@article{11582,
  abstract     = {We have observed a sample of typical z ∼ 1 star-forming galaxies, selected from the HiZELS survey, with the new K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph (KMOS) near-infrared, multi-integral field unit instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), in order to obtain their dynamics and metallicity gradients. The majority of our galaxies have a metallicity gradient consistent with being flat or negative (i.e. higher metallicity cores than outskirts). Intriguingly, we find a trend between metallicity gradient and specific star formation rate (sSFR), such that galaxies with a high sSFR tend to have relatively metal poor centres, a result which is strengthened when combined with data sets from the literature. This result appears to explain the discrepancies reported between different high-redshift studies and varying claims for evolution. From a galaxy evolution perspective, the trend we see would mean that a galaxy's sSFR is governed by the amount of metal-poor gas that can be funnelled into its core, triggered either by merging or through efficient accretion. In fact, merging may play a significant role as it is the starburst galaxies at all epochs, which have the more positive metallicity gradients. Our results may help to explain the origin of the fundamental metallicity relation, in which galaxies at a fixed mass are observed to have lower metallicities at higher star formation rates, especially if the metallicity is measured in an aperture encompassing only the central regions of the galaxy. Finally, we note that this study demonstrates the power of KMOS as an efficient instrument for large-scale resolved galaxy surveys.},
  author       = {Stott, John P. and Sobral, David and Swinbank, A. M. and Smail, Ian and Bower, Richard and Best, Philip N. and Sharples, Ray M. and Geach, James E. and Matthee, Jorryt J},
  issn         = {1365-2966},
  journal      = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  keywords     = {Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: abundances, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {2695--2704},
  publisher    = {Oxford University Press},
  title        = {{A relationship between specific star formation rate and metallicity gradient within z ∼ 1 galaxies from KMOS-HiZELS}},
  doi          = {10.1093/mnras/stu1343},
  volume       = {443},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{11583,
  abstract     = {Candidate galaxies at redshifts of z ∼ 10 are now being found in extremely deep surveys, probing very small areas. As a consequence, candidates are very faint, making spectroscopic confirmation practically impossible. In order to overcome such limitations, we have undertaken the CF-HiZELS survey, which is a large-area, medium-depth near-infrared narrow-band survey targeted at z = 8.8 Lyman α (Lyα) emitters (LAEs) and covering 10 deg2 in part of the SSA22 field with the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). We surveyed a comoving volume of 4.7 × 106 Mpc3 to a Lyα luminosity limit of 6.3 × 1043舁erg舁s−1. We look for Lyα candidates by applying the following criteria: (i) clear emission-line source, (ii) no optical detections (ugriz from CFHTLS), (iii) no visible detection in the optical stack (ugriz > 27), (iv) visually checked reliable NBJ and J detections and (v) J − K ≤ 0. We compute photometric redshifts and remove a significant amount of dusty lower redshift line-emitters at z ∼ 1.4 or 2.2. A total of 13 Lyα candidates were found, of which two are marked as strong candidates, but the majority have very weak constraints on their spectral energy distributions. Using follow-up observations with SINFONI/VLT, we are able to exclude the most robust candidates as LAEs. We put a strong constraint on the Lyα luminosity function at z ∼ 9 and make realistic predictions for ongoing and future surveys. Our results show that surveys for the highest redshift LAEs are susceptible of multiple contaminations and that spectroscopic follow-up is absolutely necessary.},
  author       = {Matthee, Jorryt J and Sobral, David and Swinbank, A. M. and Smail, Ian and Best, P. N. and Kim, Jae-Woo and Franx, Marijn and Milvang-Jensen, Bo and Fynbo, Johan},
  issn         = {1365-2966},
  journal      = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  keywords     = {Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: high-redshift, cosmology: observations, dark ages, reionization, first stars},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {2375--2387},
  publisher    = {Oxford University Press},
  title        = {{A 10 deg2 Lyman α survey at z=8.8 with spectroscopic follow-up: Strong constraints on the luminosity function and implications for other surveys}},
  doi          = {10.1093/mnras/stu392},
  volume       = {440},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{11750,
  abstract     = {We report on the magnetic properties of a hot-pressed FeSb 2 sample. We find a significant increase in the magnetic susceptibility in our sample when compared with the values previously reported for the polycrystalline sample. The pronounced Curie tail at low temperature corresponds to 0.2% of Fe 2+ impurities per mole. In the intrinsic conductivity region, the susceptibility due to free carriers shows thermally activated behavior and is consistent with the data reported for single crystal FeSb 2 . Based on our data and analysis, while the enhanced magnetic susceptibility in our sample comes mainly from a small amount of unreacted Fe, the contribution from the enhanced carrier density due to lattice and strain defects arising from the ball milling process is also significant. Existence of an unreacted Fe phase is evidenced by small coercivity values of ~100 observed at 50 and 300 K.},
  author       = {Pokharel, Mani and Zhao, Huaizhou and Modic, Kimberly A and Ren, Zhifeng and Opeil, Cyril},
  issn         = {1941-0069},
  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Magnetics},
  number       = {5},
  publisher    = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
  title        = {{Magnetic properties of hot-pressed FeSb2}},
  doi          = {10.1109/TMAG.2013.2292607},
  volume       = {50},
  year         = {2014},
}

