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With two mad men and simpletons, Trump and Kim the third, have their fingers on the nuclear launch, the Doomday Clock indeed ticks closer to midnight. For the North Korean, they have no choice. For the American who voted for Trump, especially those ignored all the warning signs or thought it was just his campaign rhetoric and Trump wasn't that crazy and now looked at what he is obsessed with during his first week as President (the crowd size of the inauguration, rating!), what are your excuses?
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This obscene mess will continue as long as government has it's grubby corrupt hands in medical extortion. The Oregon Department of Insurance was created to prevent insurance companies from going bankrupt and leaving the state and still operates under that goal. The solution is not a single payer system. Thinking government could control price under a single payer system is a naive fallacy because of corruption. The government could sue the industry for unjust enrichment just as they did the tobacco companies but they will not as that would stop the flow of lobbyist money. Unfortunately the only solution is for government to completely get out of the medical corruption/extortion business and let the entire system collapse. Only then will the thieves scatter as there will no longer be enough money in the business to attract them. From the ruins will rise an industry that has learned a very painful lesson about greed and corruption. Our government has created this shameful, obscene mess.
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We can understand many recently-discovered features of flavor evolution in
dense, self-coupled supernova neutrino and antineutrino systems with a simple,
physical scheme consisting of two quasi-static solutions. One solution closely
resembles the conventional, adiabatic single neutrino
Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) mechanism, in that neutrinos and
antineutrinos remain in mass eigenstates as they evolve in flavor space. The
other solution is analogous to the regular precession of a gyroscopic pendulum
in flavor space, and has been discussed extensively in recent works. Results of
recent numerical studies are best explained with combinations of these
solutions in the following general scenario: (1) Near the neutrino sphere, the
MSW-like many-body solution obtains. (2) Depending on neutrino vacuum mixing
parameters, luminosities, energy spectra, and the matter density profile,
collective flavor transformation in the nutation mode develops and drives
neutrinos away from the MSW-like evolution and toward regular precession. (3)
Neutrino and antineutrino flavors roughly evolve according to the regular
precession solution until neutrino densities are low. In the late stage of the
precession solution, a stepwise swapping develops in the energy spectra of
$\nu_e$ and $\nu_\mu/\nu_\tau$. We also discuss some subtle points regards
adiabaticity in flavor transformation in dense neutrino systems.
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The '70s were a great time for horror movies. The Brotherhood of Satan is yet another overlooked gem. It's full to the brim with great surreal, unsettling scenes. It's also great to see Stother Martin and L.Q. Jones (who also produced) in decent roles.<br /><br />Some of it is a little dated and cheesy, but The Brotherhood of Satan kicks butt over Race the Devil and many other '70s Satanism flicks.
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In spite of its great promises for energy efficient power conversion, the
electronic quality of cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC) on silicon is currently
limited by the presence of a variety of extended defects in the heteroepitaxial
material. However, the specific role of the different defects on the electronic
transport is still under debate. In this work, a macro- and nano-scale
characterization of Schottky contacts on 3C-SiC/Si was carried out, to
elucidate the impact of the anti-phase-boundaries (APBs) and stacking-faults
(SFs) on the forward and reverse current-voltage characteristics of these
devices. Current mapping of 3C-SiC by conductive atomic force microscopy (CAFM)
directly showed the role of APBs as the main defects responsible of the reverse
bias leakage, while both APBs and SFs were shown to work as preferential
current paths under forward polarization. Distinct differences between these
two kinds of defects were also confirmed by electronic transport simulations of
a front-to-back contacted SF and APB. These experimental and simulation results
provide a picture of the role played by different types of extended defects on
the electrical transport in vertical or quasi-vertical devices based on
3C-SiC/Si, and can serve as a guide for improving material quality by defects
engineering.
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yeesh,talk about craptastic.this thing is brutal.horrible voice dubbing,even more horrible acting and no discernible plot.apparently there are some great chase scenes,but the problem is,you have to get to that point first,and i just couldn't.the 20 or so minutes i endured felt more like a root canal than a movie.i suppose i could have fast forwarded it,and i recommend you do the same,unless you have very extreme pain tolerance or your a masochist.i don't fall into either category.i still have a migraine from this thing so i'm about to perform some dental surgery without anesthetic just relive the migraine.bottom line,horrendous. 0/10
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Spurred by recent observations of 24 micron emission within wind-blown
bubbles, we study the role that dust can play in such environments, and build
an approximate model of a particular wind-blown bubble, `N49.' First, we model
the observations with a dusty wind-blown bubble, and then ask whether dust
could survive within N49 to its present age (estimated to be 5x10^5 to 10^6
years). We find that dust sputtering and especially dust-gas friction would
imply relatively short timescales (t ~ 10^4 years) for dust survival in the
wind-shocked region of the bubble. To explain the 24 micron emission, we
postulate that the grains are replenished within the wind-blown bubble by
destruction of embedded, dense cloudlets of ISM gas that have been over-run by
the expanding wind-blown bubble. We calculate the ablation timescales for
cloudlets within N49 and find approximate parameters for the embedded cloudlets
that can replenish the dust; the parameters for the cloudlets are roughly
similar to those observed in other nebula. Such dust will have an important
effect on the bubble: including simple dust cooling in a wind-blown bubble
model for N49, we find that the luminosity is higher by approximately a factor
of six at a bubble age of about 10^4 years. At ages of 10^7 years, the energy
contained in the bubble is lower by about a factor of eight if dust is
included; if dust must be replenished within the bubble, the associated
accompanying gas mass will also be very important to wind-blown bubble cooling
and evolution. While more detailed models are certainly called for, this work
illustrates the possible strong importance of dust in wind-blown bubbles, and
is a first step toward models of dusty, wind-blown bubbles.
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We use perfectoid spaces associated to abelian varieties and Siegel moduli
spaces to study torsion points and ordinary CM points. We reprove the
Manin-Mumford conjecture i.e. Raynaud's theorem. We also prove the Tate-Voloch
conjecture for a product of Siegel moduli spaces namely ordinary CM points
outside a closed subvariety can not be p-adically too close to it.
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Recent changes in housing costs relative to income are likely to affect
people's propensity to Housing Affordability Stress (HAS), which is known to
have a detrimental effect on a range of health outcomes. The magnitude of these
effects may vary between subgroups of the population, in particular across age
groups. Estimating these effect sizes from longitudinal data requires Small
Domain Estimation (SDE) as available data is generally limited to small sample
sizes. In this paper we develop the rationale for smoothing-based SDE using two
case studies: (1) transitions into and out of HAS and (2) the mental health
effect associated with HAS. We apply cross-validation to assess the relative
performance of multiple SDE methods and discuss how SDE can be embedded into
g-computation for causal inference.
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Recommender systems recommend items more accurately by analyzing users'
potential interest on different brands' items. In conjunction with users'
rating similarity, the presence of users' implicit feedbacks like clicking
items, viewing items specifications, watching videos etc. have been proved to
be helpful for learning users' embedding, that helps better rating prediction
of users. Most existing recommender systems focus on modeling of ratings and
implicit feedbacks ignoring users' explicit feedbacks. Explicit feedbacks can
be used to validate the reliability of the particular users and can be used to
learn about the users' characteristic. Users' characteristic mean what type of
reviewers they are. In this paper, we explore three different models for
recommendation with more accuracy focusing on users' explicit feedbacks and
implicit feedbacks. First one is RHC-PMF that predicts users' rating more
accurately based on user's three explicit feedbacks (rating, helpfulness score
and centrality) and second one is RV-PMF, where user's implicit feedback (view
relationship) is considered. Last one is RHCV-PMF, where both type of feedbacks
are considered. In this model users' explicit feedbacks' similarity indicate
the similarity of their reliability and characteristic and implicit feedback's
similarity indicates their preference similarity. Extensive experiments on real
world dataset, i.e. Amazon.com online review dataset shows that our models
perform better compare to base-line models in term of users' rating prediction.
RHCV-PMF model also performs better rating prediction compare to baseline
models for cold start users and cold start items.
