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In this paper, we study power series having a fixed point of multiplier 1. First, we give a closed formula for the residue fixed point index, in terms of the first coefficients of the power series. Then, we use this formula to study wildly ramified power series in positive characteristic. Among power series having a ...
These are freaking adorable! I hung pictures from them These are freaking adorable! I hung pictures from them. I had these rated a 5 star when i first got them up until I’ve had them for two days and the lights went out. Changed the batteries & still won’t work. All the clips worked fine & it was cute. But the whole p...
Causal inference analyses often use existing observational data, which in many cases has some clustering of individuals. In this paper we discuss propensity score weighting methods in a multilevel setting where within clusters individuals share unmeasured confounders that are related to treatment assignment and the p...
We present an analysis of the chemical abundances of the star Tycho G in the direction of the remnant of supernova (SN) 1572, based on Keck high-resolution optical spectra. The stellar parameters of this star are found to be those of a G-type subgiant with $T_{\mathrm{eff}} = 5900 \pm 100$ K, \loggl $ = 3.85 \pm 0.30...
It is known that the Sobolev space $L^2_s$ with $s>n/2$ appeared in the H\"ormander multiplier theorem can be replaced by the Besov space $B^{2,1}_{n/2}$. On the other hand, the Besov space $B_{n/2}^{2,1}$ is continuously embedded in the modulation space $M^{2,1}_0$. In this paper, we consider the problem whether we ...
The Time-Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) is focused on the spectroscopic follow-up of extragalactic optical transients and variable sources selected from forthcoming large sky surveys such as that from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). TiDES contains three sub-surveys: (i) spectroscopic observations of ...
yeah yeah absolutely yeah we uh we stocked up the first time around but we've definitely got all the formulas on file and uh we're they'll be there for a while we're we're pretty comfortable with that but yeah it it i'm i'm real nervous every time i i open a new can i'm wondering if i shouldn't buy about twenty gallon...
A recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is trained to predict sound samples based on audio input augmented by control parameter information for pitch, volume, and instrument identification. During the generative phase following training, audio input is taken from the output of the previous time step, and the parameters are ...
Blazars, radio-loud active galactic nuclei with the relativistic jet closely aligned with the line of sight, dominate the extragalactic sky observed at gamma-ray energies, above 100 MeV. We discuss some of the emission properties of these sources, focusing in particular on the "blazar sequence" and the interpretative...
Okay okay, I must admit, I do somewhat like Peter Liapis and I'll admit this is not the best Ghoulies sequel. I mean, yeah, it had its flaws, such as NO GHOULIES themselves. But the two Ghoulies that come to earth were really funny, I guess they were called, Dark and Lite. I enjoyed the plot of the movie. And even at t...
The high resolution image of the jet of the BL Lac object MKN501 in radio, show a limb-brightened feature. An explanation of this feature as an outcome of differential Doppler boosting of jet spine and jet boundary due to transverse velocity structure of the jet requires large viewing angle. However this inference co...
In this partly expository paper, we study the set A of groups of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle S^1 which do not admit non-abelian free subgroups. We use classical results about homeomorphisms of the circle and elementary dynamical methods to derive various new and old results about the groups in...
Given an oriented graph G, the modular flow polynomial counts the number of nowhere-zero Z_k-flows of G. We give a description of the modular flow polynomial in terms of (open) Ehrhart polynomials of lattice polytopes. Using Ehrhart-Macdonald reciprocity we give a combinatorial interpretation for the values of the mo...
It is an extremely difficult film to watch, particularly as it targets the innermost core of all of our lives. But ultimately it is a very beautiful and deeply moving film. Any person who finds it cynical I have to say that they must have greatly missed the point of the film's entire message. For those who actually wat...
huh. Lets see. She EARNED a DOCTORIAL DEGREE. As such, it is PROPER TO CALL HER DOCTOR. Any top GOP that have actually EARNED PhDs are ALSO called DOCTORS. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with theirs OR YOURs political view. It simply has to do with if a person EARNED that degree. I hope that helps you with your e...
Suppose $\Gamma$ is a Carleson Jordan curve with logarithmic whirl points, $\varrho$ is a Khvedelidze weight, $p:\Gamma\to(1,\infty)$ is a continuous function satisfying $|p(\tau)-p(t)|\le -\mathrm{const}/\log|\tau-t|$ for $|\tau-t|\le 1/2$, and $L^{p(\cdot)}(\Gamma,\varrho)$ is a weighted generalized Lebesgue spac...
