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2. UNBC-Rights Action Experiential Learning in Guatemala 2023: ArcGIS StoryMap on the Global Order, Injustice, and Resistance in Guatemala
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Nolin, Catherine, Carr, Mikhaila, Crosby, Morgan, Hanlon, Will, LeMoal, Cyan, Ostberg, Jakob, Ostberg, Mackenzie, Pavan, Olivia, Reed, August, Scott, Caroline, Slaney, Tyler, and Stephen-Conlan, Aine
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- 2024
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3. New England Women Writers, Secularity, and the Federalist Politics of Church and State by Gretchen Murphy (review)
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Reed, Ashley
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- 2024
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4. What is disability? Let’s start at the very beginning….
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Reed, Anna
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- 2024
5. Bridging Learning Value Gaps in a New Project Economy
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Katrenia Reed Hughes, Khushboo Kapadia, and Brandon Sorge
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The current study used Blomquist's Project Management Self-Efficacy assessment to collect data about student's perceived project management competence before taking a graduate level project management course. The research utilized the PMSE assessment to measure actual and retrospective pre-course project management self-efficacy. No industry is immune to the need for skilled project managers. Our question is "how do you know…they know…what they say they know?" In recent years, PMI's focus was The Project Economy. In the new project economy individuals need to transform ideas into reality and deliver value to stakeholders by collaborating in teams to successfully complete projects and support organizational value streams. Findings showed that individuals with previous project management experience were more likely to overestimate their skillset before taking the class than those without previous project management experience. This gap in project management skill insight puts employers at risk for missed opportunities and unrealized cost savings. Through the application of project management tools and templates, the students learn project life-cycle approaches used in industry today and demonstrate application through completion of actual projects in a team-based setting. The real-world application of ideas allows students to bridge the gap between their conceptual knowledge and their ability to effectively manage a project.
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- 2024
6. The Black Situation: Notes on Black Critical Theory Now
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Reed, Anthony
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- 2022
7. Black Capitalism in One City
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Reed, Adolph
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- 2022
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8. "We're here! We're Queer! Fuck the Banks!": On the Affective Lives of Abolition
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Reed, Alison Rose
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- 2022
9. Colorblind Melodrama: Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls and the Absorption of Black Feminism
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Reed, Alison Rose
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- 2022
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10. If the Body is a Metaphor
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Reed, Arien
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- 2022
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11. Them Fatale
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Reed, Arien Alana
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- 2023
12. Conflicting Obligations: Considering the Downstream Effects of Human Subjects Research Protections
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Reed, Amy R.
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- 2021
13. Striking a Chord with Spectral Sirens: multiple features in the compact binary population correlate with $H_0$
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Mali, Utkarsh and Essick, Reed
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
Spectral siren measurements of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) rely on correlations between observed detector-frame masses and luminosity distances. Features in the source-frame mass distribution can induce these correlations. It is crucial, then, to understand (i) which features in the source-frame mass distribution are robust against model (re)parametrization, (ii) which features carry the most information about $H_0$, and (iii) whether distinct features independently correlate with cosmological parameters. We study these questions using real gravitational-wave observations from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' third observing run. Although constraints on $H_0$ are weak, we find that current data reveals several prominent features in the mass distribution, including peaks in the binary black hole source-frame mass distribution near $\sim$ 9 $\rm{M}_{\odot}$ and $\sim$ 32$\rm{M}_{\odot}$ and a roll-off at masses above $\sim$ 46$\rm{M}_{\odot}$. For the first time using real data, we show that all of these features carry cosmological information and that the peak near $\sim$ 32$\rm{M}_{\odot}$ consistently correlates with $H_0$ most strongly. Introducing model-independent summary statistics, we show that these statistics independently correlate with $H_0$, exactly what is required to limit systematics within future spectral siren measurements from the (expected) astrophysical evolution of the mass distribution., Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables
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- 2024
14. Learning-Based Shielding for Safe Autonomy under Unknown Dynamics
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Reed, Robert and Lahijanian, Morteza
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Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control ,Computer Science - Machine Learning - Abstract
Shielding is a common method used to guarantee the safety of a system under a black-box controller, such as a neural network controller from deep reinforcement learning (DRL), with simpler, verified controllers. Existing shielding methods rely on formal verification through Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), assuming either known or finite-state models, which limits their applicability to DRL settings with unknown, continuous-state systems. This paper addresses these limitations by proposing a data-driven shielding methodology that guarantees safety for unknown systems under black-box controllers. The approach leverages Deep Kernel Learning to model the systems' one-step evolution with uncertainty quantification and constructs a finite-state abstraction as an Interval MDP (IMDP). By focusing on safety properties expressed in safe linear temporal logic (safe LTL), we develop an algorithm that computes the maximally permissive set of safe policies on the IMDP, ensuring avoidance of unsafe states. The algorithms soundness and computational complexity are demonstrated through theoretical proofs and experiments on nonlinear systems, including a high-dimensional autonomous spacecraft scenario., Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures
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- 2024
15. Variability of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae with the Zwicky Transient Facility. I. Methods, Short-Timescale Variables, Binary Candidates, and the Unusual Nucleus of WeSb 1
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Bhattacharjee, Soumyadeep, Kulkarni, S. R., Kong, Albert K. H., Tam, M. S., Bond, Howard E., El-Badry, Kareem, Caiazzo, Ilaria, Graham, Matthew J., Rodriguez, Antonio C., Zeimann, Gregory R., Fremling, Christoffer, Drake, Andrew J., Werner, Klaus, Rodriguez, Hector, Prince, Thomas A., Laher, Russ R., Chen, Tracy X., and Riddle, Reed
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Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies - Abstract
Over the past several decades, time-series photometry of CSPNe has yielded significant results including, but not limited to, discoveries of nearly 100 binary systems, insights into pulsations and winds in young white dwarfs, and studies of stars undergoing very late thermal pulses. We have undertaken a systematic study of optical photometric variability of cataloged CSPNe, using the epochal photometric data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). By applying appropriate variability metrics, we arrive at a list of 94 significantly variable CSPNe. Based on the timescales of the light-curve activity, we classify the variables broadly into short- and long-timescale variables. In this first paper in this series, we focus on the former, which is the majority class comprising 83 objects. We infer periods for six sources for the first time, and recover several known periodic variables. Among the aperiodic sources, most exhibit a jitter around a median flux with a stable amplitude, and a few show outbursts. We draw attention to WeSb 1, which shows a different kind of variability: prominent deep and aperiodic dips, resembling transits from a dust/debris disk. We find strong evidence for a binary nature of WeSb 1 (possibly an A- to G-type companion). The compactness of the emission lines and inferred high electron densities make WeSb 1 a candidate for either an EGB 6-type planetary nucleus, or a symbiotic system inside an evolved planetary nebula, both of which are rare objects. To demonstrate further promise with ZTF, we report three additional newly identified periodic sources that do not appear in the list of highly variable sources. Finally, we also introduce a two-dimensional metric space defined by the von Neumann statistics and Pearson Skew and demonstrate its effectiveness in identifying unique variables of astrophysical interest, like WeSb 1., Comment: 19 pages + 8 pages appendix, 5 tables, 17 figures; Submitted to PASP; Comments are welcome!
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- 2024
16. Sonic Entanglements with Electromyography: Between Bodies, Signals, and Representations
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Reed, Courtney N, Morrison, Landon, Mcpherson, Andrew P, Fierro, David, and Tanaka, Atau
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Quantitative Biology - Tissues and Organs - Abstract
This paper investigates sound and music interactions arising from the use of electromyography (EMG) to instrumentalise signals from muscle exertion of the human body. We situate EMG within a family of embodied interaction modalities, where it occupies a middle ground, considered as a ''signal from the inside'' compared with external observations of the body (e.g., motion capture), but also seen as more volitional than neurological states recorded by brain electroencephalogram (EEG). To understand the messiness of gestural interaction afforded by EMG, we revisit the phenomenological turn in HCI, reading Paul Dourish's work on the transparency of ''ready-to-hand'' technologies against the grain of recent posthumanist theories, which offer a performative interpretation of musical entanglements between bodies, signals, and representations. We take music performance as a use case, reporting on the opportunities and constraints posed by EMG in workshop-based studies of vocal, instrumental, and electronic practices. We observe that across our diverse range of musical subjects, they consistently challenged notions of EMG as a transparent tool that directly registered the state of the body, reporting instead that it took on ''present-at-hand'' qualities, defamiliarising the performer's own sense of themselves and reconfiguring their embodied practice.
