cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CTARR: A fast and robust method for identifying anatomical regions on CT images via atlas registration
Creators: name: Buddenkotte, Thomas
name: Opfer, Roland
name: Krüger, Julia
name: Hering, Alessa
name: Crispin-Ortuzar, Mireia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Medical image analysis tasks often focus on regions or structures located in a particular location within the patient's body. Often large parts of the image may not be of interest for the image analysis task. When using deep-learning based approaches, this causes an unnecessary increases the computational burden during inference and raises the chance of errors. In this paper, we introduce CTARR, a novel generic method for CT Anatomical Region Recognition. The method serves as a pre-processing step for any deep learning-based CT image analysis pipeline by automatically identifying the pre-defined anatomical region that is relevant for the follow-up task and removing the rest. It can be used in (i) image segmentation to prevent false positives in anatomically implausible regions and speeding up the inference, (ii) image classification to produce image crops that are consistent in their anatomical context, and (iii) image registration by serving as a fast pre-registration step. Our proposed method is based on atlas registration and provides a fast and robust way to crop any anatomical region encoded as one or multiple bounding box(es) from any unlabeled CT scan of the brain, chest, abdomen and/or pelvis. We demonstrate the utility and robustness of the proposed method in the context of medical image segmentation by evaluating it on six datasets of public segmentation challenges. The foreground voxels in the regions of interest are preserved in the vast majority of cases and tasks (97.45-100%) while taking only fractions of a seconds to compute (0.1-0.21s) on a deep learning workstation and greatly reducing the segmentation runtime (2.0-12.7x). Our code is available at https://github.com/ThomasBudd/ctarr.
SEO evaluation for travel agencies websites
Creators: name: Bužić, Dalibor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80704 Information Retrieval and Web Search
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Search engines have a respective role in bringing targeted visitors to a website, so trying to appear on search engine result page is worth the effort. In this paper 200 websites of travel agencies from Croatia, Germany, Italy and Spain were analyzed by several popular metrics (Alexa rank, Google's PageRank, mozRank, mozTrust, Domain Authority and Page Authority) and by one online SEO tool. Results for Spanish and Croatian agencies were slightly higher, while German agencies had lower results in most metrics.
Search engine optimization of Dalmatian hotels
Creators: name: Bužić, Dalibor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Search engine optimization (SEO) represents structural approach for usage of techniques to achieve better position of company on search engine result page. As time goes by, search engines change their algorithm to improve results ranking, so optimization is continuous process, but also a challenge for specialists. The goal of this research is to find out at which extent web sites of Dalmatian hotels are optimized. Besides standard elements of on-site optimization (title tag, meta description, heading tags, 404 page and usage of analytical tool), page load time and mobile friendliness tests were included. Only 6% of web sites had satisfied all analyzed on-site SEO elements, while the greatest share, 70%, had satisfied between three and five elements. Two wide accepted metrics (mozRank and Domain Authority) were used to evaluate off-site optimization, while SimilarWeb was used for website traffic estimation.
Noncollinear ferrielectricity and hydrogen-induced ferromagnetic polar half-metallicity in MnO$_3$Cl
Creators: name: Yang, Xinyu
name: Chen, Jun
name: Wang, Shan-Shan
name: Dong, Shuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collinear dipole orders such as ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity have developed rapidly in last decades. While, the noncollinear dipole orders are rarely touched in solids. Noncollinear dipole orders can provide a route to realize ferrielectricity. Based on first-principles calculations, an inorganic molecular crystal MnO$_3$Cl has been demonstrated to own intrinsic noncollinear ferrielectricity, which originates from the stereo orientations of polar molecules. The large negative piezoelectricity effect ($d_{33}\sim-27$ pC/N) is also predicted. A strong light absorption and moderate optical anisotropy are found for this molecular crystal in the ultraviolet light window. Additionally, by electron doping via hydrogen intercalation, a ferromagnetic polar half-metals can be obtained. Our study here provide a material platform to explore the intriguing physics of noncollinear ferrielectricity and potential applications in devices.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Théorie du nokton
Creators: name: Lassaad Saidani
name: L.SAIDANI
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Plasma Physics
General Relativity
Mechanics
Atomic Physics

description: C'est une nouvelle théorie basée sur une approche algorithmique. Son seul élément est appelé nokton. Ces règles sont précises. Les infinis sont complètement absents quelque soit le système étudié. C'est une théorie à espace et temps discrets. La théorie n'est qu'à ces débuts.
Search engine optimization of Dalmatian hotels' web sites
Creators: name: Bužić, Dalibor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Search engine optimization (SEO) represents structural approach for usage of techniques to achieve better position of company on search engine result page. As time goes by, search engines change their algorithm to improve results ranking, so optimization is continuous process, but also a challenge for specialists. The goal of this research is to find out at which extent web sites of Dalmatian hotels are optimized. Besides standard elements of on-site optimization (title tag, meta description, heading tags, 404 page and usage of analytical tool), page load time and mobile friendliness tests were included. Only 6% of web sites had satisfied all analyzed on-site SEO elements, while the greatest share, 70%, had satisfied between three and five elements. Two wide accepted metrics (mozRank and Domain Authority) were used to evaluate off-site optimization, while SimilarWeb was used for website traffic estimation.
