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Not worth the money
This is a poorly made piece that was falling apart as we assembled it - some of the elements looked closer to cardboard than any wood you can imagine. I can foresee that it will be donated or thrown away in the next few months or even weeks.
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We study Fisher markets that admit equilibria wherein each good is integrally
assigned to some agent. While strong existence and computational guarantees are
known for equilibria of Fisher markets with additive valuations, such
equilibria, in general, assign goods fractionally to agents. Hence, Fisher
markets are not directly applicable in the context of indivisible goods. In
this work we show that one can always bypass this hurdle and, up to a bounded
change in agents' budgets, obtain markets that admit an integral equilibrium.
We refer to such markets as pure markets and show that, for any given Fisher
market (with additive valuations), one can efficiently compute a "near-by,"
pure market with an accompanying integral equilibrium.
Our work on pure markets leads to novel algorithmic results for fair division
of indivisible goods. Prior work in discrete fair division has shown that,
under additive valuations, there always exist allocations that simultaneously
achieve the seemingly incompatible properties of fairness and efficiency; here
fairness refers to envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) and efficiency
corresponds to Pareto efficiency. However, polynomial-time algorithms are not
known for finding such allocations. Considering relaxations of proportionality
and EF1, respectively, as our notions of fairness, we show that fair and Pareto
efficient allocations can be computed in strongly polynomial time.
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Aims: We build a catalogue PPM-Extended (PPMX) on the ICRS system which is
complete down to a well-defined limiting magnitude and contains the best
presently available proper motions to be suited for kinematical studies in the
Galaxy.
Methods: We perform a rigorous weighted least-squares adjustment of
individual observations, spread over more than a century, to determine mean
positions and proper motions. The stellar content of PPMX is taken from GSC 1.2
supplemented by catalogues like ARIHIP, PPM and Tycho-2 at the bright end. All
observations have been weighted according to their individual accuracy. The
catalogue has been screened towards rejecting false entries in the various
source catalogues.
Results: PPM-Extended (PPMX) is a catalogue of 18,088,920 stars containing
astrometric and photometric information. Its limiting magnitude is about 15.2
in the GSC photometric system. PPMX consists of three parts: a) a survey
complete down to R_U = 12.8 in the magnitude system of UCAC2; b) additional
stars of high-precision proper motions, and c) all other stars from GSC 1.2
identified in 2MASS. The typical accuracy of the proper motions is 2mas/y for
66 percent of the survey stars (a) and the high-precision stars (b), and about
10 mas/y for all other stars. PPMX contains photometric information from
ASCC-2.5 and 2MASS.
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The four-dimensional \phi^4 theory is usually considered to be trivial in the
continuum limit. In fact, two definitions of triviality were mixed in the
literature. The first one, introduced by Wilson, is equivalent to positiveness
of the Gell-Mann -- Low function \beta(g) for g\ne 0; it is confirmed by all
available information and can be considered as firmly established. The second
definition, introduced by mathematical community, corresponds to the true
triviality, i.e. principal impossibility to construct continuous theory with
finite interaction at large distances: it needs not only positiveness of
\beta(g) but also its sufficiently quick growth at infinity. Indications of
true triviality are not numerous and allow different interpretation. According
to the recent results, such triviality is surely absent.
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Over the years I've seen a bunch of these straight to video Segal movies, and every one holds the same amount of entertainment; unfortanetley, the entertainment level is at a low. Sure, the action sequences were amusing, but that was pretty much it. Seagal was really in his prime when he did movies like; Under Siege, Under Siege 2, and Executive Decision(at least on the action standpoint), but during the past ten years, these types of movies that star Segal really do not meet his past qualifications.<br /><br />On the more positive side, the movie did make good use of time, like some of the action sequences and use of wit. Just when the movie seemed to just drag on, a pretty cool action scene brought it up out of the gutter. I honestly believe that more of Segal's movies would do better if he wasn't the only one that fans recognize in the movie. Supporting actors and actresses are a very important thing, and if his current movies had this known supporting actors and actresses, maybe the movie will get more popular results.
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Yes, my summary just about tells it all.<br /><br />If you haven't watched this, try it. But not for pleasure. For studies of one of the worst examples of trying to be politically correct, family-oriented and "cool" at the same time.<br /><br />The men always think they know everything, are stupid, and finally loose to the magnificent women. Etc.. This is especially offensive, when all the characters are just as terrible and stereotypic. I mean, ok, "Cody" was funny one time or another, but unlike other "stupid characters(tm)" like Woody in Cheers or Joey in Friends, he doesn't get good lines. His stupidity is cast in a "duude" way, which gets quite annoying after a while.<br /><br />The family morale is awful. Everything for the family. Mother and father are supreme dictators, who inbetween severe punishing and old-fashioned parenting, constantly say they "love" their kids, and then of course, in the end, the kids love them back *barf*.<br /><br />And: There's always a "tender spot" like that squeezed into the "action", where american(c)(tm) morale lessons are forced upon the viewers, about sex (in a mature, you can't have sex before you're 18 (!!), kind of way), or drugs. Even church-habits are thoroughly described here. The whole concept is directly sickening, all made in a half-hearted way to make money. If there are people like Karen and Frank out there, please lock them up and desintegrate the key.<br /><br />So, with themes ranging as far as revolting religious propaganda, I think it's fair to conclude as I did in my subject...
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Ed Gein, one of the most famous serial killers of all time, he was the inspiration for famous movie killers like Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill. He is also one of the most sick and disturbing killers of all time, I watched a documentary on him, so I know his story pretty well. When I saw this, I was curious because I thought it was supposed to be like a documentary re-enactment, but I have to say that this was just a pathetic waste of time. First off, the facts are completely wrong, with a few minor exceptions, and secondly, this was just a stupid Hollywood story when these horrific murders really happened and they just made it into a cheap buck. Not to mention that if they were going to make it into a horror movie, this was poorly acted! <br /><br />Ed Gein, he lives in a small town in Wisconsin called Plainfield, but he has a little secret that the whole town is being effected by, he digs up dead bodies, as well as brutally murdering people. Bobby, a deputy, is on the case to get Ed Gein, only, no one knows who the killer is at first, just finding crime scene after crime scene. But things get "personal" when Ed starts messing with the policemen's family and friends.<br /><br />Of course this movie was just ridicules and completely insulting to the true story. I always thought that bad acting is a necessary tool to a horror flick, but for this story, it should have been a better acted film, not to mention, it should have been more of a documentary than a stupid cliché'd horror film. Please, stay away from this film, it's completely pathetic and untrue to the story of Ed Gein.<br /><br />1/10
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Formality style transformation is the task of modifying the formality of a
given sentence without changing its content. Its challenge is the lack of
large-scale sentence-aligned parallel data. In this paper, we propose an
omnivorous model that takes parallel data and formality-classified data jointly
to alleviate the data sparsity issue. We empirically demonstrate the
effectiveness of our approach by achieving the state-of-art performance on a
recently proposed benchmark dataset of formality transfer. Furthermore, our
model can be readily adapted to other unsupervised text style transfer tasks
like unsupervised sentiment transfer and achieve competitive results on three
widely recognized benchmarks.
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Dynamical systems with sub-processes evolving on many different time scales
are ubiquitous in applications. Their efficient solution is greatly enhanced by
automatic time step variation. This paper is concerned with the theory,
construction and application of IMEX-Peer methods that are super-convergent for
variable step sizes and A-stable in the implicit part. IMEX schemes combine the
necessary stability of implicit and low computational costs of explicit methods
to efficiently solve systems of ordinary differential equations with both stiff
and non-stiff parts included in the source term. To construct super-convergent
IMEX-Peer methods which keep their higher order for variable step sizes and
exhibit favourable linear stability properties, we derive necessary and
sufficient conditions on the nodes and coefficient matrices and apply an
extrapolation approach based on already computed stage values. New
super-convergent IMEX-Peer methods of order $s+1$ for $s=2,3,4$ stages are
given as result of additional order conditions which maintain the
super-convergence property independent of step size changes. Numerical
experiments and a comparison to other super-convergent IMEX-Peer methods show
the potential of the new methods when applied with local error control.
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As access to banking services through digital channels continues to grow, so does the need to protect consumers against the prevalence of online banking fraud.
Due to the prevalence of banking scams, we urge consumers to be more vigilant and familiarise themselves with the different types of online banking fraud.
The following are the latest online banking scams consumers should be wary of:
Flight purchase debit scams
You will receive an SMS informing you of a flight purchase debited to your account.
Fraudsters will ask you to select a link in the SMS to revise the transaction.
When you select the link, you will be redirected to a fake bank website.
You are then redirected to an ‘Update and Confirm Details’ screen requesting more information to be verified.
The fraudsters will now be in a position to access your banking profile.
Social media scams
Beware of fraudsters pretending to represent the bank you use on social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp or any other social media platform.
The bank will never ask for your credit or cheque card, account number, online banking login details or password or One Time Pin (OTP) on social media platforms.
The official accounts also display a blue tick indicating they are verified.
Change of banking details scam
You will receive an email that allegedly comes from one of your suppliers asking you to update your banking details.
Beware of this, even if it is on the supplier’s letterhead.
Contact your supplier on the number you already have for them and not the one on the fraudulent letter.
Speak to someone you know at the supplier to confirm the change in banking details.
Copy of payment notification scam
You will receive an email requesting you to open a copy of your payment notification.
Fraudsters will prompt you to login via the email attachment.
When you open the attachment in the email, you will be redirected to a fake bank website.
In an attempt to steal your banking details you will be requested to login.
As soon as you enter your login details on the screen, you are redirected to a successfully logged out screen.
The fraudsters will now be in a position to access your banking profile.
419 scams
This is communication by email to a recipient making an offer that would result in a large payoff for the recipient.
