cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: War Lords oder Lords in War? Macht in Kolonialismus und Krieg auf den südlichen Philippinen
Creators: name: Sottsas, Simon
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Politik

description: War, fragile states, and warlords are topics of current peace and conflict studies, often linked in this order. The situation on the southern Philippines shows a rather different picture: lords in war outperform warlords and stand at the beginning and end of the chain of causation. They possess a triple power base: i) an inherited socioeconomic ruling position, ii) a gate keeper role collaborating as local politicians with the oligarchic Philippine State, and iii) their violence capacities in a conflict situation between state and rebel groups. The paper compares along material, ideal and institutional dimensions warlords and lords in war, based on a historical-materialist approach. The analytical differentiation of warlords and lords in war is not without ambiguities. However, it helps to highlight that the conceptual antagonism of state vs. warlord conceals that local rulers develop a new hybrid role combining formal and informal capacities and practices. Therefore, reintegration of rebel soldiers, socioeconomic development programs, and a strengthening of state forces will counter warlords. To counter lords in war towards a more democratic society, more elaborated structural change has to occur. This would support the claims of the main rebel groups. However, necessary change does not just encompass the local arena as such, but the Philippine post/neo-colonial power system as a whole. It remains a difficult task for the ongoing peace processes. The analytical results advice peace and conflict studies that a look on social structures can inform their analysis. In post/neo-colonial local government structures, direct violence is not just the top conflict level but an intrinsic factor of ruling. Advocates of change on the other hand have to focus more strongly on the dynamics of crises, dismissing the idea of short and clean-cut revolutionary developments. Thus, social and conflict analyses have to be combined to enable scientific support of peace processes. A further elaboration of the used approach could be a possibility.
Agent-based model with multi-level herding for complex financial systems
Creators: name: Chen, Jun-Jie
name: Tan, Lei
name: Zheng, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In complex financial systems, the sector structure and volatility clustering are respectively important features of the spatial and temporal correlations. However, the microscopic generation mechanism of the sector structure is not yet understood. Especially, how to produce these two features in one model remains challenging. We introduce a novel interaction mechanism, i.e., the multi-level herding, in constructing an agent-based model to investigate the sector structure combined with volatility clustering. According to the previous market performance, agents trade in groups, and their herding behavior comprises the herding at stock, sector and market levels. Further, we propose methods to determine the key model parameters from historical market data, rather than from statistical fitting of the results. From the simulation, we obtain the sector structure and volatility clustering, as well as the eigenvalue distribution of the cross-correlation matrix, for the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges. These properties are in agreement with the empirical ones. Our results quantitatively reveal that the multi-level herding is the microscopic generation mechanism of the sector structure, and provide new insight into the spatio-temporal interactions in financial systems at the microscopic level.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Complexes of porphyrin-based star polymers with metal ions and their use as structurally tunable contrast agents for multimodal MR imaging
Creators: name: Franc, Michal
name: Androvič, Ladislav
name: Laga, Richard
name: Jirák, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
subject: Polymers
subject: metal ions
subject: contrast agents

description: This study was supported by the project National Institute for Research of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases (ProgrammeEXCELES, Project No. LX22NPO5104)—Funded by the EuropeanUnion—Next Generation EU.
ABRomics: an integrated multi-omics platform for antibiotic resistance research and public health
Creators: name: LAO, Julie
name: MARIN, Pierre
name: DALLET, Romain
name: MAREUIL, Fabien
name: TOISY, Alix DE
name: Kenzo-Hugo HILLION
name: BIRER, Aurélien
name: GOUE, Nadia
name: BONNET, Richard
name: RUPPE, Etienne
name: CORGUILLE, Gildas LE
name: GLASER, Philippe
name: MEDIGUE, Claudine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: antibioresistance database galaxy workflow FAIR data

description: Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a major public health issue prioritized for mitigation by international institutions. Multidrug resistant bacteria (MDRB) and Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs) carried by mobile genetic elements spread between the human, animal, and environmental sectors. Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) is used for molecular typing purposes at the highest resolution. It provides identification of ARGs and their genetic supports as well as mutations leading to a decrease in antibiotic susceptibility. Epidemiological and WGS data are used for tracking MDRB in hospital outbreaks but also across the animal and environmental sectors. Sharing and interoperability of high-quality data (sequence and metadata) are key requirements for addressing the spatio-temporal dissemination of MDRB. To this aim, the French Priority Plan on ABR has funded the development of an online, open platform dedicated to antibiotic resistance. We are establishing a repository of structured, interoperable, standardized, and well-annotated multi-omics data with tailored mathematical and bioinformatics tools to answer generic and specific research questions related to ABR. The ABRomics platform includes standardized pipelines to run ABR analyses of WGS from pathogenic strains supported with integrated databases (ARG, sequence types [ST], virulence factors [VF]). Uploading data, launching pipelines, viewing and cross-referencing enriched results will be achieved through easy-to-use web interfaces. ABRomics ß-version integrating the ABR detection genomic pipeline and other markers such as ST, and VF will be available to the consortium in summer 2023 and to the whole microbial research community by the end of 2023. Core-genome multi-locus sequence typing, relationships between strains and metagenomics pipelines will next be made available. Acknowledgement of grants and fundings: This work is financially supported by the French Priority Research Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance (PPR antibioresistance), coordinated by Inserm and funded by the Secretaire General Pour L’investissement (SGFI)
Micrasterias arcuata var. perforata Kurt Forst. & F. Eckert 1964
Creators: name: Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto
name: Costa, Fabiana De Matos
name: Santos, Maria Aparecida Dos
name: Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Charophyta
Conjugatophyceae
Zygnematales
Desmidiaceae
Micrasterias
Micrasterias arcuata
Micrasterias arcuata var. perforata kurt först. & f.eckert (1964: 373)

description: Micrasterias arcuata var. perforata Kurt Först. & F.Eckert (1964: 373) (Figs 47–50)
 Cell dimensions: length 42–45 μm, breadth 37–40 μm, apical lobe 25 μm, isthmus 10–12 μm.
