cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Smooth Dynamics for Distributed Constrained Optimization with Heterogeneous Delays
Creators: name: Li, Mengmou
name: Yamashita, Shunya
name: Hatanaka, Takeshi
name: Chesi, Graziano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This work investigates the distributed constrained optimization problem under inter-agent communication delays from the perspective of passivity. First, we propose a continuous-time algorithm for distributed constrained optimization with general convex objective functions. The asymptotic stability under general convexity is guaranteed by the phase lead compensation. The inequality constraints are handled by adopting a projection-free generalized Lagrangian, whose primal-dual gradient dynamics preserves passivity and smoothness, enabling the application of the LaSalle's invariance principle in the presence of delays. Then, we incorporate the scattering transformation into the proposed algorithm to enhance the robustness against unknown and heterogeneous communication delays. Finally, a numerical example of a matching problem is provided to illustrate the results.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Literature and the Environmental Humanities: a theoretical framework
Creators: name: Elia, Annamaria
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2024

description: Since the second half of the 20th century, a growing concern about the environment and climate change has been raised across different academic fields. As for literary studies, the debate about ecocriticism nourished the flourishing of new theories and ideas coming from the intersection of natural sciences and humanities. Despite the hegemony of Anglophone research, drawing from more multicultural contexts environmental studies seem nowadays to converge more and more towards the interdisciplinary – and yet non unitary – field of the Environmental Humanities. This article intends to frame a comprehensive overview of the major con-temporary ecocritical theories from a comparative perspective, particularly focusing on the contribution that literature brings to the wider context of Environmental Humanities and in response to the epistemological and ontological challenges posed by the Anthropocene. In doing so, it particularly focuses on three main key concepts: nature, agency, and scales.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 26 (2024): Teoria/Theory. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature
Distributed Optimization With Event-triggered Communication via Input Feedforward Passivity
Creators: name: Li, Mengmou
name: Su, Lanlan
name: Liu, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work, we address the distributed optimization problem with event-triggered communication by the notion of input feedforward passivity (IFP). First, we analyze the distributed continuous-time algorithm over uniformly jointly strongly connected balanced digraphs in an IFP-based framework. Then, we propose a distributed event-triggered communication mechanism for this algorithm. Next, we discretize the continuous-time algorithm by the forward Euler method with a constant stepsize irrelevant to network size, and show that the discretization can be seen as a stepsize-dependent passivity degradation of the input feedforward passivity. Thus, the discretized system preserves the IFP property and enables the same event-triggered communication mechanism but without Zeno behavior due to the discrete-time nature. Finally, a numerical example is presented to illustrate our results.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Identification of intermediates and ecotoxicity assessment during the UV/H2O2 oxidation of azo dye Reactive Orange 16
Creators: name: Mitrović, Jelena Z.
name: Radović, Miljana D.
name: Anđelković, Tatjana D.
name: Bojić, Danijela V.
name: Bojić, Aleksandar Lj.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Degradation of azo dye Reactive Orange 16, a widely used textile dye, was carried out with UV light in the presence of H2O2. The experiments were conducted in the batch mode using low-pressure mercury lamps, emitting at 253.7 nm. Liquid-chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) and high resolution mass spectrometry (FT-ICR) were employed in order to identify some of degradation products as well as to suggest possible degradation pathways. According to the mass spectrum characterization of RO16 dye and MSn fragmentation (up to MS4), its possible fragmentation pattern was proposed. The results revealed that degradation occurred mainly via hydroxylation, cleavage of the C‒S bond between the aromatic ring and the sulfonate group, cleavage of the azo bond, cleavage of the C‒N bond between azo group and naphthalene ring and aromatic ring opening. Toxicity test with marine photobacterium Vibrio Fisheri was performed to consider whether or not the UV/H2O2 treatment of RO16 dye results in the products with enhanced toxicity for aquatic life.
Spinning test particle in four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Black Hole
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu-Peng
name: Wei, Shao-Wen
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the motion of a classical spinning test particle orbiting around a static spherically symmetric black hole in a novel four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity [D. Glavan and C. Lin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)]. We find that the effective potential of a spinning test particle in the background of the black hole has two minima when the Gauss-Bonnet coupling parameter $α$ is nearly in a special range $-6.1
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
title: Divisions by Two in Collatz Sequences : a Data Science Approach (2nd ed.)
title: Working Paper Technische Hochschule Nürnberg 05 May 2020
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Koch, Christian
name: Sultanow, Eldar
name: Cox, Sean
name: Technische Hochschule Nürnberg
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik

