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Instabilities in compact planetary systems are generically driven by chaotic
dynamics. This implies that an instability time measured through direct N-body
integration is not exact, but rather represents a single draw from a
distribution of equally valid chaotic trajectories. In order to characterize
the "errors" on reported instability times from direct N-body integrations, we
investigate the shape and parameters of the instability time distributions
(ITDs) for ensembles of shadow trajectories that are initially perturbed from
one another near machine precision. We find that in the limit where instability
times are long compared to the Lyapunov (chaotic) timescale, ITDs approach
remarkably similar lognormal distributions with standard deviations ~0.43 $\pm$
0.16 dex, despite the instability times varying across our sample from
$10^4-10^8$ orbits. We find excellent agreement between these predictions,
derived from ~450 closely packed configurations of three planets, and a much
wider validation set of ~10,000 integrations, as well as on ~20,000 previously
published integrations of tightly packed five-planet systems, and a
seven-planet resonant chain based on TRAPPIST-1, despite their instability
timescales extending beyond our analyzed timescale. We also test the boundary
of applicability of our results on dynamically excited versions of our Solar
System. These distributions define the fundamental limit imposed by chaos on
the predictability of instability times in such planetary systems. It provides
a quantitative estimate of the intrinsic error on an N-body instability time
imprinted by chaos, approximately a factor of 3 in either direction.
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We study the effect of diffuse intracluster light on the critical surface
mass density estimated from photometric redshifts of lensing source galaxies,
and the resulting bias in a weak lensing measurement of galaxy cluster mass.
Under conservative assumptions, we find the bias to be negligible for imaging
surveys like the Dark Energy Survey (DES) with a recommended scale cut of >=200
kpc distance from cluster centers. For significantly deeper source catalogs
from present and future surveys like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
program, more conservative scale and source magnitude cuts or a correction of
the effect may be necessary to achieve per-cent level lensing measurement
accuracy, especially at the massive end of the cluster population.
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The Dukes of Hazzard is quite an achievement a $53m film that's worse than any given episode of a downmarket 25-year old TV show. The plot is serviceable enough but the mindless fun is rarely to be found and the casting is pretty atrocious: Johnny Knoxville is more passenger than protagonist, M.C. Gainey's Sheriff Roscoe is a bland thug, Michael Weston's Enos tiresome, a seemingly ideally-cast Willie Nelson just seems to be waiting for the check to clear and Burt Reynolds, stuck in some purgatory where he's doomed to relive his old movies as a bit player, is a curious choice for Boss Hogg to say the least but does have one good moment with a heckler and a hundred dollar bill. You know a film is in trouble when Seann William Scott and Jessica Simpson are the most charismatic screen presences
But worse than the script or the casting is Jay Chandrasekhar's hopeless direction: seemingly born with no conception of comic timing, unable to do much more than basic two-shots and seemingly clueless as to how to shoot a car chase let alone the couple of decent stunts in the film, he seems determined to sap the film of any signs of life before they materialise. There are a couple of neat post-modern moments revolving around the Confederate Flag and Daisy's stereotypical role in every episode, but no film that makes you pine for the days when Hal Needham was directing this sort of thing (and badly) can be a good thing.
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MichaelG> The past three POTUSs were the ones who truly set our country backwards. All of the deals with NK, Iran, China, Mexico, Iraq and Afghanistan were all major things that set the US backwards in more than one way. Clinto, could have had eliminated Osama Bin Laden in the Sudan and NK; Bush, took us into Iraq and Afghanistan and NK deal; Obama, withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran deal, and NK. If any of them had taken care of things we would not be in this situation now. So, all of you naysayers, listen up, tell the truth if you can and of you can, just "STHU!!!!" Freedom of speech does not count regarding these issues. Grow up little liars and become honest people for once in your life!!!!
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While traveling by train, a woman (Stéphane Excoffier) mistakenly gets out in a remote station when the train stops in the middle of the night. Sooner she finds that a weird lonely pointsman (Jim van der Woude) that does not speak her language is the only person in that area and that that was the last train in that track. The man lodges her in his house and they develop an unusual wordless relationship between them.<br /><br />"De Wisselwachter" is an overrated boredom, with a different but uninteresting story that goes nowhere. I like movies Off-Hollywood, but this story is too absurd and has no message in the end. The sexual tension between the two lead characters is funny in a moment but too repetitive. I saw this movie in an old VHS and the image is too dark; I do not know whether on DVD the image would be of better quality. In the end, I was absolutely disappointed with this feature. My vote is three.<br /><br />Title (Brazil): "O Homem da Linha" ("The Man of the Line")
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A precursor to "Citizen Kane" in its analysis of the life of a just deceased tycoon, here reviewed by his faithful secretary in a series of interlocking flashbacks. In Spencer Tracy's 15th film he already looks middle-aged even in the scenes where he is meant to be young!<br /><br />A little silent-screen type emoting is understandable given the vintage but this is a most enjoyable, well-written drama.
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An overpriced piece of junk! You're paying for the POLARIS name only!
If you think you're getting a pool cleaner where you can just let it run to keep your pool constantly clean- FORGET IT! You have to baby sit this thing. It constantly gets stuck in corners, it runs around on its side for hours-picking up nothing, it sucks up it's tail into the debris bag, and makes you think the return on your filter isn't working correctly. You'll be playing with the return valves on your filter to adjust pressure until you're at wits end- hoping something will work! You're going to spend time on the phone with Polaris looking for answers, you're going to Google repeatedly looking for answers, and you're going to watch YouTube video solutions until you're green in the gills. NOTHING WORKS! LOOK FOR ANOTHER CLEANER!
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We analyze the effect of time dependent external field on non-Markovian
migration described by the continuous time random walk (CTRW) approach. The
rigorous method of treating the problem is proposed which is based on the
Markovian representations of the CTRW approach and field modulation. The method
is applied to the case of subdiffusive migration in which the exact formulas
for the first and second moments of spatial distribution are derived. For
oscillating external field they predict unusual dependence of the first moment
on oscillation phase and anomalous field dependent contribution to
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I guess it wasn't entirely the filmmaker's fault though. The film suffered from the unimaginably stupid decision to tell Clayton Moore (who had done the role in the 1950's and was the Lone Ranger us old folks grew up with) he couldn't wear the mask in public. Now mind you, the poor guy wasn't making all that much money doing so, and it wasn't like he was going to take anything away from this film, but the whole thing seemed... gratuitous.<br /><br />The other thing the film suffered from (besides a leading man whose voice was so awful they had to overdub it) was that fact that Westerns weren't so hip in 1981. John Wayne was dead and we had just been subjected to a decade-long major liberal guilt trip about how the west was built on genocide of the Native Americans. (That and Blazing Saddles sent up the whole genre! The Campfire scene. Enough said!) Hollywood shied away from Westerns, because Science Fiction was COOL then.<br /><br />The one scene that underscored it was when after rescuing the drunken President Grant (and seriously, I'd have let Grant stay with the bad guys. The country would have been better off!) Grant asks Tonto what his reward should be "Honor your treaties with my people". Yeah, right, like THAT was going to happen!
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The other top NDP Leadership Candidate was Farnworth, who the Conflict Commissioner concluded had been influenced by Glen Clark into giving a Casino Licence to a Motorcycle gang.
The NDP was the best thing the BC Liberals had going for them in 2013, sad to say.
The Forensic Audit of the Nanaimo Commonwealth Criminal Conspiracy yielded a lot of surprises, including the fact that 20 years earlier the criminals had paid Bob Williams 4 years MLA salary (K$80) before Williams resigned in order for Dave Barrett to get back into the legislature in a safe NDP seat. Mike Harcourt insisted that Patrice Pratt and all the other BC NDP Party Officers who had approved a backdated "sham transaction" resign. They had tried to return stolen money to the NHCS to make it "never happened" rather than admitting publicly to receiving stolen money from former MP and MLA Stupich.
http://martinandassociates.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/40-Article-RCMP-Drops-NDP-Bombshell-Sun-29March19961.pdf
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RNNs and their variants have been widely adopted for image captioning. In
RNNs, the production of a caption is driven by a sequence of latent states.
Existing captioning models usually represent latent states as vectors, taking
this practice for granted. We rethink this choice and study an alternative
formulation, namely using two-dimensional maps to encode latent states. This is
motivated by the curiosity about a question: how the spatial structures in the
latent states affect the resultant captions? Our study on MSCOCO and Flickr30k
leads to two significant observations. First, the formulation with 2D states is
generally more effective in captioning, consistently achieving higher
performance with comparable parameter sizes. Second, 2D states preserve spatial
locality. Taking advantage of this, we visually reveal the internal dynamics in
the process of caption generation, as well as the connections between input
visual domain and output linguistic domain.
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Capsule Networks (CapsNet) use the Softmax function to convert the logits of
the routing coefficients into a set of normalized values that signify the
assignment probabilities between capsules in adjacent layers. We show that the
use of Softmax prevents capsule layers from forming optimal couplings between
lower and higher-level capsules. Softmax constrains the dynamic range of the
routing coefficients and leads to probabilities that remain mostly uniform
after several routing iterations. Instead, we propose the use of Max-Min
normalization. Max-Min performs a scale-invariant normalization of the logits
that allows each lower-level capsule to take on an independent value,
constrained only by the bounds of normalization. Max-Min provides consistent
improvement in test accuracy across five datasets and allows more routing
iterations without a decrease in network performance. A single CapsNet trained
using Max-Min achieves an improved test error of 0.20% on the MNIST dataset.
With a simple 3-model majority vote, we achieve a test error of 0.17% on MNIST.
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We present the first detailed study of the properties (temperatures,
gravities, and masses) of the NGC 6791 white dwarf population. This unique
stellar system is both one of the oldest (8 Gyr) and most metal-rich ([Fe/H] ~
0.4) open clusters in our Galaxy, and has a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) that
exhibits both a red giant clump and a much hotter extreme horizontal branch.