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- 2024
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17. Characterizing and modeling the influence of geometry on the performance of superconducting nanowire cryotrons
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Simon, Alejandro, Foster, Reed, Medeiros, Owen, Castellani, Matteo, Batson, Emma, and Berggren, Karl K.
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Condensed Matter - Superconductivity ,Physics - Applied Physics - Abstract
The scaling of superconducting nanowire-based devices to larger arrays is often limited by the cabling required to interface with each device. Cryogenic integrated circuits constructed from nanowire cryotrons, or nanocryotrons, can address this limitation by performing signal processing on chip. In this study, we characterize key performance metrics of the nanocryotron to elucidate its potential as a logical element in cryogenic integrated circuits and develop an electro-thermal model to connect material parameters with device performance. We find that the performance of the nanocryotron depends significantly on the device geometry, and trade-offs are associated with optimizing the gain, jitter, and energy dissipation. We demonstrate that nanocryotrons fabricated on niobium nitride can achieve a grey zone less than 210 nA wide for a 5 ns long input pulse corresponding to a maximum achievable gain of 48 dB, an energy dissipation of less than 20 aJ per operation, and a jitter of less than 60 ps., Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures
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- 2024
18. Autonomous Hiking Trail Navigation via Semantic Segmentation and Geometric Analysis
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Reed, Camndon, Tatsch, Christopher, Gross, Jason N., and Gu, Yu
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Computer Science - Robotics ,Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing - Abstract
Natural environments pose significant challenges for autonomous robot navigation, particularly due to their unstructured and ever-changing nature. Hiking trails, with their dynamic conditions influenced by weather, vegetation, and human traffic, represent one such challenge. This work introduces a novel approach to autonomous hiking trail navigation that balances trail adherence with the flexibility to adapt to off-trail routes when necessary. The solution is a Traversability Analysis module that integrates semantic data from camera images with geometric information from LiDAR to create a comprehensive understanding of the surrounding terrain. A planner uses this traversability map to navigate safely, adhering to trails while allowing off-trail movement when necessary to avoid on-trail hazards or for safe off-trail shortcuts. The method is evaluated through simulation to determine the balance between semantic and geometric information in traversability estimation. These simulations tested various weights to assess their impact on navigation performance across different trail scenarios. Weights were then validated through field tests at the West Virginia University Core Arboretum, demonstrating the method's effectiveness in a real-world environment.
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- 2024
19. Online Diffusion-Based 3D Occupancy Prediction at the Frontier with Probabilistic Map Reconciliation
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Reed, Alec, Achey, Lorin, Crowe, Brendan, Hayes, Bradley, and Heckman, Christoffer
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Computer Science - Robotics - Abstract
Autonomous navigation and exploration in unmapped environments remains a significant challenge in robotics due to the difficulty robots face in making commonsense inference of unobserved geometries. Recent advancements have demonstrated that generative modeling techniques, particularly diffusion models, can enable systems to infer these geometries from partial observation. In this work, we present implementation details and results for real-time, online occupancy prediction using a modified diffusion model. By removing attention-based visual conditioning and visual feature extraction components, we achieve a 73$\%$ reduction in runtime with minimal accuracy reduction. These modifications enable occupancy prediction across the entire map, rather than being limited to the area around the robot where camera data can be collected. We introduce a probabilistic update method for merging predicted occupancy data into running occupancy maps, resulting in a 71$\%$ improvement in predicting occupancy at map frontiers compared to previous methods. Finally, we release our code and a ROS node for on-robot operation
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- 2024
20. Measurement of the nucleon spin structure functions for $0.01<Q^2<1$~GeV$^2$ using CLAS
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Deur, A., Kuhn, S. E., Ripani, M., Zheng, X., Acar, A. G., Achenbach, P., Adhikari, K. P., Alvarado, J. S., Amaryan, M. J., Armstrong, W. R., Atac, H., Avakian, H., Baashen, L., Baltzell, N. A., Barion, L., Bashkanov, M., Battaglieri, M., Benkel, B., Benmokhtar, F., Bianconi, A., Biselli, A. S., Booth, W. A., ossu, F. B, Bosted, P., Boiarinov, S., Brinkmann, K. Th., Briscoe, W. J., Bueltmann, S., Burkert, V. D., Carman, D. S., Chatagnon, P., Chen, J. P., Ciullo, G., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., Defurne, M., Diehl, S., Djalali, C., Drozdov, V. A., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Alaoui, A. El, Fassi, L. El, Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Faggert, J. C., Fegan, S., Fersch, R., Filippi, A., Gates, K., Gavalian, G., Gilfoyle, G. P., Gothe, R. W., Guo, L., Hakobyan, H., Hattawy, M., Hauenstein, F., Heddle, D., Hobart, A., Holtrop, M., Ireland, D. G., Isupov, E. L., Jiang, H., Jo, H. S., Joosten, S., Kang, H., Keith, C., Khandaker, M., Kim, W., Klein, F. J., Klimenko, V., Konczykowski, P., Kovacs, K., Kripko, A., Kubarovsky, V., Lanza, L., Lee, S., Lenisa, P., Li, X., Long, E., MacGregor, I. J. D., Marchand, D., Mascagna, V., Matamoros, D., McKinnon, B., Meekins, D., Migliorati, S., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Munoz-Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Nagorna, T., Neupane, K., Niccolai, S., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A. I., Pandey, P., Paolone, M., Pappalardo, L. L., Paremuzyan, R., Pasyuk, E., Paul, S. J., Phelps, W., Phillips, S. K., Pierce, J., Pilleux, N., Pokhrel, M., Price, J. W., Prok, Y., Radic, A., Reed, T., Richards, J., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Rusova, A. A., Salgado, C., Schmidt, A., Schumacher, R. A., Sharabian, Y. G., Shirokov, E. V., Shrestha, U., Sirca, S., Sparveris, N., Spreafico, M., Stepanyan, S., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Sulkosky, V., Tan, J. A., Tenorio, M., Trotta, N., Tyson, R., Ungaro, M., Upton, D. W., Vallarino, S., Venturelli, L., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Watts, D. P., Wei, X., Wood, M. H., Zachariou, N., Zhang, J., and Zurek, M.
