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The Activation-Relaxation Technique nouveau (ARTn) is an eigenvector
following method for systematic search of saddle points and transition pathways
on a given potential energy surface. We propose a variation of this method
aiming at improving the efficiency of the local convergence close to the saddle
point. We prove the convergence and robustness of this new algorithm. The
efficiency of the method is tested in the case of point defects in body
centered cubic iron.
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We present a simple and efficient method for refining maps or correspondences
by iterative upsampling in the spectral domain that can be implemented in a few
lines of code. Our main observation is that high quality maps can be obtained
even if the input correspondences are noisy or are encoded by a small number of
coefficients in a spectral basis. We show how this approach can be used in
conjunction with existing initialization techniques across a range of
application scenarios, including symmetry detection, map refinement across
complete shapes, non-rigid partial shape matching and function transfer. In
each application we demonstrate an improvement with respect to both the quality
of the results and the computational speed compared to the best competing
methods, with up to two orders of magnitude speed-up in some applications. We
also demonstrate that our method is both robust to noisy input and is scalable
with respect to shape complexity. Finally, we present a theoretical
justification for our approach, shedding light on structural properties of
functional maps.
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The formation of macroscopic reconnected magnetic structures (islands) have
been observed in advanced experiments on weakly collisional, well confined
plasmas while established theories of the drift-tearing modes, which depend
strongly on the electron temperature gradient and can describe the formation of
these structures, had predicted practically inaccessible excitation thresholds
for them in these regimes. The relevant theoretical dilemma is resolved as
mesoscopic modes that depend critically on the ratio of the transverse (to the
magnetic field) to the longitudinal thermal
conductivity${D^e_{\perp}/D^e_{\|}$, can produce large scale magnetic
reconnection. These modes are envisioned to emerge from a background, which can
be coherent, of collisionless microscopic reconnecting modes driven by the
electron temperature gradient, that create a sequence of adjacent strings of
magnetic islands and increase considerably the ratio ${D^e_{\perp}/D^e_{\|}$
over its classical value. The mesoscopic reconnecting mode is treated by a
singular perturbation analysis involving three asymptotic regions and the small
parameters ${(D^e_{\perp}/D^e_{\|})}^{1/4}$ and ${\epsilon}^{1/4}_{*}$, where
${\epsilon}_{*} {\equiv}D_m/D_A$, $D_m$ is the magnetic diffusion coefficient,
$D_A\sim\texttt{v}^{2}_{A}r_{Te}/(D_Bk_{\perp})$,
$r_{Te}\equiv(-d\texttt{ln}T_e/dr)^{-1}$, $k_{\perp}$ is the transverse mode
number, $\texttt{v}^{2}_{A}=B^{2}/(4\pi{nm}_{i})}$ and $D_B=cT_e/(eB)$.
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This is a truly heartwarming film not just about love, but about learning about yourself and your values in life. Though the story is a novel starting point for a film, it is easily recognized by most people. It combines a wicked sense of humor with a subtle assault on homophobia. Not to be missed.
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At-grade rail may be acceptable to the FTA as a viable option but it does not meet the terms of the 2012 Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA), which calls for “80 light metro fully automated (driverless) rail vehicles.” At-grade rail will require an operator. I also calculate the cost for conversion, using the Honolulu Transit Task Force’s own figures, to be $7.23 billion. Converting, instead, to American designed urban magnetic levitation (maglev) will meet ALL of the terms of the FFGA, keep the system elevated and automated, and enable completion within the available funding (through 2027) of $6.8 billion. Maglev also is the quietest and most environmentally sound rail system. Maglev 2000 technology will allow use of existing guideway by both acquired steel trains and maglev vehicles. It is time to move into the 21st Century.
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Now first let me say I love god awful movies. Especially horror films mainly. I watched hundreds of movies on Mystery Science Theater 3000 with no pain. But this is the absolute worst film on the planet!!! I had to turn it off it was so bad. It was unfunny and just plain unwatchable. Give me 3 back to back viewings of Manos The Hands of fate or Monster A-go-go over this any day. Avoid this film like the plauge!! Now excuse me while I go gouge out my eyes to cleanse them of the filth I had to watch to get a decent judgement for this film. Only one decent gag in the part I watched was the hitmen now are an extermination pair for Hitmen Exterminators. Even that wasn't to great of a gag.
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A hybrid Car-Parrinello QM/MM molecular dynamics simulation has been carried
out for the Watson-Crick base pair of 9-ethyl-8-phenyladenine and
1-cyclohexyluracil in deuterochloroform solution at room temperature. The
resulting trajectory is analyzed putting emphasis on the N-H$...$N Hydrogen
bond geometry. Using an empirical correlation between the $\NN$-distance and
the fundamental NH-stretching frequency, the time-dependence of this energy gap
along the trajectory is obtained. From the gap-correlation function we
determine the infrared absorption spectrum using lineshape theory in
combination with a multimode oscillator model. The obtained average transition
frequency and the width of the spectrum is in reasonable agreement with recent
experimental data.
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If you are looking for the feel-good hit of the summer, Dark Harvest 2 might just be your ticket. The production values of this movie are extremely high (looks as if it were filmed with a Sony Handicam and edited using iMovie), especially the sound effects -- they sound straight off of a "Spooky Halloween Sounds" CD! The scarecrow from the cover, although he doesn't appear in the movie and otherwise has no relevance, is terrifyingly realistic! From beginning to end, you'll watch as a man aimlessly searches for his daughters through a, pun intended, MAIZE! At the climactic ending of the movie you'll see, well...you'll have to watch for yourself.<br /><br />What I'm really trying to say here is, don't come within 1000 yards of this movie. I rented it because I thought it would be a campy sort of "Troll 2" funny, but it's not. I cried after I watched this movie, because I realized I had spent money on it (and I found the $4 I spent on renting it). I actually fell asleep for 20 minutes and still knew what was going on.
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A major bottleneck in nanoparticle measurements is the lack of comparability.
Comparability of measurement results is obtained by metrological traceability,
which is obtained by calibration. In the present work the calibration of
dimensional nanoparticle measurements is performed through the construction of
a calibration curve by comparison of measured reference standards to their
certified value. Subsequently, a general approach is proposed to perform a
measurement uncertainty evaluation for a measured quantity when no
comprehensive physical model is available, by statistically modelling
appropriately selected measurement data. The experimental data is collected so
that the influence of relevant parameters can be assessed by fitting a mixed
model to the data. Furthermore, this model allows to generate a probability
density function (PDF) for the concerned measured quantity. Applying this
methodology to dimensional nanoparticle measurements leads to a PDF for a
measured dimensional quantity of the nanoparticles. A PDF for the measurand,
which is the certified counterpart of that measured dimensional quantity, can
then be extracted by reporting a PDF for the measured dimensional quantity on
the calibration curve. The PDF for the measurand grasps its total measurement
uncertainty. Working in a fully Bayesian framework is natural due to the
instrinsic caracter of the quantity of interest: the distribution of size
rather than the size of one single particle. The developed methodology is
applied to the particular case where dimensional nanoparticle measurements are
performed using an atomic force microscope (AFM). The reference standards used
to build a calibration curve are nano-gratings with step heights covering the
application range of the calibration curve.
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A search for $C\!P$ violation in $\Lambda^0_b \to p K^-$ and $\Lambda^0_b \to
p \pi^-$ decays is presented using a sample of $pp$ collisions collected with
the LHCb detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0
fb$^{-1}$. The $C\!P$-violating asymmetries are measured to be
$A_{\mathrm{CP}}^{pK^-} = -0.020 \pm 0.013\pm 0.019$ and
$A_{\mathrm{CP}}^{p\pi^-} = -0.035 \pm 0.017 \pm 0.020 $, and their difference
$A_{\mathrm{CP}}^{pK^-}-A_{\mathrm{CP}}^{p\pi^-} = 0.014 \pm 0.022 \pm 0.010$,
where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic. These
are the most precise measurements of such asymmetries to date.
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We derive a numerical criterion for J-holomorphic curves in 4-dimensional
symplectic cobordisms to achieve transversality without any genericity
assumption. This generalizes results of Hofer-Lizan-Sikorav and
Ivashkovich-Shevchishin to allow punctured curves with boundary that generally
need not be somewhere injective or immersed. As an application, we combine this
with the intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves to prove that
certain geometrically natural moduli spaces are globally smooth orbifolds,
consisting generically of embedded curves, plus unbranched multiple covers that
form isolated orbifold singularities.
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LOL No it doesn't. Roughly half of it goes into the military and intelligence. Welfare is a small piece of the pie. Things conservatives like to dangle in the air like NPR are literally fractions of pennies on the dollar.
We have the largest military in the world in terms of expenditures by far.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
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We propose a theory based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics to describe the
mechanical behavior of an active polymer gel created by the inclusion of
molecular motors in its solvent. When activated, these motors attach to the
chains of the polymer network and shorten them creating a global contraction of
the gel, which mimics the active behavior of a cytoskeleton. The power
generated by these motors is obtained by ATP hydrolysis reaction, which
transduces chemical energy into mechanical work. The latter is described by an
increment of strain energy in the gel due to an increased stiffness. This
effect is described with an increment of the cross-link density in the polymer
network, which reduces its entropy. The theory then considers polymer network
swelling and species diffusion to describe the transient passive behavior of
the gel. We finally formulate the problem of uniaxial contraction of a slab of
gel and compare the results with experiments, showing good agreement.
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We study the dynamics of a simple random walk on subshifts defined by the
beta transformation and apply it to find concrete formulae for the Hausdorff
dimension of digit frequency sets for $\beta>1$ that solves
$\beta^{m+1}-\beta^m-1=0$ generalising the work of Fan and Zhu. We also give
examples of $\beta$ where this approach fails.
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When I received this item I was handed it from ...
When I received this item I was handed it from the mailman before it could even be put in the mailbox yet to my suprise nothing was in the envelope. It somehow didn't get mailed or was lost in the mail. I'm returning it as it came....empty. for a refund
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Give the money to a charity of your choice Mr. Parr. Otherwise, how about contests to clearly define the constitutional mandates "for the maximum use consistent with the public interest, and ".... for the maximum benefit of the people" regarding Natural Resources; or, " .... The Legislature...shall establish and maintain a system of public schools" regarding Health Education and Welfare; or, " ...a relatively integrated socio-economic area" regarding Legislative Apportionment.
The Alaska Constitution has many of these totally subjective mandates and adding an ill-defined right to a periodic state payment will only further muddy the waters.