Fitting the Balmer lines of the white dwarfs in the cluster, using Keck/LRIS
spectra, suggests that most of these stars are undermassive, <M> = 0.43 +/-
0.06 Msun, and therefore could not have formed from canonical stellar evolution
involving the helium flash at the tip of the red giant branch. We show that at
least 40% of NGC 6791's evolved stars must have lost enough mass on the red
giant branch to avoid the flash, and therefore did not convert helium into
carbon-oxygen in their core. Such increased mass loss in the evolution of the
progenitors of these stars is consistent with the presence of the extreme
horizontal branch in the CMD. This unique stellar evolutionary channel also
naturally explains the recent finding of a very young age (2.4 Gyr) for NGC
6791 from white dwarf cooling theory; helium core white dwarfs in this cluster
will cool ~3 times slower than carbon-oxygen core stars and therefore the
corrected white dwarf cooling age is in fact ~7 Gyr, consistent with the well
measured main-sequence turnoff age. These results provide direct empirical
evidence that mass loss is much more efficient in high metallicity environments
and therefore may be critical in interpreting the ultraviolet upturn in
elliptical galaxies.
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Why do some economic activities agglomerate more than others? And, why does
the agglomeration of some economic activities continue to increase despite
recent developments in communication and transportation technologies? In this
paper, we present evidence that complex economic activities concentrate more in
large cities. We find this to be true for technologies, scientific
publications, industries, and occupations. Using historical patent data, we
show that the urban concentration of complex economic activities has been
continuously increasing since 1850. These findings suggest that the increasing
urban concentration of jobs and innovation might be a consequence of the
growing complexity of the economy.
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This paper reviews the scientific support for a ballistic pressure wave
radiating outward from a penetrating projectile and causing injury and
incapacitation. This phenomenon is known colloquially as "hydrostatic shock."
The idea apparently originates with Col. Frank Chamberlin, a World War II
trauma surgeon and wound ballistics researcher. The paper reviews claims that
hydrostatic shock is a myth and considers supporting evidence through parallels
with blast, describing the physics of the pressure wave, evidence for remote
cerebral effects, and remote effects in the spine and other internal organs.
Finally, the review considers the levels of energy transfer required for the
phenomenon to be readily observed.
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We present measurements of the near-infrared brightness of Io's hot spots
derived from 2-5 micron imaging with adaptive optics on the Keck and Gemini N
telescopes. The data were obtained on 271 nights between August 2013 and the
end of 2018, and include nearly 1000 detections of over 75 unique hot spots.
The 100 observations obtained between 2013 and 2015 have been previously
published in de Kleer and de Pater (2016a); the observations since the start of
2016 are presented here for the first time, and the analysis is updated to
include the full five-year dataset. These data provide insight into the global
properties of Io's volcanism. Several new hot spots and bright eruptions have
been detected, and the preference for bright eruptions to occur on Io's
trailing hemisphere noted in the 2013-2015 data (de Kleer and de Pater 2016a)
is strengthened by the larger dataset and remains unexplained. The program
overlapped in time with Sprint-A/EXCEED and Juno observations of the jovian
system, and correlations with transient phenomena seen in other components of
the system have the potential to inform our understanding of the impact of Io's
volcanism on Jupiter and its neutral/plasma environment.
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Outlined in: Apartheid, Guns and Money, by Hennie Van Vuuren, Jacana, 2017, suggests very deep structures of criminality in South Africa today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow; he is Director of Open Secrets and previously of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) and has also published together with Paul Holden, The Devil in the Detail: How the Arms Deal Changed Everything, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, http://www.jonathanball.co.za/index.php/component/virtuemart/the-devil-in-the-detail-ebook-detail?Itemid=6http: ANDREW FEINSTEIN, PAUL HOLDEN AND HENNIE VAN VUUREN have written, @ www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/seritis-findings-tantamount-to-a-coverup--feinstei. Yes, and Jacob, the brothers Shaik, et al (see: @ http://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-arms-deal-ten-years-on) are all implicated. So now the hunt is on: People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime, First Hearing 8 - 12 Nov – Call for Information @ https//www.opensecrets.org.za/peoplestribunal/
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An infrared high-brightness light source based on supercontinuum generation
through a SF6 photonic crystal fiber seeded by a Cr^4+:YAG femtosecond
oscillator is developed for high resolution multiplex spectroscopy in the 1.5
$\mu$m region. Moreover, a multiplex high resolution approach based on a
Cr^4+:YAG frequency comb enables to probe large spectral domains, with
simultaneous sensitive measurement of the absorption and the dispersion
associated with all individual spectral features.
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Poor quality control!
New tire in plastic bag. Sidewall defective. Immediately noticeable as I started to mount on rim. BIG disappointment, losing riding time. This is supposed to be a premium tire! Interestingly, the second tire I ordered came in a separate shipment and was in a Continental OEM box. It was definitely a superior tire --ithe better quality was immediately noticeable! The replacement tire I ordered from Amazon came in an OEM Continental box and is of good quality. What happened Amazon?
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We propose to learn a low-dimensional probabilistic deformation model from
data which can be used for registration and the analysis of deformations. The
latent variable model maps similar deformations close to each other in an
encoding space. It enables to compare deformations, generate normal or
pathological deformations for any new image or to transport deformations from
one image pair to any other image. Our unsupervised method is based on
variational inference. In particular, we use a conditional variational
autoencoder (CVAE) network and constrain transformations to be symmetric and
diffeomorphic by applying a differentiable exponentiation layer with a
symmetric loss function. We also present a formulation that includes spatial
regularization such as diffusion-based filters. Additionally, our framework
provides multi-scale velocity field estimations. We evaluated our method on 3-D
intra-subject registration using 334 cardiac cine-MRIs. On this dataset, our
method showed state-of-the-art performance with a mean DICE score of 81.2% and
a mean Hausdorff distance of 7.3mm using 32 latent dimensions compared to three
state-of-the-art methods while also demonstrating more regular deformation
fields. The average time per registration was 0.32s. Besides, we visualized the
learned latent space and show that the encoded deformations can be used to
transport deformations and to cluster diseases with a classification accuracy
of 83% after applying a linear projection.
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In this paper we follow the general approach, proposed earlier by the first
author, which is derived from the invariant theory field and provides a way of
obtaining of the polynomial identities for any arbitrary polynomial family. We
introduce the notion of Chebyshev derivations of the first and second kinds,
which is based on the polynomial algebra, and corresponding specific
differential operators. We derive the elements of their kernels and prove that
any element of the kernel of the derivations defines a polynomial identity
satisfied by the Chebyshev polynomials of the first and second kinds. Combining
elementary methods and combinatorial techniques, we obtain several new
polynomial identities involving the Chebyshev polynomials of the both kinds and
a special case of the Jacobi polynomials. Using the properties of the
generalised hypergeometric function, we specify the Chebyshev polynomials of
the first and second kinds via the generalised hypergeometric function and, as
a consequence, derive the corresponding identities involving the generalised
hypergeometric function and the Chebyshev polynomials of the first and second
kinds.
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We classify topological phases of non-Hermitian systems in the
Altland-Zirnbauer classes with an additional reflection symmetry in all
dimensions. By mapping the non-Hermitian system into an enlarged Hermitian
Hamiltonian with an enforced chiral symmetry, our topological classification is
thus equivalent to classifying Hermitian systems with both chiral and
reflection symmetries, which effectively change the classifying space and shift
the periodical table of topological phases. According to our classification
tables, we provide concrete examples for all topologically nontrivial
non-Hermitian classes in one dimension and also give explicitly the topological
invariant for each nontrivial example. Our results show that there exist two
kinds of topological invariants composed of either winding numbers or
$\mathbb{Z}_2$ numbers. By studying the corresponding lattice models under the
open boundary condition, we unveil the existence of bulk-edge correspondence
for the one-dimensional topological non-Hermitian systems characterized by
winding numbers, however we did not observe the bulk-edge correspondence for
the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological number in our studied $\mathbb{Z}_2$-type model.
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Let $p\in (1,\infty)$, $q\in[1,\infty)$, $\alpha\in [0,\infty)$ and $s$ be a
non-negative integer. In this article, the authors introduce the
John--Nirenberg-Campanato space $JN_{(p,q,s)_\alpha}(\mathcal{X})$, where
$\mathcal{X}$ is ${\mathbb R}^n$ or any closed cube $Q_0\subsetneqq{\mathbb
R}^n$, which when $\alpha=0$ and $s=0$ coincides with the $JN_p$-space
introduced by F. John and L. Nirenberg in the sense of equivalent norms. The
authors then give the predual space of $JN_{(p,q,s)_\alpha}(\mathcal{X})$ and a
John-Nirenberg type inequality of John--Nirenberg-Campanato spaces. Moreover,
the authors prove that the classical Campanato space serves as a limit space of
$JN_{(p,q,s)_\alpha}(\mathcal{X})$ when $p\to \infty$.
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I actually prefer Robin Williams in his more serious roles (e.g. Good Will Hunting, The Fisher King, The World According to Garp). These are my favorite Robin Williams movies. But Seize the Day, although well-acted, is one of the worst movies I've ever seen and certainly the worst Robin Williams movie (even worse than Death to Smoochy, Club Paradise, and Alladin on Ice).<br /><br />Every good story is going to have its ups and downs. This movie, however, is one giant down. I don't need a feel-good Hollywood cheese-fest, but I've got to have something other than 90 minutes of complete and utter hopelessness. This movie reminds me of "Love Liza" (which is actually worse) because it seems that the only point of the movie is to see how far one person can fall. The answer? Who cares.
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Data, algorithms, and compute/storage infrastructure are key assets that
drive data science and artificial intelligence applications. As providing all
these assets requires a huge investment, data science and artificial
intelligence technologies are currently dominated by a small number of
providers who can afford these investments. This leads to lock-in effects and
hinders features that require a flexible exchange of assets among users. In
this vision paper, we present Agora, a unified asset ecosystem. The Agora
system provides the technical infrastructure that allows for offering and using
data and algorithms, as well as physical infrastructure components. Agora is
designed as an open ecosystem of asset marketplaces and provides to a broad
audience not only data but the entire data value chain (including computational
resources and human expertise). Agora (i) leverages a fine-grained exchange of
assets, (ii) allows for combining assets to novel applications, and (iii)
flexibly executes such applications on available resources. As a result, Agora
overcomes lock-in effects and removes entry barriers for new asset providers.
