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Trudeau and his government have no shame.
Betraying vets, to a greater extent than the previous government.
Lied about electoral reform.
Is as of yesterday using omnibus bills after swearing they would not.
Trudeau is sucking up to Trump and his supporters are silent on it.
Is keeping mairijuana illegal for however long it takes for connected liberals to acquire the govt approved licenses and make investments in businesses with licences approved by a govt that lobbied itself.
Trudeau and his govt have, before being elected and since, lied with every word they have spoken on indigenous affairs.
Is threatening to privatize Air Canada.
Never intended to bring back door to door Canada Post service, not even for seniors.
Is attempting to change the rules of Parliament to avoid having Trudeau in the HoC to be held to account.
Has kept and will keep C-51 intact and will use it.
Has kept Harper's climate change goals, but will not be able to achieve them.
They are Corrupt. Entirely
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We investigate algebraicity properties of quotients of complex spaces by
complex reductive Lie groups G. We obtain a projectivity result for compact
momentum map quotients of algebraic G-varieties. Furthermore, we prove
equivariant versions of Kodaira's Embedding Theorem and Chow's Theorem relative
to an analytic Hilbert quotient. Combining these results we derive an
equivariant algebraisation theorem for complex spaces with projective quotient.
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Thin but workable.🖤
I like the color. It suits my wedding Invitation theme. I gave it 4 stars because it's thin. Still workable though, I think the advantage with this kind of envelope is that you can bulk it up with invitations and rsvp's. Compared to a really thick but snuggly fitted envelope
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We present a new data release from the Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph
(FMOS)-COSMOS survey, which contains the measurements of spectroscopic redshift
and flux of rest-frame optical emission lines (H$\alpha$, [NII], [SII],
H$\beta$, [OIII]) for 1931 galaxies out of a total of 5484 objects observed
over the 1.7 deg$^2$ COSMOS field. We obtained $H$-band and $J$-band
medium-resolution ($R\sim3000$) spectra with FMOS mounted on the Subaru
telescope, which offers an in-fiber line flux sensitivity limit of $\sim 1
\times 10^{-17}~\mathrm{erg~s^{-1}~cm^{-2}}$ for an on-source exposure time of
five hours. The full sample contains the main population of star-forming
galaxies at $z\sim1.6$ over the stellar mass range $10^{9.5}\lesssim
M_\ast/M_\odot \lesssim 10^{11.5}$, as well as other subsamples of
infrared-luminous galaxies detected by Spitzer and Herschel at the same and
lower ($z\sim0.9$) redshifts and X-ray emitting galaxies detected by Chandra.
This paper presents an overview of our spectral analyses, a description of the
sample characteristics, and a summary of the basic properties of emission-line
galaxies. We use the larger sample to re-define the stellar mass--star
formation rate relation based on the dust-corrected H$\alpha$ luminosity, and
find that the individual galaxies are better fit with a parametrization
including a bending feature at $M_\ast\approx10^{10.2}~M_\odot$, and that the
intrinsic scatter increases with $M_\ast$ from 0.19 to $0.37$ dex. We also
confirm with higher confidence that the massive
($M_\ast\gtrsim10^{10.5}~M_\odot$) galaxies are chemically mature as much as
local galaxies with the same stellar masses, and that the massive galaxies have
lower [SII]/H$\alpha$ ratios for their [OIII]/H$\beta$, as compared to local
galaxies, which is indicative of enhancement in ionization parameter.
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Ferromagnetic resonance in conducting magnetic bilayers was studied using
microstrip transducers. It was found that excitation or suppression of standing
spin waves could be achieved through enhanced inhomogeneity of eddy currents in
the bilayer caused by finite thickness. This effect is observable in films with
thicknesses below the magnetic skin depth and can be used to study standing
spin wave modes in heterostructures.
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Dont man-handle the joy stick just fix it so I don't break it again.
this is my third joy stick due to the fact that I am rough with it. I keep breaking the four mounting posts that stabilize the control module. I believe that if they ran the same diameter bolt completely up through the formed mounting pins and placed a thin washer with a locking nut, they will increase the strength of the mount amply enough for an old vet to play on with out breaking it. my first two were earlier models and for other console combinations. however the frame has stayed about the same. the nice part to this fix is the holes in the pins are already there. all they have to do is drill through the flat plate section right under the yoke and they will see that a small cap-nut will fit there tucked nicely under the chrome ring.
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And I didn't say the Crown had to lay charges within a year I said the alleged victim must ask for charges to be laid within a year. I see no problem with that. The only, and rare, circumstance where longer than a year would be where there was reasonable grounds for the alleged victim to fear for their safety if they came forward within that first year.
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I heard about this series in 2001 which a friend of mine was recording off the television each week. I never bothered to watch though I became acquainted with the series through the magazine which I looked at every now and then in bookstores. I recently purchased series one on DVD and have become addicted to this fascinating and original series. The characters at first seem unlikeable but it is amazing how fast they grow and develop into a united force. As they begin to care for one another it becomes easy to care what happens to them (bearing in mind that this is only a TV series and they are fictional).<br /><br />However it isn't the PC world of Star Trek and so whilst every character shows a good trait they each have their own flaws and demons that they must deal with. Indivual story lines mixed in with an overall multiple story-arc make this one of the most complex and rewarding television experiences I have ever had the pleasure of viewing. I absolutely enjoy watching each of the characters interact with one another.<br /><br />This strange new world we are introduced to is brilliantly portrayed through the eyes of astronaut John Crichton and as he learns and adapts to being on the other side of the galaxy, strange alien creatures, different cultures, being hunted by a character that wants him dead and being treated as inferior by his comrades we can easily relate to what he must be feeling. As he becomes used to his surroundings so do the viewers and his compassionate, strong-willed and brave character is a joy to watch.<br /><br />I have watched only seven episodes of Farscape season one and look forward to continuing through seasons two-four and the mini-series. Maybe one day we can all enjoy a season five. Highly recommended viewing and well worth setting time aside to watch. Buy and enjoy! 10/10.
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We show that if $K$ is a nontrivial knot then the proportion of satellites of
$K$ among all of the prime non-split links of $n$ or fewer crossings does not
converge to $0$ as $n$ approaches infinity. This implies in particular that the
proportion of hyperbolic links among all of the prime non-split links of $n$ or
fewer crossings does not converge to 1 as $n$ approaches infinity. We consider
unoriented link types.
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FINGERPRINT READER DOES NOT WORK
I gave this one star for two reasons: 1) Thw fingerprint reader does NOT work. 2) After about three weeks, it is loosening around all four corners. Although the item wasn't expensive, I definitely did not get what I paid for nor what was advertised. BIG PASS ON THIS IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IT WORK AS THE DESCRIPTION SAYS.
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We study conformal gravity as an alternative theory of gravitation. For
conformal gravity to be phenomenologically viable requires that the conformal
symmetry is not manifest at the energy scales of the other known physical
forces. Hence we require a mechanism for the spontaneous breaking of conformal
invariance. In this paper we study the possibility that conformal invariance is
spontaneously broken due to interactions with conformally coupled matter
fields. The vacuum of the theory admits conformally non-invariant solutions
corresponding to maximally symmetric space-times and variants thereof. These
are either de Sitter space-time or anti-de Sitter space-time in the full four
space-time dimensions or in a lower dimensional sub-space. We consider in
particular normalizable, linearized gravitational perturbations around the
anti-de Sitter background. Exploiting the conformal flatness of this
space-time, we show to second order, that these gravitational fluctuations,
that are taken to be fourier decomposable, carry zero energy-momentum. This
squares well with the theorem that asymptotically flat space-times conformal
gravity contain zero energy and momentum \cite{bhs}. We also show the
possibility of domain wall solitons interpolating between the ground states of
spontaneously broken conformal symmetry that we have found. These solitons
necessarily require the vanishing of the scalar field, repudiating the recent
suggestion \cite{f} that the conformal symmetry could be quarantined to a
sterile sector of the theory by choosing an appropriate field redefinition.
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Building on reduction theorems and dimension bounds for symmetric groups
obtained in our earlier work, we classify the irreducible restrictions of
representations of the symmetric and alternating groups to proper subgroups.
Such classification is known when the characteristic of the ground field is
greater than $3$, but the small characteristics cases require a substantially
more delicate analysis and new ideas. Our results fit into the Aschbacher-Scott
program on maximal subgroups of finite classical groups.
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This kind of film has become old hat by now, hasn't it? The whole thing is syrupy nostalgia turned in upon itself in some kind of feedback loop.<br /><br />It sure sounds like a good idea: a great ensemble cast, some good gags, and some human drama about what could have/might have been. Unfortunately, there is no central event that binds them all together, like there was in "The Big Chill", one of those seminal movies that spawned copycat films like this one. You end up wanting to see more of one or two particular people instead of getting short takes on everyone. The superficiality this creates is not just annoying, it's maddening. The below-average script doesn't help.