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We propose a two fluid theory to model a dilute polymer solution assuming
that it consists of two phases, polymer and solvent, with two distinct
macroscopic velocities. The solvent phase velocity is governed by the
macroscopic Navier-Stokes equations with the addition of a force term
describing the interaction between the two phases. The polymer phase is
described on the mesoscopic level using a dumbbell model and its macroscopic
velocity is obtained through averaging. We start by writing down the full
phase-space distribution function for the dumbbells and then obtain the
inertialess limits for the Fokker-Planck equation and for the averaged friction
force acting between the phases from a rigorous asymptotic analysis. The
resulting equations are relevant to the modelling of strongly non-homogeneous
flows, while the standard kinetic model is recovered in the locally homogeneous
case.
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Some movies you just know you're going to love from the first few seconds. This is one of those movies. Tracing it's roots back to "Double Indemnity," and "The Postman Always Rings Twice" in the 40's - this was a great example of Modern Film Noir in the 90's. Nick Cage plays the "down on his luck" main character who gets entangled in a husband-wife murder plot - and his luck goes from bad to worse to even worse as he tries and tries to get away from the people, town, violence and threat of Red Rock West. Lots of twists and turns, great performances by Cage, Hopper and Walsh, an hypnotic slide-guitar musical backdrop, and seamless directing make this a real joy. Favorite Line: When Cage looks at the empty gas gauge in the get-away car, shakes his head and says: "F***in' story of my life."
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Spin-filtered time-of-flight photoelectron momentum microscopy reveals a
systematic variation of the band structure within a series of highly
spin-polarized ferromagnetic Heusler compounds with increasing number of
valence electrons (Co2MnGa, Co2MnSi and Co2Fe0.4Mn0.6Si). The positions of the
Fermi energy for minority and majority electrons deviate strongly from a simple
band-filling model. Photoexcitation at h$\nu$=6.05 eV (4th harmonic of a
Ti:sapphire laser) gives access to the spin-polarization texture P(EB,kx,ky) of
the bulk bands in a (kx,ky)-range with diameter 1.4{\AA}$^{-1}$ and energies
from the Fermi energy EF to a binding energy of EB=2 eV. The minority bands of
Co2MnGa cross the Fermi level, inhibiting half-metallicity; the crossing points
allow a precise adjustment of experimental and theoretical majority and
minority bands, requiring shifts in opposite directions. The top of the
minority band lies only 0.15 eV above EF, i.e. Co2MnGa is much closer to being
half-metallic than predicted by calculations. For half-metallic Co2MnSi and
Co2Fe0.4Mn0.6Si clear minority band gaps are visible, the topmost occupied
minority bands lie 0.5 and 0.35 eV below EF, in reasonable agreement with
theory; the exchange splitting is significantly smaller than in theory. The
comparison of all three compounds uncovers the surprising fact that with
increasing number of valence electrons the frontier majority bands (close to
EF) exhibit an increasing deficiency in filling, in comparison with the
prediction of a DFT calculation. The same trend is visible in comparison with a
DMFT calculation. For s-polarized excitation both half-metallic compounds
exhibit nearly complete positive spin polarization close to EF, consistent with
previous work in literature.
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In this paper, we suggest a new way to identify single bright sources of
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) on the sky, on top of background. We look
for doublets of events at the highest energies, E > 6 x 10^19 eV, and identify
low energy tails, which are deflected by the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF). For
the sources which are detected, we can recover their angular positions on the
sky within one degree from the real ones in 68% of cases. The reconstruction of
the deflection power of the regular GMF is strongly affected by the value of
the turbulent GMF. For typical values of 4 microG near the Earth, one can
reconstruct the deflection power with 25% precision in 68% of cases.
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In multiple correspondence analysis, both individuals (observations) and
categories can be represented in a biplot that jointly depicts the
relationships across categories or individuals, as well as the associations
between them. Additional information about the individuals can enhance
interpretation capacities, such as by including categorical variables for which
the interdependencies are not of immediate concern, but that facilitate the
interpretation of the plot with respect to relationships between individuals
and categories. This article proposes a new method for adding such information,
according to a multiple-set cluster correspondence analysis approach that
identifies clusters specific to classes, or subsets of the data that correspond
to the categories of the additional variables. The proposed method can
construct a biplot that depicts heterogeneous tendencies of individual members,
as well as their relationships with the original categorical variables. A
simulation study to investigate the performance of this proposed method and an
application to data regarding road accidents in the United Kingdom confirms the
viability of this approach.
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Broke after 4 uses
I bought this item because of the positive reviews and I feel like I was mislead. With normal use, after only my 3rd or 4th time using it, it broke (see photo). The bikini shaver is still functioning but it has become so dull that it yanks many hairs instead of cutting cleanly so I cannot use that any longer. What a waste of money.
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The level density and gamma-ray strength function of 45Ti have been
determined by use of the Oslo method. The particle-gamma coincidences from the
46Ti(p,d gamma)45Ti pick-up reaction with 32 MeV protons are utilized to obtain
gamma-ray spectra as function of excitation energy. The extracted level density
and strength function are compared with models, which are found to describe
these quantities satisfactorily. The data do not reveal any single-particle
energy gaps of the underlying doubly magic 40Ca core, probably due to the
strong quadruple deformation.
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A measured solenoid is a laminated space endowed with a tranversal measure
invariant by holonomy, as defined in arXiv:0910.2836. A measured solenoid
immersed in a smooth manifold produces a closed current (known as generalized
Ruelle-Sullivan current). Uniquely ergodic solenoids are those for which there
is a unique (up to scalars) transversal measure. By the results in
arXiv:0910.2913, for any smooth manifold, any real homology class is
represented by a uniquely ergodic solenoid. In this paper, we prove that the
currents associated to uniquely ergodic solenoids are dense in the space of
closed currents, therefore proving the abundance of such objects.
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The genius that is Stephen Sondheim was never more prominently displayed as it was in his 1979 "Musical Thriller" SWEENEY TODD, a Gothic, gory, grisly, yet delicious musical concoction about a demented barber who returns to London to exact revenge on the evil Judge who not only had him permanently exiled from London, but who is also raising his daughter as his own and plans to marry her to "shield her from all the evils of the world." The barber finds love,sympathy, and assistance from a lonely pie shop owner who has her own agenda where Todd is concerned. This musical rocked Broadway and won nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Actress in a Musical (Angela Lansbury). The production was filmed in its entirety in 1982 with Angela Lansbury recreating her Broadway role as Mrs. Lovett, the daffy pie shop owner who finds a practical use for the heads that Todd makes mincemeat out of. George Hearn, who replaced Len Cariou on Broadway, is electrifying in the title role, so much so that you have to wonder why he wasn't originally cast in the role. Lansbury and Hearn are riveting from start to finish and commit 100% to their ghoulish characters aided, by a first rate Sondaheim score, probably the closest thing Sondheim has written to an opera. Lansbury shines on "The Worst Pies in London" and "By the Sea". George Hearn stops the show with "Epiphany" and is also compelling during "Pretty Women", a duet he sings with Judge Turpin, the man he has sworn revenge on. Cris Groendahl is vocally impressive as Antony, the young sailer who rescues Todd and falls for his daughter Johanna. Betsy Joselyn is a little over the top as Johanna and really pushes vocally to the point that during "Green Funch and Linnet Bird" she actually drives her voice off-pitch during a couple of moments. The rest of the cast is first rate, especially Edmund Lyndeck as Judge Turpin who gets to perform "Johanna" in this production, which was cut from the original production and Ken Jennings as Toby, whose gorgeous tenor fills the auditorium on "Not While I'm Around." But it is breathtaking musical score by Stephen Sondheim and the mesmerizing performance by Lansbury an especially George Hearn that makes this night of Gothic musical theater an experience that stays with you long after curtain call. Not for all tastes, but if you're game and have strong heart, SWEENEY TODD is a joy for all music theater lovers and a must for fans of Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury.
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The chemodynamical evolution of spherical multi-component self-gravitating
models for isolated dwarf galaxies is studied. We compare their evolution with
and without feedback effects from star formation processes. We find that
initially cuspy dark matter profiles flatten with time as a result of star
formation, without any special tuning conditions. Thus the seemingly flattened
profiles found in many dwarfs do not contradict the cuspy profiles predicted by
cosmological models. We also calculate the chemical evolution of stars and gas,
to permit comparisons with observational data.
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The low-energy S-wave pi N and K N scatterings are studied by the K-matrix
approach within the meson exchange framework. The t-channel meson exchanges,
especially rho and sigma exchanges, are found to play a very important role in
these two processes. The t-channel rho exchange determines the isospin
structure of the scattering amplitudes, it gives attractive force in the low
isospin state but repulsive force in the high isospin state. The t-channel
sigma exchange gives a very large contribution in these two processes, while it
is negligible in meson-meson S-wave scatterings.
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The interlayer magnetoresistance of a quasi-two-dimensional layered metal
with a d-wave pseudogap is calculated semiclassically. An expression for the
interlayer resistivity as a function of the strength and direction of the
magnetic field, the magnitude of the pseudogap, temperature, and scattering
rate is obtained. We find that the pseudogap, by introducing low-energy nodal
quasiparticle contours, smooths the dependence on field direction in a manner
characteristic of its anisotropy. We thus propose that interlayer resistance
measurements under a strong field of variable orientation can be used to fully
characterize an anisotropic pseudogap. The general result is applied to the
case of a magnetic field parallel to the conducting layers using a model band
structure appropriate for overdoped T$\ell$2201.
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The physical interpretation of the spectral line polarization produced by the
joint action of the Hanle and Zeeman effects offers a unique opportunity to
obtain empirical information about hidden aspects of solar and stellar
magnetism. To this end, it is important to achieve a complete understanding of
the sensitivity of the emergent spectral line polarization to the presence of a
magnetic field. Here we present a detailed theoretical investigation on the
role of resonance scattering and magnetic fields on the polarization signals of
the Ba II D1 and D2 lines of the Fraunhofer spectrum, respectively at 4934 \AA\
and 4554 \AA. We adopt a three-level model of Ba II, and we take into account
the hyperfine structure that is shown by the $^{135}$Ba and $^{137}$Ba
isotopes. Despite of their relatively small abundance (18%), the contribution
coming from these two isotopes is indeed fundamental for the interpretation of
the polarization signals observed in these lines. We consider an optically thin
slab model, through which we can investigate in a rigorous way the essential
physical mechanisms involved (resonance polarization, Zeeman, Paschen-Back and
Hanle effects), avoiding complications due to radiative transfer effects. We
assume the slab to be illuminated from below by the photospheric solar
continuum radiation field, and we investigate the radiation scattered at 90
degrees, both in the absence and in the presence of magnetic fields,
deterministic and microturbulent. We show in particular the existence of a
differential magnetic sensitivity of the three-peak Q/I profile that is
observed in the D2 line in quiet regions close to the solar limb, which is of
great interest for magnetic field diagnostics.
