Intelligibility, evolution and emulation are some of the key notions for digital information preservation. In this paper we define formally these notions on the basis of modules and inter-module dependencies. Subsequently, we discuss how we can handle the evolution of modules and dependencies. This work can be exploited for building advanced preservation information systems and registries.

In 1835, the French naturalist Felix Dujardin started crushing ciliates under the microscope and observed that the tiny cells exuded a jellylike, water-insoluble substance, which he described as a ‘‘gelée vivante’’ and which was eventually christened ‘‘protoplasm’’ by the physician Johann E. Purkinje and the botanist Hugo von Mohl. Fifty years after Dujardin’s observations, the possibility that...

Intraband-gap states in conjugated polymers have captivated the chemistry community for the better part of five decades due to their position within the forbidden band gap, between the valence and conduction bands. In a large part, this fascination was (and still is) aided by the quest to find alternative materials that are easily processable compared to their solid-state semiconductor counterp...

In this summary of the application of Dyson-Schwinger equations to the theory and phenomenology of hadrons, some deductions following from a nonperturbative, symmetry-preserving truncation are highlighted, notable amongst which are results for pseudoscalar mesons. We also describe inferences from the gap equation relating to the radius of convergence of a chiral expansion, applications to heavy...

The Online Dictionary Matching with Gaps Problem (DMG), is the following. Preprocess a dictionary D of d gapped patterns P1, . . . , Pd such that given a query online text T presented one character at a time, each time a character arrives we must report the subset of patterns that have a match ending at this character. A gapped pattern Pi is of the form Pi,1{αi, βi}Pi,2, where Pi,1, Pi,2 ∈ Σ∗ a...

BACKGROUND Recent analysis has demonstrated a remarkably consistent, nonlinear relationship between estimated inhaled dose of combustion particles measured as PM(2.5) (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 µm) and cardiovascular disease mortality over several orders of magnitude of dose--from cigarette smoking, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure, and ambient air pollution e...

StyleGAN family is one of the most popular Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for unconditional generation. Despite its impressive performance, high demand on storage and computation impedes their deployment resource-constrained devices. This paper provides a comprehensive study distilling from StyleGAN-like architecture. Our key insight that main challenge distillation lies in output discr...