description: The Collatz conjecture is an unsolved number theory problem. We approach the question by examining the divisions by two that are performed within Collatz sequences. Aside from classical mathematical methods, we use techniques of data science. Based on the analysis of 10,000 sequences we show that the number of divisions by two lies within clear boundaries. Building on the results, we develop and prove an equation to calculate the maximum possible number of divisions by two for any given a Collatz sequence. Whenever this maximum is reached, a sequence leads to the result one, as conjectured by Lothar Collatz. Furthermore, we show how many divisions by two are required for a cycle of a specific length. The findings are valuable for further investigations and could form the basis for a comprehensive proof of the conjecture.
Multivariate Recurrent Events in the Presence of Multivariate Informative Censoring with Applications to Bleeding and Transfusion Events in Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Creators: name: Donglin Zeng
name: Ibrahim, Joseph G.
name: Chen, Ming-Hui
name: Kuolung Hu
name: Jia, Catherine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We propose a general novel class of joint models to analyze recurrent events that has a wide variety of applications. The focus in this article is to model the bleeding and transfusion events in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) studies, where patients may die or withdraw from the study early due to adverse events or other reasons, such as consent withdrawal or required alternative therapy during the study. The proposed model accommodates multiple recurrent events and multivariate informative censoring through a shared random-effects model. The random-effects model captures both within-subject and within-event dependence simultaneously. We construct the likelihood function for the semiparametric joint model and develop an expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm for inference. The computational burden does not increase with the number of types of recurrent events. We utilize the MDS clinical trial data to illustrate our proposed methodology. We also conduct a number of simulations to examine the performance of the proposed model.
VehicleNet: Learning Robust Visual Representation for Vehicle Re-identification
Creators: name: Zheng, Zhedong
name: Ruan, Tao
name: Wei, Yunchao
name: Yang, Yi
name: Mei, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One fundamental challenge of vehicle re-identification (re-id) is to learn robust and discriminative visual representation, given the significant intra-class vehicle variations across different camera views. As the existing vehicle datasets are limited in terms of training images and viewpoints, we propose to build a unique large-scale vehicle dataset (called VehicleNet) by harnessing four public vehicle datasets, and design a simple yet effective two-stage progressive approach to learning more robust visual representation from VehicleNet. The first stage of our approach is to learn the generic representation for all domains (i.e., source vehicle datasets) by training with the conventional classification loss. This stage relaxes the full alignment between the training and testing domains, as it is agnostic to the target vehicle domain. The second stage is to fine-tune the trained model purely based on the target vehicle set, by minimizing the distribution discrepancy between our VehicleNet and any target domain. We discuss our proposed multi-source dataset VehicleNet and evaluate the effectiveness of the two-stage progressive representation learning through extensive experiments. We achieve the state-of-art accuracy of 86.07% mAP on the private test set of AICity Challenge, and competitive results on two other public vehicle re-id datasets, i.e., VeRi-776 and VehicleID. We hope this new VehicleNet dataset and the learned robust representations can pave the way for vehicle re-id in the real-world environments.
Identification of intermediates and ecotoxicity assessment during the UV/H2O2 oxidation of azo dye Reactive Orange 16
Creators: name: Mitrović, Jelena Z.
name: Radović, Miljana D.
name: Anđelković, Tatjana D.
name: Bojić, Danijela V.
name: Bojić, Aleksandar Lj.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Degradation of azo dye Reactive Orange 16, a widely used textile dye, was carried out with UV light in the presence of H2O2. The experiments were conducted in the batch mode using low-pressure mercury lamps, emitting at 253.7 nm. Liquid-chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) and high resolution mass spectrometry (FT-ICR) were employed in order to identify some of degradation products as well as to suggest possible degradation pathways. According to the mass spectrum characterization of RO16 dye and MSn fragmentation (up to MS4), its possible fragmentation pattern was proposed. The results revealed that degradation occurred mainly via hydroxylation, cleavage of the C‒S bond between the aromatic ring and the sulfonate group, cleavage of the azo bond, cleavage of the C‒N bond between azo group and naphthalene ring and aromatic ring opening. Toxicity test with marine photobacterium Vibrio Fisheri was performed to consider whether or not the UV/H2O2 treatment of RO16 dye results in the products with enhanced toxicity for aquatic life.
Trichomyia hispida Araujo & Bravo 2016
Creators: name: Araújo, Maíra Xavier
name: Bravo, Freddy
name: Carvalho, Claudio José Barros de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Trichomyia
Trichomyia hispida

