cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kompatibilität von KSDF und Gemeinsamem Vokabular als Standard für Repositorienbetreibende
Creators: name: Höhner, Kathrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: KDSF
Standard
Germany
Research Information
Research Information Systems
Research Reporting
DINI

description: Der Kerndatensatz Forschung (KDSF) als ein Standard für die Forschungsberichterstattung beinhaltet mit dem Bereich der Publikationen die Beschreibung einer der wichtigsten Typen von Forschungsergebnissen. Für Publikationstypen als Kernelement der Beschreibung von Publikationen gibt es mit dem in Deutschland etablierten Gemeinsamen Vokabular bereits standardisierte Beschreibungen. Diese sind jedoch zum großen Teil nicht deckungsgleich mit dem KDSF, was u.a. den unterschiedlichen Perspektiven der Betrachtung von Publikationen geschuldet ist. Um dennoch eine gemeinsame Nutzung und Verbreitung der Metadaten zu Publikationen zu erzielen, hat DINI eine gemeinsamen Initiative der drei Arbeitsgruppen (AGs) Elektronisches Publizieren (E-Pub), Forschungsinformationssystem (FIS) und Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten (KIM) gegründet. Ziel dieser Initiative ist es, auf eine Kompatibilität von KDSF und Gemeinsamen Vokabular hinzuwirken, damit sowohl eine KDSF-konforme Forschungsberichterstattung als auch der Betrieb von Repositorien mit ihren zugehörigen Ablieferungspflichten (DNB, OpenAIRE) sichergestellt werden können.
Exact steady state manifold of a boundary driven spin-1 Lai-Sutherland chain
Creators: name: Ilievski, Enej
name: Prosen, Tomaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an explicit construction of a family of steady state density matrices for an open integrable spin-1 chain with bilinear and biquadratic interactions, also known as the Lai-Sutherland model, driven far from equilibrium by means of two oppositely polarizing Markovian dissipation channels localized at the boundary. The steady state solution exhibits n+1 fold degeneracy, for a chain of length n, due to existence of (strong) Liouvillian U(1) symmetry. The latter can be exploited to introduce a chemical potential and define a grand canonical nonequilibrium steady state ensemble. The matrix product form of the solution entails an infinitely-dimensional representation of a non-trivial Lie algebra (semidirect product of sl_2 and a non-nilpotent radical) and hints to a novel Yang-Baxter integrability structure.
description: 20 pages; version v2 as accepted by Nuclear Physics B
Entropic Representation and Estimation of Diversity Indices
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhiyi
name: Grabchak, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper serves a twofold purpose. First, a unified perspective on diversity indices is introduced based on an entropic basis. It is shown that the class of all linear combinations of the entropic basis, referred to as the class of linear diversity indices, covers a wide range of diversity indices used in the literature. Second, a class of estimators for linear diversity indices is proposed and it is shown that these estimators have rapidly decaying biases and asymptotic normality.
Kerndatensatz Forschung - Umsetzung "mit Bordmitteln"
Creators: name: Ballhausen, Hendrik
name: Buschle, Corinna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: KDSF
Standard
Germany
Research Information
Research Information Systems
Research Reporting
Microsoft Access

description: An der Medizinischen Fakultät der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München haben wir eine Lösung gesucht, die Spezifikation des KDSF umzusetzen, ohne dafür eine neue IT oder Software einzuführen und ohne Budget. Die relationale Struktur des KDSF schien für uns in einer Microsoft Access-Datenbank gut umsetzbar zu sein, worauf Mitarbeiter*innen bereits geschult waren - im Gegensatz z.B. zu einer ebenso denkbaren SQL-basierten Lösung. Da wir den KDSF weniger als FIS in Echtzeit verwenden möchten, sondern eher für jährliches Reporting oder anlassbezogen bei Antragstellungen, haben wir uns darauf beschränkt, in jeder Datenbank jeweils den Datensatz eines Jahres vorzusehen. Dadurch umgehen wir die meisten Probleme der Versionierung und Kontinuität, z.B. bei Zusammenlegungen bestehender Einrichtungen und ähnlichem. Zwar müssen wir Queries über mehrere Jahre auf mehreren Datenbanken fahren, reduzieren jedoch die Komplexität innerhalb der einzelnen Datenbank ganz erheblich. Im Ergebnis konnte die Lösung von einer wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin in der Forschungsverwaltung in einigen Wochen realisiert werden. Die nächste, größere, Herausforderung ist die Bereitstellung strukturierter und vor allem relationaler Daten am Standort und der Import in die Datenbank.
The Socialisation of Underrepresented International Doctoral Students in the Field of Education in Australia
Creators: name: Rezaei, Maliheh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Inclusive education
Other education not elsewhere classified
Higher education
Sociology not elsewhere classified
Sociology of education