The details vary and large amounts of money are usually involved.
The victims’ banking details as well as sums of money are said to be required in advance in order to facilitate the payment of the funds.
Essentially, the promised money transfer never happens and the fraudsters may use the victims’ banking details to withdraw money for themselves.
Phishing
Communication seemingly from the bank or other companies that gets you to disclose personal information such as your ID number, address, account number, username, login details, password and PIN.
This information can also be used to gain unauthorised access to your banking account online.
OTP email fraud
Using various methods of phishing, criminals also try to get access to your email accounts, commonly Gmail, Yahoo, etc.
They produce fake login sites that look like Gmail or Yahoo.
Once they have your email username and password, they have access to your emails (statements, personal communications) and this helps a criminal build a social profile of you.
Criminals can also intercept OTPs that are sent to emails once they have access to your email account.
OTP Sim swap fraud
Once criminals are in possession of your username and password, they can easily access your accounts on online banking.
They can also contact your service provider to do a Sim swap, which basically means they hijack your sim and have access to your SMS.
This also gives them access to your OTP.
Remember, the bank will never ask for your username, password or Pin in an email, SMS, social media or phone call.
Never select a link to our website that was sent via email. Always type in the bank’s web address.
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They seemed nice...
On close inspection there was lint underneath all the sticky film (sade you place on the Switch) when i removed the initial film before installation. Made sure I was in a "clean room" and even did an application in a steamed room after the hot shower was off. I truly thought it was just me catching lint but i took my phone light and looked close in contrast and noticed there was some lint on all the protectors. Was disappointed and didn't use any of the protectors honestly. I can imagine if people get the protectors though and have a better experience than I did they'd be very happy with them.
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Why can’t we just get one like the original
It’s the dumbest remote ever....and when your laying in bed and have fallen asleep the last thing you need is to turn on lights to find the power button. And the channel and volume button are in the middle of remote so hard to operate. Why can’t we just get one like the original??
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We investigate theoretically the possibility of using the cold-electron
bolometer (CEB) as a counter for 1 cm wavelength (30 GHz) photons. To reduce
the flux of photons from the environment, which interact with the detector, the
bath temperature is assumed to be below 50 mK. At such temperatures, the time
interval between two subsequent photons of 30 GHz that hit the detector is more
than 100 hours, on average, for a frequency window of 1 MHz. Such temperatures
allow the observation of the physically significant photons produced in rare
events, like the axions conversion (or Primakoff conversion) in magnetic field.
We present the general formalism for the detector's response and noise,
together with numerical calculations for proper experimental setups. We observe
that the current-biased regime is favorable, due to lower noise, and allows for
the photons counting at least below 50 mK. For the experimental setups
investigated here, the voltage-biased CEBs may also work as photons counters,
but with less accuracy and eventually at bath temperatures below 40 mK. The
voltage-biased setups also require smaller volumes of the normal metal island
of the detector.
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In this paper we consider the question of when a strongly regular graph with
parameters $((s+1)(st+1),s(t+1),s-1,t+1)$ can exist. These parameters arise
when the graph is derived from a generalized quadrangle, but there are other
examples which do not arise in this manner, and we term these {\it
pseudo-generalized quadrangles}. If the graph is a generalized quadrangle then
$t \leq s^2$ and $s \leq t^2$, while for pseudo-generalized quadrangles we
still have the former bound but not the latter. Previously, Neumaier has proved
a bound for $s$ which is cubic in $t$, but we improve this to one which is
quadratic. The proof involves a careful analysis of cliques and cocliques in
the graph. This improved bound eliminates many potential parameter sets which
were otherwise feasible.
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Quality not as expected
There was mold on the bulbs when they arrived. The only thing to do to hope to save some was to plant them even though it was January. It appears that six plants are growing and healthy at this time. The bulbs did not nearly appear to match the internet description of fall crocus bulbs. We can only see what develops. I am highly dissatisfied with the bulbs, the packaging in which they arrived and the lack of any type of communication from the seller. True the seller was mailing from China, but in my opinion the person could have attempted to brief the customer (me) about his/her product. I will for the sake of fairness follow up if and when we have success either what’s left of these bulbs. That would be if they survive and bear any saffron.
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Integration into a host genome is essential for retrovirus infection and is catalyzed by a nucleoprotein complex (Intasome) containing the viral integrase (IN) and reverse transcribed (RT) copy DNA (cDNA). Previous studies demonstrated DNA site recognition limited intasome integration. Using single molecule Forster resonance energy transfer (smFRET), we show Prototype Foamy Virus (PFV) intasomes pause at DNA strand breaks and gaps. The break/gap discontinuities are similar to base excision repair (BER) lesion-processing intermediates, which affect retrovirus integration in vivo. Pausing targeted site-directed integration at the break/gap without inducing intasome conformational alterations. An 8-oxo-guanine lesion normally processes by BER and a G/T mismatch or a +T nucleotide insertion that induce flexibility or a bend in the DNA backbone did not promote intasome pausing or targeted integration. These results suggest that repair intermediates can modulate dynamic intasome-DNA interactions which target retroviral integration.
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Exactly! After all the lies I was told after my abuse by several bishops, priest and lay staff in diocesan offices, why should I believe anything else they tell me? And then all the other lies upon lies surrounding abuse for centuries, how can anyone believe the hierarchy about anything? I couldn't and, like thousands if not millions of others, I walked and didn't look back.
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3lbs is obviously just a self indulgent programme for Stanley Tucci to be a producer/moody deep doctor. Unlike House he has absolutely no personality and unlike Grey's Anatomy the brain surgery cases are't even interesting. This programme is supposed to be set in a leading centre for Neurlogical cases - yet there's nothing interesting or exciting going on! Not even the so called pathetic 'feud' between him and a rival adds anything to the show and neither do those hallucinations. In the pilot there was a brief glimpse into the leads's social life as a father - snooze! boring and pointless.<br /><br />This show is pants,there's a glut of medical dramas around at the moment and this does nothing to make it stand out as special.
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Accurate isolation and quantification of intraocular dimensions in the
anterior segment (AS) of the eye using optical coherence tomography (OCT)
images is important in the diagnosis and treatment of many eye diseases,
especially angle closure glaucoma. In this study, we developed a deep
convolutional neural network (DCNN) for the localization of the scleral spur,
and the segmentation of anterior segment structures (iris, corneo-sclera shell,
anterior chamber). With limited training data, the DCNN was able to detect the
scleral spur on unseen ASOCT images as accurately as an experienced
ophthalmologist; and simultaneously isolated the anterior segment structures
with a Dice coefficient of 95.7%. We then automatically extracted eight
clinically relevant ASOCT parameters and proposed an automated quality check
process that asserts the reliability of these parameters. When combined with an
OCT machine capable of imaging multiple radial sections, the algorithms can
provide a more complete objective assessment. This is an essential step toward
providing a robust automated framework for reliable quantification of ASOCT
scans, for applications in the diagnosis and management of angle closure
glaucoma.
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We consider the Randall-Sundrum extra dimensional model with fields
propagating in the bulk based on an extended electroweak gauge symmetry with
specific fermion charges and localizations that allow to explain the LEP
anomaly of the forward--backward asymmetry for $b$--quarks, $A_{FB}^b$. We
study the manifestations of the strongly--interacting and electroweak gauge
boson Kaluza--Klein excitations $\vkk$ at the LHC, with masses of the order of
a few TeV, which dominantly decays into top and bottom quark pairs. We first
analyze the two--body tree--level production processes $pp \to t\bar t$ and
$b\bar b$ in which the Kaluza--Klein (KK) excitations of gauge bosons are
exchanged. We find that the additional channels can lead to a significant
excess of events with respect to the Standard Model prediction; characteristic
top quark polarization and angular asymmetries are quantitatively studied and
turn out to probe the chiral structure of couplings to excited states. We then
analyze higher order production processes for the gauge boson excitations which
have too weak or no couplings to light quarks and, in particular, the loop
induced process $gg \to \vkk \to t\bar t$ and $b\bar b$ in which the anomalous
$gg \vkk $ four--dimensional vertex has to be regulated. The RS effects in this
process, as well as in the four--body reactions $pp \to t\bar t b\bar b$,
$t\bar t t\bar t$, $b\bar b b\bar b$ and in the related three--body reactions
$gb \to b t \bar t$, $b b\bar b$, in which the $\vkk$ excitations are mainly
radiated off the eavy quarks, are shown to be potentially difficult to test at
LHC, due to small hase space and low parton density for $\mkk \gsim 3$ TeV.
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The dynamical symmetries of the two-dimensional Klein-Gordon equations with
equal scalar and vector potentials (ESVP) are studied. The dynamical symmetries
are considered in the plane and the sphere respectively. The generators of the
SO(3) group corresponding to the Coulomb potential, and the SU(2) group
corresponding to the harmonic oscillator potential are derived. Moreover, the
generators in the sphere construct the Higgs algebra. With the help of the
Casimir operators, the energy levels of the Klein-Gordon systems are yielded
naturally.
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My daughter loves it
Was it worth the price? Hell no. But my daughter loves it and she's enjoying it. It's not very sturdy, the back doors won't close all the way like they're supposed to, it's cheap plastic material and I don't think it will last more than a year or so. 3 stars because it came with everything listed and my daughter loves it.
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We propose a new notation for the states in some models of quantum gravity,
namely 4-valent spin networks embedded in a topological three manifold. With
the help of this notation, equivalence moves, namely translations and
rotations, can be defined, which relate the projections of diffeomorphic
embeddings of a spin network. Certain types of topological structures, viz
3-strand braids as local excitations of embedded spin networks, are defined and
classified by means of the equivalence moves. This paper formulates a
mathematical approach to the further research of particle-like excitations in
quantum gravity.