We consider the tail behavior of random variables $R$ which are solutions of the distributional equation $R\stackrel{d}{=}Q+MR$, where $(Q,M)$ is independent of $R$ and $|M|\le 1$. Goldie and Gr\"{u}bel showed that the tails of $R$ are no heavier than exponential and that if $Q$ is bounded and $M$ resembles near 1 th...
A public interest litigation has been filed in Supreme Court on Thursday seeking declaration of financial emergency in light of nationwide lockdown amidst rising cases of COVID-19. The PIL by Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC) filed against Ministry of Home Affairs and seeks the imposition of financi...
I wrote an OpEd, published in the RG, proposing that alternatives do exist. Building the hospital was a mistake. It was not necessary and, indeed, the money could have supported community-level facilities and services. Democratic leaders in Salem propose compounding that mistake by continuing to operate the facility...
A basic assumption behind the inequalities used for testing noncontextual hidden variable models is that the observables measured on the same individual system are perfectly compatible. However, compatibility is not perfect in actual experiments using sequential measurements. We discuss the resulting "compatibility l...
Highly accurate measurements of the $g$-factor of boronlike Ar are currently implemented within the ARTEMIS experiment at GSI (Darmstadt, Germany) and within the ALPHATRAP experiment at the MPIK (Heidelberg, Germany). A comparison with the corresponding theoretical predictions will allow one to test the modern method...
Many of the existing stochastic models of gene expression contain the first-order decay reaction term that may describe active protein degradation or dilution. If the model variable is interpreted as the molecule number, and not concentration, the decay term may also approximate the loss of protein molecules due to c...
"allowing individual condo owners the opportunity to tap into the line to install sprinklers at their own expense." Individual owners installing, potentially incompatible equipment, doesn't sound like the simplest answer. The Association should qualify/install the entire system and levy a special assessment that can ...
Microbes can form complex communities that perform critical functions in maintaining the integrity of their environment or their hosts well-being. Rationally managing these microbial communities requires improving our ability to predict how different species assemblages affect the final species composition of the commu...
Short I have gotten this type of toy for many animals this is one of the better made ones. But, after we got it and my daughter placed it in the hamsters cage I noticed it is NOT nearly 18 long and therefore doesn't serve the purpose we purchased it for. It is already used and is perfectly good quality so we are using...
Prepare to meet your Messiah - they call him Masten Thrust. Male role models have become increasingly difficult to find in today's overexposed society. Every other day an apparent role model is forced to tearfully apologize for a youthful indiscretion or he innocently gets a few youngsters drunk on his ranch. The Last ...
Contracting tensor networks is often computationally demanding. Well-designed contraction sequences can dramatically reduce the contraction cost. We explore the performance of simulated annealing and genetic algorithms, two common discrete optimization techniques, to this ordering problem. We benchmark their performa...
product is good, poor customer service on company part Would have given 5 stars except contacted the company because missing one of the nut caps to attach to the wall. They said they don't supply parts and I'd have to go to local hardware store. Went to hardware store and found one in stainless, but not the white colo...
Learning useful representations with little or no supervision is a key challenge in artificial intelligence. We provide an in-depth review of recent advances in representation learning with a focus on autoencoder-based models. To organize these results we make use of meta-priors believed useful for downstream tasks, ...
Director Don Siegel really impressed me with this film. It is starkly shot, graphic without being visually graphic, well-acted by all concerned, and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike, almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer. I didn't know what to expe...
Given a field $F$ of characteristic $3$ and division symbol $p$-algebras $[\alpha,\beta)_{3,F}$ and $[\alpha,\gamma)_{3,F}$ of degree $3$ over $F$, we prove that if $\alpha \text{dlog}(\beta)\wedge \text{dlog}(\gamma)$ is trivial in the Kato-Milne cohomology group $H_3^3(F)$ then the algebras share a common splitting...
[abridged] We present an X-ray study of the low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN) in NGC4258 using data from Suzaku, XMM-Newton, and the Swift/BAT survey. We find that signatures of X-ray reprocessing by cold gas are very weak in the spectrum of this Seyfert-2 galaxy; a weak, narrow fluorescent-Kalpha emission...
We study prismatics sets analogously to simplical sets except that realization involves prisms, i.e., products of simplices rather than just simplices. Particular examples are the prismatic subdivision of a simplicial set S and the prismatic star of S. Both have the same homotopy type as S and in particular the latte...
