cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Reinterpreting Eastlake: Late 19th Century Furniture Styles
Creators: name: Householder, Katherine
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Style
subject: Fashion
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Eclecticism
subject: Revival
subject: Furniture

description: It has been accepted that Charles Locke Eastlake through his book, Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details influenced the manufacture of furniture in the late nineteenth century. The immense success of the book in the United States led to a furniture style being called “Eastlake” in the 1870s. Beginning in the twentieth century, the name “Eastlake” was used by historians to describe almost any manufacture of furniture between 1870 and 1890, but the Eastlake style as defined by authors, critics and commentators at the time was very narrowly defined in the 1870s. At that time, the Eastlake style was known and understood as synonymous with the modern Gothic aesthetic, influenced by English Gothic architecture and furniture from the mediaeval era. The Eastlake style of furniture in America was but one of many different styles that rose and fell in popularity between 1870 and 1890. The different styles were all part of the burgeoning “art furniture” movement rooted in the teachings of English architect, A.W.N. Pugin and philosopher, John Ruskin, who, in the nineteenth century, preached that furniture must be honestly and properly constructed in combination with a pleasing design. Charles Eastlake promoted the cause of artistic furniture in his book. In the late 1870s, the discussion of art and artistic manufacture was taken up in the guise of the Aesthetic Movement in England. As the 1870s neared a close, the Eastlake style declined, but in its stead another style arose linked in some ways to the Eastlake style, but incorporating influences from a far different aesthetic. The so-called Queen Anne revival style arose in the mid-1870s and remained popular into the mid-1880s. Its forms and ornament were based on a wide range of characteristics from architecture and furniture of the Jacobean seventeenth century to the Georgian and neo-classical styles of the early nineteenth century. Largely forgotten in design histories in America, the American Queen Anne revival style of furniture was very eclectic and encompassed a wide variety of interpretations in the all-encompassing style. Its one defining characteristic was the use of spindles and spindle balustrades in furniture. Spindles, widely associated today with Eastlake furniture, were not found on the mediaeval inspired forms of the early to mid- 1870s in the United States. Both American styles were influenced by British architecture and furniture through many avenues including trade journals, design publications and international exhibitions during the nineteenth century. This study will show that the American Eastlake style and Queen Anne revival style in furniture were distinct and separate aesthetics in the late nineteenth century in the context of the rise of art furniture and a multitude of other furniture styles.
Supplementary document for Data-driven based optical method for full-field stress measurements - 6396005.pdf
Creators: name: Yao, Chenyu
name: Ma, Xueyi
name: Ma, Rongyu
name: Zhao, Dong
name: JIAN, ZHAO
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

description: Supplementary materials
Asymptotics of the optimal values of potentials generated by greedy energy sequences on the unit circle
Creators: name: López-García, Abey
name: Miña-Díaz, Erwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31C20, 31A15 (Primary) 11M06 (Secondary)

description: For the Riesz and logarithmic potentials, we consider greedy energy sequences $(a_n)_{n=0}^\infty$ on the unit circle $S^1$, constructed in such a way that for every $n\geq 1$, the discrete potential generated by the first $n$ points $a_0,\ldots,a_{n-1}$ of the sequence attains its minimum value (say $U_n$) at $a_n$. We obtain asymptotic formulae that describe the behavior of $U_n$ as $n\to\infty$, in terms of certain bounded arithmetic functions with a doubling periodicity property. As previously shown in \cite{LopMc2}, after properly translating and scaling $U_n$, one obtains a new sequence $(F_n)$ that is bounded and divergent. We find the exact value of $\liminf F_n$ (the value of $\limsup F_n$ was already given in \cite{LopMc2}), and show that the interval $[\liminf F_n,\limsup F_n]$ comprises all the limit points of the sequence $(F_n)$.
