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The operator ( scl ) ω 1 {\displaystyle (\operatorname {scl} )^{\omega _{1}}} is idempotent and thus a closure operator. In particular, it defines a topology, the sequential coreflection. In the sequential coreflection, every sequentially-closed set is closed (and every sequentially-open set is open).
Sequentially open
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As discussed above, sequential closure is not in general idempotent, and so not the closure operator of a topology. One can obtain an idempotent sequential closure via transfinite iteration: for a successor ordinal α + 1 , {\displaystyle \alpha +1,} define (as usual)and, for a limit ordinal α , {\displaystyle \alpha ,}...
Sequentially open
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For any index i , {\displaystyle i,} the tail of x ∙ {\displaystyle x_{\bullet }} starting at i {\displaystyle i} is the sequence A sequence x ∙ {\displaystyle x_{\bullet }} is eventually in S {\displaystyle S} if some tail of x ∙ {\displaystyle x_{\bullet }} satisfies x ≥ i ⊆ S . {\displaystyle x_{\geq i}\subseteq S.}...
Sequentially open
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Many specific examples are given in the article on multiplicative functions. The theorem follows because ∗ is (commutative and) associative, and 1 ∗ μ = ε, where ε is the identity function for the Dirichlet convolution, taking values ε(1) = 1, ε(n) = 0 for all n > 1. Thus μ ∗ g = μ ∗ ( 1 ∗ f ) = ( μ ∗ 1 ) ∗ f = ε ∗ f =...
Möbius inversion
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The membership includes physicists, mathematicians, geologists, engineers and others whose research interests lie within the broad spectrum of subjects now comprising contemporary astronomy. In 2019 three AAS members were selected into the tenth anniversary class of TED Fellows.The AAS established the AAS Fellows progr...
American Astronomical Society
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The initial membership was 114. The AAS name of the society was not finally decided until 1915, previously it was the "Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America". One proposed name that preceded this interim name was "American Astrophysical Society".The AAS today has over 8,000 members and six divisions – the D...
American Astronomical Society
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The High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) supports knowledge about high energy events, particles, quanta, relativistic gravitational fields, and related phenomena in the astrophysical universe. The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) supports topics relevant to the history of astronomy as a field, and research using...
American Astronomical Society
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Because the field of astronomy is diverse, several divisions have been formed each of which promotes and enables a different branch of astronomy or astronomy-related science as well as working within the overall charter of the AAS. Many of the divisions hold separate meetings in addition to meeting with the main group....
American Astronomical Society
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American Astronomical Society Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureship Program records, 1980-1999 American Astronomical Society miscellaneous publications, 1910-2017 American Astronomical Society records, 1897-1988 (bulk 1920-1980) AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy addition to records, 1967-2004 American Astronomical Soci...
American Astronomical Society
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The Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, for lifetime achievement in astronomy The Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy, for outstanding early career in observational astronomy The Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, for outstanding early career in theoretical astronomy The Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize, for a creative or i...
American Astronomical Society
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The American Astronomical Society (AAS, sometimes spoken as "double-A-S") is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC. The primary objective of the AAS is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of science, while the s...
American Astronomical Society
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Topologically distinct solutions "wrap" the one sphere around the other, such that one solution, no matter how it is deformed, cannot be "unwrapped" without creating a discontinuity in the solution. In physics, such discontinuities are associated with infinite energy, and are thus not allowed. In the above example, the...
Topological winding number
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In particle physics, an example is given by the Skyrmion, for which the baryon number is a topological quantum number. The origin comes from the fact that the isospin is modelled by SU(2), which is isomorphic to the 3-sphere S 3 {\displaystyle S^{3}} and S 3 {\displaystyle S^{3}} inherits the group structure of SU(2) t...
Topological winding number
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Motion controllers using accelerometers are used as controllers for video games, which was made more popular since 2006 by the Wii Remote controller for Nintendo's Wii console, which uses accelerometers to detect its approximate orientation and acceleration, and serves an image sensor, so it can be used as a pointing d...