Since Hawaii has been exempt( from immigration) , due to location from the 6 countries listed in the ban, I think Trump should load a couple of 747s of them and dump them on the tarmac at HNL. I find it very hypocritical that Hawaii is the least affected by this, and wants to tell the other 49 states what to do. Get a ...
As expensive as it is to spend the night in a bed in the hospital you would think they could afford to buy american made hospital blankets...They may cost more but hey here's a novel concept ...pay more, and don't pass the cost on to the consumers. Just suck it up and make a little less profit.
On their current course, South Korea and Indonesia will be considered 1st world countries thanks to Capitalism, and Socialism is theft, no matter how you spin it or what modifier you put in front of it. . Job opportunities are not "dismal," and no one is forcing anyone to either go to college or take out loans to do s...
02-Jan-2020 Intellasia | KoreaTimes | 6:02 AM The Bank of Korea (BOK) will continue an accommodative monetary policy in 2020, as external trade uncertainties will keep holding back a short-term economic rebound here, BOK Governor Lee Ju-yeol said in a New Year’s address, Tuesday. “Our monetary policy should be carrie...
The coupling between corrugated surfaces due to the lateral Casimir force is employed to propose a nanoscale mechanical device composed of two racks and a pinion. The noncontact nature of the interaction allows for the system to be made frustrated by choosing the two racks to move in the same direction and forcing th...
For a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism $f$ on a closed surface of genus $g\geq 2$, for which the entropy is on the order $\frac{1}{g}$ (the lowest possible order), Farb-Leininger-Margalit showed that the volume of the mapping torus is bounded, independent of $g$. We show that the analogous result fails for a surface of fi...
A common method for assessing validity of Bayesian sampling or approximate inference methods makes use of simulated data replicates for parameters drawn from the prior. Under continuity assumptions, quantiles of functions of the simulated parameter values within corresponding posterior distributions are uniformly dis...
Saw this movie at the Rotterdam IFF. You may question some decisions of the maker - like choosing a mockumentary form for such a sensitive and horrible subject - but this movie sure hits you in the gut. Especially the last scenes were almost painful to watch. Hope it gets the distribution it deserves.
Love this thermal travel mug!! I LOVE dragonflies, and when I saw this travel mug, I knew that I had to get it! It's the perfect size, and easily fits in the cup-holder in the car. It keeps my coffee warm for about 2-3 hours which is great. It's not microwave safe, or dishwasher safe; but I'm fine with that. The color...
A measurement of production cross sections of the Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions is presented in the $H\rightarrow\tau\tau$ decay channel. The analysis is performed using $36.1\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ T...
The universality of the celebrated Kalman filtering can be found in control theory. The Kalman filter has found its striking applications in sophisticated autonomous systems and smart products, which are attributed to its realization in a single complex chip. In this paper, we revisit the Kalman filter from the persp...
This are well made. Am glad I got them. I just needed a few pads for some new furniture we bought, I went to target and Walmart but didn’t like what I see,. I decided to check amazon,.. and bought this. They are pretty good. And am happy I got them
We present a data structure that supports three-dimensional range reporting queries in $O(\log \log U + (\log \log n)^3+k)$ time and uses $O(n\log^{1+\eps} n)$ space, where $U$ is the size of the universe, $k$ is the number of points in the answer,and $\eps$ is an arbitrary constant. This result improves over the dat...
We report an experimental study of the emergence of non-trivial topological winding and long-range order across the paramagnetic to skyrmion lattice transition in the transition metal helimagnet MnSi. Combining measurements of the susceptibility with small angle neutron scattering, neutron resonance spin echo spectro...
These is some evidence that it may harm the brains of a small minority who are susceptible for unknown reasons (e.g. damage to the GABA system). The answer will only come with more research. Perhaps there will be a genetic test to identify the vulnerable, or minimum CBD/THC ratio regulations (CBD is neuroprotective). O...
Never thought a device would re-ignite my love of reading by its comfort of use. Love this kindle! Originally I thought this would be too small to use daily but in the last 10 days I have hardly put it down and as a result I am tearing through my kindle library. Thank goodness for Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited. This i...
Okay, as a long time Disney fan, I really -hate- direct-to-video Disney sequels. Walt HIMSELF didn't believe in them. He believed in "AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER" being the end of it. But this one...REALLY ticked the taco. There were so many ripoffs of other Disney films in this, it wasn't funny. Quick summary, i...