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It is well known that the electron transfer (ET) reaction in
donor-bridge-acceptor systems is much influenced by the bridge conformational
changes. However, the importance of the dynamical contribution to the ET rate
is still under debate. In this study, we investigate the significance of the
dynamical non-Condon effect on the ET rate in the coherent resonant tunneling
regime. To deal with the resonance, we generalize the time-dependent Fermi's
golden rule expression for the ET rate in the $T$-matrix framework. The
dynamical effect is thereby expressed in terms of the time correlation function
of the non-Hermitian $T$-matrix. We discuss the property of the quantum time
correlation function of the non-Hermitian $T$-matrix and construct the
semiclassical approximation. Then we perform a computational study using
classical equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations and quantum chemical
calculations. It is shown that the ET rate can be significantly enhanced by the
dynamical non-Condon effects.
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as a 'physically challenged' person (god, how i hate that phrase) i just happened to catch this on cable where there was absolutely nothing else to watch - overall, it was a fantastic movie. yes, i was a little disappointed upon finding out that neither actor is disabled, and yes, i was a little disappointed that more of the movie wasn't filmed from the 'true' point of view of the disabled (can you imagine what it's like always being the tallest person in the room and then having to live the rest of your life with a view of nothing but other people's asses and crotches? having to always wait for the idiot to stop reading the newspaper in the only handicapped stall, enduring everyone else's rude bodily expulsions while you wait?). and the scene with him driving the car was absolutely me! been there, done that, literally. but the movie was true enough to matter - while i've never lived in a home or assisted residence, there were plenty of times throughout the movie where i found myself nodding and saying to myself "yeah, that's true.... that's happened to me...." what impressed me is that some of the commentors on this board expressed the fact that the movie made them view life a little differently and with a little more insight as the lives of a silent 'minority' - can't ask more than that out of a movie, that it makes you think and view life differently, so by virtue of that alone, the movies was tremendously successful. should be required viewing of every kid in junior high school.<br /><br />pretty much for every person that's severely physically disabled, independence is one of, if not the most important focus of our daily lives, from working to socializing to recreating. for those of you who felt the movie was 'cliched,' try living our life for a single day - you'll see that the movie was 'cliched' because..... it's true. the challenges the actors faced only skimmed the surface of what happens to us every day - if we're lucky, we experience the same emotional and personal growth that the three characters (including the girl) did. every day presents obstacles for us to overcome - it's just that there's no swelling, dramatic music to accompany our lives, unless it's in our ipods.... lol!
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Modern architectures require applications to make effective use of caches to
achieve high performance and hide memory latency. This in turn requires careful
consideration of placement of data in memory to exploit spatial locality,
leverage hardware prefetching and conserve memory bandwidth. In unmanaged
languages like C++, memory optimisations are common, but at the cost of losing
object abstraction and memory safety. In managed languages like Java and C#,
the abstract view of memory and proliferation of moving compacting garbage
collection does not provide enough control over placement and layout.
We have proposed SHAPES, a type-driven abstract placement specification that
can be integrated with object-oriented languages to enable memory
optimisations. SHAPES preserves both memory and object abstraction. In this
paper, we formally specify the SHAPES semantics and describe its memory safety
model.
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Nowadays, Deep learning techniques show dramatic performance on computer
vision area, and they even outperform human. But it is also vulnerable to some
small perturbation called an adversarial attack. This is a problem combined
with the safety of artificial intelligence, which has recently been studied a
lot. These attacks have shown that they can fool models of image
classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection. We point out this
attack can be protected by denoise autoencoder, which is used for denoising the
perturbation and restoring the original images. We experiment with various
noise distributions and verify the effect of denoise autoencoder against
adversarial attack in semantic segmentation.
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The sad part is these are the same folks (at least the Governor is) that is in charge of our $10BILLION train mess. If they can be this wrong about a 9-0 decision, no wonder the train is such a disaster! The fact that the decision went 9-0 with those radical leftists on the Bench says everything. Again Trump wins....and the left goes deeper into the abyss. The dems will probably blame the Russians for this!! lol!
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Current approaches to machine translation (MT) either translate sentences in
isolation, disregarding the context they appear in, or model context at the
level of the full document, without a notion of any internal structure the
document may have. In this work we consider the fact that documents are rarely
homogeneous blocks of text, but rather consist of parts covering different
topics. Some documents, such as biographies and encyclopedia entries, have
highly predictable, regular structures in which sections are characterised by
different topics. We draw inspiration from Louis and Webber (2014) who use this
information to improve statistical MT and transfer their proposal into the
framework of neural MT. We compare two different methods of including
information about the topic of the section within which each sentence is found:
one using side constraints and the other using a cache-based model. We create
and release the data on which we run our experiments - parallel corpora for
three language pairs (Chinese-English, French-English, Bulgarian-English) from
Wikipedia biographies, which we extract automatically, preserving the
boundaries of sections within the articles.
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but I was disappointed to have these less than a week and have ...
I don't have large feet by any stretch of the imagination, but one of these broke where it loops around the big toe. I could see where the seam was damaged when I got them. They work other than that, but I was disappointed to have these less than a week and have to replace them already.
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yeah i don't know if i would do that to my child though but so hum pretty much though see i don't have any good ideas or or anything that would contribute see this isn't a subject that i think a lot about because i'm never faced with it because our school system in Vermont it seems to do a really good job
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"Hebda said that he believed the archdiocese's plan "provides a fair and just resolution" and cautioned that the longer the legal process continues, the more attorneys' fees and other related costs will eat into the settlement funds ultimately available to survivors."
Hebda, like his predecessor Nienstedt, doesn't get it. After decades of abuse and neglect, he believes only he can decide what is fair.
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The large deviations at 'Level 2.5 in time' for time-dependent
ensemble-empirical-observables, introduced by C. Maes, K. Netocny and B.
Wynants [Markov Proc. Rel. Fields. 14, 445 (2008)] for the case of $N$
independent Markov jump processes, are extended to the case of open Markov
processes with reservoirs : explicit formulas are given for the joint
probability of empirical occupation numbers and empirical flows, both for
discrete-time dynamics and for continuous-time jump dynamics, with possibly
time-dependent dynamical rules and/or time-dependent driving of the reservoirs.
This general formalism is then applied to random cascades on trees, where
particles are injected at the root via a 'source reservoir', while the
particles are removed at the leaves of the last generation of the tree via
'sink reservoirs'.
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Common temporal models for automatic chord recognition model chord changes on
a frame-wise basis. Due to this fact, they are unable to capture musical
knowledge about chord progressions. In this paper, we propose a temporal model
that enables explicit modelling of chord changes and durations. We then apply
N-gram models and a neural-network-based acoustic model within this framework,
and evaluate the effect of model overconfidence. Our results show that model
overconfidence plays only a minor role (but target smoothing still improves the
acoustic model), and that stronger chord language models do improve recognition
results, however their effects are small compared to other domains.
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In this paper we consider a generalized version of Carleman's inequality. An
equivalent version of it states that
$\|f\|_{A_\alpha^{2\alpha}}\leq\|f\|_{H^2}$, where $f$ is a holomorphic
function and $\alpha>1$. If the norms $\|f\|_{A_\alpha^{2\alpha}}$ are
decreasing in $\alpha$, then the inequality holds for $f$. For a dense set of
functions, we calculate the derivative of the norms
$\|f\|_{A_\alpha^{2\alpha}}$ in $\alpha$ and give sufficient conditions for
this derivative to be non-positive. As an application, we prove the inequality
for linear combinations of two reproducing kernels. Some numerical evidences
are also provided.
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1st watched 12/6/2009 - 4 out of 10 (Dir-Walter Lang): Disappointing musical from a character development standpoint, in my opinion, from this much-heralded Rodgers and Hammerstein piece. There a couple of good songs and a decent comical portrayal, at times, of the King of Siam by Yul Brynner -- but the movie doesn't really do a good job of presenting the situation and the settings. I can only blame the screenplay and possibly some of the acting as to why we don't fully understand the character's and their situations. I know it might be a little too much to ask of a musical meant for the enjoyment of the songs and the dancing, but even this part didn't stand out a lot for me. The basic storyline is about an English woman coming to Siam to teach the children about upscale European things. We find out later that the King is actually the biggest pupil. There is a side forbidden romance between the King's newest wife, played by Rita Moreno(a latino as an Arab--come on!!) and a former lover that causes some complications but nothing really mesmerizing added though. Deborah Kerr, as the main female character Annie -- is OK but not that convincing either. The King learns some things because of her presence and then the movie fades away as he does. This is really a miniscule story with some songs and dancing but not that great of an experience for a viewer really.
