cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scrutinizing LLAMA D as a measure of implicit learning aptitude
Creators: name: Iizuka, Takehiro
name: DeKeyser, Robert
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023

description: Since Gisela Granena’s influential work, LLAMA D v2, a sound recognition subtest of LLAMA aptitude tests, has been used as a measure of implicit learning aptitude in second language acquisition research. The validity of this test, however, is little known and the results of studies with this instrument have been somewhat inconsistent. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that researchers’ variable test instructions are the source of the inconsistent results. One hundred fourteen English monolinguals were randomly assigned to take LLAMA D v2 under one of three test instruction conditions. They also completed two implicit aptitude tests, three explicit aptitude tests, and a sound discrimination test. The results showed that, regardless of the type of test instructions, LLAMA D scores did not align with implicit aptitude test scores, indicating no clear evidence of the test being implicit. On the contrary, LLAMA D scores were negatively associated with scores on one implicit aptitude test, the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) task, but only in the condition where the instructions drew participants’ focal attention to the stimuli. This negative association was interpreted as focal attention working against learning in the SRT task. Implicit learning aptitude may be the degree to which one is able to process input without focal attention.
Compressibility effects on Reynolds stress amplification and shock structure in shock–isotropic turbulence interactions
Creators: name: Grube, Nathan E.
name: Martín, M. Pino
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: shock waves
compressible turbulence
isotropic turbulence

description: Recent direct numerical simulation studies of canonical shock–isotropic turbulence interactions (SITIs) in the highly compressible regime exhibit streamwise Reynolds stress amplification that is significantly higher in some cases than in previous studies; an explanation is offered based on a relatively high Mach number combined with significant dilatational energy in the incident flow. Some cases exhibit a loss of amplification that is associated with a highly perturbed shock structure as the flow parameters approach the threshold between the wrinkled and broken shock regimes. The shock structure perturbations due to the highly compressible incident turbulence match those proposed by Donzis (Phys. Fluids, vol. 24, 2012, 126101) relatively well, but due to the presence of thermodynamic fluctuations in addition to velocity fluctuations in the incident flow, we propose a generalized parametrization based on the root-mean-square Mach number fluctuation in place of the turbulence Mach number. This is found to improve the collapse of the shock structure data, suggesting that the wrinkled–broken shock regime threshold determined previously for vortical turbulence (Donzis, Phys. Fluids, vol. 24, 2012, 126101; Larsson et al., J. Fluid Mech., vol. 717, 2013, pp. 293–321) can be applied to more general isotropic inflow fields using the proposed parametrization.
Using Topic-Modeling in Legal History, with an Application to Pre-Industrial English Case Law on Finance
Creators: name: Grajzl, Peter
name: Murrell, Peter
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022

description: We argue that topic-modeling, an unsupervised machine-learning technique for analysis of large corpora, can be a powerful tool for legal-historical research. We provide a non-technical introduction to topic-modeling driven by the presentation of an example of how researchers can use the data that topic-modeling produces. The context of the example is pre-industrial English caselaw on finance. We generate new insights on the timing of pertinent legal developments, the linkages of law on finance to other areas of law, and the relative importance of common-law and equity in the emergence of law and legal ideas relevant to finance. We argue that topic-modeling has the potential to bridge traditional legal history and economics, increasing the influence of the former on the latter, which is overdue. The output of topic-modeling includes the data required to generate a quantitative macroscopic overview of the flow of legal history. These data can be used in many ways in subsequent legal-historical research. Epistemologically, topic-modeling offers an escape from the temptations of Whig history and opens up new avenues for inductive analysis characteristic of traditional historical research.
The Influence of Coronal Mass Ejections on the Gas Dynamics of the Atmosphere of a "Hot~Jupiter" Exoplanet
Creators: name: Bisikalo, D. V.
name: Cherenkov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results of three-dimensional numerical simulations of the gas dynamics of the atmosphere of a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet during the passage of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the central star are presented. These computations assumed the parameters for the stellar wind and the CME to be typical of the solar values. The characteristic variations of the flow pattern are considered for quasi-closed and closed (but appreciably distorted by the gravitational influence of the star) gaseous envelopes of the exoplanet. It is shown that a typical CME is sufficient to tear off the outer part of an asymmetric envelope that is located beyond the Roche lobe and carry it away from the exoplanet. This leads to a substantial increase in the mass-loss rate from the exoplanet envelope during the passage of CMEs. The mass-loss rate grows by about a factor of 11 for a closed envelope, and by about a factor of 14 for a quasi-closed envelope. Possible evolutionary consequences of the loss of part of the atmosphere during the passage of CMEs are discussed.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
A study into utilising idle computation cycles on remote machines in a networked environment
Creators: name: Kakkodi, Shaji.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A Novel Bilingual Word Embedding Method for Lexical Translation Using Bilingual Sense Clique
Creators: name: Wang, Rui
name: Zhao, Hai
name: Ploux, Sabine
name: Lu, Bao-Liang
name: Utiyama, Masao
name: Sumita, Eiichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most of the existing methods for bilingual word embedding only consider shallow context or simple co-occurrence information. In this paper, we propose a latent bilingual sense unit (Bilingual Sense Clique, BSC), which is derived from a maximum complete sub-graph of pointwise mutual information based graph over bilingual corpus. In this way, we treat source and target words equally and a separated bilingual projection processing that have to be used in most existing works is not necessary any more. Several dimension reduction methods are evaluated to summarize the BSC-word relationship. The proposed method is evaluated on bilingual lexicon translation tasks and empirical results show that bilingual sense embedding methods outperform existing bilingual word embedding methods.
description: under review by COLING-2016
Preferential Trade Agreements, Geopolitics, and the Fragmentation of World Trade
Creators: name: Dadush, Uri
name: Dominguez Prost, Enzo
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: regional agreements
trading system
geopolitics

