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21 Million Opportunities: A 19 Facility Investigation of Factors Affecting Hand Hygiene Compliance via Linear Predictive Models
This large-scale study, consisting of 21.3 million hand hygiene opportunities from 19 distinct facilities in 10 different states, uses linear predictive models to expose factors that may affect hand hygiene compliance. We examine the use of features such as temperature, relative humidity, influenza severity, day/night ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09546v1
1801.09546
2018-01-26
cybersecurity
21 new long-term variables in the GX 339-4 field: two years of MeerKAT monitoring
We present 21 new long-term variable radio sources found commensally in two years of weekly MeerKAT monitoring of the low-mass X-ray binary GX 339-4. The new sources vary on time scales of weeks to months and have a variety of light curve shapes and spectral index properties. Three of the new variable sources are coinc...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09806v1
2203.09806
2022-03-18
cybersecurity
(2+1) Regge Calculus: Discrete Curvatures, Bianchi Identity, and Gauss-Codazzi Equation
The first results presented in our article are the clear definitions of both intrinsic and extrinsic discrete curvatures in terms of holonomy and plane-angle representation, a clear relation with their deficit angles, and their clear geometrical interpretations in the first order discrete geometry. The second results a...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08373v1
1709.08373
2017-09-25
cybersecurity
21st century change in ocean response to climate forcing
Modeling globally averaged information on climate forcing from the land surface temperature data, the sea surface temperatures (SST) and the empirically determined relationship between the changes in SST and the turbulent diffusion of heat into the upper ocean demonstrates a consistent link. The modeling is accurate th...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04809v1
1507.04809
2015-07-17
cybersecurity
21st Century Computer Architecture
Because most technology and computer architecture innovations were (intentionally) invisible to higher layers, application and other software developers could reap the benefits of this progress without engaging in it. Higher performance has both made more computationally demanding applications feasible (e.g., virtual a...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06756v1
1609.06756
2016-09-21
cybersecurity
21st Century Global and Regional Surface Temperature Projections
Many regions across the globe broke their surface temperature records in recent years, further sparking concerns about the impending arrival of "tipping points" later in the 21st century. This study analyzes observed global surface temperature trends in three target latitudinal regions: the Arctic Circle, the Tropics, ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03245v2
2210.03245
2022-10-06
cybersecurity
21st Century Planar Field Emission Theory and its Role in Vacuum Breakdown Science
For explaining electrical breakdown, field electron emission (FE) is a mechanism of interest. In the period 2006 to 2010 there were significant developments in basic FE theory, but these have not yet fully entered general thinking in technological FE areas, which are often still based on 1960s thinking or (in some cont...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08801v2
2107.08801
2021-07-19
cybersecurity
21st Century Statistical and Computational Challenges in Astrophysics
Modern astronomy has been rapidly increasing our ability to see deeper into the universe, acquiring enormous samples of cosmic populations. Gaining astrophysical insights from these datasets requires a wide range of sophisticated statistical and machine learning methods. Long-standing problems in cosmology include char...
http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13025v1
2005.13025
2020-05-26
cybersecurity
$21^{st}$ Century Statistical Disclosure Limitation: Motivations and Challenges
This chapter examines the motivations and imperatives for modernizing how statistical agencies approach statistical disclosure limitation for official data product releases. It discusses the implications for agencies' broader data governance and decision-making, and it identifies challenges that agencies will likely fa...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00845v1
2303.00845
2023-03-01
cybersecurity
21 years of Astronomy at Warwick: celebrating the legacy of Prof. Tom Marsh
Between the 4th and 6th of September 2024, the Astronomy & Astrophysics group at the University of Warwick held a meeting to celebrate 21 years of astronomy at Warwick and the scientific legacy of the late Prof. Tom Marsh, the group founder. More than a hundred people attended the meeting, with about half of the attend...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20954v1
2504.20954
2025-04-29
cybersecurity
21-year timing of the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827
Timing results for the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827 are presented, using a 21-year dataset from four European Pulsar Timing Array telescopes and the Parkes radio telescope. This dataset, which is the longest published to date for a black-widow system, allows for an improved analysis that addresses previously unknown b...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04167v1
1607.04167
2016-07-14
cybersecurity
220 GHz RIS-Aided Multi-user Terahertz Communication System: Prototype Design and Over-the-Air Experimental Trials
Terahertz (THz) communication technology is regarded as a promising enabler for achieving ultra-high data rate transmission in next-generation communication systems. To mitigate the high path loss in THz systems, the transmitting beams are typically narrow and highly directional, which makes it difficult for a single b...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16970v1
2502.16970
2025-02-24
cybersecurity
220 GHz Urban Microcell Channel Measurement and Characterization on a University Campus
Owning abundant bandwidth resources, the Terahertz (THz) band (0.1-10~THz) is envisioned as a key technology to realize ultra-high-speed communications in 6G and beyond wireless networks. To realize reliable THz communications in urban microcell (UMi) environments, propagation analysis and channel characterization are ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15772v1
2408.15772
2024-08-28
cybersecurity
$^{222}$Rn contamination mechanisms on acrylic surfaces
In this work, the $^{222}$Rn contamination mechanisms on acrylic surfaces have been investigated. $^{222}$Rn can represent a significant background source for low-background experiments, and acrylic is a suitable material for detector design thanks to its purity and transparency. Four acrylic samples have been exposed ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04836v1
1911.04836
2019-11-12
cybersecurity
$^{222}$Rn content variations at ground and underground conditions
The activity of $^{222}$Rn and its daughter isotopes was measured in the air of several underground laboratories of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory at various distances from the entrance. The measurements were carried out with the help of the cylindrical ionionization air chamber. We found that the radon content in the...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15289v2
2110.15289
2021-10-28
cybersecurity
$^{222}$Rn emanation measurements for the XENON1T experiment
The selection of low-radioactive construction materials is of utmost importance for the success of low-energy rare event search experiments. Besides radioactive contaminants in the bulk, the emanation of radioactive radon atoms from material surfaces attains increasing relevance in the effort to further reduce the back...