@inproceedings{11789,
  abstract     = {We study a weighted online bipartite matching problem: G(V 1, V 2, E) is a weighted bipartite graph where V 1 is known beforehand and the vertices of V 2 arrive online. The goal is to match vertices of V 2 as they arrive to vertices in V 1, so as to maximize the sum of weights of edges in the matching. If assignments to V 1 cannot be changed, no bounded competitive ratio is achievable. We study the weighted online matching problem with free disposal, where vertices in V 1 can be assigned multiple times, but only get credit for the maximum weight edge assigned to them over the course of the algorithm. For this problem, the greedy algorithm is 0.5-competitive and determining whether a better competitive ratio is achievable is a well known open problem.

We identify an interesting special case where the edge weights are decomposable as the product of two factors, one corresponding to each end point of the edge. This is analogous to the well studied related machines model in the scheduling literature, although the objective functions are different. For this case of decomposable edge weights, we design a 0.5664 competitive randomized algorithm in complete bipartite graphs. We show that such instances with decomposable weights are non-trivial by establishing upper bounds of 0.618 for deterministic and 0.8 for randomized algorithms.

A tight competitive ratio of 1 − 1/e ≈ 0.632 was known previously for both the 0-1 case as well as the case where edge weights depend on the offline vertices only, but for these cases, reassignments cannot change the quality of the solution. Beating 0.5 for weighted matching where reassignments are necessary has been a significant challenge. We thus give the first online algorithm with competitive ratio strictly better than 0.5 for a non-trivial case of weighted matching with free disposal.},
  author       = {Charikar, Moses and Henzinger, Monika H and Nguyễn, Huy L.},
  booktitle    = {22nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms},
  isbn         = {978-366244776-5},
  issn         = {0302-9743},
  location     = {Wroclaw, Poland},
  pages        = {260 -- 271},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Online bipartite matching with decomposable weights}},
  doi          = {10.1007/978-3-662-44777-2_22},
  volume       = {8737},
  year         = {2014},
}

@inproceedings{11790,
  abstract     = {Assume a seller wants to sell a digital product in a social network where a buyer’s valuation of the item has positive network externalities from her neighbors that already have the item. The goal of the seller is to maximize his revenue. Previous work on this problem [7] studies the case where clients are offered the item in sequence and have to pay personalized prices. This is highly infeasible in large scale networks such as the Facebook graph: (1) Offering items to the clients one after the other consumes a large amount of time, and (2) price-discrimination of clients could appear unfair to them and result in negative client reaction or could conflict with legal requirements.