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Retitled from its original Japanese name of LAPUTA (for being an offensive phrase, something which director Hayao Miyazaki was oblivious to at the time), CASTLE IN THE SKY is the master animator's third film, and it's one of his most beloved of all time. Initially a box office disappointment in its 1986 release, it has since been embraced by critics and audiences around the world. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", CASTLE IN THE SKY is a steampunk-themed action adventure tale about two young orphans -- young miner Pazu, and mysterious girl Sheeta (who wears a magic crystal around her neck) -- who team up to find the long-lost island of Laputa, which is rumored to have great riches and gems. They are aided by a band of bumbling yet sympathetic air pirates led by the feisty Dola (who at first chase them, yet turn out to be true allies) and pursued by the government headed by its villainous topmost-secret agent, Muska, who wants the power of Laputa for his own benefit.<br /><br />For anyone looking for an exciting way to spend two hours, this film is an excellent choice, featuring just the right amount of humor, exploration, wonder, and mystery to keep one interested. The artwork, although not as spectacular as in some of Miyazaki's later movies, is fantastic and gorgeous enough to watch with imaginative characters and locations, incredibly exciting action scenes, and breathtaking flight sequences that will make one feel giddy. And while the characters that populate this tale are less complex than Miyazaki's other works, each has a memorable, endearing personality that stays with the viewer long after the film is over. Dola, in particular, makes for a terrific comic character, shouting orders to her dimwitted sons one moment and being protective of Sheeta the next. Muska is one of the few Miyazaki creations to ever come across as an irredeemable villain, but like Dola, he commands every scene he's in with a sinister charisma that is both alluring and chilly.<br /><br />Anime fans have often compared this movie to Gainax's sci-fi adventure series NADIA: THE SECRET OF BLUE WATER. After all, both works share similar story and character elements... not to mention that they were both created by Miyazaki himself. Where both differ is in their execution. NADIA, although charming for the most part, suffered from taking a wrong turn at its midway point, devolving into cartoonish nonsense which all but distracted from the main plot, even though it did have a strong ending. CASTLE IN THE SKY, on the other hand, remains consistently entertaining and focused for its two hour running time, and is all the better for it. While the film's epic tone is sometimes broken up by some "cartoonish" moments, like a brawl between Pazu's boss and one of Dola's sons, it's never to the point that it detracts from the film.<br /><br />About eleven years ago, Disney released an English version featuring a cast of big-names such as James van der Beek, Anna Paquin, Cloris Leachman, Mark Hamill, Mandy Patinkin as well as some cameo appearances by veterans such as Tress MacNeille and Jim Cummings. It also features an ambitious reworking of Joe Hisaishi's gorgeous musical score for a performance by the Seattle Music Orchestra (interestingly, the man behind this rescore is none other than the composer himself). As much as purists have cried blasphemy over this version for its occasional extra dialogue and the aforementioned rescore, Miyazaki had no such problems; in fact, he is said to have applauded the reworking, and for good reason, because the newly rerecorded music is truly the star of the new dub. While there are some instances where filling in some critially silent scenes from the original Japanese is a bit jarring (notably the journey through a dragon-infested storm cloud), the overall reworking is fantastic and in many ways improves on the original, particularly in scenes such as when a robot attacks a fortress and the climactic moments toward the end. Here, Hisaishi displays his musical versatility and genius for matching music to visuals. <br /><br />As far as the performances in the dub go, the leads are probably at the short end of the stick; James Van Der Beek's Pazu sounds significantly more mature than his character, while Anna Paquin's Sheeta speaks with an odd accent that fluctuates at times (a problem which actually works in favor of the character). That said, both do good jobs overall and provide a fairly believable chemistry throughout. It's the lively supporting cast, however, that really make this dub so much fun, particularly Cloris Leachman's Dola and Mark Hamill's Muska. Both are perfectly cast and steal every scene they're in; as with the rescore, these two really warrant a listen to the Disney dub. The script adaptation borders on the loose side at times--there's quite a bit of extra lines and/or commentary (some of which are pricelessly funny and others somewhat overdone)--but aside from at least one debatable alteration (Sheeta's speech in the climactic showdown "the world cannot live without love" as opposed to the original "you can't survive apart from Mother Earth"), the overall characters, story, and spirit remain fairly faithful to the original. On the whole, there is little point comparing the Disney version to the original language track; each puts their own stamp on this legendary masterpiece, and I like them both. (They're also better than Streamline/JAL's more literal but frightfully robotic, lifeless, abysmally acted and poorly written older dub from the late 1980's; don't believe anybody who says this version is "superior" to Disneys--trust me, the opposite is true.) <br /><br />Either way, though, you can't go wrong with CASTLE IN THE SKY. It's one of Miyazaki's all-time greatest, and I highly recommend it.
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It happens because most team sloter fans expectations are not grounded in reality. These are vanilla offense vs vanilla's defenses. Against Many folks that won't be in the league ever again come saturday. With that said, he has shown alot of impressive stuff. And is without a doubt head and shoulders above lynch.
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2D van der Waals materials have rich and unique functional properties, but
many are susceptible to corrosion under ambient conditions. Here we show that
linear alkylamines are highly effective in protecting the optoelectronic
properties of these materials such as black phosphorous (BP) and transitional
metal dichalcogenides. As a representative example, n-hexylamine can be applied
in the form of thin molecular monolayers on BP flakes with less-than-2nm
thickness and can prolong BP's lifetime from a few hours to several weeks and
even months in ambient environments. Characterizations combined with our
theoretical analysis show that the thin monolayers selectively sift out water
molecules, forming a drying layer to achieve the passivation of the protected
2D materials. The monolayer coating is also stable in air, hydrogen annealing,
and organic solvents, but can be removed by certain organic acids.
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We introduce pattern injection local search (PILS), an optimization strategy
that uses pattern mining to explore high-order local-search neighborhoods, and
illustrate its application on the vehicle routing problem. PILS operates by
storing a limited number of frequent patterns from elite solutions. During the
local search, each pattern is used to define one move in which 1) incompatible
edges are disconnected, 2) the edges defined by the pattern are reconnected,
and 3) the remaining solution fragments are optimally reconnected. Each such
move is accepted only in case of solution improvement. As visible in our
experiments, this strategy results in a new paradigm of local search, which
complements and enhances classical search approaches in a controllable amount
of computational time. We demonstrate that PILS identifies useful high-order
moves (e.g., 9-opt and 10-opt) which would otherwise not be found by
enumeration, and that it significantly improves the performance of
state-of-the-art population-based and neighborhood-centered metaheuristics.
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This adaptation for TV was a wonderful vehicle for Bill Irwin to show his ability to perform physical humor. With the backdrop of a struggle between an actor and his writer/director, Bill uses his clowning antics to showcase a variety of skills including hat tricks, pantomime, dance and various physical devices.<br /><br />Although it takes a big swipe at the entertainment industry and his craft, it is engrossing for people of all walks and ages.<br /><br />This work was televised as a PBS special. Bill performed a piece of it on the Tonight Show, but out of context it did not go over well.
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We calculate elastic and non-elastic electromagnetic form factors for vector
and axial-vector mesons in the holographic D4-D8 brane model. We obtain the
mass spectrum and Regge trajectories for these particles. From the elastic form
factors we extract the electric radius, the magnetic and quadrupole moments.
Form factors for transverse and longitudinal polarizations are also obtained.
We find superconvergence sum rules for the vector and axial-vector meson
couplings that determine the asymptotic behavior of the form factors at large
momentum transfer. Our results show good agreement with other holographic
models and QCD.
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ManBearPig is a pretty funny episode of South Park.It spoofs Al Gore and his speeches on Global warming, only replacing global warming with ManBearPig(a fictional monster who has parts of a man, a bear and a pig).He tells the boys about it in a school assembly and Stan feels sorry for him, so he and the boys decide to hang out with him.Gore eventually gets them trapped in a rock cave where he believes manbearpig to be and they are stuck for days.Meanwhile, Cartman finds treasure but wants to keep it all to himself.ManBearPig is a good spoof on Global Warming and overall a funny South Park episode.<br /><br />8/10
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Buy at your own risk
Not sure if I got a defected one, but I got this for my Wii because I didn’t want to keep buying batteries for my wireless sensor bar. I plugged it in and it worked for a few days, now it’s impossible to play as the sensor doesn’t detect the controller properly and basically makes me spin around in circles when I play any FPS game. I thought it may have been my controller, but I used my wireless sensor perfectly fine. At the end of the day, it’s junk to me and I ended up investing more money into rechargeable batteries for my wireless sensor bar.
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No Parental Controls
The router is just OK. There are many with the same features. What I miss most is ease of use parental controls. Yes, I can VLAN off my kids from the rest of the network and set up connection schedules but what normal user knows how to do that? Get your stuff together Netgear.
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We develop an analytic model of vector correlations in rotationally inelastic
atom-diatom collisions and test it against the much examined Ar--NO ($\mathbf
X^2 \Pi$) system. Based on the Fraunhofer scattering of matter waves, the model
furnishes complex scattering amplitudes needed to evaluate the polarization
moments characterizing the quantum stereodynamics. The analytic polarization
moments are found to be in an excellent agreement with experimental results and
with close-coupling calculations available at thermal energies. The model
reveals that the stereodynamics is governed by diffraction from the repulsive
core of the Ar--NO potential, which can be characterized by a single Legendre
moment.
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Between the ages of 30 and 51, when he died of a brain tumour, Zachary Scott made 70 films. He was introduced in 1944 in Jean Negulesco's 'The Mask of Dimitrios', where he played Dimitrios. The next year, 1945, he made three films, of which this is one. He is best remembered by cineastes as the star of Jean Renoir's 'The Southerner', one of the 1945 films, where he had a sympathetic role. However, he often played creepy characters, and in this film he is a sociopathic killer of women for money. So what happens here? He lives in a house with three women, so watch out! Faye Emerson, who also appeared in 'Dimitrios', plays the older of two daughters in the house. She falls in love with Scott and they become secretly engaged. Then her 'cute kid' younger sister (played effectively by Mona Freeman, who resembles Bonita Granville both in looks and in behaviour) returns from boarding school and reveals casually in conversation with Scott that she has inherited a tidy sum, so Scott turns his sights on her instead, with all the torrid jealousies seething in the household which that was bound to arouse. Things get tense, and then they get tenser. Meanwhile, plans for murder are going forward in the mind of the calculating Scott. But it turns out that he is not the only one with such intentions. He is also being searched for as a result of his last kill, with which the film has opened, so that we know his back story. James Wong Howe gives effective noirish cinematography to this tale, which was directed by Frenchman Robert Florey who had moved to Hollywood some time earlier. The film is an effective psychopath-in-the-house mystery which can cause a bit of wear of the edges of some seats, for those of such an inclination.
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Sizes given are for top of bin only. Bottom of bin smaller
The look and quality of the bins are fine. Frustrating though that the sides are slanting, not straight. Therefore, the sizes given are the top of the bin dimensions, not the bottom of the bin dimensions. We were planning to use to store DVD's. Fit is the top, but don't fit in the bottom.
