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It must be assumed that those who praised this film ("the greatest filmed opera ever," didn't I read somewhere?) either don't care for opera, don't care for Wagner, or don't care about anything except their desire to appear Cultured. Either as a representation of Wagner's swan-song, or as a movie, this strikes me as an unmitigated disaster, with a leaden reading of the score matched to a tricksy, lugubrious realisation of the text.<br /><br />It's questionable that people with ideas as to what an opera (or, for that matter, a play, especially one by Shakespeare) is "about" should be allowed anywhere near a theatre or film studio; Syberberg, very fashionably, but without the smallest justification from Wagner's text, decided that Parsifal is "about" bisexual integration, so that the title character, in the latter stages, transmutes into a kind of beatnik babe, though one who continues to sing high tenor -- few if any of the actors in the film are the singers, and we get a double dose of Armin Jordan, the conductor, who is seen as the face (but not heard as the voice) of Amfortas, and also appears monstrously in double exposure as a kind of Batonzilla or Conductor Who Ate Monsalvat during the playing of the Good Friday music -- in which, by the way, the transcendant loveliness of nature is represented by a scattering of shopworn and flaccid crocuses stuck in ill-laid turf, an expedient which baffles me. In the theatre we sometimes have to piece out such imperfections with our thoughts, but I can't think why Syberberg couldn't splice in, for Parsifal and Gurnemanz, mountain pasture as lush as was provided for Julie Andrews in Sound of Music...<br /><br />The sound is hard to endure, the high voices and the trumpets in particular possessing an aural glare that adds another sort of fatigue to our impatience with the uninspired conducting and paralytic unfolding of the ritual. Someone in another review mentioned the 1951 Bayreuth recording, and Knappertsbusch, though his tempi are often very slow, had what Jordan altogether lacks, a sense of pulse, a feeling for the ebb and flow of the music -- and, after half a century, the orchestral sound in that set, in modern pressings, is still superior to this film.
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The recent results of IceCube Neutrino Observatory include an excess of PeV
neutrino events which appear to follow a broken power law different from the
other lower energy neutrinos detected by IceCube. The possible astrophysical
source of these neutrinos is still unknown. One possible source of such
neutrinos could be the decay of non-thermal, long-living heavy mass Dark
Matter, whose mass should be $> 10^{6} \rm {GeV}$ and could have produced at
the very early Universe. They can undergo cascading decay via both hadronic and
leptonic channels to finally produce such high energy neutrinos. This
possibility has been explored in this work by studying the decay flux of these
Dark Matter candidates. The mass and lifetime of such Dark Matter particles
have been obtained by performing a $\chi^2$ fit with the PeV neutrino data of
IceCube. We finally estimate the baryon asymmetry produced in the Universe due
to such Dark Matter decay.
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In this paper we study the entire solutions of the Fisher-KPP equation
$u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$ on the half line $[0,\infty)$ with Dirichlet boundary
condition at $x=0$. (1). For any $c\geq 2\sqrt{f'(0)}$, we show the existence
of an entire solution $\mathcal{U}^c(x,t)$ which connects the traveling wave
solution $\phi^c(x+ct)$ at $t=-\infty$ and the unique positive stationary
solution $V(x)$ at $t=+\infty$; (2). We also construct an entire solution
$\mathcal{U}(x,t)$ which connects the solution of $\eta_t =f(\eta)$ at
$t=-\infty$ and $V(x)$ at $t=+\infty$.
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Good air flow. Power button is a poor design.
Its a good fan. The only problem i have with it ia the power button. It has to be pushed hard to turn on and this causes the fan to move. I have to hold onto the fan while pushing the power button. Strange. Needs improvement.
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We investigate conjunctive normal form (CNF) encodings of a function
represented with a decomposable negation normal form (DNNF). Several encodings
of DNNFs and decision diagrams were considered by (Abio et al. 2016). The
authors differentiate between encodings which implement consistency or domain
consistency by unit propagation from encodings which are unit refutation
complete or propagation complete. The difference is that in the former case we
do not care about propagation strength of the encoding with respect to the
auxiliary variables while in the latter case we treat all variables (the main
and the auxiliary ones) in the same way. The currently known encodings of DNNF
theories implement domain consistency. Building on these encodings we
generalize the result of (Abio et al. 2016) on a propagation complete encoding
of decision diagrams and present a propagation complete encoding of a DNNF and
its generalization for variables with finite domains.
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The precise knowledge of the positions of space debris objects and in
particular of defunct satellites is fundamental for satellite operations.
Several studies showed that it is possible to improve the accuracy of the orbit
determination results by fusing different types of observables, i.e. classical
astrometric positions and range measurements. Particularly promising in the
space debris field are the ranges provided by a satellite laser ranging system.
The factors that limit the applicability of the satellite laser ranging (SLR)
techniques are the altitude of the target, the accuracy of the predicted
ephemeris of the target, the energy of the laser pulse, and the laser field of
view. In this paper we will show a way to overcome the mentioned challenges by
using a night-tracking camera for the real time correction of the pointing of
the SLR system (active tracking), and for the simultaneous acquisition of
measurements used to improve the orbits and to study the attitude of the
target. After presenting the basic functionalities, the performance of the
night-tracking camera, and the procedure to acquire the measurements, we will
also show the potential of this tool to allow improving orbits in real-time.
This study is carried out for defunct or recently decommissioned satellites.
Only real angular/laser measurements provided by the sensors of the Swiss
Optical Ground Station and Geodynamics Observatory Zimmerwald (SwissOGS) owned
by the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern (AIUB) are used.
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Purpose: A novel approach using nano technology enhanced radiation modalities
is investigated. The proposed methodology uses antibodies labeled with
organically inert metals with a high atomic number. Irradiation using photons
with energies in the kilo--electron volt (keV) range show an increase in dose
due to a combination of an increase in photo-electric interactions and a
pronounced generation of Auger and/or Coster-Kronig (A-CK) electrons.
Methods: The dependency of the dose deposition on various factors is
investigated using Monte Carlo simulation models. The factors investigated
include: agent concentration, spectral dependency looking at mono--energetic
sources as well as classical bremsstrahlung sources. The optimization of the
energy spectrum is performed in terms of physical dose enhancement as well as
the dose deposited by Auger and/or Coster-Kronig electrons and their biological
effectiveness.
Results: A quasi-linear dependency on concentration and an exponential
decrease within the target medium is observed. The maximal dose enhancement is
dependent on the position of the target in the beam. Apart from irradiation
with low photon energies (10 - 20 keV) there is no added benefit from the
increase in generation of Auger electrons. Interestingly, a regular 110kVp
bremsstrahlung spectrum shows a comparable enhancement in comparison with the
optimized mono--energetic sources.
Conclusions: In conclusion we find that the use of nano-particle enhanced
shows promise to be implemented quite easily in regular clinic on a physical
level due to the advantageous properties in classical beams.
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I actually didn't start watching the show until it came on FX. I was bored and had nothing to watch and saw that the show's reruns were premiering so i decided to watch it. I was so upset that I had not watched the show when it first aired on t.v. I loved the show so much!Finally a show for everyone to enjoy. I remember Full House and Family Matters and Step by Step and they were okay shows but just not funny enough. They would make dumb jokes and laugh over things that were just plain stupid, but not That 70s Show. That 70s Show was hilarious, smart and so real. I think it was the best show ever made and I'm very sorry that it ended. Although I love this show, I do think it should have ended on the seventh season when Eric and Kelso leave. The last season was just not right, Eric was the main character and the show should have ended when his character leaves. I still love this show and I hope TV starts making more shows like this one.
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Our goal is to enable robots to learn cost functions from user guidance.
Often it is difficult or impossible for users to provide full demonstrations,
so corrections have emerged as an easier guidance channel. However, when robots
learn cost functions from corrections rather than demonstrations, they have to
extrapolate a small amount of information -- the change of a waypoint along the
way -- to the rest of the trajectory. We cast this extrapolation problem as
online function approximation, which exposes different ways in which the robot
can interpret what trajectory the person intended, depending on the function
space used for the approximation. Our simulation results and user study suggest
that using function spaces with non-Euclidean norms can better capture what
users intend, particularly if environments are uncluttered. This, in turn, can
lead to the robot learning a more accurate cost function and improves the
user's subjective perceptions of the robot.
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In this paper we show that power-law inflation can be realized in non-minimal
gravitational coupling of electromagnetic field with a general function of
Gauss-Bonnet invariant. Such a non-minimal coupling may appear due to quantum
corrections. We also consider modified Maxwell-$F(G)$ gravity in which
non-minimal coupling between electromagnetic field and $f(G)$ occur in the
framework of modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity. It is shown that inflationary
cosmology and late-time accelerated expansion of the universe are possible in
such a theory.
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Very recommend!!
First of all the product was delivered fast, I found it very useful and easy to use. I was looking for GPS tracker in my car, thanks to this device I found it(hidden underneath the steering wheel), now I’m going to check my friend car to see if he got tracker on it.
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I caught this movie on the Horror Channel and was quite impressed by the film's Gothic atmosphere and tone. As a big fan of all things vampire related, I am always happy to see a new variation of the vampire mythos, in this case, a ghoul-like creature residing in a Lovecraftian other dimension. The director has done a brilliant job of conveying the dark mood of the subject, using the decadent art scene as a backdrop to what is essentially a tale of love spanning time and space- the pure love of friendship opposed to the lust for blood and life by the vampires in the story. The characters in the story are transported to another dimension by the means of a mind-altering substance, where a shape-shifting vampire creature appears to grant them their hearts desires, whilst draining them of their life essence. There are some analogies to drug addiction and loss of control, and how this affects a group of friends in an artistic circle. I enjoyed watching the 2 main male characters in the story, Chris Ivan Cevic and Alex Petrovich, who were very attractive hunks, always a plus point in a vampire story for the female viewers! The special effects make up and creature effects were well done, and the set design of the vampire's dimension was very effective. All in all, an enjoyable take on vampire myths, and recommended for anyone who likes their vampires with some intelligence and not just action. The only thing missing to make it even better would have been a bit more eroticism and nudity, as it would have suited the plot and themes.
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I construct a simple model of the convective burning layer during a type I
X-ray burst to investigate the effects convection has on the stability of the
layer to nonradial oscillations. A linear perturbation analysis demonstrates
that the region is stable to nonradial oscillations when energy transport is
convection-dominated, but it is unstable when energy transport is
radiation-dominated. Thus, efficient convection always dampens oscillations.
These results may explain the nondetection of oscillations during the peak of
some X-ray bursts.
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love it
Love love love this. I am so excited my dog actually listens to me! My dad has a 2 acre lot that we have been wanting our dog to play in but every time we let him out, he would run away. Yesterday I put the collar on him and after a couple of times on the shock setting he stays in the yard. I highly recommend this product whatever the behavior problem is. This works for more than barking.
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Two bottom $\Sigma_b(6097)^\pm$ baryons were observed in the final states
$\Lambda_b^0\pi^-$ and $\Lambda_b^0\pi^+$ in $pp$ collision by LHCb
collaboration, whose masses and widths were measured. In a $^{3}P_{0}$ model,
the strong decay widths of two ground $S$-wave and seven excited $P$-wave
$\Sigma_b$ baryons have been systematically computed. Numerical results
indicate that the newly observed $\Sigma_b(6097)^\pm$ are very possibly
$\Sigma_{b2}^1({3\over 2}^-)$ with $J^P={3\over 2}^-$ or $\Sigma_{b2}^1({5\over
2}^-)$ with $J^P={5\over 2}^-$. The predicted decay widths of
$\Sigma_b(6097)^\pm$ are consistent with experimental measurement from LHCb. In
particular, it may be possible to distinguish these two assignments through
ratios $\Gamma({\Sigma_b(6097)^\pm\to
\Sigma_b^\pm\pi^0})/\Gamma({\Sigma_b(6097)^\pm\to \Sigma_b^{*\pm}\pi^0})$,
which can be measured by experiments in the future. In the meantime, our
results support the assignments that $\Sigma_b^\pm$ and $\Sigma_b^{*\pm}$ are
the ground $S$-wave $\Sigma_b$ baryons with $J^P={1\over 2}^+$ and $J^P={3\over
2}^+$, respectively.
