cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thermodynamics of Ideal Boson and Fermion Gases in the Static Taub Universe
Creators: name: Huang, Wung-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some thermodynamic quantities of nonrelativistic ideal boson and fermion gases in the static Taub universe are derived to first order in a small anisotropy parameter d which measuring the deformation from the spherical Einstein universe. They are used to investigate the problem of how the curvature anisotropy affects the thermodynamic behaviors of an ideal gas. It is found that, when the universe is in the oblate configuration (i.e., d > 0), the effect of curvature anisotropy is to increase the number of the fraction in the Bose-Einstein condensation and to decrease the fermion distribution function at low temperature. When the universe is in the prolate configuration (i.e., d < 0), the effects of curvature anisotropy on the thermodynamic quantities is contrary to that in the oblate configuration. The density matrix of a two particle system is evaluated and it is used to define the "statistical interparticle potential" as an attempt to give a "statistical interpretation" about the found thermodynamic behaviors. It is found that when the universe is in the oblate (prolate) configuration the curvature anisotropy will enhance (reduce) both the "statistic attraction" among the bosons and "statistical repulsion" among the fermions. It is expected that such a behavior will also be shown in the relativistic system.
description: Latex 13 pages
Two universal 3-quantifier representations of recursively enumerable sets
Creators: name: Matiyasevich, Yuri
name: Robinson, Julia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03D25

description: It is proved that all recursively enumerable sets of natural numbers can be represented by arithmetic formulas (of two kinds) with only 3 quantifiers.
description: This is English translation of a paper originally published in Russian; several misprints were corrected
Discovery of six new strongly magnetic white dwarfs in the 20 pc local population
Creators: name: Bagnulo, S.
name: Landstreet, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sample of white dwarfs included in the local 20 pc volume documents, fairly accurately, the total production of white dwarfs over roughly 10 Gyr of stellar evolution in this part of the Milky Way Galaxy. In this sample, we have been systematically searching for magnetic white dwarfs. Here we report the discovery of six new magnetic white dwarfs, with a field strength from a few MG to about 200MG. Two of these stars show H lines that are split and polarised by the magnetic field. One star shows extremely weak spectral lines in intensity, to which highly polarised narrow features correspond. The three other stars have featureless flux spectra, but show continuum polarisation. These new discoveries support the view that at least 20% of all white dwarfs in the local 20 pc volume have magnetic fields, and they fully confirm the suspicion that magnetism is a common rather than a rare characteristic of white dwarfs. We discuss the level and the handedness of the continuum polarisation in the presence of a magnetic field in cool white dwarfs. We suggest that a magnetic field with a 15 MG longitudinal component produces 1% of continuum circular polarisation. We have also shown that the problem of cross-talk from linear to circular polarisation of the FORS2 instrument, used in our survey, represents an obstacle to accurate measurements of the circular polarisation of faint white dwarfs when the background is illuminated, and polarised, by the moon.
description: Accepted by A&A
Does changing the pulling direction give better insight into biomolecules?
Creators: name: Kumar, Sanjay
name: Giri, Debaprasad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single molecule manipulation techniques reveal that the mechanical resistance of a protein depends on the direction of the applied force. Using a lattice model of polymers, we show that changing the pulling direction leads to different phase diagrams. The simple model proposed here indicates that in one case the system undergoes a transition akin to the unzipping of a $β$ sheet, while in the other case the transition is of a shearing (slippage) nature. Our results are qualitatively similar to experimental results. This demonstrates the importance of varying the pulling direction since this may yield enhanced insights into the molecular interactions responsible for the stability of biomolecules.
description: RevTeX v4, 10 pages with 6 eps figures
Noise performance and long-term stability of near- and mid-IR gas-filled fiber Raman lasers
Creators: name: Wang, Yazhou
name: Adamu, Abubakar Isa
name: Dasa, Manoj Kumar
name: Antonio-Lopez, Jose Enrique
name: Habib, Md Selim
name: Correa, Rodrigo Amezcua
name: Bang, Ole
name: Markos, Christos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, the characteristics of noise and long-term stability of near- and mid-infrared (near-IR and mid-IR) gas-filled fiber Raman lasers have been investigated for the first time. The results reveal that an increase in Raman pulse energy is associated with a decrease in noise, and that the relative pulse peak intensity noise (RIN) is always lower than the relative pulse energy noise (REN). We also demonstrate that long-term drift of the pulse energy and peak power are directly linked with the high amount of heat release during the Raman Stokes generation. The demonstrated noise and long-term stability performance provide necessary references for potential spectroscopic applications as well as further improvements of the emerging mid-IR gas-filled hollow-core fiber (HCF) Raman laser technology.