description: Trichomyia hispida Araújo & Bravo, 2016: 49–50, Figs. 28A–H
 Remarks. Males of T. hispida can be recognized by the few bristles on the posterior arm of the gonocoxites, two pairs of parameres with the first dorsal pair being subtriangular with pointed apex, and the second pair with sharp apex and longer than the dorsal paramere, jointed apically by a ventral parameral sheath. Epandrium subrectangular and cercus bottle-shaped in lateral view with two apical bristles.
Material examined. Brazil, Bahia, Coração de Maria, 28.I.2004, holotype male, F. Bravo leg. (MZFS)
Other material examined. Brazil, Mato Grosso, Chapada dos Guimarães, Vale da Benção, 1 male, 15–17.I.2013, leg. Silva-Neto, A.M. (MZFS)
Distribution. Known from the type locality in Brazil, state of Bahia (Coração de Maria) and state of Mato Grosso (Chapada dos Guimarães – new record).
description: Published as part of Araújo, Maíra Xavier, Bravo, Freddy & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros de, 2017, Two new species of Trichomyia Haliday 1839 (Diptera, Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae) from the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil, pp. 203-207 in Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 61 (3) on page 206, DOI: 10.1016/j.rbe.2017.04.002, http://zenodo.org/record/13198102
Kink-antikink collision in a Lorentz-violating $ϕ^4$ model
Creators: name: Yan, Haobo
name: Zhong, Yuan
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
name: Maeda, Kei-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, kink-antikink collision in a two-dimensional Lorentz-violating $ϕ^4$ model is considered. It is shown that the Lorentz-violating term in the proposed model does not affect the structure of the linear perturbation spectrum of the standard $ϕ^4$ model, and thus there exists only one vibrational mode. The Lorentz-violating term impacts, however, the frequency and spatial wave function of the vibrational mode. As a consequence, the well-known results on $ϕ^4$ kink-antikink collision will also change. Collisions of kink-antikink pairs with different values of initial velocities and Lorentz-violating parameters are simulated using the Fourier spectral method. Our results indicate that models with larger Lorentz-violating parameters would have smaller critical velocities $v_c$ and smaller widths of bounce windows. Interesting fractal structures existing in the curves of maximal energy densities of the scalar field are also found.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, final version published by Phys. Lett. B
Fundamental energy scale of the thick brane in mimetic gravity
Creators: name: Sui, Tao-Tao
name: Zhang, Yu-Peng
name: Gu, Bao-Min
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, thick branes generated by the mimetic scalar field with Lagrange multiplier formulation are investigated. We give three typical thick brane background solutions with different asymptotic behaviors and show that all the solutions are stable under tensor perturbations. The effective potentials of the tensor perturbations exhibit as volcano potential, Poöschl-Teller potential, and harmonic oscillator potential for the three background solutions, respectively. All the tensor zero modes (massless gravitons) of the three cases can be localized on the brane. We also calculate the corrections to the Newtonian potential. On a large scale, the corrections to the Newtonian potential can be ignored. While on a small scale, the correction from the volcano-like potential is more pronounced than the other two cases. Combining the specific corrections to the Newtonian potential of these three cases and the latest results of short-range gravity experiments, we get the constraint on the scale parameter as $k\gtrsim 10^{-4}$eV, and constraint on the corresponding five-dimensional fundamental scale as $M_\ast \gtrsim10^5$TeV.
description: 12 pages, 5 fugures
Gravitational Cardy Limit and AdS Black Hole Entropy
Creators: name: David, Marina
name: Nian, Jun
name: Zayas, Leopoldo A. Pando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the gravitational implementation of the field theory Cardy-like limit recently used in the successful microstate countings of AdS black hole entropy in various dimensions. On the field theory side, the Cardy-like limit focuses on a particular scaling of conserved electric charges and angular momenta, and we first translate this scaling to the gravitational side by a limiting procedure on the black hole parameters. We note that the scaling naturally accompanies a near-horizon region for which these black hole solutions are greatly simplified. Applying the Kerr/CFT correspondence to the near-horizon region, we precisely reproduce the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of asymptotically AdS$_{4, 5, 6, 7}$ BPS black holes. Our results explicitly provide a microscopic and universal low energy description for AdS black holes across various dimensions.
description: 53 pages, 1 table, 1 figure; v2: typos corrected, references and new acknowledgements added, JHEP version
Analysis of trends in reference evapotranspiration data in a humid climate
Creators: name: Gocic, Milan
name: Slavisa Trajkovic
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Statistically significant FAO-56 Penman-Monteith (FAO-56 PM) and adjusted Hargreaves (AHARG) reference evapotranspiration (ET0) trends at monthly, seasonal and annual time scales were analysed by using linear regression, Mann-Kendall and Spearman’s Rho tests at the 1 and 5% significance levels. Meteorological data were used from 12 meteorological stations in Serbia, which has a humid climate, for the period 1980–2010. Web-based software for conducting the trend analyses was developed. All of the trends significant at the 1 and 5% significance levels were increasing. The FAO-56 PM ET0 trends were almost similar to the AHARG trends. On the seasonal time scale, for the majority of stations significant increasing trends occurred in summer, while no significant positive or negative trends were detected by the trend tests in autumn for the AHARG series. Moreover, 70% of the stations were characterized by significant increasing trends for both annual ET0 series. Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz; Associate editor S. GrimaldiCitation Gocic, M. and Trajkovic, S., 2013. Analysis of trends in reference evapotranspiration data in a humid climate. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59 (1), 165–180.
The Brown measure of the sum of a self-adjoint element and an imaginary multiple of a semicircular element
Creators: name: Hall, Brian C.
name: Ho, Ching-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60B20 (Primary) 46L54 (Secondary)