 Habitat characteristics: River; quiet and warm waters, associated to filamentous algae.
 Material examined: HUEFS 244148.
 Notes: Taxon rare, reported only in the original publication (Förster 1964), occurring in Serra da das Almas, between the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil. We observed slight morphological variations in the basal lobe during our analyses, ranging from straight to slightly curved (the latter more common). Additionally, we found an elliptic zygospore identical to that reported by Förster (1964).
description: Published as part of Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto, Costa, Fabiana De Matos, Santos, Maria Aparecida Dos & Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento, 2019, Taxonomic novelties, new records, and rare species of desmids from the Chapada Diamantina region, Brazil, pp. 185-196 in Phytotaxa 391 (3) on page 192, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.391.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13726470
Generating Literal and Implied Subquestions to Fact-check Complex Claims
Creators: name: Chen, Jifan
name: Sriram, Aniruddh
name: Choi, Eunsol
name: Durrett, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Verifying complex political claims is a challenging task, especially when politicians use various tactics to subtly misrepresent the facts. Automatic fact-checking systems fall short here, and their predictions like "half-true" are not very useful in isolation, since we have no idea which parts of the claim are true and which are not. In this work, we focus on decomposing a complex claim into a comprehensive set of yes-no subquestions whose answers influence the veracity of the claim. We present ClaimDecomp, a dataset of decompositions for over 1000 claims. Given a claim and its verification paragraph written by fact-checkers, our trained annotators write subquestions covering both explicit propositions of the original claim and its implicit facets, such as asking about additional political context that changes our view of the claim's veracity. We study whether state-of-the-art models can generate such subquestions, showing that these models generate reasonable questions to ask, but predicting the comprehensive set of subquestions from the original claim without evidence remains challenging. We further show that these subquestions can help identify relevant evidence to fact-check the full claim and derive the veracity through their answers, suggesting that they can be useful pieces of a fact-checking pipeline.
Il sufismo nel cuore della tradizione islamica di al-Azhar
Creators: name: Pizzo, Paola
Publisher: name: Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione (NGFR)
Year: 2023

description: Questo saggio illustra la storia del secolare legame tra le vie mistiche dell’islam, in particolare la confraternita della Khalwatiyyah, e l’Università egiziana di al-Azhar, la più antica istituzione di istruzione superiore del mondo musulmano. Le confraternite mistiche hanno accompagnato fin dalle origini lo sviluppo religioso dell’islam, confermandosi anche in età contemporanea come un elemento imprescindibile non solo della vita spirituale dei credenti ma anche delle istituzioni sociali e politiche dei paesi musulmani. In Egitto, a partire dalla metà del Settecento, si è diffusa l’antica via di origine centroasiatica della Khalwatiyyah in una versione riformata, affiancandosi alle quattro tradizionali vie mistiche maggiormente diffuse nel paese. Il legame instaurato allora tra il rinnovatore della Khalwatiyyah e quello che sarebbe diventato il grande sheikh di al-Azhar contribuì all’affermazione anche a livello ufficiale di questa confraternita che continua a esercitare la sua influenza nell’Egitto contemporaneo. La relazione tra esponenti dell’Università di al-Azhar e il sufismo sarà ripercorsa in prospettiva storica, con un focus su due sheikh contemporanei che hanno esercitato la funzione di Grande Imam: ‘Abd al-Halim Mahmud e Ahmed al-Tayyeb. This essay illustrates the history of the centuries-old link between the mystic schools of Islam, especially the Khalwatiyyah, and the Egyptian University of al-Azhar, the oldest institution of higher education in the Muslim world. The mystical brotherhoods have accompanied from the beginning the religious development of Islam, confirming themselves even in contemporary times as an indispensable element not only of the spiritual life of believers but also of the social and political institutions of Muslim countries. Since the mid-eighteenth century, an ancient Central Asian mystic school, the Khalwatiyyah, has spread in a reformed version in Egypt, alongside the four traditional mystical schools most widespread in the country. The relation established then between the Khalwatiyyah’s renovator and what would become the great sheikh of al-Azhar contributed to the official affirmation of this brotherhood that continues to exercise its influence in contemporary Egypt. The relationship between the University of al-Azhar and Sufism will be considered in this contribution in an historical perspective, with a focus on two contemporary sheikhs who have served as Grand Imams: ʽAbd al-Halim Mahmud and Ahmed al-Tayyeb.