Yang-Mills Localization in Warped Space
Creators: name: Batell, Brian
name: Gherghetta, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a mechanism to localize zero mode non-Abelian gauge fields in a slice of AdS_5. As in the U(1) case, bulk and boundary mass terms allow for a massless mode with an exponential profile that can be localized anywhere in the bulk. However in the non-Abelian extension, the cubic and quartic zero mode gauge couplings do not match, implying a loss of 4D gauge invariance. We show that the symmetry can be restored at the nonlinear level by considering brane-localized interactions, which are added in a gauge invariant way using boundary kinetic terms. Possible issues related to the scalar sector of the theory, such as strong coupling and ghosts, are also discussed. Our approach is then compared with other localization mechanisms motivated by dilaton gravity and deconstruction. Finally, we show how to localize the scalar component A_5 zero mode anywhere in the bulk which could be relevant in gauge-Higgs unification models.
description: 28 pages, 3 figures
title: Evaluation of the Extent of Floods in 2022 in Different Land Cover and Land Use Classes in Sindh Province, Pakistan Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Imageries
Creators: name: Shrestha, Alina
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/0406gha72
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Floods are one of the most frequent and most devastating natural disasters, which cause widespread destruction and pose significant risks to human life, infrastructure, and the environment. Advancement in remote sensing technologies and methodologies have demonstrated their efficacy in disaster-related applications, such as the detection, monitoring, and analysis of floods. This study explores the utilization of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical imagery for flood extent mapping and studying the extent of flood over various land cover and land use classes in Pakistan's Sindh province, utilizing the cloud computing power of Google Earth Engine. The change detection method identified extensive flooding in Sindh province, covering an area of 25,229 km2 in August and 19,181 km2 in the first 19 days of September 2022. The Land Use/Land Cover dataset was developed for the pre-flood period. The study highlighted the effectiveness of Random Forest classification in distinguishing Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) types more accurately than K-means clustering. Additionally, the analysis provided insights into the spatial distribution of flood extent and vulnerability of land use/land cover classes such as urban areas, agricultural areas, and sparse natural vegetation as significant areas remained inundated in the province.
Imbalanced Gait Characteristics Based on Plantar Pressure Assessment in Patients with Hemiplegia
Creators: name: Suwaporn SANGHAN, Wipawan LEELASAMRAN
Publisher: name: Walailak University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Plantar pressure, hemiplegia, gait cycle, gait line, ground reaction force

description: 7, 12, Walailak Journal of Science and Technology
The Church of Sant’Adriano: An Example of Multi-Cultural Hybridity in Calabria
Creators: name: Perlini, Laurie E.
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the church of Sant’Adriano in the town of San Demetrio Corone in Calabria, Italy, as evidence of the development a multi-cultural society and “third space” during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The church is located in a sparsely populated area with few extant written sources. It was originally built as a domed cross-in-square mid-Byzantine church but altered to a Latin-rite basilica under the sponsorship of Latin-rite patrons in an area populated by Greek-rite Christians living under the authority of Norman patrons. This church is one of many examples of the creation of a “third space” as originally postulated by Homi Bhabha and applied to the Kingdom of Sicily by Hubert Houben. This example, I believe, can be added to the compilation of examples given by Houben but pushes his dating back, prior to the formation of the Kingdom.