description: We compute the Brown measure of $x_{0}+iσ_{t}$, where $σ_{t}$ is a free semicircular Brownian motion and $x_{0}$ is a freely independent self-adjoint element that is not a multiple of the identity. The Brown measure is supported in the closure of a certain bounded region $Ω_{t}$ in the plane. In $Ω_{t},$ the Brown measure is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure, with a density that is constant in the vertical direction. Our results refine and rigorize results of Janik, Nowak, Papp, Wambach, and Zahed and of Jarosz and Nowak in the physics literature. We also show that pushing forward the Brown measure of $x_{0}+iσ_{t}$ by a certain map $Q_{t}:Ω_{t}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ gives the distribution of $x_{0}+σ_{t}.$ We also establish a similar result relating the Brown measure of $x_{0}+iσ_{t}$ to the Brown measure of $x_{0}+c_{t}$, where $c_{t}$ is the free circular Brownian motion.
description: 50 pages and 9 figures. Minor revisions in this version. To appear on Letters in Mathematical Physics
Perceptions of scale in hydrology: what do you mean by regional scale?
Creators: name: Gleeson, Tom
name: Paszkowski, Dawn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The discipline of hydrology has a long history of research in the practical and theoretical aspects of scaling and scale issues, but little effort has been focused on hydrologists’ perception of the scale terms. What exactly do hydrologists mean when they use the terms “pore scale” or “regional scale”? The application of hydrological research requires clear communication, both within the discipline, and with a broader audience. Quantitative and qualitative data on hydrologists’ perceptions of scale were collected using voluntary written surveys and face-to-face interviews. The results suggest that most hydrologists do not consistently define scale terms in the literature, and that this is a minor impediment when interacting with other disciplines and stakeholders. Yet, surface water and groundwater hydrologists agree, within one to two orders of magnitude, on the length scale for most scale terms. Most respondents suggest that the hydrological community needs to better define the length scale of scale terms. In the short term, hydrologists could more frequently and consistently clarify their own length scales whenever a scale term is used. A common and consistent language of scale for hydrological researchers could better enable communication, research, teaching and outreach. Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz; Associate editor T. WagenerCitation Gleeson, T. and Paszkowski, D., 2013. Perceptions of scale in hydrology: what do you mean by regional scale? Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59 (1), 99–107.
A novel wave decomposition for oscillatory signals
Creators: name: Rueda, Cristina
name: Rodríguez-Collado, Alejandro
name: Larriba, Yolanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Oscillatory systems arise in the different science fields. Complex mathematical formulations with differential equations have been proposed to model the dynamics of these systems. While they have the advantage of having a direct physiological meaning, they are not useful in practice as a result of the parameter adjustment complexity and the presence of noise. In this paper, a signal plus error model is proposed to analyze oscillations, where the signal is a multicomponent $FMM$ and the noise is assumed Gaussian. The signal formulation is also a novel decomposition approach in AM-FM components, competing with Fourier and other decompositions. Several interesting theoretical properties are derived including the Ordinary Differential Equations describing the signal. Furthermore, the usefulness in real practice is demonstrate to analyze signals associated to neuron synapses and by addressing other questions in Neuroscience.
Additional file 6 of The sucrose transporter MdSUT4.1 participates in the regulation of fruit sugar accumulation in apple
Creators: name: Peng, Qian
name: Yaming Cai
name: Enhui Lai
name: Nakamura, Masayoshi
name: Liao, Liao
name: Beibei Zheng
name: Collins Ogutu
name: Cherono, Sylvia
name: Han, Yuepeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S3. Alignment of vacuolar targeting di-leucine motif (LXXLL) in the N-terminus of SUT4 subfamily members in apple, peach, pear and Arabidopsis.
Trichomyia spinicauda Araujo & Bravo 2016
Creators: name: Araújo, Maíra Xavier
name: Bravo, Freddy
name: Carvalho, Claudio José Barros de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Trichomyia
Trichomyia spinicauda