http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13981v2
2009.13981
2020-09-30
cybersecurity
$^{229}\mathrm{ThF}_4$ thin films for solid-state nuclear clocks
After nearly fifty years of searching, the vacuum ultraviolet $^{229}$Th nuclear isomeric transition has recently been directly laser excited [1,2] and measured with high spectroscopic precision [3]. Nuclear clocks based on this transition are expected to be more robust [4,5] than and may outperform [6,7] current optic...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01753v1
2410.01753
2024-10-02
cybersecurity
229 nm UV LEDs using p-type silicon for increased hole injection
Ultraviolet (UV) light emission at 229 nm wavelength from diode structures based on AlN/Al0.77Ga0.23N quantum wells and using p-type Si to significantly increase hole injection was reported. Both electrical and optical characteristics were measured. Owing to the large concentration of holes from p-Si and efficient hole...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03973v1
1708.03973
2017-08-13
cybersecurity
229Th-doped nonlinear optical crystals for compact solid-state clocks
The recent laser excitation of the 229Th isomeric transition in a solid-state host opens the door for a portable solid-state nuclear optical clock. However, at present the vacuum-ultraviolet laser systems required for clock operation are not conducive to a fieldable form factor. Here, we propose a possible solution to ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23364v1
2410.23364
2024-10-30
cybersecurity
(2,2) and (0,4) Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions in 3d N = 4 Theories and Type IIB Branes
The half-BPS boundary conditions preserving $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ supersymmetry in 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories are examined. The BPS equations admit decomposition of the bulk supermultiplets into specific boundary supermultiplets of preserved supersymmetry. Nahm-like equations...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05363v4
1608.05363
2017-11-30
cybersecurity
2+2D Texture for Full Positive Parallax Effect
The representation of parallax on virtual environment is still a problem to be studied. Common algorithms, such as Bump Mapping, Parallax Mapping and Displacement Mapping, treats this problem for small disparity between a real object and a simplified model. This work will introduce a new texture structure and one possi...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16815v1
2402.16815
2024-02-26
cybersecurity
22 Examples of Solution Compression via Derandomization
We provide bounds on the compression size of the solutions to 22 problems in computer science. For each problem, we show that solutions exist with high probability, for some simple probability measure. Once this is proven, derandomization can be used to prove the existence of a simple solution.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11562v4
2208.11562
2022-08-24
cybersecurity
(2,2) Geometry from Gauge Theory
Using gauge theory, we describe how to construct generalized Kahler geometries with (2,2) two-dimensional supersymmetry, which are analogues of familiar examples like projective spaces and Calabi-Yau manifolds. For special cases, T-dual descriptions can be found which are squashed Kahler spaces. We explore the vacuum s...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01388v2
1810.01388
2018-10-16
cybersecurity
2-2-holes simplified
Quadratic gravity illustrates how a replacement for black holes can emerge from a UV completion of gravity. 2-2-holes are extremely compact horizonless objects with an entropy $S_{22}$ due to trapped normal matter, and in this way they are conceptually easy to understand. But the field equations are cumbersome and the ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08442v2
2202.08442
2022-02-17
cybersecurity
$^{22}$Na Activation Level Measurements of Fused Silica Rods in the LHC Target Absorber for Neutrals (TAN) Compared to FLUKA Simulations
The Target Absorbers for Neutrals (TANs) are located in a high-intensity radiation environment inside the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). TANs are positioned about $140$ m downstream from the beam interaction points. Seven $40$ cm long fused silica rods with different dopant specifications were irradiated in...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01937v2
2204.01937
2022-04-05
cybersecurity
$^{22}$Ne and $^{23}$Na ejecta from intermediate-mass stars: The impact of the new LUNA rate for $^{22}$Ne(p,$\gamma$)$^{23}$Na
We investigate the impact of the new LUNA rate for the nuclear reaction $^{22}$Ne$(p,\gamma)^{23}$Na on the chemical ejecta of intermediate-mass stars, with particular focus on the thermally-pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) stars that experience hot-bottom burning. To this aim we use the PARSEC and COLIBRI code...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07742v1
1611.07742
2016-11-23
cybersecurity
$^{22}$Ne Phase Separation As A Solution To The Ultramassive White Dwarf Cooling Anomaly