In contrast to existing data management systems, Agora operates in a heavily
decentralized and dynamic environment: Data, algorithms, and even compute
resources are dynamically created, modified, and removed by different
stakeholders. Agora presents novel research directions for the data management
community as a whole: It requires to combine our traditional expertise in
scalable data processing and management with infrastructure provisioning as
well as economic and application aspects of data, algorithms, and
infrastructure.
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This paper considers the transmission of an infinite sequence of messages (a
streaming source) over a packet erasure channel, where every source message
must be recovered perfectly at the destination subject to a fixed decoding
delay. While the capacity of a channel that introduces only bursts of erasures
is well known, only recently, the capacity of a channel with either one burst
of erasures or multiple arbitrary erasures in any fixed-sized sliding window
has been established. However, the codes shown to achieve this capacity are
either non-explicit constructions (proven to exist) or explicit constructions
that require large field size that scales exponentially with the delay. This
work describes an explicit rate-optimal construction for admissible channel and
delay parameters over a field size that scales only quadratically with the
delay.
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Modern theoretical models strongly suggest that new phenomena await discovery
above the energy scale of the Standard Model (SM) of particle interactions. In
this paper we argue that correct description of particle physics in the TeV
energy scale needs to account for degrees of freedom obeying the conformal (or
scale) invariance. In this respect, the existing of Georgi's unparticles is
strongly argued. We present the gauge model of scalar unparticles. The ground
state of scalar unparticles in the continuum is restricted by the vacuum
expectation value of the SM Higgs boson and the scale dimension $d$. In the
framework of Abelian gauge field theories we develop a model in
four-dimensional space-time in which the scalar unHiggs is a dipole field. The
quantization is performed within the canonical formalism. Based on general
principles of quantum field theory the new features of unHiggs propagators are
carried out for the first time.
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We numerically study the dynamics of an imploding hollow cylinder composed of
dust. Since there is no cylindrical black hole in 4-dimensional spacetime with
physically reasonable energy conditions, a collapsed dust cylinder involves a
naked singularity accompanied by its causal future, or a fatal singularity
which terminates the history of the whole universe. In a previous paper, the
present authors have shown that if the dust is assumed to be composed of
collisionless particles such that these particles go through the symmetry axis
of the cylinder, then the scalar polynomial singularity formed on the symmetry
axis is so weak that almost all of geodesics are complete, and thus effectively
no singularity forms by the collapse of a hollow dust cylinder. By contrast, in
this paper, we assume that whole of the collapsed dust settles down on the
symmetry axis by changing its equation of state. Obtained solutions are the
straightforward extension of Morgan's null dust solution, in which no
gravitational radiation is emitted. However, in the present case with timelike
dust, infinite amount of $C$-energy initially stored in the system is released
through gravitational radiation. We also show that the gravitational waves
asymptotically behave in a self-similar manner.
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Different simplified and detailed chemical models and their impact on
simulations of combustion regimes initiating by the initial temperature
gradient in methane/air mixtures are studied. The limits of the regimes of
reaction wave propagation depend upon the spontaneous wave speed and the
characteristic velocities of the problem. The present study mainly focus to
identify conditions required for the development a detonation and to compare
the difference between simplified chemical models and detailed chemistry. It is
shown that a widely used simplified chemical schemes, such as one-step,
two-step and other simplified models, do not reproduce correctly the ignition
process in methane/air mixtures. The ignition delay times calculated using
simplified models are in orders of magnitude shorter than the ignition delay
times calculated using detailed chemical models and measured experimentally.
This results in considerably different times when the exothermic reaction
affects significantly the ignition, evolution, and coupling of the spontaneous
reaction wave and pressure waves. We show that the temperature gradient capable
to trigger detonation calculated using detailed chemical models is much
shallower (the size of the hot spot is much larger) than that, predicted by
simulations with simplified chemical models. These findings suggest that the
scenario leading to the deflagration to detonation transition (DDT) may depend
greatly on the chemical model used in simulations and that the Zeldovich
gradient mechanism is not necessary a universal mechanism triggering DDT. The
obtained results indicate that the conclusions derived from the simulations of
DDT with simplified chemical models should be viewed with great caution.
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Organismal development is a complex process, involving a vast number of molecular constituents interacting on multiple spatio-temporal scales in the formation of intricate body structures. Despite this complexity, development is remarkably reproducible and displays tolerance to both genetic and environmental perturbations. This robust-ness implies the existence of hidden simplicities in developmental programs. Here, using the Drosophila wing as a model system, we develop a new quantitative strategy that enables a robust description of biologically salient phenotypic variation. Analyzing natural phenotypic variation across a highly outbred population, and variation generated by weak perturbations in genetic and environmental conditions, we observe a highly constrained set of wing phenotypes. Remarkably, the phenotypic variants can be described by a single integrated mode that corresponds to a non-intuitive combination of structural variations across the wing. This work demonstrates the presence of constraints that funnel environmental inputs and genetic variation into phenotypes stretched along a single axis in morphological space. Our results provide quantitative insights into the nature of robustness in complex forms while yet accommodating the potential for evolutionary variations. Methodologically, we introduce a general strategy for finding such invariances in other developmental contexts.
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Principal component analysis is a statistical method, which lowers the number
of important variables in a data set. The use of this method for the bursts'
spectra and afterglows is discussed in this paper. The analysis indicates that
three principal components are enough among the eight ones to describe the
variablity of the data. The correlation between spectral index alpha and the
redshift suggests that the thermal emission component becomes more dominant at
larger redshifts.
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Not really for tablets
Despite the photos online showing a tablet secure in the unit, it doesn't work that way. The *minimum* depth from the rubber pad and the front tabs is 1.5 inches or so. So unless your tablet is of the biblical variety, it can't fill up the space and won't be secure.
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We study network coordination problems, as captured by the setting of
generalized network design (Emek et al., STOC 2018), in the face of uncertainty
resulting from partial information that the network users hold regarding the
actions of their peers. This uncertainty is formalized using Alon et al.'s
Bayesian ignorance framework (TCS 2012). While the approach of Alon et al. is
purely combinatorial, the current paper takes into account computational
considerations: Our main technical contribution is the development of
(strongly) polynomial time algorithms for local decision making in the face of
Bayesian uncertainty.
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The $n$-dimensional numerical range of a densely defined linear operator $T$
on a complex Hilbert space $\H$ is the set of vectors in $\C^n$ of the form $(<
Te_1,e_1>,...,< Te_n,e_n>)$, where $e_1,...,e_n$ is an orthonormal system in
$\H$, consisting of vectors from the domain of $T$. We prove that the
components of every corner point of the $n$-dimensional numerical range are
eigenvalues of $T$.
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The classical dynamical model for reactions induced by weakly-bound nuclei at
near-barrier energies is developed further. It allows a quantitative study of
the role and importance of incomplete fusion dynamics in asymptotic
observables, such as the population of high-spin states in reaction products as
well as the angular distribution of direct alpha-production. Model calculations
indicate that incomplete fusion is an effective mechanism for populating
high-spin states, and its contribution to the direct alpha production yield
diminishes with decreasing energy towards the Coulomb barrier. It also becomes
notably separated in angles from the contribution of no-capture breakup events.
This should facilitate the experimental disentanglement of these competing
reaction processes.
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Lots of lighting choices, terrible control placement
The setting buttons are way too sensitive. Even a phone cable grazing the base will cause the lighting to change from one setting to the next. Not really practical if, like me, you keep it on a nightstand where you might also charge a phone or set a book down and accidentally brush one of the buttons
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Let $\F_q$ ($q=p^r$) be a finite field. In this paper the number of
irreducible polynomials of degree $m$ in $\F_q[x]$ with prescribed trace and
norm coefficients is calculated in certain special cases and a general bound
for that number is obtained improving the bound by Wan if $m$ is small compared
to $q$. As a corollary, sharp bounds are obtained for the number of elements in
$\F_{q^3}$ with prescribed trace and norm over $\F_q$ improving the estimates
by Katz in this special case. Moreover, a characterization of Kloosterman sums
over $\F_{2^r}$ divisible by three is given generalizing the earlier result by
Charpin, Helleseth, and Zinoviev obtained only in the case $r$ odd. Finally, a
new simple proof for the value distribution of a Kloosterman sum over the field
$\F_{3^r}$, first proved by Katz and Livne, is given.
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Gang-involved youth in cities such as Chicago sometimes post on social media
to express their aggression towards rival gangs and previous research has
demonstrated that a deep learning approach can predict aggression and loss in
posts. To address the possibility of bias in this sensitive application, we
developed an approach to systematically interpret the state of the art model.
We found, surprisingly, that it frequently bases its predictions on stop words
such as "a" or "on", an approach that could harm social media users who have no
aggressive intentions. To tackle this bias, domain experts annotated the
rationales, highlighting words that explain why a tweet is labeled as
"aggression". These new annotations enable us to quantitatively measure how
justified the model predictions are, and build models that drastically reduce
bias. Our study shows that in high stake scenarios, accuracy alone cannot
guarantee a good system and we need new evaluation methods.
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Not for all cameras!
This canopy seems like it would be a good solution for a baby that crawls out of the crib or is able to grab things outside of the crib between the slats. I was excited about this specific canopy because it had the place to put a camera on top. It did not work for me, though. The top of the tent had a lot of slack (after being properly installed with the mattress in place), so the camera was hard to position correctly. When I did get it in an ok position, I could only see a small portion of the mattress. I couldn't see any of the sides of the crib. The monitor wasn't zoomed in. Maybe it just wasn't good for my specific camera, but I was not impressed. If you end up returning it like I am, good luck folding it back up! The instructions are crap. I did the best I could and eventually just had to make sure it would fit in the shipping box (not the bag it came in...). I was so hopeful and left so disappointed.
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The ferromagnetic resonance frequencies are obtained for a thin ferromagnetic
film with surface anisotropy for the cases when the external magnetic field is
applied perpendicularly or parallel to the film surface, and for various
combinations of boundary conditions on the film surface. It is shown that in
the presence of surface anisotropy the ferromagnetic resonance frequency
essentially depends both on the film thickness and on the value of the surface
anisotropy constant. The results obtained provide a basis for the correct
interpretation of experimental data obtained by means of broadband
ferromagnetic resonance in thin film structures.