description: Trichomyia spinicauda Araújo & Bravo, 2016: 68–69, fig. 42A–F
 Remarks. Male T. spinicauda can be recognized by the medial posterior expansion of hypandrium/gonocoxites, rounded apically; the arm of the gonocoxites with rod-like bristles apically and thick bristles basally; two pairs of parameres and bifid aedeagus.
Material examined. Brazil, Bahia, Coração de Maria, holotype male, 14.VIII.2002, F. Bravo leg. (MZFS)
Other material examined. Brazil, Mato Grosso, Poconé, 1 male, 15–17.VII.2012, Silva-Neto, A.M. col. A.M. Silva-Neto leg. (MZFS).
Distribution. Known from the type locality in Brazil, state of Bahia (Coração de Maria) and state of Mato Grosso (Poconé – new record).
description: Published as part of Araújo, Maíra Xavier, Bravo, Freddy & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros de, 2017, Two new species of Trichomyia Haliday 1839 (Diptera, Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae) from the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil, pp. 203-207 in Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 61 (3) on page 206, DOI: 10.1016/j.rbe.2017.04.002, http://zenodo.org/record/13198102
Multivariate Recurrent Events in the Presence of Multivariate Informative Censoring with Applications to Bleeding and Transfusion Events in Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Creators: name: Donglin Zeng
name: Ibrahim, Joseph G.
name: Chen, Ming-Hui
name: Kuolung Hu
name: Jia, Catherine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: We propose a general novel class of joint models to analyze recurrent events that has a wide variety of applications. The focus in this article is to model the bleeding and transfusion events in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) studies, where patients may die or withdraw from the study early due to adverse events or other reasons, such as consent withdrawal or required alternative therapy during the study. The proposed model accommodates multiple recurrent events and multivariate informative censoring through a shared random-effects model. The random-effects model captures both within-subject and within-event dependence simultaneously. We construct the likelihood function for the semiparametric joint model and develop an expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm for inference. The computational burden does not increase with the number of types of recurrent events. We utilize the MDS clinical trial data to illustrate our proposed methodology. We also conduct a number of simulations to examine the performance of the proposed model.
title: Evolution of the structure of the 4₁⁺ states in Po isotopes
Creators: name: Stoyanova, M.
name: Karayonchev, V.
name: Rainovski, G.
name: Jolie, J.
name: Pietralla, N.
name: Blazhev, A.
name: Dewald, A.
name: Djongolov, M.
name: Esmaylzadeh, A.
name: Fransen, C.
name: Garbe, J.
name: Gerhard, L.
name: Gladnishki, K. A.
name: Ide, K.
name: John, P. R.
name: Kern, R.
name: Kleemann, J.
name: Kocheva, D.
name: Kröll, Th.
name: Müller-Gatermann, C.
name: Régis, J.-M.
name: Spagnoletti, P.
name: Werner, V.
name: Yaneva, A.
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2024

description: The lifetime of the 4₁⁺ state in ²⁰⁸Po has been measured using γ − γ fast-timing technique with LaBr₃(Ce) Detectors. The experiment was performed at the FN Tandem facility at the University of Cologne. The preliminary results are discussed in the scope of the systematic behavior of the transition strengths between yrast states in polonium isotopes.
Additional file 7 of The sucrose transporter MdSUT4.1 participates in the regulation of fruit sugar accumulation in apple
Creators: name: Peng, Qian
name: Yaming Cai
name: Enhui Lai
name: Nakamura, Masayoshi
name: Liao, Liao
name: Beibei Zheng
name: Collins Ogutu
name: Cherono, Sylvia
name: Han, Yuepeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S4. Expression of MdSOTs in apple calli overexpressing MdSUT4.1 (black column) and introducing entry vector pSAK277 (control, gray column).
Dark Information in Black Hole with $λφ$ Fluid
Creators: name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
name: Ma, Yu-Han
name: Wang, Yong-Qiang
name: Wei, Shao-Wen
name: Sun, Chang-Pu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown that the nonthermal spectrum of Hawking radiation will lead to information-carrying correlations between emitted particles in the radiation. The mutual information carried by such correlations can not be locally observed and hence is dark. With dark information, the black hole information is conserved. In this paper, we look for the spherically symmetric black hole solution in a $λφ$ fluid model and investigate the radiation spectrum and dark information of the black hole. The spacetime structure of this black hole is similar to that of the Schwarzschild one, while its horizon radius is decreased by the $λφ$ fluid. By using the statistical mechanical method, the nonthermal radiation spectrum is calculated. This radiation spectrum is very different from the Schwarzschild case at its last stage because of the effect of the $λφ$ fluid. The $λφ$ fluid reduces the lifetime of the black hole, but increases the dark information of the Hawking radiation.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
On What Side of Praxis? U.S. Ethnic Studies, The Global Horizon, and The Problem of Theory Through an Asian American Lens
Creators: name: Fusco, Serena
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2024