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The spin structure functions of the proton and the deuteron were measured during the EG4 experiment at Jefferson Lab in 2006. Data were collected for longitudinally polarized electron scattering off longitudinally polarized NH$_3$ and ND$_3$ targets, for $Q^2$ values as small as 0.012 and 0.02 GeV$^2$, respectively, using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS). This is the archival paper of the EG4 experiment that summaries the previously reported results of the polarized structure functions $g_1$, $A_1F_1$, and their moments $\overline \Gamma_1$, $\overline \gamma_0$, and $\overline I_{TT}$, for both the proton and the deuteron. In addition, we report on new results on the neutron $g_1$ extracted by combining proton and deuteron data and correcting for Fermi smearing, and on the neutron moments $\overline \Gamma_1$, $\overline \gamma_0$, and $\overline I_{TT}$ formed directly from those of the proton and the deuteron. Our data are in good agreement with the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule for the proton, deuteron, and neutron. Furthermore, the isovector combination was formed for $g_1$ and the Bjorken integral $\overline \Gamma_1^{p-n}$, and compared to available theoretical predictions. All of our results provide for the first time extensive tests of spin observable predictions from chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) in a $Q^2$ range commensurate with the pion mass. They motivate further improvement in $\chi$EFT calculations from other approaches such as the lattice gauge method., Comment: 33 pages. 26 figures. Data table provided in supplementary material (30 pages)
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21. ZTF SN Ia DR2: Overview
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Rigault, Mickael, Smith, Mathew, Goobar, Ariel, Maguire, Kate, Dimitriadis, Georgios, Burgaz, Umut, Dhawan, Suhail, Sollerman, Jesper, Regnault, Nicolas, Kowalski, Marek, Amenouche, Melissa, Aubert, Marie, Barjou-Delayre, Chloé, Bautista, Julian, Bloom, Josh S., Carreres, Bastien, Chen, Tracy X., Copin, Yannick, Deckers, Maxime, Fouchez, Dominique, Fremling, Christoffer, Galbany, Lluis, Ginolin, Madeleine, Graham, Matthew, Kasliwal, Mancy M., Kenworthy, W. D'Arcy, Kim, Young-Lo, Kuhn, Dylan, Masci, Frank F., Müller-Bravo, Tomas, Miller, Adam, Johansson, Joel, Nordin, Jakob, Nugent, Peter, Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric, Betoule, Marc, Osman, Mahmoud, Perley, Dan, Popovic, Brodie, Rosnet, Philippe, Rosselli, Damiano, Ruppin, Florian, Senzel, Robert, Rusholme, Ben, Schweyer, Tassilo, Terwel, Jacco H., Townsend, Alice, Tzanidakis, Andy, Wold, Avery, Purdum, Josiah, Qin, Yu-Jing, Racine, Benjamin, Reusch, Simeon, Riddle, Reed, and Yan, Lin
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Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
We present the first homogeneous release of several thousand Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), all having spectroscopic classification, and spectroscopic redshifts for half the sample. This release, named the "DR2", contains 3628 nearby (z < 0.3) SNe Ia discovered, followed and classified by the Zwicky Transient Facility survey between March 2018 and December 2020. Of these, 3000 have good-to-excellent sampling and 2667 pass standard cosmology light-curve quality cuts. This release is thus the largest SN Ia release to date, increasing by an order of magnitude the number of well characterized low-redshift objects. With the "DR2", we also provide a volume-limited (z < 0.06) sample of nearly a thousand SNe Ia. With such a large, homogeneous and well controlled dataset, we are studying key current questions on SN cosmology, such as the linearity SNe Ia standardization, the SN and host dependencies, the diversity of the SN Ia population, and the accuracy of the current light-curve modeling. These, and more, are studied in detail in a series of articles associated with this release. Alongside the SN Ia parameters, we publish our force-photometry gri-band light curves, 5138 spectra, local and global host properties, observing logs, and a python tool to ease use and access of these data. The photometric accuracy of the "DR2" is not yet suited for cosmological parameter inference, which will follow as "DR2.5" release. We nonetheless demonstrate that the multi-thousand SN Ia Hubble Diagram has a typical 0.15 mag scatter., Comment: ZTF SN Ia DR2 release paper. Submitted to A&A (ZTF DR2 Special Issue). Already 1 response to referee
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- 2024
22. Randomized Lower Bounds for Tarski Fixed Points in High Dimensions
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Brânzei, Simina, Phillips, Reed, and Recker, Nicholas
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Computer Science - Computational Complexity ,Computer Science - Computer Science and Game Theory - Abstract
The Knaster-Tarski theorem, also known as Tarski's theorem, guarantees that every monotone function defined on a complete lattice has a fixed point. We analyze the query complexity of finding such a fixed point on the $k$-dimensional grid of side length $n$ under the $\leq$ relation. Specifically, there is an unknown monotone function $f: \{0,1,\ldots, n-1\}^k \to \{0,1,\ldots, n-1\}^k$ and an algorithm must query a vertex $v$ to learn $f(v)$. Our main result is a randomized lower bound of $\Omega\left( k + \frac{k \cdot \log{n}}{\log{k}} \right)$ for the $k$-dimensional grid of side length $n$, which is nearly optimal in high dimensions when $k$ is large relative to $n$. As a corollary, we characterize the randomized and deterministic query complexity on the Boolean hypercube $\{0,1\}^k$ as $\Theta(k)$., Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures
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- 2024
23. Diffraction Aided Wireless Positioning
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Duggal, Gaurav, Buehrer, R. Michael, Dhillon, Harpreet S., and Reed, Jeffrey H.
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Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing - Abstract
Wireless positioning in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) scenarios is highly challenging due to multipath, which leads to deterioration in the positioning estimate. This study reexamines electromagnetic field principles and applies them to wireless positioning, resulting in new techniques that enhance positioning accuracy in NLOS scenarios. Further, we use the proposed method to analyze a public safety scenario where it is essential to determine the position of at-risk individuals within buildings, emphasizing improving the Z-axis position estimate. Our analysis uses the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction (GTD) to provide important signal propagation insights and develop a new NLOS path model. Next, we use Fisher information to derive necessary and sufficient conditions for 3D positioning using our proposed positioning technique and finally to lower bound the possible 3D and z-axis positioning performance. On applying this positioning technique in a public safety scenario, we show that it is possible to greatly improve both 3D and Z-axis positioning performance by directly estimating NLOS path lengths.
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- 2024
24. Governing dual-use technologies: Case studies of international security agreements and lessons for AI governance
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Wasil, Akash R., Barnett, Peter, Gerovitch, Michael, Hauksson, Roman, Reed, Tom, and Miller, Jack William
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Computer Science - Computers and Society ,Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence - Abstract
International AI governance agreements and institutions may play an important role in reducing global security risks from advanced AI. To inform the design of such agreements and institutions, we conducted case studies of historical and contemporary international security agreements. We focused specifically on those arrangements around dual-use technologies, examining agreements in nuclear security, chemical weapons, biosecurity, and export controls. For each agreement, we examined four key areas: (a) purpose, (b) core powers, (c) governance structure, and (d) instances of non-compliance. From these case studies, we extracted lessons for the design of international AI agreements and governance institutions. We discuss the importance of robust verification methods, strategies for balancing power between nations, mechanisms for adapting to rapid technological change, approaches to managing trade-offs between transparency and security, incentives for participation, and effective enforcement mechanisms.
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- 2024
25. A neural network emulator of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo selection function
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Callister, Thomas A., Essick, Reed, and Holz, Daniel E.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology - Abstract
Characterization of search selection effects comprises a core element of gravitational-wave data analysis. Knowledge of selection effects is needed to predict observational prospects for future surveys and is essential in the statistical inference of astrophysical source populations from observed catalogs of compact binary mergers. Although gravitational-wave selection functions can be directly measured via injection campaigns -- the insertion and attempted recovery of simulated signals added to real instrumental data -- such efforts are computationally expensive. Moreover, the inability to interpolate between discrete injections limits the ability to which we can study narrow or discontinuous features in the compact binary population. For this reason, there is a growing need for alternative representations of gravitational-wave selection functions that are computationally cheap to evaluate and can be computed across a continuous range of compact binary parameters. In this paper, we describe one such representation. Using pipeline injections performed during Advanced LIGO & Advanced Virgo's third observing run (O3), we train a neural network emulator for $P(\mathrm{det}|\theta)$, the probability that given a compact binary with parameters is successfully detected, averaged over the course of O3. The emulator captures the dependence of $P(\mathrm{det}|\theta)$ on binary masses, spins, distance, sky position, and orbital orientation, and it is valid for compact binaries with components masses between $1$--$100\,M_\odot$. We test the emulator's ability to produce accurate distributions of detectable events, and demonstrate its use in hierarchical inference of the binary black hole population., Comment: 26 pages, 16 figures. Code is available at https://github.com/tcallister/learning-p-det/ and data at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13362691 . Neural network emulator is released at https://github.com/tcallister/pdet/
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- 2024
26. Verification methods for international AI agreements
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Wasil, Akash R., Reed, Tom, Miller, Jack William, and Barnett, Peter
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Computer Science - Computers and Society ,Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence - Abstract
What techniques can be used to verify compliance with international agreements about advanced AI development? In this paper, we examine 10 verification methods that could detect two types of potential violations: unauthorized AI training (e.g., training runs above a certain FLOP threshold) and unauthorized data centers. We divide the verification methods into three categories: (a) national technical means (methods requiring minimal or no access from suspected non-compliant nations), (b) access-dependent methods (methods that require approval from the nation suspected of unauthorized activities), and (c) hardware-dependent methods (methods that require rules around advanced hardware). For each verification method, we provide a description, historical precedents, and possible evasion techniques. We conclude by offering recommendations for future work related to the verification and enforcement of international AI governance agreements.