description: Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione (NGFR), Vol. 2 (2022): Mistica, religioni, filosofie
Self-supervised Assisted Active Learning for Skin Lesion Segmentation
Creators: name: Zhao, Ziyuan
name: Lu, Wenjing
name: Zeng, Zeng
name: Xu, Kaixin
name: Veeravalli, Bharadwaj
name: Guan, Cuntai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Label scarcity has been a long-standing issue for biomedical image segmentation, due to high annotation costs and professional requirements. Recently, active learning (AL) strategies strive to reduce annotation costs by querying a small portion of data for annotation, receiving much traction in the field of medical imaging. However, most of the existing AL methods have to initialize models with some randomly selected samples followed by active selection based on various criteria, such as uncertainty and diversity. Such random-start initialization methods inevitably introduce under-value redundant samples and unnecessary annotation costs. For the purpose of addressing the issue, we propose a novel self-supervised assisted active learning framework in the cold-start setting, in which the segmentation model is first warmed up with self-supervised learning (SSL), and then SSL features are used for sample selection via latent feature clustering without accessing labels. We assess our proposed methodology on skin lesions segmentation task. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach is capable of achieving promising performance with substantial improvements over existing baselines.
description: Accepted by the 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2022)
Stochastic path-integral approach for predicting the superconducting temperatures of anharmonic solids
Creators: name: Chen, Haoran
name: Shi, Junren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a stochastic path-integral approach for predicting the superconducting transition temperatures of anharmonic solids. By defining generalized Bloch basis, we generalize the formalism of the stochastic path-integral approach, which is originally developed for liquid systems. We implement the formalism for ab initio calculations using the projector augmented-wave method, and apply the implementation to estimate the superconducting transition temperatures of metallic deuterium and hydrogen sulfide. For metallic deuterium, which is approximately harmonic, our result coincides well with that obtained from the standard approach based on the harmonic approximation and the density functional perturbation theory. For hydrogen sulfide, we find that anharmonicity strongly suppresses the predicted superconducting transition temperature. Compared to the self-consistent harmonic approximation approach, our approach yields a transition temperature closer to the experimentally observed one.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables
Quantum Monte Carlo study of strange correlator in interacting topological insulators
Creators: name: Wu, Han-Qing
name: He, Yuan-Yao
name: You, Yi-Zhuang
name: Xu, Cenke
name: Meng, Zi Yang
name: Lu, Zhong-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Distinguishing the nontrivial symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase from the trivial insulator phase in the presence of electron-electron interaction is an urgent question to the study of topological insulators, due to the fact that most of the topological indices defined for free electron systems are very likely unsuitable for interacting cases. In this work, we demonstrate that the strange correlator is a sensitive diagnosis to detect SPT states in interacting systems. Employing large-scale quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we investigate the interaction-driven quantum phase transition in the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model. The transition from the quantum spin Hall insulator at weak interaction to an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator at strong interaction can be readily detected by the momentum space behavior of the strange correlator in single-particle, spin, and pairing sectors. The interaction effects on the symmetry-protected edge states in various sectors, i.e., the helical Luttinger liquid behavior, are well captured in the QMC measurements of strange correlators. Moreover, we demonstrate that the strange correlator is technically easier to implement in QMC and more robust in performance than other proposed numerical diagnoses for interacting topological states, as only static correlations are needed. The attempt in this work paves the way for using the strange correlator to study interaction-driven topological phase transitions in fermionic as well as bosonic systems.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, 1 appendix
On the algebraic structure of rotationally invariant two-dimensional Hamiltonians on the noncommutative phase space
Creators: name: Falomir, H.
name: Pisani, P. A. G.
name: Vega, F.
name: Cárcamo, D.
name: Méndez, F.