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Villan and hero both on the razor edge
Since we were not there we have to accept reported stories as truths from the best information available and this book seems to do that in relating the lives of Killer Billy the Kid and his killer Pat Garrett who but for the turn of a card could have been an outlaw himself. A very interesting book that not only relates seemingly accurately the life of Billy but the lesser known life of Pat Garrett, the man that made it his life's work to bring to an end the life of the Killer despite that many of the problems of the day were brought on other unscrupulous men of the times.
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We report the discovery of 4 strong gravitational lensing systems by visual
inspections of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey images of galaxy clusters in Data
Release 6 (SDSS DR6). Two of the four systems show Einstein rings while the
others show tangential giant arcs. These arcs or rings have large angular
separations (>8") from the bright central galaxies and show bluer color
compared with the red cluster galaxies. In addition, we found 5 probable and 4
possible lenses by galaxy clusters.
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A good read
For the most part, I enjoyed the book...occasionally I found the dialogue forced, and at times I felt young Sarah's character was overdone. Too much effort framing her immature feelings, when "less is more." The reader's ability to perceive a young girl's emotions is underrated. The most salient feature of the book is a well told story, with mostly compelling momentum.
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I love cheesy horror flicks. I don't care if the acting is sub-par or whether the monsters look corny. I liked this movie except for the bewildered feeling all the way from the beginning of the film to the very end. Look, I don't need a 10 page dissertation or a sign with big letters explaining a plot to me. But Dark Floors takes the "what is this movie about?" thing to a whole new (annoying) level. What IS this movie about?<br /><br />This isn't exceptionally scary or thrilling but if you have an hour and a half to kill and/or you want to end up feeling frustrated and confused, rent this winner.
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this is a beautiful set and is worth the attempt to receive one ...
I purchased this gift for my significant other over the holidays because of the competitive price and the lack of funds on my part. She has received many compliments for the beauty of the set and loves the product. However, the watches rose gold coloring has been fading from the piece of jewelry since a month after she has been wearing it. Though the watch is worn everyday for multiple hours, I feel that the coloring should of held up much longer than it has. She works in an office setting everyday, the the physical demand is very limited and doesn't warrant the amount of wear that shows on the device. Other than that, this is a beautiful set and is worth the attempt to receive one of better quality for yourself. Good luck
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We present a new approximation algorithm for the minimum 2-edge-connected
spanning subgraph problem. Its approximation ratio is $\frac{4}{3}$, which
matches the current best ratio. The approximation ratio of the algorithm is
$\frac{6}{5}$ on subcubic graphs, which is an improvement upon the previous
best ratio of $\frac{5}{4}$. The algorithm is a novel extension of the
primal-dual schema, which consists of two distinct phases. Both the algorithm
and the analysis are much simpler than those of the previous approaches.
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Uniqueness it wins
Had one for my Note 8 and found it was my favorite case, so had to get one for my S9+. Feels good in the hand, has the right amount of tack on clothes, micro fiber and furniture. Other cases simply slide off, this case can hang on nearly vertical on my micro fiber couch. Price is a bit high for what you get. Uniqueness it wins, although protection won't be very high.
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ImportanceCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has become a leading barrier to increasing the US vaccination rate.
ObjectiveTo evaluate time trends in COVID-19 vaccine intent during the US vaccine rollout, and identify key factors related to and self-reported reasons for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in May 2021.
Design, participants and settingA COVID-19 survey was offered to US adult Facebook users in several languages yielding 5,088,772 qualifying responses from January 6 to May 31, 2021. Data was aggregated by month. Survey weights matched the sample to the age, gender, and state profile of the US population.
ExposureDemographics, geographic factors, political/COVID-19 environment, health status, beliefs, and behaviors.
Main outcome measures"If a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 were offered to you today, would you choose to get vaccinated." Hesitant was defined as responding probably or definitely would not choose to get vaccinated (versus probably or definitely would, or already vaccinated).
ResultsCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy decreased by one-third from 25.4% (95%CI, 25.3, 25.5) in January to 16.6% (95% CI, 16.4, 16.7) in May, with relatively large decreases among participants with Black, Pacific Islander or Hispanic race/ethnicity and [≤]high school education. Independent risk factors for vaccine hesitancy in May (N=525,644) included younger age, non-Asian race, < 4 year college degree, living in a more rural county, living in a county with higher Trump vote share in the 2020 election, lack of worry about COVID-19, working outside the home, never intentionally avoiding contact with others, and no past-year flu vaccine. Differences in hesitancy by race/ethnicity varied by age (e.g., Black adults more hesitant than White adults <35 years old, but less hesitant among adults [≥]45 years old). Differences in hesitancy by age varied by race/ethnicity. Almost half of vaccine hesitant respondents reported fear of side effects (49.2% [95%CI, 48.7, 49.7]) and not trusting the COVID-19 vaccine (48.4% [95%CI, 48.0, 48.9]); over one-third reported not trusting the government, not needing the vaccine, and waiting to see if safe. Reasons differed by degree of vaccine intent and by race/ethnicity.
ConclusionCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy varied by demographics, geography, beliefs, and behaviors, indicating a need for a range of messaging and policy options to target high-hesitancy groups.
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Our sense of belonging is totally askew, EXCEPT consciously/ conscionably land-linked - bodily we are the stuff of land, to which our bodies must return. We honor self when we honor earth; we dishonor self when we dishonor earth, the existential substance of life - created life is consubstantial with the Mind of the Creator. We sacrilege self when we sacrilege Nature - The Naturalis Sacramentum Ordinis.
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We show that, based on the critical state model for flux-line pinning in hard
superconductors, one can assess the magnetic moment relaxation induced by the
oscillations of a perpendicular magnetic field. Our theory follows a recent
proposal of using phenomenological 2D modeling for the description of crossed
field dynamics in high-T$_c$ superconductors [{\tt arXiv:cond-mat/0703330}].
Stationary regimes with either saturation to metastable configurations, or
complete decay to the thermodynamic equilibrium are obtained. The transition
between both types of response is related to the disappearance of a flux free
core within the sample. As a common feature, a step-like dependence in the time
relaxation is predicted for both cases. The theory may be applied to long bars
of arbitrary and non homogeneous cross section, under in-plane magnetic field
processes.
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Embraer Brazilian Aviation Co (NYSE:ERJ)
Q3 2019 Earnings Call
, 8:30 a.m. ET
Contents:
Prepared Remarks
Questions and Answers
Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the audio conference call that will review Embraer's third-quarter 2019 results. Thank you for standing by. [Operator instructions]. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded and webcasted at ri.embraer.com.br.
This conference call includes forward-looking statements or statements about events or circumstances which have not occurred. Embraer has based these forward-looking statements largely on its current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends affecting the business and its future financial performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including, among other things, general economic, political and business conditions in Brazil and in other markets where the company is present. The words believe, may, will, estimates, continues, anticipates, intends, expects, and similar words are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Embraer undertakes no obligations to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements because of new information, future events or other factors. In light of these risks and uncertainties, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed on this conference call might not occur. The company's actual results could differ substantially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Participants on today's conference call are Mr.
Francisco Gomes Neto, president and CEO; Mr. Nelson Salgado, executive vice president, finance, and investor relations; and Mr. Eduardo Couto, director of investor relations. I would like now to turn the conference over to Mr.
Nelson Salgado. Please go ahead, sir.
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining the call. We start our presentation with the Commercial Aviation highlights at Slide 4. Embraer delivered 17 E-jets in the third quarter and 54 year to date. Among those, we highlight the deliveries of the first E195-E2 to be operated by Azul Airlines.
During the third quarter, Helvetic Airways, a Swiss airline, also received its first E190-E2 jet. It is important to mention that this two program is doing very well, and the entry into service of the E2 jet since last year has been a big success. As far as Services & Support, Azul and Horizon Air signed its Services & Support program for their E1 fleet and Embraer also achieved 100% E-jet operator enrollment in Asia Pacific for its pool program. That includes 60 aircraft and a total of six different airlines.
Moving to Slide 5, we show the Executive Jets highlights. Embraer delivered 27 executive jets, 15 light and 12 large, in the third quarter leading to 63 airplanes year to date. During the third quarter, we delivered seven Praetor 600, including the first Praetor 600 jet assembled in Florida. As far as sales, Embraer had the highest year-to-date sales in Executive Jets in the last five years with the Praetor 600 as a big success and the best superior five jet in the market.
Interest from customers is very high, and we had the announcement at NBAA of $1.4 billion deal with Flexjet for the Praetor jets and the Phenom 300, a deal that can get to the delivery of around 64 jets. Flexjet also became the Praetor fleet launch customer with first delivery scheduled for fourth quarter 2019. Finally, in terms of the Praetor program development, the Praetor 500 received a triple certification from ANAC, FAA and EASA, outperforming on key performance metrics such as speed and range. Moving to Slide 6 with Defense & Security business, which continues its transition from KC-390 product development phase to serial production with special highlights to the entry into service of the KC-390 with Brazilian Air Force.
First aircraft was delivered to Brazilian Air Force in September and the second is expected to be delivered by year-end. The KC-390 also successfully performed a very important air-to-air refueling test with Brazilian Air Force during the third-quarter 2019 and continues to move the certification of critical military missions. Also, very important to mention, is that Portugal became the KC-390 first export customer with a firm order for 5 KC-390 and related services. This contract will amount to approximately $1 billion and will be included in our backlog in the fourth quarter.
Talking about other defense platforms, we have sold nine Super Tucanos to two undisclosed customers and the Brazilian Air Force received the fourth legacy 500 aircraft modified for airport inspection operations. With that, we conclude our business highlights and move to the financial results. We start with the firm order backlog at Slide 8. Embraer backlog reached $16.2 billion in the third-quarter 2019, which is almost $3 billion above what we had one year ago.
New orders for Executive Jets have been the main highlights in the backlog this year. And on the defense side, the recent KC-390 order from Portugal will be added to the backlog in the fourth quarter. Next slide, Slide 9. We present aircraft deliveries starting with Commercial Aviation.
We delivered 17 jets in the third quarter, two jets more than what we delivered in the same period of last year. Year to date, we have delivered 54 jets. We maintain our guidance of 85 to 95 deliveries in 2019, implying a strong fourth quarter in terms of deliveries. On Executive Jets, we delivered 27 jets in the third quarter, three more than what we delivered in the same period of 2018.
A special highlight here to the 12 deliveries of large jets against seven in the third quarter of 2018. From this 12 aircraft, we have the five Praetor 600 aircraft. We also reiterate our guidance of 90 to 110 deliveries in 2019 in executive aviation, also implying strong deliveries in the fourth quarter. Next slide, we present net revenues.
We reached revenues of $1.176 billion in the third quarter, slightly above 2018. Year to date, we achieved $3.378 billion in revenues. These revenues are broken by Commercial Aviation, $408 million; executive aviation, $363 million; defense, $164 million. In this defense revenue, we had to account for a loss associated with the KC-390 air development program of around $44 million; and services, $238 million.
We reiterate our guidance of revenues from $5.3 billion to $5.7 billion in 2019. Moving to Slide 11, we present SG&A. Our SG&A expenses totaled $108 million, broken by $37 million in G&A and $71 million in selling expenses. We continue to reduce SG&A expenses despite the preparation for the separation of the Commercial Aviation business.
At Slide 12, we show operating results. Embraer's third quarter, EBIT was negative in $21 million, implying a negative margin of 1.8%. Important to mention that our EBIT included $66 million in separation costs related to the commercialization carve-outs year to date and $35 million in the first quarter alone. Excluding Commercial Aviation, EBIT of the businesses that will remain at Embraer was 2.6% in the third quarter and breakeven year to date mostly driven by better margins at executive aviation.
Our margin per business in the third quarter was -- were negative 11% at Commercial Aviation driven by carve-out costs and the E2 ramp-up ; positive 6% in Executive Jets with the beginning of the Praetor 600 deliveries; negative 4% in defense, as I mentioned, impacted by one-off charges of $44 million in the KC-390; and positive 7% of Services & Support also partially impacted by carve-out costs. Moving to EBITDA at Slide 13. Embraer's EBITDA was also impacted by the carve-out costs. EBITDA reached 18 million third quarter, equivalent to a margin of 1.5%.