description: This essay historicizes U.S. ethnic studies, especially focusing on the Asian American component of the field. Besides illuminating dynamics that are shared by the whole spectrum of ethnic studies, an Asian American “lens” offers an opportunity for “zooming in” and reflecting on some meaningful, productive “tensions” that, in turn, highlight the broader relevance and potential of an “ethnic” perspective. I shall argue that the oscillation between the local and global dimensions of the Asian American field; the historically pivotal role of literary studies and literary teaching for Asian America; and a long history of entwinement between academic institutionalization, theoretical elaboration, and political, socially transformative energies, constitute recurrences in Asian American studies that, once historicized, can prove their importance for us today beyond strict field compartimentalizations. Specifically, I suggest that this history can offer food for thought for recent Comparative literature approaches that wish to deploy a world perspective; and that it can constitute an interesting case study for reflecting on theory as inextricably linked with praxis as well as on the relationship between academic institutions and their “outsides” – a reflection that we especially need nowadays.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 26 (2024): Teoria/Theory. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature
Analysis of trends in reference evapotranspiration data in a humid climate
Creators: name: Gocic, Milan
name: Slavisa Trajkovic
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Statistically significant FAO-56 Penman-Monteith (FAO-56 PM) and adjusted Hargreaves (AHARG) reference evapotranspiration (ET0) trends at monthly, seasonal and annual time scales were analysed by using linear regression, Mann-Kendall and Spearman’s Rho tests at the 1 and 5% significance levels. Meteorological data were used from 12 meteorological stations in Serbia, which has a humid climate, for the period 1980–2010. Web-based software for conducting the trend analyses was developed. All of the trends significant at the 1 and 5% significance levels were increasing. The FAO-56 PM ET0 trends were almost similar to the AHARG trends. On the seasonal time scale, for the majority of stations significant increasing trends occurred in summer, while no significant positive or negative trends were detected by the trend tests in autumn for the AHARG series. Moreover, 70% of the stations were characterized by significant increasing trends for both annual ET0 series. Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz; Associate editor S. GrimaldiCitation Gocic, M. and Trajkovic, S., 2013. Analysis of trends in reference evapotranspiration data in a humid climate. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59 (1), 165–180.
Way Beyond the Radio. Looking at the remediation processes in the podcast S-Town through the lenses of Gérard Genette’s theories
Creators: name: Cenni, Diletta
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2024

description: Placing itself within a broader debate on the role of literary theory and its tools in media studies, this article applies Gérard Genette’s notions of transtextuality and paratextuality to the study of podcasts’ remediation processes. After providing a theoretical framework on the textual nature of the podcast, which justifies the application of the Genettian theories to this medium, this work proceeds with analyzing the ground-breaking podcast S-Town’s remediation of the radio, the novel, and, of its predecessor, Serial. Re-thinking the remediation processes in terms of transtexual and paratextual relationships not only helps identify which aspects of the different media are remediated but also highlights the narrative function these remediations often perform. The analysis thus reveals that in S Town, remediation processes are used to create a metanarrative discourse about the distinctive media characteristics of the podcast. Finally, the article questions how the relationship between the tools of literary theory and theory itself manifests within this analysis.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 26 (2024): Teoria/Theory. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature
Attention2AngioGAN: Synthesizing Fluorescein Angiography from Retinal Fundus Images using Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Kamran, Sharif Amit
name: Hossain, Khondker Fariha
name: Tavakkoli, Alireza
name: Zuckerbrod, Stewart Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
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: Fluorescein Angiography (FA) is a technique that employs the designated camera for Fundus photography incorporating excitation and barrier filters. FA also requires fluorescein dye that is injected intravenously, which might cause adverse effects ranging from nausea, vomiting to even fatal anaphylaxis. Currently, no other fast and non-invasive technique exists that can generate FA without coupling with Fundus photography. To eradicate the need for an invasive FA extraction procedure, we introduce an Attention-based Generative network that can synthesize Fluorescein Angiography from Fundus images. The proposed gan incorporates multiple attention based skip connections in generators and comprises novel residual blocks for both generators and discriminators. It utilizes reconstruction, feature-matching, and perceptual loss along with adversarial training to produces realistic Angiograms that is hard for experts to distinguish from real ones. Our experiments confirm that the proposed architecture surpasses recent state-of-the-art generative networks for fundus-to-angio translation task.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
title: Wie Hochschulen mit anonymen Verdachtsäußerungen umgehen müssen
Creators: name: Herrmann, Klaus
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten
subject: Verdacht
subject: Fehlverdacht
subject: 344