Impact of non-tidal station loading in LLR
Creators: name: Singh, Vishwa Vijay
name: Biskupek, Liliane
name: Müller, Jürgen
name: Zhang, Mingyue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) measures the distance between observatories on Earth and retro-reflectors on Moon since 1970. In this paper, we study the effect of non-tidal station loading (NTSL) in the analysis of LLR data. We add the non-tidal loading effect provided by three data centres: the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the International Mass Loading Service (IMLS) and EOST loading service of University of Strasbourg in France, as observation level corrections of the LLR observatories in our analysis. This effect causes deformations of the Earth surface up to the centimetre level. Its addition in the Institute of Geodesy (IfE) LLR model, it leads to a change in the uncertainties (3-sigma values) of the station coordinates resulting in up to a 0.60% improvement, an improvement in the post-fit LLR residuals of up to 9%, and a decrease in the power of the annual signal in the LLR post-fit residuals of up to 57%.
description: 14 pages, 15 figures
Partial waves and large $N_C$ resonance sum rules
Creators: name: Guo, Z. H.
name: Cillero, J. J. Sanz
name: Zheng, H. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using $1/N_C$ expansion and dispersion theory techniques, without relying on any explicit resonance lagrangian, we generalize the KSRF relation beyond the leading chiral order. Two sum rules for the low energy constants $L_2$, $L_3$ and a new relation between resonance couplings are derived. A rather detailed examination to the new relation is also given.
description: discussions expanded, reference added, version to be published in JHEP
Heat capacities of nanostructured wurtzite and rock salt ZnO: challenges of ZnO nano-phase diagram
Creators: name: Kamenev, Konstantin V.
name: Courac, Alexandre
name: Sokolov, Petr S.
name: Baranov, Andrei N.
name: Sharikov, Felix Yu.
name: Solozhenko, Vladimir L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-temperature heat capacities (Cp) of nanostructured rock salt (rs-ZnO) and wurtzite (w-ZnO) polymorphs of zinc oxide were measured in the 2-315 K temperature range. No significant influence of nanostructuring on Cp of w-ZnO has been observed. The measured Cp of rock salt ZnO is lower than that of wurtzite ZnO below 100 K and is higher above this temperature. Using available thermodynamic data, we established that the equilibrium pressure between nanocrystalline w-ZnO and rs-ZnO is close to 4.6 GPa at 300 K (half as much as the onset pressure of direct phase transformation) and slightly changes with temperature up to 1000 K.
Generalized CMB initial conditions with pre-equality magnetic fields
Creators: name: Giovannini, Massimo
name: Kunze, Kerstin E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most general initial conditions of CMB anisotropies, compatible with the presence of pre-equality magnetic fields, are derived. When the plasma is composed by photons, baryons, electrons, CDM particles and neutrinos, the initial data of the truncated Einstein-Boltzmann hierarchy contemplate one magnetized adiabatic mode and four (magnetized) non-adiabatic modes. After obtaining the analytical form of the various solutions, the Einstein-Boltzmann hierarchy is numerically integrated for the corresponding sets of initial data. The TT, TE and EE angular power spectra are illustrated and discussed for the magnetized generalization of the CDM-radiation mode, of the baryon-radiation mode and of the non-adiabatic mode of the neutrino sector. Mixtures of initial conditions are examined by requiring that the magnetized adiabatic mode dominates over the remaining non-adiabatic contributions. In the latter case, possible degeneracies between complementary sets of initial data might be avoided through the combined analysis of the TT, TE and EE angular power spectra at high multipoles (i.e. $\ell >1000$).
description: 28 pages, 24 included figures in eps style
Orbital angular momentum multiplication in plasmonic vortex cavities
Creators: name: Spektor, Grisha
name: Prinz, Eva
name: Hartelt, Michael
name: Mahro, Anna-Katharina
name: Aeschlimann, Martin
name: Orenstein, Meir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Orbital angular momentum of light is a core feature in photonics. Its confinement to surfaces using plasmonics has unlocked many phenomena and potential applications. Here we introduce the reflection from structural boundaries as a new degree of freedom to generate and control plasmonic orbital angular momentum. We experimentally demonstrate plasmonic vortex cavities, generating a succession of vortex pulses with increasing topological charge as a function of time. We track the spatio-temporal dynamics of these angularly decelerating plasmon pulse train within the cavities for over 300 femtoseconds using time-resolved Photoemission Electron Microscopy, showing that the angular momentum grows by multiples of the chiral order of the cavity. The introduction of this degree of freedom to tame orbital angular momentum delivered by plasmonic vortices, could miniaturize pump-probe-like quantum initialization schemes, increase the torque exerted by plasmonic tweezers and potentially achieve vortex lattice cavities with dynamically evolving topology.