We study a setting dealing with these issues. Specifically, the item is offered in parallel to multiple clients at the same time and at the same price. This is called a round. We show that with O(logn) rounds, where n is the number of clients, a constant factor of the revenue with price discrimination can be achieved and that this is not possible with o(logn) rounds. Moreover we show that it is APX-hard to maximize the revenue and we give constant factor approximation algorithms for various further settings of limited price discrimination.},
  author       = {Cigler, Luděk and Dvořák, Wolfgang and Henzinger, Monika H and Starnberger, Martin},
  booktitle    = {10th International Conference of Web and Internet Economics},
  issn         = {0302-9743},
  location     = {Beijing, China},
  pages        = {44 -- 57},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Limiting price discrimination when selling products with positive network externalities}},
  doi          = {10.1007/978-3-319-13129-0_4},
  volume       = {8877},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{118,
  abstract     = {While the penetration of objects into granular media is well-studied, there is little understanding of how objects settle in gravities, geff, different from that of Earth - a scenario potentially relevant to the geomorphology of planets and asteroids and also to their exploration using man-made devices. By conducting experiments in an accelerating frame, we explore geff ranging from 0.4 g to 1.2 g. Surprisingly, we find that the rest depth is independent of geff and also that the time required for the object to come to rest scales like geff-1/2. With discrete element modeling simulations, we reproduce the experimental results and extend the range of geff to objects as small as asteroids and as large as Jupiter. Our results shed light on the initial stage of sedimentation into dry granular media across a range of celestial bodies and also have implications for the design of man-made, extraterrestrial vehicles and structures. Key Points The settling depth in granular media is independent of gravity The settling time scales like g-1/2 Layering driven by granular sedimentation should be similar.},
  author       = {Altshuler, Ernesto and Torres, H and González_Pita, A and Sánchez, Colina G and Pérez Penichet, Carlos and Waitukaitis, Scott R and Hidalgo, Rauól},
  journal      = {Geophysical Research Letters},
  number       = {9},
  pages        = {3032 -- 3037},
  publisher    = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  title        = {{Settling into dry granular media in different gravities}},
  doi          = {10.1002/2014GL059229},
  volume       = {41},
  year         = {2014},
}

@inproceedings{11855,
  abstract     = {The decremental single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem concerns maintaining the distances between a given source node s to every node in an n-node m-edge graph G undergoing edge deletions. While its static counterpart can be easily solved in near-linear time, this decremental problem is much more challenging even in the undirected unweighted case. In this case, the classic O(mn) total update time of Even and Shiloach (JACM 1981) has been the fastest known algorithm for three decades. With the loss of a (1 + ε)-approximation factor, the running time was recently improved to O(n 2+o(1) ) by Bernstein and Roditty (SODA 2011), and more recently to O(n 1.8+o(1) + m 1+o(1) ) by Henzinger, Krinninger, and Nanongkai (SODA 2014). In this paper, we finally bring the running time of this case down to near-linear: We give a (1 + ε)-approximation algorithm with O(m 1+o(1) ) total update time, thus obtaining near-linear time. Moreover, we obtain O(m 1+o(1) log W) time for the weighted case, where the edge weights are integers from 1 to W. The only prior work on weighted graphs in o(mn log W) time is the O(mn 0.986 log W)-time algorithm by Henzinger, Krinninger, and Nanongkai (STOC 2014) which works for the general weighted directed case. In contrast to the previous results which rely on maintaining a sparse emulator, our algorithm relies on maintaining a so-called sparse (d, ε)-hop set introduced by Cohen (JACM 2000) in the PRAM literature. A (d, ε)-hop set of a graph G = (V, E) is a set E' of weighted edges such that the distance between any pair of nodes in G can be (1 + ε)-approximated by their d-hop distance (given by a path containing at most d edges) on G'=(V, E∪E'). Our algorithm can maintain an (n o(1) , ε)-hop set of near-linear size in near-linear time under edge deletions. It is the first of its kind to the best of our knowledge. To maintain the distances on this hop set, we develop a monotone bounded-hop Even-Shiloach tree. It results from extending and combining the monotone Even-Shiloach tree of Henzinger, Krinninger, and Nanongkai (FOCS 2013) with the bounded-hop SSSP technique of Bernstein (STOC 2013). These two new tools might be of independent interest.},
  author       = {Henzinger, Monika H and Krinninger, Sebastian and Nanongkai, Danupon},
  booktitle    = {55th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science},
  issn         = {0272-5428},
  location     = {Philadelphia, PA, United States},
  pages        = {146--155},
  publisher    = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
  title        = {{Decremental single-source shortest paths on undirected graphs in near-linear total update time}},
  doi          = {10.1109/focs.2014.24},
  year         = {2014},
}

