectoris in coronary artery disease patients with increased serum lipoprotein(a) levels.”
Regularity of Lipschitz boundaries with prescribed sub-Finsler mean curvature in the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^1$
Creators: name: Giovannardi, Gianmarco
name: Ritoré, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C17, 49Q10

description: For a strictly convex set $K\subset \mathbb{R}^2$ of class $C^2$ we consider its associated sub-Finsler $K$-perimeter $|\partial E|_K$ in $\mathbb{H}^1$ and the prescribed mean curvature functional $|\partial E|_K-\int_E f$ associated to a function $f$. Given a critical set for this functional with Euclidean Lipschitz and intrinsic regular boundary, we prove that their characteristic curves are of class $C^2$ and that this regularity is optimal. The result holds in particular when the boundary of $E$ is of class $C^1$.
description: In the second version of the manuscript we add a new relation between the $K$-mean curvature $H_K$ and the sub-Riemannian mean curvature
Stabilization and mechanistic studies of soluble processing alpha-glucosidase I from saccharomyces cerevisiae
Creators: name: Li, Patrick Ying Xia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Processing α-glucosidase I (E.C.3.2.1.106) is a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of asparagine-linked oligosaccharides catalyzing the first processing event after the en bloc transfer of Glc₃Man₉GlcNAc₂ to proteins. The stability and mechanism of this enzyme were investigated in this research. The enzyme was isolated from dry yeast cells and was further purified using affinity chromatography with an enzyme inhibitor, N-methyl-N-(5- carboxypentyl)-l-deoxynojirimycin, as the ligand, and Concanavalin A-Sepharose chromatography. To improve the long-term stability of the enzyme, various additives were added into the phosphate buffer used for extraction and isolation. These additives were different protease inhibitors, including protease inhibitor cocktail [Sigma, product No. P8215, containing 4-(2-aminoethyl)benzenesulfonyl fluoride (AEBSF), pepstatin A, transepoxysuccinyl- L-leucylamido(4-guanidino)butane(E-64), and 1,10-phenanthroline] (1%) and phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) (100 uM); reducing agent - dithiothreitol (DTT) (0.5 mM); chelating agent - ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) (0.2 mg/ml); polyol - glycerol (10%); and protective protein solution - bovine serum albumin (BSA) (1 mg/ml). The stability of the isolated enzyme was studied when kept at 4°C, -25°C, -80°C, and after freeze drying. Kinetic evaluation of several synthesized substrate analogues and chemical modification of the active site of the enzyme were also attempted. It was showed in this research that processing α -glucosidase I could be further purified using Concanavalin ASepharose chromatography. The stability of the enzyme could be much improved by the addition of glycerol, EDTA, BSA, PMSF and protease inhibitors during isolation. Extremely low freezing temperature (-25°C and -80°C) could help to retain enzyme activity during storage. Processing α -glucosidase I was an inverting enzyme which catalyzes hydrolysis with inversion of anomeric configuration. Synthetic substrate analogues 2'Fluoro- αGlc(l-2)αGlc-0-grease and 2'N3-αGlc(l-2)αGlc-0-grease were competitive inhibitors of the enzyme and at least one acidic amino acid might be present at the active site of the enzyme. It is believed that results from this research will provide useful information in the design of appropriate enzyme inhibitors that could be beneficial to human health.
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Creators: name: Liu, Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110104 Medical Biochemistry: Lipids
subject: 110311 Medical Genetics (excl. Cancer Genetics)
subject: FOS: Basic medicine