description: Failure to reestablish an effective World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement procedure, stop the erosion of multilateral rules and end the China–US trade war causes capitals to rethink trade policy. One response is to redouble efforts to strike trade agreements with major trading partners. Already countries accounting for about 78% of world Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are members of mega-regional agreements, and based on our computations, preferential trade agreements (PTAs) will soon cover about two-thirds of world trade. Can PTAs replace a fading WTO or mitigate its effects? Amid deepening geopolitical rifts, how will trade relations among China, the EU, and the US, each a hegemon in their respective regions, evolve, and what will be the impact on smaller economies? In short, how will a trading system based increasingly on PTAs and weak multilateral rules look, and how will nations adapt? Absent reforms, the trading system is likely to fragment progressively into regional blocks organized around the hegemons. Trade within the regional blocks, mainly conducted under a mega-regional agreement, will likely remain quite open and predictable, but without strict multilateral rules and where PTAs are absent (as they are among the hegemons), interregional trade relations will become increasingly uncertain and unstable.
Workplace Discrimination and Undocumented First-Generation Latinx Immigrants
Creators: name: Garcia Quijano, Josselyn Andrea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020

description: This paper provides an analysis of the discrimination faced by first-generation undocumented Latinx immigrants in the workplace. It outlines the different types of workplace discrimination (e.g., exploitation, dangerous working conditions, wage theft, physical and emotional abuse) and the factors that feed it (e.g., in-groups and out-groups, negative media portrayal, anti-immigrant sentiment, ethno-racial profiling, criminalization). While it explores the implications of immigration law, specifically the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), it also highlights the psychological distress, depression, and vulnerability to disease faced by first-generation undocumented Latinx immigrants who experience these conditions. It assesses the coping mechanisms for the negative effects of workplace discrimination and discusses the ways social workers and advocates can support the overall undocumented immigrant community.
Mehrfachbeschäftigung : Möglichkeiten und Hürden in der beruflichen Vorsorge
Creators: name: Moor, Markus
name: Erny, Matthias
Publisher: name: vps.epas
Year: 2023
Subjects: 360: Soziale Probleme und Sozialversicherungen

description: Mehrere kleine Pensen werden durch die 2. Säule schlecht erfasst. Für eine Verbesserung würde die Reform BVG 21 sorgen. Bereits jetzt können Arbeitgebende und Arbeitnehmende aktiv werden und freiwillig mehr versichern.
Familial sources of encouragement and breast-feeding practices among women participating in the US Special Supplemental Nutrition Programme for Women, Infants and Children
Creators: name: Channell Doig, Amara
name: Aparicio, Elizabeth M
name: Gallo, Sina
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: breast-feeding
WIC
breast-feeding duration
infant feeding
social support
maternal health
family