@inproceedings{11870,
  abstract     = {We consider dynamic algorithms for maintaining Single-Source Reachability (SSR) and approximate Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) on n-node m-edge directed graphs under edge deletions (decremental algorithms). The previous fastest algorithm for SSR and SSSP goes back three decades to Even and Shiloach (JACM 1981); it has O(1) query time and O(mn) total update time (i.e., linear amortized update time if all edges are deleted). This algorithm serves as a building block for several other dynamic algorithms. The question whether its total update time can be improved is a major, long standing, open problem.

In this paper, we answer this question affirmatively. We obtain a randomized algorithm which, in a simplified form, achieves an Õ(mn0.984) expected total update time for SSR and (1 + ε)-approximate SSSP, where Õ(·) hides poly log n. We also extend our algorithm to achieve roughly the same running time for Strongly Connected Components (SCC), improving the algorithm of Roditty and Zwick (FOCS 2002), and an algorithm that improves the Õ (mn log W)-time algorithm of Bernstein (STOC 2013) for approximating SSSP on weighted directed graphs, where the edge weights are integers from 1 to W. All our algorithms have constant query time in the worst case.},
  author       = {Henzinger, Monika H and Krinninger, Sebastian and Nanongkai, Danupon},
  booktitle    = {46th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing},
  isbn         = {978-145032710-7},
  issn         = {0737-8017},
  location     = {New York, NY, United States},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  title        = {{Sublinear-time decremental algorithms for single-source reachability and shortest paths on directed graphs}},
  doi          = {10.1145/2591796.2591869},
  year         = {2014},
}

@inproceedings{11875,
  abstract     = {We present the first deterministic data structures for maintaining approximate minimum vertex cover and maximum matching in a fully dynamic graph in  time per update. In particular, for minimum vertex cover we provide deterministic data structures for maintaining a (2 + ε) approximation in O(log n/ε2) amortized time per update. For maximum matching, we show how to maintain a (3 + e) approximation in O(m1/3/ε2) amortized time per update, and a (4 + ε) approximation in O(m1/3/ε2) worst-case time per update. Our data structure for fully dynamic minimum vertex cover is essentially near-optimal and settles an open problem by Onak and Rubinfeld [13].},
  author       = {Bhattacharya, Sayan and Henzinger, Monika H and Italiano, Giuseppe F.},
  booktitle    = {26th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms},
  isbn         = {978-1-61197-374-7},
  location     = {San Diego, CA, United States},
  pages        = {785--804},
  publisher    = {Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics},
  title        = {{Deterministic fully dynamic data structures for vertex cover and matching}},
  doi          = {10.1137/1.9781611973730.54},
  year         = {2014},
}

@inproceedings{11876,
  abstract     = {We study dynamic (1 + ∊)-approximation algorithms for the single-source shortest paths problem in an unweighted undirected n-node m-edge graph under edge deletions. The fastest algorithm for this problem is an algorithm with O(n2+o(1)) total update time and constant query time by Bernstein and Roditty (SODA 2011). In this paper, we improve the total update time to O(n1.8+o(1) + m1+o(1)) while keeping the query time constant. This running time is essentially tight when m = Ω(n1.8) since we need Ω(m) time even in the static setting. For smaller values of m, the running time of our algorithm is subquadratic, and is the first that breaks through the quadratic time barrier.