EBITDA year to date is $116 million with 3.4% margin. At Slide 14, we present net income. Embraer reported a net loss in the third quarter of $48 million, implying a negative margin of 4.1%. Our earnings have been negatively impacted by the combination of carve-out costs, same impact as we had in the EBIT and EBITDA and higher financial leverage that will move as we close the deal as together with the debt that will move to Boeing Commercial Aviation.
Moving to investments. We reached $314 million year to date, broken by $33 million in research, $187 million in development and $94 million in capex. Our major investments in the year are related to the E2 program development. As far as cash flow at Slide 16, Embraer had a free cash flow consumption of $257 million in the third-quarter 2019 and it is $921 million year to date.
We expect to recover a big amount of our cash usage in the fourth quarter with meaningful free cash flow generation driven by aircraft deliveries on both executive and commercial that will have strong fourth quarters. Given that, we anticipate a negative free cash flow in the range of $100 to $300 million for the full year of 2019. This negative free cash flow already includes all the separation costs. As a result of the free cash flow consumption, we show our indebtedness profile at Slide 17.
Our average debt maturity is 4.9 years, and Embraer ended the third quarter with a cash position of $2.2 billion and a total debt position of $3.5 billion, implying a net debt of $1.3 billion. Moving now to Slide 19, we bring some information about the status of Embraer and Boeing partnership. As it was widely published in the press, European Union has recently announced an extension of its decision deadline regarding the partnership until at least March 2020. Despite that, the carve-out of the company Commercial Aviation business is starting as planned at the end of 2019.
So as we close 2019, we will start implementing the carve-out of our Commercial Aviation business. It will be separated into another company. And it's very important to make clear that Commercial Aviation business will continue to operate normally 100% under Embraer's management until the closing of the operation. We now expect the transaction to be consummated shortly after all regulatory approvals are sustained.
Now we move to our guidance. Given the cash consumption observed in the third quarter, the review of short- and medium-term business plan and considering the new closing timeline of the transaction expected to occur in at least March 2020, we updated our 2019 and 2020 guidance. For 2019, Embraer reaffirmed deliveries of 85 to 95 E-Jets, 90 to 110 executive jets, two KC-390 and now expects the delivery of five Super Tucanos. Embraer also reaffirms expectations for revenues of $5.3 billion to $5.7 billion and breakeven EBIT margin while removing the estimates which were dependent upon closing of the transaction at the end of 2019.
We will also introduce 2019 free cash flow guidance for cash consumption from $100 to $300 million in 2019, including here again all separation costs. For 2020 guidance at Slide 22. And this guidance includes all the expected results of executive, defense, and related services that is the scope that would be maintained by Embraer after closing. Embraer reaffirms consolidated revenues of $2.5 to $2.8 billion, EBIT margin of 2% to 5% and breakeven free cash flow in 2020.
Given Embraer's expected 2019 cash consumption combined with the anticipation of the closing of the Embraer-Boeing partnership to March 2020 -- March or April 2020 and the potential financial impact of these delays, Embraer now expects a special dividend of between $1.3 billion and $1.6 billion to be paid after closing of the transaction in 2020. With that, I conclude my presentation, and we would like -- I would like to pass to our CEO, Francisco Gomes, for his closing remarks.
Francisco Gomes -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Nelson, and good morning to all analysts and investors connected on this call. After six months as the head of Embraer, I would like to share my impressions with the market. First, we have a great team, and I'm really impressed by the commitment and hard work of our team in the carve-out process to separate the Commercial Aviation business into a new company. Of course, the carve-out has affected our results in 2019, but we are confident that after the conclusion of this partnership with Boeing, Embraer will be much stronger.
Second, while we continue to manage our whole business in the ordinary course, we have been extensively working recent losses on our business plan of this new Embraer, and important actions have already been taken. We have presented to the market at the right time, but I'm 100% convinced of this huge value we have in executive, defense, and services. With a lot of focus on sales of the great new products we have, discipline in cost control and cash generation, I believe that our biggest opportunity today is to improve these three businesses. No other initiatives will be creating more value to our shareholder -- shareholders than this.
That is the reason my management team is deeply engaged reviewing the business plan for executive, defense. and services. We also continue with focus on the innovation initiatives that will contribute with the future growth of the company. Finally, we recently announced important changes that Nelson Salgado, our current CFO, will now move to operations to increase the alignment of operations team with the financial targets we have.
We also announced Antonio Garcia as our new CFO starting on January 1, 2020. Antonio comes from thyssenkrupp and brings a lot of experience in cost control, profitability turnaround and cash generation. I believe we are geared in the right leadership at Embraer to take the necessary steps that will bring enormous results to our investors in the coming years. With that, we conclude our presentation and we would like to open for questions.
Questions & Answers:
Operator
[Operator instructions]. Our first question comes from Cai von Rumohr, Cowen and Company.
Jeff Molinari -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Hi, this is Jeff Molinari on for Cai. Good morning and thank you for taking my question. So the first question I have is on the Boeing-Embraer JV. This weekend, it was reported that you stopped the clock to review the proposed JV.
Is this latest development contemplated in your expectation for a decision in March? Or how is that -- will that be delayed substantially? And then I have a couple of follow-ups.
Francisco Gomes -- Chief Executive Officer
Well, thanks, Jeff. No. We do not see that there's any additional delays. Actually, when the European Commission decided to move the process to Phase 2, they decided on the deadline that would be around mid-May -- mid-March.
And they requested additional information from the two companies. We are working very hard to deliver this information as soon as possible, but the European Commission stopped the clock until they receive this additional information. We do not see this as any change in the normal course of this process and don't expect this to mean big delays.
Jeff Molinari -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
OK. Thank you. And if I can, another follow-up. So the delay caused the decrease in the special dividend range, so -- but you didn't quantify what the impact is on separation costs.
Can you talk a little bit about what expectation is for those costs in 2019 and 2020 or collectively, however you want to frame it? Thank you.
Francisco Gomes -- Chief Executive Officer
The separation costs will amount to [Inaudible] then $100 million -- close to $100 million in 2019. And there may be something left for 2020, but we don't expect that to be significant.
Jeff Molinari -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
And then is there an amount in your free cash flow guidance that you're assuming for the free cash flow guidance, the $100 million to $300 million outflow? What are your assumptions of separation costs within that?
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
So the same. That guidance includes already the separation costs in the order of $400 million that I mentioned, too.
Jeff Molinari -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
OK. I'll get back in line. Thank you, guys.
Operator
Our next question comes from Myles Walton, UBS.
Louis Raffetto -- UBS -- Analyst
Good morning, everyone. This is Louis Raffetto on for Myles.
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Hi, good morning.
Louis Raffetto -- UBS -- Analyst
Just wanted to sort of follow up on that. So what was the driver to the change in the dividend? It was I think previously $1.6 billion, now it's $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion. And is there -- is the -- is there a change in the amount of leakage that you expect from the deal as well?
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
No. That is driven mainly by the cash flow consumption in 2019 and also by the delay, the change of the closing from early 2020 to around March, right? So in the light of the cash consumption, we thought it would be better to change the guidance for the dividend.
Louis Raffetto -- UBS -- Analyst
OK. Thank you. And then a follow-up. So I think now you're saying there's I think five Super Tucanos.
I guess I thought, previously, were you expecting a few more than that this year? Or is that --
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Yes. We were -- well, five of them were postponed to the beginning of 2020.
Louis Raffetto -- UBS -- Analyst
OK. Great. Thank you very much.
Operator
[Operator instructions]. Our next question comes from [Inaudible], Global Capital.
Unknown speaker
My question is about the business jet orders. Wonder if you could provide a little bit of description on how that went for Q3.
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Sorry. Are you asking about business jet orders?
Unknown speaker
Yes. Correct.
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Yes. Business jet orders, as we mentioned in the call, were at the highest level in the first nine months of the year from the last five years. So it's been a very good result. And within those orders, we had this $1.4 billion orders from Flexjet, which is very important as Flexjet becomes the launch customer of the Praetor 500.
So it was a very big year so far to business jet sales.
Unknown speaker
Thank you. And I just had a quick follow-up. Can you -- are you able to discuss backlog for Q3 for business jet specifically?
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Well, as a consequence of the sales, backlog is at its highest for executive aviation as well, but I don't have here the figure for the aviation backlog, but it is at the highest ever of.
Unknown speaker
OK. Thank you.
Operator
Excuse me. Our next question comes from Cai von Rumohr, Cowen and Company.
Cai von Rumohr -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Hi, thanks for the follow up, guys. What is your new expectation for net cash disposition if the deal were to close in March time frame? Thank you.
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Well, Cai, this depends on exactly when the deal closes. As you know, as we move by during the year, in our industry, it's normal to have cash consumption in the first months of the year because of the seasonality. So the amount of cash that the liquid cash that we -- the net cash that we will have at closing will depend on the moment the -- when the closing was planned, that happened coincidentally with the year-end where we have our [Inaudible] cash position because of the situation. Now with the closing moving closer to the end the third quarter in the year, then it's difficult to predict the net cash.
It will depend on the operational performance and cash consumption of the first months of the year.
Cai von Rumohr -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
OK. That make sense. And then how is the separation activity progressing? And is it you are on track for internally separating by fiscal year-end? What still needs to be done between now and the next month and a half?
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Cai, you know this is a complex problem. We have many, many projects going on to be able to do that separation. Right now, we have closed the integrated test for the separation of the ERP system, which is one of the biggest tests that we have to do. And with that, we consider that most of the activities are finished.
So our plan was to have finished most of the significant activities by beginning of December, and that is very much on track. So what we will do now as we close 2019, we will enter a blackout period because we have to shut down the current system so that we could start the operation as two different separate companies. So we expect to take the first two to three weeks of January in that process. And when we come back from that, we will already operate as two separate companies.
The company that will in the future becomes bonded with commercial and Embraer with the commercial business carve-out. As I mentioned in the presentation, from this point until the closing, Embraer will continue to operate Commercial Aviation as we've always done. The only difference is that now internally, it will be from separate companies but same management, same leadership.
Cai von Rumohr -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Understood. Thank you.
Operator
Our next question comes from Josh Lorico, Morgan Stanley.
Josh Milberg -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Oh, hi. This is actually Josh Milberg from Morgan Stanley. I was hoping -- I wanted to ask if you could give a little more color on the nature of your commercial profitability in the third quarter in addition to the issue of separation costs you mentioned that it was affected by ramp-up of the E2. Could you -- could you talk a little bit more about that effect and how you see that matter effect evolving into the fourth quarter and into 2020? I realize of course that if all goes as planned, you won't be managing the commercial business as of next year, but I thought you'd still have some perspective.
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
OK. So the results of Commercial Aviation in the quarter, they were negatively affected by the separation costs. According to the methodology that was defined, the Commercial Aviation business exceeds almost all of the separation costs together with some part of the services businesses that is also with the Commercial Aviation. So that explains a part of the results that we had in the quarter, and this is a transitory effect.
We don't expect to have, as I mentioned, big separation costs leading into 2020. The other part of the results explanation relates to a mix of margin in the E175-E2s -- the E1s, sorry, that we have given this year. And costs above expectations in the E190, E195-E2s. So we are working with the learning curve of these products.
We are reducing the costs first, but it is affecting the results as we starts working up these three new products.
Josh Milberg -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
OK. And then on the E175 issue that you mentioned, could you elaborate a little bit on that? Is that because of the special configuration version of that aircraft, which we'd understood in the past had a lower selling price?
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Yes. That's right. So the configuration and the effect of this associated with these orders drive -- so this is -- drives these margins down.
Josh Milberg -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
OK. Thank you very much for that information.
Operator
Our next question comes from [Inaudible] from UBS.
Unknown speaker
Hi. Thank you for taking the question. Actually, I have two questions, following up on Josh's questions regarding margin. So can we affirm that the impacts on margins came more from the E2 than the E175? And another -- another question, if you could provide any detail regarding the profitability of a Praetor, it would be great.
Thank you.
