cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Optimizing Threatened Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) Environmental DNA Surveillance with Experimental Control Standardization
Creators: name: Lyons, Seanessy O.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environment DNA
subject: Metabarcoding
subject: eDNA
subject: Control Design
subject: Turtle

description: Turtles are experiencing declines global while their distributions are poorly understood by modern science. Environmental DNA (eDNA) has proven to be a valuable tool in rapid species detection. However, in such a rapidly growing field, standardized practices have not yet taken hold, and rigorous comparisons among methodologies have not been evaluated. This thesis consists of two chapters that seek to answer questions facing eDNA methodologies used for monitoring of cryptic and endangered turtles. Chapter 1 is a literature review developed to provide comparisons on the current methods used for turtle eDNA research. Among current literature, turtles represent the most well-represented group of reptiles to date and most studies have been conducted in the global north with slow growth in the number of publications conducted south of the equator which includes several areas of high turtle diversity. Taxonomic representation of eDNA work is also disproportionate with the family Emydidae being the focus of more than 53% of the studies found in the literature to date. There is also a wide diversity of approaches in experimental design and the implementation of laboratory and field protocols. Factors such as sample type, genetic marker selection, and implementation of experimental controls are also highly variable between publications. Chapter 2 is a research chapter focusing on a threatened North American species. Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) is one of many turtle species currently experiencing declines across their range. However, their species status is still not fully understood. eDNA has been demonstrated to be an effective and sensitive noninvasive surveillance approach for detecting turtles that can provide rapid information on detection and occupancy for conservation monitoring and management. The field of eDNA requires dealing with several challenges as it relies on rigorous validation of the results by carefully assessing the sources of error that produce false results (false positives and false negatives) when conducting work to determine species presence. This chapter focuses on the ongoing issue involving field blank false positive amplifications which led to the development of a new standardized protocol. This new protocol has led to a reduction in false positives in field blanks showcasing the importance of standard eDNA practices concerning control usage at every stage of sampling.
Robustness of Local Predictions in Atomistic Machine Learning Models
Creators: name: Chong, Sanggyu
name: Grasselli, Federico
name: Mahmoud, Chiheb Ben
name: Morrow, Joe D.
name: Deringer, Volker L.
name: Ceriotti, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Machine learning (ML) models for molecules and materials commonly rely on a decomposition of the global target quantity into local, atom-centered contributions. This approach is convenient from a computational perspective, enabling large-scale ML-driven simulations with a linear-scaling cost, and also allow for the identification and post-hoc interpretation of contributions from individual chemical environments and motifs to complicated macroscopic properties. However, even though there exist practical justifications for these decompositions, only the global quantity is rigorously defined, and thus it is unclear to what extent the atomistic terms predicted by the model can be trusted. Here, we introduce a quantitative metric, which we call the local prediction rigidity (LPR), that allows one to assess how robust the locally decomposed predictions of ML models are. We investigate the dependence of LPR on the aspects of model training, particularly the composition of training dataset, for a range of different problems from simple toy models to real chemical systems. We present strategies to systematically enhance the LPR, which can be used to improve the robustness, interpretability, and transferability of atomistic ML models.
Reduce Computational Complexity for Convolutional Layers by Skipping Zeros
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhiyi
name: Zhang, Pengfei
name: Xu, Zhuopin
name: Wang, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Convolutional neural networks necessitate good algorithms to reduce complexity, and sufficient utilization of parallel processors for acceleration. Within convolutional layers, there are three types of operators: convolution used in forward propagation, deconvolution and dilated-convolution utilized in backward propagation. During the execution of these operators, zeros are typically added to tensors, leading to redundant calculations and unnecessary strain on hardware. To circumvent these inefficiencies, we propose the C-K-S algorithm, accompanied by efficient GPU implementations. C-K-S trims filters to exclude zero-padding. For deconvolution and dilated-convolution, C-K-S transforms sparse tensors into dense tensors, and standardizes the local computational rules to simplify the hardware control. The experimental results demonstrate that C-K-S offers good performance in terms of speed and convergence, surpassing the capabilities of PyTorch and cuDNN in certain scenarios.
Sampling-Based Methods for Multi-Block Optimization Problems over Transport Polytopes
Creators: name: Hu, Yukuan
name: Li, Mengyu
name: Liu, Xin
name: Meng, Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 52-08, 65C05, 65F50, 81V05, 90C30