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- 2024
27. Cataclysmic Variables and AM CVn Binaries in SRG/eROSITA + Gaia: Volume Limited Samples, X-ray Luminosity Functions, and Space Densities
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Rodriguez, Antonio C., El-Badry, Kareem, Suleimanov, Valery, Pala, Anna F., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Gaensicke, Boris, Mori, Kaya, Rich, R. Michael, Sarkar, Arnab, Bao, Tong, de Oliveira, Raimundo Lopes, Ramsay, Gavin, Szkody, Paula, Graham, Matthew, Prince, Thomas A., Caiazzo, Ilaria, Vanderbosch, Zachary P., van Roestel, Jan, Das, Kaustav K., Qin, Yu-Jing, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Wold, Avery, Groom, Steven L., Reiley, Daniel, and Riddle, Reed
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
We present volume-limited samples of cataclysmic variables (CVs) and AM CVn binaries jointly selected from SRG/eROSITA eRASS1 and \textit{Gaia} DR3 using an X-ray + optical color-color diagram (the ``X-ray Main Sequence"). This tool identifies all CV subtypes, including magnetic and low-accretion rate systems, in contrast to most previous surveys. We find 23 CVs, 3 of which are AM CVns, out to 150 pc in the Western Galactic Hemisphere. Our 150 pc sample is spectroscopically verified and complete down to $L_X = 1.3\times 10^{29} \;\textrm{erg s}^{-1}$ in the 0.2--2.3 keV band, and we also present CV candidates out to 300 pc and 1000 pc. We discovered two previously unknown systems in our 150 pc sample: the third nearest AM CVn and a magnetic period bouncer. We find the mean $L_X$ of CVs to be $\langle L_X \rangle \approx 4.6\times 10^{30} \;\textrm{erg s}^{-1}$, in contrast to previous surveys which yielded $\langle L_X \rangle \sim 10^{31}-10^{32} \;\textrm{erg s}^{-1}$. We construct X-ray luminosity functions that, for the first time, flatten out at $L_X\sim 10^{30} \; \textrm{erg s}^{-1}$. We find average number, mass, and luminosity densities of $\rho_\textrm{N, CV} = (3.7 \pm 0.7) \times 10^{-6} \textrm{pc}^{-3}$, $\rho_M = (5.0 \pm 1.0) \times 10^{-5} M_\odot^{-1}$, and $\rho_{L_X} = (2.3 \pm 0.4) \times 10^{26} \textrm{erg s}^{-1}M_\odot^{-1}$, respectively, in the solar neighborhood. Our uniform selection method also allows us to place meaningful estimates on the space density of AM CVns, $\rho_\textrm{N, AM CVn} = (5.5 \pm 3.7) \times 10^{-7} \textrm{pc}^{-3}$. Magnetic CVs and period bouncers make up $35\%$ and $25\%$ of our sample, respectively. This work, through a novel discovery technique, shows that the observed number densities of CVs and AM CVns, as well as the fraction of period bouncers, are still in tension with population synthesis estimates., Comment: Submitted to PASP, comments welcome
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- 2024
28. A Transition Edge Sensor Operated in Coincidence with a High Sensitivity Phonon Veto for Photon Coupled Rare Event Searches
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Romani, Roger K., Chang, Yen-Yung, Mahapatra, Rupak, Platt, Mark, Reed, Maggie, Rydstrom, Ivar, Sadoulet, Bernard, Serfass, Bruno, and Pyle, Matt
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors - Abstract
Experimental searches for axions or dark photons that couple to the standard model photon require photosensors with low noise, broadband sensitivity, and near zero backgrounds. Here, we introduce a Transition Edge Sensor (TES) based photon sensor with a high sensitivity athermal phonon sensor coupled to the substrate on which the TES is deposited. We show that single photons absorbed locally in the TES have $\sim$35% energy deposition in the electronic system of the TES, with $\sim$26% of the photon energy absorbed by the athermal photon sensor (due to athermal phonons leaking out of the TES during the downconversion process). Backgrounds are observed to be largely coupled to either the TES or phonon system. At high energies, these backgrounds can be efficiently discriminated from TES photon absorption events, while at low energies, their leakage into the passage band is well modeled. With significant sensitivity improvements to both the photon and phonon channel, this coincidence technique could be used to suppress backgrounds in bosonic dark matter searches down to energies near the superconducting bandgap of the sensor., Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures
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29. Error Bounds For Gaussian Process Regression Under Bounded Support Noise With Applications To Safety Certification
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Reed, Robert, Laurenti, Luca, and Lahijanian, Morteza
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Computer Science - Machine Learning ,Statistics - Machine Learning - Abstract
Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) is a powerful and elegant method for learning complex functions from noisy data with a wide range of applications, including in safety-critical domains. Such applications have two key features: (i) they require rigorous error quantification, and (ii) the noise is often bounded and non-Gaussian due to, e.g., physical constraints. While error bounds for applying GPR in the presence of non-Gaussian noise exist, they tend to be overly restrictive and conservative in practice. In this paper, we provide novel error bounds for GPR under bounded support noise. Specifically, by relying on concentration inequalities and assuming that the latent function has low complexity in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) corresponding to the GP kernel, we derive both probabilistic and deterministic bounds on the error of the GPR. We show that these errors are substantially tighter than existing state-of-the-art bounds and are particularly well-suited for GPR with neural network kernels, i.e., Deep Kernel Learning (DKL). Furthermore, motivated by applications in safety-critical domains, we illustrate how these bounds can be combined with stochastic barrier functions to successfully quantify the safety probability of an unknown dynamical system from finite data. We validate the efficacy of our approach through several benchmarks and comparisons against existing bounds. The results show that our bounds are consistently smaller, and that DKLs can produce error bounds tighter than sample noise, significantly improving the safety probability of control systems., Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables
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30. Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
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D'Ambrosio, David B., Abeyruwan, Saminda, Graesser, Laura, Iscen, Atil, Amor, Heni Ben, Bewley, Alex, Reed, Barney J., Reymann, Krista, Takayama, Leila, Tassa, Yuval, Choromanski, Krzysztof, Coumans, Erwin, Jain, Deepali, Jaitly, Navdeep, Jaques, Natasha, Kataoka, Satoshi, Kuang, Yuheng, Lazic, Nevena, Mahjourian, Reza, Moore, Sherry, Oslund, Kenneth, Shankar, Anish, Sindhwani, Vikas, Vanhoucke, Vincent, Vesom, Grace, Xu, Peng, and Sanketi, Pannag R.