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So I finally saw the film "My Left Foot" last night after years of being told by my mother how amazing it is... The central performance of Day-Lewis is indeed remarkable and amazing, but anyone with even minimal exposure to his other work should expect nothing less.<br /><br />The fatal misjudgement in my eyes was that in becoming obsessed with proving the normalcy of this man; the movie chose to show him as a complete and utter jerk. On the one hand I can see that this is a logical correlation; mankind always has the capacity to be objectionable, and disability shouldn't obscure that. I just wish that impartial onlookers wouldn't be so forgiving of aberrant behaviour and assume that circumstances automatically make it forgivable. They don't. Acting out is normal, and so yes, disabled people act out - but they don't do it because they're disabled; they do it because they're being unreasonable. A physical impairment doesn't afford you the right to throw a hissy fit in public, just because someone you love turns you down.<br /><br />There are certain things it is unwise to do whether you are disabled or able-bodied. Giving someone tacit permission to boot a football directly at your head for the sole purpose of fitting in is one of them. (Admittedly, I did once save a penalty from the school's star striker with my face, but I already belonged by then. It wasn't for acceptance.) Engaging in a bar brawl is another. Revelling in the fact that your father only extends companionship to you after you've proved yourself capable of metaphorically jumping through physical hoops takes masochism a step too far. All of these things are stupid, and suffering through them as a way to demonstrate your bravery doesn't make them any less foolhardy.<br /><br />So yes; just because you've overcome obstacles to achieve great things doesn't make you any less of a jerk... Being a good person takes priority; setting an inspiring example for the disabled should appear way down the list.
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We show that every complete intersection of Laurent polynomials in an
algebraic torus is isomorphic to a complete intersection of master functions in
the complement of a hyperplane arrangement, and vice versa. We call this
association Gale duality because the exponents of the monomials in the
polynomials annihilate the weights of the master functions. We use Gale duality
to give a Kouchnirenko theorem for the number of solutions to a system of
master functions and to compute some topological invariants of generic master
function complete intersections.
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we must be fair. The Rep.'s failed just as well as the Liberals dishing out the money till Donald used his EO power as it may be
just saying there's a SWAMP in Washington. They live in fear of losing their jobs everyday, how can one honestly work "for" the people li dat? Be a man of Conviction aka theDonald
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We introduce the operator fidelity and propose to use its susceptibility for
characterizing the sensitivity of quantum systems to perturbations. Two typical
models are addressed: one is the transverse Ising model exhibiting a quantum
phase transition, and the other is the one dimensional Heisenberg spin chain
with next-nearest-neighbor interactions, which has the degeneracy. It is
revealed that the operator fidelity susceptibility is a good indicator of
quantum criticality regardless of the system degeneracy.
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Well thought out, maybe not well executed
Was excited to use the travel case that came with it until I realized it didn’t even have a zipper. It was also pretty difficult to start the vacuum for the first time because there was a piece of plastic blocking me from using the on switch.
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Color comes off, the band pulls your arm hairs and the color isn’t the champagne tone I hoped for.
You’ll see scratches on this within a week or so. The band pulls arm hairs as it moves on your wrist so you’ll want to get it nice and tight when you remove the extra links. The links do come out easily with the tools included. Something that might be helpful to know for people who bought their watches used like I did... the bands detach from the watch without tools. To detach the old bands, push the button near the band on the back of the watch and slide the band to the side. The picture shows you how the color scratches off and the difference between the champagne toned rose gold and this color.
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A large amount of annotated training images is critical for training accurate
and robust deep network models but the collection of a large amount of
annotated training images is often time-consuming and costly. Image synthesis
alleviates this constraint by generating annotated training images
automatically by machines which has attracted increasing interest in the recent
deep learning research. We develop an innovative image synthesis technique that
composes annotated training images by realistically embedding foreground
objects of interest (OOI) into background images. The proposed technique
consists of two key components that in principle boost the usefulness of the
synthesized images in deep network training. The first is context-aware
semantic coherence which ensures that the OOI are placed around semantically
coherent regions within the background image. The second is harmonious
appearance adaptation which ensures that the embedded OOI are agreeable to the
surrounding background from both geometry alignment and appearance realism. The
proposed technique has been evaluated over two related but very different
computer vision challenges, namely, scene text detection and scene text
recognition. Experiments over a number of public datasets demonstrate the
effectiveness of our proposed image synthesis technique - the use of our
synthesized images in deep network training is capable of achieving similar or
even better scene text detection and scene text recognition performance as
compared with using real images.
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loved material color that I could not find else where ...
loved material color that I could not find else where in beige, Was very very small and took apart and altered, would not have spent the money, if it wasn't an important event that had to be matched exactly. Probably 5 sizes smaller , really
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Amazing headset for the few months...
...but after that, the audio begins to harshly crackle even at a lower volume. Reinstalling drivers and plugging in the dongle in a different USB port did not help. Also, the simulated 7.1 is terrible and sub channel is mumbling garbage. If this were a standard headset with 5.1 and better wireless detection, I'd rate it higher. If you want a decent headset for your money, go with this, but results may vary.
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So the argument is, because the background check system is weak and flawed, there should not be any attempts to fix it?? About the same number of Americans now die by firearms as die in traffic accidents. I guess we should scrap our traffic laws too as using the same logic, they appear to be flawed too. The second amendment states that a WELL REGULATED State militia has the right to bear arms. What part of the term "well regulated" do gun rights advocates not understand?
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The rapid development of topological photonics and acoustics calls for
accurate understanding of band topology in classical waves, which is not yet
achieved in many situations. Here, we present the Wilson-loop approach for
exact numerical calculation of the topological invariants for several
photonic/sonic crystals. We demonstrate that these topological photonic/sonic
crystals are topological crystalline insulators with fragile topology, a
feature which has been ignored in previous studies. We further discuss the
bulk-edge correspondence in these systems with emphasis on symmetry broken on
the edges.
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Given an argumentation framework AF, we introduce a mapping function that
constructs a disjunctive logic program P, such that the preferred extensions of
AF correspond to the stable models of P, after intersecting each stable model
with the relevant atoms. The given mapping function is of polynomial size
w.r.t. AF. In particular, we identify that there is a direct relationship
between the minimal models of a propositional formula and the preferred
extensions of an argumentation framework by working on representing the
defeated arguments. Then we show how to infer the preferred extensions of an
argumentation framework by using UNSAT algorithms and disjunctive stable model
solvers. The relevance of this result is that we define a direct relationship
between one of the most satisfactory argumentation semantics and one of the
most successful approach of non-monotonic reasoning i.e., logic programming
with the stable model semantics.
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Within the framework of generalized Papapetrou method, we derive the
effective equations of motion for a string with two particles attached to its
ends, along with appropriate boundary conditions. The equations of motion are
the usual Nambu-Goto-like equations, while boundary conditions turn out to be
equations of motion for the particles at the string ends. Various properties of
those equations are discussed, and a simple example is treated in detail,
exhibiting the properties of Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions and
giving a small correction term to the law of Regge trajectories due to the
nonzero particle mass.
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One scene demonstrates the mentality of "Terminator Woman" pretty well: Karen Sheperd and another woman are trying to escape from the villain's camp. Karen runs across an armed guard, who points his gun at her, but after a few seconds throws it away and challenges her to a fight. Karen kicks him in the balls, picks up the gun and runs away! Then again, when a film is directed by a martial artist and written / produced by another member of his family, you know you shouldn't expect too much. Karen Sheperd and Jerry Trimble do get some amusing banter going early on, and the film might have turned out better if it had focused more on their love-hate relationship. But after about 20 minutes they get separated, and the film slows to a crawl, and even with the occasional fight scene to liven things up, it lacks excitement. The finale has Trimble fighting Qissi inside a cave and Sheperd going womano-a-womano against the beautiful Ashley Hayden on a speedboat, but the fights are intercut in a way that breaks their flow and diminishes their value. On the positive side, kudos to the costuming department for giving Karen the chance to show spectacular cleavage throughout the film! (*1/2)
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Titanic has to be one of my all-time favorite movies. It has its problems (what movies don't) but still, it's enjoyable.<br /><br />When I stumble across someone who asks me why I like Titanic, I suppose my first reaction is "wait a minute, you don't?" I know so many people who don't like this movie, and I'm not saying I don't see why. "The love story is too cheesy" well, yes but isn't it enjoyable and moving? All right, the love story between Jack and Rose is very unrealistic, everyone knows that love like this doesn't actually exist. But this is a movie, doesn't everyone enjoy watching a beautiful story that lets us slip slightly into fantasy for a while? The next complaint, DiCaprio and Winslet are terrible actors. Well, OK, in this movie, I agree that they do not perform to their full potentials. However I think it's unfair to say that they are terrible actors. I personally think they are both very talented actors who unfortunately are very famous for a movie that they are not amazing in. But the roles they are given are simple, and the characters seem real enough that you can care about them quite a bit, but I agree with many people that they did not do as well as could have been expected.<br /><br />And finally, if one is going to complain that they don't like this movie because they hate romance, or because they hate history, or tragic movies, then I'm sorry but why on earth did they go and see a movie that is so clearly all of these things. It's like people who complain The Dark Knight is a bad movie because they hate action movies. Simply for being a movie, not because you dislike the genre, this IS a good movie.<br /><br />Well deserving of its Oscars, in particular, Best Cinematography, which I find to be the best I've ever seen in a movie save maybe the Lord of the Rings trilogy.<br /><br />I know some of the writing fails, such as the constant screaming of each other's names throughout the movie. The flashback portion of the story can be quite weak at times, but overall it's an amazing achievement in making the Titanic look so real, and the sinking feel so epic.<br /><br />I understand why a lot of people dislike this movie, but for the most part it boils down to them disliking the fundamental idea, such as it being a love story, rather than them thinking the movie in and of itself is poorly constructed.<br /><br />I can tell you that I have read more than five books about the Titanic, including memoirs form the day it happened, and this movie is extremely historically accurate save just a few faults. The only main ones I can find is that the piping should be threaded copper, not steel, and the iceberg looks fairly unrealistic as is the scene where they hit it.<br /><br />I give this movie 10/10, not because I like romance movies, but simply because it's an outstanding cinematic achievement, that leaves one feeling horrified by the realistic adaptation of events.
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Kernel methods are fundamental tools in machine learning that allow detection
of non-linear dependencies between data without explicitly constructing feature
vectors in high dimensional spaces. A major disadvantage of kernel methods is
their poor scalability: primitives such as kernel PCA or kernel ridge
regression generally take prohibitively large quadratic space and (at least)
quadratic time, as kernel matrices are usually dense. Some methods for speeding
up kernel linear algebra are known, but they all invariably take time
exponential in either the dimension of the input point set (e.g., fast
multipole methods suffer from the curse of dimensionality) or in the degree of
the kernel function.