Self-doping in graphene has been studied by examining single-layer epitaxially grown graphene samples with differing characteristic lateral terrace widths. Low energy electron microscopy was used to gain real-space information about the graphene surface morphology, which was compared with data obtained by angle-resol...
on the contrary to the person listed above me i felt that this movie was really funny particularly in the scenes were there is a lot of mix up. i don't want to give the plot and the storyline away to the people that haven't watched it yet but i will say that Paresh Rawal does not have an extensive role such as past Pri...
ghost touching problem Within a short time of installing this replacement screen, I began to have "ghost touching" problems. Over time it has gotten progressively worse, and now my Ipad is almost totally useless. This was the 3rd screen on my Ipad and it is not cracked or damaged in any way, and I have never had the p...
We study the transverse oscillatory modes of nanomechanical silicon nitride strings under high tensile stress as a function of geometry and mode index m <= 9. Reproducing all observed resonance frequencies with classical elastic theory we extract the relevant elastic constants. Based on the oscillatory local strain w...
The dimensionality of the electronic and magnetic structure of a given material is generally predetermined by its crystal structure. Here, using elastic and inelastic neutron scattering combined with magnetization measurements, we find unusual magnetic behavior in three-dimensional (3D) Ba2CoO4. In spite of isolated ...
We present the first full-potential method that solves the fully relativistic 4-component Dirac-Kohn-Sham equation for materials in the solid state within the framework of atom-centered Gaussian-type orbitals (GTOs). Our GTO-based method treats one-, two-, and three-dimensional periodic systems on an equal footing, a...
We present the implementation and the first results of cosmic ray (CR) feedback in the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) simulations. We investigate CR feedback in non-cosmological simulations of dwarf, sub-$L\star$ starburst, and $L\star$ galaxies with different propagation models, including advection, isotr...
We consider the Chow ring with rational coefficients of the Jacobian of a curve. Assume D is a divisor in a base point free g^r_d of the curve such that the canonical divisor K is a multiple of the divisor D. We find relations between tautological cycles. We give applications for curves having a degree d covering of ...
Motley: Here's the top-rated definition from Google: It's a generally accepted definition....except when right'wingers use it to describe liberals.. fas·cism ˈfaSHˌizəm/ noun noun: fascism; noun: Fascism; plural noun: Fascisms an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organiza...
Motivated by the centering of biological objects in large cells, we study the generic properties of centering forces inside a ball (or a volume of spherical topology) in $n$ dimensions. We consider two scenarios : autonomous centering (in which distance information is integrated from the agent perspective) and non-au...
Determination of the mixing-induced $C\!P$-violating phase $\phi_{s}$ and decay width difference $\Delta\Gamma_{s}$ in $\bar{b}\to\bar{c}c\bar{s}$ decays is one of the main goals of the LHCb experiment. Thanks to the precise prediction of the $\phi_{s}$ value within the Standard Model, it represents an excellent prob...
We present a new and simple randomized algorithm for constructing the Delaunay triangulation using nearest neighbor graphs for point location. Under suitable assumptions, it runs in linear expected time for points in the plane with polynomially bounded spread, i.e., if the ratio between the largest and smallest point...
A self-consistent calculation of nuclear matrix elements of the neutrinoless double beta decays (0nbb) of 76Ge, 82Se, 96Zr, 100Mo, 116Cd, 128Te, 130Te and 130Xe is presented in the framework of the renormalized quasiparticle random phase approximation (RQRPA) and the standard QRPA. The pairing and residual interactio...
Standard flavors of density-functional theory (DFT) calculations are known to fail in describing anions, due to large self-interaction errors. The problem may be circumvented by using localized basis sets of reduced size, leaving no variational flexibility for the extra electron to delocalize. Alternatively, a recent...
Optical metamaterials capture the imagination with breathtaking promises of nanoscale resolution in imaging and invisibility cloaking. We demonstrate an approach to construct a metamaterial in which metallic nanorods, of dimension much smaller than the wavelength of light, are suspended in a fluid and placed in a non...
In 2006, 9-variable Boolean functions having nonlinearity 241, which is strictly greater than the bent concatenation bound of 240, have been discovered in the class of Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions (RSBFs) by Kavut, Maitra and Yucel. To improve this nonlinearity result, we have firstly defined some subsets of ...
Low dimensional systems with a vanishing band-gap and a large electron-hole interaction have been proposed to be unstable towards exciton formation. As the exciton binding energy increases in low dimension, conventional wisdom suggests that excitonic insulators should be more stable in 2D than in 3D. Here we study th...