Realization of Strong Coupling Fixed Point in Multilevel Kondo Models
Creators: name: Hattori, Kazumasa
name: Hirayama, Yosuke
name: Miyake, Kazumasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Impurity four- and six-level Kondo model, in which an ion is tunneling among four- and six-stable points and interacting with surrounding conduction electrons, are investigated by using the perturbative and numerical renormalization group methods. It is shown that purely orbital Kondo effects occur at low temperatures in these systems which are direct generalizations of the Kondo effect in the so-called two-level system. This result offers a good explanation for the enhanced and magnetically robust Sommerfeld coefficient observed in SmOs_4Sb_12 and some other filled-skutterudites.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, for proceedings of ASR-WYP-2005. To be published in Journal of Physical Society Japan supplement
Cooperating or Fighting with Decoherence in the Optimal Control of Quantum Dynamics
Creators: name: Shuang, Feng
name: Rabitz, Herschel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper explores the use of laboratory closed-loop learning control to either fight or cooperate with decoherence in the optimal manipulation of quantum dynamics. Simulations of the processes are performed in a Lindblad formulation on multilevel quantum systems strongly interacting with the environment without spontaneous emission. When seeking a high control yield it is possible to find fields that successfully fight with decoherence while attaining a good quality yield. When seeking modest control yields, fields can be found which are optimally shaped to cooperate with decoherence and thereby drive the dynamics more efficiently. In the latter regime when the control field and the decoherence strength are both weak, a theoretical foundation is established to describe how they cooperate with each other. In general, the results indicate that the population transfer objectives can be effectively met by appropriately either fighting or cooperating with decoherence.
The German archival system 1945-1995
Creators: name: Landwehr, Regina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: After World War Two, Germany became divided into two countries commonly called East and West Germany. This thesis describes how the two countries, one communist and one pluralistic, developed distinctly different archival systems with respect to the organization, legislation and appraisal methods of government archival institutions. East Germany's archival system was organized and legislated into a rigorous hierarchical structure under central government control with the mandate of fulfilling in a systematic way primarily ideological objectives. Although professional collaboration between the archivists of the two countries had been officially severed since the early years of separation by East Germany, because of irreconcilable political differences, they influenced each others' thoughts. Specifically, East German archivists borrowed and implemented extensively appraisal concepts formulated in West Germany, such as the documentation profile idea. The examination of the archival system in West Germany reveals organizational characteristics typical of federalist countries. The development of archival legislation in West Germany was clearly the outcome of initiatives from the archival profession itself, and West Germany's appraisal methods reflected a diversity of theoretical considerations which, because of the pluralistic nature of the discussions, were marked by a lack of professional consensus. The description of the discussions that took place over time illustrates an ongoing struggle to identify and respect the perceived demand for sources, and to formulate appraisal methods focusing on the contextual and functional analysis of records creators' activities and competencies. The discussion of the. developments that followed Germany's political reunification in 1990 shows that East Germany's archival system was absorbed by the West German system. The thesis concludes that the main effect of reunification was a search for a balance between East and West appraisal concepts and methods, and a renewed constructive debate characterized by a reexamination of previous archival contributions supporting contextual and functional appraisal approaches.
Foreign Aid and Fiscal Resources Mobilization in WAEMU Countries: Ambiguous Effects and New Questions
Creators: name: Bayale, Nimonka
name: Bayale, Nimonka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: International Development

description: This paper analyzes the effect of different types of foreign aid on tax revenues in West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries. A fixed-effects panel model with instrumental variables was developed over the period spanning from 1985 to 2016. The results indicate that multilateral aid affects positively and significantly tax revenues while bilateral aid does not. Moreover, the analysis of the decomposed effect of aid revealed that concessional aid and technical assistance enhance fiscal resources mobilization. However, grants reduce tax effort. The results also show that when aid is aggregated, its effect on tax revenues is ambiguous. These results justify for many reasons the reorientation of foreign aid towards investment for effective tax systems in WAEMU countries in compliance with Addis Ababa Action Agenda 2015 of the third international conference on Financing for Development. Strengthening multilateral partnership is advocated in accordance with the 17th Sustainable Development Goals. Also, an improvement of institutional quality could make foreign aid more efficient for tax collection in the study areas.