Oblivious sketching has emerged as a powerful approach to speeding up
numerical linear algebra over the past decade, but our understanding of
oblivious sketching solutions for kernel matrices has remained quite limited,
suffering from the aforementioned exponential dependence on input parameters.
Our main contribution is a general method for applying sketching solutions
developed in numerical linear algebra over the past decade to a tensoring of
data points without forming the tensoring explicitly. This leads to the first
oblivious sketch for the polynomial kernel with a target dimension that is only
polynomially dependent on the degree of the kernel function, as well as the
first oblivious sketch for the Gaussian kernel on bounded datasets that does
not suffer from an exponential dependence on the dimensionality of input data
points.
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In the standard model, for the t --> W b decay mode, the relative phase is
0-degrees between the dominant A(0,-1/2) and A(-1, -1/2) helicity amplitudes.
However, in the case of an additional large t_R --> b_L chiral weak-transition
moment, there is instead a 180-degree relative phase and three theoretical
numerical puzzles. This phase can be measured at the Tevatron or LHC in
top-antitop pair production by use of W-boson longitudinal-transverse
interference in beam-referenced stage-two spin-correlation functions. Indeed,
this is a new type of weak-coupling for it is directly associated with E_W, the
W-boson energy in the top quark rest frame, instead of with a canonical
effective mass scale. For most 2 --> 2 reactions, the simple off-shell
continuation of this additional coupling is found to have good high energy
properties, i.e. it does not destroy 1-loop unitarity of the SM. In a subset of
processes, additional third-generation couplings are required.
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See where some amongst the hockey intelligentsia who really should know better are on the Frederik Andersein for President bandwagon--just don't count that whiff in OT of game 1 that could end up costing Your Leafs the series.
Yeah, he's been pretty good, but he's not responsible for Your Leafs being ahead in the series. If anything, it's his fault the team isn't up 3-0.
Back in the 2013 playoffs, a certain other Your Leafs goalie played likewise pretty good, .923 save % over a 7-gamer, flubbed a shot he shoulda had too, if memory serves.
Andersen's #s this season very very similar to what that other goalie posted.
Yet that other goalie, dirty rotten scoundrel, was made the scapegoat.
But he wasn't the golden boy, was he? Nobody's was showering him with red rose petals like the newest guy, our guy.
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TORONTO -- Hospitals across the Greater Toronto Area welcomed the first babies of 2020 early Wednesday morning.
A bouncing baby boy was born at exactly the stroke of midnight at Humber River Hospital in Toronto. Weighing a healthy 8.3 pounds, Amiir Deeq Mohammed could be seen Wednesday afternoon in his mother’s arms, swaddled in a knit blue blanket.
“I’m very happy,” the boy’s father said. “I am excited to have this wonderful, special baby boy.”
Deeq Mohammed Farah said that his son was due a couple of weeks ago, so the family was not expecting a new year’s baby.
“When the baby came, at the right time, the attendants, nurses and doctors, they explained it really well. They said you hit the new year,” Farah said. “It was a great surprise,”
“It’s a miracle boy.”
Trillium Health Partners, a hospital system that serves certain areas of the GTA, said that their first baby of the year was delivered just 50 seconds after midnight on New Year’s Day at Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga.
The little boy, named Aryan, weighed in at about eight pounds.
Speaking with CP24 on Wednesday morning, the baby’s mother said that, at the time, she had no idea Aryan was the first child born in Mississauga this year.
“When the baby was delivered, everyone was so excited,” Anu Walia said. “We couldn’t be happier.”
“Fifty seconds into the new year and we got this little precious gift,” Simran Walia said while holding his newborn son in his arms.
Anu Walia’s delivery date was scheduled for Jan. 13 and she said that her family was already preparing for a 2020 baby—but those plans were put on hold when she went into labour early.
“My maternity photoshoot, my baby shower, all the decorations, everything was planned around 2020, so when the labour hit yesterday, I was like, ‘oh my gosh all that is going to go to waste now,’” Anu Walia said. “But the baby actually helped us out and came after the new year.”
Other hospitals ring in New Year with newborns
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto welcomed its first bundle of joy at 12:13 a.m. and Lakeridge Health in Oshawa announced their first baby was born at 12:34 a.m.
At North York General Hospital, Kert Lin was born at 5:51 a.m.
"Congrats to the family and happy birthday to all our New Years babies," the hospital said.
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We derive the L\'evy-Khintchine representation of the Wiener-Hopf factors for
the Normal Inverse Gaussian (NIG) process as well as a representation which is
similar to the moment generating function (MGF) of a generalized gamma
convolution (GGC). We show, via this representation, that for some parameters
the Wiener-Hopf factors are, in fact, the MGFs of GGCs. Further, we develop two
seperate methods of approximating the Wiener-Hopf factors, both based on Pad\'e
approximations of their Taylor series expansions; we show how the latter may be
calculated exactly to any order. The first approximation yields the MGF of a
finite gamma convolution, the second that of a finite mixture of exponentials.
Both provide excellent approximations as we demonstrate with numerical
experiments and by considering applications to the ultimate ruin problem and to
the pricing of perpetual options.
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Does what it is suppose to do, but there are problems
I actually do like this product. I got this to filter out the sun and shade my baby. It looks good and does its purpose, all the while I am still able to see through my rear view mirror. However, it should be noted, that this does not go down as easy as shown in the video. Most times one side gets stuck on the clip in the headliner and you have to hold the clip so that the shade can come down. Also, I'm not sure if the tab on mine was defective or cheap, but it tore right off from the shade. This surprised me because unless its raining or I'm driving at night I leave it alone. I may have put it up and down a total of 10 to 15 times at the most before it broke. Its more of a pain now to bring up, but I never really used the tab to put it down as the shade would always get stuck in a clip. Pros: -Looks great -Easy to install -Blocks the sun, but you can still see Cons: -Durability -difficulty to put the shade down (you will need to use 2 hands, and in my case I have to use 2 hands now to bring it up as well since the tab broke) I'm not exactly sure I would recommend this product. I guess I would ask the buyer if they really cared how easy it was to put up and down and if they cared if they had to use 2 hands to do so. If that doesn't bother you then this would be a good product.
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Broken symmetry is the essence of exotic properties in condensed matters.
Tungsten ditelluride, WTe$_2$, exceptionally takes a non-centrosymmetric
crystal structure in the family of transition metal dichalcogenides, and
exhibits novel properties$^{1-4}$, such as the nonsaturating
magnetoresistance$^1$ and ferroelectric-like behavior$^4$. Herein, using the
first-principles calculation, we show that unique layer stacking in WTe$_2$
generates surface dipoles with different strengths on the top and bottom
surfaces in few-layer WTe$_2$. This leads to a layer-dependence for
electron/hole carrier ratio and the carrier compensation responsible for the
unusual magnetoresistance. The surface dipoles are tunable and switchable using
the interlayer shear displacement. This could explain the ferroelectric-like
behavior recently observed in atomically thin WTe$_2$ films$^4$. In addition,
we reveal that exfoliation of the surface layer flips the out-of-plane spin
textures. The presented results will aid in the deeper understanding,
manipulation, and further exploration of the physical properties of WTe$_2$ and
related atom-layered materials, for applications in electronics and spintronic
devices.
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The Daily Mail's Christopher Tookey had some choice things to say about this film, among them "watch it all the way through its 82 miserable minutes, and I guarantee you'll be shaking your head and asking: 'Have we really descended to this?' Yes, we have, for if ever a movie testified to the utter cynicism, tastelessness and moral corruption of those who commission and make British movies, it is this abomination". Tookey continues "aimed squarely at oafs with unwashed underwear, filthy minds and knuckles that graze the pavement when they walk, this sex comedy is so sordid, unfunny and malodorous that it is enough to put you off sex, and indeed films, for life", before concluding "Sex Lives of the Potato Men is not merely a truly vile film, it is symptomatic of a new national culture of instant self-gratification, yobbishness and sadism that is now being celebrated on screen". Normally I don't listen too closely to the critics, but in this case, Tookey was bang on the money. This film goes beyond bad, indeed, it goes beyond being merely unfunny and enters some bizarre parallel universe where every painful minute drags on for an hour and where the definition of 'hilarious' seems to be 'saying tw*t in a Brummie accent'. It's depressing to anyone with half a brain who grew up with the Goodies, Monty Python, Spitting Image, Not the Nine O'Clock News and Fawlty Towers.<br /><br />Ideally, Sex Lives Of the Potato Men would have quietly vanished after its cinema release and joined the equally dire Vix spin-off The Fat Slags (2004) and the ill-starred All Saints vehicle Honest (2000) in the celluloid graveyard, but as it seems destined for endless late night schedule-filling screenings and misguided "best film EVER!" raves from people who should know better, so I must apologise in advance for trying to right a wrong that the British film industry, in all its wisdom, has inflicted onto an undeserving world. Yes, I really am sorry to bring this one back from the celluloid dead, but I actually remember thinking "It can't be as bad as the critics said it was"...but, as God is my witness, it was WORSE.<br /><br />Acting - dire from start to finish, special mention to Mackenzie 'Albert Steptoe's legs on a young man's body' Crook.<br /><br />Soundtrack - cut and paste 'ladrock', mostly ska-based lager-lout-friendly pub jukebox piffle which brought back horrible memories of seeing those chirpy cockernee doin' the Lambeth Walk to a watered-down imitation of the Specials knob-shiners Madness on every single comedy / variety programme in the eighties...and 'Ace Of Spades' by Motorhead as the title music? What the hell...trying to evoke memories of one of the most genuinely exciting scenes ever offered by The Young Ones, indeed, ever offered by ANY comedy show?! Cheap shot, way below the belt.<br /><br />Script - written by a 12 year old who's just read every single back issue of Smut and Zit in one long Red Bull-fuelled session...SURELY? C'mon, no real, proper, worldly, grown-up person could possibly set this kind of retarded hogwash on paper? And Mark Gatiss was in it...Mark Gatiss...the least annoying member of the League of Gentlemen and Goodies fan taking part in such a towering heap of fly-blown cinematic excrement? 'One of the brightest British comedy stars'? Not any more he's not! On the subject of League Of Gentlemen, somebody give me a pair of lead-lined diver's boots and Steve 'face like a collapsed rectum' Pemberton and a long weekend in a soundproofed room before I die...PLEASE...<br /><br />Cinema, British or otherwise, just doesn't come much worse than this. Kent Bateman's The Headless Eyes (1971) is a new-wave masterpiece compared to this repugnant smut.