The precise astrometric measurements of the Gaia Data Release 2 have opened the door to detailed tests of the predictions of white dwarf cooling models. Significant discrepancies between theory and observations have been identified, the most striking affecting ultramassive white dwarfs. Cheng et al. (2019) found that a...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12892v1
2103.12892
2021-03-23
cybersecurity
$(2,2p+1)$ minimal string and intersection theory I
In view of recent progress in studying matrix model-2D gravity duality, we reexamine some features of $(2,2p+1)$ minimal string. After reviewing both sides of the proposed correspondence in this case, a previously unnoted identification between correlation numbers of tachyon operators in certain domain of parameter spa...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02305v4
2403.02305
2024-03-04
cybersecurity
$(2,2)$ Scattering and the Celestial Torus
Analytic continuation from Minkowski space to $(2,2)$ split signature spacetime has proven to be a powerful tool for the study of scattering amplitudes. Here we show that, under this continuation, null infinity becomes the product of a null interval with a celestial torus (replacing the celestial sphere) and has only o...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09591v1
2101.09591
2021-01-23
cybersecurity
(2,2) Superconformal Bootstrap in Two Dimensions
We find a simple relation between two-dimensional BPS N=2 superconformal blocks and bosonic Virasoro conformal blocks, which allows us to analyze the crossing equations for BPS 4-point functions in unitary (2,2) superconformal theories numerically with semidefinite programming. We constrain gaps in the non-BPS spectrum...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05371v1
1610.05371
2016-10-17
cybersecurity
22 Year Solar Magnetic Cycle and its relation to Convection Zone Dynamics
Using continuous observations for 22 years from ground-based network GONG and space-borne instruments MDI onboard {\it SoHO} and HMI onboard {\it SDO}, we report both global and local properties of the convection zone and their variations with time.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05371v1
1805.05371
2018-05-14
cybersecurity
230,439 Test Failures Later: An Empirical Evaluation of Flaky Failure Classifiers
Flaky tests are tests that can non-deterministically pass or fail, even in the absence of code changes.Despite being a source of false alarms, flaky tests often remain in test suites once they are detected, as they also may be relied upon to detect true failures. Hence, a key open problem in flaky test research is: How...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15788v1
2401.15788
2024-01-28
cybersecurity
230 GHz VLBI observations of M87: event-horizon-scale structure at the enhanced very-high-energy $\rm \gamma$-ray state in 2012
We report on 230 GHz (1.3 mm) VLBI observations of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope using antennas on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, Mt. Graham in Arizona and Cedar Flat in California. For the first time, we have acquired 230 GHz VLBI interferometric phase information on M87 through measurement of closure phase on the triang...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03545v3
1505.03545
2015-06-19
cybersecurity
23, 381, 6242, 103268, 1743183, ...: Hilbert series for CP-violating operators in SMEFT
We introduce a systematic method to classify the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) operators based on their CP properties with the Hilbert series techniques. Our method makes it possible to enumerate operators violating CP symmetry in a few seconds. We present the complete classification of dimension eight ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.02413v3
2212.02413
2022-12-05
cybersecurity
23.8-GHz Acoustic Filter in Periodically Poled Piezoelectric Film Lithium Niobate With 1.52-dB IL and 19.4% FBW
This paper reports the first piezoelectric acoustic filter in periodically poled piezoelectric film (P3F) lithium niobate (LiNbO3) at 23.8 GHz with low insertion loss (IL) of 1.52 dB and 3-dB fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 19.4%. The filter features a compact footprint of 0.64 mm2. The third-order ladder filter is imple...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12194v2
2402.12194
2024-02-19
cybersecurity
${}^{239}$Pu nuclear magnetic resonance in the candidate topological insulator PuB$_4$
We present a detailed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study of ${}^{239}$Pu in bulk and powdered single-crystal plutonium tetraboride (PuB$_4$), which has recently been investigated as a potential correlated topological insulator. This study constitutes the second-ever observation of the ${}^{239}$Pu NMR signal, and p...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09202v1
1812.09202
2018-12-21
cybersecurity
2-, 3- and 4-Body Decays in the Constructive Standard Model
We further develop the massive constructive theory of the Standard Model and use it to calculate the amplitude and squared amplitude for all two-body decays, a collection of weak three-body decays, as well as Higgs decay to four neutrinos. We compare our results with those from Feynman diagrams and find complete agreem...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09164v2