Motion controls
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In physics, the attenuation length or absorption length is the distance λ into a material when the probability has dropped to 1/e that a particle has not been absorbed. Alternatively, if there is a beam of particles incident on the material, the attenuation length is the distance where the intensity of the beam has dro...
Absorption length
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Certain solutions of the heat equation known as heat kernels provide subtle information about the region on which they are defined, as exemplified through their application to the Atiyah–Singer index theorem.The heat equation, along with variants thereof, is also important in many fields of science and applied mathemat...
Heat diffusion
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The other (trivial) solution is for all spatial temperature gradients to disappear as well, in which case the temperature become uniform in space, as well. The equation is much simpler and can help to understand better the physics of the materials without focusing on the dynamic of the heat transport process. It is wid...
Heat diffusion
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By the divergence theorem, the previous surface integral for heat flow into V can be transformed into the volume integral The time rate of temperature change at x is proportional to the heat flowing into an infinitesimal volume element, where the constant of proportionality is dependent on a constant κ Putting these eq...
Heat diffusion
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The heat equation can also be considered on Riemannian manifolds, leading to many geometric applications. Following work of Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram and Åke Pleijel, the heat equation is closely related with spectral geometry. A seminal nonlinear variant of the heat equation was introduced to differential geometry ...
Heat diffusion
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In mathematics and physics, the heat equation is a certain partial differential equation. Solutions of the heat equation are sometimes known as caloric functions. The theory of the heat equation was first developed by Joseph Fourier in 1822 for the purpose of modeling how a quantity such as heat diffuses through a give...
Heat diffusion
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In the field of organic chemistry, a polycyclic compound is an organic compound featuring several closed rings of atoms, primarily carbon. These ring substructures include cycloalkanes, aromatics, and other ring types. They come in sizes of three atoms and upward, and in combinations of linkages that include tethering ...
Pentacyclic compound
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A four-point probe is used to avoid contact resistance, which can often have the same magnitude as the sheet resistance. Typically a constant current is applied to two probes, and the potential on the other two probes is measured with a high-impedance voltmeter. A geometry factor needs to be applied according to the sh...
Sheet resistance
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QueryTermAnalyzer open-source, C#. Machine learning based query term weight and synonym analyzer for query expansion. LucQE - open-source, Java.
Query expansion
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Query expansion (QE) is the process of reformulating a given query to improve retrieval performance in information retrieval operations, particularly in the context of query understanding. In the context of search engines, query expansion involves evaluating a user's input (what words were typed into the search query a...
Query expansion
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Presymptomatic or predictive testing occurs when an individual knows of a specific diagnosis (typically adult onset) in their family and has other affected relatives, but they themselves do not manifest any clinical findings at the time when they seek testing. The decision about whether or not to proceed with presympto...
Genetic counseling
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Graduate school coursework includes topics such as human genetics, embryology, ethics, research, and counseling theory and techniques. Clinical training including supervised rotations in prenatal, pediatric, adult, cancer, and other subspecialty clinics, as well as non-patient facing rotations in laboratories. Research...
Genetic counseling
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There are different approaches to genetic counseling. The reciprocal-engagement model of genetic counseling practice includes tenets, goals, strategies, and behaviors for addressing patients' genetic concerns. Some counselors favor a psycho-educational approach while others incorporate more psycho-therapeutic technique...
Genetic counseling
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There are an estimated 430-480 GCs and trainees in Australia and New Zealand, where genetic counseling is a patient-centered, psychotherapeutic process. In order to practice as a GC, individuals must first attain a recognized Master's degree, after which time they can practice as an Associate. Then, following at least ...
Genetic counseling
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Formal GC registration occurs through two different programs: in the United Kingdom (UK, via the GCRB as described below) and the European Union via the European Board of Medical Genetics (EBMG). Genetic counselors are not currently recognized as a profession in several European countries including Austria, Belgium, Ge...
Genetic counseling
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Most of the early genetic counseling clinics were run by non-medical scientists or by those who were not experienced clinicians. With the growth in knowledge of genetic disorders and the appearance of medical genetics as a distinct specialty in the 1960s, genetic counseling progressively became medicalized, representin...