Persistent flat band splitting and strong selective band renormalization in a kagome magnet thin film
Creators: name: Ren, Zheng
name: Huang, Jianwei
name: Tan, Hengxin
name: Biswas, Ananya
name: Pulkkinen, Aki
name: Zhang, Yichen
name: Xie, Yaofeng
name: Yue, Ziqin
name: Chen, Lei
name: Xie, Fang
name: Allen, Kevin
name: Wu, Han
name: Ren, Qirui
name: Rajapitamahuni, Anil
name: Kundu, Asish
name: Vescovo, Elio
name: Kono, Junichiro
name: Morosan, Emilia
name: Dai, Pengcheng
name: Zhu, Jian-Xin
name: Si, Qimiao
name: Minár, Ján
name: Yan, Binghai
name: Yi, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic kagome materials provide a fascinating playground for exploring the interplay of magnetism, correlation and topology. Many magnetic kagome systems have been reported including the binary FemXn (X=Sn, Ge; m:n = 3:1, 3:2, 1:1) family and the rare earth RMn6Sn6 (R = rare earth) family, where their kagome flat bands are calculated to be near the Fermi level in the paramagnetic phase. While partially filling a kagome flat band is predicted to give rise to a Stoner-type ferromagnetism, experimental visualization of the magnetic splitting across the ordering temperature has not been reported for any of these systems due to the high ordering temperatures, hence leaving the nature of magnetism in kagome magnets an open question. Here, we probe the electronic structure with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy in a kagome magnet thin film FeSn synthesized using molecular beam epitaxy. We identify the exchange-split kagome flat bands, whose splitting persists above the magnetic ordering temperature, indicative of a local moment picture. Such local moments in the presence of the topological flat band are consistent with the compact molecular orbitals predicted in theory. We further observe a large spin-orbital selective band renormalization in the Fe d_xy+d_(x^2-y^2 ) spin majority channel reminiscent of the orbital selective correlation effects in the iron-based superconductors. Our discovery of the coexistence of local moments with topological flat bands in a kagome system echoes similar findings in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, and provides a basis for theoretical effort towards modeling correlation effects in magnetic flat band systems.
title: Doctoral thesis recital (collaborative piano) : lecture : The decadent Salome as camp
title: Decadent Salome as camp
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Arellano, Manuel (Musician)
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Salome

description: Not available
Observational Feasibility of 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Cosmology: Bouncing and Non-Bouncing Universes
Creators: name: Khodabakhshi, H.
name: Farhang, M.
name: Lü, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper analyzes the possibility of bouncing and non-bouncing universes in the framework of four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D-EGB) gravity, corresponding respectively to negative and positive coupling constants $λ$ of the Gauss-Bonnet term. We also use the Horndeski-type scalar-tensor theory to assess the role of a scalar charge $C$ as a geometrical contribution to the radiation in the Universe. We modify the expansion history of the universe to allow for modifications induced by the 4D-EGB gravity. Using Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies as well as various datasets of baryonic acoustic oscillations, we set the upper bounds $λ\le 10^{-16} \text{(km/s/Mpc)}^{-2} $ and $λ\le 10^{-30} \text{(km/s/Mpc)}^{-2} $ for the non-bouncing and bouncing scenarios. The upper limit in the latter case is mainly driven by the requirement to conservatively respect the thermal history at energy scales of the standard model of particle physics. We also find that the contribution of the geometrical radiation-like term of the model cannot exceed 10\% of the current radiation in the Universe. The possibility of an early inflationary phase produced by a single scalar field is also studied and found to be feasible in both bouncing and non-bouncing scenarios. This study shows the feasibility of a bouncing universe, even with normal matter sector, in the 4D-EGB gravity. More theoretical investigation is required to further explore possible observational predictions of the model that can distinguish between general relativity and 4D-EGB gravity.
description: 17 pages, 4 figues, 1 table
PSF Calibration of DAMPE for gamma-ray Observations
Creators: name: Duan, Kai-Kai
name: Shen, Zhao-Qiang
name: Xu, Zun-Lei
name: Jiang, Wei
name: Li, Xiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is dedicated to exploring critical scientific domains including the indirect detection of dark matter, cosmic ray physics, and gamma ray astronomy. This study introduces a novel method for calibrating the Point Spread Function (PSF) of DAMPE, specifically designed to enhance the accuracy of gamma-ray observations. By leveraging data from regions near pulsars and bright Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), we have refined the PSF calibration process, resulting in an improved angular resolution that closely matches our observational data. This advancement significantly boosts the precision of gamma-ray detection by DAMPE, thereby contributing to its mission objectives in dark matter detection and gamma ray astronomy.
description: 7 pages, 12 figures and 1 table. Accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics
Consciousness and Reality: Dynamic Existence
Creators: name: Janew, Claus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 500399
subject: Philosophy not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 500315
subject: Philosophy of mind (excl. cognition)
classificationCode: 500309
subject: Metaphysics

description: Everything is in motion. "Inertness" arises from (approximative) repetition, that is, through rotation or an alternation that delineates a focus of consciousness.