1909.09164
2020-03-30
cybersecurity
"23andMe confirms: I'm super white" -- Analyzing Twitter Discourse On Genetic Testing
Recent progress in genomics is bringing genetic testing to the masses. Participatory public initiatives are underway to sequence the genome of millions of volunteers, and a new market is booming with a number of companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA offering affordable tests directly to consumers. Consequently, news, ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09946v2
1801.09946
2018-04-20
cybersecurity
23-bit Metaknowledge Template Towards Big Data Knowledge Discovery and Management
The global influence of Big Data is not only growing but seemingly endless. The trend is leaning towards knowledge that is attained easily and quickly from massive pools of Big Data. Today we are living in the technological world that Dr. Usama Fayyad and his distinguished research fellows discussed in the introductory...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00244v1
1503.00244
2015-03-01
cybersecurity
(2,3)-Cordial Oriented Hypercubes
In this article we investigate the existence of (2,3)-cordial labelings of oriented hypercubes. In this investigation, we determine that there exists a (2,3)-cordial oriented hypercube for any dimension divisible by 3. Next, we provide examples of (2,3)-cordial oriented hypercubes of dimension not divisible by 3 and st...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11091v3
2012.11091
2020-12-21
cybersecurity
(2,3) Cordial Trees and Paths
Recently L. B. Beasley introduced $(2,3)$-cordial labelings of directed graphs in [1]. He made two conjectures which we resolve in this article. He conjectured that every orientation of a path of length at least five is $(2,3)$ cordial, and that every tree of max degree $n =3$ has a cordial orientation. We show these t...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10591v2
2012.10591
2020-12-19
cybersecurity
23 DoF Grasping Policies from a Raw Point Cloud
Coordinating the motion of robots with high degrees of freedom (DoF) to grasp objects gives rise to many challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel imitation learning approach to learn a policy that directly predicts 23 DoF grasp trajectories from a partial point cloud provided by a single, fixed camera. At the core...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14400v1
2411.14400
2024-11-21
cybersecurity
23Na and 1H NMR Relaxometry of Shale at High Magnetic Field
Formation evaluation of unconventional reservoirs is challenging due to the coexistence of different phases such as kerogen, bitumen, movable and bound light hydrocarbon and water. Current low-frequency (0.05 T) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) laboratory and logging methods are incapable of quantitatively separating t...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07731v1
1604.07731
2016-04-26
cybersecurity
{23}Na nuclear spin-lattice relaxation studies of Na2Ni2TeO6
We report on {23}Na NMR studies of a honeycomb lattice antiferromagnet Na2Ni2TeO6 by {23}Na nuclear spin-echo techniques. The {23}Na nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/{23}T_1 exhibits critical divergence near a Neel temperature T_N = 26 K, a narrow critical region, and a critical exponent w = 0.34 in 1/{23}T_1 = a...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.03003v1
1504.03003
2015-04-12
cybersecurity
$^{23}$Ne Production at SARAF-I
In this article, we present a measurement of flow rate, yield and effusion time of a $^{23}$Ne production and transport system. We used an accelerator-driven Li(d,n) neutron source to produce neutrons up to 20 MeV. The radioactive atoms were produced by a $^{23}$Na(n,p) reaction at a NaCl target. Later, the atoms were ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00478v1
2006.00478
2020-05-31
cybersecurity
2413-balloon permutations and the growth of the M\"obius function
We show that the growth of the principal M\"obius function on the permutation poset is exponential. This improves on previous work, which has shown that the growth is at least polynomial. We define a method of constructing a permutation from a smaller permutation which we call "ballooning". We show that if $\beta$ is a...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05064v3
1812.05064
2019-12-12
cybersecurity
$^{242m}$Am isomer yield in $^{243}$Am$(n, 2n)$ reaction
The reaction 243 Am (n, 2n) populates the T of 16 hours ground state 242 g Am with J of 1 or the 242 m Am isomer state J of 5 with T of 141 years. The former state 242 g Am mostly beta decays to 242 Cm, or transmutes to 242 Pu via electron capture. The absolute yield of 242 g Am is compatible with the measured data, es...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15445v1
2406.15445
2024-05-30
cybersecurity
24/7 Place Recognition by View Synthesis
We address the problem of large-scale visual place recognition for situations where the scene undergoes a major change in appearance, for example, due to illumination (day/night), change of seasons, aging, or structural modifications over time such as buildings built or destroyed. Such situations represent a major chal...