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Training neural networks under a strict Lipschitz constraint is useful for
provable adversarial robustness, generalization bounds, interpretable
gradients, and Wasserstein distance estimation. By the composition property of
Lipschitz functions, it suffices to ensure that each individual affine
transformation or nonlinear activation is 1-Lipschitz. The challenge is to do
this while maintaining the expressive power. We identify a necessary property
for such an architecture: each of the layers must preserve the gradient norm
during backpropagation. Based on this, we propose to combine a gradient norm
preserving activation function, GroupSort, with norm-constrained weight
matrices. We show that norm-constrained GroupSort architectures are universal
Lipschitz function approximators. Empirically, we show that norm-constrained
GroupSort networks achieve tighter estimates of Wasserstein distance than their
ReLU counterparts and can achieve provable adversarial robustness guarantees
with little cost to accuracy.
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Many applications for topological insulators (TIs) as well as new phenomena
require devices with reduced dimensions. While much progress has been made to
realize thin films of TIs with low bulk carrier density, nanostructures have
not yet been reported with similar properties, despite the fact that size
confinement should help reduce contributions from bulk carriers. Here we
demonstrate that Bi2Se3 nanoribbons, grown by a simple catalyst-free
physical-vapour deposition, have inherently low bulk carrier densities, and can
be further made bulk-free by size confinement, thus revealing the high mobility
topological surface states. Magneto transport and Hall conductance
measurements, in single nanoribbons, show that at thicknesses below 30nm the
bulk transport is completely suppressed which is supported by self-consistent
band-bending calculations. The results highlight the importance of material
growth and geometrical confinement to properly exploit the unique properties of
the topological surface states.
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The $abc$ conjecture predicts a highly non trivial upper bound for the height
of an algebraic point in terms of its discriminant and its intersection with a
fixed divisor of the projective line counted without multiplicity. We describe
the two independent proofs of the strong $abc$ conjecture over function fields
given by McQuillan and Yamanoi. The first proof relies on tools from
differential and algebraic geometry; the second relies on analytic and
topological methods. They correspond respectively to the Nevanlinna and the
Ahlfors approach to the Nevanlinna Second Main Theorem.
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Non functional tools!
I’m giving two stars only because everything listed was there and most of the tools were functional. The scissors didn’t cut AT ALL, the tweezer type tool couldn’t grab anything so it was impossible to use those as well. I would not recommend this product especially while using vinyl! Oh and the scraper tool literally scratched my things it had a piece of plastic kind of cut off and it would cut through my materials, I ruined 2 sheets of vinyl.
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The article deals with the problem of finding vertex-minimal graphs with a
given automorphism group. We exhibit two undirected $16$-vertex graphs having
automorphism groups $A_{4}$ and $A_{5}$. It improves the Babai's bound for
$A_{4}$ and the graphical regular representation bound for $A_{5}$. The graphs
are constructed using projectivisation of the vertex-face graph of icosahedron.
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We propose a new method to describe three-body breakups of nuclei, in which
the Lippmann-Schwinger equation is solved combining with the complex scaling
method. The complex-scaled solutions of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation (CSLS)
enables us to treat boundary conditions of many-body open channels correctly
and to describe a many-body breakup amplitude from the ground state. The
Coulomb breakup cross section from the 6He ground state into 4He+n+n three-body
decaying states as a function of the total excitation energy is calculated by
using CSLS, and the result well reproduces the experimental data. Furthermore,
the two-dimensional energy distribution of the E1 transition strength is
obtained and an importance of the 5He(3/2-) resonance is confirmed. It is shown
that CSLS is a promising method to investigate correlations of subsystems in
three-body breakup reactions of the weakly-bound nuclei.
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It was simple and yet so nice. I think the whole sense of sex segregation in society, which can be bitter, was shown very delicately. It had a bitter kind of hummer in it. The fact that most of the actors were not professionals, made the movie more tangible and more realistic. There was a "documentary" side to the movie too. The best scenes were those that all the girls, banned from watching, were listening passionately to the soldier, who is supposed to keep an eye on them, broadcasting the game. If you are an Iranian, the familiar cheering and dancing in the streets after a game won, fills you up with National pride!! If you are not Iranian, you'll still love it all the same!
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Good product, well made, easy to use, allow for extra ship time.
Arrived late. I purchased for a trip I was going on, with plenty time for prime shipping, but it arrived late, and I was already gone. The product itself is good. Size (length) is a little long, but fits ok in a big purse. Comes with it's own strap, so you can use it on it's own, but the strap is very thin, and I wouldn't risk my passport, by using the thin strap as a carry strap. It has plenty of pockets for cards, passport, cash, etc. outside zips closed, but zipper can easily get caught on the carry strap if not careful. Zipper tabs are metal, so they won't break. Sewing looks good and well done. Outside is canvas type material, it's strong and should last. Nice color. Inside material is decent weight, not cheap looking, or easy to tear. If ordered, recommend allowing more than 2 days prime. Took my delivery 5 days. Overall I like the product and I would order again. (But with additional shipping time).
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The expected position error in many cases is far from feasible to be
estimated experimentally using real satellite measurements which makes the
model-based position dilution of precision (PDOP) crucial in positioning and
navigation applications. In the following text we derive the relationship
between PDOP and position error and we explain that this relationship holds as
long as the model for the observation errors represents the true sources of
errors.
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Being a big fan of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange there was of course "no question about it" that I had to see this one. However I put it off far too long because some of my friends discarded it with comments like "extremely boring" or "nothing happened" "a complete waste of time". But when I saw images on the internet of the mysterious black monolith I was allowed to see a glimpse of the exquisite experience that is 2001: A Space Odyssey. There was no doubt in my mind that I was going to rent that movie the same evening. <br /><br />It turned out to be the greatest visual experience of my life. Of course, watching a very good painting or picture can be wonderful, but watching a movie constructed with the same kind of virtuosity in every frame adds a whole new dimension to it. My god... I like my friends a lot but it's a pity that I can't share with them the very thing that makes my heart jump up with excitement and makes my spirit fly like a bird in the sky. That thing, my friends, is beauty. As this film goes to show, beauty is terribly underrated in our technologically advanced, intellectually shallow, consumer driven fast-food western societies. That doesn't mean however that I reject these fast-paced societies or that I look down on them (and neither does Kubrick) but only that they can be so much more if only people would stop for a moment and take a little time to absorb the sheer beauty of the world we live in. And what better opportunity is there to do this then by slowing down to the elegant pace of this film and to let yourself be taken to that place between waking and dreaming. <br /><br />When we go to this place it is possible to get a so called "natural high". It is something that our spirit can do whenever we meet pure and boundless beauty. And never in my life has this "natural high" or "spiritual orgasm" as it is called by some or "samaddhi" by others been more intense. Yes it's more intense than a regular orgasm... several times more intense actually. Many religions have claimed that this particular feeling proves that they are right. Are they right? For me a straight answer to such a question would only detract from the impenetrable mesmerizing mystery of the universe. In my opinion the film tries to convey the same mystery through the depiction of the black monolith and by stating the following about it: "Except for a single very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter the four-million year old black monolith has remained completely inert. Its origin and purpose are still a total mystery." The trance that Bowman experiences is the same thing I experience when watching those gorgeous visuals. <br /><br />I can imagine that mystery can be frustrating for those who need straight fast-food answers to big ontological questions. But instead of giving us comfort we are constantly irritated by the awareness of the simplifications that are contained in these answers. The doubt and discomfort that is subsequently caused will make us point to our deeper intellectual activity as the source of all this trouble, while in fact we only have our easy answers to blame. But this film shows us that when fast ontological statements give rise to nothing but doubt, we can always rely on phenomena to make some sense out of the world. From the moment you realize that beauty is something that can only really be presented to us as a phenomenon and never as a "thing in itself" the mysterious black monolith is no longer disturbing, frightening or irritating but instead becomes fascinating, enchanting and maybe even comforting. We don't need an answer to what's really out there to be in touch with one of the greatest forces in our lives. When we are able to let mystery be what it is, to embrace it even... we can finally bring our souls to rest. I am pretty sure though that a film that contains so much beauty and so much philosophical and artistic depth can never really be surpassed. Especially now that the greatest director who ever lived is no longer with us.
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The nature of five-quadrant magnetic isotherms for is different from that for
in a single crystal of YNi2B2C, pointing towards an anisotropic behaviour of
the flux line lattice (FLL). For, a well defined peak effect (PE) and second
magnetization peak (SMP) can be observed and the loop is open prior to the PE.
However, for, the loop is closed and one can observe only the PE. We have
investigated the history dependence of magnetization hysteresis data for by
recording minor hysteresis loops. The observed history dependence in across
different anomalous regions are rationalized on the basis of
su-perheating/supercooling of the vortex matter across the first-order-like
phase transition and possible additional effects due to annealing of the
disordered vortex bundles to the underlying equilibrium state.
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This article studies a dirichlet boundary value problem for singularly
perturbed time delay convection diffusion equation with degenerate coefficient.
A priori explicit bounds are established on the solution and its derivatives.
For asymptotic analysis of the spatial derivatives the solution is decomposed
into regular and singular parts. To approximate the solution a numerical method
is considered which consists of backward Euler scheme for time discretization
on uniform mesh and a combination of midpoint upwind and central difference
scheme for the spatial discretization on modified Shishkin mesh. Stability
analysis is carried out, numerical results are presented and comparison is done
with upwind scheme on uniform mesh as well as upwind scheme on Shishkin mesh to
demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
The convergence obtained in practical satisfies the theoretical predictions.