description: This paper focuses on multi-block optimization problems over transport polytopes, which underlie various applications including strongly correlated quantum physics and machine learning. Conventional block coordinate descent-type methods for the general multi-block problems store and operate on the matrix variables directly, resulting in formidable expenditure for large-scale settings. On the other hand, optimal transport problems, as a special case, have attracted extensive attention and numerical techniques that waive the use of the full matrices have recently emerged. However, it remains nontrivial to apply these techniques to the multi-block, possibly nonconvex problems with theoretical guarantees. In this work, we leverage the benefits of both sides and develop novel sampling-based block coordinate descent-type methods, which are equipped with either entropy regularization or Kullback-Leibler divergence. Each iteration of these methods solves subproblems restricted on the sampled degrees of freedom. Consequently, they involve only sparse matrices, which amounts to considerable complexity reductions. We explicitly characterize the sampling-induced errors and establish convergence and asymptotic properties for the methods equipped with the entropy regularization. Numerical experiments on typical strongly correlated electron systems corroborate their superior scalability over the methods utilizing full matrices. The advantage also enables the first visualization of approximate optimal transport maps between electron positions in three-dimensional contexts.
description: 38 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables
SWAT: A System-Wide Approach to Tunable Leakage Mitigation in Encrypted Data Stores
Creators: name: Zheng, Leqian
name: Xu, Lei
name: Wang, Cong
name: Wang, Sheng
name: Hu, Yuke
name: Qin, Zhan
name: Li, Feifei
name: Ren, Kui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Numerous studies have underscored the significant privacy risks associated with various leakage patterns in encrypted data stores. While many solutions have been proposed to mitigate these leakages, they either (1) incur substantial overheads, (2) focus on specific subsets of leakage patterns, or (3) apply the same security notion across various workloads, thereby impeding the attainment of fine-tuned privacy-efficiency trade-offs. In light of various detrimental leakage patterns, this paper starts with an investigation into which specific leakage patterns require our focus in the contexts of key-value, range-query, and dynamic workloads, respectively. Subsequently, we introduce new security notions tailored to the specific privacy requirements of these workloads. Accordingly, we propose and instantiate SWAT, an efficient construction that progressively enables these workloads, while provably mitigating system-wide leakage via a suite of algorithms with tunable privacy-efficiency trade-offs. We conducted extensive experiments and compiled a detailed result analysis, showing the efficiency of our solution. SWATis about an order of magnitude slower than an encryption-only data store that reveals various leakage patterns and is two orders of magnitude faster than a trivial zero-leakage solution. Meanwhile, the performance of SWATremains highly competitive compared to other designs that mitigate specific types of leakage.
Supplementary document for Frequency stability of cryogenic silicon cavities with semiconductor crystalline coatings - 6253043.pdf
Creators: name: Kedar, Dhruv
name: Yu, Jialiang
name: Oelker, Eric
name: Staron, Alexander
name: Milner, William
name: Robinson, John
name: Legero, Thomas
name: Riehle, Fritz
name: Sterr, Uwe
name: Ye, Jun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Zip file containing the supplemental figures and the tex file
Practical Dirac Majorana confusion theorem: Issues and Applicability
Creators: name: Kim, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We inspect the model-independent study of practical Dirac Majorana confusion theorem (pDMCT) -- a wide spread belief that the difference between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos via any kinematical observable would be practically impossible to determine because of the difference only being proportional to the square of neutrino mass -- in context of processes that have at least a neutrino antineutrino pair in their final state. We scrutinize the domain of applicability of pDMCT and also highlight those aspects that are often misunderstood. We try to clarify some of the frequently used concepts that are used to assert pDMCT as a generic feature irrespective of the process, or observable, such as the existence of any analytic continuity between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos in the limit mass(neutrino) -> 0. In summary, we illustrate that pDMCT is not any fundamental property of neutrinos, instead, it is a phenomenological feature of neutrino non-observation, depending on models and processes.
description: A few note added in blue color, after published in European Physics Journal C (2023) 83:972
Magnetic corrections to the fermionic Casimir effect in Horava-Lifshitz theories
Creators: name: Erdas, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper I investigate the effect of a magnetic field on the Casimir effect due to a massless and charged fermion field that violates Lorentz invariance according to the Horava-Lifshitz theory. I focus on the case of a fermion field that obeys MIT bag boundary conditions on a pair of parallel plates. I carry out this investigation using the $ζ$-function technique that allows me to obtain Casimir energy and pressure in the presence of a uniform magnetic field orthogonal to the plates. I investigate the cases of the parameter associated with the violation of Lorentz invariance being even or odd and the cases of weak and strong magnetic field, examining all possible combinations of the above quantities. In all cases I obtain simple and very accurate analytic expressions of the magnetic field dependent Casimir energy and pressure.
description: 9 pages, no figures
In Search of Refuge. Displacement, Borders, (Im)Mobilities (Syllabus)
Creators: name: Gsoels-Lorenson, Jutta
name: Gsoels-Lorenson, Jutta
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2025