http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2015/html/Torii_247_Place_Recognition_2015_CVPR_paper.html
null
2015-06-01
cybersecurity
$(2,4)$-Colorability of Planar Graphs Excluding $3$-, $4$-, and $6$-Cycles
A defective $k$-coloring is a coloring on the vertices of a graph using colors $1,2, \dots, k$ such that adjacent vertices may share the same color. A $(d_1,d_2)$-\emph{coloring} of a graph $G$ is a defective $2$-coloring of $G$ such that any vertex colored by color $i$ has at most $d_i$ adjacent vertices of the same c...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07129v1
2501.07129
2025-01-13
cybersecurity
24 days-stable CNOT-gate on fluxonium qubits with over 99.9% fidelity
Fluxonium qubit is a promising building block for quantum information processing due to its long coherence time and strong anharmonicity. In this paper, we realize a 60 ns direct CNOT-gate on two inductively-coupled fluxonium qubits using selective darkening approach, resulting in a gate fidelity as high as 99.94%. The...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15783v2
2407.15783
2024-07-22
cybersecurity
24-hour measurement of squeezed light using automated stable fiber system
In order to provide a cloud service of optical quantum computing, it is inevitable to stabilize the optical system for many hours. It is advantageous to construct a fiber-based system, which does not require spatial alignment. However, fiber-based systems are instead subject to fiber-specific instabilities. For instanc...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17533v1
2401.17533
2024-01-31
cybersecurity
24-Hour Relativistic Bit Commitment
Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic primitive in which a party wishes to commit a secret bit to another party. Perfect security between mistrustful parties is unfortunately impossible to achieve through the asynchronous exchange of classical and quantum messages. Perfect security can nonetheless be achieved i...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07442v1
1605.07442
2016-05-24
cybersecurity
$^{24}$Mg($p$, $\alpha$)$^{21}$Na reaction study for spectroscopy of $^{21}$Na
The $^{24}$Mg($p$, $\alpha$)$^{21}$Na reaction was measured at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in order to better constrain spins and parities of energy levels in $^{21}$Na for the astrophysically important $^{17}$F($\alpha, p$)$^{20}$Ne reaction rate calculation. 31 MeV pro...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02128v1
1508.02128
2015-08-10
cybersecurity
24 rational curves on K3 surfaces
Given d in IN, we prove that all smooth K3 surfaces (over any field of characteristic p other than 2,3) of degree greater than 84d^2 contain at most 24 rational curves of degree at most d. In the exceptional characteristics, the same bounds hold for non-unirational K3 surfaces, and we develop analogous results in the u...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04182v3
1907.04182
2019-07-09
cybersecurity
24 synoptic maps of average magnetic field in 296 prominences measured by the Hanle effect during the ascending phase of solar cycle 21
Aims : We present 24 synoptic maps of solar filaments, in which the average unambiguous magnetic field vectors of 296 prominences were determined with Pic-du-Midi observations between 1974 and 1982. This was the ascending phase of cycle 21. Methods : The magnetic field was determined by interpreting the Hanle effect, w...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08219v4
2007.08219
2020-07-16
cybersecurity
2.4-THz Bandwidth Optical Coherent Receiver Based on a Photonic Crystal Microcomb
We demonstrate a spectrally-sliced single-polarization optical coherent receiver with a record 2.4-THz bandwidth, using a 200-GHz tantalum pentoxide photonic crystal microring resonator as the local oscillator frequency comb.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04060v1
2407.04060
2024-07-04
cybersecurity
25,000 optical fiber positioning robots for next-generation cosmology
Massively parallel multi-object spectrographs are on the leading edge of cosmology instrumentation. The highly successful Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) which begun survey operations in May 2021, for example, has 5,000 robotically-actuated multimode fibers, which deliver light from thousands of individual ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07908v1
2212.07908
2022-12-15
cybersecurity
2500 vibronic eigenstates of the NO$_3$ radical
The nitrate radical NO$_3$ plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry, yet many aspects of its coupled and anharmonic vibronic structure remain elusive. Here, using an accurate, coupled full-dimensional diabatic potential that includes five electronic states, we revisit the vibronic spectrum associated with the e...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03398v2
2407.03398
2024-07-03
cybersecurity
(2.5+1)D Spatio-Temporal Scene Graphs for Video Question Answering
Spatio-temporal scene-graph approaches to video-based reasoning tasks, such as video question-answering (QA), typically construct such graphs for every video frame. These approaches often ignore the fact that videos are essentially sequences of 2D "views" of events happening in a 3D space, and that the semantics of the...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09277v2
2202.09277
2022-02-18
cybersecurity
2.5-Connectivity: Unique Components, Critical Graphs, and Applications
If a biconnected graph stays connected after the removal of an arbitrary vertex and an arbitrary edge, then it is called 2.5-connected. We prove that every biconnected graph has a canonical decomposition into 2.5-connected components. These components are arranged in a tree-structure. We also discuss the connection bet...
http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01498v2
2003.01498
2020-07-14
cybersecurity
2.5D Deep Learning for CT Image Reconstruction using a Multi-GPU implementation
While Model Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) of CT scans has been shown to have better image quality than Filtered Back Projection (FBP), its use has been limited by its high computational cost. More recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown great promise in both denoising and reconstruction ap...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08367v1
1812.08367
2018-12-20
cybersecurity
2.5D Image based Robotic Grasping
We consider the problem of robotic grasping using depth + RGB information sampling from a real sensor. we design an encoder-decoder neural network to predict grasp policy in real time. This method can fuse the advantage of depth image and RGB image at the same time and is robust for grasp and observation height.We eval...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1905.13675v1
1905.13675
2019-05-31
cybersecurity
2.5D Mapping, Pathfinding and Path Following For Navigation Of A Differential Drive Robot In Uneven Terrain
Safe navigation in uneven terrains is an important problem in robotic research. In this paper we propose a 2.5D navigation system which consists of elevation map building, path planning and local path following with obstacle avoidance. For local path following we use Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control method...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07252v1
2209.07252
2022-09-15
cybersecurity
2.5-D MHD Simulation of the Formation and Evolution of Plasmoids in Coronal Current Sheets
In the present paper, using MPI-AMRVAC, we perform a 2.5-D numerical MHD simulation of the dynamics and associated thermodynamical evolution of an initially force-free Harris current sheet subjected to an external velocity perturbation under the condition of uniform resistivity. The amplitude of the magnetic field is t...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07048v1
2401.07048
2024-01-13
cybersecurity
2.5D Multi-view Averaging Diffusion Model for 3D Medical Image Translation: Application to Low-count PET Reconstruction with CT-less Attenuation Correction
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important clinical imaging tool but inevitably introduces radiation hazards to patients and healthcare providers. Reducing the tracer injection dose and eliminating the CT acquisition for attenuation correction can reduce the overall radiation dose, but often results in PET with...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08374v2
2406.08374
2024-06-12
cybersecurity
2.5D Root of Trust: Secure System-Level Integration of Untrusted Chiplets
Dedicated, after acceptance and publication, in memory of the late Vassos Soteriou. For the first time, we leverage the 2.5D interposer technology to establish system-level security in the face of hardware- and software-centric adversaries. More specifically, we integrate chiplets (i.e., third-party hard intellectual p...