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Computer Science - Robotics - Abstract
Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics research community. This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first learned robot agent that reaches amateur human-level performance in competitive table tennis. Table tennis is a physically demanding sport which requires human players to undergo years of training to achieve an advanced level of proficiency. In this paper, we contribute (1) a hierarchical and modular policy architecture consisting of (i) low level controllers with their detailed skill descriptors which model the agent's capabilities and help to bridge the sim-to-real gap and (ii) a high level controller that chooses the low level skills, (2) techniques for enabling zero-shot sim-to-real including an iterative approach to defining the task distribution that is grounded in the real-world and defines an automatic curriculum, and (3) real time adaptation to unseen opponents. Policy performance was assessed through 29 robot vs. human matches of which the robot won 45% (13/29). All humans were unseen players and their skill level varied from beginner to tournament level. Whilst the robot lost all matches vs. the most advanced players it won 100% matches vs. beginners and 55% matches vs. intermediate players, demonstrating solidly amateur human-level performance. Videos of the matches can be viewed at https://sites.google.com/view/competitive-robot-table-tennis, Comment: v2, 29 pages, 19 main paper, 10 references + appendix, adding an additional 9 references
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31. Shaping Contexts and Developing Invitational Ethos in Response to Medical Authority: An Interview Study of Women Down Syndrome Advocates
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Reed, Amy R. and Meredith, Stephanie
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32. Hope Leslie and the Grounds of Secularism
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Reed, Ashley
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33. Career Technical Education among California High School Graduates
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Stanford University, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), Boochever, Audrey, Reed, Sherrie, and Kurlaender, Michal
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Career Technical Education (CTE)--a structured series of courses that provides high school students technical and vocational skills, paving the way to postsecondary education and careers--is key to aligning secondary education with both labor market needs and college opportunities. CTE provides high school students with the chance to engage in practical learning experiences, boosting engagement and expanding students' exposure to and preparation for a variety of careers. CTE participation is linked to increased high school graduation rates, greater likelihood of enrollment in two-year colleges, and higher earnings. With the promise of improved student outcomes, California has invested substantially in CTE over the last ten years. While CTE is generally linked to better educational and earnings outcomes, these outcomes vary across student subgroups and industry sectors. Within each industry sector, there are a number of pathways--a sequence of two or three courses with a final capstone course--that a student may choose to complete. Participation in specific CTE pathways is a function of many factors beyond student choice, including but not limited to course availability and scheduling within a high school or at an alternative school site, distance from the student's high school to the CTE program, and partnerships between high schools and local businesses. As such, pathways are not equally available to students across schools. This extended infographic provides an updated look at CTE pathway completion among California public high school graduates and how completion patterns vary by student race/ethnicity, gender, and CTE industry sector.
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34. Challenges and Future Directions in Quantifying Terrestrial Evapotranspiration
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Yi, Koong, Senay, Gabriel B, Fisher, Joshua B, Wang, Lixin, Suvočarev, Kosana, Chu, Housen, Moore, Georgianne W, Novick, Kimberly A, Barnes, Mallory L, Keenan, Trevor F, Mallick, Kanishka, Luo, Xiangzhong, Missik, Justine EC, Delwiche, Kyle B, Nelson, Jacob A, Good, Stephen P, Xiao, Xiangming, Kannenberg, Steven A, Ahmadi, Arman, Wang, Tianxin, Bohrer, Gil, Litvak, Marcy E, Reed, David E, Oishi, A Christopher, Torn, Margaret S, and Baldocchi, Dennis
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Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience ,Civil Engineering ,Environmental Engineering ,Hydrology ,Civil engineering ,Environmental engineering - Abstract
Abstract: Terrestrial evapotranspiration is the second‐largest component of the land water cycle, linking the water, energy, and carbon cycles and influencing the productivity and health of ecosystems. The dynamics of ET across a spectrum of spatiotemporal scales and their controls remain an active focus of research across different science disciplines. Here, we provide an overview of the current state of ET science across in situ measurements, partitioning of ET, and remote sensing, and discuss how different approaches complement one another based on their advantages and shortcomings. We aim to facilitate collaboration among a cross‐disciplinary group of ET scientists to overcome the challenges identified in this paper and ultimately advance our integrated understanding of ET.
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35. The response to influenza vaccination is associated with DNA methylation-driven regulation of T cell innate antiviral pathways.
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Fu, Hongxiang, Pickering, Harry, Rubbi, Liudmilla, Ross, Ted, Zhou, Wanding, Reed, Elaine, and Pellegrini, Matteo
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Cell-type deconvolution ,DNA methylation ,Influenza vaccine ,Influenza virus ,RNA sequencing ,Targeted bisulfite sequencing ,Humans ,DNA Methylation ,Influenza Vaccines ,Immunity ,Innate ,Female ,Male ,Influenza ,Human ,Middle Aged ,Adult ,Signal Transduction ,T-Lymphocytes ,Longitudinal Studies ,Epigenesis ,Genetic ,Vaccination ,DEAD Box Protein 58 ,Leukocytes ,Mononuclear - Abstract
BACKGROUND: The effect of vaccination on the epigenome remains poorly characterized. In previous research, we identified an association between seroprotection against influenza and DNA methylation at sites associated with the RIG-1 signaling pathway, which recognizes viral double-stranded RNA and leads to a type I interferon response. However, these studies did not fully account for confounding factors including age, gender, and BMI, along with changes in cell-type composition. RESULTS: Here, we studied the influenza vaccine response in a longitudinal cohort vaccinated over two consecutive years (2019-2020 and 2020-2021), using peripheral blood mononuclear cells and a targeted DNA methylation approach. To address the effects of multiple factors on the epigenome, we designed a multivariate multiple regression model that included seroprotection levels as quantified by the hemagglutination-inhibition (HAI) assay test. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that 179 methylation sites can be combined as potential signatures to predict seroprotection. These sites were not only enriched for genes involved in the regulation of the RIG-I signaling pathway, as found previously, but also enriched for other genes associated with innate immunity to viruses and the transcription factor binding sites of BRD4, which is known to impact T cell memory. We propose a model to suggest that the RIG-I pathway and BRD4 could potentially be modulated to improve immunization strategies.
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36. An ANXA11 P93S variant dysregulates TDP‐43 and causes corticobasal syndrome
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Snyder, Allison, Ryan, Veronica H, Hawrot, James, Lawton, Sydney, Ramos, Daniel M, Qi, Y Andy, Johnson, Kory R, Reed, Xylena, Johnson, Nicholas L, Kollasch, Aaron W, Duffy, Megan F, VandeVrede, Lawren, Cochran, J Nicholas, Miller, Bruce L, Toro, Camilo, Bielekova, Bibiana, Marks, Debora S, Yokoyama, Jennifer S, Kwan, Justin Y, Cookson, Mark R, and Ward, Michael E
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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Neurosciences ,Clinical Sciences ,Brain Disorders ,Genetics ,Rare Diseases ,Neurodegenerative ,2.1 Biological and endogenous factors ,Neurological ,Humans ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Annexins ,Male ,Mutation ,Female ,Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ,Neurons ,Frontotemporal Dementia ,Middle Aged ,Aged ,ANXA11 ,corticobasal syndrome ,TDP-43 ,variant of uncertain significance ,TDP‐43 ,Geriatrics ,Clinical sciences ,Biological psychology - Abstract
IntroductionVariants of uncertain significance (VUS) surged with affordable genetic testing, posing challenges for determining pathogenicity. We examine the pathogenicity of a novel VUS P93S in Annexin A11 (ANXA11) - an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia-associated gene - in a corticobasal syndrome kindred. Established ANXA11 mutations cause ANXA11 aggregation, altered lysosomal-RNA granule co-trafficking, and transactive response DNA binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) mis-localization.MethodsWe described the clinical presentation and explored the phenotypic diversity of ANXA11 variants. P93S's effect on ANXA11 function and TDP-43 biology was characterized in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons alongside multiomic neuronal and microglial profiling.ResultsANXA11 mutations were linked to corticobasal syndrome cases. P93S led to decreased lysosome colocalization, neuritic RNA, and nuclear TDP-43 with cryptic exon expression. Multiomic microglial signatures implicated immune dysregulation and interferon signaling pathways.DiscussionThis study establishes ANXA11 P93S pathogenicity, broadens the phenotypic spectrum of ANXA11 mutations, underscores neuronal and microglial dysfunction in ANXA11 pathophysiology, and demonstrates the potential of cellular models to determine variant pathogenicity.HighlightsANXA11 P93S is a pathogenic variant. Corticobasal syndrome is part of the ANXA11 phenotypic spectrum. Hybridization chain reaction fluorescence in situ hybridization (HCR FISH) is a new tool for the detection of cryptic exons due to TDP-43-related loss of splicing regulation. Microglial ANXA11 and related immune pathways are important drivers of disease. Cellular models are powerful tools for adjudicating variants of uncertain significance.