Parlata naturale: il lavoro del muratore
Creators: name: Cotino, Roberto
name: Greco, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: Calabrese language
Maranese language

description: Roberto descrive il suo lavoro come muratore. Si sente il suo vicino, Giuseppe, in sottofondo.

Roberto discusses his work as a construction worker. His neighbor, Giuseppe, chimes in in the background.
Searching for dark matter sterile neutrino in laboratory
Creators: name: Bezrukov, Fedor
name: Shaposhnikov, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the dark matter of the Universe is made of sterile neutrinos with the mass in keV region they can be searched for with the help of X-ray satellites. We discuss the prospects of laboratory experiments that can be competitive and complimentary to Space missions. We argue that the detailed study of beta decays of tritium and other nuclei with the help of Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy (COLTRIMS) can potentially enter into interesting parameter range and even supersede the current astronomical bounds on the properties of dark matter sterile neutrino.
description: RevTex, 6 pages, 1 figure. Journal version accepted in Phys.Rev.D
Exploring the Smart City Adoption Process: Evidence from the Belgian urban context
Creators: name: Margherita, Emanuele Gabriel
name: Esposito, Giovanni
name: Escobar, Stefania Denise
name: Crutzen, Nathalie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this position paper, we explore the adoption of a Smart City with a socio-technical perspective. A Smart city is a transformational technological process leading to profound modifications of existing urban regimes and infrastructure components. In this study, we consider a Smart City as a socio-technical system where the interplay between technologies and users ensures the sustainable development of smart city initiatives that improve the quality of life and solve important socio-economic problems. The adoption of a Smart City required a participative approach where users are involved during the adoption process to joint optimise both systems. Thus, we contribute to socio-technical research showing how a participative approach based on press relationships to facilitate information exchange between municipal actors and citizens worked as a success factor for the smart city adoption. We also discuss the limitations of this approach.
description: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development (STPIS 2020), June 8-9, 2020 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2789/paper1.pdf
Mobile Privacy in Machine Learning
Creators: name: Lichao Sun
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A broad spectrum of mobile privacy problems from different modalities exists in various applications, including malware attack (e.g., information leakage through malicious apps), mobile authorization/identification (e.g., unauthorization or fraudulent activities detection), private data communication (e.g., local mobile photo labeling), and private model updating (e.g., local mobile AI model updating). The capability to model problems from these heterogeneous scenarios is potentially transformative for investigating privacy mechanisms and establishing a protection system. In this thesis, we introduce the different solutions for mobile privacy applications in the various scenarios which generally interested in using machine learning for mobile privacy and protecting mobile privacy while using machine learning on private data. In particular, our works involve five mobile privacy problems in different applications: malware detection, mobile authorization/identification, private knowledge transfer, and private model updating.
Galilean-Invariant XEFT at Next-to-Leading Order
Creators: name: Braaten, Eric
name: He, Li-Ping
name: Jiang, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: XEFT is a low-energy effective field theory for charm mesons and pions that provides a systematically improvable description of the $X(3872)$ resonance. To simplify calculations beyond leading order, we introduce a new formulation of XEFT with a dynamical field for a pair of charm mesons in the resonant channel. We simplify the renormalization of XEFT by introducing a new renormalization scheme that involves the subtraction of amplitudes at the complex $D^{*0} \bar D^0$ threshold. The new formulation and the new renormalization scheme are illustrated by calculating the complex pole energy of $X$ and the $D^{*0} \bar D^0$ scattering amplitude to next-to-leading order using Galilean-invariant XEFT.
description: 47 pages, 18 figures
Oscillation Physics in JUNO
Creators: name: Malyshkin, Yury
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Masses and Mixing – Oscillations

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: for the JUNO Collaboration
Existence of a 2-cluster tilting module does not imply finite complexity
Creators: name: Marczinzik, René
name: Vaso, Laertis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16G10, 16E10

description: We give an example of a finite-dimensional algebra with a 2-cluster tilting module and a simple module which has infinite complexity. This answers a question of Erdmann and Holm.
description: 4 pages
The Evolution of the String Quartet - A Composer's View
Creators: name: Moss, Lawrence
name: Moss, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: string quartet Lawrence Moss Composer Evolution

description: The 1st movements of 9 String Quartets, from Haydn to Moss. are discussed with music examples. The 9  composers, in chronological sequence, are:  Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoenberg, Ligeti and Moss.  Each quartet is introduced with a brief explanation of its historical importance in the string quartet genre, followed by a discussion of the compositional choices made by each composer.   These choices are illustrated with brief musical examples and diagrams.