name: Loewe, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81R05, 20C35, 22E70

description: We study two-dimensional Hamiltonians in phase space with noncommutativity both in coordinates and momenta. We consider the generator of rotations on the noncommutative plane and the Lie algebra generated by Hermitian rotationally invariant quadratic forms of noncommutative dynamical variables. We show that two quantum phases are possible, characterized by the Lie algebras $sl(2,\mathbb{R})$ or $su(2)$ according to the relation between the noncommutativity parameters, with the rotation generator related with the Casimir operator. From this algebraic perspective, we analyze the spectrum of some simple models with nonrelativistic rotationally invariant Hamiltonians in this noncommutative phase space, as the isotropic harmonic oscillator, the Landau problem and the cylindrical well potential. PACS: 03.65.-w; 03.65.Fd MSC: 81R05; 20C35; 22E70
description: 49 pages. No figures. Version to appear in JPA
“Mistica divenuta Ethos” e riconciliazione di sacro e profano: il chassidismo nell’interpretazione di Martin Buber
Creators: name: Ferrari, Francesco
Publisher: name: Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione (NGFR)
Year: 2023

description: Il messaggio del chassidismo consiste, secondo il filosofo della religione Martin Buber, nella “cabbalà divenuta ethos”, ovvero: in una peculiare torsione della mistica in etica. Questo articolo si propone di mostrare come l’ermeneutica della mistica chassidica di Buber rivolga il suo messaggio all’uomo occidentale alle prese con la crisi del sacro (e delle religioni storiche che se ne fanno custodi). A tal fine, si ricostruirà come Buber coniughi l’affermazione di una radicale libertà di coscienza in ambito religioso (“anarchismo religioso”) con la fede chassidica in una presenza divina che si rivela attraverso ogni incontro Io-Tu, il che si traduce, in termini etici, nell’imperativo del legame con la creazione (“esistenza sacramentale”). Il presente articolo offre pertanto una articolazione di come, secondo Buber, sia possibile superare la crisi del sacro (e delle religioni storiche) attraverso la prospettiva chassidica di riconciliazione tra sacro e profano. The message of Hasidism consists, according to philosopher of religion Martin Buber, in “kabbalah become ethos,” that is: in a peculiar twist of mysticism into ethics. This article aims to show how Buber’s hermeneutics of Hasidic mysticism addresses a Western man struggling with the crisis of the sacred (and of its related historical religions). To this end, it will be reconstructed how Buber combines the affirmation of a radical freedom of conscience in the religious sphere (“religious anarchism”) with the Hasidic faith in a divine presence that reveals itself through every I-Thou encounter, which is expressed, in ethical terms, by assuming the creation boundary as an imperative (“sacramental existence”). This article therefore offers an articulation of the ways by which, according to Buber, it is possible to overcome the crisis of the sacred (and of historical religions) through the Hasidic perspective of reconciliation between the sacred and the profane.
description: Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione (NGFR), Vol. 2 (2022): Mistica, religioni, filosofie
Multiqubit Clifford groups are unitary 3-designs
Creators: name: Zhu, Huangjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unitary $t$-designs are a ubiquitous tool in many research areas, including randomized benchmarking, quantum process tomography, and scrambling. Despite the intensive efforts of many researchers, little is known about unitary $t$-designs with $t\geq3$ in the literature. We show that the multiqubit Clifford group in any even prime-power dimension is not only a unitary 2-design, but also a 3-design. Moreover, it is a minimal 3-design except for dimension~4. As an immediate consequence, any orbit of pure states of the multiqubit Clifford group forms a complex projective 3-design; in particular, the set of stabilizer states forms a 3-design. In addition, our study is helpful to studying higher moments of the Clifford group, which are useful in many research areas ranging from quantum information science to signal processing. Furthermore, we reveal a surprising connection between unitary 3-designs and the physics of discrete phase spaces and thereby offer a simple explanation of why no discrete Wigner function is covariant with respect to the multiqubit Clifford group, which is of intrinsic interest to studying quantum computation.
description: 7 pages, published in Phys. Rev. A
Fine-resolution landscape-scale biomass mapping using a spatiotemporal patchwork of LiDAR coverages
Creators: name: Johnson, Lucas K.
name: Mahoney, Michael J.
name: Bevilacqua, Eddie
name: Stehman, Stephen V.