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But I do worry that the Barro offer sends the wrong signals to younger economists--that by telling them the profession still insists on the appearance of superstardom, that it only values home runs when we really ought to be looking for a solid series of base hits, it will encourage what is already a disturbing propensity to favor attention-grabbing showmanship at the expense of deeper, more time-consuming work.
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Alveolar macrophages (AMs) reside on the luminal surface of the airways and alveoli, ensuring proper gas exchange by ingesting cellular debris and pathogens, and regulating inflammatory responses. Therefore, understanding the heterogeneity and diverse roles played by AMs and recruited monocytes is critical for treating airway diseases. We performed single-cell RNA sequencing on 113,213 bronchoalveolar lavage cells from four healthy and three uninflamed cystic fibrosis subjects and identified four AM superclusters (families) based on the expression of IFI27 and APOC2 genes. These 4 AM families have at least eight distinct functional members (subclusters) named after their differentially expressed gene(s): IGF1, CCL18, CXCL5, Cholesterol, Chemokine, Metallothionein, Interferon and small-cluster AMs. Interestingly, the Chemokine cluster further divides with each subcluster selectively expressing a unique combination of chemokines. One of the most striking observations, besides the heterogeneity, is the conservation of AM family members in relatively equal ratio across all AM superclusters and individuals. Finally, transcriptional data and TotalSeq technology were used to investigate cell surface markers that distinguish resident AMs from recruited monocytes. Overall, functional specializations of the AM subclusters suggest that there are AM niches with defined programming states, highlighting a clear division of labor.
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Less than half of sexual assault trials result in a conviction. Perhaps the real problem is not lack of judges, staff and space but too many prosecution being approved to go forward by the crown. If there were fewer unwinnable cases in the courts the other cases could receive more attention.
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Based on a new spectroscopic sample observed using the WHT, we examine the
kinematic properties of the various emission line regions in narrow line
Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) by modelling their profiles using multiple component
fits. We interpret these results by comparison with velocity components
observed for different lines species covered in the same spectrum, and
equivalent components measured in the spectra of some broad line Seyfert 1s and
a representative Seyfert 2 galaxy. We find that the fits to the Halpha and
Hbeta line profiles in NLS1s require an additional broad (~3000km/s) component
that might correspond to a suppressed broad line region with similar kinematics
to those of typical broad line Seyfert 1s. From the profiles of the forbidden
high ionisation lines (FHILs) in NLS1s, we find evidence that they appear to
trace an `intermediate' velocity region with kinematics between the standard
broad and narrow line regions. Weaker evidence of this region is also present
in the profiles of the permitted Balmer lines. Finally, we note that despite
having similar ionisation potentials, the relative intensities of the highly
ionised lines of [Fe X]6374 and [FeXI]7892 show considerable dispersion from
one galaxy to another. The interpretation of this requires further modelling,
but suggests the possibility of using the ratio as a diagnostic to constrain
the physical conditions of the FHIL emitting region and possibly the shape of
the spectral energy distribution in the vicinity of 200eV. This spectral region
is very difficult to observe directly due to photoelectric absorption both in
our Galaxy and intrinsic to the source.
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Recent studies on image memorability have shed light on the visual features
that make generic images, object images or face photographs memorable. However,
a clear understanding and reliable estimation of natural scene memorability
remain elusive. In this paper, we provide an attempt to answer: "what exactly
makes natural scene memorable". Specifically, we first build LNSIM, a
large-scale natural scene image memorability database (containing 2,632 images
and memorability annotations). Then, we mine our database to investigate how
low-, middle- and high-level handcrafted features affect the memorability of
natural scene. In particular, we find that high-level feature of scene category
is rather correlated with natural scene memorability. Thus, we propose a deep
neural network based natural scene memorability (DeepNSM) predictor, which
takes advantage of scene category. Finally, the experimental results validate
the effectiveness of DeepNSM.
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The classical Bondi model is adopted to study accretion onto the finite
luminous region around the central massive black hole (MBH) in an elliptical
galaxy. Unlike Bondi (1952), we define the boundary conditions at a certain
finite radius ($r_f$) instead of at the infinity and examine the variation of
solutions for a simple case. In the following, we consider the special case of
an MBH at the center of a Hernquist galaxy and involve the gravity and
luminosity of its own galaxy. Our results in the first part show that kinetic
energy at the final radius is ignorable even for not so far away from the
center. Moreover, the mass accretion rate will be approximately equal to its
Bondi value if the final radius ($r_f$) becomes about 2-3 orders of magnitude
larger than semi-Bondi radius, i.e. $GM/c_{sf}^2$ (where $M$ and $c_{sf}$ are
the mass of the central object and the sound speed at $r_f$). In the second
part, adding the two extra forces of gravity and radiation in the momentum
equation let us know that the maximum possible of accretion rate increases with
a greater characteristic linear density of galaxy and lower radiation. e.g.:
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We present the QCD corrections to R_b and to the Delta B=1 effective
Hamiltonian in models with a second Higgs field that couples to the quarks
respecting the criterion of Minimal Flavor Violation, thus belonging either to
the (1,2)_1/2 or to the (8,2)_1/2 representation of SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1). After the
inclusion of the QCD corrections, the prediction for R_b becomes practically
insensitive to the choice of renormalization scheme for the top mass, which for
the type-I and type-II models translates in a more robust lower bound on
tan(beta). The QCD-corrected determinations of Rb and BR(B->Xs gamma) are used
to discuss the constraints on the couplings of a (colored) charged Higgs boson
to top and bottom quarks.
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The holomorphy conjecture predicts that the local Igusa zeta function
associated to a hypersurface and a character is holomorphic on $\mathbb{C}$
whenever the order of the character does not divide the order of any eigenvalue
of the local monodromy of the hypersurface. In this note we propose the
holomorphy conjecture for arbitrary subschemes at the level of the topological
zeta function and we prove this conjecture for subschemes defined by an ideal
that is generated by a finite number of complex polynomials in two variables.
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Building upon the Bloch-Kato conjecture in Milnor K-theory, we relate the
third unramified cohomology group with Q/Z coefficients with a group which
measures the failure of the integral Hodge conjecture in degree 4. As a first
consequence, a geometric theorem of the second-named author implies that the
third unramified cohomology group with Q/Z coefficients vanishes on all
uniruled threefolds. As a second consequence, a 1989 example by Ojanguren and
the first named author implies that the integral Hodge conjecture in degree 4
fails for unirational varieties of dimension at least 6. For certain classes of
threefolds fibered over a curve, we establish a relation between the integral
Hodge conjecture and the computation of the index of the generic fibre.
En nous appuyant sur la conjecture de Bloch-Kato en K-th\'eorie de Milnor,
nous \'etablissons un lien g\'en\'eral entre le d\'efaut de la conjecture de
Hodge enti\`ere pour la cohomologie de degr\'e 4 et le troisi\`eme groupe de
cohomologie non ramifi\'e \`a coefficients Q/Z. Ceci permet de montrer que sur
un solide unir\'egl\'e le troisi\`eme groupe de cohomologie non ramifi\'e \`a
coefficients Q/Z s'annule, ce que la K-th\'eorie alg\'ebrique ne permet
d'obtenir que dans certains cas. Ceci permet \`a l'inverse de d\'eduire
d'exemples ayant leur source en K-th\'eorie que la conjecture de Hodge
enti\`ere pour la cohomologie de degr\'e 4 peut \^etre en d\'efaut pour les
vari\'et\'es rationnellement connexes. Pour certaines familles \`a un
param\`etre de surfaces, on \'etablit un lien entre la conjecture de Hodge
enti\`ere et l'indice de la fibre g\'en\'erique.
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We perform multi-wavelength light curve modeling of the recently discovered
low-luminosity gamma-ray burst (GRB) 171205A. The emission model is based on
the relativistic ejecta-circumstellar medium (CSM) interaction scenario. The
collision of freely expanding spherical ejecta traveling at mildly relativistic
velocities with the CSM produces the reverse and forward shocks, which
dissipate a part of the kinetic energy of the mildly relativistic ejecta. We
show that the early gamma-ray emission followed by an X-ray tail can be well
explained by the radiation diffusing out from the shocked gas. Mildly
relativistic ejecta with a kinetic energy of $5\times10^{50}$ erg and a
wind-like CSM with a mass-loss rate of a few $10^{-4}\ M_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$ for a
wind velocity of $10^3$ km s$^{-1}$, which extends up to $\sim 3\times 10^{13}$
cm, are required to account for the gamma-ray luminosity and duration of GRB
171205A. We also calculate the photospheric and non-thermal emission after the
optically thick stage, which can fit the late-time X-ray, optical, and radio
light curves. Our results suggest that the relativistic ejecta-CSM interaction
can be a potential power source for low-luminosity GRBs and other X-ray bright
transients.
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We consider the elliptic and parabolic superquadratic diffusive
Hamilton-Jacobi equations with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions. For the
elliptic problem in a half-space, we prove a Liouville-type classification, or
symmetry result, which asserts that any solution has to be one-dimensional.
This turns out to be an efficient tool to study the behavior of boundary
gradient blow-up (GBU) for the parabolic problem in general bounded domains.
Namely, we show that in a neighborhood of the boundary, at leading order,
solutions display a global ODE type behavior, with domination of the normal
derivatives upon the tangential derivatives. This leads to the existence of a
universal, sharp blow-up profile in the normal direction at any GBU point, and
moreover implies that the behavior in the tangential direction is more
singular. On the other hand, it is known that any GBU solution admits a weak
continuation, under the form of a global viscosity solution. As another
consequence, we show that these viscosity solutions {\it generically} lose
boundary conditions after GBU. This result, as well as the above GBU profile,
were up to now essentially known only in one space-dimension.