T2K 2020 Oscillation Analysis Results and Methodology
Creators: name: J. Walsh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Masses and Mixing – Oscillations

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
title: Lake Mead: A Living Museum
Creators: name: Salveter, Marley
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/0406gha72
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Lake Mead, the largest man-made water project in the nation and a prolific source of electricity, irrigation, and recreation for much of the western population, is currently experiencing a drastic transformation. Amid the ongoing water crisis parching the west, the once overflowing reservoir is consistently shrinking, descending into depths historically uncharted.While serving as a bleak demonstration of climate change’s effects, the body of water is simultaneously assuming an alternative role that may be less apparent to the public. As water levels decline, Lake Mead is actively metamorphosing into a “Living Museum”, by gradually unveiling previously submerged artifacts. As a result, it is displaying pieces of the local and regional history that were formerly concealed by its watery domain. Lake Mead’s evolving identity has inspired further investigation into what the lake has been storing since its inception nearly a century ago. This creative thesis project adopts the format of an audio documentary, delving into the supplementary persona of Lake Mead and its surrounding areas. By weaving together an interdisciplinary collection of expertise surrounding Lake Mead, this endeavor will work to explore the concealed histories, cultural nuances, and the mysterious artifacts sprouting from the waters. By providing Lake Mead with an alternative narrative, this thesis aims to present a creative and compelling interpretation through which to observe the diminishing reservoir. In doing so, it provides a divergence from the predominant storyline shaped by the climate crisis.
Dynamical instabilities in a simple minority game with discounting
Creators: name: Challet, Damien
name: De Martino, Andrea
name: Marsili, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the effect of discounting and experimentation in a simple model of interacting adaptive agents. Agents belong to either of two types and each has to decide whether to participate a game or not, the game being profitable when there is an excess of players of the other type. We find the emergence of large fluctuations as a result of the onset of a dynamical instability which may arise discontinuously (increasing the discount factor) or continuously (decreasing the experimentation rate). The phase diagram is characterized in detail and noise amplification close to a bifurcation point is identified as the physical mechanism behind the instability.
description: 8 pages
T2K Latest Results On Muon Neutrino And Anti-Neutrino Disappearance
Creators: name: SIVA PRASAD K
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Masses and Mixing – Oscillations

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: On Behalf Of T2K Collaboration
EVALUATING THE RESERVES OF THE TRAFFIC AND HANDLING CAPACITY OF MARSHALLING YARDS USING THE FUZZY-SET THEORY (ОЦЕНКА РЕЗЕРВОВ ПРОПУСКНОЙ И ПЕРЕРАБАТЫВАЮЩЕЙ СПОСОБНОСТИ ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ЖЕЛЕЗНОДОРОЖНЫХ СТАНЦИЙ С ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕМ ТЕОРИИ НЕЧЕТКИХ МНОЖЕСТВ)
Creators: name: Osintsev, Nikita
name: Rakhmangulov, Aleksandr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: The fuzzy-set theory lays the foundation for evaluating the traffic and handling capacity of industrial marshalling yards. There is a focus on the factors determining the traffic and handling capacity of the station. The paper introduces an algorithm to analyze the reserves of the traffic and handling capacity using the maximin compression method.