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We study relations of some classes of $k$-convex, $k$-visible bodies in
Euclidean spaces. We introduce and study \textrm{circular projections} in
normed linear spaces and classes of bodies related with families of such maps,
in particular, \textrm{$k$-circular convex} and \textrm{$k$-circular visible}
ones.
Investigation of these bodies more general than $k$-convex and $k$-visible
ones allows us to generalize some classical results of geometric tomography and
find their new applications.
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A British lady who lost her husband to her own mother who then had a child for him has said she will never forgive her.
The heartbroken lady identified as Lauren Wall, 34, from Twickenham, south-west London reportedly married the man when she was only 19.
While they were preparing for their wedding at that time, Lauren’s mother reportedly paid £15,000 to support her dream wedding, and also joined the couple on vacation.
According to Lauren, her mother and her now ex-husband got along so much that she couldn’t suspect that they were having an affair. But her biggest shock came, when Paul decided to move out and nine months later, her mother Julie gave birth to his child announcing they were together.
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Speaking in an interview with Daily Mail, Lauren said: ‘Paul always got on really well with mum. I never thought it strange though, as she was his mum-in-law and he was just being friendly. They’d laugh a lot together. I didn’t think to be worried at all. Who would?’ I couldn’t wait to settle into marriage but the ink was barely dry on our certificate when Paul changed.’
Lauren also disclosed how his sister saw text messages between her mom and her estranged husband. When Lauren confronted her mother, she denied there was anything going on saying, ‘You’re crazy.’
As things got out of hand between the pair, Paul stopped wearing his wedding ring and walked out on Lauren and their seven-month-old daughter.
Sharing her first reaction when she heard that her man had moved in with her mum, said: ‘It was sick. It’s one of the worst things a mum can do to a daughter.’
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In order to study an interplay of disorder, correlation, and spin imbalance
on antiferromagnetism, we systematically explore the ground state of
one-dimensional spin-imbalanced Anderson-Hubbard model by using the
density-matrix renormalization group method. We find that disorders localize
the antiferromagnetic spin density wave induced by imbalanced fermions and the
increase of the disorder magnitude shrinks the areas of the localized
antiferromagnetized regions. Moreover, the antiferromagnetism finally
disappears above a large disorder. These behaviors are observable in atomic
Fermi gases loaded on optical lattices and disordered strongly-correlated
chains under magnetic field.
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Great curtain
This shower curtain was just what I was looking for, it was easy to install and easy to clean since it is machine washable. The hooks were so much more easy to use than the clasping rings that came with my previous shower curtain and when it came to maintenace normally I would just buy a new curtain after time but now I just threw it in the washer. Loved the curtain only wished it came with a liner than it would have been perfect!
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Far too bright for a bedroom
Very large display will be easily read across a very large room or is you have really bad eyes. HOWEVER, if you want to use it in your bedroom, think twice. It is VERY BRIGHT even on the dimmest setting. Lit up half of the room like a nightlight.
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What has yet to be done is to have a statute of Pre at Hayward field, not a picture, but a statute. Bowerman is at Hayward and Pre also should be. On the base of the statute should be his quote; To Give less than your best.......". This is long overdue.
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"The Senate supports wise use of our savings"
The Senate supports taking our PFDs to give to oil companies for tax credits.
The Senate supports taking our PFDs to spend $3.5 million to fix up the new LIO they didn't need
$4 million to fix up the Permanent Fund office
$400,000 for new computers for the legislature
continued funding for boondoggle road projects...the list goes on....
The Senate leadership are delusional hypocrites who think we are morons.
The loss of jobs was made worse by the legislature's cut to our permanent fund dividends. A removal of 700 million from our economy affects local purchases, local businesses, local jobs.
In the oil industry however, even as thousands of Alaskans were fired, employment from out of state has increased.
Number of nonresidents working in Alaska oil industry again up slightly
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2017/02/07/nonresidents-in-oil-and-gas-industry-rose-slightly-in-2015-for-6th-year-straight/
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I agree with all the others. Should have been ...
I agree with all the others. Should have been more clear that there was no support for the wemo link/bulbs. Isn't this the most important part?!? Hoping there is an update soon as going back and forth from apps was not the idea behind this purchase!
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Let $X$ be a topological space with Noetherian mod $p$ cohomology and let
$C^*(X;\mathbb{F}_p)$ be the commutative ring spectrum of $\mathbb{F}_p$-valued
cochains on $X$. The goal of this paper is to exhibit conditions under which
the category of module spectra on $C^*(X;\mathbb{F}_p)$ is stratified in the
sense of Benson, Iyengar, Krause, providing a classification of all its
localizing subcategories. We establish stratification in this sense for
classifying spaces of a large class of topological groups including Kac--Moody
groups as well as whenever $X$ admits an $H$-space structure. More generally,
using Lannes' theory we prove that stratification for $X$ is equivalent to a
condition that generalizes Chouinard's theorem for finite groups. In
particular, this relates the generalized telescope conjecture in this setting
to a question in unstable homotopy theory.
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Some members of the vegetal kingdom can achieve surprisingly fast movements
making use of a clever combination of evaporation, elasticity and cavitation.
In this process, enthalpic energy is transformed into elastic energy and
suddenly released in a cavitation event which produces kinetic energy. Here we
study this uncommon energy transformation by a model system: a droplet in an
elastic medium shrinks slowly by diffusion and eventually transforms into a
bubble by a rapid cavitation event. The experiments reveal the cavity dynamics
over the extremely disparate timescales of the process, spanning 9 orders of
magnitude. We model the initial shrinkage as a classical diffusive process,
while the sudden bubble growth and oscillations are described using an
inertial-(visco)elastic model, in excellent agreement with the experiments.
Such a model system could serve as a new paradigm for motile synthetic
materials.
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Here's a poll for you, from IPSOS, Dec 20th: "Growing Number of Canadians Believe Trudeau Government is More Style than Substance... .Overall, two in three (67%) Canadians ‘agree’ (24% strongly/43% somewhat) that ‘the Trudeau government is more style and substance,..". I'd bet Liberal boot-lickers on these threads don't like that poll at all. I suspect the results will look even worse for Trudeau once this un-costed, climate plan hits everyone in the pocket book.
That said, In BC the Carbon Tax has worked out reasonably well, but it was carefully cost/benefit assessed at the start.
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We propose a new method for the problems of computing free energy and surface
pressure for various statistical mechanics models on a lattice $\Z^d$. Our
method is based on representing the free energy and surface pressure in terms
of certain marginal probabilities in a suitably modified sublattice of $\Z^d$.
Then recent deterministic algorithms for computing marginal probabilities are
used to obtain numerical estimates of the quantities of interest. The method
works under the assumption of Strong Spatial Mixing (SSP), which is a form of a
correlation decay.
We illustrate our method for the hard-core and monomer-dimer models, and
improve several earlier estimates. For example we show that the exponent of the
monomer-dimer coverings of $\Z^3$ belongs to the interval $[0.78595,0.78599]$,
improving best previously known estimate of (approximately) $[0.7850,0.7862]$
obtained in \cite{FriedlandPeled},\cite{FriedlandKropLundowMarkstrom}.
Moreover, we show that given a target additive error $\epsilon>0$, the
computational effort of our method for these two models is
$(1/\epsilon)^{O(1)}$ \emph{both} for free energy and surface pressure. In
contrast, prior methods, such as transfer matrix method, require
$\exp\big((1/\epsilon)^{O(1)}\big)$ computation effort.
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Sturdy case, but paint flakes off within just a few months
I good case, solidly built, but the black glossy paint started to flake off within less than 1 year. I ordered another one which only lasted 3 months. I suggest the manufacturer get a better adhesion for the finish. It’s a shame because if it was not for the paint peeling off, this case would be outstanding as it does protect the phone well and fits tightly.
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We show that the interplay between antiferromagnetic interaction and hole
motion gives rise to a topological superconducting phase. This is captured by
the one dimensional anisotropic $t-J$ model which can be experimentally
achieved with ultracold polar molecules trapped onto an optical lattice. As a
function of the anisotropy strength we find that different quantum phases
appear, ranging from a gapless Luttinger liquid to spin gapped conducting and
superconducting regimes. In presence of appropriate $z$-anisotropy, we also
prove that a phase characterized by non-trivial topological order takes place.
The latter is described uniquely by a finite non local string parameter and
presents robust edge spin fractionalization. These results allow to explore
quantum phases of matter where topological superconductivity is induced by the
interaction.
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Over on this side of the ocean Toyota isn't the biggest seller, General Motors is. There is a reason for that in that tbey make what people want and they make a quality product.