description: Why do we live in a world where so many people must flee their homes to survive? This course focuses on the rise in forced migration in response to violence, persecution, war, natural disasters, poverty, and environmental degradation from the late twentieth century onward. In the news media, the story of "the global refugee crisis" tends to be told through images of unprecedented disaster and spectacular havoc. To historicize displacement, students will consider the legacies that have led to violence and conflict, giving special consideration to European colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. They will further learn about the impact of World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War on the emergence of the modern human rights architecture and on the legal definitions that remain relevant to this day.    To investigate this wide-ranging global topic, this course brings together frameworks and contributions from the social sciences and the humanities, inviting students to study the histories, experiences, and voices of those living in a world that moves. Students will engage with artistic representations of displacement through literature and film, in dialogue with migrant testimonies, archival material, international agreements, legal documents, and statistical data. Within an overall comparative approach, students are invited to consider regimes of (im)mobility from a number of global contexts. Key course readings will focus on contentious border sites such as constituted by the US and Mexico, Zimbabwe and South Africa, Australia within the Asia-Pacific region, along the internal and external boundaries of the European Union, and historically speaking, West Africa and the Americas.
In Search of Refuge. Displacement, Borders, (Im)Mobilities (Syllabus)
Creators: name: Gsoels-Lorenson, Jutta
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: Why do we live in a world where so many people must flee their homes to survive? This course focuses on the rise in forced migration in response to violence, persecution, war, natural disasters, poverty, and environmental degradation from the late twentieth century onward. In the news media, the story of "the global refugee crisis" tends to be told through images of unprecedented disaster and spectacular havoc. To historicize displacement, students will consider the legacies that have led to violence and conflict, giving special consideration to European colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. They will further learn about the impact of World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War on the emergence of the modern human rights architecture and on the legal definitions that remain relevant to this day.

To investigate this wide-ranging global topic, this course brings together frameworks and contributions from the social sciences and the humanities, inviting students to study the histories, experiences, and voices of those living in a world that moves. Students will engage with artistic representations of displacement through literature and film, in dialogue with migrant testimonies, archival material, international agreements, legal documents, and statistical data. Within an overall comparative approach, students are invited to consider regimes of (im)mobility from a number of global contexts. Key course readings will focus on contentious border sites such as constituted by the US and Mexico, Zimbabwe and South Africa, Australia within the Asia-Pacific region, along the internal and external boundaries of the European Union, and historically speaking, West Africa and the Americas.
Lecture Notes on Generalized Symmetries and Applications
Creators: name: Luo, Ran
name: Wang, Qing-Rui
name: Wang, Yi-Nan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this lecture note, we give a basic introduction to the rapidly developing concepts of generalized symmetries, from the perspectives of both high energy physics and condensed matter physics. In particular, we emphasize on the (invertible) higher-form and higher-group symmetries. For the physical applications, we discuss the geometric engineering of QFTs in string theory and the symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases in condensed matter physics.
 The lecture note is based on a short course on generalized symmetries, jointly given by Yi-Nan Wang and Qing-Rui Wang in Feb. 2023, which took place at School of Physics, Peking University (https://indico.ihep.ac.cn/event/18796/).
description: 83 pages
Ensembles of Hyperbolic PDEs: Stabilization by Backstepping
Creators: name: Alleaume, Valentin
name: Krstic, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q93, 35A22