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Well, as I mentioned, there are two components to the Commercial Aviation margin. So the E195 new ones, the 90 and 95-E2s are ramping up and then incurred and then the carve-out costs, which, as I mentioned, are impacting almost totally Commercial Aviation. The other point --
Francisco Gomes -- Chief Executive Officer
The margin on the Praetor was --
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Yes. OK. The margin on the Praetor, we had in the quarter a 6% positive EBIT in executive aviation with the delivery of the initial Praetor 600. We are not disclosing individual margins for our products, but definitely, the Praetor have parts to play in these better margins in executive aviation.
Unknown speaker
OK. Thanks. That's great.
Operator
Excuse me. [Operator instructions]. Our next question comes from Leonardo Fantin, CTM Investimentos.
Leonardo Fantin -- CTM Investimentos -- Analyst
Hi. This is Leonardo from CTM Investimentos. I would like to ask you guys what are your main peers doing in terms of prices in order to achieve the cost and performance of the Praetor business jets?
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Sorry, I did not understand the first part of your question. What is the --
Leonardo Fantin -- CTM Investimentos -- Analyst
What are your main peers doing in terms of prices to achieve the cost and performance of the new Praetor jets? I mean are they giving more discounts to achieve the Praetor price?
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
No. We believe very strongly that the Praetor 600, we found a fixed cost in terms of positioning, products that have similar performance are a much -- have much higher prices, so it's very difficult to have price reduction that would get these products to compete with the Praetor 600. And so we do not see that this kind of reaction will cause us big problem in the Praetor 600.
Leonardo Fantin -- CTM Investimentos -- Analyst
Thanks. And can you say something about the business jets used market? Is it getting better?
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Yes. It is going well. No special points here.
Leonardo Fantin -- CTM Investimentos -- Analyst
Thanks.
Operator
[Operator signoff]
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Thank you very much for joining the call.
Duration: 43 minutes
Call participants:
Nelson Salgado -- Executive Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations
Francisco Gomes -- Chief Executive Officer
Jeff Molinari -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Louis Raffetto -- UBS -- Analyst
Unknown speaker
Cai von Rumohr -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Josh Milberg -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Leonardo Fantin -- CTM Investimentos -- Analyst
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Background: Zipf's discovery that word frequency distributions obey a power
law established parallels between biological and physical processes, and
language, laying the groundwork for a complex systems perspective on human
communication. More recent research has also identified scaling regularities in
the dynamics underlying the successive occurrences of events, suggesting the
possibility of similar findings for language as well.
Methodology/Principal Findings: By considering frequent words in USENET
discussion groups and in disparate databases where the language has different
levels of formality, here we show that the distributions of distances between
successive occurrences of the same word display bursty deviations from a
Poisson process and are well characterized by a stretched exponential (Weibull)
scaling. The extent of this deviation depends strongly on semantic type -- a
measure of the logicality of each word -- and less strongly on frequency. We
develop a generative model of this behavior that fully determines the dynamics
of word usage.
Conclusions/Significance: Recurrence patterns of words are well described by
a stretched exponential distribution of recurrence times, an empirical scaling
that cannot be anticipated from Zipf's law. Because the use of words provides a
uniquely precise and powerful lens on human thought and activity, our findings
also have implications for other overt manifestations of collective human
dynamics.
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Before we dive into the accessibility stream of nowadays indicatory
applications of octonions to computer and other sciences and to quantum physics
let us focus for a while on the crucially relevant events for todays revival on
interest to nonassociativity. Our reflections keep wandering back to the
$Brahmagupta$ $Fibonacc$ two square identity and then via the $Euler$ four
square identity up to the $Degen$ $Ggraves$ $Cayley$ eight square identity.
These glimpses of history incline and invite us to retell the story on how
about one month after quaternions have been carved on the $Broughamian$ bridge
octonions were discovered by $John$ $Thomas$ $Ggraves$, jurist and
mathematician, a friend of $William$ $Rowan$ $Hamilton$. As for today we just
mention en passant quaternionic and octonionic quantum mechanics,
generalization of $Cauchy$ $Riemann$ equations for octonions and triality
principle and $G_2$ group in spinor language in a descriptive way in order not
to daunt non specialists. Relation to finite geometries is recalled and the
links to the 7stones of seven sphere, seven imaginary octonions units in out of
the $Plato$ cave reality applications are appointed . This way we are welcomed
back to primary ideas of $Heisenberg$, $Wheeler$ and other distinguished
fathers of quantum mechanics and quantum gravity foundations.
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As a huge fan of only the first 2 seasons of BSG and the stand alone feature BSG Razor I was hoping that this release would return the franchise to its original glory days. Usually I have no problem with science fiction that is mostly dialog driven as opposed to a visual bonanza of special effects. If the script is tight with some original ideas delivered by good actors one can create a profound film with little CGI money spent. This prequel has none of those aforementioned requirements going for it. The virtual reality world created by the terrorist teenagers was both ridiculous & unbelievable. This scene was simply put there to raise the release rating to Restricted. Not that teens don't love virtual reality mosh pits filled with sex & violence & heavy dance music. Its the part about those same teens having the intellectual depth & reason or political & religious passion as to create such futuristic software or become suicide bombers that perplexes me. These kids are definitely not from this planet. The movie plays out like a soap opera with only the last 10 minutes being slightly interesting. The scene with Eric Stolz giving his cyborg a devine conscienceness via the student firmware upgrade was amusing if not entertaining. But this old concept was far better portrayed & much more believable in the brilliant, classic original "Frankenstein" with Boris Karloff. Caprica rips off its only interesting idea from an old Hollywood horror film. No surprise there! Overall this movie was bland & unoriginal & cheap looking, using recycled CGI of Caprica from BSG. I doubt I'll be watching this space soap when it premieres on the Sci-Fi channel. Unless of course I happen to be suffering from a bad bout of insomnia at which time this show would definitely be the cure. Zzzzzzzz
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The film starts with promise because there is more interaction between Spanky and Buckwheat, but as the film progresses, the two boys have fewer scenes together. This slows the pace considerably. Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas gives a very strong performance in his early scenes. When he is left behind on the riverboat, his fear and abandonment are palpable and his tears are truly heartbreaking. When he goes from man to man asking for help and is repeatedly rejected the viewer really begins to wonder if this is a comedy or not. Watching a children's birthday party through a picket fence is another moving moment. As another reviewer mentioned, I was also worried about the big dog choking on chicken bones! Once Spanky and Buckwheat are in Marshall Valiant's home, Spanky tends to interact mainly with the adults and the chemistry of the children is essentially lost. <br /><br />The Old South/Huck Finn-type setting really doesn't do much for the plot except allow the children to be out of doors a great deal. Ralph Morgan is the most engaging adult, but then the other roles really don't have much substance to them. Louise Beavers manages some funny moments with a Yankee soldier towards the end. <br /><br />The villains aren't really villainous enough and the lovers not intense enough. Yet, I do think it's worth viewing if you're an Our Gang enthusiast, if for no other reason that the odd curiosity of the whole piece. I give it seven stars because, while not a great movie, it kept me engaged the whole time and curious as to what would happen next.
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Charged Quickly; Came with a Pair of Work Gloves :-)
I ordered these to replace a Makita battery that would no longer charge. These charged quickly. I have not yet used the cordless drill with them (other than to test they worked, which they did). But I was impressed with the quick delivery and the fact that they came with a free pair of work gloves...
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We show that in ADE type the trace of Webster's categorification of a tensor
product of irreducibles for the quantum group is isomorphic to a tensor product
of Weyl modules for the current algebra $\dot{U}(\mathfrak{g}[t])$. This
extends a result of Beliakova, Habiro, Lauda, and Webster who showed that the
trace of the categorified quantum group $\dot{\mathcal{U}}^*(\mathfrak{g})$ is
isomorphic to $\dot{U}(\mathfrak{g}[t])$, and the trace of a cyclotomic
quotient of $\dot{\mathcal{U}}^*(\mathfrak{g})$, which categorifies a single
irreducible for the quantum group, is isomorphic to a Weyl module for
$\dot{U}(\mathfrak{g}[t])$. We use a deformation argument based on Webster's
technique of unfurling 2-representations.
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The role of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACCd) in decision making has often been discussed but remains somewhat unclear. On the one hand, numerous studies implicated this area in decisions driven by effort or action cost. On the other hand, work on economic choices between goods (under fixed action costs) found that neurons in ACCd encoded only post-decision variables. To advance our understanding of the role played by this area in decision making, we trained monkeys to choose between different goods (juice types) offered in variable amounts and with different action costs. Importantly, the task design dissociated computation of the action cost from planning of any particular action. Neurons in ACCd encoded the chosen value and the binary choice outcome in several reference frames (chosen juice, chosen cost, chosen action). Thus, this area provided a rich representation of post-decision variables. In contrast, neurons in ACCd did not represent pre-decision variables such as individual offer values in any reference frame. Hence, ongoing decisions are unlikely guided by ACCd. Conversely, neuronal activity in this area might inform subsequent choices.
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Bacterial surface appendages called type IVa pili (T4aP) promote diverse activities including DNA uptake, twitching motility, and virulence. These activities rely on the ability of T4aP to dynamically extend and retract from the cell surface. Dynamic extension relies on a motor ATPase commonly called PilB. Most T4aP also rely on specific motor ATPases, commonly called PilT and PilU, to dynamically and forcefully retract. Here, we systematically assess whether motor ATPases from three orthologous T4aP can functionally complement Vibrio cholerae mutants that lack their endogenous motors. We found that the PilT and PilU retraction ATPases from the three T4aP systems tested are promiscuous and promote retraction of the V. cholerae competence T4aP despite a high degree of sequence divergence. In contrast, the orthologous extension ATPases from the same T4aP systems were not able to mediate extension of the V. cholerae competence T4aP despite exhibiting a similar degree of sequence divergence. Also, we show that one of the PilT orthologs characterized does not support PilU-dependent retraction and provide some data to indicate that the C-terminus of PilT is important for PilU-dependent retraction. Together, our data suggest that retraction ATPases may have maintained a high degree of promiscuity for promoting retraction of T4aP, while extension ATPases may have evolved to become specific for their cognate systems.
IMPORTANCEOne way that bacteria interact with their environments is via hair-like appendages called type IVa pili (T4aP). These appendages dynamically extend and retract from the cell surface via the action of distinct ATPase motors. T4aP are present in diverse bacterial species. Here, we demonstrate that retraction motors from three T4aP are promiscuous, and capable of promoting retraction of a heterologous T4aP system. By contrast, the extension ATPase motors from these same T4aP systems are specific and cannot promote extension of a heterologous T4aP. Thus, these results suggest that T4aP extension may be more tightly regulated compared to T4aP retraction.
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We derive the first two moment sum rules of the conduction electron retarded
self-energy for both the Falicov-Kimball model and the Hubbard model coupled to
an external spatially uniform and time-dependent electric field (this
derivation also extends the known nonequilibrium moment sum rules for the
Green's functions to the third moment). These sum rules are used to further
test the accuracy of nonequilibrium solutions to the many-body problem; for
example, we illustrate how well the self-energy sum rules are satisfied for the
Falicov-Kimball model in infinite dimensions and placed in a uniform electric
field turned on at time t=0. In general, the self-energy sum rules are
satisfied to a significantly higher accuracy than the Green's functions sum
rules.
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Evolving structure and rheology across Kuhn scale interfaces in entangled
polymer fluids under flow play a prominent role in processing of manufactured
plastics, and have numerous other applications. Quantitative tracking of chain
conformation statistics on the Kuhn scale is essential for developing
computational models of such phenomena. For this purpose, we formulate here a
two-scale/two-mode model of entangled polymer chains under flow. Each chain is
partitioned by successive entanglements into strands that are in one of two
modes: entangled or dangling. On the strand scale, conformation statistics of
ideal (non-interacting) strands follows a differential evolution equation for
the second moment of its end-to-end distance. The latter regulates persistent
random walks sampling conformation statistics of ideal entangled strands on the
Kuhn scale, as follows from a generalized Green-Kubo relation and the Maximum
Entropy Principle. We test it numerically for a range of deformation rates at
the start-up of simple elongational and shear flows. A self-consistent
potential, representing segmental interactions, modifies strand conformation
statistics on the Kuhn scale, as it renormalizes the parameters controlling the
persistent random walk. The generalized Green-Kubo relation is then inverted to
determine how the second moment of the strand end-to-end distance is changed by
the self-consistent potential. This allows us to devise a two-scale propagation
scheme for the statistical weights of subchains of the entangled chain. The
latter is used to calculate local volume fractions for each chemical type of
Kuhn segments in entangled chains, thus determining the self-consistent
potential.