This focus of consciousness, in turn, must also move/alternate (the two differ only in continuity). If its alternation seems to go too far - physically, psychically or intellectually - it reaches into the subconscious.
In this way, interconnection is established by the alternation of the focus of consciousness. Therefore, in a world in which everything is interconnected, all focuses must reciprocally transition into each other.
"Reality" is a common "goal", a focus which all participants can switch into and which is conscious to them as such, as a potential one. Its "degree of reality" is the probability of its fully becoming conscious (or more simply: its current degree of consciousness).
Thus, a reality is created when all participants increase its probability or, respectively, their consciousness of it.
Published in: Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research (2011), 2(6), p.877-884.
The social reality of blogging and empowerment among Malaysian bloggers
Creators: name: Ahmad, Abdul Latiff
name: Bromley, Michael
name: Cokley, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The study focuses on the issue of empowerment among Malaysian bloggers. In Malaysia, there are issues considered as taboo and are not discussed openly in the mainstream media. The rise of blogs in the earlier part of the 21st century has led to the discovery of a new platform of interaction. Malaysia is unique in the sense that it has its own interpretation of press freedom, a multicultural society and Islam as the official religion. Though there is a general awareness on ‘what is illegal offline, should be illegal online’, there are those who found new freedom in this new realm. The new world of blogosphere is considered as a haven for self-experimentation, discourses and sharing of opinions where it allows individuals to express themselves openly with or without considering the legal, religious or even cultural restrictions. Some people have used the new avenue positively and found empowerment which they would never have found if the blog had never existed while others may take advantage of this new platform for malicious activities. Forty Malaysian bloggers were interviewed during the course of this study where they share their personal blogging experiences and how blogging has brought about changes to their lives.
Adversarial speech for voice privacy protection from Personalized Speech generation
Creators: name: Chen, Shihao
name: Chen, Liping
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Lee, KongAik
name: Ling, Zhenhua
name: Dai, Lirong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapid progress in personalized speech generation technology, including personalized text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC), poses a challenge in distinguishing between generated and real speech for human listeners, resulting in an urgent demand in protecting speakers' voices from malicious misuse. In this regard, we propose a speaker protection method based on adversarial attacks. The proposed method perturbs speech signals by minimally altering the original speech while rendering downstream speech generation models unable to accurately generate the voice of the target speaker. For validation, we employ the open-source pre-trained YourTTS model for speech generation and protect the target speaker's speech in the white-box scenario. Automatic speaker verification (ASV) evaluations were carried out on the generated speech as the assessment of the voice protection capability. Our experimental results show that we successfully perturbed the speaker encoder of the YourTTS model using the gradient-based I-FGSM adversarial perturbation method. Furthermore, the adversarial perturbation is effective in preventing the YourTTS model from generating the speech of the target speaker. Audio samples can be found in https://voiceprivacy.github.io/Adeversarial-Speech-with-YourTTS.
description: Accepted by icassp 2024
SEO evaluation for travel agencies websites.pdf
Creators: name: Bužić, Dalibor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80704 Information Retrieval and Web Search
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Search engines have a respective role in bringing targeted visitors to a website, so trying to appear on search engine result page is worth the effort. In this paper 200 websites of travel agencies from Croatia, Germany, Italy and Spain were analyzed by several popular metrics (Alexa rank, Google's PageRank, mozRank, mozTrust, Domain Authority and Page Authority) and by one online SEO tool. Results for Spanish and Croatian agencies were slightly higher, while German agencies had lower results in most metrics.
Investigation on Simultaneous Effect of KMnO4 Concentration and Processing Time on Tensile Strength, Weight and Stiffness of Denim Jeans During Acid Washing with Pumice Stone
Creators: name: Khalil, Elias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: This present investigation deals with the effect of processing time and concentration of potassium permanganate on tensile strength, weight and stiffness of denim garments. Three 100% cotton denim jeans were treated with stone acid wash with the variation of processing time (1.5, 2 & 2.5 minutes) and concentration (1.5, 2& 2.5g/l) of potassium permanganate after typical enzyme bleach wash. Tensile Strength, Weight and Stiffness (bending length) were investigated before and after each treatment (concentration and respective time) according to standard test methods. It was found that change in processing time and concentration reveals big difference of these properties between treated and untreated garments.
Relating the structure, function and dynamics of the MHC Class I antigen presenting molecule
Creators: name: Bailey, Alistair
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Structural Biology
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Doctoral Thesis, 318pp. High resolution version.
Dynamic Existence
Creators: name: Janew, Claus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 500399
subject: Philosophy not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 500315
subject: Philosophy of mind (excl. cognition)
classificationCode: 500309
subject: Metaphysics

description: Everything is in motion. "Inertness" arises from (approximative) repetition, that is, through rotation or an alternation that delineates a focus of consciousness.
This focus of consciousness, in turn, must also move/alternate (the two differ only in continuity). If its alternation seems to go too far - physically, psychically or intellectually - it reaches into the subconscious.
In this way, interconnection is established by the alternation of the focus of consciousness. Therefore, in a world in which everything is interconnected, all focuses must reciprocally transition into each other.