Genetic counseling
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The practice of advising people about inherited traits began around the turn of the 20th century, shortly after William Bateson suggested that the new medical and biological study of heredity be called "genetics". Heredity became intertwined with social reforms when the field of modern eugenics took form. Although init...
Genetic counseling
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Genetic counselors with training from the UK, Europe and Australia are eligible for registration and GCs from other countries are considered on a case-by-case basis.More information can be found through the Australasian Society of Genetic Counsellors, a special interest group of the Human Genetics Society of Australasi...
Genetic counseling
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Genetic counselors specializing in neurogenetics are involved in the care of individuals who have or are at risk to develop conditions affecting the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) or peripheral nervous system (the nerves that leave the spinal cord and go to other places in the body, such as the feet and...
Genetic counseling
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CBGC was established in 2015 and is the major professional organization for genetic counselors in mainland China, providing training through short term online and in-person lectures, educational conferences, and certification for trainees. Genetics education in China began in the 1980s when selected medical schools beg...
Genetic counseling
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A genetic counselor is an expert with a Master of Science degree in genetic counseling. Programs in North America are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Genetic Counseling (ACGC). There are currently 52 accredited programs in the United States, four accredited programs in Canada, and four programs with the int...
Genetic counseling
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Prenatal genetics involves services for women either during or prior to a pregnancy. General indications for referral to genetic counseling in the preconception or prenatal setting may include, but are not limited to: Advanced maternal age (35 years old or older at time of delivery) Advanced paternal age Current pregna...
Genetic counseling
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In vector analysis, a vector with polar coordinates A, φ and Cartesian coordinates x = A cos(φ), y = A sin(φ), can be represented as the sum of orthogonal components: + . Similarly in trigonometry, the angle sum identity expresses: sin(x + φ) = sin(x) cos(φ) + sin(x + π/2) sin(φ).And in functional analysis, when x is ...
In-phase and quadrature components
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They are also used in immunoprecipitation to separate proteins and anything bound to them (co-immunoprecipitation) from other molecules in a cell lysate, in Western blot analyses to identify proteins separated by electrophoresis, and in immunohistochemistry or immunofluorescence to examine protein expression in tissue ...
Antibody
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With the definitions of integration and derivatives, key theorems can be formulated, including the fundamental theorem of calculus, integration by parts, and Taylor's theorem. Evaluating a mixture of integrals and derivatives can be done by using theorem differentiation under the integral sign.
Real function
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Generalizing the previous section, the output of a function of a real variable can also lie in a Banach space or a Hilbert space. In these spaces, division and multiplication and limits are all defined, so notions such as derivative and integral still apply. This occurs especially often in quantum mechanics, where one ...
Real function
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The arithmetic operations may be applied to the functions in the following way: For every real number r, the constant function ( x ) ↦ r {\displaystyle (x)\mapsto r} , is everywhere defined. For every real number r and every function f, the function r f: ( x ) ↦ r f ( x ) {\displaystyle rf:(x)\mapsto rf(x)} has the sam...
Real function
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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing education, training and professional development, codes and standards, resea...
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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Photographs of craters, from either the moon or other planets including our own, can exhibit this phenomenon. Craters in stereo vision, such as our eyes, normally appear concave. However, in monocular presentations, such as photographs, the elimination of our depth perception causes multistable perception, which can ca...
Multistable perception
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Spectrometer can determine chemical composition through its measure of spectrums. The common spectrometer used in analytical chemistry is Mass spectrometry. In a mass spectrometer, a small amount of sample is ionized and converted to gaseous ions, where they are separated and analyzed according to their mass-to-charge ...
Analytical technique
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It is quite another matter to close a trial for business reasons, such as to improve profit margins. "In 2013 Geron's stem cell assets were acquired by biotechnology firm BioTime, led by CEO Michael D. West, the founder of Geron and former Chief Scientific Officer of Advanced Cell Technology. BioTime indicated that it ...