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We propose a novel paradigm for solving Inductive Logic Programming (ILP)
problems via deep recurrent neural networks. This proposed ILP solver is
designed based on differentiable implementation of the deduction via forward
chaining. In contrast to the majority of past methods, instead of searching
through the space of possible first-order logic rules by using some restrictive
rule templates, we directly learn the symbolic logical predicate rules by
introducing a novel differentiable Neural Logic (dNL) network. The proposed dNL
network is able to learn and represent Boolean functions efficiently and in an
explicit manner. We show that the proposed dNL-ILP solver supports desirable
features such as recursion and predicate invention. Further, we investigate the
performance of the proposed ILP solver in classification tasks involving
benchmark relational datasets. In particular, we show that our proposed method
outperforms the state of the art ILP solvers in classification tasks for
Mutagenesis, Cora and IMDB datasets.
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Thermal X-ray emission from rotation-powered pulsars is believed to originate
from localized "hotspots" on the stellar surface occurring where large-scale
currents from the magnetosphere return to heat the atmosphere. Lightcurve
modeling has primarily been limited to simple models, such as circular
antipodal emitting regions with constant temperature. We calculate more
realistic temperature distributions within the polar caps, taking advantage of
recent advances in magnetospheric theory, and we consider their effect on the
predicted lightcurves. The emitting regions are non-circular even for a pure
dipole magnetic field, and the inclusion of an aligned magnetic quadrupole
moment introduces a north-south asymmetry. As the aligned quadrupole moment is
increased, one hotspot grows in size before becoming a thin ring surrounding
the star. For the pure dipole case, moving to the more realistic model changes
the lightcurves by $5-10\%$ for millisecond pulsars, helping to quantify the
systematic uncertainty present in current dipolar models. Including the
quadrupole gives considerable freedom in generating more complex lightcurves.
We explore whether these simple dipole+quadrupole models can account for the
qualitative features of the lightcurve of PSR J0437$-$4715.
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How good is Gwyneth Paltrow! This is the right movie for her... too bad she's completely out role. I haven't read the book by Jane Austen, but I can't believe it is so superficial and the characters aren't much more than caricatures. It wasn't probably that easy to reduce in 2 hours of show about 600 pages of the book, but I had expected more than just seeing old pieces of furniture and tea cups. I was taking a sigh of relief every time I saw an actor who didn't overstep the mark of overacting (a couple of times).
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Scary line of thinking. Accusations cancelling rights.
If you want to call for change, trumpet the rights of the accused and the responsibility and liability the accuser should feel. Right now in America there is almost zero blow back if you falsely report your neighbors. Bearing false witness should be treated as a serious crime.
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runs large; short straps.
C cup ran larger than other vanity fair bras. Was more like a D. Straps are short but do not fall down. Less of a sports bra and more of a hybrid casual + T-shirt wire free bra; average support. Net breathable fabric between cups in front works well to keep you dry. Four hooks in back. Well made. Rather comfortable if the short straps do not bother you, but they are lightly padded. Last fitting in Jan 2018 measured 46" band. Here 44 fit well. Will reorder but will go down one cup size. Have not washed more than 3 times so I'm not sure how it will wear over time. So far it seems okay.
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The light Higgs mass in the MSSM is highly constrained and is predicted to be
close to M_Z which causes a tension between the LEP II Higgs mass bound 114 GeV
and the natural electroweak symmetry breaking in the MSSM. The usual way to
increase the light CP even Higgs mass was to increase the quartic coupling of
the up type Higgs. We point out that the light Higgs mass can be increased by
reducing the off-diagonal term in the mass matrix when tan beta is moderate,
which is about 5 to 10. As a result no mixing and/or a Higgs mixing angle of
the opposite sign arises and the branching ratio of Higgs decay is drastically
changed. This is possible in scalar sequestering scenario in which mu parameter
can be large independently of the electroweak symmetry breaking. We also
discuss the same effect in the BMSSM.
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$130 trespassing fines seem really puny when they are prone to suing the park service and the state if they so much as stub their toe, and illegal tour guides make more than $5000 in a couple of days so that seems very inadequate also. The six month incarceration sounds like more of a deterrent for illegal tour guides, if they are actually held for six months. Otherwise, it's just a joke.
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In the finance sector, studies focused on anomaly detection are often
associated with time-series and transactional data analytics. In this paper, we
lay out the opportunities for applying anomaly and deviation detection methods
to text corpora and challenges associated with them. We argue that language
models that use distributional semantics can play a significant role in
advancing these studies in novel directions, with new applications in risk
identification, predictive modeling, and trend analysis.
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You really do need to read the available research that deals with this act of "cultural genocide". We are connected to the land, the water, and all our natural relations. Do some reading on blood memory. It is real.
I am one of those "they didn't so much lose it as became separated from it.
And those who were taken very young would not have formed a cultural identity to lose."
Your opinion is just that and differs from the available research and from my personal experience of being separated at a very young age.
I have said many time settler need to stop commenting on Indigenous issues until they have listed deeply and studied extensively. Our world is totally different than yours (Thank goodness)
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In this paper we study a class of stochastic control problems in which the
control of the jump size is essential. Such a model is a generalized version
for various applied problems ranging from optimal reinsurance selections for
general insurance models to queueing theory. The main novel point of such a
control problem is that by changing the jump size of the system, one
essentially changes the type of the driving martingale. Such a feature does not
seem to have been investigated in any existing stochastic control literature.
We shall first provide a rigorous theoretical foundation for the control
problem by establishing an existence result for the multidimensional structure
equation on a Wiener--Poisson space, given an arbitrary bounded jump size
control process; and by providing an auxiliary counterexample showing the
nonuniqueness for such solutions. Based on these theoretical results, we then
formulate the control problem and prove the Bellman principle, and derive the
corresponding Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation, which in this case is a
mixed second-order partial differential/difference equation. Finally, we prove
a uniqueness result for the viscosity solution of such an HJB equation.
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We show that models of strongly interacting (SIMP) dark matter built to
reproduce the DAMA signal actually cannot account for its time dependence. We
discuss the constraints on this type of models coming from direct detection
experiments and study the propagation of thermalised dark matter particles in
the ground for the allowed values of the parameters. We consider a simple 1D
diffusion and a more detailed 3D diffusion. In both cases the predicted signal
has either the wrong phase of the annual modulation or a much larger amplitude
of the diurnal modulation.
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Constrained devices in IoT networks often require to outsource resource-heavy
computations or data processing tasks. Currently, most of those jobs are done
in the centralised cloud. However, with rapidly increasing number of devices
and amount of produced data, edge computing represents a much more efficient
solution decreasing the cost, the delay and improves users' privacy. To enable
wide deployment of execution nodes at the edge, the requesting devices require
a way to pay for submitted tasks. We present SPOC - a secure payment system for
networks where nodes distrust each other. SPOC allows any node to execute
tasks, includes result verification and enforce users' proper behaviour without
3rd parties, replication or costly proof of computations. We implement our
system using Ethereum Smart Contracts and Intel SGX and present first
evaluation proving its security and low usage cost.
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She has never been a spokeswoman for anything. She's just a celebrity who, like many other celebrities, thinks she has the right to do or say anything no matter how stupid or vulgar.
I don't have any desire to see this, but I don't think it can be a whole lot worse than some of the things I've seen about Clinton, Bush, and Obama. From what everyone is saying about it, I don't think anyone deserves to be treated like that, not even Trump.
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A Brooklyn miscreant accused of slapping three Orthodox Jewish women last week struck again on Sunday and was busted for assaulting another woman.
A day after she was released without bail on charges stemming from the Friday attack, Tiffany Harris was charged with assault for slugging a 35-year-old in the face on Eastern Parkway near Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights at about 9:15 a.m., according to police.
It’s unclear if Sunday’s victim is Jewish — and police weren’t treating the incident as a hate crime. The victim suffered swelling and bruising to her right eye from the pummeling, police said.
On Friday, Harris allegedly assaulted three Orthodox women on Eastern Parkway near Kingston Avenue — one of at least eight anti-Semitic incidents in the city last week.
“Yes, I slapped them. I cursed them out. I said ‘F-U, Jews,” Harris admitted to cops after that attack, according to a criminal complaint.
The two assaults occurred about a mile away from each other.
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A Chebyshev knot is a knot which admits a parametrization of the form $
x(t)=T_a(t); \ y(t)=T_b(t) ; \ z(t)= T_c(t + \phi), $ where $a,b,c$ are
pairwise coprime, $T_n(t)$ is the Chebyshev polynomial of degree $n,$ and $\phi
\in \RR .$ Chebyshev knots are non compact analogues of the classical Lissajous
knots. We show that there are infinitely many Chebyshev knots with $\phi = 0.$
We also show that every knot is a Chebyshev knot.
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Ian Smith might as well author a book on New Zealand's tryst with Super Overs. Kane Williamson's men have featured in three Super Overs in the last year including the historic 2019 World Cup final. On each occasion New Zealand have lost, the last two coming in T20I series at home against England and India. So imagine the state of Smith's heart, having commentated on each of the games, including the close finish in Hamilton on Wednesday.
For those whose nerves are too frayed to relive the finishes all over again, ESPNcricinfo has spared you the gory details and put together handy summaries instead.
January 29 2020, Hamilton, v India
To begin with India did not even know there would be a Super Over. Defending nine off the final over in regulation time, Mohammed Shami started it watching Ross Taylor bludgeon a full toss high over midwicket for six and then finished it slinging in a pitch-perfect yorker that bowled Taylor, which meant the scores were tied. Indian captain Virat Kohli walked up to the umpires to shake hands, only to be told there would be a Super Over.