description: For the quite extensively developed PDE backstepping methodology for coupled linear hyperbolic PDEs, we provide a generalization from finite collections of such PDEs, whose states at each location in space are vector-valued, to previously unstudied infinite (continuum) ensembles of such hyperbolic PDEs, whose states are function-valued. The motivation for studying such systems comes from traffic applications (where driver and vehicle characteristics are continuously parametrized), fluid and structural applications, and future applications in population dynamics, including epidemiology. Our design is of an exponentially stabilizing scalar-valued control law for a PDE system in two independent dimensions, one spatial dimension and one ensemble dimension. In the process of generalizing PDE backstepping from finite to infinite collections of PDE systems, we generalize the results for PDE backstepping kernels to the continuously parametrized Goursat-form PDEs that govern such continuously parametrized kernels. The theory is illustrated with a simulation example, which is selected so that the kernels are explicitly solvable, to lend clarity and interpretability to the simulation results.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, to be published
Arte de conquistar las mujeres a los hombres: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2022), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Arte de conquistar las mujeres a los hombres: Digital Edition
Creators: name: Jacsont Pauline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel. It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool eScriptorium (ALTO-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Open/Closed BPS Correspondence and Integrality
Creators: name: Yu, Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 14N35

description: We prove the integrality and finiteness of open BPS invariants of toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds relative to Aganagic-Vafa outer branes, defined from open Gromov-Witten invariants by the Labastida-Mariño-Ooguri-Vafa formula. Specializing to disk invariants, we extend the open/closed correspondence of Gromov-Witten invariants to BPS invariants and prove the integrality of a class of genus-zero BPS invariants of toric Calabi-Yau 4-folds, thereby providing additional examples for the conjecture of Klemm-Pandharipande.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures
Arte de conquistar las mujeres a los hombres: Digital Edition
Creators: name: Jacsont Pauline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel. It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool eScriptorium (ALTO-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Supplementary document for Multichannel Lock-in Spectroscopy for Extracting Perturbed Spectral Responses: Molecular Signatures in Nanocavities - 6253419.pdf
Creators: name: Xomalis, Angelos
name: Baumberg, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Nanophotonics

description: Supplemental document
Unveiling Novel Anti-biofilm Compounds from Fungi Evaluating the Efficacy of Bioactive Fungal Compounds as Therapeutic Agents in Biofilm-Associated Infections
Creators: name: Khalid, Syeda Javariya
Publisher: name: the author
Year: 2024

description: Lecture by Syeda J. Khalid at the Antiviralfun/Mycobiomics symposium, HZI Braunschweig
Nonlinear effects in many-body van der Waals interactions
Creators: name: Le, Dai-Nam
name: Rodriguez-Lopez, Pablo
name: Woods, Lilia M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V45, 81V55, 81V70, 81T55

description: Van der Waals interactions are ubiquitous and they play an important role for the stability of materials. Current understanding of this type of coupling is based on linear response theory, while optical nonlinearities are rarely considered in this context. Many materials, however, exhibit strong optical nonlinear response, which prompts further evaluation of dispersive forces beyond linear response. Here we present a $\textit{Discrete Coupled Nonlinear Dipole}$ approach that takes into account linear and nonlinear properties of all dipolar nanoparticles in a given system. This method is based on a Hamiltonian for nonlinear dipoles, which we apply in different systems uncovering a complex interplay of distance, anisotropy, polarizibilities, and hyperpolarizabilities in the vdW energy. This investigation broadens our basic understanding of dispersive interactions, especially in the context of nonlinear materials.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures; submitted; a part of this work has been presented at APS March Meeting 2023 (N17.00010)
Supplementary document for Multichannel Lock-in Spectroscopy for Extracting Perturbed Spectral Responses: Molecular Signatures in Nanocavities - 6253419.pdf
Creators: name: Xomalis, Angelos
name: Baumberg, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nanophotonics