description: Objective: To explore how sources of familial encouragement are associated with breast-feeding initiation and duration among a national sample participating in the US Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Design: This study uses the 2013–2015 WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study 2 (WIC ITFPS-2) data. Breast-feeding initiation was measured at the first month, while duration was derived from a composite of the first 13 months. The analysis used logistic and linear regression to explore the association between encouragement sources and breast-feeding outcomes. Setting: A nationally representative sample of WIC participants in the USA. Participants: WIC participants who completed the 13-month interview of the WIC ITFPS-2 (n 2807). Results: Encouragement was significantly associated with both initiation and duration. Each source of encouragement was associated with a 3·2 (95 % CI 2·8, 3·8) increase in odds of initiating breast-feeding in the unadjusted model and 3·0 (95 % CI 2·5, 3·6) increased odds, controlling for age, education, nativity, poverty status, race and ethnicity (<0·0001). When predicting log duration, each percent increase in source of encouragement was associated with an increasing duration on average by 0·003 d (95 % CI 0·2, 0·3, <0·0001). When controls were added, it was associated with an increase of an average of 0·002 d (95 % CI 0·2, 0·3) per percent increase in encouragement source (<0·0001). Conclusions: Women who receive encouragement appear to be more likely to breastfeed. Additional work is needed to explore sources of encouragement and how to include them in intervention work.
Rationalization and Identification of Binary Games with Correlated Types
Creators: name: Liu, Nianqing
name: Vuong, Quang
name: Xu, Haiqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper studies the rationalization and identification of binary games where players have correlated private types. Allowing for correlation is crucial in global games and in models with social interactions as it represents correlated information and homophily, respectively. Our approach is fully nonparametric in the joint distribution of types and the strategic effects in the payoffs. First, under monotone pure Bayesian Nash Equilibrium strategy, we characterize all the restrictions if any on the distribution of players' choices imposed by the game-theoretic model as well as restrictions associated with two assumptions frequently made in the empirical analysis of discrete games. Namely, we consider exogeneity of payoff shifters relative to private information, and mutual independence of private information given payoff shifters. Second, we study the nonparametric identification of the payoff functions and types distribution. We show that the model with exogenous payoff shifters is fully identified up to a single location--scale normalization under some exclusion restrictions and rank conditions. Third, we discuss partial identification under weaker conditions and multiple equilibria. Lastly, we briefly point out the implications of our results for model testing and estimation.
description: This paper was presented at Texas Metrics Camp 2013, the 2013 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society at University of Southern California, and the 2013 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society at National University of Singapore
Spectroscopic and DFT studies of graphene intercalation systems on metals
Creators: name: Dedkov, Yuriy
name: Voloshina, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intercalation of different species under graphene on metals is an effective way to tailor electronic properties of these systems. Here we present the successful intercalation of metallic (Cu) and gaseous (oxygen) specimens underneath graphene on Ir(111) and Ru(0001), respectively, that allows to change the charge state of graphene as well as to modify drastically its electronic structure in the vicinity of the Fermi level. We employ ARPES and STS spectroscopic methods in combination with state-of-the-art DFT calculations in order to illustrate how the energy dispersion of graphene-derived states can be studied in the macro- and nm-scale experiments.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures; accepted for the special issue in JESRP
Microstability of β ~ 1 tokamak equilibria
Creators: name: Gaur, Rahul
name: Abel, Ian G.
name: Dickinson, David
name: Dorland, William D.
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: fusion plasma
plasma simulation
plasma instabilities

description: High-power-density tokamaks offer a potential solution to design cost-effective fusion devices. One way to achieve high power density is to operate at a high β value (the ratio of thermal to magnetic pressure), i.e. β∼1. However, a β∼1 state may be unstable to various pressure- and current-driven instabilities or have unfavourable microstability properties. To explore these possibilities, we generate β∼1 equilibria and investigate their stability. First, we demonstrate the generation of high- β equilibria with the computer code VMEC. We then analyse these equilibria to determine their stability against the infinite- n ideal-ballooning mode. We follow that by engaging in a detailed microstability study using the GS2 code, beginning with assessments of electrostatic ion-temperature-gradient and trapped election mode instabilities. We observe interesting behaviour for the high- β equilibria – stabilization of these modes through two distinct mechanisms – large negative local shear and reversal of electron precession drift. Finally, we perform electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations and observe enhanced stability in the outer core of high- β equilibria and absence of kinetic ballooning modes in the negative-triangularity, high- β equilibria. The enhanced outer-core stability of high- β equilibria is different from their lower- β counterparts and offers an alternative, potentially favourable regime of tokamak operation.
Binary Cyclic Codes that are Locally Repairable
Creators: name: Goparaju, Sreechakra
name: Calderbank, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Codes for storage systems aim to minimize the repair locality, which is the number of disks (or nodes) that participate in the repair of a single failed disk. Simultaneously, the code must sustain a high rate, operate on a small finite field to be practically significant and be tolerant to a large number of erasures. To this end, we construct new families of binary linear codes that have an optimal dimension (rate) for a given minimum distance and locality. Specifically, we construct cyclic codes that are locally repairable for locality 2 and distances 2, 6 and 10. In doing so, we discover new upper bounds on the code dimension, and prove the optimality of enabling local repair by provisioning disjoint groups of disks. Finally, we extend our construction to build codes that have multiple repair sets for each disk.
description: This 5 page paper appeared in the proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2014
Empirical evaluation of relationship between image quality measures and compression techniques
Creators: name: Puri, Ishan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Dignity, Dementia and Death
Creators: name: Kerstein, Samuel J
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: dignity
physician-assisted dying
dementia
Alzheimer's
Formula of Humanity
Immanuel Kant
respect for persons
suicide