description: 20 pages. Some minor text modifications and typos were corrected
High-fidelity detection of large-scale atom arrays in an optical lattice
Creators: name: Tao, Renhao
name: Ammenwerth, Maximilian
name: Gyger, Flavien
name: Bloch, Immanuel
name: Zeiher, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in quantum simulation based on neutral atoms have largely benefited from high-resolution, single-atom sensitive imaging techniques. A variety of approaches have been developed to achieve such local detection of atoms in optical lattices or optical tweezers. For alkaline-earth and alkaline-earth-like atoms, the presence of narrow optical transitions opens up the possibility of performing novel types of Sisyphus cooling, where the cooling mechanism originates from the capability to spatially resolve the differential optical level shifts in the trap potential. Up to now, it has been an open question whether high-fidelity imaging could be achieved in a "repulsive Sisyphus" configuration, where the trap depth of the ground state exceeds that of the excited state involved in cooling. Here, we demonstrate high-fidelity ($99.971(1)\%$) and high-survival ($99.80(5)\%$) imaging of strontium atoms using repulsive Sisyphus cooling. We use an optical lattice as a pinning potential for atoms in a large-scale tweezer array with up to $399$ tweezers and show repeated, high-fidelity lattice-tweezer-lattice transfers. We furthermore demonstrate loading the lattice with approximately 10000 atoms directly from the MOT and scalable imaging over $>10000$ lattice sites with a combined survival probability and classification fidelity better than $99.2\%$. Our lattice thus serves as a locally addressable and sortable reservoir for continuous refilling of optical tweezer arrays in the future.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Yip Quon Yow, Lo King Cho, Chan Mon Chuck, Yong Bow Shing, Jang Man, Hong Yat, Ng Jong Ping, Chow Chew Ming, Wong Pon Jun.
Essays on Matching and Obvious Dominance
Creators: name: Halushka, Mariya
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: matching
mechanism design
obvious strategy-proofness
obvious dominance
social choice
resource allocation

description: This thesis presents three chapters. In Chapter 1, I propose a simple one-to-one matching model, where individuals on one side have private information that affects the preferences of the individuals on the other side. I show the existence of the stable and strategy-proof mechanism in this environment. I present an algorithm that defines this mechanism - the Serial Dictatorship algorithm with cutoffs. I also consider the concept of obvious strategy-proofness. I first consider the case where only preferences, but not experience levels, are sellers' private information. For this case, Serial Dictatorship with cutoffs elicits preferences in an obviously strategy-proof way. On the other hand, when only experience levels, but not preferences are private information, I show that there is no obviously strategy-proof and stable mechanism. A consequence of the latter result is that obvious strategy-proofness is incompatible with stability. Chapter 2 considers settings with rich private information - an agent's type may include private information other than just his preferences. In such settings, I identify a necessary condition for obviously strategy-proof implementation of social choice rules. I consider applications to strict preferences, matching and object allocation. The main assumption behind the obvious dominance is that agents might be cognitively limited and can not engage in contingent reasoning at all. This assumption is unreasonably weak compared to the standard assumption that agents can perfectly distinguish contingencies. In Chapter 3, I strengthen it slightly by assuming that agents are able to do at least some contingent reasoning. I define what it means for the strategy to be obviously dominant with respect to a partition of the state space. I call such strategies partition dominant strategies. A strategy is an almost obviously dominant if, for all possible partitions, but not for the coarsest, it can be identified as being partition dominant. My hypothesis is that even though some agents can not do state-by-state reasoning as rational players do, they are able to do at least some partitioning of the other player’s actions and regardless of how the partitioning is done, the agents can identify an almost obviously dominant strategy.
Pound-Drever-Hall Feedforward: Laser Phase Noise Suppression beyond Feedback
Creators: name: Chao, Yu-Xin
name: Hua, Zhen-Xing
name: Liang, Xin-Hui
name: Yue, Zong-Pei
name: You, Li
name: Tey, Meng Khoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) laser frequency stabilization is a powerful technique widely used for building narrow-linewidth lasers. This technique is however ineffective in suppressing high-frequency (>100~kHz) laser phase noise detrimental for many applications. Here, we introduce an effective method which can greatly enhance its high-frequency performance. The idea is to recycle the residual PDH signal of a laser locked to a cavity, by feedforwarding it directly to the laser output field after a delay fiber. Using this straightforward method, we demonstrate a phase noise suppression capability about 4 orders of magnitude better than just using usual PDH feedback for phase noise around a few MHz. We further find that this method exhibits noise suppression performance equivalent to cavity filtering. The new method holds great promise for applications demanding highly stable lasers with diminished phase noise up to tens of MHz, e.g. precise and high-speed control of atomic and molecular quantum states.
title: Newspaper Column: Fast Food and Seatbelts
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: Reston Times
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Safety belts
subject: Warner, Mark (Governor, VA)

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: At our own meals, we are free to eat in moderation or to overeat and grow obese. In our own car, we are free to buckle our seat belt to increase safety or to risk injury by failing to take time to buckle up. But these seemingly obvious certitudes have come under challenge. Two New York girls have taken McDonald’s to court, claiming damages for obesity-related health problems brought on by excessive consumption of food at McDonald’s. In Richmond, Governor Mark R. Warner (D) has sought passage of a bill making it a primary criminal offense in Virginia to ride in a car without a buckled seat belt.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Soon Yim Hum, Huey Kim, Wong Fon Cam, Lee Poo Lin, Fong New Gim, Lee Gim Jack, Wong Pon Wing, Hong Lok, Jang Wei Hoo, [Hoi Duck Yin].