Human embryonic stem cells clinical trials
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first clinical trial in the United States involving human embryonic stem cells on January 23, 2009. Geron Corporation, a biotechnology firm located in Menlo Park, California, originally planned to enroll ten patients with spinal cord injuries to participate in the tri...
Human embryonic stem cells clinical trials
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An atom bonded to 5 other atoms (and no lone pairs) forms a trigonal bipyramid with two axial and three equatorial positions, but in the seesaw geometry one of the atoms is replaced by a lone pair of electrons, which is always in an equatorial position. This is true because the lone pair occupies more space near the ce...
Seesaw (chemistry)
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Disphenoidal or seesaw (also known as sawhorse) is a type of molecular geometry where there are four bonds to a central atom with overall C2v molecular symmetry. The name "seesaw" comes from the observation that it looks like a playground seesaw. Most commonly, four bonds to a central atom result in tetrahedral or, les...
Seesaw (chemistry)
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Compounds with disphenoidal (see-saw) geometry have two types of ligands: axial and equatorial. The axial pair lie along a common bond axis so that are related by a bond angle of 180°. The equatorial pair of ligands is situated in a plane orthogonal to the axis of the axial pair. Typically the bond distance to the axia...
Seesaw (chemistry)
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Sulfur tetrafluoride is the premier example of a molecule with the disphenoidal molecular geometry (see image at upper right). The following compounds and ions have disphenoidal geometry: SF4 SeF4 IF2O−2 IOF3 ClF+4 TeF4 XeO2F2 SCl4 AsF−4
Seesaw (chemistry)
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The invention of antibody phage display revolutionised antibody drug discovery. Initial work was done by laboratories at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Greg Winter and John McCafferty), the Scripps Research Institute (Richard Lerner and Carlos F. Barbas) and the German Cancer Research Centre (Frank Breitling ...
Phage display
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Phage display technology was further developed and improved by groups at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology with Greg Winter and John McCafferty, The Scripps Research Institute with Richard Lerner and Carlos Barbas and the German Cancer Research Center with Frank Breitling and Stefan Dübel for display of proteins such...
Phage display
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Jacob Lurie has proved a version of the Brown representability theorem for the homotopy category of a pointed quasicategory with a compact set of generators which are cogroup objects in the homotopy category. For instance, this applies to the homotopy category of pointed connected CW complexes, as well as to the unboun...
Brown representability theorem
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Together with the preceding remark, it gives a criterion for a (covariant) functor F: C → D between triangulated categories satisfying certain technical conditions to have a right adjoint functor. Namely, if C and D are triangulated categories with C compactly generated and F a triangulated functor commuting with arbit...
Brown representability theorem
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Since the homotopy category of CW-complexes is equivalent to the localization of the category of all topological spaces at the weak homotopy equivalences, the theorem can equivalently be stated for functors on a category defined in this way. However, the theorem is false without the restriction to connected pointed spa...
Brown representability theorem
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to electronics: Electronics – branch of physics, engineering and technology dealing with electrical circuits that involve active semiconductor components and associated passive interconnection technologies.
Outline of electronics
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Binary decision diagrams Boolean algebra Combinational logic Counters (digital) De Morgan's laws Digital circuit Formal verification Karnaugh maps Logic families Logic gate Logic minimization Logic simulation Logic synthesis Registers Sequential logic State machines Truth tables Transparent latch
Outline of electronics
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Power Devices Gate turn-off thyristor MOS-controlled thyristor (MCT) Power BJT/MOSFET Static induction devices Electric power conversion DC to DC DC to DC converter Voltage stabiliser Linear regulator AC to DC Rectifier Mains power supply unit (PSU) Switched-mode power supply DC to AC Inverter AC to AC Cycloconverter T...
Outline of electronics
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Systems pharmacology is the application of systems biology principles to the field of pharmacology. It seeks to understand how drugs affect the human body as a single complex biological system. Instead of considering the effect of a drug to be the result of one specific drug-protein interaction, systems pharmacology co...
Systems pharmacology
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In 1992, an article on systems medicine and pharmacology was published in China. Networks of interaction may include chemical-protein, protein–protein, genetic, signalling and physiological (at cellular, tissue, organ and whole body levels). Systems pharmacology uses bioinformatics and statistics techniques to integrat...