You belittling GM actually acknowledges what I said because you ignore what the industry critics are saying. Its people like you who can't or don't want to adapt to what industry expertise is telling us. Some people can accept information and other can't because of built in biases. If you enjoy living life with the shades drawn then I feel sorry for you
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Where do I begin, its one of the most frustrating movies I've seen because it makes a lot of sense in terms of the point but it comes off as seriously stupid. A movie about a ghost inhabited bed?? The first 2 minutes of the movie shows a black and white flashback of a weird looking fat dude going dominatrix on a Fabienne from Pulp Fiction lookalike contest winner and strangles her with his tie. This is supposed to set up how the bed factors into the story. Still though, if you wanted an opening to keep people interested or send them away early, having a strangulation is the way to do it. Fast forward to the present day, a married couple moves into an apartment with a friendly landlord and begins unpacking their things, so far everything's normal. Then one night while doing the hippity dippity on a single mattress, they realize they need a bed frame. This is where things get fishy, why didn't they bring or buy a g*d damn bed frame before they got there? We learn that the door leading to the attic where the first 2 minutes took place doesn't open but then once the couple realizes they need a bed frame, the door magically opens. They go up to the attic and discover the old bed frame and decide to bring it downstairs and their lovemaking days are saved...or so they thought. The rest of the movie centers around the both of them being haunted by the bedframe. The female is an artist so she starts drawing up the ghoulish images she dreams about and the male is a photographer so he starts having his models act as if they're bring tortured or tied up.(one of which has gray hair and appears over 50 years old, yuck) The female grows increasingly scared and she discovers the house she lives in was once a haven for serial killings and murders which bring about the end to the movie. They find the friendly landlord murdered (which makes no sense since ghosts need to take a human form to kill) and decide to get the hell out of dodge. While packing up, the husband moronically goes up into the attic where he is possessed by the crazy fat dude and the female bashes his skull in before the cops show up and take her to a mental ward where she kills some dude trying to hit on her.<br /><br />Well if you've read this far you have to be thinking one thing.......WHY THE HELL DIDN'T THEY JUST THROW THE BEDFRAME OUT THE WINDOW???? Seriously, they never said anything about the actual house being haunted, just the bed....so why not get rid of the damn thing and move on? That's why the movie is so frustrating because it actually is a good plot and the actors follow suit accordingly but there are more holes in it than Sonny Corleone at a toll booth. The couple did try to leave town as upposed to every other movie that has the ol "oh lets give this place a chance honey" scheme going, so props to that. Still though, me and my buddy who watched the movie kept saying every 5 minutes....why didn't they just throw the bed out? Especially once they learned it was haunted would have been a good time to set it on fire or something.<br /><br />All in all its a near-watchable movie with plenty of porno like bed scenes and a believable plot (to an extent) but the solution is so simple you're scratching your head by the end of the movie wondering how stupid can the married couple be? The highlight of the movie is when the husband tells the 50 year old model to spread her legs and his assistant tells him that he can't shoot her like that.<br /><br />4 out of 10 (a low budget porno The Man Show would love)
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We propose a depth map inference system from monocular videos based on a
novel dataset for navigation that mimics aerial footage from gimbal stabilized
monocular camera in rigid scenes. Unlike most navigation datasets, the lack of
rotation implies an easier structure from motion problem which can be leveraged
for different kinds of tasks such as depth inference and obstacle avoidance. We
also propose an architecture for end-to-end depth inference with a fully
convolutional network. Results show that although tied to camera inner
parameters, the problem is locally solvable and leads to good quality depth
prediction.
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incorrect readings
This unit is difficult to handle when checking a button battery, and it does not give meaningful power readings. I tested several new, out of the box, hearing aid button batteries, and each tested less than 1/2 of the factory specs. I went to the hearing aid center, who checked the same batteries, and they all tested the correct 1.5 factory ratings. The AA and AAA ran about the same variance.
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The scattering of neutrinos off dark matter can induce time delays in their
propagation compared to that of photons, which would wash out correlations
between ultra-high-energy neutrinos and electromagnetic observations of their
sources - while preserving the observed diffuse neutrino flux. This may explain
the significant discrepancy between predictions of neutrino fluxes from gamma
ray bursts and the lack of neutrinos correlated with EM observations of GRBs.
Conversely, the detection of an UHE neutrino in association with a source
provides a strong constraint on such interactions. We consider an effective
model of dark photon dark matter interacting with neutrinos which exhibits this
effect.
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The luteinizing hormone/choriogonadotropin receptor (LHCGR), also lutropin/choriogonadotropin receptor (LCGR) or luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) is a transmembrane receptor found predominantly in the ovary and testis, but also many extragonadal organs such as the uterus and breasts, the receptor interacts with both luteinizing hormone (LH) and chorionic gonadotropins, such as hCG in humans, hCG is a hormone produced by the placenta after implantation, the acronym stand for?
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"Margaritas and Cock..."<br /><br />This tremendously entertaining film grabs you from the opening scene and never stops delivering laughs, surprises and unexpectedly touching moments. I had more fun watching "The Matador" than almost any other film from 2005. It is a wacky film with an unforgettable character, played to perfection by Pierce Brosnan.<br /><br />Julian Noble (Brosnan) is a facilitator (hit-man) who specializes in high-end corporate gigs (assassinating rich dudes). He is also experiencing something akin to a mid-life crisis. After coming to realization that he has no real friends, no permanent home and no planned future, he stumbles into a Mexican hotel bar one night and runs into Danny Wright (Kinnear).<br /><br />Danny is a down-on-his-luck family man who is on the verge of losing the big business deal that just might turn things around for him. He loves his wife dearly, especially so since they lost their young son a few years earlier.<br /><br />The two men are chalk and cheese, hardly any common ground other than that they are in the same desolate bar one night. And somehow a conversation is struck that sets in to motion a chain of events that will change their lives forever.<br /><br />The friendship they form reminded me a lot of Laurel and Hardy. One is the straight man and the other is the persistent fool who gets them into trouble. The interplay is superbly timed and finely tuned, due in no small part to the wonderful performances from Brosnan and Kinnear.<br /><br />But make no mistake... This is Brosnan's film. He imprints one of the most memorable and despicably likable characters of the decade. He could shoot your mother and apologize immediately thereafter and you'd probably forgive him. Brosnan may be cinema's ultimate charmer, but this is his most endearing and complete performance to date. I wouldn't be averse to seeing an Oscar nod for this role.<br /><br />Consider one scene where he overtly ogles a high-school girl with the impurest of thoughts and utters the line, "All blushy blushy... No sucky fucky". He does it with the familiar Bond smirk and manages to get away with it. He manages to tell a young boy, "Tell your mother to lose 30lbs and 20 years. Then get back to me" without coming across as unlikable. In fact, it makes us like him even more.<br /><br />And yet the film manages to surprise us with some truly touching scenes, most of which come toward the end when the film takes some unpredictable turns. However, when Julian thumbs through his little black book to find someone to call on his birthday, or when Danny and his wife (Davis) console each other in their bedroom one night, the film reaches an unexpected depth of emotion.<br /><br />"The Matador" is stylish and energetic. It is constantly entertaining. And it contains a career-defining role for Brosnan as the lonely hit-man looking for normalcy, friendship and a means to do at least one good thing in his life. This is an overlooked gem in 2005 and you should make an effort to see this film as soon as possible.<br /><br />TC Candler of IndependentCritics.com
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Background: The problem of predicting whether a drug combination of arbitrary
orders is likely to induce adverse drug reactions is considered in this
manuscript. Methods: Novel kernels over drug combinations of arbitrary orders
are developed within support vector machines for the prediction. Graph matching
methods are used in the novel kernels to measure the similarities among drug
combinations, in which drug co-medication patterns are leveraged to measure
single drug similarities. Results: The experimental results on a real-world
dataset demonstrated that the new kernels achieve an area under the curve (AUC)
value 0.912 for the prediction problem. Conclusions: The new methods with drug
co-medication based single drug similarities can accurately predict whether a
drug combination is likely to induce adverse drug reactions of interest.
Keywords: drug-drug interaction prediction; drug combination similarity;
co-medication; graph matching
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The elastic scattering of the halo nucleus $^6$He from heavy targets at
incident energies near the Coulomb barrier displays a marked deviation from the
standard Fresnel-type diffraction behavior. This deviation is due to the strong
Coulomb dipole breakup coupling produced by the Coulomb field of the heavy
target, a specific feature of the nuclear structure of $^6$He. We have
performed Continuum Discretized Coupled Channels calculations for the elastic
scattering of $^{6}$He and $^6$Li from $^{58}$Ni, $^{120}$Sn, $^{144}$Sm,
$^{181}$Ta and $^{208}$Pb targets in order to determine the range of
$Z_{\mathrm T}$ where this nuclear-structure specific coupling effect becomes
manifest. We find that the strong Coulomb dipole breakup coupling effect is
only clearly experimentally distinguishable for targets of $Z_{\mathrm T}
\approx 80$.
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Cute but not durable
Let me say these are the cutest shoes and comfy once you get the "new" out of them- BUT - They came unglued and basically fell apart. So weird. I can not find a way to contact the company to ask them to replace them?? I was even thinking of buying a pair in another color but… oh well.
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Let $\phi = \sum_{r^{2} \leq 4mn}c(n,r)q^{n}\zeta^{r}$ be a Jacobi form of
weight $k$ (with $k > 2$ if $\phi$ is not a cusp form) and index $m$ with
integral algebraic coefficients which is an eigenfunction of all Hecke
operators $T_{p}, (p,m) = 1,$ and which has at least one nonvanishing
coefficient $c(n,r)$ with $r$ prime to $m$. We prove that for almost all primes
$\ell$ there are infinitely many fundamental discriminants $D = r^{2}-4mn < 0$
prime to $m$ with $\nu_{\ell}(c(n,r)) = 0$, where $\nu_{\ell}$ denotes a
continuation of the $\ell$-adic valuation on $\mathbb{Q}$ to an algebraic
closure. As applications we show indivisibility results for special values of
Dirichlet $L$-series and for the central critical values of twisted
$L$-functions of even weight newforms.
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This article is the second in a series of two papers concerning the
mathematical study of a boundary integral equation of the second kind that
describes the interaction of $N$ dielectric spherical particles undergoing
mutual polarisation. The first article presented the numerical analysis of the
Galerkin method used to solve this boundary integral equation and derived
$N$-independent convergence rates for the induced surface charges and total
electrostatic energy. The current article will focus on computational aspects
of the algorithm. We provide a convergence analysis of the iterative method
used to solve the underlying linear system and show that the number of liner
solver iterations required to obtain a solution is independent of $N$.
Additionally, we present two linear scaling solution strategies for the
computation of the approximate induced surface charges. Finally, we consider a
series of numerical experiments designed to validate our theoretical results
and explore the dependence of the numerical errors and computational cost of
solving the underlying linear system on different system parameters.