"Reality" is a common "goal", a focus which all participants can switch into and which is conscious to them as such, as a potential one. Its "degree of reality" is the probability of its fully becoming conscious (or more simply: its current degree of consciousness).
Thus, a reality is created when all participants increase its probability or, respectively, their consciousness of it.
Published in: Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research (2011), 2(6), p.877-884.
Growth and Yield of Phaseolus vulgaris as influenced by Different Nutrients Treatment in Mansehra
Creators: name: Iqbal, Zahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Botany
Soil Science
Environmental Science
Education

description: In Pakistan one of the main causes of the low production of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is lack of
proper fertilizer management especially of mineral nutrients which plays crucial role in growth and yield of bean.
Foliar feeding of mineral nutrients may be used as a supplement for obtaining higher yield. Experiment was
conducted to investigate the effect of different nutrients application on common bean at experimental field,
Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra during 2012-13 in Randomized Complete Block Design with
three replicates and four treatments i.e. control (H2O spray alone), poultry manure, DAP (Di-ammonium
Phosphate) and foliar spray of (NPK 20:20:20). The results showed that foliar spray of NPK significantly
increased number of pods plant-1, number of seeds pod-1, number of seeds plant-1, biomass and grain yield. It may
be concluded that foliar spray of NPK is the suitable application for the maximum yield of common bean.
Progressive Distillation Based on Masked Generation Feature Method for Knowledge Graph Completion
Creators: name: Fan, Cunhang
name: Chen, Yujie
name: Xue, Jun
name: Kong, Yonghui
name: Tao, Jianhua
name: Lv, Zhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, knowledge graph completion (KGC) models based on pre-trained language model (PLM) have shown promising results. However, the large number of parameters and high computational cost of PLM models pose challenges for their application in downstream tasks. This paper proposes a progressive distillation method based on masked generation features for KGC task, aiming to significantly reduce the complexity of pre-trained models. Specifically, we perform pre-distillation on PLM to obtain high-quality teacher models, and compress the PLM network to obtain multi-grade student models. However, traditional feature distillation suffers from the limitation of having a single representation of information in teacher models. To solve this problem, we propose masked generation of teacher-student features, which contain richer representation information. Furthermore, there is a significant gap in representation ability between teacher and student. Therefore, we design a progressive distillation method to distill student models at each grade level, enabling efficient knowledge transfer from teachers to students. The experimental results demonstrate that the model in the pre-distillation stage surpasses the existing state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, in the progressive distillation stage, the model significantly reduces the model parameters while maintaining a certain level of performance. Specifically, the model parameters of the lower-grade student model are reduced by 56.7\% compared to the baseline.
description: Accepted by AAAI2024
Neutron star matter as a dilute solution of protons in neutrons
Creators: name: Keller, J.
name: Hebeler, K.
name: Pethick, C. J.
name: Schwenk, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron stars contain neutron-rich matter with around 5% protons at nuclear saturation density. In this Letter, we consider equilibrium between bulk phases of matter based on asymmetric nuclear matter calculations using chiral effective field theory interactions rather than, as has been done in the past, by interpolation between the properties of symmetric nuclear matter and pure neutron matter. Neutron drip (coexistence of nuclear matter with pure neutrons) is well established, but from earlier work it is unclear whether proton drip (equilibrium between two phases, both of which contain protons and neutrons) is possible. We find that proton drip is a robust prediction of any physically reasonable equation of state, but that it occurs over a limited region of densities and proton fractions. An analytical model based on expanding the energy in powers of the proton density, rather than the neutron excess, is able to account for these features of the phase diagram.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, published version
On the Sparsity of the Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
Creators: name: Natale, Emanuele
name: Ferre', Davide
name: Giambartolomei, Giordano
name: Giroire, Frédéric
name: Mallmann-Trenn, Frederik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Considerable research efforts have recently been made to show that a random neural network $N$ contains subnetworks capable of accurately approximating any given neural network that is sufficiently smaller than $N$, without any training. This line of research, known as the Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH), was originally motivated by the weaker Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, which states that a sufficiently large random neural network $N$ contains \emph{sparse} subnetworks that can be trained efficiently to achieve performance comparable to that of training the entire network $N$. Despite its original motivation, results on the SLTH have so far not provided any guarantee on the size of subnetworks. Such limitation is due to the nature of the main technical tool leveraged by these results, the Random Subset Sum (RSS) Problem. Informally, the RSS Problem asks how large a random i.i.d. sample $Ω$ should be so that we are able to approximate any number in $[-1,1]$, up to an error of $ ε$, as the sum of a suitable subset of $Ω$. We provide the first proof of the SLTH in classical settings, such as dense and equivariant networks, with guarantees on the sparsity of the subnetworks. Central to our results, is the proof of an essentially tight bound on the Random Fixed-Size Subset Sum Problem (RFSS), a variant of the RSS Problem in which we only ask for subsets of a given size, which is of independent interest.