description: cardiology
Matrix Models and D-branes in Twistor String Theory
Creators: name: Lechtenfeld, Olaf
name: Saemann, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct two matrix models from twistor string theory: one by dimensional reduction onto a rational curve and another one by introducing noncommutative coordinates on the fibres of the supertwistor space P^(3|4)->CP^1. We comment on the interpretation of our matrix models in terms of topological D-branes and relate them to a recently proposed string field theory. By extending one of the models, we can carry over all the ingredients of the super ADHM construction to a D-brane configuration in the supertwistor space P^(3|4). Eventually, we present the analogue picture for the (super) Nahm construction.
description: 1+37 pages, reference added, JHEP style, published version
Single-Shot Readout and Weak Measurement of a Tin-Vacancy Qubit in Diamond
Creators: name: Rosenthal, Eric I.
name: Biswas, Souvik
name: Scuri, Giovanni
name: Lee, Hope
name: Stein, Abigail J.
name: Kleidermacher, Hannah C.
name: Grzesik, Jakob
name: Rugar, Alison E.
name: Aghaeimeibodi, Shahriar
name: Riedel, Daniel
name: Titze, Michael
name: Bielejec, Edward S.
name: Choi, Joonhee
name: Anderson, Christopher P.
name: Vuckovic, Jelena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The negatively charged tin-vacancy center in diamond (SnV$^-$) is an emerging platform for building the next generation of long-distance quantum networks. This is due to the SnV$^-$'s favorable optical and spin properties including bright emission, insensitivity to electronic noise, and long spin coherence times at temperatures above 1 Kelvin. Here, we demonstrate measurement of a single SnV$^-$ electronic spin with a single-shot readout fidelity of $87.4\%$, which can be further improved to $98.5\%$ by conditioning on multiple readouts. We show this performance is compatible with rapid microwave spin control, demonstrating that the trade-off between optical readout and spin control inherent to group-IV centers in diamond can be overcome for the SnV$^-$. Finally, we use weak quantum measurement to study measurement induced dephasing; this illuminates the fundamental interplay between measurement and decoherence in quantum mechanics, and makes use of the qubit's spin coherence as a metrological tool. Taken together, these results overcome an important hurdle in the development of the SnV$^-$ based quantum technologies, and in the process, develop techniques and understanding broadly applicable to the study of solid-state quantum emitters.
The ghosts lingering in the Río Bravo : examining erasures, sequelae, and trabajo de duelo through border women's literature and film
Creators: name: Garcia, Ashley Nelcy
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: North Mexico
Rio Bravo
Ghosts
Specters
Trauma
Violence
Erasures
Sequela
Memory
Border women
Intersectional writing
Silence studies

description: The plot of this dissertation is to confront the silences with the mid-20th and 21st-century discourses that produced (and continue to produce) ghosts lingering in the Río Bravo. To meet the objective, I reimagine cultural texts produced by Irma Sabina Sepúlveda, Rosario Sanmiguel, Marcela Arteaga, Elpidia García Delgado, and Cecilia Ballí as ghost stories. The border women’s works were published between 1969 and 2019. The lenses I introduce to analyze the texts are” ghost work” and “trabajo de duelo.” The first concept is used to identify the silences, define who counts as a specter, and reimagine my selection of primary texts as ghosts’ stories or stories of ghosts. In this project, the specters represent people from communities bordering the Río Bravo who were not tallied or perceived as victims in the decades between the implementation of the Mexican Agrarian Reform (1917-1992) and Felipe Calderón's war on narcotrafficking (2006-2012). I specifically search for and examine the ghosts of desaparecidos(as), desplazadas, and criminalizados(as). I also coin trabajo de duelo. Readers must understand this theoretical lens as an immunizing and conscious labor that community members produce to confirm ghosts' existence and prevent their reproduction.
Supplementary material (revised 3rd) for Clinical and genetic analysis of KATP variants with heart failure risk in patients with decreased serum ApoA-I levels.docx
Creators: name: Liu, Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110104 Medical Biochemistry: Lipids
subject: 110311 Medical Genetics (excl. Cancer Genetics)
subject: FOS: Basic medicine

description: Supplementary material (revised 3rd) for manuscript entitled “Clinical and genetic analysis of KATP variants with heart failure risk in patients with decreased serum ApoA-I levels”
Unifying Local and Global Multimodal Features for Place Recognition in Aliased and Low-Texture Environments
Creators: name: García-Hernández, Alberto
name: Giubilato, Riccardo
name: Strobl, Klaus H.
name: Civera, Javier
name: Triebel, Rudolph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Perceptual aliasing and weak textures pose significant challenges to the task of place recognition, hindering the performance of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. This paper presents a novel model, called UMF (standing for Unifying Local and Global Multimodal Features) that 1) leverages multi-modality by cross-attention blocks between vision and LiDAR features, and 2) includes a re-ranking stage that re-orders based on local feature matching the top-k candidates retrieved using a global representation. Our experiments, particularly on sequences captured on a planetary-analogous environment, show that UMF outperforms significantly previous baselines in those challenging aliased environments. Since our work aims to enhance the reliability of SLAM in all situations, we also explore its performance on the widely used RobotCar dataset, for broader applicability. Code and models are available at https://github.com/DLR-RM/UMF
description: Accepted submission to International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
การพัฒนาแผนกลยุทธ์ด้านเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศของมหาวิทยาลัยในกำกับของรัฐ
Creators: name: วิลาวัลย์ สมยาโรน
name: ดิเรก ธีระภูธร
Publisher: name: สถาบันการจัดการปัญญาภิวัฒน์
Year: 2558
Subjects: แผนกลยุทธ์, เทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศ, มหาวิทยาลัยในกำกับของรัฐ