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difficult to spread
the color and coverage was fine for this product, and as expected, it gets on everything as you're out and about, so be prepared to find red on your walls, car seat, friend's costumes/bodies, etc. I anticipated all this with the product and it pretty much met my expectations there. What I didn't anticipate is the difficulty with which it's put on. Admittedly, I am no make up expert so perhaps this is how all body paint/make-up is? It was very solid and hard and difficult to get on the sponge. I actually went through several sponges as they started to tear apart. Then to get from the sponge to your body was another ordeal... filled with friction on your skin as you try to apply the product. What we eventually did was to apply body lotion on the sponge to moisten the product... that helped expedite the whole process. Again, this may be how you normally use body paint/color and if so... take this review with a grain of salt because to me, this way a LOT of effort to try to cover your entire body with the product! Lol
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Kahan's method and a two-step generalization of the discrete gradient method
are both linearly implicit methods that can preserve a modified energy for
Hamiltonian systems with a cubic Hamiltonian. These methods are here
investigated and compared. The schemes are applied to the Korteweg-de Vries
equation and the Camassa-Holm equation, and the numerical results are presented
and analysed.
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This amusing, sometimes poignant look at the Hollywood detective genre of the 1940's and 1950's stars Robert Sacci as an unnamed former cop who retires, uses his life savings to pay for plastic surgery to transform his image into that of his idol, Humphrey Bogart, then sets up shop as a private eye under the name "Sam Marlowe". Robert Sacchi, incidentally, is one of the rare few Bogart impersonators who got the lisp exactly right; more to the point, the body and facial language are there. For awhile, "Sam"'s only client is his landlady, who wants him to find her undersized boyfriend, and his only conversational foil is his secretary, simply called "Dutchess" (Misty Rowe), who in his own words, "looked like Marilyn Monroe and made about as much sense as Gracie Allen", and has a passion for banana splits. Then he encounters Elsa (Olivia Hussey), the plain, sweet, virginal daughter of a retired props-master who has been murdered for no discernible reason. In the process of investigating the murder, Sam shortly runs across: the Gene Tierney lookalike daughter (Michelle Phillips) of Anastas, an avaricious, obscenely wealthy Greek shipping tycoon (Victor Buono, turning in a creditable Sidney Greenstreet), his hapless, long-suffering second wife (Yvonne deCarlo, who manages to play a variety of put-upon emotions without saying a word), his two smarmy henchmen (Herbert Lom, channelling Peter Lorre, and Jay Robinson, doing a reasonably accurate Lionel Atwill), and Anastas' vicious, amoral Middle-Eastern potentate (Franco Nero) who comes complete with a glamorus and bafflingly loyal mistress (Sybil Danning), all of whom would give anything to acquire the "Eyes of Alexander", two huge, perfectly matched star sapphires. When Elsa is murdered, Marlowe's interest in solving the case becomes personal, and he sets out through a labyrinth of Los Angeles landmarks, including the Hollywood Bowl, the scatological and esoteric attractions of Hollywood Boulevard, and Santa Catalina Island in pursuit of the rocks, determined to get at them before either of the two wealthy competitors. Throw in cameos by Mike Mazurki and assorted others, the traditional dumb-but-sympathetic ally on the police force, and a plethora of nicely drawn character turns that provide dimension to practically all players, and despite an unfortunate title song, you have, to my mind, a thoroughly enjoyable movie experience.
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We interpret mathematically the pair (master equation, solution of master
equation) up to equivalence, as the pair (a presentation of a free triangular
dga T over a combination operad O, dga map of T into C, a dga over O) up to
homotopy equivalence of dgOa maps, see Definition 1. We sketch two general
applications: I to the theory of the definition and homotopy theory of infinity
versions of general algebraic structures including noncompact frobenius
algebras and Lie bialgebras. Here the target C would be the total Hom complex
between various tensor products of another chain complex B, C = HomB, O
describes combinations of operations like composition and tensor product
sufficient to describe the algebraic structure and one says that B has the
algebraic structure in question. II to geometric systems of moduli spaces up to
deformation like the moduli of J holomorphic curves. Here C is some geometric
chain complex containing the fundamental classes of the moduli spaces of the
geometric problem. We also discuss analogues of homotopy groups and Postnikov
systems for maps and impediments to using them related to linear terms in the
master equation called anomalies.
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I show that fractional exclusion statistics (FES) is manifested in general
interacting systems and I calculate the exclusion statistics parameters. Most
importantly, I show that the mutual exclusion statistics parameters--when the
presence of particles in one Hilbert space influences the dimension of another
Hilbert space--are proportional to the dimension of the Hilbert space on which
they act. This result, although surprising and different from the usual way of
understanding the FES, renders this statistics consistent and valid in the
thermodynamic limit, in accordance with the conjucture introduced in J. Phys.
A: Math. Theor. 40, F1013 (2007).
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This letter from the editor is hot off the presses.
Tonight's group date on The Bachelor took Peter Weber's suitors to Costa Rica, where the ladies were asked to pose in their bikinis for a chance to get featured on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. Ultimately, Cosmo editor-in-chief Jessica Pels picked Victoria Fuller (who took a risk and kissed Peter during their photo shoot) as the lucky winner. But as Pels just revealed, those images won't actually make it to the printer after all.
In a letter titled "Why We're Not Publishing the Cosmo Bachelor Cover," Pels explains how a controversy involving Victoria helped the staff make their decision.
"As you probably know, the details about upcoming plot points on The Bachelor are as closely guarded as nuclear codes," she writes. "When my team and I flew down to Costa Rica for our challenge, we weren't told who our models were going to be. We didn't even meet them until we were all on camera on-set, ready to start our shoot."
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In this paper three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of AGN
jets are presented to investigate the FR I/FR II dichotomy. Three simulations
are presented which illustrates the difference in morphology for high/low
Lorentz factor injection as well as a stratified background medium. Lorentz
factors of 10 and 1.0014 were used for the high and low Lorentz factor cases
respectively. The hydrodynamic simulations show a division in the morphology of
jets based on their initial injection luminosity. An additional simulation was
set up to investigate the evolution of the low Lorentz factor jet if the mass
injection was lowered after a certain time. A synchrotron emission model was
applied to these simulations to reproduce intensity maps at radio frequencies
(1.5GHz) which were compared to the observed emission structures of FR I/FR II
radio galaxies. The effect of Doppler boosting on the intensity maps was also
investigated for different polar angles. The intensity maps of both the high
and low Lorentz factor cases reproduced emission structures that resemble those
of FR II type radio galaxies with a dominant cocoon region containing time
dependent hot spots and filaments. An FR I like structure was, however,
produced for the low Lorentz factor case if the mass injection rate was lowered
after a set time period.
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Gemini North adaptive optics imaging spectroscopy is presented for the
Galactic ultra-compact HII (UCHII) region K3-50A. Data were obtained in the
K-band using the Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) behind the
facility adaptive optics module ALTAIR in natural guide star mode. The NIFS
data cube reveals a complex spatial morphology across the 0.1 pc scale of the
3'' UCHII region. Comparison of the nebular emission to Cloudy ionization
models shows that the central source must have an effective temperature between
about 37000 K and 45000 K with preferred values near 40000 K. Evidence is
presented for sharp density variations in the nebula which are interpreted as a
clearing of material nearest the central source. High excitation lines of FeIII
and SeIV show that the ionization of the nebula clearly changes with distance
from the central source. A double lobed kinematic signature (+/- 25 kms) is
evident in the Br gamma line map which may be related to the larger scale
ionized flow detailed in earlier investigations. This signature and the large
scale flow are not co-alighned, but they may still be related. Though clearly
resolved from the nebula, the central source itself remains buried, and the
NIFS spectrum shows no evidence of photospheric lines.
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We study interactions of string coherent states in the DDF (after Di Vecchia,
Del Giudice, Fubini) formalism. For simplicity we focus on open bosonic
strings. After reviewing basic properties of DDF operators and of excited open
strings, we present some classical profiles and show how they become more and
more compact as the number of harmonics increases at fixed mass. We then
compute various three- and four-point amplitudes with insertions of coherent
states, tachyons and vector bosons on the boundary of the disk relying on a
convenient choice of reference null momenta. We find that the amplitudes
exponentiate in a rather subtle and interesting way. We then study the
high-energy fixed-angle limit, dominated by a saddle-point when coherent states
are present, and the soft behaviour as the momentum of a vector boson is taken
to zero. We briefly comment on generalisation of our analysis to multiple
intersecting and magnetised D-branes and to closed strings.
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Franco proves, once again, that he is the prince of surreal & erotic cinema. True, much of his work can be viewed as entertaining sleaze but with Succubus (Necronomicon) he shows what he is truly capable of when he lets his warped creativity run riot and gives us a film that is both hypnotic and enigmatic whilst still maintaining the delirious eroticism intrinsic in his work. Jerry Van Rooyen's splendid score pulsates as the viewer is thrown from one bizarre scenario to another as we follow the trials of a striptease artist (Reynaud) who may be schizophrenic, or may indeed (as one mysterious character states) be a devil, attempt to come to terms with the world she inhabits. A beautiful and enigmatic piece of cinema highly recommended to anybody with even a passing interest in alternative cinema.
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And you have Donald Trump, you want to call someone a clown and then make it racist. Have you read the news lately, with all the sexual harassment claims against White Men? But, I digress. I learned a long time ago, when someone makes an stupid racist statement, consider the sources and move on.
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TOTAL MILITARY LANDS IN HAWAII - 177,033 ACRES
TOTAL LANDS - USED BY THE MILITARY - 230,532 ACRES
TOTAL OWNED BY MILITARY - 50,555 ACRES
HOW DID THEY "PURCHASE" THOSE LANDS AND WHEN?
THE AMERICAN - HAWAIIAN KINGDOM RECIPROCITY TREATY
WAS ONLY FOR "EXCLUSIVE USE" OF THE PEARL HARBOR
AND STIPULATED - IT DID NOT DENOTE "SOVEREIGNTY"
AND DID NOT INCLUDE ANY LAND.
AS SOON AS THE "ORGANIC ACT FOR THE TERRITORY" PASSED U.S. CONGRESS
"BISHOP ESTATE LEASED" - ALL OF HALAWA - TO THE U.S. NAVY - AS A "TENANT"
DID THEY "BUY IT TO OWN IT" - OR IS A LEASE WITHOUT RENT - "OWNERSHIP".
THERE'S ONE "PROXY" - OF THE U.S. - SINCE THE "BAYONET CONSTITUTUION" - 1887.
CIA OUTPOSTS - NSA IN KUNIA AND THE PMRF - PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY.