Magnetic activity of red giants: correlation between the amplitude of solar-like oscillations and chromospheric indicators
Creators: name: Gehan, C.
name: Godoy-Rivera, D.
name: Gaulme, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous studies have found that red giants (RGs) in close binary systems undergoing spin-orbit resonance exhibit an enhanced level of magnetic activity with respect to single RGs rotating at the same rate, from measurements of photometric variability $S'_{ph}$ and chromospheric emission S-index $S_{Ca_{II}}$. Here, we consider a sample of 4465 RGs observed by the NASA Kepler mission to measure additional activity indicators that probe different heights in the chromosphere: the near-ultraviolet (NUV) excess from NASA GALEX photometric data, and chromospheric indices based on the depth of H$α$, Mg$_{I}$ and infared Ca$_{II}$ absorption lines from LAMOST spectroscopic data. Firstly, as for Ca$_{II}$ H&K, we observe that RGs belonging to close binaries in a state of spin-orbit resonance display larger chromospheric emission than the cohort of RGs, as illustrated by an NUV excess and shallower H$α$ and infrared Ca$_{II}$ lines. We report no excess of Mg$_{I}$ emission. This result reinforces previous claims that tidal locking leads to enhanced magnetic fields, and allows us to provide criteria to classify active red giants -- single or binary --, based on their rotation periods and magnetic activity indices. Secondly, we strikingly observe that the depths of the Mg$_{I}$ and H$α$ lines are anti-correlated and correlated, respectively, with the amplitude of solar-like oscillations for a given surface gravity $\log g$, regardless of the presence of photometric rotational modulation. Such a correlation opens up future possibilities of estimating the value of magnetic fields at the surface of RG stars, whether quiet or active, by combining spectroscopic and asteroseismic measurements with three-dimensional atmospheric models including radiative transfer.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 16 pages, 9 figures
Does ChatGPT Have a Poetic Style?
Creators: name: Walsh, Melanie
name: Preus, Anna
name: Gronski, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generating poetry has become a popular application of LLMs, perhaps especially of OpenAI's widely-used chatbot ChatGPT. What kind of poet is ChatGPT? Does ChatGPT have its own poetic style? Can it successfully produce poems in different styles? To answer these questions, we prompt the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models to generate English-language poems in 24 different poetic forms and styles, about 40 different subjects, and in response to 3 different writing prompt templates. We then analyze the resulting 5.7k poems, comparing them to a sample of 3.7k poems from the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. We find that the GPT models, especially GPT-4, can successfully produce poems in a range of both common and uncommon English-language forms in superficial yet noteworthy ways, such as by producing poems of appropriate lengths for sonnets (14 lines), villanelles (19 lines), and sestinas (39 lines). But the GPT models also exhibit their own distinct stylistic tendencies, both within and outside of these specific forms. Our results show that GPT poetry is much more constrained and uniform than human poetry, showing a strong penchant for rhyme, quatrains (4-line stanzas), iambic meter, first-person plural perspectives (we, us, our), and specific vocabulary like "heart," "embrace," "echo," and "whisper."
description: CHR 2024: Computational Humanities Research Conference
Black-Box Access is Insufficient for Rigorous AI Audits
Creators: name: Casper, Stephen
name: Ezell, Carson
name: Siegmann, Charlotte
name: Kolt, Noam
name: Curtis, Taylor Lynn
name: Bucknall, Benjamin
name: Haupt, Andreas
name: Wei, Kevin
name: Scheurer, Jérémy
name: Hobbhahn, Marius
name: Sharkey, Lee
name: Krishna, Satyapriya
name: Von Hagen, Marvin
name: Alberti, Silas
name: Chan, Alan
name: Sun, Qinyi
name: Gerovitch, Michael
name: Bau, David
name: Tegmark, Max
name: Krueger, David
name: Hadfield-Menell, Dylan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: External audits of AI systems are increasingly recognized as a key mechanism for AI governance. The effectiveness of an audit, however, depends on the degree of access granted to auditors. Recent audits of state-of-the-art AI systems have primarily relied on black-box access, in which auditors can only query the system and observe its outputs. However, white-box access to the system's inner workings (e.g., weights, activations, gradients) allows an auditor to perform stronger attacks, more thoroughly interpret models, and conduct fine-tuning. Meanwhile, outside-the-box access to training and deployment information (e.g., methodology, code, documentation, data, deployment details, findings from internal evaluations) allows auditors to scrutinize the development process and design more targeted evaluations. In this paper, we examine the limitations of black-box audits and the advantages of white- and outside-the-box audits. We also discuss technical, physical, and legal safeguards for performing these audits with minimal security risks. Given that different forms of access can lead to very different levels of evaluation, we conclude that (1) transparency regarding the access and methods used by auditors is necessary to properly interpret audit results, and (2) white- and outside-the-box access allow for substantially more scrutiny than black-box access alone.
description: FAccT 2024
Théorie du nokton
Creators: name: Lassaad Saidani
name: L.SAIDANI
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Plasma Physics
General Relativity
Mechanics
Atomic Physics

description: La théorie du nokton est une tentative de construction d'une théorie adaptée à tout phénomène physique. L'espace et le temps ont a été discrétisés. Ses lois sont itératives et précises. La probabilité y joue un rôle important.Dans un premier temps j'ai définit la notion de fonction image et sa cadre mathématique. La notion de nokton et son état sont à la base de plusieurs définitions. J'ai définit par la suite la fonction image canonique et la contribution canonique.Deux constantes ont été nécessaires pour définir la dynamique de cette théorie. Avec sa complexité combinatoire, la théorie n'a actuellement donné aucun résultat qui me semble intéressant. Le document n'est qu'une base.Parmi les mérites de cette théorie l'absence des infinis et son interprétation qu’est contrairement à la mécanique quantique ou la relativité générale ne heurte pas le sens commun du physicien.