name: Domke, Grant
name: Beier, Colin M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Estimating forest AGB at large scales and fine spatial resolutions has become increasingly important for greenhouse gas accounting, monitoring, and verification efforts to mitigate climate change. Airborne LiDAR is highly valuable for modeling attributes of forest structure including AGB, yet most LiDAR collections take place at local or regional scales covering irregular, non-contiguous footprints, resulting in a patchwork of different landscape segments at various points in time. Here, as part of a statewide forest carbon assessment for New York State (USA), we addressed common obstacles in leveraging a LiDAR patchwork for AGB mapping at landscape scales, including selection of training data, the investigation of regional or coverage specific patterns in prediction error, and map agreement with field inventory across multiple scales. Three machine learning algorithms and an ensemble model were trained with FIA field measurements, airborne LiDAR, and topographic, climatic and cadastral geodata. Using a strict set of plot selection criteria, 801 FIA plots were selected with co-located point clouds drawn from a patchwork of 17 leaf-off LiDAR coverages (2014-2019). Our ensemble model was used to produce 30 m AGB prediction surfaces within a predictor-defined area of applicability (98% of LiDAR coverage), and the resulting AGB maps were compared with FIA plot-level and areal estimates at multiple scales of aggregation. Our model was overall accurate (% RMSE 22-45%; MAE 11.6-29.4 Mg ha$^{-1}$; ME 2.4-6.3 Mg ha$^{-1}$), explained 73-80% of field-observed variation, and yielded estimates that were consistent with FIA's design-based estimates (89% of estimates within FIA's 95% CI). We share practical solutions to challenges faced in using spatiotemporal patchworks of LiDAR to meet growing needs for AGB mapping in support of applications in forest carbon accounting and ecosystem.
description: Manuscript: 19 pages, 8 figures; Supplements: 13 pages, 4 figures; Submitted to: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geodata, Earth Observations for Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development Goals Special Issue
Micrasterias torreyi var. pseudocurvata G. J. P. Ramos & C. W. N. Moura 2019, var. nov.
Creators: name: Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto
name: Costa, Fabiana De Matos
name: Santos, Maria Aparecida Dos
name: Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Charophyta
Conjugatophyceae
Zygnematales
Desmidiaceae
Micrasterias
Micrasterias torreyi
Micrasterias torreyi var. pseudocurvata g.j.p.ramos & c.w.n.moura

description: Micrasterias torreyi var. pseudocurvata G.J.P.Ramos & C.W.N.Moura, var. nov. (Figs 55–57)
 Diagnosis— This variety is similar to var. curvata, differing from the latter by having more robust lobes, almost straight, with tiny spines of similar sizes.
 Cell dimensions: length 290–300 μm, breadth 230–240 μm, apical lobe 40–50 μm, isthmus 50–60 μm.
 Holotype: material numbered (HUEFS 244150!) deposited at Herbário da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, population illustrated here in LM (Figs 55–57).
 Etymology: The epithet refers to similarity with Micrasterias torreyi var. curvata
 Type locality and habitat characteristics: Collected at “Rio das Pedras”, Piatã, Bahia state, Brazil. Lat. 13° 05’ 48” S, Long. 41° 51’ 02” W. Sample collected by G. J. P.Ramos, C. W. N. Moura, F. M. Costa and M. A. Santos s/n (HUEFS 244150) on 13 July 2017. Micrasterias torreyi var. pseudocurvata occurred in periphyton; water temperature 19ºC, pH 7.2, conductivity 20 μS. cm-1, dissolved oxygen 7.3 mg.L- 1.
 Notes: The discriminating features of Micrasterias torreyi var. pseudocurvata are certainly the presence of more robust lobes, slightly curved, with straight margins, and with tiny spines of equal sizes. The morphologically closest taxa, M. torreyi var. curvata Willi Krieg. (1939: 98), has tapered lobes, and more curved and spines of unequal sizes. Those curved morphological expressions of Micrasterias apparently are typical of the tropical region (e.g., Micrasterias doveri var. africana Bourr. [1961: 337]), although they have rarely been documented in floristic studies in Brazil. Micrasterias torreyi var. curvata, for example, has confirmed records only in the states of Mato Grosso (Krieger 1939), São Paulo (Bicudo & Sormus 1982), and Amazonas (Krieger 1939, Melo et al. 2009).
description: Published as part of Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto, Costa, Fabiana De Matos, Santos, Maria Aparecida Dos & Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento, 2019, Taxonomic novelties, new records, and rare species of desmids from the Chapada Diamantina region, Brazil, pp. 185-196 in Phytotaxa 391 (3) on pages 192-194, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.391.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13726470
Can the Stark-Einstein law resolve the measurement problem from an animate perspective?
Creators: name: Thaheld, Fred H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analysis of the Stark-Einstein law as it applies to the retinal molecule, which is part of the rhodopsin molecule within the rod cells of the retina, reveals that it may provide the solution to the measurement problem from an animate perspective. That it represents a natural boundary where the Schroedinger equation or wave function automatically goes from linear to nonlinear while remaining in a deterministic state. It will be possible in the near future to subject this theory to empirical tests as has been previously proposed. This analysis provides a contrast to the many decades well studied and debated inanimate measurement problem and would represent an addition to the Stark-Einstein law involving information carried by the photon.