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This impossible tale is of a female witch pursuing a mortal man, in a mortal world. Her "community" is open among it's members, but she conceals her witchcraft from the mortals. Hmmmm...this is starting to sound familiar. LOL. It's not your typical movie. Very "campy" performances by Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs keep things from getting dull. Kim Novak is always a pleasure on screen, but I found her pairing with James Stewart unusual (but not fatal to the story).<br /><br />With re-newed interest in all things witchy and dark, this film deserves to be discovered and re-discovered by old and new audiences...... IT'S STILL A HOOT !
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Geez,
he's a Democrat/Liberal friend. If he ever voted in the elections he'd had voted for a Democrat. A Trojan Horse entering the US via Chucky's Lottery system migration.
Ige/Chin/Watson fights for terrorists/bad operatives to travel to the US and invites ALL unknown's to Hawaii with open arms and Aloha.
Don't tell, Hawaii won't ask.
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I don't know if I'm wrong or everybody els'es that says this movie is good are, sincerely I just wanna do a favor to people that has doubts about seeing it, renting it or even worse buying it(don't do it really!).<br /><br />The trailers and very early previews might seem fun in some way or another but its not funny at all, it gets to fall in a series of you're-supposed-to-laugh-here scenes that tend to get in really bad jokes, bad very very bad acting, tasteless scenes, cheesy effects; this movie has it all, all wrong that is.<br /><br />As final comment the movie would have been funny due to the basic concept, but believe me is really way far from that.
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Evaluating the readability of a text can significantly facilitate the precise
expression of information in a written form. The formulation of text
readability assessment demands the identification of meaningful properties of
the text and correct conversion of features to the right readability level.
Sophisticated features and models are being used to evaluate the
comprehensibility of texts accurately. Still, these models are challenging to
implement, heavily language-dependent, and do not perform well on short texts.
Deep reinforcement learning models are demonstrated to be helpful in further
improvement of state-of-the-art text readability assessment models. The main
contributions of the proposed approach are the automation of feature
extraction, loosening the tight language dependency of text readability
assessment task, and efficient use of text by finding the minimum portion of a
text required to assess its readability. The experiments on Weebit, Cambridge
Exams, and Persian readability datasets display the model's state-of-the-art
precision, efficiency, and the capability to be applied to other languages.
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We investigate the collapse and fragmentation of low-mass, trans-sonically
turbulent prestellar cores, using SPH simulations. The initial conditions are
slightly supercritical Bonnor-Ebert spheres, all with the same density profile,
the same mass (M_O=6.1 Msun) and the same radius (R_O=17,000 AU), but having
different initial turbulent velocity fields. Four hundred turbulent velocity
fields have been generated, all scaled so that the mean Mach number is M=1.
Then a subset of these, having a range of net angular momenta, j, has been
evolved. The evolution of these turbulent cores is not strongly correlated with
j. Instead it is moderated by the formation of filamentary structures due to
converging turbulent flows. A high fraction (~ 82%) of the protostars forming
from turbulent cores are attended by protostellar accretion discs, but only a
very small fraction (~16%) of these discs is sufficiently cool and extended to
develop non-linear gravitational instabilities and fragment.
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Several spatially continuous pedestrian dynamics models have been validated
against empirical data. We try to reproduce the experimental fundamental
diagram (velocity versus density) with simulations. In addition to this
quantitative criterion, we tried to reproduce stop-and-go waves as a
qualitative criterion. Stop-and-go waves are a characteristic phenomenon for
the single file movement. Only one of three investigated models satisfies both
criteria.
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Studies of GRB host galaxies are crucial to understanding GRBs. However,
since they are identified by the superposition in the plane of the sky of a GRB
afterglow and a galaxy there is always a possibility that an association
represents a chance alignment, rather than a physical connection. We examine a
uniform sample of 72 GRB fields to explore the probability of chance
superpositions. There is typically a ~1% chance that an optical afterglow will
coincide with a galaxy by chance. While spurious host galaxy detections will,
therefore, be rare, the possibility must be considered when examining
individual GRB/host galaxy examples. It is also tempting to use the large and
uniform collection of X-ray afterglow positions to search for GRB-associated
galaxies. However, we find that approximately half of the 14 superpositions in
our sample are likely to occur by chance, so in the case of GRBs localized only
by an X-ray afterglow, even statistical studies are suspect.
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In large scale smart edge networks, computation resource is generally
underutilized due to the uneven distribution of computation resource in time
and space domain. This may correspond to a simple fact that no device is
capable for 'storing' and 'exchanging' idle computation resource. Thus, this
paper proposes a computation resource leasing (CRL) concept using priority as
an intermediary to restore and exchange the permission for computation resource
for priority aggregation local computing network (PALCN). Each device in PALNC
is able to gain priority as a reward for leasing its computing resource to
others. CRL also offers a priority oriented algorithm to match the computation
request with idle source nodes and a priority management model. Our analysis
and numerical results show that the system can efficiently utilize local idle
computation sources over time and space domain and filtrate the big task that
local computation can not finish.
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When I read the summary of the movie, something like what happens when a man gets powers of a God, and how he later learns that having supernatural powers requires giant responsibility and strength, I though that was clever and original concept. Casting was promising too, Carrey, Freeman, Aniston... How can movie with a good idea and good actors, not to mention costs of filming, can be bad? It can. Idea is good, but script and story itself is terrible. Bruce Nolan is, let's be honest, a pretty mediocre journalist, with not exactly great stories (like a story of a giant cookie, what a faux pas, and the Niagara report is complete fiasco!), he's a man with a job he completely DESERVES (he's not a good journalist, he's a comedian), considering his potentials, with a nice home, sugar sweet girlfriend, and OH HORROR!!!! Dog who is not house trained!!! Yes, as soon as Bruce, at the beginning of the movie starts addressing GOd in a "God, why do you hate me!" manner, average viewer must think: "Why, what's wrong with your life, Bruce?". Bruce is not, and definitely NOT the man with real problems in life. Most the troubles that happen to him are minor and not really worth of all that fuss he makes, and some of them are really only the result of his stupidity. Most people have really big problems, worth of attention, most people are more worth of attention that Bruce, who doesn't seem too human after all, doesn't look even realistic, too goofy and neurotic, but God still addresses to him. Why? Though Morgan Freeman looks nice as a God, I can't help but to ask what is he doing in this particularly bad movie. And what does Bruce do when God gives him his powers? God in this movie could as easily give his powers to a 5 year old kid and there hardly would be any difference. No, wait, a smart kid would probably use his God powers better than Bruce. What does Bruce do? Pulls the moon closer to earth to create romantic atmosphere, parts the red soup, lifts up a pretty woman's dress on the street, answers prayers via e-mail and make all of them come true!!!! No more, Bruce, please! What Bruce did could actually end the world, but in the movie, that doesn't happen, because this is "nice, family, little movie" and doesn't make any sense at all!!! Not a hint of sarcasm, of real humor, of wittiness, of some dirty humor at least!!! Nothing. Just Carrey playing silly, which is starting to look pathetic on middle aged actor. Aniston here is understated. She plays pale, undeveloped character of Bruce's girlfriend Grace, and stays completely forgettable in this movie. Nobody in the right mind would believe that this two have any chemistry at all between them. When Grace says prayer for Bruce it sounds not only lame and pathetic, but completely false. These two are not meant to be together. I would give three stars, but I doubt movie deserves a one. Bad script, lame dialogs, lack of real humor, wittiness and any sophistication, as well as undeveloped characters and understated Freeman's and Aniston's roles, total lack of boldness and sarcasm, it all makes movie hardly worth ***. But OK, there were few funny moments, and Freeman is always nice to see in any movie so, lets leave three stars.
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Wonderful addition to my large bag
I am a nanny and this thing is a LIFESAVER in terms of keeping my purse more organized. I did order it slightly smaller than my purse.so there is room on either side which is great. The only downside is with it being a soft structure it collapses a lot when I mainly take out my wallet. If they solved the side collapse issue it would be perfect.
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The addition of minute amounts of chemically inert polyacrylamide polymer to
liquids results in large instabilities under steady electro-osmotic pumping
through 2:1 constrictions, demonstrating that laminar flow conditions can be
broken in electro-osmotic flow of viscoelastic material. By excluding shear and
imposing symmetry we create a platform where only elongational viscoelastic
instabilities, and diffusion, affect mixing. In contrast to earlier studies
with significant shear that found up to orders of magnitude increase in mixing
we find that inclusion of polymers excites large viscoelastic instabilities yet
mixing is reduced relative to polymer-free liquids. The absolute decrease in
mixing we find is consistent with the understanding that adding polymer
increases viscosity while viscoelastic flows progress towards elastic
turbulence, a type of mild (Batchelor) turbulence, and indicates that
electro-osmotic pumped devices are an ideal platform for studying viscoelastic
instabilities without supplementary factors.
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In this paper we propose a novel fingerprint indexing approach for speeding
up in the fingerprint recognition system. What kind of features are used for
indexing and how to employ the extracted features for searching are crucial for
the fingerprint indexing. In this paper, we select a minutia descriptor, which
has been used to improve the accuracy of the fingerprint matching, as a local
feature for indexing and construct a fixed-length feature vector which will be
used for searching from the minutia descriptors of the fingerprint image using
a clustering. And we propose a fingerprint searching approach that uses the
Euclidean distance between two feature vectors as the similarity between two
indexing features. Our indexing approach has several benefits. It reduces
searching time significantly and is irrespective of the existence of singular
points and robust even though the size of the fingerprint image is small or the
quality is low. And the constructed indexing vector by this approach is
independent of the features which are used for indexing based on the
geometrical relations between the minutiae, like one based on the minutiae
triplets. Thus, the proposed approach could be combined with other indexing
approaches to gain a better indexing performance.