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The Simpsons of course started off with Christmas special "Simpson's Roasting On An Open Fire" which had basic drawings and not laugh out loud jokes, but this episode has probably the first laugh out loud joke in it and from here the show just gets better and better. This episode centers around Bart who in this episode swaps on a test from Martin and gets into a school for the highly gifted, this leading to Bart mending his friendship with his Dad and losing all of his mates. The Episode is very humorous and shows what was to become the greatest show ever to come out. Overall fans of the show will love this episode as it features the character's exactly as they became 20 years later. So watch this episode in a pack of Season 1 and enjoy early Simpson's doing what it was meant to, Making people laugh. I rate this episode 73%.
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Cool way to see Mars
This book is a great coffee table book, it has some amazing photographs and a lot of simple straightforward explanations of what you are looking at, it is in fact other-worldly. the 3D is best on some of the craters and canyons. Good gift for any friends or family who like astronomy or science.
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A nilmanifold is a quotient of a nilpotent group $G$ by a co-compact discrete
subgroup. A complex nilmanifold is one which is equipped with a $G$-invariant
complex structure. We prove that a complex nilmanifold has trivial canonical
bundle. This is used to study hypercomplex nilmanifolds (nilmanifolds with a
triple of $G$-invariant complex structures which satisfy quaternionic
relations). We prove that a hypercomplex nilmanifold admits an HKT (hyperkahler
with torsion) metric if and only if the underlying hypercomplex structure is
abelian. Moreover, any $G$-invariant HKT-metric on a nilmanifold is balanced
with respect to all associated complex structures.
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It works! In the drain and for arm exercise!
I received the Drain Snake this morning, and opened it this afternoon. Everything was there that was supposed to be, and the tool looked perfect. I decided to get right down to business. As I have limited upper arm strength (exercise blah lol) it took a bit of finagling to direct the snake into the right area (it doesn't help that the pipe has a 28 inch drop before it curves) I might not have done it perfectly, but I was able to pull some gunk up. One of the things: A label off of a travel size conditoner that must've been there since before I moved in 9 YEARS AGO. The drain is already doing better, but I'm going to give it another go as my arms got tired. Thank you!!!
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Mr. Smith,
The map I referenced is the Federal Government's interpretation, not mine. Thank you for looking at it. As you can see the OLF is clearly outside the boundary of the Reserve. All the documents that I have studied appear to indicate the same.
I don't know the document you refer to as "Ebey's Reserve EIS" from 1978.
But if you send me a link I'll be happy to take a look!
Also, are you citing the US National Park Service as the "fringe group"?
Or the Town of Coupeville? Island County? Washington State? Which of these four Ebey's Reserve Trust Board partners do you have concerns about?
All four are charged with "preserving and protecting the rural community"
(language from the Enabling Congressional Legislation).
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Let $A$ be a hereditary algebra over an algebraically closed field $k$ and
$A^{(m)}$ be the $m$-replicated algebra of $A$. Given an $A^{(m)}$-module $T$,
we denote by $\delta (T)$ the number of non isomorphic indecomposable summands
of $T$. In this paper, we prove that a partial tilting $A^{(m)}$-module $T$ is
a tilting $A^{(m)}$-module if and only if $\delta (T)=\delta (A^{(m)})$, and
that every partial tilting $A^{(m)}$-module has complements. As an application,
we deduce that the tilting quiver $\mathscr{K}_{A^{(m)}}$ of $A^{(m)}$ is
connected. Moreover, we investigate the number of complements to almost tilting
modules over duplicated algebras.
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We obtain a lower bound of n^Omega(1) on the k-party randomized communication
complexity of the Disjointness function in the `Number on the Forehead' model
of multiparty communication when k is a constant. For k=o(loglog n), the bounds
remain super-polylogarithmic i.e. (log n)^omega(1). The previous best lower
bound for three players until recently was Omega(log n).
Our bound separates the communication complexity classes NP^{CC}_k and
BPP^{CC}_k for k=o(loglog n). Furthermore, by the results of Beame, Pitassi and
Segerlind \cite{BPS07}, our bound implies proof size lower bounds for
tree-like, degree k-1 threshold systems and superpolynomial size lower bounds
for Lovasz-Schrijver proofs.
Sherstov \cite{She07b} recently developed a novel technique to obtain lower
bounds on two-party communication using the approximate polynomial degree of
boolean functions. We obtain our results by extending his technique to the
multi-party setting using ideas from Chattopadhyay \cite{Cha07}.
A similar bound for Disjointness has been recently and independently obtained
by Lee and Shraibman.
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Social hierarchy is central to decision-making in the coordinated movement of
many swarming species. Here we propose a hierarchical swarm model in the spirit
of the Vicsek model of self-propelled particles. We show that, as the hierarchy
becomes important, the swarming transition changes from the weak first-order
transition observed for egalitarian populations, to a stronger first-order
transition for intermediately strong hierarchies, and finally the discontinuity
reduces till vanish, where the order-disorder transition appears to be absent
in the extremely despotic societies. Associated to this we observe that the
spatial structure of the swarm, as measured by the correlation between the
density and velocity fields, is strongly mediated by the hierarchy. A two-group
model and vectorial noise are also studied for verification. Our results point
out the particular relevance of the hierarchical structures to swarming
transitions when doing specific case studies.
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Present article deals with trajectorial intersections in linear fractional
systems ('systems'). We propose a classification of intersections of
trajectories in three classes viz. trajectories intersecting at same
time(EIST), trajectories intersecting at distinct times(EIDT) and self
intersections of a trajectory. We prove a generalization of separation theorem
for the case of linear fractional systems. This result proves existence of
EIST. Based on the presence of EIST, systems are further classified in two
types; Type I and Type II systems, which are analyzed further for EIDT. Besides
constant solutions and limit-cycle behavior, a fractional trajectory can have
nodal or cuspoidal intersections with itself. We give a necessary and
sufficient condition for a trajectory to have such types of intersections.
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We explore planet formation in the HL Tau disk and possible origins of the
prominent gaps and rings observed by ALMA. We investigate whether dust gaps are
caused by dynamically trapped planetary embryos at the ice lines of abundant
volatiles. The global properties of the HL Tau disk (total mass, size) at its
current age are used to constrain an evolving analytic disk model describing
its temperature and density profiles. By performing a detailed analysis of the
planet-disk interaction for a planet near the water ice line including a
rigorous treatment of the dust opacity, we confirm that water is sufficiently
abundant (1.5x10^-4 molecules per H) to trap planets at its ice line due to an
opacity transition. When the abundance of water is reduced by 50% planet
trapping disappears. We extend our analysis to other planet traps: the heat
transition, dead zone edge, and the CO_2 ice line and find similar trapping.
The formation of planets via planetesimal accretion is computed for dynamically
trapped embryos at the water ice line, dead zone, and heat transition. The end
products orbit in the inner disk (R < 3 AU), unresolved by ALMA, with masses
that range between sub-Earth to 5 Jupiter masses. While we find that the dust
gaps correspond well with the radial positions of the CO_2 , CH_4 , and CO ice
lines, the planetesimal accretion rates at these radii are too small to build
large embryos within 1 Myr.
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We investigate the isocurvaton model, in which the isocurvature perturbation
plays a role in suppressing the curvature perturbation, and large
non-Gaussianity and gravitational waves can be produced with no isocurvature
perturbation for dark matter. We show that in the slow roll non-interacting
multi-field theory, the isocurvaton mechanism can not be realized. This result
can also be generalized to most of the studied models with generalized kinetic
terms. We also study the implications for the curvaton model. We show that
there is a combined constraint for curvaton on non-Gaussianity, gravitational
waves and isocurvature perturbation. The technique used in this paper can also
help to simplify some calculations in the mixed inflaton and curvaton models.
We also investigate possibilities to produce large negative non-Gaussianity and
nonlocal non-Gaussianity in the curvaton model.
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We consider the extremal problem of interpolation of scattered data in
$\mathbb{R}^3$ by smooth curve networks with minimal $L_p$-norm of the second
derivative for $1<p<\infty$. The problem for $p=2$ was set and solved by
Nielson (1983). Andersson et al. (1995) gave a new proof of Nielson's result by
using a different approach. Partial results for the problem for $1<p<\infty$
were announced without proof in (Vlachkova (1992)). Here we present a complete
characterization of the solution for $1<p<\infty$. Numerical experiments are
visualized and presented to illustrate and support our results.