description: Supplemental document
Demonstrator Assessment Report
Creators: name: Hanelt, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: SUSTAINair aims to advance the aerospace industry towards the circular economy model. For this purpose, eight key enabling technologies (KETs) were identified that should be developed further. Within SUSTAINair, the ambition was to achieve technology readiness level (TRL) 4, by the end of this project.
Evidence of Molecular Hydrogen in the N-doped LuH3 System: a Possible Path to Superconductivity?
Creators: name: Tresca, Cesare
name: Forcella, Pietro Maria
name: Angeletti, Andrea
name: Ranalli, Luigi
name: Franchini, Cesare
name: Reticcioli, Michele
name: Profeta, Gianni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of ambient superconductivity would mark an epochal breakthrough long-awaited for over a century, potentially ushering in unprecedented scientific and technological advancements. The recent findings on high-temperature superconducting phases in various hydrides under high pressure have ignited optimism, suggesting that the realization of near-ambient superconductivity might be on the horizon. However, the preparation of hydride samples tends to promote the emergence of various metastable phases, marked by a low level of experimental reproducibility. Identifying these phases through theoretical and computational methods entails formidable challenges, often resulting in controversial outcomes. In this paper, we consider N-doped LuH3 as a prototypical complex hydride: By means of machine-learning-accelerated force-field molecular dynamics, we have identified the formation of H2 molecules stabilized at ambient pressure by nitrogen impurities. Importantly, we demonstrate that this molecular phase plays a pivotal role in the emergence of a dynamically stable, low-temperature, experimental-ambient-pressure superconductivity. The potential to stabilize hydrogen in molecular form through chemical doping opens up a novel avenue for investigating disordered phases in hydrides and their transport properties under near-ambient conditions.
Evaluation of Physical, Thermal and Spectroscopic Properties of Biofield Treated p-Hydroxyacetophenone
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: P-Hydroxyacetophenone (pHAP) is an aromatic ketone derivative that is mainly used in the manufacturing of various pharmaceuticals, flavours, fragrances, etc. In the present study, the impact of Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment was analysed on various properties of pHAP viz. crystallite size, surface area, melting temperature, thermal decomposition, and spectral properties. The pHAP sample was divided into two parts; one was kept as control sample while another part was named as treated sample. The treated sample was given the biofield energy treatment and various parameters were analysed as compared to the control sample by X-ray diffraction (XRD), surface area analyser, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), ultravioletvisible (UV-VIS), and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The XRD studies showed the decrease in crystallite size of the treated sample (61.25 nm) as compared to the control (84.18 nm); however the intensity of peaks in diffractogram was increased in treated sample. Besides, the surface area of treated sample was decreased by 41.17% as compared to the control. The TGA analysis revealed that onset temperature as well as Tmax (maximum thermal decomposition temperature) was increased in the treated sample. However, the latent heat of fusion (ΔH) was decreased from 124.56 J/g (control) to 103.24 J/g in the treated sample. The treated and control samples were also evaluated by UV-Vis and FT-IR spectroscopy and did not show any significant alteration in spectra of treated sample as compared to the respective control. Hence, the overall results suggest that there was an impact of biofield energy treatment on the physical and thermal properties of pHAP sample.
Rényi mutual information in quantum field theory, tensor networks, and gravity
Creators: name: Kudler-Flam, Jonah
name: Nie, Laimei
name: Vijay, Akash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore a large class of correlation measures called the $α-z$ Rényi mutual informations (RMIs). Unlike the commonly used notion of RMI involving linear combinations of Rényi entropies, the $α-z$ RMIs are positive semi-definite and monotonically decreasing under quantum operations, making them sensible measures of total (quantum and classical) correlations. This follows from their descendance from Rényi relative entropies. In addition to upper bounding connected correlation functions between subsystems, we prove the much stronger statement that for certain values of $α$ and $z$, the $α-z$ RMIs also lower bound connected correlation functions. We develop an easily implementable replica trick which enables us to compute the $α-z$ RMIs in a variety of many-body systems including conformal field theories, free fermions, random tensor networks, and holography.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures
Supplementary document for Better than a lens – improving the signal-to-noise ratio through pupil splitting - 6253461.pdf
Creators: name: Becker, Jan
name: Deguchi, Takahiro
name: Jügler, Alexander
name: Förster, Ronny
name: Hübner, Uwe
name: Ries, Jonas
name: Heintzmann, Rainer
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: mathematical description
title: 1,3,5-Benzentricarboxamide als Bausteine für supramolekulare Orientierungsmedien in der NMR-Spektroskopie
Creators: name: Knoll, Kevin Hendrik
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung neuer, supramolekularer Orientierungsmedien auf Basis von 1,3,5-Benzentricarboxamiden (BTAs) für den Einsatz in der organischen Strukturaufklärung mittels NMR-Spektroskopie. Sie beschreibt sowohl die Synthese einer Auswahl hierzu prinzipiell in Frage kommender supramolekularer Bausteine, Untersuchungen bezüglich deren Fähigkeit, in Lösung Flüssigkristalle oder Gele zu bilden, als auch die Erprobung der so erhalten Phasen speziell im Hinblick auf einen Einsatz als Orientierungsmedien. Darüber hinaus wird untersucht, wie sich gezielte Modifikationen der Bausteinstruktur auf das Selbstorganisationsverhalten und die Stabilität der supramolekularen Aggregate auswirkt – speziell im Hinblick auf die Reduktion von störenden Einflüssen weiterer Komponenten des Systems. Die Arbeit demonstriert dabei die breite Anwendbarkeit BTA-basierter Mesophasen als Orientierungsmedien und ihre einfache Modifizierbarkeit als Schlüssel zur Lösung anwendungsspezifischer Herausforderungen.
Electron Imaging of Nanoscale Charge Distributions Induced by Femtosecond Light Pulses
Creators: name: Weber, Jonathan T.
name: Schäfer, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface charging is a phenomenon ubiquitously observable in in-situ transmission electron microscopy of non-conducting specimens as a result of electron beam/sample interactions or optical stimuli and often limits the achievable image stability and spatial or spectral resolution. Here, we report on the electron-optical imaging of surface charging on a nanostructured surface following femtosecond-multiphoton photoemission. By quantitatively extracting the light-induced electrostatic potential and studying the charging dynamics on the relevant timescales, we gain insights into the details of the multi-photon photoemission process in the presence of a background field. We study the interaction of the charge distribution with the high-energy electron beam and secondary electrons and propose a simple model to describe the interplay of electron- and light-induced processes. In addition, we demonstrate how to mitigate sample charging by simultaneous optical illumination of the sample.
description: 29 pages; Manuscript with 4 figures and Supporting Information with 1 additional figure and 4 videos
Isotopic Abundance Analysis of Biofield Treated Benzene, Toluene and p-Xylene Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: Benzene, toluene and p-xylene are derivatives of benzene, generally produced from crude petroleum and have numerous applications in industry. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of biofield treatment on isotopic abundance of these benzene derivatives by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Benzene, toluene and p-xylene samples were divided into two parts: control and treatment. Control part was remained as untreated and treatment part was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield treatment. Control and treated samples were characterized using GC-MS. GC-MS data revealed that isotopic abundance ratio of 13C12C or 2H/1H (PM+1/PM) of treated samples were significantly increased from un-substituted to substituted benzene rings (where, PM- primary molecule, PM+1- isotopic molecule either for 13C/12C and/or 2H/1H). The isotopic abundance ratio of 13C/12C or 2H/1H (PM+1/PM) in benzene was decreased significantly by 42.14% as compared to control. However, the isotopic abundance ratio of (PM+1/PM) in treated toluene and p-xylene was significantly increased up to 531.61% and 134.34% respectively as compared to their respective control. Thus, overall data suggest that biofield treatment has significantly altered the isotopic abundance ratio of (PM+1/PM) in a different way for un-substituted and substituted benzenes.
title: Celeriac :
title: Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants..,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Year: 0
Subjects: New Varieties of Plants
Celeriac
Group identity