Loricula elegantula
Creators: name: Heiss, Ernst
name: Eckelt, Andreas
name: Lederwasch, Manfred
name: Unterasinger, Romed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Microphysidae
Loricula
Loricula elegantula

description: Loricula elegantula (BAERENSPRUNG, 1858)(Abb. 24)
AUT Ö s t e r r e i c h: Nordtirol, Salvenmoos / Windautal, 1 Ex., 14. VIII. 1985, leg. Egger M.; Nordtirol, Innsbruck / Gramartboden, 1 Ex., 1. VIII. 1963, leg. HA; Nordtirol, Innsbruck / Gramartboden, 1 Ex., 10. VIII. 1963, leg. HA; Nordtirol, Innsbruck-Land, Gehrenspitze, 1 Ex., 8. VIII.1949, leg. Pechlaner; Nordtirol, Innsbruck-Land, Gschnitztal, 1 Ex., 31. VIII. 1978, leg. Ernstbrunner; Nordtirol, Innsbruck-Land, Rinn - Innsbruck SE, 1 Ex., 1. VII. 1975, leg. HE; Nordtirol, Innsbruck-Land, Schöfner Berg / Matrei am Brenner NE, 1 Ex., 2. IX. 1962, leg. HA; Nordtirol, Kufstein, Kufstein-Morsbach mit Maistaller Berg, 1 Ex., 3. VII. 2007, leg. LM; Nordtirol, Landeck, Trams / Landeck SE, 1 Ex., 20. VI. 1968, leg. HE; Nordtirol, Reutte, Kolpenwald / Gramais N, 2 Ex., 11. IX. 1936, leg. Knabl; Nordtirol, Reutte, Obermais / Gramais NW, 1 Ex., 26. IX. 1938, leg. Knabl; Nordtirol, Schwaz, Hainzenberg / Zell am Ziller SE, 5 Ex., 1. VIII.1989, leg. Holzschuh C.; Osttirol, Lienz, Gödnach / Nikolsdorf NW, 3 Ex., 24.II. 1998, leg.KA; Vorarlberg, Bludenz, Gamperdonatal, 3 Ex., fA., leg. Moosbrugger; Vorarlberg, Feldkirch, Feldkirch Umgebung, 3 Ex., fA, leg. Moosbrugger.
DEU D e u t s c h l a n d: Bayern, Donau-Ries, Mönchsdeggingen / Prälatenweiher, 1 Ex., 14. VI. 2003, leg. Schuster G.; Bayern, Unterallgäu, Kammlach / Sankt Johann / Gallenwald, 1 Ex., 11. VI. 2003, leg. Schuster G.
ITA I t a l i e n: Südtirol, Bolzano-Bozen, Brixen / Kampan, 1 Ex., 1. VI. 1964, leg. PA; Südtirol, Bolzano-Bozen, Brixen / Tschötscher Heide, 1 Ex., 26. VI. 1963, leg. PA; Südtirol, Vinschgau, Litzer Spitz, 1 Ex., 18. VIII. 1996, leg. Thaler K.
PRT P o r t u g a l: Azoren, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira / Ribeirinha, 2 Ex., 6. VI. 1969, leg. Remane R.; Azoren, Sao Miguel, Lagoa das Furnas, 3 Ex., 22. IX. 1998, leg. HE.; Azoren, Sao Miguel, Sao Miguel / Feteiras, 2 Ex., 27. V. 1969, leg. Remane R.; Azoren, Sao Miguel, Sao Miguel / Sete Cidades, 4 Ex., 30. V. 1969, leg. Remane R.
description: Published as part of Heiss, Ernst, Eckelt, Andreas, Lederwasch, Manfred & Unterasinger, Romed, 2023, Die Heteropterensammlung Ernst Heiss im Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. Teil XVI: Familien Anthocoridae, Cimicidae, Microphysidae, Enicocephalidae, Ceratocombidae, Dipsocoridae, Thaumastocoridae, pp. 455-494 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (2) on page 484, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10787573
Théorie du nokton
Creators: name: Lassaad Saidani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Plasma Physics
General Relativity
Mechanics
Atomic Physics

description: La théorie du nokton est une tentative de construction d'une théorie adaptée à tout phénomène physique. L'espace et le temps ont a été discrétisés. Ses lois sont itératives et précises. La probabilité y joue un rôle important.Dans un premier temps j'ai définit la notion de fonction image et sa cadre mathématique. La notion de nokton et son état sont à la base de plusieurs définitions. J'ai définit par la suite la fonction image canonique et la contribution canonique.Deux constantes ont été nécessaires pour définir la dynamique de cette théorie. Avec sa complexité combinatoire, la théorie n'a actuellement donné aucun résultat qui me semble intéressant. Le document n'est qu'une base.Parmi les mérites de cette théorie l'absence des infinis et son interprétation qu’est contrairement à la mécanique quantique ou la relativité générale ne heurte pas le sens commun du physicien.