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Let $\phi_c(G)$ be the circular flow number of a bridgeless graph $G$. In
[Edge-colorings and circular flow numbers of regular graphs, J. Graph Theory 79
(2015) 1-7] it was proved that, for every $t \geq 1$, $G$ is a bridgeless
$(2t+1)$-regular graph with $\phi_c(G) \in \{2+\frac{1}{t}, 2 +
\frac{2}{2t-1}\}$ if and only if $G$ has a perfect matching $M$ such that $G-M$
is bipartite. This implies that $G$ is a class 1 graph. For $t=1$, all graphs
with circular flow number bigger than 4 are class 2 graphs. We show for all $t
\geq 1$, that $2 + \frac{2}{2t-1} = \inf \{ \phi_c(G)\colon G \text{ is a }
(2t+1) \text{-regular class } 2 \text{ graph}\}$. This was conjectured to be
true in [Edge-colorings and circular flow numbers of regular graphs, J. Graph
Theory 79 (2015) 1-7]. Moreover we prove that $\inf\{ \phi_c(G)\colon G $ is a
$ (2t+1)$-regular class $1$ graph with no perfect matching whose removal leaves
a bipartite graph$ \} = 2 + \frac{2}{2t-1}$. We further disprove the conjecture
that every $(2t+1)$-regular class $1$ graph has circular flow number at most
$2+\frac{2}{t}$.
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We report on the structure, magnetization, magnetic anisotropy, and domain
morphology of ultrathin yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/Pt films with thickness
ranging from 3 to 90 nm. We find that the saturation magnetization is close to
the bulk value in the thickest films and decreases towards low thickness with a
strong reduction below 10 nm. We characterize the magnetic anisotropy by
measuring the transverse spin Hall magnetoresistance as a function of applied
field. Our results reveal strong easy plane anisotropy fields of the order of
50-100 mT, which add to the demagnetizing field, as well as weaker in-plane
uniaxial anisotropy ranging from 10 to 100 $\mu$T. The in-plane easy axis
direction changes with thickness, but presents also significant fluctuations
among samples with the same thickness grown on the same substrate. X-ray
photoelectron emission microscopy reveals the formation of zigzag magnetic
domains in YIG films thicker than 10 nm, which have dimensions larger than
several 100 $\mu$m and are separated by achiral N\'{e}el-type domain walls.
Smaller domains characterized by interspersed elongated features are found in
YIG films thinner than 10 nm.
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Optical double-quantum two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy (2DCS) was
implemented to probe interatomic dipole-dipole interactions in both potassium
and rubidium atomic vapors. The dipole-dipole interaction was detected at
densities of $4.81 \times 10^8$ cm$^{-3}$ and $8.40 \times 10^9$ cm$^{-3}$ for
potassium and rubidium, respectively, corresponding to a mean interatomic
separation of 15.8 $\mu$m or $3.0\times 10^5a_0$ for potassium and 6.1 $\mu$m
or $1.2\times 10^5a_0$ for rubidium, where $a_0$ is the Bohr radius. We report
the lowest atomic density at which dipole-dipole interactions are detected. The
experimental results confirm the long range nature of the dipole-dipole
interaction which is critical for understanding many-body physics in
atoms/molecules. The long range interaction also has implications in atom-based
applications involving many-body interactions. Additionally, we demonstrated
that double-quantum 2DCS is sufficiently sensitive to probe dipole-dipole
interaction at densities that can be achieved with cold atom in a
magneto-optical trap, paving the way for double-quantum 2DCS studies of cold
atoms and molecules. The method can also open a new avenue to study long-range
interactions in solid states systems such as quantum dots and color centers in
diamonds.
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Icosahedral shells undergo a buckling transition as the ratio of Young's
modulus to bending stiffness increases. Strong bending stiffness favors smooth,
nearly spherical shapes, while weak bending stiffness leads to a sharply
faceted icosahedral shape. Based on the phonon spectrum of a simplified
mass-and-spring model of the shell, we interpret the transition from smooth to
faceted as a soft-mode transition. In contrast to the case of a disclinated
planar network where the transition is sharply defined, the mean curvature of
the sphere smooths the transitition. We define elastic susceptibilities as the
response to forces applied at vertices, edges and faces of an icosahedron. At
the soft-mode transition the vertex susceptibility is the largest, but as the
shell becomes more faceted the edge and face susceptibilities greatly exceed
the vertex susceptibility. Limiting behaviors of the susceptibilities are
analyzed and related to the ridge-scaling behavior of elastic sheets. Our
results apply to virus capsids, liposomes with crystalline order and other
shell-like structures with icosahedral symmetry.
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Galactic cosmic rays are the high-energy particles that stream into our solar
system from distant corners of our Galaxy and some low energy particles are
from the Sun which are associated with solar flares. The Earth atmosphere
serves as an ideal detector for the high energy cosmic rays which interact with
the air molecule nuclei causing propagation of extensive air showers. In recent
years, there are growing interests in the applications of the cosmic ray
measurements which range from the space/earth weather monitoring, homeland
security based on the cosmic ray muon tomography, radiation effects on health
via air travel, etc. A simulation program (based on the GEANT4 software package
developed at CERN) has been developed at Georgia State University for studying
the cosmic ray showers in atmosphere. The results of this simulation study will
provide unprecedented knowledge of the geo-position-dependent cosmic ray shower
profiles and significantly enhance the applicability of the cosmic ray
applications. In the paper, we present the computational challenges and the
opportunities for carrying out the cosmic ray shower simulations at the global
scale using various computing resources including XSEDE.
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In earlier work the Kauffman bracket polynomial was extended to an invariant
of marked graphs, i.e., looped graphs whose vertices have been partitioned into
two classes (marked and not marked). The marked-graph bracket polynomial is
readily modified to handle graphs with weighted vertices. We present formulas
that simplify the computation of this weighted bracket for graphs that contain
twin vertices or are constructed using graph composition, and we show that
graph composition corresponds to the construction of a link diagram from
tangles.
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Who in their right mind plays a lyrical song at the same time they are portraying an emotional scene between two people? When Flipper confronts his wronged wife in the dressing room, the song sung with lyrical content is as loud as the dialog, so one can hear neither, diluting any emotional impact the scene may have had. The scenes of Annabella getting beaten by her father with his fists, a lamp and then a belt was so cartoonish as to be absurd. This entire movie is a cartoon, the rampant prejudice against whites is literally astounding. The discussion by the black women after flipper's wife finds out he has cheated on her with a white woman - as if it were a discussion by an oxford debating team, is ridiculous. The rampant racism might be possible to endure, but the soundtrack and the sound mixing during this 'movie' is too much. It was a technically poorly made movie. There is no understanding of the basic craft of movie making, the sound track, the editing and the desperate attempt of great actors trying to keep this movie afloat. I actually felt sorry for Anthony Quinn, wondering why he had accepted a role in this flick - his appearance in this is painful. This is the first movie I have seen by this director and it will be my last.
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When American author Edgar Allan Poe visits London, he is approached by British journalist Alan Foster, who becomes the target of a peculiar wager. Not believing Poe's assertion that all of his macabre stories have been based on actual experience, Foster accepts a bet from Poe and his friend Sir Thomas Blackwood that he cannot spend an entire night in the Blackwood's haunted castle. Once installed in the abandoned castle, Foster discovers that he is not alone, as he is approached by various beautiful women and handsome men, and a doctor of metaphysics - who explains that they are all lost souls damned to replay the stories of their demises on the anniversary of their deaths! The first time I watched this glorious bit of classic horror, I was mesmerized the entire time. I found the movie genuinely creepy and at the same time sorrowful. Babs Steele is undeniably beautiful. The music score makes the atmosphere twice as terror inducing. The topless scene threw me for a loop, as I was not expecting it. It looks as Synapse did a great job with picture enhancement, because this movie looks damn fine for its age, and it's the Uncut International version, to boot. This is the movie responsible for me starting a Babs Steele and Klaus Kinski collection.
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A lawsuit that accused actor Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting a massage therapist in 2016 ended after the accuser’s estate dropped the case, court documents filed Monday show.
The filing, in Federal District Court in California, said the lawsuit against Spacey, who has faced a series of sexual misconduct allegations, had been voluntarily dismissed with prejudice — meaning it cannot be brought back before the court.
“Mr. Spacey paid no money to the plaintiff,” Jennifer L. Keller, a lawyer for Spacey, said in an email Tuesday night. “The plaintiff wished to dismiss the case and we stipulated to the dismissal to speed things up. What you see in the stipulation is all there is to see. Any reports to the contrary are false.”
(The Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday that a “settlement” had prompted the conclusion of the case.)
A lawyer for the estate of the massage therapist, a Los Angeles County man identified in the lawsuit as John Doe, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday evening.
The massage therapist sued Spacey, 60, last January. He accused Spacey of grabbing his hand and putting it on the actor’s genitals during a massage at a home in Malibu, Calif., that had been rented by Spacey’s production company. The lawsuit claimed that Spacey groped and tried to kiss the massage therapist before offering him oral sex.
But the massage therapist died in September at 62, leaving his estate 90 days to take over as the plaintiff in the lawsuit. In November, a California Superior Court judge signed an order appointing the man’s son as the special administrator of his estate.
The case’s conclusion came less than a week after Ari Behn, a Scandinavian writer who had accused Spacey of groping him, died by suicide, according to the Norwegian news service NTB.
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Spacey’s acting career, which includes a pair of Oscars, all but vanished after several people accused him of sexual misconduct.
Massachusetts prosecutors dropped a sexual assault charge against Spacey in July after a young man who had accused the actor of fondling him at a Nantucket restaurant three years earlier, when he was 18, refused to testify about whether he had deleted cellphone evidence. The accuser also withdrew a lawsuit against Spacey six days after filing it.
In another case, Spacey apologized for what he said “would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behaviour” after actor Anthony Rapp made an accusation about his sexual conduct with him 31 years ago, when Rapp was 14.
Director Ridley Scott replaced Spacey with Christopher Plummer in “All the Money in the World,” about the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and his grandfather’s refusal to pay a $17-million (U.S.) ransom. Scott reshot 22 scenes that Spacey had appeared in with Plummer.
Netflix halted production on “House of Cards” — the series later resumed without Spacey — and abandoned “Gore,” a completed film starring Spacey as Gore Vidal.