description: Ordnung der Wissenschaft, no. 2, p. 65
Perceptions of scale in hydrology: what do you mean by regional scale?
Creators: name: Gleeson, Tom
name: Paszkowski, Dawn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The discipline of hydrology has a long history of research in the practical and theoretical aspects of scaling and scale issues, but little effort has been focused on hydrologists’ perception of the scale terms. What exactly do hydrologists mean when they use the terms “pore scale” or “regional scale”? The application of hydrological research requires clear communication, both within the discipline, and with a broader audience. Quantitative and qualitative data on hydrologists’ perceptions of scale were collected using voluntary written surveys and face-to-face interviews. The results suggest that most hydrologists do not consistently define scale terms in the literature, and that this is a minor impediment when interacting with other disciplines and stakeholders. Yet, surface water and groundwater hydrologists agree, within one to two orders of magnitude, on the length scale for most scale terms. Most respondents suggest that the hydrological community needs to better define the length scale of scale terms. In the short term, hydrologists could more frequently and consistently clarify their own length scales whenever a scale term is used. A common and consistent language of scale for hydrological researchers could better enable communication, research, teaching and outreach. Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz; Associate editor T. WagenerCitation Gleeson, T. and Paszkowski, D., 2013. Perceptions of scale in hydrology: what do you mean by regional scale? Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59 (1), 99–107.
Frankenstein is about ChatGPT: Thinking and the Future of Literary Study in the Age of Generative AI
Creators: name: Ilieska, Anna
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2024

description: This paper is a speculative inquiry into how generative Artificial Intelligence may affect our thinking abilities and what the role of the humanities and literary study will be in the process. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s Socratic notion of thinking as an internal dialogue as well as on various philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives on solitude and contempo- rary social character, I show how GenAIs such as ChatGPT present a dual challenge: the potential erosion of human cognitive autonomy and the need for a renewed focus on fostering critical thinking. To illustrate this challenge, I offer a fresh rereading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) as a warning against thoughtlessness in the age of scientific progress by drawing a parallel between Victor Frankenstein’s lack of solitude and friendship and our own contemporary attitudes towards technology, self, and others. I then ask where thinking can occur in contemporary society, where overstimulation, distraction, and a lack of solitude are widespread. Finally, I call for a renewed emphasis on thinking as a distinct human ability and underscore the importance of literature in preserving spaces for genuine thought and engagement with self and others.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 26 (2024): Teoria/Theory. Perspectives on Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature
Kapranov's $L_\infty$ structures, Fedosov's star products, and one-loop exact BV quantizations on Kähler manifolds
Creators: name: Chan, Kwokwai
name: Leung, Naichung Conan
name: Li, Qin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study quantization schemes on a Kähler manifold and relate several interesting structures. We first construct Fedosov's star products on a Kähler manifold $X$ as quantizations of Kapranov's $L_\infty$-algebra structure. Then we investigate the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) quantizations associated to these star products. A remarkable feature is that they are all one-loop exact, meaning that the Feynman weights associated to graphs with two or more loops all vanish. This leads to a succinct cochain level formula in de Rham cohomology for the algebraic index.
description: 42 pages; v2, published version
Homogeneous Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Immunoassay for the Determination of Zearalenone
Creators: name: Won-Bo Shim
name: Taihua Li
name: Kim, Bo Bae
name: Byun, Ju-Young
name: Duck-Hwa Chung
name: Yong-Beom Shin
name: Min-Gon Kim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study demonstrates the use of antigen-antibody binding for the detection of zearalenone. Based on the principle of the fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) phenomenon between antibody and antigen, an immunoassay, in which zearalenone coupled with the anti-zearalenone antibody, was developed, optimized, and applied. Owing to intrinsic fluorescence properties in basic pH conditions with the optimal cationic surfactant, anti-zearalenone and zearalenone played roles as the respective donor and acceptor in the FRET immunoassay. As the concentration of analyte increased, the antigen/antibody emission intensity ratio (I430 nm/I350 nm) was enhanced due to larger amounts of zearalenone/anti-zearalenone complexes. This assay, based on the ratio of intensities (I430 nm/I350 nm), displayed high specificity and sensitivity with a detection limit of 0.8 ng mL−1 for zearalenone. The results obtained from analysis of spiked wheat grain samples were found to be in good agreement with those obtained by employing a direct competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The label-free, noncompetitive, and homogeneous FRET immunoassay strategy served as a powerful tool for the simple, rapid, and sensitive quantitative determination of zearalenone in food and feed matrices.
Gravitational resonances on $f(T)$-branes
Creators: name: Tan, Qin
name: Guo, Wen-Di
name: Zhang, Yu-Peng
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we investigate the gravitational resonances in various $f(T)$-brane models with the warp factor $\text{e}^{A(y)}=\tanh\big(k(y+b)\big)-\tanh\big(k(y-b)\big)$. For three kinds of $f(T)$, we give the solutions to the system. Besides, we consider the tensor perturbation of vielbein and obtain the effective potentials by the Kaluza-Klein (KK) decomposition. Then, we analyze what kind of effective potential can produce the gravitational resonances. Effects of different parameters on the gravitational resonances are analysed. The lifetimes of the resonances could be long enough as the age of our universe in some ranges of the parameters. This indicates that the gravitational resonances might be considered as one of the candidates of dark matter. Combining the current experimental observations, we constrain the parameters for these brane models.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures
Joint modelling of longitudinal and repeated time-to-event data using nonlinear mixed-effects models and the stochastic approximation expectation–maximization algorithm
Creators: name: Mbogning, Cyprien
name: Bleakley, Kevin
name: Lavielle, Marc
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biotechnology