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Oh, the horror, the unspeakable horror of this film. If you can even call it a film. This looks like some first-year art school project, hastily cobbled together.<br /><br />The "talents" here will subject you to a painful mix of under- and- overacting, and practically all the scenes were terribly contrived and pretentious.<br /><br />The film in no way reflects Malaysian culture or social conventions - nobody even talks that way over here. I live in Malaysia, BTW.<br /><br />Spinning Gasing seems tailor-made to pick up an award in the foreign film category of some western film festival. And unfortunately, that ploy seems to have worked. Some reviewers would no doubt describe it as "exotic", but a more accurate word would be "atrocious".<br /><br />
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Background: It is still an open research area to theoretically understand why
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)---equipped with many more parameters than training
data and trained by (stochastic) gradient-based methods---often achieve
remarkably low generalization error. Contribution: We study DNN training by
Fourier analysis. Our theoretical framework explains: i) DNN with (stochastic)
gradient-based methods often endows low-frequency components of the target
function with a higher priority during the training; ii) Small initialization
leads to good generalization ability of DNN while preserving the DNN's ability
to fit any function. These results are further confirmed by experiments of DNNs
fitting the following datasets, that is, natural images, one-dimensional
functions and MNIST dataset.
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We investigate the bounce realization in the framework of generalized
modified gravities arising from Finsler and Finsler-like geometries. In
particular, the richer intrinsic geometrical structure is reflected in the
appearance of extra degrees of freedom in the Friedmann equations that can
drive the bounce. We examine various Finsler and Finsler-like constructions. In
the cases of general very special relativity as well as of Finsler-like gravity
on the tangent bundle we show that a bounce cannot be easily obtained. However,
in the Finsler-Randers space the induced scalar anisotropy can fulfill the
bounce conditions and bouncing solutions are easily obtained. Finally, for the
general class of theories that include a nonlinear connection a new scalar
field is induced, leading to a scalar-tensor structure that can easily drive a
bounce. These features reveal the capabilities of Finsler and Finsler-like
geometries.
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We present a way to accomodate relic graviton production via worm hole
transitions of prior universe thermal / energy density values to our present
universe. This is done in the context of providing a mechanism for thermally
driven relic gravitons, and also to explain how Park's 2003 observation as to
how a thermally scaled vacuum energy value plays a role in forming the early
universe emergent field dynamics
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In Cinema Retro magazine #2,it is revealed that Mark Lester's voice was actually dubbed by a 20 year old female, Kathe Green. Although Leste was considered perfect for the title role, director Carol Reed was not at all pleased with his singing abilities. The secret was revealed by on a 2004 UK documentary titled "Oliver! After They Were Famous". Greene was paid 400 pounds for her work and she had to agree to keep her participation secret, as did Mark Lester. They kept their word and only revealed this fact as part of the TV show decades after release of the film. For the record, Mark Lester retired from acting and is a practicing osteopath in England.
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Estimating multiple attributes from a single facial image gives comprehensive
descriptions on the high level semantics of the face. It is naturally regarded
as a multi-task supervised learning problem with a single deep CNN, in which
lower layers are shared, and higher ones are task-dependent with the
multi-branch structure. Within the traditional deep multi-task learning (DMTL)
framework, this paper intends to fully exploit the correlations among different
attributes by constructing a graph. The node in graph represents the feature
vector from a particular branch for a given attribute, and the edge can be
defined by either the prior knowledge or the similarity between two nodes in
the embedding with a fully data-driven manner. We analyze that the attention
mechanism actually takes effect in the latter case, and utilize the Graph
Attention Layer (GAL) for exploring on the most relevant attribute feature and
refining the task-dependant feature by considering other attributes.
Experiments show that by mining the correlations among attributes, our method
can improve the recognition accuracy on CelebA and LFWA dataset. And it also
achieves competitive performance.
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Mobile edge computing (MEC) networks are one of the key technologies for
ultra-reliability and low-latency communications. The computing resource
allocation solution needs to be carefully designed to guarantee the computing
resource efficiency of MEC networks. Based on the potential game theory, a
computing resource allocation solution is proposed to reduce energy consumption
and improve computing resource efficiency in MEC networks. The computing
resource allocation solution includes two parts: the first part is the power
control scheme based on the potential game theory and the second part is the
computing resource allocation scheme based on linear programming. The power
control scheme is to find a set of the transmission powers of base stations
(BSs) that maximizes the potential function of MEC networks. The computing
resource allocation scheme is to maximize the average computing resource
allocation coefficient of the MEC networks based on the results of the power
control scheme. Compared with traditional solutions, simulation results
indicate the computing resource utilization and energy efficiency of the
proposed computing resource allocation solution are significantly improved.
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We study the six-dimensional ${\cal N}=(1,0)$ and ${\cal N}=(1,1)$
supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theories in the component formulation. The
one-loop divergencies of effective action are calculated. The leading one-loop
low-energy contributions to bosonic sector of effective action are found. It is
explicitly demonstrated that the contribution to effective potential for the
constant background scalar fields are absent in the ${\cal N}=(1,1)$ SYM
theory.
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We study several geometric and group theoretical problems related to Kodaira
fibrations, to more general families of Riemann surfaces, and to
surface-by-surface groups. First we provide constraints on Kodaira fibrations
that fiber in more than two distinct ways, addressing a question by Catanese
and Salter about their existence. Then we show that if the fundamental group of
a surface bundle over a surface is a ${\rm CAT}(0)$ group, the bundle must have
injective monodromy (unless the monodromy has finite image). Finally, given a
family of closed Riemann surfaces (of genus $\ge 2$) with injective monodromy
$E\to B$ over a manifold $B$, we explain how to build a new family of Riemann
surfaces with injective monodromy whose base is a finite cover of the total
space $E$ and whose fibers have higher genus. We apply our construction to
prove that the mapping class group of a once punctured surface virtually admits
injective and irreducible morphisms into the mapping class group of a closed
surface of higher genus.
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Authenticated lateral movement via compromised accounts is a common
adversarial maneuver that is challenging to discover with signature- or
rules-based intrusion detection systems. In this work a behavior-based approach
to detecting malicious logins to novel systems indicative of lateral movement
is presented, in which a user's historical login activity is used to build a
model of putative "normal" behavior. This historical login activity is
represented as a collection of daily login graphs, which encode authentications
among accessed systems. Each system, or graph vertex, is described by a set of
graph centrality measures that characterize it and the local topology of its
login graph. The unsupervised technique of non-negative matrix factorization is
then applied to this set of features to assign each vertex to a role that
summarizes how the system participates in logins. The reconstruction error
quantifying how well each vertex fits into its role is then computed, and the
statistics of this error can be used to identify outlier vertices that
correspond to systems involved in unusual logins. We test this technique with a
small cohort of privileged accounts using real login data from an operational
enterprise network. The ability of the method to identify malicious logins
among normal activity is tested with simulated graphs of login activity
representative of adversarial lateral movement. We find that the method is
generally successful at detecting a broad range of lateral movement for each
user, with false positive rates significantly lower than those resulting from
alerts based solely on login novelty.
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I thought it was weird and just gory, not scary. I have seen a couple of the Japanese horror films, Ringu and Juon, and loved them; but this movie was a disappointment. It never even explained anything about the curse. I just didn't see any horror... it wasn't scary to me at all. The whole time I was watching I was waiting for Kirie to discover the secret of the curse and why it was happening now. If this was some ancient curse, why didn't it happen before Shuichi's father? And it never told us what happened to her father. I kept waiting for someone to tell us the meaning or the reasoning behind this curse and then it just ended. I was very disappointed.
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For the representation of spin-$s$ band-limited functions on the sphere, we
propose a sampling scheme with optimal number of samples equal to the number of
degrees of freedom of the function in harmonic space. In comparison to the
existing sampling designs, which require ${\sim}2L^2$ samples for the
representation of spin-$s$ functions band-limited at $L$, the proposed scheme
requires $N_o=L^2-s^2$ samples for the accurate computation of the spin-$s$
spherical harmonic transform~($s$-SHT). For the proposed sampling scheme, we
also develop a method to compute the $s$-SHT. We place the samples in our
design scheme such that the matrices involved in the computation of $s$-SHT are
well-conditioned. We also present a multi-pass $s$-SHT to improve the accuracy
of the transform. We also show the proposed sampling design exhibits superior
geometrical properties compared to existing equiangular and Gauss-Legendre
sampling schemes, and enables accurate computation of the $s$-SHT corroborated
through numerical experiments.
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We derive the full expression for the shape of the charge spectrum that
results from the illumination of a photo-multiplier tube. The derivation is for
low intensity illumination with constant gain, a common condition for most
nuclear and particle physics applications. Under these conditions, it is shown
that an analytic expression can be formulated that describes details of the
spectrum including the pedestal and dark noise with excellent fidelity to allow
statistical fits to data. The derivation and full formula using either Gaussian
or Poisson models for gain, and its limiting forms under various simplifying
assumptions are presented with strategies on their use. The analytic
description can be used to formulate data acquisition strategies to perform
precise absolute calibration of photo-multipliers, the digitizers, and the data
acquisition system.