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I just saw this movie and it turns out to be pretty lame just as mentioned by other user reviews and the one thing that bothered me the most was the southern accent some of the characters had, it took place in Wisconsin, not the south. As mentioned from other reviews, Ed Geine wasn't a big dude, so why did the guy that plays Jason and Leatherface portray him?<br /><br />I fast forwarded through most of it being that there are many slow parts. <br /><br />Hopefully someone will do their homework on Ed Geine and the town and make a more accurate movie
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Many binary stellar systems in which the primary star is beyond the
asymptotic giant branch (AGB) evolutionary phase show significant orbital
eccentricities whereas current binary interaction models predict their orbits
to be circularised. We analyse how the orbital parameters in a system are
modified under mass loss and mass exchange among its binary components and
propose a model for enhanced mass-loss from the AGB star due to tidal
interaction with its companion, which allows a smooth transition between the
wind and Roche-lobe overflow mass-loss regimes. We explicitly follow its effect
along the orbit on the change of eccentricity and orbital semi-major axis, as
well as the effect of accretion by the companion. We calculate timescales for
the variation of these orbital parameters and compare them to the tidal
circularisation timescale. We find that in many cases, due to the enhanced mass
loss of the AGB component at orbital phases closer to the periastron, the net
eccentricity growth rate in one orbit is comparable to the rate of tidal
circularisation. We show that with this eccentricity enhancing mechanism it is
possible to reproduce the orbital period and eccentricity of the Sirius system,
which under the standard assumptions of binary interaction is expected to be
circularised. We also show that this mechanism may provide an explanation for
the eccentricities of most barium star systems, which are expected to be
circularised due to tidal dissipation. By proposing a tidally enhanced model of
mass loss from AGB stars we find a mechanism which efficiently works against
the tidal circularisation of the orbit, which explains the significant
eccentricities observed in binary systems containing a white dwarf and a less
evolved companion, such as Sirius and systems with barium stars.
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We consider a two-color P\'{o}lya urn in the case when a fixed number $S$ of
balls is added at each step. Assume it is a large urn that is, the second
eigenvalue $m$ of the replacement matrix satisfies $1/2<m/S\leq1$. After $n$
drawings, the composition vector has asymptotically a first deterministic term
of order $n$ and a second random term of order $n^{m/S}$. The object of
interest is the limit distribution of this random term. The method consists in
embedding the discrete-time urn in continuous time, getting a two-type
branching process. The dislocation equations associated with this process lead
to a system of two differential equations satisfied by the Fourier transforms
of the limit distributions. The resolution is carried out and it turns out that
the Fourier transforms are explicitly related to Abelian integrals over the
Fermat curve of degree $m$. The limit laws appear to constitute a new family of
probability densities supported by the whole real line.
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This paper uses firm-level data recorded in the AMADEUS database to
investigate the distribution of labour productivity in different European
countries. We find that the upper tail of the empirical productivity
distributions follows a decaying power-law, whose exponent $\alpha$ is obtained
by a semi-parametric estimation technique recently developed by Clementi et al.
(2006). The emergence of "fat tails" in productivity distribution has already
been detected in Di Matteo et al. (2005) and explained by means of a model of
social network. Here we show that this model is tested on a broader sample of
countries having different patterns of social network structure. These
different social attitudes, measured using a social capital indicator, reflect
in the power-law exponent estimates, verifying in this way the existence of
linkages among firms' productivity performance and social network.
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We consider the inverse scattering problem associated with any number of
interacting modes in one-dimensional structures. The coupling between the modes
is contradirectional in addition to codirectional, and may be distributed
continuously or in discrete points. The local coupling as a function of
position is obtained from reflection data using a layer-stripping type method,
and the separate identification of the contradirectional and codirectional
coupling is obtained using matrix factorization. Ambiguities are discussed in
detail, and different {\it a priori} information that can resolve the
ambiguities is suggested. The method is exemplified by applications to
multimode optical waveguides with quasi-periodical perturbations.
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No sealing around cup
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The total entropy production fluctuations are studied in some exactly
solvable models. For these systems, the detailed fluctuation theorem holds even
in the transient state, provided initially the system is prepared in thermal
equilibrium. The nature of entropy production during the relaxation of a system
to equilibrium is analyzed. The averaged entropy production over a finite time
interval gives a better bound for the average work performed on the system than
that obtained from the well known Jarzynski equality. Moreover, the average
entropy production as a quantifier for information theoretic nature of
irreversibility for finite time nonequilibrium processes is discussed.
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your still missing the point. if guns are as bad as implied (and they can be I am not saying they are not dangerous), wouldn't at least 100 people be dead in Cleveland right now as of this morning? or is a citizens control of guns much higher than the liberals preach? love how all the networks were panicking about the guns and expectations yet here we are not one casualty and not one injury. so much for liberal logic.
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Batch-normalization (BN) layers are thought to be an integrally important
layer type in today's state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural networks for
computer vision tasks such as classification and detection. However, BN layers
introduce complexity and computational overheads that are highly undesirable
for training and/or inference on low-power custom hardware implementations of
real-time embedded vision systems such as UAVs, robots and Internet of Things
(IoT) devices. They are also problematic when batch sizes need to be very small
during training, and innovations such as residual connections introduced more
recently than BN layers could potentially have lessened their impact. In this
paper we aim to quantify the benefits BN layers offer in image classification
networks, in comparison with alternative choices. In particular, we study
networks that use shifted-ReLU layers instead of BN layers. We found, following
experiments with wide residual networks applied to the ImageNet, CIFAR 10 and
CIFAR 100 image classification datasets, that BN layers do not consistently
offer a significant advantage. We found that the accuracy margin offered by BN
layers depends on the data set, the network size, and the bit-depth of weights.
We conclude that in situations where BN layers are undesirable due to speed,
memory or complexity costs, that using shifted-ReLU layers instead should be
considered; we found they can offer advantages in all these areas, and often do
not impose a significant accuracy cost.
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The first 42 elements of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA-42) are beginning to
deliver data at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California.
Scientists and engineers are actively exploiting all of the flexibility
designed into this innovative instrument for simultaneously conducting surveys
of the astrophysical sky and conducting searches for distant technological
civilizations. This paper summarizes the design elements of the ATA, the cost
savings made possible by the use of COTS components, and the cost/performance
trades that eventually enabled this first snapshot radio camera. The
fundamental scientific program of this new telescope is varied and exciting;
some of the first astronomical results will be discussed.
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Droplet motion on surfaces influences phenomena as diverse as microfluidic
liquid handling, printing technology and micro-organism migration. Typically,
droplet motion is achieved by inducing energy gradients on a substrate or flow
on the droplet's free surface. Current configurations for droplet manipulation
have, however, limited applicability as they rely on carefully tailored
wettability gradients and/or bespoke substrates. Here we demonstrate the
contactless long-range manipulation of binary droplets on pristine substrates
due to the sensing of localized water vapor sources. We show with analytical
considerations that the dissipative nature of the driving forces at play,
induced by tiny asymmetries in surface tension gradients, is essential to
capture the droplet's manipulation mechanism. We then demonstrate its
versatility by printing, aligning and reacting materials controllably in space
and time.
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The recent claimed detection of g modes was obtained from the analysis of the
power spectrum of the time series of round-trip travel time of p modes. The
goal of this paper is to reproduce these results on which the claims are based
for confirming or invalidating the detection of g modes with the method used to
make the claims. We computed the time series of round-trip travel time using
the procedure given in Fossat et al. (2017), and used different variations of
the times series for comparison. We used the recently calibrated GOLF data
(published in Paper I) with different sampling, different photomultipliers,
different length of data for reproducing the analysis. We also correlated the
power spectrum with an asymptotic model of g-mode frequencies in a similar
manner to Fossat and Schmider (2018). We devised a scheme for optimising the
correlation both for pure noise and for the GOLF data. We confirm the analysis
performed in Fossat et al. (2017) but draw different conclusions. Their claims
of detection of g modes cannot be confirmed when changing parameters such as
sampling interval, length of time series, or photomultipliers. Other instrument
such as GONG and BiSON do not confirm their detection. We also confirm the
analysis performed in Fossat and Schmider (2018), but again draw different
conclusions. For GOLF, the correlation of the power spectrum with the
asymptotic model of g-mode frequencies for $l=1$ and $l=2$ show a high
correlation at lag=0 and at lag corresponding to the rotational splitting
$\nu_l$, but the same occurs for pure noise due to the large number of peaks
present in the model. In addition, other very different parameters defining the
asymptotic model also provide a high correlation at these lags. We conclude
that the detection performed in Fossat and Schmider (2018) is an artefact of
the methodology.
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The first few minutes of this movie don't do it justice!For me, its not funny until they board the sub and those hilarious characters begin to gel. I was born and raised in Norfolk Virginia and met my share of "different" sailors- I even married one! Most of my favorite movies are just funny, not topical, not dependent on sex or violence and funny every time I see them. Groundhog Day, Bruce Almighty and Down Periscope are still funny even after I know the dialog by heart. Kelsey Grammar with his "God I LOVE this job!"was sincere, genuine and lovable. Rob Schneider is hysterical as the crew gets back at him for being annoying. I am still amazed at the size of that fishing boat next to a sub! I can see why folks who live this life would notice the uh-oh's but its not a documentary after all its a comedy and I just love it!
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We comment on the calculation mistake in the paper "w and w' of scalar field
models of dark energy" by Takeshi Chiba [arXiv:astro-ph/0510598], where w is
the dark energy equation of state and w' is the time derivative of w in units
of the Hubble time. The author made a mistake while rewriting the phantom
equation of motion, which led to an incorrect generic bound for the phantom
model and an incorrect bound for the tracker phantom model on the w-w' plane.
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Software reliability models are one of the most generally used mathematical
tool for estimation of reliability, failure rate and number of remaining faults
in the software. Existing software reliability models are designed to follow
waterfall software development life cycle process. These existing models do not
take advantage of iterative software development process. In this paper, a new
failure rate model centered on iterative software development life cycle
process has been developed. It aims to integrate a new modulation factor for
incorporating varying needs in each phase of iterative software development
process. It comprises imperfect debugging with the possibility of fault
introduction and removal of multiple faults in an interval as iterative
development of the software proceeds. The proposed model has been validated on
twelve iterations of Eclipse software failure dataset and nine iterations of
Java Development toolkit (JDT) software failure dataset. Parameter estimation
for the proposed model has been done by hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization and
Gravitational Search Algorithm. Experimental results in-terms of
goodness-of-fit shows that proposed model has outperformed Jelinski Moranda,
Shick Wolverton, Goel Okummotto Imperfect debugging, GS Mahapatra, Modified
Shick Wolverton in 83.33 % of iterations for eclipse dataset and 77.77% of
iterations for JDT dataset.
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Earth-mass dark matter microhalos with size of ~100 AUs are the first
structures formed in the universe, if the dark matter of the Universe are made
of neutralino. Here, we report the results of ultra-high-resolution simulations
of the formation and evolution of these microhalos. We found that microhalos
have the central density cusps of the form $\rho \propto r^{-1.5}$, much
steeper than the cusps of larger dark halos. The central regions of these
microhalos survive the encounters with stars except in very inner region of the
galaxy down to the radius of a few hundreds pcs from the galactic center. The
annihilation signals from nearest microhalos are observed as gamma-ray
point-sources (radius less than 1'), with unusually large proper motions of
~0.2 degree per year. Their surface brightnesses are ~10% of that of the
galactic center. Their S/N ratios might be better if they are far from the
galactic plane. Luminosities of subhalos are determined only by their mass, and
they are more than one order of magnitude luminous than the estimation by
Springel et al. (2008): A boost factor can be larger than 1000. Perturbations
to the millisecond pulsars by gravitational attractions of nearby earth-mass
microhalos can be detected by the observations of Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
(PPTA).