title: Report: Anonymous, "Executive Summary: San Antonio Ranch New Town," November 4, 1973
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: Report, copy; 10.5” x 8” (25.4 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Report by an anonymous author, probably with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, entitled "Executive Summary: San Antonio Ranch New Town" dated November 4, 1973. This report discusses the background, current progress, proposed financing plans, and key issues and concerns for the San Antonio Ranch Development near San Antonio Texas. This development was fraught with lawsuits over environmental issues. In the mid 1980's, the development failed, and over four thousand acres of San Antonio Ranch ended up becoming apart of Government Canyon State Natural Area. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.04
Taxonomy for Physics Beyond Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Adlam, Emily
name: Hance, Jonte R.
name: Hossenfelder, Sabine
name: Palmer, Tim N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose terminology to classify interpretations of quantum mechanics and models that modify or complete quantum mechanics. Our focus is on models which have previously been referred to as superdeterministic (strong or weak), retrocausal (with or without signalling, dynamical or non-dynamical), future-input-dependent, atemporal and all-at-once, not always with the same meaning or context. Sometimes these models are assumed to be deterministic, sometimes not, the word deterministic has been given different meanings, and different notions of causality have been used when classifying them. This has created much confusion in the literature, and we hope that the terms proposed here will help to clarify the nomenclature. The general model framework that we will propose may also be useful to classify other interpretations and modifications of quantum mechanics. This document grew out of the discussions at the 2022 Bonn Workshop on Superdeterminism and Retrocausality.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society A; matches accepted version
Detection of Ghost Targets for Automotive Radar in the Presence of Multipath
Creators: name: Zheng, Le
name: Long, Jiamin
name: Lops, Marco
name: Liu, Fan
name: Hu, Xueyao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Colocated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has been widely used in automotive radars as it provides accurate angular estimation of the objects with relatively small number of transmitting and receiving antennas. Since the Direction Of Departure (DOD) and the Direction Of Arrival (DOA) of line-of-sight targets coincide, MIMO signal processing allows forming a larger virtual array for angle finding. However, multiple paths impinging the receiver is a major limiting factor, in that radar signals may bounce off obstacles, creating echoes for which the DOD does not equal the DOA. Thus, in complex scenarios with multiple scatterers, the direct paths of the intended targets may be corrupted by indirect paths from other objects, which leads to inaccurate angle estimation or ghost targets. In this paper, we focus on detecting the presence of ghosts due to multipath by regarding it as the problem of deciding between a composite hypothesis, H0 say, that the observations only contain an unknown number of direct paths sharing the same (unknown) DOD's and DOA's, and a composite alternative, H1 say, that the observations also contain an unknown number of indirect paths, for which DOD's and DOA's do not coincide. We exploit the Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test (GLRT) philosophy to determine the detector structure, wherein the unknown parameters are replaced by carefully designed estimators. The angles of both the active direct paths and of the multi-paths are indeed estimated through a sparsity-enforced Compressed Sensing (CS) approach with Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) optimization to estimate the angular parameters in the continuous domain. An extensive performance analysis is finally offered in order to validate the proposed solution.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures; This paper has published in IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing
Miyaoka-Yau inequalities and the topological characterization of certain klt varieties
Creators: name: Greb, Daniel
name: Kebekus, Stefan
name: Peternell, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32Q30, 32Q26, 14E20, 14E30

description: Ball quotients, hyperelliptic varieties, and projective spaces are characterized by their Chern classes, as the varieties where the Miyaoka-Yau inequality becomes an equality. Ball quotients, Abelian varieties, and projective spaces are also characterized topologically: if a complex, projective manifold $X$ is homeomorphic to a variety of this type, then $X$ is itself of this type. In this paper, similar results are established for projective varieties with klt singularities that are homeomorphic to singular ball quotients, quotients of Abelian varieties, or projective spaces.
description: 16 pages; v2: minimal changes, accepted for publication in the special volume of Comptes Rendus Math\'ematique in memory of Jean-Pierre Demailly
The Templum and the Liver of Piacenza in the works by Deecke, Körte, Van der Meer, Aveni and Romano
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Disciplina Etrusca
Decumanus
Liver of Piacenza
Heinrich Nissen
Pierangelo Catalano
Templum
Archaeoastronomy
Archeoastronomy
Archeoastronomia
Dies Natalis

description: The Liver of Piacenza is an Etruscan bronze artifact found in 1877. It is a life-sized model of a sheep's liver engraved with Etruscan inscriptions. It is dated to the late 2nd century BC, when the Piacenza region was under Latin domination. The liver is subdivided into sections, inscribed with names of individual Etruscan deities, suitable for performing haruspicy as hepatoscopy. The rim of this bronze artifact is divided into 16 sections, and therefore the liver had been supposed to represent a model of the sky, with the 16 sections as "dwelling places" of deities. For this reason, after its discovery, the object was supposed to represent a templum. Here we consider literature about the liver as a templum.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Ng Bow, Lin Yick, Wong Mon Kong, Wong Jung Kwong, Wong King Yow, Wong Lin Wang, Wong Hong Jang, Jang Fook Shew, [Mah Shong Lai], Chan Ming Foy.