description: According to Kant’s ethics, at least on one common interpretation, persons have a special worth or dignity that demands respect. But personhood is not coextensive with human life; for example, individuals can live in severe dementia after losing the capacities constitutive of personhood. Some philosophers, including David Velleman and Dennis Cooley, have suggested that individuals living after the loss of their personhood might offend against the Kantian dignity the individuals once possessed. Cooley has even argued that it is morally required on Kantian grounds for those who realize that they will lose their personhood as a result of dementia (e.g. Alzheimer’s) to hasten their deaths (e.g. commit suicide). This article specifies circumstances in which post-personhood living might indeed involve an affront to the Kantian dignity of a person who once was. However, the article contends, Kant implies that it is neither morally required nor even morally permissible for someone in an early stage of Alzheimer’s to hasten their death to avoid such an affront, even if they have autonomously chosen to do so. The article adds an ethical perspective to debate on physician-assisted dying, in particular on the moral permissibility of the soon-to-be-demented ending their lives.
The Factors of Resistance to Organizational Change Management Process: A Case Study at Ethiopian Revenue & Customs Authority (ERCA)
Creators: name: Tesfaye, Ayalew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: In this paper, the factors of resistance to organizational change management are studied in view of the Lewin's three phase model of change process. The coefficients of fifteen sources of resistance were the critical cancers and were weighed against which sources of resistance presents higher disparity of impact in the phases of the change process. One hundred fifty questionnaires were distributed randomly in ERCA, Addis Ababa. A unidirectional logit regression of odds ratio and marginal function analysis was used to get a finding that age and gender are not predictors to resistance, while education and experience are negatively and positively predictors respectively. It is also found that a variable factor can have varied significance level in the unfreezing, moving and refreezing phases of change a process. In this regard vulnerability driven factor was the highest significant factor in the first two phases while managerial incapability driven factor in the last phase of change management process.
Persistence as Order Parameter in Generalized Pair Contact Process with Diffusion
Creators: name: Matte, Maneesh B.
name: Gade, Prashant M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The question of universality class of pair contact process with diffusion (PCPD) is revisited with an alternative approach. We study persistence in Generalized Pair-Contact Process with diffusion (GPCPD) introduced by Noh and Park, (Phys. Rev. E 69,016122(2004)). This model allows us to interpolate between directed percolation (DP) and PCPD universality classes. We find that transition to nonzero persistence is at same parameter value as transition to zero number density. We obtain finite size scaling and off-critical scaling collapse for persistence and find critical exponents by fitting phenomenological scaling laws to persistence. While the dynamic scaling exponent $z$ varies continuously in GPCPD, the correlation-time exponent $ν_\parallel$ matches with directed percolation universality class.
Field-Enhanced Kondo Correlations in a Half-Filling Nanotube Dot: Evolution of an SU(N) Fermi-Liquid Fixed Point
Creators: name: Teratani, Yoshimichi
name: Sakano, Rui
name: Fujiwara, Ryo
name: Hata, Tokuro
name: Arakawa, Tomonori
name: Ferrier, Meydi
name: Kobayashi, Kensuke
name: Oguri, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study an emergent SU(2) symmetry which is suggested by recent magneto-transport measurements, carried out near two electrons filling of a carbon nanotube quantum dot. It emerges in the case where the spin and orbital Zeeman splittings cancel each other out for two of the one-particle dot levels among four. Using the Wilson numerical renormalization group, we show that a crossover from the SU(4) to SU(2) Fermi-liquid behavior occurs at two impurity-electrons filling as magnetic field increases. We also find that the quasiparticles are significantly renormalized as the remaining two one-particle levels move away from the Fermi level and are frozen at high magnetic fields. In order to clarify how the ground state evolves during such a crossover, we also reexamine the SU(N) Kondo singlet state for M impurity-electrons filling in the limit of strong exchange interactions. We show that the nondegenerate Fermi-liquid fixed point of Nozièes and Blandin can be described as a bosonic Perron-Frobenius vector for M hard-core bosons, each of which consists of one impurity-electron and one conduction hole. This interpretation can also be applied to the Fermi-liquid fixed-point without the SU(N) symmetry.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures, Sec.III B. has been revised. J.Phys.Soc.Jpn.in press
The Assessment of Management outsourcing on the performance of Ethio Telecom
Creators: name: Assefa, Yetnayet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The objective of this research was to assess the performance gains due to the management outsourcing of Ethio Telecom. This research covered managers from Ethio Telecom, staffs at supervisor and lower level and personnel assigned from MCIT. The samples involved in the study were 320 staffs at supervisor or lower level and 10 managers selected from senior management positions. The staffs were selected using a multi stage stratified clustering method. The study result indicated that the outsourcing of ET management had positive impacts in some of the performance measuring parameters and negative effects in the others. The areas that showed positive improvement due to the outsourcing are branding & marketing, customer handling, development of new services, service delivery and organizational improvements like planning, scheduling and project follow up. In the other hand employee relationship, staff – management harmony, working environment, training and development and support of existing network had been affected negatively. The study result also revealed that the human capacity building in ET during the outsourcing period was weak. Most of the managers and staffs were arguing the knowledge transfer expected from an international service provider was not gained. The inability to sustain the good changes introduced by France Telecom was also mentioned as a short coming. Overall outsourcing of the top management of a company is a huge undertaking which needs a due diligence in decision of outsourcing, selection of a capable service provider, implementation of the outsourcing according to pre defined targets and management of the outsourcing. Hence it is recommended to set up clearly defined and measurable targets before engagement in the outsourcing practice and monitoring the performance on regular basis.