description: This study aimed at a deeper understanding of underrepresented international students’ engagement in a doctoral program in an Australian research-intensive university. Experiences of students were analysed at different stages of the program. Findings indicated that the students’ primary values, aspirations and expectations transformed towards the end of the program due to their professional experiences and global forces that pushed them to adopt safer and flexible career options. Moreover, students’ knowledge and mindsets were developed more through interaction with their supervisors than their peers. The situated interaction between the students and the program revealed tensions and misinterpretations.
Large-scale environment of z~5.7 CIV absorption systems I: projected distribution of galaxies
Creators: name: Díaz, C. Gonzalo
name: Koyama, Yusei
name: Ryan-Weber, Emma V.
name: Cooke, Jeff
name: Ouchi, Masami
name: Shimasaku, Kazuhiro
name: Nakata, Fumiaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metal absorption systems are products of star formation. They are believed to be associated with massive star forming galaxies, which have significantly enriched their surroundings. To test this idea with high column density CIV absorption systems at z~5.7, we study the projected distribution of galaxies and characterise the environment of CIV systems in two independent quasar lines-of-sight: J103027.01+052455.0 and J113717.73+354956.9. Using wide field photometry (~80x60h$^{-1}$ comoving Mpc), we select bright (Muv(1350Å)
description: 38 pages, 23 figures, 9 tables. Accepted to MNRAS. Comments are always welcome
Platycrepidius indicus Fleutiaux 1934
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Platycrepidius
Platycrepidius indicus

description: Platycrepidius indicus Fleutiaux, 1934: 181
Platycrepidius indicus Fleutiaux, 1934: 181
Type depository. Syntypes [number is unknown] (MNHN).
Type locality. Tamil Nadu (“Shembaganur, Madura; Kodaikanal”).
Distribution. India: Tamil Nadu (Fleutiaux, 1934). Elsewhere: Sri Lanka (Ôhira, 1973).
Literature. Fleutiaux (1934: 181): original description; Ôhira (1973: 32): faunistics.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
Microscopic dynamics simulations of heavy-ion fusion reactions induced by neutron-rich nuclei
Creators: name: Wang, Ning
name: Ou, Li
name: Zhang, Yingxun
name: Li, Zhuxia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The heavy-ion fusion reactions induced by neutron-rich nuclei are investigated with the improved quantum molecular dynamics (ImQMD) model. With a subtle consideration of the neutron skin thickness of nuclei and the symmetry potential, the stability of nuclei and the fusion excitation functions of heavy-ion fusion reactions $^{16}$O+$^{76}$Ge, $^{16}$O+$^{154}$Sm, $^{40}$Ca+$^{96}$Zr and $^{132}$Sn+$^{40}$Ca are systematically studied. The fusion cross sections of these reactions at energies around the Coulomb barrier can be well reproduced by using the ImQMD model. The corresponding slope parameter of the symmetry energy adopted in the calculations is $L \approx 78$ MeV and the surface energy coefficient is $g_{\rm sur}=18\pm 1.5$ MeVfm$^2$. In addition, it is found that the surface-symmetry term significantly influences the fusion cross sections of neutron-rich fusion systems. For sub-barrier fusion, the dynamical fluctuations in the densities of the reaction partners and the enhanced surface diffuseness at neck side result in the lowering of the fusion barrier.
description: 10 figures, the version published in PRC
Kann Das So Funktionieren? Ein erstes Fazit aus der Perspektive eines Beratungs- und Implementierungsdienstleisters
Creators: name: Eichler, Katrin
name: Engfer, Andreas
name: Schüßler, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: KDSF
Standard
Research Information
Research Information Systems
Research Reporting
Germany
AT CRIS
Consulting

description: Der Kerndatensatz Forschung hat das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem verändert. Produkthersteller haben auf Basis des KDSF FIS entwickelt und ergänzt. Hochschulen nehmen administrative Abläufe, Forschungsinformationen und Berichtswesen in Anlehnung an den Kerndatensatz Forschung unter die Lupe. Ministerien fördern in Teilen die Umsetzung des KDSF. Es scheint als sei der Kerndatensatz Forschung ein langersehntes Mittel zum Zweck. Aber es bleibt die Frage: Was für Mehrwerte zieht das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem aus dem Kerndatensatz Forschung – nachhaltig?
Using Student-Authored Case Studies to Teach Bioengineering Ethics
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2016