Then Jasprit Bumrah, who had bowled the second-most expensive spell in his T20 career, struggled to find the precision he is known for giving away 17 runs. Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul, experienced hands at handling pressure situations, were at the crease. Tim Southee, New Zealand's most experienced fast bowler was once again entrusted by Williamson to bowl it, despite his mixed history with Super Overs.
New Zealand have played seven Super Overs in T20is and Southee has bowled the last five of those. But only once before today did he have to defend. It was in a group match of the 2012 World T20 in Pallekele, where New Zealand needed to defend 17 again and to do that he had to keep Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels quiet. Southee started with a no ball, Gayle crashed him for a six. He finished the over with a full toss, Samuels lobbed him high over a leaping Martin Guptill to seal the match with another six.
Today, Southee started strongly, giving away only three runs off his first two balls to Rohit. But Rahul then smartly moved outside his off stump and lapped him for an easy four, putting the pressure back on Southee. Rohit returned strongly, whacking an in-the-slot ball and a length ball for consecutive sixes, leaving Southee and New Zealand shaking in disbelief. Again.
November 10, 2019, Auckland, v England
The Super Over was nowhere in sight when Jimmy Neesham, defending 16 runs off the final over against England, had just given three runs off his first three balls including a wicket. Then Chris Jordan walloped a six, ran a two, and lapped a four leaving Neesham smiling in disbelief.
Southee failed twice in executing the yorker and both went sailing over the straight boundary as Eoin Morgan and Johnny Bairstow set a target of 18 for New Zealand, two more than the World Cup final. This time, however, New Zealand were not so far behind on boundary countback, needing just one more to level things up.
Unfortunately for the hosts, Martin Guptill was tied down at the non-striker's end as Tim Seifert attempted to negotiate the variations of Jordan. Although Seifert did get a four, off the second legitimate delivery, the next was a dot followed by his dismissal, courtesy of a brilliant lunging catch from Morgan running back at cover. Guptill could then only run a single against a perfect yorker, as Jordan wrapped up the match with another dot ball.
July 14 2019, Lord's, v England
You haven't really forgotten how this one played out have you?
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We introduce techniques to analyze unitary operations in terms of quadratic
form expansions, a form similar to a sum over paths in the computational basis
when the phase contributed by each path is described by a quadratic form over
$\mathbb R$. We show how to relate such a form to an entangled resource akin to
that of the one-way measurement model of quantum computing. Using this, we
describe various conditions under which it is possible to efficiently implement
a unitary operation U, either when provided a quadratic form expansion for U as
input, or by finding a quadratic form expansion for U from other input data.
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Methanol is a potentially important impurity in subsurface oceans on Titan
and Enceladus. We report measurements of the freezing of methanol-water samples
at pressures up to 350~MPa using a volumetric cell with sapphire windows. For
low concentrations of methanol, the liquidus temperature is typically a few
degrees below the corresponding ice freezing point, while at high
concentrations it follows the pure methanol trend. In the Ice-III regime, we
observe several long-lived metastable states. The results suggest that methanol
is a more effective antifreeze than previously estimated, and might have played
an important role in the development of Titan's subsurface ocean.
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Cloze-style reading comprehension has been a popular task for measuring the
progress of natural language understanding in recent years. In this paper, we
design a novel multi-perspective framework, which can be seen as the joint
training of heterogeneous experts and aggregate context information from
different perspectives. Each perspective is modeled by a simple aggregation
module. The outputs of multiple aggregation modules are fed into a one-timestep
pointer network to get the final answer. At the same time, to tackle the
problem of insufficient labeled data, we propose an efficient sampling
mechanism to automatically generate more training examples by matching the
distribution of candidates between labeled and unlabeled data. We conduct our
experiments on a recently released cloze-test dataset CLOTH (Xie et al., 2017),
which consists of nearly 100k questions designed by professional teachers.
Results show that our method achieves new state-of-the-art performance over
previous strong baselines.
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Good in theory but too many flaws
The product has some physical defects which is why I wanted to return it. But I really need it now so my husband is telling me to keep it. But for the price there should be no physical defects in this product. The magnets are very weak and aren’t strong enough to test holding the container sideways with medicine in it without the containers falling off of the base. The concept is good
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In this study, we introduce general frame of MAny Connected Intelligent
Particles Systems (MACIPS). Connections and interconnections between particles
get a complex behavior of such merely simple system (system in
system).Contribution of natural computing, under information granulation
theory, are the main topics of this spacious skeleton. Upon this clue, we
organize two algorithms involved a few prominent intelligent computing and
approximate reasoning methods: self organizing feature map (SOM), Neuro- Fuzzy
Inference System and Rough Set Theory (RST). Over this, we show how our
algorithms can be taken as a linkage of government-society interaction, where
government catches various fashions of behavior: solid (absolute) or flexible.
So, transition of such society, by changing of connectivity parameters (noise)
from order to disorder is inferred. Add to this, one may find an indirect
mapping among financial systems and eventual market fluctuations with MACIPS.
Keywords: phase transition, SONFIS, SORST, many connected intelligent particles
system, society-government interaction
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We show that the class MIP* of languages that can be decided by a classical
verifier interacting with multiple all-powerful quantum provers sharing
entanglement is equal to the class RE of recursively enumerable languages. Our
proof builds upon the quantum low-degree test of (Natarajan and Vidick, FOCS
2018) and the classical low-individual degree test of (Ji, et al., 2020) by
integrating recent developments from (Natarajan and Wright, FOCS 2019) and
combining them with the recursive compression framework of (Fitzsimons et al.,
STOC 2019).
An immediate byproduct of our result is that there is an efficient reduction
from the Halting Problem to the problem of deciding whether a two-player
nonlocal game has entangled value $1$ or at most $1/2$. Using a known
connection, undecidability of the entangled value implies a negative answer to
Tsirelson's problem: we show, by providing an explicit example, that the
closure $C_{qa}$ of the set of quantum tensor product correlations is strictly
included in the set $C_{qc}$ of quantum commuting correlations. Following work
of (Fritz, Rev. Math. Phys. 2012) and (Junge et al., J. Math. Phys. 2011) our
results provide a refutation of Connes' embedding conjecture from the theory of
von Neumann algebras.
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The excitation of trapped inertial waves (r-modes) by warps and
eccentricities in the inner regions of a black hole accretion disc may explain
the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) observed in the
emission of Galactic X-ray binaries. However, it has been suggested that strong
vertical magnetic fields push the oscillations' trapping region toward the
innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO), where conditions could be unfavourable
for their excitation. This paper explores the effects of large-scale magnetic
fields that exhibit \textit{both} toroidal and vertical components, through
local and global linear analyses. We find that a strong toroidal magnetic field
can reduce the detrimental effects of a vertical field: in fact, the isolation
of the trapping region from the ISCO may be restored by toroidal magnetic
fields approaching thermal strengths. The toroidal field couples the r-modes to
the disc's magneto-acoustic response and inflates the effective pressure within
the oscillations. As a consequence, the restoring force associated with the
vertical magnetic field's tension is reduced. Given the analytical and
numerical evidence that accretion discs threaded by poloidal magnetic field
lines develop a strong toroidal component, our result provides further evidence
that the detrimental effects of magnetic fields on trapped inertial modes are
not as great as previously thought.
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The idea that anyone could of concocted such a trite, cliché, yet indeliberately comical movie is shocking. The final 20 minutes of this film are comical glory; with six men digging enough trench in 10 minutes to light the runway with gasoline for a 747, while a supposed 'major' perfectly lands the 747 in a 110mph crosswind - leading one to question the misnomer of calling this movie CRASH LANDING...<br /><br />Some of the dialogue was equivalent to rubbing sandpaper in my ears, while the only aspect that saved this movie for a 1 was the plethora of attractive women filling the screen a large portion of the time. Not exactly a consolidation for this pathetic excuse of a movie, but my mute button finally received a workout.<br /><br />View at your own risk! 2 out of 10
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The process of electron-positron pair creation by a high-energy electron in a
medium is analyzed. The spectral distribution over energies of created
particles is calculated for the direct and cascade mechanisms of the process.
The Coulomb corrections are included. The new formulation of the equivalent
photons method is developed which takes into account the influence of multiple
scattering. It is shown the effects of multiple scattering can be quite
effectively studied in the process under consideration.
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In this talk we apply the photoproduction framework recently implemented into
the Pythia 8 Monte Carlo event generator to study the potential of
photo-nuclear dijets in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC to further
constrain the nuclear PDFs. These events can be described as $\gamma$A
collisions where the relevant part of the flux of quasi-real photons from
heavy-ions is obtained by using the equivalent photon approximation and cutting
out impact-parameter values which would lead to hadronic interactions between
the beam particles. In particular, we quantify the small-$x$ reach with
different jet kinematics and show how well the values of $x$ derived from
reconstructed jet momenta are correlated with the actual values of partonic
momentum fractions probed in these measurements. Also the contributions from
direct and resolved photons are separately presented. To demonstrate the
potential, we compare the expected experimental uncertainties to the current
nuclear-PDF errors and discuss other theoretical uncertainties including the
uncertainty arising from poorly-constrained photon PDFs. We find that such a
measurement would potentially provide a considerable reduction of the nuclear
PDF uncertainties in a region $10^{-4} \lesssim x \lesssim 10^{-2}$.
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We aim to present a tutorial on the detection, parameter estimation and
statistical analysis of compact sources (far galaxies, galaxy clusters and
Galactic dense emission regions) in cosmic microwave background observations.