Systems pharmacology
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The algebraic theory of spin is a carbon copy of the angular momentum in quantum mechanics theory. First of all, spin satisfies the fundamental commutation relation: where ϵ i j k {\displaystyle \ \epsilon _{ijk}\ } is the (antisymmetric) Levi-Civita symbol. This means that it is impossible to know two coordinates of t...
Spin quantum number
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The laws of classical physics predict that the collection of condensed silver atoms on the plate should form a thin solid line in the same shape as the original beam. However, the in-homogeneous magnetic field caused the beam to split in two separate directions, creating two lines on the metallic plate. The phenomenon ...
Spin quantum number
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Recombineering (recombination-mediated genetic engineering) is a genetic and molecular biology technique based on homologous recombination systems, as opposed to the older/more common method of using restriction enzymes and ligases to combine DNA sequences in a specified order. Recombineering is widely used for bacteri...
Recombineering
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In mathematics, a ternary operation is an n-ary operation with n = 3. A ternary operation on a set A takes any given three elements of A and combines them to form a single element of A. In computer science, a ternary operator is an operator that takes three arguments as input and returns one output.
Ternary operation
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The fundamental matrix is used to express the state-transition matrix, an essential component in the solution of a system of linear ordinary differential equations.
Fundamental matrix (linear differential equation)
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In mathematics, a fundamental matrix of a system of n homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations is a matrix-valued function Ψ ( t ) {\displaystyle \Psi (t)} whose columns are linearly independent solutions of the system. Then every solution to the system can be written as x ( t ) = Ψ ( t ) c {\displaystyle \ma...
Fundamental matrix (linear differential equation)
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The original Residual Network paper made no claim on being inspired by biological systems. But research later on has related Residual Networks to biologically-plausible algorithms. A study published in Science in 2023 disclosed the complete connectome of an insect brain (of a fruit fly larva). This study discovered "mu...
Residual neural network
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In a multi-layer neural network model, consider a subnetwork with a certain number (e.g., 2 or 3) of stacked layers. Denote the underlying function performed by this subnetwork as H ( x ) {\textstyle H(x)} , where x {\textstyle x} is the input to this subnetwork. The idea of "Residual Learning" re-parameterizes this su...
Residual neural network
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This block is analogous to an "inverse" bottleneck block: it has a linear projection layer (which is equivalent to a 1x1 convolution in the context of Convolutional Neural Networks) that increases the dimension, and another linear projection that reduces the dimension. A Transformer Block has a depth of 4 layers (linea...
Residual neural network
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This enables deep learning models with tens or hundreds of layers to train easily and approach better accuracy when going deeper. The identity skip connections, often referred to as "residual connections", are also used in the 1997 LSTM networks, Transformer models (e.g., BERT, GPT models such as ChatGPT), the AlphaGo ...
Residual neural network
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A Residual Neural Network (a.k.a. Residual Network, ResNet) is a deep learning model in which the weight layers learn residual functions with reference to the layer inputs. A Residual Network is a network with skip connections that perform identity mappings, merged with the layer outputs by addition. It behaves like a ...
Residual neural network
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The AlexNet model developed in 2012 for ImageNet was an 8-layer convolutional neural network. The neural networks developed in 2014 by the Visual Geometry Group (VGG) at the University of Oxford approached a depth of 19 layers by stacking 3-by-3 convolutional layers. But stacking more layers led to a quick reduction in...
Residual neural network
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Neural networks with Stochastic Depth were made possible given the Residual Network architectures. This training procedure randomly drops a subset of layers and lets the signal propagate through the identity skip connection. Also known as "DropPath", this is an effective regularization method for training large and dee...
Residual neural network
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Similarly, a Highway Net whose gates are opened through strongly positive bias weights behaves like a ResNet. The skip connections used in modern neural networks (e.g., Transformers) are dominantly identity mappings. DenseNets in 2016 were designed as deep neural networks that attempt to connect each layer to every oth...