description: This activity is considered an NAE Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education and was included in a 2016 report with other exemplary activities.The activity described here instructs students in a 14-week required bioengineering ethics course to author a case study based on their research and analyze it using methods taught in the course. Based on solid research from two consecutive NSF grants, this activity is exemplary because it recognizes the ill-definednature of ethics and teaches students how to "frame" an ethics issue. This skill is needed to grapple with everyday practical ethics issues, which are not neatly packaged into teaching cases.
Log-Likelihood Score Level Fusion for Improved Cross-Sensor Smartphone Periocular Recognition
Creators: name: Alonso-Fernandez, Fernando
name: Raja, Kiran B.
name: Busch, Christoph
name: Bigun, Josef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The proliferation of cameras and personal devices results in a wide variability of imaging conditions, producing large intra-class variations and a significant performance drop when images from heterogeneous environments are compared. However, many applications require to deal with data from different sources regularly, thus needing to overcome these interoperability problems. Here, we employ fusion of several comparators to improve periocular performance when images from different smartphones are compared. We use a probabilistic fusion framework based on linear logistic regression, in which fused scores tend to be log-likelihood ratios, obtaining a reduction in cross-sensor EER of up to 40% due to the fusion. Our framework also provides an elegant and simple solution to handle signals from different devices, since same-sensor and cross-sensor score distributions are aligned and mapped to a common probabilistic domain. This allows the use of Bayes thresholds for optimal decision-making, eliminating the need of sensor-specific thresholds, which is essential in operational conditions because the threshold setting critically determines the accuracy of the authentication process in many applications.
description: Published at Proc. 25th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2017. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1902.08123
Learning to Listen: A Tool for Morally Engaged Engineering Practice
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2016
Subjects: Ethics and Society
Public and Community Engagement

description: This activity is considered an NAE Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education and was included in a 2016 report with other exemplary activities.Learning to Listen" (L2L) teaches engineers the method of ethnographic listening to diverse publics who are affected by engineering interventions but whose voices are often ignored. It cautions that failure to consider such voices can leave engineers vulnerable to incomplete understanding of complex issues, self-interest, and institutional pressures, contributing to suboptimal professional decisions, unethical conduct, and even public harm.
Anthracalaus moricii , Fairmaire 1888
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Anthracalaus
Anthracalaus moricii

description: Anthracalaus moricii Fairmaire, 1888
Anthracalaus moricii Fairmaire, 1888: 349.
Anthracalaus moricii, Fairmaire; Fleutiaux, 1918: 196; 1927: 101; 1947: 325 (Unjustified emendation).
Type depository. Lectotype (RBINS).
Type locality. Cochinchine.
Distribution. India: Assam (Calder and Hayek, 1992). Elsewhere: Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and China (Calder and Hayek, 1992).
Literature. Faimaire (1888: 349): original description; Fleutiaux (1918: 196; 1927: 101; 1947: 325): unjustified emendation.
Genus Lanelater Arnett, 1952
Lanelater Arnett, 1952: 105. Type species: Agrypnus schotti LeConte, 1853: 492. For more information, including synonyms, see Kundrata et al. (2019a).
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
title: Разработка нового вида функционального печенья с добавлением тыквенного пюре
Creators: name: Швецова, Анастасия
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: В данной статье рассмотрена актуальность пищевых продуктов с функциональной направленностью, изучена возможность применения тыквенного пюре, как функционального ингредиента, а также представлены результаты по разработке нового вида функционального печенья с добавлением тыквенного пюре.
Online Ethics Center:  Using the Film, "The Matrix," in an Engineering Ethics Course
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2006
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Controversies
Emerging Technologies
Ethics and Society
Governance
Human Enhancement
Law and Public Policy
Privacy and Surveillance
Responsible Innovation
Social Responsibility

description: Suggestions for using the film, The Matrix, as a teaching tool in an engineering ethics course.
Data on Displacements caused by the Growth of Bainite in Steels
Creators: name: Bhadeshia, H. K. D. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the important characteristics of solid-state phase transformations in steels is the choreography of atoms as they traverse the frontier between the parent and the product phases. Some transformations involve a chaotic motion of atoms consistent with long-range diffusion, and hence are closer to equilibrium than those that where a disciplined transfer occurs. Since the pattern of atoms changes during transformation, a disciplined motion of atoms necessarily leads to a change in the shape of the transformed region, and like any deformation, such changes cause strains in the surrounding material. These displacive transformations are therefore strain dominated, with the morphology, chemical composition and thermodynamic framework sensitive to the strain energy due to the shape change. Here we consider the published data that have been accumulated on the displacements associated with `bainite', a phase transformation product in steels that forms the basis of the world's first bulk nanocrystalline metal.
description: None
Exploring Deep Learning Image Super-Resolution for Iris Recognition
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Eduardo
name: Uhl, Andreas
name: Alonso-Fernandez, Fernando
name: Farrugia, Reuben A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we test the ability of deep learning methods to provide an end-to-end mapping between low and high resolution images applying it to the iris recognition problem. Here, we propose the use of two deep learning single-image super-resolution approaches: Stacked Auto-Encoders (SAE) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) with the most possible lightweight structure to achieve fast speed, preserve local information and reduce artifacts at the same time. We validate the methods with a database of 1.872 near-infrared iris images with quality assessment and recognition experiments showing the superiority of deep learning approaches over the compared algorithms.
description: Published at Proc. 25th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2017
Engineering Properties of Residual Soil from Landslide Hazard Area in Ban Nong Pla Village, Chiang Klang District, Nan Province, Northern Thailand
Creators: name: Thanakrit Thongkhao
Publisher: name: Department of Geology, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Landslide, Multi-stage direct shear test, Shear strength, Nan