http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02412v2
2009.02412
2020-09-29
cybersecurity
2.5D Super-Resolution Approaches for X-ray Computed Tomography-based Inspection of Additively Manufactured Parts
X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is a key tool in non-destructive evaluation of additively manufactured (AM) parts, allowing for internal inspection and defect detection. Despite its widespread use, obtaining high-resolution CT scans can be extremely time consuming. This issue can be mitigated by performing scans at low...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04525v1
2412.04525
2024-12-05
cybersecurity
2.5D Thermometry Maps for MRI-guided Tumor Ablation
Fast and reliable monitoring of volumetric heat distribution during MRI-guided tumor ablation is an urgent clinical need. In this work, we introduce a method for generating 2.5D thermometry maps from uniformly distributed 2D MRI phase images rotated around the applicator's main axis. The images can be fetched directly ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05734v1
2108.05734
2021-08-12
cybersecurity
2.5D turbulence in shear-thinning jets
The dimensional transition in turbulent jets of a shear-thinning fluid is studied via direct numerical simulations. Our findings reveal that under vertical confinement, the flow exhibits a unique mixed-dimensional (or 2.5D) state, where large-scale two-dimensional and small-scale three-dimensional structures coexist. T...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01038v4
2407.01038
2024-07-01
cybersecurity
2.5D U-Net with Depth Reduction for 3D CryoET Object Identification
Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) is a crucial technique for unveiling the structure of protein complexes. Automatically analyzing tomograms captured by cryoET is an essential step toward understanding cellular structures. In this paper, we introduce the 4th place solution from the CZII - CryoET Object Identification c...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13484v1
2502.13484
2025-02-19
cybersecurity
2.5D Vehicle Odometry Estimation
It is well understood that in ADAS applications, a good estimate of the pose of the vehicle is required. This paper proposes a metaphorically named 2.5D odometry, whereby the planar odometry derived from the yaw rate sensor and four wheel speed sensors is augmented by a linear model of suspension. While the core of the...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08398v1
2111.08398
2021-11-16
cybersecurity
2.5D Visual Relationship Detection
Visual 2.5D perception involves understanding the semantics and geometry of a scene through reasoning about object relationships with respect to the viewer in an environment. However, existing works in visual recognition primarily focus on the semantics. To bridge this gap, we study 2.5D visual relationship detection (...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12727v1
2104.12727
2021-04-26
cybersecurity
2.5D Visual Sound
Binaural audio provides a listener with 3D sound sensation, allowing a rich perceptual experience of the scene. However, binaural recordings are scarcely available and require nontrivial expertise and equipment to obtain. We propose to convert common monaural audio into binaural audio by leveraging video. The key idea ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04204v4
1812.04204
2018-12-11
cybersecurity
25-Fold Resolution Enhancement of X-ray Microscopy Using Multipixel Ghost Imaging
Hard x-ray imaging is indispensable across diverse fields owing to its high penetrability. However, the resolution of traditional x-ray imaging modalities, such as computed tomography (CT) systems, is constrained by factors including beam properties, the absence of optical components, and detection resolution. As a res...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14023v1
2402.14023
2024-02-07
cybersecurity
25 MeV Solar Proton Events in Cycle 24 and Previous Cycles
We summarize observations of around a thousand solar energetic particle (SEP) events since 1967 that include ~25 MeV protons, made by various near-Earth spacecraft (IMPs 4, 5, 7, 8, ISEE 3, SOHO), that encompass Solar Cycle 20 to the current cycle (24). We also discuss recent observations of similar SEP events in Cycle...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07873v2
1604.07873
2016-07-29
cybersecurity
2.5-MHD models of circumstellar discs around FS~CMa post-mergers : II. Stationary accretion stage
We study the star-disc interaction in the presence of the strong magnetic field ($B_\star=6.2kG$) of a slowly rotating star. This situation describes a post-merger of the spectral type B and has not been previously investigated. We perform a set of resistive and viscosity $2.5D$-magnetohydrodynamical simulations using ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00720v2
2402.00720
2024-02-01
cybersecurity
2.5-MHD models of circumstellar discs around FS~CMa post-mergers : I. Non-stationary accretion stage
We investigate the dynamic evolution of gaseous region around FS~CMa post-mergers. Due to the slow rotation of a central B-type star, the dynamics is driven mainly by the magnetic field of the central star. Recent observations have allowed us to set a realistic initial conditions such as, the magnetic field value ($B_\...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16073v1
2306.16073
2023-06-28
cybersecurity
25 open questions about vector bundles and their moduli
We present 25 open questions about moduli spaces of vector bundles and related topics and discuss some longstanding conjectures. We hope to inspire young researchers to engage in this area of research.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06434v1