Production of highly-polarized positrons using polarized electrons at MeV energies
Creators: name: Abbott, D.
name: Adderley, P.
name: Adeyemi, A.
name: Aguilera, P.
name: Ali, M.
name: Areti, H.
name: Baylac, M.
name: Benesch, J.
name: Bosson, G.
name: Cade, B.
name: Camsonne, A.
name: Cardman, L. S.
name: Clark, J.
name: Cole, P.
name: Covert, S.
name: Cuevas, C.
name: Dadoun, O.
name: Dale, D.
name: Dong, H.
name: Dumas, J.
name: Fanchini, E.
name: Forest, T.
name: Forman, E.
name: Freyberger, A.
name: Froidefond, E.
name: Golge, S.
name: Grames, J.
name: Guèye, P.
name: Hansknecht, J.
name: Harrell, P.
name: Hoskins, J.
name: Hyde, C.
name: Josey, B.
name: Kazimi, R.
name: Kim, Y.
name: Machie, D.
name: Mahoney, K.
name: Mammei, R.
name: Marton, M.
name: McCarter, J.
name: McCaughan, M.
name: McHugh, M.
name: McNulty, D.
name: Mesick, K. E.
name: Michaelides, T.
name: Michaels, R.
name: Moffit, B.
name: Moser, D.
name: Camacho, C. Muñoz
name: Muraz, J. -F.
name: Opper, A.
name: Poelker, M.
name: Réal, J. -S.
name: Richardson, L.
name: Setiniyaz, S.
name: Stutzman, M.
name: Suleiman, R.
name: Tennant, C.
name: Tsai, C.
name: Turner, D.
name: Ungaro, M.
name: Variola, A.
name: Voutier, E.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Polarized Electrons for Polarized Positrons experiment at the injector of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility has demonstrated for the first time the efficient transfer of polarization from electrons to positrons produced by the polarized bremsstrahlung radiation induced by a polarized electron beam in a high-$Z$ target. Positron polarization up to 82\% have been measured for an initial electron beam momentum of 8.19~MeV/$c$, limited only by the electron beam polarization. This technique extends polarized positron capabilities from GeV to MeV electron beams, and opens access to polarized positron beam physics to a wide community.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
The power of a control qubit in weak measurements
Creators: name: Coto, Raul
name: Montenegro, Víctor
name: Eremeev, Vitalie
name: Mundarain, Douglas
name: Orszag, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the late 80s, a curious effect suggested by Aharanov, Albert and Vaidman opened up new vistas regarding quantum measurements on weakly coupled systems. There, a combination of a "weak" finite interaction together with a "strong" post-selection measurement leads to an anomalous effect, namely the mean value of a spin-1/2 particle in the $z-$direction lies outside the conventional spectrum of $\pm$1. In this paper, we investigate the quantum control of the weak value amplification of a qubit system coupled to a meter, via a second non-interacting qubit, initially quantum correlated with the first one. Our results show that for weak measurements, the control can be remotely realized via the post-selected state of the second qubit or the degree of squeezing of the meter. Additionally, in a step towards the study of the quantum control of the amplification, we can easily manipulate the degree of quantum correlations between the initial correlated qubits. We find that the degree of Entanglement has no effect on the quantum control of the amplification. However, we have found a clear connection between the amplification and quantum discord like measurements as well as classical correlations between the qubits. Moreover, we generalize the analysis to two control qubits and we can conclude that the single control qubit scheme is more efficient. Lastly, we suggest an original application of the amplification control protocol on the enhancement of the quantum measurement accuracy, e.g. measuring the relative phase of the post-selected control qubit in a more precise way, as opposed to the no-amplification case
description: 10 pages,5 figures
Applet-based questions : a design approach to on-line evaluation for Web-based courseware
Creators: name: Kanzaki, Toru.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Role of Knowledge Management in Enhancing Organizational Performance; The Case of Selected International NGOs Operating in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Lemlem
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Knowledge management is a process that transforms individual knowledge into organizational knowledge. The effective management of knowledge resources/components is a key imperative for firms that want to leverage their knowledge management components assets and improved performance. The aim of this paper is to show that through information technology, organizational culture and organizational knowledge can enhance organizational performance in positively way and descriptively investigated through questionnaire. Targeting population is employees of the seven international NGO operating in Ethiopia at Addis Ababa city, sample size was determined through by their employee's number that accompany with their operational activities by making peer assessment and my colleague working in organization that used to collect the data on time bases. Questionnaires is employed to collect the primary data from study participant of the four international NGOs operating in Addis Ababa within 110 employees of sample size and the data was also analyzed using manuscript analysis and direct quotation. Therefore, the study revealed the strengths and shortcomings of the current knowledge management components practices in these selected organizations for their better efficiency and success of projects. The medium level of awareness and acceptance of the concept and practice of knowledge management by the employees of these organizations are identified as prospect by this research. In addition, owing to the lack of an overall knowledge management policy or strategy, different organization pursue the practice of knowledge management factors in their own way, with some of them barely making use of the knowledge management component system portal. This situation calls for organizational efforts to reinforce the practice of knowledge management by formulating comprehensive knowledge management policy/strategy compatible with organizational strategy, enhance the level of employee awareness regarding the concepts and benefits of knowledge management, implement formal knowledge management means and relive employees from work burden by reallocating organizational resources so as to enable them to actively take part in knowledge management element activities that improved organizational performance. Besides, rewarding effective organizational knowledge and culture activities and providing with adequate information technology infrastructure to adventure it have also vital contribution for positively effect of organizational performance. Keywords: knowledge management, information technology, organizational culture, organizational knowledge, workforce diversity, organizational performance.
“The Year of Jubilee is Come”: Black Millerites and the Politics of Christian Apocalypticism
Creators: name: Baker, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: Millerite
Millerism
black religion
slavery
abolition
eschatology