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Fletcher G. Watson (c. 1912 – 7 May 1997) was an American professor of science education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (1946–77), where he served as the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education (1966–77), Watson was a founder and co-director of which national curriculum development project to create a secondary school physics education program in the United States during the Cold War era?
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So the look of the case is great and but the latch part worries me a bit
So the look of the case is great and but the latch part worries me a bit. Its not as sturdy as some others and after a couple months of use had worn more then a bit. My only other issue is the place where my credit cards go is loose so I have endured them falling out from time to time. I will most likely be buying another case.
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The band alignment of semiconductor-metal interfaces plays a vital role in
modern electronics, but remains difficult to predict theoretically and measure
experimentally. For interfaces with strong band bending a main difficulty
originates from the in-built potentials which lead to broadened and shifted
band spectra in spectroscopy measurements. In this work we present a method to
resolve the band alignment of buried semiconductor-metal interfaces using core
level photoemission spectroscopy and self-consistent electronic structure
simulations. As a proof of principle we apply the method to a clean in-situ
grown InAs(100)/Al interface, a system with a strong in-built band bending. Due
to the high signal-to-noise ratio of the core level spectra the proposed
methodology can be used on previously inaccessible semiconductor-metal
interfaces and support targeted design of novel hybrid devices and form the
foundation for a interface parameter database for specified synthesis processes
of semiconductor-metal systems.
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Recent studies show that 85% of women have changed their traveled route to
avoid harassment and assault. Despite this, current mapping tools do not
empower users with information to take charge of their personal safety. We
propose SafeRoute, a novel solution to the problem of navigating cities and
avoiding street harassment and crime. Unlike other street navigation
applications, SafeRoute introduces a new type of path generation via deep
reinforcement learning. This enables us to successfully optimize for
multi-criteria path-finding and incorporate representation learning within our
framework. Our agent learns to pick favorable streets to create a safe and
short path with a reward function that incorporates safety and efficiency.
Given access to recent crime reports in many urban cities, we train our model
for experiments in Boston, New York, and San Francisco. We test our model on
areas of these cities, specifically the populated downtown regions where
tourists and those unfamiliar with the streets walk. We evaluate SafeRoute and
successfully improve over state-of-the-art methods by up to 17% in local
average distance from crimes while decreasing path length by up to 7%.
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"Well Chuck Jones is dead, lets soil his characters by adding cheap explosions, an American drawn anime knock off style, and give them superpowers". "but sir?, don't we all ready have several shows in the works that are already like this? much less don't dump all over their original creators dreams". "yes! and those shows make us a bunch of cash, and we need more!". "but won't every man women and child, who grew up with these time less characters, be annoyed?". "hay you're right! set it in the future, make them all descendent's of the original characters, and change all the names slightly...but not too much though, we still need to be able to milk the success of the classics".<br /><br />Well that's the only reason I can think of why this even exists. If you look past the horrible desecration of our beloved Looney Toons, then it looks like an OK show. But then there is already the teen titan's, which is the same bloody thing. All the characters are dressed like batman, they drive around in some sort of ship fighting super villains, they have superpowers, only difference is they sort of talk like the Looney tunes and have similar names and character traits.<br /><br />This kind of thing falls into the "it's so ridiculous it's good" kind of category. Think of the Super Mario brother's movie, and Batman and Robin. If you want to laugh for all the wrong reasons, check this out. If you are of the younger generation (what this thing is actually intended for), and can look pass the greedy executives shamelessness, then run with it and enjoy.<br /><br />If you enjoy this cartoon I don't have a problem with you, it's the people who calculated this thing together that I am mad at. You know how they say piracy is like stealing a car; this show is like grave robbing. They might as well of dug up all the people involved with the original cartoon, shoved them on a display, dressed them up in
err pirate costumes, and charged money. If this show wasn't using characters (ones that didn't resemble the Looney Toons in anyway whatsoever) that have already made the studios millions, then this would be fine. But no! For shame Warner brothers, for shame.<br /><br />If I saw this thing as a 30 second gag on an episode of the Simpson's or Family Guy, I would love it. As it is I just can't believe this was ever made. I would bet anyone that 80% of the people who work on this show hate it. But whatever it doesn't really matter, in 10 years this show will have been forgotten, while the originals will live on forever
or at least until the world ends.<br /><br />"Coming 2008, Snoopy and the peanut gang are back, and now they have freaking lasers and can turn invisible! Can Charley Brown defeat the evil alien warlord Zapar? Tune in and see."
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A class of groups is investigated, each of which has a fairly simple
presentation . For example the group $R = (a, b, c, d | a^3 = b^3 = c^3 = d^3 =
1, ba^{-1} =dc^{-1}, ca^{-1} = db^{-1}) $ is in the class. Such a group does
not have as a homomorphic image any group which is a 2-orbifold group or which
is a group of isometries of the reals. However it does have incompatible
splittings over subgroups which are not small. This contradicts some ideas I
had about universal JSJ decompostions for finitely presented groups over
finitely generated subgroups. Such a group also has an unstable action on an
R-tree and a cocompact action on a CAT(0) cube complex with finite cyclic point
stabilizers, and trivial edge stabilizers.
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Buh? It's a freaking tribute to a young person who lost their life too soon. It's not an appropriate article about which one should be a gross, rude, nasty person when commenting. But if you don't know that it's time to start over in preschool and learn those simple life lessons on how to behave.
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A class of dynamical dark energy models, dubbed Spinor Quintom, can be
constructed by a spinor field $\psi$ with a nontraditional potential. We find
that, if choosing suitable potential, this model is able to allow the
equation-of-state to cross the cosmological constant boundary without
introducing any ghost fields. In a further investigation, we show that this
model is able to mimic a perfect fluid of Chaplygin gas with $p=-c/\rho$ during
the evolution, and also realizes the Quintom scenario with its
equation-of-state across -1.
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We calculate twist-3 parton ditribution functions (PDFs) using cut and uncut
diagrams. Uncut diagrams lead to a Dirac delta function term. No such term
appears when cut diagrams are used. We show that a $\delta(x)$ is necessary to
satisfy the Lorentz invariance relations of twist-3 PDFs, except for the
Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule in QCD.
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Action & Adventure.Billie Clark is twenty years old, very pretty, and without a care in the world,until a brutal street gang violates her life, and she turns into an ALLEY CAT bent on revenge! When the gang attacks her grandparents house and her car, Billie uses her black belt prowess to fight them off. But at the same time she earns their hatred, and she and her grandparents are marked for vengence.When her grandparents lose their lives to the brutal thugs. Billie becomes like a cat stalking her prey-and no prison,police force,boyfriend,or crooked judge can get in the way of her avenging claws. She's a one-woman vigilante squad,a martial arts queen,a crack shot with no mercy. She's the ALLEY CAT.Watch for the dramatic ending versus the Gang leader! Rated R for Nudity & Violence, Other Films with Karin Mani: Actress - filmography,Avenging Angel (1985) .... Janie Soon Lee , "From Here to Eternity" (1979) (mini) TV Series .... Tawny, Filmography as: Actress, Stunts - filmography,Avenging Angel (1985) (stunts)P.S. She should have been Catwoman in the Batman Movie!<br /><br />
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Great, except rash?
This product is as shown and it seems to hold up well to every day wear, however, it has given me a rash. Where the band sits is itchy and burns. I am not sure if it just contains something I am allergic to or what, but it is very upsetting because I really like the product otherwise!
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KY makes the same mistake as so many other pundits.
People did not rise up to embrace Trump as an agent of change -- he got fewer votes than Mitt Romney did.
The election was decided by Democrat voters who stayed home -- many did so because the media kept saying Clinton couldn't lose.
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We consider bipartite mixed states in a $d\otimes d$ quantum system. We say
that $\rho$ is PPT if its partial transpose $1 \otimes T (\rho)$ is positive
semidefinite, and otherwise $\rho$ is NPT. The well-known Werner states are
divided into three types: (a) the separable states (the same as the PPT
states); (b) the one-distillable states (necessarily NPT); and (c) the NPT
states which are not one-distillable. We give several different formulations
and provide further evidence for validity of the conjecture that the Werner
states of type (c) are not two-distillable.
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Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic (PCTL) is a well-known modal logic which
has become a standard for expressing temporal properties of finite-state Markov
chains in the context of automated model checking. In this paper, we give a
definition of PCTL for noncountable-space Markov chains, and we show that there
is a substantial affinity between certain of its operators and problems of
Dynamic Programming. After proving some uniqueness properties of the solutions
to the latter, we conclude the paper with two examples to show that some
recovery strategies in practical applications, which are naturally stated as
reach-avoid problems, can be actually viewed as particular cases of PCTL
formulas.