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Spoilers ahead.<br /><br />2001: a Space Odyssey is without a doubt the most challenging and successful film by the late Stanley Kubrick. This is not a film that you watch in order to be entertained or amused. Instead it provides you with a banquet of food for thought, images that linger in the mind's eye long after the movie itself is over. It is a film that you could meditate on.<br /><br /> The film intentionally offers us more questions then it can answer, it is made to puzzle and mystify, but leaves the viewer nevertheless with a sense of awe and reverence (that is allowing that he has engaged himself in the process of viewing it, enjoyment of this film requires some effort on the viewers part) the questions that it does pose are large and ominous, concerning the genesis and destiny of the human race, it's ultimate place in the cosmic design and the existence or lack of some creative intelligence behind the structure of the universe itself.<br /><br /> The first of the films Four Quartets gives us a distinct view of the species past. We see our distant ancestors, half-ape half human, in a state of near starvation. The climate has destroyed most of the plant life and the vegetarian beasts are near starvation. An extra-terestial object, a perfectly smooth and angular black monolith, appears and the animals are simultaneously inspired by it's presence to tool-making and violence. They are transformed overnight into carnevores, and when two tribes encounter each other near a water source, the tribe that has developed tool making capacity, as well as beligerence, soundly destroys the neighboring tribe. The new chief of the winning tribe, empowered by the first vestiges of technology triumphantly throws the bone that he used as a weapon in the air. We see the bone transformed into a floating satellite, which contains nuclear weapons. We soon learn that the world is torn apart by nuclear paranoia. The characteristics inspired by the monument's appearance that once helped us to survive now threaten our very existence.<br /><br /> Once again humanity is in crisis, once again the unearthly presence represented by the black monolith will step in to aid humanity in the next step in it's development. On an exploration of the Moon a monolith identical to the earlier one we have seen is discovered. The governments of the world, normally mortal enemies, have come together in secret to discuss the implications. A mission is arranged. the monument has been engaged in some kind of radio communication with Jupiter. A few men will travel to the destination of the transmission. Most of them will, for most of the time, be kept in a state of suspended animation. The pilot of the spacecraft will be HAL a super computer who has been programmed to imitate all of the traits of human beings.<br /><br /> The film has many outstanding sequences. As usual for Kubrick the use of classical music is outstanding. Most memorable are "Blue Danube" and "Also Spake Zarathustra" (particularly appropriate given the film's theme of transcending ordinary consciousness.) The cinematography is particularly excellent as well, after a single viewing the film's final 30 minutes will haunt you for the rest of your life.<br /><br /> The character of HAL is the most important from the view of the film's central thesis. In imitating all the characteristics of human beings he comes to have their negative traits as well. The paranoia he develops which almost leads to the mission' s ruin is an exact mirror of the paranoia that has allowed the political situation back on earth to reach a point of desperate crisis. The film suggests that these are the traits that we must leave behind if we are to proceed to the next phase in our evolution.<br /><br /> The architecture of the film is also meaningful. The designs of many of the spacecraft are intended to suggest reproductive organs and the process of birth and rebirth, the central motif of the movie. The ending of 2001 is the most spectacular and triumphant ever filmed.<br /><br /> This movie takes a view of life similar to that presented in the poetry of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce's novel Finnegan's Wake. It posits a pattern to history and human evolution that is cyclic, yet progressive, repeating the same events at large intervals, yet with the human race as developing according to the will of a being with a larger purpose in mind. Though we never learn what this purpose is, the film assures us that the human race is not meant for failure, it's destiny is grand beyond it's capacity to imagine. It continues to amaze me that in spite of this film many people continue to regard Kubrick as a misanthrope.<br /><br /> This is a religious film, not in the conventional sense of adhering to any specific creed, but because of it's invocation of wonder at the vast panorama of existence and it's involvement with the deepest and most vital questions of purpose and truth. <br /><br /> In the hands of any other director, this would all be perhaps a little too much. Hollywood's view of life is too puny, usually to encompass the grandeur and intensity of a vision such as this one. But Kubrick was a visionary, he directs with utter confidence, not only that he can handle material of this kind, but that he is the only one to do it. The process of making this film used all of his creative resources. The writing partnership with Arthur C Clarke is the most fruitful in cinematic history. Kubrick had to invent some of the special effects that were used in the movie's astounding climax. The resources to bring his vision to life did not exist at the time, so he brought them into existence.<br /><br /> 2001 is a absolutely unique movie experience. Those who miss out on it do so at the detriment of their own intellectual and imaginative capacities.
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The European Beech is the dominant climax tree in most regions of Central Europe and valued for its ecological versatility and hardwood timber. Even though a draft genome has been published recently, higher resolution is required for studying aspects of genome architecture and recombination. Here we present a chromosome-level assembly of the more than 300 year-old reference individual, Bhaga, from the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park (Germany). Its nuclear genome of 541 Mb was resolved into 12 chromosomes varying in length between 28 Mb and 73 Mb. Multiple nuclear insertions of parts of the chloroplast genome were observed, with one region on chromosome 11 spanning more than 2 Mb of the genome in which fragments up to 54,784 bp long and covering the whole chloroplast genome were inserted randomly. Unlike in Arabidopsis thaliana, ribosomal cistrons are present in Fagus sylvatica only in four major regions, in line with FISH studies. On most assembled chromosomes, telomeric repeats were found at both ends, while centromeric repeats were found to be scattered throughout the genome apart from their main occurrence per chromosome. The genome- wide distribution of SNPs was evaluated using a second individual from Jamy Nature Reserve (Poland). SNPs, repeat elements and duplicated genes were unevenly distributed in the genomes, with one major anomaly on chromosome 4. The genome presented here adds to the available highly resolved plant genomes and we hope it will serve as a valuable basis for future research on genome architecture and for understanding the past and future of European Beech populations in a changing climate.
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Attackers can access sensitive information of programs by exploiting the
side-effects of speculatively-executed instructions using Spectre attacks. To
mitigate theses attacks, popular compilers deployed a wide range of
countermeasures. The security of these countermeasures, however, has not been
ascertained: while some of them are believed to be secure, others are known to
be insecure and result in vulnerable programs. To reason about the security
guarantees of these compiler-inserted countermeasures, this paper presents a
framework comprising several secure compilation criteria characterizing when
compilers produce code resistant against Spectre attacks. With this framework,
we perform a comprehensive security analysis of compiler-level countermeasures
against Spectre attacks implemented in major compilers. This work provides
sound foundations to formally reason about the security of compiler-level
countermeasures against Spectre attacks as well as the first proofs of security
and insecurity of said countermeasures.
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I don't know, but the movie was just too similar to other movies I've seen. The Ring, The Eye, Dark Water, they're all the same to me. Don't get me wrong, it's beautifully made, lovely camera work, great graphics, but that story is just too.. too common. In the end, it's the score that makes the suspense, you know: the screams, rumbles. The characters in the movie are also not reacting very naturally, moving very slowly, surprised by anything they see. I know some people that love this kind of film, and if you do, being a well made movie, I guess it doesn't hurt to watch it. But if you've seen the movie I've mentioned above and didn't like them, then I'd suggest you don't bother.
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We study the statistics of the largest eigenvalues of real symmetric and
sample covariance matrices when the entries are heavy tailed. Extending the
result obtained by Soshnikov in \cite{Sos1}, we prove that, in the absence of
the fourth moment, the top eigenvalues behave, in the limit, as the largest
entries of the matrix.
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In standard (mathematical) billiards a point particle moves uniformly in a
billiard table with elastic reflections off the boundary. We show that in
transition from mathematical billiards to physical billiards, where a finite
size hard sphere moves at the same billiard table, virtually anything may
happen. Namely a non-chaotic billiard may become chaotic and vice versa.
Moreover, both these transitions may occur softly, i.e. for any (arbitrarily
small) positive value of the radius of a physical particle, as well, as by a
"hard" transition when radius of the physical particle must exceed some
critical strictly positive value. Such transitions may change a phase portrait
of a mathematical billiard locally as well as completely (globally). These
results are somewhat unexpected because for all standard examples of billiards
their dynamics remains absolutely the same after transition from a point
particle to a finite size ("physical") particle. Moreover we show that a
character of dynamics may change several times when the size of particle is
increasing.
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It has previously been proposed that annihilating dark matter particles with
MeV-scale masses could be responsible for the flux of 511 keV photons observed
from the region of the Galactic Bulge. The conventional wisdom, however, is
that it is very challenging to construct a viable particle physics model
containing MeV dark matter. In this letter, we challenge this conclusion by
describing a simple and natural supersymmetric model in which the lightest
supersymmetric particle naturally has a MeV-scale mass and the other
phenomenological properties required to generate the 511 keV emission. In
particular, the small ($\sim$ $10^{-5}$) effective couplings between dark
matter and the Standard Model fermions required in this scenario naturally lead
to radiative corrections that generate MeV-scale masses for both the dark
matter candidate and the mediator particle.
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Let (M,w) be a compact symplectic 2n-manifold, and g a Riemannian metric on M
compatible with w. For instance, g could be Kahler, with Kahler form w.
Consider compact Lagrangian submanifolds L of M. We call L Hamiltonian
stationary, or H-minimal, if it is a critical point of the volume functional
under Hamiltonian deformations. It is called Hamiltonian stable if in addition
the second variation of volume under Hamiltonian deformations is nonnegative.
Our main result is that if L is a compact, Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian
in C^n satisfying the extra condition of being Hamiltonian rigid, then for any
M,w,g as above there exist compact Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangians L' in M
contained in a small ball about some p in M and locally modelled on tL for
small t>0, identifying M near p with C^n near 0. If L is Hamiltonian stable, we
can take L' to be Hamiltonian stable.
Applying this to known examples L in C^n shows that there exist families of
Hamiltonian stable, Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangians diffeomorphic to T^n,
and to (S^1 x S^{n-1})/{1,-1}, and with other topologies, in every compact
symplectic 2n-manifold (M,w) with compatible metric g.
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The second survey of the molecular clouds in 12CO (J = 1-0) was carried out
in the Large Magellanic Cloud by NANTEN. The sensitivity of this survey is
twice as high as that of the previous NANTEN survey, leading to a detection of
molecular clouds with M_CO > 2 x 10^4 M_sun. We identified 272 molecular
clouds, 230 of which are detected at three or more observed positions. We
derived the physical properties, such as size, line width, virial mass, of the
164 GMCs which have an extent more than the beam size of NANTEN in both the
major and minor axes. The CO luminosity and virial mass of the clouds show a
good correlation of M_VIR propto L_CO^{1.1 +- 0.1} with a Spearman rank
correlation of 0.8 suggesting that the clouds are in nearly virial equilibrium.
Assuming the clouds are in virial equilibrium, we derived an X_CO-factor to be
~ 7 x 10^20 cm^-2 (K km s^-1)^-1. The mass spectrum of the clouds is fitted
well by a power law of N_cloud(>M_CO) proportional to M_CO^{-0.75 +- 0.06}
above the completeness limit of 5 x 10^4 M_sun. The slope of the mass spectrum
becomes steeper if we fit only the massive clouds; e.g., N_cloud (>M_CO) is
proportional to M_CO^{-1.2 +- 0.2} for M_CO > 3 x 10^5 M_sun.