В статье рассмотрено использование математического аппарата теории нечетких множеств для оценки резервов пропускной и перерабатывающей способности железнодорожных технологических станции промышленных предприятий. Выявлена система факторов, влияющих на пропускную и перерабатывающую способности станции, и предложен алгоритм оценки резервов пропускной и перерабатывающей способности методом максиминной свертки.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Process Mining: A General Overview and Application of a Novel Local Explanation Approach for Predictive Process Monitoring
Creators: name: Mehdiyev, Nijat
name: Fettke, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The contemporary process-aware information systems possess the capabilities to record the activities generated during the process execution. To leverage these process specific fine-granular data, process mining has recently emerged as a promising research discipline. As an important branch of process mining, predictive business process management, pursues the objective to generate forward-looking, predictive insights to shape business processes. In this study, we propose a conceptual framework sought to establish and promote understanding of decision-making environment, underlying business processes and nature of the user characteristics for developing explainable business process prediction solutions. Consequently, with regard to the theoretical and practical implications of the framework, this study proposes a novel local post-hoc explanation approach for a deep learning classifier that is expected to facilitate the domain experts in justifying the model decisions. In contrary to alternative popular perturbation-based local explanation approaches, this study defines the local regions from the validation dataset by using the intermediate latent space representations learned by the deep neural networks. To validate the applicability of the proposed explanation method, the real-life process log data delivered by the Volvo IT Belgium's incident management system are used.The adopted deep learning classifier achieves a good performance with the Area Under the ROC Curve of 0.94. The generated local explanations are also visualized and presented with relevant evaluation measures that are expected to increase the users' trust in the black-box-model.
description: Manuscript submitted (10.07.2020) to the edited volume "Interpretable Artificial Intelligence: A perspective of Granular Computing" (published by Springer)
Hoping for the best : an evaluation of three inner-city housing strategies
Creators: name: Laviolette, Tom Condon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In 1993, the federal government of Canada canceled the Federal-Provincial Housing Program. Over its twenty-year lifespan, this social housing program produced over 230,000 units of low-income housing and facilitated the development of a strong nonprofit housing sector across the country. For inner-city low-income neighbourhoods, the cancellation of the social housing program was of particular concern since the provision of decent and affordable housing provides a foundation (or starting point) for community development. Now that the federal government is no longer involved and provincial governments have either canceled their own involvement or have maintained a much scaled down social housing program, other housing strategies have come to the forefront. Two of these emerging strategies include: (1) public-private partnerships in low-income housing, and (2) the preservation of the existing private low-income housing stock. In terms of the latter strategy, for inner-city neighbourhoods, this has meant the acquisition and/or rehabilitation of the Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels and rooming houses. The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the extent to which these two emerging strategies and the former social housing strategy contributed to improving the quality of life and further empowerment of inner-city low-income neighbourhoods. To do this, a set of criteria, representing both qualitative and quantitative characteristics of community development, are applied to each of three strategies. The method of analysis includes document analysis, participant observation and key informant interviews. Based on these methods and the evaluation of the three housing strategies it became apparent that the social housing strategy satisfied the criteria better than the two emerging strategies. The implications are such that public-private partnerships is a housing strategy more useful to middle-income households, whereas SRO acquisition and rehabilitation is acceptable to inner-city low-income neighbourhood organizations only if it is part of housing strategy that promotes a continuum of housing forms, including the continued provision of self contained units.
Transculturality, Sensoriality, and Politics of Decorative Arts of Kerala, India
Creators: name: Deepthi Murali
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation examines the historical and contemporary lives of transcultural decorative arts produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Kerala, India, arguing for their sensorial and political efficacy in colonial and courtly sociopolitical encounters in India and Europe. Simultaneously, this dissertation investigates how art is made in littoral Kerala through diverse transcultural practices.
Violent Stellar Merger Model for Transient Events
Creators: name: Soker, Noam
name: Tylenda, Romuald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the constraints on the mass ratio for a binary system to merge in a violent process. We find that the secondary to primary stellar mass ratio should be ~0.003 < (M_2/M_1) < ~0.15. A more massive secondary star will keep the primary stellar envelope in synchronized rotation with the orbital motion until merger occurs. This implies a very small relative velocity between the secondary star and the primary stellar envelope at the moment of merger, and therefore very weak shock waves, and low flash luminosity. A too low mass secondary will release small amount of energy, and will expel small amount of mass, which is unable to form an inflated envelope. It can however produce a quite luminous but short flash when colliding with a low mass main sequence star. Violent and luminous mergers, which we term mergebursts, can be observed as V838 Monocerotis type events, where a star undergoes a fast brightening lasting days to months, with a peak luminosity of up to ~10^6 Lo followed by a slow decline at very low effective temperatures.