title: Middle School Outcomes Related to Earlier English Language Acquisition in Dual Language Learners
Creators: name: Norvell, Gabrielle R
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dual language learners
subject: Academic performance
subject: Middle school
subject: English proficiency

description: Dual Language Learners (DLLs) in the US are young children who speak at least one language other than English at home and who are simultaneously mastering their native language(s) and English. Students who become English proficient earlier often experience better academic outcomes, but research on the in-depth relationship between the speed at which DLLs acquire English proficiency and later academic outcomes while accounting for relevant factors is rare. The current study used data from the Miami School Readiness Project (MSRP) to investigate how the grade in which DLL students acquired English proficiency correlates with their later middle school academic outcomes (GPA, standardized test scores, grade retention). Participants included DLLs with middle school outcome data (N = 14,852; 47% female; 85% receiving free/reduced-price lunch; 88% Latinx, 8% Black, and 3% White/Asian/Other). I examined the extent to which the total number of years DLL students spent in the English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) program related to later academic outcomes in middle school and examined for which grade(s) student ESOL exit matters the most. Statistical analyses, including ANOVAs, chi-square tests, multiple regressions, and logistic regressions, were used to compare DLL students who reached English proficiency between kindergarten and 8th grade. Results indicated that earlier acquisition of English generally predicts better later academic outcomes. Additionally, earlier English acquisition seems to be more strongly related to later reading outcomes than GPA or math, and DLLs not proficient in English until 6th grade or later have higher odds of being retained in middle school. The implications for the education of DLL students and future research are discussed.
title: Dynamic Interaction of Elevated Guideway with Uncontrolled Maglev Vehicles
Creators: name: Velma, Sumanth Reddy
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009

description: A flexible guideway on an elevated foundation is a key to affordable maglev urban transit. The flexible guideway can undergo significant dynamic motion, either when a vehicle solely relies on an open-loop control system or when a vehicle equipped with feedback control system experiences failure, due to fluctuating magnetic forces between the vehicle and the guideway. In an attempt to understand the effect of the uncontrolled vehicle on the structural response of the guideway, its dynamic interaction with maglev vehicles is investigated under various operating conditions. To this end, two vehicle models using Electrodynamic suspension (EDS) and Electromagnetic suspension (EMS) maglev technologies, each equipped with two magnets and a guideway structural model over multiple spans are developed. These models are used to determine the fluctuating air gap between vehicle and guideway. The effect of the vehicle mass on the air gap change is examined for a given guideway design at various operating speeds. Subsequently, the effect of the guideway span length on the air gap change is estimated for various vehicle sizes. Numerical results indicate that the dynamic interaction of the guideway with uncontrolled vehicles become more significant as the vehicle size increases. Though believed negligible, the interactions at low speed such as 5 m/s can be significant for heavy vehicles. A separate study is carried out to examine the behavior of different uncontrolled vehicles on multiple span guideways. It is found that the EDS system vehicles are inherently stable on stiff guideways only. They may fail or crash on to the guideway while traveling on a flexible guideways irrespective of the vehicle speed. Whereas for an Electromagnetic (EMS) maglev system, irrespective of the vehicle size and speed, the vehicle crashes on to the guideway almost immediately after the control system malfunctions.