description: Bulletin of Earth Sciences of Thailand (BEST), 5, 1, 49-57
Instructor Toolkit - Values and Policy in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science: A Dialogue-based Framework for Ethics Education
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: Collaboration
Environmental Justice
Interdisciplinary Research
Public and Community Engagement
Research and Practice
Risk
Sustainability

description: The "Values and Responsibility in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science" curriculum (http://eese.msu.edu/) is a modular resource designed to be implemented by environmental science instructors who have no ethics training for the purpose of guiding students through an analytic examination of the values and policy dimensions of their environmental science context. With the support of the NSF (SBE-1338614, MSU; SBE-1338626, Oregon State University) and with guidance from a national survey of environmental science instructors (Hall, Troy E., et al. 2016), this dialogue-based curriculum enables students to reflect on values, policy, and responsibility in a way that is informed by case study work and appreciation for different disciplinary perspectives. At the heart of this curriculum is the Toolbox dialogue methodology " students are given the opportunity to develop their own dialogue structures via reflection on topics with ethical implications, e.g., expertise, risk, policy constraints, and non-human impacts.
Thinking Through Complex Ethical Dilemmas in the Engineering Profession
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2019
Subjects: Bias in Research
Research and Practice
Whistleblowing
Workplace Ethics

description: This project discusses the design and delivery of engineering ethics workshops for practicing engineers in the state of Wisconsin, facilitated through the Office of Engineering Professional Development at UW-Madison. The page includes the handouts used in these workshops, including an introduction to ethical resources, cognitive biases, an ethical decision-making model, and a series of cases.
title: Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recession At Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness
Creators: name: Nagler, Markus
name: Piopiunik, Marc
name: West, Martin R.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 330

description: How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide causal evidence on this question by exploiting business cycle conditions at career start as a source of exogenous variation in the outside options of potential teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess teacher quality with value-added measures of impacts on student test scores, using administrative data on over 30,000 teachers in Florida public schools. Consistent with a Roy model of occupational choice, teachers entering the profession during recessions are significantly more effective in raising student test scores. Results are supported by robustness tests and unlikely to be driven by differential attrition.
Supplementary Material 3 Transformation of MI into α from An improved statistical approach for reconstructing past climates from biotic assemblages
Creators: name: Liu, Mengmeng
name: Prentice, Iain Colin
name: Cajo J. F. Ter Braak
name: Harrison, Sandy P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It shows the derivations of how to transform MI in the SMPDS data set to Î± which is used in this paper.
Supplementary Material 5 Comparison with BUMPER from An improved statistical approach for reconstructing past climates from biotic assemblages
Creators: name: Liu, Mengmeng
name: Prentice, Iain Colin
name: Cajo J. F. Ter Braak
name: Harrison, Sandy P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It provides comparison with BUMPER (Bayesian User-friendly Model for Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction).
Bottom-Up Ethics: Real World Training for Professional Practice
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2019
Subjects: Authorship
Collaboration
Data Management
Organizational Climate
Publication Ethics
Research and Practice

description: For students, opportunities to apply ethics training in real world circumstances are rare, especially for those who will eventually work in multiple disciplinary teams where members may have different levels of training in, and interpretations of, what constitutes ethical practice. Here, the authors describe an interactive two-day workshop that has been used successfully in an Introduction to the Professions (ITP) course in Illinois Tech's biomedical engineering program. This module could be adopted for use in almost any course or workshop that seeks to introduce students to the intricacies of research ethics.
title: Разработка магнитоэлектрического датчика положения
Creators: name: Бурцева, Дарья
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Статья посвящена исследованию магнитоэлектрического эффекта в асимметричных и симметричных МЭ градиентных структурах, предназначенных для применения в датчиках положения. Были проведены исследования рынка датчиков, что позволило сделать заключение о востребованности данного изделия. В результате исследований подтверждено, что значительно лучшие характеристики магнитоэлектрического коэффициента у асимметричных структур, наблюдаются на частотах вблизи изгибного резонанса. На основе исследованных структур могут быть разработаны датчики положения. Самонамагниченный или градиентный материал является двухфазной композицией магнитострикционного материала с градиентом намагниченности и сегнетоэлектрического материала с градиентом поляризации, скрепленных между собой. Самонамагниченные магнитоэлектрические датчики имеют ряд преимуществ перед традиционными, в частности имеют более высокую чувствительность, меньшие габариты и массу, обеспечивают работу без дополнительных источников энергии.
Student Toolkit - Values and Policy in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science: A Dialogue-based Framework for Ethics Education
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: Collaboration
Environmental Justice
Interdisciplinary Research
Public and Community Engagement
Research and Practice
Risk
Sustainability