In this paper we propose integrating a priori knowledge into both design and training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn object representations that are invariant to affine transformations (i.e., translation, scale, rotation). Accordingly we propose a novel multi-scale maxout CNN and train it end-to-end...
The other viewpoint illustrated by the rapporteur' s initial statement and shared by a number of members is to promote regulations and codes of conduct which are needed in order to establish among insurers ways of organising costs on a mutual basis providing everybody with guaranteed access to high-quality care and to ...
The movie never becomes intolerable to watch. And to tell it straight, it has nothing to show either, except maybe part-sexy Alicia Silverstone in a nerdy non-sexy character in revealing quite-sexy dresses. The story is very easy to follow or there's nothing to follow -- you can see in either way. There is no suspense,...
We report integrated charge sensing measurements on a Si/SiGe double quantum dot. The quantum dot is shown to be tunable from a single, large dot to a well-isolated double dot. Charge sensing measurements enable the extraction of the tunnel coupling, t, between the quantum dots as a function of the voltage on the top...
G292.0+1.8 (G292) is a young ($\sim$3000 yr), Galactic textbook-type core-collapse supernova remnant (CCSNR). It is characterized by X-ray, optical and infrared emission from ejecta and circumstellar medium (CSM) features, and contains a pulsar (PSR J1124-5916) and pulsar wind nebula that have been observed in X-rays...
I remember I loved this movie when it came out. I was 12 years old, had a Commodore 64 and loved to play Rambo on it. I was therefore really thrilled when I got to buy this movie really cheap. I put it in my VCR and started up: Man this movie is really bad! Sylvester Stallone says like 3 words in the entire movie (exce...
I had high hopes for these. I followed the ... I had high hopes for these. I followed the instructions and gave all the plates 24hrs to dry. All but one holder had lifted off the plates by the end of the 24hrs. I ended up using 3M double sided tape to stick them on which has been working for 3 months.
We used the APEX telescope to observe the 372 GHz o-H$_2$D$^+(J_{K_a,\,K_c}=1_{1,\,0}-1_{1,\,1})$ line towards three prestellar cores and three protostellar cores in Orion B9. We also employed our previous APEX observations of C$^{17}$O, C$^{18}$O, N$_2$H$^+$, and N$_2$D$^+$ line emission, and 870 $\mu$m dust continu...
Graphs provide an efficient tool for object representation in various computer vision applications. Once graph-based representations are constructed, an important question is how to compare graphs. This problem is often formulated as a graph matching problem where one seeks a mapping between vertices of two graphs wh...
In many of the cryptography applications like password or IP address encryption schemes, symmetric cryptography is useful. In these relatively simpler applications of cryptography, asymmetric cryptography is difficult to justify on account of the computational and implementation complexities associated with asymmetri...
Two-Higgs-Doublet Model Evolver (2HDME) is a C++ program that provides the functionality to perform fast renormalization group equation running of the general, potentially CP-violating, 2 Higgs Doublet Model at 2-loop order. Simple tree-level calculations of masses; calculations of the oblique parameters S, T and U; ...
Robotic tasks, like reaching a pre-grasp configuration, are specified in the end effector space or task space, whereas, robot motion is controlled in joint space. Because of inherent actuation errors in joint space, robots cannot achieve desired configurations in task space exactly. Furthermore, different inverse kin...
We discuss compactness, blow-up and quantization phenomena for the prescribed $Q$-curvature equation $(-\Delta)^m u_k=V_ke^{2mu_k}$ on open domains of $\R{2m}$. Under natural integral assumptions we show that when blow-up occurs, up to a subsequence $$\lim_{k\to \infty}\int_{\Omega_0} V_ke^{2mu_k}dx=L\Lambda_1,$$ whe...
A graph is k-total colourable if there is an assignment of k different colours to the vertices and edges of the graph such that no two adjacent nor incident elements receive the same colour. The total chromatic number of some direct product graphs are determined. In particular, a sufficient condition is given for dir...
Have to disagree with people saying that this is a lousy horror film with good acting and camera-work - I'd say it's an okay horror flick RUINED by shockingly abysmal acting and poor camera-work - watch 'Ju-on : The Grudge instead of wasting your time with this garbage. The principal idea behind the film is rather an o...
An optical spectroscopic method based on the principle of electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) is proposed as quite a generic probing tool that provides valuable insights into the nature of Fermi paring in ultracold Fermi gases of two hyperfine states. This technique has the capability of allowing spectrosc...