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A simple analytical model based on the transmission-matrix approach is
proposed for equivalent wire-medium (WM) interfaces. The obtained ABCD matrices
for equivalent interfaces capture the non-local effects due to the evanescent
transverse magnetic (TM) WM mode and in part due to the propagating transverse
electromagnetic (TEM) WM mode. This enables one to characterize the overall
response of bounded WM structures by cascading the ABCD matrices of equivalent
WM interfaces and WM slabs as transmission lines supporting only the
propagating TEM WM mode, resulting in a simple circuit-model formalism for
bounded WM structures with arbitrary terminations, including the open-end,
patch/slot arrays, and thin metal/2D material, among others. The individual
ABCD matrices for equivalent WM interfaces apparently violate the conservation
of energy and reciprocity, and therefore, the equivalent interfaces apparently
behave as non-reciprocal lossy or active systems. However, the overall response
of a bounded WM structure is consistent with the lossless property maintaining
the conservation of energy and reciprocity. These unusual features are
explained by the fact that in the non-local WM the Poynting vector has an
additional correction term which takes into account a "hidden power" due to
non-local effects. Results are obtained for various numerical examples
demonstrating a rapid and efficient solution for bounded WM structures,
including the case of geometrically complex multilayer configurations with
arbitrary terminations, subject to the condition that WM interfaces are
decoupled by the evanescent TM WM mode below the plasma frequency.
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In the advent of a digital health revolution, vast amounts of clinical data
are being generated, stored and processed on a daily basis. This has made the
storage and retrieval of large volumes of health-care data, especially,
high-resolution medical images, particularly challenging. Effective image
compression for medical images thus plays a vital role in today's healthcare
information system, particularly in teleradiology. In this work, an X-ray image
compression method based on a Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks RNN-Conv
is presented. The proposed architecture can provide variable compression rates
during deployment while it requires each network to be trained only once for a
specific dimension of X-ray images. The model uses a multi-level pooling scheme
that learns contextualized features for effective compression. We perform our
image compression experiments on the National Institute of Health (NIH)
ChestX-ray8 dataset and compare the performance of the proposed architecture
with a state-of-the-art RNN based technique and JPEG 2000. The experimental
results depict improved compression performance achieved by the proposed method
in terms of Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio
(PSNR) metrics. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported
evaluation on using a deep convolutional RNN for medical image compression.
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Insects use visual cues to control their flight behaviours. By estimating the
angular velocity of the visual stimuli and regulating it to a constant value,
honeybees can perform a terrain following task which keeps the certain height
above the undulated ground. For mimicking this behaviour in a bio-plausible
computation structure, this paper presents a new angular velocity decoding
model based on the honeybee's behavioural experiments. The model consists of
three parts, the texture estimation layer for spatial information extraction,
the motion detection layer for temporal information extraction and the decoding
layer combining information from pervious layers to estimate the angular
velocity. Compared to previous methods on this field, the proposed model
produces responses largely independent of the spatial frequency and contrast in
grating experiments. The angular velocity based control scheme is proposed to
implement the model into a bee simulated by the game engine Unity. The perfect
terrain following above patterned ground and successfully flying over irregular
textured terrain show its potential for micro unmanned aerial vehicles' terrain
following.
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L-shell ionisation and subsequent Coulomb explosion of fully deuterated
methyl iodide, CD$_3$I, irradiated with hard x-rays has been examined by a
time-of-flight multi-ion coincidence technique. The core vacancies relax
efficiently by Auger cascades, leading to charge states up to 16+. The dynamics
of the Coulomb explosion process are investigated by calculating the ions'
flight times numerically based on a geometric model of the experimental
apparatus, for comparison with the experimental data. A parametric model of the
explosion, previously introduced for multi-photon induced Coulomb explosion, is
applied in numerical simulations, giving good agreement with the experimental
results for medium charge states. Deviations for higher charges suggest the
need to include nuclear motion in a putatively more complete model. Detection
efficiency corrections from the simulations are used to determine the true
distributions of molecular charge state produced by initial L1, L2 and L3
ionisation.
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An introduction to moduli spaces of representations of quivers is given, and
results on their global geometric properties are surveyed. In particular, the
geometric approach to the problem of classification of quiver representations
is motivated, and the construction of moduli spaces is reviewed. Topological,
arithmetic and algebraic methods for the study of moduli spaces are discussed.
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The speech chain mechanism integrates automatic speech recognition (ASR) and
text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) modules into a single cycle during training. In
our previous work, we applied a speech chain mechanism as a semi-supervised
learning. It provides the ability for ASR and TTS to assist each other when
they receive unpaired data and let them infer the missing pair and optimize the
model with reconstruction loss. If we only have speech without transcription,
ASR generates the most likely transcription from the speech data, and then TTS
uses the generated transcription to reconstruct the original speech features.
However, in previous papers, we just limited our back-propagation to the
closest module, which is the TTS part. One reason is that back-propagating the
error through the ASR is challenging due to the output of the ASR are discrete
tokens, creating non-differentiability between the TTS and ASR. In this paper,
we address this problem and describe how to thoroughly train a speech chain
end-to-end for reconstruction loss using a straight-through estimator (ST).
Experimental results revealed that, with sampling from ST-Gumbel-Softmax, we
were able to update ASR parameters and improve the ASR performances by 11\%
relative CER reduction compared to the baseline.
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We report on the search for $B^0_s\to\mu^+\mu^-$, $B^0_d\to\mu^+\mu^-$ decays
and $b\to s \mu^+\mu^-$ transitions in exclusive decays of B mesons using the
CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Using 2 fb$^{-1}$ of Run II
data we find upper limits on the branching fractions
$\mathcal{B}(B^0_s\to\mu^+\mu^-)<5.8\times 10^{-8}$ and
$\mathcal{B}(B^0_d\to\mu^+\mu^-)<1.8\times 10^{-8}$ at 95% confidence level.
The results for the branching fractions of the $b\to s \mu^+\mu^-$ transitions
using 924 pb$^{-1}$ of Run II data are
$\mathcal{B}(B^+\to\mu^+\mu^-K^+)=(0.60\pm0.15\pm0.04)\times 10^{-6}$,
$\mathcal{B}(B^0_d\to\mu^+\mu^-K^{*0})=(0.82\pm0.31\pm0.10)\times 10^{-6}$ and
$\mathcal{B}(B^0_s\to \mu^+\mu^-\phi)/\mathcal{B}(B^0_s\to J/\psi\phi) <
2.61\times 10^{-3}$ at 95% confidence level.
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We spectroscopically investigate a pathway for the conversion of
$^{23}\textrm{Na}^{39}\textrm{K}$ Feshbach molecules into rovibronic ground
state molecules via STImulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP). Using
photoassociation spectroscopy from the diatomic scattering threshold in the
$a^3\Sigma^+$ potential, we locate the resonantly mixed electronically excited
intermediate states $|B^1\Pi, v=8\rangle$ and $|c^3\Sigma^+, v=30\rangle$
which, due to their singlet-triplet admixture, serve as an ideal bridge between
predominantly $a^3\Sigma^+$ Feshbach molecules and pure $X^1\Sigma^+$ ground
state molecules. We investigate their hyperfine structure and present a simple
model to determine the singlet-triplet coupling of these states. Using
Autler-Townes spectroscopy, we locate the rovibronic ground state of the
$^{23}\textrm{Na}^{39}\textrm{K}$ molecule ($|X^1\Sigma^+, v=0, N=0\rangle$)
and the second rotationally excited state $N=2$ to unambiguously identify the
ground state. We also extract the effective transition dipole moment from the
excited to the ground state. Our investigations result in a fully characterized
scheme for the creation of ultracold bosonic $^{23}\textrm{Na}^{39}\textrm{K}$
ground state molecules.
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Life saver on my vacation!
Purchased this for vacation since my phone dies all the time. First time I used it I didn't have to recharge it for 2 days. I noticed, however, that as time as gone on I have to recharge it more and more so that's the only thing i'm concerned about. However, for the price it does what it's supposed to.
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Methods for reducing and directly controlling the speed of DNA through a
nanopore are needed to enhance sensing performance for direct strand sequencing
and detection/mapping of sequence-specific features. We have created a method
for reducing and controlling the speed of DNA that uses two independently
controllable nanopores operated with an active control logic. The pores are
positioned sufficiently close to permit co-capture of a single DNA by both
pores. Once co-capture occurs, control logic turns on constant competing
voltages at the pores leading to a `tug-of-war' whereby the molecule is pulled
from both ends by opposing forces. These forces exert both conformational and
speed control over the co-captured molecule, removing folds and reducing the
translocation rate. When the voltages are tuned so that the electrophoretic
force applied to both ends of the molecule comes into balance, the life-time of
the tug-of-war state is limited purely by diffusive sliding of the DNA between
the pores. We are able to produce a tug-of-war state on 76.8% of molecules that
are captured with a maximum two-order of magnitude increase in average pore
translocation time relative to the average time for single-pore translocation.
Moreover, we quantify the translocation slow-down as a function of voltage
tuning and show that the slow-down is well described by a first passage
analysis for a one-dimensional sub-diffusive process. The ionic current of each
nanopore provides an independent sensor that synchronously measures a different
region of the same molecule, enabling sequential detection of physical labels,
such as mono-streptavidin tags. With advances in devices and control logic,
future dual-pore applications include genome mapping and enzyme-free
sequencing.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has produced astonishing science over the past
thirty years. Hubble's productivity can continue to soar for years to come
provided some worn out components get upgraded. While powerful new ground-based
and space telescopes are expected to come online over the next decade, none of
them will have the UV capabilities that make Hubble a unique observatory.
Without Hubble, progress in UV and blue optical astrophysics will be halted.