description: Accepted by MNRAS
title: The Dogs / The Ghosts
Creators: name: Rudolph, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/0406gha72
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The Dogs / The Ghosts is an auto-fictional novel derived from personal memories and interviews with the author’s family members. The text does not attempt to portray a real family history; it takes many liberties with material derived from family lore and much of the content is entirely invented. It is therefore presented as a work of fiction. The novel serves as a character study of Dean Rideout, a self-employed man from Portland, Oregon. The narrative is conveyed via four first-person perspectives, that of Dean’s wife Moira, and those of his children, Joanne, Beth and Morgan. The main events of the novel begin in 1989 with Joanne’s early childhood memories of Dean, and conclude in 1999 when Morgan witnesses Dean’s death. Additionally, flashbacks of Moira’s childhood serve as a contextual backdrop for Dean’s and Moira’s negotiation of parenting style. A deviation of the novel’s form is represented with (parenthetical italics), in which Morgan, as curator of the stories, comments and speculates from a future vantage point.
Quantum charge pumping and electric polarization in Anderson insulators
Creators: name: Chern, Chyh-Hong
name: Onoda, Shigeki
name: Murakami, Shuichi
name: Nagaosa, Naoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate adiabatic charge pumping in disordered system in one dimension with open and closed boundary conditions. In contrast to the Thouless charge pumping, the system has no gap even though all the states are localized, i.e., strong localization. Charge pumping can be achieved by making a loop adiabatically in the two-dimensional parameter space of the Hamiltonian. It is because there are many $δ$-function-like fluxes distributed over the parameter space with random strength, in sharp contrast to the single $δ$-function in the pure case. This provides a new and more efficient way of charge pumping and polarization.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures
Vacancies in graphene: an application of adiabatic quantum optimization
Creators: name: Carnevali, Virginia
name: Siloi, Ilaria
name: Di Felice, Rosa
name: Fornari, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum annealers have grown in complexity to the point that quantum computations involving few thousands of qubits are now possible. In this paper, \textcolor{black}{with the intentions to show the feasibility of quantum annealing to tackle problems of physical relevance, we used a simple model, compatible with the capability of current quantum annealers, to study} the relative stability of graphene vacancy defects. By mapping the crucial interactions that dominate carbon-vacancy interchange onto a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem, our approach exploits \textcolor{black}{the ground state as well the excited states found by} the quantum annealer to extract all the possible arrangements of multiple defects on the graphene sheet together with their relative formation energies. This approach reproduces known results and provides a stepping stone towards applications of quantum annealing to problems of physical-chemical interest.
On the number of bound states for weak perturbations of spin-orbit Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Bruening, Jochen
name: Geyler, Vladimir
name: Pankrashkin, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a variational proof of the existence of infinitely many bound states below the continuous spectrum for some weak perturbations of a class of spin-orbit Hamiltonians including the Rashba and Dresselhaus Hamiltonians.
A note on generalized $q$-difference equations for general Al-Salam--Carlitz polynomials
Creators: name: Cao, Jian
name: Xu, Binbin
name: Arjika, Sama
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A30, 11B65, 33D15, 33D45, 33D60, 39A13, 39B32

description: In this paper, we deduce the generalized $q$-difference equations for general Al-Salam--Carlitz polynomials and generalize Arjika's recently results [$q$-difference equation for homogeneous $q$-difference operators and their applications, J. Differ. Equ. Appl. {\bf 26}, 987--999 (2020)]. In addition, we obtain transformational identities by the method of $q$-difference equation. Moreover, we deduce $U(n+1)$ type generating functions and Ramanujan's integrals involving general Al-Salam--Carlitz polynomials by $q$-difference equation.
description: 14 pages
Spatial noise-aware temperature retrieval from infrared sounder data
Creators: name: Malmgren-Hansen, David
name: Laparra, Valero
name: Nielsen, Allan Aasbjerg
name: Camps-Valls, Gustau
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we present a combined strategy for the retrieval of atmospheric profiles from infrared sounders. The approach considers the spatial information and a noise-dependent dimensionality reduction approach. The extracted features are fed into a canonical linear regression. We compare Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Minimum Noise Fraction (MNF) for dimensionality reduction, and study the compactness and information content of the extracted features. Assessment of the results is done on a big dataset covering many spatial and temporal situations. PCA is widely used for these purposes but our analysis shows that one can gain significant improvements of the error rates when using MNF instead. In our analysis we also investigate the relationship between error rate improvements when including more spectral and spatial components in the regression model, aiming to uncover the trade-off between model complexity and error rates.