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Can't get rid of bubbles
I have used screen protectors for my watch, iPhone and iPad so I have had plenty of experience putting these things on my devices. I CANNOT get the bubbles out of these and once you take the protector off the watch and try to reply it gets worse and worse. Now one of them is worthless and I am on the second attempt. Maybe that's why they come in packs of three?!?
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No "force" involved. The rules may be one thing, but being that s/he knew that there was CLEARLY an unfair advantage due to the hormone treatments, s/he should have done the "ethical" thing and sat out of the matches. We all make choices in life. Electing to change gender has consequences that come with it.
Just because the "rules" state that s/he must compete in a particular group, if s/he knows that the match up is unfair, then this would be a "ethical" decision. There may be things that are "legal", but not "ethical". It's all a part of "good sportsmanship".
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The basic goal of survivable network design is to build a cheap network that
maintains the connectivity between given sets of nodes despite the failure of a
few edges/nodes. The Connectivity Augmentation Problem (CAP) is arguably one of
the most basic problems in this area: given a $k$(-edge)-connected graph $G$
and a set of extra edges (links), select a minimum cardinality subset $A$ of
links such that adding $A$ to $G$ increases its edge connectivity to $k+1$.
Intuitively, one wants to make an existing network more reliable by augmenting
it with extra edges. The best known approximation factor for this NP-hard
problem is $2$, and this can be achieved with multiple approaches (the first
such result is in [Frederickson and J\'aj\'a'81]).
It is known [Dinitz et al.'76] that CAP can be reduced to the case $k=1$,
a.k.a. the Tree Augmentation Problem (TAP), for odd $k$, and to the case $k=2$,
a.k.a. the Cactus Augmentation Problem (CacAP), for even $k$. Several better
than $2$ approximation algorithms are known for TAP, culminating with a recent
$1.458$ approximation [Grandoni et al.'18]. However, for CacAP the best known
approximation is $2$.
In this paper we breach the $2$ approximation barrier for CacAP, hence for
CAP, by presenting a polynomial-time $2\ln(4)-\frac{967}{1120}+\epsilon<1.91$
approximation. Previous approaches exploit properties of TAP that do not seem
to generalize to CacAP. We instead use a reduction to the Steiner tree problem
which was previously used in parameterized algorithms [Basavaraju et al.'14].
This reduction is not approximation preserving, and using the current best
approximation factor for Steiner tree [Byrka et al.'13] as a black-box would
not be good enough to improve on $2$. To achieve the latter goal, we ``open the
box'' and exploit the specific properties of the instances of Steiner tree
arising from CacAP.
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Accurately estimating uncertainties in neural network predictions is of great
importance in building trusted DNNs-based models, and there is an increasing
interest in providing accurate uncertainty estimation on many tasks, such as
security cameras and autonomous driving vehicles. In this paper, we focus on
the two main use cases of uncertainty estimation, i.e. selective prediction and
confidence calibration. We first reveal potential issues of commonly used
quality metrics for uncertainty estimation in both use cases, and propose our
new metrics to mitigate them. We then apply these new metrics to explore the
trade-off between model complexity and uncertainty estimation quality, a
critically missing work in the literature. Our empirical experiment results
validate the superiority of the proposed metrics, and some interesting trends
about the complexity-uncertainty trade-off are observed.
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I'm not sure how I can make ten lines out of this question, but I'll try.<br /><br />When Julie went to the dance and they were dancing to slow music. What was the name of the song that was playing and who played it? <br /><br />I love that song! And I watch the movie over and over just to hear that one song.<br /><br />I did several searches online and even looked up the soundtrack but I sill can't find the song.<br /><br />It might be because the song they were dancing to wasn't a complete song and just partial.<br /><br />I would appreciate if anyone out there who knows what the name of the song and the group who sung it.<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />Frank
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The most intensively star-forming galaxies are extremely luminous at
far-infrared (FIR) wavelengths, highly obscured at optical and ultraviolet
wavelengths, and lie at $z\ge 1-3$. We present a programme of ${\it Herschel}$
FIR spectroscopic observations with the SPIRE FTS and photometric observations
with PACS, both on board ${\it Herschel}$, towards a sample of 45
gravitationally lensed, dusty starbursts across $z\sim 1-3.6$. In total, we
detected 27 individual lines down to 3-$\sigma$, including nine $[\rm C{\small
II}]$ 158-$\mu$m lines with confirmed spectroscopic redshifts, five possible
$[\rm C{\small II}]$ lines consistent with their far-infrared photometric
redshifts, and in some individual sources a few $[\rm O{\small III}]$
88-$\mu$m, $[\rm O{\small III}]$ 52-$\mu$m, $[\rm O{\small I}]$ 145-$\mu$m,
$[\rm O{\small I}]$ 63-$\mu$m, $[\rm N{\small II}]$ 122-$\mu$m, and OH
119-$\mu$m (in absorption) lines. To derive the typical physical properties of
the gas in the sample, we stack all spectra weighted by their intrinsic
luminosity and by their 500-$\mu$m flux densities, with the spectra scaled to a
common redshift. In the stacked spectra, we detect emission lines of $[\rm
C{\small II}]$ 158-$\mu$m, $[\rm N{\small II}]$ 122-$\mu$m, $[\rm O{\small
III}]$ 88-$\mu$m, $[\rm O{\small III}]$ 52-$\mu$m, $[\rm O{\small I}]$
63-$\mu$m, and the absorption doublet of OH at 119-$\mu$m, at high fidelity. We
find that the average electron densities traced by the $[\rm N{\small II}]$ and
$[\rm O{\small III}]$ lines are higher than the average values in local
star-forming galaxies and ULIRGs, using the same tracers. From the $[\rm
N{\small II}]/[\rm C{\small II}]$ and $[\rm O{\small I}]/[\rm C{\small II}]$
ratios, we find that the $[\rm C{\small II}]$ emission is likely dominated by
the photo-dominated regions (PDR), instead of by ionised gas or large-scale
shocks.
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Casting bone to pick: David Jannsen was 38 playing the father of Robert Drivas, who was then, 31 (yeah, I realize he's supposed to be just out of college, but clues in the script have him being a loafer and so he's probably 24-25 in the script--- that still puts Jannsen in parenting classes in Junior High). I assume the AMA wrote medical miracle up in their 1938 Year in Medicine. This movie hasn't aged very well at all and now it's main appeal is just to see a snap shot of Sin City, circa 1969 and all the incessant smoking, the weird hair (Drivas has an atomic comb over that makes him resemble a well-groomed hip Cousin It) and trendy fashions that went along with it. If anyone remembers, LV wasn't exactly London... the city coddled the mob and codger gamblers in those days. Drivas comes off as sexually ambiguous; his dad thinks he might be gay (in a sad irony, Drivas himself died of AIDS at 47) and the soapy conflict is from the generation gap issue (ahem, as if one may call 7 years a gap). Sonny boy wants to be his own man and dad wants to pull him into the casino (Caesar's Palace!), and plies him with girls (including the horny-for-money Edy Williams). Interestingly enough, the son doesn't seem to mind being thought of as gay--- unusual for the time and a cute Brenda Vaccarro is nearby to swoon platonically over him. What nudity there is is awfully lame--- just what was needed to pull the audience in for an 'R' rating in the early days of the MPAA rating system (which then was G-M-R[16]- and X). The editing is HORRIBLE and there's stupid-silly overdubs by The Committee (a late 60's neo-avante-garde comedy troupe that mercifully faded off the map within a couple of years). Don Rickles is on board as a blackjack dealer... seemingly preparing him for a role as a floor manager in the much better CASINO two decades later. Not to give anything away, but they would've dealt with Mr. Rickles' character with power tools and a hole in the desert back then. A curiosity at best, far from Joshua Logan's usual caliber of work. Dos/Dias. Now go watch CASINO again...
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What is really amusing about all of this is that none of this collusion stuff would have mattered if Hillary Clinton won the election. The bottom line is collusion or not, there is ZERO evidence that the Russians effected the outcome of the election. The democrats backed a flawed candidate and the American people made their choice.
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In this paper we study the Lorenz equations using the perspective of the
Conley index theory. More specifically, we examine the evolution of the strange
set that these equations posses throughout the different values of the
parameter. We also analyze some natural Morse decompositions of the global
attractor of the system and the role of the strange set in these
decompositions. We calculate the corresponding Morse equations and study their
change along the successive bifurcations. In addition, we formulate and prove
some theorems which are applicable in more general situations. These theorems
refer to Poincar\'{e}-Andronov-Hopf bifurcations of arbitrary codimension,
bifurcations with two homoclinic loops and a study of the role of the
travelling repellers in the transformation of repeller-attractor pairs into
attractor-repeller ones.
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Wow Raven33,,,you just want personal attention or what? You think just because they are public servants, they owed you? I don't know what problem you had but obviously it wasn't very important or else you would have said something. But then, if you are ranting, you can do that. Politicians are all like that you know, be one yourself and you will end up just like her, Stock, Miller, and so on and so on.
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Aims: We study a peculiar object with a projected position close to the
nucleus of M51. It is unusually large for a star cluster in M51 and we
therefore investigate the three most likely options to explain this object: (a)
a background galaxy, (b) a cluster in the disk of M51 and (c) a cluster in M51,
but in front of the disk. Methods: We use HST/ACS and HST/NICMOS broad-band
photometry to study the properties of this object. Assuming the object is a
star cluster, we fit the metallicity, age, mass and extinction using simple
stellar population models. Assuming the object is a background galaxy, we
estimate the extinction from the colour of the background around the object. We
study the structural parameters of the object by fitting the spatial profile
with analytical models. Results: We find de-reddened colours of the object
which are bluer than expected for a typical elliptical galaxy, and the central
surface brightness is brighter than the typical surface brightness of a disc
galaxy. It is therefore not likely that the object is a background galaxy.
Assuming the object is a star cluster in the disc of M51, we estimate an age
and mass of 0.7 Gyr and 2.2 x 10^5 \msun, respectively (with the extinction
fixed to E(B-V) = 0.2). Considering the large size of the object, we argue that
in this scenario we observe the cluster just prior to final dissolution. If we
fit for the extinction as a free parameter, a younger age is allowed and the
object is not close to final dissolution. Alternatively, the object could be a
star cluster in M51, but in front of the disc, with an age of 1.4 Gyr and mass
M = 1.7 x 10^5 \msun. Its effective radius is between ~12-25 pc. This makes the
object a "fuzzy star cluster", raising the issue of how an object of this age
would end up outside the disc.
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One of the major problems in natural language processing (NLP) is the word
sense disambiguation (WSD) problem. It is the task of computationally
identifying the right sense of a polysemous word based on its context.