Residual neural network
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This enables training very deep recurrent neural networks with a very long time span t. A later LSTM version published in 2000 modulates the identity LSTM connections by so-called forget gates such that their weights are not fixed to 1.0 but can be learned. In experiments, the forget gates were initialized with positiv...
Residual neural network
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Sepp Hochreiter analyzed the vanishing gradient problem in 1991 and attributed to it the reason why deep learning did not work well. To overcome this problem, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks had skip connections or residual connections with a weight of 1.0 in every LSTM cell (called the constant...
Residual neural network
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Several efficient techniques are available to detect the presence of distonic ions; the most appropriate method will depend on the ion's internal energy and lifespan. Collisions between ions and uncharged molecules allow one to detect the location of the radical and charge site in order to confirm that the ion is not j...
Distonic ion
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The HKA Test, named after Richard R. Hudson, Martin Kreitman, and Montserrat Aguadé, is a statistical test used in genetics to evaluate the predictions of the Neutral Theory of molecular evolution. By comparing the polymorphism within each species and the divergence observed between two species at two or more loci, the...
HKA test
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Using the universal property of direct limits and the fact that the natural inclusions In K L: C k ( K ) → C k ( L ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {In} _{K}^{L}:C^{k}(K)\to C^{k}(L)} are all topological embedding, one may show that all of the maps In K U: C k ( K ) → C c k ( U ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {In} _{K}^{U...
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This result does not hold for Hilbert spaces such as L 2 {\displaystyle L^{2}} and its dual space. Why does such a result hold for the space of distributions and test functions but not for other "nice" spaces like the Hilbert space L 2 {\displaystyle L^{2}} ? This question led Alexander Grothendieck to discover nuclear...
Spaces of test functions and distributions
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The success of the theory led to investigation of the idea of hyperfunction, in which spaces of holomorphic functions are used as test functions. A refined theory has been developed, in particular Mikio Sato's algebraic analysis, using sheaf theory and several complex variables. This extends the range of symbolic metho...
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If U is a convex subset of C c k ( U ) , {\displaystyle C_{c}^{k}(U),} then U is a neighborhood of the origin in the canonical LF topology if and only if it satisfies the following condition: Note that any convex set satisfying this condition is necessarily absorbing in C c k ( U ) . {\displaystyle C_{c}^{k}(U).} Since...
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For any two sets K and L, we declare that K ≤ L {\displaystyle K\leq L} if and only if K ⊆ L , {\displaystyle K\subseteq L,} which in particular makes the collection K {\displaystyle \mathbb {K} } of compact subsets of U into a directed set (we say that such a collection is directed by subset inclusion). For all compac...
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For all compact K ⊆ U , {\displaystyle K\subseteq U,} the interior of C k ( K ) {\displaystyle C^{k}(K)} in C c k ( U ) {\displaystyle C_{c}^{k}(U)} is empty so that C c k ( U ) {\displaystyle C_{c}^{k}(U)} is of the first category in itself. It follows from Baire's theorem that C c k ( U ) {\displaystyle C_{c}^{k}(U)}...
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As discussed earlier, continuous linear functionals on a C c ∞ ( U ) {\displaystyle C_{c}^{\infty }(U)} are known as distributions on U. Thus the set of all distributions on U is the continuous dual space of C c ∞ ( U ) , {\displaystyle C_{c}^{\infty }(U),} which when endowed with the strong dual topology is denoted by...
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Then this map is a linear embedding of TVSs (that is, it is a linear map that is also a topological embedding) whose image (or "range") is closed in its codomain; said differently, the topology on C k ( K ) {\displaystyle C^{k}(K)} is identical to the subspace topology it inherits from C k ( L ) , {\displaystyle C^{k}(...
Spaces of test functions and distributions
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A linear differential operator in U with smooth coefficients is a sum where c α ∈ C ∞ ( U ) {\displaystyle c_{\alpha }\in C^{\infty }(U)} and all but finitely many of c α {\displaystyle c_{\alpha }} are identically 0. The integer sup { | α |: c α ≠ 0 } {\displaystyle \sup\{|\alpha |:c_{\alpha }\neq 0\}} is called the o...