description: 3, 7, วารสารปัญญาภิวัฒน์
Machine learning non-Hermitian topological phases
Creators: name: Narayan, Brajesh
name: Narayan, Awadhesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Hermitian topological phases have gained widespread interest due to their unconventional properties, which have no Hermitian counterparts. In this work, we propose to use machine learning to identify and predict non-Hermitian topological phases, based on their winding number. We consider two examples -- non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model and its generalized version in one dimension and non-Hermitian nodal line semimetal in three dimensions -- to demonstrate the use of neural networks to accurately characterize the topological phases. We show that for the one dimensional model, a fully connected neural network gives an accuracy greater than 99.9\%, and is robust to the introduction of disorder. For the three dimensional model, we find that a convolutional neural network accurately predicts the different topological phases.
description: Published version
title: Особенности организации медико-санитарной службы партизан в Ленинградской области в 1941—1944 гг.
Creators: name: Колотушкин, Валерий
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Рассматриваются особенности организации медико-санитарной службы в партизанских формированиях Ленинградской области в 1941—1944 гг. В каждом партизанском отряде находились медицинские работники. С 1941 г. началось формирование санитарных служб в партизанских бригадах и полках. В ноябре 1941 г. был впервые создан партизанский госпиталь во 2-й Ленинградской партизанской бригаде. Несмотря на острую нехватку медикаментов, перевязочных средств, специальных инструментов, тяжелые походные условия партизанские медики смогли обеспечить проведение сложных операций, возвращение партизан в строй, эвакуацию раненых и больных в советский тыл.
A Loose Canon: An Analysis of Plan II Honors and Cultural Diversity Course Curricula at the University of Texas at Austin
Creators: name: Gokhale, Pria
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Curriculum
canon
great books
pedagogy
decoloniality
decolonizing higher education
diverse curricula
American Literature
feminist literature
ethnic studies
philosophy canon

description: Over the past couple decades, controversy surrounding culturally diverse educational standards has taken centre stage of many American political debates. Diversity has come under intense scrutiny by portions of the public and lawmakers as curriculum culture-wars ensue. Professors and students have raised similar issues concerning the adequacy of academic material at the University of Texas at Austin. This thesis explores the extent to which the curriculum in CD flag courses and Plan II Honors Program courses showcases diverse perspectives. Using existing scholarship on diversifying curriculum, this thesis evaluates how the Plan II curriculum engages with Eurocentrism in academic material, and the extent to which courses offered under the Cultural Diversity flag requirement help decolonise knowledge production. My methodology includes original research in the form of syllabus analysis of eight courses which claim to offer a survey of a discipline, and interviews with four professors across a variety of departments at the University of Texas at Austin. Ultimately, this project draws attention to major themes that can be traced across departments which affect the propensity for curriculum to involve a variety of perspectives, and offers several recommendations that institutions should consider in their efforts to continue diversifying syllabus content.
Singular limit of a chemotaxis model with indirect signal production and phenotype switching
Creators: name: Laurençot, Philippe
name: Stinner, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Convergence of solutions to a partially diffusive chemotaxis system with indirect signal production and phenotype switching is shown in a two-dimensional setting when the switching rate increases to infinity, thereby providing a rigorous justification of formal computations performed in the literature. The expected limit system being the classical parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system, the obtained convergence is restricted to a finite time interval for general initial conditions but valid for arbitrary bounded time intervals when the mass of the initial condition is appropriately small. Furthermore, if the solution to the limit system blows up in finite time, then neither of the two phenotypes in the partially diffusive system can be uniformly bounded with respect to the $L_2$-norm beyond that time.
Quantum Mass and Central Charge of Supersymmetric Monopoles - Anomalies, current renormalization, and surface terms
Creators: name: Rebhan, Anton
name: van Nieuwenhuizen, Peter
name: Wimmer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the one-loop quantum corrections to the mass and central charge of N=2 and N=4 supersymmetric monopoles in 3+1 dimensions. The corrections to the N=2 central charge are finite and due to an anomaly in the conformal central charge current, but they cancel for the N=4 monopole. For the quantum corrections to the mass we start with the integral over the expectation value of the Hamiltonian density, which we show to consist of a bulk contribution which is given by the familiar sum over zero-point energies, as well as surface terms which contribute nontrivially in the monopole sector. The bulk contribution is evaluated through index theorems and found to be nonvanishing only in the N=2 case. The contributions from the surface terms in the Hamiltonian are cancelled by infinite composite operator counterterms in the N=4 case, forming a multiplet of improvement terms. These counterterms are also needed for the renormalization of the central charge. However, in the N=2 case they cancel, and both the improved and the unimproved current multiplet are finite.
description: 1+40 pages, JHEP style. v2: small corrections and additions, references added