We present a study on the environments of the SDSS galaxies divided into fine classes based on their morphology, colour and spectral features. The SDSS galaxies are classified into early-type and late-type; red and blue; passive, HII, Seyfert and LINER, which returns a total of 16 fine classes of galaxies. We estimat...
Although fullerenes have long been hypothesized to occur in interstellar environments, their actual unambiguous spectroscopic identification is of more recent date. C60, C70 and C60+ now constitute the largest molecular species individually identified in the interstellar medium (ISM). Fullerenes have significant prot...
Motivated by a potential application in economics, we investigate a simple dynamical scheme to produce planted solutions in optimization problems with continuous variables. We consider the perceptron model as a prototypical model. Starting from random input patterns and perceptron weights, we find a locally optimal a...
Using inelastic neutron scattering, x-ray, neutron diffraction, and the first-principle calculation techniques, we show that the crystal structure of the two-dimensional quantum spin system (CuCl)LaNb$_2$O$_7$ is orthorhombic with $Pbam$ symmetry in which CuCl$_4$O$_2$ octahedra are tilted from their high symmetry po...
Recent developments in the ZX-Calculus have resulted in complete axiomatisations first for an approximately universal restriction of the language, and then for the whole language. The main drawbacks were that the axioms that were added to achieve completeness were numerous, tedious to manipulate and lacked a physical...
Three-body and n-body problems in celestial mechanics are age-old and challenging puzzles. In recent years, several breakthroughs are made in finding periodic orbits for three-body problem. And Bohua Sun proposed a conjecture on Kepler's third law of three-body and n-body problems by using the dimensional analysis me...
Federer's characterization states that a set $E\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is of finite perimeter if and only if $\mathcal H^{n-1}(\partial^*E)<\infty$. Here the measure-theoretic boundary $\partial^*E$ consists of those points where both $E$ and its complement have positive upper density. We show that the characterization...
Hit for the kids Personally I see zero appeal to this game but my boys absolutely love it. So do all of the neighbor kids so there's clearly something about it that appeals. If it were just for me I would give it one star because I find it excruciatingly dull, but for them it's got to be five. So I gave it four becaus...
A new method for solving relativistic ideal hydrodynamics in (1+3)D is developed. Longitudinal and transverse radial flows are explicitly embedded and the hydrodynamic equations are reduced to a single equation for the transverse velocity field only, which is much more tractable. As an application we use the method t...
Massive Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars dominate the radiative and mechanical energy budget of galaxies and probe a critical phase in the evolution of massive stars prior to core-collapse. It is not known whether core He-burning WR stars (classical WR, cWR) form predominantly through wind-stripping (w-WR) or binary stripping (...
After the success of Part 4, another sequel was a natural move. However they should have stopped it before it began. Alice, having survived Part 4 finds herself pregnant and it seems Freddy is using her unborn child to get at his victims, which of course are Alice's friends. Strange Nightmare movie, very heavy on relig...
Low barrier nanomagnets have attracted a lot of research interest for their use as sources of high quality true random number generation. More recently, low barrier nanomagnets with tunable output have been shown to be a natural hardware platform for unconventional computing paradigms such as probabilistic spin logic...
When deploying a Chinese neural text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system, one of the challenges is to synthesize Chinese utterances with English phrases or words embedded. This paper looks into the problem in the encoder-decoder framework when only monolingual data from a target speaker is available. Specifically, we vi...
The amplitudes for the rare decay modes $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm\ell^+\ell^-$ and $K_S\to\pi^0\ell^+\ell^-$ are studied with the aim of obtaining predictions for them, such as to enable the possibility to search for violations of lepton-flavour universality in the kaon sector. The issue is first addressed from the perspectiv...
The most crucial issue here is that they are banning vapor products. Time and again "Public Health" has pushed for smoker's to quit. When they do quit by switching to vaping they are thrown under the bus the same way as when they were smokers. We already know that vaping is at least 95% safer than combustible tobacco, ...
We examine the class of barotropic fluid models of dark energy, in which the pressure is an explicit function of the density, p = f(\rho). Through general physical considerations we constrain the asymptotic past and future behaviors and show that this class is equivalent to the sum of a cosmological constant and a de...
Cheap product - missing and broken parts. Arrived with missing, dented and bent parts. There were dents in the poles. The "rings" you connect the velvet rope to each post were both missing. One of the "balls" on top of the post was not usable since the attachment bolt was badly bent.. Several reviews of the product we...