In obtaining this result, we develop a fast algorithm for what we call center cover data structure. We also make non-trivial extensions to our previous techniques called lazy-update and monotone Even-Shiloach trees (ICALP 2013 and FOCS 2013). As by-products of our new techniques, we obtain two new results for the decremental all-pairs shortest-paths problem. Our first result is the first approximation algorithm whose total update time is faster than Õ(mn) for all values of m. Our second result is a new trade-off between the total update time and the additive approximation guarantee.},
  author       = {Henzinger, Monika H and Krinninger, Sebastian and Nanongkai, Danupon},
  booktitle    = {25th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms},
  isbn         = {978-1-61197-338-9},
  location     = {Portland, OR, United States},
  pages        = {1053--1072},
  publisher    = {Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics},
  title        = {{A subquadratic-time algorithm for decremental single-source shortest paths}},
  doi          = {10.1137/1.9781611973402.79},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{119,
  abstract     = {Observations of flowing granular matter have suggested that same-material tribocharging depends on particle size, typically rendering large grains positive and small ones negative. Models assuming the transfer of trapped electrons can account for this trend, but have not been validated. Tracking individual grains in an electric field, we show quantitatively that charge is transferred based on size between materially identical grains. However, the surface density of trapped electrons, measured independently by thermoluminescence techniques, is orders of magnitude too small to account for the scale of charge transferred. This reveals that trapped electrons are not a necessary ingredient for same-material tribocharging.},
  author       = {Waitukaitis, Scott R and Lee, Victor and Pierson, James and Forman, Steven and Jaeger, Heinrich},
  journal      = {APS Physics, Physical Review Letters},
  number       = {21},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  title        = {{Size-dependent same-material tribocharging in insulating grains}},
  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.218001},
  volume       = {112},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{11967,
  abstract     = {An experimentally easy to perform method for the generation of alumina-supported Fe3O4 nanoparticles [(6±1) nm size, 0.67 wt %]and the use of this material in hydrazine-mediated heterogeneously catalyzed reductions of nitroarenes to anilines under batch and continuous-flow conditions is presented. The bench-stable, reusable nano-Fe3O4@Al2O3 catalyst can selectively reduce functionalized nitroarenes at 1 mol % catalyst loading by using a 20 mol % excess of hydrazine hydrate in an elevated temperature regime (150 °C, reaction time 2–6 min in batch). For continuous-flow processing, the catalyst material is packed into dedicated cartridges and used in a commercially available high-temperature/-pressure flow device. In continuous mode, reaction times can be reduced to less than 1 min at 150 °C (30 bar back pressure) in a highly intensified process. The nano-Fe3O4@Al2O3 catalyst demonstrated stable reduction of nitrobenzene (0.5 M in MeOH) for more than 10 h on stream at a productivity of 30 mmol h−1 (0.72 mol per day). Importantly, virtually no leaching of the catalytically active material could be observed by inductively coupled plasma MS monitoring.},
  author       = {Moghaddam, Mojtaba Mirhosseini and Pieber, Bartholomäus and Glasnov, Toma and Kappe, C. Oliver},
  issn         = {1864-564X},
  journal      = {ChemSusChem},
  number       = {11},
  pages        = {3122--3131},
  publisher    = {Wiley},
  title        = {{Immobilized iron oxide nanoparticles as stable and reusable catalysts for hydrazine-mediated nitro reductions in continuous flow}},
  doi          = {10.1002/cssc.201402455},
  volume       = {7},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{11968,
  abstract     = {Membrane phospholipids typically contain fatty acids (FAs) of 16 and 18 carbon atoms. This particular chain length is evolutionarily highly conserved and presumably provides maximum stability and dynamic properties to biological membranes in response to nutritional or environmental cues. Here, we show that the relative proportion of C16 versus C18 FAs is regulated by the activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (Acc1), the first and rate-limiting enzyme of FA de novo synthesis. Acc1 activity is attenuated by AMPK/Snf1-dependent phosphorylation, which is required to maintain an appropriate acyl-chain length distribution. Moreover, we find that the transcriptional repressor Opi1 preferentially binds to C16 over C18 phosphatidic acid (PA) species: thus, C16-chain containing PA sequesters Opi1 more effectively to the ER, enabling AMPK/Snf1 control of PA acyl-chain length to determine the degree of derepression of Opi1 target genes. These findings reveal an unexpected regulatory link between the major energy-sensing kinase, membrane lipid composition, and transcription.},
  author       = {Hofbauer, Harald F. and Schopf, Florian H. and Schleifer, Hannes and Knittelfelder, Oskar L. and Pieber, Bartholomäus and Rechberger, Gerald N. and Wolinski, Heimo and Gaspar, Maria L. and Kappe, C. Oliver and Stadlmann, Johannes and Mechtler, Karl and Zenz, Alexandra and Lohner, Karl and Tehlivets, Oksana and Henry, Susan A. and Kohlwein, Sepp D.},
  issn         = {1878-1551},
  journal      = {Developmental Cell},
  number       = {6},