WHERE THEY OWN "ZERO OF THE LAND" - BUT MAKE HAWAII "GROUND ZERO" A TARGET.
GIVEN TO THEM BY ANOTHER "PROXY" 0F THE U.S. - KEKAHA SUGAR. - 1921
AFTER SUGAR GOT ALL THE PRIME AG LANDS AND WATER - FROM THE HAWAIIAN HOMESTEAD ACT - TO REHABILOTATE A - "DYING RACE".
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Consider factorizations into transpositions of an n-cycle in the symmetric
group S_n. To every such factorization we assign a monomial in variables w_{ij}
that retains the transpositions used, but forgets their order. Summing over all
possible factorizations of n-cycles we obtain a polynomial that happens to
admit a closed expression. From this expression we deduce a formula for the
number of 1-faced embeddings of a given graph.
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Yes, I give it a 10 because I compare it not only to others of it's kind but also to the dreck one is bombarded with on a daily basis in what's laughably called today's "popular culture." That aside, the film is beautifully cast, as has been stated elsewhere, and gives us a fairly good look at popular theater of the late 18th and early 20th centuries. No small coincidence is that many of the plays that Olcott played in involved a similar plot: Boy meets girl, someone objects, (usually the father or some authority figure) boy struggles, boy wins girl. The was actually known at the time as a "Chauncey Olcott Act." No coincidence, too, that John Ford directed one. He called it, "The Quiet Man." And, "My Wild Irish Rose," is, in itself, a "Chauncey Olcott act." Great stuff, no? Anyway, great songs, great stuff. Enjoy.<br /><br />PS - After seeing the film I'd like to know more about Bill Scanlan. I found an obit that said he quit "Mauvorneen," as a result of insanity (replaced, as in the film, by Chauncey Olcott) and died in an asylum several years later. But he had been, apparenlty, a very big star in his own right, who wrote songs and plays and had plays written for him.<br /><br />Anyone know more?
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Weekdays at 11:30 a.m. EST, Newsfeed Now will be streaming the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak utilizing our newsrooms across the country. If you miss the live report, you’ll be able to see a replay minutes after the stream ends.
(KARK/NEXSTAR) – The United States now leads the world in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases.
A nurse is dead. A paramedic is in critical condition. Coronavirus is taking a toll on New York City — and the men and women on the front lines of the fight. https://t.co/HQQsGEKORv — The Associated Press (@AP) March 27, 2020
According to a running count by Johns Hopkins University, the number of people infected in the U.S. topped 82,000 on Thursday. That’s just ahead of the 81,000 cases in China and 80,000 in Italy.
Italy has the most confirmed deaths of any country with more than 8,000. More than 1,000 people have died in the U.S.
Other stories in today’s show:
STIMULUS DEAL: The US House is taking up the historic $2 trillion coronavirus aid package. While there are some disagreements, both parties see the need to pass the bill as urgent. Washington reporter Jessi Turnure joins the conversation.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, accompanied by White House Legislative Affairs Director Eric Ueland and acting White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, walks to the offices of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
For the full story: CLICK HERE.
A WIFE’S LOSS: The wife of a Johnson County man who lost his battle with COVID-19 is speaking out. She wants people to know about who her husband was beyond the disease. WDAF’s Sherae Honeycutt reports.
For the full story: CLICK HERE.
HOUSECALL: Ring doorbell video captured a man dressed in a doctor’s coat on the doorsteps of a home in Alabama Wednesday afternoon. Turns out, he’s a real doctor who’s making house calls to several of his patients if they can’t leave home during the coronavirus pandemic. WKRG’s Blake Brown reports.
For the full story: CLICK HERE.
ACTS OF KINDNESS: WGNO Reporter Kenny Lopez is collecting acts of kindness to share some good in these stressful times.
For the full story: CLICK HERE.
Weekdays at 11:30 a.m. EST, Newsfeed Now will be streaming the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak utilizing our newsrooms across the country. If you miss the live report, you’ll be able to see a replay minutes after the stream ends.
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The Cook-Reckhow 1979 paper defined the area of research we now call Proof
Complexity. There were earlier papers which contributed to the subject as we
understand it today, the most significant being Tseitin's 1968 paper, but none
of them introduced general notions that would allow to make an explicit and
universal link between lengths-of-proofs problems and computational complexity
theory. In this note we shall highlight three particular definitions from the
paper: of proof systems, p-simulations and the pigeonhole principle formula,
and discuss their role in defining the field. We will also mention some related
developments and open problems.
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We present a numerical study of a MEMS-based design of a fiber cavity
integrated with an ion trap system. Each fiber mirror is supported by a
microactuator that controls the mirror's position in three dimensions. The
mechanical stability is investigated by a feasibility analysis showing that the
actuator offers a stable support of the fiber. The actuators move the fibers'
positions continuously with a stroke of more than 10 $\mu$m, with mechanical
resonance frequencies on the order of kHz. A calculation of the trapping
potential shows that a separation between ion and fiber consistent with strong
ion-cavity coupling is feasible. Our miniaturized ion-photon interface
constitutes a viable approach to integrated hardware for quantum information.
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In this thesis, we discuss several instances in which non-linear behaviour
affects cosmological evolution in the early Universe. We begin by reviewing the
standard cosmological model and the tools used to understand it theoretically
and to compute its observational consequences. This includes a detailed
exposition of cosmological perturbation theory and the theory of inflation. We
then describe the results in this thesis, starting with the non-linear
evolution of the curvature perturbation in the presence of vector and tensor
fluctuations, in which we identify the version of that variable that is
conserved in the most general situation. Next, we use second order perturbation
theory to describe the most general initial conditions for the evolution of
scalar perturbations at second order in the standard cosmological model. We
compute approximate solutions valid in the initial stages of the evolution,
which can be used to initialize second order Boltzmann codes, and to compute
many observables taking isocurvature modes into account. We then move on to the
study of the inflationary Universe. We start by analysing a new way to compute
the consequences of a sudden transition in the evolution of a scalar during
inflation. We use the formalism of quantum quenches to compute the effect of
those transitions on the spectral index of perturbations. Finally, we detail
the results of the exploration of a multi-field model of inflation with a
non-minimal coupling to gravity. We study popular attractor models in this
regime in both the metric and the Palatini formulations of gravity and find all
results for both the power spectrum and bispectrum of fluctuations to closely
resemble those of the single-field case. In all systems under study we discuss
the effects of non-linear dynamics and their importance for the resolution of
problems in cosmology.
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Expired candy!
I ordered 2 packages and they came quickly, but they had expired 2 months prior! I reordered another 2 packages, letting the company know that the previous ones were expired. I received the new ones again very quickly, however, they are expired as well! 😡 They are all going back! Where’s their quality control???
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PATNA: Bihar will not be represented in the Republic Day parade at Janpath in New Delhi on January 26. Officials at Bihar Information Centre in Delhi said though the Centre appreciated the state government’s theme of Jal-Jivan-Hariyali Mission proposed for its tableau, but refused to showcase it in the Republic Day parade because “it does not fulfil the criteria for that”. Bihar was not included in the R-Day parade in 2019 as well.“As the state government is working on the ambitious JJH Mission, which is one of a kind initiative to tackle climate change and water conservation, it was proposed as our theme for Bihar’s tableau in national R-Day parade. We had submitted a proposal in this regard to the defence ministry in September. But the ministry later claimed that as per the set criteria for Republic Day parade, state governments cannot make their tableaux on such a theme,” a senior official at Bihar Information Centre said.Sources said the selection committee under the defence ministry has set stringent criteria for selecting tableaux for R-Day parade. According to sources, the entries sent by states have to pass three rounds of scrutiny by the selection committee. The broad parameters for evaluating the themes proposed by the states include international branding, national integration and aesthetic value.“Even though the selection committee appreciated our theme and the state government’s endeavours under the JJH Mission, it turned down our proposal for showcasing the same in the R-Day parade,” he said and added that Bihar government had proposed prohibition as the theme for its tableau in 2019 but it was also rejected for similar reasons.Officials said the last time Bihar featured in the R-Day parade in Delhi was in 2015 when its tableau was based on the celebrations of 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi’s Champaran Satyagraha. Prior to that, the theme for Bihar’s tableau in 2013 was ‘Mithila ka Sikki art’. Sikki is a traditional folk craft of Mithila region. In 2012, the theme for Bihar’s tableau was ‘Dharhara Ki Beti’. Dharhara is a village in Bhagalpur district. It is famous for its tradition of planting of trees by families on the birth of a girl child.
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Using 226 million $B\bar{B}$ events recorded on the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance
with the BABAR detector at the SLAC $e^+e^-$ storage rings PEPII, we
reconstruct $B^-\to D^{*0} e^-\bar\nu_e$ decays using the decay chain
$D^{*0}\to{}D^0{}\pi^0$ and $D^{0}\to{}K^-\pi^+$. From the dependence of their
differential rate on $w$, the product of the four-velocities of $B^-${} and
$D^{*0}$, and using the description of the form factor $F(w)$ by Caprini et
al., we obtain the preliminary results $\rho^2_{A_1} = 1.15\pm 0.06 \pm 0.08$,
$F(1)\cdot|V_{cb}| = (36.3\pm 0.6 \pm 1.4)\cdot 10^{-3}$, and ${\cal B}(B^-\to
D^{*0} e^-\bar\nu_e) = (5.71\pm 0.08\pm 0.41)%$. The first errors are
statistical and the second ones are systematic. \\
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Super (see what I did there
Super (see what I did there?) easy to set up and looks fine, IMO! The cutout is sturdy and withstood a photobooth for a reunion where she was also dragged onto the dance floor. Saved the box and she was quickly and easily flattened back out for transportation. No tools required to assemble. Just realize the box she travels in is quite large... wouldn't foot in my trunk (although I admit to having a rather small sedan trunk...) and had to carry her across the backseat.
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The desk stand is not heavy enough to stand on it own
It will till over so u might want to buy a lighter monitors. Also the two monitors cannot be close together so there is a big gap in the middle. If u try to put them together they will not balance.