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The non-equilibrium structural and dynamical properties of flexible polymers
confined in a square microchannel and exposed to a Poiseuille flow are
investigated by mesoscale simulations. The chain length and the flow strength
are systematically varied. Two transport regimes are identified, corresponding
to weak and strong confinement. For strong confinement, the transport
properties are independent of polymer length. The analysis of the long-time
tumbling dynamics of short polymers yields non-periodic motion with a sublinear
dependence on the flow strength. We find distinct differences for
conformational as well as dynamical properties from results obtained for simple
shear flow.
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In this series of papers we examine magnetic reconnection in a domain where
the magnetic field does not vanish and the non-ideal region is localised in
space. In a previous paper we presented a technique for obtaining analytical
solutions to the stationary resistive MHD equations in such a situation and
examined specific examples of non-ideal reconnective solutions. Here we further
develop the model, noting that certain ideal solutions may be superimposed onto
the fundamental non-ideal solutions and examining the effect of imposing
various such flows. Significant implications are found for the evolution of
magnetic flux in the reconnection process. It is shown that, in contrast to the
two-dimensional case, in three-dimensions there is a very wide variety of
physically different steady reconnection solutions.
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We prove relations between fractional linear cycles in Bloch's integral
cubical higher Chow complex in codimension two of number fields, which
correspond to functional equations of the dilogarithm.
These relations suffice, as we shall demonstrate with a few examples, to
write down enough relations in Bloch's integral higher Chow group CH^2(F,3) for
certain number fields F to detect torsion cycles.
Using the regulator map to Deligne cohomology, one can check the
non-triviality of the torsion cycles thus obtained. Using this combination of
methods, we obtain explicit higher Chow cycles generating the integral motivic
cohomology groups of some number fields.
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I think we need to distinguish between the "should" and the "is" of this situation. The church's teaching on homosexuality was formed in response to a time when the word was closely identified with debauchery of all sorts, including bestiality, and not with the stability we associate with same-sex marriage. I don't think that's going to change any time soon, just because we think it should.
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Andy Lau and Lau Ching-Wan are both superb in Johnny To's tautly directed crime thriller which puts most Western efforts to shame. Think of it as the Hong Kong 'Heat', only better! Everything about the film screams class; from the performances to the soundtrack, the cinematography to the script. The tone remains serious throughout, but the film has a nice line in black-humour, friendship and romance at it's heart. Sure, it gets a little preposterous later on, but it would be a hard-hearted viewer who didn't find something to love about this movie. Thank God, Hollywood hasn't (yet) re-made and ruined a classic. Do yourself a favour and see this film!
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Lacking water resistance
Unfortunately after a couple of weeks both of our lights got water logged and stopped working. They were awesome while they worked but we figured since they’re waterproof they can be left outdoors all the time. I would take them out of the water and inside in between uses, unless we just got a bad pair.
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Counter-examples to the famous conjecture of Caratheodory, as well as the
bound on umbilic index proposed by Hamburger, are constructed with respect to
Riemannian metrics that are arbitrarily close to the flat metric on Euclidean
3-space.
In particular, Riemannian metrics with a smooth strictly convex 2-sphere
containing a single umbilic point are constructed explicitly, in contradiction
with any direct extension of Caratheodory's conjecture. Additionally, a
Riemannian metric with an embedded surface containing an isolated umbilic point
of any index is presented, violating Hamburger's umbilic index bound.
In both cases, it is shown that the metric can be made arbitrarily close to
the flat metric. A short video explaining the motivation and results of this
paper can be found at the following link: https://youtu.be/Wjja4PcMtxc
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We present an analysis of the energetics and particle content of the lobes of
24 radio galaxies at the cores of cooling clusters. The radio lobes in these
systems have created visible cavities in the surrounding hot, X-ray-emitting
gas, which allow direct measurement of the mechanical jet power of radio
sources over six decades of radio luminosity, independently of the radio
properties themselves. Using these measurements, we examine the ratio between
radio power and total jet power (the radiative efficiency). We find that jet
(cavity) power increases with radio synchrotron power approximately as P_jet ~
(L_radio)^beta, where 0.35 < beta < 0.70 depending on the bandpass of
measurement and state of the source. However, the scatter about these relations
caused by variations in radiative efficiency spans more than four orders of
magnitude. After accounting for variations in synchrotron break frequency
(age), the scatter is reduced by ~ 50%, yielding the most accurate scaling
relation available between the lobe bolometric radio power and the jet (cavity)
power. We place limits on the magnetic field strengths and particle content of
the radio lobes using a variety of X-ray constraints. We find that the lobe
magnetic field strengths vary between a few to several tens of microgauss
depending on the age and dynamical state of the lobes. If the cavities are
maintained in pressure balance with their surroundings and are supported by
internal fields and particles in equipartition, the ratio of energy in
electrons to heavy particles (k) must vary widely from approximately unity to
4000, consistent with heavy (hadronic) jets.
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In this paper we introduce new function spaces which we call anisotropic
hyperbolic Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. Their definition is based on a
hyperbolic Littlewood-Paley analysis involving an anisotropy vector only
occurring in the smoothness weights. Such spaces provide a general and natural
setting in order to understand what kind of anisotropic smoothness can be
described using hyperbolic wavelets (in the literature also sometimes called
tensor-product wavelets), a wavelet class which hitherto has been mainly used
to characterize spaces of dominating mixed smoothness.
A centerpiece of our present work are characterizations of these new spaces
based on the hyperbolic wavelet transform. Hereby we treat both, the standard
approach using wavelet systems equipped with sufficient smoothness, decay, and
vanishing moments, but also the very simple and basic hyperbolic Haar system.
The second major question we pursue is the relationship between the novel
hyperbolic spaces and the classical anisotropic Besov-Lizorkin-Triebel scales.
As our results show, in general, both approaches to resolve an anisotropy do
not coincide. However, in the Sobolev range this is the case, providing a link
to apply the newly obtained hyperbolic wavelet characterizations to the
classical setting. In particular, this allows for detecting classical
anisotropies via the coefficients of a universal hyperbolic wavelet basis,
without the need of adaption of the basis or a-priori knowledge on the
anisotropy.
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Cute and Functional!
This is a really nice little piece of furniture. We had been looking for something for our daughter’s bathroom that would sit next to her sink/vanity. She has just a small sink/vanity and she needed some space for her makeup and hair “stuff”. This was the perfect height and size. We like it a lot!
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God Bless 80's slasher films. This is a fun, fun movie. This is what slasher films are all about. Now I'm not saying horror movies, just slasher films. It goes like this: A high school nerd is picked on by all these stupid jocks and cheerleaders, and then one of their pranks goes horribly wrong. Disfigured and back for revenge, sporting a Joker/Jester mask (pretty creepy looking, might i add), Marty begins to kill off those teens one by one many years later, after he manages to make them believe that their old abandoned high school is having a reunion. That is basically the plot? What's wrong with that? That's the beauty of 80's slasher films, most of them i would say. A lot of things could be so ridiculous, but they keep drawing you more in an' in as they go by. Especially this film.<br /><br />It features some outrageous killings, and some are quite creative as well. (poisoning of a beer can, acid bath, i can't remember a javelin ever being used before in any other slasher film either)It really is a fun, fun movie. That's all it is. Nevermind the fact that the characters are complete idiots, never mind their stupidity, and never mind the outrageous, random things that occur in this film. Such as lights being able to be controlled by the killer (when he's not even switching any buttons, you'll see) and toilets being able to cough up blood, baths being able to have acid come out of them, just use that as part of your entertainment! Because thats what really makes it entertaining.<br /><br />Movies like this represent 80's slashers. Never again could movies like this get made, know why? It isn't the 80's anymore. That is why you should just cherish them for what they are, good fun! I highly recommend this film if you're a hardcore fan of Slahsers such as Friday the 13th.<br /><br />One last note this movie also had a kick ass villain as well, Marty Rantzen. A disfigured, nerd, who kills all his old foes in a creepy Jester mask. A good villain makes a good slasher. Simon Scuddamore, who played Marty apparently committed suicide shortly after Slaughter High was released. That alone adds something creepy to the film, and sticks with it and it even makes you feel more sorry for the Marty character, i guess. All in all, great 80's slashers fun! It's a shame it will never be the same again...
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Phase transitions and their associated crossovers are imprinted in the
behavior of fluctuations. Motivated by recent experiments on ultracold atoms in
optical lattices, we compute the thermodynamic density fluctuations $\delta
N^2$ of the two-dimensional fermionic Hubbard model with plaquette cellular
dynamical mean-field theory. To understand the length scale of these
fluctuations, we separate the local from the nonlocal contributions to $\delta
N^2$. We determine the effects of particle statistics, interaction strength
$U$, temperature $T$ and density $n$. At high temperature, our theoretical
framework reproduces the experimental observations in the doping-driven
crossover regime between metal and Mott insulator. At low temperature, there is
an increase of thermodynamic density fluctuations, analog to critical
opalescence, accompanied by a surprising reduction of the absolute value of
their nonlocal contributions. This is a precursory sign of an underlying phase
transition between a pseudogap phase and a metallic phase in doped Mott
insulators, which should play an important role in the cuprate high-temperature
superconductors. Predictions for ultracold atom experiments are made.
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We examine the relation between the recently proposed time-dependent quantum
Monte Carlo (TDQMC) method and the principles of stochastic quantization. In
both TDQMC and stochastic quantization particle motion obeys stochastic
guidance equations to preserve quantum equilibrium. In this way the probability
density of the Monte Carlo particles corresponds to the modulus square of the
many-body wave function at all times. However, in TDQMC the motion of particles
and guide waves occurs in physical space unlike in stochastic quantization
where it occurs in configuration space. Hence the practical calculation of time
evolution of many-body fully correlated quantum systems becomes feasible within
the TDQMC methodology. We illustrate the TDQMC technique by calculating the
symmetric and antisymmetric ground state of a model one-dimensional Helium
atom, and the time evolution of the dipole moment when the atom is irradiated
by a strong ultrashort laser pulse.
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The GERDA experiment searches for the neutrinoless double beta
($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{76}$Ge in order to probe whether the neutrino is
a Majorana particle and to shed light on the neutrino mass ordering. For
investigating such a rare decay it is necessary to minimize the background of
the experiment. In Phase II of the GERDA experiment the scintillation light of
liquid argon (LAr) is used as an additional background veto. In order to
estimate the efficiency of such a LAr veto it has to be known how far the
scintillation light, which peaks at 128 nm, can travel within the LAr. A
dedicated setup was built to measure the attenuation length of the
scintillation light in the LAr in-situ within the cryostat of GERDA. The setup
is composed of a stainless steel housing with a photomultiplier tube (PMT) at
one side and a moveable $^{90}$Sr source at the other side to measure the light
intensity at different distances between source and PMT.
Furthermore, a sophisticated simulation was developed in order to determine
the solid angle correction as well as the background for this measurement. The
analysis results in an absorption length of $15.8 \pm 0.7$ (stat)
${}^{+1.5}_{-3.2}$ (syst) cm under the assumption of a scattering length of 70
cm at 128 nm. The obtained value of the absorption length is specific for the
LAr in GERDA at the time of the measurement.
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The first time i saw it i got half of it but i watched and i knew later on it was about a salem witch trials. They focused on the Sara Good's family. SHE is famous for cursing a priest which came true. In the film it depicts her daughter dorcas and her husband the spirit of Ann Putnam Sara's husband comes to the future hunts this girl to redeem her soul. which does happen at the end of the movie. Dorcas is depict as witch at 5years old who is burned at the stake. Which never happen Ann putnam saves her from the flames. the girl is safe she goes to Ann putnam's grave to to see that is not empty but it is at first because she accuse her of witchcraft, and lets her burn to death. Now that ann putnam saves her her spirit is redeemed, and she is not a outcast to society for the salem witch trials.