description: This article explores the experiences of black people who accepted the teaching of William Miller that Christ would return to the earth in 1843–1844. Heretofore, black Millerites have been almost completely ignored in the substantial historiography of Millerism, millennialism and apocalypticism, and black religion. In this article, I argue that the black experience in Millerism deserves to be studied because it articulates the central concerns of blacks at a critical juncture in antebellum America. I show that enslaved and free blacks embraced Miller's doctrine because of the failure of America, particularly its politics and churches, to provide them the basic human right of freedom. As they did in the Christian churches they joined during the Awakenings, blacks fashioned Millerism in their image, using it for purpose, empowerment, expression, community, and liberation. This exploration of black Millerites contributes to broader discussions on the motivations of marginalized people who gravitate toward the eschatological and the impact the apocalyptic has on real-world engagement.
PID Graph: Becoming part of the FAIR ecosystem
Creators: name: Garza, Kristian
name: Wimalaratne, Sarala
name: Bennett, Mike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: PID Graph
FAIRCORE4EOSC

description: DataCite Open Hours 2023 provided a comprehensive overview of DataCite's latest project focused on supporting service workflows for generating data dumps related to community profiles. The PID Graph Component encompasses several subcomponents, including PID Graph Nodes Metadata Harvesting, PID Graph Links Metadata Harvesting, PID Graph Nodes Metadata Dumps, Usage Activity Tracking Widget, Usage Activity Processing, Link Capturing Agents, and PID Querying Services. These functionalities are aimed at streamlining the harvesting of the PID Graph metadata, and facilitating the ingestion and reuse of this metadata by the EOSC community and other related services. With an emphasis on the interoperability framework for graph data exchange, the PID Graph Component seeks to enhance the exchange and consumption of usage metrics and relational metadata between services. During the consultation, we aim to provide: An understanding of the ongoing PID Graph work under the EOSC. An opportunity for you to provide feedback about the PID Graph work. A platform for you to suggest requirements for your use cases. More information about the EOSC PID Graph. The presentation includes the Menti polling results.
Dawes Review 5: Australian Aboriginal Astronomy and Navigation
Creators: name: Norris, Ray P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The traditional cultures of Aboriginal Australians include a significant astronomical component, perpetuated through oral tradition, ceremony, and art. This astronomical knowledge includes a deep understanding of the motion of objects in the sky, which was used for practical purposes such as constructing calendars and for navigation. There is also evidence that traditional Aboriginal Australians made careful records and measurements of cyclical phenomena, recorded unexpected phenomena such as eclipses and meteorite impacts, and could determine the cardinal points to an accuracy of a few degrees. Putative explanations of celestial phenomena appear throughout the oral record, suggesting traditional Aborig- inal Australians sought to understand the natural world around them, in the same way as modern scientists, but within their own cultural context. There is also a growing body of evidence for sophisticated navigational skills, including the use of astronomically based songlines. Songlines are effectively oral maps of the landscape, and are an efficient way of transmitting oral navigational skills in cultures that do not have a written language. The study of Aboriginal astronomy has had an impact extending beyond mere academic curiosity, facilitating cross-cultural understanding, demonstrating the intimate links between science and culture, and helping students to engage with science.
description: Accepted by PASA. This version contains minor modifications
On the Ethics of Mindfulness-based Interventions
Creators: name: Ruan, Howard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020