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37. The iterative persuasion-polarization opinion dynamics and its mean-field analysis
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Cao, Fei and Reed, Stephanie
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Physics - Physics and Society ,Mathematics - Classical Analysis and ODEs ,Mathematics - Probability ,91D25, 91D30, 82C31, 82C22, 35Q91 - Abstract
In this paper, we introduce the Iterative Persuasion-Polarization (IPP) model to study the dynamics of opinion formation and change within a population. The IPP model integrates mechanisms of persuasion and repulsion, where individuals influence each other through interactions that can either align opinions incrementally or lead to greater divergence. The probability of each interaction type is governed by a parameter $\alpha$, representing the population's receptiveness to persuasion. We investigate how these interaction dynamics shape the long-term distribution of opinions, examining conditions that promote consensus or polarization. By deriving a system of nonlinear and autonomous ordinary differential equations (ODEs), we provide a rigorous mathematical framework for analyzing the distributional behavior of opinions in large populations. Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of social influence dynamics and their implications in complex social systems., Comment: 30 pages, 7 figures
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38. Searching for New Cataclysmic Variables in the Chandra Source Catalog
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Galiullin, Ilkham, Rodriguez, Antonio C., El-Badry, Kareem, Szkody, Paula, Anand, Abhijeet, van Roestel, Jan, Sibgatullin, Askar, Dodon, Vladislav, Tyrin, Nikita, Caiazzo, Ilaria, Graham, Matthew J., Laher, Russ R., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Vanderbosch, Zachary P., and Wold, Avery
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are compact binary systems in which a white dwarf accretes matter from a Roche-lobe-filling companion star. In this study, we searched for new CVs in the Milky Way in the Chandra Source Catalog v2.0, cross-matched with Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3). We identified new CV candidates by combining X-ray and optical data in a color-color diagram called the ``X-ray Main Sequence". We used two different cuts in this diagram to compile pure and optically variable samples of CV candidates. We undertook optical spectroscopic follow-up observations with the Keck and Palomar Observatories to confirm the nature of these sources. We assembled a sample of 25,887 Galactic X-ray sources and found 14 new CV candidates. Seven objects show X-ray and/or optical variability. All sources show X-ray luminosity in the $\rm 10^{29}-10^{32}$ $\rm erg\ s^{-1}$ range, and their X-ray spectra can be approximated by a power-law model with photon indices in the $\rm \Gamma \sim 1-3$ range or an optically thin thermal emission model in the $\rm kT \sim 1-70$ keV range. We spectroscopically confirmed four CVs, discovering two new polars, one low accretion rate polar and a WZ~Sge-like low accretion rate CV. X-ray and optical properties of the other 9 objects suggest that they are also CVs (likely magnetic or dwarf novae), and one other object could be an eclipsing binary, but revealing their true nature requires further observations. These results show that a joint X-ray and optical analysis can be a powerful tool for finding new CVs in large X-ray and optical catalogs. X-ray observations such as those by Chandra are particularly efficient at discovering magnetic and low accretion rate CVs, which could be missed by purely optical surveys., Comment: 20 pages, 15 figures and 8 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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39. Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models
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Gunter, Tom, Wang, Zirui, Wang, Chong, Pang, Ruoming, Narayanan, Andy, Zhang, Aonan, Zhang, Bowen, Chen, Chen, Chiu, Chung-Cheng, Qiu, David, Gopinath, Deepak, Yap, Dian Ang, Yin, Dong, Nan, Feng, Weers, Floris, Yin, Guoli, Huang, Haoshuo, Wang, Jianyu, Lu, Jiarui, Peebles, John, Ye, Ke, Lee, Mark, Du, Nan, Chen, Qibin, Keunebroek, Quentin, Wiseman, Sam, Evans, Syd, Lei, Tao, Rathod, Vivek, Kong, Xiang, Du, Xianzhi, Li, Yanghao, Wang, Yongqiang, Gao, Yuan, Ahmed, Zaid, Xu, Zhaoyang, Lu, Zhiyun, Rashid, Al, Jose, Albin Madappally, Doane, Alec, Bencomo, Alfredo, Vanderby, Allison, Hansen, Andrew, Jain, Ankur, Anupama, Anupama Mann, Kamal, Areeba, Wu, Bugu, Brum, Carolina, Maalouf, Charlie, Erdenebileg, Chinguun, Dulhanty, Chris, Moritz, Dominik, Kang, Doug, Jimenez, Eduardo, Ladd, Evan, Shi, Fangping, Bai, Felix, Chu, Frank, Hohman, Fred, Kotek, Hadas, Coleman, Hannah Gillis, Li, Jane, Bigham, Jeffrey, Cao, Jeffery, Lai, Jeff, Cheung, Jessica, Shan, Jiulong, Zhou, Joe, Li, John, Qin, Jun, Singh, Karanjeet, Vega, Karla, Zou, Kelvin, Heckman, Laura, Gardiner, Lauren, Bowler, Margit, Cordell, Maria, Cao, Meng, Hay, Nicole, Shahdadpuri, Nilesh, Godwin, Otto, Dighe, Pranay, Rachapudi, Pushyami, Tantawi, Ramsey, Frigg, Roman, Davarnia, Sam, Shah, Sanskruti, Guha, Saptarshi, Sirovica, Sasha, Ma, Shen, Ma, Shuang, Wang, Simon, Kim, Sulgi, Jayaram, Suma, Shankar, Vaishaal, Paidi, Varsha, Kumar, Vivek, Wang, Xin, Zheng, Xin, Cheng, Walker, Shrager, Yael, Ye, Yang, Tanaka, Yasu, Guo, Yihao, Meng, Yunsong, Luo, Zhao Tang, Ouyang, Zhi, Aygar, Alp, Wan, Alvin, Walkingshaw, Andrew, Lin, Antonie, Farooq, Arsalan, Ramerth, Brent, Reed, Colorado, Bartels, Chris, Chaney, Chris, Riazati, David, Yang, Eric Liang, Feldman, Erin, Hochstrasser, Gabriel, Seguin, Guillaume, Belousova, Irina, Pelemans, Joris, Yang, Karen, Vahid, Keivan Alizadeh, Cao, Liangliang, Najibi, Mahyar, Zuliani, Marco, Horton, Max, Cho, Minsik, Bhendawade, Nikhil, Dong, Patrick, Maj, Piotr, Agrawal, Pulkit, Shan, Qi, Fu, Qichen, Poston, Regan, Xu, Sam, Liu, Shuangning, Rao, Sushma, Heeramun, Tashweena, Merth, Thomas, Rayala, Uday, Cui, Victor, Sridhar, Vivek Rangarajan, Zhang, Wencong, Zhang, Wenqi, Wu, Wentao, Zhou, Xingyu, Liu, Xinwen, Zhao, Yang, Xia, Yin, Ren, Zhile, and Ren, Zhongzheng
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Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence ,Computer Science - Computation and Language ,Computer Science - Machine Learning - Abstract
We present foundation language models developed to power Apple Intelligence features, including a ~3 billion parameter model designed to run efficiently on devices and a large server-based language model designed for Private Cloud Compute. These models are designed to perform a wide range of tasks efficiently, accurately, and responsibly. This report describes the model architecture, the data used to train the model, the training process, how the models are optimized for inference, and the evaluation results. We highlight our focus on Responsible AI and how the principles are applied throughout the model development.