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We deduce a necessary condition for Auslander-Reiten components of the
bounded derived category of a finite dimensional algebra to have
Euclidean tree class by classifying certain types of irreducible maps in the
category of complexes. This result shows that there are only finitely many
Auslander-Reiten components with Euclidean tree class up to shift. Also the
Auslander-Reiten quiver of certain classes of Nakayama are computed directly
and it is shown that they are piecewise hereditary. Finally we state a
condition for $\Z[A_{\infty}]$-components to appear in the Auslander-Reiten
quiver generalizing a result in \cite{W}.
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We show that the Bell instability, which is widely considered potentially
important for cosmic-ray acceleration, is the low-frequency limit of a
gyroresonant interaction between the protons of the interstellar medium and
shear-Alfv\'en waves. At large cosmic-ray current densities, its growth rate is
therefore limited by the proton gyrofrequency, and two modes emerge from the
cold-beam dispersion relation. A third mode driven by electron gyroresonance is
only weakly unstable at low current densities. We discuss implications for
magnetic-field amplification and its saturation in the vicinity of supernova
remnants.
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I saw the Korean version of Daisy first. It came across as a simple love story that flowed nicely from start to finish. I saw it 3 times as I waited for my copy of the director's cut to arrive.<br /><br />Then I got the DC and watched it. Wow! I think this is the first REAL director's cut I've ever seen. Amazing how detailed the editing is in both versions! The DC is laid out like a hardcore thriller, with the love story in the background. It moves at a slower pace than the Korean version.The variations between both versions are so drastic, it seems like two totally different movies. I thought I would be worn out watching the movie again, toughing it out just to look for the added scenes. That wasn't the case. It really felt like I was watching a whole new movie.<br /><br />While the DC is 20 minutes longer than the Korean version, you'll be hard-pressed to pinpoint where or what has been changed. 2 seconds chopped off here. A second added there. An entire scene added here. Another erased there. In both versions, scenes have been added, omitted or chopped up and reordered. In some scenes, entire lines of dialogue were replaced or reordered - while the scene itself was untouched. Even simple sound effects were added/omitted from each version - having a major impact on the mood of the film, and sometimes even changing the outcome of a scene. What comes across as a tender moment in the Korean version is a sad, somber one in the DC. The endings of both versions leave room for interpretation. As far as I can tell, both versions end a LOT different, and were intended that way.<br /><br />I'm assuming most people will be acquiring the director's cut of the film, and will find the movie pretty decent, but a little long and boring. If that's the case, look for the Korean version. Same movie, but different feel. I think there's a deluxe 3-DVD version that contains both cuts of the film - not sure.<br /><br />The versions compliment each other so well that as a pair, I'll watch Daisy more often than I do any of my other favorite Korean movies. Alone, I'd say the Korean version is a nice love story that I'd watch once in awhile. The director's cut, I'll watch maybe once or twice, then never again, as I find the pacing dull. But they just go so well together! For what I consider the best experience, I'd say watch the Korean version first. Then watch the director's cut to help fill in the gaps of the story that you were curious about.<br /><br />The editing is the real star of the film.
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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright flashes observed typically at GHz
frequencies with millisecond duration, whose origin is likely extragalactic.
Their nature remains mysterious, motivating searches for counterparts at other
wavelengths. FRB 121102 is so far the only source known to repeatedly emit FRBs
and is associated with a host galaxy at redshift $z \simeq 0.193$. We conducted
simultaneous observations of FRB 121102 with the Arecibo and MAGIC telescopes
during several epochs in 2016--2017. This allowed searches for
millisecond-timescale burst emission in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays as
well as the optical band. While a total of five FRBs were detected during these
observations, no VHE emission was detected, neither of a persistent nature nor
burst-like associated with the FRBs. The average integral flux upper limits
above 100 GeV at 95% confidence level are $6.6 \times 10^{-12}~\mathrm{photons\
cm^{-2}\ s^{-1}}$ (corresponding to luminosity $L_{\rm VHE} \lesssim
10^{45}~\mathrm{erg\ s^{-1}}$) over the entire observation period, and $1.2
\times 10^{-7}~ \mathrm{photons\ cm^{-2}\ s^{-1}}$ ($L_{\rm VHE} \lesssim
10^{49}~\mathrm{erg\ s^{-1}}$) over the total duration of the five FRBs. We
constrain the optical U-band flux to be below 8.6 mJy at 5-$\sigma$ level for
1-ms intervals around the FRB arrival times. A bright burst with U-band flux
$29~\mathrm{mJy}$ and duration $\sim 12$ ms was detected 4.3 s before the
arrival of one FRB. However, the probability of spuriously detecting such a
signal within the sampled time space is 1.5% (2.2 $\sigma$, post-trial), i.e.
consistent with the expected background. We discuss the implications of the
obtained upper limits for constraining FRB models.
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The correlation between the maximum rotational velocity of the disk (v_m) and
the central stellar velocity dispersion of the bulge (sigma) offers insights
into the relationship between the halo and the bulge. We have assembled
integrated H I line widths and central stellar velocity dispersions to study
the v_m-sigma relation for 792 galaxies spanning a broad range of Hubble types.
Contrary to earlier studies based on much smaller samples, we find that the
v_m-sigma relation exhibits significant intrinsic scatter and that its
zeropoint varies systematically with galaxy morphology, bulge-to-disk ratio,
and light concentration, as expected from basic dynamical considerations.
Nucleated but bulgeless late-type spiral galaxies depart significantly from the
v_m-sigma relation. While these results render questionable any attempt to
supplant the bulge with the halo as the fundamental determinant of the central
black hole mass in galaxies, the observed distribution of v_m/sigma, which
depends on both the density profile and kinematic structure of the galaxy,
offers a useful constraint on galaxy formation models. With the aid of a
near-infrared Tully-Fisher relation, we identify a population of otherwise
normal, luminous galaxies that have exceptionally low values of v_m/sigma. We
argue that a significant fraction of the H I gas in these kinematically
anomalous objects is dynamically unrelaxed, having been acquired externally
either through capture from tidal interactions or through cold accretion from
the intergalactic medium.
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Blood analysis is an important diagnostic tool, as it provides a wealth of
information about the patient health. Raman spectroscopy is a promising tool in
blood analysis, but widespread clinical application is limited by its low
signal strength, as well as complex and costly instrumentation. The growing
field of waveguide-based Raman spectroscopy tries to solve these challenges by
working towards fully integrated Raman sensors with increased interaction
areas. In this work, we demonstrate on-chip resonance Raman measurements of
hemoglobin, a crucial component of blood, at 532 nm excitation using a tantalum
pentoxide (Ta2O5) waveguide platform. We have also characterized the background
signal from Ta2O5 waveguide material when excited at 532 nm. In addition, we
demonstrate spontaneous Raman measurements of iso-propanol and methanol using
the same platform. Our results suggest that Ta2O5 is a promising waveguide
platform for resonance Raman spectroscopy at 532 nm, and in particular for
blood analysis.
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By means of the 10-resonance unitary and analytic model of nucleon
electromagnetic structure it is demonstrated that the JLab proton polarization
data on the ratio $\mu_p G_{Ep}(Q^2)/G_{Mp}(Q^2)$ are consistent with all form
factor properties, however, they strongly require an existence of the zero in
G_{Ep}(Q^2) around Q^2=13 GeV^2. As a result there are two contradicting
behaviors of G_{Ep}(Q^2) in space-like region. Consequences of this phenomenon
on the charge distribution within the proton, on the saturation of the new
proton-neutron q^2-dependent sum rule, on the behavior of strange nucleon form
factors and the deuteron elastic structure functions through the impulse
approximation are investigated.
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The differential cross section and deuteron analysing powers of the dp ->
{pp}n charge-exchange reaction have been measured with the ANKE spectrometer at
the COSY storage ring. Using a deuteron beam of energy 1170 MeV, data were
obtained for small momentum transfers to a {pp} system with low excitation
energy. A good quantitative understanding of all the measured observables is
provided by the impulse approximation using known neutron-proton amplitudes.
The proof of principle achieved here for the method suggests that measurements
at higher energies will provide useful information in regions where the
existing np database is far less reliable.
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All the folks who sit here and say that this movie's weak link is the Ramones would probably say that Amadeus was ok if not for that irritating harpsichordist. Rock and Roll High School was centered around the Ramones. How anyone can watch this and not get a kick out of Joey Ramone eating bean sprouts backstage in an attempt to keep him in performing condition is obviously a wet blanket square daddy-o. Ms Trogar, exploding white mice, the hall patrols...instant classics. Nevermind the Riff Randell character.<br /><br />If you don't like the Ramones then you don't know rock and roll and you don't deserve to watch a movie called ROCK AND ROLL High School.
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Inverse problems are pervasive mathematical methods in inferring knowledge
from observational and experimental data by leveraging simulations and models.
Unlike direct inference methods, inverse problem approaches typically require
many forward model solves usually governed by Partial Differential Equations
(PDEs). This a crucial bottleneck in determining the feasibility of such
methods. While machine learning (ML) methods, such as deep neural networks
(DNNs), can be employed to learn nonlinear forward models, designing a network
architecture that preserves accuracy while generalizing to new parameter
regimes is a daunting task. Furthermore, due to the computation-expensive
nature of forward models, state-of-the-art black-box ML methods would require
an unrealistic amount of work in order to obtain an accurate surrogate model.
On the other hand, standard Reduced-Order Models (ROMs) accurately capture
supposedly important physics of the forward model in the reduced subspaces, but
otherwise could be inaccurate elsewhere. In this paper, we propose to enlarge
the validity of ROMs and hence improve the accuracy outside the reduced
subspaces by incorporating a data-driven ML technique. In particular, we focus
on a goal-oriented approach that substantially improves the accuracy of reduced
models by learning the error between the forward model and the ROM outputs.
Once an ML-enhanced ROM is constructed it can accelerate the performance of
solving many-query problems in parametrized forward and inverse problems.
Numerical results for inverse problems governed by elliptic PDEs and
parametrized neutron transport equations will be presented to support our
approach.
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I absolutely hated this movie! I was 9 when I saw it. It is the only movie I have ever walked out of in the theater. My mom, dad, and I all looked at each other during the movie and knew we were wasting our time. This movie stole approximately 45 minutes of my life. Everything about it was ridiculous. The entire premise was too warped. Being 9, I was always easily entertained. This movie proved that I couldn't subject myself to anything and still be entertained.
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The facts are that we have millions of illegal immigrants and we are not going to deport them so we need congress to come up with a path to citizenship, we need the taxes into the social security that these people can pay and we need the labor. Right now the cherry farmers in eastern Washington can not harvest the entire crop due to the lack of labor. I hear so much about the Hispanic taking jobs away from Americans I guess it doesn't count picking the cherries
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Riemann and sectional curvatures of magnetic twisted flux tubes in Riemannian
manifold are computed to investigate the stability of the plasma astrophysical
tubes. The geodesic equations are used to show that in the case of thick
magnetic tubes, the curvature of planar (Frenet torsion-free) tubes have the
effect ct of damping the flow speed along the tube. Stability of geodesic flows
in the Riemannian twisted thin tubes (almost filaments), against constant
radial perturbations is investigated by using the method of negative sectional
curvature for unstable flows. No special form of the flow like Beltrami flows
is admitted, and the proof is general for the case of thin magnetic flux tubes.
In the magnetic equilibrium state, the twist of the tube is shown to display
also a damping effect on the toroidal velocity of the plasma flow. It is found
that for positive perturbations and angular speed of the flow, instability is
achieved, since the sectional Ricci curvature of the magnetic twisted tube
metric is negative. Solar flare production may appear from these geometrical
instabilities of the twisted solar loops.
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It's pretty easy for a Trump to lie to voters. This scenario has happened over and over again. The question is why the voters continue to fall for his lies, and why many of them continue their support for this flawed leader who does not even have the integrity to be truthful! As much as they complained about Hillary being a liar, we surely do not hear those accusations against the male leader who actually is lying and has done do repeatedly! Hmmm......