The topic is of great relevance for current and future cosmic microwave
background missions because the presence of compact sources in the data
introduces very significant biases in the determination of the cosmological
parameters that determine the energy contain, origin and evolution of the
universe and because compact sources themselves provide us with important
information about the large scale structure of the universe.
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they (dueringer, dorfer) are good stand-up comedians, young, not ugly, have money, the girls love them, the audience is appreciating everything there doing<br /><br />and then they made this film ...<br /><br />no story at all, some jokes were old in the fifties, the acting is awful. save your money for something useful, like a gift for your girlfriend.
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We consider a longitudinal expansion of a one-dimensional gas of hard-core
bosons suddenly released from a trap. We show that the broken translational
invariance in the initial state of the system is encoded in correlations
between the bosonic occupation numbers in the momentum space. The correlations
are protected by the integrability and exhibit no relaxation during the
expansion.
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(Abridged) We present a stellar population analysis of the absorption line
strength maps for 48 early-type galaxies from the SAURON sample. Using the line
strength index maps of Hbeta, Fe5015, and Mgb, measured in the Lick/IDS system
and spatially binned to a constant signal-to-noise, together with predictions
from up-to-date stellar population models, we estimate the simple stellar
population-equivalent (SSP-equivalent) age, metallicity and abundance ratio
[alpha/Fe] over a two-dimensional field extending up to approximately one
effective radius. We find a large range of SSP-equivalent ages in our sample,
of which ~40% of the galaxies show signs of a contribution from a young stellar
population. The most extreme cases of post-starburst galaxies, with
SSP-equivalent ages of <=3 Gyr observed over the full field-of-view, and
sometimes even showing signs of residual star-formation, are restricted to low
mass systems(sigma_e <= 100 k/ms or ~2x10^10 M_sol). Spatially restricted cases
of young stellar populations in circumnuclear regions can almost exclusively be
linked to the presence of star-formation in a thin, dusty disk/ring, also seen
in the near-UV or mid-IR. The flattened components with disk-like kinematics
previously identified in all fast rotators (Krajnovi\'c et al.) are shown to be
connected to regions of distinct stellar populations. These range from the
young, still star-forming circumnuclear disks and rings with increased
metallicity preferentially found in intermediate-mass fast rotators, to
apparently old structures with extended disk-like kinematics, which are
observed to have an increased metallicity and mildly depressed [alpha/Fe] ratio
compared to the main body of the galaxy. The slow rotators generally show no
stellar population signatures over and above the well known metallicity
gradients and are largely consistent with old (>=10 Gyr) stellar populations.
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We prove that viscosity solutions of geometric equations in step two Carnot
groups can be equivalently reformulated by restricting the set of test
functions at the singular points. These are characteristic points for the level
sets of the solutions and are usually difficult to deal with. A similar
property is known in the euclidian space, and in Carnot groups is based on
appropriate properties of a suitable homogeneous norm. We also use this idea to
extend to Carnot groups the definition of generalised flow, and it works
similarly to the euclidian setting. These results simplify the handling of the
singularities of the equation, for instance to study the asymptotic behaviour
of singular limits of reaction diffusion equations. We provide examples of
using the simplified definition, showing for instance that boundaries of
strictly convex subsets in the Carnot group structure become extinct in finite
time when subject to the horizontal mean curvature flow even if characteristic
points are present.
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Deviations from general relativity, such as could be responsible for the
cosmic acceleration, would influence the growth of large scale structure and
the deflection of light by that structure. We clarify the relations between
several different model independent approaches to deviations from general
relativity appearing in the literature, devising a translation table. We
examine current constraints on such deviations, using weak gravitational
lensing data of the CFHTLS and COSMOS surveys, cosmic microwave background
radiation data of WMAP5, and supernova distance data of Union2. Markov Chain
Monte Carlo likelihood analysis of the parameters over various redshift ranges
yields consistency with general relativity at the 95% confidence level.
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In this letter, we elaborate on the identification and construction of the
differential geometric elements underlying Berry's phase. Berry bundles are
built generally from the physical data of the quantum system under study. We
apply this construction to typical and recently investigated systems presenting
Berry's phase to explore their geometric features.
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this film was probably the best "scary film" i've seen in years. chilling might be a more accurate description. the ending was unexpected and therefore took me by surprise. if it has any flaw it would be the overuse of the whole meaning of life concept. since noone truly knows that answer, you definitely sail into murky waters when you incorporate that concept into a movie. put that aside and the movie is quite enjoyable. carly pope should emerge as one of the next bright young stars in the film industry. the rest of the cast were somewhat shaky, however since the focus was on sara novak (carly pope), her performance anchored the movie. the, at times poor acting abilities of her costars were not an issue since it was not their performances that fuelled this movie. (thankfully). watch this movie you should enjoy it.<br /><br />t
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Spatial time series forecasting problems arise in a broad range of
applications, such as environmental and transportation problems. These problems
are challenging because of the existence of specific spatial, short-term and
long-term patterns, and the curse of dimensionality. In this paper, we propose
a deep neural network framework for large-scale spatial time series forecasting
problems. We explicitly designed the neural network architecture for capturing
various types of patterns. In preprocessing, a time series decomposition method
is applied to separately feed short-term, long-term and spatial patterns into
different components of a neural network. A fuzzy clustering method finds
cluster of neighboring time series based on similarity of time series
residuals; as they can be meaningful short-term patterns for spatial time
series. In neural network architecture, each kernel of a multi-kernel
convolution layer is applied to a cluster of time series to extract short-term
features in neighboring areas. The output of convolution layer is concatenated
by trends and followed by convolution-LSTM layer to capture long-term patterns
in larger regional areas. To make a robust prediction when faced with missing
data, an unsupervised pretrained denoising autoencoder reconstructs the output
of the model in a fine-tuning step. The experimental results illustrate the
model outperforms baseline and state of the art models in a traffic flow
prediction dataset.
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We show the existence of unique global strong solutions of a class of
stochastic differential equations on the cone of symmetric positive definite
matrices. Our result includes affine diffusion processes and therefore extends
considerably the known statements concerning Wishart processes, which have
recently been extensively employed in financial mathematics. Moreover, we
consider stochastic differential equations where the diffusion coefficient is
given by the alpha-th positive semidefinite power of the process itself with
0.5<alpha<1 and obtain existence conditions for them. In the case of a
diffusion coefficient which is linear in the process we likewise get a positive
definite analogue of the univariate GARCH diffusions.
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Love this
We got this for our small laundry room. It was easy to install. The only tricky part is getting the line taught so it does not sag under the weight of clothes. Once we looked at the photos, it was easy enough to figure out. The hook holds it very stable.
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We study the spin-1 excitation spectra of the flatband ferromagnetic phases
in interacting topological insulators. As a paradigm, we consider a quarter
filled square lattice Hubbard model whose free part is the $\pi$ flux state
with topologically nontrivial and nearly-flat electron bands, which can realize
either the Chern or $Z_2$ Hubbard model. By using the numerical exact
diagonalization method with a projection onto the nearly-flat band, we obtain
the ferromagnetic spin-1 excitation spectra for both the Chern and $Z_2$
Hubbard models, consisting of spin waves and Stoner continuum. The spectra
exhibit quite distinct dispersions for both cases, in particular the spin wave
is gapless for the Chern Hubbard model, while gapped for the $Z_2$ Hubbard
model. Remarkably, in both cases, the nonflatness of the free electron bands
introduces dips in the lower boundary of the Stoner continuum. It significantly
renormalizes the energies of the spin waves around these dips downward and
leads to roton-like spin excitations. We elaborate that it is the softening of
the roton-like modes that destabilizes the ferromagnetic phase, and determine
the parameter region where the ferromagnetic phase is stable.
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Utterly ridiculous to expect a 70 year old is gonna change his MO. Trumps so into himself nothing else matters. Charges the US government to rent space in his DC, NYC and Florida properties so the Secret Service can protect him and his brood.
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He's said he'll cut funding to sanctuary cities. When he figures out where Hawaii is and that there's a naval base here he'll cut that funding too.
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The construction of generalized continuous wavelet transforms on locally
compact abelian groups $A$ from quasi-regular representations of a semidirect
product group $G = A \rtimes H$ acting on ${\rm L}^2(A)$ requires the existence
of a square-integrable function whose Plancherel transform satisfies
Calder\'on-type resolution of the identity. The question then arises under what
conditions such square-integrable functions exist.
The existing literature on this subject leaves a gap between sufficient and
necessary criteria. In this paper, we give a characterization in terms of the
natural action of the dilation group $H$ on the character group of $A$. We
first prove that a Calder\'on-type resolution of the identity gives rise to a
decomposition of Plancherel measure of $A$ into measures on the dual orbits,
and then show that the latter property is equivalent to regularity conditions
on the orbit space of the dual action.
Thus we obtain, for the first time, sharp necessary and sufficient criteria
for the existence of a wavelet inversion formula. As a byproduct and special
case of our results we obtain that discrete series subrepresentations of the
quasiregular representation correspond precisely to dual orbits with positive
Plancherel measure and associated compact stabilizers. Only sufficiency of the
conditions was previously known.