2106.06434
2021-06-11
cybersecurity
2.5PN accurate waveform information for generic-planar-orbit binaries in effective one-body models
We provide the post-Newtonian (PN) waveform for binary systems in motion along generic planar orbits at 2.5PN accuracy, in terms of the dynamical variables of the effective one-body (EOB) formalism. In addition to the calculation of the higher order terms for all the contributions to the waveform that have been already...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14440v3
2305.14440
2023-05-23
cybersecurity
$^{25}$Si $\beta^+$-decay spectroscopy
$\beta$-decay spectroscopy provides valuable information on exotic nuclei and a stringent test for nuclear theories beyond the stability line. To search for new $\beta$-delayed protons and $\gamma$ rays of $^{25}$Si to investigate the properties of $^{25}$Al excited states. $^{25}$Si $\beta$ decays were measured by usi...
http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00825v2
2009.00825
2020-09-13
cybersecurity
25 Tweets to Know You: A New Model to Predict Personality with Social Media
Predicting personality is essential for social applications supporting human-centered activities, yet prior modeling methods with users written text require too much input data to be realistically used in the context of social media. In this work, we aim to drastically reduce the data requirement for personality modeli...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05513v1
1704.05513
2017-04-18
cybersecurity
2.5 Years in Class: A Multimodal Textbook for Vision-Language Pretraining
Compared to image-text pair data, interleaved corpora enable Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to understand the world more naturally like humans. However, such existing datasets are crawled from webpage, facing challenges like low knowledge density, loose image-text relations, and poor logical coherence between images. On...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00958v4
2501.00958
2025-01-01
cybersecurity
25 years of CNNs: Can we compare to human abstraction capabilities?
We try to determine the progress made by convolutional neural networks over the past 25 years in classifying images into abstractc lasses. For this purpose we compare the performance of LeNet to that of GoogLeNet at classifying randomly generated images which are differentiated by an abstract property (e.g., one class ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08366v1
1607.08366
2016-07-28
cybersecurity
25 years of criticality in neuroscience -- established results, open controversies, novel concepts
Twenty-five years ago, Dunkelmann and Radons (1994) proposed that neural networks should self-organize to a critical state. In models, criticality offers a number of computational advantages. Thus this hypothesis, and in particular the experimental work by Beggs and Plenz (2003), has triggered an avalanche of research,...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05129v1
1903.05129
2019-03-12
cybersecurity
25 Years of Self-Organized Criticality: Concepts and Controversies
Introduced by the late Per Bak and his colleagues, self-organized criticality (SOC) has been one of the most stimulating concepts to come out of statistical mechanics and condensed matter theory in the last few decades, and has played a significant role in the development of complexity science. SOC, and more generally ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04991v1
1504.04991
2015-04-20
cybersecurity
25 Years of Self-Organized Criticality: Numerical Detection Methods
The detection and characterization of self-organized criticality (SOC), in both real and simulated data, has undergone many significant revisions over the past 25 years. The explosive advances in the many numerical methods available for detecting, discriminating, and ultimately testing, SOC have played a critical role ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08142v1
1506.08142
2015-06-26
cybersecurity
25 Years of Signal Processing Advances for Multiantenna Communications
Wireless communication technology has progressed dramatically over the past 25 years, in terms of societal adoption as well as technical sophistication. In 1998, mobile phones were still in the process of becoming compact and affordable devices that could be widely utilized in both developed and developing countries. T...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02677v1
2304.02677
2023-04-05
cybersecurity
25 years of XMM-Newton observations of the Sgr A complex: 3D distribution and internal structure of the clouds
Sgr A* is currently very faint. However, X-ray radiation reflected by the Sgr A complex, a group of nearby molecular clouds, suggests that it went through one or more periods of high activity some hundreds of years ago. We aim to determine whether previously proposed physical scenarios are consistent with the observed ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09737v1
2501.09737
2025-01-16
cybersecurity
26.5 ps Time Resolution Using 50 μm Low Gain Avalanche Detectors Fabricated by Micron Semiconductor Ltd
Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are silicon semiconductor sensors with an implanted thin p-doped multiplication layer that is designed to provide low gain. Most importantly, LGADs are specifically engineered to provide excellent spatial and temporal resolution simultaneously. The technology shows promising prospec...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06183v1
2310.06183
2023-10-09
cybersecurity