Observations at these wavelengths are key for a range of unresolved
astrophysics questions, ranging from the characterization of solar system
planets to understanding interaction of galaxies with the intergalactic medium
and the formation history of the universe. Hubble will remain our only source
of high-angular resolution UV imaging and high-sensitivity UV spectroscopy for
the next two decades, offering the ability for continued unique science and
maximizing the science return from complementary observatories. Therefore, we
recommend that NASA, ESA, and the private sector study the scientific merit,
technical feasibility, and risk of a new servicing mission to Hubble to boost
its orbit, fix aging components, and expand its instrumentation. Doing so
would: 1) keep Hubble on its path to reach its unmet full potential, 2) extend
the mission's lifetime past the next decade, which will maximize the synergy of
Hubble with other upcoming facilities, and 3) enable and enhance the
continuation of scientific discoveries in UV and optical astrophysics.
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I have to say it: When you make bad policy, you're bound to rile up someone. My bet is the guy had nothing left to lose after the Republicans took his job, home and healthcare. My prediction is that this country is headed to civil war because the divide is getting so big between the Right and Left wings. The Right wingers have become so egregious as to think they can publicly use terms like 'snowflake' to describe the Left, and the extreme Left is actually trying to shout and bully anyone who doesn't agree with their viewpoints, i.e. recent incidents in Berkeley CA.
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Let X be some homogeneous additive functional of a skew Bessel process Y. In
this note, we compute the asymptotics of the first passage time of X to some
fixed level b, and study the position of Y when X exits a bounded interval [a,
b]. As a by-product, we obtain the probability that X reaches the level b
before the level a. Our results extend some previous works on additive
functionals of Brownian motion by Isozaki and Kotani for the persistence
problem, and by Lachal for the exit time problem.
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We present necessary and sufficient conditions to have global hypoellipticity
and global solvability for a class of vector fields defined on a product of
compact Lie groups. In view of Greenfield's and Wallach's conjecture, about the
non-existence of globally hypoelliptic vector fields on compact manifolds
different from tori, we also investigate different notions of regularity weaker
than global hypoellipticity and describe completely the global hypoellipticity
and global solvability of zero-order perturbations of our vector fields. We
also present a class of vector fields with variable coefficients whose
operators can be reduced to a normal form, and we prove that the study of the
global properties of such operators is equivalent to the study of the
respective properties for their normal forms.
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The universality and scaling behaviour of hadronisation have been
investigated in semi-inclusive neutral current deep inelastic ep scattering;
specifically the multiplicity and scaled momentum spectra of charged hadrons
have been measured and analysed. The measurements are performed in the current
region of the Breit frame, as well as in the current fragmentation region of
the hadronic centre-of-mass frame. The data collected at the HERA ep collider
by the H1 and ZEUS experiments are compared with similar measurements obtained
in e+e- annihilation and with previous ep measurements as well as with
leading-logarithm parton-shower predictions.
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The renormalized mean value of the corresponding components of the
Energy-Momentum tensor for massive scalar fields coupled to an arbitrary
gravitational field configuration having cylindrical symmetry are analytically
evaluated using the Schwinger-DeWitt approximation, up to second order in the
inverse mass value. The general results are employed to explicitly derive
compact analytical expressions for the Energy-Momentum tensor in the particular
background of the Black-String spacetime. In the case of the Black String
considered in this work, we proof that a violation of the weak energy condition
occur at the horizon of the space-time for values of the coupling constant,
that include as particular cases the most interesting of minimal and conformal
coupling.
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Deficiencies in Kauffman's proposal regarding a new way for building
scientific theories are pointed out. A suggestion to overcome them, and in
fact, independently construct mathematical theories which are beyond the reach
of Goedel's incompleteness theorem is presented. This suggestion is based on
bringing together recent developments in literature regarding inconsistent
mathematics and self-referential mathematics.
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so this package was perfect. I open the box and used the first ...
This is a 2 pack. 1 of the 2 were damaged. I have twins with the same phone, so this package was perfect. I open the box and used the first one with no problem. I took the second one out of the protective foam case and noticed the tempered glass was broke near the home button. Unfortunately, I did not see this until after I used the first one, so I am assuming a return is out of the question.
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As a businessman myself, I'm not a big fan of turning any business away, and that's important because to turn business away suggests one has pretty strong feelings about his/her reason for refusal of service.
Better to not know, then one does not need to be put in a moral dilemma. But if a client approaches a merchant and expresses his unrepentant participation in sinful acts (in the belief of the merchant), he should be allowed to deny that person service.
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Our pup's favorite toy(s), but be ready to sew
Perfect size for our pup's mouth, great squeaker, stuffed well, decent fabric. The only downside is having to "surgically fix" them from time to time, only because she plays with them so much. She's not a heavy chewer, so beware if your pup is. It's also great to have multiple so she can play with a backup while 'mom' fixes the others.
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I don't know where to begin, so I'll begin with a snippet from the back of the cover of this movie. "Alive combines the tension of Vincenzo Natali's Cube with Kitamura's own Versus." I have not seen Versus, so I can't comment on that, but I think Cube was an excellent movie which I recommend to everyone. However, in this case someone has clearly confused "tension" with "boredom".<br /><br />I'll just go ahead and spoil the entire plot, because besides being one holy Swiss cheese of a plot, it's also moldy cheese, and the movie is not worth spending any time on even if you don't know the plot beforehand, so it doesn't matter. If I have misunderstood the plot, don't hit me - it's probably because I had to struggle to keep my eyelids open.<br /><br />So the American military in Nevada once lost a UFO i the Nambi desert. This apparently makes sense because they're both deserts so surely they're practically the same place. Different continents or not. A monkey broke into the UFO and acquired an alien something which was passed on to a Japanese researcher who had to eat the monkey to survive in the desert. What ever. The alien thing is now passed on to anyone who's "bloodthirsty" enough to kill the current host. The Japanese military wants to use it for military stuff, so they decide to make it pass from the current host (the researcher's daughter) to some other dude. But instead of just picking someone out of the military, which is full of people who are bloodthirsty AND already on the military's side, they decide that it's probably a good idea to pick some criminal out of death row instead. Oh, and the reason they pick this particular criminal from death row is because he was the first person in history to not die from the non-lethal electric shock which is the standard execution method, because everyone dies from the placebo effect when they get electrocuted. I don't know if they do this so they can giggle in the staff room at how everyone dies even though it's not deadly, or if they just want to cut down the electricity bill.<br /><br />Then the movie turns into what The Matrix would have been if it had been really lame, and superfluous fighting bores us to tears for what feels like an hour. And oh wait, now they remember that they already had a dude who was infected with the alien thing, so the entire movie up to this point was actually a totally waste of time and also human lives. Then everyone dies. The end.<br /><br />The only one moment in the movie where I didn't want to go away and sleep or eat a sandwich instead, was when a dude was pinned to a wall by a pipe through his chest, and he's hanging around up there and another dude walks by. The dude hanging on the wall says "I'm in pain, shoot me". And the living dude looks at him, and it's not like he's a mean dude or anything, so he really looks sorrowful and doesn't want the guy on the wall to suffer. So he shoots him.<br /><br />(Rhetorical pause.)<br /><br />In the stomach. "Gee THANKS A FREAKIN' HEAP."
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The black hole area theorem suggests that classical general relativity is the
thermodynamic limit of a quantum statistics. The degrees of freedom of the
statistical theory cannot be the spacetime metric. We argue that the
statistical theory should be constructed from a noncommutative gravity, whose
classical, and thermodynamic, approximation is Einstein gravity. The
noncommutative gravity theory exhibits a duality between quantum fields and
macroscopic black holes, which is used to show that the black hole possesses an
entropy of the order of its area. The principle on which this work is based
also provides a possible explanation for the smallness of the cosmological
constant, and for the quantum measurement problem, indicating that this is a
promising avenue towards the merger of quantum mechanics and gravity.
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We present a novel method of compression of deep Convolutional Neural
Networks (CNNs) by weight sharing through a new representation of convolutional
filters. The proposed method reduces the number of parameters of each
convolutional layer by learning a 1D vector termed Filter Summary (FS). The
convolutional filters are located in FS as overlapping 1D segments, and nearby
filters in FS share weights in their overlapping regions in a natural way. The
resultant neural network based on such weight sharing scheme, termed Filter
Summary CNNs or FSNet, has a FS in each convolution layer instead of a set of
independent filters in the conventional convolution layer. FSNet has the same
architecture as that of the baseline CNN to be compressed, and each convolution
layer of FSNet has the same number of filters from FS as that of the basline
CNN in the forward process. With compelling computational acceleration ratio,
the parameter space of FSNet is much smaller than that of the baseline CNN. In
addition, FSNet is quantization friendly. FSNet with weight quantization leads
to even higher compression ratio without noticeable performance loss. We
further propose Differentiable FSNet where the way filters share weights is
learned in a differentiable and end-to-end manner. Experiments demonstrate the
effectiveness of FSNet in compression of CNNs for computer vision tasks
including image classification and object detection, and the effectiveness of
DFSNet is evidenced by the task of Neural Architecture Search.
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An American in Paris is a wonderful musical about an American painter living in Paris for inspiration. He meets a rich woman who admires his paintings on the street and she believes she can get his work to be even more popular to the public, e.g. in a museum. Golden Globe nominated Gene Kelly as the artist Jerry Mulligan is just perfect at both singing and especially dancing. He also meets the main girl Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron) who is engaged to his best friend. He can't help his feelings for this girl, even after he finds out who she is engaged to. Filled with nice romance and wonderful song and dance, this is a very good musical film. It may drag slightly with his dancing dream sequence, i.e. The American in Paris ballet, but there is a good happy ending. It won the Oscars for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay and Best Picture, and it was nominated for Best Director for Vincente Minnelli and Best Film Editing, it was nominated the BAFTA for Best Film from any Source, and it won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy, and it was nominated for Best Director for Vincente Millenni (Liza's father). Gene Kelly was number 66 on The 100 Movie Stars, and he was number 15 on 100 Years, 100 Stars - Men, "I Got Rhythm" was number 32 on 100 Years, 100 Songs, the film was number 9 on 100 Years of Musicals, it was number 39 on 100 Years, 100 Passions, it was number 68 on 100 Years, 100 Movies, and it was number 58 on The 100 Greatest Musicals. Very good!