description: Since the introduction of mindfulness-based stress reduction in 1979, secular mindfulness has risen in popularity and used in many settings. This paper explores the ethics of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in light of the contention that secular mindfulness is a misappropriation of Buddhist practice. This paper examines the presumed synonymity between traditional Buddhist mindfulness and secular mindfulness, emphasizing issues of conceptual integrity, postmodern secularism, and modernist globalization. The paper argues, finally, that the two constructs require redefinition.
On sequences of solutions for discrete anisotropic equations
Creators: name: Bisci, Giovanni Molica
name: Repovš, Dušan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34L30, 35B38, 34L05, 35P30, 47A75

description: Taking advantage of a recent critical point theorem, the existence of infinitely many solutions for an anisotropic problem with a parameter is established. More precisely, a concrete interval of positive parameters, for which the treated problem admits infinitely many solutions, is determined without symmetry assumptions on the nonlinear data. Our goal was achieved by requiring an appropriate behavior of the nonlinear terms at zero, without any additional conditions.
Architecture for Java 3D API within a 3D world
Creators: name: Chu, Kap Fei.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Higgs-boson visible and invisible constraints on hidden sectors
Creators: name: Biekoetter, Thomas
name: Pierre, Mathias
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: fermion, dark matter
Higgs particle, doublet
Higgs particle, branching ratio
invisible decay
hidden sector
decay modes
Goldstone particle

description: We investigate the impact of interactions between hidden sectors and the discovered Higgs boson $h_{125}$, allowing for additional invisible decay channels of $h_{125}$. We perform $\chi^2$-fits to the measurements of the Higgs-boson cross sections as a function of the invisible branching ratio and different combinations of coupling modifiers, where the latter quantify modifications of the couplings of $h_{125}$ compared to the predictions of the Standard Model. We present generic results in terms of exclusion limits on the coupling modifiers and the invisible branching ratio of $h_{125}$. Additionally, we apply our results to a variety of concrete model realizations containing a hidden sector: dark matter within Higgs- and singlet-portal scenarios, models featuring (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone bosons and two Higgs doublet extensions. One of the main conclusions of our work is that in a wide class of models the indirect constraints resulting from the measurements of the cross sections of $h_{125}$ provide substantially stronger constraints on the invisible Higgs-boson branching ratio compared to the direct limits obtained from searches for the invisible decay of $h_{125}$. However, we demonstrate that the presence of an invisible decay mode of $h_{125}$ can also open up parameter space regions which otherwise would be excluded as a result of the indirect constraints. As a byproduct of our analysis, we show that in light of the new results from the LZ collaboration a fermionic DM candidate within the simplest Higgs-portal scenario is completely ruled out.
Codes of deep learning
Creators: name: Mei, Yongchang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 20504 Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This code file is the original code of the paper(Deep learning assisted pressure sensing based on Sagnac interferomrtry realized by side-hole fiber), which contains CNN, LSTM network construction, 10-fold cross-validation of CNN and LSTM, and GAF code to convert 1D signals to 2D signals. NOTICE: The pathfile need to be adjusted for yourself.
Estimating reliability for response-time difference measures: Toward a standardized, model-based approach
Creators: name: Hui, Bronson
name: Wu, Zhiyi
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023