Resolving the WSD problem boosts the accuracy of many NLP focused algorithms
such as text classification and machine translation. In this paper, we
introduce a new supervised algorithm for WSD, that is based on Kernel PCA and
Semantic Diffusion Kernel, which is called Diffusion Kernel PCA (DKPCA). DKPCA
grasps the semantic similarities within terms, and it is based on PCA. These
properties enable us to perform feature extraction and dimension reduction
guided by semantic similarities and within the algorithm. Our empirical results
on SensEval data demonstrate that DKPCA achieves higher or very close accuracy
results compared to SVM and KPCA with various well-known kernels when the
labeled data ratio is meager. Considering the scarcity of labeled data, whereas
large quantities of unlabeled textual data are easily accessible, these are
highly encouraging first results to develop DKPCA further.
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I have to say that this miniseries was the best interpretation of the beloved novel "Jane Eyre". Both Dalton and Clarke are very believable as Rochester and Jane. I've seen other versions, but none compare to this one. The best one for me. I could never imagine anyone else playing these characters ever again. The last time I saw this one was in 1984 when I was only 13. At that time, I was a bookworm and I had just read Charlotte Bronte's novel. I was completely enchanted by this miniseries and I remember not missing any of the episodes. I'd like to see it again because it's so good. :-)
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The last decade has seen numerous efforts to achieve imaging resolution
beyond that of the Abbe-Rayleigh diffraction limit. The main direction of
research aiming to break this limit seeks to exploit the evanescent components
containing fine detail of the electromagnetic field distribution at the
immediate proximity of the object. Here we propose a solution that removes the
need for evanescent fields. The object being imaged or stimulated with
sub-wavelength accuracy does not need to be in the immediate proximity of the
superlens or field concentrator: an optical mask can be designed that creates
constructive interference of waves known as superoscillation, leading to a
sub-wavelength focus of prescribed size and shape in a `field of view' beyond
the evanescent fields, when illuminated by a monochromatic wave. Moreover, we
demonstrate that such a mask may be used not only as a focusing device, but
also as a super-resolution imaging device.
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We investigate the predictions of Einsteinian Cubic Gravity (ECG) for the
lensing effects due to supermassive black holes at the center of Milky Way and
other galaxies. Working in the context of spherical symmetry, we obtain the
metric function from a continued fraction method and find that both time delays
and the angular positions of images considerably deviate from general
relativity, as large as milliarcseconds. This suggests that observational tests
of ECG are indeed feasible.
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Obama knew it was flawed, but it was the best he could accomplish given the power of the insurance industry over our legislators who never cease bending over for them at our expense. He pushed it through as is because it improved things for many people even while it made things worse for middle-income families. That making things worse is ugly for those of us it hurts, but Obama knew that it will be what finally pushes this country past the propaganda fed to us to keep us enslaved to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. When we are devastated enough, we will finally wake up and join the rest of the world in improving our healthcare payment system for all of us.
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The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem states that a spin system with
translation and spin rotation symmetry and half-integer spin per unit cell does
not admit a gapped symmetric ground state lacking fractionalized excitations.
That is, the ground state must be gapless, spontaneously break a symmetry, or
be a gapped spin liquid. Thus, such systems are natural spin-liquid candidates
if no ordering is found. In this work, we give a much more general criterion
that determines when an LSM-type theorem holds in a spin system. For example,
we consider quantum magnets with arbitrary space group symmetry and/or
spin-orbit coupling. Our criterion is intimately connected to recent work on
the general classification of topological phases with spatial symmetries and
also allows for the computation of an "anomaly" associated with the existence
of an LSM theorem. Moreover, our framework is also general enough to encompass
recent works on "SPT-LSM" theorems where the system admits a gapped symmetric
ground state without fractionalized excitations, but such a ground state must
still be non-trivial in the sense of symmetry-protected topological (SPT)
phases.
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Relaxation of initially out-of-equilibrium rough interfaces in presence of
thermal noise is investigated using Langevin formalism. During thermal
equilibration towards the well-known roughening regime, three scaling regimes
observed over three successive ranges of length-scales are evidenced: thermal
roughening (late stage) at small scales, transient smoothening at intermediate
scales and remnant of the initial conditions at large scales. A generalization
of the Family-Vicsek scaling is found for the smoothening regime. A distinctive
feature of the transient smoothening regime resides in the existence of a
super-universal exponent, i.e. independent of the considered model. This
approach allows interpreting a series of AFM images of sapphire surfaces
showing the thermal evolution of initially rough step edges.
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It is shown that space-based gravitational wave detectors such as DECIGO
and/or Big Bang Observer (BBO) will provide us with invaluable information on
the cosmic thermal history after inflation and they will be able to determine
the reheat temperature $T_R$ provided that it lies in the range preferred by
the cosmological gravitino problem, $T_R\sim 10^{5-9}$ GeV. Therefore it is
strongly desired that they will be put into practice as soon as possible.
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Yesterday I watched this movie for the third time. It was recommended to me by a fried several weeks ago. I never watched or even noticed it before, because it falls (so typically) in the category "Swedish Movie" and those who rose up (like me) with Hollywood productions tend to be sceptical of any foreign movies. Hell what a paradigm shift! The film touches me, because it just keeps up my hope, that mankind can change to a better way. The Swedish village is just a pattern for all areas on earth where people live together - controlled by religion, misunderstandings, lack of courage, predictions, disguised brutality, but also the ability to have fun, to meet, to sing... It takes a trigger from outside to rip off the masks of everyone (who keeps one) and to let them feel that we all are just human beings with the desire to live our own lives. I can never stop to see stories like this, because, that keeps up my hope as described above. The five minutes containing the story of Gabriella's song including her performance is one of my movie-highlights ever! Thank you Kay Pollak just for these 5 minutes, which made me happy!
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Runs Small - very fitted tight
I usually order a large but it was way to tight so I exchanged for an X-large which is still light. It's too fitted and also to long by about 4". I'm 5'6 to give you an idea. Only positive thing I have to say is its cotton and I'm hoping it stretches after a few wears and washings.
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For a given set of random variables $X_1,\ldots,X_d$ we seek as large a
family as possible of random variables $Y_1,\ldots,Y_d$ such that the marginal
laws and the laws of the sums match: $Y_i\,{\buildrel d \over =}\,X_i$ and
$\sum_iY_i\,{\buildrel d \over =}\,\sum_iX_i$. Under the assumption that
$X_1,\ldots,X_d$ are independent and belong to any of the Meixner classes, we
give a full characterisation of the random variables $Y_1,\ldots,Y_d$ and
propose a practical construction by means of a finite mean square expansion.
When $X_1,\ldots,X_d$ are identically distributed but not necessarily
independent, using a symmetry-balancing approach we provide a universal
construction with sufficient symmetry to satisfy the more stringent requirement
that, for any symmetric function $g$, $g(Y)\,{\buildrel d \over =}\,g(X)$.
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Recent developments have revealed a new phenomenon, i.e. the residues of the
poles of the holographic retarded two point functions of generic operators
vanish at certain complex values of the frequency and momentum. This so-called
pole-skipping phenomenon can be determined holographically by the near horizon
dynamics of the bulk equations of the corresponding fields. In particular, the
pole-skipping point in the upper half plane of complex frequency has been shown
to be closed related to many-body chaos, while those in the lower half plane
also places universal and nontrivial constraints on the two point functions. In
this paper, we study the effect of higher curvature corrections, i.e. the
stringy correction and Gauss-Bonnet correction, to the (lower half plane)
pole-skipping phenomenon for generic scalar, vector, and metric perturbations.
We find that at the pole-skipping points, the frequencies $\omega_n=-i2\pi nT$
are not explicitly influenced by both $R^2$ and $R^4$ corrections, while the
momenta $k_n$ receive corresponding corrections.
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We present an illustrative application of the two famous mathematical
theorems in differential topology in order to show the existence of periodic
orbits with arbitrary given period for a class of hamiltonians .This result
point out for a mathematical answer for the long standing problem of existence
of Planetary Sistems around stars.
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We study zonal characters which are defined as suitably normalized
coefficients in the expansion of zonal polynomials in terms of power-sum
symmetric functions. We show that the zonal characters, just like the
characters of the symmetric groups, admit a nice combinatorial description in
terms of Stanley's multirectangular coordinates of Young diagrams. We also
study the analogue of Kerov polynomials, namely we express the zonal characters
as polynomials in free cumulants and we give an explicit combinatorial
interpretation of their coefficients. In this way, we prove two recent
conjectures of Lassalle for Jack polynomials in the special case of zonal
polynomials.
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Recent experiments have demonstrated long spin lifetimes in uniformly n-doped
quantum wells. The spin dynamics of exciton, localized, and conduction spins
are important for understanding these systems. We explain experimental behavior
by invoking spin exchange between all spin species. By doing so we explain
quantitatively and qualitatively the striking and unusual temperature
dependence in (110)-GaAs quantum wells. We discuss possible future experiments
to resolve the pertinent localized spin relaxation mechanisms. In addition, our
analysis allows us to propose possible experimental scenarios that will
optimize spin relaxation times in GaAs and CdTe quantum wells.
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If a graph has bounded clique number, and sufficiently large chromatic
number, what can we say about its induced subgraphs? Andr\'as Gy\'arf\'as made
a number of challenging conjectures about this in the early 1980's, which have
remained open until recently; but in the last few years there has been
substantial progress. This is a survey of where we are now.
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Stay away from this movie at all costs. I was suckered into watching this movie in a bet to see which one of us knew the t "worst movie of all time". Needless to say this one won hands down. It is long and drawn out, and has no purpose or plot from what I can gather. A movie about a killer kid raised from a fetus that was grown outside the womb just has no place inside your vcr. If you are extremely bored and have no life watch this movie. But if you rather keep your sanity, stay AWAY.
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The aim of clinical effectiveness research using repositories of electronic
health records is to identify what health interventions 'work best' in
real-world settings. Since there are several reasons why the net benefit of
intervention may differ across patients, current comparative effectiveness
literature focuses on investigating heterogeneous treatment effect and
predicting whether an individual might benefit from an intervention. The
majority of this literature has concentrated on the estimation of the effect of
treatment on binary outcomes. However, many medical interventions are evaluated
in terms of their effect on future events, which are subject to loss to
follow-up. In this study, we describe a framework for the estimation of
heterogeneous treatment effect in terms of differences in time-to-event
(survival) probabilities. We divide the problem into three phases: (1)
estimation of treatment effect conditioned on unique sets of the covariate
vector; (2) identification of features important for heterogeneity using an
ensemble of non-parametric variable importance methods; and (3) estimation of
treatment effect on the reference classes defined by the previously selected
features, using one-step Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation. We conducted a
series of simulation studies and found that this method performs well when
either sample size or event rate is high enough and the number of covariates
contributing to the effect heterogeneity is moderate. An application of this
method to a clinical case study was conducted by estimating the effect of oral
anticoagulants on newly diagnosed non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients
using data from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.
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