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On the basis of first-principles computational approaches, we present a new
method to drive zigzag graphene nanoribons (ZGNRs) into the half-metallic state
using a ferroelectric material, poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF). Owing to
strong dipole moments of PVDFs, the ground state of the ZGNR becomes
half-metallic when a critical coverage of PVDFs is achieved on the ZGNR. Since
ferroelectric polymers are physisorbed, the direction of the dipole field in
PVDFs can be rotated by relatively small external electric fields, and the
switching between half-metallic and insulating states may be achieved. Our
results suggest that, without excessively large external gate electric fields,
half-metallic states of ZGNRs are realizable through the deposition of
ferroelectric polymers and their electronic and magnetic properties are
controllable via noninvasive mutual interactions.
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It's unfair to make "traditionalists" a monolith. To paraphrase Scalia, "I'm a faithful Catholic and a traditionalist, not a kook," meaning that it is not "traditionalists" seeking to damn people, only some who read selectively, just as it is not, I think, the position of "progressives" that there will be apokatastasis, or Universal Restoration but, again, only those who engage picking-and-choosing whom to read and what to quote.
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It is known that the monodromy group of each cover of a general curve of
genus g>3 equals either the symmetric or the alternating group. The classical
Catalan numbers count the minimal degree covers (with symmetric monodromy) of a
general curve of even genus. We solve the analogous problem for the alternating
group and we determine the number of alternating covers of minimal degree 2g+1
of a general curve of genus g.
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In this paper we discuss the path integral representations for the coordinate
systems on the complex sphere S3C. The Schroedinger equation, respectively the
path integral, separates in exactly 21 orthogonal coordinate systems. We
enumerate these coordinate systems and we are able to present the path integral
representations explicitly in the majority of the cases. In each solution the
expansion into the wave-functions is stated. Also, the kernel and the
corresponding Green function can be stated in closed form in terms of the
invariant distance on the sphere, respectively on the hyperboloid.
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We investigate spin states of few electrons in a double quantum dot by
coupling them weakly to a magnetic field resilient NbTiN microwave resonator.
We observe a reduced resonator transmission if resonator photons and spin
singlet states interact. This response vanishes in a magnetic field once the
quantum dot ground state changes from a spin singlet into a spin triplet state.
Based on this observation, we map the two-electron singlet-triplet crossover by
resonant spectroscopy. By measuring the resonator only, we observe Pauli spin
blockade known from transport experiments at finite source-drain bias and
detect an unconventional spin blockade triggered by the absorption of resonator
photons.
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We provide a theoretical framework to describe the interaction of a
propagating guided matter wave with a localized potential in terms of quantum
scattering in a confined environment. We analyze how this scattering correlates
the longitudinal and transverse degrees of freedom and work out analytically
the output state under the Born approximation using a Gaussian localized
potential. In this limit, it is possible to engineer the potential and achieve
coherent control of the output channels. The robustness of this approximation
is studied by comparing the stationary scattering theory to numerical
simulations involving incident wave packets. It remains valid in a domain of
weak localized potential that is achievable experimentally. We infer a possible
method to determine the longitudinal coherence length of a guided atom laser.
Then, we detail the non-perturbative regime of the interaction of the guided
matter wave with the localized potential using a coupled channel approach. This
approach is worked out explicitly with a square potential. It yields new
non-perturbative effects such as the occurrence of confinement-induced
resonances. The perspectives opened by this work for experiments are discussed.
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Rate coefficients for state-to-state rotational transitions in CO induced by
both para- and ortho-H$_2$ collisions are presented. The results were obtained
using the close-coupling method and the coupled-states approximation, with the
CO-H$_2$ interaction potential of Jankowski & Szalewicz (2005). Rate
coefficients are presented for temperatures between 1 and 3000 K, and for
CO($v=0,j$) quenching from $j=1-40$ to all lower $j^\prime$ levels. Comparisons
with previous calculations using an earlier potential show some discrepancies,
especially at low temperatures and for rotational transitions involving large
$|\Delta j|$. The differences in the well depths of the van der Waals
interactions in the two potential surfaces lead to different resonance
structures in the energy dependence of the cross sections which influence the
low temperature rate coefficients. Applications to far infrared observations of
astrophysical environments are briefly discussed.
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|I moved out of my old house two weeks ago and cancelled my direct debit to my old landlord, this direct debit was working fine. Now I've moved in to a new place and set up a transfer to a new landlord but it's not reached her yet, can you check it please?
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... just picky when buying glasses because theirs so may good reviews. Still don't recommend them they are cheap
The glasses fit my face really strange or maybe I'm just picky when buying glasses because theirs so may good reviews. Still don't recommend them they are cheap, feel cheap, fit your face weird and don't even look good.
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Now that I'm 65 having never seen the complete film I found it to less funny that the few clips they normally show
I was surprised at the language and the frequent use of the F word. I was hoping to show this classic to my 10 year old grandkids but will not be doing that. Now that I'm 65 having never seen the complete film I found it to less funny that the few clips they normally show. As with most film previews in 2 minutes they can show all the funny parts of the film.
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It is shown that solutions to the anisotropic least gradient problem for
boundary data $f \in L^p(\partial\Omega)$ lie in $L^{\frac{Np}{N-1}}(\Omega)$;
the exponent is shown to be optimal. Moreover, the solutions are shown to be
locally bounded with explicit bounds on the rate of blow-up of the solution
near the boundary in two settings: in the anisotropic case on the plane and in
the isotropic case in any dimension.
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Helps keep your back straight and shoulders back for better posture
My sister has a stroke and has done many therapies to get better. Now she has noticed that her posture is suffering as she finds herself hunching over and not keeping her back straight. I got this back brace support for her and it fits her just right. She has been wearing it for at least 3 hours each day the last two weeks and already feels an improvement. She puts it on in the morning and wears it til lunch. I have noticed her keeping her shoulders back more often and being more aware of her posture so it is helping.
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Selling of out-of-stock item.
Amazon Prime customer since 2011. Purchased this item over a week ago with next day shipping instead of doing the free shipping route and has yet to arrive. They have continued to sell this item twice now even though they are out-of-stock leaving people back ordered instead of filling wait-orders. Do not purchase this item or you will be stuck in limbo with a hole in your pocket.
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Garlin outdoes himself as writer-director-actor in his indie production about a big guy (Garlin) wandering around Chicago with an eye for every woman he sees. The laughs keep coming almost every minute. It's a somewhat dramatic and serious story about a man looking for love, but done with great comedic writing and acting. The supporting roles are also very well done and very funny and really make the movie rich.<br /><br />Rose Abdoo is hysterical in her receptionist role taking you right into the mood of the rest of the film. Sara Silverman is awesome with some of the great bits she does with Jeff. Bonnie Hunt is classically great in her role. I only wish there was more of her in the film, as I think most will agree. It's certainly refreshing to see her in a tight leather outfit.<br /><br />David Pasquesi was the aloof detached sidekick, and voice of reason. Mina Kolb plays Jeff's mother who he lives with. There were numerous other cameos, all of them done very well.<br /><br />At the premier Jeff mentioned his inability to do more with Bonnie due to production issues. Still, it's good to leave you wanting more. I think it's that indie thing of keeping some things ambiguous to let the audience do some thinking for themselves to fill in the blanks. The wordy title should clue you in to this.<br /><br />Jeff said some of the basic characters were based on his past relationships. This explains why they work so well. Real life people are always unusually colorful and makes great characters. He departs quite a bit from what you might expect, having seen Curb Your Enthusiasm and some of his other work. It's one of those break out things where an actor takes some risks to do something they maybe always wanted to do but couldn't.<br /><br />I think it's noteworthy that Garlin's improv Second City background, and Hunt's for that matter, set the style here of acting being the focus of the story and the directing. It's perhaps a new innovative hybrid of improv meets indie film-making.
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Prints great...but
Really like this filament, it prints really well and has a nice matte finish. The problem is with the spooling. It's jut terrible. It is so crossed over itself that you cannot leave your printer unattended. The filament will get bound up and ruin your print. You have to keep turning the reel every 5 minutes to loosen it up. At least they don't try to hide how poorly their filament is spooled, they show a close up picture in their listing showing how jacked up it is.
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We propose here a model and a numerical scheme to compute the motion of rigid
particles interacting through the lubrication force. In the case of a particle
approaching a plane, we propose an algorithm and prove its convergence towards
the solutions to the gluey particle model proposed by B. Maury. We propose a
multi-particle version of this gluey model which is based on the projection of
the velocities onto a set of admissible velocities. Then, we describe a
multi-particle algorithm for the simulation of such systems and present
numerical results.
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MCG-6-30-15 is the archetypal example of a type I active galaxy showing broad
"red-wing" emission in its X-ray spectrum at energies below the 6.4 keV Fe
K-alpha emission line and a continuum excess above 20 keV. Miller et al. (2008)
showed that these spectral features could be caused by clumpy absorbing
material, but Reynolds et al. (2009) have argued that the observed Fe K-alpha
line luminosity is inconsistent with this explanation unless the global
covering factor of the absorber(s) is very low. However, the Reynolds et al.
calculation effectively considers the only source of opacity to be the Fe K
bound-free transition and neglects the opacity at the line energy: correction
to realistic opacity decreases the predicted line flux by a large factor. We
also discuss the interpretation of the covering factor and the possible effect
of occultation by the accretion disk. Finally, we consider a model for
MCG-6-30-15 dominated by clumpy absorption, which is consistent with global
covering factor 0.45, although models that include the effects of Compton
scattering are required to reach a full understanding. Variations in covering
fraction may dominate the observed X-ray spectral variability.