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Broken when received
The only reason I’m giving few stars is because I never got to use it. It came on time but was packed poorly, I opened the unpadded envelop it was sent in, the box looked fine but the inhaler was broken into a million pieces. Customer service was awesome, I received a refund with no return because it was unsafe to ship broken glass. However they did recommend a place I could buy one locally, so I will try that. I’m sure it’s a good product with good reviews.
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Far better options out there.
Get the Otium Bluetooth headphones. I mistakenly bought these thinking they were the same because they look identical but they were not the same. Bluetooth connection would break up periodically. Sound was average and they broke in half when I pulled them out of my gym bag. Poor overall quality.
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ObjectiveEctopic fat deposition within and around organs is a stronger predictor of cardiometabolic disease status than body mass index. Fat deposition within the lymphatic system is poorly understood. This study examined the association between the prevalence of cardiometabolic disease and ectopic fat deposition within axillary lymph nodes (LNs) visualized on screening mammograms.
MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted on 834 women presenting for full-field digital screening mammography. The status of fat-infiltrated LNs was assessed based on the size and morphology of axillary LNs from screening mammograms. The prevalence of cardiometabolic disease was retrieved from the electronic medical records, including type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), hypertension, dyslipidemia, high blood glucose, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
ResultsFat-infiltrated axillary LNs were associated with a high prevalence of T2DM among all women (adjusted odds ratio: 3.92, 95% CI: [2.40, 6.60], p-value < 0.001) and in subgroups of women with and without obesity. Utilizing the status of fatty LNs improved the classification of T2DM status in addition to age and BMI (1.4% improvement in the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve).
ConclusionFat-infiltrated axillary LNs visualized on screening mammograms were associated with the prevalence of T2DM. If further validated, fat-infiltrated axillary LNs may represent a novel imaging biomarker of T2DM in women undergoing screening mammography.
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New data for the total cross section sigma(e^+e^- --> hadrons) in the charm
and bottom threshold region are combined with an improved theoretical analysis,
which includes recent four-loop calculations, to determine the short distance
\bar{MS} charm and bottom quark masses. The final result for the
\bar{MS}-masses, m_c(3 GeV)=0.986(13) GeV and m_b(10 GeV)=3.609(25) GeV is
consistent with but significantly more precise than a similar previous study.
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It must say something about the state of our nation that this programme is one of the most popular currently screened. <br /><br />The 'square' is peopled by such a miserable, untrustworthy, amoral, spiteful, unrelentingly dour group of characters as can be imagined. Everyone is stabbing someone in the back, everyone is attempting to commit adultery, everyone is trying to cheat someone. That, or they are being stabbed, cuckolded or swindled. Nobody is cheerful. Nobody laughs. Nobody has a blinding stroke of luck or a really nice day. It's hell, with cockney accents.<br /><br />I suspect this programme must be sponsored by The Samaritans. It's perfect viewing for the depressed. It doesn't cheer them up; what it does do is present a whole community of such terminally despondent sad-arses that viewers are moved to believe their lot really could be worse - they might be living in 'Albert Square'.<br /><br />Apart from the above; as a representation of London's east end, it is pure hokum. The programme-makers have evidently never been across town. The first thing you encounter on the Mile End Road is a colossal mosque. And this pretty-well defines the racial majority of the population. White British Londoners are a dispersed and rapidly diminishing minority. A large advertisement hoarding presently near the Bow Road flyover, and sponsored by Tower Hamlets Health Care boasts that 'Eight out of ten members of the community can now see their doctor more quickly'. Ten healthy, smiling faces beam down at the observer in confirmation. Eight of them are dark-skinned... <br /><br />What's more, I used to work with a bunch of Anglo-Saxon - dare I say 'pukka' - cockneys a few years ago. And I can tell you that a more obnoxiously racist experience I've never had. Each day was like an Oswald Moseley rally. They couldn't pass 5 minutes without denigrating some other race or nationality than their own, and in terms that were repulsive and obscene. 'Fackin' Pakis' and 'fackin' Maceroons' were the small change of conversation. In fact their entire (and extremely limited) stock of adjectives fixated upon sex-organs and their application. Alf Garnett was a paragon of liberal virtue in comparison.<br /><br />Any programme that purported to represent London's native east-end Caucasians in their true nature would be completely unfit for broadcast - even after the 9 o-clock watershed. Imagine a Ku Klux Klan script written by Quentin Tarantino and you'd be somewhere near the mark. But when they weren't being inveterate bigots they were at least extremely cheerful.<br /><br />I don't know how such a soap-opera came to be. This imaginary castaway island of white misery has absolutely no bearing upon real culture whatsoever. And if you're of a comparatively sanguine disposition, it will quickly reduce you to tears of grief. Comparatively ordinary actors pretending to be comparatively ordinary chronic-depressives with cockney accents - what's the point of that?<br /><br />Dull, dreary, unrelentingly disillusional, and ethnically preposterous. The most popular programme of an apparently diseased and dying nation.<br /><br />Avoid it like the plague.
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We discuss the electronic properties of graphene and graphene nanoribbons
including "pseudo-Rashba" spin-orbit coupling. After summarizing the bulk
properties, we first analyze the scattering behavior close to an infinite mass
and zigzag boundary. For low energies, we observe strong deviations from the
usual spin-conserving behavior at high energies such as reflection acting as
spin polarizer or switch. This results in a spin polarization along the
direction of the boundary due to the appearance of evanescent modes in the case
of non-equilibrium or when there is no coherence between the two one-particle
branches. We then discuss the spin and density distribution of graphene
nanoribbons.
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We suggest a U(1)' gauge symmetry as an alternative to the usual R-parity of
supersymmetric standard models, showing that it can also work as a common
source of stabilities of proton and dark matter in addition to other attractive
features. The residual discrete symmetries of a single U(1)' can provide
stabilities to both the MSSM sector (proton) and the hidden sector (new dark
matter candidate, LUP). The LUP can expand the viability of many models such as
R-parity violating models and gauge mediation models regarding dark matter
issue.
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right the hospital scene with Holly and Shannon was done brilliantly it starts off with Piper On A gurney looking very badly injured, the docs race her into a resuscitation room & they move her from the gurney onto a bed and Prue Holds Her Hand from that point on it is obvious that Piper is having a lot of trouble breathing and her lungs are failing, as she turns to beg of Prue to not leave her side she gaps "don't go i love you and then her pulse drops and she goes into cardiac arrest & the monitor shows a clear flat line & the nurses go into full out trauma mode & bring in a defibrillator Prue Steps back from the bed in horror as the doctors desperately try to shock her dying sisters heart but there is no response and she is tragically pronounced dead well great scene well done girls
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Mariana trench is the deepest place on the Earth. It crosses four tectonic
plates of the Pacific Ocean: Mariana, Caroline, Pacific and Philippine. The
formation of the trench is caused by the complex interconnection of various
environmental factors. The aim of this study was to describe and characterize
various impact factors affecting formation of the Mariana trench geomorphology
and continental margin environments using R programming language and
mathematical algorithms of correlation methods written on R code. To record the
system of geological, tectonic, geographic, oceanological and bathymetric
features affecting Mariana trench , a combination of statistical methods, GIS
and R programming codes were applied. The questions answered are as follows:
which factors are the most influencing for the Mariana trench morphology, and
to what extend do they affect its development? Is sedimental thickness of the
ocean trench basement more important factors for the trench formation comparing
to the steepness slope angle and aspect degree? Three methods of computing were
tested: Pearson correlation, Spearman correlation, Kendall correlation,
numerical correlogram, correlation matrix and cross-correlatios to analyze
environmental impact factors. The correlogram matrices are computed and
visualized by R scripting libraries. Complex usage of programming tools,
mathematical statistics and geospatial analysis enabled to get a differentiated
understandings of the hadal environments of the Mariana trench. The results
revealed following three types of factors having the highest score: geometric
(tg{\deg} slope angle), geologic (sedimental thickness) and tectonic structure.
The results furthermore indicated that tectonic plates, sedimental thickness of
the trench basement and igneous volcanic areas causing earthquakes play the
most essential role in the geomorphology of the trench.
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We study transport properties of a topological insulator nanowire when a
magnetic field is applied along its length. We predict that with strong surface
disorder, a characteristic signature of the band topology is revealed in
Aharonov Bohm (AB) oscillations of the conductance. These oscillations have a
component with anomalous period $\Phi_0=hc/e$, and with conductance maxima at
odd multiples of $\frac12\Phi_0$, i.e. when the AB phase for surface electrons
is $\pi$. This is intimately connected to the band topology and a surface
curvature induced Berry phase, special to topological insulator surfaces. We
discuss similarities and differences from recent experiments on Bi$_2$Se$_3$
nanoribbons, and optimal conditions for observing this effect.
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We study the dynamical interaction of the solar chromosphere with the
transition region in mossy and non-mossy active-region plage. We carefully
align image sequences taken with the Transition Region And Coronal Explorer
(TRACE) in the ultraviolet passbands around 1550, 1600, and 1700 A and the
extreme ultraviolet passbands at 171 and 195 A. We compute Fourier
phase-difference spectra that are spatially averaged separately over mossy and
non-mossy plage to study temporal modulations as a function of temporal
frequency. The 1550 versus 171 A comparison shows zero phase difference in
non-mossy plage. In mossy plage, the phase differences between all UV and EUV
passbands show pronounced upward trends with increasing frequency, which
abruptly changes into zero phase difference beyond 4-6 mHz. The phase
difference between the 171 and 195 A sequences exhibits a shallow dip below 3
mHz and then also turns to zero phase difference beyond this value. We
attribute the various similarities between the UV and EUV diagnostics that are
evident in the phase-difference diagrams to the contribution of the C IV
resonance lines in the 1550 and 1600 A passbands. The strong upward trend at
the lower frequencies indicates the presence of upward-traveling disturbances.
It points to correspondence between the lower chromosphere and the upper
transition region, perhaps by slow-mode magnetosonic disturbances, or by a
connection between chromospheric and coronal heating mechanisms. The transition
from this upward trend to zero phase difference at higher frequencies is due to
the intermittent obscuration by fibrils that occult the foot points of hot
loops, which are bright in the EUV and C IV lines, in oscillatory manner.
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