MEMO: Dataset and Methods for Robust Multimodal Retinal Image Registration with Large or Small Vessel Density Differences
Creators: name: Wang, Chiao-Yi
name: Sadrieh, Faranguisse Kakhi
name: Shen, Yi-Ting
name: Chen, Shih-En
name: Kim, Sarah
name: Chen, Victoria
name: Raghavendra, Achyut
name: Wang, Dongyi
name: Saeedi, Osamah
name: Tao, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The measurement of retinal blood flow (RBF) in capillaries can provide a powerful biomarker for the early diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases. However, no single modality can determine capillary flowrates with high precision. Combining erythrocyte-mediated angiography (EMA) with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) has the potential to achieve this goal, as EMA can measure the absolute 2D RBF of retinal microvasculature and OCTA can provide the 3D structural images of capillaries. However, multimodal retinal image registration between these two modalities remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we establish MEMO, the first public multimodal EMA and OCTA retinal image dataset. A unique challenge in multimodal retinal image registration between these modalities is the relatively large difference in vessel density (VD). To address this challenge, we propose a segmentation-based deep-learning framework (VDD-Reg) and a new evaluation metric (MSD), which provide robust results despite differences in vessel density. VDD-Reg consists of a vessel segmentation module and a registration module. To train the vessel segmentation module, we further designed a two-stage semi-supervised learning framework (LVD-Seg) combining supervised and unsupervised losses. We demonstrate that VDD-Reg outperforms baseline methods quantitatively and qualitatively for cases of both small VD differences (using the CF-FA dataset) and large VD differences (using our MEMO dataset). Moreover, VDD-Reg requires as few as three annotated vessel segmentation masks to maintain its accuracy, demonstrating its feasibility.
description: Biomedical Optics Express
Strong Szegő Limit Theorems for Multi-Bordered, Framed, and Multi-Framed Toeplitz Determinants
Creators: name: Gharakhloo, Roozbeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work provides the general framework for obtaining strong Szegő limit theorems for multi-bordered, semi-framed, framed, and multi-framed Toeplitz determinants, extending the results of Basor et al. (2022) beyond the (single) bordered Toeplitz case. For the two-bordered and also the semi-framed Toeplitz determinants, we compute the strong Szegő limit theorems associated with certain classes of symbols, and for the $k$-bordered (${k \geq 3}$), framed, and multi-framed Toeplitz determinants we demonstrate the recursive fashion offered by the Dodgson condensation identities via which strong Szegő limit theorems can be obtained. One instance of appearance of semi-framed Toeplitz determinants is in calculations related to the entanglement entropy for disjoint subsystems in the XX spin chain (Brightmore et al. (2020) and Jin-Korepin (2011)). In addition, in the recent work Gharakhloo and Liechty (2024) and in an unpublished work of Professor Nicholas Witte, such determinants have found relevance respectively in the study of ensembles of nonintersecting paths and in the study of off-diagonal correlations of the anisotropic square-lattice Ising model. Besides the intrinsic mathematical interest in these structured determinants, the aforementioned applications have further motivated the study of the present work.
Primordial black holes in scalar field inflation coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet term with fractional power-law potentials
Creators: name: Ashrafzadeh, Ali
name: Karami, Kayoomars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in a scalar field inflationary model coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term with fractional power-law potentials. The coupling function enhances the curvature perturbations, then results in the generation of PBHs and detectable secondary gravitational waves (GWs). %
We identify three separate sets of parameters for the potential functions of the form $ϕ^{1/3}$, $ϕ^{2/5}$, and $ϕ^{2/3}$. By adjusting the model parameters, we decelerate the inflaton during the ultra slow-roll (USR) phase and enhance curvature perturbations. %
Our calculations predict the formation of PBHs with masses of ${\cal O}(10)M_{\odot}$, which are compatible with LIGO-Virgo observational data. Additionally, we find PBHs with masses around ${\cal O}(10^{-6})M_{\odot}$ and ${\cal O}(10^{-5})M_{\odot}$, which can explain ultrashort-timescale microlensing events in OGLE data. %
Furthermore, our proposed mechanism could lead to the formation of PBHs in mass scales around ${\cal O}(10^{-14})M_{\odot}$ and ${\cal O}(10^{-13})M_{\odot}$, contributing to approximately 99\% of the dark matter in the universe. %
We also study the production of secondary GWs in our model. In all cases of the model, the density parameter of secondary GWs $Ω_{\rm GW_0}$ exhibits peaks that intersect the sensitivity curves of GWs detectors, providing a means to verify our findings using data of these detectors. %
Our numerical results demonstrate a power-law behavior for the spectra of $Ω_{\rm GW_0}$ with respect to frequency, given by $Ω_{\rm GW_0} (f) \sim (f/f_c)^{n}$. Additionally, in the infrared regime where $f\ll f_{c}$, the power index takes a log-dependent form, specifically $n=3-2/\ln(f_c/f)$.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures
Continual Action Assessment via Task-Consistent Score-Discriminative Feature Distribution Modeling
Creators: name: Li, Yuan-Ming
name: Zeng, Ling-An
name: Meng, Jing-Ke
name: Zheng, Wei-Shi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Action Quality Assessment (AQA) is a task that tries to answer how well an action is carried out. While remarkable progress has been achieved, existing works on AQA assume that all the training data are visible for training at one time, but do not enable continual learning on assessing new technical actions. In this work, we address such a Continual Learning problem in AQA (Continual-AQA), which urges a unified model to learn AQA tasks sequentially without forgetting. Our idea for modeling Continual-AQA is to sequentially learn a task-consistent score-discriminative feature distribution, in which the latent features express a strong correlation with the score labels regardless of the task or action types.From this perspective, we aim to mitigate the forgetting in Continual-AQA from two aspects. Firstly, to fuse the features of new and previous data into a score-discriminative distribution, a novel Feature-Score Correlation-Aware Rehearsal is proposed to store and reuse data from previous tasks with limited memory size. Secondly, an Action General-Specific Graph is developed to learn and decouple the action-general and action-specific knowledge so that the task-consistent score-discriminative features can be better extracted across various tasks. Extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the contributions of proposed components. The comparisons with the existing continual learning methods additionally verify the effectiveness and versatility of our approach. Data and code are available at https://github.com/iSEE-Laboratory/Continual-AQA.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lim Sun, Jung Toon Yee, Lee Gin Wah, Lee Fon Sun, Gin Gong Jick, Lim Shew Jung, Yuen Fook Yuen, Lim Nang How, Lim Bow Yin.