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The asymptotic response of donor stars in interacting binary systems to very
rapid mass loss is characterized by adiabatic expansion throughout their
interiors. In this limit, energy generation and heat flow through the stellar
interior can be neglected. We model this response by constructing model
sequences, beginning with a donor star filling its Roche lobe at an arbitrary
point in its evolution, holding its specific entropy and composition profiles
fixed as mass is removed from the surface. The stellar interior remains in
hydrostatic equilibrium. Luminosity profiles in these adiabatic models of
mass-losing stars can be reconstructed from the specific entropy profiles and
their gradients. These approximations are validated by comparison with
time-dependent binary mass transfer calculations. We describe how adiabatic
mass loss sequences can be used to quantify threshold conditions for dynamical
time scale mass transfer, and to establish the range of post-common envelope
binaries that are allowed energetically.
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We prove an asymptotic coupling theorem for the $2$-dimensional Allen--Cahn
equation perturbed by a small space-time white noise. We show that with
overwhelming probability two profiles that start close to the minimisers of the
potential of the deterministic system contract exponentially fast in a suitable
topology. In the $1$-dimensional case a similar result was shown in
\cite{MS88,MOS89}.
It is well-known that in more than one dimension solutions of this equation
are distribution-valued, and the equation has to be interpreted in a
renormalised sense. Formally, this renormalisation corresponds to moving the
minima of the potential infinitely far apart and making them infinitely deep.
We show that despite this renormalisation, solutions behave like perturbations
of the deterministic system without renormalisation: they spend large stretches
of time close to the minimisers of the (un-renormalised) potential and the
exponential contraction rate of different profiles is given by the second
derivative of the potential in these points.
As an application we prove an Eyring--Kramers law for the transition times
between the stable solutions of the deterministic system for fixed initial
conditions.
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The cosmological constant (vacuum energy) problem is analyzed within the
scope of quantum theories with UV-cut-off or fundamental length. Various cases
associated with the appearance of the latter are considered both using the
Generalized Uncertainty Relations and the deformed density matrix,previously
introduced in the author's works. The use of the deformed density matrix is
examined in detail. It is demonstrated that, provided the Fischler-Susskind
cosmic holographic conjecture is valid, the Vacuum Energy Density takes a value
close to the experimental one. The arguments supporting the validity of this
conjecture are given on the basis of the recently obtained results on
Gravitational Holography.
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We have demonstrated the effect of pressure on magnetization jump and its
associated magnetostriction in Eu$_{0.58}$Sr$_{0.42}$MnO$_{3}$. The critical
field lowered by the applied pressure is explained by a suppression of the
metastable blocked state, which is inherent to the phase separated manganite
system exhibiting the magnetic avalanche. To reduce a factor of the bad thermal
coupling in the bulk sample, and to further examine the nature of the
magnetization jump, we have performed the influence of pressure on the
isothermal magnetization of the powder sample. There is no discrepancy in the
critical field between the bulk and powder samples although the $MH$ curve of
the latter is not saturated at high fields. These findings indicate a crucial
role of the frozen phase separated state in the abrupt transition.
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Many data analysis methods cannot be applied to data that are not represented
by a fixed number of real values, whereas most of real world observations are
not readily available in such a format. Vector based data analysis methods have
therefore to be adapted in order to be used with non standard complex data. A
flexible and general solution for this adaptation is to use a (dis)similarity
measure. Indeed, thanks to expert knowledge on the studied data, it is
generally possible to define a measure that can be used to make pairwise
comparison between observations. General data analysis methods are then
obtained by adapting existing methods to (dis)similarity matrices. In this
article, we propose an adaptation of Kohonen's Self Organizing Map (SOM) to
(dis)similarity data. The proposed algorithm is an adapted version of the
vector based batch SOM. The method is validated on real world data: we provide
an analysis of the usage patterns of the web site of the Institut National de
Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, constructed thanks to web log mining
method.
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Has some neat qualities and the games when accessible are good for my toddler. Does not work well for the under 5 age, there are many challenges that create an unusable environment. I have had 2 glitches so far that ended with total reboots. As of now, it is nonfunctional for the kids side. Very unfortunate as we were excite to use this product.
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We present the new spectrometer for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM)
search at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), called n2EDM. The setup is at room
temperature in vacuum using ultracold neutrons. n2EDM features a large UCN
double storage chamber design with neutron transport adapted to the PSI UCN
source. The design builds on experience gained from the previous apparatus
operated at PSI until 2017. An order of magnitude increase in sensitivity is
calculated for the new baseline setup based on scalable results from the
previous apparatus, and the UCN source performance achieved in 2016.
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Alongside the effort underway to build quantum computers, it is important to
better understand which classes of problems they will find easy and which
others even they will find intractable. We study random ensembles of the
QMA$_1$-complete quantum satisfiability (QSAT) problem introduced by Bravyi.
QSAT appropriately generalizes the NP-complete classical satisfiability (SAT)
problem. We show that, as the density of clauses/projectors is varied, the
ensembles exhibit quantum phase transitions between phases that are satisfiable
and unsatisfiable. Remarkably, almost all instances of QSAT for any hypergraph
exhibit the same dimension of the satisfying manifold. This establishes the
QSAT decision problem as equivalent to a, potentially new, graph theoretic
problem and that the hardest typical instances are likely to be localized in a
bounded range of clause density.
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Consider a family of smooth immersions $F(\cdot,t): M^n\to \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$
of closed hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ moving by the mean curvature flow
$\frac{\partial F(p,t)}{\partial t} = -H(p,t)\cdot \nu(p,t)$, for $t\in [0,T)$.
We show that at the first singular time of the mean curvature flow, certain
subcritical quantities concerning the second fundamental form, for example
$\int_{0}^{t} \int_{M_{s}} \frac{\abs{A}^{n + 2}}{log (2 + \abs{A})} d\mu ds,$
blow up. Our result is a log improvement of recent results of Le-Sesum,
Xu-Ye-Zhao where the scaling invariant quantities were considered.
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The sizing is off but the product was great!
I bought this belt and made sure to measure myself to match the charts. When I received it. It was perfect to the display shown but the size was off. So I had to return it and order the size down. I will give the company this. They gave me no hassle on returning it. I have reordered the new one. It should be here soon.
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A two-year Large Aperture Quadrupole (WQB) Project was completed in the
summer of 2006 at Fermilab. Nine WQBs were designed, fabricated and
bench-tested by the Technical Division. Seven of them were installed in the
Main Injector and the other two for spares. They perform well. The aperture
increase meets the design goal and the perturbation to the lattice is minimal.
The machine acceptance in the injection and extraction regions is increased
from 40pi to 60pi mm-mrad. This paper gives a brief report of the operation and
performance of these magnets.
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We show that a fairly arbitrary Frechet space topology on the space of
holomorphic functions on a domain controls the topology of uniform convergence
on compact sets.
In fact it turns out that the result we present can be proved more simply
using the closed graph theorem. However, we believe that the techniques
presented here may be used to prove a more interesting result. Details to
appear later.
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This paper introduces a structured memory which can be easily integrated into
a neural network. The memory is very large by design and significantly
increases the capacity of the architecture, by up to a billion parameters with
a negligible computational overhead. Its design and access pattern is based on
product keys, which enable fast and exact nearest neighbor search. The ability
to increase the number of parameters while keeping the same computational
budget lets the overall system strike a better trade-off between prediction
accuracy and computation efficiency both at training and test time. This memory
layer allows us to tackle very large scale language modeling tasks. In our
experiments we consider a dataset with up to 30 billion words, and we plug our
memory layer in a state-of-the-art transformer-based architecture. In
particular, we found that a memory augmented model with only 12 layers
outperforms a baseline transformer model with 24 layers, while being twice
faster at inference time. We release our code for reproducibility purposes.
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In this mainly expository article, we revisit some formal aspects of
B{\'a}ez-Duarte's criterion for the Riemann hypothesis. In particular, starting
from Weingartner's formulation of the criterion, we define an arithmetical
function $\nu$, which is equal to the M{\"o}bius function if, and only if the
Riemann hypothesis is true. We record the basic properties of the Dirichlet
series of $\nu$, and state a few questions.
KEYWORDS: Riemann hypothesis, arithmetical functions, Dirichlet series,
Hilbert space
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In this paper we prove the concavity of the $k$-trace functions, $A\mapsto
(\text{Tr}_k[\exp(H+\ln A)])^{1/k}$, on the convex cone of all positive
definite matrices. $\text{Tr}_k[A]$ denotes the $k_{\mathrm{th}}$ elementary
symmetric polynomial of the eigenvalues of $A$. As an application, we use the
concavity of these $k$-trace functions to derive tail bounds and expectation
estimates on the sum of the $k$ largest (or smallest) eigenvalues of a sum of
random matrices.
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Off-equatorial circular orbits with constant latitudes (halo orbits) of
electrically charged particles exist near compact objects. In the previous
paper, we discussed this kind of motion and demonstrated the existence of
minima of the two-dimensional effective potential which correspond to the
stable halo orbits. Here, we relax previous assumptions of the pseudo-Newtonian
approach for the gravitational field of the central body and study properties
of the halo orbits in detail. Within the general relativistic approach, we
carry out our calculations in two cases. Firstly, we examine the case of a
rotating magnetic compact star. Assuming that the magnetic field axis and the
rotation axis are aligned with each other, we study the orientation of motion
along the stable halo orbits. In the poloidal plane, we also discuss shapes of
the related effective potential halo lobes where the general off-equatorial
motion can be bound. Then we focus on the halo orbits near a Kerr black hole
immersed in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field of external origin. We
demonstrate that, in both the cases considered, the lobes exhibit two different
regimes, namely, one where completely disjoint lobes occur symmetrically above
and below the equatorial plane, and another where the lobes are joined across
the plane. A possible application of the model concerns the structure of
putative circumpulsar discs consisting of dust particles. We suggest that the
particles can acquire a small (but non-zero) net electric charge, and this
drives them to form the halo lobes.