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40. Supporting the Digital Autonomy of Elders Through LLM Assistance
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Roberts, Jesse, Roberts, Lindsey, and Reed, Alice
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Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction ,Computer Science - Computation and Language - Abstract
The internet offers tremendous access to services, social connections, and needed products. However, to those without sufficient experience, engaging with businesses and friends across the internet can be daunting due to the ever present danger of scammers and thieves, to say nothing of the myriad of potential computer viruses. Like a forest rich with both edible and poisonous plants, those familiar with the norms inhabit it safely with ease while newcomers need a guide. However, reliance on a human digital guide can be taxing and often impractical. We propose and pilot a simple but unexplored idea: could an LLM provide the necessary support to help the elderly who are separated by the digital divide safely achieve digital autonomy?
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41. Simulation results for Robo-AO-2 using HAPA: a wavefront sensing technique for improving the adaptive optics correction of fainter stars
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Zhang, Ruihan, Baranec, Christoph, van Dam, Marcos A., Chun, Mark R., Riddle, Reed, and Ou, James
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
Direct imaging of exoplanets allows us to measure positions and chemical signatures of exoplanets. Given the limited resources for space observations where the atmosphere is absent, we want to make these measurements from the ground. However, it is difficult from the ground because it requires an adaptive optics system to provide an extremely well corrected wavefront to enable coronographic techniques. Currently only natural guide star AO systems have demonstrated the necessary wavefront correction for direct imaging of exoplanets. However, using a stellar source as the guide star for wavefront sensing limits the number of exoplanet systems we can directly image because it requires a relatively bright V~10 mag star. To increase the number of observable targets, we need to push the limit of natural guide stars to fainter magnitudes with high Strehl ratio correction. We propose to combine laser guide star (LGS) and natural guide star (NGS) wavefront sensing to achieve the high Strehl correction with fainter natural guide stars. We call this approach Hybrid Atmospheric Phase Analysis (HAPA); 'hapa' in Hawaiian means 'half' or 'of mixed ethnic heritage'. The relatively bright LGS is used for higher order correction, whereas the NGS is used for high accuracy lower order correction. We focus on demonstrating this approach using Robo-AO-2 at the UH 2.2m telescope on Maunakea with a UV Rayleigh laser at 355 nm. The laser focuses at 10 km altitude and has an equivalent magnitude of m_U~8. In this report specifically, we present simulated results of HAPA employed at Robo-AO-2, with the LGS system having a single configuration of 16x16 subaperture Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor and the NGS system having 6 different configurations -- 16x16, 8x8, 5x5, 4x4, 2x2 and 1x1. We also discuss the on-sky experiments we plan to carry out with HAPA at the UH 2.2m telescope., Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, 8 tables, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024
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42. Machine Learning for Improved Current Density Reconstruction from 2D Vector Magnetic Images
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Reed, Niko R., Bhutto, Danyal, Turner, Matthew J., Daly, Declan M., Oliver, Sean M., Tang, Jiashen, Olsson, Kevin S., Langellier, Nicholas, Ku, Mark J. H., Rosen, Matthew S., and Walsworth, Ronald L.
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Physics - Computational Physics ,Physics - Applied Physics ,Quantum Physics - Abstract
The reconstruction of electrical current densities from magnetic field measurements is an important technique with applications in materials science, circuit design, quality control, plasma physics, and biology. Analytic reconstruction methods exist for planar currents, but break down in the presence of high spatial frequency noise or large standoff distance, restricting the types of systems that can be studied. Here, we demonstrate the use of a deep convolutional neural network for current density reconstruction from two-dimensional (2D) images of vector magnetic fields acquired by a quantum diamond microscope (QDM) utilizing a surface layer of Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Trained network performance significantly exceeds analytic reconstruction for data with high noise or large standoff distances. This machine learning technique can perform quality inversions on lower SNR data, reducing the data collection time by a factor of about 400 and permitting reconstructions of weaker and three-dimensional current sources., Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures. Includes Supplemental Information
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43. Optimizing Design and Control of Running Robots Abstracted as Torque Driven Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum (TD-SLIP)
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Truax, Reed, Liu, Feng, Chowdhury, Souma, and Pierre, Ryan St.
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Computer Science - Robotics - Abstract
Legged locomotion shows promise for running in complex, unstructured environments. Designing such legged robots requires considering heterogeneous, multi-domain constraints and variables, from mechanical hardware and geometry choices to controller profiles. However, very few formal or systematic (as opposed to ad hoc) design formulations and frameworks exist to identify feasible and robust running platforms, especially at the small (sub 500 g) scale. This critical gap in running legged robot design is addressed here by abstracting the motion of legged robots through a torque-driven spring-loaded inverted pendulum (TD-SLIP) model, and deriving constraints that result in stable cyclic forward locomotion in the presence of system noise. Synthetic noise is added to the initial state in candidate design evaluation to simulate accumulated errors in an open-loop control. The design space was defined in terms of morphological parameters, such as the leg properties and system mass, actuator selection, and an open loop voltage profile. These attributes were optimized with a well-known particle swarm optimization solver that can handle mixed-discrete variables. Two separate case studies minimized the difference in touchdown angle from stride to stride and the actuation energy, respectively. Both cases resulted in legged robot designs with relatively repeatable and stable dynamics, while presenting distinct geometry and controller profile choices., Comment: Accepted for presentation in proceedings of the ASME IDETC 2024
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44. When to Sweat the Small Stuff: identifying the most informative events from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors
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Essick, Reed and Holz, Daniel E.
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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology - Abstract
We explore scaling relations for the information carried by individual events, and how that information accumulates in catalogs like those from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. For a variety of situations, the larger number of quiet/distant signals dominates the overall information over the fewer loud/close sources, independent of how many model parameters are considered. We consider implications for a range of astrophysical scenarios, including calibration uncertainty and standard siren cosmology. However, the large number of additional events obtained by lowering the detection threshold can rapidly increase costs. We introduce a simple analysis that balances the costs of analyzing increasingly large numbers of low information events against retaining a higher threshold and running a survey for longer. With the caveat that precise cost estimates are difficult to determine, current economics favor analyzing low signal-to-noise ratio events. However, the higher detection rates expected for next-generation detectors may argue for a higher signal-to-noise ratio threshold for optimal scientific return., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures
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45. Artificial Intuition: Efficient Classification of Scientific Abstracts
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Sakhrani, Harsh, Pervez, Naseela, Kumar, Anirudh Ravi, Morstatter, Fred, Reed, Alexandra Graddy, and Belz, Andrea
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Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence - Abstract
It is desirable to coarsely classify short scientific texts, such as grant or publication abstracts, for strategic insight or research portfolio management. These texts efficiently transmit dense information to experts possessing a rich body of knowledge to aid interpretation. Yet this task is remarkably difficult to automate because of brevity and the absence of context. To address this gap, we have developed a novel approach to generate and appropriately assign coarse domain-specific labels. We show that a Large Language Model (LLM) can provide metadata essential to the task, in a process akin to the augmentation of supplemental knowledge representing human intuition, and propose a workflow. As a pilot study, we use a corpus of award abstracts from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). We develop new assessment tools in concert with established performance metrics.