description: The "Values and Responsibility in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science" curriculum (http://eese.msu.edu/) is a modular resource designed to be implemented by environmental science instructors who have no ethics training for the purpose of guiding students through an analytic examination of the values and policy dimensions of their environmental science context. With the support of the NSF (SBE-1338614, MSU; SBE-1338626, Oregon State University) and with guidance from a national survey of environmental science instructors (Hall, Troy E., et al. 2016), this dialogue-based curriculum enables students to reflect on values, policy, and responsibility in a way that is informed by case study work and appreciation for different disciplinary perspectives. At the heart of this curriculum is the Toolbox dialogue methodology " students are given the opportunity to develop their own dialogue structures via reflection on topics with ethical implications, e.g., expertise, risk, policy constraints, and non-human impacts.
Radio Unnameable excerpt
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Boxers (Sports)
African American boxers
Prisoners
African American prisoners
Judicial error

description: INTRO: In April 1976, shortly ater their release from prison, John Artis and Rubin "Hurricane" Carter spend 4 hours at WBAI talking with Bob Fass. The next 20 minutes were excerpted from that interview.
Rotating massive O stars with non-spherical 2D winds
Creators: name: Müller, Patrick E.
name: Vink, Jorick S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present solutions for the velocity field and mass-loss rates for 2D axisymmetric outflows, as well as for the case of mass accretion through the use of the Lambert W-function. For the case of a rotating radiation-driven wind the velocity field is obtained analytically using a parameterised description of the line acceleration that only depends on radius r at any given latitude $θ$. The line acceleration g(r) is obtained from Monte-Carlo multi-line radiative transfer calculations. The critical/sonic point of our equation of motion varies with latitude $θ$. Furthermore, an approximate analytical solution for the supersonic flow of a rotating wind is derived, which is found to closely resemble the exact solution. For the simultaneous solution of the mass-loss rate and velocity field, we use the iterative method of our 1D method extended to the non-spherical 2D case. We apply the new theoretical expressions with our iterative method to the stellar wind from a differentially rotating 40 $M_{sun}$ O5-V main sequence star as well as to a 60 $M_{sun}$ O-giant star, and we compare our results to previous studies that are extensions of the Castor et al. (1975, ApJ, 195, 157) CAK formalism. Next, we account for the effects of oblateness and gravity darkening. Our numerical results predict an equatorial decrease of the mass-loss rate, which would imply that (surface-averaged) total mass-loss rates are lower than for the spherical 1D case, in contradiction to the Maeder & Meynet (2000, A&A, 361, 159) formalism that is oftentimes employed in stellar evolution calculations for rotating massive stars. To clarify the situation in nature we discuss observational tests to constrain the shapes of large-scale 2D stellar winds.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, 7 tables, accepted for publication in A&A, (one corrected sentence in sect. 4.1.), a generalization of arXiv paper: arXiv:0810.1901
Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems
Creators: name: Wongpiromsarn, Tichakorn
name: Ghasemi, Mahsa
name: Cubuktepe, Murat
name: Bakirtzis, Georgios
name: Carr, Steven
name: Karabag, Mustafa O.
name: Neary, Cyrus
name: Gohari, Parham
name: Topcu, Ufuk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Formal methods refer to rigorous, mathematical approaches to system development and have played a key role in establishing the correctness of safety-critical systems. The main building blocks of formal methods are models and specifications, which are analogous to behaviors and requirements in system design and give us the means to verify and synthesize system behaviors with formal guarantees. This monograph provides a survey of the current state of the art on applications of formal methods in the autonomous systems domain. We consider correct-by-construction synthesis under various formulations, including closed systems, reactive, and probabilistic settings. Beyond synthesizing systems in known environments, we address the concept of uncertainty and bound the behavior of systems that employ learning using formal methods. Further, we examine the synthesis of systems with monitoring, a mitigation technique for ensuring that once a system deviates from expected behavior, it knows a way of returning to normalcy. We also show how to overcome some limitations of formal methods themselves with learning. We conclude with future directions for formal methods in reinforcement learning, uncertainty, privacy, explainability of formal methods, and regulation and certification.
Syllabus: Biology 611, Ethics of Emerging Technologies in the Life Sciences
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2017
Subjects: Emerging Technologies