RESPRECT: Speeding-up Multi-fingered Grasping with Residual Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Ceola, Federico
name: Rosasco, Lorenzo
name: Natale, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has proven effective in learning control policies using robotic grippers, but much less practical for solving the problem of grasping with dexterous hands -- especially on real robotic platforms -- due to the high dimensionality of the problem. In this work, we focus on the multi-fingered grasping task with the anthropomorphic hand of the iCub humanoid. We propose the RESidual learning with PREtrained CriTics (RESPRECT) method that, starting from a policy pre-trained on a large set of objects, can learn a residual policy to grasp a novel object in a fraction ($\sim 5 \times$ faster) of the timesteps required to train a policy from scratch, without requiring any task demonstration. To our knowledge, this is the first Residual Reinforcement Learning (RRL) approach that learns a residual policy on top of another policy pre-trained with DRL. We exploit some components of the pre-trained policy during residual learning that further speed-up the training. We benchmark our results in the iCub simulated environment, and we show that RESPRECT can be effectively used to learn a multi-fingered grasping policy on the real iCub robot. The code to reproduce the experiments is released together with the paper with an open source license.
description: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Magnetic interactions and excitations in SrMnSb$_2$
Creators: name: Ning, Zhenhua
name: Li, Bing
name: Tang, Weilun
name: Banerjee, Arnab
name: Fanelli, Victor
name: Abernathy, Doug
name: Liu, Yong
name: Ueland, Benjamin G
name: McQueeney, Robert J.
name: Ke, Liqin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic interactions in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) Dirac semimetal candidate SrMnSb$_2$ are investigated using \textit{ab initio} linear response theory and inelastic neutron scattering (INS). Our calculations reveal that the first two nearest in-plane couplings ($J_1$ and $J_2$) are both AFM in nature, indicating a significant degree of spin frustration, which aligns with experimental observations. The orbital resolution of exchange interactions shows that $J_1$ and $J_2$ are dominated by direct and superexchange, respectively. In a broader context, a rigid-band model suggests that electron doping fills the minority spin channel and results in a decrease in the AFM coupling strength for both $J_1$ and $J_2$. To better compare with INS measurements, we calculate the spin wave spectra within a linear spin wave theory, utilizing the computed exchange parameters. Although the calculated spin wave spectra somewhat overestimate the magnon bandwidth, they exhibit overall good agreement with measurements from INS experiments.
Cryptostemma remanei JOSIFOV 1964
Creators: name: Heiss, Ernst
name: Eckelt, Andreas
name: Lederwasch, Manfred
name: Unterasinger, Romed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Dipsocoridae
Cryptostemma
Cryptostemma remanei

description: Cryptostemma remanei JOSIFOV, 1964
BGR B u l g a r i e n: Lowetsch, Teteven, Ribaritsa, 2 Ex., 24. VI. 1962, leg. Josifov M.
POL P o l e n: Kleinpolen,Tatrzanski, Kosne Hamry / Potok Poroniec, 1 Ex., 30. IX. 1967, leg. Josifov M.; Kleinpolen, Tatrzanski, Kosne Hamry / Potok Poroniec, 1 Ex., 5. VII. 1966, leg. Josifov M.; Woiwodschaft Karpatenvorland, Powiat Bieszczadzki, Bieszczady Park / Dol. Wolosatki, 6 Ex., 6. IX. 1967, leg. Josifov M.
description: Published as part of Heiss, Ernst, Eckelt, Andreas, Lederwasch, Manfred & Unterasinger, Romed, 2023, Die Heteropterensammlung Ernst Heiss im Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. Teil XVI: Familien Anthocoridae, Cimicidae, Microphysidae, Enicocephalidae, Ceratocombidae, Dipsocoridae, Thaumastocoridae, pp. 455-494 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (2) on page 488, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10787573
Stress, sense of coherence and quality of life among Norwegian nurse students after a period of clinical practice
Creators: name: Kleiveland, Benedicte
name: Natvig, Gerd Karin
name: Jepsen, Randi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Health Care

description: Background. Previous research has found that sense of coherence is significantly related to aspects of health, but studies on nurse students with a salutogenic approach are limited. Objectives. To investigate (1) if nurse students’ experience of stress differs among clinical practice in nursing homes and medical/surgical wards. (2) Whether sense of coherence and stress are associated with quality of life. (3) If sense of coherence acts as a moderator in the relationship between stress and quality of life. Participants. Data were collected from 227 nurse students between January and April 2014. Methods. Questionnaires measuring stress, sense of coherence and quality of life were completed after a period of clinical practice. Linear regression analyses were used to measure associations between stress, and sense of coherence respectively, and quality of life. Results. The results showed that 33.92% of the students experienced moderate or high levels of stress, and there was significantly more stress in hospital wards compared to nursing homes (p = 0.027). Sense of coherence was positively associated with quality of life in the simple and multiple regression analyses (p < 0.01). Stress was negatively associated with quality of life in the simple regression analysis (p < 0.01), but not in the multiple analyses when sense of coherence was included. However, when we included an interaction term, stress was no longer associated with quality of life and sense of coherence appeared to be a significant moderator in the relationship between stress and quality of life (p = 0.015). Thus, a negative association was seen among students with the lowest levels of sense of coherence. Conclusion. These findings suggest that sense of coherence could be seen as a resource that nurse educators can build upon when supporting students in coping with stress.