Bayesian inference methodology to characterize the dust emissivity at far-infrared and submillimeter frequencies
Creators: name: Adak, Debabrata
name: Shaikh, Shabbir
name: Sinha, Srijita
name: Ghosh, Tuhin
name: Boulanger, Francois
name: Lagache, Guilaine
name: Souradeep, Tarun
name: Miville-Deschênes, Marc-Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Bayesian inference method to characterise the dust emission properties using the well-known dust-HI correlation in the diffuse interstellar medium at Planck frequencies $ν\ge 217$ GHz. We use the Galactic HI map from the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS) as a template to trace the Galactic dust emission. We jointly infer the pixel-dependent dust emissivity and the zero level present in the Planck intensity maps. We use the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo technique to sample the high dimensional parameter space ($D \sim 10^3$). We demonstrate that the methodology leads to unbiased recovery of dust emissivity per pixel and the zero level when applied to realistic Planck sky simulations over a 6300 deg$^2$ area around the Southern Galactic pole. As an application on data, we analyse the Planck intensity map at 353 GHz to jointly infer the pixel-dependent dust emissivity at Nside=32 resolution (1.8° pixel size) and the global offset. We find that the spatially varying dust emissivity has a mean of 0.031 MJysr$^{-1} (10^{20} \mathrm{cm^{-2}})^{-1}$ and $1σ$ standard deviation of 0.007 MJysr$^{-1} (10^{20} \mathrm{cm^{-2}})^{-1}$. The mean dust emissivity increases monotonically with increasing mean HI column density. We find that the inferred global offset is consistent with the expected level of Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) monopole added to the Planck data at 353 GHz. This method is useful in studying the line-of-sight variations of dust spectral energy distribution in the multi-phase interstellar medium.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Study on Universal Postal Service and the Postal Monopoly
Creators: name: Fritschler, A. Lee
name: Pommerening, Christine
name: Campbell, James I.
name: Cohen, Robert H.
name: Dieke, Alex Kalevi
name: John, Richard R.
name: Panzar, John C.
name: Wolak, Frank A.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Postal service
subject: Government monopoly
subject: Economic models
subject: Econometric models

description: The following appendices have been prepared by a team of subject-matter experts at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University (GMU) under a contract with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). Section 702 of the Postal Enhancement and Accountability Act (PAEA) required the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to submit a report to the President and Congress by late 2008 on universal postal service and the postal monopoly in the United States. GMU responded to a Request for Proposals published by the PRC on November 29, 2007 (PRC-07-01) with a proposal submitted on December 21, 2007. The contract to perform the work was issued February 11, 2008. The final deliverables were submitted to the PRC in November 2008. The study consists of analyses of legal rules and statutes, historical trajectories, international experiences, economic and econometric models, public needs and expectations, and policy options regarding the postal universal service, universal service obligations, and letter and mailbox monopolies. The appendices reflect this scope: A. Preface B. Universal Service Obligation: A Review of the History and Development of the Laws Relating to the Provision of Universal Postal Service C. Postal Monopoly Laws: The History and Development of the Monopoly on the Delivery of Mail and the Monopoly on Access to Mailboxes D. History of Universal Service and the Postal Monopoly E. Universal Service and Postal Monopoly in Other Countries F. The Economics of the Universal Service Obligation and the Postal Monopoly G. Public Needs and Expectations H. Evaluation of Policy Options The lead authors of each appendix are identified on the respective title page. However, substantial comments and contributions to each have been made by all team members. The different parts are building on a shared understanding of core elements of postal policy in the U.S., differences in opinion on some issues notwithstanding. Thus, we consider this a joint study rather than a collection of separate analyses.
Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo for Dilute Neutrons on the Lattice
Creators: name: Curry, Ryan
name: Dissanayake, Jayani
name: Gandolfi, Stefano
name: Gezerlis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ constrained path Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) in the pursuit of studying physical nuclear systems using a lattice formalism. Since AFQMC has been widely used in the study of condensed-matter systems such as the Hubbard model, we benchmark our method against published results for both one- and two-dimensional Hubbard model calculations. We then turn our attention to cold-atomic and nuclear systems. We use an onsite contact interaction that can be tuned in order to reproduce the known scattering length and effective range of a given interaction. Developing this machinery allows us to extend our calculations to study nuclear systems within a lattice formalism. We perform initial calculations for a range of nuclear systems from two- to few-body neutron systems.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Wong Luon Chuey, Wong Koo Shing, Chow Chew Kop, Chew Kew Lin, Chew York How, [Kwon Ngo], Yee Chuck, Loo Fong Sing, Yee York Hong, Kwan Ben Kwock.
Stability and Dynamics of Atom-Molecule Superfluids Near a Narrow Feshbach Resonance
Creators: name: Wang, Zhiqiang
name: Wang, Ke
name: Zhang, Zhendong
name: Nagata, Shu
name: Chin, Cheng
name: Levin, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent observations of a stable molecular condensate emerging from a condensate of bosonic atoms and related "super-chemical" dynamics have raised an intriguing set of questions. Here we provide a microscopic understanding of this unexpected stability and dynamics in atom-molecule superfluids; we show one essential element behind these phenomena is an extremely narrow Feshbach resonance in $^{133}$Cs at 19.849G. Comparing theory and experiment we demonstrate how this narrow resonance enables the dynamical creation of a large closed-channel molecular fraction superfluid, appearing in the vicinity of unitarity. Theoretically the observed superchemistry (\textit{i.e.}, Bose enhanced reactions of atoms and molecules), is found to be assisted by the formation of Cooper-like pairs of bosonic atoms that have opposite momenta. Importantly, this narrow resonance opens the possibility to explore the quantum critical point of a molecular Bose superfluid and related phenomena which would not be possible near a more typically broad Feshbach resonance.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures; close to the published version
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: [Hong Jong Og], [Hong Yip Lip], Hong Yick Kim, Gin Gay Kee, Lum Bark, Lee Chew, Lee Fong, Fong Sair Wing, Fong Kai Jai, Yin Won.
title: An Examination of the Application of Expert Elicitation and Value Tree Analysis as a Novel Decision Support Approach on an Earth Observing Enterprise
Creators: name: Dale, Erin
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth observations
subject: Decision support
subject: Value tree
subject: Portfolio analysis
subject: Expert elicitation
subject: Business intelligence questions

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 1 year and will not be available until November 2018 at the earliest.
description: This paper analyzes a newly implemented multi-objective decision analysis (MODA) approach to assess Earth observing (EO) capabilities relied upon across the federal government. The approach develops an enterprise portfolio through value tree development with strategic and managerial input, coupled with expert elicitation at a practitioner level. The study investigates the principles of the analytic method, documents the application of the approach across federal agencies, and examines the utility and extent of the decision support analyses created from the collected data to determine the approach’s ability to support analysis and inform the decision-making of the EO enterprise. The process is found to obtain a unique breadth and depth of information in a timely manner to facilitate portfolio management from high level, multi-billion dollar budget management decisions. In addition, it provides detailed analyses of communities of use at a product level. It is underpinned by the use of proven expert elicitation techniques and subject matter expert judgment. It transparently translates a previously disconnected, vast set of knowledge into an aggregated and actionable quantitative assessment and has evolved to influence various levels of policy. It assists the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) decision-making processes and informed the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) 2014 National Plan on Civil Earth Observations. Though expert analysts, multiple tools, and many subject matter experts are needed to create analyses for decision makers, this approach offers an effective process to define, portray, and visualize the complexity and connectedness of a large-scale technological sector, such as EO capabilities.