description: Bio 611: Ethics of Emerging Technologies in the Life Sciences is a syllabus for a one credit graduate course. Taught at Arizona State University, Bio 611 attracts a mix of natural science and humanities graduate students and does not assume students will have substantial experience in ethics. Beyond exploration of the topic of ethics and emerging biotechnology, the course aims to develop the ability of students to analyze ethical issues through the incorporation of case discussion and case writing.
Oblate deformation of light neutron-rich even-even nuclei
Creators: name: Hamamoto, Ikuko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light neutron-rich even-even nuclei, of which the ground state is oblately deformed, are looked for, examining the Nilsson diagram based on realistic Woods-Saxon potentials. One-particle energies of the Nilsson diagram are calculated by solving the coupled differential equations obtained from the Schrödinger equation in coordinate space with the proper asymptotic behavior for $r \rightarrow \infty$ for both one-particle bound and resonant levels. The eigenphase formalism is used in the calculation of one-particle resonant energies. Large energy gaps on the oblate side of the Nilsson diagrams are found to be related to the magic numbers for the oblate deformation of the harmonic-oscillator potential where the frequency ratios ($ω_{\perp} : ω_{z}$) are simple rational numbers. In contrast, for the prolate deformation the magic numbers obtained from simple rational ratios of ($ω_{\perp} : ω_{z}$) of the harmonic-oscillator potential are hardly related to the particle numbers, at which large energy gaps appear in the Nilsson diagrams based on realistic Woods-Saxon potentials. The argument for an oblate shape of $^{42}_{14}$Si$_{28}$ is given. Among light nuclei the nucleus $^{20}_{6}$C$_{14}$ is found to be a good candidate for having the oblate ground state. In the region of the mass number $A \approx 70$ the oblate ground state may be found in the nuclei around $^{76}_{28}$Ni$_{48}$ in addition to $^{64}_{28}$Ni$_{36}$.
description: 2 figures
Emerging Biotechnologies: Class Plan (75 minutes)
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2017
Subjects: Controversies
Embryo Research
Emerging Technologies

description: This class plan gives a selection exercises out of which an instructor may build a class session around the Emerging Biotechnology case on Genome Editing and the Ethics of CRISPR-Cas9 [link to case]. The materials are suitable for upper division undergraduate courses in bioethics or the life and environmental sciences.
Advantages and developments of Raman spectroscopy for electroceramics
Creators: name: Deluca, Marco
name: Hu, Hailong
name: Popov, Maxim N.
name: Spitaler, Jürgen
name: Dieing, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite being applied with success in many fields of materials science, Raman spectroscopy is not yet determinant in the study of electroceramics. Recent experimental and theoretical developments, however, should increase the popularity of Raman spectroscopy in this class of materials. In this Review, we outline the fields of application of Raman spectroscopy and microscopy in various electroceramic systems, defining current key bottlenecks and explaining promising recent developments. We focus our attention to recent experimental developments, including coupling Raman spectroscopy with other methodologies, and modelling approaches involving both the model-based data interpretation and the ab initio calculation of realistic Raman spectra.
The VVV Templates Project. Towards an Automated Classification of VVV Light-Curves. I. Building a database of stellar variability in the near-infrared
Creators: name: Angeloni, R.
name: Ramos, R. Contreras
name: Catelan, M.
name: Dékány, I.
name: Gran, F.
name: Alonso-García, J.
name: Hempel, M.
name: Navarrete, C.
name: Andrews, H.
name: Aparicio, A.
name: Beamín, J. C.
name: Berger, C.
name: Borissova, J.
name: Peña, C. Contreras
name: Cunial, A.
name: de Grijs, R.
name: Espinoza, N.
name: Eyheramendy, S.
name: Lopes, C. E. Ferreira
name: Fiaschi, M.
name: Hajdu, G.
name: Han, J.
name: Hełminiak, K. G.
name: Hempel, A.
name: Hidalgo, S. L.
name: Ita, Y.
name: Jeon, Y. -B.
name: Jordán, A.
name: Kwon, J.
name: Lee, J. T.
name: Martín, E. L.
name: Masetti, N.
name: Matsunaga, N.
name: Milone, A. P.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Morelli, L.
name: Murgas, F.
name: Nagayama, T.
name: Navarro, C.
name: Ochner, P.
name: Pérez, P.
name: Pichara, K.
name: Rojas-Arriagada, A.
name: Roquette, J.
name: Saito, R. K.
name: Siviero, A.
name: Sohn, J.
name: Sung, H. -I.
name: Tamura, M.
name: Tata, R.
name: Tomasella, L.
name: Townsend, B.
name: Whitelock, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) ESO Public Survey is a variability survey of the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the disk carried out from 2010 on ESO Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). VVV will eventually deliver a deep near-IR atlas with photometry and positions in five passbands (ZYJHK_S) and a catalogue of 1-10 million variable point sources - mostly unknown - which require classifications. Aims. The main goal of the VVV Templates Project, that we introduce in this work, is to develop and test the machine-learning algorithms for the automated classification of the VVV light-curves. As VVV is the first massive, multi-epoch survey of stellar variability in the near-infrared, the template light-curves that are required for training the classification algorithms are not available. In the first paper of the series we describe the construction of this comprehensive database of infrared stellar variability. Methods. First we performed a systematic search in the literature and public data archives, second, we coordinated a worldwide observational campaign, and third we exploited the VVV variability database itself on (optically) well-known stars to gather high-quality infrared light-curves of several hundreds of variable stars. Results. We have now collected a significant (and still increasing) number of infrared template light-curves. This database will be used as a training-set for the machine-learning algorithms that will automatically classify the light-curves produced by VVV. The results of such an automated classification will be covered in forthcoming papers of the series.
description: 12 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in A&A. Most of the data are now accessible through http://www.vvvtemplates.org/
Big Data Syllabus - Biology 611: Ethics of Big Data in the Life Sciences
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2017
Subjects: Big Data
Controversies
Data Management
Emerging Technologies
Research and Practice