  pages        = {P729--739},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Regulation of gene expression through a transcriptional repressor that senses acyl-chain length in membrane phospholipids}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.devcel.2014.04.025},
  volume       = {29},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{11987,
  abstract     = {A method for the direct lithiation of terminal alkynes and heterocycles with subsequent carboxylation in a continuous flow format was developed. This method provides carboxylic acids at ambient conditions within less than five seconds with only little excess of the organometallic base and CO2.},
  author       = {Pieber, Bartholomäus and Glasnov, Toma and Kappe, C. O.},
  issn         = {2046-2069},
  journal      = {RSC Advances},
  number       = {26},
  publisher    = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
  title        = {{Flash carboxylation: Fast lithiation–carboxylation sequence at room temperature in continuous flow}},
  doi          = {10.1039/c4ra01442a},
  volume       = {4},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{2699,
  abstract     = {We prove the universality of the β-ensembles with convex analytic potentials and for any β >
0, i.e. we show that the spacing distributions of log-gases at any inverse temperature β coincide with those of the Gaussian β-ensembles.},
  author       = {Erdös, László and Bourgade, Paul and Yau, Horng},
  journal      = {Duke Mathematical Journal},
  number       = {6},
  pages        = {1127 -- 1190},
  publisher    = {Duke University Press},
  title        = {{Universality of general β-ensembles}},
  doi          = {10.1215/00127094-2649752},
  volume       = {163},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{2716,
  abstract     = {Multi-dimensional mean-payoff and energy games provide the mathematical foundation for the quantitative study of reactive systems, and play a central role in the emerging quantitative theory of verification and synthesis. In this work, we study the strategy synthesis problem for games with such multi-dimensional objectives along with a parity condition, a canonical way to express ω ω -regular conditions. While in general, the winning strategies in such games may require infinite memory, for synthesis the most relevant problem is the construction of a finite-memory winning strategy (if one exists). Our main contributions are as follows. First, we show a tight exponential bound (matching upper and lower bounds) on the memory required for finite-memory winning strategies in both multi-dimensional mean-payoff and energy games along with parity objectives. This significantly improves the triple exponential upper bound for multi energy games (without parity) that could be derived from results in literature for games on vector addition systems with states. Second, we present an optimal symbolic and incremental algorithm to compute a finite-memory winning strategy (if one exists) in such games. Finally, we give a complete characterization of when finite memory of strategies can be traded off for randomness. In particular, we show that for one-dimension mean-payoff parity games, randomized memoryless strategies are as powerful as their pure finite-memory counterparts.},
  author       = {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Randour, Mickael and Raskin, Jean},
  journal      = {Acta Informatica},
  number       = {3-4},
  pages        = {129 -- 163},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{Strategy synthesis for multi-dimensional quantitative objectives}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00236-013-0182-6},
  volume       = {51},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{2852,
  abstract     = {A robust combiner for hash functions takes two candidate implementations and constructs a hash function which is secure as long as at least one of the candidates is secure. So far, hash function combiners only aim at preserving a single property such as collision-resistance or pseudorandomness. However, when hash functions are used in protocols like TLS they are often required to provide several properties simultaneously. We therefore put forward the notion of robust multi-property combiners and elaborate on different definitions for such combiners. We then propose a combiner that provably preserves (target) collision-resistance, pseudorandomness, and being a secure message authentication code. This combiner satisfies the strongest notion we propose, which requires that the combined function satisfies every security property which is satisfied by at least one of the underlying hash function. If the underlying hash functions have output length n, the combiner has output length 2 n. This basically matches a known lower bound for black-box combiners for collision-resistance only, thus the other properties can be achieved without penalizing the length of the hash values. We then propose a combiner which also preserves the property of being indifferentiable from a random oracle, slightly increasing the output length to 2 n+ω(log n). Moreover, we show how to augment our constructions in order to make them also robust for the one-wayness property, but in this case require an a priory upper bound on the input length.},
  author       = {Fischlin, Marc and Lehmann, Anja and Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z},
  journal      = {Journal of Cryptology},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {397 -- 428},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{Robust multi-property combiners for hash functions}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00145-013-9148-7},
  volume       = {27},
  year         = {2014},
}