description: A slowdown or a speedup in response times across experimental conditions can be taken as evidence of online deployment of knowledge. However, response-time difference measures are rarely evaluated on their reliability, and there is no standard practice to estimate it. In this article, we used three open data sets to explore an approach to reliability that is based on mixed-effects modeling and to examine model criticism as an outlier treatment strategy. The results suggest that the model-based approach can be superior but show no clear advantage of model criticism. We followed up these results with a simulation study to identify the specific conditions in which the model-based approach has the most benefits. Researchers who cannot include a large number of items and have a moderate level of noise in their data may find this approach particularly useful. We concluded by calling for more awareness and research on the psychometric properties of measures in the field.
Comparison of the dislocation density obtained by HR-EBSD and X-ray profile analysis
Creators: name: Kalácska, Szilvia
name: Groma, István
name: Borbély, András
name: Ispánovity, Péter Dusan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the cross correlation analysis of the Kikuchi diffraction patterns high-resolution EBSD is a well established method to determine the internal stress in deformed crystalline materials. In many cases, however, the stress values obtained at the different scanning points have a large (in the order of GPa) scatter. As it was first demonstrated by Wilkinson and co-workers this is due to the long tail of the probability distribution of the internal stress ($P(σ)$) generated by the dislocations present in the system. According to the theoretical investigations of Groma and co-workers the tail of $P(σ)$ is inverse cubic with prefactor proportional to the total dislocation density $$. In this paper we present a direct comparison of the X-ray line broadening and $P(σ)$ obtained by EBSD on deformed Cu single crystals. It is shown that $$ can be determined from $P(σ)$. This opens new perspectives for the application of EBSD in determining mesoscale parameters in a heterogeneous sample.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Microelectrode arrays of diamond-insulated graphitic channels for real time detection of exocytotic events from cultured chromaffin cells and slices of adrenal glands
Creators: name: Picollo, F.
name: Battiato, A.
name: Bernardi, E.
name: Marcantoni, A.
name: Pasquarelli, A.
name: Carbone, E.
name: Olivero, P.
name: Carabelli, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A microstructured graphitic 4x4 multielectrode array was embedded in a single crystal diamond substrate (4x4 {uG-SCD MEA) for real-time monitoring of exocytotic events from cultured chromaffin cells and adrenal slices. The current approach relies on the development of a parallel ion beam lithographic technique, which assures the time effective fabrication of extended arrays with reproducible electrode dimensions. The reported device is suitable for performing amperometric and voltammetric recordings with high sensitivity and temporal resolution, by simultaneously acquiring data from 16 rectangularly shaped microelectrodes (20x3.5 um^2) separated by 200 um gaps. Taking advantage of the array geometry we addressed the following specific issues: i) detect both the spontaneous and KCl-evoked secretion simultaneously from several chromaffin cells directly cultured on the device surface, ii) resolve the waveform of different subsets of exocytotic events, iii) monitoring quantal secretory events from thin slices of the adrenal gland. The frequency of spontaneous release was low (0.12 Hz and 0.3 Hz respectively for adrenal slices and cultured cells) and increased up to 0.9 Hz after stimulation with 30 mM KCl in cultured cells. The spike amplitude as well as rise and decay time were comparable with those measured by carbon fiber microelectrodes and allowed to identify three different subsets of secretory events associated to "full fusion" events, "kiss and-run" and "kiss-and-stay" exocytosis, confirming that the device has adequate sensitivity and time resolution for real-time recordings. The device offers the significant advantage of shortening the time to collect data by allowing simultaneous recordings from cell populations either in primary cell cultures or in intact tissues.
Open EDI on the Internet : the new B2B E-Commerce model
Creators: name: Du, Qiming.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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