description: Bio 611: Ethics of Big Data in the Life Sciences is a syllabus for a one credit graduate course. Taught at Arizona State University, Bio 611 attracts a mix of natural science and humanities graduate students and does not assume students will have substantial experience in ethics. Beyond exploration of the ethics of big data, the seminar aims to develop the ability of students to analyze ethical issues through the incorporation of case discussion and case writing.
Tuning Optical Conductivity of Large-Scale CVD Graphene by Strain Engineering
Creators: name: Ni, Guang-Xin
name: Yang, Hong-Zhi
name: Ji, Wei
name: Baeck, Seung-Jae
name: Toh, Chee-Tat
name: Ahn, Jong-Hyun
name: Pereira, Vitor M.
name: Özyilmaz, Barbaros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strain engineering has been recently recognized as an effective way to tailor the electrical properties of graphene. In the optical domain, effects such as strain-induced anisotropic absorption add an appealing functionality to graphene, opening the prospect for atomically thin optical elements. Indeed, graphene is currently one of the notable players in the intense drive towards bendable, thin, and portable electronic displays, where its intrinsically metallic, optically transparent, and mechanically robust nature are major advantages. Given that the intrinsic transparency of a graphene monolayer is 97.7 %, any small, reproducible, controllable, and potentially reversible modulation of transparency can have a significant impact for graphene as a viable transparent conducting electrode. Even more so, if the degree of modulation is polarization dependent. Here we show that the transparency in the visible range of graphene pre-strained on a Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate exhibits a periodic modulation (0.1 %) as a function of polarization direction, which we interpret as strain-induced optical anisotropy. The degree of anisotropy is varied by reversible external manipulation of the level of pre-strain. The magnitude of strain is monitored independently by optical absorption and Raman spectroscopy, and the experimental observations are consistent with the theoretically expected modification of the optical conductivity of graphene arising from the strain-induced changes in the electronic dispersion of graphene. The strain sensitivity of the optical response of graphene demonstrated in this study can be potentially utilized towards novel ultra-thin optical devices and strain sensing applications.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
Biases from spectral leakage in remote sensing of near-surface currents
Creators: name: Weichert, Stefan
name: Smeltzer, Benjamin K.
name: Ellingsen, Simen Å.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Remotely measuring subsurface water currents from imagery of the wave field has become a much-used technique. We study the biases and errors in such measurements due to spectral leakage, and suggest mitigating procedures. Deviations between peak values in the three-dimensional wave spectrum and the known dispersion relation in quiescent water are extracted and interpreted as current-induced Doppler shifts, from which the sub-surface current is inferred. The use of discrete Fourier transforms, however, introduces spectral leakage between nearby frequency bins. Analysing synthetically generated wave data adhering to realistic input spectra we show that although no current is in fact present, spurious currents can be "measured" which can amount to a significant fraction of the phase speed at the spectral peak. We analyse the effects of data tapering, method of Doppler shift extraction, limited wavenumber and frequency resolution, peakedness and angular width of the input spectrum, and average misalignment between waves and Doppler shift velocity direction. The narrower the input wave spectrum in frequency and/or direction, the greater the biases become. The use of a window function reduces the severity in nearly all cases, yet mitigates the effects of limited resolution more effectively in space than in time. When a current is present the absolute biases remain essentially unchanged, when waves and currents are roughly aligned tapering much alleviates the concomitant biases, whereas in the case of a cross-current, biases remain significant even for tapered data.
Big Data Class Plan: Big Data in Genetics/Genomics-The Case of 23andMe and Personal Genomics (75 min)
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2017
Subjects: Big Data
Controversies
Data Management
Research and Practice