description: 5 pages, no figures
Proof of Factorization of Heavy Quarkonium Production in Non-Equilibrium QCD at RHIC and LHC
Creators: name: Nayak, Gouranga C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently we have proved the NRQCD factorization in heavy quarkonium production at high energy colliders at all orders in coupling constant. In this paper we extend this to non-equilibrium QCD and prove the NRQCD factorization in heavy quarkonium production at all orders in coupling constant in non-equilibrium QCD. This proof is necessary to study heavy quarkonium production from quark gluon plasma at RHIC and LHC.
description: Final Version, Accepted for Publication in Eur. Phys. J. P., 23 pages latex
Il luminoso misticismo di Maimonide: il concetto di amore nella "Guida dei perplessi"
Creators: name: Kajon, Irene
Publisher: name: Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione (NGFR)
Year: 2023

description: Il termine ‘misticismo’, come il grande studioso della mistica ebraica Gershom Scholem ci insegna, è controverso. Il presente articolo rintraccia nella Guida dei perplessi di Maimonide, considerato come il più notevole filosofo razionalista del Medio Evo ebraico, un peculiare misticismo: non vi è in quest’opera alcuna separazione né tra mistica e profezia, né tra profezia e luce intellettuale. La luce intellettuale nel profeta (in particolare in Mosè) si identifica con la passione amorosa per un Dio di cui solo conosciamo come attributi positivi gli attributi d’azione, ovvero gli attributi etici (grazia, giustizia, giudizio), i quali sono anche criteri o misure di condotta per l’uomo nel suo camminare sulla terra. La profezia si oppone però alla filosofia se considerata nella sua veste aristotelica, ovvero come speculazione sull’essere. Contrariamente all’opinione prevalente, si sostiene nell’articolo la tesi di un fondamentale anti-aristotelismo di Maimonide e di un suo avvicinamento piuttosto a Platone. The word ‘mysticism’ – as the outstanding scholar of the Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem maintains – is controversial. The present article discovers a peculiar mysticism in the Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides, generally considered as the most important rationalistic philosopher in the Jewish Middle Ages. Actually, in this Maimonidean work mystique and prophecy, prophecy and intellectual light are interconnected. The intellectual light in the prophet (particularly in Moses) identifies with a passionate love for a God whose we are able to know as positive attributes only the attributes of action, i.e. the ethical ones. These attributes are also criteria or rules for human beings when they act in their life on earth. However, prophecy opposes philosophy if this has an Aristotelian garb, i.e. philosophy is a speculation on Being. Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the article defends the thesis of a fundamental anti-Aristotelianism of Maimonides and rather his closeness to Plato.
description: Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione (NGFR), Vol. 2 (2022): Mistica, religioni, filosofie
Modular Elliptic Curves over the Field of Twelfth Roots of Unity
Creators: name: Jones, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article we perform an extensive study of the spaces of automorphic forms for GL(2) of weight two and level N, for N an ideal in the ring of integers of the quartic CM field generated by the twelfth roots of unity. This study is conducted through the computation of the group cohomology of the congruence subgroup of upper triangular matrices modulo N, and the corresponding Hecke action which this space admits. Combining this Hecke data with the Faltings-Serre method for proving equivalence of Galois representations, we are able to provide the first known examples of modular elliptic curves over this field.
Quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ band structures and phase transitions of LiAlO$_2$ in tetrahedrally and octahedrally coordinated structures
Creators: name: Popp, Phillip
name: Lambrecht, Walter R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A first-principles computational study is presented of various phases of LiAlO$_2$.The $β$ and $γ$ tetrahedral phases are found to be very close in energy with the $γ$ phase having the lowest energy. The octahedral $α$ phase is a high-pressure phase and the transition pressure from the $γ$ and $β$ phases to $α$ is determined to be about 1 GPa. The electronic band structures are determined using the quasiparticle self-consistent (QS) $GW$ method. The effective masses of the band edges and the nature of the band gaps are presented. The lowest energy $γ$ phase is found to have a pseudodirect gap of 7.69 eV. The gap is direct at $Γ$ but corresponds to a dipole forbidden transition. The imaginary part of the dielectric function and the absorption coefficient are calculated in the long-wavelength limit and the random phase approximation, without local field or electron-hole interaction effects for each phase and their anisotropies are discussed. Si doping on the Al site is investigated as a possible $n$-type dopant in $γ$-LiAlO$_2$ using a 128 atom supercell corresponding to 3.125 \% Si on the Al sublattice in the generalized gradient approximation and a smaller 16 atom cell with 25 \% Si in the QS$GW$ approximation. The Si is found to significantly perturb the conduction band and lower the gap but a clearly separated deep donor defect level is not found. However, the donor binding energy is still expected to be relatively deep, of order a few 0.1 eV in the hydrogenic effective mass approximation.