Spaces of test functions and distributions
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{\displaystyle C^{k}(V).} Importantly, the subspace topology C k ( K ; U ) {\displaystyle C^{k}(K;U)} inherits from C k ( U ) {\displaystyle C^{k}(U)} (when it is viewed as a subset of C k ( U ) {\displaystyle C^{k}(U)} ) is identical to the subspace topology that it inherits from C k ( V ) {\displaystyle C^{k}(V)} (wh...
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The special case when k = ∞ {\displaystyle k=\infty } gives us the space of test functions. This section defines the canonical LF topology as a direct limit. It is also possible to define this topology in terms of its neighborhoods of the origin, which is described afterwards.
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{\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}^{\prime }(U).} This means that for any T ∈ D ′ ( U ) , {\displaystyle T\in {\mathcal {D}}^{\prime }(U),} there is a sequence of test functions, ( ϕ i ) i = 1 ∞ , {\displaystyle (\phi _{i})_{i=1}^{\infty },} that converges to T ∈ D ′ ( U ) {\displaystyle T\in {\mathcal {D}}^{\prime }(U)} (i...
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Conversely, as shown in a theorem by Schwartz (similar to the Riesz representation theorem), every distribution which is non-negative on non-negative functions is of this form for some (positive) Radon measure. Test functions as distributions The test functions are themselves locally integrable, and so define distribut...
Spaces of test functions and distributions
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One particularly important class of Radon measures are those that are induced locally integrable functions. The function f: U → R {\displaystyle f:U\to \mathbb {R} } is called locally integrable if it is Lebesgue integrable over every compact subset K of U. This is a large class of functions which includes all continuo...
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One benefit of defining the canonical LF topology as the direct limit of a direct system is that we may immediately use the universal property of direct limits. Another benefit is that we can use well-known results from category theory to deduce that the canonical LF topology is actually independent of the particular c...
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{\displaystyle C_{c}^{k}(U).} Furthermore, { D ϕ: ϕ ∈ C c ∞ ( U ) } {\displaystyle \{D_{\phi }:\phi \in C_{c}^{\infty }(U)\}} is a sequentially dense subset of D ′ ( U ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}^{\prime }(U)} (with its strong dual topology) and also a sequentially dense subset of the strong dual space of C ∞ ( U )...
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Nevertheless, sequences do characterize many important properties, as we now discuss. It is known that in the dual space of any Montel space, a sequence converges in the strong dual topology if and only if it converges in the weak* topology, which in particular, is the reason why a sequence of distributions converges (...
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Indeed, every distribution in U is locally a distribution of finite order, in the following sense: If V is an open and relatively compact subset of U and if ρ V U {\displaystyle \rho _{VU}} is the restriction mapping from U to V, then the image of D ′ ( U ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}^{\prime }(U)} under ρ V U {\disp...
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In mathematical analysis, the spaces of test functions and distributions are topological vector spaces (TVSs) that are used in the definition and application of distributions. Test functions are usually infinitely differentiable complex-valued (or sometimes real-valued) functions on a non-empty open subset U ⊆ R n {\di...
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The topology of uniform convergence on bounded subsets is also called the strong dual topology. This topology is chosen because it is with this topology that D ′ ( U ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}^{\prime }(U)} becomes a nuclear Montel space and it is with this topology that the kernels theorem of Schwartz holds. No m...
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For this reason, the above characterization of when a sequence converges is not enough to define the canonical LF topology on C c ∞ ( U ) . {\displaystyle C_{c}^{\infty }(U).} The same can be said of the strong dual topology on D ′ ( U ) . {\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}^{\prime }(U).}
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Compactly supported distributions define continuous linear functionals on the space C ∞ ( U ) {\displaystyle C^{\infty }(U)} ; recall that the topology on C ∞ ( U ) {\displaystyle C^{\infty }(U)} is defined such that a sequence of test functions ϕ k {\displaystyle \phi _{k}} converges to 0 if and only if all derivative...
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