description: We propose a nonlinear mixed-effects framework to jointly model longitudinal and repeated time-to-event data. A parametric nonlinear mixed-effects model is used for the longitudinal observations and a parametric mixed-effects hazard model for repeated event times. We show the importance for parameter estimation of properly calculating the conditional density of the observations (given the individual parameters) in the presence of interval and/or right censoring. Parameters are estimated by maximizing the exact joint likelihood with the stochastic approximation expectation–maximization algorithm. This workflow for joint models is now implemented in the Monolix software, and illustrated here on five simulated and two real datasets.
title: Die Verantwortlichkeit für die Verarbeitung von Forschungsdaten an Hochschulen
Creators: name: Schwartmann, Rolf
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 344

description: Ordnung der Wissenschaft, no. 2, p. 77
D.5.6 Webpage
Creators: name: Probonas, Michalis
name: Baxevani, Popi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This document accompanies Deliverable D5.6 – Webpage, which relates to the development of the LIFE MareNatura webpage. The delivery of the project’s webpage is part of Task 5.2 – Overall project communication: project webpage, communication materials, etc., sub-task 5.2.2 – Development of the Project’s Webpage and pages in social media. The processes involved in the development of the website and the socialmedia pages and the current structure of the LIFE MareNatura webpage are stated in this report. More specifically the steps taken to the development of the webpage are thoroughly discussed and the webpagestructure along with a short description of its different components is mentioned.
Homogeneous Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Immunoassay for the Determination of Zearalenone
Creators: name: Won-Bo Shim
name: Taihua Li
name: Kim, Bo Bae
name: Byun, Ju-Young
name: Duck-Hwa Chung
name: Yong-Beom Shin
name: Min-Gon Kim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: This study demonstrates the use of antigen-antibody binding for the detection of zearalenone. Based on the principle of the fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) phenomenon between antibody and antigen, an immunoassay, in which zearalenone coupled with the anti-zearalenone antibody, was developed, optimized, and applied. Owing to intrinsic fluorescence properties in basic pH conditions with the optimal cationic surfactant, anti-zearalenone and zearalenone played roles as the respective donor and acceptor in the FRET immunoassay. As the concentration of analyte increased, the antigen/antibody emission intensity ratio (I430 nm/I350 nm) was enhanced due to larger amounts of zearalenone/anti-zearalenone complexes. This assay, based on the ratio of intensities (I430 nm/I350 nm), displayed high specificity and sensitivity with a detection limit of 0.8 ng mL−1 for zearalenone. The results obtained from analysis of spiked wheat grain samples were found to be in good agreement with those obtained by employing a direct competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The label-free, noncompetitive, and homogeneous FRET immunoassay strategy served as a powerful tool for the simple, rapid, and sensitive quantitative determination of zearalenone in food and feed matrices.
title: Zur Unbeachtlichkeit von Besetzungsfehlern für die Tätigkeit von Hochschulgremien nach § 10 Abs. 5 LHG BW
Creators: name: Hornfischer, Felix
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Deutschland
subject: Hochschule
subject: Gremium
subject: 344

description: Ordnung der Wissenschaft, no. 2, p. 85
title: Wahrheit und Zweifel: Zur Zukunft des Wissenschaftsjournalismus
Creators: name: Schultz, Tanjev
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Wissenschaftspublizistik
subject: Wahrheitsorientierung
subject: Wissenschaftlichkeit
subject: 344

description: Ordnung der Wissenschaft, no. 2, p. 95
title: The Recognition of Higher Education Diplomas and Qualifications
Creators: name: Penßel, Renate
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Deutschland
subject: Hochschulbildung
subject: Hochschulrecht
subject: 344

description: Ordnung der Wissenschaft, no. 2, p. 101