description: The purpose of these guidelines (“Test Guidelines”) is to elaborate the principles contained in the General Introduction (document TG/1/3), and its associated TGP documents, into detailed practical guidance for the harmonized examination of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) and, in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.
James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy  Autobiography
Creators: name: Millichap, Joseph R.
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agee, James, 1909-1955
subject: Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961
subject: Autobiography

description: James Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Morning Watch as the cornerstone of his shadowy autobiography.
Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint
Creators: name: Gruesser, John
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: African American Baptists
subject: African Americans--Civil rights
subject: Fiction
subject: Religious education
subject: African Americans
subject: Publishers and publishing
subject: Education, Higher

description: Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s. Born to formerly enslaved parents and educated in Texas, Griggs lived for nearly a decade in Virginia, and spent most of the rest of his life in Nashville and Memphis. Today I will talk about Griggs as Author, Publisher, and Educator.
PlatoLM: Teaching LLMs in Multi-Round Dialogue via a User Simulator
Creators: name: Kong, Chuyi
name: Fan, Yaxin
name: Wan, Xiang
name: Jiang, Feng
name: Wang, Benyou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The unparalleled performance of closed-sourced ChatGPT has sparked efforts towards its democratization, with notable strides made by leveraging real user and ChatGPT dialogues, as evidenced by Vicuna. However, due to challenges in gathering dialogues involving human participation, current endeavors like Baize and UltraChat rely on ChatGPT conducting roleplay to simulate humans based on instructions, resulting in overdependence on seeds, diminished human-likeness, limited topic diversity, and an absence of genuine multi-round conversational dynamics. To address the above issues, we propose a paradigm to simulate human behavior better and explore the benefits of incorporating more human-like questions in multi-turn conversations. Specifically, we directly target human questions extracted from genuine human-machine conversations as a learning goal and provide a novel user simulator called `Socratic'. The experimental results show our response model, `PlatoLM', achieves SoTA performance among LLaMA-based 7B models in MT-Bench. Our findings further demonstrate that our method introduces highly human-like questioning patterns and rich topic structures, which can teach the response model better than previous works in multi-round conversations.
description: 23 pages
Physicochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of Biofield Energy Treated p-Anisidine
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: The p-anisidine is widely used as chemical intermediate in the production of various dyes, pigments, and pharmaceuticals. This study was aimed to evaluate the effect of biofield energy treatment on the physicochemical and spectroscopic properties of p-anisidine. The study was performed after dividing the sample in two groups; one was remained as untreated and another was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment. Afterward, both the control and treated samples of p-anisidine were evaluated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), surface area analyzer, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis-derivative thermogravimetry (TGA-DTG), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. The XRD analysis showed the increase in unit cell volume from 683.81 → 690.18 × 10-24 cm3 and crystallite size from 83.84→84.62 nm in the treated sample with respect to the control. The surface area analysis exhibited the significant increase (25.44%) in the surface area of treated sample as compared to control. The DSC thermogram of control p-anisidine showed the latent heat of fusion and melting temperature and 146.78 J/g and 59.41°C, respectively, which were slightly increased to 148.89 J/g and 59.49°C, respectively after biofield treatment. The TGA analysis showed the onset temperature of thermal degradation at 134.68°C in the control sample that was increased to 150.02°C after biofield treatment. The result showed about 11.39% increase in onset temperature of thermal degradation of treated p-anisidine as compared to the control. Moreover, the Tmax (temperature at which maximum thermal degradation occurs) was also increased slightly from 165.99°C (control) to 168.10°C (treated). This indicated the high thermal stability of treated p-anisidine as compared to the control. However, the FT-IR and UV spectroscopic studies did not show any significant changes in the spectral properties of treated p-anisidine with respect to the control. All together, the XRD, surface area and thermal analysis suggest that Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment has the impact on physical and thermal properties of the treated p-anisidine.
An Alternative Solvent Extraction Flowsheet for Separating 237Np from 238Pu for Space Power Applications
Creators: name: Sarsfield, M. J.
name: Carrott, M. J.
name: Maher, C. J.
name: Mason, C.
name: Sanderson, R.
name: Taylor, R. J.
name: Tinsley, T. P.
name: Whittaker, D.
name: Woodhead, D. A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The production of 238Pu from 237Np, to the specifications required for space flight, requires the separation of plutonium from neptunium and a range of fission products. The valuable neptunium is then recycled into targets for further irradiation. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a solvent extraction process has been developed to separate neptunium and plutonium that uses sodium nitrite to control the neptunium oxidation. This results in a neptunium product contaminated with sodium, which needs to be removed prior to recycling. We have developed a separation process that results in a sodium-free neptunium product with very low levels of plutonium contamination, there by reducing the number of purification steps and thus simplifying the process.
Impact of Biofield Treatment on Spectroscopic and Physicochemical Properties of p-Nitroaniline
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: Para nitroaniline (p-Nitroaniline) is an organic compound, used as an intermediate in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals drugs, gasoline and dyes. The present study was attempted to investigate the influence of biofield treatment on p-nitroaniline. The study was performed in two groups i.e., control and treatment. The treatment group was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield treatment. The control and treated samples of p-nitroaniline were characterized using Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, Ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). FT-IR spectral analysis result suggested the alteration in wavenumber of some groups with respect to control. For instance, the C=C and C-C stretching were observed at 1570 cm-1 and 1430 cm-1, respectively in control sample that were shifted to 1585 cm-1 and 1445 cm-1, respectively after biofield treatment. UV spectral analysis revealed the similar pattern of absorbance maxima (λmax) in both control and treated samples. HPLC data showed an alteration in the retention time of p-nitroaniline peak in treated sample (3.25 min) with respect to control (2.75 min). GC-MS results showed a significant change in the isotopic abundance (δ) of 13C and 18O in treated sample as compared to control. DSC data showed that latent heat of fusion (ΔH) of treated p-nitroaniline was substantially decreased by 10.66% as compared to control. However, the melting point remained same in both control and treated sample of p-nitroaniline. Overall, results obtained from different analytical techniques such as FT-IR, HPLC, GC-MS, and DSC suggested that biofield treatment has significant impact on spectral, physical and thermal properties of p-nitroaniline with respect to control sample.
Defining 'Art'
Creators: name: Ajvazi, Irfan
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Art and history
subject: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