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46. Commissioning results from the Robo-AO-2 facility for rapid visible and near-infrared AO imaging
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Baranec, Christoph, Ou, James, Riddle, Reed, Zhang, Ruihan, Mckay, Luke, Rampy, Rachel, Bonnet, Morgan, Hamilton, Iven, Ching, Greg, Young, Jessica, Salama, Maıssa, Barnes, Paul, Jacobson, Shane, Onaka, Peter, Chun, Mark, Werber, Zachary, Powell, Keith, van Dam, Marcos A., and Shappee, Benjamin
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
We installed the next-generation automated laser adaptive optics system, Robo-AO-2, on the University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope on Maunakea in 2023. We engineered Robo-AO-2 to deliver robotic, diffraction-limited observations at visible and near-infrared wavelengths in unprecedented numbers. This new instrument takes advantage of upgraded components, manufacturing techniques and control; and includes a parallel reconfigurable natural guide star wavefront sensor with which to explore hybrid wavefront sensing techniques. We present the results of commissioning in 2023 and 2024., Comment: Proceedings of SPIE, 13097-15
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- 2024
47. MCNC: Manifold Constrained Network Compression
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Thrash, Chayne, Abbasi, Ali, Nooralinejad, Parsa, Koohpayegani, Soroush Abbasi, Andreas, Reed, Pirsiavash, Hamed, and Kolouri, Soheil
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Computer Science - Machine Learning - Abstract
The outstanding performance of large foundational models across diverse tasks-from computer vision to speech and natural language processing-has significantly increased their demand. However, storing and transmitting these models pose significant challenges due to their massive size (e.g., 350GB for GPT-3). Recent literature has focused on compressing the original weights or reducing the number of parameters required for fine-tuning these models. These compression methods typically involve constraining the parameter space, for example, through low-rank reparametrization (e.g., LoRA) or quantization (e.g., QLoRA) during model training. In this paper, we present MCNC as a novel model compression method that constrains the parameter space to low-dimensional pre-defined and frozen nonlinear manifolds, which effectively cover this space. Given the prevalence of good solutions in over-parameterized deep neural networks, we show that by constraining the parameter space to our proposed manifold, we can identify high-quality solutions while achieving unprecedented compression rates across a wide variety of tasks. Through extensive experiments in computer vision and natural language processing tasks, we demonstrate that our method, MCNC, significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in terms of compression, accuracy, and/or model reconstruction time.
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48. Digging deeper into the dense Galactic globular cluster Terzan 5 with Electron-Multiplying CCDs. Variable star detection and new discoveries
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Jaimes, R. Figuera, Catelan, M., Horne, K., Skottfelt, J., Snodgrass, C., Dominik, M., Jørgensen, U. G., Southworth, J., Hundertmark, M., Longa-Peña, P., Sajadian, S., Tregolan-Reed, J., Hinse, T. C., Andersen, M. I., Bonavita, M., Bozza, V., Burgdorf, M. J., Haikala, L., Khalouei, E., Korhonen, H., Peixinho, N., Rabus, M., and Rahvar, S.
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Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies - Abstract
Context. High frame-rate imaging was employed to mitigate the effects of atmospheric turbulence (seeing) in observations of globular cluster Terzan 5. Aims. High-precision time-series photometry has been obtained with the highest angular resolution so far taken in the crowded central region of Terzan 5, with ground-based telescopes, and ways to avoid saturation of the brightest stars in the field observed. Methods. The Electron-Multiplying Charge Coupled Device (EMCCD) camera installed at the Danish 1.54-m telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory was employed to produce thousands of short-exposure time images (ten images per second) that were stacked to produce the normal-exposure-time images (minutes). We employed difference image analysis in the stacked images to produce high-precision photometry using the DanDIA pipeline. Results. Light curves of 1670 stars with 242 epochs were analyzed in the crowded central region of Terzan 5 to statistically detect variable stars in the field observed. We present a possible visual counterpart outburst at the position of the pulsar J1748-2446N, and the visual counterpart light curve of the low-mass X-ray binary CX 3. Additionally, we present the discovery of 4 semiregular variables. We also present updated ephemerides and properties of the only RR Lyrae star previously known in the field covered by our observations in Terzan 5. Finally, we report a significant displacement of two sources by ~0.62 and 0.59 arcseconds with respect to their positions in previous images available in the literature., Comment: 22 pages, 18 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
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49. First Measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering on the Neutron with Detection of the Active Neutron
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CLAS Collaboration, Hobart, A., Niccolai, S., Čuić, M., Kumerički, K., Achenbach, P., Alvarado, J. S., Armstrong, W. R., Atac, H., Avakian, H., Baashen, L., Baltzell, N. A., Barion, L., Bashkanov, M., Battaglieri, M., Benkel, B., Benmokhtar, F., Bianconi, A., Biselli, A. S., Boiarinov, S., Bondi, M., Booth, W. A., Bossù, F., Brinkmann, K. -Th., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Bueltmann, S., Burkert, V. D., Cao, T., Capobianco, R., Carman, D. S., Chatagnon, P., Ciullo, G., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., Defurne, M., Deur, A., Diehl, S., Dilks, C., Djalali, C., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Alaoui, A. El, Fassi, L. El, Elouadrhiri, L., Fegan, S., Filippi, A., Fogler, C., Gates, K., Gavalian, G., Gilfoyle, G. P., Glazier, D., Gothe, R. W., Gotra, Y., Guidal, M., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hattawy, M., Hauenstein, F., Heddle, D., Holtrop, M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Isupov, E. L., Jiang, H., Jo, H. S., Joo, K., Kageya, T., Kim, A., Kim, W., Klimenko, V., Kripko, A., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, S. E., Lanza, L., Leali, M., Lee, S., Lenisa, P., Li, X., MacGregor, I. J. D., Marchand, D., Mascagna, V., Maynes, M., McKinnon, B., Meziani, Z. E., Migliorati, S., Milner, R. G., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Nadel-Turonski, P., Naidoo, P., Neupane, K., Niculescu, G., Osipenko, M., Pandey, P., Paolone, M., Pappalardo, L. L., Paremuzyan, R., Pasyuk, E., Paul, S. J., Phelps, W., Pilleux, N., Pokhrel, M., Rafael, S. Polcher, Poudel, J., Price, J. W., Prok, Y., Reed, T., Richards, J., Ripani, M., Ritman, J., Rossi, P., Golubenko, A. A., Salgado, C., Schadmand, S., Schmidt, A., Scott, Marshall B. C., Seroka, E. M., Sharabian, Y. G., Shirokov, E. V., Shrestha, U., Sparveris, N., Spreafico, M., Stepanyan, S., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Tan, J. A., Trotta, N., Tyson, R., Ungaro, M., Vallarino, S., Venturelli, L., Tommaso, V., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Watts, D. P, Wei, X., Williams, R., Wood, M. H., Xu, L., Zachariou, N., Zhang, J., Zhao, Z. W., and Zurek, M.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
Measuring Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering on the neutron is one of the necessary steps to understand the structure of the nucleon in terms of Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs). Neutron targets play a complementary role to transversely polarized proton targets in the determination of the GPD $E$. This poorly known and poorly constrained GPD is essential to obtain the contribution of the quarks' angular momentum to the spin of the nucleon. DVCS on the neutron was measured for the first time selecting the exclusive final state by detecting the neutron, using the Jefferson Lab longitudinally polarized electron beam, with energies up to 10.6 GeV, and the CLAS12 detector. The extracted beam-spin asymmetries, combined with DVCS observables measured on the proton, allow a clean quark-flavor separation of the imaginary parts of the GPDs $H$ and $E$., Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures
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50. A superconducting full-wave bridge rectifier
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Castellani, Matteo, Medeiros, Owen, Buzzi, Alessandro, Foster, Reed A., Colangelo, Marco, and Berggren, Karl K.
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Physics - Applied Physics - Abstract
Superconducting thin-film electronics are attractive for their low power consumption, fast operating speeds, and ease of interface with cryogenic systems such as single-photon detector arrays, and quantum computing devices. However, the lack of a reliable superconducting two-terminal asymmetric device, analogous to a semiconducting diode, limits the development of power-handling circuits, fundamental for scaling up these technologies. Existing efforts to date have been limited to single-diode proofs of principle and lacked integration of multiple controllable and reproducible devices to form complex circuits. Here, we demonstrate a robust superconducting diode with tunable polarity using the asymmetric Bean-Livingston surface barrier in niobium nitride micro-bridges, achieving a 43% rectification efficiency. We then realize and integrate several such diodes into a bridge rectifier circuit on a single microchip that performs continuous full-wave rectification up to 3 MHz and AC-to-DC conversion in burst mode at 50 MHz with an estimated peak power efficiency of 60%.
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