Pachycoleus waltli
Creators: name: Heiss, Ernst
name: Eckelt, Andreas
name: Lederwasch, Manfred
name: Unterasinger, Romed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Dipsocoridae
Pachycoleus
Pachycoleus waltli

description: Pachycoleus waltli (FIEBER, 1860)(Abb. 29)
AUT Ö s t e r r e i c h: Nordtirol, Innsbruck: Hötting, 1 Ex., 25. V. 1947, leg. Pechlaner E.; Nordtirol, Innsbruck, Vill, Umgebung, 3 Ex., 20. III. 1948, leg. Pechlaner E.; Nordtirol, Innsbruck-Land, Sistranser Wiesen / Sistrans SE, 2 Ex., 15. IX. 1963, leg. HA; Nordtirol, Innsbruck-Land, Valsertal, 1 Ex., 30. VII. 1963, leg. Pechlaner E.; Nordtirol, Kufstein, Kundl W / Sankt Leonhard Umgebung, 1 Ex., 23. IV. 1961, leg. Pechlaner E.; Nordtirol, Reutte, Gramaiser Tal, 1 Ex., 14. IV. 1936, leg. Knabl H.; Nordtirol, Reutte, Gramaiser Tal, 1 Ex., 15. II. 1934, leg. Knabl H.; Nordtirol, Reutte, Reutte Umgebung, 1 Ex., 2. IV. 1916, leg. Knabl H.; Nordtirol, Reutte, Vilstal / Haldensee / W, 7 Ex., 25. IX. 1960, leg. Pechlaner E.; Vorarlberg, Feldkirch, Feldkirch / Bangs, 1 Ex., 24. IX. 1995, leg. Kopf T.; Vorarlberg, Feldkirch, Feldkirch / Bangs, 2 Ex., 3. IX. 1995, leg. Kopf T.; Vorarlberg, Feldkirch, Feldkirch / Bangs, 2 Ex., 5. IX. 1995, leg. Kopf T.
DEUD e u t s c h l a n d: Bayern,Ostallgäu, Pfronten, 1 Ex., 17. X. 1989, leg. Schuster G.; Bayern, Weilheim-Schongau, Habach, 1 Ex., 21. X. 1989, leg. Schuster G.
ITA I t a l i e n: Südtirol, Bozen, Kalterer See / Südufer, 1 Ex., 14. III. 1971, leg. PA; Südtirol, Salten-Schlern, Seiser Alm: Zallingerhütte, 2 Ex., 30. VI. 2007, leg. Kiss.
description: Published as part of Heiss, Ernst, Eckelt, Andreas, Lederwasch, Manfred & Unterasinger, Romed, 2023, Die Heteropterensammlung Ernst Heiss im Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. Teil XVI: Familien Anthocoridae, Cimicidae, Microphysidae, Enicocephalidae, Ceratocombidae, Dipsocoridae, Thaumastocoridae, pp. 455-494 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (2) on pages 488-489, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10787573
Post-inflationary Leptogenesis and Dark Matter production: Metric versus Palatini formalism
Creators: name: Ghoshal, Anish
name: Lalak, Zygmunt
name: Pal, Supratik
name: Porey, Shiladitya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate production of non-thermal dark matter particles and heavy sterile neutrinos from inflaton during the reheating era, which is preceded by a slow-roll inflationary epoch with a quartic potential and non-minimal coupling ($ξ$) between inflaton and gravity. We compare our analysis between metric and Palatini formalism. For the latter, the tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, decreases with $ξ$. We find that for $ξ=0.5$ and number of $e$-folds $\sim 60$, $r$ can be as small as $\sim {\cal O}\left(10^{-3}\right)$ which may be validated at future reaches of upcoming CMB observation such as CMB-S4 etc. We identify the permissible range of Yukawa coupling $y_χ$ between inflaton and fermionic DM $χ$, to be ${\cal O}\left(10^{-3.5}\right)\gtrsim y_χ\gtrsim {\cal O}\left(10^{-20}\right)$ for metric formalism and ${\cal O}\left(10^{-4}\right)\gtrsim y_χ\gtrsim {\cal O}\left(10^{-11}\right)$ for Palatini formalism which is consistent with current PLANCK data and also within the reach of future CMB experiments. For the scenario of leptogenesis via the decay of sterile neutrinos produced from inflaton decay, we also investigate the parameter space involving heavy neutrino mass $M_{N_1}$ and Yukawa coupling $y_{N_1}$ of sterile neutrino with inflaton, which are consistent with current CMB data and successful generation of the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe via leptogenesis. In contrast to metric formalism, in the case of Palatini formalism, for successful leptogenesis to occur, we find that $y_{N_1}$ has a very narrow allowable range and is severely constrained from the consistency with CMB predictions.
description: 47 pages, 15 figures, accepted in JHEP with minor revisions