Κλιματική Αλλαγή και Αναδυόμενα Λοιμώδη Νοσήματα
Creators: name: Ντουλέ, Ανδρέας Ν.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2025
Subjects: Κλιματική αλλαγή
Λοιμώδη νοσήματα
Φυσικές αλλαγές
Climate change
Infectious diseases
Natural changes

description: Στην αρχέγονη σχέση μεταξύ παθογόνων οργανισμών και ξενιστών, η εξέλιξη εγγυάται ότι πάντα θα υπάρχουν νικητές και ηττημένοι, και εξίσου σημαντικό είναι ότι αυτά τα αποτελέσματα θα αλλάζουν συνεχώς. Νέες μολυσματικές ασθένειες θα εμφανίζονται όλο και πιο συχνά , ενώ παλιές απειλές μπορεί να επανεμφανιστούν. Η κλιματική αλλαγή φαίνεται να επιταχύνει αυτή την δυναμική. Οποιαδήποτε τέτοια εντατικοποίηση της εμφάνισης ασθενειών μπορεί να οδηγήσει σε διάφορα αποτελέσματα, με μηδενικό αντίκτυπο έως την πιθανότητα καταστροφικών επιδημιών. Στην συγκεκριμένη εργασία θα γίνει αναφορά των πιθανών επιπτώσεων που μπορεί να έχει η κλιματική αλλαγή άμεσα στην υγεία των ανθρώπων αλλά και πως μπορεί να συμβάλλει στην επανεμφάνιση παλαιότερων ή στην εμφάνιση νέων . Συνοψίζοντας θα αναφερθούν τα αποτελέσματα και τα συμπεράσματα που προέκυψαν από την διαθέσιμη βιβλιογραφία και έρευνα.
description: In the primordial relationship between pathogens and hosts, evolution ensures that there will always be winners and losers, and equally important, these outcomes will constantly change. New infectious diseases will emerge more frequently, while old threats may reappear. However, there is concern that climate change will accelerate this dynamic. Any such intensification of disease emergence could lead to various outcomes, ranging from minimal overall impact to the possibility of catastrophic, widespread epidemics. In this paper, we will discuss the potential impacts that climate change may have directly on human health, as well as how it might negatively influence the reemergence of old or new diseases. In conclusion, the results and conclusions drawn from the available literature and research will be summarized.
description: Τμήμα Ιατρικής της Σχολής Επιστημών Υγείας, του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ) σε συνεργασία με το Τμήμα Ιατρικής της Σχολής Επιστημών Υγείας του Δημοκρίτειου Πανεπιστημίου Θράκης (ΔΠΘ), το Τμήμα Πολιτικών Μηχανικών ΤΕ της Σχολής Τεχνολογικών Εφαρμογών του Αλεξάνδρειου ΤΕΙ Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΤΕΙΘ) και το Τμήμα Γεωλογίας της Σχολής Θετικών Επιστημών του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ)
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 38 – E-Book Redux
Creators: name: Center For History And New Media
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
description: In a very special timetraveling episode, the Digital Campus crew journey back to 2007 to hear from their old selves–specifically, what they said about e-books when Amazon’s Kindle was released–and whether their present selves agree with their ghosts from the past in light of the release of the Kindle 2 and the mobile version of [...]
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Wong Fook Him, Chan Gee Sing, Leong Yuen, [Mah Gim Wuok], Leong Kong Yuen, Fong Soon, Chow Lim Shee, Chow Man You, Wong Wing Kim, Mah Guey Wing.
S-move matrix in the NS sector of $N=1$ super Liouville field theory
Creators: name: Apresyan, Elena
name: Sarkissian, Gor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we calculate matrix of modular transformations of the one-point toric conformal blocks in the Neveu-Schwarz sector of $N=1$ super Liouville field theory. For this purpose we use explicit expression for this matrix as integral of product of certain elements of fusion matrix. This integral is computed using the chain of integral identities for supersymmetric hyperbolic gamma functions derived by the degeneration of the integrals of parafermionic elliptic gamma functions.
description: 31 pages
Evolutionary Retrosynthetic Route Planning
Creators: name: Zhang, Yan
name: Hao, Hao
name: He, Xiao
name: Gao, Shuanhu
name: Zhou, Aimin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Molecular retrosynthesis is a significant and complex problem in the field of chemistry, however, traditional manual synthesis methods not only need well-trained experts but also are time-consuming. With the development of big data and machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) based retrosynthesis is attracting more attention and has become a valuable tool for molecular retrosynthesis. At present, Monte Carlo tree search is a mainstream search framework employed to address this problem. Nevertheless, its search efficiency is compromised by its large search space. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel approach for retrosynthetic route planning based on evolutionary optimization, marking the first use of Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) in the field of multi-step retrosynthesis. The proposed method involves modeling the retrosynthetic problem into an optimization problem, defining the search space and operators. Additionally, to improve the search efficiency, a parallel strategy is implemented. The new approach is applied to four case products and compared with Monte Carlo tree search. The experimental results show that, in comparison to the Monte Carlo tree search algorithm, EA significantly reduces the number of calling single-step model by an average of 53.9%. The time required to search three solutions decreases by an average of 83.9%, and the number of feasible search routes increases by 1.38 times. The source code is available at https://github.com/ilog-ecnu/EvoRRP.