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It didn’t work well for me
My anxiety is almost crippling, so this didn’t help the way I personally needed it to.. but I got a full refund instantly as well as checked on by the company! They were kind and knowledgeable. Also, the flavor alone would make a great candy! I loved just eating them haha!
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I'm glad Quebec passed that law. It is quite scary hitting black ice and flipping your car over into a ditch while only going a few km per hour or doing a 360 into oncoming trafic in a highway.
I've had both happen to me and thankfully no one was hurt.
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Only lasted about 5 months
*** update the seller was very generous and assisted us on replacing the bag. Will order from this seller again. I really loved the look and size of this bag. I was able to hold all of the necessities for a newborn and a change of clothes for a toddler. However, by the time my baby was 5 months old the straps started ripping off. I had to buy a new diaper bag by the 6th month. Very disappointed.
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We describe irreducible representations and character formulas of the Renner
monoids for reductive monoids, which generalizes the Munn-Solomon
representation theory of rook monoids to any Renner monoids. The type map and
polytope associated with reductive monoids play a crucial role in our work. It
turns out that the irreducible representations of certain parabolic subgroups
of the Weyl groups determine the complete set of irreducible representations of
the Renner monoids. An analogue of the Munn-Solomon formula for calculating the
character of the Renner monoids, in terms of the characters of the parabolic
subgroups, is shown.
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We report the discovery of a young planetary-mass brown dwarf in the rho Oph
cloud core. The object was identified as such with the aid of a 1.5-2.4 micron
low-resolution spectrum obtained using the NIRC instrument on the Keck I
telescope. Based on the COND model, the observed spectrum is consistent with a
reddened (Av ~ 15-16) brown dwarf whose effective temperature is in the range
1200-1800 K. For an assumed age of 1 Myr, comparison with isochrones further
constrains the temperature to ~ 1400 K and suggests a mass of ~ 2-3 Jupiter
masses. The inferred temperature is suggestive of an early T spectral type,
which is supported by spectral morphology consistent with weak methane
absorption. Based on its inferred distance (~ 100 pc) and the presence of
overlying visual absorption, it is very likely to be a rho Oph cluster member.
In addition, given the estimated spectral type, it may be the youngest and
least massive T dwarf found so far. Its existence suggests that the initial
mass function for the rho Oph star-forming region extends well into the
planetary-mass regime.
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"Think like a Dinosaur" was an well-produced & executed show of the -Outerlimits- series. The actor (Enrico Colantoni as Michael Burr) plays an impressively well and convincing protagonist-role. You can actually identify yourself with him and his 'introspective' feelings on what to do to the girl whom he has fallen for (because, he's been alone and disappointed for 2 years and feels hopeless until "Kamala" comes to his life with a timid fear of performing the task of being transported. He then consoles her and let's her know it's all going to be alright; which ends up being an deception to both of them. More so something bad occurs and she (prototype) comes back....and her (clone) is sent to the other inhabitant planet. Although, the -Dino- and "Micheal" have yet to find this out, when they do it's up to Michael to decide to either kill her or to let her live. Yet what happen to him prior upon meeting her (kamala) was very much related to what happen to his wife, his wife died similarly. This show professes irregularity and sorrow thru-out most of it. After the show you're left pondering...about what SHOULD have been done and you're stuck with the 50/50 of what's right from wrong. Hence, The "balance" equation being solely there is no one.<br /><br />10/10 Highly recommend watching this show.
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In this paper, we introduce a new idea for unsupervised domain adaptation via
a remold of Prototypical Networks, which learn an embedding space and perform
classification via a remold of the distances to the prototype of each class.
Specifically, we present Transferrable Prototypical Networks (TPN) for
adaptation such that the prototypes for each class in source and target domains
are close in the embedding space and the score distributions predicted by
prototypes separately on source and target data are similar. Technically, TPN
initially matches each target example to the nearest prototype in the source
domain and assigns an example a "pseudo" label. The prototype of each class
could then be computed on source-only, target-only and source-target data,
respectively. The optimization of TPN is end-to-end trained by jointly
minimizing the distance across the prototypes on three types of data and
KL-divergence of score distributions output by each pair of the prototypes.
Extensive experiments are conducted on the transfers across MNIST, USPS and
SVHN datasets, and superior results are reported when comparing to
state-of-the-art approaches. More remarkably, we obtain an accuracy of 80.4% of
single model on VisDA 2017 dataset.
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We examine the uncertainties in current planetary models and we quantify
their impact on the planet cooling histories and mass-radius relationships.
These uncertainties include (i) the differences between the various equations
of state used to characterize the heavy material thermodynamical properties,
(ii) the distribution of heavy elements within planetary interiors, (iii) their
chemical composition and (iv) their thermal contribution to the planet
evolution. Our models, which include a gaseous H/He envelope, are compared with
models of solid, gasless Earth-like planets in order to examine the impact of a
gaseous envelope on the cooling and the resulting radius. We find that for a
fraction of heavy material larger than 20% of the planet mass, the distribution
of the heavy elements in the planet's interior affects substantially the
evolution and thus the radius at a given age. For planets with large core mass
fractions ($\simgr$ 50%), such as the Neptune-mass transiting planet GJ436b,
the contribution of the gravitational and thermal energy from the core to the
planet cooling history is not negligible, yielding a $\sim$ 10% effect on the
radius after 1 Gyr. We show that the present mass and radius determinations of
the massive planet Hat-P-2b require at least 200 $\mearth$ of heavy material in
the interior, at the edge of what is currently predicted by the core-accretion
model for planet formation. We show that if planets as massive as $\sim$ 25
$\mjup$ can form, as predicted by improved core-accretion models, deuterium is
able to burn in the H/He layers above the core, even for core masses as large
as $\sim$ 100 $\mearth$. We provide extensive grids of planetary evolution
models from 10 $\mearth$ to 10 M$_{\rm Jup}$, with various fractions of heavy
elements.
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Would not purchase again
Is this a joke? Card looks used. Wasnt even stick to cardboard when received and the glue on back of card is filthy, card is scratched up, pin strip looks stickered on and completely crooked... looks used. This is a gift fort my daughter..... just hoping it will work and i didn't get jipped. I'm not going to be happy if I'm out $25 .
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The conduction of a single-wall carbon nanotube depends on the pitch. If
there are an integral number of carbon hexagons per pitch, then the system is
periodic along the tube axis and allows "holes" (, and not "electrons",) to
move inside the tube. This case accounts for a semiconducting behavior with the
activation energy of the order of around 3 meV. There is a distribution of the
activation energy since the pitch and the circumference can vary. Otherwise
nanotubes show metallic behaviors. "Electrons" and "holes" can move in the
graphene wall (two dimensions). The conduction in the wall is the same as in
graphene if the finiteness of the circumference is disregarded. Cooper pairs
formed by the phonon exchange attraction moving in the wall is shown to
generate a temperature-independent conduction at low temperature (3-20 K).
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Working over C, we show that, apart possibly from a unique limit point, the
possible values of multi-point Seshadri constant for general points on smooth
projective surfaces form a discrete set. In addition to its theoretical
interest, this result is of practical value, which we demonstrate by giving
significantly improved explicit lower bounds for Seshadri constants on P^2 and
new results about ample divisors on blow ups of P^2 at general points.
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From CCD observations carried out with different telescopes, we present
short-term photometric measurements of the large trans-Neptunian object Varuna
in 10 epochs, spanning around 19 years. We observe that the amplitude of the
rotational light-curve has changed considerably during this period of time from
0.41 to 0.55 mag. In order to explain this variation, we constructed a model in
which Varuna has a simple triaxial shape, assuming that the main effect comes
from the change of the aspect angle as seen from Earth, due to Varuna's orbital
motion in the 19-year time span. The best fits to the data correspond to a
family of solutions with axial ratios b/a between 0.56 and 0.60. This
constrains the pole orientation in two different ranges of solutions presented
here as maps. Apart from the remarkable variation of the amplitude, we have
detected changes in the overall shape of the rotational light-curve over
shorter time scales. After the analysis of the periodogram of the residuals to
a 6.343572 h double-peaked rotational light-curve fit, we find a clear
additional periodicity. We propose that these changes in the rotational
light-curve shape are due to a large and close-in satellite whose rotation
induces the additional periodicity. The peak-to-valley amplitude of this
oscillation is in the order of 0.04 mag. We estimate that the satellite orbits
Varuna with a period of 11.9819 h (or 23.9638 h), assuming that the satellite
is tidally locked, at a distance of ~ 1300 km (or ~ 2000 km) from Varuna,
outside the Roche limit.