description: 13 pages 18 figures
A Sub-pixel Accurate Quantification of Joint Space Narrowing Progression in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Creators: name: Ou, Yafei
name: Ambalathankandy, Prasoon
name: Furuya, Ryunosuke
name: Kawada, Seiya
name: Zeng, Tianyu
name: An, Yujie
name: Kamishima, Tamotsu
name: Tamura, Kenichi
name: Ikebe, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
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: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that primarily affects peripheral synovial joints, like fingers, wrist and feet. Radiology plays a critical role in the diagnosis and monitoring of RA. Limited by the current spatial resolution of radiographic imaging, joint space narrowing (JSN) progression of RA with the same reason above can be less than one pixel per year with universal spatial resolution. Insensitive monitoring of JSN can hinder the radiologist/rheumatologist from making a proper and timely clinical judgment. In this paper, we propose a novel and sensitive method that we call partial image phase-only correlation which aims to automatically quantify JSN progression in the early stages of RA. The majority of the current literature utilizes the mean error, root-mean-square deviation and standard deviation to report the accuracy at pixel level. Our work measures JSN progression between a baseline and its follow-up finger joint images by using the phase spectrum in the frequency domain. Using this study, the mean error can be reduced to 0.0130mm when applied to phantom radiographs with ground truth, and 0.0519mm standard deviation for clinical radiography. With its sub-pixel accuracy far beyond manual measurement, we are optimistic that our work is promising for automatically quantifying JSN progression.
Metarhizium robertsii ARSEF 23 Genome sequencing and assembly
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2011
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Monoisolate

description: The Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), China in collaboration with BGI-SZ (China) is sequencing the Metarhizium anisopliae (aka Metarhizium anisopliae var. anisopliae) strain ARSEF 23 genome at 100x coverage using whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing.
Deep Feature Fusion via Graph Convolutional Network for Intracranial Artery Labeling
Creators: name: Zhu, Yaxin
name: Qian, Peisheng
name: Zhao, Ziyuan
name: Zeng, Zeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Intracranial arteries are critical blood vessels that supply the brain with oxygenated blood. Intracranial artery labels provide valuable guidance and navigation to numerous clinical applications and disease diagnoses. Various machine learning algorithms have been carried out for automation in the anatomical labeling of cerebral arteries. However, the task remains challenging because of the high complexity and variations of intracranial arteries. This study investigates a novel graph convolutional neural network with deep feature fusion for cerebral artery labeling. We introduce stacked graph convolutions in an encoder-core-decoder architecture, extracting high-level representations from graph nodes and their neighbors. Furthermore, we efficiently aggregate intermediate features from different hierarchies to enhance the proposed model's representation capability and labeling performance. We perform extensive experiments on public datasets, in which the results prove the superiority of our approach over baselines by a clear margin.
description: Accepted by the 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2022)
WGS sequencing
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2011
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Monoisolate

description: The Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), China in collaboration with BGI-SZ (China) is sequencing the Metarhizium acridum (aka Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum) strain CQMa 102 genome at 113x coverage using whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing.
Asynchronous Cellular Automata and Pattern Classification
Creators: name: Sethi, Biswanath
name: Roy, Souvik
name: Das, Sukanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper designs an efficient two-class pattern classifier utilizing asynchronous cellular automata (ACAs). The two-state three-neighborhood one-dimensional ACAs that converge to fixed points from arbitrary seeds are used here for pattern classification. To design the classifier, we first identify a set of ACAs that always converge to fixed points from any seeds with following properties - (1) each ACA should have at least two but not huge number of fixed point attractors, and (2) the convergence time of these ACAs are not to be exponential. In order to address the first issue, we propose a graph, coined as fixed point graph of an ACA that facilitates in counting the fixed points. We further perform an experimental study to estimate the convergence time of ACAs, and find that there are some convergent ACAs which demand exponential convergence time. Finally, we find that there are 71 (out of 256) ACAs which can be effective candidates as pattern classifier. We use each of the candidate ACAs on some standard data sets, and observe the effectiveness of each ACAs as pattern classifier. It is observed that the proposed classifier is very competitive and performs reliably better than many standard existing algorithms.
description: 32 pages, 6 figures
Staurastrum serriforme Borgesen 1891
Creators: name: Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto
name: Costa, Fabiana De Matos
name: Santos, Maria Aparecida Dos
name: Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Charophyta
Conjugatophyceae
Zygnematales
Desmidiaceae
Staurastrum
Staurastrum serriforme

description: Staurastrum serriforme Børgesen (1891: 45) (Figs 58–62)
 Cell dimensions: length 28–33 μm, breadth 19–21 μm, isthmus 11–12 μm
 Habitat characteristics: Ephemeral puddle in the mountain.
 Material examined: HUEFS 244147.