@inproceedings{2905,
  abstract     = {Persistent homology is a recent grandchild of homology that has found use in
science and engineering as well as in mathematics. This paper surveys the method as well
as the applications, neglecting completeness in favor of highlighting ideas and directions.},
  author       = {Edelsbrunner, Herbert and Morozovy, Dmitriy},
  location     = {Kraków, Poland},
  pages        = {31 -- 50},
  publisher    = {European Mathematical Society},
  title        = {{Persistent homology: Theory and practice}},
  doi          = {10.4171/120-1/3},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{3263,
  abstract     = {Adaptation in the retina is thought to optimize the encoding of natural light signals into sequences of spikes sent to the brain. While adaptive changes in retinal processing to the variations of the mean luminance level and second-order stimulus statistics have been documented before, no such measurements have been performed when higher-order moments of the light distribution change. We therefore measured the ganglion cell responses in the tiger salamander retina to controlled changes in the second (contrast), third (skew) and fourth (kurtosis) moments of the light intensity distribution of spatially uniform temporally independent stimuli. The skew and kurtosis of the stimuli were chosen to cover the range observed in natural scenes. We quantified adaptation in ganglion cells by studying linear-nonlinear models that capture well the retinal encoding properties across all stimuli. We found that the encoding properties of retinal ganglion cells change only marginally when higher-order statistics change, compared to the changes observed in response to the variation in contrast. By analyzing optimal coding in LN-type models, we showed that neurons can maintain a high information rate without large dynamic adaptation to changes in skew or kurtosis. This is because, for uncorrelated stimuli, spatio-temporal summation within the receptive field averages away non-gaussian aspects of the light intensity distribution.},
  author       = {Tkacik, Gasper and Ghosh, Anandamohan and Schneidman, Elad and Segev, Ronen},
  journal      = {PLoS One},
  number       = {1},
  publisher    = {Public Library of Science},
  title        = {{Adaptation to changes in higher-order stimulus statistics in the salamander retina}},
  doi          = {10.1371/journal.pone.0085841},
  volume       = {9},
  year         = {2014},
}

@article{332,
  abstract     = {Cu2ZnSnS4, based on abundant and environmental friendly elements and with a direct band gap of 1.5 eV, is a main candidate material for solar energy conversion through both photovoltaics and photocatalysis. We detail here the synthesis of quasi-spherical Cu 2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles with unprecedented narrow size distributions. We further detail their use as seeds to produce CZTS-Au and CZTS-Pt heterostructured nanoparticles. Such heterostructured nanoparticles are shown to have excellent photocatalytic properties toward degradation of Rhodamine B and hydrogen generation by water splitting. },
  author       = {Yu, Xuelian and Shavel, Alexey and An, Xiaoqiang and Luo, Zhishan and Ibáñez, Maria and Cabot, Andreu},
  journal      = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
  number       = {26},
  pages        = {9236 -- 9239},
  publisher    = {ACS},
  title        = {{Cu2ZnSnS4-Pt and Cu2ZnSnS4-Au heterostructured nanoparticles for photocatalytic water splitting and pollutant degradation}},
  doi          = {10.1021/ja502076b},
  volume       = {136},
  year         = {2014},
}