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Lucio Fulci made a lot of great films throughout his career and the way that many of them featured a bucket load of gore lead to him earning the title 'The Godfather of Gore'. While Don't Torture a Duckling was made before Fulci became well known amongst gorehounds, and isn't all that gory; it's certainly a gritty and nasty little thriller, and for my money - the best film that Fulci ever made! Don't Torture a Duckling really is head and shoulders above a lot of the Giallo genre in terms of production values and unlike many of Fulci's later films, everything about this Giallo is great. The plot focuses on a small rustic community where dead bodies have began turning up. The murders are even more shocking because the victims are just young boys. Shortly after the police convict an innocent man of the crimes, a reporter named Andrea Martelli arrives in the village and decides to start investigating the murders on his own. Martelli soon encounters various suspects, including a sexy young lady named Patricia, a sinister priest and a local witch who enjoys making wax effigies and sticking pins into them.<br /><br />While this film may not feature loads of gore, it does have two of Fulci's nastiest sequences to make up for it. The nastiest involves a woman being brutally slaughtered by a group of men in a cemetery, while the image of a man falling from a cliff and hitting any number of rocks on the way down is liable to turn some stomachs. Don't Torture a Duckling features an absolutely great Italian cast. Barbara Bouchet (a personal favourite of mine) is incredibly sexy in her role as Patricia, and gets to flex her acting muscles more than she did in many later films. Tomas Millian is excellent as usual while the rest of the cast is well fleshed out by likes of Irene Pappas, Florinda Bolkan and Marc Porel. The cinematography on display is stunning and Fulci really gives the viewer the impression that he puts a lot of care and effort into every scene. The story plays out slowly, and it's always interesting as Fulci never allows the film to stray too much from the central plot line. There isn't a great deal of mystery towards the identity of the murderer; but Fulci almost manages to keep us guessing right up until the end and Don't Torture a Duckling does climax on a high. Overall, it's a shame that Fulci didn't make more films like this. Don't Torture a Duckling is his out and out best work and I insist that every Giallo fans sees it!
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Let $L$ be a link and $\Phi^{A}_{L}(q)$ its link invariant associated with
the vector representation of the quantum (super)algebra $U_{q}(A)$. Let
$F_{L}(r,s)$ be the Kauffman link invariant for $L$ associated with the
Birman--Wenzl--Murakami algebra $BWM_{f}(r,s)$ for complex parameters $r$ and
$s$ and a sufficiently large rank $f$. For an arbitrary link $L$, we show that
$\Phi^{osp(1|2n)}_{L}(q) = F_{L}(-q^{2n},q)$ and $\Phi^{so(2n+1)}_{L}(-q) =
F_{L}(q^{2n},-q)$ for each positive integer $n$ and all sufficiently large $f$,
and that $\Phi^{osp(1|2n)}_{L}(q)$ and $\Phi^{so(2n+1)}_{L}(-q)$ are identical
up to a substitution of variables. For at least one class of links
$F_{L}(-r,-s) = F_{L}(r,s)$ implying $\Phi^{osp(1|2n)}_{L}(q) =
\Phi^{so(2n+1)}_{L}(-q)$ for these links.
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Understanding how particles are arranged on the sphere is not only central to
numerous physical, biological, and materials systems but also finds
applications in mathematics and in analysis of geophysical and meteorological
measurements. In contrast to particle distributions in Euclidean space,
restriction that the particles should lie on the sphere brings about several
important constraints. These require a careful extension of quantities used for
particle distributions in Euclidean space to those confined to the sphere. We
introduce a framework designed to analyze and classify structural (dis)order in
particle distributions constrained to the sphere. The classification is based
on the concept of hyperuniformity, which was introduced 15 years ago and since
then studied extensively in Euclidean space, yet has only very recently been
considered for the sphere. We build our framework on a generalization of the
structure factor on the sphere, which we relate to the power spectrum of the
corresponding multipole expansion. The spherical structure factor is then shown
to couple with cap number variance, a measure of local density fluctuations,
allowing us to derive different forms of the variance. In this way, we
construct a classification of hyperuniformity for scale-free particle
distributions on the sphere and show how it can be extended to other
distributions as well. We demonstrate that hyperuniformity on the sphere can be
defined either through a vanishing spherical structure factor at low multipole
numbers or through a scaling of the cap number variance, in both cases
extending the Euclidean definition while pointing out crucial differences. Our
work provides a comprehensive tool for detecting long-range order on spheres
and the analysis of spherical computational meshes, biological and synthetic
spherical assemblies, and ordering phase transitions in spherically-distributed
particles.
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Very easy to assemble, weird smell.
Very easy to assemble. The mesh bag is secured to the inside of the hamper by small velcro straps, which is a nice feature and hopefully will hold up over time. The lid attached with velcro on the back bbn of the hamper, and has two magnets on the front to hold the lid closed. Mine had an interesting smell, sort of like liquid smoke. Update: unfortunately, the odd smell persists, even after airing it out and putting dryer sheets into it, and I adjusted my rating down for that. If you aren't sensitive to odors it may not bother you.
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Absolutely Best Foam/Sponge Rollers I've Ever Used!!!
I very rarely leave a review - but this product is so stellar I felt compelled. I have fine, thin hair. Almost every other type of roller damages my hair causing it to break off. These rollers have a plastic core that makes them more rigid than any other foam roller - so they make the rolling up part much easier as they hold their shape and don't compress. I do not use the black self lock bar because it puts a "dent" in my hair. I use the thin clips/pins from my old hot rollers. They slide easily over the roller and hold it in place. If I need more clips I order these: Pro Touch Assorted Hot Roller Clips, 12 Count. I half way dry my hair and then use the rollers. If it gets too dry I spritz with water. Then I use the blow dryer to dry each roller. I put on my makeup, get dressed and then they are dry and I take them out and have firm, long lasting curls. BTW, i do use gel on my wet hair. I often sleep on my hair (no rollers) and it still looks good the 2nd day! I have short - medium length hair.
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Applying neural-networks on Question Answering has gained increasing
popularity in recent years. In this paper, I implemented a model with
Bi-directional attention flow layer, connected with a Multi-layer LSTM encoder,
connected with one start-index decoder and one conditioning end-index decoder.
I introduce a new end-index decoder layer, conditioning on start-index output.
The Experiment shows this has increased model performance by 15.16%. For
prediction, I proposed a new smart-span equation, rewarding both short answer
length and high probability in start-index and end-index, which further
improved the prediction accuracy. The best single model achieves an F1 score of
73.97% and EM score of 64.95% on test set.
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Let $t$ be an integer such that $t\geq 2$. Let $K_{2,t}^{(3)}$ denote the
triple system consisting of the $2t$ triples $\{a,x_i,y_i\}$, $\{b,x_i,y_i\}$
for $1 \le i \le t$, where the elements $a, b, x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_t,$ $y_1,
y_2, \ldots, y_t$ are all distinct. Let $ex(n,K_{2,t}^{(3)})$ denote the
maximum size of a triple system on $n$ elements that does not contain
$K_{2,t}^{(3)}$. This function was studied by Mubayi and Verstra\"ete, where
the special case $t=2$ was a problem of Erd\H{o}s that was studied by various
authors.
Mubayi and Verstra\"ete proved that $ex(n,K_{2,t}^{(3)})<t^4\binom{n}{2}$ and
that for infinitely many $n$, $ex(n,K_{2,t}^{(3)})\geq \frac{2t-1}{3}
\binom{n}{2}$. These bounds together with a standard argument show that
$g(t):=\lim_{n\to \infty} ex(n,K_{2,t}^{(3)})/\binom{n}{2}$ exists and that
\[\frac{2t-1}{3}\leq g(t)\leq t^4.\]
Addressing the question of Mubayi and Verstra\"ete on the growth rate of
$g(t)$, we prove that as $t \to \infty$, \[g(t) = \Theta(t^{1+o(1)}).\]
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Before this clip, music videos were merely to display an artist. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" created a whole new section of music videos which can honestly be called mini movies. "Thriller" follows a couple as they travel to the girl's house from a movie. On the way they encounter zombies announced by the immortal Vincent Price. My favorite part is where the zombies stagger in on the couple and the girl turns to see that Michael has turned into one of them. Then, they do a little dance. The scariest thing about "Thriller" may be the fact that it is consistently more fun and enjoyable than a lot of movies that are made. After twenty years it remains the premier music video.<br /><br />P.S. My music video Top 5: 5 - Madonna "Like a Prayer" 4 - Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child of Mine" 3 - Nine Inch Nails "Closer" 2 - Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer" 1 - Michael Jackson - "Thriller"
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What's oblivious about it? That you can't provide a response based on fact and logic rather than knee-jerk emotion?
And do you have any integrity around your choices are do you just like to complain about what others do? They pointed out the hypocrisy evident in society and it sounds like you don't have an answer for it.
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i also you know i consider for example the the teachers the National Education Association you know they i would like to see them be more of a professional organization rather than a union because we need you know we need to we need to uh instead of worrying about saving jobs or raising salaries i think we need to worry about uh how well the job's getting done
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We propose the simulation of quantum-optical systems in the
ultrastrong-coupling regime using a variational quantum algorithm. More
precisely, we introduce a short-depth variational form to prepare the
groundstate of the multimode Dicke model on a quantum processor and present
proof-of-principle results obtained via cloud access to an IBM device. We
moreover provide an algorithm for characterizing the groundstate by Wigner
state tomography. Our work is a first step towards digital quantum simulation
of quantum-optical systems with potential applications to the spin-boson, Kondo
and Jahn-Teller models.
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