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A long-term strategy based on existing technological, ecological, economical,
and geopolitical realities is urgently needed to develop a sustainable energy
economy, which should be designed with adaptability to unpredicted changes in
any of these aspects. While only a highly diverse energy portfolio and
conservation can ultimately guarantee optimum sustainability, based on a
comparison of current primary energy generation methods, it is argued that
future energy strategy has to rely heavily on expanded coal and nuclear energy
sectors. A comparison of relative potentials, merits and risks associated with
fossil-fuel, renewable, and nuclear technologies suggests that the balance of
technologies should be shifted in favor of new-generation, safe nuclear methods
to produce electricity, while clean-coal plants should be assigned to
transportation fuel. Novel nuclear technologies exploit fission of uranium and
thorium as primary energy sources with fast-spectrum and transmutation (burner)
reactors. A closed fuel cycle and waste transmutation resolve the strategic
issues associated with nuclear power. Innovative reactor designs utilize
spallation of heavy metals in subcritical accelerator driven systems or
molten-salt reactors. Importation and reconstruction of technical expertise
already lost and aversion of further erosion are preconditions to any
successful energy strategy. Research opportunities to perfect innovative
nuclear, coal, and renewable energy technologies should be pursued.
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At times, leaves hair feeling soft, accentuates curls; but can also cause hair to tangle and feel crusty.
I’m really on the fence about this product. I’ve used it on both myself and my children and we’ve had varying results when compared to each other, and compared to different times we’ve used it. I am half black so my hair is pretty dry and kinky. I found that, post shower, it went in smoothly, spread out evenly, and combed through thoroughly. Sometimes, as my hair would dry, the product would harden (similar to gel), giving my hair a rough tecture, but not causing knots to form. My children are all a quarter black and so their hair is a bit different but still has the same degree of dryness that most African Americans experience. The first few times I used this product on my 4 year old, it was amazing. Whether it was post shower, or in conjunction with a water spritz to dampen her hair, it left her curls bouncing and soft to the touch. Then, I’ve had other experiences where this product had turned into a gel-like substance upon drying, creating clumps, and matting her hair up more than it had been before. These experiences have been extremely distressing for her and doing her hair becomes a tear-filled nightmare. I’ve tried to vary the amounts I’ve used to see if that makes a difference but I’ve had varying experiences regardless. Overall, this product is very hit and miss for me and I’m a bit disappointed at the effect that it has at times. When it works, it’s amazing and our hair looks and feels wonderful. When it doesn’t work, it’s awful trying to get the tangles out and sometimes even requires a rewash to get out.
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A residually finite (profinite) group $G$ is just infinite if every
non-trivial (closed) normal subgroup of $G$ is of finite index. This paper
considers the problem of determining whether a (closed) subgroup $H$ of a just
infinite group is itself just infinite. If $G$ is not virtually abelian, we
give a description of the just infinite property for normal subgroups in terms
of maximal subgroups. In particular, we show that such a group $G$ is
hereditarily just infinite if and only if all maximal subgroups of finite index
are just infinite. We also obtain results for certain families of virtually
abelian groups, including all virtually abelian pro-$p$ groups and their
discrete analogues.
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Applying Q-learning to high-dimensional or continuous action spaces can be
difficult due to the required maximization over the set of possible actions.
Motivated by techniques from amortized inference, we replace the expensive
maximization over all actions with a maximization over a small subset of
possible actions sampled from a learned proposal distribution. The resulting
approach, which we dub Amortized Q-learning (AQL), is able to handle discrete,
continuous, or hybrid action spaces while maintaining the benefits of
Q-learning. Our experiments on continuous control tasks with up to 21
dimensional actions show that AQL outperforms D3PG (Barth-Maron et al, 2018)
and QT-Opt (Kalashnikov et al, 2018). Experiments on structured discrete action
spaces demonstrate that AQL can efficiently learn good policies in spaces with
thousands of discrete actions.
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Poor quality lid design.
Purchased 2 of these and received today, already regretting this purchase.. the lid doesn’t open far enough to easily use this product unless you force it open and when you do it makes a loud cracking pop, both of them did the same thing.. sounds like it cracked.. put them back in the box and not sure I even want to use them.. was anxiously awaiting for them to start sorting through some papers and organizing some stuff now I’m just disappointed.
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Edelman and Greene generalized the Robinson--Schensted--Knuth correspondence
to reduced words in order to give a bijective proof of the Schur positivity of
Stanley symmetric functions. Stanley symmetric functions may be regarded as the
stable limits of Schubert polynomials, and similarly Schur functions may be
regarded as the stable limits of Demazure characters for the general linear
group. We modify the Edelman--Greene correspondence to give an analogous,
explicit formula for the Demazure character expansion of Schubert polynomials.
Our techniques utilize dual equivalence and its polynomial variation, but here
we demonstrate how to extract explicit formulas from that machinery which may
be applied to other positivity problems as well.
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I think it's time John Rambo move on with his life and try to put Vietnam behind him. This series is getting old and Rambo is no longer a solider but a cold blooded killer. Ever time he turns up on the screen someone dies. Vietnam was not a fun place to be and frankly I am tired of Hollywood making it seem like it was. This is not the worst of the films concerning Vietnam, that honor goes to John Waynes Green Berets. In any case John Rambo carrying around a 50 cal Machine Gun taking on what seems to be half of the Viet Cong army plus a good many Russians is an insult to watch. What is worse is Rambos cheesy speech at the end...Please!! Oh yeah I heard they are making another one...
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In this note we consider three issues related to the unitary Fermi gas in a
harmonic trap. We present a short proof of a virial theorem, which states that
the average energy of a particle system at unitarity in a harmonic trap is
twice larger than the average potential energy. The theorem is valid for all
systems with no intrinsic scale, at zero or finite temperature. We discuss the
odd-even splitting in a unitarity Fermi gas in a harmonic trap. We show that at
large number of particles N the odd-even splitting is proportional to
N^{1/9}\hbar\omega, with an undetermined numerical constant. We also show that
for odd N the lowest excitation energies are of order N^{-1/3}\hbar\omega.
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When I was a kid, I totally loved both Bill & Ted Movies. The other night, Bogus Journey was on and since it was at least 5 years since I last saw it, I decided to tune in. AND I LOVED IT ALL OVER AGAIN! This film is still funny after all those years. 'Excellent Adventure' is better, but this one rocks just the same. Sure, some of the perfomances are a bit cheesy, but hey, this entire film is cheesy in a cool way. Plus it features the coolest personation of Death ever in a movie! Concluding: Totally like non bogus movie dude! Way Excellent! STATION!!!
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Referring object detection and referring image segmentation are important
tasks that require joint understanding of visual information and natural
language. Yet there has been evidence that current benchmark datasets suffer
from bias, and current state-of-the-art models cannot be easily evaluated on
their intermediate reasoning process. To address these issues and complement
similar efforts in visual question answering, we build CLEVR-Ref+, a synthetic
diagnostic dataset for referring expression comprehension. The precise
locations and attributes of the objects are readily available, and the
referring expressions are automatically associated with functional programs.
The synthetic nature allows control over dataset bias (through sampling
strategy), and the modular programs enable intermediate reasoning ground truth
without human annotators.
In addition to evaluating several state-of-the-art models on CLEVR-Ref+, we
also propose IEP-Ref, a module network approach that significantly outperforms
other models on our dataset. In particular, we present two interesting and
important findings using IEP-Ref: (1) the module trained to transform feature
maps into segmentation masks can be attached to any intermediate module to
reveal the entire reasoning process step-by-step; (2) even if all training data
has at least one object referred, IEP-Ref can correctly predict no-foreground
when presented with false-premise referring expressions. To the best of our
knowledge, this is the first direct and quantitative proof that neural modules
behave in the way they are intended.
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In this paper we study the local instability to the boundary equilibria and
the local stability to the positive equilibria for some chemical
reaction-diffusion systems. We first analyze a three-species system with
boundary equilibria in some stoichiometric classes. Then We prove the
convergence to the positive equilibria for a general reversible
reaction-diffusion network as long as the initial data is closed enough to the
the positive equilibria.
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There has been an increasing technological interest on magnetic thin films
containing antidot arrays of hexagonal or square symmetry. Part of this
interest is related to the possibility of domain formation and pinning at the
antidots boundaries. In this paper, we develop a method for the calculation of
the magnetic moment distribution for such arrays which concentrates on the
immediate vicinity of each antidot. For each antidot distribution (square or
hexagonal) a suitable system of coordinates is defined to exploit the shape of
the unit-cells of the overall nanostructure. The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Brown
equations that govern the distribution of moments are rewritten in terms of
these coordinates. The equilibrium moments orientation is calculated for each
position in a Cartesian grid defined for these new coordinate systems, and then
a conformal transformation is applied to insert the moment vectors into the
actual unit-cell. The resulting vector maps display quite clearly regions of
different moment orientation around the antidots, which can be associated with
nanoscale domains. These results are similar to the ones obtained by other
authors[1-4] using the NIST oommf method.
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Finding a ground state of a given Hamiltonian is an important but hard
problem. One of the potential methods is to use a Markov chain Monte Carlo
(MCMC) to sample the Gibbs distribution whose highest peaks correspond to the
ground states. In this short paper, we use stochastic cellular automata (SCA)
and see if it is possible to find a ground state faster than the conventional
MCMCs, such as the Glauber dynamics. We show that, if the temperature is
sufficiently high, it is possible for SCA to have more spin-flips per update in
average than Glauber and, at the same time, to have an equilibrium distribution
``close" to the one for Glauber, i.e., the Gibbs distribution. During the
course, we also propose a new way to characterize how close a probability
measure is to the target Gibbs.
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This thesis details the results of four interrelated projects. The first of
these presents a new proof of the theorem of Cooper, Danciger and Wienhard
classifying the limits under conjugacy of the orthogonal groups in GL(n; R).
The second provides a detailed investigation into Heisenberg geometry, which is
the maximally degenerate such limit in dimension two. The remaining two
projects concern understanding geometric transitions which do not occur
naturally as limits under conjugacy in some ambient geometry. The third project
describes a new degeneration of complex hyperbolic space, formed by
degenerating the complex numbers as a real algebra, into the algebra R+R.
Inspired by this example, the final project attempts to build the beginnings of
a framework for studying transitions between geometries abstractly. As a first
application of this, we generalize the previous result and describe a
collection of new geometric transitions, defined by constructing analogs of
familiar geometries (projective geometry, hyperbolic geometry, etc) over real
algebras, and then allowing this algebra to vary.
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We first construct a derived equivalence between a small crepant resolution
of an affine toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold and a certain quiver with a
superpotential. Under this derived equivalence we establish a wall-crossing
formula for the generating function of the counting invariants of perverse
coherent systems. As an application we provide certain equations on
Donaldson-Thomas, Pandeharipande-Thomas and Szendroi's invariants. Finally, we
show that moduli spaces associated with a quiver given by successive mutations
are realized as the moduli spaces associated the original quiver by changing
the stability conditions.
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Boolean Networks and their dynamics are of great interest as abstract
modeling schemes in various disciplines, ranging from biology to computer
science. Whereas parallel update schemes have been studied extensively in past
years, the level of understanding of asynchronous updates schemes is still very
poor. In this paper we study the propagation of external information given by
regulatory input variables into a random Boolean network. We compute both
analytically and numerically the time evolution and the asymptotic behavior of
this propagation of external regulation (PER). In particular, this allows us to
identify variables which are completely determined by this external
information. All those variables in the network which are not directly fixed by
PER form a core which contains in particular all non-trivial feedback loops. We
design a message-passing approach allowing to characterize the statistical
properties of these cores in dependence of the Boolean network and the external
condition. At the end we establish a link between PER dynamics and the full
random asynchronous dynamics of a Boolean network.
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We investigate the electronic structure of a two-dimensional electron gas
created at the surface of the multi-valley semimetal 1T-PtSe$_2$. Using
angle-resolved photoemission and first-principles-based surface space charge
calculations, we show how the induced quantum well subband states form multiple
Fermi surfaces which exhibit highly anisotropic Rashba-like spin splittings. We
further show how the presence of both electron- and hole-like bulk carriers
causes the near-surface band bending potential to develop an unusual
non-monotonic form, with spatially-segregated electron accumulation and hole
accumulation regions, which in turn amplifies the induced spin splitting. Our
results thus demonstrate the novel environment that semimetals provide for
tailoring electrostatically-induced potential profiles and their corresponding
quantum subband states
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