$^{26}$Al gamma rays from the Galaxy with INTEGRAL/SPI
The presence of radioactive $^{26}$Al at 1.8 MeV reflects ongoing nucleosynthesis in the Milky Way. Diffuse emission from its decay can be measured with gamma-ray telescopes in space. The intensity, line shape, and spatial distribution of the $^{26}$Al emission allow a study of these nucleosynthesis sources. The line p...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11228v1
2212.11228
2022-12-21
cybersecurity
26Al kinematics: superbubbles following the spiral arms? Constraints from the statistics of star clusters and HI supershells
High energy resolution spectroscopy of the 1.8 MeV radioactive decay line of 26Al with the SPI instrument on board the INTEGRAL satellite has recently revealed that diffuse 26Al has large velocities in comparison to other components of the interstellar medium in the Milky Way. 26Al shows Galactic rotation in the same s...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.03120v1
1504.03120
2015-04-13
cybersecurity
2.6mJ/100Hz CEP stable near-single-cycle 4{\mu}m laser based on OPCPA and hollow-core-fiber compression
A carrier envelope phase stable near-single cycle mid-infrared laser based on optical parametric chirped pulse amplification and hollow-core-fiber compression is demonstrated. 4 {\mu}m laser pulses with 11.8 mJ energy are delivered from a KTA based OPCPA with 100 Hz repetition rate, and compressed to be ~105 fs by a tw...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07327v1
1712.07327
2017-12-20
cybersecurity
$2.6 M_\odot$ Compact Object and Neutron Stars within Eddington-Inspired Born-Infeld Theory of Gravity
In the context of whether a massive compact object recently observed in the GW190814 event is a neutron star (NS) or not, we have studied the role of the parameters $\kappa$ and $\Lambda_c$ of the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld (EiBI) gravity theory on the NS mass-radius relation, moment of inertia, and tidal deformabi...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05718v1
2109.05718
2021-09-13
cybersecurity
26ms Inference Time for ResNet-50: Towards Real-Time Execution of all DNNs on Smartphone
With the rapid emergence of a spectrum of high-end mobile devices, many applications that required desktop-level computation capability formerly can now run on these devices without any problem. However, without a careful optimization, executing Deep Neural Networks (a key building block of the real-time video stream p...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00571v1
1905.00571
2019-05-02
cybersecurity
27.5-29.5 GHz Switched Array Sounder for Dynamic Channel Characterization: Design, Implementation and Measurements
A pre-requisite for the design of wireless systems is the understanding of the propagation channel. While a wealth of propagation knowledge exists for bands below 6 GHz, the same can not be said for bands approaching millimeter-wave frequencies. In this paper, we present the design, implementation and measurement-based...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10712v1
2105.10712
2021-05-22
cybersecurity
275 Candidates and 149 Validated Planets Orbiting Bright Stars in K2 Campaigns 0-10
Since 2014, NASA's K2 mission has observed large portions of the ecliptic plane in search of transiting planets and has detected hundreds of planet candidates. With observations planned until at least early 2018, K2 will continue to identify more planet candidates. We present here 275 planet candidates observed during ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05277v2
1802.05277
2018-03-26
cybersecurity
2.75D: Boosting learning by representing 3D Medical imaging to 2D features for small data
In medical-data driven learning, 3D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have started to show superior performance to 2D CNNs in numerous deep learning tasks, proving the added value of 3D spatial information in feature representation. However, the difficulty in collecting more training samples to converge, more comput...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04251v3
2002.04251
2020-02-11
cybersecurity
$^{27}$Al NMR spectroscopic and DFT computational study of the quadrupole coupling of aluminium in two polymorphs of the complex aluminium hydride CsAlH4
The quadrupole coupling constant $C_{\text{Q}}$ and the asymmetry parameter $\eta$ of the aluminium nuclei in two polymorphs of the complex aluminium hydride CsAlH4 are determined from both $^{27}$Al MAS NMR spectra and $^{27}$Al NMR spectra recorded for stationary samples by using the Solomon echo sequence. The accura...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07731v1
2410.07731
2024-10-10
cybersecurity
$^{27}$Al NMR study of the magnetic Weyl semimetal CeAlGe
Motivated by the recent observations of electronic correlation effect [M. Corasaniti \textit{et al}., Phys. Rev. B \textbf{104}, L121112 (2021)] and topology-stabilized magnetic fluctuations [N. Drucker \textit{et al}., Nat. Commun. \textbf{14}, 5182 (2023)] in the noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate C...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06476v2
2403.06476
2024-03-11
cybersecurity
27Al-NMR Study on a square-Kagome lattice antiferromagnet
NMR study has been performed on an S = 1/2 antiferromagnet KCu6AlBiO4(SO4)5Cl on the square-Kagome lattice, which has three slightly inequivalent nearest-neighbor interactions. Because of the geometrical frustration inherited from triangles within the square kagome lattice and of the low dimensionality, a long range ma...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18125v1
2402.18125
2024-02-28
cybersecurity