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Beautiful matching set
I bought the curtains and the matching quilt for our bedroom! I love the pattern and the brightness of the colors. We have gray walls and teal carpet, so this set matches beautifully. The curtains are lined, so I feel they add privacy also! I was able to hang them right from the package because they were packaged so neatly! Love, love, love this set!
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Microbes associate in nature forming complex communities, but they are often studied in purified form. Here I show that differences in antibiotic sensitivity between co-existing bacterial species can modify the diffusion of antibiotic molecules, and alter the drug efficacy measured in conventional in vitro assays. I developed a model, validated experimentally using an artificial two-species community, showing antibiotic molecules re-distribute evenly across all species if they have similar drug sensitivity. The result is lower drug efficacy with respect to conventional in vitro assays. However, when species have different sensitivities, the re-distribution of antibiotic is uneven and most sensitive species accumulate more drug. The result is increased drug efficacy against these species. Despite this discrepancy with conventional laboratory assays, my data suggests the changes in drug efficacy are predictable and provides insight into how communities can affect the diffusion of other molecules in the environment.
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We use the adjoint methods to study the static Hamilton-Jacobi equations and
to prove the speed of convergence for those equations. The main new ideas are
to introduce adjoint equations corresponding to the formal linearizations of
regularized equations of vanishing viscosity type, and from the solutions
$\sigma^{\epsilon}$ of those we can get the properties of the solutions $u$ of
the Hamilton-Jacobi equations. We classify the static equations into two types
and present two new ways to deal with each type. The methods can be applied to
various static problems and point out the new ways to look at those PDE.
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Regular factorial designs with randomization restrictions are widely used in
practice. This paper provides a unified approach to the construction of such
designs using randomization defining contrast subspaces for the representation
of randomization restrictions. We use finite projective geometry to determine
the existence of designs with the required structure and develop a systematic
approach for their construction. An attractive feature is that commonly used
factorial designs with randomization restrictions are special cases of this
general representation. Issues related to the use of these designs for
particular factorial experiments are also addressed.
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A networked system can be made resilient against adversaries and attacks if
the underlying network graph is structurally robust. For instance, to achieve
distributed consensus in the presence of adversaries, the underlying network
graph needs to satisfy certain robustness conditions. A typical approach to
making networks structurally robust is to strategically add extra links between
nodes, which might be prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we propose an
alternative way of improving network's robustness, that is by considering
heterogeneity of nodes. Nodes in a network can be of different types and can
have multiple variants. As a result, different nodes can have disjoint sets of
vulnerabilities, which means that an attacker can only compromise a particular
type of nodes by exploiting a particular vulnerability. We show that, by such a
diversification of nodes, attacker's ability to change the underlying network
structure is significantly reduced. Consequently, even a sparse network with
heterogeneous nodes can exhibit the properties of a structurally robust
network. Using these ideas, we propose a distributed control policy that
utilizes heterogeneity in the network to achieve resilient consensus in
adversarial environment. We extend the notion of $(r,s)$-robustness to
incorporate the diversity of nodes and provide necessary and sufficient
conditions to guarantee resilient distributed consensus in heterogeneous
networks. Finally we study the properties and construction of robust graphs
with heterogeneous nodes.
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We suggest and demonstrate a scheme to compensate spatial and spectral
decoherence effects in the generation of polarization entangled states by
type-I parametric downconversion. In our device a programmable spatial light
modulator imposes a polarization dependent phase-shift on different spatial
sections of the overall downconversion output and this effect is exploited to
realize an effective purification technique for polarization entanglement.
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We consider traveling fronts to the nonlocal bistable equation. We do not
assume that the Borel-measure is absolutely continuous with respect to the
Lebesgue measure. We show that there is a traveling wave solution with monotone
profile. In order to prove this result, we would develop a recursive method for
abstract monotone dynamical systems and apply it to the equation.
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New author dazzles with the best plot line in years!
I stumbled across Andrew Watts through a promotional push of his first book in The War Planners series. He has exceeded expectations. This has been the most interesting plot line I have read in years. To date I have read all of his books. For those who are just beginning to read Mr. Watts, I will forego detailing the story, lest I spoil your enjoyment. Yesterday I bought his newest book, Overwhelming Force, Book 5 in the series. I am only 1/2 way through it as I write, but the story line continues on a tear. The book opens with a limited nuclear engagement. The plot is unique, the characters are real. As an avid consumer of mystery/action/thriller novels, I have read every book by Baldacci, DeMille, Child, Flynn, Coes, Berenson, Coben, Woods, Box, Burke, Thor, Berry, White, and others. By the end of the day, I will add Watts to my list. Read The War Planners series. You will like it.
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Optical entanglement is a key requirement for many quantum communication
protocols. Conventionally entanglement is formed between two distinct beams,
with the quantum correlations being measured at separate locations. We show
entanglement between the modes within one beam. Our technique is particularly
elegant and a major advance towards practical systems with minimum complexity.
We demonstrate three major experimental achievements: (i) only one source is
required to produce squeezed light in two orthogonal spatial modes, (ii) the
entanglement is formed through lenses and beam rotation, without the need of a
beam splitter and (iii) the quantum correlations are measured directly and
simultaneously using a multi pixel, quadrant detector.
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Be ready to modify.
The unit is heavy duty and has a lot of parts BUT!!! I bought this for one first project a 1969 Firebird. There are 3 sleeves with the kit. 2 were to small to go around the pressed in bottom ball joint, and one was to big. The big one was to big for the control arm so I took the middle size and cut it so it could be opened up to diameter I needed. Than it worked very easily to remove the ball joint. If you are a little creative this unit will work as advertised. For the next project I may have to open one up or close one. They will work fine with a gap cut in the sleeve.
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Customer services are critical to all companies, as they may directly connect
to the brand reputation. Due to a great number of customers, e-commerce
companies often employ multiple communication channels to answer customers'
questions, for example, chatbot and hotline. On one hand, each channel has
limited capacity to respond to customers' requests, on the other hand,
customers have different preferences over these channels. The current
production systems are mainly built based on business rules, which merely
considers tradeoffs between resources and customers' satisfaction. To achieve
the optimal tradeoff between resources and customers' satisfaction, we propose
a new framework based on deep reinforcement learning, which directly takes both
resources and user model into account. In addition to the framework, we also
propose a new deep-reinforcement-learning based routing method-double dueling
deep Q-learning with prioritized experience replay (PER-DoDDQN). We evaluate
our proposed framework and method using both synthetic and a real customer
service log data from a large financial technology company. We show that our
proposed deep-reinforcement-learning based framework is superior to the
existing production system. Moreover, we also show our proposed PER-DoDDQN is
better than all other deep Q-learning variants in practice, which provides a
more optimal routing plan. These observations suggest that our proposed method
can seek the trade-off where both channel resources and customers' satisfaction
are optimal.
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This is not the Conservative base that wins elections. Harper figured that out early on and marginalized these wingnuts.
I have been a Conservative for nigh on a half century inspired by the great Conservative Prime Minister and civil libertarian - John Diefenbaker, the architect of the 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights. Hey it even had a notwithstanding clause.
It was Dief who got rid of racism in our immigration laws and opened up refugee status including taking at risk refugees with TB.
And the Father of Canadian Multiculturalism? Dief appointed Conservative Senator Paul Yuzyk who brow beat Pearson and then Trudeau to recognize Canada was not just English and French. In 2009, the Paul Yuzyk Award for Multiculturalism was created by the Government of Canada to commemorate his achievements.
And the largest refugee movement in our history? Joe Clark initiated the Vietnamese Boat People airlift of 110,000.
The current system of oral hearings by a tribunal for refugees? Mulroney.
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We explore two approaches to characterise the quantum geometry of the ground
state of correlated fermions in terms of the distance matrix in the spectral
parameter space. (a) An intrinsic geometry approach, in which we study the
intrinsic curvature defined in terms of the distance matrix. (b) An extrinsic
geometry approach, in which we investigate how the distance matrix can be
approximately embedded in finite dimensional Euclidean spaces. We implement
these approaches for the ground state of a system of one-dimensional fermions
on a 18-site lattice with nearest neighbour repulsion. The intrinsic curvature
sharply changes around the Fermi points in the metallic regime but is more or
less uniform in the insulating regime. In the metallic regime, the embedded
points clump into two well seperated sets, one corresponding to modes in the
Fermi sea and the other to the modes outside it. In the insulating regime, the
two sets tend to merge.
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We applied an efficient methodology to separate vibrational and
configurational entropies in bulk metallic glasses by means of molecular
dynamics simulation based on a combination of non-equilibrium adiabatic
switching and reversible scaling methods. This approach involves calculating
the vibrational free energy using the Einstein crystal as a reference for the
solid phase and the recently proposed Uhlenbeck-Ford model for the fluid phase.