 Notes: A rare species, apparently endemic to Brazil, described by Børgesen (1891) from material collected in the region of São Paulo State. This species also occurs in states of Rio de Janeiro (Krieger 1950) and Bahia (Förster 1964), although Förster did not specify in which municipalities the samples were collected. A common feature among all of these records is the habitat type, with all samples being from mountainous regions—such as the present record from Pico das Almas. The main features of this species are the 8-radiated subspherical cell in apical view with double rings of 4–7 tiny spines.
description: Published as part of Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto, Costa, Fabiana De Matos, Santos, Maria Aparecida Dos & Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento, 2019, Taxonomic novelties, new records, and rare species of desmids from the Chapada Diamantina region, Brazil, pp. 185-196 in Phytotaxa 391 (3) on page 194, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.391.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13726470
Homo sapiens
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2009
Subjects: Genome sequencing
Monoisolate

description: Here we present the first diploid genome sequence of an Asian individual. The genome was sequenced to 36-fold average coverage using massively parallel sequencing technology. We aligned the short reads onto the NCBI human reference genome to 99.97% coverage, and guided by the reference genome, we used uniquely mapped reads to assemble a high-quality consensus sequence for 92% of the Asian individual's genome. We identified approximately 3 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) inside this region, of which 13.6% were not in the dbSNP database. Genotyping analysis showed that SNP identification had high accuracy and consistency, indicating the high sequence quality of this assembly. We also carried out heterozygote phasing and haplotype prediction against HapMap CHB and JPT haplotypes (Chinese and Japanese, respectively), sequence comparison with the two available individual genomes (J. D. Watson and J. C. Venter), and structural variation identification. These variations were considered for their potential biological impact. Our sequence data and analyses demonstrate the potential usefulness of next-generation sequencing technologies for personal genomics.
Residual Channel Attention Network for Brain Glioma Segmentation
Creators: name: Yao, Yiming
name: Qian, Peisheng
name: Zhao, Ziyuan
name: Zeng, Zeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A glioma is a malignant brain tumor that seriously affects cognitive functions and lowers patients' life quality. Segmentation of brain glioma is challenging because of interclass ambiguities in tumor regions. Recently, deep learning approaches have achieved outstanding performance in the automatic segmentation of brain glioma. However, existing algorithms fail to exploit channel-wise feature interdependence to select semantic attributes for glioma segmentation. In this study, we implement a novel deep neural network that integrates residual channel attention modules to calibrate intermediate features for glioma segmentation. The proposed channel attention mechanism adaptively weights feature channel-wise to optimize the latent representation of gliomas. We evaluate our method on the established dataset BraTS2017. Experimental results indicate the superiority of our method.
description: Accepted by the 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2022)
Morti di peccato, viventi di Dio. Ancora sul problema della mistica in Paolo
Creators: name: Salmeri, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione (NGFR)
Year: 2023

description: Il cap. 6 della Lettera ai Romani sembra presentare un filo del discorso accidentato, in cui il lessico della morte alterna significati molto diversi. L’intero brano diventa però più logico se l’espressione ἀποθνήσκειν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ si interpreta non nel senso morale «morire al peccato», ma nel senso reale «morire di peccato», e l’espressione ζῆν τῷ θεῷ non come «vivere per Dio», ma piuttosto come «vivere grazie a Dio». La coerenza con cui questo passo così interpretato parla di una condivisione della morte e vita di Cristo spinge a rivalutare il carattere mistico della teologia di Paolo, proposto dapprima da Alfred Wikenhauser e Albert Schweitzer e più recentemente da Ed Parish Sanders. Le importanti aporie evidenziate da quest’ultimo possono essere superate tramite una riflessione filosofico-religiosa sul concetto di vita e di morte. Chapter 6 of the Letter to the Romans seems to have a bumpy thread of discourse, in which the vocabulary of death alternates between very different meanings. The whole passage becomes more logical, however, if the expression ἀποθνήσκειν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ is interpreted not in the moral sense ‘to die to sin,’ but in the real sense ‘to die of sin,’ and the expression ζῆν τῷ θεῷ not as ‘to live for God,’ but rather as ‘to live thanks to God.’ The consistency with which this passage thus interpreted speaks of a sharing in Christ’s death and life prompts a reassessment of the mystical nature of Paul’s theology, first proposed by Alfred Wikenhauser and Albert Schweitzer and more recently by Ed Parish Sanders. The major issues highlighted by the latter can be solved through a philosophical-religious reflection on the concept of life and death.
description: Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione (NGFR), Vol. 2 (2022): Mistica, religioni, filosofie
Low-energy moments of non-diagonal quark current correlators at four loops
Creators: name: Maier, A.
name: Marquard, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the leading four physical terms in the low-energy expansions of heavy-light quark current correlators at four-loop order. As a by-product we reproduce the corresponding top-induced non-singlet correction to the electroweak rho parameter.
description: 13 pages, no figures. Extended discussion and added references