description: For a practice that has followed humanity since the dawn of consciousness, the question 'What is Art?' is notoriously difficult to answer. The Oxford English Dictionary, typically an authority when it comes to definition, calls art "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power."
Educator Professionalism Issues That Are Debatable  (Study of Literature Perspective in Indonesia)
Creators: name: Sarbunan, Thobias
name: Sarbunan, Thobias
name: Sarbunan, Thobias
name: Sarbunan, Thobias
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Educational psychology--Study and teaching
subject: Educational psychology
subject: Educational psychology--Research
subject: Educational psychology--Methodology

description: ARTICLE SEARCH ONLY USES GOOGLE SCHOLAR WITH THE ARTICLE'S PUBLICATION PERIOD LIMITED 2022-2023. THE  FIRST IS THAT [LIST OF LITERATURE] MUST INPUT THE ARTICLE'S [URL/ONLINE ADDRESS] AFTER THE ARTICLE TITLE  [ARTICLE TITLE/ENTER/AND PASTE THE URL]. WHILE THE WORKING TIMELINE BEGINS WITH THE SHARING AND  COLLECTING OF THIS WORKSHEET ON JANUARY 9, 2023, AT 0:00 WIT, IT WILL BE GATHERED USING THE GOOGLE FORM  PROVIDED IN THE CLASS GROUP. THE PROJECT IS COMPLETED INDEPENDENTLY AND CANNOT BE PLAGIARIZED. THUS,  THIS PROJECT IS ONE OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT, INCLUDING THE  PUBLICATION OF VIEWPOINT ARTICLES ON ONE ONLINE MAGAZINE PLATFORM, WHILE THE FONT USED MUST BE  ADJUSTED TO THIS TEMPLATE TO BE MORE ORGANIZED IN MANUSCRIPT CONSTRUCTION.
An Information-Theoretic Approach for Detecting Edits in AI-Generated Text
Creators: name: Kashtan, Idan
name: Kipnis, Alon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7
subject: 62P25, 62H15, 68P30, 94A15, 68T01

description: We propose a method to determine whether a given article was written entirely by a generative language model or perhaps contains edits by a different author, possibly a human. Our process involves multiple tests for the origin of individual sentences or other pieces of text and combining these tests using a method that is sensitive to rare alternatives, i.e., non-null effects are few and scattered across the text in unknown locations. Interestingly, this method also identifies pieces of text suspected to contain edits. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the method in detecting edits through extensive evaluations using real data and provide an information-theoretic analysis of the factors affecting its success. In particular, we discuss optimality properties under a theoretical framework for text editing saying that sentences are generated mainly by the language model, except perhaps for a few sentences that might have originated via a different mechanism. Our analysis raises several interesting research questions at the intersection of information theory and data science.
description: Accepted for publication in Harvard Data Science Review: https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/f90vid3h/release/1?readingCollection=5531bd2e