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Current-voltage characteristics of Au~/~YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\delta}$
interfaces (Au/YBCO), built on optimally-doped YBCO thin films, grown by pulsed
laser deposition, were measured as a function of temperature in the 50 K to 270
K range, for two different resistance states. A non-trivial equivalent circuit
model is proposed, which reveals the existence of a highly inhomogeneous
scenario composed by two complex layers: one presenting both a non-linear
Poole-Frenkel conduction as well as Variable Range Hopping localization effects
(probably associated with YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6}$) mixed with a minor metallic
phase, while the other is also composed by a mixture of YBCO with different
oxygen contents, where a metallic ohmic phase still percolates. A microscopic
description of the effects produced by the resistance switching is given,
showing the evolution of carrier traps, localization effects and dielectric
behavior for each state. The dielectric behavior is interpreted in terms of a
Maxwell-Wagner scenario.
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Coupling superconductors to quantum Hall edge states is the subject of
intense investigation as part of the ongoing search for non-abelian
excitations. Our group has previously observed supercurrents of hundreds of
picoamperes in graphene Josephson junctions in the quantum Hall regime. One of
the explanations of this phenomenon involves the coupling of an electron edge
state on one side of the junction to a hole edge state on the opposite side. In
our previous samples, these states are separated by several microns. Here, a
narrow trench perpendicular to the contacts creates counterpropagating quantum
Hall edge channels tens of nanometres from each other. Transport measurements
demonstrate a change in the low-field Fraunhofer interference pattern for
trench devices and show a supercurrent in both trench and reference junctions
in the quantum Hall regime. The trench junctions show no enhancement of quantum
Hall supercurrent and an unexpected supercurrent periodicity with applied
field, suggesting the need for further optimization of device parameters.
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This paper describes the design and the construction of the stainless steel
tank of the JSNS$^2$ detector. The leakage was examined using water and gas
after the construction. The new sealing technique with liquid gasket was
developed, and its sealing capability was evaluated quantitatively. The result
shows over 5 times better value than the tolerance level of leakage.The
acceleration measurement during the transportation of the tank shows adequate
robustness.These tests prove that the stainless steel tank is feasible to use
the real experiment.
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In this paper an approach is proposed to represent a class of dissipative
mechanical systems by corresponding infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems.
This approach is based upon the following structure: for any non-conservative
classical mechanical system and arbitrary initial conditions, there exists a
conservative system; both systems share one and only one common phase curve;
and, the value of the Hamiltonian of the conservative system is, up to an
additive constant, equal to the total energy of the non-conservative system on
the aforementioned phase curve, the constant depending on the initial
conditions. We describe in detail this relationship calling the conservative
system ``substitute`` conservative system. By considering the dissipative
mechanical system as a special fluid in a domain $D$ of the phase space, viz. a
collection of particles in this domain, we are prompted to develop this system
as an infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system of an ideal fluid. By comparing
the description of the ideal fluid in Lagrangian coordinates, we can consider
the Hamiltonian and the Lagrangian as the respective integrals of the
Hamiltonian and the Lagrangian of the substitute conservative system over the
initial value space and define a new Poisson bracket to express the equations
of motion in Hamiltonian form. The advantage of the approach is that the value
of the canonical momentum density $\pi$ is identical with that of the
mechanical momentum $m\dot{q}$ and the value of canonical coordinate $q$ is
identical with that of the coordinate of the dissipative mechanical system.
Therefore we need not to decouple the Newtonian equations of motion into
several one-dimensional ordinary differential equations.
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I was looking for ATTACK on Precinct 13. There, the film is THAT memorable. Who is the star of this? Ethan Hawke or Matt Dillon (I can't tell who the lead actor is, that's a pretty big point against the movie right there) Gabriel Byrne (who could't have needed the money this badly could he?) Drea De Matteo is stunning but only because of her amazing body. It took me ages to finally work out she's Joey's sister off "Friends". I agree that the so called SWAT people attacking the station are pretty crap, as far as tactics go. We were even taught better basic skills than this in RAF basic training.<br /><br />Avoid this, even the snow doesn't want to fall on a bus full of prisoners! Very bad continuity indeed.<br /><br />Avoid like the plague!
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We study the interplay of competing interactions in spin-$1/2$ triangular
Heisenberg model through tuning the first- ($J_1$), second- ($J_2$), and
third-neighbor ($J_3$) couplings. Based on large-scale density matrix
renormalization group calculation, we identify a quantum phase diagram of the
system and discover a new {\it gapless} chiral spin liquid (CSL) phase in the
intermediate $J_2$ and $J_3$ regime. This CSL state spontaneously breaks
time-reversal symmetry with finite scalar chiral order, and it has gapless
excitations implied by a vanishing spin triplet gap and a finite central charge
on the cylinder. Moreover, the central charge grows rapidly with the cylinder
circumference, indicating emergent spinon Fermi surfaces. To understand the
numerical results we propose a parton mean-field spin liquid state, the $U(1)$
staggered flux state, which breaks time-reversal symmetry with chiral edge
modes by adding a Chern insulator mass to Dirac spinons in the $U(1)$ Dirac
spin liquid. This state also breaks lattice rotational symmetries and possesses
two spinon Fermi surfaces driven by nonzero $J_2$ and $J_3$, which naturally
explains the numerical results. To our knowledge, this is the first example of
a gapless CSL state with coexisting spinon Fermi surfaces and chiral edge
states, demonstrating the rich family of novel phases emergent from competing
interactions in triangular-lattice magnets.
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In a previous paper, the potential automorphy of certain Galois
representations to GL_n for n even was established, following work of Harris,
Shepherd-Barron and Taylor and using the lifting theorems of Clozel, Harris and
Taylor. In this paper, we extend those results to n=3 and n=5, and
conditionally to all other odd n. The key additional tools necessary are
results which give the automorphy or potential automorphy of symmetric powers
of elliptic curves, most notably those of Gelbert, Jacquet, Kim, Shahidi and
Harris.
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The microscopic formula for the degeneracies of 1/8 BPS black holes in type
II string theory compactified on a six dimensional torus can be expressed as a
sum of several terms. One of the terms is a function of the Cremmer-Julia
invariant and gives the leading contribution to the entropy in the large charge
limit. The other terms, which give exponentially subleading contribution,
depend not only on the Cremmer-Julia invariant, but also on the arithmetic
properties of the charges, and in fact exist only when the charges satisfy
special arithmetic properties. We identify the origin of these terms in the
macroscopic formula for the black hole entropy, based on quantum entropy
function, as the contribution from non-trivial saddle point(s) in the path
integral of string theory over the near horizon geometry. These saddle points
exist only when the charge vectors satisfy the arithmetic properties required
for the corresponding term in the microscopic formula to exist. Furthermore the
leading contribution from these saddle points in the large charge limit agrees
with the leading asymptotic behaviour of the corresponding term in the
degeneracy formula.
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No Variety in Colors. :(
I was really hoping to get a variety of colors but I got all pinks and purples. I'm really sad. No teal, no blue, no green no gold . . . all super boring normal colors. Glides on nice. Good dark color. Not sticky after 60 seconds. Like the lipgloss but super sad to not get even one unique color.
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We study the numerical solution of nonlinear partially observed optimal
stopping problems. The system state is taken to be a multi-dimensional
diffusion and drives the drift of the observation process, which is another
multi-dimensional diffusion with correlated noise. Such models where the
controller is not fully aware of her environment are of interest in applied
probability and financial mathematics. We propose a new approximate numerical
algorithm based on the particle filtering and regression Monte Carlo methods.
The algorithm maintains a continuous state-space and yields an integrated
approach to the filtering and control sub-problems. Our approach is entirely
simulation-based and therefore allows for a robust implementation with respect
to model specification. We carry out the error analysis of our scheme and
illustrate with several computational examples. An extension to discretely
observed stochastic volatility models is also considered.
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The GREAT NEWS is that this film is now AVAILABLE on DVD from http://treasureflix.com for all those who wish to own it as well as on video.This is good news as it is one of my favourite films!<br /><br />I watched this film for the first time in the 80s and it is compulsory holiday viewing. Living in the small market town called Tewkesbury, picturesque and with its own traditions,of reenactments,and traditions we are also a cosy tight community. We are now also faced with large housing developments which threaten to destroy the Community and you can see why I love this film First of all-and most important, there are LASHINGS of snow!!!! Then there is the lovely legend of the Christmas Tree and also the Christian denouement as all the community cough up the money to help the destitute farmer save his farm and stay in the community. The evil developers-only after the money are sent packing as the whole town pledge their money to help protect what they have , which is very special. I love the way the whole community send their message to Santa via the post office which is misunderstood by the hero . He and his daughter have a long journey to make after the death of the wife and mother of the family. (There is a likely candidate for this)-even a sleigh ride and most heartwarming of all is that the taxi driver, whose engine is broken is mysteriously given a new one on Christmas morning and no-one had engineered it! There is a lovely moment where Denver sings a lullaby and an exciting search. Great gentle film for everything Christmas is really about.
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Let p be a prime number and M a quadratic number field, M not equal to
Q(\sqrt{p}) if p is congruent to 1 modulo 4. We will prove that for any
positive integer d there exists a Galois extension F/Q with Galois group D_{2p}
and an elliptic curve E/Q such that F contains M and the p-Selmer group of E/F
has size at least p^d.
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