description: This class plan gives a selection of exercises out of which an instructor may build a class session around issues concerning the development of big data resources in genetics and genomics such as the materials being compiled by 23 and Me. The materials are suitable for upper division undergraduate courses in bioethics or the life and environmental sciences.
Simple recurrence formulas to count maps on orientable surfaces
Creators: name: Carrell, Sean R.
name: Chapuy, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish a simple recurrence formula for the number $Q_g^n$ of rooted orientable maps counted by edges and genus. We also give a weighted variant for the generating polynomial $Q_g^n(x)$ where $x$ is a parameter taking the number of faces of the map into account, or equivalently a simple recurrence formula for the refined numbers $M_g^{i,j}$ that count maps by genus, vertices, and faces. These formulas give by far the fastest known way of computing these numbers, or the fixed-genus generating functions, especially for large $g$. In the very particular case of one-face maps, we recover the Harer-Zagier recurrence formula. Our main formula is a consequence of the KP equation for the generating function of bipartite maps, coupled with a Tutte equation, and it was apparently unnoticed before. It is similar in look to the one discovered by Goulden and Jackson for triangulations, and indeed our method to go from the KP equation to the recurrence formula can be seen as a combinatorial simplification of Goulden and Jackson's approach (together with one additional combinatorial trick). All these formulas have a very combinatorial flavour, but finding a bijective interpretation is currently unsolved.
description: Version 3: We changed the title once again. We also corrected some misprints, gave another equivalent formulation of the main result in terms of vertices and faces (Thm. 5), and added complements on bivariate generating functions. Version 2: We extended the main result to include the ability to track the number of faces. The title of the paper has been changed accordingly
title: Individual Life Horizon Influences Attitudes Toward Democracy
Creators: name: Lechler, Marie
name: Sunde, Uwe
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 330

description: Support for democracy in the population is considered critical for the emergence and stability of democracy. Macro-determinants and retrospective experiences have been shown to affect the support for democracy at the individual level. We investigate whether and how the individual life horizon, in terms of the prospective length of life and age, affect individual attitudes toward democracy. Combining information from period life tables with individual survey response data spanning more than 260,000 observations from 93 countries over the period 1994-2014, we find evidence that the expected remaining years of life influence the attitudes toward a democratic political regime. The statistical identification decomposes the influence of age from the influence of the expected proximity to death. The evidence shows that support for democracy increases with age, but declines with expected proximity to death, implying that increasing longevity might help fostering the support for democracy. Increasing age while keeping the remaining years of life fixed as well as increasing remaining years of life for a given age group both contribute to the support for democracy.
Additional file 9 of Histone modifications associated with gene expression and genome accessibility are dynamically enriched at Plasmodium falciparum regulatory sequences
Creators: name: Jingyi Tang
name: Chisholm, Scott A.
name: Yeoh, Lee M.
name: Gilson, Paul R.
name: Papenfuss, Anthony T.
name: Day, Karen P.
name: Petter, Michaela
name: Duffy, Michael F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Fig S7. A) Average enrichment profiles of chromatin features and RNA levels from this study across the summits ± 1.8 kb of intergenic, peaks of H3K4me1 ChIP from this study relative to H3K4me3 from [38] B) Average enrichment profiles of chromatin features and RNA levels from this study across the intergenic peaks of H3K4me1 identified by Ubhe et al [48]. Average profile plots ± SE covering 1.5 kb up and downstream of published, “strong” H3K4me1 intergenic peaks longer than 1 bp (n = 259) [48] oriented according to the closest downstream gene. Top panel is the log2 ratio of ChIP over input average enrichment profiles of H3K4me1, H3K27ac, H3K18ac, H3 and Pf H2A.Z, middle panel is GC content and ATACseq normalised to gDNA and the bottom panel is RNA separated by strand. C) The number of intergenic peaks and their intersections from the H3K4me1/input from this study, the H3K4me1 from this study over the H3K4me3 from [38], and the H3K4me1 enriched intergenic regions from [48]. D) Spearman correlations for the single schizont H3K4me1 ChIP sample and matched input (Ubhe) analysed in [48] and for our two schizont replicates (S1 and S2) of H3K4me1 ChIP and matched input.