This methodology has the advantage that it does not require a crystalline solid
phase for separating the entropies. Therefore, in principle, it is applicable
to any material, regardless of whether or not it has a crystalline phase. Using
this methodology, we separate the vibrational and configurational entropies of
two metallic glasses with different fragilities at zero external pressure,
namely, Cu$_{50}$Zr$_{50}$ and Cu$_{46}$Zr$_{46}$Al$_{8}$. We find that the
results for the former alloy are in quite reasonable agreement with recent
experimental work by Smith \textit{et al.}[H. L. Smith \textit{et al.}, Nat.
Phys. \textbf{13}, 900 (2017)]. We also find the configurational entropy of the
glass containing Al to be 70\% larger than that of the other glass. Our results
suggest that, although other factors may be at play, the configurational
entropy can be used to investigate the effect of the addition of a
minor-alloying element on the glass-forming ability of bulk metallic glasses.
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Massive Open Online Courses are educational programs that are open and
accessible to a large number of people through the internet. To facilitate
learning, MOOC discussion forums exist where students and instructors
communicate questions, answers, and thoughts related to the course.
The primary objective of this paper is to investigate tracing discussion
forum posts back to course lecture videos and readings using topic analysis. We
utilize both unsupervised and supervised variants of Latent Dirichlet
Allocation (LDA) to extract topics from course material and classify forum
posts. We validate our approach on posts bootstrapped from five Coursera
courses and determine that topic models can be used to map student discussion
posts back to the underlying course lecture or reading. Labeled LDA outperforms
unsupervised Hierarchical Dirichlet Process LDA and base LDA for our
traceability task. This research is useful as it provides an automated approach
for clustering student discussions by course material, enabling instructors to
quickly evaluate student misunderstanding of content and clarify materials
accordingly.
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Gravitational lenses on galaxy scales are plausibly modelled as having
ellipsoidal symmetry and a universal dark matter density profile, with a Sersic
profile to describe the distribution of baryonic matter. Predicting all lensing
effects requires knowledge of the total lens potential: in this work we give
analytic forms for that of the above hybrid model. Emphasising that complex
lens potentials can be constructed from simpler components in linear
combination, we provide a recipe for attaining elliptical symmetry in either
projected mass or lens potential. We also provide analytic formulae for the
lens potentials of Sersic profiles for integer and half-integer index. We then
present formulae describing the gravitational lensing effects due to
smoothly-truncated universal density profiles in cold dark matter model. For
our isolated haloes the density profile falls off as radius to the minus fifth
or seventh power beyond the tidal radius, functional forms that allow all
orders of lens potential derivatives to be calculated analytically, while
ensuring a non-divergent total mass. We show how the observables predicted by
this profile differ from that of the original infinite-mass NFW profile.
Expressions for the gravitational flexion are highlighted. We show how
decreasing the tidal radius allows stripped haloes to be modelled, providing a
framework for a fuller investigation of dark matter substructure in galaxies
and clusters. Finally we remark on the need for finite mass halo profiles when
doing cosmological ray-tracing simulations, and the need for readily-calculable
higher order derivatives of the lens potential when studying catastrophes in
strong lenses.
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The dynamics of electron-plasma waves are described at arbitrary
collisionality by considering the full Coulomb collision operator. The
description is based on a Hermite-Laguerre decomposition of the velocity
dependence of the electron distribution function. The damping rate, frequency,
and eigenmode spectrum of electron-plasma waves are found as functions of the
collision frequency and wavelength. A comparison is made between the
collisionless Landau damping limit, the Lenard-Bernstein and Dougherty
collision operators, and the electron-ion collision operator, finding large
deviations in the damping rates and eigenmode spectra. A purely damped entropy
mode, characteristic of a plasma where pitch-angle scattering effects are
dominant with respect to collisionless effects, is shown to emerge numerically,
and its dispersion relation is analytically derived. It is shown that such a
mode is absent when simplified collision operators are used, and that
like-particle collisions strongly influence the damping rate of the entropy
mode.
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70% of the US population supported the war in Iraq, assuming all the 1%ers are in that number that still leaves 69% of the people. The housing crisis was caused by giving loans to the masses that were not qualified, certainly the person filling out the loan application shares blame for the crash. The notion that some big bad elite is holding the rest of us back is nonsense, we each have a great control over our situation. This hippie will lose like Bernie is going to lose.
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The basic goal in combinatorial group testing is to identify a set of up to
$d$ defective items within a large population of size $n \gg d$ using a pooling
strategy. Namely, the items can be grouped together in pools, and a single
measurement would reveal whether there are one or more defectives in the pool.
The threshold model is a generalization of this idea where a measurement
returns positive if the number of defectives in the pool reaches a fixed
threshold $u > 0$, negative if this number is no more than a fixed lower
threshold $\ell < u$, and may behave arbitrarily otherwise. We study
non-adaptive threshold group testing (in a possibly noisy setting) and show
that, for this problem, $O(d^{g+2} (\log d) \log(n/d))$ measurements (where $g
:= u-\ell-1$ and $u$ is any fixed constant) suffice to identify the defectives,
and also present almost matching lower bounds. This significantly improves the
previously known (non-constructive) upper bound $O(d^{u+1} \log(n/d))$.
Moreover, we obtain a framework for explicit construction of measurement
schemes using lossless condensers. The number of measurements resulting from
this scheme is ideally bounded by $O(d^{g+3} (\log d) \log n)$. Using
state-of-the-art constructions of lossless condensers, however, we obtain
explicit testing schemes with $O(d^{g+3} (\log d) qpoly(\log n))$ and
$O(d^{g+3+\beta} poly(\log n))$ measurements, for arbitrary constant $\beta >
0$.
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Not universal - won't work on recessed post
Seller is able to sell these because there's no picture of the back and they're sold as universal. They're not. Very small, but that's fine. The knob back is flush. My toaster oven's knob post is recessed. I need a shaft off the back, and these don't have one. Plus I'm being told there's no returns!
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In a standard, steady, thin accretion disc, the radial distribution of the
dissipation of the accretion energy is determined simply by energy
considerations. Here we draw attention to the fact that while the
(quasi-)steady discs in dwarf novae in outburst are in agreement with the
expected emission distribution, the steady discs in the nova-like variables are
not. We note that essentially the only difference between these two sets of
discs is the time for which they have been in the high viscosity, high
accretion rate state. In such discs, the major process by which angular
momentum is transported outwards is MHD turbulence. We speculate that such
turbulence gives rise to corona-like structures (here called magnetically
controlled zones, or MCZs) which are also able to provide non-negligible
angular momentum transport, the magnitude of which depends on the spatial scale
$L$ of the magnetic field structures in such zones. For short-lived, high
accretion rate discs (such as those in dwarf novae) we expect $L \sim H$ and
the MCZ to have little effect. But, with time (such as in the nova-like
variables) an inverse cascade in the MHD turbulence enables $L$, and the net
effect of the MCZ, to grow. We present a simple toy model which demonstrates
that such ideas can provide an explanation for the difference between the dwarf
novae and the nova-like variable discs.
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Based on the Riemann- and Caputo definition of the fractional derivative we
use the fractional extensions of the standard rotation group SO(3) to construct
a higher dimensional representation of a fractional rotation group with mixed
derivative types. An analytic extended symmetric rotor model is derived, which
correctly predicts the sequence of magic numbers in metal clusters. It is
demonstrated, that experimental data may be described assuming a sudden change
in the fractional derivative parameter $\alpha$ which is interpreted as a
second order phase transition in the region of cluster size with $200 \leq N
\leq 300$.
Furthermore it is demonstrated, that the four different realizations of
higher dimensional fractional rotation groups may successfully be connected to
the four fundamental interaction types realized in nature and may be therefore
used for a prediction of magic numbers and binding energies of clusters with
gravitational force and weak force respectively bound constituents.
The results presented lead to the conclusion, that mixed fractional
derivative operators might play a key role for a successful unified theoretical
description of all four fundamental forces realized in nature.
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I love this show. My girlfriend was gonna get an abortion until we both watched Wonder Showzen one night. Luckily, she killed herself before the baby was born. Though technically I think it was considered a murder-suicide.<br /><br />My first thoughts upon seeing Wonder Showzen? Now I know what God watches when He jerks off all the time.<br /><br />Wonder Showzen is to television what a toaster in the bathtub is to my self-esteem.<br /><br />You know how George W. Bush makes speaking gaffes all the time? Tyler wouldn't. Tyler's good. Tyler cuts his nails. He's Tyler. He's good. Tyyyllerrr...
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